The waiter saw that several people were still stuck in place and did not follow him, so he was wondering why the lady would bring such a few servants who did not know etiquette.
Although the aura of these people looked very scary, especially the oldest old man, as soon as those eyes swept over him, he immediately felt a cool wind blowing by, but!
A slave is a slave, no matter how scary he is, he is still serving others just like himself!
Yunzhi immediately looked at Sheng Shaoqing for help. Nowadays, people live in Datongpu. How can he live there?!
Ji Wenxuan and Lin Jin didn't have much reaction, and quickly accepted the reality: it seemed that the Queen Mother had no intention of saving them.
Sheng Shaoqing was pinching Aning's ears and teaching her, "Make you laugh!"
"That's not the waiter in the shop. He always praises the Queen Mother. You really praised him. Doesn't this mean it's true?"
"If I don't agree with him, won't I have to waste a lot of words?"
While avoiding Sheng Shaoqing's beating, Aning turned around and ran out. He happened to catch sight of Yunzhi's pitiful eyes. He immediately stopped his playful expression, tugged on the Queen Mother's sleeves and whispered, "
Madam, Accountant Yun Dayun seems to have something to say."
Only then did Sheng Shaoqing see the awkward look of these three people. He patted his head and remembered something, and ordered the waiter, "Please open a few more rooms for me, and then take them to rest too."
The waiter was stunned for a moment, thinking that this lady was really generous. Even servants like accountants and busboys could live in single rooms. Isn't this much better than him?!
However, if you want to stay, just stay, and if you place a few more orders, he will have the money for tomorrow’s drinks!
"Okay! Let's go right now!"
"Guys, please!"
Yun Zhi finally felt relieved because he no longer had to sleep on a small, smelly kang with a group of people!
"I heard that you are Madam's accountant?"
Yunzhi's fantasy was interrupted by the enthusiastic waiter. After hearing his question, Yunzhi couldn't help but nodded, "What's wrong?"
"Um, can I ask, how much does Madam pay you per month?"
Yunzhi tilted his head and looked at him, looked up and down before saying, "Why are you asking about this?"
The waiter put on his signature flattering smile and said, "Hi! I just wanted to ask!"
"Madam is so generous as soon as she makes a move. She must be from a wealthy family, right?"
Yunzhi nodded silently, but Ji Wenxuan squeezed in unusually, stroked his beard and said proudly, "That's right!"
"With the magnanimity of our wife, is it something that an ordinary family can cultivate?!"
Yunzhi looked at Ji Wenxuan with a complacent expression and fell into deep doubt: Did Prime Minister Ji not take the medicine or did he take the wrong medicine?
The waiter looked at Ji Wenxuan in a daze. He remembered that just now the housekeeper had a look on his face that told strangers not to come near him!
Could it be that he was dazzled?
"Then I'd like to ask one more question, what's the purpose of Madam's visit to our Qingshiban Township?"
The waiter was afraid of being misunderstood again, so he quickly added, "I don't mean anything else. In our small place, we don't usually see such a big shot. I'm just curious, purely curious!"
Ji Wenxuan lowered his head and whispered in the waiter's ear, "Our lady is here to find a bride!"
"Looking for relatives?"
"But this is a long story. To put it simply, our wife wants to find a young man from the family to inherit the family. Do you understand?"
With Ji Wenxuan's mysterious expression, his deep voice, and his eyes full of regret, the waiter immediately believed this freshly made up pretense by Ji Wenxuan.
Just when Yun Zhi was about to pull Ji Wenxuan's sleeve and ask his wife where she came to find a bride, he was immediately frightened away by the threatening look Ji Wenxuan turned to, so he had to shrink his neck and pretend to be quail.
The waiter pulled Ji Wenxuan aside and said, "Then this lady."
"This one and that one are our wives."
"Chengchengcheng, your wife. Why did she find us?"
As far as he knew, how could any farmer in these eight villages have such a wealthy relative?
Ji Wenxuan immediately looked wary and said, "You talk too much, little boy. Why are you asking about this?"
"Just lead the way. Asking too many questions will not be good for you!"
Seeing that Ji Wenxuan suddenly became fierce, the waiter had no choice but to stop asking any more questions, took them to the room to settle down, then turned around and left.
As soon as Yun Zhi entered the door, he immediately grabbed Ji Wenxuan and asked, "Why did you just tell the waiter so much?"
Ji Wenxuan didn't even raise his eyelids, he sat down, picked up the teapot, filled himself with tea, and then said, "What do you think I am for?"
"Do you want a drink?"
How can Yun Zhi be as leisurely and relaxed as Ji Wenxuan? He replied angrily: "I won't drink!"
Anyway, he is now the accountant and Ji Wenxuan is the housekeeper. Ji Wenxuan cannot do anything to himself for a moment.
Ji Wenxuan shook his head and blew the foam from his tea cup, "Young man, it's not okay to be so impetuous."
"Can I not be in a hurry?! Seeing that the ceremony of self-cultivation is just within one or two days, after the self-cultivation, the land equalization order will be implemented in Daliang. Now that we can't get the real record, the land equalization is postponed, and we have to give
I got the handle on that little guy’s life!”
Ji Wenxuan took a sip of tea and said, "Keep your voice down, be careful that the walls have ears."
Yunzhi had no choice but to lower his voice and said, "I really didn't expect that the Wang family would dare to mess around openly!"
Ji Wenxuan then raised his eyelids and glanced at Yun Zhidao, "Is it just the Wang family?"
Yunzhi fell silent for a moment.
"But Prime Minister, you promised me that you would support me!"
Ji Wenxuan shrugged, "I'm not supportive enough? Look at me, an old man, who has come here with you, how else do you want my support?"
Seeing Yunzhi's anxious look about to explode, Ji Wenxuan did not follow him around the bush and said directly, "Since the Wang family dares to let people make false reports, then they are not afraid of anyone coming to investigate. Have you never thought about why?"
Yunzhi shook his head and asked uncertainly, "Maybe they think they can hide the truth this way?"
"Your mother was born in the Chenliu Wang family. Didn't she ever tell you what kind of person your maternal grandfather was?"
"My mother only said that my cousin was cautious, but now it is my cousin who is in charge of the Wang family. Or maybe they thought that I would not investigate these matters carefully, so they dared to tamper with them?"
Ji Wenxuan just smiled and sighed that this young and promising minister was so naive, "The Queen Mother just got your records last night, but she was able to notice it in just one night. Don't you think you can't notice it? I really think you can."
There is no one in the court, so you can’t even settle the accounts clearly?"
"It seems. It seems too"
Naive people have the advantage of being naive. Ji Wenxuan could only comfort himself in this way, while continuing, "But what if they deliberately falsely reported?"
"On purpose?! This is a serious crime of decapitation!"
After Yunzhi finished speaking, he reacted and said in shock, "They actually dare to test me!"
Ji Wenxuan nodded happily, "You can teach a child."
Yunzhi sat down in pain, held his head and was silent for a long time before speaking in a low voice, "Why are they suffering!"
"Why bother? That's because you didn't let them see the court's determination to equalize land."
"The court's determination?"
"Now, Wang is forcing you to make a choice between them and your so-called righteousness."
"Master Yun, think about it carefully."
Yunzhi raised his eyes again, his eyes already filled with bloodshot eyes, "When I came to Chenliu, apart from being close to the capital, it wasn't because Chenliu... had such a relationship with me, I thought... they could at least not hold them back.
!”
Ji Wenxuan patted Yunzhi on the shoulder comfortingly and said, "Master Yun has always had a prosperous official career, so naturally he doesn't understand the saying that it is better to seek help from others than from yourself. However, now that things have become like this, what are you going to do?"
"Then... we can only kill the chicken to scare the monkeys."
Yun Zhi spoke bitterly, but Ji Wenxuan sighed silently, "That's good, but you are making it clear that you want to be the enemy of the Wang family!"
"What can I do?! My original intention was to do them a favor, but they refused to appreciate it!"
"Let me ask you, if you are equalizing the land, whose land is it equalizing?"
"Of course it belongs to the imperial court..."
"But they thought it was theirs. If you divided their fields, it would be strange if they didn't work hard for you."
"Can"
Before Yunzhi could answer, Ji Wenxuan continued to ask, "You originally had thousands of acres of fertile land and a lovely wife and concubines. Now suddenly someone comes and says that you can only have one hundred acres of land, and the rest will be confiscated."
, and even give it to homeless people who have nothing to do all day long, what do you think?"
"I"
"Although those people have to pay taxes to you, what would you think if something that should be done is suddenly interfered with?"
"Of course I am dissatisfied."
"But the person who said this is somewhat related to you, so you can't slap him in the face openly, so you can only do what he wants first, and wait until the big Buddha is sent away. What will happen next will be natural.
It's you who have the final say."
"What do you think of my analysis?"
Yunzhi sighed, "Thank you, Prime Minister, for your advice."
"Yes!" Yunzhi suddenly said angrily, "This is obviously the imperial court's farmland. Naturally, it's up to the imperial court to do whatever it wants. It's up to them to dictate what happens!"
Ji Wenxuan stroked his beard and said, "Master Yun, you must have heard the saying that a strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake, right?"
"Then let me ask another question. If you were asked to shave your head and become a monk, would you be willing?"
Yunzhi asked in confusion, "Why do you want me to be a monk?"
He was doing well as a minister, so why did he become a monk?
Looking at Ji Wenxuan's expression, he didn't look like he was joking, "You have to give me a reason."
Ji Wenxuan raised his eyebrows, "Then did you give them a reason?"
"who"
Yun Zhi finally understood and stuffed his stupid question back from his throat, "I understand."
"That"
Ji Wenxuan knew what Yunzhi was going to ask as soon as he saw his expression, and kept saying, "I don't know, I don't know anything, so don't ask me."
After a long time, Ji Wenxuan sighed and said, "Let's adapt to the situation. Since we have arrived on other people's territory, we have to see what the situation is before we make a conclusion."
Yun Zhi raised his hand in admiration and said, "I will win after listening to you."
Ji Wenxuan suddenly raised his hand to stop Yun Zhi's flattery and whispered, "Stop talking, there is someone outside the door!"
Ji Wenxuan stood up, quietly moved to the door, opened the door, and the waiter who was eavesdropping nervously outside stumbled in.
"Dong——"
The water basin in his hand fell to the ground with him, making a crisp sound, spinning a few more times, and lying quietly on the floor.
Yunzhi immediately rushed forward, picked up the waiter by his collar, and shouted angrily, "How dare you eavesdrop on us!"
"No, no, I didn't eavesdrop. It just happened to me."
The waiter said in a hurry, "I just brought hot water to your wife. I just wanted to stop by and ask if you need it."
"I swear! I really didn't mean it!"
"I didn't hear anything!!"
Yunzhi and Ji Wenxuan looked at each other, "Generally speaking, those who say they haven't heard anything have heard a lot."
"Honestly, what did you hear?!"
The waiter didn't expect that Yun Zhi, who seemed to be easy to talk to before, would get angry in such a scary way, "No--"
Yunzhi tightened his grip on his hand again, and the waiter said painfully, "I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I'll just listen to what you say."
"anything else?"
"Moreover, moreover, let's make a conclusion or something!"
"I haven't heard anything else! Really! I swear to God!"
"If I lie to you, I...I will never be able to have a child in my life!"
Ji Wenxuan glanced down and said, "You couldn't have given birth in the first place."
"Hey!" The waiter didn't expect that the housekeeper could still joke at this time, "No! I'm talking about my wife. If my wife can't give birth to a child, I will die without any heirs!"
Yunzhi then let go of his hand and let the waiter take a few breaths, "You'd better tell the truth."
As soon as the waiter escaped from the clutches, he hid behind Ji Wenxuan, "Old housekeeper, what I said is true! I really just stopped by to ask you if you need hot water, and I just listened to it.
I was just about to knock on the door when you discovered me."
Ji Wenxuan smiled softly, "If you really came here to ask, how could you say that I discovered it?"
Waiter: Is this okay?
The waiter pursed his lips and said, "I really didn't mean it, I was just curious about your identities. I happened to... just heard a few words."
"Then what do you think we are?"
"Isn't it just the housekeeper and the accountant? The handyman just told me, what else could it be?"
"I'm curious about your wife."
"How can we, in a remote place like Qingshiban Township, have a relationship with such a noble lady?"
Only then did Yun Zhi feel a little relieved. He was just waiting for Ji Wenxuan to tell his lie. There was still a bit of schadenfreude in his expression: I asked you to make this up, but I want to see how you come back!
Ji Wenxuan sneered, "Are you curious so we have to tell you?"
The waiter saw that the tone of the two people had softened and returned to his original nature. He plucked up the courage to close the door, and then dragged the two people back to the table and sat down.
"To tell you the truth, as soon as I saw this old gentleman, I felt friendly!"
Yunzhi said directly, "If you have something to say, say it quickly. If you have something to say, say it quickly. Don't flatter me."
Ji Wenxuan glanced at Yunzhi in surprise. He had heard that Yun Shangshu was mingling with the people in Chenliu, but he did not expect that he was mingling like this.