"What? Isn't it you, a virtuous brother? ”

Chen Ziang was stunned when he heard this: "Our Chen family has a lot of money, but what is there in the officialdom?" But a few days ago, it was strange to say, the family entrusted someone to do a little bit of activity in the court, and the official document of the court came down. I still suspect that it was your handiwork, if it weren't for the secret help of the virtuous brother, could it be someone else? ”

"Brother Ziang, the more you talk about it, the more unsound it becomes. I want to take the credit and make you owe me a lot of favors. Cui Geng smiled bitterly, "But if I really have such a big way, as for being such a bare-pole imperial history now, are you worried about the revenge of Lai Junchen all day long?" ”

As soon as the topic of the light pole imperial history was mentioned, the people present were worried about Cui Geng's future, and the atmosphere suddenly became cold.

And Chen Ziang also looked stunned, frowned, and muttered to himself: "Then who is helping someone Chen in the court?" ”

Feng Pu saw that it was not a matter to go on like this, so he picked up a glass of pu wine and warmed up the scene: "Haha, as the so-called virtuous person must be blessed!" Ziang's becoming a servant is always a matter worth celebrating. Come, everyone, I'll wait for this cup to be full, for Chen to serve Yu Shihe! ”

"Congratulations to Chen Yushi!"

"Congratulations to Master Chen on his new appointment!"

Everyone had a drink.

As soon as the wine cup was put down, Yao Du walked into the hall lightly, and said with a happy face: "Lord Cui, there is another distinguished guest coming to the house, go out to greet him." ”

Guest!

See you again!

Cui Geng was puzzled, the characters who seemed to be close to him and had enough weight were here, where could there be any distinguished guests at this time?

He asked, "Who?" ”

Yao Du replied: "One is Liu Youqiu, the commander of Wurong County, and the other one, uh, I don't know you if you are lowly." ”

Liu Youqiu?

As soon as he heard that it was him, Cui Geng was even more puzzled, others risked being implicated to come to see him, and that was his friendship with him.

But Liu Youqiu's friendship with himself doesn't seem to be so thick, at best, it's just a colleague's affection, can he come over and burn his own cold stove?

With doubts in his stomach, Cui Geng went out to greet him.

When he saw someone, he was puzzled, but he was even more shocked - Nima, who is the person who came with Liu Youqiu?

It was the cheap old man who was bent on marrying his daughter to himself - Lu Xiong!

No wonder Yao Du didn't know him anymore.

However, a few days ago, I suddenly heard bad news, and Lu Lihua, the little lady of the Lu family who had never even met once, died of a sudden illness, so far, Lu Xiong should have no common topic with himself, right? Why did he come over to burn his cold stove at this juncture?

No matter what, the fact that people can come this time shows a lot of kindness.

Immediately, Cui Geng politely introduced the two into the hall.

As soon as Lu Xiong and Liu Youqiu came in, the atmosphere in the hall was suddenly a little awkward.

After all, most of the people present were characters from Cui Geng's small circle, and everyone trusted each other and could speak freely. With these two "outsiders" present, it is difficult to say a lot of things.

In order to ease the atmosphere, the old Feng of the chicken thief joked to Liu Youqiu, and said: "Liu County Order, the old man is a person who has resigned from the official, so he naturally has no scruples, but Liu County makes you different, not to mention being in the Huan Sea, and the career in the prime of life is unlimited, aren't you worried that today's move will cause the anger of Chang'an?" ”

"Sneer......"

Liu Youqiu smiled incomprehensibly, and said nonchalantly: "The one from Chang'an? Old Thorn History, didn't you just say that Junchen would become? This official is not without heels, so he may not be afraid of him! Hehe, don't hide it, my Wurong County Commander is just a matter of the past few days, and I'm about to take up another post. ”

As soon as Feng Pu heard Liu Youqiu's words, he already heard that the other party must have something to rely on, and immediately asked curiously: "I don't know what position Liu County Ling is promoting?" ”

Liu Youqiu said casually: "It's not a promotion, it's just a little Dalizheng." ”

Little Dalizheng? Also Nima "that's it"?

Feng Pu was angry in his heart, this Liu Youqiu was too special to pretend to be forced!

The other people present may not be familiar with the position of Dali Zheng, but how could he, Feng Pu, an old official, not know?

Dali Temple is in charge of the cases of the central hundred officials and the Beijing master above the prison sentence, although it is not as good as the six, but it is also one of the most important departments of the imperial court.

The official of Dali Temple is Dali Temple, which is one of the "Nine Qings" in the "Three Princes and Nine Qings", and the rank is from the three products. Where there are particularly major cases, the Dali Siqing and the Criminal Department Shangshu and Shilang will be tried together with the Imperial History Zhongcheng, which is the legendary Sansi triage.

Under Dali Temple, set up two Shaoqing of Dali Temple, the left and right hands of Dali Temple, handle the daily work of Dali Temple, rank from the four products.

Dali Temple is positive, in charge of the prison, is the department, and is also ranked from the five products. Dali is right, only succumbing to the Dali Temple and Shaoqing below, if the Qing Shaoqing is not there, the Dali Temple is always holding the Dali Temple.

Therefore, Dali is an important backbone official of Dali Temple, and as one of the important subordinates of Dali Temple, he has great power.

In addition, there is the most important -

Feng Pu said slightly sourly: "Dali is a subordinate to the fifth grade, and Liu County's order is less than forty years old, and it is really gratifying to congratulate." ”

Cui Geng on the side was also secretly pondering, Liu Youqiu took an important step from an ordinary official to a senior official, and came with Lu Xiong, it seems that this promotion is related to Shangguan Wan'er.

With Shangguan Wan'er taking care of it, no wonder this thing dared to speak out just now, saying that he had a heel, and he might not be afraid of coming to Junchen!

However, Liu Youqiu is a friend and not an enemy with him after all, and it is also gratifying that he can be promoted like this. Immediately, he picked up the cup again and said to everyone: "Haha, first Brother Ziang was promoted to Suzheng Tai to serve the imperial history, and then Liu County ordered to move to Dali Temple, which is really a good thing!" Come, let's all have another full drink and congratulate Lord Liu on his promotion! ”

"Congratulations to Lord Liu!" As the so-called flower sedan chair is carried by everyone, the icing on the cake is loved by everyone, and everyone is a toast.

In the hall, there was a lot of joy.

……

Today is not only Cui Geng's birthday, but also the Dragon Boat Festival.

It wasn't early, Su Xiuxiu walked in, followed by four maidservants.

Each maidservant carried a tray in both hands, which was piled with brocades, incense, flowers, and people.

Legend has it that during the Dragon Boat Festival, all kinds of demons came out to make trouble, and people had to do all kinds of things to ward off evil spirits today.

For example, the pu wine drunk here, such as the human-shaped wormwood and five-colored threads in front of the door, the things in these trays are also similar.

It is said that the guests who come today should be given such a gift by the hostess herself.

It's just that Cui Geng didn't marry a wife, and Erniang was a concubine who couldn't be on the stage, so Su Xiuxiu could only do this.

Seeing this, everyone quickly restrained their smiles, and stood up as a salute, some followed Cui Geng to call his sister-in-law, some called Su Niangzi, some called Mrs. Cui, and so on.

But no matter what you call it, the respect in your tone is the same.

Su Xiuxiu couldn't help but feel a burst of joy in her heart.

She secretly thought, if it weren't for Erlang, how would these dignitaries and dignitaries look at me, a widow ~ woman? I never expected that the little uncle who was not angry a few years ago would grow to such a point today!

Su Xiuxiu was slightly blessed and said, "The slave family will continue your life." ”

The so-called continuation of life, by these four maids on behalf of Su Xiuxiu, tied a colorful silk thread on the arm for everyone, which means to avoid the five poisons and live a long life.

Then, Su Xiuxiu led the maidservants to retreat.

Before, everyone drank wine and ate snacks, which was just a welcome for the occasion, not a real lunch, and now it is the time for the luncheon.

And a servant maid came up, took down the snacks, and set a table of good wine and food, and entertained the people.

The wine has passed three rounds, and the dishes have passed five flavors.

Lu Xiong suddenly put down the wine glass in his hand and said, "Erlang, you have outstanding literary talents. Today is not only the Dragon Boat Festival, but also your birthday, and there are so many relatives and friends to congratulate, how can you not write a poem? ”

"Let my family write a poem? Don't want it, right? ”

Yao Du hurriedly got up, as the first subordinate to get closer to Cui Geng, others didn't know if Cui Geng had goods in his stomach, could he not know? Inevitably, Cui Geng was disgraced in front of others, and he lied: "Lu Sima, you see that the adults in my family are drunk like this, how can you still compose poetry?" How about another day? ”

Lu Xiong nodded slightly, mumbled, waved his hand and said, "Cheng, then another day!" ”

"What day?"

Cui Geng was already slightly drunk at this time, but with a wave of his hand, he said arrogantly: "Isn't it just making poetry, what's so difficult about this?" ”

Immediately, he staggered to his feet, pondered for a moment, and then slowly recited: "Everyone, listen well...... The Dragon Boat Festival is said from whom, and it is rumored to be Qu Yuan through the ages; It's ridiculous that Chu Jiang is empty and misty, and he can't wash away his grievances! ”

Well, Cui Erlang, who was half-drunk and half-awake, shamelessly plagiarized a famous poem reciting the Dragon Boat Festival solar term from that big dream, which came from the Tang Zhaozong period more than a hundred years later, from the famous poet monk Wenxiu at that time.

However, this poem is not only wonderful and applauded in everyone's ears, but also extraordinarily appropriate!

Dragon boat festival...... Qu Yuan, who threw himself into the river and died...... Naotomi ...... Clearing the ......

I rub it, this Cui Erlang Tai Nima is talented, and he can actually express his chest directly in response to the situation, isn't it himself in this poem?

Yao Du, who was sloppy for him just now, was already dumbfounded, is this Nima still the Cui County Lieutenant who was known as a straw bag at the beginning? I haven't been with an adult these days, why did he suddenly become so talented and so literate? Could it be that there are really capable people in this world who are self-taught?

After hearing this, Lu Xiong thought too much, and said with emotion: "Erlang, you are wronged in your heart, no wonder you are so depressed." In fact, the incident in Chang'an is not as serious as you think. You just wait, the Holy Son of Heaven in the court is in the court, and he will never treat you badly. ”

Hearing this, Cui Geng had already woken up a little bit, and he couldn't help but move in his heart, and said secretly, the cheap old man said that he wouldn't treat me badly? Could it be that Shangguan Wan'er is really powerful?

But he thought about it and quickly dismissed the idea.

No way! No way!

Lu Xiong has the heart to marry his daughter to me, and he has a great impression of me, which is not unreasonable. But Shangguan Wan'er? She has nothing to do with me!

Can't just because Lu Xiong, a cheap brother-in-law, is optimistic about me, she will go to Junchen to scold her, right?

A dignified Shangguan talented woman, he doesn't believe that political intelligence is so naïve!

Well, maybe I'm thinking too much, and the cheap old man's pole may just be a casual comfort.

After thinking about it, he shrugged his shoulders and said: "Old man Lu, you misunderstood, in fact, I just wrote a poem casually in response to today's Dragon Boat Festival." Not so much to say, haha, drink and drink, let's keep drinking......"

Lu Xiong mistakenly thought that Cui Geng didn't believe what he said, and continued to persuade: "Why don't you believe the old man's words, this kid? Listen to a certain family's words, with your aunt here, this god, it can't collapse! ”

After speaking, he pointed to the two heads of the family, Feng Pu and Zhang Lin, as well as Liu Youqiu, Chen Ziang, Guo Ke and others, and said loudly: "Everyone present is a figure with a head and a face, can the old man boast about Haikou at will and deceive you?" If he can't cash it out, wouldn't someone Lu lose face in front of everyone? Again, you should be relaxed and put your heart in your stomach! ”

Lu Xiong has said everything to this, how can Cui Geng not believe it? This is not like a simple comforting word!

He put away his hesitation and asked solemnly, "Old Man Lu, what do you mean by this?" I hope to make it clear! ”

Lu Xiong picked up his cup, took a sip of pu wine, smashed his mouth twice, and said with a smile: "In just these few days, maybe today, maybe tomorrow, Your Majesty's envoy will definitely be able to visit Qingyuan City." Sit at home, child, and wait for something good to come! ”

Knock knock~

The sound of panicked footsteps suddenly sounded.

"Envoy! Chang'an's envoy... Come... Come to our house, just outside the house! Erlang, hurry, hurry up and open the middle door and go out of the house to greet you! ”

Panting, accompanied by the excited and excited shouting of Mao Bo, it slowly reached the ears of everyone in the room.