On a hill in the seven miles of the south gate of Yangzhou, in a plum forest with sparse shadows and dark fragrances, more than a dozen women stood in front of a new grave, tears in their eyes.

Mi Hua Niang's grave is Su Jin ordered someone to find the address for burial, the day of the burial Su Jin did not come, ordered someone to hire a helper, bought a good coffin to bury it here, here is quiet and elegant, but it is also a feng shui place.

Mi Guo was sent to Yangzhou before the birth, but after his death, he was cold and not many people knew, and he went silently, although Su Jin felt very worthless about her martyrdom for Feng Jingyao, but he was moved by her fierceness.

Love is love, just like a familiar oath in Su Jin's memory: Whether you are poor or rich, whether you are healthy or sick, whether you are good or bad, I am willing to live and die together; His actions may be debatable, but his spirit is commendable.

The sky was overcast, and the north wind was howling, covering the sky with clouds; The last piece of paper money in front of the grave turned to ashes, and Su Jin softly greeted Bai Peony and the others, ready to go on the road; The women were reluctant, wiped away their tears and got into the car, and the car did not enter the city again, but went around the city to the west and went to the official road to Luzhou.

Su Jin ordered Zhang Long and Zhao Hu to walk with Bai Peony, and he rode to the west gate, where his own convoy had already taken the lead, and Ouyang Xiu and Song Zhen had already set up a banquet outside the west gate for him to practice.

As soon as Su Jin came to the West Gate, he was stunned by the situation in front of him, and he didn't know who released the news that he was going to leave Yangzhou, which caused the people to send each other off one after another, and the large open land outside the West Gate was full of people who were gathering and moving.

As soon as Su Jin appeared, the crowd suddenly became commotion, and someone shouted: "Su Qingtian, go all the way." ”

Someone shouted: "Su Qingtian, the people of Yangzhou thank you for your great kindness." ”

There are even people holding wine bowls, carrying baskets full of eggs, and carrying live fresh fish to squeeze forward to give to Su Jin.

Su Jin smiled, dismounted and handed the reins to a box soldier, and he bowed and thanked him, and took the wine bowl handed by the people all the way and drank it dry, and when he walked to the place where Song Zhen built the long shed, Su Jin was already drunk.

Ouyang Xiu and Song Zhen stood outside the shed and watched all this with a smile, they only felt the weight of this Su envoy in the hearts of the people at this moment, how difficult it was for a teenager to be so valued and loved by people.

Some people often sigh that the people's hearts have been bad since ancient times, whether it is troubled times or peaceful years, it is the same, one person is not as good as ten thousand people, you are a perfect person, but you may not be recognized by everyone, this is the truth that people often sigh about the people everywhere.

If a person can be so loved by the people of the city, it means that he must be unique; For Su Jin, this is not a secret, almost all the lives of the people in Yangzhou City were saved by him, and being able to enjoy such treatment just shows a very simple truth, in the helpless moment when the people can't survive, you can meet the basic survival needs of the people, it is enough to gain their trust, and nothing else.

The so-called "its land is luxurious, its people will be luxurious, rich and courteous", "its land is barren, its people will be evil and dangerous" This sentence should actually be said in reverse, the poorer the mountains and bad waters, the lower the people's requirements, and the easier it is to meet the people's extremely low desires, and they can be more loved by them; The opposite is even more difficult.

Although Su Jin didn't have the leisure to summarize this, he proved it with facts.

"Special Envoy Su, on behalf of the people of Yangzhou, this government toasts you with a glass of wine, thank you for everything that the special envoy has done for the people of Yangzhou in the past two months, and the government is ashamed of itself." Song Zhen claimed to be inferior for the first time, maybe he was infected by the emotions of the people, maybe he really came from the heart.

Su Jin shook the wine glass and drank it, and said with a smile: "Lord Fuzun is polite, I have made Lord Fuzun angry in the past two months, but fortunately, you and I have finally overcome the crisis in Yangzhou City with one heart, and it can be regarded as a perfect ending, so I won't say much else." ”

Song Zhen took a drink and said with a little melancholy: "This government has also figured it out, after the New Year, I went to the fold to ask for resignation from the prefect of Yangzhou, I am really not the material of the shepherd, all kinds of mistakes, almost caused a catastrophe, it is time to be sober." ”

Su Jin said with a smile: "Why should you be in a hurry, although there are some incidents in the rule of Yangzhou grain officials, but after all, they have also been solved in the appointment of the adults, even if the merits and demerits are offset, the emperor will not blame the adults, everything is in the emperor's heart, why should you and I bother more; However, if you don't want to be the prefect, I suggest that you revise the history books and organize the manuscripts, which is of great significance, and it is quite suitable for the prefect. ”

Ouyang Xiu rolled his eyes, this kid was drunk and talking nonsense, is this a compliment or a derogation? Although the historians such as revisions are nominally good, in fact, everyone equates them with incompetents, saying that the prefect wastes a lot of money to learn, isn't this scolding the bald donkey in front of the monk?

However, Song Zhen was not angry, but nodded again and again and said yes, it was really difficult for him to ask about political affairs, and Su Jin's suggestion was not a casual remark, it was worth considering for himself.

Su Jin picked up a glass of wine and said to Ouyang Xiu: "Lord Zhongcheng came all the way to Yangzhou and gave a great help to the lower officials. Not much to say, I salute Lord Zhongcheng with this glass of wine, and the words are in the wine. ”

Ouyang Xiu naturally heard the meaning of Su Jin's words, and said with a smile: "Su Zhuan is young and promising, and he will be a pillar of the imperial court in the future, and his ability is even higher than that of the official. This time, I will go back and greet Lingtang for my health, we will have a date later. ”

Su Jin thanked him, and the two of them raised their glasses and drank them all.

As early as the morning, Su Jin instructed the Ma Jun to return to Beijing for the New Year, and asked them to rush to Luzhou on the sixth day of the New Year to obey the order, these Ma Jun followed Su Jin to float outside for more than two months and finally had a holiday, naturally happy, it stands to reason that they could not return to Beijing at all before the errand was over, and the envoy implemented humanized management, and they also followed the income, and followed the envoy to make a lot of money in the past few months, just to go back to the capital to spend a lot of wine, It's a pleasure to be.

Su Jin is never worried about things like being interrogated after Ma Jun returns to Beijing, these things are basically inevitable, but Ma Jun doesn't know anything about the military rations and Long Zhen's death, as long as these two things are not caught, Su Jin is not afraid of anything.

For Pan Jiang, Su Jin naturally tried his best to win over, not only because Pan Jiang knew about his military rations, but also because, after two months, Su Jin found that Pan Jiang was a decent and down-to-earth person, just Yangzhou was full of ink, and Pan Jiang was unmoved and did not fall into Feng Jingyao's favor, so Su Jin was impressed by him; In a series of later events, Pan Jiang always stood on his side, and even dared to confront the guards in front of the palace with his soldiers on the execution ground yesterday, which was enough to make Su Jin extremely relieved of him.

When saying goodbye to Pan Jiang, Su Jin did not shy away from saying to Pan Jiang: "Commander Pan, once the grain affairs are over after the New Year, when you return to Beijing to resume your life, I will strongly recommend you to the emperor, you must be prepared; But before that, you still have to work hard to stabilize the situation in Yangzhou, Feng Jingyao's remnants must still slip through the net, beware of their chaos. ”

Pan Jiang's people in the army, naturally do not have so many fancy intestines, whoever has the ability to admire whom, from the time when Su Jin led his more than 1,000 people to uproot the bandits of Bagong Mountain, Pan Jiang threw himself on the ground of this envoy.

Pan Jiang asked himself that he might dare to go up the mountain, but it was wishful thinking to want to make a difference, but the envoy was able to move in the bandits' nest and finally defeat them in one fell swoop, this is not only a matter of guts, this is a matter of guts; As for the envoy to open the army and food to help the people, Pan Jiang didn't feel anything wrong, and later a dead city was gradually revitalized in the hands of the envoy, and by the way, Feng Jingyao and a corrupt official were captured, which strengthened Pan Jiang's determination to hold this thick thigh.

Pan Jiang drank it all with a wine bowl and said: "I don't want to be a high-ranking official, I just want to be able to follow the adult to run errands in the future. ”

Su Jin laughed, leaned close to Pan Jiang's ear and whispered: "I ordered someone to send 200,000 yuan of money to your house, 100,000 yuan to you and Pan Shiyi, and the other 100,000 yuan you distributed to the soldiers in your own name. In the future, you and my brother will have to work together one day, so you can rest assured. ”

Pan Jiang was surprised: "How is this good, how can you ask for an adult's money." ”

Su Jin smiled and said: "It's not my money, it's the filial piety of the dead ghost Feng Jingyao, you know it in your heart." ”

Of course, Pan Jiang knew it, but he didn't have much desire for money, so he didn't take it seriously.

Su Jin sent everyone to drink a few glasses of wine with him, and then he turned over crookedly and said goodbye.

The dynasty shouted, the Su family's convoy slowly started on the road, and the people of Yangzhou hulala knelt down and watched Su Jin leave.

Su Jin sat on the horse and staggered, suddenly felt a cold on his face, and when he looked up, the sky was fluttering like thousands of flying flotsam, and the second heavy snow of the year fell.