Shu Chen

Chapter 41
The misunderstanding ended with Hu Ji's apology.

Zheng Pu, who just came to serve in the Prime Minister's Mansion, no matter how stubborn his temperament is, he can't possibly get angry about this matter.

After abstaining from the banquet and not accepting the salute, and saying a few words of humility, the matter was over, leaving the main office to be silent and busy again.

Only the atmosphere is a little different.

Zheng Pu still had no distractions and devoted himself to the matter of the grain plan.

As for the rest of the masters, when they finished annotating a case, they occasionally glanced sideways at Gu.

In the eyes, there are emotions such as surprise, novelty, or bizarre flashes.

Time flies by in concentration.

Before I knew it, the sun was already in the west.On the sky, the white clouds and the dog rippling silently and golden, and the sunset colored clothes that flowed in the mountains also shrouded the Xiangfu and extended into the main office.

In the huge office, only Hu Ji and Zheng Pu were left at the moment.

The difference is that Zheng Pu still bows his head to the case, does not look sideways, and keeps writing.

On the other hand, Hu Ji had already separated his writing from the case, and the bamboo slips and slips of the case had been collected.

At this moment, he was rubbing his beard sideways, looking at Zheng Pu with a smile.

Not much leisure.

When he was young, Zheng Pu put down his pen, rolled up the bamboo slips that had been measured and put them on one side, and when he was about to take another scroll, he seemed to be faintly aware, and turned his head towards Hu Ji's eyes.

Seeing Hu Ji's attitude like this, he couldn't help but be slightly surprised.

"Haha, Zijin is in charge, really focus!"

There was a burst of laughter first, Hu Ji got up, and nodded at Zheng Pu, "Zijin, twilight is approaching, the office is over today, and come with me to dinner."

"it is good."

Gu glanced at the empty office, Zheng Pu couldn't help laughing and nodded in response.

It is also the first to tidy up the table and then get up.

"Oh, if everyone is like Zijin, what can be called trivial evil?"

But he didn't want to, Hu Ji stopped by himself, looked frequently, looked back and forth at the bamboo slips that he and Zheng Pu had measured, and sighed.

Well, the bamboo slips Zheng Pu finished measuring were three times his size, and more than enough.

"Young people can't do everything smoothly; young people can't be busy and idle; old people can't do everything wrong."

Wen Xuexuan said something, Zheng Pu smiled and said humbly, "Hu Zhu is weak, and don't praise me again, lest the kid be arrogant and arrogant!"

"Hey! Zijin's words are truly arousing!"

Immediately, Hu Ji clasped his palms and praised after hearing it, and after he lowered his head and muttered a little, he raised his head again, his eyes blazing, and his face brightened, "Ha, I am working with Zijin today, knowing that Confucius's three-person walk, there must be my teacher." Good luck!"

Uh.
Enough is enough.

Zheng Pu, who was praised again, couldn't help shaking his head and smiling bitterly.

He first stretched out his hand and turned to the topic, "Hu Zhubo, my belly is empty, if Zhubo talks again, I will go to the superintendent's office to find a meal."

"Hehe~~~"

He also shook his head slightly and smiled, Hu Ji stretched out his hand to lead him down, and stepped forward, "That's all. Zijin is humble, so I don't want to go into details. You and I will go looking for a meal, please."

After a while, go to the snack bar.

Different from the dining room of the supervisor, there are independent dining tables here, and the food is more abundant.

Not only meat soup, but also wine.

"Zijin, you can take whatever you eat."

Consciously explaining for Zheng Pu, Hu Ji lowered his voice again, and instructed, "Only drink and water, people are limited to two, more will be punished according to law and fined. This is the Prime Minister's order, I may be greedy for cups. If you drink too much, you will be wrong."

Zheng Pu naturally bowed his head and thanked him, "Thank you Lord Hu Bo Dianming."

Scholars, self-denial, eat without speaking.

When you are little, eat.

After the two took the green salt water to clean their mouths, they walked out of the prime minister's residence.

At this moment, the twilight is not low, and it is too early to leave the night, so the two walk slowly, and the right should be to digest food.

At dusk, the summer heat is slightly dissipated, and sometimes there is a cool breeze, which can't help but make people feel good and excited.

Hu Ji did the same, and after walking side by side a few steps, he found a topic to chat, "Zijin, where are you now?"

"At the corner of the west and south of the city."

Zheng Pu nodded in reply, paused, and added, "However, in the past few days, Cheeky has been living in Dasinong's mansion."

Raising his eyebrows slightly, Hu Ji seemed to have doubts.

Immediately, he shook his head and laughed dumbly.

The reason must be figured out: Zheng Pu chased away guests and was harassed by good people.

However, this topic cannot be postponed.

After being silent for a while, he simply talked about official business, "Zijin's calculations are so fast that I can complete the affairs of the festival. If there is no accident, Zijin may go out of the city with me for a while. When the new crops are harvested in autumn , over the years are all around my tour of the capital."

After saying this, for fear that Zheng Pu would be puzzled, he quickly added, "Prime Minister Rende, when collecting autumn grain, he will send his officials to inspect the harvest of Li Shu's fields. Replace it with extended periods of corvée."

really
As expected of Prime Minister Zhuge!

Zheng Pu praised the sentence in his heart, then nodded and replied, "If you can follow Hu Zhu Bo to patrol, you will be in the middle of your heart! To be honest, I grew up in the mountains of Shifang, and I have never traveled to study to see the scenery of Bashu. I often feel sorry."

"Ha, so good!"

Hearing this, Hu Ji couldn't help but smile.

Let's talk, let's do it.

Not long after, he arrived at the door of the Xiangfu.

Unexpectedly, Hu Ji stopped inside the door and said goodbye, "Zijin, see you tomorrow."

Yili bowed his hands first, Zheng Pu was a little surprised, and asked aloud, "Hu Zhubo is staying in the Prime Minister's residence tonight?"

"Yeah. The grain plan is my responsibility, but Zijin has to work more. I feel ashamed, so I can only make up for it with diligence."

Oh.
Although this person is too upright and unsophisticated, he can be exacting and sincere, so he is a good friend.

When his heart was moved, Zheng Pu thought for a while, and then he raised his head and asked, "As Lord Hu has less power, can you assign a carpenter?"

When the words fell, he added, "You don't need to be highly skilled, you can be proficient with riveting wedges as small things."

"Naturally it is possible."

First, he nodded slightly, and then Hu Jicai asked in surprise, "Well, I don't know what Zijin wants to do?"

"If Master Bo wants to know, just call a carpenter for me tomorrow."

Deliberately not saying anything, Zheng Pu raised his eyebrows, smirked, and bowed his hands.

After all, don't stop, turn around and walk.

Only left that Hu Ji, stopped and frowned, watching his back thinking.

However, after a while, he smiled slightly and turned away in relief.

Naturally, he would not forget, so he found a soldier along the way, and asked him to rush to the carpenter's office to arrange for a carpenter to come tomorrow while the twilight was not low.

On the other hand, Zheng Pu, who was slowly on his way home, kept rubbing his wrists, writing all day long and sore wrists.

On the corners of his mouth, there was also a wisp of bitterness.

Alas, I have to write tonight and silently come up with "Abacus Formulas".

It is also!

What he wants to do is abacus [Note 1].
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[Note 1: There are three theories about the time when the abacus was invented.The author uses "calculation was applied from the Zhou Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty once stipulated that civil and military officials must have an abacus" as evidence, and set up that there was no abacus in the Three Kingdoms period.Well, by the way, the ancients would carry the counting bag or pen holder with them, which is called counting bag or counting holder. 】

(End of this chapter)