Jingzhou is located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. It is rich in resources and talents. Both economically and culturally developed, and more importantly, its geographical location is very important.

It looks at Yizhou in the west and Jiangdong in the east. To the north, you can go straight to Luoyang, which can be described as the hinterland of the world.

Liu Biao, the lord of Jingzhou, has been in office since he took office. Envy and power are used to lure well. So that thousands of miles of purge, the people are happy and convinced, and then they opened a school and loved the people. The base is thousands of miles, with hundreds of thousands. Jingzhou has had nearly ten years of peace in this turbulent era, and it has obviously become a paradise in troubled times.

The Yao family is one of the three major families in Jingzhou. Yao Changfeng, the head of the Yao family, was when Liu Biao first came to Jingzhou and the thieves were in turmoil. Together with another big family, Lu Zheng, the head of the Lu family. led the whole clan to follow and settled Jingzhou.

Later, Liu Biao rewarded meritorious deeds, and let Yao and Lu take charge of Jingzhou's salt class and grain respectively.

Since ancient times, salt and iron have been the monopoly of the state. The tax revenue on salt and iron accounts for 40 percent of the country's total revenue. Therefore, since ancient times, the control of salt and iron is equivalent to sitting on top of the money jar.

The Yao family controls all the salt numbers in Jingzhou.

Salt is a must-eat thing for people every day, and it seems to be commonplace. It's just an ordinary thing in the home, but it's essential, and its consumption speaks for itself.

Liu Biao is a person who has no ambitions. I just want to hold the one-third of an acre of land in Jingzhou, and my wife and children are hot on the kang. I have no interest in the trend of the world at all.

He relied on the three major families, his wife's Cai family, to take charge of Jingzhou's soldiers and horses. The Yao family masters salt and iron. The Lu family, on the other hand, controls the food and taxes in various places. The three families contain each other, and no one can suppress anyone. Liu Biao sat firmly on the Diaoyutai and had to say. His political wisdom should not be underestimated.

At night, in Xiangyang City, the seat of Jingzhou, in the Yao family's mansion.

Yao Changfeng was sitting in the study, holding a letter in his hand and looking at it carefully. The candlelight flickered, shining on Yao Changfeng's emaciated face.

Just then, a dark figure rolled in slightly awkwardly through the window. didn't make any sound, holding a long sword, he gently walked towards Yao Changfeng next to the desk.

And Yao Changfeng didn't seem to notice anything abnormal, and still looked at the letter in his hand seriously. Suddenly, a long sword with a flickering cold light landed on his neck, and the coldness on the sword instantly entered Yao Changfeng's neck, causing him to tremble.

"Don't move!! Put down the letter in your hand and give it to me obediently!! ”

The man in black said in a deep voice.

The atmosphere was extremely weird, but Yao Changfeng suddenly burst out laughing. Without hesitation, he handed the letter in his hand to the person behind him.

"Qing'er, this is a letter from your second uncle. Look at it, the letter is very caring for you!! ”

The man in black behind him was stunned, and took off the black cloth covering his face with some distress. Revealing a jade-like face, although he was wearing a night suit at the moment. But it looks extraordinarily delicate. At this moment, he sat aside with an aggrieved face, and said bitterly to Yao Changfeng:

"Daddy!! How do you know it's me! Is my daughter's acting skills so bad?! ”

Yao Changfeng laughed, his eyes showing softness. dotingly looked at the woman in a night suit, apparently a woman disguised as a man.

"Qing'er, you like to be a chivalrous guest so much?! You know, knights not only have to do the right thing for heaven, but also their lives will be in danger at all times, aren't you afraid?! ”

The woman in black, known as Qing'er, slowly stood up and tore off the restraining headscarf from her head. In an instant, the waterfall-like hair fell straight down, making the woman even more beautiful.

"Daddy!! You haven't answered my question yet! How did you know it was mine, you didn't even see me! ”

Yao Changfeng patted Yao Qing's head dotingly.

"Have you ever seen a chivalrous man who carries an unedged sword when he fights for righteousness?! Besides, can't my father hear your voice?! Haha..."

Yao Qing pouted, fiddling with the long sword in his hand that was not lethal at all. He didn't speak again.

"Qing'er, you're not too young. You can't mess around anymore, don't run around like this in the future, you should learn more poetry and songs, needlework and embroidery. This is what girls should learn, not thinking about fighting and killing all day long, what will it become! ”

Yao Qing nodded helplessly, but she was muttering to herself in her heart.

"When my martial arts are higher, my father won't say that. Hum!! ”

Suddenly, Yao Qing seemed to remember something. He put the sword aside and picked up the letter his father had handed him and read it.

After a while, she put down the letter in her hand. Said with some sadness:

"Dad, I miss the second uncle. Father!! Why does the second uncle keep staying in Xudu, why don't you go back to Xiangyang to join us?! ”

"Qing'er, there are some things that you still don't understand? When you grow up, you'll understand! ”

Yao Qing didn't like her father to say such things the most, always as if she was still a child.

"By the way, father, the second uncle said in the letter that he adopted the child for an hour, which means that I have a younger brother?!"

"Yes, your second uncle has not had children all these years, and he has always wanted to adopt one, but there is no suitable one. Now that this wish is over, when we are free, let's go to Xudu to visit them, and we can go to meet your younger brother! ”

Yao Changfeng looked at the north and said meaningfully.

The father and daughter looked to the north at the same time and fell silent.

Soon after, Yao Qing returned to her room.

As soon as she opened the door, a maid-like woman inside jumped up, which scared Yao Qing.

"Chunlan, what are you doing here. Why don't you sleep yet?! ”

The maid called Chunlan touched her chest in fear and said with some grievances.

"Miss, if you don't come back, I'm going to die in a hurry. You said you ran out to play, and I wasn't allowed to know where you went, and you said that if there were three long and two short, how could I explain to the master!! ”

Yao Qing patted Chunlan's shoulder and smiled slightly.

"What will happen to Benxia?! It's the bad guys who are going to have trouble! Huh?! What is it?! ”

Yao Qing looked at the large and small brocade boxes on the table and flipped them curiously.

Chunlan hesitated a little, but still spoke.

"This is sent by Lu Gongzi! Say it's a gift for Miss! ”

"Lu Tianba?!"

Yao Qing stared at Chunlan and nodded at her. He threw the box in his hand on the ground and snorted coldly.

"Humph!! I don't want his stuff! If it weren't for my father's dealings with his father, I wouldn't have bothered to deal with him! ”

"Miss, you said that in case the master really agrees with Lu Gongzi and you..."

Before Chunlan finished speaking, Yao Qing slapped the table fiercely.

"No way, even if my dad agrees, I don't agree!!"

Thinking of Lu Tianba's somewhat obscene smile, Yao Qing felt nauseous. This man is known for his fierceness and domineering, and I don't know how many women have been planted in his hands, and he will never be the lamb to the slaughter.

Early in the morning of the second day, Yao Qing got up early. I opened the door and went to the courtyard. Looking at the early morning sky, Yao Qing exhaled deeply.

I saw that she was different from last night, a cyan dress wrapped her curvaceous figure concave and convex, and three thousand green silks were scattered behind her head like a waterfall. On the delicate face without a trace of impurities, there are a pair of smart eyes. Like a clear spring, people take a look at it, and they unconsciously fall into it.

After breathing in the fresh air in the courtyard, Yao Qing came to her father's room. She knew that her father must have gotten up a long time ago, and he should be sitting in front of the window reading at this moment.

Walking into her father's house, as she expected, her father was reading, and he looked like he was reading on his head, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Just as he was about to go up to meet his father, a domestic servant hurriedly walked outside the door behind him. After saluting Yao Qing, he walked straight to Yao Changfeng.

"Master, General Liu sent someone to send an invitation. Tonight, please go to the house for a banquet! ”

Yao Changfeng closed the wooden slip in his hand and frowned slightly.

"Did you only invite me?!"

The servant replied respectfully.

"According to the people who came, it seems that there are still people from the Lu family!!"

Yao Changfeng took the invitation, just swept it slightly, and put it aside.

Looking at Yao Qing not far away, Yao Changfeng fell into deep thought.

In the Lu family's mansion. Lu Zheng, the head of the Lu family, was also holding an invitation in his hand, and he was also in deep thought...