Chapter 23: Changes (7)
I had a good night's sleep!
Ye Qinyu, who woke up the next day, couldn't believe that he had slept peacefully all night after revisiting the old thing! Suddenly remembered that Xue Chunyue slept next to her last night, and hurriedly looked to the side, but there was no longer him, she wondered if those things last night were a dream, but the pillow did leave his unique refreshing atmosphere, proving that he had really come.
"Heartword?" Ye Qinyu opened his head and looked out, but it was still empty, so he habitually called his heart.
After a while, the door opened.
"Xinyan, your young master will go again in the morning-"
Before he finished speaking, he saw that the person who came was Xue Chunyue!
"Madam, your young master went to the kitchen early in the morning to get you breakfast, get up and eat", Xue Chunyue couldn't laugh a little, and said teasingly.
Ye Qinyu was half-propped up on the bed, the placket of his middle coat hung open, revealing a lilac-colored belly pocket, Xue Chunyue glanced at it, his eyes couldn't be taken off, and he was slightly stunned.
Ye Qinyu saw that his expression was wrong, and when he saw his upper body, he was startled, and hurriedly tightened his clothes, and his face turned red again.
Xue Chunyue came back to her senses at this time, coughed embarrassedly twice, turned around and walked to the tea table outside the screen and sat down, "Get up and freshen up." ”
After this prelude, the two looked a little awkward to have breakfast face to face.
You should always say something, otherwise this atmosphere is too embarrassing, Ye Qinyu took a sip of the early spring Longjing, settled down and said, "I haven't been to the main hall for breakfast for two days in a row, did my father and mother say anything?" ”
"It's normal for a new daughter-in-law to not get out of bed, it's too late for them to be happy, what can they say?" Xue Chunyue picked up a piece of crystal shrimp dumplings and put them in Ye Qinyu's bowl.
"Happy?" Ye Qinyu looked puzzled.
Xue Chunyue turned to look at her and smiled narrowly.
Ye Qinyu finally understood, and suddenly his apricot eyes widened, and he lowered his head and continued to eat after glaring at him. If you don't bow your head, you will be laughed at by him again......
Since that night, Xue Chunyue simply didn't sleep on the couch, and slept back to bed as a matter of course. In the first few days, Ye Qinyu was not used to it, and he always had to wait for him to fall asleep before falling asleep, but then he also got used to it, the two of them were as natural as ordinary couples, and the only difference was probably that they still owed the so-called "Zhou Gong's gift".
A few days later, Xue Chunyue and Ye Qinyu were reading books in the study, and Xinyan suddenly came in to report that Ye Cizhun was coming, but he did not come directly to Xiheju, but waited in the pavilion in the small garden on the east side of the main courtyard.
Xue Chunyue vaguely felt that Ye Cizhun's mission in Haizhou had entered the stage of closing the net, but it stands to reason that the Xue family has never participated in the activities that King Xu did in the port, and theoretically there will be no risk of involving the Xue family, so he can't guess why Ye Cizhun is here now.
Ye Qinyu was very happy to see Ye Cizhun and trotted all the way to the small garden on the east side of the main courtyard.
Ye Cizhun saw her coming from a distance, and had already stood up and waited.
"Lord Ye, I don't know what the purpose of this visit is to the Humble House?"
"Why is the virtuous nephew Xu talking so much, the shipping adjustment you made in Dingtaihe really caught me off guard."
"The Xue family shouldn't have delayed the transportation of the imperial court's tribute, right?"
"No, no, it's very smooth, don't be too careful. By the way, I also asked the eldest young master to have tea together, why didn't I see someone from Rui and Ju coming out? Isn't it that my identity is not worthy of chatting with Uncle Xue? ”
Xue Chunyue looked at Ruiheju suspiciously, during this time he was busy adjusting the route and appeasing Ye Qinyu, and he had not asked about the nineteen commercial houses for a long time, if Ye Cizhun didn't mention it, he would have almost forgotten the lives of Xue Huijin and Su Yuming.
"Xinyan, if you go to Ruiheju again to invite the eldest young master, just say that Lord Ye is in a hurry, don't delay Lord Ye's business."
Xinyan was about to pass, but he saw the cuckoo trotting all the way from Ruiheju to the pavilion.
"Back to Lord Ye, the second young master, the second young lady, my wife is unwell, and the eldest young master said that it is inconvenient to see guests, so, so please forgive me. After a few days, my young lady will come to apologize as soon as she is in good health! ”
"It's okay if the young lady is unwell, but what about Uncle Xue?" Ye Cizhun looked at the cuckoo coldly, and his heart was slightly angry.
"Lord Huiye, the eldest young master said that he would take care of the young lady...... It is inconvenient to meet customers. ”
Xue Chunyue saw that Ye Cizhun looked wrong, and seemed to be aggressive, and he suddenly had doubts in his heart. Xue Huijin only managed the nineteen trading houses of the Xue family, and he should only be an insignificant role for Ye Cizhun, but he was so angry for some reason. Moreover, Xue Huijin's attitude of avoiding it was also very strange, and he deliberately waited in the courtyard to greet Ye Cizhun during the family banquet before, but it was less than half a month later, and his attitude was so different.
Seeing that Ye Cizhun looked bad, Xue Chunyue could only come out to play a round, "Lord Ye, since my brother is inconvenient, it is the same for me to entertain you, if you have anything to say, you might as well say it directly." ”
Ye Cizhun forcibly suppressed his anger, glanced at Xue Chunyue, and then walked straight to Xiheju.
Xue Chunyue and Ye Qinyu both looked at each other for some reason, and then followed closely behind and returned to Xiheju.
"Lord Ye came to my house with a bang, what do you mean." After entering the study and leaving no one else, Xue Chunyue went straight to the point.
"Virtuous nephew Xu, it's better to ask Ling Zun to discipline Uncle Xue well, otherwise if something happens, don't blame my in-laws for turning their faces and being ruthless."
"My brother has always followed the rules in running a trading house, but why did he offend adults, please make it clear."
"Xue Chunyue, I see that you are all focused on the ship, and you don't know how your Din Tai Fung Money Village works! I can only talk about this, and if I have time, I will also bring a message to Uncle Xue, a manly man, don't know to hide behind a woman if something happens, whether it is Aunt Ma or Mrs. Da Shao, it won't work in me, don't think that you can finish by calling a few female relatives to come to me and say a few good words! ”
It seems that Aunt Ma once went to Ye Cizhun to find her, and what she asked for should not be simple. Din Tai Fung Qian Zhuang is mainly engaged in the remittance business related to port shipping, and Ye Cizhun dared to question so clearly, which means that he has already mastered the evidence. Moreover, Aunt Ma and Xue Huijin should also know about some of their own affairs, otherwise they would not have gone to Ye Cizhun privately to try to settle the matter.
"Also, the moment I am in the Xue family, the people of the Xue family will give me a grounding for a moment, and I will not be allowed to leave the Xue family's mansion for half a step!" Ye Cizhun stared at Xue Chunyue with sharp eyes, and his attitude was not to be ignored.
"I'll go and report to my father now, there is Mrs. Lao to entertain my uncle." Seeing Ye Cizhun's attitude, Xue Chunyue knew that the situation was urgent, and hurriedly went out to discuss with Xue Chenggui.
Ye Cizhun stayed in Xiheju until the end of the day, and he did not get up and leave until his entourage appeared at the gate of Xue's mansion.
The Xue family had no sleep all night, and before the next day, there was finally a spy to report back, it turned out that overnight, the entire Haizhou City had changed the sky!
Haizhou Assassin Shi Yun and Haizhou City Commander Hong Tang have all received the seal letter by Shen Yue, the Cheng of Taifu Temple, and in addition to the official uniform, they were grounded in the city and could not move. More than 10 officials from Haizhou City have been sent to the Haizhou Mansion Prison.
Haidong Provincial Observation Envoy Ye Ci Zhunchen appeared in the lobby of the City Shipping Division, and the withheld tribute tax from various parts of Haizhou had been collected and was now being transported to the Municipal Shipping Division. A few days ago, the official mission of Dali Temple sent by the imperial court has arrived in Haizhou, and last night he arrested the heads of more than a dozen commercial houses in Haizhou, and now they are also detained in the city, including Su Qi, the head of the Huafu Bank.
Among the wealthy businessmen with heads and faces in Haizhou, the only one who was spared was the Xue family.
Xue Chenggui finally understood the reason why Ye Cizhun was stationed at his house, with him, Dali Temple, which also belonged to King Xi's camp, would not easily break into the Xue family, and it is estimated that Ye Cizhun also deliberately ignored or even destroyed some evidence related to the Xue family, protecting the Xue family in disguise.
The perpetrators have been controlled, the stolen goods secretly intercepted have been seized, and the fact that the Haizhou government and the city department conspired to embezzle the tribute tax at the Haizhou treaty port will be revealed before the trial of the Dali Temple.
Among them, Su Qi's sin was not small, he not only privately paid a large amount of tribute to the officials in Haizhou in large quantities of valuable cloth for the royal family, but also shipped it to Changxing, Luo'an and other places, and flowed into the local cloth market at a high price, so that the "clothes of the Son of Heaven", which should have been bought with money, were openly worn on the lowest-class ordinary merchants of the "Shinong Industry and Commerce", which swept away the royal majesty, and Liu Xun, the emperor of Hongyuan, was greatly furious.
When the news came, Xue Chenggui was shocked, he never thought that Emperor Hongyuan, who had always favored King Xu, would be ruthless and destroy King Xu's minions in Haizhou, and the degree of King Xu's greed can be imagined. Since the discord between the Xue family and Xue Chengming, the Xue family has deliberately avoided the political disputes of the imperial court, and the Xue family's main business, "Dingtaihe" shipping, was taken over by Xue Chunyue, and gradually withdrew from the illegal behavior of the Haizhou Mansion and the Municipal Shipping Division, and adopted the "three noes" attitude of "not listening, not watching, and not participating", coupled with Ye Cizhun's care, so he was able to retreat in this turmoil.
However, the nineteen commercial banks under Xue Huijin's jurisdiction involve almost all the livelihood industries, and it is difficult to say that they have not participated in one or two, and Aunt Ma has always covered for him in these things, although Xue Chenggui knows a little about it, but he does not know the actual degree of participation, so he is also negligent in management. Now that the imperial court is offensive, the Xue family almost capsized in the gutter, Xue Chenggui suddenly had a chill down his spine and was frightened, so he called Xue Huijin into the study and interrogated him all day behind closed doors.
It is still unknown whether the Xue family can completely escape the turmoil, and now there is a case of the Su family, it is really a house leak and it rained overnight, and the boat is late and encounters a head wind, and the Su family will be implicated in every minute. Therefore, the Xue family was like a dark cloud, and everyone was like a frightened bird, and the atmosphere did not dare to breathe.
Because the Din Tai Feng Qian Zhuang managed by Xue Huijin was involved in the Haizhou tribute tax interception nest case, Aunt Ma once concealed Xue Chenggui and made an appointment with Su Yuming to meet Ye Cizhun with the intention of exonerating Xue Huijin. Su Yuming didn't want to go, but Aunt Ma was worried that she wouldn't be able to socialize, so she had to accompany Su Yuming, who had followed her father in business.
Aunt Ma was present at that meeting, and the scene was not embarrassing, but she said a few specious words. Aunt Ma did not admit Xue Huijin's crime, and tried to bribe Ye Cizhun with gold and silver wealth, but Ye Cizhun sternly refused, so she didn't stay long before returning in a huff.