In the back house of Cao Guogong, Xie Jin and Li Jinglong were sitting opposite each other in the flower room, drinking tea and chatting.
After Xie Jin came out of the palace, he came to Cao Guogong Li Jinglong's house to deliver invitations.
Because his wife had not given birth to a child for many years, he married a concubine, a woman named Liu. It is said that she came from a poor official family and was very knowledgeable and sensible.
He didn't want to make any publicity, but he couldn't resist the friends around him asking for a wedding banquet, so he only selected a dozen people with whom he had close contact on weekdays to deliver the post in person.
Li Jinglong was looking through the invitation card sent by Jie Jin, marveling at the elegant and free cursive script on it. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "What can't you understand?"
"You want to kill people, but you also have to repair books at the same time!" Xie Jin sipped the fragrant tea in the teacup and said with a smile, "Just repair, and let those nerds take the lead!"
"Master!" Li Jinglong put down the invitation in his hand and looked at him seriously, "Why are you still so unstable? Can you say this in private?"
Xie Jin suddenly felt embarrassed. He really couldn't change his big mouth problem for a while.
Then he smiled and explained, "Look, there are no outsiders here, right?"
"You can't do it without outsiders! You are still a disciple of a saint, how disrespectful!" Li Jinglong snorted, "Brother, I am crazy about how much older you are. We have been friends for many years. Let me tell you, if you don't change this problem,
You will suffer big losses in the future!”
After saying that, he pointed to his head again and continued, "What can you and I say about what we are going to do above? As a minister, we can only relieve our worries, and there is no reason to speak freely in private."
"What you said is, I want to be taught by you!" Xie Jin quickly stood up and saluted.
In fact, what he said was not entirely his own. There was news in the court yesterday that the emperor wanted to strictly deal with the cases involving Zhou Fan, so he asked the Jin Yiwei Zhenfu Si to open a prison and prepare to kill people.
This morning, the nerds in the Hanlin Academy were filled with righteous indignation and gearing up, preparing to kill themselves in the Qianqing Palace to make the emperor take back his fame. But who would have thought that the emperor unexpectedly asked the Hanlin officials of the imperial court to take charge of the revision of the book.
Suddenly, he thought of a possibility and asked, "Mr. Cao Guo, you said that the emperor asked people to repair books, did you deliberately find work for those bookworms, so that they..."
"You just understand?" Li Jinglong said with a smile, "Hey, how did this official do it?"
Jie Jin shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Hey, when it comes to being an official or a human being, I can't compare to you!"
"Are you praising me or hurting me?" Li Jinglong laughed and scolded me again.
"Of course I'm complimenting you!" Xie Jin said, took a sip of tea, and suddenly frowned and said, "Mr. Cao Guo, what kind of tea is this? Why is it so fragrant?"
"It's scary!" Li Jinglong laughed.
"What kind of statement is this?" Xie Jin asked with interest.
"There is Biluo Peak in Dongting Mountain in Suzhou, and there are several tea trees growing in the peak!" Li Jinglong crossed his legs and said proudly, "One day, some girls from the countryside went to pick tea. It happened that the mountain road was rugged and it was difficult to walk with baskets in their hands, so the girls
Put the freshly picked tender tea on your chest..." As he spoke, he moved his eyebrows and showed a bit of a smile.
"Wonderful, wonderful!" Xie Jin laughed and said, "The girl is charming, and the tea is green, which reflects Dongpo's poem. I would like the West Lake more than the West Lake, and good tea has always been like a beautiful woman. Beauty is beautiful, and tea is elegant. They are two.
It's both beautiful and elegant." After saying that, he continued, "No, if it's so elegant, how can it be called scary and fragrant?"
Li Jinglong continued with a smile, "Think about it, the freshly picked tea is tender. The girl sweated and got hot because she was walking on the mountain road. With this heat, the tea leaves on her chest will naturally emit a rich fragrance..."
Suddenly, a beautiful picture appeared in Xie Jin's mind.
After the rain, the sky was clear, and the girls returning home from the winding road with full loads came with laughter like silver bells. Under the scorching sun, because of the busyness of picking tea just now, and because of the exhaustion of rushing on the mountain road, the white faces
The arms were covered with crystal clear beads of sweat.
As they walked, they suddenly noticed a strange fragrance coming out of their bodies. The girls with red cheeks looked carefully and were shocked to find that it was the heat of their bodies that caused the tea leaves to emit the fragrance.
Therefore, it is called scary and fragrant!
"Wonderful!" Xie Jin sighed again, and then said with a smile, "Mr. Cao Guo, where can I buy this tea?"
"I can't buy it!" Li Jinglong took a sip of tea and said with a smile, "There are only so many in the world, and they are all in my house. Even the Forbidden City doesn't have them!"
"Dong Cao Guo!" Xie Jin stood up and held his hands, "Logically speaking, one should not take away someone's love..."
"Okay! Don't you need some tea leaves that are so raw?" Li Jinglong smiled, "But the tea production is not much, and I don't have much here. I'll wrap it up for you when you leave later.
Half a pound!”
"Thank you so much!" Xie Jin was overjoyed.
Li Jinglong looked at him, lowered his head to take a sip of tea, and said casually, "You are now teaching calligraphy to the Crown Prince in the East Palace. How is the Crown Prince doing?"
"Your Highness is still young, and now he is just writing copybooks." Xie Jin said with a smile, "But the Queen is strict in controlling things, and His Highness is very strict in writing!"
"I heard that among the teachers in the East Palace, the Crown Prince is the closest to you!" Li Jinglong smiled again.
"Haha, the other people have been blowing their hair and staring at each other all day long, but they can't learn how to teach them the right way." Xie Jin said with a smile, "Well, Gao Xunzhi is not bad, and His Highness is very attached to him!"
University scholar Gao Xunzhi!
Li Jinglong wrote down another name in his mind, a person who seemed to be able to build a good relationship and be useful in the future.
In his mind, Duke Cao, the world is roughly divided into several types of people: those who are used, those who are not, those who can form good relationships, and those who are avoided.
Naturally, one should stay away from the kind of person who is Bao Zhao Xin Yande.
For people like Gao Xunzhi, even if they cannot become friends, if they have a good relationship, at least they are not enemies.
Those are the people around the prince!
Just like among the old people of the East Palace back then, even though Xie Jin's official position was several levels behind his, they were still brothers and they enjoyed themselves a lot in private.
At this moment, the housekeeper from Cao Guogong's residence walked over quickly, lowered his head and whispered in Li Jinglong's ear.
"Hey, I wanted to keep you for dinner, but something happened and I have to leave soon!" Li Jinglong said apologetically, "I'll be the host another day. You can choose a good restaurant!"
"Business matters are important, but I also have other things to do!" Xie Jin stood up and said with a smile.
"Pack half a catty of tea for Bachelor Xie, the kind in the thirteenth drawer of the second row of the Baibao Pavilion in my study!" Li Jinglong ordered, put on a mink cloak under the service of the maid, and asked casually, "Today
You're not going to teach the prince how to write? Where are you going?"
"Send the invitation!" Xie Jin said with a smile, "Go to Commander He. He looked at me a few days ago and muttered that he wanted to eat my Na Xiaoxing's wedding wine!"
"He Guangyi is quite close to him!"
Li Jinglong thought to himself and said with a smile on his face, "That's just right, we are on the way, and I will go to Zhenfu Division!"
"That's just right, you can ride in Duke Cao Guo's carriage!" Xie Jin said with a smile.
The two came out of Cao Guogong's mansion and got on the carriage together.
After getting on the carriage, Xie Jin began to admire the various decorations in the carriage.
"This kid is so smart that he hasn't used it properly!" Li Jinglong thought to himself, "He didn't even ask, why did I go to the Zhenfu Division? Even though I, the co-organizing minister, had spread the word, he didn't think about it at all. It's really a little bit.
No sensitivity at all!”
"As a foreign minister and a member of the Hanlin Academy, I have a good personal relationship with He Guangyi, which is a taboo, but he doesn't betray anyone at all, and he is not afraid of others talking about him behind his back..."
Thinking about it, Li Jinglong suddenly understood in his heart, "Well, the teachers chosen by the Supreme Emperor for the Crown Prince are all people who have nothing to do with anyone in the court and have no real power. The Emperor must have had the same intention when using him!
Simple enough!"
At this moment, Xie Jin suddenly spoke again.
"Mr. Cao Guo, I heard that you almost killed the owner of Tingtao Academy in broad daylight yesterday?"
Li Jinglong looked embarrassed, "It's nothing, haha!"
But he was cursing in his heart, "You're still stupid!"