Late Tang

The two strings of fish weigh nearly [-] catties, and can be sold for about [-] yuan at the market price.However, Chishan Town is close to the sea, and fish is not a rare commodity, and the things in the hands of the people are always sold cheaply. The person who bought the fish is obviously not an ordinary person. In fact, it is not considered a strong buy.

It's just that this fish was originally given to Li Jing by Xiao Shitou, and not all of them were given to him, the other string was to be taken back to Xiao Shitou's family.Another one is that the person in front of him has a deep relationship with Li Jing's family, so that when Li Jing saw that the person who wanted to buy fish was him, he immediately dismissed it.

The person who wanted to buy fish was also a young man, about the same age as Li Jing, in his twenties.But he was wearing black clothes.Tang Dynasty Xuan and Zao are both black, but Xuan is black with red, while Zao is ordinary black.However, clothes of these two colors are forbidden for ordinary people to wear.Black, like red and yellow, is the color of imperial clothing.But the color of soap is stipulated to be the uniform color of servants and subordinates, so there are soap clothes, soap boots, soap heads, etc. in the yamen.

The man who bought the fish was wearing soap clothes and boots, but he was not from the yamen, but from Chishan Army Town.

"Isn't this Li Xiucai? Why didn't you read the sage books at home today and ran to the town instead. Why didn't you come to the town to talk to my brother?"

When Li Jing saw this person, he also knew that he had to delay some time today, so he went to the city wall to put down his burden, and said with a sneer, "The fish was dragged back to the village by a small stone, and I will go back if you have nothing else to do. "

"What are you in a hurry for? Let's talk again. I'm not my sister. I cried and shouted that you wouldn't marry me. If I didn't agree, I would hang myself and jump into the well." Wang Liang embraced his arms, narrowed his eyes slightly, and there was a twinge in his eyes. said angrily.

Li Jing was silent for a while, what Wang Liang said was true.The Li family and Wang Liang's family had been friends for several generations, and they were neighbors when they were still in Qingzhou.Wang Liang's grandfather and Li Jing's grandfather both died in the Pinglu Military Academy, and later they both died in the imperial court's attack on the Li family who ruled Ziqing, and they moved to Wangli Village together.Li Jing's father later became an official and worked as a county recorder in Tan County, so he invited Wang's father as a follower, but both of them died in Qiu Fu's rebellion.Then Wang Liang's eldest brother also went to Xuzhou to deliver food with Li Jing's eldest brother that year, but he never returned.The two families can be said to have experienced the same tragic thing.

Wang Liang has a younger sister who is two years younger than Li Jing. A few years ago, she encountered a wolf while picking wild vegetables and was almost eaten by a wolf. Fortunately, Li Jing who passed by rescued him from the wolf's mouth.As a result, the younger sister of the Wang family told her family members that she would not marry Li Jing in this life, which was considered a good thing in the first place.Sister Wang Liang is also upright, and her conduct is good.Li Jing's mother also agreed, but Li Jing firmly opposed this matter.Anyway, Li Jing didn't know the reason, but he didn't want to marry the younger sister of the Wang family. Maybe at that time he still had plans to take part in the imperial examination and become an official to revitalize the family.

This matter was very stiff, the younger sister of the Wang family asked a matchmaker to come to her door several times to propose a marriage but failed, the rumors about this matter spread, and the reputation of the youngest sister of the Wang family was spread very badly for a while.The little girl hanged herself in a fit of anger, but the family rescued her in time, and jumped into the well a few days later. This happened five times and three times, and finally it took a lot of words to persuade the little girl.But now that the younger sister is eighteen, there is no one in the area of ​​tens of miles who goes to the Wang family to propose marriage.

At the beginning of this year, Wang Liang's family invited a matchmaker again, intending to tell Wang Liang, Li Jing's fourth sister, Wanjing.Wanjing didn't say no, she just made a request, and she didn't want a betrothal gift from the Wang family, but she would only agree to the marriage if she needed two stones of corn.Han Shi was originally unwilling to attach this condition, but the fourth sister Wanjing insisted on it again and again, otherwise she would not agree.In other words, two stones of corn are only 240 catties, and the combined money is only four copper coins, or five bolts of silk.

But just this little thing, the Wang family really couldn't get it out.As a result, Wang Liang decided that the Li family was insincere, and the relationship between the two families was completely broken.Feeling resentful, Wang Liang's mother ran outside Li's house and scolded him several times, and Wang Liang also destroyed two vegetable fields of Li's house.

The Han family has always asked everyone in the Li family to be patient with Wang Liang's actions, but in his heart, Li Jing really didn't have a good opinion of Wang Liang.

Wang Liang failed to propose a marriage at the beginning of the year, so he asked someone to go to the town to find an errand.It's not a serious job, it's just a servant for the warehouse officer in charge of the warehouse in Chishan Town, that is, a personal servant, usually running errands to deliver a letter and go to the street to buy groceries or something.

"Xiucai Lang, today our treasury officer is going to host a banquet at home for Zhao Yaya, the celebrity who is next to General Liu Zhen. Zhao Yaya doesn't like seafood, but likes to eat fish from this river. These fish of yours are very delicious, Zhao Yaya Ya Ya will definitely like it. How about this, since they are all in the same village, I don’t owe you anything. If you sell me these two strings of fish, I’ll get you a bucket of sorghum later, it’s all right.”

Li Jing saw that Wang Liang backed down a step, but he was unwilling to insist too much, and said immediately: "I will give you this string of fish, and it doesn't cost any money or food, just give it to you. But I promised to give the other string to Xiao Shitou." I brought it from home, but I can’t give it to you. My string of fish weighs nearly ten catties, which is enough for you, what do you think?”

While the two were talking, a man in the distance with a big belly, a fat head and a fat man wearing a green round-neck official robe yelled at Wang Liang: "You farmer, you have been talking so long about asking you to buy a fish."

The man came over a few steps, with an arrogant expression on his face, without even looking at Li Jing, he threw a string of money in front of Li Jing, "That man, this is your fish money." He was about to turn around and leave. Walk.

Li Jing recognized at a glance that the string of money on the ground was not worth a hundred coins, and this kind of string of money was usually only [-] pieces, which was called a street by the people.One street is less than a hundred, and it is often used by those rich and powerful families to buy ordinary people.

"This official, I heard that there is a banquet in the house today, and I would like to present a string of fish to the official. The other string was entrusted to bring with me. Please forgive me that I can't sell it to the official." Li Jing said to that The treasury official cupped his hands.

What he said was very reasonable, and in Li Jing's opinion, he shouldn't embarrass himself after giving the man a bunch of fish for nothing.It's just that he obviously underestimated Tang's official favor this night.

The green-robed official stopped and turned his head to look at Li Jing, pondered for a moment and said: "You can take the money I give you, I want all the fish, there is no need to say more."

"Senior official, this is really difficult for some strong people." Li Jing is still distinguishing.

Unexpectedly, the green-robed official immediately turned his back on him and shouted angrily: "You don't have to drink fine wine for toasting, what a boy. Come here, tie him up and take him back."

"Senior officer, what are you going to do?" Li Jing was shocked, he didn't expect that the fat man would turn his back on the book instead of flipping the book.

"What am I going to do?" The fat man sneered twice, and said to the onlookers: "In the third year of the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, and in the 19th year of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court twice "forbidden the world to catch carp"; It should be released, but not eaten." Some carp sellers were given sixty sticks. This is a decree. You, a small commoner, are not guilty of preying on carp openly in disregard of the law of the country? Come, take them back, and give them sixty sticks. ten."

Following the sneer of the fat man in the green robe and official uniform, everyone present observed carefully, and they found that among the two strings of fish in Li Jing's hands was a copper carp with a dragon's beard and red scales.

Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty had indeed issued an edict to fast carp, but the reason was not simply to avoid tabooing the country's surname. "Taoism does not eat carp" was originally a Taoist rule.Taoists believe that carp can become a dragon, with 36 scales on its body, and there is a black spot on each scale. It is believed that carp worships the sun, so it is called "Red Carp Lord". If you eat carp, you will be sent by heaven.The Li Tang Dynasty claimed that he was the descendant of Lao Tzu Li Er, who was regarded as the leader of Taoism.Therefore, the Li Tang Dynasty not only forbade the people to cook carp, it is said that anyone who catches carp and sells it will be beaten with sixty sticks.

However, although there was such an edict prohibiting the fishing of carp in the world, it cannot really be prohibited when it comes to the people.Especially in the late Tang Dynasty at this time, this decree has basically become a dead letter, and the common people still prey on carp.However, when the treasury officer wanted to arrest Li Jing on the grounds of this decree, everyone suddenly realized that they couldn't even come up with a reason to object.

Naturally, Li Jing also knew that what the fat man said was true, but he knew that this decree had long since become empty text, and the folks had never really banned eating carp.But at this time, it is impossible to use this as an example to offset his "guilty".

Youdao is the county magistrate of Pojia and Yin of Miemen. Right now, a small town army treasury officer can make Li Jing unable to move.Faced with this sudden disaster, he couldn't help regretting it. If he had known this, he would have just sold the two strings of fish.

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