Yangzhou Mansion, Guangling Academy.

A small building, hidden between the pines and cypresses, with a few lights, cross a bridge, under the bridge is a lotus pond, standing in the water, quiet and tranquil.

Three chairs, sitting opposite each other, sat three generations of old, middle and young, as if they were grandparents and grandchildren, in addition to the sound of boiling water, there were only a few frogs in the lotus pond and the whispers of summer insects in the forest.

After Yu Guang came out of the Bafang Building, he wanted to take Qin Lao to Song Ren's mansion, but he didn't expect Song Ren to leave at all.

He thought that Song Ren was too smart and guessed that he would come down soon, so on the way to the academy, he boasted to Qin Lao.

What a clever calculation, what a young talent.

Song Rendu blushed when he praised it, but he couldn't tell Yu Guang that he was just talking to Su Mo about the root of the wall, right?

In fact, Song Ren was hard-pulled over, although the road between Yangzhou Mansion and Jiangdu County is not far, but it is already night, and when he comes, it means that he has to spend the night outside, because the city gate is locked, and if he wants to go home, he has to wait until the city gate opens the next day.

Song Ren didn't want Song Wu to worry, and wanted to go home and let him know, but Yu Guang waved his hand and randomly assigned someone from the servants who followed, and asked that person to pass the word.

Then, like kidnapping a ticket, he pushed Song Ren into the carriage.

Then, the three of them sat in the middle hall to make tea, and the brewed tea was still the loose tea sold in the Beishan Tea Garden.

In fact, Qin Zhengyuan originally wanted to drink, he was good at wine, and Yu Guang was also good at wine, but when he heard Song Ren say that the wine made by Chai Ji was not good, he dispelled this idea, because the wine at home happened to be Chai Ji's.

The water boiled, Qin Zhengyuan began to make tea, and his movements were very skillful.

Song Ren just looked at it with a puzzled expression.

Because he saw the tin box containing tea, there was no word "special".

And there is not much tea left in the jar.

He remembered very well that when he asked Yu Guang to inscribe on the tin box, he brought several cans of such unmarked samples as a thank you gift.

Another point, the person who invited him to this academy was not Qin Zhengyuan, but Yu Guang.

Thinking of this, and thinking of what happened at the banquet, Song Ren showed an expression of sudden realization, "You know? ”

Hearing this, Qin Lao, who was pouring tea, paused, but quickly recovered.

Yu Guang, on the other hand, burst into laughter like a duck's call.

"Hahaha, Master Qin, I just said that this son is smart, and he found the clue so quickly."

Then Yu Guang praised again, what resourcefulness, what a young talent.

Song Ren rolled his eyes, "Master Yu, no matter how much you praise me, I don't have the money to borrow from you." ”

This sentence made Yu Guang almost spray the tea he drank on Song Ren's face.

Yu Guang choked a few times, and then said in a slightly disdainful tone: "After the battle to quell the chaos that year, even the Holy Lord failed to invite Qin Shi to enter Hanlin, just with a prefect, he is not qualified enough. ”

He wiped the water stains on the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, and then said: "Before going to the banquet, the foolish brother said that all of them will be told truthfully, and now is the time." ”

Song Ren immediately sat up straight, looking like he was listening.

"The saint wants to fight, the treasury has no money, and he is eyeing the tax silver of Nanzhili."

After speaking, Yu Guang took a sip of tea and blinked.

Song Ren nodded, and also blinked.

Wide-eyed and small-eyed, after counting the breaths, Song Ren touched his head, "It's over?" ”

Yu Guang looked at him with a smile, "This can be said, and there are some that can't be said, do you want to hear it?" ”

"I don't want to!"

Song Ren immediately shook his head, he knew his identity very well, patrolling according to the Imperial History Dynasty Son of Heaven to patrol the hunt, he was ordered by the Holy Order, not a show who was qualified to listen, he didn't know if curiosity would kill the cat, but he would be beheaded.

For this answer, Yu Guang was not surprised at all, his investigation of Song Ren was very thorough, and he had already found out his grandfather's generation, so he sent someone to dig up the grave and conduct an autopsy.

So Song Ren knew about buying fame, but it was not, which is why Yu Guang didn't show a very surprised appearance during the banquet.

A Xiucai who was rumored to be famous by his classmates, after returning home, he began to be a dog's leg, no, as a teacher, and then all kinds of clinging to the powerful and oppressing the people, but on the eve of the arrival of the imperial history, he turned over the lawsuit he had played, and uncharacteristically fought for justice for the people, and even dared to sue the official as a citizen, but it was such a person, and suddenly went to engage in tea business, and engaged in a business that normal scholars look down on.

All kinds of contradictions made Yu Guang's brain make up one thing, and his brain made up a "complete" Song Ren.

This teacher, who cares about the people and loves the country and the people, is disheartened because he has suffered unfair treatment, but he is disheartened, he is pretending, pretending to be with the family and the powerful, just to collect evidence and wait for an opportunity, a chance to see the dawn, but when he grasped the opportunity, he thought that he had found justice, and when he thought that his efforts were not in vain, he was slapped by reality again, and then he was really disheartened and became a businessman.

Yu Guang looked at Song Ren with a smile, "Are you blaming Brother Fool, not only did you not punish He Zhixian well, but kept his official position." ”

The topic turned so bluntly that Song Ren was confused.

"There is no way to do it, you need to install a person of your own in Nanzhili, and He Jingwen is the best choice, don't look at him as mean, everything is and mud, but among the hundreds of counties in Nanzhili, his political achievements are the best, and the people of Jiangdu County are also the least accidents."

"He is greedy, it is forced by the situation, because the officials of the entire Nanzhili are greedy, and those who are not greedy have been brought down, but he is the only official who uses the embezzled money on the people, and the officials are not afraid of greed, but they are afraid of incompetence."

"He Jingwen is capable, but he is hindered by his grade, and there are many things that he can't do and can't do."

Yu Guang added a cup of tea to Song Ren and continued: "This official made a deal with him, I held his handle and kept his position, and he provided me with first-hand information about the officials of Nanzhili, this deal was worth it." ”

"The saint now wants to check the tax and silver of Nanzhili, one is that the treasury is really out of money, and the other is that the king of Han has made this place a miasma, and even has a heart of disobedience, the family here, officials, colluding with each other, bitter, there are always only the people, the saint sent me to the south, and he only said one sentence to me, check, check for Lao Tzu!"

As soon as Song Ren picked up the teacup, his movements stopped instantly.

He winked at Yu Guang, "Is this something I can hear?" ”

Yu Guang shook his head, with a strange smile, "No, listening to the holy will in vain is a big crime to be killed, Song Zhuangshi won't know it." ”

it!

Song Ren immediately stood up, and he finally found out that he had been trapped!