When she saw that he had finally returned to normal, she said:

"It stands to reason that I am not your wife now, let alone engaged to you, so I don't need to explain anything to you at all, but you have doubts in your heart, and it will not benefit me at all in the future, so I will make it clear to you."

She went on to recall.

"I was too stupid that day, and others wouldn't let me see it, so I wanted to see it, and when I went out and saw that there was no one in the village, I felt even more strange, so I walked along the stream in the village for a while, and in the middle of the night I arrived at the edge of the forest, and saw-"

Her voice paused slightly, of course she would not describe in detail, what she saw in the clear moonlight that night, but she said secretly:

"What the monk you met at Putuo Temple is not wrong."

His face sank, but he didn't get angry anymore after all, of course he understood that seeing it was not the same as participating, and he was not qualified to question it now.

"I was so frightened that I fled back to the village immediately, and the next day at dawn I didn't tell the monk official, so I fled back to the temple, Master Kong Ming thought I was wronged, so he told me not to collect food for a few hard-earned money, let me follow his personal disciples to copy Buddhist scriptures, and usually go to the donor's dormitory to wait for the female benefactor who lives in the house."

Speaking of this, she thought about it, and said: "You also know that I was a temple slave in the Buddhist temple, originally to wait for the Fusang official ladies and ladies who came to live and worship the Buddha, they believed in Buddhism too much, and often stayed for ten days and half a month without going home——"

"I know you're making money on them—"

He didn't want to hear these things he already knew, he was a businessman, and he knew that she needed a lot of money to smuggle food, and she had told him before, and the first money she earned after she brought her two younger brothers to this place was to memorize the collection of poems treasured by Master Kong Ming.

She memorized it, then wrote and transcribed it silently, disguised it as a collection of ancient poems from the Great Song Dynasty, and sold it to these Fuso aristocratic women in the temple who were proficient in Chinese characters and Chinese poetry as their identity symbols.

At that time, the Hanshu from the Song Kingdom could be sold for five taels of gold ailment.

"Although I make money selling books, I can't memorize much, and I do business in the temple so that Master Kong Ming knows, and he also says that I am too greedy, and the six roots are not pure-"

Of course, what she memorized was not Kong Ming's poetry collection, but all the ancient poems and ancient texts she learned from elementary school to junior high school, and occasionally she could steal air copy Kong Ming's own collection of books, and his collection of books was only twenty-nine, all of which were carried when he escaped from Wutai Mountain, and it was forbidden by the Song State to sell foreign books, so even his personal disciples could not touch it.

She occasionally glanced at it, and only knew that those books should be the complete works of Su Dongpo and Wang Anshi, including a large number of original texts that they presented to the official family when they were officials, and they all involved the official system, geography, food, and military use of the Great Song Dynasty, so they could not be sold abroad according to the Great Song Dynasty maritime ban regulations.

"I'm short of money, so I still followed the monk to collect food—"

She didn't hide her background in front of him, just like he didn't hide that he was forced by his mother at home as a concubine.

"During the day, the village is normal, when I was in the village, as long as it was after nightfall, I would never dare to go out, and then because the monks and officials disliked the hard money for collecting grain, and their parents in the village also wanted to pay less taxes and earn more grain, I happened to know Huang Qige, and knew that he was a boatman, and he could bring some goods on the sea boat for free according to his habits, so I started a smuggling business with them——"

She said this carefully, explained the cause and effect, and then she talked about the main topic of Wang Shiqiang's question.

"I am smuggling grain, and I am not a monk to collect taxes, of course, I have to collect grain in advance to ensure the source of food, but I have never been to the village on the festival day after I did smuggling."

Speaking of this, she looked at him and said:

"After the opening of the workshop, I stopped smuggling, and I got to know you, do you remember that I used to go to the mountains on the first day of February and the first day of July?"

He listened, was silent for a long time, and slowly finally sat down in the corridor.

However, she also knew in her heart at this time that he suddenly ruined his marriage three years ago, which was of course one of the reasons, although she heard him talk about family affairs, Miss Shu in the maritime merchants, there were also remarried after losing her husband after marriage, so the etiquette of the Great Song Dynasty was not too strict, but such a sacrifice day collective fornication, she is a modern soul completely unacceptable.

She originally thought that the Fuso people were like birds-beasts.

“…… At that time, I thought that Zhuma Temple was a lewd-temple ......"

He muttered to himself,

"Even if you don't participate, Fusang believes in Theravada Buddhism, there are no wild monks and women outside the temple, and there are many female nuns living together and having children; In order to keep their official qualities, although the monks and officials in the temple will not touch the female sex, they buy young boys from merchants to be servants and temple slaves, and I have heard some of them...... You get along day and night, and many of their young monks are also proficient in Sinology, so they can be moved by you and give you the business of selling temple grain......"

She listened quietly, knowing that he was not here to get back together at the moment, but just to explain the mood of ruining the marriage at that time, speaking of this, he closed his eyes slightly, took a deep breath, and finally calmed his face, he raised his eyes to look at her, and smiled bitterly silently,

"What's more, the women in Tangfang are not like the Great Song Dynasty, no matter whether the family is poor or rich, everyone comes out to work, Miss Xu Qi, who grew up next to you, how rich is her family now? As a result, in order to be jealous, you dare to have a secret tryst with a young man, and your brother Ji Chenhu was out of the wind once, and I saw her spend the night on a young Song merchant's cabin ship, and only left at dawn......

"So you think I'm too?"

She looked back lightly and saw the remorse in his eyes, so she didn't explain that Xu Qiniang's Xu Shuqing's growth environment was completely different from others, she was silent when she was a child, and she didn't know whether she was deaf or autistic, so that she didn't know how to discipline her without medical knowledge, and just hoped that she would be healthy; didn't explain that the Tangfang woman came out to work, in her opinion, this is the same as leaving home in junior high school in her previous life and working to support her brother to go to college.

Unalterable principle.

She also acted as if nothing had happened, and said with a smile:

"So you empathized in advance, and when you saw Miss Lou incense in Putuo Temple, you changed your habit of never entering the temple before, and lived in that temple for twenty-two days in the name of enlightenment, hoping to see her again?"

His already ugly face stiffened, raised his eyes slightly, stared at her for a long time with dark dark eyes, and said astringently:

"You know?"

She didn't answer, just looked at him, but he had nothing to say.

However, she didn't expect an answer from him, and still said:

"There are people coming and going in the Buddhist temple, and there are few things that no one will know, just like you sent Zuo Ping and another manager back that year, and secretly went to the Zhuma Temple to inquire about my past twice, I am also easy to inquire about Miss Lou's preferences."

She also sighed,

"I must at least know that I am inferior to her except for Mendi."

She smiled slightly, but she didn't look at him, just looked at the jade Guanyin who had been consecrated in Putuo Temple on the corridor, and recalled the rumors of the eldest daughter of the Lou family in Mingzhou City, although her mother died early, but she was virtuous and good, and she was married to a merchant like Wang Shiqiang, and it was also in Mingzhou City that the Lou family's steproom treated her stepdaughter poorly.

"It is indeed a virtuous beauty who can make people fall in love at first sight."

Perhaps, it was precisely because he fell in love with Miss Lou at first sight that even if he knew that Lou Yun and he had a disagreement on state affairs, he did not hesitate to marry her.

Listening to her laughter, he sat silently on the porch.

He didn't explain anymore that he happened to see Miss Lou who went to Putuo Temple to make incense, obviously she was the one who was going to propose, but she couldn't help but follow her to the temple to inquire about her. After he knew that she would come to repay her vows within a month, he was stunned for some reason, and he didn't go home, and Ji Qingchen left it behind, so he rented the courtyard in the temple for a month, until he saw her for the second time......

He could hardly remember whether he had heard the rumors of the prostitution in the mountains first, or whether he had secretly dreamed of ruining the marriage and marrying another lady after meeting Miss Lou for the second time or even the first time......

She didn't say anything more, just stood upright, looking at the jade Guanyin on the porch without making a sound, and at some point, he heard her turn around, and her voice sounded, quiet and gentle, completely recovering her usual appearance, calling Ji Hong outside.

"Someone."

The half-hidden courtyard door opened in response, and Ji Hong walked in,

She took out Wang Shiliang's greeting sticker from her sleeve, handed it over, and said, "Please invite Prince Shiliang into the workshop." ”

Ji Hong was waiting anxiously and hurriedly responded.

He carefully looked at Wang Shiqiang's face without gloating, and when he was about to turn around, she commanded again,

"Wait, you take this painting, ask Mr. Li to repaint it for a few minutes, and post it at the water gate and street entrance, so that the people don't admit their mistakes."

While speaking, she took the official painting of Lou Yun from the corridor that she didn't ask Xiao Ruiniang to take away, Ji Hong was about to step forward and roll it up, she shook her head slightly, and asked Ji Hong to take a closer look at the painting of you, and said:

"The official portraits of the officials of the three cities of the Great Song Dynasty have all the merchants of the Song Dynasty, and you should have seen them before - this is Lou Yun, the supervisor of the Bosi of Quanzhou City - you recognize it, tell the boys in the sù fang, whoever wants Hu Lai to offend the envoy, I can't spare them."

"Yes, big lady."

Ji Hong picked up the round lens tied to the front of his shirt, leaned in front of the protruding right eye, and looked carefully at the man in the painting, Wang Shiqiang had slowly stood up, watching her movements without saying a word, but she looked at Ji Hong sideways, and saw the placket of his clothes, a green bamboo-framed glass round lens tied with a bright red tape.

Ji Hong's protruding eyes, which she had also seen in her previous life, were the result of iodine deficiency in children in the mountains.

But since she was able to eat iodized salt in her previous life, she rarely saw it in nearby villages, let alone cities.

As for people like Ji Hong, who grew up by the sea and never lacked salt, why they have such an eye disease that affects their eyesight, she doesn't know, but his crystal lens that can adjust the vision of the eyes was ground out by Ji Erlang himself with emery and given to Ji Hong.

What he imitated was that she spent 1,000 taels of gold to buy Western glass lenses from the Xifang Yoshizumi Warehouse.

The reason why she spared no expense was because during the three years she was in Zhuma Temple, Erlang followed Mr. Li to study and be taught under the fish oil lamp day and night, and became highly short-sighted. In this way, not only did he get into a hurry, but Mr. Li, who had just accepted a smart disciple, thought that he was blind, and ran away from home with the intention of fending for himself.

The physical principle of the concave mirror and the convex mirror was when she explained the myopia to Erlang after she found him, and told him to listen.

Although in her previous life, she only graduated from junior high school and had to follow her fellow villagers to work in coastal cities under the silent eyes of her parents, what she was thinking about every month was to reverse the first three shifts of the shoe-making workshop assembly line, save the wages earned as a female worker, and send them home.

But she studied textbooks for three years in junior high school, but she has always been as if carved in her heart.

Perhaps during that time in the mountain school, although I could not see the high-rise buildings in the coastal cities, I could not hear the whistle of the 10,000-ton giant ship in the port factory, let alone the iron and steel giant arms waving at the same time by hundreds of cranes in the port, and the shipping containers that were almost piled up on the blue skyline layer after layer......

But the simplicity of the blue sky that can be seen through the dense green canopy in the mountain road, and the rush of the stream that must flood in the spring ten miles outside the mountain school, still constitutes her simple and happy childhood.

"Big lady?"

She came back to her senses and nodded, thinking about the situation on the "Red Sleeves Fragrance Map",

"Go, I heard that the people waiting in this Lou Lord's mansion are all Yi girls from all over the world given to him by the merchants, you go to Xifang to do a little bit of something, and let them find three or four beautiful Fusang women outside the fang to rent for half a year, you and their parents said that if they can please that lord with their hearts, I can guarantee that they will have no worries about food and clothing in the future."

Wang Shiqiang's face was gloomy, Ji Jiang heard her actually talk about the Xifang skin and meat business that she had never paid attention to before, and knew that she had to make friends with Lou Yun, no matter what, she wanted to satisfy him.

If he can handle this well, she can't say that his old account will be turned over in her heart.

"Yes, big lady."

He kept the matter in his heart, and hesitated slightly, "Shiliang Gongzi is outside the workshop, do you invite him to sit in the Ji family's warehouse, or invite him to come and see the eldest lady in person?" ”

"Just let him go directly to the Wang's Warehouse to rest, and I'll see him when I have time."

As soon as he heard it, he knew that this seventeenth prince was far from being able to enter the Ji family's warehouse like Hu, Liu, and Chen, and Xie Guoyun, Wang Shiqiang, and Huang Qilang, who she personally received in the small courtyard.

Perhaps, although Wang Shiqiang was calculated by her to lose all his property and was about to be driven out of Tangfang, she still knew clearly in her heart which of the two brothers of the Wang family was strong and who was weak.

He lowered his head and took the scroll, turned around and walked towards the courtyard gate, and when he was almost in front of the door, he vaguely heard Wang Shiqiang's voice,

"Qingniang, you should know the reason why I haven't handed over these properties."

He was not annoyed that she still accepted Wang Shiliang into the door, and in the gap between the few words just now, he seemed to have thrown away the old love of his youth, and restored all his plans to come to the door today to force his relatives.

She looked at him coldly, but after all, she still nodded, and said:

"You are worried that my woman is cowardly, and she will not participate in the war of the Great Song Dynasty in the future, and the Northern Expedition plan you submitted will come to naught-you control these key points in Tangfang, and when the time comes, the words that persuade me will have some weight."

Maybe it was from this incident that she always knew in her heart that he didn't believe her, but maybe maybe her hesitation had always fallen in his eyes

"Qingniang, in fact, you don't believe that the Northern Expedition plan I submitted to the Prime Minister's Mansion will be successful?"

He stood up and looked directly at her, "At the beginning, you always persuaded me to stay in Tangfang after getting married, and you didn't want to go back to the Great Song Dynasty at all." ”

At that time, she and him were in love, but they had many quarrels over whether she would marry back to the Great Song Dynasty after marriage or whether he would stay in Tangfang.

At that time, he helped Tangfang to build a workshop, and jointly drove Fujian maritime merchants out of the East China Sea market, making great contributions to Jiangsu and Zhejiang maritime merchants, which made the elders of the family acquiesce to his marriage.

And he also turned over once, and as a concubine, he openly proposed to divide the house in front of his mother-in-law, and he must marry Ji Shi, an overseas girl, as his wife, so that Ji Qingchen, who had always been worried that he would not disobey his parents' orders, was full of joy, but she still refused to marry back to Mingzhou, and repeatedly offered to put all the Tangfang properties under her name into his private name, let him stay in Tangfang, and it was enough to go back to the Siming Wang's house to meet the elders once a year when the ship was escorted.

He knew that after the house was divided, although she didn't have to be angry in the old mansion with him, because of the lack of guidance from the female relatives of the Wang family, she would have a hard time interacting with the female relatives of the Wang family in Mingzhou, which was completely unfamiliar.

His biological mother was of low birth and could not support her.

She herself was born in Yinu, and she had no relatives in the Great Song Dynasty, but he also persuaded her deeply, with her connections in the maritime merchants of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, although it was a little difficult at the beginning, as long as her two younger brothers were still in Tangfang, the family members in the maritime merchants would be courteous to her.

It took her a year or two to make friends with her heart, and she was able to dissolve into the circle of the Mingzhou maritime merchant family.

As for her raising children for him at home, disciplining her family, taking care of the house, and managing her business, of course, it is not a problem, it is enough for him to worry about the future, he will also envelop some uncles and brothers in the clan, and the division of the house is also to stand on her own, and sooner or later she will make some female relatives of the Wang family, and it will be good after a long time.

Speaking of the future, after he becomes an official, she will inevitably have to have some dealings with the official family's dependents, and as a Yi girl, she will inevitably be despised and ridiculed, but the Zhao official family has the grace of going down to the city ship, whether it is a Song merchant or a fan businessman, a businessman who can handle more than 3,000 overseas business under the city ship division can get the official title of Jiupin Chengshilang.

Which of the Song Shanggang leaders she made friends with in Tangfang did not have an official position?

Not to mention that she is the lord of Tangfang, and over the years she has also welcomed the envoys sent to Fuso by the Goryeo State and the Okinawa State at the port, in order to facilitate business, she has invited them to come to Tangfang every time to set up a banquet to entertain, and they have also been summoned to the Honglu Pavilion to participate in the state banquet according to the Song rites, and ask about the trade in the East China Sea.

She will never really be insightful and informed, and will be ridiculed by the officials of the state, and he will invite a female school teacher to come, and let her learn more about the poetry and books he taught her in the past.

What's more, in addition to the royal family of the clan, after all, after a woman gets married, she is a wife and a husband, and when he goes up step by step, she will be able to live a happy life.

The time when the biggest quarrel was, he just hated her for worrying about the sky and not knowing the world, and actually said that the reason why she was unwilling to marry back to the Great Song Dynasty to settle down was that there might be a tribe called Mongolia in the northwest, and her ambitions were not small......

That was the time, because he heard her nonsense, after slamming the door and leaving in this small courtyard, he couldn't help but have the thought of "it's not suitable after all".

But at that time, why was he willing to break up with her?

And after three days, she also quietly found his warehouse, and after missing his figure, she got on his cargo ship to look for him.

She begged him softly through the hatch, although she could hear the hesitation in her tone, she still agreed to marry back to the Great Song Dynasty and settle in Mingzhou City with him outside the cabin door that he was unwilling to open for her.

Therefore, he is also willing to believe that she is talking nonsense, all because he is afraid of leaving his two younger brothers and having no relatives to rely on in Da Song.

And whether these were one of the reasons why he finally gave up his marriage with her ruthlessly, he didn't want to think about it anymore......

"Wang Gangshou, I heard that Prime Minister Han has been making suggestions to your Zhao official family for the past half a year, and he wants to set up a Pingzhang political affairs."

She suddenly spoke, and the topic turned to the Northern Expedition that he was most concerned about, and he couldn't help but listen attentively,

"I know that the main battle in the imperial court is headed by Prime Minister Han, but these days I also asked someone to copy the newspaper of the palace half a year ago, and the local officials who oppose the Northern Expedition in various places may not be unreasonable, although I don't understand the war, what I care about is myself, Chenlong and Chenlong, and the 30,000 people in the fang can have a safe place to live, whether there are full days to live, and if the war starts in a hurry, it will indeed be difficult and the people will be poor-"

"You..."

He originally had an uncomfortable look because of the past three years ago, but at this time it was ugly, "Aren't you looking at Lou Yun's twists and turns?" ”

She was slightly stunned, and was about to deny it, but he was already in charge, walking back and forth in front of the corridor, and said in a deep voice:

"If you want to coincide with him, I can't control it-" He snorted heavily and continued, "Since you want to use troops, you can't help but integrate military power, financial power, and human rights, and the Jingkang change is inevitably because there are too many checks and balances in the army, people are superfluous, and there is no military order like a mountain to have such a result, and it is natural for Prime Minister Han to want to seek the position of Pingzhang political affairs." Why should we think that he is seeking power?

She knew that he couldn't listen to it, so she hesitated and decided to tell the truth, "What I promised you to support the Northern Expedition at the beginning is indeed impossible now. ”

He froze as he walked back and forth, and turned his face to look at her in almost disbelief.

"Qing Niang!"

She stared at him immovable.

“…… Qingniang, do you still have something to hide from me? ”

He suddenly softened his voice again, and asked her softly, and she stared at him, perhaps her heart swaying from side to side in order to survive was cowardice in his eyes that "erections are not enough".

"I ......"

She opened her mouth slightly, almost as impulsively to tell him again the history of the Mongol Society's southward movement in the textbook, so that he could understand that the only reason she had changed now was that she finally understood that the chances of success of the main battle faction supported by Wang Shiqiang were not high.

However, she looked into his eyes, and the urge to explain it disappeared.

She already knew that the person who was questioning her now was Wang Shiqiang, a doorman in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and Wang Shiqiang, the husband of Mingzhou Knowles, not the love-couple who had a heart-to-heart relationship with her back then and talked about everything.

Now she no longer needs to share the inexplicable past of her previous life with him, praying that he can understand her fears......

"Qingniang, you-aren't you worried about your brother Ji Chenhu at all?"

Wang Shiqiang's voice sounded, it was still the coercion and temptation when she first entered the door, she also breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, put away her swaying heart, smiled slightly, and said:

"Wang Gang's capital is not worried that Prime Minister Han has monopolized power, so why should I worry about San Lang?"

"Okay, young lady-!"

Wang Shiqiang heard that her and Lou Yun's tone was exactly the same, and he couldn't help but be furious, and he didn't choose to speak, "You only asked for the Northern Expedition in the past, and never cared about any powerful ministers and emperors, do you think I can't see it?" ”

Although she was slightly startled, she also knew that he was too close to her, and she was dispensable to the Great Song Zhao official family, and he didn't say that he could feel it in his heart, so he didn't argue with him, but just sneered:

"What does it have to do with me whether the emperor is the emperor or not, I haven't eaten a single rice from Zhao Guan's family! I know that Wang Gangshou only has power in his eyes, and there is no gang at all, no wonder the two concubines in the family can give birth to a son and a daughter earlier than the main wife, it turns out that this is the rule of Wang Gangshou's family, and now I am very glad that I have no ability to marry into your Wang family, lest I have to watch my husband forcibly occupy his two dowry girls within three days of marriage! ”

When it comes to talking, Wang Shiqiang, a man who wants to save face, is not her opponent anyway.

Listening to her from state affairs all the way to family affairs, and then scolding him for taking a concubine three days after he got married, he was ashamed, but he could hardly suppress his deep hatred for Lou Yun in the past few years. Huang Qilang saw that he quarreled with them again, and his language was rebellious, Xiao Ruiniang had already returned to the house smartly, and he also walked away to avoid the disaster of the pond fish.

"What do you know?"

He gritted his teeth and cursed,

"I met you at the age of twenty, and I waited until you were seventeen years old and nodded and agreed to marry me and marry in Mingzhou City, and I devoted myself to you for four years! For your sake, I don't hesitate to break with my parents, and I leave home and just wait to marry you! Am I born to be unkind? Am I going to have no love for you overnight? Am I just a shallow-eyed person who has never seen a woman, and she has to be a woman?! ”

If it weren't for Lou Yun, why would he have hastily repented of his marriage with Ji Qingchen, and now he is full of regrets, the traveling monk from Fusang is simply a trap given to him by Lou Yun, but she is still bothering to arrange it here and treat Lou Yun diligently!

His marriage is completely a dark situation!

Even his wife, Stephen Knowles, was clear before marriage, only he, Wang Shiqiang, and her, Ji Qingchen, were kept in the dark, and were dismantled by Lou Yun waiting to be broken.