Bastard's Counterattack [Rebirth]

"Girl, don't panic, everything is going according to plan!"

"Oh, okay, okay." Sun Jie was flustered, shy and apprehensive. She bowed her head and flinched at first, and then realized that she was not well-mannered. Holding his forearm, he walked along the cobblestone corridor towards the moon cave gate.

the other end

"...The magistrate of Beizhou is a generous man. When we met for the first time at the Governor's Yamen, Mr. Qi was dispatched in the center. He generously borrowed [-] shi for just one cup of tea, and solved the urgent need of Xizhou." Rong Youtang spoke a little faster, with his head held high. , leading his right-hand men Wei Jie and Zhuo Kai, the three men walked forward quickly, he calculated while walking, and planned: "There are five or six iron smelting workshops in the province, and the one in Peizhou is relatively large. Skilled craftsmen are needed for iron smelting. It is necessary to hire a few old craftsmen and let them bring out a group of apprentices as soon as possible to ensure the quality of ironware."

"There are a lot of blacksmiths in Xizhou, and they can post notices to select the best ones. It is much more secure to work in a government-run workshop than outside. I think the common people will rush to recruit." Wei Jie said happily.

"There is no rule without rules." Rong Youtang was full of energy, and arranged in an orderly manner: "The first batch of craftsmen would rather be short than excessive, and establish rules first. After the rules are confirmed, no matter whether the workshop is reduced or expanded, there are examples to follow, and it will be easy to manage. "

"That's right!" Zhuo Kai deeply agreed, he really enjoyed the feeling of a group of people fighting side by side.

In the next moment, the Moon Cave Gate was close at hand, and Rong Youtang, who was exhausted during the day and sweaty, hurried back to the room to wash up, but just as he was about to step into the back room, when his chest suddenly crossed two strong arms to block the way——

"What's wrong?" Rong Youtang stopped in doubt.

"There's someone inside." Wei Jie whispered and lowered his arms at the same time.

"Women, two." Zhuo Kai added, holding back the handle of the scabbard vigilantly.

The evening wind blows, and the aroma of rouge hair oil floats in.

Rong Youtang suddenly realized, and immediately backed away a few steps, and said softly: "It should be Sun Xiancheng's family."

"It's so late, why are they still visiting the garden?" Wei Jie scratched his chin, his eyes narrowed, and he covered his mouth with his fist and coughed.

"The mother-in-law and young servant of the Sun family have been looking for brothers to inquire about you these days, and they are secretive." Zhuo Kai lowered his voice and told Rong Youtang helplessly.

"I——" Rong Youtang was a little embarrassed, and was about to explain, but when she heard the fragrance of the powder getting stronger, the nurse of the Sun family pretended to be pleasantly surprised, and her high-pitched voice sounded:

"Ouch, Lord Rong? Are you done with your errands?"

Rong Youtang nodded without hitting the smiling face.

"My lord, pay your respects to my lord." Nanny Sun bowed her knees respectfully and blessed her.

"No need to be too polite." Rong Youtang raised his hand to help.

"Thank you, my lord." Grandma Sun cheered, and gently tugged the girl hiding behind her with her backhand, implying that she would show her face and salute.

Wind lanterns hung inside and outside the Moon Cave Gate, separated by a wall, the Qian-colored skirt fluttered with the wind, revealing a soft corner, and quickly retracted behind the wall.

Sun Jie's fingertips were trembling, her face was red and her ears were red. She had a lilac-colored underskirt over her waist and a slender figure.She gritted her teeth, mustered up her courage, stepped out of the fence, knelt down and blessed her, and said in a voice like a mosquito: "The daughter of the people pays homage to your lord."

"Miss, please get up." Rong Youtang said politely and distantly.

After Sun Jie saluted, she was at a loss, staring at the tip of her embroidered shoes, her heart beating like a deer, her cheeks were so red that she almost dripped.

"Your Excellency is busy day and night for the people of Xizhou. It's really hard work." Grandma Sun was full of enthusiasm and asked with concern: "Can you have dinner?"

What time is this?

Rong Youtang was patient, and smiled and replied: "I have used it."

"Dinner was early. You have been busy all night. You should fill your stomach now. It happens that the kitchen has porridge and sweet soup, which have already been delivered to you. Please use some for your kindness." Nanny Sun told me with an apologetic smile.

Rong Youtang's smile froze, took a deep breath, and said: "Thank you for your kindness, but don't bother me next time."

"No trouble, no trouble! It's a great honor for us to be able to serve you a little bit, and we wish for it!" Nanny Sun nodded and bowed, and then gently pulled the girl behind her again, hating that iron could not be made into steel, and said with a crackling mouth: "Hey, it's getting worse this day. It’s hot, and the mosquitoes are starting to make trouble, so it’s time to burn the mosquito grass to fumigate the house, so as not to hinder the rest of the adults.”

Rong Youtang simply smiled and said nothing, so as not to cause the other party to chatter endlessly.

Sun Jie hesitated to speak again and again, never daring to participate in the chat, her palms were sweating from anxiety, and even her neck was blushing.

for a while

"I still have some urgent business to deal with." Rong Youtang couldn't bear it anymore.

Wei Jie chimed in: "You guys continue to visit the garden, Mr. Rong is busy with work and has no time to stay for long."

Zhuo Kai took a few glances, and understood everything from the shy expression of the girl from the Sun family.

Rong Youtang nodded politely, passed by, and left quickly.

in two quarters of an hour

"Why are you crying? Nanny Sun has told my mother, but Lord Rong has not expressed his opinion." Madam Sun was not discouraged, and took off the pearl hairpin bracelets one by one, preparing to rest.

"He, he rejected the mother-in-law who talked about it, and just ignored me from the beginning to the end. Isn't the meaning clear enough?" Sun Jie blushed and sobbed while pinching the handkerchief.

"As long as he is not married—no! Even if he is married, with his official position, Mrs. Rong will not humiliate you." Mrs. Sun looked eagerly.

"Mom!" Sun Jie looked up in disbelief.She is fifteen years old, at the age when she is in love, how can she be willing to be a concubine?

"You, calm down. Someone like Rong Zhifu is once in a thousand years. If you miss it, there will never be another one. You are the flesh that fell from your mother. How can I not understand you?" Mrs. Sun sighed, He said earnestly: "Jie'er, your father is not confused, he has worked hard for half his life, and earned the position of county magistrate. Now the county magistrate has been vacant for two years, and he has been in charge of it for two years. There is no credit but hard work. As long as Shangfeng speaks a few words If you say that, he's likely to go up, you understand?"

"Daughter understands, but, but I..." Sun Jie hesitated, her brows slightly frowned—she couldn't deceive herself, she was indeed tempted.

"Parents will never hurt you."

Mrs. Sun earnestly taught: "If Mr. Rong is a bad old man with wives and concubines, mother will definitely not agree! But he is good in every aspect. As the saying goes, if a man is inferior to a woman and a woman is high, you will be more generous and natural anyway. Regardless of whether the matter is successful or not, we can all retreat unscathed and fear nothing!"

Sun Jie lowered her head and pondered for a long time, then said vaguely: "Daughter doesn't understand, let parents decide."

"Okay! This is a filial child!" Mrs. Sun smiled and hugged her daughter.

at the same time

The son-in-law who was missed by the Sun family was very distressed.

"I'm not hungry, you can eat." Rong Youtang shook his head.

"It smells delicious, you really don't want to eat it?" Wei Jie asked with a smile.

"Don't eat." Rong Youtang's tone was gentle, but his attitude was firm.After taking a bath, he changed into clean underwear, and with his thin silk robe open, he was concentrating on studying the map of the mine.

"It's a pity to leave it for nothing, so let's eat it. Brother Zhuo, please." Wei Jie opened the food box, greeted Zhuo Kai, and settled the two exquisite stew pots in two or three bites.

Rong Youtang picked up a pen and marked a line of words. Seeing that his companions had finished eating, he smiled and threatened: "You two, be careful to be arrested by the Sun family to be your son-in-law after eating supper!"

"Hey, I'm married." Wei Jie grinned and wiped his mouth.

"Did the Sun family ask you what you mean?" Zhuo Kai asked curiously.

Rong Youtang frowned, and said frankly: "They asked Cui Wenshi to inquire around the bush, but I refused."

"Push it."

"Just push it." Wei and Zhuo said in unison.

Rong Youtang dipped his pen in the ink, thought for a while, and said earnestly: "You two, if someone finds you in the future to inquire about my marriage, please tell outsiders that I am engaged, so as not to cause trouble."

"Row!"

"Okay." Zhuo Kai nodded happily, without any intention of asking "who is it?", he and Wei Jie looked at each other, tacit understanding.

Rong Youtang put down his pen, looked at the map carefully, and suddenly said: "The county magistrate of Shun County has been vacant for almost two years, and Sun Gong is always asked to do it for him. It's too shameful."

"You want to remove Sun Xiancheng?" Wei Jie asked immediately.

Zhuo Kai was honest and didn't disdain anything, Fue said: "Since we stayed here temporarily, the Sun family has become more and more open about their thoughts, and their enthusiasm is frighteningly frightening, sending their daughter to Brother Rong with all their might, what's the sense?"

"It's obvious that Sun Gong wants to seek the position of county magistrate, and he has mentioned it several times in front of me." Rong Youtang knew it well, and said seriously: "But he didn't work hard when he was an official, he was negligent and lazy. Such as banditry, a large number of suspected bandits were imprisoned in Shun County Prison, Sun Gong arrested people hastily, but failed to investigate and judge in time after being put in prison, allowing the suspects to scream in the prison, causing the family members of the suspects to go to the governor’s yamen to call for grievances, affecting Bad. Another example, during the spring plowing, I allocated the grain borrowed from Beizhou to Shun County, and he should have distributed it as soon as possible and urged the people to cultivate it, but it took half a month!"

"Calm down, the imperial court has no intention of ordering him to fill in the vacancy, otherwise he would have been promoted early in the morning." Zhuo Kai comforted.

Rong Youtang picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, raised his hand flat, gestured for the room, and said with a headache: "Look, his family has lived in Houya for more than a year! This is totally against the rules."

"I guess it's because of the banditry for several years. The place is in a mess, and there is a lot of waste waiting to be done. Some rules are indeed abandoned." Wei Jie also couldn't understand it.

"Is it okay if things go on like this? I can't be stationed here. I have to return to the state capital sooner or later. The iron workshop is about to start mining and smelting. The county magistrate must be a safe person." Rong Youtang pointed out calmly. He raised his head and said with a smile:

"Actually, I have a candidate."

"Who?"

"The former Guanzhou Tongzhi, Sun Qi." Rong Youtang smiled and explained: "When I was with the army to suppress bandits and when I was ordered to go to Guanzhou to investigate cases, I had the help of brother Sun Qi. He denounced corrupt officials. He made a great contribution to his evil deeds, but he couldn’t stay in Guanzhou officialdom any longer, and he resigned because of illness last year, and returned to his hometown to take care of himself.”

"Is your surname Sun?" Wei Jie was inexplicably amused.

Zhuo Kai suggested: "Why don't you write and ask?"

"Right on my mind!"

Rong Youtang raised his voice happily, and said solemnly: "If it goes well, the iron workshop will become a golden signboard in Xizhou, and there must be no trouble."

Time flies by, and it is mid-May in a blink of an eye.

Sun Qi, the new county magistrate of Shun County, Xizhou, was about to move into Houya, and Sun Gong, the county magistrate, was so angry that he almost vomited blood, disgraced, and had to move out with his family.

Falling flowers are intentional, but flowing water is ruthless.

Living under the same roof with Mr. Pian Pianjia, the girl from the Sun family has been thinking about it for nearly two months, but in the end, she has no results, her heart is depressed, and her soul is lost.

On the day of moving, it was very chaotic. Sun Jie returned to the old house in a carriage, but unexpectedly ran into Rong Youtang riding a horse on the corner of the street!Under extreme impulse, she blurted out: "Master Rong!"

Rong Youtang reined in his horse instinctively, turned his head in surprise, and unexpectedly saw a pair of hazy teary eyes.

"You, is your family really engaged?" Sun Jie asked tremblingly, she would regret it for the rest of her life if she didn't ask her personally.

Rong Youtang was stunned for a moment, and then said frankly, "Yes."

"Is she... okay?" Sun Jie stared at the handsome magistrate bewilderedly.

"He's fine!" Rong Youtang replied without hesitation, he didn't intend to talk deeply, and immediately whipped the horse, without turning his head, he said: "I still have something to do, so I'm leaving."

"My lord—" Sun Jie was extremely unwilling, but was dragged back into the car by the nanny.

"Girl, give up, that one won't work, let's look at the other ones."

Embarrassed and indignant, Sun Jie threw herself into the arms of her nanny, crying bitterly.

In the hot summer of June, the cicadas sing hot and dry.

There are several ice mirrors placed in the imperial study room, which are filled with ice cubes, and it feels cool.

"Ha~"

Emperor Chengtian closed the memorial, glanced at all the courtiers, and said with a smile: "The magistrate of Xizhou is not bad. He has only been in office for half a year, and he has opened a quite large iron workshop."

King Qing was full of pride, and lowered his eyes to hide his proud smile.

"Young people are full of energy." Emperor Chengtian was quite emotional, and said majesticly: "Rong Youtang asked the imperial court to allow him to set up a defensive barracks in Xizhou to eradicate the worries of bandits. What do you think?"

The imperial study room was completely silent, just as King Qing was about to speak——

A person in the corner stepped out, cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, I think it's inappropriate!"