Idle courtiers

Chapter 278
In the blink of an eye, Zhou Nan recounted the story of Hai Rui Hai Qingtian in his mind.

We can learn from it.

Fearless of power, strong and firm, with Haigang Peak and Zhou Zimu in the Ming Dynasty, justice will surely defeat evil.

Here is the brave petrel, flying proudly over the roaring sea, amidst the lightning; here is the victorious prophet crying:

—Let the storm come harder
Emotions were brewing in an instant, Zhou Nan was full of energy, and the index finger and middle finger of his right hand merged like a halberd, pointing directly at Duan Chengen.

Before the word "呔" was uttered, suddenly, there was a mournful cry: "My lord, my lord, something happened!"

But seeing an old man who looked like a housekeeper stumbled into the abode, he knelt on the ground and cried loudly.

Duan Chengxue was furious: "Duan Shisan, what are you doing, this is my official office, how can you break into it randomly. If people find out, it will appear that my lord is incapable of managing the family."

It turned out that this person was called Duan Shisan, and he was Duan Tixue's family member.

Duan Shisan knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing: "Master, you should go home, young master, young master...he..."

Duan Tixue: "What happened to that evil obstacle?"

Duan Shisan cried so much that his face was full of tears: "Master, he is leaving."

Duan Tixue didn't realize it for a moment: "Gone, where did you go?"

"Master, he is dead!"

"What!" Duan Tixue shook his body and fell to the ground.

"Master, master!" Duan Shisan hastily stretched out his hand to support him, and cried, "It's what happened just now, the young master has lost his temper. Master, you should go home and have a look!"

"My son, my son is gone." Duan Chengen burst into tears, and blood came out of his mouth.

There was chaos in the house.

Soon, Duan Tixue was rushed out with the support of his family members and government servants.

……

"How did this happen, how did things turn out like this..." Zhou Nan was dumbfounded, his mind was in chaos.

The plan really can't keep up with the changes.

My own strategy is not bad, and everything is moving forward according to the routine I designed.Seeing that the climax was coming, something happened to Duan Tijiao.This situation is as if a play has reached its peak, and the owner of the theater cuts off the electricity.

God, are you kidding me?
Someone beside him whispered: "Zimu, I didn't expect to see you here, but it's an extra test for Shuntian Mansion Qiu Wei? Now that the Duan Mansion has a new funeral, we have to go and do our best!"

Only then did Zhou Nan wake up, and found that he was already in the courtyard of the front office.Surrounded by yamen servants, secretary offices and officials running in a hurry, it seemed extremely chaotic.It turned out that he was completely dazed just now, and he followed Duan Chengen outside without realizing it.

Hearing this person speak, he turned his head to look, but it turned out to be Mr. Liu, the Prime Minister of Honglu Temple.

Zhou Nan bowed his hands and saluted: "So it's Liu Sicheng. I haven't seen you for a long time. I really want to hurt my official. I came here today for this purpose, but unfortunately, something happened to Duan's family. It seems that I ran away for nothing."

"Let's go, let's go to Duan Tijia to express our condolences. It's only a few steps away anyway. We talked as we walked." Liu Sicheng and Zhou Nan were both in the working group of Qingzhang Gyeonggi Huangchan, and they were double-regulated at the same time. I just feel very affectionate when I met Zhou Nan today.

Things didn't work out, Zhou Nan was frustrated, and just wanted to be quiet, to see if he could think of another way.But being dragged by Liu Sicheng, how can he escape?

If you don't say it, you are too ignorant of human affairs. I am afraid that you will get a reputation of being ungrateful and ungrateful in the future, so how can you hang around in the officialdom?
That's right, let's not talk about the trip today, and I still have to pay for it.

As Liu Sicheng said, Duan Tijia is only a few steps away from the Gongyuan.The two of them walked about a mile with the crying Duan family and entered a big house.

There was also chaos inside, and when he returned home, Duan Tixue wailed: "Where is my son, where is my son! Daddy came to see you, Daddy came to see you!"

Duan Tixue is from Hubei. According to the local custom, after a person dies, he must first stop in the yard, and Duan Gong will wipe the body of the deceased first and put on a shroud.After completing a whole set of ceremonies, you can enter the coffin.

Only then can we set up a mourning hall.

At this moment, he saw a dead body wearing only a pair of obscene trousers in the yard, busy with dignity.

The dead man was sallow all over, so thin that only his skeleton remained, and his belly was as big as a drum, which was even frightening.

There were five or six women kneeling in front of Mr. Duan's body, presumably they were all his wives and concubines.Born... How should I put it, it does affect the appearance of the city... The dead are the most important, so I won't comment.

Zhou Nan just glanced at it, and felt a strong discomfort, and he was already thinking about it: Mr. Duan must have liver disease, and he has ascites.Like Duan Tixue, Mr. Duan also had six fingers on his right hand.

As soon as Duan Tixue saw his son, he rushed towards him and cried, "Son, my darling, why did you abandon your father and go away? Without you, what's the point of living for your father. My Duan family, It's timeless!" Weeping and crying, he rolled his eyes and passed out.

Duan Shisan shouted: "Come quickly, help the old man back to the house, go and call the doctor."

Another mess.

After Duan Tixue was helped to rest in the room, Duan Shisan saluted the guests who came to express his condolences with tears in his eyes: "Excuse me, Duan's family has a new funeral. Please go to the flower hall to enjoy tea. When my grandpa wakes up , come again to greet everyone.”

The incident happened suddenly, butler Duan immediately ran to the Tixue Yamen to report the funeral.An accident happened at the head of Yihao's house, and all the subordinates of the Xuezheng Yamen, including all kinds of people who went to work, also followed.

The flower hall was full of people, and soon, there were funeral ministers setting out pens, ink, paper and inkstones.

Everyone knew it, and stepped forward to follow the elements.

Zhou Nan sighed in his heart, stepped forward to express his heart, and said: "My condolences."

It seemed that Duan Tixue was heartbroken and could no longer come out to see the guests, so Zhou Nan had nothing to do, so he said goodbye to Liu Sicheng and left.

After this tossing, the time has reached two o'clock in the afternoon.Zhou Nan and Liu Sicheng were so hungry that their stomachs were rumbling, so they invited them to find a restaurant to sit down and have a drink.

The two hadn't seen each other for a while, but this time they felt very affectionate when they saw someone.

Zhou Nan asked: "Why did Liu Sicheng come to study in the government office today?"

Liu Sicheng smiled and said: "Why else, just like you, for the exam, my wife's nephew also has to take the extra exam."

Zhou Nan: "Did you come to find Duan Tixue to be accommodating?"

"Tongrong, don't be kidding. Everyone knows Duan Tixue's temperament. I don't want to make fun of it. My wife's nephew has been studying abroad since he got the fame of a scholar. He just returned home the day before yesterday and missed the day. I will go to the yamen for him and register for him. His family is not bad, and it is good to be a Jinshi, but it’s okay if you can’t. Just try your luck. As soon as it was done, I heard that Mr. Duan died. I happened to meet Zimu again. Zimu, you must have come here to find a way, can you handle it?"

Zhou Nan smiled wryly and shook his head: "I didn't have time, this happened to the Duan family, and I'm not in the mood to see me if I want to come to Duan to study."

"Yes, it is a great tragedy in life to lose a child in old age, and a white-haired person to give a black-haired person. What's more, Mr. Duan is the only son who is studying, and the Duan family has no heirs. This is going to be extinct." Liu Sicheng said Sighing: "Duan Tixue is crazy about wanting to have a grandson. Over the years, he has taken five or six concubines for his son, but he still can't keep a man and a woman. It's helpless!"

Zhou Nan thought to himself: I, Zhou Nan, am not a member of the Appearance Association, but Mr. Duan's wives and concubines really don't have eyes to see.If I were him, I would probably have no interest in having children.

By the way, I heard that Mr. Duan's ex-wife was beautiful.

Also because of the original sin of beauty, Duan Lao Daoxue drove him away, and then stuffed a lot of broken copper and iron in the room.Mr. Duan was reduced to a stallion, so he must be depressed.

Depression hurts the liver, and even dies.

It's really unlucky to be the son of Mr. Duan!
Zhou Nan remembered that such a perfect plan of his own had encountered factors that could not be resisted by human beings, and suddenly felt a little bad, so he couldn't stop drinking.

Seeing that he was not in a good mood, Liu Sicheng joked: "Zimu, you are outstandingly talented, and your poems and essays are excellent. It's just an additional test, not Qiu Wei. With your talent, you can use it as an acquired test Worried?"

"Who can say for sure what happens in the examination room? A genius like Zhang Baigui sometimes misses Jingzhou carelessly." Zhou Nan was shocked when he finished saying this, "What, you're going to enter the examination room the day after tomorrow?"

He's been so busy these days that he's dizzy, but he's forgotten about it.

It's over, it's over, it's over.

Duan Tixue was already dissatisfied with Zhou Nan, and now he is in the pain of losing his son.He has an eccentric temper, can he win Zhou Xingren?
Zhou Nan was troubled in his heart, the imperial examination seemed to be on the verge of failure.Without fame, if you can't do it as a pedestrian, you have to join the royal family.Is the emperor's son-in-law so easy to do?Yu Er became someone's son-in-law, and he was miserable like that, I'm afraid it will be worse.

Things were going against him, and he almost gave up on treatment.

The feast of wine was drunk until dusk.

The wine enters the heart of sorrow, and I don't feel drunk.Seeing that it was getting late, Zhou Nan said to his followers: "Get out of the city quickly, the Nine Gates will be closed in a little while at night. My lord is not finished yet, I have to save myself."

A yamen servant said: "My lord, you are already in the capital, why don't you go back to your residence?"

Zhou Nan was furious, and reprimanded with his tongue: "My lord is diligent in government and loves the people. I have never entered the house three times. Stop talking nonsense and go back to Baigezhuang immediately."

The yamen servants complained in their hearts, it was so late, and now they might have to walk at night to go back to the yamen. Walking down more than 20 miles, the pain can be imagined.

Grand Master, why don't you go home and sleep well? You're so drunk, and now you rush back to the yamen and you're paralyzed on the bed.

Well, Mr. Zhou is not a worry-free master, it's better not to mess with him.

A group of people walked for a long time, even beat Songming, and returned to the Yamen in the middle of the night, exhausted.On the way, Comrade Zhou vomited once.

The yamen servant brought hot water to wash Mr. Zhou's face and feet, took off his official robe, and finally settled him down, and went back to sleep.

In addition, Zhou Nan was served by his subordinates for a while, although he was too tired to open his eyes and his whole body was weak, but his drowsiness was eliminated.

I just felt that my mouth was so thirsty that it was about to burst into flames, so I asked my subordinates to serve tea, and shouted a few times, the voice was as thin as a mosquito, how could it be heard by others.

Forget it, let's continue to sleep!

I lay down for a while, but felt hot all over.It turned out that the people in the yamen knew that Master Zhou liked to enjoy himself, so the floor heating in the bedroom never stopped on weekdays.After burning for a day and a night, the house was as hot as the scorching heat.

He couldn't bear it anymore, took off his clothes, and lay naked on the kang.

In a trance, it seemed that the bright girl Ah Jiu appeared in front of her eyes.

She smiled like a flower, and slowly bent down.

Zhou Nan couldn't bear it any longer and stretched out his hand to hug the white shadow, a strong scent of powder filled the room,

I don't know how long it has been, Zhou Nan suddenly shivered, remembering that Ah Jiu was just a 14-year-old child, sweating profusely all over his body, and completely sobered up.

Only then did he see that beside him was a plump and white body.

No, my lord was raped by a woman.

Who is it, who is it, return my integrity!

(End of this chapter)