Dou Huainan was silent for a while and then said solemnly: "Your Majesty has such a decisive layout, we should do our best for Your Majesty, through Your Majesty's hands, Daning will open a prosperous era for hundreds of years, what are we?" ”

Lai Cheng bowed down towards Dou Huainan: "The dean said that in the world, everyone you meet can be a teacher, listen to a word and understand, see a line and feel, is the feeling of being taught, today listen to your words, is my teacher." ”

Dou Huainan bowed back: "If you say this, you can't lose my one hundred and fifty taels of silver, I will go to Langcheng penniless, if you don't borrow me, I will go to the door of the cabinet and not leave, just say that you owe me the silver and don't pay it back." ”

Lai Cheng: "I haven't shown this respect yet, so you forced me back." ”

Dou Huainan said with a smile: "At that time, when I first met the general, I asked him, why are you so young but so knowledgeable, the general said...... No matter who he encounters, what he wants to do, he only asks two questions in his heart, and after these two questions have passed, he will do it, the first is to ask himself, ask himself if he is guilty, if he even feels sorry for himself, then what is there to ask others, and the second is to ask himself, but to ask himself if he will hurt the people he cares about if he does this, what he cares about."

"If you ask yourself and others, you are not ashamed, then you will do it, so my lord, you can be a teacher by listening to my words, you should go to Xie Shen Leng."

Lai Cheng: "Shen Leng, ......"

He looked at Dou Huainan and said seriously: "I have always thought very highly of myself, and I think that most of the people in this world are inferior to me, if you talk about it carefully, people like Shen Leng are naturally not as good as me, think about it, is he really delicate and meticulous in doing things, really thoughtful?" Whether it is his attitude or style of doing things, which one is suitable for surviving in officialdom? ”

Dou Huainan thought for a while and shook his head: "None of them are suitable." ”

"But he is respected by many people."

Lai Cheng sighed: "So it's really difficult to be worthy of the four words, we respect him because we can't do everything without being worthy of our hearts." ”

After he finished speaking, he looked around: "Keep this courtyard, don't give it to others." ”

Dou Huainan said: "I don't send it, this is what the general gave me back then, it is a loan of silver to me, but he won't go back to the silver, the same as what you said, if someone else gives me a yard, I will think about whether this person will ask me, if the general sends me this yard, but I only think he feels sorry for me." ”

Lai Changchang let out a long breath: "I'll go first, I'll send someone to send you the silver you need, if it's not enough...... If you find someone else to find a way, I won't borrow more anyway. ”

Dou Huainan snorted and laughed: "If you listen to this sentence, others can directly define you as Shen Leng's series." ”

Lai Cheng shrugged his shoulders: "I'm afraid?" ”

He stepped out of the door, walked a few steps and turned back: "You are a knowledgeable person, so of course I understand that Your Majesty does not really want to punish you, what you have experienced is what Shen Leng is also experiencing, you are all important ministers of the country, and you are also loyal ministers of the country, you know, Your Majesty will also be sad and blame yourself, to wronged Shen Leng and people like you to do things, it is not what Your Majesty thinks, but there is no other way." ”

Dou Huainan said: "Then do you remember to tell Your Majesty in the future, Dou Huainan still has a loss of fifty taels of silver, let Your Majesty make up for it?" ”

Lai Cheng laughed and strode away.

Dou Huainan stood at the door and watched Lai Cheng walk away, and after being silent for a while, he said to himself: "Even the general is not afraid, even the general does not feel wronged, even the general is walking along the road, what am I afraid of." ”

In his life, no matter how much he has accomplished, or if he has not been unknown all his life, he feels that he is awesome because he is Shen Leng's friend.

It's.

Anyone can be Shen Leng's friend?

Dou Huainan went back to continue to clean up the yard, he had nothing to tidy up, a few clothes, a kettle, a money bag is still deflated, tomorrow I will go to the household department to get the official seal made for him to go on the road and leave Beijing, there is a seal ribbon is an identity, although Langcheng is small, it is also a world, it is a world, there is a world, there is nothing to do.

It was almost dark when he tidied up the yard, and he sat down on the steps to catch his breath, he hadn't done any hard work for a long time, and he was a little out of breath after a little exercise.

At this time, someone knocked on the door outside, Dou Huainan didn't close the door when Lai Cheng left, he didn't close the door before because he thought Lai Cheng would come, and now he didn't close the door because no one would come except Lai Cheng, so he didn't care, because of this, the knock on the door startled Dou Huainan, he raised his head and looked out, there was a young man in a brocade dress with clear eyebrows standing outside the door, very faced, rough look is face, take a closer look...... Dou Huainan stood up violently: "Acting father-in-law? ”

Dai Fangzhou came in with a smile: "I thought Lord Dou wouldn't recognize me." ”

Dou Huainan said with some embarrassment: "The yard has just been cleaned up, and there is mud everywhere before I have time to sweep it." ”

"Don't clean up, I'll have to go back in a moment."

Dai Fangzhou took out some silver tickets from his cuffs and put them on the table, and then noticed the tea set on the table: "Has anyone been here?" ”

Dou Huainan didn't lie: "Master Lai has been here for a while." ”

"Well, it's probably that Lord Lai will come."

Dai Fangzhou said: "These silver tickets Lord Dou will use them when he takes office tomorrow." ”

Dou Huainan said: "I can't use my father-in-law's silver." ”

"Me?"

Dai Fangzhou said: "Where do I have any silver, my little silver every month in addition to leaving their own flowers, most of them are given to the Fujun Division, although I am an incomplete body, not a complete man, this body and this identity make me unable to go into battle to kill the enemy, but ah, men are fucking men, you have to do something that a man should do, the soldiers are guarding Daning on the frontier, they died in battle, we are blessed, and the bitter crying are their families." ”

Dai Fangzhou smiled a little self-deprecatingly: "I can do only so much, my little silver can't do anything big, I can make the families of the soldiers who died in the war eat more meat and buy one more piece of clothing, I feel good, Lord Dou, you don't know, it's such a small thing, every time I think of what I'm doing, I feel a little proud and proud." ”

Dou Huainan leaned over and bowed: "Accept my worship on behalf of my father-in-law!" ”

Dai Fangzhou was startled, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to support Dou Huainan: "Lord Dou, don't scare me, you will break my life like this...... This silver was sent by His Majesty, and before the Lord came to Beijing, he sold his family property and gave half of his life savings to the Fujun Division, His Majesty said, Dou Huainan's mouth is more stinky than Lai Cheng, so if he doesn't eat well, his mouth will be more stinky, give him the silver, let him eat better and dress better, and scold me again when he sees me in the future. ”

Dou Huainan looked at the silver ticket on the table, his hand trembled slightly involuntarily, and after a while, he turned around and knelt down in the direction of Weiyang Palace and kowtowed a few times.

Dai Fangzhou said: "My lord is going to Langcheng to take care, although Your Majesty has demoted you, why doesn't Your Majesty want to protect you?" It's inconvenient for me to say anything more in this identity, adults just go, and when they come back, who in the world doesn't know you? ”

After saying this, the descendants bowed down and bowed, and then turned around and left.

Dou Huainan kept sending him out of the door, and Dai Fangzhou turned around and said: "It's good to get here, it's not good to be seen when you go out of the alley." ”

So Dou Huainan stopped, looked at Dai Fangzhou's thin back, and suddenly felt brave, how to look like a real general, give him a knife and a horse, he can also rush back and forth on the battlefield to kill invincible.

Dai Fangzhou went out of the alley and looked left and right, boarded the carriage waiting at the mouth of the alley, opened the window and looked at Dou Huainan after sitting down, Dou Huainan was still standing at the door and looking at this side, Dai Fangzhou thought about whether he was talking too much, he couldn't say more than he should say in such an identity, the carriage moved forward slowly, Dai Fangzhou sat on the other side of the window and looked out, and then involuntarily attracted the attention of a person on the street, that person was really strange.

Wearing a very wide black robe, he is more than a head taller than the average person, and he looks like a strong man with wide shoulders, but maybe there are some problems with his legs, and his steps should not be big, and people of this height have long legs and big steps, but his walking stride is a little small, which makes this person look a little asymmetrical in behavior and figure.

The man turned his head to look this way, and Dai Fangzhou hurriedly looked away, staring at people was rude after all.

The strong man passed by the carriage, and he didn't think much about it.

The carriage went down the street, and the strong man stopped at the mouth of the alley where the boat had come out, and he watched the carriage go away, and grinned inexplicably.

Night.

The hustle and bustle of Chang'an City has become quieter a little, there are not many pedestrians on the street, in this world, except for Daning, there is no curfew, I am afraid that the capital of any country will not dare.

Although there was no curfew, the patrols of the Patrol Soldiers and Horses would become dense at night, and every once in a while a neat line of soldiers could be seen passing by.

The strong man casually found a shop and bought seven or eight baked cakes, this baked cake is not small, and ordinary people will be full if they eat two, so the vendor who sells the baked cakes also deliberately looked at him twice, and when he saw this head, he also understood, this height and this body, let alone eat seven or eight baked cakes, even if he eats a dozen, he feels normal.

After the strong man bought the baked cakes, he went to the mouth of the alley and stood against the wall again, and the vendor who sold the baked cakes paid more attention, and said that it seemed that this guy had never sat down, and the roadside shops had been closed, even if he was not in his baked cake stall, he could sit on the roadside steps to eat, and this person just liked to stand all the time, and he didn't feel hard when he was so big that he always stood up?

After another hour or so, there were no pedestrians on the street, and the vendors were also closing their stalls and preparing to go home, and they looked at the mouth of the alley, and they didn't know when the guy was gone, and when they didn't notice at all.

At the door of Dou Huainan's house, the strong man tidied up his clothes, raised his hand and knocked on the courtyard door.

"Is anyone home?"