The backyard of Han Mansion.
In the pavilion, six plates were placed on the stone table, and Han Du was drinking with Fang Xiaoru.
"Qitai has been having trouble with you over and over again. I originally thought you wouldn't let him go, but you haven't made any move until now. What do you mean?" Fang Xiaoru asked while drinking.
Han Du glanced at him, a smile appeared on his face, and thought to himself: This old bastard troubles him every day, of course he will not let him go. But who told the emperor not to give in? How dare he touch the people the emperor wants to keep?
Han Du picked up the wine glass, gestured to Fang Xiaoru, and said lightly: "The meaning of your words seems to have made me crazy."
Fang Xiaoru took a serious look at Han Du, shook his head and said, "Of course you are not a madman, but you are also famous for retribution."
Han Du laughed, avoided the topic, and asked: "What about you? You came to greet me so early today, didn't you just come to ask me to drink with you?"
"Hehe..." Fang Xiaoru suddenly laughed sheepishly, "Did you see it?"
Han Du smiled proudly, "I don't know about you yet? You would never come to me unless you had to. Tell me, what's the matter? Seeing how you wanted me to deal with Qitai just now, he gave me another Are you wearing your little shoes?"
"No~" Fang Xiaoru shook his head immediately.
Seeing the disbelief on Han Du's face, he raised his voice and explained: "I didn't lie to you, I really didn't!"
"Really?" Han Du still didn't believe it.
Fang Xiaoru sighed and said: "He is indeed still finding trouble with me and wearing small shoes for me. But don't tell me, I have really gotten used to wearing small shoes every day. I am not afraid of him now. Wearing small shoes, I just want to see how long he can wear them for me! Maybe, if one day he can't wear them for me, then I'm not used to them!"
Han Du immediately gave a thumbs up to Fang Xiaoru and praised: "Okay, it's good to have this kind of mentality. In the officialdom, it's really impossible without your mentality."
"That's right, I was also the governor of Luzon. Who hasn't seen him? With his skills like Qitai, would I be afraid of him?" Fang Xiaoru suddenly laughed.
The two of them toasted and clinked their glasses as if they were still in agreement.
With a sip of wine sliding down his throat, Han Du continued to ask: "Then why did you come to me today?"
Hearing this, Fang Xiaoru couldn't move his hands even though he was about to pick up the food. He sighed and slapped his chopsticks on the table.
Han Du looked at Fang Xiaoru in surprise, waiting for his next words.
Fang Xiaoru smiled bitterly and said, "I know I can't hide it from your eyes that can see everything in the world!"
Han Du slapped his fingers off and asked with an exaggerated expression: "You flatter me like this, and it makes me feel panicked? How big of a deal is it that makes you willing to spend such a huge amount of money? You can't be Did you ruin that girl?
But that's not right. Even if it's really a waste, the worst thing you can do is marry her. I'm afraid she's eager to recommend herself to you as a romantic figure who has the same education as you. "
Han Du immediately made a shocked expression, pointed at Fang Xiaoru and asked, "Is it true that you are hooking up with a married woman?"
"Go away! You're the one hooking up with a married woman." Fang Xiaoru cursed angrily.
"Hahaha..." Han Du laughed suddenly, and after he stopped laughing, he asked: "What on earth is going on that makes you, a person who doesn't even look down on your immediate boss, Can you be so melancholy?"
Fang Xiaoru took a long breath and sighed: "Do you know Dong Lun?"
Han Du nodded repeatedly, "It sounds like a man's name, hiss, you must be good at this, right?"
"Get out!!!" Fang Xiaoru suddenly had veins on his forehead and roared angrily.
Seeing that he was really angry, Han Du quickly stretched out his hand to comfort him, "Just kidding, just kidding... But who is this Dong Lun you are talking about? There are so many people with the same name, how do I know? Who are you talking about?"
"Henan's Left Councilor in the 25th year of Hongwu's reign. He had a good reputation in Henan at the beginning, and he became known as Houle in the Ideological and Political Hall. I even wrote an article for him." Fang Xiaoru explained.
"Oh~ I'm not a Beijing official. No wonder I don't know him. Houletang? It's taken from the idea of worrying about the world's worries first, and enjoying the world's happiness later? It's interesting. You even wrote a composition specifically for him. Is it possible that you have a relationship with each other? Not bad?" Han Du heard a lot of information from just one sentence of Fang Xiaoru.
Fang Xiaoru nodded and said, "It used to be like this. At that time, he and I had many ideas very close to each other, and I felt that he was my lifelong confidant!"
Hearing Fang Xiaoru emphasize that this was the case before, Han Du's eyes lit up, and he suddenly felt that there was a big melon inside. As a member of the melon-eating empire, if you don’t eat melons, you will be struck by lightning.
So he quickly asked: "What about now?"
"Now?" Fang Xiaoru chuckled and shook his head, "Now I just feel that my original idea was too wishful thinking. Only after I went to Luzon did I realize that whether it is common people or officials, the most important thing is to live first. Only living Only when you are down can you have the energy to do other things. In the past, just having ambition was like a duckweed without a foundation, and it was too easy to be influenced by external things."
"So, Dong Lun is looking for you?" Han Du asked doubtfully.
Fang Xiaoru shook his head, "He didn't look for me, but he wrote a letter and recommended someone to me."
"Is this the person who makes you so sad? Who is so capable?" Han Du asked while picking up a piece of fat lamb.
After asking, Han Du put the mutton into his mouth and bit into it gently, leaving a fragrant aroma on his teeth.
"Jie Jin!"
Hearing Fang Xiaoru's words, Han Du couldn't help but stop eating meat.
He raised his eyes to look at Fang Xiaoru and asked vaguely: "Xie Jin, who is as famous as you, the most famous scholar in the Ming Dynasty, and the most talented scholar in the Ming Dynasty?"
Fang Xiaoru nodded awkwardly.
Han Du frowned, "What did he do to you? Make you so embarrassed?"
"He wants me to recommend him to serve as an official!" Fang Xiaoru said helplessly.
"Being an official?" Han Du was even more confused. "This shouldn't be a difficult task for you, right? The late emperor was always impressed by Xie Jin's talents. Wouldn't it be a difficult task for you to recommend him to the emperor?"
Han Du didn't understand. For Fang Xiaoru, this was just a waste of time. How could it make him so distressed?
Fang Xiaoru stared at Han Du with burning eyes.
Han Du felt guilty for a moment when he saw him. He couldn't help but look down at himself and asked, "Why do you look at me like this?"
Fang Xiaoru closed his eyes for a moment, then opened them again, "You don't know, right? Xie Jin is indeed a great talent, but why did the late emperor ask him to go home and study hard in the first place? Is it because he was too arrogant and rude? , just wanted to sharpen his temperament so that it can be used in the future."
"Has his temper been tempered?" Han Du asked as he picked up the wine glass and took a sip.
Fang Xiaoru suddenly smiled bitterly and said: "If it was smoothed out, would I still be so melancholy? Not only has his arrogant temper not been smoothed out now, but in my opinion, he is even more arrogant and even a little more impatient than before. .”
Is that so? No wonder Fang Xiaoru didn't want to recommend Xie Jin.
Han Du immediately understood that such Xie Jin was not suitable for officialdom at all. If Fang Xiaoru recommended him to the emperor, Fang Xiaoru might be implicated in the future. This is not impossible. If Jie Jin is arrogant and rude and drags Fang Xiaoru into trouble, then it will be an unreasonable disaster.
Fang Xiaoru didn't want to recommend him, but Xie Jin happened to have Dong Lun's letter, which made Fang Xiaoru unable to refuse. That's why he was so entangled and melancholy, and came to Han Du to find a solution.
Han Du looked at Fang Xiaoru warily and said, "Don't make any decisions about me. I can't help you with this matter."
Fang Xiaoru, however, refused to give up and said with a smile on his face: "Everyone says you are resourceful. Isn't it easy to help me find a way?"
Han Du didn't want to get involved in such a troublesome matter. He shook his head like a rattle, "Since you don't want to recommend him, then just refuse. Are you still afraid of offending him?"
"That's not true." Fang Xiaoru shook his head, and then explained: "Although Xie Jin has an arrogant and rude temper, his talents and learning are real. If I don't recommend him, Ming Dynasty will always feel a little bit wrong about missing such a great talent. I'm willing to do it. Besides, even if I don't recommend him, he will find someone else to recommend him. In the future, it's hard to say whether we will be officials in the same dynasty, right?"
Han Du pondered for a moment, glanced at Fang Xiaoru, who had a helpless face, and had to nod in agreement. According to my own understanding, this Xie Jin is not very broad-minded. If Fang Xiaoru rejected him and he found someone else to recommend him as an official, Fang Xiaoru would definitely feel resentful.
After all, Xie Jin is a person with a lot of knowledge. He may not be able to accomplish anything, but he must have enough strength to do bad things!
"This is really a hot potato!" Han Du curled his lips and said rather unfavorably. I don’t understand how Fang Xiaoru encountered such a bullshit thing, and why he came to find him when he couldn’t handle it himself?
"That's why I asked you, the famous Marquis of Zhenhai, to take action!" Seeing Han Du's change of tone, Fang Xiaoru said happily: "Hurry up, help me think of a solution."
What can I do? Han Du sighed in his heart, Xie Jin was also famous in history. But what makes him so famous is not his intellectual talent, but his unbridled mouth!
What should be said, what should not be said, he dares to say anything! So, in the end, he died on his mouth. Faced with such a strange flower, what can I do?
Han Du was very impressed that Fang Xiaoru did not agree to Xie Jin's request. This is when Jie Jin finds Fang Xiaoru. If he finds himself and can let such a broom star in, I will lose!
