Han Xiao smiled at Brother Shun: "My sister is still young, sleep more to grow up faster, and play with Brother Shun?" ”

Brother Shun pursed his mouth, leaned his chin on the edge of the hanging basket, and still looked at his sister with blank eyes.

For a while, a little girl came in with a burden in her hand: "Grandma, this is just sent in by Ermen, and it is said that it is a letter from Beijing." ”

Brother Shun immediately raised his head and raised his finger at the girl to prevent her from speaking loudly.

The girl was stunned, and hurriedly raised her hand and mouth to cover it, looking at this young master puzzled.

Han Xiao smiled and asked Xia He to bring the things over, and asked people to bring snacks to this girl.

Sitting on the kang and putting the needle and thread in his hand aside, Han Xiao asked the maids to untie the burden and take out the letter.

If she has something to do with official business, she put it aside and waited for Bai Anheng to come back in the evening and show it to him. I have taken letters from female relatives and friends in Beijing,

Li Yun's husband let go of his foreign duties, and now she has a body, and wrote back to Beijing to report the good news to Han Yun. Han Xiao also sent some freshly thought out menus along with the letter, since there was such a princess who loves to ponder eating and drinking, the banquet held in their mansion again, everyone was quite fond of discussing after they went - whether it is delicious or not, put it aside first, anyway, fresh things are always indispensable.

Looking at his mother's letter again, Han Chi, the eldest grandson of the uncle's family who lives in the family, has already died this year, and he is also on the list, and it is good to have a Jinshi background. As for that Han Zhen......

Han Yu looked at the few lines on the letter with a strange face, saying that his grandmother in his hometown missed his grandson and called him back to his hometown to have fun with his family.

That Han Zhen, can you really be willing to go back?

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Han Zhen, who was far away in Fen'an, was locked up in a small courtyard. The yard is pickled and aggrieved, and the sun can't shine all day long, don't talk about living on weekdays, even if you pass by unintentionally, you won't look at it for half a look. But now, he can only live here.

The old lady at home is sick or not, he doesn't know what to do, he only knows that he was locked up here by his father when he came back. Naturally, before coming, he was still holding the board and stool, and he was so angry that he couldn't get out of bed until now. I don't know which person in the family in Beijing secretly stabbed the old man about where he had been and how much he spent.

"Don't tell me to know what kind of bastard did it...... Ouch...... It hurts me to death......" There was a tremor in his voice, but because of his lack of confidence, he didn't even hear the subordinates guarding outside the window...... The old man has already said those words, if he is not afraid that if the old lady is told to know the truth, he will be angry and unfilial again, and it will be light to be beaten to death the day before yesterday!

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Bai Anheng returned home, the clothes on his body had already been soaked with sweat, and when he entered the door, he stood on the edge of the iceberg at the door, and he took the fan from the little girl's hand and fanned it vigorously.

When Han Xiao heard the sound, he saw him standing on the edge of the ice greedily, and stepped forward with a smile and said with a towel: "It's just wrung out, it's still hot, wipe it, it's not good to always stand next to this thing." ”

After taking the hot towel and wiping his face, the wind blew on his face again, and it cooled down all of a sudden, and then he breathed a sigh of relief, and walked inside, while untying the clothes on his body: "After half an hour on the horse, I almost lost a layer of skin." ”

"There are sedan chairs that don't like to sit, and it's hot to blame?" Han Xiao glanced at him with disgust, and hurriedly put aside the clothes he had taken off, "The water is ready, let's go take a bath first." ”

While answering in his mouth, he walked behind the screen: "The sedan chair is stuffy, and if you take the sun outside, where can you sit inside?" It's better to ride a horse cooler, but it's a little windy. ”

The courteous county magistrate, who doesn't like to sit in a sedan chair and loves to ride a horse, I don't know how many people's jaws dropped when he first came to Hexian, and now, everyone is used to it.

Anyway, Bai Anheng is still young, and it is not a big deal for young people to love a romantic and famous ride. As long as everyone follows the front and back, no one will say anything more.

"Today, the letter from Beijing has been delivered again." Han Xiao took the change of clothes and walked towards the screen, and there was a sound of water behind him, and he heard that someone had already sat in.

"Hmm."

Answered, when Han Yu entered, there was no one in sight on the water, and after a long time, he saw a head come out of the water, even his hair and face were wet, and the black hair was scattered and draped over his shoulders.

Putting the clothes on the shelf on the side, Han Xiao glanced at him with a smile, this person loves to burrow into the water when he takes a bath in the summer, and even takes Brother Shun to wash with him twice, and he has to learn to stick his head into the water, which almost scared those maids half to death.

One hand on the edge of the bucket, wiped the water on his face, turned his head to look at Han Xiao, and suddenly smiled: "Wenhui, why don't you come in together?" ”

His face turned red, and he flung his sleeves and dodged out. The last time I helped him wipe his body, he was pulled in, and the water flooded the ground, and afterwards he only made so much trouble that he was embarrassed to even look at the maid's face, and he still dared?!

Wait for Bai Anheng to take a bath before coming out, and the meals outside have been arranged. Han Xiao laid out the dishes and chopsticks, fed Brother Shun a little paste to the maid, and when he saw Bai Anheng coming out, he was busy sitting down with him without mentioning it.

After reading the family letter, Bai Anheng was in a good mood, and pulled Han Yu to sit on the edge of the bed and talk.

“…… The harvest in those fields was good in the first year, but this year after these plantings I went to a few nearby towns and counties, and as long as there are no natural disasters*, it will be good by the time of the autumn harvest. The emperor has this in mind, if the harvest in our county is good this year, and when it comes next year, he will have to choose a few more places to try to do this. ”

I stayed in Hexian for three years, only this poor land to grow food, it is a great credit, if it is not for the credit of the five princes and the emperor, such a good thing, where is the turn to get his head?

Han Xiao listened with a smile, and responded to two sentences from time to time. He is a county official here, as long as there is no major incident, she is naturally very relieved. I used to be afraid that he was still young, and I was afraid that he would be embarrassed when he took office, but now it seems that where is the need to those idleness?

"I'm out of the confinement this time, I can walk around, the ladies in the city have invited me to go out of the city to walk around since last year, before because of the big belly called me to push, now I'm afraid that I can't shirk, I have to go out to socialize, but the rules here are very different from Beijing......

"You can go wherever you want, bring enough people, and I'll ask Mr. Fang and them to arrange some good and safe people to follow you." Bai Anheng smiled, "If you want to go out, you can go out, even when I was in Beijing, I was afraid that you would suffocate at home, let alone here?" Brother Shun is also the time to move, first let him follow you out of the city to have a walk, and then in the autumn, I will take you to the nearby Zhuangzi to see the harvest, it is very important to let him go out more and have a long experience. ”

Now that the county is still safe, and the things that the emperor has explained, he will only be able to act according to the instructions of the earlier saint and wait for the news from the county to act according to the order.

Although there is still the matter of the people in Lanzhou, since the matter was reported to the emperor after being ordered to find out last time, it is no longer a matter that I should worry about.

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After the weather was no longer dry and hot, Han Yu socialized with some families in Hexian County. When I was a child, I often took Brother Shun out with him. The customs of Hexian County are different from those in Beijing, that is, occasionally go to the market and walk around, and Han Yu can also take Brother Shun to walk around outside. There are people arranged by Fang Delong and Wang Anqi to follow, so there is no need to worry about the safety when traveling.

Almost in the blink of an eye, it was time for the autumn harvest to approach. The weather was cool, Bai Anheng was about to go to the countryside to take a walk to see the harvest of the grain planted this year, so he simply took his wife and children out together, arranged it in a clean village, and took people to check in the surrounding villages.

Brother Shun was so fresh, although he didn't remember the time when Jiang Zhe just took him to Hexian to play in the first year, but he didn't love the first-class things of the crickets. Han Xiao took him to the street several times, but as soon as he heard the movement from the gnats cage over there, he couldn't walk.

When he wanted these things, he didn't cry or make trouble, so he asked the girl to hold him, and he looked at the place where the gnats were sold, and when he turned two streets, he looked straight to the place where he had just come. Seeing that Han Xiao's heart was sour, he only made trouble every time he came out, and when he went back, he had to bring him two gnats cages.

Now that he was in the wilderness, he was even more insane.

Living in this farmhouse courtyard, Han Yu instructed people to clean up the yard and house, and then smoke the inside of the house, so as not to call any insects and snakes accidentally get in. I brought Sister Hui over again, afraid that she would catch a cold on the road when she came. After seeing his daughter, he called Brother Shun again, and then found that at some point, the kid ran to the outside yard with a group of girls and boys.

Hurriedly asked someone to pick up this kid who was running around crazy as soon as he could walk, and as soon as he saw Han Xiao'er's face, Brother Shun stretched out two black mud paws and rushed straight at Han Xiaole, and while pointing at the back of his head, he lowered his head and hated to shrink his neck together, and the kid shouted: "Worm!" Bugs! ”

Unable to ask someone to wipe his hands with wet wipes, Han Xiao asked the few little girls who followed, "What kind of bugs did he catch?" ”

The little girl lowered her head and whispered, "Back to Madame's words, young master...... The young master wants to catch the crickets......"

"Got it?"

The little girls shook their heads together, and one of them was bolder, pointing to the kid behind him and said, "The young master asked the boys to turn over the bricks and stones, but the crickets didn't catch them, but they found a lot of ...... Turtle ......"

Speechless, he opened his mouth, Han Yun turned around and was about to talk about his son, when he saw Brother Shun, who had just wiped his hands and face, even his face was flushed, his mouth was open, and his eyes narrowed with a smile: "Mother, hug!" ”

……

Zhang Hand hugged his son into his arms, Han Xiao sighed helplessly, and then vaguely remembered that when he came to the countryside, it was Bai Anheng who promised that he would take his son to catch crickets when he arrived here, and he made a fuss, so let Brother Shun remember it!

"What about the bugs?"

“…… The young master asked someone to bring the jar and put it up. "The little girls trembled, those turtles don't look like they can be used in medicine, but they look really disgusting!

"Keep it, and send it to the second master when he comes back!" It's not him who made a fuss! With that, Han Yu picked up Brother Shun and went back to the house.

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Hexian is the time when autumn is high and cool, but there is an autumn tiger in Beijing, which is hotter than the middle of summer, and it is uncomfortable in people's hearts and ears.

In the palace, the emperor has already changed from a single coat to a jacket, but there is no sweat on his face, but in the evening, he still has some cough and chills.

frowned slightly and looked at the paper fold in his hand, then raised his hand into a fist, coughed lightly twice, sighed slowly, closed his eyes, leaned his head on the back of the chair behind him, and didn't know what to think.

After a while, there was a sound of footsteps outside the hall, and a person said at the door: "Your Majesty, Your Highness has arrived." ”

After a while, a "hmm" came from inside.

Gently open the door, the eunuch did not dare to enter by himself, and after the eldest prince entered the house, he lightly closed the door.

The eldest prince stood at the table, saluted the emperor, and when the emperor raised his hand and ordered him to sit, he looked up at the emperor.

His eyes were a little red, his face was yellow, and he coughed twice. The eldest prince lowered his eyes, although he was worried about the increasingly unbearable body of the old father, but in the end, there was still a trace of expectation.

There is only one big seat, and only the person above the seat can take the turn of the person below to sit. He's been waiting for more than thirty years, and now, it's almost coming......

Suppressing the joy in his eyes, the eldest prince only persuaded: "Father, it is autumn now, and there is also internal heat in autumn dryness, why don't you call the imperial doctor in another day and prescribe a few pairs of medicine to clear the fire and reduce dryness?" ”

"Hmm." The emperor snorted noncommittally, raised his hand and pinched the bridge of his nose in the middle of his eyes, and said, "Now that the autumn harvest is imminent, the northwest side, I'm afraid it won't be calm." ”

The eldest prince hurriedly smiled and said: "Father doesn't have to worry, with Zhuang and Zhao guarding over there, there will be no big mistakes." ”

The emperor sighed lightly and nodded slightly: "In the past two years, there have been disasters outside the fortress for many years, but I am afraid that the Huns will be difficult to bear, and I am afraid that they will take risks." ”

"The warriors in the army are gearing up, only waiting for those Huns to attack, before they can descend to ten meetings - my father also knows that those Huns are the best at riding and shooting, and they grow on the prairie, if they hide back outside the fortress, they can find their traces. If you get to the edge of our city, even if you want to leave afterwards, it's not so easy. ”

Raising his eyelids and glancing at his ambitious eldest son, the emperor only nodded slightly: "I hope so." ”

Seeing that the emperor seemed to be a little tired, the eldest prince hurriedly got up and retired.

The emperor still closed his eyes, and after a long time, he sighed softly again, and suddenly said in a loud voice: "Can the boss of the Bai family be on duty today?" ”

The big eunuch at the door heard the sound and hurriedly said: "Back to the emperor, I am on duty in front of the palace." ”

"Call him in."

Bai Anyu hurriedly entered the hall when he heard the sound, and stood at the table respectfully.

The emperor held his cup, not knowing what he was pondering, and after half a cup of tea, Fang said: "When you were in the army that day, you heard that you fought with those rude men in the army all day long? ”

Bai Anyu's expression did not move, and he clenched his fists and said: "If you go back to Your Majesty, there is such a trend in the army, if you don't have some skills, naturally no one will be convinced." ”

The emperor had a smile on his face: "If you didn't do anything, why did they fight with you?" ”

Bai Anyu was stunned, opened his mouth, and explained: "When the minister first joined the army...... It doesn't look like a martial artist. "-Naturally not, after all, Bai Anyu was born in a scholarly family, although he has liked martial arts and swords since he was a child, but after all, he is a literati in his bones, and his actions naturally bring out some literati popularity.

And because he is a member of the Bai family, Bai Chi was annoyed that this son left home at that time, and he must have been worried in his heart, asking someone to explain one or two, he was naturally a little sent in the past, which is naturally different from those who slowly go up from the bottom to the top with military skills, how can people look at him pleasing to the eye?

"It's kind of interesting to look at now, but listening to your talk and looking at your behavior, it's still your father's son." The emperor has naturally seen serious rough people, what are those courtiers who fight with military merits look like? What does Anjue Bai look like? Nature is easy to see at a glance.

It's just that he has been training in the army for a few years, and some things are still engraved in his bones, which are a little different from those who blindly spell them out.

"The emperor is smiling." I don't know why the emperor suddenly mentioned this, Bai Anyu had no choice but to respond like this.

"According to you, which general in the court today you admire?"

Bai Anyu was slightly stunned in his heart, thought about it, and then hugged his fists and said: "All the generals are highly respected, and the ministers admire them very much. ”

"I didn't ask you to learn your father's words with me, just to say it directly." The emperor waved his hand, and there was some impatience in his words.

Bai Anyu's heart was slightly cold, and he thought about it again, and said: "General Ning was a general several generations ago, and the minister once heard my father say that when the Ning family guarded the border to defend against foreign enemies, no one in my Dahe Dynasty praised or disproportionately praised it. As he spoke, he raised his eyes slightly to look at the emperor, and saw that his face was pale and he didn't seem to react. After thinking about it, he said, "There is also General Wu, who led the army to defend the northeast back then, and only fought the Hu people in the northern region to retreat for 3,000 miles, and he did not dare to offend the prestige of my Dahe Dynasty again, and the minister admired it very much." ”

"Oh?" The emperor raised his eyebrows slightly, raised his hand and coughed a few times, and said, "Wu Qiran is a little handsome, but some of them think very highly of themselves, and they have merit, and they will inevitably act publicly, and there is no one in their eyes." ”

Bai Anyu only hung his head, not daring to respond.

After a while, the emperor suddenly laughed: "That's right, I heard that your cousin is going to marry the fourth lady in the general's mansion?" When did it happen? ”

Bai Anyu said: "It's October. ”

The emperor raised his head and thought about it, and said curiously: "You said that you admired Wu Qiran, didn't you give your cousin face?" ”

Bai Anxi hurriedly clenched his fists again: "The minister doesn't dare." After a pause, he replied, "The minister was in the army, the martial arts were straightforward, and those who had meritorious service were proud of their merits." Those who have no merit are happy to admire and yearn for those who have made high achievements. Many people in the army yearn for admiration for famous military generals, and the atmosphere has always been like this. Although the cousin of the Chen family is married to the general's mansion, the minister has never known General Wu, only knows his military exploits and admires this person. ”

"That's the case...... the emperor raised his eyebrows, laughed again, coughed a few more times, and nodded, "What you said also has some truth, although Wu Qiran has some eyes on no one, it was also a truth that was too rigid earlier, and now ......" Because he didn't like his appearance of self-reliance on merit back then, although he had to reward meritorious heroes, he really snubbed him for many years after that. Now that I think about it, has he not been better than a year after all these years? The people in the middle of the court no longer have the appearance of rampage......

When Bai Anyu retreated, the emperor suddenly remembered something, and called his personal henchman eunuch: "I remember that Wu Qiran's family has a daughter, who seems to have been given to Yi'er as a side concubine?" ”

The eunuch was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly smiled dryly: "That Concubine Wu ......" said, lowering her voice a little, "The ...... was gone when I was a child at the beginning of the first year."

"Gone?" The emperor was stunned, he hadn't heard of this......

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After staying in Zhuangzi outside the city for eight days, Bai Anhengfang returned to Hexian with his family.

When Brother Shun was leaving, in addition to the turtle insects that he had asked someone to dig up earlier, he also brought a large number of crickets, grasshoppers, grasshoppers, and autumn cicadas that he caught with Bai Anheng.

Although there are these things in Hexian County, they are not easier to catch than in the village, and Brother Shun can't wait to catch them all with his left and right hands, and even the car is full.

Although Han Xiao didn't like these things, he didn't allow him to take them in the back room, but he still didn't stop the two of them, and allowed them to take them back—but they were not allowed to get them to the inner house.

As soon as the people returned to the house, in addition to placing the things and objects at home, after a few days, they looked for the wives of the Feng family and the Yang family to come over, and found a local painter who was very good at painting grass and insects, and asked them to draw some tricks, and go back to make some tents, clothes, and fan covers for Brother Shun.

Within two days, the appearance was sent to the house. Although it is not as delicate and delicate as the one that Han Xiao painted at the beginning, it is very wild and fresh. On a whim, Han Xiao asked how many embroidery girls who painted this trick, and there was an embroidery building in this county, so he made an appointment with Yang and Feng, and went to the embroidery building in person in a few days.

Now that it is convenient to travel, Han Xiao greeted Bai Anheng the first day, and the next morning, he prepared his carriage and horses to go out.

Brother Shun was crazy because of the first few days of playing, and he was too tired, and he had to sleep a little more every day to get up. Han Yu didn't take him with him, but only took his subordinates and went out.

The three carriages and horses converged in one place, and first met in a restaurant compartment in the city, and then went out together to the embroidery building.

Walking on the road, you can also go to the market along the way. Although this is the time when the farming is busy, some farmers have harvested things in the field and made some new and ingenious things to sell in the city, which is also a bit interesting to watch.

The three women walked together, laughing and whispering together. When he arrived at the entrance where the embroidery building was, Han Xiao swept it casually, and saw a few beggars squatting or sitting or kneeling at the intersection over there.

has children and daughters, and because his life experience is a little bizarre, Han Zhen has good thoughts, so he asked the maids to take some scattered silver coins to them. The three of them entered the embroidery building and took a turn, and saw that although the things here were embroidered ordinary, they were indeed a little fresh and ingenious, but they were also worth seeing.

It took about half an hour to get out of here again, get into the carriage, and turn back to the house.

People sat in the car, with gauze curtains hanging on both sides, and looked out from time to time through the curtain, and saw that after the downtown intersection, there were some beggars in tattered clothes staying there, Han Yu was a little puzzled, and asked Qian's mother: "Can you hear that there is a disaster nearby?" ”

Mother Qian wondered: "Although the snow has been heavier in the northwest in the past two years, I haven't heard of any city disasters that are so bad?" What's more, there is our second master taking care of the ground? ”

"And where did these beggars come from?" Occasionally, one or two children are normal, but it is difficult to keep the family and half of the family can't survive, or those who are in a situation of embarrassment for a while, so they have to beg for a living. But when I came out today, I had already met many beggars along the way, and if there was not a famine in some places, how could I have encountered so many?

"Ask the little guy to send some steamed bread and grain over, and ask them to inquire by the way?" Mother Qian knew that since Bai Anheng was the county magistrate of this county, these things were naturally under his control, and since Mrs. saw it, she naturally had to inquire clearly.

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