Spring thunder sounds, and deep winter is getting farther away.

Chen Ji picked the charcoal fire in front of him, stirring up clusters of sparks. The candle light went out, reflecting the complicated faces of the father and son, and they were speechless for a while.

Chen Ji got up and went back to the room first, of course, because he was not at home for a long time, the family didn't even leave him a decent room, if this spread, it might stir up some kind of rumors. Chen Ji himself is used to it, and he has no place to go back.

In a hurry, he was just a passerby.

In the room that Chen Wenxuan had recently cleaned up, there was still a choking smell of dust, and Chen Ji shrank into the quilt and tried to sleep.

After more than half an hour, Chen Ji got up, went to the flower hall and brought the previous charcoal pot, turned over for a while and did not find new charcoal, searched for objects in the house that could be used as wood, and moved them to the eaves. After tossing for a long time, the fire was lit again. Chen Ji went back to the house and wrapped the quilt, and the pestle was under the eaves, not knowing where to go.

The time was pushed forward a little, not long after the sentence was handed down by the county government, and the procuratorate outside a street received the news, Zhou Xin didn't say anything about the result, maybe he didn't trust the subordinate officials of the procuratorate, and he didn't want to let the outside know what he thought.

At the moment, what he is concerned about is another piece of news, which came from Beijing. It is mentioned that the king of Qi will move to Dengzhou. This King of Qi is the younger brother of His Majesty today, belonging to the family of Xian Domain, and now he is promoted to King of Qi, and then moved to Dengzhou, which probably indicates that the new emperor has begun to arrange his own forces. Zhili and Tianjin Wei were not in the forefront of the fiefdom of the vassal kings, and they conflicted with the ancestral system, so Shandong was not the best place.

As for His Majesty's considerations, it cannot be ruled out that he is using this to arrange a backup for himself. Moreover, Qingzhou Jingwang Fan was also one of the best contenders for that chair at first.

Zhou Xin has been suffering from party struggles, and he has been up and down over the years, from a Hanlin Shuji, to an editor, and then to an official, he feels powerless. However, the system of the Jokhang Imperial Examination has become a channel for the court bosses to get successors, and the scholars who have passed the test all the way to the end, there are teachers, and then there are teachers' teachers, so that the past is entangled, and then the geographical relationship between the ancestors and the descendants in various places is even more inextricably linked, and the cutting is chaotic.

Zhou Xin pinched the letter and sighed.

Denglai Mansion also received a report from the palace at the same time, involving a lot, such as the site selection and construction of the palace, the settlement of King Qi before that, etc., Chen Xiujie and his colleagues planned to decentralize the matter to Penglai County for disposal. The Den Lai Mansion was responsible for raising the money allocated by the imperial court that was still insufficient for construction.

In the afternoon of the same day, the first batch of construction personnel from Qintianjian and the Ministry of Industry had arrived.

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The next day, Chen Ji woke up from freezing in the morning, and only embers remained in the brazier in front of him, and it was a shame that he was able to survive a cold night, but he also felt that his throat was dry and he had hidden symptoms of a cold. After cleaning up a little, Chen Ji went to the kitchen, still planning to boil a bowl of ginger soup, and by the way, he made it all early.

When Xiao Ran came over, she complained for a while, and when she saw that Chen Ji's face was not good, she thought about asking a doctor and asked Chen Ji to stop her.

The little girl has been in the Chen family for many years, and she may have been told that she would be a girl in the future, but then something happened, and the old lady made the decision to find another husband's family, and let Lin Yunyi recognize a daughter, although she became pregnant later, she was not alienated and neglected by Xiao Ran, but the little girl always felt that she was just a maid, and she was busy on weekdays, and she couldn't stop.

After staying by Chen Ji's side for so long, she also knew that Chen Ji was very talented in food, but in this kind of cold weather, these things should still be done by them.

There are few people in the Chen family now.

Chen Ji didn't care, explaining which ones to send where, but he also sent the little girl away, he squatted beside the stove by himself, looking at the fire in the stove.

When Chen Wenxuan came over, Chen Ji had already left, rented a carriage in the city, and went to Songxi. found Chen Guo in the family science, briefly explained the situation, and then went to Chen Xiushe and told the matter again. After Chen Xiu was suppressed, he had the idea of convening the clan meeting, and explained that he could sort out some things during this time, and he could talk about it at the clan meeting at that time. On the other hand, he will continue to urge several clansmen who occupy the Chen Trace industry to come up with a compromise method.

Chen Ji did not object, but just penetrated his bottom line.

"In the past two months, I have met the people I should see, not only have they come to me to tell me, I have also looked for them, and I am not forcing them to return them all, but I just hope that they can give me an explanation, not to say what benefits are promised, and to be sincere in what should be said." Chen Ji talked a lot more inexplicably today, and he was not as restrained as he used to see Chen Xiushe, "I can't just because I've been in Songxi for a long time, everything that belongs to me has been taken up, right?" Or is the clan planning to remove me? If this is the case, the taxes of the conscription under the names of all the families in the clan should go to the county government to settle the accounts! ”

Chen Guo couldn't help but worry.

Chen Xiu seemed to be expected, and said with his eyebrows: "I will tell you these things again."

Chen Ji bowed down and said: "Big Uncle bother, of course, if they feel that I am a bully and are unwilling to give an explanation, then don't blame me for not being affectionate." Even if I go to Beijing, I Chen Ji will also accompany them to the end, and the uncle may wish to remind them that Chen Ji has no other skills over the years, and he still saves some silver. ”

Chen Xiushe raised his eyebrows and asked, "With such a big anger, do you really feel that yesterday's incident is related to the clan?"

"Uncle thinks it has nothing to do with it?" Chen Ji closed his gaze, turned his head and said, "I asked later, Chen Hua's so-called shop was one of my mother's original dowry, and somehow it was transferred to him later, similar to several silk villages in the county. They all say that they take care of my father, but I haven't seen a copper plate in these years, but every year because of my father, I am exempted from a lot of business taxes. ”

"As the head of a family, it is understandable that the uncle has his own rights and trade-offs, and some things he does in the second and third rooms are bullying no matter how you look at it. I've been tired a lot of things in my hands in the past two months, so I'm just waiting for them to come to my door and say a kind word to warm my heart. Chen Ji rubbed his hands and sighed, "As a result, you may see that I didn't make any moves, so I ignored it. Uncle, I was going home, but I ended up living in the family study, and there was such a homecoming? ”

Chen Guo secretly abducted Chen Ji, not daring to be too obvious. Chen Ji saw the meaning in his eyes, but ignored it.

Then he said: "Anyway, that's what it means, some shameless garbage relatives, I really don't want it." In addition, this is the second time I have listened to the uncle's greeting, and the next time, I hope that the uncle will not be unfair to his family. ”

Chen Guo's face changed slightly, and he secretly looked at his father.

Chen Xiushi's face was expressionless.