Pei Gonggui

"Resign?"

How could Mei Linyu understand these two words, she opened her eyes in an instant, sat up straight and said, "Brother, don't scare me... Sister Yan is just about to hire people, how can you resign?" Where? The officials are counting on you!"

Pei Jun frowned for a moment, and glanced at Jiang Yue aside.And Jiang Yue changed his arms around Jiang Xuan and continued to pat him, and also looked at him with lowered brows. Although he looked puzzled, he seemed to have begun to think carefully.

Before Pei Jun could explain in detail what this "resignation" was, Mei Linyu said in a panic: "Brother, let's talk about this - we are eager for quick success and quick benefits, why are you thinking of retiring bravely... you are Not crazy!"

--"Are you crazy?"

Aroused by these words, Pei Jun looked down at Mei Linyu's hand grabbing his cuff, and for a moment he suddenly thought of Yuan Guang in his previous life for 17 years.

It was a late night in the winter moon.It was dry and snowy.Although it was only one of many winter nights, the cold wind that passed through the alley that night was honest and strong, blowing the snow foam under the black-painted dome, whirling and hitting people's faces.

He remembered that Fang Mingjue had asked him this question in a low voice under the yellow paper lanterns swaying in the wind outside the Hubu compound, with his sleeves on his sleeves and against the wind and snow.

At that time, Yan Yuliang, who was on the other side, took off the black gauze, wiped the water from cold sweat or snow, and shook her head to answer for him:

"Crazy to me... really crazy."

At that moment, Pei Jun held the jade mouthpiece in his hand and did not speak, and Yan Yuliang said in a deep voice: "You are in full bloom right now, and it has only been half a year since the second child of the Cai family was driven to the northwest by us... a man surnamed Cai in the Manchu Dynasty Here, who doesn’t hold grudges against you? Have you ever thought about what will happen to you if you resign suddenly? Have you ever thought about what will happen to us once you resign? There have never been many people who have gone out of this capital since ancient times The one who can get out of the body, let alone you are the Taifu Pei today! Now that the salt case has been changed, the courier has been ordered, and the enclosure has been checked, who in the world doesn’t know Pei Jun? Who doesn’t scold the New Deal? Who really knows? What are we doing? Not only are they saying that you are greedy for power and money, but they are yelling at you, cursing your father and mother, and just saying that the people who want to kill you in this dynasty will be able to expel Xijing from a row of Jingmen It's locked up... Where do you think you're going after resigning from your official position? Ziyu, to put it bluntly: If you take off your silver patch coat, wherever you go, you will die—"

"Senior brother!" Fang Mingjue tugged at his sleeve anxiously, but before he could say a word of persuasion, he heard Pei Jun smack the cigarette pan in his hand on the head of the stone lion stepping on the ball, raised his eyebrows, looked at Yan Yuliang, and spat out cigarette:

"But after taking off the official uniform and leaving the capital, how many people in the world know that I am Pei Jun? Aren't they still looking at this clothes?"

Fang Mingjue persuaded him first, "It's the clothes that saved your life. Da Xian'er... don't be stupid."

He half-raised his hand, pointed tremblingly at the household department courtyard behind him, and in the midst of a secret moving sound behind the half-closed door, he approached Pei Jun in a low voice and said, "After this trip today, the government treasury will remove the posting officials." Even if the money to support your face is really emptied. When the third boat from the Mei family arrives tomorrow night, you have to ask Mr. Cao to arrange it carefully and send it out of Beijing. There must be no leaks, and there must be no mistakes... So far Later, most of the bills we sent to the cabinet were fake accounts. We have one heart in this matter, and we do it right away, regardless of whether it is for the good of the court or for the good of conscience... Right now It doesn't matter if you look at it, let's just say it's 'good'... If you don't see the light of day in the end, then it's useless for you to resign, we'll die together, and you don't have to be afraid of being implicated—"

"Hey, stop, stop. Why did the two of you curse me to death?" Pei Jun laughed and put out his cigarette, glanced at the empty long street, and sighed, "I'm just tired Panicked, your mind is in a daze when you are free, and you just resigned casually, and you are not about to take off your clothes and hats immediately, it seems that you are so anxious..."

"Xiaoxiaoxiao, can you still laugh? Is this a joke?" Yan Yuliang pushed him angrily, causing him to choke and cough, and his laughter became hoarse, showing Yan Yuliang's serious expression: "Ziyu , Your Majesty has been working hard recently, transferred one-third of the county taxes of the nine prefectures to the palace, and said that they will be strictly investigated, and most of the ones selected are the land boundaries that you inspected and counted last year, why do you think so?"

"Are you worried about this? Tell me earlier." Pei Jun leaned on the back of the stone lion, "That's what I agreed with the emperor a long time ago: before the end of the year, I have to behave like this so that the Cai family won't be seen. Hello, if you get angry and don’t let people celebrate the New Year, then I will go to Beijing to inspect the food next month and I will go to worry about it, so how can you do it?”

Fang Mingjue pursed his lips: "Well, you can agree with the emperor on this matter, but why can't you agree on other things? If I were you, I would tell him clearly about the transfer of the treasury. You've got the bottom line in your heart, how can you keep your head pinned to your trouser waist, trembling all day like stealing money?"

"You are sure if you say it?" Pei Jun glanced at him, "Now that the new deal has changed hands, the three houses have reshuffled, and the palace has naturally got involved... When the Southland rebelled, the King of Jin even led a heavy army out of Jingping The situation is too unclear. I am afraid that someone in the palace has already voted for the Cai family."

Thinking about it, Yan Yuliang was startled suddenly, raised his eyebrows and asked, "You mean Hu Li?"

Pei Jun nodded: "Recently, this guy hasn't been looking for me much, I'm afraid he found someone else to give it to me. If this Hu Li votes for Cai, I will tell the emperor that the treasury is really short of money this year and has earned more money." Moved to a place for disaster relief, and there is more than enough relief—then he missed a single one and passed it on to Hu Li, and Hu Li passed it on to someone surnamed Cai... Aren’t we going to be blind for nothing? Besides, Hu Li’s He is a delicate person, and he has stayed with the emperor longer than me. Now the emperor has made him used to him, and he can't do without him everywhere. He has been in the palace for so many years, and it is extremely difficult to clean him up immediately. He can't move for the time being. And even if he doesn't know the details of this matter, it's very easy to see some clues just by looking at the emperor's usual search for someone and passing an edict. So I think it's better not to talk about it. The line will be closed in two years... When Jin Wang calms down the chaos in the south, our arrangement can be well laid out. At that time, we will wait and see the results. How the world is like that day is our best proof. We put so many people on the ground, pulled so many lines, arranged it for so long, and received so much scolding, and now we are dying... I don’t want it to fall short. Otherwise, I will die Can't even close my eyes."

"You can shut up. You said that we both talk and die. Aren't you just as unlucky?" Yan Yuliang interrupted him, frowned and looked at the backyard, and lowered his voice, "Come on, They loaded the car. Now we are on your thief boat with both feet, and there is nothing left. Now the boat has not docked, and half of our body is still hanging in the sea... Ziyu, you must not throw it away Just get off the boat and run—I warn you not to even think about resigning."

"I was just talking about it for nothing, but you took it seriously, and I still think it's boring." Pei Jun frowned and smiled at him. The laughter was diffused in the heavy snow in the winter night, and gradually condensed into him murmuring again. The mist that came out: "Hey, the emperor has nothing to do with me, what kind of official will I resign by myself... I still have my life to spend." After speaking, he raised his arm around Fang Mingjue's neck and pinched it, and patted Yan Yuliang with the other hand. Back shoulder:

"Okay, let's transport the goods first, and drink after transporting. It seems that this is the last gathering before the year..."

……

"Brother... brother!"

"Pei Jun, we're here."

Two soft calls pulled Pei Jun back to his thoughts.He raised his eyes to regain his senses, only to see Mei Linyu sitting opposite him and Jiang Yue beside him staring at him.Even Jiang Xuan, who was whimpering just now, had stopped crying, and was only sobbing slightly at this moment, lying in Jiang Yue's arms and looking at him with fluttering eyes.

Seeing that Pei Jun remained silent, Mei Linyu was annoyed, opened the curtain and jumped out of the car first.As soon as the curtain was lifted, Pei Jun saw that the Marquis of Zhongyi had arrived outside, but he was stuck in the past and thought about it all the way, and he didn't say a word about "resigning from office".

Seeing that he seemed to be in a trance, Jiang Yue only thought that he was worried about Pei Yan, so he sighed and said: "Get out of the car first, it's not too late to go in." After speaking, he hugged Jiang Xuan first and got out of the car.