Bai Juyi hesitated and said: "This kind of bellows was originally used in military and smelting, but it is not denied that he does have a great impact on the people's home life, everyone knows that now the imperial court promotes the use of coal, coal has high calorific value, durable, cheaper than firewood, but the shortcomings are also obvious, that is, it is not easy to ignite, and it will be extinguished if you are not careful, the housewives are very angry, this kind of bellows came at the right time, each family has a small bellows, and the fire is quickly ignited when cooking, which can be said to be the savior of the housewives." .......”

The soldier sitting next to him gently touched Bai Juyi with his foot, and Bai Juyi found that the man sitting in the front had an ugly face and stared at him viciously.

Bai Juyi ignored him and continued: "So this article is placed in the people's livelihood column in order to vigorously promote this kind of household bellows, which is indeed a blessing for people's livelihood!" ”

Bai Juyi's face slap made Wei Min very annoyed in his heart, this late bastard dared to break his own description, he had to be kicked out, but to drive Bai Juyi out, the master needed to speak, Wei Min's eyes rolled, and he smiled at Shi Hongsleeve: "The girl still has to give lessons to the students in the afternoon, we talked for an hour and a half, and it's almost over, or today's poetry will be here!" ”

Shi Hongsleeve glanced at Bai Juyi deeply, nodded and said, "Then let's stop here today!" Thank you for coming, let the red sleeves grow a lot of knowledge. ”

She stood up and saluted everyone, "I won't send you away, go first." ”

She turned around and walked into the back room, everyone got up one after another, talked and laughed and went out, Wei Min patted Bai Juyi's shoulder heavily, and said with a mocking smile: "The poetry and music meeting let the virtuous brother talk about a ventilator, I'm really sorry, I didn't give the virtuous brother more time to play, next time I want to come early!" ”

After speaking, he raised his head and smiled, swaggering away, he was very confident that Shi Hongsleeve would inevitably invite him alone next time.

Everyone is gone, Bai Juyi smiled bitterly, why did he bother to make this trip?

He saw that there was still most of the tea left, and it was a pity to pour it, so he took the teacup and drank it in one gulp, and got up to leave.

At this time, the round-faced girl walked in, holding a pen in her hand, and smiled at Bai Juyi: "The girl said that the last poem was not finished, so please make up for it!" ”

She lowered her voice and said, "It's because I didn't finish writing that the girl wanted to look at the back that I let you come." ”

Bai Juyi smiled dumbly, it turned out that this was the reason, he was actually because the paper was too small at that time to write, so he only wrote four sentences.

Bai Juyi laid out the paper and lifted the pen with a wave.

"Kankarima"

The Tian family has few idle months, and people are busy in May.

The south wind rose at night, and the wheat was covered with yellow.

The woman and aunt eat lotus, and the child carries the pot pulp,

He went with Yutian, and Ding Zhuang was in Nangang.

The feet are steaming in the summer and the rustic, and the back is burning in the sky,

I don't know the heat, but I regret the long summer.

And there was a poor woman, with her child by her side,

The right hand holds the relic, and the left arm hangs the basket.

Listening to their words, those who hear it are sad.

The family land lost all the taxes, and they were hungry.

What merit do I have today? I didn't do anything about farming.

There are 300 stones, and there is surplus grain in the year,

I am ashamed to remember this, and I will never forget it.

........

After writing, he put down his pen and arched his hand and smiled: "Thank you, little lady, Bai Juyi has said goodbye!" ”

He turned and walked briskly.

Everyone was gone, and Shi Hongsleeve slowly walked out of the room, "Xiaohe, did he write?" ”

"Written!"

The round-faced girl handed the poem to Shi Hongsleeves, Shi Hongsleeves read it carefully, and her face suddenly showed a look of shock, and she couldn't help but sigh softly.

She read it again and couldn't help but praise: "Good poetry, it really deserves to be the fourth place in Jinshi!" ”

"Girl, he may wear such clothes because his family is not very good, others don't drink much tea, but he drinks it all, Xiaohe thinks he is very thrifty."

"That's because he's thirsty, and it has nothing to do with frugality, and others only drink tea out of politeness, understand?"

"But... He did come in a hurry, although he was late, Xiaohe felt that he should still be sincere. ”

Shi Hongsleeve said lightly: "I believe he is very busy, but sincerity may not be, if he hasn't read the newspaper, how can he answer my last question?" He still had time to read the newspaper, and I didn't believe he was in a hurry, maybe he was just putting on a show. ”

"Girl, but he hasn't even eaten lunch! Hungry growling, I heard it, and he.... He may have been sitting in an ox cart reading the newspaper and could not have come to such conclusions. ”

Shi Hongsleeve tilted his head to look at the maid and smiled: "Xiaohe, I found that you like him a lot, and speak for him like this." ”

Ai Ai said: "Girl, I think he is a good match, and he is a good match for the girl, it's really a pity to give up him!" ”

Shi Hongsleeve's face flushed, and she snorted, "What is the dead girl talking about!" ”

Xiaohe was about to cry, "Girl, I believe I didn't see the wrong person, he is really easy-going and kind, he is a good person, the son surnamed Wei said to me, 'Uncle will reward you with silver next time!'" 'Girl, don't pay attention to such people. ”

"You girl, I really don't know what to say about you, don't worry about it anymore, what should I do, I have my own measure, clean up the piano, let's go back."

Shi Hongsleeve took the poem and turned back to his residence, and Xiaohe followed behind with the qin, muttering all the way.

..........

The West Surrender City is the northernmost of the three surrendered cities in Yinshan, officially renamed Hengsai County three years ago, it was originally a military city, but because of the practical needs of the grassland tribes for the Central Plains materials, we formed a tacit understanding, no one looted this city, it is this tacit understanding, so that the business of the West Surrender City has been very developed, for more than 20 years, has been the most developed commercial concentration in the Hetao area.

Hengsai County was part of Fengzhou, and it was garrisoned by 500 Jin soldiers, but the army was mainly guarding the city gates and maintaining order.

Five years ago, the imperial court set up the Fengsheng Governor's Office, under the jurisdiction of Fengzhou and Shengzhou, the territory is vast, north to Yinshan, Daqing Mountain, south to the desert, east to west width of 1,500 li, north and south width of up to 500 li.

At present, the governor of Fengsheng is appointed by Li Ji, that is, the leader of the 300 soldiers who followed Guo Song to the Western Regions, there are 20,000 garrisons, and the Han people who have moved from all over the country have reached 200,000 people, and there are seven counties such as Jiuyuan, Feng'an, Yongfeng, Fengxi, Hengsai, Yulin, and Hebin, which are rich in grain, sugar beets and grapes.

On this morning, a caravan passed through Yinshan and arrived at Hengsai County, the caravan came from the northern grassland, passed through the uninhabited grassland along the way, and as soon as it entered the city, the noisy and lively atmosphere came to the face.

There are many inns, restaurants, brothels in Hengsai County, the food supply is sufficient, and there is a Hengsai River that melts and gathers from the Yin Mountain Snow Water to cross the city, the two sides of the river are planted with poplars and elm trees, and the population living here all the year round is nearly 30,000 people, making Hengsai County a veritable pearl in the Yin Mountain.

This caravan consisted of more than a hundred camels, and when he went to the steppe, he was laden with tea cakes, the most popular commodity in the steppe, surpassing silk and porcelain, and selling them in Hengsai County was five times more profitable, and if he went deep into the steppe, he could get ten times the profit.

Now they have returned from the steppe, and the goods have been exchanged for high-quality sheepskins,

But now it is late October, and the business of Hengsai County is about to enter the off-season, the road is closed by heavy snow, and all commercial activities must be stopped, and it is impossible to go north now, but there is still a chance to go south for the last ten days, once it enters the beginning of November, it will snow heavily in the entire Toyosu and grassland.

Many Han merchants in the county are packing their luggage, ready to go south, they are not like in the past with boxes of silver or copper coins to the south, heavy and unsafe, now they all bring the three major counters of the silver or money tickets, directly to Chang'an exchange, although to pay a handling fee of three cents, but they are still willing.

The proprietor of this caravan is called Li Yulin, a middle-aged man in his forties, he is Li An's nephew, Li An has retired, but he has invested in a large business, which needs to be taken care of by two sons, and then the northbound caravan was handed over to his nephew Li Yulin, Li Yulin is not a novice, he has followed his uncle Li An back and forth to the grassland and the Central Plains for almost twenty years, and his connections in the tribes in Mobei even exceed that of his uncle.

This time, there are more than a dozen special members in Li Yulin's team, they are the internal security investigation team sent by Zhou Min, looking for clues about the old man surnamed Kang, Zhou Min found the real name of the old man surnamed Kang from the mansion in Xinfeng County, called Kang Hongxin, who had lived in the Hui Department for 20 years.

"Let's stay first!"

Li Yulin said to Feng Jian, the leader of the internal guards: "Stay here first, and then investigate the news of Musuo." ”

This time they went to the grassland basically did not harvest, only got a clue, more than 20 years ago there was indeed a group of Sogdian merchants from Kangguo back and forth, about twenty or thirty people, they came with the Hui merchant Mu Suo, at present this Mu Suo and his son opened a sheepskin shop in Hengsai County, if you want to inquire about the news of the Sogdians twenty years ago, this Mu Suo knows best, if even he does not know, then no one knows.

With a glimmer of hope, everyone returned to Hengsai County, Feng Jian nodded, and said a little sullenly: "Let's stay first!"