Chapter 100: Ordinary Life
I don't know how long the carriage has been galloping, and it seems to have turned from the official road to the mountain road in the middle, and Li Anyue in her sleep woke up from the collision several times vaguely, but it seemed that there was a sleeping atmosphere in the car, and she woke up and quickly fell asleep again.
"Sister An Yue, wake up!" In a daze, Li Anyue kept dreaming that she was pulled by a monkey and wanted to snatch the peanuts in her hand, and after struggling for a long time or being snatched away, Li Anyue was awakened in anger, and saw Shenyue Haozhe lying on his lap and looked at himself in a little surprise, probably because his expression was slightly hideous.
"Sister An Yue, I'm getting up, your legs are so heavy." Shenyue Haozhe was stunned for a while and pointed to Li Anyue's leg that had been pressing on him, because Li Anyue was always worried that his hand would fall if he accidentally let go of Shenyue Haozhe, so he simply pressed it with his leg.
Li Anyue laughed embarrassedly twice, and took her legs away with some difficulty, Shenyue Haozhe rubbed her stomach, stood up and stretched.
"Huh? The carriage seems to have stopped, has it arrived? Li Anyue saw Shenyue Haozhe stretching his waist and wanted to stretch his limbs, but his legs were a little numb, so he also stood up suddenly, but he forgot his height advantage, and hit the roof of the car firmly, making a "bang" sound and an exclamation, and causing a slight tremor of the body.
"What are you doing, moving so much?" Biyun lifted the curtain and came in, and saw Li Anyue squatting on the ground with her head covered in pain, while Shenyue Haozhe was laughing uncontrollably.
"Hmm, Sister Biyun, have you arrived at the place?" Li Anyue pitifully touched the place where her head was hit, and it took a while to calm down.
"No, the emperor is worried that Niangniang and the twelve princes are tired, so he stopped halfway to rest for a while, you can also come down and take a walk, eat something, there is still a long way to go." Biyun didn't want to delve into it, so he lowered the curtain and left.
As soon as Shenyue Haozhe heard that he didn't need to stay in this small space anymore, he cheered and pulled Li Anyue out of the carriage, Li Anyue went down first, and then carried Shenyue Haozhe, who was not tall enough, to the ground, Shenyue Haozhe happily ran to Shenyue Cangting, Li Anyue tidied up his messy clothes and hair for a while and walked towards them.
The carriage stopped on a winding field road, lined with paddy fields with no end in sight, rice and green seedlings, and four carriages stopped in a row on one side of the path, leaving some space for people to walk. At this time, Shenyue Cangting and Concubine Xian were standing on the side of the road, looking at the paddy field and chatting happily.
"Your Majesty, you see how well this rice grows, this year should also be a bumper year."
"Yes, then the people's lives should not be so bitter." Shenyue Cangting looked at this vast rice field, and felt a lot of emotion in his heart.
"The emperor always remembers the people like this, but once in a while, you have to relax and don't worry so much." Concubine Xian saw that his face had become much more solemn again, so she was relieved.
"Frost." When there were no outsiders, Shenyue Cangting always called her like this, "One day in the future, we will also be like an ordinary couple who cultivate the fields and grow vegetables every day to live, okay?" ”
"How could the emperor have such an idea?" Concubine Xian asked with some surprise but joy.
"Maybe it's getting old, and the older you get, the more tired you get of this kind of life. Or is Shuang'er unwilling to live such an ordinary life with me? ”
"How could the emperor say such a thing!" Concubine Xian reproached, "The emperor knows the mind of the concubine, as long as the emperor is there, the concubine is willing to follow him anywhere, even if it is a poor day, the concubine will naturally not feel miserable." ”
Shenyue Cangting was moved to hug her in his arms, "Your intentions, I naturally understand, then we are looking forward to the day when we can hug and watch the sunrise and sunset like this." ”
Shenyue Haozhe was about to run over, but Li Anyue hurriedly pulled him down, "Your Highness, don't go over, don't you see the emperor talking to Niangniang, you can't go over and be a light bulb!" ”
"What is a light bulb?"
Li Anyue hesitated for a moment, and decided to simply say, "The light bulb is like a candle." Niangniang and the emperor are whispering to each other now, and they definitely don't want to be disturbed, if you pass by at this time, it's like ...... When you are dreaming, someone suddenly wakes you up at a critical moment, do you feel very uncomfortable? ”
Shenyue Haozhe nodded as if he didn't understand, and ran to the side to play with those little palace maids. Li Anyue sat outside the carriage and watched the two of them from a distance, thinking about something that seemed to be nothing.
"Eh! You old cow! Hurry up! Eh! ”
Just as everyone was immersed in their own world, they heard an old man's angry shout. When I looked over, I found that an old man was driving an ox cart to this side, but one of the wheels was stuck in a deep rut mark, and the goods on the cart were heavy, so the old cow couldn't move no matter how hard he tried, so he could only pant in place.
Shenyue Cangting looked at it for a while, then beckoned and sent two guards over to help lift the cart from behind, so that the ox cart could be freed from the inside. The old man drove the ox cart to the vicinity of the Shenyue Cangting and was stopped, so he stopped and bowed to the Shenyue Cangting and said, "Thank you, sir." ”
Li Anyue laughed a little when she heard this title, Shenyue Cangting is indeed dressed like a rich and powerful rich man, with a beautiful wife and a bunch of maids and attendants by his side, and he looks very remarkable at first glance.
Shenyue Cangting waved his hand to let the guards step back, and then stepped forward, "Old man, you're welcome, it's just a gesture." ”
"If it weren't for the help of the old man, the old man didn't know how long the car would have to toss, and the old cow wouldn't be able to pull it!" The old man waved his hand, and there was a reality of a cropper between his gestures.
"Where are you going, sir?" In comparison, Shenyue Cangting obviously has an aristocratic aura.
Li Anyue listened to the two of them call each other "big man" and one "old man", and laughed happily, glanced at the warning by Biyun, quickly pursed his mouth, and looked at the old man's ox cart, which was loaded with a high layer of firewood, which looked like it had just been cut down. The old cow gasped, his big eyes looking feebly at the ground.
"The old man wants to pull firewood to the city to sell, and he just cut it down early in the morning, and now he goes into the town to sell it, so he can go home before the sun goes down!"
"Did you cut it yourself?" Shenyue Cangting was also surprised when he looked at the wood of this cart.
"Yes, if you want it, the lord will take some and sell it to you cheaper!"
"Oh, no, I just think it's a little surprising that you have to chop wood to sell at such an age, how old are you this year?"
"Four out of seventy! My son is not at home, so I can only do it myself, and there is an old woman at home who wants to eat! The old man casually picked up the face towel hanging around his neck and wiped the sweat on his head, and smiled a little embarrassedly.
"Isn't your son home?"
"Yes, all four sons have gone to join the army, and none of them have returned, nor have they heard from me, so I don't know what happened." When the old man talked about his four sons, he was a little proud and a little helpless.
"Joining the army? But now that the country is peaceful and stable, there is no need to fight, and the government is not forced to enlist in the army, and there is no need to be a soldier. Shenyue Cangting was a little puzzled when he heard this.
"Don't you know, sir, in recent years, it has been rumored that we are going to fight with the Qi country, and the young people are all enthusiastic about going to the battlefield."
"War? How come I've never heard of these things? ”
"Sir, you're from the capital, right? The capital is good, the capital is under the control of the emperor, even if it is a war, it doesn't matter. ”
Shenyue Cangting frowned and was thinking about things, and when the old man saw that he didn't speak, he looked at the sun above his head, twisted the face towel into a strip and wrapped it around his neck, "Master, I still have to rush to the town, so I'll go first!" ”
Shenyue Cangting came back to his senses and stopped him, "Slow down, old man!" Then he beckoned someone to hand over fifty taels of silver, "Uncle, if you take this silver back, it is estimated that you and your wife will be able to live by planting land and vegetables." ”
The old man looked at the bag of silver in front of him with some surprise, he had never seen so much silver in his life, and he was a little speechless for a while, but his nature was honest, and he didn't dare to take so much silver, so he shirked, "No, no, no...... There's so much money here, how can I stand it! ”
Shenyue Cangting forced it to him, "Uncle, just take it, anyway, for me, I'm not short of these fifty taels of silver." ”
The old man looked at him, and then at the silver, and finally he was embarrassed, so he pointed to the ox cart, "Why don't I leave this cart of firewood and this old cow for you, so that I will feel better." ”
"Don't feel embarrassed, uncle, just when I'm accumulating virtue for the child, this firewood is inconvenient for you to see my family, this cow seems to have been raised for many years, I don't have a field for it to cultivate, it's really useless to ask for it, you just take this silver." Shenyue Cangting laughed a little.
The old man couldn't resist him, so he could only say goodbye to him with a thousand thanks, and walked back with the ox cart to tell the old woman the good news.
Shenyue Cangting watched the old man walk away, and couldn't help but sigh, Concubine Xian stepped forward a little strangely, "The emperor has done such a good thing, why is he still sighing?" ”
"I sighed for the sake of this old man, but for myself. This old man is over seventy years old, if the Emperor is still alive, he will be older than the Emperor, but he still has to work like this, I don't know how many people like him are in this world, and I don't know how many people in this world are more miserable than him. I also sighed that I can't do anything with the strength of one person, these fifty taels of silver can help him alone, and how many fifty taels do I have to help the people of the world? ”
Although Li Anyue didn't know much about the person of Shenyue Cangting, and even had some fear of him, but when he heard these words, he had a lot of respect for him in his heart, an emperor can be so sympathetic to the people, and think about the people from the perspective of the people, this country will definitely not be far behind.