Zheng Pu, who had just come to serve in the Prime Minister's Mansion, no matter how headstrong his temper was, could not get angry over this matter.
He avoided the table, did not accept the courtesy, and said a few words of humility. The matter was over, leaving everyone in the main office in silence again to go about their business.
But the atmosphere is a little different.
Zheng Pu was still focused on the food plan.
As for the other editors, when they finished annotating a document, they would occasionally glance sideways.
In his eyes, there was a fleeting emotion similar to surprise, novelty or weirdness.
Time flies by with concentration.
Unconsciously, the setting sun has turned to the west. The white clouds in the sky are rippling with a silent golden color. The sunset colorful clothes that originally flowed over the mountains have also enveloped the Prime Minister's Mansion and extended into the Prime Minister's Office.
Hu Ji and Zheng Pu were the only two people left in the huge office room.
The difference is that Zheng Pu still bows his head to the case, does not squint, and keeps writing.
Hu Ji, on the other hand, had already put pen to paper on the case, and the bamboo slips that were originally spread out have also been gathered up.
At this moment, he was stroking his beard and looking at Zheng Pu with a smile.
Very free.
When he was young, Zheng Pu put down his pen, rolled up the finished bamboo slip and put it aside. When he was about to pick up another scroll, he seemed to be vaguely aware of it and turned his head to look at Hu Ji.
Seeing Hu Ji acting like this, I couldn't help but be slightly shocked.
"Haha, Zijin is really attentive when doing things!"
First there was a burst of laughter. Hu Ji stood up and nodded to Zheng Pu, "Zijin, dusk is approaching. Today's official duties are over. Please come with me to have dinner."
"good."
Looking around at the empty office, Zheng Pu couldn't help but smile and nodded in response.
He also tidied up his desk before getting up.
"Well, if everyone is like Zijin, how can anything be called trivial and evil?"
Unexpectedly, Hu Ji stopped for a moment, looking back and forth at the pile of bamboo slips that he and Zheng Pu had finished measuring, and sighed.
Well, the bamboo slips that Zheng Pu measured were three times as many as his, which was more than enough.
"Young people should not have everything go smoothly; young people should not be busy and idle; old people should not have everything go against their ears."
Zheng Pu said something politely, with a smile on his lips, and said humbly, "Master Hu, please don't praise me again, lest this kid get his ambition and become arrogant!"
"Hey! Zijin's words are really sobering!"
Immediately, after hearing this, Hu Ji raised his palms and praised him. After lowering his head and mumbling a little, he raised his head again, his eyes bright and his face beaming with smile, "Ha, I am working with Zijin now. I know that Confucius said, 'When three people are walking together, there must be one who is my teacher.'"
What a blessing!"
Well........
Enough is enough.
Zheng Pu, who was praised again, couldn't help shaking his head and smiling bitterly.
He first stretched out his hand to lead the conversation and changed the subject, "Master Hu, my stomach is empty. If you continue to talk, I will go back to the office to look for food."
"Haha~~~"
He also shook his head slightly and smiled. Hu Ji stretched out his hand to guide him down, and stepped forward, "That's all. Zi Jin is being humble, so I can't say more. You and I will go find a meal, please."
After a while, we went to the snack house.
Different from Menxiadu's dining room, there are independent dining tables here, and the food is more abundant.
Not only was there meat soup, there was also wine.
"Zijin, you can take whatever you want to eat."
After consciously explaining something to Zheng Pu, Hu Ji lowered his voice and said, "Only for drinks, each person is limited to two. If you take more, you will be reprimanded and fined according to the law. This is the order of the Prime Minister. I'm afraid there will be people who drink too much."
Otherwise, drinking too much will make things worse."
Zheng Pu nodded and thanked him, "Thank you so much, Lord Hu, for your point."
A scholar should be self-denial and eat without speaking.
After a while, eat.
After the two of them took green salt water to purify their mouths, they walked out of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
At this moment, the dusk has not yet set, and it is too early to leave the curfew, so the two of them walked slowly, thinking of eating.
At dusk, the heat dissipates slightly and a cool breeze blows in from time to time, which can't help but make people feel good and arouse excitement for conversation.
Hu Ji was the same. After walking side by side for a few steps, he found a topic to chat about, "Zijin, where are you staying now?"
"The corner between the west and south of the city."
Zheng Pu nodded in reply, paused, and added, "However, in the past few days, Shaanyan has stayed at Da Sinong's house."
Raising his eyebrows slightly, Hu Ji seemed to be confused.
Immediately, he shook his head and laughed dumbly.
He must have figured out the reason: Zheng Pu chased away guests and was disturbed by troublemakers.
However, this topic cannot be postponed.
After a moment of silence, he simply talked about his official duties again, "Zijin's calculations are very fast, so that the matters assigned to me can be completed on time. If nothing unexpected happens, Zijin may go out of the city with me for some time soon. It's time to harvest new crops in the autumn."
, I have been patrolling around the capital every year."
After saying this, he was afraid that Zheng Pu would not understand, so he quickly added, "The Prime Minister is benevolent. When collecting autumn grain, he will send his officials to inspect the harvest of Li Shu's fields. If there is a bad harvest, he will collect less to let Li Shu.
Replace it with an increase in the period of corvee service.”
really.......
He is indeed Prime Minister Zhuge!
Zheng Pu praised in his heart, then nodded and replied, "If I can accompany Lord Hu on his inspection tour, that would be just what he wants! To be honest, I grew up in the mountains of Shifang, and I have never traveled to study and see the scenery of Bashu. I always regret it."
"Ha, that's great!"
Hearing this, Hu Ji couldn't help but smile.
Let’s talk, let’s do it.
Not long after, we arrived in front of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Unexpectedly, Hu Ji stopped inside the door and said goodbye, "Zijin, see you tomorrow."
First he bowed his hands in courtesy, Zheng Pu was a little surprised, and asked aloud, "Master Hu, is Bo staying at the Prime Minister's Mansion tonight?"
"Yes. Regarding the food plan, it is my responsibility, but Zijin has to do more work. I feel guilty, so I have to pick up the slack and work hard to make up for my shortcomings."
oh.......
Although this person has an overly upright temperament and is not familiar with the world, he is able to be demanding of himself and is sincere and sincere, making him a good choice for friends.
Feeling a little moved, Zheng Pu thought for a moment, then raised his head and asked, "Since Lord Hu has so little power, can he use a carpenter?"
After finishing his words, he added, "You don't need to be highly skilled, you just need to be able to skillfully use rivet wedges to make small things."
"Of course it's possible."
After nodding slightly, Hu Jicai asked in surprise, "Well, I wonder what Zijin wants to do?"
"Master Bo, if you want to know, just call a carpenter for me tomorrow."
Deliberately keeping his words secret, Zheng Pu raised his eyebrows, smiled to himself, raised his hands and said, "Master Hu, the sun is getting dark, I will go back first and see you tomorrow."
Having said that, he turned around and walked away without stopping.
Hu Ji was left alone, he stopped and pinched Hu Ji, frowning, looking at his back and thinking.
However, after a moment, he smiled slightly, turned around and left in relief.
Naturally, he would not forget it. He found a soldier along the way and asked him to rush to the carpenter's office before dusk fell to arrange for a carpenter to come tomorrow.
As for Zheng Pu, who was slowly returning home, he kept rubbing his wrists which were extremely sore from writing all day long.
There was also a hint of bitterness at the corner of his mouth.
Alas, I have to write tonight and write out "Abacus Formula" silently.
It is also!
What he wants to do is calculate the abacus [Note 1].
[Note 1: There are three versions of the time when the abacus was invented: the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Tang and Song Dynasties, and the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. The author uses "Abacus was applied from the Zhou Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty once stipulated that all civil and military officials must have abacus bags" as evidence.
It is assumed that there was no abacus during the Three Kingdoms period. Well, by the way, the ancients carried abacus in bags or pen holders, called abacus bags or abacus holders.】