Pei Gonggui

Yan Yuliang wiped off the water on his chin, put down the tea with a smack: "No way. The Cai family pushes you now and then you back down. Will it be more annoying to them in the future? Right now we have captured Cai Yang, Li Cunzhi told him It's the Tang family again, this fight is enough to make the Cai family lose their skin, why do you need—"

"But senior brother, they are the ones who are one step ahead of us now and want to make us peel off the skin." Pei Jun looked at him, "Every day I was in the officialdom, I was the target of the Cai family. If they can't hit me, they will hit me!" Pei Yan, who can beat Xuan'er, even Qian Siqi will not let go, and will beat you even more in the future. They will dig three feet into the ground and dig out your heart, liver, spleen and lungs. Cui, who will be killed tomorrow? Old Cui is indeed guilty of being killed by him, so will the next one be wronged? You have been officials for many years, do you dare to say that you have nothing to do with Cai Yan? Is it?"

"But if you resign from the office and lose your seal, your hands will be short, and there will be fewer people who listen to you. You will not be able to do many things—have you ever thought about this?" Fang Mingjue first asked the teacher Putting aside the headache of the door, he persuaded Pei Jun in a low voice, "Without an official position, you can't compete with them on the surface, but they can still suppress you. What will you do then? Daxian'er, you are only 27 Eighth, but you have already reached the top two grades, what is your future and how far you can go in the future—do you know that what you want to quit is something that many people dare not even dream of?"

"Everyone has his own life, the two are not the same." Pei Jun turned his eyes away, "What's more, without an official position, although there are fewer things that officials can do, there are more things that can be done outside officials. In the final analysis, the Cai family just encouraged the royal relatives to deal with Pei Yan to give an explanation for the death of King Rui. If I am eating the royal rations and receiving the national salary, I have to slap the royal relatives in the face for my sister. How can I be slapped? And as long as I am still a Beijing official, how can I get out to help Li Cunzhi? If these two cases are not resolved quickly, the Cai family will continue to ride on the head and beat us on the head. How long will it take for us to breathe If so, it would be better for me to come out and find another way to fight with them, maybe I can turn around.”

"Find another way?" Yan Yuliang listened and glanced at Jiang Yue beside him.

Jiang Yue raised his eyebrows, and looked at Pei Jun with clear eyes, but seeing that Pei Jun didn't answer, he got up first: "Senior brother, Ming Jue'er, since you two are here, dinner should be ready, let's go through the flower hall first Go eat. If you have anything to say, it’s not too late to say it at the table." He looked at the court, thinking about attracting Uncle Dong, and said: "The dishes are all served, so you can ask the servants to stay outside. We old men I have hands and feet, Lord Jin will take care of it myself, and there is nothing to serve inside, so you can also rest."

When he said this, Uncle Dong understood, so he walked quickly to the flower hall in the backyard to have a look again, and then led a group of servants out and said: "Everything is ready, please go ahead, adults, we are outside wait."

So Pei Jun asked Qian Haiqing to lead Mei Linyu and Cao Luan to go in first. Fang Mingjue and Yan Yuliang also knew that the front hall was not a place to talk, so they also got up and followed behind.Uncle Dong greeted the new guards to guard the front yard, and sent some around. He sat on the corner of the yard with a cigarette bag, watching the outsiders who followed him from the yard.

In this way, Pei Jun hung at the end of the crowd and accompanied Jiang Yue to the backyard porch.After walking for a while, seeing Jiang Yue walking beside him in silence, he gradually slowed down:

"Jiang Yue, since I said I resigned just now, you haven't said a word."

Jiang Yue seemed to come back to his senses from another place, and he also took a step slowly when he heard the words, and after a pause, he said: "I said it."

"You said it, you said a lot, but you didn't touch the matter of resignation." Pei Jun sighed, and simply pulled him, stopped, and saw that the people in front of him had already entered the flower hall, and approached Jiang even more. Yue turned his head to look at him and said, "Are you angry?"

Jiang Yue looked at him helplessly: "No, don't dream about it."

However, Pei Jun still said: "Do you feel that you have helped me all the way, and finally made up your mind to rebel, and told me to meet a whole yard of capable people and strangers in your yard... But I promised to be with you... Fighting this one, but now suddenly want to resign because of my sister, this is simply a joke with you—"

"No, Pei Jun." Jiang Yue interrupted him immediately, and subconsciously held his forearm and said, "Don't think too much. I won't say it, just because I know that you plan to do so, and there must be your reason. I want to listen first That's all."

"Then what do you think after hearing my reasoning?" Pei Jun looked into his eyes quietly.

Jiang Yue lowered his eyes in this gaze, then let go of his hand and said:

"It doesn't matter what I think. You also said that there is a way to resign from an office, and there is a way to go without resigning from an office. Since you fought for this position at the beginning, no one knows this abandonment better than you. What kind of things are you giving up... Then if you think about it well, you should have thought about it early. Today, I just said it. Other people's comments are just trying to impose their own wishes on you. Not necessarily as you wish."

He thought for a while, then raised his head and asked Pei Jun: "But Pei Jun, if you don't mention those reasons... you want to resign because you are tired?"

Pei Jun's eyes flashed, and he blinked lightly, but he didn't answer right away.

Jiang Yue looked at him with clear eyebrows and said: "You have been an official for only six years since you came out of the Imperial Academy, but when I see you recently, it often seems that you have been an official for sixteen years. , looks really tired."

Hearing this, Pei Jun immediately cut off his words and said, "Never mind those six years and 16 years, whoever has done all these things to me should be exhausted." He forced a smile, "But even if you're tired, How? There are also many things that should be done, and the things that shouldn't happen, don't they come one by one?"

"Then if you are really tired and want to resign, then resign." Jiang Yue said suddenly.There was no joke on his face, he looked at Pei Jun, and said in a straightforward tone: "You don't have to worry too much. If there is any injustice among the officials, I will still have everything."

Hearing the words, Pei Jun's voice softened, and he thought about it for a while, but in fact, he had many serious matters to discuss with Jiang Yue in detail, but when it came to his lips, he still said something inappropriate: "Then I resign, you Raise me?"

Jiang Yue didn't take it as a joke, but thought he was asking a serious question, so he looked at him calmly and nodded his head: "Just raise it."

Pei Jun gave a wry smile, not sure if this could be regarded as Jiang Yue's intentional method of comforting others, but he really felt a little relaxed because of his words, so he habitually raised his hand and squeezed Jiang Yue's serious face at this time Face.Unexpectedly, he had just touched Jiang Yue's cheek with his fingertips, and before he could say a word, he heard Mei Linyu's loud cry from behind:

"Brother, they asked—"

Turning his head suddenly, he saw Mei Linyu rushing out from the flower hall.And this voice was probably telling him to go and take his seat quickly, but it was cut off at the moment when he saw him pinching Prince Jin's cheek intimately.

In an instant, Mei Linyu was shocked, her eyes washed out by the wind and moon in Beijing were filled with clarity, she opened her mouth wide and hugged the pillar, staring at Pei Jun speechlessly: "Brother, you... "

Pei Jun let go of Jiang Yue's face, and coughed lightly in embarrassment: "Okay. You go back and sit first, and we'll come."

Mei Linyu immediately let go of the pillars, and quickly retreated back into the flower hall with three steps and three turns, as if she had bumped into a monster.

Pei Jun withdrew his gaze, frowned and sighed, and immediately felt that his head hurt even more. Then he turned around and looked at Jiang Yue again, and saw Jiang Yue's handsome face turned red, and his eyes were still staring at him: "Pei Jun, you—"

"What's the matter with me?" Pei Jun broke the can, "Isn't it all because of you?"

Jiang Yue couldn't explain it to him, so he turned his eyes to the place where Mei Linyu disappeared, holding back his breath and said: "This time is different from the past, if they know you and me..."

"If you know it, you know it, so what?" Pei Jun didn't care, and led him to the flower hall, "If you know this meal, we still have to eat together, and they will know one day in the future. What are you afraid of?"

Jiang Yue was stopped by his struggling hand between his fingers, and his eyes trembled slightly: "Have you ever thought about telling them?"

Pei Jun glanced back at him, pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled: "I have been suffering from broken sleeves for a long time, and they all know it well. I don't need to tell you if we walk around a lot in the future. The few people sitting there can't do anything. I can see something is wrong. I'm just afraid that the news about you and me will spread, that it is your Prince Jin who has been dragged down by me, Pei Ziyu. If you are a leader in war, if you get involved in this matter, you don't know what will be said..."

Pei Jun thought for a while, then let go of his hand suddenly, and said quietly: "Forget it, don't say anything. If I don't nod my head about what Mei Liu saw today, he won't say it. I won't say it in the future. Don't say it, no one in this capital dares to tell you anything."

Jiang Yue was anxious: "Pei Jun, I don't dislike you—"

"I know. Jiang Yue, I know."

Walking to the outer door of the flower hall, Pei Jun raised his hand to pick up the bead curtain hanging in front of the door for Jiang Yue, and said in a calm voice without smile or anger: "I just know how the world's tongue can arrange you, so I don't want you to suffer That crime. Besides, you are not broken sleeves, Jiang Yue, you just..."

When he said this, he suddenly stopped, and lowered his eyes and did not continue.Jiang Yue frowned, and he didn't rush into the room, but looked at him with a firm look and asked, "What am I?"

Seeing that he was really hooked, Pei Jun curled the corner of his lips indifferently, put down the bead curtain and leaned towards his ear, and said very softly:

"You're just following my lead."

Jiang Yue's ears were baked by the heat, and his whole body was agitated, Jun's face turned even redder, as soon as he pushed Pei Jun away, he scolded: "Not serious!"

"I'm telling the truth." Pei Jun let out a dull smile in his chest. Seeing Jiang Yuefeng passing by him in two steps and stepping into the flower hall, he gradually put away his smile, shook his head and followed him in.

Walking around the screen, he went to the inner room and invited Jiang Yue to take his seat according to the etiquette. They just sat down when they heard the news that Jiang Shilang from the Ministry of War and the two men from the Ministry of Industry had arrived.Everyone waited for the latecomers to take their seats one by one, and the seat began slowly.

During the banquet, the ins and outs of Cui Yu's affairs were roughly explained in detail, but the few people who arrived first also tacitly agreed, omitting Pei Jun's detailed analysis of the court situation, and only said that Pei Jun was about to resign from office, but it really attracted the attention of later generations. All the officials disagreed, saying:

"Feng Shilang is imprisoned, Cui Shangshu is imprisoned, and Shen Shangshu is ruined. If Mr. Pei also resigns now, then the Ministry of Rites will be empty, and the sixth department will be half empty. This is too dangerous, it is not appropriate, Pei My lord, you should think twice!"

Yan Yuliang looked at Pei Jun when he heard the words, with writing all over his face: "Look, what did I say?" But Pei Jun only got up to serve the wine for the officials, and Tete gave Yan Yuliang so much that it overflowed. Slowly said:

"Everyone, Pei Jun has been in the class for many years, thanks to your support and help, today, I am always grateful, and I am ashamed and dare not forget. Now I am apologizing and resigning from office, not to abandon you, but because of heavy family affairs and personal grievances. , so that the Cai family pressed each other and the Zhang family resisted. They really didn't dare to implicate you. They only wanted to retreat to advance, to leave the light and enter the dark, in order to find another way out. This is not a surrender, but an opportunity to defeat the enemy. Also, I will need your help even more in the future. If there is a day when the plan is successful, there will be a day when I, Pei Jun, will return to the official career. By then, the Cai family will have lost its vitality, and our party will be able to control the overall situation."

"Perhaps it should be said that Prince Jin is in charge of the overall situation." Yan Yuliang's every sentence hits the spot, and because it is at a private dinner, his words are more straightforward than in court meetings and official affairs, "Ziyu, what are you doing?" If you want to retreat in the dark to manage the great cause for Prince Jin, then have you asked him what he thinks? If you lose this person, do you still need your help?"

Before Pei Jun could speak, Jiang Yue had already said, "Shangshu Yan is too worried. What Gu values ​​is Mr. Pei, not Mr. Pei's seat."