Chapter 389: Severe Winter

Seeing off his little uncle Chu Ye, Xie Ke smiled in a trance.

Her heart hurts, she doesn't know if the next time they meet, she can still pretend that nothing happened like this time. It's Qi Lu...... Xie Ke also had no confidence that he could hide it from him.

In the past, what Chu Ye gave, she took it with peace of mind, saying that she was hypocritical, or she didn't know the depth, she always felt an innate closeness with her little uncle Chu Ye, and said something that would make her father Xie Nian angry. In Xie Ke's heart, Chu Ye has always been the relative who is closer than his father. So what her relatives gave, she was naturally grateful, but she never thought that she would feel guilty after receiving it, but now, she ......

It is naturally impossible to return the thing.

If he really returned it, he would undoubtedly slap his little uncle Chu Ye in the face. However, Xie Ke thought that he was really a ruthless person.

I know what my uncle thinks, but I just want to whitewash the peace.

With something in his heart, it was the joy of housewarming, and Xie Ke just smiled on his face and looked at the water pavilion...... Although it is now winter and there is no water in the pool, it is really a water pavilion. The water pavilion is built on the edge of the pool, on one side of the water and on the other. Qi Lu and Xie Ke stood side by side under the corridor, Qi Lu was quite excited to point out the country, and pointed at Xie Ke one by one.

Where to plant a plum tree, where to plant a peony.

Lotus is naturally planted in the pond, as for whether it can take root and sprout smoothly in this Yecheng gale. That's not under the consideration of the second son of Qi.

Anyway, Xie Ke likes it, so he will plant it. He Qi Lu has always been related to the word willfulness, so he doesn't care about being counted down a few times............" Wait until midsummer next year. Set up a soft couch in the water pavilion. The summer breeze with moisture blows, and then the pot of fragrant tea is brewed...... It was like a fairy-like day. "Second Master Qi is looking forward to it there." When it came to summer, the lotus flowers in the pond bloomed......" On the side, Xie Ke echoed softly, Xu felt that it was a beautiful thing for the husband and wife to imagine the future together, or maybe Qi Erye said for a long time, Xie Ke finally agreed, in short, Qi Erye was in a very good mood.

It's just that Xie Ke's next sentence made Second Master Qi choke. I wonder why I married such a 'honest' woman.

Because Xie Ke then said...... "The pond is full of lotus." The next day there was a wind. Such a blow...... "Qi Lu's heart was blown cold by the breeze."

So what else is there to hope for. On the wind and sand of Yecheng, there was a blow, and it was said that the lotus in the pond was full, and the flowers in the courtyard could wither overnight. Maybe it will be uprooted.

"Sister Bao." Qi Lu looked aggrieved. I feel that my blood is full of words by my own woman. It's all poured cold.

Xie Ke couldn't help but cover his sleeves and chuckle, knowing that he couldn't hit too hard, so he patted Qi Lu's arm. A serious way. "You can build the courtyard wall higher so that the wind can't blow it." After saying that, he turned around and went to look for his daughter. Leaving Qi Lu alone under the corridor, thinking about Xie Ke's words.

It took a moment to react.

He was disgusted by the little girl again...... When he doesn't know what wind and sand are. What's the use of building the exterior wall no matter how high it is, the wind and sand are still merciless. The gate of Yecheng is high enough, Yecheng is still passing through the wind every three or five times, and the wind and sand are all over the sky, at this time Qi Lu couldn't help but be discouraged, thinking that the emperor is really his own father?

How ruthlessly gave him this place back then.

The yellow sand is full of the sky, the poor mountains and bad waters, that is, he has a different heart, and in the face of the people who are waiting to be fed in the city, he can only gather ambitions and seek a way out for the people.

Conspiracy? Vying for position?

That's far from him really the Emperor of the Sky......

The Qi Mansion of Yecheng is very atmospheric, and a pair of human-high stone lions in front of the door are holding teeth and claws, and they are unstoppable. The vermilion gate has the word 'Qi Mansion' written on it.

The bluestone-paved road in front of the gate is more than five feet wide, allowing three or five carriages to travel side by side.

As for the inside......

The people of Yecheng will not be blessed. But this does not hinder the fantasies of the common people...... The day after the plaque of Qi Mansion was hung, the people had already privately called this the New City Lord's Mansion.

Qi Mansion covers a wide area, but Yecheng is vast and sparsely populated, and the land is really not worth a few silver, so Qi Lu simply circled more.

It was built in accordance with the style of Qi Mansion in the capital, with a front yard, a back house, and a back garden that covers an area. The water pavilion is built in the center of the back garden.

The study and flower hall are located in the front yard, and there are the main courtyard and guest courtyard of Xie Ke and his wife in the back yard, and a warm pavilion is built next to the main courtyard.

The guards brought from the capital were disrupted, and the newly recruited escort formation was responsible for the defense of Qi Province.

Although it was a little chaotic when I first moved into the new house, three days later, the entire Qi Mansion seemed to be strictly disciplined, with guards holding guns by the door, guarding left and right. There is a door in the door that is responsible for the hug, and the hanging flower door has a special mother-in-law...... Yuhui personally selected more than a dozen poor girls to recruit into the mansion and was personally trained by her. Everything looks like it's on track.

That's when it happened.

The Emperor's will has come...... actually praised Qi Lu's meritorious service in governing Yecheng. Although the words are a little empty, but this will now seems to be really happy for Qi Lu.

He thought that the emperor must be furious, thinking about whether to send someone to arrest the husband and wife, or to whitewash the peace. Presumably, at this time, the crown prince and the king of Xiang must have made the emperor anxious, so in the end, the emperor temporarily stopped.

If you ask the emperor if he knows that Xie Ke is still alive, this promise is actually not difficult to guess. After all, the emperor's ears and eyes are all over the world, and Qi Lu can hide it for a while, and he can't hide it for a lifetime. So the emperor was furious...... But at the beginning, Xie Ke 'died' easily, and because he cherished his reputation as a benevolent monarch, the emperor did not make a noise, naturally, the so-called Xie Ke was an accomplice to the rebellion and felons, and few people knew.

There is no proof of the so-called death, and the emperor wants to expose the matter as soon as possible.

After all, in the emperor's opinion, Xie Ke would definitely die unless he gave birth to three heads and six arms.

Gyeonggi Wei shot, has always been vicious, Xie Ke is a woman's family, was surrounded and suppressed by Gyeonggi Guard, how can he stay alive, not to mention that Gyeonggi Wei has confirmed those corpses at that time, there is indeed a woman wearing a gold bracelet on her hand and wearing a silk Luo died in the fire, although she was burned beyond recognition, but there was a piece of cloth the size of a palm that survived in the fire. Gonggong Lin also concluded that this person was Xie Ke.

Receiving the exact news, the emperor was satisfied.

Afterwards, Qi Lu didn't believe it. Even the frame that did not plan to go out of the funeral made the emperor feel at ease. In the end, 'Xie Ke' was hastily buried.

At that time, the emperor thought that he was too sad, but now it seems that it is just Qi Lu's smooth sailing, as for why? This didn't look at it like that, he actually took Xie Ke's mother and daughter and ran to the Yecheng fiefdom in one go, and even Quan Sheng, who was sent by the emperor, wore the same pants as Qi Lu. In that excerpt, Qi Lu was praised as a flower.

If there was such a thing as an unpredictable prophet, the emperor would definitely personally accompany Gyeonggi Wei to Yecheng, and then see Xie Ke die with his own eyes. Instead of a corpse, a few pieces of jewelry. A palm-sized piece of clothing.

Things have come to this point. What else could he do?

Could it be that he reversed his word and said that Xie Ke was a chaotic minister and thief? A sentence of Chu Ye's rebellion, the emperor did not dare to publicize the world, it was really Chu Ye's status in the north that was transcendent. And the forces in the north are intertwined. One can't get it right. For Great Wei, it was a catastrophe, and the emperor would rather watch his son fight for the position of prince. He also did not want the Great Wei to die at the hands of foreign enemies.

At that time, Gyeonggi Wei forcibly broke into Qi Mansion, but it was just a pretext to play, and at the moment, there was not even a topic to borrow.

The emperor was really in a dilemma for a while.

Did he really send someone to Yecheng, but Qi Lu's repeated actions also made the emperor understand that Qi Lu was not a fuel-efficient lamp, or that the young man was not easy to mess with at all. It's just that when he was in the capital, his claws were retracted, and in front of him, he always showed weakness, making him think that the young man would not be a climate after all.

But now, the emperor can only regret and regret. It's a pity that he naturally knows people wrongly, if he knew Qi Lu's ability early on, he wouldn't have made a move on Xie Ke, maybe at the beginning, he would really accept Xie Ke, maybe then, Qi Lu wouldn't be so centrifuged from him.

As for remorse.

He thought that his original arrangement was wrong after all.

He should arrange for Qi Lu to be born in the palace, and his biological mother should be a palace concubine. In that case, as long as his background is not revealed, perhaps, he can really entrust him with important responsibilities. Instead of being like now, he and Qi Lu obviously knew each other, but those pasts were like a moat, between their father and son.

If you can't fill it up, you can't fill it up, so you will block them for the rest of your life.

Xu is tired of illness, the emperor's condition is getting worse and worse, and after winter, he really lingers on the sickbed.

Hearing the news that he was seriously ill, it was natural that several of his sons were in a hurry to return to Beijing......

A bloody storm kicked off in the emperor's unwilling expression.

This year has been an eventful year for the capital. After the grain shortage, the good days have not yet reached a year, and suddenly there was a storm of price increases, speaking of which this year rice has a penny, vegetables have risen a penny, it is really not a big deal, but if it is three or five days, the price of rice noodles has doubled, and then three or five days, it has doubled, this is a catastrophe. The intervention of the imperial court will not help. Because the deficit is too large, the imperial court wants to use its own strength to maintain stable prices, but it is powerless. Because almost the entire capital, there is nothing that does not rise.

If the court explicitly ordered that the price could not be raised, then no matter what the shop, it would simply be closed. Because if you sell one more, you will lose one more, and the merchant said that he couldn't hold it.

At this time, the prince came forward to find the person in charge behind the scenes, in the prince's view, everything has a cause and effect, and things will not rise in price for no reason, and naturally they will not increase the price at the same time for no reason, but to no avail.

Because of the investigation, the source could not be found, but the entire capital was stirred up in darkness, and there were not even a few people on the street during the day. This is the capital, but at the feet of the Son of Heaven, like this, the Great Wei is dead. So the emperor reprimanded the crown prince and finally handed over the matter to the king of Xiang for investigation.

King Xiang naturally will not follow the old path of the prince.

Since he couldn't find out, the king of Xiang didn't check it, and only thought about how to appease the people and stabilize prices ********.

It's just difficult, it's too difficult, that is, the king of Xiang thinks he is a rich man, and he can't take out so much silver at once, and the key is that this silver has no money in and out. If the disaster is calmed down, it can be regarded as a good name, so that it can increase popularity in the capital, but if it doesn't work, wouldn't it be a bamboo basket to draw water.

This kind of thing that obviously loses money and makes money, the king of Xiang will not do it.

So the king of Xiang only hastily gave out some silver, so that the shop that secretly belonged to him was opened for business, and the price of things remained unchanged. It was only a dozen days of hard work, and the king of Xiang was so sad that he didn't dare to hold on anymore, so he had to close the door.

Smell that the crown prince and the king of Xiang have both lost.

The Emperor vomited blood in a fit of rage. After the Imperial Doctor's Hall jumped, the holy decree came down.

King Ning and King Yu came forward to find out the truth and returned a clear sky to the capital.

***

When the capital was in turmoil, Xie Ke, who was the initiator, was sitting comfortably in the warm pavilion, looking at the dim sky by the window and feeling stunned.

The wind was blowing, and it blew for four or five days.

Even in the house, I could hear the wind howling outside the window, and the sound of ghosts crying wolves. Qi Lu left the house with Zhou Ziqiu. The wind struck, and the old and dilapidated city wall of Yecheng suddenly collapsed. This made Qi Lu's face darken, and he felt that he was really a disadvantage. No matter how bad the weather is, he can only go out of the house with Zhou Ziqiu with a handsome face.

Today, Yuhui took a shift, and she coaxed Mingyue on the low couch beside her. Seeing the little girl playing with a ball of silk thread, she looked up at Xie Ke, and then looked out the window with Xie Ke. "This damn weather, it's really fatal." Yuhui hated the way.

Whether it is Jian'an, Wangchuan, or Beijing, it is a boundary with four distinct seasons and a lack of wind and rain. Even if there is wind, it is just a few painless spring colors in March, how have you ever seen such a thing, it is like ...... It's like the whole world is going to be swept away in the next moment.

With the high winds comes a sudden drop in temperature.

A few days ago, I could still wear a jacket, but suddenly, it was a cotton coat, and when it was blown by the wind, it could also make people feel cold in an instant.

"yes, it's really fatal." Xie Ke said lightly. When I first arrived in Yecheng, the foundation was not stable, and the winter in Yecheng was difficult. I heard that many people's families spend their days on porridge all day after winter, and they are miserable, and they will die because of food shortages.

When Qi Lu first arrived, it should have been a thriving scene, and Xie Ke also had the ability and confidence to make Yecheng not die of hunger this year.

It's just that...... The walls collapsed. What followed was uncontrollable rumors.

What bad luck becomes, a disaster star descends into the world. Even the vision of Qi Lu when he was born was also turned out and made a big fuss.

For a while, the whole Yecheng was in turmoil. Some time ago, the efforts of the husband and wife came to naught in an instant, and the people would rather go hungry than take a step into the good hall. The children in the school are even more walking. In the medical hall, Lin Changyuan is in charge himself, and he no longer sees the busy scene in the past.

A few days ago, outside the gate of Qifu, which was still lively, there was no more lively scene of people coming and going.

The entire Qi Mansion seems to have been 'abandoned' all of a sudden, which makes people feel like they are in heaven and hell for a while.

(To be continued.) )