Village Flowers and Female Scholars

The emperor changed in one day. Although it didn't change much for the people at the bottom, it was a big deal for the officials at the top.

The original royalists were in constant panic, for fear that the day the new emperor ascended the throne would be the day when their heads would move.

Zhen Li is capable, but he is not a brainless person.

At the beginning of his accession to the throne, the foundation was unstable. Except Zuoxiang Yuquan and other famous people who were in front of the emperor, all the famous people before the emperor were put in prison pending trial.

He was also merciless to the stubborn and old-fashioned clamorers, and nearly a hundred people were beheaded in one day.

The ministers were terrified, knowing that the new emperor had great means, but seeing that those who knew the current affairs had to be reused, they turned their backs one after another, and all voices against the new emperor disappeared within a few days.

The new emperor ordered Dali Temple to re-trial the injustice case of the Zhou family. The truth about the death of the Zhou family's army crying out for injustice soon became clear, and Zhen Li took the opportunity to bloodbath the opponents involved.

At the same time, Zhou Wencheng was awarded the mighty general, and Zhou Wencheng's wife, Cui Shi, was awarded the title of Mrs. Gaoming.

Recall the old part of the Zhou family's escape, divide the land and rebuild the Zhou family's mansion.

Zhou Wencheng had no sons, only two daughters, and because of his father's death, he ordered the eldest daughter Zhou Yijing to inherit his official rank and take charge of the imperial army stationed in Shilongwan.

After the new emperor finished these trivial matters and was finally able to free up his hands to deal with other important matters, the newly added more than 200 Jinshi were uneasy. They were appointed by Emperor Feichang to pass the palace examination, but they did not know whether the new emperor would recognize him or not.

If the exam is retaken, it will be exhausting for everyone, and even more afraid that if the performance is abnormal, the title of Jinshi won will be handed over to others.

The new emperor seemed to be aware of their concerns, and issued an imperial decree declaring that this year's palace examination is valid.

This year's scientific examination, the chief examiner also has people from the new school. There was no fraudulent behavior in the examination room, and there were no major mistakes. Now is the time to recruit people and win people's hearts. The new emperor made a decision after careful consideration .

The students rushed to tell each other with joy.

The queen ordered relevant officials to cooperate with the Ministry of Rites to arrange new Jinshi and assign them to various positions.

He also specially summoned this year's female No. [-] scholar, Zhuang Wan.

Zhen Li looked at the familiar face in front of him, with mixed feelings in his heart.

The usually serious face also softened a lot, and asked: "I heard from the Imperial Academy that you don't want to stay, why is that?"

"Back then, my adoptive father risked his life to save me, and my grandmother was still waiting for me to return home. Now the capital is full of talents, and I would like to return to my hometown to serve as herder for His Majesty."

Generally, the top three who are hand-picked will advance to the Hanlin Academy to be on duty.

It is a very honorable thing for all candidates to be selected into the Imperial Academy, and it is also the lifelong ideal of scholars and bureaucrats in the world.

But now Zhuang Wanyan meant to give up such a good opportunity and want to find a small official in a remote place, which made the empress very puzzled.

"Now that your mother is buried in the capital, if you go so far away, she will not feel at ease."

The queen only mentions Zhou's mother but not Zhou's father, Zhuang Wan's heart is delicate.

"My sister has now been recalled to Beijing, and her parents are waiting at her grave. Wan just lives far away, and it's not like she's gone forever."

The queen sighed, and changed the subject: "Yesterday, I received a report from the county magistrate of Furong County, Zhongliang Prefecture. The county magistrate Wang mentioned that he had a wonderful strategy for farming, saying that raising fish in rice fields can make food more abundant." The harvest has doubled, he conducted an experiment in a village called Shangyan Village, and the people have had a bumper harvest for two consecutive years, and he asked me for credit, you have lived in Furong County all these years, can this happen?"

Furong County is a few months away from Kyoto, and the empress has been on the throne for nearly two months. I'm afraid that the emperor's change of person has not been informed there yet, and even if they do, Zhezi is already on the way.

This book was originally presented to the previous emperor Changdi, but now it has passed into the hands of the empress.

Zhuang Wan laughed out of anger when she heard the words, this Wang Renshou is usually greedy for fish and meat, even if the common people, such a credit can be snatched.

"Returning to Your Majesty, the matter of raising fish with rice flowers is true, but it was not the county magistrate's idea. It was thought up by a girl in Shangyan Village who has been engaged in farm work for many years and promoted it in the whole village."

"Oh," the queen became interested in an instant, "Since she has been working in agriculture for many years, but she is still a little girl, wouldn't she have to go to the fields since she was a child?"

Zhuang Wan nodded: "Nowadays the people in the countryside live in poverty, and most children have to work in the fields since they were young."

Seeing that the emperor was interested, she told her in detail about Xie Jinniang's life experience and how to get rid of the Cao family, how to open a shop, and how to raise rice flowers and fish.

"There is a little girl with such a rough background in the world, but she is so intelligent. The printing machine that Wang Cheng, the magistrate of Zhongliangzhou, sent a secret report to, was also developed by her. Where is this thing, please show it to me quickly. "

After finishing speaking, he hastily added: "There is also that little girl, let her enter the palace as well."

Today the Empress specially summoned her, Xie Yan and Zhuang Wan had expected that she would ask about movable type printing, so they also made preparations early.

As soon as the palace people arrived, Xie Yan brought the mimeograph and movable type printing models into the palace to face the saint.

The queen looked at the little girl who was only sixteen or seventeen years old in front of her. She really didn't expect that the person who could develop such a machine was so young.

So he tentatively said: "I heard that you can print thousands of identical sheets of paper with one piece of oil paper for engraving, this is really true."

After all, Xie Yan is a soul from modern times, facing such a high-ranking person, he still behaved gracefully, but his calm expression made the empress like it for no reason, and motioned for her to demonstrate it again.

Xie Yan comprehended, took out a piece of smooth mimeograph paper without engraving and a special iron pen and said: "Please ask your majesty to call someone to write the words to be printed on this oil paper."

Seeing this, the Empress didn't ask anyone else to write for her. Instead, she asked someone to present a stylus and oiled paper to write by herself.

Zhuang Wan hurriedly told her the skill of using the brush with force, not to be too light or too heavy, the emperor quickly understood the key points, and wrote a pair of warning books given to her by the previous emperor.

About three to four hundred words, the empress had already engraved this warning book in her heart, and wrote it down smoothly without stopping to think about it.

Seeing this, Xie Yan also had a little more admiration for the queen.

After finishing writing, Xie Yan put the oiled paper into the mimeograph machine, and skillfully inked it as before.

Soon, as soon as the ink wheel rolled, the handwriting was clearly printed wherever it went. In the blink of an eye, the first page was printed.

Xie Yan took out the piece of paper and handed it to the eunuch at the side. The eunuch opened his eyes wide when he saw the exact same characters on the white paper, turned around and hurriedly took small steps to present it.

The queen glanced at it, and her face was full of disbelief. The handwriting on the paper was indeed her own, and even the extra stroke that was accidentally drawn just now was not bad at all.

Regardless of her appearance, she walked down from the Golden Luan Hall in three steps at a time, leaning over to observe Xie Yan's operation carefully.

She moved swiftly, and as the paper was flying, more than a dozen printed papers were presented in front of her eyes.

"Wonderful, wonderful," the queen clapped her palms and laughed, "With this machine, there will be no people in the world and no books to read."

Xie Yan hurriedly took out the movable type printing mold she had prepared, and presented it to the empress.

"This thing is called movable type printing. It is more suitable for large-scale printing than the mimeograph machine. The text font is also more uniform, and the typesetting and disassembly are more convenient."

The empress is an extremely intelligent person, Xie Yan explained the working principle of movable type printing carefully and she understood what was going on.

She didn't expect that she would get so many treasures at the beginning of her new ascension to the throne, no, it should be because of such a treasure talent.

"Xie Jinniang, at such a young age, you have such profound attainments in mechanical manufacturing. Why don't you stay in Kyoto and do your part for the country?"

Xie Jinniang didn't expect the empress to be so excited, and hurriedly replied: "These equipment, including rice flower fish farming, are all inspired by labor. If you live in the palace, you may not be able to get such inspiration."

Zhuang Wan also hurriedly added: "Your Majesty, we went all the way north from Shangyan Village, and the people along the way couldn't eat enough. It's better to let Jinniang go back, develop more farmland-related equipment, and then promote it to all the people. The people are strong. Wouldn't it be better for the country to be rich."

The empress said unhappily: "Why is my palace so terrible, neither of you want to stay here."

The two hurriedly knelt down and begged the emperor for forgiveness.

The queen watched the two defending each other, and an imperceptible emotion flashed in her eyes.

"Forget it, I don't want to force it, but Xie Jinniang, the things you develop must be sent to the capital as soon as possible."

Xie Yan hurriedly nodded in response.

"Zhuang Wan, although you are so stubborn, I think you are talented and a rare talent. For your mother's sake, I won't make things difficult for you."

"The county magistrate of Furong County has been incompetent and incompetent all these years, and he has done a good job as a nine-rank sesame official. After the imperial decree is drafted, he will be an official." The queen walked down, patted Zhuang Wan lightly, and said, "You don't want to live or die. As an official in the capital, Furong County will be handed over to you in the future."

"You have a master like Xie Jinniang by your side, so don't disappoint my expectations of you."

"Xie Jinniang, seeing how rebellious you are, you want to be an official. How about making you a farmer?"

"Thank you for your majesty's kindness. The grassroots have no official ability and dare not trust them, but no matter whether they are officials or not, the grassroots will swear allegiance to your majesty and do their best to assist Zhuang Wan to improve the agriculture and economy of Furong Town so that the common people can There are clothes to wear and food to eat.”

The queen was overjoyed when she heard what she said.

"Not only farmland food, but also commercial operations. In the past, agriculture was emphasized and business was suppressed. I think it's a pity. Once business develops, why worry about no one farming!"

When Xie Yan heard Zhen Li's bold words, she couldn't help but follow her with arrogance, thinking that she would go back with Zhuang Wan quickly, drive Wang Renshou out of power, and boost the economy of Furong County as soon as possible.

But now the memorial tablet of the Zhou family has not been built yet, so Zhuang Wan has to stay no matter what, and leave only after paying homage to the memorial tablet of her parents.

Finally, after more than a month, Zhuang Wan and his party finally embarked on the return journey.

Zong Jing, the current owner of the Zhou family, sent them there. At this time, her hair was already coiled up, and she was wearing a woman's bun.

The tall and tall Yi Zheng was looking at her dotingly.

Seeing her increasingly calm posture, Zhuang Wan finally felt relieved and said goodbye.

"Sister, brother-in-law, this time we're leaving, I don't know when we'll see you again, take care."

Accompanied by a guard team of 40 or [-] people, the carriage was loaded with gold and silver treasures, which were all rewarded by the emperor to Zhuang Wan.

Xie Yan in the carriage was grinning from ear to ear, with all this money, when he returned to Furong County, he would not be self-made.

But Zhuang Wan who was at the side kept thinking about what the emperor said last night in a daze.

"I have been in love with your mother for several years. Emperor Chang was greedy for your mother's beauty and wanted to take it for himself. At that time, the two of us were weak and unable to compete. Coupled with the pressure behind the family, your mother had no choice but to marry Zhou. Family, who would have thought that Emperor Chang would be so mad, and even more lawless after he came to the throne, that his mother was bound to win, so he ordered Yu Quan to call back the Zhou family army and wipe them out together, but your mother swore she would not give up to that lunatic, and hanged herself. Emperor Chang suppressed this matter, and I only learned about these things later."

The author has something to say: I know you don't like Zong Jing, but her story is actually quite sad in my imagination.

Certainly not just a peach reason.

Zong Jing's story is written until the author has something to say, so I won't put the main text. 46

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There are positive characters and negative characters in a novel. When I put it in the next chapter, everyone gave Zong Jing different opinions. There are regrets and dislikes. There are all kinds of opinions. I think her story is worthwhile. No, since everyone has such a big opinion, I will delete it.

A friend later said that I am too obsessed with comments, and if a novel is full of decent characters, it will not be worth reading.

The side story of this chapter will also let everyone see Zong Jing and Yu Wanqiu with more flesh and blood.

If you don't like them, you can skip the story directly and go to the next chapter. w410

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My name is Zhou Yijing.

After the death of my parents, my sister and I were sent to Aunt Lan and renamed Zong Jing in order to avoid the pursuit of the enemy.

Aunt Lan is a romantic debt made by my grandfather when he was playing around.

Grandfather was a proper scumbag, he patted his ass and left after meeting a beautiful woman.

It was not until 18 years later that a little girl came to him and told him that her name was Lanxi, and she was his wandering child. Now that her mother was dead, she came to join him specially.

Grandfather relied on his natal family to make a fortune back then, so he was frightened immediately, and gave her a large sum of money to tell her to leave quickly and not to ruin his happy family again.

The little girl was not angry either. After all, in the past 18 years, her father had been portrayed as a ruthless bastard, so she came here without any hope. With the money, he happily returned to his hometown and opened a home bodyguard agency.

But somehow the story got to my mother.

My mother is the only child in the family, and she was curious about what it was like to have brothers and sisters, so she secretly went down to the Miaohe area to find Aunt Lan.

In the end, she was actually found.

Aunt Lan's personality is straightforward and unpretentious, a look that my mother has never seen before.

Aunt Lan didn't expect that this wealthy daughter would come to her door. Seeing that my mother was so knowledgeable and innocent, the two sisters got along very happily.

But my grandfather can't be known about his food, otherwise he will be kicked out of Cui's house, and my mother can only hide this relationship. After returning, she and Aunt Lan will exchange letters in private.

When the news came that my father led troops back to Beijing to force the palace and was surrounded and suppressed, my mother was shocked, but she seemed to have known that this day was coming, and arranged for me, my sister, and the children of my father's subordinates to be taken out of the capital to the court. Aunt Lan ran away.

But this wave of movements still alarmed the thief, and he led his men in hot pursuit.

My younger sister and I got separated, because my father was a military general, and I was naturally active and strong, so I was arrested by my father to practice martial arts when I was very young. When I fled, I rode a horse alone.

After getting separated from the crowd, I followed the horse to Tuer Ridge.

There I picked up a little blind man, who threw him into this ghostly place.

She was wearing light yellow clothes, and she was skinny.

But it was such a skinny little girl who gave me her only peach left.

Halfway up Tu'er Ridge, it's very cold after nightfall, and every gust of wind feels like a knife cut in the face.

I was in a cave with this little blind man, feeling the shivering body around me, thinking that she must be too cold to bear.

So I had a rare kindness and moved my body to let her lean on her, so as not to freeze to death.

Who would have thought that the little blind man hugged my arm tremblingly, and asked cautiously, "I'm holding you, are you still cold?"

I was a little stunned, I thought I was giving her alms, but it turned out that she was pitying me.

His complexion couldn't help but become a little bad at this time.

Seeing my indifference, she didn't feel scared at all, she held my hand and comforted me, "Little mute, you have to live well."

"..."

I didn't speak, let her continue to misunderstand.

In this way, the two of us, blind and dumb, persisted in Tuerling for several days.

Until the sound of horseshoes at the foot of the mountain, and seeing Brother Yi's chapped lips, I knew I was saved.

When I wanted to take her with me, Brother Yi stopped me, so I could only say goodbye to her.

She cried and hugged me and asked me why I didn't take her away.

I gently stroked her fluffy hair, suppressed my tears, and said, "This is the main road for caravans to pass by. Someone will come soon, and you will follow them when the time comes."

I myself am on the verge of life and death, so why should I take her to and fro to die together.

She didn't expect that I could speak, and she seemed to realize something, and the tears flowed more joyfully.

The sound of horseshoes in the vicinity did not sound like a caravan, but rather like soldiers chasing me for days. Brother Yi dragged me onto the horse without saying a word, and the horse raised its hooves and quickly ran out of the border of Tuerling.

This group of pursuers are all private soldiers of Yu Thief, and they are all ruthless. If they know that the little blind man has been in contact with me, her end will be beyond redemption.

I cried and scolded Brother Yi for being so cruel that he couldn't tolerate a little blind man. My horse can still run and bring another person.

Brother Yi told me that the little blind man was the youngest daughter of the thief, but for some reason she was reduced to Tu’er Ridge with me. The sound of hoofbeats was the person looking for her, and she would be found soon after arriving here.

As soon as I heard that he was Yu Thief's daughter, my heart, which was originally hot, immediately cooled down.

Along the way, like a walking dead, I was sent to Furong County until I became the head of the bandit village in Tongshan.

The only thing that comforts me is that my sister was rescued by a kind person, but unfortunately that person risked his life.

Since then, I have been guarding the bodyguard during the day, and when I have free time, I will go back to live in the cottage. The cottage is full of the former members of the Zhou family who escaped with me back then.

I have also become a well-known bandit leader. People describe the bandits in Tongshan as vicious men with scars on their faces. Tortured severely to avenge my parents' blood.

It wasn't until later that I actually met her while walking darts, when she was sitting in a newlywed sedan chair.

People along the road said that Zuoxiang married a girl, how could she marry so far away in Cangzhou, and still marry a fifty-year-old old man as a sequel.

Someone replied: "The bride was born of an unfavored concubine. For marriage, Prime Minister Zuo would not think so much, but anyway, no matter how old the groom is, he is the magistrate of Cangzhou. She wanted to hang herself, but was threatened by the left minister with her mother, so the little lady could only use rouge to cover up the marks on her neck, put on her wedding dress and got married in a sedan chair."

As soon as I heard it, I couldn't control the pain in my heart. I told myself that it was the thief's daughter.

But I couldn't hold back in the end, that was my enemy's daughter, and no one else could do it if I wanted to torture her.

So I took off the clothes of the Escort Bureau, covered it up to snatch the bride, carried the bride and ran away.

I took the little blind man back to the cottage, and now she is no longer blind, and has grown up, her big eyes are as watery as when I saw them in Tuerling.

She immediately recognized me at that time, and opened her mouth and called me little dumb.

I went from trying to torture her to torturing myself.

I don't know what she has been through these years, but she seems to have guessed the secret thoughts in my heart and became very active.

During those days, I only saw my little blind man, and I had already forgotten the boy who had treated me differently since I was a child, and rushed to Tuerling to save me in order to find me for three days and three nights without sleep.

I spent an unforgettable time in the cottage. I was so happy that I thought of my parents and the tens of thousands of soldiers who died in the Zhou family army. Their deaths were all because of her father.

The past is pouring down like a basin of cold water, how could I be so happy with my enemy's daughter, so I couldn't help torturing her verbally and physically/physically.

Afterwards, I couldn't help but feel distressed and couldn't help apologizing.

She is Yu thief's daughter, but she is also a daughter who is not treated by the family. I am confused.

Maybe my capriciousness caused her to become very painful, begging me to let her go down the mountain, how could I.

So I imprisoned her, and sometimes I let her go for a walk when I saw her pitiful, and finally she contacted Fang who was imprisoned on the mountain.

I didn't know about it until I received the news that the officers and soldiers were attacking the mountain.

I didn't hit her or scold her.

Arrange the people in the cottage to go out through the secret passage, until finally only a few young adults were left to deal with the officers and soldiers in front of the mountain, so as to cover the escape of others.

I asked her if she wanted to come with me.

She shook her head.

There was a stabbing pain in my heart: "You go back, don't you have to marry that old man in Cangzhou, so are you still willing to go back?"

She stared blankly and didn't answer me.

Seeing that the ladders for the officers and soldiers had been set up, I was very anxious, but she didn't give me any response. She was wearing a goose yellow dress, just like the one I saw her on the halfway up Tuerling.

She had made up her mind, and the arrival of officers and soldiers was also expected by her.

I gritted my teeth, entered the secret passage before the officers and soldiers entered the cottage, and left her in the empty stilted building.

The brothers and sisters in the cottage are all gone, and the identity and will that everyone has been holding on to seems to have collapsed the moment the cottage was captured.

I'm sorry for Aunt Lan, and I'm sorry for the brothers and sisters in the village.

And Wanqiu's departure made me even more disheartened. I spend my days aimlessly running darts, and if I meet someone who doesn't have long eyes and dares to cause trouble, I will cut off his head without hesitation. .

After more than a month, I specially picked up the escort to Cangzhou, and after delivering the escort, I went to the busiest casino to inquire about the new concubine of the magistrate with those bums.

The yellow-toothed lazy man smiled wretchedly and said, "Your Majesty is really strong and healthy. This month, he has taken in two concubines in a row, and they are both beautiful young girls."

I endured the nausea in my chest and asked with trembling hands: "Who are these two concubines?"

The lazy man took the silver and said with a smile: "One surnamed Liu, who is the daughter of some poor family, and the other surnamed Jia is from the land of fireworks."

I took back the money and said, "Didn't you say that Zuo Xiang's daughter is going to marry?"

Seeing the duck in his hand flying away, the lazy man flattered and said: "I heard that the woman was kidnapped by the bandits on the mountain, and the left minister was furious, but the prefect of Cangzhou didn't dislike it. I would dare to marry a bitch, not to mention the bandits in the cottage. So Prime Minister Zuo wanted to keep a low profile and marry his daughter, but who knew that woman stabbed her throat with scissors and killed herself the night before the trip."

"Do you think it's strange that after being captured by the bandits on the mountain for so long without letting go of a fart, now she wants to marry a magistrate to be so chaste and fierce, bah."

At this time, I was like a thunderstorm, hitting the lazy man on the ground with one punch, and punching his stinky mouth again and again, until he cried for his father and mother.

I didn't leave angrily until the people from the casino pulled me away.

Wanqiu is gone, and my life is like a walking dead. Brother Yi wrote to tell me that my sister was the top student in high school, and the Zhou family’s injustice case has been solved. Even under the instruction of Emperor Chang, they were all exterminated. Now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, he will immediately reverse the case for the Zhou family and prepare me for the new emperor who will call me back to Beijing soon.

Sure enough, the next day the imperial edict came down, asking me to summon the old members of the Zhou family to go to Beijing to accept the canonization of the emperor.

After returning to Beijing, I inherited my father's official title, and everything returned to the glory of the Zhou family's heyday.

But I can't be happy, and the people around me are gone.

Parents have died, my younger sister will return to her hometown to work, and Wan Qiu——Wan Qiu has already left.

I was in a trance and didn't know how to go, but the long gun on my body was the weapon my father used to kill the enemy, and now it has passed into my hands.

There is also the red cloak behind her, which was embroidered by my mother herself, and she said that in the future, my son will be safe when he wears this cloak.

The empress commemorates the past relationship with her mother, and entrusts her with a heavy responsibility.

The rise and fall of the Zhou family depends entirely on me.

Of course, there is also the boy with bright eyebrows back then, who has now grown into a burly man like an iron tower, with a familiar and gentle smile between his eyebrows and eyes.

This person will always stand up in times of crisis, and has been with him for many years and never gave up.

If you have failed one person, do you want to fail another person?

I don't know when I can let go of the past, but the person who used to be, he has been waiting, he is willing to hold my hand and lead me out step by step.

I can't go back, so let's keep going.