Gao Yue's words were very atmospheric, and then the two slaves followed his instructions and moved in the boxes on the carriage, which was enough for two hundred yuan, enough for Mrs. Yang Yan to run ten times between Chang'an and Daozhou.

"No, this money is too much, tithes are enough!" Yang Yan was inexplicably moved, but he still didn't want to accept it.

"Hey Yang Servant, Daozhou is a difficult place, you and Mrs. Zun are imminent to spend all kinds of expenses there, where is twenty times enough?"

"But I also have 50,000 or 60,000 yuan a month, which is enough for expenses."

Yang Yan's words almost made Gao Yue's saliva squirt out - he never expected that he was obviously demoted to Daozhou as a Sima, and there were as many as 50,000 or 60,000 officials a month, is this a demotion to an official or a disguised welfare?

It turned out that the position of Zhou Sima in the Tang Dynasty was almost exclusively used to place officials who were degraded and released (there were also those who placed the old prince to eat and wait for death), but Sima's official position was also a five-grade one, and according to the regulations, he did pay fifty to sixty yuan a month, which means that the treatment is not bad to you, but you give me a stay away from the power center of the capital. Gao Yue wants to blame that Bai Juyi, who was originally a prince in the imperial court, Zuo Zanshan, and went to Jiangzhou to be Sima, but in fact, the rank did not decline at all, and he also took a more lucrative Yulu than the capital, went out to play in the mountains and rivers for a while, and was transferred back to the capital to be a foreigner. "I just let him go, and he was miserable all day long" "the same person who has fallen from the end of the world", "Jiangzhou Sima Qingyi is wet" (Bai Juyi is a five-grade minister, but the rank of loose officials is only from the ninth rank of the general, and the official uniform of the Tang Dynasty follows the rank of loose officials, so he can only be in front of Sima of the fifth grade, wearing a nine-grade green shirt), so that ordinary people have too much misunderstanding of Bai Juyi's "winner in life".

Then, since Yang Yan has fifty yuan a month after going to Daozhou, there is really no need for a gift of two hundred yuan.

Gao Yue took out fifty yuan separately and said that this was the travel fee and the living expenses of the first month, and this time Yang Yan must accept it, Yang Yan and his wife were very grateful, and finally did not refuse.

At this moment, Lu Hua and Cui Qing were also very moved, each took out a thousand yuan, removed Yang Yan's original meals, purchased all kinds of wine and food from outside the Baqiao Station, and set up a full table, which should be Yang Yan's food.

During the banquet, Yang Yan was full of emotion, and he personally stood up and held the wine, "This time the court has changed drastically, and the Yuan Xiang ...... Yan and dozens of others were belittled, and it was really hard to explain. However, this time Yan got the help of Lu Hua, Cui Qing, and Gao Yue, three Pingshui friends, and he was grateful, and the reason why Yan was famous in the government and the opposition was because he was a person who valued friendship - if Yan did not die in this catastrophe, there would be a good reward in the future. ”

After speaking, Yang Yan drank all the wine in his mouth, then laughed, took out a wooden tablet from the cover, and placed it on the table.

"This is a wooden wat, but sooner or later Yan will change this wooden one back to ivory, and walk back to the Xuanzheng Hall from the pavilion gate!"

In the early morning, Gao Yue sent Yang Yan and his wife away from the tall Baqiao Post House and went to the water's edge.

There, the sailor of the post station has prepared the boats and horses, just waiting for Yang Yan to go on the road, the next stop is Han Gongyi, taking the waterway, after arriving at Han Gongyi, you can change to a stagecoach and head for the land route of Shangyu Mountain.

Under a willow tree by the water's edge, Yang Yan and his wife bowed down in front of Gao Yue again, and said with tears in their eyes, "I don't know what Yisong is doing at home?" ”

Gao Yue thought to himself that I was originally a glorious only child under the Red Flag of New China, but now that he is a student of the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang people like to call Xingdi the most, he still follows the family status, "Don't dare, the third in the family." ”

"Hurry up and call Saburo." Yang Yan hurriedly said to his wife, so the husband and wife called Gao Yue "San Lang." ”

"This can't be helped, I'm still in Mai in my late life."

Who would have thought that Gao Yue's hand would be tightly held by Yang Yan in turn, only to see Yang Yan looking at him with blazing eyes, staring at him so that his scalp was hot, "San Lang's grace, Yan doesn't dare to forget life and death, how can he be judged by his official position?" San Lang don't say more, when there is no one else in the future, just call me big brother, quick, shout big brother! ”

"Brother Yang......"

Hearing this, Yang Yan was so happy that he almost burst into tears, he clamped Gao Yue's arm and replied heavily, "That's right, San Lang!" ”

"Big brother!"

"San Lang!"

The two of them shouted to each other several times, and then Gao Yue remembered about painting the scroll, so he borrowed a few steps, took out the painting from the bamboo flute on the shoulder, and handed it to Yang Yan's hand, "Big brother, this painting was given to you by the owner of the Red Peony Pavilion." ”

"Isn't it Xue Yaoying?" Yang Yan was very sad, "She was originally the concubine of Yuan Xiang, and she was sent to the Zhide Female Crown before, I don't know if she is still healthy now?" ”

"Ankang, in fact, this late birth is to hear all the things about the eldest brother and Yuan Xiang in the mouth of Xue Lianshi, and I can't help but admire."

Yang Yan nodded twice, and then untied the scroll, and the long wind rising on the river unfolded the painting, Gao Yue saw that it was painted as a young girl in a light shirt, circling and singing, with the swing of the paper lifelike, like a living thing, the eyebrows and eyes were not that Xue Yaoying?

There are also four lines of poetry underneath:

Snow-faced and light-eyed heavenly girl,

Feng Xiaoluan's wings want to fly.

Yushan is dust-free,

Chu's waist is like a willow, and he is not in spring.

"Yuan Xiang...... Gongfu .....", seeing this poem, Yang Yan immediately recalled that in Yunhui Hall, Yuan Zai intimately invited him to watch Xue Yaoying's graceful dance, and at that time Yuan Zai held his arm very sincerely, "Yaoying's dance, so far there is only Gongnan you." ”

After speaking, Yuan Zai patted Yang Yan's shoulder very strongly.

So it was rumored in the market and in the government and the opposition that the designated successor of the prime minister of Yuan Zai was none other than Yang Yan, and as for his three unsuccessful sons, Yuan Zai had also secretly entrusted them to Yang Yan, "After a hundred years, the only one who can take care of them is Gongnan you." ”

But now Yang Yan didn't even have a chance to fulfill this promise: Yuan Zai and his three sons were all executed, and he was a pond fish that was affected and went to Daozhou.

Then Yang Yan rolled into tears, threw the entire scroll into the water of the vast soup, and watched it drift with the tide until it disappeared.

"San Lang, no matter what three or five years, I, Yang Yan, always have to come back from Daozhou, at that time, the hatred of the prime minister and the kindness of San Lang will be reported by me, and I will swear by this water." After speaking, Yang Yan helped his wife, said goodbye to Gao Yue, and said the last sentence before boarding the ship, "San Lang, the person who harmed Yuan Xiang is called—called Liu Si." ”

Gao Yue picked up his coat and stood by the water, watching Yang Yan's boat head in the direction of Han Gongyi.

After a long moment, he turned and walked in the direction of the Baqiao Station, where the horses he had hired were still parked in the stables.

But after a few steps, he suddenly went limp, and sat down under the willow tree.

The original speculations have been connected:

Yang Yan said that the person who harmed Yuan Xiang is called Liu Si, and of course this four is also the first;

And this Liu Si should be the old man who bought steamed Hu in the wind and snow and went to court on the night he crossed;

The old man once said to himself that his duty was to take care of the four things for the court, which overwhelmed him.

Now Gao Yue knows that the four things should be money, grain, salt, and iron.

And this Liu Si should be the official of the imperial court, the secretary of the imperial court, the envoy of the Eastern Capital, Henan, Jianghuai, Hunan, Jingnan, and Shannan Dongdao, and the Tang Empire's four envoys of rent, salt and iron, coinage, and Changping.

Liu Si, Liu Yan.

Yang Da, Yang Yan.

And my "third year of high school" has not yet been admitted to the imperial examination, and I will face the situation of being sandwiched between these two giants.

Is it a crisis, or is it a turning point?