Although every time a fellow villager mentions the Eight Provinces Xinggang, Ji Yunfei will follow the same enemy, but as the editor of the promising Hanlin Academy, he has long had those regional views, and he has always felt that Huang Zhongyin is a friend to make, but he has never had the opportunity to make deep friends. Seeing that Han Si thought of it, he couldn't help asking, "Zhixing, did you look for Yonghuan before the hall was renovated?" ”

"Who's Yonghu?"

"It's Master Huang."

"Oh, it turns out that Master Huang's character is Yonghuan," Han Xiufeng reacted, and said with an embarrassed face: "In the first month, I wrote letters one by one according to the roster of Beijing officials and foreign officials who stayed in the guild hall over the years, and there was no name of Master Huang on the roster, so I didn't write to him." Later, I wanted to build a township ancestral hall, and went to the provincial hall to copy the list of Jinshi in the scattered departments of the 14 prefectures and counties of Chongqing Prefecture, only to know that Master Huang was also a Jinshi of our Ba County. ”

"It's my fault for forgetting to remind you." Ji Yunfei sighed lightly, then raised his head and asked, "Changsheng, have you heard where Master Huang lives?" ”

"I inquired, Master Huang's family has just come from his hometown, and he rented a yard in the west of Nantou Road, Ropesmith Hutong, not far from the entrance of the vegetable market."

"Ropesmith Alley?"

"Hmm."

"This Huang Yongzhuo is really good at choosing places. Rope Craftsman Hutong is the most vigorous street and alley in the capital, this year's provincial township examination examiner and examiner Rope Craftsman Hutong put the most, this is the management of the leyline, the south half of the street is second, and the north half of the alley where I live is second. Ji Yunfei sighed, then got up and said, "Changsheng, pen and ink are waiting." ”

"Okay, wait a minute."

"Zhixing, one of the two friends who will come later happens to be the same year as Master Huang, I wrote two invitations, one at noon and one at night, please help me run. If Master Huang is at home, invite him to have lunch. If not, give the evening letter to his family and invite him to come over for supper in the evening. ”

Ji Yunfei wanted to invite Huang Yushi to a banquet, but Han Xiufeng, who was worried that he couldn't talk to Huang Yushi, couldn't ask for it, and hurriedly said: "It's not tiring." ”

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Ji Yunfei wrote the invitation, and Han Xiufeng ran inside to get a brocade box. On the way to the rope maker alley, I spent two taels of silver to buy some gifts to wish Huang Yushi a new housewarming.

It's a coincidence, I rushed to Huang's house, knocked on the door and asked, Huang Yushi happened to be at home.

Put away the invitation in the evening, put the invitation and the name card at noon into the brocade box, and handed it to the Huang family together with the gifts bought on the road, and waited at the door for about half a pillar of incense, and the Huang family came out with a smile and invited him in.

Walking into the living room, I saw Huang Zhongyin sitting on a chair reading Ji Yunfei's invitation.

"Han Zhixing, who was born late, greets Master Huang." Han Xiufeng hurriedly stepped forward and made a thousand.

Huang Zhongyin didn't expect Ji Yunfei to invite him to the guild hall to eat and drink, and he didn't expect Han Xiufeng to prepare a congratulatory gift, although the congratulatory gift was not worth a few dollars, but in his opinion, this was a recognition of Huang Zhongyin by officials from Ba County and even Chongqing in Beijing, put down Ji Yunfei's letter, and said with a smile: "They are all fellow villagers, Brother Han doesn't need to be polite." ”

"Master Huang, I'm ashamed to say it, a few days ago, I was busy building the guild hall, and I didn't bother to pick you up, and I didn't bother to come to the door to meet you."

"Brother Han, if you talk about this, I'll see the outside, it's not like I haven't been to the guild hall, I know how busy you are, and you're busy with your fellow villagers in Beijing, but I didn't expect it to be built so quickly."

"It's just almost done, and there are still some odd things to finish."

While waiting for his family to hire a car, Huang Zhongyin sighed: "It can be completed in half a year, which is already very fast." If I have to say I'm ashamed, then I'm ashamed, as a Beijing official from Chongqing, I haven't been to the guild hall a few times over the years. If I hadn't found a place to stay last time, I wouldn't have remembered to go to the hall. If my brother hadn't come to the door today, I wouldn't have known that the hall had been renovated. ”

"Master Huang doesn't have to blame himself."

Han Xiufeng subconsciously looked back behind him, and said with a sincere and somewhat embarrassed face: "As the saying goes, family ugliness should not be publicized, there are no outsiders here, and there is nothing to scruple about in later life, you can't really blame Master Huang for this matter." If it weren't for the merchants of the eight provinces, Ba County would not have the prosperity it has today. What's more, many merchants from the eight provinces have already entered Ba County, and some have even bred in Ba County for several generations, and they have long been Ba County people. It's ridiculous that there are so many frogs at the bottom of the well, and they still hold the view of the region to this day, which is not only ridiculous, but also pathetic, lamentable! ”

Huang Zhongyin's heart went up when he said this, and he stared at Han Xiufeng and asked, "Brother Han doesn't have a regional view?" ”

"Yes!" Han Xiufeng arched his hand again and said meaningfully: "In my later life, thanks to the trust of my fellow Beijing officials such as Master Ji, Master Ao, Master Jiang, and Master Wang, as well as the gentry of the old family such as Master Gu, I was entrusted with the important task of the head of the guild hall, so I naturally have to think about the officials and fellow villagers in Beijing who came to Beijing to take the examination and raise people, come to Beijing to meet and come to Beijing as candidates, and fellow villagers in Beijing. I can only think about what my fellow villagers think, and I am anxious about what my fellow villagers are anxious about. As for people in other places, late life can't help. ”

"It turns out that this is such a regional view, hahaha, you want to get, you want to get!"

"Let Master Huang laugh, in fact, people in other places don't recognize a few in their later years."

As he was talking, the car hired by the servants of the Huang family arrived.

Huang Zhongyin thought that he would often go to the guild hall in the future to have a drink with his fellow villagers, and talk about hometown friendship and friendship with his fellow villagers in Beijing, so he couldn't help but pull Han Xiufeng to get into the car together.

Talking and laughing all the way, I rushed to the hall before I knew it.

When he got out of the carriage and looked at it, Huang Zhongyin thought he was in the wrong place. Yu Youfu has been guarding the door to watch the wind, first saluting a thousand times, and then shouting at the top of his voice: "Master Huang of Huguang Road has arrived!" ”

Ji Yunfei bypassed the wall and said with a smile: "Brother Yongzhuo, how is the new hall built, do you think you came to the wrong place?" ”

"I'm not afraid of Bowen brothers' jokes, this ...... This was a bit unexpected. Actually, I knew that the hall was being renovated, but I didn't expect it to be built in such a grand way. ”

"Brother Yongzhu, please, there are more unexpected things that make you even more unexpected."

"Brother Xian Bowen, please."

Huang Zhongyin stepped through the door and walked into the courtyard, and just after bypassing the photo wall, a familiar face that could not be more familiar appeared in front of him, and he looked at him with a smile as another Beijing official who had a relationship with him a few years ago.

"Huicheng, why are you there!"

"Could it be that I, Ding Huicheng, can't come if I'm not from Chongqing?" The civil official surnamed Ding pointed at Ji Yunfei and said with a smile: "Bowen just sold Guan Zi to us, saying that he wanted to come to a distinguished guest, but he didn't expect it to be Brother Yonghuan when he wanted to break his head." After a few years, he didn't write me a letter, did he soar and forget about my unproductive year? ”

"It's as if you wrote to me." Huang Zhongyin complained on his lips, but he didn't know how happy he was, patted his arm in the same year, and immediately greeted: "Brother Xingcheng, we haven't seen each other for a long time, where are we now?" ”

"I just stepped down from a small county in Shanxi, and I am a seven-grade sesame official, so I naturally can't compare with Brother Yongzhu."

"It turned out that I went to Shanxi to be a county master, three years of Qingzhi County, 100,000 snowflakes of silver, I must treat you, and you are not allowed to cry poor with us Beijing officials who can't even open the pot!"

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