Wen Ji shook his head, "My son never talks to me about the affairs of the court, he is a secretary of the army and has a lot of secrets, he must be tight-lipped, I can understand his difficulties, so I have never embarrassed him, but I know a thing or two about what Brother Pei said, it is said that the King of Jin is to choose a successor from the officials of the Hedong family, and it is also to seek balance." ”

Pei Zhen suddenly became interested, and asked with a smile: "But what did Boyo tell you?" ”

Boyo is the head of the Wang family, Wang Hong, the five brothers of the Wang family, the eldest brother Wang Wei is famous all over the world, the second Wang Jin is also the prime minister, the third Wang Jian was an official to Jingzhou Thorn History, died of illness last year, the fourth Wang Hong served as the guest of the prince of Zhengsanpin before the Jingyuan mutiny, the old five Wang Zhen originally served as the governor of Taiyuan Prefecture, and now he has been reappointed as the governor of Jinzhou, slightly degraded, which is related to the Taiyuan September last year There were seven serial robberies, and the merchants suffered heavy losses, and the thieves have not been caught so far.

As the governor of Taiyuan Prefecture, Wang Zhen assumed direct responsibility and was demoted to the governor of Jin.

With the status of the Wang family in Hedong and the status of the entire Tang Dynasty, Wang Hong's entry into Chang'an is the highest voice.

Of course, Wenxi's Pei family is not weaker than the Wang family at all, Pei Yan, Pei Kuan, Pei Mian, Pei Zunqing, these are all prime ministers of the Tang Dynasty, but they have been a little declining in recent years, so Pei Zhen wants to take the opportunity of this opportunity to revive the momentum of the Pei family.

Wen Ji is very clear about these relationships, he knows that the Pei and Wang families have always been in a state of competition, and the relationship between the Wen family and the Pei Wang family is very good, and both of them want to find out each other's details through themselves.

It really made Wen Ji feel embarrassed, and he was silent for a moment and said: "I think you should wait and see what happens instead of guessing here, and there will be news in the next few days." ”

Pei Zhen's face changed, and Wang Hong was really inquiring about his situation.

........

Pan Liao's mansion is located in Jing'an Fang, it is an official residence covering an area of 20 acres, which belongs to the first gear in the Jin Wang's mansion, and the mansions of the seven counselors are almost the same, although Xue Changshou resigned as a counselor, but as long as the title of governor is not canceled and the official rank is not reduced, then his treatment will not be reduced.

Some things are also interesting, Pan Liao has two families in Hexi, Liangzhou is a formal family, and his wife gave him three boys, two girls and five children, and later he went to Zhangye as an official, but his wife did not follow, he had an outer room, and the two lived for ten years, and the outer room gave him two children.

Originally, his wife and the outer room were rivals, and they never met, and they both vowed to use knives if they saw each other.

But as Guo Song's career became bigger and bigger, when the capital was moved to Taiyuan, Pan Liao's wife and outer room took the initiative to reconcile, and even Pan Liao didn't know when they met and when they reconciled, only that they came to the new house in Taiyuan in the same carriage, and the seven children were also very familiar with each other, and they couldn't see that they were not brothers and sisters who grew up together.

Chang'an's twenty acres of house is enough to live in a big family, Pan Liao's old mother is still there, she is over seventy years old, and her body is still very healthy.

The eldest daughter was married in Taiyuan, married to the son of Wei Nan, a doctor of Taiyuan Guozixue, and the eldest son Pan Xiao was admitted to the Ming Jingke the year before last, and served as the chief secretary of Qinyuan County, Qinzhou, and he also married his wife at the beginning of the year and started a family.

When Pan Liao served as the governor of Ganzhou, Li Luo was the governor of Liangzhou, and the two once served in Guzang County, Liangzhou, one as a county commander and the other as a county magistrate, and the friendship was formed at that time.

Pan Liao is Guo Song's most powerful right-hand man, and his current position is equivalent to the right minister, and he is really hard at home, and it is almost dark when he comes home every day, and Pan Liao is responsible for leading the drafting of the imperial examination plan in the past two days, which is extremely hard, and it is very late to return home.

The carriage slowly stopped in front of the mansion, Pan Liao got out of the carriage, went directly into the mansion, and returned to his study, he was really a little tired, and he needed to go back to the study to relax.

Pan Liao was influenced by Guo Song and also liked jade, in fact, the Tang Dynasty was very fanatical about jade, and every man wore jade on his waist, but Guo Song liked seed jade, others didn't care, a lot of jade was still Xiuyu from the Central Plains.

Pan Liao likes jade, all kinds of utensils carved from jade, vases, tea cups, screens, etc., he will play with jade when he comes home, read books for a while, and then rest and sleep.

Pan Liao came to his inner study, the room was brightly lit, the incense burner had been lit, and a faint sandalwood could be smelled outside the house.

The difference in Pan Liao's heart, this kind of sandalwood is very precious, he never uses it, how can there be such a fragrance in the study?

Walked the room, Pan Liao was stunned, the incense burner was actually placed on his table, but it was not the Panlong bronze incense burner he usually used, it turned out to be a jade incense burner, about one foot five inches high, carved with a whole piece of green jade, the handle on it was a vermilion bird, carved lifelike, the upper part was hollowed out, you can see the bronze gall inside, this green jade vermilion bird furnace weighs at least forty or fifty catties, and it is a very precious jade incense burner at a glance.

At this time, his wife Zhang walked in with a cup of tea, and Pan Liao hurriedly asked, "What's going on with this incense burner?" ”

"This was sent by the Wei family, saying that he missed the master's fiftieth birthday, and specially made up for the birthday gift!"

It's just nonsense, it's been three months since his fiftieth birthday, how can he still receive a birthday gift, and he is very low-key when he celebrates his birthday, he didn't notify the outside at all, and he didn't hold a banquet, just the whole family got together for a meal.

The only birthday gift is that King Jin gave him a piece of mutton fat seed jade, and two in-laws gave him some birthday gifts, and the others did not accept gifts, what did the Wei family do to give gifts to themselves inexplicably?

"Why do you want to take this?" Pan Liao asked dissatisfiedly.

Zhang said with a look of grievance: "I don't want it, but the other party's housekeeper said, what the master knows, I just accepted it, I knew that the master didn't know, I wouldn't accept it at all." ”

"Is the incense inside also sent by the Wei family?"

"Incense is not, incense was given to the old lady by His Royal Highness King Jin last time, the old lady was reluctant to use it, let me take it to the master, just try this incense burner."

"Hurry up and pour out the incense, pack the stove and send it back to the Wei family."

"I know, I'm going to find someone to move."

Zhang was just about to leave, but Pan Liao stopped her again, "Wait a minute!" ”

Pan Liao suddenly understood at this time that it must be Wei Jian who wanted to seek the position of counselor, so he wanted to open the gap from himself, and asked himself to give His Royal Highness the King of Jin a few good words.

Why didn't this Wei Lian give up? Last time, Du You told him that it was impossible to appoint him as the prime minister, and he was very reluctant to serve as senior minister now, and with his ability, it would be almost the same to go down to serve as the assassin.

Pan Liao knew that Wei Lian was narrow-minded, and sending him back like this would be a slap in the face, even if this grudge was settled, he had to use a safe way to deal with this matter, and in the end, he would not hurt each other's face, and he would not be laughed at.

Pan Liao paced back and forth with his hands down, what method is better?

..........

Early the next morning, the new Jingzhao Yin Wei Yingwu received a report from Wu Wenzheng, the commander of Wannian County, that there might be thieves in the Changshi Panliao Mansion, and Wei Yingwu must go to see it in person.

Wei Yingwu is really puzzled, do you still need to check it yourself if there is such a thing as a little thief?

However, Wu Wenzheng's tone was a little vague, Wei Yingwu felt something, and decided to go to the door to take a look.

Wei Yingwu was only in his early fifties, it was when he was in the prime of life, he had previously served as the assassin of Suzhou, because the imperial history Sun Yingrong could not ask for bribes, so he impeached Wei Yingwu for indulging in alcohol and lax government affairs, plus Wei Yingwu wrote poems to ridicule the eunuch party in power, Song Chaofeng and others have always held a grudge, with the impeachment of the imperial history, Song Chaofeng took the opportunity to remove Wei Yingwu.

Soon after Wei Yingwu returned to Chang'an, Guo Song, who had always admired him, appointed him as Jingzhao Yin, which could be regarded as a response to Jingzhao Wei.

Wei Yingwu rushed to Pan's Mansion in Jing'anfang, Pan Liao had already gone to the court, and Pan Liao's second son Pan Fang received Wei Yingwu.

"Qi Qi Wei envoy, at midnight last night, the family found a black shadow on the wall, and under the shouting, the black shadow fled in panic."

"Now that the shadow has fled, can the house lose its belongings?" Wei Yingwu asked again.

"Returning to the envoy, not only did the house not lose any property, but the strange thing is that the black shadow also left a large object, and my father suspected that the thieves had stolen other people's property, and left it on my house in a panic."

Wu Wenzheng, the county magistrate next to him, also said: "Because the case is a bit strange, the county government has not filed a case, so I specially invited the envoy to come and take a look." ”

Wei Yingwu was even more confused, so he asked, "Where are the abandoned objects?" ”

"In the guest hall, please come with me."

Pan Fang took Wei Yingwu to the guest hall, only to see a green jade incense burner on the table in the guest hall. 'Look, this censer is so familiar.

He stepped forward to take a closer look and recognized it, sure enough, it was the purple gold and green jade furnace of the head of the family, under the reflection of the purple gold gall and green jade, the lit cigarette was purple when it rose, just in response to the poem "The sunshine incense burner produces purple smoke", it has always been the beloved thing of the head of the family, how can it be in Panfu?

Wei Yingwu looked at Pan Fang's calm expression, and then at Wu Xianling's appearance that he didn't care about himself, and he suddenly understood in his heart that Pan Liao was thinking of a way to return the incense burner to the Wei family!

Wei Yingwu secretly scolded the eldest brother in his heart for being reckless, he usually has no friendship, how can he rashly send such a valuable thing to others, and others dare to accept it?

"And what is your father's attitude?" Wei Yingwu asked Pan Fangdao.

"My father's meaning, I hope that Wei Yuanjun will return the incense burner to the owner as soon as possible, the owner must be in a hurry, it is best for Wei Yuanjun to take it away now."

Wei Yingwu had no choice but to say to Wu Wenzheng, the county commander: "You stay and continue to investigate the thief, and I will look for the owner." ”

He waved his hand, "Take it away!" ”

A strong servant stepped forward and went out with the incense burner, and Wei Yingwu said to Pan Fang again: "Please tell your father, there should be nothing wrong, please don't mind him, after the case is over, I will visit again." ”

Wei Yingwu left in a hurry, and Wu Wenzheng asked with a smile: "Master Pan, does this case still need to be investigated?" ”

Pan Fang also smiled: "My father's meaning, since there is no loss, there is no need to file a case, a waste of manpower and material resources." ”

"Okay, I'll leave, if you need anything, contact the county government in time, and we will definitely do our best to help."

Wu Wenzheng also bowed his hand and took people away, and his heart was like a mirror, I am afraid that the incense burner is related to the Wei family.

(End of chapter)