Qiu Yizhi also smiled: "I saw you drinking here, your mouth is greedy, and I came upstairs to ask you for a few glasses of wine." How? Aren't you reluctant? It doesn't matter, I'm carrying silver, it's a big deal to add five ......."

Liu Qing also knew that Qiu Yizhi was just joking, so he hurriedly got up and pulled out a chair for him, invited him to sit down, and greeted him loudly: "Little Er, come here, Lao Tzu wants to add wine and food!" ”

Xiao Er, who had just stopped Qiu Yizhi, listened to the greeting, and hurriedly ran upstairs, seeing Qiu Yizhi sitting in the position of the dignified Jiangnan Provincial Jiedu Envoy, he suddenly remembered what the shopkeeper had confessed: Now that the emperor is stationed in Jinling City in the south, I don't know how many nobles around the emperor are, but I can't be offended......

So the shopkeeper immediately changed his smiling face and said, "Yo, it turns out that you are really an old acquaintance with General Liu!" The small eyes are long, patronizing to see the, you are such a big Mount Tai in front of you, and the small ones don't recognize it. You adults have a lot, please don't blame the small ......."

Qiu Yizhi had just been wronged in front of the emperor, and when he heard the shopkeeper use such vulgar slang to make amends, his heart was also relieved, so he said with a smile: "Okay, General Liu wants to invite me to dinner, and he will order all the dishes to pay the bill, you can go and pat him on the back." ”

When the shopkeeper heard this, he hurriedly turned a smiling face to Liu Qing's side.

Liu Qing ordered four or five side dishes at random, and then sent the little two away, and suddenly sighed again: "Alas! Your Highness, today we sit and drink, but I don't know if there will be such an opportunity in the future......"

Qiu Yizhi saw that Liu Qing was depressed since he saw him, and he didn't even say a hundred words, knowing that he had something on his mind, so he asked: "Why is General Liu like this?" The mountains are high and the sea is wide, and the days are long, so we naturally have the opportunity to meet, and it is natural to have a few drinks after meeting. What does it mean to have such an opportunity? ”

Liu Qing sighed again: "The last general is the envoy of Jiangnan Province, not only did he give up almost all of Jiangnan Province to the King of Lingnan, but he didn't even defend a Jinling City. What kind of master is the emperor, rewards and punishments have always been clear, I am afraid that he will be condemned to me immediately......" As he spoke, he drank half a glass of liquor from the wine glass in front of him.

Qiu Yizhi smiled and said, "You were worried about this?" How many days have passed? Don't you still have the name tag of the general of the festival envoy? Hasn't the emperor sent you yet? ”

Liu Qing replied faintly: "Xu is the emperor is busy with military affairs, and he doesn't have time to take care of me, right?" Maybe when you come back, you'll have to settle accounts with me. He said as he poured himself a full bottle of wine.

Qiu Yizhi smiled again: "Are you the king of Lingnan?" I look down on myself too much, I want to dispose of you, why do I need the emperor to make a holy decree, as long as Prime Minister Zhongli raises his eyes and moves his mouth, can he not dispose of you? ”

Liu Qing was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then he figured it out - he, the Jiangnan Provincial Jiedu envoy from the old Youyan Dao, was a second-grade military attache in the eyes of others, but in the eyes of the emperor, he was just a slave-like figure, and it was really just a matter of whim, and he didn't need to make any special preparations.

I heard Qiu Yizhi say again: "Don't worry, I'm still facing the saint just now, and the emperor has mentioned you." ”

Liu Qing's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "What did the emperor say about me?" Your Highness Tell me quickly! ”

Qiu Yizhi deliberately sold a pass and said: "The emperor didn't ask me to pass on the decree, if I leak it privately, it will be a big crime of disobeying the decree and bullying the king, and I can't afford to bear the crime!" ”

Liu Qing was so anxious that he teased him, and hurriedly asked, "Shall I beg His Highness for Righteousness?" What the emperor said, tell me quickly, I will definitely not spread it. If Your Highness doesn't tell me today, I'm going to be sick with fear......"

Qiu Yizhi was originally in a bad mood, but it was rare to joke with Liu Qing, but his mood was much more relaxed, so he said: "The emperor said that you are ordinary and deserve no big responsibility." ”

Liu Qing was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly shouted: "It's over, the emperor said that I was useless, I'm afraid he will dispose of me, right?" That's it! ”

Liu Qing was talking, and it happened that the shopkeeper brought a plate of dishes and two pots of wine, and happened to hear him say the word "finished", so he hurriedly replied: "It's not over!" General Liu, only half of the dishes you ordered have come up, and half of the kitchen is still freshly cooked! You are a valued customer of our store, and we don't dare to fool you with ready-made cold dishes, which are made and delivered by the chef immediately. ”

Liu Qing listened to his flattery without saying anything, and he didn't feel that it was useful at all, but he felt that he was endless, so he scolded: "You know a fart, it's not that the dish is finished, it's Lao Tzu who is finished!" Get the hell out of here! At the end, I didn't forget to give the shopkeeper a white look.

The little second was so white by Liu Qing's eyes that he suddenly shrunk a circle, and quickly turned around to leave, but he half turned around and asked timidly: "What about the rest of the dishes...... Still...... Do you want to go on it? ”

"Up! Of course it's on! I haven't moved my chopsticks yet! Qiu Yizhi answered, "You go down and urge." ”

The shopkeeper listened to Qiu Yizhi's words and ran away as if he had been pardoned.

Qiu Yizhi sent the shopkeeper away, then turned his head to Liu Qing and said, "What are you panicking about?" What does the emperor mean when he says that you are talented and ordinary, you have a good taste. ”

Liu Qing is a straight intestine from a military general, and after being mixed in the officialdom for so many years, he still hasn't grown many twists and turns, and he really can't think of it, so he has to say again: "Your Highness Yi, don't give me a problem, the emperor's holy will is lofty, I am a rough person, how can I guess?" ”

Qiu Yizhi then said: "Let me ask you what the word 'usual' means? It means that it is neither clumsy nor brilliant. Now you are a ruler. And a talented 'ordinary' festival envoy may be able to do it in other places, or in peaceful days, but you are an official in a place like Jiangnan Province, and it coincides with such a major event as the rebellion of the prince of Lingnan. In this way, your 'ordinary' talents will not be enough. You say, isn't that the truth? ”

Although Liu Qing didn't fully understand what Qiu Yizhi meant by such a big set of Luo Quan, he also knew that the truth was extremely correct, so he had no reason to deny it.

I only heard Qiu Yizhi say again: "Therefore, I am afraid that you will not be able to do it anymore in Jiangnan, it is possible to transfer you to other places to be the festival envoy, and it is also possible to transfer you to Beijing to serve in the military department......"

When Liu Qing heard this, his heart suddenly tightened, and he hurriedly asked, "The emperor wants to transfer me out of Jiangnan Province?" Does the emperor have a clear holy will? ”

"Nope." Qiu Yizhi replied, "This is just speculation, if you guess wrong, don't blame me." ”

Liu Qing sighed, his tone was full of disappointment: "It's a pity that I'm in Jiangnan, and I've only been an official for less than five years, and most of them are fighting in war...... The official of the Jiangnan Provincial Jiedu Envoy is also unlucky to do my job, and I think that the previous Jiedu envoys of my previous years, which one didn't eat a lot of fat and then left...... Alas! I don't know if I can go through the door, let me stay for an extra year or two, and enjoy a few days of peace......"

Qiu Yizhi said coldly: "You are too big an official, you are a military officer of one side, and it must be ordered by the emperor or Prime Minister Zhongli to mobilize it." If you think you can get through these two, you can go for it. ”

When Liu Qing heard this, he couldn't help but stick out his tongue: "His Royal Highness Yi is laughing at me again, anyone in this world is easy to walk, but these two are golden gate latches and jade fences...... If I can get through the door of the two of them, what kind of festival should I be, and I can't get a prince or something? ”

When Qiu Yizhi heard Liu Qing say the word "prince", he immediately remembered Zheng Gui, the king of Lingnan in prison, and then remembered the resolution of the emperor and the prime minister to ask him to go to Lingnan to lead the army. Be careful that the wall has ears, and cure you of a great sin of disrespect, so that you can speak freely again! ”

Qiu Yizhi's two sentences were not light, and Liu Qing was immediately speechless.

Just when Liu Qing was extremely embarrassed, his eyes suddenly caught a glimpse of the shopkeeper probing his brain at the staircase on the second floor, and immediately scolded loudly: "Hey, your kid is too slow to serve the food, these two or three dishes are cold, why haven't the other dishes been served?" ”

The shopkeeper thought: For the sake of your face, the store has specially arranged for the master to take charge of the spoon, and if the serving speed is still slow, there will be no fast.

But although he thought so in his heart, he couldn't say that, so he went down to urge the vegetables with a few promises.

Qiu Yizhi saw this scene, and felt a lot of emotion in his heart: he suffered from the emperor's side, and he could make up for it on Liu Qing's side, Liu Qing suffered a loss here, and he could vent his luck by finding a shopkeeper......

People live in the world, nothing more than bullying and bullying others, and occasionally being bullied and bullied by others, if you want not to be bullied, then you can only do the high position of the emperor. But the position of this emperor is like being burned red by coals, not to mention ordinary mediocre people and middle-aged people, even the wise and martial Youyan King like Zheng Rong sits on it, and it is like sitting on pins and needles......

The more Qiu Yizhi thought about it and thought about it widely, the more he felt that this officialdom had no taste, but he couldn't get out, and he was in a melancholy mood, only feeling that the few exquisite dishes placed in front of him were so ugly, unpleasant, and unpalatable, and he couldn't pick out anything that could be put in his mouth with chopsticks in his hand.

At this moment, Qiu Yizhi suddenly saw two people walking downstairs, one of them was sixty years old, and the other was also forty or fifty years old, their faces were very familiar, and then they looked closely, but saw that the old man was He Jiugong, who was under the emperor Zhou Cijing, and the other person was Qiu Yizhi's uncle Zhao Fuyi.

"How did these two come together?" Qiu Yizhi was a little suspicious in his heart, so he simply greeted loudly: "Jiugong, why are you here?" Although Zhao Fuyi is Qiu Yizhi's uncle, he has always been a little mustard, so Qiu Yizhi is reluctant to shout the word "uncle" in front of the public.

He Jiugong heard someone calling, hurriedly looked up, and saw that it was Qiu Yizhi calling him, so he hurriedly stopped, saluted upstairs, and said, "It turned out to be Qiu Gongzi!" After the son entered the city, the old man didn't have time to come to visit, which was really a sin. ”

Qiu Yizhi had something to ask He Jiugong, so he said, "Jiugong is polite, can you come up and talk about it?" I have an acquaintance here! He added, "Also, my uncle should come up with him." ”

He Jiugong also looked a little interested, returned the salute, and led Zhao Fuyi into the door and upstairs together.