Qian Du did not delay much in the Yang Mansion. He went to Li Wei's house and heard a colleague who visited the patient there say that Yang Mingshi had passed away, and the door god had been confused. He self-transferred to the yamen of the Criminal Department, and once followed Liu Tongxun to the Yang family twice, but now that he is dead, he can't do without a glass of water. I thought that there must have been a lot of traffic here, and I wasn't sure how lively it would be, but when I arrived, I realized that the news of Yang Mingshi's death had not yet spread. He wanted to get to know more people here, but he couldn't help but be a little disappointed. When Qian Du took the pledge book and looked at it, it started with two thousand taels from the Hongsheng brothers. Later, there were more than a dozen people, some of whom were eight hundred, and some of whom were three or five hundred. Qian Du smiled bitterly and said to Yang Feng'er: "My pen is too small, and I can't handle it." The land lord eats grasshoppers, and the size is a meat offering. As he spoke, he wrote the words "Qian Du Twenty-four Taels" in a dignified manner. Under the name of a large number of prominent officials, it is his pen that is particularly conspicuous. Qian Du put down his pen and resigned, and was bumping into a person, and when he looked at it, it was a small way! Wearing a half-worn gray cotton robe, turning over the snow-white lining, and wearing a long dress, he is much fatter than when he broke up in Texas, but his appearance has not changed. Qian Du couldn't help but be surprised: "This-isn't this a small way?" How did you end up here? ”

"Master Qian, my name is Lu Shijing now." Xiao Luzi hurriedly called Qian Du Qian'er and said, "I have come to Beijing a long time ago, and now I am also in Da Nei, just waiting for the supper of the old men of the Military Aircraft Department." In fact, I have met Qian Ye a few times. You're a busy person, and I don't have any big deals, so I don't dare to climb high. Then he went to Beijing with Yang Mingshi, and recommended him to the military aircraft department as a miscellaneous officer, and said: "Master Yang is a Qing official, and I am a subordinate, so I can't repay him for this favor." Anyway, I cried in front of his spirit, and I did my best. I'm here for leave from our kitchen head......"

Qian Du didn't want to make more peace with this Lu Shijing at all, and said perfunctorily: "That's good, having a bowl of Ansheng rice to eat is better than anything else." Do things well inside, I will naturally take care of you if I can take care of it......" After speaking, he went out and returned to the ya, regretting himself along the way, he shouldn't have come to Yang Mingshi so early. Qian Du returned to the Yamen Trial Division of the Criminal Department, and just sat down, Xiao Qin came in at the door and said, "Master Qian, Shunde Mansion Lu Taizun comes to worship." Qian Du was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that it was Lu Hongjin from Shunde Mansion. In order to conclude the case of Zhang Tianxi's death of Ning Zhu'er, a tenant who resisted rent, Zhang Tianxi was sentenced to a summary decision, but Daoli refuted it, saying that the landlords and tenants were competing for different names and the sentence was too heavy. Lu Hongjin was not convinced, and the defense documents of the government were sent directly to the Criminal Department. Qian Du suggested that Liu Tongxun uphold Lu Hongjin's original verdict - this is to thank him for upholding justice. Lu Hongjin swayed in wearing a white pheasant repair suit, and Qian Du hurriedly got up to greet him and said, "When did Lu Futai arrive in Beijing?" I didn't go to see you, Jane was so slow - please take a seat! ”

"Nothing matters." Lu Hongjin arched his hands and said with a smile on his face, "I just came from Lord Liu's side, and when it comes to Lord Qian's instructions, 'The master and tenant are like merchants buying and selling, and there is no distinction between dignity and inferiority; Human life is of the utmost importance, how can we be judged by the amount of capital? In this sentence, Ning Zhu'er's case has already been brought to justice. I wanted to see the demeanor of adults, so I took the liberty to visit. This is the first time that Qian Du has been admired by foreign officials for his official copywriting, and his face is so happy that his face is bright, and while serving tea to Lu Hongjin in person, he said humbly: "Where do students dare to be!" It's the husband's ancestor who is not in the middle, which is admirable. He also listed how the laws of the former Ming Dynasty were, and how the precedents of Shunzhi and Kangxi were established, and they talked endlessly for a moment and hours. He also said: "I look at it this way, Diao Tenant should also be punished for resisting rent, but it is only twenty small boards." In this case, it is obvious that Zhang relied on his official position to force rent and beat people to death, and was sentenced to 'human life is the most important', so it cannot be said that he did not resist rent or not. It's the same as forcing debts to kill people. Lu Hongjin nodded while listening, got up with a smile and said, "I have understood." The students also had to visit Teacher Hengchen, and it was disrespectful to go late. What Mr. Fang Cai said was a practical and economical way. Now I judge that these cases have long been deviant, and they are doing whatever they want. I'll set up a drink another day, meet a few friends, and we'll have a good talk. As he spoke, he handed over a green silk bag with both hands: "This is a side of the inkstone, the Beijing official is bitter, some mustaches and a few taels of charcoal respect, it doesn't hurt to be honest, please accept it." He smiled as he spoke.

Qian Du felt heavy when he took it, it was just commonplace for him to receive such a little thing when he was a master, but now he feels a little inappropriate. Thinking that Zhang Ning's case has already been concluded, Lu Hongjin is indeed not the slightest malice, but a little disrespectful. As soon as he accepted it on the spot, he saw that a third-grade top man had entered the second door, and Qian Du didn't dare to push it anymore, so he sent Lu Hongjin out. When he returned to the Judge Division, he saw that the official who had just come in was already sitting and waiting, Qian Du came in and looked at it, and couldn't help but be surprised: It turned out to be Liu Kang!

"You are Mr. Qian Chunfeng?" Liu Kang stood up with a smile, and introduced himself again, "No, Liu Kang, I just came from Huguang." ”

"Ah...... Oh oh......" Qian Du suddenly came back from his shock, arched his hands and said, "Long Yang!" I heard that the lord transferred the political envoy of Shanxi, why did he come from Huguang again? While inviting Liu Kang to sit, he sat down at the coffee table. accidentally, he almost knocked over Lu Hongjin's bowl of tea. But after this period of panic, Qian Du calmed down and said calmly: "The adults have come to Laiyang for disaster relief, and they don't take a mustard, hundreds of thousands of living beings in Shandong, and they move three times a year, which is really the attention of the government and the opposition!" "How did Liu Kang know that Qian Du's heart was like avoiding snakes and scorpions? He smiled and said: "This is all the kindness of the imperial court, the cultivation of Teacher Exilin (Ortai character)." The brother came here for the case of Chen Xuxin's insulting officials in Pinglu County, and the Shanxi Yamen reported the case to the ministry three times, but all of them were rejected. This case has dragged on for too long, and there are a lot of local gossip! Qian Du said with a smile: "My lord must have seen the Di Bao, Lu Hongjin judged the case of Zhang Ning's landlord and tenant dispute, and came to question the lowly one, right?" ”

Liu Kang smoked a dry cigarette and said with a smile: "What did the adults say?" Questioning is not a matter of course. Chen Xuxin has just moved to Shanxi from other provinces and has nothing to do with his brothers. His case is indeed quite similar to Zhang Tianxi and Ning Zhu'er, but no one died. If there is no law without a life, how can Chen Xuxin be judged to be hanged and imprisoned? Qian Du rolled his eyes and looked at Liu Kang, smiled faintly and said, "These two cases are absolutely different. Ning Zhu'er was beaten to death by the landlord. Chen Xuxin injured the landlord Lu Jiang. Although there is no distinction between the lord and the tenant, there is a difference between the upper and lower. The government sentenced him to treat Lu Jiang's injuries and put him in the yoke for three days. Chen Xuxin dared to roar in court and insult the county official to his face as a 'rich dog', and Cai County ordered him to be imprisoned and planned to be hanged. This matter is unreasonable in the province. Therefore, at this point, we have upheld the original verdict and only changed it to a prison sentence, which is also the meaning of fulfilling the dignity of the Yamen. Liu Kang smiled when he saw him explain repeatedly, and said, "I'm not here to fight in the ring, I'm here to build a bridge." This is not a case in my hands, but the province really can't get down on the face, so I came to visit and ask for advice. As he spoke, he took out a small paper bag from his arms and pushed it in front of Qian Du.

"What is this?" Qian Du took it, pressed his hand and sank, and when he opened it, it was a gold ingot of fifty taels of Huang Cancan. With an idea in his heart, his face has changed color: "How can you afford a humble position?" Adult, please put it away. ”

"Money-sama ......"

"Put it away!"

Qian Du's face turned pale, and he roared in a low voice: "Don't eat this set of lowly duties!" Humble yourself has a good fortune! Liu Kang was taken aback, but after all, he had been in the sea for a long time, and some officials who had just entered the government pretended to have seen a lot of things, so he only smiled and said: "This is not what I sent, it is a little meaning from Cai Qing and them." If the case is not a case, it is off-topic, and adults must not mind. If you don't want to reward this money, how can they get it on their faces? Or you can save it first, and then return it to Cai Qing when he enters Beijing. After saying that, he pulled out and walked out, but this was in the arms of Qian Du, and then shouted loudly in the door: "Lord Liu! You treat me like this, which shows that you are not a righteous gentleman! ”

At this time, there were people from all departments of the Criminal Department to talk about things, and when they heard the noise from the trial department, they all came out to visit, but they saw a third-grade senior member Zhang Huang coming out, Qian Du threw out a paper bag in the door, and a huge gold ingot rolled out of the paper bag. The official muttered something out of his mouth, picked it up and fled.

"Humph!" Qian Du looked at Liu Kang's back contemptuously, a cold smile flashed on his face, he didn't chase out and scold, but "slammed" the door, made a cup of tea, leisurely flipped through the case file, lit the coals and smoked hookah just pondering. After a while, I heard a knock on the door, and Qian Du said in a vicious voice: "What do you mean?" How boring do you have to eat before you want to leave? You go! Call Ortai just refer to my surname Qian! As he spoke, he pulled the door, but saw that it was Shi Yizhi, the minister of the headquarters, and Liu Tongxun, the waiter, who came in together. Qian Du hurriedly let him go into the house, saluted on the spot, and said, "I don't know it's two adults, and I am rude to collide!" ”

Shi Yizhi didn't speak, sat in Qian Du's position and casually looked at the case file approved by Qian Du, but Liu Tongxun sat in the guest seat, looked at the cup of tea that had been cold, and said: "Spring breeze, who are you sulking with behind closed doors?" Qian Du handed one of them a cup of tea and said with a smile: "I'm not angry with anyone." Qi hurts the liver, and it's the least worthwhile. ”

"You're still coaxing us." Liu Tongxun said with a smile, "I knocked on the door just now and there was an evil fire, and I even brought it with me." Qian Du smiled bitterly: "It turns out that when I was a master, I looked at the officials and did them well, but now I know that it is difficult to be a good official." The two adults in Pinglu's case also know that the sentence in the county is good, and they don't know how they offended the Yamen of the Zhisi on weekdays, and they took this case to find Pinglu County, and invited them to buy a reputation of 'loving the people'. It's hard to be a petty official......"

Shi Yizhi has been looking at the main matter of this emperor Tejianlai. He himself was born in Kejia, and he has never looked down on officials who came out of miscellaneous ways, and he is very suspicious that Qian Du is a person who sells fame and reputation. I heard that Qian Du was in the dark room but gold, so I specially asked Liu Tongxun to come to visit Qian Du, and saw that Qian Du was neither humble nor arrogant, and his demeanor was elegant and unpretentious, so he poured out his heart of love, and said: "Liu Fansi's official reputation is very good on weekdays, but he does such a thing, it's really inexplicable!" It's not a thing, you don't pay attention to him, the ministry is in charge of you! Qian Du hurriedly said: "There are two adults to protect me, and I am not afraid of anything!" Left, but Ezhongtang gave me a pair of small shoes to wear. Shi Yizhi laughed and said, "What kind of power was Nian Qianyao back then? Shi still didn't let him have three feet of land, let alone Exilin? Don't worry, no one will be able to put on small shoes for you. When I go to Shanxi to investigate the case this year, I will entrust you to see what they dare to do? At that moment, the three of them talked for a while, Qian Dufang sent Shi Yizhi and Liu Tongxun out, and other officials pointed at the door and whispered, and Qian Du suddenly felt a lot of scenery.

Liu Kang crawled out of the compound of the Criminal Department, and his heart was beating suddenly. The scene just now seemed to him like a sunny day, and he suddenly had a murderous dream. The so-called Pinglu case is simply a small case that is not worth mentioning. His true meaning was that after entering Beijing, he heard rumors that Ah Gui and Qian Du were favored by Qianlong, and he expected that these two would be overused in the future and come to win over the relationship in advance. I never thought that I, a third-grade master, would come to ask for a six-grade Cao's good son, and he would slap a sycophant on the hoof, even if he didn't want to be courteous, he shouldn't be so public. Qian Du has no enmity with himself in his previous life, and he has no grievances in this life, so why bother to fight himself in public? …… It was as if someone had been beaten with a stick, and he didn't go out for the whole afternoon, sitting in the house like an idiot. It wasn't until it was dark that Liu Kang was a little sober. Suddenly thinking of tomorrow's midyear festival, Ortai invited himself to have a drink tonight. Liu Kang hurriedly washed his face with cold water, and rushed to the Ortai Mansion in a small sedan chair.

At this time, the Yongzheng Emperor has been dead for more than a year, although the national funeral has not passed, the folk are not allowed to hang colors, play and have fun, but in fact, the official ban has gradually relaxed, the street at this time the lamp market has already come up, the door of each house is hung are beige gauze lights, some like beads, some like pineapples, what Meili lamp, marquee lamp, yarn lamp, grid lamp, glass palace lamp, dragon and tiger fight colorful overflowing, the magic of the axe shows its ingenuity, just do not use red. Although it is not yet the right day, the streets are already full of people watching the lights, and it is lively everywhere to walk a hundred plays, play recklessly, and set off fireworks. Liu Kang was still sitting in a sedan chair at first, but gradually there were more and more people, and the sedan chair was so crowded that it swayed from side to side, so he had to get down and walk. He walked all the way and looked all the way, and it was not until the time of the black time that he arrived at Ortai Mansion. But in front of the Prime Minister's Mansion, there were only two apricot yellow glazed palace lamps hanging alone. The people on the door all knew Liu Kang, and someone had already followed, saying: "Master Liu, Prime Minister E has instructed, there are not many guests invited tonight, they are all in the front hall, and the flowing water seats are placed, and the lords are happy." Our husband came out in the middle to persuade everyone to quit after a drink. Please forgive me. ”

"Obey the orders of the Prime Minister." Liu Kang wanted to see Ortai and talk about it, but then he remembered that Ortai was sick at home, and it was not good to come out to accompany the guests, so he had to follow the housekeeper in, but he smiled in his mouth: "We are all under the Xilin Sect, we are very familiar with each other, since the husband is unhappy, he doesn't have to come out, after eating, we will go in and ask for peace, and it can be regarded as spending the Lantern Festival together." The housekeeper smiled and said, "This is the adults who are considerate of our master." ”

The living room was very lively, when Liu Kang saw it, there were thirty or forty officials, ranging from generals and governors to county governors. Everyone was gathered under the porch to watch the lantern riddles, three or three in twos and twos, some whispering, some laughing loudly. There were five or six tables of tables in the hall with brilliant lights and candles, and there were also greedy cups, and a few people sat in one place to give orders, and their faces were full of light. The little guys outside are holding fireworks boxes, some are mice, some are shooting stars, and the purple smoke and white light are fragrant, and they also have their own fun. When Liu Kang looked at it, he saw that Ehao and Hu Zhongzao were in the same year, as well as Amusa, Fu Erdan, and Sauron, who were usually familiar with each other, were all scattered in the west corridor to watch the lantern riddles, so he leaned over and said with a smile: "Brothers are earlier than me. ”

"The connoisseur is here!" Seeing Liu Kang pacing over step by step, the guerrillas in Huzhou stepped forward and pulled his sleeves and said with a smile: "We're laughing here." This year, Mr. E's lantern riddles are surprisingly good, and they are not the opponents of **. You come, you come! Hu Zhongzao smiled: "What opponent is not an opponent here?" The poem is not up to the mark, you can explain it as you like, and it makes sense. Liu Kang had to come over with a reluctant smile, but saw a lamp that said:

If the teaching and interpretation can pour the country, Ren is ruthless and moving.

Liu Kang looked at the other lamps again and said, "These are all ancient Chen poems, what's so difficult to find the answer to the mystery?" This is Luo Yin's poem "Song of Peony". Hu Zhongzao played with the fan pendant in his hand and smiled: "What's so interesting in saying this?" It's called a sab, and you have to write something new. For example, this sentence is a peony, and it is said to be a 'beauty painting'. Got it? ”

Liu Kang nodded, and when he looked at the next one, it was written:

To the end of Jiangwu, there are many mountains on the other side.

Liu Kang said with a smile: "Wu Seng's poem of the White Pagoda is like a demarcation ditch [1]

Poem. Everyone looked at it and nodded, "Sure enough." Sauron pointed to "the upper and poorer and the yellow spring falls, and there are no two places in the vast" and said: "I have seen this poem, it is Li Bai's!" The crowd laughed, and Amusa said, "What a playboy, hiding it all night, and revealing it when he opens his mouth." This is the ...... in Bai Juyi's "Song of Long Hatred"

"Emperor Tang Ming wants to be a lover." Fu Erdan sighed, and said with a smile, "This is 'Mulian Saving Mother Poem'!" Liu Kang was originally lazy, but at this time, he couldn't help but be excited, pointing to "the sparse shadow is horizontally slanted, the water is shallow, and the dark fragrance floats in the dusk of the moon" and said with a smile: "Lin Hejing's Yongmei poem, someone once said to Dongpo, it can also be described as a peach blossom." Dongpo said, 'I'm afraid that the peach blossoms can't afford it'. As far as I can see, the peach blossoms can't afford it, and the wild roses seem to be near. Seeing that everyone was laughing, Hu Zhongzao said, "This is not right. Wild roses are clumped, where does the 'sparse shadow and horizontal slope' come from? Look at the next one, but it's a poem that Guan Xiu is looking for:

I can't find it all day, and sometimes I come by myself.

Liu Kang smiled: "This is a cat lost, looking for a cat!" ”

Everyone couldn't help but shout, but Sauron said, "It's also like a fart." My stomach is swollen, and I want to put one, but I can't release it, and sometimes for no reason, I fart one after another. Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then burst into laughter. Liu Kang gasped with laughter and said: "The last time I talked to Zhuang Yougong about Jia Island's 'Bird Staying in the Pond Tree, the Monk Knocking on the Door under the Moon', I said that it should be 'the Monk Pushing the Moon under the Door', Yougong said, who doesn't close the door at night?" It's still right to knock on the door. I said, you're too honest. This is a monk's cheating love poem, this thief and ** have made an appointment, and the door is hidden. Before he finished speaking, he already laughed at everyone. While he was talking and laughing, Liu Kang caught a glimpse of a few glass lights flashing out at the door of the moon cave in the backyard. Everyone stopped talking and laughing, but they saw the light flashing in the west courtyard and went out through the west gate.

Liu Kang couldn't help but ask the Ehao beside him in surprise: "It seems that Ezhongtang sent guests out." Isn't his old man sick? E Hao shook his head and said, "Zhongtang didn't come out tonight, I don't know what guests I saw." If you see a guest and send it, it will be either Zhang Hengchen or a relative. ”

"It's the middle hall." Hu Zhongzao stroked his mustache and said, "The first one in the back, I recognize it as from the Natin Mansion." Another one looks like a eunuch. In addition to a few middle cousins, who also has eunuchs in the house? As he spoke, Ortai's thin figure was gradually approaching, and the people in and outside the hall immediately quieted down and bowed down to greet him. When Ortai came in, Ge Dan, the governor of Huguang, took the lead in beating down Qian'er and said, "The student greets the teacher!" And they all knelt down.

"Get up, get up." A smile flashed on Ortai's pale face, "It's because I have a serious temperament, and I'm afraid of ruining everyone's interest, so I don't accompany guests." I can't sit still that way. All sit down. I'll have a few drinks with you. I'm gone, and you're still having fun. So saying, he sat down with the chairman. A group of protégés also took their positions diagonally. Ortai is an introverted and deep person, and everyone has a belly of greetings, and they all hold back, and only one by one they take turns to toast him according to the size of their official position. But he just touched his lips and turned down, not even half a glass of wine. Instead, the toasters accompanied him with a large glass. When it was Liu Kang's turn, Ortai saw that Liu Kang finished toasting, and held a Xuetao note in both hands, and when he unfolded it, it was written:

Half glutinous rice, five large slices of ginger, two bowls of river water in a casserole and roll twice, add five or seven white green onions with whiskers, cook until the rice is cooked, add a small half cup of rice vinegar, mix well and eat porridge with heat, or only drink porridge soup.

Ortai couldn't help asking, "What kind of porridge is this?" Do you want to add vinegar? ”

Liu Kang smiled all over his face and said: "Back to the teacher's words, this is called 'fairy porridge', with glutinous rice as the king, green onion and ginger diverge as the minister, one supplement and one scatter, and use vinegar to converge, if you are sick, you can get rid of disease, and you can be honored if you are not sick." The students were in Zichuan for disaster relief, and there was a village that was infected with the epidemic, and only this family was safe, and only after asking did they know that they ate this fairy porridge every day. It seems that the teacher is also weak and weak, and if he often uses this porridge, he will definitely be immune - the old man of that family is over eighty years old and can still carry firewood and fetch water! ”

"Hmm, okay!" Ortai smiled and handed the medicinal diet recipe to the family members around him, "This recipe doesn't have those supplements like ginseng yarrow, and I can't stand that supplement." Try this fairy porridge, maybe it will be right for the spleen and stomach. As he spoke, he stood up and toasted, and said, "It's been a year of hard work outside." Even if you live in Beijing, it is rare to see everyone busy on weekdays. It's a pleasure to be here today, so please have this drink! So everyone stood up and raised their glasses, saying "birthday for the teacher", and this time, even Ortai, they all cupped to the bottom. Ortai's pale face was covered with a hint of blood, and he swallowed slowly after taking a bite of vermicelli, and said: "When the first emperor was here, what he hated the most was the protégé Kejia Peng's private business. Today's emperor is lenient and pays attention to the harmony between the upper and lower levels, in fact, in terms of purpose, it is the same as the previous emperor. You are all young, you have different roles, but you are all on your own. Always remember that you are a courtier. If you keep thinking about who is which sect and who is of which faction, even if the errand is done, you will not be a pure minister. Eshan's business trip, disaster relief, grain handling, and coordination of salt transportation are all excellent, and the emperor has issued a decree to commend him; Lu Zhuo repaired the Jianshan Dam and moved all the covers to the construction site, and he was so tired that the letters he wrote were crooked. I felt very sorry for these students, and one of them gave them a pound of old ginseng. Because they give me a long face! If you really want to be a teacher, I advise you not to babble every day about wanting to be promoted, wanting to transfer the good or bad, and sitting and talking all day long without saying what is righteous, such a person is my student, and I don't recommend it. Down-to-earth and diligent errands. Those who leave a good reputation for the local people are not my students, and I will sponsor them! This group of students had long known that Ortai would have such a reprimand, and they all bowed their heads and listened quietly, saying that the teacher's discussion was profound and selfless. Ge Dan is Ortai's most proud high-foot, naturally he is the main speaker, his tone is deep, and he seems to be overwhelmed with emotion: "I have been an official for more than 20 years, and every time I go to Beijing to listen to the teacher's discussion, there is something new. I don't think the teacher is anything else, just follow the way of Confucius and Mencius, follow the situation in everything, and do not spare anything at all. I was recommended by the teacher, first as a Taoist, and the teacher impeached me for the uneven color of the silver in the warehouse, and then demoted to the prefect. When I was a political envoy, I was accidentally selected as a county magistrate, and I was impeached by my teacher and demoted to two levels. Even now, he has been punished and demoted six times. At that time, I couldn't help but feel aggrieved, but now that I think about it, the teacher has no opinion. I worked hard for the court to do errands, there were promotions and rewards, I smashed the errand envoys, and there were reductions and punishments. With a character like a teacher and a minister's demeanor, how can he not be subdued? ”

Ge Dan is worthy of being a veteran of the Huan Sea, and his words are both restrained and reasonable, the teacher's cultivation painstaking efforts, and his own joy and sincerity to the teacher, are all revealed in this speech that seems to swallow and vomit, and there is no trace of flattery. Liu Kang thought that he was clumsy and ugly in the yamen of the Criminal Department in the morning, and he really admired this person to the extreme. Liu Kang pondered in a daze. Ortai had already come over, patted him on the shoulder and said, "You come with me - everyone eats and drinks as usual, just don't overdo it, don't get drunk like mud, and don't be decent." After saying that, Liu Kang had to follow nervously.

"Liu Kang, went to the Criminal Department today?" Ortai entered the study, sat down and asked, "I heard that you lost someone?" His voice was the same as his face, as dry as freshly split dry firewood, and he stared at Liu Kang with somewhat tired eyes and asked. Liu Kangteng blushed to the base of his neck, embarrassed under Ortai's forced gaze, and only lowered his head and said "yes", unable to say a word else. Ortai smiled coldly and said, "I think about it, my ears and eyes are so well-informed. Actually, I never ask about these things at all. Do you know who the guest I sent just now? It was the relatives who accompanied me to see me today. This was said by the relatives. ”

Liu Kang seemed to have been violently drained of blood, his face was as white as window paper, he raised his head and glanced at Ortai in horror, and said: "The Pinglu case is really not tried by me, it is really a student who is blind and has suffered on behalf of others. Teacher Mingjian, it is not easy for me to do things outside, and my colleagues can't ignore face. Who wants to suffer such a big loss! Ortege smiled and said, "I have already explained it to the emperor for you." The emperor still trusts you. When Fu Heng came back from Shandong, he also said good things about you in front of the emperor. Otherwise, you won't be able to do it this time. At least you can bear the four-word 'despicable and shameless' test. Liu Kang cautiously asked, "What did the emperor say?" ”

"The emperor just laughed, saying that Liu Kang was young and didn't know anything, and he did his own things for official affairs, and he hit a wall, he should!" Ortai said, "That Qian Du's heart for promotion at this time is hotter than charcoal, and he is worried that no one will back him." You don't hit the wall, who does? Can you do it? Liu Kang thought about it, Qianlong said that "I don't know things" is really not disgust, and suddenly put his heart at ease, and said with a smile: "The student is so ashamed that he didn't go out for a long time today, and he introspected himself, and he always didn't cultivate virtue by himself-" He suddenly had an idea, and rubbed the rope with his legs and said, "For today's mistakes, I want to ask the teacher to take care of the officials, and I am willing to change the name to 'Xiude'." "This is a small matter, Ming'er, you go to the ministry yourself and say it, and say that I agreed." How did Ortai know the true meaning of his name change to avoid trouble? Just followed his own train of thought and said, "You should really think about it from the word 'cultivation'." Flies don't hold eggs that don't have seams. Why didn't Qian Du take Shi Yizhi and Liu Tongxun to fight them? People only insult themselves, and then others insult them. You did this in too low a style, and you did it yourself. So don't resent others, and don't expect the teacher to be angry with you, I don't do such a thing. ”

Liu Kang pondered this, he must have Qianlong and praised Qian Du's words, he was ashamed and hateful, but he said in his mouth: "The teacher said it thoroughly. I only reflect on myself, and I will never complain about Lord Qian. ”

"That way, I won't blame you anymore." Ortai's tone was kinder, "To be honest, I was originally very angry, and I didn't plan to see you alone, only my group of protégés, it turns out that you are also very talented." A few words of caution to be careful. Shanxi and Henan are similar and have always been eventful. It is estimated that the emperor will also send someone to inspect the government, although I have no view of the portal, the villains always like to use the portal to see people. If you fight for anger, I will listen to less gossip. If you want to go around camping and make some way, it is your own sin, and I will resolutely watch from the wall. I'll throw it at you, weigh it carefully—go! ”

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At the junction of provinces and counties, or set up stones, or plant monuments as signs, commonly known as "demarcation mounds".