Chapter 374: An Encounter Outside Suzhou City
(PS: Chapter 3!) I did it!!! Eat a spicy strip to rejuvenate yourself. See you on Monday! )
Tiqi didn't do political work, so Xie Shence retreated, leaving Wushan and the others to be on guard inside, waiting for the call.
He thought that he was going to leave today, and he was a little reluctant.
waved to Dou Hongxian, and when he saw the somewhat distracted Xianniang coming over, Xie Shence said, "Your Highness likes the scallion fish you make very much." ”
Dou Hongxian glanced at him in surprise, as if he was very surprised, Xie Shence called her over just to say such a sentence.
Xie Shence was not satisfied with Dou Hongxian's expression, so he continued: "I mean, can you do it again at noon?" ”
Dou Hongxian nodded immediately, and then said, "But there are no fish."
"Is there anything in the river?"
"There is a pool three miles away."
"Well, call the beans, let's go catch the fish."
"Huh? Right now? ”
Xie Shence sighed and said, "Of course it's now, I'm going to eat it at noon." We have to hurry. ”
"But isn't Your Highness still inside?"
"Your Highness has something to do, and you can't get out, and besides, it's not a matter for us to wait here."
So Dou Hongxian was persuaded.
After that, Xie Shence beckoned, called a few tiqi over, and said, "Prepare some fishing things, let's go out for a walk." ”
Soon, several horsemen prepared their bait tools, brought a few horses and a carriage, and after asking if the road was passable, they set off.
Several officials looked at the rising sun, thinking about the quiet waiting results that Xie Shence said earlier, feeling the wetness on their backs, and then looking at Xie Shence's distant back, they were very resentful.
Just left, what about waiting together?
Of course, the officials were not stupid, and soon mobilized the people to set up pergolas to shade the sun, and some people brought tea to quench their thirst.
With so many people, eating at noon is a big problem, as the village head, the old man summoned the young man and prepared to go to the city to buy ingredients, but was stopped by Tiqi. Shopping, such a thing, naturally ends up being the errands. As for whether or not to be reimbursed after that, it is not a matter of concern to the riders.
Anyway, Tiqi didn't pay a penny.
After more than half an hour, Xie Shence and the others came back, Douzi was very happy, and excitedly told Dou Youde and his wife how many big fish they had caught in a long time.
Then Dou Hongxian, mother and daughter, were put in by Tiqi to prepare lunch.
Xie Shence drank tea under the pergola, took off his wet coat, took it to dry, and then beckoned a rider to ask about the progress.
According to Tiqi, after Xie Shence left, two officials were called in and never came out.
Xie Shence looked at the officials around him who were pretending to be calm, and secretly laughed.
To do is to do, what are you afraid of? Since you dare to do it, stretching your hand so long, you must have the consciousness of a strong man breaking his wrist.
After some time, the servants who had purchased the ingredients also returned, so the old man mobilized the women and began to cook.
The crown prince handled things faster than Xie Shence had imagined.
The two officials involved in the encroachment on the land were quickly convicted, placed in the custody of Tiqi, interrogated, and handed over to Kyoto for execution. Several wealthy people related to this matter were quickly arrested and brought into custody by Tiqi into the city. The military officials were regarded as direct sinners, and the crown prince ordered the confiscation of his family property, the dismissal of his family servants, the refusal of three generations of officials, and the return of all the encroached land to the villagers.
At noon, the lunch was accompanied by Xie Shence, Suzhou Thorn Shi Duan Huai, and Suzhou Don't Drive Chen Huangqi, eating green onion fish made by Dou Hongxian himself, very happy.
On the rice field, Suzhou's officials sat in the open air, eating authentic rural dishes, which was also very refreshing. I just don't know if this refreshment has something to do with the fact that they weren't involved.
The fish is fresh fish, the green onion is crisp and tender, and the wine is self-brewed old wine, Duan Huai sighed after eating: "This craft is really good." ”
The prince smiled and said, "I have eaten and eaten, does Lord Thorn Shi want to make up for something?" ”
Duan Huai laughed and said, "Since His Highness said so, the food money will be paid by the official!" ”
The prince smiled and shook his head.
Duan Huai was puzzled, and Chen Huangqi didn't understand why the prince shook his head.
"It's been a lot of work, the rice outside the village is stabbing Lord Shi, don't drive it, are you interested in trying it yourself? Although this farm work is hard, after the work, there is a different kind of happiness. ”
Duan Huai and Chen Huangqi were taken aback.
You even want me to order the court officials to work in the fields?
Where is the prestige of the official? Where is the dignity?
However, after all, the two of them are old oilmen who have been officials for many years, and they actually showed surprise in unison, and then happily responded.
These two people are the heads of the officials in Suzhou City, since they want to go to the field to cut rice, how can the officials below not follow? So all the officials who came to Suzhou, such as the governor of Suzhou and the prefect of Suzhou, had to cut the rice together.
Then the following scenario arises:
The farmer and the mother-in-law and the children, standing on the ridge of the field, watched a group of officials and men who did not touch the spring water with their fingers, took off their official uniforms, rolled up their long shirts, wore hats, wielded sickles awkwardly, and awkwardly squatted or bent down to cut the rice stalks that were harder than silver. Soon, some people cut their hands, some people blistered their hands and feet, some squinted, some people itched, and some had back pain.
But no one shouted tired.
This scene was later written into the recital of the Imperial Palace, where the officials of Suzhou Prefecture were concerned about the people and participated in the farming.
Emperor Jin was overjoyed in the court, and specially issued a holy decree to reward all the officials involved, and then the officials were evaluated, and all the officials who participated in the evaluation of the Ministry of Rites were all first-class. This incident was also written in the county annals.
Of course, this is all a matter of the future, and it has nothing to do with Xie Shence.
The prince's hand was injured, so naturally he didn't participate, and Xie Shence didn't know where to hide, it is said that he took Dou Douzi to ride a horse.
When the sun went down, the prince finally showed mercy and asked the officials to come back.
So after the officials left, the croppers cleaned up the mess.
Dou 18 was distressed while picking up the trampled ears of rice, while scolding.
"Mother, it's really an official master, it's not this style of fooling around, what a good rice has been trampled into this appearance"
The prince finally left, and left in Dou Honghong's reluctant gaze.
In fact, on the way to fishing, Xie Shence once vaguely hinted at Dou Hongxian, whether he wanted to "go outside and have a look", but Dou Hongxian refused.
At this time, the prince was far away, and the guard of honor was out of sight, and she was still standing at the head of the village, standing silently.
Dou Youde glanced at his daughter, and then sighed.
After the arbitration of the prince, the Wuda officials returned the land, and their own share of the land was enough, and the eldest son Dou Liang should soon be able to participate in the selection of the Modao Army, according to the conditions, it should not be a problem. As soon as the news came back from the army and the instructions from the government came down, he thought about sending Dou Douzi to the official school.
Originally, I wanted to take advantage of the happy event to do the marriage of the informant, but now it seems that it is difficult.
It's not that it's hard to choose a good young man, I'm afraid that my daughter won't want to.
However, it is impossible to be with the prince after all, Dou Youde will not have this luxury, he just wants to spend two years, his daughter's mind is light, so he can say that he is talented, and he will not wronged her in the future.
Xie Shence and the crown prince sat in the wide carriage, and no one spoke. He could feel the prince's mood, it was not very pleasant, he thought for a long time, and finally said: "Your Highness, that woman"
The crown prince raised his hand to interrupt his words and said, "Feng Zhi doesn't need to say much, this palace understands." She has a simple temperament and is not suitable. ”
Xie Shence was silent.
The prince paused, and said, "But I still bother you to tell me to go down, and Tiqi will help take care of it until she finds a good man." ”
Xie Shence nodded in agreement.
The prince's words made Xie Shence suddenly think of Miss Murong, thinking of the little flower and veil on Miss Murong's face, Xie Shence suddenly felt that he should have listened to General Secretary Yang and sent someone to take care of him all the way. It's just that it's too late.
Suzhou City is one of the two largest cities along the Taihu Lake, second only to the county capital Wuxi City, and the prosperity is not far behind.
The scale of Suzhou City is slightly inferior to that of Wuxi City, but it took Xie Yi much longer to capture it than to capture Wuxi.
It is said that the Suzhou city guard would rather die than surrender, clamoring to drag Xie Yi to death outside the city, but Xie Yi used a trick to break through the water gate. After the war, Xie Yi ordered that all the people wearing armor be beheaded at the Water Gate. Suzhou Water Gate turned red.
However, Xie Shence did not enter the city from the Water Gate, and he did not have the opportunity to see the Suzhou Water Gate, which is said to have gathered 20,000 heroic souls.
It is said that when the Southern Song Dynasty expanded the city, the water of the water gate was crystal clear, and the city keeper drank at the head of the city at night, watching the white moon reflected in the water, like a silver plate sinking into the water, so there was the origin of the name of the silver gate.
It's just that after the night of Shen Yinmen's beheading, the water turned red, and the surviving people no longer called the water gate Shen Yinmen, but called the red gate, or the red water gate.
Xie Shence looked at the people coming in and out, thinking that there were so many dead people in this city, and it was the evil of the uncle, whether these dead people would seek revenge on him at night, and he couldn't help but get goosebumps.
Suddenly, a carriage passed by Xie Shence's carriage, and Xie Shence saw a familiar face from the curtain lifted.
Hey, I actually saw it in Suzhou.
However, that person may not have recognized himself, and one entered the city and the other went out of the city, and Xie Shence shared a car with the prince, so he did not stop and continued to walk into the city.
A luxury carriage out of the city, wide and stable, at first glance is the exclusive use of large families, out of the city must be to go to the manor outside the city for vacation.
In the carriage, a woman combing the most fashionable "Feiyun Bun" in Jiangnan County, a little girl on her lap was eating preserved fruits, and a big girl was also in the car, adding food to the plate.
"Madam, that carriage just now, has Madame's old acquaintance?"
The woman came back to her senses and said with a smile: "It's still an acquaintance when I didn't leave the cabinet." ”
The big girl's face changed, and she said in her heart that she was really talkative, how to answer the following words, and she would be in trouble now.
The woman naturally knew the thoughts of the big girl. Her husband is extremely jealous, and she is often harassed at home for inexplicable reasons, if it weren't for her daughter and unborn child, and her in-laws also protecting her, she would have been unable to live a long time ago. Isn't this just a quarrel with her husband and wants to go out of the city to relax.
But this old acquaintance is not a taboo, although the eldest girl was sent by her husband to monitor him, but over the years, she has already become her own person, and she doesn't care about this.
"Speaking of him, he's really a terrible person. My third sister ran away from home for her, and the fourth sister threw herself on him. You don't know how many little girls and daughters-in-law in my house are fascinated by him. ”
When the big girl heard this, her face changed greatly.
Madame's third sister is extremely famous in Huaiyang Road, and broke up with the family because she fell in love with her brother-in-law. And Madame's fourth sister is the flower of Huaiyang, who has faintly become the first beauty of Dajin.
Then the identity of the beautiful man in the carriage just now is about to be revealed.
The son-in-law of the Huaiyang Daoist, the object of the Jiangnan County people's gnashing of teeth, the commander of the Tiqi Division, Xie Shence