A powerful minister of the Song Dynasty

Chapter 151: Is It Time to Grow Hair? (Part )

This test result.

Mrs. Gu was overjoyed.

She really didn't expect her breasts to grow so big.

Some people actually like it!

And it’s the younger and more talented young man Song Twelve!
This discovery immediately made Mrs. Gu feel sweet in her heart.

She was no longer the woman hated by those closest to her.

It turns out that there are people who admire someone like me!
Her mouth felt cool and sweet, and her heart felt sweet. Madam Gu praised:
"Shi Er Lang, this melon is so sweet!"

"If you like it, come to my shop. There may be other surprises."

Song Xuan snorted and looked away.

Young people always have a restless heart.

Madam Gu did not respond, but said:

"Because we haven't had any children, my family has always asked me to go to Lingtai Temple and worship Buddha sincerely."

"I just found out yesterday that Twelve Lang has some skills in medicine. I wonder if my frequent worship of Buddha will be of any use?"

"Sister-in-law, actually, worshiping Buddha is not bad. At least it can calm your mind and allow you to think about many things."

Song Xuan quickly regained his composure:
"Of course, even with something like conception, you still need to be relaxed."

"If my sister-in-law is nervous every day, it will not be conducive to the pregnancy of the child and it will easily lead to miscarriage."

"Since Twelve Lang has said so, I must still be determined to worship Buddha and go to Lingtai Temple to worship Buddha frequently."

"A temple is indeed a good place to relax and unwind. I often go to Lingtai Temple to study at night, mainly to prepare for the upcoming exam. As more and more people participate, the pressure is great."

"Shi Er Lang is so talented, how could he be trapped by such a small test?"

"Anyway, it's better to have some pressure, which can push me to keep moving forward."

"That's true."

Mrs. Gu got the answer she wanted.

She quickly finished the cantaloupe and wiped her mouth with her handkerchief.

Then he took his own books and lottery tickets and said goodbye to Song Xuan.

Song Xuan didn't see him out the door with much enthusiasm.

After all, you still have to avoid people.

As for Jiang San and Zhao Si in the room, they didn't say much.

The young lady and Young Master Song are old acquaintances, so what's wrong with saying a few words to each other?
Especially these days, many young ladies want to see what Young Master Song looks like.

So what if someone saw them?
Young Master Song certainly doesn't like that woman.

Song Xuan straightened his clothes.

Then he stood at the door holding the whole melon, watching Mrs. Gu slowly walk away.

Judging from her words and actions, this was the first time Song Xuan had come into contact with a so-called lady from a noble family.

After all, in a small place like Lema Town, there is really no soil to breed such a woman.

Boss Cao took the small melon handed to him by his apprentice and took a bite.

It is really a refreshing and good thing to relieve summer heat.

Song Xuan doesn't like to eat watermelons from the Song Dynasty. They have too many seeds and are not very tasty.

Boss Cao was eating a cantaloupe:

"Stop looking. Your eyes are stuck in the crack of the young lady's buttocks."

"Hey, you old man, why are you speaking so vulgarly? I'm a serious and polite person."

"Pooh."

Boss Cao uttered:
"Hey, don't get me wrong, I'm spitting out the seeds, not you."

Song Xuan lowered his head and ignored it, biting the half of the cantaloupe left for Madam Gu:
"Master, she is Gu Zimo's wife. I don't know if it was Gu Zimo's idea for her to come here to let me down."

"Ok?"

Upon hearing this, Gang Leader Cao stopped teasing:
"how?"

"If we happened to meet her at Lingtai Temple yesterday, it would have been a coincidence. But she came here on her own initiative today, so it was intentional."

Song Xuan also spat out the seeds in his mouth:

"So, I'm not sure if Judge Gu is playing the same trick as if he can't catch the wolf without his wife, or is he using her to achieve some other goal?"

"Please help me analyze it."

Boss Cao raised his brows slightly.

He felt that Song Xuan’s idea was wrong!
What kind of ruthless person is Gu Zimo?
Would a dignified magistrate of Yingtian Prefecture let his wife personally go out and catch a pervert?
The price is too high!

How much does Judge Gu despise his wife?
Thinking of this, Gang Leader Cao started to complain about Song Xuan:
"You don't want to start a fire in someone else's backyard, do you?"

"hiss."

Song Xuan took a deep breath, then thought about it seriously:
"Although I have a close relationship with the Songcheng Fire Squad, I can't set fire to Gu Tongpan's house. That would have a very bad impact. And with the Imperial City Bureau watching, it would be easy to be exposed."

"I've seen and eaten the same thing before. Are you playing dumb with me?"

Song Xuan patted the juice on his hands:

"Hey, Master, the main thing is that I feel the more attractive a woman is, the more dangerous she is."

"Heh." Gang Leader Cao spitted again:
"I see you're enjoying it."

"Where is it?"

You old beggar, don't always think that you have seen and experienced it, and then use your own dirty standards to imagine how I would act. "

Song Xuan said very seriously:
"I'm reading the Spring and Autumn Annals!"

"Do you know what Spring and Autumn are?"

"I won't talk to you anymore. I'm going back to review my lessons."

After Song Xuan slipped in, Gang Leader Cao casually wiped the juice off his hands and continued to act like a rogue, standing at the door of the bookstore, his eyes still scanning the people on the street.

He felt that Song Xuan was guilty, so he ended the conversation in such a frustrated manner.

Otherwise, according to his personality, he would definitely argue about who is superior.

"You idiot, you've already reached the age where you should be thinking about women."

The corners of Boss Cao's mouth rose slightly. The former little bully finally grew hair under his crotch!
……

Inside the Tokyo Imperial City.

Zhao Zhen, the young emperor of the Song Dynasty, holds in his hands all the information about Song Xuan collected by the Imperial City Bureau.

At this time, Liu E was obsessed with national affairs and she wanted to emulate Wu Zetian.

Therefore, Emperor Zhao Zhen was really bored at this time. Apart from listening to lectures from the attendants every day, he was also instructed by Liu E on how to handle certain government affairs.

The emperor still has plenty of time left.

At this time, Zhao Zhen had already driven everyone out of the room, and he pretended to read a book inside.

"Good for you, Song Wenwan."

"At such a young age, he actually became Zhou Chu!"

Zhao Zhen knew a little about Song Xuan's ability to speak eloquently.

Then look at how happy he had been living in Lema Town these years: he could study when he wanted to, ride a donkey when he wanted to, fish when he wanted to, and hunt when he wanted to.

Even Song Shier could often spar with others on the streets to see if his martial arts skills had improved.

Isn't such a playboy the first of the three evils in Lema Town?
Although Liu E had a strong desire for power, she also taught Zhao Zhen some real things about governing.

Therefore, Zhao Zhen saw from Song Xuan that the local government of the Song Dynasty had limited control over the local villages and towns.

Many of them do not need the government, most of them rely on their fists or family power to solve problems.

The government will only intervene if someone reports the matter to the authorities.

If I think about it this way, could it be that the reason why Song Shier grew up so happily over the years and then went astray is also because of the government's lack of education?

You clearly have a father and a mother, so how dare you lie to me and say you have no father or mother?

Zhao Zhen turned to the next page and saw information about Song Xuan's family background.

His father is a gambler and his mother remarried.

Zhao Zhen was silent for a while. From questioning Song Xuan to understanding Song Xuan, he felt that what Song Xuan said made sense.

This orphan is no different.

So much so that Zhao Zhen couldn't help laughing when he saw Song Xuan bringing people to put a sack on his father and beat him up.

OK OK.

It is indeed something that Song Shier can do.

This kid has been extremely daring since he was young!

Zhao Zhen carefully observed the changes in Song Xuan in recent years. The opposite of the leader of the three evils in Lema Town was Song Xuan's timely rain, who never took money seriously.

When his neighbors are in trouble, he is willing to give money to help.

The only thing he did was to never give money to his gambling-addicted father and second brother in private.

Zhao Zhen guessed that those times were just performances in public, so that he could put sacks on them and beat them up in private.

After that, he left Lema Town and went to Yingtian Academy to take the entrance exam. He planned to get rid of the other two evils. In addition, Song Xuan, the main evil of Lema Town, left his hometown, and Lema Town suddenly became much quieter.

However, Zhao Zhen noticed that the people from the Imperial City Administration had taken note of one more thing, which was that the Beggars' Sect and the Zhao and Song families had replaced the original three forces.

Seeing this, Zhao Zhen sighed.

No matter who comes and goes, there are still various complicated forces in the local area who want to compete for more benefits.

The following is a record of some of the things Song Xuan did after arriving in Songcheng, with a focus on recording the entire confrontation between him and Dou Chou's son.

And the incident where two strong men suddenly appeared and broke Dou Han's legs.

Then there are the harsh words that Dou Chou said in the street about killing Song Xuan, and the various versions of the story that circulated among the people.

Zhao Zhen read the story with great interest, especially the part where Dou Chou turned love into hate, which really made Zhao Zhen laugh out loud.

Song Shier looked like a beggar back then, with a dark face. How could one tell what he looks like now?

Zhao Zhen thought about it, then dipped the brush in ink and made a few notes. He turned around and asked someone to draw a portrait of Song Xuan.

After that, I opened a bookstore, and my main selling point was that if you bought a storybook, you would get a three-star lottery ticket for free.

The people from the Imperial City Bureau could not get close to the lottery machine, but they were sure that it used bellows, but they were different from the usual bellows.

Perhaps this is Song Xuan’s exclusive secret.

This business was so prosperous that even children of a few years old wanted to save up a few cents to buy a chapter of the storybook and see if they could win a prize.

Originally, Song Xuan refused to buy this thing for his child, but he couldn't help but realize that the children of this era did not have the same educational environment as children in later generations.

So he just didn't care!
However, there was actually a child who won the prize, which was a pleasant surprise.

The whole family was very happy to come and collect the money.

Song Xuan even gave the child an extra copy of Thousand Character Classic, giving him the opportunity to learn to read.

Zhao Zhen felt that Song Xuan was a good businessman. No wonder he never treated money seriously since he was a child!
With such a generous personality, it's impossible for him to be so sensitive as someone who was raised without a father or mother.

But Song Xuan is very different.

When he reached the end of the thick investigation report, Gao Zunfu discovered that there were other people staring at Song Xuan.

I don’t know if they were sent by the Dou family, or if they were just other people who were jealous of the power he was buying and selling.

He hasn't figured it out yet, so he hopes the government can give him some instructions on what to do next.

Zhao Zhen read it carefully from beginning to end again and found out that he had an enemy with Song Xuan.

One is Cao Daogui, one of the three evils of Lema Town who escaped, the other is the Dou family, and there are other forces that want to make money with the Sanxingcai.

Zhao Zhen picked up the pen again and continued taking notes.

check.

If you find someone harming Song Xuan, an ordinary student of the Song Dynasty, you must stand up and prevent him from being harmed by the villain.

Zhao Zhen once again looked at the investigation on Song Xuan, and confirmed that he remembered most of it. He threw it into the copper basin beside him and lit it with a candle.

He knew that there were spies around his mother, and there was more than one.

He even thought that his confidants were his mother's people.

But it doesn't matter.

He is his mother's biological son. Even if she wants to be like Wu Zetian, she cannot rely solely on a relative like Liu Mei.

Therefore, Zhao Zhen also understood that his mother wanted to "recognize relatives" with other ministers from prominent families in the court.

But with so many ministers in the Song Dynasty, how could they agree to the Queen Mother's request?
There would be no military generals rebelling in the Song Dynasty, and naturally there would be no Wu Zetian.

Zhao Zhen was absolutely sure that this would not happen.

His father, Emperor Zhenzong, also gave Zhao Zhen many words of advice while on his sickbed.

Otherwise, Emperor Zhenzong would not have betrayed Kou Zhun and refused to acknowledge what had been discussed previously.

Zhao Zhen also knew that his father wasted a lot of money on this matter all day long, and even the upright Prime Minister Wang Dan tacitly agreed to cooperate in the show, in order to consolidate the legitimacy of Emperor Zhenzong's regime.

Because Emperor Zhenzong had no son for several years, the other members of the royal family were concerned about him.

Zhao Yuanjie, Zhao Yuanzuo, and the famous Eighth King Zhao Yuanyan, which one of them did not covet the throne?

Therefore, Emperor Zhenzong talked to his son about having a son for a long time, and Zhao Zhen kept it in mind.

After the papers were burned, Zhao Zhen threw some papers on the table in, pretending to deal with the papers for practicing calligraphy.

In this way, it can also prevent it from being sold by other bold eunuchs, so that someone can imitate the emperor's handwriting in the future.

Regardless of whether the emperor can lead the country to become strong, there are many things that need to be paid attention to.

After all, this is rule by man, not rule by law.

Even though the laws of the Song Dynasty inherited the laws of the Tang Dynasty, they emphasized that princes were subject to the same punishment as common people if they broke the law.

However, the laws of the Song Dynasty did not apply to the emperor. Even many royal family members and nobles had immunity, and without the emperor's intervention, court officials were not qualified to judge royal family members.

After doing all this, Zhao Zhen counted on his fingers.

Even if Song Xuan was really a genius and passed the preparatory and provincial examinations consecutively, he would have to wait at least two years in the spring before he could take part in the palace examination here.

But it doesn't matter, I will have grown up by then.

Maybe I can take power!
If Song Twelve performs well in the palace examination, he may become the first number one scholar after I take power.

Zhao Zhen felt that he would not deliberately choose Song Xuan as the top scholar just because he had some old acquaintance with him.

However, Zhao Zhen felt that when they really met, he would have to take a good look at Song Xuan and let him take a good look at him.

"I am standing right in front of you, Song Twelve. Can you tell me how much I look like I did before?"

(End of this chapter)