Li Yi turned his head and smiled slightly: "Madame, can't you trust this official?" I had already asked Li Liang to leave the biggest carriage in the family, Keming himself has horses at home, and Lian Jun and I will take a few more horses to pick up the Zhong brothers. ”

When Li Yizheng said this, he suddenly heard someone laughing at the gate of the courtyard: "Runzhi, don't bother you, hehe!" I have already sent someone to pick up the Zhong brothers. ”

Li Yi turned his head and saw Yuan Zitong walking in with a smile on his face, wearing a new crescent-colored silk robe, and a azure smoke gauze hat.

Li Yi smiled and said: "Brother Zitong is too unkind, I have already agreed with the Zhong brothers to go over and pick them up, don't you let me break my word and get fat?" ”

Yuan Zitong smiled and didn't answer, but glanced at Li Ji carefully, and then turned to Wanru and said: "My brother and sister are radiant today, and they are even better than the women in my house, if there are younger brothers and sisters present, who would dare to bring beauty with them!" Hehe! ”

It was like laughing and saying: "Your mouth will please people, you all know that Brother Yuan's golden house is hidden, and you can monopolize the Oiran if you pick one out, but you ridicule others for no reason." By the way, Brother Yuan came so early, he shouldn't have had breakfast yet, right? ”

Yuan Zitong said with a smile: "My younger brother and sister will be considerate and caring about people, I came out in a hurry, how can I still take care of eating." Alas! Who asked Shouzhong to drag me to organize this outing party, but he himself was idle, and I have hardly eaten a meal in the past few days! ”

Li Yi smiled secretly in his heart, although it was nominally the outing party organized by Chen Shouzhong, presumably all the expenses were paid by this wealthy Yuan. Through several contacts, Li Yi also gradually figured out the temper of these people, Chen Shouzhong loves to be in the limelight, but with his meager salary, he is simply unable to organize such a large-scale outing party. So he pulled Yuan Zitong over as the big culprit.

And the most important thing that Yuan Zitong lacks is money, and he originally wanted to marry this bachelor of the Hanlin Academy who has all his hands and eyes, and the big celebrity in front of the emperor, isn't it a hit?

Sitting in the warm pavilion, Yuan Zitong said while eating: "I came here to inform you, you will run for nothing." And after eating, I have to hurry to pick up the two of them, it's really non-stop! ”

Li Yi took a sip of soup and said with a smile: "This is the so-called capable person who works hard!" If this kind of occasion is without you in the middle of the scheduling, even if it is not a scattered situation, it is very boring, and I am afraid that I will not be able to do it myself. ”

Yuan Zitong smiled bitterly: "You guys are very unkind, Guangtu is idle all day long, and you are thinking about how to get rich, and you are a hands-off shopkeeper." Hey! It seems that as long as I am provincial, anyone can command me to run around. ”

After saying this, Yuan Zitong looked at no one else in the room, lowered his voice and said to Li Yi: "I heard that Runzhi was summoned by the emperor to chat for most of the night yesterday, hehe!" Let's not hide it from my own brothers. ”

Li Yi smiled indifferently and said, "What else can I do in front of me?" Isn't it flood control in the South China Sea? Don't hide it from Brother Yuan, the emperor is going to let me go to the South China Sea to give it a try this time, but I don't have the bottom of my heart yet! It's a real headache. ”

"By the way, I have already told the emperor, if you really arrange for me to go to the South China Sea, you must be called, and I don't know anything from the province to go there."

Yuan Zitong suddenly closed his mouth in surprise when he heard this, and after a while, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Alas! It's okay to go with you, although I don't know if it's good or bad, but I've finally passed this hurdle. My brother has done me a great favor! ”

"Shouzhong told me a few days ago that the emperor was furious at my ineffective water control in the South China Sea, and was thinking about how to punish me, but I didn't expect you to choose me to go to the South China Sea with you, so it's okay, let's live one day at a time!"

Li Yi said solemnly: "Brother Yuan can't think like this, this time the emperor has made a big determination to control the water in the South China Sea, and the so-called business will be completed, but he can't give up halfway like before." The emperor has promised that the imperial court will allocate a part of the funds, and the local government will raise another part, if you add the donations of the scholars and the people, it should be said that the shortage is not too big, and it depends on how we use it. ”

"I recommended Brother Yuan to help me this time, not to push Brother Yuan into the fire pit, but I urgently need Brother Yuan's help, otherwise I don't understand the situation in the South China Sea, and it will be difficult to move an inch if I don't think about it thoroughly. What does Brother Yuan think? ”

Yuan Zitong put down the soup bowl, sighed and said, "Alas! Runzhi! The South China Sea is not as simple as you think, you think that simply building a dam, the diversion of the channel, the blocking of the blockade, if you do that, it will be simple. The key is the people on the other side of the South China Sea! You must know that the forces in the South China Sea are huge and independent, and if you want to command them, it will be as difficult as climbing to the sky! ”

"You know there are a lot of people over there, but do you know where those people came from? Isn't it forced by the local officials and gentry? ”

"I've been busy from August last year to the beginning of this year, so I can't say I have done anything, what is the reason for this? Isn't there no one to take care of you? If you want no people, if you want money, what do you want me to do? I can't put my money upside down to do things for the public! ”

"Alas! More than half of the hundreds of thousands of people in the South China Sea hate the government, and they can't recruit people to build a dam, and the local officials are helpless. ”

Li Yi frowned and said, "I heard that there is a carefree Bo Ye Guangluo who is very arrogant, I don't know if you have dealt with him?" ”

Yuan Zitong sighed and said, "Why not?" This guy is insidious and vicious, but not a good one. I went to ask him to dismantle the embankment blocking the Tung Chung waterway, but this guy didn't pay attention to me at all, and delayed it for a few months, and he didn't do anything at all. ”

"And as far as I know, taking advantage of the floods in the South China Sea, more than half of the land in Shaxi County has fallen into the hands of this guy, and it seems that no penny has been spent, isn't this an empty glove white wolf? It's a shame to say! ”

Li Yi was stunned and said, "Didn't Brother Yuan report this situation to the imperial court?" I don't believe that the court can tolerate such a misdemeanor. ”

Yuan Zitong sneered: "Runzhi! I have a great responsibility, if I don't go to the court, I will lose my official position and resign a few years ago. It's just that my cantata is sinking into the sea, and when I hear the news from the palace that I'm going to be punished, I don't see anything about it. ”

"The most infuriating thing is that Su Zhizhong, the commander of the South China Sea battalion, actually published a book to impeach me for taking the opportunity of controlling the floods in the South China Sea to blackmail and extort the local gentry, harassing and intimidating the local good people. This is all an unwarranted disaster! Fortunately, we also have a few acquaintances in the DPRK, and the matter was finally settled. ”

"Alas! Actually, what I'm angry about is that my father and the old man of Su Zhizhong's family used to have a good relationship, but I didn't expect this guy to gang up with outsiders to frame me, I think he and Ye Laogou must be a nest of snakes and rats, and they are not good birds. ”

"Runzhi, what do you say I am, I did a wretched thing, and I almost fell into a state of no return, why do you think I'm so unlucky!"