Ouyang Xiu climbed into the carriage, carefully bypassed the carved pendulum placed in front of the carriage, sat down on the chair, and let out a sigh of relief: "Why are the engravings placed in front, there are many inconveniences. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Shi Quanbin said with a smile: "First, the shelf is connected to the carriage in front, so it is stable." The second one is to let us sit in the back and look tight, and don't be negligent for a while. ”

What is the reason for this? Just knowing that it was arranged by Xu Ping, Ouyang Xiu just shook his head and couldn't say anything.

As soon as the report of the train outside, the carriage moved, and began to move slowly.

"Oops, what is this? Why is it still spinning? Isn't that scary! ”

Ouyang Xiu couldn't help but scream as he watched the few fan blades above his head begin to rotate slowly, bringing a hint of cool breeze.

Shi Quanbin said: "Don't panic, officials, this is a fan." Because we were going to transport the pendulum this time, the carriage was not easy to open and ventilated, so in order to avoid stuffiness, we installed this. Officials should not be underestimated, with this, we will be much more comfortable on the road. ”

The installation of a fan in the carriage was proposed by Xu Ping, driven by the wheels, and the fan began to rotate as the car moved forward. The power connection is a pin clutch, and the pin is plugged in and follows the wheel, and the pin is pulled out and stopped.

Dignitaries, especially women, who sit in cars, do not like to open windows. One is afraid that someone will see through the reality in the car, and the other is to prevent dust on the road, and it is inconvenient to open the window. In such a hot weather, it is too uncomfortable to stuff in the carriage, and this fan is installed in the high-end car to ventilate and breathe.

This is not difficult, the fan blades and the like are made of bamboo and wood, extremely cheap things, only the bearings installed in it are high-end goods. Now the steel mold is extruded and polished after heat treatment, and the cost of the bearing has also been reduced.

In fact, there are also more high-end carriages in Tokyo now, but Ouyang Xiu's current income can only be regarded as a medium-sized family, and he can't enjoy those, so he can't help but make a fuss when he sees it for the first time.

After walking a short distance, Shi Quanbin took out the tea and wine, and drank and talked with Ouyang Xiu and Yang Weide to relieve their boredom.

On this road is the busiest and most heavily guarded Liangjing Post Road today, with many horse shop post stations, and the most important documents issued by the Privy Council are transported by the procession, and the relevant people are carefully served. There was no accident on the way, and on the morning of the fourth day, we arrived at the post station outside Luoyang City.

Ouyang Xiu sighed and said to Yang Weide: "Let's take a look first, whether the carved pendulum is intact." ”

Yang Weide ordered the carriage to stop, and he went to the front to carefully inspect the pendulum, and sighed: "Thank God, it is intact!" After a few days of hard work, I finally got the thing to the place in good condition! ”

When Ouyang Xiu and Shi Quanbin heard this, they both unloaded the big stone in their hearts, got out of the carriage together, and moved their muscles and bones.

Seeing that the sun on the horizon began to slowly fade its red color and become white, and then looked at Luoyang City not far ahead, Ouyang Xiu said: "It's still early, or we won't rest outside the city today, and send things directly to the place." ”

Everyone wanted to hand in their errands early, and Yang Weide and Shi Quanbin naturally had no opinion.

One of the guards was sent into the city on a fast horse, while the others continued on the road with the carriage.

The outer city of Luoyang, which covers a vast area, has begun to decline, and there are no guards at the outer city gate, and there are many gaps in the city wall, which has long been ineffective. The current Luoyang City can no longer support such a large scale.

The outer city, the inner city, and the innermost city is the palace city, Luoyang's regulations are basically the same as Kaifeng, and Si Tianjian is also located in the palace city, together with other yamen.

When he arrived outside the gate of Si Tianjian, an old official with white flowers and a few students had already greeted him, and when he saw Ouyang Xiu and his party coming, he hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

After the ceremony, Yang Weide whispered to Ouyang Xiu and Shi Quanbin: "This young eunuch Qin also served in the capital city Si Tian Jian before, and after he was old, he invited himself to take charge of Luoyang Prison, and he is the patriarch of Si Tian Prison. ”

Hearing this, the two couldn't help but respect Young Eunuch Qin's attitude a lot.

"Luoyang's daughter is like a flower, and Henan Dayin's head is like snow." Although Bai Juyi's poems are written in the Tang Dynasty, they are actually not much the same in this era. Luoyang City in Xijing is still a place to support old officials, not only the Henan Mansion has always been white-haired old ministers, but also the Yamen such as Yushitai, Guozijian and Sitianjian are also used to settle these retired old ministers, which is regarded as a place for retirement.

Si Tianjian has the rules of Si Tianjian, and they have their own set of rituals. Everyone saluted like a ritual, and then it was led by Young Eunuch Qin, and people moved the pendulum from the carriage.

Stabilizing himself on the ground, Qin Yijian said to a student of Si Tianjian: "You go up and see, what time is it, and the time at this moment is not right." Prepare it first, and then move it up when the auspicious time comes. ”

The student answered the promise and ran away.

Not long after, the student came back from a hurry, glanced at the houses shown on the pen, and suddenly his face was as pale as earth.

Young Eunuch Qin sank his face and asked sharply, "What's the matter?" Could it be that there is something wrong? ”

"The time is not right—"

"What's wrong? To put it bluntly! What kind of system has it become! ”

The student tried to calm his mind before he said carefully: "Back to the young eunuch, the moment on this new moment is the same as the moment we originally missed above, right-no!" ”

Hearing this, Ouyang Xiu was taken aback and hurriedly said, "How can this be? Before leaving, Xu Beizhi specially instructed us that the carving before the trip was matched with the carving in front of the Xuande Gate, and there was no half-point difference! We are very careful along the way, don't say it's a bump, not even a big bump, how can we not be right all the time! ”

Young Eunuch Qin looked at Ouyang Xiu and the others, then at the student who was following him, then turned to Yang Weide and said, "Come with me!" ”

After speaking, he took off his official hat with one hand, held his official robe with the other, and walked quickly to the viewing platform.

Seeing Qin Shaolin's white hair trembling and his steps were hurrying, Yang Weide didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly followed.

Ouyang Xiu and Shi Quanbin glanced at each other, at a loss, rubbing their hands and spinning in circles.

It didn't take long for Qin Shaojian and Yang Weide to come down from the observation platform and go to the front of the carving together, staring at the numbers displayed on it, frowning deeply, and not speaking.

Ouyang Xiu stepped forward and asked Yang Weide in a low voice: "Brother Yang, is the moment really wrong?" ”

Yang Weide said in a deep voice: "No, it's more than half a moment away!" ”

"Is that-" Ouyang Xiu lowered his voice vigorously, "The moment of the Heavenly Eunuch here is negligent and the time is wrong?" It's not that I can't trust the people who are in charge of the heavenly prison here, it's just that you see, they're old and young—"

"I have already asked Young Eunuch Qin, although he is old, he still retains the habit of being in the capital to be the Heavenly Eunuch. Luoyang Si Tianjian uses the same time to check the time every day, and the record is clear, it will never be so bad! ”

Ouyang Xiu rubbed his hands anxiously: "How could this happen?" Alas, what the hell should be done? ”

Yang Weide stared at the pendulum tightly, and said in a deep voice: "For today's plan, we can only wait patiently for noon." The Gui watch of the Luoyang Division Tianjian is an ancient artifact, which has been passed down for thousands of years, and there will be no mistakes! At noon, when I use the Gui watch to calibrate, I know what is wrong at that time, and it is useless to be anxious now! ”

Guibiao is not only a tool handed down by the ancients to the school, but also an important ritual of the country, and understanding these things is a compulsory course for scholars. Ouyang Xiu naturally knew this, so he had to pull Shi Quanbin aside and not disturb them.

At this time, the sun was high overhead, and the sun was hot and painful on the body. But all of them stood honestly under the sun, not daring to slack off, and slowly waited for the arrival of noon.

This is not just a question of whether the time is accurate, but involves the national etiquette system, and there are many issues involved. If it's just that the engraving is not well-made, and it can't be accurately timed, it's just that, I'm afraid that it's not because of this reason.

Xu Ping took the lead, and the personnel of Si Tianjian and Yan Su, who used to make lotus leaks, participated, and the professional knowledge of these people was the top in this era, and after being made and proofread for many days, they would never make low-level mistakes. If it is really as Yang Weide said, the Luoyang Division Heavenly Supervisor also strictly abides by the regulations, and there is no problem with proofreading the omissions from time to time.

There is no omission in either, so where the problem is, it makes people's heads big.

It didn't take long for the sweat on his body to rain, Ouyang Xiu stood behind Yang Weide, he didn't even dare to wipe the sweat on his forehead, he didn't dare to breathe, he just stared at the pointer on the engraved pendulum and slowly swept the scale bar at the moment.

Young Eunuch Qin gathered all the officials and students in the yamen, starting from the engraving under the stage, standing one person more than one step at a time, until the engraving and the table on the observatory. Just wait for noon to come, proofreading the time.

At noon, Young Eunuch Qin said to Yang Weide in a deep voice: "You go up there and take someone to erect a table." I stayed here and watched, and when the clock struck noon, I knew where to borrow it. ”

Yang Weide responded and walked up to the observatory.

Young Eunuch Qin asked Yang Weide to lead someone to set up a table, naturally to avoid suspicion and show his innocence. Luoyang Si Tianjian is his place in the end, and not letting outsiders look at it always makes people suspicious.

This matter was extraordinary, knowing what Young Eunuch Qin meant, Yang Weide did not dare to be polite to him. Xu Ping is a high-ranking and powerful Longtu Pavilion to be systematized and the deputy envoy of the three divisions, and he dare not be sloppy in this errand, and Yang Weide does not dare to make any mistakes.

Before you know it, the sun is in the middle of the sky. The people standing in the sunlight no longer felt the heat, but only felt that the sunlight sprinkled on the top of their heads was like a needle pricking their bodies, painful and itchy, and extremely uncomfortable.

Ouyang Xiu only felt that his hair was dizzy, and his legs were a little shaky. remembered that before leaving, Xu Ping asked himself if he was suffering from heat stroke, and couldn't help but have a wry smile on the corner of his mouth. At that time, I didn't have heat stroke, but now it's fast.

Suddenly, Young Eunuch Qin shouted: "It's time to tick the pendulum in the morning!" ”

"It's noon!" In an instant, loud voices came and went, spreading throughout the dilapidated Luoyang Division.

Yang Weide looked at Gui's shadow cast on the table, still slowly getting shorter, and sighed secretly in his heart: "Sure enough, it's a mistake!" What's wrong with this new carving? (To be continued.) )