At present, the Ming Dynasty did not experience the rule of the Yuan and Mongolian people, but it was also connected to the Southern Song Dynasty. A large area of land in the north of the Yangtze River was originally Jindi, and the capital of the Jin Kingdom, that is, Yanjing, was also used, and was renamed 'Beijing' by the founding emperor.

After two dynasties in the capital, the weather is naturally extraordinary, that is, ordinary people, just because they were born at the feet of the Son of Heaven and grew up in the city of Sijiu, this vision and insight are by no means comparable to other rural villagers.

Moreover, the common people in the capital, whether they are wealthy families with solid backgrounds, or coachmen who are in a hurry, and even beggars, seem to like to stay outside the teahouses all over the streets and alleys of the capital, listening to the storytellers in the teahouse talk about a period of iron-blooded conquest for the founding of the Ming Dynasty, or a period of Jingbei Hou's defeat of Beirong and the outstanding feats of incorporating a large area of territory into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, or catch up with the big and small news anecdotes in the Sijiu City where the storytellers did not open or took a break halfway...... Someone once described the teahouse in the capital as "a place where rumors gather and spread, and where news is carried out." In just ten words, the importance of the Beijing teahouse is clearly expressed.

is also because the news and rumors spread quickly, and the topic is updated extremely quickly. A few days ago, the outstanding achievements of the Marquis of Jingbei had just been replaced by the flood and plague in Nanzhili, and these days, the topic in the teahouse has changed, and it has become a rumor that several adult princes are crowned kings, open mansions and build teeth, and even the backyards of various princes......

Wearing a washed white green cloth clipped, a down-and-out literati-looking tea guest sat on the tea table in the corner, sipping a cup of light tea that could not be seen in color, and silently listened to a few people at the table next to him enthusiastically talking about the recent emergence of King Yong. I heard those people say that King Yong was humble and gentle, and he hid his identity for the people and entered the epidemic area in person...... And so on, when it comes to the warmth, there is an exclamation: "This is a true benevolent gentleman, and he is graceful and magnificent, if ...... That is the blessing of the people of the world! ”

Several others chimed in.

The down-and-out literati shook his head again and again when he heard this: "Since ancient times, the establishment of a successor has been established...... This ......"

After saying a few words vaguely, the down-and-out literati shook his head again, took out two tea coins and put them on the corner of the table, got up from himself, and left in a hurry.

The lively faces who were talking just now looked at each other for a while, and they saw a touch of fear in each other's eyes, and they also bowed their hands, paid for tea and left.

After these people left, soon there was talk in the teahouse about the three princes, Prince Qi, going to the south to supervise the river work...... There are also well-informed people with a look of special meaning, and quietly said that King Qi went to Nanzhili, and King Qi added another batch of stunning ...... There were even people who revealed King Qi's brother and friend Gong, who came back from Nanzhili, not only did his brother King Cheng give a 'gift', but even the second prince King Yong did not fall there.

“…… I don't know if the 'gift' given by King Qi has been used by himself! ”

I don't know who said something obscenely, which caused a small laugh that was also obscene.

Then, this topic started from the prince to the king, the opening of the mansion, and the talk of these princes, the eldest prince and the three princes have married the main concubine and the side concubine, but King Yong is over 20 years old, but he has not yet established a concubine, and it is said that there is not even a concubine in the palace of King Yong. Everyone talked about it, now that King Yong has won the Holy Favor, I don't know whose young lady can marry into King Yong's Mansion so well......

Because Yang Jingyong, the king of Yongyong, was low-key and almost non-existent, almost never appeared in front of people, he suddenly made a few big things a few days ago, and won the emperor's repeated praise, and together with the three princes who were in the limelight before, he was crowned the king, opened the mansion and built teeth, and the gap between the front and back was so big that it was naturally the one that was talked about the most.

When the princes became adults, they were given titles and opened their houses. Because the Ming Dynasty Kyoto followed the golden Kyoto, although the inner city pattern is broad, but after two generations of operation, there has long been no idle land, so the prince who has been divided to build a mansion, most of them are given a variety of old mansions, re-covered or renovated after renovation.

Although the three princes of the eldest prince did not have the title of king, they had all married and opened a mansion. Yes, among the several people who were crowned kings this time, only the second prince Yongwang Yang Jingyong gave the mansion, in the northwest of the imperial city, Linshi Chahai, which was once the residence of Yan Guogong, one of the eighteen heroes of the founding of the country, and then gave a princess as the princess's mansion, the princess died early at the age of 20, leaving no children, but three years, the horse was convicted, and the princess's mansion was idle again.

The inner city of Kyoto has been operating for many years, it has long been densely populated, every inch of gold and every inch of land, the mansion of Linshi Chahai has gathered the six great feats of the dynasty and the rising magnates, and it is naturally the most respected, but this large mansion covering an area of nearly 40 acres seems to have been forgotten, and has been idle to let the wind and rain and the years of suffering, all the way to the old and depressed. Yes, this time this time to give this house to King Yong, everyone has different opinions, there are envy King Yong got such a clever sect to pick up a cheap, and there are also secretly pouting disagreeing, the location of the house is good, the regulations are not bad, but it has been idle for decades, the house has long been old and decayed, not much repair or even cover can not live in people, on King Yong, a prince who has just been crowned king, and there is no strong and rich foreign support, where to get the money to repair the house? The regulations of the prince's mansion are high enough, but it is also the most money-burning! Such a large yard, without a hundred thousand taels of silver, can not be repaired at all, this is still the main building, as for the garden flowers and trees, the furnishings in the house are at the mercy of the arrangement, then it is even more to burn money without counting, if you want to be at the mercy of the four corners, then the silver will have to be spent in the sea, far more than building a house and spending much more money.

But what surprised the court was that King Yong was not troubled, and the people directly built a courtyard on the main road and moved in, and the decadent houses behind them remained the same, without moving. And it is said that the yard was also slightly trimmed and reinforced, without whitewashing, let alone clamification...... As you can imagine, the cost is not much.

Just when the court was surprised that it could still be like this, the saint once again rewarded King Yong, who was diligent and thrifty, and was a model for his ministers, and gave him 20,000 taels of silver to repair the mansion of King Yong. As a result, those voices of discussion and laughter disappeared all at once.

20,000 taels of silver was in hand, and King Yong did not build a large number of buildings, but still only strengthened and repaired, and everything was simple. In this way, the project is also fast, although today's Yongwang Mansion is still simple, but it is much more tidy, the key is that there are people walking around in the courtyard from time to time, so that this decadent and silent house for many years has regained its popularity.

In a small courtyard in the corner of the backyard of King Yong's Mansion, there are three main houses with two wings, a simple and simple house, with almost no decoration, making the small courtyard more like a small farm yard. The only vivid place, probably is an ancient vine at the root of the west wall in the courtyard, the cane stem is thick and twisted, the dense branches and leaves are erected into a vine trellises on the root of the west wall, the season is still early, the leaves of the ancient vine have just grown, the flower vine has germinated, but it is still small like a cluster of rice grains, far from the prosperity of the brocade in the flowering period, but there is a vigorous and moving vitality.

Lin Xianniang wore a lake blue brocade arm, a milky white embroidered orchid skirt, a simple bun, only a white hosta, standing alone under the vine trellis, tilting her head slightly, as if looking at the tender green leaves the size of copper coins, and also seemed to look through the green leaves of the vine rose, looking somewhere somewhere.

Since being given to King Yong as a gift by Yang Jingyu, the king of Qi, Lin Xianniang has become a real caged bird and a flower in a pot. What's more, because there are no concubines and side concubines in Yongwang's Mansion, she naturally doesn't need to settle the province in the morning and dusk, and of course she doesn't need to walk around, she only stays in this narrow courtyard of less than half an acre every day, and the only thing she can do is to watch this vine grow from the dead branches to sprouts, and the sprouts gradually grow into leaves and become a shade.

Although it was given to King Yong as a gift, she has been in King Yong's Mansion for more than three months, and she has never seen the King of Yong, who was once rumored to be a nest, but now she has sprung up......

Long days are lonely, cold nights are lonely...... After many days and nights, from anxiety to calmness, she finally understood how precious the love and persuasion used to be, and how much freedom and casualness were worth cherishing...... It's a pity that she personally talked about those who were discarded and sent herself into such a small world of confinement.

She didn't know if she would just look at the narrow sky at the four corners every day, day after day, let her age go away, goosebumps and gray hair.

I don't know what time it was, a woman and a small waiter came in outside the door, the little waiter shook the dust, stood not far from Lin Xianniang's side, and bowed down to report: "Miss Lin, the prince knows that you like embroidery, and I specially invited a Su embroidery master for you...... From now on, Master Su embroidery will come to teach for an hour every day. ”

After speaking, without waiting for Lin Xianniang to respond, she still saluted in a rigid and meticulous manner, turned around and left.

Different from the coldness of the Yongwang Mansion in the capital, the Lin family in Liujiaao is full of people, whether it is in the workshop or in the house, it is a lively and busy scene.

In April, the temperature rises day by day, the glass greenhouse is dismantled, and the area becomes a rectangular garden. The potato plants in the garden are nearly one meter tall, and the cracks are gradually increasing and increasing near the roots. The lilac flowers on the plant had already bloomed, and Qiu Chen estimated that the potatoes would soon be harvested. The corn is also growing very well, the wide and thick green leaves are stretching, and the plant is moving very fast, and it has become a large section of the potato, which has become a new thing that everyone in the family pays attention to, and people will come to take a few glances every day. Qiu Chen's attention had shifted to the pepper seedlings and tomato seedlings cultivated next to him, these seedlings were already half a foot above the ground, growing strong, and the stalks were thick.

Liu Jiaao's more than three acres of land are naturally planted with peppers, and tomato seedlings are limited, Qiu Chen plans to plant them all in the garden in the backyard, and he can also have nearly two acres of land. After two years of cultivation, the seedlings cultivated this year are several times more, and more than three acres of land in Liujiaao is not enough, and Qiu Chen plans to plant the rest in a large area in Zhuangzi in Qingshui Town.

On April 11, Qiu Chen finally looked forward to the cloudy sky with light rain under the stars.

She and Yang Shumeng took the family's maid and mother-in-law to pick up the seedlings of tomatoes and peppers and transplant them in the field.

The tomatoes were limited, so they were handed over to the girls to plant, Yang Shumeng took the servants at home and more than a dozen workers who were temporarily transferred to the field, and sent the other part to the Zhuangzi in Qingshui Town to guide the farmers there to plant.

Because of the careful work, every seedling Qiu Chen is very precious, and it took most of the afternoon to raise the seedlings. When Yang Shumeng left with the servants and workers and baskets of seedlings, Qiu Chen breathed a sigh of relief and helped the girls finish planting the tomatoes, and his body was already covered with a layer of wet mist.

When I returned to the room, I took a hot shower, changed into dry clothes, and was about to take a breath to rest, when I rushed in from the door in front of me to report that Daxing had sent someone back, and there was an accident in the soap workshop. Qiu Chen hurriedly beckoned the messenger to come in and inquire, and when he asked, he learned that a worker on the other side of the soap workshop was identified as an escaped criminal, the soap workshop was sealed, the worker was taken away, and even the remaining workers were gathered and tried to take them to build the river.

Qiu Chen was anxious when she heard this, she didn't care too much if the soap workshop was sealed or not, but if something happened to the workers, she would never be able to forgive herself.

Speaking of which, whether it was the previous bandit incident or this time, these workers were just pond fish who were affected.

It's just that although he was anxious, Qiu Chen didn't mess up his senses, explained to Yufeng and Daxing, greeted Qin Li and Shen Hu, changed into men's clothes, and rode straight to Anyang Mansion.

Running all the way, Qiu Chen kept pondering.

At present, the officials of Anyang Mansion are friends with Wu Shi, the wife of Tang Governor's Mansion, and Wu Yunqiao is also a friend of life and death, and the only thing he is not familiar with is the new commander, but according to Wu, this new commander is transferred from the northern army, and should belong to Qin Zheng, Marquis of Jingbei...... Shouldn't trouble her either...... After these are ruled out, then it is obvious that the person who may start with the soap workshop and does not have to look at the Yun family's eyes.

After determining the person who did it, Qiu Chen began to ponder again, Yang Jingyu attacked the soap-making workshop, targeting the Yun family? Or is it just a recipe for soap making and huge profits?

There are two possibilities, Qiu Chen hopes that the person who is just coveting the huge profits brought by the soap-making recipe, if this is the case, as long as she hands over the soap-making recipe, she can also rescue the workers. If it is a matter involving the court, the officialdom fights for power and weighs...... It's hard to get the workers out......

Hurried all the way, and in just two hours, Qiu Chen and the three of them rushed to Anyang Mansion.

didn't enter the city, Qiu Chen directly beat his horse and bypassed Anyang City and went straight to the soap-making workshop in the east of the city.

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Dragon Boat Festival...... Go to pieces!