King's Landing [Rebirth]

Lu Wen was invited to come to the prime minister's mansion for a drink and talk. Wang Shuzhi hardly talked about serious matters with him. He only asked at the beginning: "Your son Zuowu was famous in Jiangdong when he was young. The imperial court held two empty seats to wait for him to come to Beijing. It's a pity that he has no intention of official career, I don't know if he has changed his mind now?"

Lu Zixiu, whose name is Zuowu.

Sima Rong recalled that there was indeed something wrong with the way that gifted scholar looked at him, and he couldn't help feeling a toothache.

Lu Wen responded with a smile: "A dog is useless, he only knows how to read and write, and he has only a half-knowledge about government affairs. I'm afraid he will disappoint the prime minister's high expectations. Before I came to Beijing, I didn't hear that he had the idea of ​​becoming an official. Maybe he planned to stay in Wu County."

Sima Rong was pouring wine for him, when he heard that the jug paused slightly, he was surprised, he didn't expect that Lu Wen looked rigid, but he was actually an old fox.

Wang Shuzhi shook his head and sighed: "It's a pity! Mr. Yin is old now, and he is about to retire from old age and return to his hometown. Originally, he wanted to leave the post of Taishi Ling to his son, but now it seems that he has to find another good talent."

Lu Wen hurriedly handed over his hand and confessed.

After Wang Shuzhi drank a glass of wine, he stopped mentioning the matter and started talking about metaphysics with him. Prefect Lu is well-known, and the two had a great time talking about each other, while Sima Rong listened faintly sleep.

The Great Jin Dynasty advocated metaphysics and liked to talk about it. From princes and nobles to ordinary scholars, everyone enjoyed talking about it. Sima Rong scoffed at this: Can talking about govern the country?Can clear talks repel the barbarians?It's a mistake to talk about it!

After Lu Wen left, Wang Shuzhi stretched his legs and yawned, looking very lazy, his eyes flicked between Sima Rong's drooping eyebrows, and he said with a smile, "I almost fell asleep just looking at it, is it so boring?"

Sima Rong cheered up: "The prime minister and the prefect have profound righteousness, but the villain is dull, so I feel a little sleepy when I hear it in a cloud."

Wang Shuzhi raised his eyebrows and nodded: "Mr. Lu must also often chat with people. I thought you learned a lot. It seems that you doze off every time."

Sima Rong pursed his lips and responded vaguely.

While talking, Wang Ting walked in quickly from the outside, and handed over a letter of greeting: "Prime Minister, Sanqi Changshi Shan, please see me."

Wang Shuzhi suppressed the smile on his lips, took the greeting card without even looking at it, and waved Ruyi: "Let him in."

Sima Rong saw that he didn't speak back to him, so he stayed there with a frank face. He was not surprised that the people around the emperor secretly took refuge in Prime Minister Wang, and soon saw a thin and bony young man crossing the threshold with his robe hem in hand. , so thin that you can remember your appearance without looking carefully.

This Lord Shan stepped forward and knelt down on the ground, with an anxious expression on his face: "Prime Minister, something is wrong!"

Ruyiji paused on the case, Wang Shuzhi said calmly, "Get up, what happened?"

Lord Shan wiped off his sweat: "Back to Prime Minister, rumors about that batch of congratulatory gifts have leaked out somewhere. Lord Du has not yet entered the capital, but the emperor has already known about it. Right now, he is furious, and he intends to choose one of the princes to come out and clean it up." Check the case."

Wang Shuzhi's brows turned cold, and he stood up abruptly: "Go and remind the fourth prince, let him face the saint immediately!"

"I have reported it to the fourth prince, but the prince got the news first, so I'm afraid it's too late."

Wang Shuzhi frowned and walked back and forth for two steps, raised his finger and pointed out the door: "You go back first, I will enter the palace immediately!"

"Yes."

Wang Shuzhi picked up Sima Rong, who was frowning and thinking beside him, and dragged him to the inner room: "Changing clothes for me!"

Sima Rong didn't expect him to have such strong hands, so he staggered immediately and hurriedly followed. At this moment, he didn't think much about it, so he could only bite the bullet and hurriedly changed into the complicated court clothes for him.

Fortunately, the four people from Pavilion, Terrace and Pavilion rescued the scene in time. Wang Ting neatly arranged Wang Shuzhi's clothes, Wang Tai put on the beam crown for him, Wang Lou knelt on the ground to change his shoes, and Wang Ge tied his belt. .

Sima Rong was just watching with his hands in his hands. Seeing Wang Shuzhi glance over, he hurried out and ordered someone to prepare a carriage.

After everything was ready, Wang Shuzhi dragged Sima Rong into the car, keeping his brows cold all the way, obviously thinking of a good plan in his heart.

After he got off the car and entered the palace gate, Sima Rong opened the curtain to look around, looked at the majestic palace wall, sighed, put down the curtain again, turned his head to stare at the incense burner on the table and smiled slightly: Your Excellency Looking at the scenery, it is actually quite bitter!

He was still guessing what happened, but now it seems that it is the case of He Li.

Sima Rong sat quietly in the car, going over the cause and effect of the incident in his memory, and couldn't help feeling: Someone who asked about the emperor's brother really seemed to have acquired a pair of clairvoyant eyes and a pair of downwind ears!Counting the time, Brother Huang is about to go to the fief, and I don't know how to meet him.

Less than half an hour later, Wang Shuzhi came out from the palace, but nothing could be seen on his face, he still looked so leisurely, Sima Rong had to admire his composure.

Wang Shuzhi didn't go back to the prime minister's mansion, but went all the way out of the city towards the shogunate. When he got there, he only ordered: "You wait in the car."

"Yes." Sima Rong replied, watching his back disappear into the gate.

Sima Rong waited in the carriage for a long time. It was past noon and he was dizzy with hunger. When he saw Wang Shuzhi come back, he hurriedly handed the small plate on the case table to him: "The prime minister must have been hungry for so long. , would you like to fill your hunger with a few pieces of pastries first?"

Wang Shuzhi leaned on the futon with his eyes closed, and waved his hands when he heard the words: "You can eat."

"Thank you, Prime Minister!" Sima Rong immediately picked up a piece of pastry and threw it into his mouth, his lowered eyelashes covered his eyes with a smile.

Wang Shuzhi pondered for a moment, and opened his eyes to see that there was less than half of the pastry left. Then he saw that Sima Rong ate it with crumbs all over his mouth, and couldn't help laughing.

Sima Rong was still chewing, but when he heard the sound, he glanced at him and quickly put down the plate.

Wang Shuzhi couldn't stop laughing, straightened up and stretched out his hand, stroked his thumb gently at the corner of his mouth, twisted the debris on his fingertips and smiled: "I said how I became so caring, so I was hungry, the truth is It's really heartbreaking."

Sima Rong was taken aback for a moment, not knowing what was wrong, feeling inexplicably embarrassed to look at him, quickly picked up his sleeve and wiped it on his mouth, showing respect: "Prime Minister, forgive me."

"I'll give you a chance to make amends." Wang Shuzhi smiled, "Write a few invitations for me, so that I can see your calligraphy."

Wang Shu's words were hard to come by, so it was understandable that the invitation was written by someone else, but the carriage was moving at the moment, although it didn't shake too much, it was a little unstable after all.Sima Rong wanted to doubt whether he was deliberately embarrassing, but he had no choice but to respectfully say yes, and put the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the table.

"On the eighth day of next month, Xinting Wenhui, by the way, first write a copy for your original owner, Mr. Lu."

"Yes." Sima Rong was calm, but his mind quickly turned around, and he said casually while studying the ink, "Mr. Lu has outstanding talents and virtues, and he will definitely shine in the literary conference."

"Oh?" Wang Shuzhi raised his eyebrows slightly, smiling, "Talent and learning can be tested, but how can virtue be seen in just one day?"

Sima Rong put down the ink ingot and looked at him, calmly said: "The villain once went to the Jiangzuo Poetry Fair with Mr. Lu, and a Confucian scholar named Liu Qishan spoke harshly, and even humiliated him, but Mr. Lu didn't care about him as much. It can be seen that the mind is broad."

Wang Shuzhi paused slightly: "Liu Qishan? But the master bookkeeper of Yuzhou Mufu?"

Sima Rong pretended to be dazed: "The villain doesn't know, I only know that Liu Qishan has a pair of character eyebrows, and his literary talents are good, but a little bit sarcastic. It is said that he is a good friend invited by Mr. Gu."

The gentry in the south of the Yangtze River are headed by Gu and Lu. Now the Lu family has taken refuge in the prime minister's mansion, and the Gu family is close to the prince's party. Unexpectedly, Liu Qishan has secretly communicated with the Gu family...

Wang Shuzhi's complexion was gloomy, he quickly picked up his pen, and wrote five large characters on the paper: Strictly investigate Liu Qishan.

After finishing writing, he took out his private seal from his sleeve and sealed it, folded the paper and stuffed it into the envelope, opened the curtain and handed it to the subordinates outside, "Send this letter to the shogunate quickly!"

"Yes!"

After explaining the matter well, Wang Shuzhi leaned against the wall of the carriage and stared at Sima Rong. Seeing that he was concentrating on writing the invitation, he couldn't help but smile a little: "Wang Chi, what is the meaning of this Jiang Zuo poem?" ? How have I never heard of this?"

Sima Rong paused for a moment, and replied calmly: "The little man has a rough mind, and he didn't pay attention to what the name of this poetry meeting is. He thought that the people invited were all Jiangzuo famous people, so he called it the Jiangzuo Poetry Association. The prime minister laughed. gone."

"Hmm..." Wang Shuzhi raised the corners of his lips, nodded and didn't ask any more questions, just leaned over to look at his writing.

The elegant aura of agarwood penetrated into his nostrils, Sima Rong almost bumped his chin when he raised his head, seeing him smiling at him, he couldn't help cursing in his heart: almost drowned in suspicion, yet he can still laugh.

"Prime Minister, please take a look, but is it written like this?"

Wang Shuzhi took the invitation and saw that he had written extremely beautiful handwriting, he couldn't help showing admiration, but after looking closely, he found that although his writing was as clear as pine and bamboo, there was a hint of sharpness in the feasible writing , couldn't help being startled secretly, and raised his eyes to look at him, with a very obvious inquiry in his eyes.

Sima Rong let him look at him calmly, as if he was a wooden sculpture.

Wang Shuzhi smiled lightly and looked away: "That's right, just write it like this."

Sima Rong wrote very quickly, the carriage returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion, and a stack of invitations was all ready.

Wang Shuzhi went to the study room and ordered his confidant Pei Liang to be called to him, but he didn't say anything for a long time, he just paced back and forth with his eyebrows frowned, and tapped the agarwood Ruyi on his forehead with one hand, thinking for a while before sitting down again. He gave a serious order: "Go and find out the details of Wang Chi."

Pei Liang was a little surprised: "Didn't the Prime Minister say that he is not worthy of doubt?"

"But I'm curious!" Wang Shuzhi laughed, got up and walked around the study room twice, muttering, "Looking at his characters, it's like knowing his person. This Wang Chi will really surprise me everywhere! If I If I don’t investigate, I’m afraid I’ll toss and turn with an itchy heart at night, so what should I do?”

Pei Liang was a little speechless, he was taken aback, and asked curiously: "Then what does the Prime Minister think of Wang Chi?"

"Hmm..." Wang Shuzhi walked to the window, looked out for a while with his hands behind his back, and said slowly, "The body is like a bird, and the heart is like a swan."