Emperor Kangxi: Yuyu Chengxiang

Chapter 80 Riding a dragon boat and watching the river workers being insulted
The three of them had just climbed the steps, when there was a commotion inside. A waiter pushed a little girl with a disheveled head with both hands, and kept shouting: "Get out! You didn't even wink at begging. The guests didn't leave, so they slapped the table like a dog and picked it up." Bones! I can’t get rid of rice balls for you, but I have to ask for broth! Little broken shoes, if you look like you, can we still do business?” The little girl with unkempt hair was born weakly, holding a small basin Like a broken sea bowl, he staggered and was pushed out, one accidentally tripped over the threshold, his body flattened, and he bumped into the arms of a woman in a flag dress.The woman flashed hastily, the little girl had already fallen down the steps, the big bowl was smashed to pieces, and the soup dripped all over her body.The girl curled her mouth and burst into tears with a "wow".The woman stomped her feet and scolded with a smile: "The prodigal hooves, I scared my aunt!" All the people watching the fun laughed happily.Han Liu couldn't help clasping his hands together and murmured: "Amitabha, it's a sin!"

"Old Gao, ask this girl to come in and give her a meal." Kangxi couldn't help but be very upset when he saw that everyone was laughing, scolding and spitting. Hidden heart.While instructing Gao Shiqi to step into the store.The clerk saw that Kangxi was wearing a red velvet-topped six-in-one hat and came in calmly, waving a folding fan. Although he was not wrapped in silk, he was wearing a poplin gray shirt with exquisite texture and excellent workmanship, but he did not dare to neglect it. With a flick of the cloth, he shouted as if singing: "The old customer is here—please sit in the private room!" He moved to the back, wiped the table and said with a smile: "What do you want to use?"

Gao Shiqi and Han Liu followed with the girl, seeing Kangxi a little bit at a loss.Knowing that he doesn't know how to order, Gao Shiqi smiled and said: "Our master has a high taste, and you don't have the ingredients such as hump, bear's paw and deer tendon. You can make it if you can make it." I'm looking for you, and the stock is ready! The two distinguished guests who sent me away just now said the same thing, and the younger one is going to serve them eight precious banquets, but they just talked about it, and left in a hurry after eating two Yellow River carp ——You know they are right, they are River Governor Jin Shangshu and Chen Hebo!" Kangxi was startled when he heard this, and almost asked, "Jin Fu came so soon? Who is Chen Hebo?" Seeing Gao Shiqi's wink, Fang Yi said with a smile : "Interesting. But don't underestimate me, who is not a minister - just do Bazhen!"

"Yes! But the old customers have to wait for a while, and the scarlet lips will be ready!" Seeing that it was a wealthy customer, the clerk smiled with joy, agreed and stepped back.Kangxi waved his hand to stop, then turned around and asked the little girl, "What do you want?"

"Me?" The little girl didn't expect Kangxi to ask herself suddenly. After a long while, Fang blushed and said in a low voice, "I beg for a bowl of pork ribs... that's enough..." Han Liu was careful, and when he thought of the clerk's scolding, he warmed up. Said in a low voice: "Good baby, don't be afraid—is your mother confinement?" The little girl looked at Han Liushi with teary eyes and nodded silently.Han Liu said with a smile: "Our master is the one who accumulates virtue and does good deeds. Since this is the case, waiter, you can make a casserole of hen soup for this child, and it will be counted on our account." Give the girl two silver coins.

Gao Shiqi looked at the girl intently, and suddenly asked, "How old are you?"

"fourteen."

"What is your name?"

"Ruozhi..."

"What's your last name?"

"...surnamed Hei."

Gao Shiqi looked at Kangxi, saw that Kangxi was casually playing the fan, and asked, "Your ancestor was an official family?" The girl bowed her head and kept silent when she heard this, she could only keep kicking her toes on the ground.Seeing her walking around, Kangxi paid attention and asked Gao Shiqi with his eyes.Gao Shiqi sighed: "In my opinion, this woman has the demeanor of everyone. She is not from a scholarly family, she must be an eunuch from her ancestors. Listen to her name, and besides, how can a beggar say, 'A bowl of pork rib soup is enough'? —what's your real name?"

At this moment, two waiters came in with a plate of Bazhen rice sticks and the other with a pot of hot boiled chicken soup, brought the chicken soup to Ruozhi, and said, "I don't know where the gods will show up, but you can do it today." Luck, hurry up and feed your starving mother!" Ruozhi ignored it, kowtowed to each of the three Kangxi, picked up the casserole and left without saying a word.Kangxi laughed and said: "Gaojiang Village is very careful, I didn't hear clearly." Han Liu sighed: "It's hard to say what happens in the world. Didn't our ancestors come to be officials in the past? But I also begged for food. Don't worry about worrying..." Gao Shiqi said: "This is the so-called 'gentlemen's fortune, beheaded for five lifetimes'."

The three of them were talking, and when they were half full, they heard people shouting and shouting in the street, but they couldn't hear what they were shouting.Kangxi called the clerk and asked, "It seems to be the opposite, what's going on?" The clerk bowed and apologized and said with a smile: "No matter how bold Liu Tiecheng is, he wouldn't dare to come to borrow food in the daytime—there is no such thing as an accident." Something happened. That bitch was not lucky to be rewarded by an old customer, something happened..."

"What's wrong?" Kangxi put down his chopsticks and asked.

The clerk hesitated for a moment, then said: "I also heard people say that the brother-in-law who was in charge of Hebo paid off, and had a drink with a few idlers at the Caijiapeng on the edge of the river. Seeing this beggar serving a pot of chicken soup Going to Wutong Temple, some drunk cats wanted to buy wine, but she naturally refused and was snatched away. I don’t want her to be so angry that she fell into the Yellow River, and people were shouting on the bank to save people—this is her Life is not good, it has nothing to do with guest officials—”

"There is such a thing!" Kang Zhao was suddenly furious, and with a "slap", the table full of wine and food jumped up and down - stood up and left.As soon as he arrived at the door of the store, he was grabbed by the waiter, and said with a changed face: "If you don't know how to pay, you just pat your ass and leave like this? Do you want to eat?"

Wu Dan, who had already been quietly watching at the door of the store, saw that Kangxi was being pulled, jumped up without a word and lifted the clerk across his chest, beat him with a big ear, and shoved him, the clerk took seven or eight steps back, slumped on the ground in a daze , half of his face turned purple early.Gao Shiqi didn't care to speak, threw a piece of 20 taels of silver over, and followed Kangxi straight to the Yellow River.

The cauliflower flood news head has arrived.The mighty yellow water in the upper reaches swirls, carrying silt, wheatgrass, and leaves, and pours down. The turbid waves exude a fishy smell, and beat the stone embankment of Luoma Lake.When Kangxi arrived, there were many people standing on the river bank, all of them staring at Ruozhi who was sinking and floating in the distance—already half a mile away from the shore—some shouted "Help me!" Grinding their teeth, Huazi watched the excitement, and some talked anxiously.Kangxi was looking forward to the shore, because there were no boats nearby, so he was only anxious.When looking back, Han and Liu clasped together and recited Buddha's name, Gao Shiqi smiled wryly, knowing that they had no good plan.While feeling annoyed, Kangxi saw a few people under a loofah shed drunkenly eating wine.The pot of chicken soup was still placed on the table, his expression changed suddenly, and he whispered to Gao Tuqi: "Order Wudan to tell the guards to take care of these dogs. If Ruozhi dies, they must be taken to death!" Gao Shi Qi hurriedly bowed his head and stepped back.

When there was nowhere, suddenly a "Water Drifter" surfed down from upstream, and a black and thin man stood on the boat and lit a penny, and scolded the people on the shore: "So you have a custom of refusing to save you in Luoma Town! Hateful! "Speaking and supporting, the water floater turned lightly, and was already chasing Ruozhi.The boat appeared and disappeared in the monstrous turbulent waves, and the man gradually disappeared like an immortal stepping on the waves.Kangxi suddenly remembered that he had seen this person somewhere.

Seeing that it was Chen Huang, Han Liushi opened his mouth, but he was afraid that he had identified the wrong person, so he didn't shout out.Kangxi heaved a sigh of relief, turned around and said to Han Liu: "It's none of your business here, you are allowed two days off to visit your son, maybe we will bother you again!" Sighing, he said loudly, "The boatman is right, the customs in Luoma Town are really bad, I—I really can't believe there are so many people on the shore, and no one knows how to swim!"

"Retribution!" A gray-bearded squire sighed while twisting his beard. "Her family should be destroyed by heaven!" Kangxi laughed back angrily, and said, "I think it's people who are destroyed, not heaven. To rob her The chicken soup is so rampant, no one cares about it, forcing people to drown themselves in the river, and no one saves them—isn’t this the destruction of people?” Seeing his uneasy expression, the old squire said, “It’s not all because people’s hearts are not old, and people who have done crimes before Isn't it God's will that the younger generation bear it?"

"Who is she, a prostitute or a happy household?"

"She is... Hong Chengchou's granddaughter."

Kangxi's heart sank suddenly, and his face became pale.Hong Chengchou was an all-powerful Confucian general in the Ming Dynasty, and he served as the Minister of Economics and Strategy of the Nine Provinces when he became an official.He died less than 20 years ago, and his family was dilapidated, so that his daughter-in-law begged for a living, and in people's hearts, he was worse than a prostitute!Kangxi breathed a sigh of relief, and He Feng rushed towards him, and he shivered—he remembered that when Hong Chengchou died in the fourth year of Kangxi, the emperors proposed a posthumous title for him, initially "Wencheng".However, after discussing with Aobai, Sukesaha and other auxiliary officials, the "Wenxiang" was still decided. Needless to say the word "Wen", Hong is well-deserved, "Xiang" means "the armor has a job", but the monarchs and ministers all know it in their hearts, it is the meaning of "help" from the word "Xiang".Not long ago, a special decree was issued to Xiong to give shoes: Hong Chengchou entered the "Biography of Two Officials" in Ming History.Who doesn't know if it goes on!But Kangxi did not expect that the common people violated the Hong family in this way in accordance with the "sacred will".

Isn't it that he himself made a figurine in the front, and the Luma Lakers followed?Reflecting on it, the meaning of remembering the former Ming here is self-evident, how can we take it lightly!
(End of this chapter)