The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

Li Zhihe, Xu Wei, Ge Huaimin and others happily went, first to give face to the new Mr. Fu Zun, and second, to celebrate that Su Jin was finally successfully dragged into the water. This person came to Weizhou to bring everyone Many hidden worries, but I didn't expect that after a few days, they would be subdued and automatically assimilated. The four words 'Qian Ke Tong Shen' can be described as golden words.

But despite this, Li Zhihe still guarded the restaurant in advance, which is Li Zhihe's habit; it's not that he doubts what will happen to Su Jin, in fact, there is no arrangement for Su Jin in the entire Yueyue Building Going in, there are only a few of my own who are all around, and there are more than a dozen servants who bring wine back and forth to serve.

The breeze is blowing on the roof of Zhaiyue Tower. After a hot day, the cool pavilion on the roof is the most suitable place to enjoy the cool night. They looked beaming, and the dishes on the banquet were not only homemade by Zheyuelou, but also all kinds of food brought by Su Jin from the capital. Even the dining utensils were several sets of silver tableware brought by Su Jin himself. The bright tiles under the candlelight are eye-catching.

Su Jin was dressed in casual clothes and stood at the stairs to welcome everyone. She clasped her hands with a smile on her face. Officials, no matter how big or small, bowed their hands in a polite way, looking very cute.

The more Su Jin is like this, the more superior the officials of Weizhou City will be. Needless to say, Li Zhi and Xu Wei, even the subordinate officials such as Cang Si Ti Xing deeply despise Su Jin. I have heard about the agreement with Li Zhihe in private. What kind of champion, what kind of magistrate, is nothing more than a pure pug in front of money.

After the guests and hosts were seated, Su Jin got up and cupped his hands and bowed to each other: "My lords, I have been in Weizhou for less than ten days, and I am not very grateful for the care of you these few days; I am an official for the first time, and my words and deeds are somewhat biased. What's rare is that you adults don't care about it, and I am very grateful; I am here to entertain you today, firstly to thank you for your care, and secondly to apologize to General Li Jianjun and General Ge. Broad, don't count my words and deeds in the past few days."

Li Zhihe laughed loudly and said: "Master Su, why did you say that? Since we came to Weizhou, we are just beggars in a pot, and some small conflicts and misunderstandings between each other are inevitable. This is like a husband and wife. It's like a quarrel, bedside fights and bed wars, where is the feud between the family?"

Everyone said yes, even praised Li Jianjun for his broad-mindedness regardless of previous suspicions, Su Jin seemed extremely moved, and sighed repeatedly: "Compared with Li Jianjun, my skills are far worse, so I don't have much to say. In the wine, today we will not be blamed."

Li Zhihe said: "It's good to have fun, but you don't need to get drunk. Recently, the western thieves seem to have changed. This afternoon, the scouts reported that most of the western thieves seem to be mobilizing to the north of the Zhenrong army, although it is nearly seven miles away from Weizhou. Ten li, but we have to guard against it."

Ge Huaimin waved his hand and said: "Supervisor Li is too worried, the western thief is now a grasshopper after autumn and can't get up, it's rare that the prefect of Su treats guests today, why do you say these spoiling things, today you will have to get drunk. "

Li Zhihe looked a little embarrassed. There was indeed a vision of a large-scale mobilization of the Xixia army, but he was not really worried about it. He was afraid that there would be too many people tonight. Afterwards, many secrets will inevitably spread, which will easily cause adverse effects; Su Jin's dinner tonight is naturally invited by Weizhou officials, big or small, but there are many free people who do not participate in the matter, and most of these people are non-critical The petty officials in the department can't afford to drag them into the water at all, but they must be on guard against others, and it is best not to let these people know the secrets of making money.

Ge Huaimin didn't think too much about it, he was Qiu Ba in the first place.The old man was also coerced into the water by Li Zhihe, and he never came up with any good ideas, but his position was important, so he had to be pulled in; since he said so, Li Zhihe couldn't openly refute his face.

Su Jin laughed and said: "What General Ge said is that there is nothing to be afraid of the western thieves. With Li Jianjun and General Ge sitting in the town, how can I stand in Weizhou? I will not be drunk today, come and raise your glasses, everyone, it is a beautiful day Right now, it's time to drink and have fun."

Everyone drank the glass of wine with a toast, and picked up the silver chopsticks one by one to start; Li Zhihe said with a smile: "Master Su is also very delicate, and he has made so many silver tableware, and he is very particular about it." Well."

Su Jin laughed and said: "To tell you the truth, I don't have the money to buy this stuff. It's all my wife's dowry. I wanted to spend it in exchange for money, but my wife won't let me put it there just to see it." I'm not reconciled, I don't take this opportunity to use it for the adults, it's just to support some appearance; but I heard that the silver chopsticks and silver plates have some functions, if there are poisons in the dishes and drinks, it's easy to find out I know, it’s just that it’s useless here.”

Li Zhihe chewed on the meaning of Su Jin's words. This person seemed to be delicate. He deliberately said such words so that he and others could eat and drink at ease. It seemed that he was doing his best to cultivate.

Ge Huaimin drank a few glasses of wine and ate a few mouthfuls of food, and then his mouth clicked again and again, as if dissatisfied; Su Jin smiled and said, "Does General Ge feel dissatisfied with the dishes?"

Ge Huaimin muttered: "It's okay, but my favorite food is missing."

Su Jin laughed and said: "I know what General Ge likes to eat, I will serve it up naturally later, and I will be patient for a while."

Ge Huaimin said happily: "Have you prepared a monkey brain too?"

Su Jin said with a mysterious smile: "It's not just monkey brains, the things that make up the brain are not necessarily just monkey brains."

Ge Huaimin was full of expectations, and Xu Wei joked on the sidelines: "Master Su really didn't say anything to General Ge, and even specially gave General Ge extra meals."

Ge Huaimin was overjoyed, Su Jin laughed and said: "Xu Tongpan seems to have a bit of a sour taste, don't worry, I also prepared a separate dish for you today, eat wine and vegetables first, and enjoy those things as delicious snacks after the meal Not too late."

Xu Wei and Li Zhihe glanced at each other, secretly praising Su Jin in his heart for being so cute, and he really has a way of flattering others. No wonder the girl from the Yan family who can be fooled was pregnant by him. It seems that he has spent a lot of time to deal with it that woman.

Su Jin tried his best to persuade him to drink, and it was not easy to refute Su Jin's face in the face of delicious food and wine. After drinking for nearly two o'clock, everyone was blushing and their necks were thick. , and even some people got drunk and swayed and sang brothel ditties, which made everyone laugh again and again.

Su Jin picked up a jar of wine, took a bowl, and walked towards the [-] or [-] personal guards brought by Li Zhi and Ge Huaimin who were standing outside as guards. These people were the personal guards of Li Zhihe and others. , responsible for protecting the safety of Shangguan, so no matter where Li Zhi and Ge Huaimin go, they will take these personal guards with them.

"Brothers, I've been standing here in the middle of the night, my legs are tired and my stomach is hungry, come here, everyone can drink a bowl of wine to refresh themselves." Su Jin pretended to have a bald tongue and swayed his body.

"Thank you for your kindness, sir, but we are responsible for protecting the military supervisor and commander, and we must not drink alcohol." A captain of the personal guard stepped forward and saluted.

Su Jin grimaced and said, "What? Don't you want to give me face? Your supervisor Li and Commander Ge gave me face, but you don't."

The captain of the personal guard hurriedly said: "Your Excellency calm down, you really have a duty, and you dare not drink alcohol."

Su Jin pointed at him and asked, "What's your name? You are a loyal person, I want to remember you."

The captain of the personal guard had no choice but to report his name, and was extremely depressed. The lord of the family didn't want to remember that he rewarded himself, and he was afraid that he would remember to hate him, but the captain of the personal guard was not afraid at all. Li Jianjun and Commander Ge stood on top, and the magistrate probably couldn't do anything about himself.

Su Jin returned to his seat full of displeasure, Li Zhihe raised his glass to toast, Su Jin waved his hand and said, "Don't drink, I'm so disappointed."

Li Zhihe said in astonishment: "What's wrong? Who offended our lord?"

Su Jin sighed: "I only now know what position I have in Weizhou City. I, Su Jin, have confidence in all of you, but you are estranged from me. It's really depressing."

Li Zhihe said: "How do you say this? Everyone gathered today, all colleagues had a great time eating and drinking, everyone praised you for your thoughtfulness, why didn't you confide in you?"

Su Jin pointed to the group of guards outside and said: "Just now, I kindly commented that the brothers of the guards are really hard on the job. I took wine to try to give them a drink to relieve fatigue. Who would have expected that a guy named Wang Baochang would scold them for a while. He said that it is his duty to protect the Lord Supervising Army, and drinking and making mistakes, and so on, it is clear that he is not giving the family face."

Li Zhihe couldn't help laughing: "Are you unhappy just because of the words of a personal guard? Master Su, it's not the person who said you, but you still don't talk about Mao Chengfu. You are the prefect, and they are the little guards." , Is it worth it? You can't lose your identity."

Su Jin sneered and said, "Is Supervisor Li teaching me a lesson? I don't want to make trouble with the guards. What would you do if you toasted to my guards but they didn't give you face and reprimanded you?" think?"

Li Zhihe smiled and said, "I won't get angry."

Su Jin cut it and said: "It's nice to say, you must think that this is what I, Su Jin, deliberately confessed to refute your face, right?"

Li Zhihe suddenly realized that Su Jin was not angry with the guards, but with himself. He thought he secretly told the guards not to deal with the prefect, so he said something like not confiding in each other.

Li Zhihe was a little angry, but looking at Su Jin's blushing face, red ears and dull eyes, it was obvious that he had drunk a little too much, and it seemed that he was angry after drinking, so he couldn't take it seriously.

However, Li Zhihe planned to talk to Su Jin about the need for the Third Division to increase the allocation of supplies and food later after the banquet was over. How about this, I will ask Wang Baochang to come and apologize to you, and punish him heavily, just to vent your anger on you."

Su Jin shook his head and said: "Punishment is unnecessary. If I toast, they will not give face if they don't drink it. I just want to save face."

Li Zhihe smiled and said, "Then what do you say?"

Su Jin said: "Everyone is fined with a jar of wine."

Li Zhihe said in astonishment: "Yitan? Isn't this about getting drunk?"

Su Jin said: "When you get drunk, you get drunk, so what? I asked some of my brothers to accompany them to drink. They each have one jar, and my brothers each have two jars. It must be done."

Xu Wei laughed at the side and said: "Master Su is drunk, how can there be such a fight for alcohol."

Su Jin glared at him and said, "You're just drunk, but I'm not drunk. What's wrong with watching people fighting for wine?"

Li Zhihe said with a smile: "I think there are three bowls per person. You are willing to drink, but I am reluctant to bear the body of a soldier. I am really drunk, and I will gossip when I go back to the barracks."

Su Jin nodded and said: "Okay, according to the supervisor's idea, each person will not be given more than three bowls, and each of my subordinates will drink with them six bowls."

Li Zhihe and Xu Wei couldn't stop laughing wryly, Ge Huaimin happily followed suit, Su Jin shouted for his men to go downstairs to fetch wine, after a while more than a dozen servants came up with more than 20 jugs of wine, and an extra large big bowl of water was on the ground lined up.

Su Jin picked up a jar of wine, patted open the mud seal, took a big sip from the jar, praised: "Good wine!" Then he poured the wine into the bowl by himself as if splashing ink on the jar.