Zhong Niangzi Wanfu

Chapter 60 Qianming Village

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The emperor gave Shen Feng and his family three days to move out of Shen's house. Zhong Lan handled the situation appropriately and ordered the remaining maids and servants to pack their things in an orderly manner.

Most of the furnishings in Shen's house are gifts from the Heavenly Family and cannot be taken away. In addition to daily necessities, what needs to be taken away are the books in Shen Feng's study.

Zhong Lan was worried that he would take the initiative to clean up or mess up the original arrangement, so he let Shen Feng handle it by himself.

Shen Feng spoke a lot less and asked Jiang Liujiangchuan to help Zhong Lan move the large objects. He tidied it up alone in the study, and half a day later he packed up a camphor wood box.

"Do you want to keep the rest?" Zhong Lan looked at the rest of the documents piled up on the case and estimated that there were hundreds of volumes.

"Burn it." Shen Feng said with a smile, "Some of the sacred policies involving the imperial study must not be left behind."

"The rest is the strategy I wrote. There is no need to keep it."

Zhong Lan looked at Shen Feng, who was much thinner and looked tired, and nodded: "That's fine."

Shen Feng only took away a box of books that he brought with him when he entered the royal capital. The remaining hundreds of volumes of documents he had written for half a year as an official were all burned.

The monstrous flames reflected in Shen Yan's eyes, and he stood indifferently, as if he was watching his ridiculous self being roasted.

After personal verification by Tang Zheng, the left commander of the Yulin Army, Shen Feng and Zhong Lan spent their last night in Shen's house.

The two of them sat in the courtyard and looked up at the stars in the sky.

It is no longer the coolness of summer and autumn. Early winter is approaching, and the evening wind is a bit cold.

Chang Huan boiled water, poured hot tea for the two masters, and stood aside silently to wait.

"My father, mother, Wen Shu, and Wen Yi had someone give them their banknotes, but they were blocked by the imperial guards." Zhong Lan said, holding a cup of tea and warming his hands.

"I spent some money and only got their letters." Zhong Lai handed the letter to Shen Feng, "I told my parents that they are not afraid of being implicated and let us go home."

After Shen Feng read the letter, he put it dejectedly on the stone table aside: "We can't go back."

"I let people pass a message to reassure them." Zhong Yan stroked Shen Yan's cold hand.

"Now that I am deliberately targeting me, you will also be implicated." Shen Feng looked intently at the wisps of steam coming out of the tea cup and laughed to himself.

"What does it mean to be involved? It's not a big deal." Zhong Lan was anxious and held Shen Feng's hand tightly. "Who in this world can have smooth sailing when they become an official? Even the current Prime Minister has been in prison. "

"Your Majesty is just your official, and has not yet implicated your parents and Wen's family. It is meaningless for you to be so decadent. It will only make your parents, Wen Yi Wenshu and me worry about you; let those who say you are rampant laugh at you secretly. "

"Do you still remember how proud you were when you first arrived in the royal capital? You also said that you would earn your life for me. Not to mention those things that you have and don't have, I just look at your decadent look these days and it makes me feel bad. I don't I beg you to be successful and famous, I just ask you to be good now and help me find a way out for this family."

The embarrassment and worry that Zhong Lan had been holding back in his heart for the past few days suddenly burst out.

The gradually red circles in her eyes hurt Shen Feng's heart, and he began to feel at a loss: "I, I just feel guilty."

"There's nothing to feel guilty about," Zhong Lan wiped his tears with a handkerchief, "Marry a chicken, follow the chicken, marry a dog, follow the dog, no matter what you do, I will accept it."

Looking at Zhong Yan's tough eyes, Shen Yan came back to his senses, lowered his head and held her hand, put it to his mouth and breathed warmly: "It's all my fault, I've made you worry these days. I don't It will be like this.”

Zhong Lan gasped and her face turned pale from the cold. Shen Feng hugged her, and the two hugged each other tightly in the cold wind to keep each other warm.

Zhong Lan's eyes fell on a red spot in the corner, and he pulled Shen Feng up and walked over.

Seeing clearly that the red color was actually a plum branch, Zhong Lan suddenly realized: "When Chang Huan went out to buy vegetables, the vegetable vendor couldn't find any change, so he paid the change with a plum branch he grew at home. I didn't have high hopes. I asked Chang Huan to stick it in the corner, but I didn't expect it to survive."

Shen Feng looked at the plum blossoms blooming in the cold weather without saying a word, and held Zhong Lan's hand tightly with her warmed hand.

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Early the next morning, Zhong Lan and Shen Feng packed up their clothes and loaded the packed boxes onto the carriage.

"Where's Miss Rong?" Zhong Lan couldn't help but ask as he hadn't seen Miss Rong for three days.

"I searched around but couldn't find Miss Rong." Chang Huan was also surprised.

Zhong Lan's heart twitched and he quickly grabbed Chang Huan: "Are the things in the backyard still there?"

Upon hearing this, Chang Huan hurriedly ran into the backyard and reported soon after: "Girl, forgive me! The backyard has been emptied. We have few people these days and have been busy organizing things in the front yard. There are no belongings of ours in the backyard." , so I didn’t pay attention.”

Zhong Lan was stunned. He was in a hurry to pack his things these days and didn't pay attention to Rong Niang's movements.Taking away the royal furnishings in the backyard privately was a capital crime, so it was impossible for Rong Niang not to know.Therefore, this was a premeditated escape, and she must have been ordered by those who followed her.

Sure enough, the internal official who came to search the house led people to inspect the house inside and outside, and found that there were missing furnishings in the backyard of the house. He also unreasonably searched the luggage of Shen Feng and the others, but still couldn't find it.The internal official said arrogantly: "The furnishings in the royal residence are equivalent to royal gifts. It is a capital crime to take the royal gifts privately. Mr. Shen, please don't bring trouble on yourself. It's better to hand them over as soon as possible. It will be easier for us."

Shen Feng gave a faint salute: "When the internal official came to search the house, he took inventory of the entire house. It was complete at that time. Now, except for the servants who were dismissed two days ago, none of us have left the house. Now you have also searched There is no trace of the royal gift in my luggage. Doesn’t this prove that the theft of the royal gift has nothing to do with us? Your Excellency is not in a hurry to track down those servants, so why do you come to me to ask for it?"

When the official heard this, he gritted his teeth and said: "Ms. Shen is really good at talking. Who can say that those servants were not bribed by Mr. Shen a long time ago? Now the furnishings in the mansion were lost in the hands of Mr. Shen. If Mr. Shen cannot hand over the furnishings, , so I feel sorry for you and go to Dali Temple."

Shen Yan wanted to argue when he heard the words, but was stopped by Zhong Yan.

Zhong Lan saw the calculation in the eyes of the internal officials and said softly: "If Dali Temple is alerted, it will be difficult for you, sir. We can pay you money as compensation, and Sir Lao will buy some similar furnishings for us to make up for it. Wanwang Sir, hold your hand high."

The official heard what he wanted to hear, and his eyes narrowed with satisfaction: "This lady is still aware of current affairs. Since you asked our family, we will help you this time, so we should accumulate some good karma."

The furnishings in the backyard of the mansion were not worth much, but the internal officials paid ten times the amount.

Zhong Lan saved some money and paid it to the official, and then they were able to escape.

"You can't argue, do you want to go to jail?" Seeing the indignation in Shen Feng's eyes, Zhong Lan couldn't help asking softly, and then sighed, "Money and money are the things outside of us, we come in vain and leave in vain."

The hands in Shen Feng's sleeves clenched tightly into fists, and she had no choice but to let it go.

Seeing with his own eyes that the plaque on Shen's mansion was taken down and the door was sealed again, Zhong Lan pulled Shen Feng into the carriage.

The carriage quietly drove out of the alley.

"Girl, where are we going?" Chang Huan felt uneasy, but pretended to be lighthearted.

The emperor almost cut off Shen Feng's escape route, and Zhong Lan didn't know where to go: "Just go..."

"I know where Madam Zhong should go." A familiar voice sounded.

Zhong Lan opened the car curtain and was startled when he saw the person coming: "Ms. Pan?"

Mrs. Pan in the sedan chair smiled lightly: "If Madam Zhong and Mr. Shen don't have a place to stay, please come with me."

"But today's will is..."

"Ms. Zhong." Pan made a gesture of silence and smiled.

Zhong Lan was even more surprised, but now that he had nowhere to go, he could only order Jiang Liu to drive and follow Zhang's sedan.

Pan took a few people all the way out of the city and arrived at a small village at the foot of Phoenix Mountain.

The small village is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and is quiet and quiet. It is a quiet and secret place.

Pan's sedan and Shen's carriage drove all the way to a small courtyard in the west of the village.

At Pan's signal, Zhong Lan and Shen Feng got out of the car.

Seeing that the two of them were full of doubts, Mrs. Pan smiled and said: "This village is called Qianming Village. The villagers are kind and the folk customs are simple. I just rented this yard a few days ago. It is a bit frugal. If you don't mind it, you can stay here first." it's here."

Zhong Lan was startled: "How dare you do this?"

"Wen Shu asked me to come here." Pan pursed her lips and smiled, "You are all good children, so what if I help you?"

"But today..."

"The realm here is hidden, and ordinary people will not come here. Moreover, His Majesty is a holy king and cannot be too strict in his actions. He will not kill Xianggong Shen." Pan smiled at Shen Feng and pushed Zhong Lai away. Courtyard gate.

Several people walked around the inside and outside of the courtyard house. In addition to the four bedrooms, there were two empty rooms in the courtyard. The rest of the kitchens were equipped with cooking utensils, cooking oil, smoke, firewood, rice, and daily necessities.

"My wife is so kind to me, and I and I can't repay you..." Zhong Lan and Shen Feng were about to salute.

Mrs. Pan supported the two of them and said, "I am not doing this entirely for good deeds. This village is actually the village of the Feng family. The Feng family has been absent from the royal capital for a long time, so this village has been entrusted to the Zhang family to take care of the food. The children in the village are naughty and lack of For education, I need a school teacher to restrain and discipline me, and the chief security officer has approached me many times about this matter."

After saying that, Mrs. Pan smiled and looked at Shen Feng: "I wonder if Mr. Shen is willing to teach children? Of course, the villagers will naturally hand over the teachings for Mr. Shen."

There is nothing better than teaching and educating people while making a living. This is the way Pan found for Shen Feng and Zhong Lan.

Shen Feng understood this and quickly agreed: "Thank you, madam."

"Mr. Shen, you are polite." Madam Pan waved her hand, and helped put away the items with others. She also bought a lot of food and utensils for the two of them, and took them away when it was dark.

(End of this chapter)