My historian is dying every day

Chapter 63 [The master of all ten thousand]

Shen Youfang's handling of affairs naturally reassured everyone.

The nanmu carved carriage is divided into two, lined with velvet cloth, thickly covered, plain in color, and the tables and stools inside are spotless, red hot incense charcoal is placed in the drawer cage at the bottom of the carriage, making the cabin warm and warm Yes, when the curtain is lifted, you can still smell a thin sandalwood fragrance.

The coachman didn't talk much, he stood on the edge of the carriage, bowed his head and waited for the passengers to board the carriage.

Qi Yu sat in the car, and heard the coachman calling "get up", he suddenly remembered last year when the Southern Three Kingdoms had an audience with the former court, Xue Yi, the minister of rites, had answered the question of Cui Pu, the chief minister of Honglu Temple.That question means, what exactly is "the guest asks for all ten, and the host makes ten thousand and ten thousand" in diplomatic relations.Xue Yi quoted scriptures to teach him not to, and Wen Jiuling was anxious to hear it, but Xue Yi was silent for a long time, and said such a sentence with a cold face.

"Cui Changcheng went to Xuzhou to pay a visit to Young Master Shen of the Shen Mansion, so everything is clear."

Shen Youfang was an honest and shrewd person, but Cui Pu's heart was like a stone, and he asked without thinking: "What is the relationship between Xue Shilang and Mr. Shen?"

A court meeting turned into a dispute between the two courts. Since then, it has been widely rumored in Beijing that Xue Shilang accepted bribes from Shen's residence, and so on.Originally, the matter should have been settled here, but who would have thought that after one month, Cui Pu's stone borer would actually take more than ten days off, before rushing to see the ceremony, he swiftly and resolutely arranged the important affairs of Honglu Temple, and each person rode a fast horse When we arrived in Xuzhou, we did meet Shen Youfang.

When he returned to the capital with a dull head, he actually went to Xue Shilang's mansion to plead guilty. When he was interviewing the saint, Qi Yu asked him if he had gained anything from what he had done while approving the memorial. ,understood."

Qi Yu frowned, and raised his head from the memorial: "What do you know?"

Cui Pu couldn't say anything for a while, but he told a story: "I rode a horse for a hundred miles, and the wind and dust cut my face. It was already night when I first came to Shen's mansion. , but what I got was a bowl of broth with minced meat, and a couch covered in soft quilts. Xue Shilang said it very well, Mr. Shen is indeed a person who understands things, and he is also a kind person with a sharp mouth and a bean curd heart."

Thinking of this, Qi Yu couldn't help feeling funny: Even Cui Pu's rock-like temperament could see that Shen You's inside looked like a piece of soft silk, but only Li Gengnian, a fool, regarded him as a guillotine for chopping off tiger's head.

Sigh, and sigh.Fortunately, Qi Yu is not a person who doesn't know what's interesting, otherwise he would have taught Mr. Shen to pay the water with enthusiasm today.

He smiled and half leaned against the wall of the car, waved to Wen Yanzhi who was in a good mood sitting across from him, and said, "Wen Yanzhi, there is something on your face."

"Huh?" Wen Yanzhi raised his hand to touch it, wiped it twice and said strangely, "No."

Qi Yu smiled calmly: "You can't touch it yourself, come here."

Wen Yanzhi followed his words and raised his face forward. Qi Yu chuckled, grabbed the back of his head and kissed him, and took advantage of the situation to pull him into his arms. In the corner of the wall, she turned her head to look at him, and whispered in his ear: "Come and see, where my servants put the flower notes."

"No! Don't!" Wen Yanzhi hurriedly said, his knees pressed tightly against Qi Yu's chest, his face was redder than the charcoal in the cage.

"I don't believe it." Qi Yu firmly bit his ear, stretched out a hand and pressed down on his knees, lifted the cloth bag on his shoulder to the ground, and stretched out his hand into his arms.

Wen Yanzhi's hands were restrained behind him, he couldn't move, he was so anxious that he almost wanted to bite someone, but he still kept his demeanor and said: "Don't mess with it! I'll take it for you!"

"Why, did you admit it?" Qi Yu had already tore off the ribbon of his cloak, grabbed two pieces of tissue paper from his arms and threw them away, and smiled in his ear: "Wen Yanzhi, I dote on you, Don't bother you to do it yourself. As the old saying goes, 'If you want it, you get it yourself', I never ask for help." For a moment, the blue fur robe rolled to the ground, and the silver satin blue silk embroidered crane jacket leaked through the gap, and Wen Yan's waist and abdomen swelled. Cutting Xueyu was in the air, Qi Yu's broad palms slid in, lightly unfastened the thread that was in the way, caressed the warm and cool skin under his fingers with thin calluses, and rolled his lips towards his neck.

During the teasing, a subdued hum escaped from Wen Yanzhi's mouth, but he was not a person who would beg for forgiveness, so he just shrank away with a sullen face.Qi Yu thought it was funny, so he got up slightly and trapped him with his legs, picked up his hands and placed them on his head, so that the idiot could no longer move.Qi Yu moved closer to him, and even twitched his chest with one hand, and asked lightly on the bright face: "I feel shy because there are people outside?"

Wen Yanzhi nodded quickly, shaking his lips and said: "I hope you will take care of the gentleman's demeanor, please stop..."

Qi Yu clicked his tongue, lowered his head and kissed, gently pressed his knee between Wen Yanzhi's thighs, and smiled lowly: "Then you should stop first."

Wen Yanzhi put his legs together in great embarrassment: "Didn't you also pick this!"

"Then what are you holding back for?" Qi Yumi kissed his face deeply, each time deepening, his words were wrapped in bursts of desire, like a feather scratching Wen Yanzhi's eardrum: "Wen Yanzhi, I want to I want... I want you..."

Wen Yanzhi held on to the last sliver of sanity, and said in a daze: "When the time comes, the room will be filthy, and your and my robes will be filthy, how can we..."

"You stay here." Qi Yu interrupted him with a pinch on his waist, and put the corner of his lips against his ear and said, "I can see that after leaving Beijing for a month, you have such a disposition that every time you go far away , which time is it not three or four pieces of clothes, and a drop of oil dripping from the collar can clean the whole body. Otherwise, why is there such a big box in the back of the carriage?" At this point, he leaned forward again, and the corners of his lips curled up. Make a nice arc: "Are you going to tell me that there are drawings in it?"

Wen Yanzhi blushed and turned his head: "Even if there are clothes, it's not for this..."

"If it is useful, it will be useful." Qi Yu kissed Wen Yanzhi's red earlobe, and touched under Wen Yanzhi's clothes, "Next time you dare to tease me, you will remember what happened today..."

The north wind was blowing finely, and the official road was blowing some thin snow that had not melted at night. Two carriages drove out of the city from the south gate of Qingyang, and one followed far behind. The driver wore earmuffs expressionlessly and raised his thin whip. , eyes only looking forward.

When I arrived in Zhuxiang, it was past time.Although some cakes and tea had already been prepared in the carriage, everyone had not had lunch and they were still a little hungry.

Shen Youfang's carriage was driving ahead, and he had already come down to arrange meals in the village courtyard.Gong Zhiyuan was knocked down by Li Gengnian all the way in the car, and his ears were about to grow calluses. When he arrived at the place, he hurriedly got out of the car to complain to Wen Yanzhi, but was dragged back by Li Gengnian by the back of his neck. Blind ginseng and what! Do you like Mr. Wen, please tell me honestly!"

"What nonsense! Don't spoil brother Wen's innocence!" Gong Zhiyuan blushed and broke away, "I already have a crush on me, I like women."

"Oh—" Li Gengnian booed, "Which family's daughter, tell me?"

Li Gengnian's personality is also easy to get along with. Now that Gong Zhiyuan is familiar with him, he kicked Li Gengnian's calf in a fit of anger: "Don't say it! You idiot don't understand it!"

"Call me an idiot? I didn't settle accounts with you yesterday!" Li Gengnian jumped up and hugged his legs, screaming, "Gong Zhiyuan! Don't run away!"

He relentlessly chased Gong Zhiyuan into the front yard, and bumped into a snow-white human wall without paying attention, knocked his nose on the man's chin, immediately covered his face, gasped for air and retreated.

Looking intently, Shen You Fangzheng was standing at the door with an unfriendly expression on his face, he slowly rubbed the back of his hand over his chin and looked at him, his eyes were cold and he said: "How old is he, yet he is still so reckless."

Li Gengnian was about to speak in a daze, but Shen Youfang walked around him and told the driver of Qi Yu's car behind: "Put your lord's accompanying suitcase on the car board, you all go back and eat."

The driver got the order to go, Shen You conveniently turned around and went back to the yard to sit down, Gong Zhiyuan asked what dish he ordered, Shen You answered with a smile, and finally ignored Li Gengnian.

Li Gengnian originally hoped that Shen Youfang would not have anything to do with him, but at this moment Shen Youfang really broke through those stumbling blocks, and he felt a little strange.The mood is like going to a play, knowing that the black face in the middle is the villain, and the villain will stop doing evil after singing a song and try his best to do good deeds, and the audience will wonder whether the troupe made a mistake or failed the performance. The actor's performance collapsed, or he took the wrong script and went off stage.

Standing at the gate of the courtyard, with the cold wind blowing on his back, looking at Shen Youfang's face, he actually felt that the previous fights, scolding, and stabbing to the bone didn't seem to have ever existed.

It was so strange that he couldn't explain it, and it made him panic, but he knew that this should be normal, this should be right, this should be called truth, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief.Aside from other things, he was the one who kept the people far away, and even said something so frustrating that Shen Youfang wanted to kill someone, and Shen You could ignore the previous suspicions and continue to follow up the flood control.

"What are you doing with the pestle here?" Qi Yu's steady voice suddenly fell from above Li Gengnian's head, making him tremble with fright.

Wen Yanzhi also leaned on the door with his back and looked at him, his eyes looked at him deeply: "Guard Li, who are you looking at?"

"I didn't see anyone!" Li Gengnian hurried in and sat down.

Qi Yu also supported Wen Yanzhi to walk inside, Gong Zhiyuan patted the bench beside him: "Brother Wen, just sit here, wipe it clean!"

Wen Yanzhi sat down by the table, pushed back his squirrel fur, rolled up his blue cuffs embroidered with silver leaves, and leaned on the table with his cheeks propped up.Gong Zhiyuan looked at him once, and enviously said: "Your clothes are dirty, brother Wen? But this one looks good too. Where do you make clothes? I'll make two clothes when I go back to Beijing."

With red ears and lowered head, Wen Yanzhi raised his hand and pulled up the neckline to cover the red marks on the back of his neck, and said seriously: "I'm doing embroidery at home, go back to Beijing and send the two bodies to Brother Gong."

"No, no, no, then there's no need." Gong Zhiyuan took a breath and waved his hands again and again, "I forgot, Wen's residence's embroidery skills are excellent, last year the foreign envoy asked about Mr. Wen's shoe uppers."

Li Gengnian put his hands on the table, smiled at Gong Zhiyuan, and said, "Hey, I understand, Mr. Gong, who do you want to see when you put on new clothes? Mr. Wen, do you know that Mr. Gong just said that he has a sweetheart! "

"He has a sweetheart, what do you call Wen Yanzhi?" Qi Yu stared at Li Gengnian coldly.

Li Gengnian chuckled: "They both have to go to the latrine together, I thought Mr. Wen would know!"

Now not only Qi Yu, but even Wen Yanzhi wanted to pick up chopsticks and stick them into Li Gengnian's mouth: "Guard Li, please leave some etiquette on the dinner table."He looked at Gong Zhiyuan in a blink of an eye, as if he remembered something, and said with a smile: "...Brother Gong's sweetheart, but is it still that 'little son'?"

"What little boy? He told me that he likes women." Li Gengnian said hastily, "Gong Zhiyuan, how dare you lie to me!"

The most common topics among men are nothing more than food, family, and girls. Gong Zhiyuan is a simple and honest scholar, the first two can still be talked about, but the third is really unbearable. After being talked about by them, his face is already red , just as a plate of dishes was served, he put his hands on the stage for everyone, "Stop talking! Eat first! You can't stop your mouths after eating!"

Everyone laughed and ate again, and they didn't make fun of Gong Zhiyuan during the dinner, they just bothered the student to ask if there is a person surnamed Huang in Zhuxiang who knows about water control.

Tang Sheng frowned and thought for a while, then said: "Masters, we all know each other from about [-] households in the village, and there is no one surnamed Huang."

"No?" Wen Yanzhi was so shocked that he didn't even want to eat, he didn't even care about the pain in his waist and legs, so he stood up while leaning on the corner of the table: "Think about it!"

Qi Yu pulled him over and sat down: "The old man may have misremembered his name, so don't worry." He turned his head and asked the student, "Is there anyone in this village who once worked as a bookkeeper in a large household in Qingyang?"

Tang Sheng immediately said: "Yes! Just one! Brother Xiaowu's younger brother has stayed in Qingyang, that is, he is a bookkeeper, and he is very knowledgeable. His home is on the side of Shipo, and the one who walks to Heichaimen is the one."

"Look," Qi Yu raised his eyebrows and looked at Wen Yanzhi, "Why are you so anxious, it's over."

Wen Yanzhi quickly grabbed the bowls and chopsticks, "Then eat quickly, and find someone after eating."

Qi Yu didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "People live there and don't move their nests, you are in a hurry." This idiot doesn't know what to say.He sighed, "Since you are studying the method of storing water, after dinner we should go to the Xiangzheng to sit down and let the Xiangzheng look for it, so that he may lose his temper if he loses his temper."

Shen You was able to see Qi Yu's thoughts, but if the method of bamboo pipes was applied, Qi Yu happened to check the identity of the person in the village. If he made achievements in water control, the imperial court could appoint him in the future, which saved a lot of work.

So everyone had dinner and went to the main hall of the township. Dao Ming came to sit down in the main hall, and the township went to worship the imperial envoy, and hurriedly asked his son to go to the house of "Brother Xiaowu" to find someone.Waiting around, Qi Yu asked Xiangzheng to take out Tian Zheng's list, let Gong Zhiyuan take a look, and asked about the nearby farming at will.

At the end of Zhuxiang's stone slope going south, a black wood door is half closed, and there is an open space inside, with three earthen houses facing each other, and the windows and doors are all closed at this time.

A poor young man squatted in the yard, about 35 years old, shrugging his shoulders and clapping his hands, his face was full of impatience, squinting his eyes from time to time to look at the house, shaking his legs and breathing: "Grandpa is freezing to death, I don't know When did that group pay the money! They came in the morning, went in and talked for a long time! Look at the price increase!"

Standing next to him was a woman who looked like his wife, with a sallow face and three cloth scarves patched on her linen skirt. She was anxiously guarding the side, her eyes fixed on the main house, listening to the young man Then, he spat at him fiercely, and scolded sharply: "Also increase the price! It's just you who sells your brother like this! Your brother is a learned man who has been a flower hunter, if he wasn't dragged by your picky bastard , It’s the fate of a successful career! Knowing that fake paintings are a business of chopping your hands, you just lured these people to your door! Your parents’ evil deeds have been done for you! I think you will go to hell and never turn over!”

"Damn! He's so successful, you're going to laugh at me to death? It's better to say that I'm going to win a hundred dollars tonight!" The young man rubbed his hands and stood up, shrinking his neck from the cold, and said angrily, "Reading books!" There’s a point! Our father read so many books, and starved to death differently during the famine! I would go to the fields when I was a child, and that kid studied so well and learned so much, why was he kicked out of the capital? Now if he doesn’t rely on vacation Paintings are sold for money, and if I drive him out, he will starve to death! It’s best to serve these masters well and make good paintings, or I will break his legs!”

"Fart! You piece of crap! Don't even look at those people!" The woman shouted in a low voice, and pulled the young man to the gate of the chai gate, "The man in front still has a big scar on his face, could it be What good guy? A nice guy can tie a little girl around?"

"Hey!" The young man threw off his sleeves and pushed her away, laughing in a strange voice, "You're still a little girl, and the girl from a good family is not called Zhu'er Tweety, maybe it's because the girl in a brothel didn't raise her up." It's not too shameful for you to speak like a lady of everyone!"

The woman was about to have another attack, but she saw a man running from Shi Po, she looked around and said in surprise: "Isn't that Xiangzheng's son, Sun Huzi? What is he doing here?"

The young man quickly became vigilant, seeing the approaching person, hurriedly greeted him cautiously and smiled apologetically, "Brother Huzi, what's the matter?"

Sun Huzi helped his father manage a lot of bad things in the village, and he has always had some reputation, but the first thing he couldn't understand was this lazy guy, so he just gave him a blank look and said, "Brother Xiaowu, is your brother in the village?" A few officials and gentlemen came and said they wanted to ask him for questioning." The villagers don't have so many rules, and the matter is urgent at this time, so he will go inside after speaking.

Brother Xiaowu hurriedly stopped him: "Don't, don't, Brother Huzi, there is a distinguished guest in the house, talking to my brother, I'll call him!" Knocking on the door, he said flatteringly, "Masters, have you finished?"

The door was pushed open a crack, revealing a man's scarred face, and asked coldly, "What's the matter?"

"Oh, that's how it is." Brother Xiaowu also imitated people who have read books, and said in a tone: "Several officials came from the village, and they wanted to ask the little brother to ask questions. The Zheng family came to look for someone. You have to let that kid go with you."

"Officer? What official?" Scarface raised his eyes and glanced at the courtyard.

Sun Huzi just looked at him like this, and goose bumps immediately appeared all over his body, just like the feeling of seeing hungry wolves on the mountain in autumn. Scarface closed the door again.

Brother Xiaowu hurriedly greeted Sun Huzi again: "Brother Huzi, wait a moment! Just wait a moment!"

In the room, Scarface turned around to look at the table, a thin man was sitting on a bamboo stool, he was dressed in brown clothes thin and white, but his back was straight.His complexion is pale, with a lingering river between his brows, his back is long but thin, and the bony feeling is a section of spirit, like a green bamboo supporting a plum branch, covered with a layer of snow, his eyes cast on the table There is a sense of determination on a roll of embroidered cloth with dragon patterns on it.

"I won't do it, you can find someone else." He said in a deep voice.

The three strong men around him were about to step forward to take him, but Scarface stopped the three of them, smiled coldly, took off the knife on his body, and pointed to the corner of the room.In the dark shadows in the corner, an eight or nine-year-old female doll was tied up with hands and feet gagged, her pretty face was covered with smudges, her tearful eyes were full of despair, she was crying so hard that she couldn't even make a sound up.

Scar face said: "You think about it, if you don't do it, this girl will go to accompany her father."

"You—" the man slapped the table and stood up, shouting in a low voice: "Who are you? Abducting virgins without permission, stealing Nine Dragon Brocade, and pretending to usurp the throne are all decapitated! You are so courageous!"

"If you don't do it, this girl will lose her head first." Scarface tapped the girl's head twice with the scabbard, "Now someone is looking for you outside, so go first, I've told you the place, you look carefully Touch it. If you are smart, have a clean mouth, and want this girl to live, come alone, and I will wait."

The man supported the corner of the table and stood up, with a handful of unshed tears in his red eyes, he walked slowly to the girl in the corner, squatted down, patted her head with trembling hands, and forced a smile : "Yunzhu is not afraid, uncle, uncle will rescue you right away..."

Sun Huzi waited outside for a long time, and finally saw a man in brown clothes come out with a pale face, and hurriedly greeted him with a smile: "Why did you come out now! Hurry up, let's go, the officials have to wait."

"Hey..." The man responded, only to realize that his voice was trembling. After taking a step, he realized that his whole body was trembling.

Seeing this situation, Sun Huzi thought he was cold, so he hurriedly took off his tiger-skin jacket and put it on the man, then gouged out Xiaowu's eyes and cursed: "I always pawned your brother's thick clothes again. You know how to use it for gambling! You rascal, you deserve to be beaten to death with a stick!"

Brother Xiaowu didn't dare to argue with him, and resentfully welcomed him into the room to see the distinguished guest, but his younger brother felt sorry for Sun Huzi's clothes, so he immediately took them off and returned them: "Don't blame my brother, you wear this jacket well... I not cold."

After saying that, he pushed Heichaimen first and walked out of the garden. Sun Huzi snorted coldly at Brother Xiaowu, and followed him.

The Xiangzheng family was so busy that they boiled hot water to fetch the brochures. After a while, one book was busy, and they served tea to Qi Yu and the others with a smile.

Sitting on the bamboo chair, Wen Yanzhi felt nervous, holding the drawings he had drawn in his hands, almost sweating in the winter.

He didn't know what he was nervous about at all—maybe he just wanted to meet someone who was one step ahead of him, and as a latecomer, he had a sense of awe; maybe he was afraid that his drawing was too complicated, and the other party might not understand it.Maybe it's both, maybe it's neither.

Xiangzheng's wife and daughter-in-law put the tea on the wooden table between him and Qi Yu, and said with a smile: "Rough tea from the countryside may not be as good as the official's taste, and it will quench your thirst a little after it cools down. I hope the official will not dislike it."

Wen Yanzhi thanked him with a nod, unfolded the blueprint to look at it, and closed it again.

Qi Yu was tired from watching, and said with a smile: "Where is the trouble we Wen Yuanwai scolded the Ministry of Industry for? It's just to meet an expert in the industry. Look at you."

Shen Youfang smiled and said: "If you want to come to a mountain, there is a mountain as high. This person and Wen Yuanwai may not be able to match each other. When the time comes, the imperial court may have two people who can control water."

Gong Zhiyuan raised his head while flipping through the booklet and added: "The more people who can control the water, the better. If there is no flood, our household department can relax more. If there is no water, stay up every day and stay vigil."

Li Gengnian picked a dried walnut from the fruit plate that Xiangzheng offered to eat, looked at Gong Zhiyuan and said, "Liu Shilang, Mr. Gong is so quick to settle the accounts, and Xiangzheng can't get enough of them, why don't you ask them to bring them all together for counting. Otherwise, you will be exhausted after traveling all over the place."

Just as Qi Yu was about to speak, Sun Huzi ran in first, opened the curtain and said with a smile, "Several officials, someone brought them here."

The man in brown followed behind him, opened the curtain and walked in. The moment he raised his head, there was a sudden clang in the hall.

Qi Yu only heard that the teacup in his hand was shattered, turned his head, and saw that Wen Yanzhi had stood up abruptly, the expression on his originally dull face was as if he had seen a ghost or was possessed by a demon, and the hands holding the blueprints were all in the air. trembling.

--what happened?

Qi Yu immediately frowned and followed his line of sight, only to see the man standing behind Sun Huzi, wearing thin brown clothes, the cuffs and necklines were almost white, but standing there, he looked like a plant falling in an empty valley. The tree in the middle of the book is ragged and thin, but it can't hide the elegance of the book.

At this time, this person was also looking at Wen Yanzhi, Qingling's eyebrows were filled with shock like falling frost and snow, his thin lips parted slightly, and his voice was like a spring.

"... Hikichi?"