Qingzhou trip

Zou Shiyan was proud of his youth, and he was a Jinshi in high school when he was only 20 years old.It was originally No.3, but because of "Young Xuanang", he satisfied the emperor with his answer in the palace examination, and was promoted from No.3 to the first place.Pity the original No.1, 40-year-old Gongsun Yanghao, who is [-] years old and has a dull appearance.

In the court, Zou Shiyan was known as "wealth and honor make the imperial edict". When there were military disputes and fears in the court, he cooked wine, enjoyed music and wrote poems in his yard. Even the old father-in-law Lu Jie had nothing to do with him.

In the sedan chair, he felt displeased when his attendants reported that the county magistrate of Shahai wanted to inspect his official documents.Zou Shiyan was quite talented and famous at his age, but he had no knowledge but no weapons.He is also a transshipment envoy along the way, apart from King Jin, he is the most powerful in the three states and the Northwest.Wherever he went, which local official didn't respectfully accompany him with a smile and greet him early?Knowing that the female county magistrate of the seventh rank Juren actually left them and her party, she hurriedly got up at the gate of the city.He closed his eyes for a moment to suppress his anger, and asked his followers to deliver the official documents and tooth cards.

After careful checking, Xie Penglai finally got up seriously, and walked to Zou Shiyan's sedan chair to bow and salute, "Xie Penglai, magistrate of Shahai County, I didn't know that the transfer envoy came to the city today, and I was far away to welcome you. Just now, I have sent someone to the official post to make arrangements , I also ask the transfer envoy to go to the county government office to rest for a while. How about going back to the post station to rest after the arrangement is completed?"

The sedan chair waited quietly for a while, and after a long time, a lazy official voice came out, "No need. I will visit the three states to appease the envoy first, and the county magistrate Lao Xie will take care of the station."

This is not even bothering to fight Xie Penglai face to face.Xie Penglai turned sideways to invite them to enter the city, and he followed the team and was the last one to walk back to the gate of the city.Zhao Yifang took everything into consideration and continued to accompany Xie Penglai without saying a word.After a while, Xie Penglai put down his pen and turned to look at her, "Dian... the fortune-teller said he would visit you."

"Then wait." The wind at the gate of the city was strong, and the sun became thinner after noon, and it was far less warm than before.Zhao Yifang, who had been standing for a long time, had the tip of her nose flushed, and her white and tender finger joints were cold and stiff.When she laughed, the red smoke that was frozen on her cheeks seemed to overflow with thin bloodshots.

"It's very windy here, I...I still have to work for two hours. Why don't you go back to the county government office to warm up and have a rest first?" King Jin was so cold, Xie Penglai respectfully invited the owner of the white dragon fish suit.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Yifang stared at her, "What's the coldness?" Even so, she put a layer of fingers inside the jacket, trying to find some warmth there.

Xie Penglai had no choice but to turn his head, checked the direction of the wind, and then moved the tables and chairs. After sitting down again, he could block the wind a bit.Then asked the master to bring some hot tea, and put the whole teapot into Zhao Yifang's hands, "Warm it up first."

"What about thanking the teacher?" King Jin's clear eyes were shy.

"I'm used to it, it's not cold." Xie Penglai also smiled, then turned around and continued to supervise the entry and exit.

The teapot in King Jin's hand was replaced with five or six batches of hot water. It turned out that Xie Penglai had someone bring the tea stove from the county government over here, so that the sergeants and government officials could drink hot water.But she herself rarely drank water, and finally it was dark when the city gate was closed.After Xie Penglai collected the documents and dictionaries for a day, he accompanied Zhao Yifang back home.Neither of them mentioned the transfer envoy who might still be waiting outside the palace.

After another alley, you can turn into the back door of the palace, but Zhao Yifang held Xie Penglai's hand, frowning slightly in shock at the ice-like temperature, "Isn't it cold?" Xie Penglai's hand that was about to be taken away was caught by Jin Wang squeezed, "Go back to your courtyard. Eat and drink with that monk these days, you should also have a meal with me."

This is hard for Xie Penglai, firstly, she is not good at cooking, secondly, Kongxian must eat all the wine and meat in the house every day.At this moment, there must be nothing left in the courtyard to enter.

"Then Xie, go to the wine alley to buy some food and go home first." Undeterred Xie Penglai was still trying to pull out his palm, but Jin Wang let go first, and smiled triumphantly, "Let's go together."

Zou Shiyan waited for a long time but did not see King Jin return to the mansion, and the clerk at the inn also came to invite him to stay.I had no choice but to hand over the name card and then repeatedly asked the people in the palace to tell, "The next official will come back tomorrow." Then he gave out another ten taels of silver to send his Ren Liu away.Ren Liu accepted it with a smile, and stopped smiling after he left.

"Twelve taels, this one is very generous." He threw the silver towards Li Mo, but he was thinking of King Jin in his heart, "This sea of ​​sand is as big as a palm, why hasn't His Highness returned to the mansion?" King Jin, he was so worried that he could fidget for a long time.

Li Mo raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Your Highness always has his own opinions." For example, he changed into a gray robe and servant clothes and asked the county magistrate to go to the gate of the city to be on duty.After blowing the cold wind for a long time, I'm afraid I still don't want to come back.

"I'm afraid it's someone else's idea." Ren Liu didn't have the firm mouth of his elder brother Ren Wu, and he still had the impatience of a young man.As soon as he blurted out, he was blindsided by Li, "Is this what you and I can say?"

Even if it was Xie Penglai's claim, even if they had never seen King Jin being so caring about others, they couldn't say no to it.

"Your Highness is not disrespectful. If you have such a superficial heart, why do you have to wait for a few years after finding out the whereabouts of that person before settling in the sand sea?" Ordinary people would have already written a letter to ask for a recommendation, and transferred him to the capital several times.

Ren Liu immediately shut up when he heard the words, "Sister Li Mei taught me a lesson."

Seeing his seriousness, Li Mo also smiled, "You have to ride a horse to deliver the hot dishes prepared by the kitchen to Magistrate Xie as soon as possible. Your Highness must be very hungry."

Toutuo Kongxian had disappeared from Xie Penglai's courtyard, only the big raccoon cat was left lying in front of her door.Seeing people come back, the raccoon cat Ben squinted his eyes and shook his beard.But when he saw Zhao Yifang behind Xie Penglai, he immediately stood up with his tail upright, and the whole cat leaned against the corner of the wall to make way.Zhao Yifang stared at it, "Are you afraid of strangers?"

"I'm afraid of Your Highness." Xie Penglai invited Zhao Yifang into the house and put on the kang, "Your Highness is beyond words, this cat has aura, I'm afraid it will kill you." She met Zhao Yifang's suspicious eyes, and Zhao Yifang reached out to pick up her quilt Putting it on his shoulders, he looked at the county magistrate's house, which was almost completely empty, "Just mess with people, thank you, I'm hungry."

"Just wait a moment, that's all." Xie Penglai responded, quickly picked up some charcoal hidden in the stove ash from the kitchen, added new charcoal into the stove, and brought it to Zhao Yifang.Put the dishes and chopsticks on, and warm the wine.At this moment, someone knocked on the door again.

When Xie Penglai returned to the house, he was already eating food with his hands full. Zhao Yifang already knew that it was Li Mei who gave it to him. Wear more layers of jackets? It’s freezing like that and still keep me out of the wind? How much can it block?”

"Your Highness is right." Xie Penglai poured wine for Zhao Yifang, but saw that she had already climbed to the other side of the kang covered with a quilt, and opened the only pear wood box in her room.

Sure enough, Zhao Yifang only saw two piles of thin old clothes.

She frowned and turned her head, while Xie Penglai cleared her throat and said uncomfortably, "I went to the library to see students a few days ago, and found a few poor people with little clothes, so I gave them my thick clothes. I didn’t have time to make a new one.”

In fact, it is because of the shyness in the pocket.So I thought about buying a body after the salary was issued next month.

Zhao Yifang sat back beside Xie Penglai, and put the quilt on her shoulders, the two squeezed together, causing Xie Penglai to bow and stand like a civet cat.

"Hurry up and eat." Zhao Yifang's voice was low, but she only gulped a few mouthfuls before jumping off the kang, "Master Xie eat slowly, I'm going back first."

Although Jin Wang's fast and slow words made people confused, Xie Penglai was relieved, and was about to get off the kang to see her off, but Zhao Yifang held his arm.

King Jin seemed to be in a bad mood, "No need, it's...it's cold outside."

When Zhao Yifang walked out of the alley, she saw Ren Wu Ren Liu waiting at the side, she raised her eyes, "They're all here?"

"Has your Highness run out?" Ren Wu asked.

Zhao Yifang turned on the horse led by Ren Liu in a muffled voice, and said, "I'm still hungry, let's go, don't go back to the house, just stroll around." Although she was curious why she didn't go around enough all day long, the two brothers of the Ren family still led the horse. The horse walks slowly down the street.But King Jin didn't seem interested in looking around, just stared at Lu without saying a word.

I thought I had a strong mind and a lot of capacity.But seeing Xie Penglai's poverty, she was still full of unhappiness.I am also angry at how careless I am to this situation: I only know how to send some food occasionally, the four treasures of the study, and I didn't even pay attention to the poor clothes in other people's houses.If it is Li Mei, he will definitely consider everything for the person in his heart.But Zhao Yifang has been served by others since she was a child, and she cares about every detail. When it is her turn to consider others, she makes mistakes everywhere.

The horse strolled back to the gate of the city where the gate had already been closed, Zhao Yifang looked at the place where Xie Penglai shielded her from the wind during the day, and sighed softly.

Back in the mansion, he didn't care about the dishes in front of him, but King Jin took out a pen and paper and handed it to Li Mei, "Ordinary people, what do you need in winter, you...you draw up a list."

Li Mo was puzzled for a while, thinking that it was for the new transfer envoy, "Is it a daily need? Prepare a backup and send it to the post of the transfer envoy?"

"Why send him? The price is ten taels of silver, can he be short of this?" After hearing about the magnanimity of the transfer envoy, Jin Wang was very unrelenting, "It's... an ordinary person's wife for the family... just, just to spend the winter. Prepare your clothes and everything, and send them to Master Xie."

Seeing King Jin's shy and angry look, Li Mo held back a smile, "Understood."

"How much do you understand?" Jin Wang pinched his chopsticks and gave Li Mo a blank look, "This king doesn't even understand."