Transmigrated into a female county magistrate during a famine, leading her country to prosperity

Chapter 1102: Prime Minister's Residence? That Place is Unlucky

The father and his two sons ran around the main hall three times.

Fang Hengyuan leaned on the table, panting, "Enough! Enough! No one wants to use your pass. If you dare to give it to me, your elder brother and I wouldn't dare use it! Tomorrow I'll give you a box, put it in there and lock it up, okay? Don't show off by taking it out all day long. If you lose it, even if your father gives his life, he won't be able to plead for you!"

"Son knows..." Fang Ziyan gently took off the pass card and put it back into the brocade box, saying, "Cui Jinyin said that if I lose the card, it will implicate Sister Shen. I won't do that."

Fang Hengyuan smiled kindly: "My son has grown up and become sensible. Not only did he pass the imperial examination and become a scholar, he also followed Lord Shen to the capital to see the world and even met His Majesty the Emperor and the Empress..."

As he spoke, his eyes became slightly hot and his voice was choked with sobs.

When did it start?

This youngest son, who in his eyes was "unable to achieve anything great" and "just waiting to die", suddenly became sensible and understanding, and even saw much more of the world than his father.

"We must thank Lord Shen very much." He sighed, "If it weren't for Lord Shen, our Fang family...would never have such an opportunity."

Fang Wenxiu nodded, but his mind was thinking about something else.

After secretly pondering for a long time, he couldn't help but ask Fang Ziyan: "Ziyan, the Cui...Jinyin you mentioned just now? Is she a girl? A friend you made in Shangjing? Are you... attracted to her?"

He thought that the girl who could have a relationship with Lord Shen must have an extraordinary family background, and might even be a daughter of an official.

After all, the Fang family is just a merchant family in a small county town. How could they be worthy of a young lady?

Fang Wenxiu was secretly anxious, and Fang Ziyan was terrified and jumped three feet high: "Brother, please don't talk nonsense! I dare not fall in love with her!"

Fang Wenxiu was shocked by his reaction, "What's wrong with this girl?"

Fang Ziyan scratched his head. "Not really... She's a nice person. She's usually more generous than me. Her chef cooks really good food."

Fang Wenxiu understood: "Could this girl be from a wealthy family? Is her family... an imperial merchant?"

Their Fang family is indeed not worthy of such a family background.

Fang Ziyan shook his head and prompted, "Brother, think carefully, what is the surname of the prime minister of this dynasty?"

Fang Wenxiu reacted for a moment, his eyes suddenly widening.

No way...

Fang Ziyan, a toad, actually talked to the swan in the prime minister's residence?

wrong.

What did Fang Ziyan say just now?

——“The food cooked by her chef is delicious”?

so......

"Have you ever been to the Prime Minister's residence for dinner?!" After saying this, Fang Wenxiu could no longer stand steadily.

"The Prime Minister's Residence? That place is unlucky! I wouldn't even go there if you invited me!" Fang Ziyan waved his hand dismissively. "I was just talking about the cook at her uncle's house! Oh, and her uncle is the Minister of Personnel. He loves her dearly, even more than you love me!"

Personnel, Minister of Personnel?

Fang Wenxiu fell back onto his chair and pinched himself hard.

I didn't dream either...

The night gradually deepened, but the lights in the main hall of the Fang family remained on.

At the beginning, Fang Ziyan was very excited and spoke with great enthusiasm.

Sometimes he described how beautiful the Empress was, sometimes he talked about how delicious the food in the imperial kitchen was, until the gong sounded at the hour of Chou, and he could no longer sit still.

"Dad, brother, I'm really sleepy..."

"No!" Fang Hengyuan and Fang Wenxiu said in unison, "No sleeping! Tell us in detail, starting from when we entered the Imperial City, where we passed, which palaces we saw... And how big is the rumored Golden Throne Hall? Is the floor of the palace paved with gold bricks?"

Fang Ziyan's eyelids drooped as he asked, "Dad, brother, are you two spies sent by the enemy country?"

Fang Hengyuan gritted his teeth and called out to the outside of the hall, "Come here, tell the kitchen to make a few of the young master's favorite dishes and bring them over!"

Fang Ziyan: I don’t feel that sleepy anymore.

......

Midnight is the end of the past day and the beginning of a new day.

Tongan County Government Office.

Xu Yunyan arranged everything in an orderly manner.

He first asked the tearful Uncle Lai to make a midnight snack for Shen Zheng, then asked the yamen runners to prepare a temporary house for Su Yan and others, and then arranged for the constables to move things to the boat.

When the detectives drove back and forth between the county government office and the dock for the third time, they finally got the hint.

"That's not right..."

On the village road, Constable Sun Zhile stopped his carriage and asked the other constables, "Brothers, have you spoken to the Master since he returned to the county government?"

"No!" The other detectives immediately replied, "Didn't the chief clerk send us here to carry the luggage? How could we have the chance to talk to him?... Alas, he just came back after being away for several months, and I have so much to say..."

In the firelight, the detectives looked at each other in confusion.

They all have a lot to say and want to talk to the adults.

The detectives scratched their heads and thought, "So... Master Zhubu deliberately sent us away?"

"Why?" They were puzzled and asked Zhao Xiu, "Brother Zhao, when did we brothers make the Chief Clerk unhappy?"

In the dark night, Zhao Xiu grinned, his white teeth particularly bright: "Ignorance."

"Why is that?" Sun Zhi scratched his head and pouted, "We planted flower seeds along your courtyard wall three months ago, and now they've sprouted branches. I was thinking of showing them to you..."

"that is!"

The other detectives immediately chimed in, "And last month! We went to Quanyang Temple to get a peace amulet for you, sir, but we didn't have time to give it to you!"

"Also, Brother Zhao, the thief we caught last month was no small character! Although he has been sent to the government office, we still have to tell the adults about this matter, right..."

“And more and more…”

Once the detectives started talking, they couldn't stop.

Zhao Xiu held his forehead and raised his hand to close it: "Stop!"

The surroundings suddenly became quiet, with only the rustling of night insects.

"Your Excellency is seasick, don't you know?" Zhao Xiu glanced at them, urging his horse on. "You haven't noticed how much weight you've lost since returning by boat? And yet, you still want to keep me company late at night? Don't you have any brains? The Chief Clerk sent us all out because he doesn't want you to keep talking and disturbing my rest. We'll have plenty of opportunities to talk later. Your Excellency's health is the most important thing, don't you understand?"

As the words fell, the firelight illuminated the annoyance on everyone's faces.

Compared to Xu Zhubu, they seemed like selfish villains...

In frustration, they silently pulled the reins and drove towards the dock in silence.