Without waiting for Zhao Xing to answer, Qin Guan raised his head and replied: "Tomorrow will be four folds, and the last fold is "A Date in the West Chamber", so you have to come as soon as possible." ”

Tang Di used all his strength and nodded his head like a waving hammer: "Certainly, definitely!" "Under the West Chamber", the family is waiting for this day. ”

Tang Di's "Shufang Xian Jingyi" five ladies just saw Chen Yiyi's dress, and once looked around, this kung fu, they have vaguely discovered the truth, in front of Chen Yiyi, the lord of the feudal country, these clan ladies still maintain a certain degree of pride, they made a flat salute to Yiyi, because they didn't know how to say it, so after the salute, they looked for a topic.

Chen Yiyi was already soft in Zhao Xing's arms at this time, her little arm hooked Zhao Xing's neck, unwilling to get up, and saluted the five ladies, she only waved her hand as a reply, but the gifts handed by the servants were rich, and the five ladies were not to blame, and when they put away the gifts, the third lady Xian made a gesture and said dryly: "Congratulations, congratulations...... Well, congratulations ......"

Mrs. Xian's greetings opened the floodgates, and several other ladies immediately rushed up, pulled up Yiyi, and asked some women's topics in a low voice, Su Shi was still leaning lazily on the chair, Zhan Qinqin was wearing a costume, and walked off the stage to ask Qin Guan's opinion, Su Shi listened lazily.

Others, depending on the distance of their relationship, some said goodbye to Zhao Xing, while others were accompanied by servants and wandered around the garden to enjoy the scenery. After a while, only the music of cleaning up the stage was left in the water pavilion, and the guests were only Zhou Bangshi, Yang Chong, and Tang Di.

Yang Chong also brought a lady today. Tang Di's five ladies were very respectful of Yang Chong's Hun family, respectfully beyond common sense. Seeing that other people's attention was on discussing "The Legend of the West Chamber", Zhao Xing gently pulled Tang Di, and the two avoided the side and whispered.

"Brother Yang is a very low-key person, how can you be so respectful to his Hun family, Brother Tang, what is the secret here?" Zhao Xing asked very gossipy.

In fact, Zhao Xing has nothing to say, he can't interject when he recites poetry, and he can't interject when those women talk together. The only thing that could interject in the scene was Tang Di, a wealthy businessman who didn't like poetry very much, and the two had to talk a few words before they seemed to be left out in the cold.

Tang Di is also interested in such gossip topics. He said energetically, "You don't know? It's not easy to look up to that wife! ”

The word "wife" appeared in the Song Dynasty, at first it was called his wife by the husband in the area of Liangzhejiang Road, and the corresponding word "husband" has not appeared until now, probably it evolved from the word "Xianggong", Tang Di used this word to call Yangchong Hun family, but it seems very vulgar.

But Tang Di is a layman. Zhao Xing didn't blame, he asked rhetorically: "How is it not simple?" ”

Tang Di smiled: "Haven't you heard of it, during the Xining period." Two clan girls were kidnapped by the beggars in the capital. A clan girl was sold to a brothel in Hangzhou, and a clan girl was sold to Hangzhou and bought as a concubine by a wealthy merchant......"

Zhao Xing had heard of this, this was what happened when Bao Zheng Bao Longtu was the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion, and afterwards, Bao Zheng did not touch a beggar to help anyone during his entire tenure.

Zhao Xing was after the Zhao Qin'er incident. Try to understand the deeds of the beggars. This led to the discovery of these two scandals. Speaking of which, this is also a symbol of the weakness of the Song family, and the royal daughter was kidnapped. Abduction, the royal family still has to follow the law, strictly follow the legal route, Bao Zheng is like a sentence, the emperor does not slaughter thousands of miles to show his wisdom, it is really sighing.

The history of the Song Dynasty recorded this scandal, but did not say a word about what happened to the two clan women.

"Look up to that Hun family? ......" Zhao Xing asked dodgingly.

Tang Di lowered his voice and added: "It's the one in Hangzhou who only gave birth to one daughter, which is the Hun family of Yangchong." ”

Zhao Xing understood.

Although the Zhao Song royal family refused to admit that their daughter was kidnapped, they would definitely give compensation like Zhao Qin'er or Tang Di's five wives afterwards, so although the Yangchong Dihun family had no official identity, the Zhao Song royal family recognized her bloodline.

No wonder Yang Chong has never heard of any poetic talent, but he can knock on the door of any great poet, even Zhou Bang's style of inviting guests to accompany Zhang, Zhang does not feel that Yang Chong's identity is cheap.

It turned out that the Great Song Dynasty was all understanding people, only Zhao Xing was confused, and he never cared about the identity of the other party when making friends, Su Shi dared to hold on to Teacher Cheng, and he dared to call a businessman like Tang Di a brother.

Zhao Xing and Tang Di finished chatting about Yangchong, and then talked about rare trees. Tang Di is a stubborn master, when it comes to this topic, he can be everyone's teacher, he chatted about the dishes at the night banquet like a few treasures, each dish corresponds to the plate, and what wine to drink in each dish, Zhao Xing was dumbfounded.

Zhao Xing's table manners in modern times are all from Western etiquette, through Liao Xiaoxiao, he knows part of the Song Dynasty etiquette, but Liao Xiaoxiao has not yet learned the details of the etiquette of the rich people. Tang Di seemed to have overheard the chat here just now, and took the initiative to chat about the form of the night banquet, chatting with great interest, while talking, he threatened Zhao Xing with his eyes, hoping that he could get a seat.

"Papapa", Zhao Xing slapped his face: "It's so exciting, it turns out that there is such an elegant etiquette here...... Well, you will definitely come then, and I will show you the etiquette of my house. ”

Tang Di grabbed Zhao Xing's sleeve, his expression changed slightly, and he quickly pretended to be calm again, and said lightly: "Are you inviting me, well, my family's insider is just free, I'll transfer one or two hundred for you, and I'll help you manage it." ”

Zhao Xing smiled understandingly, Tang Di also smiled, and both of them smiled understandingly.

At this moment, a thunderclap suddenly sounded near the dock, a thunderbolt sounded, a cloud of black smoke and fire rose into the air, the women in the courtyard screamed in fright, and Tang Di sat on the ground in fright. Among the people present, only Zhao Xing seemed very calm, Su Dongpo seemed eager to try, and the others were at a loss. Immediately afterward, alarm bells rang in the dock area, and the people there shouted in unison: "Enemy attack, enemy attack." ”

Zhao Xing looked at the smoke that exploded, very puzzled, he glanced at Su Shi curiously, and then glanced at Hangzhou Facao Maopeng, and asked in astonishment: "There is such a thing...... In broad daylight, Lang Lang Qiankun, there is such a thing? Is there any mistake? ”

Due to excessive surprise. Zhao Xing was a little slurred when he spoke.

Su Shi was a little anxious, he urged others to bring him armor, and said disdainfully: "This must be the Caoshi River Crossing Thief, have you heard." There is a grass market that has not been stolen for three years, and the last time I saw the grass market at your door, I wanted to remind you, but unfortunately there are many things, I forgot, sure enough. They're coming. ”

During the Song Dynasty, the grass markets were free trade, and since each market only collected a few taxes per year, local officials were reluctant to send too many people to maintain law and order. Because there are too many grass markets in the imperial court. If people are stationed everywhere, the administrative costs will be high.

Because of the free trade state of the grass market, it has become the fat of thieves, and most of the grass markets are located in convenient ferries, townships and counties, which are also convenient for escaping after robbery, so. Basically, the grass market in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty. There is no one who has not been robbed for three consecutive years.

Su Shi explained to Zhao Xing while urging the servants to put on armor for him. After Zhao Xing knew the reason, he completely put his mind at ease: "How can this matter be done by the teacher, there are only a dozen thieves, I ...... here."

Zhao Xing was halfway through his words and quickly shut up. He originally wanted to say: "I am built here as a military fortress, and if you dare to come to me to rob, isn't that looking for death?" But this was too taboo, and he swallowed the second half of the sentence back halfway through his words, pretending to cough.

The castle has begun to evacuate, except for the door leading to the dock bunker, which is not closed, the other gates have been closed, those noisy people, frightened people have been led by the servants to settle one by one, and Zhao Xing's students have led a team of servants to the guard points. Chen Yiyi pulled the five ladies and ran happily towards the castle, shouting as she walked: "Go to the top of the building...... Standing high and looking far away, we went to the roof to watch the play. ”

At the staircase of the Blue House, Cheng Azhu appeared with a hunting bow, she commanded the women to enter the castle, while gesturing to Zhao Xing, Zhao Xing waved at her, two students set up Su Shi, beckoned the old and young women of Su Shi's family to go to the castle, six or seven Japanese women trotted to Zhao Xingdi's bow, arrows, armor and weapons, two Japanese horses and horses led two well-draped war horses, trotting here.

At the time of the incident, Tang Di was talking to Zhao Xing, so everyone didn't pull him away, Tang Di's expression was pale, but his voice didn't tremble, he pointed to the gate of the dock area, urging: "Brother Zhao, why don't you close that door?" ”

As soon as the words were spoken, ten servants appeared at the gate of the castle with six or seven strong dogs, and the Israeli men in the castle also stood guard at the gate of the castle with swords. Tang Di saw this scene and closed his mouth.

Jin Fuji, the Xiao brothers and their father Xiao Shan, the black Tyson and the two black women also put on their armor and ran to Zhao Xingdi's side, standing on Zhao Xing's left and right. At this time, the widow was busy tying the last strap on Zhao Xing's armor.

After the belt was tied, a widow slapped the parts of the armor one by one with a slap to check the firmness of the armor, and after this dense slap, those widows knelt on the ground together, kowtowed to Zhao Xing, and said: "Changmen Palace, I wish the martial arts a long time and a victory!" ”

August 15, 1089 AD, the seventh day of the seventh month of the Year of the Snake in the lunar calendar, the 5th year of Da'an of Liao Daozong (Yelu Hongji), the 4th year of Song Zhezong (Zhao Xu), the second day of the month of Renshen in the Chinese calendar, Wednesday. Hangzhou bandits, bandits besieged Jasmine Garden.

Zhao Xingshi walked towards the gate of the castle near the dock, and as he went, the people in the castle came and went, busy evacuating in a nervous and orderly manner. The door of the widow's house was also opened, and the three brothers Huang Da Huang and Huang San carried a small box and trotted towards the city gate. At the same time, at the gate of the city, two groups of men were pushing two huge cabinets from the hut at the gate, and they pushed the cabinets to the gate, leaving only a small crack for people to pass through.

There were sporadic explosions on the waterside pier from time to time, but compared to the loud noise just now, the explosion was much lighter and more messy. However, the smoke was billowing out, as if something was burning.

The Israeli Bai Qiao greeted him with a group of people who were carrying crossbows, and Zhao Xing took the cross crossbow in Bai Qiao's hand, and said with a relaxed smile: "Mr. Bai." I can't bear to let you command your hands in battle with such precious heads. Your strengths are in the brain, and go back. ”

Bai Qiao smiled and spread out his hand, and before he could answer, a voice sounded next to him: "Yu Qingnian is in Haizhou, people wear the ground to get a crossbow machine, and the scale is engraved on the Wangshan, which is very long, and the side of the Wangshan is a small moment, such as a ruler with proportions." Yes. This crossbow is also expected to be on the mountain, but unfortunately it is not accurate. ”

Zhao Xing's feet flashed, he looked towards the place where he spoke, and found Shen Kuo dressed as a reader. He stared at the crossbow in Zhao Xing's hand with the focused gaze of a depressed patient, and said to himself: "If you try to set up three warps and three latitudes, you will get seven or eight out of ten with the arrow." So, the finer the scale, the better. ”

When Shen Kuo spoke, several Cheng men had already quietly touched behind him. But Shen Kuo didn't notice it at all, he was trotting after Zhao Xing's footsteps while staring closely at the crossbow.

Zhao Xing originally had a gloomy face. With his eyes, he urged the Cheng men to speed up their pace. But after listening to Shen Kuo's words, he waved his hand violently, and the Cheng men stopped, and Zhao Xing stretched out his hand to Shen Kuo, holding his hand, and asked gently, "Why is Mr. Mengxi here?" Shen Kuo was still looking at the crossbow in Zhao Xing's hand, and replied without raising his eyes: "I heard that Liren sings a big drama here." I happened to meet Mrs. Zixia. So I asked her to take me into the yard, and so on. to be able to watch this grand ceremony. ”

Zixia is Chaoyun's character, this word was given to Chaoyun by Su Shi, except for people who have a close relationship with the Su family, others don't know. The only exception is Shen Kuo.

Shen Kuo said that after he heard about this long-planned drama performance, he waited for Chaoyun on the side of the road and begged her to take him into the courtyard.

Originally, the gatekeeper had been instructed to stop Shen Kuo's visit, but because it was brought in by Chaoyun, it was difficult for the gatekeeper to stop him. And Zhao Xing also figured out the reason why he appeared here, Chen Yiyi was tired of being by his side just now, and at the same time, the servants moved and took care of the performances, and no one was idle, so he didn't notify himself of the news in time. And Shen Kuo and Chaoyun were inseparable from each other, which also made it impossible for the servants to drive them away.

After the explosion, the courtyard was even more chaotic, and the servants patronized and protected the officials and their relatives and retreated into the Blue House, leaving Shen Kuo behind, and he stuck to Zhao Xing when he had nowhere to go.

"Look, how is this crossbow compared to the crossbow in your house?" Shen Kuo said that he also made a crossbow in his home to look at the mountain for on-the-spot testing, and Zhao Xing saw that he was staring at the crossbow in his hand, so he handed the crossbow to Shen Kuo.

Zhao Xing's crossbow is a steel arm crossbow, he modified this Song Dynasty crossbow according to the appearance of the crossbow in his memory, and installed a ratchet in the winding place, and also installed a set of pulleys to reduce the force used when drawing the bow. Shen Kuo is a person who likes to study, and after losing his position, his main pleasure is also this, seeing this crossbow in the hands of the Israelis that is obviously different from the Middle Earth, his eyes are so tightly absorbed that when he walks to the gate, he forgets that this is a battlefield.

Guarding the door was Cheng Wang. When Zhao Xing arrived at the ground, Cheng Shuang was leading a group of people to carry two large boxes, he saw Shen Kuo, and asked Zhao Xing what he meant with his eyes, Zhao Xing nodded lightly, Cheng Shuang immediately opened the lid of the box, revealing a box full of gunpowder arrows, and then stuffed it into the hive-like holes in the two carts.

The gatekeeper on this side of the Water Gate is Jin Fuji, and he led a few apprentices to greet Zhao Xing, and Zhao Xing asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Zhao Xing's questioning voice alarmed Shen Kuo, he raised his eyes, found a new thing in front of him, and hurriedly pointed to the hive car blocking the door and asked, "What is this?" Shouldn't it be a knife cart that plugs the city gates? ”

Zhao Xing secretly gave a thumbs up. Shen Kuo, who has gone through the war with the Western Xia, knows a little bit of military affairs and knows the Saimen knife car, but the thing in front of him is not the Saimen knife car, because Zhao Xing does not need to block the door.

Jin Buji bowed and replied: "Six boats came from the upstream, about thirty people, and they were about to force their way to the shore without a flag, and the people on the dock stopped them, and they suddenly set fire to the boat, and there was an explosion on the boat, which seemed to be an explosion of gunpowder, and then those people began to storm the gate of the fort, and three people were shot by arrows in the tower, and now they are hiding behind the pulley, holding us. ”

"Floating upstream, these people have lead in their brains, how can they escape after the robbery? Swimming against the current? They also blew up their own ship, yes? Fantastic? ”

Shen Kuo looked at the hive car curiously, and replied absentmindedly: "The one who comes upstream must be the thieves of the lake and mountain, Fuyang Lake and Mountain: its mountains are secluded, overlapping and dangerous, and there is disturbance every time, and everyone avoids here...... It is said that in the recent drought, many people gathered to gather in the lakes and mountains in order to avoid servitude and taxes. ”

Shen Kuo muttered to himself while spinning around the beehive car, during which his movement repeatedly hindered Cheng Shuang's work, Cheng Shuang's face was ugly, but because Zhao Xing was kind to him, he didn't scold.

Zhao Xing's wharf is equal to a private wharf, and only those who have business dealings with him can use this wharf, of course, the loading and unloading fees must be collected.

Every ship allowed to moorth, there is a signal flag specially issued by Zhao Xing, when entering the port, the ship must hang the signal flag, and then dock at the berth according to the instructions, the ship that does not hang the signal flag, when approaching the dock, will be warned, if forced to rush to the shore, it is not impossible, but the word of the dock area itself is a trap, once into this area, it will be attacked by fire from three sides.

According to Jin Fuji's introduction, after the gang of thieves forced their way into the dock, they were warned by the tower, so they preemptively ignited the gunpowder on the ship, and the explosion of the gunpowder caused serious damage to the ships moored at the pier......

"Explosions, gunpowder, how can they have gunpowder?" Zhao Xing saw that Cheng Shuang was about to finish, he waved his hand and ordered everyone to prepare to go out of the city, and picked up a shield and erected it in front of him.

Shen Kuo's gaze was still on the hive car, and he continued to mumble to himself: "There is a nitrate cave in Hushan, and the local people will boil medicine to make medicine puppets, and it is not surprising that they have gunpowder." Leaving people, what kind of car is this? ”

Zhao Xing made a look, several Cheng people took shields to cover in front of Shen Kuo, and others began to push the fire ballista to walk towards the city gate, Cheng Shuang lit the torch with a candle, and four or five people hid behind the beehive car with torches, and rushed forward step by step.

When he got out of the city cave and arrived at the dock area, Shen Kuo was still asking: "Brother Zhao, what kind of car is this?" I guessed a little, can you please Brother Zhao to solve my doubts? ”

Zhao Xing nodded, observed the front through the gap in the hive car, and explained to Shen Kuo in his mouth: "This is a fire ballista car researched according to the principle of the medicine puppet, a car is loaded with a hundred gunpowder arrows, once the medicine line is lit, like ......this."

Amid the hissing and burning of the gunpowder line, Zhao Xing added: "There will be rockets in droves, so it can also be called a swarm of bees, or a hundred tigers running together." ”

As soon as Zhao Xing's words fell, the first rocket rushed out of the fire ballista, with a loud scream and a long tail flame to the group of bandits on the dock, and then, the terrible howling sound like a ghost scream sounded one after another, and the rockets rushed out of the fire ballista, and the sharp cones were pierced behind the wooden boxes used by the bandits as cover, and then, one after another, explosions sounded one after another. The thick smell of gunpowder smoke makes people's throats itch.

The fire ballista is a suppressive weapon, when the first rocket burst out with flames, Cheng Shuang commanded the brothers to push the fire ballista to both sides, revealing the middle avenue, at the same time, the rocket continued to run out, and then exploded with fire, the sound of the group of bandits on the dock came into view, in the continuous explosion, some of the bandits were injured, and they were covering their wounds and screaming miserably, and the uninjured people turned around and ran towards the dock, trying to board the ship and leave.

Shen Kuo took a deep breath, the thick smoke seemed to have no effect on him, and he said in a hoarse voice: "More than thirty mouthfuls, there are thirty bandits." ”