Chapter 42: The Praying Mantis Catches the Cicada (Part II)
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The national teacher called me to come for a long time, and he didn't talk to me, so he left me aside to drink tea, and played chess with Sun Yuji, I wandered around the Zijin Pavilion boredly, looked at the collection of the national teacher, and sighed while looking - this pagoda is really beautiful, it seems to be the relics of the Reclining Buddha Temple... Ouch this handle, the unicorn carved is lifelike, and it is a red fei, Chen country does not produce red jade, it must be carved by the wonderful hand Taoist of Hai country, I don't know how much it is worth when it is sold, tsk......
"Zhou Yulan, wipe your saliva, don't touch my things." The voice of the national teacher came from the lobby.
I hurriedly retracted my hand and said as I walked: "National teacher, you called me to the palace with your old man, just to hang me here?" ”
"What are you anxious about, there are still people who haven't come." The national teacher didn't hurry to block Sun Yuji's sunspot to the last breath, and said leisurely, "An An sits separately, don't hit my idea of those things." ”
"Who else is coming? The shelves are so big, I waited for half an hour......"
"I told you to wait, how are you?"
As soon as this voice sounded, my scalp immediately tingled, and when I turned around, I saw Ge Tianyan swaggering in.
"Collect it." The national teacher put down the white piece in his hand and ended the chess game. Sun Yuji quickly put away the chessboard: "Uncle, I'll pour you tea." "Go ahead." Ge Tianzhen nodded. I secretly scolded Sun Yuji for being snobbish in my heart, and I have never been so enthusiastic about me.
Sun Yuji poured the tea, brought the basin, the national teacher washed his hands and wiped his hands, and began to peel melon seeds and eat them again.
"Yulan, have you seen your uncle in the house?"
"Isn't this a meeting?" I don't have a good airway.
The national teacher laughed: "The case of the household department is very big, you and Ye Shuluo can't manage it, I found a helper for you." "I said in my heart, dare to love your old man, the helper is Ge Tianzhen? The national teacher was full of interest when he swallowed melon seeds, "You are the prime minister, naturally you don't have to bow down to everything, your boss, Tianzhen will give you a hand and hand over the case to him to investigate." ”
Although I know how serious this case is, I must be very difficult to come by myself, and with Ge Tianjian, an old Jianghu, it must be a lot easier, but I am not very happy to hand over the case to Ge Tianzhen to investigate, I don't know why.
"National teacher, your old man, this is a disaster to the east." Ge Tianyan took a sip of tea, "Jointly transferred me back to Wucheng, just let me work?" ”
"Kong Yougong is very complicated behind it, and the ministers involved are all old slippery heads, and the old slippery heads naturally want to be governed by the old slippery heads, Yu Lan is too young to deal with them." The national teacher grabbed the melon seeds and asked Sun Yuji to hand them to Ge Tianjian, "It's to check the account book of the household department, you have done this work before." ”
"Ge Tianzhen has done it?" I asked.
"You weren't born then." The national teacher smiled, "Your uncle has done everything, except for the prime minister." Also, Yu Lan, don't be big or small, what should you call it? ”
“…… Uncle. ”
"It just so happened that your old man was curing him." Ge Tianzhen snorted.
"Okay, let's go to the Beichen Hall to meet Your Majesty, meet the Queen Mother, and you can go back and rest." The national teacher said to Ge Tianyan, and looked at me again, "Yu Lan will bring the winter sunflower in a while, and leave me here for dinner today." ”
I almost jumped up: "Stay here for dinner?" ”
"What to do? The food I eat here is also made in the imperial dining room, and it doesn't taste good? ”
"No, no, I didn't mean that...... "To be honest, I've never eaten at the National Teacher's place, and I've never dared to eat here. Eating in the palace, except for the palace banquet, the banquet alone, according to the laws of the Chen Kingdom, is not allowed, and it is known by the imperial history, and it must be ruthlessly participated.
The national teacher raised his eyebrows: "Don't worry, I'll leave you for dinner, Yushi won't dare to join you, Qiu Ming will go back and bring the winter sunflower." ”
Qiu Ming answered, glanced at me, and withdrew.
I wonder in my heart, where is this sung by the national teacher? Ge Tianjian didn't have anything else to say, so he bowed and left, leaving me to sit there and stare at Sun Yuji with wide eyes.
After swallowing the melon seeds, the national teacher washed his hands again, got up and smiled at me: "Don't you want to see my collection?" ”
My eyes lit up: "Can I see it??" ”
"You can only see, not touch."
"No problem!" I immediately jumped up.
"This greedy kid ......," the national teacher shook his head helplessly.
I happily wandered around the national teacher's house for a long time, and was amazed by the collection of the national teacher. Just eat and drink every day, and be happy! Oh, it's comfortable to think about such a day...... If I had so much money, I would first buy all the rouge shops in Wucheng for my wife, and then buy all the snack shops and sugar gourd stalls in Wucheng for my fifth brother......
"National teacher, how many years have you been saving up in your old family?"
The national teacher glanced at me and seemed to be calculating seriously: "I don't remember, it's been one hundred and eighty years." ”
I raised an eyebrow: "You've saved so much...... Be...... Wife Ben? ”
The national teacher smiled unfathomably: "It's a coffin book." ”
I expressed my disbelief: "Your wife hasn't asked for it yet, what kind of coffin book are you saving?" ”
The national teacher raised his eyebrows: "My wife used to beg, but then died." ”
I feel a pang in my heart, the national teacher has begged his wife like this? I couldn't help but look the national teacher up and down, indeed, except for the silver thread of the national teacher, he looked like a young man, he looked younger than me, a person who had worked hard and was sick, and he was much more energetic than me.
The age and appearance of the national teacher have always been a mystery, no one dared to ask for so many years, and I couldn't set this precedent, so I quickly changed the topic: "There are so many coffins, do you want to build a mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang??? ”
The national teacher even nodded thoughtfully: "Your suggestion is good." Suddenly, the conversation changed, "How is Jin Se living in your mansion?" ”
"It's good......" I thought of Jinse's disagreement with Master Zhao, and made up my mind not to tell the national teacher, "She has always been alone, and I don't see her often." ”
The national teacher didn't seem to intend to ask, so he took out a bead from a sandalwood box and put it in the palm of my hand: "This is the floating cloud bead, which was brought back by Zihui Zhenren from overseas fairy islands, and it is one color in the morning and another color in the evening." "I picked up the beads and looked at them carefully in the sun, and the beads glowed blue.
"A lot of things, just like this bead, open is one situation, dark is another, you have to look carefully, indecision is not good, but you still have to be cautious in everything, be careful who is helping you, who is going to harm you, step by step, there can be no deviation, otherwise-" The national teacher took back the beads, pinched them in his hand, and let the wind blow away the powder that the beads had turned into, "I don't know if I can save you." ”
I was inexplicably twitched by what he said, and said: "National teacher, the beads that Zihui Zhenren brought back from overseas immortal islands, you just pinched them like this?" ”
The national teacher snorted: "Don't be so petty, it's just a bead, you want it, you will have it in the future." ”
"But this is no ordinary bead......"
"Is the hollyhock coming? Yuji, you go out and take a look. With his hands behind his back, the national teacher strode out.
After dinner in the Zijin Pavilion, my wife and I went home, and the next day we were going to the court, so I found Ye Shuluo, stayed up all night, and wrote out the fold. When he went to the court, Ye Shuluo presented the fold and began to talk about the thorough investigation of the household department.
The case of King Ping's twenty-first year is difficult to turn the page.
King Ping unexpectedly appointed Ge Tianjian, Ge Tianzhen got the will, acted very quickly, arrested Kong Youxuan in the afternoon, and by the way, surrounded Kong Youxuan, and sent Kong Youxuan directly to the water prison, which was personally interrogated by Master Li of the Criminal Department. In the past 20 years, King Ping has never had such a big case, and since the first king, there has never been such a big official corruption case, and the whole country is very concerned, and the headline of the Di newspaper every day is the progress of the Kong Yougong case.
Han Fu also closed his door to thank the guests, and he didn't even come to the early dynasty, but now there is no definite evidence, and I don't know what King Ping means, so I can't move him.
Tang Xuelai was so anxious that she ran to my house every day, and also ran to Ge Tianjian, I knew what she meant, although King Ping appointed Ge Tianjian, but in the end, I was the one who made the decision, and she mostly pointed to Ge Tianjian to persuade me.
The Tang family's businessman has a century-old foundation, and I can't bear to see it ruined here, but how many families in the Chen Kingdom have been hit and can't turn over? At that time, the Sun family was left with only Sun Yuji and her brother who had not seen each other for 20 years, and the Wang family never appeared in any official position in Chenguo; Lin Zhonghe was in a difficult situation, Li Guning and the Li family were floating on the water, and the Xu family, who was the Cao Yun family of Chenguo, is still living on the border; Counting back further, the Fan family's mansion is now deserted...... To be honest, the defeated Shi clan, King Ping doesn't care about one more Tang family.
Looking at Tang Xuelai's anxious appearance now, I can't help but wonder, what was Fan Mengqiu, who had just become an adult, thinking about when the Fan family was destroyed? When the Sun family was destroyed, what was the eight-year-old Sun Yuji thinking? What if this bad luck befalls our family one day? (To be continued.) )