Chapter 21: Getting Rid of All Things (Part II)
Gongsun Xun was a little drunk, and couldn't tell whether he was really drunk or fake, and slowly paced to the backyard, but saw his wife sitting on a railing under the eaves of the backyard, looking up at the stars.
"Ah Yun is so interested," Gongsun Xun strolled over, waved the maid standing behind his wife away, and then bent down to hold the other party. "The summer breeze is long, the galaxy is bright, it is indeed beautiful enough."
Zhao Yun didn't look back, just stared at the Milky Way above his head and said frankly: "It's not to look at the Milky Way, but to look at two of the stars and ......."
"Let me guess," Gongsun Xun sat sideways beside his wife, and then said jokingly. "Isn't it the second star of Morning Glory and Weaver Girl?"
The story of Altair and Vega has a prototype as early as in the Book of Songs, and at this time, the story is even more complete, probably to completely personify and husband and wife, and then create a plot where the Milky Way separates the couple on both sides of the strait, and only the Qixi Festival meets, and thus a traditional festival was born - Qixi Festival.
Then, a large number of customs were derived.
"Ranye......" Zhao Yun still looked up at the starry sky, but her voice couldn't help but be a little flustered, because her husband suddenly put his nose on her neck.
"Ah Yun, this is a special incense?" Gongsun Xun asked after taking a deep sniff. "Before the Chinese Valentine's Day arrives, do you want to imitate the Qixi custom of incense and ask for children?"
"No, no." Zhao Yun's face under the Milky Way was slightly red, but he was trying his best to deny it.
"This dress is also very strange," Gongsun Xun suddenly tugged at the purple shirt on the other party's body. "Where do you wear this kind of clothing at home?"
"It's not ......," Mrs. Zhao finally couldn't bear it anymore. Isn't this the Zhao style you like? β
"Don't say anything about the Zhao style," Gongsun Xun finally smiled at his wife. "Let's go on to talk about this Cowherd and Weaver Girl, the customs are different in different places, the stories are different, I don't know how the story of the two stars of the Morning Glory and the Weaver Girl in Qinghe is different from our Liaoxi?"
"It's no different, is it?" Although Zhao Yun was dissatisfied with the other party's sudden divergence from the topic, she was able to 'understand' after all, so she took the opportunity to tell the story she had heard since childhood.
"Is that it?" Gongsun Xun said disapprerovantly after hearing this. "Hedong Weaver Girl is the daughter of the Emperor of Heaven, married to the Hexi Morning Glory, after the marriage, the Weaver Girl abandoned the machine, which caused the Emperor of Heaven to be furious, let her go back to Hexi to weave, and only allow her to meet her husband once a year on the seventh day of the seventh month of July?"
"Or else?" Zhao Yun was puzzled. "Could it be that your Liaoxi story is still different?"
"I can't say it differently." Gongsun Xun shook his head and said. "It's just Ah Yun, don't you think it's strange, how can a morning glory marry the daughter of the emperor? You are kind to Ziheng's wife, and you should also know that even the wealthy and powerful families in the county are disgusted with the poor and love the rich, and they are unwilling to marry their daughters to talented but poor people, let alone the daughter of the Emperor of Heaven? β
"This ...... That's just as well. β
"Therefore, we in western Liaoning have a story of how the Morning Glory married the Weaver Girl." Gongsun Xun jokingly said while holding his wife to his lap. "Would you like to hear it?"
"It doesn't hurt to say that." Zhao Yun also boldly wrapped her arms around her husband's neck.
However, after listening to it, Mrs. Zhao was a little strange, and even faintly responded: "Stealing people's clothes and coercing them to go home as wives, isn't this a forced abduction of women as wives?" β
"Yes, yes." Gongsun Xun is also honest. "According to the law, the Morning Glory deserves to be put to death and dismembered......"
Gongsun Xun didn't speak, the Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, the abduction and sale of good families and group robbers, and tomb robbery are all serious crimes, because these behaviors have other social impacts in addition to the crime itself, and the group robbery is the meaning of gangs, tomb robbery is the act of destroying people and sacrifices, and the abduction and sale of good families has played a huge role in destroying social customs, so they must be dealt with extremely severely - that is, after killing, the corpse will be divided into public displays.
Of course, at this moment, the unscrupulous unscrupulousness of the powerful and the large-scale appearance of the displaced people have fundamentally shaken the social order, and the implementation of these laws has become 'adapted to local conditions' and 'different from person to person'.
"Then why is there such a story?" Of course, Zhao Yun was puzzled.
"First of all, of course, someone 'accidentally' made up this ridiculous story," Gongsun Xun sighed. "Secondly, there are groups of concubines and maidservants of the rich and powerful, and the poor people have no wife...... So if you can steal a piece of clothing and get a beautiful wife, how is it not a good thing? Therefore, this kind of story is still rarely heard in the families of the middle and upper people, but it is passed on by word of mouth among the poor people below...... It's just that they are too constrained by the problem of being without a wife. β
Zhao Yun sat in her husband's arms, hanging from the other party's neck, opening her mouth to speak, but her face turned red, and then she reluctantly asked: "Isn't Qin Luofu your favorite husband?" also specially made this Zhao Guoguo Fu a song "Mo Shangsang" for this purpose! β
"That poem has nothing to do with me." Gongsun Xun shook his head again and again, before the banquet, he immediately inquired about the cause of the Qin Luofu incident, where would he not know the reason. "That's a poem made by Guofu, and I just made an appointment to let our family make an engraving for him."
"Really?" Zhao Yun will be skeptical.
"Moreover, the story behind this poem is not only one person and one person in Qin Luofu that day......"
Gongsun Xun laughed more and more, but he explained the three things behind the poem of Guofu Han Tuo one by one: "Do you understand? Poetry is a song based on romance and a song on aspirations, and what is described in it may not stand up to scrutiny, and even for the sake of confrontation and neatness, sometimes it will be rigid...... Just like this, 'the head is in a bun, and the moon pearl is in the ear. To be honest, I also saw the Qin girl in the official temple that day, and the fallen bun and the bright moon pearl are real, but what yellow dress and purple clothes I have only seen until today. β
Yellow dress and purple clothes, decorated with bright moon beads, just because Zhao Yun, who is not a good wife and a depraved bun, has a crimson and hot face, but she has already believed it in her heart...... My husband came back in the evening, and as soon as he came back, he made a banquet to entertain the Jizhou Thorn History that he had confessed, and at this time there was still some wine and sweat on his body.
Not to mention, the other party's attitude is so frank and direct.
"That Qin's female ......" for a long time, under the playful gaze of her husband, Zhao Yun was in a trance. The Qin family's family has already received the dowry I sent. β
"Then I'll take it," Gongsun Xun replied easily. "The Qin family girl is indeed a little different, although I don't have any ideas, but what can I do with Madame's thoughts? Do you want to quit your relatives again? β
Zhao Yun was anxious for a while.
"However, Ah Yun, you need to know," Gongsun Xun stroked his wife's cheek with his palm, and immediately quieted the other party. "I have four out of twenty this year, counting the Qin daughter who received the dowry today, I am a wife and three concubines, and you should also know the origin of these three concubines...... There is only one wife, and I am the only one who asks for it, and when your grandmother does not come to me that day, I will also go to your house to ask for it. β
"I don't believe ......"
"It doesn't matter if you don't believe it," Gongsun Xun was still calm. "Married husband and wife, they should have set off on the same road, and they will continue to die, unless there is a dislike between you and me, how can we be frustrated because of some other people or other things?"
"I just...... It's just that when I saw that Ayu was pregnant, my heart was a little confused. Zhao Yun reluctantly responded, in the final analysis, she was just a barely twenty-year-old wife after all.
"Then by the light of the galaxy, I will also be a child with you."
"It's a pity that I didn't go to Chengwutai Mountain in Bingzhou that day...... Lang Jun, go back to the house! β
"I've just sent people away, and there's no one here."
"Where can I ...... in the hospital?"
"The Book of Songs" has clouds: Comfortable and free, I don't feel embarrassed! It's time to borrow the essence of the stars to ask for a child...... Ah Yun, why is your skirt so tight? I'm going to use a knife. β
"Cat...... The cat is in the yard and it's watching! β
"It's castrated, it's okay...... Besides, there are clouds in the "Book of Songs": there are Pu Ji in the forest, there are gelding cats in the courtyard, white grass is pure, and there are women like jade...... It's right! β
"Where is the Book of Songs...... Where are the geldings?! β
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Liu Yan didn't close his eyes all night, just sat in the courtyard and stared up at the Milky Way in the sky in a daze, and waited until the sky was getting brighter, and the dew was in the courtyard again, so he went back to rest for a while...... However, as soon as the sun melted into dew, Gongsun Xun suddenly came to visit, forcing the Jizhou assassin to get up in a hurry and meet the other party in the courtyard.
"Uncle Fang!" Gongsun Xun's eyes were red, as if he hadn't had a good rest last night, but when he sat opposite Liu Yan in the courtyard, his words and deeds were refreshed. "Xun didn't sleep all night, but after thinking about it, he didn't say a word and was unhappy, so he took the liberty to visit, please don't be surprised."
"Handan ordered and said bluntly." Liu Yan, who also had red eyes, couldn't help yawning again and again, and he was also a strong spirit...... After all, he knows that this kind of private meeting is the real occasion to solve the problem, and he must deal with it seriously.
In fact, it was Liu Fan, a parent and child, who was driven out of the yard by Liu Yan at this time.
Gongsun Xun sat down and said: "What I want to talk about today is that the subordinates govern Handan, and I feel something......"
"Feeling something?" Liu Yan, who finally cheered up, almost wanted to scold, but he could only mock with a slight face. "Why do I think Handan's order to govern Handan is reckless? No one dares to disobey, and no one dares to disobey. β
"When I first came to Handan, I was really arrogant." Gongsun Xun didn't care about the other party's attitude at all, and just said calmly. After being persuaded by his subordinate Wang Shuzhi, he relented a little. However, when I toured the northwest of Handan and saw the poor people in the local hills, although I became reckless again, it was more out of anger than arrogance...... Does Uncle Fang know that I killed a county lieutenant with my own hands on the way to patrol? β
"How could I possibly know about such a thing?" Liu Yan replied with a tired face. "And from Liaodong to Luoyang, from Saibei to Handan, Wuhou has killed too many people, not to mention a county lieutenant?"
"Although the subordinates kill many people." Gongsun Xun said bluntly. "But most of them are on the battlefield or under prison...... This county lieutenant is the only one I killed in anger, and there is nothing to follow! β
"You're here to turn me in?" Liu Yan's spirits perked up...... Is this a handle for yourself?
"When I went to a mountain col township that day, I happened to meet a group of thieves from the Taihang Mountains who came down to plunder." Gongsun Xun didn't pay attention to the other party at all, and just said to himself. When they were questioned, they confessed where they had killed and plundered...... Eventually, one of them confessed that he had fallen to his death while looting somewhere. β
Rao is Liu Yan is also an older person, and he can't help but be stunned at this time: "Is this the case?" β
"Because my concubine was pregnant, and I knew what it means to be a father, I was immediately furious and asked him why he was so rampant in his plunder. Does Uncle Fang know how he answered? β
Liu Yan shook his head slowly.
"He asked me rhetorically, why is the noble man so angry when he falls as a baby?"
"Shameless!" Liu Yan looked disgusted. "People like this who have committed heinous sins and do not repent should be punished severely!"
"It's nature." Gongsun Xun said proudly. "It is also a curse for such a man to remain in the world, so I rebuked him for not knowing the nature of parenthood, and then ordered him to be put to death...... However, the man was still unconvinced before his death. β
"What is there for him to disagree?" Liu Yan asked with a sneer.
"He said that his own parents, daughters, and daughters were all killed by him directly to avoid confession." Gongsun Xun said slowly. "And this is mostly the case in the township, why did no one say that the nobles and tax collectors in the government did not know the nature of their parents and forced him to kill their children to survive? And when he falls and kills someone else's baby, he will be put to death? β
Liu Yan's complexion changed greatly...... Although he has avoided disasters in Yangcheng Mountain for eighteen years, he is a learned and wise person after all, where does he not know the Tao here?
It is clearly recorded in the history books that the tax collectors collect and calculate the levies, and in extreme cases, they will even collect them dozens of times a year, so that the collection teams on the road are connected back and forth...... This must have been a similar act, so that the common people could not afford to feed a single baby, and they ended up in the mountains and became thieves.
However, what is even more terrifying is that, as this thief said, no one else treats them as human beings on weekdays, so once they cause trouble, how can they treat those noble people as human beings?
What about you? What about slaughtering you?
At that time, didn't you and other noble officials regard us as fish and meat? Isn't it trampling us like sludge?
"I asked him again where he was from, and then who the local tax collector was that day, but the county lieutenant replied to his colleagues in the county and refused to answer." Gongsun Xun continued. "But I was angry, so I directly killed the county lieutenant with my own hands on the charge of offending me, and then sentenced the thief Kou Ming to the ...... Later, it was precisely because of this that I later met a thief who came down from Montenegro to ask for surrender, although I didn't like his person, but I still left him to appoint, just to tell this Zhao Guoren that I am not the same as other people, and I am willing to accommodate them regardless of their background. β
Liu Yan interrupted the other party in a panic: "What does Handan Ling want to say, but you can say it to me directly, there is no need to say this again!" β
"Uncle Fang!" Gongsun Xun knelt down and sat up, bowing to each other. "What I said yesterday through wine is not a joke. For example, today's situation is that the people at the bottom have no place to stand, and they can't help themselves to survive, and there may be Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, and the red eyebrows and green forests; Then, although the wealthy and powerful families are rich and powerful, they have no way to ascend, and they have no respect for the center in their hearts, just like the nobles of the Six Kingdoms at the end of the Qin Dynasty, and like the powerful people in various places under Wang Mang's rule. Once the chaos starts, I am afraid that there is a danger of overturning! β
"Why do you say these things to me so many times?" Liu Yan couldn't help but smile bitterly. "Don't tell anyone about it?"
"For I know that others do not believe." Gongsun Xun sighed. "There are so many officials and nobles in the world, how many of them are willing to go to the countryside to check for dead babies everywhere I go? There are many talented people in the world, but how many people will focus on doing things rather than being officials like me? So, I've never spoken these words to anyone. And the reason why I want to talk to Uncle Fang is that I vaguely guessed yesterday that Uncle Fang is a truly conscientious person, you are willing to believe me, and there are few people who are willing to see with their own eyes the danger of the overthrow of this big man. β
Liu Yan was silent.
"Uncle Fang!"
Gongsun Xun suddenly threw the knife in front of the other party, and then untied his robe, revealing his chest and abdomen.
"What does that mean?" Liu Yan was dumbfounded.
"I know that when Fang Bo came, he must have been explained by some people in the court and made it difficult for me...... You don't deny it...... And I don't want to make excuses, I did it to kill the county magistrate with a county order, and the county lieutenant who said today was killed by me without guilt! The Assassin has a lot of power and responsibility, so if you want to punish me, you can kill me now!" β
"!" Liu Yan jumped up directly from the seat. "That's it?!"
"Qiao Gongyan said that I am strong on the outside and tough on the inside, and sharp is the crown of the world," Gongsun Xun argued toplessly. "There are also many people who say that I am like Qiao Gong...... Not really! Qiao Gong is indomitable, with three ups and downs, but I am uncomfortable with the humiliation for a while! Most of the officials in this world are idle people, and the few smart people only think about the way of personal advancement and retreat, and there are very few people who work as hard as me...... Those people have a place for doing nothing, but I am forbidden because of what I do...... Why?! This kind of thinking is not understood by others, and is it not understood by a conscientious person like Uncle Fang? β
Liu Yan opened his mouth and stammered, his face was red, and he asked for a long time: "What do you want?" β
"Simple." Gongsun Xun fingered the knife. "Soldiers can be killed but not humiliated, Uncle Fang today, or treat me for the crime of unauthorized killing, and now kill me with a knife to determine the majesty of the Han family, I feel that there is no second word! Or show me to be able to act, and Xingwenzhou County will make a name for me! It's just these two methods, and the middle is vague and perfunctory, so I won't be humiliated! β
Liu Yan wanted to speak several times, but he closed his mouth several times, while Gongsun Xun just held his head high and was awe-inspiring.
After a long time, after all, Liu Junlang sighed, leaned over and helped the other party up: "Where do I not know the grievances of Handan Ling?" The world is very popular, how frivolous and ridiculous, Handan Ling is a person who is dedicated to doing practical things, so he will be talked about by them...... I will go to Yecheng today to take up my post, and then I will definitely send the documents to the nine counties of Jizhou tonight, so that everyone in the world knows that what you are doing is also what I Liu Junlang thinks! Handan ...... Zhao Guowen Qi is here, I can rest assured! β
"If so." Gongsun Xun slowly put on his clothes and replied calmly. "I'll send Uncle Fang and his son to Yecheng now......"
"It's good, it's good!" Liu Yan really just wants to get out of here now...... What Wei Song said is really not bad, don't expect to have half a point cheap to make when dealing with this worry-free waiter, the other party is willing to close the door and take off his clothes today is already to give himself face, what else do you want? !
After breakfast, Uncle Fang bluntly said that the matter here had been decided, and he was going back to Yecheng, although everyone was puzzled, they had no choice but to send them in line with Gongsun Xun.
"Stay until October." After sending the other party to the car, Gongsun Xun's heart suddenly moved, and he held the other party's hand and smiled. "Uncle Fang can come here again to inspect...... At that time, the acres of land and household registration should have been almost checked, and the public school should have been built! β
"I hope to come back when the time comes, so that I can sleep well." Liu Yan held it with the other party with one hand, and smiled bitterly with the other.
Immediately, the two looked at each other and smiled, and Liu Yan's donkey cart, escorted by dozens of white horse knights, slowly went to Yecheng, dozens of miles away.
The crowd was silent for a moment.
"Where is Dong Gongren?" After a half-stop, Gongsun Xun suddenly turned around and smiled like a flower. "How about I take a concubine today and take office one day later?!"
The short and fat Dong Zhao smiled innocently, wiped a handful of sweat from his forehead, and quickly nodded.
ββββββI'm done with the hour-long dividing lineββββββ
"(Liu) Yan went to Jizhou for the history of assassination, sneaking in private clothes, secretly inspecting the situation, returning to Ye, and even issued a document to nine counties, saying that the national situation of each county was straightforward, and the turbidity was directly reprimanded. Noma also sang a ballad, saying: 'Do your duty Liu Junlang! β"Dictionary". Yan. Pei Song's note