Ming Dynasty 1566

Chapter 32

Hu Zongxian: "I, Hu Zongxian, am not a person who betrays my friends. What I want to tell you now is food. I am still the governor of Zhejiang Province. As Zhejiang, I borrow from you, and as governor, I transfer from you. You have to give. Give it, give it or give it.”

"Hu Butang!" Zhao Zhenji stopped calling him, "Although you are in charge of the two provinces, you don't have the cabinet's court post, and Yingtian has no obligation to allocate grain to Zhejiang."

Hu Zongxian: "What about the military rations?"

Zhao Zhenji was startled: "Want to fight?"

Hu Zongxian: "Let me tell you, when there is chaos in Zhejiang, the Japanese pirates will immediately start a riot! Qi Jiguang has already reported that the Japanese pirate ships are gathering along the coast of Zhejiang. You always think that I am retreating. I can hide and change the rice into mulberry. Can you avoid the military affairs of the Anti-Japanese War!"

Zhao Zhenji pondered: "If it is military rations, of course I have to adjust them. But the military rations are not so much."

Hu Zongxian's tone was a little annoyed: "The Zhao Zhenji who talked to me about Yangming Xinxue went to that place! In the name of adjusting the army's rations, give me more food. Rescuing the victims is just to stabilize the rear, and it is not your responsibility. You What are you afraid of?"

Zhao Zhenji pondered again: "Okay, I will do my best. But there is one more thing I have to say, if you can ignore the matter of changing rice to mulberry, don't bother. Leave yourself a way out."

Hu Zongxian also lowered his voice: "As long as I am still the governor of Zhejiang Province, there is no way out."

As the sun went down, white sails rose up on the Hangzhou Water Transport Wharf. Along with the rising white sails, lanterns were raised on the mast.The big characters of "Weaving Bureau" are clearly reflected on the lantern.

The boats were full of food parcels.

The boat covers the river, and the mast lights reflect the shore.

Both sides of the steps on the pier are full of officers and soldiers with guns and knives and muskets.Standing beside the two sedan chairs were Zheng Michang and He Maocai.

"It's always like this. When it's time to die, no one will be seen!" He Maocai was anxious as soon as he opened his mouth, "The boat is waiting to sail. Is your Boss Shen still coming?"

The manager of Shen Yishi's workshop smiled apologetically: "I've found it, and I'll come right away."

He Maocai: "Really!"

Zheng Michang became impatient: "Send someone to look for it separately!"

Immediately, several people responded and ran away.

Zheng Michang turned to He Maocai: "I can't wait here anymore. I have to go to the magistrate's office immediately."

He Maocai: "Shen Yishi is still missing, why are you going to the magistrate's yamen?"

Zheng Michang: "After all, Gao Hanwen was sent by Mr. Xiaoge. We have to appease him for making him like this. You also have to write to Mr. Xiaoge immediately and tell him that he has a Japanese affair. We have to buy it immediately as a last resort." field."

He Maocai thought for a while: "Is it better for you to write the letter?"

Zheng Michang: "You write a draft, can't I copy it when I come back?"

He Maocai: "Okay."

The moon was full, shining whitely on Shen Yishi's secluded courtyard.

As soon as he approached the courtyard gate, the steward was startled and stood there in a daze.

In the yard, Shen Yishi's hair was loose, holding a Guqin and throwing it down.

——There are several guqins and the piano table on the big bed piled up in the middle of the yard!

Shen Yishi picked up an oil barrel beside him and sprinkled oil on the pile of guqins.

After sprinkling the oil, Shen Yishi threw the bucket to the courtyard wall, took out a flint, rubbed the tinder, and threw it on the pile of guqins.

With a sound of "Peng", the flames blazed up, and the pile of pianos burned!

Shen Yishi was standing by the fire, his face was flushed red by the light of the fire, but the light reflected in his eyes was cold.

Seeing this, the steward quietly took two steps back.But seeing that the fire was getting bigger and bigger, the steward became frightened and looked to the left beside him.

There is a large copper water tank beside the wall of the outer courtyard.The steward quietly moved towards the water tank.

"Come here." Shen Yishi had spotted him a long time ago, but his eyes were still fixed on the fire.

The steward had no choice but to stop, and walked over holding his breath.

Shen Yishi still stared at the fire: "What's the matter?"

The steward said, "Master, the grain ship has been loaded, and the governor's yamen and the bureau's office have sent people to look for the master everywhere, waiting for the master to escort the grain to Chun'an and Jiande."

Shen Yishi seemed to have never heard what he said: "Go."

The steward: "Excuse me, master, if the people from the governor's yamen come to urge you again, how will the villain answer?"

Shen Yishi still stared at the fire: "Just say I'm dead."

The steward was startled, and whispered: "The villain dare not..."

"Get out!" Shen Yishi finally lost his temper.

The steward hurriedly retreated to the gate of the courtyard but did not dare to leave. He looked at the fire and the big water tank in the outer courtyard from afar.

At this time, Shen Yishi picked up a drum and drum stand that had been placed beside him, and walked towards the piano room.

Seeing Shen Yishi enter the piano room, the steward hurriedly approached the water tank, picked up the bucket next to the water tank, poured out a bucket of water from the water tank, and then turned back to the courtyard gate, guarding the fire from a distance.

A burst of drumming came from the piano room.

Even the drums can make such a sound!

Two drumsticks, one at the center of the drumhead and one at the edge of the drumhead, are struck alternately.The drumstick in the center was beating slowly one by one, making a low-pitched sound; the drumsticks on the edge were beating like raindrops, making a high-pitched sound.

——The deep voice is like a male call, and the high-pitched voice is like a female response!

The red rug on the big bed in the piano room was taken away, the piano table and the piano were gone, and all that was left was a big bed.

Yun Niang, who was sitting on the big bed, did not respond at this time, her eyes were still staring at the door.

Both drumsticks hit the center of the drumhead, faster and heavier, making an angry roar!

Yun Niang still sat there quietly, her eyes still staring in the direction of the door.

Shen Yishi's bloody face just now slowly turned pale, and sweat flowed from his loose hairline, from his forehead to his cheeks.

The drumsticks moved from the center of the drumhead to the edge of the drumhead, tapping gently, as if chasing the whispers under the moon in the middle of the night when no one was there.

Yun Niang's eyes moved, and she slowly looked at the drum, but after a while, her eyes moved to the direction of the door again.

The sound of the drums became weaker and weaker, emitting a desolation that gradually faded away.

Finally, everything fell silent.

Shen Yishi was still holding the drumstick in his hand, but his eyes were vacantly looking up: "You go."

Yun Niang seemed to move a bit, but she was still sitting there.

Shen Yishi: "You have paid off everything you owed me. Let's go."

Yun Niang slowly sat up straight, slowly got off the bed, and slowly walked towards the door.

Shen Yishi was still in the same posture, facing the big bed, holding the drumstick in his hand, standing there.

But Yun Niang stopped, turned around, slowly lifted the skirt, knelt down facing Shen Yishi, bowed, then stood up, opened the door latch, and walked out.

Two teardrops flowed down from the corners of Shen Yishi's eyes.

Lanterns with the words "Weaving Bureau" floating around a four-person sedan chair.

"Here we come!" The steward of Shen Yishi's workshop greeted loudly, "Our Master Shen has arrived and is ready to sail!"

The officers and soldiers standing on the pier and beside the grain ships immediately started to move, and ran towards each grain ship according to their respective formations.

The big sedan stopped, the steward hurriedly ran over and opened the curtain of the sedan chair, two lanterns illuminated Shen Yishi and came out from the curtain of the sedan chair.

The manager was startled suddenly—the boss who always wears cloth clothes and shoes today is wearing a silk shirt with cicada wings and a ribbon embroidered with gold flowers on his head. Standing there, when the river wind blows, someone Fluttering state!
There was also an extra golden fan in his hand. At this time, he opened it, fanned it, closed it again, and walked straight to the steps of the pier.

The attendants in charge immediately surrounded him and followed.

Going down the stairs, Shen Yishi changed his old habit of going with the flow and gently lifted the hem of his long gown.

How knowledgeable is the steward?Immediately bent down beside him to help hold up the back of his gown, so as not to brush it on the stone steps.

The two lanterns in front were shining in front, and the two lanterns in the back also followed, shining on both sides in front of Shen Yishi's body.

The attendants were all a little surprised, the boss had his hair combed brightly today, and powder on his face, he looked like a son of an aristocratic family!
Surprised, the group led Shen Yishi to the big boat in the middle of the pier.

"Master, be careful." The steward greeted.

Shen Yishi still strided forward, boarded the wide springboard, and boarded the big boat.

The gangway was put away, and the cables were being untied from boat to boat.

Shen Yishi stood on the bow of the big boat, looked at the river and said suddenly: "You, go to the Qiantang courtyard immediately and call the four girls."

The steward was stunned behind him: "Now?"

Shen Yishi: "Take the grasshopper boat and catch up with the fleet in an hour."

"Yes." The steward hurriedly walked towards the side of the boat, but the gangplank was put away, so he managed to make a leap and jumped to the shore.

With a "plop", the person still fell into the shallow water.The steward's lower body was drenched, and he ran towards the pier steps regardless.

Not in such a place, I don't know what it means to have a moon as bright as the day!

The mountains are like green snails, and the water is like jade belts.The mighty sails are full of wind, sailing in the center of Xin'an River, the boat is moving, the water is moving, and the mountains seem to be moving.

In less than an hour, the grasshopper boat of the four girls from Qiantang Court caught up with Shen Yishi's big boat.At the same time, there is a black-covered boat close to the big boat that Shen Yishi is riding with the grasshopper boat.

The steward immediately walked over and shouted to the boatman on the black-covered boat, "Throw up the cable!"

A boatman on the wupeng fast boat immediately threw a cable up from the bow, and the boatman at the stern of the big ship caught the cable, looped it around the anchorage, and then stepped on the anchorage to pull the cable, and the fast boat was close to the big boat. .

The people on the awning boat handed over several barrels containing live fish.

The steward said to the boatman of the big boat, "Follow me and get to the bow."

Several buckets of live fish were placed on both sides of the bow, and the steward whispered behind Shen Yishi: "Master, we bought the released koi."

Shen Yishi looked at the bucket, where the red koi were crowded and swimming, one slapped its tail, several slapped together, it was unbearably crowded.

Shen Yishi bent down and went to fish.

"Sleeves, sir," cried the steward.

Shen Yishi acted as if he hadn't heard anything, and fished out a red carp, his sleeves were already wet, he squatted beside the boat, stretched his hands as far as possible to the surface of the water, and released the fish.

The moon shines on the river, sparkling.The fish stood upright in the water, jumped out of the water, fell into the water again, and then had to swim.

Shen Yishi squatted beside the boat and watched, with a dazed smile on his face.

As the fish disappeared into the deep water, the smile on Shen Yishi's face also disappeared. He stood up slowly, no longer looking at the koi carp that were still huddling and jumping in the buckets, but looked at the fish again. Misty mountains far upstream.

The steward asked timidly behind him: "Master, are these fish still free?"

Shen Yishi was still looking at the mountains in the distance: "Call those whores out and let them go."

"Understood." The steward went to the door of the cabin and shouted inside, "Girls, the master told you to come out and release the animals."

Bright red and emerald green, four pink ones are rouge, green ones are eyebrows, the geisha with heavy make-up swarmed out of the cabin holding their skirts, even though they knew that Master Shen was ignoring them, but laughing was their custom, there was a burst of giggling, four Everyone flocked to the bucket on the boat deck.

"High officials!"

"Master Shen!"

"Allah is free, come and see!"

"Let go of yours." Shen Yishi still stood at the bow of the boat with fluttering clothes, "Do more meritorious deeds, and be a good man in the next life."

The four geishas looked at each other.

The leading geisha wanted to please: "This is the merit of a high-ranking official. Sister Ala is better off following a high-ranking official than being a good person."

"Bitch!" Shen Yishi burst out a word, "Pick up the bucket and let me go immediately!"

The four geisha didn't dare to answer any more, they each pouted, and the two of them shared a bucket, and with great effort, they lifted the bucket to the side of the boat, already panting, unable to lift the bucket to the side of the boat, one by one. He had no choice but to put down the bucket again, and looked at the steward standing aside.

The leading geisha asked the steward for help: "Brother steward, please help Sister Ala."

"You are not allowed to help." Shen Yishi's back, "If you don't want to be a husband, let the four of them jump into the water. I will pay for the Qiantang Courtyard."

The faces of the four geisha turned pale with fright, and they were all stunned.

The steward said, "Not yet!"

"Fall! Allah pour!"

With Shen Yishi's words, the four of them gained strength, and they took a bucket together, and immediately lifted the bucket full of water and fish to the top of the ship's side.

Two of them seized their strength and tipped the bucket, and the fish and water in the bucket were poured into the river.

The other two were weaker and less courageous, and when they missed their hands, they dropped the bucket, fish and water into the river.

"Plop!" With a sound, the bucket that was dropped on the river surface splashed a lot of waves.

The four geishas were startled, and hurriedly looked at Shen Yishi who was still standing on the bow of the boat.

Shen Yishi: "Tell them all to come here." These words were addressed to the steward.

(End of this chapter)