Lord of the House

chapter Five

Xiaoman excitedly waved his hand towards Lin Fu, and when he saw Gu Junxun walking between Lin Fu and Gu Wuchen, he was slightly startled, and in the blink of an eye he recognized the other girl dressed as a boy just like him. He was two or three years older than himself, but he looked at Lin Fu very kindly, and his raised hand stopped there like lead.

Gu Junxun followed the walk to the ferry and came to be taciturn. She listened with interest to Lin Fu and her father talking about current affairs. It was all new things that his brother and Yang Shi could not tell. In the back, the courage involuntarily let go wild, Wu Liuliu's eyes kept staring at Lin Bie's profile without realizing it - this scene fell in Xiaoman's eyes.

Lin Fu was very happy when he saw Xiaoman dressed as a man and waited for him at the ferry crossing the river. He strode over and asked, "Why are you here? Are you here alone?" The figure of the lady.

"Is she Miss Gu Jiaxun?" Xiaoman took Lin Bie's arm, turned his head slightly and glanced at Gu Junxun, his bright and jade-like forehead was slightly raised, and his eyes that were as beautiful as Mingyu stared at Lin Bie in the twilight. , seems to be confirming Gu Junxun's identity, and seems to just casually say such a sentence to Lin Fu.

Gu Junxun also saw that the person who was waiting for Lin Fu at the ferry was a girl. She looked at him curiously. Seeing that she was so close to Lin Fu, she was too timid and shy to greet him.

Although Xiaoman wears a white robe and her hair is tied, but in the twilight, her facial features are exquisite, and there is something in her eyebrows that can't be concealed. She is so pretty, who can't see that she is dressed as a young child?

Gu Wuchen laughed loudly and said to Lin Fu: "You said that you have two friends in Jiangning to vote for, it turns out that there is a beautiful woman waiting for you, no wonder Madam asked the lady of the Xiao family to be a cook for you. Don't worry about this, the old man can testify for you."

Xiaoman and Gu Junxun grew up in completely different environments: when Gu Wuchen and his wife were exiled, Gu Junxun and her brother were meticulously taken care of in their grandfather Tang Haoxin's mansion. Entering a prostitute's house as a young prostitute, her experience and mind are more mature than Gu Junxun. Besides, there is a natural beauty in Xiaoman's eyebrows, so she and Gu Junxun are both dressed as teenagers and stand together. They are generally tall, although she is taller than her. Gu Junxun is two years younger, but she can see the appearance of a young girl even more.

Lin Fu heard some relief from Gu Wuchen's words, and sighed in his heart. Gu Wuchen treated his wife like a guest, but as a man, his love and pursuit of beautiful women are always closer to nature.

Gu Wuchen felt that it was too revealing, he coughed lightly, and said, "Whose son is this, Mother Xun has no girlfriend in Jiangning, you come to the mansion in the future, please bring this young lady to accompany Xunniang... "He was also worried that the lady of the Xiao family would be driven to serve as a cook for Lin Fu. One is a young scholar with strong blood and blood, and the other is a gentleman who is new and attractive. Although the lady of the Xiao family has the duty of keeping festivals for her husband's family, but without the constraints of the township contract, the so-called duty is really weak; although Lin Fu is also a scholar who reads the book of sages and sages, and knows the morality of a gentleman not to bully the dark room, But in the face of seductive beauty, this morality is also weak. Gu Wufa thought that at first, the two might be able to hold back, but after a while, what happened to the dry wood when it encountered the fire was self-evident, and Liang Zuoyi’s hard work would be fulfilled. Someone else, to say that Gu Wuchen is not sour in his heart would be deceiving himself. When he saw that there was a beautiful girl waiting for Lin Fu at the ferry, and only thought that this girl was the lover that Lin Fu met when he took the township examination in Jiangning, Gu Wuchen put down his mind and thought: The lady of the Xiao family will serve Lin Fu as a cook. It wasn't as dangerous as I thought.

Hearing what his father said, Gu Junxun also greeted Xiaoman kindly: "This sister, Mother Xun has just arrived, and she will ask her to take care of her in the future!"

Listening to Gu Junxun calling his sister, Xiao Man Yi leaned on Lin Bie's side and smiled slyly, but said nothing.

Lin Fu doesn't care about Xiaoman's identity, but he doesn't care, it doesn't mean that others don't care. If he indulges Xiaoman to befriend Gu Junxun, he will let the Gu family know Xiaoman's true identity in the future. Take care of the door.

Gu Junxun is Miss Guanjiajiao, and Xiaoman is just a young prostitute in Dustpan Alley. The reality is often so cruel.

Gu Junxun was looking forward to Lin Fu's introduction to the extremely handsome girl in front of him. Gu Wuchen also wanted to know which family's daughter this girl was. Lin Fu deliberately bypassed the topic, put his hand on Xiaoman's shoulder, and said with a smile: "This girl is just getting married this year..."

"Ah..." Gu Junxun saw that she actually called a girl two years younger than her as her sister, her face flushed with shame, and she was very embarrassed. After getting along for the past few days, Gu Wuchen knew that Lin Fu was a respectful scholar. Seeing his hand on Xiaoman's shoulder, he instantly knew the girl's identity, smiled, and stopped talking about asking the other party to befriend the little girl. Almost made a big laughing stock.

Xiaoman's mind is very sensitive. From Gu Wuchen's eyes, she knew that Lin Bie was not trying to be intimate with her, but to reveal her identity to others. Her heart suddenly changed from joy to cold, inexplicable sadness. When she got up, her shoulders slumped slightly, and she avoided Lin Bie's hand. In the twilight, her face as bright as beautiful jade had an indescribable sadness.

Lin Fu looked at her with pity, but at this time it was inconvenient to comfort her.

Waiting for the courier in front of the ferry to hear from the officer on the boat that the middle-aged person walking over here wearing a plain robe is the deputy envoy Gu, who hastened to come over to greet him. The carriages, horses and sedan chairs are all ready. Gu Wuchen and his family should go to the courier first. Cleaning the house, taking a rest, luggage cages, etc., send someone to watch the post soldiers and the handymen in the post house to do it.

At this time, Liu Yue'er also came ashore with her luggage. Xiao Man, Zhou Pu and Chen Enze waited here for a long time, and knew from Zhou Pu what happened in the forest during this time and how When they were on their way to Jiangning, she cheered her up and restrained her sullen look, showing a bright smile and went over to help Liu Yueer get the package: "Are you the elder sister of the Xiao family?"

Liu Yue'er didn't recognize that Xiao Man was a girl for a while, and she was startled when she saw the handsome boy coming up to help him get something, and when he was about to move away, Lin Fie smiled and said, "Don't be scared, Miss Liu, Xiao Man is My sister, it's okay to ask her to help you carry things..." Only then did Liu Yue'er know that the boy was dressed up by a girl, but when she didn't understand, she said that Lin Juren's parents died early, without any relatives and no reason, why did he run away with another sister come out?

As the twilight is getting darker, to Jiangning City, you have to take the Chaotian Lake waterway for 30 miles, and you will definitely not be able to arrive before the city gate closes. Without the help of the courier, they had four good horses and put their little luggage on a camel. Lin Fuqu squatted down and asked Xiaoman to sit on the horse on the side of his knees. He personally led the horse to Xiaoman, while he As we walked, we talked about some interesting things about our parting for more than ten days.

Gu Junxun and her mother were sitting in the carriage, slightly opened the curtains of the carriage and watched Lin Bie lead the horse to Xiaoman in the twilight. She thought that Young Master Lin was so kind to this girl, and then she remembered giving Lin to the tea shop. The scene where Bie accidentally grabbed his chest, he sighed in his heart: Doesn't Young Master Lin know how to grab himself here? Are you going to forget about it?

The wealth of Jiangning can be seen from the building of Chaotian Station. Lin Fu and the others crossed a gentle **** and stood at a slightly higher place to look into the past. There is a building complex farther away, which is a camp city on the north bank of the Jiangning garrison town army.

Gu Wuchen is no exception when he is appointed as an official, and he will arrive at Jiangning City with one foot. He will spend a few days in the post house on the north bank of Chaotian Lake, and then he will enter Jiangning City on the auspicious day of his choice. During this period, some of the officials who would become his subordinates of the Jiangdong Inspectorate would visit the river as usual, and naturally they would offer a lot of money.

Gu Wuchen is not a vulgar person either, he can't get away from vulgarity. He is a dignified member of the imperial court of the fourth rank, with a regular salary of two hundred and fifty shi, and a hundred taels of silver per year. Although one hundred taels of silver can be used for four or five well-off families to spend a year, but following Gu Wuchen to Jiangning, there are three escorts, maids, four women, and Yang Pu's wife and daughter. After arriving in Jiangning, although there are officials' mansions It is possible to live, but the doorman and the handyman will have to invite four or five more people. Only these people's monthly silver support, one hundred taels of silver a year is far from enough. Two clan nephews, Gu Siming and Gu Tianqiao, came to Jiangning with him to provide him with food, drink and lodging, as well as some monthly bills. In order to maintain a standard of living comparable to that of the senior members of the Fourth Grade, the food and food in the house cannot be saved, which is a huge expense. In addition, I have to recruit some aides to act as assistants to act on official business~www.wuxiaspot.com~ These funds have to be financed by themselves. How can Gu Wuchen's own annual salary be enough?

In this era, if he only accepts ceremonial money from his subordinates and colleagues, the official should be considered as incorruptible, just like the officials of later generations who will only receive gifts on New Year's and festivals a thousand years later are as incorruptible.

Gu Wuchen couldn't escape the vulgarity, so he had to stop at the post house without rushing into the city, and first accept the greetings from those officials who were about to become his subordinates. Besides, after he enters the city, he must first go to see his superiors in Jiangning, including the inspector of Jiangdong, the minister of punishment and the left and right ministers, the minister of the military and the general of the Jiangning military, the imperial censor of the Jiangning Metropolitan Police, and the people living in Jiangning city. Those lords; for the future of his son Gu Siyuan, he also took the initiative to visit the chief officer of Jiangning Guozijian. Maybe these things were planned in the inn first, and there was a rule for who to visit first and who to visit later. Although he Gu Wuchen will still be one of the big crocodiles in Jiangning City in the future, the rules are the rules, and no one can break them.

Lin Fu knew these bad official habits, thinking that he didn't have to be Gu Wuchen's staff, he could say goodbye to Jiangning in the early morning tomorrow, and he didn't need to pay attention to these bad official habits, and he felt very relieved.

Lin Fu didn't think of the urgency of the officials who were about to become Gu Wuchen's subordinates. He approached the post house with Gu's family, and saw some people standing under the two strings of maddening lanterns in front of the house, looking at them. It looked like they were waiting to welcome Gu Wuchen. When they saw Gu Wuchen's carriage and horses arriving at the inn, they all greeted him together. In the afternoon, the young man in brocade clothes who met on the Shiliang River and Wufeng Escort escorted the fleet and Du Rong Haoran, the wealthy east of Jiangning Qingfenghang, also greeted the crowd.

Seeing Du Rong appear here, Lin Bie was taken aback, and he hurriedly grabbed Xiaoman's waist and carried her off the horse. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter