A few days after the palace exam, Li Bao's youngest son, Li Huan, spread the news that he had contracted willow disease.
Everyone who heard this was in an uproar, and they couldn't understand why Li Bao was such a scholar, why the youngest son in the family contracted such a disease. Li Bao was also extremely ashamed, and he closed the gate of the mansion early and stopped accepting guests.
A few days ago, Li Bao was highly praised. Not only literati, but even great Confucian scholars living in seclusion in Daheng wrote articles praising Li Bao's punctuation, and letters flew to Li's house like snowflakes. This kind of grand occasion made Li Bao a little elated. He seemed to be a decade younger all of a sudden, his face was ruddy, and he walked with wind.
Li Bao has long forgotten the fear when he promised to be the first bird, and only felt like a new life.
But as soon as the news of Li Huan got out, Li Bao felt like he had been slapped loudly.
He was a cautious person, and the two stains were all because of Li Huan. Li Bao blushed, glared angrily at the young son on the bed, and kept saying, "Shame on the face, shame on the face!"
His eldest son was anxious: "Father, if my brother's illness is used to criticize him, how can I be an official? With a dull face, I only let others laugh at it, and I feel embarrassed when I hear it."
"What do people in the world think of us? The Sage has already said that he wants to keep the Li family alive for three generations, but if the Sage wants to help me, but this happens, what will the Sage think of me? My future cannot be ruined."
Li Bao angrily shouted, "Shut up!"
Li Huan's complexion turned blue, his lips trembled, and his handsome face had now become inhuman and non-ghost, and was extremely embarrassed. Li Bao usually prefers his youngest son because of his cleverness and intelligence. The youngest son is good-looking and will be popular, but since the last time he dared to break into the palace alone, Li Bao has been cold to him.
How can a son without fame be more important than a whole family
He was restrained by the sage because of his young son. Who knows that good and bad are interdependent, how could he know that Li Huan would be in trouble again.
When Li Bao thought that those literati and great Confucians would talk about him behind his back, he felt a dark fire, and he went out of the house alone with a sullen face.
On the bed, Li Huan was in a cold sweat, his consciousness was blurred, but he also heard the words "flower willow disease".
Since seeing the amazing glimpse of the saint three years ago, Li Huan's romantic object has changed from a delicate woman to a beautiful man. Li Huan spends his days drinking and drinking, but even if these men are so beautiful, they only want to quench their thirst. What he was thinking of was the Sage, and he always remembered the angry look of the Sage, his side face and red ears, and he really wanted to take another look.
But before seeing the saint, he actually contracted such a dirty disease.
Li Huan always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. Few of the people who get the willow disease can survive well. Thinking of this, Li Huan couldn't help but feel unwilling. He stretched out his weak fingers to his waist and touched a beautiful sachet.
Someone suddenly asked: "What is this?"
Li Huan subconsciously said, "This is a baby."
"Baby," the man murmured, "that must be a good thing."
Li Huan suddenly felt that this person's voice was extremely unfamiliar, and he was shocked, but the next second was a pain in the back of his neck, and he fell into the deep darkness.
*
Xue Yuan's men sent the sachet to Xue Yuan.
Xue Yuan covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and said casually, "Is it clean?"
"Don't worry, my lord, I have already cleaned the sachet," said his subordinate, "there will never be any sickness left."
Xue Yuan nodded and slowly opened the sachet through the handkerchief. A strand of hair in the sachet slipped out of it, clearly visible on top of the light sachet.
Xue Yuan frowned slightly when he looked at the strand of hair.
He twisted the blue silk with his fingertips and walked slowly to the door to face the scorching sun.
Xue Yuan's expression changed suddenly, he turned around and took out the jade box hidden in the depths from the wooden box. Inside the white jade box were the strands of hair that were neatly arranged and distinct, from which Xue Yuan picked up one that was under the sun. Look, it is exactly the same as the one in Li Huan's sachet.
Like a gold carving, it is rich and noble from beginning to end.
His face darkened.
Li Huan is really bold and deserves death.
*
Gu Yuanbai was busy with the palace examination and counting the number of people from Xixia who participated in the imperial examination.
After the palace examination, the household registration statistics of Jingnan and Jiangnan had been completed, and the results were finally presented on Gu Yuanbai's table. The situation of concealing missing households was really serious. After officials came to count the population in person, there were more than 600,000 more farmers in Jinghuan alone.
This living labor force has been concealed until now.
Gu Yuanbai knew for a long time that there would be an amazing result after the household registration and taxation statistics. The project lasted for two to three years to ensure that people as small as villages would also be recorded by the government. More than 600,000 farmers, this How many acres of grain can be grown
The newly counted population of Jiangnan is 200,000 more than that of Jingnan.
Although Gu Yuanbai had expected it, he still felt annoyed in his heart. In the memory of the little emperor, it was tiring and bitter to be the first emperor, and a large part of the reason was because of hidden fields.
So in the morning, he made a fuss about three points and seven points falsely.
Baiguan was also shocked by the result. After Gu Yuanbai became angry, the capital issued an order to go to all directions, requesting the provincial governments to follow the statistics of household registration numbers. Now there are the number of missing households in Jingnan and Jiangnan. I can't find out that hundreds of thousands are falsifying.
There were 600,000 people in Jingnan before the mining was so barren. Based on these two provinces, it is estimated that tens of millions of people in the whole country were not recorded in the official booklet.
When the sage lost his temper, the local officials tightened their skin and began to count the household registration from bottom to top.
In addition to the statistics of household registration, Gu Yuanbai deliberately asked them to set up schools in various places, fearing that it would take a few years for the school registration to be completed subtly.
And these things take time.
When the imperial court was busy, Gu Yuanbai packed up his things and led people into Xue Yuan's Zhuangzi during the rest day.
Xue Yuan's Zhuangzi has nothing special, only a dug out pond and sweet-leaf grass all over the mountains and plains. He wanted to bring Gu Yuanbai to the mallard water. Gu Yuanbai looked at the sky and changed into his thin shirt at noon.
The pond occupied the best spring scene in the village. When the courtyard walls were locked and the servants disappeared, there were only two people in the courtyard, Gu Yuanbai and Xue Yuan.
Xue Yuan's hand was loosely placed on Gu Yuanbai's waist. He didn't even have a thin shirt on, he only wore a pair of boxer briefs that Gu Yuanbai had sent for him to sew for him, and the heat was on Gu Yuanbai's body, "Sir, I will teach you."
Gu Yuanbai, "I will."
Xue Yuan showed surprise, and then smiled, "The sage came up to teach the minister, the minister is not very good."
Gu Yuanbai said sincerely: "Xue Yuan, your face is really getting thicker and thicker."
When entering the water, Gu Yuanbai thought that even if the sun was shining, the water should be a little cool, but when he touched his finger, he was surprised to find that the water in the pool was actually hot.
He couldn't help but look back at Xue Yuan. At this moment, he suddenly felt, "The supervisor told me that you were feasting day and night in Huainan, and big fish and big meat have become ordinary things. I thought you would grow some meat, why did you take it off? Looking at the clothes, there is no flesh growing at all?"
Xue Yuan said nonsense without changing his face: "I don't get fat if I eat everything."
In fact, he was afraid that Gu Yuanbai would not like it when he grew flesh, and he would spend a long time every day to keep his body as handsome as before.
Gu Yuanbai believed it to be true and went into the water from the edge of the pool. Xue Yuan was startled, and suddenly followed, the saint in the water jumped out of the water as soon as his legs moved, Xue Yuan murmured: "I really know water..."
He coughed, put his arm on the edge of the pool, and said loudly: "The saint came to rescue the minister, but the minister has not been in the water for a long time, and he forgot how to drink the water!"
Gu Yuanbai turned around to look, the blue silk fluttered around and was floated in the mist by the water. Xue Yuan was fascinated, he forgot what he had just said, buried himself in the water and chased in the direction of Gu Yuanbai.
Gu Yuanbai raised his eyebrows, and the water droplets on his face fell into the clear pool, "Master Xue, are you trying to compare yourself with me?"
Xue Yuan stretched out his hand and was about to grab his ankle. Gu Yuanbai ducked, and the current made waves. Xue Yuan asked in a hoarse voice, "Compared to what?"
"As soon as I entered your village, I saw the sweet-leaf grass all over the mountains and plains," Gu Yuanbai sneered, "a good villager, instead of planting some famous flowers and famous grasses, plant the cheap weeds all over the village, brother Xue, you are really Rustic."
Xue Yuan continued to get close to him, "The Holy One likes sweetleaf grass."
Gu Yuanbai, "Huh?"
"The Holy Master tasted it when he was in the summer palace, but forgot?" Xue Yuan said patiently, "The little grass on the ground, when the people have no money and greedy, they will pick some sweet leaves to eat, and you will say sweet."
Gu Yuanbai said slowly, "I remember."
Xue Yuan smiled, "There are so many sweet-leaf grasses, if the sage wants to take a look for a while, you can also pick a few leaves and taste it with the minister."
"Okay," Gu Yuanbai said suddenly, "Xue Qing, call me my character."
Xue Yuan immediately changed his words, "Yuan Bai."
"Good," Gu Yuanbai was satisfied, "if I win the competition with you, all of your sweet-leaf grass will be mine."
"Then if I win..." Xue Yuan said slowly, "I'm two years older than you, you should be called Brother Xue."
Gu Yuanbai turned around and swam forward, "Whoever gets to the other side first wins."
He is confident, skilled and has long legs. Now that he has taken so much away from Xue Yuan, he can't believe that he can lose to him. But he didn't expect how obsessed Xue Yuan was with the word "Brother Xue". Xue Yuan played a cruel hand and showed no mercy to Gu Yuanbai's men. He reached the other side first, and then swam back to Gu Yuanbai. in front of.
"My lord," urged, "you lose."
Gu Yuanbai looked at him uncertainly, and was beaten in disbelief. He hasn't passed yet, and Xue Yuan has already run back the fuck
Xue Yuan circled around Gu Yuanbai, the water circle swaying wave after wave, "A gentleman can't chase after a horse."
Originally, this word was nothing, my elder brother was just elder brother, and it was nothing in modern times. Gu Yuanbai was called father by many people. But now he is being stared at by Xue Yuan's burning eyes, being coaxed and urged by an anxious voice, and he doesn't want to say it simply.
He looked at Xue Yuan's anxious state with relish, and when Xue Yuan finally stood up in a hurry, he said slowly: "Brother Xue, go and eat sweet grass."
However, Xue Yuan plunged his head into the water violently, causing a rapid flow of water, and occasionally a few excited roars could be heard.
Gu Yuanbai smiled and watched him running around in the pool, shaking his hands and feet, feeling the warmth in the pool, and then looked up at the clear sky, every cloud was beautiful.
What a good day.
When he was at leisure, Gu Yuanbai suddenly felt as if he had forgotten something. His thoughts were slowed down by the blisters, and he closed his eyes and basked in the sun for a while, before he remembered that he had planned to take advantage of the rest and find a few children of good character for Gu Ran as companions.
Gu Yuanbai's mind turned around, and a little adult's face emerged - Chu Wei's little uncle, Chu Yi.