Chapter 0007: Fall
After listening to Shou Bo's eyebrows, it was a false alarm. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
It turned out that this Shou Bo was a veteran of the forbidden army of the Song State, and many years ago he fought in the north with Zhao Jiong, the son of Song Dynasty, until five years ago when he attacked Wu Yue Kingdom, he fell off the city wall of Jinling City (Wu Yue Capital, now Nanjing) and broke his leg, so he was placed in this Bianliang City to settle down.
Zhao Jiong, the son of Song Dynasty, is eloquent, and climbed up from the bottom, never stingy with the soldiers who once followed him from birth to death, when he was not enthroned as the emperor, he set aside a piece of land in this Bianliang City, which was used to house all the old and retired or disabled and homeless soldiers, named Anjufang, which means that as long as it is a soldier who has shed blood for the Great Song Dynasty, he can live and work in peace and contentment in this Anjufang, and it can be regarded as a dedication to these soldiers who are loyal to the country.
Things are a good thing, in the first few years, the Great Song Dynasty will send some wine and meat to reward every New Year's Day, every veteran who lives in Anjufang can also regularly go to the military department to receive some pension money and goods, and the days are passable, but with more and more people later, Anjufang is expanding more and more, and it has become a long street of several miles from the beginning to the end, and the court is using soldiers for many years, making ends meet, and raising thousands of veterans without any income on this street, the court is overwhelmed, in addition to the reward sent by the Son of Heaven once a year at the end of the year, All these people can no longer go to the military department to receive pensions, the court really has no money, where will the Son of Heaven know these things.
So the veterans in this Anjufang had to fend for themselves, fortunately, there is a place above the head to shelter from the wind and rain, who dared to take away the emperor Lao Tzu's reward, some people with craftsmanship started a small business in this Anjufang, barely survived, this is the capital, the population is not less than one million, and gradually it has become the climate, and the objects bought and sold are real, good quality and low price, many people will go to this to purchase daily things.
The imperial court also knew that it was wrong, so it exempted all the people in this Anjufang from paying taxes, and no matter what business you did, you didn't have to pay taxes.
Before joining the army, Shou Bo was a carpenter (a craftsman who relied on weaving bamboo farm tools), and he was a good worker, and the price was fair.
Last year, Zhao Jiong, the son of Song Dynasty, was the emperor, but he did not forget these veterans, and the wine he drank today was sent by the emperor to reward him on the day of the celebration of the whole world.
An old and a young, sticking cakes on the wine, you respect me, like a reunited father and son, unconsciously, the sun is twilight, the sky outside has darkened, Shou Bo covered the door, re-entered the seat, printed with the fire in the stove, the faces of the two are more and more red.
Vaguely, I could only hear a sound of heavy footsteps at the door of Qiaoniang's house next door, Shou Bo frowned, put the wine bowl on the table, and said angrily: "Xu is the dog he killed that day is back, see if he is still honest this time, this kind of wicked person, only a character like Fei Ge'er can cure him"
Lu Fei smiled, and the two of them listened attentively.
Sure enough, I only heard a few gentle knocks on the door next door, and the dog's deliberately low voice came, "Lady, open the door, lady"
Creak!
Then came Qiao Niang's somewhat frightened voice, "You, what are you doing again?" ”
The dog said: "Lady Mo Qi, today I may have committed Tai Sui, the words are heavier, don't take it to heart, then, is that person gone?" ”
Qiao Niang said: "Shou Bo left him overnight, what are you looking for him to do?" ”
Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, he only heard the sound of Shou Bo walking outside the house, he listened to it for a while, and then turned back.
The dog said: "Good lady, don't let outsiders see jokes in our own affairs, let's go, enter the house, look, I will bring you something"
I only heard Qiao Niang say: "You, where did you get the money to buy wine and meat, since you have money, you should pay off your gambling debts as soon as possible, lest the people of Dai Daguan's family come to ask for debts in a few days, I have been washing and sewing people to barely survive these years, and you are still stained with this vice"
I only heard a copper coin jingling over there, and then I heard the dog say, "Look, I'm rich."
Qiao Niang said: "What have you done to violate your conscience again?" ”
The dog said: "Look at what you said, this is not just going out, I met a brother in the former army, I borrowed some from him, this is not to cut some meat, and I will come back with a few dimes of wine to make amends to the lady."
Hearing this, Shou Bo muttered: "It's strange, someone else lent him money?" ”
Then I heard Qiao Niang say: "That's okay, you will pay off the gambling debts tomorrow, and I will take on more sewing work in the future, you can't gamble anymore, slowly save some money to pay off your brother."
The dog said repeatedly: "Don't gamble, don't gamble, don't gamble in the future, come, lady, support the table, I'll fill it for you"
Qiao Niang said: "I don't know how to drink, you can drink it yourself"
The dog said: "No, no, I am wrong today, this is my atonement wine, the lady does not drink it, but she does not forgive me, give me another chance, in the future, I will be a new person"
The door next door creaked and shut, and the conversation over there was so vague that I simply stopped listening.
When Lu Fei thought of the dog's scarred face, he couldn't have imagined that a person would transform so quickly, so he picked up the bowl and saluted Shoubo, shook his head and smiled: "It seems that I really kicked out a prodigal son with this kick."
Shou Bo said disdainfully: "I don't believe it, this kid, that's a bad seed"
At that moment, Shou Bo briefly recounted the matter of the dog.
The dog seems to have been this name since the day he came to this Anjufang, as for whether there is an official name and no one knows, when he first came two years ago, this kid was blind in one eye, his face was broken, and the life of his lower body was also lost.
The dog who lost his life has developed the habit of eating and being lazy, neither looking for a job nor a craft, and then he lived by petty theft, stealing money and things he went to gamble, losing all and stealing, and the cycle began again and again, and the people around him wished he died earlier, but this kid is as strong as a cow, and that face alone can scare the child not to cry, and few people dare to annoy him in person, just like that, two years have passed, and the dog can't change the ****.
Lu Fei shook his head again and again when he heard this, and then asked Shou Bo: "Since he is this kind of person, why would Qiao Niang follow him, isn't this a flower inserted in cow dung, and he has to be widowed, hateful."
Shou Bo sighed and shook his head, took a sip of wine and said: "Who said it wasn't, but this is all fate, what a good girl, just met such a person, last year Cao Taiwei, oh, Fei Ge'er, have you ever heard of Cao Taiwei?" ”
Lu Fei asked, "Privy envoy Cao Bin?" ”
Shou Bo hurriedly said: "Be a little quieter, don't you dare to call it too comforting, last year Cao Taiwei commanded the army to attack the Tang Kingdom, and I heard the veterans who lived in last year say, the treasures in the Tang Palace are piled up, and the beauties in the Tang Palace are countless, and later, Cao Taiwei returned to the court, and brought back the property in the Tang Palace along with thousands of palace beauties, and dedicated them to Jinshang, Jinshang Rende, and rewarded those palace ladies in the Tang Palace to the soldiers of the Southern Expedition, together with our old brothers in Anjufang, who are all stained, and those who have not married wives are eligible to be rewarded. Didn't this Qiao Niang just go to his dog's house, alas! ”
Lu Fei was shocked in his heart, "You said that Qiao Niang is the palace maid in the Tang Palace?" "Isn't she also a person who came out of the Tang Palace, the same country and family, the same experience, but she is a palace maid who has the ability to resist in addition to accepting her fate, from south to north, how many wrecks have been eaten and thrown in the wilderness, how miserable.
Shou Bo nodded, and said affirmatively: "Yes, it's been seven or eight months since I came here, and I haven't had a day of peace, oh yes, Fei Ge'er seems to have fled from the south, alas, this battle was fought, and I don't know what year it was."
Lu Fei was shocked in his heart, don't let anyone see that he ran away from Cao Bin's hands, and immediately smiled and started the topic: "Then uncle, why didn't you get a little woman from the son of heaven of the Song family, ah, haha"
Shou Bo's old face flushed, and said: "Hey, I'm old, besides, I'm full of food, the whole family is not Russian, don't worry less, come, Brother Fei'er, drink again, the old man hasn't been so happy for a long time, the old brother died back then, and the one who moved away moved away, alas! ”
As he spoke, Shou Bo Lao burst into tears, raised his head, saw the bottom of the wine bowl, and the person was also a little trance, and his mouth was vague, and after a while, he crawled on the table and fell asleep, snoring slightly.
Lu Fei drank a lot of wine, but his heart was very sober, hearing what happened to Qiao Niang reminded him of a person, Li Sisi, the princess of Tang Kingdom, who was in a hurry that day, Qiao Niang's experience is certainly sympathetic, but she is still alive, I really don't know if the princess has arrived in Shu safely.
At night, everything is silent, only the autumn insects chatter outside the house.
Lu Fei helped Shou Bo to the bed in the inner room, and found a straw mat in the house and spread it by the fire outside, half-leaning against the wall, looking at the faint charcoal fire in the stove, and he didn't feel sleepy at all.
Li Sisi's strange but somewhat familiar appearance appeared in his mind again and again, and he didn't know when he couldn't let go of this woman, maybe he shouldn't have let her go to Shu alone, maybe he should have gone to her now.
Lu Fei smiled, what if she found her, even if she was really alive, what could she do, she had nothing, but she was the princess of the Tang Kingdom, or she had become the concubine of the King of Shu, one was a crane in the sky, the other was a reptile in the swamp, how could there be any intersection.
Lu Fei smiled again, curled up and moved towards the stove, why did he miss her today? Obviously, I have only met once, but I, Lu Fei, am just a person who lives secretly in her heart Li Sisi, so many people have died, but I have survived, maybe at that moment, living is also a sin.
With a lot of thoughts, Lu Fei fell into a daz, and he didn't know how long it was, he was suddenly awakened by a sound of footsteps outside the house, the hearing of this body was surprisingly good, and it was worthy of being one of Li Tang's thirteen guards.
Lu Fei sat up violently, the fire had been extinguished at some point, the room was dark, and Shou Bo in the inner room was snoring.
Squeaky ......
The door of Qiao's house is slowly opening.