A few days after Lichen left with the little prince, the head of Maoshan disappeared in his quiet room. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Just a few days before the head of Maoshan feathered, there was a Taoist who came to visit with a child, no one knew what they talked about, no one knew who the Taoist was, anyway, after they left, the head of the door was as if the soul was extracted, and after confessing the last words, he closed the door until the feather left.

When the news of the feathering of the head of Maoshan came back to Longhu Mountain, Jiangxi, Zhang Zhenren sighed slightly, did not express it, and did not evaluate!

With the visit of the Taoist family of famous mountains, both Buddhism and Taoism are inevitably a catastrophe, a famous Taoist monk with a good reputation sat down and passed away, and the Taoist with a child became the most terrifying existence of the two Buddhism and Taoism.

But none of them dared to resist in the slightest, no matter how fierce the ordinary disciples were, the elders and heads of the mountain were noncommittal. The hidden truth is destined to be intriguing, but the high-level leaders of the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism are willing to choose to hide it together.

No one dared to divulge the origin of the Taoist, and no one dared to say a word about the cause of the incident. There will not even be a single word on the paperwork, and the truth of everything will gradually be buried in memories with the passage of time and as the chaos in the court subsides.

A few months later, a monk threw himself into the water on the edge of the Yangtze River and died, without a trace of waves, and no one knew where they came from. After the government hastily collected the corpse, it was as good as Buddhism and Taoism that both doors secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

On the Yangtze River, small boats go down the water, and small boats come and go on the river, and fishing songs are everywhere. A Taoist accompanied a three- or four-year-old child sitting in the cabin, and the child pointed to the water birds on the fishing boats around him and asked, "Master, I see that they are going to strangle the birds to death, I see that they have tied ropes around the necks of the birds, let's save those birds!" Poor for them! “

The Taoist looked at it and replied softly, "No one wants to strangle the birds, they just don't let them eat the fish." ”

"Why don't you let the birds eat the fish?" asked the child, puzzled.

"Those are ospreys, also called cormorants, but there are no ones in the north, which are raised by fishermen to catch fish. The purpose of putting straw around the bird's neck is to prevent the osprey from eating the fish it catches, otherwise the well-fed osprey will not catch any more fish," explained Lichen, pointing to a boat not far away.

Sure enough, as soon as the dust finished speaking, an osprey on the water raised its head high, and the fishing boat rowed over quickly, took the osprey into the boat, squeezed out the fresh fish in the throat of the osprey, untied the straw around the osprey's neck, rewarded the osprey with a small piece of fish, and then tied the straw to the osprey again, and drove the boat again.

"Master, didn't you say that when the osprey is full, it won't catch any more fish? Why do fishermen feed it small fish? The little guy turned his head and asked with wide, sparkling eyes.

"If the osprey catches the fish and doesn't give a reward, the osprey won't be obedient to catch the fish next time!" After smiling, the Taoist chief shouted at the fisherman in the distance: "Fisherman, can you sell bigger fish?" “

When the fisherman heard that there was a business coming to the door, how could there be no fish to sell? Hurriedly pulled the boat over, the little guy also saw the appearance of the osprey for the first time, and wanted to touch it curiously, but was glared at fiercely by the fierce osprey, and hurriedly withdrew the white and tender little hand, and hid the little hand behind his back with palpitations.

The little guy knew that his master and the fisherman were laughing at himself, his little face turned red, he stretched out his little hand again, went out like lightning, touched the wet wings of the osprey, and then looked back at the dust as if to show off, as if to say: "Look at the master, I touched it!" I'm not afraid! ”

The Taoist priest and the child on the boat are His Royal Highness the little prince of the dust and the Ming Dynasty, out of the palace, the little prince can see the scene of the south of the Yangtze River for the first time, the natural novelty is very strange, stay on the boat for a moment and refuse to stop, the boat goes down the water, the scenery on both sides of the strait is endless, and the little prince also has endless questions.

When the ship arrived in Nanjing, he took the little prince to abandon the boat and land, and he didn't even want the boat. Nanjing faces the Yangtze River, since ancient times Jinling is prosperous, naturally very different from other scenery, there is the prosperity of the gold powder of the six dynasties, there is naturally the poverty of the slums, there are literati singing and chanting, and there are also the deeds of the fox city society rats.

Lichen deliberately bought a small courtyard in the city to live in, and just took the little prince around every day to take a look at the living beings and the lives of the people.

Hidden in the city, when he arrived in Nanjing, he also changed into a robe, like an ordinary citizen, trying to integrate into the prosperity of Nanjing.

Lichen doesn't restrain the little prince's actions very much, anyway, no matter how the little prince runs around, he can't escape Chen's divine sense. Children are really easy to make friends, and the little prince got acquainted with a few children next door within a few days.

The little prince learned to spend his own money and buy his own roots and bargain with the vendors. When the little prince held a lot of children's toys and looked for Chen's treasure, Lichen smiled very happily.

At least the little prince will not become a "Ming Jun" with four taels of silver in the future!

Those who can live in an alley are actually almost the same, and the people living in this alley are ordinary small traders and some craftsmen. There are no too poor, naturally there are no rich people, and those who are really rich will not live here, even if the people in the alley have made a fortune, they will take the initiative to move to a better place.

The little prince's best friend is a person named Zhao High School, but his father is a pig killer and meat seller, tall and strong, not easy to mess with at first glance, no more than a year older than the little prince, but a whole head taller. However, his son obviously didn't want his son to kill pigs and sell meat when he grew up, and he was going to be sent to the school when he grew up, so he named it high school, and almost didn't laugh to death the neighbors around him!

The son is the good of his own family, and the butcher doesn't care what others think of him, he gets up early every day to collect pigs greedily, and kills pigs in order to save more belongings for his son. But he didn't want his son to become the child king in the alley, and there was a little prince under him as a soldier.

The little prince obviously doesn't think there's anything wrong with calling someone else's big brother, and he has a lot of fun every day! followed a large group of children in the alley to charge into battle every day, and the wild was boundless. In the past, in the palace, except for the palace maids and eunuchs, where were there so many playmates?

Lichen took the little prince to live for several months, and he was familiar with the neighbors next door, and the little prince also ran out every day, and was darkened by the sun, but he was also much stronger.

A happy childhood is more important than anything else, at least that's what Dusty thinks.

Until one day, a cry suddenly sounded in the alley, and Lichen hurriedly walked into the door of the Zhao family next door with the little prince.

For the first time, the sorrow of the little people was naked in front of the little prince...

Lao Tzu, the butcher of Zhao High School, got up early and collected pigs greedily, and made a lot of money, but he finally provoked a bunch of gangsters.

The old man of Zhao High School was originally a pig killer, full of murderous spirit, and he was also tall and strong. When a group of green-skinned thugs accused him of stealing pigs, beat him to the head and bleed and wanted to blackmail, butcher Zhao finally missed and slashed a gangster!

The messenger in the yamen came surprisingly quickly, and brought a set of Zhao Butcher's iron chains back to the yamen, saying that he was going to pass through the hall, and he had to squat in prison, and then he was sent to exile!

The neighbors lamented and sighed, but they could only sympathize! It's all ordinary people, who can help whom?

The Zhao family's sky has fallen! The little prince also lost his leading brother. If something like this happened at home, where did Zhao High School still have the heart to play?

The little money that the Zhao family had easily accumulated was sprinkled like flowing water, and finally reached the point where they had to sell the house.

The little prince took out the big pearls of the South China Sea that his grandmother gave him when he left, and was about to help his little friend, but he was discovered by the dust, confiscated the pearls, and exchanged them for a small ingot of broken silver.

The little prince is small, but he is not stupid. Holding the silver, he glared at his master for a long time, and when he saw the dust, he didn't pay attention to his meaning, so he could only say that this little silver was sent to his little friend.

When the little prince came back, he ignored his master for a long time. Lichen smiled but didn't care.

The Zhao family's house has not been sold yet, but the Zhao butcher is about to pass the court.

Lichen took the little prince to listen to the trial with the neighbors, and what he saw again was a sad cry!

If you can't enter the yamen in life, it's better to die than in hell. In ancient and modern times, it seems that the yamen has never been clean.

A hastily concluded trial, in which both sides were at fault, but Butcher Zhao was sentenced to pay 100 taels of silver in compensation and imprisoned for one year.

No more, no less, just the number of properties of the Zhao family after selling the house now.

The neighbors were indignant, what kind of injury cost a hundred taels of silver, which is enough to buy a few lives!

But the lord judged it like this, can a group of ordinary people still turn the sky upside down?

Lichen smiled coldly and left the yamen with the little prince.

The little prince didn't know why, but he was "shhh The ground thudn, and the sound was stopped. Lichen took the little prince to the yamen's errand room incognito, and saw that the badly injured gangsters in the lobby were all right, following a group of servants to divide the money.

The little prince almost rushed over with a sudden realization, but after being pulled back by Lichen, he quickly left the mansion.

Why did Lichen live in which alley, didn't he see the black gas on Butcher Zhao's face and the face of the broken fortune.

The officialdom is black, and the officials are even blacker!

The Zhao family finally sold their house and moved to the slums in the west outside the city, and a well-off family in the city disappeared like this, but Daming had one more poor family without stability.

"Master! Why don't you help them? The little prince finally couldn't help but ask.

"It's your father's responsibility and yours, but not mine!" The little prince didn't understand, and he didn't explain. The current little prince is still too young, and when he grows up, he will naturally be able to figure it out!

That night, a handwritten letter was thrown into the home of Nanjing Yushi. As for the result? Lichen doesn't believe that this imperial history really has such a big guts!

In the days to come, the little prince will often secretly go to the slums to visit Zhao High School, but in the slums, Zhao High School does not have the smile and liveliness of the past, and at a young age, he will start to work hard for the survival of his family.

The little prince finally lost this playmate completely.

Seeing that the little prince was unhappy, Lichen simply sold the house and moved to a rich place in the north of the city.

This is the richest area in Nanjing, and all the people who come and go are rich people.

Lichen bought a merchant's courtyard, which was sold by a merchant in the middle of the road.

Rao is the little prince is used to living in the palace, and he can't help but be surprised by the furnishings in this house.

In the past, my grandmother always told the little prince that the palace was the richest place in the world, but she didn't want to have such a rich place in Nanjing.

Of course, it is rich, and this annex was once the largest salt merchant courtyard in Nanjing. The salt merchant was the richest man in the Ming Dynasty. Although the palace is rich, it is a centuries-old house, and if it is repaired and decorated, the imperial historians will die or live, and the court has always been short of money, where can it be enjoyed so much as the salt merchants?

Lichen lied that the Shujin businessman from Sichuan had bought such a large piece of industry. The boss doesn't talk about business personally, it's the shopkeepers who work!

As long as the boss can spend money, he is his own person!

After taking the little prince and starting to spend a lot of money, he quickly entered the circle of wealthy businessmen.

Then the little prince saw the unheard of luxury in the palace.

Gold and silver are like earth, pearls and jade are like mud, all kinds of strange stories, it is simply unheard of. Ever seen a bowl of fish soup that requires hundreds of fish? Have you ever seen a bowl of duck paws that require hundreds of ducks? Not only was the little prince surprised, but even the dust was an eye-opener.

"Master, you said that the Zhao family is rich, so it attracts others to covet it, why are they so rich, but no one covets them?" The little prince asked.

"Because they have a relationship with the ministers of the DPRK and China, some of them are their behind-the-scenes bosses, and some are simply their sons and nephews, they have money, they can give offerings to the officials of the imperial court, and they can give rewards to the officials of the yamen, who dares to touch them?" Lichen explained.

"I dare, and so does my father!" The little prince was unconvinced.

"No, your father doesn't dare! You don't dare," Lichen said with a smile and shook his head, not caring about the little guy's angry appearance, and turned his head to the south.

The little guy is still young, and he doesn't know the horror behind this group of really rich people, and he doesn't know how powerful it is not to compete with the people!

The north is afraid of drought, and the south is afraid of waterlogging. The rainy season is coming soon, and the little prince should probably see what real suffering is!

No matter which dynasty, it seems that the disaster of floods and droughts has always been a top priority, and the Ming Dynasty has allocated a lot of money to repair the embankment every year, but it has been a disaster every year, but the disaster is just a matter of size.

In June, it rained heavily for a day and a night. The water of the Yangtze River has turned obvious yellow, and the boiling water has also begun to rise rapidly every year.

The little prince saw the power of the flood for the first time, and stood on the embankment for a long time with a pale face.

A few days later, the first wave of victims from nearby prefectures and counties reached the city of Nanjing.

Almost overnight, there were many more beggars in Nanjing, and the cries of buying and selling children shook the sky.

They escaped from the flood and had nothing left but a life.

Lichen took the little prince to give porridge outside the city.

In fact, every time there is a famine, the rich families in the city will give some porridge to show it for the sake of fame and face. It doesn't cost much, but it also earns a good reputation. It's hard for a really hard-working guy to get in the circle anymore. The common people will poke their backbones, and the rest of the gentry will look down on him and alienate him.

When he bought a house, he naturally bought a lot of slaves. When it comes to porridge, most of them are done by slaves, and the master only needs to hold up the porridge spoon and let people know who is doing good deeds.

Lichen gave the opportunity to the eager little prince.

There is only kindness, but it is not necessarily peaceful. A few luxuriously dressed old women walked into the pile of victims with a large group of thugs.

Every flood is not only a day of suffering for the victims, but also a good opportunity for some people to get rich!

Human teeth, the old bustard is the first to appear! (To be continued.) )