Chapter 203: The Banquet

The He family house is behind the county government.

Although Tianjin Wei is a harbor and river port, but the materials are mostly provided to the capital, at most a little scraps are left and Tianjin Wei, so although Tianjin Wei is on the edge of the capital, and carries the material supply of the heart of the Ming Dynasty, it is still not as good as many small cities in the south of the Yangtze River.

Therefore, Tianjin Weizhi County did not have a good place to live, so he lived directly behind the county office.

He Shengwen has been the commander of Tianjin Wei County for ten years, but the family does not seem to have much wealth, but under Chen Jin's thoughts, there is still a lot of gold and silver hidden in the county government, which is buried on the edge of the rockery pond in the backyard of the county government.

Looking at the sealed soil, it should have been buried recently.

Of course, Chen Jin will not dwell on these things, after all, which official is not greedy, the official word has two mouths, and they are all wide open, there is no time to close it at all, as long as there is such an opportunity, the gold and silver treasures in the mouth must be bitten, no, it is two.

In addition, Chen Jin's trip this time is not an official position such as a governor, just to eliminate the plague, and by the way to help the court unite people's hearts, whether it is the people or these officials, the big internal guard Chu Lian followed, and held the tiger talisman is this meaning, this work is specially given to him, Chen Jin is to protect him from the infestation of demons and monsters.

"I don't know if Tianguan likes seafood?" He Shengwen asked with a smile.

"Poor people are not picky eaters. Chen Jin replied casually.

"This Tianjin Wei is close to the sea, so the banquet here is mostly a seafood banquet, and I ask the heavenly officials to forgive me. He Shengwen continued.

So his previous sentence was polite, anyway, he just ate seafood.

"I don't know where Madame is?" Chen Jin nodded, and then asked an inopportune question that shouldn't be asked.

"Recently, the plague in Tianjin has been rampant, and the lower official asked his wife to take the child down to the south of the Yangtze River and go home to recognize ......his ancestors," He Shengwen said with some embarrassment.

Chen Jin still understands this operation, probably because he is not optimistic that Daming will be able to beat the thief, so he first let his family Nandu stay away from the land of right and wrong.

"Oh, that's it. Chen Jin nodded, in fact, he suspected that Mrs. County Ling was a fox demon, but now Mrs. County Ling has gone south, which is not easy to say.

"Please take your seats, Heavenly Officials. ”

At this time, there were already five or six tables in the backyard, and there were already people seated.

These people look at the costumes, they should be the local gentry in Tianjin, they see Chen Jin and others have a lot of arrogance and disdain, Chen Jin doesn't know where they get their confidence, they represent the imperial court, not a cat or a dog.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that they look down on Chen Jin's Taoist robe.

There are really a lot of seafood on the round table, peel shrimp, hairtail, crab, squid octopus, pomfret, and abalone scallops, which look quite hearty, but these seafood are not fresh, Chen Jinhao's home is by the sea, although he is not so enthusiastic about seafood, but he is still quite familiar with seafood, at least the type and freshness are distinguished.

There is also wine on the table, but this wine may not be very good, Chen Jin doesn't like wine, so he can't tell the difference between good wine and bad wine.

"Poor Dao saw that everyone here is an understanding person, and they are all scholars, so he made it clear here that the treatment of the plague is a major matter of people's livelihood, and if anyone dares to stumble, even if he is behind the old man of the Beijing Pavilion, I will do the same, and I will be sentenced for the crime of treason. Chen Jin chatted with a few people at the table, and then knew why these people were so arrogant, so he put down the declaration directly after the meal, so as not to be punished for not teaching when he got it, and it was a bunch of verbal disputes.

Of course, Chen Jin has the strength to say this to these people, if ordinary Taoist priests come, ordinary Qin messengers come, they may have to give these guys who have someone above them a little thin noodles.

"Heavenly Official, this plague is not a fire, but will also affect us, how can we interfere with the plague? The middle-aged man in a thin green brocade robe immediately blushed and responded.

"yes, yes. The gentry responded.

"Hmm. Chen Jin nodded.

Chen Jin's divine sense swept over these people, and found a lot of filthy aura on these people, it seems that they have done a lot, of course, it is not ruled out that they like to walk at night and walk to the grave......

Just when the banquet was about to be dissolved, the commander of the guard station arrived.

The commander of the guard post is a seven-foot man, with big shoulders and a round waist, and he is majestic and vigorous when he looks at it, and if he goes to the battlefield, he is definitely a fierce general.

However, it seems that the Ming Dynasty despises generals now, and generals and civil officials of the same grade are always shorter generals.

It's just that at a time when wars are frequent, it is strange that there is such a strange concept, and the emperor does not seem to take the lead in changing the situation, or he does not know this.

And now that the commander of the guard post came in, the faces of the gentry present changed again, full of disgust, they saw Chen Jin before, but now they don't even hide it.

The commander was accompanied by the young general from before.

"Xiaguan Bian Cunyuan, the commander of Tianjin Wei, has seen Shangguan. The commander didn't pay attention to the other gentry, even He County's order, and only saluted Chen Jin and Chu Lian.

He was still wearing armor, and I don't know if this was for a show, or if he had been wearing it like that.

"Commander Bian is a little late, there is no food for this banquet, and the official asked his subordinates to serve you a few more. He Shengwen smiled embarrassedly.

"No need, He Zhi County, this banquet is organized for Shangguan, if it is not for this official, He Zhi County does not have to spend a lot of time for this official, your mind is understood by this official. Bian Cunyuan refused.

It seems that these two people don't deal with each other very much, which is normal, after all, this Tianjin Wei is so big, it is not easy to get close to the capital, but there is another guard station, how can there be no contradiction between the civil and military chiefs?

If there is no contradiction, then that is the big problem.

"The lower official is late, and the lower official is willing to punish himself with three bowls of wine, and asks the official to forgive his sins. Bian Cunyuan then grabbed an enamel bowl containing egg soup from the table, then poured wine and poured it directly into his mouth.

Chen Jin didn't stop it, Chu Lian didn't stop it, and the other gentry also looked at it coldly.

After drinking, Bian Cunyuan still stood in front of the others with the same complexion.

"Commander Bian still has important business, why don't you sit down first?" He Shengwen touched his beard and said leisurely.

"There are thieves in the mountains, and they still need to be encircled and suppressed, so I'm afraid I can't sit for a long time. "Bian Cunyuan is right.

"Thieves in the mountains?" Chu Lian frowned.

This can be regarded as the foot of the Son of Heaven, and there will be thieves in this place, doesn't this show that the imperial court can't even guard the door of the house?

"It's just a homeless person. Bian Cunyuan explained simply.

This thief is said to be an outcast, and the degree of harm in this is greatly reduced.

However, Chu Lian was still frowning.

It's still not easy.

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