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Luo Jinyu saw the shopkeeper put his pen down, and smiled more openly than before, and said affectionately: "So it's Master Luo! The little one is really rude and disrespectful."

"..." Luo Jinyu didn't need to ask more questions, he already knew the reason, he said lightly, "The shopkeeper has never been rude, and it doesn't have to be because of Shen Wuji."

The shopkeeper said with a dry smile: "Master Luo is better known than meeting each other. He speaks honestly and frankly."

"There is nothing wrong with saying this to others." Luo Jinyu said, "In that case, I will take my leave."

The shopkeeper hurriedly said: "I didn't know it was Mr. Luo because I didn't know Mount Tai. Sir, please stop and drink a cup of tea. The younger ones will ask someone to wrap the bracelet."

Seeing Luo Jinyu frowned, the shopkeeper said, "It's not that the little one is flattering on purpose, the adults must have bought the bracelet as a gift to Eunuch Shen, and the owner of the shop and Eunuch Shen have always been on good terms, if the owner knows that the little one is so incapable of doing things , I can’t explain it to the younger one. The owner is a nobleman, and Eunuch Shen and Lord Luo are also noblemen, but it’s only a 50 tael bracelet, so I’m afraid I’ll offend you.”

"Even if it's fifty dollars, it shouldn't be like this." Luo Jinyu said with a serious look, "If you accept it like this, you can call it bribery."

The shopkeeper said with a sneer: "Why is that..."

"This is the law of the country." Luo Jinyu said decisively, "the shopkeeper's good intentions, Luo sympathizes, but it is absolutely unacceptable. One more piece of advice, no matter when in the future, the shopkeeper must not have such thoughts. Luo is also the Metropolitan Procuratorate The censor of Qiandu, for the sake of good morals, impeaches all officials and corrects evil officials. Jia Wang opened a property, which should have been a more exemplary model. If Luo heard that there was something wrong with Jia Wang's property, he would definitely report to the emperor and reiterate his impeachment , there is absolutely no mercy left.”

Shopkeeper: "..."

This is really... Seeing is better than hearing...

He said embarrassingly: "Master Luo, this, the little one has no such thoughts, and the boss has never ordered such a thing. It is because you are Master Luo, the little one just now... the little one will never dare to think about it in the future , Don't worry, my lord."

Luo Jinyu nodded: "That's very good. I'm sorry for bothering the shopkeeper today."

"No, no, open the door to do business, and it's not a black shop that buys and sells by force," the shopkeeper said with a smile. Discounts and the like, I am afraid that if this person disagrees, I will go to the emperor to impeach my boss.

"Okay. I'm sorry." Luo Jinyu said again, "But there is no need to ask someone to send the new style to the mansion."

The shopkeeper hurriedly asked: "What?"

"I'm watching you, and I'm afraid you intend to sell well. If you bring a new style at that time and say it's a new discount, it's just to flatter you, but I'm also embarrassed." Luo Jinyu said frankly, "So forget it."

Shopkeeper: "..."

"Leave it alone." Luo Jinyu said.

The two of them had nothing to say, so the shopkeeper had no choice but to send Luo Jinyu out of the shop, and stood under the eaves to watch the people go away. After a lot of effort, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said in his heart: This is really... Seeing is believing.

Apart from these words, he couldn't think of anything else for a while.

Besides Shen Wuji, Eunuch Shen, he arranged everything in secret, and heard that the spies from Dongchang came to report that Luo Jinyu went to Jinghong Pavilion after leaving the official office, how could he not know?Immediately, she happily went to take a bath and change clothes, comb her hair and smell the fragrance, drink fragrant tea, and wait for the gift to be received.

It was so easy to wait for Laifu to report that his wife had returned home, Shen Wuji could hardly hold back, and wanted to take the initiative to go out to see his gift.But when he thought of the reasons for the quarrels that annoyed him, he could not hold back, and he would never bow his head first this time, hum.

So, Shen Wuji continued to sit in the study in the side room, holding a volume of poetry and books in his hand, pretending to read, waiting for the idiot to come to apologize.

He waited and waited for an unknown amount of time, his face getting darker and darker.

Finally, he couldn't help but asked, "Did he get lost? Or did someone dig a hole on the way from the gate of our house and he fell?"

Laifu hurriedly went outside to take a look, came back soon, and said cautiously: "After the madam came back, I washed and washed first, had dinner, and went back to the room. The little one just made an excuse to deliver tea, and saw that the madam was reading poetry and books at night as usual. , chat for a few words, he said he will rest later."

With a bang, Shen Wuji smashed the book on the table, and said angrily: "Did he buy something to give to others?!"

"Master, calm down! How is this possible?" Lai Fu hurriedly said, "Maybe Madam didn't like it and didn't buy it?"

Only then did Shen Wuji calm down, and said, "That's true."

Blessing:"……"

"Hmph, what didn't I like, maybe I don't have the money to buy it..." Shen Wuji stopped suddenly when he said this, thought for a while, and said, "Go to Jinghong Pavilion and ask what's going on."

Laifu nodded hurriedly.

All night without incident.

The next morning, Laifu asked Shen Wuji what was going on and told Shen Wuji one by one.

Hey!That idiot really has no money to buy!

Hearing Lai Fu's detailed description, Shen Wuji felt that the idiot was very cute, and wished he could rub him into his arms immediately and love him a lot.

Besides Luo Jinyu, he really missed the 50 taels of gold bracelet, counted his 23 taels of silver before going to bed, and sighed a few times with self-reproach.

After sighing, Luo Jinyu lifted her spirits, thinking about how to save money quickly, after all, she still wanted to buy that gift and reconcile with Shen Wuji.

I didn't think so before, but since we got married, he has become accustomed to sharing the same bed with Shen Wuji, rubbing our ears together, and sleeping in each other's arms. Offering good charcoal day and night, but still feel cold under the quilt, cold hands and feet, and even colder in the heart, which is very unpleasant.

How can I save money?

Luo Jinyu is really not good at dealing with gold and silver, in the past when he gave out salaries, he would just put them in his purse, and would not look at them until they were needed.If it weren't for thinking about buying gifts for Shen Wuji now, he wouldn't even have thought that he had 23 taels or three in total.

After thinking about it, he didn't have any other skills. Could it be that he wanted to sell calligraphy and paintings?

But although his hands have improved a lot, he is still not satisfied with the words and pictures he writes, so how can he sell them?Even if it can be sold, it is hard to say whether others bought it for the sake of the calligraphy and painting itself, or because they bought it for their signature.All in all, it's a good way to bribe and take bribes opportunistically.

Luo Jinyu naturally didn't want to get such a cheap price.

If you don't sign it, you can secretly take it to the streets and sell it as a cheap painting scroll in the homes of ordinary people...

After all, Luo Jinyu is also a conscientious scholar, once proud of her talent, how could she be willing to sell her calligraphy and paintings at such a perfunctory price?

Then this path will not work.

Ugh……

The next day, Luo Jinyu went to the government office with a lot of thoughts on duty. She was okay when she was doing the job, so she naturally had no distractions, but when she got off duty, she immediately remembered this matter again, and she suddenly became preoccupied, and went home silently. Seeing the peddlers on both sides hawking, I thought: besides calligraphy and paintings, I can sell other things.

But what are you selling?

Fruits and vegetables?Shen's residence didn't plant these, so should they wait for the winter and plant them in the next spring before selling them?Some of the bracelets were bought.

selling flowers?Several plum blossoms were planted in the yard.Ke Luo Jinyu never plucks flowers, only picks up petals that fall.Now, for the sake of money, he couldn't bear to cruelly break off the flowers that were living well.

He walked silently, looking around, suddenly, his eyes fell on one place.

I saw that it was a stall selling puppies.

The big yellow dog raised by Shen's residence gave birth to several dogs in the last month, and now it is fluffy and round, very cute.sell it.

Thinking of this, Luo Jinyu felt relieved, went back to Shen's mansion, went straight to the backyard, squatted outside the kennel, and looked at the big yellow dog who was feeding its cubs.

Seeing that it was him who came, the big yellow dog was not on guard, and still lay there lazily, wagging its tail perfunctorily, lowered its head and continued to lick the pup.

Seeing this situation, Luo Jinyu couldn't bear it.

He stared at the big yellow dog for a long time, hesitated, reached out and hugged a puppy in his arms, petting it again and again.

The big yellow dog wasn't angry either, it just stopped licking the cub and kept looking at Luo Jinyu.

Luo Jinyu was made more guilty by it, touched the pup for a while, put it back under its gaze, and said with a smile: "Sorry, I won't sell it. I'm really ashamed, how can I separate your mother and child for selfish desires? "

Big Yellow Dog: "..."

It silently watched the owner walk away with a face full of guilt. After a while, the owner brought a big bone and placed it next to its nest, and stared at it and a litter of cubs for a while, and again Guilt left.

Half an hour later, Shen Wuji, who heard Luo Jinyu's behavior, was about to burst out of laughter.He couldn't hold it anymore, how could he remember Luo Jinyu's fellow rankings, Mobei... He just wanted to hug that stupid baby and kiss him a hundred times!

But today he was on duty as the supervisor of ceremonies, and he couldn't go back to the mansion for a while, so after thinking about it, he said, "Go to the Ministry of Rites and invite Mr. Zhang to come."

This Mr. Zhang is Luo Jinyu's immediate superior in the Ministry of Rites. Hearing that the Supervisor of Rituals has invited him, he came immediately.

Shen Wuji first talked to him about the official seal of the memorial submitted by the Ministry of Rites recently, and stamped it in front of his face, and then picked out the areas that needed attention one by one, and gave him careful pointers.

After finishing these official matters, Shen Wuji said: "About the mission to Mobei, our family still has some discussions with Mr. Zhang."

Mr. Zhang hurriedly said distressedly: "Eunuch, Mr. Luo is still obsessed with this, no matter how much you persuade him, you won't listen."

"Then don't persuade him, our family can't persuade him, and you can't do anything." Shen Wuji said helplessly, "Let him go. It's just that the emperor values ​​him, and the cabinet also values ​​him. Our family is also worried that if something happens on the way What a problem, the emperor and the cabinet will not be able to explain it.”

You are the worst here!Mr. Zhang hurriedly said: "It's natural! In fact, it's not just for Mr. Luo, to send an envoy to Mobei. Naturally, it needs a bigger scene to show the spirit of the Central Plains, so as to shock the foreign countries, and make other countries yearn for it. Therefore "Master Luo is going to Mobei as an envoy, there will never be fewer guards, and the next official will go to the Ministry of War to borrow people. Once such a big matter is lost, it will be the emperor's face. In addition, other life matters must not be called envoys." I am wronged."

"It couldn't be better, it's all for the emperor's face." Shen Wuji laughed.

Master Zhang also smiled and said, "Naturally, naturally."

"However," Shen Wuji said, "Mobei is barren after all, and it's not as comfortable as the Central Plains. Our family has already seen some ideas, and it's not because of Lord Luo. It's just that this kind of errands have always been pushed by you. It’s nothing more than thinking that this is a drudgery without money. Naturally, being an official is to do things for the emperor, for the people of the country, not for money, but hard work is always hard work, and there is no subsidy at all. Wouldn’t it be chilling for officials who work hard? ? Even if we don’t want to be chilled, we have to be considerate of other people’s families. The salary of a small official is not high, and the family must drink northwest wind.”

Mr. Zhang thought to himself, after hearing what Eunuch Shen said, he wanted to take the opportunity to get a subsidy for Mr. Luo, but the relationship between Mr. Luo and Mr. Shen, how can there be less subsidy?Could it be that you want a subsidy of a few hundred taels or a few thousand taels?Then this is also a bit embarrassing...

"Looking at Mr. Zhang's expression, do you think our family is greedy for this little money?" Shen Wuji frowned slightly.

"Of course not! Of course not!" Master Zhang hurriedly said.

Shen Wuji sighed, and took out a notebook from the desk: "This is a new chapter proposed by the Ministry of Officials, please take a look."

Master Zhang carefully took it over and opened it to look.

"This was mentioned by the officials, not our family's random nonsense," Shen Wuji said, "It has been passed by the emperor, and the cabinet has discussed it. According to the rules, Master Luo will have to make up the allowance for his envoy to Mobei after the next year."

Master Zhang asked: "Then Eunuch Shen means..."

"It's not our family's idea, it's the emperor's grace." Shen Wuji smiled and said, "The emperor said, according to the rules, the new chapter will not be officially passed on until after a year, but rules are rules, and favors are favors. Chaozhong Most of the ministers are clean and honest. Seeing that the winter solstice is over and the Chinese New Year is coming soon, you might as well be more accommodating. A year ago, the six books were circulated in private, and the allowances that will be paid after the year are paid first, so that everyone can have a prosperous and good year. "

Master Zhang nodded: "The emperor's benevolence is the blessing of the country."

"Master Zhang, let's do it." Shen Wuji said.

"Yes, yes." Master Zhang hurriedly replied.

Luo Jinyu suddenly received a generous subsidy, a huge sum of 30 taels.

He was very surprised, and thought of Shen Wuji in a blink of an eye, and suspected that Shen Wuji had sent Dongchang to follow him, and when he learned that he was short of money, he put pressure on the government to benefit his own interests...

"It's a new chapter of the Ministry of Officials, and it's the emperor's thoughtfulness and benevolence!" Master Zhang persuaded earnestly, "Lord Luo, you should trust this official, the court, and Eunuch Shen more."

The author has something to say: It seems that this imperial court is really not trustworthy ==