Beautiful step by step

Chapter 104

Wei Wei has been isolated since he presented the account books to Emperor Qinglong.

Although it's only for one day, this feeling is still very obvious.All the wives of Liangzhou officials who came to see him devoted themselves to fighting the fire. There was obviously not enough manpower, but whenever she wanted to help with something, someone would always rush over with a look of surprise and snatch the work.

For example, Mongolian herdsmen come here in Lele cars to distribute milk tea to the people affected by the disaster in Liangzhou.

Carrying buckets and wearing black and gray faces, the firefighters lined up in front of the Lele car. A bowl of milk tea and a piece of cheese is rich in nutrition and energy. It is definitely the best reward for people who are tired all morning.

Seeing that the line was getting longer and longer, Wei Wei opened the door at the other end of the Lele car and signaled some people to line up here.

Soon, sharp-eyed common people lined up in front of her. Wei Wei was dressed in a horse-riding suit with tied sleeves, and was particularly agile in her work.Holding a ladle to fill a whole bowl of milk tea, a sweet smile appeared on her glamorous and dignified face. The people who took the food from her, no matter men, women, old or young, would unconsciously feel better, and returned to her from the heart smile.

One spoonful after another, seeing that five spoonfuls were about to be broken to attack the latest achievement of ten spoonfuls, a gasping sound suddenly sounded from the side.

"My God, how can Mrs. Yan do such trivial things?"

Wei Wei glanced away from the corner of her eye, and saw a somewhat familiar official lady approaching but whose name she couldn't name.She seems to be the wife of a clerk in the Liangzhou government office, and she always sits in an inconspicuous corner at many banquets.

However, this lady, who used to sit quietly in a corner like a clay bodhisattva, with calm eyes and never attracting attention, now has a sky-falling expression.Stretching out her hand, she swiftly tried to grab the ladle in her hand.

"This lady..."

Protecting the ladle, Wei Wei took a deep breath.She didn't have the temperament of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and being able to endure for a day this time was considered a breakthrough.Now that she is being targeted after doing a good job, she really can't bear it.

Stretching her wrist, she raised her eyebrows and asked, "Do you think I look like a person with handicap?"

A fake smile appeared on the face of the housekeeper's wife: "How could it be?"

"Then there is a new rule issued by the imperial court that the herdsmen are not allowed to distribute milk tea to the common people who are fighting the fire in Youzhou City?"

Although Wei Wei's voice is not loud, but the timbre is very penetrating.As soon as the latter sentence was spoken, the herdsman who was making milk tea on the other side of the Lele car, who was in full swing, stopped awkwardly. After working all morning, his stomach growled, and the people of Youzhou, who were greedy for the fragrant milk tea, were all in the same hatred Look across from her.

"How can there be such a thing? It's just that Mrs. Yan, you are delicate and expensive..."

Wei Wei sneered: "Delicate body is expensive? Am I in good health? Do you know better than me whether my flesh is expensive? Madam, don't slander me for any bad illness in broad daylight. "

The lady on the opposite side patted her face lightly: "Look at where Madam Yan is thinking. Looking at your small body, you should be a noble person who is resting, making plans and looking at the account books. This kind of rough work is tiring. Just let us do it, there is no need for you to condescend."

Putting the scoop on the Lele cart, Wei Wei crossed his arms and said, "I can tell, you're running on me because of the account books, right?"

The lady rubbed her nose: "How can this be, Mrs. Yan is thinking too much."

"You have to be a bit level when you lie, please don't touch your nose before denying it to show that you are guilty." Wei Wei said sternly: "I'm just going to give you milk tea now, what can you do to me?"

The smirk on the lady's face finally completely disappeared, and she said with embarrassment: "Mrs. Yan, is it not difficult for me? Everyone knows that the fire started in the courtyard where you live. Mysterious and mysterious, who knows if you accidentally went into the kitchen and lit something?"

After she finished speaking, she smiled bluntly: "Everyone knows that Master Zhen Fu has always been cooking in the Yan family, and Mrs. Yan doesn't often come into the kitchen. The people present all know that the new cook hasn't had a few accidents. The kitchen is also reasonable.”

He actually used this matter to exclude her!
After being ashamed, she looked at the hostility of the people looking at her.Just now when she was receiving milk tea, several common people laughed at her, but now their expressions are also serious.

Wei Wei glanced sideways at Youzhou City, which was still raging with flames not far away, and she could understand the thoughts of these people.No one will have a good face when facing the culprit who destroyed his homeland.

But she is not the culprit!She couldn't bear even a little run on her, so how could she allow others to slander her at will.

"Could it be that all of you who love corruption also like to lie? Yesterday you slandered Wei Xiang, and today you put a shit bowl on my head. Madam, open your eyes and see that this is Youzhou, not the capital. There are basically no trees on the grasslands of Youzhou, and there are thousand-year-old pines and cypresses in front of the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor to the west. However, the local people are in awe of their ancestors and will not cut down those big trees casually. Therefore, most of the houses here are made of stone. not wood."

The noble lady looked confused, and when she saw Wei Wei, she sneered.

Just about to give a fatal blow, Yan Heng's voice suddenly sounded next to him: "Ah Mao said so much, you still don't understand. Can a stone be ignited so easily? Mrs. Zhao, the head is not on the head to look good , to think about things."

Isn't that what she said when she said Mrs. Tong San?Yan Heng actually still remembered.Wei Wei's shoulders twitched unkindly.

But the people in Youzhou, who were queuing up to eat with bowls next to them, couldn't help laughing and gossiping.

"During the Chinese New Year, my neighbor's fried meat caught fire, and the fire in the kitchen blew up. The walls of our two kitchens are next to the wall, and the flames didn't reach my house at all."

"Oh, bitch, you are also here to fight the fire. During the Chinese New Year, I was scared to death. It's okay to burn our kitchen, but your kitchen was newly grinded and hit the table the year before last. If it really burned, it would be terrible." What should I do? Neighbors heard from me that my kitchen caught fire a few years ago, the weather was so dry and the northwest wind was blowing, so I didn’t light up the kitchen next door in the northwest corner.”

The people in Youzhou nodded in agreement: "That's not true, the houses here are so easy to burn together."

"It's all made of stones. The stones on the mountain next to us won't light up even if they are thrown into the fire."

You said something to each other, and the housekeeper's wife standing in the crowd felt a little uncomfortable.Standing beside Yan Heng, the corners of Wei Wei's lips twitched slightly.Although the people at the bottom do not read much, and many reasons are not so easy to understand, but they are so simple.As long as someone guides them reasonably, they can easily become messengers of justice.

But just now what did Yan Heng call the lady in front of him?Mrs. Zhao...couldn't be the Zhao she wanted.

Wei Wei winked and saw a certainty in Yan Heng's eyes.

"Is it really the Zhao family?"

Zhao family and Wu family, these two families really linger.However, Wei Wei also understands that the Wu family takes the lead, and the Zhao family is responsible for enlisting thousands of minions below. These two families are the biggest absorbers of huge benefits such as military expenses and spoils of war in the Northwest for years.

Wanting to change the status quo in the Northwest is equivalent to tearing off a piece of fat from these two families.Even when the Northwest takes on a new look, all the flesh of these two families will have to be torn off, and it is still a matter of whether the remaining empty shelves can be kept.

With such a painful tear, the two families will naturally not sit still.

Seeing the lady's expression suddenly changed when she heard the word "Zhao's family", she didn't need to ask Wei Wei to be completely sure that this was not a random Zhao family, but the Zhao family she thought of.

"It turned out to be Mrs. Zhao, no wonder you want to slander me so much. The Zhao family has been greedy a lot in the northwest over the years. It must be difficult to sleep and eat. If the spirit is not good, it is easy to talk nonsense. Why did the fire in Liangzhou City start? Clear, don’t you know? Someone set the fire on purpose, but who let the arsonist in?”

Mrs. Zhao's complexion was like a palette, and she was forcing her to change again and again.

"Arsonist?" Mrs. Zhao showed madness: "It's not because of Mrs. Yan, if you didn't drive people to a dead end, those people would have taken risks. I have never seen such a thick-skinned person as Mrs. Yan. Forced the family to be ruined, but still have the nerve to use other people's money to put money on my face."

He even said the common saying "put gold on his face", and he was really angry.If she is so angry, then what she said is very credible.

It really is Mrs. Zhou?
When she was in the Youzhou government office, although Wei Wei tried to test the officials of Youliang and Liangzhou with words, she never doubted those people.The most important thing for a person in the officialdom is reputation. If he set fire to it as usual, he would get it, but at that time, the holy car was coming.If it is thoroughly investigated, the life of the perpetrator will be over.These pampered people dare not take such a big risk.

While Wei Wei was meditating, Yan Heng had already calmly turned to Mrs. Zhao: "Corrupt officials, bullies and tyrants have caused disasters. They should have justified the law and sentenced them to capital punishment. Zhou Qianhu is purely to blame. But this does not become his own fault." The family retaliated wantonly, and took the lives of the people in a city as an excuse."

"Then who is to blame? Could it be me?" Mrs. Zhao stretched out her index finger, tapped her nose, and pointed at the crowd: "Blame that child in red, blame this old man with a bent back? There are many ways to punish corrupt officials. Yan Zhenfu used the most drastic method. The crime was not as serious as his wife and children, yet you tore apart the Zhou family's wife and children. It is precisely this kind of extreme method that made Mrs. Zhou, who is over [-] years old, put all her eggs in one basket."

People over the age of sixty can easily touch people's nerves, and the balance of sympathy begins to tilt in the direction of Mrs. Zhao.

Wei Wei snorted softly: "There are so many people who rely on their old age to sell them. It is true that old people are not dead but they are thieves. Is it possible that people can hurt others unscrupulously when they are old? Mrs. Zhao, as the wife of an official, you The upbringing has been swallowed into the dog's belly? The culprit has just been found out. It's okay if you don't understand the reason. Let's ask the emperor to come forward and judge."

Mrs. Zhao laughed contemptuously: "How noble is the Son of Heaven, you can see him whenever you want?"

Wei Wei choked, and before he could find Hua to refute, he heard a shrill voice coming from ahead.

"Yan Zhenfu, Mrs. Yan, I found you."

"What advice does Eunuch Sansi have?"

"I don't dare to give advice, the emperor asked the slaves to pass on the oral instructions."

Wei Wei knelt down numbly, following her movements, Yan Heng, Mrs. Zhao, and the people of Youzhou who surrounded her knelt down one after another.

Throwing off his whisk, Eunuch Sansi read out the oral order unhurriedly: "After Yan Zhenfu is a famous family, he is young and promising. Although he has only been in office for a short time, he punished corrupt officials to appease the hearts of the people, and also dealt with the affairs of Mongolian warriors. Reward. The commander of the Liangzhou Wei Station was temporarily dismissed due to suspicion of corruption, and there was no leader in the firefighting. Now Yan Zhenfu is temporarily acting as the commander. Mrs. Yan is a virtuous and virtuous woman, and she has contributed a lot to assisting Yan Zhenfu. Special reward A reward of 1000 taels of gold."

Halfway through the reading of the oral order, the faces of the people in Youzhou around changed a little.They could understand why the Mongols came to deliver milk tea. It turned out that the ones who presided over the cremation and donated money for sesame oil were the young and ridiculously young official couple in front of them.

The Mongols who came here in a Lele cart were excited by the title of "Mongol Warrior". The emperor attached great importance to us foreigners.

But Wei Wei was completely shocked, no one knew better than her that Commander Wu would not be able to get out this time.The Commander is a third-rank official in the frontier, although it is only temporary, the happiness comes so suddenly that she has no time to appreciate Mrs. Zhao's dejected face.

(End of this chapter)