Although it is no longer the grand occasion when it was Yanjing in the past, there are many famous families in Jinling, and now Wei Guogong and Chengguo Gong are both guarding Nanjing, and their families are all around. Only the older sons of Wei Guogong and Chengguo Mansion have already started a family, and each has a family business, and the kind of jealousy and ruthlessness has long been gone, and the younger generation is not old enough to go out and make a fuss. So, Wang Shikun, who was covered by Xu Li, the Duke of Wei, wanted to claim to be the first young man in Jinling, and no one would come out to fight with him in the ring.

And the behavior of this No. 1 young man in Jinling, the heads and brains of those Nanjing ministries and yamen are at most just casually listened to as a joke, but some yamen never let go of this kind of trivial matter that the real bigwigs threw in the corners. In the evening of that day, the three horsemen turned out of the Nanjing Jinyi Wei Yamen, crossed the Dazhong Bridge along West Chang'an Street, and turned into Changfu Street at a gallop.

Because Chang Yuchun's descendants Yongle years have been guilty, Hongzhi five years, although the fifth Sun Changfu was the commander of Nanjing Jinyiwei, but this is a false title that does not look at things, the Chang family has almost fallen after all, and the Chang Mansion commonly known as Kaiping Wangfu has long been returned to others. Since Yongle began to send Zhongguan to guard Nanjing, this Kaiping palace has always been occupied by the eunuchs of successive dynasties. Only the eunuchs have always appointed two people, and the people who live here are often high-ranking and senior, and this is the case with the current master, Fu Rong.

Although he is a lieutenant official, Fu Rong came out of the study in the Zheng'er Bajing Palace, and he has a lot of leisure after guarding Nanjing, and he prefers to paint a few strokes of landscape when he has nothing to do. At this moment, he stood in front of the desk, motioned to the little eunuch next to him to hold the paper, and concentrated on coloring the three or two peach blossoms. Seeing that the pale pink color was all over the branches, he couldn't help but smile slightly, put down his pen and put down the sleeve he had just rolled up, and there was a gentle knock on the door outside.

"Father-in-law, Lord Chen is here, and he happened to meet Father-in-law Zheng at the door."

"Oh? These two people happened by chance. Fu Rong motioned to the little eunuch to move the painting to the desk on the side to dry, and then said with a smile, "Since you are here, let's see them together, and send someone to lead them to the study." Lao Zheng had nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, and he didn't want to come for long, so he went to find out the few taels of tribute tea that he had collected before to entertain the guests! ”

"Okay, you Gonggong Fu, although the tribute tea is expensive, why do you only have a few taels as a rich man?"

As he spoke, he only heard a soft babbling, and the outer door seemed to be pushed open. In a short time, someone opened the curtain and came in. Walking in front was an old man who looked dignified fifty miles away, and I saw him wearing a pale blue Hangzhou silk robe, stepping on half-old black cloth shoes, and wearing a silver belt that had turned a little whitish around his waist, looking like an ordinary old Confucian. And holding the door curtain sideways to let the old man pass first, and then put down his hand and followed in, it was Chen Lu who was wearing a brocade robe.

Fu Rong raised his hand and instructed the little eunuch to go down and pour tea, and then said with a smile: "You don't like what you say, if you want to say that you arrived in Nanjing ten years earlier than our family, our family is a rich man, you can't be a gold master?" If you take the tea with you, you can take it away, but you can't guarantee that our family will go to your house tomorrow, and if you fancy something, you will come back directly! ”

The old man who came was Zheng Qiang, a Nanjing garrison and a eunuch in Nanjing. Although he is four years younger than Fu Rong, he was in charge of the Nanjing internal official supervisor in the sixteenth year of Chenghua, promoted to the Nanjing garrison in the twentieth year of Chenghua, and supervised the repair of the treasury of the Nanjing Inner Government in the first year of Hongzhi. Therefore, listening to Fu Rong's ridicule at this time, his eyes suddenly narrowed into a slit.

"That's good, but if you can see Father-in-law Fu, just take it if you like it!"

The two teased each other for a while, Chen Lu came up to salute again, Fu Rong only shook his hand and said goodbye. When the little eunuch took the small tea tray with red lacquer and sent three small porcelain cups from the Chenghua kiln, each of the three took one in his hand, and said that Zheng Qiang, who was here to ask for tea, only took a sip slightly, and immediately said bluntly: "Brother Fu, we are not outsiders, so we will open the skylight and say something." You know that son of our family, Ying Tianfu student, has been going on for many years, and he can't study. Our family is a lot older now, and I want to use this old face to help him one last time, and find a future for him, and I want to ask you to help talk about it. ”

"It's a matter of course." Fu Rong agreed, then glanced at Chen Lu hesitantly, then looked at Zheng Qiang again and said, "It's just that the limelight is not good now, if you can wait, Lao Zheng, it's best to wait." ”

"Wait?" Zheng Qiang frowned suddenly, and said angrily, "Brother Fu, if you have any difficulties, make it clear, we haven't worked together for a year or two, so we still need to be official?" ”

"It's not official." Fu Rong knew that Zheng Qiang's surname was impatient, so he gestured to Chen Lu, and when he saw him stand up and go to Zheng Qiang's side, he whispered a few words, and then he picked up the teacup and took a sip. When Chen Lu turned around and sat down, and Zheng Qiang was angry face, he sighed and said, "The limelight is not good these days, those clear streams are eyeing those redundant officials and redundant personnel, and even Chen Lu is not spared, why do you bother to pull Ling Lang out at this time to be a target?" ”

"Those well-fed scholars!" Zheng Qiang pinched the handrail tightly, and snorted vigorously for a while, "Zheng Jie is being looked down upon all day long in the school, if it wasn't for the hard lesson from our family a few days ago, he would almost have said no!" I think that back then, Brother Fu, you and our family fought for the name of an inner study hall, and now these children can give up on themselves for the sake of other people's nonsense, which is really far worse than us back then! ”

"How can you compare your children to us? They have not endured so much suffering, so naturally they cannot bear those words. ”

Fu Rong laughed dumbly, only Zheng Qiang mentioned this stubble, he gradually gave birth to nostalgia, and chatted with him about the old things in the former palace in the study, and waited for a while to finish chatting, seeing that the time was not too early to leave Zheng Qiang to eat, who knew that the other party insisted on refusing, but when he left, he not only followed his three taels of tribute tea, but also took away the peach blossom picture he painted newly, and insisted that he printed the new seal of "Songan" on the painting. It wasn't until he sent people all the way to the second gate and saw Zheng Qiang get in the car and go away, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Chen Lu next to him with his hands behind his back: "You say, did he come to talk to our house because of the rumor?" ”

"Gonggong Zheng has been operating in Nanjing for twenty or thirty years, so he is naturally well-informed."

"Except for his children and grandchildren, he can be regarded as desireless, and he is really annoyed to see him like that just now." Fu Rong smiled, then turned around and walked inside, until out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Chen Lu one step behind and followed closely behind, and then he asked in a low voice, "It's you, you rushed over in a hurry today, what news did you hear again?" ”

"It's not big news, after all, the fold should have only been sent away for two days, and the capital hasn't arrived yet, so how can there be any palindrome?" Chen Lu paused, and then laughed instantly, "It's a trivial matter among the people." There was a fire in Taipingli last night, burning two courtyards, one of which was where Xu Liang, who Xu Xun said last night and saved the eldest son, lived. ”

"Oh? Fire? Fu Rong stopped his steps suddenly, and saw that the smile on Chen Lu's face was a little strange, so he turned his head and continued to walk forward, "Since it came out of your mouth, I think the word fire is very debatable?" ”

"Although there is no evidence, it should be placed in the Xu family's long house. Last night, Xu Xun went home after going to his father-in-law's appointment, hitched a ride with a wealthy businessman who came with Wang Shikun, found out about the fire, and immediately asked the rich businessman to borrow money, and encouraged the neighbors to extinguish the fire with a reward. As soon as Xu Liang came back, he was forced to lose money, and was taken back by the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses, but this Xu Xun went to the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Division early in the morning, and then somehow he caught up with Wang Shikun, and Wang Shikun personally went to the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Division to say Xiang. It is rare that Wang Shikun, the first young man in Jinling, did not play tricks, and he actually said that Zhu Laosan of the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Division was speechless, and had to put people in prison first. ”

Chen Lu simply said a call, Fu Rong couldn't help but feel a little interested, stopped his steps and asked the reason carefully, and immediately laughed: "When he encountered such a thing, he didn't even take out the thorn in our family to open the way, but actually found another way to coax Wang Shikun to go out willingly, and Wang Shikun, who has always been arrogant with his fists, actually has a sharp mouth?" Okay, scheming, good...... Let's see what happens next! ”

"Yes." Chen Lu agreed, but he lowered his voice again and said, "Father-in-law, in the matter of the Xu family, one of Zhao Qin's Qingke in the engineering department seems to be making trouble in it. ”

"Zhao Qin?"

Fu Rong stopped again. After pondering for a long time, he said word by word: "Keep an eye on it first, don't be alarmed, and let's see what is going on first, and how to deal with this Xu family." This Zhao family is deeply rooted in Jurong, and there have been many things that have been reported to Jinyiwei in the past, but every time they move, they get nothing, but they are so tired that they all end up and down. Zhao Qin doesn't care alone, but he is a clear stream, and our family is not by the side of the emperor in the capital, this kind of person can't be knocked down or scratched! It's been so many years since the east wind overwhelmed the west wind, and it's not so easy to make feng shui take turns! Our family knows that you are angry, but you have to eat a bite to eat, and you have to do things step by step, so you can't be in a hurry. ”

Seeing Fu Rong's attitude, Chen Lu bowed down and agreed, but his eyes couldn't help revealing a hint of gloom.

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