Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 128 The gift-giver is here

This day is the ten-day break of He Liu.Jinyiwei has a system, one day off every ten days, and there is no need to go to Fusi Dianmao in the South and North Towns during the ten-day break.

Taking advantage of the ten-day break, He Liu and his wife Bai Xiaoyan tossed until the time of the sign last night.It was three poles in the sun, and the two of them hadn't gotten up yet.Yanyan, who had no breakfast and was extremely hungry, climbed onto the couple's bed and pinched her father and mother's noses.The two of them woke up with sleepy eyes.

"Woooooo! Mom, you're bad, you're going to starve Xiangxiang to death!" Xiangxiang rolled into Bai Xiaoyan's arms coquettishly.

Bai Xiaoyan put her arms around Yanyan: "Where are Mrs. Wu and Mrs. Huang?"

Xiangxiang rubbed Bai Xiaoyan's face: "You forgot mother, didn't you let them go home yesterday!"

Mrs. Wu and Mrs. Huang lived in He Liu's small courtyard.Bai Xiaoyan knew that her husband would be off today, so he would definitely torment her last night.Afraid that the two mothers-in-law would not hear well, they sent them home for a day.

Bai Xiaoyan suddenly remembered something, and she said to He Liu: "Husband, there are too few rooms in our small courtyard, and we can't live in it even if we invite two servants. Why don't I find a decent three-entry courtyard these few days?" The house is bought, and our family will move there."

However, He Liu shook his head: "It's too ostentatious. Originally, those gossip officials looked down on Jin Yiwei. If I am a small household, if I live in a big house with three courtyards, wouldn't I be punished by those censors again?" The grievances of the officials? Maybe they will give the emperor another bullet to impeach me."

Bai Xiaoyan smiled and said: "Do you think you have been impeached by the censors? A while ago, I had a fight with the second lady of the Metropolitan Procuratorate's Lin Duyuan's family. Madam Lin said, 'Your old He has offended many people. The censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate all piled up his papers! It’s just that Yang Ming of the Metropolitan Court didn’t hand over the papers because Jin Yiwei was the emperor’s trusted servant, and all of them were kept unpublished.”

He Liu sighed: "Oh, those gossip officials, if you don't impeach someone for a day, it seems to be itchy all over your body."

Xiangxiang bit Bai Xiaoyan's wrist: "Huh, mother! If you don't get out of bed and cook for me, I will eat you!"

Bai Xiaoyan had no choice but to get out of bed with her clothes on.

He Liuye got up and washed his face.

Suddenly, the courtyard door was opened, and a military officer in a flying fish suit came in, followed by a civil servant, and dozens of guards.

He Liu didn't wipe his face, his eyes were wet, he couldn't see who it was.

"Heh, brother He, just got up? I'm afraid you were tired last night, right?" the civil official shouted.

As soon as he heard the loud voice, He Liu knew that Xiaoge's old Yan Shifan was coming.

He Liu quickly wiped his face and was about to salute Yan Shifan.Who would have thought that the military officer in the flying fish suit would kneel down to He Liu first with a plop: "Master Liu has the grace to recreate me! Please accept my worship!"

The military officer was Li Hu, the General Guard of Datong.

There are only three types of people in the world who can wear flying fish suits.Either it is more than a hundred households of Jinyiwei, or it is a civil servant above the second rank, or it is a marshal out of the town.

Li Hu had just been awarded the Sanguo General Sanjie, and he was already considered a commander in town on the Wusanjie, so he also wore a flying fish suit.

He Liu quickly helped Li Hu up: "What are you talking about! You are a dignified general of the country, a prince in the northwest. I am a small family, how can I receive such a big gift from you?"

Yan Shifan said from the side: "You can afford it! If you hadn't managed Zhao Jianzhi, Li Hu might have been beheaded by the emperor right now! Now that he has lost his fortune, the misfortune has replaced the blessing, and it is not because of your sixth son who is engrossed in handling the case, Give him an innocence?"

The Yan Party has been squeezed out by the Yuwang Party everywhere in the past few months.The emperor took several important local positions from the Yan Party and gave them to Yuwang Party members.He Liu investigated Zhao Jianzhi and made King Yu lose face in the court. Yan Song, Yan Shifan and his son were naturally grateful to him.

Yan Shifan reminded Li Hu: "Don't you have some gifts for the sixth child?"

Li Hu hurriedly turned his head and ordered his subordinates to say: "Bring up all the presents!"

Li Hu's men brought up four large wooden boxes.

Inside a wooden box is the finest Shu brocade.Shu brocade, together with Nanjing's Yun brocade, Suzhou's Song brocade, and Guangxi's Zhuang brocade, are called the four famous brocades of the Ming Dynasty.Ordinary Shu brocade is already of extraordinary value.The box of Shu brocade that Li Hu sent was all embroidered with gold and silver threads, flowers, plants, fish and insects.It can be called worth a thousand gold!
Yan Shifan said: "Don't look at Li Hu as a rough man. He is very careful when he is grateful to the benefactor who saved his life. He heard that you just married a roommate this summer, and he drilled a hole to get this box of Shu brocade for you. Mrs. Xu Xian made clothes to wear."

The second big wooden box is full of jade articles.The carvings are all small things like crickets, grasshoppers, birds, and villains.The quality of these jade wares is not very good. They use jade roots, which are leftovers from high-quality jade carving jewelry, but the carving work is extremely fine.

He Liu is an expert, he knows that even though it is carved from jade roots, it is still very valuable.If it is valuable, it is valuable in carving.

Li Hu said: "I heard that there is a five-year-old lady in the benefactor's mansion. These little things are for the lady of your mansion to play with."

The third large wooden box was straightforward—all silver ingots shaped like horseshoes.He Liu was the family confiscator of Jinyiwei, and he knew from a quick glance that there were about 1 taels.

In the fourth large wooden box are some high-quality prairie fur goods.It also includes several precious white wolf skins.

"It's going to be winter in one month. These fur goods are for benefactors, wives and ladies to make some vests and leather robes." Li Hu said.

After a rough calculation in He Liu's mind, these four boxes of things were worth about 3 taels.

He Liugong cupped his hands: "President Li is being polite. How dare I accept such an important gift?"

Yan Shifan laughed loudly and said, "If it wasn't for you, Li Hu's life would be gone! What is this thing?"

Yan Shifan looked around the small courtyard of He Liu's family again: "Lao Liu, your house is too simple. My father has a house with three entrances in the north of the city. It's not too big or too small, and it's just right for you as the sixth master of Jinyiwei. ! I am the master for my father, and I will give you this house!"

He Liugang was about to evade, but Yan Shifan interrupted him: "What? You didn't give my father any face when you disposed of "Hundred Officials Records", and you didn't give my father any face when you went to Jiangnan to check for smuggling——you still don’t give my father any face now. Is it?"

He Liu hurriedly cupped his hands: "Don't dare! Then the subordinate will be disrespectful!"

Xiangxiang jumped out of nowhere. She looked at the box of jade objects curiously, reached out and took out a little jade rabbit, and said sweetly, "Dad, look, little rabbit!"

Yan Shifan picked up Xiangxiang: "Girl, do you like it? Do you want it? Call me uncle, and these things are all yours!"

Xiangxiang hurriedly yelled three times: "Uncle! Uncle! Uncle! Give all these things to Xiangxiang?"

Yan Shifan kissed Xiangxiang and said, "It's all for you!"

(End of this chapter)