In the face of Fang Zhongxian's plea, Eunuch Yao was unmoved, and said with a smile: "Sir, as a minister, has he forgotten the national code, and the holy decree can be violated?" Besides, this is clearly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a good thing of a thousand autumn adventures, so that love enters the palace to serve His Royal Highness the Prince, long live Yan on a different day, and the prince ascends the throne, so that love is not difficult to rank in the concubine position, and it is not difficult for the Fang family to be noble again, and get rid of the current dilemma in one fell swoop. ”

"This?" Fang Zhongxian could only smile bitterly, for a family like the Fang family, loyalty has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow, and with the death of Zhu Di, Zhu Yunwen, Fang Xiaoru's generation, grievances and grievances have naturally disappeared, otherwise what else?

Eunuch Yao continued: "Let's just say that you have already chosen a son-in-law, and you are struggling to excuse yourself for this, isn't it that the student said that you, can you be more than the prince?" If it is difficult to move by appointment, I am afraid that it will hurt the righteousness, is it that as the crown prince, how can the gift of the heavenly family be controlled by the reckless and poor gift? Sir, please think deeply, with the situation of the Fang family, how will the imperial court view this? It is clear that the Fang family still remembers Jianwen's grievances, and it is not advisable! Because the student admires Mr. Fang, he dares to speak out, anyway, he will show his holy grace, whether Mr. wants to or not, our family does not dare to force it, and he should return to Beijing to resume his life. When he was done, he got up and was about to take his leave.

Fang Zhongxian was in a hurry, other people didn't want to do it, his daughter did take the first step to marry, and the emperor had no reason to rob him, this was the Hongxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, and the emperor was not a faint king.

However, the identity of the Fang family is embarrassing, and then provoke the prince for his daughter, it doesn't matter if the Fang family is downcast for the rest of his life, many relatives, friends, disciples, etc., they really can't afford it! In short, the big guys have had a hard time over the years, and many students complained.

At that moment, Zhongxian hurriedly grabbed Eunuch Yao, and said sadly: "How dare you disobey the holy decree?" But I also have to talk to my daughter in the future, please wait a little longer, I am grateful. ”

Eunuch Yao sat down with satisfaction and said with a smile: "Mr. can agree, this is the blessing of the Fang family." ”

"Alas!" Fang Zhongxian smiled bitterly: "The student will go in and discuss with the little girl now." No accompaniment. ”

Eunuch Yao watched him go in, and only then did he see a girl hiding behind the wall of the hall eavesdropping, crying and running in, and then the inner house was full of crying. Yao Yin was accustomed to this, shook his head and said: "Lonely and unheard, now the unfavored palace maid can be released in ten years, earlier than in previous years, what are you crying about?" On the contrary, we are eunuchs, which humiliate our ancestors and cannot be passed on to the next generation. Isn't her mother a hundred times worse than you? ”

After a long time, Fang Zhongxian's eyes came out with red eyes, and he sighed: "The little girl cried a lot, stopped crying before she came, comforted me and her mother, and said that since you have been given the holy decree, you should treat each other with courtesy, and you should not be contemptuous." ”

"As it should be." Eunuch Yao couldn't hide his curiosity, "Mr. Lao Fu will introduce me." Show me what it's really like. ”

"Okay." Fang Zhongxian turned around and walked in again, and soon Fang Xinrui, the young lady of the Fang family, walked out slowly.

Eunuch Yao's eyes lit up, and after a careful look, he was really beautiful. The bearing is also extraordinary, and I can't help but be overjoyed when I am secretly amazed in my heart, this woman is better than thousands of vulgar fans!

After saying a few words to each other, Fang Xinrui turned around and went back. Eunuch Yao said with joy in his heart: "Let love jade be natural." In the middle of the gold festival, this is the appearance of great nobility. Thinking that the students are in the palace, only the noble Sun Wangyue can be compared. Now it seems that with Ling Ai's family background and talent, she will be able to overwhelm the six palaces in the future, and sooner or later she will have to be called a mother. ”

"I lend you good words." Fang Zhongxian smiled bitterly or bitterly.

In this way, Eunuch Yao got Fang Xinrui, thought that he had the chance to win, no longer cared about the slackness of officials, and urged all prefectures and counties to send people over, select 100, and prepare to set off back to Beijing together.

Outside Jinling City, there is grass everywhere, two young men wearing square scarves are sitting on mules, and two donkeys holding luggage behind them are sitting a scholar.

On the side of the road, there was a young man sitting in a tea shop resting his feet, with delicate skin and a face like a crown of jade, who was fanning the wind with his hands while drinking herbal tea.

As the two sides approached, the boy noticed that one of the scholars was very familiar, and the scholar stared at him intently.

The young man looked surprised and asked, "Brother Tai, where are you?" ”

The scholar hurriedly said: "Hebei." ”

"Oops." The young man put down the teacup, "Is your surname Cao?" ”

"Exactly." The scholar's voice trembled slightly, "Brother is a little kind. ”

The young man smiled: "Did that brother live in Kunming last year?" ”

The scholar hurriedly jumped off the animal and said excitedly: "If you have lived, may you ask your surname?" ”

The young man smiled and said, "Brother Tai's alias is Xu Xin?" The younger brother seems to have traded a green onion golden hairpin with you. ”

It turned out that the scholar was Cao Nai, who could have returned to his hometown by boat, but because he couldn't let go of Xiangyue, he got off the boat in Jinling halfway, and was accompanied by a scholar he met during the journey, and was going to go to someone's house to spend a few days in order to enter the city to inquire about the news of Xiangyue.

The boy is Xiao'er, who lives in the countryside these days, and today he wears men's clothes to play near Xiaojia Village, and a few other girls are in the Huanggu Temple, she slipped out alone, but she met Cao Nai.

Cao Nai was overjoyed and said to his friend: "You go to the village first, I'll come if I ask a few words." ”

Qingshu was guarding the cattle inexplicably, and saw the young master happily sitting next to Yu'er, and said with a smile: "Why are you wearing men's clothes?" Could it be that there are people on the road ahead, who want to emulate the story of the Red Whisk Girl? ”

"Someone isn't you." Xiao'er pursed her lips, "It's still so oily." ”

Cao Nai smiled and asked, "Where is Miss Xu?" ”

"I don't know." Xiao'er looked at the other party, "Didn't you hear that Eunuch Yao Yin drafted a girl, but as a result, she took my young lady as Miss Fang and forced her to get on the boat, so angry that my third master robbed the ship halfway and beheaded Eunuch Yao with a sword?" ”

Cai Nai hurriedly said: "Why haven't you heard of it? Along the way, it's been talked about everywhere. But I'm very strange, Miss Ming Ming has already returned to Beijing, how could she suddenly appear in Shaoxing Mansion, and be mistaken for Miss Fang and become a show girl to be selected? ”

Xiao'er said: "That's when the third master of my family promised the girl to go to Jiangnan for a tour, who knew that he encountered this incident, but unfortunately the girl didn't take me, I don't know the details." I accompanied my grandmothers back to Beijing, and now the young lady has not come back, and she is probably frightened, and my third master is taking her around for a walk. ”

"Ugh." Cao Nai's expression was embarrassed, "Fortunately, it was your family, which not only angered Lord Xu and beheaded the eunuchs, but also wrote to question the court because of this." Thousands of beautiful girls were thus saved. ”

"Who made that eunuch blind, even my young lady dared to send it to please the prince." Xiao'er said disdainfully.

Cao Nai became happy and said happily: "What does that sister want to do now?" ”

Xiao'er smiled and said: "My young lady fell in love with Cao Nai's poems and ordered me to go to Beiping to visit him." ”

"Oops!" Cao Nai pretended to be shocked, "Miss chose him, and I have nothing to do with it." ”

"Phew! Get cheap and sell well. Xiao'er suddenly asked, "To be honest, have you ever been married?" ”

"Married." Cao Nai, who was in a good mood, deliberately teased her again, "I can't stand the persuasion of others in Yunnan, and I don't know what you and Miss mean, don't wait for a white head." I agreed. ”

Xiao'er stared at his face, instantly saw through the reality, and deliberately disappointed: "Then you can send me home." ”

Cai Nai shook his head and said, "I don't have time. ”

Xiao'er asked, "Don't you want to send me?" ”

At this point, Cai Nai couldn't help but hold one of Qian'er's hands and said with a smile: "How can I not send you?" I'm used to being bullied by you, and I'm afraid you will still bully me. ”

Xiao'er hurriedly withdrew her hand and scolded with a smile: "Phew! Talking nonsense in broad daylight. ”

This time I saw Yu'er again by chance, and the other party's attitude was much more intimate than when I was in Yunnan, obviously the visit of the Yu prefect's mansion, and the Xu family gave two or three years. In fact, it is already a promise of family affairs, but there is no hiring, and Cao Nai must also be admitted first.

Cao Nai tasted this, and after being overjoyed, he decided to immediately return home to study behind closed doors. sent Xun'er to Xu's house, no longer expected to see Xu Xiangyue, and left resolutely.

Due to the increase in population and increasing prosperity, Xiaojia Village was upgraded to Xiaojia Town last year. It was assigned to the jurisdiction of Shangyuan County, and the nearby land was bounded by the Qinhuai River, and Hebei was Shangyuan. Henan is Jiangning, which directly belongs to Shuntianfu.

The new county magistrate advocates the rule of inaction, and the famous one does not care about things, and rarely patronizes the Yamen office. There were twenty or thirty scribes in the county office, and like the clerks who gnawed on the desks in later generations, they had to sit on time for four hours every day, regardless of the weather or rain.

In the yamen, there is no distinction between ancient and modern, it is the norm for people to float in things, these scribes correspond to the county magistrate, most of the time is drinking tea, reading old fancy novels, in recent years, they have become obsessed with roadside tabloids, where has a woman become a man, which poor bastard shit luck married a famous prostitute of Qin Huai, got a dowry of tens of thousands of taels, and went crazy with joy; Which official's aunt fell in love with the sedan chair man, and both threw themselves into Jiang to be martyred and so on.

Every day, I have to talk about current affairs, talk about some gossip in the streets and alleys, and get tired of reading newspapers, so I will talk about last night's card game, which guy has good luck, and I have done two in a row plus Haidilao Moon, whose cards are played smart, and I am tired of talking about the card game, so I quietly talked about the privacy of the boss county master.

Is life like this, spring goes to summer, autumn goes to winter. Anyway, those who have the ability, the ability and the backstage who can be promoted are all promoted and left, leaving a group of officials who can get by and have no ambition to guard a few dilapidated desks, in whining words, if they can't eat enough and can't starve.

But accusing them of doing nothing all day long is inevitably wronging others, and it is also very life-threatening when they are busy, at least they have to do one or two painless and itchless official things for the people every day.

Jinling is the most prosperous place in the world, Shangyuan County is located at the foot of the Son of Heaven, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the yamen is much more leisurely than the place. Of course, there are many important official affairs, but those important official affairs are on the wine table of the old squire, the mahjong table, and the pillow of the aunt's wife.

The scribe did not have a salary and various subsidies of silver, not counted as an official of the imperial court, and the daily office corresponded to six departments, which were divided into six rooms: officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers. There is one warden in each room, which is equivalent to the section chief of later generations, and one person is equivalent to the deputy section chief.

The scribes are equivalent to clerks, relying on meager paper and pen fees, copying fees, food expenses, etc., and the main income is the benefits of various favors and rewards from superiors, as well as relying on their positions to seek various personal interests, and their social status and nature are basically the same as those of civil servants in later generations. (To be continued......)