He Shen and Yu Dengshui took a four-person sedan chair together, and came to the door of the Guazhou Ferry Station. The snow has already fallen a little lighter, and the feathers are swirling in the wind, chaotic and colorful, and it is still a chaotic universe. In fact, it was just a strong wind, and even the snow on the ground was echoing in the flowing wind, and the snow in the sky and the snow in the ground were mixed together. It's just dazzling. As soon as the two of them got off the sedan chair, they were each stuffed by the snow foam wrapped in the wind, and they both shivered.

More than a dozen innkeepers were in the doorway, holding a fire and talking about something. A postman has bloody hands and a pig-killing knife in his mouth to skin a dog. Seeing Yu Dengshui's thin and tall flashing body over, followed by He Shen, who looked like a weak scholar, everyone recognized it, and hurriedly got up and lowered his hand to greet Qian'er: "Say hello to Master Taizun!" ”

"Get up, it's wet underground." Yu Dengshui asked with a smile, "What about you Shugeyi?" ”

The inns seemed to be a little unsettled. A post Ding glanced at He Shen, who was silent with a smile, and returned to the fish and said: "Back to Taizun's words, the brother Yang Zichun of the Chai Patrol inspected today's birthday, pulled our Shu Shaofu to eat wine, and he was drunk in the dark, so he ate the sobering soup, and this time he was crooked in the study room, I'm afraid I won't be able to get up to see Taizun!" He Shen smiled at the side: "Then take us up and down to meet us." A matter of a few words, it is over as soon as it is said. The postman hurriedly agreed, and walked in front of the head to lead the two into the post compound.

The post station is very large, sitting in the north and facing the south into the courtyard. The higher you go, the higher the terrain. There is a large courtyard in the middle, and the two rows of side rooms on both sides are the houses of the past officials, and the cypress and black trees in the courtyard are all hugging thick, and the canopy of the trees is pressed with snow, which is particularly dark and deep. He Shen followed behind the two, along the aisle under the eaves of the east corridor to the north, through the broken window paper to the black hole of the house from time to time glances, some of the rooms were silent, some of the rooms were closed with men, there were whispering voices and coughing phlegm, some of the rooms seemed to be female daughters-in-law, it seemed that they couldn't bear the cold, there was a poignant cry slightly, and there were also curses and curses, which were vague and not very clear. He Shen asked as he walked, "This was originally a temple, a rebuilt post station, right?" ”

"Yes." The post man who was walking in front replied sullenly, "This was originally the largest 'Wutong Temple' in Honshu. At that time, the temple was more than ten times more than that. During the Kangxi period, Tang Wenzhenggong (Tang Bin) served as Yangzhou Dao and ordered the fire of all Wutong shrines in the territory. The incense is most prosperous here, and more than 10,000 pilgrims kneel in the temple outside the temple to protect it, begging to keep the temple. Tang Wenzheng folded incense and smashed the furnace in public in this temple, and wanted to erect a monument to ban the Wutong obscene shrine forever. And he said to the people, If the eighteen healthy mules could not bring down the idol in the middle, he would take back his fate. As a result, I really set the mule, but I couldn't drag down the 'chase' god in the middle. Tang Wenzhenggong prayed to heaven under this cypress tree, saying that it was unknown to God of Lust to bewitch the people; Now the evil god is not falling, it is Tang someone who is not a righteous person: either one or the other! Now I wish to die with the evil gods, for the heavens to dispel the evil Kuang Zheng, for the followers to learn! After praying, he got up and raised his knife and shouted, 'I'll cut the Datong God first, and then cut myself!' Before he finished speaking, the statue of the god that had not moved at all made a 'quack', and fell to the ground—the fixed pillar with the thick mouth of the bowl was iron, and it was broken in unison, as if it had been chopped with a knife! "He breathed a long sigh of relief," said Tang Wenzhenggong: "It seems that the sky is still above - the temple is still neatly repaired, the outer courtyard is burned, and the inner courtyard is left to confiscate and turned into a post station." 'It's all in disrepair, don't look good on the outside, it's all painted for the emperor's southern tour - the wood inside is rotten. As he spoke, he picked at a pillar with his hand, and a piece of lime putty with red paint was peeled off by hand, and when He Shen looked at it, the wood honeycomb surface inside was really decayed.

The three of them passed through the main hall that had been changed into the main hall room, and entered the moon cave door on the west wall, and it was a small courtyard again. It seems that it was originally the Wutong Ancestral Temple Zhuhuo Taoist priests lived, the house was repaired very carefully, the Qingtang tile house, half of the wall was replaced with new bricks, and the pillars were also replaced with larch wood, but there was no paint, compared to the main courtyard like the Senluo Hall in front of it, it seemed small and practical. As soon as he entered the courtyard, He Shen could hear the two people in the north room talking in a low voice, as if they were discussing something. The post Ding stood still at the door, just about to knock on the door, only to hear a cry of "wow" in the west room, like the first sound of a baby landing on the ground, crisp and bright, and then he heard a mother-in-law's voice, laughing and saying: "Born - such a fat one, I'm afraid it weighs eight pounds!" A woman said in a weak voice, "Alas...... It's a girl. It seems that it is also a hard life, so what kind of life can you do in the world at this time? As he spoke, he sobbed bitterly. The three of them were stunned, the north door was open, a tall and strong man, wearing a nine-grade training finch supplement suit, put on a five-python four-clawed robe and came out of the curtain, I don't know if he was pale or angry, while crossing the threshold, turning his neck and rushing into the house loudly: "I want to go to you!" It's Fu Heng, he is not the emperor, and he still has to wait for his son? - What is there to apologize for? I don't owe him anything! ”

"Isn't this Chai Daji?" Yu Dengshui stared at him and said, "Who are you angry with!" He Shen took a closer look at Chai Daji's face, but it was wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, with thick eyebrows, eyes like falcons, his chin was slightly upturned, he had an unflattering hooked nose, and his cold expression was accompanied by two unruly and domineering spirits. Yu Dengshui is the current Wupin Zhengtang, and he is a civilian, and his rank is higher than Chai Daji, he can look at him directly, and He Shen can't help but secretly say: "This person has courage!" Chai Daji didn't pay attention to He Shen, because he was in the snow, he only bowed to the fish and replied: "It's a humble position!" What do you command? ”

"Please take a moment and come into the house to talk." A trace of unhappiness flashed across Yu Dengshui's face, "We are here for Hu Kejing's business." ”

The post man in the house had already heard it, and hurriedly got off the kang and came out with his shoes on, only to see Chai Daji nodding his head slightly to greet Yu Dengshui, and said: "I just received an order from the head of the shed, and the inspection of the guard post station will all go to the Gaoqiao guerrilla camp tent meeting. The adults are short-talked, just say here, the words are long, and after the meeting, I will go to the government to meet and listen to the training. ”

The muscles on Yu Dengshui's cheeks twitched, he was an old official who had been grinding old in the officialdom, the crystal ball had already lost its edges and corners, and he had the intention of calming people in the first place, and he wanted to make a good fortune for the four princes, and he didn't want to be too difficult for the little officials under his rule, but when he saw Chai Daji's appearance of looking for "smack", he couldn't help but feel a trace of unhappiness in his heart, and said coldly: "You go." If there is something, I will go directly to talk to Fang Guerrilla. Seeing Shu Ge holding the cotton curtain high, with a smile on his face, he shook his hand and entered the north house with Heshen. Chai Daji hesitated for a moment, turned his head and left.

Shu Ge is a tall middle-aged man, full of Beijing accent, calm demeanor, slightly oily, and you can see at a glance that he is a subordinate person. He was drunk and just woke up, his face was blue and yellow, he smiled and asked his hand to invite the fish to board the water and ascend to the kang, and moved a seat for He Shen, brushing his sleeves and blowing with his mouth, calling people to "serve tea", and kept saying: "If the adults don't come, I will go through the yamen to ask for sin." The group of dogs below are all characters with pouting buttocks, where do you know gold and jade? I poured yellow soup, and I was in a mess, and I didn't think about people anymore. When I woke up, I heard that it was the fourth master of Fu, and I was scared out of my stinky sweat - I was under the yellow flag, and that was my serious young master! - This master? He smiled at He Shen, "You are with our master!" Later, I will go over to kowtow to my grandfather, and I must ask for a few kind words for help. My family lives in Beijing Rotten Noodles Hutong. You always have something to say hello, my home is your home! He Shen was afraid that he would put on a business face and pull a hard bow, but when he saw this situation, he had already put his mind at ease and said with a smile: "I am with Gui Zhongtang." Mei Xiang worships the son, they are all slaves, and the monk does not kiss the hat, you can rest assured! Before he could speak, Yu Dengshui interjected and asked, "What about Hook respecting?" ”

"The subordinates have offended Hu Ye," Shu Ge smiled bitterly in frustration, "It's also that Hu Ye is young and vigorous, and he refuses to let go of his ties, and a few people are there to apologize and say good things." Originally, he asked the foreign commissioner of Chai to come over and say that he was going to say yes. He is also a mulberry tree that refuses to bend. I'm worried that I won't be able to see the fourth master, but Ke Ke'er is here. This thing is easy to do-come, please Hu Ye come over, and say that Fu Siye sent someone to pick him up. ”

Someone outside agreed: "Yes! "Trotted away.

Yu Dengshui asked, "What is the origin of this Chai Daji?" ”

"It's still a capable one." Shu Ge carefully served tea for the two, and said with a smile, "At the age of sixteen, I won Wu Xiucai, lifting a hundred catties of stone locks is like playing, I can open a two-hundred-stone bow, and I have read a lot of books." It turned out that he was a personal soldier with Zhang Dashuai, and he had been promoted to the general manager. Zhang Guangsi lost his first return to Jinchuan and was degraded. People, with a little ability, it is easy to commit a child disease - he is like this, it is difficult to be promoted in ordinary times! Yu Dengshui asked, "What do you say?" Shu Ge smiled: "The official's face is to laugh at the boss; The temperament of the official generation is that he has no temperament of his own, and he has to change with the temperament of the constitution; If a minor official wants to be promoted to a big official, he has to be willing to use his efforts to turn money into a door; If you have time for kung fu, you have to think about how to tie the knot, such as growing two knees, what is the use? It's for kneeling! If you want to be like your aunt's wife, no, you want to be like seducing a woman, in "Water Margin", 'Pan Donkey Deng Xiaoxian' is five beautiful and salty and ready to add luck, official, and he will be promoted! ”

He talked more than his hands talked, and Yu Dengshui and Shen all laughed. Yu Dengshui said: "Since you know everything, why are you still uninformed?" It's long overdue! Before Shu Ge could answer, Hu Kejing barged in with a rope, stood in the room with his head held high, groaned angrily, glanced at everyone with his eyes scanned, and said with a stiff neck: "I want to see our master!" The fourth master said that you will loosen the tie and loosen it again! ”

"Get out of here!" Yu Dengshui saw the two posters with an embarrassed smile, stood at the door with his hands at a loss, waved his hand and commanded, changed his smile and said to Hu Ke: "We just met the fourth master, and we are here to pick you up." Hairy boy, don't be so arrogant! When you went to the post station to do business, you didn't declare your identity first, and you changed me again, and you also suspected that you were a kidnapper - those who don't know are not guilty. Even if the Prime Minister's family is a seven-grade official, I am still a fifth-grade official! Shu Ge got off the kang early, and came over to untie Hu Kejing. Hu Kejing struggled but did not comply, and shouted, "How could they have allowed me to speak? As soon as you look at the top, you know that you are a five-grade official, and you don't need to say anything. Seeing our fourth master, if it wasn't me, I should be punished willingly! ”

He Shen stepped forward with a smile, patted Hu Kejing on the shoulder, and said, "Little brother, my name is He Shen, and I am a person from the Military Aircraft Department and Gui Zhongtang, and I also listen to Fu's dispatch. Listen to a few words from me, it's not what I'm talking about, it's still up to you, and if it makes sense, just follow me, okay? Hu Kejing took a step back, and Tiger Lingling glared and said, "What?!" He Shen smiled and said, "I'm not a thief, why are you staring at me like this?" Although the post station is the smallest yamen, it is directly under the management of the military department. The emperor is about to go to Yangzhou, and there are many decrees, as well as the court edicts of the Military Aircraft Department, and the past officials who harass the post station, all of them will be investigated and impeached. Whether you are justified or not, they have a group of witnesses who have put you to death, such a thing has caused an earth-shattering incident, aren't you provoking the fourth master? Besides, as you are now, if you bring it into the government office in the daytime, it will be rumored in Yangzhou that the people of Fu Siye will be punished, and you can explain them one by one: My name is Hu Kejing, what are the causes and consequences...... It's not that they don't loosen their ties, it's that I don't want to loosen - do you want Fu Siye to be embarrassed in Yangzhou City? Other people's minions all earn face for their masters, but the fourth master has a bright face, you have to wipe a handful of shit on him, what does the fourth master want a slave like you to do? ”

It not only "provokes right and wrong" but also "shames" for Fukangan! Hu Kejing, who was making trouble with his belly, flashed his eyes and hesitated. Yu Dengshui and Shu Ge saw that He Shen was so young and so skillful, and they couldn't help but secretly accept it.

"There is another layer," He Shen said slowly, "This Yicheng is under the banner of Manchuria and Huang, and he has the same flag as the fourth master, so he understands that this matter is a big flood that washed the Dragon King Temple, right?" After a while, he apologized to the fourth master, and in one sentence, it became a family. Think about it yourself, who are you angry with, and what brand name is your own? ”

The words are neither soft nor hard, the sentences are thorough and clear, not only for the sake of Fukangan, but also for Hu Kejing's shoes, so hot that the pig's head is rotten, Hu Kejing is soft. Shu Ge smiled and untied him, and said: "Heye, this is a wise saying, I am drunk, and the people and dogs under the head look down on people...... No, don't you compensate the little brother first, turn around with a glass of wine, and it's a family again...... "Then Hu Kejing stopped splashing, the rope was untied, and he shook his hands and kicked his legs, and He Shen served another cup of hot tea, and drank it with a bang. Shu Ge smiled: "In the end, the master is doing things at the moment of the Son of Heaven, and I am full of these reasons, but I can't say it!" When he saw someone standing outside the cotton curtain, revealing the corners of his white trousers, he asked, "Who is outside?" In! ”

The cotton curtain was picked up and fell, and then picked up again, and a middle-aged woman stepped in timidly, looked at the four people in the room, and each squatted a blessing, and muttered: "Ten thousand blessings to the lords......

Several people were busy trying to persuade the little man in front of them, and no one knew when the woman had come and how long she had been standing at the door. Yu Dengshui looked at her, she was only thirty-five or sixteen years old, combed her hair, duck egg face powder was not applied, although it was slightly yellow spots, and her eyebrows were light, she still had a vague charm, she only stood in the snow for a long time, the two little feet were soaked with their yuan-colored feet, and her lips were a little purple from the cold, her eyes did not dare to look at people, and she stood with her head bowed in fear. Shu Ge didn't pay attention to this, frowned and said, "Isn't this Lord Jin's Mrs. Ru?" What's the matter? ”

"My lord......" Jin Wenkui's aunt sighed and whispered, "Caige'er...... Gave birth to ......"

"Cai Ge'er-Oh, I know, it's Lord Jin's big girl, right?" Shuge took a sip of tea indifferently, "It's a good production, it's a good import—is there anything else?" ”

The woman stomped on her toes, did not lift her head, and whispered, "It's too cold in the house, and there's no place to hide...... The child can't stand it, and the confinement woman can't do it...... This is why the heavens should not cry out that the earth is not spiritual, so they have to beg the adults...... Enjoy the charcoal ......"

"Oops...... It's hard for you to do it for me......" Shu Ge was anxious to make amends to Fukang'an, so he had no intention of taking care of this matter, and said with his teeth, "There are cases for the supply of firewood and charcoal." Thirty catties per person per day for one and two grades, and twenty-five catties for three grades...... Like me, I only have two catties a day. There is a deficit of fifty or sixty thousand catties in the station, all of which are deducted from the monthly routine of everyone, and the villain is already resentful. Lord Jin is a person who has committed a crime, and everyone who lives here has no money or silver, and they are already full of reluctance - not to mention these troubles, you go back first, I will come back after a while, bring some charcoal to you at home, and everyone has nothing to say. I told them to send a few quilts first, okay? ”

As he spoke, the woman's tears fell like beads, and she whispered, "Yes...... Thank...... Thank you, Master for your grace...... "stiffened and squatted." He Shen kept frowning and listening, and when he saw that she was leaving, he frowned and said, "Madame, slow down-Lao Shu, just came in, listening to the prisoners and relatives imprisoned in the house are freezing so much that they can't stand it, and some women are still crying." Adults usually can't stand it, not to mention confinement, and dolls, although they are small, they are also life, right? 'People die in hatred, and delicate flowers turn into ghosts', which is also too unlucky. Listen to me, how much is a few catties of charcoal worth? Simply - simply, let's accumulate some merits, and make fires in each house, and add some prosperity to your post station, as for the silver...... Ten taels a day is enough, and a month and a half days will be warm, four hundred and fifty taels are the head, which is four hundred and seventy-four taels of tickets that are exchanged for the dragon head ticket. The extra brothers have a glass of wine - they have to do it to the end, and save people thoroughly. It's not that I'm poor and generous, these people are pitiful......" he said, handing over a silver ticket.

"Where did you get these rewards!" Shu Ge took the ticket, clenched his hand tightly, and just let him go, "After this snow, the ground in Yangzhou is warm, and they won't make a fire if they are asked." I'm so embarrassed that you call me like that—this is Heshen—and the master! Why didn't you even say thank you? ”

The woman was stunned first, only a pair of dark eyes with tears in her eyes and Shen staring, as if to imprint the description of this person in her heart, hearing Shu Ge's reprimand, she suddenly woke up, knelt on the ground with both knees, choked and said: "He Master must be the reincarnation of the Bodhisattva...... Your accumulated yin virtue is great, God will definitely bless your descendants, the prince of Yubo, and the marquis of Wandai......"

"Don't say that," He Shen sighed, "although I am young, I was once the one who cried and wiped away my tears...... Get up......"

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The group set off from the Guazhou Ferry Station to return to the government to see that it was getting late. Although the snow is not big, it flies all over the world, but the snow under the ground is deep, and the snow is covered with a thick layer, and the snow below is the water slurry, and it is slippery when you walk, and if you are not careful, you will sit on the pier and fall to the ground. When he got to the government, he had already dispersed. In the slight twilight, the entrance of the yamen was quiet, and a few people followed the fish to the water and quietly passed through the second hall, and just turned to the door of the moon cave in the West Flower Hall, they were stopped by Xiao Jibao who was guarding the door.

"The fourth master is enjoying the snow and listening to the piano," Xiao Jibao and Hu Kejing are like each other, they are generally stubborn and honest, only the thief's head and thief's brain are cunning, and his mind seems to be more agile, squeezing his eyes and smacking his eyebrows, and he is a character who moves when he presses the news, laughing and saying to everyone, "The mustache knows, except for the old lady, who dares to alarm him at this time!" There is a pot of charcoal fire under the porch here, so let's wait a while and then go over. Xiao Hu grinned quietly: "Let me tell you, I'm not afraid that the young master will be angry, and if I can take him in the mouth, I will definitely lift me up - my monthly silver is only half of yours, and I also want to learn from you that year, with one head arched on the master's back to the sky, and it rose on the second day." Little Yoshiho laughed: "Put your fucking fart!" Do you know the temperament of the master? It depends on what and when! I only know half of it! As he spoke, he pressed his lips and motioned to Yajing. Everyone did not squeak, but faced the fire under the porch, listening to the sound of the tinkling piano that was faint and visible from time to time on the side of the flower hall. Only a fish climbs into the water: The people in the house don't know how to play the piano......

Playing the piano is the girl Li'er who has just received Fukangan. Guqin Jiaotong, Hanyu Xinzhen, a pair of plain hands lightly dial Xu Hook to wipe and pick slip, playing a song "Qingjiang Return". Fukangan wears a six-in-one hat with a red velvet knot, has changed into a rose and purple baturu vest, wears a stone blue lambskin robe, and is draped in a lynx cattle, a red velvet braid is thick and long, casually put on his shoulders, and a pair of deerskin oil boots under his feet, standing under the eaves of the West Flower Hall. At this time, the twilight is dark and the sky is firm, Xiao Xiaoshuo seems to be thousands of gray butterflies fluttering and fluttering in the wind, spinning and falling to the ground, a large pond on the south side of the West Flower Hall is not frozen, but it has melted the new snow that has fallen one after another, and a thin layer of hoarfrost-like snow is hung on the surface of the pond. The houses in the distance were covered with snow, hidden in the slightly purple-brown mist of the willow treetops. In such a dusk, the sound of the piano in the West Flower Hall is slightly significantly a little muddy, sometimes low and meandering, turning and dark and desolate, occasionally like a bead walking on a jade plate, hooking like a cold spring dripping water, as if it is not overwhelmed by the snow cold, that is, turning turbid and heavy and secluded...... Fukangan thought about how to play the feeling of "watching the wind" all the way after seeing Qianlong, how to ask Ying to go out with his father, and then think that his father was assassinated in Liangfeng Town, and he was injured in Sichuan to reorganize the army, and he didn't know if he could go to his side to wait? As soon as the sound of the piano sank, he thought of his mother in Beijing, and maybe knelt in front of the statue of Guanyin to pray for his safety. The pious look of my mother muttering the Great Compassion Mantra can't help but snicker every time I see it...... But now I can't laugh, and my eyes are full of tears...... His thoughts were out of control, and the sound of the piano stopped in wisps. Fukangan turned his face and saw that Ji Bao and the others were outside the Moon Cave Gate, so he beckoned: "Come in." "I lifted the curtain first and entered the flower hall.

"Say hello to the fourth master!" The fish landed on the water and hit the head, and several mermaids rushed in. Seeing that the lamp had been turned on in the room, Li'er was sitting in front of the window and playing with the strings, and Fukangan was standing by the piano case, as if he was judging Li'er's figure, and seemed to be paying attention to the piano score on the case. Everyone was busy with Qian'er, and Shu Ge deliberately added the sentence "Fourth Master is auspicious" before getting up with the crowd. Only then did I see that Ma Er's nephew was also in the house, helping a long-term entourage to put books on the shelves.

Fukangan only glanced at everyone, nodded, called the fish to board the water, and said: "The sound of the piano is different, I know that you are listening to it - this piano is not ordinary." It seems that you are also a bosom friend, how is Li'er playing? Yu Dengshui smiled: "The girl plays very well, so good!" I don't actually understand it, but I've listened to it a lot, and I can't listen to this girl's play, like the sound of empty valley feet, the joy of Juntian, which makes people want to dance! Ma Erzi coughed when he heard it, wanted to laugh, and covered it again. Fukangan couldn't help but laugh, picked up the piano score, Ma Erzi and Yu Dengshui came up to look at it, and the walnut big words on it read-

The fish boarded the water and looked ignorant. Ma Erzi pointed to a word and said deliberately: "I recognize this word, it's a nun's 'nun'!" Li'er only pursed her lips and smiled. Fukangan also smiled and said: "This is a fingering technique in the 'Yu' key, and the thumb is on the seventh string - the old horse is timid!" Turning his face and saying to Li'er, "Li'er's piano fingering is appropriate, the percussion is not mixed, the chanting is not revealed, the ups and downs are orderly, and the effect is powerful, which is called the 'five skills' of playing the piano, slow and urgent, light and heavy, high and low, with fingers not folded, the strings are flat, and it is almost the time of 'left and right'. ”

"Lord praised, how dare you do this!" Li'er blushed ashamedly by his praise, lowered her head and whispered, "I haven't heard my master play." She said, 'Light desire is in line with the ancient, desire is modest, light desire is not floating, heavy desire is not restricted, desire is right, leisure desire is natural, force desire is not found, indulgence is free, slow desire continues, and impatience is not chaotic', together with these ten virtues, in order to 'left and right'. She didn't get to this point on her own! "Listen!" Fukangan smiled and said that the fish climbed into the water, "This is the authentic words of a true expert!" ”

Yu Dengshui said with a smile: "I don't know anything about the piano, and reading the piano score is more like reading a book from heaven." It's just that with everyone's vassal elegance, just this song "Flat Sand and Falling Geese" is fascinating, like entering the desert like hearing Feihong......" Before the words were finished, Fukangan was already laughing, and smashed his shoulder and said: "That's it!" It's getting uglier and uglier...... This piano is in your hands, it is really a pearl. How much does it cost? Transfer ......it to me, "Yu Dengshui's guqin, is the county order to sit in the "Qin Zhitang", the little guys go to the ghost market to buy four taels of silver to offer courtesy, he doesn't know what the value is, how much taste, see Fukangan appreciation, I can't wait to be happy, smiled: "Less than fifty taels of small play, give it to the fourth master!" The sword is dedicated to the martyrs, and the Yaoqin is given to the bosom friend, and this qin is in the hands of the fourth master, which is to Zhong Boya [1]

In your hands, you still dare to ask for money? I'm not a money kid anymore! ”

He said "Zhong Boya", and several people were stunned, followed by a burst of laughter. Even Shu Ge, who had been standing on the side with his head bowed and his hands down, covered his mouth and snickered. Fukangan said: "Quing to kill this qin!" I never accept gifts in vain, in order not to be wronged by this qin, I will pay a thousand taels. ”

One thousand taels! Everyone's eyes widened: this is a middle-class family's belongings! Fukangan took the piano from Li'er's hand, stroked the slightly speckled body, and before he could speak, Yu Dengshui said another layman's word: "Fourth master, it's from sycamore!" Fukangan smiled and sighed: "Lao Yuken looks at the poor in this weather, you are not a bad official, you are from a Jinshi, Baguwen must also be good, it's just ...... Look at this dragon pond and phoenix swamp, this one is called 'fairy shoulder', this side is called 'owl', this side is called 'foot', just this word 'crane foot', it is the late Tang Dynasty penmanship, and the rest of the words are blurred - you see! He turned over the back of the piano, pointed to the "dragon gum" next to the head and tail of the piano and said: "The word 'Reggio' can be faintly seen here." I've never seen it before, maybe it's the lightning strike of the plane tree! His eyes flickered and darkened, "This is not an ordinary thing. I don't know which hairpin clan, or the thing is defeated, or the family is very poor, or the family slave steals it, and sells it for fifty taels of silver......" carefully held the piano and handed it to Li'er, then he turned his face and asked Shu Ge, "You are Yicheng?" It seems to be a subordinate, what is the old Manchurian surname? ”

"Gualga!" Shu Ge listened to Fukangan's discussion of the qin, he was already stunned, and suddenly asked himself, only to think that he had come to "apologize", and his waist was lowered again, and he changed his heart and smiled and said, "My grandfather is the second leader of the third staff under the red flag, and the Songshan War brought seventeen armored men to kick through Hong Chengchou's border guard camp, and made meritorious service to carry the flag into the yellow flag. and the same surname as the old man of Aobai, so he entered the staff and became the commander, and died in the battle in Baiyun Mountain, Fujian. Grandfather fought with Grandpa Ao again, and Grandpa Ao was banned from Zhulian in the eighth year of Kangxi's bad deeds. The ministry said that it was all over the house, and later Kangxi Ye pardoned his sins and sent them to fight cattle and join the army. It wasn't until Yongzheng Ye issued an edict of abonement, and my grandfather died in the garrison. The whole family moved back to Beijing, relatives had no relatives, friends had no friends, and they turned around and threw themselves under Prince Cheng, and Prince Cheng was defeated in a few years. I finally got a few pen posts in the ministry, and I went to the Zongren Mansion to do miscellaneous labor, saved a few money to donate a class, elected an official vacancy who had not entered the stream, and became this post man. I don't want to drink too much horse urine, and the people below don't eat and don't have long eyes, which offends the master's housekeeping! Good fortune four masters, you have to compare with me, isn't our family moldy for a few lifetimes of feng shui never smoked? I'm here to ask for sin, and I ask you to forgive me. I'll bring a family over and kowtow to my grandfather! With that, he knelt down and kowtowed.

"Get up, you bastard!" Fukangan is a young man's temperament, joy and anger can not be determined, plus the only way to talk about the qin, the anger in his heart has been digested a lot, listen to his resume, originally a meritorious family, a majestic general during the war, to the Taiping years fell again and again, mixed into a person, think about it and feel discouraged for him, a heart of anger has already gone to Java, kicked Shu Ge and said, "Look at your virtue, or a Manchurian old surname?" According to my temperament, I smashed your post station, kicked this king's nest, and fought a lawsuit, and you won? ”

"Yes, yes, yes! The lesson is the master! Shu Ge didn't expect to pass the test so easily, kowtowed and got up, with a smile on his face, "This time, I accidentally bumped into it, maybe I still have a little fate with the fourth master." Since the fourth master likes the piano, I will pay attention to find you a few planes, get dozens of them, and send them to the house by boat! ”

Fukangan smiled: "Put your mother's fart, you will climb the pole!" Do you think this harp is chopping wood? He suddenly smiled, turned his head and asked He Shen, "What about another surnamed Chai?" It's called firewood...... Chai ......" "Chai Daji." He Shen hurriedly said, "He hasn't woken up yet, so he can't come for a while." Go back and persuade him again, the fourth master is the most generous and benevolent, teach him to be afraid, you come here and take a kick, maybe you will be blessed by misfortune! Hu Kejing saw that He Shen was covering up for Chai Daji, and he was displeased, and said on the side: "I'm not as good as He Shen - I have already escaped, and the surname Chai took me!" He also beat me - and scolded the old man for being 'rich and poor', and said, 'There are more guards than rabbits these days'! also said that he was not drunk, and he was alone in something! He also said......"

"That's the case...... Shu Ge saw that Fukangan's face changed, the clouds covered his forehead, and the tendons on his neck were slightly swollen, listening to Hu Kejing without scruples, gritting his teeth and only "saying", I am afraid that this brother will not be able to bear it again, and the branch that can't be climbed up is broken again, and he can't save the fish in the pond, so he hurriedly stepped forward and said with a smile, "Little brother has been wronged today, you can dissipate your anger." The fourth master is also angry with Chai Daji, he is a martial artist, and he knows a little literature, and it is true that he is arrogant, I was drunk like mud at the time, and he is also a wine spirit, if you want to talk about any disrespect for the fourth master, I dare to guarantee that he will definitely not. Thousands of mistakes, I admit all the small lowly duties. The fourth master is willing to spare me, he is a little military attache of the ninth grade, and he can't afford to be serious with him! Fourth master, you are the phoenix in the sky, he is just a fighting with black eyes, the fourth master is like the sea, and people like us are serious, you can't do it! Saying that, he told Chai Daji's resume again, and finally said, "This human nature is just a talent who doesn't meet a high heart and a thin life......"

"Zhang Guangsi is a Zhao Kuo Ma Jian who talks on paper!" Fukangan snorted, "Long live the Lord killed him, that's a manifestation of heaven - after two years of fighting with Zhang Guangsi, you dare to underestimate the world?" He wanted to quote his father's strategy of smashing a flower nest in Jiangxi, leveling Heicha Mountain, and attacking the calf Gu compared with Zhang Guangsi, and felt that there was a suspicion of showing off, it was the time when the heart was ambitious and the man made a name for himself, Ya didn't want to touch the light of his father, because he choked, swallowed the words back into his stomach, thought about it, and felt that these words were too elevated to the surname Chai, and secretly regretted it, so he sneered and said: "Shu Ge went back and told him that I won't turn over his stinky meat!" ”

And all the hearts of the people were relieved. Yu Dengshui is most afraid that this son and brother are not familiar with the world, and he really smashed the post station, the incident is in Yangzhou, he has a relationship that cannot be escaped, and Fu Heng is in a high position, and he is arranging the military in Jinchuan, the court is pursuing it, and the Qing Dynasty is in an uproar. Yangzhou salted meat roasted whole pigs, thirteen hot pots on the shelf, one to wash the dust for the fourth master, and secondly, we also have to dip the fourth master with some blessings, and they are all flattened. Fukangan was speechless. Yu Dengshui was busy asking someone to "pass the kitchen", and personally inspected the bedroom prepared for Fukangan, the bedding was warm and cold, the tea and fruit should be thoughtful, and he ordered someone to move the charcoal fire to the room - neither cold nor hot, but also to prevent the charcoal from being over, and the water everywhere was not leaking. Fukangan paced with his hands behind his back, watching everyone busy, because he saw He Shen and Ma Er's nephew muttering quietly in the back, so he asked, "What do you two say privately?" ”

"He's going back to Beijing," Ma Erzi laughed, "to fight my famine." ”

Fukangan smiled casually: "Gui Zhongtang sent you to Nanjing, don't you even reward you with silver?" ”

"On a business trip, there are cases of entanglement between officials and officials, and forty-eight taels of back and forth between Beijing and Nanjing are enough." He Shen said with a smile, "It was Gui Ye who also asked me to buy some rice paper, lake pens, and Xue Tao's notes, and I sent other uses to find the old horse to play a lot." Fukangan looked at He Shen and said, "The silver envoy went to Hualiu Lane, right?" - I see that you are articulate and capable, and it is not a good idea to be on a mission in the military aircraft department for a long time, so why don't you find a messenger? Although it is good, it is a void, after all, it is not a positive result. He Shen said: "How can a person like me have extra money to go to those places?" Since the master is so elevated, looking at the places where there is a future, helping the slave with a word, he will have good luck in this life. ”

As he spoke, the seat in the middle of the flower hall had been properly placed. Eight immortals table in the middle of the Yixing pottery sand hot pot is placed a huge friendless, duck paste soup boiling water turns over the flowers, hot white smoke rises straight up to the ceiling and spreads out, the plum blossom enamel plate around is a complete set, put the yard of good deer spine, sheep neck, chicken tongue, fresh shrimp, chicken breast, hump slices, fish maw slices, sea cucumber slices, mushrooms, mushrooms, white fungus and clear sauce, sesame sauce, mustard, pepper, shredded shallots, garlic and leek yellow shreds should be seasoned. The cook saw that Fukang was sitting in the middle, and everyone was finished, holding a pot in one hand, carefully pouring rice wine around the hot pot, and taking a handful of green onions, ginger and garlic sprinkled into it, and the room was full of fragrance in an instant, and people were salivating. Li'er stood close behind Fukangan, and when she saw him smiling, she turned sideways to talk to Yu Dengshui, and without saying a word, leaned over and tucked the small handkerchief on the shoulders of his Baturu vest. For a time, the opera troupe prepared for the government to teach and learn also came, sitting in front of the west wall of the flower hall, tuning the strings and playing the zither, and playing the drums and flutes. In the midst of the sheng song and song, Fukangan raised the chopstick, and the following fish boarded the water, Tietou Jiao, He Shen, Ma Erzi, and Shu Ge accompanied each other, Wang Jibao and Hu Ke stood and hung their hands beside them, and the cooks went back and forth to serve. Fukangan, who was still annoyed by Chai Daji, became happy and happy. In the midst of the rapid chords of the golden stone, a girl suddenly opened her voice and sang:

…… If I carry the shade of flowers, you can turn around and hug me; If I am in the shade, you can whisper. It's just that the night dew path winds around the willow pond, and I'm afraid that the bow shoes are soaked. and waited for the west corridor to knock on the window, and shamed her daughter's delicate face...... The ruthless enemy teaches people to suffer directly! I have no choice but to see you again next year, but I'm afraid that next year, it's not you again......

Fukangan didn't care when he heard this, and asked Shu Ge in the next seat: "Since you were elected from the Internal Affairs Bureau, even if you haven't entered the stream, you are also an official, why don't you go out to be a pawn history?" There is always room for advancement step by step. Officials like Yicheng have the most limited future. ”

"I'm going to be twenty years younger, and my master is a hard backer, so naturally I came out to pawn history." Shu Ge was drunk and woke up, and he didn't dare to eat and drink recklessly, only the pork belly and fish belly and sea cucumber were sandwiched and picked up, and he sweated profusely, and when he saw it, he said with a smile, "Although this post station can't be promoted, but the supply of cars, boats, sedans and horses, and the distribution of rice, grain, firewood, and charcoal by officials, there are court rules to allocate them on time. "Three years of Qingyi, a greedy county commander!" Ma Erzi smiled, "The fourth master hasn't heard of the cross order of the canonical history, right?" Uh-'the glory of a life; Two bamboo boards were dragged; Thirty taels of silver; The four neighbors are reliable; Five blows in the mouth; Hexagonal documents issued; The officials of the Seven Grades Hall are reliable; The eight-character yamen is open; Nine-grade complements borrowed; I couldn't be happier! ’”

Fukangan laughed when he heard it, and when he took a cup of tea to eat, Li'er had already served it, sipping tea and laughing to himself, and said: "It seems that no one can get rid of the word 'bitter' in life!" I was in Shandong, and Guo Wenqing told me that Cai Qi, a remnant bandit who had been scattered by holding the calf, fled to Weishan Lake to resist arrest, and killed one gunboat sentinel, seven gunners, and three ordinary people. He personally led the troops, but the thief had long since disappeared, and the local people said that the thief had fled to Taiwan. Declare to the court on the spot, long live the lord three times a day Zhu criticized the decree, and arrested Cai Qi for the time being. Then there was another article, Ah Gui sent three letters a day in Beijing, Liu Tongxun urged again and again with the court edict of the Military Aircraft Department, sat in the sedan chair and felt anxious, listening to the two old women on the side of the road pointing and envy and saying, 'Look at people, they are also individuals!' I don't know how to cultivate it in my previous life, and cultivate it to this point! Guo Wenqing held a stack of reprimand papers, and smiled bitterly in his heart: I only hate that I am not a county official now, and it is better to drag it up and down - you still say that this is a blessing from the previous life! Yu Dengshui smiled and said, "What's so good about the county official?" There is also a slogan: If you are not good in the previous life, you will know the county in this life; In his previous life, he did evil, and he knew the county [2]

。 Ma Erzi said: "The evil is full of evil, and the provincial city is attached!" ”

Everyone couldn't help but laugh. Before he could say anything more, Yu Dengshui's family came in and whispered a few words in his ear, Yu Dengshui smiled and said: "The prince of the inner court, and Liu Yong, the prince of Yanqing, are here to see the fourth master!" Fukangan put down the cup and said with a smile: "Brother Shi'an is also here?" Come in! So saying, he got up, and all the people stood up with him. Listening to the sound of unoiling clothes outside, a short and fat eunuch walked in front of him with a smile and a groan, followed by a young official, who was also a solid figure, wearing a white pheasant with eight pythons and five claws, a pair of triangular eyes on his black and red face, his pupils were black and bright, and he walked up, his legs were strong and strong, just for the night to do too much ambush, and it looked like he was a little hunched on his back - isn't this just a little short ago in Nanjing commanding Huang Tianba and his cadres to crack the huge case of the White Lotus Sect, burning Guanfeng Tower, and burning Liu Gongzi, who has been suffering from the imperial court for more than 20 years? As far as the official position is concerned, in fact, it is also a royal history, in terms of fame, it has shaken the world and shook the government and the opposition, looking for the ordinary crystal top with a peacock feather of the green and green forest, and so on the idle superintendent is also difficult to find, just this one, wherever you stand, it is particularly eye-catching.

As soon as he appeared, the crowd immediately became solemn. The room suddenly fell silent, and the rustling of snow and the faint whistling of the wind outside the window suddenly came to my ears clearly.

[1]

Zhong Boya: The bosom friend story of "Mountains and Flowing Water" should have been Zhong Ziqi and Yu Boya. Yu Dengshui mixed the two into one.

[2]

Appendix: that is, in the prefect's yamen where the county is located.