The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

Rou Niang's arrival brought good news from the family, which added a touch of light to Su Jin's gloomy mood recently. The family's business is booming, and everyone's high expectations for her are the driving force for Su Jin to move forward.

When she got up early, Su Jin was in a good mood. After washing up, she said to Xiao Sui'er, "Sui'er and Huanniang took your sister Rouniang out to play. I need to go to school and study for a few days. There will be a holiday during the Mid-Autumn Festival. When the time comes, I will take you with me." You go to Xishan to see the maple leaves."

Xiao Sui'er said: "What's so interesting about Maple Leaf, it's better to go to the street to eat."

Su Jin, Huanniang Rouniang and the others were at a loss for words. This girl has never read a book, so how could she understand these elegant things?

In the next few days, Su Jin returned to the state of concentrating on reading. In the evening, two sisters, Huanniang and Rouniang, added red sleeves to add fragrance to the hard work. This hard work has also turned into a beautiful job; the two sisters have some insights into poetry and books. Talking and talking can occasionally promote Su Jin's inspiration, but the sisters are present at the same time, Su Jin dare not hug and do evil, and the eclectic idea of ​​hugging left and right in his mind has never been implemented.

The academy has a one-day holiday for the Mid-Autumn Festival, and most of the students are from other residences. When the moon is full, being out alone adds a lot of melancholy. People like Wang Anshi and others can go home for a small gathering; Su Jin really wants to invite a few people to make friends The students spent the Mid-Autumn Festival together, but what was annoyed was that he agreed to go to Xishan to enjoy the maple leaves with King Teng that day. Su Jin didn't want to offend King Teng again, so he thought of a best-of-both-worlds strategy.

On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the servants of the palace came to invite Su Jin, Su Jin had already called for friends, gathered Wei Songhe, Wu Hengxin, Lu Dakui and other good friends, and stuffed them all into the car , and rushed to the Tengwang Mansion with himself.

Before leaving, Su Jin asked Rou Niang and the others to prepare fruit plates and drinks, and asked them to invite Yan Biyun to come in the evening and enjoy the moon and drink together at night. As for the trip to admire the maple leaves during the day, Su Jin regarded it as a perfunctory It's a trick to bring three or five friends with you, so that no one can talk and chat when you are bored.

King Teng was very depressed about Su Jin's practice of cutting first and playing later. The poetry clubs were all descendants of officials and gentry, although they had no prejudice against Su Jin. Some of the six students were dressed in vulgar clothes, and some looked vulgar. There was a big black man who spoke like thunder. At first glance, he was not someone who knew how to write lyrics and compose poems. ; how much better is a man who can associate with such vulgar people?

Although King Teng was depressed, he didn't want to appear too petty after all. He wanted to show the world that he was close to the people and that he was a corporal, so he couldn't just tell these mud legs not to follow with a straight face?Want to be a whore and erect a memorial archway at the same time, how can there be such a good thing in the world.

So when Su Jin led everyone to meet King Teng, King Teng was full of kindness and naturalness. After some warm words and greetings, King Teng boarded his special car—a luxurious cart pulled by two tall horses, and went first. up.

Mr. Qin greeted everyone from behind and said: "My lord is waiting for you at the Qingfeng Station under the West Mountain. Everyone, hurry up and follow my car. I will guide you."

"How dare you be..."

"Thank you, Mr. Qin..."

Sour scholars always talk a lot when they are together. After a lot of fuss, Mr. Qin finally got into the carriage sweating profusely and went first. Only then did all the scholars get into the carriage. Su Jin realized at this time Realizing how shabby I am, everyone has a car pulled by a horse, but I and a few students can only squeeze in my own small car with legs crossed.

Six students, plus the small pillar driving the car, seven of them, including four fat ones, Xiaoqing, who was being dragged, grinned, his eyeballs almost popped out, and the whites of his eyes were bloodshot.

Xiao Zhuzi clicked his tongue in distress, and kept leaning over to comfort the pampered mule, at the same time complaining about why Su Jin didn't call for another car, this round trip would cost Xiaoqing's life And so on.

Xiaoqing really couldn't stand it, and the small slope couldn't be pulled up, so everyone had to get out of the car and walk to the top of the slope, then get on the car, and then went down and up again when they met the slope, tossing and tossing again and again; these people were exhausted enough, The time delay is too long.

Xishan is only [-] miles away from Yingtian Mansion. According to the normal mule cart speed, a little more than half an hour is enough, but it took nearly an hour for seven people and one mule. The social talents and His Highness King Teng have been waiting for a long time with their necks stretched.

As soon as a few people showed their heads, they were immediately stared at by everyone. Qin Fei was very sensible. He blamed himself for not taking good care of his family when he came up. He didn't expect two people to follow his carriage, and blamed himself for not calling a carriage in the mansion to replace the mule. car.

Su Jin looked at the faces of the crowd, and cursed inwardly: It's not that I can't afford a horse, it's just that I don't want to buy it. I think back then, I didn't want to accept a big white horse given to me by fans.

King Teng had already drank a full stomach of tea in the Qingfeng official post. As soon as Su Jin and others arrived, he ordered to go up the mountain.After everyone parked their cars, Qin Fei arranged for six or seven servants to carry six or seven large boxes and cages to follow them up the mountain. The seven or eight maidservants who accompanied them carried pastry jugs, wine glasses, water bags and other things. It looks like an outing for a poetry club, but it looks like a trip for a high-ranking official.

Wu Hengxin had always had an almost adoring mentality towards Su Jin. Seeing that Su Jin was able to develop friendship with the prince, his admiration for Su Jin was like a torrent of water; On the contrary, it is such a weirdo to discharge a pair of big ring eyes at Su Jin.

King Teng took Su Jin to climb the mountain with him, and introduced the Western Mountain to Su Jin like a serious literati sao.

From his mouth, Su Jin learned about the general situation of Xishan.

Xishan is not high, just a main peak and two small subsidiary peaks. According to the conversion size of later generations, the main peak is only about 700 to [-] meters above sea level.

Xishan is not precipitous, and there are no strange rocks, strange pines, or sea of ​​clouds, but the beauty of Xishan is that there are maple trees in its only valley. Every golden autumn, the mountains and plains are like a sea of ​​colorful clouds. The poem says: Frost leaves are red on two Moonflowers, the autumn scenery of Xishan is like flowers blooming all over the cliffs in three springs, and it can attract colorful butterflies. Obviously, maple leaves are mistaken for flowers.

Talking while walking, I didn't realize that the east slope was halfway up, and the mountain was gentle. There were several small pavilions standing there delicately on a flat ground, and several tourists in the pavilions were resting.

Qin Fei winked, and two or three servants put down their burdens and stepped forward quickly, shouting: "His Royal Highness Teng is going down the mountain, and he wants to rest here. Anyone who has nothing to do should leave here quickly."

Su Jin frowned, this is too domineering, although King Teng is honorable, but this is not the lobby, it needs to talk about face and ostentation, this is a place in the mountains, and the people who come here are for leisure, such a commotion, No one is in a good mood to go sightseeing again.

Su Jin took a peek at King Teng's expression, but saw that he seemed to be used to it, and he didn't feel anything wrong at all. Su Jin cursed in his heart: He's just relying on his royal blood, and he considers himself more important than the sky. In later generations, such a pretentious person, no matter who you are, will be bombarded and scolded on the Internet the next day; at this moment, if you are sitting in that pavilion, you will have to argue.

Just as Su Jin was thinking, he heard someone in the hall shouting from a distance: "What kind of reason is this? The mountain is a river and mountain in the Song Dynasty, and the pavilion was built by the former governor Yan Shu, and this is not the entrance of the Yamen Street. The rest of us just occupied a corner of the pavilion to rest for a while, the place is very big when the lord comes, why is it so hard to ask me to retreat?"

Su Jin heard the voice very familiar, but it was far away, and the sparse bushes in the middle were swaying in the wind to block his sight, and he couldn't see his face clearly for a while. Just as he was thinking, he heard the voice of a servant of the palace coming from the opposite pavilion. scolding.

"Where did you get so poor? The prince came and asked you to retreat. You are so stupid. As the saying goes, every plant and tree in the Song Dynasty belongs to the emperor's family. My prince is the nephew of the current emperor. Are you confused or not?" My skin is itchy, do you want me to scratch it for you?"

"Don't care about your royal relatives, the Song Dynasty stipulates that common people are not allowed to rest in mountain pavilions. Even if the emperor comes personally, he will not make this rule. Your prince's style is really disgusting." sigh."

Su Jin's mind lit up, this time he could tell who it was, it turned out to be him...