"Actually, Mrs. Xiong is not so terrifying, those human skins are peeled off the bodies of dead people, she has an enemy, she can only scare if she can't beat it, she has such a reputation, her enemies can't get her details, and they haven't dared to do it. She lived in the cave above, and it was pitiful, □□ a ten-year-old woman, who had to go to the cemetery in the middle of the night. Shen Che said.

"Can you stop talking?" Ji Cheng was so frightened that his palms were sweating. There was already a black hole here, the light of the night pearl was silvery, like the phosphorescent light of a ghost, and there was no telling when a person's head would emerge under the clear river water, and Ji Cheng tried his best not to go up and cover Shen Che's mouth.

"There are good ones too. This section should go to the underground black market, where only one thing is sold, and that is life. It doesn't matter whose life you want to buy, as long as you can afford it, someone will do it for you. Shen Che said.

Ji Cheng suspected that Shen Che had something to say, what was he hinting at himself?

"When is Cousin Nache free, can you take me to see it?" Ji Cheng said tentatively.

"Nangui knows how to get there." Shen Che said.

Ji Cheng lowered his eyelids and stopped talking, the boat soon came to the shore, and Shen Che tied the boat to the iron pillar on the shore, "Let's go." ”

There was a human-high iron cage next to the wall, Shen Che was the first to walk in, and used the hammer hanging on the iron cage to knock three times slowly, three times quickly, and then nine times faster and one slowly, and the iron cage began to rise "quack".

Ji Cheng calculated that he had risen to a height of about nine stories, the iron cage stopped in front of a cave, Shen Che stepped over, and then turned around and stretched out his hand towards Ji Cheng.

After turning a small road, the stone door opened, and behind it was a large secret room. On the wall of the secret room stood a row of rosewood inlaid treasure wardrobes, as well as a three-layer makeup dress of the same color.

"Change your clothes and go up again." Shen Che said.

Every place where his identity might be revealed, Shen Che had thought about it for Ji Cheng.

Ji Cheng pulled the phoenix head copper ring on the wardrobe, and the wardrobe slowly opened, and there were clothes of various colors inside, but the styles were all exactly the same, just different colors.

All the same color of woven gold embroidered camellia brocade.

Ji Cheng turned around abruptly, "How do you know I'll choose this mask?" The mask was tied around Ji Cheng's waist, a black camellia.

The clothes in this wardrobe were clearly chosen to fit in with the mask.

"Instinct it." Shen Che said.

Ji Chenghu looked at Shen Che suspiciously, this intuition was inevitably too accurate.

Ji Cheng went to the back of the screen to change her clothes, a black skirt with a dark gold and dark silver two-color thread embroidered with a large bowl of camellia, a black fox fur cloak, a black camellia mask on her face, and dark red lips.

Mysterious and terrifying.

"Wait." Shen Che stopped Ji Cheng, took out a pen from the stationery box, dipped it in frost-white paint, and added a tear mole under Ji Cheng's right eye.

Ji Cheng realized later, "You painted this mask?" ”

Shen Che nodded, "I didn't expect you to like it at first sight." ”

Ji Cheng thought to himself, so I saved a lot of tongue for your old man, and you didn't have to go to great lengths to kidnap me to choose this mask, right?

Above the stone chamber is a bazaar, where people come and go, and a few more unfamiliar faces will not be noticeable at all.

Ji Cheng sits upstairs in a winery, and you can go straight to here from the secret room. Thinking about it, the wine shop must also be the eyes and ears of Jing Shijun.

The stairs sounded the footsteps of "dong dong dong", the one who sold wine was a woman who still had charm, the man in the family was not angry, in addition to drinking, he would beat his wife, and he also acted as a turtle to take some work for his wife, and the neighbors were surprised to see a man go up to her house, isn't it a meat business.

Tong Xiang, Sun Rulong, and Pang Junxiong had already received orders before coming to Jixiang Distillery to unconditionally obey the new master's arrangement.

It's just that these three people didn't expect that their new master would be a woman, and they knew at a glance that she was a stunning beauty. Although her face is obscured by a mask, the remaining half is hidden in the shadow of black fox fur.

But the young and clear voice, the slender and slender waist, and the grace of her gestures are enough to show that this is a very beautiful woman.

Although there is no shortage of women in the Jing Shi Army, there is only one woman with such a high status and great power in a domain.

In private, there are rumors that she is the woman of a certain big man. This kind of woman who is promoted to the throne by going to bed has not been sincerely obeyed by people since ancient times, not to mention who are the people in the Jing Shi Army?

A person who is capable of being tolerated by the world.

When Tong Xiang and the others looked at Ji Cheng, Ji Cheng was also observing the three of them, if nothing else, these three people would become her subordinates.

Tong Xiang is the youngest of the three, about twenty-five or six years old, with high eyebrows and deep eyes, he should have Hu blood, and his eyebrows and eyes are full of rebellion.

Sun Rulong has a pair of thin slit eyes, looks a little cunning, and is a man in his thirties.

Pang Junxiong, with a Chinese face, hanging gallbladder nose, and a dignified appearance, gives people a very loyal and brave impression, and is the oldest of the three, about forty years old.

Ji Cheng opened his mouth and said: "I heard the recommendation, the three of them know the public opinion of the Western Regions best, and I invited the three gentlemen here today to ask the three gentlemen some questions." ”

Ji Cheng knelt on the group mat uprightly, and spoke in a very literate manner, Tong Xiang knew that she was a so-called "reader" as soon as she heard her speak, and she was the most boring.

However, people had to bow their heads under the eaves, and Tong Xiang and the three of them had to pretend to kneel down and sit down, which was very uncomfortable.

After the founding of the Great Qin, Hu Feng gradually moved eastward, and Hu beds and chairs entered the Central Plains and were widely spread.

Ji Cheng is definitely the latter. However, she didn't plan to change, if she changed her style because Tong Xiang and them were used to the Hu bed, she would only give them the impression that she, the leader, was very talkative and did not have a firm position.

Ji Cheng clapped his hands lightly, and a mother-in-law carried a sand table in the middle and placed it in the center. This sand table is specially made of clay sculptures, the mountains are uplifted, the valleys are sunken, the rivers are painted with blue paint, and the avenues are depicted with yellow sand.

"This is just a prototype, please take a look at it, according to your experience, is this map drawn correctly?" Ji Cheng said.

It was the first time for Tong Xiang and the three of them to see such a "map", with lofty mountains, deep valleys and rivers, all of which were clear at a glance. Tong Xiang is a rough man, he has never been able to understand the hand-drawn complex map, he just feels that he has a headache when he looks at it, but the "map" in front of him can no longer be difficult for him to be a rough man.

Among the three people, Pang Junxiong was the most familiar with the Western Regions, and after he observed carefully, he pointed out several places that did not conform to the truth, and Ji Cheng nodded and quickly recorded it with a pen.

Then Ji Cheng took the small flag made of bamboo sticks and cloth at hand, and planted it in the place where she planned to build an inn.

"I want to build a cargo fleet to transfer goods from the Central Plains to the Western Regions, in addition to our own goods, but also to undertake business. The point of these small flags is the proposed inn for supply and transshipment. ”

Ji Cheng took three walnuts and placed them in Xizhou, Yancheng and Jingjue respectively, these three places are horns of each other, if you think carefully, you can see Ji Cheng's intentions, with these three places as the axis, almost half of the region can be covered.

"I plan to set up warehouses in these three places, as soon as the snow is in the snow, the ice and snow will close the road, and the business will have to be interrupted, if there are these three warehouses, not only can the goods be stored, but also can be used for large-scale supplies." The three places were carefully selected by Ji Cheng, and from these three warehouses to any place in the Western Regions, the goods could arrive within a month. In many cases, you don't have to wait for someone else to buy it before shipping it from the Central Plains.

"I wonder how big the warehouse the girl is going to build?" Pang Junxiong asked, "If the target is too big, it is easy to be plundered." Pang Junxiong obviously disapproves of Ji Cheng's "whimsy".

Ji Cheng also thought about this problem, the Western Regions is not the Central Plains, although the countries of the Western Regions bow down to Great Qin, but they cannot be prohibited, and it can even be said that it is not binding. If it weren't for the fact that Great Qin was strong and prosperous, and the countries of the Western Regions were fighting for a long time, these people would definitely oppose the invasion of the water and the east whenever they had the opportunity.

"We are in business, and businessmen only seek profit. The guards of this warehouse are hired locally in the Western Regions, and they must be made to know that this is their own livelihood, and no matter how the situation changes, our desire for wealth will not change. Ji Cheng said, "No one can monopolize the money in the world, in the past, we transported the goods over and made all the money, Hu Ren looked greedy, and naturally did it." This time is different, we only control the source of goods, and the rest are hired by locals. Including the caravans we want to build, all the locals are also used. ”

"But how much silver can we make in this way?" Sun Rulong interjected.

Ji Cheng said: "We have more important things to do than make money." ”

Tong Xiang suddenly interjected: "Your inn here is not right. Although Yan Xia Valley is the closest road from Xizhou to Yancheng, there is a group of mountain bandits gathered here, and unless the merchants passing by have hired a large caravan of masters, everyone else would rather take a long detour, walk for three more days, and go out from He Ping Road. ”

The shortcut that can save three days must not be given up, Ji Cheng thought for a while and said: "Then it is just a good opportunity to establish power, let's build an inn here." ”

Tong Xiang didn't understand why Ji Cheng had such a big tone, but he didn't say much, and after glancing at Pang Junxiong, they didn't talk much to each other.

Sun Rulong pointed out a few differences for Ji Cheng, such as a section of the road near Jingjue City, because the summer is very hot, and the winter is bitterly cold, the caravan can't go a hundred miles a day, Ji Cheng only needs to build an inn in other places, and he must build two on this road, because the caravan has to walk for two days to complete this section of the road.

Ji Cheng added a small flag in a good manner, and then discussed many details with the three of them, and discussed until dusk.

After leaving from Jixiang Liquor House, although the three of Tong Xiang left separately, they finally reunited in a house fifty miles away.

Because Pang Junxiong is the eldest, the three of them, led by him, are waiting for his opinion.

"I really can't imagine that the three of us will beg for a living under a little girl now, it's really embarrassing. It is said that I, the affairs of the Western Regions should have been handled by Brother Da Da, but now that such a thing has come out of nowhere, what else can I do except sleep with a man? Sun Rulong was the first to speak.

"You can't say that." Pang Junxiong waved his hand, "I think she does have some ability, although she is still a little young, but a lot of things are said in the point, she is a person who has seen the world." "At least Ji Cheng can put aside the view of the gateway to the Central Plains and the Western Regions, which makes Pang Junxiong feel unusual.

The three of them, Tong Xiang already has Hu blood, and Pang Junxiong's wife is a Hu girl, Sun Rulong's concubines are also mostly Hu people, and they have been going back and forth in the Western Regions all the year round, so naturally they will not look down on the Hu people like the Central Plains people, and treat them as inferior people like livestock.

And Ji Cheng is a person from the Central Plains at first glance, and he must not be from a family or the daughter of a scholar, and it is actually very commendable that people like them can treat Hu people as equals.

Tong Xiang said, "She stands taller than us and can see farther." is not limited to immediate benefits, I see that her plan cannot be spread out without a few million taels of silver in the early stage. ”

Although Tong Xiang is rebellious, but the more unruly people usually have the ability to be different from ordinary people, although Pang Junxiong is long, but he can't help but listen to Tong Xiang's opinions.

"And what kind of attitude should we have?" Sun Rulong asked. Do you do your best to help her, or do you do it perfunctorily? Sun Rulong knows the rules of Jing Shijun, and those who don't have the ability to sit in that position will have to be pushed down sooner or later. As long as they don't cooperate, she is not a girl who has the ability to sit on that ass.

"Let's take a look first, didn't she say that she was going to build an inn in Yan Xia Valley, let's see if she can build it." Pang Junxiong said.

But when he said that he went back to Ji Cheng and sent Tong Xiang away, Ji Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, his palms were sweating, these three people were all old rivers and lakes, one was more difficult than the other, Ji Cheng could see that they were not convinced of themselves, so they became more and more powerful, and they knew in their hearts that they must fight to stand up, otherwise it would be difficult to act in the future, and they couldn't command their pawns, Shen Che was not a good person.

Ji Cheng turned to the back of the house, she was watching Shen Che go in, he said that he was watching her from behind, who knew that when Ji Cheng went in, Shen Che was nowhere to be seen. Ji Cheng returned to the underground secret room and waited for a long time before seeing Shen Che come in.

Shen Che had already changed his clothes, and his face was clean, obviously going out to run errands.

"How?" Shen Che asked.

Ji Cheng said with a slight complaint: "You are quite relieved of me." ”

Shen Che replied: "I'm not worried about you, aren't you good?" ”

Ji Cheng was choked back by Shen Che, rest assured that she was naturally good, but Ji Cheng spoke so confidently just now, but because she misunderstood that Shen Che was standing behind her, if she knew that Shen Che was not there, she was afraid that her tone might not be so tough just now.

On the return boat, Ji Cheng told Shen Che about Yan Xiagu's matter, "I have already boasted about Haikou, if I can't do this, I'm afraid that I will only lose my prestige." Cousin Che thinks, can we build an inn in Yan Xia Valley? ”

Shen Che said: "I said that I will fully cooperate with you." Leave Yan Xiagu's affairs to me. ”

Refreshing, in fact, Ji Cheng quite likes Shen Che's strength, as long as the object is not her.

Then Ji Cheng told Shen Che the result of his discussion with Tong Xiang and the three of them, and when she spoke, her eyebrows and eyes were full of excitement and joy that she couldn't hide.

Ji Cheng is a woman, but her father hates her as a man, and Ji Cheng is also very self-defeating, why is he not a man. If it is a man, there will be no disaster for Zhu Jijun, and if it is a man, she will be able to really take the helm of the Ji family and do what she wants to do.

As a woman, what Ji Cheng has now is temporary. Her father's meaning Ji Cheng understood, that is, let her do her best to cultivate the next generation, the son of Ji Yuan and Ji Ze. When the younger generation can support the family, Ji Cheng's good bow should be collected.

Ji Cheng can indeed choose not to marry, but when she is old, her identity will inevitably be a little embarrassing, one mountain does not tolerate two tigers, she used to be at the helm of the Ji family, and when her nephews grow up, won't they be afraid of her? Isn't there a feud in this case of a family member who fights for property and turns into a blood feud?

Besides, even if there is no disobedience, can Ji Cheng be willing to be silent from now on and be an insignificant aunt?

Because Ji Qing gave Ji Cheng a chance, it directly fueled her ambition, or "ambition", she has what she wants to do, such as what she is doing now.

"No wonder people often say that it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books, if only I could go to the Western Regions for a walk in person." Ji Cheng sighed. If she can marry He Cheng, she will be able to sit in Xizhou, and she is sure that she can persuade He Cheng to do things according to her heart.

Shen Che looked at Ji Cheng's scorching eyes, like the brightest Chang Geng star in the night sky, and the whole person revealed a bright light from the inside out that made people unable to take their eyes off, just like a rainbow suddenly erected in the empty rainy mountain, magnificent and wonderful.

"There's going to be a chance." Shen Che said.

When Ji Cheng heard this, he immediately asked, "Really?" Soon the overall plan appeared in Ji Cheng's mind. Her desire to find a family in Jingshi was completely out of play, Ji Cheng pondered that she would simply return to Jinbei as much as possible, and she didn't know if Brother Ziyun could accept her?

Although Ji Cheng was reluctant to admit the benefits of being sleepy with Shen Che, Shen Che seemed to be good to the women who had a past with him, from Fang Xuan to Rui Yu later, and Wang Liniang in the meantime, Shen Che took care of her. Ji Cheng felt that if he asked Shen Che for something in the future, he would definitely not stand idly by.

Since this is the case, simply take a step back and open the sky, Ji Cheng returned to the north of Jin, no matter whether she and Ling Ziyun can continue their relationship, but her father should not stop her from going to the Western Regions.

"Then can I go back to the north of Jin and then go to the Western Regions?" Ji Cheng asked.

Shen Che said: "Not yet, the matter of ordnance has not been straightened out yet, you should not move now." ”

Ji Cheng then remembered this stubble, because she was too excited and neglected.

When she returned to the surface from the underground, Ji Cheng felt like a different world, and she felt as if she was getting more and more immersed in the underground.

In February, the ice floe in the river melted, and Su Yun prepared to take a boat south with Mrs. Su to return to Suzhou to get married. In the past few days, Shen Qian and the others have been busy saying goodbye to Su Yun, Ji Cheng did not participate, and Shen Qian and the others also knew that Ji Cheng must have a grudge against Su Yun.

On this day, when he went to the dock to see off Su Yun and his party, Shen Qian patted Ji Cheng's hand and said, "I haven't bothered to talk to you these days." Ah Wei has already begged the princess to take the post to ask Imperial Doctor Liu, and besides, the root of your illness is also to save Brother Hong'er, my mother doesn't know how grateful you are, you don't have to worry about this family matter, maybe it is to step on the iron shoes and find nowhere to go, and it takes no effort to get it. You are so good, God will not be merciful. ”

Recently, because of the fact that Concubine Wang Niangniang was pregnant, Imperial Physician Liu has been on standby in the palace, and it was easy to get an edict to go home to see, so he was invited to Shen Mansion by Princess Anhe's post.

Ji Cheng looked at Imperial Doctor Liu, who was taking her pulse, and waited for him to speak a little nervously.

"The girl's pulse is strong and powerful, and although she has suffered from cold and dampness, she will recover in less than a year as long as she takes good care of herself. Drinking more ginger tea on weekdays and keeping warm in winter is okay for fertility. Doctor Liu said.

As soon as these words came out, not only Ji Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, but also Shen Qian and Shen Wei who were listening next to her were also happy for her.

Imperial Doctor Liu is the best at gynecology, and what he said must be much louder than Shen Che's "half-hanging" doctor.

"I knew that there would be great blessings after the catastrophe, and Sister Cheng's body would be fine." Shen Wei said happily, "It's a pity ......"

It's a pity that Mrs. He has already booked another family affair for He Cheng. Mrs. He looked at her daughter-in-law, not only Ji Cheng, but because she liked Ji Cheng the most, she wanted to marry He Cheng.

Although Ji Cheng regretted it slightly, it was strange that there were not too many ups and downs in her heart for this unsuccessful family affair, but Shen Qian and Shen Wei were very guilty, as if half of her life could be lost if the family affair did not succeed.

After leaving from Ji Cheng's small cross hospital, Shen Jing and Shen Qian went to the old lady's house, and the old lady was also very concerned about Ji Cheng's condition.

Hearing that Shen Jing said that she would be able to raise it in less than a year, the old lady said, "Amitabha", "She is still young and has a good foundation, since Imperial Doctor Liu said so, it must be no problem." She herself understands medicinal diets, but ......"

However, Ji Lan was imprisoned in the family temple, and now Aunt Fang is in charge of the affairs of the third room, and Ji Cheng, Ji Lan's niece, may not be able to be taken care of in the third room.

The old lady thought for a while, "That's it, let Cheng Yatou move to live in the hugging building behind Rui Yingtang, I have a small kitchen here, she can tinker with anything she wants, if you want to say that this way to maintain your body is still the older she is, the more experienced she is, she is surrounded by little girls, and she may not know the severity." ”

Shen Qian looked at the old lady in surprise, and she didn't know why she suddenly valued Ji Cheng so much.

The old lady touched Shen Jing's hair, and looked at Shen Qian again, she knew that her granddaughter was sensitive, and she just took the opportunity to teach them.