Wu Xingqin and several people ate and drank for Liu Baoqi that night, and they did not disperse until the time of the shift. The Hanlin Academy has always been a yamen who stayed up late on errands, and the proclamation drafted by the six tickets was forwarded by the Military Aircraft Department and sent to the Hanlin Academy, and the master of the academy assigned Hanlin to draft official documents. It's a bit similar to our secretary of the civil office today, who is assigned to it, who will worry about writing the manuscript by himself, and the yamen has deep habits, everyone does their own thing, and there is almost no point to the saying that the yamen should be bad. Wu Xingqin is not good at drinking, he slept in the morning, and when he got up, he didn't know what time it was, rubbing his worried eyes to watch the sun through the window, but it was cloudy that day, he got up and washed lazily, and asked his family to know that it was over. It was not appropriate for the yamen to go again, and there was nothing to do at home, so he looked at the mirror, combed his braids and smeared some clam oil, looked himself up and down for a long time, and then paced out by tugging on the placket of his clothes.

His family lives in a red orchard, which is a remote place in Beijing, and there is a large vegetable garden outside the door, and a tuft of radish and cranberry is taken out until a ruined temple in the distance. The gray sky is chased by autumn clouds, and the scenery is bleak, and even pedestrians are very few on the side streets. Wu Xingqin thought that there was no place to spend time, so he stepped south to the head of a newly built courtyard house - this was Fang Lingcheng's house. Fang Lingcheng went to high school in one fell swoop, and his brother was happy, and transferred 30,000 taels of silver from the first vote on the Shanxi ticket number, and set up a mansion here. The whole Hanlin Academy knew that Fang Lingcheng was a wealthy brother who was wider than Wu Xingqin - he beat the first ring of the shop in the doorway, and only after a while did he hear a girl inside ask, "Who?" ”

"It's me."

"Who are you?"

"I'm Wu Xingqin."

"Wu Xingqin?" The girl muttered for a moment through the door and said, "There is no one at home, Mr. Wu, please go back first, and we will have to come back later!" ”

Wu Xingqin smiled, and was about to step back, when his heart suddenly moved, and said, "You are a Fangcao girl, right?" Aren't you human? I'm Lord Wu, the one who bought you a ruler last time, forgot? ”

The door opened with a bang, and an eleven or twelve-year-old girl with pigtails stood in the doorway, and said with a smile: "You just said that Lord Wu won't end it?" What do you say about the province and not the province, who of us knows? Wu Xingqin saw that she was innocent, cute and cute, walked in and twisted her face lightly with one hand, and said: "I have a better place for you!" I won a lot of gold melon seeds, gold is not rare, rare good condition, Zhengyangmen Dalang Temple silver shop to give a few pieces of jewelry, back to reward you. Now we are neighbors, you can go to my house and deliver something and get it! As he spoke, he entered the upper room, sat on a chair and stilted up Erlang's legs and said, "There is a cup of good tea!" ”

The herb was still in her childhood, and when she heard that she was being rewarded, she smiled with joy, and busied herself with her feet, twisted her hand towel and poured tea, and dusted the dust on his feet with a feather duster. Wu Xingqin just smiled, sipped tea and asked, "Who is here in the family, why is it so deserted?" Where is your lord? Fangcao smiled: "The master went out early in the morning, saying that he would meet Master Cao to see Liu Luoguozi." The eldest man of the family sent a letter, saying that he wanted to bring the second master's wife who had not passed through the door to Beijing, and everyone in the family here went to Qibu Street to pick up the house and install furniture, leaving me and my aunt at home......" Wu Xingqin asked: "What about my aunt?" ”

"In the West Wing!" Fang Cao'er pointed to the west of the window outside the house, pursed her lips and whispered, "Tell Lord Wu a word, the master wants to marry his wife, and the second aunt and grandmother don't like it!" I just asked for a pattern and said I wanted to draw it, and I don't know what I'm doing......

Fang Lingcheng's partner in his hometown was going to come to Beijing, Wu Xingqin had heard about it a long time ago, but he didn't expect it to be so soon. Fang Cao'er said this, Wu Xingqin was a little uncontrollable. got up and twisted two turns in the house, and said, "Last time I asked my aunt's wife to embroider the cigarette purse for me, I don't know if the embroidery is done?" I'll take a look......" said and came out, pushed open the door to the west chamber, and said with a smile: "Mrs. Sister-in-law is quiet, so leisurely!" ”

"It's the Wu family brothers!" The woman was lying cross-legged on the kang table and was drawing patterns, but someone came in, looked up and saw that it was Wu Xingqin, she was stunned for a moment, a smile bloomed on her face, and said: "He went out early in the morning, saying that he was going to see Liu Yong Zhongtang." Don't you know? Didn't you have a fat soup last night? ”

When the Fang family lived in Huaishu Xiejie, Wu Xingqin was a frequent visitor, and he kicked through the threshold twice in three days to disturb him. The Lian family, who was born in the dust of Shanshan fireworks and fought on the Fengyue Field, naturally saw Wu Xingqin's means of exposure to light [1]

, because he also likes his talent and appearance. But she is a good person, and she has a body of respect, because she saw Wu Xingqin's eyes squinting up and down at herself, only to see her bare feet, Shanshan couldn't help blushing, pulled the socks from the kang head, and put them on her little feet in a sneer, Wu Xingqin smiled and said: "It turns out that Brother Nian went to the military aircraft department?" Liu Yong only knew that he commanded Huang Tianba's apprentices to take people, knock on the board to try the case, and ask him to do it? - Ah, the embroidered flowers on these socks are so nice! I'll take a look at this trick......" As he spoke, he stepped forward and pulled one, unfolded it and praised it, sniffed it on his nose, and said, "Good fragrant ......" handed it back, intentionally or unintentionally twisted it on the surface of her feet, "Mrs. Sister-in-law is very lovely this day, walking on the street like this, you will see that you are a living Guanyin, Manchurian aunt and grandmother ......" and nodded and smiled at Shanshan, just amazed and surprised, but refused to make up for it again.

"You are a person......" Shanshan was teased by him and her face was full of red, and suddenly she saw that she was a serious person, and in a flash, she saw that it was Fangcaoer who came over with a teapot, and she understood, "sneered" and smiled, and changed her appearance, and said: "You are old enough to sit and talk, and now you are also an official, and you are still the same as when you were filial piety?" - Your purse hasn't been embroidered yet, the purple begonia color with the gold thread to dig out the clouds is good-looking, our gold thread has not been moved over in that courtyard - Fangcaoer, there is Chen tea, next to the vase is the box of new autumn tea sent by the eldest man of the family, for Lord Wu. ”

Fangcaoer hurriedly agreed to change the tea and brewed it, Wu Xingqin praised "this girl is smart", and said: "Fangcaoer will go, go to my house to get the gold thread, and tell Li Gui - you recognize him - the second uncle and grandmother sent the two zhang duo yesterday and also take it, and reward you to make winter clothes, and take it and be generous." The girl looked at Shanshan, and Shanshan smiled and said: "Your lord and Lord Wu are like brothers, and they don't thank you for the reward - go and come back quickly!" "Where does Fangcaoer understand their minds? I thanked him and went happily. Wu Xingqin watched her go out with the door closed, turned his face to Shanshan and smiled, and asked, "Why don't you look happy?" Is the sister-in-law of the Fang family coming, does it smell of vinegar? ”

"What vinegar does it smell like?" Shanshan was said to be thoughtful, sneered, and sighed, "Is it worthy of the name of my number plate?" This is Ming Media getting married, and I can't stop it. As he spoke, he felt that his eyes were red, and he wiped them gently, "I also thought it through, but this is my life...... At the beginning, I swore an alliance, and you also recognized my senior sister, saying that she had been in the hospital for 20 years, and she had seen everything, and the most unreliable thing in the world was to raise people and show talents. Xiucai raised an oath and swore that it was not worth more than the pheasant in the next three halls...... I see that he is a sincere person, and I think that I will be content if I can have a good life for three or five years, but who knows that I can't ...... Marrying a wife is a serious matter, and I can't stop it, I heard Wang's mother outside say that when he was good with me, he also had a kick with Guo Xixi......"

Wu Xingqin smiled secretly, feeling that Shanshan was too stupid, not only Fang Lingcheng, but he was under him, why didn't he have a kick with Guo Xixi? Thinking about it, he said: "Mrs. Sister-in-law has wiped us down with one stroke, in fact, I am a good person......" He glanced outside, approached Shanshan, and almost whispered, "I have long admired you, that is...... I didn't dare to say it, so I asked Brother Fang to take the lead...... This debt cannot be remedied......" he said and took the trick, and put a hand on her wrist.

"You're not a good person either!" Shanshan blushed and opened his hand, took a sip and was about to speak, a gust of wind passed outside, the cool rain was sprinkled immediately, the rustling sound was all over the courtyard, the sky was low and the clouds were dark, and the west chamber was deep and secluded, listening to Shanshan say: "You eat flowers and wine all night with three women, think I don't know?" You ......"

She also wanted to say that Wu Xingqin had already ** Yan Chong couldn't hold it, Teng was hugged tightly by the kang, and gently kissed her forehead and cheeks, seeing that she didn't resist much, she smacked her mouth and said vaguely: "Don't listen to Hui Tongji's nonsense...... I...... Sleep a hundred women, and you are the only one who thinks about you...... Look at the day, the clouds, the rain...... Isn't it fate that matches us? He added, "It's better for Ling Cheng's wife to come...... We'll be able to go a long way......"

That Shanshan came out of the hall, married Fang Lingcheng, and was a child of the Wang family, and the young man was proud, originally white-headed and old-fashioned, but he didn't expect to marry a wife soon after he got started, and he suspected that Fang Lingcheng was messing with flowers and grass outside, and his resentment was born, and the nature of the prostitute could not be controlled. Wu Xingqin was familiar with each other when he was a son, and he also liked him to be gentle and frolic, but at this moment, the outside was obscure, and the autumn clouds were indifferent and the rain was like hail, and Wu Xingqin repeatedly teased, and the face, temperament, and revenge were intertwined...... After being light for a while, Wu Xingqin was also very interested. She closed her eyes and gasped, being rubbed like soft mud, stretched out one hand to rub Wu Xingqin's crotch, and the other hand dragged Wu Xingqin's wrist to her placket and let him stroke his breasts...... He said, "That's not it...... You're ...... Come on......"

Wu Xingqin laughed lewdly, the eagle pounced on his whole body like a rabbit, and untied his own buttons and belts in a panic...... They were scattered all over the kang......

…… After a while, the clouds dispersed and the rain fell, and the two of them were satisfied and got up. Wu Xingqin poured a cup of hot water and drank it, and while helping Shanshan tidy up her things, she asked with a low smile: "How is the lady doing?" Shanshan blushed and didn't speak, Wu Xingqin said: "I heard Hui Tongji say that nine out of ten women are willing, but I am afraid that the man's mouth will be unstable." Don't worry, I have a seal on my mouth! Shanshan said: "Hui Tongji looks so honest, but it turns out to be so bad...... Alas...... It's always my life that suffers - you put the chessboard out, play chess under the guise of watching someone come or the grass comes back, what do you see? ”

"Yes, yes...... Or thoughtful as you think. Wu Xingqin smiled, and immediately set up chess, and the two laid out the game, Wu Xingqin asked, "Brother Fang Nian went to see Liu Yong, didn't he say anything?" ”

Shanshan smoked a few puffs of hookah, and then her mind was all set on chess, and while snoring and smoking, Zi'er smiled: "He never says these things, and I don't ask." On that day, Lord Cao came, and I listened to a few words next door doing needlework, saying that there was a man named Liu Quan who embezzled money from the garden workers. Probably Liu Quan is a character who is not easy to mess with, and they are planning to investigate in the secret and bring him down! ”

Wu Xingqin's hand holding the chess piece trembled. He never expected that Cao Xibao and Fang Lingcheng would not hum or do such a big thing below! Seeing that Shanshan looked at herself in surprise, she hurriedly said: "You want to rob this corner, you have to make up for it...... and asked: "Listen to this, is Lord Liu hosting for them?" ”

"I don't know." Shanshan shook her head and frowned, "I can't take care of my own business!" I heard that the meaning is that the surname Liu violated the system by building a house, I don't understand what the same thing is with greed for money, and what is the system for building a house? ”

Wu Xingqin turned his head and looked at the chessboard and pretended to be a chant and wanted to recruit, in fact, he was already thinking about this "big event", and as soon as Liu Baoqi said that he was going to Hefu yesterday, Fang Lingcheng and Cao Xibao said in unison: "Go and wait, see you off!" "-It turned out that I was going to go to Hejia to explore the truth! Liu Yong Yan and Ah Gui are not on good terms with He Shen, and they have heard about it from time to time in the yamen, but He Shen is now as powerful as the sky, and Yu Minzhong Ji Yun A Gui and Li Shiyao ...... These hot magnates have all been turned upside down by him. Although Liu Yong is the Minister of Military Aircraft, he is actually only in charge of a criminal department, and he is far from being as bright as Yu Minzhong A Gui in front of Qianlong, so he dares to instigate Cao Xibao and these small officials to sue and Shen for their tricks? It's incredible to think about, but it seems to be true. There is still a smell of vinegar in Wu Xingqin - if you really bring down Liu Quan, the first one is He Shen, He Shen is not a clean person, once he is knocked down, the wall will fall down and everyone will push it, this great credit did not expect him Wu Xingqin! This man...... How can I say that? …… He exhaled, walked wildly and wanted to ask again, heard the door ring, followed by the sound of horn and horn footsteps, and saw Fangcaoer holding an umbrella, with a tarpaulin package under her arm, trotting into the courtyard and going straight to the West Chamber, and the legs of her trousers were already wet. Wu Xingqin smiled and asked, "Have you taken it all?" Is it a child, and I don't know how to avoid it for a while, and I can't wait for the rain to come back? ”

"I've taken it all......" Fangcao'er was so cold that her hands and face were red, and she was panting, "Li Gui didn't know where the golden thread was, and he and Sister-in-law He spent a long time looking for it, and then looking for an oilcloth bag, otherwise I would have come back early - the adult's house is really close to here......" said and shook the bag on the kang. The two of them smiled knowingly, Fang Zi was secretly happy, and Leng Ding heard Fangcao'er exclaim: "My mother, what is this?" It's sticky and clears the nose! ”

Both of them were shocked, and they couldn't help but be stunned when they stared, it turned out to be the things that flowed out when the two of them were full of kang, and they hurriedly cleaned up and didn't pay attention, and they actually left a big slapped piece along the south kang, and grabbed it for Fangcaoer! Fangcaoer twisted her fingers and said in surprise, "Where did this thing come from?" The cold and sticky dare is phlegm! She suddenly saw it, pointed to Wu Xingqin's robe and said, "My lord, your robe is also stained...... Don't move, I'll wipe you with a cloth......" and busied.

Wu Xingqin Shanshan glanced at each other, and Shanshan said, "I'm afraid that our old civet cat pulled it, just now it's lying there!" Why don't you hurry up and pick it up for Lord Wu...... Seeing that your clothes are dirty...... Wu Xingqin smiled, stood and waited for Fangcaoer to clean up, took out a piece of silver from his sleeve, about a little more than two taels, and threw it to Fangcaoer, and said: "I am a little older than her with the first two girls, but I am not as smart and sensible as this girl, and this silver will reward you." As if he suddenly remembered something, he said, "I forgot to clean it - the ending of the hometown association will be divided into years today, and I will pay tribute!" Xiang Shanshan winked, "If you have anything, you just ask Fangcaoer to come to my house and say......" Picked up the umbrella and went away.

…… This autumn rain lingered for half a month, and only Liu Baoqi and his party suffered. In the afternoon of the same day, he left Beijing from Luheyi, and he had his own party to order Cheng Cao Xibao, as well as colleagues in the military aircraft department and the Siku study room to set up wine suburbs in the same year. Leave Beijing and go to Gaobeidian, pass Baoding, enter Taihang from Shijiazhuang west, pass through Niangziguan and Jingcheng, and then go south to go around Mengjin and cross the Yellow River, and go 60 miles to Luoyang Station. It is the late autumn season, just in such weather, the cool rain is like a frosty ointment, the river stream is accompanied by the road, together with the accompanying master, companion, long attendant, Qing guest Xianggong, the envoy girl, as well as the accompanying Ding Boxi Jing Chao Pavilion and the eunuch Zhao Bucheng sent by the Internal Affairs Office to deliver medicine to Qian Feng, eight sedan chair players are included, and there are also more than 30 people. Originally, the aisle at this time is the best season of the year, the Taihang Road is full of peaks, the color of the old autumn is thousands of purples and thousands of reds, and it is very good to rush without being hot or cold, but at this moment they are all drowning in the haze and clouds, and the wind and rain are miserable. A group of people walked through the Taihang Ancient Road for seven or eight days, like walking in a deep tunnel. Until crossing the Yellow River into the mountain boundary, although it is still "mountain", but the danger of steep pull can not be the same day as Taihang, thousands of ravines are hidden under the loess slope, the shape is like a turtle's back winding like a long snake of the earth ridge is not very tall, and it is very rare to see the tall trees that are continuous and mo, look around on the road, but feel that the field of vision is wide and the sky is high, which is very different from the scenery of the dangerous cliffs and tigers roaring apes in Shanxi.

Luoyang is a famous county in the Central Plains, the former capital of the Nine Dynasties, its governance history is more prosperous than the provincial capital Kaifeng, perhaps it is for the prestige of this position, plus the population of this city is spread and is the hub of the Central Plains to Sichuan, Shaanxi, Hunan, and Hubei thoroughfares, so although it is still a government, it does not use "Luoyang Mansion", and the opening of the mansion is "Henan Mansion" - one to appear that the system is respectful, and the other is also to avoid the meaning of Luoyang's respect - this is the writer's unvained thoughts, and it is not a problem.

Liu Baoqi was a passing official, and he had no acquaintances in Luoyang, so he quietly entered the city from the east gate, paid homage to the "Confucius Greeting Office", went out from the west city, and rested at the Luoyang Post Station in the south of the Zhougong Temple. According to the Qing Dynasty, the provincial academic administration was a third-grade official, although he was controlled by the governor, but he and the feudal division and the division of the province opened their own government affairs, oversaw the province's cultural propaganda and education, and presided over the township government examination and local academies - with this authoritative position, its flow was between the two divisions of the domain and the two divisions, and it was also regarded as a member of the provincial government. At that time, there were not many officials in Luoyang Yi, and all official buildings were the same in ancient and modern times, and whoever was the official lived in the best room. As soon as they entered the post house, they registered with the introduction, and without saying a word about the history of the post house, they placed Liu Baoqi in the upper room - a bright and two dark, three through the building, a wing room, and a four-in-one patio courtyard. Na Yi Cheng is a short and fat man, with a very conspicuous nose of sake lees, greeting back and forth in oil clothes, and placing the upper and lower people in their respective positions, and ordering the fire to make rice, and shouting: "Light the fire in the cauldron to boil water, put ginger slices in the pot to boil tea, and dispel the cold for Lord Liu!" Liu Baoqi boiled out of the Beijing officials, he was used to hardship, seeing that he was busy with Zhang Luo, he didn't care, looked at the time, about noon, beckoned Yicheng into the room and said: "We bumped into a fast in the White Horse Temple, and this meal will be troublesome." It's not easy to go out to buy vegetables in this weather - haven't asked your surname and Taifu yet? ”

"Don't dare, the lowly position is called Cao Jiahe." Na Yicheng hurriedly smiled, hit Qian'er, and replied, "This is an adult's example, and it is also a lowly messenger, so I dare not be contemptuous...... Fu Dashuai is in Luoyang, and his old man is a military lawyer, so it is terrible to delay the mission...... On this rainy day, and the thief is cold, adults first drink ginger soup to warm up their bodies, wash their feet, eat and sleep on a cloudy day, relieve fatigue and come to Ming'er to hurry, is it? ”

Hearing him call Fukangan an "old man", Liu Baoqi couldn't help but smile. said: "I'm not cold in the sedan chair, but it's hard for those people." There is also a sedan chair driver, you have to get some solid rice, so that you have the strength to lift the sedan chair. Cao Jiahe smiled so much that his eyes and nose squeezed into one place, and he said yes again and again, and said: "Yes, yes, ready-made beef, full ......" Liu Baoqi didn't wait for him to finish and asked: "Does Fu Dashuai live in the city?" ”

"N-yes!" Cao Jiahe said with a smile, "His old man lives in Xiangshan Temple, and he specially built a line outside the temple - I heard that this is about to enter Beijing, and our Luoyang people and gentry are planning to send Wanmin umbrellas to climb and stay?" Liu Baoqi nodded with a smile and said, "This is all a common practice." Cao Jiahe shook his head and said, "It's true, it's not a false story." Fu Dashuai lives here is really a blessing for the people of Luoyang, a case, in previous years, the people owed the government all the money, and the arrears were more than the lawsuits. The prisons are almost empty, and all the robbers and rapists are killed. There are a few corrupt officials, and the province still has to protect them, Fu Dashuai closed his eyes and waved his hand in the chair, and he was all gone...... The donations for the next three years will be all the same-now the people of Luoyang say yes, no bandits, no thieves, no officials! ”

Liu Baoqi laughed and said: "The world of politics and lawsuits is peaceful, these 'all' are very interesting!" The strange people of Luoyang love him...... In this way, I am afraid that the officials may not like it. Cao Jiahe smiled: "That's natural, some people are happy and some people are worried." Fu Dashuai is all right, but it is difficult to wait. The officials were afraid of him and did not dare to leave him, so Futai and Luoyang County, the second prefecture, ordered them to move to Guanlin to do business. Fu Ye sneezed in Xiangshan Temple, and it rained heavily in Luoyang City! After that, he sighed again, "There are so many state capitals in the world, and there is a Fu Dashuai in each government, how good it should be!" ”

This is also an insight, but Liu Baoqi disagrees. There are only two things that Fukangan really admires him, one is that as the emperor's relatives and nobles, he refuses to lie on his father Fu Heng's merit book and enjoy it comfortably, and strives to cheer himself up to earn fame; And then he can lead troops to fight, and he is full of opportunities and takes the lead, and he has never missed a hand when he sends troops to recruit and suppress - he is in Luoyang, in fact, he relies on the emperor's favor and care, and squanders the silver that the court does not feel distressed on the people of a county...... This thought is inconvenient to say to the surnamed Cao, because he said with a smile: "What you said is that it would be nice to have a few more Fu Fourth Masters." I have his letter with me, and I want to meet the fourth master! - This is Luoshui outside, right? I'm going out to see the rain. "After that, he didn't take anyone with him, and went out of the post station.

Zhougong Temple is built on the gang port of Pishan, from the post station out of the slope down the slope of Luoshui, standing at the door of the post station can have a bird's-eye view of Luoshui panorama. Liu Baoqi was wrapped in a coat of oil, stepping on clogs under his feet, covered in wind and rain, standing and watching, only to see the vast blue and secluded bay of the river flowing slowly in the rain, the weeping willows on the bank swayed and swayed in the hail mist-like drizzle, the river surface was also shrouded in haze like water vapor, the ferry, the fishing boat, the boat are hazy and not very clear, it looks like an old ink painting, very desolate and long, because you want to look at the Tianjin Bridge, the rain locks the smoke, where can you? Groaning, Liu Baoqi paced down the slope, the old man of the ferry pointed out, only to see that the world-famous bridge shadow is located on the shallows on the south bank of the river, the autumn flood water rises to the bottom of the bridge base, there are pavilion corners and eaves wings, all half hidden and half in the turbulent waves, looking back at the Zhou Gong Temple and the post station, the red wall and green tiles are also hidden in the colorful grass and trees in a trance. Standing in such a scene, it was as if the heavens and the earth were chaotic, and he was left alone in the universe. Liu Baoqi suddenly remembered his hometown, is the old mother leaning on Lu Panzi at this moment, or is she doing needlework? I thought about the remote and difficult road of the Guanhe River in Guizhou, and suddenly remembered my teacher Ji Yun, how to make a bright scene in the desolate and cold Xinjiang? He was still on the eunuch journey, but seeing Li Shiyao, Yu Minzhong and Ji Yun escaping one by one, the feelings of going to the country and nostalgia for the country turned into a worrying and fearful thought, and he was already crying, his eyes were blurred, the river seemed to be backflowing, and the embankment was silently advancing into the river...... He had completely forgotten himself. I don't know how long it took, Liu Baoqi turned around with a self-lost smile, and stayed along the causeway until it was dusk, and saw the smoke rising from the boats, and then he stepped back to the post station, only to realize that the rain had soaked through his heavy clothes. Because of the rain in the rain, dozens of posters were busy in the inner courtyard, and four goshkhas were also added to the second gate, all of which were six-grade military attache uniforms. Dressed in oil clothes and standing upright with a sword, the door god seemed to be motionless, looking at the inner courtyard, and there was no one to see his servants, and people seemed to be carrying something. Liu Baoqi was wondering in his heart, and when he saw his follower Cai Tiezhuan hurriedly coming out of the east courtyard, he ran so much muddy water splashed in front of him and said, "Master Xuetai...... Let's move to the East Courtyard...... Fu Dashuai is going to rest this post tonight......"

"This really means Cao Cao, Cao Cao." Liu Baoqi looked at the powerful faction, and had already guessed in his heart, and he was about to turn around, Cao Jiahe had already run out of the second gate, still smiling, squeezing his middle nose like an unripe strawberry, sucking his hands and apologizing again and again: "The handsome man went to the city today to Huijue Temple to give the old lady incense and make a wish, and he can't go back to Xiangshan Temple late tomorrow, so he will be stationed here tonight." I had no choice but to grieve Lord Xuexian to live in the East Courtyard. Although it is not as open as the main courtyard, the east courtyard is actually clean, next to the large room and the tea stove, it is also convenient to ask for soup and water. Hey, hey, hey...... You have always been sympathetic to our difficulties, and that is the creation of lowly officials...... Hehe......" He apologized with helplessness, humility sandwiched with twelve points of sincerity, and also said words to comfort, Liu Baoqi smiled: "You said a lot, I don't know how important it is when I am a Beijing official?" It's just that I don't understand, Dashuai lives in Xiangshan Temple, isn't it good to burn incense in this temple? How did Tete enter the temple in the city? Cao Jiahe smiled: "I don't understand this, it was said by the military master who came to fight the front station, saying that the old lady had a dream, and specially wrote a letter to ask Fu Siye to do it." Hey! Three thousand taels of silver were given to the temple alone! Fu Siye is really a filial son! After speaking, I heard someone shouting, and I was busy.

Liu Baoqi entered the hospital at this time. In fact, it is not far from the main courtyard here, but there is no west chamber, the west side along the wall is built with a reed shed, the number one pot, the second pot and the third pot are next to each other in turn, all of them are blazing with firelight, wolf smoke, dark and dim shed, the lights and shadows are flashing, I don't know what to do. Ding Boxi Jing Chaoge and eunuch Zhao Bucheng were talking inside with the east door open, and when they saw Liu Baoqi standing in the courtyard wet, they hurriedly shouted: "Mei Xiang, the old man is back, hurry up and change the old man's clothes!" I heard the two girls in the east ear room agree, and knelt down in the main room with a smile to make clothes, Liu Baoqi came in to change clothes, and Ding Jing and the two came in one after the other to sit on the ground and talk. They knew more than Yi Cheng, saying that it was Fukangan's mother Tang'er who dreamed of Guanyin and said: "I burned more than half of Li Zicheng in the Liuyun Courtyard in Luoyang." More than a hundred years have passed, and now it is going to collapse, and your son is there now, and he will not take care of it. When he woke up, he used the letter to send him a blessing, and asked him to quickly inspect which temple it was, and no matter how much money it was, it would come out of her body and silver...... That's what happened. Relative to the surprise, the sky became darker and darker, but Ding Boxi brought a watch, looked at it and smiled: "This is the cloudy sky, just now, and the sun is still red on weekdays!" Jing Chaoge said: "The fourth master of Fu is here, and he will save Lord Liu and then go to Xiangshan Temple to pay homage." Later, I saw the fourth master and handed over the letter, nothing happened, and I was light, let's play the finch card all night tonight! ”

A burst of meat fragrance wafted into the room with the breeze while talking, Liu Baoqi then remembered that he hadn't eaten lunch, and he felt a little hungry when he aroused the gluttony, Jing Chaoge was very eye-catching, got up and went back to the room to get an oiled paper bag, but it was a large package of spiced beef, and said with a smile: "Fu Siye is here, and the room will naturally provide for him first." I don't know when it's our turn to eat! This is the noon I left for the evening supper. Come, Liu Xuetai, look at you, you're hungry too, let's eat first! ”

Liu Baoqi smiled: "You are thoughtful. While chewing in his mouth, he heard the sound of the drum horn outside, and the sound of muddy footsteps all over the ground came from the muddy water, and it seemed that countless people were trotting, and said: "This must be the fourth master of Fu coming." Pity Luoyang Ling, follow in the rain, I don't know what the situation is drenched and frozen! Ding Boxi said: "It's not just the Luoyang Order, the second division of Kaifeng City, and the Taoist supervisors of all yamen are accompanying you today?" Just now I went out for a walk, and saw an official standing at the door of Zhougong Temple with an umbrella, pitiful and frozen with snot and salivation, red-headed radish like a radish in the wind, and asked it turned out to be our parents, Luoyang prefect Li Xiude! On weekdays, the police are also in all directions, and this time it is not as good as a goshha! Liu Baoqi chewed the meat in his mouth, tasted his words, and said: "Smelling that the cooking in the courtyard is also beef, and the meat in the room is also quite good, is it not enough?" ”

"Where!" Ding Boxi said with a smile, "What we are eating here is Luoyang cattle, and now the Nanyang cattle cooked in the pot outside have long been driven from Deng County, and then rushed to Nanyang and then to Luoyang." Today is slaughtered and eaten, specializing in the tendon of the cow's shoulder blade, the cow can not be too old, nor too tender, this will be the best cooks in Luoyang are churning this meat under the west shed, do you smell the same taste? ”

When everyone listened to it, they couldn't help but be secretly speechless, when they sniffed with their noses, in addition to the ordinary fragrance of cinnamon fennel and Sichuan pepper, there was also a fragrance like chrysanthemum and non-chrysanthemum, and I didn't know what kind of ingredients it was. Liu Baoqi couldn't help but sigh and said: "My generation is very sour, and I am secretly proud of sitting on a cold bench for ten years and eating cold pig's head meat for three years. In such a comparison, how many heroic spirits have disappeared. Because I wanted to relieve myself, I came out of the toilet and came back, passing by the west shed, and I was curious, so I quietly stood in the corner of the shed to watch the chef operate, but I saw that the big bags of ingredients in the meat pot were "going with the flow". The three young men looked like apprentices, holding iron teeth and hooks in their hands, constantly turning over the meat, scooping the white foam on the edge of the soup pot with spoons, all dressed shirtless in shorts. An elderly master stood by the pot with a cigarette pouch in his mouth and watched the fire, and directed like a song:

"Charcoal!"

"Yes - return firewood and charcoal!" The guy guarding the fire was busy answering.

"To orange peel lychee water!"

"Yes—yes!"

"Add lamb bone marrow soup!"

"Yes! Hello for soup! ”

"Boil the fire!"

…… was tossing lively, Cao Jiahe ran over, panting and said, "Quick! The handsome smelled the fragrance...... I want to reward the military men for eating steak and ox tail! Master Gao, hurry up! When the master saw him, he changed his smile and said, "Master Cao! You old Mingjian, this is to be hot...... With slow fire alone, the meat will be rotten, and it must be crispy to be refreshing, and to taste a hundred kinds of flavors in the mouth, it is the job of our Xiguan Gao family-" Cao Jiahe was so anxious that he polished Xuan'er on the spot, interrupted his words: "The handsome man called the meat, who dares to refute his return?" There are two more bags of bacon that don't come out of the pot, you go up and say it yourself! "Ran away. Master Gao ordered: "Add half a spoon of nitrate!" ”

He commanded, but no one answered. After a while, a young man said with a bitter face: "Dad, nitrate...... The rainwater on the Nitrate Road has bubbled...... I thought that it might not be possible, so I ...... Just threw ......it away, "Before the words were finished, Master Gao slapped him with a leaky air, beating his son to a stumbling side, covering half of his face and standing next to him and not daring to speak.

"Oh my god!" Master Gao scolded, "What kind of work is this, you dare to be so careless?!" He glanced at Liu Baoqi, who was standing next to him, and expected that he was here to see the lively housekeeper or something, and his eyes were crossed: "Go to the pot!" Liu Baoqi didn't expect that the Gao family was this family law, and was trying to persuade him, but the young man jumped on the pot without saying a word, spread his legs, grabbed his trouser leg with his left hand, and took out the work with his right hand.

Liu Baoqi was stunned and couldn't help but be stunned. When she was in a daze, Mei Xiang shouted outside: "Master-the post station has delivered food!" Only then did he wake up and turn around and go to the East Chamber. Seeing that Ding Jing and Zhao Bucheng were waiting at the dinner table, Liu Baoqi sat down with a smile and said, "It's rare to see you today!" And he told him what had just happened. Ding Boxi said: "It's nothing, out of sight is clean, and there is nitrate in the urine - you haven't seen the dim sum of Liuhua Chungong, how beautiful and delicious is that?" When the face is made, the apprentices go up and kick with their feet! A few people were talking and laughing while eating, and before the meal was finished, Cao Jiahe in the courtyard rushed to urge the meat again, and heard the master Gao promise loudly: "Okay, the goods are in the pot!" Prepare cool boiled water to quench the meat! After a period of chaos, I heard a few young men shouting in unison: "Give Grandpa Fu a blessing!" "It was like a few people huddled out of the yard.

Several people in the east chamber stopped: I don't know how this beef with urine tastes like Fukangan? was looking at each other, but saw Cao Jiahe come in with a thousand general suits, and said, "Fu Dashuai asked Lord Liu to come over." And this from the Ministry of Internal Affairs—" he pointed to Zhao Bucheng, "and the father-in-law also went over." ”

"Yes!" Liu Baoqi hurriedly got up and agreed, so he changed his clothes, and asked Mei Xiang to "ask Old Master Zhao to take out Gui Zhongtang's letter and present it." The eunuch also changed his robe, wore a carved gold top, and put on a pinch complement - it was a nine-rank official, cleaned up, and followed Liu Baoqi to the main courtyard with an umbrella. Liu Baoqi originally thought that a group of people brought by Fukangan were all martial artists, rough men who could eat and fight, and I didn't know how lively it was to eat meat and drink wine this time, and it was not until I entered the hospital that I felt that it was very different from what I thought: the upper and lower rooms, the east and west wings, the rooms were brightly lit, the doors and windows were open, and the eight immortal dining tables were placed inside, and there were military generals and captains, but they all sat up straight one by one, and there was no smell of wine, only the meat and vegetables in the courtyard were hot and fragrant. The sergeant standing on the patio held his sword and raised his chest and belly, and the rooster seemed to be still motionless. Under the dripping eaves of the upper room is a local official in Henan, looking at the color of the clothes, I know that it is probably the second division of the domain and the Luoyang prefect Tongzhi County Order, but they are also solemn and solemn, and they only eat calmly. There was only one table in the main room, which seemed to be accompanied by the local gentry and the clerk of Fukangan. The middle one is less than forty years old, only wearing a moon-white bamboo cloth robe, and he doesn't even tie his belt, and he talks and laughs freely - Liu Baoqi doesn't know how many times he has seen it, it's Fukangan. Because of the registration, he and Zhao Bucheng came in cautiously. Seeing that Fukangan was asking Master Gao what to say, he wanted to hand over the notebook, but he didn't dare, so he stood still with a smile and his hands down.

"It's Liu Baoqi! What handbook? Fukangan smiled, "You often go to your father to deliver the copywriting files, and Ji Bao will sit on it—you just stand!" He said to Zhao Bucheng, and asked Master Gao with great interest: "Beef can be cooked crispy, and your skills are not ambiguous - I just want to, this skill is not passed on?" Can I send some fireheads to learn from you, my soldiers will all eat this meat, and that will be a blessing for the mouth!" ”

"Back to you, sir!" Master Gao smiled and replied cautiously, "It all depends on the heat." Ordinary beef is just a simmer and slow boil, this meat pot should be like a dumpling pot, boiled on high heat, the beef tendons and veins are tightened, and the cold water and cold stock are kept poured, so that it will not rot - that's just the soup is good, and the beef tastes like chopping firewood, why? The smell of the meat is scattered into the soup - you have to take a bite, and even the tendons and meat are hurried out of the pot like chicken gizzards, and quenched with cold boiled water to get this kind of - Fu Ye is a general with troops, and he said that he will eat when he says that he will eat when he is angry, and he will send troops to release horses, and he has no time to watch the fire...... Master, you know that this is rich and noble meat - it can be eaten at any time, and the small rice bowl will be smashed, right? ”

"Fugui meat, well, it's this reason." Fukangan nodded with a smile and said to a few master gentry, "It seems that my soldiers are all poor and can't eat." Everyone was busy laughing and said, "The grandfather is funny", "The handsome man loves the soldier like a son", "If you suck the carbuncle three times, the warrior will not spin the heel...... There was a lot of noise. Fukangan only smiled, tasting the taste of meat: "Potpourri meat, um!" Although I can't taste a hundred kinds of flavors, it is indeed extraordinary, and the ingredients are your family's ancestral secret recipe, and they are different when you think about it! Saying "reward", Wang Jibao agreed and took out a letter of silver and handed it over. Master Gao knelt down and took it with both hands, and weighed fifty taels in his hand, his eyebrows and eyes were stretched with a smile, and he said a car of good things. Liu Baoqi heard that it was "different", remembering the scene of Master Gao's son peeing, he couldn't help but smile, coughed and covered up the past, and when he saw Master Gao withdrawing, he presented Ah Gui's letter with both hands, and said: "Gui Zhongtang's letter, please take a look at the fourth master." ”

Fukangan took the letter, and while reading it, he instructed: "Maybe you haven't eaten yet?" Ji Bao, serve rice and beef to Lord Liu! Wang Jibao promised, where is Liu Baoqi willing to eat? His hands blocked again and again: "Lord Xie Fu, Lord Wang doesn't have to Zhang Luo, I did eat it-I don't believe you asked Zhao Bucheng!" Fukangan didn't look at Zhao Bucheng, only snorted in his nostrils, but didn't ask this, only asked: "What medicine did the emperor give Lord Qian?" ”

"Back to the words of the fourth master," Zhao Bucheng was used to being inferior, standing with a daze and watching the adults speak, with no shame on his face, hearing the question, he hurriedly smiled and said, "The emperor didn't say anything, he only asked the Tai Hospital to consider the prescription, and the medicine caught in the small pharmacy included wolfberry, astragalus from Laohequ, borneol and white fungus from Yunnan, and a small package of cinchona cream from the foreign domain." In addition, there are Korean ginseng sent by adults, Gui Zhongtang is a small bag of American ginseng, and Liu Zhongtang sent Tianwang Xintonic Pill and Dingchuan! Pill ......" Fukangan listened, "I also heard that he is sick. Look at these medicines are all to replenish the deficiency. The doctor said, 'Look at the truth without revealing the truth, and see the void without making up for the void', the day is not right, and the autumn is cool as winter in the early morning - I was waiting for him to enter Beijing together, and it seems that I have to go first. You tell Master Qian that you can only wear a change of clothes and keep more snacks on your head, and you can't use the medicine that you haven't used lightly, and you can talk about it when you go to Beijing to see a doctor. Zhao Bucheng hurriedly said: "Yes!" Fukangan said: "You go." Ji Bao took him to the account office to receive thirty taels of entanglements. ”

During the Qianlong period, the imperial envoy and eunuch palace ban in the palace was the strictest, even the Fu family rarely had a fake eunuch resignation, Zhao Buyuan didn't dare to expect this reward, he suddenly smiled, and said something about to be greeted by a belly, but Fukangan waved his hand and said: "You go, don't talk in front of me!" Fukangan asked Liu Baoqi with a smile, "Live in the East Courtyard!" I'm a magpie's nest dove - you have a hundred and ten people, a large group of cows, ghosts, snakes and gods, Xuezheng is a poor yamen, forbidding you to toss so much? Said with a smile, "I just heard that I went to the bank of the Luo River?" ”

"Yes." Liu Baoqi bowed and smiled, "Reading "Luo Shen Fu" for a young age, hmm...... Yu returned to the Eastern Domain from the Jingyu Dynasty, and carried Yique, Yueyuan, Jinggu, and Lingjingshan...... This homesickness...... Yuebei Lan, through Nangang, Su Ling, back to Qingyang...... The way of hating people and gods is very different, and it is not appropriate to resent the prime of life...... The mourning meeting will never be extinguished, and the mourning will be in a different land...... This melancholy and sorrow, the sorrow is long, if you don't experience it, or if you go to the bank of the Luo River when the sky is full of light, you will never be able to experience it again. He chanted Cao Zhi's fu, and he had changed his contemplative appearance.

"It seems that the Hanlin Academy is not all wine bags and rice bags." Fukangan nodded and sighed: "The autumn rain of Luohe is such a distant view, I have always been in Luoyang, but I have not appreciated it, it seems that I am a layman!" Liu Baoqi knew that Ma Xiangzu he was referring to wanted to learn Cao Cao's story, so he only smiled and said: "How can a handsome man be a layman!" It's just that you were born a human being, and you don't know what it's like to be sour. Where can you taste the behavior of our micro Beijing officials? That's what it's called vulgar! Fukangan said with a smile: "Jingguan is poor, I know, every year I have to go to the end of the seal to receive silver for the winter!" ”

Liu Baoqi said: "That has a large set of slogans, isn't it just to receive silver in the end of the seal?" Because of the smile recited: "——I have seen umbrellas, fans, flags, gongs, black and red hats, called official names, and never sat in a sedan chair." Only one broken car runs on behalf of the legs, and there is only one follower bag left. In the evening, the donkey was set, and then the Hanyuan was cleared for three years, only to get a short voice from the yamen: the smart hole of the adult, and the measurement of the photo. The little officer dared to frustrate, and from now on he will be arrogant? I don't have to nod my head when I speak, and I hang my hands and ...... when I go to the hall."

He suddenly recited such a passage, and the previous "Luo Shen Fu" tastes very different, several masters and gentlemen and military attaches here have never heard of it, think it is interesting and realistic, listen to the ear, all stopped the wine and listened carefully, dumbfounded. Fukangan has been eating in the Qiluo bush since he was a child, and he grew up in Beijing, but he didn't know that the little Beijing officials had such a self-deprecating song, and he laughed after listening to half of it, and gently patted the table and said: "This word is flavorful, is there any more?" "It's long!" Liu Baoqi smiled, and then recited: "...... You don't have much use to spare, the yamen rents silver early, the family's work and food are too little, this one is a broken pot to be burned, and that one is a broken basket waiting for rice. It doesn't matter if he asks for food, how can he be a dumb animal without forage......" Fukangan laughed and said, "It's good to let the foreign man go." Liu Baoqi said: "That's - when I first came out of Beijing, I was as sweet as a date, and then I knew that I was here like a bezoar." regret that the heart was too high at the beginning, and now, there are few people left in the long class, and the mansion is small; The box is left with a new hat, and the box is left with an old python robe. Depression, cold and dawn; torment, eyes and twilight and ......"

Thinking of this, Liu Baoqi himself couldn't help laughing. The crowd has fallen. Fukangan said: "You are a member of the department, and the Beijing officials have survived." Liu Baoqi said: "Xuezheng is not a small official, isn't it entrusted to Agui Zhongtang's guarantee?" Speaking of which, this official also has to laugh, Wang Mengqiao's fourth master recognized - when Old Master Fu was there, we often went to the house together - let Jiangxi Xuezheng. The yamen is deserted, the artemisia grass grows high to the eaves, and the fox calls the yellow badger to run at night, and the bricks and tiles are scattered and the window soil is restless. Wang Mengqiao couldn't make a fuss, got up and came out with his sword and shouted: 'I'm Wang Academy, I came here by holy order, and I still don't avoid it?!" —Secretly only listening to the laughter of eating. Someone told me about it, and I said that Wang Academy can only scare Xiucai, and it can be used to scare ghost foxes. Who thinks that I have also become 'Liu Academy', and I am afraid that there are ghosts in the ya, Tetebajie and Master Shen allocated 80,000 taels of silver to me. Fu Siye said that I brought a lot of people, there are sixteen sedan chairs here, and I went back to Beijing after sending the silver to Guizhou. There are also honor guard books, and there are only more than 20 people who really follow me. The government affairs around you also have to ask for people, it's not good that there are too many locals, you say it's a boom? ”

Fukang listened quietly for a long time and said, "I see. So He Shen also sent someone to follow, for the convenience of staying in the post house, right? Where did the 80,000 pieces come from? ”

"It was carved out of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of the Old Summer Palace." Liu Baoqi looked at Fukangan's face and said, "Fourth master, Guizhou is too poor, and if you count on the province, you can't allocate a penny." ”

Fukangan pondered for a moment and said, "ICBC is not under the control of the Ministry of Rites, this is nonsense with Shen." You are Ji Yun's student, you are smart, don't you understand this? You can return this money to the Ministry of Industry, or send a receipt to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Industry, and I will tell the Ministry of Rites to allocate another 80,000 silver to you to make up for it. Don't forget about the autumn pull list! ”

"Yes!" Liu Baoqi saw Fukangan serving tea, and hurriedly got up and replied with a smile, "Thank you for your care." Please play the fourth master, Mr. Ji is very bitter in Xinjiang, although the teacher has small indiscretions, the big festival is still pure, please return the emperor's grace as soon as possible. ”

"There you go." Fukangan was noncommittal and said, "Liu Yong is an upright courtier, with the legacy of the old Liu Tongxun, and he also manages you, so I ask for more instructions." You can also write to me. Don't throw the wrong shots – don't get the way out. ”

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Exposure to light: flirting, seducing women.