At a post station 300 miles away from the capital, dogs barked from time to time, the stables were brightly lit, and more than a dozen dusty soldiers were feeding and washing the horses.

Xiping Hou Muchun sat alone in the house, looking at the letter written by his mother, which sternly ordered him to return to Yunnan immediately, not to enter Beijing, and informed his sister that he had gone to Yanjing.

Mu Chun is Chinese New Year's Eve years old today, Mrs. Mu married Mu Ying when she was twelve years old, became pregnant at the age of thirteen, and gave birth to her eldest son at the age of fourteen.

Mu Chun is four years older than his second brother Mu Sheng, but he is a full thirteen years older than Mu Ningxue, so he treats his two younger sisters and younger brother Mu Ang as children, which is also the reason why he has been married for many years and has no heirs.

Mu Chun's personality is similar to his late father, and his talent and ability to lead the troops are also comparable to a generation of famous generals Mu Ying, who followed Fu Youde and Mu Ying at the age of sixteen to lead the troops all the year round.

He was awarded the title of Marquis of Xiping early on with his real military exploits, and his father Mu Ying died for only a year, and he had not inherited the title of duke, so he had to wait for the end of the filial piety period to inherit.

Zhu Yuanzhang admired Mu Chun's talent very much, so he ordered him to send his father's coffin back to his hometown for burial, and then continue to guard Yunnan with filial piety, while Mu Ying's spiritual seat was enshrined in the Taimiao to enjoy fireworks and worship.

Mu Chun valued affection, and after receiving Fu Youde's letter, he tasted a trace of despair revealed in it, and he was very familiar with Fu Rang's skills, so he secretly returned to the capital. plans to persuade his mother to marry his sister to the Fu family, so that the Mu family and the Fu family share weal and woe, desperately kneel and die in front of the saint, and also save the lives of the two families.

Mu Chun sighed, but he didn't expect his mother to notice his thoughts and send his sister away in advance, what should I do?

Thinking that Qingshuang was still at home, Mu Chun shook his head, Qingshuang's identity was too special, and it had already been given to the future king of Yunnan, in order to consolidate the hearts of the people and highlight the legal system of the Zhu dynasty.

Mu Chun carefully put the letter close to his body, got up and walked out of the door, and then rushed to the capital at night, he had to meet the emperor no matter what, and plead for the Fu family.

Jinan City, Qian's Courtyard.

Mu Ningxue has finished washing and bathing, her face is red and fluttering like she has been plated with a layer of rouge, and she is still radiant without powder.

She was originally the daughter of a military general, but in the past six months, she has been infected by Xu Hao, the temptation of her younger brother Mu Ang, and the outdoor sports she likes on weekdays, kicking shuttlecock swings, throwing pots and archery, etc., have been contacted, which has made the already healthy body go to the next level.

The autumn night was cooler, Mu Ningxue wore an extra jade-colored shoulder, and subconsciously asked, "Is he okay?" ”

Zhiyan held the bronze mirror and took the opportunity to laugh: "Who is he?" ”

Mu Ningxue raised her hand and patted Zhiyan's cheek gently, and said with a smile: "I have been tempered by the two of you in turn, and I can't hear anything." But if you are allowed to bully me like this, I will be polite, and I will give your crooked girl to the faceless young master early in the morning, and make a pair of skinless and faceless. ”

Zhiyan swept away the disdain when she was by Xu Hao's side before, and said with a smile: "Anyway, sooner or later, it has to be the faceless young master's person, and it's nothing late or early, I'm afraid that someone will be jealous when they arrive." ”

Mu Ningxue was speechless for a moment, and sighed: "I really lost to you, you girl is now more and more unscrupulous in her words and bold in her actions." Thanks to you for keeping my face in front of him, otherwise I wouldn't have the face to walk with him. ”

Zhiyan said with a smile: "I naturally know what to say and what not to say, let's laugh and laugh in the boudoir, outside, who dares to deliberately attract bees and butterflies, I am the first to refuse, I have to beat me half to death and go home." ”

Mu Ningxue was pleased: "This is not in vain for you and me, in the end, you know my mind best." It's still early at night, he must be the same sleepless, let's talk to him together, I think he has something on his mind, see if I can share his worries. ”

At this juncture, Zhiyan knew that she couldn't continue to make fun of the young lady, so she obediently agreed, and the master and servant went out of the room together.

The maid Zhiqing is as old as Zhiyan, both are 16 years old, and her appearance is as beautiful as Zhiyan, but she is not as delicate and able to speak as Zhiyan. Zhiqing has a straightforward personality and is neat and neat, and her parents are the generals of the Mu Mansion, whether it is Mrs. Mu or Mu Ningxue, they don't treat her as a person, they can be regarded as the housekeepers by Mu Ningxue's side.

Originally, Mu Ningxue wanted to send her personal maid Zhiyan over to serve Xu Hao, but Xu Hao refused, but someone had to lay out the bedding for him, slurry laundry or something. It was Mu Ningxue who asked Zhiqing to go over to help, she knew that Xu Hao had never liked irrelevant people to fiddle with his belongings, and would rather do it himself when staying at the Mu family, rather than let the mother-in-law and the little maids touch his things, but a girl who is not married and ingenious can, of course, this is the consistent wealth disease of a wealthy son.

Without waiting for Mu Ningxue to ask, Zhiqing took the initiative to say: "Xu Gongzi has never come back, I went out to ask, there are local people who came to visit with Qian Yuan, and now they are all in the front hall." ”

Mu Ningxue said suspiciously: "What are you looking for him for no reason?" It's not a Qincha Wenchen, a person who has not reached the weak crown, what is there to visit? Let's go over and see the excitement. ”

At that moment, Mu Ningxue took the maid to the front hall and listened through the screen.

At this moment, Xu Hao was sitting on the main seat, looking like a drunken Maitreya Buddha, sitting beside him, his smiling facial features became bitter, and he frowned and listened to the dozen or so old men around him taking turns pouring bitter water.

A thin old man in his fifties spoke with a Shandong accent and complained: "Please call the shots for me, my brother-in-law has a female baby and a male baby under his knees, and my nephew has no heart since he was a child, and those Huaixi Yankees have to let their dolls and my brother-in-law get engaged." Who knows that these Huaixi Yankees have evil intentions, they don't care about any relatives, and after my brother-in-law died, they moved all the family property away, and the nephew was a pustule and was kept in the dark, and even his daughter-in-law was taken away to be the concubine of his brother-in-law. ”

Mu Ningxue frowned when she heard this, and secretly said Isn't Huaixi the old family in the Fengyang area? In the early years, the imperial court had the Huaixi faction headed by Li Shanchang and Prime Minister Hu Weiyong, who controlled the government for more than ten years and competed for power with the eastern Zhejiang faction, although they have all been defeated, but it has also made countless old family members rise to the ground, colluding with each other to bully and dominate the market, and as a result, they annoyed the saints, and scattered all the big families to various places regardless of the hometown, and it seems that the Huaixi people here moved from their hometowns.

At this moment, Xu Hao's thoughts are similar to Mu Ningxue's, and the once-prominent Huaixi Party has naturally heard it mentioned it several times.

At this time, another middle-aged man said angrily: "These Huaixi Yankees are rich and powerful, and they spread eagle dogs throughout Shandong, and they are specially scattered to find cracks in drills. My nephew was young and ignorant, and he was deliberately introduced as a confidant by them, but the nephew hid it from our whole family, thinking about listening to Huai Xiyan's words and raising an industry to get ahead.

Alas! As a result, he set a fixed number of years, as much as a few tens of dollars, and borrowed a thousand taels of silver. When the expiration date came, not only did the principal and interest not come out, but the interest and silver added the principal and silver, and the interest and interest snowballed, and I owed more than 7,000 taels of silver to others for a whole year, and the property was not even worth 300 taels of silver, and my brother-in-law scattered half of the family property, so he finally paid back the money.

Unexpectedly, these black-hearted bastards saw that their nephews were cowardly and bullied, and they heard that my family was an honest and serious family, and they successively coaxed their nephews to borrow usurious debts from the other two. I was so angry that I went to them to theorize, and my legs were broken and I was crippled. ”

Xu Hao frowned and looked at the lower half of the man's body, and four or five people around him shouted and scolded in unison, all of them were relatives who had been deceived by usury, so that they went bankrupt and became destitute.

Mu Ningxue quietly looked through the cracks, and saw that he never spoke, except for frowning, he had no expression, and said in his heart that you were calm.

The whole hall was shouted and chaotic by everyone, and suddenly I saw him raise his arm slightly, and all the voices were suppressed in an instant, and the hall regained its calm.

Mu Ningxue secretly said that he had a bit of the ability to pretend, and that demeanor knew at a glance that he was an imitation of the saint, and it could be regarded as bluffing.

Xu Hao still didn't speak, and motioned to the big guy with his eyes to continue, he was used to dealing with the royal ministers in the past year, and he was touched by Zhu Yuanzhang, and he had a bit of momentum as a superior person.

At that moment, another old man said tremblingly: "The old man has an ancestral house, which is one of the best gardens in Jinan City, no worse than Qian Yuanwai here." Just for the sake of being coveted by those wicked people for the house, I found out that the old man only had one daughter, so he insisted on marrying him. It was also the old man who was clumsy at the beginning, and he agreed to marry his daughter to the son of the Zhu family when he had the intention of clinging to the rich.

But they never expected that they heard from their daughters about some of the wrong things that our family had done in the past, and they were making ghosts at home all day long, threatening to report to the officials, and the old man had no choice but to give them the deed, thinking that the ancestral house was left by the ancestors, even if the old man did bad things in his early years, it would not be his turn to be occupied by his in-laws. Alas! Now, even if he sues the saint, it is a big deal to die, and the ancestral house must be taken back no matter what. ”

Mu Ningxue was moved when she heard this, and secretly said that those fellow villagers are too hateful, even if the people present are rich and unkind, they shouldn't use this shady method to rob other people's ancestral property? This Shandong is next to the capital, isn't it afraid that it will reach the ears of the saints?

I wonder what he's going to do with it? Whether you sit idly by, or seek out local officials, or impulsively try to solve the problem yourself, either way is not advisable, I am afraid that I will be deeply disappointed.