"Madam, am I the kind of person who cares about grievances. Resentment or gratitude, I don't care about these old things! ”

"Then why are you still pressing?"

"You're so right, I'm just forcing him, forcing him to step on the same boat as my Chang clan! Don't you understand, ma'am? He is a family with a hereditary title, and as long as he does not make trouble, he can continue this lintel from generation to generation, and we are different! If we don't return to the country, we will be a pile of dry bones without a name or surname in another ten years! What will be the face to see your father then? ”

Mrs. Ye burst into tears when she was said, and just opened her mouth to persuade: "Zhiqiu ......"

Ye Zhiqiu was already angry, and interrupted her words: "I'm not called Zhiqiu, this is not my name at all!" Madame, I'm afraid I've forgotten my name, right? ”

"Zhiqiu...... Why are you doing this? No matter how you and I are, we have been people for most of our lives. Why can't you let go of these obsessions and live in peace? Even if it will become a pile of dry bones with no name and no surname in the future. But you and I have a smooth wind and rain in this life, and the four seasons are safe, which is a rare blessing in misfortune, are you so unwilling to spend the rest of your life with me? Since I was a child, you have said that you have to protect me and not let anyone hurt me. But now that you are thinking about the things you are secretly planning every day, everything makes me feel terrified, what Han Fu told you about Concubine Jing, have you already had any thoughts? How long will it take for you to let my mother and daughter go? Let's live some ordinary days? ”

"Madam, I know that you have no choice but to marry me, and I shouldn't have bothered you like this today, but I have to let you know a little bit, as long as we are still surnamed Chang, it is impossible to forget this hatred of the country!"

When Mrs. Ye heard this, she hissed and cried: "But what I was willing to marry was not a descendant of the Chang family, I just married a man named Ye Zhiqiu, a person who is willing to love me, that's all!" ”

When Ye Zhiqiu was about to say more, suddenly there was a sound of footsteps outside the hall, thinking that Ye Yin had come back from watching the light, so he had to look at Mrs. Ye hatefully and leave.

After a while, Ye Yin stepped into the hall and saw her mother sitting on a chair crying, she was shocked, and hurriedly asked, "Mother, what's wrong?" ”

When Mrs. Ye was crying sadly, she couldn't hide it if she wanted to, so she had to reply: "I quarreled with your father for a few words, and it won't get in the way." ”

"My father never argued with my mother, what could make my mother angry like this?"

"Nothing, it's just ...... It's just that I want to go to see the lights too, and your father doesn't want to go with me. ”

Ye Yin wondered, what kind of big deal can this look at the lamp, to quarrel like this, there must be a hidden feeling, just about to ask again, Mrs. Ye cried again.

"For your father in my life, I just want to look at the lanterns and visit the market with him like an ordinary person, and there is no other luxury, but ...... But he just didn't want to. ”

Ye Yin is even more strange, for such a trivial matter, her mother cried so fiercely, but her expression didn't look like she was telling a lie, what the hell was going on?

"My father has always been lazy to go out, and this year's lantern festival has ended, so it's better for me to accompany my mother to go shopping next year."

Mrs. Ye was still in tears, unable to answer, so she had to reluctantly squeeze out a smile and was noncommittal.

This is exactly what it is:

Every year, the lights are like day, and the streamers are different.

This situation is difficult to solve the old hatred, and it is difficult to recover the water.

* * * * * *

On the street in front of the Yamen of Xinyang County, Jingzhou Prefecture, people come and go, and the traffic is busy. It's not because of the developed trade in Xinyang County, on the contrary, there are not many shops in the entire county, so they are all crowded on one street.

Li Chongyan, the "county magistrate" of Xinyang County, is accustomed to the environment here, and when he has nothing to do, he will go to the street to have a look. It should have been a joy for his father to let him go back to the imperial capital at the end of the month to go to the Ministry of Rites to experience, after all, he didn't want to stay for a moment in this kind of poor and remote place.

But this Xinyang County is a place that he has spent his own efforts to take care of, and it is only a month away, and he is actually a little reluctant.

It's like planting a pot of flowers by yourself, no matter how beautiful it is, it looks good.

On this day, the wind and the sun were beautiful, Li Chongyan planned to go out again, he specially instructed the prince not to follow, and by the way, let the dragon guards who were guarding in the distance also hide away, and the prince guessed what he meant, and obediently informed him.

The prince, who has always been thoughtful, is so relieved that he goes out alone?

Because the prince knows where Li Chongyan went.

Ever since Li Chongyan met the kid named Cao Xiwen, he would go to him every once in a while to drink and chat. This Cao Xiwen has nothing else, he is still quite good in martial arts, and his temperament is also refreshing. The prince secretly asked the dragon guards to disguise themselves as market gangsters to test him, and he had some young heroic skills and demeanor. So with him, His Highness should be fine. What's more, His Royal Highness didn't want Cao Xiwen to know his identity before, he said that it was rare to have someone of a similar age who could speak, and what he wanted was this freedom.

Of course, the most crucial reason why Li Chongyan went out without an escort was that he thought he was the Qingtian Lord of Xinyang County.

That's a given. In a poor place like Xinyang County, he has never suffered since he was appointed as the county commander.

Taxes on money and food? Exempt!

Local tyrants and inferior gentry? Beat!

Disaster relief silver? Double!

The road is broken, repair!

The bridge is broken, built!

As long as I, Li Chongyan, want to do it, where can I not do it?

No one asks for it from the Jingzhou government, and if there is no money, it asks the Jingzhou government.

What the county order does is for the benefit of the people, and it is a serious reason to go wherever you go, and it is absolutely justifiable to ask people for money.

Speaking of which, Li Chongyan felt that this Jingzhou prefect was quite familiar. The money to be built was given immediately, and the money to be borrowed from the neighboring counties was to be borrowed from the bridge.

This prefect is simply the Maitreya Buddha in the temple, and he responds to all requests. It's just a little strange, every time I go to the house to ask for it, I always happen to meet the prefect himself, either because he is ill, or he goes out to inspect.

But what does it matter? Anyway, the prefect will solve the problem for himself if he is not there. No, wouldn't you even be free of politeness, and be happy.

How did he know that this prefect of Jingzhou was Li Zhuo, the prefect who called the master who made chestnut cakes in Cifang Ancient Town to the post station in order to please himself when he went to Bihai last year. It was precisely because he had met with himself that Li Zhuo heard that Li Chongyan was the magistrate who had hidden his identity, so he hid and did not dare to see him, for fear of breaking this layer of window paper and violating the holy will.

Therefore, whenever Li Chongyan appeared at the door of the Jingzhou Mansion, Li Zhuo hurriedly went under the table, asked the people under his command to greet him, and instructed Li Chongyan to answer all the requirements first

should come down.

This is the prince, don't say that he wants silver and people, he just wants the moon in the sky Li Zhuo has to pick it for him.

So in just a month, Xinyang County has a new atmosphere.

The bullying of the people in the county is gone, who can dominate the iron-faced and selfless "Li Qingtian"? In the past, the local tyrants dared to ride the county order because they colluded with the prefect Li Zhuo, but now Li Zhuo heard that it was the local tyrants of Xinyang County who came to the mansion to complain, and they all beat them back with random sticks, and in a blink of an eye, the local tyrants turned into turtles.

There is no more robbery of houses, and the people are all fed, who is still doing that when they are full? However, the bandits in the surrounding mountains were very red-eyed, and when they heard that the disaster relief silver had doubled, they wanted to do it.

Li Chongyan heard it, can this still be difficult for me? Whoever comes and puts up the notice, but if you catch a bandit who comes from outside to rob, you will be given eighty taels of silver if you catch it alive, and one hundred taels if you are hacked to death on the spot!

So the bandits came, but they didn't enter the county seat, they all guarded the edge of the county, staring at the passers-by like black-eyed chickens, just looking at who was coming to rob, and ready to go up with a knife to rob people's heads. The more this is the case, the more no one dares to do it, for fear that as soon as he draws his knife, he will be regarded as a bandit and become a hundred taels of silver in someone else's pocket.

Rich and powerful is cool, and even being a county official is so happy.

Gradually, Li Chongyan felt that walking on the streets of this tattered Xinyang County was also a kind of enjoyment, and the people knew him, and they all saluted and shouted Li Qingtian when they saw him. The taste was even more comfortable than when others called him His Royal Highness the Crown Prince before.

In this way, Li Chongyan was just one person when he first went out. By the time I walked through the busiest street, there were already two more servants and a bunch of things behind me.

The shopkeeper of the wine shop saw "Li Qingtian" coming from a long way, and hurriedly greeted two small servants with two jars of wine to greet him, and the Yao Po roast chicken shop next door sent another chicken, and the Lin siu mai shop on the street added two cages of siu mai. "Li Qingtian" was proud of receiving a bunch of things, and bumped into the old man Liu who had just come back from digging bamboo shoots in the mountains, so he took four fresh mud bamboo shoots with thick arms. Before he could pull his feet, the butcher on the side smiled and slipped over two packets of fine pork belly, saying that it was best to braise them with bamboo shoots.

"Li Qingtian" has long forgotten that he once said that he would not take a stitch from the people, but it is just some food, how much is it worth? What's more, Li Chongyan is not greedy for this little thing, but the feeling is very refreshing when others offer it. It's strange to say, no matter how many rare treasures were sent by others in the palace before, I wasn't so happy, why do I collect a few mud shoots and a few jars of wine now, and I use it so much.

However, the main reason why Li Chongyan collected these things was for Cao Xiwen.

Cao Xiwen's family is not poor, but he is definitely not rich, he is a person who practices martial arts, and the amount of food can be three times larger than Li Chongyan, and the first time we drank and ate together, we almost didn't bluff Li Chongyan. His grandmother sighed on the side, and he alone accounted for half of the family's rations. When Li Chongyan heard this, he took out the silver to give it to Cao Xiwen, but Cao Xiwen glared back.

"If you want to pay for it, then don't eat here."

Li Chongyan grew up, where did anyone around him dare to talk to him like this, but he actually obediently took back the money.

Good friends are rare.

Later, Li Chongyan thought of a way, every time he went to Cao Xiwen's house, he went to the street to take a walk and receive something.

He found that Cao didn't mind the things sent by his neighbors.

(End of chapter)