Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 186
Zhu Yuanfeng's house is located near Panlou Street. It is a large house covering an area of ​​more than ten acres. There are many servants in the mansion, and all kinds of facilities are extremely expensive.

Although Zhu Yuanfeng was the third of the three brothers of the Zhu family, he was actually a concubine. His biological mother was a concubine and died early. At that time, Zhu Yuanfeng was only seven or eight years old.

Just because he is a concubine, his status in the Zhu family is not high.

In terms of title, he is only an earl, far inferior to his elder brother's Duke of Wujiang County.

In terms of official position, he only had a regimental training envoy from a five-rank vain position, with a name, a monthly salary of 20 taels of silver, and nothing else. It was far from being comparable to the second brother's deputy envoy of the Privy Council.

However, Zhu Yuanfeng inherited the Zhu family's business. Under his decades of careful management, Zhu Yuanfeng has earned more and more wealth, which can be called an incomparable wealth.

Zhu Yuanfeng's wine has already sobered up, and he is experimenting with distilling perfume in his study. He failed more than a dozen times, but he still found a trick. The key is to seal it well so that the fragrance cannot escape from the gap.

At this time, a housekeeper came to report, "Master, Miss Pei is here!"

"Juppe is here!"

Zhu Yuanfeng said to himself with a smile: "Could it be that she failed the blind date and came to comfort the third grandfather?"

The housekeeper said cautiously again: "Master, she seems to have moved here with a lot of luggage."

At this time, there were footsteps outside, and Zhu Pei said angrily: "Grandpa, if you bully me too, I will go back to Wujiang!"

"Little aunt, who dares to bully you!"

Zhu Yuanfeng came out and said with a smile: "Are you dissatisfied with the little officials of the Liu family?"

"Forget it!"

Zhu Pei said angrily: "Mother told me last night, take me to pay New Year's greetings to seniors in the morning, good! I went with them, and finally I found out that she took me on a blind date, why did you hide me?
I left early in a rage, and my second grandfather angrily reprimanded me for offending the Liu family. In his eyes, I am afraid that I am just a tool for marriage. My dignity and will are not important, as long as I please the Liu family. "

"You eloquent little girl, I think your second grandfather will be mad at you today!"

"He found it by himself. I didn't scold him. I just argued for it. If he couldn't argue with me, I left."

After talking with the third grandfather on the phone, Zhu Pei felt much better.

At this time, she sniffed it and asked strangely: "Grandpa San, why is the yard so fragrant?"

"Fanning taught me how to extract perfume at noon today, and I have been experimenting?"

"Third Grandpa and Fanning together?"

"Something happened to this kid. I will help him solve it. He originally asked you for help, but you were not here, so he happened to meet me."

Zhu Pei was a little anxious, "Grandfather San, tell me quickly, what happened to him?"

"Actually, it wasn't his accident, it was Brother Su's accident."

Zhu Yuanfeng sent Fan Ning and Su Liang to a brothel to redeem Cheng Ze. Unexpectedly, they happened to be investigated by the Ministry of Rites. Su Liang was taken away by the officials of the Ministry of Rites. Fan Ning came to ask for help.

Zhu Pei heard that it wasn't Fan Ning's accident, she was a little relieved, she frowned and asked, "Is there any relationship between Grandpa San and Kaifeng Mansion?"

"For this kind of thing, just ask their subordinates. For the benefit of dozens of taels of silver, they secretly let one person go, and the superiors don't even know about it."

"And then?" Jupe asked again.

Zhu Yuanfeng smiled and said: "Then we had a drink at noon, and I told Fan Ning that you went on a blind date, Fan Ning's face was ugly! Haha! It's really interesting."

"you--"

Zhu Pei stomped his feet anxiously, "Don't talk nonsense, Third Grandpa, why am I going on a blind date?"

"I've already said it, explain it to him next time!"

Zhu Yuanfeng waved his hand, "You find a place to live by yourself, and I still have to do experiments, so I don't care about you."

After speaking, Zhu Yuanfeng returned to the study.

Zhu Pei looked at the sky, and it was still in the afternoon, so she said to Jian Meizi: "Sister Jian, let's go out for a while."

She hurried away with Jian Meizi, Zhu Yuanfeng poked his head out, and said with a smile: "Little girl, you must be exposed now!"

When Fan Ning woke up, it was almost dusk. He went to the well and washed his face. His chaotic mind suddenly cleared up a lot. Only then did Fan Ning realize that there were five or six bags of charcoal under the wall near the well. .

Fan Ning was taken aback, and quickly shouted: "Big birthday!"

After a while, Li Dashou came running over, "Senior brother woke up?"

Fanning pointed to the charcoal in the corner, "What's going on here?"

"The old man sent it in the morning. The brother is still sleeping. I don't want it. He insists on staying."

Li Dashou took out a note from his arms, "This is the address he left, and I invite my brother to come to his house during the Chinese New Year."

Fan Ning took the note and looked at it. It was in Liujia Village not far from Xicheng.

"This much charcoal is worth at least two pennies, and we have to return the money to him."

"I agree!" Li Dashou raised his hand and smiled.

Seeing that he was in good spirits, Fan Ning said with a smile: "Then you divide the charcoal and let everyone use it openly. You can't use it when you sleep at night."

"Brother, don't worry!"

At this time, Su Liang came out of the room, "Fan Ning, I want to talk to you!"

"What do you mean?"

Su Liang pulled Fan Ning aside and said in a low voice, "Cheng Ze told me that he is very sorry for you and wants to move out."

Fan Ning sneered in his heart, this Cheng Ze is very 'sincere'!He wanted to move out, but he didn't tell himself, but told Su Liang that he knew that Su Liang would not let him go.

"Then what do you say?"

"I told him that you are not angry with him, and told him not to worry too much and live in peace. Besides, it is very difficult to find an inn outside. As far as I know, the inns in the city are full, and two or three people can squeeze into one room. , where is he going to live with his younger sister?"

Seeing that Fan Ning didn't say a word, Su Liang said again: "This matter has nothing to do with Yuanyuan, I don't want her to be implicated!"

Fan Ning nodded, "I have no objection if you want to keep him, but I want to tell you that he has already been removed from the provincial examination. To put it bluntly, he can go home now. The reason why he refuses to go back is Township. I'm afraid it still has something to do with you."

Su Liang was silent for a moment, then whispered: "I understand!"

Fan Ning patted him on the shoulder, "I won't ask about this matter, it's up to you to make the decision. In the days to come, we will go all out to prepare for the imperial examination."

Fan Ning turned to leave when Li Dashou's voice came from outside, "Brother, Zhu Pei is here!"

This sentence immediately removed a heavy boulder in Fan Ning's heart, and his heart became extremely comfortable in an instant, and he hurriedly greeted him.

I saw Zhu Pei standing at the door and said with a smile: "Let me tell you, I've moved to the third grandfather's place. If you need anything, you can find me over there."

Fan Ning smiled and said, "It happens that I'm hungry too, let's go! I'll invite you to dinner."

At dusk, an official rode a horse in front of the gate of Zhang Yaozuo's mansion. The official dismounted from his horse and stepped forward to the porter, saying, "Please report to the head of the state quickly, and say that Liu Jin, the young governor of Kaifeng Mansion, has urgent matters to see you!"

The concierge rushed away quickly, and not long after, Zhang Yaozuo's nephew Zhang Qun came out and said, "My uncle invites Liu Shaoyin to the study to have a talk!"

Liu Jin followed Zhang Qun towards the mansion, and soon came to Zhang Yaozuo's outer study.

Liu Jin was recommended by Zhang Yaozuo and was Zhang Yaozuo's confidant. He was qualified to enter Zhang Yaozuo's study.

Coming to the door of the outer study, Zhang Qun bowed and said, "Second Uncle, Liu Shaoyin is here!"

"Please come in!"

Zhang Qun turned around and said with a smile: "Please Liu Shaoyin!"

Liu Jin tidied up his coat and hat, and then quickly walked into the study with his shirt in his hand. Zhang Yaozuo was standing in front of the window drinking tea and admiring the snow. Liu Jin hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, "I'm humbled to see the king!"

"Liu Shaoyin, do you need me urgently?"

"Reporting to the national patriarch, the national patriarch wants to look for Fan Ning in a humble way. I have news about him."

"Have you found his address?"

"It's not just as simple as finding the address? He committed a crime."

Zhang Yaozuo suddenly became interested, turned around and said with a smile, "Tell me, what did he do?"

"Report to the father-in-law, he whores!"

Zhang Yaozuo was stunned, and laughed for a while and said, "Liu Shaoyin is joking! He is at most 13 years old, can he speak hard?"

"That's true, I dare not speak nonsense!"

"Then tell me, what's going on?"

"That's right, early this morning, the Ministry of Rites and the Kaifeng government jointly arrested prostitutes, and more than 170 people were arrested."

"Could it be that Fanning was among them?"

"No! One of the scholars is called Xu Ji. In order to reduce his guilt, he revealed that Fan Ning was also in the brothel, but he changed into the clothes of the young servant and escaped. He went to the brothel and found the young servant who changed clothes. Friend, confirmed that this happened, and he promised to testify against Fanning."

Zhang Yaozuo laughed out loud, there was nowhere to be found, and Fan Ning finally fell into his hands.

(End of this chapter)