Just when Yuan Huaimin was still thinking hard about who the "abandonment disease" was.

Ouyang Rong made a face, nodded and said:

"If you are late today, you will be deducted as usual."

"Wailing, Brother Lianghan raises your noble hand."

Yuan Huaimin, who thought he had been in the mix, howled, making an old face.

Knowing that he had such a wide ancestor, Ouyang Rong had no sympathy for this thing at the moment.

Jing Zhaoyuan's clan is indeed down, not as good as the five surnamed Qiwang and Guan Long who are prominent in the current Daqian and Great Zhou dynasties.

However, three hundred years ago, the ancestor of the predecessor, the Tuoba clan of the Northern Wei Dynasty, was the original founder of the gate valve system that prevailed in the next three hundred years of the Northern Dynasty.

In other words, the top-level gate valves and anointed clans that have risen since the Qianqian have to thank his family in a sense.

The down-and-out are down-and-out, but the top gate valves still look up to you, because respecting the descendants of the Yuan Wei Dynasty is, in a sense, maintaining the glory of their own lintels.

No wonder the children of the Jingzhao Du clan and other big families are willing to get acquainted with Yuan Huaimin, and Yu Yin can still eat now.

Ouyang Rong looked at Yuan Huaimin, who looked helpless after being punished, and sighed:

"Can you make a point?"

Yuan Huaimin frowned for a while: "It seems that I have to find Brother Wang, and then fight the autumn wind." ”

His face was refreshed and open-minded.

“……”

Ouyang Rong stared at him and asked, "When will Du Shuqing see you?" ”

Yuan Huaimin scratched his head and thought for a while, shaking his head: "I forgot, when did I come last month." ”

Ouyang Rong asked calmly: "Except for Wang Junzhi, I didn't introduce anyone to Brother Huaimin. ”

"Know whom?"

"Li Gong."

"Who is this?" Yuan Huaimin looked puzzled.

"Li Zhengyan."

Yuan Huaimin made a trance:

"Oh, derogatory celebrities, the original Meizhou Thorn History, I've heard it, and I also came to Jiangzhou a while ago."

"Didn't introduce you to you?"

"Nope. But it's true that I've admired the daimyo for a long time. ”

"So I only saw Du Shuqing and Wang Junzhi?"

"Hmm."

Yuan Huaimin replied with a calm face, Ouyang Rong looked at it for a while, but couldn't see anything.

He raised his guard in his heart, Li Zhengyan's whereabouts in Xunyang City, Liulang has always sent people to follow, and reported every day, Ouyang Rong didn't remember that the group had gone to Xingzifang to see Yuan Huaimin.

How did you miss it?

If the two parties have really met, wouldn't it mean that they can easily bypass Yan Liulang's eyes of the head snake, which is not something that ordinary people can do.

Ouyang Rong faintly smelled some strange wind directions.

Can...... What can I do when I secretly see Yuan Huaimin, this guy who is out of tune?

Yuan Huaimin couldn't help asking: "Brother Lianghan seems to care about them very much. ”

"I'm just afraid of taking you badly." Ouyang Rong said casually.

Yuan Huaimin thought about it and asked cautiously:

"They should know that I, the Jiangzhou Sima, am in a vacant position, not in power, and idle all day long."

Ouyang Rong sighed: "Well, that's right, maybe you know better than yourself." ”

“……”

Yuan Huaimin always felt that this sentence was weird, and he seemed to be very out of tune when he said it, and Yuan Huaimin wanted to refute it.

Ouyang Rong suddenly asked:

"At the end of last year, you helped me draw a picture of a hairpin lady on an oil-paper umbrella, but you still remember."

Yuan Huaimin stroked his beard with a look of relief:

"There's such a thing, why, Brother Lianghan also thinks that the hairpin lady picture is not as good as the horse bathing picture, and wants to change it?"

Ouyang Rong shook his head:

"No, I want to say that there was a bit of a big disturbance after the umbrella and the painting were sent out, and I inquired afterwards by the way, and the painting style of your painting seems to be a bit exquisite."

He sighed: "What is the orchid leaf painting of 'Wu with the wind', which belongs to a famous painting saint when the two saints were in the court." ”

"Is there such a thing?"

Yuan Huaimin was stunned for a moment and replied:

"In the painting art, when I was in Chang'an before, I once woke up in a roadside temple, and bumped into a bull-nosed old Taoist who was painting murals.

"Ask him where he is from, say he is from Zhongnan Mountain, hey, is he a master?"

Ouyang Rong stared at Yuan Huaimin for a while, then nodded:

"Maybe it's really a hidden master."

Yuan Huaimin was suddenly overjoyed, and the flies rubbed their hands:

"Brother Lianghan, I didn't lie to you, poetry and painting are unique, or I will be late today to take care of one or two......

Ouyang Rong nodded in praise and interrupted to ask:

"Brother Huaimin, who is both poetic and artistic, is there anything else I don't know, if there is, Brother Huaimin can say together now, don't be like an assassin, stab me from time to time."

Yuan Huaimin's bitter gourd face: "Brother Lianghan is joking again." ”

Ouyang Rong's face seemed to remember something, and he asked directly:

"By the way, we have worked together for so long, and I haven't asked Brother Huaimin why he has been demoted to this point."

I saw that this Jiangzhou Sima, who has expensive housing prices and a big house in Xunyang, looked up at the sky again, and sighed:

"Hey, that's a long story."

"Let's make a long story short."

When Yuan Huaimin heard this, he was rare and concise: "I said the wrong thing." ”

"Talking about the court or a saint."

Yuan Huaimin hung his head.

"Brother Lianghan, people are difficult to dismantle."

It seems that I guessed correctly.

Ouyang Rong didn't reveal his scars again, glanced at the sun outside, stood up, and prepared to leave the main hall.

When he came to the door, he stopped, and without looking back, he said:

"Brother Huaimin."

"Well, what's the matter, Brother Lianghan."

Ouyang Rong lowered his eyes and sorted out his cuffs, and said softly:

"If anything, feel free to tell me, it's not too late."

Yuan Huaimin was stunned for a moment and nodded: "Okay." ”

"Also."

Ouyang Rong's expression was serious, and he added:

"Remember to be on duty on time in the future, from now on, I will wait for you every day."

Yuan Huaimin: "......! ”

Leaving the main hall, Ouyang Rong stood at the door for a while, looked at the sky, and let out a long breath.

He didn't really like the feeling of being out of control and having frequent surprises.

But since Li Zhengyan, Wang Junzhi and others came, something was wrong everywhere.

Especially Wang Junzhi, in a short period of time, there are more people in Xunyang City than Ouyang Rong, the governor of Jiangzhou, and he has figured out the network in the city.

Ouyang Rong admired his energy a little, and his hand stretched out so long.

It is worthy of being the original master of Chang'an, a child of a family from Chang'an.

Shaking his head, Ouyang Rong turned to leave.

In the main hall behind him, Yuan Huaimin turned his head to send the back of a certain "salted fish killer" away and disappeared.

He withdrew his gaze and turned to look south, and froze for a moment.

At a certain moment, this ancestor of the descendant of the Northern Wei royal family rubbed his face, and immediately smiled, his tone open-minded and cheerful:

"Yuanjia is grassy, sealing the wolf Juxu, and winning the canghuang Beigu...... Good words, good words. ”

He tasted the product with a smile, but soon, his face and emotions were visibly low, and he sat alone and muttered:

"I used to hear my grandfather say that in the Yuanjia Northern Expedition two hundred years ago, even if there were 'Han scholars' in the Southern Song Dynasty, they didn't win, and they ended up in a hurry.

"Since ancient times, it seems that it has been difficult to win from the south to the north......

"Hey, why is that, strange, strange."

……

A few days later.

In addition to listening to the little sister and Liulang's daily report on Wang Junzhi's cattle-like communication,

Ouyang Rong put his energy into welcoming the soldiers who would return to the north soon.

On this day, the Jiangzhou Hall received a message from Hu Zhong's envoy who had gone south to pardon the soldiers.

This message is very solemn.

The letter first wrote the good news, that is, the lieutenant envoy Khufu had arrived at a place called Tan Fu and met with the 1,500 soldiers who returned to the north.

On the same day, the Son of Heaven's edict of pardon was read.

The soldiers who returned to the north were successfully comforted by him.

It's kind of dangerous.

Hu Zhong's envoy promised the soldiers in public that they would return them to Hongzhou and Jiangzhou, and that officials along the way would not be blocked.

Allow them to return north in peace.

Even Lieutenant Hu said that he could help them prepare their boats and take the fastest waterway.

The fifteen hundred soldiers who returned to the north did not hesitate much, and immediately put down their weapons and supported this life-saving messenger of the Son of Heaven.

Right now, Khufu's message,

It is to inform the Jiangzhou Hall and the Hongzhou Governor's Mansion to prepare in advance to welcome the soldiers returning to the north.

It is considered to be good news and ventilation.

Ouyang Rong sighed slightly after reading the message.

The situation in Gangnam Province, which had been tense before, has finally eased a lot.

According to the letter, Khufu's trip had gone relatively smoothly and was returning north with the 1,500 soldiers who had laid down their arms.

It seems that Ouyang Rong's preparations in the past few days are correct, and now the only thing left is to prevent Wang Lengran and others from planting the blame on the day the soldiers entered the city.

"Wait, Jiangzhou's side is fine, but what will Hongzhou's side do?"

Ouyang Rong frowned and thought for a while:

"But this Zhu Lingxu doesn't seem to be a member of the Wei family, he is a person from the Teng Wangfu, so there is no need to work so hard for the majesty of the Wei family.

"And that Hu Zhongenvoy is not stupid, he must have thought of this, so after comforting the soldiers, he chose to return with the team, and the first stop was Hongzhou City, which should also prevent ......changes."

Ouyang Rong sat alone, pondered for a while, and continued to check and fill in the gaps:

"Tomorrow night, I will go and talk to my uncle, and the next time I write to intercede, I will also count the 1,200 soldiers who return to the north in Hongzhou Zhichong Mansion, and see if we can 'fine' them to come to Jiangzhou to build statues together, and give them an extra layer of insurance.

"And Jiangzhou is not far from Hongzhou, and the statue still has a salary, so there should be no resentment."

He nodded slightly.

That night, when he returned to drink Bingzhai, Ouyang Rong lay down and rested with Ye Weilai early.

In the middle of the night, in the bed, he suddenly opened his eyes and straightened up.

The drowsiness was dispelled away by the crisp sound of wooden fish in the ears.

"Got merit?"

After only being stunned for a moment, Ouyang Rong first pressed the white-haired little head in the quilt that was about to raise his head in confusion, and then he quickly closed his eyes and lay down to sleep again.

Ouyang Rong's mind sank into the merit tower, and flew directly to the little wooden fish that was still forced to open in the middle of the night.

[Merit: 7,168]

The line of blue-gold fonts above the small wooden fish, the numbers have suddenly become different, and they are still sporadically sporadical.

Ouyang Rong's face was happy and confused.

Why did you suddenly gain more than 500 merits at once in the middle of the night? Before, there were more than 6,600 merits.

Could it be that the merit ceremony of the Heavenly Court Buddha's family is down, stuck in a bag, and given away for nothing?

Well, it shouldn't be.

"Suddenly skyrocketing in merit, is it because the people in Longcheng Township have erected a statue for me again, or is it other measures that are helping others and giving back merit?

"Is it the key to Du Shuqing Merlot Park last time, but look at the letter from Diao County, didn't he move in a long time ago, and he didn't give it until now?

"Speaking of which, when Du Shuqing first lived in Merlot Garden, Xiao Muyu didn't seem to have any obvious merits, so it seems that he didn't appreciate this move......

He tried to think about it, trying to find the source of the skyrocketing merits.

"Forget it, I've done so many good things, I can't think of any one."

Ouyang Rong shook his head, reluctantly gave up, and said to himself half-worriedly and half-happily:

"But it should be a good thing to increase merit......"

Ouyang Rong didn't think much about it, withdrew from the Meritorious Pagoda, and continued to sleep.

Soon it was dawn, and he was full of energy and went to the upper duty.

Although I missed the red fortune of 7,000 merits that may be related to it before,

But Ouyang Rong is still running around, busy with the matter of protecting the soldiers of the north.

There are some things that have nothing to do with returns.

Afternoon.

The third floor of Yunshui Pavilion, the old place.

Ouyang Rong made an appointment to meet Qin Heng again.

As soon as the two met, he went straight to the point and informed Qin Heng of his idea to discuss with the Xunyang Palace.

Qin Heng's breathing became a little rougher, he took a deep breath, his expression calmed down, and he clenched his fists heavily:

"Thank you Ouyang Changshi for her righteousness, and thank you for being so loving."

His expression was resolute, as if he was not good at expressing his true feelings.

However, listening to the crisp sound of the wooden fish ringing in his ears, Ouyang Rong roughly understood this Guo Yi Du Lieutenant, who was not good at words, and was grateful from the bottom of his heart.

He smiled and said a few words of relief.

After that, the two discussed together the cooperation matters of going out of the city to welcome the soldiers returning to the north in the near future.

Qin Heng asked casually: "Changshi said that on that day, you transferred the saber given to you by the last general to Envoy Hu?" ”

Ouyang Rong: "That's right, this time the soothing soldiers went well, maybe there was a reason for Captain Su's response......"

He was in the middle of his sentence when he paused suddenly.

Closing his mouth and taking a sip of tea with his head down, Ouyang Rong glanced at Qin Heng with his eyebrows.

"What's wrong with Ouyang Changshi, why are your hands shaking?"

"It's fine."

Ouyang Rong ignored the bell tremor in his ears, covered his emotions, and put down the teacup again:

"I'm a little sleepy."

"Then Ouyang Changshi should rest earlier."

"It's fine."

Ouyang Rong and Qin Heng continued to talk and laugh freely.

After a stick of incense, the discussion ended, he stood up and said goodbye to Qin Heng.

On a carriage that slowly drove back to the Jiangzhou lobby, as soon as Ouyang Rong got into the car, he sat with his eyes closed and flew into the merit tower as soon as possible.

Inside the Meritorious Pagoda, he looked up at the bronze ancient bell above that trembled again and flowed with "water mist", and his face couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

In the purple mist gushing out of the body of the blessing bell, mixed with blood-red silk threads, it is a little familiar......

The red blessing worth 7,000 merits has returned.

From this point of view, the trigger condition is indeed related to Qin Heng.

He said calmly.

After hesitating for a moment, Ouyang Rong closed his eyes and his heart moved.

I saw that the blue-gold font floating above the small wooden fish suddenly turned into a swimming carp, and it quickly crashed into the trembling ancient bell in the air.

Fortune exchange.

Bell ——!

Hong Zhong Da Lu, ringing in the ears.

Bloody blessings, successful exchange.

Ouyang Rong opened his eyes, and above his head, the bronze ancient bell that was originally trembling and restless was silent.

The blue-gold font in front of him was emptied again.

"The landlord's family has no surplus food." He sighed with a broken smile.

After stumbling in the tower for a moment, Ouyang Rong left the Meritorious Pagoda expectantly......

(End of chapter)