Seeking the position of Zanzhi of Qian County, going to Qian County to suppress bandits and quell the rebellion, this kind of thing is easy to say, but in practice it is so easy, don't look at Chen Yingliang There are also a lot of ways, if you really want to get this official position, there is only Wen Xi Pei's only way to go, because taking other ways is not only small, but it is also possible for Pei Ju and Pei Yun to suspect that Chen Yingliang is colluding with other gate valves, and teach Chen Yingliang to be a new person in minutes.

So there was no way, Chen Yingliang could only honestly take out the precious gold the next day, go to the gold number to play a set of golden four treasures of the study, and then take this gift to Wubenfang to meet his distant uncle Pei Ju, and follow the normal officialdom routine to move to the position. But it's a pity that the actual Premier of the Great Sui State Council, Pei Ju's busy journey, is far beyond Chen Yingliang's imagination, Chen Yingliang is even Pei Ju's distant nephew, when he arrives at his home to meet, according to the order of the queue, he has to wait until two days later to have the opportunity to see Pei Ju, Chen Yingliang, who knows that his relationship with Pei Ju is not iron, does not dare to forcibly cut the queue, so he can only honestly queue up according to the number, go home first and wait for two days before trying his luck.

I went home with a regretful mood, and the next morning, Chen Yingliang came to the imperial city again sullenly and on an errand, and continued to do the boring errand on duty in the East Palace of the Imperial City.

Chen Yingliang's casual and lazy attitude has long been strange to the team led by the right inside, and because Pei Xin is silent, the rest of the team in the right inner team only vented a few words of dissatisfaction in their stomachs at most, and they didn't have the courage to express themselves in front of Chen Yingliang. But walking too much at night will always meet ghosts, this day, retribution finally came - just when Chen Yingliang was yawning lazily on the railing of the steps, a Great Sui official who had just come out of the East Palace saw Chen Yingliang's lazy behavior, and strode up to Chen Yingliang very angrily, and asked, "What were you doing just now?" Why lean on the railing and what is this action? ”

After secretly screaming bad luck, Chen Yingliang first carefully looked at the person in front of him, and found that he was nearly forty years old, wearing a dark crimson official robe representing the four grades, and his handsome appearance seemed to have seen somewhere, and then hurriedly apologized: "Shangguan forgive me, I am a little tired and distracted from my humble duties, so my behavior is rude, please forgive Shangguan." ”

It was a trivial matter, but the fourth-rank official did not give up, and continued to say: "Tired? What kind of dirty work are you doing, and how tired can you be from standing guard? And the face said distracted, do you know what kind of place this is? The imperial capital of the Great Sui! What if the guards of the Imperial City are as distracted as you are, and suddenly an Assassin comes? ”

Encountering such a superior who was picky in the egg, Chen Yingliang had no choice but to secretly call it too unlucky, so he could only continue to ask for forgiveness in a low voice, saying that he would never dare to do this next time, and said a lot of words of apology, and the four-grade official walked away angrily. Chen Yingliang secretly cursed a few swear words at his back, and then continued to be lazy - after all, such a trivial matter, Chen Yingliang didn't need to worry about affecting his career and future.

Things didn't seem to be as simple as Chen Yingliang imagined, and I don't know how much time had passed, but the top boss Pei Xin suddenly came to Chen Yingliang in a hurry, tried to keep his voice as low as possible, and asked Chen Yingliang: "Why did you offend Uncle Xiao?" ”

"Uncle Xiao?" Chen Yingliang froze and replied, "I didn't offend him?" I haven't even seen him, how could I possibly provoke him? ”

"Not offended? Then why did he send someone to check your duty records and assessment just now? And directly called your name? Pei Xin asked.

"What?" Chen Yingliang's face changed, and then he suddenly thought of a possibility, and blurted out: "Oh no! Could it be that the person who trained me just now was Uncle Xiao Guo? ”

Pei Xin hurriedly asked what happened just now, and Chen Yingliang also truthfully explained his crime of being reprimanded by a four-grade official, but Pei Xin was bitter when he heard it, "It's troublesome, it must be him, Uncle Xiao's current official position is the internal history squire, that is, the fourth grade." Nephew, you're in big trouble this time, even if I want to help you, I'll help. ”

Chen Yingliang also knew that he was in big trouble, because he had only been in office for half a month, and he had taken leave for more than four days, and the absenteeism rate was so high that he could definitely rank first in Daxing Imperial City! If Uncle Xiao stabbed this to the court, he would have to have something to do with it. But as a traverser, Chen Yingliang still had a trace of luck about this, and comforted himself: "Fortunately, this is just a trivial matter, and Uncle Xiao and I have no grievances, so things shouldn't be too big." ”

"Virtuous nephew, don't be too happy too soon." Pei Xin unceremoniously said: "If Uncle Xiao Guo is intentional about rectifying you, just based on your duty records in the past few days, you can lose your official position and resign, and you won't be able to eat and walk around!" I'm going to be implicated too! ”

"It's not so strict, is it?" Chen Yingliang was a little dumbfounded.

"There is such a strict zhòng!" Pei Xin's face was very ugly, he lowered his voice again, and said in a low voice: "For example, Li Zixiong, who was captured alive by you, has been such a bad luck!" When he served as the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, it was because he said a rude and reckless remark in front of the envoy of the Central Plains in front of the envoy of Silla, and he was grabbed by the imperial historian, and an impeachment chapter was stabbed in front of the saint. ”

Chen Yingliang, who was active in his new official position, turned a little pale, and Pei Xin became more and more annoyed the more he spoke, and reprimanded in a low voice: "It's not me who is an uncle who said you, usually you often take leave, forget it, I'll cover it up for you, no one will pay attention, what are you doing lazily and lazily when you are on an errand?" Want to find trouble on your own? Although this East Palace is not stricter than the Great Palace, there are often officials coming and going, and you may be seen at any time to behave lazily and rudely, if you continue like this, sooner or later you will be impeached! This is the imperial city, not the vegetable market, you pay attention to me! ”

was trained by Pei Xin like a son, and the unlucky Chen Yingliang could only make amends again and again, but fortunately, Pei Xin also knew that regret was useless, and he almost let go of Chen Yingliang, who was also a distant nephew, and warned Chen Yingliang to be careful of leaving on an errand - but before leaving, Pei Xin threw down a cruel sentence, "Please ask the gods and Buddhas to bless Uncle Xiao Guo not to stab this matter in front of the saint, otherwise, once the saint is to blame, no one will be able to protect you!" ”

"May God bless you, Uncle Xiao Guo, I have never offended you, you can't chase me so hard, right?"

With this fluke in mind, Chen Yingliang finally began to stand guard seriously, and at the same time, Chen Yingliang was inevitably a little strange, after Uncle Xiao Guo found out that he was lazy standing guard, why did he think of investigating his duty records? However, Chen Yingliang soon remembered that his seventeen-year-old right deputy was in charge of a large group of thirty or forty-year-old Qianniu Qianniu under him, and he quickly guessed the reason - after all, Chen Yingliang himself had done a lot of such things as falling into the well to report small reports.

Now it's too late to start standing guard seriously, Shen Shi is about to arrive, seeing that Chen Yingliang can go home from work, a team of forbidden guards from the palace suddenly came to Chen Yingliang, and the oral holy order asked Chen Yingliang to immediately follow the team to the palace to see the driver, Chen Yingliang, who had just been held by someone, was shocked but helpless, so he could only obediently follow the forbidden army to the palace to see the driver, and was also searched by the team of forbidden guards. Pei Xin was of course shocked when he saw this scene from afar, but he was also helpless, so he had to rush to the imperial city of Shangshu Province immediately after the business trip to report to Pei Ju without mentioning it.

To Chen Yingliang's surprise, the forbidden army team escorted themselves directly into the imperial garden, and finally escorted themselves to the foot of a Xuanxie, where Emperor Yang of Sui, who was wearing a bright yellow dragon robe, was sitting in the Xuan and drinking, and in addition to Uncle Xiao Guo, who had just reprimanded Chen Yingliang, there was also a large group of beauties in costume who were standing or sitting - Chen Yingliang estimated that the weather that had been cold for several days suddenly cleared again, and the winter sun was a treasure, so Emperor Yang of Sui took his wife to the imperial garden to drink and carnival.

Very honestly greeted Emperor Yang of Sui, and Emperor Yang of Sui issued an edict very unexpectedly: "Get up and answer, stand up straight, and raise your face." ”

Standing up in a daze, he raised his head more honestly according to his orders, revealing his little white face that could barely see people, Chen Yingliang found that there was a beautiful young woman wearing a phoenix crown sitting next to Emperor Yang of Sui, and guessed that she must be Empress Xiao, the wife of Emperor Yang of Sui. The result was not unexpected, Emperor Yang of Sui turned to his wife again and smiled: "Empress, concubines, aren't you clamoring to see the legendary Xiao Chen Qingzhi with your own eyes?" He's it, take a closer look. ”

The taste of being stared at by countless beauties of all sizes is not so pleasant, so that Chen Yingliang, who is used to seeing big scenes, is rarely embarrassed and frightened, and his face is a little red when he is seen by a large group of concubines of Emperor Yang of Sui, and as a result, he naturally attracted a kind ridicule, as well as a gentle muttering voice, and he can vaguely hear the sound of really young discussions.

Fortunately, Emperor Yang of Sui quickly spoke: "Chen Yingliang, you kid is really good at making trouble, just a few days ago because of Bai Diezi's trouble, why did you get into trouble with Uncle Xiao Guo today?" provoked him to be furious and directly sued me? ”

Secretly glanced at Uncle Xiao Guo next to Emperor Yang of Sui, and saw that his face was very ugly, and he seemed to be dissatisfied with his dereliction of duty, Chen Yingliang confessed his guilt very honestly: "On the sage, Weichen is guilty, Weichen was distracted and rude when standing guard in the East Palace, which was disrespectful to the majesty of the court, and Weichen was guilty, please punish the saint." ”

"That's not all, right?" Emperor Yang of Sui said with a smile: "Uncle Xiao Guo also found out, it seems that you have been in office for sixteen days, and the time for leave is four and a half days, and the officials of the Great Sui are all on errands like you, and I am still not able to govern the court?" ”

"The Holy God forgives sins, and Weichen is taking too many leaves, but there is a reason." Chen Yingliang stubbornly explained: "Wechen took leave, one day because he went to prepare tools for making cotton clothes, one day he went to bid farewell to his comrades-in-arms who lived and died together with Youwuwei, and for half a day Weichen was sick, and the other two days were because Wechen lived in the house rewarded by the saint, there were too many things at home, Wechen had no relatives and no relatives, and the only family member was injured in the leg of the third uncle, Wechen took leave to go back to take care of family affairs, please forgive me." ”

"There are good reasons." Emperor Yang of Sui sneered, and then said: "Okay, even if you have sufficient reasons for taking leave, I won't pursue it, but when you are on duty, why are you distracted and rude?" You are only seventeen years old, and I have appointed you as the right deputy of the prince of the fifth grade, so that you are so gracious, and you will repay my holy grace like this? ”

Hearing that Emperor Yang of Sui was indeed a little dissatisfied, Chen Yingliang hurriedly knelt down on one knee and said tremblingly: "Your Majesty, Weichen is broken bones, and it is difficult to repay Your Majesty's grace." Weichen lost his mind and was rude, ...... also happened for a reason, please forgive your majesty. ”

"What is the reason?" Emperor Yang of Sui was a little dissatisfied with Chen Yingliang's sophistry, and snorted again: "I can't say the right reason, you don't have to be the right deputy of the prince, just go home." ”

Uncle Xiao Guo's face, which had been stiff, finally had some expression, showing a little smug smile, but the sweat on Chen Yingliang's forehead came out, but fortunately, because of Pei Xin's ventilation report and warning, Chen Yingliang had already been wary of this possibility on the way to the Imperial Garden, and he was also ready to deal with the excuse, and replied tremblingly: "Your Majesty, Wei Chen was pondering a poem that showed his heart, so he accidentally lost his mind in front of Uncle Xiao Guo, please forgive your sins." ”

Of course, Chen Yingliang said this without purpose, because the last time Su Shichang impeached Chen Yingliang, he inadvertently slightly involved Yu Shiji, the political enemy of Wenxi Pei's family in the imperial court, and afterwards Pei Hongce had probably introduced Yu Shiji's situation to Chen Yingliang, so Chen Yingliang knew that Yu Shiji won the appreciation of Emperor Yang of Sui by virtue of his poetic talent, and only then did he know that Emperor Yang of Sui, the tyrant of the ages, was very interested in poetry, and he also personally wrote a good poem "Drinking Horses and Caves on the Great Wall" - in fact, it can also be regarded as a heroic and atmospheric masterpiece through the ages.

As Chen Yingliang expected, after hearing Chen Yingliang's explanation, Emperor Yang of Sui really became interested and asked, "Are you actually pondering poetry?" So have you made this poem that shows your heart? ”

"Your Majesty, it's already been made." Chen Yingliang nodded, hit the snake with the stick again, and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, Wechen has long heard that His Majesty is the first poet and the first great lyricist in my Chinese Kyushu throughout the ages, so Wechen is brave and wants to ask His Majesty to axe the clumsy work of Weichen, I don't know if it is possible?" ”

"Bold!" Uncle Xiao Guo, who had seen Chen Yingliang's displeasure from the beginning, was furious, and took the opportunity to say: "Bold Chen Yingliang, what kind of person are you?" How dare you ask the son to correct the poems for you today? You are disrespectful, and you should be beheaded for your sin! ”

"Uncle Xiao, where did I offend you? Why are you holding on to me? Chen Ying's conscience cried bitterly.

Fortunately, Emperor Yang of Sui has a deep hobby in poetry, and immediately waved his hand and smiled: "Uncle Guo is angry, Chen Yingliang asked me to correct the poems, although it is arrogant, it is not disrespectful." Besides, this kid is very talented in music, and I am very satisfied with the song "Serving the Country with Loyalty", and now I will listen to his poems. Chen Yingliang, read your poems to me. ”

"Thank you." Chen Yingliang breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly put gold on his face, and said respectfully: "Qi Qi Majesty, in fact, this poem of Weichen has been brewing for many days, as early as when His Majesty was named Weichen as the Marquis of Xuchang, Weichen has already begun to brew this poem, expressing what he wants and wishes, and it has not been initially completed until today, but it is still clumsy, and there are many fallacies. ”

"It's really going to be a wretch." Emperor Yang of Sui saw Chen Yingliang's little tricks at a glance, and said with a smile: "Come and listen to it, I want to see what kind of poetry you have been brewing for so long." ”

"Obey the order, then Weichen will be ugly." Chen Yingliang first thanked and was modest, then cleared his throat, and then chanted aloud:

"The small building is gradually getting higher, and there is an old alliance when it is worried.

Calling the bottle to greet the guests, waving the bow to sit and talk.

The cloud tooth guard is full of flags, and the stars contain swords horizontally.

It's not my desire to be a marquis, but I hope Qing Xu Ping! ”

After reading it aloud, Chen Yingliang muttered in his heart again, "Qi Jiguang, General Qi, it's not that I deliberately want to plagiarize you, it's that your poem is a hundred times stronger than any Tang and Song poems at this time." So, sorry. ”

As soon as the poems of loyal ministers that have been recited through the ages came out, the smile on Emperor Yang of Sui's face suddenly froze, and Uncle Xiao Guo, who had always been targeting Chen Yingliang, was also dumbfounded, knowing that today he was going to be self-defeating or even counterproductive. As expected, Emperor Yang of Sui was silent for a long time, and then said slowly: "Chen Aiqing, this poem shows your heart?" ”

"Your Majesty, officially." Chen Yingliang replied solemnly.

Emperor Yang of Sui was silent again, and after a while, Emperor Yang of Sui said calmly: "Your poem, I changed two words for you, and the last sentence 'Fenghou is not my desire, but I wish Qing Xu Ping', I changed it for you to 'Fenghou is not my desire, I wish Bafang Ping'." Your eyes, don't always focus on the group of thieves in Qingxu Qilu, the thieves from all over the world, you have to take me to heart. ”

"Wechen respectfully obeys His Majesty's holy decree and will never forget it!" Chen Yingliang replied loudly.

"Let's go back to duty." Emperor Yang of Sui said casually: "For the sake of your poem, I don't care about your dereliction of duty during your distraction on duty, be careful when you are on duty in the future, if someone catches you and you are derelict in your duties, I just want to forgive you again, and I can't find a reason to forgive you." ”

"Wechen bows and thanks to the Holy Heaven."

Chen Yingliang hurriedly thanked him and said goodbye, but when he stood up, Chen Yingliang suddenly found that Yang Yu'er, the goddess in his heart, was also behind Emperor Yang of Sui, and was poking out his pretty face from behind a concubine to peek at him. But this time, Chen Yingliang, who had already made a marriage contract again, was no longer so enthusiastic, and turned around and left very calmly, because Chen Yingliang knew very well that he and Yang Yuer were forever impossible. ――At the very least, Chen Yingliang can't take Yang Yu'er as a concubine, right?

"Is it a waste of talent for me to leave him in the Imperial City?" Looking at the back of Chen Yingliang's departure, Emperor Yang of Sui thought so in his heart, "It is not my desire to be a marquis, but I wish Qing Xu Ping." This little guy is clearly showing his heart to me, saying that he wants to go to the battlefield of Qingxu Qilu to suppress the rebels and thieves for me, so when he arrives on the battlefield of Qingxu, if he can fight as beautiful as Yang Xuangan of Pingding, I will save a lot of troubles. ”

Looking at the back of Chen Yingliang leaving, Uncle Xiao Guo also said viciously in his heart, "Boy, wait!" And that's just the beginning! ”