Standing outside the door was a tall man wearing a brocade attire and a Weizheng Qipin general flag.
If there is any distinguishing feature of him, it is that almost half of the other's face is covered by the beard.
However, his eyes were very bright, and when a person stood there, there was a vague and unfamiliar bearing.
It's a pity that Tang Fan doesn't know martial arts. If Lu Lingxi was here, he would know that the other party must be a master.
The man clasped his fists at Tang Fan, who was holding the beauty: "Di Han, the general banner of the Jinyiwei Wu County Health Station, has seen Master Tang!"
Tang Fan frowned: "Who sent you here?"
Di Han said: "My subordinates are ordered by Xue Qianhu of the Suzhou Guards Center to protect the adults!"
Tang Fan's face sank: "Xue Qianhu asked you to protect me, but what do you mean by entering this place without permission?"
Di Han lowered his head: "The subordinate knows that he is wrong, but he has not seen the response from the adults, and he is anxious, for fear that the adults will have an accident."
Tang Fan said coldly, "Could it be that Mr. Di thinks it's overkill to come and protect me? If so, I can go to Xue Qianhu and tell him to replace him."
When Di Han heard the words, he immediately knelt down: "This subordinate is wrong! Please don't drive your subordinates away! Xue Qianhu told me to ask my subordinates to obey the adults in everything. This is a reckless subordinate, please adults. Forgiveness!"
Tang Fan looked at him for a long time before he said, "Didn't I ask Xue Qianhu to send two people over, why are you the only one?"
Di Han said: "Maybe Xue Qianhu sees that his subordinates are good enough, and thinks that one person is enough."
Tang Fan was very happy: "You are not humble!"
Di Han really replied with a straight face: "Thank you for your praise, my subordinates are ashamed."
Xiao Wu, a radiant beauty was sitting there, but he just glanced at the door when he entered the door, and after that, his eyes never stopped on the other side.
Tang Fan said: "Since Xue Qianhu asked you to obey me in everything, then I want you to do one thing now."
Di Han said: "Please instruct the adults!"
Tang Fan said, "Go out."
Di Han was finally stunned for a moment.
Tang Fan repeated: "I'll let you out now, close the door, don't disturb us, don't you hear?"
Di Han: "...Yes."
He silently backed out.
Tang Fan released the hand on Xiao Wu's waist.
As a result, the door opened again at this time, and Di Han's haunted face reappeared: "Sir, your subordinates will stay outside. If you have an order, you only need to call."
Tang Fan was so angry that he fell backwards: "Get out!!"
The house finally returned to peace.
Tang Fan released her: "Miss Xiao laughed."
Xiao Wu lowered her head and was too embarrassed to speak, so she could only remind him: "Sir, the food is cold, why don't I make a new one and send it over."
Tang Fan said gently, "I'm not in a hurry to eat. I have something to say to Miss Xiao."
Xiao Wu's head dropped even lower, and she couldn't help but twist the corners of her clothes without speaking.
After the close contact just now, the ambiguity between the two became stronger and stronger. If someone like Tang Fan wasn't really interested in a woman, he would never act frivolously.
Although Xiao Wu tried her best to hide the expression on her face, her hands were still trembling slightly uncontrollably.
Such a handsome young gentleman has expressed his closeness over and over again. How many women in the world would not be tempted
Sure enough, Tang Fan could only be heard asking, "I wonder if Miss Xiao has a marriage contract?"
This sentence was too suggestive, Xiao Wu's face turned even redder, and she didn't know how to answer.
She suddenly remembered something and raised her head: "Sir, why did you think I poisoned the food?"
Tang Fan smiled apologetically at her: "We met twice before, and the timing was too coincidental. I thought you were sent by someone else, so I deliberately tried."
Xiao Wu bit her lower lip: "What about now?"
Tang Fan confessed: "I still think you have a lot of doubts about you, but... but you can't control your heart."
The first half of the sentence made Xiao Wu's face pale, and the second half of the sentence made her face turn from pale to crimson.
Xiao Wu hesitated for a while, then summoned up her courage: "Actually... I know what you are suspecting."
Tang Fan: "Huh?"
Xiao Wu lowered her head: "To be honest, I am indeed not the daughter of a good family. What I said earlier about going to relatives is also false. The daughter of a good family will not come to a man's room in the middle of the night like me. "
Tang Fan said softly: "If you want to say it, say it, if you don't want to say it, I won't force you."
Xiao Wu suddenly raised her head: "Really?"
Tang Fan: "Really."
Tears rolled in those star-like eyes for a long time, and finally fell.
Not all beauties look good when they cry, but the word pear blossoms with tears is perfectly suitable for Xiao Wu.
She asked Tang Fan, "Have you heard of Yangzhou Thin Horse?"
Of course Tang Fan had heard it.
The so-called Yangzhou thin horse is a beautiful girl who bought a poor family at a low price and trained it, so that she is amazing in terms of literary accomplishments in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and in bed skills that charm men. Selling at a high price, either as the top brand of the brothel, or as the concubine of a wealthy family, is very popular in the Jiangnan area, and there are even people who specialize in this industry, similar to human teeth.
Seeing Tang Fan nodding, Xiao Wu said, "Actually, I was also a skinny horse. I was bought at the age of fourteen as a concubine of a rich businessman. Later, the rich businessman died, and his main room could not hold me, so he I kicked out, that's why you met me outside of Yangzhou City. I have been serving men since elementary school, and after that, I was like a bird in a cage, never knowing that I came out to make a living It's so difficult, if it wasn't for you, I would have..."
Xiao Wu wiped away her tears and smiled bitterly: "Now you know, I, I shouldn't have been delusional after seeing you that night, and deliberately dressed up as a girl, I'm not a good family girl at all..."
She wiped more and more tears, and the flow became more and more turbulent. Xiao Wu couldn't talk anymore, she stood up and turned to go out.
Tang Fan grabbed her hand, took her back into his arms, and hugged her tightly!
"Awei!"
As soon as the title came into his ears, Xiao Wu's delicate body trembled slightly, and immediately softened in his arms.
Tang Fan's voice sounded above her head: "I really like you very much, I liked you from the first moment I saw you... I don't care about your identity, as long as you say, if you are willing to follow me, I will take you Go back to Beijing and marry you!"
As soon as the words fell, the knock on the door rang again.
Di Han said outside: "Sir, it's late at night, you should rest."
Tang Fan was furious: "I want you to be busy and wait outside, didn't you hear me!"
He asked Xiao Wu softly again, "Didn't I scare you?"
Xiao Wu shook her head slightly.
It was quiet again outside.
The two maintained their embrace, Tang Fan had no intention of letting go, and Xiao Wu did not struggle.
She just said softly: "The heart of the slave family is the same as that of adults."
Tang Fan said happily, "A-Wu!"
Xiao Wu covered up what he was about to say, and said with a wry smile: "But I never dare to expect to be married by an adult and a matchmaker. With an identity like me, as long as I can stay with you to serve, it is already my greatest blessing."
Tang Fan's eyes were gentle: "Don't worry, my parents are both dead, and my sister is very understanding, she won't stop us."
Xiao Wu shook her head: "But my identity will make you ridiculed in the officialdom. You don't have to say it anymore, I can understand your heart. I, I'm already very happy, really... Since childhood, no one has been like this. Sincerely to me, no man has ever said to me that he wants to marry me..."
Tang Fan sighed, stroked her blue silk with his palm, and said softly after a long while, "Stop saying these dejected words, I still have very important things to do now. Chen Luan deceived the king and took the disaster relief food for himself. Selling for huge profits, I must find evidence and sue the court, so that I can bring you back to Beijing one day, so during this time, I may not care about you. The dog jumped off the wall and threatened me with you as a weakness."
Xiao Wu worried: "Then will you be in danger?"
Tang Fan held her hand: "I shouldn't. I have some friendship with Jin Yiwei, so let them send someone to protect me. No, there's one standing outside!"
Xiao Wu snorted and laughed: "I think he's here to take care of you!"
Tang Fan showed a helpless expression: "Jin Yiwei has always been arrogant, I just have a relationship with their bosses, and I can't control them. As long as I can protect me, how long does it matter?"
Xiao Wu was amused by him.
Tang Fan said, "I didn't sleep all night last night. I only squinted for a while, but now I'm a little tired again."
Xiao Wu hurriedly said: "Then, then I'll go out and bring you breakfast tomorrow!"
Tang Fan smiled and said, "I don't mind if you are willing to stay with me."
Xiao Wu blushed, she was speechless, and when she picked up the food, she ducked with her head down.
Tang Fan didn't chase after her any more, but just watched her leave with his eyes so soft that it was almost dripping with water. Even if Xiao Wu turned around and didn't look, he could still feel the other party's burning gaze falling on his back.
Back then outside the city of Yangzhou, although strictly speaking, the person who saved her was Lu Lingxi, but as long as it was a woman like Xiao Wu, the person who would fall in love must be Tang Fan.
She had long been relieved and secretly promised, but she didn't dare to speak out, so she could only follow silently all the way to Suzhou, and by coincidence, she was rescued by Tang Fan again.
Is it really in the dark, fate is determined
If I can follow Tang Fan back to Beijing...
Thinking of this, Xiao Wu's pretty face became more and more red, and even her footsteps couldn't help but become a little messy.
After Xiao Wu closed the door and walked away, Tang Fan stretched out, and the smile still didn't fade from his face.
"Di Han, are you still outside?"
A voice came from outside: "The subordinate is here."
Tang Fan said, "Come in."
Di Han pushed open the door and entered, and heard Tang Fan say, "I'm a little tired, go and get me some foot-washing water."
Dihan: "..."
Tang Fan couldn't wait for his answer, so he raised his eyes slightly: "Why? Don't want to? Then I'll let Xue Qianhu replace him."
Di Han: "My subordinates will go now."
He turned around and went out, and sure enough, he quickly drew a basin of water, placed it at Tang Fan's feet, and reached out to grab Tang Fan's trousers.
Tang Fan coughed: "No need, I'll do it myself, you sit down, I have something to ask you."
Di Han ignored his refusal, he couldn't see his expression clearly through the whiskers on his face, but his voice was very sincere: "Since this subordinate is with the lord, he should serve everything thoughtfully, otherwise, if the lord goes to Xue Qianhu to sue , the subordinates are about to leave without finishing their food, and please ask the adults to give the subordinates a chance."
Before Tang Fan refused, he had already rolled up Tang Fan's trousers, touched the water with both hands, and patted the other person's instep lightly, until the other side got used to the water temperature, then he lifted his feet and put them in the water. .
Tang Fan is a man after all, and his feet can't be described as delicate, but he is fair and slender, his bones are well-proportioned and not thin, and he is just right beautiful.
When Di Han was holding these feet, he also noticed that there were thin calluses on the soles of his feet.
Civil servants have sedan chairs and carriages when they go out, and they can't walk a few miles on weekdays. Where did the cocoons come from
Tang Fan seemed to see his doubts, and said leisurely, "Did you forget that before becoming a jinshi, I spent a few years traveling all over the country.
Di Han lowered his head to help him wash his feet: "Your Excellency may have forgotten something. You didn't tell your subordinates about this, so why did your subordinates forget?"
Tang Fan snorted: "That may be because I confused you with others, but then again, you just broke in without notice, what's the crime?"
Di Han said: "My subordinates are just worried about the danger of adults."
Tang Fan laughed: "I think you got carried away when you saw the stunning beauty, do you want to take the opportunity to take a few more glances?"
Di Han was silent for a moment: "Sir, that woman has another origin and is not a simple person."
Tang Fan shook his head: "I might as well tell you, I've already taken a fancy to that woman, and I'm going to accept her soon, it's better if you don't hit her, this official won't give in... Oh, you use that With such a big effort, this official's ankle is about to be broken by you!"
Di Han released his hand and saw that there was indeed a red mark on it.
He stretched out his hand and rubbed the other person away: "... This subordinate didn't do it on purpose."
Tang Fan retracted his feet, wiped his handkerchief clean, and waved his hand as if chasing flies: "It's alright, alright, just go out, don't disturb my sleep!"
Before he could finish speaking, he was thrown backwards on the bed!
Tang Fan angrily said, "What are you doing!"
The two of them had eyes on each other, and the tips of their noses almost touched, so close that they could even feel the heat of each other's exhalation.
Di Han said slowly: "Forgive your subordinate's abruptness."
Even so, he still had no intention of getting up.
Di Han stared at him and said word by word: "The woman has ulterior motives, please don't let her be deceived."
Tang Fan laughed out loud: "Isn't she Chen Luan's concubine? I don't mind, what's the deception!"
Di Han was stunned: "You know?"
Tang Fan said leisurely: "You think I can only rely on you Jinyiwei for my source of information, and you dare to come to Yangzhou without knowing anything? That's too much to look down on me!"
Di Han: "How did you know?"
Tang Fan: "How long are you going to hold me down?"
Di Han: "...Sorry."
He gave Tang Fan a deep look, and finally got up and let go of him.
Tang Fan snorted slightly and raised his chin: "Go, take out the foot-washing water, this official is going to rest."
Di Han: "...Please ask the adults to explain the confusion to the subordinates."
Tang Fan wondered, "Are you begging me?"
Di Han said in a low voice, "Yes, this subordinate asks the adults to clarify the subordinate's confusion."
Tang Fan was in a good mood: "For the sake of your sincerity, I will tell you with great compassion. As early as the second time I met her on the streets of Suzhou, I suspected her."
Facing Di Han's slightly puzzled eyes, Tang Fan added: "Know yourself and the enemy, and predict the enemy's opportunities, so that you will be safe in a hundred battles. Before leaving Beijing, I asked Wang Zhi to help me investigate Hu Wenzao and Chen Luan. Regarding Chen Luan, Wang Zhi is very special. He told me one thing, he has an extremely beautiful concubine, very few people he has seen, but as long as he has seen it, he is all overwhelmed by her beauty, and his concubine was born in a thin horse in Yangzhou. ."
Tang Fan: "There are many beautiful women in this world, but they are as thrilling as Xiao Wu. After all, the appearance of the country and the city is rare, even if it is not one in a thousand miles, at least it should be one in a thousand miles, and this official is not absent. I have seen such a stunner in the world, such a stunning beauty appeared casually from outside the city of Yangzhou. Don't I have any doubts in my heart? And you just said that her origin is not simple, Chen Luan He is sending money and beauty to me. If this beauty is not something he is familiar and valued, I am afraid that he will not be relieved! So this Xiao Wu is probably Chen Luan's concubine?"
Di Han nodded: "So the lord is going to do the trick, and want her to be fooled by the beauty of the lord, is it fake?"
If Tang Fan had a sip of water in his mouth now, he would definitely spit it out: "My lord, I have no beauty, and it's not her who I want to confuse!"
Di Han was puzzled.
Tang Fan sighed: "It is said that Chen Luan's concubine is 'Rong Shuyan, intelligent in nature, proficient in documents, and exquisite in mind', so Chen Luan is very fond of her, and even built a special house for her. A woman, he is willing to let the other party play beauty tricks on me, and he looks down on me very much! After I really fall asleep to Xiao Wu, I am afraid that it will really be like the other party's intention, and I will not be able to wash it if I jump into the Yellow River! Maybe Under the beauties, I even lost my ambition, so I can only shake hands with Chen Luan and become one of them."
As he talked, he himself felt amused: "But then I will sleep with Chen Luan with a beautiful woman, and I don't know if Chen Luan will be upset, or just give me the beauty?"
Seeing that the more he said, the more unreasonable, Di Han couldn't help but say: "Your Excellency, do you want Chen Luan to mistakenly think that you have fallen for his trick?"
Tang Fan shook his head and showed a cunning smile: "I want Chen Luan to think that after Xiao Wu came to me, he gradually fell in love with me, and even meant to betray him!"
Di Han's expression changed.
Tang Fan continued with a smile: "They can use beauty tricks, can't I use counter tricks? Xiao Wu is so important to Chen Luan, and she can be sent by him to do this kind of thing, which shows that she must have a lot of things about Chen Luan. As far as I know, maybe you even know where the real grain book is hidden. If Chen Luan feels that she has betrayed herself and turned to me, what do you think he will do?"
Di Han slowly spit out a few words: "The dog jumps over the wall and kills the mouth!"
Tang Fan nodded: "Yes, at that time, even if Xiao Wu didn't have the heart to betray Chen Luan, he would force him to surrender to me!"
What a wonderful countermeasure!
Doubt within doubt is compared with self, not self loss.
Di Han raised his eyebrows high, his expression unpredictable under his beard, but judging from the inexplicable brilliance in his eyes, he clearly agreed with Tang Fan's strategy.
Tang Fan shoved the tub towards him with bare feet: "I've finished listening to the story, don't get out, this official is going to bed, didn't you hear?"
Di Han silently bent down and picked up the wooden basin: "Please rest in peace, my subordinates will be vigil outside."
Just before he left to close the door, Tang Fan's joking voice suddenly came from behind him: "Next time you want to change your identity, remember to go and learn from Daochang Li first, Brother Guangchuan."
Dihan: "..."
The next morning, Tang Fan walked out of the room refreshed and smiled at him with Xiao Wu already sitting outside.
There are various Su-style desserts on the table next to them, which are small and exquisite and very cute.
Di Han, who was supposed to be outside, didn't know where to go.
Tang Fan smiled and said, "A-Wu, why did you get up so early?"
Xiao Wu covered her mouth and smiled: "It's getting late, it's almost going to be three poles in the sun. I used to make breakfast once, and I did it again when I saw that you haven't gotten up yet."
Tang Fan was moved: "Why do you have to do it yourself, this official post has its own cook!"
Xiao Wu blushed: "My lord is sincere, I, I also want to repay with sincerity."
Tang Fan sighed secretly, this woman's acting is really unusual, with such beauty and scheming, it's no wonder that Chen Luan values love and does not hesitate to hide in a golden house.
The beauty plan also needs to be graded. To be able to get such a beauty to seduce with beauty shows how much Chen Luan attaches importance to Tang Fan.
Tang Fan is deeply honored.
It's a pity that the other party's good intentions are destined to be let down.
Seeing Tang Fan staring at her all the time, Xiao Wu's cheeks couldn't help but get slightly hot, and she sneered softly, "Sir..."
Tang Fan regained his senses, sat down with a smile, picked up a small piece of golden steamed bun and put it in his mouth.
She didn't eat the supper Xiao Wu made last night because she was afraid that she would take the opportunity to add some drugs or something to bring herself down, and then create an established fact and throw dirty water on herself.
Now that it's daylight, even if Xiao Wu wants to do it, she knows it's not a good time.
"There's still stuffing in here?" Tang Fan said in surprise.
"It's a cherry." Xiao Wu asked with a smile, "Is it delicious?"
Tang Fan nodded: "It's delicious, it's delicious, and the craftsmanship is better than my sister's. If you come back to Beijing with me, I'll always have a good time in the future."
Xiao Wu smiled and lowered her head, as if she was shy.
Tang Fan held her Rou Yi: "A-Wu, you look so clean on your head, I'll take you to the street to buy some jewelry today."
Xiao Wu was puzzled: "Aren't you going to investigate Chen Luan?"
Tang Fan gave her a mysterious smile: "To tell you the truth, I have actually found the key evidence to bring him down."
Xiao Wu snorted: "What evidence?"
But Tang Fan changed the subject: "Stop talking about such boring things, and you're not interested, let's go, I'll take you out to play after we finish breakfast. The last time Chen Luan gave me 10,000 taels , I haven't touched it yet, I can give you several sets of good heads!"
Xiao Wu was surprised: "Yes, but you took Chen Luan's money, and you still want to impeach him?"
Tang Fan didn't care: "You don't understand, it's called black eating black!"
Xiao Wu: "..."
The author has something to say:
small theater:
If there is qq—
Tang Fan: Your Majesty, Chen Luan, Yang Ji, and Hu Wenzao colluded to embezzle official food and deceive the king!
Emperor: [automatic reply] I am comforting the concubine, I have something to leave a message, but I will not necessarily reply to you. (Click here to stop reminding)
Tang Fan: Your Majesty, I met an old immortal in Suzhou. He gave me a recipe. It is said that if I eat it, I can live to eighty-eight, with a face like a child, and my body is strong. His Majesty.
Emperor: Great!
Tang Fan: Your Majesty, you are here, that's great! Chen Luan, Yang Ji, and Hu Wenzao colluded to embezzle official food and deceive the emperor. The minister took pictures of the victims outside the city, and now I send them to you.
You sent Zhu Jianshen a picture.
Emperor: [automatic reply] I am comforting the concubine, I have something to leave a message, but I will not necessarily reply to you. (Click here to stop reminding)
Tang Fan: …
Master Tang's voice: You are numb! ! (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻
In addition, Mengmeng is curious, how much is 5,000 stone meters worth
Then let's estimate.
During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, that is, 100 years later, the market value of 1 tael of silver can buy about 2 stone meters.
Then according to this price, 5,000 stone is about 2,500 taels of silver.
But note that this is the usual price.
There was a famine in Wujiang at that time, and the supply of rice was in short supply. If Chen Luan raised the price of grain by 10 times and sold it to a grain merchant, then he could earn 25,000 taels of silver for 5,000 shi of rice, and this was still a pure profit, because Chen Luan took Official food itself is free of cost!
As for how many times the price was raised when the grain merchant changed hands and sold it again, this money is not included in Chen Luan's hands, so let's leave it alone.
So in this 2w5, apart from those who honored Dongchang, those who honored their uncles, and those who shared the spoils with Hu Wenzao and Yang Ji, all the rest belonged to Chen Luan.
In addition to the usual corruption, Wujiang has always been a place of wealth, a land of fish and rice, and Chen Luan's position is a fat poor. As a local emperor, he can put out 10000000 to block Tang Fan's mouth, and buy his own safety by the way, it is very easy , and very cost-effective.
Then the article said that Wujiang County turned over more than 10,000 stone of grain, which was estimated based on the annual tax and grain of the Ming Dynasty. I will not go into details, because many Mengmeng must be not interested in these boring calculations.