Bidding farewell to the county lord, Shen Ao sat in the torture room for a long time, there were many things in his heart that he couldn't figure out, and sent a small county lord to send his name, what is this, now not only recruited this little county lord, but also brought a Jin king, this father and daughter made the emperor in the palace have a headache, don't cause anything.

It's funny to say, others are looking at this Shen County Lieutenant not to make trouble, Shen Ao is now worried about others, the so-called wicked people still have wicked people, Shen Ao can be regarded as a teacher.

In addition, there is the matter of Daygreen, at the moment, it seems that this Daygreen is unwilling to give up, thinking of finding an excuse to break Shen Ao down; Although Shen Ao was not afraid of him, it was also a troublesome thing to make trouble, which made people upset.

In the afternoon, someone sent an invitation, saying that it was the transfer envoy who invited Shen Aoming to go to the banquet.

To the feast, to what feast? What kind of messenger, he knows me, I don't know him yet!

But that's fine, take this opportunity to send those two troublemakers out.

When the sky darkened, Shen Ao returned to the back garden, and someone came to tell him that Cheng Hui, the lieutenant of Qiantang County, was here; Shen Ao asked people to invite him in, Cheng Hui had just gone down, carrying a bottle of wine from nowhere, and when he saw Shen Ao, he said, "Brother Shen, is there any appetizer in the house, let's drink." ”

Drinking at this time? Shen Ao glanced at Cheng Hui, knowing that he must have something to say, he hurriedly called Chun'er to greet the kitchen, the two sat opposite each other, put on the cup, Cheng Hui poured wine for Shen Ao and himself, first raised his neck and took a sip, sighed, and said: "I have come to Hangzhou for a while, and I have never had the opportunity to get together with Brother Shen, I am really ashamed." ”

Shen Ao said a few polite words to him, chatting about some official affairs while drinking, in fact, as an official, most of the time he is still very leisurely, ordinary things are handed over to the subordinates to do, and only when he encounters one or two major cases does he have to leave the county lieutenant.

The big case here is naturally not a murder or something like that, once there is a homicide, the county lieutenant is only responsible for sending the officials to collect circumstantial evidence, and call the chief to do an autopsy. The big cases handled by the county lieutenant are generally not big, for example, Shen Ao encountered a case a few days ago, it was a pair of neighbors, because the east neighbor built a courtyard wall high, so that Youshe was very dissatisfied, saying that it was blocking his family's feng shui, this family has many sons, and four or five powerful men want to rely on the strong and bully, and as a result, they beat people.

The big thing was reported to the torture room, Shen Ao looked at it, ah, this is a big case with the sky, rare, rare, I couldn't imagine such luck, I encountered this big case when I took office, and immediately prepared a horse, and brought more than a dozen people from the priest, the head of the capital, and the fast officials to flock over, just a general fighting incident, of course, you can't catch people casually, this era is about convincing people with reason, in fact, it is similar to the out-of-court mediation in later generations, anyway, if you can not be allowed to fight, try not to fight, to be harmonious and not rude.

So he put on a straight face, and said here that Sage Kong said: Virtue is not lonely, there must be neighbors. How can you easily beat someone, you are too bad, destroy social harmony, carefully grab your sons into the class; While teaching, he intimidated, and beat people to death with scare. On the other hand, he said to the people who were beaten that this matter should be forgotten, although they are bad, but they must always be given a chance to make amends, and it is right to be good neighbors and live in harmony.

The two sides said that the beating accompanied some of the medical expenses of the beating, and said humbly, for the torture room, even if the dust settles on a big case, when the time comes, the detention department will write a document and hand it in, which can be regarded as a complete closure.

Shen Ao's work is about the same, Cheng Hui is similar, both of them are smiling bitterly, this kind of life is obviously not what Cheng Hui envisions, Cheng Hui said bitterly: "I knew that this was the case, it was better for the court to send me to Lingnan Road, and when I got there, I might be able to do something." ”

Lingnan belonged to the border poor area at this time, and there were many armed fights in the countryside, and sometimes in order to fight for a water source, hundreds of people in several villages fought with knives and sticks, and it was indeed very challenging to be a county lieutenant there.

Shen Ao just smiled and comforted him: "Brother Cheng, be patient, there is always a time to make great progress." ”

Cheng Hui was a little drunk, and said with a smile: "Actually, I came this time to reveal two pieces of news to you, this is the first one......" He sighed and said: "I don't know where an immortal came, Your Majesty is very trusting, and he actually wants to personally ask him to do things, and he also issued a decree to amnesty the world, there is nothing wrong with amnesty to the world, but in the name of ghosts and gods, isn't it to follow the example of the former Tang Dynasty?" ”

Zhao Ji is very superstitious, Shen Ao has long known this, in fact, this is almost the emperor's common disease, as a king, but like ordinary people, he can't avoid birth, old age, sickness and death, what a painful thing, so don't look at how many books Zhao Ji reads, let alone how high Zhao Ji's artistic attainments are, I still believe in these things.

Shen Ao just smiled and didn't say anything; This kind of thing is not something he can ask, and if he asks, it is in vain, rather than this, it is better to do his part, like Qu Yuan, who is worried about this today, and worried about this tomorrow, what is the taste of life.

Cheng Hui continued: "As for the second, it is said that the Liao envoy has arrived in Beijing, and Brother Shen's countermeasures during the last palace test, after I went back, I thought about it and felt that this was the best way. Now that the Liao people have entered Beijing, His Majesty intends to re-conclude an alliance with the Liao people, but the Liao envoy is very strange, saying that he hopes that my Great Song Dynasty will send Brother Shen to talk to their lord. ”

"Call me? The Liao people also look up to Shen too much. Shen Ao smiled dumbly, thinking to himself, don't the Liao people think I'm a pro-Liao faction, right? No, their blackmailing of Liao envoys has long been known to the world, and they can't be stupid enough to think that they are pro-Liao, and they are almost as good as a Liao-knowing faction.

However, the Liao people don't necessarily like to talk with the pro-Liao faction, after all, most of the pro-Liao factions are full of money, and now the Liao people gave them bribes, and they patted their chests and promised, and if the Jin people promised them more benefits, maybe they would turn their faces the second time, but they were the ones who knew the overall situation and got the general situation, and knew that this was a matter of benefit to Song and Liao, but they had more opportunities to talk.

Shen Ao said: "I don't know where Brother Cheng heard the news?" ”

Cheng Hui said: "Brother Shen, don't forget, Qiantang County is connected to the wharf, and there is a city port department stationed, and there are three religions and nine streams from Beijing to Hangzhou, which one should not pass through Qiantang?" Therefore, the news of the Qiantang County Ya is always better-informed. ”

Shen Ao smiled: "It's better to be in Qiantang, although Renhe is also lively here, it is still inferior to Qiantang." ”

After the two drank some wine, Cheng Hui's scholar's temper came up and asked Shen Ao: "Brother Shen, if the imperial court sends you to the Liao Realm as a messenger, what should Brother Shen do?" ”

Shen Ao thought for a while and said, "When I get to the ground, I must be weak all over, so I decided to sleep first, and sleep for ten days and half a month." ”

Cheng Hui was stunned, sleeping? smiled: "I'm afraid it's too rude." ”

Shen Ao said: "Since you are an envoy, what kind of etiquette do you say, haven't you heard of etiquette?" The Khitan people are Shu people in my eyes, not so noble, they are anxious to negotiate, rebuild the covenant, when they can't hold back, they will naturally come to me, I will wait for them to look at the thatched house, and then talk to them slowly, so that their momentum will be weak, and then talk, there will be no confidence, this is called the next horse, otherwise, it is not enough to strengthen the momentum. ”

Cheng Hui couldn't help laughing, nodded and said: "I can't do such a thing, it seems that this Song Liao has signed a contract, and it is not enough to make it happen without Brother Shen, haha......" He laughed a few times, and his mood finally became cheerful.

Shen Ao thought in his heart: "Sending an envoy to the Liao State, the emperor is only afraid of refusing, firstly, he is still a county lieutenant, which is not reasonable, on the other hand, since he is a good neighbor and friendly, his surname is known to the emperor, send himself, the emperor is afraid of causing chaos, and he is almost disgusting people, and it is really difficult to ask himself to respect people like guests." Thinking about it, I can't help but be happy in my heart, but I vaguely hope that I can participate in the general trend of history and change history, not everyone has such an opportunity!

After the two drank wine, Shen Ao personally sent Cheng Hui to the door, Cheng Hui was a little drunk, and asked someone to drive him back in a carriage. Back in the back garden, there was a lot of noise in the back garden, Di San'er and Zhao Zixin seemed to be a pair of natural enemies, which was very annoying, Chun'er persuaded to no avail, but it was Zhao Zong, the king of the Jin Dynasty, who ran to persuade him to fight, saying that he was persuading to fight, but in fact, he would bully Di San'er with Zhao Zixing, Shen Ao was very angry, and couldn't help yelling at them: "Noisy, noisy, noisy, noisy, who will quarrel again, don't give food tonight!" ”

His temper is known to everyone, don't say it's Di San'er, even Zhao Zixin is a little afraid of him, Zhao Zong said with a smile: "Shen Ao, in fact, this time it's ......"

"It's a fart!" Shen Ao didn't give him any face: "I don't care who is right or wrong, here is my decision, shut up, go back to your room!" ”

Zhao Zong's eyes glared: "I...... I'm ......."

Shen Ao snorted coldly: "You are the prince, right?" Scared, Lord? Does this Great Song Dynasty have a prince who went out of Beijing? Is there any, is there any? No, so you are not the prince, you are Zhao Zong, and now you are my guest, and I spent the money to redeem you from the restaurant and arrange food and accommodation for you! What kind of shelf do you put up, do you look like you are a human father? ”

This series of words made Zhao Zong speechless, and his momentum suddenly weakened: "Okay, okay, I can't talk about you." He turned to Zhao Ziyun and said, "Zixing, go back to the house with your father." ”

Di San'er crossed her waist, seeing this father and daughter walking away, she felt a little proud, originally for the sake of the other party's noble status, Di San'er didn't want to cause trouble, but when her anger came up, she was a tigress who was alive and couldn't care about anything.

"What are you doing with your waist crossed? Who is it for? Go back to the house! Shen Ao glared at her angrily.

Di San'er was stunned for a moment, then quickly lowered her hands, smacked her tongue obediently, and ran away in disgrace.