After thinking about it all night, Ding Wang finally came up with a way, and he asked people to find Wang Zhong and the bookkeeper Hou Xianggong.

After the two arrived, Wang Zhong stood there, not daring to take a seat, but Hou Xianggong sat down.

Wang Zhong asked, "I don't know what Mr. Ding called the little one to do?" ”

"It's a good thing, yesterday's Ding sacrifice, Master Xuezheng personally protected your master of the virtuous and square."

Wang Zhong said happily: "This is a good thing. ”

After all, Hou Xianggong was clever, knowing that Ding Wang was looking for them, it was definitely not as simple as reporting the good news, and asked: "Is there anything tricky about this?" ”

"There are many tricky places, those people came to send a plaque a few days ago, although your lord has a reward, but those people still have grievances."

Wang Zhong nodded, he saw this matter clearly.

Ding Wang continued: "Now this inspection has to go through the yamen's repeated inspections, if these places can't get through, when the time comes, just pick a mistake, you can dismiss it, and then go back and forth, delay time, and drag out a good thing." ”

When Ding Wang said this, he sighed and said: "Wang Zhong, your master is not a stingy person, and he naturally looks down on this bit of silver." But he has a temperament and is unwilling to do this, and when the time comes, it will be a trivial matter if this matter is gone, and if it becomes a bad thing, wouldn't it be a pity. ”

Wang Zhong said yes, Ge Wenying is indeed such a person.

"So I summoned the two of you to come here today, just hoping that we can open the joint first, and when the time comes, when the palindrome arrives, your master will resign, and it will already be a boat."

"This is good, but I'm a rough person, whatever Prime Minister Hou says, I will do whatever I do."

Hou Xianggong hesitated for a moment and said to Ding Wang: "I am a foreigner, but I am afraid that they will not understand what I say." ”

Hou Xianggong is a native of Youyan Mansion, and he followed others to Xijing City for business, but later lost money and had no money to go back. Fortunately, I met Ge Wenying, and Ge Wenying saw that he was a fine person, so he asked him to be a bookkeeper. Because Hou Xianggong couldn't speak official language, he had always avoided dealing with people in Xijing City.

Ding Wang smiled and said: "As long as your money arrives, it doesn't matter if you are from the southeast or Yunge, you are all from Xijing." I wonder if there is any silver now? ”

"Yesterday, the North Street shop paid 70 taels of rent, and it has not been recorded yet."

"Then don't rush into the account, this money will be used first, and it will be recorded after the matter is completed."

Hou Xianggong nodded and asked Ding Wang: "Then how should we deal with it?" ”

"First of all, the book office of the school department, and then the book office of the prefect's yamen, large and small book offices, I estimate that this little bit of silver is enough."

Hou Xianggong nodded, and then went to Fuxue with Wang Zhong the next day.

The secretary office found them, Hou Xianggong first gave a letter of two taels of silver to the book office, and the book office did not hesitate at all, and after taking it, he said with a smile: "This is also a good thing, but now Chengzi has not arrived, probably tonight, early tomorrow morning, I will hand it over to the master, and I will never miss your affairs." ”

Next, they gave the door bucket a small letter, and after the door bucket received it, he smiled and said: "Chengzi is written by Zhang Xianggong, this Zhang Xianggong has always liked to be greedy for cups, and I happen to be okay today, so I will go to his house to urge, this presentation is not in hand, I will not come." ”

Then I went to the prefect's yamen ceremonial room, and found the secretary of the ceremonial room, who accepted the favor and said to them: "This is a great thing, not only you have light, but even we are related." It's just that the paperwork for this study has not arrived. When the document arrived, we wrote it down overnight, and when the time came, we sealed a note that we could read urgently, ensuring that in less than a day, the people of Futai could approve it. ”

This prefect's yamen ceremonial room has been completed, and the next thing is the post house.

When the master saw them coming, he asked them what was going on.

"It's a dime paperwork."

"What paperwork?"

"When did you arrive?"

"It's not there yet."

The master is also an old man, hearing this, he understood in his heart that the God of Wealth was coming, and his attitude was not so cold, so he smiled and asked them to sit down, and said to them: "Which county is it from." ”

"It's from Xijing City."

"In the city or in the country?"

"Nanping Fangge Squire."

The master looked at Hou Xianggong and said to Hou Xianggong: "But listening to your accent, it doesn't look like a local." ”

"I'm the bookkeeper of his family."

After hearing this, the master knew that there was a drama in his heart, and said to them: "I don't know if the documents have arrived at the prefect's yamen." ”

"Not yet, we came here in advance, I hope you can take care of it."

After hearing this, the master looked around and said to them: "This is not a place to talk, you go to the God of Wealth Lane tomorrow to find me, my surname is Qian." ”

The two said goodbye and left, and according to the agreement, they arrived at Master Qian's house.

This Master Qian poured a cup of tea for them, and then Master Qian said to them: "It was inconvenient yesterday, please believe it." ”

"My lord has a virtuous and square, after the paperwork, we don't know who needs to do it, and we ask the teacher to recommend it."

"This is the master of the scrivener, they work every three months, ordinary people can't see it, only those of us who go to get the letter can see his old side."

Speaking of this, Master Qian continued: "Squire Ge, you are quite knowledgeable, and you can handle it well, you don't know, some time ago, a person was dismissed. ”

"What's going on?" Wang Zhong couldn't help but ask curiously.

"The scrivener said that somewhere and Ganjie are not in agreement, and our Futai master has to deal with so many things all day long, and there is time to investigate in detail, so it is naturally accurate."

Master Qian said this, and continued: "If you say that you don't agree, even if you are in line with the rules everywhere. When the time comes, he says that the paper is rough, or that the words are washed and mended, and cannot be presented, so he will refute it. ”

Wang Zhong admired Ding Wang's foresight at this time, and thought that if he didn't make a point, he would be afraid that this major matter would be in vain.

Master Qian continued to complain and said: "You said that we, the staff, did not take the court's money, we all relied on the lord to raise, this lord is as incorruptible as water, his sleeves are clean, his days are bitter, our days are even more bitter, everyone thinks every day is to serve the saint, so that we can persevere." Now this matter is a great joy, everyone is asking for a happy money, you can't say too much. ”

Hou Xianggong asked: "I don't know how much money you need?" ”

"This matter is smaller than the election of officials, and it is bigger than the filial piety, I think it is about thirty taels of silver. If someone walks around for you, for the sake of acquaintances, it will be about fifty taels of silver. I think both of them are honest people, upright men and gentlemen, and it is the first time to do this, so I told the truth. ”

Hou Xianggong thought that this price was about the same as Ding Wang said, and they were walking around, just afraid that Ge Wenying would find out and add to the turmoil at that time.

So he took out the thirty taels of silver on his body and said to Master Qian, "Here are thirty taels of silver, and the rest of the silver will be delivered soon." ”

"It's okay, to be honest, when I heard Nanpingfang yesterday, I remembered that my father had a good relationship with the Ge family, so I asked you to come to the house to do it. To tell you the truth, if it were someone else, I would have dropped the pen for five taels of silver. Now that you have let me wrap it up again, and it is a world friend, then I will naturally save you a sum of money. By the way, my name is Qian Tongshen, and the grass number springs flow. After Qian Tongshen finished speaking, when he sent them away, he said to them: "The first thing this public door does is to make secret words. ”

The two said they knew, and then took their leave.

Within a few days, Hou Xianggong made up the remaining twenty taels of silver, which was really good for the money, and there was no accident along the way.

One day, Zhang Guang entertained friends, Ge Wenying went to the banquet, Zhang Guang smiled and said to Ge Wenying: "Shijie, congratulations." ”

Ge Wenying was really confused by the second monk and asked Zhang Guang: "Where does this joy come from?" ”

"I've been doing it for a long time, and you don't know about it. Are you afraid that I will ask for a pen fee? ”

The more Ge Wenying listened, the more confused he became, as if he had fallen into a fog barrier, and he didn't know what Zhang Guang was saying, and asked, "What's going on?" ”

At this time, Chen Sike said with a smile: "Shijie, haven't you read this edict?" If you really don't want to be heard and rich. ”

Ge Wenying himself knew that there was a happy edict, but he really didn't know the content of the edict.

"This court has opened Enke, virtuous and square, and now Shijie, you have been promoted by the county to become virtuous anyway."

Ge Wenying was even more dazed and asked, "When did it happen?" ”

"It's the time of the Ding Festival."

After hearing this, Ge Wenying hurriedly said: "Brother Lie, why don't you tell me about such a big thing." ”

"It turns out that Brother Ge doesn't know anything about it." Zhang Guang really didn't expect that Ge Wenying, the client, didn't know anything about it.

Ge Wenying nodded and said to them: "This, this foolish brother is only a shallow learner, how can he afford to be virtuous and square, no, I want to resign from this." ”

Zhang Guang pulled Ge Wenying's sleeve and said to Ge Wenying: "This is because of the Yin virtue of the ancestors and the cultivation of Shijie's good deeds, so that they bumped into this great emperor's grace." ”

"This foolish brother is really ashamed. This is still up to everyone to discuss and select a person with both ability and political integrity. ”

"This is what everyone has discussed, Shijie, now that he is modest, it is too hypocritical." Ding Wang said, Ge Wenying had no choice for a while, so he had to put this matter aside for the time being.

When the banquet was over and Ge Wenying and Ding Wang went back together, Ge Wenying complained a little: "You and I belong to the best friends, and you were also in Minglun Hall that day, so you must know it." Why didn't you come to talk to me about such big news? ”

"After that day, you didn't come to the school, and it was inconvenient for me to go to your house, so naturally I didn't tell you."

"No, this Enko, I must resign, how can I be, worthy of the four words virtuous and square."