Li Xiaofei looked at the steaming medicine jar, "Liang's illness is actually incurable!" Back then, I thought that I could change the beam with tolerance and tolerance, but in fact, I was very wrong! Da Liang should have been buried in the ground a long time ago, whether it is the emperor or me, it is just to renew the life of Da Liang. If I had a choice, I would like to take my whole family back to the mountains and forests after I go back this time! ”

Hongrui was stunned for a moment, and then sighed, "In fact, since the founding of Daliang Taizu, Daliang has been seriously ill!" Liu Zhaoyi, the Taizu of the Great Liang, bullied the orphans and widows of the previous dynasty, and mutiny forced the palace to usurp the throne. The foundation was originally unstable, so there was a situation where the steamed deer banquet ruled the world with the family! But back then, the family had already annexed the land and caused the world to be homeless, and Taizu Liu Zhaoyi not only did not fight the family, but continued to reward them with land and distribute slaves. He also set the rules for the reduction and exemption of commercial taxes by the clans, so that the treasury has not been enriched since the beginning of the country! Later, the family controlled the government, and the court could not even collect the basic land tax of the previous dynasty! ”

"I don't read much, I don't know what happened hundreds of years ago, but I have lived for decades, and I finally see the face of the family clearly, knocking on the bones and sucking the marrow, eating people without spitting out bones!"

Hongrui got up and picked up a damp cloth to serve the medicine, "Now that you know, do you want to go into hiding?" If you want to escape, will they let you go? ”

"To tell the truth, I'm tired of tossing and turning, and it's always the people of the world who suffer! Even if we win this time, it's still the world of the Liu family, the old family is down, and there will be new families popping up! ”

Hongrui blew the decoction that was uncovered, and blew it, "You are always so negative, you are tired of talking for decades, but have you thought about it, there is always a disease to be treated, and there will always be something to do in a person's life!" It's the people of Li who you are talking about, none of them are trying their best to live, to survive, no matter what, people will find a way to live! None of them gave up, so why should you? Have you forgotten the children of the South China Sea and the people who gave you pot pulp? I haven't forgotten! You always want to leave and return to the mountains and forests, are you worthy of them? And Mr. Liu, who passed on what you have learned all your life, are you worthy of him? Murong Ling's orphan has not been found until now! There are so many things to do, and you actually want to retreat to the mountains and forests? I think you should drink this medicine, you are not lightly ill! ”

Hongrui put down the medicine jar, fanned her nose and walked straight out.

Li Xiaofei closed his eyes and pondered for a long time, then put the medicine jar on the medicine stove again, continued the charcoal fire and continued to suffer.

"I figured it out, Sister Hong, you're right!"

Li Xiaofei got up and walked out of the cabin, looking at Hongrui who was looking up at the stars.

Hongrui didn't answer this sentence, but pointed to the sky, "Look at the stars in the sky, although we ran out thousands of miles, but the astrological field is still the same as the Central Plains, you see that the North Star is still in that position!" The supremacy of heaven is eternal! ”

"I don't know about this astrological phenomenon, but I know the North Star, the sky is watching us, and there are some things we still have to do! I decided not to run away anymore, this time, to do what I had to do! ”

"When you're old, it's still like this, you need a woman to cheer you up behind your back, if one day I'm gone, I don't know if you're going to be unsatisfactory again!"

"How so? Didn't we say we would live together until we were old, how could you go first? ”

Hongrui slowly pushed Li Xiaofei away, "Don't be poor, didn't you say that you only married me when you were seventeen years old, but now?" ”

"I'm going to see the medicine first, it's windy outside, Sister Hong should go back to the cabin to rest early!"

"I know you're sorry! Forget it, fortunately, there are also two sisters as companions, if I face you all day long, I'm afraid I'll get tired of it! Let me put the medicine, you will be clumsy all your life, if you spill the medicine, see if I don't cut off your hands! ”

Wang Ruoyun fell asleep in the cabin, and when Hongrui went in with the medicine, he happened to wake up.

"Sister Hong, I've worked hard for you, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't be able to survive now! It's so much fun to hear your stories from the past along the way! ”

"Sister, what is it, I should do to take care of you, you have suffered for so many years in the Central Plains, and now you are traveling thousands of miles with us. I thought you wouldn't be able to take it, but I didn't expect you to survive all the way. I think you want to be able to go back to the Central Plains to see Zhanfei! ”

Wang Ruoyun blushed and smiled, "There is no one in this world who is more understanding than Sister Hong, there was Zhanfei when she was pregnant in October, and the mother and son have depended on each other for more than ten years, and finally waited for the husband to come back." I also met Sister Hong, the first good-hearted person in the world! And after walking tens of thousands of miles, we found that the blue sky, white clouds, seagulls, and seas are so beautiful, and there are many beautiful things in this world that are worth taking a walk and seeing. ”

"My good sister, we are going back to the Central Plains, Xiaofei said that it will be faster when I go back, and it will be there in two and a half years!"

"That's great, I'll drink the medicine first, in order to go back, I have to drink this medicine no matter how bitter it is!"

Hongrui fed Wang Ruoyun medicine, Li Xiaofei also came in to support Wang Ruoyun, Wang Ruoyun took a big sip and hurriedly blocked his mouth with his hand.

Wang Ruoyun's eyes closed vigorously, his throat swelled and squirmed a few times, and he finally swallowed the medicine

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"Is this medicine too bitter for me?"

Wang Ruoyun coughed for a while, took a long breath, and waved his hand, "This medicine has no taste, no taste at all?" ”

"You mean you're drinking water, the same as water?" Li Xiaofei thought there was something wrong with the medicine

"No, it doesn't even smell like water, you can feel what you're drinking, but it's tasteless!"

Hongrui patted Wang Ruoyun's back: "It's good that this time has eased up!" ”

Li Xiaofei took a closer look at the medicinal soup, this medicinal soup was indeed brown and yellow, and sniffed it with his nose, it really had no taste.

Li Xiaofei was about to taste it himself, but Wang Ruoyun stretched out his hand to stop it, "Doctor Dong said that people who are not sick will be highly poisonous if they drink it, don't drink it!" ”

Li Xiaofei put down the decoction and was surprised again and again, "This Dong Divine Doctor is weird, it is not surprising that the medicine in this world is strange, the strange thing is that this Dong Divine Doctor has never left the Central Plains, but he knows that there are three-tailed falcons tens of thousands of miles away!" ”

As he spoke, he looked at Wang Ruoyun again, and his originally pale face turned a little reddish.

Li Xiaofei and Hongrui were overjoyed, "It seems that this medicine is really effective, this time I owe Dong Xing a big favor!" ”

As soon as the words came out, the two realized at the same time that Dong Xing was Wang Fu's cronies, so this matter was related to Wang Fu again.

But now the two of them don't think about these things for now, the most important thing is to return to the Central Plains as soon as possible, and as for the rest, they can only make plans when they arrive in the capital.

Facing the first knife that the emperor revealed, Xiao Xian didn't want to sit still, so he ordered someone to go to Jinling overnight to invite Xiao Sheng, who was checking the accounts, back to discuss countermeasures.

In fact, Xiao Xian has a lot of children, but unfortunately Xiao Hui is Xiao Hui who can be used, and Xiao Hui can only take care of housework or do some secret things, and only Xiao Sheng can help Xiao Xian when dealing with major events.

As for the rest of the Xiao family, this time they didn't realize the crisis at all, and in their opinion, even if the emperor himself went to investigate, it would only be in vain.

Xiao Xian sent people to persuade them to rein in, but they laughed at Xiao Xian for being too nervous, and even thought that Xiao Xian wanted to let them blet and pay for it, so they cried out to the sky and cried poor.

After Xiao Cong'er heard about this, she ran to ask Xiao Xian, "Father, are we really involved in the affairs of Caohe Transit?" It's too late to stop! If we give all this food to the people, the people will not target us, and the emperor will forgive us! ”

Xiao Xian smiled helplessly, "Cong'er, you are too naïve, now we have no way out." What do you want to do when you distribute food to the people? Learn from the Tian family back then, buy people's hearts in the Qi country, take the king, and replace him? Or do you think that those clansmen who run the grain and rice business will really be obedient and give profits? Now, even if I am willing to retreat, will the emperor let us go? Will our people betray us? Do you know that the Xiao family's subordinates, I am the prime minister, but I have no right to transfer? Tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of thousands of slaves, once out of control, it will be difficult to be a rich man at that time! ”

"I'm also afraid of that, it's better to fight! If you don't retreat, the emperor will kill you, and if you retreat, you will not escape death. It's all death, it's better to fight! ”

"Things haven't reached that level, I'm just planning for the worst, this time the Caohe transfer inspection is over, and I know whether the emperor is just trying to ensure the supply of grain and rice in the capital, or he wants to do something to our Xiao family and the Wang family! What's more, it's not just our Xiao family, if the emperor really wants to move us, it will be a situation where the fish is dead and the net is broken. I don't think the Emperor would have done that! ”

"In that case, what are you worried about? It makes the whole family nervous! ”

"It's just that I'm still uneasy, after all, Zuo Sanxiang and Liu Jingchuan are from a poor family, if these two people involve things too much, even the emperor will not be able to control it! I always feel that this left three phases are not a simple character! ”

Xiao Cong'er chuckled, "A three-year-old child in the capital knows the prestige of Zuo Sanxiang, of course he is not a simple person!" ”

"No, no, Cong'er, do you know that we have checked Zuo Sanxiang for more than ten years, and his background is so simple, and it sounds very fake! And this person's martial arts path is not inherited from the Central Plains martial arts, his swordsmanship is domineering and clean, we have sent assassins, but none of them can come back alive! I once heard that Li Xiaofei say that the only swordsmanship in the world is vicious and fast, and the only one in the world is Murong Ling, the patriarch of Tuyuhun back then! But this Zuo Sanxiang is just a peasant child in Huainan, how can he learn the swordsmanship of a foreign race! ”

"So my father doubts the origin and origin of Zuo Sanxiang? Are you saying that he is from the Murong family? ”

"I doubted it, but the fine work in the army told me that this person did not have Tuyuhun's tattoo totem on his body at all, and the person who went to Wolong Mountain in Huainan to investigate told me that Zuo Sanxiang stayed in the village until he was seventeen years old, and it was impossible for him to come into contact with Murong Ling."

Xiao Cong'er looked at Xiao Xian, who had a serious face, "Father, what was the relationship between you and that Li Xiaofei and Murong Ling back then?" And the origin of Brother Hui, what happened between my mother and Wang Fu? You can't hide these things from us for the rest of your life! ”

"You don't need to know these things, the more you know, the worse it is, and the less you know, the less troubles you have! You, it's better to get married early. ”

"If you don't want to tell me, I'll check it myself!"

Xiao Cong'er knew that Xiao Xian would not tell her personally, so she walked out of the study to ask Xiao Hui for questioning.

As always, Xiao Hui couldn't ask anything, and Xiao Hui answered all the questions and didn't know.

If someone else was replaced, Xiao Cong'er was about to scold and draw a sword to cut people, but in the face of this brother, she couldn't be ruthless.

Father and brother both touched nails, and Xiao Cong'er had to draw his sword and dance in the courtyard for a while.

"Sister Cong'er's swordsmanship has improved a lot, isn't this trick called picking flowers and leaves?"

This voice is too familiar, Xiao Cong'er put away his sword and ran over, "Brother Sheng, you're making fun of me again!" ”

"It looks like someone has provoked the eldest lady of the Xiao family again!"

"Hmph, you guys are either not telling me anything, or you are making fun of me!"

"I didn't make fun of you, this time, I brought you back a chef who can make Jiangnan lotus leaf duck, as well as a lot of pastries and candy people."

"You're so good at coaxing girls, and I didn't see you go and marry a sister-in-law for me back, for the sake of you bringing me something, I won't be angry, go, take me to see the gifts you brought!"

"Okay, well, first serve you, the biggest person in the Xiao Mansion, and then I'll go see my father!"

Xiao Sheng showed Xiao Cong'er every gift, and ate some pastries together, and the housekeeper outside the door couldn't help it, "Master Sheng, Xiangye has been waiting for a long time!" Please hurry over! ”

"Go ahead, Brother Sheng, I'll go and see how this lotus duck is made! You won't let me listen to the key points when I go, so I just won't go! ”

When father and son met, Xiao Sheng asked Xiao Xian about his body and so on, but Xiao Xian shook his hand, "Don't let these false courtesies between father and son, the most important thing now is our grain and rice business!" Now the imperial court has sent the King of Jin and Liu Jingchuan, the third prime minister of the left, to inspect the Caohe River transshipment, so it has sent a henchman to ask you to come back and discuss countermeasures! ”

It took more than a month for Xiao Sheng to come back after receiving the report, plus the twenty days before the messenger was on the way, it was already nearly two months, and in Xiao Sheng's opinion, it was too late to discuss it now, "Father, where is the progress of this inspection?" Is it too late? ”

"In time, our people came to report, saying that they were the King of Jin and they were just feasting, drinking, singing and dancing on the building boat all day long, and they only stayed in Banzhu until now!"

"Since you only went to Banzhu, what is my father worried about? We have already done everything we need to do in Bianzhou! However, I think that since the imperial court has already conducted a thorough investigation, it is better for us to only do regular business, and the idea of Caohe transshipment should not be fought from now on, and it is too late to stop now! ”

"You have been in business for more than ten years, you have no privileges, you don't take advantage of loopholes, can you make money in a serious business? And now it's not something that you can solve without saying that you don't do it, those boatmen, people, coachmen, and horsemen who transport grain still have the little minions on the card, and they all make a profit from this. And I suspect that King Jin is just confusing us, and it is likely that the people who actually go to inspect the dock checkpoints in various places are already in place! ”

"Haven't all the accounts been taken care of for so many years? In addition, most of them are in the grain and rice business with us, and this Caohe transshipment feeds them, even if the King of Jin takes someone to check, what can he check? Can he handle what he finds out? Without the more than 100,000 people who transported the Cao River, the capital would have to wait to drink the northwest wind! ”

"Sheng'er, you are a good hand at business, but why don't you understand this? These people may not be able to move the court, but we can be replaced. Without the Xiao family to take the lead in doing this, there will be other people coming, maybe the emperor wants to do it in his hands! We're just getting in the way of the Emperor! ”

Xiao Sheng was a little confused, "Then since that's the case, why don't you quit and send a favor?" ”

"The problem is that now we can't retreat, if we say we won't do it now, who will take over in a hurry? Who will contact these hundreds of thousands of people? And I can't tell the emperor that we won't do it, let him do it. ”

"Then why not use these hundreds of thousands of people as bargaining chips to exchange with the emperor?"

"Do we know that we can recognize this? If we admit it ourselves, we don't need the emperor to take action, and the other families will fall into the well together! I came back to you because I wanted you to come and give me a perfect solution."

Xiao Sheng closed his eyes and thought for a while: "There is no perfect solution for this matter!" I have an idea, while the king of Jin is still in Banzhu, we will transfer the original industry in the capital to Bianzhou, no matter what the outcome is in the future, it is inevitable that Bianzhou will become a transshipment center! We retreated from the capital, and it would be difficult for anyone to embarrass our father in the court. The grain and rice business in the capital will be given to others, and we only need to control Bianzhou, which is a million profits! It's just that the business in the capital can only be stopped from now on! ”

Xiao Xian's face was embarrassed, "The clansmen are unwilling to give up, I asked them to reduce the price from now on, and even give porridge and rice, they will not be willing to let them go to Bianzhou!" ”

"I'll do this, they didn't break the law, my father can't force them even if he is the prime minister, but I have the means to make them comply!"