Wei and Jin cooks

Shen Ruhui finally agreed to Zhao Zhongyu.

So Zhao Zhongyu began to arrange for him to set off. Of course, he was not alone. In addition to him, there were two of Shen Ruhui's men and an official from the Ministry of Water, named Cao Ping. There were four people in total, bringing their family, Xiao He servant.

Except for Shen Ruhui, who only has one servant around him, everyone else has a family to take care of. However, there are not many servants, and two families even have no servants. They have to rely on themselves for daily living.

Their official positions were small, and they were in departments with nothing to do, such as Sinong Temple and the Ministry of Water. The emperor could not remember them. Now that the palace had not been built, they did not even have a yamen to handle errands, so there was no place for them to do anything.

They are lucky enough to meet their colleagues and get some inside information every month only when they are selling rice.

But because they have nothing to do, they only have insufficient lumi and no salary.

When you come to Yuncheng, you have to spend money not only to buy a house or rent a house, but also to purchase other things. If you scatter them here and there, the money in your hand will be almost spent.

Even Shen Ruhui, who could feed the whole family alone, could only eat wheat porridge, let alone others.

When everyone gathered together, their faces were all a little dark yellow, which was caused by hunger.

Not all officials and nobles are like Zhao Zhongyu and Gou Xi, who have rich families and have experienced so many wars and can still be rich and powerful.

In recent years, many people have gone bankrupt and become farmers, or even lower-class people. At this point, pride and other things are not worth mentioning. Living is the most important thing.

Among the four officials, Shen Ruhui is the most capable and the most difficult to recruit. The other three officials all have their families, which is easy to tempt.

Zhao Zhongyu personally sent the people outside the city. He divided half of the guards Zhao Hanzhang gave him and asked them to escort Shen Ruhui and others back to Luoyang.

Oh, by the way, all four of them ran away without resigning.

But the imperial court didn't care much about it, as there were many officials leaving with their seals during this period.

Some of them were because they really couldn't survive in Yuncheng and wanted to go somewhere else to seek refuge with relatives and friends; some of them were extremely disappointed with Gou Xi and didn't want to see him and the emperor again, so they left with their seals.

The departure of the four people was like a pebble hitting the water. No one noticed except Yan Heng who kept staring at Zhao Zhongyu.

Zhao Zhongyu sent the people away, and Yan Heng sent people to rob them. He wanted to see why Zhao Zhongyu sent the four people away.

Then he discovered that he could no longer command people.

"The general said that Mr. Yan is not in good health. It is better to leave these trivial matters to the people below. Sir, please stay at home and take good care of your health."

Yan Heng was furious when he heard this and broke into the general's house to see Gou Xi.

Gou Xi was enjoying singing and dancing in the waterside pavilion. He was leaning on a wooden couch, surrounded by four beauties. He was in the center of the waterside pavilion, and the open pavilions on the banks on all sides were full of musicians, playing music here, dancing there, etc. Yes, there is a dancing girl showing off her singing voice at the other end...

Yan Heng was one of the most useful staff around Gou Xi. The servants and soldiers did not dare to stop him, so he rushed directly to the waterside pavilion. When he saw that Gou Xi was rotten to this point, he was so angry that he stamped his feet.

He called the soldiers, "Bring the boat over. I want to go over and meet the general."

The soldiers did not dare to stop him and sent Yan Heng over in a boat.

Gou Xi frowned when she saw him, glanced to the side, and asked, "Isn't Sir sick? Why are you here?"

Yan Heng had never asked for leave due to illness. This was just Gou Xi asking him to stay home when he was "sick". He suppressed his anger and talked about business first, "General, Zhao Zhongyu sent guards to escort Shen Ruhui and Cao Ping to leave early this morning. , I don’t know where to go or what to do.”

Gou Xi thought for a while and couldn't remember who it was, so she asked, "Who are they?"

Yan Heng took a deep breath and said: "Shen Ruhui is the minister of Sinong Temple, and Cao Ping is the history of the Ministry of Water..."

"Zhao Zhongyu is the Minister of Agriculture and Water Conservancy. Isn't it natural for him to assign people in these two departments to do things? Why should we care too much?"

"But they brought their family and a lot of luggage with them. They are obviously leaving Yuncheng. General, I suspect that he is sending people to Zhao Hanzhang in Luoyang. We should stop them at this time..."

"General," a school lieutenant went up to the waterside pavilion with a box of folding papers and said on his knees, "This is the folding piece sent two days ago. Here is the folding piece about how Zhao Shangshu dispatched Shen Ruhui and others."

Gou Xi stretched out his hand, and the captain immediately found the fold and handed it over respectfully.

Gou Xi flipped through it, folded it up with a snap and threw it at Yan Heng's feet, "Yan Heng, when Zhao Zhongyu wants to use my soldiers or come into contact with His Majesty's guards, you can tell me again. Well, don’t worry too much about such trivial matters.”

He said: "Zhao Zhongyu is a minister, and he always has to do things for the court with his salary from the court. He sends two petty officials to inspect local farming and water conservancy, and what can be reported to him to encourage people to teach farming and mulberry farming?"

Yan Heng bent down to pick up the fold and read it once, then closed it expressionlessly and looked down at Gou Xi on the couch, "General, this is the fold from two days ago, and you haven't dealt with it until now. Zhao Zhongyu By transferring someone out without waiting for your approval, aren't you afraid that one day he will handle bigger state affairs without your approval?"

Gou Xi said proudly: "Does he dare? Even if he dares, can he command me and the people around His Majesty? Mr. Yan, I think you are old, that's why you are always so suspicious, come on, Send Mr. Yan back to recuperate."

"Yes!" The captain immediately stepped forward and grabbed Yan Heng's arm, pulled him hard onto the ship, and whispered in his ear: "Mr. Yan, I will see you off at the end!"

Yan Heng turned to look at him, his eyes narrowed slightly, "You are a pure person..."

Before he finished speaking, a strong push came, and Yan Heng was pushed down the waterside pavilion and fell into the water with a splash.

Gou Xi immediately stood up, frowned, and was about to order someone to rescue him when he saw Yan Heng emerging from the water, pointing at the captain and shouting: "General, there is a jackal standing next to you, and Gou Chun put it down." Jackal, how can you sleep peacefully?"

Gou Xi saw that he was still speaking so harshly, so she turned her head away from him.

When Yan Heng saw this, his heart went cold and he couldn't help but cursed, "General, when did you become so lustful, blind, partial and unfair? If you were such a unruly subordinate in the past, how could you allow him to live until now... …”

Gou Xi frowned and saw that all the musicians stopped and looked over. Feeling embarrassed, she pointed at the water and ordered: "Pick Mr. Yan up and send him back. He is sick and can only talk nonsense now."

"Yes." The captain looked at Yan Heng proudly and said, "Humph, I still want to kill their general, but I don't even know who he is. Who is their general? Their general is the brother of the great general!"