Thought

"Master Xue?" When Han Tao saw Xue Yi coming back from the outside, he warmly greeted him, "It's hard work for you to go out to work in this cold weather."

Serving tea and pouring water again, they are extremely attentive.

Xue Yi accepted all the orders, and turned Han Tao around. Sometimes he was hungry, sometimes the tea was too hot, and finally he disliked Han Tao being an eyesore in front of him.

It made Han Tao feel angry, knocked the teacup on the table with a duang sound, and glared at Xue Yi angrily, "Well, Xue Yi, you actually used me as a servant, are you not guilty?"

"Of course the Lord Ben is not guilty." Xue Yi slowly took the tea brought by the maid, and glanced at Han Tao unhurriedly, "After all, it is not the Lord Ben who asks for someone."

Han Tao's face tightened, "Then I don't know what the Lord Hou has gained?"

"Even if there is something to be gained, why did the Marquis tell you?" Xue Yi looked at Han Tao with teasing eyes, "After all, he is disobedient and has no attitude of begging for help."

Han Tao was able to bend and stretch, took the hand warmer from the servant girl's hand, and put it in Xue Yi's arms, "Your Excellency doesn't count the faults of villains, have you found any traces of Brother Wood?"

"Disappeared at the entrance of the village." Without hanging on to Han Tao, Xue Yi directly told the result, "The dental shop in the east of the county knows it! They did it, but they bought people away through serious means. "

"What?" Han Tao looked at Xue Yi in surprise, "Didn't he be taken away by someone? But Mu Mu clearly said he was taken away by someone, and there are still signs of struggle at the entrance of the village."

Xue Yi stroked his chin, "Ask me to guess, is that brother Mumu disabled? Or lazy? Or has a stepmother? Or..."

Looking at Han Tao's shocked gaze, Xue Yi confirmed her own thoughts, "It seems that I guessed right. Does the stepmother have a good reputation, and she is not harsh on this kid left behind, and even has a lot of leniency."

Han Tao is not really stupid, he also reflected it at this time, "You mean that the stepmother has been pretending to wait for an opportunity to sell her? Then she pretended to be distraught and avoided other people's attention. Doubt?" The more Han Tao said, the more he felt that what he said was the truth.

"Maybe she is pregnant, and I knew it was a boy from the doctor in advance." Xue Yi did not hesitate to speculate on other people's thoughts with the greatest malice.

Han Tao jumped up immediately, and slapped the table angrily, "There are such vicious people? It's shocking."

Mu Nian, who came in from the outside, happened to hear what Han Tao said. Hearing this, he cast curious eyes on Xue Yi, "What happened?"

Xue Yi stuffed the hand warmer in Mu Nian's arms, "Didn't Han Tao ask me for something?"

"Oh yes, what happened to the result? So much excitement?" Mu Nian thought of it, and naturally held Xue Yi's hand warmer in his arms.

Seeing this, Xue Yi smiled, and didn't say much. Someone should want to talk.

Sure enough, when Han Tao saw Mu Nian asking, he came up and clattered the matter completely, and finally looked at Mu Nian with righteous indignation, "How can there be such a treacherous person in the world who has pretended for many years without showing any traces?" .”

Mu Nian didn't know what to say, this stepmother really would bear it, such people are rare in the countryside, but it doesn't mean there are none.But seeing Han Tao's expression of sympathy, he agreed, "It's really infuriating."

With Mu Nian's approval, the anger in Han Tao's heart rose instead of falling, "No, I must expose this vicious stepmother's mind."

"What about after the dismantling?" Xue Yi said coolly, "Relying on the golden lump in her stomach, the stepmother cried a few more times, explaining that she was just pregnant, her mind was in a trance, and she thought wrong for a while, so she did something wrong... ..."

"Guess, will the stepmother's son be divorced? How will the son who has been rediscovered continue to live at home?" Xue Xueyi fiddled with the tea in his hand and said casually, "And it also takes up The position of the elders."

This kind of thing can't be solved in modern times, let alone the word "filial piety" in ancient times.

Han Tao suddenly looked at Xue Yi, even though Xue Yi didn't look at him, Han Tao felt that Xue Yi's eyes were like the cold winter wind, piercing his whole body and making him chill.

"Then let the stepmother run amok?" Han Tao sat down on the chair.

Mu Nian looked at Han Tao's distraught look, and comforted him, "It's not impossible. It's just..."

"Just what?" Han Tao looked at Mu Nian's bright eyes, feeling that the precarious morality was about to be pulled back from the cliff.

"How to choose the brothers who look at the wood?" Mu Nian said his thoughts one by one, "Separate the family, separate from the stepmother's eyes, and retreat to win the sympathy of his father and elders. Adoption If you become someone else's family, naturally you won't get in the way of your stepmother."

After Han Tao considered the two methods carefully, "Why are they all at a loss? The evil stepmother has nothing to do, she can get away with it."

"There is only a thousand days to be a thief, there is no reason to guard against a thief for a thousand days." Xue Yi sneered, breaking Han Tao's beautiful fantasy, "What's more, it is difficult to guard against a family thief by day and night."

After a long while, Han Tao sighed, "Did Hou Ye save the man?"

Xue Yi stretched out his hand and put it in front of Han Tao, palm up.

"What... what do you mean?", Han Tao was confused by Xue Yi's hand, didn't he mean to get people out?He said tentatively, "Master Hou's hands are broad and powerful, as white as jade..."

Xue Yi remained unmoved, his palm still placed in front of Han Tao.

Han Tao turned his eyes to Mu Nian for help, and Mu Nian pursed his lips and smiled, "If you want someone from a regular person, you can only buy it with real money."

"..." Han Tao choked speechlessly, "Can you still be short of money as a dignified Marquis?"

Xue Yi looked at Han Tao with caring and mentally handicapped eyes, "I am a dignified lord, so I don't need such a little money, but why should I waste it for nothing?"

Han Tao looked at Xue Yi, looked at Mu Nian, took out two bank notes from his arms with hatred, and threw them at Xue Yi very angrily, "It's not short of this money."

"Heh." Xue Yi grabbed the banknote, turned around and handed it to the maid beside him, "Your reward."

Mu Nian glanced helplessly at Xue Yi, who was intentionally angry at Han Tao, and nodded to the maid who was terrified and joyful, "Since it's Master Hou rewarding you, just accept it."

Only then did the maid put away the banknote, "Thank you, Lord Hou, thank you, Young Master Mu."

He ignored Han Tao who threw out the banknote, and Han Tao's inflated self-confidence collapsed in an instant, especially when he saw Xue Yi and Mu Nianfu singing Husui, Mu Nian looked like the mistress of the house, and his heart was full!

"I've given you the money, when will someone give it to me?" Han Tao began to ask for someone. Compared with the matter of Brother Mu Mu, it was not a bad thing.

Xue Yi didn't care either, "He's just outside, go find it yourself!"

Han Tao got up and left, he couldn't stay in this place anymore.

"Master, County Magistrate Sun, please see me." As soon as Han Tao left, Xu Xu walked in, "He's already at the door."

Xue Yi thought for a while, "Everyone is already at the door, so it's not easy to stop them, let them in!"

Mu Nian turned to look over, Xue Yi nodded.

The two waited tacitly for someone to come in.

"The next official sees Lord Hou."

Xue Yi raised his hand, "Sit down!"

Sun Pu sat down, "I came to see Lord Hou today to thank Lord Hou for his care during the Mid-Autumn Festival that day, and to let the relatives of the subordinate officials escape from danger. Thank you Lord Hou for your help."

"You didn't come to my place just to thank me in person, did you?" Xue Yi broke the subject straightforwardly, waiting for Sun Pu to reveal his purpose.

Seeing Xue Yi being so straightforward, Sun Pu glanced at the maids and servants around him, and saw that they had lowered their eyebrows and were pleasing to the eye.So without further ado, he directly informed him of today's purpose, "I heard from the lower officials that Lord Hou is investigating the dental practice in the county."

"Are you interested?" Xue Yi asked back.

Sun Pu nodded, "Your Majesty doesn't know something. I looked through the past records of Xuchuan County, and found that young men or teenagers often disappeared in the county."

"Tracking and tracing found the dental shop, and accidentally discovered that Lord Hou was also investigating the dental shop. I was afraid of disturbing Lord Hou's plan, so I came here to ask Lord Hou for advice." Sun Pu said with a humble face.

Xue Yi glanced at Sun Pu with an ambiguous gaze, and suddenly sneered, "Why, did the slave bully the master?"

"Your Majesty was joking." Sun Pu was calm, without the slightest embarrassment of being torn apart, and he spoke mellowly without leaving any excuses, "The size of the county magistrate is also registered by the imperial court, and he has a high grade."

Xue Yi responded, noncommittal to Sun Pu's words, "Why, the county magistrate didn't come, why didn't even a master book, Dianshi follow you to ask for advice?"

"The master is in awe of Lord Hou's majesty, and was afraid of offending you, so the subordinate officials decided to ask him to stay in the Yamen." Sun Pu bowed his hands and never mentioned the history of the classics. "I hope Lord Hou knows what the master wants. Don't take the blame."

Xue Yi said "Hmm", "I don't want to be an unknown person. Let's start by talking about what kind of advice you want to ask for."

"I don't know if Hou Ye is useful for going up and down, and the next official should do his best and do his best." Sun Pu will express his sincerity immediately.

Xue Yi smiled, "I hope what you do is as beautiful as what you said today."

"Master Hou is absurd."

"The small Xuchuan county government office is divided into several waves. There are long-established magistrates, neutral magistrates, and newly arrived county magistrates, plus weeds, tsk." Xue Yi was deeply moved. .

Mu Nian, who was acting as the background board, watched Sun Pu leave, and smiled slightly when he heard Xue Yi's words. If Xue Yi didn't want him to know, Xue Yi's investigation of the dental practice would never have fallen into his ears. Now come to the door It meant that he saw what Xue Yi meant. "Good-natured, smart and forbearing.",

"A strong dragon doesn't overwhelm a local snake." The smile in Xue Yi's eyes deepened, "I don't want the county magistrate to interfere with Xuchuan County's rights, but it's nothing to say to lift people up on the grounds that they are familiar with Xuchuan Town's classic copywriting .”

"What's more, he doesn't have any background behind him, and his wife is also the former mentor, the daughter of a down-and-out scholar. No matter how much talent he has, he can only make a wedding dress for others, otherwise he won't be occupied by others, and he will end up as a seventh-rank in Xuchuan Town. magistrate."

Mu Nian glanced at Xue Yi, "How long have you been looking at him?"

"It won't be long. If he doesn't come today, there will be no future." Xue Yi narrowed his eyes slightly. Didn't Queen Zhaoren want Dayan to be overthrown?He is not.

The author has something to say:

Han Tao, talking about money hurts feelings!

Xue Yi, there is no love between us!