Shen Zetang turned back from the court meeting and arrived at the yamen of the ministry, Xu Jing hurriedly greeted him, and said with a solemn face: "Guo Jia, the right attendant of the household department, came to see him, and he was already waiting outside the door at three o'clock." “

"Can anyone see that?" Shen Zetang slowed down and heard Xu Jing say: "Fortunately, Shen Huan is on duty here for the night, and no one has noticed it." “

With a slight jaw, he ordered him to bring Guo Jia to the main hall, and he went to the rest room to change his regular clothes.

Guo Jia's expression was in a trance, he stepped into the main hall, and when he raised his eyes, he saw Shen Zetang on the red sandalwood carved Taishi chair by the window, eating tea slowly, he was wearing a scarlet regular clothes, and the brocade chicken picture was embroidered on his chest.

The ups and downs of the sea have been a few joys and a few sorrows since ancient times.

For example, this second master Shen's new secretary is still the secretary of the ministry, what a beautiful scenery, but he himself is busy with this old life.

suppressed the loneliness of poverty in his heart, hurried to Shen Shangshu, and knelt down to say hello.

When he was about to speak, he heard his voice be gentle, and he said slowly: "I know what you mean, now that the decision is made, I can't do anything, please go back." “

Second Master Shen has always been like this, he is not nosy, and he knows how to protect himself wisely.

He said that he would not do the same, and it was useless to ask for it if he said no, that is, there was no room for return.

His coldness and ruthlessness, and his gentleness and elegance, can cause people and catastrophes to be lost.

The last straw, but unwilling to save his life, Guo Jia's eyes were red, full of grief, kneeling silently for a while, only to get up from the blue brick ground a little clumsily and embarrassed, he was drooping old, kneeling for only a long time, his knees were sore, and the person in front of him, sitting in the chair, was in the peak of spring and autumn, straight to the green clouds.

He closed his eyes slightly and gradually wet, and hung his shoulders to walk out, but suddenly heard Shen Shangshu say kindly: "If you have nothing to do in the house, why don't you have tea with me, I'm afraid that there will be no chance to sit together in the future." “

Guo Jia was instantly ecstatic, and hurriedly turned around and made a deep bow to Shen Zetang, before he sat in the chair tremblingly, and after a turn of hell on earth, he realized that in the clear and slightly cold morning, he was sweating through the back of his clothes.

Shen Huan held a black lacquer painted gold flower and bird disc, put an extremely rare partridge spotted building lamp in it, and put it on the flower and pear incense table in front of Guo Jia with billowing smoke.

"This is the fine buds of Longjing before the rain, the flavor is fragrant and moistens the throat, Guo Shilang might as well give it a try." Shen Zetang smiled slightly.

Guo Jia ate quickly, but accidentally scalded the tip of his tongue, with a wry smile on his face, when people are on their backs, they always leak at night and rain, and drinking cold water will also stuff their teeth.

Shen Zetang's eyes darkened, and his tone was light: "The ministers of the DPRK and the central government have impeached you for embezzling ink for several days, and last year they secretly embezzled 2 million stones of money and grain in Liangguang and Fujian, and the taxes of Liangguang were not enough, and they cleverly set up a name to collect taxes, such as god and Buddha money, food money, Pu Qian money, etc., all of which filled their private pockets and amounted to a huge amount. Although it is only impeachment, there is no conclusive evidence, if you are caught in Zhao Prison by the Fusi of Jinyi Weibei Town, even if you don't have anything, you will ask why. Have you heard that a few days ago, Liao Qiu, a Qing official in Guangzhou, died because of the court staff? ”

Without waiting for Guo Jia to reply, he paused and continued: "That's a hard-boned one, and he didn't confess you until he died, you should be grateful to him." ”

Guo Jia couldn't help but burst into tears at this time, Liao Qiu was his subordinate, the same age as him, he was upright and honest, and he was a good official, but he ended up like this.

Shen Zetang raised his eyes to see his face full of wind and frost, and the decadence that could not be concealed, and finally sighed: "You and I are officials in the same dynasty, but we do our own things, and you also know that I am an official standard, and I don't like to do many things." This time to help you, not because of you, but because of tens of thousands of people in Guangzhou, Guangxi and Fujian. Then he handed him the yellow list that had been left there at hand.

Guo Jia trembled and stretched out the booklet, it was a petition of 10,000 people, but in the sight, the names of the people in the book and ink were full of black pressure, some were beautiful, some were hard, some were naïve, some were scribbled, or even stamped with red handprints, all of them came to continue his life.

"How would they know about me?" Guo Jia muttered to himself, his expression shocked.

"Although you have not been detained for the time being, it is due to insufficient evidence, and after Liao Qiu was killed, the matter of the serious case attached to you was leaked to the people, so there will be this joint petition booklet." Shen Zetang said, while raising his eyes to look at the sky outside the window, and the clear light was gradually penetrating through the window lattice.

He turned to look at Guo Jia and said, "Now that I have reached this step in the field, all I can do is to save your life, and there is nothing else I can do." ”

Guo Jia hurriedly got up and knelt down, kowtowed, and his voice choked: "My lord will protect my life, that is, he will protect dozens of mouths up and down my house, and I dare not have other extravagances." ”

"I teach you how not to talk to anyone." Shen Zetang's words were still very soft: "Even if you say it, I will turn around according to the way, but you are the life of the nine clans." ”

Guo Jia agreed, Shen Zetang ordered him to get up and sit back down, and after discussing for two hours, he ordered Shen Huan to take him out of the backyard of the ministry to avoid people's eyes.

After Guo Jia thanked him, he went with Shen Huan and didn't mention it.

When Xu Jing saw him leaving, he shook his head and sighed: "It's another official who was framed by others, if it weren't for the people asking for their lives, the follow-up situation would be miserable." “

Shen Zetang looked at him with a pale, and smiled lightly: "Officialdom is like this, either the east wind overwhelms the west wind, or the west wind overwhelms the east wind, all you can do is a gentleman to think about trouble and take precautions." Speaking of Guo Jia's own carelessness, Zhao De, who announced that the political envoy left and right participated in politics, was a third-class person, and coveted him as the right servant of the household department for a long time, and everyone knew it, but he didn't know how to beware, and he also had a very good relationship with this person, and he was afraid that he had talked about a lot of government affairs in private. “

Xu Jing added: "Zhao De is not simple, just relying on finding out the news from Guo Jia is not enough to cause him to lose his official position, presumably he relies on the help of the mountain." ”

Shen Zetang frowned slightly, obviously expecting it, he was not surprised by Xu Jing's words, and his expression was very calm, and he replied after a while: "If the household department is occupied by Xu Shoufu again, his power is only afraid that when the time comes, even if the prince ascends the throne, he must be afraid of five points!" “

"What is Second Master Shen going to do?" Xu Jing looked puzzled, Rao had been with Shen Erye for several years, but he still couldn't control his thoughts.

"Treat others with their ways." Shen Zetang's eyes showed a deep ink, so he stopped talking and reviewed the official documents.

Xu Jing was inconvenient to disturb anymore, so he went out, and happened to meet Shen Huan who came back and asked him if he could send people away, Shen Huan nodded, suddenly smiled, approached him and said, "You don't know that the old man drowned when talking to the second master." When he came out, I saw it before me, and it was dripping all the way. ”

Xu Jing's face sank, and he reprimanded him: "Don't let Shen Er hear this, otherwise you will suffer." That Guo Jia, you don't look down today, but for the official upright, there was a poem 'the breeze and two sleeves go to the sky, without an inch of cotton in the south of the Yangtze River. I am ashamed that the people send each other away, and the wine in front of the horse is as dense as a spring' shows how popular he is. Even Shen Er respected him a lot. ”

Shen Huan scratched his head and didn't believe it: "When I went to deliver tea before, I didn't see how much Shen Er treated him. ”

Xu Jing doesn't want to pay attention to him, he has been with his master for a few years, when did Shen Er reveal his thoughts on the bright side!