Kaifeng City, after all, is the root of the imperial city.

After the initial confusion and paralysis, on the tenth day after the Chongyang flood, tens of thousands of forbidden troops were mobilized.

Grain relief, canal repair, street clearance, transfer and burial of corpses, epidemic prevention and other post-disaster work that should be dealt with by the imperial court is slowly on the right track.

Taixue and Yao Huan's soup soup charity has gradually come to an end, and the only people who came to receive the porridge on this day are just a hundred or so homeless people in the city.

In the afternoon, when he was a little free, Shen Fuzhi hired another donkey cart to go to his home in Qingjiangfang to see the landlord repair it.

The rest of the people sat down on the stones under the big willow trees in the river stalls.

The winter sun shines through the willow branches that have lost their leaves, like a delicate painter making a picture of the mud with strange lines.

The servants who came to help were too old to take a nap.

Those students who were twenty years old were in good spirits, and they gathered around Yao Huan, Shao Qing and others to watch the excitement.

The little Arab brother Cheri, who was reliable, accepted a friendship price of 100 yuan, and brought Yao Huan a few small bags of spices early in the morning.

Shao Qing's contribution to Yao Huan is the common "Huiyi Groove" in doctors.

Huiyi, taking the meaning of "benefiting the sick and turning danger into relief", is commonly known as "medicine mill". The medicine mill is divided into hand and foot, the structure is similar, all are an iron boat-shaped groove, with a round wheel with handles at both ends, the groove is put into the medicinal materials to be grinded, and the hands or feet operate the round wheel to roll, and the medicinal materials are ground into broken particles or even powder.

Yao Huan had long taken a fancy to this thing as a tool for grinding coffee beans, so he borrowed it from Shao Qing.

The green coffee beans that Qili got were selected by Yao Huan to be free of insects and mold, and divided them into two batches.

In the first batch, she had already soaked in the well water overnight in advance, and when she was busy making porridge for the homeless people, she ordered Meituan to grind it with medicine and grind it like a soybean.

At this moment, on the small stove that was temporarily set up again, the crushed green coffee beans were boiling in the pot for half an hour.

Yao Huan brought down the small pot and prepared to strain the juice.

Meituan was busy wanting to help, but Shao Qing took it and said with a smile: "Meituan, I'll come, this job, I, Langzhong, should be more authentic than your cook." ”

Meituan grinned and praised in his heart: Mr. Shao is still quite handsome when he laughs.

Yao Huan also nodded at Shao Qing, turned around and wrapped a large lump of spices from the Western Regions in gauze, and threw them into another pottery urn with well water to cook.

Among the onlookers, Chen Dong's brother in Taixue, Chen Hao, who loves to make sweet stuffed steamed buns, is also there.

Chen Haozheng pointed to his classmates around him with full emotion: "Brother Tai, you see, in addition to those spices of Hu Ren Xiaolang, the last thing that Yao Niangzi added to the gauze bag was cumin seeds. Fennel is really a good thing, fortunately, when Zhang Qian of the former Han Dynasty passed through the Western Regions, the seeds were passed in and planted in the Central Plains. There are fresh fennel leaves to sell in Kaifeng Market, and mutton stars make steamed buns together, fragrant, my brother, I can eat four or five at a meal, but unfortunately my mother is vegetarian. ”

Yao Huan turned his head sideways and said: "Chen Guanren can try to break up the eggs, drop a few drops of vegetable oil, and then use the spoon that makes tadpole powder on weekdays to leak the egg liquid into the hot pot, and before getting old, they will be put out and made with fennel leaves to make stuffing." If Lingtang is a vegetarian and even eggs are taboo, you can also try blanching diced bamboo shoots or mushrooms until they are half-cooked, mix a few drops of sesame oil, and then make stuffing with fennel leaves, which has a fragrant taste. ”

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard a sentence from behind the students: "Fennel vegetarian stuffed steamed buns, good, good, the old man can also eat four or five in one meal!" ”

Everyone answered and got out of the way.

Yao Huan looked up and saw Su Yu, who was dressed in a shirt, accompanied by an old man with a white beard.

The old man looked like he was in his prime, his body was thin, the fat on his cheeks had been drained by the years, but his face did not look dry, because his eyes were shining, and his smile was also kind and calm, like an old fairy in good spirits.

"This is the envoy of the first palace of Zhongtai, Duke Su."

Su Yu respectfully introduced to everyone.

The envoy of the first palace of Zhongtai is the official name of the "ancestral hall" of the Song Dynasty, which was promoted by the former prime minister. Generally speaking, if the prime minister is good, after retiring, the emperor's family will treat you very favorably, seal the envoy of the Taiyi Palace, and use public funds to give you a good pension and send you to the end.

As soon as Su Yi explained the identity of this old man, Chen Hao and other students had already turned solemn, and they all made a ninety-degree gift to him like a Japanese.

"It turned out to be Su Gong."

"How fortunate the younger generation is to be able to meet Su Gong here."

"It's cold and windy, why did Su Gong come here?"

The students' greetings came and went.

After all, Yao Huan is just a history lover, and he has no concept of the official position of the ancestral hall in the Northern Song Dynasty, so he does not know the connotation of "the envoy of the first palace of the Tai".

Seeing that the appearance of this old man could provoke such a strong reaction, her mind raced, guessing his identity.

Who's this?

Imperial Physician Palace? Is it a doctor?

She was in a dumb shell, and Shao Qing on the side murmured softly: "I really didn't expect it to be Su Xiang." ”

Su Xiang?

Messire?

In the Zhezong Dynasty, there were only two prime ministers surnamed Su, one was Su Zhe, who had been demoted to Lingnan, and the other was ......

It's Su Song!

Yao Huan suddenly realized, no wonder these people are like sages.

Su Song, the famous face of the Song Dynasty, successively served in the five dynasties of Renzong, Yingzong, Shenzong, Zhezong, and Huizong, and achieved the top of his ability and virtue in each era.

When he was a magistrate, he was a capable official and solved many thorny problems on the front line.

When he became the prime minister, he did not collude with Sima Guang, and he did not viciously crack down on the reformers.

At that time, Shenzong Yan was driving, Zhezong ascended the throne at a young age, and the Empress Dowager Gao was in the court. The conservatives regained power, brutally purged the reform faction externally, and also split internally into the Shu faction, the Luo faction and the Shuo faction, fighting in the court like a black corn, only the Empress Dowager Gao was the head of the horse, and regarded the little emperor Zhao Xu as air.

Only Su Song, once he became the prime minister, every time he held a court meeting, he tried his best to take into account the face of the petty officials, leading the courtiers to ask Zhao Xu's opinion, even if it was the order of the Empress Dowager Gao, Su Song also wanted to order the Son of Heaven to come out.

Su Song, after Wang Anshi's reform, in the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty, a faction of dirty party struggles, can be called a rare clear stream figure.

Whether it is ability, character, official character or qualifications, he can handle and control people, and he has played a vital role in the process of mediating conservatives and reformers.

Because of this, although Su Song was the prime minister of the Empress Dowager Gao, after Zhao Xu took power, no matter how Zhang Dian, Cai Bian, Cai Jing and other powerful New Party figures persecuted Yuan You's courtiers, Zhao Xu, an official who supported the New Party, always maintained respect and protection for Su Song.

The fact that the prime minister, a minister, retired extremely safely, and was awarded the honorary title of "Zhongtai First Palace Envoy" by the imperial court, is a clear proof.

And when Yao Huan figured out that the old man in front of her was Su Song, the first thing she thought of was Su Song's famous sentence that was recited by countless conscientious people in later generations:

"Don't blame someone for death."