Chapter 496: The Second Prince's Careful Thoughts
Meng Ge knew very well that it was a medicine that was poisonous, and she had been taking medicine before, although it was just some warm medicinal materials, but it was also medicine.
Therefore, after being diagnosed with pregnancy, she refused to take medication, and when she had to use medication as a last resort, she mainly used medicinal diet.
Old Imperial Doctor Lin and others also knew that it was not good to use too much medicine, so they contributed some of the best pills in the family to let Meng Ge save his life at a critical time.
Meng Ge thought to himself, if his heart is relieved, his body will naturally be able to raise well, and the child will not be affected. But at the time of production, there is certainly no guarantee.
Therefore, she unceremoniously accepted those precious pills, and happily took Wang Ran and the others back to Xintang Village.
Left Xintang Village for half a year, no, after she returned to Xintang Village, she didn't live for half a year, and now when she comes back, she finds that there seems to be a change in the village.
What she didn't expect was that Yu Yang actually came back.
At this time, Yu Yang lost the sharpness and prestige he had when he was in the army, and he was wearing the clothes of ordinary people, and he was building a house with others on the old site of the original Yu family.
Seeing Meng Ge and them coming back, Yu Yang was happy at first, and smiled and nodded at them from afar.
It's just that as Meng Ge and the others get closer and closer, the expression on his face becomes more and more intriguing. It's like the look of an old acquaintance in a foreign land, and you're worried that the person won't remember him, or disdain to recognize him.
Meng Mao may have been suspicious of Yu Yang and had some resentment. After all, when Wang Ran had an accident in the northwest, the news that came back said that Yu Yang was involved.
As for what he did, Meng Ge didn't ask until now. She was worried that if she asked, she would be disappointed and regret it.
Fortunately, she didn't ask, and no one explained it to her, so she didn't know about it.
She and Yu Yang would receive some punishment for this incident, but she didn't expect him to appear in Xintang Village.
Meng Mao stepped forward to greet Yu Yang with a hesitant face and asked him: "Isn't Brother Yu Yang in the northwest, why did you come back? I heard that now is the time to employ people in the army, why didn't you fight there?"
Even if he was dissatisfied with Yu Yang, Meng Mao still cared about Yu Yang very much. Anyway, they are brothers who have depended on each other for many years.
Yu Yang smiled slightly, glanced at Meng Ge and said to Meng Mao: "I don't want to sell my life anymore, so I quit the military and came back, became a small catcher in the county government, and married a wife and had children by the way." In our Yu family, I am the only one left. ”
Meng Ji also stepped forward to say hello, and when he heard the words, he said, "It's rare that you can figure it out." Now that I'm back, I'm going to live a good life. Being a headhunter is indeed better than working hard at the border to make a living. "It's just that the future is not so bright.
Yu Yang said after hearing this: "I don't want to have much success, so I just want to pass on the bloodline of our Yu family no matter what." It just so happened that this time for meritorious service, the emperor rewarded me with two large farms, and I came back. ”
In fact, Yu Yang's net worth is not so small, but it is a pity that he was really wrong in the matter of Qingniang, and it almost made Qi Song Jiangshan turbulent again, so the emperor deducted his private property, and just gave him two farms near Qinshan County.
But he now has a lot of gold and silver on him, which were confiscated in the past during the war, and those emperors have confiscated them.
Even at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the emperor had a headache in terms of money, but he did not think about looting finances from the soldiers.
Those are all accumulated little by little by them fighting on the battlefield, and he can't compete with the soldiers.
Now is the time when the Qi and Song dynasties are in ruins, and the emperor only thinks about how to make the people have enough to eat, and abolish all those things that cost the people and money.
No farming, no stability, no business, no wealth. The previous Great Song Dynasty also had a heyday. In times of war, the money should be pocketed by the capitalists.
In order to extract enough wealth from those people, the first thing the emperor had to do was to let the people cultivate the land with peace of mind, and let the merchants restore the market.
Once the people have eased up, the market will be alive, and those who guard the money will also take it out to supplement the market.
At that time, the various taxes collected by the imperial court will also be guaranteed.
This is also the reason why the emperor has to reward Zhuangzi's fields. Only when more people plant the fields and people's livelihood is guaranteed, then the world will be stable.
In a stable world, business activities must be rich and colorful, and those who hide the money will be relieved to take out the money and invest it.
With more living money in the market, the more resources the emperor can use in his hands, and then he will be able to show his strength and accomplish his great cause.
It stands to reason that a person like Yu Yang who has committed some unforgivable sins, no matter how good he behaves in the later stage, he should not be rewarded.
The emperor confiscated all his assets and imprisoned him, and no one would say anything excessive.
However, for the sake of the overall situation, the emperor finally let Wang Ran go, and just took some more solid shops and houses from him, and the rest was still kept for him.
But what he wants to do is to plant the two Zhuangzi rewarded by the emperor and contribute to the granary of the world.
Looking at Wang Ran like this, in fact, there is no way to go further in the army. His behavior at that time was tantamount to collaborating with the enemy and treason, and no one wanted to reuse such a person.
It is indeed rare for Wang Ran to figure out this, and Meng Ge appreciates him a little. But those who see the benefits of power will easily not let go of that desire for power.
But she was curious about what happened to the young lady in the end. No matter how she said it, she was pregnant with Yu Yang's child.
But Wang Ran didn't let Meng Ge ask, just simply greeted Yu Yang, asked him to continue to work on his own business, and took Meng Ge back to the Meng family's courtyard.
"Can't you ask about this?" Meng Ge was puzzled.
Wang Ran didn't care about the various scenes of reunion after a long absence in the courtyard, and directly pulled Meng Ge back to her room, until the person was properly placed on the couch, he said softly: "That matter is not as simple as you think." ”
Could it be that the young lady is pregnant with someone else's child, and the child's father is very valuable, or is the young lady herself a noble girl?
Wang Ran shook his head, nodded again, and said with a doting smile: "You guessed half right, and the other half is something you can't think of." ”
Meng Ge followed up and asked, she didn't believe that the identity of that young lady was really so noble.
"Qingniang is also a slave girl, who has been specially trained to be a meticulous worker. The reason why he was placed next to the Fu Governor's Mansion was because only our Wang family and the Meng family were the only ones who insisted on guarding the frontier back then. My grandfather and General Meng Lao were both from Fubei Prefecture. After Wang Ran finished speaking, he looked at Meng Ge with a smile.
Meng Ge suddenly realized and said, "But why don't they just place people in the two of you, and turn a big bend to put people next to the prefect's daughter." ”
Wang Ran laughed and said, "I also planted people in our two homes." It's a pity that our family sent a lot of people out to deliver the news at that time, and that little guy was unfortunately killed on the road. As for those who were planted in the Meng family, they were all brought to disaster by those people, and they didn't get any news, and finally they were sold into the kiln. ”
Fu Zhifu was also very cautious at that time, and he would not let some dangerous factors appear around him at all. There was no way, in the end, they could only start with their families, and in the end, only the role of Qingniang was placed.
Qingniang has also stirred up a lot of things over the years, but it was all destroyed by that Tang Jing intentionally or unintentionally, which is really amazing.
When we checked the Fu Mansion again, we learned that Tang Jing was a big-chested and brainless person, and it was all out of luck that he could break Qingniang.
It is precisely because of this that Qingniang will repeatedly provoke the people of the Tang family, take Tang Jing away, or instigate Tang Jing to do something stupid.
mentioned Fu Li, Wang Ran said to Meng Ge with great interest: "At the beginning, the young lady left the power of the Fu family, and the idea was to tie up Fu Li, so that she could be used as a hostage at a critical time, but it happened to be intercepted by Yu Yang in the middle of the road, and she was personally returned to the Fu family who was chasing after her. Later, when the northwest happened, that Fu Li actually asked the prefect to help Yu Yang. I don't know what Yu Yang thinks now. ”
There is such a thing, Meng Ge didn't even know about it. Fortunately, it's not too late for her to find out now.
"According to what you say, isn't Yu Yang the life-saving benefactor of Fu Li?How does the Fu family plan to repay this kindness?"
Wang Ran laughed again, nodded her little nose, and said, "You want to be beautiful." The Fu family is not the largest and most capitalized in the family, but they are indeed a century-old scholarly family, how could they marry their daughter to Yu Yang. If you rise to the top and become a lieutenant or something, maybe it's still a little possible. But the girl seemed to be a little interesting, and seemed to be running away from home. ”
In other words, the people of the Fu family did not agree, but Fu Li wanted to follow Yu Yang when he died. It's good to do this, but I don't know if Fu Lijie doesn't mind the young lady.
The topic turned back to the young lady, and Yu Yang laughed even more, saying: "That young lady thinks that she has calculated Yu Yang, but in fact, she is the one who is calculated." The Fan Shu who is quite close to Yu Yang is also the captain who was planted in the army outside by the enemy camp and was saved twice by you, and he is the father of the child in Qing Niang's womb. Fan Shu and Qingniang are actually childhood sweethearts, and they have even been engaged, and later by chance, both of them were sent to the Great Song Dynasty. ”
Mongo couldn't believe his ears, he couldn't understand how things could be so variable. "Qing Niang doesn't even know if the person in her body is Yu Yang or Fan Shu?"
Wang Ran smiled ambiguously and said, "Maybe, if someone else gets close to you, do you know who it is?"
"But Qingniang didn't know, I had seen her, and she firmly believed that the child was Yu Yang's. Meng Ge hammered Wang Ran with a fist in dissatisfaction.
Wang Ran wrapped Meng Ge's fist with little strength, and then said proudly: "That's because Qingniang is stupid, Yu Yang has never been close to her, and she has always been a fan technique." She also thought that she had spent a good night with Yu Yang, but it turned out to be an illusion created by Yu Yang. ”
Well, that's what happened. It's no wonder that when she was in the northwest, Yu Yang, who was questioned by her about this matter, was so aggrieved.
"He's still a little cautious, so I don't have to worry about him having a bad time in the future. Mongo yawned slightly, and his voice grew quieter.
Wang Ran waited for Meng Ge to fall asleep before he got up and went out, he wanted to see the second prince on behalf of the emperor.
After Meng Ge brought the second prince back from the capital, he didn't have time to arrange for him, so he handed him over to Meng Mao to take care of. It's a pity that Meng Mao was also taken to the capital later.
Seeing the second prince again, he did have more aura than when he was in the palace. It's just that the uneasiness between his eyebrows and eyes is obvious.
"Second prince, the emperor asked me to tell you, saying that you don't have to worry about your mother's concubine, he won't let people bully your mother's concubine. Also, he asked you to live as happily as possible in the past two years, just treat yourself as a child of this family, and do whatever you want, as long as you don't commit crimes. However, he demanded that you have to return to Beijing after two years, and that you must accept the master and study that he arranged for you. Wang Ran didn't turn around, he was straightforward.
This child, before his mother confirmed that she was pregnant with him, was imprisoned underground by his second uncle. Until he was born, he was heartily taught to look like a great prince, and he never got free.
He once told Meng Ge that the most comfortable time for him was to follow the eldest princess and be escorted to the capital on the way.
At that time, he really thought that he could spread his wings and run freely between heaven and earth. Until he was sent to the palace.
Facing the ubiquitous palace people, he felt that he had returned to the dark time of the previous years.
It is precisely because of this that the emperor wanted the second prince to follow Meng Ge, come here to enjoy the free air, and live for himself for two years by the way.
"It's a chance to give him a chance to untie the knot, but if it doesn't work, then he can only maintain the status quo. That's what the emperor said to Meng Ge at that time.
Now Wang Ran said this to the second prince, just because he didn't want him to waste these two rare years. He has been in Xintang Village for almost half a year, but he has not been out of the Meng family's courtyard much.
If this continues, the emperor's original intention seems to be in vain.
After the second prince listened to Wang Ran's words, his eyes burst into light. He looked at the people who had come to serve him, and asked cautiously, "Then I don't want them to follow me, is it okay?" ”
Wang Ran looked at the palace people who were always looking at each other, staring at the second prince all day long, and they were not allowed to do this, and they were not allowed to do that, and nodded happily and said, "I'll let people send them back to the capital." If you are outside, why should these people be an eyesore in front of you? ”
The second prince cheered, ignored the obstruction of the nurse and the attendant, ran out of the room with a smoke, and went to find Meng Mao.
After Wang Ran and the others left, they stared at those people with sharp eyes and warned: "Don't forget who is the master, the master should have the appearance of the master, not a puppet under your control." ”
After speaking, Wang Ran turned around and went out. He had to go and give a good account of those guards, and arrange two or three secret guards for the second prince by the way.
The second prince was like a bird that was released, and threw himself under the wings of Meng Mao, and circled around Meng Mao all day long, so that Meng Mao would take him to play no matter what.
Meng Mao didn't get tired of it, and simply handed over the person to Wu'er and Liu'er, just telling them that this was the child of a relative of the Wang family, and let them play with it as an ordinary person.
Wang Ran and Meng Ge also agreed to Meng Mao's assignment, so they let the second prince toss by himself.
It was only at this time that the second prince sat contentedly on a peach tree on the bank of the creek in Xintang Village, and secretly rejoiced: "Master, I can finally live for myself, it's good." After two years, I will pretend to be pitiful again, and maybe I won't have to go back to the palace at that time. ”.