After taking a bath in the cold winter, the whole body is refreshed. Yang Qiuchi came to the corridor, looked at a bright moon hanging on the eaves opposite the courtyard, and thought to himself, if he had martial arts, he jumped lightly, jumped on the roof, and sat on the roof to watch the moon, how poetic it would be.

was admiring the moonlight, a cold wind blew, feeling a little cold, and the body was warm, it turned out that the little maid Yuechan put the cloak on Yang Qiuchi's shoulders.

Yuechan asked, "Young Master, what are you looking at?" ”

Yang Qiuchi pointed to the round moon on the eaves: "Your name is Yuechan, since you are Chang'e on the moon, then tell me, what is on the moon?" ”

"I'm just a little girl, what is Chang'e, young master, don't laugh at me, I don't know what's on the moon."

"Do you want to know?" Yang Qiuchi took a hot bath and was in a good mood.

Yue Chanqi said: "Young master, do you know what is on the moon?" After a pause, he grinned: "Yuechan knows, the young master must be Wu Gang on the moon, and he uses an axe to cut the osmanthus tree every day." ”

"You are Chang'e, I am Wu Gang, so aren't we just a couple? Hey, hey, hey. Yang Qiuchi quipped.

"You are the eldest master, I am a little maid, how can I have that blessing." Yuechan lowered her head and said, but her heart was sweet.

Yang Qiuchi felt that it was not good to joke like this, so he coughed and said: "There is actually no Chang'e, no Wu Gang, no osmanthus trees, no water, no rivers, no flowers, birds, fish and insects, and you can't hear others talking, it's a dead and silent world." ”

Yuechan shuddered: "Really? Young master, you are so afraid of people. ”

"The moon is so beautiful, how can there be no flowers, birds, fish and insects?" A girl's voice came from behind her. Yang Qiuchi looked back and saw that it was Bai Sumei.

"White girl, you haven't slept yet?" Yang Qiuchi's heart skipped a beat.

"Not yet." Bai Sumei walked to Yang Qiuchi's side and looked up at the moon, "Young Master Yang, I heard the old people say that the black shadow on the moon is an osmanthus tree, how can there be no flowers?" ”

Yang Qiuchi didn't want to talk to them about the story of the moon on the spaceship, so he smiled at the moment: "I'm talking nonsense to tease Yuechan." ”

Bai Sumei had obviously just washed up, changed into a clean plain robe, and the bright moonlight shone on her thin face, which looked extraordinarily elegant.

Yang Qiuchi didn't dare to look at her anymore, for fear of remembering the feeling when he gave her artificial respiration, so he also looked up at the moon and sighed: "The moon is so beautiful and round." The moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival is nothing more than that. ”

"yes." Bai Sumei said leisurely, "In the past, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, my father had to prepare melons and fruits in the garden, and the whole family admired the moon while eating, thinking about the beauty of the moon, imagining the osmanthus tree, Chang'e, and Wu Gang. By the way, there is also Chang'e's little white rabbit - I really want to fly to the moon to see the Guanghan Palace. ”

Yang Qiuchi said: "I'm not as romantic as you, when I was a child, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, we stole pumpkins from other people's fields, set up a pot in the yard to cook pumpkin soup, and a group of children danced and laughed to watch the moon rise." ”

Bai Sumei pursed her lips and smiled, saying, "Young Master Yang must have been very naughty when he was a child. ”

"Yes, every time I steal pumpkins in the field during the Mid-Autumn Festival, I take the lead, and once I was smashed with a lump on my forehead by the melon, and I was swollen with a big bag."

Bai Sumei asked curiously, "Why do you want to steal it?" Don't have the money to buy it? ”

"This is our custom there, to cook pumpkin soup during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and only the pumpkin stolen from the field is fragrant. So on that day, many people had to guard the field, but when there were really children stealing, it was just to drive away, and I generally didn't move roughly, I deserved to be unlucky, and I stole once and ran to the same piece of land to help others steal a second time, and I ended up with a lump. ”

Yuechan listened to it and laughed: "Young master, you were so naughty when you were a child!" ”

"What is this, I still have a lot of naughty things," Yang Qiuchi said happily, shaking all the things he had when he was a child: "For example, secretly put a four-legged snake in the teacher's podium chalk box, when I was the class president in elementary school, I quarreled with my female classmates, and in a fit of anger, I locked the female classmates in the classroom and ran home by myself, causing the principal to come to the door......"

Speaking of this, Yang Qiuchi felt that Bai Sumei and Yuechan looked at him very strangely, and suddenly woke up to the fact that he was now in the Ming Dynasty, and of course they didn't understand these modern campus life he said, so he said: "Okay, it's late, go back to sleep." I'll have to get up early tomorrow and hurry. ”

Bai Sumei nodded: "Young Master Yang, you have worked hard to take care of us along the way, and you should go to bed early." ”

"Hmm." Yang Qiuchi watched Bai Sumei enter her own room, smiled at him and closed the door before returning to her room.

Yuechan had already laid out the quilt, served Yang Qiuchi to sleep, and after putting the curtain away, she blew out the light and went to sleep outside.

Early the next morning, I got up and hurried. It was still the five of them who sat in Yang Qiuchi's luxurious carriage.

Yang Qiuchi saw that Song Yun'er was sullen, and was a little strange: "Yun'er, what's wrong with you?" Didn't you sleep well? ”

"Sleep what you sleep! Three little mice chirp about the moon in the corridor, how do people sleep? ”

Yang Qiuchi knew that she was talking about Bai Sumei and the three of them, smiled and glanced at each other, Yang Qiuchi said, "Then why didn't you little mouse run out to see the moon?" ”

"I'm not that poetic," Song Yun'er said a little sourly. After a while, Song Yun'er was also reminded of her childhood memories by the past events that Yang Qiuchi said, so she said: "Brother, you use a four-legged snake to scare others, what kind of naughty is that, it was called naughty when I was a child!" ”

Yang Qiuchi thought to himself, I can guess the glorious deeds of your tomboy, I know it from the beginning when you robbed me of my silver, but he still asked curiously: "Why are you naughty?" ”

Speaking of interesting things when she was a child, Song Yuner suddenly became interested and pointed her fingers and talked about it.

Bai Sumei listened to it with relish, and couldn't help but talk about her past when she was a child, and Mrs. Bai interjected from time to time to add, talking and laughing, and the room was full of spring.

A few days later, Yang Qiuchi and his entourage passed through Anqing Mansion, and then went out of the boundary of Jingshi and entered Huguang.

After entering Huguang, they found that the number of beggars begging for food on both sides of the official road gradually increased, and some dragged their families with them, as if they were fleeing from the famine. Song Yun'er asked casually, and then she learned that there was a locust plague in Huguang last autumn, and the crops were eaten up by the locusts, and in the winter, there was even heavy snowfall, and the people couldn't live anymore.

Walking further, you can already see hungry people dying of hunger on the road, and those who fled the famine to ask for food are all yellow-skinned and dying.

Yang Qiuchi bought as much dry food as possible to distribute to these victims, but once it was distributed, the other victims heard the news and kowtowed and begged around Yang Qiuchi's carriage, all the dry food was distributed, and some hungry people who had not been distributed followed them pitifully.

This is not possible, even if he has gold and silver, he will not be able to relieve so many victims, but will delay the trip, so Yang Qiuchi had to decide to only save those hungry people who are about to starve to death. In this way, stop and go, this day, they finally came to Wuchang, the capital of Huguang Province.

After entering Wuchang, I found that the city was full of people fleeing the famine, and the streets were full of weak and hungry people. Officers and men on patrol rode through on horseback, and occasionally heard news of hungry people being hacked to death in the street by patrol officers and soldiers for stealing food.

While lamenting the fragility of life, Yang Qiuchi really hopes that God can help these victims.

The children and daughters also appeared, with a straw mark stuck in their messy hair, their clothes ragged, and shivering in the cold wind.

I used to see in the movie that the common people in the old society couldn't survive anymore, selling their children and selling their daughters, but now I really see the real thing, Yang Qiuchi is very emotional, think about it, the common people sell their children and daughters, just want their children to find a rich family, and there is no way to live.

Yang Qiuchi and the others came to the Wuchang Post Station, which was located next to the Yamen of the Political Envoy.

After Yang Qiuchi and the others stayed, according to Master Jin's proposal, Yang Qiuchi prepared two generous gifts and went to visit the political envoys of Hu Guangbu and the political envoys of the left and right respectively.

Yang Qiuchi solves the case like a god, it is only famous in Guangde County and Ningguo Mansion, the communication of the Ming Dynasty is underdeveloped, and the information is blocked, so no one in Huguang knows him.

The political envoy is a high-ranking official of the imperial court, equivalent to the current governor or secretary of the provincial party committee, and Yang Qiuchi, a small county commander of the seventh grade, will not be met at all. However, for the sake of Yang Qiuchi's two generous gifts, the left and right political envoys Lord Qian and Lord Quan still met with him separately.

It's just that the two political envoys are preoccupied, and after a few words of greeting, they brought tea and sent them off.

Yang Qiuchi was so angry that his nose was crooked, but Master Jin was very happy, and comforted Yang Qiuchi and said, take your time, with this foundation, it will be much easier to visit the next door, this officialdom is like this, there is no door that money can't smash, and there is no relationship that money can't get through.

Yang Qiuchi has no ambitions, and he does not expect to be able to prosper in official fortune, of course, he does not exclude being an official, to paraphrase a common saying, it is called pampering and humiliation, and there is no intention to stay.

Master Jin arranged for him to meet Master Shi, the punishment envoy of Huguang. Although this probationary envoy is one level lower than the political envoy, he is also a high-ranking official of the third grade. He is in charge of the impeachment of criminal names in a province, and is also responsible for correcting official evil, eradicating violence, quelling prison lawsuits, and suppressing grievances, so as to promote discipline and clarify the rule of officials. Yang Qiuchi will inevitably have to deal with it in the future.

This sentence is a little smaller according to the prosecutor Shi Daren, this shelf is relatively smaller, plus Yang Qiuchi's generous gift, Lord Shi and Yang Qiuchi talked for a while, spoke very politely, and finally served tea to the guests.

(To be continued)