Let Xu Chang and Sister Tang talk about the price in the hall, Xu Ping and Xiuxiu walked to the courtyard. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Looking at the idyllic scenery, Xu Ping said to Xiuxiu: "It's too desolate here, it always reminds me of Zhuangzi in Baisha Town." I really don't know what you like about this. ”

Xiuxiu said softly: "Isn't it bad to be the same as at home?" I just want to be like home. ”

"Okay, if you say yes, then it's okay." Xu Ping said as he walked along the path of the vegetable garden with Xiuxiu into the distance to take a look at the layout of the house.

Even in the city, the land here is not precious, and there are large open spaces in the vegetable garden. Not only are there neat canals, but there are also several small ponds, one of which is more than half an acre, surrounded by bamboo forests, and there is a small wooden pavilion by the pond.

When he arrived at the pond and stopped, Xu Ping looked at the scenery left and right, and said, "This kind of dish is an elegant person." ”

"The officials don't know that Sister Tang's husband used to be a student of Guozijian and is quite talented, and it is said that the next imperial examination will be released. If it was a jinshi, the family would have made a fortune since then, but I didn't expect to go at a young age. ”

Xu Ping said to Xiuxiu: "It turns out that you know this eldest sister Tang, and you thought that she saw her when she wanted to sell the house." ”

Xiuxiu sighed: "Sister Tang has a pair of skillful hands, and she used to do some chores in the Yamen, helping people sew and mend in the Yamen, washing and washing the pulp, I met after I arrived." Official, you said that it is not easy for a pampered little lady who has been pampered since childhood, in order to provide for her husband's education, to go out to do odd jobs to help the family. ”

"It's not easy, and it's hard for her." Xu Ping nodded, this was his true words. That eldest sister Tang is not good-looking, and at a glance, she knows that she is not from a poor family, and it is indeed not easy to be content with poverty after marriage. One of the three women's three out of the chaff husband and wife does not go to court, so it is aimed at this situation. Before a man develops, he and his wife get along with each other, and the wife works hard to support her husband, which is a lifelong relationship, and he should stay together for a lifetime.

The so-called poor scholars in the world, in fact, it is difficult for people who are really poor to produce scholars, and those who can study without work must have a little family background. Just like this eldest sister Tang's family, her husband still has this ancestral house and these dozen acres of vegetable garden, which can barely maintain his study expenses. But the family is thin, the man concentrates on studying, and all the work is pressed on the woman, which is hard. Studying in the Guozi Prison, often going out with classmates for poetry and writing gatherings, can't be too shabby, which puts a lot of pressure on a woman. Sister Tang must have hired someone to grow vegetables at home, and then went out to do odd jobs to make up for it. This is the normal state of low-level readers, saying that poverty is still better than most people, and it is really hard to say that they are not poor.

Go around the small pond and follow the canal all the way forward.

Xu Ping asked Xiuxiu: "Are you poor Sister Tang to buy this house?" ”

Xiuxiu smiled: "What do I pity her for?" I was also by my side when you were studying, but at that time, you didn't have to worry about food and clothing, and when you read three or five books a day, you felt that you were the first person in the world to suffer. Now that I think about it, I don't know how strong it is to be better than this Xu family official. Sister Tang accompanies her husband like this, which is a poor couple and a blessing for a lifetime. She just has a bad life, and she can't wait for the day when her own officials make their careers. ”

At the end, it was a small river, and I don't know if it was the Luo River or a tributary of which river. The river is not wide, the water is not deep, the reeds at the water's edge have begun to turn yellow in the autumn colors, and the white reed flowers are flying on the surface of the river. On the big willow tree by the river, a kingfisher came out at some point, and lightning swept over the water, and in an instant it disappeared from the big tree that I don't know.

Xu Ping gently took Xiuxiu's hand, stood by the river, looked at the scenery, and didn't speak for a while.

In the past, there were not so many people in the Zhuangzi of Baisha Town, and the small river to the east of the Zhuangyuan was also this scene. Xu Ping often took Xiuxiu to play by the river, watching the waterfowl fly around and the reed flowers dancing in the sun. The autumn sun shines golden on the water. When I think about it now, those times felt like a dream.

Xu Ping squeezed Xiuxiu's hand and said to her: "It's actually not bad here, but in Luoyang City, the scenery of this countryside is always a little out of tune." When I'm busy for the past two days, I'll find someone to clean up this place. The vegetable garden is changed into a vegetable garden, planting some flowers and plants, peonies or something, and then planting some bamboo, and it will be passable. Good no good? ”

Xiuxiu shook her head: "It's not good, I like it here, I like it like this." ”

Xu Ping smiled and didn't say anything more. What the future looks like is still slowly changing with time.

Back in the hall, Sister Tang was gone, and even the little female envoy was gone, Xu Ping asked Xu Chang: "What's the matter, is the master's family leaving?" We are not in a hurry to come and stay. ”

Xu Chang said: "It's been delivered, what is she still doing here?" She had already packed up when it was time to clean up. There is still some road to Longmen Town, if you don't go early, it will be dark when you get there. I heard that their restaurant there is very deserted, and this eldest sister Tang used to be a helper to save hiring people. As for the deed, I will go to Henan County in two days to do it. ”

Xu Ping looked around, and always had a strange feeling in his heart, this is his home in Luoyang in the future? It seems that everything is too hasty, and there are five old houses and a vegetable garden, which really does not look like a home.

Xiuxiu stepped forward, sat down on the chair that Sister Tang was sitting on just now, and suddenly smiled: "It is said that Luoyang's daughter's family is different from other places, and she has the most ideas, and she can also make decisions about things at home." This Sister Tang is so cheerful, but it is true. Official, you see that this is also a chair, and it is only in Luoyang. I'll be sitting here from now on, how? ”

"Okay, if you like, what is there to sit on the other side!"

Xu Ping smiled and looked around the house with Xu Chang.

When Sister Tang was there just now, the position of the head of the family was vacant, which was reserved for her deceased husband. However, where she sits, there is also a chair placed on the same as the opposite.

Women in the Northern Song Dynasty generally do not sit on chairs, even at home, they generally sit on the pestle, in history the Southern Song Dynasty Lu You also sighed, to the Southern Song Dynasty women also began to sit on chairs, and there is no longer as regular as the Northern Song Dynasty. Luoyang is the exception, when the men start to sit on the chair, the women also start to sit at the same time. Henan Mansion is the place where the science of the two Song Dynasty rose later, but it is also the place where the status of women is the highest, and history is so unruly, always sparks burst out in contradictions.

Left behind in the back office of the Yamen, Sun Wei leaned lazily on the chair and listened to the head of the prefect at home talk about things.

The prefect said: "Official, I heard that the eldest sister Tang sold her house in Taohuafang to Xu Ducao, will something happen?" Sister Tang has a strong temperament, she must talk nonsense in front of Du Cao! ”

"Say what? Say I've got a crush on her? Sun Wei snorted coldly, "I didn't kill her husband, and I'm afraid that she won't be able to sue me at the Yamen of the Transit Division?" A widow and no children to drag down, I justifiably found someone to be a matchmaker, and if I wanted to accept her as a concubine in the outer room, did I still violate the royal law! Henan Mansion is not another place, my left-behind Si Tong Judge is not a local prison official, there is no saying that you are not allowed to marry a wife and take a concubine in the place, even if you make trouble in the court, I am not afraid of anything! ”

"That's what the official said. However, Sister Tang sold the house, had spare money in her hand, and returned the money at the end of the year, didn't we waste our efforts? The restaurant in Longmen Town cost a lot of money. ”

"Hmph, the house there in the pottery workshop has five dilapidated houses and more than a dozen acres of vegetable gardens, how much can it be sold for? This is not the capital, the capital is every inch of land, and the houses in the west capital are not worth much! The old man of the Tang family has been buying a restaurant for a year, and he has only been doing serious business for two months, and he has to get into it with as much property as he wants! If you have time, you can go to Longmen Town, let that buying yamen - what is it called, pay more attention, it is best to let Tang Lao'er's restaurant have no guests! ”

"The little one will go tomorrow. The officials have already spent a lot of money, but they have lost a lot of money without a result. ”

Sun Wei straightened up and sighed: "Alas, if it weren't for this Xu Ping, it wouldn't have cost a few dollars." The one who bought a new restaurant, and dared to put it away after making money? By the end of the year, you won't have to send it to me. Now that Xu Ping is a new official, he will inevitably keep an eye on it, and he will not like me, so he can't collect this money. Pity! ”

The prefect hurriedly said: "What about the other homes?" Many of the sub-officials in the city have to send some money every month, do we accept it or not? There are a lot of these people, but it's not a small amount. ”

"Accept it, don't charge me what to eat! By the way, you also buy some gifts, when are fresh fruits and vegetables, fish, turtles, shrimps and crabs, and walk around with those people when you have nothing to do. As an official in the same dynasty, it is not illegal to exchange courtesies at home. ”

"What the official said is, what else can others say?"

The Qing supervisor of the court can be in the Luoyang branch, according to Xu Ping's words in his previous life, it is the Luoyang branch of the Yamen. But there was no ministry, only a salary, and the only work was to participate in the various sacrifices and the great daily life once every five days.

At the beginning of the Great Song Dynasty, the branch officials were a kind of preferential treatment, and the Luoyang branch office took the pension when the officials were old, which is one of the reasons why there were many high-ranking official residences in Luoyang City. Later, the treatment of officials increased, and after Zhishi, he went from not receiving a salary to receiving half a salary, and finally receiving a full salary, so this sub-official no longer had a little advantage. In this era, the branch division Luoyang has become a punishment for officials, which is equivalent to idleness, and the political future is basically buried, which is heavier than demotion.

These sub-divisions are under the control of the left-behind divisions, and Sun Wei is not a big official, but he can control the future of many high-ranking officials. The political future of the sub-division is basically over, but there are always various reasons to make a comeback, just to see if he will come to the trouble. Every five days, the table is sometimes sent to the capital by the post station, and sometimes it is specially sent by officials. This is an opportunity to meet the emperor, and there are ambitious sub-officials who are keeping an eye on it. Just for this opportunity, Sun Wei collected a lot of money a year.

In principle, the Left-behind Division is not a local yamen, but a part of the central court. For example, Xijing Guozijian, Yushitai and Si Tianjian are all left behind in the department, and these officials are not magistrates, and the big living is originally a matter for court officials. Such a yamen, which is in the local area but does not belong to the local area, has many more opportunities out of thin air. Sun Wei has few things to manage in Henan Mansion, but his real power is not small, at least for officials, his identity as a left-behind department is much more important than the identity of Henan Mansion. (To be continued.) )