Dingguo

Chapter 237

"Oh...tomorrow? Then you will go around with the young master tomorrow, and you will learn from me when you come back..." Immediately afterwards, Li Daoming waved his hand again and said: "You don't need to wait here at night, and you don't need to be here tomorrow either. Come here, after meeting the Holy Queen, you will go back to the mansion directly. 【】”

Li Zhi hurriedly nodded and said: "Master, you should rest earlier..."

Just as he was about to leave, Li Daoming said again: "Go and ask the postman who is on duty! How is he worth it? It's so noisy now?"

Li Zhi knew in his heart that it was the master who asked him to inform Yi Cheng, to let him stop there and not disturb people's rest, so he agreed to come out, turned around and walked into the official room on duty for the night.

The Yi Cheng of Jinling Mansion is an out-and-out fourth-rank official.But this fourth-rank official is a doormat.When the officials come, he wants to laugh; when the officials come, he can't put on airs; from time to time, he has to introduce and introduce various people who are visiting; There are so many chores, and there is no drudgery to earn money.It's not much different from the eunuchs in the palace... Feng Tianyuan was holding a charcoal basin, some cold dishes on the table, and drinking a pot of wine.I wondered in my heart, should I also walk around, even if it is to replace these fourth-rank officials with ninth-rank officials, it is better than suffering here, suffering from anger and poverty... But, this is still not asking for money?In today's world, the official character opens his mouth twice, and he opens his mouth to eat. If there is nothing for him to eat, where can he improve?

I thought about it over and over again, without a clue, sighed, and drank the wine in one gulp... I heard some noise in the yard over there, and thought to myself, don't affect the people in the yard. The imperial envoy Li Daoming.When Li Daoming was in Jinling, he was an iron-handed censor. This time in Wuling, he heard that Lin Hailu was overthrown in one fell swoop, and now he is rushing to the position of censor.This character is usually a bit difficult to deal with. If you ask him to tell you who he is, it's not for fun... Thinking about this, he put down his wine glass, put two pieces of stewed beef in his mouth, and put on his jacket , I want to inform the courtyard at the other end.Just now when he opened the door, he saw Li Zhi walking straight towards him... Feng Tianyuan realized Li Zhi's purpose when he turned around, and before he could speak, he greeted him with his voice: "It's a coincidence that you came, those people from other provinces came here The officials in the station didn't know the rules of the station, so they drank some yellow soup and then raised their voices. If you have something to ask me, just wait for Tianyuan here for a while, Tianyuan told them to take it away, and if you want to quarrel with the imperial envoy, you can Not a place to play! Aren’t they afraid of participation?”

Seeing that Feng Tianyuan had finished talking, Li Zhi said with a smile: "Well, the gentlemen over there are also happy, so just tell them to keep their voices down. If you really accept it, it will spoil their interest. I am too. In the yard, the sound was too loud, I was afraid of disturbing the master to rest, it was not just for this matter, Lao Feng, you can just talk about it..."

Although Li Zhi is a housekeeper of the Li Mansion, he has traveled around many yamen in Jinling, so he is very familiar with Feng Tianyuan.Everyone doesn't regard Feng Tianyuan as a fourth-rank official, and Feng Tianyuan himself doesn't regard himself as an official, so everyone is naturally laughing together... In fact, the official style of enshrining the court is quite extensive, not to mention formal occasions, It's just that when drinking and chatting in private, there are also people who collectively refer to Shangguan as "big brother" and "big brother". In fact, respect and inferiority are not very strict.Therefore, officials like Feng Tianyuan usually have to do a lot of chores, so it is inevitable that they have to build a good relationship with the servants in various mansions.Therefore, even if Feng Tianyuan wanted to be an official, he couldn't.Otherwise, if something really happens one day and you go to someone's house, these servants will beat you with a knife, and there is nothing he can do.

This Jinling is not another mansion. He is a fourth-rank official and said it outside. It seems to be very big, but at the feet of the emperor, it is not a lot... that is, those who have no real power are from third-rank, third-rank, and have Sometimes you have to be a man with your tail between your legs, let alone him... "That's natural, brother, let's go into the room and wait. There are charcoal fires, wine and vegetables inside, and I will come whenever I go..." Feng Tianyuan raised his foot to leave... "You have a good life, but the little one came here only because I didn't see you for some time, and I wanted to say hello to you, Old Feng. I actually have something to do at hand, so I won't bother you. You are busy with your work, so let's go now..." Li Zhi laughed.

Feng Tianyuan stopped and smiled again: "Let's go now? Then, I won't send it off..."

Li Zhi arched his hands, said goodbye to Feng Tianyuan, and walked out of the post... Feng Tianyuan and Li Zhi left, rubbing his already cold hands, muttering, and walking towards the I walked into the yard where I was eating wine... "Hey, Lao Feng came just in time, come quickly. Do you have any charcoal basins? Bring some more. Are the walls of your posthouse made of paper? The wine The more you eat, the colder you get..." Lou Mingliang, a junior official in the Ministry of Finance and Household Department who said this, only had a fifth rank, but was full of official air.

In front of so many foreign officials and aides, Feng Tianyuan felt a little annoyed when he thought about using him as a current person.However, he said with a smile on his face: "No way, this post house was refurbished the year before last. Speaking of it, it is still the beginning and end of the household department. Is it paper paste? Brother Mingliang knows better than Tianyuan..."

Lou Mingliang saw a stone thrown out and was kicked back by Feng Tianyuan, so he said with a smile: "Then get some more charcoal basins and make the fire hotter, so we can't freeze the pillars of the country anymore, right?" ..."

Feng Tianyuan said in embarrassment: "There are really none...there are none left. The ones left over from last year are not enough at all. The station has already asked the Ministry to pull them out, but the weather is like this, and they haven't been pulled out yet." There were so many officials from various places before this year, and it was not enough to keep one in each person's room. What's more, some weak people needed to put a few more in the room... Tianyuan is also in trouble! They all come from a long way If brother Mingliang can understand Tian Yuan's difficulties, Tian Yuan will be very grateful..."

What was inside and outside the words, the words were still given to the head of the household department.Lou Mingliang is an official of the Ministry of Household Affairs. When Feng Tianyuan said this, he felt a little embarrassed.Originally, he wanted to take advantage of the drunkenness to show off his prestige, but who knew that Feng Tianyuan would be so shameless... so he replied abruptly: "I don't believe it, you can't find any of them?"

"There is still more... The imperial envoy said just now that the room is already warm and he is going to sleep. He doesn't need two charcoal basins, so he asked me to bring one out. I didn't want to go, but the imperial envoy ordered me to do it." He didn't listen, so he went. But the servants over there said that the imperial envoy thought that there were people drinking and making noise outside, so he couldn't sleep, so he asked the brazier to be put on first... At this moment, he should be sleeping, or Tianyuan will go there again, Bring the charcoal basin?" Feng Tianyuan laughed... After hearing what he said, they didn't care about the charcoal basin.Everyone was so absorbed in drinking just now that they forgot that the imperial envoy was staying at the post house when he returned to Jinling today.Hearing what Feng Tianyuan said now, he couldn't help but wake up.

Today, Lou Mingliang and other officials from the Sixth Ministry went outside the city to meet the imperial envoy.But as soon as he drank, he also forgot that the imperial envoy lived in the post house... hurriedly asked: "Which courtyard does Li Qin envoy live in?"

"It's next door! Otherwise, how can there be such a thing?"

Lou Mingliang's face changed color. He knew the post house's prohibition against loud voices, and hurriedly said, "Brother Tianyuan, you didn't say it a long time ago..." Without waiting for Feng Tianyuan to answer, he hurriedly said to everyone: "Today The wine is almost gone, it's getting late, and it's getting cold, brothers have to be on duty at night, let's get together some other day..."

When everyone heard that Li Daoming was sleeping next door, they also wanted to drink again.Looking back, Li Qinchai will face the Holy Spirit tomorrow, and in front of the Holy Spirit, he looks like he is not awake.If the emperor asks, then Li Qin will send them a copy in person.At that time, there is no reason to take off their black hats.

So they all bowed to each other and coaxed them to disperse...Feng Tianyuan followed the crowd out of the courtyard and saw that everyone had dispersed, so he returned to his official room, and when he entered the door, he faced Lou Mingliang who had gone away With a bah' sound, he scolded: "What is it that makes you unable to eat wine..."

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