"Shiro is here? The guest is upstairs. ”

Zeng's family was hidden in a restaurant in the downtown area, and the guy briefly reported to Zeng Wei.

After thinking about it, he added in a low voice: "The distinguished guest has asked Shiro several times why he hasn't arrived yet, and his face is a little unpleasant." ”

Zeng Wei replied in a deep voice.

What's the hurry, she's not the queen mother?

He muttered in his heart, and his steps up the stairs were still slow, as if he was using a steady rhythm to silently recite the few points that his father had explained.

Entering the cubicle, Zhang Shangyi's face turned from facing the window.

"The fourth brother met me in the past, and always reminded me not to miss the palace ban, I always thought that the fourth brother was such a punctual person. It's been so late today, is it delayed for Prime Minister Zeng to inspect the disaster? ”

Her sarcastic tone was really tiresome.

Does she know that men don't like women the most for pinching such self-righteous teasing tones.

But my father had something important to help her, even a fly, so he had to swallow it.

Zeng Wei smiled with a pleasant smile: "The road from the south is not easy to walk. ”

"South? Oh, I thought the fourth brother came from the house, but it turned out that he went to the south. ”

Zeng Wei secretly scolded himself for being stupid, said that he had leaked his mouth, and hurriedly pretended to be quiet: "I went to Guozixue to take a look." The Cai River is still good, after all, it is not the main road of Caoyun, and the banks of the Bianhe River are heavily flooded. ”

When Zhang Shangyi heard this, he was silent, and his voice lowered: "The flood is as fierce as a tiger, I knew it when I was a child." In the middle of the night, the sky seemed to be leaking, and the county came to knock on the door and called my father out to see the embankment...... That was the last time I saw my father alive. ”

Zeng Wei choked, and there was a slight trace of compassion for this woman in his heart.

Since Zeng Bu wanted to use his son as a confidant, he often connected with Zhang's family, and he clarified Zhang's life experience with him early in the morning.

Her father was originally a county magistrate in Haizhou, a Jinshi, and a capable official with practical experience, but unfortunately he died in the flood for flood control. Her biological mother was gone early in the morning, and Zeng Bu and Mrs. Wei, who were in the south at that time, took the young daughter of this subordinate under their knees.

The things that followed were unpleasant, and it was also the reason why Zeng Wei in his childhood wept many times when he saw Mrs. Wei.

Speaking of which, no matter whether the heart is good or evil, strong or weak, bright or dark, all kinds of evil experiences can be pushed to the flood in the south.

Zeng Wei regarded this Zhang family as a sister in his childhood, and later became suspicious, and now he is more disgusted than admired, used more than seduced, and every time he sees her, he can't wait for it to end soon.

It's just that this time, the fourth son of Zeng, who had seen the tragic scene of life and death in the flood, couldn't help but feel soft when he heard Zhang's mention of his past.

There is always pity in the disgusting.

Seeing the sympathy flashing on Zeng Wei's face, Zhang also sighed secretly: He is still young in the end, and he is more humane than his grandfather to women.

By the way, I don't know if his grandfather investigated the fact that Yao's body had baby incense.

However, Zhang Shangyi quickly restrained his faint inexplicable thoughts.

Her lips opened again, and she said slowly: "Shiro, I'm not in a hurry to return to the palace today." The Queen Mother and the Queen thought that I had a cousin and nephew in the east of the city, but this time the Bianhe River burst its embankment, and they allowed me to take leave to go out of the palace to see. If you have any instructions, you can slowly talk to me. ”

"Father wants to impeach Zhang Xianggong."

"Just because he supports Wu Anzhi, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, to lead the Yellow River to the east?"

"It's not all."

Zeng Wei straightened his upper body and formed a posture of sitting upright.

"Shang Yi, you have always been respected by the official family as the emperor of the inner court, and the situation in the past few years in the previous dynasty, you are the same as the Empress Dowager Xiang, it is impossible not to know. Father thinks that Zhang Xianggong is already crazy, he has an attitude towards Yuan You's party, not to mention suppressing and reprimanding, he can't wait to dig up the grave and whip the corpse! ”

"What's worse than digging up a grave and whipping a corpse, the cardinal didn't tell Shiro?"

Zeng Wei was stunned: "What? ”

Just before the Double Ninth Festival, the cardinal minister and Zhang Xianggong quarreled in front of the officials in the political affairs hall. Zhang Xianggong wanted to pursue the favor of the descendants of Yuanyou's ministers, and even the descendants of the leader had a small family and wanted to be exiled to Lingnan. The cardinal said, "Evil shall stop in the body, and children and grandchildren shall not be punished for it." What words do you use to return the salute? ”

"I don't know."

"Zhang Xiang is fair, Sima Guang, Lu Gongzhu and other traitors are already dead, what is the use of opening the coffin and whipping the corpse, and how can cutting off their own titles can play the role of setting an example, it is better to really beat the board on their children and grandchildren, so that everyone in the world can know the fate of disrespecting and disobeying the Fa-changing faction."

Zhang Shangyi said very calmly, as if to say, "The water in the soup bottle can be used to make tea paste", or "The ink is thickened and you can dip it in the pen".

When Zeng Wei heard this, he opened his mouth and looked stunned in his eyes.

His political experience and eunuch acumen are not one-tenth of that of his father Zeng Bu, so he didn't realize that Zhang Shangyi knew everything about the disputes in the political hall, which was a key point.

What surprised him, and even frightened, was only Zhang Dan's ghostly remarks.

"Zhang Xianggong is not setting an example, this is naked revenge, and this is to set off a bloody storm in the country. Father was right, he was already crazy, crazy. ”

Zhang smiled.

This time, there was no sarcasm in her eyes.

It's helplessness.

She quickly stopped laughing, stared at Zeng Wei and said: "Last year, the official family used the Shaosheng year name, and Zhang Dian regained his phase." It is said that on his way to the capital from the outlying land, someone asked him, "Gong is now the prime minister, what is the first thing to do, what is the urgency?" Zhang Daxiang is fair, Sima Guang is treacherous, the first thing we have to do is to distinguish Yuan You from the traitorous party for the official family. Zhang Xianggong's words are very similar to what Sima Wenzhenggong said when Empress Dowager Gao was in the court, when he came back from Luoyang. ”

Zeng Wei was silent.

The familiar disgust he had felt when he first saw this woman had dispelled a lot at this moment.

This woman is not a vulgar fan.

Her years of immersion in the top-level political arena have made her eyes shine.

The root cause of what she said is the real root cause.

Didn't my father also say that from Yuanfeng to Shaosheng, there were two important ministers who misled the country, one was Sima Guang and the other was Zhang Dian.

Zeng Wei had to admit that if he wanted to make a difference in his career, passing the provincial examination and even the palace examination would be just the beginning.

He needs to curb his spiritual cleanliness, approach, tolerate, and imitate, these political animals in the capital, inside and outside the palace.

The door to the cubicle was tapped by the tuk tuk.

The guy came in with a food plate. Two bowls of mutton soup tadpole powder, two plates of icing jade bees.

Tadpole powder is a famous point in the capital, with batter in the porcelain retort leakage, small balls of batter, from the hole into the broth, and because of gravity and drag a star of small tail, just like tadpoles.

Tadpole powder is not a tadpole, and icing jade bees are naturally not bees.

The lotus pod is like a beehive, and the lotus seeds are attached to the bee chrysalis. Therefore, the icing jade bee is the candied lotus seed that is fresh in this season.

"Shang Yi, my father knows that you love to eat frosted jade bees, so he specially asked me to prepare them in the store."

"Oh?" Zhang Shi looked at the plate of candied fruit and said, "The cook in your restaurant, the house is probably fine, and the heart is as usual, and the icing that comes out is very beautiful." ”

Zeng Wei took a shallow sip of mutton soup and said to Zhang's seriously: "Candied lotus seeds are just fake jade bees, and Shang Yi is a veritable frosted jade bee." Father Zhongzheng Renhe, seeing that Zhang Dian was no longer powerful and polluted the Qingming government of the official family, asked Shangyi to be like a bee and take this flood as an opportunity to make a contribution in the inner court. ”

Zhang took a bite of the lotus seed and said, "Okay." ”