Qingzhou trip

Yun Bailu didn't enter Sand Sea City until after noon the next day.Walking through the streets and alleys, I exchanged ten copper coins for deer pear pulp, preparing to go to the blacksmith's shop to hit a wall.Before leaving, I turned around and threw another five copper coins, "I'll make another bowl."

The furnace smoke in Li's shop is booming, and the two new harnesses have just taken shape. After passing through the cold water and picking them up again, Li Suyue told her younger brother Yan Yunhan, "Make one of the stirrups smaller, and the girl's feet are narrow. .”

The new harness was made for the Dong family, an old silk merchant in Shahai City. These merchants were the happiest after the war stopped and the gloom subsided.Only their family members have the mind to change horses for travel.

She even knows the width of other girls' feet.Yun Bailu was holding the bag of pear syrup and leaning against Li Suyue at the door of the shop. She saw her red phoenix eye tails like the last smear of mist before the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River faded. The cherry mouth below draws Zhang Jiangnan's appearance as a good woman.

Just looking at his face, Li Suyue is not like a northerner at all.But looking at her shoulders, her arms and her tall back, which stands out from most men in Shahai City, she is an out-and-out Shahai girl.What hangs around Li Suyue's body is not willows like silk, nor green moths and red makeup, but jade hooks hanging down in the sand, sea and desert sky.

The suaveness of the girl's house is in the hammer after hammer, the hammer surface is pressed down, not slippery or sticky, and hits the saddle.Not far away, Yun Bailu licked his lower lip, "Is it hot? I brought you pear juice."

Sure enough, I won't get a look from others.Yun Bailu met Shan Cui by the door, threw a water bag to her, and walked towards the county government office.According to Xie Penglai's temperament, she should be in a hurry.

Today's county government is not deserted, on the contrary, it is full of loud nonsense and blunt Hua Dynasty official dialect.

Yun Bailu took a sip of wine, then scratched the slightly itchy wound on his face, and watched as Xie Penglai was aggressively attacked by several Beixia businessmen:

"The corpse was found in the desert at Chenshi, and it was so cold at that time. You see, the knife cut is right on the forehead. This is not the sword technique of the Northern Xia people, it is obviously done by you soldiers from the Central Plains." The leader of the Northern Xia man Pointing to the mottled corpse on the ground, "The bureau said that they don't care about criminal names, so this book will take care of it."

The clothes on the dead man's upper body had been stripped off, so it was impossible to tell whether it was a merchant or a civilian.But his appearance and figure are obviously from Beixia.This group of Beixia caravan came across this corpse on their way to Shahai, so they moved to Shahai to look for the magistrate's bad luck.

Xie Penglai held his nose and walked around the corpse twice, telling the escort to hurry up and call for a job to come and have a look.Then she took out her handkerchief and wiped the sweat off her white forehead, her expression changed when she suddenly glanced at Yun Bailu in the crowd watching the excitement, she pulled Yun Bailu over, "Come on, you know some medical skills, seeing dead people is useless, Give me the pulse first."

Yun Baiwu grabbed her wrist with his backhand and squeezed behind the county government hall, "Teacher, the corners of your eyebrows are drawn, Tiankui is weak. Don't worry, the returning student will prescribe medicine for you."

"I didn't ask you to say this," Xie Penglai looked at Yun Bailu, then looked outside, "Have you never seen that corpse?"

"I didn't see it. Judging by the color, it was only five or six hours before he died. And he was found in the desert, and I walked close to the oasis all the way." But the Northern Xia man was right, judging from the sword technique, Like what the Hua Dynasty people did.But this unexplained corpse of a Beixia man outside was dragged into the city, and it would be too bullying for Sha Haidian, who had nothing to do with him, to explain, "Men, what did you offend those people?"

"Half a month ago, those Beixia merchants ate wine in the wine alley, and ran into trouble in the flower alley. There were only three columns and two tiles in total, and they smashed them. I...I sentenced Not to mention the compensation, each of them swung ten sticks." They didn't even listen to the interlocutors.Xie Penglai wiped off his sweat again, "Northern Xia people can only stay in the attached city when they enter the Shahai Sea. They can only enter the main city in the market place or the handover of the county government." In terms of the legal system, she was not wronged.

Yun Bailu thought for a while, "You just bite him to death. This is a matter outside the city. Let him drag him back to Beixia to seek justice."

"That's natural, it's just... this incident happened at the gate of my appointment." What Xie Penglai was worried about was that the other party would expose such a big or small matter, which would affect her evaluation and county magistrate's appointment.

But the question is, who can guarantee that this kind of thing won't happen a second time?After Xie Penglai expressed his worries, Yun Bailu gave him a sympathetic look, "Master, what you have to worry about is not two times or three times, but whether people in the bureau got involved? Are you and Yuanwailang in the bureau? Did you also tie the knot?"

Sure enough, Xie Penglai blushed, "How can an official dispute be called knotting? Besides, I am an official in the same city as Hu Yuanwailang..." The rest of the words were interrupted by a greeting from outside, "Xie Dianbo, Hu Yuan who is in dispute Yuanwailang is here."

Yun Bailu walked out with Xie Penglai, and saw the Hu Yuanwailang in green robe with short beard and mung bean eyes.When this person saw the merchant from Beixia, he immediately shortened his waist by a foot, greeted him with a smile on his face, and then turned to Xie Penglai, who was inferior to him, with a serious face, "Xie Dianbo, what should I do?"

"I have no way or example to follow on how to deal with the unknown corpse of a foreign country found outside the city." Xie Penglai had a pitiful expression on his face, "Forget it, the county government will pay a hundred dollars to find a place to bury him."

"Doesn't matter murder? Doesn't matter being murdered by the Hua Dynasty?" The Northern Xia man refused to let go.

"In terms of the location of the knife edge, it cannot be concluded that it was done by the Hua Dynasty people." Xie Penglai obviously didn't want to get involved.

The Beixia man sneered, pulled off the cloth covering the corpse, pointed to the armguard wrapped around the corpse's right wrist, and the finger puller on his finger, "This is a soldier from the Beixia Bow and Arrow Battalion. I don't know why." Died on the road three hours away from Shahai. Is it your comforter who will give us an explanation? Or should I go back to Beixia to seek justice?" Anything about Shahai will be messed up if it gets involved with "soldiers" .

The faces of all the people present were frightened, except Yun Bailu who was sipping his drink and Xie Penglai who had a cold face.The crowd obviously dared not speak out, and only the seventh-rank member Wailang woke up, bowed his head and coaxed Beixia Shangtou there again.

"As I said, if a person dies outside Shahai City, the county government can provide some funeral copper coins. If you want to explain, then let this book tell the pacifier..."

"Xie Dianbo!" Hu Yuanwailang stopped Xie Penglai, flirted with her, and then the two walked to a deserted place.

"I'm just asking for convenience, and this matter is over. Why bother the superiors at the pass of the evaluation?" Hu Yuanwailang stretched out his palm and drew the word "Xiao" on it, "I just want the county government Li turned a blind eye and turned a blind eye, after coming to Shahai to negotiate the deal, go to Huaxiang to drink all night... I promise that there will be no more troubles."

Xie Penglai was speechless for a moment, "Then... I'm going to the legal system..."

"The chief officials of the four major debates in the north have all been promoted two levels in three years, but Xie Dianbo has stayed where he is. Do you know why?" Hu Yuanwailang blew his beard, "It's because you don't know how to turn big things into small ones. You didn’t give Beixia any convenience, and you beat him with a stick because of a little flower and wine. Xie Dianbo, you won’t work in Shahai anyway. It’s important for a woman to quickly find a good place to marry. Why bother? What about the bitter cold of the northern kingdom?"

Yun Bailu paced over, looked at the gloomy Xie Penglai and smiled, then turned to Hu Yuanwailang, "Could it be that there is a newcomer in Huaxiang?"

Mr. Hu smiled mysteriously and lost Mung Dou's eyes, "Come on, there are kabuki and wine performers here in Beijing. Tea, playing the piano, talking, singing and dancing are far better than before. Are you... the former envoy Yun...?"

"The exile Yun Bailu is now doing odd jobs in the medical clinic." Yun Bailu didn't want to mention this, and looked at Xie Penglai, "Mentor? Is this convenience for you? Or not?"

Xie Penglai's slender knuckles were pinching the book in his hand, and his eyes flickered under his brows, "Of course not. I'll write to the state and the comfort envoy to explain the whole story. Tell me something unclear." Threatening me to break the rules? There is no possibility for me to spend a day in the sand sea with Penglai.”

The corner of Yun Bailu's mouth let go of a smile, "Men...you haven't changed at all, here, this pear juice will calm you down."