A few days later, Guo Yan suddenly came to Tuo Nianyun to buy a novel gadget for him, saying that he would give it to the woman.

Nianyun wondered: "There are some jewelry in Shengping Mansion, just find one to give away, why do you want me to buy it, is it difficult for me to make Shengping Mansion poor like this?" ”

Guo Yan said: "There are many jewelry, but it is not easy to find a hearty one. Besides, there are a lot of good things that people have seen, and ordinary jewelry may not be able to take a second look. You're a girl, maybe you know a girl's mind better......"

Nianyun grinned: "It turns out that the third brother has a crush on a woman, tell me, whose girl is it?" ”

Guo Yan glanced at her and didn't speak.

Nianyun guessed that it must be Li Chang, pretended to be a gesture, and said with a smile: "Tell me who it is, and I'll help you buy it, and I won't forget you after seeing it." ”

Guo Yan said angrily: "Who is rare! If you don't help, you won't help, I'll buy it myself! ”

Nian Yun hurriedly grabbed him, pitifully, "Good brother, good brother, if you don't tell you, you won't tell, if you don't tell me, I'll help you buy it, I'll go, anyway, when you pursue the girl, you will definitely know." ”

Nianyun pretended to be a teenager again, and went to Dongshi with the green pothos in Hufu.

It is a good day to catch the market, and the East Market is full of people coming and going, and it is very lively. Nianyun shuttled with the pothos, and was very happy to pick and choose in the various stalls, this one was reluctant to let go, and that one was reluctant to let go.

However, the gifts bought for Guo Yan have not yet been settled, and the ones that are distinctive but have poor texture are not good, and it is too cheap to take them out; Of course, the texture is good but the style is ordinary, after all, Guo Yan specially asked her to buy it, but she can't just take a thing and be perfunctory.

Nianyun was entangled again and again, but the green pothos suddenly pulled her sleeve: "Look-"

Nian Yun looked in the direction of her finger, it was a set of Persian tortoiseshell combs, a set of large and small several, some inserted in the front of the bun, some inserted on both sides, the tortoiseshell pattern is deep and shallow, not jewelry, better than jewelry, with a bit of exoticism, very beautiful.

Nian Yun suddenly imagined Xue Chu'er's appearance in his mind for some reason, with this set of tortoiseshell combs on his head, which was simply amazing!

"How?" Seeing that Nianyun was a little distracted, the green pothos grabbed her arm and shook it.

Nianyun came back to his senses and said with a smile: "I think it's very good, so let's do it!" ”

The price was agreed, and the green pothos was about to pay, and his hand touched the purse on his waist, and suddenly his face changed greatly, and he exclaimed: "Money bag!" My money bag is gone! ”

I touched my body up and down with both hands, but I couldn't see it. The green pothos was so anxious that beads of sweat appeared on her forehead, and she jumped to her feet: "I was obviously tied to my waist just now, how could it be gone?" I ......"

Nianyun patted her arm to comfort her, and said, "When we were shopping over there, someone bumped into you, thinking that it was a thief, and took the opportunity to touch the money bag." Forget it, let's go back and get the money and buy it again! ”

Luluo is still very anxious: "People come and go here, and when we come back, I don't know if I will buy it for others......"

The face of the Persian merchant who sold things seemed to be wearing a smile mask that had not changed for a hundred years, and seeing that they had not taken out the money for a long time, they were not in a hurry, and said slowly in the non-standard Chang'an dialect: "Young man, this comb is only one set, if you don't buy it now, you will ...... it in a while."

At this time, a girl happened to come, and when she saw the tortoiseshell comb, she opened her mouth and asked the boss the price. Nian Yun was in a hurry, and blurted out: "I have already bought this set of combs!" ”

The Persian merchant was still smiling and his tongue was wide open: "It is indeed this little brother who negotiated the price first, but he has not paid yet." ”

He seemed to do it on purpose, putting the accent on the word "pay" and smiling all over his face.

Nian Yun can't help it, today he is dressed as a man, and he didn't even bring jewelry, he only tied the carp pendant given by Li Chun, which was rewarded by the saint to the descendants of the Li family, not to mention the priceless price!

If Li Chun knew that she would take this piece of jade to the East Market to change a set of tortoiseshell combs, she would have to tilt her nose.

What's the solution? She couldn't give up this beautiful set of tortoiseshell combs, and the words were out, so she could only look forward to going back and sending someone to redeem them quickly.

Nian Yun slowly touched out the piece of beautiful jade that still had body temperature, and hesitated: "I...... I'll take this piece of jade to ...... mortgage, and then call someone to send the money......"

The Persian merchant was obviously knowledgeable, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly promised "good, good", while he was eager to grab the piece of jade in his hand immediately.

His hand was already stretched out, but was stopped by the other: "Wait." ”

Nianyun fixed his eyes and saw that it was Liu Zihou.

"Brother Liu, why are you here!" Nian Yun was about to jump. When you encounter someone in a moment of crisis, you can't feel better.

She excitedly grabbed his arm and was about to ask him for help, but Zihou had already understood, and with a gentle smile, he had already paid for her.

The merchant had no choice but to collect the money at the price agreed before, and wrap the things for them, but he could no longer smile, and there was indescribable disappointment in his green eyes.

Zihou handed the thing to the green pothos to hold, and said in a low voice: "You think this jade is a family heirloom!" Don't take out the good things casually, don't believe these Hu merchants, they are very good, they say that they are just mortgaged here, and when you take the money to redeem it again, you will not find anyone. ”

Nianyun almost wanted to bow down, and thanked Liu Zi for sending charcoal in the snow.

After leaving the stall, Zihou said: "I finally found you!" Since the last goodbye, I have been going to Qiyue Tower every day, but I haven't seen you, and I think you are not a frequent visitor. Yesterday, I seemed to have seen your brother from afar, but I was going to call him, and I couldn't find anyone. ”

Nian Yun gave him a serious look, "Thank you, Brother Liu, for your help!" Where does Brother Liu live now? I'll send someone to give you back the money tomorrow. ”

Zihou smiled: "Brother Xian is too serious, it's okay to give Brother Xian a meeting gift." ”

Nian Yun knew that these elected scholars had no income and were not financially well-off, so he hurriedly came up with a reason: "Thank you Brother Liu for your kindness, but this thing was specially bought as a gift for my little sister, if Brother Liu paid for it, wouldn't it become my little sister who accepted Brother Liu's gift for nothing?" It's better for me to buy it myself as my brother, and I'll send the money to the house tomorrow. ”

Zihou no longer insisted, and pointed to the south: "I rented Cui's house on Anyifang West Street, and there is a big willow tree with a crooked neck at the door." ”

Nian Yun nodded: "Okay." ”

Zihou said: "If Brother Xian is not busy now, why don't you sell your foolish brother a face, let's go to the wine shop over there for a few drinks?" ”

Nianyun spread his hands and smiled: "I don't have any money." ”

Zihou laughed: "I please." ”

Zihou took his hand and went to a small wine shop with a wine banner hanging on the side. Nianyun wanted to break free, but thinking that he was dressed as a man anyway at the moment, it was not good to twist and pinch, so he had to go with him.

After three glasses of wine, the topic began to slowly broaden.

Zihou said: "What the virtuous brother said that day, 'To see if a room is leaking, you must stand under the eaves, and to see if a policy is good or not, you must be in the countryside', this sentence I thought about for a long time, and I felt that it was reasonable. ”

When he was a teenager, he traveled with his father around, and in the areas of Jiangzhou and Hongzhou, there were always floods for two or three years in five years. He had seen those disaster victims, who had no clothes and no food, so they could only go to the mountains to find wild vegetables and fruits to satisfy their hunger.

Nian Yun listened quietly to him.

"I saw a little kid whose mother forbade him to eat wild mushrooms on the side of the road because they were poisonous, but he couldn't find anything to eat, so he ate the poisonous mushrooms and died. At that time, I wondered, did the Holy One know that so many people under his rule were suffering? Did he know that when he and his ministers were eating meat, his people did not even have enough to eat wild vegetables? ”

Chang'an City is full of voices singing praises of virtue, those old ministers who hang fish bags and hold wat boards every day, and are highly respected, they have never been to the people, and they don't know whether the policies they have formulated are good or not!

Zihou was impassioned: "When a thatched hut leaks, they don't know where the leak is, and they don't know how much the leakage has reached, let alone arrange to repair the roof, but they stand tall in the golden hall and discuss how to make the bedding in the house not get wet, it's like a joke!" ”

Nianyun has also lived in the people, and has seen the situation of rising water, every year Dongting Lake rises, the surrounding farmland will be flooded, and can only hope that the early rice can store more grain, and the late rice is almost no harvest. She also thought so, why didn't the emperor send someone to deal with the flood?

Since ancient times, Dayu has accumulated countless experience in controlling floods, why to this day, floods still have to harm so many people?

She said, "Maybe it's not that the Holy One doesn't know, and it's not that he doesn't want to govern. Since the day An Lushan rebelled, Datang has never been peaceful. The world is constantly fighting, and even if the saint has a heart, I am afraid it is powerless. ”

"War is indeed the most terrible. During the Jingyuan Mutiny, the soldiers burned, killed and looted, and I saw a soldier trying to snatch the arm on the woman's arm, but the arm was worn for too long and could not be taken off, so he cut off the woman's arm. ”

Nian Yun hadn't seen the war with her own eyes, and her eyes widened: "It's so terrible! ”

"Yes, the war is terrible. But why, are there these wars? It's because of the feudal town, the feudal town is too powerful! ”

He was right, if An Lushan did not have such a big force, the rebellion would not have arose. The rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms in the early Han Dynasty was precisely because the vassal states were too powerful and the tail was too big to fall, which caused such chaos.

"If you want me to say, you have to cut the feudal domain as soon as possible, and take all the power into the hands of the saint himself, and it will naturally be peaceful!"

Zihou said very excitedly, the words "cutting the domain" are a bit sensitive, and he is such a new science and technology scholar.

Nianyun looked around and said in a low voice: "Chang'an has gathered forces from all sides, and there are many people here, and if you talk too much, I'm afraid you will get into trouble, let's say a few words!" ”

Zihou had already decided that Nian Yun was a confidant, drank a glass of wine in silence, and diverted the topic.

Nian Yun remembered that he was an edict, so he asked: "Brother Liu, I'm afraid I will stay in Chang'an for three and five years this time, but what are your plans?" ”

When it came to Zihou's sore spot, he lowered his head and drank two glasses of stuffy wine before saying: "When I didn't get the exam, I only wanted the title of the gold list, but now that I have really been admitted, I feel that it is difficult." It's nothing more than copying, writing, and writing letters for people, and begging for a living temporarily. ”

Some people will try to cling to the door and be a quick son-in-law. But Nian Yun knew that people like Zihou were only willing to rely on their own talents and knowledge to advance to the ranks, and they would never cling to the powerful.

She slowly drank a glass of wine and said with a smile: "Brother Liu's words are different. In fact, there is another way, Brother Liu has forgotten, if he can become famous in Chang'an City and be appreciated by the powerful, he will soon be reused. ”

Zihou glanced at her, looked at each other, and smiled tacitly.

Zihou is indeed trying to get out of this road, although his poetry name has not yet been sent to the eyes of the powerful for the time being, but he is already well-known in Pingkangli, and his career may be just around the corner.