"Thank you for your humble position, ahem, in fact, it is very convenient for you to go home for dinner. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Zhang Zhutou heard that Zhou Governor invited him to lunch together, and hurriedly bowed down to thank Zhou Governor, then paused, lowered his head and excused himself.

"Zhang Zhutou, don't be polite, don't be restrained, although you and I are subordinate, but now it's a light meal, not an errand." Zhou Houjie said to Zhang Zhutou with a smile.

Well, I don't look polite......

Zhu Ping'an watched the interaction between the two on the side, and did not speak, but there was a strange feeling in his heart, looking at Zhang Zhutou's expression just now, it seemed that it was not as polite and restrained as Zhou Houjie said, but a bit like ...... The feeling of disgust is like being bitten by a snake for ten years and afraid of the well rope.

"What adults teach me is that you are not welcome to be humble." Zhang Zhutou arched his hand.

"Well, okay, you can go, and tell the man to come and have dinner together." Zhou Houjie smiled and nodded.

"Yes, sir." Zhang Zhutou stepped back in response and went to the room to arrange for the men in the yamen to add vegetables.

"Let's go, Zihou, let's go to the house for a while." Zhou Houjie smiled and stretched out his hand to make a gesture of please, and then pulled Zhu Ping'an and walked straight into the lobby.

The Yamen of Shuntian Mansion is five rooms wide, and the platform in front of the hall is old, but the momentum is magnificent, high and majestic. In the middle of the lobby is furnished with a black lacquer public case, behind the public case is the background screen of the red sun rising to the sea, the lobby hangs the plaque of "Mirror Hanging", the two sides of the lobby are furnished with plaques such as "Quiet", "Avoidance", "Yasheng Worship Officer", etc., and a couplet is hung in front of the hall "Settle the injustice, the joint is not passable, and it is the weather of Yama; Disaster relief, compassion is immeasurable, and the heart of the Bodhisattva is still in the heart. Fair and majestic and considerate and loving the people, the attitude and responsibility of the official and the love of the people, close to the people, and the couplet outside has the same effect, it should also be from the handwriting of the Zhou Governor.

Zhou Zhifu pulled Zhu Ping'an from the lobby to the second hall, the second hall is Zhou Houjie's daily office, and the six-room office institutions of the government "Officials and Household Rites and Soldiers and Criminal Workers" are distributed around the second hall, and the officials in the six rooms came out to salute Zhou Houjie when they heard the voice, Zhou Houjie nodded in response, and led Zhu Ping'an to the second hall.

After entering the second hall, Zhou Zhifu asked Zhu Ping'an to sit casually, got up and took the teapot from the small charcoal stove, poured a cup of tea for Zhu Ping'an, and brought it over.

Zhu Ping'an got up and left his seat and took the teacup with both hands.

"The visitor is a guest, Zihou, you can just sit." Zhou Houjie said with a smile.

After sitting down again, Zhu Ping'an observed the second hall of Hou Jie's office next week, which was arranged like a study by Zhou Hou Jie, and several bookshelves were full of books, including four books and five classics, as well as "Tang Laws and Regulations", "Ming Regulations", "Laws", "Decrees", "Great Decrees", "Three Parts" and other legal books. Judging by the color of the books and the degree of folds in the page numbers, these books are often read.

On the desk was a piece of rice paper, and the ink was also ground, and half of the rice paper was written on it...... Zhou Houjie should have been writing here just now, and he went out when he heard that he was coming in the middle of writing.

"I'm sorry to disturb my lord's office." Zhu Ping'an said apologetically.

"It's okay, it's enough to hold a candle for a moment tonight." Zhou Houjie waved his hand absently, and then moved to clean up the table so that it would be convenient to eat later.

"Zihou, I have already read the document you wrote, and this matter will be handed over to the official, and the official will definitely find out." After cleaning up the table, Zhou Houjie said to Zhu Ping'an.

"Thank you, sir, for your safety." Zhu Ping'an thanked him.

"This is a matter within the scope of this official, why should Zihou be like this. This official has a bad relationship with you, but it has nothing to do with today's case, and this case will be handled impartially and will not tarnish the name of the court. Zhou Houjie said.

"Zihou believes in adults." Zhu Ping'an smiled calmly.

Zhu Ping'an appreciates Zhou Houjie, Zhou Houjie is a principled person, although he appreciates himself, but the public is public and private is private, he is not the kind of person who abolishes the public because of selfishness, which is also where Zhu Ping'an has a good impression of Zhou Houjie.

The distinction between public and private is easy to say, but it is difficult to do. People are born to their parents, the one who has no relatives and friends, and it is not a meal style and dew, and all six roots are broken, and that one does not have seven emotions and six desires, if it involves the personal feelings of relatives and friends, how many officials can do it with a heart like water and deal with it impartially? If everyone were an iron-faced and selfless Bao Zheng, then Bao Gong would not be famous.

Zhou Houjie couldn't help but smile slightly, and looked at Zhu Ping'an's eyes with even more appreciation.

"Actually, for Zihou, the official still admires it very much. In the matter of twists and turns, not to mention others, even the official is afraid that he will look forward and worry a lot. Zhou Houjie nodded at the table and mentioned the folding.

"If you talk about others, then that's fine, but if it's an adult, I believe that an adult will play faster than an adult." Zhu Ping'an shook his head and quipped.

"Not necessarily." Zhou Houjie smiled and shook his head.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside, and then I saw Zhang Zhutou walking over from outside with a food box, which was steaming and exuding the smell of food.

"My lord, the meal is ready." Zhang Zhutou walked over with a food box.

"Okay, then let's eat." Zhou Houjie nodded when he heard this, then looked at Zhu Ping'an and said, "Coarse tea and light rice, don't dislike it." ”

"Why, peace will disturb adults." Zhu Ping'an said.

After Zhang Zhutou opened the food box and served the meals one by one, Zhu Ping'an knew that the coarse tea and light rice that Zhou Houjie said was really not modest, and he also understood Zhang Zhutou's expression at the beginning.

Which one, I guess it's really disgusting.

There are five dishes and one soup on the dining table, five dishes and one soup sound very rich, but it is better to hear than to see, if you see these five dishes and one soup, you will not feel so much, although the flowers are green, five plates are placed together, and the soup in the middle is also a large bowl......

A plate of vinegared mung bean sprouts, a plate of vegetarian fried cabbage, a plate of cabbage boiled tofu, a plate of boiled peanuts, and a plate of pickled radish strips, the knife work is good, the radish strips are cut neatly, and some green onions are sprinkled on top.

In the middle is a big bowl of soup, and it is also the only meat dish on this table--- crucian carp and tofu soup, there are two palm-sized crucian carp in the soup, and it is estimated that eight or nine times out of ten this is the added dish.

This is the lunch of the prefect of Sipin?

Zhu Ping'an was a little stunned, and then glanced at Zhang Zhutou.

Zhang Zhutou smiled bitterly and gave Zhu Ping'an an an affirmative look, this was the third time he had dined with Governor Zhou, and he had already realized it.

"Come on, you're welcome, enough steamed buns." Zhou Houjie greeted warmly.

"Do adults usually eat these?" Zhu Ping'an asked curiously, a little incredulous, after he won the lift, the living conditions of his family would be greatly improved, not to mention Zhou Houjie's four-grade Shuntian prefect.

"Food and clothing are enough, food and clothing are enough." Zhou Houjie said with a smile, and then greeted warmly, "Zihou hurry up and eat, this is the tofu of Liuwei Zhai, it tastes best when it is hot." ”

"Master Zhu, it's still today that you are here, and the mansion has added vegetables." Zhang Zhutou explained with a wry smile, "My lord, do you know which dish is added today." ”

"This crucian carp tofu soup is definitely it." Zhu Ping'an said.