Hao Yonggan led the way, Mo Yan drove Manman, and they went to the Jianmen Mountain Nunnery in Jianzhou to find the eldest lady of the Yu family.

Xie Zhaozhao asked Bei Chen to tell the pawnbroker's thugs to keep the women of the Yu family in the pawnbroker for a month before selling them.

In order to make up for the losses of the pawnshop, they were subsidized with two hundred taels of silver, half of which was paid first, and the other half would be paid to them after the cooperation was completed.

The pawnbroker would definitely do it. How could these people afford to eat two hundred taels of silver?

Besides, these are government teeth. If the government agrees to delay, they don’t mind because there are plenty of cages.

After Manman's affairs were arranged, Xie Zhaozhao said, "It will take at least ten days for Manman to come back. How about we go to Wen County to see Xu Li's hometown?"

Everyone else agrees.

They are all young people who have been stuck in Beijing for so many years. Even the poor mountains have a different kind of scenery.

Zhou Shaoyu was busy inspecting several pilot projects. Xie Zhaozhao left him a letter and took a group of people to Wen County.

The distance between the city and Wen County was not short, and they did not take a hurry. They walked slowly for five days and finally arrived in Wen County on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month.

When they arrived in Wen County, they did not alert the government and quietly found an inn to stay.

The innkeeper was extremely happy. It was almost New Year and the business of the inn was very bad, with not a single guest.

There were more than a dozen people including Xie Zhaozhao when they arrived, and all twelve rooms were booked at once.

The shopkeeper was all smiles, running around. Xie Zhaozhao asked, "Shopkeeper, do you still have a big market here?"

When the shopkeeper heard that her accent was not that of a local, he tried hard to speak "Mandarin" and told Xie Zhaozhao that most of the shops in the city were open and that ordinary people would set up stalls until New Year's Eve.

Xie Zhaozhao held Xiao Heng'er in her arms, and drove a horse-drawn carriage with Yuanyuan, Beichen and others, walking slowly on the street to observe the customs and practices of the county town.

There are three inns in Wenxian County. The Shengyangtai they chose is a relatively large one. Outside the hotel is a bustling street with many shops.

Rouge and powder shops, fireworks and firecracker shops, and old farmers selling vegetables on their shoulders on the street were braving the cold wind to sell cabbages and radishes.

Xie Zhaozhao held Xiao Heng'er in her arms and looked at the scene on the street through the shadowless veil. The shadowless veil allowed one to see the situation outside, but one could not see clearly what was happening inside from the outside.

Little Heng'er covered her face with a silk scarf, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed, and babbled, "Mother Queen, the wind is howling coldly, they are cold."

"Yes, they are cold, so Queen Mother and Father must work harder and make sure they are well fed and warmly clothed."

Yuanyuan immediately said, "Your Majesty, this is already very good. This is how life is. Every profession has its own things to do. Only by being diligent can you live a good life."

When they left the capital, Princess Yurong mocked Xie Zhaozhao: "Your productivity in ancient times was backward, the rich had wine and meat, and the poor froze to death on the streets!"

Xie Zhaozhao told her at the time: "I don't want to brag. I hope that within ten years, all the people in Yulong can have enough food and clothing. I also hope that one hundred academies will be built so that all children who are willing to learn can study for free for five years."

On their way out of the capital, although the people were still poor, the situation had improved significantly compared to the Daqian period, and they did not even see a single case of people freezing to death on the road.

Everything is getting better.

The carriage slowly came to a candy ball shop, and Xiao Henger said, "Mother Queen, I want to eat candy balls."

Yuanyuan immediately said, "Young Master, wait a minute. I will go down and buy it."

As soon as she got off the carriage, she saw a carriage coming from the opposite direction and stopped in front of the candy ball shop.

When the coachman saw Yuanyuan, Yuanyuan's eyes lit up: "Hey..." Isn't this dusk!

Mu made a gentle "hush" gesture and Yuanyuan pretended not to know him and covered it up.

Yuanyuan watched the thick curtain of the other carriage being lifted and a servant jumping down. Oh, it was Changming!

Changming respectfully placed the stool for dismounting and helped a young man out of the carriage.

"Young Master, go slower and don't bump into anything." Chang Ming helped the man down respectfully.

Before Yuanyuan saw the face, she saw a pair of black hands falling into Changming's slender white hands.

The hands were cracked and black, with a few frostbite spots, and were wrapped with cotton wool.

Then I saw a childish but somewhat chapped face. It turned out to be a dark-skinned boy wearing a fox fur cloak.

Chang Ming followed Xu Erlang humbly and said, "Master, the general said that whatever you want, he will satisfy you."

Xu Erlang said happily: "Let's go to the candy ball shop to buy candy balls."

Chang Ming immediately ran over and said to the waiter, "Master, give me four strings of sugar balls."

The waiter said "OK", took the money and handed the candy ball to Changming.

Xu Erlang held the candy ball, his eyes filled with excitement and he sighed, "I've never been to the city before. There are candy balls for sale in the town, I've seen them many times, but I never had the money to buy them."

Chang Ming smiled and said, "Adopt me as your own, General. You can have as much as you want. If that doesn't work, we can open a candy ball shop ourselves."

Seeing Xu Erlang eating a bunch of sugar balls, he suggested: "Master, I have a small suggestion, do you want to listen to it?"

Seeing him so humble and strong, Xu Erlang said, "Just say whatever you want. I will listen to you."

"Master, can you learn to speak Mandarin? When you go to the capital, and then to the capital, the local dialect of your hometown..."

Xu Erlang's face turned red immediately. He felt ashamed of himself after hearing Changming and Bomu speak Mandarin for the past two days.

"Okay, okay," Xu Erlang stammered, "People in our area are just so lowly, and their words are so rude. I'm fed up with it."

Chang Ming said happily: "Master, you are really willing to accept advice."

Xu Erlang didn't know what "accepting advice readily" meant, but he just praised him for listening to advice.

"Changming, you are very smart. I will praise you to my fourth uncle."

"Thank you, young master. You are so kind! It's a pity for a servant to meet a bad master. He will either be beaten and starved, or sold directly, or beaten to death."

Xu Erlang was so excited that his heart was blossoming: It turns out that being Fourth Uncle's son is so glorious!

I'll tell my fourth uncle about this servant and ask him to stay by his side from now on.

Yuanyuan looked at Changming and Bomu who were nodding and bowing as if she had seen a ghost, and said in her heart: This is really unbearable.

Even the servants of Xie family didn't treat the retired emperor like this, which was really servile.

Yuanyuan bought some candy balls and returned to the car, giving a string of them to Xiaoheng'er. Xie Zhaozhao picked a few of the candy balls and put them in a small bowl, leaving only two on the bamboo stick for Xiaoheng'er.

"Eat, mother!" Little Heng'er stuffed one of the two balls on the bamboo stick into his mother's mouth. Xie Zhaozhao patted his head and said, "Heng'er, be good. Mother won't eat it."

Yuanyuan told Xie Zhaozhao what had just happened. Xie Zhaozhao was also surprised. Changming and Bomu were both smart and steady people. Not to mention a country boy, even a fourth-rank official in the capital would not be so servile.

What is this calculation?

"Bei Chen, follow their carriage and see what they are doing." Bei Chen responded from the front and chased after them slowly.

Changming and Bomu knew that His Majesty followed them to watch the fun, so they didn't say anything and continued to take Xu Erlang for a walk.

They spent the whole day strolling around the streets, buying new clothes, new shoes, and various expensive decorations, such as jade pendants and jade beads often used by nobles. They also went to a restaurant in the county town to eat and to a theater to listen to music.

He looks like a rich young man spending money lavishly.

It was not until later that Xie Zhaozhao saw their carriage stopped at a brothel in the county town.

Xie Zhaozhao held Xiao Heng'er in her arms and said, "Xiao Heng'er, you are tired. Why don't you lie in your mother's arms and take a nap?"

We can’t let Xiao Heng see such a filthy place.

Xiao Heng'er: "I can't sleep."

"Then lie down in the Queen Mother's arms and let her rub your head." Xie Zhaozhao rubbed his little head and said to Bei Chen, "Go back."

After they returned to the inn, Yuanyuan asked in confusion, "What are Changming and Bomu doing?"

Xie Zhaozhao said: "Don't worry about them, they know their limits and must be plotting something."

Inside the brothel.

Changming, Bomu and Xu Erlang were all dressed in luxurious clothes. The madam could tell at a glance that they were wealthy people. However, her shrewd old eyes looked Xu Erlang up and down intentionally or unintentionally.

Although this "young master" was wearing expensive fox fur, he looked like a country bumpkin no matter how you looked at him. On the contrary, the servants on both sides were not simple people.

"Call all your girls here!" Chang Ming pointed at Xu Erlang and said, "My young master wants pretty and charming girls, preferably the top girls."

The madam doesn’t care whether she receives a country bumpkin or not, as long as she has money, she doesn’t care what kind of country bumpkin you are!

Soon, a group of beautiful girls came to him. Xu Erlang blushed to his heels. He was sixteen years old and his family was poor. Who would be willing to marry him?

Originally, they said they would use Xu Qiu to marry him, but he had never even touched a woman's hand. Now, a bunch of beautiful women threw themselves at him and he could choose any one of them!

The girls in the city, um, the top girls in the brothels, begged him to pamper them.

Xu Erlang was being entangled by a group of women. Changming and Bomu "tactfully" withdrew and told him, "Master, we will wait outside. Have fun."

The little chicken is very shy.

When Changming and Bomu came out, the madam came over to them and asked them which girl they liked.

There is no way Changming and Bomu would look for women here.

The Changming Hou went to the inn at dusk to report to Xie Zhaozhao.

Xiao Heng'er went to sleep, Xie Zhaozhao and Yuanyuan listened to Bo Mu's report.

"Your Majesty, this man is called Xu Erlang, and he is General Xu's nephew. General Xu's two nephews, his brother, as well as the clan leader and the village head all wanted silver. General Xu did not satisfy them, so his brother and two nephews even conspired to kill him with a hoe..."

These words didn't sound reasonable, but Xie Zhaozhao knew that there must be something wrong. At least Xu Tiezhu and his sons were evil wolves.

Xie Zhaozhao instantly understood Changming and Bomu's behavior.

It’s just a dream!

The end of wealth and honor is an abyss of no return.

No one else could have come up with this idea except the sinister Emperor Chen.

The next morning, Xu Erlang, who had sex seven times in one night in a brothel for the first time, felt sore in his back but was in high spirits. He felt like he was invincible.

On New Year's Eve, he wanted to go back to Xujia Village to show off.

Chang Ming said: "General Xu will take you to visit the county magistrate Ying and have a New Year's Eve dinner with a group of officials today! We will go back to Xujia Village in a few days."

Ah, I want to visit the high officials! Have New Year's Eve dinner with them!

Xu Erlang's heart was nervous and excited again!

"Yes, young master, in the future, you will have to make friends with the marquises, princes, and ministers in the capital. The general will take you to see His Majesty!"

"The Golden Palace?"

"Yes, every brick and tile of the Golden Palace is made of gold, and it stretches for three hundred miles..."

This dream of extravagant wealth and luxury must be fulfilled fully, completely, and sufficiently to confuse the mind!

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