Today's outing is really no better than before. In addition to the three or five subordinate officials, there were only sixty retinues - these sixty people were all wearing white cloth armor, white cloth Shu shirts, green silk half-arms, hakama slaves, wearing hats and black leather boots, all of them had dark faces, knotted arms, belts around their waists, and short knives hanging from them. Li Sheng took me on a ride, the subordinate officers and their entourage rode donkeys, and stopped in a secluded place, the sergeants were divided into two groups, twenty people stayed in place to watch the carriages, horses and mules, and after walking for a while, thirty more people scattered into the crowd, leaving only ten people and Wei Chengqing, Cheng Xuanyi, and Ge Xiyuan, the subordinate officials of the East Palace, escorting Li Sheng and me to one side.

Li Sheng has always adhered to etiquette, although I am also intimate, but not as Li Rui as at any time to hook shoulders and cross the courtesy, but today Xu is out of the palace, he has been asking me to walk beside me, holding me tightly with one hand, from time to time to tell a sentence "follow up", several guards around him also clamped me on several sides, even Wei Chengqing and others are also by our side.

Because of Wei Chengqing's surname "Wei", I unconsciously accosted him again: "Where does Wei Gongjun look?"

Wei Chengqing arched his hand and said: "A certain ancestor and father live in Hanoi, and they dare not call the county surname in vain. ”

I heard that he didn't say his ancestral hometown, I wanted to ask Jingzhao Weishi if it had anything to do with him, and then I thought about it, Jingzhao Weishi is known as "Chengnan Weidu, go to Tianqi Five", Wei Huan comes from such a big family, I am afraid that if I take a stone and smash it into the sky, I can hit a few relatives, and her own father and brother treat her like this, so I found one more distant relative for her, what can I do? ”

Wei Chengqing arched his hand and said, "The prince is too elevated." ”

The two sang and harmonized, praising each other, and after a while, even a few people next to them were brought in. Li Sheng is very modest, that Cheng Xuanyi and Ge Xiyuan are not very famous little school scholars, but he also remembers the family name clearly, and introduced them to me one by one, I am not interested in surnames other than Wei's, well-mm-hmm, perfunctory, dragged him and asked, "Where is Brother going to take me?"

Li Sheng said helplessly: "Go to the market." ”

I thought about thousands of places, but I never thought that he would take me to the market, and said a little nervously: "Ye Ye Niangniang doesn't like us to go to those places?"

Li Sheng said: "That's why I asked you to change your clothes." If you wear official clothes, you will lose your courtesy, and if you wear civilian clothes, you won't be careful. Seeing that I didn't believe it, he smiled and touched my head: "It's okay, if Your Majesty blames, I'll bear it for you." ”

As long as I heard his words, I was relieved when I heard the words, and looked around and looked at both sides as I walked.

When I went out before, there were Yiwei Qingdao, and I couldn't see any scenery, and when I went out with Wei Huan, I met Chang'an Ling again, and I was really not in the mood, but now I am shopping at the order of Prince Jun, but I have time to look east and west. Li Sheng was also very conniving, and asked someone to bring me a string of money: "Can my son recognize how much this is?"

I was despised by him, and I was very angry: "A string is consistent, always is a thousand, what is there to recognize?" Who knew that as soon as these words came out, I heard Li Sheng and Wei Chengqing laugh, Li Sheng said while laughing: "Liulang also replied like this at the beginning, you can take a look." ”

I saw that he was just playing tricks, so I walked up to the sergeant who was carrying the money, and counted on tiptoe for a long time, and before I could finish counting, I saw Li Sheng shaking his head and laughing: "Don't count, it's nine hundred and fifty Wen, and now there are always less than a thousand, or nine hundred, or nine hundred and five on the market, and the bento has always been used." ”

I saw that the string was very large, so I tried to carry it with my hands, but it was extremely heavy, not to mention four or five catties, but Li Sheng also said: "This is bad money, less than six catties." Kaiyuan Tongbao full number of six catties and four taels, the new Linde Quanbao with one as ten, about ten taels. When he said that, Wei Chengqing took out another string of money from his arms, which was much less than this string, but it was a full amount of new money, because it was printed last year, called "Lin Dequan Bao", my father rewarded me a lot, and all kinds of gold and silver cast Tongbao Quanbao, all of which asked me to keep them in the library, I have never seen them, but I don't know what Li Sheng asked me to see this for?

I looked at Li Sheng puzzled, but he refused to explain, so he only ordered someone to give me dozens of coins, and said, "If you want something, you will buy it yourself, have you never used money to buy something?"

Originally, we have walked to the door of the East Market Fang, the road is already lively, but here it is more lively several times, there are also wine shops, food stores, cloth shops, etc., to here, there are wine shops, wine shops, wine stoves, restaurants, restaurants, food goods are sold cake shops, pastry shops, oil cake Hu, baked cake Hu, Tanahu, gluttonous market, selling cloth silk, silk, silk, silk, brocade, embroidery from all over the country, the rice market has rice, millet, wheat, rice, fine white rice, white rice, flour, noodles, mouth and horse shops sell all kinds of people, horses, donkeys, cattle, mules, Camels, it is said that elephants can sometimes be bought—I have little interest in buying elephants, but I was surprised that the people were actually sold in the mouth and horses together with the livestock, and the few who stood outside the door to solicit customers were almost all unclothed and scrawny.

The one I entered was clearly marked with a price, everyone had a brand on their heads, the cheapest was the old man, one or two dollars could buy one person, followed by children, the price of a few silk horses for those who were ten years old, the older and more majestic the body, the more expensive they were, but the most expensive were orchids, dwarf slaves and Kunlun slaves, thousands of silk horses.

When Li Sheng saw these people, he also showed compassion and sighed to me: "There has been a great hunger for many years, and the rice is expensive and cheap, this year's price is only half of last year's, and last year was only the tithes of the previous year, but the prices of dwarf slaves, Kunlun slaves and orchids have risen year after year, alas. ”

I became angry inexplicably and said in a low voice: "When Brother saw them, he only thought about the price and the price, and didn't think of anything else? They are also good people, and they are sold here as livestock, Brother thinks this is reasonable?"

Li Sheng was stunned for a moment, frowned and said: "The people who are sold here are not good people, not slaves and maids, or guest concubines, and buying and selling are commonplace." ”

Wei Chengqing was afraid that I wouldn't understand, so he specially smiled and explained: "The sage agreed on the law of the Tang Dynasty a few years ago, and it was decided that all concubines and concubines could be bought and sold, and guest girls were like daughters of tribes, and slaves and maids were also the same. ”

This sentence stung me deeply.

Mother didn't allow me to be too intimate with Wei Huan, and used the term "slave and maid", naturally, in my mother's eyes, Cui Mingde, Wei Huan, and even Tuan'er and Wan'er, these people, regardless of their background, appearance, and talent, are all the same "things" that come and go, but this can't stop them from being classified by the world according to their family lineage and their descendants, Wei Huan was bullied at home, and he couldn't get ahead in my place, and was looked down upon by many people, isn't it all because of his damn background? My good father formulated the law of the Tang Dynasty, saying that "concubines are bought and sold" and "maids are the same as livestock", so concubines like Wei Huan give birth to children who are half-masters and half-slaves. In the final analysis, my Li family may not have a good background when it comes back to the ancestors, and in the end, it is not the same to win the world? My grandfather's family sells timber, and my mother also started as a royal "concubine", so she is not the same as a queen of heaven, and it is very likely that she will become the emperor of heaven in the future? My father set the clan chronicles, and the five surnames and seven clans immediately fell from the first-class high gate to the third class, and in a few tens or even hundreds of years, they are just ordinary people, so what is there to show off? I want to abuse others in this way.

It is because there are people like them, who always and everywhere pay attention to the door valve and the concubine, that Ah Huan is forced to come here, Ah Huan treats me very well, it is because of them that I have become like this.

About my expression was too obvious, Li Sheng and Wei Chengqing were both stunned, Li Sheng wanted to reach out to comfort me, but I turned my head to avoid - if it wasn't him by my side at this moment, but Li Rui, I was afraid that I would have run away a long time ago.

Li Sheng smiled bitterly and said: "Brother knows that my son has a good heart, Brother specially brought you here, I was originally going to do good deeds, don't worry." Saying that, he gave Wei Chengqing a look, Wei Chengqing understood, called the people who had been in Dingkou, said a few words softly, and bought all the Dingkou in the whole line, except for the dancing girls, alien and dwarf slaves, and Kunlun slaves. The amount of money bought and sold was large, and Li Sheng did not want to publicize it, so he did not carry silk silks, but only paid them off with gold and silver ingots. When he saw the gold and silver ingots made by the government, he knew that Li Sheng's identity was extraordinary, but he did not dare to deduct the price, and when he released them, he gave them a bag of corn, and Li Sheng sent two sergeants to lead them out, and took me to another house, and bought them all as they were.

When I saw him like this, I seemed to be unreasonable, and I asked again, "Brother bought so many people, where are you going to take them?"

Li Sheng said with a smile: "Most of the people here are displaced people who have been affected by the disaster, and now the rice is expensive and cheap, and they can't afford to sell it, so they are sold in Dingkou Xing, and there are many people who starve to death. ”

I said, "Brother Gui is the crown prince, presiding over court affairs, and providing disaster relief, how many people can be saved, why bother to do these things?

Li Sheng shook his head and said: "Disaster relief is disaster relief, I... Although I can't do anything alone, it is better to save one than to do nothing. ”

As he spoke, I saw that the sergeants who had dispersed into the crowd bought corn in the East Market, carried it outside, and gave a little to those who begged, but fortunately, there were not many displaced people in the East Capital, and the beggars in the East City soon received relief.

Li Sheng took me to the Temple of Mercy and Grace again, and gave up all the remaining money, grain, and corn in the temple, and when I saw his generosity, I also said, "When I go back, I will pay some money to my brother, and my brother will give it up for me." ”

Li Sheng smiled: "How much money can you have? What use is it? ”

I thought that he suddenly called me out, and after looking at such a big circle, it must not be for no reason, so I hugged his hand and said, "As Brother said, you can always do a little bit, or... Brother wants me to do something else?"

Li Sheng didn't notice my careful eyes, he glanced at me, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Son... If you want to do something for these homeless people, then tell your father and mother to repair the Shangyang Palace—no matter how you advise you, as long as I speak, you say a word or two, 'Poor homeless', Mother has always spoiled you, I have begged, you can say another word or two for me, or... It works. ”

I don't know how to answer.