The Mansion of the Daimyo of Beijing.

In the middle of summer in June, the heat wave is rolling.

The blazing sunlight was not half blocked, and fell straight to the ground.

Sweat drips onto the hot pavement and disappears in the blink of an eye. The air swayed in the sunlight, blurring the distant scene.

On the East Lake outside the Daimyo's Mansion, there is still a little breeze. The turquoise lotus leaves cover half of the lake, and the white lotus flowers are slim. Just looking at it, I feel cool.

But in the center of the huge East Lake, there is only one painting boat driving slowly among the lotus leaves. The sound of silk and bamboo flows on the surface of the lake. And on the shore of the lake, there are also a group of sergeants guarding it. Even though he was sweating, he didn't dare to leave the lake embankment for half a step. Seeing this formation, there were not many pedestrians on the road, and they all avoided it from afar.

The captain holding the boat, wearing a hat, slowly pushed the bamboo pole for a while, letting the heavy boat move little by little.

Two eleven or twelve-year-old little maids squatted on the side of the boat, poked their thin wrists, and plucked off the lotus canopies where the painting boat passed. It was filled in a few small baskets and carried into the cabin.

In the cabin, there are silk and bamboo songs and dances.

A group of musicians sat in the corner, with a curtain in front of them, blocking their view into the cabin. In the center of the cabin, six prostitutes sang and danced to the music. The gorgeous and moving dance posture made the guests sitting around dazzled.

This is Sikong, Hedong Jiedu envoy, sentenced to the famous mansion - the poor and extremely rich Wen Yanbo is feasting.

Since leaving the Privy Council and going out, whether it is in Heyang Mansion or in the Daimyo's Mansion, what Wen Yanbo has done is to drink and feast, travel, and when he is tired, he will study and rest in the mansion, and ignore political affairs at all.

Wang Fu, the transfer judge of Hebei East Road, had just inspected the Daimyo's Mansion a few days ago, and he had a lot of complaints about this—the transfer department had the task of supervising the administration of local state and county officials—but Wen Yanbo didn't care at all.

The complaints and trivialities of the children, how can he take it to heart after being a veteran and important minister who has been ruling for decades?! Not to mention that he also has the title of a commonplace and a temperance envoy, which is to make the appearance, and in terms of rank, Wang Anshi must be under him.

On this day, he saw that the lotus flowers on the East Lake were blooming just right, so he invited a group of guests, all of whom were famous people from the Daimyo's mansion. In the cabin, more than a dozen buckets of ice were placed in corners and hidden places, and the heat was all blocked out of the boat. This kind of enjoyment can only be afforded by Wen Yanbo, who has been in charge for decades.

The well-maintained right hand is holding a long snow-white beard, and the half-squinted eyes hide the scheming as deep as the abyssal sea. looked at the song and dance, but no one knew what Lu Dao was thinking.

After coming in, the little maid put the baskets containing lotus canopies one by one on the table of Wen Yanbo and the guests. The two maids behind Wen Yanbo, one was fanning, and the other picked up the lotus canopy and helped peel it off.

A slight collision sound made the painting boat tremble slightly. Listening to a series of footsteps, it sounded from the aisle on the side of the ship outside the cabin, and Wen Yanbo's six sons, Wen Jifu, appeared outside the cabin door.

The guests got up one after another and saluted the Wen family's six yamen.

Wen Yanbo slowly raised his eyes and asked, "Sixth brother, why are you here?" ”

Wen Jifu had just taken a small boat and came down from the bright sun to the cool cabin, still sweating. He walked in, greeted everyone, and whispered beside Wen Yanbo: "My lord, Wang Fuzhi's guy actually went to the court to impeach the adult!" ”

Wen Jifu is angry. Fu Bi was forced by Li Zhongshi to pay the exemption money. Now there are people impeaching their own fathers. The court didn't care about the faces of the old and important ministers, and they let this villain bully them.

But Wen Yanbo was unmoved, and still asked slowly: "What did he say?" ”

Wen Jifu leaned closer, leaning into Wen Yanbo's ear to speak.

Wen Yanbo glared at his son, and the fierceness in his eyes made Wen Jifu lean back. The probe picked up the wine glass that had been calmed with well water, "Even if the superintendent impeached the old man, why can't you say anything to people about such official affairs?" ”

Looking at his stunned son, Wen Yanbo couldn't help but be like Fu Bi, with the sigh of a tiger father and a dog. More than a dozen pairs of guests were watching, and if they talked in private, rumors would spread outside. It's just a transfer judge impeachment, so what's there to care about. This news will come out soon, and now it is mysterious and tense, which will make people think that he Wen Yanbo is afraid.

Coughing dryly, in front of the guests, Wen Jifu was inconvenient to say all the content on Wang Fuzhi's bullet seal that he knew, so he simply summarized it into three words, "Wang Fuzhi said that adults 'don't do anything'." ”

"That's it?" Wen Yanbo asked rhetorically, and his unconcerned appearance made the guests who pricked up their ears lose the interest in exploring the roots.

"This must be the order of those who are in charge!" Wen Jifu turned his back to the outsider and said viciously.

"If only Wang Anshi were so stupid." Wen Yanbo muttered to himself, his voice was so low that only his son could hear it, "It's time for the transfer judge on Hebei East Road to change people." ”

"My lord! ……”

"Let the Son of Heaven decide this matter, why worry about being a courtier?" Wen Yanbo raised his voice and laughed, "The thunder, rain and dew are all Jun's grace, and the old man has been in the wind and rain all his life, so he doesn't care about getting a little more." ”

Wen Yanbo said arrogantly, but who can refute it, the three dynasties Zaifu, the old ministers, originally had the qualifications to rely on the old and sell the old.

After saying a word, Wen Yanbo's eyes lowered, and he saw a translucent round glass pendant pinned to Wen Jifu's waist, which he had never seen.

"What is this?"

"Crystal Yangsui, also known as magnifying glass." Wen Jifu hurriedly took it off and put it in front of Wen Yanbo's eyes, "Not only can it be used to focus light and ignite fire, but through this mirror, it can magnify the opposite thing." I heard that Han Gang drew the sketch, and then the Son of Heaven asked the famous craftsman who was the supervisor to polish it out and give it to the two saints. Just like the prism that can be divided into seven colors in the previous legend, it only took a month to come out of the palace. The son also saw that it was inconvenient for adults to study, so he brought one from Beijing. ”

"And that little boy made it again?" The son expressed his filial piety in person, but Wen Yanbo ignored it, but when he heard Han Gang's name, he frowned.

Because of the past, Wen Yanbo has a deep prejudice against Han Gang. The day before yesterday, Han Gang was at the Qionglin banquet, forcing Yang Hui, and committing the following offenses, after Wen Yanbo heard about it, he didn't have half a good word, what kind of natural reason, how can there be an important court discipline? ! Later, when he heard that Han Gang recommended Zhang Zai and Ercheng to enter Beijing and enter the Jingyi Bureau, he didn't say anything more, and he also wanted to watch Wang Anshi and Han Gang Weng's son-in-law fight in the ring.

It's just that when he saw what Han Gang had come up with, he was born with a disgust, and raised his hand to signal his son to take it back, "Isn't Yang Sui a bronze mirror?" How is clear crystal...... With strange tricks and tricks to flatter the Son of Heaven, Wang Anshi became more and more inferior. ”

The magnifying glass invented by Han Gang, although Wen Jifu somehow crooked Wang An's stone, did not dare to reply. He put it away and asked in agreement: "Do you want to be impeached by the Heavenly Bullet?" ”

"Just watch it self-defeat." Wen Yanbo said coldly, but in a blink of an eye, he saw Wen Jifu stunned when he heard this, and there was a little anger in his question: "What?!" Think it's wrong to be a father? ”

"Uh...... No! No. Wen Jifu was busy bowing his head, how dare he say that he was surprised and flustered.

In the past, when he was in the middle of the court, his father immediately wrote when he saw something unpleasant. Wen Yanbo's current change surprised Wen Jifu. But he didn't dare to ask more, Wen Yanbo was also like a strict gentleman at home, without any color, and the sons of the Wen family had always been afraid of him. He said goodbye to the guests in the cabin, and then hurriedly withdrew, and went to the shore again in a small boat.

After a conversation between father and son, all the guests in the cabin seemed to be deaf, staring at the beauty singing and dancing, not distracted at all.

Wen Yanbo looked at them and snorted. Turning his head through the bamboo curtain, he looked at the bright white and shining lake surface, and said to himself in a cold voice: "Let it defeat itself!" ”

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July is a fire, and June in Longxi is like roasting on a fire.

There are fewer pedestrians on the road, and the playground outside the city is much deserted. Even the armored cavalry patrolling the city changed the time of the patrol to avoid the high heat during the day.

It had been more than a month since Han Gang returned home from Jingshi, and the number of guests who had come to see him one after another had finally decreased.

Wearing a loose robe, lying on a rocking chair in the shade of a tree, he leisurely looked at the recent newspaper of the church. Yun Niang was gently fanning him next to him. At the age of sixteen, she became more and more charming and well-behaved.

Wang Yi came in from the outside and saw her, Yun Niang hurriedly stood up.

"Sister Yun Niang, you do yours." Wang Yi asked Yun Niang to sit down and went to Han Gang's side, "Official, my aunt said that Uncle Feng will arrive tomorrow, and she must be ready to pick up the wind and wash the dust for him." Ask the officials what they have to arrange. ”

Auntie, that is, in-laws, has been called this way from ancient times to the present. But Wang Yi called out to his uncle and aunt, and Han Gang felt a little strange when he heard it at first, but now he gradually got used to it. It's not like Yun Niang, just call Daddy directly.

"You can discuss the affairs of the family with your mother, and you can do these things."

The male protagonist is outside, and the female protagonist is inside. The role of the housewife is to preside over the feed, so that the husband can handle foreign affairs with peace of mind. Wang Yi is well-behaved and polite, filial to his aunt, every morning and dusk, and never lacks courtesy. For Han Gang's three concubines, she is also as close as possible, and does not fight for the night, and she does not have the arrogance of the prime minister's daughter at all. Han Ah Li was very happy with this daughter-in-law, and no one praised her less. Now if there is anything at home, I have to discuss it with Wang Yi.

"Na Kuiguan and Jin Niang are almost ten months old, and their first birthday is coming in a blink of an eye, so they have to prepare."

In terms of etiquette, the children born to Han Gang's concubine are also her children. Wang Yi is also kind to take care of children like children, and visits carefully every day, so that the worried Zhou Nan and Su Xin can rest assured.

According to today's customs, children should not be given too expensive names to prevent premature death. Han Gang's nickname didn't even want to mention it. The nicknames of a pair of children are still given by Han Ah Li - Kuiguan and Jin Niang, Han Gang doesn't think it's bad when he hears it.

"Let's discuss it, and ask Nanniang and Su Xin's opinions." Han Gang was very relieved.