The sun is scorching, and the cicadas are singing.

In the corridor in Zhaode Fang, several men drank with their bare arms to enjoy the coolness, Yang Lin's courtyard was really big, and Yang Tong's subordinates all lived in it and did not fill the outer courtyard.

Someone came from the door and said a few words in Lu Taixuan's ear, and the latter stood up and said suspiciously: "Big brother's friend? Big brother, he just returned to Yangzhou, Lin'er went to the city to govern the river again, why did a guest come at this time, go, go and see. ”

Coming to the flower hall in the outer courtyard, Lu Taixuan took four of his subordinates and walked in and sneezed first: "What is so fragrant." ”

A female child dressed as a handsome son, with a graceful posture, fluttering like a fairy and independent, with shoulders shaved and waist like a prime, so beautiful that she is incomparably beautiful.

At this time, he was pinching a fan, teasing the parrot in the birdcage hanging in the flower hall, and when he saw Lu Taixuan and others coming in, he looked up and smiled: "Fourth Brother Lu, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

"How are you?" Lu Taixuan frowned and asked, "Fang Miaolian, what are you doing here?" ”

The woman who is called Fang Miaolian has a natural melon seed face and a high nose bridge. Compared with the beauties of the Han family, the facial features are more three-dimensional, and the contours are deep and have a faint exotic style. The eyes under the willow eyebrows are very large, the eyes are sharp when they are wide, and they are as lazy as cats when they squint and recline.

Her lips are also extremely plump, but there are no dry cracks and fine lines on the lip flap, but they are bright red.

Although her outline is deep, her facial features have the softness of a Jiangnan woman, and her skin is more delicate than that of a Fanbang woman, obviously because of her mixed race, and she is more inclined to a Han girl, which shows that this woman's exotic blood has gone through several generations and has gradually faded.

Such a stunner, even if it is a man's clothing, it can be worthy of the word disaster, but Lu Taixuan, who is a man, is a little irritable, very impatient in his words, and even has a hint of fear.

Fang Miaolian has some mixed-race characteristics in appearance, but her voice is orthodox Wu Nong's soft language, and she is not annoyed but smiles: "I haven't seen you for a long time, what Fourth Brother Lu does is so fierce, he is begging for food on the white boat, and the fourth brother is a big official in this court, so he forgot about his little sister, and he didn't even let him board the door." ”

Lu Taixuan snorted, looked left and right, all of them were his henchmen, and then said in a low voice: "In the first battle of Taipingzhou, we also died a lot of brothers, when Monk Li was a guarantee, the two families rowed the river and the road, and they have nothing to do with each other, after so many years, what are you going to do?" ”

"Why does Fourth Brother Lu stare at his teeth, if you are allowed to wash your hands and go ashore, you will not be allowed to stop the little sister from doing the business of licking blood with a knife head? Now we are buying and selling grain in Bianliang, and a few days ago, the son of Yang Tong's eldest brother took away a lot of grain, and lost tens of thousands of dollars for no reason. Brother Yang is wealthy, why bother with me, a weak woman, not to mention that we are still old acquaintances. ”

When Lu Taixuan thinks of this old acquaintance, he inevitably thinks of the bloodiest and most difficult time, when the fight between salt dealers was much more threatening than the government, and it was easy to destroy people.

The power behind this woman is unfathomable, mysterious and weird, ruthless and abnormal, her subordinates are not afraid of death and there are many people, there was no shortage of fights on both sides of the salt field in Taiping Prefecture, six brothers rebelled, and two died in their hands.

Some time ago, Lu Taixuan didn't know much about the grain collection, but he didn't want to grudge with this poisonous snake because of tens of thousands of dollars, so he said with a slow expression: "Big brother, he has returned to Yangzhou, you wait a few months for this matter, my nephew Yang Lin is back from Zhihe, you come again." Since we have repaired it, we will not restart the war for tens of thousands of small money, and this money will come back after a few trips safely. ”

"Governing the river?"

Lu Taixuan snorted and said: "The flood is so serious, my nephew is a member of the imperial court, and the right-hand man of the current emperor naturally has to go out of the city to govern." ”

"Brother Yang has such a son, it's really enviable." Fang Miaolian's words were not only mixed with envy, but her tone was unspeakably gloomy.

Lu Taixuan thought that the days of the year were really reluctant to be recalled, and the malice of the same disease was less than three points, and said: "In this way, you give me an address to send a message, and when Lin'er comes back, I will be the first to notify you to come to see him." When the time comes, I'll help you say a few good words, hehe, Lin'er, this kid, still listens to a few of our old things. Tens of thousands of dollars are not a lot of money for you and me. ”

Fang Miaolian's eyes were raised, and he said angrily: "This is not a matter of tens of thousands, my fourth brother, your family is also a little overbearing, and his appearance is a little ugly." He didn't stop after earning tens of thousands of yuan, but killed chickens and took eggs, and labeled most of our grain stores in Bianliang as 'black shops'. It is said that it is difficult for everyone to make a fortune, and we must limit the amount of grain we can buy each month, and we can only buy 300 stone of grain every month, and what kind of strength do we sell, and our shopkeepers will not have enough to eat. Then your Yang family's grain stores opened in a big way, and there are already dozens of them in Kaifeng Mansion alone. ”

Lu Taixuan's face turned red, this is indeed his nephew's style of acting, so that the millions of people in Bianliang really have to rely on the Yang family for dinner.

Although Fang Miaolian does not point to the grain store to make money, this is a channel for her to secretly raise food, and she will never give up. That's why he was willing to take a risk and came to the old enemy's lair.

Lu Taixuan's heart was weak, and he said: "I can't be the master of this matter, you better wait for him to come back, after all, repairing the river is a major event of the imperial court." ”

Fang Miao was helpless, sighed and walked out of the flower hall, Lu Taixuan wiped his forehead, and said, "This kid is too... Haha, the blue is out of the blue. ”

Turning his head, several henchmen stared at the distant back, refusing to look back, as if they had suffered a big loss if they didn't look at it.

"Thieves kill talents!" Lu Taixuan slapped a person on the head and scolded: "Do you know who she is? This is a 10,000-year-old bamboo leaf green, and it may be poisoned at a glance. ”

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Outside Kaifeng Prefecture, Xianping County, the road is still muddy and difficult to walk, and a group of local magistrates huddled Yang Lin and watched by the river.

The murky water of the river rolled down, hitting the boulders with a loud sound, and there was no doubt that falling would shatter one's bones.

There are many gaps in the river on both sides, and the river can only be drained by digging ditches to the outside.

From a distance, this mother river that irrigates Han culture is like a giant centipede, with small rivers flowing out on both sides.

The river has been raised and raised, and now it has the appearance of an above-ground river, which makes it easier for the embankment to burst.

The thousand-year-old problem of controlling the Yellow River was placed in front of Yang Lin's eyes, which made him head for a while.

"Governing the river requires brainstorming, otherwise it will be in vain, and it will cost a lot of money from the government treasury, and immediately notify all the counties and counties along the river, and the officials in charge will come to Xianping to discuss the plan for controlling the river."