sinovels Chapter 502 Kindness
Chapter 502 Kindness
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has grown up so much that he is ready to marry a wife and have children. In fact, he sees a lot of old people. He can see the Queen Mother Zhou and his grandmother every day.
The Empress Dowager Zhou is kind and amiable, and she is well cared for. Her son is filial and her grandson is caring. Although her daughter-in-law is a little upset, her granddaughter is a good one!
Secondly, all the senior ministers and edicts are well maintained. Besides, Emperor Xianzong is now making drastic reforms, and basically all ministers over 60 years old are retired.
When you go out to the streets, you can see many old people from wealthy families, and some old people are very dignified because they are the patriarchs of the family.
But I never thought that there are such old people in this world.
Although they were dressed plainly and the clothes were clean, they were not made of good materials, but they were thicker and bulging when worn on their bodies, and the effect of keeping them warm was good.
When the old people saw strangers coming, they were still a little cautious. In their place, people generally would not come to see them, they would only give things to the dean.
"Don't be afraid, everyone. These two are great benevolent people who have donated cotton and coal to the courtyard." The dean comforted them, repeating the little things they donated.
The face of His Royal Highness was red at the time, and his four carts of coal were nothing, but they were mentioned repeatedly.
Of course the old people thanked them. Wu Youwei had been to nursing homes and nursing homes before, but he always hid behind Lin Su's butler, pretending to be an ordinary person, and he never came to look behind.
Only then did I realize that the nursing home is actually very poor. There are women who take care of the elderly here, and they all wear patched clothes.
His Royal Highness waved his hands vigorously: "It's just a small effort, I dare not take credit for it."
The more polite he is, the more the old people like him, young people, know how to be motivated, and know how to be humble, how many children!
They went there in the morning, the days were short, they ate two meals, the dean took them to see the situation of the nursing home, and they had dinner very early in the afternoon.
His Royal Highness was surprised: "Dinner so early?"
"I can't help it. Some old people have a poor appetite. It takes time to digest after eating. When they are almost digested, they should go to bed." I don’t sleep much, I can’t fall asleep when I’m given tea. And some old people are taking medicine all the time, and tea has the antidote effect.”
His Royal Highness was ashamed, he didn't think so much.
Wu Youwei took him to see what the old people ate.
Potato sticks stewed with radish sticks; vermicelli stewed with cabbage, a seaweed egg soup, and soft steamed buns (corn flour and white flour are combined and fermented and steamed).
"Why... not a little bit of meat?" Such food surprised His Highness the Crown Prince.
"You can't eat too much greasy food at night. For meat, you can only eat some minced meat, such as meat buns, or minced meat, or soft and rotten meat like braised pork." The dean said: "Breakfast There are meat buns, millet porridge, egg custard and some salted eggs."
Although they thought they were rich, in the eyes of His Royal Highness, they were very simple.
Wu Youwei thought for a while: "I personally donate another [-] sheep. The mutton can be used to make mutton buns, and the bones of the mutton can be used to make soup, and the mutton can keep the cold out."
Haggis can also be put in the soup, which is a little heart for the old people.
"That's great." The dean was very happy: "We'll make sheepskins out of sheepskin for the old people to wear. It's better to keep out the cold."
His Highness the Crown Prince clenched his fists, but said nothing.
After leaving the nursing home, Wu Youwei took him to the Yuyingtang.
There were children there, ranging from all ages to those who were less than ten days old, the youngest; the oldest were almost sixteen, and they were about to leave the nursery and be self-reliant.
Fifteen or sixteen children are taking care of those under ten years old, and those above ten years old are doing their homework.
When Wu Youwei arrived with His Royal Highness, they were about to have dinner.
The children here are well-raised, they are not yellow and thin, but there are a few children who are born with disabilities and were discarded because of their disabilities; there are also many girls who were discarded by their families because they are daughters.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was shocked, because in his outlook on life, girls are good too. Look at how the emperor treats the princesses very carefully!
Moreover, he saw that these children wrote in small characters, and after asking, he realized that it was to save paper. The smaller the characters are, the less paper they take up, and they write on both sides....
I used quill pens and pencils. The writing brushes were used after writing, and the writing brushes were all bald.
His Royal Highness looked very sad.
He still remembered that all he used were red sandalwood wolf hair pens, and he would not use them or even throw them away if he didn't feel comfortable with them. His pens were always the best and the most convenient....
But the children here are not enough....
Ink ingots are not thrown away until there is only a little bit left after grinding. Some people use wooden blocks to make a support, and continue to use them after inlaying.
Inkstone is also the most common kind.
The paper is very good, because it was made by Wu Youwei, and even now Daming has household paper... Although at the beginning, everyone said it was insulting, but the use of it is indeed inferior It is much more convenient.
During the meal, the headmaster of the Yuying Hall enthusiastically kept the two of them for dinner, because when they came, they also gave them the same things as they had sent to the Nursing Home.
Although the living conditions are better, the food they eat is still very ordinary. Eggplant with minced meat can be regarded as a meat dish, followed by stewed potherb mustard with tofu, big bone soup, and shredded potatoes and cabbage in the soup.
The staple food is cornmeal pancakes, so to say they are delicious, they are normal.
It's just that the children cherish what they eat, and no one has leftovers, even the soup.
"It's good to drink big bone soup now, and occasionally there is dried shrimp and seaweed soup." The hall master said: "There are also donated chicken skeletons, which are also very good for making soup, and the chicken skeletons in sauce are also delicious... . . . "
His Highness the Crown Prince was very sad when he heard these words. The sheep bone soup he drank in the palace, and the little eunuch who introduced the dishes said that he boiled it all night with a whole sheep skeleton. I don't know how many chicken skeletons were added.
He doesn't usually like to drink this kind of soup, so he just drinks it to warm his body in winter.
And this kind of soup, they only have one bowl a day, and they drink it so clean...
Ashamed, so ashamed.
After dinner, Wu Youwei left with the ashamed Crown Prince, and when he went out, he happened to catch up with Wu Xiao's people to deliver things.
They sent sheep skeletons, chicken skeletons and other things.
Those who run a restaurant have a lot of such things, especially sheep skeletons, lamb kebabs and mutton boiled lamb, and they don’t need so many lamb skeletons except for soup.
If the rest is too wasteful to throw away, they are reluctant to give it away, so they send it to the Yuyingtang every day. There are not only children who need bone soup, but also breastfeeding women who need nutrition so that they can produce more milk to feed their babies.
In addition to these, there are a lot of crucian carp, because crucian carp soup promotes lactation....
His Highness the Crown Prince deliberately opened it and took a look, and found that there was a lot of meat on the bone...
After looking at the two places, His Highness the Crown Prince was very touched. Wu Youwei sent him back to the palace. Before leaving, Wu Youwei said: "Your Highness has grown up, and I will not talk about those great principles. Tomorrow, I will accompany you to visit some other places."
"Okay, thank you, sir." His Royal Highness raised his fists and saluted.
"You're welcome." Wu Youwei smiled and said, "I will take my leave."
After the two separated, Wu Youwei returned home, and Wantong was boxing under the cold moon, flowing like clouds and flowing water, and tigers and tigers bristling with wind.
Seeing Wu Youwei come back, he withdrew his punches: "Why is it so late today?"
"I went to the Nursing Home and the Yuyingtang." Wu Youwei said, "By the way, I had dinner at the Yuyingtang."
When the weather was cold, they ate two meals, a late breakfast and an early dinner, and sometimes they would have some snacks at noon to pad their stomachs.
"Take Your Highness the Crown Prince? I heard today that Wan Xinpeng took people out, and they are all good players." Jin Yiwei couldn't be transferred easily, and even if he was on a temporary mission in Beijing, Wan Xinpeng needed to lead the team himself.
Unless, the emperor is out of the palace, or His Royal Highness the crown prince is out of the palace.
"Yeah." Wu Youwei nodded: "Hey hey, the child is well educated!"
"You!" Wantong pulled him into the door and removed his overcoat: "I have someone prepare your favorite beef noodle soup, do you want some?"
Beef noodle soup is a handicraft handed down by the new chef from Lanzhou. Wu Youwei really doesn’t have it in his space: “Okay!”
In Lanzhou now, there are Lanzhou Wei, Zhuang Langwei, and Su Wangfu.
This time it was King Su who gave Wantong a gift, hoping that he could speak well in front of Emperor Xianzong and help him secure the kingdom.
Su Wang's lineage has been passed down for three generations, and this generation is the fourth generation. The military and government in Gansu is naturally out of his jurisdiction, but Su Wang's lineage has always been in Lanzhou.
In the first year of Emperor Huizong of the Ming Dynasty, King Su Zhu Mo led the central guards of Ganzhou to Lanzhou (Lanzhou), defending the city with [-]% of the soldiers and [-]% of the soldiers to farm the fields. In addition, immigrants from the southeastern provinces continued to move to Lanzhou to build water conservancy projects and promote economic development. The population increased, and by the time of Chenghua, Lanzhou had "more than [-] military and civilian dwellings inside and outside the city walls."
It is a populous state.
It's just that their lineage is relatively unlucky. From the first generation of King Su, they were concubines, the second generation was still a concubine, the third generation was still a concubine, and in the fourth generation... a concubine would inherit the throne.
Su Wang, one of the original "Nine Kings of the Frontier", was later renamed Su Wang by Emperor Yongle.
At the beginning, it was Ganzhou, the provincial capital of Gansu, and later changed to Lanzhou.
But wherever their palace is, it is enough to vigorously develop it.
In the end, he held his breath. He couldn't win the king of Yan back then, so he was not convinced!
So these years have been working hard to manage their own one-acre three-point land.
Now that it's a good time, the emperor actually asked the vassal... to govern the country!
Even if it is "subject to the country", it is still a "country"!
What are you afraid of?
The sky is high and the emperor is far away!
That's a good thing!
So King Su couldn't sit still anymore, so he quickly found a relationship to give gifts, asked someone to do something, and quickly closed the country for him.
Wantong didn't accept the gift, he avoided such a thing, how could he accept the generous gift from the prince at will?
But the people sent by King Su were very smart. After he went back, he told King Su about Wantong's taboos, but then they found a servant in the kitchen of a wealthy family.
This cook's family is the son of this wealthy family. The whole family was bought by the Wangfu and given directly to Wantong. They just said that they found him a cook who is proficient in Lanzhou pasta......
Then this cook became the person in charge of supper. Together with Alan, the cook from Shanghai, she was only responsible for some food in the first half of the night. Occasionally, the master specially rewarded them so that the whole family could eat supper.
In fact, they don't know that not all of the extra bowls made occasionally were eaten by people, and some of them were put into the space by Wu Youwei as food reserves... oh, reserve for supper.
A meal of beef ramen, a nest of shredded noodles made by the cook, thin noodles, yellowish beef soup... Wu Youwei finished off a big bowl.
There were several slices of beef on it. Seeing Wu Youwei eating so fast, Wan Tong went to the kitchen and brought him another plate of sauced beef, and ate it with him.
The next day, Wu Youwei took His Royal Highness out again, this time the first one went to Anjifang, there were not many patients, and there were not many medicinal materials. It's worse, he is a doctor, he is not enthusiastic about people, he only knows to greet them, and let people rush to make medicine.
The two of them sent two carts of medicinal materials over, but they just got a "thank you" from the owner of the shop, and it was over. They didn't take them in for a walk, to have a look, and they were just left there.
Fortunately, because there are students from Xinglin Medical College doing internships here, and there are quite a few of them. Some of them know Wu Youwei, but seeing that he came here in casual clothes, and he is not the same as usual, so he didn't call out his identity, but told them : "I won't take you inside. There are all sick people there. If you go in, you are afraid of getting sick. It's better to go outside and have a look. If you have nothing to do, come here and give me some medicinal materials."
Then, they were respectfully but undeniably... sent out.
"This...?" His Royal Highness was confused.
"I didn't intend to take you in either. There are all sick people there. What if the infection is transmitted to you?" Wu Youwei himself was not afraid, but not this one.
No matter how spiritual water is in hand, he can't take risks!
The two brought in the medicinal materials, but they didn't see the patient, only saw a few recovered people basking in the sun, so they took a bus to the next stop.
There are few people in the nursing home, and the director said cheerfully: "The number of people has decreased in recent years, the Ming Dynasty is prosperous, and the people are in good health!"
Well, this is the only place that makes His Royal Highness happy.
There are quite a few people in the Futian courtyard, but most of them are believers working as volunteers, and doing good deeds with a few pious lay people.
The two scholars looked outside. His Highness the Crown Prince's attitude towards religion has inherited the stubbornness and prejudice of the Zhu family.
Don't believe it all, and don't say you don't believe it.
Perhaps, this is the attitude of the monarchs of the past dynasties towards the theory of ghosts and gods.
Of these three places, the one that touched His Royal Highness the most was Anji Square.
On the third day, Wu Youwei took him out again, but changed into plain clothes and went to the funeral store as soon as he went out instead of taking a car.
Wu Youwei asked people to buy a lot of sacrificial items, incense and candles, and even paper figurines, chariots, cattle and horses, etc. They were pulled by two carriages to a very remote place in the suburbs of Beijing.
This is in the suburbs of Beijing. Logically speaking, there should be people coming and going, but it is very quiet, solemn, and quiet here.
Until a very huge manor, this manor...His Royal Highness looked at it, frowned and said: "This is?"
"This is the Louze Garden." Wu Youwei pointed to the words on the plaque and said, "It was written in the official script of the Han Dynasty, and it was written by the heavenly masters of the day."
After entering, there are already people working here.
They are making coffins, which are the simplest coffins for civilians. In the yard of the second entrance, white sail tents are all set up, and bamboo mats are kept inside, and bones are rolled up one by one.
On the other side, there is another courtyard, which is also built with a mourning hall.
After Wu Youwei came in, the head of the garden naturally received them: "Who are you?"
"Come to pay homage to the souls of heroes and dead." Wu Youwei said with a heavy face, "My family is also...the descendants of military households."
"Oh, please come here." The principal led them into the mourning hall.
After Wu Youwei and the others entered, they respectfully offered incense and offered sacrifices. Wu Youwei even kowtowed sincerely. His Highness the Crown Prince was a little awkward at first, but seeing that the master had done this, he followed suit.
The director bowed his head solemnly and said, "Thank you for your visit!"
He also kowtowed the same way as his family thanked them.Wu Youwei got up and said: "Director, there are sacrificial items delivered outside, please excuse me."
"You're welcome." The principal cupped his hands and went out to call for people to unload things.
Wu Youwei looked at the densely packed tablets in front of him, and asked His Royal Highness, "Do you know who they are?"
"I don't know." His Royal Highness shook his head.
Some of the names on the ranking list are very simple, such as Zhang Shili and Li Erniu, and some are very elegant. It seems that scholars named their children, some are named Zheng Xiang, some are named Ziyu, and so on.
"Some of these people were killed by the enemy during the defense of the capital. They were all righteous men who died defending the capital. Their bones were scattered everywhere. Many have been found over the years, but those who could be returned to their families have been returned. These people , there is no family, or in other words, the family is here too."
Wu Youwei said: "There are also orphan soldiers serving in Beijing. They all died on duty and have no family members. Therefore, this is the place to handle funeral affairs for them and pay homage to the dead."
To put it bluntly, in addition to "begging for the bones to be buried", it is to build a funeral tomb and bury them.
"After the founding of the country by Taizu, the imperial court ordered the people to set up graves to restrain the bones and lonely souls of the four fields." Wu Youwei continued: "In the fourth year of Tianshun, the first emperor ordered all counties and counties to set up Luze gardens, so that people can be buried in the soil for peace. After the refugees passed away, there were many skeletons and dead bodies in the wilderness, and after each battle, there were also many soldiers... buried in the battlefield."
After the great wars in ancient times, unlike the modern times, when someone took care of the aftermath, they almost found a place to dig a big pit and buried their comrades. It is a very good treatment to be able to bring the ashes back to their hometown. Many people are buried on the spot. The family members couldn't find the grave.
"These...are the spiritual positions of the people who guarded the capital back then. Wu Youwei pointed to the spiritual positions and said: "Without them, we might have attacked in first. "
His Royal Highness bowed his head solemnly, he didn't know this.
"Your Highness, give them a salute and thank them for their dedication to Daming." Wu Youwei said: "Thank them for defending the capital back then."
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince saluted sincerely.
Then Wu Youwei took him to another mourning hall, where the spirit tablets enshrined were small banners, general banners, etc. in the army.
It is a person with the official position of a general, but a low-ranking official.
"Here are low-ranking military officials who died after going out of business in Beijing. They are all orphans and have no family members. They have to deal with their funeral affairs here." Wu Youwei touched the spiritual seats: "His Royal Highness, give them a salute." Bar."