Chapter 45: Morning News
Fortunately, Wei Zheng has been an official in the same dynasty as him for decades, and everyone knows each other's tempers, and they laugh when they laugh, which is not a shame, but Qiao Yue has angered the literati of the entire Ningzhou City.
The four questions stumped the entire people of Ningzhou, and for a while, rumors that there was no one in Ningzhou had spread on the streets.
The one who received the first blow was Ningzhou Academy, as soon as this word spread, it was simply Qiao Yue slapping them in the face, if they didn't solve the problem on the gate of Qiao's house, they wouldn't mix it up in the future, they all had the title of a straw bale, and what face did they have to meet people, and the students who read poetry and books and studied hard in the cold window couldn't even fight a woman and still expect to be on the gold list? But you have to laugh off the big teeth on the ground.
The students of Ningzhou Academy rushed over in the afternoon of the same day, and the crowd crowded the gate of Qiao's Mansion, which made the people who came in and out of Qiao's Mansion very resentful.
You said that there were so many people, and it was good to solve it, but I saw that the talented people were staring at their door frames in a daze, scratching their ears and cheeks for a while, and sighing for a while, and then there was no follow-up, and after a while, the frost hit and left in a gray manner.
This made the people of Qiao's Mansion begin to despise the scholars who have always regarded themselves very highly, they are all a group of self-righteous guys, except for shaking their heads and fooling the illiterate people, what else can you do? It is said that it is useless to be a scholar, and it is true.
Not to mention, there are also people who applaud Qiao Yue, since Qiao Yue's four questions came out, the pear fruits, chickens and rabbits in Ningzhou City are surprisingly good sellers, and the whole Ningzhou City has no rooster crowing that afternoon, and the pear fruit has also been sold all at once.
Ducks, geese, and even dogs are followed by bad luck, and if you can't buy authentic chickens and rabbits, you have to take these two-legged and four-legged animals to make up the numbers.
In the jade mansion in the north of the city, the backyard has become a livestock slaughtering ground, Yusheng and Yuluan are crazy and keep chopping the legs of chickens and rabbits, and the bloody hands pull two legs that I don't know if they are chickens or rabbits in their hands and come out of a pile of hair, and look back and ask the housekeeper next to them: "Do you remember?" How many chickens, how many legs is this? ”
The housekeeper pulled the abacus, shook his head vigorously, and looked dazed: "Master, the little one was dazzled just now, and I don't know how many rabbits and chicken legs are here." ”
Yu Luan was so angry that he rushed up and kicked the counting housekeeper into the pile of chicken feathers: "What are you for, go and go, cut off my legs, Young Master Ben will count it himself, I still don't believe it, it's just a few legs to solve the problem, and it can stump Young Master Ben, it's a big deal that Young Master Ben will buy the chickens and rabbits in the whole city tomorrow and cut them down one by one." ”
Not far away, a panting guy ran over and said hurriedly: "The master is not good, it is not good, the chickens and rabbits in the whole city have been bought, you save some use, and this is all for the family." ”
At this time, a middle-aged lady walked over from the stone arch not far away, glanced at the yard full of hair, and then at her husband who was in a hurry to chop chicken legs, the corners of her mouth slanted, and snorted: "Even the chicken cubs will be bought back for me, I still don't believe it, just with the wisdom of my husband and son, I can still be stumped by a little woman in the Qiao family." ”
The kicked housekeeper crawled out of the pile of chicken feathers, shook his full body of hair, and said, "Madam, it's not just a matter of chickens and rabbits, there are three more questions..."
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Such a scene is not only staged in the Yu family, even the Chen family in the west of the city, and the Bi family in the east of the city are not much better, and a movement to chop chicken legs and rabbit legs has been carried out in full swing.
It is said that some prescient merchants have gone to the outside of the city to start cutting bamboo poles to sell, and after today, the talents who have come back to taste will definitely start to cut bamboo poles frantically for Qiao Yue's three-foot-high bamboo problem, which is a good business to make money.
The turmoil of the Ye family's donation in Ningzhou City was soon replaced by Qiao Yue's four questions, it is said that the family who has no way to think has begun to frantically find someone to ask for help, the door of the Xing family is closed, and the sign refusing visitors is hung, and the desperate people can only give full play to their network resources.
It is said that on this day, the carrier pigeons that flew out of the city of Ningzhou were simply flooded, all flapped their wings and flew to the capital, the people in the farmland raised their eyes to see, the dense carrier pigeons themselves hit and fell a lot in the air, but the farmers who did not occupy the oil for a long time can have a beautiful full meal, and the bored children can take the slingshot and shoot a lot of them by the way.
According to this momentum, it is estimated that the turmoil will spread to the capital from tomorrow, and I don't know how many chickens, ducks, geese and rabbits will suffer.
Xing Lao was prescient, his carrier pigeon flew in front, and the crown prince Liu Wencheng, who got up in the middle of the night to pee, happened to receive a distress letter from Xing Taifu in time.
Even his own teacher has to ask himself for help, Liu Wencheng felt proud for a while, he happened to have closed the palace door, he could study it, and if he turned around, he would solve it, but he would have a big face in front of the teacher.
So in the middle of the night, there began to be miserable rooster crows in the East Palace, which caused the entire palace to not sleep peacefully, and the whole palace was full of complaints for a while.
Emperor Wude really couldn't stand it before dawn, if that short-eyed palace maid dared to attract my attention in this way, I would definitely cut off her head, drag her tired body and yawn angrily towards the East Palace.
The eunuch in charge of the lamp couldn't speak clearly, and after walking through a few corridors, he took Emperor Wude to the kitchen of the East Palace with his head down.
As soon as he walked into the kitchen, Emperor Wude was also dumbfounded, only to see the prince in pajamas holding a bright kitchen knife in his hand, covered in blood and about to slap a chicken, his face was anxious: "Cheng'er, what's wrong?" It's not that it's stained with unclean things, so quickly invite the national teacher to come over and do a good work. ”
Liu Wencheng turned around, threw away the kitchen knife in his hand with a bang, and hurriedly knelt on the ground to confess: "The child disturbed his father's good dreams, please ask my father to surrender." ”
"Huh? Isn't it evil? Liu Wude was suddenly unhappy, and his face sank: "I didn't sleep well in the middle of the night, and I ran to the kitchen to kill chickens, why is this?" ”
The prince respectfully handed over the title that he had copied again in his hand: "The only child received the letter for help from Xing Shi, and unfolded it to take a look, these four questions are very interesting, the child is itchy for a while, so he has the matter of killing chickens, and he never wanted to disturb his father, and asked his father to punish him." ”
"Oh? There are also topics that can stump Xing Aiqing? ”
Liu Wude was also immediately interested, unfolded the paper and looked at it, the tiredness on his face was swept away, and he was so addicted that even the prince knelt in front of him and forgot about it.
There are few entertainment things in this world, especially Liu Wude, who is the emperor, has such a few interesting questions, which can be regarded as a treasure, and he pondered for a long time, the more he can't solve it, the more energetic he is, how can he be stumped by a few broken questions by his own generation of wise Shenwu Emperor.
The palace night was cold, the eunuch was worried that the emperor would catch a cold, and wanted to come forward to comfort him, but after thinking about it, he gave up again, made a few looks, and asked another little eunuch next to him to bring a shawl to the emperor.
After a long time, there was no movement, and the prince who was kneeling on the ground was already shivering with cold, and suddenly, Liu Wude, who was in his fifties, laughed like a child: "Haha... Cheng'er, don't say anything about this matter, go back to the court with me, and it just so happens that I also take this opportunity to take a good test to teach and teach my cultural relics, and see that they usually boast that they are full of wealth and wealth, and see how many problems they can solve, if they can't solve it, I will tell them to shut up in the future, so as not to make me upset for a day. ”
Thinking of this, Liu Wude seemed to have seen the scene of the civil and military officials eating deflated, and laughed heartily, during this time, the officials in the court were not at ease at all, and they actually wanted to kill their own son, which is really unreasonable!
Not far from the kitchen of the East Palace, the emperor thought for a moment and instructed the eunuch beside him: "Spread my will, let the imperial dining room buy more chickens, rabbits, pear fruits, bamboo poles and oil lamps to come back, I will use them when I go to court this morning." ”
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Not long ago, the morning sun was rising, and the civil and military officials blocking the palace gate had been waiting here early, but today was different from usual, especially the civil officials, many of them didn't seem to have a good rest, one by one with two big black circles under their eyes, and with the smell of chicken manure, yawning all day.
A military general in a tiger-striped court uniform in front of the crowd couldn't stand it anymore, and said to a civil official in his fifties on the right: "Du Xiang, didn't you fall into the chicken coop last night, haven't you civil officials always been proud of themselves?" Why did they all come to the court today with the smell of chicken manure, is this to smoke His Majesty to death? ”
This is a pun, implying the meaning of stealing chickens and touching dogs.
The man in a crane-patterned court dress turned to look at him, his eyes were full of thick disdain, this is the literati's contempt for the generals in their bones, thinking that they can only brute force, and they are stupid people who can't use their brains at all, and his eyes turned: "General Cheng's words are wrong, even if we all fall into the chicken nest, this is a kind of respect for knowledge, if this is for the sake of knowledge, even if it falls into the dung pit, the emperor will praise Du for a good voice, how to offend?" ”
Speechless, smelly, he could be so noble by him, Cheng Yong's face was parted, and he didn't want to look at him again, for fear of being soured by his sourness again.
Quietly glanced at the civil officials lined up behind Du Min, seeing that they were offended one by one, adding the smell of chicken manure all over their bodies, and some of their hands were not cleaned, Cheng Yong suddenly wanted to laugh, and when he met the emperor for a while, he must impeach this group of unsubordinated people, usually one by one in front of Lao Tzu to say courtesy, recently the emperor has been upset by them for the matter of King Qin, and he can't find a chance to get angry.
Thinking of this, Cheng Yong immediately burst out laughing, thinking to himself who made them so wolf-like, and when he looked back, he must thank them.
At this time, the palace door creaked open, and the eunuch's voice dragged high and long: "Shang Chao... The courtiers meet you..."R1152