The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

At this time, Zhao Zhibai's wariness gradually faded, and he couldn't help feeling pity for the situation of this small official Su.

"Actually, brother, why should you bother with him even if he has favor with you, you don't have to threaten to ask for repayment? Didn't you hear the words of the sages, 'If you don't ask for repayment for your kindness, you don't regret it'?" Master Bao said one thing and did another gone."

Su Jin said with a sad face: "He's an official, but a mere commoner, how dare he disobey? Brother, after being a criminal officer, eunuchs can naturally stand up straight, and the ass can only bow their heads and stick to their ears."

Zhao Zhibai said: "Brother, please don't envy me. This is fate! Everyone belongs to fate. You were born in a family of merchants and I was born in a family of officials. This is something that fate cannot force."

Su Jin cursed in his stomach: **You just say that your life is good, and my life is not good, so it's over?Actually talking about fate in front of me, but I am a red student who has been educated in dialectical materialism. It's no wonder that you will be brainwashed.

"Hey, that's true, but in fact, I was quite worried about you just now, so I made my own initiative and asked Xiongtai to come here to talk." Su Jin began to fool around step by step.

"Brother, are you joking? I have nothing to worry about, what can Bao Zheng do to me? It's a big joke that he wants to teach me a lesson."

"Hey, how can I say it? Logically speaking, if the father is a criminal officer, the rank of an adult should be in Bao Zheng's?"

"We are both of the fourth rank, but in some respects the power and responsibility are greater than that of the magistrate." Zhao Zhibai said with a pale face.

"Oh, what a big official and no affiliation relationship with officials at the same level, so you don't need to be afraid of him, but I seem to hear a little bit of hidden information from other people's words. I wonder if I can analyze it for you?" Su Jin said sincerely.

"After listening to it, I really want to know why I am afraid of Bao Zheng."

Su Jin said with a tongue like a tongue: "Just now I heard that some students talked privately about brother Taiwan saying that brother Taiwan was sent by Mr. Lu himself to Mr. Lu. I don't know if it's true or not. ?”

"Yes, that's right. Does it matter that my father personally sent me to meet Mr. Lu?"

"According to my guess, your father must have high expectations for Xiongtai, otherwise, why bother to write a note in person when you are so busy. I asked you to bring it yourself. This shows that your father must be very concerned about Xiongtai's imperial examination. I hope you can have a good future, don’t you?”

"This...you guessed it right." Zhao Zhibai hesitated for a while, but admitted that he was a little apprehensive.

It turned out that Zhao Zhibai’s old man almost chased him with a knife and chopped off his ass because of his books It is already extremely distressing, and this Mr. Zhao misbehaves on a daily basis, and he doesn't go out to mess around. He stays at home and runs around the maidservants in the dog's mansion.

Mr. Zhao really became ruthless. His family ugliness could not be publicized and he could not be publicly punished, so he locked Zhao Zhibai in the room and beat him with a hemp rope for two days, so that this Zhao Zhibai almost became an idiot. He was released only because he thought of Mr. Lu, a highly respected and prestigious student in Luzhou City, so he personally sent him here to ask Mr. Lu to discipline him, and at the same time stay away from his family to prevent him from reverting to his old ways and doing some scandalous things. .

So when Su Jin mentioned his father, Zhao Zhibai, his heart trembled, and the scar that healed began to ache again.

Seeing that he admitted that the criminal officer had high expectations for him, Su Jin said, "Since the expectations are high, the discipline must be very strict."

Zhao Zhibai shivered and nodded in agreement.

Su Jin said mysteriously: "Do you know what is the relationship between Master Bao and Master Ti Xue?"

"Isn't it a teacher-student relationship? Didn't Master Bao once worshiped under Master Lu like me?"

"You don't know something." Su Jin said contemptuously: "The relationship between these two is not only a teacher-student relationship, but also a relationship between the two; Tao's relatives."

Zhao Zhibai hadn't turned his mind to what is the relationship between "Aunt Bao Zheng's sister-in-law is the niece of Mrs. Lu's natal family" before listening to Su Jin: "If you want to have this relationship, wouldn't you turn against Mr. Bao?" Don't give Lord Lu face, of course you are the son of the criminal officer, you don't need to give them face, but if Lord Lu listens to Lord Bao's instigation and tells your father about this matter, what will your father think?"

Silk~!Zhao Zhibai took a deep breath, and the scars on his body began to itch again.

"What makes me worry about you even more is that if Mr. Lu turns his back on you and directly cancels your imperial examination quota and does not give you the qualification to take the imperial examination in Luzhou Prefecture, isn't your full of poetry and economics learned in vain?"

"He dares!" Zhao Zhibai stormed away.

"Why not?" Su Jin sneered and said, "Just now you were rude to the two adults. This is what everyone saw with their own eyes. Bao Zheng just accused you of being the leader of the six arts. Disrespect is a violation of the most important etiquette in this dynasty. It is considered light to deprive the qualifications of the imperial examination for such rude actions as an examiner, but he has no respect for the officials and respects the teacher's morals."

Zhao Zhibai was dumbfounded. They didn't expect the matter to be so serious when it came to Mr. Su's mouth, so he insisted: "Master Lu really dare to do this? He is not afraid of my father..."

"Don't talk about these useless things, let's not talk about the current officials, it's better to take ten thousand steps back, how do you know that Mr. Bao and Mr. Lu have no backers? Is your father so stupid that he will tear his face and turn his face on this matter? Besides, your rudeness is preoccupied by Master Lu and Master Bao. When the time comes, your father will at most knock out his teeth and swallow them, or have a chance to deal with them. But isn’t the current anger all on you? Really sorry for you. I'm sweating." Su Jin shook his head and sighed, looking extremely helpless.

"This..." Zhao Zhibai was dumbfounded. It seemed that this matter was going to become a big mess. He could imagine the consequences of what Su Jin said, and his father would definitely not be able to get around him. This time, he was beaten with a hemp rope for two days. This time, it might be a whip or a knife. None of this is scary. What's scary is that if Dad shuts himself up for a year or so and doesn't allow him to leave the room and stuffs a lot of things in the door, it will make him miserable.

"This...how to do this." Zhao Zhibai muttered, beads of sweat rolled down.

"Actually, it's easy to solve." Su Jin reached out and grabbed a small yellow flower and twisted it in his hand without even looking at him.

"Please... Mr. Su teach me." Zhao Zhibai grabbed Su Jin's sleeve and shook it as if grabbing a life-saving straw.

"Why are you making such a fuss?" Su Jin scolded.

"This..." Zhao Zhibai scolded the villain in his stomach!Lord, I just said that he returned the horse to me; but at this moment, I don’t care much about asking for others.

"Please give me some advice, my son, and I will definitely repay you."

Su Jin reached out and put the little yellow flower in Zhao Zhibai's hat, looked at it for a while and sighed: "People are thinner than yellow flowers..."

Zhao Zhibai didn't dare to move, for fear of offending Su Jin, even Su Jin's eighteen generations of ancestors scolded him all over the place.

"There is only one way to apologize." Su Jin looked at Zhao Zhibai and said.

"What? Ask me to apologize to them? No, no, no." Zhao Zhibai didn't expect such a bad idea, his face turned red and he shook his head as if he had taken an ecstasy pill.

Su Jindao: "Why not? Apologize first to make up for the impoliteness, how will it affect you as an official and teacher?"

"This is too embarrassing." Zhao Zhibai firmly disagreed.

"Then you can find a way to deal with your father and say goodbye!" Su Jin walked away with fists in his arms.

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Su Jin stopped and said, "If there is anything to discuss, this is the best way."

Zhao Zhibai argued forcefully: "How do I know if they will let the past go by after the apology? If they still want to plot against me, wouldn't it be empty-handed?"

Su Jin said: "Do you think that everyone is a shameless person? No matter how bad they are, they are still officials. You have apologized and they plan on you. You are causing trouble for no reason. You treat them as fools? Offending your fourth-rank official for no reason The prisoner's father? Don't worry, I guarantee that they will not pursue it again."

"You guarantee?" Zhao Zhibai asked.

"I promise!" Su Jin said with a smile, "Do I have such a big face?"The guy is completely confused.

Zhao Zhibai finally gave in and said dejectedly: "Then follow what Brother Su said..."

Su Jin saw that he was grinning sadly, his stomach was about to twist, followed him, sighed and pulled his arm, saying: "Life is not good, things are always f*** Brother Zhao, this is fate."