Brother Beggar refuses to beg

After all, Duan Lingyue was pregnant, and no one dared to let the princess stand in the scorching sun, so a pergola and chairs were prepared for her to rest.

Xie Chen and Duan Lin were not so lucky, they would be found out by the ritual officer and accused of disrespect.The two of them stood at the gate of the city without moving. Fortunately, they are not of the physique of sweating. The heat is hotter, but they are still not too embarrassing.

"Heh, this is to show us off." Duan Lin's skin was flushed from the sun, but the light in his eyes was astonishingly bright.

The same eyes were as black as ink, with a blood-red brilliance flowing, Xie Chen looked into his eyes, and worried in his heart, "What's wrong with you?"

"No problem." Duan Lin didn't care, and sneered softly: "Fortunately, he still has a sense of propriety, and ordered the grand master to wait in the mansion. Otherwise, the old man has something to do, and today will be lively. I just pity my sister, but I still have to wait." suffer this crime."

"Don't talk nonsense!" Xie Chen reprimanded lightly, Duan Lin pursed his thin lips and stopped talking.

They talked in a very low voice, and the nearest magistrate, Yang Heng, was also a little distance away, so they couldn't hear the content clearly, otherwise it would be a catastrophe if it spread.

The crowds were hungry and waited from morning to afternoon, and it was almost evening when the emperor's ceremonial flags and banners appeared at the end of the official road.

Departing from the imperial capital, there were 20 palace maids and eunuchs and 100 guards accompanying him.The emperor's travel was a major event. Every time he went to a border, local officers and soldiers would greet him and escort him to the next border, so as not to cause any accidents on the way.

Escorting this last section was a cavalry lieutenant in the southwestern army who was in charge of guarding Jiansui Pass. He led [-] cavalry escorts and sent them to Yecheng to return to defense immediately.

The court of Dayuan respected the virtue of water and respected it in black. When the emperor in black uniform appeared, all the people present knelt down and shouted: "I welcome you, my emperor, long live, long live, long live."

The emperor didn't get up immediately, but got out of the carriage with the empress and concubine, looked at the towering city wall of Yecheng and expressed his emotion: "This Yecheng is an important town on the southwestern border of Dayuan. It was here that Tai and Zu got acquainted with the great general, burned incense and became sworn brothers, and started the battle for the Central Plains."

"This concubine has read "The Chronicles of Emperor Wudi", and what your majesty said is indeed recorded, but I never thought that I would be lucky enough to visit this place in person." The queen is in her early thirties, with a beautiful face and a gentle appearance.

Although it is properly maintained, it is easy to see the difference compared with another woman who is also by the emperor's side.

Years ago, Suzhou Moxiangjiaofang in the south of the Yangtze River held a Hundred Flowers Party. Famous ladies, ladies from aristocratic families, and wealthy businessmen gathered at the banquet to compete in poetry, poetry, calligraphy, painting, musical instruments and dance, and finally a leader was decided.

The magistrate of Suzhou wrote a letter stating that this girl is beautiful, talented and beautiful, and presented her to the emperor.After the beauty was sent to the palace, she was neglected by the emperor for nearly four months. For some reason, she was favored suddenly, and in the fifth month of entering the palace, she was promoted to the imperial concubine.Soon after, she was crowned with the title of imperial concubine.

During this southern tour, Xie Chen received the news that the emperor originally planned to bring only the imperial concubine, but it was the empress who begged to see her again and again, and only then did she fight for a place to accompany her.

Xie Chen was not in the capital when this Concubine Su received the favor, so she had never seen her before, and she just saw her before she knelt down to salute.It was inconvenient for him to stare at the imperial concubine, but he only took a look. The upright girl in her youth was indeed beautiful, like a delicate magnolia flower in the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River.

However, it would not be too much to say that she is beautiful and beautiful, it's just that she is better than the middle and upper class.If there is anything special, it is that she is still calm even when she is with the emperor, and it can even be said to be very bold.

"Your Majesty, my concubine has also heard of Yecheng. They have a delicious cured meat here." After the Empress finished speaking, Su Guifei secretly tugged on the Emperor's robe sleeve, moved closer to him, thinking that whisper.

The first thing the emperor said here was to mention the friendship between Tai, Zu and Xie Jiazu. Xie Chen heard it really had a deep meaning. He was still thinking whether the emperor used this to remind him and his father to The Xie family remained loyal to the royal family as always.

The imperial concubine's words were tantamount to demolishing the emperor. The emperor was indeed in a unhappy mood, and said coldly: "My concubine will not be idle for a moment on this journey today, and she should indeed be hungry."

Concubine Su Gui faced the emperor's no longer young face, knowing that he was unhappy and not afraid, she just lowered her head slightly and looked up at him, "I heard that the meat needs to be repeatedly smoked and roasted in fireworks, and it can be stored for a long time after it is made. For a long time, the taste will still not change, the salty fragrance is overflowing, and it is very delicious.”

The current emperor is upright and not confused, and he is about to reach the age of knowing his destiny. He has been fighting with others all his life, with deep thoughts and unpredictable emotions.I don't know what Su Guifei's words reminded him, he suddenly smiled and said: "It's better to have fresh meat, the old meat will rot and become disgusting. Nothing in this world can stand the test of time , General Xie, are you right?"

Xie Guogong, who got off the carriage behind, heard the empress talking as soon as he approached. Immediately afterwards, the emperor asked Xie Chen for a question.Although Xie Guogong is a warrior, but the real good generals are brave and resourceful, he is not a stupid person, he can hear the emperor's subtext, but he is afraid that Xie Chen is too young to understand.

"My Majesty, what the imperial concubine said is indeed Yecheng's specialty cured meat. It is different from fresh meat. It needs to be marinated and then repeatedly smoked and dried with pine and cypress branches. It can indeed be preserved for a long time without changing the taste." Xie Chen knelt down respectfully, straightened his back and cupped his fists and replied, "Things in the world are complicated and varied, and there are always some things that will last forever and will always be new."

The emperor stared at him with deep eyes, didn't say anything, and finally got up.

Yin Su didn't know about the undercurrents in Ye City. It was the slack season, so he asked villagers from nearby villages to help him build a thatched hut for a temporary stay.

Building a brick and tile house is time-consuming. From material transportation to construction, it cannot be completed in a day or two. Now that he has no place to live, he simply built two temporary houses with bamboo and thatch, one for the bedroom and one for the bedroom. Make a kitchen.

There is a bamboo forest on Wuming Peak. This is an unowned mountain. Villagers rarely go to this mountain to hunt and collect firewood, because there are rumors that there are big insects infested on the mountain, and no one is willing to take the risk.

Relying on his high martial arts skills, Yin Su was not afraid and wanted to get local materials, but the villagers didn't want to go up the mountain, so he couldn't force it, so he had to buy bamboo from a neighboring village for an extra five qian.

The wasteland is overgrown with weeds, and it took a whole day to clear the grass on the entire land, plus laying the foundation and building the thatch and bamboo house, it will take at least five or six days to hurry up, which is still estimated fastest.

Building a house requires people to watch, Xie Chen is absolutely impossible to do this with the emperor, and can only rely on Yin Su alone.The land under Wuming Peak belongs to a village called Guanyun Village. In order to facilitate the supervision, Yin Su temporarily stayed with a family surnamed Zhao.

The land he bought was at the very edge of the village, and few people set foot on it on weekdays. The male owner of the Zhao family was a very simple and honest man, and he was one of the helpers Yin Su was looking for.It was because he observed that this person worked very hard, and Yin Su felt that the other person was an honest person, so he chose his house to stay overnight.

It’s not easy to live in vain. Yin Su offered to give him [-] Wen a day, but this man named Zhao Xing directly refused, “Brother Yin, if you settle in our village in the future, we will be fellow villagers. It's only a few days, how can I collect your money!"

"Yeah, anyway, the house at home is empty, so you don't mind putting some sundries in it." There is also a man in this family, who looks a little delicate and thin, especially with the burly Zhao Comparing the lines, the whole person is obviously smaller than a circle.

He also spoke softly and softly, Yin Su was still thinking, the difference between the two brothers is quite big, they really don't look like they were born by the same mother.

When it was time to go to bed at night, he watched the two of them enter a room before he realized something was wrong.

After getting along for a few days, Yin Su gradually got to know this family. Zhao Xing’s mother was an idiot. Zhao Xing’s father married her home because of her poor brain. Not long after giving birth to her son, she accidentally fell into the river. drowned.

Zhao Xing's father lost his wife, and he worked hard alone to raise his son. When Zhao Xing was about to reach the weak crown, the family was too poor, and no one's daughter was willing to marry.

Seeing that he was about to face punishment, Zhao Xing was a very assertive person, and despite his father's objection, he married the youngest son of the Han family.

The youngest son of the Han family, Han Tong, was born prematurely. Han's mother suffered a lot when giving birth to him, and she was a little displeased with this son. She was full of joy and looked forward to having a daughter in one birth.

The eldest brother and the second brother of the Han family were able to help the family when they were five or six years old, but Han Tong was still weak when he was five or six years old because of his congenital frailty. .

The children in the village also dislike him for being too weak, they don't want to play with him, and often bully him.At that time, Zhao Xing, who was already an older child, came home from chopping firewood by chance. On the way, he met Han Tong who was sitting on a stack of straw and could not get up and down. Roll down, it hurts.

He hugged Han Tong who was tricked by other children, and he has always kept this person in his heart since then, and never let him go.

If it is said that their marriage really came from love and pity, then what is the purpose of me and Xie Chen?

At night, Yin Su couldn't sleep, lying on the bed thinking over and over again, carefully recalling all the things with Xie Chen these days, and suddenly realized that he and himself had never been too intimate.

But during those days when he was injured, Xie Chen's concern was real, even a good brother would not be so meticulous, no matter how busy he was every day, he would come to see him and ask about his diet and daily life.If you insist on saying this is brotherhood, who will believe it?

Could it be that the ancients expressed it too implicitly?How about I try it out next time?

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I have been too busy recently, and the end of the year is really exhausting.I will never cheat, I have already signed a contract~ Don't worry, dear friends!

Xie Chen: The emperor is testing the Xie family

Yin Su: I also want to try frantically on the verge of being beaten