By the end of winter, the weather was getting colder and colder. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info the north wind blows all day and night, and as soon as I leave the charcoal fire, I feel as cold as an ice cellar. It had snowed again a few days ago, and the snow had frozen on the road, and ice cubes hung on the eaves.

At the back of the yamen of Henan Mansion, the garden verandah was opened to the fire channel, and the charcoal was burned warmly. There was no chill in the verandah, and it was two worlds from the outside.

Yan Shu entered the verandah, stomped his feet, shook off the ice ballast on his feet, and said to Li Ruogu and Xu Ping beside him: "Alas, it's finally here, it's really warm here!" This year's weather feels colder than usual, and it is really difficult to keep up with the ice, horses and cars cannot be ridden. It's finally time to get to the place, and this time I'll have to wait for the ice on the road to melt anyway! ”

Li Ruogu said: "The bachelor has worked hard all the way, hurry up and take a seat and take a good rest!" ”

Yan Shu said goodbye again and again, took off the fur fur on his body, and sat down on the upper seat.

Xu Ping and Li Ruogu accompanied each other on the left and right in the main seat, and Yang Xuan and Wang Yaochen sat down with a group of officials.

The official brought the tea, Yan Shu drank a bowl of hot tea, rubbed his hands and said, "Okay, okay, the warmth has come, and it feels like it is alive again!" The weather in Xijing feels colder than the capital! ”

Xu Ping smiled: "That's not necessarily, but the capital is prosperous and has a large population, so the bachelor feels different." This kind of weather made the bachelor rush to Henan Mansion, which was really hard. ”

"Xu Ping, I don't want to come either!" Yan Shu looked at Xu Ping and sighed. "But Master Mei is too old to take this kind of road, so I have to do it for me. Moreover, Wang Xianggong also thinks that I am familiar with you. ”

Xu Ping hurriedly gave up his hand: "Wang Xianggong has a heart, the bachelor has worked hard, and he is ashamed!" ”

Yan Shu didn't want to come to the truth, and the rest was just a pretext. Knowing that Mei Xun was Lu Yijian's person, Wang Zeng did not agree to send him to Jingxi Road in any case, and in the end, the two of them each took a step back and sent Yan Shu over.

The most uncomfortable thing between this is Yan Shu, Lu Yijian he can't afford to offend, Wang Zeng he doesn't want to offend. Originally, as a bachelor of Hanlin, he tried to stay away from the dispute between the government and the government, drinking and listening to music every day, enjoying wealth and wealth, but who knew that he would be pushed to the forefront in the end.

The two prime ministers Yan Shu didn't want to offend, so why did he want to offend Xu Ping, who came to Jingxi Road to investigate? Yan Shu is not Lu Yijian, he doesn't have such a great desire for power, nor does he have such great ambitions, but he tries to get along with all the important people in the court. Knowing that Xu Ping was a person valued by Emperor Zhao Zhen, Yan Shu didn't have the slightest intention of going against him.

Xu Ping and Yan Shu are also old acquaintances, they know his character and understand what he means. Yan Shu was originally a suitable and muddy character, and it was really difficult for him to be sent to Jingxi Road at this time. Of course, Yan Shu likes and mud not because he is confused, in fact, he knows it very well in his heart, but he is unwilling to sacrifice his career for the sake of principles. In the case of not offending people, Yan Shu likes to reward the backward, and a large number of middle and lower-level officials have been promoted by him.

Life is so helpless, the more you are afraid of something, the more you come.

After gossiping for a while, the wine and food came up.

Li Ruogu said to Yan Shu: "The bachelor has worked hard from afar, and he has drunk two glasses of wine. The courtesans in Xijing City are not as good as the capital, but a few of them are excellent, how about letting them sing a few new songs? ”

Yan Shu waved his hand: "That's it, it's cold, the courtesans are sad to sing and dance, and we are not in the mood." It's just that a few of us have a few glasses of wine and say goodbye, and everything else is free. ”

The verandah is small, and there is no place for singing and dancing, and if you let courtesans dance in the garden, this kind of weather can really be regarded as abuse. Since Yan Shu said this, Li Ruogu ordered someone to send back the courtesan who had been called.

Without the courtesans accompanying the wine, the atmosphere would not be so warm, Li Ruogu led a few rounds of wine, and the scene was a little dull.

Xu Ping said to Yan Shu: "The bachelor uses some dishes." Xijing is not as good as Jingshi, everything is shabby. However, the fresh vegetables on this table are grown in my garden, and today the bachelor came to pick some and treat them to be fresh. ”

Yan Shu picked up the chopsticks, took a few bites of stir-fried fresh vegetables and ate them, applauded again and again, and said to Xu Ping: "When I see these fresh dishes in this season, I know that they are from your family!" Now in the capital, in addition to your Yongning Marquis Mansion, there is only a daily fresh vegetable in Ouchi. There are several glass houses built in Yujin Garden, which are still full of green in winter, and the fresh vegetables produced there are exclusively for Ouchi. Sometimes the reward is down, and how many ministers have to recite poems, which is a great event! ”

Xu Ping smiled: "Since this is the case, the bachelor will use more." ”

"That's nature! Speaking of which, staying with you has at least this advantage, and the appetite is always lost! ”

The price of glass is still high, not to mention building a glass greenhouse, even glass windows are only affordable for wealthy families. For example, Yan Shu's family also asked Sun Qilang to help build a small greenhouse, but he was used to grow flowers, and he was reluctant to grow vegetables to eat. For a literati like Yan Shu, food can be sloppy, but flowers and plants can't be sloppy in any case.

Most of the fresh vegetables in the capital in winter are still sold outside from Xu Ping's home. Now that the family doesn't live there, it's good to use the original greenhouse to grow vegetables for some money. As for the vegetables that are specially grown and sold on the market, they are about the same price as gold and silver, and ordinary people are hard to see if they don't want to eat them. The fresh vegetables used in the palace came from Yujin Garden, where there were many glass greenhouses built by Sun Qilang, and Zhao Zhen occasionally rewarded his subordinates, but the middle and lower-level officials did not have a share.

Xu Ping, a greenhouse in Luoyang, was built in Xiuxiu's residence, where he originally had a vegetable garden with a large vegetable patch. Now Liu Xiaoyi is taking care of it, picking it every day and sending it to the house on the edge of the Luo River, which is enough for the family to eat.

Lin Suniang and Xiuxiu don't have any contact, but she doesn't care if other people in the family move around, as long as Xiuxiu doesn't get involved in the formal family affairs of the Xu family. Panpan used to be playful and often went to Xiuxiu, but Lin Suniang still ignored it. Recently, the weather has been cold, and there are fewer people who look forward to going to Xiuxiu, and they were caught by Lin Suniang and locked up at home to read and write, and complained to Xu Ping every day.

Seeing Yan Shu and Xu Ping talking and laughing, Li Ruogu, who was sitting on the side, could only sigh secretly in his heart. He can only help his son to this point, and after Yan Shu came, he resigned himself to fate and couldn't fall into it again. Yan Shu and Xu Ping have an old friendship, if he doesn't have the eyes to stir up trouble, he will be implicated in trouble, and even Li Shu will be involved.

The key to Lu Yijian's control of the government through his own small group is that he can't turn things on the table, everything seems to be natural, and everyone is just doing their own thing. If someone else catches the handle and forms a party for personal gain, not only other officials can't tolerate it, but Zhao Zhen can't tolerate it either.