Chapter 113 Chapter 113 Update.
In the hall, the second master changed into dry clothes and told Marquis Mu Ping the purpose of his trip to Qingzhou and Qi County. Although Marquis Mu Ping was a marquis, he was dressed in black cloth clothes, with a strong military atmosphere, but he was quick-witted. He asked him whether the Zhou tripod was found in Sishui by the King of Yan.
We were sitting here talking about something, and Yulu said under the eaves:
"Brother, Miss Xu is awake."
The Second Master asked, "How did Marquis Muping know my sister's name?"
Marquis Mu Ping said, "I also grew up in Wu, and she and I are old acquaintances."
The Second Master was delighted to hear this. "I feel at ease entrusting this journey to Marquis Mu Ping."
This man was not moved by the gold, silver and jewelry of King Yan and did not show up in the garden, which shows his noble character. Now that they have this close relationship, the second master felt at ease to ask him to accompany him to Qi County to find the Qingzhou governor. After all, there is no telling whether there will be pirates along the way.
Marquis Muping had no expression on his face. Seeing that he was happy, he turned cold and walked out. Youlu was still standing under the eaves.
On the corridor, a maid was leading Ji Xu towards this place. She was wearing a plain dress and a wide belt, and looked very thin. She saw people from a distance through the grass and trees, and looked surprised.
"Why are you here?"
Ji Xu originally wanted to call himself Tianshenfu, but then he thought, he was selected as a filial and incorrupt official and went to Wu County, and had not returned for a long time. He must have been accompanying the Minister of Rites in Xijing as a disciple of a doctor. A year had passed, and no one knew where he was transferred to now. Maybe he was the County Literary Officer of Pingyuan County, so it was not appropriate to call himself that old position.
The lovely servant girl Ya said, "This is the Marquis of Muping I was talking to you about. The Emperor has restored his title to Marquis, and he has just returned to his fiefdom. He will soon return to Xijing to take up his post."
Ya recalled the scene of Marquis Mu Ping bringing the girl back home in the middle of the night yesterday. Both of them were soaked. She had changed the girl's wet clothes. Marquis Mu Ping was in the corridor, and through the door, he asked her three times in succession if the girl was okay.
It wasn't until the doctor came to see me that he said there was nothing serious, but he was just nervous and tired from staying asleep for a long time.
Ya felt that this person was extraordinary. Her eyes rolled around them quietly, and she quietly stepped aside.
Seeing the man in white behind him raising his foot to come over here, he stopped him.
Under the corridor, Ji Xu held his hands in his sleeves and said:
"I've also heard about this in Yan State. So you're the cavalry officer who fought a bear with your bare hands. Doctoral students who can become cavalry officers are all people with outstanding performance."
I always felt like he was staring at me while I was talking, with an indescribable aggression. After a while, I saw him shift his gaze to the grass and trees and say:
"Why did you go to Yan State?"
Ji Xu said, "To find my mother."
She told all her stories, including the reasons and experiences of her trip to Yan State, but omitted the black mine, the King of Yan's rebellion, and her trip to Qingzhou to report the news.
After all, this matter is of great importance and not a private matter. Even in my dreams, I was afraid that I would reveal the secret by talking in my sleep, so I was considering whether I could tell him.
"How did you get to Qingzhou?"
Hearing him asking questions like this, Ji Xu looked from beside his arm to the second master in the courtyard.
Erye was talking to Youlu, and his eyes looked over here, as if asking: What's going on?
Marquis Muping saw all this and said, "I have sent a secret letter to the governor of Qingzhou. You and I will set out from Yuzhong and go to Qi County."
When Ji Xu heard this, he knew that the second master had told him the purpose of this trip. He looked at her and left.
The Second Master came over and asked, "What's wrong?"
Ji Xu asked him, "Did the Second Master say everything?"
The Second Master said, "I heard from my brother that the King of Yan once offered several carts of jewels to win over the Marquis of Muping but failed. I knew this man was trustworthy. I'm afraid bandits will intercept our journey this time, but with his help, we'll definitely succeed."
Ji Xu nodded. When she heard that Yu Zhong was about to set off, she tied her hair up high, changed into her dried robe, and tied a travel belt diagonally from her knees to her ankles, looking like she was ready to go. She felt that her dream was getting closer and closer.
Later, he thought about how to explain to Marquis Mu Ping that he could ride a horse.
After all, raising horses for rich families in her hometown was pure nonsense. Horses were rare in their village, even in the county town. This excuse probably wouldn't fool him, and she would use other excuses. Second Master was here, so he listened to her original reason first.
This was a difficult situation, but fortunately, Marquis Mu Ping only glanced at her when she climbed onto the horse and did not ask any further questions.
The group rode horses to Qi County. With Marquis Muping present, they could change horses at the post stations along the way. Without any delay, they arrived at the governor's mansion of Qi County that night.
When Ji Xu dismounted, her legs were rubbed against the saddle and were burning with pain. She saw that the Second Master could not stand the long journey of riding day and night, and his face had turned pale. She was afraid that he was going to catch a cold, so she supported him for a while so that he could hold on until she could discuss business with the Governor of Qingzhou.
"Is Second Master okay?"
The second master nodded.
The servants at the gate of the governor's mansion brought in the name card of Marquis Mu Ping and the second master's white jade rings and pendants, and soon they were led into the mansion.
The Qingzhou Governor had been waiting for a long time. After hearing the Second Master talk about the black mine iron smelting and the conspiracy of rebellion, he sighed:
"The present is so similar to the past. The words of the late emperor have truly come true."
When the late emperor was seriously ill, the Prince of Yan wrote to the emperor requesting to stay in Chang'an as a guard to prepare for any eventuality. The late emperor was furious and executed the envoy. On the charge of "harboring a fugitive and violating the Han law", he stripped the Prince of Yan of three counties and sighed: A son should be placed in the land of Qi and Lu to influence him with propriety and morality; if he is placed in the land of Yan and Zhao, he will indeed develop a desire to fight for power.
Now the Prince of Yan spread the rumor that the late emperor's youngest son was a fake. On the one hand, he was secretly smelting weapons and gathering wandering fugitives from all over the place under the pretext of hunting. On the other hand, he sent a senior official to Chang'an, requesting the establishment of a temple for the late emperor. This request was rejected by the emperor, so he colluded with the sons of the royal family and plotted a rebellion.
The governor of Qingzhou rushed a letter to Chang'an over a distance of 800 miles, and discussed countermeasures with Marquis Muping. The governor and Marquis Muping were both from Qingzhou, and both studied the "Spring and Autumn Annals". After hearing about his deeds, they admired this small marquis with a fief of 500 households.
In the second half of the night, they settled down in the governor's residence, and the servants invited them to the wing room.
Ji Xu had just heard that they were going to ambush the grandson of King Xiao of Qi on the road he had to take when returning to his fiefdom from the State of Yan.
Marquis Mu Ping led the only one hundred soldiers from the governor's office to arrest him first and wait for punishment in the capital. Marquis Mu Ping went to count the troops at night.
Ji Xu finally felt relieved. Being able to stop the assassination plot of the grandson of King Xiao of Qi was the first step towards success.
Following the Second Master to the innermost wing room on the west side, I suddenly heard someone behind me say:
"Why are you still following him?"
Marquis Muping, who had walked to the gate of the courtyard, stopped, turned around and looked at Ji Xu who was following the second master, his face gloomy.
The moonlit courtyard was quiet for a moment, and the chirping of crickets and insects in the courtyard seemed to remind people that it was late at night.
"The lady's room is this way, please follow me."
The servants who had sent Marquis Mu Ping here came back to invite him in. Their rooms were on the east and west sides.
Ji Xu thought for a moment, then took out a small porcelain bottle from his bosom and gave it to him. This was the medicine he took when he caught a cold at night, and he was about to head east.
The pale-faced Second Master grabbed his sleeve.
"You won't be with me tonight?"
"I'm cold."
After the ten-day hunt in Yan State was over, County Magistrate Wang led his troops back to Zhuo County.
The county magistrate's office here received the news in advance and had already passed away. Many families came to pay their respects in front of the coffin, and under the funeral banners, the water shield, water chestnut, and lotus had red eyes from crying.
Although they were all chosen by the county magistrate to serve the Second Master, and had to report all matters concerning the Second Master to him, they had been with him for many years, and when they heard that the Second Master had died, it was as if their hearts were stabbed with a knife, especially Lu and Xing, who cried bitterly.
Because Ji Xu went with the Second Master, and the Second Master had always liked her, Yu took the initiative and asked Madam Qu to arrange her funeral as well.
However, the body was not held in this cleaned-up hall, but in a small side room, which seemed much more deserted.
Feng and Zhu were wearing mourning clothes and sobbing in front of the coffin. Mrs. Lai came limping and said angrily:
"You didn't listen to me, you didn't listen to me! You lost your life, what can I do?"
The funeral was held seven days after the body was laid to rest. The second master was buried in the Wang family's ancestral tomb. Ji Xu had no status, so the coffin filled with old clothes was buried in a small mound outside the ancestral tomb.
After the funeral, Zou, the head cook of the kitchen, brought his servants to the courtyard and ordered them to drive Feng and Zhu out of the house. As he spoke, he turned their beddings and boxes into a mess.
"What are you doing! Damn it, what are you doing!"
Ji Feng rushed over to fight with those people, but was pushed and fell.
Steward Zou put his hands on his hips, his face twitching as he said, "This room was originally occupied by Chef Hu. We gave it to her because Xu Nu came to the mansion to work as a shepherd. She went to serve in the Second Master's courtyard, so it should have been taken back long ago. However, because she was popular with the Second Master, we let you two little bastards live here for free. Now that she's dead, it's natural for us to take it back!"
This manager Zou was not as respectable as Ji Xu in cooking. Later, her daughter He was not as respectable as Ji Xu in front of the second master, so she held a grudge against him.
He turned the whole room upside down, but couldn't find any money. He was worried and stole the pair of wooden couches and stools that were still in good condition, as well as Ji Xu's cotton-padded clothes, and locked the room.
"How could you be so lucky as to live in a room by yourself? You should sleep in a shared bunk with those servants."
Granny Sun, Que, and Doufu helped pick up the bedding and clothes scattered in the yard.
“What a sin…”
Feng and Zhu moved to a large bunk bed. Xiaoyao had lived here before and helped to move things. He climbed onto the kang and grabbed the mattress to help make the bed, and used gestures to comfort them.
Feng and Zhu originally worked as handymen in the small kitchen, but they were assigned the less busy jobs because of Ji Xu's kindness.
Now, Manager Zou went to Madam Qu and muttered something, then sent them to wash the urinal and Hu Zi.
The riverside is stinking, and the maids avoid them when they see them. Even the money they earn is exploited at every level. They only get thirty cents this month.
Ji Feng was so angry that she argued with the girl in the storeroom who distributed the monthly salary. She rolled her eyes and said:
"Don't tell me that your monthly salary was taken back by Manager Zou."
In fact, she also took some beatings, but Manager Zou took even more beatings and even mocked Ji Feng who was arguing with him:
"A little girl who washes the urinal, do you really think you're the golden phoenix in the henhouse? If you can't stay here, leave now! You're a registered citizen, yet you're trying to steal food from us slaves?"
After saying that, she pinched her nose and laughed at them. Ji Feng jumped up and called her an old bitch.
However, he never left the county magistrate's mansion. He quietly went to the house of the former chef Hu and looked. There was no sign of any movement under the doorpost, and the 75-liang silver cake was still there.
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