8. Odd women

That night, Tang Xiaoshi dreamed, she dreamed of Su Ming.

Su Ming's dormitory was full of wine bottles, and he hid alone in a dim corner, holding a photo of Tang Xiaoshi in his hand, and was crying in his arms, holding a diary, which was a relic of Xiaoshi, recording the little things he and her.

He lost his former handsome masculinity, became thin and sloppy, his messy hair covered his eyes, and he saw his lips whispering softly:

"Xiaoshi, why am I so stupid, why didn't I find out that you like me......"

"On September 3, 2014, I successfully learned mixed sauce noodles! Su Ming, this pig said it was delicious...... Yes, Xiaoshi, the noodles you made are the best, can you come back and make me another bowl? ”

"On March 7, 2015, it was great to be able to come back for Girls' Day! The mission failed, Su Ming and I were almost blown up, if I encounter danger next time, I think I will die for Su Ming...... Silly girl, you are so good, I am the most failed and worst partner, and I am not worthy of your death for me. ”

"Little poem, I miss you, I miss you, I miss you......"

"Little poem, if I can do it all over again, I will definitely fall in love with you first......"

Seeing Su Ming's painful appearance, Tang Xiaoshi's heart was like a knife, she wanted to walk over, she wanted to hold Su Ming, who was as poor as a child, in her arms, she wanted to kiss his lips and tell him, she had never regretted falling in love with him, and she had never regretted dying for him.

She wants to sue him for living in another world, and sue him for finding a better one and taking good care of her......

But Tang Xiaoshi couldn't move her legs, she couldn't open her mouth, an invisible force controlled her, she could only stand a few meters away and quietly watch Su Ming's pain, suffering for his pain......

Suddenly, someone pushed the door open, and a ray of sunlight shone in.

Tang Xiaoshi woke up. The wooden windows creaked, the cold wind howled outside, and the dim candlelight flickered...... This qiē shows that she is still in the ghost place of the Chu Dynasty.

How Tang Xiaoshi thinks that this qiē is all a dream, explosion, death, and crossing...... It's all a dream, and when she woke up, she found that Su Ming was knocking on the door, urging her to hurry up and make something to eat. But what is in front of her, around her, all of them, is so real, so real that she is only allowed to accept it.

Tang Xiaoshi sat up, hugged her knees, a teardrop slipped silently from her face, she was reluctant to Su Ming, she missed the past, but at this moment she couldn't do anything, she didn't even have an object to talk to, no one knew who she was, no one knew where she came from.

But no matter how tormented she was, the tenacity in her bones did not allow her to succumb to reality.

"Su Ming, you will definitely live well, right? Just like me, I will definitely live well. ”

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In King Jing's Mansion, this night, Chu Ming couldn't sleep for a long time, and he was still thinking about the things during the day. That woman was so abnormal, it was like a reborn person, neither noisy, nor seeking death, nor brazenly asking for an heir.

The tone of her speech seems to have changed, no longer arrogant and arrogant, but a little more calm and strategic. Listening to the servants at home, the woman's dress has also changed, no longer rouge, no longer colorful, dressed very plainly, and there is still a bit of beauty under the plain brocade.

Is this really still Tang Xiaoshi? Where did her salt-making skills come from? What really happened this year?

Chu Ming suddenly felt that he didn't know Tang Xiaoshi anymore, she was like a big mystery waiting for him to solve.

At the third watch, the side door of the house opened, and Uncle Fu came back. During the day, as soon as Tang Xiaoshi's front foot left, Uncle Fu followed him out, and Chu Ming sent him to investigate what Tang Xiaoshi had done this year.

Uncle Fu saw that the lights in the prince's house were still on, so he simply knocked on the door and went in, ready to report what he had seen and heard that day. Chu Ming poured a bowl of hot tea for Uncle Fu, and when Uncle Fu sat down, he asked, "Uncle Fu, why did you come back so late?" But what went wrong on the road? "Uncle Fu's kung fu Chu Ming knows, it is a trivial matter to let him investigate a person, but Uncle Fu came back so late, there must be a big mystery in it.

Uncle Fu took a sip of tea to moisten his throat and said, "It's not bad, the old slave came back late because the princess has done too much this year, and it's too weird!" The old slave ran for a day, but he had not yet found it clear. ”

Much, quirky?

Chu Ming said curiously: "Uncle Fu, tell me carefully, what has this woman done?" ”

Uncle Fu said: "Old slave and from that day the princess dived, although the water in Lotus Bay is not deep, but I heard from the people nearby, the princess fell into the water that day after her legs cramped, choked a lot of water, if you are late to save the fear of death, after this incident, the people on the village have not seen the princess out for nearly three months." ”

"When the spring ploughing in March, the princess finally went out, and ran around the Zhuangzi ten times every morning, and then did a lot of strange movements, which seemed to be the art of forging the body, and the villagers said that the princess's temperament seemed to have changed since then, and she was much kinder to others."

In mid-March, when many farmlands in Beizhuang were short of water and wheat seedlings were not easy to survive, the princess drew a sketch to Zhao Ji, the chief of the village, and asked him to take the farmers on the village to dig ditches and skillfully introduce mountain stream water into the farmland, temporarily solving the spring drought. The old slave went to see the canal, and the mountains in that area are varied, if you are not familiar with the terrain and the laws of things, you must not design it lightly. According to the farmers, the princess will also divert the water from the West River to the farmland this year, so that the farmers will no longer worry about the problem of agricultural water. ”

Hearing this, Chu Ming interrupted and asked, "The terrain of the Xihe River is lower than that of Beizhuang, could it be that she can let the water flow to a higher place?" ”

Uncle Fu said: "Whether this matter is true or not, we will know in the spring ploughing next year, but the canal that has been dug is really true, and the prince will listen to the old slave continue." ”

Chu Ming nodded.

Uncle Fu took a sip of tea and continued: "Later, the princess rescued four little ladies from outside, named them Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, and later took in an old palace maid who was kicked out of the palace. In the autumn, the harvest on the farm was thirty percent higher than in previous years, and instead of raising taxes, the princess exempted all the peasant households from rent. ”

"Exempt from tenant rent, where does her usual expenses come from?" Chu Ming asked.

"Didn't the prince forget that she could make table salt from mineral salt?" Uncle Fu reminded.

Chu Ming immediately reacted, smiled, and said: "Interesting, this woman dares to grab food from the official family, she is really bold, but recently the salt official has been tightened, and her financial route may have been cut off." ”

"The prince is right."

"Uncle Fu, you go on, what other shocking things has this woman done, this king is becoming more and more interested." Chu Ming urged.

Uncle Fu said: "Some time ago, the princess transformed her yard into a academy, and also took in many orphans, and now the male children in the village have become the princess's students, and the people in the village call her Mr. A few days ago, the princess hired more than a dozen peasant women to set up a small workshop behind the academy, but I don't know what she was doing. The academy and workshop are still a mystery, it gets dark quickly, and the old slave has not had time to investigate. ”

Adopt an orphan to open a college? I have to say that at this point, Chu Ming admires Tang Xiaoshi's mind very much, compassion for the heavens, and it is not easy to save the helpless orphan in the troubled times with the power of a woman.

Repair canals, exempt from taxes, sell official salt, open academies, and raise orphans...... Each of these items will cause a storm in Chang'an City when put on any woman, however, when these things are all gathered in one person, they are firmly hidden, if you don't go to investigate yourself, I'm afraid you will continue to be in the dark, Chu Ming began to admire Tang Xiaoshi's wisdom and means.

Today, she is willing to hand over the art of salt making to me, I am afraid that she also wants to use my hand to solve the problem of salt shortage of the people in the north.

It's just that......

A year ago, she made a lot of noise, and she didn't even know the shame to ask for an heir, is it a manifestation of great wisdom and foolishness? Or is she deliberately pretending to be crazy and stupid? How could I be stupid enough to kick her out? She deliberately pretended to be crazy and stupid to let me drive her out! Thus in exchange for freedom! Chu Ming felt that he had been fooled.

Chu Ming smiled thoughtfully, thinking to himself, since you are married to me, you are my person, even if you pretend to be crazy and stupid, you can't escape from my palm.

"Okay, Uncle Fu, go back to your room to rest, as for the academy and workshop, I will send Xiao Liu and Xiao Jiu to find out." Chu Ming said.

I want to see what else you can toss out of a woman!

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Tang Xiaoshi kept sneezing when she got up early in the morning, damn it, which bastard was talking about her aunt and grandmother.

Tang Xiaoshi stretched a big lazy waist, although she was very sad last night, there is nothing that can't be solved by sleeping, if there is, then sleep again.

Before she could wash up, she heard the bell hanging at the head of the bed vibrate slightly, making a crisp sound of jingling bells, this is the "heaven and earth net" arranged by Tang Xia'er, but whenever someone breaks into the academy, whether he is over the wall or digging a hole, the alarm will be sounded.

Then, I saw Tang Xia'er swooping into the room, looking eager to try and not thinking it was a big deal, and said excitedly: "Mr. Sir, Xiaoyu has finally taken the bait, this time it's not the uncle from last night, it's two little soldiers, can you catch it?" ”

Tang Xia'er is the cleanest and neatest of the four girls, she likes to ask questions about everything, and her hands-on ability is very strong, the point is that she has a strong interest in martial arts, Tang Xiaoshi feels that she is a little similar to herself in the previous life, when she graduated with a master's degree in medicine, she insisted on joining the military camp, isn't it just a stubbornness?

In other words, Tang Xiaoshi felt that Tang Xia'er was a good seedling to be an agent.

This girl has been practicing martial arts with herself for more than half a year, and she has studied the art of the mechanism in private, and now, Tang Xia'er's grappling and the art of the mechanism are already considered to be introductory. Uncle Fu followed her yesterday, Tang Xiaoshi knew, but she ignored it, because there were some things that couldn't be hidden, so she simply let him check it, so as not to waste Tang Xiaoshi's saliva to explain to Chu Ming in the future.

Today, Chu Ming actually sent two more little Luo Luo, don't blame me for being polite, just use these two little soldiers from King Jing's Mansion to assess Tang Xia'er's strength.

Tang Xia'er looked at herself like a second-class husky looking at a bone, Tang Xiaoshi was very helpless, and said: "If I don't let you catch them, I'm afraid you will come to bite me, okay, let you pack them up and put them in the firewood room within a stick of incense, but don't hurt them." ”

"Yes, sir, Xia Er promises that as long as these two soldiers step into my academy for half a step, they will not be able to escape from the palm of my hand."

After that, Tang Xia'er slipped out like a smoke, Tang Xiaoshi was a little afraid, I am afraid that people have not yet stepped into the academy, and they will be tied up by this little girl.