The return of the son-in-law

The private school has been built for more than a month, and Tonghua County has entered the hot summer.Although it has only been more than a month, the private school has already achieved initial results.The first group of school children who persevered have gradually become different from those who do not study. They are sensible and polite. There will be more trouble.

For the people of Tonghua County, it is enough for the children to grow up like this.Therefore, in the second month, the number of children sent to private schools did not decrease but increased.

Huo Yu no longer went to private school to study.Firstly, the role of the private school has already been recognized by the people of Tonghua County, so Huo Yu doesn't need to set an example; secondly, when Mr. Sun stepped on the mud and fell on the mud when he was going out the day before yesterday, he broke his bone. Now I can only stay in bed.

Huo Yu not only has to take care of Mr. Sun, the latter is Guo Zhanan's accountant, he is currently unable to move and can't handle many things.Elder Sun couldn't trust the others, and neither could Guo Zhan'an. After discussing for a while, the two finally decided to ask Elder Sun to teach Huo Yu how to handle accounts.

Huo Yu knew that his elder brother's money bag would be kept with him in the future, so he didn't dare to be careless at all, and followed Mr. Sun to learn how to check the accounts seriously.I don't know if Huo Yu was born to do business, or if he was more or less influenced by Sun Lao the day after tomorrow, he learned this very quickly, but within half a month, he was able to read the account books with Sun Lao.

Of course, it was Mr. Sun who was mainly looking at the account books at this time, but Guo Zhan'an in the county government was the sky, and no one dared to deceive him on the account books.Therefore, this ledger is not difficult for Huo Yu.

After reading the account book, Huo Yu realized that Guo Zhan'an had not only poured so much effort into Tonghua County, but also poured most of his meager wealth into it.Now all kinds of income in the county government can be reduced, not to mention anything else, after this year's summer, Guo Zhan'an wears all the old clothes from the past, and he doesn't add a single summer clothes.

Look at the clothes he is wearing. These are the clothes that Guo Zhanan told Granny Shen to make for him a few days ago.Thinking of this, Huo Yu was inevitably moved and worried.

At noon, Mr. Sun had trouble with his legs and feet, so he ate in his room.After the new year, Huo Yu has already moved out of Sun Lao's room, and the current room is next to Sun Lao.He waited for Mr. Sun to eat before returning to his room, took out his precious key from the secret pocket in his sleeve, opened the small iron box next to the bed, and took out all the scattered money inside. Tell others, then leave the county office and go to a fabric shop in the county.

Huo Yu is now quite well-known in Tonghua County, the store manager saw Huo Yu coming in, and hurriedly received him in person, and when he learned that he wanted to choose some fabrics for making summer clothes, he led him to a place to have a look.

Huo Yu didn't understand so much. He thought that Guo Zhan'an usually wore blue and moon white clothes, and felt the texture of several materials, and finally settled on two pieces of fabric.

When the shopkeeper asked him how much he needed for each type of fabric, Huo Yu was in a dilemma again: "How much material do you need to make clothes for grown men?"

The shopkeeper made a rough estimate and said, "You don't need too many summer clothes. If Master Huo trusts me, I'll cut them out for you and take them home."

Huo Yu nodded and said, "I'm sorry to trouble you."

After paying the money, Huo Yu carried the two pieces of cloth and sneaked back to the county office. He had just entered the backyard when he heard Jia Huan's voice from behind: "Second Young Master, where have you been? Tell me easy to find."

Huo Yu frantically tried to hide the cloth, but this cloth was not a snack he carried with him every day, so how could it be so easy to hide?

He could only put his hands behind his back, turned around and asked Jia Huan, "What can I do for you?"

Jia Huan said: "The young master said, it's been a long time since the second young master's homework was randomly checked, and today he will check it. It turns out that the second young master is not in the study, nor is he at Mrs. Sun's, so the young master ordered us all to go out to find you. I will look for you on the street. For a long time, I wondered if the Second Young Master had gone out and came back again, so I came back to have a look, and sure enough I saw the Second Young Master."

When Huo Yu heard that Guo Zhan'an was going to check his homework and had waited so long, he became a little anxious: "Go and tell brother, I'll be there soon."

Jia Huan replied: "Yes, then I will go to the study and report to the young master first."

After Jia Huan left, Huo Yu hurried to the embroidery room with the two pieces of fabric in his arms, looking for Granny Shen.

Granny Shen had nothing to do today, so she was lying on a chair basking in the sun, seeing Huo Yu coming in with two pieces of cloth, she couldn't help being surprised: "Second young master, why did you bring cloth for the old lady? The color of this cloth doesn't suit you."

Huo Yu smiled and shook his head, and said, "It's not for me, it's for brother. Grandma Shen, please make two sets of summer clothes for brother."

Grandma Shen took the fabric with a smile, and said, "No trouble, no trouble, the second young master is serious. You two brothers really have a good relationship, one always wants to make clothes for the other."

Huo Yu scratched his head embarrassingly, and said, "I still have something to do, so I will trouble Grandma Shen."

Huo Yu learned to read the account books with Mr. Sun these days, so he inevitably slackened in his homework, but Guo Zhan'an was extremely strict today, and after a while, Huo Yu's palms turned red.

He didn't dare to look up, and looked down at the books that were spread out, wondering if his brother was angry with me?Will you ignore me?Will you send me back to the private school again?

Guo Zhan'an didn't know what was going on today, and he was very anxious when he couldn't find Huo Yu, but when he saw Huo Yu, his anxiety turned into displeasure, and he couldn't help but make things difficult for him in his homework.

Seeing Huo Yu's listless look now, Guo Zhan'an felt a little regretful: "Forget it, you have been really busy recently, and you just need to make up for the homework you missed in the past few days."

Huo Yu let out a sigh of relief, looked up at Guo Zhanan and said, "Don't worry, brother, I will definitely not do this again."

Huo Yu's serious look made Guo Zhan'an feel good, but he still had a serious look on his face: "Okay, always say good things, if I spot-check your homework in five days and you do it again, it won't just be a slap in the face!"

Huo Yu giggled, and lowered his head to read the book again.

Five days later, before Guo Zhanan could check Huo Yu's homework, an envoy from the capital came from the county government.

Huo Yu couldn't hear the good words about "Pian Si Li Li Liu", but finally he heard clearly that the emperor had promoted Guo Zhan'an to the general judge of Xuzhou.

Guo Zhanan released the imperial decree respectfully. On the other side, Huo Yu hurriedly presented a kit to the envoy of the decree. The latter took it, weighed it for a while, and nodded with a smile.

"Master Guo is really young and promising. If it is useful to get a certain place in the future, Master Guo will say it outright." This messenger is the best at observing words and deeds. Guo Zhanan, a small eighth-rank county magistrate, spent less than a year to It has become a general judgment from the sixth rank, so naturally it is necessary to hurry up to please.

Guo Zhan'an was not polite either, just nodded and smiled and said, "Thank you for your hard work, I have prepared a table of food and wine. You may wish to use it before leaving."

With such a good thing, the envoy naturally agreed, and Huo Yu took the opportunity to go to the kitchen to ask the cook to warm up the rice wine he had prepared earlier.

During the banquet, the emissary couldn't help Guo Zhanan's persuasion. He blushed and said intermittently: "My lord, my lord doesn't know that the third prince came back from the northwest a few days ago. This, this errand is still for the third prince and the third prince to fight for your lord." Arrived."

This is something Guo Zhanan did not expect.His previous actions were too noisy. In order to avoid the third prince being suspected by the emperor, they should all settle down for a while.

Since Li Shaojun wanted to plan this position for him even though he was suspected by the emperor, there must be a reason for it.It's a pity that during this time, in order to prevent being caught by Li Shaojin's people, there has been no communication between him and Li Shaojun and Jiang Yannian for several months. Whether it is the capital or the northwest, Guo Zhan'an is not clear about the situation there.

Therefore, this emissary became Guo Zhanan's best breakthrough.

"My lord is serious. I, Guo Zhan'an, are just a small county magistrate. This is the great grace of the emperor." Guo Zhan'an first took Li Shaojun out of this matter, and then said, "It's just that Xuzhou is an important border defense area. I'm a scholar. I'm afraid of damaging His Majesty's trust."

The emissary was well-informed in the capital, and now that he was drinking too much, he became more courageous. Hearing what Guo Zhanan said, he smirked and replied: "As long as you are an official in the capital now, who, who doesn't know that the third prince is coming back? Is it because His Majesty wants to suppress the power of the Fourth Prince?"

"Oh?" Guo Zhan'an poured another glass of wine for the envoy, and asked, "Your Majesty is now at the peak of spring and autumn, and the fourth prince is really too hasty."

"But, isn't it!" The emissary was so drunk that his hands were shaking, and most of the glass of wine was spilled on him, "These four princes have had a hard time recently. Mr. Guo didn't know that the position of the general judge was originally It was read to the fourth prince's attendant, but when the third prince heard about it after he came back, he went to the Qinzheng Palace, and after he came out, the emperor changed his mind and gave the third prince many, many rewards!"

Although the envoy is good at inquiring about news, but after all, his official position is not high, Guo Zhanan set up a conversation again, and did not get any valuable information, so he was too lazy to deal with the envoy, called Lai Fuquan and Wu Jia, and carried the envoy to the guest room to rest .

After the envoy left, Huo Yu said, "Brother, is this a good thing?"

"It's a good thing, but it's also a bad thing." Guo Zhanan didn't want to drag Huo Yu too much into this quagmire, so he changed the subject, "But you, are you planning to go to Xuzhou with me?"

Huo Yu naturally refused to leave Guo Zhanan, so he immediately said, "I will go wherever my brother goes."

Guo Zhanan's heart warmed up: "Okay, stop your homework these few days and start packing. Also, I have a few things here that I want to leave to you."

Huo Yu nodded in agreement, thinking of the account books he saw during the day, he asked a few more questions: "I have never traveled far, so I don't know how much money I will have to prepare to go to the northwest, does brother know?"

Guo Zhan'an could only make a rough estimate, and said, "Don't worry, it's always enough."

Huo Yu couldn't help complaining: "This emperor is really too much. He only thinks about doing things for my brother, and doesn't think too much for him! Whether it's the ditches or private schools, even the teacher's monthly money is mostly paid by my brother. of."

Guo Zhan'an understood, this is to fight against himself!

He couldn't help stretching out his hand to pinch Huo Yu's face, and said, "Don't worry, in a few days, there will be a windfall in the sky."

Huo Yu didn't believe it: "Brother, isn't he a fortune teller? He can also calculate that there is a windfall?"

Guo Zhanan said with a smile, "Just wait."

As Guo Zhan'an said, three days later, another envoy from the capital came to the county government to announce the decree.

This time, it was not only the decree, the envoy also brought a lot of silver and rewards.Part of the silver is the official bank that should have been allocated to Tonghua County this year, and the other part is Unicom's wishful emeralds and corals, all of which were given to Guo Zhan'an by the emperor.

Huo Yu really didn't expect this: "How did my brother know that the emperor would bestow so many things on my brother?"

Guo Zhan'an pretended to be mysterious: "Because I watch the stars at night, the emperor will be a money-spreading boy in these two days."

Huo Yu naturally didn't believe it, but after thinking about it for a long time, he only thought of one possibility: "Is it because of the reward for my brother's coming to Beijing?"

Guo Zhanan stopped teasing him, nodded and said, "Mostly because of this."

As Guo Zhanan said, not only because of those rosters, Yue An reported what he did in Tonghua County truthfully after returning. Followed up a good level.

These were all rewarded to Guo Zhan'an by Li Chonghao alone, and had nothing to do with Tonghua County.Guo Zhanan took out a sum of money, which not only won the support of the people in Tonghua County, but also left a clean image in Li Chonghao's heart, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

After Huo Yu led people to put these rewards into the book, Guo Zhan'an took out the letter that the emissary had secretly slipped into him earlier.

This is Yue An's secret letter. In the letter, Yue An told Guo Zhanan the ins and outs of Guo Zhanan's sudden promotion to three levels.

It turned out that after Yue An dismissed all the officials on the northwest list and imprisoned them, the fourth prince and the Liu family reacted very quickly, and someone immediately pushed the other three to replace them.Of course, Yue An wouldn't be fooled so easily. After he checked, he knew that these people were also from Li Shaojin's side.

Yue An deliberately brought this matter up in front of the emperor, pretending to be embarrassed, and asked the emperor for his opinion.Li Chonghao saw that his good son and his grandfather's family had started to put people in the court, so he was naturally furious.Naturally, the official careers of those few people would not be smooth, and even because of Li Shaojin's move, Li Chonghao had no choice but to recall Li Shaojun, who had just repelled a small wave of Tatars, to balance the balance in the court that was about to be broken.

Li Shaojun came back, leaving Jiang Yannian alone in the northwest. The latter was just a direct descendant of the Jiang family, not comparable to the status of the prince, so someone would disturb the situation. Li Shaojun could only do the opposite, pushing Guo Zhanan to the forefront.

When Li Shaojun came back, he found out the mind of his badass emperor father, and put on a posture of "respecting the virtuous and not avoiding relatives" in front of Li Chonghao, and even successfully pushed Guo Zhanan up.

Yue An was cautious by nature, even though it was a secret letter and delivered to Guo Zhan'an by his confidant, it only vaguely mentioned the matters that Guo Zhan'an should pay attention to after going to the northwest.Although he is the prime minister, he is beyond his reach. There are still four princes and the Liu family in the northwest. After Guo Zhan'an is gone, most of them still have to rely on themselves.

These are not troubles for Guo Zhan'an. Right now, his biggest trouble is that Mr. Sun wants to stay in Tonghua County for the elderly and not go to the northwest!