Concubine

Chapter 232
After the arrangements were made, Yang Qiuchi discovered that Madam Bai had arranged all the male servants out of the inner yamen, to be responsible for the chores in the entire yamen outside, and to live and eat with the Jinyiwei guards.And the inner yamen, the cooks, etc. are all women, so Yang Qiuchi is the only man in the whole inner yamen.

Haha, Yang Qiuchi thought, wouldn't he be the emperor in the palace? It's interesting.

After setting up, Hong Ling personally cooks and prepares for tonight's banquet.With the help of mothers and cooks, it will be much easier.

Yang Qiuchi took Qin Zhihui and a group of girls to look around the inner office. Although this inner office was far inferior to his new home in Wuchang Mansion, the high walls and green tiles made it more solemn.

After inspecting the inner yamen, just returned to the living room to rest when the newly appointed female concierge Zhang Ma ran in to report that the gentry in the county had come to congratulate her.

Yang Qiuchi hurried out of the inner office to go to the flower room in the front hall, which is a special place for meeting distinguished guests.Of course, as soon as Yang Qiuchi left the inner office, Chang Fu followed the squad leader, and the six-man guard led by Nan Gongxiong followed closely.

When I came to the greenhouse, there were already more than a dozen squires with fame and status in the county sitting in it.Chang Fu ran in first, and sang loudly: "Master Yang, the county magistrate, is here ~ welcome!"

All the gentry bowed to meet them.Yang Qiuchi took a seat on the main seat in the middle.These country gentry came forward to congratulate Yang Qiuchi one by one, and gave their own greeting gifts.

Chang Fu introduced Yang Qiuchi one by one.

After the meeting, after exchanging pleasantries for a while, Yang Qiuchi served tea to see off the guests.

It was already evening when the squires were sent away and returned to the inner office.Hong Ling had already prepared the meals and set up a large table.

After a busy day, I'm really hungry.Of course Yang Qiuchi was seated at the head. Qin Zhihui, Song Qing, Bai Sumei, Mrs. Bai, Song Yuner, Hongling, Yuechan, Huier and the seven sisters Keer sat at a table full.

Yang Qiuchi didn't wait for them to sit down, picked up a piece of food with chopsticks and put it in his mouth, squinted his eyes, smacked his lips, and sighed: "It's so delicious! We will have red silk in the future, You don’t have to worry about not having good food. Hehehe!”

Hong Ling's white and tender face was flushed with red clouds, she got up and gave a blessing: "Thank you, young master, for your compliment."

Yang Qiuchi raised his wine glass with a smile and said: "Madam Bai, Zhihui, Qing'er, Sumei, Yuner, and all the little sisters, it is a rare fate for us to be able to gather together today. Come, let me toast you all." !"

All the girls smiled and brought wine glasses in return, and they all did it together.

Then, everyone started toasting each other while eating. Hongling and the seven Ke'er sisters saw that Mr. Yang was so easy-going, so they stopped being restrained and toasted Yang Qiuchi one by one.Yang Qiuchi never refuses anyone who comes, and drinks until the glass is drained.

After drinking happily, Song Yun'er proposed drinking orders again. Of course Yang Qiuchi agreed wholeheartedly, but Yang Qiuchi was still not very good at this ancient drinking order. .

Tonight is Song Qing's bedtime, Song Qing and the little girl Hong Ling, one on each side, carried Yang Qiuchi, who was dizzy from drinking, back to the bedroom.

Although Hong Ling also drank a lot of wine, she knew very well in her heart that she was a servant after all, and she would get drunk before her master was not drunk, so she slyly stepped on fake water, drank less and was still relatively sober.Hong Ling waited for Yang Qiuchi and Song Qing to wash their feet, take off their clothes and go to bed, and then she went back to the outside room to rest.

When Yang Qiuchi woke up, the room was dark and cold, and he felt thirsty after being drunk, so he called out "Yuechan~!"

Song Qing next to her was disturbed in her dream, but she didn't wake up, she turned over and fell asleep.

Yang Qiuchi's head cleared up a little bit, and he remembered that Song Qing's personal maid was Hong Ling and not Yue Chan, and was about to change his mind when Hong Ling came in wearing a small dress and carrying a small lantern: "Master, Hong Ling is here , what do you want?"

"Water, I want to drink clear water, not tea!" Yang Qiuchi stuck his head out from the bed curtain, and said with sleepy eyes, he likes to drink water when he is drunk, and he would turn his stomach when drinking tea at this time.

"Okay!" Hong Ling ran out of the room, and after a while, came in with a pot of water, put it on the table, poured a glass, and brought it to the bedside, "Master, here comes the water."

Yang Qiuchi took a sip of the drink, it was just warm, drank it dry in one gulp, and breathed a sigh of relief: "It's so refreshing!" Suddenly remembering how there is hot water in the middle of the night, he asked casually: "Hong Ling, is this hot water hot? Where did the water come from?"

Under the light of the red lanterns, Hong Ling's face was flushed, her expression was charming, and she said in a sweet voice: "Hong Ling thinks that the young master must be thirsty at night after drinking, and there is a small stove outside to warm it up." Water, drink hot water to warm your stomach when you are drunk, so I prepared hot water."

Yang Qiuchi's heart moved slightly, this little girl is really careful.

At this moment, Song Qing turned over again, put her bare hands like lotus root, and put her arms around Yang Qiuchi's waist.

Yang Qiuchi stuck out his tongue at Hong Ling, and retracted his head into the bed curtain.

Hong Ling heard Song Qing's movement, and quickly put the tea bowl on the table.He went back to the outer room with a pot and a lantern in his hand.

Yang Qiuchi lay down, and Song Qing said with a low smile, "What are you two talking about?"

The ghost had already woken up, fortunately he didn't do anything out of the ordinary, Yang Qiuchi was secretly thankful, and hugged her tightly with one hand.

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Sleeping in each other's arms, in a daze, Yang Qiuchi heard seven crisp sounds of cloud panels in the inner yamen, followed by the sound of clappers in the outer gate of the yamen, the passage gate, the instrument gate, and the gate. At the time, I already knew that this was called "Chuantou Bang", which was a signal for the yamen to start preparations, to wake up.

Yang Qiuchi didn't care about that, he hid his head under the quilt, put it in front of Song Qing's bed, and continued to sleep with his arms around her.

After being dazed for a while, I heard five more crackling sounds of the cloud panel on the door of the inner yamen's house, and another knock on the outside, which is "two bangs".Urge the chief to get up, wash and prepare to go to the signing room for work.The scribes must also all go to work at Dianmao.

Sleeping soundly, knocking and knocking, Yang Qiuchi was so angry that he wanted to scold his mother.After muttering a few times, she still fell asleep with her arms around Song Qing.

At this time, Hong Ling's voice came from outside the bed curtain: "Young master, wake up! Today is the day of the public hearing, and you are going to the court for questioning!"

Although these few words were soft, sweet and greasy, hearing the unspeakable benefit from Yang Qiuchi's ears, his head felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured into his head. day.How could I forget this piece of shit.

Yang Qiuchi quickly broke free from Song Qing's embrace, got up and got out of bed.Hong Ling took the official robe and served Yang Qiuchi to put it on.

Song Qing muttered, "Brother Qiuchi, why did you get up so early?"

Song Qing was used to sleeping in late along the way, and she couldn't turn the corner suddenly.

Yang Qiuchi said while putting on his clothes: "Qing'er, you sleep by yourself, I'm going to the hall to ask questions!"

"Hmm... huh?" Song Qing also came to her senses, quickly got up, and said embarrassedly: "How did I forget this... It's all because you poured me alcohol so hard last night, and didn't let me sleep late at night. "

Yang Qiuchi laughed and said, "It seems that you don't want me to sleep?"

Song Qing spat at him coquettishly, and quickly got up to put on her dress.

Yang Qiuchi and Song Qing came out after tidying up. Qin Zhihui, Song Yuner, Bai Sumei and their mother and daughter had already woken up. They all knew that today was Yang Qiuchi's first day in court, so they all got up early to cheer him on.

The girls accompanied Yang Qiuchi to finish their breakfast, and then they sent an order down to tell Mama Zhang in the inner yamen room to hit the cloud board three times, and "three bangs" in sequence from outside.It means that Mr. Yang is going to go to work in the inner yamen's house.Yang Qiuchi got up to leave, Song Yun'er said: "Brother, you are promoted to court for the first time today, do you want us to cheer you on in the back hall?"

"Joke!" Yang Qiuchi's face was serious, "I haven't seen anything in the world, what is this mere promotion? You can be honest and play as female celebrities in the inner yamen." In fact, he has never done this kind of promotion. I still had no idea, for fear that they would be embarrassed to hear that they had made a mistake and made a fool of themselves.

Song Yuner, Song Qing, Qin Zhihui, and Bai Sumei looked at each other and giggled.

Yang Qiuchi left the inner yamen, and six personal guards including Mr. Jin, the squad leader Sui Changfu and Nan Gongxiong were already waiting at the gate of the inner yamen.

Yang Qiuchi walked towards the lobby with square steps.

After passing through the second hall to the lobby, I heard the servants beating the drums, the drums were very powerful.Zaoli lined up on both sides of the hall and shouted "Sheng~tang~oh~!" in unison in a drawn-out tune.

Yang Qiuchi walked around the screen slowly, walked out of the back hall, entered the lobby, went to the Nuan Pavilion, and took a seat on the public seat.

The inside and outside of the lobby have been checked in detail by Jin Yiwei's guards.At this moment, Nan Gongxiong and other six personal guards stood behind Yang Qiuchi, and the other Jinyi guards stood guard in front of and around the lobby.

Yang Qiuchi raised his eyes and saw people kneeling on the ground in the courtyard outside the lobby, and there were also crowds of people in front of the distant screen wall, all black and full of heads.Everyone who dared to hear that the new county magistrate is going to be promoted to ask questions today, so they all came to watch the excitement.

Seeing so many people hearing the trial, Yang Qiuchi felt a little nervous. Fortunately, Mr. Jin had explained the specific procedure of the opening of the court to Yang Qiuchi in detail, and he made up his mind.

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