Qingzhou trip

With Shahai's caravan leading the way, Yun Bailu and his party are no longer afraid of getting lost after following the team.Not long after that, I saw a sea of ​​sand surrounded by green wood rivers.

Yun Bailu, who had been slapped by someone, covered his face for a while, but the swelling and hot feeling did not fade away.He Sansheng glanced at the woman walking in front of the caravan, wearing a black skirt and wide trousers, with her hair tied up in a wooden hairpin, and after slapping her, she clapped her hands and ignored her.Although she couldn't see her face clearly, her eyebrows were clear, but she was a bit more quack than ordinary women.

"Yun Chengxuan..." He Sansheng became more and more curious about the woman, and was about to ask Yun Bailu when she saw that she had lifted her veil and covered her face with a veil dipped in some wine, "how can a woman be so strong when she is so swollen?" ?”

"That's Li Suyue who runs a blacksmith's shop in Shahai City, known as Yueniang." Every day she hammered bellows and anvils, no matter how thick-skinned she was, she couldn't stand a slap in the face.Yun Bailu glanced at He Sansheng, "Her father-in-law used to be a member of my father's Baosheng army, and he lost his life on the battlefield before he got married."

He Sansheng nodded repeatedly, thinking "No wonder".Your father, Yun Fangjiang, made him a widow, and you, as a daughter, can only be slapped in the face.Thinking of how many bereaved family members of Bao Shengjun in Shahai City were waiting to slap the former envoy, he raised his sleeve and wiped the sweat on his forehead.

In front of Shahai City, the caravan stopped, and the leader of the caravan sent someone to look for He Sansheng, "According to the regulations, the officials must come first and the army should come first, and the caravan can enter the city last. You, my lord, go first."

After drinking the water, He Sansheng wiped off the water stains on his beard, "You still talk about the ceremony?" Even the capital is not so particular.

"The Xie Dian book is different." Yun Bailu stretched out his hand in the car and signaled He Sansheng to tie it up for her, "I am still in exile, and I have to go to the city for punishment."

Xie Penglai was waiting at the gate of Shahai City, and the two rows of people behind him were the officials from the county government office and others.Someone in the middle yawned, and after Xie Penglai glanced at him, he immediately covered his mouth.

When He Sansheng saw Xie Penglai from a distance, he approached him, "Xie Dianbo? I am the escort officer, He Sansheng." Just as he was about to say, "I am also from Jibei County", the hair in front of him was not messed up, and his face was full. The plain blue-clothed woman had already saluted, "I've met He Qianhu." The voice was calm and cold, and the solemn and businesslike face made He Sansheng bite his tongue, "Chengxuan... the exiled Yun Bailu is here this."

Xie Penglai obviously recognized Yun Bailu, and after glancing at her, he said, "Take off the veil."

There were still some itchy scars on Yun Bailu's swollen black face, and Xie Penglai's fingers holding the document tightened suddenly.Opening her mouth halfway, she hesitated, "It's...me." She nodded to the escort and the others, motioning to take Yun Bailu away.

He Sansheng, who was thinking of going to Shahai to have a good meal, was still waiting for Xie Penglai's warm hospitality, but the woman's book stretched out her hand towards him, and her white palm was slightly red, "Excuse me, did He Qianhu bring the food coupons?" ?”

Those who go on official business to escort prisoners these days still bring food coupons?A total of [-] cash for a meal can only eat some steamed bun noodle soup.He Sansheng smiled and said, "I didn't take it with me. There are post stations along the way to receive them." He was not escorting ordinary people. There were people everywhere on the road who had arranged in advance. When entering a post station, not to mention food and drink, there are two official posts Prepared to sit with singing girls.

"Then I'm sorry I can't receive the officials, and please prepare your own meals. Before leaving the city tomorrow, please come to the county government to exchange documents." After Xie Penglai finished speaking, he gave another respectful salute, and left the thousand households of He Sanxing where they were. Go forward and check the goods with the caravan.

Shahai is now an important market town, and its contacts with Beixia are much closer than before.Although the war is over, people's hearts are unpredictable.After the market was closed, foreign merchants such as Beixia were not allowed to enter the city, and could only live in the shops in the auxiliary city.As for the caravans that entered the city at dusk, Xie Penglai was also unambiguous, and would only release them after meeting them one by one.When she saw Li Suyue, she nodded, "Go back?"

"I'm back." Li Suyue's trip was to sell iron pots and other items. There were fifty pieces when she went, and ten pieces when she returned.I changed some Beixia medicinal materials and waited to earn some silver taels.

After the caravans all entered the city, Li Suyue and Xie Penglai walked side by side, and it was only after a while that Xie Penglai sighed, "She...is it you who beat her?"

Li Suyue rolled up her cuffs, "Yes, it's cheap for that dog." When the fifty thousand generals went into battle, Yun Bailu was still hunting dogs outside the city.People in Shahai privately said that Yun Fangjiang is an incomparable handsome man, and Bai Zhi is a famous general of the Five Dynasties. How could such a couple give birth to such a familyless, unfaithful and unfilial thing?

Xie Penglai was silent, and when he said goodbye on the road, he only said to Li Suyue, "I...I want to put her in your shop." Such a convict has neither a stone to chisel nor a thread to draw in Shahai City, "doctor Isn’t the museum short of people? She goes there during the day to work, and at night she lives next to your yard.”

"If she dares to hang out in front of me again, I'll still call her." Even though she knew that Xie Penglai and Yun Bailu had a teacher-student relationship, Li Suyue didn't give Xie Penglai any face.After she finished speaking, she frowned heroically, "Haven't you been harmed enough by her a few years ago? Why did you let her back?"

Xie Penglai just shook his head, this order came from the Privy Council, obviously it was well received.But she didn't figure out the intention of the superior, so she could only be careful not to make mistakes in official affairs.There is only one thing she can be sure of: the two years of peace in Shahai are about to end.

After passing the wine alley and flower alley on Qianmen Street, and then turning to the county government entrance, Xie Penglai stepped in to meet Yun Bailu.When I saw her weathered face, thin body and dark face, she didn't look like the high-spirited daughter of a family a few years ago, and I couldn't bear it in my heart.When he saw Yun Bailu, who had been untied from the rope, sitting in the county office with his legs crossed, holding a leg of lamb and drinking, his unbearable feeling was replaced by hatred, "Yun Bailu, I don't think you have made any progress in the past two years."

Hearing this, Yun Bailu put down the wine bag and leg of lamb, wiped the corners of his mouth, got up and bowed to Xie Penglai in a loose and invisible way, "Thank you, master, please be respected by the students." His tone was still the same as in the past few years. .

"I can't bear it. The fate between you and me as a teacher and apprentice has long since expired. Now I am a scribe and you are an exile." Xie Penglai leaned closer to Yunbailu and smelled the smell of sweat and alcohol. She stood a little further away, "The county government office According to the regulations, you cannot be kept here, and your status as an exile is not suitable for permanent residence in the official post. I found a place for you. There is a deserted yard behind the blacksmith shop of the Li family, and it is also close to the Shahai Medical Center. You follow the doctor every day Grab the medicine, don't run around if you have nothing to do."

Yun Bailu nodded casually and agreed, then approached Xie Penglai and looked at his former teacher, "Teacher, are you not married yet?"

Xie Penglai's fair face flushed slightly, "What does it have to do with you?" Besides the message from above, the county magistrate, who had been vacant for almost a year, was about to be replaced by her. Where is the air traffic control of their own life-long events.

Walking around Xie Penglai, Yun Bailu suddenly stretched out his hand, "Teacher, where do I eat every day? How much money? Besides, money is too tight now, and I can't even afford a change of clothes. I hope my teacher can borrow some money." Broken silver, the student is going to change this skin. Enter the medical hall cleanly."

She was not so sensible and polite when she was young, after all, she was shaped by the drastic changes in her family and country.Xie Penglai thought for a while, then took out the money bag and prepared to take out half a tael, "You come to the county government office, join me first..." Suddenly, the bag was empty, and the bag fell into Yun Bailu's hands, "Student bought clothes, but also Take care of the blacksmith shop and the doctor. Thank you, sir."

The money bag was weighed lightly in one hand, and Yun Bailu had already picked up food and drink and turned to leave the county government office when Xie Penglai was still in a daze, "Master, there is still a copy of "Examination Collection" on the table, which is a gift from the students, please." You accept it."

Regardless of the money bag being taken away, Xie Penglai has already picked up the brand new "Examination Collection" on the table and began to study it with bright eyes: tax and labor, money grain, soldiers and civilians, commercial affairs, taxation and prison litigation, etc. are recorded on it.

Yun Bailu looked back at her, "It's been two years, and I still look like this sad old official, and I haven't made any progress."