He understood what she said. Ye Cizhun pursed his lips, "That being the case, let's go to Binzhou together." ”

"Nope! The war was stalemate, and the fighters were fleeting. In case the Qiang barbarians and other clans succeed in borrowing troops from Tubo, the situation will be reversed, and the Duan father and son will inevitably completely fall to the state of Jiaozhou, and I don't know how many soldiers and horses will be spent to pacify this place! ”

"Are you determined to stay here and plot against Duan Zhenggang?"

"Yes. Brother Ye, you don't need to persuade you anymore, you will take Sister Su to Binzhou early tomorrow morning, and after meeting with Xuecheng and others, it will not be too late to send Sister Su back to Beijing. ”

Ye Cizhun knew that it was useless to persuade him, so he came up with a method, "Since this is the case, then I will resign to Duan Zhenggang tonight and leave early tomorrow morning." ”

"I will wait for you to go far before revealing your identity, the Duan family can't catch up with you."

At the dinner, Ye Cizhun asked Duan Zhenggang to resign, Duan Zhenggang did not force him to stay, instructed his subordinates to prepare bags and dry food for them, and said a lot of parting words, and drank with Ye Cizhun until the end of the day.

Duan Zhenggang was a little drunk, and was helped back to the room.

Ye Cizhun pretended to be drunk, and after Duan Zheng had just left, he quietly pulled Duan Bin to a secluded and uninhabited place, and said to him, "Brother Duan, I see that you have been very attentive to my little concubine in the past few days, I'm afraid you are interested in her, right?" ”

Duan Bin and Wei Zhiyu rode horses together almost every day, and their relationship increased a little more, and these tribesmen saw it in their eyes.

Duan Bin was shocked, his face was red and white, he was very embarrassed, and hurriedly said, "Brother Ye, I'm ...... I...... I do have a crush on that girl...... Well, I like Wei's family, but I still understand the basic etiquette, righteousness and shame, and it is a great evil to take away people's wives and daughters, so I have always been affectionate and polite to Wei's, and there is no deviant behavior! If you don't believe it, you can ask Mrs. Zun, she has been with Wei and can witness! ”

"Don't excuse yourself, I don't mean to blame you, I just want to confess something to you. Wei's ...... In fact, it's not my concubine, I am innocent with her, and I have nothing to do with her. ”

"What?!"

Duan Bin was shocked, and some couldn't accept it.

"In fact, she is an innocent daughter's family, waiting for the boudoir, and she has not yet married."

"This ...... Then Brother Ye, why are you hiding it?! ”

"At the beginning, we didn't know who we were, and I was worried that one of her daughters' family would be embarrassed by you, so I made nonsense that she was my concubine...... Later, because of her identity, I had to continue to pretend to be confused and tell this lie. ”

"Who is Miss Wei?"

"Brother Duan, are you sincere to her?"

"That's nature!"

"Whoever she is, will you keep her safe?"

"Brother Ye, what do you mean by this? She is the person I love, so I will naturally protect her to the death! ”

"Okay, a gentleman is hard to chase after a horse!"

Early the next morning, Wei Zhiyu came to the hall, ready to say goodbye to Ye Cizhun, she didn't want to have no one in the hall, she was puzzled, the door of the hall behind her suddenly closed, she took two steps back vigilantly, and drank, "Who?!" ”

Seeing Duan Bin walk out of the back hall, Wei Zhiyu was slightly surprised, "Duan Bin? You ......"

"Why didn't Miss Wei tell me earlier? Now it's a big circle, and a lot of time has been delayed. ”

"You! Do you know who I am? Where's Brother Ye?! You're not good for him?! ”

"Miss Wei, don't worry, Brother Ye is discussing with his father in the back hall at this time, and they specially sent me to pick you up."

Wei Zhiyu became more and more confused, and he didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Duan Bin's gourd, but looking at him with a neat and calm appearance, it didn't look like there was a Hongmen banquet in front of him.

Ye Cizhun made a desperate attempt to save Wei Zhiyu through Duan Bin, which can be said to be crooked.

Duan Zhenggang was in Cao Ying, and his heart was in Han, and he had long been tired of the deceit and mutual attack between the various tribes in the prefecture, and he had the heart of submission at the beginning of the great cause. originally thought that the victory of the great cause was decided, but he did not expect that the turbulence of the Korean situation gave the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it, and it was quickly counterattacked in a short time, so Duan Zheng stopped his action just now and continued to wait and see.

Besides, the Duan tribe does not have a credible person in the Daye Army, even if he surrenders to Cheng, he may not be able to win the trust of the imperial army, and he is also worried about ending up with a chicken and egg fight, and now it is different with Wei Zhiyu as a bridge, she is a person who can be trusted by both sides, and exchanging news in the middle is a matter of course.

Wei Zhiyu had already made up his mind, so he stayed in the Duan tribe and planned with Duan Zhenggang and others. Ye Cizhun got Duan Bin's promise, and seeing that he was also single-minded towards Wei Zhiyu, he went to Binzhou with peace of mind. Before leaving, Ye Cizhun did not forget to ask Duan Zhenggang for his carts of tea.

On the way, Su Yuming seemed to have something on her mind, and she was silent.

I haven't lived in the same room with her these days, and Ye Cizhun doesn't know what's wrong with her, so after passing the Jingnan territory, she came to the town to repair, entered the guest room, and put down her luggage, and then she asked, "What's wrong?" Worried all the way? ”

Su Yuming was a little absent-minded, avoiding his eyes, and said indiscriminately, "No, it's nothing, it's just that the three of them have been together for days, and now that there is less Zhiyu, I always feel a little less lively." ”

Since she suddenly dreamed of Xue Huijin that day, she has been in a heavy mood, and now she is going to Binzhou to have a full schedule with Xue Huijin, she is even more like sitting on pins and needles, and the foreboding in her heart is getting stronger and stronger the older she gets.

"Well, it looks like I'm really going to have to take her in, so you'll have company."

"Hugh wants to talk nonsense, if you really like her, then generously go to Weifu to propose marriage, anyway, you and I are just a husband and wife who worship heaven and earth privately in a small fishing village, and there is neither the words of the matchmaker nor the marriage letter of three books and six ceremonies, so you can not count."

Hearing Su Yuming's words, Ye Cizhun remembered that the marriage letter she gave to Xue Huijin was still in Xue Huijian's hand, although Yu Ming had a letter of resignation in hand, but according to the laws of the great cause, both parties should first return the dowry, dowry, marriage book and other things to the original owner, and then take the letter of divorce or divorce, as well as the marriage proposal and marriage letter to the government yamen for approval and signature, so that the marriage relationship between the two officially ended and the two parties could marry freely.

There is only a letter of resignation, and he can only return Yu Ming to freedom, but he can't officially enter Ye's house yet.

The tragedy of her marriage with Xue Huijin made Yu Ming disheartened, she never thought about remarrying, so she almost didn't think about the marriage letter and delivery, and Haizhou was displaced all the way after that, and she didn't want to think about it.

"What's so difficult about a marriage letter, I'll help you get it back from Xue Huijin."

"Don't fight with him, he's not an easy person to deal with, what kind of status I don't care about now! Back then, the Su family was coaxed by him, and almost did everything to help him, imperial tribute satin, port warehouses, business connections, etc., his father has been in the business world for decades, and has always been shrewd and cautious, knowing that he is colluding with King Xu to embezzle tribute taxes in kind, and he has to jump into the quagmire, which shows the cleverness of his means. ”

"He and Aunt Ma are human spirits carved out of a mold, how Aunt Ma deceived Master Xue into a circle, how can he deceive your family!"

"That's why I'm worried! Without Ding Taihe, the Xue family's country is equal to the loss of more than half, with his character, it is bound to be in Binzhou, fight to the death, our trip is really more auspicious, how can you tell me not to worry? ”

"It's strange to say, since Mrs. Xue passed away, Master Xue can be regarded as having woken up, but why do you still connive at Aunt Ma and Xue Huijin's misdeeds?"

"I lived in the Xue family for two years, and at that time, in the name of the eldest daughter-in-law, I also had contact with a lot of internal affairs of the Xue family, and I could guess a little bit. The Xue family seems to be wealthy and powerful, dominating one side, but in fact, it has shown decline. Aunt Ma coaxed Master Xue to hand over the nineteen commercial houses to Xue Huijin in her early years, and Master Xue thought that the ownership was still in his own hands anyway, so what if the management rights were handed over? So I obeyed Aunt Ma's wishes. After Xue Huijin took charge of 19 commercial houses, except for Din Tai Fung Qian Zhuang and Din Tai Xiu Silk Village, none of them were profitable, especially Din Tai Long, which deals in antique treasures, and Ding Tai Zhen, which deals in gold, silver and jade, almost only exist for money laundering, and it is conservatively estimated that the monthly losses are in the thousands to tens of thousands of taels. Then there is the rent of the Xue family's fields, forests, Zhuangzi, and shops, which should be twenty or thirty thousand taels per year, which were all managed by Mrs. Xue before, and once Mrs. Xue left, I am afraid that many of them were also included in the private treasury by Aunt Ma. ”

Ye Cizhun was a little staggered, Xue Chunyue once told him that Ding Taihe's profit was only more than 300,000 taels a year, and if you remove the free labor to meet the needs of the royal family, the profit is not yet this amount, and these profits are not enough for Xue Huijin to toss the deficit in the two commercial houses!

Needless to say, the silver washed out in the name of "loss" naturally went into the pockets of Aunt Ma and Xue Huijin, so it was not that Master Xue let them toss, but that they themselves had the capital to toss. After the case of King Xu, the Xue family was fined and confiscated a lot of property, which was all taken out of the Xue family's public treasury, and it did not affect the private treasury of Aunt Ma and Xue Huijin at all. Therefore, it is the Xue family that is weak now, not Xue Huijin himself.

"Uncle Xue, this is a blatant embezzlement of family wealth!"

Su Yuming sneered, "Aunt Ma and Xue Huijin knew early on that Master Xue would not hand over Ding Taihe and the nineteen commercial houses to them, so they didn't do anything, they simply emptied their family wealth and gave Chunyue an empty shell." Fortunately, Chunyue developed a branch of Ding Taihe in Silla and transferred part of the property, otherwise Xue Huijin would have more chips in his hand now. ”

Ye Ci said hesitantly, "This is not easy to do...... After the merger and acquisition of Dingtaihe, Taixiangxing's funds are not much left, and I am afraid that it will not be able to come up with enough capital to compete with Xue Huijin in the short term. But...... The three million taels that Taixiangxing acquired and acquired Dingtaihe should be in the Xue family's public treasury, and if it can be transferred out, it will be a victory. ”

"Xue Huijin is not a fool, Tai Xiangxing is menacing, and Master Xue is so cooperative, it is estimated that he has already guessed one or two, and now the eighteen commercial houses of the Xue family are in the hands of Xue Huijin, and the three million taels have hundreds of ways to flow into his own pocket, and he will never lie in the Xue family's treasury safely."

"No, no, don't underestimate Master Xue. He can single-handedly lay down the country of Dingtaihe, and he will never be a dim-witted and incompetent person. Previously, because of a misunderstanding with Mrs. Xue, he deliberately listened to and believed it because he was angry with his wife, which made Aunt Ma reap a lot of benefits, but after Mrs. Xue passed away, he had already regretted not being at the beginning, otherwise Xue Chunyue would not have been able to get the copper mine map of Xingdong Road. It's just that I don't know what tricks Master Xue is hiding, I hope that Yi Ruhai can hide Aunt Ma's eyeliner as soon as possible and successfully connect with Master Xue......"