Chapter 379: Hai Pen Holder

Not long after passing Wujiang, when I passed by a small restaurant, I saw a familiar mule tied to the door of the store in silence. I couldn't help but feel a little surprised and said to Tiezhu: "Get in and sit."

Tiezhu asked, "We just had lunch. It's less than half an hour. You're hungry, my son?"

Silent glared at him and said, "Affect orders and follow commands, and keep your virtues."

Tiezhu said "Oh" and stopped talking.

The master and servant entered the shop. It was already past meal time and it was deserted inside, with only three or two tables of guests eating.

After a moment of silence, I saw the person I was looking for. A lonely man with his back to him and was having a meal, and finally saw clearly the black and thin man. There was only a pot of tea, three coarse cakes, and a plate of radish pickles in front of me.

Chen Shi saw him holding pickles in one hand and noodles in the other, biting a piece of cake with big mouth and a piece of pickles in a small mouth. His expression was quite enjoyable, as if he was eating it very sweetly.

These things have never been eaten in silence. Even at the most miserable time, there is rice with wild vegetables and fish soup, and at least it can be swallowed. But this kind of dry hard-dough cake doesn't just have some soup. Wouldn't it choke?

Anyway, just looking at the silence, I was so choking for this guy that I couldn't help but hold my chest and retching silently, as if he was the one who was eating the cake.

The man had eaten seriously at first and ignored him, but after Chen Si stood beside him for a long time, he naturally had to look up at him, but he saw Chen Si's appearance of opening his mouth and staring at him. Not to mention, he really choked him.

The man rolled his eyes so much that he choked, quickly put down the pancakes and pickles, and reached out to touch the tea bowl.

Chen Si felt guilty in his heart, so he quickly brought the tea bowl to his hand. He took it and drank it down, hammered it hard again, then shook it violently, swallowed the coarse grains that were blocking his throat, and breathed a sigh of relief: "I'm so suffocating..."

Chen Si took the opportunity to sit beside him and said, "I'm sorry, brother, I have a problem. I don't think of others as choking. If they choke, I will choke too."

The man wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth and lowered his face and said, "It seems that you choked first, and I followed."

"I'm sorry," Chen Mo continued to apologize, "I'm the only problem, don't go to your heart." He said, "I'll give this guy a bowl of meat soup..." and said to the man, "Just treat it to you, right?"

"No need," the man shook his head and said, "I am used to eating simple food and can't enjoy any oil and water."

"Then let's have two plates of green vegetables and another vegetarian soup." Chen Shu said to the waiter: "There should be less oil and water!"

"No need." The man refused again, "I don't mean to blame you," and looked at it and said silently, "It's not easy for your parents to make two money, there is no need to spend money."

Siren almost choked again and said depressedly: "I said brother, do you see from where I spent my parents' money?"

"It depends on your young age, you should have entered school, right?" the man looked at him.

"People in the House," said pridefully.

"Don't care about county schools or government schools," the man said, "If you want food, you have to be a senior citizen. You are so young, you must not have food yet?"

After thinking about it silently, I seemed to have never received a grain of rice, so I nodded honestly and said, "I have never eaten the grain."

"Look at your outfit," the man continued to look at him, "The family should be considered well-off, but it is not yet considered rich, right?"

Chen Si nodded and said, "It's true that life is very tight." He said that because of his father-in-law's sorrow, he donated 150,000 taels of silver at once. Although he had to do it, Master Yin still felt sorry for him and said that he would not spend money in the future... So silence is not a fool.

The man sincerely educated him: "Young people, you should know that you have spent a lot of money at home until now. If the road to the imperial examination is not so smooth, you will spend more money. It is no longer necessary for you to be a seven-foot man to eat without work. If you still have to spend money with big hands, don't you feel ashamed?"

After asking for trouble in silence, he had to say embarrassedly: "You are right, then I won't invite you to eat."

"That's right. Scholars don't work in the fields or use woven cloth. They often don't know that every porridge and rice is not easy to get, and even if they get lucky in the future, officials will not know how to be kind to the people." After the man finished educating him, he continued to eat his bread.

Silence repeatedly pondered his words, and suddenly felt that this was the only thing he said, and he would be better than most of his parents and officials. He couldn't help but say respectfully: "Students have been taught, students are from Zhejiang. I haven't asked the teacher's name of Gao's surname, where is the fairyland... I heard that your accent is not from Jiangsu and Zhejiang?"

"My name is Hai Rui and my name is Gangfeng." The man also traveled a long distance and no one spoke for a long time, so he naturally spoke more than usual: "I am from Qiongshan, Guangdong."

"The ends of the world!" Chen Si exclaimed: "I have walked a long way."

"I didn't come from Hainan." Hai Rui said: "I have been away from my hometown for more than ten years, and this time I came from Nanping, Fujian."

"Nanping, Fujian...Hai Rui..." After silently pretending to think for a while, he suddenly slapped the table, almost choking Hai Rui again, and said with surprise: "Hai Bijia! You are Hai Bijia!" "Hai Bijia" is Hai Rui's nickname, but unlike other nicknames such as "Zhang Datou" and "Ma Dajia". His nickname can be called in the Hall of Elegance and in person.

Because there is an allusion, Hai Rui was naturally not buying cooked cakes in Nanping, Fujian, but becoming an official, an eighth-rank teacher! A student in the county is too small to be even smaller.

In the second year of his tenure as a teacher, the fifth-rank prefect Yanping came to inspect the school and saw the school at the Nanping County School Office. Hai Rui led two assistant teachers into the hall. As soon as he saw the prefect, the two assistant teachers, one left and one right, rushed forward, knelt down, and bowed.

Hai Rui was caught between the two of them, just bowing, but stood without kneeling. The prefect was surprised at first, and then angry, but it was not easy to attack in person, so he had to sneer and said to the official accompanying the inspection: "Look at these three people, they look like pen holders with mountain characters!" Isn't it like a pen holder with kneeling on two knees? This is a clear hint... Brother, if you are not in harmony, kneel down quickly!

But Hai Rui was unmoved and did not kneel down. The prefect thought that he was intentionally insulting him, so he left after a hasty patrol, and did not even eat the banquet prepared by the county.

The reason why Hai Rui did not kneel is not because he wanted to insult Shangguan and attract attention, but because he was related to his personality. Perhaps it was inherited in nature or acquired. He was a person who insisted on principles and regarded the law as the criterion. He not only strictly enforced it himself, but also required others to abide by it too.

When the founding of the country, the state stipulated that school officials would bow to the Shangguan in school and not kneel down. This reflects the dignity of the teacher and is also written into the Ming Dynasty. But a hundred years later, the style of scholars became worse and worse. In order to please his superiors, the school officials did everything, and it became a habit to kneel down to welcome the Shangguan. Everyone was used to it.

So in Hai Rui's opinion, the "not kneeling" that was originally normal seemed shocking. Suddenly, the reputation of "Hai Bijia" spread in the officialdom.

The reputation of "Mr. Bike" became more and more popular. Later, the scholars and the governors came to inspect. Hai Rui bowed but did not kneel. However, when people remembered the national regulations, they had nothing to say. They just spread it as a joke, which actually made Hai Rui's reputation grow bigger and bigger.

It has to be admitted that the style of the scholar was not bad at this time, at least the cultivation and demeanor of senior officials were still very good. Not only did they not be angry with Hai Rui, but they praised him for his abiding by etiquette and law and being a model of scholars.

After attracting the attention of provincial officials, he, the hardest and most promising school official, made all the achievements he made, entered the sight of senior officials... He standardized the attendance system, formulated 16 teaching conventions, strictly enforced school discipline, improved teaching quality, and attached great importance to ideological teaching, which greatly reversed the casual academic style. Compared with other county school sheep-style management, it was incomparable. Sure enough, in the subsequent several exams, Nanping's grades were getting better and better, and it actually improved from countdown to the top.

Such a model official appeared under his subordinates, and for every leader, he had a glimpse of his face, so the "inspector and supervisor submitted a seal to recommend him" and everyone was competing for him to report to him, hoping that he could be promoted... It must be admitted that this was not mixed with any interests and bad motives, so it was even more valuable.

Hai Rui, who worked hard and self-hard, finally won his reputation for himself through his persistence, and then transformed into this promotion. But those who recommend him believe that the reason why Hai Rui is so unreasonable is that he has few appearances and is very nerdy. With the increase of "training", everyone believes that he will eventually integrate into the order of the officialdom, and may be more 'understanding' than others... Usually, hitting a wall will make people more sober, that is, everyone knows that he will definitely encounter more setbacks than ordinary people, and then rub it, and it will be complete.

It was Hai Rui's turn to be surprised and asked him, "Is my infamy known to the whole country?" It seems that he also knew that his extraordinary promotion was because of his reputation as "introduction"... Although he had wrinkles on his forehead, his temples began to turn white, and he had only become a seventh-rank county magistrate in nearly 50 years old. Not to mention comparing with a 20-year-old fifth-rank official like Shen Mo, even if he was placed on the average of the officialdom, it would be considered a difficult career in the career.

However, for Hai Rui, it is indeed an exception, because he is just a juren. Although he can be an official, he "crosses the river with his eggs" and his superiors want to take advantage of you. All the credits are always taken by others, and others always take the blame. Under such unfair treatment, of course, he will not be promoted. Basically, the juren starts from the eighth or nineth rank, and is peaceful every year. He is just a seventh rank until he retires. This is a fortune-telling good!

Therefore, Hai Rui passed the imperial examination at the age of 37 and was assigned to Fujian as a teacher at the age of 41. It was really enviable that he could be promoted to county magistrate within four years, and he was flattered.

He smiled silently and said to him: "It's not known to everyone, but the teachers in our school often talk about you, and they admire you very much."

Hai Rui then breathed a sigh of relief, shook his head slowly and said, "I'm just an introduction to the crazy life, what's there to praise?" After saying that, he sent the last thick bread to his mouth, ate the pickles clean, and then poured a lot of tea and said, "I'm full and I'm going to rush."

Silently smiled, "Where is Mr. Gangfeng going?"

But Hai Rui had already gotten up and walked to the counter, and said to the waiter: "Is my fried noodles ready?"

"Okay." The waiter was short of expression and took out a bag of oil paper from the counter and said, "One penny for a bread, two penny for pickles, three penny for tea, five penny for fried noodles, a total of thirteen penny for a total of."

Hai Rui had already taken out ten cents from his arms, and heard that he had three more coins. He couldn't help but frown and said, "Why do you want tea, your store?"

"For other tables, tea is naturally not worth it." The waiter smiled and said, "But it cost ten cents for you to eat and bring. If I don't charge you tea, this meal will lose money."

Hai Rui's eyebrows were twisted into a lump, and he took out three cents of money from his arms, put them on the table and said, "You can give money, but you did this inexplicably. The loss of a little more reputation is more than a thousand or a hundred cents?"

"We don't care, nor do we earn money like you," the waiter was a little annoyed by him: "Let's leave after eating, it's so unlucky!"

Hai Rui didn't argue with him, put the fried noodles in his bag and went out.

Silently followed up and said, "I haven't answered me yet, where are you going?"

"Suzhou," Hai Rui hung the bag on the mule's back, and did not ride it on it, so he led the reins to head north.

"What a coincidence," Chen Si followed with his horse, "I'm going to Suzhou too, we're just on the same road."

Hai Rui glanced at his horse, looked back, and suddenly narrowed his eyes and said, "Who are you?"

Chen Si didn't know where the flaws came out, and said as if nothing had happened: "Hasn't you introduced it? Why are you asking again?"

"Your horse is a military horse, and the two behind are soldiers," Hai Rui said lightly: "If you can ride such a horse and have such a guard, you may not be ordinary people."

So that's it, he smiled silently and said, "You said they are my brother's subordinates and they are going to Suzhou, so I took me with me, otherwise my family would be worried about such a long way."

Hai Rui's eyes stayed on his face for a moment, then stopped looking at him and stopped talking to him.

Shun knew that his explanation was not convincing. Even if the other party did not question it, he would no longer trust him. This made him feel boring and he was quite embarrassed. He had to follow behind and prepare to separate from him when the next teahouse was about to wait.

At this time, there were still fifty or sixty miles away from Suzhou City, and it was very crowded. It was not difficult to find a place to rest. It was just too early to speak out, so I was too embarrassed to hold on for more than ten miles in silence, and said, "Oh, it's so exhausted me. Why don't we take a break?"

Hai Rui shook his head and said, "You can rest yourself. I want to go to the city before dark." As he said that, he walked forward quickly, obviously wanting to stay away from him, which made the silence, who had always been regarded as a "hot commodity", feel embarrassed.

Looking at his departure back, Sanchi said angrily: "When the time comes, sir, can he show his identity? Let's see if he dares to be crazy."

"Dare." Silently smiled, "Or it wouldn't be Hai Gangfeng." Just as he was about to sit in the teahouse for a while, Tiezhu said, "Sir, that Hai Rui is entangled."

"Oh?" Following the iron pillar's point, I saw a group of green sedan chairmen surrounding the pen holder, as if they were trying to stuff him into a sedan chair.

"Is it a hijack?" Chen Si looked back and saw that his brothers were all in the distance, so he stimulated the cowardly and said, "Look!" As he said that, he turned over and rushed over with the two of them, and heard the following conversation:

"Are you Lord Hai? We are the sedan chairmen in Changzhou County, and we have been waiting here for a long time." The sedan chairmen said.

"How do you know my whereabouts?" Hai Rui asked.

The sedan chairmen looked at each other, and the leader smiled apologized: "We don't know when you are here, so we have been waiting here, but we really waited for you." As he said that, he pressed him into the sedan chair without saying a word and said loudly: "You're ready to sit down, brothers have gotten up the sedan chair!"

I saw that I was here to pick me up in silence, and I felt something was strange, so I asked my subordinates to follow me.

I saw that the sedan chair was normal at first, but it didn't take a mile to go, and suddenly it flew up like a madman, like a bumper basket, making Hai Rui tilt back and forth, jumping up and down, and his stomach was overturned. If he hadn't eaten too little, he would have vomited out.

I also heard them snorting strangely, "Today, the master arrived, I will sit in a dustpan sedan chair first, and I will not obey you, so I will take you to a black gauze and throw you high...'

Silence behind him, seeing the four-person sedan chairs carrying sixteen people, rotating and struggling Haigangfeng, and also hearing the unrestrained little tune. He then remembered the bad rules that Xu Wei once said: Whenever a guild official or a juren official takes office, his subordinates will always try to show his power. In addition to these officials who dare not cause trouble and are easy to bully, there is another very important reason, which is to make them obedient and meddle in other people's business... Generally, these officials are old and do not want to provoke these local tyrants, so they would rather suffer this mute loss, and they will turn a blind eye in the future, and even join in the crowd to make money together.
Chapter completed!