The news of Hexi's complete recovery was transmitted back to Tokyo in early April, and Empress Dowager Liu asked the inner guard to lead Zhao Jie, as well as hundreds of officials from the court and the central government, to go to the temple to pay respects.

And in the name of Zhao Jie, he issued an edict to reduce or exempt the service money of single ding, single-family households, and female households this year. In addition, 300,000 yuan was taken out from the inner treasury and invited the servants to perform a hundred operas on various streets in Beijing to increase the festive atmosphere.

Empress Dowager Liu naturally had some selfish intentions in doing this, hoping to increase Zhao Jie's prestige among the people.

The lady of the Yu family, who lives in Andingfang, went out with a bamboo basket in the morning, she had a good face, a floral scarf wrapped around her head, and the dress on her body was very simple, but her head was very neat, but there was a trace of melancholy between her frowning eyebrows.

She was holding a five or six-year-old boy in her left hand, and she was wearing a pigtail, which was very cute.

As soon as I walked out of the alley, the hustle and bustle of the market followed, with flowing cars and horses, hawkers hawking along the street, children playing on strollers on Liuyinya Road, and men in front of the shops who warmly greeted customers.

The lady of the Yu family tightened the little boy's hand, for fear that he would be lost, and then the little boy looked at the various snacks at the street entrance, and his footsteps could not move.

"Mother, I want to eat sugar dates."

"Huzi has to be good, my mother has no money in person, and I will buy medicine for your father when I sell the cloth, and when my mother has money next time, will I buy food for Huzi?"

"Mother......" The little boy looked at the sugar dates reluctantly, and his little appearance was strange and pitiful.

The lady of the Yu family feels sorry for her son, but there is really no way, Huzi and his father help Xizuosi carry goods on weekdays, and he can earn three or four taels of money every month, plus she weaves and sells cloth on weekdays, and she can also have one or two taels of income per month, although the life is not easy, but it can always be maintained.

But when Huzi's father got on the boat to move goods a few days ago, he accidentally fell on the port and broke his left foot.

Aunt Qiu, who bought sugar dates at the corner of the street, saw the embarrassed appearance of the Yu family's lady, so she wrapped a few sugar dates in hemp paper and walked over and stuffed them for Huzi.

"Come, Huzi take it and eat it."

Yu Niangzi excused herself with some embarrassment: "How can this work, auntie, I ......"

Aunt Qiu smiled happily: "Our neighbors, I still don't know if you have difficulties?" A few sugar dates, when I gave them to Huzi to eat. ”

"Auntie, you are also a small business, and life is not easy, how can the child not be greedy, but you can't always let him."

"Let's eat it!" Aunt Qiu stuffed the sugar dates to Huzi, touched Huzi's pigtail with a loving face, and then looked up and said to the Yu family's lady: "By the way, Huzi's father's feet are better?" ”

The lady of the Yu family suddenly looked sad, shook her head and said, "It's better, but I still can't go to the ground." ”

Aunt Qiu immediately counted down: "I'll just say, although the medicine in the Chen family's pharmacy is cheaper, but the medical skills are not very good, you are greedy for cheap to invite his family to see a doctor, what is the use if you can't get better now?" If Jingli talks about bone grafting to treat traumatic injuries, it is best to have hundreds of grass halls, and you should go to Bai Cao Tang in the morning. ”

"The slave family also persuaded Huzi's father, but Huzi's father was reluctant to ......"

"Oh, that's right! Tomorrow is the day of Baicaotang's free clinic and medicine, you help me watch the stall first, and I'll go back and let my dead old man go to help you line up, and strive to get a ......number for you."

"Auntie! Auntie......"

After Mrs. Qiu finished speaking, she ran home in a hurry, and the lady of the Yu family called behind, as if she didn't hear it, and the lady of the Yu family had to go to her stall to help watch.

When Aunt Qiu came back, she smiled from afar: "Okay, my dead old man will go immediately, you can rest assured, I will definitely be able to get you a free clinic number plate." ”

"How can this trouble Uncle Qiu, I'll go to the queue at night."

"Look at what you said, what do our neighbors take care of each other, Huzi and his father don't help us less on weekdays, you are a woman's family, what do you say when you go to squeeze around with others at night, besides, Huzi and his father can't get out of bed, you go to line up, who will take care of the family?"

The lady of the Yu family thanked her with tears in her eyes, and Aunt Qiu saw the bamboo basket she was carrying in her hand, so she asked: "Hu Ziniang, are you weaving cloth and selling it?" ”

"Hmm!"

"I'll see!"

Aunt Qiu lifted the flower cloth on the top layer of the bamboo basket, revealing a piece of blue cloth that had just been woven below.

Aunt Qiu praised a few words in a row, and suddenly said: "Hu Ziniang, you don't get such a good cloth to the Zhao family, go to the west of the tile, I heard that there are merchants who are rushing to collect cloth these days, and the price of a foot of cloth is four or five Wen higher than the original." ”

The lady of the Yu family was a little incredulous, how could there be such a good thing?

"Huzi Niang, you are either taking care of Huzi and his father at home all day long, or you are busy weaving, you don't know what has become of the outside, right?"

"What can it become?" The Yu family lady was even more puzzled.

"Look! Haven't heard of this? Let me tell you, I heard that Master Yang led the army to the west, and the momentum was like that bamboo, anyway, it was a big victory after victory, and the entire Hexi thousands of miles were recovered. ”

When Aunt Qiu talked about this, her face was full of energy, as if it was her son who led the troops to recover Hexi.

The lady of the Yu family asked curiously: "The slave family has heard about Master Yang leading troops to recover Hexi, but what does this have to do with us?" ”

"How does it not matter? I can hear Mr. Zhang, who read the newspaper in Wazi in front of me, said that in the past, the party members occupied Hexi, and the trade routes between our Great Song Dynasty and the Western Regions were not connected, and merchants could not go back and forth to sell and buy; Now that Bachelor Yang has taken back Hexi, no, I heard that the number of caravans going to the Western Regions is uncountable, why did you say that this cloth has risen several times? It's because after the trade route was opened, the caravan rushed to buy cloth and tea! It is to be transported to the Western Regions for sale; I heard that when things arrive over there, they are more expensive than gold, you, even if you are blessed by Master Yang, this cloth will be sold for an extra twenty or thirty yuan if you take the tile to the west? ”

"Really, auntie, then I'll take the cloth and sell it first!" The lady of the Yu family heard that she could sell it for an extra twenty or thirty yuan, where could she still sit still.

"Go, go!"

The lady of the Yu family took the cloth she had woven to the tile in the west, and sure enough, the price rose, and she was skillful, and the cloth she woven was better than others, and the traders rushed to ask for it, and a zhang of cloth was sold for thirty-six dollars more than before; This is a great thing for the Yu family at a difficult time, the Yu family lady counted and counted the copper coins in her hand, and the tears of joy were about to fall.

The people in the tile talked loudly, all of which were about Master Yang's recovery of Hexi, and those who read the newspaper were surrounded by several circles of people, and when they heard the highlights, they let out bursts of enthusiastic applause.

The Great Song Dynasty was still very free in speech, and a kind of folk tabloid appeared in the market very early.

At first, some of the editors were officials of the Jinsoin Academy, and some were individual officials in the imperial court and the owners of bookstores; They took the "difference between the imperial court and the recital of the hundred officials of Taiwan" that were not published or were not allowed to be published in the newspaper of the imperial court, and printed a pamphlet at sunrise and sold them privately.

This practice was suspected of leaking secrets, and the imperial court repeatedly banned it at the beginning and punished the editors; However, due to the fact that the Great Song Dynasty has a national policy of not using words and crimes, the punishment is limited, and it is impossible to cut off tens of thousands of your heads if you say the wrong word, just like a certain "Kang Yongqian prosperous era".

Therefore, this kind of tabloid not only did not disappear, but became more and more banned, and the court could only let it go; Nowadays, tabloids abound in all big cities, and editors, newspaper detectives (reporters), engravers, newspaper sellers, and newspaper readers are all available to make a living from this kind of tabloids, forming a complete industrial chain.

Savvy businessmen see the great role of this tabloid in disseminating information, and they will spend money on tabloid advertising their own goods; Some even compiled a tabloid to promote their own goods, and it can be said that the tabloid has long been integrated into the life of the people in the Great Song Dynasty.

Today's war in Hexi is naturally the content of these tabloids, and the daily "headlines" must be related to the war in Hexi; In order to increase sales, these tabloids blew the war in Hexi to the fullest, and Yang Bachelor, who led the army to conquer Hexi, was even blown by the tabloids as the reincarnation of Huo Hussar, and even surpassed it.

There is a tabloid called "Four Seasons Zhaibao", which even vigorously excavated Yang Yi's growth experience and carefully analyzed his mental journey; At the same time, regarding the rumor that Master Yang is the reincarnation of Huo Huqi, this 'Four Seasons Zhai Bao' provides exclusive arguments, the arguments are as follows:

Huo Quai, male, is the son of Wei Shao'er, a female slave in Princess Pingyang's Mansion and Huo Zhongru, a small official in Pingyang County, Huo Zhongru did not dare to admit that he had an affair with Princess Pingyang's female slave, so Huo Qubing could only be born as an illegitimate child, his father did not dare to admit this illegitimate child, and his mother was a female slave...... Yang Yi, male, whose real name is Li Yi, was born to Li Leran of Renhe County and the Yang family of the outer room, because of the low background of the Yang family in the outer room, he was not recognized by the Li family, and his son could not recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors, so he could only become an illegitimate child...... After such a list of 'Four Seasons Zhai Bao', people found that Bachelor Yang and Huo Huqi were both born illegally, and they also had a bitter childhood experience, the same young fame, the same ability to fight well, and the same ...... All right! The evidence is so conclusive, you say, what is it that Master Yang is not the reincarnation of Huo Huqi?

Although the lady of the Yu family wanted to hear it, she was worried about her injured husband at home, so she could only leave in a hurry, and when she walked to the side of the tile, she heard Zhang butcher shouting: "Sell meat, sell meat, newly slaughtered fat pig, eighty wen a catty......"

Hearing this, the lady of the Yu family couldn't help but stop, in the past, pork was never less than 100 wen, why is it only sold for 80 wen today?

She looked at it, and it was indeed fresh pork.

"Is this pork really only sold for eighty wen a catty?"

Butcher Zhang's rough voice immediately shouted: "Hey, this has been selling for eighty wen for several days, can I still lie to you?" Hurry up if you want to buy it. ”

Someone next to him immediately interjected: "Zhang Erzi, your meat is expensive for eighty yuan, I heard that under the state bridge, it is only sold for seventy-eight yuan a catty, who are you?" Who doesn't know that after Master Yang recovered Hexi, he got countless cattle and sheep, and now the mutton is much cheaper, and if you don't have a lower price for pork, who will eat you? ”

"Hehe, didn't I just open the market? Since it sells seventy-eight wen under the state bridge, I also sell seventy-eight wen, come on, come on, which piece you want, hurry up. ”

The lady of the Yu family touched her money bag, thinking that since her husband was injured, there was nothing to make up for his body, so she gritted her teeth and said, "Then how to sell this bone?" ”

"Well, count you thirty dollars a pound!"

"Then you can bring me a pound."

Looking at the pound of barrel bones in the hands of thirty Wen, the Yu family's heart was full of joy; She suddenly realized that Bachelor Yang's recovery of Hexi was not unrelated to them as ordinary people; Unconsciously, the recovery of Hexi has affected all aspects of their lives, and she suddenly wants to find someone to tell her feelings, and she wants to say thank you to the Master Yang who she has never met.

(To be continued)