Chapter 59 Section fifteen

A few days later, at the court meeting at five-day intervals, Xu Jia told me that the memorandum recommending Chen Tang had been sent out, and the emperor's approval was acceptable.Soon, Chen Tang received a document from the Guangluxun Office, asking Chen Tang to go to work immediately. I also quickly gained benefits. Although I was still serving as a court lieutenant, I was promoted as a servant and could be called into the inner court from time to time to join the cardinal.When I go from home to Fuchu to inspect affairs every day, my mood is no longer so gloomy.I feel that there is hope for being a Marquis in this life, and I have completely lost any resentment towards my younger brother.

One day I even thought of going to see my brother.A person who has an absolute sense of security in his heart will not be brooding over the frustrations of the past. If it was the past, I would not be so indifferent.And when I learned that I was cheated, I was heartbroken for a time, wishing I could tear Chen Changnian into pieces, so as to relieve the resentment in my heart. But now I don't have any at all, on the contrary, he showed a guilty look in front of me. He personally brought tea to my table, walked forward on his knees, and said respectfully: "Ting Weijun, you are safe and well, I miss you very much."

Although I really don't care anymore, but maybe because of my usual personality, I said for no reason: "It's a great honor to be missed by the Prime Minister of the family. It's a great honor to go down. I can finally serve the new master, and it's my wish fulfilled. Actually, I'm still used to hearing the title 'lord'." His smile froze for a moment, but only for a short moment, and soon he smiled again: "Ting Weijun laughed, the minister's position is humble, how dare he have any wishes at all. Although Ting Weijun is the old master of the minister, but in In my heart, I will always be the lord of my life. It is just a matter of title, the court has a clear law, and I dare not make mistakes."

I already regretted it, so I hurriedly said: "I was just joking, Mr. Changnian, don't mind." I turned my eyes to my younger brother Chen Lan, "I will visit you after a long time, and you are still safe." Chen Lan is already fat and fat, and it seems that several years of Liehou's life has completely changed him. This is not the timid, thin brother in my impression at all.He was wearing a black silk dress and a three-beam black crown on his head. He looked pampered, but his expression was rather reserved. Probably his early memories left a considerable impression on him. In my half-brother I don't know how to place my hands and feet in front of me.It seems that I was really an evil brother, and I deeply regret it. In fact, it is certainly joyful to show one's power in front of others, but it is infinitely more joyful for people to be grateful in front of oneself. comparable.I feel this deeply now.

His face was full of joy, so deep that even the fat on his face couldn't hide it at all.He laughed and said, "I don't know how honored it is for my elder brother to come here!" "That's all." I held up the wine baron, "I used to be too busy with official duties as an elder brother, and I didn't have time to visit the prince. Due to the status of the prince, he couldn't often visit our house in vain. As a result, we two brothers often lacked Family friendly communication, I will come here often when I have the opportunity in the future.” As if stretching out his hands to wait nervously around my mouth, in order to catch the food crumbs from the corner of my mouth, Chen Lan hurriedly responded: "Brother, you are serious. In fact, brother knows that my younger brother is incompetent, so I gave up the title to my younger brother, my younger brother." Therefore, I have no worries about food and clothing, all of this is a gift from my brother. I should visit my brother from time to time, but I am afraid that my brother will feel unhappy when he sees my brother."

I blurted out: "Oh, why are you afraid that I'm not in a good mood?" I stared at his face, not knowing what was wrong. He also seemed to have realized something, he glanced at Chen Changnian nervously, and said with some embarrassment: "Brother knows that my younger brother is dull, of course he will be unhappy to see him." His reaction was pretty good, and I looked at Chang Nian meaningfully: "Your Majesty has such a talented and loyal family as his assistant, how could he be dull and incompetent? In terms of talent, your elder brother is better than you." He's come a long way."

I don't know why there seems to be a sour taste in my words again, but I swear to God, I really didn't mean to mock them. Chen Changnian couldn't sit still anymore, he knelt down to me and said, "Your Tingwei is laughing at you, if I can be as good as the king, how can I be a family minister for the rest of my life." "Then what do you want to do?" My tone suddenly became severe. He was taken aback: "Mr. Tingwei calm down, I don't have any other intentions, I just hate myself for being stupid, and I will only serve the lives of nobles in my life."

I stared at his face for a long time: "Very good. If you have any good ghost stories recently, you might as well tell them. Since I left this house, I have never had the chance to hear the stories you told. It seems that this is the most regrettable thing in life." I spread my hands as I spoke. He was silent for a while, coughed twice, and said: "Thanks to Ting Weijun's kindness, I will tell you one thing." My interest came, I was just mentioning it casually, but I didn't expect him to really talk about it, under such a situation. So he said slowly: "Once upon a time there was a prefect with a very kind disposition, who always worshiped ghosts and gods and loved the common people. One day he went to the county prison to inspect, and the prisoners shouted for grievances across the prison. The prisoners were called out to question one by one, and asked them to tell their grievances, which took a whole day, and he fell ill the next day."

I responded with an "oh" as usual, expressing encouragement.He nodded and continued. "Naturally, the family members are very anxious and seek medical treatment everywhere, but all the medicines are ineffective. One of the prefect's subordinates, when he heard that the lord was critically ill, went to see him, saying that the prefect may not have an ordinary illness and may have violated the law. Ghosts. Because the prison that the prefect inspected the day before had been built for 40 to 50 years, and there were countless ghosts in it. The prefect’s family panicked and asked if there was any way to get rid of it. The little official said it’s okay, he has learned magic and can see ghosts and gods. He could think of a way to explain to the prefect. So he took out a bamboo book in his sleeve, chanted something in the room, looked left and right, and found that there was an evil ghost in front of the bed, sitting stiffly in front of the prefect's sickbed, muttering Crying for injustice. The official then used magic to disperse the evil spirit, and the eunuch really recovered quickly."

"It's so amazing." I couldn't help but continue, thinking to myself that I can't just go to the dark old prison to patrol in the future.Seeing that Niannian had stopped, I encouraged him again: "It doesn't matter, just keep talking." He nodded again and said: "Afterwards, the eunuch asked the official what method he used to cure him. The official told what he saw, and the eunuch was shocked, saying that I worshiped ghosts and gods all my life, and never killed a good person unjustly. Wronged ghosts bully me like this. My predecessor was a cruel official who killed people like hemp, but he was in good health and had a prosperous official career. Besides, the wronged ghosts may have been wronged by that predecessor. Instead of looking for him, the ghosts looked for me. Are they so unreasonable? The official said, I asked the evil ghost the same way, and the ghost said that in fact, any ghost itself has no power to harm living beings, but if a living person is afraid of ghosts, ghosts can help him A single hand. Ghosts are born from the heart, this so-called self-inflicted evil, you can't live."

I saw Chang Nian stopped, and I was startled: "It's over? What kind of ghost story is this? It's not scary at all. Mr. Chang Nian, why has your level of storytelling declined over the years instead of rising?" He prostrated himself on the ground again: "Tingweijun is right, we lords don't like hearing ghost stories at all, no matter how brilliantly I tell them, it's useless. I hope Tingweijun will see clearly!" "Well, it made me excited in vain. If you have any friends who are good at telling ghost stories, you must recommend them to me in time." I said sexually. He nodded and said: "Your Majesty has ordered so, the villain must pay attention."