Night, Dingxianglou.
There were a dozen or so tables in the spacious hall, but only a few assistants directly under Xing Mingtong Judgment, as well as those under Zhao Wuwei's men, sparsely occupied four of them in the corner.
Among the round tables, there was only Sun Shaozong sitting alone in the main seat, his majestic figure swaying in the candlelight, looking at it with a sense of desolation.
Just like this, it's no wonder that the atmosphere of the banquet can be warmed up!
"Boss!"
A short and stocky hunter put his head next to Zhao Wuwei's ear and said nervously, "Looking at this scene today, Sun Tongjue may not be able to stand in the yamen, our brothers..."
"What nonsense, shut your stinky mouth!"
Zhao Wuwei gave a stern scolding, but he actually had fifteen buckets in his heart. He originally thought that at most, those officials were not giving face. Who would have thought that even the subordinates in each room had disappeared.
Even though the former Tongjing and Liu Zhizhong had been arguing with each other, they had never seen the officials below stand in line like this.
perhaps…
Did you really hit the wrong path? !
Zhao Wuwei felt a little regretful, but when he remembered what Sun Shaozong said in the daytime, how could he dare to be halfhearted
Besides, it's already here, wouldn't it be a mess if you left on the way
Why don't the rest of the people think so
They stared at the platter in front of them all hungry, but they just wanted to swallow a few pounds of regret medicine.
At this moment, a young servant hurried to the main table and whispered a few words in Sun Shaozong's ear. Sun Shaozong immediately stood up and said with a smile, "Everyone, there is a distinguished guest who came uninvited and followed me. How about going out to greet you?"
When everyone heard this, they thought he had invited 'foreign aid'.
Although the reception banquet is generally an internal party, it is reasonable to say that outsiders should not be invited to the scene - but now such an embarrassing scene, it is good to be able to pass, who cares whether it is an outsider or an insider? !
So all the arresters and assistants followed behind Sun Shaozong with smiles all over their faces, to welcome the 'unsolicited' guest.
Originally, I thought that it was either an old military general with the Sun family, or a descendant of nobles and nobles. Who knew that outside the gate, I saw a red robe and jade belt and a golden crown on four beams sitting on the four official sedan chairs. Year Clerk!
Everyone was amazed when they saw the middle-aged civil servant getting off the sedan chair, laughing loudly and cupping his hands, "Brother Xian, I didn't expect you and I to go to Beijing on the same boat, and in the future, I will be in a yamen with a horse's spoon. I haven't had time to take office yet, but I can't wait to drink a few glasses of wine from you!"
A horse's spoon in a yamen
There is that smart, who has already heard some clues from these words, and immediately burst into ecstasy.
Although the stupid ones haven't figured out the situation yet, it doesn't matter, because Sun Shaozong immediately solved the mystery.
I saw him also laughing and greeted him, and bowed deeply to the end: "Sun Shaozong, the humble post, I have seen the Lord of the House!"
But it turned out that this middle-aged civil servant was not someone else, but Jia Yucun, the soon-to-be-appointed Chancellor of Shuntian Prefecture—no wonder those who guessed his identity would be ecstatic!
You must know that the prefect of the government is in Shuntian, but he is the only person who is qualified to stand up to Lord Yin in court. He also controls the evaluation, reward and punishment of all officials. With this relationship, even if all the people in the government are against Sun Shaozong, he will As stable as Mount Tai!
Zhao Wuwei's beautiful snot bubbles came out, and he secretly said that he really has a unique vision, and this bet is a treasure game of killing!
So he hurriedly led the crowd to see him.
"Ai~"
Jia Yucun raised his eyebrows pretending to be dissatisfied, stretched out his hand to pull Sun Shaozong up, and reprimanded: "I haven't taken office yet, why do I do this? I'm here to eat your wedding wine, brother, not to play. Official!"
Just listen to these words, if you really don't want to play official prestige, why wear this official uniform on your body
However, they said that the two were talking and laughing, and all the way back to the flower hall. Seeing that the hall was empty, Jia Yucun unknowingly said, "Huh", and said strangely: "Why didn't a colleague see it, could it be that I came too early? "
This is called professional acting!
With this expression and tone, who could tell that the two of them had been discussing secretly for more than half an hour in the afternoon
Sun Shaozong secretly gave him a compliment, and said with a smile: "Liu Zhizhong may be unwell - as for the other colleagues, maybe they have misremembered the time for the reception."
To distinguish Liu Zhizhong from the others, it was also in the afternoon that Sun Shaozong and Jia Yucun had already negotiated a good response.
One is to oppose the army and take the opportunity to isolate Liu Chongshan; the other is that Liu Chongshan is also one of the three 'court officials'.
"As it is."
Jia Yucun turned around and smiled genially at the arresting assistants: "I'll let you guys know if I'm here, and I'll just say that this official is here waiting for you - it just so happens that this official also wants to take advantage of Brother Sun Xian's reception banquet to get acquainted with your colleagues first. know."
With his word 'waiting', who else would dare not be present at the Manchu government? !
Zhao Wuwei and the others all responded energetically, leaving only three or five people to wait on them.
About half an hour later, people rushed to the flower pavilion one after another. The subordinate officials with insufficient status naturally sat quietly on the surface of the subordinate chief, but those with official status had no way to hide, so they could only bite the bullet and go forward. See Fu Cheng, Master Tongju.
However, Jia Yucun was just laughing with Sun Shaozong and didn't pay much attention to others. Anyone who came here would just say "sit down", and there would be no more words - but it was this attitude of being no one else that made everyone feel even more uneasy. Like sitting on needle felt.
Seeing the hustle and bustle of people in the hall, even Chen Zhichuang, who had experienced the division, sat down with a smile on his face.
Only then did Sun Shaozong smile slightly, and said, "Brother Yucun, this person is almost here, why don't we have a seat?"
"Wait a minute."
Jia Yucun waved his hand, looked around at the green and green officials on the table, and suddenly asked aloud, "Who prepared this reception today?"
With just this sound, the needles fell silently in the flower hall!
After a while, only one person in the seat next to him stood up in cold sweat, and said in a trembling voice, "Yes... it's a lower official... Zhou Da, the Department of Criminal Justice and Prosecutor, prepared it."
The inspector is just an underachiever, not to mention the government chief, even Sun Shaozong can easily run over him!
If it weren't for the unanimity of the civil servants this time, he wouldn't dare to get involved in such a thing - but who would have thought that he would jump out of the palace to support Sun Shaozong on the way? !
Zhou Da really regretted his bowels at this time.
"Since you're in charge of preparing for the reception, it's fine if you didn't wait here early, how could you even get the time wrong?!" The more Jia Yucun said, the more gloomy his face became, and he finally clapped the table and shouted, "Is it possible that you deal with human life on weekdays? You were so negligent when you filed a lawsuit?!"
puff~
Zhou Da knelt down on the ground straight, and opened his mouth to cry out: "Master Mingjian, the villain is really..."
"Zhou Da!"
Governor Lin Delu jumped up and sternly intercepted Zhou Da's words: "How do you do things?! You made this fellow Man Ya almost miss Master Sun's reception!"
The key point of his remarks was the word 'manya colleagues', which actually meant to remind Zhou Da: If you tell the truth, you will offend all your colleagues!
If Zhou Da has an official rank of seven or eight, he may not be afraid of this, but who made him just an unprofessional sesame official
After weighing it for a while, he could only bite the bullet and say, "I also ask Lord Fu Cheng to forgive me. The lower official was also confused for a while, so he made such a mistake."
"Humph."
Jia Yucun snorted coldly, and then Zhou Da trembled three times. He thought that disaster was about to happen when he heard Sun Shaozong laugh: "Brother Yucun, this is a private banquet after all, and it's not a serious business, I think Just spare him this time—how about only three drinks?"
When Zhou Da heard the words, he was moved and thanked him continuously.
Who would have thought that when the three glasses of wine were placed in front of them, they were actually three half-pound bronze statues, and they were not the low-alcohol rice wine that I often drink, but the serious shochu [baijiu]!
The color on Zhou Da's face suddenly changed again, but under the gazes of Jia Yucun and Sun Shaozong, how could he dare to shirk
He had to pinch his nose and poured the three sojus into his stomach one by one.
After drinking the pound and a half, he staggered and waited to give him a salute. Who would have guessed that when he bent down, he went directly under the table, making a few muddy mumbles, and then there was no movement.
"Serve food, serve wine!"
In the silence, I heard Sun Shaozong shout.
The wine and vegetables were laid out like water, and everyone pushed the cups for a change, all of them appearing to be 'excited', but no one dared to look at Zhou Da for a while.