Chapter Ninety-Nine: Jealousy, Wealth
After staying at Zhou Xing's house for one night, Xie Lang set off early in the morning with Ji Ji.
This time, the road was very smooth, except for the fact that there was only one carriage in the team of 200 people.
There was only one carriage, so Ji Ji had to share a car with Xie Lang. But at this time, Ji Ji was still frightened, even when she got into the carriage, she was in a coma most of the time, and she always had nightmares, so she didn't have the heart to care about this carpool.
Within two days, the team met Xie Twenty-Nine's team.
Ji Ji was falling asleep in the carriage, and suddenly heard the noise outside, and she thought with peace of mind: I am safe.
In a blink of an eye, she said to herself again: Ji Ji, you are safe.
After saying this a few times, Ji Ji suddenly became excited. Just as she was slowly sitting up straight, Xie Twenty-nine's voice came from outside, "So, in the future, I, the Xie clan of Chenjun County, must be careful of Liu Yikang?" ”
Before Xie Lang could speak, Xie Twenty-nine said again: "Eighteenth brother, you are good at everything, but you are too soft-hearted." Since he burned his two mansions, why bother to get a fake dragon robe that can't stand up to scrutiny? If the dragon robe is real, wouldn't it be for the family to get rid of Liu Yikang's troubles? ”
Fake dragon robes? What fake dragon robe? Ji Ji was stunned for a moment, and listened more and more carefully.
At this time, Xie Lang spoke, and she could hear that there was a faint tiredness in his voice, "Liu Yikang is the military governor of the eight states, and he is a person who can recruit and train soldiers. Now that the Northern Wei Dynasty has just swept away the north, there is no outstanding talent in my Liu Song Dynasty to replace Liu Yikang. "So he can't die and he can't fall.
In the blink of an eye, Xie Lang said again: "But this time the dragon robe incident, even if it is finally found that the dragon robe is fake, Liu Yikang will leave a thorn in His Majesty's heart." In the next few years, he should have relented. ”
Xie Twenty-Nine spoke. He sighed: "Eighteen brothers, you are good at everything, but you are too conceited. Did you calculate that Liu Yikang couldn't help you, and you weren't afraid of his revenge, so you did this, right? ”
Xie Lang did not answer.
Seeing that it had become calm outside, Ji Ji moved.
As soon as she moved, Xie Lang's voice came gently. "Awake?"
Seeing that Ji Ji didn't answer. Outside the carriage, Xie Lang chuckled.
Hearing that his voice was very pleasant, Xie Twenty-nine asked in surprise, "What is the eighteenth brother laughing at?" ”
Through the curtain. Xie Lang's laughter was a little playful, "I'm thinking, someone must be a shrunken turtle at the moment." She always thought that as long as she kept silent. No one knew that she was up and down with me, sleeping and riding together. ”
Who shared his car? This is a great slander!
Ji Ji was annoyed. She brushed the curtain and glared at Xie Lang, but as soon as the curtain was pulled, Ji Ji looked at Xie Guang and the others with a little smile. Somehow, Ji Ji's face was flushed.
Ji Xi's face flushed, and she had the heart to refute Xie Lang. But when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed them again, at the moment. Ji Ji hurriedly pulled the curtain of the car and hid herself.
Seeing Ji Ji like this, Xie Guang and the others all laughed, and Xie Twenty-nine said even more funny: "Eighteen brothers, why hasn't it been done at this point?" ”
Xie Lang smiled and said nothing, but Xie Guang on the side said happily: "Twenty-nine Lang, you don't understand." Even if this fish is out of the pot, it will jump a few times, and Eighteen Lang is playing with fun. ”
Fun fart! Fish in the pot fart!
In the carriage, Ji Ji read twice hatefully, and leaned on the couch listlessly.
However, half a day later, as soon as the convoy stopped, Ji Ji happily jumped out of the carriage, and I don't know how she did it, but in a few words, she actually let people vacate the carriage she was sitting in, and then climbed up in a hurry, refusing to get down lightly. In that way, it seems that someone will take advantage of her to get out of the car and take her away.
Such a concubine made everyone laugh again.
Along the way, Ji Ji seemed to have forgotten all her troubles, and talked and laughed with Xie Guang and the others as she did when she came, and her radiant and fresh appearance made Xie Twenty-nine glance at her and Xie Lang several times.
Half a month later, the convoy came to Zhao County.
A city in Zhao County, among the surrounding more than a dozen counties, is the largest and most prosperous, but there are also bad here, here is 400 miles away from the Yangtze River, it is one of the counties of the Liu and Song dynasties, which is relatively close to the Northern Wei Dynasty.
Looking at the gate of Zhao County that appeared in the field of vision, Xie Twenty-nine's voice came loudly, "The county seat in front is Zhao County, and Zhao County has the manor of my Chen County Xie Family. ”
For a top gate valve like the Chenjun Xie clan, almost every child in the clan has a large number of manor properties. Although this Zhao County is nothing, a certain son of the Xie family of Chen County still bought property here. Now that they have passed by, they can enter the manor and rest for a few days before leaving.
Almost as soon as Xie Twenty-nine's voice fell, the five hundred parts cheered, and it was Ji Ji, who also laughed happily on the side.
Seeing Ji Ji's smiling face from a distance, Xie Twenty-nine retracted his gaze, and he secretly thought: This woman of the eighteenth brother is really a bold one, and it has only been a few days since she came back from Liu Yikang's demon cave, and she has almost recovered. Thinking that year, two family Langjun went to the General's Mansion to borrow it, but they were scared and went back.
Outside the gate of Zhao County, there were still people greeting outside, but this time, in addition to the local Haoqiang, there were also the servants and stewards in the manor of the Xie family in Chen County.
After living in the manor, the first thing Ji did was to take a bath, and then according to custom, everyone skipped the brazier that Wu deliberately lit after the careful ceremony, in order to burn away the road ghosts and all kinds of filth attached to the road.
Everyone was almost rested, and the banquet specially prepared for them began.
For such a banquet, everyone's position is very particular, and it is natural that Ji Ji's position is arranged behind Xie Lang and separated by a screen...... With such an arrangement, Ji Ji is already regarded as Xie Lang's woman.
At this time, Ji Ji also felt that it was pointless to argue, so she didn't say anything, and sat honestly on the right side of Xie Lang and ate her meal quietly.
After a quiet meal, it was followed by singing and dancing, and there were housekeepers in the manor who performed the newly rehearsed for the crowd. The most popular music dance music.
Because Xie Lang's reputation is too loud, at this time, there have been a steady stream of guests to visit, and gradually, the courtyard has been very lively.
This kind of excitement lasted for three days, and in these three days. Xie Lang because there were too many people visiting. Ji Ji barely spoke to him.
In the blink of an eye, Ji Ji had been in the Zhuangzi for four days. By this time, her bones, which had been tossed apart by the carriage, had returned to their place. The whole person is very energetic.
So, after seeing Xie Lang visiting friends again, Ji Ji also dressed up a little and sat in the carriage wearing a gauze hat. Under the protection of the Xie clan, he left the manor.
Unexpectedly, she had just walked to the gate of the manor. A convoy came in front of you.
After glancing at Ji Ji's carriage and the parts around her, suddenly, in the donkey cart at the front. A girl's sweet voice was heard, "Wait a minute! ”
The girl stretched out her head to look at Ji Ji's carriage, and asked the subordinates beside Ji Ji, "Who is inside?" ”
This girl obviously has some identity. As soon as her voice fell, a Xie clan replied politely: "Go back to Aunt Shen."
Speech. In this carriage is our eighteen-year-old ......."
Before he could finish speaking, Aunt Shen immediately shouted: "Ah, I understand, she is the Ji girl who brought a lot of trouble to Eighteen Lang and caused him to lose a good manor, "not good-looking", right?" I heard about it from the Prince's letter. ”
After Shen Xiaogu's voice fell, in the donkey cart behind, there were several girls' discussions, "I have also heard about this, it is really not worth it for Eighteen Lang." "Let's go, go over and have a look."
In the blink of an eye, Ji Ji's front and back were full of donkey carts, and five or six sisters-in-law of the world all stretched out their heads and looked towards Ji Ji.
Especially that Shen sister-in-law, as soon as her donkey cart came, she stretched out her hand and forcibly pulled up the curtain of Ji Xi's car.
Speaking of which, Ji Ji, who is fifteen years old, is actually already a beauty, but the object of her "hooking up" is Xie Lang, who is known as the first in Fenghua River, so Ji Ji's ordinary beauty can't get into people's eyes.
The sisters-in-law opened their eyes wide and looked straight at Ji Ji, and the more they looked at her, the more they couldn't hide their jealousy and hatred on their faces. In their opinion, Ji Ji is too far from Xie Lang no matter how she looks or what she does, but such a person can get Xie Lang's blue eyes, which makes him pay a huge price to get it back!
After the girls stared up and down at Ji Ji for a while, the Shen sister-in-law said mockingly: "Ji girl, do you think a person like you is worthy of a manor?" ”
Another sister-in-law shouted: "It's just that with a good character like you, you still make Xie Shibai lose so much, I really can't understand it." ”
"Aunt Ji, I'm afraid that you won't be able to earn money from a manor in your ten lifetimes combined, right?"
"Looking at her poor appearance, I'm afraid that all the belongings add up to not worth fifty gold, right?"
"Hey, Aunt Ji, Xie Lang is my cousin, you won't forget that Zhuangzi like this, right? When are you going to make money and return Zhuangzi to my cousin? ”
These sisters-in-law, you and I say one by one, the words are getting more and more ugly, and without Ji Ji's response, they are also getting more and more excited and angry.
Just when the women were becoming more and more aggressive, Ji Ji's car curtain was pulled down, and a Xie clan said in a cold voice: "Everyone, let's go." Without waiting for the sisters-in-law to agree, Ji Ji's carriage had forcibly broken out.
Because of this song, Ji Ji has been in a bad mood, and after a random turn on the street, everyone began to return.
After sending Ji Ji back to the courtyard, the trio who took the lead for her suddenly stopped and said to Ji Ji: "Aunt Ji, my name is Xie Nan, I was sent by Lang Jun to protect you, if you are in trouble in the future, you can come to me directly." After introducing himself here, he said: "You don't need to pay attention to the words of those sisters-in-law, their family has already fallen, and the marriage has long become a "wealth marriage". When they said that, it was just jealousy, and the sister-in-law didn't care about it at all. ”
The word "financial marriage", Ji Ji still knows. It is that some families who are gradually declining have begun to put their children's marriages at a clear price. Like the Shen sister-in-law just now, because her family used to be the Wuxing Shen family, the two most amazing families in Jiangdong, and her family was very high.
When the children of the Wuxing Shen clan marryed, if they could not find the right marriage, they would take the popular financial marriage at this time. That is, they marry their children to a lower family, and the lower family pays a large bride price or bride price for it. Therefore, this kind of marriage has become a de facto marriage of sale.
In such a buying and selling marriage, whether it is the buyer or the seller, they are talking about the other party's family, and as for the children of the marriage themselves, no one cares. is also because of this kind of vulgar marriage that can't talk about any feelings, and a qiē is a matter of money, so Xie Lang made a qiē for Ji Ji, which particularly stabbed some people's eyes. It can be said that today's Shen Xiaogu and the others are looking for Ji Ji, even if she avoids it, they will find her sooner or later and will be so sarcastic to her.
In the blink of an eye, evening arrived. When enjoying the singing and dancing in the courtyard again, Ji Ji, who was sitting behind the screen, glanced at Xie Lang from time to time. While looking at him, she secretly thought: The prince has spread the matter everywhere, and I don't know if Ah Lang knows it?
Ji Ji felt that she had to ask Xie Lang to write a letter to the prince, in short, if the rumors spread like this, it would be bad for her and him.
Just when Ji Ji was thinking wildly, she suddenly heard an elder asking Xie Lang, "Have you ever heard of the panic in the four counties of Chen, Fu, Hui and Hanshan these days?" ”
Chen County, Fu County, Hui County, Hanshan County people are panicked?
Almost as soon as these four counties entered her ears, some inexplicable things poured out of Ji Ji's mind.
Just when he was out of his mind, some conversations continued to float into Ji Ji's ears, "This is not good in a border place like ours, the three sects and nine streams are mixed in it, and the bandits are endless. "King Wuling's power has become more and more huge over the years, and after the news of the Northern Wei Dynasty's pacification came this time, the happiest people were the bandits like King Wuling. I heard that this time they made a posture to attack the four counties of Chenfu, and I also heard that the Northern Wei Dynasty had already deployed troops in the territory, and they would soon go south! ”
The rest of the conversation continued, but Ji Ji's heart was pounding, and she suddenly remembered.
In the previous life, the fact that King Wuling was preparing to attack the four counties of Chenfu was also rumored. I remember that at that time, the wealthy and powerful families in the four counties sold their fields and manor shops one after another, and hurriedly fled south. But everyone didn't expect that in fact, King Wuling was already seriously ill, and this attack on the four counties was just a rumor he released, and what he wanted was just to divert the attention of some people.
A month later, the news of King Wuling's death would be exposed, and the four counties of Chenfu, because of the disbandment of the largest group of bandits in the territory, turned out to be one of the most peaceful counties in the border counties. In addition, a month later, the court sent a very famous and capable official with a strong army to garrison the surrounding areas of these counties. So in just two months, the land price of the manor shop in the four counties of Chenfu rose wildly in a way that no one could have imagined, and I remember that in the end it increased more than tenfold!
As soon as Ji Ji thought of this, her heart pounded, and the more she thought about it, the more excited she became, and the more she thought about it, the more excited she became. Looking at Xie Lang, who was sitting not far away, Ji Ji squinted his eyes and said: If I do it properly, I will definitely be able to make a lot of money.
In a blink of an eye, Ji Ji thought again: If one day, I take a large sum of money in a beautiful way and return it to Xie Lang in front of everyone, then what does Aunt Shen dare to say about me?
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Seeing that it's the end of the month again, don't keep everyone's pink tickets, and give them to Jiaojiao Wushuang. (To be continued) R466