Jiangning City during the Dragon Boat Festival is the same as Bianjing City, there is no difference.

Similarly, mugwort was smoked all over the city, and every household was busy cleaning indoors and outdoors.

By the way, I would like to take a nice vanilla bath for myself after working hard for a year.

Wang Anshi is no exception.

Duke Jing of the Song Dynasty, together with his wife early in the morning, hung sachets hanging from colorful ropes on the doors and windows of their home.

At the same time, all the incense burners at home were lit.

The sandalwood sent from the palace is slowly burned in the incense burner, which makes people feel peaceful.

The couple then directed their servants to carefully clean the inside and outside of the Wang's residence, as well as the Baoning Temple and gardens on the mountain.

Quicklime was also used, and the ditches inside and outside were sprinkled.

This is a method introduced from Bianjing.

All I know is that it is used by the royal family and all government agencies.

Therefore, families of high-ranking scholar-bureaucrats also began to follow the trend.

Even this method is of no use.

But at least, this can show my attitude to the superiors - I am a loyal minister!

After all the work was done, Wang Anshi and his wife sat on the threshold of Baoning Zen Monastery, just like in previous years, and looked at Jiangning City below the mountain.

"Badger..." Wang Anshi's wife, Mrs. Wu, gently leaned on her husband's shoulder. They were childhood sweethearts, cousins, and soul mates.

So, Wang Anshi already knew what his wife wanted to say just by listening to her voice?

It is nothing more than asking him to write to the court and ask him to use his old face to intercede with the two palaces in power.

Let his son-in-law Wu Anchi come from Taixue.

This matter, as long as he takes action, it will definitely happen.

Not just because he was the late Prime Minister and the First Assistant to the late Emperor.

Also because both palaces hated Wang Anshi.

Therefore, as long as he, Wang Anshi, bows his knees and pleads for mercy from the two palaces.

Both houses will be happy, even elated.

but……

Wang Anshi held his wife's hand and said softly: "Ying'er has suffered a lot of cold looks in the Wu family these years, and was even ostracized by her uncle and husband... At that time, did they think about me?"

"Now that the Wu family is in trouble, they want to find me?"

"You still force Ying'er to go home and kneel before me to beg?!"

Wang Anshi raised his head: "Why?"

He really hates it now!

I hate myself for being blind-sighted back then, and I also hate myself for being unable to do anything about my daughter's marriage.

"But..." Mrs. Wu sighed.

"It's nothing!" Wang Anshi interrupted his beloved wife in a rare move and said, "Unless the Wu family agrees to my request, I will never submit a letter."

Mrs. Wu lowered her head and whispered: "Badger Man, do you really want to force them to reconcile?"

Wang Anshi nodded and said resolutely: "If we don't agree with each other, are we going to make Ying'er cry in tears for the rest of her life?"

A few years ago, when his eldest daughter went home to visit her relatives, he wrote a poem that still makes him sad!

Now that I have the opportunity, I should decisively end this marriage.

When Wu Chong was alive, he often indulged Wu Anchi, neglected and even insulted his daughter.

If it weren't for Wang Anshi who loved his daughter very much, when his eldest daughter got married, he almost emptied all his savings since his official career to raise enough dowry for his eldest daughter.

Otherwise, my daughter might have been abused to death by the Wu family over the years!

"As a result...the reputation of my Linchuan Wang family..." Mrs. Wu held her husband's hand and said softly, "I'm afraid it will be ruined again."

In recent years, the Wang family in Linchuan has gained mixed reputation and reputation in the world because of her husband's political reforms.

The reputation of the Wang family suffered as a result.

In particular, Wang Anshi personally presided over the divorce between his son Wang Pang and his wife, and then married off the daughter-in-law as a daughter.

This matter has been criticized throughout Shilin.

Wang Anshi himself doesn't care.

But Mrs. Wu had to think about the future of the Wang family.

Thinking about her grandchildren and granddaughters.

Wang Anshi gently held his wife's hand. The couple had been together for decades, and they were as familiar with each other as one person. He knew that his wife was worried about future generations.

He was afraid that Wang Di would have difficulty negotiating a marriage in the future, and he was also afraid that his grandchildren would be implicated.

only……

Sacrifice your daughter for the sake of your grandson or granddaughter?

Wang Anshi can't do it!

In the past, he had no choice.

Now he has a way. No matter what the cost, he will save his daughter from the sea of ​​fire.

Besides, will the grandsons, granddaughters, and granddaughters of Prince Anshi of Jing Kingdom worry about getting married?

joke!

Wang Anshi held his wife's hand firmly and said, "Madam, there is no need to worry."

"Let Yinger stay at home."

"Whenever the Wu family figures it out and sends Ying'er's dowry, Wu Anchi's and Li Shu, I will send a letter to the two palaces and the court to plead for Wu Anchi."

This is to force the Wu family to reconcile.

And it is an extremely domineering and tough way - whether you are in harmony or not, you have to make peace, and if you are not in harmony, you still have to make peace.

There is even a threat hidden in it.

Mrs. Wu looked at her husband and sighed: "If this happens, people all over the world will probably talk about it."

Use power to bully others, force and leave.

After this incident, the tyranny of the Wang family will be spread throughout the world. In the future, those who want to marry with the Wang family will have to think carefully.

Wang Anshi smiled: "Why should I be afraid of the world's discussion?"

Ever since he wrote to the late emperor and sounded the clarion call for reform with the "Notes on Nothing Happened in This Dynasty for a Hundred Years".

How could he, Wang Anshi or Wang Jiefu, be afraid of other people's opinions? How could he ever be afraid of other people's opinions?

Don't hesitate to be the enemy of the world.

This is the nature of Wang Anshi and Wang Jiefu.

After Yuanfeng, Wang Anshi and Wang Banshan, who studied Zen and attained Taoism in Baoning Temple, were not the real him.

That Wang Banshan in Baoning Zen Monastery was just a frustrated old man who was pessimistic about his future.

But now, the Wang Jiefu of that year has come back to life.

On the day when the new king came to the throne, although he abolished the Horse Protection Law and the Market Change Law, he also began to reform at the same time, adjusting the Young Crops Law and the Exemption from Service Law. He not only retained the new party ministers, but also appointed Han Jiang as the prime minister. That day because of love

His son died young, and Wang Jiefu, who died after retiring as prime minister for the second time, has quietly resurrected.

Mrs. Wu looked at her husband.

Looking at this man, although his temples are graying, his spirit and will have been revived again.

She smiled.

So, I held tightly the hand of my husband who had been together since childhood.

"Badger Lang has made up his mind, so let's do it." Mrs. Wu said softly.

Just like when her husband insisted on reform and challenged everyone.

At that time, Mrs. Wu, now Mrs. Jing Guo, also held her husband's hand like this and gently encouraged him: Just do it.

Wang Anshi laughed.

In his life, his greatest pride and pride were never articles or achievements.

But the wife beside him.

This wife has grown up with him, knows that he understands him, and has been silently supporting him from behind.

"Good!" Wang Anshi held his wife's hand tightly.
To be continued...