Tong Jia anecdote

<ninety-eight>

Tong Jiu entered the main hall, and saw a few people in official uniforms sitting in the upper seat, the chief executive sat on the right hand, and Ji Lan sat on the left hand to accompany him.

Stepping in with a smile, he first bowed his hands to several officials, and then said apologetically to the chief manager, "Mr. Han came back late, and I kept you adults waiting for a long time. I hope you adults will forgive me."

"Hey, Mr. Han is busy with other affairs, but our sudden visit seems abrupt." When they saw her coming back, everyone got up and greeted each other.

The leading official from the Ministry of Officials greeted him, "However, I am here on official business. I am here to congratulate Mr. Han on moving to the doctor of the household department. This is a corresponding appointment document."

Tong Jiu quickly took it with both hands, and then looked at the official uniforms and official seals on the trays. He was very thankful on the face, but there was a little worry in his heart.

After the errands were over, the adults didn't stay any longer, the chief executive said that the prince still had a few words to explain, so Ji Lan sent the adults out first.

After leaving the gate of the main courtyard and walking to a secluded place, Ji Lan stopped and gave Steward Fei a wink. Butler Fei understood and took out the bank note he had prepared earlier, and said, "My lords have worked hard this trip, and a little money for tea is not a respect. , I hope the grown-ups will accept it."

"Mrs. Han, you are so polite, this..." After looking at each other in embarrassment, several people took the bank note with open smiles, and said, "Then we should obey orders instead of being respectful."

"Our family, Lu Qi, is young, and we will have to trouble the adults for their care and support in the future." Ji Lan smiled politely, and said, "I will send a few adults here, and the adults will walk slowly."

And here, the senior officer was drinking tea, and said slowly to Tong Jiu, "The prince said that although this is not a real shortage, it is also a real fifth-grade grade, so that the adults can have a good reputation when they travel between government offices in the future." convenient."

"I'm sorry to bother the prince and the chief manager." Tong Jiu and the chief manager of the palace have become acquainted with each other after these days, so the two of them are not as polite as before in private, drinking tea casually, and said, "My side I'm ready, I'm going to Jiangnan in two days."

"Master Han suffered a loss on the canal before. There are some things that the prince doesn't say, but he knows it in his heart." The chief manager smiled and said, "You wear your own clothes and jump out of the sky. Shang. To put it bluntly, after all, it is a low-level one.”

"Yes, yes." Tong Jiu nodded in agreement.

The chief manager pointed to the tray on the coffee table again, and said, "But Mr. Han, if you wear this clothes again, you will be a man with an official life. If there is anything in the future, the prince can make decisions for you." no."

"Understood." Tong Jiu nodded, and said to the general manager, "I would like to trouble the general manager to go back and report to the lord. I will try my best to finish all the errands, otherwise I will be ashamed of the lord's kindness in promoting and cultivating me."

"This is what our two brothers said in private." The chief executive said, "You retreated bravely back then, and you were able to protect yourself wisely in the case of Tongfu. This is the way of a wise person."

"But now, the prince has taken over the household department, and it's time to employ people. You already have a reputation, and it's a wise move at the right time to enter the officialdom. Brother, you are young and talented, are you afraid that you will not be successful in the future? ?” The Chief Manager saw Tong Jiu thinking.

He also said, "The prince also said that the wise man is no better than the sage, and the matter of Tong's mansion has been turned over. The emperor has not forgotten the contribution of the Han family to the court and you, the emperor's protégé. Master Han shared the worries of the emperor and shared the worries of the world. The businessman put on a show, the emperor will give the Han family an explanation sooner or later."

After sending the Chief Manager away, Tong Jiu did not return to the mansion, but took the horse to Shili Pavilion in the west of the city.

Ji Lan saw that it was getting dark outside, and before Tong Jiu came back, she let the Fucha sisters hitch a carriage and went to Shiliting as well.

When we arrived at the ancestral hall of Shili Pavilion, we could hear the sound of the qin no matter how far away, and the tune could not be tuned. Ji Lan sighed and said, "It's awkward to run alone, but I'm not a person who knows how to be arty, so I don't want to be disturbed." The peace of the ancestors."

As he spoke, he walked towards the cemetery following the sound of the piano, and when he got closer, he saw Tong Jiu with her hair loose, leaning casually in front of a tombstone, with a guqin on her knees, picking up the strings casually while drinking wine.

At this moment, it was completely dark, and there was a slightly cold wind blowing in the suburbs. He heard that Tong Jiu was playing "Missing Mother" intermittently. Ji Lan's hand holding the rosary was tightened, and his heart felt sad.

"Old Jiu..." Ji Lan walked over and took the wine jar in her hand, knelt down and stroked the hair that was blocking her eyes, and said, "It's getting late, let's go back."

Tong Jiu covered Ji Lan's hand, pressed her face tightly, stared at her drunkenly for a moment, then staggered and struggled to stand up.

He patted the cold tombstone behind him, and said, "Aji, I am here, Ama, tell me in front of them, have you ever harmed them?"

"Old Nine, after going through so many things, you should also understand. In life, many things are beyond your control. Regarding what happened to the Tong family, I can only say that I will not kill Boren. I die." Said Ji Lan pulled Tong Jiu, and stood beside her in front of the grave.

He said solemnly, "In front of Ama and the rest of Tong's family, I swear to treat you forever." Then he picked up Tong Jiu's wine jar on the ground, sprinkled the wine, and said, "If you have any knowledge under the spring, let her leave this place." For the resentment in your heart, you should also go to bliss as soon as possible."

Tong Jiu obediently let Jilan lead her back to the carriage, and leaned dizzily in Jilan's arms. Jilan gently brushed her hair, braided her braids, and said, "That year when the plague raged in the south, Yangzhengtang was suffering from the epidemic. The medicines in the district are all sold out. If I didn’t get the money from the court in time to go to other provinces to collect medicines and make medicines, I don’t know how many people would have died.”

"Healer's parents' heart, I'm not here to make a profit, I'm here to save thousands of lives." Ji Lan stroked the broken hair on Tong Jiu's forehead, looked into her reddish eyes at the moment, and said, " If it were you today, how would you choose?"

Tong Jiu just shook his head silently, and the two went back to the house without saying a word.

Before going to bed, Ji Lan personally watched Tong Jiu drink the soup to sober up, and then heard Tong Jiu say, "A Ji, Mu Yun is going to deal in opium, you probably have heard of it."

Speaking of Mu Yun, Ji Lan frowned slightly, stacked up the scattered medical books and chess records on the kang table, and said casually, "This business is good, most people don't have this kind of knowledge."

"Selling big cigarettes, that's a shameless thing." Tong Jiu was unbuttoning his mandarin coat. Hearing what she said, she stared and knocked on the chess pieces on the kang table, and said dissatisfiedly, "You know who Prince Yi is, she If you get involved with them, you will suffer sooner or later."

Seeing Ji Lan staring at her, he withdrew his hand, cleared his throat and took off his jacket.

After a while, seeing Ji Lan's gaze returning to the chess table, Fang argued, "I'm not thinking about her. I can't just watch her get stuck like this because of the Tong family and the past. It’s over, even if she can kill Hong Xiao, I, Ama, can’t jump out of the grave again, can I?”

"You." Ji Lan moved the chess pieces back and forth in his hands, and said, "Drinking this bowl of soup will clear your mind."

Tong Jiu leaned on the cloth tiger with his head up, reached out and grabbed the top hat on the Kang table, looked at the crystal top on it, and smiled self-deprecatingly, "I also said that I myself was also trapped. I, Ama I drowned in the murky water in Hubu, and now I got into it again. To be honest, I was really bitten by a snake.”

As he said, he put the crown on his face, and said sullenly, "The current situation in Beijing is like this game of chess. Prince Shen and Prince Yi are fighting openly and secretly. The emperor is the one who watched the chess. The one who was taken away, isn't it?" We pawns crossing the river."

"Since we've entered the game and crossed the river, if we don't want to be taken down, we have to look at the intentions of some chess spectators." Ji Lan pinched the pawns in his hand to look at them, and said, "You need to broaden your horizons, don't worry about it." Just looking at the rules and regulations in front of Prince Jian and Prince Yi. This world, after all, belongs to the chess watcher. Whichever side he wants to lose, that side has to lose. It doesn’t matter whether you are a pawn or a general.”

Tong Jiu took the top hat off his face, placed it neatly on the Kang table, and muttered, "Set it up, set it up, this is 100 million taels of silver."

"You, don't be so shallow like your cousin, that's all you're thinking about." Ji Lan glanced at Tong Dai, who was whistling and blowing his flower feathers. Jiu, couldn't help raising the corners of her mouth, saying, "Sometimes this person, if he doesn't suffer a little, he won't understand how difficult the world is. The more you try to protect her, the more ungrateful she will be."

Ji Lan put away the chess pieces in the chess box with a clatter of words, and said, "It's called opening a business just to open a shop? To snatch you away from me by opening a big smokehouse?"

Tong Jiu rubbed his forehead, raised his head from the Kang table, and interrupted with a yawn, "Sleep, sleep."

When Ji Lan came back from taking off her make-up and freshening up, Tong Jiu had already had several dreams, feeling that Ji Lan had slipped into bed, and stretched out her arms to wrap her in his arms.

After Ji Lan lay down, she looked closely at Tong Jiu's eyebrows and eyes, which were wider than when she first met, and said to herself in relief, "You are really mature."

In fact, regarding the matter of Tong's extermination of the family, as Mu Yun said, the money was the fuse.

If Ji Lan hadn't obtained money through Prince Yi's relationship to buy medicine, the Tong family might not have suffered such a catastrophe.But in fact, the Tong family was guilty of Prince Yi and the Ministry of Household's corruption of ink.

And back then, there was a plague and natural disaster on the one hand, and the Jinchuan war on the other.The emperor was obviously more worried about the epidemic and the people, so he turned a blind eye to the whereabouts of the money, and later happened to use this as an excuse to clean up the household department.

Ever since she was with Tong Jiu, this matter has been on Ji Lan's heart. The reason why she hasn't said it is because she has selfish intentions, but she is not dishonest.

At that time, she had no confidence in Tong Jiu, who was not yet mature. She didn't know if Tong Jiu would understand her difficulties that day after hearing this.So I kept procrastinating and procrastinating, until today I said it through Mu Yun's mouth.

When she watched Tong Jiu come back from Muyun, she could chat and laugh happily with the officials of the official department. If she hadn't caught the imperceptible dodge and hesitation in her eyes, Ji Lan really had a kind of Muyun. There is no illusion of speaking to her.