Chapter 98: The Truth Emerges
It's almost August in a blink of an eye, and Wei Qingluan has been in and out of the restaurant a lot of times, and he has also heard a lot of rumors.
Dingping Castle is far away from the emperor and is located in the frontier area, so the folk customs are more fierce than those near Kyoto. There are no verbal constraints, so you can hear even the most rebellious words in the mainland.
In addition to the occasional thing from the mouths of some diners in the restaurant, Wei Qingluan heard a storyteller in the restaurant.
This storyteller not only tells the story well, but also makes people feel like they are in the current situation, so they are very popular with people. Among the people who came to eat at Gu's restaurant, a small number of people came for him.
In order to attract people, the Gu family restaurant prepared tea and snacks in the hall in the middle of the time, and the storyteller started to speak.
The storyteller in the restaurant today was talking about the latest situation, Wei Qingluan walked around, and just heard the storyteller talking, so he directly found a place to sit down. During this time, for the sake of convenience, she disguised herself as a man, so she didn't have to shy away from it, so she sat in the hall near the storyteller.
Xiao Zhuang, who was working in the store, saw it and hurriedly sent a pot of tea and two plates of snacks. This was what Gu Fei ordered before, and now he doesn't need Gu Fei to speak, he is proficient.
After nodding and greeting Xiao Zhuang, Wei Qingluan began to listen to Mr. Storyteller's speech seriously.
Today is talking about major events here in Changzhou. That is, what happened between Xirong and Dashang on the border less than 500 miles away from Dingping.
In the early spring of this year, Lu Duan, the general stationed in Changzhou, contracted an illness and was recalled to Kyoto.
It is said that the court and the central government are more concerned about this matter, and if it weren't for the ministers to stop them, the emperor would have come to inspect it in person.
Later, it was the fifth prince Xuanyuan Che who took the initiative to ask Ying, and five months ago he took the place of the emperor to inspect the eight mansions of Yunzhou. It is said that the five princes did not follow the scheduled itinerary at all, and came in the relying team given by the emperor. Instead, he only took a few guards to hurry overnight, and after coming in advance, he quietly searched around the place.
After the honor guard arrived, all the officials who were waiting to greet them knew that the five princes had already quietly checked their details. If you are an official, especially if you are in a high position and have been in a position for a long time, what about that ass? These people couldn't help but panic.
But they didn't know where the people of the Five Princes had gone.
Just when these people were jumping up and down in a hurry to find the five princes, the Changzhou government received a messenger from Xirong asking for peace, and they learned that the five princes had brought 20,000 officers and soldiers to the border 300 miles away from Changzhou and killed the 50,000 Western barbarian soldiers who wanted to offend.
These people were suddenly anxious, and hurriedly led a group of high-ranking officials from Changzhou to the border to meet the five princes.
It's just that the five princes didn't care about them at all and didn't receive them.
It is said that the governor Gao Changshui was not convinced, and took everyone to the camp where the five princes were located, wanting to force the five princes to receive them with more people, but he did not expect to be given a stack of paper by a guard next to the five princes. Gao Changshui opened it and looked at it, and immediately sweated like pulp, which recorded the corrupt things he committed in his early years. Presumably, what follows are the unknown and hidden events he has done over the years.
The shortcomings have already been taken in, didn't he come directly to the door to clean up? Gao Changshui was so frightened that he knelt directly and kowtowed, and then walked away with the people.
After the storyteller finished speaking, the diners who listened next to him couldn't help but speak: "My Dashang country has such a brave and warlike prince, why worry about those savages in Xirong attacking?" ”
"The five princes are brave and strategic, which is really a blessing for my great business."
"It's just that I heard that the fifth prince retreated from Xirong, and the officers and soldiers he brought were his eldest uncle Lu Duan's subordinates, if it weren't for that, how could he be so powerful on the battlefield for the first time?"
"What if it's a subordinate of His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince's uncle, if it's you, can you do it?"
"How can he compare with the five princes, he doesn't dare to kill chickens, let alone kill those Xirong savages who drink blood."
"If the five princes stay with us for a longer period of time, they will definitely be able to correct the officialdom and benefit the people."
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Listening to the gossip of the people below, Wei Qingluan suddenly had an idea. Hearing this, now the fifth prince is also the most honorable person in Dingpingzhou, so if he asks for him, can he also arrest Wei Laogen and those people?
Even if they don't kill their heads, let them taste the taste in the prison can relieve the fire in their hearts.
Also, if the fifth prince had someone escort him and his younger brother to the capital, wouldn't it be even more of a great help to himself?
Shaking his head, Wei Qingluan sighed secretly, what he thought was really beautiful. The officials of Changzhou Mansion can't see the face of the five princes, can they see a little girl?
Then she heard what the person next to her said, and she directly kicked the idea out of her brain.
Someone said: "Don't think too well, no matter how wise the fifth prince is, he is just a young man who has not yet been weakly crowned!" ”
If you are not weak, you are not yet twenty years old. Wei Qingluan immediately frowned. Not to mention that she herself knew that she was thinking too idealistic just now, but now when she thought that the fifth prince was still a kid with yellow hair on his mouth, she directly shouted to stop.
Maybe it's because she was nearly thirty years old before the crossing, and she really didn't want to deal with a teenage boy.
At this time, Mr. Storyteller woke up Mu Yipai, and was about to start telling the story again, Wei Qingluan picked up the tea cup in front of him and drank it down, then stood up and left.
Although Wei Qingyun doesn't need her to take it with her, under normal circumstances, she still has to use three meals a day with Niu's and them.
After going to the market and buying some of the fruits of the day, Wei Qingluan went back.
When she entered the door, she first handed the basket she had carried to the mother-in-law in the yard to wash, and then went to rummage through the half-dried radishes and dried cucumbers that had dried in the yard.
During this time, he was idle, thinking that it would take more than two months to go to the capital, so Wei Qingluan bought some fresh vegetables, vegetables, melons and fruits, cut them and dried them. Take it with you when you're ready to go.
Wei Qingyun has not been in the past three weeks, and it is almost winter when he is on the road, and he can't buy fresh vegetables and vegetables, so it's good to use these dehydrated vegetables to make vegetable porridge for him to drink.
Niu Shi also walked out of the room at this time, and said with a smile: "Qingluan, can these things really be the same as fresh in winter?" ”
"Didn't my sister already eat dried bean stew once," Wei Qingluan said with a smile: "These things are the same as dried beans." ”
Although the dried beans have been verified, Niu is still a little skeptical. After all, I used to eat Chinese cabbage and potatoes and radishes during the Chinese New Year, but it was the first time I heard that apples and pears can also be dried for fruits.