The old farmer was indeed a righteous man. He not only brought Jiuhuangshu and Feng Qingchen into the city, but also sent them to their destination after asking them where they were going.
Feng Qingchen declined repeatedly, but the old farmer said bluntly: "My dear lady, this is not the capital, and you can't find a carriage even if you enter the city. Don't blame me for my poor ox-cart, but it's much better than walking."
Feng Qingchen didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "What did you say? It's too late for us to be grateful, so how can we dislike it. We are just embarrassed. Look, it's almost dark. After you send us off, you can go back by yourself. It won't be any later."
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"It's okay. The road is wide. Even if you walk on the street at night, you won't bump into anyone." The old farmer looked pleased and praised the emperor again.
Compared with the people in Jiangnan, the people in the border towns were more grateful for the emperor's kindness.
The place south of the Yangtze River is already rich, and the people have no worries about food and clothing. The changes made by Uncle Nine Emperors will at most make their lives slightly better, and it is not obvious, but the border towns are different...
Before this, the people in the border towns did not have enough to eat or wear warmly, and they dug in the fields every day. However, in years of famine, many people would starve to death. Even in ordinary times, those villages in the ravines with poor field yields would also die of hunger.
Selling sons and daughters for food.
We can't blame the parents for being cruel. They really couldn't survive and sold their children into slavery. Even though they were slaves, they didn't have to starve to death here and the family could take a breather.
Since Uncle Nine Emperors came to the throne, many policies have been geared toward poor people, just like the people in border towns. Although they are not as wealthy as the people in Jiangnan, they are more satisfied and happier than the people in Jiangnan.
They can have enough to eat, no longer have to sell their children and daughters, and they can save enough food if they work harder to cut a piece of meat during the New Year. This kind of life is something they never dared to imagine before.
The less you have, the easier it is to be satisfied and find happiness. The people in the border towns are the best example. They really don’t want much. They are not afraid of hardship, but they are afraid of not having enough to eat and famine.
"Compared with Jiangnan, the governance here is better." Along the way, Jiuhuangshu and Feng Qingchen saw and heard a lot, and they had a good impression of their parents in the border town.
Feng Qingchen agrees with this point: "The strong folk customs also have the advantage of being strong. Those officials always like to say that unruly people come out of poor mountains and rivers. In fact, no one would dare to go against the government unless they really couldn't survive."
The people of China are deeply influenced by Confucian culture. Not to mention now, even in Feng Qingchen's time, ordinary people were peaceful and contented. Even in the face of injustice, most of the people who could endure it would get over it after they endured it, and would not do it for the sake of injustice.
Confront the government over a small matter.
Of course, those daring gangsters and lazy gangsters are not in this category.
"When you have time, meet the local parent officer." Uncle Jiuhuang was satisfied with the situation in the border town, and naturally he also admired the parent officer here. If he was really a good one, he wouldn't mind giving him a chance to get ahead.
"There is a chance." They were not in a hurry to return to Beijing and wanted to see if they could have time to meet someone.
"Let's go, Tianyu's house is just ahead. Let's go call the door." Feng Qingchen pulled Jiu Huangshu forward...
That's right, Uncle Nine Emperors and Feng Qingchen came to the border town just to see Xiling Tianyu, the original Prince Xilingrui and Little Baozi.
The big hand was wrapped around the small hand, and the fingers were clasped tightly. Thinking of what Feng Qingchen said before, "my man", the Nine Emperors Uncle felt better and was no longer tired of the dust on his body.
Click, click, click... Feng Qingchen knocked on the door, and a woman in blue cloth opened the door and shouted in a loud voice, with a relatively friendly attitude: "Who are you? Who are you looking for?"
"Tell your master that I'm here to see you, an old friend." Although Feng Qingchen and Jiuhuangshu were covered in ashes, their bearings were there. The woman who opened the door hesitated a little, but did not refuse in the end, and lowered her voice: "
You two, I will go and ask my master right now."
Soon I heard the sound of footsteps, and then I saw Xiling Tianyu coming out. Seeing Jiuhuangshu and Feng Qingchen, Xiling Tianyu was startled, and then laughed: "I knew it was you two
, distinguished guests come to the door, and the plum blossoms shine."
He has lived in seclusion here for decades. Although he travels around every year, no one except Jiuhuangshu and Feng Qingchen knows that he is still alive...
When old friends meet, there are no tears, no strangers, no wariness, Jiuhuangshu and Xiling Tianyu have no influence at all...
Uncle Nine Emperors glanced at Xiling Tianyu and nodded: "We haven't seen you for ten years, and you are still the same as before."
Xiling Tianyu has not changed. Although the years have left traces on his face, they have not made him sleek and sophisticated, let alone depressed and decadent. He is still the elegant and calm prince who never becomes arrogant because of his power.
Don’t give up on yourself because of losing ground.
Among them, Xiling Tianyu has the least regard for power...
Xiling Tianyu warmly welcomed the two of them into the door and said as he walked: "I'm getting older, but you two haven't changed much, especially Jiu...Jiu Ye, he looks younger and younger."
He and Feng Qingchen are becoming more and more compatible.
"Yeah." Uncle Nine Emperors was in a good mood and rarely showed a smile, but he couldn't smile the next second because...
"Jiuye, where did you come from? What are you dressed like this?" Xiling Tianyu was so happy to reunite with old friends that Xiling Tianyu discovered at this time that Uncle Jiuhuang and Feng Qingchen looked like they had been beaten in the dust.
It felt like it was rolling, and even his hair was covered with a layer of yellow sand.
Can Uncle Nine Emperors bear it?
"Don't tell me...everything is good in this city, but the yellow sand is a bit bigger." Feng Qingchen looked at himself, but did not take pictures.
Dust flies into the air as soon as you shoot it.
"This is true, but Master Jiu can bear it?" Why didn't these two people come in a carriage, but on horseback?
Xiling Tianyu knew how much Uncle Nine Emperors loved to be clean. Not to mention the dust on his body, even if it was dirty, Uncle Nine Emperors couldn't bear it.
Feng Qingchen glanced at Uncle Nine Emperors and said with a smile: "Do as the Romans do, and you have to endure it if you can't bear it."
Fortunately, Xiling Tianyu was not told that Uncle Nine Emperors and she came in by carriage, otherwise Xiling Tianyu would have died laughing.
"Okay, those two are..." Xiling Tianyu saw Uncle Nine Emperors' dark face and suppressed a smile.
"Bath!" Uncle Nine Emperors directly intercepted Xiling Tianyu's words.
It's not easy for him to endure until now.
"I'll ask someone to boil water for you, but... it's a small place, but it can't compare with the capital, so you can bear it better." Xiling Tianyu was afraid that the Nine Emperors Uncle's mysophobia would develop, so he took vaccinations in advance.
Uncle Nine Emperors could endure it for Feng Qingchen, but he would not endure it for him.
"Not so squeamish." Uncle Nine Emperors said a little more when facing Xiling Tianyu.
Maybe they were using each other at first, but later on, Uncle Nine Emperors really regarded Xiling Tianyu as a friend. Especially later, what Xiling Tianyu did in Xiling made Uncle Nine Emperors feel at ease.
He didn't see the wrong person.
"I know you are not squeamish. Aren't I worried that Qingchen won't get used to it?" Xiling Tianyu was still the same as before. He did not treat Uncle Nine Emperors and Feng Qingchen as emperors or queens at all.
The two of them here are just old friends of his.
"She's very used to it." Uncle Jiuhuang said this was the truth. Feng Qingchen could endure hardships better than ordinary women, even sleeping in the open without her clothes being too poor.
Xiling Tianyu smiled and nodded, but did not answer. Instead, he said almost sighing: "We haven't seen each other for so many years, and you two are still like this. You haven't changed at all."
When Xiling Tianyu said this, his eyes were slightly sore, and there was a pain somewhere in his heart.
For more than ten years, many things have changed for him. If it weren't for the appearance of Uncle Nine Emperors and Feng Qingchen, he would have almost forgotten that he was once the prince of a country.
"You haven't changed either." Uncle Nine Emperors gave Xiling Tianyu a deep look: "Very good."
"It's indeed very good." Xiling Tianyu answered, but...
They both said it well, but they didn't mean the same thing.
"You two, just play riddles with each other here. I can't bear the dust. I'm going to find a place to dust myself off first." Feng Qingchen took the opportunity to run away so that the two of them could have a chance to talk.
"Qingchen's temperament hasn't changed either." Xiling Tianyu looked at Feng Qingchen's back, but his eyes were unfocused, without any focus.
Uncle Nine Emperors knew what Xiling Tianyu was talking about, and sighed slightly: "Come back to Beijing with me."
"Ah?" Xiling Tianyu was startled, then shook his head: "No, it's very good here."
Far away from the capital, far away from glitz and far away from danger, but compared to the capital, he prefers this place.
Simple and natural, although the conditions are a bit more difficult, he lives a more comfortable life.
"She...is still waiting for you." Uncle Nine Emperors has never been a nosy person, but that person is Xiling Tianyu, so he has to pay more attention.
Back then, the crown princess of Xiling Tianyu was taken back by Cui Haoting after the country was overthrown in Xiling.
Even if he was dissatisfied with this woman and did not go with Xiling Tianyu, he could think of Tianyu's final entrustment. Uncle Nine Emperors did not treat her badly, and also hinted to Cui Haoting that Tianyu had never thought of tying her up for the rest of her life. If she wanted to marry and change her identity, she could still do it.
Get married...
It’s just that people are like this. Only after losing it, do you know how valuable it is. Tianyu, the princess, did not get married as Uncle Nine Emperors said, but she stayed in the Cui Family Buddhist Hall for decades...
Through Cui Haoting, she told him that she regretted it.
regret?
Uncle Nine Emperors is disdainful and only regrets it after losing it. Is that interesting?
Uncle Jiuhuang ignored her and kept doing this for ten years. Zhidao decided to come to Xiling Tianyu. Only then did Uncle Jiuhuang ask someone to check the current situation of Xiling Tianyu.
Knowing that Xiling Tianyu had never married, coupled with Cui Haoting's plea, it was difficult for Uncle Nine Emperors to meddle in his own business.
If Tianyu is willing to go back to the capital with him, he doesn't mind helping that woman, just...
For the sake of that woman, who has been guarding Tianyu for ten years, if Tianyu can be allowed to return to Beijing for this reason, he doesn't mind being a good person and meddling in other people's affairs...
A note to readers:
I came late, and I agreed to two chapters... I worked hard towards the third chapter, and tried to make the next one before five o'clock.