Chapter 114: Return to Beijing
The seafarers rode the wind and sailed the ship far away.
For example, the bird in the clouds is gone.
I looked at the scenery on both sides of the Cangjiang River, and I couldn't help but think of Li Bai's song "Estimating Kele", and I felt a little uneasy in my heart. The Cangjiang River is the mother river of the Tiancao Kingdom, running through the north and south, and feeding the people of this land together with the Huang River running from east to west. At this time, there was a big boat with a three-story cabin on the Cangjiang River, which was the family boat that the Yun family carried me and Yun Zheng back to Beijing. Three days ago, we received a holy decree from the emperor, in addition to giving us a wedding gift, he also gave me the title of Mrs. Ronghua, and finally asked us to enter Beijing to face St. Thanksgiving.
Enter the Beijing Face Saint? Even though the boss in my heart is reluctant, the emperor's order is difficult to disobey. When he first received the holy decree, the old man frowned and called Yun Zheng into the study, and the two muttered for a long time before they came out. When he came out, Yun Zheng's face was calm, so I didn't have to worry, I wasn't really worried about myself, but I was a little worried about him, although the emperor's holy decree bestowed his grace, but this move was obviously like the Qing family left Wu Sangui's son Wu Yingxiong in the capital as a hostage, in order to coerce Wu Sangui to act rashly. Could it be that the Yun family, whom the emperor has always been afraid of him, is already starting to play chess? Get Yun Zheng to Beijing, and find any reason to keep him in order to hold Yongle Hou hostage?
Although Yun Zheng behaved calmly, I felt the oppressive atmosphere of the mountain rain coming and the wind filling the building. It's just that we are all mature people, and we all know to try our best to get rid of these unpleasant things and bring good feelings to each other. Yun Zheng's health is not good, every month, a full-time doctor will give him a routine consultation, and then he has to recuperate for two days, these two days he is very weak, usually bedridden to recuperate, travel in a wheelchair. These are the second days I married him, so I asked the servant to find out.
On the day of the visit, Mrs. Yun did not appear, and I asked Yun Zheng afterwards if she really wanted to be grounded for the rest of her life, and she would not even be allowed to attend her son's wedding. Yun Zheng stroked my long hair, with a little helplessness on his face: "It's not that I want to lock her up, now that she's like that, it won't work if she doesn't lock it up." "I didn't understand what it meant at first, but then I went to see Mrs. Yun once, and I realized what was going on, she was crazy. Since that day she lost her honor in front of us and went crazy, she didn't know anyone, she didn't recognize Yun Zheng, she didn't recognize Yun Chongshan, and she didn't know the girl who served her, no matter who approached her, she shrank into the corner of the wall and screamed, and kept muttering "Demon!" Kill you! Die! "The Yun family is very secretive about Mrs. Yun's madness, and I can't find out what kind of demons she has.
Yun Zheng is very good to me, this man who has been suffering from illness all the time, his surname is plain, and he never demands anything. Although he said that he did not force me to take over the affairs of the Yun family, I couldn't bear to let him be so tired after suffering from illness, and I knew that I was not an idle person, so I really didn't do anything, and I would definitely not be able to stand it for a long time. I tried to get in touch with the Yun family's business, and the old man asked me to start by managing the accounts, and I began a drastic reform in the Yun family, changing the flow accounting method that they had used for hundreds of years to the modern table accounting method, and sorted out the Yun family's account books, and finally understood why the Yun family was so rich.
I remember that Cao Xueqin's family used to make clothes for the palace, and the family had money to become that surname, and the Yun family's "Yunshang Fang" was similar to the Jiangning weaving done by the Cao family, but this was not the mainstream business of the Yun family. The Yun family's mainstream business was transportation and mining, and the Yun family controlled the transportation business of the Cangjiang River and the Huang River, the two major bodies of water in the Tiancao Kingdom, including the development of canals, the manufacture of ships, and the collection of grain and military rations. The Yun family also has dozens of large-scale silver mines and copper mines in the hands of the Tiancao country, and also has the right to mine all iron mines in the country, silver and copper are coined, and iron is cast weapons, I only learned in ancient times that the control of swords and weapons in ancient times was very strict, not like written in martial arts novels, every hero can walk the rivers and lakes with a knife, and it is not allowed to take a sword to the street, so the weapons of the warrior monks of Shaolin Temple are mainly sticks, because sticks do not belong to weapons. A family holds the lifeblood of a country's money, food, and weapons in his hands, how can he not become rich in the world? And how not to be jealous of the emperor? The Yun family has three deacons, in charge of three aspects of affairs, the first day I started to manage the accounts, Mr. Yun arranged for me to meet with these three deacons, one is Yun Tianhai who is in charge of Caoyun, the other is Yun Tianchang who is in charge of mining, these two are Yun Chongshan's cousin, Yun Zheng's cousin, and the other is Yongle Hou's cousin Yun Chongfeng, he is responsible for weaving and other Yun family's restaurants and other miscellaneous businesses.
The three deacons were polite to me on the face, but they didn't necessarily think of me, the young grandmother of the Yun family, who was a junior, and I didn't think it was wrong, this was human nature, not to mention that I didn't have any outstanding performance worthy of convincing. It wasn't until I asked for tabular accounting instead of their traditional journal accounting that they were amazed. Originally, I taught this set of bookkeeping methods to Mo Xiuqi, but Mo Xiuqi left a letter to resign from the post of Mr. Bookkeeper of Yunshang Fang after I married into the Yun family, and left Cangdu with Mo Sang. I don't know if it's because I'm ashamed of me, or because I'm afraid that I will take revenge on him, it seems that he has lost his thoughts about Yun Zheng's cousin. Knowing that they are gone, I don't have any feelings in my heart, Mo Xiuqi has no great talent, even if he stays in the Yun family, he will just continue to do the bookkeeper of "Yunshang Fang", I will not suppress him, but I will not reuse him, betrayed once, it is enough.
My embroidery village and hot pot restaurant, as my private property, did not integrate with the Yun family's industry, itself Yunjia embroidery village and my embroidery village are different for the source of customers, I let Xiaohong do the housekeeping, don't want her to follow me anymore, Xiaohong began to live and die disagree, I insisted on not letting her follow me, I want to plan for her future, when she marries in the future, I will send her a shop as a dowry, if she doesn't hone now, how to manage the store in the future?
And An Yuanxi, when I went back to see Grandpa Fu three days after my marriage, I learned that he sold the family house, took Aunt An and An Sheng, and left Cangdu, no one knows where they went, it seems that he has made up his mind to stay away from me completely. It's okay, if you can forget when you leave, it's a good thing for everyone.
The river breeze is cool, I stand on the observation deck on the third floor, looking at the river scenery in the distance, thinking about all kinds of things since this time, I only feel like a dream, I have been a wife for nearly a year, and I have lived a life that I have never experienced in my previous life. It would be good if this son could live peacefully, but thinking of returning to Beijing this time, in addition to the emperor's various fears about the Yun family, I alone may be involved in the fake case of the Wei family, if the truth is revealed, this Jingshi doesn't know how it will change color. I sighed and frowned.
"Sigh what?" Yun Zheng's gentle voice sounded behind me, and I turned my head, stared into his gentle eyes, and smiled.
"You're up?" I took his hand and pulled him to the bow of the boat. Our ship is definitely an ancient luxury cruise ship, the third floor has me and Yun Zheng's bedroom, study, bath, living room, lounge, the second floor has several rooms, plus a large living room and lounge, as well as a recreation room, the first floor is the servant and the boatman's wing, there is a restaurant, the back half of the boat and the stable. There are large observation decks on the second and third floors, and I made a special trip to have rattan tables and rattan chairs placed on the observation decks, and there are benches on the railings on each floor. The exterior of the ship looks only grand, not very ornate, and the interior design is not magnificent, but elegant and exquisite, and every detail is pursued to perfection.
Yun Zheng's hand was a little cold, I held his hand and said with a smile: "My hands are so hot that I want to soak in cold water in the summer, and now is just right, be a cool hand stove for me." ”
He smiled dotingly, wrapped his arms around my shoulder, and I leaned quietly in his arms, listening to him whisper: "Ye'er, don't worry, it'll be fine." ”
"Hmm. Don't worry. I nodded in his arms and said with a smile, "The old man is willing to let us go with confidence, and there must be a future." ”
He looked down at me with a smirk: "Ghost elf! ”
I looked at him with a smile: "That's why I'm not afraid, let's just walk slowly, all the way to see and play." "From Cangdu to the capital, the normal official road takes two months. If we take a boat and sit in the capital, I'm afraid it's already autumn, plus we wander around and delay along the way, intentionally or unintentionally, even if we have to face the troubles in the capital, we will have to wait until a few months later. This time he chose to take the waterway, in addition to Yun Zheng's poor health, which saved him the pain of driving and horses, but also because of the safety of the waterway, the whole process was within the Yun family's sphere of influence. The last one was requested by myself, so when choosing the route, I picked a few mines along the river as inspection points.
"Sister Ahua!" Jinsha ran up cheerfully from downstairs, and the little maid who served her ran after her, panting. I smiled and grabbed her, took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat from her forehead: "What's so rushing?" "After I married into the Yun family, I took Jinsha to me, I didn't plan to take her with me this time, after all, we didn't go to play, but this girl wanted to come with her, crying so much, so she was not sad, so she had to give in.
"Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai fight Luo!" Jin Sha said excitedly, "Xiao Hei is not well-behaved, he always bullies Xiao Bai, Xiao Bai ignores it!" ”
"Really?" I said in surprise, Jin Sha nodded again and again, "Sister Hua, go and see!" ”
"Yun Zheng, are you going?" I turned my head to look at him, I was always not used to being called "Xianggong" and "Lady", and every time I heard someone call him like this, I felt funny, so I only called him by his name, Yun Zheng had a heart, and when he saw me call him like this, he didn't call me Niangzi, only Ye'er.
"I'm not going, you can go." Yun Zheng smiled, "I'll go to the study for a while." ”
I ran downstairs with Jinsha to see the two couple horses having an awkward relationship. Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai were sent back by Yu Die'er, when Yu Die'er returned to Cangdu, I had already married Yun Zheng for a few years, the flower butterfly was stunned at first, and only after seeing Yun Zheng did she smile at me: "Huahua, I believe in your vision." ”
I just laughed, and Yu Die'er lamented: "Even Huahua is married, and there is no one in this world who I can be nostalgic for......"
I laughed and spat him, "Then are you going to die?" ”
Yu Die'er smiled and said: "I won't die, this great river and mountain is still waiting for me to travel!" As he spoke, his eyes lit up, and he didn't know what he remembered. The next time, Yu Die'er left Cangdu, leaving me two carrier pigeons, so that I could contact him when I had something to do. I know he's going to find something interesting again. I actually like this kind of friendship with Yu Die'er very much, although he has an affectionate attitude towards me and an ambiguous tone, we both know that we can only be friends forever. In fact, he has always regarded me as a fun and new thing, and he didn't come to Cang for love but for fun, because Yu Die'er knew my surname too well, and I devised Chu Yan's strategy to dispel all his thoughts about me. His interesting career as a flower thief was abandoned because of my interesting friend, and now that my interesting friend is married to a wife and is going to live a serious life, he naturally wants to find the next interesting thing to play, which is Jade Butterfly. Sometimes, I really envy him, because he is a person who really lives only for himself.
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