In the pouring rain, Chen Xiujie's figure disappeared outside the door, as if it had never appeared, and in the house, Qiu Xinzhi babbled, looked at the empty garden, and quipped: "Chen Tong judged that this is a happy event in the family?" ”

turned his head, but saw a trace of anger in Hou Houcong's eyes. Qiu Xinzhi knew at the moment that he had lost his words.

Hou Houcong didn't say anything about this, and instead said: "There will be a lot of things in the future, and I hope that Lord Qiu will be more attentive, and everyone will work together to survive the current situation." ”

Qiu Xinzhi was slightly stunned, and then responded respectfully: "Obey the orders of Lord Fuzun." ”

Hou Houcong glanced at the heavy rain outside, his heart was heavy, and he had no intention of staying, and left with Qiu Xinzhi after a while.

Qiu Xinzhi fell to the end, frowning slightly, what he said before was not intentional on his part, he has been squatting in Yidu County recently, and he is usually a person who "rarely hears things outside the window", and he doesn't know much about the affairs of the Chen family. I vaguely heard some of the news, and I didn't discern one or the other with my heart, but I just thought that the son of the Chen family had done something happy and angry, waiting for Chen Xiujie to go over and finish.

As for Chen Xiujie's various performances tonight, Qiu Xinzhi only thought that he had just returned from the "front line" and was still tired, so he behaved so coldly. In the conversation just now, I had actually thought of a few jokes, but now it seems that I should be glad that I didn't say it.

The three main bosses of Qingzhou Mansion are public and private, and their relationship is actually exemplary.

Qiu Xinzhi sat alone for a while, and glanced at the rows of buildings on both sides of the garden, where the three classes and six rooms were located, and they were all still lit and busy. This kind of scene is also used to it. Every year from May to July, the nerves of the entire Qingzhou Mansion have to be tensed, and then hope that "it will rain heavily, but don't break the embankment". It's just that after three or five years of good times, there will always be a catastrophe year, and they are considered to be the top of the house, and most of the honor and disgrace are also mixed in.

Of course, as long as you follow the forefront, many things will not be too wrong. Therefore, each of them actually has a bottom line in their hearts about the relief that may be bumped into next, such as how many people can be accepted to die......

On such a very low line, the relief preparations of the Qingzhou Mansion have been started since March, and some informal "details of affairs" of the Beijing Division have also been sent over early in the morning!

Qiu Xinzhi, as a fellow intellectualist of Qingzhou, is going to come to the front of the stage.

When you go out, on the left hand side are the three rooms of officials, households, and ceremonies, and on the right hand side are the three rooms for soldiers, criminals, and workers. Qiu Xinzhi turned to the left, followed the corridor to the officer's room, beckoned everyone to come together, and asked about the progress of some preparations.

Although the Qingzhou Mansion does not need to go to the front line, it is still a cumbersome matter to coordinate the counties in the middle, so the six rooms have prepared their own errands in advance, and the docking with the counties is also in full swing. The information sent by the counties has been compiled and analyzed, and solutions have been sketched out for possible problems, which will be kept and sent back to the counties as a reference basis.

After chatting for a while, it was late at night, and Qiu Xinzhi ordered the next office. Everyone sorted out their own things, and then went back to the backyard to rest. The three major yamen have mansions in Qingzhou, but they don't need to crowd in the yamen, so the three halls of the yamen are vacated as a resting place for the three classes and six rooms.

Although several bigwigs in Qingzhou have already understood, but the current situation, the situation is not as bad as imagined, the neighboring prefectures and counties have not had much commotion for the time being, and the situation of the first wave of victims who arrived in Qingzhou is also good, so for now, Qingzhou should still be used as a backup place, and the focus is also on organizing a transport team to prepare to transport grain at any time.

Qingzhou is not far from Dengzhou, relying on the convenience of Dengzhou wharf, some gossip from the south has actually been spreading, most of the imperial court has been raising grain in several southern provinces, and has gone north by sea. As for the Grand Canal, which runs from north to south, it is no longer suitable for transporting grain because of the instability of the local area.

Qiu Xinzhi left the mansion, the heavy rain was much softer, and the general situation of Qingzhou was already in his heart, thinking about Chen Xiujie's situation before, he might as well use a little thought, and be an official in the same place, there is no need to retreat too much because of the so-called "cherishing feathers".

In the darkness of the night, the carriage slowly drove over the waterlogged road and went around to the other side of the street.

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Chen Xiujie hurried home, and on the way, he had already listened to Gui Chun's concise report, and after knowing the news that Chen Ji had woken up, his whole heart was relieved, and he was almost planted in the pond. The turbidity that has accumulated for a long time has cleared a few points, but the state is much worse than before. Along the way, I asked some important things, and I fell asleep halfway through. When he got home, he couldn't wake up, Gui Chunhe went into the house to find Lin Yunyi, and then called someone, carried Chen Xiujie to the room, and went to the West Chamber to invite the old man who checked Chen Ji's body over, and after tossing for half an hour, Chen Xiujie opened his eyes.

was about to get up and go to the West Chamber, but Lin Yunyi stopped him. In the time that followed, it was basically Lin Yunyi who was talking, and Chen Xiujie was shaving her forehead and listening very carefully.

As for Tianming, the family has only regained some vitality.

Overnight, almost three generations were confessed.

In the early morning, the heavy rain had stopped, only some of the last night's residual rain still fell on the roof tiles, and Chen Ji, whose situation had improved, got up early, complained with concern from Xiao Ran, and returned to the house in a huff. The three layers inside and three layers on the outside of his body were tightly wrapped, and Chen Ji promised to cover him with prickly heat. Maybe he didn't speak for a long time, and he burned badly, and after a night's rest, he still couldn't say half a word, and could only babble a few words of protest. It's just that this happened, and the three of Xiao Ran took care of him tightly.

After waking up, Chen Xiujie sat in front of the bed, the bloodshot in her eyes had not yet dissipated, her lips were so bright that she seemed to have bitten her lip paper, and there were some blood stains in the subtleties, which should have torn a layer of skin.

Chen Ji sat up and wanted to say something, but finally he was speechless. I had to grin softly and show that it was all right,

Chen Xiujie looked at her son fixedly, and was speechless for a long time.

If you want to say that "good and evil will be rewarded in the end", it should be tossing him as a father, don't they all say "I can't raise my godfather"? And although Chen Ji is stubborn, but in addition to spending all day and wine, he doesn't want to make progress, how can he rely on his identity to bully good people and really do those things that people and gods are angry about? He Chen Xiujie established himself as a people, didn't he accumulate any yin virtue to protect his descendants?

Chen Ji's eyebrows raised, and he noticed that Comrade Chen had tears in his eyes, as if he was about to cry out in the next moment. There was also a worry in my heart, I didn't know what to do, and I didn't know where to put my hands.

"Let's rest a little bit and talk about it when my body is well."

Chen Ji nodded.

Chen Xiujie got up and patted her son on the shoulder, and retreated, her back a little lonely.

The Chen family is thin in the end.

Not long after Chen Xiujie left, Chen Wenxuan came over to take a look again, and pulled Xiao Ran to ask about the situation, all of which were after they took care of Chen Xiujie in the second half of yesterday night. Chen Wenxuan asked in detail, although Xiao Ran had been by her side, she didn't pay attention to it in such detail, so she had to call Shen Qiu over, and the two of them checked and filled in the gaps together.

When Chen Wenxuan left, he stared at Chen Ji on the bed, and said to Xiao Ran and the others: "Don't tell the outside about what he woke up about for the time being." ”

Xiao Ran responded, and Shen Qiu said: "Miss, don't worry, until the young master fully recovers, we will not let him leave the mansion for half a step!" ”

"No one from outside is allowed to come in."

Chen Ji smiled bitterly.

Chen Wenxuan glanced at him a few times, clenched his fist and waved, not like he was joking with him.

Chen Ji had to put away his smiling face and nodded solemnly, indicating that he heard it and remembered it in his heart.

It is estimated that I will not be able to go out for most of the next half a year.

Let's work hard at home for a while, and by the way, sort out the current messy industrial structure.

Now that he really doesn't dare to make the people around him sad anymore, let's live a few days as a family.

In addition, after this period of time, it is time to have a showdown with Comrade Chen, and it is time to work hard for the Chen family's incense.

……

Officially, the entire Qingzhou is preparing for the upcoming disaster, and many things that are not so popular in private have gradually surfaced. For example, some opportunistic people who want to make "disaster money" are busy, and the most obvious thing is that the price of grain in Qingzhou has fluctuated. The Qingzhou Mansion got the news as soon as possible, so it urgently summoned all the rice shops in the city, and the results were obvious, people were just routine, where would they really take the words of a few bigwigs to heart.

Hou Houcong urgently met with Chen Xiujie and asked about Qingzhou's grain reserves, and the results were not good. According to the current situation, the grain price will be out of control in less than half a month, and even if the entire Qingzhou official warehouse is released, it will be difficult to pull the grain price back.

Qiu Xinzhi was the last to go to the office, entered the door and saw the two of them preoccupied, sat down and asked about the situation. Chen Xiujie briefly explained the situation, and Qiu's mind and body stiffened.

"It's King Jing's Mansion again?"

Hou Houcong said: "What's more! ”

"Do you want to deliver a message up there?"

"Where's the delivery?"

Qiu Xinzhi sighed, "In this case, we can only win over some merchants in the city who are still neutral for the time being, as long as they don't raise prices, they can always hold out for a few more days, and when the grain from the south arrives, our pressure will be much less." ”

It's not that Qingzhou is out of food, but more than half of the food has to be used to deal with disasters that may occur at any time.

After a while, Chen Xiujie looked at Hou Houcong and asked, "Can the Mansion Zun come forward to meet that prince?" ”

Qiu Xinzhi also looked over.

Hou Houcong sighed: "I didn't want to, the post has been sent three times, and there is still no news!" ”

Things are getting big again.