Song Yi

Chapter 483 Help me take care of her

Su Shi was a little embarrassed: "You are so smart, you can see it right away."

Du Wenhao said: "Tell me, what's the matter? I will help if I can."

"It's like this. You are going to Hangzhou. There is a distant uncle of mine. A big family opened a medical clinic in Hangzhou. The Su family medical clinic is well-known in Hangzhou. Please take care of them when you go to Hangzhou. But other things I don't need to worry about people, I just need to take care of Su Wanrou, the daughter of his eldest son, Su Changsheng. This child is really nice, just take care of her for me."

Du Wenhao squinted his eyes and laughed dryly: "Big beard, don't play with me like this. You actually want them to take care of me from the Su family. You are afraid that I will feel bad, so let me go and recognize the local wealthy family. Is there anything they can take care of me in the future, right? You are afraid that I will lose face, so you tell me to take care of them instead. I am a demoted official, and people are afraid that I will avoid it. How can I take care of her? This is clearly asking them to take care of me!"

Su Shi smiled awkwardly: "Actually, it's really not true. Let me tell you, this old man Su is a distant uncle of mine. Before I had an accident, their family was very close to me, and there was a lot of curry favor during the holidays." A gift giver. Later, I got into big trouble, offended the emperor and was sent to prison. Almost everyone in the government and the public shouted for killing, wanting to cut off my head. My uncle was so frightened that he immediately separated himself from my family. Said that he and I are not actually related, but that they both have the surname Su, and I was so angry that I immediately admitted that I did not have this uncle."

"With such a character, you still ask me to take care of them?"

"Not everyone in their family is like this. Su Changsheng, the eldest of their family, opened a Changshengtang. His daughter is called Su Wanrou. This girl is very good. She didn't come to the house very often when she was in power, but she only saw her when she came with relatives. Yes. Not much to say, my wife likes her very much."

"Girls who don't talk much have more eyes!"

"This kid is really not. Listen to me, after my misfortune, their family separated from my family, but this Su Wanrou wrote to my family several times to express condolences, and asked someone to bring silver taels for my family to use up and down. , This is all her own meaning. When I was demoted to Huangzhou, she continued to correspond with my wife, and asked someone to bring us money several times to help us survive. It was really a timely help. You know it was me At the worst time, food and clothing are a problem.”

Du Wenhao nodded frequently: "Not bad, the wind knows the strength of the grass, and Lu Yao knows the horsepower. When you are in trouble, it is really rare for this girl to write letters to comfort and support you, especially when her entire family has abandoned you Time. This is the time to emerge from the mud without pollution, which is admirable."

"Yes, she is really different in their family. I know that your demotion this time is actually just a stopgap measure. The Queen Mother treats you very well. You have made such a great contribution to Xixia this time. I guess the Queen Mother did it for To appease the grievances of our old-fashioned officials is to temporarily stop your official position, and you will definitely make a comeback. And with your ability, it is more than enough to take care of a female doll, so I entrust her to you."

Du Wenhao smiled: "Listening to what you said, I misunderstood you. You really asked me to take care of this girl. I promise you that I will help if you need my help."

Su Shi was very happy and said: "Then I will write a letter and you can take it to her."

"Don't write the letter. I have been demoted now, at least in name. I will pay attention to what you said, and I don't want to make friends with their family. It's just that I can help this girl and I will. If you It’s not good to write a letter to make it clear.”

Su Shi nodded and said, "Okay, then please."

The second person to visit was actually Sima Guang.

Du Wenhao had mixed feelings about this old man.On the one hand, I respect him, but on the other hand, I think he is really an antique.

Sima Guang played a big role in the failure of Wang Anshi's reform, but everyone has their own ideas, and this should not belittle the respect for him in the heart.

So Du Wenhao treated him very respectfully.

Sima Guang was getting old, so he didn't dare to drink after a symbolic glass of wine, and only drank tea and talked in the study.

Sima Guang said: "I'm sorry, although I am the prime minister, I can't turn the situation around by myself. After discussing with the queen mother, I think you should go to Hangzhou for a while..."

Du Wenhao waved his hand and said: "No need to say any more, I already know all this, but you, your health is much worse than when I left the capital. You are also working hard and tired. It is too tiring to be a prime minister at such an age, but you still have to work hard. Take care of your body."

Sima Guang nodded and said, "Yes, I've been coughing a lot lately, and it's very painful."

He coughed loudly while talking, and there was no phlegm. The sound was like scraping an iron pan with a tile.

Du Wenhao took his hand to check the pulse, checked his tongue, asked him how he felt, pondered for a long time, and said: "If you trust me, I will give you a prescription. You insist on taking it, and wait until I come back from next time." I'll treat you again."

"No need, several of the best imperial physicians have seen it, and they all said that I am terminally ill and there is no cure. I don't want to ruin your reputation."

Du Wenhao was silent.

Indeed, Sima Guang's disease was lung cancer, and it was at an advanced stage, and had already spread throughout his body.Even in modern society there is no way.

Sima Guang didn't let himself take over, because he didn't want the hat of curing the disease and killing the dead to fall on his head. This was his last care for himself.

Du Wenhao was not only grateful.I still gave him a prescription: "This prescription may not be very useful, but it will make you feel better, so you won't suffer."

Sima Guang was stunned for a while, and finally accepted the prescription.

Sure enough, half a year after Du Wenhao left the capital, Sima Guang died of illness.

It is precisely because of Du Wenhao's prescription that he did not suffer from illness in the last days, and he walked through the last journey of his life peacefully.

The next visitor was actually Prince Xixia Bingsheng.

With more than ten followers, he sent several large boxes of gold and silver to Du Wenhao.

Du Wenhao was very surprised and asked why.

The prince said: "This is from Song Dynasty. The one-year rent for the Shandan racecourse is actually the old currency. It's just another way of saying that according to the Queen Mother Liang's request, the money will be handed over to you directly. Because Shandan The racecourse is your fiefdom, you are the king of Shandan, of course it is under your control."

Du Wenhao was in full bloom.

He kept some of the silver at home, and the rest was exchanged for royal banknotes, which can be exchanged for silver directly in Hangzhou.

Ready, Du Wenhao set off for Hangzhou.

His squad of five hundred cobras had been replenished and was full again.

He asked Li Pu to follow behind him with a team of five hundred, keeping a distance.And he, protected by Xu Huaqiang and ten personal guards, set off in plain clothes to Jiangnan.

The family wanted to send the ten-mile long pavilion, but Du Wenhao refused. He only asked them to send it to the door of the house, and then he whipped his horse and left.

All the way to the south, nothing happened along the way, and I arrived in Hangzhou City on this day.

No one came to greet me.

If it was before, Du Wenhao would check both the first and second ranks. When he got here, the local officials would definitely lead a team out of the city to welcome him, but now he has been demoted to the end and has become a sesame official without power. Of course, no one will take care of him.

Moreover, he had never been to Jiangnan before, so he had no acquaintances or friends in Hangzhou, so he entered Hangzhou city alone.

They first chose an inn to stay.

Du Wenhao reported to the Yamen in Hangzhou, and he was received by a governor of the ninth grade, named Zhou Lang.

Zhou Lang was polite, he smiled at Du Wenhao, asked him to sit down, and asked his attendants to make a cup of tea, although the tea was not very good.

Zhou Lang sighed and said: "Lord Du, you were degraded to Hangzhou this time. Compared with others, you are lucky. I heard that some people who were unlucky went directly to southern Fujian or even Hainan. That place is miserable. Let’s go. Here is much better than those places. But you have to figure out your identity, don’t cause trouble, and live your life quietly. You used to be a second-rank high-ranking official, but now you are in Pingyang, you may have to follow Pingyang’s rules. Follow the rules, otherwise it’s not easy for everyone.”

Du Wenhao nodded: "Yes."

"You haven't arranged any errands in the Yamen. By the way, have you decided where you live?"

"No, stay at the hotel first."

"That's it, that's okay. You can find a place to live. You don't need to come to the Yamen anyway, and you have nothing to do. But if you want to leave Hangzhou, I'm afraid you have to come over and say hello to me. Otherwise, if you leave without authorization, if you are supervised Shi knows, I am afraid that you will be impeached, which is a violation of the rules, please forgive me."

Of course Du Wenhao knew that the officials who were degraded were criminal officials, and they were actually acting under the supervision of local officials.Not only is there no real power, but there are also certain restrictions on freedom.

After explaining, Du Wenhao said goodbye and left.

Looking at his back, Zhou Lang said: "The dignified second-rank Zaizhi was demoted to the end and became the deputy envoy of the regiment. Seeing his normal face, he must have resigned to his fate. That's the best, otherwise he will cry sometimes."

The scribes next to him all nodded and bowed their heads and even claimed yes.

A clerk said: "It's good for him not to continue to be the governor, otherwise he will be slapped in the face with a big ear scraper, and he will know that he is no longer a high-ranking official. It will be boring."

Another yamen servant said: "That's right, there are many officials who have been degraded by the court in Hangzhou, and five or six out of ten still regard themselves as high-ranking officials, but they are disgraced and embarrassed, and finally even have to kneel down and beg for mercy. I hope this Du guy doesn't follow in their footsteps."

After Du Wenhao came out, he said to Xu Huaqiang and the others: "Let's take a stroll around Hangzhou and see the beautiful scenery here."

Hangzhou was already a top city in the Northern Song Dynasty, and its business was quite prosperous.

Lin'an was moved to Hangzhou as the capital in the Southern Song Dynasty.The famous poem "The warm wind blows the tourists drunk, makes Hangzhou Bianzhou" not only expresses the hatred of subjugation, ridicules the numbness of the imperial court, but also indirectly refers to the prosperity of Hangzhou.

If Hangzhou was not prosperous, the emperors of the Southern Song Dynasty would not have taken a fancy to it as a new capital city for moving south.

A group of people wandered slowly along the street, not to mention anything else, this building is very different from the capital Kaifeng.

There is a strong and graceful flavor of the Jiangnan water town everywhere, with gurgling streams, passing through the streets and alleys, and you can always see the small bluestone bridges covered with moss from the ages, which makes people feel a kind of tranquility in the ancient city.

While walking, suddenly many people gathered in front of a shop to watch the fun.

(End of this chapter)