Sword comes

Chapter 656

In the hot summer, it is like an old pagoda tree holding a big shade umbrella. It is gone, and the iron lock well is locked up by private people. The sweet well water that the old people miss is no longer available to drink, and the fairy graves are much less. The sound of crickets, and the creaking old porcelain mountain can no longer be climbed up. Fortunately, there are still peach trees in Taoye Lane in spring. The deep red is lovely, and the light red is also lovely.

In life, there are gatherings and endings, but fortunately, there are separations and gatherings.

Today's old school has gathered many returnees after leaving their hometown.

Before returning to the academy, Li Huai, Lin Shouyi, Dong Shuijing, and Shi Chunjia made an appointment to return to the school together today, and they didn't talk too much, just went over there to have a look and sit around.

Dong Shuijing asked someone to find the subordinate staff at the county yamen's house, and brought the key to help open the door. Usually, he didn't know Dong Shuijing's ability, and he didn't know Dong Bancheng's name, but the glutinous rice wine sold by Dong Shuijing had already been exported to many countries. In Lijing City, it is said that even the ferry boats of the fairy family that go to and from the white clouds like birds will put this wine. This is a huge source of wealth that everyone can see.

Four classmates and friends who used to study here, Li Huai and Dong Shuijing came all the way to carry water. The carrying poles, buckets and rags were all brought from Li Huai's ancestral house, and Shi Jiachun was holding a basket, all of which were packed inside .Lin Shouyi was the young master of a rich family back then, he didn't have to worry about clothes and clothes, so he didn't have the opportunity to do these jobs, and today he wanted to fetch water, but Dong Shuijing laughed and said that the water fetching place near Li Huai's house is more familiar to me. some.

So Lin Shouyi, who was empty-handed, chatted with Shi Chunjia who was close to him.

Both families moved to the capital of Dali. Lin Shouyi's father was promoted to a capital official, but the Shi family was only rich. In the eyes of the natives of the capital, they were like a rich man from a foreign country, covered in mud. Fishy smell, the Shi family's business in the early years was not smooth, and they couldn't find a place to reason when they were tricked.Shi Chunjia had something to say. The shop in Qilong Lane was crowded with people before, so it was just a joke, so it was not easy to say more. Now that only Lin Shouyi was there, Shi Chunjia began to sarcasm and complained about Lin Shouyi, saying that his family was knocking in the capital. After some bumps and bumps, I couldn't find the temple even when I lifted the pig's head, so I went to find Lin Shouyi's father. I never thought that the door would be closed, but I just went into the house and drank tea to talk about the past, and it was over. Lin Shouyi's father , made it clear that he was not willing to help.

When Shi Chunjia married a woman, she was no longer the carefree girl with shofar braids in her early years, but the reason why she was willing to talk straight to the point was that she was still willing to treat Lin Shouyi as a friend.How the fathers deal with each other is the business of the fathers. After Shi Chunjia left the school and the academy, he became a woman who cared for her husband and taught her children, and cherished those early years even more.

The words that can complain to people face to face, that is the reason why there is no resentment in the bottom of my heart.

Lin Shouyi didn't hide anything for his father and family, and said: "What is my father's temperament, what is my family's situation, you still don't know? Who would dare to go to my house to play when I was a classmate? Was Aquarius courageous back then? Do you see how many times she has been to my house?"

The style of the Lin family has always been eccentric in the early years in the small town, and he doesn't like to talk about human relations with outsiders. Lin Shouyi's father is even more strange. It was a man who was almost harsh in the face of the concubine Lin Shouyi, and another man who got along with almost everyone and knew everything too clearly. He got along very well with several supervisors, so apart from the compliments from his colleagues in the yamen, Lin Shouyi, as the head of the family, or his father, seemed a bit mean and ruthless.

The letters sent to Lin Shouyi's family when he traveled far to the Sui Academy back then were always concise and to the point, as if they were settling accounts.

No matter how well-known Lin Shouyi is now in the Sui Dynasty, he even has a great reputation in the officialdom of Dali, but that man has never seemed to have such a son, and he has never written a letter to Lin Shouyi. Go home and have a look at the words when you have time.

Shi Chunjia remembered something and jokingly said: "Lin Shouyi, even a few of my friends have heard about you. How capable is it that the story can be spread to the capital of Dali, saying that you can definitely become a sage in the academy, even a gentleman If you dare to think about it, you are a mountain god who has successfully cultivated the Tao, and has a good appearance..."

Speaking of this, Shi Chunjia turned sideways and looked at Lin Shouyi who was wearing a green shirt, "Yo, you are so handsome. I couldn't see it at all before. He has a straight face all day long, like a little master, which is not pleasing."

Lin Shouyi said: "If you have the ability to say this in front of Bian Wenmao."

Shi Chunjia smiled and said, "I didn't say you are prettier than my husband."

Lin Shouyi shook his head and said nothing.

Shi Chunjia was a little emotional, "At that time, the school only counted the latest books of you and Li Huai, and it was the same after a year of reading. Li Huai didn't like to flip books, and he felt sleepy when he read them. You were the most careful flipping books. "

Lin Shouyi smiled and said, "Do you remember this kind of trivial matter?"

Shi Chunjia asked back: "If you don't remember these things, what do you remember?"

Lin Shou nodded and said, "It's a good habit."

Lin Shouyi hesitated for a moment, and said, "If something happens in the capital in the future, I will ask Bian Wenmao for help."

Shi Chunjia was stunned for a moment, then laughed, and pointed at Lin Shouyi, "Since you were young, you have talked the least and thought the most."

Where does Lin Shouyi need to ask Bian Wenmao?

This kind of thing of helping people with steps and ladders is probably Lin Shouyi's unique gentleness and kindness.

At the school, while cleaning, Li Huai recited aloud the beginning of a family motto, "Start at dawn, clean the court!"

Back in the day, every morning, Mr. Qi would start cleaning the school early. These things were never done by himself, and he didn't need the book boy Zhao Yao to do them.

Dong Shuijing answered with a smile, "It must be tidy inside and out."

Shi Chunjia was wiping the table, and after hearing the words, he raised the rag in his hand and said, "When you faint, close the door."

Not far away, Lin Shouyi smiled and said, "I must check it myself."

Lin Shouyi carefully wiped the window rails, studying at the foot of the mountain, cultivating Taoism on the mountain, cultivating his body and mind, why not?

Shi Chunjia's husband, Bian Wenmao, also returned to Huaihuang County, the town belongs to the county and the county. Bian Wenmao submitted a name card and needed to visit Fu Yu, the governor of Baoxi County.

Fu Yu is also a son of a well-known family in the capital. The Bian family and the Fu family have a certain relationship and belong to the Dali Qingliu, but the Bian family is still much inferior to the Fu family.However, the Fu family is not as famous as the Cao and Yuan surnames. After all, it does not belong to the surname of Shangzhu.

After Longquan County was promoted to Longzhou, it governed the four counties of Celadon, Baoxi, Sanjiang, and Xianghuo. Yuan Junshou belonged to the chief official of Qingci County who was promoted on the spot. The prefects of the other three counties were all from Beijing officials. The county was collected by Fu Yu.

Bian Wenmao was willing to post to Baoxi County Governor's Mansion, but did not dare to visit the Qingci County Yamen.

In fact, even though Fu Yu is now on the same rank as the grandson of the Yuan family, he is a prefect of the same county, but every time he goes to the governor's mansion in Zhoucheng to discuss matters, not to mention Fu Yu, it is Wei Li, the governor of Yuan. Not easy.

Not only Yuan Junshou's background, but Yuan Junshou's own conduct and political methods are the key.

Yu Lu and Xie Xie went to Yuan's ancestral house first, then came to the school and picked two unoccupied seats.

Both of them used to be foreign students of Dali Old Cliff Academy, but they were not as close to Mr. Qi as Li Huai and the others.They migrated here as survivors of the Lu family, and they only saw Cui Dongshan, but they did not see Mr. Qi who founded the cliff academy and the school in this small town.

Coincidentally, Song Jixin and his maid Zhigui also revisited their hometown today. They did not go to the school to sit down in the classroom. Song Jixin hardly had any contact with Lin Shouyi and the others at the school except for Zhao Yao. Zhigui went to the backyard, and he was sitting at the stone table, where Mr. Qi instructed him to play chess with Zhao Yao. Zhigui stood outside Chaimen in the north as usual.

Song Jixin looked forlorn, and brushed his hand across the table.

I don't know if Zhao Yao, who finally lost to him in chess, is still safe now that he is traveling far away.

Song Jixin turned his head and looked at the Zhigui who had nothing to do and was bending a wicker.

She stood on tiptoe and shook the branch gently.

Song Jixin looked at her side face that he never tired of watching and liked more, and couldn't hate it, didn't want to, couldn't bear it.

She turned her head, as if she had completely forgotten the openness and honesty that day, and became a servant girl who depended on Song Jixin again, let go of her hand, and said with a sweet smile: "My lord, do you want to play chess?"

Song Jixin shook his head slightly.

In addition to the two groups of Li Huai and Song Jixin, there are also two unexpected big figures in the officialdom who came to visit.

Yuan Junshou, who is diligent and pragmatic, and Cao Duzao, who is unruly.

None of them brought any retinues, one didn't bring them on purpose, and the other didn't have them at all.

In fact, these two people of the same age who were born with the surname of Shangzhu Kingdom were both students of the Old Mountain Cliff Academy in Dalijing City.

However, similar to Yu Lu, the subjugated prince, he has never seen Mr. Qi with his own eyes, let alone listened to Mr. Qi's teachings with his own ears.

Cao Duzao is leaning against the window, with a scarlet wine gourd hanging around his waist. The beloved thing made by the supervisor is priceless.

Seeing the county sheriff who took off his official robe and put on a blue shirt, Cao Duzao was surprised and said: "Yuan Junshou is a busy man. He spins the top every day, keeps his feet on the ground, and his buttocks don't stick to the chair or stool. Mr. Yuan himself doesn't care. Feeling dizzy, it makes others seem to be drunk. This trip to and from Huaihuang County will delay a lot of serious work."

Yuan Junshou looked indifferent, "Talking to you will delay things."

The two surnames of Dali, Yuan and Cao are now the most famous surnames of the Shangzhu Kingdom in the entire Aquarius Continent. In Cishan Confucian Temple and Immortal Tomb Wu Temple, the ancestors of the two families were also shaped into golden bodies to enjoy incense as accompanying gods.

Cao Duzao took off the jug from his waist, took a sip, and squinted his eyes, as if whenever he drank, his life was complete.

Yuan Junshou stood upright, and he was in the same sky as the lazy Cao Duzao. This Yuan's son who had a good reputation in Dali official circles said, "I don't know that every time Yuan Duzao went out drunk, he wandered back Home, seeing the portrait of the ancestors on the door, will you sober up a little bit?"

Cao Duzao is notoriously unassuming, addicted to alcohol, doesn't like booze, just sips and drinks slowly, so he seems to be drinking all day long, life is the way to buy wine, stop halfway, and everyone Can chat and fart.

Fortunately, the kiln affairs supervision and construction office located in the small town is a clean yamen, regardless of the sky and the earth. In name, it is directly under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Officials in the capital has no right to intervene.In fact, whether the Ministry of Rites can manage the supervision of Longquan kiln affairs, everyone in the officialdom of Dali capital is like a bright mirror.

Cao Duzao specifically instructed the assistant officials to write good or excellent performance evaluations for all officials and subordinates in the yamen.

Only got a good word, if

If it's some good wine, that would be great.

It was very good last year, if you don’t send some wine, it won’t be very good this year.

The official rules of the Kiln Superintendent’s Office are as simple as that. It saves worry and effort so that officials, big and small, will be stunned regardless of the clean and dirty, and then beam with joy. Such an easy-to-handle chief official is hard to find with a lantern what.

Cao Duzao himself didn't take the official hat seriously, and the people of the town over time, seeing that this young official was really not pretending to be approachable, so they didn't take it seriously.

Huang Erniang dared to laugh and scold him. Liu Dayanzhuzi and his like who moved to Zhoucheng also dared to call Cao Duzao brothers at the wine table. When they returned to Zhoucheng, they would say that they were good buddies with Cao Duzao, even Even those big kids who wear crotch pants like to play and fight with the idle Cao Duzao. If they complain to their father, it is mostly useless.

Cao Duzao has already spoken the small town dialect very idiomatically, if he speaks in Dali official dialect with others, he will feel uncomfortable.

Cao Duzao squinted at the extremely familiar peer, and replied, "I don't know if Yuan Junshou, who is the most ceremonial, will kneel and kowtow every time he sees the portrait of the door god."

If the two of them hadn't come to this small town to practice, as a starter in the officialdom, Yuan Zhengding, the county guard, would never say a word to the other party, and Cao Gengxin, the supervisor, would probably take the initiative to talk to Yuan Zhengding, but there is absolutely no way to say that "Graceful".

Yuan Zhengding was silent for a moment, "If you don't do your job properly, do you have the face to go to Chi'er Street in the future?"

Cao Gengxin shook the wine pot in his hand, and said with a smile: "You walk with your face, Mr. Yuan's words are very humorous. Next time in the capital, who will dare to say that Mr. Yuan's only fly in the ointment is that he is not funny enough. I am on the road If we touch it, there will be two big mouths."

Yuan Zhengding continued to ask: "Do you still remember Guan Yiran and Liu Xunmei? If I remember correctly, when I was young, these two generals like to hang out with you."

Although the ranks of those two people are still not too high, they are enough to sit on an equal footing with him, Yuan Zhengding and Cao Gengxin. The key is the subsequent trend in the officialdom. It seems that the two generals have already broken a big bottleneck.

That is the conversion of civil and military identities.

Cao Gengxin smiled and said: "Master Yuan, since you don't know who I am, don't say that you think you know my words."

Yuan Zhengding feigned surprise, "Oh? May I ask who you are?"

Cao Gengxin took a sip of his wine, "I was a drunkard Cao when I didn't drink enough, but I was a drunkard Cao."

Yuan Zhengding smiled, "Sure enough, it's delayed."

Cao Gengxin shook his head and said, "I'm here to see Mr. Qi's direct students, especially to discuss with Brother Dong some glutinous rice wine that doesn't require credit. Master Yuan is different. He's here to seek friendship with the prince. Let's compete with each other. Judgment, I stepped on the mud of a back alley with dirty boots, Master Yuan is the bronze mirror on the high hanging door, high-spirited, bright and upright."

Yuan Zhengding frowned and said, "All these years, have you only learned to play tricks?"

Cao Gengxin asked back: "Then have you learned it?"

Yuan Zhengding said in a deep voice, "It's not a joke!"

Cao Geng hung the small wine pot with his heart, clasped his fists together to beg for mercy, and said, "Master Yuan, just care about your own ability to make it to the top, and don't worry about me, a tired lazy bastard, not making progress."

Yuan Zhengding sighed inwardly.

If he doesn't like this person's style, he is very disliked, but deep down in his heart, Yuan Zhengding still hopes that this disciple of the Cao family can give a little bit of attention to his career.

Of course Yuan Zhengding is mainly for himself.

Whether it's officialdom, literary circles, rivers and lakes, or mountains.

The world is so strange, and all the people who watch the excitement like to have the rivalry between rivals who are evenly matched, and are willing to pay more attention.It would not be such a good thing if someone single-handedly rode the dust early.

The responsibility of the kiln affairs supervisor and government office is actually very large.

Yuan Zhengding was very envious.

One is to prevent thieves, and you can also catch thieves yourself.

There are four surnames and ten clans in the small town, Song, Zhao, Lu, Li, Chen, Shi, etc. The supervisory office has supervisory powers. On the surface, this office is only for supervising the firing of imperial porcelain, but in fact it can control everything. The Yang family shop , Beiyue Piyun Mountain, Linlu Academy, Longquan Jianzong, Luopo Mountain, all the fairy family hills to the west of the town, the schools later opened by the Chen family in Longweixi, Wenwu Temples in prefectures and counties, Chenghuang Pavilion, Chenghuang Temple, Tie All the gods of mountains and rivers including Fu Jiang, Okinawa, Xiuhua, Yuye Sanjiang, Hongzhu Town, the big officials of the frontier, the family of the big surname, the innocent family, the humble family, even the monks, have the peace and prosperity card, as long as Cao If the supervision wants to investigate, then it can be investigated. The Ritual Department of the Dali Ministry of Punishment will not and dare not pursue accountability.

It's just that Cao Duzao, appointed by the late emperor, seemed to choose to ignore everything.

Yuan Zhengding was both happy and worried. What made him happy was that his neighbors, who would have been the mortal enemies of the Dali Temple in the future, were of the same age.What is worrying is the enterprising young emperor. Seeing that Cao Geng is not pleasing to the eye, one day he can't bear it, and even Cao's face will not be sold.In the future, after Yuan Zhengding took advantage of the opportunity to be promoted to the governor of Longzhou, he would become a truly powerful official in Xinjiang, but he would become restrained instead.After all, the lessons learned from the past are vivid, and the new superintendent will definitely not be too talkative.

Not far from the school.

Standing Ma Kuxuan and the handmaiden counted the scriptures.

There was eye contact with Cao Gengxin and Yuan Zhengding respectively, but neither of them meant to say hello.

Never one way.

Ma Kuxuan said: "When my grandma was alive, she liked to scold people very much. It was nothing more than scolding in front of people. If she dared not scold in person, she scolded behind her back. Among the people she knew, there were only three people who didn't scold. One. My grandma said that Mr. Qi is a real good man."

Ma Kuxuan twitched the corners of his mouth, folded his arms around his chest, and leaned back against a yellow mud wall, "In my hometown, I like to speak without restraint."

Ma Kuxuan smiled, and then said something strange: "You deserve it."

I can't understand Shudian at all, it is probably a local proverb.

Shudian only knows a little bit, the small town dialect is very flat, so there are no ups and downs.

It is rare for Ma Kuxuan to talk to her more harmlessly, but it is like an unprecedented commonplace, explaining with a smile: "It means that after listening to other people's words, it is like carrying a burden, whether you can bear it or not That weight."

A young man who walked out of his ancestral house in Niping Lane stopped for a long time when he passed by Chen Pingan's ancestral house.

Gu Can originally planned to go directly to Zhoucheng, but after thinking about it, she decided to go to the school.

And at the Niujiaoshan Ferry, on a cross-continental ferry from the north of Old Dragon City to Luzhou in Beiju, a tall man who left his hometown and returned to his hometown got off.

Ruan Xiu greeted with a smile, "Hello, Liu Xianyang."

Liu Xianyang walked quickly, smiling brightly, "Miss Ruan!"

Ruan Xiu nodded, and tossed a sword tablet over. If she got it, she could travel far away in Longzhou.

In fact, in a few years, Liu Xianyang should be the direct successor of the Longquan Sword Sect's Patriarch Hall.

Liu Xianyang just lent it to the Chen Confucian family in Nanbasuozhou for 20 years.

Liu Xianyang took the sword tablet, bid farewell, and went directly to the ancestral house, then to a grave near the Dragon Kiln, and finally returned to the small town.

Blocked at the entrance of Niping Alley, and beat Gu Can.

Gu Can didn't fight back.

A woman in red who was jumping on the grid above the sea of ​​clouds also changed her mind. After calculating the time, she did not go to Dali Capital City, but returned to her hometown town by detour.

Looking down, she landed on the side of the school.

Ruan Xiu went to the New Year's Eve shop in Qilong Lane, ate pastries along the way, and also went to the school.

As a result, the already lively school became more and more crowded.

Bian Wenmao left from the sheriff's mansion, took a carriage to the street near the school, raised the curtain of the car, looked over there, and was surprised to find Cao Duzao and Yuan Junshou standing together.

Bian Wenmao weighed the pros and cons, and since the two Shangzhu disciples were there, he didn't go to the courteous greetings, so he put down the curtain of the carriage and reminded the driver to move the carriage to another place.

As for the other people near the school, Bian Wenmao either knew them, had dealt with them before, or they were strangers, so he just ignored them.

Bian Wenmao just waited for Shi Chunjia to leave the elementary school, and then set off together to return to Dali Capital.

A guy with the appearance of a weak scholar actually went back on his word, took that brother Long Bo, and wandered around the town carefully.

In the end, attracted by the "movement" from the school, Liu Chicheng gritted his teeth, and told himself silently that he just had to take a look and not cause trouble. It was a yellow-mouthed kid on the side of the road in this palm-sized place who somehow jumped up and threw himself. Slap in the face, and I have to greet him with a smile!

So Liu Chicheng and that brother Long Bo saw a scene.

The school side began to disperse almost at the same time, so at a certain moment, everyone fell into the sight of pedestrians on the street.

The woman in Tsing Yi with a ponytail, Ruan Xiu.

Li Baoping in a red padded jacket,

Li Huai, Lin Shouyi, Dong Shuijing.

Yu Lu, thank you.

Ma Kuxuan.

Song Jixin, Zhigui.

Liu Xianyang, Gu Can.

Those people more or less glanced at Liu Chicheng who was standing by the side of the road.

Especially Gu Can, with a playful smile.

Liu Chicheng's scalp was numb, and his intestines were green with regret. He shouldn't have come, absolutely shouldn't have come.

If there was no one around, he would have slapped Uncle Long's face with his mother's hand a long time ago, he is a fool, and you don't even know how to persuade him, how can he be a good friend?

Chai Bofu's realm is gone, but his vision is still there, but he is tougher than Liu Chicheng. I'm dying now, so take it as soon as you take it.

Liu Chicheng humbly asked for advice: "Brother Long Bo, if you live here, how many days can you live?"

Chai Bofu was speechless.

It's just that those people are getting farther and farther away from the school and closer to the street.

Chai Bofu felt more and more suffocated.

Liu Chicheng stopped talking from his heart, and said with a smile to Uncle Long's brother: "Do you know, Chen Pingan and I are best friends?!"

Chai Bofu thought for a while, nodded and said, "Me too."