The daily life of the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, thick black

Chapter 212
Fourth master left by himself, but Zhang's mansion was busy all of a sudden.

With such a big mess in Zhou Dao's new office, Zhang Tingyu was afraid that Anhui would not be able to settle the matter.

However, he was originally a Beijing official, and it is not easy to take office here to manage the people well. What's more, the officialdom in the south of the Yangtze River has always been intertwined. The rivers are connected to the water transport, and the water transport is connected to the salt administration. Very serious.

Thinking about it, Zhang Tingyu had brought someone into Zhang's mansion and sat down in the hall.

Every year, the disaster relief government has to raise funds from big businessmen. Naturally, Shen Che's contribution is indispensable. Although he is young, his temperament is already heavy when he sits down. On the contrary, Shen Che is not in good shape when he sits down. drama.

Gu Huaishu only went to the backyard, so he didn't need to make any arrangements. There was a maid serving the tea in front, and she just took the ledger brought by Ade from behind.

Zhang Ying has been an official for many years, not to mention Zhang Tingyu behind him, and there is a lot of rice in Zhang's house. When Master Qiangu from the county government came, he first paddled five hundred stones away, reckoning to stabilize the person first, and then slow down. Slow totals how much more it takes.But soon Gu Huaixiu was no longer needed. Bai Lu had never met Li Wei before, and she felt strange when she heard the report from outsiders. She came to Gu Huaixiu and said, "Ma'am, there is someone outside who says he is your godson." Someone wants to see you?"

"...Li Wei?"

Only then did Gu Huaishu remember the time when he was in the carriage.Shen Qu said that Mr. Wei was still to come, and Li Wei must have contributed to the disaster relief and food delivery this time.

Without even thinking about it, she said: "Ask someone to take him to the second master's side, they are discussing matters with my brother."

The servant girl bowed her head and said yes, then went to the front to communicate again.

Gu Huaishu looked at the account book, and thought that fortunately, the imperial court had already made arrangements. Presumably Tongcheng was just one of them, and the flood must not be limited to Tongcheng.

Shen Chao may not have done any good deeds in his life, but relying on his financial resources to do such a thing is considered easy.

He is now the richest person in the entire Jiangnan. He is the official salt openly and the private salt secretly.Maybe it's the businessman's greedy nature, or maybe he has other things to do, in short, Gu Huaishu doesn't quite know where his ambition lies, maybe it's the same as her and Zhang Tingyu's?

She looked down at the account book, and took out the abacus to settle the accounts.

Shen Qu was already talking to Wang Yan, the county magistrate, and the people here were sent by Zhou Daoxin. Because the yamen was short of manpower, the officers and soldiers were sent to places where the disaster was more serious. The Shen family and his son had already done it. I have done this many times, so I asked them to bring someone directly.After all, Zhou Daoxin also knew Liao Fengyuan, with such a middleman, nothing would happen.

Now the county magistrate Wang Yan doesn't know that the imperial envoy has arrived in Tongcheng, let alone that there are already distinguished guests in his messy county office.

Yinzhen and Yinxiang stood in front of the county government on horseback, shaking their heads and sighing.

Yinxiang said: "There are unexpectedly many victims in Tongcheng..."

"Where did the magistrate go?"

Yinzhen subconsciously looked inside, but there was no one in the county office.

A servant came back to pick up things at the order of Master Qian Gu, and when he passed by, he heard this sentence, so he laughed and said, "I went to Mr. Zhang's house to talk about something. The people are here too, if you have any grudges, you can report it after a while."

"...What if my life is at stake?"

Originally Yinzhen listened to the first half of the sentence quite well, but when he suddenly heard the second half of the officer's sentence, he sneered from the bottom of his heart and tried to test it out on purpose.

The officer saw that although the two of them were riding horses, they were not majestic horses. They were still dressed tightly in summer, but they looked like ordinary materials. They were probably two poor ghosts who came to complain. "Right now, Master Ben doesn't have time to talk to you, so get out of here, and you won't listen to what you say nicely, so don't blame Master Ben for not keeping his hands on things."

As he said that, he even slapped Yinxiang's horse.

Yinxiang reined in the horse with a funny face, and seeing the guard leave, he said: "Troublemakers come out of poor mountains and rivers..."

Yinzhen turned his horse's head around, "Outstanding people... have you seen how many people came out of Tongcheng? Today's department is famous, Fang Bao from the last department, and the Zhang family..."

"Fourth brother, where are we going?" Yinxiang didn't refute, just asked.

Yinzhen said: "Find an inn and stay overnight first, and see the situation."

After saying that, he really went to the inn.

Li Wei, who came to Tongcheng with them but was one step ahead of the city, had already entered the Zhang residence at this time.

His habit is to find his godmother first, but unexpectedly he was brought to meet the second master and Shen master. Seeing everyone and a county master, Li Wei hurriedly saluted.

The county lord had heard that Zhang Tingyu had recognized his godson, so he didn't dare to accept this gift, so he just helped Li Wei up, and hurriedly said: "The disaster relief is a big thing, the disaster relief is a big thing, and there is no need to salute in extraordinary times."

Li Wei looked at Shen Qu a little, Shen Qu raised his eyebrows, his eyes flickered, and taking the opportunity of drinking tea, he nodded slightly, and then Li Wei resigned.

Zhang Tingyu took this scene into his eyes and didn't say much.

They arranged things here, and Li Wei's food arrived, so he simply took it directly to the Taoist temple in the south of the city.

Zhang Ruoai saw Brother Quer on the way, and now he heard people talking about disaster relief, so he also wanted to follow him.

Zhang Tingyu didn't stop it, it would be good to see more sufferings in the world.He just said: "Follow along the way, don't move around without authorization."

Seeing Zhang Ruoai nodded, Zhang Tingyu and Wang Yan led the people there.

They have been busy outside for a long time, and they have to send people to arrange and build a porridge shed.Gu Huaishu knew that even if they were like this, they would not have enough manpower. In addition to disaster relief, they also had to prevent the plague. It would be bad if people died.She asked people to bring a lot of money, went to the city to knock on the door of every medical center, and invited someone to go to the porridge factory to treat the victims, and by the way, make some soups to prevent epidemics, and give them to those who are still healthy. drink.

After giving the order, Gu Huaishu buried his head in the account and frowned.

This is quite a feeling of destroying the family to relieve difficulties. When I came back to the funeral, I didn't bring so much money. "Luo Xuanwen" always came over with bank notes, and rice would work at critical moments.

At this time, even money cannot buy rice.

The role of businessmen is often only manifested at this time.

Scholars, farmers, businessmen, anyway, are still in the stream, and the big salt merchants in Yangzhou stomp their feet, and the court will tremble with them.

"Qingdai, ask the kitchen to prepare good wine and food. When the men come back, it must be late. Prepare food for them so that they don't get tired." Gu Huaishou closed the account book, and said, "The guest room Bian can be cleaned out?"

"It has already been cleaned by someone, and the bedding has been laid out, just waiting for the masters to come back and stay."

Qingdai's concerns were also very thoughtful, Gu Huaishu thought for a while, and seemed to have nothing else to do, so she went to lie down on the couch for a while.

The man came back very late, but brother Ai came back very early. When someone came to pass the news, Gu Huaixiu had just woken up.

"Brother Ai came back with Brother Chi. He said that his expression seemed a little off. Master Shen asked about it, but he couldn't leave for a while, so someone sent them back."

"I gonna go see."

Gu Huaishu got up, straightened his hair in front of the mirror, and went to the guest room.

Brother Ai was running outside when he entered the house, "It's better to call a doctor to take a look."

Later, Shen teased: "No, it's just a little dizzy..."

He was just a little tired from the journey these few days, but his condition was not serious.

Gu Huaixiu came in and said, "It's safer to invite a doctor to the left or right, but..."

But now most of the doctors have been sent to the victims, so Gu Huaishu didn't expect that.

Shen Qu got up and bowed to Gu Huaishu: "Students see their mother."

This kid, it's time...

Gu Huaishu sighed, and pressed him to sit down: "Your father doesn't know how to do things himself, why did he leave everything to you?"

"Dad didn't give it to me, I made it myself..." Shen teased, and just shook out a few pieces of walnut kernels from the purse hanging by his side, looking at the small dry piece, after speaking, Then he took a bite, and said, "He's also busy with the business in his hand, and the tea, cloth and rice store that he left behind has long been managed by someone. It's a big neat net, and I'm just the one who manages the net."

This is true, Shen Qi said back then that if the business below him was gone, he would not be able to operate, so why do you need those people below?Then Shen Qi is not called Shen Qi.

Before Gu Huaishu had time to speak, Zhang Ruoai squeezed forward: "Just now I saw that the victims came up to eat, and I gave them all the sugar cakes. Wow, you actually have something hidden in your pocket! It's too bad... I Eat one too."

As she said that, Zhang Ruoai raised her hand and took a piece of walnut, but Gu Huaishu was taken aback. Before she could stop it, Zhang Ruoai stuffed the walnut into her mouth, and then her whole face wrinkled Together, they ran to the side and vomited: "cough, cough... so bitter... what is this cough..."

Shen Ju pursed his lips, and couldn't hold back his laughter, but the tip of his tongue did not feel bitter for a moment, he just said: "It must be that you just ate the candy cake, so your tongue is sweet."

These are walnut kernels that are opened from Wenwan walnuts. A pair of walnuts is not uncommon for thousands of taels of silver. What's more, they are directly opened from the lion's head, just to get these small two-lobed walnut kernels.Don't look at such a small bag of walnut kernels for Shen Qu, but if you really talk about it, it costs tens of thousands of dollars.Just now what brother Ai spit out was also a thousand silver.

This walnut kernel was used as medicine in the early days, but now it is marinated and fried with medicine, and then eaten.Aged walnuts are generally dry and astringent, how can the stuff inside taste good?
Brother Ai didn't believe in evil, so he came up and grabbed Shen Tu's hand, picked another petal, and handed it to Gu Huaishu: "Mother, would you like to try it?"

"Doctor Zhou said that it is for repelling the cold and nourishing the body, and ordinary people can eat it."

This is also the reason why Shen Qu didn't stop Brother Ai before.

He looked at Gu Huaixiu with a smile in his eyes, as if he was testing whether Gu Huaixiu would dare to eat it, but there was also a strange sense of inquiry.

Gu Huaishu took a piece of walnut kernel from Brother Ai's hand, and felt that Shen Qu's eyes were so interesting, looking at her like another Shen Chao.

She only took the walnut kernels into her mouth, and the smell of hard medicine spread all over her mouth immediately. The taste was extremely weird and extremely unpalatable.The taste of walnuts is bitter, let alone fried with medicine?Feeling pity in Gu Huaixiu's heart, he slowly chewed up the walnut kernels and ate them, and said after a long time, "Brother Ai must have eaten too much sweet cakes, this walnut kernels are just like ordinary Wenwan walnuts, they are not very bitter. "

Shen Qu suddenly laughed out loud. He seemed to have encountered the funniest thing in the world. He only put the last piece of walnut into his mouth, his eyes were narrowed, and they were a little bright: "Ms. Is this the heart of a Bodhisattva?"

This kid is so smart.

Gu Huaishu didn't know how to face it, so he just avoided the question and said, "Is your body okay?"

Shen Qu smiled and shook his head, still looking at her: "It doesn't matter, I'm used to it. Would you like a cup of tea? Does your mouth feel bitter?"

"..."

Gu Huaishu was a little annoyed, but wanted to laugh again.

What kindness did she show to pity Shen's ill son?
Shen Qu's brain is too smart, and there is another Shen Qi with countless tricks, she just sighed: "How wise and close to a demon..."

Shen Che poured a cup of tea for Gu Huaixiu, looked at Brother Ai, who looked back and forth between his mother and Brother Che, as if he didn't understand what they were playing in a riddle: "Is it my candy cake?" Is it too much, or is the medicine really bitter?"

Gu Huaishu and Shen Qu said in unison: "You eat too much candy."

Brother Ai pursed his lips: "Then I won't eat sugar cakes tomorrow..."

Shen Qu handed tea to Gu Huaixiu: "Master, drink tea."

Gu Huaishu took it, and said: "I don't know how long the disaster relief will be. There are basically no people in the inns outside these few days. Tongcheng is a small place. It's not good for you to go out and hang around. You should stay in Zhang's mansion and have someone to take care of you. The guest room here Everything has been cleaned, and when you see your father and they come back, just let them know, your father's room is next to him, and he can take care of you if you need anything."

"Master's wife hasn't answered Shen Qu's previous question, have you always treated people like a bodhisattva?"

Shen Qu was really curious. He looked at Gu Huaishu's eyebrows, and thought about his father's aunts in the garden. After all, he still felt that his father's eyes were fooled by Mrs. Zhang's face.

Gu Huaishu took a sip of water, his mouth was full of bitterness, after drinking the tea it was even more bitter, he only raised his brows and said: "Your teacher's mother is a snake-hearted woman, she is a cunning woman, the emperor scolded her before."

After hearing this, Shen Che only held the teacup, shaking it back and forth, looked at the teacup for a while, and then at Gu Huaishu for a while, his gaze was undisguised.

He didn't speak, but Gu Huaishu could feel the scrutiny.

She is not well.

"Take your eyes back, you are not your father, don't follow him."

"...I didn't learn anything from him..."

Shen Qu smiled secretly, and also buried his head in drinking tea. Looking back at the sky, it was getting late, and said: "Mrs. Go to work earlier. If my father bumps into me when I come back later, I'm sure I'll give you another meal."

The sweet soup at Longmian Mountain last year may not have been weird, let alone the first cup of tea.

Although his father was willing to do so, Shen Che thought that his wife might not be willing to see his father.

Gu Huaixiu only slowly got up, and suddenly remembered that in the future, if something happened to Shen Qi because of the private salt, what would the child do?This kind of thing, can't think of any result for a while, Gu Huaishu simply said: "They will not come back for a while, you should rest yourself first, your face is too pale, lest your father come back and make trouble."

Shen Qi has been troubled so many times in the past few years.

Shen Qu just buried his head when he heard this, and suddenly said: "Why does my father have so many aunts but no regular wife, and my husband only has one regular wife but no aunt?"

What is going on in the brain of the broken child every day?

Gu Huaishu didn't bother to answer anymore, he just said: "Ask your father and go with your husband."

"You don't need to ask Shen Qu to know the answer."

Because that answer is the same.

He was holding the walnuts in his purse, when he heard a soft "pop", it was the roasted crispy walnut slices that were crushed by him.

虽然很想问一句，师母为什么不改嫁，可想想又觉得若是问了，张二夫人不会把自己怎样，他爹先要揍他一顿，便不吭声了。

Gu Huaishu ignored his mysterious words, went out, walked around the atrium, but suddenly dropped a Hetian jade bracelet in his hand to the ground and smashed it into pieces, "What kind of son is this that Shen Yang taught!"

She suppressed her anger, and none of the maids around her dared to speak.

When Adefang came over, he was taken aback, hesitated for a moment, and walked up: "Madam, Fourth Master told Thirteenth Master that he wanted to stay at our house for one night."

"There are so many people here, what kind of fourth master and thirteenth master? Is the person who comes here the master?"

Gu Huaishu was so angry that he didn't react at all, but when he heard Yinxiang chuckle outside, his scalp went numb.

Lord evil star is here!
She saw that the two masters went directly outside into the atrium as if they were in no man's land, and they came over in no time.

Yinzhen didn't expect to see her in the past few years, and the servants under his sect would have a temper.

Although he is dressed in civilian clothes, he is now Prince Yong, and his imposing manner is even more serious. When he stood there, his face was expressionless: "Look at Mrs. Zhang, we two brothers here, are you considered masters?"

Gu Huaixiu was secretly unlucky, and bowed neatly to salute: "Greetings to the fourth master and the thirteenth master. The servant is reckless. There are many people recently. I didn't expect the fourth master and the thirteenth master to come. Please forgive me." crime."

"Get up. It's like eating gunpowder all day long."

Yinzhen waved her hand and asked her to get up, and walked around Gu Huaixiu like an old man, raised his foot and went in.

Yinxiang wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh. Seeing Mrs. Zhang's expression as if she had eaten a fly, she couldn't help but secretly feel happy.

Gu Huaishu scolded in his heart, what these two masters did was not reliable at all!
After she got up, she saw that Ade was still standing aside, took a deep breath, and said: "Prepare the place to stay for these two masters, the guest rooms in the mansion have been cleaned, I am afraid that many people will come... Why are all ghosts and monsters coming to Tongcheng? It's going to be a mess!"

It's still a mess now, the fourth master and the thirteenth master are here to investigate the river work and provide disaster relief, and the Shen family is here to provide disaster relief. Zhang Tingyu has no choice but to open the door of the house to welcome guests due to a sudden situation.

Gu Huaixiu thought about it, and then said: "I'm afraid we will need to add more dishes, chopsticks, tables and chairs. After a while, the second master will come back and tell him quietly, don't tell others. These two masters came out in low clothes, so don't let the wind go."

(End of this chapter)