Lincheng is far away from Kyoto, and along the way you have to pass through almost half of the Eastern Yi Dynasty, and after entering the southern region directly from the official road in the northern region, you can clearly find that the customs and habits of the two places have changed suddenly.

The delicate and comfortable carriage did not make Shen Niannian suffer anything along the way, but he often stayed in the car and read and embroidered, so Shen Niannian took Xiangyue and Vanilla to embroider something together.

When she has nothing to do, she embroiders purses with needlework and thread, or makes clothes for herself.

Sometimes, the convoy will pass by the town, Shen Niannian will take the two maids to walk around the local area with Yi Qinglan's permission, if he encounters something he likes, he will buy it, and when he encounters something fresh, he will also buy a lot of things and bring them back to Yi Qinglan to see.

Yi Qinglan has walked through the north and south of the river, what has he not seen? Seeing that Shen Niannian had to hand the gadgets he bought in front of him as if offering a treasure, he accepted it very face-savingly, and praised a few words by the way.

Shen Niannian didn't know why he cared so much about his praise, every time he heard it, he felt very happy, and he couldn't help but restrain his smile.

And three or four days after their group left the Shen family, she received a letter from her sister-in-law.

The letter said that when she left in a hurry with Yi Qinglan that day, the old lady and the fourth aunt who were originally going to make things difficult for her heard the news, and their noses were almost crooked when they were angry, and they scolded Huai in the backyard for a long time, and her father finally heard those words that were really unbearable, and he directly became angry and reprimanded the two of them fiercely. This made the two converge a lot.

A few days later, Mrs. Wu brought a matchmaker to the door and asked to marry Shen Ningyu, and the fool Seventh Young Master also followed, chasing Shen Ningyu and refusing to leave, the angry Feng family wanted to strangle the fool to death, but because of the power of the Wu family in Lincheng, she didn't dare.

As Shen Niannian expected, when her fourth uncle knew that there was no room for recovery in this matter, he really gave up Shen Ningyu. took the initiative to discuss the matter of marriage with Mrs. Wu.

Of course, Shen Ningyu was unwilling to marry a fool. But no matter how much she cried, it was useless, even the Feng family, who loved her the most, couldn't help her.

And the old lady didn't like the four rooms in the first place, if it weren't for the silver. Who cares about all this mess. After Mrs. Wu gave her a set of noodles. In turn, he persuaded Shen Ningyu, and the angry Shen Ningyu couldn't swallow for several days, but after all, he still suffered the consequences. The date set by Mrs. Wu for the family affair will be saved on the first day of the next month, and the dowry prepared is also extremely rich, but Shen Niannian estimates that those dowries will definitely not take everything as a dowry and bring Shen Ningyu to the Wu family as a dowry.

For this cousin who likes to pretend to be pitiful since she was a child, and finally steals chickens and rice, she is neither sympathetic nor pitiful, after all, Shen Ningyu originally wanted to calculate, but what about her!

"You deserve it! I still want to calculate our young lady, if it weren't for the fact that she is the Shen family, the prince would definitely not let her go so easily! When Xiangyue heard the news, she made no secret of her gloating and muttered.

Shen Niannian put away the note and said with a smile, "She can be regarded as self-inflicted consequences, what kind of life she wants to live in the future depends on herself, I heard that when the seventh son of the Wu family was sick, he was extremely tyrannical, we can only pray that she can coax the young master well." ”

She is not a good person, since Shen Ningyu has the courage to calculate her, can't she be allowed to gloat too?

"Anyway, it's none of our business, just listen to it as a joke, this kind of person will kill himself if he commits too much injustice, and he will be miserable!" Vanilla, who has always been introverted, also giggled, and even a little lucky.

Although the prince's heart for the girl, they all see it in their eyes, but if Shen Niannian is really calculated by Shen Ningyu, then even if the prince will not dislike her reputation has been ruined, but what about the future? Those gossips will still spread after all, and at that time, it will not only hurt Shen Niannian a lot, but also definitely have an impact on the prince.

Therefore, watching Shen Ningyu eat the consequences of her own evil, the two little girls were happy to watch the jokes.

Shen Ningyu's marriage has been confirmed, even if she is unwilling, she can't disobey the words of the matchmaker and the orders of her parents, so if she is a smart woman, she should please Mrs. Wu and coax the violent Young Master Wu at this time.

Shen Niannian found a wild history and continued to look at some strange people and strange things on it, but the note was directly torn apart by Xiangyue, thrown out, scattered into pieces, and dissipated with the wind.

As you enter the Southern Regions for a long time, the surrounding environment gradually changes a lot.

Shen Niannian sat in the carriage, sometimes lifting the curtain to look at the situation outside, but the deeper he went, the more shocked he was in his heart.

Looking at the surrounding situation, the laughter along the way suddenly dissipated, and everyone's face was solemn.

It's not yet the day of the autumn harvest, and it's time to go to the fields to farm, but as far as the eye can see, the fields are either abandoned or covered with weeds.

Lan Yuwen stood up expressionlessly, holding a few unknown crops in his hands, and looked towards the obviously deserted village in front of him.

In the past, when passing by, you could often see villagers working in the fields in the countryside, and the smoke rose in the village, and the children of each family would play at the head of the village, but now, the houses in the village are still there, but the people are nowhere to be seen.

"If the villagers were not desperate, they would never be willing to abandon the land and leave, and along the way, we also saw a lot of disaster victims, it seems that ...... This Southern Regions was really made into a miasma by him! ”

Lan Yuwen's tone was a little mocking, his eyes fell on a certain prince with a cold face, and he said indifferently, "Lord Wang, now that you see the people displaced, I don't know what you think?" ”

Yi Qinglan ignored him, just stood at the head of the village, put his hands behind his back, and silently looked at the corpse that had already stinked and rotted and crawled with maggots under the eaves not far away.

Shen Niannian sat in the carriage and fell silent.

Even after living in the Northern Regions for so long. But she still thinks that the people of the southern regions should be richer and happier than the people of the northern regions.

In the first half of her life, she had never left within a radius of twenty miles from Kyoto, and she would not have known that under the rule of the faint king, places outside Kyoto had become like this!

"The slave maid heard that many people from the southern regions have fled to our northern regions, and they have gone abroad, and the taxes on the people have been increased. The villagers who farm the land are busy all year round. But the family still can't eat enough, they don't have enough to eat, they don't have money to see a doctor when they are sick, and there are officers and soldiers who come to arrest people. In this case. How could the people not run away? Xiangyue looked at the deserted village not far away. With a hint of tears in his eyes, he couldn't help but speak.

Vanilla also reddened her eyes and choked up. "The slave's hometown is in the southern region, and the slave's father died of illness, but the village still wants the slave's family to pay heavy taxes to a few orphans and widows, and not to arrest the slave's younger brother! In desperation, the mother left her hometown with her slave and younger brother, and finally went to the northern regions......"

It was at that time that the desperate mother sold her into the county government mansion as a little girl for others, and got some silver money before she gradually settled down in the northern regions.

Vanilla knew that it was her mother's helplessness to be sold, so she never resented her, at least she worked in the county mansion, and she no longer had to go hungry.

"People in this world have their own lives, rich have the difficulties of being rich, and poverty has the sad ...... of poverty"

Shen Niannian sighed lightly, put down the curtain of the car, and didn't want to see these scenes again, but now he didn't have the original desire to play.

On the next road, from time to time, you can see some groups of homeless people who are unclothed and have yellow faces, and those people look at their convoy as if they are going to eat them.

Shen Niannian sighed silently, feeling a little uncomfortable, so he simply came out of sight and never got out of the carriage again.

They no longer stopped on the road to cook food, but instead fed themselves with dry food, so as not to cause unrest among the displaced people.

This situation lasted for another seven or eight days before finally arriving at the gate of Kyoto.

Unlike the towns she used to pass by, which were crowded with homeless people with nowhere to go, Kyoto was still as lively as she remembered.

It's just that it gives her a kind of prosperity in front of her, but it is a rotten and unbearable fact.

Instinctively began to loathe this place.

"Girl, we have arrived in Kyoto, and the prince asks if you want to go down and have a look?" Kazuki handed the water bladder to her and asked cautiously.

Shen Niannian sighed lightly, "I'm tired of staying in the carriage for so long, it's good to go down and have a look." ”

After taking a sip of water, Shen Niannian got out of the carriage, and Yi Qinglan was waiting for her outside, although his tone was indifferent, but it could still make people perceive his concern, "I haven't come back for more than half a year, there is still no difference here, where do you want to go?" I'll be with you. ”

A smile tugged at the corner of Shen Niannian's mouth, "It's been a long time since I've seen what Kyoto is like, if you can, can you take me to the Hou Mansion?" ”

The Hou Mansion she was talking about was not the Yun family, but the house where their Shen family lived at the beginning.

When there was an accident in the Hou Mansion, she was put under house arrest by the Yun family before she even had time to see her father and them, that is, since then, she has never left the Yun Mansion.

Although she has been reborn for less than a year, she has not seen Kyoto in three years.

When you think of the sights you saw along the way, and then look at the prosperity and bustle of Kyoto now, it is completely different from heaven and earth, and it is really helpless to look at it.

"Okay, I'll take you to see." Yi Qinglan did not refuse, and responded directly.

It stands to reason that as a prince who is outside, as soon as he returns to Kyoto, he should enter the palace to face the saint, but Yi Qinglan's appearance does not mean to see the emperor.

Shen Niannian could probably guess what he was thinking, and he guessed that this was also to express his dissatisfaction with the emperor, right?

Thinking of the displaced people who were displaced and died of starvation and illness on the road, Shen Niannian became even more disgusted with that emperor, but he was still a little worried, "Lord Wang, you left so openly, won't that one annoy you?" ”

"Don't worry, it's too late for him to slap me now, so why is he annoying me?" Yi Qinglan said with a light smile, but the disgust in his eyes disappeared in a flash.

Shen Niannian pursed her lips and lowered her voice, "Anyway, that one is the emperor in the end, and you ...... do this?"

"I said it, don't call me the prince." Yi Qinglan looked at her unhappily, and when she heard the two words of the prince from her mouth, she felt harsh.

Shen Niannian's face flushed, "This is outside, and the ceremony cannot be abolished......"

"What about the outside? Niannian, don't make me sad. Yi Qinglan was dissatisfied and wanted to grab her hand, but was keenly avoided by Shen Niannian.

"This is Kyoto, not the Northern Regions, Wang ...... Abu, it's better for us to pay more attention. Shen Niannian was looked at by Yi Qinglan's pure black eyes, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he had to hold his forehead and sigh.

Yi Qinglan snorted lightly and strode forward directly, "There is trouble here in the Southern Regions, and it will ...... in the future I'm still going back to the North! ”

Shen Niannian didn't hear his complaint, and when he saw him leaving, he hurriedly followed, but he always kept a distance of three steps.

Also accompanying were Xiangyue Vanilla, and Ling Moyuan, who often followed Yi Qinglan's side.

When she saw Ling Moyuan in the convoy for the first time, Shen Niannian was still a little surprised, after all, she remembered that there didn't seem to be him at that time.

It can be seen how low Ling Moyuan's existence is......

In the past, the big mansion where the Shen family lived was still some distance from the city gate.

On the way there, they didn't blindly go towards the goal, but walked all the way.

But Shen Niannian found that in the past three years, in fact, Kyoto was also very different from what she remembered.

In the past, Kyoto did not allow foreign people to enter its inner business, and the prevention was that foreign spies would infiltrate Kyoto, causing a crisis between officials and the imperial palace.

But now, she found that half of the people doing business in Kyoto were foreigners.

The different skin tones and different hair colors, and the language they spoke was also gibberish, and they couldn't understand it at all.

Shen Niannian was secretly shocked, and unconsciously pulled Yi Qinglan's sleeve, only to find that this person's face had become ugly and abnormal.

"Why are there more aliens in Kyoto than in our border city?!" Xiangyue was also secretly surprised.

If it weren't for the accents of Kyoto people all around her, she would have thought she was back in the northern region.

In previous years, she had heard that the Southern Regions were very repulsive to foreigners, not to mention letting people go into the city to do business, even if they were aliens passing by, they would be driven away.

Can ...... now What's going on?! (To be continued.) )