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Chapter 54
54. For whom do you want to develop your skills?
He Qi walked in with a stack of official documents.
Pei Nianyu raised his head and asked, "What's the matter?"
When Lou Yefeng was in office, he seldom intervened in the internal affairs of the shadow guards, and Lou Yefeng handled them all by himself.Later, when He Qi was replaced as the commander, he didn't change this habit. Otherwise, he would frequently intervene in the affairs of the shadow guards as soon as he changed people. Wouldn't it seem that he was worried about He Qi?
Therefore, he couldn't help being a little curious when he looked at the paper in He Qi's hand that was printed with a black border, which was obviously in the format of the internal official documents of the Shadow Guard.
He Qi said briefly: "There is nothing else, only one thing, which needs to be personally instructed by the master."
After that, he pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to Pei Nianyu.
Pei Nianyu took it over and glanced at it. It was the new deacon of the criminal hall after He Qi was promoted who reported it to He Qi yesterday, and it was actually related to Lou Yefeng. He couldn't help frowning: "What's the situation?"
"Old building He said that he went out with his master before, but he left without authorization, which caused his master to be in danger. He also failed to rescue him, and instead made his master protect him. He felt dereliction of duty, so he ran to the execution hall and asked to be punished."
Pei Nianyu was speechless: "Then why didn't he come and plead guilty to me face to face?"
He Qi flipped a big Byakugan:
"The old building must know that you won't punish him, so he went to the criminal hall secretly, thinking that the people in the criminal hall would do it directly. But the new deacon of the criminal hall is my former deputy.Que Guojue. He knew that Lou Yefeng had a special status, so he put the matter on hold for the time being, and came to ask me what to do."
Pei Nianyu snorted, and took the opportunity to mock He Qi:
"You don't think he is decisive enough? You are decisive enough. Before, you sent Ye Feng, who lost all his martial arts, to prison without saying a word, and tortured him so badly. It's because you care about me, so this king is not serious.I'll settle the bill with you."
He Qi turned over Byakugan again:
"If it wasn't for your subordinates tormenting him, master, how could you still feel pity for him?"
Pei Nianyu hit him on the head with the fan he just made:
"Fuck your sister... But, you said just now that your execution hall deacon thinks Lou Yefeng has a special status, what does that mean?"
He knew that Lou Yefeng had always regarded himself as a subordinate, but if these shadow guards treated him specially because he had served him before, if Lou Yefeng found out, he might still feel uncomfortable.
He Qi naturally knew what the master meant, and said softly:
"Last time I was able to directly deal with Lou Yefeng because the punishment hall can manage him as a commander. But now Lou Yefeng is the shadow guard instructor and is responsible for teaching you martial arts. Although the rank of military officer is half a rank lower than his subordinates,His status is still on the same level. He is also known as the master's half teacher, and if he wants to be punished, he can only be convicted by the master himself."
This is true. In this ancient society where teachers were respected, as the teacher of emperors and princes, even His Majesty had to pay three respects.Teaching martial arts... that's also a teacher, isn't it?What's more, He Qi and Lou Yefeng didn't have jurisdiction over each other's responsibilities, so naturally they didn't dare to exceed their authority to approve this matter.
"You guys are quite interesting... But the old building, hey, let me say something."
Pei Nianyu looked at the original words written in the official document that Lou Yefeng ran to ask for punishment, and his tone was very sincere, so he couldn't help but sighed.He picked up the vermilion pen and wrote the four big characters of flamboyant and phoenix dancing on the official document:
"not approved"
He Qi looked at the paper and tilted his head:
"Master, are you sure you don't want to approve it? Then the old building may have to think about it again. After all, the shadow guards who went out together that day were all punished, and nothing happened to him in the end."
Pei Nianyu frowned:
"I didn't let them follow that day, so what's wrong with them? Why don't you punish me..."
He Qi snorted coldly:
"Master let them follow from afar. It's the shadow guard's responsibility if something happens and you don't arrive in time. No matter how kind you are, master, you must not just let them go. Otherwise, no one will follow you in the future."Safety is at heart.”
"What's more, since you woke up from a serious illness, master, you seem to have been more comfortable with these shadow guards recently than before. You have let go of many shadow guards who should be punished. This month seems to be the end of the month, XingtangThe penalty indicators over there have not been completed..."
Pei Nianyu couldn't believe it:
"What the hell, why does the punishment hall still have such things as punishment indicators?"
"Of course there is. After a long period of peace after your Majesty ascended the throne, he was afraid that these little bastards would lose their skin, so he asked to catch a few who violated the rules every month, so as to be vigilant. If the people in the punishment hall can't catch the wrongdoers,If they can't complete the task at the end of the month, they will be punished themselves..."
"..."
Pei Nianyu was speechless, this is a bit too anti-human, he couldn't help frowning and said:
"Who made this broken rule? Immediately cancel it for me."
He Qi smiled:
"This is naturally the rule set by our former leader. When the subordinate first takes office, he must be followed by Xiao Guicao. Otherwise, wouldn't it be too disrespectful for the subordinate to change the rules of the old building as soon as he became the commander?"
"..."
Pei Nianyu choked.
Then he thought about it, and knew that Lou Yefeng's subordinates had always been strict, and he knew that he was soft-hearted, so he probably did it on purpose - to make the shadow guards have a string in their minds, and they dare not relax their discipline.
Old building's temperament has always complemented his own, so it's better not to meddle in other people's business.Pei Nianyu finally compromised:
"How are those shadow guards punished? Have you made any plans? Let me have a look."
"Yes, master."
Pei Nianyu received another punishment notice and took a look at it. The shadow guards that day were charged with lax guarding...so the punishment was not too severe.Because Pei Nianyu didn't have an accident after all, so he didn't give An a weak protector, so the problem would be big.
So he signed his opinion:
"It's not full responsibility, but it can be halved as appropriate."
He Qi nodded and accepted the file with an expected expression.
"So... what about the old building?"
Pei Nianyu sighed, if he really didn't punish him at all, Lou Yefeng would definitely feel that he was "made special" again, and probably he would have to ask himself again.Might as well...
With a flick of his ink pen, Pei Nianyu changed Lou Yefeng's share to:
"Incompetence in ambulance is not a crime of negligence, so I will be fined for three months."
Penalty or something... Anyway, Lou Yefeng didn't have much money himself, and Pei Nianyu was thinking about letting him get some money from other places, so the little money in the monthly salary was irrelevant.
He Qi stroked his chin and stroked his beard that didn't exist:
"In this way, the punishment hall is reasonable, and they can do business this month. It's just..."
"Just what?"
He Qi was helpless:
"The old building loaned me two hundred taels of silver, but I don't know when he will be able to repay it."
Pei Nianyu squinted at him:
"Why didn't I realize that you are so miser-like before? You can also talk about the mere two hundred silver. Forget it, the debt owed by the old building is no different from what I owe. I will pay it back for you. You find it yourself."Xia Yao is going."
This was considered a private matter between him and He Qi, so Pei Nianyu asked him to go to Xia Yao who kept his small treasury to ask for money instead of reimbursement of the public account of the palace.
He Qi's usually indifferent face showed a hint of happiness: "Thank you, master."
Pei Nianyu muttered a few words: "You don't spend much money, and you don't know what to do with the dead money you save every day. It's better to invest in something anyway."
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In the early morning of the second day, Pei Nianyu had just gotten up to pack up, when Lou Yefeng came to his room as if he was stuck, but as soon as he entered the door, he saw the owner waving his appropriate weapon in his hand - the fan that had been fixedBlack corundum folding fan.
And the ink painting drawn by the master was deliberately placed inside by him.
So Lou Yefeng caught sight of the master sticking his dark figure on the fan to the lapel of his chest one by one, as if he wanted to put it into his arms...
"........."
Lou Yefeng was slightly embarrassed, choked for a while, and forgot to say anything.
Pei Nianyu closed the fan with a "swipe", and said with a smile:
"Ye Feng, you came here early in the morning to stand by my door? Could it be that you were dumbfounded by this king's beauty?"
Lou Yefeng was startled, even though he knew that the master was joking, he hurriedly replied:
"...Subordinates dare not! Subordinates..."
Before he finished speaking, Lou Yefeng raised his head slightly and glanced at Pei Nianyu like a ghost.
The clear light of the early morning shines through the glazed window, dimly sprinkled on the belt of the master's toga, and even the already beautiful face softens a lot.
Those gentle and trusting eyes that he had secretly remembered in his heart surrounded his whole body like warm light, and Lou Yefeng was really stunned for a moment.
Seeing this, Pei Nianyu thought to himself, Lao Lou, your concentration has regressed, but at the same time, he couldn't help but feel elation in his heart, his family Ye Feng really liked him very much.
After a while, he coughed deliberately, interrupting his thoughts.
"Sorry, my subordinate just... just lost my mind just now. That's it, this subordinate wants to report to you the results of yesterday's inspection—about the recent training of the shadow guards in various subjects..."
Lou Yefeng quickly calmed himself down, and reported the trivial matters one by one, with the usual tone.
However, Pei Nianyu thought that the departments of the shadow guards were simple, and the efficiency of issuing orders was always high.The order of "penalizing the salary for three months" that he wrote yesterday should have been carried out.
So after Lou Yefeng finished his report, seeing that Lou Yefeng had no intention of mentioning this matter at all, he asked:
"I heard from Old He that you were fined monthly salary again...?"
Lou Yefeng thought, master, didn't you sign that yourself, and you came to ask me why.
"I said Ye Feng, Lao He complained to me yesterday, saying when will you pay back the money you owe him?"
Lou Yefeng was immediately embarrassed. After all, he and He Qi were just colleagues, and it would not be a problem if they owed money for too long.
But when he turned his head and saw Pei Nianyu looking like he was enjoying the show, he felt a little helpless:
"Master, if you don't change that penalty order into a monthly salary penalty, my subordinates will pay it back in three or four months."
"So, is it my fault?"
"...The subordinates dare not."
"How about this, you promise me one thing, and I will pay back the money for you."
Lou Yefeng shook his head: "Master tells me to do what I should, how can it be regarded as debt repayment?"
Pei Nianyu suddenly whispered in his ear:
"I want to take you for a ride in the palace at night, how about it?"
"Go for a ride?"
Pei Nianyu said confidently: "I want to work hard and practice martial arts diligently. The first thing to do is to do light work. Flying around the roof during the day, you will be surrounded by other people in the house, and you should be quiet at night. As the teaching deacon, youDon't you have to follow the directions?"
Lou Yefeng subconsciously said:
"This is a subordinate's duty, how can it be regarded as..."
Lou Yefeng hadn't noticed anything wrong yet, but the shadow guards outside the house who were in charge of night watch and hadn't changed their shifts all went dark after hearing the master's words——
Commander Lou, Commander Lou... Did you forget something, old man?Your current internal strength can't keep up with the master's lightness kungfu speed, so the master asked you to follow the "instructions", how do you follow the method, do you still need the master to explain clearly...
As soon as the shadow guards thought about going for a "drive" with their master and the two of them every night from now on, they were forced to watch the "tryst" between the master and the commander at night, but their master took this opportunity to add a new benefit of eating tofu——Several insignificant sighs came out one after another in the corridor.
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However, Pei Nianyu's plan for a ride did not come true that night.
In the afternoon of that day, he was sitting in the lake pavilion in the back garden, admiring the fan painted by himself, while eating tea and drinking tea elegantly.
Today he made two plates of golden shredded meat pastry rolls by himself. He wanted to eat one plate by himself and save one plate for the shadow guards, but Pei Niancheng suddenly visited at this time.
After he brought a few shadow guards to the pavilion, he reached out to the snacks on the table, grabbed half a palm-sized gold shredded meat pastry roll, and swallowed it in one gulp.
The golden shredded meat pastry roll was wrapped with a thick thousand-layer puff pastry, and a layer of salt and pepper was evenly sprinkled on the puff pastry. Pei Niancheng could smell the aroma from a long distance away.
The inside of the puff pastry is wrapped with tight lean minced meat, and when you bite it down, the puff pastry aroma of the outside skin is perfectly blended with the aroma of the meat, mixed with chopped green onion, pepper and salt for flavor—Pei Niancheng just feels that he is not in vainTake this trip while you're busy.
The crispy meat rolls are small and rectangular, and each roll is less than half the size of a palm. Pei Nian took one bite at a time, and cleaned up the whole plate in three or two bites.
"..."
Pei Nianyu raised his eyebrows:
"Are you a reincarnation of a starving ghost?"
Pei Niancheng slurred his speech and swallowed the dates:
"I'm really going to starve to death. I don't get up until five o'clock in the morning. I'm so busy that I don't have time to eat. It's the end of the year, and the papers from all over the place are about to bury me."
"..."
Pei Nianyu glanced vaguely at his younger brother's hairline, and felt relieved that there seemed to be no obvious change.So he asked: "This is unscientific, Li Han didn't force it in for you?"
"He went out of Beijing on business and came back at night."
"So no one can control you, you just... But why do you come to my place to eat, didn't the imperial dining room prepare it for you?"
Pei Niancheng quietly said:
"I'm getting a little hungry. Seeing the unpalatable food served in the imperial dining room, my stomach starts to vomit. After scolding them, I just come to you."
Distressed, Pei Nianyu quickly ordered someone to tell the big kitchen to make some porridge and side dishes.
Pei Niancheng couldn't stop talking, and after searching all kinds of snacks in the palace to fill his stomach, he finally stopped.Pei Nianyu asked:
"Is there something important to come here to eat and drink while you're so busy?"
"It's not really important, it's actually about tomorrow's Winter Solstice Banquet..."
Pei Nianyu was startled:
"What did you say, the winter solstice feast tomorrow?"
This winter solstice banquet is a relatively important traditional banquet in the Dajing Dynasty every year, and it is held on the day of the winter solstice.His Majesty the Emperor hosted a banquet in the Taihua Palace for civil and military ministers, princes and nobles to celebrate the harvest of the country and the clean sea and river Yan this year.
And because this festival is at the end of the year, it also has more political effects.For most of the time at the banquet, Pei Niancheng delivered a speech summarizing his achievements.The ministers are responsible for expressing their feelings (touting)...
Pei Niancheng was also stunned:
"My dear brother, you won't forget about this, will you? Didn't you remind you of the rituals in your palace?"
The Ceremony Office in the mansion is responsible for reminding the prince of the dates of various external ceremonies and so on.After saying this, Pei Nianyu remembered that there seemed to be a person in charge talking about this in the morning.
However, at that time he was obsessed with planning how to take his family, Ye Feng, for an evening ride, so...
"Hey, I was thinking about other things at the time, so I forgot."
"So, brother, are you going tomorrow?"
This winter solstice feast was more important than other festive feasts of the year, although Pei Nianyu really wanted to show his brother face by attending it seriously.
But when Pei Nianyu thought of wearing heavy auspicious clothes, he sat upright and listened to the leader's speech for an hour or two, and Zhonghe Shaole, who was dignified and boring and could make people fall asleep, rang in his ears.After it was over, he still had to eat those banquet dishes produced by the extremely unpalatable Imperial Dining Room. He suddenly felt lazy, and after a long while, he replied to Pei Niancheng:
"Cuckoo."
Pei Niancheng sighed as expected:
"...Alright, I originally wanted you to taste the dishes of tomorrow's banquet, and then mention if there is any room for improvement. From now on, the banquet will be based on the new one, so as to save you from having to eat the imperial dining room every year.Big fish and big meat."
"Goo..."
Pei Nianyu was muttering, when the system that had not made a sound for a long time suddenly jumped out of a task, and a huge text appeared in front of his eyes, for fear that he might not see it:
"Mission: How can the dark dishes in the Imperial Dining Room represent Jingchao Shangguo's tabletop, and appear on the state banquet in a dignified manner? As a preacher of great Chinese cuisine, please try to improve the dishes of the Winter Solstice Banquet."
"Mission objective: to shock the banquet staff under the exquisite delicacy, and take this opportunity to lead the trend of pursuing delicacy from top to bottom."
Pei Nianyu: "..."
He is very powerless, there is only one day left, how can there be too much time?Banquet dishes are not so well designed.If it is ten days in advance, it is still possible to complete.
But who told him that he hadn't thought about the Winter Solstice Banquet, so naturally he couldn't trigger the mission.
He was just about to give up accepting the task, but he saw the last line at a glance:
"Task Reward: After completing the improvement of the Winter Solstice Banquet, the system will activate the medicinal diet function." (Small print: Since the user is not good at medical skills, this function can automatically generate a medicinal diet formula according to the physical condition of the specified target.)
Pei Nianyu was startled, and immediately thought of Ye Feng, his family.
If it is even a little bit possible, is it possible to find a medicinal diet that can speed up the recovery of internal strength?
So Pei Nianyu suddenly slapped the table, changed the subject, and vowed:
"Okay, Xiao Sheng, I'll go over early tomorrow morning, and give some advice to those idiots in the imperial dining room, just look at me."
Pei Niancheng: "...???"