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Winter rains.

Suzaku Street is lit up everywhere.

The bright red of the streets is a subtle contrast to the endless, mournful rain.

"Mr. Wang?"

Chai Jue called out curiously.

He was about to enter the Babao Teahouse, and happened to meet Wang Anshi who was walking out.

"Also going out on Chinese New Year's Eve?"

Wang Anshi replied: "Didn't the Third Highness also go out?" ”

Chai Juewaner: "I'm here to find Lelang." ”

"No. ”

"Huh?"

"A certain is also here to find An Guohou, and the shopkeeper Shi said that he went to the East Water Gate. ”

The East Water Gate, in the southwest of Bianjing, goes out of the Suzaku Gate, and then walks about three or four miles.

Chai Jue suddenly said: "Is it for the staff dormitory?" That is the site selection of the staff dormitory of Babao Tea House and Babao Fast Food.

Wang Anshi nodded: "Exactly." ”

"Don't even rest on Chinese New Year's Eve!" Chai Jue looked like he couldn't help it.

"I heard the shopkeeper Shi say that Babao Teahouse does not take annual leave. The two walked side by side on the street, Wang Anshi said casually.

"Oh?"

"The guys volunteered, saying that they were afraid that the regular customers would not have a place to drink tea and eat snacks during the New Year......"

Chai Jue curled his lips and smiled, and said disapprerovingly: "Even if you are a loyal regular customer, you will kill chickens, ducks and fish at home during the Chinese New Year, I'm afraid you can't remember the Babao Teahouse, right?"

Wang Anshi also smiled slightly: "Shopkeeper Shi said that he also persuaded him like this, but the guys said that during the Chinese New Year, this restaurant is the only restaurant in the whole capital that is open as usual, and Bianjing is so big, even if only one person in every ten or twenty households wants to eat out, it is not a small number." ”

The rain was getting heavier.

The droplets of water dripping from the edge of the oil umbrella wet Wang Anshi's coat and also wet Chai Jue's fox fur.

"The guys really regard Babao Tea House as their own business. Wang Anshi said with a sigh.

Chai Jue bowed his head slightly: "That's because Lelang treats the guys as family." ”

"Hmm. ”

Wang Anshi deeply agrees.

Others only said that An Guohou "Le Lang" was a gentleman who did not learn and did not know how to learn, and the "first straw bag" in official learning, however, he was convinced that "he" was not stubborn, let alone stupid, but his ideas were too original, and he was not shackled by the stereotypes and bad habits of the world at all. It is difficult to embed a round chisel, so it is out of place, so that everyone never has a chance to know that this "young man" actually has a simple and sincere compassion and fearless courage.

Speaking of which, the younger generation remembered something. ”

Chai Jue said.

Wang Anshi asked, "What's the matter?"

"Babao Tea House and Babao Fast Food have the habit of celebrating the birthday of the guys, do you know?" Chai Jue asked without answering.

"Is there such a thing?" Wang Anshi was surprised.

"Yes, it starts with my first time attending a guy's birthday......

With the sound of the dripping rain, Chai Jue told the story of the birthday banquet of his partner Zhang Erhu.

……

The rain stopped.

The carriage had already left the Suzaku Gate, and it was still a moment before it arrived at the East Water Gate.

"At that time, I lamented that the salaries of the hundreds of officials in the past dynasties were different from those of the guys, but how many officials really took the world as their own responsibility......"

Chai Jue's story also happened to come to an end.

Wang Anshi heard this and thought thoughtfully.

After a deep sigh, he said, "That's true. It is about indulging in the struggle for power and profit, which will cause people to lose their gratitude. ”

Chai Jue shook his head and said with a smile: "Sir's thoughts are the same as I was at that time. ”

"Isn't it?"

The younger generation thinks that Lelang's statement is more reasonable. ”

"What did he say?"

"The kings of the past, didn't they treat this world as if it were just their own family? Chai Jue relayed it word for word.

- "Hahahahaha!"

After a while, Wang Anshi burst into laughter.

"Indeed, indeed, both sides are not wronged, neither is wronged!"

Just then, the carriage stopped.

There was a constant commotion outside the car window.

"Why is it so noisy?" Wang Anshi wondered.

Chai Jue lifted the heavy curtain, and the sound of quarrels came in more truly.

- "Public latrines, public stoves, Lelang, you are simply yang and yin, two-sided and three-stabbed!"

It was Sima Guang's voice.

Wang Anshi's face suddenly became gloomy.

……