Chapter 358: Fu Mu

From Zhengyang Gate to the north, you will reach Qipantian Street in front of Daming Gate. The scholars and migrant workers from all over the world gathered here with their certificates, and they hit the wheels. The day was noisy and bustling. Just passing a street north, there is a deep alley. There are six families inside. When you walk to the end, you will be completely away from the hustle and bustle outside, as if there is a different world, and it is the style of serenity in the city.

The door of this family is not highly regulated, and is a small gatehouse built by a wall. The door is open between the columns of the outer eaves, and there are brick and flower patterns and Ruyi-shaped floral decorations above the door lintel. It is also called "Ruyi Gate", which is very common. The door is also a common oil-black gate. A pair of brand new red oil-black couplets are posted on it, saying: "The lingering orchid is gentlemanly, and the ancient hearts of the ancient people of pine and cypress are displayed without any trace.

When I entered the gate, I saw an exquisite screen wall built on it. I walked around and entered the outer courtyard. I suddenly realized that unlike the narrow and cramped courtyard in the south, the courtyard in the north was open and grand, making people open their minds and calm.

Through the living room of the outer courtyard, the lower room is an exquisite hanging flower door built on three-story bluestone steps. On both sides are exquisite brick walls with grinding bricks on the joints. The head of the hemp leaf beam on the outside seems to be rolling red clouds. A pair of hanging short columns under the beam are carved with lotus leaves, decorating the hanging columns like buds waiting to bloom. The beams between the hanging lotus columns are carved with the pattern of "Yutang Richness" that is even more festive and auspicious.

The nanmu chessboard door outside is wrapped with six rows of copper hoops, which looks very solid and thick. The screen door inside is made of excellent iron wood. The paint is bright and visible. It is completely different from the low-key and simple outside the door. It is indeed 'the bun has meat but not the folds'.

After the hanging flower door, the main hall with three straight and four ears is tall and grand, and the east and west wing rooms are also carved beams and painted buildings; the cross corridor in the courtyard is paved with bluestone, and a huge lotus jar is placed in the middle. The lotus jar is in full bloom in the jar. From time to time, a few golden carp jump out of the water and make a "crackling" sound.

Flower trees are planted in the courtyard. There are several jujube trees in front of the main house, with green fruits on the branches; there are a row of grape racks on the east side, and lilacs, crabapples, elm-leaf plums, and mountain peach blossoms on the west side. Even under the windows in front of the steps, there is a row of long flower beds, planted with grass jasmine, dysfunction, morning glory, and lentils. It is indeed sparse and elegant.

A row of green painted windows on the flowerbed are divided into two upper and lower fans, with the lower fans fixed and the upper fans supported. The Korean paper pasted in winter has been torn off and replaced with a cold paper cloth. It is airy, cool and bright, and there are many benefits to not even enter flies and mosquitoes.

The summer sunshine becomes warm and lovely through the shade of trees and window lattices, shining on the bed with tassel brocade tents. A girl wearing a yellow gauze skirt with a lotus-clothed gauze shirt looked luxurious, but she felt that the elegant girl was sitting beside the bed and making a girl red. She saw her beautiful hair simply tied behind her head. Her lips were red without touching, and her eyebrows were green without drawing. She was graceful and graceful, gentle and charming. I am afraid that only the most beautiful Jiangnan water town can give birth to such a water-like woman.

This girl is Ruohan. After two or three months of care, she has improved. Not only that, she is also more radiant than before because of taking the "Xuelian Yangrong Pill".

She slowly started to make the girl in her hand, and from time to time she looked at the bed with a smile. The thin blanket was bulging under the thin blanket, and she didn't know what was hidden.

I don't know how long it took, but I slowly stretched out one arm from under the blanket, then another one, and then two big feet... It turned out to be a person, to be precise, a man. The guy moaned and stretched his body, then he lifted the quilt, dazzled by the bright sunlight, quickly reached out to block his eyes, muttering, "When is it, how can the sun shine on his face?"

Ruohan laughed and said, "It's noon, how can it not be bright?" Then he put down his work, walked to an Eight Immortals table, and made a cup of ginger tea with a Chenghua Doucai grape pattern teacup, and delivered it to him and said, "Have you had enough sleep now?"

He nodded silently, took a sip of tea, and rinsed in the spit pot Ruohan brought. He sat by the bed for a while and suddenly said in a lost voice: "Oh, aren't you going to accompany you to Liulichang today? Why didn't you call me earlier?"

I had agreed with Ruohan to accompany her to Liulichang today, but he couldn't wake up as soon as he lay down and didn't get up until the sun was over. He couldn't help but complain, "Why didn't you call me early?"

While helping him put on a silk shirt, Ruohan smiled and said, "It's been easy to take a day off, of course I'll give you a rest."

This is the last day of June, the court's holiday, that is, the day for officials to take a holiday... This is another thing that goes against the ancestral system.

Although since the Han Dynasty, officials had holidays, so they could sleep in, play horses and hang, and even in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, there were more than 100 days a year without work. Anyone who could think of a famous holiday would have a grand leave and their salary would be paid as well. This really made officials in later generations unable to come and yearn for it.

But in this dynasty, Emperor Taizu Zhu was born into a miserable child, and wanted to have a meal, let cows go, and fought wars, and was extremely energetic. He naturally thought that his officials were also "the life of cows and horses". He gave three days off a year, namely the New Year, the Winter Solstice, and September 18th, because that day was his birthday.

With this, some officials who separated from the two places could not even give birth to children. Even if they were lucky, they would make the children "disagree with each other and ask the guests where they came from." The officials were very resentful and could not do the work. Emperor Zhu had to compromise. The winter vacation was held from the twelfth lunar month to the first lunar month, and any problems would be solved suddenly.

So for a long time, officials did not have holidays for most of the year. But later, even the descendants of Emperor Zhu couldn't stand it. This emperor gave him a holiday and that emperor gave him a holiday, and the holidays gradually increased... Now, it is already three days of monthly vacation, the first day of the day, the fifteenth and the thirtyth. In addition, the New Year's Day, the Lantern Festival, the Central Yuan, the Winter Solstice and other festivals can be held for 18 days, and the holidays are more than fifty days a year, not including the reduction to half a month of winter vacation.

It is no surprise that no official said he wanted to maintain the ancestral system this time. Everyone made a fortune in silence and collectively selected amnesia...

But for the silence of working in the cabinet, I was not so lucky. It has been two months since I joined Wuyi Palace and it is still the first day of rest.

I had agreed with Ruohan to accompany her to Liulichang today, but he couldn't wake up as soon as he lay down and didn't get up until now.

"Then let's go quickly." Chen Si stood up and said, Ruohan shook his head, pointed to the front yard and said, "Uncles are waiting for you."

"Are they here?" Chen Shun scratched his head, "Why don't you say hello in advance?"

"As soon as you are busy, you haven't been together for two months, so of course they are coming." Ruohan combed his hair and smiled and said, "They don't let me call you. I have prepared a banquet. Please use it first, so you can go quickly."

Silent and apologized, "I haven't been with you for a long time..."

Ruohan smiled and said, "The days are long, can you still be so busy all the time?"

Silent and grateful, Xiaoxiao couldn't see where the end of his busyness was... The Jinshi of the same subject was so idle that he didn't have to put salt in his meals. Now there are 70% of people returning to his hometown to visit relatives. The Shujis had a tight course in the first year, but from the second year, they could all go home to visit relatives. Not to mention visiting relatives, even if they went back to live for a year or two, as long as they were named "traveling and observation", they could do it.

Only him, Zhu Dashou, Tao Dalin, and Xu Wei were entangled with errands all day long, and they were not allowed to talk about their leisure time, and the return date was even more hopeless... In fact, he had already written the report of his visit, but now he offended Li Mo so hard that he dared to hand it over and cause trouble again? He could only keep it in the drawer of the duty room, and he could hand it over it.

He looked at Ruohan with infinite guilt and said silently: "I'm going."

Ruohan nodded with a smile and watched him out.

In the vicious sun, he ran away and fell silent to the front yard. Then he heard a burst of laughter in the hall, as if Sun Ying was speaking, "If I were to say this, I would not have made you so proud!"

"Hehe, it's a pity that he is not here." Then he heard Xu Wei's strange voice saying, "Drink quickly, don't betray it!"

Sun Ying picked up the wine and was about to vent his anger. When he saw Chen Si standing at the door, he immediately put down his wine glass and said happily: "Brother Zhu Yan, come and judge the reason."

He went in with a silent smile, bowed to the crowd, and sat down on the seat left for him, and asked with a smile: "Why do you want me to judge?"

"We are guessing riddles and drinking." Wu Dui smiled and said, "Wen grows up a couple and says, "Sit together, sit down at two drums and three drums, one fears cats and the other fears tigers." Let's guess a word."

Sun Ying took over the conversation and said, "What I guess is 'fresh'. Look, those who fear cats are fish, those who fear tigers are sheep, and fish and sheep are combined into the word 'fresh'. Isn't that right?" The other few also nodded and said, "But there is some reason."

Xu Wei narrowed his eyes and smiled, "This riddle is just three sentences. You just solved the first and the last sentence. How do you talk about the middle sentence? What kind of drums are fish and sheep?"

"My words, do you think this person is unreasonable?" Sun Ying slapped the table and said.

Silent smiled and said, "Brother Wen, I think Brother Wen has something else to say,"

"Then what did you say?" Sun Ying asked back.

"The second drum is the hour of 'Hai', and the third drum is the hour of 'Zi'. Among the twelve zodiac signs, Hai is a pig, fearing the tiger; Zi is a rat, fearing the cat. "Hai Zi" sits together, and the answer may be the word "child". "Silent smiled and explained: "I don't know if I guessed wrong?"

"Ask aware of it." Xu Wei rolled his eyes in anger.

"Haha, this is really a tofu that is soaked in brine! One thing is to save another!" Sun Ying said happily.

"It's not what you guessed? Why are you happy?" Xu Wei glared at him and said, "I haven't drunk your wine yet!"

Sun Ying wanted to cheat, but Xu Wei refused to do so. The two of them made everyone laugh. At this time, the servants added a few hot dishes, and the seven of them pushed the cups and had a drink and had fun.

During the meal, we had a very tacit understanding. No one asked Chen Mo and Xu Wei about their errands in Xiyuan because they were the highest secret. Whether they answered or not after asking was very confusing.

But the recent major events in the court have been enough for these young people who have just been involved in the officialdom to discuss it enthusiastically. Wu Dui said: "The external investigation in Bingchen has just been halfway through. The Ministry of Personnel and the Censorate have been demoted to the left and right inspectors of two capitals and 13 provinces, and more than 30 people are above the left and right governors, and there are countless prefectures. Among them, there are three prefects in Zhejiang alone, and seventeen counties have been removed from office!"

Sun Jing continued: "In addition to the investigation of Beijing officials in winter, more than 300 officials were deposed." He said, "Many Yan Party figures were dealt with, either called or stayed idle, and pointed the finger at Ge Lao Yan."

"Yes," Xu Wei nodded and said, "These two inspections have seriously impacted and weakened the Yan Party. However, the fourth rank and above of the Beijing Officer did not have been in these two inspections," he said, "If the Ding Si Jingzhou next year is still under the leadership of Li Mo, Master Yan might have turned into a bald chicken!"

"It is obvious that Li Mo has received the acquiescence of His Majesty." Sun Ying shouted excitedly: "It seems that Master Yan's life is over! Li Mo is going to take over!" But seeing that others didn't say anything, he scratched his head embarrassedly and said: "I forgot, I forgot, Li Mo hates us to the core." The seven of their classmates and fellow classmates broke the relationship between bones and tendons, and in the eyes of anyone, they are one.

Silent smiled bitterly and said, "I'm sorry, I've dragged everyone down."

Everyone laughed and said, "If you are afraid of being burdened, I won't come to you for a drink."

Silent smiled and moved, "Don't worry, Li Mo can't do anything, and Yan Song can't beat up."

"Really?" Sun Ying said disbelief: "Yan Song is seventy-seven years old this year, and he has been over the age of retirement. I think His Majesty is now interested in letting Li Mo take over his job."

"It turned out to be possible," Xu Wei took a sip of the wine in his glass and laughed: "But it's impossible now."

"Why do you say this?" everyone asked in unison.

"Because he is twisted with His Majesty." Xu Wei smacked his lips and said, "Your Majesty will not put such a person by his side."

While they were talking, a cold wind suddenly blew in from outside the door. Everyone looked out and saw a trace of rain clouds rising in the sky. They already knew that the sky was filled with clouds, and they couldn't help but sighed, "Why does it rain every day in this ghost solar term?"

"It's so good that it rains. The crops can drink enough and people are cooler." Zhu Dashou laughed.

"It's better to stay in a guest on rainy days," Xu Wei smiled and said, "We can eat well with peace of mind."

"I have been eating for so many years, but I have never seen you feel guilty." Silent cursed with a smile.

Sure enough, when the cold rolled, the clouds immediately rolled, and the crackling rain came in a blink of an eye. The rain curtain instantly covered the doors and windows, but also dispelled the sultry heat.

Feeling the coolness brought by the heavy rain, Xu Wei excitedly knocked on the bowl with a chopstick, sang the Beijing-full song: "The wind and thunder rose in the northwest horizon. In an instant, dark clouds rolled and dark, and the heavy rain was like a spring..." The rain scene in Beijing was indeed vivid.

After stirring up the heavy rain, everyone forgot the initial topic and talked about other things. After the food and drink, the rain had not stopped, they left the banquet and spent time on horseback. Xu Wei, who was usually the most active, took the initiative to let Xian do it this time. After watching the round, he stood up and said, "I'm a little dizzy, go out to watch the rain and wake up."

Chen Si stood up and said, "I'll go with him, it won't be cooler when the rain is wet."

Everyone's eyes were focused on the cards and replied casually: "Go and go."

Silence left the hall, and at the end of the corridor, I saw Xu Wenchang standing facing the rain curtain. At this time, a thunderbolt flashed in the sky, reflecting his back.

After walking over silently, Xu Weitou said without looking back: "What should I do?"

The clouds and wind on the silent face swept away lightly, and turned to look extremely sad and said, "There is no help." He said, "The two sides are not on the same level, just like shaking a big tree. Unless the big tree is bound by itself, we will do nothing even if we have all the mechanisms!" When he was inside, he swore that Li Mo would not last long, but just to calm the hearts of his brothers. In fact, he himself didn't know what the emperor was thinking.

"If Li Mo is not finished," Xu Wei said quietly, "Then you are finished. The brothers from Qionglin Society, except me, will never have a chance to make a comeback. Moreover, Wang Gao will gain a foothold in the southeast, and Hu Zongxian will be finished."

"I know." Chen Si reached out to take a handful of cold rain, and sighed again: "But I really have no choice."

"I have a way." Xu Wei suddenly said, "But this method is too poisonous and ruthless, it will kill people!"

"What method?" The voice of Chen Xin's excited voice changed.

"Let me talk about whether you dare to do it first." Xu Wei turned around and looked extremely ferocious in a flash of lightning that cut through the sky.
Chapter completed!