Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 536 That adult wants to marry a concubine

If there is a fault, it is that the daughter should not have gone out to collect medicine for herself that day.

One day last month, Lin Shushi's daughter went to the riverside to gather medicine in March, but she happened to meet the local sheriff and a senior official of the Qing Dynasty.In order to please Na Qitai, the first uncle and vice-captain of the Qing Dynasty who led the army stationed there, the county guard brought official prostitutes to play in the name of patrolling the river bank.

In early summer, the brook is trickling, the pines and cypresses are green, the gentle breeze and the charming laughter of the official prostitutes add to the excitement of Na Qitai and the others.Not long after, a group of officials got drunk, embraced the official prostitutes around them, and began to grope.

Among the two official prostitutes who were in charge of receiving Na Qitai, one was a local oiran with a coquettish appearance and a slender waist.Although his face was immature, he could coax the grown-up into a smile when talking.

"My lord, your beard is too majestic." The official prostitute stroked that Qitai's beard, coquettishly flattering. "Little girl is fascinated by your beard."

"Haha, the little mouth is really sweet." Na Qitai, who had already sent his wife, children and concubine to Beihai Town, told the court that his family had fallen to the enemy, and was made a first-class uncle by Qianlong, smiled triumphantly.He stroked his beard and said drunkenly, "What's your name?"

The official prostitute twisted her slender waist, and said coquettishly: "Ah, my lord is so noble and forgetful, I can't even remember the little girl's name, and the little girl won't accompany you at night."

"Haha, this is bad. Oh, I remembered, your name is Xiang...Xiang...what is it?"

"The little girl's name is Xiangyu."

"Yes, yes, it's Xiangyu. Look at my memory..."

"My lord, please have another drink."

"Almost, the officer is already drunk."

"A grown-up can get drunk after just a few cups. I heard that there are a lot of good men in the Kingdom of Heaven."

After Xiangyu finished speaking, she sat on Qitai's lap, hugged his neck, and poured the rice wine from the copper bowl into his mouth.

Seeing that Qitai was in high spirits, the sheriff at the side hurriedly called an official prostitute to play the piano and sing.However, the level of the local official prostitutes is incomparable with that of Hanyang, and they are really not flattering. After hearing a few words, Na Qitai and the others frowned.

One of Qitai's subordinates said dissatisfiedly, "How can you not find a high-quality kabuki in such a big county?"

Lord Qing expressed his dissatisfaction, and the Sheriff Li Chao suddenly panicked. Just as he was at a loss, the official serving on the side accidentally raised his head and saw the pretty figure in the grass not far away. Then he rolled his eyes and looked down at the Sheriff Said: "My lord, we have a character here. Not only is he good at playing the gayageum, but he is also first-class in singing, and he is very beautiful."

The county guard immediately became interested, and asked with a stretched brow: "Oh? There are such people? Where are they?"

"The villain saw her just now and was digging herbs at the place in front, and now he is going down the hillside."

"Huh?" The sheriff's face darkened, and he said in a cold voice, "So, is she a lowly woman?"

"My lord, she is the daughter of Lin Shushi's family."

The sheriff doesn't care much now, his purpose today is to make Na Qitai and others happy.At that time, the other party will be a little looser in military supplies, and he will be able to live a good life.He pondered for a while and said, "Go and bring her as soon as possible!"

"Yes!" The sheriff gave the order, and immediately two yamen servants ran over.

Not long after, San Yue came up behind the yamen servant.With her head lowered slightly, she walked lightly in front of the sheriff and Na Qitai and others, kowtowed and saluted.

"The daughter of the people pays homage to the envoy."

"Put your head up!"

San Yue blushed when she heard this, and slowly raised her head, Na Qitai opened her mouth wide and gasped for air, she never imagined that there would be such a character in such a remote place.He couldn't help swallowing, and the two official prostitutes in his arms shot their jealous eyes at March.

"Sure enough, the reputation is well-deserved! Report your life experience and name quickly."

"The folk girl comes from the Lin family in Haidong, her name is Sanyue, and she is the daughter of a good family."

By the way, by the time of the Li Dynasty, the Lin family of the peninsula had become one of the top ten noble families.They took Lin Baji, a Hanlin scholar who crossed the sea to Silla at the end of Tang Dynasty, as their ancestor.As for the ancestral home, Quanzhou, Fujian.

The sheriff heard that Sanyue's voice was clear and sweet, and the answer was clear, so he nodded with a smile and said: "You have a good voice. I heard that you are a top-notch singer, so I will sing a song here to cheer up the adults of the Celestial Dynasty." .”

Sanyue said calmly: "Minnie thinks it's impossible."

"Why not?!" The sheriff was deeply surprised, he didn't expect his request to be rejected, which was too embarrassing.Na Qitai at the side saw such a scene, and after listening to Xiangyu's translation, he thought that this woman was very interesting.

Biting her lower lip, San Yue said with a blushing face, "Folk girls are not singing girls."

Hearing this, the sheriff showed a calm smile on his face, and said kindly: "That's true. However, I accompanied Lord Tianchao to inspect the place. I heard that you are very good at singing, so I let you give it to Tianchao. The grown-ups here will sing a song. Miss Lin, can you not be too particular about your status?"

"It's impossible."

San Yue still refused, and the sheriff's face suddenly changed, which was too embarrassing.Although your Lin family is in the second class, it is just a school teacher, and this official is a fifth-rank sheriff.

"My father was lying at home due to illness, and the women thought that if they used music for fun at this time, even though they could make the adults smile, it would be an act of unfilial piety. The sage said, which is the most important thing? Parents are the most important thing. It is also said , the most filial son, nothing more than respect relatives."

"Hey, here you come!"

The county guard's face was blue and purple, and he couldn't stop shaking his beard, thinking that he was taught a lesson by a little girl today.It's really the other way around, I can't deal with you!

"Wait." Na Qitai pushed away the two official prostitutes in his arms, stood up and said, "That's all, Mr. Pu, this girl is not only outstanding in appearance, but also has a good character, especially her filial piety! I will replace you today She begs for mercy, go home and take care of my father."

When the sheriff heard this, he quickly stepped down from the donkey, and complimented him with a smile: "That lord really has the style of an ancient benevolent man! I admire you!"

Then Sanyue got up, gently swayed the white skirt under Willow's slender waist, and floated away, that Qitai's eyes kept chasing the white figure until it disappeared, then he started laughing.

When I went home in March and told my father who had a cold, Mr. Lin couldn't help feeling very grateful.Unexpectedly, a few days later, the official office of the county guard's office suddenly came to the door, and when he came up, he asked for his health.Master Linshu and the second monk couldn't figure it out, but the other party was a member of the government after all, so he welcomed him in.However, when the official's room sat down and opened his mouth, he was shocked immediately.

"Mr. Lin, great joy is coming, I am here to congratulate you!"

"how do I say this?"

"The first-class Berna general sent by the Qing Dynasty to garrison here has taken a fancy to your family's Sanyue and wants to marry a family as a concubine. Isn't that a great joy?"

Teacher Lin was so angry that he immediately issued an order to evict the guest. "Sorry, I, Lin, can't afford it. I won't send you away!"

The official's room seemed to know that there would be such a scene, so he stood up and said goodbye, before leaving, he said: "You should think about it carefully, such a beautiful thing is not something that ordinary people can encounter."

Master Lin thought that if he rejected the matter, the matter would be over.Unexpectedly, a few days later, the official came to the door with a smile.

"Mr. Lin, what do you think?"

Teacher Lin said with a serious face: "Thanks to the adults of the Celestial Dynasty for valuing the little girl, Lin is really proud. However, the little girl is still young, and it is too early to talk about marriage."

"Morning?" The official house showed a sly smile, looked at Master Lin and said, "Isn't Sanyue 16 years old? It's the time of Jasper, so it's a good time to marry."

"My Lin family is also a scholarly family after all, a Haidong family, I can't let my jewel in the palm be someone else's concubine."

"Mr. Lin, why are you so brainless? What's the matter with my concubine? I heard that the general's wife fell into the hands of the enemy due to the war, and there has been no news for two years. Your family married in March, so you don't have to be jealous, and you can To be in charge of the family's wealth and power, and to be in the same position as a lady in the hall, this is a good thing that is difficult for others to find even with a lantern! Although the general is older than your daughter, he is a first-class uncle in the Celestial Dynasty. Bold and unrestrained, with power and wealth. When the time comes to finish fighting the North Sea Pirates, bring your daughter back to the capital, and enjoy endless glory and wealth. The general has taken a fancy to Miss Sanyue, who is both talented and beautiful, and she is filial to her relatives. Isn't that right? Fate?"

The officials praised Qitai so much that if Qitai's wife was around, he would have kicked him to death with the bottom of a flower pot.

"Besides, with that general as your backer, let alone Hui Ning, who in the entire Xianjing Dao would dare not look at your color. If you agree to this marriage, you will be able to eat and drink spicy food every day in the future, and enjoy all the glory and wealth , even the magistrate is envious!"

Teacher Lin was silent for a long time, and said: "This kind of blessing is not rare for Mr. Lin. Don't talk about it anymore, I will never agree."

The official's face suddenly swelled like a pig's liver, and his face became elongated in an instant. He pointed to Teacher Lin's nose and said, "You really don't know what to do! You have fallen here from Hanyang, why are you putting on the airs of the second class?" If you don’t look at the monk’s face but at the Buddha’s face, you have to give the Sheriff some face. If you can’t fulfill even a little bit of request from the Celestial Lord, where will you put the Sheriff’s face?”

Teacher Lin was also angry when he heard it: "You bastard! Marriage has always been your wish. What is face? What does my daughter have to do with his face?! You don't need to say more, go back!"

"Okay!" The official was furious, got up and said, "My surname is Lin, if you don't listen to my good advice, then don't blame the governor for being rude! As far as I know, you are not clear with those who believe in Catholicism." .Let's wait and see!"

It is said that when Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded North Korea, the envoys of the Qing Dynasty had contact with Catholic missionaries in Beijing, were baptized and converted to Catholicism, and brought back many Chinese translations of Western books, red cannons, binoculars, chiming bells, New things such as Kunyu Quantu.Afterwards, these people began to preach secretly in the peninsula, and gained certain believers.

The North Korean church has practiced the "false priesthood system" (self-proclaimed priesthood) in recent years. However, the Jesuit priests who served as officials of the Qing court in Beijing stopped it after learning about it, and sent priests to the Li Dynasty last year.However, after the priest arrived in Phoenix City on the border between China and North Korea, he did not meet the North Korean believers who greeted him.Had no choice but to turn back.

In fact, the rise of the Li Dynasty Catholic Church underground has been exposed. In 1785, the "Otosi Qiucao Picking Hair Incident" broke out, and ministers went up to attack Catholicism as a "evil religion". However, Li Zhen adopted a leniency, and no longer pursued as long as he apostate.

Afterwards, the Catholic Church in the peninsula revived. In the winter of 1787, Li Chengxun, Ding Ruoyong, Lin Ruoyu, Lin Shushi, and others secretly taught Catholicism in Pancun. They were discovered by Confucian students in Sungkyunkwan, but fortunately they were not found out by the court.However, Lin Ruoyu was worried about his daughter's safety, so he decided to withdraw, and brought his daughter to North Hamgyong Province.

It is very interesting that Ding Ruoyong, who had a close relationship with Lin Ruoyu, had an older brother named Ding Ruoquan; this man was later exiled to Heishan Island because of the abolition of Catholicism in the Li Dynasty. Mountain Fish Spectrum".

The above is the reason why Lin Ruoyu's father and daughter asked Cui Jinshi to let Yongba take him away to Huining.

From the opposite bank of Huining Town, walk north along the river for more than ten miles, cross Wulianghaling and walk another hundred miles, and you will arrive at the confluence of Tumen River and Kahali River.The terrain here is hilly, valley plain, with many mountain streams and fertile land.

Since the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty listed this area as a forbidden mountain paddock, and only hunters would come here occasionally.After the Beihai Navy launched the "Battle of Hunchun", the Qing government's control over this place failed. Seeing the opportunity, the people of the Li Dynasty crossed the river to farm here.Although this place is located to the east of Changbai Mountain and belongs to the jurisdiction of Beihai Town, but because it is more than 200 miles away from Hunchun and far away from the road from Hunchun to Odoli, only the patrol boats set up by the North Navy on the Tumen River will occasionally come to see it. glance.

Lin's father and daughter followed Yongba and the donkey through the Wulianghaling where the oak trees are forested, and they saw that surrounded by mountains and rivers, the pocket-shaped valleys and plains stretched as far as the eye can see.On the wilderness like a green ocean, rows of barley fields are like golden islands scattered in the ocean, full of vitality.Near the river bank, a small village with cooking smoke stands out.

Looking at the scenery in front of her, Lin Sanyue couldn't help muttering: "It's so beautiful!"

Hearing this, Yongba couldn't help sighing secretly, thinking that after all, he was born in the second class, and he didn't know the hardships of people's livelihood at all.

You must know that such a beautiful scenery is like purgatory for the farming farmers.Every year during the five barren months of June, for the poor peasants, life is the season where life would be worse than death.Don't look at the greenery, but nothing is cooked, many people can't even eat vegetable porridge mixed with weeds, their hungry bodies are staggering, their faces are sallow, and their bodies are swollen.Under such circumstances, the more the earth qi evaporates, the more dizzy the people who work in it will feel.

"Master Lin, cross the Kahali River from here, and walk two hundred miles east along the road to Hunchun City."

"this village"

Yongba explained: "The people living in this village are all Koreans."

"Is there no one to care about farming here?"

"My lord, you don't know, there is nothing to do here now. The soldiers of the Qing Dynasty are afraid of being beaten by Beihai Town, so they dare not come; and Beihai Town's own farms are all on the west bank of the Hunchun River, so people look down on this place."

Lin Ruoyu asked in surprise, "What is a farm?"

"I can't say that well. We will pass by at that time, and you will know when you see it."

Two days later, the Lin family's father and daughter and Yongba boarded a four-wheeled carriage to Hunchun City together in Mukde, and Yongba's donkey was tied behind the carriage and trotted along the way.

After the Northern Navy occupied Hunchun, they mobilized a large number of captured Qing troops and spent two years building a road from Ningguta to Hunchun, which could accommodate four carriages in parallel.This road was basically built along the Karen site and communication lines during the Manchu Qing Dynasty. It was an ancient road in the Tang Dynasty, and it was a communication line connecting Longquan Mansion in Shangjing, Bohai State, to Longyuan Mansion in Tokyo in Tang Dynasty.

Those poor postmen who originally served in the Manchu Qing Dynasty have now become maintenance workers under the Civil Affairs and Transportation Committee.

Beihai Town not only allocated [-] acres of land to each of their farms in Hunchun and Ningguta, but also paid them a monthly wage of eight Beihai yuan. Their lives were much more affluent than in the Qing Dynasty.Minzheng took care of these postmen a lot in life, not only sending prisoners of war to build houses for them, but also arranging for them to marry each other.

There are fields, houses, and money, which makes Yi Ding, who was originally miserable and nobody wants, suddenly become a gold medal king with a stable income.Whether it is the Manchus in Ningguta or some island families from the Mutsu Mountains, they are very satisfied with such conditions, and they all agree to marry their daughters; Thanksgiving tears.

After the carriage drove for half a day, an endless wheat field appeared in the eyes of Lin Ruoyu and his daughter.

"Master Lin, this is the farm in Beihai Town." Yongba pointed to the large fields on both sides of the road to Lin Ruoyu, and then he explained the land system of Beihai Town according to what he heard.

"It's like this in all parts of Beihai Town. The farms here in Hunchun are still small. I heard that the farms in Suifenhe are the big ones. You can't see the side after riding a horse for two days."

Lin Sanyue stuck out her tongue in astonishment when she heard this, and her father Lin Ruoyu was also dumbfounded.

At this time, in the fields on both sides of the road, a strange machine pulled by two horses was moving forward in the wheat field, making a deafening sound.Lin Ruoyu watched carefully, and saw a man sitting on a shelf behind the two horses. On his right side, there were several rakes, like fan blades, spinning constantly, fluffy. The wheat was cut off by the rakes, and then the fan blades put the cut wheat into a bucket on the right side of the driver.A person followed on foot behind the equipment, and from time to time tied up the wheat piled in the bucket and piled it in the field.Hundreds of paces behind them, several farmers were loading bales of wheat into a large flatbed wagon.

Lin Ruoyu was shocked and asked, "Yongba, what is this?"

"Oh, I heard it's called a harvester. The speed of harvesting wheat is really fast! But the villain has only seen it from a distance. This thing is a secret of Beihai Town, and outsiders are not allowed to come close to see it."

Lin Ruoyu listened, showing a thoughtful expression.

(End of this chapter)