The First Yamen of the Great Song Dynasty

Seeing Gao Ming's aggrieved appearance, Hua Rong smiled and said, "No, it's for our yamen's grievances. Come, eat some glutinous rice balls and give our yamen compensation." He blew a mouthful of glutinous rice balls and handed them to Gao Ming. before the mouth.

Gao Ming smiled and swallowed the glutinous rice balls in one gulp, and chuckled, "You still understand me."

The two ate the glutinous rice balls, got up and continued walking forward.

The streets are full of fiery trees and silver flowers, dazzling, lingering in the ocean of these lanterns, like a dream.

As the temperature dropped at night, Gao Ming's lips were a little stinging from the wind, so he asked Hua Rong, "Did you bring the hand cream I gave you?"

Hua Rong took out the small porcelain box from his sleeve and shook it in his hand, "You made it for me yourself, and I always carry it with me. That day Shi Jin asked me where I bought it from, and I told him it was someone else. It was given to me, and there is no place to buy it, so let alone how envious he is."

Gao Ming smiled and guessed, "Didn't he say anything else?"

"He asked me if it was a gift from my sweetheart."

"How did you answer?"

"Of course I told him it was."

When Shi Jin was mentioned, Gao Ming remembered what happened just now, "Do you think he and the princess know each other?"

Looking at Shi Jin and the princess's eyes, it seems that they have seen it before.But I really can't figure out how they have contact.

but.This is Shi Jin's private matter, he will not ask Gao Ming for help, and he will not interfere with their affairs, especially if the other party is a princess with a noble status.

The key point is that his father, His Royal Highness Shao Wang, doesn't have a good impression of him and Hua Rong at all, and if he sees them again, he might violently beat them up.

Gao Ming opened the small box of hand cream, and before he could do it himself, Hua Rong dipped it in with his fingertips, raised Gao Ming's chin with one hand, and gently applied it to his lips with the other hand.

During this process, I don't know what I thought in my mind, I couldn't help but bowed my head and chuckled.

Gao Ming narrowed his eyes and stared at him, "What are you thinking?"

Hua Rong restrained her smile, and deliberately put on a serious look, "I didn't think about anything."

Gao Ming pursed his lips, feeling more moisturized, and continued walking with Hua Rong, passing a small stall with rings.

When the boss saw the two of them, he shook the ring in his hand, "Is it a ring? I will close the stall soon, and I will give you ten rings for fifty yuan." The boss peddled.

Hua Rong asked Gao Ming, "Do you want anything? I'll trap you."

Gao Ming smiled and tugged at Huarong, "Let's go."

Seeing that Hua Rong wanted to play, the boss tried hard to sell it to Jia Jia, "Why don't I give you a cheaper price, and pay less for you."

"We don't play." Seeing the disappointment on the boss's face, Gao Ming thought to himself, but he didn't know that you avoided a loss.

Gao Ming faced Hua Rong, grabbed his arm and walked backwards, "A player of your level should not leave the field."

Suddenly, he heard Hua Rong say: "Be careful." Immediately afterwards, he was knocked down from the side.

It turned out that the two of them happened to be at the entrance of an alley, and a few people happened to come out of the alley, and they bumped into each other.

Before Gao Ming could say anything, the man suddenly became angry, clutching his shoulder and cursing: "Don't you have eyes?"

Gao Ming's shoulder was also hit, but it didn't hurt. He didn't feel any pain at all, and he didn't believe that the other party could hurt enough to be worth getting angry.

It's just a scrape while walking normally. If there is a collision at a corner, the responsibilities of both parties are the same.

Gao Ming went out to watch the lanterns with Hua Rong this evening, and he was in a good mood at first, but now he was in a bad mood, "What are you yelling about, it looks like you are very uneducated.

Being directly scolded for being uneducated, the corner of the other party's mouth twitched, and he rolled up his sleeves and came towards Gao Ming, ready to carry the uneducated to the end.

Two of the other four people in his group stopped him, "Forget it, forget it, don't make trouble."

Although these people are not very tall, they can be seen to be very strong, and they may all be Lianjiazi.

The man was persuaded by his companions, and he stopped gearing up to move towards Gao Ming. He gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, you apologize to me, and I will let you go, otherwise you will have a hard time today."

I didn't expect that the other party would still refuse to forgive me. This is a big holiday, so I'm looking for trouble if I have nothing to do.

Apologize to you?Crazy to apologize? "I didn't expect someone to be so angry during the Lantern Festival. How unhappy is life?"

This sentence immediately hit the opponent's lungs, and it exploded at that time. He rolled up his sleeves again, "What did you say, you say it again?"

Gao Ming tutted his tongue and said, "Why pretend you didn't hear it, why don't you simply admit that your life is unsatisfactory and you want to vent your anger on others."

With his wave of ridicule, the other party had to give him some color no matter what.

The other four people who were originally trying to dissuade them felt that the brat's mouth was so poisonous that they just stepped on their painful feet, so they didn't stop them anymore, and wanted to ask their companions to slap the brat a few times.

The man walked straight towards Gao Ming, raising his hand to hit him, but he just raised his fist, and before it fell, Hua Rong grabbed his arm, and then was thrown outward, the whole person staggered and almost fell Hit the wall next to it.

This person couldn't help being confused, he was still confident in his own kung fu, otherwise it would be impossible to follow his master into the hinterland of the Central Plains.

I didn't expect to meet a commoner in the Song Dynasty on the street today, and he was no match for him.

Seeing this person being pushed away, the expressions of the other people changed and they exchanged glances.

They all thought at the same time, this person in front of them is not simple, it is better not to cause trouble.

Gao Ming snorted and said, "You still want to hit someone? I think you guys are acting very suspicious. The city gate is not closed today during the Lantern Festival, and anyone in the whole country can enter Tokyo City to enjoy the lanterns. You guys are not some kind of robbers, right? I'll go to the Yamen for a walk."

As soon as he said this, a man who looked like a leader stood up and smiled at Gao Ming, who had been watching with cold eyes before: "Young master, adults don't remember the faults of villains. My brothers, just met I have encountered a lot of troubles, so I can't control myself for a while. Please also, Mr. Haihan. The Lantern Festival is supposed to be fun, and I hope you will not spoil your interest because of such trivial things. We are businessmen from Hebei, and we don't want to cause trouble."

Gao Ming thought to himself, these are still some human words, but these human words were also frightened by Hua Rong's strength and his intention to report them.

If Hua Rong was a frail scholar, it is still uncertain what would happen.

Of course, if Hua Rong was a frail scholar, they would have found excuses to run away, and they would not have arguing with these people.

Gao Ming said with a cold face: "Since you sincerely apologize, I don't want to cause trouble, so forget it." Then he pulled Hua Rongguo's sleeve, and smiled as he walked, "Let's continue to watch the lanterns, don't worry about this. Unhappy fellows."

Seeing the brat retaliate against them before leaving, the group gasped in a depressed mood.

The person who was pushed almost hitting the wall just now sat on the ground and spat, "Bah! I'm really unlucky today. I can't drink cold water. There is nowhere to spread the fire!"

Since entering Tokyo City, they have had bad luck all the way.

Duan Jingzhu took their money and said that he could get in touch with Gao Ming, the emperor's favourite.

As a result, they came to Tokyo City, but that Duan Jingzhu did not show up today, making them wait in the cold wind for several hours, and their hearts were chilled.

That's not counting, I don't know who killed thousands of knives, took their wallets away, and thought about avoiding the flow of people and going back to the inn to rest. Putting on the lights, it's hard to tell the difference between southeast and north.

So they got lost.

Even if you ask for directions, you still don’t know how to go. What about turning left and right?

I want to go back to the grassland.

They were still lost and struggling, and collided with two Song people, and they were holding back their anger. Naturally, they opened their mouths to curse, and raised their hands to hit them. Who knew that the other party was not easy to provoke, but was taught a lesson. a meal.

"Master Ma, what should we do now?"

Ma Zhi also felt that nothing went well tonight, and sighed: "Let's go back to the inn first, and try to contact that Duan Jingzhu again."

Duan Jingzhu has been doing business at the junction of the Liao Kingdom and the Song Kingdom all year round, boasting that he is omnipotent, saying that he is very well connected in Tokyo, can talk to the emperor's favorites Gao Ming and Gao Qiu, and can Introduce them.

So Ma Zhi believed this Jingzhu's nonsense, hoping that he would go through it and introduce him to the upper officials of the Song Dynasty.

Duan Jingzhu took the money, said straightforwardly that there was no problem, and then disappeared without hesitation.

According to the plan, they took advantage of the gates of the city to be open all night during the Lantern Festival, and no one checked carefully, entered Tokyo City, and arrived at the place agreed with Duan Jingzhu.

As a result, they stood in the cold wind for several hours, let alone Duan Jingzhu, they didn't even see a single golden hair of Duan Jingzhu.

Liar, big liar.

One of them scolded in Khitan dialect: "The people of Song are all liars!"

It's all here, why should I try my best to meet the officials of Song State, otherwise, wouldn't it be a waste of time?

Ma Zhi looked at the fireworks all over the sky and sighed. He didn't know what Gao Ming looked like, where he was now, and when he could meet him.

He has a clever plan, and hopes to pass it on to the emperor of Song Dynasty through him.

Another entourage he brought said: "I remember that Duan Jingzhu's family members seem to have a house in Tokyo and sell Haidongqing. I will go out tomorrow to inquire, but I don't believe that I can't catch the family of that Jingzhu. Get out of this guy's whereabouts!"

Ma Zhi thinks that this clue can be traced, after all, there are very few people who sell Costin.

They can't waste any more time, they must contact Gao Ming during the Lantern Festival holiday.

"Stop complaining, go back to the inn!" Ma Zhi pointed in one direction and said, "Go north, that's right."

"But... I think that's the case."

"It's clearly Nan!"

"My lord is right, it's the north! That's right, go north!"

Unified opinions, under the leadership of Ma Zhi, walked towards the "North".

At this time, the ring stall owner who had witnessed the whole process played with the ring in his hand, looked at the backs of Ma Zhi and the others, and shook his head, "It looks like they are from other places, didn't they just come from there?" , which turns back again."

-

When Gao Ming and Hua Rong returned to the Taiwei's Mansion, it was almost dawn, Gao Ming rushed to the house, and was braving the cold from inside to outside, so he quickly asked the servant girl to bring hot wine and dishes to eat with Hua Rong.

It is said that hot wine can drive away the cold, and Gao Ming took a few sips of the wine, and it really warmed him up a lot, "This wine is not spicy enough, the higher the degree, the better the effect of keeping the cold out."

"degree?"

"Spiciness." Gao Ming explained foolishly.

"Isn't this spicy?" Hua Rong said with a smile, "I never imagined that you poured wine as soon as you touched it in Liangshan, and now you have grown to dislike the taste of wine. It's not strong enough."

Gao Ming curled his lips, regardless of his personal drinking capacity, it is a fact that the alcohol content is not high now.

This is also the reason why he was able to "not get drunk after a thousand cups" after a little exercise in Liangshan.

If it was the highly distilled alcohol of later generations, such as vodka, he would probably lose consciousness after taking a sip.

Today's wine is still fermented wine with low alcohol content.

It doesn't have the kind of spicy taste from the throat to the stomach, as if it has been severely beaten by someone. Although it can't be said that it has no taste, it is still a little worse than the wines of later generations.

"I think the wine can be further developed to make a better taste, and a sip can play a role in driving the cold."

Of course, the most important thing is that it can be sold for money.

"Then how are you going to develop it?" Hua Rong knew that Gao Ming's mind was active, "Let's hear it."

If you want wine with high alcohol content, you must use distillation technology. This technology was brought from Arabia during the Yuan Dynasty, and it is still a long time ago.

"I haven't thought of it yet, but I think I can definitely come up with a good solution." Xu said that the last time he made hand cream brought confidence, Gao Ming felt that the future was bright.

After dinner, the two lay down to rest with their clothes on. They didn't sleep all night last night. As soon as Gao Ming touched the pillow, sleepiness came to the door. In a daze, he felt that Hua Rong moved him to his side, and then the whole The person was hugged into his arms.

Gao Ming was looking for warmth, not only did not resist, but instead burrowed into his arms, he was so happy that Huarong touched his forehead lightly, and then closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Gao Ming woke up after a nap and saw that Hua Rong still had his eyes closed, so he didn't get up in a hurry. He closed his eyes and practiced the process of brewing distilled wine in his mind.

Distilled wine, as the name suggests, is the use of distillation technology...

distilled...

What is distillation?

Gao Ming discovered a tragic fact, at least he still knows the method of hand cream, the method of distilling wine, his mind is blank, there is no trace at all.

I'm sorry, physics teacher... I'm sorry for you.

I don't remember anything, I forgot everything.

After blaming himself in despair for a while, Gao Ming thought logically, "distilled", as the name suggests, the word "steamed" should be the essence.

To increase the alcohol content, to put it bluntly, it is a process of purification to remove water.

Suddenly, Gao Ming suddenly realized that he used the difference between the boiling points of water and alcohol to heat the fermented wine to a temperature between the boiling points of water and alcohol, so that the alcohol would turn into water vapor, and then condense and collect the alcohol.

Once you figure it out, it's pretty simple.

So here comes the question again, what is the boiling point of alcohol?

I'm sorry, physics teacher... I'm sorry for you.

However, it doesn't matter, even if you know what the boiling point is, there are no thermometers in this era, and you have to rely on constant exploration.

Gao Ming has the two most important things in doing things, namely self-confidence and money.

And he also has an inner driving force, besides making money, that is to brew high-quality wine, give his father a taste, and then give Hua Rong a taste.

His father didn't know what he would look like after he was drunk, he was looking forward to it.

Gao Ming has a mentality of carrying out pranks.

Sometimes he had to admit that he was such a badass.

As for Huarong's face, which was stained with a layer of blush because of drunkenness, it must be pretty.

He opened his eyes, looked at Hua Rong who was close at hand, and showed an "evil" smile.

At this time, Hua Rong opened his eyes by chance, took a panoramic view of his smile, frowned and joked: "What are you peeking at?"

Gao Ming snorted and said with a smile: "How can you be so lying on my bed and still not allow me to watch?"

Hua Rong supported his head with one hand, lay on his side and looked at Gao Ming, "Then look at it." There was a smile on the corner of his mouth, and his eyes were gentle.

Gao Ming glanced at him, the two looked at each other, each other's minds were full of various thoughts, and finally Gao Ming, who was full of imagination, was defeated, turned away his eyes first, and sat up, "I don't want to play anymore, it's boring."

Hua Rong leaned over, approached him with a smile, their noses almost touched, and said in a hoarse voice: "I think..."

Gao Ming's heart was beating wildly, at this moment he heard his father's voice from outside, probably talking to the servant girl, "What time is it, why are you still sleeping?" Then there was a muffled sound.

Parents have always been the same since ancient times. When they see their children sleeping late, they get angry for no reason. Gao Ming quickly jumped off the bed and pulled Hua Rong, "You also come down."

Hua Rong calmly said, "Where are my boots?" He moved slowly, and before he could find the boots, Gao Lian had already walked up to him.

Gao Qiu saw his son standing on the ground and Hua Rong sitting on the bed, but both of them were wearing jackets, so it could be seen that they had just woken up, "So Hua Rong is here, I thought Ming'er was the only one sleeping late."

Hua Rong found the boots, put them on and went down to the ground, and bowed to Gao Qiu, "Father."

Gao Ming hurriedly stuffed Hua Rong's robe on the clothes rack to him, and pushed him away, "I'll explain to you, you can do it quickly, don't delay."

He didn't want his father to see any clues, and tried his best to avoid Hua Rong and his father's contact again and isolate them.

Where did Gao Ming tell him anything, he just pushed him out, Hua Rong frowned and looked at Gao Ming helplessly,

"Hurry up, time waits for no one."

Gao Qiu frowned, "How can you drive people away like this?"

Hua Rong nodded, "Yes."

Gao Ming winked at Hua Rong, and mouthed, "Hurry up." Hua Rong had no choice but to listen to his wife, so he bid farewell to Gao Qiu, "I have something to do, so I'm leaving first." Gao Qiu stayed a few more words, Seeing that Hua Rong had made up his mind to go, he let him go.

After Huarong left, he complained to his son, "What are you doing? How can you drive people out?"

It's not for the sake of your health. If you accidentally see through something, chopping flowers with a knife in the first lunar month will be detrimental to your health.

"Hurry up, he's not an outsider." Gao Ming said, "He's gone, and I happen to be doing some business."

"What business are you doing?"

"Secret."

Gao Qiu had nothing to do with his son, and he didn't know if he was busy, "I'm going out as a guest, will you go?"

"No, I have business to do."

Gao Qiu nodded helplessly, "Then you can be busy, that father and Hua Rong will not bother you anymore."

Judging from your tone, you are quite upset for Huarong, Gao Ming thought.

After his father left, Gao Ming asked someone to bring a low table, pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and began to draw a sketch for making distilled wine.

-

Gao Qiu was sitting in the sedan chair, and when he opened the sedan chair curtain to look at the scenery outside, he found that Hua Rong hadn't left, but was standing on the side of the street with his horse, looking in the direction of Taiwei's Mansion.

He asked the bearer to stop the sedan chair and asked, "What are you doing standing here? Don't you have something to do?"

"It's not that I want to do something, it's that the yamen asked me to do something. It's rare to have a vacation, I don't want to go, but when I go home, I'm alone, so I'm so lonely." Hua Rong lowered his head, and his tone sounded a bit helpless.

Gao Qiu agreed: "Just now he drove you away, I felt it was wrong, the weather is cold, you don't want to stand here, go back to Taiwei's residence quickly."

Hua Rong put on a distressed expression, "But the yamen told me to go, I can't go back."

"Don't be afraid of this, I'll take you back." Gao Qiu ordered the bearer to turn around, "Go back to your residence."

Gao Ming had just sent Hua Rong away, and was drawing blueprints in the house. Unexpectedly, not only his father came back, but Hua Rong also returned in the blink of an eye.

Gao Qiu directly sent Hua Rong to Gao Ming's house, and said to his son with a somewhat reproachful tone: "It's freezing cold, and everyone is on vacation, so don't ask Hua Rong to do things, he is lonely by himself, you guys Be with each other and have a good holiday. Stop playing your temper."

Gao Ming understood everything when he saw the smile on the corner of Hua Rong's mouth.

"Father, this..." Gao Ming didn't let Huarong stay at home because he was afraid that his father would notice something.

Unexpectedly, his father took the initiative to bring Hua Rong back.

His father didn't know if he was a fan of the authorities, or he was too straight-minded, so he didn't think about anything else at all.

What else can Gao Ming say, "Yes, I will listen to you, old man."

Hua Rong looked at Gao Ming with a smile on his face, "Then can I stay tonight?"

Gao Ming smiled, "...Okay."

Seeing that the two of them were reconciled as before, Gao Qiu was very comforted in his heart, and told him a few words to go out as a guest.

-

Time moved to the courtyard.

Duan Jingzhu half-kneeled and tugged at Shi Qian's lapel, and said with a mournful face: "Brother, you also know that I have some business on the border of the Liao country. I met some people from the Liao country after I came and went, and I inevitably bragged about it. A few months ago, a group The dignitaries of the Liao Kingdom came to me and said that they wanted to use me to strengthen the officials of our Great Song Dynasty, and the rewards were quite generous. I was short of money at the time, so I agreed as soon as I got hot. They said that I could help them contact Gao Yanei."

Duan Jingzhu, the golden retriever dog, although he works in the Imperial City Division, is only a name. His most profitable way is to do business on the border of the Liao and Song Dynasties, and his position in the Imperial City Division is mainly used for gold.

Shi Qian pulled his hand away, not letting him grab his lapel, "And then? Tell the truth!"

"I wondered how far the two countries are, and I promised them that they might not make the trip. Who knew that before the Lantern Festival, this group of people suddenly contacted my subordinates in Liao, saying that they would come to Tokyo to visit, but the money had already been called. I ran out of money, so I had to agree indiscriminately, and gave them a fake address. Then I asked my subordinates in the Liao Kingdom to withdraw to the territory of Song Dynasty. Who knew that this group of people actually came, and they were still at the fake address I mentioned. Waiting for me there, today I even found them wandering around my old father's house."

Shi Qian went up and gave Duan Jingzhu a kick, "You are collaborating with the enemy country, do you know that? You don't want to live anymore?"

Duan Jingzhu had a mournful face: "I really just want to cheat some money."

Everyone in the Liao Kingdom is stupid and has a lot of money, so the other party will believe whatever he says.

"You haven't seen this group of people yet, have you?"

Seeing Duan Jingzhu nodding, Shi Qian breathed a sigh of relief, "It's good that you didn't see it. There is still room for turning around. I'll let you hide in my house! Don't let those people find it."

In this way, at most, Duan Jingzhu has a problem with his character, and he is a fraudster who deceives the people of Liao with a black heart.

If Duan Jingzhu really went through the needle and let the Liao people see Gao Yanei, then it would be really over.

But what is the origin of this group of Liao people, and why do they want to meet Gao Yanei?

It is definitely not for normal diplomacy, otherwise the emperor of Liao Kingdom sent a mission or the Song Dynasty sent a mission to go there.Why sneak into the Song Dynasty in such a sneaky way.

This look has a big problem.

After Shi Qian arranged for Duan Jingzhu, he quickly went to Gao Yanei and reported the Liao people sneaking into Tokyo.