Since I decided to visit Longcheng County, I was invited to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the completion of Di Gong Gate.
Then decide on your itinerary in advance.
After Shen Xisheng had a small gathering with his friend Xie Xun in the bamboo forest, the next day, he summoned his subordinate officials to make arrangements for their trip to Longcheng County.
The supervisory envoy of Yiyi is higher in rank than the governor of Yizhou, so he must prepare in advance for his trip.
However, Shen Xisheng ordered his subordinates to prepare in a low-key manner without making any announcements.
However, this afternoon, just after the discussion Shen Xisheng convened with his subordinates, the green-clothed official he had seen that day came with a scribe to pay him a visit.
"Master Shen, Master Wang has sent a subordinate to ask you something."
After writing the case, Shen Xi, who was reviewing the official documents, said without raising his head:
"What are your orders, Lord Wang?"
"I don't want to take the order seriously, but Mr. Wang would like to ask, has Mr. Shen received an invitation from Longcheng County to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the rebuilt Di Gong Gate?"
"oh?"
Shen Xi said calmly: "Where did Mr. Wang hear this?"
"I don't know, my subordinates also pass the message on my behalf..."
The green-clothed official said truthfully:
"Master Wang is saying that as the governor of Jiangzhou, he is a provincial official. Although Di Gongzhao was built by a county, he has to go and take a look, inspect and commend the local officials who have made great achievements, and be prepared when the time comes. Take a trip to Longcheng County.
"Master Wang has asked an officer to ask if Master Shen wants to go together. If you are acclimated and unwilling to run, that's okay. He can go alone on behalf of Jiangzhou."
"Ah."
After hearing this, Shen Xisheng chuckled.
Not long after, the green-clothed official and several scribes were sent away.
In the hall with bananas planted outside the corridor, only Shen Xisheng and the staff officials who had not had time to leave after the meeting were left.
The long-faced staff member frowned and said:
"Sir, is this a rumor that has been leaked?"
"maybe."
"But Governor Wang's preparations are really fast. Why do we feel that his preparations are one step ahead of us? Is it possible that Ouyang Lianghan is not sensible and sent him an invitation letter in advance?"
Shen Xisheng looked at the green plantains outside the hall and shook his head:
"Ouyang Lianghan would not do such a thing. Besides, when he sent the letter, the new governor had not yet taken office in Jiangzhou."
"Then why..."
Shen Xisheng turned around and said, "Someone else is not sensible...or maybe too sensible, so they invited the new governor first."
The long-faced staff member hesitated to speak, but in the end he didn’t ask, and just said:
"Sir, should the preparations we discussed before be carried out as usual or..."
"What are you afraid of? Everything is business as usual."
Shen Xisheng nodded:
"Come here, go and reply a letter to Magistrate Ouyang on my behalf..."
"Yes, sir."
After the discussion, the subordinates went down one after another, and the hall became empty. Suddenly, light rain fell from the sky, hitting the banana trees and causing water to accumulate on the eaves.
Shen Xisheng looked at the plantains in the rain, and recalled some of the words of her friends a few days ago, and muttered:
"The Liu family in Longcheng really has something up their sleeves, and I want to go even more. We can't let Wang Lengran do whatever he wants... Brother Xie is right, he dares to say that he has no connection with the Wei family, ha..."
…
"Elder brother, what is Master Shen talking about?"
Upstream of Butterfly Creek, on the path at the foot of Longbei Mountain next to Yue Nu Gorge, Xie Lingjiang asked the man in front of him with curiosity.
Just now she saw her senior brother unfolding the letter from Jiangzhou and reading it for a while. Then he sent Yan Liulang and others away, turned around and continued moving forward with her, without saying a word the whole time.
"Nothing."
Ouyang Rong paused and handed the folded letter to Xie Lingjiang:
"Master Shen promised that he would come as scheduled on the day of the ribbon-cutting ceremony of Duke Di Gate."
"Isn't this a good thing?"
Xie Lingjiang took the letter, glanced down at it, and said with a smile:
"Then isn't this a good thing... Hey, who is this new governor, Mr. Wang? A new governor is coming to Jiangzhou so soon? Is he coming too? Senior brother also invited him before?"
Ouyang Rong's figure walking in front shook his head gently:
"No. Who knows."
Xie Lingjiang stared at his senior brother's back.
Perhaps because she had been watching Ouyang Rong for a long time, she could keenly sense that her senior brother seemed to have something on his mind.
"By the way, junior sister, did you have something you didn't finish talking about just now?"
Ouyang Rong suddenly turned around and said in a curious tone:
"Junior sister, what little wishes do you have?"
Sensing his gentle gaze, Xie Lingjiang immediately lowered his eyes, pretending to continue reading the letter, and said in a casual tone:
"Oh. It's nothing. I just want my senior brother to accompany me to Donglin Temple to ask for a fortune."
Without thinking, Ouyang Rong nodded and asked, "Okay, when will we go? I'll make a schedule."
Xie Lingjiang couldn't help but glance at him and asked tentatively: "How about this month's fifteenth?"
Ouyang Rong was about to nod in agreement, but stopped and frowned slightly:
"On the 15th of this month... the Dee Gong Gate is still half finished, and the ribbon-cutting ceremony may be held in the middle of the month."
"Then it's business that matters."
The noble lady of the Xie family said hurriedly, but her face was slightly disappointed.
Ouyang Rong thought for a moment and asked curiously:
"Does it have to be the fifteenth day? Can we go in these two days?"
Xie Lingjiang raised his eyes and glanced at his senior brother:
"Donglin Temple happens to have an incense temple fair on the fifteenth day..."
Ouyang Rong nodded thoughtfully, "I see."
A woman’s sense of ritual, right? Hmm, got it.
Seeing that Ouyang Rong seemed to be hesitating with his head lowered, Hua Yan, a girl dressed in men's clothing, forced out a beautiful smile and said thoughtfully:
"Of course, Di Gongzha's business is more important. If there is a ribbon-cutting ceremony, forget it. Let's talk about it another day, or change a small wish..."
Ouyang Rong raised his head and smiled:
"That's it. It's actually okay. After all, the ribbon-cutting meeting can't be held all day. It's usually in the afternoon, when a group of people get together and go through the process.
"Mr. Chen and the others should be able to discuss a specific date in the past two days. Now it looks like it will be either the 14th or the 15th. If it is on the 14th, it will be better.
"But if it happens on the 15th day of this month, junior sister, if we can, then we will go to Donglin Temple in the morning to ask for signatures, then go to receive Mr. Shen and the others, and come to Di Gong Gate in the afternoon to cut the ribbon. If you squeeze the time, there will always be Of. How is it?"
A certain time management guru quickly came up with a plan, smiled and suggested.
Xie Lingjiang nodded with a stunned face:
"Of course... you can. As long as it doesn't interfere with Senior Brother, you can make any arrangements. On the fifteenth day, it doesn't matter in the morning or afternoon."
"Okay, that's settled."
Ouyang Rong smiled and turned around, continuing to move forward with his hands behind his back.
When Xie Lingjiang saw this, he stopped talking.
Finally she mustered up some courage and asked:
"Senior brother, aren't you curious as to what kind of incense is being burned and what kind of fortune is being asked for?"
"Oh yes, I almost forgot."
Ouyang Rong turned around and asked:
"What kind of signature do you want, little junior sister Hao Duan Duan?"
In the eyes of a certain junior sister, this reaction was as slow as a stupid goose, although she vaguely knew that he might have something on his mind.
"..."
Facing the belated and curious gaze of his senior brother, Xie Lingjiang lowered his head slightly and said:
"The little girl from the Su family said that the incense from Donglin Temple is very efficacious, and asked me to go to the 15th Temple Fair to help her get a marriage lottery..."
Xie Lingjiang paused for a moment and caught a glimpse of the startled look on her senior brother's face. She looked around at the scenery on the roadside and said casually:
"Well, if there are few people, then I'll ask you to give one a try... Where's Senior Brother, do you want to come too? Anyway, I'm on my way. Aunt Zhen has been urging me, hasn't she?"
"Help the little sister of the Su family seek marriage..." Ouyang Rong, who was a little distracted at first, immediately became alert when he heard this: "Little sister, are you trying to match me up with her?"
"How can it be!"
Xie Lingjiang blurted out. At the same time, facing the extremely wary eyes of her senior brother, she was a little speechless. Why are you so responsive now, but just now you were like an idiot and wanted to be enlightened.
"That's fine. As long as you don't pull red strings randomly, I'm not very familiar with the Su family's little sister."
Ouyang Rong breathed a sigh of relief and waved his hand.
Xie Lingjiang puffed his cheeks slightly and looked at his face with starry eyes, as if he was observing something, or waiting for something.
Fortunately, perhaps with God's blessing, this person no longer remained "straight" to the end. He turned around and said "Hey" slightly, and asked curiously:
"Little junior sister, you also ask for a marriage sign? Didn't you say before that you don't want to get married? What three wishes do you want to fulfill?"
Ouyang Rong remembered what his teacher Xie Xun had told him before. The junior sister once said that before she was twenty, she had three wishes:
The first wish was to read all the books in the family collection, the second wish was to meet a true good man... As for the third wish, the teacher didn't say it at the time, but Ouyang Rong later learned from his junior sister that he wanted to be promoted to a book translator.
Anyway, Ouyang Rong had always admired his junior sister's Taoist heart.
Xie Lingjiang turned his head and looked at the magpie nest on the treetop not far away, and Qiongbi snorted:
"Haven't all three wishes been fulfilled... I still have a long life, can't I add some more wishes?"
Ouyang Rong raised his eyebrows, heard something unintelligible, and asked directly:
"Little junior sister, are you... looking for a Taoist companion?"
He swallowed back the word "Sichun" and used a euphemism...
Although the original intention is to express "I can be chased" or even more deeply "limited to a certain idiot who can easily chase".
But after hearing this, Xie Lingjiang still tensed up for a while and looked away.
The small piece of fair skin from her neck exposed at the intersection of her clothes, all the way to her face, was slightly pink.
Just the peach blossoms in April in the world.
Under the gaze of the senior brother, the girl's mood at the moment was a bit like the fireworks in March in the south of the Yangtze River.
"Okay, I'll go with you."
Ouyang Rong nodded without hesitation. This was the most enlightening time Xie Lingjiang felt her senior brother had had today, and what he muttered immediately after made her almost black out:
"Well, junior sister has finally grown up. It would be very gratifying if the teacher knew about it... Yes, after all, as we age, our psychology has to keep up with our physical maturity, right...
"It's a pity that I don't have many young talents around me who are suitable for introduction, and those who are there are not worthy of my junior sister's conditions and family background."
Ouyang Rong lowered his head and muttered quietly for a while, then sighed, his face seemed to be pleased.
"..."
Although he didn't quite understand the meaning of the strange word "physical maturity" in his senior brother's mouth...it didn't stop Xie Lingjiang from discovering good news and bad news.
The good news is, senior brother understands.
The bad news is, I don't fully understand.
Then one girl became angry and looked back angrily:
"What nonsense are you talking about, senior brother? I'm just asking for an autograph by the way. There's no such nonsense as senior brother thinks. Besides...
"Isn't my senior brother also reaching the age of marriage for men? He should...should be more anxious than his junior sister, so I went to Donglin Temple to ask for a fortune on the 15th of this month, with the intention of helping my senior brother seek marriage.
"As I said, I just went to take a look. Senior brother, you should think about yourself first. Don't be anxious, others will be anxious to death."
Ouyang Rong couldn't help but glance at the junior sister whose words were suddenly a little "aggressive", and suddenly laughed, because he tasted some of the information in her words:
Well, the junior sister doesn't seem to completely deny her desire to find a close friend.
Men who are college students should get married, but women who are college students should also get married.
Junior sister is a bit thin-skinned... The young county magistrate thought to himself and replied:
"Junior sister, are you really not in a hurry?"
"Not urgent."
"I'm actually not in a hurry, so why don't we go?"
"..."
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the little junior sister's face was slightly stiff. Ouyang Rong laughed and stopped teasing her:
"Okay, I'm joking. Actually, senior brother, I'm in a hurry. It just so happens that my junior sister is going to ask for a signature for the little girl from the Su family, so let's go together. If the younger junior sister comes along and reluctantly asks for a signature, it's just for fun. Well, senior brother will never tell the teacher about this, so don’t worry, little junior sister.”
He finished speaking seriously.
Xie Lingjiang looked at his senior brother, his face softened a little, and he nodded immediately:
"It's a deal, no cheating."
"good."
Ouyang Rong's originally tense mood relaxed a lot when he was interrupted by the junior sister who seemed to be thinking about Chun.
Generally speaking, his junior sister is still very affectionate, and her tough-tongued look is quite interesting...
Ouyang Rong, who had failed in the blind date at Donglin Temple and was rejected for marriage, didn't think much about it. After all, he knew very well how arrogant the junior sister was at heart.
The two exchanged a few words, and after making an agreement, they turned around and continued to get down to business.
On the way, Xie Lingjiang couldn't help but glance at his senior brother's slender back from time to time.
Well, even though he has a stupid head, it seems from the conversation just now that he is not completely lacking in intelligence. As long as he is bolder and tries his best to knock this idiot's head off, he can still be enlightened, right?
She thought to herself.
The mood of my daughter's house is like the blue in the sky, dimming and brightening.
Here you go, good brothers, these days I’ve been posting two chapters in one chapter, four thousand words… (Hold your head)
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