It was the first time for Fox Mei'er to wear this kind of tightly covered clothes, except for a face, even the neck was covered by mouse hair.

But she couldn't do it now, so she only glanced at Lu Yuan with a resentful look: "Uncle, do you really want to wear it like this?" ”

"If you don't want to, you can go back to your elder, you actually want to spy on me through my father-in-law, and the old man of your family can figure it out."

Lu Yuan shook his head as he spoke, and began to look at the newspaper issued by the General Administration.

It is now the nineteenth day of the first month of the twelfth year of Chongzhen.

The canal has just thawed not long after.

On this day, Lu Yuan officially returned to Shandong.

On the way back to Shandong, Lu Yuan looked at the scenery along the way, and the three prefectures of Beizhili Hejian, Baoding, and Zhending will not be able to recover this year.

There were starving and homeless people everywhere, and even wild dogs were in packs.

Some of the walls were already dilapidated, and it was estimated that the imperial court would not have any more money to repair them.

Fortunately, Tongzhou and Tianjinwei, which are important thoroughfares along the North Zhili Canal, are still preserved, and Caoyun has not been greatly affected.

Lu Yuan and his mighty army were thus able to return to Shandong by water.

It's just that near these canal towns, there are more people selling their heads along the way.

Even there were more slender men who grabbed the life, and the mighty army returned to Shandong this time to return to Beijing with a lot of baggage rewarded or allocated by the imperial court, but they were not worried about not being able to find a man to pull the boat.

A basket of steamed buns can employ many lean men to work.

Of course, if it weren't for the powerful army with firearms in hand, and Lu Yuan wearing official uniforms, I am afraid that the sailors and homeless people along the river would have been robbed directly.

The farther he went south, Lu Yuan found that there were more displaced people going south, and there were more slender men rushing to work, and he even got into a fight over it.

And along with the rise of the labor market along the canal and the sound of the place, Qinglou Chu Hall abounds, even many boats are red-sleeved swagger, male songs and women singing, lewd laughter and proverbial, filling the entire noisy canal on both sides.

The further you go in the direction of Shandong, the more serious this phenomenon becomes.

The influx of displaced people has contributed to the morbid prosperity of these places.

When Lu Yuan and his entourage arrived in Linqing City, the shantytowns living around the city had stretched for more than ten miles.

Most of the common people in the shanty were ragged and skinny, but they still worked hard near the wharf, like a group of worker ants near the ant nest, constantly carrying goods up and down, and the crisp sound of whipping sounded in the hands of the overseers, echoing the laughter in the fence of the flower boat.

Lu Yuan followed the laughter and saw that these riverside flower boats and riverbank hooks were all scholars wearing square scarves and brocade robes, as if the barrenness hundreds of miles away had nothing to do with them, as if they were another country.

But Lu Yuan knew that it would only take three years, and it would only take three years, and this place would become the same as Beizhili Hejian and Zhending Prefectures hundreds of miles away.

As long as Jiannu enters the customs once, it will be ruined once.

At first it was Gyeonggi.

And then there is the whole of Beizhili.

Next up is Shandong.

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, it will be the Jiangnan of the world.

Because although Lu Yuan said that he was already a general of the third rank of the official residence, he was a military attache in the end, so the dignitaries and dignitaries in Linqing City did not come out to welcome him.

Lu Yuan only took the guards company into Linqing City, and the rest of the people went directly to Qingshui Town Fort.

However, after Lu Yuan entered Linqing City, he did not go directly to the Lu Mansion, but went directly to the Tang Mansion.

A year ago, Lu Yuan remembered that he was just a civilian when he came to the Tang Mansion.

At that time, a gentleman could mock himself.

Now that he is also a senior military attache in the imperial court, Lu Yuan found that no matter what others thought, he had to be more confident when he entered this Tang Mansion.

Lu Yuan didn't know that it was because he was more confident, and felt that the servants of the Tang Mansion had more respect for him.

It's just that these servants of the Tang Mansion are obviously not kind to the fox Mei'er behind them.

Lu Yuan can also understand, after all, his aunt brought a stunning concubine to the house, who will be vigilant for his own girl.

As soon as Lu Yuan entered the Tang Mansion, he seemed to smell a smell of vinegar.

But Lu Yuan wanted to say that there was any way to do this, it was all given to me by your master.

Parents must not be violated.

Father-in-law is also father.

But Lu Yuan didn't know what was going on, although he comforted himself so much in his heart, he was still a little apprehensive, worried about how to face Tang Ying when he saw Tang Ying later.

Lu Yuan naturally wanted to see his gentle, elegant and generous wife again, but he was a little afraid to see him.

What made Lu Yuan even more unsure of how to face it was the mistress of the Tang Mansion, Tang Wang.

……

Tang Ying got up early in the morning, instructed Erniu to calculate the account books again, and instructed Caiyi to hurry up and sort out the next expenses.

Then, Tang Ying had to ask people to cut Lu Yuan's spring clothes.

Then, Tang Ying called the Yin family of the weaving workshop again and asked him to prepare to report to Lu Yuan on the operation of the weaving workshop.

Tang Ying has been busy, busy with the purchase of iron and the sale of steel ingots, busy with the progress of machinery factories and steel factories, busy recruiting workers for new spinning mills, and archiving the newly recruited soldiers of the mighty army, and so on.

There are four or five big things a day, and twenty or thirty small things a day.

But Tang Ying still couldn't help but think of Lu Yuan in a hurry.

I still couldn't help but look outside the door from time to time to see if Lu Yuan's figure would appear outside the door.

Tang Ying didn't know how many times she had looked back at the Western clock in her room.

"Girl!"

It was only at this time that Caiyi ran in with a pile of materials.

It should be Lu Lang who is back.

Tang Ying only felt that his heart was pounding, and he couldn't see the account books, he couldn't drink good tea, and even the scenery outside the window was not as good as the doorway.

"It's Young Master! The young master came to give a gift for the Lantern Festival, saying that he was not free on the day of the Lantern Festival, and now he came to make up for it. ”

Caiyi replied.

"Oh", Tang Ying didn't expect it to be Zhang Heng, since she learned that Jiannu might come to Shandong, she said that Lu's mother would come to Tang Mansion to live with her mother temporarily, so that she could take care of the safety of the two families, after all, now his brother is preparing for the township in Jinan, and although she is the daughter-in-law of the Lu family, it is impossible to ignore the Tang family, not to mention that there are more people in the Tang Mansion, but it is safer.

Lu Mu naturally agreed.

And Tang Ying went back to live in his parents' house because of this, but because of this, Tang Ying's cousin Zhang Heng also had the opportunity to come to Tang Mansion every day to find an opportunity to get close to Tang Ying.

Even though the aunt and cousin are relatives, it is impossible to casually enter the inner courtyard of their married cousin, but they can find some excuses to give gifts or talk through the screen during the festival.

"Cousin! I'm going to Jinan in a few days, do you have anything you want me to bring to my cousin. ”

But at this time, Zhang Heng suddenly broke in, but a few little maids didn't stop him.

Tang Ying was so frightened that he hurriedly hid in the screen: "Cousin, please don't come in, my cousin is already a wife, not when I was cardamom, and cousin, you also have a marriage contract, even if you are a brother and sister, you should also avoid suspicion to avoid being spread out indiscriminately, and ruining your cousin's reputation." ”

"What my cousin said is, my cousin is abrupt, and my cousin doesn't come in, that's, you really don't have anything to bring to your cousin? Cousin, I've heard that Lu Yuan seems to have been killed by Jiannu, don't think about keeping the festival for him, cousin takes care of you! ”

Zhang Heng said.

"Who said that this official was killed by Jiannu?!"

Lu Yuan's voice came at this time.