Although Zhang Ning was contemptuous of Qian Puduo, and Wang Fulin was more concerned about the governance of Zhending Mansion, both of them had to admit that Qian Pu took them to greet Mrs. Zhao at this time, and he was indeed not overly extravagant. www.biquge.info At least Qian Pu brought all the subordinate officials in the government office, the upper and lower officials of the Zhending County government, and most of the officials, and most of the officials, and did not mobilize hundreds of boys and girls to wave their flags outside the city, nor did he mobilize the people to welcome them. Moreover, he was very knowledgeable and interested in putting Wang Fulin and Zhang Ning, who were ordered by the emperor to come to greet them, in front, and he was willing to stay behind, and he had no intention of competing with the two of them for the limelight at all.

In view of these two points, Wang Fulin felt that this Zhending prefect was different from the rumors, and he was a very capable and measured person.

While waiting, he and Qian Pu gossiped about a common thing, but he found something he hadn't noticed before-Qian Pu turned out to be a jinshi in the second year of Longqing, that is, the same year as his old father-in-law Ye Dacang! If it was just that, maybe he wouldn't be very enthusiastic about people, but when he jokingly whispered about the one-bedroom sedan hall dedicated to Zhang Juzheng, Qian Pu actually shook his head into a rattle, he was a little curious.

Wang Zhangdao joked, when Yuanfu arrived at Zhending Mansion, he mentioned that there were often cabinets on the post road to rush over, but it was cramped and narrow in the carriage, and it was not easy to deal with official documents, so I thought that the post road from Zhending Mansion to Xingtai, Handan, Anyang, Weihui, and Xinxiang was not crossed before the Yellow River, it was a thoroughfare, the road was well repaired, and the sedan chair was slightly larger and passable, so I found sixteen of the top sedan chair drivers, divided into two classes, and the eight-person sedan chair hall was also rushed out overnight, sheltering from the wind and rain, in addition to Yuanfu, There can be one more boy to serve the pen and ink, where is it really as extravagant as rumored! ”

"Not to mention anything else, how big is the sedan chair that is separated from the living bedroom, and how many sedan chair drivers have to carry together? Except for the emperor's Luan, where can I go to find dozens of sedan chair men who know how to step together without all of them colliding together? Moreover, it only took more than 20 days for Yuanfu to rush from Jingshi to Gangneung County, if he really sat in such a sedan chair, how far could he go in one day? And there are mountains and mountains in the middle, and you have to cross the Yellow River, how can such a big sedan chair get by? ”

After several rhetorical questions, seeing that Wang Fulin was stunned for a moment, Qian Pu's eyes were also dull all of a sudden, and his face turned pale and said: "Even Wang Zhangdao asked you so, could it be that Master Jing...... Is it all passed on? ”

Thinking of the description of the later generations that he had read, he said so, so when he heard that this was also circulated in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he didn't think much about it, but he just sighed in his heart that Zhang Juzheng shouldn't be so ostentatious, and Wang Fulin couldn't help but reflect on himself deeply. If you don't see something, you don't have the right to speak, although Zhang Juzheng is indeed too ostentatious and unrestrained in some places, but he should not dare to blatantly exceed the restrictions of the sedan chair man. So, when he looked at Qian Pu, the initiator of the legendary luxury car hall, he couldn't help but feel some sympathy for the other party in his heart.

It was true that he sent a sedan chair to please Zhang Ju, but the rumors were so boiling, but Qian Pu's reputation was ruined!

Seeing Qian Pu's crying face, Zhang Ning, who also heard this idle talk on the side, couldn't help but feel a little sympathetic, especially when he heard that it had been less than a year since Qian Pu took office as the prefect of Zhending, he thought of himself from what happened to the other party. Do you think that at the beginning, when he first took office as the eunuch of the Beixin Customs Customs, he was not pinched as a soft persimmon by the three divisions of Bu Zhidu, but he was secretly doing tricks, causing him to be inseparable from those guys who fought in the line, and made such a chaotic incident of the people attacking the Beixin Pass? If it weren't for Wang Fulin and Yan Yuan, maybe he wouldn't even have lost his life, and the black cauldron would have to be carried to death!

And now, Qian Pu is also just a sycophant, but he has been smeared by other people's rumors to exceed the system, in case it reaches the emperor's ears again, Zhang Juzheng will certainly be recorded as arrogant and domineering, where is Qian Pu good?

So, he coughed and said: "Qian Fuzun, those who are clear are self-purifying, and those who are turbid are self-turbid, so you don't have to take it to heart." As long as your political performance is good, are you afraid that others will point fingers behind your back? ”

Wang Fulin comforted Qian Pu a few words in accordance with Zhang Ning's tone, but he thought in his heart that he was embarrassed to ask Zhang Juzheng about the sedan hall before, and he also believed this stubble, although Qian Ning now explained it clearly to him and Zhang Ning, but the problem is that people like to talk about it at the time, it is curious news, who cares if you are true or not?

Moreover, such a thing as political performance is simply insignificant compared to taking sides or taking a stand. If you are a clean official like Hai Rui, it is fine, the more you dismiss the official, the greater your reputation, and others will be helpless to take you, but if you are not innocent and flawless, then you can't help it, the law of one glory and one loss is unbreakable.

Therefore, in the next time, he determined that Mrs. Zhao and her entourage would have to come back after a while, so he let Qian Pu and Zhang Ning, a civil official and a eunuch, talk with each other, and retreated to a curtain hall built on the side, took off the official uniform to Feng Zhong of the entourage, changed into civilian clothes, and finally found a few students who came to greet him spontaneously, pretending to be a Xiucai who passed by Zhending Mansion to see the excitement, and asked about Qian Pu's political achievements with interest, but found that Qian Pu's official reputation in Zhending Mansion was not bad. But because some people publicized the matter of sending the sedan hall, many people now say behind their backs that they are attached to Zhang Juzheng.

After going back and forth, when he really found out what the size of the sedan chair was, and the front reported that Mrs. Tai was coming to the front station, he quietly slipped away, put on his official uniform and went to the front.

Escorting Mrs. Zhao back to Beijing, in addition to Zhang Jingxiu's grandchildren, there was also Wei Chao, the eunuch of the Imperial Order and the eunuch of the War Bureau. To say that this Wei father-in-law, since he was ordered to gallop back to Jiangling with Zhang Juzheng's son Zhang Jingxiu and others, he has not returned, and a eunuch in Jiangling County, Jingzhou Prefecture is busy managing the funeral of the Zhang family, which is a bit like the private minister of the Zhang family. But at this moment, when Wei Chao, who had been away from Beijing for nearly a year, saw Wang Fulin and Zhang Ning, he was smiling and polite, as if he was very satisfied with this year's outreach.

Wang Fulin and Zhang Ning first said a few words to the old lady Zhao who was helped out of the carriage, and then after meeting each other with Wei Chao, a eunuch who was also out of tolerance, they turned to Zhang Jingxiu and said hello. Although for Wang Fulin, the two sides are extremely familiar people, but at this time, they can't care about greeting each other, and they are bowing to each other outside of their hands. After all, at the key point of the city gate, and when the city gate is about to be closed and the night curfew is about to be closed, it is naturally not suitable for personal affairs.

On the way back to the city, Wang Fulin said hello to Zhang Ning, but he was mixed with the brothers of the Zhang family, which made Qian Pu, the prefect of Zhending, look at it and not envy it.

In order to entertain the mighty Zhang family, Qian Pu had already borrowed a clean and tidy courtyard from a wealthy family in the city, and it took a lot of effort from furnishings to sprinkling and sweeping. However, after he settled the Zhang family after running forward, it was Zhang Jingxiu who came out and said a fluttering word.

"Mrs. Tai said that there is a lot of trouble with the labor and money mansion."

After arching his hand to Qian Pu, Zhang Jingxiu didn't care much about the somewhat disappointed eyes of the Zhending prefect, and went straight to Wang Fulin and Zhang Ning, because he said with a smile: "Mrs. Tai said that Grandpa Zhang and Wang Zhangdao have worked hard, and asked the two of you if you have had dinner, if not, please go inside to eat together, there are more people." ”

Zhang Ning naturally knew the name of his master of ceremonies and eunuchs, not to mention that Mrs. Zhao had never heard of it, and the brothers of the Zhang family might not have heard of it - after all, Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao were equal in status, if he was a bingbi, maybe he could still look up to a few points, what is a court? Mrs. Zhao specially invited him to go, just because he was a special envoy in the palace, and it was estimated that he was stained with the light of Wang Fulin.

Qian Pu was even more envious for a while, you must know that the third stop when Zhang Juzheng set off before was Zhending Mansion, so he was able to make Zhang Juzheng greatly appreciate the ingenuity of sending him to the sedan hall. Some of the prefectural and county officials after him are not flattering, but those officials in front of him have racked their brains to think of everything that should be thought of, so it is difficult to shine. And now Mrs. Zhao is the same all the way north from Jingzhou, and when he arrives at Zhending Mansion, it is naturally difficult for him to overshadow the tricks of those officials in front of him.

Knowing that Zhang Ning was sent from the palace, and Wang Fulin had a special relationship with the Zhang family, so when he saw Zhang Jingxiu smile and lead the two of them in, he didn't dare to hope for it, and tiptoed back after seeing the three of them go.

But who would have thought that after a while, he would see Zhang Ning again. When he met in person, he couldn't help but wonder and asked, "Didn't Grandpa Zhang and Wang Zhangdao go to accompany Mrs. Tai to dinner?" ”

"I asked Wang Zhangdao to go first and come out to tell you something."

Zhang Ning looked around, but whispered to Qian Pu: "We are all people who have suffered losses, so I will remind you." I see that Mrs. Tai and several Zhang Gongzi described fatigue, it should be that although the inside and outside of the road should be taken care of properly, but a large number of people are riding in a car, and other horses are accompanied by it, which is inevitably hard. I don't know what kind of delicacies are prepared in the kitchen, but if you have a side dish of congee, you might as well serve it first, it may be more appetizing. As for those good ingredients, they will not be wasted, and the Zhang family will definitely be able to eat it if they are escorted all the way to Beijing, even if the adults of Qian Fuzun and Zhending Mansion work hard, it is better to treat themselves. Of course, today is the Double Ninth Festival, and you must not forget this chrysanthemum wine and Chongyang cake. ”

"Thank you Grandpa Zhang for the reminder."

Qian Pu almost didn't want to think about it and nodded repeatedly, the chef of this house was invited by him from the best restaurant in Zhending Mansion City, and he was proficient in all eighteen martial arts, but at this time, Zhang Ning, the celebrant and eunuch, spoke with the hall, but he hurriedly agreed without thinking about it at all. After he personally went to the back kitchen to inform him, although the chef wanted to eat lightly for the masters of the Zhang family, the servants of the Zhang family were a little hesitant to eat big fish and meat, but the mansion ordered them to naturally comply. And it wasn't until he personally watched two batches of food for different people in the Zhang family send it in, that Qian Pu suddenly had a thrill.

Oops, even if the ancestors and grandchildren of the Zhang family really plan to eat lighter, but if they know that their subordinates eat better, will they be annoyed when they turn around? This Zhang Ning and Zhang's father-in-law talked to him before, but it was a deed, and he was also a cool person, so he wouldn't hurt him, right?

Wang Fulin, who saw Mrs. Zhao one step earlier, smiled and groaned to see the family ceremony. He originally thought that Mrs. Zhao had a bad memory of a lot of age, and he had seen it once in Zhangfu, Jiangling County many years ago, and people would never remember him, but he didn't expect Mrs. Zhao to look at him a few times, and she actually smiled.

"When my grandchildren mentioned you after they returned to their hometowns, I remembered that little official Wang back then. Remember when I peeled oranges for you to eat, you were quite shy, and you grew so big in a flash? I heard that you also married a handsome daughter-in-law and an adopted son in his teens, when will you bring it to me? ”

Zhang Juzheng can be said to be from a genuine poor family, so his parents' background is not enough, and Mrs. Zhao doesn't seem to have much of a frame at the moment - of course, Mrs. Zhao is definitely not the so-called old lady from the countryside who some people maliciously evaluated in later generations. After all, Jiangling County is the capital county of Jingzhou, if this is considered a countryside, how can Wang Fulin, who was born in Songming Mountain Village, be embarrassed? Of course, her son became the first assistant, and Mrs. Zhao, who was used to being flattered, did not speak so cordially when she saw anyone. Back then, the impression was very good, and the grandchildren all said that Wang Fulin was good and another one, and at this time, seeing people handsome and likable, that was the most important one.

Old people always love to look at handsome children.

Usually dealing with the elders in the officialdom, but at this time he suddenly had to change his painting style and pretend to be well-behaved, Wang Fulin had to change his mood a little, and substituted the template of the grandson-in-law when he went to Ningbo to meet Xiaobei's grandmother, Mrs. Ye, and quickly adjusted it.

"It's been so many years, Mrs. Tai, you have a good memory. I still remember that you said at the beginning that you hoped that I could study hard and be a right-hand man for Shousuke-sama in the future. I now not only married a daughter-in-law, but also has an adopted son who was lifted in the exam, and last year my daughter-in-law also gave birth to a big fat boy for me, but the two sons are now in Huizhou, and I will have the opportunity to go to Beijing in the future to show you. When I arrive in the capital, I will take my daughter-in-law to visit your old man's home. ”

"Yo, your father has only been an official for a few years, and his adopted son has already passed the exam? Really, in the future, it will be a good talent like Da Lang, who will be named on the gold list at a young age! ”

Zhang Jingxiu heard his grandmother praise Jinbao, and even compared his father Zhang Juzheng, he couldn't help crying and laughing. But he couldn't remind his grandmother, he could only stare at Wang Fulin, thinking that you should always know that grandmother's eldest man was referring to his father Zhang Juzheng, not him Zhang Sixiu.

Of course, Wang Fulin could realize it, so he hurried to humility. When Mrs. Zhao began to talk about his experience over the years, he pondered about the things in the officialdom and said that the old man couldn't understand it, so he simply took out the story of going to Liaodong to adventure, and the experience of going to Macao when he was in Guangdong, and these ups and downs and very plotty stories.

Sure enough, this interesting story coupled with the porridge and side dishes sent in later was very appetizing, Mrs. Zhao actually went down to a big bowl of mung bean porridge and a small half of Chongyang cake in one go, and even a few brothers of the Zhang family, saw a plate of cucumber dipping sauce, a plate of diced radish, a plate of cold tofu diced, a plate of fried chrysanthemum, and those cold wild vegetables that they couldn't name, and a bowl of hot egg custard, all of them had a great appetite.

I'm almost tired of eating all the delicacies of the mountains and seas!

After eating, Mrs. Zhao actually said with a smile: "Starting from Jiangling to here, it is the first time that I have eaten so comfortably and are in such a good mood!" ”

ps: Today is also a change. Zhang Juzheng's one-bedroom sedan chair is too famous, I have always believed it to be true, this time the truth record calculated the distance from Beijing to Jiangling, Zhang Juzheng's one-way time, the width of the official road, and then I feel quite nonsense, every day galloping is only 240 miles, more than 20 days to take this sedan chair to Jiangling is really hehe (to be continued.) )