[Comprehensive] The days when I pretended to be a meow in the Forbidden City

After a few days of smooth sailing, the Bai family's merchant ship arrived in Jinhua from Hangzhou very quickly, ending their long voyage of one and a half months.

It was still autumn when they set off, and the beginning of winter had already passed by the time they arrived.

When Xia Anran disembarked, her footsteps were a bit vain. The wind in the last few days was too strong. Although it helped the ship move quickly, it also made the ship shake violently.

Even he, who is not seasick, would inevitably lie on the bed in the end and try to fix his head.

When the dizziness was the worst, Xia Anran felt that the tissues in her head had turned into a puddle of paste.

Fortunately, when they landed in Jinhua, the weather finally cleared up that day, otherwise it would be a disaster for both the people disembarking and the goods being moved.

As the main person in charge of Bai's business, Bai Jintang naturally has to go back to the Bai family's warehouse with the full cargo, and Xia Anran, as a guest, and their brother's future teacher, has no need to accompany them here wait.

Henceforth, the second young master of the Bai family abandoned his elder brother very calmly, and under the dark and sad eyes of his elder brother, he and Xia Anran rode in a carriage and entered Jinhua city with some of the unloaded goods.

As an area surrounded by mountains on three sides and water on the other, Jinhua County also maintains a stable temperature and humidity in winter.

Like Yongchun County, the best place to make fermented food is an area with relatively stable temperature and humidity.

The geographical location here may not be superior, access is difficult, and farming is difficult, but as compensation, the fair nature has endowed it with a stable environment that is not found in other areas. On this land, it is possible to breed delicious food that cannot be made otherwise. .

Jinhua Port is half a day away from Jinhua City, but if Xia Anran and the others want to move forward with goods and luggage, it will take a full day

But because these people were not in a hurry, and they finally landed on the land, they wanted to enjoy the feeling of walking on the land, so they walked very leisurely. After entering the Jinhua City Gate, it took more than half a day .

The Bai family is the richest man in Jinhua, and their reputation is excellent, and they are naturally very popular. Bai Ershao, who had not returned to his hometown for a long time, pretended to be his eldest brother, and was warmly welcomed by his parents and villagers as soon as he entered the city.

Together with forced marriage.

That's right, in the eyes of the locals in Jinhua, Young Master Bai is the kind of son-in-law who can't be found even with a lantern. It's a pity that the Song Dynasty generally married late, and Young Master Bai himself was the head of the family, and no one could As his master, he said that he didn't want to get married, and others could only recommend to him the young girls of the right age at home, and he couldn't be forced.

But this time, the enthusiastic Jinhua people discovered that Young Master Bai was accompanied by a handsome young man.

The demeanor and appearance are all first-class young people.

Although I don't know who this is, but I think it must be a good character to be brought by Eldest Young Master Bai's side.

I don't know if the little brother can get married, do you want to know about our daughter's family in Jinhuashui Dangdang?Our girls in Jinhua are beautiful, sweet-mouthed, and diligent, and they are all first-class!

That's right, the parents of the Song Dynasty were the same as the modern parents, they were not in a hurry for their children.This situation is entirely due to the large number of scholars in the Song Dynasty, and scholars would try to avoid early marriages in order to avoid the situation of poor wives.

It's okay for men not to get married, but girls can't bear it.

The color of the daughter's house is the best for those few years, and if it drags on, it will be dangerous to have children.

Scholars in the Song Dynasty had a high status, but anyone who made progress in the imperial examinations was the best investment target. Therefore, wealthy gentry who had the conditions mostly obtained benefits by catching sons-in-law under the rankings or investing in scholars.

Girls in this era also have the full right to choose. If they see the right one, they will pursue it hard. If it succeeds, it will be a good marriage.

Once you enter the city, you will naturally not be able to ride a horse. According to the laws of the Northern Song Dynasty, riding a horse in a busy city is a felony. If you are leading a horse, riding a horse is dangerous.

In this way, the group of people was very unfortunate to be blocked by the crowd. It took more than an hour to walk from the city gate to the Bai family compound.

At this moment, the two younger brothers have only one thought in their minds that can be called outrageous -- did Big Brother Bai/Big Brother do it on purpose?

Otherwise, why did you let us go first after only half a day?

But whether it was intentional or not, they couldn't verify it at the moment, and they had a hunch that Big Brother Bai would definitely not admit it.

Therefore, the two of them, especially Bai Jinxi, could only smile and exchange pleasantries while moving forward with difficulty.

The ancestral house of the Bai family is a very typical Jiangnan residential style, with white walls and black tiles, and a compact room type. Xia Anran feels very kind to this style of house.

It may be because they made too much noise, before a few of them arrived at the Bai Mansion, the servants of the Bai family and the insiders were waiting quietly at the gate of the house.

The leader was an old man with a kind face. When he saw Xia Anran walking forward in the caravan, he was slightly taken aback, but the smile on his face remained the same. Looking at it made people feel at ease.

And when he turned his gaze a little and saw Bai Jinxi, the old man blinked repeatedly, and after looking carefully, the eyes of Bai Jinxi were able to glow, as if he couldn't believe it.

Seeing this, Xia Anran understood, it seems that the head waiter should know about the twins of the Bai family, and he should also be a person who can recognize them.

The fact is exactly the same, on the surface, the insider of the Bai family just bowed to Bai Jinxi, this is an ordinary insider's gesture of welcoming the head of the family back home.

From his reaction, it can be seen that this is to hide Bai Jinxi's identity.

To be honest, Xia Anran felt that the behavior of the two brothers of the Bai family was a bit strange.

For example, even though they were on their own boat, the two brothers concealed their identities at first and appeared as Bai Jintang uniformly, but after they were exposed by Xia Anran and Lu Xiaofeng, they stopped pretending.

However, if it is said that they are guarding against Xia Anran and Lu Xiaofeng, then they are completely unnecessary, after all Lu Xiaofeng's attitude towards friends is well known.

Historically, only his friends cheated him, and he was really kind to his friends.

There is no reason to be on guard against yourself. Xia Anran met them by chance. To put it bluntly, it was just an employment relationship. If they really didn't want them to know, they could collude with Lu Xiaofeng. At that time, they just need to let Lu Xiaofeng tell him , Bai Jintang didn't have to disguise himself.

He won't get to the bottom of it.

But if it is insisted that they are guarding against the competitors of the Bai family, they would not evade that day when drinking with Lu's merchant ship and admiring the moon. before.

And facing the servants in his own family all pretending to be his elder brother, such a defensive posture is too strange.

But in Xia Anran's heart, although he felt that Bai Jinxi's body was not simple all his life, but out of trust in his lover, he still didn't plan to take care of it.

On the contrary, after the two entered the mansion, when arranging a room for Xia Anran, Bai Jinxi took the initiative to explain to him that his identity was a little sensitive, and he was easy to be seen outside, so in order not to hurt the Bai family, the second young master of the Bai family had always been The missing state is just that Young Master Bai is unwilling to give up, so the account has not been canceled.

As long as the family members do not report, the local government will naturally not issue a death certificate for nothing.

Xia Anran only smiled and nodded, as for whether he believed it or not, only he knew.

As usual, the head of the family has just returned home after traveling for three months, so there must be a lot of accumulated affairs, but everyone knows that the master is tired at this time, and the servants who are a little bit more sensible have nothing but urgent matters on the first day. , will not report.

And if there were really urgent matters, they would have been waiting at the port long ago. Bai Jintang also thought so, so he let the two of them go home first.

However, what everyone didn't expect was that something happened... It wasn't urgent, but it couldn't be delayed.

This matter has something to do with Xia Anran.

Because it's about his students.

Here's the thing.

After Xia Anran and Bai Jinxi entered the house that day, as the host, Bai Jinxi introduced Xia Anran to the insiders, and famously said that this is the gentleman hired by the third master of the Bai family to teach him the Six Classics of Wushu. Seeing that Naizhi was taken aback, he slowly pulled out an awkward smile.

Seeing this, I was just casually saying that the official meeting would be after Xia Anran went down to rest, and Bai Jinxi, who asked his younger brother to come to see Mr. the next day, raised his eyebrows. He nodded slightly, indicating that the family members may wish to speak clearly, and then they got the answer .

Bai Jiasaburo, after the eldest brother went out, the second brother disappeared, and he was in charge of the family, he actually did a good job at the beginning.After all, the end of the new year is approaching, and all you need to do is give the New Year's gift as usual. Bai Sanlang's martial arts talent is excellent, and when he is free, he beats away three waves of hooligans on the street.

It can be said that they have enthusiastically guarded the peace of Jinhua.

But within a few days, Bai Sanshao felt bored.

Normally, when the elder brother is at home, he would still watch him study literature, but not long ago, the pedantic teacher who was full of pedantry was just driven away by him. At that time, the elder brother was in a hurry to travel, so there was no time to invite a new professor for him. There is nothing to do outside of the time.

He was still young, and his elder brother was in charge of him tightly, so it was impossible for him to go to some strange places to pass the time, so he simply ran to the teahouse.

Song Dynasty storytelling was at its peak, so in the second month after my elder brother left, Bai Sanshao, who had nothing to do, threw himself into storytelling. In fact, he really didn’t like to listen to it, but, but this time The story is really wonderful, one trap after another, progressive layer by layer, the martial arts is also very exciting.

The author of this storybook is also well versed in the way of teasing, Bai Sanshao's teeth itch at every word, and he just wants to chase the storyteller and ask him to tell him the next story first.

But the storyteller is also from Jinhua, in the eyes of the storyteller, Bai Sanshao is not much different from the little boy next door who wants to eat candy. They will follow behind him to the Bai family to file a complaint.

After gritting his teeth, Bai Sanshao heard that this story had been serialized in their family's tabloid.

Bai Sanshao, who thought he never liked to read these gossips, rushed home immediately and ordered all the manuscripts to be shown to him.

It's a pleasure to read the manuscript for a while, but there is no text crematorium, that's what he said.

Bai Sanshao read all the manuscripts all night, and was about to continue to ask the supervisor, when he got a bad news, it was gone.

The rest of the text is here.

There is a problem of traveling by land. When Xia Anran was in Jinhua, the manuscripts were sent every two days, but when he arrived in Bianjing, to be honest, the manuscripts he handed over just after disembarking arrived a few days ago. All of them came back with them on board.

After getting off the boat, Xia Anran's manuscripts were basically [-] times higher. In addition, the cunning head of the Bai family discovered the benefits of matching pictures. First of all, the expressive ability of pictures is more intuitive than that of words, even if some people with less literary literacy A good boss can roughly guess what is written in this article from the picture.

Second, the layout is so big, after adding a picture, isn't the number of words less?

Since the last accident, the person in charge has gone to another extreme. He has changed from being extremely generous to being extremely stingy. Don't worry about breaking the manuscript anymore, wouldn't it be flattering?

The last one is a surprise.

Although the Baijia tabloid has monopolized a certain market, it does not have outlets in all places after all. The main radiation range of the Baijia is Jiangnan, and the markets in the north and west cannot be reached for a while.

But because of this, piracy appeared.

Piracy was rampant in the Song Dynasty, and basically every big boss was persecuted by pirates. When they encountered this situation, they could report to the government, and the government could crack down on piracy, but the tabloid thing...

Although the government did not explicitly prohibit the private printing of tabloids, it did not support it either. Simply put, this is a gray area stepping on the borderline of the law.

The point is, they haven't paid their taxes yet.

Cough, so it's not feasible to go to the government for this matter, and you can't escape if you go to the government.

When this happens, there is only one way to do it privately, and it all depends on whether the Bai family can catch someone.

However, it is almost impossible to catch a few pirates in the huge rivers and lakes. Firstly, those people pirated in the north. Secondly, the cost of printing according to the plate is not high. It will have the characteristics of concealment and flexibility, and of course it will be difficult to find people.

Especially in the end when they only printed the part of the script, some uninformed warriors in the north thought that the script was everything, and gradually they didn't even know that it was serialized in the Bai family's tabloid.

Even if some people who are in the rivers and lakes know that this is a serialization of the Bai family, but because of their own chassis, they will take it for granted that this is an authorized reprint.

This is naturally the result that pirates want. They use the pirated texts to attract traffic and cultivate loyal readers.

Once there are loyal readers, it will be easy to talk about it in the future.

But now, with the pictures, the readers of Yu Bai's family only feel that they are more careful, and they have provided pictures for every chapter!

As for the pirated version, I feel...it's a bit embarrassing.

Readers who read the original version didn’t notice the decrease in the number of words, or even if they did, they didn’t care, because there are beautiful pictures after all.But the piracy is obvious.

Of course, they can also steal the engravings and paintings together, but the cost is too high. Engravings and paintings are no better than engravings. The latter can be carved with a little skill. It can be seen that if they hire cheap engraving masters, their poor drawing skills can impress the popular northern readers in minutes. If they don't include pictures...then the number of words will be reduced.

Tsk, treacherous Southerners/Bai family!

The angry pirates cursed secretly at the same time.

It's just that this was not actually thought of by the treacherous Bai family. The purpose itself was just that the manager of the newspaper office wanted to count the words.

——From the point of view of the manager, now it is saving manuscripts that makes me happy, and saving manuscripts makes me happy.

But this is very embarrassing for the third young master of the Bai family.

Although the manuscript can be used for a long time for serialization, but he just read it for a while, and he is still stuck in a particularly critical position. What happened after all?After listening to it again, the article hasn't come yet, but Bai Sanshao, who is chasing the serialization, is so sad to death!

That's enough, don't talk about it, isn't it because the manuscript hasn't arrived yet, I'll go there myself, sir!The young master will personally press for your manuscripts!

As a standard activist, Bai Sanshao directly asked the steward to come to the place where the author was. He planned to rush to the door to find someone to ask the next question. The steward was so witty that he gave him the information about Xia Anran's stay in Songjiang Mansion.

As for what the author looks like, what are his characteristics... Uh, we don't know, the author is mysterious!But Saburo, you can ask the Baijia shop in Songjiang, the people there should have seen the author.

After the steward sent Bai Sanshao away with a smile, no one in the room spoke for a while. The steward was in a great mood, humming a song, and typesetting the next issue of the tabloid.

Until a long time later, there was finally a person who felt that his conscience could not bear it, and ran to ask the manager, "The shopkeeper, didn't that gentleman say that he went to Bianjing City? The latest issue of the tabloid came from Bianjing... ..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard the manager in charge say leisurely, "Well, is there such a thing? Why don't I know?"

Everyone silently watched the steward say this with an extremely exaggerated tone and acting skills, and seeing the faint contempt in everyone's eyes, the steward coughed dryly, and said: "Do what we do. You have to abide by the rules, and those who sell news say that they don’t want to tell them their identities, so we can’t pursue them, you can’t check, this is the reason why our Bai family has kept news for many years.”

Therefore, the third young master Bai was fooled by the manager of the newspaper to go to Songjiang to find Xia Anran who had been gone for a long time.As for when Bai Sanshao will find out that something is wrong, or when the shopkeeper in Songjiang can't help Bai Sanshao...cough.

It is estimated that Young Master Bai will also come back at that time.

Of course, no one said the last sentence. The shopkeeper of the newspaper office came to apologize seriously. Bai Jinxi just smiled and waved his hands. Instead, he apologized to the manager for his brother's ignorance of the rules.

Said it was an apology, but this person probably didn't feel that he was at fault.

Different from the employment relationship of later generations, which was like prostitution, the employment relationship in the Song Dynasty was very simple. Whoever signed the employment relationship with him would be loyal to him.

And the person who signed the contract with this steward is Bai Sanshao. Although Bai Sanshao is Bais young master's younger brother, and the Bai family is indeed a family business, in the final analysis, the steward does not have the duty to serve Baisan Shao.

As for the stupid brother at home...

He hasn't been home for a long time, and the impression of his younger brother is that he is still bright, lively and a little bit arrogant, and the carrot-headed Bai Er Shao can only temporarily suppress the itchy feeling in his hands.

Anyway, brother will be back tomorrow.

But to Xia Anran... that is really a little sorry.

Facing Bai Jinxi's apology, Xia Anran waved her hands so calmly that she didn't care.

Anyway, his salary is the sky's the limit, and Bai Sanshao has to be paid even if he is not in the Bai family. If he just takes money and does nothing, the whole world will not have any objections!

After Xia Anran signaled that she didn't need to worry about herself, she followed to report that the servants who had cleaned the house had entered her courtyard.

Jinhua is the state government of Wuzhou, and its status is equivalent to the status of Yongchun County governed by Xia Anran. This is also the place where the county and the state are in the same place.

However, the commerce, trade and logistics in such administrative areas are generally extremely developed, and Jinhua is also the intersection of Lanxi, Yongkang River and Dongyang River. The abundant water resources brought great benefits to this land surrounded by mountains on three sides during the Song Dynasty when water transportation was fully developed. Vigorous.

Xia Anran took Duoduoying and quickly tidied up the room. He didn't borrow the help of the servants of the Bai family, and he was very quick and quick.

Such deeds soon spread to Bai Jinxi's ears, and Bai Jinxi was only a little taken aback, then waved his hand to signal the subordinates to boil some hot water for him, and send some clothes that he could wear, don't worry about others.

The arrival of the hot water made Xia Anran greatly praise Er Shao Bai in his heart. After he finished tidying up his things and took out the clean clothes, he asked someone to bring in the hot water and bath beans, and then he was comfortable this winter. Got to soak in hot water.

It turned out to be a luxurious bathtub!It's still the kind of super big one that two people can take a bath together.

Xia Anran rolled up her long hair, trying not to let her black hair touch the water. It's getting late today, and I'm afraid I won't be able to dry it when I have dinner at night. Why don't I wash it tomorrow morning.

He had just squinted his eyes to relax his muscles in the water, when he suddenly heard the sound of fluttering, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Duoduo blinking his eyes and tilting his head from side to side to look at himself, and then Xia Anran saw it tentatively stretched out a Only the paw wants to touch the water.

"Ouch!" Xia Anran hastily caught the bird that almost stretched her tiny legs in. It wasn't that he thought it was too dirty, it was just that he used the water for bathing, and the temperature of the water was about 50 degrees. , the temperature is still too high for birds.

"Jiujiu." Duoduo didn't struggle when he was held in the hand, but just stretched his calf in the air, expressing that he also wanted to take a bath.

Xia Anran was looking left and right to see if there was anything in the house for the bird to bathe in, then she heard the door attendant knock on the door, "Your Majesty, what are your orders?"

Presumably, the servants who were waiting outside to add water to Xia Anran heard Xia Anran's exclamation, but they didn't hear it all, so they came to inquire. Xia Anran pinched the bird in embarrassment, and said to the outside, "Trouble me, Xiaolang!" Get a tub in."

There was a response from outside, and after a while, they knocked on the door. After Xia Anran answered, a small waiter came in holding a small basin. He just looked up at Xia Anran and wanted to ask if the size was okay, when he saw this Mr. Xia Lang was taken aback by this weird posture, and then he looked at the bird he was holding in his hand and was also looking here, and he understood it immediately.

"Sir, do you want to bathe the bird?"

After getting an affirmative answer, he smiled, and then went outside to fetch some cold water, dragged a small table and put it on the side of the bathtub, "Sir, please put the birds in, this water is cold water, only slightly heated Water, in this season, birds are not easy to catch cold when combing with cold water."

After Xia Anran thanked, she stretched out her wet arms and put Xia Duoduo into the small basin. Xia Duoduo stepped on the edge, then stretched out her little feet to test the temperature, and then jumped into it happily.

For a semi-wild bird like Xia Duoduo, the temperature of the warm and cold water after adding some hot water is completely acceptable.

After a while, he spread his wings and patted the water in the basin.

Seeing that he was having fun, Xia Anran didn't bother him much, just pulled a bath towel and put it on the side of the small basin so that it could be wiped off after it came out. After the waiter added water to him, Xia Anran was happy After taking a bath and resting for a day, the head of the Bai family, Bai Jintang, returned the next day.

When he came back, Xia Anran was eating breakfast with Bai Jinxi. They ate Jinhua's local breakfast snacks, which Xia Anran had never eaten before. His mouth was oily and he was very happy.

Bai Jintang looked at these two leisurely people in disbelief, and couldn't understand these two people... especially how his younger brother could be so leisurely!

Brother, brother ran away from home!

He waved his hand to signal the servant to go down, sat down angrily, picked up a piece of shortbread, chewed it several times, and then asked Bai Jinxi, "Second brother, how can third brother handle this matter?"

Bai Ershao finished a piece of shortbread in two or three mouthfuls, and said calmly, "Little brother is going to be sixteen, he is skilled in martial arts, and he has brought silver taels, so nothing will happen."

I understand the reason.

But just worry!Hey, this is a distress that only the eldest brother can understand!

Brother Bai let out a long sigh, and then he met Xia Anran who was drinking tea.

His movements froze suddenly.

He thought of the younger brother he had introduced to Xia Anran a few days ago.

What did he say a few days ago?

All-rounder in civil and military affairs, talented and intelligent, good-looking, a little bit proud, but that's because he is proud of his talent, and he is usually very well-behaved.

This is very embarrassing.

Bai Jintang coughed lightly, wanting to plead his respect for his younger brother, but suddenly had an idea: "Brother Xia, my younger brother is really destined for you."

The author has something to say: Xia Miao: Thank you, I think so too =w=

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The author has something important to say: can you write a comment first and then read the speech, today's post is a bit long...it is estimated that the comment will be off track. (cover face)

To be honest, the author’s earliest setting was that Xia Miao secretly wrote novels, and then fell into a trap, and then Bai Sanshao, who fell into the pit, came to her door like this...

cough,

Later, I felt that if I wrote it like this... my readers would definitely say: Hehehehe, this is the end of the pitiful article, the author, you must know it well!

Jiang Zi...it's too scary, forget it, let's change the setting.

It is also quite touching to find the hateful author Jun and then find out that it is my second sister-in-law.

Hahahaha

Today is a happy transitional chapter. In fact, there will be more behind the codewords, but I think the ending of this sentence is interesting!

thumbs up.

...Let me tell you that I find habit really scary.

The red chamber volume is 3K per day, 3K per piece, and then the [-]th day of the Three Kingdoms...then the [-]th day, and the [-]th day, but after the Three Kingdoms, I set up FLAG and worked hard to catch up with the number of chapters.

Why... my Northern Song Dynasty scroll also... somehow started to count the words?

"Han Hou" is over.

The author seems to have lost half of his soul... silently spit out his little soul.

In fact, I basically chase every book written by Yuanfangda, but because I know that Yuanfangda writes very long books... so I can read the text, um... I am not a good reader, but "Hanhou" I am one-third I started chasing the sun in one day, and it will take six months to catch up now!Feeling sad when it's over.

The point is, there is a little bit of emptiness, but there seem to be quite a lot of historical-themed novels recently, and they popped up all of a sudden recently!It's just a little thin and needs to be nourished.

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The parrot is so cute taking a bath! !

A tub that allows two people to take a bath together hehehe.

A cold knowledge:

Internal knowledge = housekeeper, the Song Dynasty called the emperor official family, so of course the word housekeeper does not exist!

Speaking of Song Dynasty, there are actually many things, whether it is called or how it is done, it is not the same as the later generations. Fortunately, this is a semi-overhead comprehensive world. After combining Lu Xiaofeng with the background of the Ming Dynasty, the author can see hope.

Otherwise, it is estimated that the name alone will bother the bald head.

I will talk about the problem of memory later, the author threw out the foreshadowing in a daze last night, and I am regretting it today.In fact, it's quite complicated. It's not that whoever dies first has no memory!If so, this setting is too bad!