How many buildings are in the mist

Xie Yan didn't intend to force this person to stay here, but she voluntarily wanted to stay and wandered around, so it was up to her.In Cui Xuanji's letter, he said, be careful that King Nankang will leave Beijing recently, and he may go south to spy on the realities of the aristocratic family.The letter clearly suggested not to obstruct King Nankang, to avoid causing trouble, and to provide help and protection if encountered.Seeing the letter, Xie Yan said in his heart that since he came here for the purpose of spying, he would definitely come to see how my family is doing.Since she's coming, I don't care what form she takes, I just sit and wait.I have no shame in the world, why are you checking me?

But going out hunting is completely a daily life, and she never thought that she would meet someone suspected of being King Nankang when she went out hunting.In spring, the grass and trees germinate. In order to prevent the rabbits from becoming a disaster, she often organizes her family soldiers and clans to go hunting.I saw a deer by accident that day, and wanted to chase after it, but didn't really want to kill it.Unexpectedly, it was raining heavily, and everyone was hiding from the rain in the woods on the side of the official road, and they happened to see a group of village ruffians walking along the path.How could she, the number one sect of the Shanyin family and the lord of Shuangluo City, condone private fighting?Only then did I bump into the two master and servant.

The person wearing the veil, even if his eyes are exposed, is still looking forward to his appearance, standing among the crowd, with a detached and independent temperament.It seemed that even if there were thousands of troops around, if she ignored them, she would not be able to invade them at all.

Xie Yan always thought that this kind of beauty can only be found between mountains and rivers and nature, but he never thought that it can also exist in living people.

No, it should be said that this person herself is this kind of beauty, she is the product of beauty, beauty itself.

This person said that she was Li Zhang, the youngest daughter of the Li family in Longxi, and she had been practicing in Kaishan Temple outside Jiankang since she was a child.Xie Yan didn't intend to believe it all.Although this person's clothes are not gorgeous or even deliberately simple, but everything is made of good materials, and he doesn't know the sufferings of the people, so he must be healthy and wealthy.But the veil and the chain are really suspicious.Xie Yan didn't ask, knowing that the National People's Congress can say that wearing a veil is my legacy from Longxi, or that I don't want to cause trouble when I come out this time.But too coincidental is an anomaly in her view.If Zhezhu said that my girl was too beautiful to hide her face from the street prodigals, she would still be willing to believe her.

No matter whether she is Li Zhang or King Nankang, Xie Yan should regard her as the honored guest.From Shanyin to Shuangluo, Xie Yan walked with her all the way to see the real ones and not fake ones, no one informed them beforehand, and it remained the same afterwards.Xie Yan guessed that she would say that she was bothering her soon, and then she would either leave or look around by herself.Sure enough, Feng Zizhang offered to ask if he could walk around freely the next morning, and Xie Yan immediately agreed.Feng Zizhang made many excuses, Xie Yan just said why the girl was so polite and considerate, which saved me a lot of trouble.Both of them felt tired of being polite.

She doesn't want to find out if this person is Feng Zizhang right now, she doesn't care if he is, she will do it anyway.

Feng Zizhang's master and servant have been wandering around Shanyin County for a few days now, because they pretend to travel around the mountains and rivers, so they dare not actually ask around every day.I don't know if it's because of walking around the city with Xie Yan, no one bothered her anymore.They asked ordinary people about the situation of the aristocratic families in Shanyin, and they mainly asked how the Xie family was.Unexpectedly, there were criticisms of the four families, but unanimous praise for the Xie family.Feng Zizhang didn't dare to believe it.It wasn't until one day when she met a peasant woman who set up a stall and told them the story of the original Shuangluo City that the balance in her heart began to shift.

The peasant woman was extremely enthusiastic. When it came to the excitement, although she was speechless, she was already dancing, and she was afraid that words would not be enough to express her gratitude to the original host. "You said you," Feng Zizhang interrupted her, "was originally a servant of the Xie Mansion?"

"Yes, otherwise, girl, how do you think I know so clearly? When the current city owner was young, I even cooked for her!"

"How did you get out?"

"Come out? I didn't want to come out! How nice it is to stay in Shuangluo City, where you can eat and drink, and the master doesn't bully you. It's my husband who wants to plant his own field, and my son wants to join the army. He couldn’t join the army, so he was redeemed.”

"Where did the field you are planting come from?"

"The master gave it to me! I told my husband that if we planted it ourselves and caught up with a famine and were accidentally bought by others, why not ask the master to change us to be tenants of the master's house, and the rent is the same? , Borrowing farm cattle is much cheaper than other houses! I don’t bully others! In the end, I went to ask the city lord—”

"Who was the city lord at that time?"

"It's the current city lord's father!"

Feng Zizhang also wanted to ask Xie Chen how he looked, but the peasant woman didn't give her this opportunity at all, and continued to talk about how Xie Chen agreed to his request, how he allowed himself to redeem the identity of a family, how he gave his family a good piece of land, how he borrowed it. A farming ox, how the couple built a house in Shanyin City relying on the field and the ox, and now they plan to start a small business. "Anyway, thank you so much! Thank you so much! It's my son who only knew a few words when he was a child with the city lord. Last year, with the blessing of the city lord, he wrote a letter to the elders of the Cui family. Young Master, I am going to join the army in Jiangxia County!"

Feng Zizhang nodded, knowing that Xie Yan's mother was Cui Tong, another daughter of the Cui family, so it was not difficult to find Cui Xuance, the eldest cousin who guarded Jiangxia, to arrange someone. "Are there many slaves like you who came out of Xie's mansion?"

"It's not too much to say, after all, not everyone wants to come up with it."

"How much do you know?"

After staying for several days, I took the time to write a long reply letter, and sent the letter back to Jiankang through the official post channel.This day I was going to leave without giving Xie Yan a chance to keep her. Unexpectedly, it began to rain heavily in the early morning, and there was no tendency for the rain to stop in the early morning. day.Then I ran into Xie Yan in the corridor, "I haven't seen you for a few days, the city lord is very busy."

"Miss was joking. I stayed in the mansion, but I didn't see her. Where has she been these past few days?" Feng Zizhang then told all the things he had seen and heard in Shanyin City, and told Zang Bu from other families, and told her family The praise also said: "When I was in Jiankang, I never heard of these things. Before I came to Guibao, I heard about being bullied. I didn't expect that the city lord who has heard of it here is willing to do good."

"It's all the meaning of my parents, I just follow the rules. What is the girl's plan for going down? Where do you want to go?"

"It's raining heavily. I'm afraid the mountain road will be difficult. I plan to wait a day or two after the rain stops. Excuse me?"

"No no, stay as long as you want." Xie Yan looked up at the fine rain, "Do you like rainy days?"

Feng Zizhang also walked to the corridor to enjoy the rain, "I don't like the heavy rain. It would be good if I can play the piano in a quiet place in the mountains on a rainy day."

"There is such a good place on the mountain behind, would you like to go with me, girl?"

The corridors are complicated, Xie Yan is in front, Feng Zizhang is behind, Xie Yan told her to be careful of the stairs all the way.After walking for a while, Fang stopped at a pavilion halfway up the mountain.Xie Yan stepped forward and pushed the window open, and he could indeed have a panoramic view of Shuangluo City. There were bamboo forests nearby and pines and cypresses in the distance, and the rain fell in the forest.There are several cases in the cabinet, and there is a piano left alone.

"Is this yours?" As soon as Feng Zizhang saw the piano, he felt itchy and was about to suffer from dementia.But he still restrained himself, didn't rush to go up, and asked first.Xie Yan conjured his own flute from the robe, "This is mine. That's my sister's."

"Oh? Why haven't I seen her these days?"

"The little girl likes to go out to play. She just went out the day before you came, and she doesn't plan to come back these days."

"Where did you go?"

"I went to my uncle for blacksmithing."

Feng Zizhang sat down and said with a smile: "I have heard that there is a great talent in Xie's family, who is replaced by Xie Yi. His hobby besides alchemy is blacksmithing, but this uncle you mentioned?"

"Exactly."

"No wonder. Could it be that Lingmei is also good at blacksmithing?"

"How can she. She just likes the good place where the second uncle lives in seclusion." Feng Zizhang smiled, and the two sat opposite each other speechless, only listening to the sound of rain.As the sound of the rain gradually subsided and the fun ceased, Feng Zizhang asked: "You said just now that the ancestral precepts asked you to be kind and charitable. Thinking about the ancestral precepts of your family, it is different from other families."

Xie Yan smiled, "What's the difference?"

"My family only wants my elder brother to serve the country loyally and honor the Feng family as Zhengshuo. I have seen these other families along the way, and I don't know what their family training is. Anyway, they are not greedy or sycophant like you. They can always take as much as they want. It is release Slaves, only your family is so bold."

"Miss, do you know where my servants come from?" Feng Zizhang watched Xie Yan take out charcoal and a stove from the cabinet outside the pavilion, and started to boil tea after a while. "Now the imperial court prohibits refugees from crossing the south, and they are all resettled in Guangling, but there are still many who sneak across the river. Most of my servants are poor and desperate crossers. Although most slaves are like this, but My family has always only accepted the poorest and sickest. If it is not possible, who would be willing to be a slave? There is an old man in my kitchen who is in charge of making a fire. When he came, he was injured by bandits. He lost an eye and broke a leg. With no one to rely on, I just want to sell myself as a slave so that I can get a bite to eat. In Kuaiji County, there are countless family mansions, but no one wants a person who is useless, so I bought him. Buy him first, heal the disease, heal Seeing that he is inconvenient to move, I just let him light the fire. Most of my servants have such a history. So—” She laughed at this point, “Often other clans laugh at me for my lack of food in the Xie family, and the low level of servants. I have nothing to say, people are right to laugh at it."

Feng Zizhang remained silent, Xie Yan handed her the tea, and continued: "When I was young, I asked my parents, in this case, why don't we set up a shelter in Shanyin, so that the poor can raise them well before leaving , or buy it from another family and put it away. The father smiled and did not answer, but the mother said, think about it, even if you can take care of many people with the power of the family, what will other families do? They don’t have you However, these slaves are temporarily exempted and free, or they have no skills, or they are not good at farming. In times of famine, their wealth will still be emptied. By doing this, you will only delay these people from becoming slaves process, even aggravating the labor of those who are being slaves in disguise, and even causing escape. When they are captured, they will face even more hard labor and beatings {40}. Did they do a good thing or a bad thing? The affairs of the world are up to you If you can do something, there is something you can’t do. If you can do it, do your best. If you can’t do it, just lie dormant and wait. Try to do something else. I also understood this truth.

"My family's ancestral teachings say that the way of saints is a gift from heaven, and saints are passed on to my family. Land and wealth are also the emperor's grace. In the end, my family is nothing more than guards and preachers. Rather than pursuing wealth and power, it is better to pursue the improvement of one's own personality and talent. Wealth and power are a fluke, and it is a mission from heaven. You should work hard, cultivate yourself, improve your ability, help others, and help the community if the country needs it.{ 41}. To bear the responsibility of the common people in the world, you should think of the common people in the world."

After hearing her finish, Feng Zizhang nodded and smiled, and said, "Sure enough, you are a family of poems and books for generations. It's just that you have a broad mind, which is far better than many people."

"Girl, I'm not broad-minded."

"How could anyone be so self-effacing."

"If you don't believe me, you have to ask Qin's owner. I have bullied her since I was a child, and robbed her of things. I have never been a good sister."

Feng Zizhang smiled, "I said that you are better than others, compared to me—" She paused slightly, surprised that she almost slipped her tongue, "Some people I heard about in Jiankang."

"Oh? I haven't been to Jiankang for a long time. Could it be that the children of the Jiankang family have become aggressive?"

"Not aggressive. They...not only are they self-righteous, but they always feel superior to others."

"Children of the family, it is inevitable. I grew up messing around like this, which is the exception."

Feng Zizhang sneered and said, "Lao Tzu said, 'If you don't see yourself, you will be clear; if you are not self-righteous, you will show; Zhuang, but he has never understood this truth, which is really ridiculous. As your ancestors said, wealth is a fluke. Could it be that if you go back seven generations and hand down poems and books, how can you be better than others? Going back hundreds of generations, our ancestors Maybe it's just a small soldier among the Yellow Emperor's clan. Why is there so much pride?"

Xie Yan laughed loudly, "Girl said right, come, bring tea and wine, and I'll toast you."

The two laughed and drank each other.After drinking, Feng Zizhang asked, can you lend me this piano?Xie Yan said whatever he wanted, "Anyway, I'm used to bullying her."

Feng Zizhang smiled and played a prelude.Xie Yan had the idea of ​​making peace with the flute, but thinking that she might not be acquainted with her, she had no choice but to give up.At the end of the song, a series of shouts could be heard outside the mountain. The voice was high-pitched and loud, and the voice was soft and lively, but the language was not so polite:

"Okay, Xie Yan, I heard you playing my piano behind my back before I came back. I tell you that today I have to skin you!"

Feng Zizhang sat in front of the piano without moving, smiling and waiting for the crime.Xie Yan smiled wryly at her to express his apology.When people followed suit, Feng Zizhang saw a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl in front of her. She was dressed as a barbarian in a bunt, and her pink and white clothes were stained with water. He rushed up.Seeing her, Xie Yan feigned anger and scolded: "There are guests here, what are you doing nonsense!" Then he introduced Xie Ying to Feng Zizhang.Although Xie Ying was very rude to her sister, when she saw the pure and gentle Feng Zizhang, she immediately changed her tone: "I just said, I heard this long and long song from afar, it's not like you, a frivolous and surly guy. It can be played!" Xie Yan immediately retorted, but Xie Ying ignored her, talked to Feng Zizhang about playing the piano, and immediately put her sister aside.

Having said enough, Xie Yan took the opportunity to drink water, brought the topic back, and asked Xie Ying how it was going to stay this time.Xie Ying babbled a lot, and finally added: "When I came back, I was back to the world. On the way, I heard that something happened to Jiankang."

"What happened?" Xie Yan guessed that Feng Zizhang probably wanted to ask, so he spoke instead, "What's the matter?"

"It is said that His Majesty is promoting Hu clothing in the palace, but Lu Mao said that it is not acceptable; His Majesty said that if this is the case, let Lu Mao impeach her for fifteen days."

"Promote Hufu?" Xie Yan and Feng Zizhang asked in surprise in unison.

The author has something to say:

{39} are all alchemy techniques that were popular during the Wei and Jin Dynasties.Prophecy is the combined name of prophecy and weft. The technique of prophecy can be roughly explained as obtaining some riddles by asking for lots or other means, and making predictions based on the riddles, mostly political.Fengjiao, is to look at the direction of the wind to divination.Looking at Qi, as the name implies, is to look at a person's Qi to predict. For example, it is very common in history books to say what glory was in the delivery room when a certain person was born (so he became rich later), where to look and say that there is "emperor Qi" in that area, and it turns out Then came the saint, wait a minute.Judging from historical records, some are extremely attached ("Da Chu Xing, King Chen Sheng"), and some seem to have supernatural powers.

{40}According to the real slave-servant system in history, there were only three ways to release slaves and maids: the emperor issued an edict to release them, the masters voluntarily released them, and they bought them by themselves.And the master's family has complete control over the slaves and maidservants, and it is illegal to flee without permission.It is a form of slavery.

{41} "The Analects of Confucius-Yan Yuan": "Business has heard of it, life and death have their own destiny, wealth and honor depend on heaven."

{42} "Self-cultivation, family harmony, governance of the country, peace of the world." "University"