Empress Mi Benji

Chapter 10

In the end, she turned her head back and looked at Si Qin Mi's embroidery. She was a quiet beauty, peaceful and beautiful. After a while, a peony flower shape appeared on the white silk. Si Qin Mi looked at the flower with satisfaction, and put down the frame.

"Lang Jun, my concubine went to buy it." I was in a hurry to buy medicine before, so I didn't prepare any food.

"Let me go together, and introduce you to the neighbors. The name Si Qin Mi is temporarily unusable. Think of another name." Zhuang Xun struggled to get up and get dressed.

"That's good, the name is right, the words are right." Seeing that Zhuang Xun was really worried about himself, Si Qinmi touched his forehead, the temperature had dropped, and he stopped coughing, so he let him go.

"The name is Wei Lanzhi, and my mother's surname is Wei. Lanzhi is a name commonly used by ordinary people." Si Qinmi chose a name for herself.

"The identity is of course my wife, so let's just say she is from my hometown. Wait until I remember that I always said that I am not married. Forget it, these people don't care about it." Zhuang Xun temporarily made up his identity while dressing.

"People can't stand without trust. How can you gain the trust of others if you are so casual, how can you stand on your own? It can be said that the concubine is a refugee from Xihe. The husband buried the daughter of the Qin family because of lack of money. The concubine paid for the husband to marry a concubine. In this way, the reputation of the gentleman can be preserved, and it can also explain why the husband married a concubine who lacks in appearance." Si Qinmi thought more thoughtfully, and put on a robe for Zhuang Xun.

"Well, that's it." Zhuang Xun was a little unaccustomed to being served and dressed.

As soon as he walked out of the courtyard, he saw the landlady's grandmother, with crutches, white hair on the temples, and patterned servants.

"Mrs. Chen, I'm going for a walk." Zhuang Wen said in greeting.

"Zhuang Sheng, is this the maid you bought? My aunt came in with her face covered yesterday and thought she was a thief." The old lady looked at Si Qin Mi and saw a subtle expression on her face.

"I'm sorry, it's my newly married wife, Wei Lanzhi, Lanzhi, this is the owner of this house, Mrs. Chen." Zhuang Xun introduced.

"Zhuang Sheng, you...yesterday, I heard that you went to bury the daughter of the Siqin family?" Mrs. Chen looked at Siqin Mi's face again, hesitated to speak, and finally changed the subject without commenting.

"It's true. Thanks to Mrs. Siqin's support, I was able to find a job. After she died, she couldn't bear to expose her body to the market. Fortunately, thanks to the help of my wife, it has been settled." Zhuang Xun briefly said, the bitterness of the past few days Only the couple understand.

"It's loyalty, although it's not worth it for those wolf-hearted fellows of the Siqin family." Mrs. Chen said with a sigh.

"What are you going to do? Yindu is not peaceful these days. There are too many refugees in Xicheng, and many people are squeezed by them and cannot find a job. But Zhuang Sheng, you are talented and you are not afraid of going anywhere. You resigned from Zhou Ji Where are you going to go to settle the accounts?" Mrs. Chen finished her scolding, and became concerned about Zhuang Xun's work.

"I'm going out to buy some food. I don't plan to find a job. I plan to leave Yindu, but it's not peaceful outside. I'll wait for my friends to help me." Zhuang Xun said honestly that he was looking for an opportunity to stop renting a house.

"The old lady is also thinking about going back to her hometown. The Lingguan is broken, and then there is Chengdie Pass. Chengdie Pass has been sealed. Poor people in Xihe outside the pass. The pianists are really a bunch of beasts. I heard that some loyal warriors were sealed in You Country. Lord, he is also worthy of loyalty?" Filled with righteous indignation, the crutch kept hitting the ground.

"Yeah, old lady, let's go shopping first, the ingredients won't be fresh after a while." Si Qin Mi gave Si Qin Mi a sideways look, and she always smiled lightly.

"Go." Mrs. Chen waved her hand.

It got worse day by day, beggars and job seekers. With the influx of refugees, Yin Du also became bloated. Seeing the child kneeling on the ground and moaning Zhuang Xun looked back several times, and Take your eyes back.

"Ten articles." Si Qinmi took out the ten articles and said.

"What?" Zhuang Xun looked at the ten coins, and then at the children begging.

"You can donate ten coins." Si Qinmi handed the money to Zhuang Xun.

"Ok?"

"One hundred coins for surplus money, ten coins for charity." Si Qinmi pushed Zhuang Xun, and Zhuang Xun took the copper coins and put them into the nearest bowls.

"There is love in the way of heaven, life is more valuable than death." When Zhuang Xun finished, Si Qinmi took the initiative to hold Zhuang Xun's hand and said.

"Well, is this what you've seen and heard?" Zhuang Xun asked, recalling her previous description.

"Yes, I was frightened when I learned that there are gods standing three feet above my head, and I don't know whether good deeds can still accumulate merit if it is not out of the original intention." Si Qinmi shook her head and said, she has seen the trial of the underworld, and the crimes before the Nie Jing stand, and she has no good intentions. Everyone has to be kind.

"It's alright, you don't care about your deeds, you don't have a sage in your heart, so you used to do good things from your heart?" Zhuang Xun said affirmatively, after all, no matter how good a good heart is, it is meaningless if you don't do it.

"Although some of them are pitiful, most of them were trying to gain fame before. The world will change. No amount of gold, silver and jewelry can compare to a good reputation. Many people don't understand this truth. Gold and silver will also be collected and scraped away, no matter how much food is eaten up, only a reputation that responds to everyone can gain the ability to preserve oneself in times of turmoil, and then continue to hold gold, silver and food." Si Qin Mi did not hide anything With the meaning of Zhuang Xun.

"That's right, even if Yu Country is not destroyed by You Country, it will be no longer a country. Traitor and dictatorship, numerous miscellaneous taxes, natural disasters and man-made disasters are just waiting for the last straw that breaks the camel's back. This straw seems to be You Country is attacking, right and wrong." Zhuang Xun shook his head and walked into the market with Si Qin Mi.

I bought food, tofu, green vegetables, and bought some chicken with heartache, and charcoal fire.

Walking back home, there were several men of different ages standing at the door.

"Businessmen, what's the matter? What brought you here." Zhuang Xun walked up, not knowing why.

"I apologize to Mr. Zhuang. We have no choice but to lend you the carriage. It will be difficult for us to do business. A small gift is not a respect." A middle-aged man who was sunburned in the lead handed over the gift box and said.

"Hu Shangtou, I understand, and I won't blame you. Borrowing a car is a matter of affection, and not borrowing a car is a duty. It was originally a stabbing job." He has no obligation to help himself, and he and them are just a pure cooperative relationship, so he is relieved, he took the gift box and said generously.

The most important thing is that he is short of money at the moment, these are his parents for food and clothing, especially since there is a newly married wife at home, so he can't just be arrogant.

"Mr. Zhuang is really tolerant and gentlemanly." Hu Shangtou praised.

"In addition to apologizing, do you need to reconcile accounts? But do you all need to reconcile accounts?" Zhuang Xun said incomprehensibly, these people usually have an appointment time, but today they actually got together.

"It's all a small business. There is news that there will be more taxes on merchants. Everyone is afraid and wants to run out of Yindu." Hu Shangtou smiled awkwardly.

"Old rules, you decide the order in which to give me the books." Zhuang Xun didn't procrastinate, and took the material gifts back to the house first.

"Lang Jun, what are these?" After Zhuang Xun entered the room, Si Qinmi was rather curious.

"The leaders of the caravans can't sort out the bills they have to deal with the big trading houses, and they have their own accounting problems, so they ask me to help them sort out the accounts," Zhuang Xun explained.

(End of this chapter)