Shen Zetang was accompanied by Cheng Hao, and went to the garden with great interest to enjoy the peony, and saw the waterfowl bathing in the pool, it was noon, and there was a majestic mountain of Taibai stone pile in front of him, and he went up to the top of the mountain along the cascading stone rocks, which was a hexagonal pavilion, with a built-in round table and stone bench, and it was very clean.

Shen Zetang proposed to have lunch here, Cheng Hao had no reason, and after half of the incense burning, the officials picked out food and filled the table.

While the two of them were eating wine and food, they looked towards the market outside the pink wall, the road was not wide, there were shops on both sides of one room and one room, there were shops selling homemade flower dew, white porcelain jars of different sizes were placed on the counter, and the dry goods store hung fat ham smoked duck style chicken, and you could smell the smell of pickled meat from so far away, as well as grain white dregs shops, sesame oil shops, Longjing fine tea shops and those selling ginseng cinnamon white jade paste.

The most attractive thing for women to stop is the carmine powder shop, and the one that can make men pay money is the wine shop, and a hundred dollars can scoop a bowl of soju from the sea, and then send a plate of fried peanuts, so that you can squat on the threshold and rest for a while.

The expressions on everyone's faces were pleasant, even the old man who was begging, and when he saw a girl putting a copper plate in the bowl in front of him, he was lazy.

Shen Zetang took a sip of wine and felt quite generally: "Everyone lives in peace and enjoys their work, they are willing to eat and serve beautifully, and they can see through the wealth of Los Angeles in a corner of the market, but they are thousands of miles away in Gansu, but there is a drought for many years, and the people are not able to make a living. ”

Cheng Hao said with a smile: "The elder may not know, Gansu political envoy Cheng Qian is my cousin, he had been back to Luoyang three months ago, and came to find me to tell the story, the first to know this donation method, so that the wealthy people to the Yamen to donate grain in exchange for prison qualifications, in the future can go into the road, that is, to cultivate talents, but also to solve the difficulties of the people's livelihood, the lower officials think that this law is adapted to local conditions, take the people and use it for the people, it is a good policy. “

Shen Zetang bowed his head and asked casually: "What is the matter with Cheng Bu's political envoy coming to Luoyang?" “

"Xiaguan's mother celebrated her 80th birthday, and he rushed back to celebrate." What Cheng Hao said was also an understatement, showing that he didn't want to talk more.

"Is Lord Cheng trying to shield his close relatives?" Shen Zetang put down the wine cup, and the edge of the cup knocked to the edge of the stone table, "Woo" made a crisp sound, but it seemed to knock heavily on Cheng Hao's heart, his face changed greatly, he hurriedly got up and knelt down in his robe, bowed his head and said, "The lower officials don't dare." ”

Shen Zetang's tone was not hurried: "Before Cheng Qian, he implemented the law of collecting and donating grain in Gansu, and used silver instead of grain to fill his pockets, resulting in no harvest of rice in the grain depot, and the people were miserable. Cheng Qian thought he was doing ......... seamlessly. “

He paused, and then said: "But I never thought that General Xu Lan, who was ordered by the emperor to go to Ji'an, Jiangxi Province to quell the rebellion, just led his troops through Gansu and repaired there for several days. “

Cheng Hao was a little surprised and asked: "General Xu Lan set off from Beijing and went to Ji'an, Jiangxi, how could he pass through Gansu?" “

"yes!" The smile on Shen Zetang's lips was meaningful: "How could he go to Gansu and make such a detour?" “

......... Naturally, someone made him do that.

Cheng Hao was suddenly enlightened, and then he raised his head, and Elder Shen Ge also looked at him, his face was very gentle, but his eyes were sharp and pointed directly at people's hearts.

"Cheng Qian was in chaos, the grain depot was in the void, and the relief grain had not yet arrived, but how to hide it from General Xu Lan, who was leading the troops to pass by? Do you want me to go on? Shen Zetang said lightly: "I think you are a clean official for the people, I really don't want to see that one day, you will be dismissed or punished more severely because of him. So he got up and went on eating.

Cheng Hao knelt down, gritted his teeth, and finally made up his mind and said: "Elder Shen Ge, rest assured, the lower officials have never done anything wrong to the imperial court and the people of Luoyang City. After his mother's birthday, Cheng Qian did find an official to negotiate to buy a batch of official grain privately, but he only mentioned that the drought in Gansu did not guarantee the harvest, the people were hungry, and the disaster grain provided by the imperial court had not yet arrived, so he had to make this decision in order to solve the urgent need at hand. ”

"Xia Guan first believed it to be true, but he actually offered ten thousand taels of snowflake silver as a thank you, and he was really shocked in his heart, and felt that there must be something strange in it, so he didn't dare to act rashly, and deduced that the official grain in the treasury was distributed, and the account books needed to be seen by the prince and the princess, and it would be discussed after the next day."

After hearing this, he first timidly went into battle, and dispersed after two perfunctory sentences, and the next day he heard that he left Luoyang and returned to Gansu. Cheng Hao thought about it and added: "The ten thousand taels of snowflake silver, the lower officials have never taken half a penny, in order to show their innocence, they also asked Shen Ge Lao to strictly investigate." “

Shen Zetang was silent, then got up and personally helped him up, and said gently: "If all officials are like Lord Cheng, honest and self-disciplined, and perform their official duties, it is the luck of our dynasty and the blessing of the people!" I need you to write down this in detail so that you can testify in court in the future, can you not? “

Cheng Hao hurriedly surrendered.

Lunch has been almost eaten, so the officials simply cleaned up the remnants, Xu Jing spread out the paper and handed over the pen and ink, but after half an hour, Shen Zetang read the complaint paper from beginning to end, put it away with satisfaction, and they ate another cup of tea, and Fang went down the mountain from the pavilion without mentioning it.

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Shen Cheng and the two chatted and returned to the main hall, and saw Shun Yu sitting on a guest chair and eating, Shen Zetang asked her to continue eating, and he went to the desk to take the file to read.

Cheng Hao saw Shun Yu chewing slowly and eating very slowly, and said with a smile: "You should be in Yang Qing's place, and you are quite similar to his gestures." “

"I'm not like him......" Shun Yu disagreed, Yang Yan was full of conspiracy and tricks, and she couldn't reach it by looking at the invisible ability of killing people by other people's hands.

Cheng Hao asked again with great interest: "Even if Yang Qing is twenty-six, I don't know if I can marry a wife?" “

Shun Yu chewed the meat slowly with chopsticks and elbows, and secretly said that women like hearsay and inquire about the news, and it turned out that this man was the same.

She couldn't help curling the corners of her lips: "Yang Qing's body has been weak since childhood, and the medicinal soup has never stopped. "But such a picky person, it is hard to imagine that any woman can serve him.

Cheng Hao sighed and said: "When Yang Qing was teaching and preaching in this mansion, the eldest lady of the Ma family, who was engaged in silk trading in the east of the city, admired him very much, and secretly thought that the law would attract his attention. As a result, this Yang Qing is really ruthless, she doesn't eat hard and soft, she doesn't accept hot and cold, and even when she left Luoyang and returned to Beijing, she didn't want to go to the front gate to see her, but walked away from the back door, and made people so angry that they wanted to go to Qiyun Pagoda Courtyard to become a monk and ........ “

"And then? What a monk? "Shun Yu listened to it with relish, bad fate, bad fate!

"Naturally, no." Cheng Hao coughed his throat, suddenly didn't want to speak, got up and walked towards Shen Zetang.

Zhang Feng, a fellow acquaintance on the side, secretly poked and pointed at his back, and snickered: "Miss Ma married Cheng Dami, and gave birth to a big fat boy the year before last. ”

Author's note: I wish you all a happy Tanabata Festival!