Old Man Yin had already walked to the side of the ball, and he was about to hit the ball into the hole, and when he heard Shen Mo say this, he stopped swinging and said, "You are avoiding the heavy and light." ”

Shen Mo gently stroked the bat, it seemed that although he was thousands of miles away, the old man was still aware of the problem between the two of them. Thinking about it, he whispered, "It's really nothing, we're not children anymore...... Uncle Yue doesn't have to worry, I won't let Ruohan be wronged. ”

Of course, this kind of thing Master Yin stopped immediately, and when he heard the words, he nodded and said, "I believe in your ability to solve the problem well." With a swing, he struck the ball out.

"yes, it will." Silently smiling, he struck his own ball as well.

After a short conversation, the two of them were engrossed in swinging, not even noticing that someone had walked behind them.

It wasn't until the end of a round of putting that Shen Mo saw Xu Wei, who had been standing for a long time, and couldn't help laughing: "I don't squeak when I come." ”

Master Yin also smiled and said, "Mr. Wen Chang is here." ”

Xu Wei smiled and said: "Seeing the wonderful skills of the two, I don't dare to disturb them." As he spoke, he saluted and greeted Master Yin.

Master Yin hurriedly held on, took the towel handed by the still person, wiped his forehead and said, "You talk slowly, the old man goes to rest for a while." ”

Knowing that he didn't want to disturb, the two responded with a smile, and after seeing him leave, Shen Mo smiled and said, "Newlywed Yan'er, why are you in the mood to run out?" Saying that, he looked him up and down, and said, "It doesn't look right, is this still the Xu Wenchang I know?" ”

Xu Wei looked down at himself, it was normal: "What's wrong?" ”

"Something is wrong with cleanliness." Shen Mo couldn't help but sneered: "I've never seen you so neat and tidy." ”

Xu Wei's face turned red rarely, and he said, "You don't want to make fun of me." ”

"It's gotten gentler." Shen Mo said even more narrowly: "If it was usual, I would have sneered at each other a long time ago, and now I even blushed......"

"I think you're naked jealous," let him cancel it, Xu Wei returned to normal, and scolded: "This is a common problem for people who are away all the year round, and having a wife equals not having a wife." ”

"Fuck you, this is Xu Wei's tune-" Shen Mo laughed and scolded, then punched each other's chests with him, and resumed his seriousness: "What's the matter, newlywed life, are you still happy?" ”

"Not bad." Xu Wei smiled and said: "When I marry the door, I find out that it is not the person you think, it is not so big." Having said that, from his laughter, you can still hear the slightest hint of helplessness.

Xu Wei is married, but the bride is not Miss Lu...... His love life is actually very unfortunate. At the age of 26, his beloved wife Pan died early, and at the age of 29, he bought a concubine and sold it, and he has been helpless and lacking in support for nearly ten years, on the one hand, because he has been living in poverty for a long time and has no permanent property, who is willing to compensate his daughter?

On the other hand, Xu Wei is very affectionate and sexual, and has been in unrequited love with Miss Lu for many years, and has never forgotten it; Although Miss Lu has always been resolute, and even escaped into the empty door and became a red dust, he still has an obsession, hoping to exchange her sincerity for a change of heart, even after he developed, matchmakers came one after another, he was unmoved...... I had to wait until I was exhausted from torture and didn't marry a daughter-in-law, so I would delay the great cause of passing on the lineage, and then I decided to put this matter to a conclusion.

So in the spring of last year, he and Shen Mo broke up in Hangzhou, and they said that they would see the enemy, no matter what the result was, they would go to meet Shen Mo and help him. Who knew that with great difficulty, she found Miss Lu's Shuiyue Nunnery, and sat outside her meditation room for seven days and seven nights, without waiting for the moment when the door curtain was opened.

Seven days later, a disheartened Xu Wei was carried down the mountain, and then he was seriously ill for half a year, and when he recovered, it was already winter. He was going to rush to Gannan immediately, but Master Shen was entrusted by Shen Mo to arrange a family affair for him, and the battle situation was already settled in Shen Mo, so he was suspected of getting wet when he went, so Xu Wei dispelled the idea of leaving and stayed in Shaoxing to tie the knot.

Although he is thirty-nine years old, Xu Weiwen is famous all over the world, and he is a court official from Hanlin, and his status is extremely noble, so this marriage naturally cannot be sloppy.

In addition to renovating his old mansion as a new house, Shen Mo also asked his father to give a manor in the southeast of the city to Xu Weiwei as a wedding gift.

This manor covers an area of ten acres, surrounded by a long hedge, protected by wolfberry, there are twenty-two houses, two lotus ponds and fish ponds, dozens of fruit trees, although not big and not luxurious, but full of pastoral atmosphere, Xu Wei likes it very much, soon after the marriage, he moved over with the steproom, every day the net fish barbecue, accompanied by local brewing, drunk and singing, live a good life.

Seeing that the forty-year-old Xu Wei finally had his own home, and finally got rid of the tangled bitter love, he was really happy for him in silence, and lived in his new home that night......

Thinking of his interactions with Shen Mo over the years, Xu Wei was very grateful: "If it weren't for your Shen Clumsy words, I'm afraid I, Xu Wei, would still be a lonely ghost, how could I live a life like today." ”

Shen Mo shook his head and smiled: "Seong Dema, is it a blessing to know that Anzhi?" Who knows what you've lost because you met me? As a well-known writer, calligrapher and painter known to later generations, Xu Wei's name completely overshadowed the emperors and generals of the same era, and was still familiar to people hundreds of years later. He remembers that when he was in college, a professor said that Xu Wei in the East, like Van Gogh in the West, had many artistic inspirations that came from the tragedies of life. Shen Mo didn't know if this was right, but he knew that because of his appearance, this artistic genius born in five hundred years, the trajectory of his life has completely changed, at least he no longer needs calligraphy and painting to exchange money for food, and he no longer carves seals and writes inscriptions for others, and many hand-me-down art treasures will obviously not appear again.

But in Shen Mo's view, those eternal names and historical values are illusory, and can only be used as the basis for future generations to speculate, but there is no half-cent relationship with Xu Wei himself, so he doesn't feel that there is anything wrong with him, although he occasionally remembers that the more than 100 authentic works of Xu Wei that he collected for his descendants are worth it at that time......

Xu Wei mistakenly thought that he was regretting that he had lost the opportunity to make meritorious service in southern Gannan because of marriage, and couldn't help laughing: "You know I won't care, although I have suffered for the imperial examination for half my life, but it is not for fame, although I am also an official, but it is not for Lilu", he said with some distress: "I don't know what I am for, it's like being pushed away, although I have walked so far, I don't feel it at all...... You know, I'm either hypocritical, or I just can't get into it. ”

"Hmm", nodded silently: "No matter what you do, you must have a sense of belonging, even a sense of mission, in order to devote yourself wholeheartedly." ”

"A sense of belonging and purpose?" Xu Wei repeated these two words in a low voice: "Well said, I just can't find a sense of belonging, but I have a sense of mission", said and took a sip of aging, and said depressedly: "But after mixing in Beijing in the past few years, I found that I was incompatible with the entire officialdom, except for a few brothers, everyone else regarded me as an outlier, I could only be an idle eater, and I couldn't do anything at all." Speaking of this, he glanced at Shen Mo enviously and said: "I really envy you, you are born to be an official, not only can you deal with relationships, but also do things in an orderly manner." We were officials for a while, and it's been ten years now, and you've done so many great things, but I haven't done anything. ”

"I didn't do anything...... "Shen Mo waved his hand, and said with a wry smile: "Actually, I envy you, I don't like it, I can hang the crown at any time, and from then on, I will pick chrysanthemums under the east fence and see Nanshan leisurely." But I can't, the shackles on my body are too heavy, and I am destined to be unable to extricate myself in this life. ”

"Why bother?" Xu Wei poured Shen Mo wine and said, "No one forced you to do this, isn't it okay to have an easy life?" As a silent old friend, Xu Wei knows best that this guy has a heavy psychological burden, as if he wants to carry the whole world on his shoulders.

"Yes, no one forced me to ......" Shen Mo took a big sip of wine, enjoying the feeling of burning in his chest, and took a deep breath: "But I just can't teach myself, even if there is a trace of escape in my heart, I feel that it is sinful and unforgivable." He said that he was lying on his back and said: "This is fate, I can't escape, I have already admitted it." ”

Xu Wei lay on his side and said with a smile: "Anla, don't worry, you will never walk alone, I will follow you in this life, a hero with three gangs, a fence with three piles, can assist you to achieve great things, it is the success of my life." And he said, "Shall I go to Quzhou with you?" ”

"No need." Shen Mo shook his head and smiled: "It's not difficult to do things over there, you should be busy with your big things." ”

"What's the big deal with me?" Xu Wei didn't react for a while.

"Inheritance, ......," Shen Mo said with a smile.

"Okay, play tricks on me again!" The two were laughing, Xu Wei's newlywed wife Liu came in with soup, from the door, the posture of the two was very ambiguous, Liu secretly said in shock, no wonder the husband has not been married for more than ten years, it turns out that the crux is here...... She was also a scheming woman, so she quietly withdrew, so for a long time, she was lukewarm to Shen Ming, which made him very strange, and somehow offended this sister-in-law.

After fifteen years at home, Shen Mo was about to leave for Quzhou, before leaving, Shen He sent him to the dock, his son came back a few days, but he was not home all day, the two of them only had the opportunity to say a few words briefly when they had dinner in the morning, Shen He of course felt that his son and himself were separated. He also knew the reason, and he couldn't think of any solution, so he could only hold Shen Mo's hand with a tangled face.

Shen Mo sighed lightly and said, "The time at home is too short, you can't accompany your father well, don't blame the child." ”

"This time, I don't know if I will see you again in the Year of the Monkey." Shen He said sadly: "You won't stay at home for a few more days......"

"Busy with official business", Shen Mo said in a low voice: "I made an appointment on the sixteenth day of the first month, but it's too late to leave." ”

"Alas, busy, busy, busy, busy all year and month."

Shen He said angrily: "It seems that I want you to be idle, only wait for the day when your father and I close our eyes." ”

"Daddy." Shen Mo said helplessly: "Don't talk about those unlucky, I see that your body is no different from a young man." ”

"How do you know?" Shen He said angrily.

"You see that you have been born in three years, isn't this a dragon spirit and a tiger?" Shen Mo smiled and said, "I don't have the ability to do this." ”

"You kid, dare to make fun of Lao Tzu!" Shen He was embarrassed by him, and after a long while, he whispered: "Although your younger brother and sister are young, they are also your younger brothers and sisters after all, and they will have to point to you as ......a brother in the future."

Shen Mo was still irritable in his heart, and reluctantly smiled: "Of course, they are all from the Shen family", and said and gently withdrew his hand and said: "It's not early, Dad, go back first."

Shen He knew that he was speechless, nodded and said, "I'll leave when the boat leaves." ”

"That's good." Shen Mo took a step back, and as soon as he lifted his shirt, he knelt down for his father and said, "Daddy, take care." He bowed respectfully three times, then turned around and got on the boat.

The boat sailed, silently looking at his father's increasingly blurred figure, his heart swelled with heavy self-blame, obviously he loved his father deeply, and he was obviously gathering less and leaving more, why couldn't he pretend to make him happy?

Along the way, Shen Mo was a little emotional, and it was not until he met with the officials who came from Hangzhou that he shook his spirits and restored the calmness that the southeast chief should have.

Among the officials who were ordered to come to the meeting, Wang Bengu, the governor of Zhejiang, was the leader, Jiang Yi, the political envoy of Zhejiang, and Sun Ling and Tao Dalin, the senators of Zhejiang, and a dozen attachés, which could be described as a very luxurious lineup.

Wang Bengu and the others saw the silence, all in awe, if it was just to respect his clothes, but now he is completely convinced of his ability, this young man's means and skills are not inferior to his predecessor at all, and even more flexible, always make you feel that he is nothing, things are appropriate, and you can't be convinced.

But Shen Mo summoned them not to listen to sycophants, but to have something serious to talk to them, so the first high-level meeting of the year was held on the official ship of the Qiantang River.

First of all, Wang Bengu reported to Lord Jinglu that in the 43rd year of Jiajing, the situation of Quzhou's suppression of bandits, under the all-out suppression of Zhejiang's general army Lu Hammer, the official army had recovered most of the mining areas, but the troops were limited and could not expand the results of the battle, so he asked for silence and requisitioned the Qi family army, who was born as a miner in Yiwu, to support the suppression of bandits in Zhejiang, and he would definitely be able to get twice the result with half the effort.

But Shen Mo rejected his request and said, "The Qi family army was ordered to go north, and there is no time to participate in the suppression of bandits." After a pause, he said: "And this year, there will be elite troops going north one after another, this is the general trend, you should know." "Last year, I answered the border, and once again hit the capital, burned and plundered more than a dozen counties, hundreds of thousands of people suffered, causing the anger of the Son of Heaven, and the cabinet was completely disappointed in the border army, and officially ordered to transfer the southern army to the north to resist the enemy.

Silence on this order is actually very uncomfortable...... Whether intentionally or unintentionally, this is all cutting his military power, but he still executes it without discounting, because he knows that his return date is approaching, even if he wants to relax the environment after returning to Beijing, he can't go against the imperial court.

Listening to the silent words, Wang Bengu was very disappointed, in the final analysis, the Quzhou mine riot was the trouble he caused, although because there were people in the court, he was not asked, but it also greatly affected the status in the hearts of the officials in the court, so he has been working hard, wanting to quell the rebellion and save his own form.

But this rebellion is too tricky, even more tricky than Gannan, at first he naively thought that as long as there is the help of the army, the rebellion will definitely be put down, but the cruel reality is that the army is like a headless fly, wandering around the mining area all day long, unable to catch the rebellious miners, Lu Keng is helpless.

In fact, Wang Bengu is already at a loss, and the so-called 'pacifying most of the people' is just talking big for the sake of face. He really hoped that after quelling the silence of the rebellion in southern Gansu, he would be able to show his might again and pacify Quzhou.

But Shen Mo told Wang Bengu that the problem in Quzhou was even more difficult to solve than in southern Gansu, and he said: "The key to leading the rebellion is to eliminate the root cause of the rebellion. ”

"The rebellion in southern Gan is for poverty again, as long as the people there see the hope of getting rid of poverty, they will naturally have no motivation to rebel, and it will not be difficult to clean it up." Shen Mo said lightly: "The cause of the rebellion in Quzhou is not poverty, but greed. ”

Everyone nodded and said, "Yes, it's just to make trouble in the silver mine." "Quzhou is chaotic in the silver mine, because the ore dug out of the mine, a little refining, is the silver of white flowers, in the Ming Dynasty, silver is money, money can be spiritual!

Everyone here is not naïve, and they know that the problem in Quzhou is difficult to a large extent because it has already woven a huge network of interests around the silver mine, and Quzhou's officials, gentry, local tyrants, and bullies are all part of this network. It is no exaggeration to say that the higher-level officials have also been bought off by them, and even those present here have their eyes and ears, and I am afraid that even the troops that suppress bandits have been bought by them.

Officials have lost their integrity, they have the world in their hearts, and they are all bullshit, and they only care about their own interests. Officials and bandits collude, snakes and rats are a nest, no one is willing to carry out the orders of the imperial court, whoever dares to touch their interests is their common enemy, under its silver bullet offensive, there are really few people in the world who can parry.

This is the case with most of the world's corruption nests, especially in mining areas. This is the truth that Shen Mo has known in his previous life.

It's the New Year, I don't know when everyone will have a holiday?