Chapter 17: Friends
After washing his hands, Zhao Hong sat down at the stone table in the courtyard, and Li Tang hurriedly took the wine and poured it.
"Your Royal Highness, there is a difference between dignity and inferiority, you are the prince, I am the ......"
Tian Yi came out with a bowl and meat, and before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhao Hong's frowning.
"You man, why do you love to talk nonsense! Could it be that I, the fragrant wine rewarded by the royal family, can't stop your mouth? ”
Liuxiang wine is the best wine in the Song Dynasty, brewed by the royal family, used by the royal family, and it is difficult for the people to buy. It is equivalent to Lafite in the eighty-two years of later generations, but it is more difficult to buy.
"Good, good! I thought you forgot about me! Count you in the heart! ”
Tian Yi nodded again and again, his eyes a little moist.
He picked up the wine bowl and touched it with Zhao Hong, and his tone was gentle.
"Your Highness, we haven't seen each other for three years!"
"Three years? So long? I'm sorry brother, I'll do it first! ”
Zhao Hong picked up the wine bowl and drank it all.
Good wine is good wine, full of fragrance and endless aftertaste.
"Don't say anything, I'll accompany you!"
Tian Yi also raised his neck and poured it down.
"Sit, sit, sit! Where's your mom and dad? All right? ”
Zhao Hong asked.
Before coming, Tian Yi's background, he also knew a lot.
"It's all good. A few days ago, I went to the countryside to grave my ancestors, and I should come back tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. ”
Tian Yi's demeanor was relaxed, and he seemed to be in a good mood.
"Where's your daughter-in-law, child? Why don't you see them come out? ”
Zhao Hong glanced twice into the room and asked curiously.
According to Li Tang's introduction, his friend is as old as him, and he is already twenty years old this year, and according to the marriage age of fifteen men and thirteen women in the Song Dynasty, he should have married and had children a long time ago.
"How can I have a daughter-in-law, who is still raised in my father-in-law's mother-in-law's house. Where can a poor man like me take a fancy to a woman? ”
Tian Yi smiled slightly, but he couldn't see any self-pity and self-pity.
It's not just self-pity and self-pity, it's not even a little lost.
"Li Tang, how old are you, how long have you been married?"
Zhao Hong suddenly asked about Li Tanglai.
"Your Highness, the villain is twenty-five, and he got married three years ago."
"That's fine, it's not too late!"
Zhao Hong nodded, remembering Li Tang's popular science, and asked curiously:
"Brother, I remember that there used to be a few shops in your house, why did you become like this now?"
Lin'an City has a lot of land, there are a few shops, whether they are rented or used to do some business, they should have no worries about food and clothing, how can they be reduced to selling meat.
"Three years ago, you were made the heir of King Yi, not long after you left the palace of King Yi, a fire broke out in Lin'an City, my house burned clean, and my father-in-law died of illness. There was no way, so my father sold his ancestral business and opened this butcher shop. ”
Tian Yi understated it, as if nothing had happened.
"Then you're too back! Why didn't you look for me? Why don't you go to the temple? ”
Zhao Hong said humbly.
Three years ago, although he was only seventeen or eighteen years old and his ability was limited, he was a prince after all, and it should not be a problem to give him hundreds of times to help his friends tide over the difficulties.
The children of rich families can lower their stature to kill pigs and sell meat, get up early and be greedy for darkness, and there is bitterness behind the hard work, which is not easy.
"What are you doing with this little thing? Although I am a little tired, I can finally get by! ”
Tian Yi had a smile on his face, raised the wine bowl, and didn't mention the matter of being the head of the gun and stick sect.
"I'm so glad you're here today! I haven't been so happy in days. Please! ”
"Please!"
The two finished drinking and put down the wine bowl. Tian Yi fell back on, full of interest.
It seems that he is really happy for Zhao Hong's arrival.
"Brother, are you still practicing guns? I know that you are a famous gunman in Lin'an City! ”
can be hired as the head of the forbidden army in front of the palace, Tian Yi's father and son should not be in vain.
"Play occasionally! Life is forced, there is no time! ”
Tian Yi faced Zhao Hong, and his face became solemn unconsciously.
"How are you? Everyone is saying bad things about you, saying that you are extravagant and unrequited, and you are not the material to be the emperor! ”
"Almost, absurdity, all five poisons."
Zhao Hong leaned back in his chair and smiled bitterly.
"Can you have a good reputation if you work against Shi Miyuan?"
Li Tang darkened his face and added angrily.
"Has your wife returned? I heard that someone seemed to have seen her in Jinling. ”
Tian Yi looked at Zhao Hong with concern.
There are all five poisons, eating, drinking, prostitution, gambling and playthings are demoralized, which is appropriate.
If my wife doesn't come back, I won't look for it, I really don't know what I'm thinking about.
"Don't worry. After the New Year, I will send someone to Jinling to look for it, and I will find it back. ”
Zhao Hong had a headache and quickly diverted the topic.
"Speaking of our "Lin'an Four Heroes", we haven't been together for some years. Xu Liang and the two of them, how are they now? ”
Zhao Hong asked with concern.
Xu Jialiang's parents came to find him, just to get Xu Jialiang out, you can inquire about this person's situation by the way.
"Your Highness, you don't know anything. Han Xin died of illness in September last year. As for Xu Liang, he is still in prison in Lin'an Mansion. He committed adultery with a widow, and it is estimated that he will be locked up for a year and a half before he can come out. ”
Talking about the recent situation of his friends, Tian Yi's mood unconsciously became low.
"Xu Liang's parents, they should have looked for you, right?"
"Tell me about Xu Liang and Han Xin."
Thinking of Xu Liang's parents' entrustment, Zhao Hong asked.
"That's what happened."
Tian Yi began to babble, and Zhao Hong nodded while listening, shaking his head slightly.
These Zhao Hong's friends are in a state of flux, and they are all down.
Han Xin is the eldest of the four, a scholarly family, a good family, belonging to the middle class of Lin'an City, but he is frail and sickly, and has died of illness before he gets married.
Tian Yi is a wealthy merchant family, but his father Tian Liuhe is a concubine, and there is something wrong in the family, and he naturally declines. As for why Tian Liuhe didn't go to the front of the palace to be the head of the gun and stick sect, maybe everyone has their own ambitions.
As for this Xu Liang, he is handsome and smart in reading, but unfortunately after his family fell into the middle of the road, he lived an indulgent life, slept in flowers and willows, and was cowardly, and he hooked up with a glamorous widow and went to prison because of it.
In fact, it can't be regarded as a hookup, the man is unmarried, the woman is single, and the two are happy, and it is normal to put it in the future life, but in this era, it still violates the law, and I can't eat and walk around.
After all, the widow was pregnant with his child.
This thing is too spicy and eye-catching!
"Zhao Hong, you are familiar with Yin of Lin'an Mansion, can you let him come forward and get Xu Liang back? Suffering in prison during the Chinese New Year is very uncomfortable in my heart. ”
Tian Yi looked at Zhao Hong, his face full of expectations.
"Don't worry. His parents have approached me, and I'll go. ”
Zhao Hong nodded and said.
He can't give up what he can do, let alone for his friends.
Xu Jialiang is unmarried, and he and the widow are engaged in firewood, which is what you and I want. Feudal etiquette, three obedience and four virtues, is really harmful.
"And when are you going?"
Tian Yi unconsciously urged.
"It's too late, it's only early tomorrow morning."
Thinking about what Li Tang said, Zhao Hong told Tian Yi.
"You know what kind of temper Xu Liang has. If I come forward to do this, don't let him know. ”
It's going to be "New Year's Day off" soon, and he has to go early in the morning, so as not to have a holiday, and he will be delayed until the New Year, and he will suffer in prison.
"I understand. However, he and the widow had to agree. ”
Thinking of Xu Liang's arrogant personality, Tian Yi was also nervous.
"Tian Yi, you have a hand of Liuhe marksmanship and are indecisive, so you should go to the army to experience and practice. Speaking of being fast and ruthless, you are much worse than Xu Liang's kid. You see, people even got their hands on widows, and they also had a secret knot. You're still selling meat every day! ”
Zhao Hong smiled and made a joke about Tian Yi.
"Selling meat is also self-reliant, and there is no shame in it."
Tian Yi laughed and didn't mind. After a few bowls of wine, he blushed and his blood became hot.
"Your Royal Highness, if you become an official of the Great Song Dynasty in the future, you must work hard, reorganize the soldiers and horses, and restore the old mountains and rivers of my Great Song Dynasty. Otherwise, I, Tian Yi, look down on you! ”
Zhao Hong looked at Tian Yi, who was red-faced, and his eyes widened.
"Those who want to restore the Central Plains are dead! Why is there such a strange thing as you? ”
"There are too many bottles and cans for the doctors, and they don't want to recover, but they don't include those of us! The future of the Great Song Dynasty depends on you! ”
Tian Yi, who has strange fruits, does not think that he is different.
"If there are more hot-blooded young people like you, there is hope for Da Song. I want to restore the Central Plains, then I have to be the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty! ”
Zhao Hong unconsciously had a little ambition.
"You are the prince of the Great Song Dynasty, isn't it logical to become the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty? What are you worried about? ”
Tian Yi looked at Zhao Hong in surprise. Could it be that the emperor can still abolish Zhao Hong, the prince?
"How can it be that easy?"
Zhao Hong had a headache and diverted the topic.
"Don't always be arrogant, when you meet something similar, hurry up and start a family, leave dozens of offspring for the Tian family, and don't let your parents wait anymore."
"Got it, you don't open any pot!"
Tian Yi looked at Zhao Hong and persuaded him seriously.
"Your Highness, if you want to be the emperor, you have to be good, be cautious in your words and deeds, be exquisite, and don't always offend people. Those women who are wine-colored and have a beautiful voice, hurry up and quit! ”
After Tian Yi finished speaking, another bowl of wine was poured.
He is in good spirits today, and he drinks wine bowl by bowl, and rarely tastes it slowly.
"Brother, I'll take care of my business. Let me ask you, are you willing to live now? ”
Zhao Hong looked at the pig offal and blood in the courtyard, which was greasy, and he felt sorry for his friend.
Is this the so-called no way to serve the country?
"What if you are unwilling?"
Tian Yi's face was flushed, and he raised the wine bowl, high on the top.
"Your Highness, you have to clean yourself and be a great monarch in the future! Don't be like the current official family, like a wreck, which makes people feel cold! ”
In front of Zhao Hong, Tian Yi drank a lot of wine and was a little unscrupulous.
It seems that he is really cold to the current Great Song Dynasty.
"It is up to man to plan things, and it is up to heaven to make things happen. For the sake of you, I will not give up! ”
Zhao Hong patted his friend's shoulder, his eyes blazing.
This sentence is said to a friend, and it is also a portrayal of my mood at the moment.
Whether he can change his fate or not, he doesn't know.
"I want to be a champion, but you also have to be Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty!"
"Am I not a generation older than you?"
Zhao Hong laughed, and the wine bowls of the two touched together, and the wine overflowed.