As soon as Xu Shiyang's words were shouted out, others were okay, and Zhang Kaili was not calm at first: "How can this work?" This is a little bit of the heart of the old folks, is it because the uncle was on an errand for the emperor, and he doesn't even want the face of the old folks? ”

"That's right, didn't the emperor give the old man permission to bury him in the countryside just to give us the people a little face?"

"Yes, yes, otherwise, wouldn't the emperor just give a place near the imperial tomb for the old man to live in? Why bother to go back to our Huzhou with such a big effort? ”

The descendants of the Zhang family are more capable than the other. Yao Yanyu was very hearing, although she was sitting in the spirit shed, those people were only shouting outside, and all those words were poured into her ears word for word.

Outside, Xu Shiyang was also on fire, and was about to have a seizure, when he heard someone outside the crowd shouting: "What, is this someone going to roar the mourning hall?!" ”

The voice was too deep and cold, and naturally it carried a majestic aura, Zhang Kaili and other small people in the mountains and wilderness did not have much confidence, so they turned around one after another by this shout. But I saw a man wearing a five-beam brocade crown walking in with a calm face, the person who came was in his fifties, with a slender figure, a thin face, a plain three-grade official uniform, a gold flower belt around his waist, and a layer of white silk yarn.

Tang Ru Town, who was hiding in the tea shed and drinking tea next to him, quickly stepped forward when he got the news and bowed respectfully: "Xiaguan Tang Ru Town has seen Master Gu. ”

"Your county lord is sitting here, and you can't suppress some of the small people in the mountains and wilderness, which is really an eye-opener for this official!" Gu Yuntong pointed at Tang Ru Town unceremoniously, and didn't give him any face.

"My lord was angry, I was not here just now, and someone just reported that there was a quarrel here, so I hurried over, but I didn't expect it to be a step later than my lord." Tang Ruding's face is thick enough, and his mouth is not bad.

Gu Yuntong didn't bother to pay attention to Tang Ruding, so he only turned his head and asked Xu Shiyang: "What's the matter?" ”

"Xu Shiyang, the guard of the subordinate Auxiliary General's Mansion, has seen Master Gu. My wife instructed that my husband was innocent all his life and never innocently benefited others. Therefore, funerals are not allowed to receive gift money. The subordinates had just passed on the words of the lady, and these people were so gossipy, not only openly dissatisfied, but also questioned the emperor's will. The matter is big, and the subordinates don't dare to make decisions without permission, and they are about to go back to Mrs. "Xu Shiyang is not easy to mess with, and when he came up, he put a big hat on these people who questioned the holy decree.

Although Zhang Kaili was just a commoner, he was not stupid, and he was so frightened that he sweated like pulp, and knelt on the ground in a panic and shouted injustice. Gu Yuntong didn't even pay attention to Tang Ruding, let alone Zhang Kaili, and only ordered his entourage to fork out these unreasonable troublemakers, and then asked Xu Shiyang with a pleasant face: "Is Mrs. Fuguo here?" ”

Xu Shiyang arched his hand: "Go back to my lord, my wife is inside." ”

"Hurry up and report for the official, and say that Gu Yuntong, the political envoy of Huguangbu, came to worship the old Engong and meet Mrs. Fuguo." Gu Yuntong looked at the white silk flying spirit shed, and a trace of sadness and sorrow appeared on his face.

"My wife said, Master Gu is here, you can go in to meet your husband at any time." Xu Shiyang bowed slightly: "My lord, please." ”

"Okay." Gu Yuntong raised his hand and straightened the crown of his hair, then the collar and placket, and Fang respectfully followed behind Xu Shiyang.

After entering the altar, you first have to offer incense, and then you prostrate. When Gu Yuntong straightened up, his eyes were red, and he looked at the coffin in front of him and couldn't speak for a long time.

Yao Yanyu stepped forward and returned the salute: "Lord Gu has come from afar, and it has been hard. Please serve tea aside. ”

Gu Yuntong came back to his senses at this time, and hurriedly bowed down: "Xiaguan has seen Mrs. Fuguo. ”

"Lord Gu is very polite, please get up quickly." Yao Yanyu raised her hand and asked Gu Yuntong to sit down after the cyan curtain.

Yun Yao was also sitting inside, and Gu Yuntong went in and greeted the county lord again. Yun Yao just said lightly: "No courtesy" and no more.

Yao Yanyu sat on the side and talked to Gu Yuntong, Gu Yuntong asked about the earthquake in Yundu City, and what advice the old courtyard Ling had before his death, whether the road from Yundu City to Huzhou was smooth, and how his wife arranged the funeral.

Yao Yanyu sighed and said something, and finally said: "As for how to arrange the funeral, there were originally officials from the Ministry of Rites who came with me, and everything was customary, so I don't have to worry about anything." It's just that we don't understand some local customs and folklore, and we rely on adults for more guidance. ”

Gu Yuntong still didn't understand anything, so he hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Madam, don't worry, the matter here is handed over to the lower officials." Xia Guan came over this time to observe the people in Huzhou, so he simply waited for the old Engong's affairs to be arranged before going back. ”

"If you take care of it like this, then I will have a lot of peace of mind." Yao Yan said politely.

"It should be, the old engong is as kind to the lower officials as a mountain, and the lower officials didn't have time to repay this kindness during his lifetime, and now it's the last chance." Gu Yuntong said.

Yao Yanyu is really relieved, no matter what, Hu Guangbu's political envoy, this iron-faced and selfless chief official, is always a hundred times stronger than the ghostly one in Tang Ruding, and those clowns who jump off the beam will naturally be restrained. It's just that she was relieved that it was still early. On the day of the funeral, Zhang Kaili's father, who was originally scheduled, gave the old hospital an order to drop the filial piety basin and carry the banner to guide the way, but he suddenly said that he was sick and could not attend the funeral.

The chief officer of the Ministry of Rites came in and asked Yao Yanyu, "How should this be?" No one threw the filial piety basin, no one beat the banner to guide the way, and the funeral was not complete. ”

Yao Yanyu sneered: "This is because he saw that there was no gift money for the funeral, so he showed me his face, right?" ”

Gu Yuntong waved his hand and said, "These people are just the same surname as Lao Engong, what kind of family are they talking about?" If they don't come, the old man should be happy. As for the matter of beating the flag and leading the way and breaking the filial piety basin, Mrs. doesn't have to worry, let my second boy come. ”

Yao Yanyu hurriedly said: "How can this be made?" ”

"Why can't that? If it weren't for the old Engong's action, he would have gone to see the king of Hades a long time ago, where would this bastard boy be born? As he spoke, he turned his head and instructed his second son, who had been following him: "You go, change your clothes, what you should do, how you do it, all listen to the adult of the Ministry of Rites." ”

The second son of the Gu family hurriedly bowed down to receive the order and went out with the officials of the Ministry of Rites. Yao Yanyu got up and bowed deeply to Gu Yuntong: "I thank Master Gu for my teacher." ”

This matter was solved, and there were people back and forth, and the people who had been looking for the coffin did not come. Yun Yao sneered when she heard this: "We brought two thousand people ourselves, and there are still a few cats and dogs?" ”

Gu Yuntong said again: "How can I let Jin Linwei do these things, the county lord doesn't have to worry about it, and hand them over to the lower officials." After speaking, Gu Yuntong went out to cook, and I don't know what method he used, but forty or fifty young adults changed their clothes and tied filial piety belts to volunteer to help.

Zhang Laoyuan Ling left home in his teens, and he never came back for fifty or sixty years, and the parents and villagers in Huzhou had very few impressions of this person. Only the old men in their seventies and eighties were sandwiched between the lively crowds on both sides of the street, telling about the events of his childhood. There were also some literati and scholars who explained the life and deeds of the old man like the common people.

The officials of Huguang naturally wanted to pay their respects to the face of the imperial court, the emperor and the general's mansion of the auxiliary state, and after hearing that the wife of the auxiliary country was not allowed to receive gifts for the funeral, some of them volunteered to stay to help take care of the funeral and send the funeral to the old court.

This funeral is not too big, but it is also the first in Pinghu.

In the afternoon, the funeral procession went out of the city in a huge way, and it was impossible to reach the cemetery at night. The rest place in the middle is a small village that has been selected by the officials of the Ministry of Rites a long time ago, and there are only a dozen families in the village, and the houses are naturally not enough, so the Jinlin guards directly set up tents.

The next day, we continued on the road and did not reach the cemetery until noon.

Craftsmen had already been found here to start the work, and the tomb was built according to the usual system, and it took a hundred and ten craftsmen more than a month to drive it out. In addition, Yao Yanyu also recruited another craftsman to build a bamboo fence hut in a bamboo forest over there, which was for her to guard the tomb.

Originally, Yao Yanyu planned to wait for the funeral to end, Yun Yao would leave with Jin Linwei, and at most she was not at ease to leave a team of guards for herself. Now it seems that Prince Cheng sent two thousand Jinlin guards to Huzhou, and I am afraid that there are other arrangements, so Yao Yanyu didn't say much.

Yun Yao naturally didn't leave, so she instructed Jin Linwei to arrange their own accommodation. So when Gu Yuntong came to the cemetery and saw the hundreds of bamboo buildings in the bamboo forest, he was surprised that he didn't say anything for a long time.

Yao Yanyu had to tell him that he was going to guard the tomb here for a year, and Gu Yuntong sighed: "Madame is really a righteous person." ”

"Master and apprentice are like father and son. All the things my teacher has learned in his life have been passed on to me. I should keep filial piety for his old man for a year. Yao Yanyu looked at the green bamboo and the refreshing bamboo building, and sighed softly.

In the following days, she will really taste all kinds of herbs and poisons, and she will do her best to sort out the results of her own training in the first two years. It's a pleasure to read books, cook medicines, experiment, and record in such a quiet environment every day. Of course, the premise is that Huzhou City and Hanyang Mansion, plus the people of Yuzhou, Qianzhou and Anlu Mansion are all in peace.

Gu Yuntong stayed in Huzhou for more than ten days, and after waiting for the order of the old man Zhang to be buried peacefully, he said goodbye to Yao Yanyu and left in a hurry. Of course, this is the limit for a local official who is in charge of the affairs of the two provinces.

After he went back, he sent his second son and his family to send Yao Yanyu a lot of things, such as grain and rice, all kinds of cured meat, tent bedding, a few rattan chairs, and so on, which are not very valuable things, but they are very practical. It was loaded with several carts and sent overnight, and it was not sent directly to the mountains through Huzhou County, and the mountain roads were not easy to walk, so the second son directly hired dozens of porters to pick things in.

Yao Yanyu was naturally very grateful, but the silver money and other things were naturally not asked for by Lord Gu, so Yao Yanyu asked Xiang Zhi to take the tonic pills he had prepared, and said, "That day, I looked at Lord Gu's face, and it seemed that he had some heart and pulse problems. These pills are mainly warm supplements, one pill a day, taken before going to bed, although it cannot be said to prolong life, but it is very beneficial to the body of adults. ”

Gu Ergongzi shook his head to the ground: "The student thanked his wife for his father." ”

After sending Gu Er Gongzi away, Yao Yanyu turned around and watched everyone carry those things down and return them everywhere.

"This Gu Yuntong is quite interesting, he sent these things all the way away." Yun Yao walked out of the bamboo forest in an ink-colored arm, followed by Ye Qi. Looking at the beads of sweat on her forehead and the tip of her nose, you knew that she had just practiced with the personal guard next to her.

Yao Yanyu smiled and said, "He knows that we are not short of money, so he sent these things that can be used." And I saw that there were many curtains in it, and the night lord looked back and saw that they were divided. It's getting hotter and hotter, and there are a lot of mosquitoes here. A tent is a must-have. ”

Ye Yan arched his hand and replied, "Yes." In fact, there are herbs for lady mosquito repellent grass, and it is the same without a tent. ”

"When I didn't have it, I couldn't help it, but now that I have it, everyone will use it. Anyway, these things are wasted if they are not used. Yao Yanyu looked at the bags of grain and rice again, and said with a smile: "These rice are enough for us to eat for a while." ”

"Yes, the price of rice in Huzhou has risen again." Ye Yan said expressionlessly.

"Oh? How much has it gone up? ”

"Another twenty cents went up. Now one bucket of rice is one hundred and twenty-five wen. ”

"A month ago, the price of a bucket of rice in Huzhou City was 35 yuan. In the past 30 days, the price of rice has tripled. Yao Yanyu sighed helplessly, looked at the green bamboo cong above her head, and narrowed her eyes, "Huzhou is going to be chaotic!" ”

"I've already reported the matter here to my father, and he'll figure it out." Yun Yao also felt that this matter was inappropriate, but she had never known much about these things, and she didn't know how to deal with them.

Yao Yanyu didn't speak, but in her heart, she didn't report hope to the imperial capital, to Prince Cheng, or even to the emperor.

Flattening prices is simple, but if you can't find the root cause, it's useless to just know that grain parity is useless. And the reason why food prices in Huzhou City and even Hanyang Mansion, Anlu Mansion and other places are rising step by step, except for the control of people with intentions, I am afraid that there is no second reason.

Thinking of these, Yao Yanyu first thought of the matter of 'the eldest prince digging silver mines privately'. Think about it, people occupy a silver mine, naturally there is no shortage of silver, if you unite with the big merchants, it is easy to raise prices and make these states and counties mess up first!

According to the latest flying pigeon biography of Wei Zhang, Yao Yanyu knew that Han Entropy had brought a thousand elite soldiers into Anlu. If Yun Jin really made a move, the 1,000 elite soldiers over there plus the 2,000 Jinlin guards here, combined with a 5,000-strong bandit army stationed in Huguang itself, would be enough to counterbalance it even if it couldn't win completely. Wei Zhang said that as long as Yun Jin made any changes, Jin Linwei and Han Chengge would fly to Kyoto, and the imperial court would definitely send reinforcements, even if a war was inevitable, he Yun Jin would not jump for long.

However, now it seems that Wei Zhang was wrong.

Yun Jin didn't want to raise troops at all, what he wanted to do was to set off an economic riot in Huguang, forcing the people to rebel because they couldn't survive, and then he would take advantage of the chaos to attack, or have other plans.

What does he want? Yao Yanyu slowly closed her eyes, discarding all distractions and treating herself as Yun Jin, thinking about what she would do next.

But I still can't figure it out. The more Yao Yanyu thought about it, the more confused she became, and secretly laughed that she was not a conspirator after all, even if she had thousands of years of civilization in her head than these people, she couldn't guess what these people would do.

However, Yun Jin's purpose is not difficult to guess, there are only two kinds.

One is to go back to the capital of the Great Cloud Emperor to ascend the throne and become the emperor, but this seems impossible. With the emperor's temperament, he would never be allowed to do this, and there were several princes in Yundu City, several princes and the eldest princess of Ninghua.

Second, Yun Jin should want to be the king independently, with Huguang as the center, or directly expand the territory from the southwest to the southeast, and rule by dividing the river with the emperor in the north.

What he wants to own should be half of the Great Cloud Dynasty. There must be a master by Yun Jin's side! Yao Yan sighed faintly.

"Will such a rise in rice prices cause a popular uprising?" Yun Yao looked at Yao Yanyu's face gloomy, and asked in a low voice.

Yao Yanyu sighed in a low voice: "The people take food as the sky. Moreover, the north has just been hit hard by the earthquake, and many places are still counting on granaries in various places to transfer grain to save lives. They are stockpiling grain in Huguang and raising grain prices, which is undoubtedly a fatal blow to the north! If the price of grain continues like this, I am afraid that the rich merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang will also follow suit to raise the price, and then there will be chaos in the north. ”

"So what are we going to do?" Yun Yao frowned and asked.

"I don't know." Yao Yanyu shook her head weakly, turned around and sat on a wicker chair.

She really didn't know. She has not been in business for two lifetimes combined, and she has no ability to turn her hands into clouds and her hands into rain. She only understands medical skills, and in the face of such a thing, no matter how advanced her medical skills are, it is useless.

Yun Yao turned to Ye Yan and said, "Report the matter here to my father as quickly as possible." Including those words that Madame just said. ”

"Yes." Nightshade answered and turned to leave.

Yun Yao glanced at the northern sky, sat down on another rattan chair next to Yao Yanyu, and muttered, "I don't know how Uncle Huang's body is." ”

"Homesick, right?" Yao Yanyu turned her head to look at her.

"You don't want to?" The county lord, who was spied on his mind, glanced at Yao Yanyu dissatisfiedly.

"I want to, too." Yao Yanyu chuckled and nodded, not denying her emotions, "But it's necessary for me to stay here." And you are suffering with me for no reason, why bother? ”

"I'm exercising myself." The old god Yun Yao was lying on the rattan chair, looking at the green sky, and added for a while: "You don't understand." ”

"I don't understand?" Yao Yanyu smiled faintly, lay on the wicker chair and closed her eyes, and said in her heart, What do I not understand? Love the house and the black house! That's the stupidest person in the world.

As Yao Yanyu expected, the more the price of rice in Huzhou City rose, the more the grain merchants tightened their granaries and did not sell a grain of rice.

At this time, it is considered a time when the green and yellow are not harvested, and the rice hoarded by the people's families has already eaten almost enough, and the rice in the field has not yet tasseled. If the grain merchants do not sell grain, eight out of ten families of the people will have no rice to cook.

The people take food as the sky, and the people can't even eat, so what are the golden rules?

"Mrs. Hui, the county lord, today there are two grain merchants in Huzhou City who have been smashed in their grain shops, and the people have robbed them of the only more than ten buckets of rice in their shops. Tang County ordered people to arrest the people, and the people were angry, and the officials and people fought in the streets. Three people were killed and fifty-six wounded. The officials of the county government also suffered thirteen injuries, ranging in severity from severity. ”

"It's finally begun." Yao Yanyu's face was gloomy as water, once the civil uprising was stirred, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"What's going on in Tang Ru Town! This kind of thing happened, as the magistrate of the county, he didn't want to find a way to stabilize the price of grain, and ordered those grain merchants to sell grain at a low price, but instead to arrest the chaotic people? ! Yun Yao angrily patted the small table in her hand, fortunately, this small round table was made of rattan, and she couldn't shoot it indiscriminately.

Yao Yanyu sighed: "County Lord, who knows if he did it on purpose? ”

"What then?! Are we just going to watch?! Yun Yao flew up angrily and kicked a small pebble away.

"Did the prince reply?" Yao Yanyu is now eager to know what Kyoto's plans are for this matter.

Yun Yao sighed and shook her head. The letter was sent out in three days, and the capital was nearly two thousand miles away from here, and it would take four or five days to run with the best horses, and if you don't change people in the middle of the ring, it will take four or five days to go back and forth.

What's more, it is impossible for the father to make his own decisions on such a big matter, and he always has to discuss it with the emperor. The emperor will definitely summon the ministers to find a way. By the time those ministers come up with a way, I'm afraid that the people here will have already smashed the county government ten or eight times.

"County Lord! Madam! Yong Yi sent someone to say that there was a letter to his wife! Xu Shiyang hurriedly came to report.

"Please!" Yao Yanyu immediately sat up straight.

Xu Shiyang brought someone up, and the man dressed as a farmer approached and saluted: "Slave Han Wu greets Mrs. Fuguo and the county lord." ”

"Get up and speak." Yao Yanyu hurriedly instructed the herb behind him: "Serve a big bowl of tea." ”

Xiang Xue hurriedly poured a bowl of bamboo leaf tea and sent it to Han Wu.

"Mrs. Xie." Han Wu was in a hurry to leave, naturally he was thirsty, took the tea, drank it cleanly, and then bowed down and said, "The slave sent a letter to Madame on the orders of my uncle." ”

"What about faith?" Yao Yanyu asked hurriedly.

Han Wu pulled out a dagger from his boots, Xu Shiyang and Yeqi were startled when they saw this, and hurriedly protected Yao Yanyu and Yun Yao behind them.

"It's no wonder that the two adults are strange. It's really that there are a lot of suspicious people along the way who pretend to be rebels and robbers, and the slave is afraid that he will accidentally ruin the master's big thing, so he thought of a stupid way. Han Wu said, separating his shirt and taking out the Yifeng letter from the mezzanine.

Xu Shiyang stepped forward to take the letter and handed it to Yao Yanyu, who hurriedly tore it open and looked at it carefully.

Han Entropy's few words made people frightened: Hanyang Mansion, Anlu Mansion and other chaotic people were everywhere, people with ulterior motives mixed in, and mobilized chaotic people to loot everywhere, more than half of the post stations in the north of Hanshui were destroyed by the rebels, horses and others were robbed to kill stew, and some people assassinated messengers and robbed the communication between the north and south of the imperial court, and someone has been found to shoot carrier pigeons. In order not to make the news stolen by the other party, please do not use carrier pigeons to transmit messages for the time being. In addition, Ben Hou originally wanted to coerce Anlu Mansion to open a warehouse to release grain, but because the people were misled, thousands of people rushed in before the granary was opened. Therefore, Ben Hou advised Mrs. not to act rashly and try to persuade the government to release grain, otherwise the consequences would only be worse.

There were only a few words in a letter, but Yao Yanyu's heart was cold after reading it.

Seeing this, Yun Yao reached out and snatched the letter, and couldn't help but be stunned after reading it: "What can I do about this?" Are we just waiting to be robbed by the mob? ”

Yao Yanyu took a deep breath and asked Han Wu, "Is your marquis in Anlu Mansion now?" ”

"Mrs. Hui, my uncle is not in Anlu Mansion now, our people caught the people who took the lead in making trouble, after interrogation, they found out that the origin of the matter was in Qianzhou, so our people went to Qianzhou."

Yao Yanyu nodded and said, "Okay." I know, you must be tired from this journey, go and rest for a while, and when I write a reply, you can help me bring it back. ”

"Yes, the minions are retired." After Han Wu bowed and saluted, he retreated with Ye Yan.

Yun Yao suddenly asked Yao Yanyu, "Is this person credible?" Don't scare us by playing tricks. ”

"He once followed Han Shuai to fight in Beihu, and I healed his injuries. I remember it was like this, and I shouldn't be wrong. ”

"But I've heard that there is a disguise technique in the rivers and lakes. Besides, isn't your medicine for scars? Yun Yao frowned and asked.

"This is easy to do, I remember that his injury was on his left shoulder, which was a knife wound, and the wound medicine in the army is mainly to quickly stop bleeding, reduce inflammation and prevent infection. The effect of scar removal is not very good. Besides, the scar removal ointment is originally a different kind. Yao Yanyu also felt that it was better to be cautious at this time, so she raised her hand and beckoned Xu Shiyang and whispered a few words. Xu Shiyang agreed.

Yun Yao took Han Entropy's letter and read it again, and sighed anxiously: "If it's really like what the eldest cousin said, we really can't do anything?" ”

"Not necessarily." Yao Yanyu's fingers gently grasped the armrest of the rattan chair, "Now let's confirm the authenticity of this letter first." By the way, don't you recognize the words of the Marquis of Zhongyong? ”

Yun Yao sighed helplessly: "The words of the eldest cousin and the second cousin were taught by Grandpa Guo himself, and Grandpa Guo's words are very popular in the Great Cloud Dynasty, although I dare not say that everyone will imitate a few strokes, but it is not difficult to find an imitation of it." Besides, I'm not an expert in calligraphy, so I can't tell the difference. ”

Yao Yanyu smiled helplessly, in ancient times, celebrities were so bad. In fact, the words of Zhen Guogong are not very good, but who makes the family a grandfather of the country, the following people practice his words in order to tie the knot, which is good, and I can't distinguish the handwriting.

But fortunately, Yao Yanyu had treated Han Wu's injuries and knew the scars on his body.

In the evening, Xu Shiyang quietly came to report that the scars on Han Wu's body were real, and the appearance of what he told his wife was basically not bad.

"What do you mean it's basically not bad?!" Yun Yao asked angrily, "How did you do things?" ”

"It's basically not bad, I treated him at the time, but it's been so long, and there were many injured people at that time, I'm a little vague. Besides, for more than two years, people's physiques are different, and the degree of wound compounding is also different. Being basically the same is enough to prove that he is not a fake. ”

Yun Yao nodded, thinking that if this was not fake, it would prove that what the letter said was true! Could it be that he and these two thousand Jinlinwei were trapped in the mountains by the chaotic people like this?!

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