Xiangye

Chapter 41 Public Figures ([-])

I don't know if there was any rumor about fake wine in the Ming Dynasty. When he woke up the next day, Gao Wen only felt a severe headache. it does not work.

Presumably he had a cold, Gao Wen thought to himself, did he catch a cold from the fierce conquest with Na Yanni yesterday?

It's also very cold today, so I'd better go to the doctor to see what's important.In his previous life, Gao Wen was seriously ill and was always under the threat of death, so he was very concerned about this matter.

Seeing that Gao Wen was sleepy and unable to lift his spirits, someone led him to see the best Langzhong Zeng in Hancheng.

As soon as I checked the pulse, I really had a cold and needed to recuperate.Gao Wen wondered, saying that he was very healthy, why he fell ill.Langzhong Zeng rolled his eyes and said that he had never seen someone as strong as you.However, the healthier this person is, the more he will never get sick once a year.But once infected with the disease, it is the most fatal.Look at that stray dog ​​roaming the streets, it's strong, it dares to eat any dirty things, but once it falls ill, it's hopeless.

Being compared to a Chinese garden dog, Gao Wen could only smile wryly as a dog lover in his previous life.Zeng Langzhong is a bad tempered person, and the world compares the servants in the yamen to dogs' legs. Unexpectedly, he has become one of them now, and he is still a relatively big one.

He plans to go home to visit his mother today in Japan, but it seems that it will not work.So he paid two qian and asked a yamen servant to buy a hundred catties of flour, two catties of pork and a basket of vegetables for the family.He also asked someone to tell me that he was busy with business and probably couldn't go back for the next two days.

Although Gao Wen is only temporarily acting as the head of the fast squad, but now that he has solved a major case, the county magistrate must have remembered his name.Moreover, he is Li Jinbao's nephew, so he might really be the leader of the group in the future.The people in the fast class also complimented him very much, and they were very considerate.After taking the medicine, he lay on the bed for a day and a night, sweating all over, and he was relieved.

On the second day, Du Zhixian came down with a word, ordering Kuaiban to escort the refugees arrested a few days ago across the river and send them back to Shanxi, where they will leave immediately.The war between the Ming Dynasty and Wala has ended, and the Hancheng county government has limited funds, so it is not a problem to keep a group of refugees locked up for free.

Gao Wenwen was planning to go home and talk to his mother, after thinking about it, he probably got the flu this time, because the yamen servant who sent him to see Langzhong Zeng fell ill yesterday, and I heard that he had a severe fever.Mother's body has always been weak, it would be bad if she was infected.Influenza is caused by viruses invading the human body. In ancient times without antibiotics, the body's resistance was completely resisted.Once the old and the weak are infected, they may die.

Immediately, he sent one of his subordinates to the house to say something, and he brought two arresters with him, carrying a goose feather knife at his waist, and carrying a water and fire stick, and set off with about forty refugees.

Ever since he traveled to the Ming Dynasty, Gao Wen was confined within a radius of tens of miles of Hancheng, and hadn't traveled far.What this world looks like is very strange to him, and he felt a little excited when he went out this time.

Before the Yellow River was frozen, Gao Wen and others crossed Longmen from Yumen and entered the boundary of Shanxi.Then he went through Hejin, Jishan, Weizhou, Taiping, and finally arrived at Pingyang Mansion. He handed over the prisoner to the local government office, got a reward of two liang of silver, and then returned along the road.

As for how these refugees are resettled by the local state capital, Gao Wen has no control.As far as he knows, whether there are refugees in the territory is also one of the criteria for the imperial court to evaluate an official's performance.Once there are refugees in the jurisdiction, the local officials first send people to arrest them, lock them up for a while, ask about their origins, and then send people back to their hometowns.By the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were too many refugees, and the government could no longer manage them due to limited manpower and expenses.

It took ten days to go back and forth.

By the time Gao Wen returned to Hancheng, it was already the end of the year, and the Spring Festival would be half a month away.The 14th year of orthodoxy is about to pass, and the next is the first year of Jingtai when the new emperor Zhu Qiyu became the chairman of Daming Company.Not many people may know about Zhu Qiyu, the Zongzong of the Ming Dynasty, but the reign title of Jingtai is like a thunderbolt to future generations, cloisonne!

After entering the city, the first thing to do is naturally to go to the Yamen to do business.He went into the yamen to inquire about what was happening in the county during the ten days he was away, and the yamen servant replied that nothing major had happened, except that the leg injury of Li Jinbao and Li Bantou not only failed to heal, but became inflamed, terribly painful, and stayed in bed all day He scolded Huang Wei and Han Kui.

Seventh Uncle's leg was injured like that, last time Guizi Han really killed him, this made Gao Wen secretly startled.This kind of villain is the most difficult thing to deal with. People don't hurt the tiger's will, and the tiger hurts the heart. It's really unpleasant to be thought about by such a vengeful filth.

Duzhi County is a famous scholar, who likes to recite the wind and enjoy the moon, and he doesn't sit in court very much on weekdays, so he received Gao Wen in the garden of the Houya.

The magistrate of the county actually sat in the snow to drink tea and read a book in the twelfth lunar month of winter. Gao Wen, a southerner in his previous life, was amazed at his ability to endure the cold.

After listening to Gao Wen's report, Du Zhixian nodded to express his satisfaction.

Gao Wen knew that literati hated people for disturbing their petty bourgeois sentiments when they were admiring the snow, so he pleaded guilty at the right time and was about to retire.

But Du Zhixian stopped him: "Hurry up, arrest high."

"The little one is here."

Du Zhixian looked at Gao Wen repeatedly up and down, making Gao Wen feel a little uncomfortable.

After a long time, Du Zhixian smiled slightly: "How many years have you been studying, Detective Gao?"

Gao Wen replied carefully: "Respecting the county, the youngest was enlightened at the age of eight, and he didn't drop out of school until he became an adult at the age of 12."

Du Zhixian said "Oh": "I have been studying for four years."

Gao Wen: "Yes, to report back to my lord, I have learned all of the "Three Character Classics", "Hundred Surnames", and "Thousand Character Classics". The pre-Qin scholars have also read a few poems in Tang and Song Dynasties."

Du Zhixian: "Why do you, the son of a servant, want to go to school?"

Gao Wen: "Back to the old man, the younger ones are the children of servants, and they will naturally inherit their father's line of work as yamen servants in the future. But if you work for the public, you have to be literate. If you can't even read official documents, what's the matter?" Errand?"

"En." Du Zhixian nodded: "Let's step back... By the way, your writing is good. The writing style and the story are good... It's a pity." The expression was full of regret.

While talking, he picked up the books on the table and shook them. Suddenly, it was the first episode of "Journey to the West" newly published by Linlang Pavilion.

Gao Wen was taken aback, and he felt complacent and puzzled at the same time.

What is puzzling is that when the book was handed over to Linlang Pavilion, because he was a subordinate, Yu Xingyan gave him another pen name. How could Du Zhixian know about this?

What is proud of is that he was able to get the compliment from Du Zhi County, which is considered a familiar face in front of him.It can be seen that County Magistrate Du was attracted by the stories in the book, maybe he, the original author, caught his attention, and his life in the yamen would be much easier in the future.

Also, even the county magistrate knows that he wrote this book, but at this moment, I, Gao Wen, have become a big celebrity.

But then I thought about it, even if I got the favor of Du Zhixian, I was still a small subordinate, and I was in the lowest position in the political circle of the Ming Dynasty. No matter how well the article was written, I could not take the imperial examination. pity.

After thinking about it, Gao Wen felt very boring.If there is no major change, my future in this life is estimated to be limited to inheriting the fast class leader of my seventh uncle Li Jinbao in the future.No matter how good the novels, poems, or articles are, when others mention them, they can only say "elegant official".

Finally returned to Hancheng and handed over the errand.After being away for a long time, the yamen servants who accompanied him on business trips also worked hard.As their leader, at least he should invite a meal of wine as a reward, and the other brothers in the squad could not be absent.

When I got back to the shift, there were only two white guards guarding the empty cell, and all the regular workers left.When asked, the two white servants replied that the brothers had gone to the teahouse to drink tea and listen to books. It is said that there was a story about the Monkey King making trouble in the Heavenly Palace recently. Almost every teahouse was talking about this book, and it was very lively.Brothers, almost everyone listened to the whole thing without any delay. Today, I happened to hear about Jiang Liu'er, who is also a Buddhist scripture learner.Everyone couldn't bear the temptation, and they all ran away, and we were in Mingsheng Tea House, so there were only two of us left.

"Storytelling in the teahouse so soon/" Gao Wen was delighted, "It seems that the market prospect of this book is good!"

Compared with the one tael of silver per month in the yamen, if you want to make a fortune, you really have to rely on "Journey to the West", which is the foundation for me, Gao Wen, to live and work.

Going back to Hancheng today, Gao Wenwen thought about going to see his seventh uncle Li Jinbao first, and then going back to the old house to visit his mother. Seeing that it was still early, he was not in a hurry, so he walked towards Mingsheng Teahouse, and first checked the market reaction.

Mingsheng Teahouse is the largest teahouse in Hancheng. In fact, because Hancheng is a large place and has a large population, there are still about [-] teahouses like this, which can be said to be all over the streets and alleys of the county.

The teahouses of the Ming Dynasty were different from those of later generations. Guests did not enter the teahouses just for drinking tea.In addition to drinking tea, you can also play leaf cards, play dice, chat and gossip, talk about business, and listen to books.Integrating casinos, teahouses, clubs, and theaters, it can be regarded as a social salon with Chinese characteristics.

By the way, if ordinary people in this era want to eat outside, they will not be able to find fly restaurants, snack shops and ghost diets like those in later generations.If you want to go, you have to go to a big restaurant, and you can't get a meal without three or five dollars.If you don't want to cook and don't want to waste money, you can go to teahouses, where hawkers offer all kinds of exquisite snacks.Some teahouses will even order a bowl of Qishan saozi noodles for guests, cut a pot of waist-wide soup, and pour a layer of oily and spicy peppers on it, which is very beautiful.

Teahouses, in fact, have the functions of small restaurants and fast food restaurants in the world.

Entering Mingsheng Teahouse, I saw at least forty tea drinkers crowded inside, a layer of pumpkin seed skin was spit out on the ground, the air was filled with the pungent sulfur smell of food and inferior coal, hot and smoky. It was unbearable.

"Let's talk about Tang Sanzang's farewell to Emperor Taizong, what happened when he went west to learn Buddhist scriptures? If you want to know what happened next, let's listen to the next chapter. Please be early tomorrow, please be early tomorrow!" Just as the storyteller finished today's story, he stood Get up and bow to everyone.

"Okay!" There was applause, and then a boy came over with a basin, asking everyone to hold a pot.

(End of this chapter)