Southerners

Not long after saying goodbye to Chuoman, Song Zhi heard the news that Jiaofang Secretary had been investigated, and Yu Shilang was dismissed and investigated.

What made Song Zhi, Qi Luqian, and He Chunshan work so hard for half a month without any results was nothing more than a few words to Chuoman.

But within a few days, No. 14, the decree to depose Zhang Hui also came from the Internet. From late March to mid-May, Zhang Hui drank all the tea from Yushitai, and finally drank one The end of the dismissal, but at least his life is still there, and His Majesty has no further will.

In addition to Zhang Hui, Geng Shenzhi, who was not in Dadu, was also arrested and returned to Beijing, where he was interrogated by the Ministry of Education.

After investigating so many high officials at once, the positions of Zhongshu Youcheng, Zuocheng, Pingzhang Zhengshi, and Shen Zhizhengshi were all vacant. When they were dismissed, several local officials took advantage of the situation and took their burden. Zuocheng Maishu of Gansu Province was not Zhongshu Youcheng, and Zhang Xiongfei, Zhongcheng Zhongcheng of Xingyushitai Yushitai, was a political adviser.

Zhang Hui is completely unemployed, and spends all day playing with flowers and plants at home, as if he really intends to retire here and no longer participate in court disputes.

After this incident, Zhang Chengyi seemed to have grown up a bit, he was not so frizzy, and he was not as cold-eyed to Song Zhi as before.

Song Zhi occasionally visited Zhang Hui's mansion a few times, and found that after Zhang Hui was dismissed, life was better than before, so she was relieved.

The rest of the time, they were in the calligraphy and painting shop introduced by Qi Luqian. Qi Luqian came to visit him occasionally, and the two talked a few words.

In a blink of an eye, it was the sixth day of June.

The fifth day of May is the Dragon Boat Festival. According to the customs of most cities, the palace often holds large-scale entertainment activities such as batting and shooting willows, while the folks have "Saiguan King Meeting", which uses portraits and drums to compete. However, on the fifth day of May, Song Zhishang was still worrying about Bai Man'er and Zhang Hui's affairs, she was not in the mood to celebrate the festival, and passed it hastily.

Now it's the sixth day of June, although it's not a big festival, after all the things on my mind are gone, Song Zhi is relieved, and celebrates the festival with Xiuniang and Bai Man'er's family happily.

Bai Man'er's injuries are gradually healed now, except for the scars on his face that haven't completely disappeared, the injuries on other parts of his body are no longer hindering anything.But because of what happened that day, his temperament became a little quieter, he didn't like to go out, and he wouldn't go over the wall to play with Song Zhi.On weekdays, only Liu Yanhan would visit Bai Man'er from time to time, and it seemed that he was really close to Bai Man'er.

On the sixth day of June, most people call it "hunting water", which needs to be collected and stored at five o'clock for medical use. In addition, it means "hunting taste", and the meat must be dried in the sun.

Song Zhi deliberately went to the city to buy good meat and came back to dry it with Xiu Niang.

"Summer is hot, unlimited time", June is the midsummer, "cut sweet melon, order tender tea", summer and eating fresh melons and fruits have become most people's favorite things, watermelon, melon, grape, peach, plum, etc. , Song Zhidu bought some back to make Bai Man'er happy.

On the tenth day of June, Champa rebelled again, and the province's Pingzhang political affairs instigated it with soldiers.

They are all Meng Huan's uncles, and Zhancheng is also in the south. Hearing this news, Song Zhi couldn't help but think of Meng Huan.

Meng Huan has been away for nearly four months and has not yet returned.

On the tenth day of the sixth lunar month, the emperor's teachers will do Buddhist work in Shangdu, and there will be activities such as visiting the imperial city. They enter through the Xihua Gate and hold a banquet in the city.

There are poems:

"Precious chariots shine brightly on a sunny day, and the bridles of dancing horses shake exquisitely."

"The red dress flutters and the volcano rises, and the white umbrella holds up the clouds and leaves."

"Wang Guan knelt down with wine and kowtowed to the ground, while Zhu Lun sat alone with a rosy face."

"Chi gangsters gather to watch the sweat and rain, and the ladies and gentlemen sit and shake their lips in the wind."

It is written about the grand scene of the day, the upper capital travels to the imperial city, and most of them are not far behind. The weather is hot, and most of the people always want to have some fun for themselves so that they can spend this scorching summer.

Song Zhiyuan wanted to hire a carriage and take Xiuniang, Bai Maner and Bai Azhu to the western suburbs for a summer vacation, but Bai Maner refused to go out or meet strangers, so Song Zhi had no choice but to give up and drank licorice listlessly Ice and snow and cold water bring down the heat.

After a long time, not only Xiu Niang felt that something was wrong, but Bai Man'er also found that Song Zhi was abnormal, and asked him quietly in private: "Is there something wrong with Brother Lang?"

Song Zhi vetoed it straight away: "No."

Bai Man'er looked a little suspicious, obviously not convinced: "Brother Lang clearly looks like he has something on his mind, and he has a lot of things on his mind."

"Brother Lang...are you thinking about someone?"

Song Zhi's heart skipped a beat, almost feeling like she was being seen through. She glanced at Bai Man'er and said calmly, "No, what are you talking about?"

Bai Man'er whispered, "I saw the poem written by Brother Lang himself."

"I don't drink that golden scorpion, so I won't cherish it forever."

"I'm going to drink and drink, so as not to be hurt forever."

"This is clearly a poem about cherishing people. How dare Brother Lang say that he doesn't think about anyone?"

Song Zhi was dumbfounded, when did this girl become so eloquent, she wanted to argue that this poem was not an explanation, but the "concubine's ambition" mentioned in "Mao Shi" was even more unreasonable.

Song Zhi had no choice but to put on a straight face, pretending to be serious and said: "Little girl, every family, knows how to cherish others and not to cherish others!"

Bai Man'er stuck out her tongue: "Man'er is fourteen, not too young!"

"Yeah, it's not too young, and I can marry someone next year." Song Zhi teased her.

"No!" Bai Man'er said, "Man'er doesn't allow others."

"Man'er wants to be with Brother Lang!"

"Nonsense." Song Zhi patted her forehead, "Women should marry, I'm a man, how can you hang out with me all the time, it's bad for your reputation, be careful that you won't get married in the future."

According to the rules of the Han people, if a girl as old as Bai Man'er is a lady, how can she associate with men like she does now, that is to say, she is now a small family, and there are not so many taboos.

Bai Man'er touched his forehead: "Will Brother Lang also marry a wife?"

Song Zhi was taken aback for a moment, and Meng Huan's face suddenly appeared in her mind.This question caught him, he would marry a wife, but he was already eighteen, and when he reached the age to marry a wife, he really hadn't thought about marrying a wife, nor had he imagined what kind of wife he would marry. How to live together with daily necessities.

Bai Man'er looked at Song Zhi's expression carefully, and asked abruptly, "Will Brother Lang marry the person you're thinking of?"

Marry Meng Huan?

Song Zhi almost spit out the licorice ice and cold water from her mouth. She was concerned about her appearance, so she only coughed twice, cleared her throat, and patted Bai Man'er's head: "What nonsense are you talking about? Where did the person I was thinking of come from? "

Bai Man'er let out a sullen groan, lowered her head to drink her ice-cold licorice water, her heart was like a mirror, it seemed that her brother Lang really had someone in his heart.

Thinking of this, Bai Man'er felt uncomfortable, and couldn't help thinking, who is that person?What kind of girl can make Lan Ge worry about it?

Brother Lang met when he was working outside?

"What are you thinking about?" Song Zhi couldn't help asking with a smile when she saw the little girl's face full of bitterness and hatred.

"I want to be my sister-in-law." Bai Man'er said, "What kind of person can I be to be my sister-in-law."

Song Zhi was not wary of being teased by a little girl, and immediately blushed: "Little girl, what are you talking about!"

On June 29, a military report came from Nanbianer. At the beginning, His Majesty sent the three state armies of Bo, Si, and Syria and Yixi Buxue to conquer Myanmar. Unexpectedly, Yixi Buxue turned against him, so His Majesty ordered Yixi to be recruited again. Not Xue, two states of the Three-State Army went to Burma, one state was conquered, and the land was flattened within three months. Three roads were established, Dalu Huachi, and the army was guarded. Su Dai'er is the comfort envoy of Marshal Du.In this way, Yixi Buxue was not strong enough, so he had to surrender.

The troops from the other two prefectures who conquered Myanmar and the kings Xiang Wuda'er, Youcheng Taibu, the Secretary of the Xingzhong Province, and Yehan Jin who participated in the political affairs also won a complete victory. Sue for peace, promise to increase the annual tribute by [-]% in the future, and this battle will be over.

Such good news naturally excited everyone in Dadu, and even the tragedy that happened at Tongyuan Gate not long ago was completely forgotten, and the panic aroused by His Majesty's order to thoroughly investigate Ahema's party members also calmed down a lot.

Song Zhi heard the news in the neighborhood, but she didn't react for a while, she just thought: The barbaric Mongolian cavalry leveled countless counties and counties again, and displaced countless people from their homes.

Song Zhi hated such a Yuan court, hated such a tyrannical Mongols who took pleasure in invading other countries, because the Song Dynasty was also like this, being swallowed up by the Mongolian Yuan step by step, and finally fell completely in the Yashan sea battle.

The subjects under the rule of the Song Dynasty were regarded as the lowest class of southerners by the Mongolian Yuan, and became slaves of the subjugated country.

But Song Zhi turned around and realized that Meng Huan went out with the three armies of Bo, Si, and Syria. Now that the three armies have returned triumphantly, wouldn't Meng Huan also come back?

Thinking of this, Song Zhi hurriedly asked the owner of the calligraphy and painting shop for a leave of absence, and went out into the street.

The street was crowded with people, all of them came to greet him. When Song Zhi went out, the guard of honor had already passed in front of him. Song Zhi could only see the dust being raised.

Meng Huan was nowhere to be seen.

Song Zhi's heart was beating like thunder, anxious, joyful and worried.He knew that these people would not stay now, and would go to Shangdu to report to His Majesty after passing through Dadu and report the military situation in detail.

Song Zhi hurriedly wanted to pass through the crowd, but felt that she was almost submerged in the crowd, and every step forward became very difficult.

Song Zhi's behavior was not uncommon among the excited crowd, and it didn't look weird. Everyone was equally excited and eager to see what the general who had won the battle looked like.

At the forefront of the team were Xiang Wu Da'er of the kings, You Cheng Tai Bu of Xing Zhong Shu Sheng, Jin and the commander of the three armies, Song Zhi didn't know any of them.

His eyes quickly searched the crowd, and finally found a slightly younger figure among the burly and fierce generals.

First there was the horse. There was a white horse without variegation. It was the one Song Zhi had seen many times, but it was Meng Huan's war horse.

Immediately, Meng Huan was wearing armor, with a long knife hanging from his waist, and his slender figure was particularly eye-catching.

Soon Song Zhi noticed that Meng Huan was injured, his left hand was wrapped with a bandage, and there was also a hideous scar on the side of his neck, which seemed to be scratched.Song Zhi only needs to take a look to know how thrilling the battlefield is. If the shot is a little bit off, it can hit Meng Huan's throat.

"Look, look, that commander!"

Song Zhi heard a woman talking beside her.

"This appearance is probably incomparable to Wei Jie and Pan An, right?"

"Yes, yes, but sick beauties like Wei Jie, don't compare them with brave commanders!"

Song Zhi bit her lip, brave?

Just at this time, Meng Huan who was on the horse seemed to have a feeling in his heart, turned his head to look this way, and whistled at those women, and then he saw Song Zhi who was beside him.