The Concubine of the Lin Family in the Red Chamber

June and July are the seasons when the water in the Yellow River is soaring. Every year, the Ministry of Industry will send the head of the inspection tour, and this year is no exception.

It’s just that the current fortification of the Yellow River is a dam built during the reign of the Supreme Emperor. Now the people below report that there are signs of a breach, so Emperor Hongzheng sent Yan Ziyu, the head of the Ministry of Water, and Lin Jue, the head of the Ministry of Industry, to go together with the king of Yonghe County. Overseer.

This is a matter of great urgency. After all, once the Yellow River breaches, it will be a matter of life and death for the people downstream.The group arrived in Shaanxi in just over a month with light vehicles and easy riding.

Shaanxi has been sparsely populated since ancient times, and it is also a disaster-prone place. Although the land is large, there are also many taxes. Especially in the years of disasters, the people suffer unspeakably.

The last emperor of the former dynasty was very happy. He built dams here, relocated 100 million people, and employed more than 50 laborers.The original intention was to irrigate the farmland to increase grain and taxes in this vast land, but it also caused the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River to stop flowing, and there was no harvest for two consecutive years.Later, Emperor Gao raised the rebellion, and this made the dynasty.

Because of the establishment of this dam, Shaanxi has indeed had a few years of bumper harvests, but the disaster of the previous dynasty is still in sight. Therefore, while the dam is storing water to irrigate Shaanxi, it must also release water from time to time, so as not to cause the people downstream to suffer. Cut off and cut off production.

However, once the dam is established, it cannot be destroyed for no reason. In particular, its existence has slowed down the occurrence of floods.Moreover, the dam needs to be repaired every year. If it is damaged and the flood is discharged thousands of miles away, people in the downstream may not be able to evacuate in time, and there will be countless deaths and injuries.

When we arrived at the border of Shaanxi, our own officials came to greet us early.He said, "I have lost my way, and I hope the prince will forgive me." While bowing to the ground.

Li Yibai stepped forward to help him up, "Cui Zhizhou, please get up."

After Cui Zhizhou got up and a group of officials behind him saluted, Fang followed suit.Cui Youwang and Li Yibai have known each other for a long time, and they are very familiar with each other, "Your Majesty has prepared a little thin wine to cleanse Your Highness, and please Your Highness to show respect."

Li Yibai glanced at Lin Jue's face, and said with a smile: "Cui Zhizhou's kindness, I shouldn't refuse it, but the road is full of dust and dust, why not go to the post house to rest for a day, and then have a drink with the adults tomorrow."

Cui Youwang hurriedly said: "It's because the officials haven't thought about it carefully. The post house should be ready. First, please move your highness and a few adults to the post house, so that you can take a rest, and the next official will entertain you tomorrow. What do you think of it?" ?”

Li Yibai smiled and said, "Then it's up to the adults to decide."

Cui Youwang hurriedly said that he didn't dare, and called his officials to go to the post house to say hello, "His Royal Highness and several adults have been exhausted by boats and cars, and they don't have much appetite. I asked Yi Cheng to prepare some porridge and side dishes. I will serve His Royal Highness and others tomorrow." A few adults take the wind and wash away the dust."

Li Yibai said: "Lord Cui has arranged it very well."

After sending a few people to the post house, Master Cui didn't bother him much, exchanged some greetings, and then got up to leave.After a while, some young servants with good hands and feet were sent, saying that it was to prevent the post officials in the post house from serving badly.Li Yibai happily dismissed him, and asked the person to express his gratitude to Cui Youwang when he replied.

Lin Jue was already tired. Although he loved riding horses, he couldn't take it anymore after riding a horse non-stop for the past few days.Li Yibai also saw that Lin Jue was not very good-looking just now, so he sent Cui Youwang away, and the group went to the post house to rest first.

Although Cui Youwang sent a servant, Li Yibai didn't want to pretend to be someone else, so he ran to Lin Jue's room, wanting to have a warm bath with him.However, the bathtub is too small and can only accommodate an adult. Li Yibai failed to achieve his goal, but he still rubbed Lin Jue's back tirelessly.

Lin Jue was really tired too, after being teased by Li Yibai so much, she fell asleep.Although Li Yibai didn't eat it, he took advantage of it anyway. Seeing that Lin Jue was really tired, he didn't bother him.He took the person out of the tub, wiped it clean, put him on the bed lightly, covered him with the quilt, and left the room.

After all, he was still worried about being outside, and didn't stay directly in Lin Jue's room.

Lin Jue took a warm bath comfortably, and had another good night's rest. When she woke up the next day, she felt extremely refreshed.Along the way, although there are posthouses along the way to rest, it is better to get to the place, knowing that there is no need to rush the next day, so I can sleep without stress.

There were more than a dozen officials in this line alone, plus Li Yibai's ten guards, and the others more or less also brought one or two guards, it was really a big team together.

Only one posthouse can't accommodate so many people, but fortunately it's August, the weather is still very hot during the day, but it's slightly cooler at night, but it doesn't affect the rest.Officials, regardless of their size, were assigned to rooms, and their respective guards could only make beds on the floor.

Fortunately, everyone brought not many guards, but Li Yibai, who was originally the king of the county, brought ten guards, so he couldn't arrange them.

Li Yibai, a guy who pretended to be a public servant for personal gain, directly moved into Lin Jue's room the next day.Who else in this group didn't know the thoughts of Prince Yonghe, but they were all silent, and it's nothing strange to see them like this now.

Lin Jue didn't care too much about it, it wasn't that he didn't care about feathers, and there was nothing ulterior about him, and he intentionally left something behind.The water in the boundary of Shaanxi is deep.

On the second day Li Yibai stayed in Lin Jue's room, and sure enough, another servant of Cui Youwang sneaked out of the post house, sneaked away, and got into the alley next to the post house.

"Master, someone has been sent to follow."

Li Yibai nodded, "Okay, find out who is the person who is connecting with him, and then report to me."

An said "yes" and walked out.

Lin Jue couldn't help laughing and said, "You really are too lazy to choose a name for the guard, and it's okay to just call it Wang Wu Zhao Ba."

Li Yibai twitched the corners of his mouth, Wang Wuzhao Ba might as well be dark and dark, okay?

"Don't worry about the name. Speaking of this trip to Shaanxi, what mission His Majesty assigned to you, you didn't even hide it from me." Lin Jue felt dissatisfied when he mentioned this. This person never hides anything from himself. , this time it is the most tightly closed than a clam shell.

Li Yibai chuckled, "Don't worry about this, just check your embankment at ease, and when you're done with it, I'm guessing it's almost the same here."

Lin Jue rolled his eyes, "You didn't come to investigate Cui Youwang, did you? He has never been involved in party disputes, why does Your Majesty want to investigate him?"

Li Yibai squeezed Lin Jue's chin, and kissed him hard, "Oh my Lin Da Tanhua, can we stop asking about this matter, I won't harm you, are you afraid that I will sell you?"

Lin Jue glanced at him, "It's hard to say, who doesn't know that the Thirteenth Master has always been the most romantic and affectionate. Hey, in the Changle Pavilion in the Maoyaner Hutong, I remember that there seemed to be a little gentleman named Zhu...Zhu what?" coming?"

Li Yibai smiled wryly: "Isn't that a long time ago? Is it okay if I made a mistake?"

Lin Jue snorted, "You have too many braids, I found a bunch of them after I did some random investigation, and it really sucks to think about it."

"No loss, no loss." Li Yibai grabbed Lin Jue's finger and bit it lightly in his mouth, "A husband like me who can go to the living room, go to the kitchen, enter the bedroom and fight gangsters, where can you find him? "

Lin Jue was also amused by him, and withdrew his hand, "What kind of rascal is not a rascal, beware of others hearing, 'Anomaly is a demon' Do you want to be burned to death?" After all, I didn't ask any more questions.

In the evening, Cui Youwang really came to invite a group of officials to a banquet again. After everyone had rested, they went to the banquet first.

Li Yibai has the highest status in the group, and the entourage is all good people, how could they steal the limelight from the king of Yonghe County.Li Yibai was given the main seat, he was worthy of his status, so he didn't refuse, and took the seat first.

Cui Youwang and Lin Jue conceded again. The three of them were of the same rank, but Lin Jue was a Beijing official, so they were two points higher than the outside officials of the same level.But Cui Youwang is the host of this banquet, Lin Jue and Lin Jue are not in a good position to compete with him.Therefore, it was Cui Youwang who took the second place, and Lin Jue and Lin Jue again.

As soon as the banquet started, Cui Youwang and Li Yibai began to fight aggressively while pushing cups and changing cups.Lin Jue had been told by Li Yibai long ago that she just stared at the dishes in front of her and didn't join in.Yan Ziyu looked at the King of Yonghe who was seated above, and then at Lin Jue who was always staring at the dish, as if a flower was blooming on it, and finally decided to say less and make less mistakes, not saying it was good.

When the banquet came to an end, I don't know where Li Yibai and Li Yibai chatted again.

At the end of the banquet, Cui Youwang personally sent a few people out, but said to Lin Jue: "Even here in Shaanxi, I have heard the wonderful news about the Lin family's double-discovery. Earlier, I was in Beijing. In the novel, I also had a few encounters with Mr. Xianlin. Later, when I heard about Lin Xiaotanhua, I thought, what a wonderful person he must be. It's a pity that I didn't have the chance to meet him, but I didn't want to meet him like this. Knowing Xiaolin Your Excellency has official business, so I don't want to disturb you, when Sir Xiaolin is free, I hope you can come and sit with me."

Lin Jue hurriedly said: "I have also admired Master Cui for a long time. If I can stay free, I will definitely come to bother you."

Cui Youwang laughed, "How dare you bother me, Mr. Xiao Lin just comes."

Not understanding why Cui Youwang pointed at him again, Lin Jue stopped talking after talking to him.Cui Youwang didn't care too much, said goodbye to several adults, watched them turn the corner, and then returned to his mansion.

The book office next to Cui Youwang couldn't help but wonder how his lord was being polite to a small Ministry of Industry, "Then Lin Jue is just a small Ministry of Industry, how can he still let the adults hand in the handover, it's flattering him."

Cui Youwang sneered, "It's him who I made friends with. I didn't see that King Yonghe is not easy to deal with. His Majesty sent him this time, I'm afraid he didn't think about it. What is Lin Jue? I just passed him. It’s all about showing kindness to King Yonghe. Just looking at the situation at the banquet today, it’s up to me to say whether this kindness can be shown.”

Cui Youwang is just taking one step at a time now.