Chapter 1095: Upcoming Promotion
This sigh came from the heart. Ever since he met Zhuang Xun in Mohui Garden during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chen Fulin had people investigate him.
I know that he now lives in Changqing Lane and that he is accompanying two disciples to study in Beijing.
What scholars care about most is reputation, so he began to make arrangements, slowly leaking some rumors about the grievances of the past to the outside world, thinking that after the momentum was built up, he would provoke his two disciples to leave him.
If Bai Shan and Bai Erlang had any sense, they would not recognize a person with a blemish on their reputation as their teacher.
What will Zhuang Xun have then?
He had no choice but to leave the capital again.
But he didn't expect that just as he made the plan, he found out that their master-disciple relationship seemed to be very close, which might be difficult to alienate, and then Zhou Man became famous in the capital.
To be honest, Chen Fulin really didn't take Zhou Man seriously at first.
Although she is also a disciple of Zhuang Xun, she is a female disciple, her family background is also ordinary, and she is studying medicine. What is there to care about?
But Zhou Man had just become famous in the capital, and the next thing she did was to use the Su family to go in and out of the Yin family and the Cheng family... She was in contact with all the powerful and influential people. Even though she was just going there to get medical treatment and might not have many connections with them, the always cautious Chen Fulin did not dare to act rashly.
Unlike facing Bai Shan and Bai Cheng, he knew the weaknesses of scholars, but facing Zhou Man, he had no idea where to start.
He was not familiar with Jishidiang, no, he was not familiar with all the pharmacies. This was an unfamiliar area. If he stepped in, he would still have to do something destructive, and he would be caught if he was not careful.
He has been cautious all his life and would rather go slow than make things worse.
After all, although Zhuang Xun was like a thorn in his throat in the capital, he could only feel it when swallowing. If he was not careful and tried to remove it by force, it might scratch his throat, and then he would feel pain all the time. Chen Fulin could not afford to take this risk at the moment.
Brother Qian sensed that Chen Fulin was distracted, so he asked with a smile, "Brother Chen, are you thinking about promotion?"
Chen Fulin immediately came back to his senses and said with a smile, "No, no, Brother Qian, did you hear any rumors?"
"Hey, I thought Brother Chen knew," Brother Qian said with a smile, "Didn't the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Works retire? Brother Chen has sufficient experience and has worked diligently over the years. I thought it was Brother Chen who got the promotion."
Chen Fulin had also heard this news, and even his superiors had talked to him about it. He curled his lips and smiled, "I'm a doctor in the Ministry of Revenue, which is a level away from the Ministry of Works. I'm afraid the Ministry of Personnel will choose the candidate from the Ministry of Works."
"Alas, the two doctors in the Ministry of Works have only been in office for a few years. They are still far behind in terms of qualifications, unlike Brother Chen. Isn't it normal for these six ministries to rotate among each other?"
After they walked away, Daji came out from behind a rock and went to find them with the firewood he had just picked up.
Bai Shan and his friends had been busy playing all day and hadn't eaten anything. They were very hungry now. It just so happened that Mr. Jiang and his friends had brought a lot of food. The cooked food had been almost finished, and there was still a lot of raw food left, so they could just light a fire and roast it.
The group of teenagers suddenly became excited. Seeing Daji picking up a lot of firewood, they immediately rolled up their sleeves and started to make a fire and roast something.
But none of the young masters had ever done this kind of work before. In the end, Bai Shan and Man Bao built the firewood and started the fire, while Mr. Jiang and his servants were responsible for skewering the ingredients they brought. Just as they were about to grill them, Liu Huan and his friends rushed over and said, "We'll do it ourselves, we'll do it ourselves."
He then gave a string back to Yin Huo.
Manbao had eaten quite a bit with his master and the others, so he wasn't hungry at all. Seeing this, he said, "Yin Huo, it's useless for you to roast it. You should eat less of this. Why don't you have some snacks? Here are some snacks."
"Snacks don't fill you up, meat is so delicious, let's eat meat." Liu Huan urged Yin Huo, "Just eat one piece, I don't believe anything will happen to you."
Yin Huo ignored him. Although he didn't eat the meat, he was still curious and started roasting it by turning the wooden sticks. After it was cooked, when everyone compared it, Yin Huo's meat was particularly conspicuous because his was the only one that was not roasted black.
Everyone looked at the meat in his hand, drooling, and asked uncertainly, "Is this meat cooked?"
Yin Huo himself wasn't quite sure, "It should be cooked."
Bai Shan reached out and took it, "Let me try."
So he ate all the meat in front of everyone.
Everyone: ...
Bai Shan handed his meat to Liu Huan and said, "This skewer of mine is for you to eat."
Then he said to Yin Huo, "It tastes good to me. I'll just bake it like this."
So he was very attentive and skewered some meat for him and asked him to continue grilling it.
"Bai Shan, you're going too far. How could you eat it all?"
Bai Shan defended himself: "It wasn't much. I finished it in two bites."
Everyone started to make a noise. Manbao picked up his meat, looked at it, and thought it was okay, so he gave it to his husband as a tribute.
Mr. Zhuang glanced at the half-burnt meat, smiled gently, and said, "Master, I'm not hungry. You can go and eat."
Manbao looked at Mr. Jiang and others.
Mr. Jiang and the others quickly said, "We're not hungry either. You guys go and eat."
Manbao gave it to Baishan. Baishan was a little confused. After comparing carefully, he found that Manbao's meat was more burnt than his.
Liu Huan and his friends ate their own grilled meat without any disgust. He also ate Bai Shan's meat and thought it was quite delicious. He just chewed it and swallowed it.
After he finished eating, he looked at the skewers handed to Bai Shan. Bai Shan took it before he reached out his hand, tasted it carefully, and nodded slightly under Manbao's gaze.
Manbao smiled contentedly.
Bai Shan asked, "Manbao, weren't you raised by your sister-in-law?"
"yes."
Then why are your cooking skills like your second sister-in-law?
Bai Shan swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth and said, "We can't always make fire in the future. Let's learn how to cook."
"I can cook," Manbao said, "Isn't cooking just about making a fire and watching it? The rice I steam is delicious."
Bai Shan: "...learn to cook."
Manbao said, "Go and learn, I'll help you light the fire."
Yin Huo always felt that their topic was getting more and more off track.
Mr. Jiang and others who had said they would pack up and go down the mountain to make room for others were the last group to leave the top of the mountain. They extinguished the flames and after checking that there was nothing wrong, everyone started rushing down the mountain.
Yin Huo naturally couldn't rush forward. In fact, even when he went down the mountain, he sat on a chair after walking for a while.
Several of the people traveling together chose to sit on chairs. Manbao and Baishan fell behind with their backpacks. Daji told them what he had just heard on the mountain.
Manbao frowned, "Is he going to be promoted?"
Bai Shan had already sorted out the situation in his mind and said, "The documents must not have come down yet, otherwise he wouldn't be so humble, so there is still room for maneuver."
"How do I turn?"
Bai Shan touched his chin and asked, "Do you remember the Duke of Yu County?"
Manbao blinked, "You mean his son?"
Bai Shan nodded and said, "Isn't he the Minister of Works? Since the Right Minister has retired, he must be the Left Minister."
The two looked at each other and laughed.
The next update will be around 4:00 PM
(End of this chapter)
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