Idle courtiers

Chapter 106 Two Tigers and One Pig Falling in Pingyang ([-])

Xia Yi: "Zhan Tong, are you alright?" He was thrown into the water by Zhan Zhi that day, and he was pissed off in a rage.Zhan Tong stayed on the boat for the past few days, looking weak.

Seeing him vomit blood at this moment, I regretted it in my heart, and was about to reach out to help him.

At this time, suddenly there was an uncontrollable itching in the throat.Immediately, I couldn't help coughing.

This coughing became uncontrollable, and in a short while, his face was flushed, his body was hot and sweaty, and his body felt a little weak.

Zhou Nan helped Zhan Tong up, looked at Xia Yi again, and asked worriedly, "Qianhu, are you okay?"

Xia Yi: "Cough...cough...huh, it doesn't matter, it's probably because the sunset was cold that day, these few days...cough cough...I'm tired, I can't stand it, just go to the inn to rest for a while."

Zhou Nan was amazed: "Xia Qianhu, you are also Qianhu after all, and you belong to Jinyiwei in the capital. With your status, you will naturally go to the post house. Why are you staying at the inn?"

Xia Yi said in a low voice, "You don't care where I live." But she thought to herself: that day you and the uncle surnamed Zhan fell into the water. , the post station is naturally impossible to live in.Well, pay for the inn out of your own pocket.This is knocking out front teeth and swallowing blood, consider yourself unlucky!
Besides, when I come to Jiangyin, I can't disturb the people in the officialdom. How can I go to the post house?
After Zhan Tong vomited the contents of his stomach, he finally got better, panting and said, "Xia Qianhu, you really are, it's strange that there are people who pay by themselves when you go out on errands."

Zhou Nan said "Oh": "I see, Zhanzhi County, is the place where people can live in the post station? The quilt inside is only washed once a year, and the lice are the size of soybeans. Qianhu is a fastidious person, but he can't afford it." This is a crime. Now you, Mr. Zhan, have to go to the inn by yourself, Xia Qianhu and I."

Indeed, the postal system like the post station, which eats financial food, eats a big pot of rice and holds an iron rice bowl.No matter what you do, you only need a few dollars a month to work and eat, so the efficiency is naturally terribly low.As far as Zhou Nan knew, the post station in Andong County was so dirty that people couldn't see it.

Later, Emperor Chongzhen probably felt that those people in the post station were really hateful, so he decided to introduce a competition mechanism, smashed their iron rice bowls, and ended up smashing Li Zicheng.

Zhan Tong was startled when Zhou Nan said that the inn was dirty, not to mention there were lice, and gasped, he said, "Well, I'd better stay in the inn with you."

While talking, the three got off the boat and walked towards Jiangyin County.

The city gate of the county seat seemed to have been burned, half of the city tower collapsed, and there were black marks everywhere.Entering the city, the scene in front of him was even more bleak.

I saw that the street was very quiet and bleak.There were hardly any people in sight, only a few passers-by passed by from time to time, and there were many soldiers among them.Whether it is a soldier or a civilian, they all have disheveled looks on their faces.

After Zhou Nan thought about it, he realized that Jiangyin is located at the center of the Yangtze River water transport, and like Jingjiang County in the middle of the Yangtze River in the north, it is a battleground for military strategists.Since the Japanese Rebellion, this place has been one of the battlefields, and it has been ravaged by Japanese pirates from time to time, and it has already been defeated.

Jiangyin was a big city in later generations, but during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, like other counties, there were only two horizontal and vertical main streets and more than a dozen alleys.

I asked pedestrians and found the best inn in the county to stay.Then I asked Xiaoer again, and Zhou Nan found out.During the Zhengde period, there were more than 6 residents in Jiangyin County.After several wars, the common people fled to Jiangbei.Today, it is enough to make up 1 people.

Less than 1 people, which is the size of a rural farm in later generations.

In fact, the inn is not much better, and the accommodation fee is astonishingly expensive.The three of Zhou Nan lived in a private room each, and the total daily rent reached an astonishing three taels of silver, which is already the standard of a five-star hotel.

Xia Yi, a Beijing official, is probably used to enjoying it, so she doesn't think there is anything wrong with it.As for Zhan Tong, he had never paid for it before, and he had no idea about it.

Zhou Nan refused, and scolded the little girl: "You are running a black shop, you are so expensive."

Xiao Er sneered: "Guest officer, if you are not satisfied, you can go out and visit this county. The price is the same. If you don't live, you can go to another house. The soldiers are in a panic, and it is good to have a place to stay. gone."

Xia Yi saw that it was getting late, and she was coughing badly, so she couldn't walk anymore.He waved his hand: "Forget it, stay here, only two rooms are open. Xiaoer, can you get some food here."

Soon, a table of food and wine was placed in Xia Yi's room.The dishes are also simple, just a piece of fish, a piece of scrambled eggs with leeks, a piece of fried wheat seedlings, and a small pot of brown rice.After eating, the account is settled, and the meal fee is one tael of silver.

Now, even Zhan Tong, who doesn't eat fireworks in the world, was angry, "What are these things, there are plenty in Yujiang, and they are not worth anything. The only thing that cares about the money is the eggs. Straight mother thief, are they phoenix eggs? If it is in An'an Dong, this county must beat you to death with a board. The foot and teeth of the car and boat shop should be killed even if they are innocent."

That Xiao Er was a sharp-tongued guy, and he said, "It turns out that you are an adult. Since you are an adult, why don't you stay at the inn. By the way, all the important people who come to our county live in the old man's house in the Jishen country. When will they be degraded?" Did you come to the small shop? You don’t go out to visit. This Changzhou government receives soldiers every year, and there are no crops in the fields. All food has to come from other places, the journey is long, and tofu is also sold at the price of meat. It was Mr. Ying De from Wujin County who defeated the Japanese slave pirates, and thus kept the grain roads open. In exchange for two years’ money, the three masters will charge fifty taels of taels for this meal, so don’t call it expensive.”

The Ying Degong he was talking about was the governor of Fengyang and Tang Shunzhi, the commander-in-chief of Jiangbei during the Anti-Japanese War.

Tang Shunzhi, courtesy name Yingde, was born in Wujin County, Changzhou Prefecture.

Now, he is recruiting soldiers in his hometown, preparing and training soldiers, and preparing for a decisive battle with Japanese slaves. The Xingyuan is temporarily located in Jiangyin County.

The three of Zhou Nan thought about it, when they passed by on the street just now, all the shops on the street were closed, and naturally there were no vendors selling vegetables or rice.It is also understandable that prices soared during the war.

They stopped talking at the moment, and they all ate in silence.

Xia Yi's face was a little pale, and she lost her appetite after eating two chopsticks, so she went back to her room to sleep.

As for Zhou Nan, although he is in good health, after these few days of tossing, he is exhausted, and his food intake is only [-]% of the usual.

Zhan Tong, on the other hand, wrapped up the rest of the meal and ate until his stomach bulged slightly, his eyes gleaming with hunger.He muttered: "Zhou Zimu, I can't get enough to eat at all. How about calling Xia Qianhu and asking him to add two more dishes?"

"If you want to call it yourself, Mr. Zhan has a lot of money in his life, so why can't he afford it?" Zhou Nan rolled his eyes.

Zhan Tong: "If it's nothing in Anton, don't I have no money?"

Both Zhou Nan and Zhan Tong were suddenly double-regulated, and they were taken out of Andong County at dawn. Not to mention that they had no silver on them, and even some valuable accessories were confiscated by Jin Yiwei, in order to prevent them from escaping.

At this moment, it is naturally penniless.

Zhou Nan patted himself on the waist: "I'm the same as you. As for Xia Yi's place, that guy coughed so badly, he must be sick. This person has a bad temper when he's sick, bro, bear with it, don't go Touch his bad head!"

"Enough... How can I bear it, we fat people can't stand hunger, we are going to die, we are going to die."

After dinner, Zhou Nan and Zhan Tong returned to the room when it was dark.Naturally, he snatched the bed honestly and unceremoniously, kicked Zhixian Zhan to sit on the chair, and said, "Old Zhan, have you practiced qigong? I think you have serious internal injuries. You don't want to guard your dantian as you wish. God, maybe tomorrow he will be cured."

Zhan Zhixian and Zhou Nan were in the same boat through thick and thin, and he had teased him several times on the way, but he didn't dare to provoke him, so he had to sit huddled in a chair and doze off.

The weather is still very cold, especially in a humid place like Jiangyin.In the second half of the night, the cold air penetrated into the bones like a snake.

Sleeping until midnight, Zhou Nan suddenly heard a low moan.He opened his eyes and saw that Zhan Tong was trembling all over, shaking violently, and the sound of his upper and lower teeth knocking against each other filled the room.

He was taken aback, jumped out of the bed, touched his head, the tentacles were hot.He immediately understood in his heart that Zhan Tong had a serious internal injury, and because he was tired again, the injury immediately aggravated.

"Old Zhan, are you okay?"

Zhan Tong had a miserable face: "Zimu, this officer probably has enough, today is a pill."

"Okay, let me give you the bed, don't say I'm bullying." Zhou Nan helped him onto the bed, covered him with the quilt, and said angrily, "I've got a fever, so don't be your pill party." You'll be fine tomorrow after a good night's sleep, you can eat so much just now, you probably won't die. I'll go to the kitchen to see if I can get you a bowl of hot soup, and I'll ask Xia Qianhu to hire a doctor for you tomorrow."

Zhan Tong: "Zimu, you probably don't know that the more sick I am, the more I can eat, and I have to eat a lot of oil and meat. Don't make any hot soup. If you have something to eat, find some, even if it is a Wotou is also good."

Zhou Nan went out of the room, went into the kitchen, woke up the cook, promised him a monetary benefit, and told him to make a bowl of poached eggs and bring them back to the room.

Smelling the scent, Zhan Tong, who had already fallen asleep, woke up, grabbed the bowl, swallowed four eggs in one go, and then took a breath.Tears fell into the bowl, causing a circle of ripples: "Miserable, miserable, miserable. I think that when I was a boy, Zhan Tong, I gave anti-sackbags to support my old lady at Tongxian Wharf, and suffered all kinds of hardships in the world. When I am middle-aged, I finally Concubine Li fell in love with her and gave her an assignment to be the magistrate of the seventh rank, this is a beautiful thing that she never dared to dream of in the past."

"In the past few years, I have earned money that I didn't dare to think about before, and I have eaten delicious food that I couldn't imagine before. But now I have fallen to this level... I don't want to die, I still want to live a good life!"

Seeing him sad, Zhou Nan persuaded him, "You just sold a few army horses to Liaodong Town. If it's a big deal, the palace won't ignore you. Don't worry."

Although he persuaded him so much in his mouth, he also felt in his heart that this brother Zhan's visit to Beijing this time may be really embarrassing.You are a distant relative of the palace, and an unimportant little character. If you don't take the blame, who will take the blame?
Another smile: "Old Zhan, why don't you call pills now?"

Zhan Tong: "Pills." Then he turned his head and fell into a deep sleep.

Zhou Nan didn't care about any men's defense, she took off her shoes and fell asleep at Zhan's feet, sniffing the smell of his feet and sleeping all night half dreaming and half awake.

I just felt that the whole body of Zhan was so hot that he was sweating all over.

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