"Have you ever heard of the three great joys of life: promotion and wealth and death of a wife!"
"If you're not there, it doesn't mean anything to get rich."
one
When he was taken captive to the mountain half a month ago, Liu Ruoshui was in a sad state of mind, and even intended to cut himself.
Unexpectedly, the last bit of Spark that was about to be extinguished in my heart was rekindled here.
The days in the mountains are simple, Liu Ruoshui helped the doctor in the village sort out the medicinal materials this morning, taught some dietary conditioning methods to the women in the village at lunchtime, chatted some gossip with the big lady and aunt in the afternoon, and adjusted some neighborhood disputes.
If you want to compare with the concubines in the palace, Liu Ruoshui's appearance can only be regarded as average, but it is far better than ordinary small family jasper. What's more, her demeanor is beyond even the reach of Miss Shuxiang Mendi.
Most of the people in the village were originally ordinary villagers, simple and kind, and they all liked Liu Ruoshui, and Liu Ruoshui also helped the village a lot these days.
At dusk, Liu Ruoshui walked on the gravel road, teasing the puppy in his arms, with a smile in his eyebrows,
"Just name you 'Little Yang'er', how's it going?" Little Yang Er..."
Yanagiwa Mizuhara was a female official in the Empress's Palace. The empress presided over the feeding, dignified and dignified, and took care of the harem has always been orderly.
However, something went wrong at this feast, and the emperor was furious, reprimanded a cadre of people in the empress's palace, and wanted to kill all the female officials.
The empress could not bear it, took the initiative to hand over the phoenix seal, asked herself to be demoted, and earnestly pleaded with the palace people to be sent down lightly, so that several people could stay alive.
Guifei came up with a new trick: to reduce a few people to a few small counties to do paperwork, and she could always coax the emperor to be happy.
In recent years, it was common for officials to be promoted and demoted, and not long ago, Lord Wang of the Ministry of Rites was demoted to Quyang County in Sichuan Province for dereliction of duty, and Liu Ruoshui went with him.
However, Liu Ruoshui felt that with the personal contacts of this Lord Wang, if it was really just dereliction of duty, there was no need to be demoted three levels in a row.
Nowadays, mountain bandits are rampant, and there is a "Yanwang Village" near Quyang County, of which the bandit mountain thieves are even more fierce and brave.
Although along the way, he had never encountered a mountain bandit robbery road, Liu Ruoshui was inexplicably uneasy in his heart that day.
When the mountains shook, the voices of people, horses, and trumpets struck, Liu Ruoshui knew that the fear had come true.
The officers and men accompanying them had always relied only on an official uniform to intimidate the civilians, and the mountain bandits surrounded them and blew a whistle and shouted, and ran around a few times with dust and sand.
All the officers and men looked at each other left and right, and even some of them were already terrified on the surface, and their legs and feet were weak.
Liu Ruoshui remembered that after a whistle that broke through the clouds, the mountain bandits around him immediately became quiet.
Then I heard the leader of the mountain bandit shouting, "Is there a newly appointed Lord Wang in the carriage?" The brothers have been waiting here for a long time. ”
"I wonder what kind of gifts the adults brought us?" Hahaha! ”
"You, you, you wild men are so bold." The fat adult without a neck was red in the face and got out of the carriage, angry and afraid.
"This official is a county commander sent down by the imperial court and newly appointed, how dare you rob this official's way!" Are you not afraid, are you not afraid that this official will ask the Holy Lord to suppress this nest of bandits of yours? ”
"Forgive me, I'm just a bunch of wild men, I don't know how to be afraid, I only know how to rob money."
As he spoke, he took the bow and arrow, and the arrow quickly and accurately shot off the black gauze hat on the top of Lord Wang's head.
The well-bred fat man suddenly collapsed to the ground in fright, and the remaining officers and soldiers softened their bones in the Qinlou Tavern in the capital city and shrank their heads.
"Lord Wang's days in the capital must be very rich, hahaha!" Adults only need to hand over a little money, they can go to work safely, and they will be neighbors in the future, and they hope that adults will think more about their brothers every New Year's Festival. ”
The surrounding mountain bandits laughed, followed by the shouts of tongues.
However, as soon as he died, Liu Ruoshui straightened his waist and stepped forward to look directly at the leader of the mountain bandits.
Like the gangsters written in the book, bearded, vulgar and arrogant.
"I am an official of the imperial court, and I have offered my wealth to the bandits and thieves, and how will I behave when I pass them on?" How to be an official? Teach parents and teachers, and future generations how to look up and be human? I would rather die to repay the king than flatter the mountain bandits. ”
The officers and men of the surrounding mountain bandits all quieted down slightly when they heard this.
A moment later, the leader of the mountain bandits held a horse whip and pointed at Liu Ruoshui,
"I have changed my mind, hand over this woman, and I will let you go, otherwise I will invite you to sit in my village!"
Human feelings are like thin sheets of paper, and the world is like a new chess game.
Liu Ruoshui wanted to come now, only to feel that he was really ridiculous at that time.
two
Yang Buping had just finished checking the recent expenses with Mr. Accounting Room, and the knock on the door sounded.
"Aunt Han gave me a puppy today, thank you." Liu Ruoshui looked at Yang Buping and smiled with bent eyebrows.
Yang Buping actually blushed a little when he saw this Qingli smile, "Then when you are Xie Han's aunt, what do you do to thank me?" ”
Liu Ruoshui was still smiling, "Aunt Han said that if you have a dog, you don't have to be afraid of those snakes and insects." ”
Yesterday evening, Yang Buping happened to drive away a snake for Liu Ruoshui.
He had thought that such a woman would not be afraid of anything.
He heard Liu Ruoshui screaming and rushed into her room, Liu Ruoshui was already frightened and sat down on the closet.
After Yang Buping drove away the snake, he found that Liu Ruoshui had a wardrobe, but he couldn't get down, "The snake has been driven away, come down, I'll catch you." ”
"Then I'll go down."
With the passage of spring wind, the seeds quietly sprout and grow.
"Not afraid of people, but afraid of snakes?"
"There are only people in the palace, no snakes." Liu Ruoshui suddenly felt some grievances,
"I was originally timid, afraid of everything, but grew up in the palace, in order to survive, I had to force myself to be bold, learn to look at people's eyes, deal with all kinds of people, and have to face the hearts of those invisible people..."
Yang Buping was a little overwhelmed for a moment, and after a moment he said, "You live here, you don't have to look at anyone's eyes and act, there will inevitably be more snakes and insects in the mountains, and if you encounter them again, you will call us." Yang Buping paused,
"There are herbs in the house, snakes and insects should not have come in, it may be too long, the herbs are invalid, I went to find some male yellow, sprinkled outside the house for you."
Liu Ruoshui stood by the window, the moon outside the window was bright, the man was angular, his eyebrows were deep, he was upright and heavy, and he was different from the bandits written in the book.
Liu Ruoshui hugged the little puppy in his arms and thanked him again, "When you kidnapped me that day, I thought you were all bullies and miscreants, and you had a grudge, but later I found out that you saved me."
"I grew up in the palace, the palace is a cage that kills people and does not spit bones, and the more good people are, the thinner their lives. All I saw was dark, rarely warm. ”
"I didn't expect to enjoy the most beautiful warmth here, everyone treated me very well, such a rough tea and light meal, a plain day, than the palace's fine clothes and jade food, such as walking on thin ice days a hundred times a thousand times better."
Liu Ruoshui looked at the man softly, and the light in his eyes shone brightly.
"I just don't think you should be in the same place with those pickles, that kind of court is not worth your doing things for them, and you have done a lot of things for us recently, helped a lot, you can live here in peace, we will all treat you as family." 」
Yang Buping gently patted Liu Ruoshui's back as a comfort.
A cry of family actually caused people to fall into tears.
Liu Ruoshui raised his sleeve to wipe a handful of tears, blinked to withdraw the tears, and smiled again: "You are so good." ”
"Aunt Han said that you used to be the son of a big family, and you were only weak for a few years, and she also said that you had a big beard to scare people."
"Well", Yang Buping had some headaches for these big girls and aunts.
More than a month later
"Are you so fierce that you want to rebel?" Liu Ruoshui felt that the whole cottage was slowly changing.
Yang Buping nodded, and there were turbulent waves in his flat tone, "Such a court naturally has to be reversed." ”
"How did you plan to do that?" Unveiling the uprising and calling on people from all walks of life everywhere? ”
Yang Buping shook his head, "The mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings, a few days ago, There was some movement in Huaizhou, I suspect that it was the people of the King of Pingyang who instigated it, the King of Pingyang can pretend to be stupid for so many years, it must be a cruel role, I have sent someone to send a message, which can help him."
"I have seen the King of Pingyang several times in the palace, and I have long felt that he has a big gully in his chest." Liu Ruoshui's face was solemn.
"Now that I think about it, although Lord Wang is cowardly and shameless, he is good at calculation, and most of the officials' private transactions seem to be witnesses who have asked him to do it." Then he moved to the left of the river this time, and it was most likely that the King of Pingyang was dismantling the net. ”
"As it was, I also felt that there was something strange in it earlier, and I suspected that the fat man was different from other degraded officials, so I wanted to see what kind of person this fat man really was, and it turned out that it was not useless."
It turned out that he had ostensibly robbed money that day, but in fact he had other plans. "If you intersect with the King of Pingyang, you still have to be careful, I am afraid that in the end, it will be inevitable that the rabbit will die and the dog will cook."
"Don't worry, I'll be careful."
three
The stream reflects the lights in the distance, and there are figures in the near distance.
"Discussed?" Liu Ruoshui asked.
Today, Yang Buping received the emissaries of the King of Pingyang and talked secretly for several hours.
"Well, the spring hunt after March is when this battle begins. There are too many moths, and everywhere is in urgent need of decontamination and reorganization. ”
Yang Buping just shaved his beard, it is indeed handsome, if he is still a prince, riding a horse and leaning on the building should also be able to attract the red sleeves of the building.
"At that time, I will also be able to earn some military merit and get an official and a half-job, and at that time, will you marry me?"
Liu Ruoshui's heart was beating wildly, she was a thousand, ten thousand willing, but at this time, looking at the bandit blushing, she couldn't help but quip: "Have you ever heard of the three great joys of life: promotion and wealth and death of his wife!" ”
Yang Buping was stunned for a moment, "Then I am not a happy event, it is a funeral, if you are not there, what is the use of promotion and wealth?" ”
This is obviously not a moving love word, but Liu Ruoshui feels very useful.
She hugged Yang Buping, "You fool, I have long wanted to marry you, I have been waiting for you to say marry me as Lady Zhaizhai!" ”
After March, the war broke out, and the war continued in Kyushu and burned for several months. There were riots and uprisings everywhere, suppression and pacification, and corrupt officials were killed one by one.
The King of Pingyang attacked the imperial palace, Yang Buping took the lead in eliminating the south, and the north was also reorganized by the generals under the King of Pingyang.
The overall situation has been decided, and the war has stopped.
On the eve of the reward, Liu Ruoshui was tied up in the palace.
Yes, Yang Buping was originally only responsible for the Sichuan and Shu areas, but the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas were flooded this year, the people had no food to eat, and the riots were very serious, and it was Yang Buping who borrowed grain in time to stabilize the riots.
Another corrupt official escaped in the Guangdong area, and it was Yang Buping who chased him all the way to the sea and captured him. And after half a month of purging in the south, the north was calmed down.
Yang Buping is now deeply popular with the people, not to mention that he is still a mountain bandit, a mountain bandit with high merit. Now that the situation is unstable, how can the new emperor not be jealous?
"Lady Liu is also a rare talent, so I want to ask the girl to continue to serve as a female official in the palace."
"Tomorrow, Yang Buping will be named the general of Sanpin Zhennan, and as long as Yang Buping does not have any dissident intentions, he will pacify the south for him and consolidate the Jiangshan, and you two will have a time to meet."
Liu Ruoshui knelt on the cold ground, looked at the person sitting on a high position, and sneered in return.
Liu Ruoshui returned to his original apartment, put on his brocade official clothes, and two attendants.
It's just that this delicate cage is too cold, locked, and heart-wrenching.
Now that the foundation of the new emperor is unstable, if Yang Buping gives up his children's love, he may not be able to compete for the throne;
Or perhaps, Yang Buping did a good job of being a Sanpin general, forgot her, and married which high-ranking official Qianjin in the future, with his talent, it is also very likely that he will be crowned marquis in the future.
But as soon as these thoughts sprouted, they were cut off.
Yang Buping sent "Little Yang Er" to the palace to Give Liu Ruoshui, and also attached a letter. The letter told her not to worry, he already had plans, and he would be able to meet before the first festival.
He promised, she believed, and her heart was warm.
The King of Pingyang did indeed become a good emperor, and in just a few months, the sea was clear and the river was clear, and the politics were clear.
Liu Ruoshui thought that she was not usually when she saw Yang again, and if she cried, it must be because of joy.
Before he got closer, when he saw the thin figure in the distance, Liu Ruoshui couldn't stop crying in pain.
"How did you lose so much weight?" Liu Ruoshui hugged Yang Buping tightly and choked up and asked.
"Aren't you skinny too?" Silly guy. Yang Buping also hugged Liu Ruoshui tightly, "I'm sorry, I will protect you in the future, and I will not let you face danger alone anymore." ”
"Is resigning your office your intention?" You idiot. ”
"I said that if you are not there, there is no point in getting promoted and getting rich. Stabilizing the south and resettling the brothers in the village took more time to make you wait for a long time. ”
On the Lantern Festival, fireworks are brilliant, and the street market is bustling and bustling. Two people and a dog, a corner of the city, enjoy the fireworks together, and watch the prosperous world together.
About the author: Mispen, a sand sculpture literary girl with a wide range of interests