Chapter 65 The world is in tatters and needs someone to mend it
Lin Qianqian's marriage with the Gu family has been settled.
Gu Yun was somewhat unhappy about this marriage as he did not like women who were as rude as warriors, but he did not object to the engagement on the spot.
After all, in his opinion, marriage is a matter of parents' orders and matchmaker's words, and it is not up to him, a junior, to make the decision.
But in his heart he just disliked Lin Qianqian, and he was extremely disgusted by the fact that Lin Qianqian was a military general.
He decided to wait for Lin Qianqian to return to Beijing, and then he would talk to Lin Qianqian face to face and ask her to cancel the engagement on her own initiative.
He is a scholar and cannot disobey his parents' orders.
The best strategy is to let the other party propose to cancel the engagement.
Especially since someone mentioned to him that during marches and battles, he had to sleep with many men, and he was afraid that he had lost his chastity long ago.
He became even more disgusted with Lin Qianqian.
The Gu family has a noble reputation and they would never marry a woman of questionable character like Lin Qianqian.
Speaking of Gu Yun, he is a handsome man. Even his washed-out scholar's robe cannot hide his elegance, especially in winter when he always has a folding fan in his hand.
The painting on the fan is an extremely meaningful ink-and-wash landscape painting.
When he walks around, he is so charming and very popular among girls.
He has a different temperament from Guanjun Hou. Although Guanjun Hou is always smiling and talking every day, in the eyes of the girls in Beijing, Guanjun Hou is cold and unapproachable. But Gu Yun is different.
Gu Yun also had to go to the brothel to chat with the courtesan about poetry, calligraphy and painting.
In the Great Yan Dynasty, men and women were never equal.
It was considered extremely rebellious for women to visit brothels, but it was very popular for scholars to visit brothels and they were praised for their elegance.
Gu Yun's initial fame for his talent came from brothels.
There has been a lot more laughter and joy in the Lin Mansion recently.
Although Wang and Lin Qingyun regretted that they were unable to arrange a marriage between Baozhu and Guanjun Hou, they were able to arrange a marriage between Lin Qianqian and the Gu family, which also brought smiles to their faces.
Wang was already looking forward to a bright future. "No matter how capable she is, she will only be tortured if she enters the Gu family with its strict rules."
These words touched Lin Qingyun's heart. "Finally, a worrying matter has been solved. In the future, we don't have to do anything. Someone will take care of her for us."
The couple stayed together at night, completely putting aside all the previous unpleasantness.
There is also someone in the Lin family who wants to be well of Lin Qianqian.
It was the mean old lady Lin from the past. She was almost done with the sleeping tea powder that Lin Qianqian gave her.
The effect is really good!
Unfortunately, when I took it to the pharmacy, the doctor said that he couldn't make such a sleeping tea.
The old lady only hoped that Lin Qianqian would return from the border as soon as possible, and that Lin Qianqian would be safe and sound, and nothing would go wrong, otherwise she would not be able to drink sleeping tea in the future.
If you don’t drink sleeping tea, you won’t be able to sleep. Not being able to sleep is a very painful thing, more painful than death.
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Today is a nice sunny day.
Lin Qianqian passed by the City God Temple and saw three bodies being carried out.
After asking, we found out that three little beggars had frozen to death in the City God Temple last night. Their bodies were stiff when they were carried out.
They are all in their teens, and their best life has not yet begun. It's a pity.
The man walking in front carrying the corpse had red eyes and said, "Miss, you don't know, six beggars died here the day before yesterday, twice as many as today."
The man walking behind said: "In this world, we ordinary people just want to survive, why is it so difficult!"
Lin Qianqian had not come to Beiyue City before, so ignorance was not a crime.
Now that she has seen it with her own eyes, she is bound to do something about it.
We can't allow this kind of death anymore.
She visited Beiyue City these days and found that the people here lived a very miserable life.
Not only the Jiang family members were pale and thin, but the other people were the same, all of them were skinny.
Occasionally, I saw adults and children going out, many of whom could not even afford shoes. They walked barefoot on the snow, their feet were red and swollen, and their thin and tattered clothes were rustling in the cold wind.
In the clinic, we often encounter people who need amputation due to frostbite.
The prices here are ridiculously high, and food is much more expensive than in the capital, but the wages here are only five or six cents a day, and the key is that many people are scrambling to do it.
The price of grain here is 18 wen per pound. You can't even buy half a pound of grain after working hard all day, which is not enough to feed your family.
The local people ate potatoes and cabbages stored in cellars in winter.
They were reluctant to buy food, so they just ate potatoes as their staple food. Most families only had one meal a day, just hoping not to starve to death.
There were countless beggars on the streets, more than twice as many as in other cities she had visited.
In Lin Qianqian's view, not allowing the people to have enough food to eat is a dereliction of duty on the part of local officials.
The war is not very intense now. The northern barbarians only occasionally invade the small towns and villages near Beiyue Pass.
Beiyue City is still safe, and the government can devote some of its energy to improving people's livelihood.
The most urgent thing now is to solve the survival problem of the people in Beiyue Pass.
It’s really miserable to eat one meal a day, it’s all because of poverty.
The winters here are too cold, so it is difficult to farm or raise livestock, and it is difficult to find ways to increase people's income.
But difficulty doesn’t mean there is no way out.
However, to improve people's lives, Qin Chuan's approval is also required, because in Beiyue City, Qin Chuan is the real boss.
Lin Qianqian dragged Si Xuan to find Qin Chuan together. As soon as she saw Qin Chuan, she took the initiative to say, "Everyone in Beiyue City praises Lord Qin as a good official. You are the boss here, so you must have a way to increase the income of the people."
The people are all praising you, Qin Chuan, so you, Qin Chuan, should at least express your appreciation.
Qin Chuan said that this was difficult, "I can't do it either! Beiyue City is not as prosperous as the South, and it snows for half a year, so it's difficult to do anything."
Lin Qianqian: "I heard that a few months ago, Marshal Qin requisitioned civilian workers to build a road, but he didn't pay them. However, the court allocated funds for the road construction."
Qin Chuan was not panicked when his weakness was exposed. He just said, "Oh, it must be that my subordinates were negligent. I will have someone settle the road construction fee with the migrant workers."
Lin Qianqian: If I hadn’t pointed it out, this guy would have quietly embezzled the money. It’s really despicable.
Your wife, Marshal Qin, soaks her skin in a pool of goat's milk every day to maintain her skin. It's so luxurious, but you still want to rob the poor of their money. It's really abominable.
Lin Qianqian had witnessed what happened at the back door of the Marshal's Mansion.
Many ordinary people braved the severe cold and waited outside the Marshal's Mansion for the Marshal's wife to get up and wash her face.
They did not mind the dirty goat milk for washing their faces, they just wanted to use it to fill their stomachs, but the maid who was responsible for pouring the goat milk deliberately spilled it on the ground and made the people kneel down to lick it.
The Marshal's wife stood aside and watched with a smile on her face, as if she was watching the funniest thing in the world.
This is truly the case of rich people feasting and drinking wine while poor people freeze to death on the streets.
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