Yanshi.

The county magistrate took the county officials to greet and wait for the holy car twenty miles outside the city early.

Behind them, the powerful landlords, scholars, and merchants in the county were all dressed up and standing waiting, and behind them, almost the entire Yanshi County people came.

Ding Laosan of Ding Jiatai also deliberately put on a new robe today, which was just made for him by his daughter-in-law after the autumn harvest. Ding Laosan even specially asked the old black head in the village to repair his hair, shaved his face, plucked out his ears, trimmed his beard, and brushed his teeth again before coming.

Next to him stood his mother-in-law and mother, and behind him were several children.

The whole family was dressed in new clothes.

No one asked them to come to greet the holy driver, but the third child who lived in Dingjiatai, on the south bank of the Yellow River, was like the villagers in the whole village, and they all freshened up, dressed up, bathed and changed their clothes early, and then the family went out of the county twenty miles ago, standing on the side of the official road to greet and wait.

The third child looked at the tall wind and rain pavilion and the wide and straight road, and was very proud in his heart, and this road also had his part.

In order to welcome the emperor's car passing by, the Yanshi county order required the whole county to mobilize. Houses are cleaned, garbage is removed, roads are repaired, roadside ditches are cleared, and the fields are even busy again, and the newly planted fields are cleared of weeds. The land that was fallowed this winter even required to be ploughed again.

Not only did the house ask for a general cleaning, but even the house was repaired. The county even deliberately pulled out a sum of money for the people in the village to work, and the county paid for the materials, and then repaired the village roads and renovated the houses. The dilapidated and dilapidated houses were demolished, and new houses were quickly repaired.

The dirty toilets have also been rectified.

The low earthen wall of the third family's house was removed, and a new courtyard wall was rebuilt, and even the roof of the house was re-lifted and replaced with new thatched bark.

The thatched houses of the family have also been rebuilt, and three new houses have been built to raise cattle, sheep and pigs, and to put firewood and grass.

The third family renovated these, spent a lot of money, but the county issued a subsidy, although not as much as their own spending, but originally planned to do these, now the village people help each other, labor money will be saved, the county pulled out a subsidy money, but also gave a lot of building materials, it is also for the family to save a lot.

For these behaviors in the county, the third child thinks it's very good, anyway, he lives at such an old age, he has never seen it before, it is all the government levies taxes and rents, when will he help the people for free and send money to the people?

After the third child was busy with the affairs of the family in the village, he also went to the county to sign up for the construction of the road, and in addition to taking care of three meals a day, he could also earn silk cloth grain, which was converted into dozens of dollars a day.

In fact, the third child thought that they were willing to do it even if they didn't need money, after all, this road was built for saints. This summer's drought followed the locust plague, but there are sage's disaster relief and disaster prevention strategies, although Dingjiatai has no harvest this summer, not a single one has gone out to escape the famine, let alone starved to death.

In the past, the Sui Dynasty for more than 30 years, a small disaster in three years and a major disaster in five years, even when it was known as the prosperous era of the emperor, Dingjiatai Village by the Yellow River often had to go out to escape the famine and ask for food.

But this year, none of them went out to escape the famine, and none of them starved to death, and the imperial court not only exempted the two taxes this year, but everyone also changed a lot of food for digging locust eggs and catching locusts, not to mention that after the autumn, the county also distributed a lot of relief food to each household. From summer to autumn, they also participated in many county-based cash-for-work projects and earned a lot of food.

Now there is still a lot of grain in the granary of the family's cellar, and the family doesn't even have vegetables on their faces.

His mother, who was in her sixties, had to recite the saint more than 100 times a day at home, and the saint's immortality card had even been erected at home.

The old village chief of the village said that every 500 years there will be a saint, and some people have said that Emperor Wen of Sui is a saint who comes out once every 300 years, and said that since the end of the Han Dynasty 300 years later, he is a saint of the new saint.

But now Emperor Wen is not a saint, but today he is a real great sage.

Hearing that the emperor wants to tour the east and seal Mount Tai, everyone is very happy, and feel that the saint should indeed be the king of Mount Tai, if the saint does not seal Mount Tai, who still has this qualification.

I've been waiting on the side of the road for more than an hour.

But the third child was not impatient at all, and the tens of thousands of people standing on the side of the road traveled more than ten miles, but everyone was waiting quietly.

Finally, a cavalry arrived.

The knight, dressed in gold armor and a blood-red cloak, stepped off the white horse.

People are like dragons and horses.

The standard-bearers in the cavalry were tall and burly, waving the red flag.

The county magistrate hurriedly greeted him.

"The saint is coming, please prepare for the holy driver."

After a while, more cavalry appeared, dressed in shiny armor, armed with horse lances, and armed with scimitars.

Ding Laosan looked at these soldiers with some awe.

His second son, Heiwa, looked at these forbidden soldiers and said enviously, "Grandpa, I will also sign up for the army in the future, and I will be the emperor's Jin Wuwei!" ”

The third child patted his son's shoulder, "You black and thin man should be a Jinwuwei, study hard, and in the future, you will be able to take the Gongshi exam, and you will also be able to face the Holy in the Golden Palace." ”

Bands of soldiers and horses arrived.

Then came the arrival of the officials of the Inner Chamberlain Province.

The little Yanshi county commander was already sweating profusely.

The emperor's car finally arrived, and both sides of the road were already full of soldiers accompanying the car, and Ding Laosan and his family could only take dozens of steps back, looking at the official road protected by the forbidden army from a distance.

"Grandpa, did you see it?"

Ding Heiwa was too short and kept jumping around, but the tall guards still blocked his view.

The third child lifted Heiwa up and made him sit on his shoulder. The three-year-old over there refused, and he had to see it. Lao Ding San smiled and lifted his youngest son, so one sat on the left shoulder and the other sat on the right shoulder.

"Look, let's take a good look at the saint."

Suddenly, there was a tsunami-like cry from the side of the road.

"Long live the saint!"

The sound of waves of mountains sounded, and the third child immediately shouted excitedly.

"Long live the Emperor!"

The third child followed everyone and shouted, his wife and mother next to him were also shouting together, and the villagers behind him were all hoarsely shouting.

"The saint is coming, the saint is coming, I saw the saint coming on a white horse!"

Ding Xiaosan also shouted, "The white horse that the saint rides is so high, taller than a person." ”

And the people began to bow down in front of them.

The third child also hurriedly knelt down.

Ding Xiaosan was dissatisfied, "Grandpa, I still want to see the emperor riding a white horse!" ”

The old man slapped his son's ass angrily, "Don't speak, hurry up and bow down to the saint!" ”

The third child did not see the appearance of the saint, but he still knelt down very sincerely, he shouted long live with everyone, thinking in his heart that if the saint could really live long live, in this way, then he Ding Lao San and his children and grandchildren will be able to live a good life forever!