Shao Song - Vol 2.4 Chapter 13

In the third year of Jianyan, the third day of August, at the beginning of the day, the market is so lively. But I saw a group of five people, gorgeously dressed, walking first, not far from behind, the figure swayed, as if someone was secretly accompanying.

I saw the first person wearing a white robe, looking around, as if stepping into Tokyo for the first time. One person in the white robe is dressed in a green robe, a scribe, and the other is dressed in black. They are quite quagmire. The remaining two are dressed in red, with large arms, steady steps, and alert eyes. They look like a practice, two steps behind. Row.

Just listen to the words of the white-robed man and the black-robed man: “Zhang Ai… Is this the first time Zhang Xiashi came to the capital?”. The man in black restrained his urge to hand over and replied: “This is indeed the first time here. I didn’t expect Tokyo to be so prosperous.” Needless to say, the person in black is Zhang Rong, the leader of Liang Shanbo who came to Beijing to “debrief”. The person in white robe is naturally our Zhao Jiu and Zhao official family, and the reason why he wears white robe is of course someone thinking “white dragon fish clothes” in his head. “The crooked stems, the remaining three people, the green-robed scholar is Kobayashi’s Bachelor, and the two red-dressed are Liu Yan and Qu Duan.

Why are these five high-powered people so dressed and mixed among the cities? But because there is no court meeting today, Zhao Jiu is bored in the hall, and Ms. Pan always invites officials to try ice cream. Zhao Jiu was in a dilemma between human nature and rationality. He remembered that Zhang Rong had been in Xiangguo Temple for a long time, and hurriedly took the left and right with him. He went on a trip on the grounds of “checking customs, observing people’s labor, wooing military ministers, and being diligent in national affairs”. .

When he came to the palace, Mr. Kobayashi was a boring gourd. No matter what he asked, he didn’t say a word. The Zhao official family who was originally the most familiar with Tokyo and should perform the function of guide seemed to have just arrived, and it was completely unclear where there were various opinions. Fortunately, Zhang Rong is also a big rough guy, who has no interest in the famous sights of Tokyo. He just walks to the busy places, so the group of people came to the town.

Zhao Jiu and Zhang Rong chatted amidst the yelling of the hawkers, occasionally being dazzled by the new stuff on the side of the road. However, the identity and style of the few people are in this way, and it is inevitable that they have talked about the recent important affairs of the court, such as the palace test that is about to be carried out right now.

The two were talking about the folk custom of catching son-in-law at the bottom of the list, but they saw the crowd in front of them forming a circle. Outside the circle, there were a few jujubes and some crisp pears that had been crushed. Inside the circle, they heard a scream. An exclamation came out from the crowd.

Several people stopped immediately, Liu Yan and Qu Duan took two steps forward, one left and the other protected Zhao Jiu, Zhang Rong also put their hands on their waists. When there was no movement in front of me, Zhao Jiu made a grumpy mouth, and Liu Yan understood, and immediately went to inquire about the situation. After a short while, Liu Yan turned back and bowed slightly and said: “Official.. Guan Gongzi, I have found out clearly. In front of me is a hawker who sells dates and a hawker who sells pears. The pear sellers see that the dates are selling well, and they are hot for a moment. The customer who bought the dates said that eating dates is not good for his teeth. It is better to eat some crisp pears to quench his thirst. The date sellers were unwilling to fight with him. Without wanting to push them, the pear seller’s head knocked to the ground and he passed out and died. unknown”.

Everyone stared at Zhao Jiu, waiting for him to make a decision, but saw Zhao Jiu looking at the crunchy pear that was trampled on the ground, and the juice flowing out did not know what he was thinking. In a few moments, Zhao Jiu let everyone turn around and return to the palace, Zhang Rong wanted to say something, but the remaining three didn’t say anything. One’s identity should not be exposed at will. If you rush up and ask, who knows what will go wrong, of course it is the best policy at this time.

Turning around the street, everyone saw that the officials were not interested, and they dared not speak. When he reached a literary and ink stall, Zhao Jiu suddenly picked up a pen and ink and wrote a note, handed it to Liu Yan, exhaled and said, “Someone bought some pears, rock candy, and wolfberry, and let the kitchen prepare it according to the way on the note. “Liu Yan took the note and paid for the pen and ink. Since he went to the followers to arrange not to mention it, no one was able to figure it out, but Zhang Rong is a big note, and the rest have been more or less seen by officials. Mozi didn’t ask too much. Fortunately, everyone saw that the officials’ interest was much better. It is rare for even Bachelor Kobayashi to take the initiative to talk about the atmosphere.

The group of people talked and laughed. Before they had gone too far, they saw two vendors dressed up, pushing a large cart of rotten Muzi (kiwifruit), crying and selling them everywhere, but Muzi is so bad that no one cares about it, Kobayashi. The bachelor and the other four were about to move on, but Zhao Jiu stepped forward quickly, stopped the two vendors, and talked with them by asking the price. The four hurriedly followed, but Zhao Jiu waved. stop.

I saw Zhao Jiu talking with the two for a long time, and the time gradually came to noon, the sun also rose, Qu Duan and Zhang Rong gradually became impatient. When Zhao Jiu asked for a pot of tea on the side of the road and talked with the two of them, Liu Yan became impatient, but Xiaolin’s heart moved slightly.

After another while, seeing the three poles of the day, the three finally finished talking. Zhao Jiu took off an accessory on his body and gave it to the two hawkers when he was leaving. go.

The remaining four people waited for a while under the sun. Scholars Kobayashi and Liu Yan had been with officials for a long time. After the initial impatience, they calmed down. On the other hand, Zhang Rong and Qu Duan became more annoyed. .

After Zhao Jiu signaled that after the four of them followed, Qu Duan could still hold back his mouth, but Zhang Rong felt that the official family was a loyalist, and seeing that there was no one on the left or right, he couldn’t help saying: Guan…guan Son, if you are an ordinary person, it’s fine, but you…you are a promising man. Just now two people on the side of the road beat each other, and even a life lawsuit is about to come out. You don’t care about it, you can see two Why does a guy who sells rotten wood want to talk about this for a long time? It’s really… hey!

Hearing Zhang Rong’s complaints and not understanding the official god’s operation, Liu Yan and Qu Duan silently gave Zhang Rong a thumbs-up in their hearts. Zhao Jiu was stunned, smiled slightly, and was about to explain. Zhang Rong only listened to his “backer” Kobayashi, said: “Bingji asks the cow”.

Zhang Rong became more upset when he heard the next half of the words. Zhao Jiu and Liu Yan also began to feel at a loss, but they came to the end, the second most knowledgeable person in the audience, but understood.

Qu Duan didn’t dare to look directly at the Zhao official’s house, but saw Zhang Rong and Liu Yan, the two elders, with a blank face, and the feeling of superiority was overwhelming.

So he talked eloquently: “Bingji was the prime minister of the Emperor Xuan Dynasty of the Han Dynasty. One morning in April and May, Bingji took his servant out and saw someone in front of him being killed on the side of the road. Bingji signaled his servant to detour and passed After a while, I saw a person holding a cow. The cow was sweating, but Bingji went up and talked with the cattle driver for a long time, and asked him why the cow was sweating and did he do a lot of work? Afterwards, the servant asked Bingji why he cared about one. The issue of cow sweating, on the contrary, does not care about life lawsuits, is it suspicion of putting the cart before the horse.”

Bingji replied that the major issues in your eyes have the local government and sent people to interrogate them. You don’t need to take care of these things yourself. On the contrary, the little things in your eyes are related to the country’s spring plowing, countless people. The problem of eating.

It is morning and the sun has not yet risen. If the cow sweats without doing a lot of work, it means that the climate is abnormal and the temperature is high. The people are likely to encounter drought this year. How can I not ask.

After Qu Duan triumphantly explained, he didn’t dare to look at the official’s house, but glanced around, only to see Scholar Xiaolin nodded slightly, Zhang Rong and Liu Yan were stunned.

Zhao Jiu on one side took the lead in reacting, coughing and attracting everyone’s attention, and said: “Yes, the two vendors just assaulted each other, and there are all evidence and evidence. All you need to do is to judge the case and the doctor to save the person. We can’t help when we go up. What’s so busy? And the hawker who just sold rotten wood obviously has special things. It seems that their clothes are not like people who can only sell rotten wood, so they are either delayed on the way to the city for a long time, or they are blocked by others. Vendors, even the muzi that can be stored for half a month have become rotten, and poor roads or malicious blocking of commercial affairs are major issues related to public security, fiscal and taxation, and stability of the people. How can I ignore it?”

After listening to Xiaolin’s scholar, Liu Yan, and Qu Duan, they were secretly surprised while admiring the official reading of Weizhi. Zhang Rong listened to it but ignored the occasion, and immediately knelt down and pleaded: “My Lao Zhang is a vulgar person. It turns out that there is some idea of ​​imperial court injustice and the grandfathers are thinking about ass. Just now, he even maliciously speculated about the idea of ​​the official… Now I know that the idea of ​​the son is different from that of the rude people like me, and the reason is greater. For this, I will ask the son to punish.”

After Zhao Jiu heard this, he quickly picked up Zhang Rong and said: “Chevalier Zhang is outspoken, what a crime, this son and many people around him have misunderstood Zhang Knight, so in the future, you and I need to understand each other and bear with each other. “Zhang Rong got up and said: “You don’t need to say more, I understand, I will tell the people below about the loyalty of the son from now on, and I will seriously explain the situation in Shandong during the meeting, so that the people around the son can understand me.” .

In this situation, Zhang Rong sighed in a harmonious scene where the monarch and his ministers meet each other. After attracting everyone’s attention, Zhang Rong said, “I have suffered a loss of ignorance. I have decided that in the future, my son will let them all study, and my daughter will also marry an educated one.”

Bachelor Kobayashi was listening. He was about to say something. After thinking about the current situation, he decided to talk about it later. When Qu Duan heard Zhang Rong’s compliment, he couldn’t help thinking differently, wondering whether his knowledge was only a little worse than that of people like Kobayashi, and much better than most literati. As for Zhang Rong and Liu Yan. Samurai, he doesn’t bother to compare him.

After listening to Zhang Rong’s words, Zhao Jiu certainly didn’t expect the people around him to think carefully. Instead, he said: “Today is undecided. Of course learning is good. Other masters handed out a note. Recently, he asked him to set a special city gate for merchants to walk outside of the licensed products. Don’t delay the business because of the number of rushing exams. They are tight here. The oily servants began to squeeze oil from the common people. They sold some Muzi and were stopped for half a month without any benefit. This is really unreasonable.” Academician Kobayashi hurriedly responded.

Then everyone changed their court clothes on the road, accompanied Zhao Jiu back to the palace, and waited in the hall. After Zhao Jiu changed back to official clothes, he said to Lan Yaban: “I and the officials have not used food yet, we can prepare some.” Lan Yaban agreed and went to make arrangements. The three of Lin Xueshi and the others quickly thanked him, Zhang Rong also reacted and quickly saluted. After a while, Lan Yaban came back and said, “Officials, meals will be ready immediately. In addition, Liu Ting ordered the note that people handed back. The “Bingtang Xueli Soup” written in it is ready. Would you like to try it first?”

When Zhao Jiu heard this, he said with a slight excitement: “Present it immediately and share some with the Qings.” Only then did the other people remember the note written by the official in front of the pen and ink booth, and they couldn’t help but look forward to it. After all, what the official who tasted the delicacies of the mountains and seas would miss must be delicacies and delicacies.

When the waiter delivered the “Bingtang Xueli Soup” to Zhuren’s case, a few people were thirsty, smelling the faint fragrance in the bowl, and they were already salivating, but due to etiquette, it was not easy to move first. When Zhao Jiu saw the situation, he took a drink, first picked up the spoon and drank it. The others followed suit and tasted one after another. A few of them were about to admire, but saw Zhao Jiu’s eyes closed and sitting silently. Everyone was taken aback and put them down quickly. Spoon, stood up, Lan Yaban directly knelt down, and Zhang Rong almost kicked the case over and shouted that he was a black shop.

After a while, Zhao Jiu opened his eyes, Qu Duan’s eyes were red on the tip of Qu Duan’s eyes~www.mtlnovel.com~, as if he was holding back the tears, and did not flow down.

After another while, Zhao Jiu said leisurely: “All the Qings waived the gift, which shocked the Qings. The name is Bingtang Xueli Soup. It is my favorite drink. I… once had a fever when I was young. The medicines didn’t work. My mother made rock sugar pear soup for me. After drinking it, my fever subsided and my illness recovered. I haven’t drunk this for a long time. I drank it today. I didn’t expect it to taste so long. It still smells like that, but my mother is no longer by my side!”

Everyone apologized again, and Zhang Rong was moved when he heard: “Since the official misses the queen mother, it is enough to pick her up. After all, although the road is far away, but…” At this point, Zhang Rong realized that there was a moment of silence around him. The mother the official said was not the Queen Mother Meng in the southeast, so she hurriedly kept silent.

Zhao Jiu sighed and said, “I wish I could see my mother again. I am upset and want to be quiet. After the officials have eaten, they can leave by themselves. Today’s affairs are not allowed to be told.” After saying this, they got up and left. Everyone said, there are people who think they are smart, such as the blue ban class, who guessed that it is not the Queen Mother Meng that the officials are worried about at all, but the “biological mother” Wei, who is far away in the North, but…

Turning to the apse, Zhao Jiu clenched his fists, burst into tears, and muttered: Mom, I miss you, I miss the rock candy Sydney juice you made for me!