Wu Sidao drank very narrowly, and he didn't get in touch with this group of people, and he was drunk after a while. Che Ming was annoyed, and he had to pretend to be smiling to greet this unlucky scholar, seeing that they were about to resign, he was desperate, but he still had to pretend to invite him to stay. Wu Sidao smiled drunkenly: "There is no good feast. I don't dare to eat too much of this 'woe water', so don't let it go." With that, he staggered and pulled Dai Duo off the Tianguang Lake Studio.

"Jingren," Dai Duo looked at the sky, he was close to Shenpai, and said with a smile: "I thought you had suffered a big loss, and you had frustrated your former sharpness, but it seems that you are not old!" I've also heard of Che Ming, and I really know it in my heart! Aren't you afraid that he will rectify you when the scene comes? According to Dai Duo's meaning, he wanted to lead to a conversation and test whether he was willing to join Yinzhen's disciples. Wu Sidao smiled and said: "You are still a mess at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and you don't know how to cast a rat trap?" Although I am not good, people like Peng Peng and Shi Shilun are all officials-you don't know people's hearts, but as an official, Lilu's heart only gets heavier and heavier, so that he will not be guilty of touching his golden job bowl with my broken jar! This Che Ming is actually a little talented, but he is too shameless, so I taught him a lesson. For this Yangzhou Mansion, he first called his wife Cao Shi to worship Xu Qianxue's fourth aunt as his mother; Xu was bad, and he stammered with Liang Qingbiao, the secretary of the household department, and chose his godfather after recognizing him. Is this still personal? It's good, it's good, it's not good, I still have poems - in the past, the prime minister's house worshiped the godmother, and today's godfather is surnamed Liang. The new household department of Heyi Courtyard, the old middle hall of the desolate pavilion ......" Before he finished chanting, Dai Duo intercepted it and said with a smile: "Let's go!" You're so drunk, I didn't say a word, and I led to your car talk! You are so unforgiving, even I am afraid of you! Wu Sidao was silent after hearing this, looked into the distance in a trance, and said for a while: "...... I dream every ten years, and when I wake up, the building is empty. Xiang Ling, no matter how high the heart is, people have withered, what hope do I have? Only the mind is available, who knows? Only the benefit of the tongue, can even the mouth be sealed? ”

"Don't be sad," Dai Duo thought in his heart, because he didn't get Yinzhen's explicit instructions, and it was inconvenient to make the decision, so he only said: "Didn't you say you were going to Beijing?" Why don't you talk to our fourth master, go north together, and I'll find you a museum when you get to Beijing. Wu Sidao sneered and said, "Even you look down on me!" How hard it is to make ends meet! I studied dragon slaying and the Emperor's Dao! Without talent, I don't bother to teach! ”

Dai Duo kept sending the drunken Wu Sidao back to the Peixin store on the other side of Hongqiao, and took many words before resigning back to the Qiaobei Post House. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Sibeile's personal chief coming out of it with Gao Fu'er, and when he saw Dai Duo, he forced his hand to stop, and said with a smile: "Dai Tou'er, where did you eat and drink, didn't you bring us a jar back?" Dai Duoyin asked, "What about the fourth master?" Gao Fu'er said: "I met the adults for a day today, and the political envoy of Jiangning, Lord Cao, brought a cadre to the master. This time the son is talking above, about the matter of grain transfer, and there is also a tariff and silver tael in it, early in the morning! You can rest in my room first, and it's not too late to see you when you're gone. Dai Duo had no choice but to turn around and go into Gao Fu'er's room, make tea, and have no spare teeth. It wasn't until the time of the lamp that Fang heard a shout from the upper room: "Serve tea and send off guests!" Then he saw two large lanterns leading from the upper room, and a group of officials resigned in turn, and Dai Duo came in.

"Coming back? I'm writing a note to the crown prince, you can even take a look at his edict to see if there is anything missing, and then transcribe and send it later. Yin Zhen didn't raise his head, and his hand didn't stop writing until he finished writing, Fang sighed, handed the letter and a letter to Dai Duo, and paced Fang Bu silently.

Dai Duo took the prince's edict and Yinzhen's letter, only glanced at it, and already understood the main purpose, so he replied with a smile: "Long live the fifty-fourth holy life, and there is already a decree that the fourth master does not need to return to Beijing." Half a month ago, the Inner Court reported that Shaanxi had a great drought last year, and this spring was not green. The prince wants to ask the prince to return to Beijing as soon as possible, apparently because of the preparation for the birthday ceremony. The fourth master's letter was written very much, and he didn't want to go back, and the envoy didn't finish it, so he just knocked on Long Live Christmas. ”

"Can it be my turn to have such a difference in the eyes of the birthday ceremony? I'm afraid that only the eighth master can fight for it! Yin Zhen said coldly, "I'm not afraid of contribution, but I'm afraid of contribution." The thirteenth brother sent a letter, saying that he would add an Enke next year, and the main test point was Tong Guowei. Now they are all working in secret. I want to stuff a private person again, and I want to be grandiose outside, and the prince calls back, just to ask me to collect people for him. If you think about the thirty-six eyes of the eighteen brothers, they are all blood-red, and I can't do this kind of thing that hurts my conscience, and I have to endure it on behalf of others. Now this trend, I am Nezha, can I be at the mercy of it? Dai Duo's heart is bright, the fourth master and the thirteenth master Yinxiang are "***", the eldest brother Yinzhi and the third elder brother Yinzhi are neither cold nor hot, and they have their own systems. The so-called "Eighth Master" is the Eighth Elder Brother Yinyu, and the Ninth Elder Brother Yinyu, the Tenth Elder Brother Yin, and the Fourteenth Elder Brother Yin, all of them are a nest of forces, and they are called the "Eight Sage Kings" in the court, which is the most offensive. This cadre hides when he sees something, envelops people when he sees them, and takes them when he sees profits, and even the crown prince doesn't dare to provoke him, so he wants to transfer back to Yinzhen's helper. Thinking about Yinzhen's drudgery and doing his best for the prince, the prince Yinren didn't care about pity at all, which was really chilling. But the fourteenth elder brother Yinzhen in the "Eight Masters Party" is now Yinzhen's mother's compatriot, and Dai Duo doesn't dare to say anything. Dai Duo thought about it and said with a smile: "That's what the fourth master said!" We have a clear order to supervise the repair of rivers and provide food relief, but we are still too busy! I think I have to add a sentence to this letter, clearly saying that long live the strict order of the river workers will not return to Beijing until it is done, and the fourth master will not dare to be self-dictated. The crown prince is timid, and he may not dare to fight with the emperor. ”

"Good." Yin Zhen smiled and said, "I'm afraid that they won't be able to get me, and they will go to find the bad luck of the thirteenth brother." The affairs of the science field were fraudulent and dismantled, and the thirteenth brother had a bad temper, so it was very difficult to make trouble. "Thirteen elder brother Yinxiang is the most pungent and bold in the elder brother, because he has been bullied by his brothers since he was a child, and he has developed a wild and untamable nature, but Yinzhen can't see it, and he has been cared for in his house since he was a child, so Yinxiang respects this strict brother like a loving father, and never disobeys. Of course, Dai Duo knew the reason, because he comforted: "The fourth master is in a hurry, the thirteenth master is only seventeen years old, and the long live master may not ask him to run an errand alone, or call him sick when the time comes." Yin Zhen sighed: "I have to take one step at a time - that Mr. Wu, have you talked about it?" I wonder if he will come to me to do something? ”

"The meaning of the master is not clear, and the slave does not dare to be self-contained." Dai Duo smiled and said, "This person has excellent character, but it's a pity that he is disabled." The slave knows the rules of employing people, and he will never accept it if he is not in trouble. So the minions didn't dare to mention it. Yin Zhen snorted disappreciably: "He's not in trouble yet?" The court has arrested the Qin criminals for ten years, and they don't need to be down-and-out! How can such a character be missed? Though you are faithful, you can only comfort me, and cannot counsel for me. Didn't he tell him to run a horse, a bow, an eagle and catch a tiger, and what did he do with other people's two legs? - Where does he live? I'll go and ask for it myself now! After saying that, he went out, Dai Duo had no choice but to follow, shouting to the little guys: "Prepare a horse for the fourth master, bring the cloak, and prevent the night wind from being cold!" ”

Unexpectedly, as soon as she arrived at the second gate, Gao Fu'er greeted her and said, "Fourth master, Chen Tianshun of the customs department asks to see you." said that it was in accordance with the constitution of the fourth master, and replied that he used money to buy grain. Yin Zhen looked at Dai Duo with some embarrassment. Dai Duo hurriedly said: "Wu Sidao is drunk, even if he goes here, he can't talk well." It's better for me to accompany the master tomorrow, and I will do things without stopping. Yin Zhen frowned and was stunned for a long time, so he had no choice but to stop.

Yinzhen didn't sleep well all night, and Wu Sidao's sensitive, witty, and sharp shadow kept swaying in his heart. Although he didn't talk to Dai Duo much, after a while, he had already made up his mind that he had to cage this Wu Sidao in his sleeve - the power of the emperor and the elder brother were overwhelmed, and there were all kinds of machines, and he needed such a strategist and thinker to plan with him. I didn't fall asleep until the rooster crowed, and when I woke up, it was already three poles old. Yinzhen turned over, hurriedly washed, and after a little snack, he called Dai Duo Gao Fu'er, changed into civilian clothes and went to the Peixin Inn in Hongqiao South. When the shopkeeper heard that he was looking for Wu Sidao, he clapped his hands and smiled: "It's too unfortunate for you to come!" Wu Ye didn't know the weather this morning, so he counted the house money, called the small boat, and said that he would go to Guazhou for a few days, and then go to Beijing to see a relative......" A few words sent their master and servant all three stunned. Gao Fu'er saw Yinzhen's gloomy face, and said with a smile: "Yes, yes, what kind of character should I be, the surname Wu is just a filial piety, and there are five of these people's husbands, and they want two-" Before he finished speaking, Yinzhen stared at him, and the words under his head were actually held back. Dai Duo hurriedly said: "Fourth master, don't be angry. This matter is not going to be done by the slaves. In a word, the monk can't run away from the temple, wrap it up on me, and I will invite him to the master's mansion when I go to Beijing! ”

"How so?"

"It's a long story. Anyway, it's okay at this time, let's accompany the fourth master to the market to have a look, and I'll tell you the story of Mr. Jingren. Saying that, the three of them walked slowly to the west, and Dai Duo sighed: "You see that Wu Sidao treats people coldly, but he is actually an idiot!" He has an uncle named Jin Yuze, who donated money in Nanjing and made up for the lack of a thousand people. Wu Sidao was a talent, and the old man Wu was thinking, and he was going to Nanjing anyway, so he wrote a letter to Jin Yuze, asking Wu Sidao to go to his uncle's house to study, and take the exam nearby.

Wu Sidao disembarked at Swallow Rock. As soon as he entered the land of gold dust of the Six Dynasties in Nanjing for the first time, he was dumbfounded, so he was in a hurry to swim Mochou Lake first, and then visited the Confucius Temple. On that day, the eighth day of the fourth month, the Buddha's birthday. The Confucius Temple was crowded with people, and the good men and women who burned incense and made wishes were pressed and crowded all over the streets. Wu Sidao followed the Qinhuai River, holding a bag of fried broad beans in one hand, walking and eating the scenery at one end. Because he didn't know which foolish old man actually built a bridge on the peach leaf crossing, Wu Sidao smiled when he saw it. I just said, 'This snake has a lot of flavor!' 'Don't be afraid of colliding with a person. When I looked up, it was a young girl of sixteen or seventeen years old! ”

Yin Zhen thought about the scene at that time, and couldn't help but smile.

"The woman came back only after entering the incense, and she revered my Buddha with one mind. In front of everyone, he collided with a young man so strongly, and suddenly blushed to the root of his ears with shame. Dai Duo said with a smile, "At that time, it caused the idlers around to laugh." This one says it's 'Blue Bridge Society', and the other says it's 'Marriage to the Sky', 'Bodhisattva of Joy', and 'Merry Dojo'...... The gags were noisy. The girl was embarrassed, slapped Wu Sidao all over the sky, squeezed open the cracks and walked away, and fried broad beans were scattered all over the ground.

Wu Sidao had no choice but to admit that he was unlucky. Covering his feverish face, he went to Huju Pass, and searched for a long time before he found Jin Yuze's lower place. After knocking on the first ring of the shop for a long time, the door squeaked open halfway. Wu Sidao saw that the one who opened the door was the one who slapped him! Suddenly both of them were stupid......"

Yin Zhen laughed when he heard this, and said, "Dare to love his cousin? ”

"It's cousin." Dai Duo couldn't help but smile and continued, "Wu Sidao was stunned for a long time, and just said, 'Is this Jin Yuze's family?' He's my uncle...... 'The girl covered her face with her hands, said 'Emperor Bodhisattva' and ran away.

Wu Sidao had no choice but to go in to see his aunt by himself. When my aunt saw him coming, she took him in her arms and cried and laughed: 'My God, you can see my mother's family! Son...... Now it's like this...... Your uncle will be back after a while - Aunt Feng, Aunt Feng! Come on, let's see who's coming......" Yinzhen smiled with teary eyes, held his stomach and said, "Okay...... Good! Is she coming? "Where will she come!" Dai Duo said with a smile, and was about to say it next, when suddenly there was a noise in the market in front of him, and there was a boy crying loudly from the sky and the ground, which was so tragic that people shuddered. The three of them suddenly smiled and walked over to the cry.

This is already a Hongqiao people's market, but it is not noisy. The first street and two rows are staggered, scattered and scattered, and there are nests made up of sorghum straw everywhere. The refugees who fled from the areas of Baoying, Shanyang, and Longwangmiao were all yellow and thin, some of them were boiled with three stones, some were boiled with dried bud rice sticks, some were catching lice in the sun, and some were wrapped in towels and gnawed on cold rice balls...... The smoke is smoky, exuding a strange smell of musty smell that is not mildew, and scorched is not scorched. A group of idlers leaned against the wall, a straw mat wrapped upright around a corpse, with only two feet exposed. A thirteen or fourteen-year-old child next to him, unkempt and unkempt, cried heartbreakingly: "Brother! You were fine yesterday, what did you eat? …… You just don't say anything? You don't remember what you said when your mother died...... that you should take care of me. …… You left me alone, just left...... Woo......"

Yin Zhen's eyebrows were frowned, and before he walked to the person who cried the corpse, someone had already looked at him as the master, and pulled a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl over, and gestured while talking: "Hey, this owner, at a glance, you know that you are a bodhisattva who accumulates blessings and does good!" Do you want to buy a child? You old Mingjian, this buyer also has a doorway - hair for blood, teeth for bones, one to see the hair, two to see his teeth! Look at this girl's yellow and thin, that's hungry! Look at her hair, hey! Look at her teeth—" He opened the little girl's mouth and said with splattering: "How about fifteen taels of glutinous rice and fine teeth biting gold and broken jade?" Not? If the business is not benevolent, I will lose all my blood and ask her to go to a good family! Ten taels! How about ten taels? ”

Yinzhen was just amused by Dai Duo's storytelling, and his mood was just a little happier, and he was washed clean by the tragic scene in the world here. Thinking about the crying over there, he looked down at the girl, her appearance was still upright, a pair of big eyes flashed on her yellow and thin face, she pouted her small mouth, and was pinched and rubbed by her teeth but didn't dare to cry. Yinzhen's heart sank, and he turned back to Gao Fu'er and said, "Buy it." With that, he paced up to the group.

The boy was already crying so much that his voice was hoarse, and he begged with his hands open: "Masters! Who buys me, who buys me? I'm going to have to sell it for a few bucks and bury my brother...... If you have done this good, you have done evil in this life, and you will not enter the eighteen hells when you die......

"Damn it," a person next to him laughed and scolded, "Ignorant monkey, how can you beg for someone like this?" Another person asked, "Who are you?" ”

The boy wiped away his tears and said, "I'm Baoying's—uncle...... Poor and pathetic......"

"You are the uncle of Baoying!" An idler smiled, "Then we are all nephews of Yangzhou......"

A crowd burst into laughter. An old man squatted beside the corpse, snorted and smoked, and sighed, "Sin! It's really pitiful, if you have money, just help a few......" As he spoke, he took out a few copper brothers and put them next to the child, and a few broad people also threw some Kangxi copper. The old man comforted: "Child, you are crying. I can't count on this idea to send money to your brother. The Yellow River is a catastrophe, and thousands of people have died, are they all buried in coffins? Packed up the money, bought a few knives of paper to burn, and found a mass grave to bury - people die like lights out, can you make your brother cry alive? As he spoke, he knocked the smoke pot on the cornerstone of the wall to get up. Unexpectedly, the soot did not burn out, and the sparks entered the bare feet outside the banquet, and the feet of the "dead corpse" were scalded and shrunk violently!

Explode the corpse!

Everyone was taken aback and dispersed. Dai Duo panicked and stepped in front of Yinzhen to protect him. Everyone stared at the corpse, but there was nothing unusual for a long time, only to see the child collect the money from the ground, naughtily grimace at everyone, pat the reed mat and shouted, "Dog, dog! Don't you want to thank the masters? ”

The dog lying on the ground pretending to be dead jumped up, waved his hand and wiped the green mud on his face, took two mouthfuls, and said with a hippie smile: "It's alive!" Thank you for your reward! Kan'er, you're tired of crying, I'm stiff, and I'm really hungry, so I'll buy two baked cakes and sacrifice my teeth first. Only then did everyone know that it was these two naughty babies who were begging, and they couldn't help but burst into laughter. Seeing that everyone was happy, Yin Zhen turned his face with a smile and said, "Dai Duo, these two children are clever, ask me, will you sell them to me?" ”

"Yes." Dai Duo agreed, stepped forward and patted the dog on the head, and asked, "How old is it?" Where is home? The dog wiped a handful of snot with his sleeve and said, "Fourteen, didn't listen to me, I'm Baoying's uncle?" Yinzhen looked at Kan'er, but he was not as lively and clever as a dog, his cheeks were slightly bulging, and he always looked like he had just woken up, so he asked with a smile: "You are Baoying who escaped from the wilderness." What about the adults in the family? ”

Kan'er flashed a glance at Yinzhen, his eyes were shining, and only for a moment, Yinzhen saw that this child Lingxiu was not under the dog, but his intelligence was not exposed. Kan'er didn't turn his face to look, looked at Yinzhen and said, "You want to buy us, right?" ”

The more Yin Zhen looked at it, the more he liked these two children, nodded and said, "You guessed right." Come with me! Don't talk about baked cakes, you can eat everything! "If you want to eat for three years, you won't do it for a county official!" The dog glanced at Gao Fu'er and said with a smile, "I'm not going to be a pug with you—look at his appearance, does he show his face in front of people?" Gao Fu'er turned pale with anger, and scolded beside him: "Look at your blank, is it worthy of being our master's Haba'er?" ”

"Fart? It stinks, it stinks! The dog covered his nose and said, "The more bullshit you have, the more you can't smell it—what are you talking about with them, Kan'er, let's go to Cui'er." ”

The two children giggled and were about to go happily, when the girl behind Gao Fuer timidly cried out, "Brother Kan'er, I'm here...... I'm selling ......," he said, with tears welling up in two lines.

"Cui'er!"

Kan'er and the dog stood still as if they were nailed, and walked up to the girl, their faces devoid of joy. Kan'er was just distracted, the dog glanced at Yinzhen, took Cui'er's hand, gritted his teeth and said, "In the end, Wang Sanfa sold you!" I said that I would give him four taels of silver to redeem you in half a year! - Eight generations of his ancestors, I have to ask Lu Lu to bite him to death! Cui'er looked at the two brothers with teary eyes, looked up at Gao Fu'er again, and said in a choked voice: "He sold me for ten taels of silver...... We're not going to see each other...... Brother Kan'er, you will go back to the Wei family camp one day and kowtow in front of my mother's grave for me......" He said, whimpering and letting go.

Yin Zhen saw the scene of the three orphans who depended on each other parting from each other, and his heart suddenly felt sour, and he had no smile. Thinking that the relatives and friends of the small family still have this kind of friendship, and a group of flesh and blood brothers, I can't wait for you to pick my nose and I gouge out your eyes! Thinking about it, he said, "Dog, listen to me." Don't you want to get back to Baoying? Today is the fourth day of the new year, and after the seventh day of the new year, I will leave for Tongcheng. How far is that from Bao Yingcai? I'm going to stay in Tongcheng for a year, maybe two years. You go with me, I leave Tongcheng, you can follow if you want, you don't want to go back with the three of you, is it okay? ”

"Really?" The dog's eyes lit up and he said, "You lied to us! Yin Zhen didn't speak, stared at the three children for a long time, and said, "I never lie." If you don't want to go back to your hometown, let's go. ”

The three children raised their heads in surprise, staring at Yinzhen with flashing eyes, and Yinzhen's bottomless black pupils flickered faintly. The three children moved to leave, but they stopped again, and Kan'er smiled: "That's it, let's go with you!" Talking counts, not a king! Seeing Yinzhen nodding with a smile, the dog put two fingers in his mouth and shouted "shhhh A lean dog jumped out and shook its head and tail around the dog. Gao Fu'er couldn't help laughing and said, "Such a dog, and a name?" ”

"By the way, it's called Lulu." Kan'er looked like she had just woken up, stared worriedly, stroked the dog's head and said coldly, "You are bold, you provoke it!" ”

Yin Zhen looked at the sun, it was almost noon, and suddenly remembered that the Yangzhou grain road had been rumored to be in the afternoon, so he smiled and said: "Let's go back - today is a disappointment and fun, and there are not many colors." With that, a group of six people walked back. Yin Zhen groaned as he walked, and asked Dai Duo, "What happened to Wu Sidao and his cousin later?" "The slave didn't ask in detail, and Sidao didn't say much, only said that he was married." Dai Duo said, "Only the Jin family is no longer in Nanjing. Jin Yuze sought an envoy from the city gate of Chaoyangmen in Beijing, and Wu Sidao said that he wanted to enter Beijing, but he was afraid that he would go there. Alas...... Wu Sidao's crime has not been torn up neatly, he has not shown up for ten years, and he has become disabled again, and the woman is also looking at thirty people, and it is difficult to say what will happen next......" He shook his head and did not go any further.