The Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness of Crossing

"How about this, can you pay in installments?" Pan Pan rolled his eyes and slipped out another idea.

"What installment method?" Nan Xia asked with a smile.

"You are still younger every month, is it the New Year, pay a little more, just ten taels, and then decrease every month, nine taels next month, eight taels the next month, until it reaches zero, just pay it off. " She snapped her fingers and said in detail, feeling very proud of her wishful thinking.

Zhan Zhao nodded first, and after thinking about it, he had doubts: "According to your installment method, it seems to be more than 50 taels if you pay it in ten months?"

Shouldn't heroes treat money like dung?This guy is very good at calculating small accounts... Pan Pan curled his lips and replied cheekily: "You have owed it for so long, so it is not too much to charge a small amount of interest?"

"It's not too much, it's not too much, it should be." Nan Xia responded repeatedly, but said in his heart: Pay back the principal in July, pay the interest in March, and lose five taels in a blink of an eye. Must be a loan shark...

After the two of them reached an agreement, they waited to turn back.As the saying goes: people are heroes and money is courage.With the 50 taels of mortgage, Pan Pan walked lightly on the road. Compared with the sluggishness before he came, he seemed to be a different person.Nan Xia watched coldly by his side, sighing from time to time that the magic power of money is so great...

As he approached the gate of the third class courtyard, he suddenly saw three young yamen servants flashing out from inside, all holding brand new uniforms and quilts, talking and laughing as they headed westward.It turned out that like her, she was also newly selected as an errand, and she had to go back to the dormitory after picking up her clothes.Because they were going the same way, Pan Pan followed without haste.

From a distance, one of the yamen servants was heard saying: "Hey, do you know Pan Pan from Zhongmou?"

People are really afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong!It's only been a few days since someone started gossiping... When she was shocked to hear her name, she hurried up a few steps and listened carefully.

"Pan Pan?" A tall yamen servant thought for a while, then asked, "Is it the one who punches like a dancer?"

"Yeah, yes." The person who spoke first nodded repeatedly, "He can be selected like that, does he have some background in the mansion?"

"Probably not..." The tall yamen servant replied hesitantly, "I heard that he used to be a magistrate in Zhongmou County."

Pan Pan was furious: We won prizes for radio exercises in the school sports meeting before!He actually said that we are a master of dancing... and even suspected that we came in through the back door... It's true that three people become tigers, and everyone makes money.

A yamen servant who had been silent all this time said, "You don't know about it. Pan Pan was left behind by the Master Registrar as a greeting."

Gongsun Ce?She frowned when she heard that, when did that article become so friendly with us?

"Really? What's going on? Tell my brother quickly!" The other two yamen servants said anxiously.

The man interjected: "Have you noticed Pan Pan's blue eyes? I heard that he can see at night. Master Gongsun knew about it and decided to keep him. He also said that having him on duty at night in the future would save money on lamp oil. "

"So that's how it is..." The other two gasped, "My lord is really tall."

Stinky bamboo!you are vicious!Pan Pan was so stunned that he beat his chest and stomped his feet. Back then in Chunfenglou, he pretended to be a Taoist priest, if we hadn't been flexible, you would have been embarrassed... Now you are actually scheming against us!

At the close of the new year, the government office is busy from top to bottom.Pan Pan and several other literate yamen servants were transferred to Mingli Yuan to sort out the classics.The work is easy, nothing more than helping to flip through papers, binding books and so on.

"Brothers, pay is closed today, go to the street to buy a few cents later, cook two dishes, and go back to the courtyard to be lively." A newcomer suggested cheerfully.

"Ah? Fifteen today?" Pan Pan was about to turn into the inner room with a large pile of test papers in his hands. He was inattentive, his joy turned into sorrow, and his feet were plotted by the threshold. The papers flew out of his arms and scattered all over the floor.

The secretary of Mingliyuan is a shriveled old man in his 50s. Hearing the noise, he rushed out to look, and seeing the mess everywhere, he was so angry that his goatee couldn't stop trembling: "You should beat the frizzy monkey! Things don't work well. , full of eating and drinking. Let me tell you, you are not very promising..." While complaining, he picked up a paper, dusted off the dust, and cried out in distress, "They are all top-ranked papers, which are degrading, Disgraceful!"

Everyone hurried over to help clean it up, and a small yamen servant with a sharp camera said with a smile on his face: "Master, you are always right. If we are promising, we will go to answer the papers and take the number one prize. How can we help you clean up the papers here?" Woolen cloth."

The old Siwu bluffed them with a straight face: "A group of naughty monkeys are asking for idle work today, and I will report to the master bookkeeper to deduct your salary!" Although the words were scary, the tone was not as harsh as it came up.

"Hey, hey, come and take a look, what we have is Zhang Zhuangyuan's roll!" Suddenly someone yelled.

"Really? Really?" Everyone swarmed up, talking non-stop.

"That's a very well written word!"

"Tsk tsk, there's Zhu Pi!"

"Huh? Sir Si Wu, I heard that there is a custom of 'catching a son-in-law before the list' in the capital. Is this true or not?" someone asked.

As soon as someone heard about the imperial list and the number one scholar, someone would think of the well-known Chen Shimei, "What, what's 'catch a son-in-law before the list'?" Pan Pan's curiosity was ready to stir again.

"'Catch the son-in-law before the list' means to catch the son-in-law when the list is released. I heard that when the Qingxin Hall of the Mingli Yuan published the list, if any big family in the capital has a young lady who has not left the court, the brothers and relatives in the family will pull The matchmaker stayed downstairs early and waited for the students who were looking at the rankings, and if they were successful, they coaxed them up to marry each other, and there were often several households vying for a student and fighting." One of them gestured happily, as if he had experienced it on the spot. .

Hearing this, Pan Pan gasped: How about robbing the folk men all over the place? This folk style is aggressive enough!

Zhou Siwu waved his hands slowly: "Those are all rumors. There is a custom of 'catching a son-in-law before the list', but most of them have already engaged in marriage. When the gold list is named, there is a wedding night in the bridal chamber. Double happiness, isn't it beautiful?"

"Oh..." Everyone sighed for a while and dispersed.

Youshi received a sling of money to go to get off work, and Pan Pan was very happy: this government office and county office are nothing compared, and the salary during the probationary period is twice as high... After rejecting several entertainment activities, she went back to the hut to hide the salary, Feeling anxious and waiting for Yang Bailao to come to the door.

Has it been half an hour?Why don't you come?Could it be that you were scared away by loan sharks?She walked around the room freely, leaning over the window and looking at the courtyard door from time to time.

Just as he was depressed, the door knocker rang twice, crisp and sweet, reaching Pan Pan's ears, just like the tinkling of silver.She rushed over to open the door, opened the two doors, stretched her head out, saw the person coming, then retracted, stammering: "Why... why is it you?"

Gongsun Ce raised his slender eyebrows, stroked his beard and smiled lightly: "Xiao Pan, long time no see."

Pan Pan hurriedly invited him into the room, continued to serve tea, and kept muttering in his heart: don't let the cat go back on his word, and expose us to usury to the bamboo spirit?

"My lord, if you have anything to do with the younger one, just send a personal ward to tell me. I can't afford to come to the door in person." She said nervously.

"Xiao Pan, you and I know each other well, so why bother to stick to common etiquette." Gongsun sipped his tea and said in a reproachful tone.

When Pan Pan first heard this, he felt even more horrified: This bamboo spirit must have no good intentions!After hesitating for a moment, he hesitated to respond: "Etiquette cannot be abolished, it cannot be abolished..."

Gongsun Ce smiled lightly: "Xiao Pan, I came here this time because I have an errand to bother you."

Could it be that we are arranged to be on the night shift?Her heart skipped a beat, and she said cautiously: "My lord, I'm just here for the first time, and Dian Gezi hasn't recognized him yet, so it's embarrassing."

Gongsun Ce waved his hand: "Little Pan Mo must be misunderstood, because Mr. Zhan is going back to his hometown to worship his ancestors. The two original companions, one is on leave, the other is ill, and they urgently need to find someone else to accompany him. I thought you knew Mr. Zhan, and besides, Xiao Pan is also capable and able to take care of things, why don't you just follow me."

Companion? !Pan Pan was buzzed by Gongsun Ce's words.Let us be cat's personal servants?How can there be any reason for debt collectors to serve debtors?These days are really unreasonable... She wailed in her heart: the north wind is blowing... the snowflakes are fluttering...

Going back to the hometown with Zhan Zhao to pay respects to our ancestors, if we play roles as companions, doesn't that mean we have to eat, stay with, and travel with us?He rides, we run; he sits, we stand... Wouldn't it be indecent to travel alone?Although we seem to be a bit ambiguous about our gender now... "My lord, can you find another one on top and replace the younger one..." She boldly discussed.

Gongsun pretended to be surprised: "Little Pan, this opportunity is rare. Master Zhan's return to his hometown to worship his ancestors is the grace of today's imperial approval. There are rules for food and lodging on the way, and the salary is paid as usual. You can still earn work expenses. How many people wish for it, you I also have some friendship, this job is specially reserved for you."

come less!It's sugar-coated cannonballs again, let's not take this kind of thing... "But the little one is helping Mingli Courtyard recently and can't get away." Pan Pan was unmoved.

"It's okay, I'll greet Zhou Siwu later." Gongsun cut her back.

"But the little one grows so big, and I haven't traveled far... From north to south, if the climate is not acclimatized on the way, and I make some mistakes, the little one is fine, but it's a crime to delay the trip of Mr. Zhan. ’ she racked her brains to cope.

Gongsun Ce seemed to have expected her to say this, and said with confidence: "It doesn't matter, the government office is on business, and the house will prepare some commonly used medicines in case of emergency." He said earnestly, "Xiao Pan, young people should go out and practice more. I recommended you again and again in front of Mr. Bao and Zhan Wei, and they all agreed. Don't let me down."

Pan Pan was so squeezed that he couldn't get out of the tiger, and he couldn't change his tricks, so he nodded generously.

Seeing that she was trapped, Gongsun left proudly, and Pan Pan followed closely, sending each other off with hatred.The two walked out of the courtyard politely, and Gongsun Ce instructed: "Xiao Pan, you will be leaving tomorrow, you go back and pack your luggage and rest earlier."

"Yeah, little one understands. Thank you for your concern, Lord Registrar." Pan Pan's heart was ashamed.

Seeing Gongsun Ce walking away, she jumped up and down in anger, muttering "stinky bamboo spirit..." while cursing, punching and kicking Gongsun Ce's back.

"What are you doing?" A clear male voice sounded from behind.

"Practice boxing..." She bowed her head and replied.