As we enter September, the weather gradually gets cooler. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Guangzhou Mansion during the Xiaoice River, although it occasionally snows in winter, but in the end it is located in the southern country, although it is not comparable to the average temperature of nearly twenty degrees in later generations, but the time close to the freezing point is still very little, even Xie Hengnu, the only person around Shen Xi who is not a southerner, also likes the weather in Guangzhou very much.

The day after Xiaoyu and Ma Jiu got married, Ma Jiu went north to meet Song Xiaocheng's convoy of money, grain and supplies, and Xiaoyu also returned to Shen's house to work. After waiting for half a month, Ma Jiu returned to Guangzhou Mansion with the convoy, and the two of them worked in the Shen family or the Governor's Yamen during the day, and went home at night, becoming the envy of others as "office workers".

On Hui Niang's side, Shen Xi went over every three or five times, basically going during the day as before, leaving after two or three hours, and rarely staying overnight. With one more Li Jin, Hui Niang's mood was a little low, and I don't know if it was related to Shen Xi's thinning of his love for her.

Every time Shen Xi asked, Hui Niang was silent.

With the grain and grass ready, the main task of Shenxi, the governor of the three provinces, was placed on reorganizing the troops and horses and sending scouts to investigate the situation of the coastal generation of bandits.

Shen Xi personally drew a sketch of the territory of the southeast coast, using his knowledge of the southeast coast in his previous life, as well as the investigation of the mountains and islands in some coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong, to determine which places might be infested by pirates and pirates, and then by asking people who went to sea to do business, or sending people to some coastal villages to investigate, and finally summarized the possible hiding places of pirates and pirates.

Although Tang Yin has been following Shen Xi to do things, he is a little absent-minded these days, perhaps it is because going to see Xia Kuan has caused him a certain psychological impact, the arrogant and talented man has actually learned to pretend to be deep, and even quit drinking, the people in the inn said that they haven't seen Tang Yin drinking for more than ten days.

Tang Yin can actually do it at sunrise and rest at sunset, and stay in the yamen from morning to night, which is very rare, but Shen Xi secretly observed that this talented man was not working, but spent most of his time in a daze.

On September 20, just after the hour, Shen Xi went out to give out a copy of the book to the capital, and when he came back, he saw Tang Yin sitting in front of the bookcase next to the lobby, holding a brush, and the pestle was motionless there, obviously wandering out of the world again.

Shen Xi stepped forward to greet him: "Brother Bohu, this autumn is crisp and the weather is good, why don't you go out for a walk?" ”

Tang Yin came back to his senses, glanced at Shen Xi, and sighed lightly: "The business has not been completed yet, and I am not in the mood." ”

Shen Xixin said, this Tang Bohu is really a freak, I asked you to invite Xia Kuan, but I just want you to see Xia Kuan's talents. This Xia Kuan is a person that Xie Duo highly admires, if it weren't for the letter of introduction issued by Xie Duo, Xia Kuan would definitely not help speak in front of Zhang Yuanying and others.

Now that Xia Kuan has left the Yamen, Shen Xi wants to repay Li and ask him to come back to do things, and let Tang Yin invite him, but Tang Yin has been made a demonic obstacle.

Shen Xi asked: "Could it be that Mr. Tsing Yi refuses to let Brother Bohu drink, and Brother Bohu is resentful?" ”

"Wine?"

Tang Yin was stunned for a while, and only after a while did he realize what the wine was, "No, no, no, I hit it off with Mr. Qingshan at first sight, chanting poems and paintings, and naturally tasted the century-old wine." After contacting each other, I felt a lot of emotion! ”

Talking to you, you just complain twice, why is your attitude so negative? Does he have a spell or can he hypnotize you, and make you into this virtuous way? It seems that this Mr. Tsing Yi is not small!

Shen Xi asked, "I wonder what Brother Bohu talked to with Mr. Tsing Yi?" ”

Tang Yin waved his hand: "It's not enough, don't mention it...... Shen Zhongcheng is busy with official business, so he doesn't have to pay attention to it. ”

I really don't have the consciousness of being a subordinate at all!

The boss who pays you sees that you don't do things, comes to question you, you actually let the boss do the work, and then you continue to be lazy?

Shen Xi said: "This official is just going to pay a visit to Mr. Tsing Yi, Brother Bohu, please prepare, we will go out of the city to visit together in the afternoon, and stay outside the city for the night in the evening!" ”

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After arriving in Guangzhou Mansion, Shen Xi really wanted to visit this Xia Kuan for a long time.

This person is unknown in history, not even a showman, but his talent and insight even Xie Duo knows, there is still some friendship between the two, Xie Duo explained that Shen Xi can find this person to assist after he arrives in Guangzhou Mansion, and there may be unexpected gains.

Before this, Shen Xi did send someone to find Xia Kuan, to tell his thoughts, but Xia Kuan did not agree to the request to serve as Shen Xi's staff, after hearing that Shen Xi was in a predicament, he had an idea, and Shen Xi used a letter to discuss the idea of buying salt from the Franco, and then used his eloquence to scare Zhang Yuanying and Lin Tingxuan a lot, which was an important reason why the people of the Political Envoy and the Inspectorate suddenly changed their minds to keep Shen Xi.

It can be said that Xia Kuan helped Shen Xi a lot, since this person's knowledge and strategy are extremely outstanding, and he can make the arrogant Tang Dacai unstoppable, then he should look at the thatched house and invite people back.

After arranging the carriage and preparing the gifts, as soon as it was time to get off work in the afternoon, Shen Xi took dozens of guards out of the city.

The place where Xia Kuan lived was found by Shen Xi and asked Zhu Qi to help find it, which was also to protect Xia Kuan and his family from being retaliated against by the political envoys and the people of the inspection envoys.

Xia Kuan is fifty years old in Chinese New Year's Eve, his family has a good wife, children and daughters, a high hall, and a disciple, although he cannot be called a peach and plum all over the world, but because he taught two people and more than 20 talents, he has a high prestige in the local academic circles in Guangzhou, and many schools are willing to hire him back to be a husband, this is a Confucian who does not worry about starving to death.

But I heard that this person has never participated in the imperial examination, and he has never even taken the county examination, as for whether he wants to hold back his strength and prepare to come to Lianzhong Liuyuan, or whether he will never touch the imperial examination for the rest of his life, there is no way to know for the time being.

The town is in the southeast of Guangzhou, adjacent to the Pearl River, close to Guangzhou Youwei, and only about ten miles away from Fucheng.

There are many such towns along the river in Guangzhou City, as long as the place is sheltered by guards, bandits do not dare to attack easily.

In recent years, some peasants who have lost their land, or ordinary people who have been harassed by pirates and pirates and pirates and have been unable to survive in their hometowns, have lost their livelihoods, so they can only settle down in places close to the provincial capitals, build houses, and then go to the ports and cities to find some manual work to do.

At sunset, Shen Xi and his entourage finally arrived, the soldiers were waiting outside, and they set up camp by the way, while Shen Xi and Tang Yin went to see Xia Kuan.

Inside the wooden fence is a quiet farmhouse courtyard, several children are playing backgammon at the stone table in the yard, seeing a guest coming, a slightly older child stood up, to the door of the house to announce, and then saw a man in a long shirt in his thirties with a somewhat vicissitudes of life walked out and opened the wood door for Shen Xi and Tang Yin.

"Tang Xie Yuan has been absent for a long time." The person who came was Xia Kuan, who bowed after seeing Tang Yin, and then looked at Shen Xi, "I don't know if this is ......?" ”

In fact, Shen Xi's identity is not difficult to guess, but since the other party asked, Shen Xi still has to introduce himself in terms of etiquette: "Shen Xi, Tingzhou Mansion, Lower Fujian." ”

"It turned out to be Lord Shen Zhongcheng, Lord Shen, and Xia Kuan, see Lord." When Xia Kuan heard Shen Xi's self-registration number, he hurriedly knelt down and saluted, and was helped up by Shen Xi.

Entering the courtyard, Xia Kuan waved his hand, but the children were obedient and entered the house, and then a woman in her twenties came out of the house, moved a small coffee table in the corner, and after setting it up, she took a few small benches over. Xia Kuan said ashamedly: "Lord Shen, Tang Jieyuan, please forgive me, our house is shabby and the hospitality is not good." ”

Shen Xi thought to himself, how can your dozen jars of good wine be worth tens or hundreds of taels of silver when you sell them to dignitaries, why should you be mean to yourself and your family?

Shen Xi waved his hand, and Zhu Qi in the back handed over the gifts, four gift boxes, which were mostly local specialties, not very valuable, just to express their hearts.

After Xia Kuan thanked her, he asked the woman to take her inside.

The guest and the host sat down, and Shen Xi noticed that since Tang Yin arrived in this small courtyard, his eyes were looking into the house, as if he was looking for someone.

Shen Xi's stool was relatively taller, Tang Yin's second, and the shortest was prepared by Xia Kuan for himself, which was also according to the etiquette. He has no merit and fame, and he can't be on an equal footing with Shen Xi and Tang Yin.

Shen Xi thought to himself: "He is so particular about etiquette, even the tall and low stools are carefully prepared, so why doesn't he participate in the imperial examination to gain fame?" ”

Xia Kuan said: "Lord Shen came from afar, I don't know what's going on?" ”

Shen Xi collected his heart and arched his hand with a smile: "This official learned about Mr. Tsing Yi's name from Xie Lao's sacrificial wine. This time I went south to Guangzhou Mansion, and I should have visited earlier, but unfortunately I was riddled with trivial matters and did not make the trip until today. Speaking of which, Xie Lao is one of the teachers of the next one......"

Xia Kuan smiled, Xie Duo has a lot of students, and there are countless people in the officialdom who have a teacher-student relationship with Xie Duo, but this Shen Zhuangyuan became famous at a young age, and there is no need to say that he is Xie Duo's protégé, because even if Xie Duo's ability is not able to cultivate a champion who is even three yuan at the age of thirteen.

But Xia Kuan didn't say anything, and saluted: "It turned out to be Master Xie's high feet, and the contemptible people also visited Master Xie in the early years, and they were instructed, and they still dare not forget." ”

Shen Xi and Xia Kuan are not Xie Duo's disciples, not even nominal disciples, but because of Xie Duo's relationship, the two immediately changed from strangers to "brothers in the same sect", which is the importance of the relationship in this era.

I just visited once, listened to two teachings, and treated people as gentlemen, and the "sir" of this era is really worthless.

Shen Xi was about to explain his intention to invite Xia Kuan to the Governor's Yamen to do things, when the woman from before came out, took the tea and teapot and put it down, and was just about to serve tea, Xia Kuan reprimanded: "The Governor is in front, and the woman is not allowed to trespass." ”

The woman's voice should be respectful, and when she was about to retreat, she added: "The high hall calls the king for an interview." ”

Xia Kuan, who was sitting upright just now, the small bench was crooked, and he almost fell to the ground, he quickly got up and hurriedly went to the house, Shen Xi looked at this posture, he was really a big filial son, the old lady had an order, even if he met the three members of the imperial court, he left without even saying hello?

Tang Yin explained: "Shen Zhongcheng may not know, Brother Tingsu is a famous filial son, and Gao Tang is not far away, so he has never participated in the imperial examination, because he is afraid of being burdened by fame and delaying filial piety." ”

Shen Xi originally had an extremely good impression of Xia Kuan, but when he heard this allusion, he almost wanted to say that this was clearly foolishness!

If you want to say that Gao Tang is not far away, it is indeed filial piety, but if you have fame, glory to your ancestors, and you can make your family live a good life if you have a career, isn't it also filial piety? Besides, parents also want to see their children have the ability, but for the sake of filial piety, you don't even want fame, how pedantic is this?

And to get fame, is to serve the court, it is the "loyalty" idea advocated in this era, the heaven and earth monarch is a teacher, and the loyal monarch should not be above filial piety?

But this is indeed the most respected filial piety in this era, Shen Xi couldn't refute it, so he could only nod: "Mr. Tsing Yi is also the most affectionate and sexual...... Oh yes, Brother Bohu always looks inside, but there are people in the house that you care about? (To be continued.) )