He rolled up his sleeves, ready to rush over and show the Vice Minister of Revenue why the flowers were so red, but was stopped by the Minister of Works and the Minister of Revenue.
"Calm down, calm down," the Minister of Works handed over a cup of tea. "You beat him up, he stabbed you, so you two are even."
Actually, if he didn't want to hear more gossip, the Minister of Works would have loved for the two to fight so he could watch the spectacle from the sidelines.
When Shi Shen heard that his beating up seemed to have been exposed, he lost his confidence. He took the teacup, tilted his head back and drank it down, and secretly planned to find someone to beat that guy up again when it got dark!
At this moment, having uncovered more information, Lin Jinjun glanced across the room and exclaimed: "No wonder those two were drinking together; they're best buddies. Lin Jinjun suspects the Minister of Revenue is deliberately shirking his duties, dumping all the work on his subordinates and laughing at them for being idiots. Old Wu is complaining that the Minister of Revenue is too ugly; he should be lucky to even have a wife, yet he's so picky..."
The Minister of Revenue, who was criticized for being too ugly, froze for a moment, but the next second he rolled up his sleeves and said, "Don't stop me, today I'm going to make him join the ranks of the ugly!"
But the two of them managed to stop them, saying, "Calm down, calm down!"
Then the three of them exchanged a glance and saw the cunning in each other's eyes. It seemed they had found a way to make the guy suffer even more than beating him up!
The three men had their servants bend down and give them instructions one by one. Although the servants were puzzled, they still faithfully carried out their orders.
Seeing the three plotting, the Vice Minister of Revenue became uneasy and felt that he had better leave as soon as possible.
"Brother Lin, we've had enough to drink today. Come on, let me take you home!"
Wu Simian tried to pull Lin Jinjun away, but Lin Jinjun pushed him back down, saying, "Where is that enough? Brother Wu! I still have so much to tell you!"
Wu Simian felt a chill run down his spine. He decided to leave it for another day. "Brother Lin, you're drunk. Let's go home."
He tried to pull Lin Jinjun away, but Lin Jinjun pushed him back down. "Brother Wu! Sit still. Didn't you just say you were going to drink to your heart's content today? We haven't had our fill yet, why are you going back?"
Lin Jinjun was a little confused, but still quite clear-headed, and stared at Wu Simian, asking.
Wu Simian gave a forced smile, "Well... Brother Lin, how about I head back first? I really have something important to attend to at home."
Even if it means offending Lin Jinjun, he has to leave as soon as possible.
[They get together to criticize others, then immediately start criticizing each other again. Hahaha, what a fake friendship!]
By this time, two or three officials had arrived. After entering the teahouse, they exchanged pleasantries and found an empty seat to sit down. They listened to gossip while drinking tea and eating snacks, thoroughly enjoying themselves.
This is much better than listening to storytelling; they're actually eating real gossip!
Wu Simian glanced at the group of people, then at Lin Jinjun, who was still urging him to drink.
He knew he was criticizing Lin Jinjun, but Lin Jinjun actually criticized him back?!
That makes me want to hear more, especially since Chuanwen has already brought it up. Even if he leaves, the girl will still have to talk about it, so I might as well stay and listen.
So he sat down again, a little nervously, listening to Lin Jinjun's complaints about other officials while also listening to Chuanwen's inner thoughts.
Old Wu said Old Lin was too stingy, he'd stretch every penny in half, and should just go and become Da Jia's apprentice! Haha, Da Jia, why don't you open a class and teach a hundred ways to save money? You might even make a good amount from the training fees!
Zhao Dajia, who had come from afar, perked up. "Great idea! Why didn't I think of that!"
[They also said that Old Lin was suspicious, petty, and somewhat despicable. For example, once the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Du Yurong, said that all pale-faced scholars were no good, and when this reached Old Lin's ears, he suspected that the person was talking about him. He started spreading rumors that the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel was so corrupt because he wasn't actually Du Yurong's biological son, but rather that he was born from an affair between his mother and a pig butcher outside the South Gate!]
The article is hilarious: "What did the butcher do to deserve this? It's just a dirty trick, but the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel is squeezing him out of business and he's almost going out of business..."
Du Yurong, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel who just arrived: ......
So, for a while, the rumors that he was an illegitimate child, which seemed to have popped up out of nowhere, were actually spread by Lin Jinjun?
He thought the butcher was up to some kind of conspiracy and had done a lot of things to target him. It turns out he had wronged the good man!
The Vice Minister of Personnel began grinding his back teeth, squinting at Lin Jinjun, who was drinking and drowning her sorrows with her back to them, his expression full of danger.
Let me see who this pale-faced scholar the Vice Minister of Personnel is...
Chuanwen was quite interested, feeling that the officials of the Great Jin Dynasty were all more hilarious and eccentric than the last, bringing her a lot of fun every day.
Just as Chuanwen was digging into it, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel felt a little guilty.
[The pale-faced scholar was referring to... He Lingce?]
Chuanwen was a little puzzled. "When did a high-ranking official like the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, a third-rank official, have a grudge against a low-ranking official of the seventh rank? Why is he saying the other person isn't a good guy?"
He Lingce had been drinking tea in the teahouse from the beginning and watched Chuanwen go up to the second floor. However, Chuanwen was so tired that he just wanted to rest and drink tea that he didn't notice him in the corner on the first floor.
Later, the Minister of Works arrived, but perhaps because his position was too far to the side, he didn't see him. So he shrank back like a quail, praying that the old man would finish his tea and leave quickly. He didn't want to exchange pleasantries with his superiors and then drink tea under their pressure.
It turned out the old man wasn't planning on leaving. He even summoned the Minister of Revenue and the General of the Imperial Guard to listen to the gossip about Chuanwen. Well, now he couldn't sneak away anymore; the three of them were sitting right at the door, and they would definitely see him if he left.
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