Aristocratic family's career in the Red Chamber

Jia Hu and Tang Bin were exchanging pleasantries.Colleagues who have been busy for a whole day and suffered from a lot of errands together naturally have many common topics. If the two are friends again, and chat a few words when they part, the time will be dragged on for longer.

No one thought there was anything wrong with this, even Zheng Jun, who was ordered to wait here for Jia Hu, felt that it was normal for Xia Ya to chat with his colleagues, even though Tu Youhao was waiting in the restaurant, but Aren't Jia Hu and him best friends, even if he waits for a while, it will be fine.

Jia Hu didn't think about it at all, and after exchanging pleasantries with Tang Bin for a while, they each left.Jia Hu followed Zheng Jun all the way to the restaurant and went to the box. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Tu Youhao with his back to the door. Jia Hu smiled and walked in to say hello: "But it is a sin to make His Highness wait so long." The laughter continued. , the person walked to Tu Youhao's side, only to find that Tu Youhao's face was extremely ugly.Jia Hu laughed for a while, then frowned immediately, and his business became depressed, and asked, "What's wrong? Why don't you look happy?"

Tu Youhao glanced at him, his eyes were full of complex emotions that Jia Hu couldn't understand, before he could get to the bottom of it, Tu Youhao had already restrained his expression, lowered his eyes and shook his head, with a little melancholy, said in a deep voice: "It's nothing, I just thought of some unhappy things." As he spoke, a smile appeared on his face again, and he cheered up, beckoning Jia Hu to sit down: "Don't talk about these unhappy things, but you, now in the yamen Very busy? Look at you so busy that you don’t even have time to eat. The lunch in this yamen is notoriously poor, but you can eat it.” While pouring a cup of tea for Jia Hu, he passed it over again. He smiled, "I've already had people prepare meals, and they'll be served in a while, so you can fill your belly first."

Seeing that he was unwilling to speak, Jia Hu didn't force it, followed his words, and said with a smile: "That's naturally good, it's really not my mouth, the taste of the food prepared in this yamen is really unbearable. Not only I can't say it well, there is no one in the Imperial Academy who praises it, if it's not busy recently, it's not easy to ask the house to send food, I would be lazy to eat those." Waiting for the wine and food to come, I really didn't hesitate to eat it first After eating less than half a bowl of rice and more than half a bowl of soup, he stopped chopsticks a little.

Tu Youhao was so distressed that he kept picking up food for him with the chopsticks in his hand, and complained to him again: "Are you concerned about the face of your colleagues and refuse to ask the people in the house to prepare meals for you? You are another Why bother, even though you are a colleague, you were born in an official family, so you are different from those poor children. You just try to behave like them. When something happens, who can really treat you as a commoner? No one should treat you badly. Lost myself." Then he stared at him again, "It's useless at noon, isn't it? You, you don't know how to cherish your body at all!"

Faced with his concern, what else could Jia Hu do other than bow his head and listen to his admonition?It's just that I have to refute myself a few words: "I'm not alone, how many officials' children in the Imperial Academy are from? Everyone pays attention, and they always follow the crowd. How can I be an exception?" Seeing that Tu Youhao was still a little dissatisfied, Jia Hu shook his head and said, "Don't think about it anymore. Isn't everyone in the yamen like this now? I'm the only one wronged? Don't worry. It’s delicious, but the taste is average, and it’s not too bad.”

This is also true, after all, it is in the yamen, the food prepared for the official, how can the skills of the chefs invited be poor?It's just because the food is prepared early, waiting for everyone to come over to eat when they are free. The food has been left for a long time, so the taste will be bad?People from ordinary families can accept it, but the children of officials who grew up in rich and rich brocade clothes are somewhat uncomfortable.

But it's impossible for the Yamen to reform all this for the sake of these officials' children, isn't it?Everyone can eat it, but you are the most precious?Want the whole yamen to accommodate you?Besides, it also costs money, and if you change it here, will other yamen change it?Although the small things in the kitchen don't cost much, it's troublesome if there are too many. It's no wonder the Ministry of Finance is willing to allocate funds.Let's make do with it, it won't kill you anyway.

In addition, the Hanlin Academy said it was Qinggui, but it was a Qingshui yamen after all. The income of the Hanlin was not high, and the annual salary, ice charcoal and filial piety of poor families were enough to spend, and a meal in the yamen was acceptable.Rich people don't care about the money, it's no big deal to show off in front of people, and then spend a few dollars to order a table in a nearby restaurant.

Since Jia Hu entered the Hanlin Academy, he never did these small tricks behind his back. He ate in the yamen where he should have eaten, and ate meals with several editors from poor backgrounds, and the old Hanlin many times. , January month, all the same.After such a long time, apart from other things, Jia Hu has made many friends and learned a lot of things relying on this.No matter how noble and unruly a person is, seeing Jia Hu like this, he has to say that Jia Hu is really different from those scumbags in Beijing.

Tu Youhao still doesn't know Jia Hu's temperament. Now that he has said it, he has made up his mind. It is useless to persuade him, so he can only sigh and stare at Jia Hu: "You have a stubborn temper, and outsiders still say you Gentle, the eyeballs have grown white."

Jia Hu just smiled and said nothing.Even though it is just such a trivial thing as eating in the yamen, it can affect other people's views on him, which is a big deal.The people in the Hanlin Academy, not to mention the sour and rotten Confucians, most of them have real talents and real learning, and are highly valued by all parties. The future is promising, and it is impossible to say that in 20 years, the court will be dignified , [-]% of the people staying in the Hanlin Academy today, or more.It is very important to leave a good impression on each other today.

This is not hypocrisy, but a small trick that he has to do in the officialdom.It's not that Tu Youhao doesn't understand, just like him, even though he is a prince, he wants to gain a foothold in the court, and treat those old and important ministers with courtesy and dare not be contemptuous?Now he is so long-winded, it's just that he feels sorry for Jia Hu and can't let it go.

After the two of them finished their meal, Jia Hu took the initiative to bring up the matter that had kept him so busy that he almost had no time to catch his breath: "The emperor's actions are becoming more and more obvious, and I am afraid that it will be formally discussed in the court hall soon. , you should pay attention when the time comes, I see the memorials sent from various places, there is a lot of movement, without the emperor's acquiescence, there will be no such disturbances in various places, so don't pour cold water on it, and spoil the emperor's interest."

Tu Youhao heard something in the words, thought about it, and couldn't help wondering: "Why is it that there are people who object to the war?" How can you tolerate the danger?No war?Still let the other party kill and plunder the people on the border every year?

Jia Hu smiled wryly: "I'm afraid you guessed it right. Many people in the Imperial Academy felt that wars cost people money and money, and it would be better to talk about negotiations than to use knives and axes. They also said that peace is the most important thing... Now that this matter hasn’t been settled, they can’t say it directly, we have to wait for the emperor to make a formal concession, I’m afraid there will be quite a few opponents.” Thinking of this, Jia Hu couldn’t help sighing, these scholars have read the teachings of Confucius and Mencius Stupid, as the saying goes, how can you allow other people to snore and sleep beside the couch, and Sidi invades the border, year after year, with great ambitions, how can the emperor tolerate it?At that time, if they rashly ran out to oppose the war, they would only anger the emperor.

Although Tu Youhao had never personally come into contact with those memorials, he absolutely believed in Jia Hu. Since Jia Hu said so, he nodded his head and promised Jia Hu that he would be careful and strongly support: "No one will rob you." After buying our things, and talking and laughing with others in a friendly manner, this kind of thing should be strangled and beaten, and the life will be clean only if it hurts and scares people!" It's ridiculous that the self-proclaimed book reader Officials who have broken thousands of papers can't even understand this point, so they deserve to be unlucky at that time.

Tu Youhao thought coldly, now that he knew the emperor's thoughts, he was about to think about how to go along with the emperor.Emperor's grace is extremely important in this three-acre land in the capital. Even if there is a chance, as long as the emperor can notice him, Tu Youhao is willing to work hard for it.

"...Thank you." Tu Youhao said thank you in a low voice. He knew that Jia Hu was sincerely doing it for his own good, so he specially reminded him.

Jia Hu laughed suddenly: "Are you still being polite to me?"

Tu Youhao laughed along with him, and his whole body relaxed. He sat down next to Jia Hu and said, "Is it me or not? Why are you being polite to me?" , "I will be polite to you whoever I tell you."

The warmth in the ears made Jia Hu's heart skip a beat, and his eyes turned sideways. The bright black eyes were full of shame and anger, making Tu Youhao's eyes straight when he saw him. Jia Hu's hand.

Jia Hu raised his eyebrows and glanced at him, but he didn't break away.Tu Youhao looked at him with increasingly hot eyes.Looking at him like this, Jia Hu was afraid that he would lose his composure, so he raised his voice and said, "Don't forget the time to go back to the palace for a while, don't let the key down and you won't be able to get in." Put those bad thoughts in your stomach well Once you close it, look at what time it is now, you are in a hurry, and you still think about these things.

Only then did Tu Youhao think of this, his shoulders slumped, and he sat on the chair slumped, how can he see the spirit of the leader?

Jia Hu couldn't help laughing, looked at him, and kept shaking her head...

It was late, and Jia Hu went back to Rongguo Mansion first. As soon as he left, Tu Youhao called a guard and gave some instructions in a low voice. Zheng Jun raised his ears, and only heard a few words, "Tang Bin", " Women", friends and so on, they seem to have some connection with Jia Hu.

Zheng Jun couldn't help admiring from the bottom of his heart, His Royal Highness really valued love and righteousness, caring so much about Mr. Jia's friends, doesn't that mean he values ​​Mr. Jia?In the future, I have to treat Master Jia even more.