The study was deserted and Zhao Yanping was not willing to light up the charcoal, and his hands were frozen cold.

Gillian was so angry that she blew the candlelight and pulled the person to the room.

"Our family has more than 300 taels of silver. Are you short of your charcoal money?" After getting into bed, Gillian beat Zhao Yanping up.

Zhao Yanping covered his frozen hands on his chest and asked Gillian: "Have you settled the bill? How many maids do you want to add?"

Gillian had no choice but to talk about the matter of the new house first: "Done, just buy ten little girls, two clean the room and yard, two wash the girls, two use them, two for Chu Jin, one for Brother Zhao, and one for first. Teach, I will take care of the third brother with Chunzhu in the future. Dongzhu will be my nanny in charge of the transfer and the nanny in charge of the transfer. Teach the little girls. Nanyuan is not big, Chen Kai and Madam Tian can clean up, and there is no need to add people. Chen Jing looks quite flexible and neat, so let him be a servant for Brother Zhao, and continue to do whatever other old people do in the past."

Zhao Yanping asked: "Didn't you say you still want to buy an embroiderer?"

Gillian shook her head and said, "No need to buy it. Just let the embroiderer of my embroidery shop do it. If it needs to be sewn, leave it to Chunzhu and Dongzhu. If it doesn't help me, I can help you."

Zhao Yanping pursed his lips: "Husband..."

A Jiao smiled and said, "Chu Jin is useless if you want any wet nurse. I don't need this. I just feed you. Let Chunzhu coax you when you sleep. Chunzhu takes Zhao Ge'er, Chu Jin is very skilled."

She continued: "In addition to the ten little girls, let's hire a female gentleman for Chu Jin. All kinds of expenses, monthly money, and monthly payments, you can save 2 taels per month, which is twenty-four taels a year. After moving, the annual rent of the old house is fifteen taels. In this way, you can deposit 30 to 40 taels a year. In addition, our current deposit of the bank, as long as we don't waste extra money, our family can live a very comfortable life!"

This is just a public account. Gillian’s land and the embroidery shop also earns a total of 70 to 80 taels a year.

The couple worked hard together and saved up for another seven years, and there would be another thousand taels.

After calculating the accounts, Gillian was very satisfied and said to Zhao Yanping: "Think about it, you are only 36 years old and have become a fourth-rank official. You have lived in this good house that many nobles in the capital envied. Other officials have to rise to the house desperately for the house. You have officials and houses, as long as you do your part-time job well, that's great."

After hearing what she said, Zhao Yanping suddenly lifted half of the burden in his heart.

Yes, Emperor Chunqing thought it very well and gave him a top-notch house. The furniture, calligraphy, paintings, porcelain and books in each room were all equipped, and they were all of them of high-quality goods. This whole set may cost several thousand taels, which is a wealth that many officials may not have in their entire lives. He only needs to support his family servants and save up the money. What's the worry about?

"Thanks to you, you can't worry about this, so I don't have to worry about it." Zhao Yanping kissed Gillian's forehead and sighed in a low voice.

Gillian smiled and said, "It's also thanks to your ability that I moved into such a good house."

Zhao Yanping raised the corners of his lips, held up her face and kissed her.

This is a good day that the couple earned together.

The next day, Zhao Yanping went to Dali Temple with a refreshing spirit. Gillian asked Guo Xing to contact several families and picked up fifteen young girls about ten years old in one go. He asked Dong Zhu to take them to the new house in Jixiang Hutong first and transfer them with Madam Tian. He selected the ten most reliable ones to buy them in half a month, and returned the others. After the transfer and teaching there, the family would officially move in.

Gillian was dedicated to managing this family. Zhao Yanping handled the case at Dali Temple. Once he had time, Zhao Yanping took out his pen, ink, paper and inkstone to practice calligraphy crazily. He wrote a piece of paper on the back and then the reverse. Zhao Yanping also ordered the officials in various parts of Dali Temple to clean up the scraps written by the officials, sorted out the paper and sent it to him. He then used the blanks of these papers to practice calligraphy.

The official office of Dali Temple has excellent official charcoal, warm and free of money. Zhao Yanping practiced well and did not have to stay up late to get cold when he got home.

He had only been tossed for five days, and a censor wrote a book about it, saying that he was pretending to be public and private, embezzled the ink paper from the official office to facilitate his writing skills. He also had to continue practicing at the official office for half an hour after completing official duties every day, which cost ink, paper, charcoal, lamp and oil.

After Zhao Yanping entered Beijing, he rose to prominence and was so smooth that some officials in Beijing had disliked him for various reasons. However, Zhao Yanping was cautious in his words and actions and had no handle. This time, he took advantage of the court to practice calligraphy, and finally gave those people an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Emperor Chunqing had actually heard about this. It was just a little ink, a little lamp, oil, and a little charcoal. Zhao Yanping was so motivated that Emperor Chunqing would not be stingy with that little thing. However, when the official mentioned it at the court meeting, he used a lot of words. Emperor Chunqing had to ask, so he called Zhao Yanping out and asked him if there was any such thing.

Zhao Yanpingjun's face turned slightly red. Who made him really take advantage of the court?

He only made one defense, that is, the paper he used was waste paper that the court would no longer use anymore. He said that he borrowed the ink, charcoal, and lamp oil from the court to use it privately, and that he was wasting paper, but he refused.

Emperor Chunqing asked him expressionlessly: "After you are a fourth-rank official, you are short of this ink and charcoal money at home?"

Zhao Yanping knelt on the ground and lowered his head and explained, "Go back to the emperor, I am really in stock recently. I originally had a thousand taels of silver in my family, but because I was about to add a child, I wanted to buy a new house. Thanks to the emperor's favor, I sold the confiscated house in Jixiang Hutong for a price of thousand taels to me. I was grateful to my son and I felt very elegant after going to the new house, so I had to add ten maids to take care of them so that I could not bear to let the emperor's grace. I had more slaves in the family and all kinds of expenses became greater. Fortunately, my son was virtuous and managed the family, so that I could save two taels of salary every month to keep it for emergency response. My son saved money and even the wet nurse could not bear to hire him. I wanted to practice calligraphy, but I couldn't bear to use the little money deposited in the public account. I was obsessed with the ghosts for a moment and made a big mistake."

He slowly said, and when the civil and military ministers heard this, some laughed and some were shocked.

The censor who participated in him naturally knew the situation of the Zhao family and said sarcastically: "Why should Lord Zhao cry here? You have hired an imperial decree for the virtuous wife of Lingtang. The family has deposited at least 300 taels of silver, so how can you afford charcoal and ink?"

Zhao Yanping did not look at him, lowered his eyes and said, "Reported to the emperor, the 1,000 taels I bought for the new house, 600 taels were all the private property of the inner son's dowry. After the court rewards, both of them and my mother thought that the money should be handed over to her and belonged to her private account. My wife would not be stingy. This time, the new house was bought for the slaves. My son was virtuous, but I had no face to ask for her private property frequently. In the cold winter, the ground was stiff and I could not practice writing with sand. I became optimistic about taking advantage of the tricks. The emperor, I knew my mistakes, and I was willing to be punished."

When Zhao Yanping said the sentence "Sand Tu Practice" by saying, Emperor Chunqing didn't swallow his saliva well and suddenly choked.

At this age, even a gentle cough could make the ministers worried. Now they choked and coughed repeatedly, which scared the ministers. They looked at the dragon throne nervously. Eunuch Gao even walked to Emperor Chunqing and bent down to massage his back.

Emperor Chunqing was fine, but his face turned red after coughing.

The ministers breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Emperor Chunqing, who had recovered, looked at Zhao Yanping kneeling there and snorted coldly: "I sold you the new house that you had lost all your money. I also caused you to use your wife's private property to buy a slave. You worked hard in the cold winter to practice calligraphy because I thought your calligraphy was ugly and forced you to practice it. Why? You are dissatisfied with me, so I came to take advantage of the court and wanted to take back the 1,000 taels of yours, right?"

Zhao Yanping said in panic: "I dare not!"

Emperor Chunqing said angrily: "I see you are very brave! Someone is here!"

Zhao Yanping's hands trembled with his support.

He really didn't expect that he could cause trouble when practicing calligraphy in the official office. The emperor called the guards to go. Do you want to pull him down and hit the board?

No one knew what Emperor Chunqing was thinking, and everyone was waiting with a breath of breath.

Two imperial guards walked in outside the hall.

Emperor Chunqing said coldly: "You go to the Ministry of Revenue and take back the thousand taels of silver for buying houses that Zhao Yanping gave him, just treat the house as I gave him for free, so as not to make the money back with great pains. The dignified fourth-rank official was so poor that he took advantage of the official office. When it was reported, the people thought I could not support you honest officials!"

The two imperial guards looked at each other and took the order to go to the Ministry of Revenue.

Zhao Yanping knelt on the ground and shouted that he didn't even dare. Emperor Chunqing interrupted him impatiently and said sternly: "I have returned the money to you. I will punish you for your crime of making public and personal gain. I think that there is a reason for your order to practice calligraphy. This time I will only hit you ten major boards. I hope you can take this as a warning and don't commit it again in the future."

This time, Emperor Chunqing really called two guards in and took Zhao Yanping out to get the board.

The man was taken out. Emperor Chunqing glanced at the civil and military officials and said lightly: "The sea of ​​knowledge is endless. Zhao Yanping is still obsessed with the ambition of practicing calligraphy until middle age. You should learn it, but you must not learn from his false public and private use. Do you remember it?"

All civil and military officials knelt down and shouted in unison "Abide by the order".

Only those officials who were dissatisfied with Zhao Yanping were even more jealous now. For ten boards to exchange for one thousand taels of silver, this word is worth practicing!

The matters in the palace were not known so quickly by Jiao and others in Lion Lane. Zhao Yanping came back early in the evening, and Jiao was shocked.

Don’t you have to practice the word "官网" in the official office for half an hour these days? I have been lazy after only five days of persistence?

Gillian and Liu asked him what was going on. Gillian even stood up and gave him his seat.

Zhao Yanping did not sit down and asked the children to go down. Then he took out an envelope with the official seal of the Ministry of Revenue from his arms.

Ajiao opened it in confusion and found that there were ten brand new 100 taels of silver notes inside!

Zhao Yanping explained the events at the court meeting in a complicated expression.

When Mrs. Liu heard this, she was so anxious that she left the chair, holding her son's arm and asked, "You, are you really hitting the board?"

Zhao Yanping nodded.

Liu felt so distressed, but her son was already a father, so she couldn't take off her son's pants to see how he was injured, so she urged Jiao to help her son go to the house to check it out. She went back to search for the medicine for the injury.

Gillian asked Zhao Yanping first: "Are the emperor angry or not?"

Zhao Yanping looked at her and asked, "Will you be so angry that you rewarded your minister with a thousand taels of silver?"

Gillian couldn't help it anymore, grabbed the envelope on the table and put it in her arms and laughed. One thousand taels of silver were back. The spacious and beautiful mansion with a beautiful garden was just like a white mansion. Is there anything better in the world than this?

Zhao Yanping looked at her and smiled, her eyes curled up, and she had to cover her mouth so that the laughter would not be heard.

Gillian laughed enough, her face sore that her face turned sore. She put the envelope in her arms and came to support Zhao Yanping, and asked with a considerate look: "Are you seriously injured? Will it hurt when you walk?"

Zhao Yanping suspected that his little wife didn't care whether he felt pain or not. Even if Emperor Chunqing was willing to give him another thousand taels to his family, Gillian would take the initiative to press him on the bench of Zhaoxing.

How could Ah Jiao not care? It was Zhao Yanping who walked in with a normal expression. Without asking, he knew whether he was seriously injured.

After entering the inner room, he lay on the kang, Gillian pulled off his pants for him. As expected, two pieces of red were just red, and there was no swelling.

"I have heard that there are many tricks in the punishment of the war. The same ten boards can be light or heavy. The heavy ones can kill people. The light ones are like playing. The emperor is so partial to you. The execution guards know in their hearts that they will definitely let you go." A Jiao held the ointment given by her mother-in-law in one hand and gently smeared Zhao Yanping with the other hand.

Zhao Yanping gritted his teeth and said nothing.

The guards let out the water, and he sat there for an afternoon and was always enduring discomfort, including now, he actually felt pain.

However, it is indeed worth it to exchange for ten boards for one thousand taels.

In the next few days, Zhao Yanping never wrote a single word in the official office. Unless there was something wrong, he left the official office on time, so as not to be suspected that he used the ink and charcoal from the official office. When he returned home, he practiced writing in the warm inner room, using the waste paper he collected in the Dali Temple. Zhao Yanping clearly collected the waste paper, but this time, no censors came out to participate in him.

The day before the New Year, the family happily moved into the new house where Emperor Chunqing gave the Zhao family for free.

Although he had earned a thousand taels for free, the Zhao family still lived like in Lion Alley, without wasting extravagance and no more servants who were not needed.

The news spread to the palace, and Emperor Chunqing smiled.

I hope he did not misunderstand this time, and Zhao Yanping would be the second Duke of Lu.

"Is the Zhenbei Hou Mansion about to hold a wedding ceremony?" Emperor Chunqing suddenly asked Eunuch Gao.

Eunuch Gao smiled and nodded: "Yes, this year the prince is married, and the princess of Duan County will marry next year, and the Marquis will be able to go to the northern border to reunite with the Marquis."

Emperor Chunqing remembered the secret reports from the northern border. Xue Ao was not only practicing troops every day, but also practicing troops. Some people respected his beauty. Xue Ao confiscated one, but instead dealt with a few people who offered beauty.

Such a general who values ​​love, his children are in the capital, and he doesn't dare to rebel.
Chapter completed!