Rebirth of the Tang Dynasty's strongest consort

Chapter 419 Xiaohuai Village

Seeing Xie Yaohuan's cold face, and hearing the deep meaning from her words, Fang Yiai quickly withdrew her palm and couldn't help laughing and said: "It's abrupt, it's abrupt."

Looking forward, Fang Yiai felt her cheeks burning, and thought, "Although Yaohuan has a private life with me, but he has never been in the house after all, this intimate behavior is really a bit abrupt."

Xie Yaohuan saw Fang Yiai's cheeks were reddish, sneered behind her back a few times, got up and sent him out of the room, and finally put the latch on the door reluctantly.

Looking at the wooden chair that Fang Yiai sat on before, Xie Yaohuan blushed and murmured: "Why is this friend so honest today? Abrupt, abrupt you are."

There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning, Fang Yiai washed up, changed into a green mountain and a square scarf, and asked Qin Jingniang for a few dozen taels of silver to pay for horses, board and lodging.

Arranging Lang Jun's clothes, Qin Jingniang said with some reluctance: "He Lang, you must be cautious when going to Cheng County for the exam. Why don't you bring the official seal? It's also to avoid any accidents."

"Official seal? The official seal is kept in the government office. If I go to get it, I'm afraid I will alarm Cai Shaobing and the prefect of Caozhou." Fang Yiai felt that this made sense, and scratched his head hesitantly.

Qin Jingniang smiled, walked to the couch, and took out a small cloth bag from under the pillow, "Has He Lang forgotten? It was sent along with official documents from the official department, and there is still a private seal."

"Private seal?" Fang Yiai took the cloth bag, opened it, and saw a small Yunniu seal in it, took out the private seal and looked at it, the words "Caozhou Tongju" were all engraved on it fundus.

"Why did I forget this private seal?" Fang Yiai put away the private seal and took the money bag from Qin Jingniang. The two got bored for a while, and Fang Yiai finally said goodbye.

Thinking that there might be rogues in Kaocheng County, Fang Yiai simply picked up the sword he had snatched from Liu Yuhou earlier, wrapped it in green cloth in his hand, and then hurried out of the main room.

When she arrived at the gate of the mansion, Xie Yaohuan had been waiting for a long time. She specially changed into a pair of men's clothing, with a blue gown and a fluttering scarf on her head, her appearance was very elegant.

"Brother Xie has been waiting for a long time, please." Fang Yiai waved his hands and moved forward with Xie Yaohuan, went to Dongshi to buy two fast horses, walked out of the city along the south gate, and then turned over He got on his horse and drove all the way south towards Kaocheng County.

The sun was high and the two galloped on the official road for more than two hours, not only the corners of the horses' mouths were covered with white foam, but even Fang Yiai and Xie Yaohuan were somewhat overwhelmed.

Reining in the silk reins, Fang Yiai let the horses walk slowly on the official road, looked sideways at Xie Yaohuan, and saw beads of sweat hanging on the beautiful woman's powder-carved jade-like face, she couldn't help feeling distressed, and said softly: "Do you want to get off the horse?" Rest?"

"Let's teach them to walk slowly for now." Xie Yaohuan took out the water bag from the side of the saddle, raised her head and took a sip, then reached out and handed it to Fang Yiai, saying, "Drink water?"

Taking the water bag with a smile, Fang Yiai drank a few gulps, then wiped the corners of her mouth, and said with relish: "It's really sweet."

"Sweet? It's just ordinary well water, and there's no sugar in it. How can it be sweet?" Xie Yaohuan asked doubtfully, holding the silk rein.

Fang Yiai looked serious, handed the water bag back to Xie Yaohuan and said, "Try it."

Xie Yaohuan took a small sip, savored it carefully, and said coquettishly, "It's tasteless."

"Why is there no smell? Could it be that the entrance of the water sac doesn't smell like the official?" After speaking, Fang Yiai let out a smirk, gently urged the horse with the whip in her hand, and took the lead in galloping forward.

Xie Yaohuan blushed, put away the water bag, urged the horse frequently as if in a fit of anger, looked at Fang Yiai's back, and murmured: "There are so many tricks!"

It wasn't until late afternoon that the two arrived at the boundary of Kaocheng County, which is located in the southernmost border of Caozhou Prefecture.

After passing the boundary marker, Fang Yiai and Xie Yaohuan slowed down and looked around. As expected, in the distance directly ahead, they saw a village with cooking smoke rising from it.

"Do you want to stay in Kaocheng County tonight, or stay in a village shop?" Looking at Xie Yaohuan, Fang Yiai deliberately put on a serious look, for fear that this beautiful lady might make a mistake.

Xie Yaohuan glanced at Fang Yi'ai with her wonderful eyes, and said leisurely: "I am a subordinate and you are an officer, everything is up to you."

"Then go to the county town to stay overnight. The conditions in the countryside are rough, and it will be bad if you wrong the lady."

"I'm not sister Jingniang, and I'm even worse than the two princesses Changle and Gaoyang. I advise you to put away such sweet talk!"

Just to make fun of herself, Fang Yiai shrugged her shoulders and rushed towards the village ahead.

After about half a cup of tea, the two dismounted at the entrance of the village, held the reins each, and walked into the village on foot.

Entering the village, one can have a panoramic view of the desolate scene. Although the village is not small, nine out of ten households are locked, and weeds are densely overgrown on the courtyard walls and in front of the gatehouse. It is obvious that it has been deserted for a long time.

"Huh? This village is so strange. Could it be that all the villagers have moved away?" Fang Yiai muttered.

Xie Yaohuan's beautiful eyes were worried, she shook her head and said: "I saw it on the way here, the surrounding fields are very fertile, and there is smoke rising from the village, I am afraid that there are people living there."

Hearing Xie Yaohuan's analysis, Fang Yiai suddenly remembered what the subordinate officials said before, there was a banditry incident in Kaocheng County.

"Could it be that this village is a den of thieves?" As he spoke, Fang Yiai reached out and took out the sword that was placed under the saddle, and after removing the cloth strips wrapped around it, he continued to walk forward.

Walking to the middle of the village, an old locust tree appeared in front of the two of them.

Sitting under the locust tree were three or four children, all in tattered clothes, their faces were yellow and emaciated, and they seemed to be from poor families.

"Before you said that the land around this village is fertile, why do these children look like they are suffering from hunger?" Fang Yiai murmured, and led the horse directly to the locust tree.

A few children were playing a game of putting mud balls into holes, when they saw a stranger coming, they quickly collected the mud balls and started to leave.

It was not easy for Fang Yixie to find the villagers, so he was willing to let them disperse, and quickly said softly: "Brothers, walk slowly."

Hearing the call, the dolls stopped in their tracks, turned their heads to look at Fang Yiai and Xie Yaohuan, and after a long time, the lead doll who looked like a child said: "They are not wearing soap clothes, so they shouldn't be vicious dogs! "

"Vicious dog? I'm clearly a person! What kind of eyes!" Fang Yiai secretly reprimanded the child for being ignorant, but the smile on his face became brighter. He let go of the rein and cupped his hands and asked, "Dare to ask a few brothers, how expensive are you?" What's the name of Sangzi? How many surnames do you have?"

"Your hometown?"

"Surname?"

Several children looked around, unable to understand Fang Yiai's polite words.

"I don't see you following the Tao of Confucius and Mencius on weekdays, why are you dragging Wen in front of these dolls today?"

Xie Yaohuan spat lightly, showing a kind smile, and said, "Brothers, what is the name of this village? What are your surnames?"

"Our village is called Xiaohuai Village. It's not that the trees are small, but that there are few people. There is a Dahuai Village three miles to the east, so we can only call it Xiaohuai Village."

"My name is Wong."

"My surname is Zhang."

"My surname is Chen."

"My surname is Li."

"Yo, your village is not big, but there are quite a lot of surnames." Fang Yiai joked with a smile.

Xie Yaohuan asked about the general situation of the village, and asked again: "Where are the adults in your family? Where are the village head and Xiangyue's family?"

"The four of us are a family, and grandpa is cooking. The town contract died two years ago, so there is no town contract in our village."

Fang Yiai saw that the child's speech was flawed, so she couldn't help frowning, and said in a cold voice on purpose: "Nonsense, the four of you don't have the same surname, how could you be a family?"

As soon as this remark came out, the eyes of the innocent four dolls who were smiling just now burst into tears, as if they had been touched.

Seeing the dolls being told to cry by Fang Yiai, Xie Yaohuan turned her head and glared at him, then whispered: "These dolls are very pitiful. As a parent official, don't you come to give alms?"

"I wanted to give alms, but you said it first." Fang Yiai defended, took out four pieces of loose silver from the money bag on his waist, and placed them in the hands of the four dolls.

"This money is for you to buy rations, don't be greedy and buy sweet dates and sugar." Fang Yiai turned around with a smile, and the sword hidden behind him was seen clearly by the four smiling dolls who got the money.

"ah!"

"I recognize this sword!"

"Bad man!"

Seeing the sword, the three dolls fled in all directions, only the head of the doll stood where he was, looking at the sword in Fang Yiai's hand with hatred, as if seeing an enemy.

"Huh? Why did you run away?" Fang Yiai just turned around to look around, but felt her wrist tighten, and then a sharp pain emanated from her wrist.

"Ah!" Fang Yiai looked down, and saw the doll was biting her wrist with tears in her eyes, and was whining non-stop, but he didn't hear a word clearly.

"Why did you bite me, baby!" Because the child was young, Fang Yiai was afraid of hurting him by resisting, so she had no choice but to yell loudly, but she didn't have the slightest intention to do anything.

Grabbing Fang Yiai's wrist and biting it for a long while, the baby finally let go, spit blood on Fang Yiai's skirt, and said in a crying voice: "Dog officer! Give me back to my parents!"

(End of this chapter)