Concubine falling from heaven

Chapter 51 Take care of him

"My lord... my lord..." Zhu Wen's complacency just now was swept away, and he looked at Cao Rong and wanted to ask for help.

Cao Rong couldn't protect himself, so naturally he didn't dare to spend extra energy on him.

Everyone was waiting for Meng Zihan's final conviction, but Meng Zihan turned his eyes and said, "Zhu Wen, I will ask you again, is the 50 taels yours?"

"No." Zhu Wen bowed his head in response.

"No, no!" Cao Rong immediately denied it.

He gritted his teeth and whipped Meng Zihan several times in his heart. If he now admitted that the bank note belonged to Zhu Wen, then he himself would still not be able to escape the charge of accepting bribes.

If it wasn't for Mu Xuanchen's orders, Cao Rong would have liked to have solved Meng Zihan tonight.

Meng Zihan raised his eyebrows, stretched his neck, and said, "I don't think so either." Meng Zihan's words made everyone confused again, sometimes saying yes, sometimes saying no, what exactly is he going to do?
Zhu Wen also looked up in astonishment, but met Meng Zihan's "smiling face".

"I just saw that the 50 taels fell from Mrs. Shen's body, and Zhu Wen thought it was the property of the county government, so he presented it to Mr. Cao. There was no mention of accepting bribes. You say... right? " Meng Zihan looked at Cao Rong, then at Zhu Wen, and asked deliberately.

After the two of them looked at each other, they finally understood Meng Zihan's intentions, and immediately said: "Yes, yes, what your lord said is right, and what you said is right."

"Chen Shi, hurry up and take your bank note back." Meng Zihan winked at Shen Shi.

Shen Shi, who was at a loss at first, finally figured it out after a while, and immediately took the bank note with gratitude.

Zhu Wen wanted the matter to come to an end, but Meng Zihan named him again.

"What's the matter, my lord?" Zhu Wen asked.

"What's the matter?" Mengzi snorted coldly, "That's the thing about you forcing the protection fee?"

Zhu Wen rolled his eyes and said, "My lord is wronged, I just want to protect them."

"Protection? Are you saying that my subordinates are all fake? Or...you're saying that they are idle all day long, lazy and lazy?" Meng Zihan was aggressive.

Zhu Wen looked around at the yamen servants around him. Relying on the backing of Meng Zihan, those yamen servants all became vicious like ghosts.

"No, no!" Zhu Wen shook his head again and again, but Meng Zihan told him that he didn't know how to explain it.

"Zhu Wen, forcefully collect protection fees, disrupt people's livelihood, fine 60 taels of silver, no objection." Meng Zihan had enough of being an official.

It turned out that I wanted silver!Zhu Wen wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve.I thought that Master Meng in front of me was a reincarnated Qingtian, but it turned out to be darker than the black official.

60 taels?Didn't he just want to say, how much he gave Cao Rong before, he must give him more!Zhu Wen pulled his lips resignedly and took out the bank note.

The civil dispute came to an end, and Cao Rong immediately stepped forward to flatter him: "Master Meng really handles cases like a god!"

With a smile on his face, he was looking forward to his letter arriving in Prime Minister Hua's hands in time, hoping that he would come quickly to help him deal with this mess.

"Cao Rong!" Meng Zihan sat on the hall and patted the gavel angrily.

It's good to watch too much of this TV series, knowing when to show off and when to pat this gavel.

Cao Rong looked at Meng Zihan puzzled, and found that she was looking at him with her brows tightly frowned.

"You are already a former county magistrate, and you are free to come and go in and out of the county government without the permission of the officials. These officials don't care about you, but you dare to accept the case privately. Could it be that you are not convinced that the officials will take this position? "

She looked at Cao Rong sharply, raised her eyebrows and said again, "Or...are you already thinking about how to deal with me?"

Cao Rong was taken aback for a moment, but in an instant, he changed his flattering expression and replied with a dry smile: "Master Meng really knows how to joke."

"I didn't joke with you." She stared at Cao Rong, and Cao Rong suddenly realized that looking into Meng Zihan's eyes, he was a little scared.

"Looking at Mr. Cao's age, I don't want to add more guilt. I don't know whether Mr. Cao should be prosecuted according to the law, or receive the top ten boards himself?" Mengzi asked coldly.There was no overt anger in the speech, nor did it reveal timidity.

Cao Rong knew the current situation, and everyone in the county government believed that Meng Qian was Mu Xuanchen's protégé, and he had also confessed that he should not be harmed in any way, so he had no choice but to accept the punishment obediently.

After the case was finished, Meng Zihan came to Mengqian's bedroom and helped him out to sit in the courtyard to bask in the sun.

Meng Qian had already learned about Meng Zihan's handling of the case from Zhou Fu, so he had a sunny smile on his face under the sun.

"Why are you in such a good mood today?" Meng Zihan sat beside him and poured him a cup of hot tea for him to smell the aroma of the tea.

Meng Qian pursed his lips and smiled, looked up at Meng Zihan and said, "Didn't you find that you are very suitable for the officialdom? If you are willing, I hope you can always be the parent officer."

Meng Zihan shook his head when he heard this: "Brother, please let me go. I'll leave the job of being both a father and a mother to you. If my brother becomes an official, he will definitely be much better than me."

Meng Qian shook his head, took a sip of tea with a confident expression: "You will like it."

Meng Zihan only thought he was joking, and just laughed it off.

"My lord! My lord!" Zhou Fu ran over in a panic and called Meng Zihan.

Meng Zihan thought there was another case, so he lowered his head as if he didn't want to deal with it.Seeing this, Meng Qian thought it was very funny, and patted her arm to remind her.

"What's wrong?" Meng Zihan asked weakly.

Zhou Fu walked up to her and said with a troubled expression: "The third lady of the prime minister's family has come to our county government."

"What? Hua Yanjing?" Meng Zihan jumped up from his seat in shock when he heard that.

Hearing that Hua Yanjing had come to the county government, Meng Zihan felt uncomfortable.

Thinking of Mu Xuanchen taking her to battle, she wished she could go up and slap them both.But what is she angry about?Isn't it her choice?
"What is she here for?" Meng Zihan's tone was not kind.

Looking at Meng Zihan's expression, Meng Qian secretly drummed in his heart, what is the identity of his virtuous younger brother?Why does he even know the prime minister's daughter, and it seems that his virtuous brother has some relationship with the prime minister's daughter.

Zhou Fu explained: "Miss San broke her foot. I have already asked someone to take her to see a doctor. The doctor said that she will need three months of training before she can recover."

"You are quite caring!" The words were exaggerated, but the expression on her gritted teeth made it clear that she was unhappy.

"Old slave... old slave..." Zhou Fu looked embarrassed.

This person has already been taken to the county government office, and now he is still throwing a young lady's temper in the front hall, and several people can't stand it.Although everyone didn't like that Hua Yanjing very much, but after all, it would hinder the face of the prime minister and Mu Xuanchen, so they didn't dare to do anything to her.Even if she made some unreasonable demands, everyone swallowed them down.

However, there was one man who was extremely industrious.Third Miss growled and cried shortly. Even though Hua Yanjing scolded her as a dog slave, he really stuck to her like a dog, offering her like a god.

Don't think too much about this person, that person is Cao Rong.

The prime minister is his mentor, so he didn't take advantage of this time to flatter her more.

As the saying goes, "Thousands of clothes, ten thousand clothes, flattery and no clothes", Zhou Fu was worried about this, so he hoped that Meng Zihan would perform well.But the facts told him that he was wrong. His Master Meng had no intention of flattering him, and even showed a disgusted expression.

"It's fine to take her to the doctor, why did you bring her here? Don't tell me you still have to take care of her for three months?" Mengzi asked coldly.

"My lord, that's not what the old slave meant!" Zhou Fu felt wronged, and if he could, he didn't want to be in this mess.

"Who is that?" Isn't this Zhou Fu easy to be manipulated, does he listen to anyone?Even if she was a domestic servant, Meng Zihan didn't want others to order her around, and she could only order her around.

Zhou Fu's words made Meng Zihan feel instantly struck by lightning.

She was reduced to helping her husband take care of his little lover?
Should she be thankful that she successfully prevented Hua Yanjing from being with Mu Xuanchen, or should she be sad and shoot herself in the foot?

"Brother Qian should go and have a look. After all, you don't look at the monk's face to see the Buddha's face." Meng Qian reminded Meng Zihan, and always called her "Di Qian" in front of outsiders.

And after all, in the officialdom, even Cao Rong knew that he should try to curry favor with this young lady, so how could she keep her out?What's more, everyone has already arrived at the door.

Meng Zihan rubbed his temples, and after telling Zhou Fu to take good care of Meng Qian, he walked to the front hall.

Before she entered the front hall, Hua Yanjing's voice pierced her eardrums.

Originally, I was still worried that my identity would be found out by Hua Yanjing, but from this point of view, people with Hua Yanjing's personality are easy to be fooled, because the more talkative and barking she is, the more she can only talk. At most, they will play tricks.As for the others... Meng Zihan let out a cold snort!
"What kind of broken place is this, that Miss Ben is allowed to live here?" Hua Yanjing's legs were inconvenient, so she began to vent her anger with a teacup, and when the maid brought her tea, she broke the teacup.

Cao Rong kept half-flattering and half-comforting: "Miss San, please calm down. This place is a bit smaller, and it is very different from your residence, but I still need to ask Miss San to be wronged for a few days. When the Prime Minister comes to Ganlin County, I will pick you up again." Miss San returns home."

"How many days? I can't stay here for a moment, it's a dirty and smelly place." What Hua Yanjing was really angry with wasn't this, but that Mu Xuanchen had no intention of bringing her by his side.She thought that without Meng Zihan and Princess Chuyun, she would be able to follow Mu Xuanchen logically, but who knew that it was just Luohua's intention to be ruthless.

"Do you think this place is dirty and smelly? Please ask the third lady to move back to the mansion. The small temple of the county government office cannot accommodate the big Buddha like the prime minister's daughter."

Meng Zihan's voice was calm, and as soon as he stepped into the front hall, he began to give Hua Yanjing a bad impression.

Hua Yanjing raised her eyes when she heard the sound, and when she saw Meng Zihan, she was obviously taken aback.Could it be that she was dazzled?Why is the man in front of me so similar to Meng Zihan?

But when she thought of what she said just now, Hua Yanjing immediately forgot the doubts in her heart and said angrily: "Who are you? How dare you speak rudely to Miss Ben?"

"My official is Mengqian, magistrate of Ganlin County."

Cao Rong saw that it was Meng Zihan, relying on Hua Yanjing's backing, he pretended to be arrogant and said: "Meng Qian! How dare you be unreasonable to Miss San! Do you know who she is? She is the prime minister's third daughter, Miss San. "

"So what?" Meng Zihan asked with his hands behind his back.

"What? So what?" Cao Rong's face began to twitch.Is he going to say that he is stupid or that he doesn't know what to do?Meng Qian didn't grasp such an opportunity to flatter, and offended this person who couldn't afford to be offended as soon as he opened his mouth.

Hua Yanjing was also dumbfounded.

No one has ever heard that she is the prime minister's daughter without flattery, no one has ever known her identity at the same time, and no one has come to flatter her after seeing her appearance.Hua Yanjing thought that besides Mu Xuanchen, she couldn't find another person, and it turned out that there really was a second person.

It's just that the man in front of him is just a county magistrate, and his attitude is so arrogant.This made Hua Yanjing feel angry, she looked at Meng Zihan angrily and said, "My lady doesn't want to stay in this ghostly place either, it's just... His Royal Highness Chen Wang asked me to recuperate here."

Her eyes flashed, and she suddenly said tentatively: "He was afraid that my fatigue would affect my injury, so he thought of the county government, a place where many people can protect me. Hey! Brother Chen has always loved me so much since I was a child. I."

The person in front of her looks so much like Meng Zihan, she has to doubt...

Although he knew that Hua Yanjing was testing her on purpose, but seeing her proud appearance, Meng Zihan felt uncomfortable.

She knew that she couldn't let her see any flaws now, otherwise the success would fall short.

"It seems that Miss San will soon be Princess Chen." Looking at Hua Yanjing's proud expression, Meng Zihan sneered, "However, I really sympathize with His Royal Highness Chen Wang, and his life will be difficult in the future gone."

"What do you mean?" Hua Yanjing was furious.

Meng Zihan just smiled lightly, did not answer her words, turned around and said: "Come here! Take the third lady to the guest room." Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly stopped and added, "If the third lady wants to leave, don't you Stop it, the door to go out should always be open for Miss San."

After speaking, Meng Zihan left the front hall without looking back.

"Meng Qian! You bastard!"

Sure enough, Hua Yanjing only cared about getting angry with Meng Zihan, completely ignoring her previous questions, and hearing Cao Rong call her "Meng Qian", and Meng Zihan's words and deeds were completely different from before, so she believed even more , this person just looks like Meng Zihan.

Unitary time
Meng Zihan still personally helped Meng Qian prepare dinner and took it to his room. She was afraid that the food would be poisoned, so she always tried it with silver needles, and then tasted it herself before giving it to him with confidence.

Seeing Meng Zihan who was so careful, Meng Qian felt warmth welling up in his heart.Even brothers, I'm afraid they can't do this, right?

He made up his mind to pay attention: if his virtuous brother really fell in love with being the county magistrate, he would definitely give it up without hesitation in the future.

"No problem, you can eat." Meng Zihan took a mouthful of rice with chopsticks and presented it to Meng Qian.

Meng Qian was indescribably moved while eating the food that Meng Zihan personally fed him.

Meng Zihan seemed to see what was on his mind, so he said with a smile: "Don't be too moved, when you recover and return to the magistrate, I will ask you for wages."

"Salary?" Meng Qian knew that Meng Zihan was joking, so he deliberately said with a bitter face, "Look at how shabby my eldest brother is, even if he becomes a county magistrate, he only pays 40 taels a month, how can he pay his wages?"

"Ah? Isn't it? 40 taels per month? That Zhu Wen can get 50 taels with a little bribe. I knew I wouldn't give it to Shen. In that case, wouldn't my work be wasted?" Meng Zihan began to regret, so First of all, wouldn't she have to pay back when she became an official?All these slaves and maids in the county government have to be paid a monthly salary.

Seeing Meng Zihan pulling his mouth, Meng Qian thought it was so funny, he couldn't help covering his mouth with his hands and chuckling.

Meng Zihan shook his head and said to himself, "No, no matter what, I have to get something."

"My virtuous brother..." Meng Qian was really worried that his little virtuous brother would take a detour for a while, but then he thought, judging from the way he handled the case, he would definitely not be a corrupt official.So he swallowed the words again.

"Your brother seems to have something on his mind." Meng Qian looked at Meng Zihan's eyes that would wander from time to time, expecting her to be honest.

Meng Zihan turned to look at Meng Qian, shrugged and gave him a bright smile: "Is there? It's nothing!"

She admitted that she lied to a confidant elder brother, and she had something on her mind because she was worried about him who was about to go to the battlefield.She also wanted to know if he really married Princess Chu Yun, and if he was pretending to be someone else at the same time...

But what can she say to Meng Qian?No matter how uncomfortable she felt, she could only swallow the words in her stomach.

Seeing that Meng Zihan refused to speak, Meng Qian couldn't help asking: "Who is that good brother? What's his name?"

Meng Zihan was stunned, it turned out that she couldn't even say her own name now.She has already taken the first step, and there is no turning back.

She raised a wry smile, but pretended to be relaxed and said: "Why is the elder brother so sick and confused? The younger brother, Mengqian, is the county magistrate of Ganlin County, and he is someone whom the elder brother can trust wholeheartedly."

After hearing this, Meng Qian smiled and said nothing.Since his virtuous brother didn't want to say it so much, he didn't ask, just trust him wholeheartedly as he said.

After taking good care of Mengqian, Mengzihan was going to eat some by himself after finishing his meal. Recently, he was always preoccupied, so he didn't have much appetite.But before reaching the dining room, Zhou Fu ran over in a panic.Seeing his nervous expression, it seemed that something important had happened again.

"My lord! My lord!"

"What happened again?" Since coming to Ganlin County, Meng Zihan found that it seems that there has never been peace.

Zhou Fu bowed and said, "Miss San said that the county government's food...was unpalatable, so she lost her temper again."

Mengzi snorted coldly: "It's unpalatable? Did she say it looks like it's for pigs?"

Zhou Fu's eyes widened and he was stunned: "My lord is really clever." He never imagined that Meng Zihan would know what Hua Yanjing said without hearing it.

She just pulled her lips wordlessly.What would a young lady say if she thought the food was unpalatable?
At this time, Caiyun also ran over, saw Meng Zihan with a bitter face and said: "My lord! Miss San seems to be throwing something in the room."

Meng Zihan couldn't help frowning into a ball.

Zhou Fu looked at Caiyun and said: "My lord, Mengyun has always been well-behaved, why not let Mengyun serve the third lady, maybe it will meet the third lady's wishes."

"no!"

Meng Zihan and Caiyun spoke in unison.

Zhou Fu looked at their master and servant in puzzlement and asked, "Why not? If you keep arguing like Miss San, no one can rest."

Caiyun watched Meng Zihan start asking for help, Meng Zihan cleared his throat and said, "Mengyun is dedicated to serving me, and she is not allowed to serve anyone except me."

Caiyun nodded after hearing this.

"But Miss San..." Zhou Fu was a little embarrassed.Because that Hua Yanjing was too difficult to serve, he, the housekeeper, couldn't stand it at all.

"I'll go and see, Mengyun, don't go." After speaking, Meng Zihan walked to Hua Yanjing's guest room.

In the evening, although Cao Rong really wanted to stay and offer an offering to the Buddha Hua Yanjing, but because of Meng Zihan's warning, he had to obediently go back to his mansion.

Just after entering the door, a teacup suddenly flew over, Meng Zihan quickly dodged to the side, but she dodged it.

"Ouch!"

Hearing the sound, it turned out that Zhou Fu had suffered a disaster. Meng Zihan dodged the teacup, but accidentally smashed it on Zhou Fu's head.I saw him grinning and covering his forehead with a bitter face.

"You go back too!"

Hearing what Meng Zihan said, Zhou Fu ran very fast.In such a place of right and wrong, he must not dare to stay for a long time.

"Get out! Call your magistrate here! I am the prime minister's daughter, how dare he be so negligent." Hua Yanjing yelled at the two girls.

Meng Zihan walked into the room with his hands behind his back, and said calmly, "You all go down."

Seeing that it was Meng Zihan, the servant girl immediately said "yes" and ran out like flying.

"Miss San thinks the county government's food is unpalatable?" Meng Zihan asked in a low voice.

"This kind of food is also called food? Even if you throw it to beggars, they may not be able to eat it." Hua Yanjing stared at Meng Zihan and said angrily.

After hearing this, Meng Zihan said lightly: "Really?" A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth at the same time and he walked forward...

She approached the table and looked at the two meat dishes, one vegetable dish and one soup dish. It was indeed not something the pampered Hua Yanjing would eat.The prime minister is the head of all officials, how can his daughter live like a commoner in her daily life.

Without saying anything more, she put all the vegetables into the food box, closed the lid, turned and left.

"Death Mengqian! What do you mean?" Seeing that Meng Zihan was about to leave regardless of her appearance, Hua Yanjing was so anxious that she jumped up and down. If she could walk now, she would have rushed to punch and kick Meng Zihan.

Meng Zihan turned around and smiled coldly: "Didn't the third miss say that beggars might not know how to eat these meals? I will give them to them now to see if they are like the third miss, and would rather go hungry than eat it." Eat these meals."

Meng Zihan walked out of the room without looking back and closed the door.

"Come on! Come on!" Hua Yanjing yelled loudly regardless of her appearance, but no one went in to listen to her orders.She has never been wronged like this since she was a child, but now it can be said that she should not respond every day, and the ground is not working.

She swears that when she recovers from her injury, her father will teach Meng Qian a lesson.

Meng Zihan took the food box and really walked to the county government office. At night, the stars were shining and the spring breeze was blowing.It was supposed to be a comfortable feeling, but it looked so bleak in Meng Zihan's eyes.

Except for a few pedestrians passing by near the county government office, only the sound of her footsteps echoed.

He walked for a short distance with the food box aimlessly, and wanted to turn back, but saw a few figures hiding in a corner.

Who will be in the middle of the night?
Although he was afraid, he couldn't help the curiosity in his heart.She walked over slowly with trepidation, only to find that it was two six or seven-year-old children in ragged clothes.After questioning, she found out that they were afraid of walking at night after they came out to beg during the day, so the two of them hugged each other and hid in the corner.

Is the life of the people in Ganlin County really so miserable?

Accompanied by her, they finally returned home, and their parents were already in tears.

Meng Zihan left the food box, and also left a sentence: "You will not suffer forever."

seven days later

Zhou Fu asked Meng Zihan with a heavy heart: "My lord! Should we continue to give out porridge? It's been seven days in a row. If this continues..."

"Of course we can't go on like this." Meng Zihan said, "I wanted those poor people who can't eat enough to use their skills to make a living, but who knows that Cao Rong has been secretly obstructing it because he has the support of the prime minister. Really? Think of a way!"

"My lord! Cao Rong relies on the support of the prime minister, but our county government still has a prime minister's daughter!"

Zhou Fu's words woke her up, and reminded her suddenly that she still had a rich young lady here.

(End of this chapter)