It is late at night, in the early winter, it is already very cold, under the moonlight, only the sound of the wind sweeps over the branches that have faded the dead leaves, in the lonely night, the Jinling city of the river control Huai is lined more and more quietly. In the back study of the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion, Kali looked very uneasy, scribbled a few words on the paper with a pen, scribbled them again, crumpled them into balls and threw them aside, wrinkled his brows and asked, "How many days has this been, and the people haven't come back yet?" The master and patience for a while, I got a letter and said that it was here today, and now the road is still too peaceful, so I don't expect anything to go wrong, or the slave will send someone to take a look?"

"Gotcha, forget it!" Kali waved his hand, interrupted him angrily, strode around the room a few times, picked up the cold Fujian red robe on the case, poured it into his dry throat, and then instructed, "You go to the door and keep guard, and come back to me." ”

After missing the fourth watch, just a little sleepy, I saw Qi Tai take three steps and do two steps to lead people from the corner door to the study, Kali heard the movement, almost bounced up from the chair, "What's the matter, missed these times!" Kali hurriedly took the prince's letter he brought back, but he was impatient to see the bitter look on the face of the family and wanted to justify, and reprimanded fiercely, "Ye didn't have time to listen to your fart, what did that person say, give Ye a clear word by word." ”

"When I returned to the master, the slave didn't see the prince, it was a letter from a father-in-law in the palace, and he didn't say anything, but only told the slave that the letter was important and that he should be careful in his affairs. The family kowtowed on the spot, worried.

"Get out! Qi Tai, you are staring, Ming Erchen called from the gate to come in and play the folding box, and ordered to go down, and follow the rules. Frowning and sending the family away, and hearing the training being carried out by Qi Taiti outside the courtyard, when the sound was far away, Kari quickly picked up the fire paint with his nails, read it carefully, and then took the lampshade, rolled it into a tube and burned it inside, shook it and threw it on the ground, looking at the letter that gradually turned into ashes, only four words were reflected in Kali's mind - "killing two birds with one stone".

Sun Chu Lou is the first famous building in Nanjing City, because Sun Chu lived in Jinling in the Western Jin Dynasty, feasted and drank poems and guests in the building, it can be the victory of the Six Dynasties, and it is close to Qinhuai, far away with Mo Chou, overlooking Egret Island in the west, the most magnificent and handsome among the many wine shops in the west of the city. This flying corner lofty building, painting building eaves, in ancient times is the place where the scholars and scholars, the eunuchs and merchants are endless, fortunately thanks to the prosperity of the Qingping under the rule today, here is the elegance of the south of the Yangtze River. On the lintel of the hall, the reflection is a very atmospheric couplet, "Dingzhi Gong and other extraordinary guests, if you are the first class in the world." Entering the door to the second floor, there is a large black lacquer interstitial screen in the middle, which is engraved with Li Bai's poem "Playing the Moon Jinling City West Sun Chu Restaurant Dashu", "Yesterday played the West City Moon, and the blue sky hung a jade hook." Chaogu Jinling wine, singing Sun Chulou. Suddenly remember the embroiderer, take a boat to the stone. The grass is wrapped in a black gauze scarf, and the purple fur is draped. Both sides of the strait clapped and laughed, suspected to be Wang Ziyou. The drinkers are more than ten gong, and they are drunk and drunk. ”

On the south side of the two-story platform, outside a secluded private room near the river, there are a few people dressed in simple blue jackets and small houses. At this moment, it is the two constitutions of the province's Fu Domain, Zhang Boxing, who was newly transferred from Fujian to replace the governor of Jiangsu, and Chen Pengnian, the prefect of Suzhou, who is the acting political envoy of Jiangsu.

As soon as he arrived in Nanjing, after the completion of the printing work and the completion of the customs and defense, Zhang Boxing went to the Governor's Office to see the constitution, and after some conversation, although he felt that Kali could not get rid of the habits of Manchurian officials, but he was still generous, although he had some taboos in his heart, but the two sides were quite harmonious at first glance. On the second day, Zhang Boxing received the participation of the chief officials of the domain, the court, the salt, the grain, the province, etc., and after a routine lecture, and after a little discussion of some official duties, he also dispersed.

It is said that today's seat is not the turn of him to be the constitution, only he is a generous and heroic person, and he does not take his dignity and humility to heart outside of official duties, and it is rare to see such a person with a spleen and stomach, especially Chen Pengnian, who has always passed on the name of righteousness in the court, so he politely resigned from the banquet set up by the lower officials in Jiangsu at noon, and simply did not change the place, Zhang Boxing invited Chen Pengnian to have a drink here, which can be regarded as a different kind of Cheng Yi for Chen Pengnian to return to Jiangning. At that moment, he poured himself a cup of Du Kang wine, and the mellow taste of Yudi Township wine made his color better and better, "Brother Beiming, you really have done enough of this official motto of 'serving as an official and benefiting one party', as far as I heard, it was all praised by the people." Not to mention anything else, just engrave the eight characters of 'seeking the people's feelings and wishing to hear oneself' on the door of government governance, which is beyond the courage of ordinary pretentious officials!"

Although Chen Pengnian is upright, he is not good at words, and when he suddenly heard these praises, he could not be as casual as Zhang Boxing, his face was slightly red, and he said humbly, "Chengfutai is praised." When he was studying, he was taught by sages, and when he was an official, he was trained by the emperor, all of which were based on the people's livelihood and sincerity. If it is a vegetarian meal in the corpse, it is the conscience under the Lingding supplement, and it can't be passed, and in the year of begging bones, how can you comfort your life. ”

"What a comforting life! That's exactly what I said, and I was very respected!" Zhang Boxing made a hit, laughed heartily, and touched a glass with Chen Pengnian, quite a bit ridiculous, "I'm a little curious, according to heard, the people don't want the official to call you 'Lord Chen', so they only call 'Chen Gong', but is there such a thing?"

Chen Pengnian then showed a little bit of a bad color, "Well, what the people praise, I'm afraid it's also more unruly, the false name spread in the countryside is not allowed, and the things that sell their names make adults laugh." ”

"Haha, you're too modest. Although I am a new official, I am not a person who does not know the feelings, Suzhou Mansion is strict and indiscriminate, abstains from luxury, drives away prostitutes, punishes gamblers, lawyers, boxers, bandits, and relies on its people, Shuowang Ling to the township covenant to kneel and listen to the lecture, the people's customs have changed, and they have not been in prison for a month, and they have decided to leave more than 300 cases in prison, and get rid of the envy of money and food...... "Zhang Boxing is talking about the rise, and suddenly remembered something, stopped talking for a while, smiled again, and looked at Chen Pengnian and said, "It is good to do things for the people, but most of them have to make trouble if they do errands with their temperament." If you hear more about the Kali endowment and greed, you are afraid that it will be in the way, right? In the future, when you become the head of the domain, you will inevitably have to deal with it more extensively...... Oh, I know you're not afraid of this, but if you follow the old mistakes of Ahsan, it's not beautiful. ”

A seat full of care, this is the grace of his residence officials for decades has not had, Chen Pengnian admired, sincere eyes, a heart into the heart, "Thank you, thank you for your advice." As soon as Chen Pengnian gave up his hand, he was about to get up and solemnly bow, but he was held down by Zhang Boxing, and quipped, "Okay, I have a word today, if you go back to Wuying Hall to repair the book, the mansion will not let you go." ”