Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 97

[Chapter 96]

Recently, Gongsun Yang has actually been muttering in his heart: The mind of the prince, sparing him is also a half-human essence, and for many years, he still has some guesses.

Originally, according to the plan, it was the beginning of spring, and it was almost time to go to Jinyang.

I don’t want him to suddenly get early, just after the Lantern Festival, he said he was leaving.

Gongsun Yang is naturally indispensable.

As soon as the prince said a word, the subordinates immediately broke their legs, and the generals who wanted to go with the prince to the west waved tears to bid farewell to their wives and children, just waiting to leave.

Everything was ready, and without thinking, the prince returned from a trip to the Endless City, and suddenly he did not mention Jinyang.

However, every day when he saw him come to the office just after dawn, he would not leave until it was dark.

In fact, just at the beginning of the year, there are really not so many things.

In order to seek good luck in the year, since ancient times, there has been a practice of not handing over troops at the beginning of the year.

Therefore, in the future, there really aren’t so many important things in the office, and the non-binding prince personally works after the case.

Gongsun Yang was puzzled.

Because they were all waiting for the prince to speak, they also asked him earlier.

At that time, the prince said that it was not easy to understand the vast number of soldiers, and it was rare to be at the beginning of the year, so he temporarily changed his mind and let everyone have more leisure.

There was a lot of joy below, and they all thanked the prince for his understanding.

Gongsun Yang intuitively, a little disbelieving. But he saw a little, the prince did not want to go yet.

So he didn’t urge either.

But at this time, it is really not urged.

Because things came out.

Three days ago, Zhang Jian and Li Chong’s side came to a courier, saying that the Qiang people in Longxi were rebelling and attacking the Shangjun area. Fortunately, it was suppressed. Ask the prince to rush to the past as soon as possible to make up his way.

Last night, the state side of the urgent sent another express, which was in the hands of Gongsun Yang.

Although he was still waiting for the prince to come and dismantle it, he also guessed that it should be a follow-up to the Shangjun Chaos.

So when he got up early in the morning, he was waiting for the prince to come.

He did not show up today.

Gongsun Yang’s necks were almost straight, and he was trying to send someone to the Wei mansion to deliver a message, but he saw that the prince was coming, so he quickly handed over the express report and asked a question in passing.

Wei Shao opened the express, glanced at it, and handed it to Gongsun Yang.

Zhang Jian reported that the suspected Liangzhou assassin Shi Fengzhao secretly instigated the burning of The Qiang to commit crimes in an attempt to misbehave. Please come quickly.

The Qiang dynasty was the most powerful Qiang regime in the west, and like the Xiongnu, it first made a living from animal husbandry, and then gradually integrated into the Han and turned to farming. In the impression of the Han people, the Qiang people are “extremely terrible, not like living people”, more than a decade ago, this Qiang people with a population of hundreds of thousands of people were naturalized in the Han Room, but later they were brutally ruled by Chen Xiang. Chen Xiang regarded the Qiang people as cattle and horses and treated them cruelly. Not only did they want the Qiang people to pay tribute to themselves, but they also kidnapped men and turned them into slaves, and women became prostitutes. The new leader of the Qiang people, Diao, was dissatisfied, and the Dehan rebelled again, once capturing Xihe County.

Last year, Chen Xiang lost the state. Wei Shao beckoned Mo for the first time. But Diao Mo did not respond, and only retreated to Qiangdi.

Wei Shao was in a hurry to return to Youzhou at that time, and seeing that the border was peaceful, he temporarily put aside the matter and rushed back.

I didn’t want to be so fast, it was only the beginning of the year, and the Qiang people actually attacked Shangjun again. And it also involves the Liangzhou assassin Shi Fengzhao.

“What does the Lord decide?”

Gongsun Yang asked.

Pingxi Liang, collecting the Qiang people, and putting an end to the troubles for him to go south, this was Wei Shao’s military purpose of going to Jinyang in the opening year. Gongsun Yang is naturally clear.

Wei Shao frowned, “I’ll leave tomorrow morning!” The army will be dispatched within three days and sent to Jinyang at a normal speed. ”

……

Wei Shao returned from the Office, and Fang was not even noon.

He usually rarely returned home at this point. Isaiah’s maid maid who was left behind in the house was astonished. Serve the meal.

Little Joe still didn’t return.

Wei Shao was a little distracted, he didn’t eat any food, and rode out of the city and headed in the direction of the Taishe Temple.

In February, the Shoutaishe Shrine Festival is of great significance to farmers who make a living as farmers. Early in the morning, the villagers in the pavilions brought leeks, eggs and new wine brewed from last year’s home, and flocked from all directions to participate in the sacrifice in front of the Taishe Ancestral Hall in the eastern suburbs of Sanglin.

At the auspicious time, the skin drum sounded, yuyang ling led the villagers who participated in the sacrifice behind him to kneel and prostrate to the earth god, toast, toast, pay homage to the grain seeds, declare the prayer, and finally give the incense to Xiao Qiao after the clean hand, who personally inserted it into the agricultural altar, and prayed again, and the sacrifice ceremony was completed.

As a land lord, the Wei family has always been loved by the people. Lady Zhu, who had received the sacrifice in the first few years, was arrogant, and after the sacrifice was completed, she must hurry to the car and leave. This year, I changed the monarch. The people saw that the new master mother of the Wei family was young and beautiful, with a lovely smile, and all of them fell, and after they finished, they all went to her, surrounded her, and asked the lady to taste the new wine, evaluate the winner, and have fun with the people.

This is also a traditional Taishe ritual entertainment project. In the pavilion of each clan, new wine is offered, and after tasting and evaluating, one of them is selected as a offering wine and placed on the altar of the farmer. If chosen, the clan name pavilion will be honored.

The people were very kind, and Little Qiao was difficult, and together with Yuyang Ling, he came to the tasting table.

On a row of shelves, there are neatly arranged wine altars. The belly of the altar is pasted with red paper, and there are marks in the clan pavilion on it, which is clear at a glance.

Aristocratic women, like men, drank alcohol.

Mrs. Xu’s alcohol intake is excellent. Even at this age, after each meal, I rinse my mouth with warm wine.

Little Joe has a shallow amount of alcohol, and he does not drink much on weekdays. Seeing that there was such a long wine jar sitting there waiting to be drunk one by one, my heart was troubled.

It’s just that people have arrived here, and all around them are expectant eyes, like catching ducks on the shelves, and they can only harden their scalps and go up with Yuyang Ling, starting from the first unsealed wine altar, tasting wine one by one.

Fortunately, she only needs to take one lamp from each altar, and she only needs to take a sip to taste it.

Because they were all new wines that were carefully brewed by the clan, and it was related to the honor of each pavilion, she did not dare to be perfunctory.

Every sip of wine, try to taste as much as possible. Thick or light, astringent or moist, slowly a total of dozens of wine altars, from the beginning to the end, they have all tasted them.

In the end, she consulted with Yuyang Ling and chose one of them as the winner.

At that time, the villagers in the pavilion cheered and rejoiced, scooped wine for appreciation, and offered new wine on the altar. This is followed by social drama and dance.

The mulberry forest is full of drums, people are happy and festive, and young men and women chase around the mulberry trees, leaving bursts of joyful laughter.

There were only so many wines, although she only drank a small sip of each one, but it added up to a lot, and all kinds of wine were mixed together, and the root of the tongue seeped into the abdomen, and gradually burned. When Yu Yangling came to invite her to watch the society drama, Xiao Qiao’s heart was already beating suddenly, and his cheeks were a little red. Fortunately, there was Chunniang and Lin Mi on the side to help each other, so as not to show a drunken state.

Xiao Qiao also knew that he was probably going to be unable to hold on to the wine, lest he be ugly when he was drunk here, so he smiled and said, “Thank you so much for the love of the ambassador and the villagers.” Today’s auspiciousness, Zhaoxing Jia, will surely bless Li Shu. Let the king and the people rejoice, and I will first resign.

Yuyang Ling saw that her cheeks were slightly red, knowing that she should not be able to overcome the strength of the wine, and did not dare to stay any longer, and rushed to pay tribute.

Little Joe left the temple and came out of the mulberry forest. Along the way, countless villagers greeted her with greetings and farewells, including the young children of the County Guoxue who had gone to the West Queen Mother’s Hall to spy on her beautiful beauty.

These people are here today just to make a scene. If you can give a gift of two or eight beautiful people with orchids, it will be more icing on the cake. Many of them came to Sanglin last year, and the main mother who knew that the Wei family had come to participate in the sacrifice was the middle-aged woman, and naturally there would be no expectations this year.

But I didn’t expect that the person who appeared this morning was the young girl who wanted to peek at it last year and couldn’t. If he really looked like a heavenly immortal, at the first sight, one by one, his eyes were glowing, his two legs were fixed on the ground, and he couldn’t move.

From the beginning of Xiao Qiao’s appearance, this group of children of the county Guoxue followed closely. Wherever she went, these people followed. Seeing that she was leaving at this moment, because of her identity, she did not dare to get too close, all of them were clustered, following alongside, just so that they could look at her for the last time or two.

Xiao Qiao came out, and a group of frivolous children of the county guoxue were clustered behind, rushing to push and squeeze, and the expression on his face was about to flow, which looked extremely harsh.

Wei Shao rode to Sanglinkou and saw such a scene.

He did not appear, nor did he show his face. Only the horse stopped, watching from a distance as Little Qiao was sent to the carriage by Yuyang Ling. Chunniang Lin Miao helped her into the carriage.

The carriage departed.

……

Little Joe sat in the carriage and walked for a while, and his drunkenness grew stronger. Even my head was dizzy. Some weakly closed their eyes, leaned into ChunNiang’s arms, and gradually fell asleep drunk. I don’t even know when I entered the city and returned to Wei Province, or how to return to Wei Province.

Hazy only felt as if Chunniang had carried herself out of the carriage, carried her in, and finally let her go to bed.

Feeling that what seemed to be a bed touching under her body, she relaxed at once, completely fell into a drunken sleep, and fell asleep.

Chunniang and Lin Mi stood aside, watching the male jun who had just taken the female monarch out of the carriage and then carried her all the way in and put her on the bed.

Seeing him looked as if he was not very good, and they were uneasy.

Wei Shao’s gaze moved away from the face of Xiao Qiao, who was sleeping heavily, and said to Chunniang, “Lady Jun can’t drink alcohol, and you are also the one who can use it around her, so why don’t you persuade her?” What kind of body did he become drunk like this?
Although
his tone was flat, the questioning meaning in his words was ready to come out.

Although the male Jun’s temper has always been not very good, but after coming to the Wei family for such a long time, it is still the first time, Chunniang listened to him talk to himself in such a heavy tone, it was inevitable that she was ashamed in her heart, and she did not dare to defend herself, only saying: “What the male Jun said is true.” It was indeed a’s negligence. Next time, I will be more careful to serve the good lady. Lin Mi didn’t

even dare to take a breath of the atmosphere, only bowing her head and not moving.

Wei Shao flicked his hand. Chunniang and Lin Mi looked at each other and turned and left the house.

Wei Shao stood in front of the bed for a moment, staring at little Qiao who was drunk and asleep.

……

Little Qiao did not expect to participate in the sacrifice today, and he would be unexpectedly drunk.

She was now drunk, but had a strange dream.

In the dream, her body seemed to be brushed by a soft brush, very comfortable, comfortable even made her shiver, a pair of jade toes were also tightly curled up, but every pore on the skin was slowly relaxed.

She fluttered lightly, lifted by something above the waves, and seemed to float in the clouds, swaying incomparably.

She felt very comfortable and couldn’t help but hum softly in her dreams.

[End of This Chapter]