Chapter 122 Meeting
Du Zhongxiao looked at the drawings and discussed with the text, which places should be added and which places should be deleted. This is a new book of contents that the Song army changed customs and organized the original residents to live in a village after entering Hequ Road. This kind of booklet has paintings and words, and the requirements for words are actually very high, and it is not something that ordinary painters can do.
After discussion, Wen Tong took the draft and asked someone to modify it. There are now five or six painters in Shengzhou. Although they are not famous, the things they draw are both spiritual and physical, but they are a little simpler.
Du Zhongxiao was lying on the desk and read some official documents casually. The matters have been stable recently, but in recent years, there have been more things.
At this moment, a soldier came in and crossed his hands to Du Zhongxiao: "Jie Shuai, Xiaoqing's wife at home has arrived in Shengzhou and is waiting in the Houya. If Ji Shuai has free time, he can go over and take a look and arrange for her to stay."
Du Zhongxiao hurriedly stood up: "Have you arrived? I saw the wife's letter a few days ago, but I didn't expect it to arrive in a few days."
While speaking, he got up and left the official hall and said to the soldiers: "If you have something here, let them wait. If you really can't wait, you go to the Houya to find me, and everything will be simple."
The soldiers agreed, and Du Zhongxiao turned around and left the official hall. When they arrived at the Houya, Xiaoqing brought two slaves and two maids and looked around curiously. Du Zhongxiao came in, turned around and looked for a while before recognizing that he was an official, and hurried forward to salute.
Du Zhongxiao said, "You are here quickly. I have received the letter from my wife and arranged a house for you, but it has not been cleaned up yet."
Xiaoqing said: "It's okay, just do it yourself. By the way, the lady brought some things to the official."
As he said that, he took off the small bag he was carrying and opened it in front of the house. Du Zhongxiao stopped and said, "You can just hand over your wife's things to me. I will take you to your residence. If there is a place to clean up, I will send someone to clean up."
Xiaoqing smiled and said, "It's okay, we can just clean up ourselves. If the official has something to do, he can't accompany us."
Du Zhongxiao said: "There is nothing, I'll accompany you there."
When she first met Xiaoqing in Bozhou, she was just over ten years old and was a little girl. So many years have passed, and she was just over twenty, which was the best time in a girl's life. Du Zhongxiao came back anxiously, wanting to hear her talk about Han Yueniang, but she didn't expect to see her, but she couldn't ask.
The residence of Xiaoqing and others was the side room where Du Zhongxiao lived. It had just been cleaned but it was not cleaned up. Xiaoqing took people in, cleaned the house by himself, and asked the two slaves and maids to clean up the room where he lived. Du Zhongxiao stood outside the door, but didn't know what was good for a moment.
Seeing Xiaoqing and his friends busy in the house, Du Zhongxiao suddenly remembered that Xiaoqing should get married at this age. Han Yueniang has never betrothed to her and is now sent to her. What is her thought?
Seeing the busy few people, Du Zhongxiao's thoughts slowly faded and quietly retreated back to his residence.
Xiaoqing cleaned up the house and looked out. Seeing that Du Zhongxiao had left, she sighed softly. It was time for her to get married. Han Yueniang had found several families, but the bad ones looked down on him. The good ones were delayed because of her identity. This time, Han Yueniang asked her to come to the northwest. What should I say? I must have some other thoughts in my heart.
Thinking of this, Xiaoqing sat on the bed just prepared and looked at the sky outside, feeling a little dazed.
At night, Du Zhongxiao wanted to prepare a table and feast to welcome the newcomers. After thinking about it, he felt it was not suitable, so he just forgot. He went to the cafeteria alone and ate a casual meal. Xiaoqing and others didn't ask what they ate.
The next morning, Xiaoqing arrived at Du Zhongxiao's residence. Seeing that he had already gotten up and was washing up, he said, "It's very cold outside the border, but the officials got up early. I brought soap from my wife, so I asked the officials to wash their faces early and evening. I forgot yesterday and sent it this morning."
Du Zhongxiao said: "Let it be there. I'm used to it, just go and do your own."
Xiaoqing said, "How can that be? I came here to serve the officials. Otherwise, what should I do?"
Du Zhongxiao thought for a while and said, "You should be tired on the road. You should go back to your residence first, rest for a few days, and then talk about it after you have come. You don't need to do anything in these days, just take a good rest."
Xiaoqing smiled, put down the soap in her hand, and said, "If you have anything, just tell me."
Looking at Xiaoqing's departure back, Du Zhongxiao was a little confused for a moment and couldn't tell how he was in a mood. In recent years, he has been an official outsider. Except for his days in Bozhou, Han Yueniang has not been with her for much time. Although Xiaoqing is by her side all the time, she has never noticed what it looks like. Now that the two of them suddenly live together, they feel that they are not used to it in many places.
Just washing up, Du Zhongxiao sat on the mat, thinking about these things, but didn't know what to do for a moment. Before Xiaoqing came, she only thought that this was the person around Han Yueniang. After she came, she could ask her how Han Yueniang was doing these days. When she came, she didn't expect that she could not speak at all. No matter how well the world thought about things, in the end, she found that it was not the case.
After leaving the room, Du Zhongxiao arrived at the canteen and ordered a breakfast and ate it quickly. As the coach of the road, Du Zhongxiao could have his own small canteen, but he had always been casual and had been dealing with food in the canteen. Because of this, the canteen here has been very popular.
After leaving the cafeteria, Du Zhongxiao went to the comfort hall, sat on the desk for a while, and read some official documents casually. The working habits in this era are different from those in later generations, the earlier the work, the better. Usually, work is done before dawn, and after noon, there is no special matter, and each government office gets off work.
There were people coming and going in the yamen, which was very lively. Du Zhongxiao sat in front of the desk, and there were some random things to read, and he just read the official documents. He had read them, but what was written on them was not in his mind. When Xiaoqing came, Du Zhongxiao felt that many things were disrupted.
Until the sun rose, a public official brought a bowl of soup and said, "Jiang Zheng, it's not too early, use some soup."
Du Zhongxiao came to his senses and asked him to put it on the table on the side, and then used it in a while. This is the benefit of the Shuai Mansion. Once in the morning and once in the afternoon, the soup is provided, which is considered as a food supply. Today, the beef soup was cooked, which was very rich and the soup was a lot of meat, which looked particularly attractive. Du Zhongxiao sat at the table and flipped the soup with a spoon. Thinking of Xiaoqing and the others living behind, he didn't know that he should send someone to see if they had breakfast, but he would still ignore them.
After thinking about it, Du Zhongxiao sighed and decided not to think about them anymore and let them go. In the huge general's mansion, everything has its own rules, but only a few of them are here, so why can't I take good care of it? After finishing the soup early, let the officials clean up, and Du Zhongxiao returned to the front of the case.
Without any thoughts, Du Zhongxiao could not read the official documents on the case. After rummaging for a while, he stopped flipping around. After thinking for a while, he stood up, greeted a few followers with him, and left the General's Mansion. Since the General's Mansion was uncomfortable, he would go out for a walk and take a look at the scenery in Shengzhou City. There were many seats in Wang Pu's restaurant, so you could go over and drink two drinks.
Chapter completed!