Seeing the commotion at the entrance of the vegetable market, the steward Hu was also stunned, and then saw the crowd around for a while, and an ox cart entered the vegetable market, but it was naturally not the ox cart that did not attract the crowd, but the things pulled on the car.

"Green ...... Vegetable! Seeing what was being pulled in the car, Steward Hu also opened his mouth wide in shock, and it took a long time to react. I saw that the ox cart was neatly stacked with green vegetables the size of a human head, although this kind of vegetable is relatively eye-catching, and the size is also a little bizarre, but looking at its tender appearance, the taste is definitely not much worse.

"Quick! Go and ask, how do you sell the other party's vegetables? Steward Hu suddenly came to his senses at this time, and hurriedly yelled at the little guy next to him, the appearance of green vegetables in the vegetable market in winter will definitely attract the madness of countless people, especially in this vegetable market, he is not only a buyer, but also a lot of official eunuchs are also here, in case of slowness, I am afraid that I will not even be able to grab a vegetable leaf.

The little guy brought by the Hu steward was also very experienced, and immediately divided two people to squeeze through the crowd and rushed up, at this time the other people who bought vegetables also woke up, and then they all rushed up frantically, and as a result, the road of the ox cart was blocked tightly, everyone waved their hands and asked the price loudly at the people in the car, and even some people didn't even ask the price, and directly reported the amount they wanted to buy.

Seeing so many people surrounding his carriage, I saw the middle-aged man who was driving the carriage stand up and said with a smile: "You don't have to worry, here is Wang Qi, the tenant of Guangyang County's palace." This time, entrusted by the tenants, I came to sell the cabbage that had been stored for many days, but because the number of cabbage was limited, in order to allow more people to eat cabbage, so the county king's mansion set a rule for the villain, that is, each person can only buy one cabbage per day, four hundred yuan per catty, if you think the price is fair, then go forward and pay for the vegetables. ”

Wang Qi's words mentioned the county king's mansion several times, which was also showing the people around him the power behind him. Don't underestimate this little vegetable market. In fact, there is also a mixture of fish and dragons, if you don't have a backer, don't even think about mixing in it, especially if the cabbage pulled by Wang Qi is still a profiteering thing. If he doesn't have a background. It is likely to be blackmailed by the ruffians in the vegetable market. Don't even think about earning the last penny.

Sure enough, as soon as Wang Qigang revealed his identity, some of the people surrounding him immediately retreated. Even the butcher Xu is among them, this guy relies on the backer behind him, rampant in the vegetable market, has always monopolized the trade of valuable vegetables in the vegetable market, and now he sees that someone actually transported a cart of vegetables at this time, which is simply grabbing money from him, so naturally he will not let the other party sell the vegetables like this, but when he heard that Wang Qi was a tenant of the county king's mansion, and he was taken care of by the county king's mansion when he came, he didn't dare to provoke such a person, especially the king of Guangyang county was notorious before, if he angered the other party, He also has absolutely no good fruit to eat.

Hearing that each person could only buy one, most of the people who bought vegetables were a little dissatisfied, but since this was a rule set by the county king's mansion, they had no choice but to scramble to squeeze forward to buy vegetables. Wang Qi was not the only one on the ox cart, there were also several young men from Sheung Shui Village, and several people worked together at the moment, beckoning the guests to weigh the cabbage and collect the money.

As a result, after a while, a cart full of cabbage was snapped up, and Wang Qi held the receipt given by the stewards of each prefecture in his hand, after all, a cabbage also costs several copper coins, no one will carry such a heavy copper coin to buy vegetables, especially those stewards of the eunuchs' families, when buying vegetables, they are all given to Zhang Tiaozi, and then Wang Qi They go directly to each mansion to collect money.

In addition, when selling vegetables, Wang Qi also announced to the people who bought vegetables again that in the next period of time, they will pull a cart of cabbage to sell every day, and the rules are the same, it is still one per person per day, if you want to buy it, you have to come to line up early, and the people who heard that there were cabbages in the future were very excited.

The two little guys sent by the Hu steward relied on their hands and feet to be flexible, and finally grabbed a cabbage respectively, this relatively rare vegetable is very large, a cabbage is at least three or four catties, although it is not enough to the standard of ten catties of fresh vegetables, but this cabbage is not an ordinary fresh vegetable, as long as it is brought back, it will definitely make its own owner greatly appreciated, so it is harmless to be a few catties less.

At that moment, the steward Hu personally held two cabbages, and returned to the house with a happy face, but the steward of the inner kitchen saw that the steward Hu brought back two very rare cabbages, and he was also very surprised, speaking of Ouyang Xiu is from Ji'an, Jiangxi, and many of the servants at home are brought from his hometown, and the steward in charge of the kitchen is also one of them, so he recognized at a glance that the steward brought cabbage from his hometown, which made him very excited, and he said that he had not eaten cabbage for many years. It is also a joy to be able to eat a bite of hometown food in this cold winter season.

Ouyang Xiu was also very troubled during this time, the main reason was that the two in the palace were out of harmony, this time the Empress Dowager Cao was encouraged by the servants around her, and refused to hand over power, as a result, Zhao Shu was angry with several big thunders, but there was no way, after all, the Empress Dowager Cao was the wife of Emperor Renzong, and Zhao Shu was not the biological son of Emperor Renzong, so when accepting the throne, it seemed a little lacking in confidence, and many ministers in the court were more willing to obey the will of the Empress Dowager Cao, so unless it was the Empress Dowager Cao who took the initiative to hand over power, Otherwise, Zhao Shu would have no choice at all.

Thinking of the impact of the disharmony between the two palaces on the Great Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu, who had already gone down to the dynasty, couldn't help but sigh, in fact, in his opinion, the Empress Dowager Cao did a little too much this time, after all, no matter how you say it, Zhao Shu is also the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, and he was in poor health before, so he let the Empress Dowager Cao temporarily manage the government, but now Zhao Shu's body has recovered, but the Empress Dowager Cao still holds the power, which is suspected of some women interfering in politics.

"It seems that the old man has to come forward to persuade the Queen Mother!" Ouyang Xiu, who was sitting in the study, suddenly said to himself, as the governor of politics, he has the responsibility to solve the discord between the two palaces, and he also knows that Empress Dowager Cao is not an unreasonable person, as long as he can analyze the stakes clearly, he should be able to persuade the other party to delegate power.

Thinking that if he could say that he could move the Empress Dowager Cao and let the emperor Zhao Shu really take charge of the imperial power, then the transfer of power in the Great Song Dynasty would finally be on the right track, and he had been worried for many years because Renzong had no children, and now he finally put this matter to an end, which also made Ouyang Xiu's mood a little better, and he had no intention of looking up, but he saw a painting hanging on the wall next to the desk.

I saw that several young scholars depicted on this painting were discussing passionately together, and it seemed to be very lively. In addition, the painting style of this painting is extremely realistic, and the expressions and movements of everyone on the painting are painted extremely clearly, and the scenery and characters on the painting are more like protruding on the paper, which is exactly the painting that Zhao Yan painted when he participated in the West Garden Gathering.

When Ouyang Xiu saw the painting hanging next to the desk, his face also showed a somewhat complicated color, especially when he thought that this painting was from Zhao Yan's hand, which made Ouyang Xiu's face show a mixed look.

At the beginning, Ouyang Xiu's granddaughter Ouyang Wanling brought back Zhao Yan's painting, and told him that Zhao Yan won the first place with his painting skills in the West Garden Yaji, and later beat Wang Xu, but Ouyang Xiu was also shocked, he never thought that the painting he had bought with a lot of money before would be from Zhao Yan's hand.

Originally, because of Ouyang Wanling's matter, Ouyang Xiu didn't have any good impression of Zhao Yan, and even when he first heard that those paintings were made by Zhao Yan, he even wanted to tear up the paintings in his hand, but then he heard Ouyang Wanling say that Zhao Yan beat the concubine Wang Shu for his sister Princess Bao'an, which made Ouyang Xiu also stunned, he has always been a person with a temperament, and he also agreed with Zhao Yan from the bottom of his heart when he was angry and beat Wang Xu regardless of his identity, it can be said that it is precisely because of this incident, It made Ouyang Xiu's impression of Zhao Yan change slightly, and even accepted the painting sent by Zhao Yantong Guò Ouyang Wanling.

However, although Ouyang Xiu accepted Zhao Yan's paintings, in his heart, Zhao Yan is still a talented and virtuous person, and the painting is just a small way, no matter how good Zhao Yan is in the painting, he will only be an excellent painter in the future, and he can't be compared with them at all, for example, a scholar can be loyal to the monarch and serve the country, but with Zhao Yan's identity, it is impossible to make any contribution to the Great Song Dynasty.

But what happened next was even more unexpected for Ouyang Xiu, he didn't expect that His Majesty would let Zhao Yan take the position of an advisor in the reorganized ordnance superintendent, and what he didn't expect was that a few days ago, Zhao Yan actually designed a weapon called a ballista, this weapon combines the power of a bed crossbow with firearms, and the lethality is extremely amazing, and it is even no exaggeration to say that if this kind of ballista is used properly, it can definitely reverse the unfavorable situation of the Great Song Dynasty in terms of military affairs.

Thinking of the ballista designed by Zhao Yan, and the rumors about Zhao Yan's personality that had changed greatly during this time, this made Ouyang Xiu's expression even more complicated, and then he thought that his granddaughter Ouyang Wanling's reputation was ruined because of Zhao Yan, and she couldn't marry until now, if Zhao Yan could have half of the current table at that time, maybe Ouyang Xiu would directly marry Ouyang Wanling to Zhao Yan, but unfortunately now that Zhao Yan is married, his Ouyang Xiu's granddaughter can't be a concubine for Zhao Yan, right?

"It seems that Wanling still has no relationship with Zhao Yan, otherwise this is a good marriage!" Finally, Ouyang Xiu sighed and said to himself.

At this moment, suddenly an old servant outside the study whispered: "Master, dinner is ready, Madame, they are all waiting for you to eat." (To be continued!)

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