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Chapter 120 Red and Black

It was a cool morning in autumn. After Tang Cheng got up, he washed up and had breakfast, he went out to the state yard as usual.

When Tang Cheng arrived at the yamen, the bell of the yamen had not yet sounded, but most of the people in the office room where Sitian Cao was already here. Although it was morning, after a day of rest and holiday, after listening to the voices of these swordsmen through the window, they were a little lazy and unable to stretch. This situation was quite similar to the office atmosphere after the weekend in later generations.

"Everyone has heard of yesterday's literary meeting." Tang Cheng, who was walking into the office room under the Freedom Gallery, paused slightly after hearing the words inside, and had already slowed down.

"Jinzhou is just such a big place, it's hard not to hear it." There was a sound of sucking water from the office room in the window. After the sucking sound, the voice continued: "Not to mention that there was such a big stir in this literary meeting."

"I didn't expect that Tang Cheng was so old that he had never been exposed since he entered the yamen. He didn't even say a few words. He actually had such a great talent. It would be fine if he wanted to write poetry, but he even pushed Master Bie Jia in the debate. I really didn't believe it when I heard about it yesterday. Who didn't know that Ma Bie Jia was a Jinshi from the Mingjing class?"

"What's there anything I dare not believe? It's true that Don't Gai is a genuine Jinshi, but that's what happened many years ago? Lao Liang, please ask carefully. Anyone who has passed the Jinshi outside and became an official will have a few willing to read the books. After decades, the ones that should be abandoned will have been almost abandoned. In the past, when I was a literary class, others were afraid of being a master, and they would not be serious about the debate. When I met Tang Cheng, the real sword and gun dance, wouldn't it be revealed that Lord Ma's empty fire?"

"Old He said this," another official in the office room joined the discussion between the two. "The craftsmen on the streets are also very particular about not practicing their skills for a day! There is no difference between reading and studying. You guys are so busy every day, and they can't handle the social engagements that are popular among people. It's strange that they have time to read? In the past, no one dared to be serious."

"Whatever he said, Tang Cheng is famous this time. Last night, my brother-in-law in the state school went to my house and I thought it was my mother-in-law who had started fighting with Xinna's mother again. My brother-in-law was here to help the soldiers. After asking anxiously, he found out that this little bastard heard that Tang Cheng and I were colleagues, so he came to ask him about his situation. What happened so much, it was spread so quickly."

"Dechi, look at your resentment. Could it be that your brother-in-law came last night, which disturbed the good things that you and your brother-in-law had spread? That's right! He was about to enter the alley and encountered 'On the Wind'. Even a man had to be anxious." Lao He's words made Tang Cheng outside the window laugh, and there was even a burst of laughter in the room. The laughter also wiped out the lazy atmosphere in the room.

After laughing, Lao He continued, "If we say that every time we are in Jinzhou, we are always the only one and two days. It's not until the crazy students in the provincial school complain about this. If they were not excited yesterday, they would be strange. Not to mention that Tang Cheng is still the identity of Yunxi County School. After the recommendation of Yunxi County School in November, he should be classmates with your brother-in-law, Dechi. He is honored. In addition to gloating, your brother-in-law is afraid that he has this idea."

"Old He, I dare not admit what you said. My brother-in-law is restless, but he has always admired him very much." Yang Dechi said solemnly, but his solemn words caused a louder laugh in the house. Obviously no one believed his bullshit words.

Standing outside the window, Tang Cheng heard the words and laughter in the room, and a familiar feeling arose. Although it was 1,300 years later, it seems that the office culture that likes to arrange the boss is the same as in ancient times.

"Old Yang, just talk," this time he was Lao Liang, "No matter what the ball said, after yesterday's literary meeting, Ma Baba was completely defeated. He both failed in the same poem and debate. How can he say this? We are a great man. Will he still go to the literary meeting in the future? If he goes, how can he lose face?"

"Lao Liang, you are nonsense. As long as you are still in the position of a different position, you will still be the first in Master Ma next time. It may not be possible to do something like yesterday?" Lao He smiled with a "sneer" smile, "If you want to say that the most unlucky person in the literary club yesterday was Liu Jingwen. He spent so much effort and money to get such a result, he would regret it now!"

"Yes, Liu Jingwen is not a good relationship this time. Those who know him understand that his literary career yesterday was to curry favor with the Lord. If he didn't know, he was afraid that he and Tang Cheng were still thinking about what kind of solid relatives he and Tang Cheng were, otherwise he could not make Tang Cheng famous so hard. To make Tang Cheng famous, he would not hesitate to use his horse to keep him in the back. Liu Mingshi was very generous and bold." Before Lao Liang finished his words, laughter was already heard in the office room.

"Lao Liang, your words are really too damn, and Liu Jingwen must fight you to the death when he heard this." Yang Dechi was still smiling, but after laughing, he sighed, "When it comes to Liu Jingwen, we only laugh at 100 steps. His sadness is at all, and we don't know when we will stand out."

"What do Lao Liang say?"

"Is this too much? With Tang Cheng's fifth-class position as Liu Wei, he is compared with Liu Wei's fifth-class land horses. It's really in the sky and the earth. If it is common sense, in a local literary meeting like yesterday, it was too late for Tang Cheng to meet a master who was not as good as a master, let alone do it like this, and finally he stepped on the face of the horses into the gutter."

When Lao Liang heard that he was talking about himself, Tang Feng was so slow that he could kill the ants. After another sucking sound of drinking water, Lao Liang continued, "Tang Cheng has been in our job for so many times. Everyone thinks he is like a fool? He is not stupid or stupid, so why do you do such a thing? No matter what he thinks, at least one thing is stable, what? He is not afraid of horses and don't drive!"

"Old Liang is right. If he has a little fear in his heart, Tang Cheng would not behave like that yesterday and did not give any face to the other drivers."

"No! A few days ago, there were rumors in the yamen that Tang Cheng was the judge of the Cao that Sun Envoy decided in his heart. I didn't believe him yet. How old is he? There has never been such a young judge in the yamen, let alone our Sitian Cao. Now it seems that he is almost the same as everyone else! Think about it very much. Ma Ba Jia is a civil servant in the general administration of the yamen. If Tang Cheng really becomes the judge of the Cao, just because he is in the middle and the Lord Wu Jia, we can be as good as the person. Let's get up, we must have to violate the taboo of the Lord Wu Jia. But if we ignore him like now, we may not be able to live a life like we are now. I asked him when someone came to Yunxi County. Don't look at Tang Cheng as young as he is, his scheming is not weak at all. The days in the future are... difficult!"

Lao Liang could not understand what he said. The officials in the office room looked back and thought about the jokes about Liu Jingwen just now. It was just fifty steps to laugh one hundred steps! For a moment, Sitian Cao's office, who was still laughing, became dull in the room, and only sighs became more and more helpless in this dullness.

Tang Cheng couldn't help any of the depression and concerns of Zhu Daobi. Whether he could take over the judging department was still a matter of two things. He was sure to take over the position, and he would not have the turn to say anything before he took office. Besides, since he joined the state office a few days ago, these people have been colleagues. However, he was treated as "air" by his colleague sitting in a office. Did someone come to comfort him when he was depressed?

If you can't stand up, you have to suffer such depression! Maybe after this depression, you can change your snobbishness and slap in the black!

Tang Cheng thought so in his heart, and his voice gradually became louder under his feet. He entered the office all the way.

Seeing that he came in, the office room that had just calmed down became quieter and quieter, but there was a sense of misty restlessness in this silence. As Tang Cheng walked all the way to the corner of the book, he could clearly feel his colleagues looking at him.

He ignored this. After Tang Cheng sat down, he picked up the yellowed paper on the desk and read it carefully as before. It was still what Magistrate Zhang said on that day. If you want to understand the affairs of the yamen, it is a good idea to read the old papers in the past.

As Tang Cheng once again put on this consistent position for more than ten days in the yamen, he sighed, and then the sigh sounded everywhere in the huge office room as if it were contagious.

Another change in the Jinzhou Prefecture Yasi Tian Cao's office is quiet. Although Tang Cheng was there a few days ago, because he was just "air", other people would habitually make jokes when they were doing business at hand. However, today it was really strange. There were still so many people. The place was still this place, and even the cooking was similar. However, the mainland jokes were gone.

While Zhu Daobi was busy with business, his most common move was to glance at Tang Cheng's desk from the corner of his eyes.

Although no one took the initiative to talk to him in front of everyone, Tang Cheng had actually become the focus of this office room. His existence and every move had the ability to affect the atmosphere of the entire office room.

At this point, Tang Cheng is no longer the same "air" as it is present or not.

About half an hour later, Tang Cheng was tired. He put down his Chinese book and was about to take the opportunity to relax by going to the toilet. The servant who came in from the door of the office went directly to his desk and said that the officer Chen, the military officer, asked him to see him.

The local director of the military in the prefecture yamen was the same as Yao Qingguo's yamen in the Yunxi County yamen before. He was responsible for the unified management of the pen and pen officials in the yamen. He had to follow the rules at that time. As early as the first day when Tang Cheng entered the yamen, the local director of the military in the military should have met him, but Chen Bo did not do this. Seeing that more than ten days had passed, why did he suddenly come like this?

Thinking of the comments he heard outside the window and the abnormalities in the office room at this time, could he also hear about the literary meeting yesterday?

"Well, I understand, you go first, I'll come later." After saying that, he saw the servant was a little stunned. Tang Cheng smiled and looked at him, "Is there anything else?"

"Ah... No." After witnessing the mailman going, Tang Chengzhong, who had originally wanted to go out and pine, sat down again. After a while, he drank the tea in the cup, then got up and dusted the bamboo-patterned shirt and went to Chen Bo's office.

Through the large open carved wooden window, I saw Tang Cheng walk away. A sigh of depression and relief sounded in the quiet office room.

"Look, I'm right?" First, it was Lao He, "I haven't met for more than ten days, and suddenly sent someone to bring the word "please". When did we Chen Zhanjun be so polite to his subordinates? This is a sensation... it has changed."

"Well, I understand. You go first, I'll come later." Then Lao He spoke to Lao Liang. After he learned to say Tang Cheng's words just now, he said with a twitch: "Listen to these words, think about his expression, you're out of mind, we're all out of mind. Tang Cheng is so steady!"

At this moment, Xiao Miao, who had always spoken the least in Sitian Cao's room, suddenly interjected, "Are we doing a little too much the past few days?"

No one answered, and sighs continued. Damn, this yamen rice is really not delicious!

Chen Bo, a military officer in the Jinzhou Yamen, is a middle-aged man in his 40s. The biggest characteristics of this person are two: black and thin, which makes his facial features very compact since then. Especially his eyes look very concentrated. In short, this person is like a smart person who will sway all over his body with a slight touch.

Even the Cao Jue Office has a dedicated independent office room in the prefecture, not to mention Chen Bo. When Tang Cheng came in, he was looking at a document seriously.

After making Tang Cheng wait for a while, Chen Bo raised his head and said, "Are the Tang Records coming? Sit, sit quickly." While speaking, he waved his hand to send the servants back and walked over from the desk, first closed the door, and then went to get a tea cup to pour water for Tang Cheng.

He hung it first when he entered the door, and when the servants left, he was so intimate again. When he saw Chen Bo again, he wanted to serve tea himself. Tang Cheng unexpectedly remembered the scene when Zhang County Magistrate Zhang met Zhao Laohudi when he was in the Yunxi County Government Office.

Don’t be an official. Even an official is just like that of Chen Bo’s performance at this time.

"I dare not bother with the adults." Tang Cheng's smile on his face was not inferior to Chen Bo. After mentioning the tea cup and pouring the tea. Tang Cheng personally brought the poured tea to Chen Bo, and then asked with a smile: "Why did the adults come to me?"

The conversation between Tang Cheng and Chen Bodi lasted for more than half an hour before it ended. Chen Zongjun had to say that he was too busy a few days ago that he forgot about meeting. Tang Cheng naturally had to say "it's okay" and smiled and expressed his understanding.

Only after these words were said were the main topic. Chen Bo did not mention yesterday's literary meeting at all, but in this occasion where there were only two people, the smile on his face was really warm, and there was a little bit of the "black-faced Chen" in the mouths of the slashers?

After all, he was concerned about only one topic - what is the relationship between Tang Cheng and Sun Envoy?

Although Tang Cheng, as a time traveler, does not like this kind of twists and turns of speech, since Chen Bo likes it, he can only accompany him. The biggest thing he said along with this topic is thanks, thanks to Sun Jun for taking time to attend his wedding in addition to his busy schedule, thanks to Sun Jun for his appreciation to transfer him from Yunxi to Jinzhou, etc.

There were a lot of words of thanks, but Chen Bo already knew it. However, at the end of the day, Tang Chengcai vaguely mentioned Sun Envoy's mother, Mrs. Sun and Wu Yujun in his words. "If you want to say that Wu Yujun is good, it is just that she is so good at women. Mrs. Sun can't even restrain him so tightly, but Mrs. Sun's words are better."

When Tang Cheng talked about Wu Yujun and Mrs. Sun, Chen Bo was fine, but when he heard that he mentioned Mr. Sun, the military officer suddenly clamped the corners of his eyes.

Sun Envoy was a filial son. After the old lady came here, although there were many people in the land, she was afraid that she would not be able to stop her from hiding her, so she refused to see all the land. Speaking of which, Chen Bo was also a well-known figure in the yamen, but until now she has not really seen the old lady herself, Tang Cheng...

Chen Bo thought so much, but his expression did not move, and he still maintained the warm smile just now, "Yes, Brother Wu is really too romantic."

"A man!" When Tang Cheng said this, he watched Chen Bo and the others look at each other and smile, but only the tacit understanding of each other was known.

Then, the topic changed again. Chen Bo, who was calming his face, began to talk about business affairs. Now the biggest business matter involving Tang Cheng is his work arrangements. After all, Sitian Cao judged the Si was missing, and Chen Bo was now in charge. He did not say anything about specific arrangements, and Tang Cheng had to do nothing like he had done a few days ago.

"I wanted to reorganize Sitian Cao's responsibilities long before Tang Lushi entered the yamen. But I was busy with it a few days ago and delayed it. I have been working on this matter in the past two days. Tang Lushi's responsibilities will be put together to clarify what to do? As for the days between, you can look for some previous documents and read them, and be familiar with Sitian Cao's things."

Upon hearing this, Tang Cheng nodded with a smile and said, "Okay, sir, it's all right."

After saying everything he should have said, Tang Cheng stood up and said goodbye, Chen Bo sent him to the door of the office room.

"In a few days, Sun Jun should come back. Chen Bo really doesn't show off his eagle." When he walked out of the office room, Tang Cheng suddenly had such an idea.

In the office room, Chen Bo watched Tang Cheng go away through the gap on the side of the door, "This kid is very slippery! But he is from this state, and Lord Sun is from the Dongdao family in Shannan. What is the relationship between these two people..."

Time passed day by day. Seeing that Tang Cheng had seen Chen Bo, he was still reading the document every day. Lao Liang and Lao He in Sitian Cao's room had an unconcealable joy in his eyes.

They don’t want to be a grinder and make things difficult for them, so they wish Tang Cheng would be in trouble forever from the bottom of their hearts.

Gradually, Lao Liang, Lao He and others gradually returned to their previous appearance. They still talked loudly and made jokes while doing business, and Tang Cheng turned into air in their eyes.

However, Xiaomiao in the same office room and Feng Haizhou, who had always been calm, worked hard every day, going to the yamen on time, and were much more cautious than before, whether it was speech or behavior.

After carefully observing the changes in the office, Tang Cheng continued his "air" life without saying a word.

As he estimated that day, after he completely teared the conflict between the two and presented it to everyone, at least for the past few days, he ignored him.
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