(12) Suffering
"Cough, cough, whose carriage dares to be so presumptuous in this Luoyang City!" But it was a young man in his twenties, who was also choked by the dust of the carriage.
"Ahem, Yuan Gongzi, whisper, didn't you see that this is the Liang family's carriage?" The young man who also looked like a scholar was half a head shorter than the young man surnamed Yuan on the side, but he was talking to the young man in a low voice, as if he was afraid of being heard by others.
"Hmph, General Liang Jia? That is, he dared to do this, but it has not been a few days, and I heard that the Queen Mother is almost ......" Although the young man surnamed Yuan was not polite, he still lowered his voice.
"General?" But it was Zhao Yan behind the two young men, just because the carriage flashed to a corner just now, and the two young men didn't pay attention, "I always hear the rumors of this general these days, so it's good to hear it." Zhao Yan was quite interested in the words of the two, and signaled Huan'er to the side with her hand not to speak, so she hid behind the two and listened.
"If the Queen Mother is ......, then there is still a queen and a general? How could the three brothers and sisters let this power fall, this emperor is just a ......" The short young man said, Zhao Yan suddenly flashed in her heart on the side, she seemed to have heard similar things about the three brothers and sisters, and she listened to it again.
"It's just a puppet, why didn't Brother Li dare to say it? Hehe," the young man surnamed Yuan said mockingly.
"Who is like your Yuan family, the cause is big, and the protégés are all over the world, and my life is still important......," the surname Li said.
"What's the world that his Liang family can't do? Wasn't the previous little emperor poisoned by Liang Ji? I heard that he was still conspiring with the regular servant Cao Teng......" The young man surnamed Yuan said again, quite unimpressed.
"Whisper, my Yuan Gongzi, don't die!" The young man surnamed Zhang said in a panic, and looked left and right.
"No one in the court knows about this, only the people don't know, hmph, see how long they can be rampant......" The young man surnamed Yuan saw that the young man surnamed Zhang didn't seem to want to talk any more, and he was not interested, and the two left......
Zhao Yan's heart was shocked when she heard this, "The two of them dare to kill the emperor...... Is Uncle Cao actually that kind of person......" muttered in his mouth, looking at Huan'er on the side, Huan'er was also full of urgency, "How is it possible, Miss, how can the master be such a person, it must be these two people talking nonsense...... "I obviously don't know and I don't believe it......
Although Zhao Yan was still thinking about this matter, seeing that Huan'er looked like this, it was inconvenient to say any more, so she persuaded her, "Let's go, Sister Huan'er......"
Zhao Yan and the two were silent all the way, but when they arrived at a cloth shop, the two of them also lost interest, and they chose a few steps and returned to the Dachangqiu Mansion.
"Sister! You're out! I heard Uncle Cao Fu say that the general is expanding his general's mansion, I went to the general's mansion with Uncle Cao Fu a few days ago, you definitely can't imagine that there can be such a luxurious mansion, if it is expanded, I really don't know how it will be built, I'm afraid it is ...... than the palace" Zhao Zhong saw his sister come back, so he went up to tell her what he had seen today, Zhao Yan had already seen that the carriage he saw today was to transport civil engineering to Liang Ji.
"Why is this general ...... again" Zhao Yan was unhappy in her heart, and saw that Zhao Zhong seemed to have envy and worship in her tone, so she said, "This general is the head of the military attaché, and now all parts of the country are suffering, and the people are suffering, he doesn't know how to compensate him, but he still overhauls his own house......" Zhao Yan said a lot of truths in a row, and Zhao Zhong was so frightened by this girl that he didn't move.
Zhao Yan couldn't help crying after speaking, so he ignored his brother and turned his head back to the house, Zhao Zhong was confused, seeing his sister crying and wanting to come forward to comfort, but his sister had already entered the house, and he used to always tell his sister something but he didn't see it.
Zhao Yan couldn't help crying when she returned to the house, she had relied on her brother since she was a child, she listened to her brother in everything, and thought that what her brother said must be right, but now that she has read the book, what she has seen and heard is different from before, and her brother's opinion is different, she didn't want to disobey her brother and quarrel with him, but she felt that her brother was so envious that Liang Ji was angry, so she couldn't help but say it, and she regretted it sadly, so she stopped talking to her brother and went back to the house to cry alone.
After crying for a long time, she felt that she had just spoken heavily to her brother, so she took out the unfinished shoes in the sewing basket, because she wanted to make clothes for the people of Cao Mansion and also made a pair of shoes for Zhao Zhong by the way, thinking that her brother often ran errands, so he needed a pair of good shoes.
In the blink of an eye, I don't know how many days have passed, the weather has turned cold, and it is about to enter winter......
In the room, Zhao Yan stretched her waist, her face was obviously happy, "It's finally all done!" "It turned out that all the clothes embroidered for the Cao Mansion were embroidered, and I was very happy.
As soon as class that day, Zhao Yan took out an object from his sleeve, handed it to Cao Song, and said gently, "It's about to enter the New Year, and Song'er is going to be a year old. "It's actually a sachet, and this sachet is a sachet, which means that young people should wear sachets when they see their parents and elders.
"Wow! What a beautiful sachet! Sister Yan, did you do it for Song'er? Song'er likes it so much. "I saw the blue background and yellow edge of the sachet, and the white crane pattern embroidered in the middle, the crane head was below, the feet were on top, and it was flying in the air, as if it was alive. Cao Song couldn't put it down with the sachet, so he actually leaned over the girl's face and kissed it gently, although Zhao Yan said that she was very familiar with Cao Song, she still blushed with shame, and turned around and ran away a little shyly.
Zhao Yan was ready to give a pair of good shoes to Zhao Zhong, as well as Cao Teng and Cao Fu, but because this cadre was not in the mansion, he handed it over to the slave to hand it over on his behalf. And the clothes and shoes made for the Xiahou couple have also been prepared, so I want to go to them in the afternoon, I wanted to go with my brother, but there is no trace of my brother these days, and there are a lot less words, I don't know what I am busy with, I think that these clothes and shoes must be sent to them before the winter, and it is not good to delay, so I am ready to go by myself.
After lunch, after telling Cao Song, Zhao Yan took Huan'er and a Caofu horseman who was familiar with the road to find the Hetou Village mentioned before, and the three of them sat in the carriage and went out of the city for more than ten miles to Hekou Village. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a deserted village, after the flood, these thatched houses or wooden houses were mostly washed down, even if the houses that did not fall down were blistered by the river, and there was no dry grass and trees to repair the bad house, so they only waited for the sun to dry up and pick some dry grass and trees for a little remedy, and it was better than nothing.
Zhao Yan looked at this desolate scene and felt desolate, and couldn't help but think of the flood in the village with her mother and brother when she was a child, and she would be hungry and shivering in winter. Thinking of the prosperity in Luoyang City, the stove in the homes of the eunuchs and nobles is full of heat, there are more warm clothes and food, and they live in deep houses and wide courtyards, but how can they think that the people of Luoyang, who are only ten miles away, live like this, that Liang Ji actually spent a lot of money to expand his own mansion, and he hated these dignitaries and dignitaries in his heart, and thought that he also lived in the Kuofu, and even hated himself......
"Miss, but the fourth one to the east of this village?" Zhao Yanwu thought to herself that she had unconsciously reached her goal, and Huan'er also said on the side, "Miss, it's here!" ”
Zhao Yan got out of the carriage, but saw that the house in front of her was similar to the house along the way, but it was better than the houses in other villages before, so she entered the house, but saw that it was Aunt Fan boiling water in the pot on the side, and was shocked when she saw someone coming in. It turned out that Zhao Yan was dressed luxuriously in Cao's mansion, and she was no longer the little girl with a muddy face and tattered clothes, how could this Fan family recognize her.
"Aunt Fan, it's me, the pair of brothers and sisters who suffered outside the Luoyang Gate a few months ago, it was Uncle Xiahou and you who gave us food to save my brother and sister's lives!" Zhao Yan couldn't help crying, seeing this Aunt Fan dressed up as a village woman, she actually remembered her mother.
"Kid, it's you!" Fan's hand holding the wooden spoon was a little unsteady, "I think you've been doing well these days......" Fan's eyes were a little moist when he saw that it was the little girl that day.
"Auntie, how are you doing these days...... All right? Zhao Yan sobbed a little.
"Alas, I still have to thank that adult, if it weren't for the fact that the adult gave us these silver coins......" Aunt Fan told Zhao Yan what happened after the separation of the people that day......
It turned out that after that day, those homeless people were still in the city gate for half a month, just because the flood had not receded, if in the past, the government needed to build some sheds outside the city, boil some gruel to relieve the homeless, I heard Aunt Fan say that in her ancestors' time, the government would also give some copper coins, or send small officials to help them repair the grass house, I don't know if it's true or not, but I just heard about it.
But this time they waited for a long time, and no one cared about them, some of the homeless people had already eaten up the food and starved to death in front of the door, and the soldiers just carried the dead bodies away and kept cursing, and the rest of the homeless people only waited for the flood to recede and then they all went home, and the family could be regarded as having something to eat, but they could only be judged to starve to death when they saw the king of Hades, and he and his wife could not bear to use the money alone, so they gave it to the neighbors, and they used the money to repair the house and buy some food.
Aunt Fan talked about how to repair the house, and her husband went to the field to collect firewood and did not return, but Zhao Yan cried like tears after speaking, "Child, I see that you are doing well, Auntie is very happy, I and your Uncle Xiahou were still talking about your brother and sister before......"
"Yes, auntie, these are the clothes and shoes I made for you" Zhao Yan only listened to what Fan said and she was sad to hear, and she forgot the purpose of this trip, so she took out the clothes and shoes.
"Kid, you did all this? What a skillful hand! This size is quite fitting, so we won't be frozen in winter......" Aunt Fan said gratefully.
"If it weren't for you, my brother and sister would have starved to death, what are these counts, I saw that the figure of my uncle and aunt was only vaguely remembered that day......" The two said for half an hour, Uncle Xiahou had not returned home, and it was too late to see that Zhao Yan said goodbye and returned to Caofu, just thinking about what he saw along the way, and the suffering of the people was so miserable......