The words have been broken, and Su Qing has understood.

Today, Sima Hu did not come to him to drink with his old feelings, but came to Xingshi with anger to ask for his guilt.

He had expected this to happen.

It's just that I originally hoped that after a few years of exile, my poor brother, he would gradually understand the way of officialdom and know how to pursue advantages and avoid disadvantages, but I didn't expect him to still be this rectum.

Su Qing didn't know whether to say it was good or bad.

The good thing is that this is exactly the same as the Sima Hu he knows, and it always reminds him of his former self, but the bad thing is that Sima Hu is like this, and I am afraid that he will not want to be friends with him anymore.

Su Qing sighed.

He pressed his hand and didn't look up, "Brother Sima, you sit, don't be angry first." ”

The butler, who was waiting outside the hall, was surprised when he heard the movement.

Now there is no adult in the court who is worthy of Su Qing to speak so softly, that is, this Lord Sima, don't look at him in the place, he is just a third-grade official, but the relationship between poor and lowly friends is different.

Su Qing was about to be old, and he was stimulated by his old friend, so he sighed and said in his heart, "Brother Sima still remembers that we were discovered by the first emperor from the countryside together and entered the capital together as Beijing officials. You and I have a daughter under our knees, and the two daughters also surrendered, and they were also selected by the first emperor to be concubines in the palace together. ”

How Sima Hu doesn't remember.

The past is vivid, and now his daughter is a pampered concubine in the harem, and Su Qing's daughter is Concubine Wan...... It's a pity that he has already been buried in the concubine's mausoleum.

Counting, if Su Qing's daughter is still there, she should be as old as her daughter at this moment, and she is still in the palace with the Queen Mother to talk and laugh......

Su Qing took a sip of wine suddenly, raised his head, and his eyes were a little red, "I only have such a daughter under my knees, unlike Brother Sima, in addition to Concubine Chun, there are two sons." My only daughter is gone, and the bloodline of the Su family is completely broken, Brother Sima, do you think I can not be in a hurry? ”

Sima Hu frowned, thinking that Su Qing was about the same age as him, and he was almost fifty years old now.

They can be regarded as old ministers in the court, and it is not the time for the first emperor to discover them, at that time they were still young.

Thinking about it this way, Su Qing accepted more than a dozen concubines for the sake of heirs, which makes some sense.

Sima Hu hated that iron could not become steel, "Then you shouldn't marry so much." Do you think there were only a few concubines in the harem of the first emperor? Now counting the Queen Mother and the Concubine and those who don't have a brand name, they don't add up to as much as you have in your house! If you can have an heir, you can still have children crawling all over the ground if you have two or three rooms! ”

When Su Qing heard this, his face turned a little red.

Sima Hu's words hit him in the heart, he had already heard rumors outside that he had no ability to have children, otherwise it would be impossible for more than a dozen aunts to give birth to half a fart.

When these words came out of the mouth of his old friend, Su Qing was a little difficult to accept.

He diverted the topic, "Brother Sima has been away from the capital for too long, and he doesn't know the changes in the capital. The emperor is still young, on the one hand, the queen mother has to be ordered by the emperor to help the emperor, and some people in the court are dissatisfied. You also know that Jiang Su, the Marquis of Weiyuan, is the emperor's own uncle, and now he has been removed from the position of marquis and is idle in the court. Step by step, does Brother Sima know how many twists and turns I have experienced? ”

"Even the concubine who has always been unpopular in the harem dares to point at my nose and scold me for not being of high background, his Jiang family is nothing more than the emperor's mother's family, can he bully people like this?"

"And the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother is also different from what you knew before. Although we have two families, but now that she has her own cousin in the court, how can she take care of me, an uncle who is not related by blood? ”

"Brother Sima, you haven't been in Beijing for the past two years, you really don't know......"

When Sima Hu heard this, he pursed his lips and was silent.

He used to be a rough man, but now he has no straightforward temperament, but he is not a fool, and it is not that he rushed back to Beijing without inquiring about any news.

As he grows older, his temperament is not as unrestrained as before, but he is willing to tell the truth to Su Qing, "Old Su, what kind of status do you have in the court, then Jiang Su can't do anything to you when he is at his peak, are you still afraid of him?" Are you still afraid that he will not be a daughter? ”

"You and I know what the queen mother's heart is, if she is a little bad, a woman has long been drowned by the saliva of the imperial historian when she is in charge of the court. But I can hear the people sing praises of her benevolence in the locality, you say that the Queen Mother is selfish? ”

"The Queen Mother handed over the disaster relief in the northwest to her cousin of her mother's family, but that was also Xiao Su's fearsome life, and she did it well. To tell the truth, Brother Su, if you and I go to the northwest for disaster relief, we may not be able to do as well as him! ”

"Brother Su, you weren't like this before, even if you have any difficulties, you shouldn't learn from those villains who smuggle and slap horses, and stuff people around the Queen Mother!"

Su Qing frowned when he heard this.

Wrong.

Sima Hu has been in the local area for the past two years, and he has never had any scheming, so he will not go out of his way to inquire about the affairs in Beijing, these things are so specific, who did he listen to?

Su Qing looked at him suspiciously, "Brother Sima, you suddenly returned to Beijing ahead of schedule this time, you didn't come to interrogate me, right?" ”

Could it be that the Queen Mother and the Emperor deliberately got him back?

When Sima Hu heard this, he snorted coldly angrily, "Brother Su, no, Master Su." ”

He stood up and arched his hand to Su Qing dignifiedly, "I, Sima Hu, have never hidden my head and tail, and I can't say anything to others, you know me best." Are you even suspicious of me now? ”

"Brother Sima misunderstood, I didn't mean that......"

Sima Hu sighed, lowered his head and poured himself wine one by one, but he knew in his heart that Su Qing was no longer the Su Qing he used to be.

has changed, and so has the relationship between the two of them.

"So you stuffed people around the Queen Mother, just to save the Queen Mother's heart, so that she would favor you more? Brother Su, you weren't like this before. Whether the monarch is biased towards you or not, you can be a good official. ”

Su Qing couldn't justify, and only after a while did he say: "Brother Sima, you still don't understand the way to be an official in the past few years. Didn't we just not understand back then, so we have been trapped in the countryside as a little sesame official? Now I understand that if you want to be a good official, it is not enough to have your own talents, but also to rely on the support of your superiors. ”

Sima Hu asked him rhetorically, "For example?" ”

Su Qingdao: "For example, if we can enter the court as a Beijing official, don't we all rely on the appreciation of the first emperor?" ”

"Brother Su, you're going to give up your roots."

Sima Hu stood up suddenly, and said with a straight face: "The first emperor discovered you and me, so that we are honest officials and have the ability to deal with drought. And now that you've lost all your character back then, who can you expect to appreciate? ”