The banks of the Qinhuai River in the Southern Qi Dynasty are nearing the end.

After the flower boats on the Qinhuai River were strictly controlled, they changed from the original money to rent a port of call to a certificate issued by the government to operate, and all women had to be registered and recorded. And Yuan Muzhi's revision of the Great Qi Law can be described as extremely harsh, and those who operate flower boats without permission will have their property confiscated and directly beheaded. forced Liang to become a prostitute and was directly beheaded.

The bullies and hooligans in Tingwei's prison, without exception, were beheaded together on Suzaku Street. As for the group of sons, if the elders of the family have been arrested and put in the Tingwei prison, they will also be directly beheaded, and the rest will be put home.

However, due to Wei Ran's implementation of half of the supply in prison, this part of the sons of the family stood in line with each other in the prison and robbed each other, and most of them turned against each other, even if they were released from prison, they would not return to the harmony of the past.

And Wei Ran, the initiator, is not in Jiankang City now. The day after Wei Ran participated in Yuan Muzhi's wedding, he left Jiankang with Yuan Shuhe and his generals and started his eastern tour.

In the Northern Qin Dynasty, after Princess Yuanyun returned to Chang'an, she instantly became a fragrant dumpling.

Yuan Shan and Min Guan were Yuwenzhi and Min Shiyuan respectively seeking to marry the princess, and Yuan Zhi was difficult to decide for a while.

Since the Empress Dowager Min was asked by Yuan Shan to remove the curtain, she has been closed all day long, taking pleasure in pampering male pets, drunk and dreaming of death, so she naturally has no time to think about her children. This made Yuan Zhen quite annoyed.

Yuan Yun had no plans to remarry, and went out of the palace with her maidservant all day long to play in Chang'an City, drinking and listening to books in the restaurant. Whenever she heard Wei Ran being told, Yuan Yun would always be envious of Yuan Shu.

She didn't tell the people of the Northern Dynasty that Yuan Shu had become Mrs. Wei Ran, and at the same time, women naturally understood the sourness between each other

As usual, this yen Yun was about to leave the imperial city, and suddenly saw a young general outside the imperial city, with the style of a Confucian general, especially a pair of eyes, which were extremely charming. At this moment, Zhao Zhao was arranging the imperial city, and when he turned around, he saw Yuan Yun preparing to leave the imperial city, so Zhao Zhao stepped forward and said, "The last general, Zhao Zhao, has seen Princess Zhaoyang." ”

Yuan Yun returned the salute slightly, and was about to say something. But I saw that Zhao Zhao had no intention of continuing to speak, and continued to arrange the city defense. Yuan Yun found it quite interesting, so he said to the maidservant: "Zhao Yuma is a masterpiece of the generation, and his son seems to be a real hero." ”

After these words were heard by people with hearts, they reached Yuan Zhen's ears, and Yuan Zhen was overjoyed, and immediately called the eldest princess of Changqing. Yuan Yun and Zhao Zhao are actually cousins, but this is not considered a bad thing in Northern Qin. The eldest princess of Changqing was unwilling, but she still couldn't resist Yuan Zhen's hard persuasion, and finally agreed to the marriage.

Later, Yuan Zhi married Yuan Yun and Zhao Zhao, and the Zhao family had a double horse, which was also a good story at this time. Yuan Zhi successfully won over Zhao Youzhi's old subordinates through the in-law relationship, and found Ruyi Langjun for Yuan Yun, which can be described as double happiness.

Wei Ran and Yuan Shu had already left Jiankang City at this moment, and only brought dozens of generals with them. The people in the court speculated that Wei Ran's first stop would be Wu County, but they didn't expect Wei Ran to directly say that Qin Huai would go straight to Xiangzhou.

Wei Ran's route was only known to Yuan Muzhi and Xiao Ju, so although all the ministers were speculating, Xiao Ju was not panicked at all.

At this time, Wei Ran and Yuan Shu appeared in Yuzhang County like an ordinary couple.

Yuzhang County is the base camp of Lu Cao, the original largest scholar clan is the Lu family, with the Lu family being wiped out, the land of the Lu family should be nationalized, but it is rumored that it was divided by the Yang King Chen San, so Wei Ran specially first stopped Yuzhang.

It is better to hear than to see, Yuzhang is located in Jiangxi, the capital is today's Nanchang City, and the transportation is convenient. Because there is a large plain farmland along the Yangtze River, the people are also quite rich.

But it was only theoretical, when Wei Ran secretly visited Yuzhang, he saw a different situation. Although it was not as serious as starvation, Wei Ran clearly felt that the people of Yuzhang had an obvious fear of Wei Ran, who was dressed extraordinarily and had servants behind him.

Wei Ran walked into a village, and the people in the village closed their doors and windows one after another, and no one dared to talk to Wei Ran.

However, Yuan Shu was smart, and then went to knock on the door alone, and the family saw from the crack in the door that it was a beautiful woman who knocked on the door, and saw that Wei Ran and the others were standing far away, so they opened the door a little and asked, "What's the matter with this girl?" ”

Yuan Shu vaguely saw that it was an old man, and then said: "My husband and I passed by here and wanted to beg for saliva to drink." After Yuan Shu finished speaking, he took out a tael of silver from his arms.

The old man examined Yuan Shu carefully and felt that Yuan Shu was not a wicked person, so he said, "Girl, wait a minute." "But still reluctant to open the door.

Yuan Shu said with a smile: "Old gentleman doesn't need to be so cautious, my husband is not a wicked person." It's not a gentleman, I just want to ask the old gentleman a few questions. ”

The old man was about to refuse, when he suddenly heard a woman's voice behind him, and said: "Father-in-law, listening to this girl's words is polite, I think that her husband will not be the evil people around, you might as well let them in." ”

The old man sighed, and then said, "This girl and her husband can enter the house, but the rest of the people should not come in." ”

Yuan Shu thanked the old man, and then called Wei Ran into the house.

After Wei Ran entered the old man's house, the whole person was shocked, the family was destitute, only a young woman was sitting on the ground, doing needlework. Yuan Shu approached the inner room curiously, and at this time, in the afternoon, she saw three children lying on the bed, obviously sleeping, so she tiptoed to Wei Ran's side and sat down obediently.

Wei Ran frowned, took the water handed by the old man, and then asked tentatively, "Does the old gentleman have any food at home?" ”

The old gentleman obviously looked embarrassed, but the woman was generous, got up and walked to the side, and then gave Wei Ran a bowl of porridge: "Don't dislike the son, there is a lot of money at home, so the food is simple." ”

Wei Ran took the porridge, then stirred it with chopsticks, and found that the porridge was very thin, then sighed, and after drinking half of it, he handed it to Yuan Shu. Yuan Shuqiao blushed and glared at Wei Ran, but also drank the rest of the porridge.

"Is there anyone else in the family?" After Wei Ran drank the porridge, he asked straight to the point.

"There is also a young female husband, who works as a handyman in the city, and will not come back until evening." The old man did not speak, only the woman answered.

"Hugh will say more, who knows who these are." The old man interrupted the woman's speech with a loud voice, and his words were full of vigilance.

This made Wei Ran laugh, and Yuan Shu hammered Wei Ran dissatisfied. Wei Ran looked at the old man's face a little unpleasant, and then said: "I see that the old gentleman's face is not good, and his body should be sick, but I don't smell any Chinese medicine, why is this." ”

When the young woman and the old man heard this, they didn't speak, and Wei Ran thought at first that he was distressed about the money, so he took out ten taels of silver from his arms and prepared to hand it to the old man.

The old man's eyes lit up, and he hesitated to accept it. But the young woman said, "Father-in-law should not be favored without a reason, so that his conscience is peaceful." ”

As soon as these words came out, Wei Ran was quite surprised. You must know that Nanqi is a society where men are superior to women, and a woman can speak to her father-in-law like this, which makes Wei Ran quite curious.

Wei Ran simply said directly to the woman: "The girl is so smart, you should see that I am not a local." In the land of Yu octopus rice, the people should be rich, and the imperial court issued a law to give enough land, there is only one old man in your family, and the lady has to take care of three children, obviously unable to farm, so why do the men in the family still have to go to the city to do miscellaneous labor? ”

The young lady did not know how to answer for a while. Seeing this, Yuan Shu hurriedly took the woman's hand and said, "Sister has something to say, since my husband asks, he will be able to solve your problems." ”

The young woman smiled awkwardly, but still shook her head and said, "It's useless, even if this adult goes to Yuzhang County to ask for an explanation for us, it will only be a small punishment, and after the son leaves, my family may not be able to save their lives." ”

At this time, Wei Ran had already seen several people walking out of the door to look at Wei Ran's guards outside, and many people wanted to look into the house through the window, and Wei Ran suddenly understood in his heart. So he said to Yuan Shu: "It seems that the foundation of the Shi clan here has a great influence, and the policy of breaking the land has not been seriously implemented, and the Shi clan and the official uniform collude with each other. ”

Yuan Shu looked at Wei Ran puzzled. The young woman only sighed, but did not want to say more.

Seeing this, Wei Ran put ten taels of silver on the table, and then pulled Yuan Shu out of the house, but before leaving, Wei Ran said: "I am going to Yuzhang County, and the news of my stay here today will be known to those you are afraid of." Now tell me, I can keep you safe, since you drink a bowl of porridge and a sip of water, you deserve something in return, throughout the ages. ”

The young lady's face changed again and again when she heard this, she glanced at her father-in-law, and then said, "Son, please stay, there is indeed a secret here." ”

It turned out that after the fall of the Lu clan, the scholars of Yuzhang County not only divided the Lu clan's industry, but also took the opportunity to occupy a lot of farmland. Although the imperial court issued a law of land breaking, according to the male of each family to give the corresponding land, but the road is one foot high and the magic is one foot high, after the scholar clan discussed, they will get all the young men in the village to the city or village as miscellaneous servants, join the slavery, and only the women and the old people are left in the family, since there are no strong men, how can they have the land to cultivate?

Moreover, the scholars are rampant here, and there are no adult males in the family, but there are many young ladies. There are often children of the scholar clan, even if it is just a side branch, and when they see a young woman in any family, they all take it for themselves, so at first when they saw a young son like Wei Ran, they thought they were the children of the scholar clan, so they all closed the doors and windows.

Wei Ran's brows furrowed after hearing this, and the woman then said: "So Childe, the matter here is not something that Childe can solve, Yuzhang is too protective of Chen Fan, that is, a member of the Chen clan, even if Childe is quite capable, but as far as the people brought by Childe are forcibly avenged, they may jump over the wall in a hurry." ”

After hearing this, Yuan Shu was also quite worried, but Wei Ran didn't care, but instead scratched Yuan Shu's nose and said, "Madame, why are you worried, husband, I am ten thousand enemies." ”