Section 5 Proud beggars

"Beautiful scholar, you have a very deep understanding of the far West, I don't know what to think of my Tang Dynasty, you can say anything, I don't need to hide my views in front of me, the so-called stones of other mountains can attack jade, I want to hear the opinions of foreigners."

Hypatia, after a moment of contemplation, replied: "When I entered the city called Sandbar from the wasteland, I stayed for three months to strengthen my language skills, and I had a general understanding of the city. Please forgive me for taking beggars as an example, beggars Datang also has, there are such people in all cities in the world, they will beg everyone, but the beggars of Datang are very strange, their begging objects will only be Tang people, I saw a thin man begging on the side of the road, Tang people will be very grateful to give him half a piece of bread, seeing that he is in shabby clothes, I gave him a few pennies, but he didn't look at it, and spat on me, I was very aggrieved at the time, I couldn't understand why this happened, until I talked to this marquis gentleman tonight, only to find out the reason.

I asked Mr. Marquise, aren't the Tang people afraid of attracting the hatred of others if they are so proud? Mr. Marquis's answer surprised me, he said, Datang is never used to make people like, but to make people awe. Coming from a small country and a widow, I have never had such pride, this may be a kind of big country, strong country mentality, you don't have to please anyone, you just need them to be in awe.

There are a lot of foreign envoys coming to Chang'an these days, especially the fierce grassland peoples, but seeing them trembling under the reprimand of the small officials in Chang'an, I know that I have come to an extremely powerful country, congratulations, great majesty, you rule a powerful country. β€œ

Li Er laughed, and the generals laughed even more. Even the eldest grandson Wuji, who was usually expressionless on his face, showed a happy expression, Fang Xuanling stroked his beard and said: "Beautiful scholar, I believe that you are now a professor of Yushan Academy, out of respect for your profound knowledge, the old man would like to invite you to participate in the grand ceremony in a month on behalf of His Majesty, when all the countries in this land will come to make a pilgrimage." It will be beneficial for you to study the culture, politics, and military affairs of the Tang Dynasty. ”

Yun Ye whispered to Hypatia the identity of Fang Xuanling, and Hypatia bowed in surprise and thanked Fang Xuanling, "Thank you very much, Your Excellency the Prime Minister, such an invitation is my supreme honor." ”

Watching Hypatia get to know the bigwigs of the Tang Dynasty one by one under the guidance of Fang Xuanling, and being polite and polite, it seems that she was born to deal with characters in the circle of the powerful, which is completely different from the woman who was trembling under my aunt's hairpin just now.

Touching Li Chengqian with his shoulder, he said, "Learn a little." Don't see your father and your legs will be weak, look at people, you are His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty, and you must have the demeanor you should have. ”

"Don't talk about me, didn't you hide when you saw my father? If you have the ability, you can put this shelf in front of his old man to try, I have already smoked it with a big-eared scraper, I'm afraid that my father has nothing to be ashamed of, who is not afraid of Datang? Can you give me an example? ”

"Nonsense. If you are not afraid at all, you will already be buried in the ground, and I will continue to avoid him in the future. Always scare people with a thousand big boards, you say, I really made those mistakes? Need to hit a thousand boards? β€œ

"According to the law of the Tang Dynasty, you don't have much to suffer from a thousand boards, think about what you do, a few things are reasonable and legal. Always exploiting loopholes in the law, I guess my father has long wanted to beat you up, stay away from me when the time comes, don't bother me. ”

The eldest grandson Chong came over and said, "This woman is good, I'm going to take it home and raise it." What do you think? ”

"Shit, I still want to take it home and raise it, and then it's up to each other."

The eldest grandson Chong straightened his chest and said proudly: "Bad person, when it comes to seducing women, you are probably not my brother's opponent, brother, I have been familiar with the Five Classics since I was a child, and I have made up astronomy and geography in the academy, which has a fatal attraction to this kind of bearded woman, you can't take out a pile of silver to lure this woman home." ”

"You will, what can't I do, even if it's a little worse than you, but my brother's riding and archery kung fu is comparable to you, and the same is true for beauties and heroes Gu Zhi, this time in the wasteland, my brother and I chased and killed Prince Gaochang for thousands of miles, how heroic, you can't tell sΓΉ beauties that you cut off a lot of heads, let's go to the academy to talk about learning with beauties, and get familiar with it first."

Yun Ye had nothing to say about these two guys with sperm worms, and pulled Li Chengqian into the crowd to say hello to his uncles, as for the fact that Hypatia never married, there was no need to sue the two fools.

The emperor said that it was not good to say in the brothel, he always stayed here, I don't know how many prostitutes in Yanlailou will not raise tomorrow, a group of people went to the Yufeng Building at the end of the street, the Yun family has half of the shares, but Yun Ye has not been there once.

Hypatia was arranged by the emperor to enter the post house, as the emperor's guest, she had this qualification, and happily bid farewell to the emperor, but stretched out three white fingers to Yun Ye.

"That woman wouldn't have invited you to her room on the third watch, would she?" Li Huairen and Changsun Chong, who had never left Hypatia, immediately asked Yun Ye suspiciously, Cheng Chumo, and Li Chengqian also looked curious, no one had ever invited them so fragrantly.

"To be honest, I also want to climb into her house on the third watch day and taste the difference between Hu people and women, but those three fingers don't mean it, in order to save you four bastards, I was forced to sign a treaty of loss of power and humiliation of the country, her salary is increased by thirty percent, and she will be given a small building with a separate courtyard, just now she was reminding me not to forget the salary increase."

slapped away the two fingers that were almost on the nose, and Yun Ye explained to them in annoyance that people with sperm worms in their brains did not have much reason to speak of.

The four people who were suspicious looked at Yun Ye again, and then followed the team into the Fengfeng Building.

Drinking with the old guys is the most boring thing in the world, they drink, you have to stand aside and serve, the reason is that today's drinking regardless of the monarch, regardless of official position, only the preface!

On the official position, Yun Ye still has a seat to sit on, but it is over in a prelude, he and Li Chengqian are the youngest in a room, so one holds a wine jar, the other holds a wooden spoon, and pours wine for the old guys, the eldest grandson Chong is made to beat the drum, Li Huairen is to pick up flowers, and Cheng Chumo squats in front of a porcelain bottle to calculate the score of throwing arrows into the bottle for the old guys.

The weather is still hot, the wind curtain on the roof keeps shaking, the two people who pull the curtain outside the house are very hard, Wei Chigong is always a domineering appearance, seeing that Yun Ye only put an ice fish in his wine bowl, he was very dissatisfied, grabbed a handful of stuffed stuff from the basin and chewed it in his mouth, and asked Yun Ye loudly why he didn't call his stupid son when he was prostituting.

"Brother Wei Chi is about to go away, of course there will be a farewell dinner at that time, but this time is not suitable, you have returned from the Yanzhou garrison, and the time for father and son to get together is running out, how can you call him out at this time to mess around."

In a word, Yu Chi Gong was a little stunned, he loved Yu Chi Baolin very much, this time his son went to the local government to become an official, and he was indeed a little relieved.

"Baolin's temperament is straight, you can help him more, this kid is not happy that he can't be a general, in fact, it's nothing, Lao Tzu has been a general all his life and fell ill, Lao Qin If you don't look at it, it is estimated that he will not live for a few years, Li Jing's legs have heard that there is something wrong, and they are starting to go downhill. I just hope that your brothers will support each other to finish your road in the future, and the old man has thanked him in advance here. ”

The old guy has been stubborn all his life, and he has never been convinced in his life, and now he has to bow his head and beg for the sake of his children and grandchildren.

"Uncle underestimated Pauling, do you think that Baolin has nothing to do all day in the academy? The complexity of his schoolwork is beyond your imagination, farming, calendar, commerce, law, and countermeasures in the face of various disasters, the academy has been a magistrate is not one or two, official documents, twists and turns, human feelings, that he does not need to study, although Baolin is not smart, but the perseverance is famous in the academy, others can memorize the article three times, he needs six times ten times, pay more, get more, many times back to the little nephew in the middle of the night when he patrols the dormitory, he is still studying hard.

Do you think Mr. Li Gang likes Baolin for no reason? So, uncle, Baolin is far more powerful than you think, building bridges in the capital and building roads is also his class, he even took a Yun family caravan to trade with merchants outside the Saiwai, no one helped him, not to make a lot of money back, I also count on him to dig a canal for me in Hebei, so that my fleet can go straight to Beijing from Hebei. ”

Wei Chigong's eyes lit up and he grabbed Yun Ye's hand and asked, "What can Baolin do these things?" ”

"In addition to him, I can't think of a second candidate, the eldest grandson Chong is smart, but he can't endure hardship, Li Huairen is not bad, but his temperament will be nonsense together, and he can't do anything else except being a soldier, this is my Uncle Cheng who asked His Majesty many times before agreeing, and now Baolin They are stepping up the construction of the model, and it is estimated that eighty percent has been completed, you will rest assured when you go to the academy to see their achievements in your spare time, there are you in the court, and the little nephew does not believe that anyone can stop Baolin from building this feat."

Wei Chigong took the wine bowl and drank it all, and said word by word: "Whoever dares to stop my son's meritorious service is Lao Tzu's enemy of life and death, boy, after Baolin succeeds, the old man will take him to your academy to thank Mr. Li Gang." My father and son bow together for their great kindness!"

Wei Chigong, who let go of his worries, suddenly became happy, and shouted loudly to fight with the old brothers, and those who came did not refuse, and Li Er did not let go. Seeing his happy appearance, Li Er couldn't help but look at it twice, he knew too well about this general who he got back single-handedly, and he was really happy.

He knew why Wei Chigong was upset, but now that he wanted to open it, he had less trouble, and his interest in drinking became more and more high, and Yun Ye, who was busy, didn't have time to pour wine.

Several civil officials couldn't stand this way of drinking, so Lao Wang Jue slapped his hand on the table and said loudly: "It's too bullying, the old man thinks that we are starting to write poems and drink wine now!" (To be continued.) )

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