Bluestone Street.

Seeing off Zhao Hao, Hai Rui walked along the small river at the entrance of the street for a long time.

Needless to say, Zhao Hao's proposal made him very tempted. But the suffering family has just lived a stable life for less than a year, the mother is old, the wife escaped death, and the little girl is only five years old; In Han's belly, there is a new life.

This hard-won stable life is as wonderful as a dream.

Hai Jui often woke up in the middle of the night, mistakenly thinking that he was still in the dark prison; Occasionally, I will see Zhongtou and Zhongliang looking at themselves from afar.

This made him take more care of everything in front of him, lest he accidentally burst the bubble of happiness again......

Therefore, he couldn't agree to Zhao Hao, so he could only be alone at night, digesting the shame, apology and unwillingness in his heart.

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Before he knew it, Hai Rui walked onto a stone bridge.

He stood on the bridge and watched the dark water in the river flow quietly, the water level was only one-third of what it was in the summer, and suddenly he thought of his life, at most one-third, right?

Thinking of this, Hai Rui laughed at himself, he was really shameless.

He was born on the twenty-seventh day of December in the eighth year of Zhengde and will soon be fifty-five years old.

In this era, the life span of people is clearly distinguished. The average life expectancy of the toiling masses, who make up the vast majority of the population, is only forty-five or sixteen years...... This is already the best record of all dynasties outside the Qin and Han dynasties.

The average life expectancy of gentlemen and doctors, who are not engaged in production and have no worries about food and clothing, is as high as 70 years old. On average, he lived 25 years longer than the common people who suffered hardship.

This is also because many rich people are extravagant and burp early, which lowers the average life expectancy. If you take good care and pay attention to health, it is not uncommon for people to live to be in their 80s, and it is not uncommon to be in their 90s.

Hai Rui subconsciously thinks that he still has one-third of his lifespan. Obviously, he unconsciously distinguished himself from ordinary people.

Yes, he is already a high-ranking official of the fourth grade, and it is hypocritical and hypocritical to insist on calling himself an ordinary person.

But he still inevitably felt a sense of guilt, an identity that he had always despised the most.

I have been in Nanjing for a year, and I rely on the support of the people! The official is seventy years old, and he is far from the age of retirement, has he been living like this?

What is the difference between this and those mediocre and lazy officials who suck the people's fat and do nothing?!

Hai Rui felt a strong discomfort in his heart, and he supported his knees with his hands and retched for a while.

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It wasn't until the third watch that he barely packed up his mood and went home.

Hai'an opened the door for him, and saw that the courtyard was dark, and only the main house where his mother lived was still lit with a dim light.

"Isn't my mother resting yet?" Hai Rui asked in a low voice.

Haian shook his head and bolted the door silently.

Hai Rui tiptoed to the middle of the patio and saw that the light in his wife's room was also on.

Obviously, Wang didn't sleep well.

This is called rumor, right?

I have brought too much misfortune and fear to my family, and my mother and wife are afraid that they have already given birth to a bad premonition.

Whether it is a son, a husband, or a father, it is too incompetent.

Hai Rui couldn't help but look sorry, just like the dim moonlight in the sky.

After hesitating for a moment, he deliberately lowered his pace and walked towards the main house.

Lift the thick cotton curtain and gently push open the hidden door.

The charcoal basin had long since been extinguished, and it was only the first half of the night, and it was already cold in the house.

The room was dark, except for a small oil lamp next to the bed.

Under the light, his mother was lying on the bed with her back to him, holding the little girl sleeping in it with one hand.

"Eat meat, meat is delicious...... "The little girl said in a dream.

"It's still eating." I only heard the sea mother laugh, obviously not asleep yet.

"Mother." Hai Rui called out in a low voice and sat down on the pestle next to the bed.

Hai Mu didn't look back, still patted Xiaoya gently, and slowly asked in Qiongzhou dialect, "Why did you come back?" ”

"Mother, my son has thought about something." Hai Rui also replied in Qiongzhou dialect.

"How do you want to convince Grandma?" Hai Mu asked, although she already had some ears behind her ears, but Hai Rui couldn't suppress her voice when she spoke, and it was difficult to keep her from hearing it.

"Mother really knows." Hai Rui smiled bitterly and said, "My son can't even pass this level by himself. ”

"What you say, lie to the ghost." Hai Mu sneered and said, "You are the meat that fell from your mother's body, can you hide that little bit of thought from me?" ”

"My son really can't talk to his mother." Hai Rui was busy shouting.

"Humph!" Hai Mu snorted angrily: "Listen, how did Guang Xunsi persuade me to go, and also said that I would not go to this level myself!" ”

"Uh......" Hai Rui was dumbfounded by his mother's question.

"Zhao Gongzi wants to invite you to pick up Lin Zhongcheng's class?" Hai Mu asked again.

"Hmm." Hai Rui nodded.

Hai Mu was puzzled and asked: "Where does he come from, and the candidate for the governor of Ying Tian can have the final say?" ”

"Of course he doesn't count." Hai Rui explained to his mother in a deep voice: "The ministers of the dynasty need to be recommended by the court, which is simply the high-ranking officials in Beijing who vote for candidates and recommend them to His Majesty for appointment, and His Majesty usually does not refuse. ”

"So, he has ties to senior officials in Beijing?" Hai Mu is also a serious girl, with many years of experience and quite extraordinary.

"So to speak." Hai Rui said in a low voice: "Last year, he was in Beijing, recognized the eldest princess as his godmother, and opened a Rausch subsidiary with her, and many powerful people became shareholders. Because of this, my son didn't want to get too close to him. ”

"Don't be a white-eyed wolf!" Hai Mu finally turned around and reached out and poked her son's head.

"My son was talking about last year." Hai Rui hurriedly explained: "In Beijing, I just listened to his words, and I didn't dare to trust him too much. But over the past year, his son has contemplated his actions and can finally be sure that his words and deeds are consistent, and he is acting to change the Ming Dynasty. ”

"Of course." Hai Mu said very confidently: "Otherwise, people will be lined with tens of millions of taels of silver, and the eldest princess will be a backer, how happy they will be all day long, how can they still pay attention to you?" ”

"Well, it seems like this...... Hai Rui smiled bitterly: "I don't know this kid, why do you have to be so close to me, it's really a good life." ”

"Aren't you the same?" Hai Mu sat up with the support of her son, she was born with strong yang energy, and she didn't feel cold at all when she was wearing only a middle coat.

"Hehe, maybe to some extent, it's also a gathering of likes." Hai Rui laughed after speaking.

"Where is it a little bit like that? Shameless. The mother finally smiled, then reached out and touched her son's gray sideburns, and said slowly:

"Didn't you say, 'The husband's ambition is to rule the country, and he wants to make the whole world prosperous.'" Go, Grandma won't stop you. ”

"Mother?" Hai Rui's face was surprised, he didn't think about how to convince his mother, but he didn't expect that his mother had already let him go.

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