marry a weak waist

When they entered the mansion, Yin Lian first followed Meng Yuan to meet the old lady and Mei Qing.Mei Qing sat on the lower chair, looking at her with a pair of eyes that seemed to be smiling but not smiling.

Those gazes seemed to be watching a character with a disastrous ending come on stage in a play, and it seemed to have a light and compassionate color.The footsteps in Yinlian's skirt almost got confused.

The old lady never smoked cigarettes when she saw strangers, but this time she was holding the cigarette pipe on the upper chair, her legs were crossed, and a concubine red embroidered shoe with a gold lock edge was hanging under the skirt, bit by bit. It was swaying like a dragonfly touching water, and the hem of the skirt was lightly rippling round and round.

She rested one elbow on her leg, slightly pressed her back, and was still surrounded by four or five maids.Like the queen mother on the throne, in the fog and obscurity, she looks at the silver lotus with vain smiles, like a fox, sneakily looks at people from head to toe, and then from foot to foot.

Finally, he took a sip of his cigarette and breathed out, "Well, not bad, I think she is better than Mei Qing."

Meng Yuan sat on the other side, nodded with a smile, "I also say the same."

Mei Qing was a little unhappy, she couldn't help but change her eyes, looked at Yinlian carefully for a while, raised her eyebrows at Mengyu, "Well, I don't know what to call it, is there a new sister, or is there a new sister?" What about a new sister-in-law?"

Panicked, Yinlian hurriedly blessed her, "I don't dare to do it, I'm two years younger than Miss Mei."

Unexpectedly, Mei Qing was even more upset, and immediately turned down her face and refused to speak to her.Yinlian has already regretted it, how can a woman not be afraid of getting old?She hurriedly changed her words, "Although I am two years younger than the girl, I look like I am five or six years older than the girl. I am ashamed of myself. How dare I be a new sister or sister-in-law. Girl just call me Yinlian."

Unpredictably, the old lady pulled her to her and held her hand for a closer look, "Can you play any musical instrument?"

Yinlian froze and shook her head.The old lady asked again: "I don't understand music theory, what about calligraphy and painting? Can you learn something?"

She still shakes her head, "My family is poor, I have never learned these things, I can only recognize a few characters, and I can write a few, but the writing is not good-looking."

With a sigh, the old lady threw away her hand with some disgust, holding the cigarette stick and turned her head to worry about Meng Tiao, "It's a bit troublesome."

Meng Tiao laughed and said, "Let's talk about it later."

After speaking, he got up and led Sister Yinlian to the house where they lived.

But that house is in the West Garden, not far from Mengtiao's residence, only separated by a bamboo forest.Going around the forest path, there are four houses inside the cave.In the house, some gold lacquer utensils and official kiln porcelain are displayed, window screens are pasted with the Chinese character "囍", the bedroom is hung with lilac-colored curtains, a pair of lilac-colored sleeping shoes are neatly placed in front of the bed, and the mattress on the couch is also lilac-colored.

"Do you think it's tidy up to your liking?" Meng Tiao sat down on the couch, patted the Kang table lightly, and beckoned Yin Lian to sit down too.

Yinlian looked around, but didn't say anything.It was her sister Yulian who came to her and said with a smile, "Everything else is fine, but the color of the curtain and the mat doesn't match the silver-red window screen, and it's not what my sister likes."

Yinlian teased her secretly, but it was too late.Seeing that the smile in Meng Yuan's eyes froze slightly, he bowed to his ex-wife and took a step forward, "My aunt doesn't know, the lilac color is what our wife likes. I didn't know what color you like, so this room is all in the same color. It's arranged in the color she likes, which shows that your wife loves you."

The bright window screens, the dark red furniture, and the elegant curtains, no matter how weird this room looks, it seems to be a fairy's face, imitating the appearance of a human being, painted into a paradoxical charm.

Even though Yinlian didn't like it, she hurriedly stood up and blessed herself, "Thank you madam for your concern." She teased her sister secretly.

Her sister was a little dissatisfied, she was turning her face away, but Meng Yu finally looked at her and asked with a crooked face, "What's the girl's name?"

Yinlian answered on her behalf: "Mrs. Yulian."

"how old are you?"

"Sixteen this year."

Meng Tiao smiled emotionlessly, "Sixteen, I'm not young anymore, it's time for the family to settle down. When the master comes back, I will discuss with him and make a good marriage for your sister."

After saying that, the mother-in-law brought in two maids.The girls were holding two boxes in their arms, and when they were opened, there were some jewellery, including gold, silver, emerald jade, and precious stones.

Meng Tiao slowly lowered his clothes, got up and stood sideways, picked up a golden butterfly hairpin and twirled it between his fingers, and looked back sideways, "Young girl is here to order you around the house, there are still Two women, if you have anything to say, just tell them to do it. From now on, this is your home, don’t see outsiders. If there is something wrong, you can send them back and forth. After a busy day, go to rest earlier. "

Yinlian got up and sent her to the outside of the cave, it was already golden embers in the evening, the intimacy of the day was as if the sun had burnt out, her back was like the night wind in early spring, blowing slowly, making people shiver suddenly.

In the middle of the spring night, it was even tighter, Meng Yu was not there, and Yinlian was here for the first time, so naturally she couldn't sleep.Even Meng Tiao seemed to be worried, and he couldn't sleep when he was lying on the bed, his mind was in a mess. After a while, he slipped past, even those scholars who blackmailed him in the early years passed by.

Most of those voices and smiles are unfamiliar, and they can't remember what they said, so they are even more chaotic.

The pair of noses and eyes at the back turned into Dong Mo's appearance, Meng Yao gritted his teeth in hatred, cursed "death-killing ghost" in his mouth, turned over and hugged the pillow Meng Yu used to sleep on.

There was the aftertaste of Meng Yu on the pillow, like a soothing fragrance, lingering faintly in the middle of the night, lulling her to sleep.When I woke up, it was the sun screen window, and I called Caiyi to ask the date, Caiyi told me that it was February 22, and Mengyuan leaned on the screen of the bed cover in a daze.

Caiyi peeped at her half-covered hair, loose sash, and couldn't help but add, "The master probably won't be back until half a month away." Mengyu's eyelids moved, and she gave her a sidelong glance.

Caiyi rolled her eyes, then lowered her waist a few inches, "Tell Brother Ping that we will return to Jinan in March, what day is it in March?"

Mengyu rolled his eyelids and got off the bed, "Who told you this?"

Then you can't guess what she is worrying about.Caiyi dazedly walked to the dressing table to comb her hair, looked down at the mirror, "The concubine is here again, standing on the porch."

"Again?" Mengyu rolled his eyes in the mirror, "Didn't it be worthwhile to say hello to her every day?"

"I did. But she dare not break the rules."

In the past few days when Yinlian entered the mansion, Meng Yu hadn't returned home yet, so she had to raise her spirits every day, not daring to relax.When it was dawn, I dressed up and went to pay my respects to the old lady first, and then rushed to Meng Yuan's room to pay her respects.

When I came back two days ago, I was arguing with Mengyu to sleep, and seeing that Mengyu's face was a little unsightly, I didn't call the girl to inform me these two days, I just stood on the porch and waited.

Even the old lady complained and said: "Did this lady do it on purpose?! She came to the house to say hello before dawn, and I want her to say hello? I'm not her mother-in-law!"

Meng Tiao also had troubles, but he put on airs too solemnly before, and now he will be lazy day after day, which makes people look down on him, so he can only entertain with energy.

Invite people in, barely socialize a few words and send them away.Just as he was about to set up lunch, he suddenly saw the butler come in to deliver a message, "The boy who went to Zhangqiu came back and said that the person in Zhangqiu County has all the evidence and evidence, and he beat Chang Xiucai ten boards, and he is now in prison The county magistrate of Zhangqiu County is a hard-headed person, saying that the matter is true and that the law cannot be bent for personal gain, and he wants us to pay 500 taels of silver to redeem him."

"500 taels?" Mengyu snorted and laughed, "He opened his mouth wide open. Come on, you go, I'll tell the old lady."

The housekeeper took a few steps, and finally turned back, "I heard that our future son-in-law, Master Liu, has some kind of friendship with the magistrate of Zhangqiu County, or ask him to write a letter to talk about it?"

Meng Tiao was silent for a while, then waved him to go.After dinner, I went to the old lady's house, where I had just had lunch, and the maids were collecting the dishes, a complete set of gold-painted white porcelain, and I ate six dishes in one meal, and each plate seemed untouched. of.

The old lady was rinsing her mouth on the couch, and as soon as Meng Yao sat down and told about Chang Xiucai, the old lady threw the silk, "Fucking shit! Who is the evidence? I think they deliberately framed it! Shaojun I don't know yet? With such an honest temperament, how can he cheat? Besides, with such knowledge, why should he cheat? "

It made sense, Meng Yu sighed helplessly, "It's so good, why did someone frame him as a poor scholar? The county magistrate of Zhangqiu County has never had much contact with Brother Yu, and there are all witnesses and material evidences. It is absolutely impossible for him to let people go. Otherwise, mother will pay the 500 taels of silver."

The old lady's money is better than her life. She took out the eye pipe, smoked a pot of cigarettes, and then made up her mind, "Didn't you say that the county magistrate is familiar with Liu Chaoru? Ask someone to prepare a sedan chair for me, and I will go find it." He said."

It is said that the future son-in-law has nothing to say.But ever since Liu Chaoru came back for the New Year's greetings, the old lady always looked at him with a bit of trepidation. At first, she felt that he was a gloomy ghost, who was holding back some ideas in secret, which was hard to figure out.

She is an old man, and she doesn't like to deal with men in the city. According to her heart, young men should be like kittens and puppies. They don't need to be too smart, the most important thing is to have a good appearance.

After making up her mind, she ordered Ruanjiao to go to Liu Chaoru's house the next day.She was wearing a plain black satin bija, a sapphire blue shirt, and a lake blue brocade skirt. She was dressed in a solemn and dignified manner, and she brought two women and four maids with her.

Landing in front of Liu's house, the two painted wooden doors were ajar, the old lady glanced inside, and immediately frowned, "Is this the Liu's house?"

The mother-in-law stepped forward to answer, "Yes, I can't go wrong with what the housekeeper said."

The old lady leaned her upper body back, looked up at the courtyard wall, then looked back at the door, shaking her head again and again, "How did Mei Qing suffer so much? The place we lived in the past, although smaller, is not as old as this place. You smell it, and it also smells of wood mold."

"Hey, Mrs. Liu is a man, and he is used to living in a man's house. Our second girl wants to marry him, and you can't stop her. She lives by herself. Besides, the second girl has thousands of silver in her hand. As long as she is willing Use the money to plan, and the family can live happily ever after."

As he spoke, he opened the door and went in, just in time for Liu Chaoru to come out of the main room, wearing a pale dharma cloak, with a straight body of indigo inside, as if he was going somewhere.Seeing this group head-on, he was startled at first, but then came to bow to him, "Why do you want to come? You should send a small messenger in advance, and I will be ready here."

The old lady walked slowly on the cobbled road in the middle, and the group looked at the field in the corner, "Oh, why are you still farming? You can eat as much as you can, just buy it on the street. Made it muddy?"

While talking, a young man stood up in the field, his short brown was stained with yellow mud.The old lady frowned immediately, "Look, look, this looks like a big family living in the city? It looks like a farmer digging in a ravine. Don't ask that little one to give me tea, it's dirty. ..."

Hearing that, Tong Shan immediately rolled his eyes, turned his back and squatted down, and then cut his leeks.This can be considered to have touched the temper of the old lady, and she immediately exploded, "Hey, you don't know the rules?! You can't even teach a boy well! I'll take him for a dozen boards later, I see him It's still not horizontal!"

Liu Chaoru smiled, and led her into the room, "Tongshan is young and ignorant, don't get angry. Sit inside quickly, and I'll give you some tea."

She didn't like it in the room either, she always felt that there was a sour smell, so she slapped her face with a handkerchief, fell on the upper chair, looked back and glanced at Liu Chaoru, "I always only eat sparrow tongue, Or West Lake Longjing."

"Well, no." Liu Chaoru didn't feel apologetic at all, and took the tea pot from the shelf very calmly, "You can make do with it."

The old lady came up with a sigh of relief, if she hadn't come to beg him for something, she would have put up her skirt and left immediately!Sitting there, this Xiang hated his back eight hundred times.When he turned around, she changed her face in an instant, and smiled, "That's what I have to do, I can't ask you to buy it now."

"Even if you buy now, you don't have the spare money."

It made her hate a little more!

Liu Chaoru was still as frank as ever, so he moved the stove to make tea in the room, and took a look at the maids and women, "The room is small, please wait outside, if the old lady wants something, I will call some more." .”

The leading woman took a look at the old lady, offered the cigarette pouch, filled it with cigarettes and lit the fire, and then led the girl out.Unexpectedly, Tongshan in the courtyard was watering the ground, and the scoops of water were poured directly under their skirts, and the group had to retreat outside the house to wait.

As soon as the smoke puffed up, a fog barrier was instantly formed in the room. In the fog barrier, the old lady finally felt more at ease, crossed her legs, and leaned her back against the back of the chair, "Come and sit, I have something to do." tell you."

This head is just making good tea. The blue flower cup that Liu Chaoru used on a daily basis was not burnt well, and there were several fine cracks inside the cup.On the table, she had sharp eyes, and she didn't touch it when she saw it, and she still held the cigarette pole to make him sit.

Liu Chaoru sat down on the lower chair, glanced at the cup, "This is what I use, it's clean."

But the old lady said: "A county magistrate, why bother to live such a useless life."

The words were not speculative, he just smiled, "What's the matter? Please tell me."

Perhaps in the smoke screen that usually enveloped her, his eyes that seemed to be plotting could not come in, and she no longer felt uncomfortable, and she usually raised her waist, "I heard that you and the magistrate of Zhangqiu County How kind of friendship is there? I happened to have a troublesome matter here and wanted to talk to him. He put my adopted son in prison and accused my adopted son of cheating in the court for no reason! It has been two or three years since the court ceremony, What will be investigated? It can be seen that it is a crime to be imposed! You talk to the county magistrate, raise your hand, and let my adoptive son go, don't delay his country test, ruin his future, you will be punished!"

The smoke screen also made it difficult for her to see Liu Chaoru's expression clearly, only after a moment of silence, she heard his two fingers tapping gently on the desk, the sound of "duk tuk tuk", separated by a short silence.

After four or five beeps, he dragged his voice, "Adopted son... You seem to like to adopt some children under your knees. Miss Mei Qing picked them up for you alone. Where is this adopted son? No parents?"

"I have a father." The old lady blurted out, and then she thought that she couldn't talk to him about it, so she became angry, "It doesn't matter, the important thing is to let him out quickly."

"Where is Master Meng? Why don't you ask Master Meng to say something?"

"The magistrate of Zhangqiu County doesn't recognize it! Although Brother Yu is a government official, he is not a bullying person. What kind of evidence is there? If you don't obey, we have nothing to do, otherwise I will come to find you You? He recognizes the money but not the person, and wants 500 taels of silver to redeem him."

Liu Chaoru smiled slowly: "500 taels, can't you take it out?"

It is possible to get it, but the old lady loves the money after all, she was dumb for a while, and suddenly became angry, "With you as a ready-made way here, why bother to spend that money?! What? The son-in-law helps the mother-in-law You are not willing to do such a small favor? I know you are a bit high-minded and unwilling to be selfish, but think about it, my young master is a scholar, if you help him, he may be the pillar of the country in the future!"

Upon hearing the words "my young master", Liu Chaoru's smile gradually turned cold, "I can help you with everything else, but I can't help you with this one. I'm the one who arrests people, and I tell them to let them go. It's not a joke." Do you want to play?"

Hearing this at first, the old lady's face suddenly came out of the smoke, "What?!" She still couldn't believe it, and stared at her dark eyes, "You were arrested? Why did you arrest him?!"

"He has a reputation, but he clings to the powerful with a slavish face, which is a disgrace to the saints, so he shouldn't be punished?" Liu Chaoru said this sternly, and then turned his back face, revealing some ridicule, "If you want to let him go, you have to deal with it." 500 taels of silver, are you willing?"

She wouldn't come here if she wanted to!The old lady stood up awkwardly, "What do you want to do?"

He also slowly got up from his seat and approached slowly, "If you don't give up money, you have to give up others. It's easy to let him go, as long as you don't have any contact with him in the future. You will hurt him, be obedient ,ah."

When he approached, a pair of greedy eyes went straight into the cracks in her bones, and the way of men and women that was integrated into her bones and blood suddenly awakened, even if she didn't understand it, she understood it.

After realizing it, he couldn't believe it, he forgot to blink his eyes, and just looked up at him in a daze, "You, you, you, you, what do you mean?"

Liu Chaoru's middle lip line was always slightly raised, and her eyes were cloudy, like the rain in March, with a gentle coldness, "To put it bluntly, I'm afraid you'll be ashamed."

The old lady was stunned for a while, then jumped up abruptly, pointed at the tip of her nose and scolded him: "You are a rebellious bastard! You, you are shameless! You are shameless!"

He smiled, "I agree."

The old lady wished she could smash him to death with a cigarette!But his hands were trembling with fright, and he couldn't lift them up.So he glanced at him and started to leave.

Not wanting to be stopped by him again, "It's already here, don't you want to see the new house of my miss and me? Don't hurry, I will show you."

After saying that, he couldn't help but grab her wrist and drag her into the back room.Although the room is small, it has all internal organs, and many of the furniture is the dowry that the old lady made for Mei Qing.She stared around blankly, only thinking of walking, but couldn't break free.

Liu Chaoru turned around with a glance, squeezed her and smiled, "Your house is in the East Wing, so I'll take you there too."

In a daze, I went to the east wing room again. This room was bigger, and it was also newly replaced with furniture, all of which were made of ordinary wood.Liu Chaoru glanced at her with a smile, "I know you like to put on a show, and you have to use everything well. Be considerate and considerate, I am just a county magistrate with two sleeves, and I can only do so much. But the food can always fill you up, even a season I can cut two clothes, but the material is not that good."

The old lady became more and more confused, and when she woke up, she shook off his hand, "You crazy! When did I say I want to live with you?!"

"They are all your son-in-laws, so you can't just let Mr. Meng take care of them? I should also respect this filial piety."

The old lady looked at him for a while, then suddenly raised the corners of her lips to ridicule him, "If you have such filial piety, please keep it to respect your old mother!"

She turned her back to leave, but she heard Liu Chaoru say in a cold voice behind her: "It's common for officials to have ups and downs, so you're not afraid of the sunset at the Mengfu Tower, if you follow him, sooner or later you will suffer endlessly? You are just his cousin, if you get away early, even if something happens in the future, you will not be involved."

The back figure paused, turned around and glanced at him up and down, "Brother Yu is fine, what's going on?"

"It's hard to say, there is never peace in the officialdom, you go ask him, he must know what the adult from Beijing is here for." He smiled nonchalantly, and walked closer, holding her hand "Meng Li, what are you doing with these things? Come to me early, and I will support you in the future."

No one has called this name for so many years, and she almost forgot that she was called this name.Shouting to him abruptly, the humiliation and poverty of her youth came round and round. She was abandoned by her parents, an orphan despised by the world, and only had gold and silver by her side.

She gritted her teeth and smiled, "You are too poor, I can't get used to your life."

"Just get used to it, maybe one day, you still can't bear to live like this."

The old lady straightened her back with the arrogance of seeing death as home, "Even if I die, I will lie in a coffin made of gold."

Liu Chaoru also smiled, without saying a word, with a somewhat confident attitude.The old lady made him laugh so uncomfortably, she gave him a sideways look, and the corners of her skirt rolled violently.

No one mentioned it when I got home, I just slept on the bed alone and vomited for most of the day.Meng Yu came to ask her, but she only said that Liu Chaoru had promised to write a letter to Zhangqiu, and she would let him go when the letter arrived.He also excused himself from being tired, so he drove Meng Tiao out.

He slept until nightfall, and his breath was still stuck in his heart when he opened his eyes, but he didn't beat his chest and feet with hatred like before, instead he felt faintly proud.There is someone who is so obsessed with her secretly, after all, it is a little satisfaction for her vanity of a woman, especially an elderly woman.But the intricate relationship inside tightened her tighter inch by inch.

Among them, Mei Qing felt the most sorry. After all, Mei Qing was raised by her. Although there were elements of selfishness in it, Mei Qing also got half of the profit.However, Liu Chaoru was a delusion of Mei Qing's without fame and fortune, but she was inexplicably told to smash it ahead of time.

Can't you tell Mei Qing that people are alive, don't they just live with hope?Feeling ashamed, she waved her hand and gave Mei Qing another dowry of 500 taels.

Both Meng Yuan and Mei Qing were shocked, and asked her that she only waved her sleeves at Mei Qing, "If you want to get married, you will lose your money in the future. If you pay more, you should calculate it carefully, or buy it." Manor land, or use the name of a servant to buy a long-term business outside, so that wealth can last forever."

Mei Qing was naturally so happy that there was nothing wrong with it, and she responded with all her mouth.Meng Tiao just took a look at the two of them, and went back to the room without saying a word.

There are only a few silver lamps dotted around the room, Meng Tiao sits on the couch and looks at the two candles in front of the bed, the dark yellow circle of light illuminates the tent, the rest of the place is dark, as if that place is only so bright. A wooden cage.

The candles on the kang table in front of her also shone with a dark yellow halo, covering her in a lonely cage.Mei Qing is going to leave the cabinet and live a life that belongs to an ordinary woman.The old lady suddenly showed kindness, and suddenly she looked like an ordinary mother.Only she is unusual, living in another world of eccentricity.

The fragrance lingered at the bottom of the candle, and the wind was like a tender bowel. She suddenly began to miss Dong Mo.That idea just came up, but she cut it out abruptly and abruptly.Turned to think about something else, and then thought of Meng Yu.

She felt that she was split in two, lost in the ups and downs.

The flowers turn into a butterfly dream, and the wind sends a few good nights.Dong Mo was busy with the official duties of the chief secretary for days, and he didn't feel anything during the day, but when he suddenly became depressed at dusk, he also thought of dreams.

It happened to be raining that night, the spring shirt was moist with water, and the moon was light in the smoke cage. He picked up his pen on the desk several times and wrote half a sheet of letter paper before he remembered that he didn't know the address of Mengyuan Wuxi.I had no choice but to give up, and randomly squeezed the paper into a ball.

Xie Chun was sweeping the Duobao Pavilion behind him with a feather duster, when he heard the movement, he turned to look at him, and smiled, "It's March, I see, the girl will be back soon. In two days, I will lead the girl to the small Go to Cicada Alley, sweep and clean the house carefully, it has been unoccupied for so many days, I don’t know how much dust it has covered.”

Dong Mo was silent for a while, and then his voice became extremely low, "Did the girl say that she will be back someday?"

"No, I only said to be back in March when I left." Xie Chun pulled out the silver hairpin on her head and picked up the silver on the case, "I can't tell the distance on the road, I think it will always be back in the middle of the month at the latest. The girl is in Although there are relatives in my hometown, they are not close, and it is not easy to live in other people's homes for a long time."

Outside the window is the sound of rain, and the moon shines on the black shadows of a few arrow bamboos.Dong Mo stood up and opened the window, watching the bamboo leaves trembling from the rain for a while.Suddenly I heard someone's flute passing over the wall, like a wind blowing a dream of a thousand miles.

Important news came to my ears the next day, but it was not a dream.

It turned out that it was Na Shaoyu who came to visit.After two days of greeting each other in the study, Shao Wan took a look at Dong Mo's face when he was seated, and said attentively and caringly: "I see that your lord's complexion is not very good? Oh, it's rainy in spring, your lord should pay attention to adding and subtracting." clothes."

A little fatigue appeared on Dong Mo's pale face, he waved his sleeves nonchalantly, "Is there any news from the Department of Salt Transport?"

"Meng Futai is back from Tai'an Prefecture." After saying a word, Shao Wan took a sip of tea, "Meng Futai went to Tai'an, and Master Zhang and Tong Zhi Luo were not idle either. , went to the salt farms to inspect the situation of salt production. I think it must be that this Meng Futai is going to bring back some big business from Tai'an Prefecture, so Mr. Laozhang went to inspect it himself."

"How big a deal, have you found out?"

Shao Wan shook his head, "I don't know yet, Mengfutai is also Licheng who just came back. But the merchants in Tai'an that you asked me to check last time have some clues. They were not salt merchants before, and some of them were in the silk business. There are those who make wood, spices, and tea. Mengfutai specially finds these people to make private salt. I think, one is to deceive people, and the other is that these people are not familiar with the way of the salt market. Rip them off."

Dong Mo Ning frowned, remembering that Qin Xun handed over the sparse book of retirement, and that Shandong would lack a great official in frontiers.

Knowing that he was investigating the salt affairs secretly, Meng Yu still took the risk to sell salt at this pass, probably to take advantage of this gap.He wanted to bet his fortune on a big gamble, and if he won, he would be directly promoted from the government office to the second-rank official history.

Such a high promotion is hard to break through in the officialdom in ten years, and it is precisely a century-old opportunity for a local official like Meng Yu who comes from a humble background.

This is a poor and white gambler, Dong Mo made a verdict for him in his heart.He put the teacup lightly, his eyes darkened, "I'm afraid this time it's really a big deal. You pay close attention to the omissions in the saltworks, the bigger the number, the easier it is for them to show their feet."

"The humble job is doing its best, but there are many things that I can't find out because Master Zhang Mi and Master Luo are watching. My authority is only in these two saltworks in Jinan. I have more than enough power in other places. Insufficient. I’m afraid, they won’t produce salt at these two saltworks in Jinan this time.”

Dong Mo leaned back in the chair, squeezed the armrest of the cap chair and smiled, "The more state capitals involved, the more officials involved, and the more money to be distributed. Since Meng Yu knows how to do business, , Now that we are short of money, how can we be willing to share a piece of the pie for others.”

"Lack of money?" Shao Yu pondered for a while, half probing and half ridiculing, "Is there still a shortage of money in the Meng Mansion?"

Dong Mo raised his head slightly, and said with a smile, "Even the national treasury is short of money, who in the world doesn't call themselves poor?"

The call was not heavy, but a little sleepy and lonely.

The author says:

Liu Chaoru: Tsk tsk, your young master is still suffering in prison, but you can't even part with 500 taels of silver.

Mengli: Try not to spend money if you can, what do you know, you poor ghost!

Mei Qing: I hope my mother will feel more guilty.