Chapter Forty-Eight: Overnight Stay at Yang Sanniang One
readx;
Plough in spring and plough in summer, harvest in autumn and hide in winter. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Guo Shan looked at the tenants of his Guo Mansion from the Baqiao and kept busy, and his heart was full of emotion.
Ploughing cattle ensure the effectiveness of farming, and waterwheels ensure the irrigation of farmland. As far as the eye can see, at this time Guo Shancai felt that the pastoral scenery was infinitely better, and every household saw laughter.
This kind of happiness seemed to infect Li Tai, and he was proud in his heart: "Da Lang, two years ago, the people of Chang'an could not see joy in the end, and the fields were innumerable, even if there were fields, how many inferior fields were?" Now look at this Bahe pastoral, the cattle are endless, and the people are laughing, you can imagine how satisfied they are with the Tang Dynasty under the rule of my father. ”
Guo Shan's face darkened, and he wanted to slap this boastful guy into the field.
"Hey, what are those?" Li Taiyao asked, pointing to the tumbling waterwheel.
Guo Shan glanced at it and replied: "It is called a waterwheel, which is used to irrigate farmland. A large waterwheel can irrigate farmland up to hundreds of acres and nearly 1,000 acres. ”
"The wisdom of the sages is really beyond the reach of ordinary people, with this waterwheel, I don't know how much manpower and material resources have been saved. If it is a place far away from the water source, wouldn't this waterwheel also be able to divert water? Li Tai sighed.
Guo Shan smiled reservedly and proudly, and listened to Li Taidao: "Take a peek and see the whole leopard, just by this grange by the Bahe River, you can know my Tang Zhongxing." ”
Guo Shan's face darkened again all of a sudden, and he really didn't know how to evaluate Li Tai's pride.
Fang Yiai next to him yawned and said lazily: "Aren't we here to pick up Huai Mo and Huai Liang, their two brothers?" I looked at those idyllic fields. ”
Chai Lingwu turned around and got into the carriage first, and said, "It's still early, you guys watch first, Young Master Ben, I'll go back to the car to make up for sleep first." ”
Several people were yawning, forced by the cold wind in the morning, and they felt very bored standing on the bridge.
Guo Shan and Li Tai are still full of energy, although the two of them knew that they would come to pick up people in the morning, they didn't get up in the middle of the night to prepare. When the door opened, Guo Shan was at home waiting for the carriage of the Chai Ling Wu family to pick it up, and when a group of four people ran over in a carriage, Guo Shan made up for sleep in the carriage, but he didn't look sleepy at this time.
"Da Lang, look over there." Suddenly, Li Tai grabbed Guo Shan's hand and pointed to two small black dots in the sky in the distance. The small black dot gradually enlarged from far to near, and when it was five hundred meters away, it was already clear that it was two horses carrying two people who were not very old. Fang Yiai stood on the wheel and looked up, and said, "It's Huai Mo and Huai Liang." ”
"Why didn't they come with Uncle Cheng?" Li Tai was puzzled. Fang Yiai didn't care so much, he stood directly on the wheel and waved at the two horses that were rushing: "Huaimo, here, here." ”
The owner of the two horses over there seemed to hear Fang Yiai's shout, so the black horse under him walked more vigorously. In a blink of an eye, he boarded the Baqiao, Guo Shan took a look, heh, what a pair of young brothers.
This Cheng Huaimo is taller, and his body is also five big and three thick. A strong suit couldn't wrap his big arms and thighs, so he had to turn the horse forward, and his body flipped to the ground lightly, and his skills were surprisingly clean and neat.
Cheng Huailiang is obviously shorter than his brother, and his skin is darker than Cheng Huaimo, short and thin. Of course, this so-called thinness is only compared to his brother Cheng Huaimo.
The two brothers got off the horse and said: "My father is on the way to meet an old friend, I'm afraid it won't be there until two days, Huailiang and I have to come on horseback first, I guess a few brothers will definitely come here to pick me up." ”
Cheng Huaimo hugged Li Tai, Fang Yiai and others first, and finally looked at Guo Shan in disbelief, but hesitated to give Guo Shan a big hug.
He is half a head taller than Guo Shan, and he has begun to have a tiger's body when he fights with his father outside. This bear hug almost didn't make Guo Shan lose his breath. Compared with Cheng Huaimo, his younger brother Cheng Huailiang was much more reserved, and bowed to a few people.
Here, Li Taicai immediately introduced Guo Shan's identity, and then introduced the identities of Cheng Huaimo and Cheng Huailiang to Guo Shan.
Except for Guo Shan, several people are classmates and playmates who studied together in Hongwenguan when they were children, so there are a lot of topics.
A carriage could not carry no less than six people, and the Cheng brothers each led the horses, and Chai Lingwu directly asked his family's groom to go back first. With the fresh air and cool morning breeze, the group was also timid when they laughed.
"Huai Mo tell me, how are you doing in Luzhou?" Li Tai asked.
Cheng Huaimo sighed and talked about all kinds of things in Luzhou.
All in all, the fangs rebelled and the fields were deserted. The peasants were hungry and had a very difficult life.
This is completely different from Li Tai's expectation of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, he pointed to the Bahe pastoral garden in disbelief and said: "Why is it so different from what I saw?" ”
Huai Mo's face was a little ugly, and he looked at the farmers laughing in the Bahe countryside in disbelief, and the farmers who were leading the cattle farming, and couldn't help but ask: "The people of Chang'an City, are they so rich that every family has a ploughing cow?" ”
Although Chang'an is the largest city in the world and Kyoto, it is understandable that it is richer. But being rich like this makes Cheng Huaimo feel incredible.
When he and his father first arrived in Luzhou, the difference between Chang'an and Luzhou was not so big. Although it is said that there are often fangren rebellions in Luzhou, it is nothing if the fangs rebel, as long as the government soldiers attack the fangren, it will not be so terrible. Because of his identity, his family is very aware of the hardships of land reclamation. Even after a few years in office, his father, who was a thorn in history, could not lift Luzhou out of poverty, and only a small number of farmers ran to a well-off life.
But now looking at this Chang'an City, it looks like every family has run to a well-off.
Seeing that Cheng Huaimo was speechless, Li Taizhi was very proud.
"Is it the cheap ploughing cattle in Chang'an City?" Cheng Huailiang asked.
Otherwise, how could there be so many ploughing cattle in one place?
Guo Shan's face darkened, and he said: "The price of cattle in the world is almost the same, no matter how cheap it is, where can it go?" ”
glared at Li Tai fiercely: "Although my Tang Dynasty is prosperous, it is not so prosperous that every household has cattle." Although Datang is rich, it is not so rich that every household has enough food. Qingque, the prosperity you see is just the appearance, Chang'an City is also the tenants on the edge of the Bahe River, there are cattle for farming, and there are waterwheels. Where is there such a beautiful good thing for tenants elsewhere? ”
Li Tai couldn't believe it, he knew that Guo Shan was never untargeted, and couldn't help but say: "If it's really as Da Lang said, then why are the farmers here rich alone?" ”
Guo Shan didn't answer, Cheng Huailiang said: "Maybe you can ask the owner of this manor to know." ”
They walked this way and missed some people. Da Yuan was coming out of Chang'an City, and some tenants carrying farm tools saw Guo Shan at a glance.
Over there, he immediately ran up to greet Guo Shan, called the young owner early, and asked where the young owner was going.
Everyone didn't care, because everyone has a field, and everyone knows that Guo Shan has a field.
Li Tai hurriedly grabbed the man and asked, "Uncle, where are you from the manor?" ”
The old man raised his head proudly, pointed to the grange by the Bahe River and said, "We are all from the Guo family grange." ”
Li Tai was taken aback, glanced at Guo Shan, and then asked, "Then how is your Grange different from others?" ”
The old man over there began to slap his horse in front of Guo Shan, although it was the truth, but it made Guo Shan's face ashamed.
All the people understood, and after a long time, it turned out that the countryside in this area belonged to Guo Shan.
Cheng Huaimo and Cheng Huailiang looked at Guo Shan differently, they had never seen such a master house touted by the tenant farmers.
Li Tai's face was a little embarrassed and a little resentful, it turned out that after a long time, the wealth of this pastoral place was not his father's merit at all, it was done by Guo Shan.
Fang Yiai and Chai Lingwu gritted their teeth, in the past, when they had dinner with Guo Shan, they always rushed to settle the bill so that Guo Shan's life would not be so poor. After working for a long time, his Guo family's fields were only a lot more than theirs.
Except for the column, this time everyone can be regarded as reacquainting Guo Shan. Thousands of acres of fertile land, this is almost the foundation of a local clan. And the only deficiency is that Guo Shan has a family property but no fame.
"I was deceived by this simple appearance." Fang Yiai was indignant.
"In the future, when friends come to the pavilion for dinner, my son will never rush to settle the bill." This is Chai Lingwu's oath.
Guo Shan smiled bitterly, would he tell them that the Penglai Pavilion was actually opened by his family?
Being rich is also a symbol of status, and I'm afraid no one dares to underestimate Guo Shan's ability.
The group came to Guo Shan's mansion in Laitingfang, and the people who had been prepared for a long time prepared it under the garden pavilion in the backyard. According to Chai Lingwu's thoughts, this party must be enjoyable.
There have been many playmates from Cheng Huaimo's youth, whether they are good or bad. All in all, as long as there is no hatred, everything that can come is coming.
A group of powerful children gathered, and the Guo Mansion immediately became lively. As the host, Guo Shan was busy and almost collapsed.
He didn't expect that there would be so many people at one party, and he didn't expect that there would be so many powerful children.
This group of young masters Zikuo is not something that ordinary mansions can entertain, they all come by incense cart and ride a BMW. The stables in the backyard were full, and the groom was busy sweating.
The cooks in the back kitchen are stir-frying the dishes in a ping pong, and the cooking and cooking have not stopped.
Hu Laohan smiled heavily, feeling that the noise in the mansion at this moment was a sign of the prosperity of the Guo Mansion.
A group of people were cautious, painful and happy. They felt that their young master was able to invite so many powerful children, which meant that their young master was wide and powerful.
In fact, there are a lot of people in the room, and Guo Shan doesn't know a few. Compared with others, the two brothers Cheng Huaimo and Cheng Huailiang, who met for the first time, seem to be more like old friends.
The first half of the day was busy greeting guests, and the second half of the day was regarded as the wine and food time for a few of them after sending away those sons and buddies who came to greet Cheng Huaimo and Cheng Huailiang.
The house is full of messes, and the plots are staggered.
Fang Yiai lived up to expectations, and sure enough, Hula attracted a group of kabuki, and Li Hui came and stole his father's gambling equipment.
One here brought his mouth to the hand of the Kabuki to drink, and the other got up to give the order of drinking. When the playfulness was intense, Cheng Huaimo, who did not wear shoes, carried a sword and danced the sword to cheer up, and the lively Guo Mansion made Hu Laohan happily close his mouth.
Guo Shan is also drunk, in fact, there is no one in his home-brewed distilled liquor who is not drunk. Cheng Huailiang held a jar of wine and spit at the mouth of the altar. Li Tai couldn't help but laugh at his lack of interest. He drank the jar of wine in his arms with his neck tilted up, not noticing the filth poured out of the jar along with the wine.
Fang Yiai patted the table and drank songs and tinnitus, and Guo Shan sat on his lap who didn't know who it was and giggled. Cheng Huaimo's sword dance just stopped, and one fell into the arms of an unknown woman. And Yang Sanniang, who is the most famous, mature and beautiful among the singers, clapped her hands and personally led a group of female musicians to dance. The tender waist, fat buttocks, and charming eyes have become the best aphrodisiac.
I don't know who shouted 'a laugh in the sea' first, and then a chaotic but very arrogant song sounded in the courtyard.
Guo Shan looked up and saw Fang Yiai holding a pipa that he didn't know where to pluck around, standing on the table and starting to sing.
The heroic and uninhibited singing voice is reined, and even the tune is sung by them wrongly, but the debauchery in the song deeply infects the people around them.
It's getting late, and the revelry will eventually pass.
Fang Yiai suddenly proposed to go to Yang Sanniang's house for the night.
Li Tai's face was strange, and Chai Lingwu was silent. Cheng Huaimo smiled evilly, and Cheng Huailiang looked up at the sky. Even Guo Shan seemed to understand that he was afraid that something would happen at night, but somehow, he had some faint expectations and even pretended to be stupid not to refuse.
A group of sons and brothers arrogantly sang in the incense car at night, attracting frequent sideways glances from passers-by, making the Jinwu guards patrolling the streets feel powerless.
ps: Two changes today
...