Pei Gonggui

The sun had passed the point, and the red wheel began to sink to the west.When Pei Jun and Jiang Yue returned to the south of the city by car again, it was almost time for dinner.

After entering the city, Pei Jun suddenly came to his senses amidst the noise of city soldiers inspecting him. Only then did he realize that he had nothing to say all the way, so he couldn't help but look back at Jiang Yue, only to see that Jiang Yue was just sitting quietly beside him and looking at him. His eyes were calm, without even the slightest bit of impatience, and in those eyes that exposed the mask, there was indeed the same hesitation as him.

After witnessing the tragedy of Li Si crying for his father together, it is tacit understanding what the two of them are thinking at this time.If it is said that what Pei Jun wants to see is more about his mistakes in the Li case in his previous life and the mistakes in this case in this life, then as far as Jiang Yue is concerned, he cannot enjoy the next ten years like Pei Jun. With the precipitation and enlightenment of the years, what he thinks more about is naturally only the situation he can perceive now, and the things that will happen in the not-too-distant future.

Seeing that he was rarely depressed, Pei Jun calmed down a little and sat up straight, grabbed his hand and gave him a hand: "We've come here, why don't you go with me to Mingyue Hutong to have a pot?"

Jiang Yue knew that Pei Jun was trying to comfort him, but he fixed his gaze on Pei Jun for a moment, but still shook his head and replied, "It's already an adventure to leave the house today, and now I'm not resurrected, so it's better to be careful."

Therefore Pei Jun also nodded and agreed to send him back to Prince Jin's mansion first, he also listened to his advice and planned to go back to the mansion early to rest.

The rising sun in the sky scorched the clouds, and the sun gradually faded. When the carriage arrived at a secluded residence on the outskirts of Prince Jin's Mansion, night fell.

Jiang Yue got out of the car and stood under the yellow paper lantern in front of the house to watch Pei Jun's car and horse turn around.Pei Jun lifted the curtain in the car to look back at Jiang Yue's figure standing in front of the door. Although he couldn't see what Jiang Yue's expression was under the mask at this time, he could easily detect the anxiety emanating from Jiang Yue's body.

He put down the curtain for a moment or two, sighed, told the coachman to wait a moment, got up and got out of the car and walked towards Jiang Yue.

Seeing him turning back, Jiang Yue was slightly taken aback and said, "Why did you come down again?"

Pei Jun stepped forward and pulled him two steps into the threshold of the residence: "I'm afraid you won't be able to figure it out by yourself, and you will be blind and uncomfortable."

Jiang Yue had no choice but to be dragged into the courtyard gate by him, and stood in the vestibule with a wry smile: "What happened today, it is human nature to feel sad, I'll just be quiet, but you stayed up all night, so hurry up Go back and rest."

"If I just leave you and go back like this, I won't be able to sleep all night." Pei Jun raised his hand to take off his mask for him, and leaned closer to him for a closer look, "What are you thinking? You really don't want to talk to me?"

Jiang Yue looked at him and shook his eyes, hesitated for a while, then lowered his head, and after turning around and taking two steps in, he sighed in a low voice: "I've been thinking all the way... Li's case is because he came to the capital to call us If we see it, we have avenged Li Si and the wronged people, but how many Li families are there in the world that we can’t see? If it is true as Li Si said, Li Cunzhi’s death will stop the world from crying out for grievances. Then how can we know about the corruption and evils of this dynasty in the future? And if we don't know, how can we get rid of it?"

Pei Jun followed him and walked two steps forward. He heard the meaning of his words, stopped and asked, "Are you afraid... Even if you change your head in this world, you still won't be able to move your body?"

Jiang Yue turned around and looked at him, with a rare trace of hesitation in his eyes: "Aren't you afraid?"

Pei Jun looked at him calmly: "Of course I'm also afraid, but Jiang Yue, if the world doesn't even change his head, wouldn't his bloated body have no hope of earning a living?"

Jiang Yue frowned and went to sit on the railing in front of the corridor, raised his head and asked him, "Which is heavier, the head or the body?"

Pei Jun pondered for a while, and slowly stepped forward to sit beside him and said, "I think the two should not be considered more important, but should be compared."

Jiang Yue frowned: "What is lightness?"

Pei Jun replied: "Naturally, the benefits of the two powers are the most important, and the two evils are the least important."

Jiang Yue woke up when he heard the words, and heard Pei Jun say again: "Think about it, Jiang Yue, if there is a disease in the five bodies of a human being, if abscesses are cut out, and rotting limbs are chopped off, they can still live, but if pus grows in the head I have sores, but I can’t move my whole body, so why bother to goug out the sickness? Now I have both evils in the court, and the corrupt officials are counting on the heavenly king to come to me. It is impossible to eradicate it from the root, and if it cannot establish its roots, it will naturally not be able to grow its leaves. From this point of view, which of these two evils do you think is more serious?"

Jiang Yue knew it clearly: "It is the harm of a faint king, especially a corrupt minister."

"The truth is actually that simple, but how many years did it take me to understand it..." Pei Jun shook his head and laughed at himself, and sighed at the sky, "You said that Cai Yan and Zhang Ling are both so old, and they should be older than me." How many years have they been enlightened, do they really not know?"

Jiang Yue's eyes hurt, he raised his eyebrows and said in a low voice, "I'm afraid it might not be."

"So..." Pei Jun turned to look at him, "They seem to be reforming political affairs, but in fact they are just deliberately avoiding the important ones. Even if the officials are strictly ordered to beat and kill the courtiers, Yu Jiang Zhan, the leader of the group of dragons, has never touched them in the slightest. .Now that the Li family has died under the law of the Zhang family, in the future there will also be salt people who will cause chaos because of the Cai family's government. With them over the government, it is like a paralyzed throat. Only those who are above them can eradicate them in one fell swoop. And the only person who can do this in the middle of the country is you."

After finishing speaking, he raised his hand and patted Jiang Yue's knee and said, "If you think about it this way, do you have a clearer heart?"

His words are like a silver comb with sharp teeth, combing Jiang Yue's complicated and trivial thoughts into soft but tough silks, turning them into strong ropes, and combing Jiang Yue's thoughts that occasionally shake in his mind Fastened firmly again.Jiang Yue looked down at his hand on his knee, traced the clear outline of his fingers, gradually raised his hand to cover the back of his hand, breathed a sigh of relief, clasped his warm fingers, and tapped gently. nod.

Seeing that he had calmed down, Pei Jun breathed a sigh of relief, pulled him over to face him, raised his other hand and scratched the tip of his nose and said, "Since you've figured it out, don't worry about it for now. What we have to do in the future There are many more, and there is no time to stop and think about it. You are tired today, so go back and rest first."

Jiang Yue gave a low hum, and looked into Pei Jun's eyes, the flickering light and shadow in his eyes seemed to be like lights flickering in the mountain wind, which became brighter after Pei Jun's words.When he was young, he raised his hand to hold Pei Jun's face, raised his chin slightly, and lightly pressed the corner of Pei Jun's lips: "You too."

Pei Jun turned his head to chase after his kiss and pulled his carbine back, rubbed his palm with his fingers and said: "Then you will come to see me again tomorrow."

Jiang Yue looked at him puzzled: "Where are you going this time?"

"Go and see the boat that Meiliu set me up for." Pei Jun kissed him one last time, stood up, walked out of the gate of this folk house, turned his head to Jiang Yue and said, "Come and see me when I'm half full tomorrow. scattered."

After saying that, he said goodbye to Jiang Yue, turned around, stepped out of the threshold, got into the carriage, and went to the Zhongyihou's mansion.

Back in the mansion, the feeling of the moon is even stronger.As soon as Pei Jun got off the carriage and stepped into the gate of the mansion, before Liu Jin brought a cup of tea, he saw Qian Haiqing rushing out from the inner courtyard shouting "Master, Master" all the way, his expression seemed to be crazy with joy, As soon as he stopped, he knelt down in front of him again with a plop, blushing, and said with his tongue out:

"Master! I have won the Yuan! Did you know that I would win the Yuan... You said you didn't remember my paper before, did you scare me?"

Pei Jun was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that the new department released the rankings today. It is expected that Qian Haiqing must have read the rankings and knew that he really knew Yuan, so he was so overjoyed.

He sat in the front hall and received the tea brought by Liujin, and seeing Uncle Dong calling the maids to clean up a table of food and drink in the flower hall, he knew that he had missed the student's high school banquet, so he couldn't help but feel very regretful.After he lowered his head and pondered for a while, he only raised his hand to touch the top of Qian Haiqing's head, said "Be good, be good", then he pulled the student up first and said, "Whether you can solve the Yuan or not depends on what you really learned. No matter how much it is, it’s just fueling the flames. In the future, you will still have palace examinations, official appointments, appointments, and class admissions. Getting admitted to this school is just the beginning, so you must not be complacent because of this, but you should solidify your knowledge.”

Qian Haiqing kowtowed, stood up with his support, nodded and shook his head: "Students remember Master's teachings."

Seeing that he was well-behaved, Pei Jun felt very relieved, put the tea in his hand in his palm, got up and said, "Drink some tea first, sober up, and come to the study later, Master still has something to tell you."

Qian Haiqing responded again and again, patted his face with one hand, and poured the tea cup into his mouth hastily with the other.

"It's burning! Don't—" Liu Jin hurriedly pulled him away, but Qian Haiqing couldn't stop him from moving quickly. Before he could persuade him, he was already burned, and opened his mouth tremblingly and fanned him with his hands: "Hot, hot, hot!" Hey, it's so hot..."

Seeing the naive behavior of the two little boys, Pei Jun couldn't help but feel a little bit of coke from the bottom of his heart, but after traveling around for a day, he was already exhausted at the moment, so he could only make a dry laugh, and only asked Liu Jin to give Qian Hai After flushing with cold water, he silently walked to the study.

Not a moment later, the door of the study creaked open, Qian Haiqing poked his head in and took a look. Seeing Pei Jun sitting at the table reading some documents, he walked in quietly, closed the door behind him with his hands behind his back, and felt embarrassed. Called "Master".

"Are you sober?" Pei Jun looked up at him from the case file, saw that he seemed to be holding something with his hands behind his back, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Hey, did you bring a thank you gift to Master?"

Qian Haiqing nodded and took a few steps forward, and brought the things in his hand to Pei Jun, only to mention dried meat and a jar of wine.

Qian Haiqing respectfully said: "In the old days when Confucius taught his disciples, he used to say that he would take wine and practice rituals. Today, students worship at the master's door, and sometimes they have great ambitions. They should respect the master according to this custom. I hope the master will not be disgusted. .”

Pei Jun nodded reassuringly, took the wine and dried meat, praised Qian Haiqing for being sensible, and asked Uncle Dong to save these two things for Qian Haiqing to enjoy together after the imperial examination.

After Uncle Dong went out, Qian Haiqing stood in front of Pei Jun's desk and asked, "What does Master want to tell me?"

Pei Jun dipped the brush on the table into ink and handed it to him, "You first write a post for me to complain to the officials, and say that your master and I have been scared by all these things recently, and I can't sleep at night. , frightened and terrified, fearing that something bad would happen to him, so that many years of hard work would cause an attack, and he was already bedridden, so he decided to go to a Biezhuang in the suburbs of Beijing to take care of him, and he can't be a director in the near future."

Qian Haiqing was startled when he picked up his pen: "Master, is this going to go out of Beijing for a while? But the palace examination will be in three days. If Master is not here, wouldn't I..."

Pei Jun flipped through the records of the temple house at hand, and said lightly: "Now that the Pei party in the court is weak, my absence is actually a good thing for you. If anything happens in the future, you will be more upright and not afraid of the shadow, understand?"

Qian Haiqing frowned and thought carefully, as if he understood Pei Jun's meaning, he couldn't help being respectful and awed, and felt that Master was really thinking of himself, he was so moved, he quickly responded: "Don't worry, Master, I will not stand out this time." , and will never lose Master's face."

While writing the letter, he listened to Pei Jun's instructions on investigating the salt case, and asked him a few words so that he could go with Zhang San, then obediently hugged the document by Pei Jun's desk, and said that he should go back and study it carefully.

After the conversation between the master and the apprentice finished, Qian Haiqing also wrote the letter, stamped it with the red seal on Pei Jun's desk, and called Liu Jin to send it to Yan Yuliang.

Liu Jin stood guarding the door of the study with a lantern, and said unwillingly: "Brother Siqi, it's getting late today, Shangshu Yan should go to bed, can't I go tomorrow?"

Qian Haiqing pulled his ear with his hand.Pei Jun sat in the study without moving a muscle, and could already hear Uncle Dong yelling loudly from outside: "Damn boy! In the past, when you were sent to the Prince Jin's mansion, you jumped and rushed to go. You lost your money! Yan Shangshu treated you badly." Have you ever passed?"

Liu Jin shrank his neck from being yelled at, stuck out his tongue and lamented: "After all, I won't be able to go to Prince Jin's Mansion." Then he took the letter from Qian Haiqing, and ran out angrily.

But when Pei Jun heard the word "qian", he suddenly thought of another matter and asked him to come back. He sealed another letter of the 900 taels of crime paper brought back from the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and didn't let go of anything else, only asking Liujin to give it to him. Sun Shihai, the servant of the Ministry of punishment, sent it.

Liu Jin didn't dare to haggle with Pei Jun, so he quickly put it away and asked, "Do you want to bring something to Sun Shilang?"

Pei Jun raised his eyebrows and said: "Just say it was sent by the Marquis of Zhongyi, don't need to say anything else, he must be so frightened that he will reward you with money."

Although Liu Jin didn't understand what he said, he was very happy to hear that he had money, so he happily ran out of the house as soon as he agreed.

Seeing the child, Pei Jun felt relieved, raised his hand and waved Qian Haiqing away, thinking about the end of the day, he finally called Uncle Dong and said, "It's getting late, let's rest."