"I'm afraid I won't be able to accompany you to Xiangshan and see the temple of Xiangjun and Mrs. Xiang."

In late January of the twenty-seventh year of Qin Shi Huang, in the house of An Lu's family, Heifu stroked his wife's hand and looked ashamed.

Heifu had just been newly married, and when the wind and snow stopped, he took a marriage leave to take the bride back to Anlu to meet his mother and eldest brother, and his return caused a sensation in the entire Anlu County as usual.

He behaved very low-key in Anlu, even if he wanted to beckon guests, he asked them to go to Nanchang, Fanyang and other places to run a farm house for himself and take care of the sugarcane and brown sugar industries.

In addition, from the neighboring counties also came a lot of old officials from the old officials of Nei Shi Teng, competing to meet Heifu, Nei Shi Teng has been the southern county guard for seven or eight years, and the influence left is huge, Heifu was only in the new military nobles in various places Some old departments, and now, with the county magistrate, the assistant officials have also climbed the relationship, the political foundation is very strong.

He didn't want his rare vacation to be flooded with entertainment, and after sending some visitors away and politely turning down too expensive gifts, he planned a trip with his wife.

Out of Xiakou, go south to Yunmeng and Dongting, go to the famous scenic spot Xiangshan to see, and worship the temple of Xiangjun and Mrs. Xiang, which Ye Zijin likes very much. If there is enough time, then float down the river to see the beautiful scenery of Jiujiang Lushan, where the black man is familiar and can be a tour guide.

But on the eve of their departure, an edict from Qin Shi Huang made the couple's honeymoon trip come to naught.

Ye Zijin, who is a first-time wife, is also a little depressed, although Heifu is from a humble background but not vulgar, and the husband and wife live in harmony, the two are in love.

But she still said with a straight face: "The ancients are cloudy, the king's order is called, and he will not be able to drive." It means that the king has something to summon, and as soon as the order comes, he is in a hurry to go out without waiting for the car to be ready. Hurry to the king's life, this is a courtesy, the lover should return to Xianyang quickly! ”

She put her white hand on Heifu's black claws and smiled, "Besides, what's the difference?" ”

"But Your Majesty ordered me to go back this time, I'm afraid that I want to go with me." Heifu shook his head helplessly, no way, who let him set up an emperor who likes to travel......

When Heifu left Xianyang, the Longxi county guard just delivered a great news to the palace: the galloping road from Xianyang to Lintao was completed!

Chidao is another major project of Qin Shi Huang after the Six Kings Palace and the Golden Man Twelve, and the priority is before the Lishan Mausoleum and Guanzhong Palace in the same period.

This project was supported by Heifu with both hands, and the country's ruling territory was limited by military transportation capacity, and although many Guanliang were bulldozed after Qin Yihai, it took months or even a year and a half to send officials and transfer troops in many places, which was very inconvenient.

Therefore, since last year, Qin Shi Huang has asked the county to repair the road and build the original muddy sheep intestine road into a "highway" that can accommodate several horse-drawn carriages running side by side!

At that time, Heifu happened to propose a "five-year plan" to promote Qin seals, official scripts, and paper within five years, which was later changed to three years by Qin Shi Huang.

The emperor also included Chidao in the three-year plan, requiring that within three years, it is necessary to repair the "Western Road" from Xianyang, Yongcheng to Longxi, and Beidi County, Hangu Pass, through Luoyang, Xingyang, and Chenliu, and directly to the "Oriental Road" of Qidi Seashore, and the "Wuguan Road" from Wuguan to Nanjun.

Among the three roads, the western road is the shortest and the least long, so it was the first to be completed, so Qin Shi Huang was going to start the first long-distance trip after dominating the world, and he cruised westward in March.

"Your Majesty destroyed the Six Kingdoms, one day, unification, such a great feat, of course, in the ancestral temple of the ancient capital Yongcheng, to the ancestors of the past dynasties, and then may continue to the west, to the origin of the Qin State of Xitui, Dog Hill to see, or will also go to Lintao, climb the Great Wall, overlook the extraterritorial land......"

At this, Heifu fell into deep thought.

When the husband and wife returned to Nanjun, they also went south with thousands of soldiers with the new Changsha County Lieutenant Tu Sui, and Zhao Tuo was also in the army, the Yue people in Dongting County rebelled in June last year, and the Yue people in Changsha County were not very peaceful, all kinds of evidence pointed to Xiou and Nanyue in Lingnan, as well as the remnants of the Chu State who fled there, which undoubtedly gave the emperor a reason to use troops in Lingnan. The repair of the Guannan County Road and the dispatch of Tu Sui as the county guard of Changsha are likely to be the harbingers of a large-scale war.

But Heifu didn't want Qin to rush to Lingnan, once the war started, the old Nanjun troops and soldiers who were related to him would definitely bear the brunt, and it was already difficult enough in Jiangxi, going far to Lingnan, fighting with the Yue people in the jungle, and the epidemic in the tropics, I don't know how many people would die.

Therefore, Heifu has been planning how to dispel the emperor's idea of conquering Baiyue, at least to delay it for a few more years, so that the old ministry can plant the fields for a few years.

But after being a minister of the guards for a year, Heifu gradually understood the emperor's character, and bluntly said that the success rate of admonition was extremely low, and he had to find another way.

This time, Qin Shi Huang toured Longxi to the west and summoned Heifu to accompany him, but he gave birth to an idea.

"The world west of Lintao is much wider than that south of Wuling, and it is not far from Guanzhong, and there is a galloping road, so it is very convenient to dispatch troops."

The most important thing is that there is something going on in Longxi and Beidi, and it is impossible to send Heifu's descendants to the north.

"Why don't I try Li Daitao's plan?"

Therefore, Heifu is very hopeful to participate in this western tour to see if there is a chance to divert the emperor's attention.

The only thing he couldn't let go of was his wife, who had just gotten married and accompanied him home.

For Ye Zijin, Heifu is very satisfied, she is not only white and beautiful, but also a beautiful lady, with a good cultural heritage, and more importantly, she is also the first aristocratic woman who does not discriminate against his background after Heifu came to this era......

Other women, hearing that Heifu had no clan, were sarcastic, disgusted, or snickered, but Ye Zijin said to him in public, "Be proud of your achievements, don't be ashamed of having no surname."

This sentence reached Heifu's heart, and it also made him remember this little woman deeply.

Mutual respect is the first premise for Heifu to find a partner.

After returning to Anlu after marriage, Heifu also secretly observed that Ye Zijin did not show the slightest disrespect when he met Heifu's helpless old mother. Although it is not such an exaggeration as pouring water and washing her feet in person, she has also done what a daughter-in-law should do, raising her eyebrows, and chatting with her mother in simple words.

She is also polite to Heifu's calloused hands and brother and sister-in-law who are full of husbands and peasant women, and she also personally teaches Heifu's niece Xiaoyue to weave cloth in Nuhong, a little girl in her early ten years old with stars in her eyes, and she only thinks that this middle mother is the person she wants to be in the future.

This made Heifu breathe a sigh of relief, although he came through time, but also inherited Heifu's body and bonds, and attached great importance to his family, and the bride could respect her mother, brother and sister-in-law, and love her niece, which was his most basic requirement.

So I love my little wife a little more, so I said with some hesitation: "I will drive west, the short is two months, and the long is half a load......

Ye Zijin knew that her husband was afraid that she would be separated for so long just after getting married, so she snubbed her, so she smiled and said, "Then the concubine will not return to Xianyang, so she will stay in Anlu." ”

Seeing that Heifu was a little surprised, she began to fold her fingers and count the benefits of staying in Anlu.

"Although the concubine's hometown is in Handi, she has stayed in Nanjun with her father for seven or eight years, and she has already become a southerner, she likes to eat rice and rice, and she likes places with water, so it is just right to stay in Anlu."

"Moreover, Xianyang is noisy, people's hearts are unpredictable, and those noble ladies have to be carefully considered in every word, rather than being cautious in the capital, it is better to stay in Anlu and be a rich woman who is not disturbed."

A hint of loneliness flashed between her eyebrows, and she was soon covered by longing.

"In mid-spring February, the concubine can take Xiaoyue to pick peach blossoms and make peach blossom cakes. In the spring of March, after a thunderstorm, I went to Yunmengze to see the rainbow, picked herbs, made sachets and sent them to my beloved. In April, Meng Xia was able to raise silkworms and weave silk silk with his mother and sister-in-law, and make clothes for his beloved......"

After hearing this, Heifu breathed a sigh of relief: "If you have a wife like this, what more can a husband ask for?" ”

The first-time wife of the Ye family wanted to speak and stopped, and finally turned into a sigh with a smile.

"Who let the concubine's beloved have the ambition of a marquis? If a concubine is constrained everywhere, then she is too ignorant. ”

……

Although Ye Zijin imagined that life in Anlu should be very peaceful, on the fifth day after Heifu left, she was taking Xiaoyue to read and write, when she heard shouts from outside the house......

"What's wrong?" Ye Zijin frowned and asked the maid to go out and have a look.

The old Fu Mu who had been brought from Xianyang Ye Mansion walked in with a gloomy face, leaned into his ear, and told her an amazing news!

"Madam, there's a woman outside, crying and wailing......"

"Why is she crying, can you ask clearly?" Ye Zijin thought it was the family members of Heifu's old department who came to cry out for injustice.

Fu Mu wanted to speak and stopped, Ye Zijin understood, so he asked the maid to take Xiaoyue out, her face became serious, and she put her hands on her knees, so that Fu Mu could explain clearly.

Fu Mu gritted his teeth and said, "Madam, that woman is still holding a black boy, saying that she is the son born to the right concubine and her!" ”