Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 281 Hu Zongxian

Hu Zongxian's home is in Guoxi Town outside Jixi City.

He Liu and Lao Hu led a group of warriors to the outside of West Town.

Outside the west town, an old farmer was wearing old clothes and a bamboo hat, standing in the rice field, holding a sickle to cut the weeds in the rice field.

He Liu pointed to the old farmer, and said to Lao Hu: "Oh, did you see that? The people are suffering. In this hot day, they still have to work hard to eat in the soil. People like Yan Shifan and Yan Song still have to exploit The only bite of food in their mouths!"

Lao Hu nodded: "Didn't Zhang Juzheng tell you? In 500 years, the king will rise and die, and the people will suffer. When prosperity, the people will also suffer."

He Liu walked to the rice field and shouted to the old farmer, "Old man, may I ask where the former Governor of Zhejiang Province, Hu Zongxian, lives?"

The old farmer turned around and wiped the muddy water on his face: "I am Hu Zongxian, the former governor of Zhejiang Province. What do you want from me?"

He Liu and Lao Hu were shocked!
Hu Zongxian, a famous minister who was once powerful in the southeast; Hu Zongxian, who was dismayed by Japanese pirates and pirates; Mowing weeds?

He Liu knelt down to Hu Zongxian with a "thump": "Hu Butang, I am He Liu!"

The white-haired Hu Zongxian rubbed his eyes: "It's the sixth child. I have suffered from eye diseases in the past two years, and I can't see clearly when people are far away. Don't blame me."

Hu Zongxian walked to the field ridge with a sickle in his hand.His trouser legs were rolled up, and there was mud and water.

He Liu is a man of steel and iron, but now, he is hugging his elder brother Hu Zongxian, crying bitterly: "Hu Butang, my elder brother Hu..."

Hu Zongxian said with a smile: "Look at you, it's so easy to meet again, and you just cry. I've mowed the grass for two hours, you should let me drink a bowl of water, take a break and talk about the past, right?"

Hu Zongxian picked up a broken clay basin.There was some clear water in the earthen basin, and he took a big gulp of it, and heaved a sigh of relief: "It's so satisfying."

He Liu asked: "Hu Butang, although you have retired and returned to your hometown, the eldest son and the second son both work in Nanjing Jinyiwei, and the third son works as a member of the household department in Nanjing. They all have imperial salaries. Don't they know that the salary Do you take it home to subsidize the family? Why did you go to work in the field yourself?"

Hu Zongxian said: "I didn't work in the field because of lack of money. Let me tell you, old six, as long as I stand in the paddy field and look at the green rice, the diseases I suffered from before will be cured by more than half! Eat Keeping the food you grow yourself, be sure!"

Lao Hu took out a towel and handed it to Hu Zongxian to wipe off his sweat.

Hu Zongxian wiped his sweat and said, "How about it, Lao Liu, I still have a little more knowledge than you, right? I said two years ago that sooner or later someone will settle old scores with me. You came this time to lock up I came to Beijing, right?"

He Liu nodded: "Yes. After Yan Shifan was convicted, someone falsely accused you of colluding with the Yan Party. Don't worry, I will try my best to clear up your grievances when I return to the capital."

Hu Zongxian smiled: "People are right. I am a veritable strict party! It's just that I am different from ordinary strict parties. I have actually done a few good things for the common people."

He Liudao: "But they still falsely accuse you of deceiving the emperor!"

Hu Zongxian looked up to the sky and pondered for a while, then said: "There is such a thing. In the 37th year of Jiajing, in order to coax the pirate leader Wang Zhi to go ashore, I did forge an imperial decree, saying that the emperor had issued a decree to grant Wang Zhi the official position of the Zhejiang capital. The people who joined me really didn’t make false accusations.”

He Liudao: "But there is a reason for this! You made the false imperial decree to kill the leader of the pirates."

Hu Zongxian smiled, his two front teeth were gone: "No matter what the purpose is, I'm charged with falsely preaching the imperial decree. Sixth, do me a favor, wait until I donate the property of my family to the righteous school in the town , you take me away again."

He Liu nodded.

Everyone followed Hu Zongxian to the "Hu Mansion".

The so-called "Hu Mansion" is just four huts.He Liuqing couldn't help but think of the Yan family's vast mansion with thousands of rooms.What is a loyal minister and what is a treacherous minister, you can understand by looking at their retirement houses.

Hu Zongxian yelled to his wife: "Old woman, there are distinguished guests at home! Kill the chickens in the chicken coop and make soup for the distinguished guests!"

A woman dressed as an old peasant woman stepped out of the thatched cottage.Who would have thought that this woman used to be a dignified second-rank madam?
Mrs. Hu chopped firewood, killed chickens, and stewed a large pot of chicken soup.

Hu Zongxian moved out a wine jar, which contained homemade rice wine.

Everyone sat down at the dining table.

Hu Zongxian said to Lao Hu: "Old Hu, I know you are an expert in wine tasting, and you are very talkative. I don't have 30-year-old daughter red here, only homemade rice wine. But I am confident that this wine has a different flavor."

Lao Hu raised his wine glass and drank a big bowl. He felt uncomfortable, but forced a smile and said, "It's really good wine! It's more refreshing and sweet than the 30-year-old daughter's red, 30-year-old champion red, and 50-year-old Xinghuacun."

Hu Zongxian said: "Lao Liu, don't be dumbfounded, move your chopsticks, come, eat a chicken drumstick."

Hu Zongxian was old and dim-sighted, he wanted to pick up a chicken leg for He Liu, but the chopsticks failed repeatedly.

He Liu hurriedly said: "Hu Butang, I'll do it myself."

After eating, Hu Zongxian called Li Zheng.

Hu Zongxian said to Li Zheng: "I have something to trouble you. I am in Guoxi Town, and I have 38 mu of fertile land. This was awarded to me by the emperor when the Japanese pirate Wang Zhi was wiped out in the [-]th year of Jiajing. Among them, [-] mu, all donated For the righteous school in the town. Let the dolls study hard, grow up to seek fame, serve the court, and benefit the common people!"

Li Zheng cupped his hands and said, "Yes, Hu Butang!"

Hu Zongxian said again: "The three sons of my family are far away in Nanjing. I can't count on them to support my old wife. For the remaining ten acres of land, I will trouble you to find some young and strong people to help sow and harvest in autumn. Come here half of the grain for those young adults who help, and half for my old wife to make ends meet."

He Liu felt inexplicably sad when he heard that.

Hu Zongxian then told his wife: "I'm going on a long trip. Hurry up and cook a pot of fried rice for me, and I'll make dry food on the way."

An hour later, Mrs. Hu finished frying the fried rice.

Hu Zongxian put the bag of fried rice on his back, and said to He Liu: "Let's go, old six, it's time for us to set off."

He Liudao: "Hu Butang, we have to go to Jiangxi first, search Yan Song's mansion, and then return to the capital."

Hu Zongxian sighed: "Confiscate the Yan Mansion? Alas, good and evil will be rewarded in the end, and the righteous way in the world is the vicissitudes of life. My teacher has done too many wrong things in those years. Father, it’s okay to go to Jiangxi, I can see the teacher for the last time.”

(End of this chapter)