The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

() The negotiation location was moved to the inner hall of the yamen. The charcoal fire in the house was booming, and it was as warm as spring. A pot of mutton was gurgling in a small red clay hot pot. Su Jin and Zhang Yuan sat cross-legged with their backs on cotton pillows facing each other like old friends. Sitting, two altars of good wine from Bianliang were smashed open, and two beautiful maids were helping to pour the wine and serve them.

Zhang Yuan secretly envied that Su Jin knew how to enjoy himself. Not to mention the magnificent furnishings in the room, the dishes and utensils used were either gold or silver. Several pots of red coral jade cabbage bonsai were randomly placed in the corner of the room, so priceless. The things were abandoned on the ground; what people envy are the two maids, one is gentle, quiet, elegant and pleasant, the other is delicate and pretty, with quick hands and feet, both of them look at Su Jin with affectionate eyes, obviously it is Su Jin. Jin's plaything in the room.

Compared with my home in Daxia, the furnishings are shabby, and the wives, concubines, and maids at home seem to have been beaten to pieces by nail boards. It's not that I don't want to play with some beautiful women, but that Li Yuanhao often In and out of my own home, I really dare not have a beautiful woman in my home. Everyone in the Xia Kingdom knows that Li Yuanhao is very attractive. It was hard to escape, so Zhang Yuan simply recruited a group of ugly girls to serve him at home in order to avoid these shames. ..

At this moment, compared with Su Jinyi, his life is really boring, Zhang Yuan can only comfort himself: After blowing out the candles, he looks like a motherfucker.

The two had a lively exchange of cups and drinks. At the same time, several agreements were reached. For example, the two sides exchanged the captured civilians and generals, and the two sides unconditionally repatriated the fugitives. These are all insignificant terms. Naturally, Su Jin would not waste his saliva on this.

However, Su Jin resolutely refused to agree to the request to open the frontier market, and only said that he could let it go at his discretion based on Xia Guo's performance. Zhang Yuan, who was angry, blew his beard and stared at him with the strength of alcohol. Zhang Yuan's anger was calmed down by giving Xia Guo a catty of tea and [-] pieces of cloth.

Zhang Yuan originally thought that the people of the Song Dynasty would definitely be worthless this time, but he did not expect that they would still get some oil and water after all. Ten thousand catties of tea and one hundred thousand pieces of cloth are not a small amount. It doesn't matter, the private businessmen between the two countries are extremely active during the war, not to mention after the peace agreement is reached, the government will not trade, how can it stop the private businessmen from crossing mountains and ridges with perseverance?

Su Jin also had his own concerns. The reason why he agreed to give some sweets to Xia Guo was to express his sincerity. Moreover, Su Jin had already made up his mind. Anyway, he didn't say the grade of the tea and the quality of the cloth, so the tea was too old to chew. The cloth will give them tens of pennies a piece of coarse cloth, and don't even think about silk brocade; these things are not worth much money, and they are treated as beggars.

The two drank until the evening, and drank the two altars of good wine to the brim. Zhang Yuan was also a greedy person, and Su Jin frequently toasted, and he didn't want to disobey Su Jin's intentions, and finally fell drunk on the kang and fell asleep. stand up.

In the middle of the night, Zhang Yuan finally woke up. When he moved, he found that his legs were crushed by Su Jin. Looking up, Su Jin's handsome red face smelled of alcohol, and he was sleeping soundly on his body. It was bright, incense sticks were burning in the censer, and several pots of charcoal burning vigorously were placed in the corner of the room, but there was no one there.

Zhang Yuan was about to get up, when he suddenly heard slight footsteps outside the house, Zhang Yuan hurriedly buried his head and pretended to be asleep, but he heard two light knocks on the window, someone outside whispered: "Lord Lu Shi, Lord Lu Shi!"

Su Jin was snoring like thunder and could not be heard at all. The man seemed very anxious and kept screaming; Zhang Yuan couldn't stand it anymore, he slowly pulled out his foot and kicked Su Jin's cheek, Su Jin suddenly got up and said: "Who is so?"

Zhang Yuan relieved himself, closed his eyes and snored and pretended to be asleep. Su Jin looked around in a daze, but at the same time, he heard a knock on the door, and asked in a low voice, "Who is outside?"

The outsider replied: "Lord Lu Shi, it's me, Pan Jiang!"

Su Ji said: "It turned out to be Commander Pan, what's the matter? What are you doing here in the middle of the night?"

Pan Jiangdao: "A letter from Fan Shuai, the army has already..."

Su Jin hurriedly hissed and said softly: "Shut up! There are people in my room, let's go out and talk."

After saying that, he tiptoed out of the bed, opened the door and walked out. Zhang Yuanzhi heard that sentence with his ears, and was startled. Although he had no idea, seeing the sneaky appearance of the two must have ulterior motives, so Quickly got up and got out of bed lightly, touched the door and listened carefully, but the voices of the two people outside were so low that they couldn't hear clearly at all, Zhang Yuansuo slowly opened the door and walked quietly into the corridor.

The voice came from a room next door. Zhang Yuan squatted under the window and listened carefully. There was no sound in the quiet night. Although the voices of Su Jin and others were low, they came clearly.

"Fan Shuai did something?" Su Jin asked.

"Exactly, Fan Shuai sent someone to send a letter overnight. The [-] troops from the Yanyan Huanqing Road have already set off, and they are expected to arrive fifty miles south of Youzhou in three days. The food and grass siege equipment is also moving with the army, and they just need to cooperate with Weizhou." Take action, two ways to level Huizhou and Youzhou, and then go north to take down Xingqing Mansion, and drive Li Yuanhao to the snow to eat the northwest wind." This is Pan Jiang's excited voice.

Su Jin clapped his chin and said: "Very good, now we can finally feel proud. The Xia people are suffering from hunger and cold, what can we do to resist our two armies? It's ridiculous that the Xia people are still serious about making peace with us. I deliberately proposed to ask them Canceling the emperor's conditions for me to be a minister of the Great Song Dynasty, they will not agree to it, in fact, I didn't even think about negotiating with them at all."

Pan Jiang smiled and said, "Is that the guy lying on your bed? It's really funny."

Su Jin scolded: "I drank too much, and I fell asleep with him. I don't know if I let him hear my dreams. If I let him know our actions, once I make up my mind to agree to my peace agreement Suggestion, that would be a mistake, mother, I was careless."

Pan Jiang said: "It's a one-shot kill!"

Su Jin thought for a while and said: "No, the two armies are not fighting. Although we don't plan to have peace talks with them, we can't do things that are reviled by others. I will test him tomorrow."

Pan Jiang suddenly said: "Maybe he is eavesdropping outside the window right now."

Zhang Yuan was startled, quickly shrunk down, and heard a crash, the window was pushed open, Su Jin poked his head out to look around, spit and closed the window and said: "No one, that guy is like a dead pig, Drunk, still sound asleep."

Pan Jiang said: "Let's prepare for the humble job, when will we send troops tomorrow?"

Su Jindao: "According to the agreed time, we will set off overnight at the beginning of tomorrow night, and the army will reach the border after two days of march. Remember to notify Fan Shuai and attack at the same time, so that he can't care about anything."

Pan Jiang promised softly, turned around and went out, Zhang Yuan was so frightened that he ran into the house and climbed onto the kang to pretend to sleep. Only then did he realize that his hands and feet were cold. He squatted outside for a while in the cold night, and his body was almost frozen. stiff.

But the physical cold can still be endured, his heart is icy cold and sinks to the bottom of the cold pool, this Su Jin is too sinister, he has no sincerity to make peace at all, and hanging around with him for so many days is just a lie, concealing the truth behind his back However, they have joined forces with Fan Zhongyan to plan to attack Youzhou and Huizhou at the same time. This is remarkable, what should we do?

Su Jin's footsteps sounded outside, Zhang Yuan hurriedly snored evenly, Su Jin probed and called twice in a low voice: "Master Zhang, Master Zhang?"

Zhang Yuan pretended to be asleep and didn't answer, Su Jin sneered, and closed the door. After a while, everything was silent outside, and the sound of the door being bolted and locked was heard from a distance. It was obvious that Su Jin was afraid of leaking the news and went to sleep in another room. up.

Zhang Yuan's thoughts were chaotic, he didn't close his eyes at all in the middle of the night, he got up quickly at dawn, looking for the servants who got up early to ask them to convey his apology and thanks for staying drunk last night, and left the yamen in a hurry.

In Huanniang's room, Su Jin draped clothes and stood by the window, sneering at Zhang Yuan's back, feeling extremely happy, Huanniang on the bed stood up and whispered: "Master? Don't freeze in the cold weather." on."

Su Jin turned around with a smile, threw off her clothes and got into the warm bed, reached into Huanniang's half-open chest, kneaded the two soft lumps, played with the two bumps and said with a smile: "Come and have a morning with the master." movement in between."

Huanniang's body was sore and limp, and she panted tightly against Su Jin's big hand, "Didn't you ask for it last night? The slave family can't bear it."

Su Jin didn't answer, but touched the wet place with both hands and gently fiddled with it. When the water was getting more and more, he only had to straighten it, and then he was familiar with the stroke to the end.