The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

() Su Jin and Wang Chao were sitting by candlelight discussing how to find Ma Han, Zhao Hu and others to escape and return to Weizhou together, when the door was pushed open.

Su Jin and Wang Chao looked up in shock, and saw two expressionless Dangxiang warriors in armor at a glance. Their first reaction was: Oh no, they were betrayed.

Wang Chao stretched out his hand and pulled out the scimitar from his waist, and stood in front of Su Jin. Su Jin sat motionless on the chair, but he wanted to move, but he knew it was futile, so he dragged his injured leg and tried to escape. It's just a dream, unless you have martial arts like Uncle Lu, you don't even think about it.

"Bold! Put down your weapon, the queen is here, don't be rude!" a warrior shouted angrily.

Su Jin was surprised, it turned out that the queen came here, and the queen didn't need to show up to pick someone up. It seemed that there was something special about it, so she said in a deep voice: "The dynasty is stepping down, don't be rude."

A gust of fragrant wind wafted through the nostrils, and three delicate figures slowly came in from the darkness outside the door, one of them was covered in jewels and jewels and wore a phoenix crown, his face like a full moon was without a trace of wrinkle, his phoenix eyes were not angry but majestic, he was a A lady with a graceful appearance; Yeli Duanyun and Li Ali are standing on either side of each other. ..

Su Jin raised his hands and clasped his fists to salute: "Su Jin is being polite, he is injured and cannot get up, please forgive me!"

Ye Li glanced at Su Jin, with a little surprise in his eyes. Ye Li Duanyun told himself that this person was the envoy of Song Guojing, an important minister who guarded the frontier. Pianpian young man.

"Are you Su Jin?" Yeli's voice was deep and sensitive, but it sounded sinister at the moment.

"You must be Queen Yeli." Su Jin said.

"You all step back." Yeli said lightly.

The two warriors bowed and turned to go out, Wang Chao hesitated, Su Jin nodded slightly, Wang Chao put away his weapons and went out.

"You two go out too, Master Su and I have a few words alone."

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"Mother..."

Ye Lishi said solemnly: "Go out...you can't listen to some words."

Yeli Duanyun and Li Ari saluted helplessly and went out. Li Ali waved her little hand to Su Jin lightly before leaving, her eyes were full of worry. Su Jin knew that she wanted to be careful with what she said and not offend this Queen, so he smiled at her as a thank you for her kindness.

The door was closed slowly, and only Su Jin and Ye Lishi were left in the room. The silence was suffocating, and the crackling of the candlelight added to the sense of silence.

Ye Lishi slowly sat on a stool, staring at Su Jin intently, Su Jin was stared at by her, and couldn't help looking away, secretly contemptuous of himself for not being able to stand a woman's gaze, he was really worthless.

"You are so courageous!" Ye Lishi finally said, "Do you know what kind of punishment you should receive in my Great Xia?"

Su Jin said: "The only thing is death..."

"Death? It's easy for you to think about it. There is nothing terrible about death. Many punishments are more terrifying than death. People like you should dig holes in their stomachs and use your fat to light sky lanterns. If you don't torture you for ten days and a half months, you can't even think about it." Liberation." Ye Lishi's tone was cold, and there seemed to be endless hatred.

Su Jin smiled: "Empress, I'm afraid it's inappropriate to light the sky lantern. I don't have fat on my body, so I'm afraid I won't be able to light it."

"Fortunately, you can still laugh. You can't light the sky lanterns, Ling Chi, and chopping (a torture that starts from the feet and cuts off a section a day until it reaches the chest), and cannonballs. You are more painful than death, in short, you don't want to die easily."

Su Jin smiled again: "The queen, why bother to scare me? Even if you cut me into pieces, you can't change the fact that your food and grass in Xiaguo were burned and your army was defeated in Weizhou. Besides, the queen didn't come here to scare me. Why do you and I have a conversation in such an atmosphere of intimidation? Since I dare to come to Huizhou to act, how can I be intimidated by you."

Ye Lishi was a little surprised. Sure enough, he had some skills, and he could see that he didn't come to take him at all.

"You eloquent man, are you so confident? Believe it or not, I immediately ordered someone to arrest you and bring you before the emperor."

Su Jin raised his hand and surrendered: "I believe it, of course I believe it. I don't want to annoy the empress. If you have anything to say, just ask the empress. Is it okay for me to tell you everything?"

Yeli's face turned slightly numb and nodded: "You are smart, you are so smart, let me guess what I want to ask you?"

Su Jin really wanted to say something like later generations molesting others: Can you guess or not?But he didn't want to anger the queen, but any woman who can become a queen must not be an ordinary person, the strife in the harem is not much worse than that of the court, and maybe she is also a cruel person.

"I can't guess, how can I guess what the empress is thinking, but I do know that Miss Ye Li Duanyun must have gone to see the empress and revealed my whereabouts, and the empress is coming to see me."

Ye Lishi sneered and said: "You are really smart, but you guessed wrong on one point. Duanyun didn't say you were here, on the contrary, he tried his best to cover it up for you. It was I who noticed the flaw in her words and forced me to ask. It turns out that you are here to recuperate your wounds; you are not small, and the search outside is upside down, but you are leisurely in my Nori family's house, and you can seduce two little girls to keep you a secret regardless of Daxia's safety. You are very capable, very good!"

Yeli's 'praise' did not make Su Jin feel proud, but instead made his skin crawl. Su Jin hurriedly said: "I played a trick to coerce the two of them to do it, and they didn't do it voluntarily."

Yeli said: "Duanyun went to the palace to see me tonight, and talked about his doubts about the cause of death of the two great kings. How could she, a little girl, analyze so many doubts? There must be someone standing in front of her. He was able to analyze it, and when I questioned her, this girl showed her true self, if it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have seen the true face of you, an expert from the Song Dynasty."

Su Jin suddenly realized that Ye Lishi was indeed a shrewd woman, and she could detect the difference just by this. She was worthy of being a character trained in the harem.

"Then...does the Empress think that your analysis makes sense? Is the death of the two Yeli kings suspicious?"

"It's nonsense, you are completely sowing dissension, I am here to tell you that all your provocations are in vain, my Yeli tribe will never turn against the emperor, so don't worry about it."

Su Jin was a little surprised. It stands to reason that Empress Yeli would have realized the doubtful points faster. How could she be more confused than Yeli Duanyun, and she even spoke up to criticize herself.

"Your Majesty, what I said is just a guess, whether you believe it or not, it has nothing to do with me, and I don't have to make calls within your country, because you are probably already overwhelmed and overwhelmed this time, and you will be in a mess if you don't need me to call you. Why should I be a villain in vain."

"Are you proud? My Daxia is indeed in trouble, and all of this is thanks to you. Are you laughing at me to my face?"

Su Jin said coldly: "It's a big joke, thanks to me? You are all to blame for this. If you didn't covet Da Song, how could you have fallen into today's situation? If you have to do everything today If there is a root cause, it is your own ambitions that have caused failure and confusion, and it has nothing to do with others."

Ye Li said angrily: "The words are unreasonable. Why should I be enslaved by your Song Dynasty when I established my country in the northwest? Are our party members only worthy of being vassals of your Han people for generations? Becoming what you call a barbarian clan? Why do you Can occupy the fertile and fertile land to live and live, and our party members can only live in the northwestern hand, suffering from the wind, sand and frost?"

Su Jin said: "I can't answer the questions you asked, but I can use your logic to ask you. If the poor people in your party ask you: Why do you have rich clothes, jade, food, gold and silver, high houses and big houses?" They live here and are served by servants like a cloud, but they can only sleep in the open with cattle and sheep, and when they are fighting, they have to rush to die, how should you answer?"

Ye Lishi said: "It's born like this, so there's nothing to complain about."

Su Jin sneered and said: "Your answer is the answer I gave you. There are many ways to change the status quo. Strengthening the business and trade between the two countries, exchanging what is needed, and jointly gaining a foothold in the world to learn from each other's strengths is the best way to change. You just chose The most stupid way is to use force to conquer, but who is to blame? There is no absolute fairness in this world. In the hearts of poor people, they only want food, clothing and safety. Why do you live in poverty? Those who are superior are dissatisfied, and want to invade other people's places. Of course, this kind of behavior must be ruthlessly punished. Am I clear enough?"

Ye Lishi's phoenix eyes were wide open, and he was on the verge of erupting, but he suddenly sighed, the anger on his face disappeared, and he returned to a calm look.

"The matter has come to this, who is right and wrong is not the purpose of my coming today. I admit that what you said is reasonable, but it may not be feasible to be reasonable, but I really appreciate your insight. It is much smarter than many people. Most people are afraid It’s something I never would have imagined in my life.”

Su Jin was a little overwhelmed by the woman's violent emotional changes, such people are the most difficult characters, they can suddenly hide their anger and regain calm, but you don't know what they will do next time When is the outbreak, you need to be careful when dealing with such a person.

"Thank you for your compliment, I'm just discussing the matter. Don't get angry because of your rudeness. I know that your mother is a sensible and intelligent person. There are some things that should not be discussed at this time. Your mother should talk about the real purpose of your trip."