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For a moment, except for the sound of panting, no other movement could be heard in the room.

Yang Yunteng's upper eyelids kept blinking, even if there were no signs of trembling on his body, he couldn't hide his panic at the moment, life and death, honor and disgrace were only between the thoughts of nine children.

The local children looked frightened, their eyes kept looking at Xiaobei Jiuren, and the sheep and danzi came to their father's side, grabbed the corners of their father's clothes with both hands, and pursed their mouths tightly.

Xiaobei's face was so worried that it had wrinkled into a flower, and the other eight people also had their own expressions, looking at the shed, looking at the ground, and their eyes were rolling around and didn't know where to look.

Zhang Hu's several guards who followed up were expressionless and motionless, and other people's affairs seemed to have nothing to do with them.

"Let's have a short meeting." Xiaohai spoke out at a critical moment, and the other children nodded.

"Wait, let's go out and discuss, and we'll be back in a moment." Before going out, Xiaobei said to Yang Yunteng as if prompting and warning.

The officials of the Datang Patrol Envoy muttered together outside the door for a full quarter of an hour, Fang came back with a calm face, and Xiaobei, a special spokesman, spoke: "Yang Yunteng, we have made a decision on your matter." ”

When Yang Yunteng heard this, he tried his best to make himself appear as peaceful as possible, squeezed out a smile that was out of shape, and the muscles on his face kept squirming, giving people the feeling of crying.

"I decided to leave the matter between you and your uncle to my brother and sister." Little Bey's immature and crisp voice sounded again.

"For... Why...? Yang Yunteng squeezed out a sentence from his throat.

"Because your affairs are too complicated, we are too young, we haven't learned, we are stumped, face is very important to us, but justice is more important, who made us inspectors, this time many people will be unlucky, especially the several waves of inspectors who inspect the armies in various places, the imperial court gives them a lot of benefits, not for them to go through the motions."

Becky looked unhappy, perhaps because she saw herself as an adult, and she finally realized that not everything was something they could handle.

Yang Yunteng sighed, didn't speak again, and nodded in resignation, but his son Yang Danzi mustered up the courage to question Xiaobei at this moment: "My father did something wrong, what about your father?" Your father is the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and someone leaked secrets, can he be fine? ”

"It doesn't matter to me if my dad has something to do, I don't excuse my dad and say what is the responsibility of the people under the Ministry of Works, my dad doesn't know, I just say, whoever makes my dad uncomfortable, I will let whoever knows what it means to be uncomfortable.

Because I know that my father is the best, good to his family, good to his subordinates, good to his colleagues, serious about his work, and loyal to Datang, my father is a real gentleman, at least more than my brother is a gentleman, although my brother always says that he is a true gentleman. ”

Xiaobei said with a happy smile, and after a while, he said to the local children: "Come with us, we will invite you to dinner." ”

"I'm not going, I'm with my father." Sheep Danzi obviously doesn't think that eating is more important than family affection, even if he can eat the food cooked by Zhang Xiaobao himself.

Yang Yunteng patted his son's head with satisfaction: "Go, you can only help your father talk." ”

"Okay." The sheep egg rolled his eyes and agreed.

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When Xiaobei and his party returned to the restaurant, Zhang Xiaobao had already prepared the meal, and the news he got in advance said that his younger brothers and sisters wanted to invite others to dinner, and there were troublesome things to hand over.

A table three meters long, two meters wide, and one meter two meters high has no less than 16 dishes on it, all of which are loaded on large plates, but there are no stools.

"Zhang... Sheet... Brother Xiaobao, my father didn't betray Datang. As soon as the banquet began, Yang Danzi grabbed the hem of his clothes with both hands, raised his head and said to Zhang Xiaobao.

Zhang Xiaobao looked serious and nodded affirmatively: "I already know, don't worry, your father's life will not be worse than before." ”

"Will that be shot?" The sheep eggs are still nervous.

"Why are you so stupid, you say that you are better off than before, and you can still live when you die? Much dumber than your sister, eat. The little boy said happily to the sheep.

"Do you want to be beaten?"

"Afraid of you? There is a kind of horseback riding to decide the winner. ”

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Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan didn't go to eat with the children anymore, leaving enough space for the children to play, and the two sat opposite each other to make a hot pot, the kind of copper hot pot with a chimney, charcoal-burning.

With sauerkraut, fatty meat slices as the base, there are a little crab and shrimp, there are vermicelli, blood sausage, frozen tofu on the plate, vegetables are only cabbage, the rest are all fresh mutton slices, the wine pot is scalded with white wine, the dipping sauce is simple leek flowers and garlic sauce, there is no bean curd, the main bean curd and sauerkraut together will be more enjoyable than eating raw seafood, and the fishy smell can not bear it.

"Let's eat, I didn't expect to be able to find talents in Jiuyuan here." Zhang Xiaobao picked up a piece of meat and rubbed it back and forth in the pot, and said happily.

"It's the dereliction of duty of the inspectors, it is estimated that they thought that there would be no major problems in patrolling the local army, so they dared to deal with things, no more than the manpower of the inspection administrative officials, the magistrates always have such and such excuses to reach out, my opinion is to assign inspectors."

Wang Juan didn't move his chopsticks, and said as he looked at the sparks emerging from the hot pot chimney.

Zhang Xiaobao simply threw half a plate of meat into the hot pot, boiled it like a stew, picked up the wine jug to test the temperature, saw that it was hot, poured a cup for Wang Juan and himself, and pinched the wine cup and drank the three dollars of wine in it.

Then he exhaled a long breath of wine, took a deep breath, clicked his mouth twice, and said, "Good wine, worthy of Wuliangye." ”

Wang Juan couldn't help laughing: "You can pull it down, the wine is indeed distilled from five kinds of grains, and it has been cellared for a few years, but what does it have to do with the five grains you said?" The quality and taste of Wuliangye lie in whether the wine puree is good when it is stored? ”

"Is there such a thing? I really don't know, I just think that all the wines that are more old in the cellar taste good, otherwise there would not be so many famous wines in the world, and each famous wine is related to the age of the cellar, and there is no wine with its own history, even if the taste is good, it will not be touted.

For example, aged vinegar, such as black tea, such as ambergris, and even a lot of wood used to make violins, of course, the kind of short shelf life is not counted, you look at the United States, never take the initiative to mention their own history, why, it's not that they have a short history, they have no heritage, they are colonial countries, and the local people have history, but they will not be recognized by the colonial descendants as their own history.

This wine, what we drank at that time was basically all blended, and it was a pity that no matter how it was blended, it could only be deceived by people who didn't understand wine, and people like me, they couldn't deceive. ”

Zhang Xiaobao pinched the wine cup, his eyes were deep, and he did not move with the rotation of the wine cup.

Wang Juan glanced at Zhang Xiaobao: "Okay, don't be a melancholy bard there, it's not a glass for drinking wine, porcelain, you talk about wine, are you looking at wine or glass?" Knowing that you have good taste and a lot of experience, you can taste the quality of wine at once. ”

"No, I look at the wine cup to tell people that I don't know how to drink, so I never order any wine for many years, every time I drink, I tell the waiter to have the worst blended wine, so that they can't lie to me, I only give money for the worst wine."

"They must be stupid, right?"

"I was stupid, they actually mixed orange juice with ordinary liquor, called a cocktail, and I spent the price of the whole glass of wine, is the orange juice the same price as the wine?"

"Now we're talking about the handling of this matter, it has nothing to do with wine, I've been led astray by you." Wang Juan finally reacted.

Zhang Xiaobao put down the wine cup, pondered a little and said: "Yes, there are many legends about the origin of the name of the cocktail, but I think they are all correct, the biggest feature of this wine is that the taste is different and the layers are clear, in order to reflect it, the color of the wine is very rich, just like the Gallic chicken, the color of the body is divided into levels, from beginning to end, so it is called this name, the translated 'chicken (fastest update)" word is not the right, but the head, describing the color of the wine is the same as the color change of the Gallic chicken.

Some people drink indiscriminately and do not taste the taste of each blended wine, while others specifically point out each added wine to show purity and erudition. ”

"What about you, which one to choose?" Wang Juan was led astray again.

"I choose the kind with relatively little orange juice, otherwise it is not cost-effective to spend the money to buy juice, but many young people choose to drink blindly, and many people who feel that they have an identity go to taste it, and what I appreciate most is that the old man drinks this wine, and when he takes a sip of wine, the smile on his face is more layered and more chaotic than a cocktail."

Zhang Xiaobao poured himself another cup as he spoke.

Wang Juan was stunned, nodded his head, and then asked, "Does it have anything to do with the handling of what I just said?" ”

"Yes, the reason why the elderly are more good at tasting is precisely because they have experienced too many years, time is actually a cocktail, when too much has passed, we find that we do not need to distinguish the taste of each age, the ups and downs, is life, without color, what is the meaning of our life?

So, since Yang Fei has complicated things for a simple purpose, we will agree with him, and then follow his way of thinking to deal with him, so that he can slowly understand the complexity when he undergoes simple punishment. ”

Zhang Xiaobao raised his head and drank the wine in the cup.

Wang Juan stretched out his hand and held it down before Zhang Xiaobao went to touch the wine jug, and said, "You don't need to borrow wine to kill your sorrows, do you?" You still haven't said how to deal with it, how to arrange him, for example. ”

"For example, he was afraid that he was incompetent, but in fact, he didn't want to live under others, at least not under his junior brother, so we arranged for him to do things under his junior brother, do chores, clean up the hygiene of the experimental site, wipe the experimental utensils, hand the tools and experimental materials to other researchers, eat, don't let me eat alone."

Zhang Xiaobao stretched out his chopsticks and fished out a lot of meat and put it on the plate in front of Wang Juan.

"Oh." Wang Juan agreed, bowed his head to eat meat, and threw the little crab that was accidentally brought back into the pot, drank a cup of wine, and said: "Wuliangye is really good, but don't you think that according to what you say, we have buried talents?" ”

Zhang Xiaobao didn't answer immediately, and put a lot of dishes into the pot in a row, covered the lid with a hole in the middle that could put the chimney position in, and listened to the sound of cooking for a while before speaking: "It's not buried." ”

Wang Juan blinked, waiting for the following.

"Yang Yunteng may feel that he has learned very well, a person through self-study, designed a lathe, in my opinion he is far behind, four years to learn this level, I don't think it is very powerful, maybe he himself is more proud, but he can be proud of you and me?

I start now, don't do anything else tiring, and just like him, I can make a better lathe than him in two years, who is not a genius who can go to the research department of the Ministry of Industry? If he really wants to be an important researcher, how long does he have to delay that project?

Let him do chores is a simple order, and it is complicated to learn in chores, let him see the skills of others, let him understand the profundity of the industry as a whole, and let him understand that a person is not as good as a tacit team after all.

Didn't we just read the drawings he designed, the lathe is really good, he thought he was qualified to use that drawing to enter the Ministry of Engineering, I guess he still thinks he can be above others, but that's because his junior brother keeps secretly showing him the design drawings of the lathe of the Ministry of Engineering, and his results are based on the hard work of others.

If you don't polish him, the Ministry of Industry will not be able to control him in the future, and I am reluctant to kill him, right? ”

After speaking, Zhang Xiaobao looked at the wine cup and fell silent.

Wang Juan helped Zhang Xiaobao pour full wine: "Yes, you are right, just like you, I will not kill you if I arrest you at the beginning, let you hand over your property first, and then polish and polish you, and let you receive ideological education, Yang Fei is arranged according to this, what about Uncle He?" ”

"He? Haha, with it on the road, I have a better place to place him, and to be honest, I prefer to clean up my uncle slowly. Zhang Xiaobao suddenly became happy, as if a child had met a new toy.

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