Zhou Chengzong hurriedly smiled: "If you can do it, you can definitely do it, for you, brother, it's a trivial matter." ”

Chen Huaiyi was noncommittal: "Let's talk about something first." ”

"Brother, I have been in Tunyang County for a year, although there is no great merit, but there is no fault, there are all kinds of hard work, Tunyang County is also full of outstanding people, brother, I am very satisfied, only the same, but always not very satisfied."

"What?"

"The couplet at the gate of the county government."

"Oh, ask for a couplet."

"Yes, yes, it's not difficult, right?"

Chen Huaiyi said angrily: "I know that I have only announced to the outside world that I will not accept anyone's request, so you will have a problem." ”

Zhou Chengzong turned behind Chen Huaiyi with a smiling face, and clenched his fist to knock Chen Huaiyi on the shoulder: "Brother, I will never take it out for publicity, I will quietly replace it when I take it back, and I won't let anyone know that it is from you." ”

Chen Huaiyi pouted: "A couplet is nothing, but I only write one, and you don't have to change it if you are satisfied or not, okay?" ”

"Okay, okay, as long as it's your handiwork, brother."

Zhou Chengzong hurriedly ran to lay paper and grind ink, all brought by himself.

Chen Huaiyi looked closely.

Good guys, really well prepared.

Paper and ink are both good things.

All six good things.

Six-product gold Xuan.

Five products of Qianmo.

Golden Xuan is a collection of more than 100 years of sandalwood bark with more than 20 kinds of precious medicinal materials and spices through 36 processes of high-grade rice paper, although only six products, but the output is very small, even the Great Zhou Emperor did not dare to use it frequently, ordinary officials and Confucian monks can get one will be happy for a long time.

Because the higher the grade of rice paper, the smoother the process of making Wenbao, the higher the success rate, and the higher the quality.

The same is true of Qianmo.

However, these five products of Qianxi ink are more precious, using Qianzhou's special equisetum fruit as the raw material to squeeze oil to extract ink, and then add more than ten kinds of animal and plant essence purified by monks, and then after 7749 days of beating and kneading to shape and shape, and finally end with refining techniques, the materials and craftsmanship are called top.

Of course, Qianmo is a big variety, ranging from ordinary ink ingots to Sanpin Baomo.

The higher the grade, the higher the value and the rarer it is.

The five-grade Qianmo is to give gifts to the first-class officials of the imperial court without losing face.

Chen Huaiyi looked greedy.

I can't take it away and keep it for myself.

I have the name of Chen Xiaojiuxian, but I only have a five-grade wolf pen that can handle it.

Oh, and the paperweight is good too.

But the most commonly used paper and ink are ordinary goods.

Compared with Lao Zhou, the contrast is too obvious.

This kind of good thing is in Lao Zhou's hands, and it is really a tyrannical thing.

However, looking at Lao Zhou's cautious appearance, I am afraid that it is also a treasure at the bottom of the box.

Let him go, and take away not what he loves.

Xiao Yinling saw that the little junior brother was going to write something again, or the couplet that had never been written before, so he hurriedly came to the front, staring at the desktop with his eyes blank, waiting for the little junior brother's new work.

The little junior brother is so talented, it must be no problem to write couplets.

I really want to see where the limit of the little junior brother is.

Zhou Chengzong was also very excited, and he was even more full of expectations, hoping that Chen Huaiyi could write a couplet that shocked the saint and even moved the heavens and the earth, so that it would not be in vain for him to take out all the good things at the bottom of the box.

Chen Huaiyi looked at the little senior sister, then at Zhou Chengzong, and thought for a while: "Old Zhou, the county government is an extraordinary place, not a place to show off literary talents, but a place to show righteousness, your couplet is not for peers, but for the people, so don't expect too much." ”

Zhou Chengzong was stunned: "Huh? ”

Chen Huaiyi had already picked up the pen and wrote down two lines of thick ink and block letters.

The words are dignified.

The pen is strong.

Xiao Yinling read carefully sentence by sentence: "Eat the people's food, wear the people's clothes, Mo Dao the people can be bullied, and he is also the people; It is not honorable to gain an official, it is not disgraceful to lose an official, Hugh said that an official is useless, and the place depends on an official. ”

Heaven and earth did not react.

Don't say that the saints move the world.

Not even empathy.

Xiao Yinling was stunned.

What does this mean, junior brother?

Running out of ideas?

Or did he deliberately write so badly to euphemistically reject the Zhou County Order?

Zhou Chengzong was also stunned.

Seeing this, Chen Huaiyi patted Zhou Chengzong's shoulder: "Old Zhou, this is an official, in his position, seek his government, no matter what you are running to be this official, as long as you are in this position, you have to do things for the people in a down-to-earth manner." ”

"This ......"

"I'm not targeting you, but all those who are officials, you can have other purposes, but don't live up to this official seal, don't do anything sorry for the people."

"I ......"

"As said in the couplet, you, I, all Confucian and Taoist monks, are the attainment of sainthood, and they are still human beings, and they also need to eat, dress, and pass on their ancestors, in the final analysis, they are still a common people, and to live up to the people is to live up to you and me, and even, to live up to the teachings of the saints."

"Failing the teachings of the saints? Where did this come from? ”

Chen Huaiyi did not answer directly, but continued the topic just now: "For example, you, as a parent official, can affect the fate of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people under your rule, for you, this official position is dispensable, but for the people, you are indispensable, without the guidance and governance of your parents, it will be difficult for the people to have peace." ”

Zhou Chengzong frowned slightly.

It's just asking for a couplet, why not?

No matter how unbearable my Zhou Chengzong is, he is also a dignified scholar, and he is also a parent official in Tunyang County, and there is nothing wrong with what he does, as for being taught such a lesson?

It's just that this is Chen Xiaojiuxian......

Hey, forget it, bear with me.

This couplet...... It's a big deal to post it in the back hall.

Thinking of this, he reluctantly smiled and arched his hand: "My brother has to teach me a lesson." ”

Chen Huaiyi only glanced at it, and roughly guessed that Zhou Chengzong was thinking.

Secretly sighed.

Although the living conditions of the people of this world are good, there are no large-scale famines, plagues and other stones.

But it's not much better.

First, there are many powerful foreign enemies, the border areas are constantly fighting, the people need to serve in the military, but the intensity of the war is high, the powerful enemy is smashed down with a magical power, tens of thousands of ordinary soldiers will disappear, but they can't do without ordinary soldiers, so they can only cut leeks and recruit soldiers, one after another, which is the biggest suffering of the people.

Second, it is all kinds of labor and miscellaneous taxes, although the overall wind and rain are rich in abundant products and harvest every year, but can not stand a larger collection, taking Qianzhou as an example, the local people in order to make Qianmo, almost every household planted horsetail fruit trees and engaged in related work, but almost all the income from labor was handed over, only the rice grain for subsistence could be left, and if you were not careful, you would even owe a lot to the government.

All these things are like mountains to the people.

That's exactly what I said.

Xing, the people are bitter.

Death, the people suffer.

Even if there are all kinds of otherworldly Confucian and Taoist monks in this world, they have not been able to change the environment and fate of the people at the bottom.

Chen Huaiyi was moved to write this couplet, which is the meaning.

Although I don't know if it's useful or not.

But if you don't write it, you're very unwilling.

As for whether Zhou Chengzong can accept it......