Rise From the Humble

The rising sun rises in the east and the sunset sets in the west. After rising and falling again, Zhu Ping'an's working career in the Hanlin Academy finally came to an end temporarily, and he ushered in a rare and leisurely long vacation of more than a month.

This is the favor given to newly promoted officials by the Ming Dynasty. Only newly promoted Jinshi can enjoy this kind of long leave, which belongs to the category of family leave. Other officials can only enjoy family leave once every three years. The standard holiday is one month, but the travel time is calculated separately based on mileage. After conversion, Zhu Pingan's long vacation lasted a total of 50 days.

In addition to the holidays, Zhu Ping'an also received 5 taels of silver as a family visit subsidy, but the cash amount was only 3 taels, and the other 2 taels were treasure notes.

Holding the treasure banknotes in his hand, Zhu Ping'an was speechless for a while. Emperor Jiajing was too picky. These two treasure banknotes are only worth 10 cents after discounting. No one will give you a discount for this! This thing had been discontinued during the Zhengde period, and Emperor Jiajing still used it to deal with it. There was such a stingy boss who was drunk.

The salary of the Ming Dynasty was notoriously low, and it would still be like today. Part of the salary was exchanged by the emperor for things, such as extra cotton, silk, and extra bits and pieces in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Anyway, whatever is available in the national treasury or the Ministry of Internal Affairs will be issued, and even treasure notes will be issued like today...

The problem is, these things are not worth the price, and the emperor is completely unreasonable.

After this vacation is over and I return from Xiahe, I have to think about making money. These salaries are really not enough. When I return to the capital, I will be embarrassed to live in the Linhuai Marquis Mansion. I have to find a house to rent. In the capital, under the emperor, the rent is not cheap... You can't just sit back and have nothing.

But, anyway, it’s holiday and I can finally take a break.

On the day of the holiday, they only worked for half a day and had a holiday at noon. After Zhu Pingan, Zhang Siwei and Wang Shizhen had lunch together, they said goodbye to each other. Zhang Siwei was going back to his hometown in Shanxi, Wang Shizhen was going to Shandong to reunite with his family at his father's office, and Zhu Ping'an was going south to return to his hometown of Xiahe Village. The three of them happened to go in three different directions. Because they would meet again in more than a month, none of the three of them had any worries about parting. They said goodbye with a smile and agreed to bring some specialties from their hometown to taste together when they came.

After noon, the sun was warming, and Zhu Pingan returned to Linhuai Marquis Mansion facing the sunshine.

At this time, the Linhuai Hou Mansion is in pain and happiness. The pain is because Lin Huai Hou Mansion’s recent investment has failed again. This failure is more serious than the last time. Linhuai Hou Mansion’s assets have almost shrunk by more than half; if Isn't it true that the Marquis of Linhuai was promoted to be the Admiral of Caojiang of the Yingtian Left Army Governor's Mansion? The Marquis of Linhuai's Mansion had been crying for a long time. Now the news of the Marquis of Linhuai's promotion has finally cleared away the dark clouds of investment failure hanging over his head. . However, every time they thought about this, the old lady and the others still gritted their teeth in distress.

The naughty kid has also been in pain these past few days. He thought that after his country bumpkin brother-in-law became an official, he would be able to play freely with his sister Niuer, but he didn't expect that his father would invite another old-fashioned wife.

The only two people in a good mood were Li Shu and his servant. The little maid Baozi handed a stack of banknotes, house deeds, and land deeds to her young lady. She had a bun face as if she had eaten honey, and her eyes were narrowed into slits.

"Look at your potential." Li Shu laughed angrily and pinched the little girl's bun face with her slender hands.

"Hehe~~Miss, you are so awesome." The little maid Baozi admired her lady sincerely.

"It's because I'm so good. It's because they are too greedy. Greedy people are short-sighted. Just give them a bone and you can peel off a layer of their skin." Li Shu took the banknote and house deed from the little maid Baozi. The land deed was placed in an open jewelry box aside without counting, and then he pouted his little mouth and mocked.

If the old lady or the eldest lady were here, they would definitely be able to recognize the title deeds and house deeds in the jewelry box at a glance.

When Zhu Ping'an returned to the Linhuai Marquis' Mansion, he happened to hear a wild child howling like a pig in the Linhuai Marquis' Mansion, and soon after entering the door, he saw a scene of chickens and dogs jumping around.

The Marquis of Linhuai swung his fat body and chased after the naughty kid, but the naughty kid ran away, howling like a butchering pig at the top of his lungs, saying, "Mother, help, grandma, help."

The eldest lady watched this scene from the side and anxiously persuaded the Marquis of Linhuai. The old lady, with the support of the maid, nervously watched the naughty child running away, reminding him to be careful and slow down from time to time.

Several eldest ladies in the Linhuai Marquis Mansion were surrounded by maids and old ladies, and Li Shu was also surrounded by little maid Baozi and other maids and old ladies. She covered her mouth and watched this scene with her eyebrows hidden. With a full smile.

"Ah, my uncle is back, come here." When the little maid Baozi saw Zhu Pingan, her eyes narrowed into crescent moons, and she waved her little hand to greet Zhu Pingan in a low voice.

When Zhu Pingan saw this, he walked over. With Baozi's little maid here, Zhu Pingan quickly knew the cause and effect of the matter.

It turned out that the naughty child was so depressed after being detained for studying for the past few days. When his father went out to meet friends, he refused to obey the teacher's discipline and ran out to play secretly. This kid was playing a horseback riding game not far from his home with some naughty kids from nearby noble families, which involved riding a tree branch as a horse to fight with each other.

Then, the naughty child was too immersed in the game and did not notice the Marquis of Linhuai who had returned from the meeting. As a result, the Marquis of Linhuai blocked him and caught him on the spot.

The rules in the house are strict, and the naughty kid also knows the serious consequences of skipping classes and sneaking out. Especially when the Marquis of Linhuai found out on the spot, the naughty kid's face turned green at that time.

However, when the naughty kid becomes smart, he himself is afraid!

At the moment when the Marquis of Linhuai caught him, the naughty boy's IQ was running at high speed, and then he thought of an excellent way to escape this disaster. The moment he thought of the method, the naughty boy was so proud of his wit. No, I'm really smart!

When traveling in the world, the most important thing is for people with good skills to be bold, and the naughty boy did it at this moment!

"Hey, uncle, you got the wrong person." The naughty boy turned around and smiled at Linhuai Marquis, responding tactfully.

At this moment, the naughty boy is not only a witty naughty boy, but also a naughty boy with super strong psychological quality. He is also a movie king-level naughty boy. He smiles calmly when he looks back, and his words are calm and well-founded.

However

Things went beyond the naughty boy's expectation.

The Marquis of Linhuai acted like a Spartan on the spot, trying to clean up the house in a matter of seconds, which scared the naughty boy and ran away, and then he was chased all the way into the mansion by the Marquis of Linhuai.

When the little maid Baozi finished describing the whole story, the Marquis of Linhuai had already caught the naughty child and beat him up.

Zhu Ping'an looked at this scene and couldn't help but sigh, it's great to be fat and so durable.