Jia Shaohui said: "Gongzi Xie, you and I are very fateful, in the future, when we are together, you don't have to call me 'adult', just call me Brother Shaohui, that is more kind!"

"Xiaosheng also feels very fortunate to meet adults, if the adults allow it, I will call you 'brother' in the future. Xie Wende said happily.

After that, in the study, they talked about the source of the article, from the hexagram of "Zhou Yi" to the Confucius and Meng articles, and then to the Wei and Jin "literary consciousness", and then to the Han Fu, Yuan Qu, etc., the more they talked, the more speculative, Xie Wende was very happy, and he had a feeling of hating each other. He let Jia Shaohui see his precious collection of books in the study, and he was still unsatisfied.

"Brother Shaohui, the younger brother will take you to the back garden to see, where the trees and flowers, small bridges and flowing water, pavilions and pavilions, plaque couplets, are still a little fun. Xie Wende felt comfortable calling him "brother".

They toured the garden, and Jia Shaohui felt that after all, after being a wealthy family, Xie Mansion Garden did have a lot of interest, especially when he saw the plaque of "Sky High Autumn and Moonlight" on the pavilion, and pondered for a long time.

Xie Wende led him to the "Yiyun Hug" again, Jia Shaohui admired the name of this floor in Bai Juyi's poem praising Xie Lingyun, and at the same time was secretly happy in his heart, the elegant son of the Xie family, who was not deeply involved in the world, fell for me so quickly.

In the banquet hall of Xie Mansion, the officials of Quanzhou Mansion had a lot of activities, and they were very interested in Xie Jingxi's careful hospitality.

Under Wu Xiuwen's repeated persuasion, Hou Ye went to the VIP reception room to drink tea, Wu Xiuwen asked Hou Ye to drink less wine and keep your health healthy, in fact, he wanted to take the opportunity to be alone with Hou Ye, and take the opportunity to befriend this noble and powerful An Haihou.

Xie Jingxi was busy on the scene for the time being, so he sat down and had a few drinks with Ke Junnan, the chief envoy of the Quanzhou Ship Division, Ke Junnan is an expert in shipbuilding, and he was also promoted to the position of chief envoy because of shipbuilding technology, he is honest and dutiful, Xie Jingxi can talk with him very well, at this time, Xie Jingxi feels that it is very pleasant to drink some wine with Ke Junnan and talk easily.

At this time, a few people were already full and didn't want to drink, so they went to the reception room to play mahjong, and those who stayed were more interested in drinking, and continued to guess the boxing order, sometimes blushing, Hou Ye and Fu Yin were gone, Xie Jingxi and Ke Junnan were drinking, and the bosses had their own things, they were more presumptuous, and they were more energetic in drinking.

Among the people who guessed boxing, Peng Haoze, the deputy chief of the Ship Department, was particularly eye-catching, he continued to find the general judgment, experience, governor, and Zhaomo of the Quanzhou Mansion to guess boxing, and also drank a glass with other lower-level officials, in addition, he also pulled Xie Yizhi, who was waiting on the side, to make a few glasses, at this time, he seemed to be a little drunk, poured a glass of wine, staggered to Xie Jingxi and Ke Junnan, and said inarticulately: " One is the host of today's banquet, and the other is the direct boss below, if you don't come to toast a toast, there will be no rules, do it!

The two smiled, raised their wine glasses and said, "Master Peng has a good amount of wine, dry!"

Peng Haoze swayed and made a move, turned around and staggered away, with the help of wine, he insisted on pulling the housekeeper Xie Yizhi and asked him to take it to the Xie Mansion to see, the housekeeper gave Xie Jingxi a look, Xie Jingxi nodded slightly, so the housekeeper led the deputy chief of the ship department to visit all parts of the Xie Mansion.

The housekeeper Peng Haoze first went to "Yiluo", a few people were drinking tea in the living room, someone was playing mahjong in the reception room, and there was no one in the study, so Peng Haoze went in and watched for a while.

Walking back to "Erluo" in the VIP reception room, he saw Fu Yin making tea for Hou Ye very respectfully, Wu Xiuwen saw Peng Haoze coming in, with a slippery smile on his face, and said, "Has Master Peng drunk all his sex?"

Peng Haoze said with drunkenness: "It's really wonderful that Lord Fu Yin is so comfortable drinking tea alone with Hou Ye!

Hou Ye said: "Peng Haoze, you are drunk, come and have a cup of tea, this is good tea!" In fact, Hou Ye himself is also a little drunk, if it is usual, he will not call him by his name, in order to show his courtesy to the officials below, he will add the word "adult". Fu Yin was a little embarrassed and a little annoyed when he saw Peng Haoze talking like this, but he still pretended to be smiling.

Peng Haoze stood and drank a cup of tea, and said, "Master Steward, let's continue to take a look, and let Lord Fu Yin continue to drink tea with Hou Ye." ”

They looked everywhere again, and looked at Xie Wende's study for a while, and then went out of the back door of the main building, to the garden, Miss Xie's residence was naturally not allowed to enter, they turned to the pavilion and pavilion in the garden to stroll, and finally arrived at the "Yiyun Hug", in the leisure room, they met Jia Shaohui and Xie Wende where they drank tea and chatted.

Peng Haoze said: "Master Tongzhi will enjoy it, and Gongzi Xie is so leisurely here, the two scholars, drinking tea and discussing poetry, are quite in love! Why don't you go for a toast again?"

Xie Wende said: "Master Peng is very drunk, come and drink tea with us!"

"Don't bother you, let the housekeeper take me upstairs to have a look, the Xie Mansion Garden building is very elegant, we have to take a good look." Peng Haoze said, going upstairs.

On the second floor, they looked at the piano room, and then went to the memorial room, Peng Haoze said to Xie An's statue: "It turns out that this is the old minister Xie, why is your old man so strict that he has to stay here alone and didn't go to the living room to have a drink? Come, I will toast you!" Peng Haoze raised his wine glass and toasted to the statue of Xie An.

Xie Yizhi looked at it and smiled, thinking, "It's fun for Master Peng to get drunk like this." He was afraid that Peng Haoze would damage the portrait hanging on the wall, so he hurriedly helped Peng Haoze downstairs, said goodbye to the two scholars, and walked out of the small building.

Peng Haoze said: "Lord Butler, find a secluded pavilion and go to the Wake Up Bar!"

The two sat down in a quiet pavilion, and the butler was very surprised to find that Peng Haoze suddenly became very sober, and he was not drunk at all.

Peng Haoze said to Xie Yizhi sternly: "Thank you for the housekeeper for accompanying me to visit the Xie Mansion, it is indeed a wealthy mansion, and the housekeeper has served here for a few years?"

"Back to the adult, the little one has been with Master Xie for more than 20 years. ”

"Okay! Okay! I must have a lot of affection with Master Xie," Peng Haoze said.

"Lord Xie is very good to the little one! Serving the master is also a small blessing!" said the housekeeper.

"Master Butler, if I treat Steward Xie better, are you willing to serve me too?" Peng Haoze smiled hideously.

Xie Yizhi was puzzled, seeing his terrible smiling face, his heart was uneasy, and he said in a trembling voice: "Little one doesn't understand!"

"It's okay, I'll let you understand, I just want to make friends with the housekeeper, and I want to give the housekeeper a lot of silver, as long as you can inform me of some news, if there is something big in the Xie Mansion, you can let me know in time." ”

Xie Yizhi was very annoyed, and thought to himself: "Isn't this calling me to be a spy? This must not be done!" He said to Peng Haoze: "The Xie Mansion has a rule, you can't spread the news casually, and besides, Master Xie's kindness to the little one is like a mountain, and the little one is not good at doing unsightly things behind his back!"

Peng Haoze said: "Your idea is right, and you are also very loyal, and you deserve to be admired! However, have you not done unsightly things behind your master's back?"

Xie Yizhi thought about it, he was very scared, and his face changed greatly.

"Steward Xie, the Cuizhu Building in the third lane of Thornton in Dongcheng District is very good, have you been there to enjoy it recently?" Peng Haoze threw out words that pierced his weakness.

Xie Yizhi was shocked, it turned out that he carried Master Xie behind his back, rented a delicate small house called "Cuizhulou" in the third lane of Thorntong, and hid a woman named "Xiaocui", for four or five years, it was the place where he Xie Yizhi lost his soul, his wife was not around, and Xie Fu talked about etiquette, when Mrs. Xie was there, the family rules were extremely strict, and the small things that were hidden must not be known to the Xie family, he could only go to the private meeting with Xiaocui very secretly, no one knew about this matter, but how could this terrible Lord Peng know? Xie Yizhi was puzzled, he was stunned for a long time, and his body was about to collapse.

"Steward Xie doesn't have to worry, today is destined to lead me to visit, from today onwards the two of us are good friends, it should be kept secret for Mr. Xie, and after that, you don't have to pay the rent of Cuizhulou, I have already bought it, let Mr. Xie make a happy nest, just as a meeting gift for friends!"

"This is not proper, this is inappropriate, the lord has a great kindness to me, I can't harm him, don't force me, please let me go!" the butler begged.

"Actually, don't worry, I don't want you to harm the master, speaking of which, I am also a subordinate of the master, and I won't harm him, we just want to cooperate with the master, share the emperor's worries, and make great contributions with the master. Peng Haoze said.

Xie Yizhi thought: "He is so angry, it seems that he is from the government, maybe he is all the way with Shen Deyi, isn't he from the Ship Division?

"Steward Xie, think about it carefully, you just give us some news, we won't harm your master, you can exchange a lot of silver with some news, others have no way of knowing, why not? If you are reluctant to report the news to me, then I have to bring your Xiaocui to the Xie Mansion and let Master Xie know him, it was not very good at that time?" Peng Haoze threatened.

Xie Yizhi was silent and fell into despair.

"This time you took me around to visit Xie Mansion, we are also good friends, I am thinking about you, if someone else comes to you, things may be stricter, it is better for you and me to discuss, reach a tacit understanding, sincere cooperation, I know that you are a loyal person, I also like it, if you cooperate with me, you will have greater benefits, now cooperate, you can rest assured that you can enjoy the clouds and rain with Xiaocui, and you don't have to pay rent, isn't this a beautiful thing?"

Xie Yizhi knew that Peng Haoze must have a lot of power behind him, and he couldn't be offended, Xie Yizhi felt that he had no way out, so he had to let him talk about it first, so he was silent.

Peng Haoze knew that he was tempted, so he said: "Steward Xie, don't worry, things will get better and better, you keep your mouth, others will not know, I have my own way to contact you, if there is any difficulty, as a friend, I will help you! Here is a small diamond ring, just to get to know your friend, let you take it to send Xiaocui!"

The housekeeper pushed it off, but he couldn't screw him, so he had to accept it, but he felt very uncomfortable.

"Alright, don't frown, cheer up, let's go back to the living room, and go and fight the drunkards again!"

Along the way, Xie Yizhi was like a deflated ball, and like a person who had eaten poison and couldn't find the antidote, helpless and desperate.