There are not many old clothes and grain in Yangling's house, and now he went to the city to buy two truckloads of coarse grain, and set up a shed outside the west city to make porridge twice a day. There are a total of four porridge houses in Xicheng, in addition to the porridge shed of the young woman in red, there is also a wealthy businessman in Jiangnan who came to the capital to do business, and a local rich man.

Four porridge shops are lined up, and the flags hung are "Yang", "Yang", "Zou" and "Li". The fleeing peasants who spent the winter in the simple huts built by the households, although they were ragged and skinny, thought that they had adapted to the cold winter weather, but few of them fell ill.

Gao Wenxin walked a few households, prescribed medicine to several frail and sick old people, grabbed the medicine and sent it, and then returned to the shed to look left and right and said to Yang Ling: "My lord, the family on the left is also surnamed Yang, and that good man is your family."

Fang Cai Cheng Qiyun and the executive's family beckoned the family to give porridge here, Yang Ling looked around, and knew that the woman in red was the one who hung the Yang character flag yesterday, and the Zou family on the right is said to be a huge rich man in Wuxi, Jiangnan, and the owner's surname is Zou Ming, there are 300,000 acres of good land in the family, 3,000 servants, and more than 100 villas, which can be called rich and rival the country.

Zou Wang entered Beijing to do business this time, and saw that the victims fled to Beijing, so he was kind and sent his family to give porridge here for relief, and his family was rich and wealthy, and he actually said that he gave porridge three times, and it was once at noon, and the refugees were waiting in a long line in front of the Zou family's shack to give alms.

It was precisely because these refugees were standing there and blocking their vision that Gao Wenxin did not see the Li family on the far right, that is, the Li Jimeng family, who had a marriage contract with her, and avoided a lot of embarrassment.

Yang Ling was worried that the victims would disperse for a while, and when he met the people of the Li family, Gao Wenxin couldn't hold back his face, so he said: "Well, that family is also passing through Jingshi from other places, so giving up money to help the people is really a good family." ”

He looked at Cheng Qiyun, who was snuggling in front of the porridge pot where the fire was fading to keep warm, so he smiled and said: "Originally, I was still a little worried, but now I see that although these victims are not able to eat, everyone is law-abiding, and no one dares to make trouble and grab food.

Cheng Qiyun was so cold that her nose was red and her cheeks were wooden, she sniffed and said: "It's really cold here, I'm still roasting the fire and it's very difficult, I really can't imagine how those people spend the winter, adults should mobilize more rich families to come forward to relieve the disaster, those people have huge assets, and it is easy for a family to help dozens of people survive the winter."

Moreover, although these people are poor and pitiful, most of them have the strength to do things, and there are many of them who are lazy and lazy, and they will not be supported by others for a few months, and they can still be qualified to be porters and servants, so they may as well organize some young and strong people to allow them to go into the city to do things, so that they can earn some wages, and second, they will save them from having nothing to do, and they will be born to do some things like stealing chickens and dogs for a long time."

Yang Ling laughed and said: "What I said is that this idea is good, I will go back to meet Chengguo Gong and Shou Ninghou, one of these two people is Xunqing and the other is a national relative, saying that these two people will come forward to show compassion for the people, and then let the government and the opposition sing praises and virtues, and the other wealthy families will definitely respond." I consulted with Scholar Li again, and asked the Terracotta Division of the Five Cities to register these victims, and then select those who were young and strong and had a clean family background and issued a special order to allow them to work in the city."

After he finished speaking, he saw Cheng Qiyun snuggling next to the stove like a little quail, and couldn't help laughing: "Is it so cold?" Why don't you go back to the sedan chair for a while, and wrap yourself in my big coat to warm up."

As he spoke, he saw a yellow-maned horse galloping from the city gate, and the knight on the horse turned his corner and looked at the big banner of Yang on the shed, and then he leaned over and looked twice into the shed, and a dozen horses rushed forward to another big banner of Yang in front of him.

He was in a bit of a hurry, and a young man in his early twenties had just come back from a bowl of porridge, and he flashed to the side of his horse to avoid him, and his feet slipped, and most of the bowl of porridge was spilled out, and the young man's face turned red, and he glared at the knight on the horse.

Immediately, the knight raised his hand and threw back a string of copper coins, sprinkled them on the snow, and laughed loudly: "Offended, offended, go buy some food, a certain family has an urgent matter."

Immediately, the knight was in his early thirties, with a beard on his face, and looked extremely rugged, and although his behavior at this time was rude, it seemed that he still knew pity and love for these people.

But the young man in his early twenties, dressed in a shabby green robe, with thin eyebrows and white face, Si Siwenwen, who seemed to be a character who had read a book, how could he lower his head and pick up the copper coin from the snow, he snorted heavily, and saw that there was still a small half bowl of rice porridge left in the bowl, and hurriedly walked towards a shack.

Cheng Qiyun sneered disapprovingly when she saw it, and said, "Isn't begging porridge begging?" If you don't eat what you eat, you'll starve to death."

Gao Wenxin glanced at the green-robed scholar with appreciation, and said: "This is not the case, soup soup is kind, and there is no shame in accepting some funding for people in distress, but there is something insulting, how can some backbone people accept it?" ”

Cheng Qiyun said with a smile: "Immediately, although the knight's behavior is vulgar, isn't it an apology to spill his porridge and throw back the copper coin?" In his heart, he felt that it was difficult to accept the haha, but it was just because he was the only one who bent over and was a little embarrassed, if there was a group of people next to him who looked like him when he went to beg for porridge with a big bowl, he would not be so tall if he had a person to cover his shame."

Gao Wenxin had yet to argue, Yang Ling smiled: "Forget it, the values of the two of you are completely different, and no matter how much you argue, you can't get a result." ”

Cheng Qiyun blinked and said strangely: "Values? ”

Yang Ling had an epiphany, and he didn't know how to explain, the yellow-maned horse galloped back again, accompanied by a white horse with a divine horse, and immediately a pretty woman in red clothes asked anxiously as she walked: "It's really useless, how could your tiger brother be injured?" Where have people been? ”

The rugged beard next to him said loudly: "I went into the city to find my sister-in-law, and Brother Tiger is about to enter the city."

The horse passed by, the red-clothed woman's starry eyes were like electricity, she saw Yang Ling standing under the shed, obviously recognized his appearance, her expression was slightly surprised, she saw the big flag of Yang Zi hanging on the shed, she couldn't help but smile, gestured to Yang Ling slightly, and swept over like a gust of wind.

Cheng Qiyun held her chin in her hand, rolled her eyes and said, "This lady in red is so handsome in riding, do adults know her?" ”

Yang Ling shook his head and said: "She is the owner of the Yang family's soup kitchen shop next to her, yesterday there were a few people who teased her, I have seen her martial arts, very good, Liu Biao once said that he could not walk under her for twenty moves."

Cheng Qiyun suddenly sat up straight and muttered, "The lady in red, strong in martial arts, you said her surname is Yang?" What did they say just now, what did I hear Brother Tiger? ”

Yang Ling smiled and said: "Maybe her surname is Yang, or her husband's surname is Yang, and the tiger brother in their mouths doesn't know if it's her brother or her husband."

Cheng Qiyun's eyebrows furrowed, and she thought suspiciously: "It can't be so coincidental, right?" The thief Yang Kuahu dares to come to the capital? ”

I saw that the two horses, one white and one yellow, had not gone far, and several horses and a carriage had already greeted them in front, and the two sides stopped and talked for a while, and then walked back together. Yang Ling stood under the shed and looked at the team, Cheng Qiyun also stood up, walked to him with his sleeves in his hands, and stood with Gao Wenxin left and right.

Seeing that the group of people was getting closer and closer, Yang Ling paced a few steps and stood on the side of the road. When the horse team arrived, the woman in red said loudly: "He Gang, go and ask Cui'er to put away the porridge shop first, and I will accompany your brother Hu back to the city first." ”

Yang Ling's porridge shop is located next to the official road on the edge of the city, the carriage is near, the curtain of the car is lifted, and a man in his forties looks out, looks at the tall and majestic city gate and says: "Brother Yang, this is the capital?" ”

He rolled his eyes and saw Yang Ling, first stunned, and then exclaimed in surprise: "Brother Ling? Are you Brother Ling? ”

Yang Ling was stunned, seeing that the person in the car was in his early forties, his appearance was not ugly, but his expression was obscene, and he was looking at him with surprise and flattery, Yang Ling felt a little familiar, he arched his hand and said: "It's Yang Ling down there, you are!" Yang Yang, you are the third brother? ”

Yang Ling is blocked in his heart, isn't this guy the third brother who repeatedly wants to tease the young lady and occupy his property? Why did he also go to Jingshi?

Yang Quan heard that he had confirmed his identity, and he was so happy that he hurriedly patted the car and said: "Stop, stop quickly, this is my brother Yang Ling, my own brother, and the governor of Daming Inner Factory, hahahaha."

There was a young man in his twenties inside, but his eyebrows were delicate, and when he saw Yang Ling, he also shouted happily: "Uncle Ling? It's really Uncle Ling! ”

This person is two years older than Yang Ling, Yang Ling knows that he is of high rank, and when he was resurrected from the dead, many men and women older than him called him uncle, and he didn't remember who he was for a while, but it should be a member of the Yang family.

Next to him, a man in his thirties and a yellow robe stretched out his hand to grab the horse, raised his legs and jumped off the horse, and said with a rough smile: "Your Excellency is Lord Yang?" Yang Fu, a grass person, has seen an adult."

The woman in red also jumped off the horse, walked to his side, frowned slightly, and said unhappily: "Brother Tiger, you." The big man named Yang Fu turned his head and gestured slightly, and the woman in red suddenly closed her mouth.

Cheng Qiyun looked at them all in her eyes, and a smile flashed slightly at the corner of her mouth.

Yang Quan saw that the carriage stopped, got out of the carriage with the nephew, and greeted him and said, "Brother Ling, this Yang family brother saved us on the road and escorted us all the way to Beijing, he is our great benefactor."

Although Yang Ling hated Yang Quan and had no feelings for the Yang family, he now had the identity of the Yang family, so he smiled and saluted the rugged man with a pale yellow face and thick eyebrows: "Thank you Brother Yang for helping my brother and nephew."

As soon as the big man jumped off the horse, his left arm shook a few times, and he seemed to be unable to use his strength, so he hurriedly stretched out his right hand to stop Yang Ling and said: "Don't be polite, the grass people are the people of the rivers and lakes who sell horses and goods, but they can't afford to be your gift, and helping each other on the road is also fate."

Yang Ling saw that his other arm was hanging down, and couldn't help asking, "Brother Yang's hand?" ”

Yang Quan hurriedly said: "Brother Ling, we met a Taoist priest who can go high and high on the road, and somehow he fought with a young man, the young man was slapped in the face, and he is still unconscious, often vomiting blood, and is lying in the car.

Yang Ling saw that the pedestrians on the road were gradually surrounding to see the excitement, so he said: "There is a miracle doctor next to me, and this is not a place to talk, let's go to your residence together, ask her to give you a diagnosis and treatment, and you and I will talk in detail there."

Yang Ling took Cheng Qiyun and Gao Wenxin, who were dressed in men's clothes, and walked to the city with them, and inquired along the way to know that the Jimingyi had also fallen, and this time the Tartars attacked the side fortress on a large scale, burning and looting were especially better than last year, obviously to take revenge on the killing of the beloved son of Boyan Khan.

Yangjiaping is located in the middle of nowhere, and he escaped to the mountain after getting the news in advance, but the old lady Yang was old, and he was cold and hungry in the mountains, and as a result, he couldn't afford to get sick and died.

When Yang Quan heard that Yang Ling was a big official, he wanted to go to Beijing to take refuge, but the old man Yang was very stubborn, and he hated the nephew of the family to rely on nepotism to cling to the powerful, so he insisted on not allowing it, and since he died, no one could restrain Yang Quan, so he encouraged a nephew of his own family to go to Beijing to join Yang Ling.

The two of them trekked through mountains and rivers, picked small roads, and finally bypassed the battlefield of the Tartars and the Ming army, but saw a young scholar and a gray-clothed old Taoist fighting in front of the mountain, and then a line of carriages and horses passed by, seeing that the two sides fought fiercely, the scholar was seriously injured by the Taoist priest, and a man in a Ge robe named Yang Fu in the horse team couldn't hold back and stepped forward to help.

On the other side, Yang Fu led the horse and walked side by side with the woman in red, the woman in red glanced at Yang Ling, and said in a low voice: "You are under the power of the poisonous inner family, even if I have to take some trouble to get rid of your poisonous surname, who have you met?" ”

The big man in the ge-robed body is tall, and a pair of giant spirit palms are bursting up, if Liu Biao sees it, he will know that this is the realm where foreign kung fu has been practiced to the peak. He glanced at Yang Ling, who was whispering to Yang Quan, and said softly: "I don't believe it, can this hand still be scrapped?" That person is Maitreya Sect Master Li Fuda, the scholar in the car is very skilled in martial arts, and he has already injured that guy, I wanted to take the opportunity to get rid of him, but unfortunately, he still escaped."

The woman in red glared at him fiercely and scolded: "That demon Dao martial arts are very strong, even you can hurt him?" Besides, he's also gathering a crowd to rebel, which will help us a lot, you really don't have a brain! ”

Although Yang Fu is her husband, he is obviously used to being scolded by her, such a burly man, not only is not annoyed, but a little afraid, he argues curtly: "Li Fuda said, 'Shakya Buddha declines, Maitreya Buddha holds the world', claiming to be the reincarnation of Maitreya, the best at demagoguery, I am also known as the true dragon son of heaven, if I cooperate with him, can I still gather these many people to follow me to fight the country?" If there is an opportunity, he should be removed."

The woman in red sneered, and said with a cold face: "The true dragon son of the fart, the world has not yet been beaten, and this is starting to get dirty." I ask you, what kindness have you sent again? To make friends with that Yang Ling like this, he is the governor of the inner factory, we are a soldier and a bandit, you dare to play with fire? ”

Yang Fu salivated and said: "I didn't want to bring those two boys with me, but I heard that they claimed to be relatives of Yang Ling in the inner factory, and I want to get acquainted with him, which will be of great help to our activities in this area." By the way, lady, how about you go to Shandong? Are the bandits of Taihang Mountain willing to respond to our uprising? ”

The woman in red shook her head and said: "It's difficult, all of them are things with rat eyes, and if you are a mountain king, you think you are great, no one will obey anyone, and you don't have that ambition."

When the group arrived at the courtyard rented by the woman in red, they saw it again twice, only to learn that the man who claimed to be Yang Fu was a horse gang leader, and the woman in red was his wife Cui.

Cheng Qiyun watched coldly with a smile on his face, Gao Wenxin stepped forward to help Yang Hu roll up his sleeves, only to see five black fingerprints on the thick arm covered with sweat, and the muscles of the entire left arm were a little bulging, although Gao Wenxin did not understand martial arts, he could see that this person's internal organs had been impacted, the meridians on his arm had been damaged, and the palm was poisonous.

Yang Ling had a good impression of the couple, and hurriedly asked, "Wen Xin, how is the injury?" ”

Cui's wants to use internal strength to pull out the poison, and he can't get better for more than half a month, so a pair of wonderful eyes are also invested in Gao Wenxin, and he seems very concerned.

Gao Wenxin had just seen the injury of the scholar with a gray face in the car, but when he saw Yang Fu's injury, he let out a long sigh and said: "My lord, this strong man's injury is not tight, his body is already strong, let out the bad blood and then apply some medicine externally and internally, and it will be fine for five or six days, but the scholar with a chest injury in the car will take some trouble to diagnose and treat, in addition to the medicine stone, it must also be treated with acupuncture."

As she spoke, she took out the pen and inkstone she carried with her, wrote down a prescription, handed it to Cui's and said, "I will first use a silver knife to help Zunfu drain all the bad blood, and Mrs. will take ten doses of each of these two medicines according to the prescription."

Yang Ling almost laughed out loud when he saw the delicate woman in red holding the prescription upside down, and he quickly coughed twice to hide his smile.

Cui's is naturally the red lady known as Yang Kuanhu on the green forest road, her parents are good men on the green forest road, Cui Yinger has been dancing with guns and sticks since she was a child, and following the heroes on the green forest road to rob the house, heroic and especially better than men.

At the beginning, she chose a husband in a martial arts competition, and among the heroes of the three mountains and five mountains, only Yang Hu's martial arts and appearance were unsatisfactory, so she deliberately lost and married him.

Yang Ling's weird cough she felt that she was laughing at herself for not being literate, her face couldn't help but blush slightly, she called Cui'er, handed over the prescription and said: "Go find a pharmacy and catch the medicine according to the prescription", after speaking, she raised her head and glared at Yang Ling fiercely, the more she looked at this little white face, the more uncomfortable she felt.

Yang Hu's surname is heroic, and he has the kindness of rescuing the Yang family's relatives, he doesn't seem to care about the injury on his arm, and Yang Ling sat at the table and talked, and they fell in love with each other. After a while, Cui'er came back with two large packages of medicine, one was an external application of medicinal powder, and the other was a decoction of medicinal herbs.

Gao Wenxin took out a silver knife, cut the black palm print on Yang Fu's arm, until the smelly blood flowed into a bright red color, and then carefully poured the medicine powder on the wound, and wrapped the wound with a white cloth boiled in boiling water, Yang Fu felt that his unconscious left arm was slightly sore, and couldn't help but rejoice: "It really works."

Gao Wenxin smiled slightly, and said to Cui's family: "Madame decocted the medicine, every time I change the medicine, take it once, and it will be cured in about five or six days."

Cui's eyebrows were overjoyed, and he was busy holding his hands on his waist and bowing down.

Yang Ling said with a smile: "Brother Yang is injured, and his body must be tired after a long journey, so we won't bother much, the unconscious scholar, the injury is too serious, I think it's better to take it back to the house to take care of it, what does Brother Yang think?" ”

Yang Hu got up and said with a smile: "Okay, my injury is not tight, the adult is busy with official business, so please go back", he ignored Cui's secret eyes on the side, and said with a smile: "It is the blessing of the grass people to be able to get acquainted with adults, and Yang will definitely come to the door again to thank the adults for saving their lives."

Yang Ling took Yang Quan's uncle and nephew back to the mansion, placed them in a wing room, and then opened another house, and asked someone to put the unconscious scholar in, and with the help of his family, Gao Wenxin bled and dressed the scholar with a high fever and a disgraced face. After a while, the scholar had not woken up yet, but his body temperature had gradually dropped.

Yang Ling leaned over and looked at the young scholar, a few days of pain and torture, a square and white face beard is not repaired, although the green robe is wrinkled, but it can be seen that the material is not bad, Yang Ling said to Gao Wenxin: "Wenxin, just let the family take care of him, you go to rest first."

Gao Wenxin sat down on the chair lightly, glanced at him secretly, and said in a low voice: "I have to observe for a while, if the adults are busy, please go back first."

Yang Ling smiled: "I don't have anything to do, let's stay here for a while."

Gao Wenxin sat quietly for a while, peeked at Yang Ling, and said in a low voice: "I really miss it."

"Huh? What is missing? Yang Ling looked up in surprise and asked.

Gao Wenxin plucked up his courage and said: "I miss the son who went down to Jiangnan with you, although I was a slave at that time, but I was always by your side, and I returned to Beijing, since you listened to my cousin's words that night, but now I am more and more alienated from me, every time I go to Yang's mansion, I feel that my identity is very embarrassing, and I don't know how to deal with myself."

Yang Ling suddenly became cramped, he put his hands on his knees, and was silent for a long time before he smiled bitterly: "Wen Xin, you are everyone's best girl, talents and appearances are the best choice, will you worry about not having a favorite husband?" It is precisely because I love you and respect you that I don't want you to be a concubine.

The young lady is simple and kind, I treat Yu'er and Xue'er equally, Rao is so, they are still in awe of the young lady, and they are interested in pleasing each other, not only Qingqing and me between husband and wife, you are arrogant, scholarly for generations, if you marry into the Yang family out of gratitude, you will regret it sooner or later. ”

Gao Wen stood up impulsively, the candle flame reflected the stars in her eyes, bright, she shook her head, and said in a low voice: "My lord, I won't regret it, I know, if I am in my current status, I may be able to marry someone and be a wife, have children, and grow old together, but the identity is so important, right?" If you can't be with someone you like. ”

Her eyes were confused, and she said leisurely: "When I was in Jiangnan with you, it was my happiest time, you went out to work and socialize, I was waiting for you to come back in the room, and I listened to the crab peeling and boating in Taihu Lake with you, and listened to your whispers under the willows, what a happy time, the young lady's sister and Yu'er and Xue'er married Jinlan, and had a journey of living and dying together, and I am also very happy with them."

Her eyes gradually dimmed, and she said resentfully: "But now I feel that I am getting farther and farther away from them."

Yang Ling was speechless, and only after a while did he laugh self-deprecatingly: "I feel like a piece of Tang monk meat now, a lifelong event, do you really have only this one choice?" ”

Gao Wenxin said suspiciously: "Tang monk meat? ”

Yang Ling suddenly said the wrong thing again, and said with a dry smile: "I said it wrong, it's Dongpo meat."

Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered that the two of them were boating on Taihu Lake together, drinking in the lotus sea, remembering that she sprained her foot, washing her beautiful feet, and remembering the gentle kiss between the two.

He was also a little impulsive in his heart, so he hurriedly stood up and walked to the door, and said, "You haven't forgotten what I said to you, have you?" Maybe next year I'll be buried in my bones."

Gao Wen clearly saw that he was moved, but he retreated again, and said angrily for a while: "I haven't forgotten, the servant still remembers that the master said that if you die in Huangquan next year, the servant will marry you in front of the spirit card, if you can be lucky and not die, you will put on a hijab and marry the servant!" ”

At this time, she used the tone of being a slave in the Yang Mansion again, Yang Ling laughed dryly twice when she heard it, and said: "Okay, then let's wait and see, and talk about it next year and today."

Gao Wenxin listened to Cheng Qiyun's words yesterday, and today he confessed his heart to Yang Ling in shame, but he repeatedly shirked it, and the eldest lady's temper also rose, and she paused and said: "Let's see, let's see, adults should remember their own gambling contracts!" ”

(To be continued)