Chapter 63: Rumors that are not rumors
The scene was extremely awkward for a moment.
Han Xizai was still angry and scolded: "The beast who is so betrayed by the Lord is not tolerated by heaven!"
Lin Feng took a step forward, raised his hand to stop Han Xizai's scolding, turned to everyone, and explained bitterly: "King of Chu, King Zheng, everyone, sorry, I'm sorry, everyone is disappointed! Renjie was seriously injured for Lin in the past, missed the opportunity to join the army, and kept drinking to drown his sorrows. It was because I didn't care enough about him in daily life and made everyone laugh!"
Han Xizai said hatefully: "What should I do for this kind of wolf-hearted and dog-hearted person to defend him?" At this time, Xiao Yan, You Jianyan and others came up to comfort Lin Feng. Only two young people who followed King Li Jingqian of Chu looked at each other, a hint of joy flashed through their eyes, and they quickly lowered their heads to hide the past.
Lin Feng felt miserable and looked sad. He claimed to change, change the fortune of the country, and change the fate of most people. As a result, he couldn't even take care of the people around him. How could he talk about lofty ideals? He was a little discouraged and silent for a moment.
Han Xizai couldn't see it anymore, so he came up and grabbed Lin Feng and dragged him to his seat: "Zhishan, just like you said, many things in ancient and modern times are just a joke! How big is this? Come on, let's have a drink and forget this unhappy thing!"
"That's right, I wrote a poem a few days ago. Please give Mr. Lin a taste!" Li Yu, who had not made a sound, also spoke and chanted the poem on the spot:
"I turned the candle floating in the air and returned home in my dreams. I wanted to find the old traces and feel sad that people were wrong. The wishes of the Heavenly Sect were contrary to their own lives.
When the moon pool platform is empty and the water is gone, the shade of flowers and pavilions is slanting, and you will never hesitate to get more clothes when you arrive."
"What a song "Huanxisha"! It's sad and graceful, sincere and sincere, and a good lyrics from Prince Zheng!" Jiang Wenmo took the lead in praising. Then, the crowd praised it, diluting the depression just now.
Lin Feng calmed down and began to communicate with Jiang Wenmo and You Jianyan about the details of the ceremony of "The Legend of the Contest".
After a while, when he thought he would enjoy the wonderful program, he saw a farce in which Li Jingqian, the King of Chu, was a little unable to sit still. He stood up and punished himself for a cup, and asked to take a step forward. Everyone quickly got up and tried to keep Li Jingqian, but he couldn't resist the "heart to return home" and left with a large number of people.
The Shangshu's right servant Sun Sheng followed Li Jingqian's footsteps and quickly withdrew. Then, Xiao Yan, Jiang Wenmo and others also gave up their excuses.
Finally, only the official agent Shi Xubai, the Yu army's member Han Xizai, the congratulatory man Liao Jusu and Lin Feng, Wei San and Lu Jiang and others were left at the scene. Under Han Xizai's efforts to pick him up, everyone formed a table and still drank.
Lin Feng signaled Lu Jiang and the other two to communicate well with the three officials, and sat there and drank glass after glass.
Han Xizai couldn't bear it anymore, so he sat down next to Lin Feng, put his shoulder on his shoulder, and advised: "Zhishan, you did nothing wrong at all. Don't care too much. How many major things are waiting for you to cheer up!"
Lin Feng raised his head and asked drunkenly: "Brother, has Li Ran and the others completed the pardon memorial?"
"It's almost time. I'll go to the Ministry of Revenue to make up for some procedures tomorrow." Han Xizai shook Lin Feng's body and raised his voice and said.
Lin Feng shook his heavy head again, grabbed a large glass of wine and drank it all. He was stunned for a while, and suddenly asked, "Have you started doing all the agreed things?"
Han Xizai was startled and immediately reacted, nodded slightly, and quietly reached out to make a gesture that made Lin Feng feel at ease.
"Okay! Thank you brother!" Lin Feng murmured, lowered his head, and fell directly on the table and fell asleep!
Han Xizai was both angry and funny, so he quickly called everyone to raise Lin Feng and sent him back home.
Just as a group of people were helping Lin Feng down the stairs, two people who were also drunk and slippery and squeezed over to them. A middle-aged man behind him shouted: "Brother, have you heard that the ten questions for recruitment will be greatly expanded this time. Maybe they all have to go to a science academy. Otherwise, let us brothers try our luck too?"
"If you go, go, we can't solve those questions, we can't beat the edge drums or do chores? After all, we are people who have been studying for ten years, so if you don't know how to learn it!" A young man in front grabbed the railing with one hand, turned around and shouted.
"That's it! Let's go too!" The middle-aged man grabbed the young man's shoulder with his hands, and the two walked downstairs with their shoulders on their shoulders.
"The sky laughs, and the world is full of tides. Whoever loses will win will win..." The middle-aged man suddenly sang, and the young man immediately roared. The lyrics of "A Laugh in the Sea" copied by Lin Feng have long been sung in Jinling City!
Han Xizai, who was walking at the end with his hands behind his back, listened to the conversation between the two drunkards, and then heard the last song, couldn't help but smile, and looked at Lin Feng, who was being supported by Wei San's support with his bright eyes, and said silently in his heart, "Zhishan, the dark chess we set has begun to work, you can rest for a while!"
Just as Lin Feng was carried into the mansion, Hu Cheng, the prison officer, and three people, knocked on the gate of a simple house under the wall of Jinling North City, and shouted loudly: "Old Deng, have you slept?"
"Who?" asked an old voice.
"I, Hu Cheng! There are also Zhao Chengda, Yu Qingfei, Gui Hua!" Hu Cheng replied, and pushed open the gate of the courtyard that was better than nothing.
"Please come in quickly!" A candle was lit up in the house quickly, and an elderly man opened the door and looked at the four people in front of him in surprise.
Five people sat down in the room in a row. Hu Cheng opened the wooden box in his hand, took out two plates of dishes and placed them on the table. While looking at the miscellaneous monsters in the room, he looked up and asked the black and thin old man opposite: "Brother Deng, have you made a new invention?"
The old man called Brother Deng was angry and loving for a while. He looked at the things in the room with complicated eyes, shook his head and said, "It has been a waste of time. Deng has accomplished nothing, but nothing has not been done. Sometimes I really want to split all these things! It's burned!"
"Don't!" Hu Cheng turned around and took a few pairs of chopsticks from a wooden chopping board and handed the last pair to Deng Jiayu, the Taibu Office's Bushi Zhu Jishi. In the official rank sequence of Southern Tang, this official was just a third-class sesame position, which was worse than a useless person.
"Let's talk while eating! Brother Deng, I'm here so late to this day just for these things!" Hu Cheng took a sip of the dish and chewed it with relish.
"And meat? Lao Hu, are you luxurious enough now?" Lao Deng discovered that the wooden boxes of dishes were very delicate, that is to say, they were very expensive!
"Of course, since I followed Lord Lin Fenglin, my living standards have also improved. Lord Lin treats people very well. As long as I do well, I can reward you with a lot of money without blinking!" Hu Cheng's beard was so high that he gave him a thumbs up with his left hand.
"Is Lin Feng so good?" Not only Lao Deng, the other three people also opened their eyes wide and looked at Hu Cheng with envy. This group of people are all inexperienced people in the officialdom, but they are also people who have nowhere to show their strength. Therefore, they can get together and occasionally get two plates of peanuts and other dishes to enjoy their mouths!
"Of course! Let's not talk about this for now. I'll come to you today. It was under the commission of Lord Lin and Lord Han Xizai to invite people to come out of the mountain!" Hu Cheng put down his chopsticks and looked mysterious.
"Really or not?" All the other four stopped chopsticks and stared at Hu Cheng.
Hu Cheng ignored the anxious eyes of several people, Meimei ate a big bite of the dish, and then said leisurely: "Do you know, Lord Lin suggested that Your Majesty establish the Tang Academy of Sciences and is preparing to recruit talents in large quantities!"
Afterwards, Hu Cheng introduced the basic situation of the planned establishment of the Academy of Sciences one by one. The eyes of several people became wider and wider, and no one was too concerned about the plates of "hard dishes" that they could not afford at all.
"You have heard of the coal ball machine and the spring furnace. How much does it cost to auction the patent alone? Two thousand and one hundred coins! The crooked jujubes and jujubes in the imperial guards who followed Lin Feng at the beginning are now all the masters, and they are still the first to receive the honorary Lord of Honor. Even a few musicians who played and sang in the Lin Mansion, after Lord Lin played and played the emperor directly, will be dismissed now! Tell you, I don't know how many people dream of joining the Lin Mansion!" Hu Cheng wiped his mouth and said with a gaze.
Yu Qingfei, the supervisor of the Arsenal Bureau, couldn't help but say, "What does this have to do with us?"
"You are stupid! Lord Lin, Lord Han specifically asked me to find people with real talents. No matter what I did before, as long as I have real skills, Lord Lin will never bury you! Old Deng loves to tinker, which is exactly what the Academy of Sciences wants; Brother Cheng loves design, Brother Guihua is familiar with water conservancy, Brother Qingfei loves shipbuilding, you are all talents that Lord Lin is eager to recruit!" Hu Cheng was a little anxious and said with a gaze in his mouth.
Several people began to ponder.
Hu Cheng looked at them with a grudge and said angrily: "Do you know, Lord Han said that in the future, the Academy of Sciences will not only have a minimum monthly salary of 300 liters, but also have floating bonuses. If you make achievements, you will be rewarded. If you follow Lord Lin in the future, we will be completely turned over!"
At such a high level, all four of them were frightened by the number of 300 ci. The largest official among the four of them was only from the ninth rank, and all their income in a month was only more than 100 ci!
"I really haven't seen the world! Why don't you tell you, I've been with Lord Lin for nearly three months. How much does Lord Lin reward me in total?" Hu Cheng stood up, stared at the four brothers, and said word by word: "Twenty-one common people!"
Chapter completed!