In the past, the bursting of the embankment was a natural disaster, but this time it was a disaster. The officials must be furious. After learning the inside story, the officials also became angry and demanded severe punishment for those responsible. Mr. Jia Xianggong in Daming Mansion was even more ruthless.
He was so full of energy that he wanted to overthrow the two husbands in one fell swoop.
In a word, the sky over the imperial court is filled with dark clouds, and there must be a life-and-death fight.
However, all of this has nothing to do with Chen Ke. The Shanghukou embankment burst, washing away not only thousands of innocent soldiers and civilians, tens of thousands of tons of flood-fighting materials, but also Chen Ke, who had just been killed by Wang Fang and Chen Xiliang for more than ten years.
The little bit of concern for the country and the people that I cultivated with Ouyang Xiu.
Although he had talked about how he wanted to live such a life before, the Confucian education he had received for many years still brought his thoughts along the path of a traditional scholar. If everything goes well, he will become another person who is dedicated to "cultivating himself".
A scholar-bureaucrat who took it as his duty to govern the family and the country and bring peace to the world. From then on, there was no longer the Chen Sanlang who lived in two generations in the world. There was only a bureaucrat named Chen Ke and a scholar named Chen Zhongfang, that's all.
But now, Chen Ke feels his own insignificance. He feels that he can't change anything at all. Then he must change. From now on, he can relax and just live a wonderful life. It is not in vain to come to this place where the people of China are the happiest.
Isn’t the era of... also very good?
No matter how much he despised the officials and ministers, Chen Ke had to admit that living in this civilized country was a blessing for ordinary people.
Being a city resident is a great blessing in the world. Only when he came to Bianjing did he know that when it rains or winds, big government households will distribute relief, and often at the end of the year, the court will suddenly waive your rent. He heard that Zhao Kuangyin wanted to
To expand my residence, I negotiated with the residents to the north of the palace. However, the residents there were unwilling to move, so we built the smallest palace in history. It was equivalent to the residence of the Jiedushi in those days...
The name of the weak Song Dynasty is worthy of its name. It is not only weak externally, but also weak internally...
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Covering his head and sleeping in the dark, Chen Ke woke up and found that no one was in the room and it was still daylight. He called out and heard a female voice respond. After a while, Lan, the maid of Cao family who stayed in Chen's house, came.
Pei came in and said with a smile: "Master, are you up?"
"..." Chen Ke said with a smile: "Sister Pei will be my wife someday, so you might as well call me Sanlang." The wife means my father's little wife.
Lan Pei was in his early twenties, tall and handsome. Hearing this, his pretty face turned red and he said, "You haven't even finished your horoscope yet."
"Hey, my dad, apart from being boring, is really good. Don't dislike it..." Chen Ke wanted to go to the ground, but couldn't find his shoes: "Where are my shoes?"
"Those pairs were full of mud inside and out, and the soles were worn out." Lampe held a pair of new black satin-covered, double-strap leather-trimmed fast shoes in his hand, placed them squarely at his feet and said, "Let's change to another pair, the same style.
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"Yes." Chen Ke stepped on his feet and felt that it fit perfectly. He couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction and said, "Sister Pei's craftsmanship is really good."
"Nu Nu, you don't have such skills." Lanpei said with a smile while fetching water for him: "Yesterday I took Saburo's shoes to Ma's Boot Shop and had someone make a copy of them."
"Beijing is so convenient..." Chen Ke took the toothbrush and sighed: "Even the toothbrush is better than the one we have there." When Chen Ke was in Qingshen, he used a ponytail toothbrush tied to a bamboo chopstick.
, brushing your teeth with green salt is like brushing a wall, which is quite unpleasant.
The toothbrush used in Bianjing City has a slender bone handle, a thread at the tail for easy gripping, and two rows of eight pores for transplanting pores on the head. It is surprisingly similar to the standard health care toothbrushes of later generations, which have two rows of twelve pores for transplanting pores.
The transplanted hairs are also moderately soft and hard, making it very comfortable to brush your air teeth.
Moreover, Bianjing did not use green salt, but tooth powder bought from a toothbrush shop. Chen Ke could taste it. The main ingredient was Sophora flavescens, which must be good for teeth... Otherwise, every man and woman in Bianjing could take a bite.
White and straight teeth?
After waiting for him to wash up, Lan Pei went to cook, but was stopped by Chen Ke: "No, I'm going out for a walk, why can't I fill my stomach?" He has to go back to Taixue tomorrow for classes, and he hasn't enjoyed his freedom yet.
life.
Lampe then carefully told him which restaurant had great pasta and which restaurant had the best smoked quail. Hearing this, Chen Ke mourned for his father and never thought about his clean ears in the future...
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After leaving the house, the sun was shining brightly outside. Chen Ke took a deep breath. What a strong breath of life...
In the days before, his heart was weighed down by the Six Pagoda River, and he was not interested in anything. Now that a lump has settled in his chest, the world has become lovely again.
The sight of the men and women on the street and the constant shouting quickly made him forget about it. From time to time, his eyes fell on the girls who were exposed. Most of them were the daughters of merchants on both sides of the street. They had tall figures, bulging breasts, and perky breasts.
The butt looks energetic and wild, and the eyes are bold and hot. It is not as coy and shy as Xiaojiabiyu from Jiangnan; it is also bigger than the hot Sichuan girl:
"Rouge from the North and Beauty from the South are really very different!" Chen Ke couldn't help but his eyes shone.
"Young official, I see you are blushing. Come to my house and drink a cup of cold dew soup. It quenches your thirst, cools you, and adds roses and sugar." A girl's head popped out of a tea shop. A girl of sixteen or seventeen years old
She looked at him with big eyes and a smile, and her voice was extremely sweet: "Don't believe it? Come in and have a taste..." It made the girls in the shops opposite giggle.
Chen Ke suddenly laughed and said, "I'm hungry. Do you have anything to eat at home?"
"Of course, there are all kinds of refreshments, all kinds of meat and vegetables, everything is delicious..." Seeing him stop, the girl started to recruit more hard: "Brother, come in and have a taste!"
Chen Ke looked at her charming face and youthful body unscrupulously, and said with a smile: "Just try it."
The girl pulled her into the store, picked up a table facing the street and sat down. Chen Ke said: "Come up if you are good at it. If you don't want tea, give me a bowl of porridge." The girl knew that she had met the wealthy man, so she smiled and narrowed her eyes.
Happy nodded and said: "Okay."
The girl went to the kitchen, and an agent came over, carrying a huge tray with stacks of cold vegetables. What about mustard melons, pickles, apricot slices, lettuce shoots, spicy mustard melon spinels, and fine-grained squid?
Ji'er... There are eight dishes in total on the table.
Not long after, the girl returned with a tray. She placed it on the edge of the table, placed plates of snacks in front of Chen Ke, and said crisply: "Crab dumplings, goose fat rolls, sesame curd chicken skin, shrimps."
Mushroom soup..." These are eight straight tea snacks.
The food in Jingli is very sophisticated and highly varied. When you go to a restaurant, you need more than a dozen plates. Although each plate is small but delicious, you still can't finish it.
The girl brought another can of porridge, opened the lid, scooped out a bowl of hot fragrant rice and shredded pork porridge, and said with a smile: "My lord, please use it with caution."
"But it's useless." Chen Ke smiled.
"Why?"
"It's hard for a person to get used to it."
"Then, Nunu, call the officials a singer."
"No need to bother, just talk to me." Chen Ke took out a dime of silver and said, "Wouldn't it delay the business?"
"I'm so excited, Nunu." The girl sat on his side, stuck out her tongue and said, "I'm just taking the opportunity to be lazy."
Under the service of the pretty little girl, Chen Ke tasted a shrimp dumpling and drank a sip of fragrant porridge. It felt so comfortable.
He is a true gourmet, and he found that every dish has merit, and he couldn't help but be surprised: "Is this all your family's cooking skills?"
"It seems that the official is back to Beijing for the first time." The little girl said with a smile: "In the taverns and restaurants in Bianjing City, there is no such thing as "no outside dishes". On the table, there are only goose fat rolls and sesame-cured chicken skin.
The rest were bought by Nunu from the neighbor’s house and brought by the broker.” The so-called broker is a buddy who brings home-made food and sells it in other people’s stores.
So you can eat a wide variety of food in any restaurant in the Song Dynasty... The most extreme example is from Chen Ke's fellow villager. It is said that a Sichuan scholar named Yu came all the way to the capital to take the exam.
But he didn't win the first place. He had no money to go back to Sichuan, so he planned to commit suicide by eating a good meal at Tiaojin Mingchi. So he told the waiter to just serve it. As a result, the bartender brought all kinds of fresh fruits and seafood, and he ate from noon to
In the evening, the bill actually cost five taels of silver. How could I still have the money to do the accounts? I had to work as a cashier in a restaurant for two months, and I could no longer think of committing suicide.
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"Yes, it's my first time coming back to Beijing," Chen Ke smiled awkwardly and said, "What's your name?"
"How can a girl from a small private family have a name?" the little girl said sadly, "There is a nickname for people to call her, Axiang."
"Axiang..." Chen Ke sniffed and said with an intoxicated look on his face: "A person lives up to his name." He said with a smile: "Have you promised me?"
"There's no rush." Axiang said with a smile: "My mother is looking for a suitable wealthy family, and she plans to let me work for three years before marrying... People say that with my appearance, I don't need to be a maid, but can be a concubine.
room."
"Uh..." Chen Ke said in surprise: "It seems that your family is not in a tight situation?" Why do you want to be a concubine?
"I have learned decency in three years. When I come back, I will marry into a good family and my children and grandchildren will benefit from it." Axiang asked with a smile, "Is the official a scholar?"
"Ah...yes."
"How about you tell my parents," Ah Xiang immediately said with a look of admiration, "I will follow you..."
"Well, I haven't married yet." Chen Ke was so sweaty, he thought to himself that this was too unreserved, right?
"That's it..." Ah Xiang said with disappointment: "I'm afraid I won't be able to wait until the officials get married."
