The Yellow River in the middle of Huai'an Province sometimes roars, sometimes it is calm, but it also reflects the clear water of Hongze Lake not far away.

Hu Ye felt that this was the most different scenery he saw when he came to the Ming Dynasty and later generations, because this kind of scene was no longer seen in later generations, unless anyone dared to risk the world's condemnation and divert the mother river to the south again.

But this was not Hu Ye's most shocking scene, what shocked him the most was that the dignified Yan Shenggong was so familiar with a Qinglou woman, just like a father and daughter. If Yan Shenggong was younger, he could be said to be an old husband and wife.

Lao Qian also looked at it dumbfounded, and this scene must be unforgettable for him. Ah Fu seemed to be used to it, so he stood next to him, and gave Kong Ne and the woman tea, as for Hu Ye and Lao Qian's tea, they had to do it themselves.

"Yan Shenggong, you haven't been to Piaoxiang Courtyard for five years, how can you be interested in coming here today." Maggie sat next to Conne, sipping tea and talking to Conne.

"Hey, I haven't left Qufu City for five years, where can I have time to come to Huai'an Mansion." Kong Ne sighed, and then said, "This time there is a great drought in the world, and profiteers and corrupt officials are rampant in Dongping Prefecture, my old bones, I have to go to Nanjing in person to explain the truth to the emperor, otherwise I will not come to this Huai'an Mansion." ”

"Why did Yan Shenggong go in person, there were bumps and drifts along the way, and your body was a little unbearable. In addition, there are many displaced people now, so it is not good if there is any turmoil. Meiqi continued to talk to Kong Ne, obviously ignoring Hu Ye, thinking that Hu Ye was a student in Kong Ne's mansion or something.

Hu Ye has been ignored a lot, so he won't care about a middle-aged woman's ignorance. What he cared about was what the relationship between this Meiqi and Kong Ne was, and he couldn't help but guess that at Kong Ne's age, it seemed impossible to find a boss. Even if he was willing, it is estimated that his Yan Sheng Mansion would not agree to him finding a woman in her forties. What's more, it's still a Qinglou woman.

Thinking of this, Hu Ye in the spirit of gossip and irresponsible guessing, this Meiqi will not be Kong Ne's illegitimate daughter. There are a lot of this kind of bridge, and many people like to linger in this kind of fireworks place in ancient times, because ordinary people here can't get in, and if you want to get in, you have to have a certain amount of literary talent.

So Hu Ye just looked at the two of them curiously, and kicked the old money up from time to time, didn't you see anyone else Ah Fu was standing, how can you sit down as a bodyguard? Is there still no upbringing?

Kong Ne and Mei Qi also looked curiously at the old money who was kicked around by Hu Ye. This bodyguard is indeed a little strange.

"By the way, let me introduce you, this is the proprietress of Piaoxiang Courtyard, Jiang Meiqi. In the early years, I met when I passed by Huai'an Mansion to Nanjing, when I was just a little girl, and now I have become the proprietress of Piaoxiang Courtyard. Kong Ne watched Hu Ye and Meiqi look at each other curiously, and began to introduce the two.

Hu Ye hurriedly arched his hand towards Jiang Meiqi, although he didn't believe that she was only an unintentional acquaintance of Kong Ne, but since Kong Ne was unwilling to say more. He didn't want to inquire carefully.

"This is Hu Ye, a student who went south from Beiping to Nanjing to participate in the imperial examination, who is knowledgeable and studied under a master." Kong Ne introduced to Jiang Meiqi.

"Huh. I didn't expect the little boy to be a literati, and it just so happened that the Yellow River is surging now, can the little boy write a poem, so that I can admire the son's literary brilliance. Jiang Meiqi listened to Kong Ne's introduction. looked at Hu Ye in surprise.

She knows Kong Ne's temperament, and if she can get Kong Ne's erudite and knowledgeable person, Wen Cai must be earth-shattering ghosts and gods. At least he hadn't heard Conne praise anyone like that before. Even his most proud disciple was at best a studious evaluation.

And Hu Ye's identity as only twelve years old surprised her even more, could this be the second Jia Yi? That's why she was curious to find out.

Hu Ye's eyes flashed when he heard this, this Kong Ne is trying to harm himself, how can he, a young man in the 21st century, know what poetry and songs. It's probably okay to ask us to have some pop music, but isn't it going to kill us with poetry and songs.

The most important thing is that it is now the Ming Dynasty, and those Li Bai Du Fu Bai Juyi have already appeared, and they can't plagiarize if they want to, so they can't copy the words and sentences of their predecessors. We don't remember much of the poems of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and we still have to adapt to the occasion, isn't it even more difficult than participating in the imperial examination.

"What? Does the little boy think that the water of the Yellow River is not enough to rush? Jiang Meiqi saw that Hu Ye was stunned for a long time and didn't speak, thinking that Hu Ye was brewing love, so she asked.

Hu Ye couldn't hold back any poems for a long time, so he had to say embarrassedly, "The kid is only a shallow learner, and he really can't make poems, and he made a few people laugh." ”

"Cluck, cluck." Jiang Meiqi covered her mouth and smiled, seeing a kid blushing, it was really rare, just like those sons and brothers tried it for the first time.

Kong Ne looked at Hu Ye, he really didn't expect Hu Ye to be unable to compose poetry, but he didn't expect Hu Ye to be pitted.

"But although the boy can't write poetry, he can tell some stories, and if a few want to hear it, the boy can tell a few."

Hu Ye looked at the expressions of the two, and his heart was horizontal, so he could only come up with his own killer idea, which was to tell a story. Even people like Zhu Di will be attracted by our story, we don't believe that you can be indifferent, we can't let you look flat, we have to fight for face for the master who doesn't have zài at all.

"Oh, I don't know what the story of the little boy is, you might as well tell it and listen to it. It just so happens that the girl in Piaoxiang Courtyard has less stories to match the occasion, and maybe I can make up a few songs and dances with the story of my son. Jiang Meiqi said with a smile.

Hu Ye paused and prepared to speak. Lao Qian is sitting upright, and the young master's storytelling ability is first-class, so don't miss it.

So Hu Ye told the story of painting skin, after all, this is a joke from Liao Zhaizhi, and it is impossible for these Ming Dynasty people to hear it.

"Legend has it that there is a Wang Sheng in Taiyuan, once walking on the road in the morning, I met a girl, holding the burden alone on the road, she walked very hard. He hurried over to her, and it turned out to be a beautiful girl of young age. ”

Then Wang Sheng liked her very much, so he asked, "Why do you walk alone so lonely early in the morning?" The girl said, "The traveler on the road cannot relieve my sorrows, so you don't need to ask me." Wang Sheng said, "What sorrow do you have?" If I can help, I won't refuse. ””

The girl replied with a gloomy expression, "My parents were greedy for bribes and sold me to rich and noble families." The wife of the family was very jealous, and scolded me in the morning and beat me at night. I can't stand it anymore, I'm going to stay away. Wang Sheng asked, "Where are you going?" The girl said, "There is a certain place for those who are fleeing." Wang Sheng said: "My house is not far away, so please go and sit down." The girl was pleased, and obeyed.

So Wang Sheng helped her carry her baggage and other things, and led her back together. The girl saw that there was no one else in the room and asked, "Why don't you have a family?" He replied, "It's just a study." The girl said, "This place is very good." If you pity me and let me live, you must keep it a secret and don't give it out. Wang Sheng agreed to her, so he slept with her.

Wang Sheng asked the woman to hide in the secret room. After several days, but no one else knew about it, Wang Sheng secretly sued his wife. His wife, Chen, suspected that she was the concubine of a large family, and persuaded Wang Sheng to let her go. Wang Sheng didn't listen. ”

"That Wang Sheng once went to the street and met a Taoist priest, and he looked at Wang Sheng and was very surprised. Q: "What did you encounter?" Wang Sheng replied, "No." The Taoist priest said, "You have evil energy lingering in your body, how can you say that you don't have it?" Wang Sheng tried his best to refute again. The Taoist priest then left, and said to himself, "What a strange! There are people in the world who are dying but do not know how to wake up. ””

Wang Sheng felt that the Taoist priest's words were very strange, and he began to be a little suspicious of the girl. But I thought that this was obviously a beauty, how could it be a monster, and I thought that the Taoist priest was just cheating and eating in the name of exorcising monsters. ……”

The more Hu Ye spoke, the more Kong Ne and Jiang Meiqi listened. I don't even know if the water in the teacup is dry. Ah Fu next to him also unconsciously leaned closer, wanting to hear more clearly. Although Lao Qian had heard Hu Ye tell stories before, he told it so well today, and he kept staring at a pair of big eyes.

That's the story. Back then, I also listened to my master tell me. By the way, my master has another comment. Foolishness, world! It's obviously a youkai. But I thought it was a beauty, and I was confused, stupid man! It's obviously advice, but I think it's nonsense. It's just that I covet other people's beauty and possess it, and my wife is willing to eat other people's saliva. The Divine Doctrine reveres the cycle of reward, but the stupid and confused people do not wake up, what a tragedy! Hu Ye slowly said the comments on the above chatting about the differences, waiting for the reactions of the few people in front of him.

The first to react was Conne, he was an old reader, and he knew that the ghost stories in the books were made up by people, but the truth contained in them was true. Wang Sheng in this painting originally had a gentle and virtuous wife, but he was bewitched by a charming ghost and finally gave his life. If it weren't for the fact that his wife endured humiliation and burden, and finally gave this king to life, I am afraid that this king would never be born.

It's really as Hu Ye's master said, stupid people!

Jiang Meiqi is still reminiscing about what happened to Wang Sheng's wife, and a woman who can still never leave Wang Sheng like this must be in love with Wang Sheng. This kind of feeling is definitely the envy of women like them, and there are tears rolling in their eyes unconsciously.

But Kong Ne listened to it more and more wrongly, as if he heard that Hu Ye was talking about something, and finally after taking another sip of herbal tea, he suddenly understood something, and suddenly roared at Hu Ye, "Good you stinky boy, you actually insinuated, dare to compare the old man to Wang Sheng!" ”

Hu Ye hurriedly retreated, this Kong Ne is not a joke, if you have high blood pressure and heart disease or something, it is not good, this will kill people in the Ming Dynasty.

"Yan Shenggong is angry, the kid is just telling a story, where is the insinuation, Yan Shenggong is wrong to blame the boy." Hu Ye hurriedly explained, even if he had this thought, he didn't dare to say it.

After Kong Ne said this, Jiang Meiqi seemed to think of some of these joints, and after wiping her tears with her sleeve, she settled down, and then explained to Hu Ye, "Gongzi is really knowledgeable, and he actually used such an ingenious story to persuade Yan Shenggong. ”

"But Childe is too worried, I have nothing to do with Yan Shenggong. Although Yan Shenggong knew my mother back then, he was just a confidant, and it was not the relationship between Wang Sheng and the female ghost at all. Therefore, Childe's worries are simply superfluous, and I only have admiration for Yan Shenggong, and I have no other meaning at all. ”

Hu Ye's head grew when he heard it, he was just telling a story about painting skin, why did these two people always talk about other things. made me very embarrassed, but it revealed the relationship between the two people, that is, there was no relationship. This Jiang Meiqi and Kong Ne are so familiar, it turns out that Kong Ne is very familiar with her mother, as for her father or something, I'm afraid even her mother doesn't know who it is.

But this Yan Shenggong is also really, no one Jiang Meiqi has confessed yet, and she is always secretive, if we don't tell a story, we really can't reveal the relationship between the two of you.

"I see." Hu Ye pretended to be enlightened and said.

At this embarrassing time, the door of the Guanhai Pavilion opened, and the wine and food were ready. Hu Ye in order to escape from this embarrassing atmosphere. Kong Ne's eyes were about to eat people, so he had to change the topic, "Oh, I'm so hungry, old money, let's eat!" ”

Lao Qian knew what Hu Ye meant, and he didn't care about the identity of the bodyguard, so he took the plate from the girl's hand and put it on the table. I picked up the chopsticks and ate them.

"Well, this Huainan bamboo shoot is really good, not to mention the freshness, it even has the fragrance of the earth. It must have been dug out of the woodland in the morning. Piaoxiang Courtyard really lives up to its name, and the kid admires it. Hu Ye picked up a piece of bamboo shoots and ate it, tasting it and praising it. He also glanced at Kong Ne from time to time, and found that he had a bad complexion, probably because he was still angry with himself.

So Hu Ye chose the thinnest bamboo shoot slice in it. Sandwiched into Kong Ne's bowl, "Yan Shenggong, this bamboo shoot is very delicious, melts in the mouth, has an excellent taste, it is a must-have product for cooling and fire, Yan Shenggong may wish to try it." ”

Kong Ne glared at Hu Ye, and said with a hint of anger, "You still can't teach me the taste of this Huainan bamboo shoot!" ”

Jiang Meiqi giggled again, and said in her heart that this old man and young man were really a pair of living treasures, and while sandwiching the dishes for Kong Ne, she said, "Yan Shenggong, when will you go to Nanjing this time, when will you return, I will prepare a large banquet for your old man." In this hurry, you can only prepare this small table, which does not match your identity. ”

"I haven't been to Nanjing for five years, so I'll stay there for a few days this time. Come back at the end of the year, many old guys are in Nanjing, it's time to catch up with them. Kong Ne was not careful, so he didn't bother with Hu Ye, and after thinking about it, he replied to Jiang Meiqi.

"Yan Shenggong should be more careful when he goes to Nanjing, there are many displaced people in Yangzhou Mansion, most of whom are exiled from Henan and Shandong. Could it be that the drought in the north is so severe? Jiang Meiqi asked curiously.

Hu Ye went all the way south and had the most say in the situation, so he said uncompromisingly, "This Jianghuai generation has sufficient water sources, and the impact of drought is naturally much smaller. But north of the Yellow River, there are all small streams, which have basically stopped flowing due to drought. ”

"In Beiping, even the Wuding River, which has the largest flow, is now about to be cut off, and if it weren't for the Guanting Dam on it, there would have been no harvest of the people's millet this year. In previous years, it was possible to plant a season, but now that the water is running dry, the people have no choice but to keep the seeds, which may save their lives in the next few months. ”

"As for the refugees who came down this way, when I left Beiping City, I saw no less than 100,000 refugees outside the city, but fortunately, His Royal Highness the Vice President of King Yan still had hundreds of thousands of stone of grain in stock, otherwise most of those refugees would starve to death. After arriving in Tongxian, the number of refugees did not decrease at all, but some corrupt officials took advantage of the opportunity to accumulate wealth, similar to the situation in Dongping Prefecture. ”

"When I arrived in Baoding Mansion, there was a plague, if it wasn't for Longyun Villa, I am afraid that the hundreds of sick patients would have been killed by the people of the government."

"So how strict is the drought this year, if the disaster is not controlled, it won't be long before there will be a tragic realm of Yizi eating during the Southern Song Dynasty, and even wild dogs cannibalism may happen." Hu Ye told what he had seen and heard along the way, and Jiang Meiqi was disgraced when he heard it. Kong Ne frowned even more, he thought that the situation in Shandong was bad enough, but he didn't expect the situation in the north to be even worse.

"I didn't expect the disaster to be so severe." Jiang Meiqi's eyes were solemn, and the atmosphere became gloomy, "Tomorrow, I will ask people to organize a fundraiser in Huai'an, which should be able to raise about 10,000 stone of food, although it is a drop in the bucket, but it is also a little heart of our Huai'an people, and it can be regarded as a little contribution made in the year of the catastrophe." ”

"Aunt Jiang is really kind-hearted, I have thanked Aunt Jiang for the people in the disaster area." Hu Ye put down his chopsticks and said respectfully.

He is sincerely grateful, it turns out that there are such women in the dust, and not all businessmen are profiteers, at least there are compassionate people like Jiang Meiqi.

"Okay, the catastrophe will eventually pass, this time I will go to Nanjing to explain the truth to the emperor, presumably the emperor will not watch his people suffer." Seeing that the atmosphere was a little solemn, Kong Ne spoke.

"Yes, yes, today, the Holy Father of Yan is coming, we should be happy, how can we say these discouraged things. It's all Hu Ye, talking about these heavy topics. Jiang Meiqi hurriedly cleaned up her heavy mood and put on a happy expression, this kind of ability is not easy for people like them.

Hu Ye nodded helplessly and said yes, why is it always himself who is injured, it is obviously the disaster that Jiang Meiqi mentioned first, and in the end, he became the initiator. Sure enough, he has no right to speak at a young age, in front of these elders, Hu Ye can only swallow this bitter fruit, who calls himself a bully. (To be continued......)