The emperor sent a master who taught Zhu Er's martial arts, and came once every three days a month, and also charged five yuan for tuition...... Is it Ah Liu?

Although he was very sorry for Zhu Er, Zhang Shou still couldn't help but want to laugh. But for the sake of Mrs. Tai and Jiu Niang, he decided to save a little face for Zhu Er, so he looked at Ah Liu with a straight face and asked, "Ah Liu, when did this happen, why don't I know?" Didn't you come back with me? ”

"What Father-in-law Chu told me, I agreed." Ah Liu's answer was as simple and clear as ever.

Zhang Shou saw that Zhu Er almost wanted to cry, so he couldn't help but continue to ask: "Father-in-law Chu made it clear to you, did the emperor ask you to be a teacher for Zhu Ergongzi and teach him martial arts?" ”

"Well, once every three days, five times at a time."

Zhu Er suddenly shouted in horror: "It's once every three days, and five yuan a month!" "If it's a five-dollar money, he'll die! Even if he took advantage of the absence of his father and eldest brother before, and finally saved a little private money by embezzlement, it would not be enough to use it like this! And he still spends money to be beaten, which is even more unlucky than Zhang Chen spending money to learn Baguwen that he will never use!

"Really?" Ah Liu stared at Zhu Er with some doubts, and the innocent eyes made Zhu Er furious in his heart. Then, he turned his head to look at Zhang Shou casually, and said calmly, "That's my mistake." ”

Hell misremembered...... You kid definitely did it on purpose, on purpose! Zhu Er shouted in his heart, but he found that everyone was looking at him and Ah Liu with a smile, no one spoke for him, he simply felt that he was too stupid to propose that he wanted to learn martial arts in front of the emperor today. Just as he was secretly wailing, Zhu Ying opened his mouth.

"Second brother, didn't you always want Uncle Hua to teach you when you were a child? Uncle Hua is only willing to teach the eldest brother, and you and I are not willing to teach, and now that Ah Liu is here to teach you, you can be regarded as having fulfilled your wish. This apprentice of his, maybe even more powerful than Uncle Hua! ”

Ah Liu was about to say that he was not as good as a madman, but he saw Zhu Ying wink at him, so he immediately shut up. Sure enough, he saw that Zhu Er really couldn't hold back this time, hugged his head and groaned: "You also said that it was when you were a child, since I saw how much my eldest brother suffered under Uncle Hua, I have long since I stopped thinking about it!" ”

"Only when you suffer hardship can you become a master."

Seeing that Zhu Ying gave Zhu Er a critical blow with a smile, Zhang Shou had to come forward to be a peacemaker, "I will let Ah Liu restrain a little, teach you step by step, and then see your progress and then gradually adjust." I heard Yingying say that in the past, when you hunted in autumn, your ranking often fell to the bottom? Think about it, follow Ah Liu for two years, and be touted in front of people in the future! ”

Under Zhang Shou's persuasion, Zhu Er had to accept this reality with resentment. However, when he stood up aggrievedly, intending to curry favor with the temporary master in the future, but he was entangled in the title, Mrs. Tai, who had been smiling and watching the excitement just now, suddenly opened her mouth: "Erlang, you are about the same age as Ah Liu, so you don't need to call the master so formal." ”

However, before Zhu Er could be happy, Mrs. Tai smiled and said: "When Ah Liu comes to teach you in the future, you will call you Sixth Brother, which is cordial and respectful, and does not live up to the emperor's hard work." ”

Zhu Ying finally couldn't hold back any longer, and directly fell on Mrs. Tai and smiled, her hands still pounding on the soft couch. And Zhang Shou smiled, but he was even more impressed by the emperor's ingenious arrangement, so seeing Zhu Er crying out the sixth brother with a sad face, he finally couldn't help laughing: "Ah Liu, everyone calls you the sixth brother, you don't have anything to say?" ”

Ah Liu looked at Zhu Er seriously, then reached out and took out something from his arms, stuffed it directly into Zhu Er, and only said three words: "Meet the gift." ”

Zhu Er was slightly stunned, and when he looked down and saw that there was an unsheathed open-edged dagger in his hand, and the wooden handle could see the traces of hand-polishing, and the cold light of the blade was like that, even if he was used to seeing all kinds of good things in this Zhao Guogong Mansion, he still couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and most of the sorrow just now had disappeared cleanly.

He hurriedly thanked and thanked, and when he saw Zhang Shou saying goodbye and saying that he was going home, Ah Liu nodded goodbye, he watched people go to the door, and was wondering if he was going to send a send, but he saw Zhu Ying suddenly walk past him quickly, and chased after him. Seeing this scene, no matter how stupid he was, he knew that going out with him at this time was not polite and respectful, but a typical bad scene.

And when he came back from the door, he saw Mrs. Tai and Jiuniang all looking at him with a smile. He was blessed to his heart, and hurriedly presented the meeting gift he had just received with both hands: "Grandmother, mother, will you help me palm my eyes?" ”

Mrs. Tai has never seen any magic weapons, and she is very little interested in simple weapons, but she is very interested in Ah Liu. And Jiu Niang is the same, what is even more curious is why Ah Liu was personally selected by the emperor to teach Zhu Er - if it weren't for Hua Qi's too strange temper, that guy would be more suitable in her opinion.

And when she took the dagger and took it to Mrs. Tai, she looked at it a few more times, and said thoughtfully: "It doesn't seem to be made by the Ordnance Bureau, but it looks like a blacksmith shop or something customized, and then polished and sharpened, light and thin, shorter than ordinary daggers, not that I said behind my back that people are not, assassins may be more suitable to use." ”

Mrs. Tai shuddered when she saw Zhu Er, and she smiled and said, "Your mother is joking with you." Ah Liu is a good boy, but his temper is a little weird, he has only been learning from your mother for a few days, and he has learned her swordsmanship all the time, he is a genius. Although your mother asked Ah Shou to learn from Ah Liu, it is estimated that Ah Shou does not have that kung fu, so you might as well learn more. ”

Zhu Er originally thought of the fact that Zhu Ying had triumphantly said that Jiu Niang wanted to teach Zhang Shou swordsmanship, but he asked Ah Liu to teach it on his behalf, but now he heard that Ah Liu actually learned all the family swordsmanship of Zhao Guogong's Mansion by dividing five by two, he couldn't help but open his mouth wide, and finally accepted the reality of his ordinary qualifications again in frustration.

And after Zhang Shou and Ah Liu went out, they only walked a few steps one after the other, and Zhu Ying caught up. She said with a smile: "Ah Liu, there are no outsiders here, tell me quickly, how could you agree to be my second brother a master?" I don't believe that the emperor just asked Gonggong Chu to give you a message, and you simply agreed. ”

Ah Liu saw Zhang Shou also looking at him with a smile, he thought about it for a while, and then the corners of his mouth curled: "There are sixty times a year." ”

Zhang Shou couldn't help but laugh when he heard this answer, but he felt that it was reasonable, but Zhu Ying felt that it was completely unexpected: "Isn't it?" You just said yes just for 60 a year? With your ability, any house is willing to pay 180 yuan a month for you! ”

Zhang Shou had to cough, and then said seriously: "Yingying, don't forget, I don't have any money." ”

Zhu Ying was speechless, and then hurriedly remedied: "I mean, there is no other reason besides money?" ”

Ah Liu raised his eyebrows again and thought for a while, and then said with some uncertainty: "Because he is...... Your brother? ”

For this answer, Zhu Ying was really satisfied. She gave Ah Liu a thumbs up with a smile and said sincerely: "Then I will hand over the second brother to you." I don't expect him to be like you, or like my eldest brother, but at least he can be like me, with a little bit of self-preservation, that's enough. By the way, don't just care about my second brother, teach Ah Shou swordsmanship well! ”

It wasn't until he got out of the back door of Zhao Guogong's mansion that Zhang Shouhao coaxed Zhu Ying back, so he and Ah Liu went to their house. Although he didn't fully believe what Ah Liu said in the Zhu family, he didn't plan to ask more. When he entered the gate of his house, he said: "Ah Liu, take the time to send someone back to Rongshui Village, and then let Lao Yang Tou and them discuss picking two people to come over, and my mother has to leave two people here." ”

"Hmm." Ah Liu agreed very happily, but after following Zhang Shou to meet the Wu family, he saw that Zhang Shou entered the east room again, writing and drawing at the desk, looking focused and serious, and he couldn't help but explain, "I'm on secondment." ”

Zhang Shou was thoughtfully deducing what the cylinder and piston of the steam engine were, and then he was thinking about the fact that natural rubber seemed to be still in South America in these years, and he didn't know whether Emperor Taizu took the fleet to the Americas for many edible crops including corn, peanuts, peppers, potatoes and sweet potatoes, or because of economic crops such as cocoa beans and natural rubber.

Therefore, when he heard Ah Liu's words, he was absent-minded and first hummed, and after a long while, he finally came back to his senses, raised his head and looked at Ah Liu in amazement: "Secondment? What do you mean? ”

"I am from the Zhang family, and the emperor wants to seconded me to teach the second son of Zhu. Then, in addition to the tuition fees paid by Zhu Ergongzi himself, of course the emperor also has to pay my salary. Ah Liu explained very carefully this time, and a rare smile appeared on his face, "Father-in-law Chu said that my salary is calculated according to the madman's salary, one hundred yuan per month. ”

I...... Zhang Shouqiang resisted the urge to spit dirty, took a deep breath, and then thought of his poor salary...... No, I don't. Although Taizu advocated high salaries and incorruptible support, he still thought that the Song Dynasty officials were too outrageous, so the Ming Dynasty's Fenglu was much stronger than the Ming Dynasty's six-grade officials who were only ten stone meters in history, with five stone rice and ten yuan a month.

But compared to Ah Liu's current hundred, it is simply shabby! Hua Qi didn't know what he was doing for the emperor, so it was as it should be, however, the emperor gave Ah Liu, which was equivalent to twenty times Zhu Er's tuition, but he felt that it was very abnormal.

He wanted to say that he was either a traitor or a thief, but he didn't think it was appropriate; I want to say that there is no merit, but I feel that Ah Liu has actually made meritorious contributions more than once, and this is not appropriate; In the end, he could only change to a more direct statement: "Is this too much?" ”

"Not much." Ah Liu looked at Zhang Shou with some confusion, "If you take it back, the lady and the young master will be able to live more comfortably." ”

Zhang Shou didn't expect Ah Liu to plan to use this money to subsidize his family, and he was a little embarrassed, and he could only teach seriously: "This is your money, you should save every penny, and marry a daughter-in-law in the future......."

"It's not my money." Ah Liu interrupted Zhang Shou's words all of a sudden, and then emphasized in an accentuated tone, "It's compensation for you." ”

Seeing Zhang Shou's stunned face, he said in a rare patient tone: "Father-in-law Chu told me that the emperor said that the reward for the merits of the young master before was very thin, and it is also a credit that you have supervised those troublemakers in the country. This is compensation. He paused for a moment, and then said seriously: "The emperor said that you have to save money to marry a daughter-in-law!" ”

He just said Ah Liu's words, but Ah Liu said himself in turn, and Zhang Shou was speechless. Of course, he could understand what the emperor conveyed to him through Chu Kuan and Ah Liu, but he felt that his family was poor, and it was obviously a little difficult to marry the daughter of Zhao Guogong like Zhu Ying in the future, and he felt that the previous reward was a bit insufficient, so he used this way to compensate him.

Of course, the emperor also saw Ah Liu's eccentric but honest personality, and would never think about anything else because of money.

Therefore, he could only shake his head helplessly and said, "Okay, okay, I know." I have to marry a daughter-in-law, and you have to marry a daughter-in-law, and I will save this money for you when I go back. ”

"Hmm." Ah Liu looked relieved, but glanced at the words such as chili pepper on the piece of paper on Zhang Shou's table, and he suddenly thought that on the night when he was in Cuiyun, those rebels in the Linhai camp sneaked in, and Zhang Shou had also muttered something like peanuts, potatoes, and chili peppers in the breeze in order to ease the atmosphere. At that moment, he took these terms to heart again.

Even if he was dissatisfied with the arbitrariness and partiality of the reward given by the emperor when he chose his son-in-law the day before, this was a family matter of the emperor, and the next day before the hundred officials went to the court, no one would lose their hearts and go crazy to say it when they went to the court. However, when the cabinet received the task of drafting a number of decrees at once after the end of the day-to-court meeting, although several cabinet elders were mentally prepared, they were still surprised.

Princess Deyang was married to Zhang Wu, the fifth son of Nanyang Hou, and married a year later.

The county lord of Xinyang was married to Zhang Lu, the sixth son of Huaiqinghou, and married a year later.

The lord of Ninghe was married to Zhao Mingxiang, the second son of Zhao Zhiyuan, the governor of the capital, and got married a year later.

One is that Princess Yongping is not among them, and the other is that the two Houfu concubines, who are the right-hand men of Zhang Chen, the head of Banshan Hall, are actually a princess and a princess who is married to the county lord. As for the son-in-law of Zhao Dudu, it is said that his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are harmonious, his family is harmonious, and his qualifications are ordinary.

Therefore, after digging deeper, the three people selected by the emperor in the end turned out to be the prisoners in the Mid-Levels Hall. If you want to say that there is no influence of Zhang Shou who accompanied the election, no one believes it!

Seeing that his colleagues had different faces, Wu Ge Lao, who had always shown a smile on his face, snorted and said: "The emperor marries his daughter and niece, we outsiders, don't think so much, just follow the plan?" ”

"It's simple!" As soon as Shoufu Jiangge said a word, the voice of a Confucian scholar came from the side.

"Since it's a choice, you should always be fair, the emperor loves the house and Wu, this bias is too much! However, since the emperor is insistent, there is no need to be this kind of thing, whether the princess is good or bad after marriage, such as people drinking water, they know whether they are warm and cold! It's not the princess! ”