The oil bottle of the Red Chamber

Now let's not talk about Mr. Wu.It is only said that Chen Gui's plan has been decided. After leaving the yamen the next day, he invited Xu Zichuan, a good colleague in the yamen, to a good restaurant in Beijing to have a drink and listen to a play.

From the beginning of the household department, he was an enviable chubby child.However, in the household department, there is also a different division of labor.For someone like Chen Gui who is good at tricking and flattering, Shangfeng will treat him favorably, and he will never forget him when he has any good errands on weekdays, so he will be more luscious.And like Xu Zichuan, Chen Gui's good friend, who is so lofty and careless, although he doesn't rely on his talents to humiliate him, he also refuses to be in the same dust, so naturally Shangfeng is lazy to pay attention.Let him stay in the cornucopia of the household department, but he has nothing to do.Whenever I have free time, I have no choice but to write Fengyue storybooks and earn some pen-finishing fees to survive.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Chen Gui smiled and said to Xu Zichuan: "Brother Zichuan, how is he doing? Are you shy in your pocket these days?"

Hearing the jokes from his friends, Xu Zichuan just smiled and didn't take it seriously.On the contrary, he smiled and joked: "You know what I have. When did you relax? You said that, but you have added money recently, and your wallet is bulging. Do you want to help me?"

Chen Gui then sighed: "Your temper is too strong. I'm not a cliché, but brother Zi Chuan's talent and aptitude, but if his attitude is a little softer, Master You is a human being, although he won't be able to see it immediately. Brother Zi Chuan is a confidant, but he definitely treats you as a guest of honor. Why are you so shy?"

When Xu Zichuan heard the words, he smiled and said: "You still say that it is not a cliché. My ears are almost calloused. The sage said that you should not do to others what you do not want. I don't care how you do it. Why do you have to force it?" I'm in the same boat? It's not that I said a disobedient word. Although today is kind and holy, it is too accommodating. The trouble is that the officials are not clear now, and all civil and military officials think of borrowing money from the imperial court. If things go on like this, the treasury will definitely be empty. There will be natural disasters and man-made disasters, I am afraid that the people will suffer. For the present plan, only by urging the arrears to be paid with thunderous force, enriching the treasury, and rectifying the administration of officials, can the society be stabilized and the foundation of the world will be established."

When Chen Gui heard this, he smiled and said: "You are too willing to worry. What is the reminder to pay the owed money? You and I are working in the household department now, don't you know the situation? Don't talk about those royal family members who have made great achievements. Even the lesser civil and military officials, who didn’t owe the court any money? It’s just the amount. The sages don’t pursue it. Who would mention these things? "

After a pause, Chen Gui continued: "Furthermore, the sage made many tours to the south, and those who took over from the south of the Yangtze River, such as the Zhen family, the Wang family, and the Jia family who have now moved to the capital, all borrowed money from the treasury. Majesty, now it's time to go shopping, and it's time to make a fuss, so you are urging people to ask for the money you owe?"

When Chen Gui said this, he drank another glass of wine, and said with a sneer, "I'm afraid that with today's heart of loving the veterans, I will never agree. If these big bosses don't pay back the money, if you ask someone else to pay it back, what can you do?" What do you mean? I’m afraid there will be another burst of trouble.”

Hearing this, Xu Zichuan sighed even more, slapped his legs and circled bitterly and said: "Hateful, hateful. The good court has been ruined by these moths."

Seeing that his friend was so indignant, Chen Gui shook his head and smiled and said, "In my opinion, brother Zi Chuan is a poor talent for doing pen posting in the household department. With your character and spirit, you should go to Yushitai."

Xu Zichuan glared angrily and said, "You think I don't want to? If one day I can enter Yushitai, I will definitely impeach these people who hollowed out the treasury to enrich themselves—"

Before Xu Zichuan could finish speaking, Chen Gui smiled and said, "Well, even I scolded me for that."

After finishing speaking, he raised his glass and said to Xu Zichuan with a smile: "Come on, just because Brother Zichuan scolded me, take it for granted."

Xu Zichuan also laughed, clinked glasses full with Chen Gui, and drank it down in one gulp.He asked with a smile, "Brother Ruzhang invited me to drink this time. I don't know what you want from me?"

Chen Gui then laughed and said, "How do you know that I have something to ask you this time, could it be that I don't usually invite you to drink?"

Xu Zichuan laughed and said: "You usually invite me to drink a lot, but you rarely invite me to such a good place. This is Taibailou. There is no taels of money for this meal, so you can't come down." ?”

Chen Gui just smiled, raised his glass and sighed: "Brother Zi Chuan is observant, I admire you."

So he told how his daughter wanted to study, how she invited a female husband, and what happened to Mr. Wu.Finally, Yin said: "Our family's idea is to act first. First find some storytellers and opera singers, and spread the revised scripts and operas in the market. If the family doesn't make bad intentions, it's fine. If you really want to make a bad heart, we have a way to deal with it."

Then he said: "Brother Zi Chuan also knows about me. Although he also lingered in these brothels and Chu houses when he was young and frenzied, he never had a heart-to-heart relationship with those wine and meat friends. Although this matter is not a confidential matter, what is involved? The innocence of my daughter's family. I really don't want to find outsiders to intervene in this matter. After thinking about it, I can only ask Brother Zichuan."

Xu Zichuan quietly listened to Chen Gui's words, and heaved a long sigh: "There are such ungrateful, tricky and hateful people in the world. I really don't know what to say."

After sighing for a while, he smiled at Chen Gui: "Brother Ruzhang, don't worry. It's just a trivial matter. When I go back, I will immediately write a play and deliver it to you."

Chen Gui smiled and thanked.After the official business was over, the two began to talk, laugh and eat wine again, and when they came to Xisan, they returned home happily.

In the evening, Chen Gui returned home drunk.When Feng got the news, he quickly took the maids and women to welcome the general to the second gate and help him back.Chen Gui staggered, intentionally pressing half of his body on Feng Shi's body, and the two returned to the room in a twisted manner. Feng Shi slowly helped Chen Gui to the bed, while taking off his boots and clothes for him. One wall called out for water.

Chen Gui fell down on the bed in a large font, and said with a smile: "I have entrusted Brother Zichuan to discuss the matter yesterday. He said that he will write it when he returns tonight, but it will only be three or two days." can give it to me."

After finishing speaking, he sat up salivating and sat up, approached Feng Shi and begged for reward with a smile: "I have followed Grandma's orders, how can Grandma reward me?"

Feng Shi only felt the stench of wine on his face, and frowned in disgust, fanning his face with his hands, and said: "I don't know how many jars of wine I drank, and how much I mourned before I would come back. Wait until tomorrow My son complains about having a headache in the morning, but I don't care about you."

While talking in his mouth, he ordered the little girl to bring the hangover soup that had been prepared.Coaxed Chen Gui to eat a big bowl.There was also a servant girl who was a rough envoy to bring hot water and washing things.Feng sent two powerful maids to help Chen Gui go to the inner clean room to take a bath.

Chen Gui was half drunk, half intentional, and still leaned on Feng's body without moving.She squinted her eyes and said, "Grandma hasn't put away the hairpin ring, so she must not have washed it yet. Let's wash it together."

Then he said to the servant girls in the room: "You go out, there is no need for you to wait on me. Come back when your grandma and I call."

The servant girls agreed in their mouths, but looked at Feng Shi with their eyes.Feng Shi was ashamed and embarrassed, his face seemed to be painted with rouge, and he still told the little girls to back down.He supported Chen Gui and stumbled to the clean room.

I don't know what the two of them were doing inside.After washing for two or three hours, Feng Shifang helped Chen Gui out to lie down on the bed, and then raised a voice to order the little maids serving outside to go in and tidy up.

Silent all night.

The next day was Muxiu, and Chen Gui woke up refreshed early in the morning. While changing clothes to freshen up, he smiled and said to the listless Feng: "As expected, grandma's hangover soup is the best. In the early years When I woke up with a hangover, I only felt a splitting headache, and I didn’t have the energy to do anything. Now it’s better, and I don’t have a headache anymore.”

Feng snorted through her nose and looked at Chen Gui with a half-smile, because she said: "I shouldn't have asked my sister-in-law for the prescription of hangover soup. Even if you are now more and more out of schemes. If you If you're drunk, it's fine to sleep with you honestly. But when you're drunk and you like to pretend to be crazy, you always come to make trouble for me."

Chen Gui looked at Feng's face full of anger and flirtatious, and he couldn't feel his fascination.Immediately, half of her body seemed to be crippled, and she hugged Feng Shi, and said with a smile: "Grandma, don't be dissatisfied. If you don't believe me, go out and have a look, let alone someone my age, or someone younger, which one I don’t have any concubine. Now I don’t have any, only grandma. If grandma doesn’t let me do anything, what will you do if she suffocates me to death.”

As he said that, he put his arms around Feng Shi and wanted to kiss her.

Shy and angry, Feng pushed Chen Gui away in a hurry, and scolded with a flushed face, "You can calm down a little bit. You don't feel ashamed when the girls and women outside are watching."

Chen Gui didn't take it seriously, and sneered, "I'm hugging my daughter-in-law to kiss her, so it has nothing to do with them. If you're envious, you can go back and find your own man, and it's over."

Feng spat: "The more you talk, the more you go downhill."

After all, he ignored Chen Gui, threw his hands out of the door, and walked along the corridor to the upper room.Chen Gui smiled and followed behind, walking slowly with his hands behind his back.

When we arrived in the upper room, Mrs. Chen and her two sisters, as well as Chen Rong and Chen Wan, were all talking with Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Chen in the main hall.Seeing Feng Shi and Chen Gui entering the door one after the other, Mrs. Chen said: "Since I had a drink yesterday and came back so late, why bother to get up early today. It's time to get a good night's sleep. .”

Chen Gui came forward to greet her with a smile, and said in his mouth: "As the saying goes, the best plan for a day is in the morning. If I don't get up early in the morning, I will not live up to this good time? I have to do it for Raoer." Just make a show."

After that, he laughed with his son Chen Yu and said: "In the future, when you become an official through the imperial examination, you will inevitably have to eat and drink. But remember, no matter how late you sleep at night, you must get up at the right time. Even if you are extremely sleepy for a while, stay until noon Just take a nap. Don't use drunkenness as an excuse to spend your days lazily and wasting your time."

When Chen Wei heard the words, he had no choice but to promise.On the side, Chen Wan snickered with her eldest sister and second sister and said nothing.

Mrs. Chen sized up Mrs. Feng for a long time, then asked with a sudden smile, "Sister-in-law's face is burning, could it be due to the wind and cold?"

When Feng heard this, he saw Chen's narrow face.Then she knew that she was guessing something to make fun of herself.Seeing that everyone in the hall also looked over with concern, Chen Gui was beside him with a half-smile, his face turned red, he touched his cheek with his backhand, and said with a smile: "It's not the wind and cold, it must be the past few days The weather is cold and the wind is hard, and there will be some wind for a while.”

Pretending to be foggy, Chen said with a drawn-out tone of laughter, "Oh, it turns out it's the wind."

Feng turned his face away, pretending that he couldn't hear.He smiled and asked where to put the food and so on.

After breakfast, everyone in the Chen residence dispersed.Chen Rong and all the sisters went to study in the outer study and the inner courtyard respectively. Mrs. Chen also went to Mr. Wu because of a speech yesterday.

Feng thought that the pair of shoes he made for Chen Gui hadn't been finished yet, so he went back to his room to do some sewing.

Chen Gui was thinking about Xu Zichuan writing the script, not to mention he was bored at home with nothing to do.So I went to visit Xu Zichuan's home in this name, so I don't need to elaborate.