Chapter 69 Walking alone

Xue Chongxun originally didn't want to pretend to be kind-hearted in front of others who care about the country and the people. He was completely uninterested in one or two civil criminal cases, and he didn't have to worry about these matters at all.

But since you have encountered it, you still have to deal with it with a positive attitude...

You can't admit that this kind of thing that is contrary to the truth is reasonable, right?

He looked at the gentle light of the setting sun on the river surface, and then realized that he had lost the anger or touch of the past as before, and his mood had become as calm as the river.

Sure enough, no matter what path you take, no matter what bad people you are, you will gradually lose your edges.

After a while, two sergeants were wet, and one of them felt angry because he was almost shot with an arrow. When he came over, he kicked the man in the bend of the knee and shouted, "You are OK, you don't kneel when you see the emperor!"

The man knelt down on one knee in pain, and he was so angry that he wanted to struggle. Unexpectedly, as soon as he moved, two bright knives swung over: Be honest.

Xue Chongxun stepped forward and asked: Don’t worry, you can tell me what’s going on.

I just want to find my newly married wife!

The strong man said that he probably had never been to court and even forgot to introduce himself. Fortunately, no one cares about Xue Chongxun and didn't want to know. It doesn't matter whether he calls Amao or Agou.

It seems that sometimes prestige does require some ceremonial guards and pomp to show off. Although Xue Chongxun is the emperor and has great power, this man is not very afraid. He probably has pressure on two rows of yamen runners who have been in court before he has gone to court.

The strong man thought for a while and said: This afternoon, an official came to the village and led a team of officials, saying that the county town would rush to build the city wall and that some women would be recruited in our village to cook for the servants. My family was ordered.My wife is beautiful and many people are thinking about it...

As soon as he said this, some of the people around him couldn't help laughing out loud. When he saw that the emperor was serious, he hurriedly held it back and finally laughed.

The strong man's face turned slightly red and he continued: I was worried, so I followed him to the county town. Sure enough, I saw other women sent to the city, but my wife was sent here by a team of officials. How could she cook?

Xue Chongxun looked at the county magistrate, and the staff member on the side said anxiously: It was just here to cook, but there were not enough people in the capital. We temporarily transferred one or two people to help.This kind of easy corvee service is a good thing, otherwise do you want to go to the border to build a city or to go up the river to build a dike?

At this time, Xue Chongxun had already roughly understood what was going on. From the beauty of a strong man to the many twists and turns created by local officials, he could guess.

However, he did not want to expose the lies in front of everyone and the people. After all, the best way is to maintain the prestige of the government. If he asked to send the person back in a while, nothing would happen. He would use his officials to sacrifice the flag at any time.

So Xue Chongxun said: The government recruits civilian women to cook for chores, usually old women are recruited. Since you are so worried, why don’t you let the old women in your family take over the slaughter?

The strong man said: I have no other way to make my mother's legs and feet inconvenient.

Xue Chongxun said: I will not care about you if you are ignorant and reckless.The people have not violated the law, so how could the government hold people to them?You go back and wait, and the people from the village will go back after finishing their work.

After saying that, he was no longer interested and turned around and left.

The official beside him frightened: Why don’t you thank me for your kindness?If it weren’t for your kindness, you would have ruled your ten death sentences according to the law on the spot!

When everyone saw Xue Chongxun rolling over, they left the strong man and followed him, leaving the Wei River one after another.Xue Chongxun walked away for a while and pointed at the county magistrate and others with a horse whip and said: You should do it yourself.

The county magistrate and others hurriedly fell into the dust, and the horse team who respectfully sent Xue Chongxun away and dared not follow him.

After the people left, the staff hurriedly apologized: Please punish Ming Gong, I didn't do the job well... But I didn't expect that the man would follow me at that time, and I didn't expect Ah at all!

The county magistrate remembered that the staff member had just spoken, and he had a correct attitude that it was all my responsibility and had nothing to do with others. He said kindly: It is difficult to have a complete thing in the world, and you can't blame it all for you.I had a thrilling incident just now, but now it should be fine, forget it.

The staff said: How should the woman deal with it?

The county magistrate said: Of course, if you let it go, do you think it’s not too much trouble?

The staff coughed lightly, and said with a look of wanting to speak out, saying: Since it is reasonable to recruit people, it is not appropriate to let them go back immediately. When everyone comes, let her do some light work of serving tea and water, which can be regarded as corvee service.

After saying this, the county magistrate immediately understood the meaning and said calmly: Where is the person? I'll go and take a look.

The two of them then came to the kitchen of the Shenji Bureau and saw the woman who had washed clothes by the river. When the county magistrate saw it, he felt that it was plump and beautiful. It was more than twice as good as the young concubines he bought, and he immediately became confident.

The woman recognized the staff next to her and bowed her knees and bowed her head. The county magistrate was even happier and praised: You are quite polite... Don't stay here, go bath and change clothes, and go to His Majesty's room to do some cleaning and other work.Your Majesty is today!If you are more well-behaved, you might take you back to the palace to live like a fairy-like life. If you are not happy, you will be happy to give you some red silks and silks to dress.

The two officials were afraid that she would not want to do so, but the woman said um, and agreed very simply, which saved a lot of talk.

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When Xue Chongxun returned to the Shenji Office, it was already dusk, so he planned to rest in the government office for one night.

After dinner, the programs arranged by the bureaucrats turned out to be puppet shows. These shows were tired of watching in the Daming Palace. He didn't believe that the local level would be higher, so he was so excited that he went back to his room to rest.

The night is coming but it is still early. Xue Chongxun has never been used to going to bed too early. There is only Sanniang by her side, but she is the one she sees almost every day. After watching it for a long time, she naturally doesn't feel anxious. When she goes to bed, she can tell her to sleep next to her.

There was nothing wrong with him, so he simply asked Sanniang to polish the ink and wanted to write down some ideas about wall repair.

I originally planned to give Xiao Dan a face-to-face lecture tomorrow, but now I have written that I can go back to Beijing early tomorrow morning. After coming out for a few days, I have also put aside the preparations for the imperial examination.

Now he felt that he had been shopping and could go back and continue doing that.

In terms of building city walls and fortifications, the main thing is to consider the issue of building the Great Wall fortress in Hebei. It is of course very important to reduce the consumption of national strength. Otherwise, if the taxes and corvee work are too heavy, if the local government rebels, they will have to spend money to mobilize troops to suppress the rebellion. It is a nonsense to make a struggle in the country.

The brick burning technology used to repair walls should not have any problems at this time. All ceramics can be burned, let alone bricks.

It is mainly adhesive, and it should be glutinous rice juice at this time. Xue Chongxun also heard that when there was no food in the disaster year, hungry people secretly snatched the soil cracked in the city walls to eat because glutinous rice juice was used in the soil that bonded to the bricks and stones.

Those people really don’t know how they swallowed the land. The sufferings in the world cannot be recorded in all the books of history, and even Guanyin can’t save them.

As an important material for this kind of civil engineering, Xue Chongxun is of course very likely to think of cement, but he can't remember how modern cement is produced. If he can check the information, he can of course understand it, but now there is no place to check it.

After recalling for many days, he finally remembered another method. He vaguely saw it from a book about European nautical stories. It was mixed with clay, limestone, and slag, and the materials produced could also be used. I don’t know whether it is called cement or not.

He has never seen the effect with his own eyes, so he can only use the old method to let the Shenji Bureau open a kiln to test and figure it out by itself. Anyway, this yamen was established to develop military equipment, and cement can be used to build fortifications and city walls, which is also a kind of military material.

He thought for a long time and saw that the inkstone was already filled with ink and there was a pen on it, so he picked it up and started writing.

Sanniang was already used to this silent life, so she found a stool to sit down and stared blankly, looking at Xue Chongxun from time to time.

Whenever Xue Chongxun does a serious job, he is really serious.

After a while, I heard someone knocking on the door, and then a woman came in, lowered her head and walked slowly to Xue Chongxun with a teacup in her hand, and put the teacup on the table.

Xue Chongxun looked up and the first thing he noticed was that the woman in front of him had plump breasts and was someone he didn't know.

He was stunned for a moment, and then looked at it and felt that the woman's skin was smooth and pretty.

I spent about the whole day here except Sanniang faced a group of men. Suddenly I saw a young woman with a soft body, and it was very different.

Xue Chongxun suddenly said: Are you that 'washing girl'?

The woman was also stunned, then understood something, and nodded and said softly. She naturally forgot about any etiquette. She looked a little nervous.

Sanniang stood up from the stool expressionlessly and said: I'll go out and take a look around.

After saying that, he turned around and left without caring about anything else.

Xue Chongxun didn't stop him, and looked at the woman in front of him, put the brush into the inkstone and dipped it in ink, and continued to write.

The woman in the washing clothes saw Xue Chongxun busy, and she seemed to be a little confused about where to put her hands and feet, and stood beside her in a hurry.

When she heard the woman just called Xue Lang, she felt strange. Didn’t the county officials say that this person was the emperor?

She looked at Xue Chongxun quietly for a while and saw that he was wearing linen cloth. The lining on the collar was white cotton, which was not very expensive. Since He Zhizhang started planting cotton in the mainland to manage and sprinkle cotton, the price of white felt in Xizhou, which was previously comparable to the price of silk, has continued to decline next year. Women are still very concerned about silk fabrics.

The reason why cotton cloth was expensive in the past was that it was rarely produced in the mainland, and the goods transported from Xizhou were precious because they were rare. In fact, the cost from growing cotton to spun cotton was much smaller than that of silk.

However, she quickly remembered that the royal family of the Jin Dynasty today is no longer Li, but Xue.

Besides, the people in the government dare not say casually who is the emperor. If it is fake, it is not a thought of treason?

When I looked at Xue Chongxun again, I realized that he was dressed in ordinary but very neatly. The clothes were ironed like new, and the white collar was spotless. If it weren't for a noble man, he would not be able to wear this way, and he could write.

At this time, she felt that Xue Chongxun's face really exuded a kind of nobility.

Xue Chongxun wrote for a while, put down his writing and turned around and said: Your husband was paddling a raft to the Shenji Bureau to find you, but you don’t have to worry, we didn’t hurt him.In the future, he will not act recklessly and suffer losses.

Thank you... Your Majesty is kind.The woman in the washing clothes felt uncomfortable and literary when she said such words.

Xue Chongxun was also silent for a while and said: Look up and let me take a look.

The woman in the washing clothes raised her head embarrassedly, but looked at her eyes that she didn't dare to look at Xue Chongxun, and her white face turned red.

Seeing her like this, Xue Chongxun smiled and slowly reached out to pull her wrist. She did not resist, but just lowered her head again.

Xue Chongxun suddenly sighed: Life is a lone walker.

The woman didn't understand why he sighed, nor did she understand the meaning, so she didn't know how to respond, but just stood still and let Xue Chongxun hold her wrist.

Xue Chongxun pulled her closer, then stretched out his other hand to touch her chest. The swelling breasts in front of him really made him very interested. He seemed to think of some nervous and cramped moments in the Daming Palace, just like the crampedness of the woman in front of him.

With a light press of his finger, he left a depression on the soft ridge, which was very soft.

At this time, it is indeed out of fashion to put things on your chest, and most of the things that are obviously swelling are real.

He felt the tendons on the woman's wrists tensed, and he could feel her nervousness.

But she did not resist. Xue Chongxun had seen many women, so of course she knew what this meant...

I didn't even think of half-rejection. Is it still difficult to identify her attitude?

He stood up and pulled the woman in the washing clothes to the cork chair where he was sitting. She was sitting down and she didn't know what he was going to do. In front of her was a piece of white paper with sloppy and small characters written in small characters.

This position was when Xue Chongxun was just writing something. She sat here just now and looked at the things placed in front of her. She usually touched needles and threads when sitting down, but she rarely saw this thing. She knew a few words on it, such as 1, 1, 1, et al.

Xue Chongxun picked up the brush on the inkstone again, walked to the copper basin where he was washing his hands and put the brush in and washed it, and then took a large piece of silk to wipe the water on it. The best piece of silk was immediately spotted.

He didn't say anything while doing trivial things. The washing woman didn't know his intentions and didn't know how to speak, so she could only sit there and watch him.

He looked very quiet and did things slowly.

The atmosphere seemed a bit dull, and the candles on the lamp stand were not bright, and the flames were shaking, causing the already dim light to flicker.

She wanted to get up to help, but Xue Chongxun said: Just sit and don’t move.

After waiting for a while, he finally came over with a clean and dry pen, walked straight behind the woman washing clothes, stood for a while and then untied her belt. Her breasts suddenly fluctuated slightly, and she gently pressed her hand on her soft breasts.

At this time, the women did not change much from the Tang Dynasty in their dress and habits. The folk women actually did not have the right to wear low-cut, slow-tie skirts and semi-exposed breasts. That kind of seductive dress only exists in noble ladies and brothels.

So Xue Chongxun loosened her belt, pinched a piece of cloth and gently pulled it down, and her shoulders and cleavage were exposed.

She let out a light cry, and her white skin appeared in front of Xue Chongxun's eyes.

The woman thought that noble people were really good at playing, and she was not as jealous as ordinary people, and pressed her on the bed with her skin.

But he took a brush and stroked his collarbone and neck, doing his best to tease.

Then she felt Xue Chongxun's tongue reaching to her ears, and a slight itchy feeling became very strong, transmitted from her ears to her whole body. She suddenly felt panic, and her legs couldn't help but rub it gently.

Xue Chongxun finally threw the brush on the table, touched her hand from her collar, pinched a grape that had already become hardened at the fingertips, and whispered in her ear: Have you tasted that with your mouth?

The girl in the washing clothes was so embarrassed that her face turned red, thinking that it was really beyond the imagination of the royal nobles.

Such shameless things can be said without any pressure. If others say this, she will turn against each other, but the person behind her is a noble person, and they just like to play all kinds of tricks.

She shook her head and said nervously: No.

Xue Chongxun encouraged again: Why not give it a try?In life, you must be brave enough to try.There is no one here, God knows you know me and I know you know you.

As he said, he pulled her hand into his robe and let her hold the thing, and the little hand with a callous palm trembled slightly.

Xue Chongxun's other hand that reached into her clothes was pinching her nipples lightly and heavily, and she could clearly feel her breathing became heavy...

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The next morning, Xue Chongxun woke up and just woke up when he sat up. He was a little confused. He turned around and saw a strange woman sleeping soundly on the bed. After recalling it, he remembered what happened last night.

He got up from the bed, and the wooden bed creaked for a while. The woman on the bed was still not awake. She probably was too tired last night and would not wake up for a while.

The woman lay on the bed with her back on her back, her quilt not covered, and she didn't know that her breasts were exposed outside.

I saw that thing spread out naturally to the surroundings, soft like water, and there was a cute red bean on it, which looked very beautiful.

Xue Chongxun couldn't help but reach out and touched and played with her for a while, but she still slept like a pig. Then he went to dress himself and was too lazy to wake up the woman.

The cement project I wrote last night was still on the table, so Xue Chongxun picked it up casually, and the ink on it had already dried up.

After leaving the bedroom, a group of officials rushed over, so naturally no one mentioned the woman washing clothes. In order to express his ability to execute the emperor's will, Xiao Dan reported specifically: Early in the morning, the Wei minister sent someone to the nearest carbonifer mine to collect ores, and could be transported from the water by boat, and the earthen kiln for coking coal began to be built.

Very good. There is also a plan to make "cement" here, you can use it to test it.

Xue Chongxun stuffed the paper in his hand. If there was any progress, he would report to the eunuch Yang Sixu through the Northern Yamanage at any time and submit it directly to the palace.

Xiao Dan hurriedly said: I should live up to Your Majesty’s trust and complete the job as soon as possible.