In the early morning of the next day, Nan Luyuan received an urgent letter from the imperial court, and when he opened it, he saw that it was the token that Nan Zixiao gave him for the direct transfer of the Jiangnan army.

In addition, there is an epistle.

The letter roughly wrote some recent actions of the imperial court, and there were some miscellaneous little things, such as when Sister Wang reached the age of marriage, who entered the palace, which minister's son and which minister's girl looked at each other...... Lord Su, it's time to call the young lady, the fetus is very stable. Correspondence is frequent. Come back soon.

Nan Luyuan read the letter, and went straight to Zhang Shenling's courtyard, and the two brothers shared the joy of their eldest brother's upcoming fatherhood. saw Lu Liuxuan, and also told her that Su Duxue was pregnant.

Zhang Shenling was happy, and looked at Nan Luyuan and Lu Liuyan's dark eye sockets and became suspicious: "What are you doing every night?" Are you a thief or are you looking for flowers and asking willows? Black looks like this, and he looks four or five years old. ”

Nan Luyuan clenched his hands into fists and coughed, and Lu Liuyuan smiled and said: "Squatting on Chen Yuan's head every night to watch him count the money, aren't you depressed to death?" ”

Zhang Shenling nodded suddenly in understanding: "Yes." If I were on top, I might have to laugh at him for using the money. ”

Lu Liuhui smiled and broke his fists: "Then according to what you say, I think I will kill you first." ”

Zhang Shenling hurriedly waved his hand and hid behind Nan Luyuan: "Don't don't, we're grasshoppers on the same boat—why don't you call yourself an 'immortal family'?" ”

Lu Liuhuan unconsciously stretched out his hand to pin the broken hair in his ear, and said, "I thought about it, I always say that the immortal family is immortal, and you two are awkward to listen to it." So it won't be like this in the future, and besides, one less word is spoken, and it takes less time to speak. ”

Zhang Shenling was dumbfounded: "Miss Lu, I don't believe in your virtuous excuse." If you say that you are good with our brothers, it seems that it is not so raw. ”

Lu Liuhan took a deep breath and said with a smile: "Don't talk about this, Nan Gongzi has already sorted out the amount of silver embezzled by Chen Ming." The top priority at the moment was to arrest Chen Ying before he discovered that the ledger was missing pages and fabricated the numbers, and forced him to recruit the actions of Chen Ying and others. ”

Nan Luyuan said: "Your Majesty has already given me the token to be transferred to the Jiangnan army, if nothing happens, Chen Ying will be captured later." ”

Lu Liuhui said: "Not only that, Chen Ying can be so big in his eyes, he must have installed people in the government and the army." However, most of the current Nanshang generals are from the disciples of General Liang, as long as such a person is found, this job is not difficult. ”

Nan Luyuan responded, waited for Mrs. Zhang to wake up, greeted the old lady, and went to the military camp in Jiangnan with Zhang Shenling.

Lu Liuhui was in charge of dragging all the news that could flow to Chen Ying, and she squatted in the restaurant opposite the prefect's mansion, thinking that the prefect and his wife might still be fighting, so she felt very interesting.

Sitting bored, he remembered that last night Nan Luyuan turned over the account book with his head stuffy, until he sorted out all the accounts in one go, and it was already the second half of the night. Only then did he have free time to catch his breath and drink the cold tea.

After that, as if relieving a wisp of soul, he turned his head faintly and said the calculated number to the landing liu.

She sat there flipping through the books, looked up when she heard the sound, yawned, and said, "Nan Gongzi is really energetic. ”

Nan Luyuan's eyes were extremely dark, his long eyelashes hung down, and his face was pale that he hadn't rested for a long time, but his bloodless lips were pursed. After a long time, he seemed to have made up his mind and stumbled: "Miss Lu, I'm ...... Otherwise, if you don't want to, I'll ...... If only ......"

She listened, looked at his calm and restrained face, and listened to the words of the bull's head against the horse's mouth, she only felt a strange feeling, so she couldn't help but smile and smooth it for him: "If you are willing, I will give you a chance, if you are unwilling, then forget it?" ”

Nan Luyuan measured his head unnaturally, and whispered "um".

She smiled a little presumptuously: "Nan Gongzi, your ears are burning." ”

Nan Luyuan didn't want to pay attention to this joke, so he tilted his head a little more to the side.

Seeing him like this, she finally put away her smile. At that moment, it was not only the noble Southern Shang Emperor in front of him who was entangled.

"You are a retainer of the King of Southern Shang, do you dare to ask the King of Southern Shang to marry a nobleman of the Western Tang Dynasty?"

She saw Nan Luyuan's expression darkened.

"Take a step back, my country killed your father, how dare you please me?"

Nan Luyuan said: "...... You said it wasn't you. ”

"But our country is against each other, Nan Gongzi," she couldn't help but persuade the tenacious elm head not to rush in like this, "at least at this time of sabre-rattling, we will never be able to." ”

“...... Well. Nan Luyuan's face became more and more pale, but Fang Cai's crampedness was gone. His complexion was still calm and calm when he first met, as clear as a mountain spring in February, and not stained with dust.

She saw these changes in her eyes, and her heart was a little empty. But he heard Nan Luyuan say softly: "Then if one day the world is stable and the four seas are prosperous and strong, we will no longer be so-for-tat...... At that time, you were not married, so marry me, and I will marry you as a wife. ”

She clearly knew that this was just an almost unattainable ideal of this young man with a beautiful body, but she still replied softly: "Okay." ”

This word weighs a thousand pounds.

Lu Liuhui sat in the restaurant, drinking warm wine, and I don't know if the wine was too choked, or if she was a little drunk, and she felt that the tip of her nose was a little sour.

She didn't like herself like this, so she turned over and went downstairs, and walked into the prefect's mansion with a few arrows, determined to find something unpleasant to do for the couple who had killed a thousand knives.

.........

...

When Chen Ying was escorted to the barracks, he was still a little confused.

The young man in front of him looked a little immature, but his face already had a calmness that did not match his age; The boy next to him looked even younger, and he didn't even understand what was going on when the two men barged in with the army.

Knowing that the general of the Jiangnan military camp walked into the house with the token of the king of Nanshang, he seemed to wake up suddenly, and shivered to glance at the two young men.

"Arrest the sinner Chen Jin." He heard the young man with a pair of gray eyes command in a clear, calm tone.

He was trying to use Chen Ying's name to suppress this group of people, and wanted to play a scoundrel and pretend to be crazy and stupid to resist this arrest. He knew too well what this meant, and the Southern Shang Imperial Court, which had been turning a blind eye to them, was finally going to attack them.

But when the boy took out a handful of copied accounts from his bosom and sprinkled them lightly in front of him, he knew that something was wrong. He didn't even know when the boy had infiltrated his study and copied down the things he had only opened and sorted out in the middle of the night when no one was around.

"I'm the elder brother of Governor Chen, you can't arrest me," he just shouted at the end of the pale sentence, and was handled into the carriage by two soldiers.

By the time Chen Ying got the news, Chen Ying had already vomited completely under the forced confession of words.

And Chen Ying has secretly embezzled Chen Wang's dowry over the years to mix with Qinglou and pack thin horses, and I don't know where the news leaked, but she actually gave Chen Wang's a clear idea at this juncture.

Chen Ying and Chen Wang's skin were torn, so they never told Chen Wang's about Chen Ying's imprisonment, and secretly took his bags and his sister and brother-in-law to run away at night, and when the government came to check the next day, the prefect's mansion and the Wang family behind Chen Wang's family were raided, and all their savings were confiscated. The Zhang family, on the other hand, was preserved because they had never interacted with the two families and were not affected.

Such a check involved hundreds of people. From the old people and local officials, to the weak crowns and young people, the rich merchants, and a nest of miscellaneous things.

Nan Luyuan wrote a letter to send it back to the imperial capital urgently, which roughly explained the local situation. Chen Ying and his sister and brother-in-law were still not caught, and except for them, everyone else was convicted according to the number of times they participated and the amount of corruption.

Once it was found that the silver was supposed to be used for disaster relief, all the money was distributed according to the number of people in the disaster area, and the army was responsible for the transportation of all silver taels, materials, and construction materials. The Zhang family hired a great power who specializes in house construction to rebuild the village on high ground and solid foundations.

Everything is in order. The villagers who visited the door every day almost broke the threshold of the Zhang family.

But Nan Luyuan knew that this was just a temporary measure, and the symptoms were not cured. He wrote another letter to Nan Zixiao, imploring the dispatch of scholars who had studied water control to Jiangnan in the name of the king of Nanshang. More than a month after the letter was sent, a group of scholars who were selected from among the scholars arrived and hung their names on the local government, then changed into long shirts and put on coarse linen clothes and threw themselves into the yellow sand and muddy water.

Nan Luyuan spent his nineteenth birthday in the warm sun of April, among the people of taxis who came and went, and in the company of Lu Liuhui and Zhang Shenling.

By mid-April, geological exploration and hydrological analysis had been completed, and the latest materials for Yunlong Lake and the wind canal had been obtained.

Nan Luyuan and Zhang Shenling followed those scholars who were proficient in water conservancy and the laborers who were responsible for building water conservancy to the flooded place, starting from the small potholes in the distance, picking up river stalks, building stalks to store water, and then going further, going deeper, digging ponds and dredging rivers. It looked like an easy job, and it was not until the end of May that it was completed in a hurry.

The next step is to build a water conservancy structure that is suitable for the place. This is the most strenuous job. Nan Luyuan and Lu Liuhuan escorted more than a hundred scholars to every piece of land on both sides of the river, drawing thousands of drawings before they could drive out the general shape at the end of the summer.

After five months of being like this, the fireworks on Nan Luyuan's body became more and more intense, and sometimes he tidied up his clothes in front of the bronze mirror, and he couldn't recognize himself as the graceful young man who used to have ten fingers that didn't touch the spring water.

Finally, before the winter flood arrived, the infrastructure of the canal was completed.

In another two or three months, it will be the New Year.