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Qin Mu returned upstairs, thinking that he had gone to the wrong room, and hesitated slightly at the door. The little beauty in front of her has red lips and white teeth, jade and slender, picturesque eyebrows, and a faint red mole in the center of her eyebrows

Qin Mu couldn't help but shake his head to dispel his lust. First go to the bed and sit down, and then bluff viciously: "Say, where did you come from?" It is estimated that the little beggar, the little beauty just replied "Yao Chi", and he believed it.

"Me"

"Dare to say half a lie, bake and eat!"

The little beauty's bright eyes glanced at him quickly, and quickly lowered her head, probably because she hadn't shown her true face for too long, her face was full of Niuni, and her fingers pinched the corners of her clothes and replied, "I'm a slave"

"Don't be a slave, say me, say it!" Qin Mu is like Lord Yama judging a case, and there are a few little ghosts around him.

"My hometown is in Yueyang."

Well, produced in Huxiang, Chu's waist is slender and light in his palm, no wonder. However, Lord Yama is not so perfunctory: "Say, how old is this year?" ”

The little beauty glanced at him quickly, and replied hesitantly, "Fourteen." ”

"Why don't you say forty?"

"Thirteen."

"I'm no longer honest, I'm really baked and eaten."

"Twelve."

Could it be that there is toothpaste squeezed this year?

Lord Yama almost fainted, in fact, the little girl's careful thinking was easy to understand, she probably thought that tampering with her age would make people think she was more useful.

"Are you sure it's really twelve? Zuihou warns you once, don't blame me for being dishonest. ”

"It's really twelve, I didn't lie to you this time, I really didn't lie to you." The little girl finally knew that she was in a hurry.

Well, the so-called twelve is actually eleven, this year is considered a virtual age, if it is eleven years old, Qin Mu feels that it is barely credible.

"What's your name?"

"The surname is Yun, and the name and name have been told to you."

"Yun Qiao? Xianyun coincidentally, the name is still so-so, saying, I have been away from home for a few years, who else is there in the family? As soon as Lord Yan asked, he regretted it, and sure enough, the little girl's eyes were hazy in an instant, and tears fell straight down.

It is conceivable that if there is still someone in the family, how can an eleven or twelve-year-old girl come out alone to beg for a living?

Over the years, rogue officials and thieves have been rampant, and there are few homeless people like her. Judging by the fact that she has learned to protect herself in many details, her days of begging must have been quite short.

The more the little girl cried, the more sad she became, her tears were like pearls with broken threads, and her whole body trembled, it was hard to imagine how much she had suffered before she met Qin Mu, and how she lived a precarious and frightened life.

Qin Mu stood up, stroked her little head and comforted: "Qiao'er, don't be too sad, let it pass, remember this sentence, sometimes life makes us fall into the abyss, not to fall us to death, but to teach us to fly!" ”

**

After Hou Fangyu and Mao Xiang left the inn, they decided to go to Nanjing to guard the eunuch Han Zanzhou by night. Huichang is located at the junction of Jiangxi, Fujian, and Guangdong provinces, is a three-regardless zone, and now this poor mountain and bad water small county bandits are raging, two consecutive county governors died in office, now the Ming Dynasty is on fire everywhere, anxious, simply unable to take care of such a small county, the Ministry of Officials arranged several officials, all of whom would rather go home to farm, than to go to work.

Now that the imperial court is relying more and more on Jiangnan, the power of Han Zanzhou, the eunuch guarding Nanjing, is naturally becoming more and more heavy. If recommended by Han Zanzhou, it should not be difficult to give Qin Mu a Huichang Zhi County.

Hou Fangyu also specially made some gifts, and then went to pay homage to Han Zanzhou with Mao Xiang.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a clear distinction between civil officials and eunuchs on the surface, and it was often life and death.

In fact, the situation is far from so simple, the outer court is in charge of voting and exercising power, and the inner court is in charge of the red power and has a great power of supervision. It is true that the two sides contain each other and have conflicts of interest, which will inevitably lead to fierce struggles.

But in a situation where no one can help the other, there will inevitably be compromises and exchange of interests.

It is worth mentioning that the inner study hall in the palace is a place where the little eunuchs read and write, and most of the eunuchs in power come from the inner study hall, and the people who teach in the inner study hall are all civil officials from Hanlin, and these civil officials and the eunuchs from the inner study hall naturally formed a teacher-student relationship, which laid a good foundation for their internal and external "hookup" in the future.

Mao Xiang's father, Mao Qizong, had a good personal relationship with Han Zanzhou, and only Hou Fangyu asked Mao Xiang to help, and through Han Zanzhou's "inside line", he could undoubtedly achieve his goal the fastest.

For the sake of the rising sect, Han Zanzhou didn't take it too much, and soon met with the two of them, when the eldest prince Hou saluted, he didn't have the slightest hint at the country when he held a symposium in Taoyedu, and scolded the eunuch for his arrogance, in front of Han Zanzhou, he carefully accompanied the smiling face, like a turtle grandson, hey, no wonder in the future he will shave a melon skin and run to the Manchu Qing Dynasty to be a slave, and this is the virtue.

Han Zan Zhou is in his forties, his face is slightly round, and his smile is quite friendly, seeing that the two of them came to see him for no reason, and brought a lot of gifts, well, with Zhou Yanru's resignation as the first assistant of the cabinet, the officials of the Restoration Society followed the depreciation, and these little rabbit cubs are not so arrogant, and they know how to respect people.

Han Zan Zhou smiled and asked for tea, and then coughed lightly twice and said: "As the so-called nothing does not register the Three Treasures Palace, you come to our house, should you come to our family to talk about family life, if you have something to say, our family is still in a hurry to go out to the banquet." ”

Mao Xiang was a little speechless, but Hou Fangyu couldn't wait, this gift was given, could it be given in vain?

He hurriedly squeezed out a bright smile and hurriedly said: "Since Gonggong Han has something, he doesn't dare to delay in his later life, so let's say it bluntly, has Gonggong Han ever heard of Qin Mu?" ”

"Well, there are geniuses in the beloved, what is the matter that is put back every year, haha Ha is now a concubine with a shy face, and when you come, it is nearly night. In this Nanjing city, who hasn't heard of Qin Mu? ”

Han Gonggong is rare to be literary and artistic, to be honest, he likes Qian Wan's poem in his heart, and he wants to laugh every time he thinks about it.

Hou Fangyu also laughed and said: "Gonggong Han, although Qin Mu failed in three attempts, but he is indeed talented, today he has more than 20 masterpieces, which can be described as easy to come by, informal, and what is even more rare is that Qin Mu has the heart to serve the country with his fists, and has the talent to govern the world, but when he talks to him, when he talks to Jiangxi Huichang bandits, many officials sent by the Ministry of Officials are not afraid to go to the post, Qin Mu heard the case and got up, indignant, and threatened to only hate not being able to go to high school, otherwise he will definitely ask to release the official Huichang, exterminate the bandits in one fell swoop, and return one side to peace."

Han Zanzhou interrupted Hou Fangyu disappreciatively: "It's just a nonsense, it's just that he didn't go to high school, but he was afraid that it would be a real high school, so he didn't want to go." ”

Hou Fangyu replied: "Father-in-law Han, don't wait to talk with Qin Mu for a long time, in terms of military and political affairs, he has something to say and is clearly organized, but he doesn't seem to be a person who talks nonsense, and if he doesn't wait to come today, he just wants to ask his father-in-law to bring Qin Mu one or two;

Qin Mu has gone to the Ministry of Officials to be a candidate, and his father-in-law has won the favor of the saint, so that Qin Mu can fill the vacancy in Huichang and think about it, but the father-in-law asks to think that the court is now in an eventful autumn, if Qin Mu is really talented, and his father-in-law recommends meritorious service, when the saint appreciates it in the future, it will be indispensable for his father-in-law to have a credit;

Taking a step back, Huichang is a small county that no one wants to go to anyway, so why not let Qin Mu try, if Qin Mu is incompetent, the situation will not be worse than now, and there will be no loss to the father-in-law. This matter is beneficial and harmless to the father-in-law, and I hope that the father-in-law can help one or two. ”

Han Zanzhou couldn't help but nod slightly when he heard this, as the eunuch of Nanjing Town, he still knew the situation in Huichang, this was indeed a small county where mountain bandits were rampant, and no one wanted to go, it would not hurt to let Qin Mu try it, if he was really talented, his own recommendation would be indispensable in the future.

He asked in a deep voice, "Why didn't Qin Mu come with you?" ”

"This father-in-law Mingjian, Qin Mu suffered a head injury ten days ago and has not yet healed, it is too rude to come to visit his father-in-law wrapped in a wound."

Han Zanzhou accepted the gift from Hou Fangyu, and this matter was just a gesture for him, so he agreed: "Well, then let's do it, you go back and let Qin Mu prepare, the appointment of the imperial court will come down soon, and then don't come out of the demon moth, if you are also afraid of things like everyone else, and dare not go to the post, don't blame our family for being polite." ”

"Thank you, thank you, father-in-law. The father-in-law can rest assured, and he will not be able to convey the father-in-law's instructions to Qin Mu. ”

Hou Fangyu thought that he would have to go through a lot of words to move Han Zanzhou, but he didn't expect things to go so smoothly, which was really unexpected for him.

Huichang is a good place, there are many bandits, let Qin Mu go to the bandits' den to take a turn, I don't believe that he still has the life to come back.

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