As soon as Deng Yin went out, he turned to the backyard, came to the root of the wall, and gently went to the top of the wall. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Seeing that there was no one around, he climbed the eaves with one hand, turned over and came to the tile, and paced to the center. I saw that a few tiles had been removed, and when I looked inward, I saw the old shopkeeper holding broken silver in his hand, his white hair trembling, standing on the ground in a daze. I was very relieved in my heart, so I took a closer look, looked around, and found that a tile seemed to have been trampled on, so I looked for traces, jumped into the courtyard wall, and searched carefully. Finally, in the west direction, above the wall, I found the remaining footprints, and my heart suddenly became bright, and I crossed the wall and chased westward. Out of Huai'an Mansion, chased out three or four miles away, and came to the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal Yellow Code Ferry.

At this time, the west sun is slanting down, and the purple clouds are fluttering; Yu Huang reflects green, and hundreds of birds sing in unison; The wind blows the leaves, and the branches tremble and faint; It's really bright and swaying, reverie ripples, non-pen and ink can be melted.

However, at this moment, Deng Yin was standing on the shore, and when he saw that the river was empty, there was no one in the boat, and his heart couldn't help but sink slightly. In the blink of an eye, I saw the sunset and clouds again, it was already dusk, and I felt anxious. Suddenly, there was a burst of singing from the water, the sound was weak, as if there was nothing, and after a while, the singing stopped. In the haze, I saw a small boat in Wupeng, sailing to the shore and approaching. Deng Yin watched carefully, and saw a man standing on the bow of the boat, wearing a green cloth robe, with a fair complexion, a slender body, clear and elegant, just like a weak scholar, not a person who sailed and operated a boat. Looking at his figure again, his steps are vain, and he is not equipped with martial arts, so he can't help but be suspicious. Then he looked at it again, and saw that he had inserted the penny into the water with both hands, but he ignored himself, looked up at the sky with a leisurely expression, and slowly murmured:

"The glow of the sun lifts Kunlun,

It's like Qionglou Rui haze turning.

Sunset clouds cover the sky and love the earth,

Which one of the two is respectful? ”

The sound is like a dragon's groan, sonorous and pleasant. After chanting, the scholar turned around, raised his eyebrows slightly, and looked at Deng Yin with a calm expression: "I don't know what the official has to say about this song "Heaven and Earth Love"? There was a lot of sarcasm in his voice. Deng Yin smiled slightly, didn't care, and also chanted: "Which one of the two of you comply?" After a pause in his tone, his face changed suddenly: "Which one of the two of you obeys a good sentence?" Since ancient times, the heavens and the earth are humble, and the officials obey the people. You dare to compare heaven and earth, the government and the people, aren't you afraid of falling into the disaster of robbing your family and killing your head? The scholar said with disdain in his eyes: "Life in the world should be reckless, sing if you want to, cry when you want to cry, where do you get so many worries." "The voice is quiet, and there is no fear.

Deng Yin said: "Are you really not afraid? The scholar said, "If you are afraid, you will not speak." If you dare to say it, why are you afraid! Deng Yin said: "Okay! Since Mr. is not afraid, then Deng wants to ask Mr. about the way to be an official and how to view the relationship between the government and the people? The scholar squinted at Deng Yin, and said secretly in his heart: "Seeing that you are dressed as an official, you actually asked me face to face, am I afraid that you will not succeed?" Thinking in his chest, he opened his mouth and said: "Officials and people." Just as heaven and earth, fish and water, complement each other and are indispensable, how can they be divided and inferior, and they should be treated equally. After a pause, he said: "As for the way to be an official, it lies in being clean, honest and capable." As the saying goes, the official Qing **** loves, the official is honest **** support, and the functional **** helps. This is the way to be an official, the love of the government and the people. ”

Deng Yin then asked: "What is 'clean', what is 'incorruptible', and what is 'ability'." The scholar said: "Not being greedy and perverting the law is 'clean', not looting the people's fat and ointment is 'honest', and solving the people's suffering is 'can'." Deng Yin praised loudly: "Okay, well said!" It's really refreshing, compared to those sycophants who only know how to flatter, sing praises of virtue, and befriend officials. Mr. is really courageous and insightful, and his insights are incisive, and Deng Yin admires him very much. Appropriate words are offensive, and Mr. Wang's words are not strange. After speaking, he clenched his fists and bowed to the ground. When the scholar suddenly saw Deng Yin making this big gift, he was a little unhappy in his heart, and he was swept away. also clasped his fists and saluted: "I don't dare to take the honorific title of Mr. In the next family surname Liu, the word Jinxuan, if Brother Deng does not dislike it, he will be called Jinxuan! Deng Yin said: "Don't dare, Mr. Ting's accent is not local, but I know why he is here?" Liu Jinxuan said: "Alas! It's a long story, why don't you get on the boat and talk about it? Deng Yin said: "I can't ask for it, I am about to ask Mr. for advice." ”

The two walked into the cabin and sat opposite each other, Liu Jinxuan said: "I am a person from Xi'an Mansion, Kangxi won the Jinshi in nine years, and he has been mixed in officialdom for six years, because of a murder case, he killed a local gentry and offended Shangguan. He also saw the darkness of officialdom clearly, so he resigned angrily and took his wife and children to live temporarily in Yanhe Village here. Deng Yin nodded and said: "For the people's grievances, I did not hesitate to offend my boss, so that I abandoned the official and went to the hidden spring forest." Mr. Gao Feng is bright, the world is hard to see, Deng Yin is ashamed of himself! ”

Liu Jinxuan heard Deng Yin praise himself so much, and couldn't help but blush: "Brother Deng praises falsely, and the younger brother really doesn't dare to be it." Deng Yin laughed and said, "Deserve it!" Deserved! It's just that I'm very puzzled, why do people like Brother Jinxuan do this business? Liu Jinxuan's face suddenly showed a painful look, and he said silently: "This is the next heartache matter, it is really inconvenient to tell people, I hope Brother Deng will forgive me." After finishing speaking, he couldn't stop shaking his head and sighing, his face full of sadness.

Seeing him look like this, Deng Yin knew that he must have something unspeakable, and if he wanted to ask forcibly, he would not be able to get it. Then he had a plan and said: "You and I see each other as before, why don't you marry Jinlan today, I don't know what my brother wants?" Liu Jinxuan turned to joy and said: "It is exactly what the little brother wants, but it is simple here, and there is no incense and candle, which is really inconvenient." Deng Yin suddenly said angrily: "Where did my brother say?" Brother Shicai doesn't mean that life is in the world, when he goes casually, why do he take care of those red tape at this time. His face was straight, and then he said: "You and I have fellowship here today, and we will be like brothers, and from now on we will share blessings and difficulties." Our brothers only need to be sincere in their hearts, so why should they care about these false etiquette. Liu Jinxuan listened to Deng Yin's sincerity, his heart swelled with enthusiasm, and he said loudly: "What Brother Deng said is good. Sincerity is thousands of miles away, and it is also about each other, what does it have to do with those cumbersome etiquette? "That's it.

The two men came to the bow of the ship and worshipped heaven and earth. Talking about Nian Geng, he was born in the tenth year of Shunzhi, but Deng Yin was half a year old, so Liu Jinxuan called him the eldest brother, and bowed his head again. Deng Yin hurriedly helped him up, and said happily: "Brother, please get up." Today, my brother has recognized me as the eldest brother, so there can be no more things to deceive the eldest brother, right? Liu Jinxuan seemed to have guessed Deng Yin's meaning, so he smiled and said: "The eldest brother can ask, and the younger brother knows everything." Deng Yin thought for a while and said, "Brother, I am a person with a hurry, and I never hear half a sentence." As soon as someone says the first half of the sentence, then my heart is itchy and I think all night long, what is the second half! You say it's not funny! Liu Jinxuan laughed and said: "Now that the eldest brother is his own family, he said that it is okay to be with the eldest brother." After a while, he thought about it and said: "When the younger brother went to work, in order to be able to arrive as soon as possible, he had to travel all the way. At the beginning, the insiders who were pregnant with Rokjia gave birth halfway, and if they were physically strong, they didn't care. Alas! It's only to blame God for making people, the more you worry about something! God is here to make you miserable..."

Deng Yin hurriedly asked: "Could it be that her brother and sister ......" Liu Jinxuan shook his head and said miserably: "Although Neiko is fine, but because she has been weak and sick since she was a child, coupled with the bumps along the way, my son fell into a disease after giving birth: once he was frightened, his whole body stiffened, and he foamed at the mouth. Now that I am more than six years old, my husband and wife have sought medical advice and medicine in every possible way, and they have exhausted their family resources to just ask my son to recover, but they will never get it. had to live here temporarily, operate the ferry, and have spent their days here, which made the eldest brother laugh. Deng Yin saw Liu Jinxuan's bitter expression, knowing that he was hurting in his heart, so he diverted the topic and said: "It's all the eldest brother's, it's not the eldest brother's, it's sad to make the brother, and the eldest brother can't accompany you." He arched his hand, and then asked, "Brother ferrying here, have you ever seen a short, ugly man here in the morning?" Liu Jinxuan said: "The eldest brother doesn't ask, the younger brother almost forgot that there is indeed such a person." Coming at noon, rat eyebrows and rat eyes, said that he was going to Hongze Lake, Laozi Town. How do you know that when you get to the ground, take advantage of my unpreparedness, run away without a trace, run away! I didn't forget to take the sheep by the hand, and even let go of a few loose coins on me, which was really infuriating and funny. It's just that he didn't come close to me, and he talked to me at the end, but he couldn't figure out when to do it. With a smile on his face, he kept shaking his head. Deng Yin smiled secretly and thought: "No wonder the wind in the rivers and lakes is said to be righteous, loves to make friends and is a well-known hero, but he is a man who likes to steal, so much so that he is despised by the heroes in the martial arts. Then he said: "My brother is already forced by life, why don't I use this as an excuse to help him make up for his family." ”

Thinking of this, Deng Yin smiled and said, "Brother, don't be angry with such people. The eldest brother still has some silver taels in his arms, and he gives it to his brother, which is a gift from my uncle to the child, and the brother should not say goodbye. Saying that, he stretched out his hand into his arms, and Liu Jinxuan hurriedly said: "The eldest brother is kind and the younger brother understands it, but he doesn't dare to accept this silver tael." If you receive this silver, will you not become a villain who is greedy for cheapness? If I were such a villain, when I was an official, I would already be a greedy and dirty official with a net worth of millions, and I would not be worthy of being called a brother and sister to my eldest brother. Deng Yin saw that Liu Jinxuan said so resolutely, knowing that he couldn't force it, so he opened his mouth and said: "Since my brother doesn't want to accept it, my eldest brother is not reluctant." After a pause, he asked, "Brother Shicai said that the wind went to Laozi Town at that time, and the eldest brother was about to arrest this person." Liu Jinxuan said: "Then the little brother will give the eldest brother a ride." After saying that, he got up and walked out of the cabin, propped up the oar, and sailed the boat to the center of the river, and went south, fluttering, crossing the Grand Canal, and entering Hongze Lake.