Coming down from the Qianqing Palace, Yinzhen felt that his whole body was soft. I didn't expect that such a few high-level Chens were exchanged for the test phrase "patience is not afraid of triviality". If you knew this, it would be better not to say it, so as to avoid Yinxi's suspicion that she was jealous and grabbed her credit! Although Kangxi did not say a word of seriousness and did not depose an official, but such an indifferent shelving was more tasteless and unpredictable than being furious and scolding a dog. Today's table is right, although it seems to be the right holy will, but "a long drought and sweet rain", but there are only a few drops, which is inevitably disappointing. Yinzhen thought that he and Yinxiang were dismal in business, and all the hardships were to marry others, life is worldly, and fortune is impermanent, after all, what is the interest? He sat down in the easy chair of Wanfutang and closed his eyes in contemplation, really a little disheartened. Just as he was thinking about himself, the sound of crutches on the ground approached, Wu Sidao paced in, and said with both hands: "Why is the master worried deeply? ”

"What worries? I'm just the number one idler in the world. Yin Zhen folded his spirits and sat up straight, gave up his seat with one hand, and said leisurely: "It's still Zhuangzi's saying, 'Absolute saints abandon knowledge and thieves, and small thieves can't afford to pick jade and destroy pearls', why should I be in danger and make myself anxious?" Wu Sidao saw that there was Yinzhen's poetry window manuscript on the desk, sat on the side, flipped through it, and said with a smile: "I'm afraid that the fourth master will not be able to be like an ancient well." Zhuangzi also said: 'If he contains his knowledge, the world will not be strong; If people are smart, the world is not tired; If people know it, the world will not be confused; With its virtue, the world is not secluded. 'You have so many things in your mouth, I'm afraid you can't be an idler. Yinzhen smiled when he said a few words, but he frowned and sighed: "I am exhausted, I want to do things, I have done things, and I have struggled to survive all difficulties, but I have broken my oars and my boat is stuck in the shallows!" ”

Wu Sidao was speechless after hearing this, and browsed Yinzhen's poems one by one, and smiled for a long time before he smiled: "The fourth master doesn't understand what the students say. According to the students, now that the autumn is high and cool, Wanmu Xiaosen, it is the time when the strong man travels far away, where is there so many **? Yin Zhen looked out the window in a daze, for a long time, took a deep breath, and said: "The west wind is wild all night, blowing down my family's phoenix nest, and the sycamore leaves fall Xiao Xiao ......" while saying, he shook his head with a wry smile, and said: "When the matter of the household came out, I thought about it carefully, this time it was Qi Gen'er who broke the plane tree!" The most pitiful of my second brother, he still seems to be a nobody, he came down to Yuqing Palace today, and he also advised me not to be 'mediocre people disturb themselves'! At this moment, the eldest brother, the third brother and the old man still don't know what strange topics they are discussing! It's ridiculous, Lao Thirteen and I are a couple of idiots! Wu Sidao listened, seemed a little careless, and asked casually, "What about now?" What are the plans of the fourth master now? ”

"I can't do anything now." Yin Zhen frowned and said, "The criminal department and the household department have become the eighth child, the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of War was originally his world, and it is obvious that the chess move of long live to replace the national prince, although the prince does not say it, I think he also has a number in his heart." I've thought about it, Prince An, I'm naturally fine, the prince is uneasy, there must always be a new prince in Hengzhi. I'm an errand worker, and I won't do anything to me. ”

"This is the plan of the fourth master?" Wu Sidao suddenly became angry, his face was blue and white, he threw away the folding fan in his hand with a "bang", set up his crutches, and stared at Yinzhen aggressively and reprimanded: "Philistine! Yin Zhen opened his mouth wide in shock, and looked at Wu Sidao blankly, he had never been scolded by anyone like this, and he had never seen this polite and calm Wu Sidao have such a big temper, usually a few words, why is he annoyed? was stunned, Wu Sidao protested and said, "Aren't you talking about 'the west wind withering green tree'? What is 'Bishu'? Bishu is the prince! Chen Sheng is barefoot and dares to say, 'Princes and generals, I would rather have a kind of', not to mention that you are a king, a dragon species, an elder brother who has made outstanding achievements for the country, not the prince's private person! If you don't break this one, you will never get ahead! Wu Sidao's double turning point was loud, and he said excitedly: "A cowardly man like Big Brother still knows how to chase the Central Plains, why did you hold the purpose of watching from the wall?" What a short-sightedness! ”

Yin Zhen listened, only to feel a coldness soaked in his skin, his heart was constricted, his face was terrifyingly pale, for a long time, he lowered his head, waved his hand and said, "Mr. Wu, I ...... Sit down and listen to me. Because he summoned the Qianqing Palace, he went to Chen, Kangxi's words were all 1510, and at the end he said: "Mr. blamed me for being short-minded, what he said is good, I am indeed a little discouraged, and now the situation, what hope is there if you don't wait and see?" ”

"The fourth master is worried about this?" After listening carefully, Wu Sidao suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed, and said, "Which sage said that a person who is 'patient and not afraid of triviality' cannot take on the great responsibility of the world?" In my opinion, this is the best test language today! ”

Yinzhen raised his head suddenly, "That-why did Ama use Yinzhen?" Wu Douge smiled and said: "That's nature, they are all his sons, he wants to compare them, see which one is the most talented!" Yin Zhen thought about it, shook his head, and said faintly: "I know the eighth person." If he really wants to do it, he can do a good job......" The following words were difficult to speak, so he stopped.

"That's why I gave the fourth master an idea and went to that Chen." Wu Sidao smiled, "He sent it to be done, but he did one of your things, and he couldn't do it, because he didn't listen to your idea." Long live really chose him, and he won't despise you - but in my opinion, it can't be discussed so deeply now, after all, the crown prince is in power, and the eighth master is involved a lot, so he may not be able to handle the mission of the criminal department! He laughed again. Yin Zhen said sullenly: "I have thought of all of these. The most difficult thing for me is to get along with the prince, I can't get close, I can't go far - the eighth looks really excited, and I have made up my mind to show my genius in the criminal department! Yesterday, the thirteenth brother told me that when he heard the news of his entry into the Criminal Department, several of his former disciples in the Criminal Department wanted to meet him, but he refused to meet him, isn't this a sign? ”

Wu Sidao saw that this prince, who was full of words to be an "idler", was so torn apart, and he was distressed, so he only smiled, changed the subject, and asked, "When will the emperor go to Rehe?" ”

"The third day of October."

"Didn't you instruct the eighth master when he finished his errand?"

"Nope." Yinzhen looked at Wu Sidao and said, "But depending on Yinzhen's meaning, he said that he wanted the emperor to go to Rehe happily, and I think he will do it with great fanfare in the near future." ”

Wu Sidao pondered for a while, and then said, "The emperor recently checked the window textbooks of the elder brothers?" "What?" Yin Zhen looked at Wu Sidao strangely, he didn't understand what this scholar wanted to say, and only after a while did he smile and said: "The window class is a five-day look, never interrupted, but this book was written by Monk Wenjue in the spare time of Zen, for fear of hindering the holy hearing, I didn't dare to submit it." ”

"I just took a look," Wu Sidao said, "Although the poems and texts here are not all of the best works, they are tranquil and suitable, and they are very suitable for the character of the fourth master, so why not present them to the long-lived master?" For example, this one, you see how well it is written! As he spoke, he flipped through it casually, pointed to a poem and handed it to Yinzhen. When Yinzhen took it, it was:

Lazy to ask about ups and downs, entertaining flowers and willows.

Wu Er tunes the phoenix song, and the Yue girl presses the flute.

Dao Xu Mountain monk visited, chess will be wild moves.

The lacquer garden is not admired, and the right ambition is free.

Yin Zhen looked at it and smiled: "This poem has no style, is it boring to present it?" I can't compare to the third child when I do poetry. Wu Sidao shook his head with a smile, and pointed to another song, but it was:

Life is rare for seventy years, except for the young and the old after the old.

When there is not much time in the middle, there are frost and troubles.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon is unknown, and the Qingming flowers are not good.

Before the moon and singing, the gold bottle must be poured over.

There is too much money in the world to make, and there are too many officials in the court to do it.

The official big money turned worried, and his own head turned white.

Spring, summer, autumn and winter are at the fingertips, and the bell sends the evening chicken to announce the dawn.

Please pay attention to the people in front of you, and bury the grass once a year.

How many graves are high and low in the grass, and no one sweeps them for half of the year.

Wu Sidaoyin said: "This is Tang Bohu's "Song of the First Life". Yin Zhen nodded and said, "Yes." Because of the practice of calligraphy, I copied it by hand, and I was afraid that there would be any obstacles, so I didn't dare to enter the Imperial Review. ”

Wu Sidao pondered for a moment, smiled and said, "Don't underestimate these poems. It may not be written passionately and generously, the song is windy, and the thinking warrior is good! Now the eldest elder brother, the third elder brother and the eighth elder brother are each doing their own articles, and they are all showing their 'great ambitions' in front of Long Live, but they don't know that this is a holy taboo. The emperor has not had time to be obedient, the spring and autumn are at their peak, and a group of sons with great ambitions and good plans accompany each other day and night, how can they not be suspicious? "Oh......" Yin Zhen leaned back and glanced at Wu Sidao in surprise: This lame man is so proficient in the emperor's mental arts, it is really unfathomable! Thinking about it, he took out the window textbook that was ready to be presented tomorrow, and with the help of the pen and ink, the workman recorded a poem of seven rules:

The mountain dwelling and the joy of the far-reaching, pitching the wild credit.

Thousands of years of honor and appearance, 100-year-old honor and disgrace in the mirror.

The golden bottle is pouring autumn and twilight, and the path is bleak and oblique.

I heard that the smoke of the five lakes is good, why is it because of the fishing sand.

"Good!" Wu Sidao slapped his hands and smiled, secretly praising Yinzhen's clever thinking: such a poem is indeed much better than sending a large volume at first. But he didn't dare to say anything, so he only said: "The fourth master's words are really practiced to the point of being superb!" ”

On the second day of Wu Sidao and Yinzhen's plan, Yinzhen was ordered to go on a business trip and stationed in the Criminal Department. Regardless of 3721, from the squire of the criminal department, the staff of the outer lang to the officials of the various departments and halls, they all took off the top and were dismissed from their posts and retained, and the prisoners moved all the covers into the yamen, and even the back stables were vacated and filled with officials of all sizes. This sharp and decisive measure not only made the secretaries of the Criminal Department dizzy, but also shocked the government and the opposition, and even Emperor Kangxi didn't expect this gentle and elegant brother to be so stiff. From Yuqing Palace to the upper study, what was overwhelming was the discussion handed over by Yinxi, and the films, all of which were strategies for reorganizing the affairs of the ministry, and formulating important cases for retrial, where the confessions of the documents of the thick trial were doubtful, the laws and regulations were not in accordance with the regulations, and the sentencing was improper, Yinxi was really not afraid of trouble, and handed them to the study one by one, which made Ma Qi and Tong Guowei also sit on pins and needles. The officials of the Criminal Department were originally most afraid that the two "demon kings" Yinzhen and Yinxiang would come to the ministry to find fault with the grinding, but when they heard that the "Eighth Master is coming" has not had time to rejoice in their foreheads, they were bombarded by this slam, and they immediately panicked, looking for the disciple, trusting the same year, and begging for the master's ...... There are all kinds of things: Yinxi looked at it in his eyes, sneered in his heart, and didn't pay attention to it.

On the tenth day of the chaos, Yinxi entered the palace early in the morning to ask for peace, returned to the criminal department, and before he sat down in the signing room, he saw Lao Caitou come in and said: "The ninth master, the tenth master, and the fourteenth master are here." Yinyu was slightly stunned, and ordered a few officials who were waiting for the incident to go back first, and came out in three steps and two steps. Yinxi smiled and let in, and said: "The price is mixed with me all day long, but I have been busy dying in the past few days, and I will not see your shadow!" When he turned his face and saw that Ren Boan was also following him, he smiled.

"Starling's bones are so stiff!" Yin came in with his two elder brothers, but he didn't sit down, looked at the banner on the wall, and said with a smile on his palm, "I don't know how many times I've been to this criminal department's yamen, but I didn't expect to change the world in a few days!" Look at these filthy officials, one by one, they have stripped their complements, bare their tops, crying and leaning against the wall, squeezing their eyebrows, making eyes and ears, eating tea, smoking, and chatting with melon seeds. Where is the place where the state executes a lot, like the goblin who was driven out of the seventy-two caves by Sun Xingzhi, there are all kinds of cows, ghosts, snakes, gods, ghosts, and ghosts......" laughed. Yin Yu couldn't help laughing: "That's right." I'm just a golden hoop stick that I can't beat, and I'm looking forward to your help! As he spoke, he ordered someone to watch the tea, and asked Ren Bo'an with a turning face: "What are you doing here?" ”

Ren Bo'an looked serene, listening to their brothers' laughter, seeing that he was asked, he glanced at Yinyu, took a step forward, and held a booklet with both hands with a humble face. Yinyu hesitantly took it and asked Yinyu: "What is this for?" ”

"Help Starling pick up the gold hoop stick!" Yin Yu shook his head angrily, "Starling wants to be a Bao Gong, and I'll fill in the dragon head." Aren't you going to investigate the wrongs of the Criminal Department? It's easy to do, an outsider doesn't need to ask, just ask Lao Jiu, and even those that I didn't handle are all documented - it's all in this booklet! ”

There was a sudden silence in the room. It was close to Mengdong, and the weather was already cold, only listening to the wind whistling on the roof, and the dust was shaking uneasily. Yinxi seemed to have been beaten with a stick, his face was so white that there was no blood, and he looked at the pale yellow sky outside the door in a daze, only to feel that his heart fell suddenly, as if he was about to fall into the bottomless ancient well.

"How's that going?" Yin had never seen Lao Ba so embarrassed, but he felt funny, "The prisoner is looking for a substitute for the dead ghost, this is called 'slaughtering the white duck', understand?" A lot of white ducks were slaughtered, and we slaughtered and ate them ourselves. Actually, I didn't give you any money, and my account has never been paid! Yin smiled and said: "You are a dead pig, not afraid of boiling water." "By the way, the old fourteen said it well!" Yin hippie smiled and said, "Brother Nine made 40,000, and the rest was taken by Brother Starling for favors." Today, the starling is going to smash the cornucopia, and he should explain it clearly, and the starling will take a charter. ”

Only then did Yin Xi come back to his senses, a sinister smile hung on the corner of his mouth, and said: "Okay, this is a good brother, a good slave to do a good errand!" Ren Bo'an, how many times have I asked you to do such a thing? Isn't the money for collecting gold taxes and digging ginseng enough? To do such a hurtful thing? ”

"That's the difficulty of being a minion." Ren Bo'an lowered his head and replied softly, "Eighth Master Shengming, slaves can't be gold, urine and silver, we have four financial routes, business, gold tax, ginseng, Huangzhuang year, and from the six departments." The eighth master thinks about it, how much does it take to get promoted, help poor officials, and buy fields and gardens in a year? Even if the fourth master and the thirteenth master collect debts, they have to pay it back with cash! If you don't say a word, you have changed others, and if you want to do this, I'm afraid that you will touch the door as a window! ”

A few sentences explain that the slaughter of the white duck was done by Yinyu, but the money obtained was made by Yinyu himself. He thought for a long time, breathed a sigh of silence, held the booklet in one hand, shook the fire fold, and lit it silently, until he watched it burn to ashes, his eyes flashed, his eyebrows jumped imperceptibly, and he sneered: "Good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil." Such a wicked thing, you can do it at any time. Aren't you afraid of the king's law, nor are you afraid of lightning strikes? Suddenly, a murderous intent arose in his heart.

"Minions understand." Ren Bo'an is so shrewd, he has already seen it, bowed down and said, "There is no way to ascend to heaven, and there is a gate to hell." The slave is loyal to the master, although death is heavier than Mount Tai! After that, he knelt down and said, "Please torture the eighth master!" ”

Yin Yu "snapped" and got up, looking at the plague-headed Ren Bo'an, his eyes flashed faintly: Just here and now, wouldn't it be a hundred to punish this person with a knife? Remove this burden, and even the three brothers don't need to be guarded against. Just thinking about how to kill this killer, Yinyu also got up, patted Yinyu lightly on the shoulder, and said meaningfully: "Starling, one miss will become a thousand years of hatred, and it will be a hundred years to turn back!" ”

"The eighth master killed the villain, if he can clarify the rule of the officials, the villain will die without complaint." Seeing that the owner of Yinyu came out to speak, Ren Bo'an gathered up the timidity that was revealed for a moment, and said eloquently, "The villain doesn't know who instigated to do this, but the villain knows who is the foundation of the eighth master - it is the official of the eighth master who wants to rectify!" The eighth master hasn't done much badly, and his reputation and prestige can't be compared to that elder brother, why? Just because the eighth master is benevolent and generous, knowledgeable, measured, and insightful! Kill me, and no one will dare to gather wealth for the eighth master; After getting rid of this batch of officials, the eighth master will be the same as the fourth master. How many water mills were put into it. Now there are rumors boiling outside, looking at the battle of the eighth master, it seems to be more ruthless than the fourth master and the thirteenth master...... What is a pity for the slave is that he fights for his life and does not care about the eighth master, and in the end it will not end well......" said with tears streaming down his face, and choked up: "The eighth master will kill me!" …… If you talk about the principles of heaven and the law of kings, I am really innocent......"

Yinxi felt dizzy and sat back in his chair. Seeing that today's "Three Heroes Battle Lu Bu" was effective, Yin Yu licked his lips with satisfaction and persuaded: "I don't know about it with the old ten, the fourteenth and the eighth brother? You can't have two hearts with starlings anymore! It's not that my brother complains about you, you shouldn't have accepted this messenger in the first place - it's up to the fourth child to do it, he has offended everyone, and this messenger is still a failure! At that time, when you come out to clean up the mess and calm people's hearts, isn't it better than taking this risky move? Yin smiled and said, "Starling wants to sweep away the gloom of the world with a broom?" Do the math, just go to the study, not to mention Ma Qi, how many protégés does Zhang Tingyu and Tong Guowei have? Kissing, door to door, intertwined, grace and righteousness, one person has something to come to the aid from all directions, in addition to slaughtering the white duck, there are many things that don't see the sun in the dark! Have you swept it all? The fourth brother is incompetent? Relying on IOUs to ask for accounts also makes people turn their backs! The matter of the Criminal Department, if you want to move seriously, Ma Qi will have to roll up and get out, Tong Guowei can't stand it, not to mention that the prince, the fourth brother, the eldest brother and the third brother are all looking at you with a tiger's eye! If it was so light and easy, the eldest brother would have snatched the messenger a long time ago, and it would be our turn! ”

"Ahh Yin glared and slapped his thigh, "That's what I said too!" If you remove the people from the Criminal Department, I will be shocked, and if you do this, you must first suspect: What happened to this old eight? He's never been like that, has he? Is it to figure out how to please me, or to sell fame? ——If a person changes his normal life, he will die if he does not get sick! He turned his head to Ren Bo'an and said, "Fuck your ancestor, so blind?" Blindly kneeling, so that people can see what's going on? ”

Everyone analyzed it in an orderly manner, and every sentence was to the point, and Yinyu suddenly understood that he and Yinyu and others were inseparable brothers! Even if he kills Ren Bo'an, if this group of people goes against him, the end will not even be as good as Yinxiang! Thinking about it, I couldn't help but secretly regret that I shouldn't have listened to the stupid suggestions of Ah Ling'a and Zhang Deming, and almost messed up my camp. Frustrated for a while, Yin Yu reluctantly smiled and said, "Ren Bo'an, get up." I'm angry in my heart, and I don't really want to be a model of you. You're an old man, why are you so muddy? Human life is at stake, dare to buy and sell! Don't do this kind of bastard again! Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and chatted for a while. Yin Yu smiled: "We still have to think about the starling." Fifth Brother Zhang's case, it can't be hidden, but Lao Ren's hands and feet are very clean, and they can't bite it! Since the people from the Criminal Department took it, they simply made some articles: interrogated one by one and investigated hard! Anyway, there is no 'white duck' in the prison, and it is still Fifth Brother Zhang who has pulled the Shuntianfu Prison Prison, the history of the Prison God Temple, and the criminal examiner, so I think it's almost the same. What temple doesn't have a dead ghost? ”

"Wonderful, my heart understands it and God accepts it!" Yin Yu smiled, "The clouds are heavy, the thunder is roaring, the wind is blowing, and the rain is sparse ......" Yin Yu looked outside the door and said, "Old Fourteen speak carefully." You and Lao Shi take Ren Bo'an away. There are many people here, and it is a place of right and wrong. ”

"Lao Ren's head is still firm." Yin got up with a smile, patted Ren Bo'an's neck, and Yin took a group of family members away.

As soon as they left, before Yinxiang could speak, he saw Yinxiang coming in from the Yimen with a few guards, with a knife hanging from his waist, and the spurs under his feet were tinkling, and he smiled from afar: "What do you say about the ninth brother?" Tell my brother to hear it too! Yinyu Yinyu glanced at each other quickly, got up to greet each other, and gave up the seat to offer tea, Yinyu asked with a smile: "Thirteenth brother, aren't you still in charge of the affairs of the household?" What is the wind that blows you here as busy as you go? ”

"What's the bullshit going on in the household? I just went to the Heart Cultivation Hall to say goodbye, and Ama said the same. He also said, 'Go to the criminal department to help your starling on an errand,' and he came on horseback. Yinxiang frowned, sipped tea and said. After a pause, he asked: "The tenth brother and the fourteenth brother went out, and there was a person inside, like the Bo'an in the ninth brother's mansion. What is he doing here? ”

Yinyu Yinyu didn't expect Kangxi to come to Yinxiang, who hated dogs, and came to his side, they were all stunned, their hearts were more tired than eating a fly, and they were all frightened when they heard this question, and after a while, Yinyu pretended to be surprised and said: "Ren Bo'an? I would have called him a naturalizer a long time ago! He hasn't been here...... Oh, come to think of it, the bearded dog in the old ten mansions looks a little like Ren Bo'an. It must be that the thirteenth brother is confused. ”

The three brothers with strange thoughts each took a cup and smiled, and a dense layer of fine sweat appeared on Yinyu's head.