Chapter 147: Old Bastard Turtle Son

Yao House has an unassuming foreign guest, the Yao family of five male masters has a steady stream of visitors every day, but no one will pay attention to it. However, although the Yao family is the city of Tai’an’s new noble high family, visiting honored guests but there are few real temple ministers, not to mention the head of the Zhang Fu, even the main official of the six ministries, today there is an old man “bad rules”, carrying a pot of Sword Nanchun burned to look for people to drink with the Yao House concierge was startled, good boy, it is actually the door to the province of the Left Sergeant Huan Wen! Huan masters came to visit, too late to report to the master of the house, in a hurry to take the initiative to open the door to meet, did not want to masters foot oil, directly from the side slipped into the house. The dynasty of science master yao baifeng rushed to take people to look for the tantan weng, did not think it was hard to see the old man in a pavilion, the pavilion has a young capital scholar is with yao baifeng’s eldest grandson in the chess game heroes, come to the mansion does not dillydally with food and drink is dillydally with the fame of the age of the similar bystanders, is surrounded by a circle, is very concerned about the chess watchers do not talk about the rules of the true gentleman, only an old man can not squeeze into the pile of people, simply stood up to the Pavilion chairs, looking down on the stalemate of the chess game, always like to speak out blindly pointing, if it is a good word of gold and jade will tolerate, but time and time again to support the move, the level of stinky basket of chess is clear, very annoying, so every time nonsense words will cause countless blank stares, full of wine old man happy to enjoy it. Yao baifeng can’t help but cry and laugh, silently leaning against the porch column, not to disturb tantan weng’s leisure and elegance, yao big family beside a young face in yao mansion is also very unfamiliar to the young man, this young man also stood to the porch chairs to watch the game of chess, huan old man only glanced at the old man, continue to point out there, teach yao deng xiazhi where to land, was croak half a game of chess of the yao family’s eldest grandson helplessly smiled, naturally won’t rely on that! The drunken old man’s words, in his board after the fall, can hear the old man high up cold grunt said the word of faint move.

I don’t know who is the first one found the pavilion sitting in the left priest of the State Scholarship, rushed to salute, so that no one in the attention of the chess game, a bit rushed to bow respectfully, the pavilion in the scholars are mostly small family origin, the reason why they can recognize Yao Baifeng, thanks to someone new to the State Scholarship, distantly listened to the master of the science of the lecture teaching. Yao Baifeng laughed, raised his arm and pointed to the old man standing on the chair carrying wine, warmly laughed and said: “you children ah, worship me for what, do not see there is a left servant adults here, the official hat than I have a big. Tantan Weng, you say is not it?”

Huan Wen exasperated: “Chess only played most of the game, continue to continue, the two of you do not want to be the eunuch who does not have a lower side.”

The scholars in the pavilion were all shocked, and for a while they were dumbfounded. Only to see the young man standing beside Tantan Weng jump out of his chair, walk through the gap in the wall of people, walk towards the chessboard side, bend down and twist a white chess piece, gently knocking it on a spot, smiling and saying, “The closing is complete.”

Then straightened up and turned his head to the crowd and smiled, “Come on, don’t just stand there, let’s worship Lord Left Servant together, don’t miss such a great opportunity.”

Huan Wen walked off the bench, waved his hand and said, “No, no, no, old me today is also a guest, never dare to take the name of a guest who deceives the master. If you guys are smart, don’t push the old man into the fire pit, otherwise in case one day in the future falls into the hands of the old man, see if I don’t make you hike seven or eight miles to buy wine, and even the money for that wine still has to be paid by you.”

Yao Baifeng let the first eldest grandson send a group of honored scholars out of the pavilion, there are only three people left, Huan Wen and Yao Baifeng, the two old and new left priests of the State Scholarship Academy sit opposite each other in a game of chess, the young man who is “closing the official” stands behind Yao Baifeng, Huan Wen stares at the game of chess and laughs, “it’s really for you to close the official, the group of children just now didn’t have a chance to get the money. That group of children just now didn’t have this chess strength.”

Yao Baifeng nodded and said: “Huan adults, this is the Sun Yin that I told you about earlier, this year’s imperial examinations, not him.”

Huan Wen smiled serenely and said, “Left priest ah, the heart of the Lord, really give you the heart of the matter? You doze off, North Liang side will give you a pillow? What’s the secret, you tell me?”

Yao Baifeng will not be able to hear Tantan Weng words in the “killing machine”, obviously do not trust the Northern Liang origin of Sun Yin, frowned. Sun Yin frankly laughed: “The road is far away to know the horse power, day by day to see the people’s hearts.”

Huan Wen raised his head and calmly asked, “Oh? How?”

Sun Yin replied, “After three years of no sound, one sound, I still hope that Master Huan’s door province to take in under me.”

Huan Wen said to himself, “Well, three years do not participate in the imperial examinations, if the ordinary people is not a big deal, anyway, the test also can not test a big merit, I heard that you are proficient in the production of art, is rushing to that even in the three yuan to go, it is a little rare. Do not go to the State Prison, not go to the six ministries of the blue-eyed child to get oil, not go to the noble Hanlin Academy to earn prestige, run to the clear water Yamen door of the province to sit on the cold bench? It is a bit interesting. Taking advantage of no outsiders in the pavilion, I take the wine to make things clear, North Liang out of a Yan Jiexi, out of a white-eyed wolf Jin Lanting, the old saying that things do not come in threes, the old man always think that it is out of a body in the Zhao room in the heart of the Xu’s kingpin character, so the old man let you talk about the sky is full of confusion, still do not believe that you, Yao Baifeng, this old man, Huan Wen is very familiar with the old man’s life is only with the pile of old books in the saintly and sage deal with the heart of the people, the evil of the people he was Do not understand, can not recognize a few human skin ghosts, the old man is not the same, most of his life in the Tai Shang Lao Jun’s alchemy furnace rolling, you kid, the old man do not like, very do not like, so the old man in the world one day, you are not allowed to take the examination for the title, only to come to the door of the province from the small official, how?”

Sun Yin calmly said, “No harm done.”

Yao Baifeng was furious and stopped addressing Tantan Weng or Lord Left Servant and called him by his name, “Huan Wen! Don’t you bully people too much!”

Master Huan took a sip of wine and squinted, “What, you want to beat me up? Gentlemen don’t use their hands when they move their mouths, besides, I’ve beaten up Right Priest Jin Lanting, if I fight you Left Priest again, where will the face of the State Scholarship Element go?”

Yao Baifeng got up and said angrily, “Sun Yin, don’t pay attention to this bastard old man, let’s go, and let this guy have his own fun.”

Huan Wen laughed: “Well well well, old Yao ah, you also do not act, see you this emperor is not anxious too anxious, people Sun Yin are still old God. Don’t get an inch into the foot ah, if it is not I look at our friendship for decades, not bother to step in as the villain, to put it in the end, this kid even if really breath to the members of the first scholar to get their hands on, do you think the court dares to use him, Biyaner will use him? It’s not good to become too famous too early and too prosperous. Zhao right age a few of them can have today’s success, not their ability to have how big, but Bieye’s heart is how wide. Doing scholarly work, your old boy naturally powerful, is the literary world of Wang Xianzhi, but when the official ah, you are not as good as others late Sun Yin. Although I do not like you this intention to entrust the mantle of the favorite disciple, but at least at the risk of late in life, do his amulet, into the province under the door, less right and wrong, even if in the city of Taian set his feet. The court already has a Jin Sanlang, it is difficult to promote the young people of Beiliang, and Sun Yin dared to run into Biyaner’s knife in these years, not to die but also to take off a few layers of skin. If you yell at me again, I’ll take back my words and let you get Sun Yin killed, so what?”

Yao Baifeng couldn’t say anything.

Huan Wen threw the wine gourd to Zuo Priest Wine, “Go, personally fill it with wine for me, and consider it as your atonement for your sins.”

Yao Baifeng angrily tossed back the wine gourd and resumed his seat.

Huan Wen carefully held the wine pot, glared, then softly lamented, “Three provinces and six ministries, the court has always intended not to have a chief official in the Central Book Province, I, Huan Wen, although the top of Sun Xiji’s position, became the left servant of the door under the province, but the door has not been able to become a climate, as a matter of fact, it should have been the answer to the Central Book Province, but nowadays, the Central Book Province consists of those temple court undergraduates and a Hanlin Academy confrontation Struggle, can not send what sound, the door under the province has become a poor worm, which let do Shangshu order Bieyi child became the first minister of this dynasty. But the six ministries are powerful, this is not a permanent solution, a door hinge is not worm-eaten, flowing water does not rot, the temple this big house, some of the beams are the time to change a change. Sun Yin, the old man test test you, has been out of the question, you to break the question to undertake the question, roughly say look at the next direction of the temple, and why it will be so.”

Sun Yin laughed: “that first from two of the three imperial edicts, Lu Baijie promoted to the Ministry of the military, Yuan Guo recruited to the Ministry of Rites. Shangshu province has Zhang Gu two Lushu, power over the world, now Gu Lushu has been changed from Gu Jiantang general to the villain butcher Chen Zhi Bao and then changed to the Yangzhou Lu’s Tangxi Jianxian, Gu Lushu hearts scattered, and then difficult to as in the past that the same gas, with the Guangling Road Lu Shengxiang into the Department of the Army, the Department of the Army will be truly the Ministry of War of the Emperor’s majesty, Gu Lushu has been in vain its shape and no God, the second master Chen Zhi Bao left the office before the suppression of treasury master yellow calyx, the original Gu Lu backbone Gu Jiantang willfully turn a blind eye, is from the border to take the initiative to pass on to the court a message, Gu Lu is not surnamed Gu, what should be surnamed later, His Majesty the Emperor said. GuLu a go, only left ZhangParty entrenched ZhangLu, should be a higher level of the scene, but the chief minister of adults did not act, in fact, this decade the chief minister has been intentionally cut off their own branches, expelled YuanGuo, repelled out of the HanLin, deliberately alienated from the place of origin of the HanLinYuan, let the storage of YinMaoChun change the door, and finally let the ministry of ministry of ZhaoRuLing with the ministry of household of two tigers WangXiongGui fight, ZhangLu made a surprising choice, left the The relatively weak Minister of the Household instead of Zhao Youling. It can be said that Zhang party in the court, these years is in the step back, but no harm, as long as the chief minister adults sit in Zhang Lu, who dare not make a fuss. The first minister was hibernating in the Hanlin Academy for more than ten years, is no one knows the first hand, in the layout of the Shangshu Province, is to let a lot of people in the fog in the middle of the plate, the next is probably going to be the finale, the Secretary of the Ministry of Rites does not let the popularity of the storage of the prime minister Yin Maochun to take over, is obviously the first step of the finale of the stage of the ‘Mingjun the power of the phantom of the struggle’, both sides have a tacit understanding, Yin Maochun in the In the next few years, Yin Maochun would put an end to the pattern of the Zhongshu Province being a plate of sand without a principal official, and become the nominal first minister and the second minister in power, equally divided with Zhang Julu, the current Minister of Rites. And the Ministry of Rites, Yuan Guo will take over the first minister of the Lord Shangshu order, not that rightfully Zhang Lu next owner of the Ministry of household Wang Xionggui, coupled with the Huan old man sitting in the town of Menxia Province, when the old man of peace, the three provinces are harmonious, not to consume too much national power for the party, as for the Ministry of the Ministry of Zhao right age, hold up is also in the death of the temple cabinet before the death of the title of the university doctor, and then after death, and then take an extremely forward the beauty of the posthumous title, the first to lose lisianzi, but then can get the face, the Generally speaking, not to mention that there are in-laws Yin Maochun first step grandly on the throne, Zhao right Ling also have to avoid suspicion.”

Huan Wen nodded frequently, smiled and said: “Then after my old man Huan died, who will be in charge of the province under the door? You, Sun Yin, don’t have to hope, before I die, I will definitely secretly report to His Majesty to prevent you from gaining too much power.”

Sun Yin looked calm, smiled and said: “The character who can play this chess game, and not only Zhang Qifu, since the storage minister Yin Maochun has already surfaced, there will naturally be the next storage minister who is now doing the hidden minister of the dragon in the abyss, but who is this person, where is he, I Sun Yin can’t guess, probably have to wait for a number of years. But this person will certainly not be the first minister and the left servant lord’s disciple.”

Huan Wen laughed: “Kid can ah, the next twenty to thirty years, roughly so. Back to the old man to take you to Bieye’s residence, you play a few games of chess with him, most likely to lose the game of chess Bieye’s sure to hate you, you will be able to be more at ease in the door of the province when the door under the dog.”

Yao Baifeng face unhappy heavy cold snort.

Sun Yin hesitated and asked curiously, “Master, why did you punch that Jin Sanlang?”

Huan Wen skimmed his lips, “That Jin Lanting kid, ah, he should be good as a parent official for the common people of Liyang, and even more loyal as a courtier for His Majesty, but when it comes to being a human being, he’s just too unorthodox. I beat him up for his own good, so that he won’t be too complacent and think that he has no one in his sight when he has the support of Bieye’er and me. By the way, old yao, this kid in the state prisons ganging up, I for you out of a mouth of bad anger, put out the word that to return his acquaintance Xuan’s silver money, you for me to pay back the money, right?”

Yao Baifeng sneered, “You think I will help you out with this silver?”

Huan Wen shook his empty wine pot and said with a helpless face, “No money, no wine, I can’t live this life.”

Sun Yin continued, “I heard that the new feudal king of Northern Liang is displaying his troops at the border of Youzhou and refusing to accept the imperial decree?”

Huan Wen laughed: “The lesser of two evils, so, the court this time to test the bottom line, should also know that his new Liang King is not a good to mess with the soft persimmon. In the future and then pinch the northern Liang, you have to weigh, such as awarding a posthumous title such as on the stage of the move, will not be too much, but the southern food into the cool of the canal transportation such as dark tricks, more than in the past to be more. That said, the hibernation season on the hall of conferring posthumous title, said the words of conscience, Yan Jiexi only half, half is sympathetic, the only you Yao Baifeng stupid touched the big bad luck, after ah, the State Prison is certainly Jin Lanting in the bag. Also, I would not have wanted your old Yao to have an official position, to do scholarly work, than anything else. After Li Yang unified the spring and autumn, his majesty is very tolerant to the world scholars, there has not been a piece of writing prison, I do not want to appear in your Yao family.”

Yao Baifeng lamented, “If you can tolerate the world, why can’t you tolerate a dead man’s beauty posthumously?”

Huan Wen said with a blank stare, “Yao Baifeng, Yao Baifeng, you’ve read stupidly, haven’t you? A king is not a human being? Can’t you have seven emotions and six desires? You can be satisfied, with such a bright king, it is already a great blessing to be a subject.”

Yao Baifeng sighed.

Huan Wen handed over the wine pot, “Old Yao, I beg you, come to the pot of good wine, a belly full of old wine worms are rebelling against me!”

Yao Baifeng had no choice but to take the wine gourd and leave the pavilion.

Huan Wen laughingly said: “Sit down, pedantic old scholar finally gone, you and I can say some treacherous words.”

Sun Yin sat down and said softly: “between the late emperor and today’s son of heaven there is a king of northern Liang, between His Majesty and the crown prince Zhao Zhuan, it is the turn of our chief minister, the general at least the emperor is far away, holding three hundred thousand elite troops, there is the North Mang tiger eyeing, the court would not dare to unload on the Xu family to kill donkeys, but also can only wait for the Xu Snapdragon death to take the posthumous name of disgusting people, but the chief minister of the Zhang ……”

Huan Wen glanced at this young scholar and slowly asked, “You are so smart, does Northern Liang know?”

Sun Yin asked rhetorically, “I came to Tai’an City, not to seek for the emperor, but only to seek for the common people, does Master Huan believe that?”

Huan Wen stared at Sun Yin, then sighed, “There was once a scholar named Xun Ping who had the same ambition, and in the end died a miserable death.”

In the courtyard outside the pavilion, a group of spring warblers were twittering and competing for the sunny and warm branches of the warm trees.

Huan Wen suddenly said, “The iron hooves of the Northern Mang came south, the King of Northern Liang died for the Central Plains to defend the northwestern gateway, the court saw the death of Xu Fengnian, and Xu Fengnian died in battle at the border. If that was really the case, Huan Wen wished he had died at that time and could not see this scene.”

Sun Yin said flatly, “If there really is this day when the dynasty and the countryside celebrate together, when I go to my grave to toast, I will definitely give my old master a word.”

Huan Wen laughed and scolded, “You bastard!”

Sun Yin scolded back with an expressionless face, “Old bastard!”