It was the middle of spring, the days were getting longer, the weather was getting warmer, a group of officials in wide robes and big sleeves were holding hoes to plow the ground, and behind them was another group of officials sowing seeds and covering the soil, and after a while, their bodies began to sweat, and then their legs were weak, the farm tools in their hands were extremely heavy, and the sweat beads on their faces were crackling down. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

But no one dared to complain, let alone slack off, because the emperor was in front and did the same work as them.

This is their first stop from Pengcheng, the emperor has to personally persuade the peasants, the rituals are ready-made, first pray for rain, worship Shennong, then the emperor gives a bag of seeds to the locals, the local elders offer the soil wrapped in dry grass, and finally the emperor and the hundred officials go down to plough the fields.

The previous rituals are easy to say, nothing more than symbolic movements, and the strange dances of local witches can be watched, but the ploughing is a real effort, but the emperor is a solid eye, he only needs to help the plow, lift the hoe and plane three or four times, but he personally pushed the plow to plough a whole field, and then took the ministers to break the soil and sow seeds.

The ritual of persuading farmers, which can be completed in half an hour, suddenly extends from a cool morning to a scorching hot afternoon, and even a real farmer rarely works under the sun for such a long time, let alone a group of civil officials who are not diligent in all four bodies.

One of the officials who accompanied him finally lost his strength and passed out in Tian Gongli, where he was quickly carried away by several soldiers so as not to obstruct the view.

The last row of officials were all from the local area, and after this tiredness, they finally understood that the emperor's persuasion of farmers was true, and the county order was smarter after all, and kept glancing at the master who was standing on the edge of the field and watching, until tears flowed loudly, and the master finally reacted, quietly left, and changed the arrangements made before.

So, at dusk, when the emperor and the hundred officials, who had been tired all day, finally sat down to eat, the table was not filled with delicacies, but on the table were freshly dug up wild vegetables from the ground, porridge made from aged corn, and soybean paste and rice wine brewed by the villagers.

The emperor was very satisfied with this meal, and the hungry officials ate very sweetly, and praised the farmhouse-style meal.

If it weren't for an incident that happened at night, Han Ruzi would even give the county commander a promotion.

The loach was younger, not steady enough, dared to speak in front of the emperor, and when he served the emperor at night, he couldn't help but show off: "It's really good to follow the emperor." ”

Zhang Youcai pursed his lips disdainfully, and Han Ruzi smiled: "What's good?" Isn't it more comfortable to go to war or eat wild vegetables than if you are fishing in Kidnapping Lake? ”

"That's different, fishing loaches...... It's always the loach, follow the emperor, the loach becomes a big fish, so many big officials, I couldn't even see it before, but now they are all polite to me. ”

Zhang Youcai was even more disdainful, and couldn't help but say: "You have to remember that they are polite to Your Majesty, not to you." ”

"I don't understand this? The politeness is for Your Majesty, and things are always for me, right? The loaches smiled.

Han Ruzi had already changed his clothes, and when he heard this, the smile on his face disappeared, "Someone gave you something?" ”

The loach didn't react yet, and proudly took out two golden hairpins from his arms, the shape of the hairpin was extremely exquisite, the loach didn't care at all, and shook it twice, "There are a few taels, I found someone to see it, it's real gold, the official said, this is a wedding gift to me in advance, hehe, when I get married, there will be several years." ”

"Which officer?"

"It's the local Zhu County Order, he's really a good person."

"He gave you a gift, and he didn't ask for anything?"

"No, he said that he hoped to be closer to me in the future." The loach finally sensed that the emperor's expression was wrong, and he became embarrassed.

Loach used to be a wild child in the fishing village, not as familiar with the rules of the palace as Zhang Youcai, nor like Du Chuanyun who has been crawling in the rivers and lakes since he was a child, and his mind is relatively simple, although Han Ruzi was angry, he couldn't bear to be angry with him, looked at the two hairpins, and said: "You keep the things, when you are a few years older, I will definitely arrange a good family affair for you." ”

The loach's face was flushed, and he silently put away the golden hairpin, and when he was about to turn off the lights, he suddenly took out the golden hairpin again, and said loudly: "I understand, Zhu Xianling has bad intentions, he wants me to say good things for him in front of His Majesty, he is a corrupt official!" ”

Zhang Youcai waved his hand again and again, making the loach quiet.

"I don't want anything from corrupt officials!" The loach lifted the golden hairpin and threw it to the ground.

"Gold is gold after all, and it is good to use it for the poor, so why destroy it?" Han Ruzi persuaded.

Loach had no choice but to put away the golden hairpin again, "These officials are so insidious, they say that they just want to make friends, and they want nothing else, but in fact, they all hide bad intentions, so to speak...... It's really a tiring job to follow His Majesty. ”

Zhang Youcai snorted, but Han Ruzi laughed, "You know that this is tiring work, but it's a good thing." Zhang Youcai, you haven't made a few ministerial friends? ”

Zhang Youcai was startled and hurriedly shook his head, "I don't, I've always been businesslike, except for summons, I usually don't even say anything." ”

"You can talk about ......" Han Ruzi's heart moved, and said to the loach: "I'll give you a task, it's done, it's a great achievement, and then let you pick a daughter-in-law." ”

The loach's face turned even redder, "Your Majesty is making fun of me, can I still do the task given by Your Majesty?" It's nothing to do with marrying a daughter-in-law......"

"This task is very simple, if an official gives you something in the future, you can accept it, and then show it to me, it will not be counted as a bribe, you will also tell me what those officials say and want."

"It's as simple as that?"

"Hmm."

The loach thought for a moment, "Am I taking bribes on orders?" ”

"How do you speak?" Zhang Youcai reprimanded.

Han Ruzi said with a smile: "It's an order, but as long as you have one thing or a word to conceal, you will be disobeying the order, and every bribe you accept will be convicted together." ”

"Huh? If I forget a sentence, wouldn't I be unlucky? I understand that doing things for the emperor is that it looks easy, but in fact it is difficult, and there are traps everywhere. ”

"Do you want to accept the assignment?"

Loach frowned and thought for a while, "Your Majesty will finally clean up all these corrupt officials who paid bribes, right?" ”

"Of course, it's like fishing, you're the bait."

"It's not like, I used to always fish, a piece of bait can only catch one fish, sometimes I can't catch it, and then I have to change the bait, how can I catch so many officials with this piece of bait?"

Han Ruzi said helplessly: "This is just an analogy, there is no need to be similar everywhere." ”

"Hmm...... Okay, I'll do it, the corrupt officials are the most hateful, they actually found me, and they must be cleaned up fiercely. ”

"Just hate it in your heart, but don't show it." Zhang Youcai reminded.

"Don't worry, I understand." The loach is really interested, and he doesn't snore when he sleeps at night, and keeps turning over and beating corrupt officials in his dreams.

Han Ruzi didn't want to disturb the people, so he lived in the barracks outside the city, lived alone in a tent, and lay on the bed, only feeling a sore back, more tired than riding a horse to fight, and couldn't help but think that the people were really hard, and how many sins they had to suffer for the harvest after the autumn.

Before he could fall asleep, the voice of Liu Jie, the central supervisor, came outside: "Has Your Majesty rested?" ”

"Come in." Han Ruzi reluctantly sat up.

Liu Jie walked in with a candlestick in his hand, and carefully guarded the flame with his other hand, "Your Majesty is tired for a day, your body will be sore, and it is not advisable to fall asleep too early. ”

Liu Jie is not only a minister of bones, but also an extremely careful eunuch, and he suddenly said what the emperor was thinking, Han Ruzi rubbed his shoulders, "Is there anyone in the camp who knows how to massage?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty will wait for a moment." Liu Jie placed the candlestick on the table and lit another candle at the same time, and the tent suddenly became much brighter.

Liu Jie withdrew, and not long after, the massager came in, not the eunuch Han Ruzi thought, but Zhang Qinyan.

Han Ruzi was stunned for a moment, and already felt that Liu Jie's behavior was a little strange in the matter of the piano master, but now this feeling is even stronger.

"How are you?"

Zhang Qinyan didn't hold the qin, nor did he look at the emperor with a charming gaze, but just knelt on the ground, as if pleading.

"Do you know massage?" Han Ruzi still couldn't get her out.

Zhang Qinyan nodded.

"Then ...... Give it a try. ”

Zhang Qinyan got up, walked to the side of the bed with fine steps, knelt on it, still refused to look at the emperor, and made gestures to ask the emperor to lie down.

Han Ruzi leaned over and lay down, feeling a finger pressed on his back, his strength was very weak at first, but he strengthened it little by little, and slowly moved along the acupoint, first feeling that his body was more sore, and soon it became comfortable.

At this moment, the sound of the piano came from outside the tent, not an empty music, although there was no feeling of fluttering immortals, and with the massage, it made Han Ruzi more relaxed.

"You're a pianist, how do you know massage?" Han Ruzi asked, the fingers on his back paused for a moment, "By the way, it's a pity that you can't speak." ”

The strength of the palm is fixed, not light or heavy, the techniques are complicated, pushing, holding, pressing, rubbing, kneading, pinching, pointing, patting, etc., although Han Ruzi is the first time to be pressed like this, it can be judged that Zhang Qinyan is very good at this technique by feeling.

With his palm off his back, Zhang Qinyan hummed softly, and Han Ruzi turned around.

Zhang Qinyan still bowed his head, his long eyelashes left two shadows under his eyes, adding a bit of mystery, pressing one hand on his leg, and the other hand naturally reached into the emperor's clothes and massaged on his chest.

It's another feeling, the strength of the palm is weaker, and it doesn't seem to move exclusively on the acupoint, as soft as a glass of wine.

Han Ruzi suddenly woke up and sat up all of a sudden, Zhang Qinyan was defenseless, leaned over, almost fell out of bed, and sighed softly, with a panicked face, he still didn't dare to look at the emperor.

"That's enough, go and call Liu Jie in."

Zhang Qinyan kowtowed to the emperor, got out of bed in a panic, and exited the tent.

Liu Jie immediately came in, "Your Majesty is looking for me?" ”

"Liu Jie, I thought you were a minister of the bones, why did you do such a shameless thing?"

Liu Jie hurriedly knelt down, "Your Majesty forgives you." ”

"How much benefit have you received from Henan Yin for your beauty?"

Master Qin and his daughter are both from Yin Han Chou's mansion in Henan, and Han Ruzi deduced from this that Liu Jie was probably instructed by Han Chou.

"Your Majesty, although I can't afford the words 'Ministers of the Bones', I will not be used by foreign ministers."

"Then why did you offer Zhang Qinyan to me again and again? Don't you understand the truth of being drunk and losing your mind with playthings? ”

Liu Jie stopped squeaking, and there seemed to be something unspeakable.

Han Ruzi was even more annoyed, "Liu Jie, don't let me regret taking you on the expedition." ”

Liu Jie kowtowed, "It's His Majesty's mother......"

Han Ruzi was stunned for a moment, "She asked you to offer beauty to me?" ”

"She is also a painstaking worker, hoping that Her Majesty can give birth to a prince as soon as possible."

Han Ruzi was stunned, and suddenly worried about Cui Xiaojun, the queen in the palace. (To be continued.) )