It was the middle of winter, and the sporadic cold rain was not very heavy, but it was still very cloudy. The thick clouds pressed low under the sky, pieces of clouds or green or gray or crimson or dark purple, like a group of monsters that could not be said to be squeezed and overlapped between the light haze and fog, the cold rain fell little by little, and the remnants of the lotus in the pond rustled, the official road full of water and the canal pond on the side of the road were almost connected into an ocean, the wind urged the melancholy ripples, the distant hail fog was miserable, the microwave sparkling near the shore, the remnants of the reeds, the grass and the withered grass were all desolate and shaking. The colorful persimmon trees and poplars on the side of the post road, the willows that hang down to the ground are heavy, the branches and leaves are wet, a whistle wind blows, and the colorful leaves are unwilling to be lonely and go down with the wind, and they fall helplessly, immersed in the wet mud and cold water of the ruts of the post road.

Just after the time of Shenpai, a team of chariots galloped along the post road that winds northward in the southwest, and went straight to the Chongwen Gate in the south of the Forbidden City in Beijing. The convoy consisted of eleven cars, one sedan, and ten mule carts. The mule carts are all made of a color of chestnut shell paint, with clear oil tung oil noodles, big mushroom head iron nail wheel surface, the carriage is tightly sealed and wrapped in practical tarpaulin, I don't know what is contained in it, and it is nailed with a big iron hook and added a seal. The two dozen or so Goshkha in the caravan all rode horses in rice and butter coats, and the horses' hooves were splashed with mud, and their swords and spurs were rattled. The sedan at the head is even more luxurious, black silver and gold silk ornaments, cloisonne round hat baotou, black sheepskin strips with elephant eyes and green tweed car circumference, and a circle of red tweed under the 10,000-character cloud head mud gold line curtain - commonly known as the so-called "red bib car", officials below the third grade are not allowed to use this style - needless to say, the car must be a nobleman. In fact, if you are more careful, you can see that there is a bright yellow bordered royal blue flag next to the notch of the sunshade umbrella in front of the wheel, and a line of small characters is written on the pole:

Qin ordered the governor of Liangguang to crown prince Taibao Li

You don't need to ask to know that it is Li Shiyao, a first-class capable official in Qianlong's driving front today. It's just that the flag is wet, and it hangs on the pole from time to time, and the angry horse is like a dragon, and the car is like a wind swaying by, and the pedestrians on the side of the road can't distinguish it at all. The sound of horses' hooves treading water, the whipping of the chariot and the shouting and singing of Goshha were so lively that they added a hustle and bustle to the desolate suburbs of Beijing, and the residents along the roots of the city were alarmed, and the people who were sheltering from the rain and cold all stretched their necks to look out. Goshha, who was driving the car, became more and more energetic, holding the whip in one hand and circling in the air, holding the bronze hand brake in the other, leaning forward slightly, his head full of snow and sweat was half raised, and he "fluttered" and shouted excitedly:

"Hey! Chongwenmen! The master of the stage - Chongwenmen has arrived! ”

He swept the mule with the tip of the whip and scolded: "Your grandmother, the rope is bent like a bow!" When you eat ingredients, your mother's head arches to pick up the essence to eat, and you don't have you when you do the work! it! Then, with another "snap", the mule was startled, and the four hooves kicked forward with all four might, and the wheels tossed on a small stone. The body trembled slightly, alarming Li Shiyao, who was concentrating on reading the newspaper. Li Shiyao put down the newspaper, took off his reading glasses, supported the flat gold soft cotton cushion sleeve with one hand, and opened the "red bib" curtain with the other hand, and saw the gray Chongwen Gate under the dark and dark sky, the tall and gray city wall stretched from east to west, the mottled red moss on the wall on the pheasant, and the wall that had been eroded and weathered could be seen clearly, and the east and west were very ugly like a leprosy head, he exhaled and said to himself: "I want to see Long Live Lord...... Xiao Wuzi, let's not go into the city, let people know that the Chongwen Gate is closed, and say that I am ordered to see the driver, send a few people to wash the car, and send someone to the military aircraft to see if the mansion of Xixiayazi is ready. Just outside the city, you don't have to eat anymore when you go back. Go ahead! ”

"Wow!" The resounding promise of Xiao Wuzi was called, and the copper brake was gently pulled with one hand, and the car had slowly stopped, he jumped under the car and greeted Goshha who came up, "**Old horse, you two get off the mixing table, and go to the tea shop over there to rest first - master, you rub your face and get out of the car again, it's windy outside, the thief is cold, be careful of catching a cold!" "Saying that, the horn and the horn ran away.

Li Shiyao didn't rub his face, and he didn't wait for Goshha to help him jump out of the car, the deerskin oil boots were immediately half-immersed in the water, and the soles of his feet were cold, and he suddenly came out of the warm car, the sparse and cold raindrops hit his face, and the oncoming wind lifted his robe, and he was full of excitement, and he felt more energetic than in the stuffy and dirty carriage. Feeling that a few more raindrops fell on his face and neck, Li Shiyao wiped his face, smiled at Chongwenmen, nodded, and strode towards a row of shops at the foot of the city, one end of the road and the other of the loud order: "Come over for dinner in shifts!" Dogs - tired or not? Even the more than 30 Goshkha who were driving the car were already lined up on standby, and when they heard this question, they laughed and said: "The markers are not tired!" "Good walk, good boys, the mud is slippery!" "Tired or not, don't eat wine all the way, the bird fades out of your mouth, please enjoy a bowl of wine and drink!" Li Shuyao was leaving, stood still, tilted his head and thought for a while, and said with a smile: "The messenger has no delivery and no wine!" There are more than 20 jars of Wolong old burning pots buried in my house in Beijing, and they will be dug out tonight to satisfy the brothers' hunger! Hu Mazi - take these prisoners into the teahouse, each of them has a snack, and no longer eat...... I have something to do in the evening, so I'll go into this restaurant and eat a few bites, let's go into the city! ”

"Yes! Eat first, adult! ** Yuan happily agreed, and led people into the teahouse. The owner of the hotel here came out early, with a smile on his face, and hit Qian'er with a waist: "Say hello to the master of Taiwan!" Our Cai family's old tavern has a fate with the master, when the master went out of Beijing, our store gave the grandfather a candied line, and now the eight sedan chairs are ordered to return to Beijing, or the old Cai family to the master to pick up the wind! When you return to the feet of this son of heaven, you will enter the military machine, and this will be the prime minister, and you will soar in the future, and the prime minister of peace for 20 years will be stable! ”

Li Shiyao smiled when he heard this, looked at the plaque on the door of the store and said, "I left Beijing by Luhe Station, this is Chongwen Gate!" You're going to fucking flatter! The name of your store is also weird, what is the name of the store, it is not good, it is called a 'back to the old shop' - what is the name here? "Talking about entering the store, through the light through the doors and windows to see, it is a large hall of light and dark six, the outside looks inconspicuous, the window is low and the façade is small, but the interior decoration has a unique style, three hall guest seats, one east one opens up the backyard kitchen, the north four west two and the hall are connected to the dark room seat, one color is pasted with mulberry paper, and there are more than a dozen celebrity calligraphy and paintings hanging on the four turns, there are written "Qu wake up and revel intoxicated with consideration, spring leeks and autumn flowers into the product question", there are written "Han Yu sent poor, Liu Ling is drunk", "Jiang Yan is endowed, Wang Cang ascends the building", "Look at the curve threshold lingering red, the eaves are flying green". "There are three autumn laurels and ten miles of lotus...... The color of the paper is new and old, and the tone of the pen is different. The most eye-catching pair of Zhongtang couplets is a collection of Tang poetry couplets, a very spiritual one-stroke, writing:

Persuade you to drink a glass of wine and sell eternal sorrow with you

Boss Cai saw Li Shiyao getting closer to look at the inscription, hurriedly lit a candle and came over, and explained with a smile: "This is the small shop where the old Xiangguo of Gaojiangcun (Gao Shiqi) lived in Beijing back then. At that time, my grandfather came to dream at night, and my grandfather said, "There are nobles coming tomorrow, be careful to wait", my grandfather saw that Gao Xiangye said that he was dressed like a child, and his spirit was precious, and he lived for three days without money for eating and drinking. Don't hide it from my grandfather, later my father and others quarreled and went to prison, and the family took this word as a voucher to see Gao Xiangye, Kangxi Lafayette listened to Gao Xiang's words, no hook! But it's not that gods and Buddhas have spirits, isn't it the welfare of my ancestors? It is true that the master said that leaving Beijing is Luheyi, and the 'Cai Ji old shop' over there is also my family, I was still over there at the time, and now my brother is in charge of the façade over there, and your old man said a word of slapstick, Xiong Cixu Lao Xiangguo, Zhang Tingyu Lao Xiangguo, Zhuang Shigong, Wang Wenshao, these famous champions, Li Youju, Li Julai, Le Liuye, these Taiwans, and you, who has not lived in our store? ”

"So," Li Shiyao said with a smile, "Your store really occupies a lot of land!" Boss Cai saw Li Shuyao's two followers come in, and made tea on the stool, "Palm the lamp-these two military masters sit at the table here-" smiled and gave Li Shuyao a dish, and kept saying: "This is fate, it is the grave of our ancestors who have Dezhan!" Ye first use a bite of bamboo shoots and then eat wine, these small dishes are small filial piety to your old man - the accumulation of virtue and blessing gods and Buddhas are naturally blessed, that is really addition, subtraction, multiplication and division is not a little unpleasant! You look at this ghost market street outside Chongwen Gate, the name is unlucky, the master of the test is unwilling to live here, most of the inns are empty, only my family returns to the shop, two people compete for a dollar a night, this piece of evil spirits, in and out of the champion! Said and greeted, "Serve food to the two military masters, the military masters don't need wine, and the red stewed chicken strips are full of sea bowls!" ”

"Hey, here, military masters, please!" A guy with a waist and a water skirt and a towel on his shoulders, in the backyard loudly promised to hold a plate and strode out, the snow-white steamed bun and two bowls of chicken were hot and fragrant and jumped on the table, and the two Goshha were happy and smiled, listening to Li Shiyao say, "Don't be restrained, eat as you like", and each stretched out the meat to send it to the mouth. Li Shuyao only smiled, turned his face and asked Boss Cai: "Since you said that everyone is vying to live in your store, why do I look so deserted?" Boss Cai glanced at the stormy outside and said with a smile: "Master, you are Mingjian!" The east courtyard of my store is full, all of them are buses and people, and Yaren is stunned when he thinks about things, which is different from us people. On this day, I have to travel to the West Mountain together, don't look at this lamp, it's cloudy and heavy! It's sunny on weekdays, the sun hasn't set yet, and the ghost market is not yet on the market! ”

While Li Shiyao was eating, there was a gossip with the shopkeeper Cai, and he heard the sound of muddy footsteps outside, and knew that Xiao Wuzi was back. He put down the chopsticks and turned his face to see that Xiao Wuzi had already entered the door, followed by a thin young man, who was expected to be closed by Chongwen, so he only glanced at him and asked Xiao Wuzi: "Why have you been going for so long, is there no one when it is closed?" ”

"Back to Taiwan," Xiao Wuzi sniffed from the cold, and said with a smile, "It's raining today, and I see that the winter solstice is going to be celebrated, so I closed it early." After talking to the left-behind clerk for a long time, they went to call Liu Sanye, who was in charge of the customs. Third master, you reply to our master's words in person! Li Shiyao took a serious look at this "third master", a short man with thin muscles, an olive head with pointed ends, bald and shiny, hooked nose and broom eyebrows with a pockmarked face, two pepper bean eyes couldn't stop blinking and flashing, wearing a sauce-colored city cloth robe, the waist was tied thinly, the waist was standing, and the feet were twisted and moved, and it was a splash at a glance. Such a thing is also worthy of showing the "third master" in front of him, Li Shiyao almost laughed when he grinned. Yin asked, "Are you the director of the closed office, Liu Sanye?" ”

The person called "Liu Sanye" was also secretly looking at Li Shiyao. This is the first time he has seen this world-famous governor, but he didn't expect that he is also a lean man less than five feet tall, between fifty-four or five years old, with pimple eyebrows, black bean eyes, and sideburns with two inches to grow a scar. The general eagle hook nose, the general pockmarked face, wearing a royal blue silk jacket and a sauce-colored lambskin cape, sitting on stilts on his shoulders, shaking one leg and twisting one foot, as if he was a character who could move with a press of the machine spring, a black and thick braid six-in-one hat was pressed and dragged to the back of his head, almost to the ground, no need to ask if it was a fake braid. He almost grinned, and said in his heart, "Let's change our clothes", but he said with a smile: "This is the master making fun of the little forage!" Saying that, he went down very beautifully, "Little Liu Quan asked for peace to the master of the table!" Liu Quan - the number keepers in the capital call me Liu San Bald! ”

"Oh, Liu Quan - is it the name in the play "Liu Quan Enters the Melon"?"

"If you go back to your father, yes! In the play, Liu Quan is a loyal and filial son, and so is the small one! ”

"Good!" Li Shiyao said with a smile, "It's just your head, and then a big pumpkin, the king of Hades is short-sighted, and he asks, 'What kind of melon is that at the bottom?' Several people laughed when he said this, and Li Shiyao asked again: "Although it is said that it is a festival, it is not very important to have a solar term." The Gyeonggi Customs Defense Imperial Court has a system, and the Internal Affairs Office has rules, so why do they all leave the envoy and go home so early? ”

He smiled at first and said, Liu Quan bent down and laughed, so far he had a questioning tone, Liu Quan hurriedly said: "No one dares to slack off on this mission. The master knows that these gates are all under the command of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and everyone has a master. The master's family has to go back to the house to say goodbye during the holidays, which is a rule that has always been set. It's a villain, and it's not going back to his own home, just now this Wu Ye came to Xizhimen and the Yefu to call me. The villain also knows that the responsibility is heavy, and he will never dare to neglect it! Uh-huh! After speaking, he was sharp and angular, and he bowed to Li Shiyao again.

Li Shiyao thought about it, Liu Quan's words were really impeccable, his face sank, and he waved his hand impatiently and said, "You can do it when you come!" Switch on and off immediately, I'm going to get into the city as soon as possible! Unexpectedly, as soon as the words fell, Liu Quanyi leaned back and replied: "The adults didn't say that they want to enter the city, but the goods on the car must be inspected and taxed." Leave them to look at the goods, turn it on and off tomorrow, and the small one will personally deliver the goods to the house. Li Shiyao sneered and said: "This is not a private goods, it is a cent of gold on the Guangzhou Customs, and a few things to honor the Empress Dowager Lafayette, what is the inspection, and what kind of tax is collected?" Switch! ”

"If you want to enter the city, just go, and the small ones who don't dare to release the goods into the city! Regardless of the gold tax, as long as you bring property into the city, you will be taxed, this is a matter of order! ”

"The gold is the national tax, and you dare to collect the national tax from Chongwenmen?"

"Little presumptuous! This is the rule of the past years, and the officials who have never passed, even the prince, have to inspect the customs and pay taxes and release - well! ”

Li Shiyao's face was already blue, thick clouds covered his forehead, the scars on his sideburns were tense, and the twitching was terrifying, his pimple eyebrows were pressed down, his squinted eyes flashed with fierce light, and his voice became low and hissed: "I-what if I don't let you inspect the goods?" ”

"It's impossible for a small one to serve a bowl to eat." Under Li Shuyao's coercion, Liu's whole body trembled, and he glanced at Li Shuyao timidly, and then regained his composure, but he was more careful in his tone, "I see that it is already dark today, and it is raining again." My lord Ning Nai rested outside the city for a night, let me go back to show us and the master, and Lord Ming'er said to him innocent, a word of things! ”

At this point, there is no room for compromise on either side. At this moment, the soldiers who were eating tea in the teahouse had gathered outside the Huitan shop to wait, they were drinking tea on an empty stomach, and they were already hungry and hungry.

"Don't pay attention to this bastard! Let's open the city gate and walk by ourselves! ”

"This prisoner really doesn't know how to lift, don't you want to be stunned when you fall from the sky!"

"Tie him up, tie him up! Hey! This rabbit cub is just standing like a donkey and fighting with us! ”

"Damn, Lao Tzu went in and castrated his balls, see if he can be tested?"

"Boy ......"

"Humph!"

"I really don't know if the horn is copper or iron!"

…… It was noisy, and the people in several nearby shops were alarmed, but it was already dark at dusk, the wind was cool and muddy and the water was big, and there were not many people who came out to see the excitement. Li Shiyao waved his hand to stop the goshkha shouting and shouted: "This is Beijing, not Guangzhou!" Go back and listen to my orders! Turning to Liu Quan, he said, "They sent troops to release the horses with me, and Qiu Ba, who fought out, spoke without concealment, don't be surprised." Liu Quan was still smiling, shaking his head and shaking his face indifferently, and replied: "They are ruffians, and the little ones are also ruffians, ruffians meet ruffians, and brothers are the same as **!" Well, the little one is the most temperamental—" "You have a hippie smile with me." Li Shiyao interrupted him, "Even if the head of the household is still here, he has to let me go!" There are five carts of customs money, how can it be guarded outside the city? Something went wrong, how many heads does He Shen have? ”

"Are you worried about this?" Liu Quan laughed when he heard it, "It's okay!" The customs officer of the customs was stationed in the row of barracks opposite, and for fear of having some silver to inspect the customs, it was too late to enter the city, so we and the master specially asked the Fengtai battalion to transfer a sentry to close the supply and maintain the guard. Just this back talk shop, Lao Cai's family has responded to this kind of errand I don't know how many times, and there has never been a mistake - Lao Cai! He suddenly yelled at his boss.

"Hey, third master, what are your orders?" Boss Cai was already stunned when he heard it, and his body trembled and said, "Waiting for you!" ”

"Move the residents of the East Courtyard to the backyard," Liu Quan instructed like half a master, "Let Li Ye vacate the East Courtyard and go to the house, and the trucks will be pushed into the courtyard." It was guarded by Li Ye's personal soldiers. Outside, I went to set up the guards and protected this street! He smiled at Li Shiyao again, "Can this be done?" ”

Li Shiyao had a gloomy face and was speechless, there was nothing wrong with Liu Quan's handling of it. But he couldn't go into the city tonight, and he felt like he was losing face anyway. I was blocked outside Beijing tonight and waited all night, so I let Heshen inspect the goods and release them tomorrow! It's awkward to think about it, and it's unbearable. He looked at Liu Quan with contempt: Such a deflated man with a smooth head and a smooth brain, he also felt lame when he was my follower, and he didn't jump up or down in front of him! Even He Shen also knows a little bit about it, but he is a big soldier who follows the military aircraft minister A Gui Zhangjiakou when he is training...... Such a character, shaking in a few years, has the face he has today! He looked at Liu Quan's face that was not yin or yang and smiled dryly, and suddenly had a thought, he wanted to slap him with a slap in the face......

Li Shiyao pondered, smiled coldly and said, "I don't recognize you, Heshen, I met a few times earlier, and now I have been promoted to a fourth-rank official, so I took it like this?" Even so, it's okay - you go back to the city to tell you and the uncle, and say that the subordinate Li Shiyao is here to wait for the ...... to enter the city" "Don't dare, don't dare to ......" Liu Quan hurriedly laughed and said: "The lord made fun of it - the lord said that he came to greet the lord in person, and he was really summoned by the fifth master of the prince, and he couldn't be separated, and he didn't dare to break the rules of this matter, so he had to ask the lord to be wronged for a night...... This is all my difficulty as a subordinate, adults are a little more sympathetic, it is to take care of my fodder......" Li Shiyao heard this, stood up with a sigh of relief, and said: "Don't eat, I'm already full-tell He Shen, tomorrow the emperor will receive me, tonight Ah Gui is waiting in the mansion for me to say that I am on a mission, and ask him to watch it!" Then he commanded: "Call the brothers to come, and the cart will be set up in the east courtyard, and the store will make a big pot of rice to cushion the hunger." We're just waiting here for the name and the other. "Then he walked away. The boss and the others were busy, and they all went.

Liu Quan was the only one left in the store who was stunned, and he was still weighing the weight of Li Shiyao's words. He is very clear in his heart, Li Shiyao is not a character to mess with. When he entered the Gongyuan for the examination, because the test paper mistakenly wrote "Weng Zhong" as "Zhong Weng", it coincided with Qianlong's inspection of Chunqiu, picked out the examination paper to correct the error, and ordered "to be punished to Shanxi for judgment". In Shanxi, he met Fu Heng, the uncle of the "First Xuanli Minister" of the current dynasty, and led his troops to fight the White Lotus Sect, and volunteered to make a plan to attack Heicha Mountain and won a complete victory, clearing the rebels in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces in one fell swoop. The protégé of the Son of Heaven and the prime minister supported him with all his might, and the rich and noble forces up and couldn't stop it. Directly ascended to the Taoist platform and went straight to the household department, governed the Yunnan copper mine and concurrently managed the Anhui copper mine, served as the political envoy of Anhui and promoted to the governor of Guangxi, and went to a place where the political voice rose, and the promotion was stunned all over the officialdom. Qianlong repeatedly praised "the most outstanding governors in all provinces", and compared with Li Wei, a famous minister of the Yongzheng Dynasty, "there is no loss of its culture, there is its coarseness but not vulgarity, and there is no doubt that public security, financial management, military and civil affairs can be used." Ordinary generals and governors, only he wears a yellow coat and a peacock feather with two eyes, no one can compare! - But tonight, I waited with all my might, and I still provoked this master. One head and Shen, and the other Li Shiyao are all red and purple-headed radish, which one lifts his foot higher than his head, and is squeezed into the crack of the splint, how can this be good? It was difficult to think about both, so he "snapped" and slapped himself, stomped out of the store and returned to the city.

Boss Cai settled Li Shiyao in the east courtyard and rested in the upper room, and even the cook in the back store called over to help pull the car into the courtyard and unload the tarpaulin to feed the livestock. Afraid of the cold, he lit a charcoal basin for the fire in Li Shiyao's house, filled a bath with hot water, and looked at the meat bun powder soup sent to each room, and said with a smile: "Master Tai, the place where the pond water in this shop is like this, and you have been wronged by the old man." The little ones and the adults will definitely come to see you tonight. If you don't have any other orders, the small front shop will have to take care of it. There were a few filial and honest masters living in this courtyard, and I am afraid that Chenguang will come back soon, and the people are not moving the house, so I have to hurry up to ......make compensation."

"That's not a big deal, it's a big deal to charge less for their room, and I will naturally reward you with this head." Li Shiyao's face was no longer so ugly, as if he had something on his mind, he sat on the edge of the kang and soaked his feet in the hot water basin and rubbed his head together, and asked with a smile: "How do you know that He Shen will definitely come to see me?" Boss Cai said with a smile: "Who doesn't know in Beijing and outside Beijing, Fu Xiangye sent troops to release horses outside, Yin Yuan Xiangye was seriously ill, and only Ah Gui Xiangye and Ji Xiaolan Xiangye were left in the Military Aircraft Department. You want to ascend to the prime minister, the lord and the lord can't not know. Liu Sanbald - Liu Ye tossed like this, he had to come to make up for it! He Ye, that is the first clever person in the world, and now he has been favored by the Holy Family, and he will meet with the officials of the same dynasty every day in the future, and he will definitely refuse to offend your old man. Li Shiyao paused for a moment, nodded and smiled: "You are smart and have long ears!" Go - if you move someone's room and luggage without permission, you naturally have to go to the old man's place to 'fill the gap'. ”

"Ye Shengming!" Boss Cai smiled and narrowed his eyes into a line, "That is also something that must not be offended, today is a lifter, tomorrow may be a jinshi, champion, the day after tomorrow may be the prime minister!" Those who open shops all over the world are reluctant to accept these masters, so their identities and positions are uncertain, who knows what officials they will be in the future? Some poor men eat and wipe their mouths and leave, and they stare when they ask for money, and the filial piety is like - I say a jargon - the famous **, it's hard to wait! ”

Li Shiyao laughed when he heard this: "Famous **, famous prostitute - good!" There is also 'uncertain identity and location', this is 'the concubine's body is not clear', little wife! Hahahaha...... You can say that again! Waving his hand and gasping, he smiled, "Go ahead...... Let's wait for the **s***! ”

It was completely dark, and through the window I could only see the shadowy houses outside, like monsters scurrying and jumping in the dark, and the cold wind in the suburbs was tight and slow, making a slight roar on the eaves wall, the dust and window paper on the roof were flickering like living things, and the two candles were also dancing with the wind, and the more quiet and warm the house appeared. Li Shiyao took a bath, only wearing a crimson cotton jacket and a pair of soft slippers, pacing in the room comfortably, he had to sort out his thoughts, and when he saw Emperor Qianlong tomorrow, the emperor would ask what he wanted and how to respond.

One is the harvest, which is a must-ask. This year, the Pearl River flooded four counties, reducing the province's output by 10 percent, and 100,000 refugees had to be resettled. Before he left Guangzhou, he had already disposed of it, allocated one or two halves of silver to each household, built porridge sheds in various places, and the refugees lived in coconut tree huts before winter. The weather in Guangdong is warm, and people will not freeze to death in winter, but first, there is a shortage of firewood and grass, so we have to buy it from neighboring provinces with money, and second, the humidity is too great, and the spring is warm to prevent plague, and the medicinal materials must be prepared sufficiently, so as not to be in a temporary hurry. The second is that Wei Chunsheng, a bandit of the Tianli Society, gathered a crowd to rebel in Luoding, entrenched in the Great Cloud Mountain, and personally supervised the division to suppress the Pingping, 4,000 bandits were scattered and captured, Wei Chunsheng fled to Wuzhou, fell into the preset siege halfway, and was captured and taken to Guangzhou......

This is what the emperor is most concerned about, although there have already been details of the story, I am afraid that the meeting will have to be explained in detail. There is a matter of proportionality here, it is said that the credit is not visible, it is said that the thief is huge, and the responsibility for local dereliction of government must be investigated, and some people have accused him of "manslaughter of good people", Wang Ping, the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the editor of the Hanlin Academy have jointly played a book "The thieves and bandits are not more than a thousand, and the number of killings is four times, it is to invite the court to reward the people with the head of the good people, and the thieves are bullying the people, and the country is harming the people, and the governor is mad to this extreme! "Although the emperor has refuted this impeachment excerpt, I am afraid that he will have to explain...... There are also cases of Catholic missionaries building churches in Guangdong, local people entering the church without authorization, more and more opium smokers, and banning the East India Company's cigarette barges...... They all felt like numbness in their hearts, and suddenly their hearts were hot, and they remembered the letter that Ah Gui had given him, "The emperor has the heart to order his brother to join the military plane to benefit government affairs"...... It is a great honor to serve as the counselor of the Minister of Military Aircraft, and he is a very popular minister, but if it weren't for Fu Heng's illness in Burma and Yin Jishan's dying, this great good thing would not have fallen on his head for a while - he was so happy that he would immediately attract the emperor's disgust. The word "frivolous" is enough to ruin a flower-like future...... Thinking about it, he already had a little bit of a horse-hearted ape. Hearing the rustling sound on the roof tiles, he came back to his senses and ordered Xiao Wuzi, who was standing at the door of the hall, to say: "Wu Shixiong, it's raining heavily, go and see the tarpaulin on the car, some things can't catch the rain." ”

"Wow!"

Wu Shixiong turned around and walked out of the door in agreement, and immediately shouted in surprise: "Dashuai, it's snow, it's Xiaoxue beads!" I went to Guangdong with Dashuai, and I haven't seen snow for six years! Ha ha...... It's really a Xihanba thing, and it's still sweet when it falls into the mouth...... "Some of the Goshkha in the East Chamber haven't seen snow for a long time, and some Cantonese people have never seen snow at all, and they all came out of the hospital, screaming with joy:

"It's snowy again!"

"Tsk, it melts in your hand, and you can't see the appearance clearly......"

"If you're in Guangzhou, it's still hot to shower!"

"Rare and weird! Broken rice, what's so fun! ”

"Back to the house, back to the house! Frightened, beware of the handsome angry! ”

"Childish!"

Li Shiyao only smiled and did not stop everyone. He was full of foul words to the sergeants, but in fact, he himself was a jinshi, and he also loved snow very much, and he also wanted to leave the hospital and play with his arms open. But now that he sees the prime minister, he must pay attention to the deep bearing and grace of the city government, and he was slightly stunned, turned around and half-lay on the kang back and forth, took out his pocket watch to see that he had just arrived at the beginning of the year, bent the humerus and pillow with one hand, and browsed the "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang" given to him by Ji Yunxin with the other hand...... In a trance, suddenly there was a lot of noise in the front store of the West Courtyard, there were laughter and scolding, and it seemed that there was still the sound of Boss Cai's explanation, Li Shuyao put down the book and sat up. Wu Shixiong saw that he was alarmed, and hurriedly said: "I'm afraid that the group of lifters have returned from Xishan." Just lie down, I'll tell them to be quiet! Li Shiyao said with a smile: "You are just a fox and a fake tiger to scare Xiucai." I can't sleep well left and right, so I go out of the front shop and walk - you just have to watch our car. As he spoke, he put on a big coat, and because it was cold outside, he changed to a pair of Ula grass and stepped on it, and strolled to the store in front of the west courtyard.

There are more than 20 people who came back, some of them are brocade robes and shoulders, some are ordinary city cloth robes, some are so shabby that the robes and gowns are patched together, one by one is frozen like a green radish with a green head, snorting snot, holding hands and stomping on their shoulders and stomping their feet. How could you open a store like this?! The boss was smiling, holding the group with both hands and bowing down with a word: "Rank master!" Don't say that you are all Wenqu stars in the sky, all of them have to climb the Huangjia in a row, and the royal street under the Tiananmen Gate Building is an official in the royal street, even if they are ordinary pickers to live in the hotel, they are all small food and clothing parents, how dare you slack off......" He explained, Li Shiyao couldn't help but smile when he heard "they are all Wenqu stars", and sat down at a table in the corner. A guy was busy with tea, Li Shiyao took a sip, and listened to the boss say: "A few masters in the East Courtyard should also be sympathetic when they change houses." The official family temporarily requisitioned, how dare the small one disobey? The conscience of heaven and earth, if the surname Cai is to deliberately wronged you, call my children and grandchildren male thieves and female prostitutes! Thousands of mistakes, yin and yang mistakes, in short, the lord of the rank laughed a lot! In this way, everyone goes back to the room to rest, the hot water is boiling, and the meal is ready immediately, and the money for the meal store will not be charged tonight, which is a little filial piety to the lords - I also hope that you will be proud of the spring breeze, and come to the small shop to appreciate the small silver again! ”

The group of lifters originally refused to forgive, but when they heard that they didn't accept money, their spirits had changed and eased, some laughed and some scolded and wandered back to the back store. Only four or five lifters remained, apparently living in the east courtyard, waiting for the men to be brought to their new quarters. The boss still bowed as soon as he spoke: "Master Cao, Master Wu, Master Hui, Master Ma, Master Fang, hehe...... You live in the east wing of the west courtyard. And please go back to the room first, and the small ones will be ready to drink for the gentlemen to cool off. Hehe......" When Li Shuyao looked at these people, they seemed to be about twenty-four or five years old, all of them were black market cloth jackets, and the robes were different from gray or blue or beige or indigo.

"Tonight, I said that Brother Cao was going to be the east, and the shopkeeper was going to be the east on his behalf, so he had to be respectful and obey his fate. Brother Cao, you will be the first in this poetry, you are the youngest, and you are a child of the Zhejiang Wang family, you will definitely get this color, Gaodi is certain! The tall man standing at the door raised a mouthful of Jiangsu and Zhejiang dialect, smiled and said to a thin young man with a melon seed face in the middle, and said, "We are going to take the head of the brand!" The young man surnamed Cao didn't have time to answer, and a fat man next to him said by the west window: "Allah is a trip to the West Mountain, Bai Xiang is happy, Brother Wu's poems, the brothers have read it when they lived in the countryside, and today they are second, and the younger brother is still unconvinced, well--Lan Qi is about to go around the heavy peak, and the evening maple echoes the clouds--the autumn air of the West Mountain is all in one stroke!" Before he finished speaking, a Chinese character face standing at the north table smiled: "Brother still thinks Cao Xibao's poems are good - Dan's heart is not tolerant of the west wind and cold, and the clouds come out of Xiu and go around the mountains." The haze covers the ancient road, and the sad green of the Guanhe River - this gloom is timeless and intriguing, intriguing and chewing! "Ma Xiangzu was unfair, Wu Xingqin was unfair, and Hui Tongji was unfair!" Standing next to the fat man, a round face raised his voice and said: "Cao Xibao's poems are decadent Tang, Wu Xingqin's poems are stingy, I don't dare to compliment your poems." "That should be your Fang Lingcheng's best." Hui Tongji said with a smile: "Well-today I visited Xishan, and the weather was very cold. I'm going to wear a thin one, and I'm going to spit on a cold - what a poem! ”

One sentence made everyone laugh, and Li Shiyao, who was sitting next to him, couldn't help but swallow secretly. But seeing Fang Lingcheng grinning and saying, "It's so sullen to go back to the room!" We're talking funny here—boss, let's have tea and wait for dinner—why have you forgotten the children's poems? 'The Son of Heaven is heroic, and the article teaches Ercao' - the article earns fame and fame, a slap and a palm of blood, a slap of a palm of blood, that is called affordability! While talking, the guy had already brought tea, and the boss said with a smile while distributing tea: "The little one wants to say that the rank master is laughing at the little one and bragging." Back then, Gao Fantai - Mr. Gao Fengwu lived in my store, and he didn't have a career in several subjects. This time I met Jia Shifang Jia Shenxian, he asked for fame, and Jia Shenxian said, "Ming'er will go and see it in the east toilet." There was a ghost who went to the east toilet at night and wrote a 'no' on the wall with a pen. Gao Ye went to see it early on the second day, but who knew that he was secretly scribbling, the strokes were not connected, and what he wrote was 'one in the middle'! It can be seen that fame has the will of heaven, long-cherished causes, and ancestral virtues, and it is not all about the level of the article. Then again, one by one, the heavenly court is full of square and round mountains, and Saturn is bright, and the five people are going to occupy the five kui! The villain dares to guarantee the ticket! After saying this, everyone nodded and smiled, and the boss came over to renew the tea for Li Shiyao, but he heard Wu Xingqin say: "I believe what the Cai family says." Who can say what is famous? It also depends on the spleen and stomach of the examiner and the fate of the room teacher. This year's main examination is either Ji Dajunji or A Guiye, and I heard that the emperor has transferred Li Zhengtai from Guangdong to Beijing, and he is not sure to preside over the spring of the 39th year. This year's question is hard to figure out! ”

Li Shiyao has been sitting idly and smiling and listening, and he was about to get up and go back to the room, but when he heard about himself, he stabilized his body again. The boss was afraid that this person would be disobedient if he was not shy about it, so he smiled and whispered while refilling the tea: "How boring it is for the master to sit here!" The little one went to Fanghong Pavilion to call a few children who were learning opera, and the upper room in the east courtyard was also generous, singing jokes to the master. Can it be made or not? Li Shiyao knew his thoughts, only smiled, pointed to the teapot and said, "I'll pour myself this drink here." Just go and greet them. ”