Regent, come plant chrysanthemums

There is a busy market at the gate of the city, which is the busiest place in Suzaku Town.

Some people who want to make a living will gather there every morning, set up a stall, and get busy.

Today is a bit different from usual. There is an imperial list posted at the intersection of the busy city. The yellow background, black lettering and red printing notice attracts a crowd of spectators to gather around, discussing the "major events in the world" on this notice from time to time. .

Originally, the gates of the city were full of people coming in and out, and those who watched the excitement surrounded the gates. Not only was it inconvenient for people entering the city, but even the streets in the downtown area were surrounded by half, making it even more congested.

A thin figure with a wooden box on his back and a bamboo frame on his shoulders squeezed in desperately, but there were too many people around him, making him sway from side to side.The bamboo stick on the shoulder was a lot higher, and it also swayed left and right, very conspicuous.Uncle Wang, who was selling tea nearby, saw it and shouted, "Xiao Su, come to set up a stall."

"Hey." The young man named Xiao Su finally squeezed through the crowd, straightened his clothes and messy hair, and said to Uncle Wang with a cheerful smile, "There are so many people today, are there any vacancies?"

Uncle Wang shook his head, "You're so lazy, you don't have much time to set up your stall, and you haven't rushed to the morning market. All the good stalls have been taken up."

"It's good if I can set up a stall." Xiao Su didn't have the slightest bit of displeasure on her face. She looked around, said hello to the lady selling melon seeds, and sat down next to her.

Xiaosu put the wooden box on her back on the ground, and leaned the bamboo stick on the wooden box, then turned around and asked Uncle Wang for a bowl of tea, then went diagonally opposite to buy a scallion pancake, went back to the stall, took out A small bench, sat on it and ate.

Just halfway through eating, I saw a few children running over from a distance, enthusiastically surrounding Xiao Su, jumping and jumping, "Brother Xiao Su, brother Xiao Su, we want to see the candy adults you pinched yesterday."

"Dahu, Xiaoman, Sixi, Erniu, don't make a fuss, wait for brother Xiaosu to eat breakfast, okay?" Xiaosu raised the tea bowl high to prevent the tea from spilling out, and finally couldn't resist their noise, so she had to Said, "Alright, alright, I'll take it out right away, don't be fluttering."

The bustling city is full of people coming and going, and the cheerful laughter of the children has attracted the attention of many passers-by. A place with children is always the most innocent and happy place. The nearby vendors shook their heads when they saw this scene happening every day. , with a smile on his face.

Xiao Su is a foreigner in Zhuque Town, and has lived here for almost a year.

His real name is Su He, but no one in the town knows it. When asked his name, he just said, "My name is Xiao Su. I don't have a name. Everyone can call me that."

In the impression of the people around, Su He's appearance is not very outstanding, but the advantage is that when he smiles, there is always a hint of sweetness at the corner of his mouth, which adds a bit of beauty to the ordinary appearance.

At first glance, Su He looked like a young man who had not reached the weak crown. He came out to make a living at a young age and asked the people around him to take extra care of him. Knowing that he sold sugar for a living, they felt very suitable.Su He's skill in making sugar figurines is very good, lifelike and extremely lifelike.But it was lazy to go out of the stall, and he didn't come out until near noon, and closed the stall before it was too late.After such a long time, the people around him attributed it to the boy's fun-loving nature, and there was always nothing he could do about his habits.

Su He's sweet smile attracted the favor of a group of children, who often liked to surround him.Su He didn't think it would affect the business, he treated them like a kind big brother, and often gave them sugar figurines that were about to break down to take home for fun.

Dahu and Xiaoman are the permanent staff around Su He, and they especially like to watch him make sugar figures.

Because the sugar figurines made by Su He are very special. The details of the animals and people are very delicate, which makes people feel pleasing to the eye.It’s just that the children don’t understand, they just think the candy figurines made by Xiaosu look good and taste even better.

Su He successfully subdued the little urchins with sweet candies, and became an incomparably powerful character in the hearts of the little urchins.

In fact, there were some cute animal-shaped candy figurines on the bamboo frame he carried, but after a long time, these children got their appetites. The little rabbits and little tigers who used to look very interesting in their eyes, Now it just seems normal.

Su He finished his breakfast in two or three mouthfuls, and opened the wooden box at his feet.

The four children moved their heads together. They liked to look at the things in this wooden box. They felt that the box was like a cornucopia with many things in it.

The first layer is a dozen or so exquisite figure sugar figurines made a few days ago, wrapped with a thin layer of bean paper to avoid being stained by the gray layer.

Su He knew what they were thinking, smiled slightly, removed the bean paper, inserted bamboo sticks, and placed them on the bamboo stand.

"Wow~" There is a row of exquisite characters on the bamboo frame, with smiling or angry expressions on their faces, and even the clothes are very delicately made. The children's attention was immediately diverted to them, and they all drool at the sugar figures.

Su He continued to take out tools, a smooth marble slab, a small copper pot, a small copper spoon, and a small charcoal stove.There were also several lumps of cane sugar and lard in the box.

Put the marble slab horizontally on the box, set up a boiler on the ground, add some carbon into the small stove, put a few pieces of sugar in the small copper pot, boil it carefully, and it's ready.

Xiao Su raised her head, and saw the four children looking at her with bright eyes, and said with a smile, "Well, what should I pinch today?"

"Pinch the general." Sixi immediately said, "Yesterday you said you were the general, brother Xiao Su, can you pinch the general?"

"Hmm..." Su He pretended to be in deep thought, seeing the pitiful expressions of the four children opening their eyes wide open out of the corner of his eyes. He was very happy, and then readily affirmed, "Okay."

"Great." The four children cheered.

While Su He was thinking about the official uniform of the first-grade general that the storyteller mentioned yesterday, he took out a bag of wheat flour from the box and slapped it on his hand, then took out a piece of caramel, and slowly spread it around the small stove with his hands. Heat until the hardness of the sugar slowly softens and you start to pinch it.

A storyteller came to Uncle Wang's tea stand recently, often telling anecdotes about the world or interesting stories about Jianghu. Zhuque Town is located in a remote place, and there are local people coming and going in the town.

The storyteller was the first to talk about the founding emperor of the Shu Dynasty, the Yuan Emperor. Hearing this, the eyes of a few children shone, and they turned to ask Su He, "Brother Su, what does the emperor look like?"

Su He thought for a while, and pinched them a person who was yellow from head to toe.

So in the future, the storyteller told the deeds of a character, and the next day he pinched that person to give the children insight.

Yesterday it was about General Wanrui of Shu Dynasty, who Su He had heard of before.Lin Wei, the great general of Bang Thai, is famous all over the world. He once turned the tide in a battle. Now the country and people of Shu Dynasty are safe because of his contribution. That's how "Bang Thai" came about.It's just that they don't know that the scenery is too much, and they don't know how to be low-key...

Su He is pinching the sugar figurine carefully, while the storyteller at Uncle Wang's tea stand has already spoken.The four children stared at the sugar figurine, and listened to the story next to them. They did not hesitate at all.

"Do you know where the imperial list on this announcement comes from?" The storyteller pointed to the imperial list not far away and asked.

"Of course it was issued by an official in the court." Someone said.

"What I'm talking about is the reason for publishing this imperial list." The storyteller shook his head, and suddenly unfolded the fan in his hand, and began to explain.

"The Shu Dynasty has been established for nearly 200 years. We don't talk about how the first emperor ruled the world, but only the sons he gave birth to. One is sick, one is aggressive, one is stupid, one is cheating, and the other is idle. The aggressive and stupid ones are already in the world. They fought each other and died during the battle for the position. Among the five princes, there was a sickly crown prince, a cunning Prince Ping, and the Rui King Gu Tianyue who was now famous all over the world.

After the death of the first emperor and the succession of the crown prince, King Rui returned to his fief.But King Ping stayed in the capital, poisoned and killed the prince a month later, rebelled, and took the prince's children to order the world.It's just that he didn't get complacent for a long time, King Rui led an army to kill him, only two hundred miles away from the capital, King Ping changed his face when he heard this, and fled north in a hurry.But even if this Yong Wang ran for his life, he did not forget to sweep away the treasury. With so much property on his body, he was caught up by King Rui after he fled for less than four hundred miles.

The change of King Ping made the whole world think that war was about to start, but they didn't want King Rui Gu Tianyue to use thunderous means to lead his army to defeat the rebellious king and restore peace to the world. "

The people who listened to the book clapped their hands and applauded, secretly happy that the world they lived in had returned to peace, and some people took out copper coins and threw them to the storyteller.

The storyteller thanked him, and then said, "This Rui Wang Gu Tianyue is very strange. Four of the former emperor's sons died, and he was the only one left. No one will take the throne now. But he chose the prince's youngest son to take the throne. Successor, I will assist from the side, and be the regent who is under one person and above ten thousand people. On the first day when the regent took power, he released the imperial list. people who serve the country..."

Everyone exclaimed, "It seems that the regent is not bad!"

Mr. Don't Want to Tell the Storyteller shook his head, "Do you know who was the first to be purged of unknown forces in the court after the Regent took power?"

The crowd shook their heads.

"It's the person you talked about yesterday, General Bang Thai."

"Ah—" Everyone gasped.

The crowd suddenly exploded, "Is the regent a good guy or a bad guy?"

"Is the regent a good guy or a bad guy?" Dui pouted and asked this question, "Brother Xiao Su, why did the general die?!"

The sugar figurine in Su He's hand is almost finished, and now he is using a brush to dip in pollen and carefully paint the color.The four children looked at the general's sugar figurine, and immediately felt resentful.

Feeling the children's resentment, Su He reached out and touched their heads, and said with a smile, "It's just a story, don't believe it all."

"Is the general dead?" Sixi asked expectantly.

Su He blinked and said, "I don't know."

The children looked disappointed, Dui took a few glances at the general's candy figurine, and said, "Brother Xiao Su, I like this candy figurine very much, but I didn't bring any money with me today, can you keep it, I'll buy it tomorrow .”

"If you like it, I will give it to you." Su He smiled.

After finishing speaking, he smiled and looked at the tangled expression on Duhu's face, as if he wanted it but couldn't.Finally, he made up his mind and said, "No, I will buy it."

"Alright then." Su He respected his decision.The families of these children are not rich. If they want to buy a sugar figurine, they will probably have to do farm work for a day.

"Must keep it." Dumb agreed.

"Understood," Su He pinched Duhu's cheeks, and said again, "Then are you going to pinch the Regent's sugar man tomorrow?"

"No." The four children wrinkled their noses and ran away with disgust on their faces.

Probably looking for a place to go sad together, Su He couldn't help laughing.

Mr. Storyteller made a lot of money today and left happily with the money.Everyone discussed intensely for a while, and gradually dispersed.

Among the crowd was a tall and straight figure in a blue shirt with a sword wrapped in white cloth on his back. He stood there frowning for a while, then turned and left.

"Young master, wait a moment!" A delicate voice came out, seeing people ignore him, he called out again, "Young master in blue, wait a moment!"

Lin Shuqian was stunned, turned around to search, met a pair of ink-like eyes, and couldn't help but look carefully. It turned out to be a sugar peddler passing by just now. The peddler's appearance was very ordinary, but his cheerful smile made people feel more A touch of vividness.After thinking about it, I still walked over, "You called me?"

The peddler of the sugar seller sent forward the newly colored sugar figurines in his hand, "I was engrossed in listening to the book earlier, so I thought that the young master probably likes a person in the story of Mr. Storyteller, and he just happened to have a general in his hand." Sugar man, do you want to buy it, my lord?"

"Didn't you promise to keep it for the children just now?" The immature and innocent child's voice drew him back from the gloom just now, making him want to avenge those children's grievances.

"Master's hearing is very good," the peddler praised, "It's easy to pinch candy figurines, and you can make as many as you want. This candy figurine is pretty good-looking, sir, don't you really want it?"

The peddler handed the sugar figurine in front of Lin Shuqian again. Lin Shuqian's eyes fell on the sugar figurine lightly, and suddenly, his eyes seemed to be fixed for a moment.

The general stuck on the bamboo stick is full of heroism, with a silver-white armor, two long feathers on his head, and a red-tasseled spear in his hand. The head of the sugar figure is only the size of the knuckle of an index finger, but the facial features are deeply drawn and carefully drawn. It turned out to be...

The peddler smiled and shook the candy figurine in front of Lin Shuqian, "This one is made according to the appearance of General Bang Thai, so the price will be a little more expensive than the others, one at [-] grains."

Lin Shuqian stared at it silently for a while, then took the sugar figurine from the vendor by accident, took out another piece of broken silver and put it on the wooden box, "You don't need to look for it."

After speaking, he turned and left.

The peddler squinted his eyes and put the money in his pocket. Today is a bumper harvest.