Chapter Twenty-Seven: A Big Bubble
Among the eight deacon rooms of the Daomen, the pawn house is the more important room, second only to the guest hall, the scripture hall and the dormitory. The function of the pawn house consists of two parts, one is the ceremonial procedures, and the other is the official documents. According to Zhao Ran's understanding, the affairs of the pawn house have part of the content of the imperial court's etiquette department and the official department, and at the same time take Zhao Ran through part of the functions of the world office.
For example, when a grand Zhai Jiao ceremony is held at the Sanqing Palace, the Dianzao is responsible for the etiquette of the Taoist priests and the fire dwellers, and at the same time provides a complete set of services for the pilgrims who worship the gods. In addition, the time and time in the Daomen are also in charge of the pawn house, beating the evening drum and morning bell, and regulating the work and rest of the Taoist priests and fire dwellers.
For example, when Zhao Ran first entered the Wuji Courtyard, and the moment when he became an official Taoist priest, it was recorded by the pawn house and archived for future reference, and even Zhao Ran's performance in the Wuji Courtyard for more than two years, including the rewards and punishments, were all recorded in the pawn house.
Therefore, Zhang Dianzao is a powerful figure in Wuji Academy, and Zhao Ran always shows humility and caution in front of him. The rows of cabinets standing high on the four walls of the pawn house, and the files and archives neatly stacked on those cabinets, made Zhao Ran feel a little depressed.
But Zhang Dianzao's attitude today is amiable, and the solemnity and indifference that come out of the usual table are completely different, after he led Zhao Ran into the room, pressed Zhao Ran's shoulder to let him sit down, and personally boiled a pot of tea on the incense burner, filled the delicate blue and white tea cup, and signaled to Zhao Ran: "This is the Pu'er sent by Taoist friends in Yunnan, produced in Dading Mountain, steamed and produced, different from ordinary tea." Tubo and Western Xia are very enthusiastic, but they are often combined with ginger, but I love Qing cooking...... You taste it...... The color is also different, like amber ......"
Zhao Ran looked at the mellow red tea soup with a slight golden color, and was a little distracted for a moment.
Before the crossing, Zhao Ran was good at black tea, and he preferred Pu'er among the black tea, since the crossing, the tea he drank was basically green tea, and there were few popular black teas in Tubo, Western Xia and even Northern Mongolia.
Suppressing the inexplicable love in his heart, Zhao Ran drank all the tea soup in the cup with his eyes closed, turned around the tips of his lips, teeth and tongue a few times, and then swallowed it into his throat, let out a sigh, and sighed: "Good tea!"
Zhang Dianzao said happily: "It's good if the junior brother likes it!" got up and took out a bag of tea cakes wrapped in yellow silk from the cupboard: "This Puer tea cake junior brother will take it and drink it first, I still have a lot here, I can't finish it...... Don't be polite ...... junior brother"
Senior Brother Dianzao has a gift, Zhao Ran is so good to refuse, he is busy "happily" taking it, his mouth is full of thanks, but his eyes are full of inquiry-if you have something, just say it quickly, don't beat around the bush.
I only heard Zhang Dianzao continue: "In the spring of the year before last, when my junior brother first entered Wuji Academy, I saw that my junior brother had a good face, and I told the prison at that time that my junior brother would have a great future in the future. Sure enough, within a short period of time, the junior disciple entered the scripture hall, not only outstanding in his homework, but also made meritorious contributions to the Daomen. Senior brother, you may not know that in our Wuji Academy, there is only one in ten or eight years that can be rewarded by the Pavilion Land, which is really amazing!"
The front of these words is to remind Zhao Ran, when you kid entered the Taoist Academy, the two of us had a love for incense, and the back was to praise Zhao Ran and make Zhao Ran happy. Although it was all the truth, Zhao Ran had already heard it - the more Zhang Dianzao praised him, the more difficult it was to ask him to do it later, and he couldn't help beating the drum secretly in his heart, but on the bright side, he had to express his sincerity and fear.
After a few words of humility, I heard Zhang Dianzao sigh again: "How can such a good talent be idle?" I have suggested to you Senior Brother Jiang in the Jingtang before that you should properly consider your future and not bury it...... But I don't know what's going on?"
Did Zhang Dianzao talk to Jiang Gaogong about Zhao Ran's promotion, Zhao Ran expressed serious doubts about this, but Zhao Ran couldn't go to Jiang Gaogong for verification, so he had to be grateful: "Thank you Brother Dianzao for remembering, I remember it." It's just that my junior brother has been in the scripture hall for too short a short time, and my qualifications are not enough, and in the scripture hall, such as Senior Brother Ma and Senior Brother Wang, all the talents and learnings are on me, presumably Jiang Gaogong has his own considerations, and I only concentrate on learning and reading the scriptures. ”
Zhang Dianzao nodded and said, "That's junior brother, you are too modest...... In this way, the Jingtang has not yet made any arrangements for your junior brother? Do you think this is good? Deacon Wu of the treasury and I have a good relationship, and Liu Kutou, who is in charge of the treasury in his room, took a letter of resignation a few days ago and wants to return to his hometown to retire for the rest of his life. If the junior brother is interested, I will go and talk to Senior Brother Wu, presumably Senior Brother Wu will not refute my face. ”
The resignation is the resignation of the Daomen, and in the words of later generations, after the resignation is submitted, once the Daomen approves it, it is considered to be retired. Liu Kutou is the person who managed the library when Zhao Ran first entered Wuji Courtyard, and Yu Zhiyuan took him to the treasury to collect the fire living utensils, and he was gathering to invite gamblers. Zhao Ran had a bad impression of him, and he hadn't dealt with him much since then, but he didn't expect that he had already proposed to go down the mountain and retreat.
Kutou is also one of the "five main and eighteen" stewardship functions, which can be regarded as a small amount of oil and water, if it was placed half a month ago, Zhang Dianzao sent this gift, Zhao Ran would really be grateful, but now, compared with the door of the guest hall, the position of Kutou is much dwarfed. It's just that for Zhao Ran, it was still a small surprise, and his first reaction was: I can't be the head of the door, and it's not bad to be the head of the warehouse, in short, I was promoted.
The first point of workplace chaos is to get the rank up first, and then talk about it, as for what to do, that's a matter later, and it is far easier to transfer at the same level than to be promoted. Most of those who refuse to be promoted because the department they go to is not ideal, most of them will waste their lives from now on, and Zhao Ran has seen a lot of this kind of thing.
Zhao Ran, who was full of joy, bowed to Zhang Dianzao again and thanked him, but soon he couldn't be happy.
Zhang Dianzao stroked his beard and nodded, pondered for a moment, leaned forward slightly-Zhao Ran felt bad in his heart when he saw this action, and sure enough, he only heard Zhang Dianzao say in a low voice: "I heard that junior brother, you have a lot of connections with those immortals in the pavilion land......"
Zhao Ran's scalp was numb, and he didn't close his mouth for a long time.
Coming out of the pawn house, Zhao Ran felt weak, and ate a sweet jujube made by Zhang Dian, and was soon stuffed with another bitter fruit. Looking at the bag of Pu'er tea cakes in his arms, he couldn't wait to fall directly to the ground.
Zhao Ran returned to his house, pacing back and forth, feeling that his head was as big as a fight. He didn't have the energy to think about the promotion anymore, and all he thought about was the consequences of the bubble being punctured. Song Xunzhao, Zhang Dianzao, and Liu Jingzhu all made requests to themselves, asking those immortal elders in the pavilion land to come forward to help negotiate and agree, in order to go further in the Daomen.
Song Xunzhao wanted to ensure that he was successfully appointed to the prison court, Zhang Dianzao wanted to move a position as a patrol in order to squeeze into the ranks of "reserve cadres", and Liu Jingzhu wanted to be a high-level meritorious ...... As soon as he thought of it, Zhao Ran couldn't help but smile bitterly, what kind of person is he? A bullshit is just a chanting Taoist child, why do these big people all ask for their own door? Just because of an unwarranted bubble? Now that "I have a relationship with the immortals of the pavilion land", this bubble is blowing bigger and bigger, so big that I feel terrified, but a bubble is a bubble, there will always be a day when it bursts, how will I deal with it when it really comes to that time?
In an instant, he suddenly had the urge to turn around and escape from Wuji Courtyard! Lao Tzu is gone, what is the love, Lao Tzu went home with a silver ticket to retire, yes, also a letter of resignation, whatever you like to do!
Turning back and entering the bedroom, Zhao Ran began to pack the package, but as he put it away, his movements gradually slowed down, and then slapped the package that was about to be made off the head of the bed, and sat down on the bed in a dejected manner.
Escape is not the way, you still have to think of a way, no matter what, it is better to defuse the danger.
After thinking silently for a long time, he didn't even bother to eat dinner, and sat until dark, Zhao Ran finally sorted out a clue. Thinking about it carefully, the reason why there will be such a bubble is entirely because I want to go to the guest hall as the doorman, because I have a demand, I will lead the next series of interest exchanges, and the requirements put forward by Song Xunzhao, Zhang Dianzao, and Liu Jingzhu are the most typical embodiment of the exchange thinking of "one newspaper and one report". As long as you cut off the cause, you will naturally have no subsequent effect.
Okay, this door and that library head or something, it's not right, whoever loves it should go!
Thanks to Yangzhigang and Yuqy for the reward.
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