Su Shi didn't look up and knew that Zhao Xing was coming, and he greeted Zhao Xing happily: "Leave, I just chatted with this old farmer about this year's farm work this year, and also made a poem "Huanxi Yarn", you listen to it:

Hemp leaves are lit layer by layer.

Whoever cooks cocoons to a village incense.

Fence Jiao Yu Luo Si Niang,

The drooping white cane quinoa raises its drunken eyes.

Pound the hungry intestines,

Ask when the bean leaves are yellow. ”

Zhao Xing lamented in his heart: I finally understood the reason why Su Shi's career was not smooth! If you think about it, he actually went to investigate the peasants' "when the bean leaves are yellow", saying that the peasants "messed up the green and hungry intestines", isn't this disrupting the unspoken rules of officialdom and asking for guilt?

Those who have been promoted through the number game will undoubtedly hate Su Shi to the bone and rectify it to death: everyone has handed in the reports of "tens of thousands of catties per mu", "no safety accidents throughout the year", "good company performance", and "the situation is very good", and the emperor has also passed it. Su Shi, you have a sick brain, "your stomach is not suitable", you have to come to the field to investigate, how can they get off the stage?

Su Shi didn't notice Zhao Xing's complaints, he was still full of interest, and smiled like a child: "The old farmer also said that this year's drought was dry, but fortunately, thanks to the keel waterwheel, his family's seedlings were saved." By the way, I made a poem about the keel waterwheel, you listen: flip over the joint Ouroboros, and indeed molt the bone snake. The green waves of the domain walk in the cloud array, and the green needles of the piercing water draw rice buds. Dongting wants to fly sand in May, and the cave is like a ya. Tiangong didn't see the old man crying, and called Ah Xiang to push the thunder cart.

Well, I also made a "Preface to the Song of the Horses". Do you want to listen? ”

Zhao Xing shook his head, beckoned the widow who followed him to open the bamboo umbrella for Su Dongpo, bent down to pick up Su Dun, and said, "Teacher, let's go, I'm here, that old man doesn't even dare to come out, so it's better for us to go quickly." ”

Su Shi laughed, stood up, and walked back with his hands behind his back - his official office was on the other side of the embankment.

What kind of person is Su Shi?

"He's an incorrigible optimist. A giant Confucian politician, an emperor's secret, a kind judge, and a moonlit night wanderer. A great writer, a creative painter, a wine fairy, a clown, but that's not enough to tell the whole ......."

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, the days pass quickly. The 200,000 Xiang army was very fast. After completing the work of repairing the West Lake, Zhao Xing divided them into twenty-four teams and let his twenty-four students lead the team. Began to repair the road leading from Hangzhou County to Sifang.

There are so many roads that need to be repaired. Zhao Xing did not dare to demand that all roads be poured with cement, because that would be an astronomical amount of cement demand, which was far from realistic in the Song Dynasty. Even the roads in Hangzhou could not be paved with concrete pavement, and he only paved a few main roads into cement avenues.

After the completion of this repair, there was a side effect, due to the large number of troops involved in the project, after the completion of the project. The formula of the cement also leaked out. This has prompted small lime kilns to be put on the ground in various places. Da Song's lime production has skyrocketed, and prices have remained high.

Fortunately, Zhao Xing was fast, and the lime kiln in Huangzhou was his family industry, so he rushed to complete the construction of his castle on schedule when the price rose and the money arrived. The day of completion was the seventh day of the seventh month. It was the day when Zhao Xing moved into the new castle, and it was also the day when he booked a round house with Chen Yiyi.

Chen Yiyi's identity is there, and some things are not suitable for publicity, but a woman's nature determines that she does not want such a lifelong happy event to be carried out quietly like a thief entering the village, so she just used the excuse of the completion of the castle to make the windows of the entire castle covered with window grilles, and the city was full of streamers.

On July 7, the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met, it is said that it is also the Chinese Valentine's Day, in this tempting and criminal day, the legend says that the Cowherd took a fancy to the rich girl, or the daughter of the nobleman, the Weaver Girl, he stole the Weaver Girl's clothes, intimidated the Weaver Girl by the great principle of etiquette, and kidnapped the Weaver Girl, and then seduced and deceived the Weaver Girl to use her textile technology to make a dangerous bet with her master, and then took advantage of the situation to get rid of the identity of the slave, and began a beautiful life.

This matter is not over, just when their husband and wife returned home, the Weaver Girl's mother, that is, the Queen Mother Niangniang, came to rescue the abducted underage boy, he was wrong, this Queen Mother is evil, she took her daughter away from the Cowherd, for which the Cowherd broke the kettle and killed the ploughing cattle in his own family, in order to show that life could not go on, he put on a bloody cowhide, and carried the children born by two Weaver Girls to the Queen Mother's house, claiming that the Queen Mother would not give her daughter to herself, He killed two children on the spot.

In the end, the Queen Mother was forced to allow the two to meet once a year, and the day of meeting was chosen on July 7, and since then a love that has been praised for eternity and lingering compassion has been achieved.

July 7, Valentine's Day, kidnapping day, on this day, Zhao Xing's castle held a grand song and dance, on the water pavilion, the new version of "The Legend of the West Chamber" was officially staged, the two talents joined forces, the whole play more than 3,000 poems shaped by the beautiful Lunyang, Zhao Xing did not hesitate to produce the stage scene, so that the performers are like in the painting, as if they are immortals.

Today's heroine is Chen Yiyi, Cheng Azhu avoided today's feast according to the rules, she moved into the small castle on the slope of the hill with her children in advance - this castle was not named "Iron Furnace Fort" after all, Su Shi thought the name was too vulgar, and he named it a more elegant name "Blue House".

When Zhao Xing first heard this name, his eyes were about to fall, but after a blink of an eye, he decided: there is no more suitable name than this.

The castle is made of large bluestone, and the exterior is completely blue, and the five-story tower resembles a dwarven goblin steelmaking furnace, but it is called "Blue Tile Terrace", which seems to be more elegant.

The singing and dancing performance in the water pavilion ended in thunderous applause, Su Shi approached Zhao Xing's ear, pointed to the Blue House, and said in the deafening applause: "Leaving people, when will you come to perform on that stage?" ”

Su Shi was referring to the roof platform. On the roof platform, Zhao Xing arranged a juju field, with a small dance floor, where people could sit around the platform and watch the central dance floor perform.

Since the completion of the Blue House, Su Shi has been clamoring to hold a night banquet on the roof platform, in addition, Liao Xiaoxiao rarely sings publicly this year, Su Shi also wants to hold a small range of night banquets on the roof platform, so that he can listen to Liao Xiaoxiao's singing again.

Liao Xiaoxiao is very welcome to this kind of request, she is a person who is used to being looked at by everyone, and she has been living at home recently. made her feel a little lonely, so she kept staring at Su Dongpo, and saw Su Dongpo talking to Zhao Xing, and pointed to the platform above. She hurried over and said crisply: "Bachelor, I have long thought about inviting you, Zhan Qinqin will return to the capital in a few days, and I plan to invite a few young singers in the team to sing a song during the Mid-Autumn Festival." Make a farewell feast.

If the bachelor has a heart, it is better for us to set a date, and the bachelor's thousands of miles of Chanjuan will spread all over the country. Mid-Autumn Festival. Ascend to the moon and admire the moon, I hope that the bachelor will give new words. ”

Liao Xiaoxiao is too conscious of the protagonist, today's protagonist was originally Chen Yiyi, she was wearing a bright red dress, wearing a full set of Tang Dynasty lord headdresses on her head, and shaved her eyebrows, drawing a short and thick "stacked mountain eyebrows" like a Tang people. The cheeks are covered with rouge...... If it weren't for Zhao Xing to stop it. She would follow the custom of the Tang Dynasty and dye her teeth pure black. It completely reproduces the makeup of geisha in the Tang Dynasty, Kabuki in modern Japan, and Vietnamese brides in the Song Dynasty......

Most of the officials at the venue today know Chen Yiyi's identity...... Ahem, Chen Yiyi's identity is the same as the identity of the county lord of Lezhi, it was a taboo topic at the time, many officials in the Great Song Dynasty knew it, and they were quite proud of the fact that an ordinary official in their country married the lord of Vietnam, but this matter is not easy to publicize, after all, according to the concept of Confucianism, the attitude towards Siyi is higher than that of its own nationals, and it is not in line with tradition to take him as a petty official. I think if Su Shi hadn't covered Zhao Xing at the beginning, it is estimated that the ministers would have revealed this secret.

But now, this secrecy has become a taboo. The matter of the county lord of Lezhi has been intertwined with Chen Yiyi's identity, and the empress dowager is staring there, it seems that the little emperor also tends to keep this secret after frequently receiving gifts from his sister, so the ministers also chose to ignore this matter. Therefore, Chen Yiyi's dress today, although it is a bit overstepping, and even a little arrogant, everyone pretends not to see it and concentrates on appreciating "The Legend of the West Chamber".

Others didn't see it, Su Shi couldn't turn a blind eye to Chen Yiyi's pouting mouth, although Liao Xiaoxiao tried his best to grab the camera, Su Shi could only smile noncommittally, and asked Chen Yiyi instead: "What do your younger siblings think of this proposal?" ”

In terms of rules, Chen Yiyi should not be called "younger sister", but in terms of rules, Chen Yiyi's identity as a concubine should not be dressed in gorgeous clothes equivalent to that of the king of the county, since the latter is well known to everyone, so Su Shi's title has been raised to a higher level, calling Yiyi "younger brother and sister". Chen Yiyi didn't understand Su Shi's respect, she was angry just now, and now she is angry, she is lying in Zhao Xingdi's arms, she didn't hear Su Shi's question at all, and while pointing to her fingers, she sang the new song taught by Zhao Xing: "Today I want to marry you......", the singing was full of happiness.

In the Song Dynasty, there was a dispute about the vulgar and elegant lyrics, Liu Yong represented the vulgar words, or the popular singing, and Su Shi represented the elegant words. Chen Yiyi now sings songs composed in slang, which belonged to slang songs in the Song Dynasty. And Chen Yiyi didn't learn a few words, just a few words over and over again, but Su Shi didn't dare to underestimate it, because the lyrics were tactful, pouring out the kind of anxious mood of a married girl.

Su Shi listened to it for a while, and asked tentatively: "Why is this song only half a que, and the second half of the que?" ”

Chen Yiyi woke up like a dream, and while playing with two fingers, she said happily: "I don't like the lyrics of the second half of the que, why is she married to a person, and she still misses the good of others, so I forgot the second half of the que, bachelor's talent, can you make up for the second half of the que?" ”

Su Shi was choked, he turned his face away and continued to enjoy "The Legend of the West Chamber". Chen Yiyi was still muttering there: "Bachelor Qin changed this "The Legend of Yingying" to look like this, it sounds very beautiful, if the teacher is not available, I will find Uncle Qin." ”

Chen Yiyi spoke before, and treated Su Shi as an equal, and then spoke, already identifying with Zhao Xing's identity. Use the tone of Zhao Xing's wife and concubine to call Su Shi and Qin Guan. After a pause, she remembered to answer Su Shidi's question: "August 15, Brother Xing, are we going to have a kabuki before August 15, so it is better to set it on August 15 - Mid-Autumn Festival Night Banquet, this name sounds very elegant." ”

Liao Xiaoxiao is very good at observing words and feelings, and when Chen Yiyi spoke, she didn't interject, and waited until Chen Yiyi decided. She immediately added fuel and vinegar: "The roof platform can accommodate 200 people, each family of ten, the upstairs can accommodate 20 families, and the rest are in the courtyard." Let the rest of the team be scattered around, it can be regarded as Mid-Autumn Festival fun, how about the public? ”

Zhao Xing looked up at the Blue House behind him, looked around the courtyard again, and nodded in agreement with Liao Xiaoxiao's suggestion: "I have to invite some acquaintances, and the invitation will be distributed in advance." Approve the number of people, and then plan the venue according to the number of people, small. You can do it. ”

Xiao Xiao loudly agreed: "Mid-Autumn Festival." Let them nurture the cherry blossoms, and when the cherry blossoms bloom, the jasmine will be fragrant, and the courtyard will be full of azalea roses, and if you plan well, you will definitely be able to spread the word of mouth in this garden...... The minister needs to give me a few people, and this is a matter of planning. It's still the same group of kids who are doing it. ”

Zhao Xing's castle has 60 hectares of land. In the Song Dynasty, each hectare of land was about 66,666.66 square meters. A dwelling of this magnitude is measured by today's standards. It's simply the standard for multimillionaires, but in the Song Dynasty. It may be the subject of government relief.

In the eyes of the government, the third-class households in the Song Dynasty regarded "a family of 100 mu (105 mu in actual statistics)" as "self-sufficient", and the standard of "sufficient food and sufficient use" was also what is called "food and clothing level" in modern times. In the Song Dynasty, 50 acres was one hectare. In other words, a family of ten has two hectares of land for food and clothing.

Zhao Xing's courtyard enclosed 60 hectares, as long as there were 30 households living in the garden, he was barely close to the relief standard of the Song Dynasty, however, he lived in this large courtyard not only 30 households, but even more than 100 households. Therefore, according to the living standards of the Song Dynasty, the real estate he owned should be attributed to the extremely poor households and need to be relieved by the government. However, it was too embarrassing to do so, and Zhao Xing felt embarrassed when he thought about it.

What is the standard of relief? On April 18 of the first year of the Yuan Dynasty (1086 AD), Sima Guangyan said: "The minister thinks that the family of ten will harvest 100 shuo enough for daily use, and the monthly plunder will be 15 for daily use." Sima Guang meant that if the monthly family income of a family of ten in the Song Dynasty was equal to the monthly salary of the county magistrate of 15 yuan, that is, the per capita income was consistently 500 wen, it would fall within the scope of the relief standard.

How can I get relief? "Kaiqing Siming Zhi" volume 4 "Guanghui Yuan. The "Regulations" contains: "If there are only three low houses", then "the amount of wine in the province will be returned to the treasury and repaired", which means that if the people are so poor that they only have a single-digit number of rooms (three rooms), no matter how many square meters each house has, they will take money from the local liquor tax to repair the people's houses, and then "every big mouthful, six buckets of rice per month, and ten consistent money; Xiaokou is over five years old, and he will be given four buckets of rice and seven buckets of money per month; Over fifteen years old is a large mouth, and the rest is a medium mouth......"

Of course, this standard of relief was too high, and the Song Dynasty government called it "sufficient food". If the famine lasts too long and the affected area is large, it will be difficult for the government to carry out the quota for a long time, so it can only be halved and the relief will be carried out with a "life-saving amount".

Now, with the completion of the Blue House, it marks the official completion of the manor of Zhao Xing after several years of construction. Thousands of workers in the courtyard will then cross the suspension bridge to the other side of the river to help Zhao Xing build a circle of Song-style brick houses on the opposite bank. After those workers left, although there were no more idle people in the castle of Zhaoxing, no matter how it was calculated, the remaining population in the land would also pull the "per capita land area" across the relief line.

Compared with Su Shi's manor in Changzhou, it is only the standard of a medium-sized household, with a total of 300 hectares, which is ten times that of Zhao Xing's garden.

But if according to Sima Guang's standard, measured by monthly income, Zhao Xing should not be relieved, because his monthly income, or his daily income, is far more than 15 yuan, plus he is still an active official, and the current official has never entered the scope of relief, so Zhao Xing really wants to get government relief, only after resigning, becoming a common man, and then through the method of concealing income, can he get government relief.

So, all in all, in general, Zhao Xing's large courtyard of nearly millions of square meters is beyond the standard of Bill Gates in the eyes of modern society, but in the eyes of the Song people, there are only two words: cramped.

"This small courtyard, if it is divided into several places to sing, I am afraid that it will not be able to be moved", Su Shi said regretfully, paused, he suggested: "There can only be twenty households upstairs, twenty households are enough, call some commensurate officials, official gentry, and the water pavilion can also accommodate twenty households, the two add up, a total of forty households, that is, the Hangzhou officials can catch them all, and it is enough, there is no need to set up more points." ”

"Very good! It's so decided, the ten households upstairs will be posted by me, and the remaining half will be decided by the teacher, and downstairs, this water pavilion will let the brothers play, so good", Zhao Xing nodded.

The "Legend of the West Chamber" on the stage has already sung three excerpts. In such a drama of the Song Dynasty, due to the low efficacy and slow speed of the stage set, only two or three excerpts were sung every day, and the entire "Legend of the West Chamber" needed to be sung for five days, just like a long story, which was constantly updated every day. And many long plays are even sung for a month, and after the drama is sung, it is the turn of several old farmers in the countryside to dress up and take turns to sing songs in praise of their masters.

A person pretended to be an old man, walked on stage step by step, he cleared his throat, and sang loudly: "I am field, I land, I am mulberry, I only know a hundred miles, I don't know a thousand miles." I am hungry and bready, and I am thirsty and watery. The official of a hundred miles will win life and death. Orphans and widows, a blank piece of paper, enter the county gate, and the wronged are justified. If the officials are not angry, the people will rejoice; Shangguan is not rich, the people are free from hardship, give birth to my parents, and raise my Ming Mansion. Seedlings and sprouts, east and west? The hometown of parents, the son of heaven and horses. ”

This Song Dynasty folk song was born in July of the third year of Yongxi (986 AD), since Wang Anshi's change, the people have almost forgotten this song, today this troupe pretended to be the people, and sang this song again, what sycophants are more excited than this, and what sycophants are more excited than this Hangzhou officials?!

When the song was halfway through, the Hangzhou officials were already clapping their hands and singing in unison......

At this moment, in the middle of the moon, the Vega Galaxy and the Cowherd Galaxy are exceptionally bright in the sky, and the women present have taken out their sewing kits, threw them on the stage, and sang the song of July 7 in unison.

In the Song Dynasty, the kidnapping festival of July 7 was not Chinese Valentine's Day, and the Chinese Valentine's Day at that time was the Lantern Festival. It is said that on this day, offering a sewing kit embroidered by oneself will make oneself ingenious and endless.

Originally, the women were supposed to burn incense and pray and offer sewing kits on their incense tables, but in the Song Dynasty, the Kabuki were everyone's youth idols, and it was customary to throw sachets at these idols in addition to fruits, so the noblewomen threw sachets at the stage according to the custom.

Yang Zuren's Hun family got up, wiped the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief, and asked Yang Zuren in a low voice: "Official, the first three folds of this play are just foreshadowing, tomorrow is the backbone of the play, and you will bring me tomorrow...... This show girl is so good! ”

Zhao Xing listened, with a smile on his face, Qin Guan and Mao Peng listened with a smug face, and Zhao Xingchong gave up his hands to the two behind him, his face was full of praise. Tang Di took his five ladies and trotted into Zhao Xing's side, and asked impatiently: "Brother Zhao, it's time to perform "Under the West Chamber" tomorrow?" ”