The transcript of the conversation can only barely be seen here, and the white paper behind it is covered with sewage, and the handwriting is no longer readable.

Zhang Shouzhong and Sun Beiji were stunned.

"What about the conversation after that? What else did they say? Sun Beiji looked at the document in front of him.

"Damn it, the pen and paper in my hand didn't hold it steady and fell to the ground." The man knelt on the ground with his back bent, kowtowing repeatedly, "I barely memorized some later, but when I came out, I saw that the ink had all been blurred on the paper......

"What did they say at that time, do you still have an impression?"

"My subordinates all remember." The man hurriedly said, "I originally wanted to transcribe all the records and send them to the elder pavilion together, but you have to be in a hurry, so ......."

"You can dictate it here." Zhang Shouzhong frowned and said.

"Yes," the clerk nodded, "Heng Yuanjun asked Bai Siyao where he saw the name. Bai Si Yao said that it was on the shelf of Lan Zhijun's Golden Pavilion, the title page of a book about gardening. Heng Yuanjun asked what was written on the title page, and Bai Siyao replied, "Give me a book." ”

The man paused, and then said, "Heng Yuanjun didn't speak for a long time, and then chanted a poem. ”

"What poem?"

The clerk was a little hesitant, "Some of my subordinates can't remember everything, I remember that the beginning was...... 'How many sad things in the world, you know that I don't know the sky, but I will ...... but will ......'"

"But the rain of tears will be condensed into snow, and they will sing and dance for a long time." Sun Beiji continued in a low voice.

"Yes, that's it." The clerk bowed his head and replied.

Sun Beiji took off his glasses, sighed softly, and continued, "A thousand miles of road is waiting for you, and the smoke and water are vast. My life is like snow, and it is always light in heaven and earth...... Is that the case in the back? ”

Zhang Shouzhong couldn't help but look at Sun Beiji - he had never heard of this poem, but Sun Ge Lao was able to recite it so fluently, probably because of some special origins.

"Yes." The clerk replied, "She said that she had seen the last line of the poem on the back cover of the gardening book. Heng Yuanjun said that this is a farewell poem that his father once quoted, the original work is unknown, and in the winter of these years, he will think of this poem whenever it snows. ”

"And then?" Sun Beiji asked, "What else did they say?" ”

Bai Siyao laughed, sounding a little sarcastic, Heng Yuanjun asked him why he was laughing, Si Yao said, a piece of snow in the Jun family, falling on the world, falling on the heads of the people is a mountain, the severity of the here, I am afraid it is difficult to say clearly. Then Heng Yuanjun also laughed and said that Bai Siyao was right. ”

Later, Heng Yuanjun asked her again, has she ever been to Jingzhou with Bai Shijun all these years, Bai Siyao said no, Heng Yuanjun said some customs of Jingzhou, and said that if Siyao has a chance in the future, he still has to go and see. The scenery there is by no means inferior to the mountains and forests in the southwest. ”

The clerk continued, Heng Yuanjun and Bai Ling's chat span was very large, and the two talked about chess skills, singing and dancing, until the official came to remind Bai Ling that the time was over, and she turned around and left without any regret.

Sun Beiji asked for some more details, and then asked the paperwork to be returned.

Only Sun Beiji and Zhang Shouzhong were left in the room.

"Don't stand still," Sun Beiji pointed to the chair next to him, "Sit down." ”

Zhang Shouzhong sat down on the side, he had a lot of things to ask, but after thinking about it, he just looked at Sun Beiji and didn't say a word.

"It should be, when Jianxi was more than twenty years old......" Sun Beiji said suddenly, his eyes wandered, and he pinched his fingers and calculated, "No, it should be the seventeenth year of Jianxi." ”

Zhang Shouzhong nodded quietly.

"That winter, I was recommended by Prince Gong and transferred to the household department. At that time, it was the time to start settling the accounts at the end of the year," Sun Beiji said in a low voice, "but because of the tax reform at the beginning of the seventeenth year, the imperial court purged one-third of the officials of the household department, and there were not enough people, so even a newcomer like me was called to the cabinet to assist in the accounting of the accounts." ”

"In the middle of winter, I was keeping vigil in my room, and one night there was a heavy snowfall, and it happened that I had finished what I had to do that night. So on a whim, I carried a lantern and went out to enjoy the snow. ”

Sun Beiji's voice was low, his eyes half-drooping, recalling the distant past.

"The snow was so heavy that it almost caused a freeze disaster in the south, and then I didn't have that much snow in Dazhou......," Sun Beiji said softly, "I kept my head up that night, looking at the goose feathers and snow in the sky, and when I came back to my senses, I found that the lantern in my hand was extinguished, and I didn't know where I went."

"Walking around the palace in the middle of the night, at best, it is arrogant and rude, and at worst, it is harboring evil intentions. So I immediately turned around, trying to find my memories and go back the way I came, but it was snowing that night, there were no stars or moons in the sky, and I didn't know where I was as I walked, until I met another group of people in the snowstorm. ”

“…… Who is the other party? Zhang Shouzhong asked.

"I saw a lantern on the other side of the house, and I thought it was a colleague, so I quickly stepped forward to say hello and ask for directions." Sun Beiji said softly, "How do you know, when I stepped forward and looked, I didn't recognize any of the people on the other side." This is not unusual, after all, I have only recently joined the household department, and many people have not recognized it all.

"However, these three or five people looked quite imposing, although it was dark at the time, and I couldn't see the complement on their chests clearly, but with such a temperament, they also looked like colleagues in the DPRK and China. The only thing that caught my attention was that one of them was pale and seemed to be sick. Between his eyebrows, he looked a little like the saint, but he looked much older than the saint.

"I first reported my identity, but the other side did not say them, although I thought it was strange, but I didn't want to ask too much. When I told them that I was lost and wanted to return to the Cabinet, they offered to take me with them. ”

"Together?" Zhang Shouzhong frowned slightly, "Where are you going to take the old man to Go?" ”

"I didn't say it explicitly, and I didn't ask in detail." Sun Beiji said in a low voice, "But in the context at that time, where else could I go except to go to the cabinet office?" ”

"Along the way, they walked generously, and did not dodge when they encountered the guards on duty at night, until the guards interrogated, I learned that in order to facilitate the settlement of the accounts of the cabinet in the past few days, if the officials in the six ministries were summoned by the household department, they could enter the palace directly without going through the special examination of the inner court - of course, they could not go to the harem, and could only pass between the Xihua Gate and the cabinet duty room.

"Whenever the guards asked why we were here, I answered truthfully, because it was more late at night and I was not very familiar with the inner palace, so we got lost, and the guards were not embarrassed, and after checking our identities, they all let us go.

"But when it was time to get to the room, they stopped and said goodbye to me." Sun Beiji said softly, "I wanted to ask why, but I heard a baby's cry suddenly from among them. ”

When Zhang Shouzhong heard this, he only felt a tingle in the back of his head.

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