Chapter 5

Xiao Man excitedly shook his hand at Lin Tie, and when he saw Gu Junxun walking between Lin Tie and Gu Wuchen, he was slightly stunned, and in the blink of an eye, he recognized the other party as a girl dressed as a teenager like himself, seeing that she was two or three years older than herself, but Lin Tie's eyes were very kind, and the hand that was shaking suddenly stopped there like lead.

Gu Junxun followed the walk to the ferry, and listened with great interest to Lin Lian and her father talking about current affairs, all of which were some new things that his brother and Yang Shi couldn't say, in the twilight, she followed behind, and she involuntarily let go wild, and her dark eyes kept staring at Lin Lian's side face, and she didn't realize that this scene fell in Xiaoman's eyes.

Lin Jian was also very happy to see Xiao Man disguised as a man and wait for him at the ferry, strode over, and asked, "Why are you here?" Are you here alone? He saw that there was no Su Mei and the four ladies at the ferry.

"She is Miss Gu Jiaxun?" Xiao Man grabbed Lin Bin's arm, poked his head slightly and glanced at Gu Junxun again, his smooth forehead was slightly raised, and his beautiful eyes like bright jade looked at Lin Tie in the twilight, as if he was determining Gu Junxun's identity, and it seemed that he was just casually saying such a sentence to Lin Tie.

Gu Junxun also saw that the person waiting for Lin Jian at the ferry was a girl, she looked at the other party curiously, seeing that she was so close to Lin Bin, she was too timid and shy to take the initiative to greet the other party.

Although Xiaoman said that she was in a white robe and tied her hair, she was in the twilight, her facial features were exquisite, and there was a trace in her eyebrows and eyes that could not be concealed, and it seemed to be the soft temperament brought by her.

Gu Wuchen laughed loudly and said to Lin Lian: "You said that you have two friends to vote for in Jiangning, it turns out that there is a beautiful woman waiting for you, no wonder Mrs. asked the lady of the Xiao family to be a cook for you in the past, you pushed back, it turned out that you were afraid that the beauty would misunderstand this and rest assured, the old man can testify for you." ”

Xiaoman and Gu Junxun grew up in completely different environments: when Gu Wuchen and his wife were exiled, Gu Junxun and her brother were taken care of in the house of their grandfather Tang Haoxin, and at this time they were still a delicate lady who did not know the world, Xiaoman was sold into a prostitute by her parents as a young prostitute since she was a child, and her experience and mind were more mature than Gu Junxun, and there was a natural charm between Xiaoman's eyebrows, so that she and Gu Junxun stood together as teenagers, generally tall, although she was two years younger than Gu Junxun, But I can see the appearance of a young girl.

Lin Jian heard some relief from Gu Wuchen's words, and sighed slightly in his heart, Gu Wuchen can be regarded as respectful to his wife, but as a man, liking and chasing beautiful women is always closer to nature.

Gu Wuchen himself felt that it was too exposed, coughed lightly, and said: "Whose son-in-law is this, Xunniang doesn't have a girlfriend in Jiangning, you come to the house in the future, ask this son-in-law to bring over to accompany Xunniang" He was also worried about the fact that the lady of the Xiao family would be sent to Lin Jian to be a cook. One is a young scholar with strong blood, and the other is a young gentleman with a new widow and a seductive beauty. Although the lady of the Xiao family has the duty to keep festivals for her husband's family, there is no constraint from the township covenant, and the so-called duty is really weak; Although Lin Jian is also a scholar who reads the books of sages and sages, he knows the morality of a gentleman not to deceive the dark room, but in the face of seductive beauty, this morality is also thin, Gu Wufa thought that at first the two of them might be able to hold it down, but after a little time, what happened to the dry firewood encountered the fire was self-evident, and Liang Zuo's hard work would have fulfilled others, to say that Gu Wuchen's heart was not sour, it was self-deception. When he saw a beautiful girl waiting for Lin Tie at the ferry, only when this girl was the lover Lin Tie met when he was participating in the township test in Jiangning, Gu Wuchen put down his mind and thought: The lady of the Xiao family does not seem to be as dangerous as he thinks when he is a cook for Lin Tie.

Hearing his father say this, Gu Junxun also greeted Xiaoman cordially: "This sister, Xun Niang has just arrived, and I will ask my sister to take care of her more in the future!" ”

Listening to Gu Junxun calling his sister, Xiao Man leaned on Lin Lian's side, slyly smiled, but did not speak.

Lin Jian doesn't care about Xiaoman's identity, but he doesn't care, it doesn't mean that others don't care, if he befriends Xiaoman and Gu Junxun, he will know Xiaoman's life experience to the Gu family in the future, but I'm afraid that I won't want to enter the Gu family again in this life.

Gu Junxun is Miss Guanjiajiao, and Xiaoman is just a young prostitute in Dustpan Lane, and the reality is often so cruel.

Gu Junxun was looking forward to Lin Tie introducing the extremely handsome girl in front of him, Gu Wuchen also wanted to know which family's daughter this girl was, Lin Tie deliberately bypassed this topic, put his hand lightly on Xiaoman's shoulder, and said with a smile: "This girl is only a good girl this year."

"Ah" Gu Junxun saw that he actually called a girl who was two years younger than himself as his sister, his face was red with shame, and he was very embarrassed. After a few days of getting along, Gu Wuchen knew that Lin Jian was a polite scholar, and when he saw him put his hand on Xiaoman's shoulder, he instantly knew the identity of this girl, smiled, and stopped mentioning that the other party would make friends with the little girl, which almost caused a big laughingstock.

Xiaoman's mind is extremely sensitive, from Gu Wuchen's eyes, she knows that Lin Tie is not on her shoulder to be intimate with herself, but just to hint at her identity to others, her heart suddenly changed from joy to coldness, inexplicably sad, her shoulder collapsed slightly, and she dodged away from Lin Tie's hand, in the twilight, her little face that was as bright as a beautiful jade had a gloom that could not be concealed.

Lin Jian felt pity in his heart, but at this time, it was inconvenient to comfort her.

Waiting for the post man in front of the ferry, he heard the man on the boat say that the middle-aged man who walked over in a civilian robe here was the deputy envoy Gu Daren, who hurriedly turned over to say goodbye, and the carriage and horse carried the sedan chair were all ready, please Gu Wuchen and his family first go to the post house to sweep the dust and rest, luggage cages and the like, and send someone to keep an eye on the post keeper and the miscellaneous servants in the post house to do it.

At this time, Liu Yue'er also came ashore with her own bags, Xiao Man, Zhou Pu, and Chen Enze waited here for a long time, and she had already known from Zhou Pu's mouth what had happened in the forest during this time and what they were doing on the way to Jiangning, she cheered up and retracted her gloomy expression, and showed a bright smile and went over to help Liu Yue'er get the package: "You are the sister of the Xiao family?" ”

Liu Yue'er didn't recognize Xiaoman as a girl for a while, and when she saw the handsome young man coming forward to help her get something, she was startled, and when she was about to get out of the way, Lin Lian smiled: "Miss Liu, don't be afraid, Xiaoman is my sister, it's okay to let her help you get things" Liu Yue'er only then knew that the boy was dressed as a girl, and she didn't understand that Lin Juren's parents died early, and she had no relatives and no reason, why did she run away with a sister again?

The twilight is getting deeper, and you have to take the Chaotian Lake waterway for thirty miles to go to Jiangning City, and you will definitely not be able to arrive before the city gate is closed, and you can only borrow the post house at night. Without the help of the post guards, they had four good horses, and they had a small amount of luggage, Lin Jian squatted down, and let Xiaoman step on his knees to sit on the horse, he personally led the horse for Xiaoman, and said some interesting things about parting for more than ten days while walking.

Gu Junxun sat in the carriage with her mother, slightly lifted the curtain of the car and watched Lin Tie lead the horse to Xiaoman in the twilight, thinking that Lin Gongzi was so good to this girl, and remembered the scene where Lin Tie was inadvertently grabbed in the chest in the tea hotel, and sighed slightly: Don't Lin Gongzi know how to catch himself here? Do you want to forget about it yourself?

The wealth of Jiangning, you can get a glimpse of one or two from the building of Chaotianyi, Lin Tie them over a gentle slope, stand at a slightly higher place and look at the past, Chaotianyi pavilion is lined up one after another, in the twilight for a while I can't count how many enter the courtyard, and there is a building complex in the distance, which is a camp city of Jiangning garrison army on the north bank.

When an official goes to work, Gu Wuchen is no exception, seeing that he will go to Jiangning City with one foot, he will also linger in the post house on the north shore of Chaotian Lake for a few days, and wait until the auspicious day he chooses before entering Jiangning City to officially take up his post. During this period, some officials of the Jiangdong Inspectorate who would become his subordinates would follow the routine of crossing the river to visit, and naturally they would also pay a lot of money.

Gu Wuchen is not a person who is out of the world, he can't get out of the world. He is a dignified member of the imperial court, and he is worth 250 stones, and he is 100 taels of silver. Although one hundred taels of silver can be used for four or five well-off families for a year, but following Gu Wuchen to Jiangning are three people with Suihu, maids, four mothers-in-law and sons-in-law, as well as Yang Pu's wife and daughter. Gu Siming and Gu Tianqiao's two nephews came to Jiangning with him, and in addition to providing him with food, drink and accommodation, they also had to give him some monthly silver expenses. In order to maintain a standard of living comparable to that of the four major members, the food and drink in the house cannot be saved, which is a larger expense. In addition, he also has to recruit some staff members as assistants to act as official duties, and he has to donate all this money himself, how can Gu Wuchen have enough for his own annual salary?

In this era, if you only accept the honor money of your subordinates and colleagues, this official must be considered incorruptible, just as a thousand years later, later generations of officials only receive gifts on New Year's holidays.

Gu Wuchen couldn't get rid of the vulgar, so he had to stop at the post house and not rush into the city, and first accept the greetings from those who were about to become his subordinate officials. Besides, after he entered the city, he had to go to meet his superiors in Jiangning, including the Jiangdong Inspectorate, the Jiangning Criminal Department Shangshu and the left and right servants, and the Jiangning Military Department Shangshu and garrison general, and the Jiangning Metropolitan Inspectorate, the Imperial History, and the few princes who lived in Jiangning City; For the future of his son Gu Siyuan, he also took the initiative to visit the chief officer of Jiangning Guozijian. Maybe these things are planned in the post house first, and there is a rule for who to meet first and then to meet whom. Although he Gu Wuchen will still be one of the predators in Jiangning City in the future, the rules are the rules, and no one can break them.

Lin Jian knew about these bad habits of officialdom, thinking that he didn't have to be Gu Wuchen's staff member, and he could bid farewell to advanced Jiangning early tomorrow morning, and he didn't have to pay attention to these bad habits of officialdom, and he felt very relaxed in his heart.

Lin Jian didn't expect the urgency of those officials who were about to become Gu Wuchen's subordinates, he approached the post house with the Gu family, and saw some people standing under the two strings of dead wind lamps raised high in front of the hall looking at this side, looking like they were waiting to greet Gu Wuchen, and they all greeted Gu Wuchen together when they saw Gu Wuchen's carriage and horses arriving at the post house. In the afternoon, the young man in brocade who met on the Shiliang River and escorted the fleet of Wu Feng Dart Company and Du Rong Hao Ran, the wealthy owner of Jiangning Qingfeng Bank, were also among the crowd.

Seeing Du Rong actually appear here, Lin Lian was startled, and he hurriedly grabbed Xiaoman's waist and picked her off the horse. (to the apex.) 16977 mini-games are updated every day and fun mini-games are waiting for you to discover!