Chapter II
87_87272 After a few hours, the ship was able to see the coast of Huizhou. Hundreds of officers and soldiers were waiting in line at the port, and Su Jiming saw a short and fat middle-aged man standing in the middle of the port, it was Qin Chun, the governor of Huizhou.
As soon as the boat docked, Qin Chun greeted him, wiping tears with a sad look: "Brother Su, you have suffered in the past year!" It's all my brother's fault! ”
Su Jiming glanced at him, and secretly sneered in his heart. Qin Chun saw that the wind made the rudder old and cunning wall-grass, and now he has the face to call himself a brother and a brother, if he hadn't forced himself to get on the ship to Danzhou a year ago, how could he have suffered this year's inhuman suffering?
"Childe! It's really you! A teenager in the crowd rushed out, pounced on Su Jiming, hung on him and cried, "It's been a year, I thought Gongzi was ...... Woo...... Childe ......"
When Su Jiming saw the young man, he was also stunned, and said incredulously: "Su Yan? ”
Su Yan is Su Jiming's scholar, Su Jiming went to sea that day, Su Yan was also on the boat, after the boat sank, almost all the people on the boat died, Su Yan was washed on the reef, fortunately met the fishermen who went out to sea to fish and saved him. He thought that Su Jiming was dead, so he wore filial piety for him in Huizhou, and when he heard that Su Jiming had news again, he was taken to the dock by Qin Chun in a daze, but he didn't expect that it was really Su Jiming who came back!
Su Yan hugged Su Jiming and cried bitterly, and Su Jiming also felt sour in his heart. When he came out of Beijing, he brought four scholars and a few personal maids with him, a shipwreck, and now there is only one Su Yan left around him.
Qin Chun said: "Su Yan, don't hold your son-in-law in this public, you can talk slowly when you go back." He turned his head to Su Jiming and offered courtesy, "The dust washing banquet I prepared for Brother Su has been prepared, Brother Su sees if he should eat something to pad his hunger first, or go to the bath first?" ”
Su Jiming said coldly: "I'll go take a bath first, Lord Qin will ask me to get me some snacks to fill my stomach, and there's no need for a wine banquet or anything." ”
Qin Chun didn't care about his rude attitude, and hugged Su Jiming's shoulders affectionately: "Okay, Brother Su come with me." ”
In terms of official position, Qin Chun is still higher than Su Jiming, but at this moment, he is very attentive to Su Jiming. Su Jiming was such a shrewd man, and he already understood □□ point in his heart—about the emperor finally ordered him to be re-recruited. It is also because of this that someone finally remembered him, the court official who was kidnapped by the barbarians, and he was rescued from the barbarian's den after a year.
Su Jiming is a son of a family, his father was an official to the prime minister, he was eighteen years old and entered Hanlin, the road can be described as smooth sailing, the scenery is the same. But three years ago, his fortunes took a turn for the worse, his father died, and he was impeached because of partisan strife. Two years ago, the emperor was under pressure to order him to be demoted to Danzhou.
From Beijing to Huizhou. It was enough to walk on foot, and three or four months was enough to walk, but Su Jiming traveled all the way to the mountains and rivers, and finally it took a whole year to finally move to Lingnan. He thought that he had only skipped people and would be re-recruited by the imperial court sooner or later, so he deliberately delayed, hoping that the emperor would withdraw the appointment as soon as possible, but unfortunately he didn't wait for the emperor's edict when he arrived in Huizhou.
That Danzhou is a southern wilderness that has not yet been civilized overseas, the barbarians are raging, the last Danzhou governor, don't drive is brutally killed by the barbarians, Su Jiming if he really goes to sea, most of them have no return, and those damned old ministers in the court instigated the emperor to demote him to Danzhou, that is, they have the heart to put him to death, but this dynasty does not kill the courtiers, so it is inconvenient for them to do it directly. After he arrived in Lingnan, Qin Chun, the governor of Huizhou, had already been instructed to push him onto the ship to the sea and force him to go to Danzhou to take office.
On the day he was forced to go to sea, the wind and waves were very strong, and the boat was overturned by the wind and waves before it reached Danzhou, and everyone on board fell into the water. He was washed ashore by the sea, entered the territory of the barbarians, and was trapped for a year and two months. It wasn't until not long ago that the Wu barbarians captured a Han fisherman who had broken into the territory, and Xi Wu had planned to put the Han man to death, but it was he who interceded to let the Han man go, and asked the Han people to take his news out, and he finally got on the line with the court and escaped from the Wu barbarians.
Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that Su Jiming's tragic encounter this year was due to Qin Chun, how could he have a good face for Qin Chun, and he pounced on him and tore him apart without meeting him, just because he couldn't beat this dead fat man.
Qin Chun led Su Jiming into a big mansion with a bath, and someone had already boiled the hot water for him.
Qin Chun chattered all the way: "Brother Su, don't you know, you haven't heard from you this year, brother, I haven't slept a single night, I haven't eaten a full meal, and I'm worried about you every day, for fear that something will happen to you." The ship you went to sea capsized, and I sent someone to salvage it in the sea, but nothing was found. I don't believe it, I go to worship the Bodhisattva every day, and ask the Bodhisattva to bless you......"
Su Jiming glanced at Qin Chun's big belly and interrupted his hypocrisy: "Lord Qin is really talented. ”
"Huh?" Qin Chun was stunned by these inexplicable words.
Su Jiming sneered: "You think I have to forget to sleep and eat, I see that your belly is two times bigger than a year ago, and it is not easy." ”
Qin Chun's cheeks twitched, and he silently slandered in his heart: This stinky boy surnamed Su thought that he would be able to teach him honestly after being captured by the barbarians for a year, but he didn't expect this mouth to be so disgusting.
However, slander is slander, Qin Chun still smiled: "Brother Su is still so good at laughing." Brother, I think your body is collapsed, and it's inevitable that you're a little swollen. ”
If this had been placed in the past, Su Jiming's sharp teeth would have choked Qin Chun so much that he wanted to strangle himself with his trouser belt, but he had just fled back from overseas, and he was really bored to see this annoying fat face at this moment, so he said coldly: "The bath has arrived, if Lord Qin doesn't want to stay and rub my back for me, please take care of yourself." ”
Qin Chun said: "The government still has some official documents waiting for me to deal with, then brother, I will go first, if you have any needs, just tell the people in the mansion, I have given an order, no matter what Brother Su asks, they will do their best to meet you." ”
After Qin Chun left, Su Jiming took off his clothes and walked into the bath.
The servant girl who served him rubbed his back, and suddenly there was a snort.
Su Jiming was enjoying it, and when he heard the sound, he glanced back at his maidservant. Su Jiming's lips are red and white, his facial features are handsome, his slightly damp hair hangs on his face under the fumigation of heat, and his eyes are a little hazy. When he was in Beijing, he was a well-known merry and talented man, and now he is still romantic, and the servant girl who has not seen much of the world is looking at him, and her face is gradually red.
"What are you talking about?" Su Jiming had just fled from overseas, and he had experienced many unspeakable things in the past year, and the maid's reaction made him nervous. Even if the male style is prevalent in this dynasty, Su Jiming is ashamed to be found out by the fact that he has been manipulated by a foreign priest for a year.
The maid lowered her head and said, "My lord is so clean......
Su Jiming was stunned and understood what she meant. They Han people did not know the life of foreign people, before he entered Danzhou, he also thought that the Wu barbarians were some barbarians who drank blood, until they really came into contact, only to find that this was not the case. They live in their own way, very different from the Han Chinese. The maidservant probably thought that he was extremely miserable when he lived in the barbarians, and he couldn't even take a bath, but this was not the case.
There is a natural hot spring in the territory of the Wu Barbarians, which is called the holy spring by the tribe, and the people of the tribe will go to the holy spring to bathe. However, Su Jiming didn't like to take a bath with everyone, so Xi Wu was very considerate and asked people to heat up the accumulated rainwater every day and send it to the room for him to wash. Every time after love, Xiwu would personally fetch water to help him wash it clean, so as not to leave anything in his body to make him uncomfortable.
The high priest of the Wu barbarian clan is really good to Su Jiming. It's a pity that he is a Han Chinese, and he is a barbarian, if Xiwu knew Su Jiming's true identity, I am afraid that he would have been thrown into the Ten Thousand Snake Array.
After a while, Su Jiming said: "You all retreat, I want to stay by myself for a while." ”
The people who were waiting by the bath saluted and retreated.
Su Jiming was in a depressed mood, so he simply squatted down and immersed himself in hot water. Being submerged didn't feel good, it reminded him of the first time he drowned.
It was his first time at sea. He had lived in Beijing for more than 20 years, and never imagined that he would be relegated to overseas one day, and he didn't even know the nature of the water, so that day when he encountered wind and waves, he was already dizzy before the boat capsized, and after falling into the sea, he choked on two mouthfuls of bitter seawater, and he lost consciousness.
When he woke up on Hainan Island, Xiwu stood beside him and looked at him condescendingly. Su Jiming had never seen such a person, with bronzed skin, delicate facial features like carvings, wearing clothes with strange patterns, tattoos on his neck and hands, and a staff in his hand. At that time, it was already dusk, and the light of the setting sun shone from behind Xiwu, and his face fell into the shadows, with a strange sense of mystery and taboo. At that moment, Su Jiming really thought that he was dead, and Xi Wu was the messenger of the underworld who came to hook his soul, making him feel awe.
But when he saw the people behind Xiwu and heard what they were saying, he knew he was very wrong—it was a group of barbarians.
There are several foreign races in Danzhou, among which the Wu barbarians are the most powerful, and they are also the most hostile to the Han court. He had heard about the Wu Barbarians, and knew that the Wu Barbarians were hostile to the Han people, and if those people knew that he was the late new Han chief, he would definitely not be able to leave a whole corpse. So he hid his Han identity, and the first thing he said was in Miao language.
Su Jiming is the youngest champion of this dynasty and a bachelor of Hanlin, he is erudite and talented, and he will never forget. During the year he went to Danzhou after being demoted, he collected a number of books about the customs and customs of Lingnan and Hainan, and learned the Miao language from the Miao people. For several different races living in Danzhou, Su Jiming has a general understanding, but the Wu Barbarian is the most mysterious and the least communication with the outside world, I heard that the Wu Barbarian is the descendant of the gods, with magical powers, most of the records about the Wu Barbarian are about the power of gods and monsters, and there are few other records, before he really enters, he almost doesn't know anything.
Su Jiming said that the Miao language was just to hide his Han identity, but he didn't expect that Xiwu, the high priest of the Wu barbarians, could also speak Miao. Xiwu asked him what his name was and why he had broken into the territory of the Wu Barbarians.
At that time, Su Jiming wanted to save his life, and thought that this Danzhou was the end of the world in the eyes of the Central Plains, so he lied that his name was Tianya, a Miao person, and he would wear Hanfu when he was doing business in Han.
His lies saved his life temporarily, and Xiwu and the others did not kill him, but apparently did not believe him very much, and took him back to the barbarian stockade to be guarded. At that time, Su Jiming only thought about living, and thought that he could get out of it after making up a lie, but he didn't expect anything about the next year