When Xiting came to the front hall with Wu's mother, everyone had already taken their seats, and Su Shi saw her come in, and hurriedly beckoned her to his side, "Ting'er." ”

She introduced to Xiting: "This is Lord Lin and his wife, son. ”

"Yo, Ting'er has become a big girl." Rong suddenly interjected, and she compared the table case: "When we met in Changle back then, the pavilion was not as high as this table." ”

Qian Ming'an smiled: "When you went back to Changle to visit relatives, Ting'er was only six years old, and now they are all in time. ”

As he spoke, he beckoned and gestured towards the Xi Pavilion: "I've seen Lord Lin and Mrs. Lin soon." ”

Xiting blessed the two of them one by one: "Lord Lin, Mrs. Lin." ”

When her eyes turned to the man sitting between Rong and her, she was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously said, "Why are you?" ”

As soon as the words fell, before the man beside him could reply, Rong Shi smiled and said, "Ting'er, do you recognize Ze'er?" ”

Lin Congze was wearing a crescent white cross-collared robe, with pale green bamboo patterns embroidered on the neckline, and his hair was tied with a jade crown, warm as jade, and he smiled.

He got up and bowed to Xiting: "Qian Niang." Then he looked at Rong and smiled: "Mother, more than a month ago, I went to Pingyang County with His Royal Highness for disaster relief, and I had a relationship with Mrs. Qian. ”

Xiting was stunned, he and him were not only on the same side, before in the Great Xiangguo Temple, he was the first person who couldn't help but hide his face and laugh at her, he is like this now, but he seems to have forgotten about it, and he didn't mean to laugh at her at all.

Rong responded: "Oh, I think Ting'er remembered you." ”

After speaking, she added: "However, at that time in Changle, you were all young, and it was common sense not to remember." ”

Xiting was also stunned when she heard this, Changle was where the Qian family's old mansion was located, she knew it, but she didn't remember that the Lin family had been there.

"You two are still standing, sit down, sit down." Seeing that they were standing silent, Su Shi hurriedly beckoned them to sit down.

Xiting retracted his thoughts, sat down, and heard Lin Shao laugh and said: "Brother Qian, back then, you and I were classmates and Jinshi together, but I didn't expect you to become a water official, but now I have become a Dali Siqing." ”

He clinked glasses with Qian Ming'an, and then said: "Everyone only knows that there are many water conservancy in Kyoto, and the underground drainage network extends in all directions, but they don't know that it is precisely because of this drainage network that we are sad in Dali Temple. ”

"Nonsense. This Dali Temple can't fight with the eight poles of the capital water supervisor, how can you still provoke your Dali Temple? Rong rolled his eyes at Lin Shao and interjected.

Lin Shao and Qian Mingan looked at each other and smiled.

"You woman." Lin Shao pointed at Rong's and said with a slight disdain: "What do you know." ”

He took a sip of wine and said, "The underground drainage network extends in all directions, and the culverts are crisscrossed like cobwebs, and it is good for them to be water monitors. But do you know that the thieves even hid in the sewers, which are all over Kyoto, and the thieves often don't know where to hide as soon as they go down the sewers. ”

As he spoke, he glanced at the crowd and pretended to be mysterious: "There are even more arrogant thieves who have given a name to this underground river network in Kyoto. ”

He paused, looked at Xiting and deliberately asked, "Do you know, what do they call this underground river network?" ”

Xiting had long been aroused by his above words, and now when he was asked, he suddenly blurted out: "What's it called?" ”

Everyone laughed at her way of wanting to know the answer, "Haha......"

"Sanssouci Cave." Lin Congze smiled at the corner of his lips and said warmly.

Xiting turned his head to look at him, and his eyebrows furrowed: "Worry-free cave? ”

Lin Congze smiled: "Yes, because the culverts under Kyoto extend in all directions, like a labyrinth, in this way, even if the Yamen catches fast, even if they know that people are in the culverts, they can't start." As a result, those thieves committed crimes and hid in the culvert for many years, and some flower thieves even took the woman directly into the culvert and called it the 'Sanssouci Cave'. ”

Xiting nodded, and suddenly heard Lin Shao say again: "Brother Qian, you have done a lot for the water conservancy in Kyoto. But I heard that the saint was furious about the siltation of the Xunyang River recently, and scolded His Royal Highness King Ying in the imperial study. It can be seen that this errand is not easy to do. ”

Qian Ming'an took a sip of wine and sighed slightly: "Yes." This Xunyang River belongs to the lower reaches of the Jinsha River, the Jinsha River, as the name suggests, is the sand content of the river water is extremely high, there is a saying in the market that 'a bucket of water can produce eight taels of sand' is the Jinsha River. The sand flows downstream with the river and settles in the river, causing the river to accumulate, the riverbed to become taller, and the river to become shallow, so that the large cargo ships that need draft cannot sail into the capital. The Xunyang River runs through the northeast of our country, if the merchant ships cannot enter Beijing, our northeast transport will not be able to communicate with the capital, which will inevitably affect the trade of the entire northeast. Therefore, His Majesty ordered the River Canal Department to dredge the Xunyang River every year to ensure unimpeded navigation. ”

He took a sip of food and said: "But the Xunyang River is wide, and every time the river is dredged, it takes a lot of manpower and material resources. Therefore, the saint is also a headache, and he must come up with a way to ensure the smooth flow of transportation in the northeast......"

Qian Ming'an wanted to say something, but was intercepted by Su's family, she glanced at Qian Ming'an, "You said you, just chat, why do you still talk about official business?" Today's Mid-Autumn Festival, it is rare for a family reunion to say some depressing words. ”

Su Shi beckoned everyone to eat vegetables, "Come, come, come, everyone quickly pick up the dishes, don't listen to his nonsense." ”

Qian Ming'an knew that the Su family didn't like him and talked about these riverbank things in front of Xiting, so he couldn't help but smile, picked up the wine glass, and greeted everyone with the Su family, "Come, today's festival, it's a rare gathering, let's have a drink." ”

After dinner, Su ordered someone to move the table to the front yard and put melons and fruits on the mooncakes, saying that they wanted to enjoy the moon together.

After seeing that the people had set up the table, Su Shi secretly looked at Rong Shi, and his eyes swept towards Lin Congze's side, signaling Rong Shi to go over.

I saw Rong Shi walking up to Lin Congze, and said casually: "Ze'er, I heard that today's Mid-Autumn Festival, many young men and women like to go shopping in the flower street and put river lanterns. You also take your Ting'er sister to go shopping together, join in the fun, don't get here to chat with us old men and old ladies. ”

The corners of Lin Congze's lips outlined a good-looking arc, his eyes flashed slightly, and when he looked at Xiting, he seemed to be looking forward to it, and asked gently: "Sister Ting'er, would you like to go for a walk with me?" ”