The little eunuch gl of the demon queen

Zhu Xiangchang was sitting in the study, holding his grandson who was less than two years old in his arms, writing strokes on the paper to teach the child to recognize characters.

"Read it to grandpa. God—" Zhu Xiangchang held his grandson's hand, and let the child's little finger slide along the ink-colored lines on the paper.

The child can't speak clearly, and always pronounces the word "heaven" as the word "epilepsy".

"Epileptic—" the child read carefully in a childish voice, and then raised his head to look at his grandfather, with a cute look begging for praise.

Zhu Xiangchang laughed and patted his grandson's head: "Just like your old man, stupid."

Thinking back then, Zhu Xiangchang was also a scholar of the Eight Classics, although he was not ranked first, the late emperor once praised him in public for his outstanding talents and learning.Somehow, none of his sons and daughters are suitable for studying and learning, let alone his grandchildren.

The little grandson in his arms can still be said to be young, and he is not sure about it.But his grandson, Feng Xin, the second prince of Daxing, is an uncivilized elm head, not to mention reading and reading, and he can't even understand the reasoning.

Zhu Xiangchang was thinking about what went wrong, which caused his children and grandchildren to fail to inherit his intelligence, and a servant came to answer him outside the door.

"My lord. There is an aunt in the palace asking to see me."

"But the aunt in the empress's palace?" Zhu Xiangchang guessed that it was his daughter who needed money to manage people in the palace, so he sent someone to get the money.The empress spends a lot of money in the palace, and the harem's allowance is not enough for her old man to buy a box of rouge.Needless to say, food and clothing costs, in the palace you have to order people to do things for you, how can you do it without money?Fortunately, those silver coins are huge sums of money to ordinary wealthy families, but they are nothing to the Zhu family.

The servant said: "It's the aunt in the Empress Dowager's palace. She is sitting in the front hall now."

People from Ning'an Palace?Zhu Xiangchang couldn't help muttering.He had never dealt with Queen Mother Wan before, it was already night, why did he suddenly send someone here?

"Ask someone to take care of you, I'll go right away." Zhu Xiangchang carried his grandson out of the study, handed the child to the servants and said, "Send the young master back to the second master's courtyard, keep some wind out, and ask you if you catch a cold. "

***

Xianqian has long heard that, in terms of family background, the empress's natal family is one of the best in the entire capital.It was the first time for her to come to Zhu's mansion, and she didn't see anything when she first entered the door.The yard of the country’s father’s house is not very big, the house is made of ordinary wood, and the furnishings in the courtyard are also very ordinary, even from the perspective of the country’s father, it’s a bit shabby, it’s really not like a rich family.

It was only after entering the main courtyard that Xianqian knew that there was a hidden cave in Zhu's mansion.The small yard she saw after entering the gate was just a gate yard, a place for guests to park their sedan chairs, and those rooms were also for bearers to rest.The main courtyard has to be walked for a long time, and it is several times larger than the main courtyard, which is called a carved beam and painted building, which is imposing.

She thought that the father-in-law was hiding but now it seems that she thought too much.The exquisiteness and extravagance of the Zhu Mansion is even worse than that of the Great Inner Palace.

After entering the main hall, the servant girl served tea to Xianqian. The tea was slightly sweet and fragrant, and it was the top quality tea.

Zhu Xiangchang came out slowly after changing his clothes, he was not in a hurry.No matter how the people in Ning'an Palace were, they were just decent slaves, Zhu Xiangchang didn't take Xianqian seriously at all.He is the head of the state, and in terms of seniority, he is of the same generation as the Empress Dowager Wan of Ning'an Palace, and the Empress Dowager always calls him her father-in-law.

"Does the Empress Dowager have any intentions?" Zhu Xiangchang sat in the upper seat, drinking tea with his head down, not looking at Xianqian.

Xianqian sat steadily and didn't get up to salute the father-in-law. She came on behalf of the empress dowager, so there was no need to salute.On the contrary, the arrogant attitude of the father-in-law is exactly the same as that of the empress.

"The empress dowager wants to ask the father-in-law to buy something." Xianqian said with a smile.

"Oh?" Zhu Xiangchang was even more confused.Is there something that the Empress Dowager Wan doesn't have?How could it be possible, no matter how good his things are, they can't compare to the tribute sent to the palace, but the only treasure in the world must be in the palace. "The empress dowager has really taken a fancy to something in my house. I should take the initiative to offer it. The whole world belongs to the emperor, so how dare I discuss business with the empress dowager. My aunt said it's okay."

"Your Majesty fell in love with the ferry in the Guozhang Yeshu County, and wanted to build a fishing platform there, and just go fishing there to relieve boredom in the spring." Xianqian took another sip of tea and praised: "The Guozhang Yefu's Mansion The tea served is really good."

Zhu Xiangchang's expression changed.

Fishing at the ferry?There are innumerable ponds and lakes in the palace, just to relieve boredom by fishing in the river, and there are also innumerable sections of river along both sides of the river for the Empress Dowager to choose from.But Wan Yu wanted his ferry...

The ferry was the only passage for him to enter and leave Gyeonggi for traders from the north and the south. He bought all the land, and the cargo ship was parked at the ferry, and entered Gyeonggi from there, so he could avoid paying a lot of taxes. He only collected half of what the court collected.

Wan Yu is trying to cut off his fortune!The empress dowager wanted to fish, but he was the big fish.Few people knew about the road from the ferry to Beijing. He only allowed goods from a few giant merchants with close contacts. How did Wan Yu know?

"The empress dowager is very interested, and she has the elegance of fishing." Zhu Xiangchang said with a dark face: "Speaking of building a fishing platform, I think the village near the river has a very good scenery, and the nearby river is even clearer and richer in fish..."

"Why do you have to pretend to be confused? The empress dowager wants the land of the father-in-law in Shu County." Xianqian smiled and said, "I think the father-in-law is clear about the matter of the ferry in Shi County. My mother has not yet done it." Tell the emperor..."

Zhu Xiangchang wanted to know how the news came about. He was already in a cold sweat and wiped his forehead with the sweat, and then asked, "How did the Empress Dowager know about the ferry?"

"How can there be an impenetrable wall in the world?" Qianqian took out the document she had prepared from her sleeve and handed it to Zhu Xiangchang: "Either the father-in-law signed this and sold the ferry to the empress at the land price. Or the father-in-law took out 300 Wan Liang, the emperor will never know about the ferry."

"300 million taels?" Zhu Xiangchang jumped angrily.He understood that he had been blackmailed, and he was made the empress dowager.He looked at the palace where the late emperor took Wan Yu, that monster, into the palace, so he was naturally aware of the lawless things Wan Yu had done in these years. "How do I know that the empress dowager won't take my money and complain to the emperor?"

Zhu Xiangchang had no choice, the ferry incident was tantamount to stealing the treasury, if the emperor found out, the queen's daughter would not be able to protect him.

"The father-in-law is worrying too much. The empress dowager still has a lot of time to trouble the father-in-law. How can she complain to the emperor?" Xianqian put away the documents, stood up and said, "The father-in-law prepared the things and delivered them to Ning'an Palace. Just a letter, the empress will send a carriage to collect things. Don't delay too long, the empress doesn't have much patience."

"Okay. Auntie, please tell the Empress Dowager that 300 million taels will arrive at Ning'an Palace in the next day." Zhu Xiangchang stood up and saw him off with a smile on his face.

"No. Tomorrow." Yuanqian said with a smile, "Master, please stay and don't see me off."

After Xianqian left, Zhu Xiangchang was so angry that he smashed everything in the front hall.The Empress Dowager Wan ate him to death, so she must suck him dry!

Mrs. Shangshu who heard the movement rushed over, grabbed Zhu Xiangchang who was about to smash the chair, and said, "Master, be careful that you hurt yourself. What happened to become so angry?"

"What's the matter? Robbers came to the house." Zhu Xiangchang said bitterly.

"Bandits?" Mrs. Shang Shu was terrified, she looked out of the hall and said, "Hurry up and get someone to arrest them! Those villains don't want to live anymore, they even dare to rob our family!"

Zhu Xiangchang hugged the terrified wife into his arms and said softly: "The robber is above the law, and there is no way to catch him." To deal with unreasonable people like Wan Yu, he can only be more unreasonable than her.

300 million taels is just the beginning, and Wan Yu will definitely use this to blackmail him endlessly.He doesn't want the ferry anymore, so he will be perfunctory to Wan Yu first, and tomorrow he will order someone to seal off the secret passage in Jixian County, and clean up all the clues.So what if Wan Yu reports to the emperor?The emperor can't do anything to him without evidence.

Want him to hand over 300 million taels of snowflake silver without hesitation?Go dreaming!

Zhu Xiangchang felt that it was too late tomorrow, and it was best to settle the matter at the ferry overnight.

"Prepare the car! Go to the county government office!"

***

Yao Xi had a hard time in the past half day, she finally stayed on duty until dark, she didn't even have the courage to go to the cafeteria for dinner.

After entering the house, Yao Xi carefully locked the door and locked the windows.Feeling uneasy, I put a chipped vase on the window sill, and placed a chair at an angle behind the door.In this way, no matter where people come in from, she can hear the movement.

At this moment Yao Xi even misses Jingling Palace.No matter how scary the ghost girls are, they are just pretending to be ghosts to scare her, and will not hurt her life.But Liao Bing's eyes today clearly wanted to tear her into pieces.

The people in the Siyuan Bureau were afraid of Zheng Dayun and only dared to play tricks on her, but they didn't dare to do anything.Liao Bing was different, he was a domineering and unscrupulous character, but because of her, he broke his leg, if he couldn't think about it, it would be bad if he didn't want to go all out with himself.

Fortunately, she lived in a room by herself, if someone lived with her, she wouldn't dare to stay in the Siyuan Bureau tonight.

Yao Xi decided to ask Aunt Hanqiu tomorrow to see if Xu Meiren could take her from the Siyuan Bureau in addition to the assignment from the Internal Supervisor.

She didn't get up until after noon during the day, and the back of her foot was still hurting, and she couldn't sleep at night. She was reading a book by the oil lamp, and suddenly heard the chair creaking at the door.Yao Xi dropped the book and looked nervously at the door.

ga-

The chair moved again, and it seemed that someone was opening the door with a key.

God! ! ! ! ! !

The sequelae left by Yao Xi in Jingling Palace last night are still not healed, and she has become extremely slow to realize now that Liao Bing has the keys to all the houses of the Siyuan Bureau!