Records of the Cattle and Horses of Chang'an

After carefully checking the braised mutton in the pot and confirming that the color, aroma and taste were right, Jiang Shangxian covered the pot and went to take a shower. While washing, he rubbed his headscarf and conducted a simple review in his mind. His life recently can be said to be a mess.

You can imagine the current situation as some kind of ancient online game. The first six months are the novice protection period, allowing yourself to adapt to life. Recently, one thing follows another, with no time to breathe.

I can't take care of Wu Sanniang for the time being, but if Cui Bianxu comes to Lexianlou for dinner, I can shamelessly go up to her and ask her about it.

After half a year of peaceful life, she is still not cautious enough when encountering problems. This needs to change.

I just met my grandmother and cousin who came today, so I can’t tell anything yet. However, when there are so many people in a family, there will definitely be some minor frictions. Who doesn’t have some unhappiness in their life?

However, these are not problems.

The most difficult part was the new task she had received. She strung twenty jade beads together with a rope and wore them on her wrist. Now in the hot water, they looked extremely green - green is the most charming color in the world!

According to historical records, Li Shimin was handsome since he was a child, a graceful nobleman, with top-notch intelligence, martial arts and financial resources, and a healthy body. He was known as the most domineering president in a thousand years, the white moonlight of the Tang Dynasty, and the one who made the Turkic princes want to sacrifice themselves to be buried with him.

(Teacher Ma Yue’s performance in “The Reign of Zhenguan” is really excellent, and Teacher Ma Yue is really charming!)

So, the question is, this is not a brainless idol drama from Taiwan, how can a person who embodies the essence of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth look down on her?

How blind that is!

What's more, she didn't know how many people were in the harem, and she had never considered marrying as a wife. Of course, she didn't want to be a concubine. So what should she do?

It is obvious that this task is completed one by one and then moved on to the next. There is no flexibility at all and it is very rigid.

Suddenly, she remembered that Manager Wang had asked her before whether she wanted to go to the Sixth Bureau and Twenty-fourth Department.

Jiang Shangxian slapped his forehead and said, "How stupid! Why didn't I think of this?"

Of course, entering the palace as a concubine is entering the palace, but entering the palace to be someone’s slave is not considered entering the palace, so why doesn’t it count?

After deciding that he would be Li Shimin's slave, Jiang Shangxian began to think about how to enter the Six Bureaus and Twenty-Four Departments.

The first is confiscation of property due to crime. This refers to those who committed serious crimes or capital crimes. Their wives and daughters were all captured and sent to the palace as slaves.

This won’t work. Not to mention that Jiang’s father has been in prison for several years, even if he is still alive, what could he have done wrong?

Petty theft is not that serious. Serious crimes require intelligence and ability, and are not something that any ordinary person can commit.

The second is the offering of gifts, which usually involves ministers, royal relatives, and neighboring countries taking the initiative to offer beautiful women to the palace.

Let’s not talk about how she got close to these people. The most important condition - beauty - has already been passed by Jiang Shangxian.

People still have to be able to face reality. No matter how narcissistic she is, Jiang Shangxian is just a little beauty and definitely not worthy of being called a great beauty.

Finally, there is the special call-up. As the old saying goes, a blacksmith must be strong himself. With his own skills...

So, I have to cook well...

(Those planning to travel through time should note that the policy of selecting girls from decent families to enter the palace by the "Flower and Bird Envoy" was not implemented until November of the winter of the 17th year of the Zhenguan reign.)

Facing the reality, Jiang Shangxian stood up and wiped himself dry, wiping every gap between his toes. He dug out a hot stone from the stove, rinsed it with the remaining bath water, and then wrapped himself in a cloth and went back to his room to look up the almanac.

Suitable for meeting relatives and friends and traveling.

Taboo: breaking ground and praying for blessings.

Very good. Jiang Shangxian closed the almanac and lay down peacefully, making sure that he would not have bad luck tomorrow. He fell into a deep sleep with a hot stone on his body.

At the same time, in Jiang's mother's room.

The bed in the main house was bought when the couple got married. Jiang's mother married far away, and the dowry furniture was all sold at a low price. It was only after they arrived in Chang'an that they hired someone to make it.

Therefore, the bed was made quite large at that time, and it was not crowded for two adults and one child to sleep on it. What's more, Jiang's mother did not sleep at night. She was sitting on the edge of the bed at this moment, preparing to go to the kitchen to busy herself after they fell asleep.

Old Madam Xia had actually prepared many things to say to her daughter, but now that her granddaughter was right next to her, she felt it was difficult to speak, so she simply closed her eyes and went to sleep.

Xia Zhenying heard her grandmother snoring and knew that she would not hear anything tonight, so she fell asleep too.

Today, her cousin and her brother-in-law didn't seem to be very welcoming to her, but she wasn't worried at all. She knew very well what kind of person her grandmother was. Since she had brought her here from afar, she must be sure that she could stay.

As for the days after that, it depends on your own efforts.

She cried with me several times today and she is a little tired.

She was very sad and upset that her father and mother were gone, but when they died, she was still young and didn't understand the meaning of death. Now she understands it, but she has also passed the saddest time.

What she needs to worry about right now is her own future. On the way here, she had decided to act according to circumstances. The moment she saw the prosperity and grandeur of Chang'an, she made up her mind that she must take root in Chang'an City.

When Jiang's mother heard two snoring sounds, one heavy and one light, beside her, she also relaxed. She was originally worried that her mother would say something to her.

We can talk about it tomorrow. Now she has to go and watch the fire. She can't delay anything but making money.

Dali Temple Prison

There was a neatly arranged wooden cross with several people tied to it, both men and women. They had been tortured before, and all of them had their heads hanging down and their bodies were covered with bruises.

The madam and pimp of Jinfenmeng, Quchen and Yanyin of Yue Lao Temple, and Quchen’s two little disciples.

Cong Jinghai was quite proud. "Still want to run? Not only have we sent out over a hundred Jinwu Guards, but we've also sent out fifty runners from the Dali Temple. Humph!"

Cui Bianxu was speechless. He only arrested four people, but there were more than a hundred people involved. What was there to be proud of? Forget it, these were his own people.

Wang Mingqian is just too useless!

"Tell me, where are all the people hiding?"

Quchen had already cried for several rounds and was almost fainting. Hearing this, he still cried out, "Shangguan, I am innocent."

"Are you being wronged? Why don't you tell me what those pigeons you raise in your backyard are for?"

"Those, those are just used to communicate with fellow Taoists from all directions." Quchen answered quickly. She had said this countless times.

Cui Bianxu didn't hesitate at all and whipped him: "You use pigeons to deliver messages? Are your fellow Taoists all living in a dream of gold and dust?"

They really treated people like fools. Although pigeons can deliver messages, they can only deliver messages between two points. When they caught them, the people from the Dali Temple had already tried to buy those pigeons. They released ten of them, and all the places they went to were filled with dreams of gold and powder.

There is also a pigeon cage in a remote corner of the backyard of Jinfenmeng.

The pigeons flew from the cage of Yue Lao Temple to the cage of Jinfenmeng. Their familiar appearance, as if they had returned to their happy hometown, said it all.

The madam reluctantly raised her head. The powder on her face had long since smudged into a mass of white and yellow, and the spots on her cheekbones that she had carefully covered up in the past were now all exposed. She sneered and threatened, "Mr. Cui, the dream of gold powder is not something you can touch casually."

"I've already made a move." Cui Bianxu didn't even bother to look her in the eye, and casually hurled insults: "Look at you, you look even worse than the maid who sweeps the floor at my house. Who's so foolish as to protect you? I want to see if the person behind you dares to jump out."

Are you kidding? Dynasties come and go, but nobles remain forever. It's not a rebellion, it's just a brothel. So what if he touches it?

At worst, I can resign and return to my hometown in Qinghe!