The spring breeze gradually greened the south bank of the river, but the first month of the first year of Shenwu ended in a sad and depressing atmosphere.

With this gentleness, the willow green flowers and red came for a short time in Jiangning, and went north, presumably the whole world will be rejuvenated again in this piece of greenery in the near future.

In addition, most of the good and bad things of last year will probably go north with the spring breeze, and finally stay on the front line of Yanmen Pass.

It's just that inside and outside the city, there is still a cold slaughter left over from the last cold winter.

The biggest thing that happened last year was the death of the emperor, even though the emperor did not do much during his reign, but last year was not a good year, it was a frequent natural and man-made disaster, and then the emperor died, after the people with a heart deliberately released the news, there were still some small-scale turmoil in various places. Especially in the area to the northwest, where the life of the people is not easy, after the natural disaster, it is a man-made disaster.

To put it simply, some people died in the flood, and then the plague was rampant and some people died, until someone rose up later, and after the court quelled the chaos, in the end another group of people died, it was in the past three months, the entire northwest, it was really ten rooms and nine empty.

In this situation, Xiliang sent troops, burned, killed and looted, and finally occupied a large area of land. Later, the envoys agreed, and the new dynasty paid a huge price to redeem the land.

After that, most of the people are also in trouble. Even though the life of that generation was difficult and the people were sparse, there was still land that could be cultivated, but at the moment, this land was really deserted.

The desert is desolate, and the yellow sand is all over the sky, which should be a scene that can only be seen in the north, has taken root in the northwest.

When the princes of the imperial court rushed for credit, the envoys sent to the northwest looked desolate and painful, if it weren't for the timely rescue of his subordinates, this one would have died on the city wall.

The new dynasty has an ancestral order not to kill scholars, and civil officials also spare their lives, so that a civil official can make such a move, which shows how sad he has been when he has really seen the desolation here.

It's just that such grief is just in exchange for the rebuke of the officials.

At the same time, there is also the abuse of the people of the world.

On the surface, the new dynasty sent an army to fight with Xiliang to recover this large piece of land, and the government and the opposition all regarded it as a great victory in the war against Xiliang to inform the world and encourage the people. It's just that for those who really participated, it was just based on the discussion in advance, when they entered from the south gate, the Xiliang army came out from the north gate, and behind such a recovery was just a dirty transaction of power and money.

However, the so-called people can make it happen, but they can't make it known, and ordinary people can distinguish between good and bad when they listen to the imperial court, and they vigorously insult the meritorious officials, and they can't wait to debone and cramp this kind of "traitor".

This news came later to the south, and the first to arrive was the news of the emperor's illness and death.

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A few rough pine trees were topped with an old canvas, surrounded by bamboo, and several sets of old tables and chairs were placed in them, and a few people eating tea were sitting in twos and threes.

It is some distance from Jiangning, close to the side of the Yangtze River, and there should be a ferry not far away, and some outlines can be seen from a distance. In a good year, people who travel between the north and the south will actually choose to take a better ferry, but in this situation, those big ferries are often strictly checked, and it costs too much to really go back and forth between the two sides of the strait.

After crossing the shore, you also need to eat a cup of tea to wake up, and after crossing the Yangtze River, it probably means that you are born.

After all, there have been wars and turmoil over the years, and Bianjing has been besieged several times, and it has never been beaten across the Yangtze River in the end.

The tea shop is obviously improvised, so it is very simple, it is still early in the morning, and there are no people, and the owner is not only idle, but also has a little eye for the guests who come and go.

Most of the time, his eyes stayed on the pair of men and women on the north side, looking intently, but he didn't know what he was thinking.

Until the wife next to him turned him around and yelled angrily: "You old immortal!" ”

"Hey, you mother-in-law, you don't know what to do......"

Husband and wife will not be able to rest for a while.

The man and woman at the table glanced over there, and then the young man looked at the woman opposite and quipped: "They all said that you should dress up again, but you don't want to, now it's okay, people will be staring at you wherever you go...... I've been really hurt by you along the way. ”

The last sentence is a complaint.

The woman snorted, ignoring the man's crazy words.

After all, girls love beauty, and they instinctively resist pretending to be ugly, and from another angle, they always want to show their best side in front of the person they like, so she was very angry along the way.

The man snorted, not caring that he was left out in the cold.

looked at the gray-faced woman in front of him, smiled, and the tense heartstrings for most of the month were briefly released.

"Almost, let's go." The man picked up the rough earthen bowl and poured a mouthful.

Yu Guang casually glanced at his tattered clothes, and lowered his head a little sadly.

"No more money?" The woman suddenly yelled.

This alarm startled the guests next to her, and at the same time quieted the quarreling couple by the stove, and the woman looked at this side with a frightened expression, and then pushed her husband next to her.

The young man smiled helplessly, the experience of half a month, where would he have any money, the reason why he walked into this shop before, probably because there were many people, and the other party was not easy to start.

"Why don't you stay here and be a little wife......" the young man spread his hands, "I don't have any money." ”

The voice fell, Mo said that it was the shopkeeper over there, and the people who heard it next to him all looked at it directly, some were not angry, and some were eager to try.

The next moment, someone came over and asked tentatively: "If I don't pay for this tea for you, this little lady will follow me!" ”

Wang Ning didn't answer immediately when she heard this, but looked at Su Xiaoyan funny: "I think it's ......"

Under the table, Su Xiaoyan stomped Wang Ning fiercely, glared at him viciously, gritted her teeth and said, "You say it again." ”

Wang Ning grinned in pain, you must know that the past few days have been quite hard, his shoes have been worn on Su Xiaoyan's feet, and at this time he is wearing broken shoes that he picked up from the side of the road, but they are not very good for isolating pain.

Just as she was about to speak, Su Xiaoyan took out a delicate purse from her body, took out an earring from it, and motioned for the store over there to come over.

The person who was left to dry for a while next to him was a little annoyed, but when he saw what Su Xiaoyan took out, he silently returned to his original seat.

The store did not show any joy, but was a little embarrassed. But at the urging of his wife, he still walked over.

"Let's take this as tea money." Su Xiaoyan said kindly.

The shopkeeper hurriedly excused himself: "Don't dare, don't dare, these two bowls of tea are not worth so much." ”

Between the host and guest, Wang Ning snatched the earrings from Su Xiaoyan's hand, conjured a few copper plates from his body and gave them to the shopkeeper, and dragged Su Xiaoyan out.

A moment later, the man who had spoken before also got up, put down a few copper plates, and followed.

Then the scolding of the proprietress sounded again, but the shopkeeper let him beat and scold, laughing and kneading his dough.