Worshipping the door is a bad habit in officialdom. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

If an official is a high-ranking official, he will find that there is a market in front of him.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, Cai Jing was in power for a while, and countless officials wanted to pay homage to him in private. There is an official who rushes to be the first every day, standing at the door of Cai's house waiting for the meeting, over the years, this person shows the door to Cai's family every day, and he is familiar with his face up and down, so he is promoted by Cai Jing as a minister.

Therefore, the door is selfless, and what is praised is the noble conduct of an official.

For example, the former assistant Lu Tiaoyang, who had just returned to his hometown due to illness, was a very clean official. Since entering the cabinet, he has never seen his protégé or official at home, and the first assistant Zhang Juzheng praised Lu Tiaoyang as the famous minister of the Western Han Dynasty, and achieved the four words "Lu Tiaoyang" in the name.

If Shen Shixing was an official like Lu Tiaoyang, Lin Yanchao would have to be closed.

Lin Yanchao presented the post to Menzi at the moment, and then sent a heavy door bag.

Menzi put the door bag into his sleeve, and after reading the post, he said gently: "It turned out to be the nephew of the old man's family, please wait, I will pass it on for you." ”

Lin Yanchao waited at the door for a while, and soon this door came out and said, "Childe, please come here." ”

So Lin Yanchao followed Menzi and walked into the Shen Mansion from the side door.

Bypassing the shadow and passing through a screen door, there is a long sandwich road, with pink walls and tiles on the left and right sides, and it feels like there is no end to it.

After walking for a cup of tea, he came to a hanging flower gate with drum stones standing on the left and right, and Lin Yanchao followed the door across the threshold that was almost knee-high, and there was a courtyard courtyard inside.

On both sides of the gate is the verandah, the north side is the five-bay hall flower hall with the ear room, as well as the east chamber and the west chamber, the inverted seat room, and the middle of the courtyard is the road of the cross paved with Linqing floor tiles.

There are pomegranate trees planted in the courtyard and Taihu Lake stones. With a fish tank, the door led Lin Yanchao to the flower hall and said: "The old man has not returned to the house yet, the prince will sit here for a while, this is the inner house, if there is anything to call, there are people on the left and right who agree." ”

"Thank you."

After Lin Yanchao thanked him. That is, sit down, this flower hall looks simple on the outside, but it is very exquisite on the inside.

The window is pasted with Korean paper to block the morning sun, and the most conspicuous thing in the room is a green pine bonsai that is taller than a person, a plum blossom silk enamel bottle, and an ivory partition fan that crosses the sea with eight immortals......

Lin Yanchao didn't dare to sigh: "This life is really luxurious!" What a taste! ”

Then the maidservant girl came up and brought pastries and tea.

Lin Yanchao was sitting quietly at the moment, and the sun was moving westward little by little. Lunch has passed, and Shen Shixing has not yet come.

I ate a piece of pastry, I didn't eat much, and I drank half of the tea. From time to time, there was the sound of slaves and maids walking by and their clothes fluttering outside the door.

It's past noon, and Shen Shixing should have returned home at this moment. But he didn't know what he was busy with at the moment, the other party didn't tell him, and he couldn't ask what an old man was doing now?

But a long reading career. honed Lin Yanchao's patience.

The reader reads and seeks to be quiet, and Lin Yanchao closes his eyes slightly. But the ears listened to the eight directions, and they made meditation a daily lesson.

After waiting for three hours, it was already starting to darken.

At this time, a man dressed as a housekeeper in his forties came over and said, "Lin Gongzi has been waiting for a long time, the master has just finished his business, please come here." ”

The other party spoke with an authentic Suzhou accent. Presumably, it must be Shen Shixing's family brought from his hometown.

Lin Yanchao smiled without a trace of irritability: "Thank you." ”

Lin Yanchao got up and followed the housekeeper, from the corner door of the courtyard, and then walked into the other courtyard, and when he reached the curtain of the north house, the housekeeper stopped. Lin Yanchao also stopped.

But I could hear the sound of someone placing dishes and chopsticks in the curtain, and there were one or two unclear words in between.

After a while, the curtain was raised, and an official wearing a Yunyan mending official uniform, with a tooth tag on his waist, and a worried face walked out.

This person is not Shen Shixing, he is a fourth-rank official wearing the official uniform of Yunyan Buzi, and Shen Shixing, a scholar of the Ministry of Rites and a scholar of Dongge University, is a second-rank official.

Seeing each other, Lin Yanchao and the housekeeper saluted together. This person glanced at Lin Yanchao outside the door, then skimmed over, then nodded to the housekeeper with a smile, and strode away immediately.

There was someone on the side to show him the way.

"Young Master Lin, please come back to the room."

The butler said.

The subordinates inside opened the curtain for Lin Yanchao, and Lin Yanchao stepped inside.

The room is divided into two rooms, there are six or seven people waiting in the outer room, Lin Yanchao walked to the inner room, but saw an old man in his fifties sitting on the kang, there are servants waiting next to him, the dishes and plates on the kang table are displayed, there are more than a dozen kinds of dishes, each dish is not much, and it is not a plate full of delicacies from the mountains and seas, but it is very fine.

The old man sat on a quilt with a golden thread, holding a dish with an ivory chopstick, and moved a few chopsticks slightly on several dishes.

The servant on the side spread it out with a piece of music, and the old man squinted at it while eating.

This old man is definitely Shen Shixing, seeing that he is wearing a swallow suit, he is in his fifties, but he is well maintained.

Seeing Lin Yanchao entering, Shen Shixing waved his hand, asked the servant holding the chapter to step back, and said with a smile: "You haven't eaten yet, have you?" Come sit down and join the old man. ”

An authentic Suzhou accent.

Just eat at the same table with the second-rank official of the current dynasty?

Seeing a table of exquisite dishes, Lin Yanchao said that it was a lie that he was not hungry, and it was time for dinner, but he hadn't eaten lunch yet.

However, when meeting for the first time, you must not be rash, and the first sentence on the etiquette is mostly polite and cannot be taken seriously.

Lin Yanchao said: "Back to the old pavilion, I ate dim sum in my late life, and I am not hungry." ”

Shen Shixing smiled and didn't speak again, it seemed that he really didn't mean to ask Lin Yanchao to eat with him in his heart.

The servant gave Shen Shixing a bowl of soup, and Shen Shixing took the spoon and said: "The old man has been busy with affairs since he entered the cabinet, and he is not free, is he okay?" ”

Lin Yanchao replied: "Meng Ge is always worried, the teacher has always been healthy, when he was known in the past, the teacher praised your knowledge and virtue many times, so that late students will need to go to the palace to visit when they enter Beijing." ”

Shen Shixing smiled slightly when he heard this, put down the spoon and said: "Where, Brother Zhenyao always likes to hold the old man to the sky, by the way, since you entered Beijing to take the exam, where do you live?" ”

"I'll stay in the guild hall for the time being."

"The hall is full of people, can you study quietly? Do you want the old man to open a place for you? ”

Lin Yanchao said: "The hall is very good, there are classmates to study and exchange, and you can also learn from the current imperial examination, thank you for the kindness of the elder Ge." ”

Shen Shixing nodded, and at this time, the housekeeper on the side handed over an object, and Lin Yanchao saw that it was the gift list he had given.

Shen Shixing looked at the gift list and said with a slight smile: "I have come all the way from Fujian to bring these things to the old man, and I really have a heart." ”

"Back to the elder pavilion, many of them were instructed by the teacher to be brought by the late students, all of them were the teacher's intentions, and some of them were pondered by the late students themselves, and I don't know if the elder pavilion will like it."

Shen Shixing laughed when he heard this, and said, "It seems that Brother Zhenyao has accepted a good disciple." ”

After speaking, Shen Shixing picked up the gift list and glanced at it, and suddenly asked, "Your name is Lin Yanchao?" (To be continued.) )