Lu Yuan raised his head at this time, he didn't want to see this person, so his attitude was cold.

"What crime does Brother Yuan want to ask for?" He got up and went over to help Yuan Chi up, and closed the door again.

"Because of greed for money, the lower officials accepted bribes from the four major chambers of commerce, and leaned towards them in terms of business policies, which is a heinous crime, please surrender your lordship." Yuan Chi sobbed.

"If you knew today, why bother in the first place?" Lu Yuan said slowly.

"Please listen to me." Yuan Chi bit his lip and said:

"When I first entered the officialdom, I also wanted to contribute to the court and benefit the people, but as time went by, I was surrounded by corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and I felt that it was difficult to implement a good policy, and I didn't know how much concessions I needed to make in other places.

But once you regress, you can't get it back, and if you get someone else's favor, how can you not repay it elsewhere? So before I knew it, I started to go with the flow, and I felt a lot more relaxed. ”

Lu Yuan saw that his words were sincere, and his bad feelings for him disappeared a lot.

"Sit down." I poured him a cup of tea.

Yuan Chi thanked him, put the teacup on the table, and said in a low voice:

"Lord Lu, I am a mediocre person, I don't have the ability to move forward against the wind and waves, I hope you can give me another chance."

Lu Yuan thought to himself that if he wanted to achieve great things in the future, he must be open-minded and recruit talents, as long as the other party sincerely attached, he could not close the door to death.

"Tell me first, how many bribes have you received over the years?" He asked.

"Over the years, it has accumulated more than five thousand taels of silver." Yuan Chi said ashamedly.

Lu Yuan is now a person who has seen the world, and he is not too shocked, and asked, "Is there anything left?" ”

"The last dividend, I divided more than 600 taels of silver, I used more than 400, and there are more than 200 taels left, and all the previous dividends were used up."

"You use money so extravagantly, even if I let you go this time, when you are short of money in the future, how can you guarantee that you will not be corrupt again?" Lu Yuan raised his eyebrows.

Yuan Chi heard that there was a meaning of forgiveness in his words, and he was excited for a while, and swore an oath:

"Don't worry, my family has a small field, life is worry-free, after I will restrain myself, correct bad habits, as long as you are in front, the lower officials have the confidence to find back then, to be a good official."

"Okay, I don't blame you for this incident, but you have other faults besides this."

"No, there is absolutely no more, Xia Guan has done this wrong thing in his life." Yuan Chi hurriedly shook his head, and suddenly, he said in a panic: "My lord, the lower officials sometimes go to Pingle Fang, please punish the adults." ”

"The government doesn't explicitly stipulate that you can't go to that kind of place, and although I don't like to see this, I won't punish you."

"Don't worry, my lord, I won't go to that kind of place in the future." Yuan Chi's words were convincing.

Lu Yuan nodded and said, "Go back and confiscate the remaining two hundred taels, and in the future, you must always be vigilant and introspective to get back your original ambition." ”

"Please rest assured, the next official will change his mind and change his past." Yuan Chi said solemnly.

"Okay, let's go."

Out of the study, Yuan Chi felt comfortable for a while, although Lu Yuan was not as old as him, but he felt more majestic than Lao Taishan. Revealing his heart in front of him just now, and gaining the other party's understanding, made him feel like he had recovered from a long-term illness.

Standing in the courtyard of the second hall, he couldn't help but chant: "After being in the cage for a long time, you can return to nature!" ”

When he returned to his yamen, he began to work with a calm heart.

He hadn't been so attentive to his work for a long time, and time passed unexpectedly quickly.

"Lord Bookkeeper, it's time to go down." A small official reminded.

"Got it." Yuan Chi raised his head and rubbed his temples with his hands.

Out of the main bookkeeper's office, he walked towards the gate, and when the officials and officials saw him along the way, they would give way to the side, and did not greet him, as if they were avoiding the plague.

He would have been very uncomfortable if he had been in the past, but now he was relaxed and walked with his hands down.

When passing through the courtyard of the lobby, a person came out of the county government, it was Li Wencheng, he glared at Yuan Chi fiercely, walked out of the gate quickly, and left in a sedan chair.

Yuan Chi sneered, thinking to himself, you went to Xiuning and dared to come back, see how many days you can sit in this position.

Out of the county office, he went straight to the south, all the way to a small courtyard, on the lintel of the word "Qingyuan" written on the word.

The door was open, unguarded, and Yuan Chi went straight in.

Walking into the lobby, I saw four screens in the hall, which were full of poems, and there were more than a dozen literati and ink writers standing next to the screens, some of them were reading the poems above, and some were holding brushes and writing hard in the blank seats of the screen.

Seeing Yuan Chi coming, several literati who were familiar with him arched their hands to him, and Yuan Chi returned the salute and read poems on the screen.

This small courtyard is the courtyard that Sun Shaoqing lent to Su Liuying, and she was rescued by Lu Yuan this time, so she wanted to do something to repay him.

Later, Sun Shaoqing gave her an idea, asking her to use the identity of the Su family to place four screens in the lobby every day, as long as someone has poems in her eyes, she can be invited to enter and talk with her.

In this way, the talents of the Quartet will surely become famous, and the academic style of She County will naturally be improved.

When Yuan Chi was reading the poems with relish, two old men suddenly walked into the hall, and most of them saluted after seeing the two.

Among these two people, one of them is Ji Yan, and the other is called Wei Que.

Recently, Ji Yan has been paying attention to the problem of private learning in the county, and during this time, he has been visiting everywhere, collecting materials, preparing to find the right time, asking for the county order, explaining to him one by one, and informing him of the dangers of private learning.

By chance, he learned that there was a poetry meeting in the county, and he thought that this was very good for the style of study in She County, so he came to visit, who knew that the poetry meeting was actually Jinling Su family, and through conversation, he learned that Su family knew Lu County Order, and since then, he has often visited.

Su Liuying hadn't seen him since he was separated from Lu Yuan outside the city, but he could often see Sun Shaoqing.

The two of them don't have a speaker on weekdays, but after they got acquainted, they often got together to chat, as long as Su Liuying didn't mention Lu Yuan's previous affairs, the two could talk happily.

Sun Shaoqing often complained that Lu Yuan let him do this and that, treating himself as if he were his subordinate, but Miss Su could hear her expression full of pride when she said this.

She didn't break it, she followed her topic and chatted, and she knew exactly what Lu Yuan was doing every day.

After the two of them made a report, they were invited into the backyard, only to see tables and chairs set up in the courtyard, and Su Liuying, dressed in blue, was painting.

Seeing the two old men, she smiled and said, "The two gentlemen are here." ”

"Miss Su is so interested, I don't know what she is drawing?" Wei Que said with a smile.

Before Su Liuying could answer, she was interrupted by Ji Yan.

"Miss Su, have you seen Miss Sun yesterday, has Lord Lu been busy in the past two days?" He had already prepared the materials and was ready to find an opportunity to ask for a meeting with the prefectural order.

"Yes, she said that Lu Yuan was busy going to Ningguo County for the past two days."

"What? Lord Lu wants to leave? Ji Yan was shocked.

"He's just going to run some errands, and he'll be back soon."

Ji Yan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's good, then I'll wait for Lord Lu to come back, and then find a chance to mention this matter to him." ”

"By the way, I heard Sister Shaoqing say that the Dr. Wang you mentioned has been transferred out of this county." Su Liuying said.

She had heard Ji Yan talk about Dr. Wang, and she was extremely disgusted with this person in her words, thinking that he would be very happy when he learned the news.

Who knew that Ji Yan was furious: "Oh, let this shaft run away!" ”

"I wonder who will take over the doctor?" It was Wei Que who was questioning, and he was more concerned about this matter.

"Then I don't know."

"No matter who does it, we must not let a sven scum like Wang Lun do it again!" Ji Yan said angrily.

Su Liuying's heart moved, remembering that Sun Shaoqing had mentioned that Lu Yuan had asked her to recommend the city order, and thought that Lu Yuan's subordinates must be short of talents, so she could recommend this person to him.

However, she saw that Lu Yuan never came to look for her after they separated that day, and she was a little angry in her heart, and she didn't want to take the initiative to find him.

Thinking that after Sun Shaoqing came in the evening, let her recommend this person to Lu Yuan.

Ji Yan and the two sat for a while, then said goodbye and left, Su Liuying continued to paint, and when she was tired of painting, she went back to the room to read.

In the evening, Sun Shaoqing really came again.

Su Liuying welcomed her into the lobby and told her about recommending Ji Yan.

"I've heard that Ji Yan has a weird temper, how can this work." Sun Shaoqing said.

"You haven't seen him, how can you listen to others? In my opinion, Ji Yan is extremely knowledgeable and has an upright temper. "Su Liuying has a good impression of Ji Yan.

"The doctor of scripture is a high-grade official, and unlike the city order, the imperial court may send officials, how can we recommend them at will?" Sun Shaoqing still shook his head.

"Well, I'll mention it casually, too." Su Liuying said: "Don't mention this, tell me quickly, what interesting things happened in the county yaya today?" ”