Han official!

Chapter 116 The bridal chamber
Huayang Street is the main street of Hengmen, the westernmost gate on the west wall of Chang'an. There are three gates on each side of the wall, which are not next to each other. They are located at the westernmost, middle and easternmost parts of the wall, and the distance between them is very far. Hengmen on the west side of the north wall and Luochengmen, the easternmost gate, are nearly seven or eight miles apart.

The horizontal gate is about 32 zhang (10 meters) wide, with three holes in one gate. Each city gate has three doorways, about 32 zhang (more than 1.2 meters) wide, and the three doorways total 1.6 zhang (1.4 meters). There is a drainage culvert built of bricks and stones under the city gate. The culvert is ~ meters wide and meters high. It is divided into circular through holes and pentagonal culverts. The culvert is built with blue bricks and stones, and the top is made of brick arches.

Hengmen has three holes and is connected to three parallel roads in Huayang Street. The middle road is called Chidao and the ones on both sides are called Pangdao. The middle Chidao is reserved for the emperor.

Trees such as catalpa and yellow pear trees are planted between the two side roads and the main road. There is also a drainage ditch separating the side road and the main road. The drainage ditch is an open ditch, 0.9 meters wide and 0.45 meters deep. The sewage in the city flows into the city gate culvert through the open ditch, and finally flows into the moat outside the city.

The three elders of the county and the three elders of the township rode in ox carts and entered Chang'an from the right gate of Hengmen. On one side was a road planted with catalpa trees, separated by an open ditch, and on the other side was the rammed earth wall of the East Market, from which noisy hawking sounds could be heard from time to time.

The main road in the middle of the horizontal gate was empty without a single carriage, but the side roads on the east and west sides were very crowded, with many common people in khaki, baggage carts, clothing carts, and other carriages moving along.

The traffic rules in Changan are to exit from the left and enter from the right.

The west gate leads out of the city, the east gate leads into the city, and the middle gate is reserved for the emperor.

On the left and right sides of Huayang Street are the West Market and the East Market. The side road in front of the West Market gate leads out of the city, while the side road in front of the East Market gate leads into the city. It rained a little last night, and rainwater flowed in the open ditch on the east side and into the culvert under the city gate.

A thief catcher stood on the rammed earth road of the east side road, staring at several ox carts passing by with a fierce look on his face. He took out a wooden hammer from his waist, held it tightly in his hand, and was ready to attack at any time.

The two groups stood at the gate of the palace, watching the confrontation on the east side road.

Maoling Ling and Du Junao stood at the gate of the West Market, their eyes passing over the west side road, rows of catalpa trees, open ditches, and the highway, and finally fell on the rammed earth road of the east side road.

The Maoling Magistrate frowned and said, "How could a thief-catcher appear on the East Side Road? I remember you saying that Guo Jie was only friendly with the thief-catchers from Gao Street and Zhangtai Street, not the ones from Huayang Street."

Du Junao also frowned, thinking that the thief catcher might be catching a group of thieves and happened to block the county elders and the township elders.

But he had a vague sense of foreboding.

The eight streets of the Eight Streets and Nine Alleys are very long. The longest is Anmen Street, which is more than ten miles long. The other streets are at least six or seven miles long. There are only dozens of thief catchers patrolling on such a long east-west side roads, which are almost twenty miles in total.

Today, all the thief catchers in Huayang Street gathered on the rammed earth side road in front of the East Market Gate. There was not a single thief catcher on the West Side Road, as if they were catching a group of thieves trying to sneak into Chang'an.

It was more like the three elders of Maoling County brought dozens of village elders to the palace gate to appeal for justice, accusing the hero Guo Jie of bringing his knights to harm the village.

There was also a group of people standing at the gate of the East Market.

Guo Jie, Wei Guang, Yi Zong, Mang Tong, Chong Huangrou, and Wei Junru stood together at the gate, waiting to watch the comedic performance, kneeling in the two chariots.

One was a chariot with only Wei Junru and Guo Jie, and the other was a chariot with Wei Guang, Yi Zong, and Mang Tong. Chong Huang Rou did not like to have contact with men, so a duke drove the chariot himself.

"Second brother, get out of the way."

The three elders of Maoling County stood up from the carriage, holding poison sticks, and pretended to hit the thief catcher on the head: "Every year in the middle of autumn, the emperor still needs to bestow the star of Canopus on the Old Man Temple in the southern suburbs of Chang'an, and give people one stone of rice, twenty catties of meat, and five dou of wine every month. You petty officials who eat a lot of food, don't you think you can disrespect the old man?"

In the Han Dynasty, the elderly were respected and were allowed to enter and exit government offices. Those with a salary of 600 shi or above did not have to bow when entering government offices.

Since the reigns of Emperor Gaozu, Emperor Hui, Empress Lü, Emperor Wen, and Emperor Jing, they would go to the Lao Ren Temple in the southern suburbs every year to bestow the Lao Ren Star to show that officials and people respected the elderly together.

This has caused many elderly people to develop a rude, stubborn, and unscrupulous temperament.

The three elders of Maoling County were even more of a beast. Because the child born to his eldest son's wife was not a boy, he forced a mother to drown a baby girl by hand, thereby drowning her own child.

Later, the mother was driven crazy. The eldest son, who had suffered years of torture, finally made up his mind to take his wife away from the village and go to the neighborhood to work. Life was very hard, but fortunately, they gave birth to a baby girl, and his wife's madness gradually improved.

However, as long as the three elders of Maoling County were still alive, the eldest son would not dare to go back, for fear that his daughter would drown again.

The three elders of Maoling County killed a man, but relying on the respect for elders, they did not receive any punishment. They spent the whole day making things difficult for the common people in Maoling County who were already suffering a lot.

The three elders of Maoling County were used to the unbridled behavior brought about by respecting the elderly. They did not stop but hit a thief catcher on the head with the poison stick in their hands.

"boom!"

There was a crisp sound from the thief's head. It sounded loud, but the force was not very strong and did not cause much damage.

The thief catcher took the pork given by Guo Jie to save face in front of Zhongfu's family. He became ruthless and decided to repay Guo Jie's kindness with drastic measures.

"what!"

The thief constable lay directly on the rammed earth ground of the east side road, screaming, and taking advantage of the fact that there were thieve constables all around him and the three elders of Maoling County could not see him, they smashed him hard on the head with the wooden club in their hands.

A stream of blood spurted out.

Guo Jie looked at the gushing blood and sighed in his heart, what a cruel man.

"Thief Cao Zuo."

Guo Jie called over the thief Cao Zuo who was standing at the door and took out a piece of toe gold and threw it to him: "This toe gold can be exchanged for a basket of money, that is, one thousand three-zhu coins. Use it to buy a meal of mutton for that thief, and follow the doctor's prescription to nourish his body."

One thousand coins!

Enough to buy ten stone of corn.

It is equivalent to nearly a year's food ration for a commoner's household.

Just a day's food supplement!
The thief Cao Zuo's hand trembled as he held the piece of gold.

The thief catcher is going crazy.

The thief Cao Zuo quickly walked up to the thief catcher, tore up his black clothes, wrapped the bleeding head with them, and stuffed a piece of gold into the thief catcher's arms.

He felt like there was something stuck in his throat. "Only Guo Jie treats us brothers as human beings. He is truly a chivalrous man who values loyalty and loyalty. A gentleman will die for his friend!"

The thieves and the police were completely crazy. They rushed towards the county elders and the township elders with wooden clubs in their hands.

"boom!"

Under the astonished gaze of the crowd, the thief Cao Zuo smashed the wooden club in his hand directly on the heads of the three elders of Maoling County, shouting angrily: "You bandits, how dare you murder officials of the government and temples in Chang'an? Arrest them all and hand them over to the chief official Zhang Tang for interrogation."

"what!"

The three elders of Maoling County screamed in pain and were about to shout that they were the three elders of the county and teach the thief Cao Zuo who beat people a lesson by showing respect for the elderly.

A sentence about Zhang Tang.

The three elders of Maoling County were so frightened that they were speechless.

As long as one violates the Han law, not to mention the title of respecting the elderly, even the prime minister, the general, or even the emperor's plea will be of no use.

All sentences were based on Han laws.

"boom!"

"what!"

"boom!"

"what!"

A series of dull sounds were heard, and the thief Gan swung the wooden club in his hand and hit the three elders on the head, then dragged the old dog off the ox cart by the collar of his jacket and trousers.

Under the astonished gaze of the crowd at the West Market Gate and the East Market Gate.

One wooden club after another smashed down on the three elders of Maoling County and the three elders of the township, and they were beaten terribly.

Several of the thick wooden clubs in the thief's hand were broken, and only the last wooden club was left hanging around his waist.

Finally, the three elders were dragged away by the thieves like dead dogs, along the rammed earth road of the east side road towards the Chang'an official temple, leaving a long trail of blood.

When the officials and people saw this scene and watched the three elders covered in blood being dragged away from them, they were so frightened that they were silent and dared not move.

Maoling Ling and Du Junao's faces turned pale. They left the West Market Gate feeling frustrated and angry. They began to fear Guo Jie and had to give up the idea of dealing with Guo Jie and turn to deal with Yin Qi and Wang Wenshu.

Guo Jie, who plays Bian Hu, is very popular.

"happy!"

Wei Guang laughed, grabbed a handful of gold and chased after the thief catcher: "Brother, I will reward all the injured thieves for you. I will give each of them a meal with a thousand coins." The thief catcher whose head was not injured.

Is it possible that if you hit someone too hard, your fingers won’t be bruised?
The thieves and the captured ones all received the food supplement of one thousand coins that Guo Jie arranged for Wei Guang to send.

It’s still a day’s food supplement.

After the thief had beaten the three elders, he no longer felt uneasy, but only regretted that he had not swung the wooden mallet fast enough.

When they had nothing to do, the thief catchers in the Chang'an official temple began to practice the speed of swinging the wooden mallet.

"Mr. Guo."

Wei Junru drove his chariot and took Guo Jie with him. They left Hengmen along the rammed earth road of the west side road, crossed the Hengqiao Bridge over the Wei River, and galloped through the wilderness and mulberry fields north of Chang'an.

The chariot pulled by the Hexi horses finally stopped beside a mulberry forest and gradually drove along the path into the middle of the mulberry forest where new buds were sprouting.

A few wild ducks and geese were startled and flew towards the stream beside the mulberry forest with loud cries. They dived into the water and nibbled on pieces of wild water chestnuts.

Wei Junru's beautiful eyes sparkled. "He cried out for justice at the palace gate. It's true that the government needs to respect the elders. He is also a well-known elder in the village. Not to mention Mr. Guo, a county governor, even an official in the capital of the Nine Ministers fell for this dirty trick. Who would have thought that Mr. Guo could escape unscathed? He is truly wise and brave."

The courage to kill a tiger with bare hands.

Get rid of the wisdom of crying out for justice at the palace gate.

Wei Junru was deeply impressed.

Guo Jie looked at the silent mulberry forest, which was blocked by mulberry trees. It seemed that there were only two people in the forest, and his heart began to beat wildly.

He looked at the stunning beauty Wei Junru, and his breathing quickened. "It was just a little trick, not worthy of your praise."

Wei Junru wore her hair in a bun with a jade hairpin in it. Her graceful figure was dressed in a Yue boudoir brocade skirt and a brocade belt around her waist. Her slender waist and the prominent curve of her hips were extremely full, full of enchanting charm.

She has a pair of very long legs. Her tall figure of over 1.8 meters makes her legs long and straight, almost longer than her life.

Even wearing a Yue boudoir brocade skirt, it still couldn't hide the flawlessness of Wei Junru's jade legs.

A gust of fragrant wind came.

Wei Junru stretched out her slender legs, crossed the chariot screen, came to the chariot, and knelt beside Guo Jie.

The faint fragrance of a virgin, mixed with the fresh scent of soapberries, kept entering Guo Jie's nose.

Guo Jie's breathing stagnated as he looked at the stunning beauty Wei Junru standing next to him.

For a moment, some were stunned.

Wei Junru's beautiful eyes are as clear as water, her eyebrows are long and slender, and her lips are plump, making people want to take a bite of them. Her beautiful oval face, delicate skin, as white as jade, is breathtakingly beautiful.

No man can resist this face with oriental beauty and peace.

The beauty is breathtaking.

"Guo Guo-kun."

Wei Junru was decisive in her actions. For the first time, she acted like a little girl in front of a man and knelt down in the carriage next to Guo Jie, which made her extremely embarrassed. Her oval face flushed.

White and rosy.

The whole person looks more and more attractive.

Guo Jie was in a trance.

In a trance, I seemed to see the Queen of the Kingdom of Women shyly saying "My dear brother, please stay" under the dim light of the red-shaded lamp.

Tang Seng can bear it.

Guo Jie couldn't help it.

"My dear."

Guo Jie directly held Wei Junru's oval face and kissed her lips: "I want to eat your rouge."

Wei Junru's graceful body stiffened at first, and she subconsciously wanted to push Guo Jie away. When she heard the word "eating rouge", her body softened.

She took the initiative to hug Guo Jie with her arms.

have to say.

Wei Junru's plump cherry lips are delicious.

The smell of rouge is even more wonderful.

After a long time, the two separated breathlessly.

Wei Junru sighed sadly, "It's a pity that Mr. Guo is already married. I don't want to be a concubine, and I'm not the kind of person who would pester you to divorce me. You and I are destined not to be together."

The truth hurts the most.

This sentence reveals the awkward situation of the two people.

Even if they loved each other, Guo Jie and Wei Junru had no chance of getting married, nor could they stay together for life.

"Haha."

Guo Jie smiled lightly: "This is a simple matter. Although I am already married, I can still inherit the throne."

The joint ancestral hall is also called the two-family joint ancestral hall.

Guo Jie's uncle had no son, thus cutting off his family line. As a nephew, Guo Jie could marry another wife.

Yi Shuo was the wife of Guo Jiefu's family. She gave birth to a son and belonged to Guo Jiefu's family.

Wei Junru was the wife of Guo Jie's Zhongfu's family and gave birth to a son who also belonged to Zhongfu's family.

No matter which family it is, they all have the surname Guo.

Skillful.

Guo Jie's eldest grandfather had several sons, but only Guo Jie's father survived. His second brother did not reach adulthood, so it was impossible for him to have any offspring.

Guo Jie could marry another wife to help Zhongfu continue his family line.

When the news of him having two wives spread, it was not only not against the laws of the government, but was also an act of emphasizing filial piety.

Received commendation from the official temple.

The problem of Yi Shuo and Wei Junru being the legal wives was solved.

Wei Junru's oval face froze in shock.

Is this also possible???

"Haha."

Guo Jie looked at the stunned Wei Junru, and found her even more alluring. He hugged her and said, "We will have our wedding night today. Tomorrow, I will ask the officials Zhang Tang, Zhao Yu, and the attendant Sang Hongyang to propose marriage."

The three of them went to Princess Pingyang's main residence to propose marriage. Their official positions and status were enough.

Wei Junru bit her red lips and nodded shyly with her oval face.

"Haha."

Guo Jie laughed again and began to take off Wei Junru's Yue Gui brocade skirt.
(End of this chapter)