Cui Yi waited for the Zhou officials to retire, and when he arrived on Datong Street, he grabbed him and went to a nearby restaurant with him to eat and drink, wanting to take advantage of this to ask him for advice.

After three rounds of drinking, Cui Yi closed the doors and windows around him, and saw that there was no one in the compartment, so he turned around and walked behind him, pressed his hands on the head of the chair, and asked in a low voice: "Brother Zhou, is there anyone who can be trusted next to this Lord Ye?" ”

The Zhou clerk was drinking to the point of being slightly drunk, and he was still unsatisfied, but when he suddenly heard this, he was stunned at first, and then put down the wine glass and glanced at him in embarrassment: "Wow! I've already told you before, this Lord Ye is not something you can climb. But you don't trust me, and think I'm not going to speak my heart. You invited me to this wine, I can't repay your love! ”

"Brother," Cui Yi let go of his chair, reached for the empty wine bottle on the table, put it on the big table next to him, and took a new one, "Brother, I definitely didn't mean that, I just planned to fight this one, and I didn't force success." You take me to the criminal department once, the foolish brother only submitted a post, if he doesn't want to see it, then it's okay, just let me spend a meal of wine and food, okay? ”

"Alas," the Zhou official squeezed his hand and prevented him from opening any more wine, "since you are so stubborn, I can't say anything else." If you touch a gray nose by then, don't blame me for not persuading you. ”

"Brother Zhou, although I, Cui Yi, have been fooling around for so many years, I am not a scoundrel, you still know this."

"Okay," Zhou said, "You go back and write a famous post, and I will give it to Lord Ye, and say that you are grateful for his great kindness and kindness, and you want to visit him in person and see your respect." He won't refuse this material, but whether he can take the opportunity to climb up is another matter. ”

"Okay, I'll do it! You, you wait, I'll be back in a moment! Cui Yi was overjoyed, hurriedly ran downstairs, asked the shopkeeper for a pen and paper, and immediately wrote down the words 'Lu'an Xiucai Cui Yi and Xun Bai', and hurriedly went upstairs to hand over to the Zhou officials.

After a glance, the official blew dry the ink, rolled it into his sleeve, no longer greeted him, said goodbye to each other, and walked downstairs.

The next day, the Zhou officials returned to the yamen with their names and told Ye Yongjia about Cui Yi's intentions. Ye Yongjia was worried that he had just experienced the pain of losing his father, and it was not easy to restrain him, so he ordered the little official to go back and tell Cui Yi to let him wait in his own house. Zhou officials knew that Lord Ye wanted to form a party and wanted to take advantage of this to make some contributions, so he persuaded him to meet Cui Yi in the lobby of the office, so that all the bureaucrats could see him and know his benevolence and righteousness. Ye Yongjia felt reasonable, so he acted according to his method.

"Let's go inside."

After an hour, Cui Yi was brought to the yamen of the criminal department. The Zhou clerk invited him in, Cui Yi agreed, carefully carried his steps, and then walked to the hall.

"What did Lord Ye do?" Zhou officials raised their eyes and looked around, but they didn't look at Ye Yongjia's shadow, grabbed a bookstore and asked.

"Brother Zhou," the secretary owes himself, "Lord Ye was called by the emperor for questioning, and he replied after a while. If you have any guests, let's sit here for a while. ”

"Hexun," Zhou Servant smiled at Cui Yi, "I still have to wait." ”

Cui Yiwei said yes and sat under the window with him. The servants were going to serve tea over, but some recognized that it was Cui Long who was pregnant with his son, so they whispered: "Do you know that although this person is a cub born to a squire, he is not doing his job all day long, and he wanders everywhere, so that he is still a showman, and the right path is wasted." When his father was alive, he hated him for being useless, and he was half angry to death, and now he has committed suicide, which is probably related to this matter. Don't give him a good look. ”

"I see, so ......" Everyone listened and nodded, so they deliberately didn't serve tea and went elsewhere, so Cui Yi was not embarrassed, so he had to turn his head to look at the scene outside the window.

Just as they were waiting impatiently, they saw an old man with a white beard come out of the back room, he put on his plain clothes, yawned, and glanced at them.

"Who is this?"

Cui Yi saw that he was not small, so he didn't dare to make a sound, and looked at the Zhou officials in a daze. The Zhou officials wanted to pull him up and salute together, but Cui Yi was nervous, and he couldn't move no matter how he pulled, which frightened the Zhou officials into a cold sweat, so he had to make a deep sigh alone: "Yu, Lord Cai, this is Cui Shilang's son, called Cui Yi......"

Cai Xianqing raised his eyes, looked at Cui Yi's indifferent face, and always refused to salute, sneered, and thought: "Since I became an official, I have been accustomed to seeing sycophants and two-faced people, but I never thought that he would not even make a fool of himself when he saw a famous person like me, I don't know what to think. What a strange man! ’

"What are you doing here?" He asked as he walked over slowly, frowning.

Cui Yi looked at his face and suddenly came back to his senses, but he was still confused for a while: "Are you ...... Who? ”

Zhou Official's face was pale, and he smiled reluctantly and said, "This is Lord Cai, the squire of the Ministry of War, whose name is Xianqing." ”

"Lord Cai, disrespectful ......" Cui Yi shuddered when he heard this, and then he shook it again, "The villain's father died, and I heard that it was an adult surnamed Ye who helped with the cooking, and I was very grateful in my heart." I came here to thank him. ”

"What kind of official are you?" Cai Xianqing asked casually again.

Cui Yi remembered what happened just now, was ashamed, blushed, and replied in a snort: "The villain, the villain is not an official, just a showman." ”

After hearing this, the surrounding officers were all holding back a smile to look at him, and someone accidentally made a sound. This made Cai Xianqing's face sink, and there was a trace of anger in his eyes: "Cui Xiucai, why use the word 'only'?" I see that you are still young, and you will be admitted to the Jinshi in the future, and you will not be able to say for sure. Besides, as the saying goes, 'heroes don't ask about their origins', are those Jinshi really better than you? There are many officials in the court who were born as Jinshi, and all of them are corpses and vegetarians, and they have no achievements! ”

The officers knew that this was a stab at Cai Xianqing's heart, so they were so frightened that they kept silent.

"You don't have to wait here today," Cai Xianqing waved his hand, "The Criminal Department has been busy these days, and there are still a lot of urgent official business to be approved, and it is somewhat inconvenient for you to be here." Go back separately first, and when Lord Ye is free, it's not too late to come and see each other. ”

"I ......" Cui Yi was a little anxious, he took a step forward, only spit out one word in his mouth, and then took it back.

Cai Xianqing followed the voice and looked at him again, dusted off his clothes and said, "If you are in a hurry and want to discuss funeral-related matters, tomorrow I will ask the Zhou officials to take you to my mansion to talk." After saying that, he smiled and patted Cui Yi's shoulder and walked away.