Chapter 125 Whistle
The emperor took it smoothly and looked at it before letting Pei Zhan pass it to the man’s mouth.
The scent of the food induces the man to sit up with his body, or perhaps the power of the cherry juice just now restores his strength, he catches the cake with both hands and shoves it into his mouth with both hands.
After swallowing three pieces of cake and drinking a small half pot of cherry juice, he took a few even breaths, tremblingly climbed up and changed to a kneeling position, saluting the group: “I, Du Lian, kneel down to thank you for the gift of food. Please also inform me of your honor, so that I can repay you later!”
The emperor stretched his hand, “No need to be polite. Where are you from?”
Du Lian was assisted to his feet by Pei Zhan and Zhang Huai, and after he stood up, he answered, “I am a native of Huzhou Prefecture.”
“Huzhou is located in the south of the Yangtze River, it is a rich place, how did you leave your home town and faint here?”
“I don’t know, my family originally rely on some thin production, the days did have to live on. But three years ago, the family suffered a disaster, parents have been sick and died, I cleaned up after both parents, dare not forget the father’s dying instructions, then set off to the capital to catch the examination.
“Which know halfway and gullible traitors, I loaded with two hundred taels of silver baggage was blackmailed to go, I am in a foreign land, no one to help me, it fell to this.”
The emperor stared: “The Beijing examination candidates they also dare to blackmail?”
Du Lian smiled bitterly, “I have been greedy all my life, so I don’t care about that much.”
“Where did you lose your money?”
“Within Tai’an.”
The emperor looked at Zhao Sum, then continued to look at Du Lian, “This place is still one to twenty miles away from the capital, do you have a place to go?”
Du Lian shook his head, “I have no relatives in the capital, so I can only go to the post house to seek out my fellow villagers and see if there is a way to think about it.”
The Emperor thought for a moment and signaled Pei Zhan. Pei Zhan immediately took down his purse and shoved it to Du Lian, “Here is some silver, take it to the post house first.”
Du Lian insisted on not accepting it, so Pei Zhan stuffed the purse into his arms.
Du Lian pursed his lips and looked at them, then bent down to pick up the overturned bookcase, and rummaged through it to find two books carefully wrapped in cloth: “I can’t repay you for your great kindness, I only have two ancient books passed down from my ancestors that are worth some money, please accept them as a token of my gratitude.”
Zhao Su look at the emperor received the book in the hand, also put together the eyes to see, only to see is already yellow and also up the fur edge of the two books, look not like poetry and song book, but like about organizing coins type of historical books. The scholar’s clothes were ragged and his face was yellow, but the two books were wrapped tightly in fine cloth by him.
The emperor handed the books back: “These books are your belongings, but this amount of silver is nothing to us. You keep it safe, when your future is secure, if there is a chance to send it to me again.”
After saying this, he turned on his horse and led the crowd to the stage road.
“Your Excellency!”
Du Lian chased after him for a while with the book in his hand, and perhaps because of his weak stamina, he ended up falling into Zhao Su’s field of vision, becoming a small black dot.
Something like meeting a starving scholar didn’t seem particularly important, and all along the way they were talking about the Tun camp. After leaving the boundaries of the Yin San camp, the group went back to the Mao Si camp on the way, and this time the emperor entered the camp and inspected around for a while before returning to the city.
Although Zhao Su couldn’t get Du Lian out of her mind, the angle of her concern was probably a bit special, Du Lian came from Jiangnan, and had traveled all the way to quite a few places, and only a few days ago Fang Qingxue had approached her to tell her that Empress Lu was going to scope out the Flower Moon Society, and she was quite curious to know whether the Flower Moon Society had had any of its expected impacts in the end in a place that was far away from the capital city.
Entering the city near Marquis Qingyun’s mansion, Zhao Corner looked at the sun that was already slanting in the west, and said to the emperor, “The day is already midday, the emperor is on patrol in a small outfit, can you go to my home for a short rest?”
According to normal practice, from here back to the Qianqing Palace, and then wait for lunch to come, must be an hour after the thing. The emperor privately is not without the Marquis of Qingyun House, Zhao Corner asked this question.
The emperor actually did not think much, nodded and said: “Lead the way.”
A line of people will enter the marquis house, the marquis of qingyun is not, out of the great uncle zhao nan and fourth uncle zhao ying, in the case of the emperor authorizes everyone to be casual, the guest of honor will all be familiar with in zhao nan led to go to the east side of the garden of the three lotus lentil seated.
Three Lotus Lounge is a two-story small building, only one on the first floor, into the garden work here round table has been set up, tea also made up.
“Du Lian in the next year before the examination will certainly go to the court of the Ministry of Rites to record the name, you and your uncle to say hello, if check Du Lian’s situation is true, then his household registration to the capital.” Sitting down and picking up his cup, the emperor brought up Zhang Lian at this moment.
Zhang Huai seemed to know that these words were addressed to him, and hooked his head to accept the order.
With the household registration hanging in Gyeonggi, Du Lian would be able to continue to familiarize himself with the court’s benefits in Gyeonggi. Zhao Su did not expect the emperor to really miss a poor scholar.
However, considering the emperor’s status as a second-generation emperor, it wasn’t hard to understand. Which second-generation emperor does not want to cultivate their own power? The family has been entrenched in the upper class for a long time, willing to think about the heavenly family is okay, such as Zhang Yu general, can stick people for the emperor to share the problem, since it should be reused. Those who do not want to obey, like He Zong them, although some aspects can not help but rely on them, can not let them all make the decision right?
When they drank tea, Zhao Su was pulled away by Hua Qianrong.
After turning a corner and arriving under the grape arbor, Yun Xiangyi and Xiaolan and Xiaoju were all here, and as soon as they saw them come in, they all immediately stood up: ”Today, the whole city is talking about you, Miss! Just now when we came back, we purposely found a teahouse on the street and sat down, and everywhere is talking about the matter of the girl being lifted up by the Emperor yesterday! Miss, now no one will dare to look down on you anymore!”
Zhao Su did not expect to set off such a big storm, I do not know whether it is never been a pig in the wind, so she thought of the word “things will go against the grain”. She said: “I’m also down, I don’t feel so great, in the future it’s better to take it easy, the tree attracts the wind.”
The maids nodded: “The slave girls are not the ones who don’t know what to do, just let them know that our girl is not as bad as they say.”
Zhao Su nodded.
Sip a mouthful of tea, behind the grape arbor of the vase door came in a person, it turned out to be the great-uncle mother Xing’s house maid Jasper. Jasper laughed before she spoke: “The third girl is here, let the slave girl good to find. Did you have a good time out there today?”
“Yes,” Zhao Su nodded, “Is there something Auntie wants to see me about?”
Jasper briefly said the reason for her visit, “In the morning, Dr. Chen came to the mansion to give the girls a safe pulse, but the girls weren’t there, so our wife said to tell the girls not to go out tomorrow, and that Dr. Chen would still be here.”
Zhao Su oh a sound, said: “then do not need to invite her to come, tomorrow I go to the duty, just passing by the medical center, I will go to the trip is.”
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