Song Mingyue

Chapter 196 Weeping with joy
Noon, Bianhe.

The Bian water under the sun is sparkling and golden.

The water boats on the river shuttle back and forth like weaving. This is the busiest season for water transportation. The unloading dock in the distance is already full of large merchant ships. A group of shirtless men are carrying bags of goods packed in sacks, stepping on With the boards on the deck, unloaded to the pier.

Along the banks of the river, there are several miles of teahouses and restaurants, and all the seats of the restaurants open their windows to the river, where guests can enjoy the scenery while drinking.

The flow of people and goods in Bianliang is unparalleled, so the wharf for unloading merchant ships and the wharf for unloading passengers by passenger ships are separated.Compared with the bustling unloading pier, the pier for passengers to get on and off is no less lively.

The pier was densely packed with people, and the carriages, horses, and soft sedans on the side were even more distant.Among the crowd, there are handsome scholars, businessmen with potbellies, officials embracing each other, and ordinary people in short-sleeved coats.

However, the real high-ranking officials seldom come to the pier to greet them in person. They usually send their family members. Most of the officials in the crowd are below the seventh rank, and only one official in a vermilion straight suit is more conspicuous.

The official was in his early forties, with a square face and big ears, and he was imposing, but there were not many followers around him, only four or five people, but his rank was obviously high among the low-ranking officials, and from time to time there were people dressed in brocade Officials in robes came to greet them.

Next to him stood side by side with him, but I don't know which house's slaves, there are almost 20 of them. I didn't feel that there was anything wrong, and some officials even came to inquire about something.

The leader of this group of house slaves is Zhao Quan, the commander of Jin Yiwei of the Great Song Dynasty, the founding uncle of Baima, the doctor Zheng Feng, and the housekeeper of General Zhongwu's mansion, followed by Liang Lie, Li Hong and a group of confidant house slaves.

And the official next to them was none other than the second official in the Jiangning royal family's mansion, Wang Di, the new Xianmo attendant, and Wang Xin's second uncle.

Since Wang Di served as a judge for the Henan government before and did not work in the capital, although he had heard about Zhao Hao, he had never met him. However, when he recently entered the capital, Zhao Hao had already gone to Liaodong, so he could not get along with this niece and son-in-law. Meet.Wang Di originally belonged to the Qingliu school and was Jin Chongyue's disciple. After he came to Beijing, he heard about the deeds of this niece and son-in-law.

Today, Qiyu and the servants from the Zhao family all came to pick up one person, although their identities were very different, they did not hesitate to lower their identities, and chatted happily with Zhao Quan.

A shadow of sails in the distance caught everyone's eyes, gradually approaching the pier, four or five large passenger ships were coming here, and the first two passenger ships were particularly conspicuous.

"Get out, get out!"

Excited expressions appeared in the eyes of everyone, and when they all raised their eyes to look, suddenly there was a loud noise from behind, which caused everyone to look back unconsciously, and looked back one after another.

I saw three teenagers in gorgeous Confucian shirts, followed by a group of menacing house slaves, pushing through the crowd all the way, yelling and pushing towards the front of the pier.

Looking back, Wang Di couldn't help being furious, and asked, "Who is so rude?"

Someone nearby replied helplessly: "Although these three are students of the Tai Tai, they are the nephews of the current empress, so they are so arrogant that no one dares to offend them."

Wang Di frowned slightly, and wanted to say something, but in the end he couldn't bear to say anything, and just snorted coldly.

Those who came were Zhao Hao's two old acquaintances, Zheng Feng and Zheng Yu. Cockfighting... they all go together, and everyone avoids them when they see it; Zheng Yu catches up with his cousin Zheng Ning, a quasi-scholar, and calls them brothers and brothers with those big masters.

The two of them had heard about Zhao Hao's glorious deeds. After all, those college students of the Qing school would beam with joy and salivate when they mentioned "Mr. Hao".

The two rushed forward all the way, but they were blocked by the two holding water and fire sticks. The two couldn't help being furious. When they looked closely, they recognized Liang Lie and Li Hong, the servants of the Zhao family, and felt a little soft in their hearts. After all, Zhao Hao dominated the capital, screaming for beatings and killings, even Gao Ya Nei and Gao Taiwei were defeated, that terrible reputation was not built up, and there was a bit of a shadow in his heart.

However, Zheng Feng quickly reacted and cursed angrily: "Zhao's dog, Hugh is in the way!"

Liang Lie was not annoyed, and said with a sneer: "In the whole world, who is not the dog of the Zhao family? The founding uncle of the White Horse of the Great Song Dynasty, General Zhongwu, Doctor Zhengfeng, and the Commander of Jinyiwei are here to welcome the mistress. You have no rank or rank, how dare you go on the rampage?"

Li Hong also said coldly: "No matter how presumptuous you are, do you want to drink tea in Jinyiwei?"

As soon as the words Jin Yiwei came out, the two Zhengs completely softened.Although Zhao Hao is not in the capital, Jinyiwei's vicious reputation also makes the criminals deeply afraid. They regard Jinyiwei's yamen as hell, and the two Zhengs naturally know how powerful it is.Although they claim to be the emperor's relatives, everyone knows that Jin Yiwei's Qiuba and others simply don't take hard and soft. Except for Zhao Hao, no one will buy it. Naturally, the two of them don't want to touch this bad luck easily. Aunt, but the Empress Saint didn't like the two of them very much.

The two had no choice but to wait obediently behind, but they muttered dirtyly: "The dog of the bereaved master, let's see how long you are arrogant?"

Liang Lie was about to retort, but was pulled back by Li Hong: "Forget it, the mistress is coming."

……

An extremely luxuriously decorated passenger ship slowly approached the pier, and the deck was full of people.

Surrounded by several maidservants, a beautiful and gentle woman stood at the bow of the boat, staring blankly at the other side, her eyes full of bewilderment, it was Wang Xin.

Ever since Zhao Haoyuan went to the capital, the two relied on letters to communicate with each other.In this era, Jiangnan and Bianliang were separated by thousands of mountains and rivers. If it was an ordinary family, it would take three or four months for a letter to go back and forth. Far away, life is only enough to love one person.But the Zhao family and the Wang family are not ordinary families, so naturally it won't take that long, usually it only takes about a month to go back and forth, but this time, they haven't heard from Zhao Hao for more than three consecutive months, Wang Xin is very anxious , finally couldn't bear it anymore, and decided to go to Bianliang to find out what happened, despite the dissuasion of his family.

Zhao Shiyu, Wang Tong and others were also worried, and Wang Jue and Xie Yu were going to Beijing to rush for the exam, so they asked Wang Xin to go to Bianliang with them, and they happened to take care of them on the way.

Wang Tong was still not at ease, worried that something might happen to Zhao Hao in the capital, just in time when he learned that his cousin was transferred to the capital, he wrote another letter to Wang Di, asking him to take care of Wang Xin and Wang Jue's siblings, so Zhao Quan and Wang Di came together. All the people came to welcome Wang Xin, Wang Jue, Xie Yu and others.

Wang Xin looked up and saw Wang Di, Zhao Quan and others, but Zhao Hao was not there, and the sadness between her brows became a little more intense.

Wang Jue, who was at the side, knew what his younger sister was thinking, couldn't bear it for a while, and comforted him: "Third sister, don't worry, maybe Brother Hao has other business, so he can't come to meet you for some reason."

Wang Xin's expression was gloomy, and she whispered: "The second uncle is here..."

Wang Jue didn't say anything more, Wang Di, as an elder, greeted him personally, if Zhao Hao was in the capital, there was no reason why he would come to greet him.

The passenger ship finally docked slowly, cast down the anchor, and lowered the boat ladder. With the support of a group of maidservants, Wang Xin climbed down the boat ladder first, followed by Wang Jue and Xie Yu, and boarded the pier.

Wang Di, Zhao Quan and the others rushed forward to meet them, while brothers Zheng Yu and Zheng Feng rushed to another passenger ship to meet Zheng Hong who came from Jiangnan.

Everyone exchanged pleasantries for a long time, and finally Wang Xin couldn't help asking: "Uncle Quan, where is your son?"

Zhao Quan said urgently: "Young master is going to send Jurchen as an envoy..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by an indifferent voice: "Isn't this the young lady of the Zhao family? See you from the grassroots Zheng Feng!"

Everyone looked back sullenly, only to see Zheng Feng rushing in at some point when no one was prepared, and sang to Wang Xin with a playful smile on his face. Before Wang Xin could answer, he added: " It's a pity that the young lady became a widow at such a young age, what a pity."

"presumptuous!"

"Bastard!"

As soon as Zheng Feng finished speaking, there were reprimands from all around, but this guy seemed more and more complacent, and he just kept saying "it's a pity".

Wang Xin's heart was shaken. When she looked up, she saw Zhao Quan, Liang Lie, Li Hong and the others' expressions were wrong. She became more and more panicked. She felt as if the sky was about to fall, and her legs were weak. If it wasn't for the support of the maidservant behind her, she would have already been so weak on the ground.

"Uncle Quan, my husband..."

"Young Madam, don't listen to this guy's nonsense, the young master is on an envoy to Liaodong, and he will go back after seeing it." Zhao Quan said anxiously.

Zheng Feng laughed loudly: "Commander Zhao of Jin Yiwei only led 300 people across thousands of miles of Liao land, and then entered the mountain of swords and went down into the sea of ​​fire. After going there for more than three months, he didn't return. Don't talk about his life, he is considered a corpse. I'm afraid I'm going to be picked up by wolves."

"Fart!" Liang Lie couldn't help shouting angrily.

Zheng Feng was not annoyed either, with a gloating look on his face, he continued to say in a strange voice: "The whole Bianliang City knows about this matter, and it wasn't someone Zheng who invented it. You can find out as soon as you enter the city. Why do you guys deceive yourself?"

Wang Xin looked at Zheng Feng's reassuring expression, and at the panicked expressions of Zhao Quan and others, and felt that the world was spinning, her feet were completely unstable, and they were on the verge of falling.A circle of tears rolled in the eye sockets, but he suppressed the pain in his heart, trying not to let the tears fall down.

"Jin Yiwei is here, please get out of the way!"

There was a sound of scolding, which attracted everyone's attention. At this time, many of the people on the pier had dispersed, and only a group of Jinyiwei dressed in flying fish suits, with a green dragon and a knife hanging from their waists, roared towards them, and the smoke and dust Rolling, the momentum is compelling, causing everyone to avoid it.

When the first person galloped ahead of the crowd, the horse reined in, and the horse raised its front hooves hilariously, and stopped abruptly. The rider on the horse turned over, landed floatingly, and then bowed forward. : "Zhao Dian pays homage to the Young Madam!"

Immediately, dozens of guards in Jinyi also got off their horses one after another, lined up neatly behind Zhao Dian, and bowed down respectfully.

Wang Xin wept and said, "Uncle, son, he..."

Zhao Tun said in a loud voice: "My son was ordered to go to the Kingdom of Jin and returned triumphantly. He has already landed at the ferry in the north of the city. The officials personally led all the civil and military officials and the whole people to greet him. I am here to report to the young lady!"

"What?" Zheng Feng and the others were confused.

Wang Di, Zhao Quan and the others also looked in disbelief, staring blankly at Zhao Dian.

After a long time, Zheng Feng sneered unwillingly and said: "Joke, even if Zhao Hao returns from his envoy, just a fourth-rank official, how can the official bow down to greet him in person, you are a crime of deceiving the emperor!"

Zhao Dian suddenly turned around, dashed up to him, grabbed his collar, lifted him up like an eagle lifting a chick, and said coldly: "The young master led three hundred elite riders across thousands of miles of land, Helped the Jurchens to defeat the [-] Liao army on Mount Lili, and defeated all the heroes in the martial arts competition with the Jurchens, so the Jurchens were overwhelmed and willing to accept the alliance of the Great Song Dynasty and form a brotherly country, and please send the clan ministers to bring the letter of credence Sending off the son as a gift and returning home is an unworldly feat, so the official led the crowd to welcome him personally, Zhao is just a lowly official, how dare he deceive the king? What crime should you have for spreading rumors and humiliating the hero of the country?"

Frightened by his aura, Zheng Feng was stunned, his face turned pale, and he was speechless for a long time.

Among the crowd, Wang Xin wept with joy, tears falling like rain.

　PS: The so-called timidity of being close to the hometown is the same feeling after two months of interruption and re-update. I dare not go to the comment area at all... After two months of tossing at work, coupled with the pain of cervical spine, maybe it is The reason, maybe it’s just an excuse, no matter what, I would like to express my deep apologies to everyone. I dare not expect extravagant grades when I stop updating to this point. I just want to finish the book quietly... Let’s try to update it at night
　　
　
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