Chapter 55: A Chance Encounter

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In a self-contained courtyard of the Zhejiang Martial Arts School, the officers who came from the water camp to study were reciting Qi Jiguang's "Song of the Wind and Waves" with the teacher shaking their heads, like a group of children who were still enlightened.

In this expansion, the water camp of Jinhua Town, which is responsible for the Dongyangjiang-Qujiang waterway, will also be upgraded to the Zhejiang inland river water division, which will be directly under the jurisdiction of the Marquis of Anyuan. The fighting at the front has stopped, and more than one-third of the officers of the water battalion have been recruited to participate in the study of the martial arts academy, and the subjects they learn such as literacy and arithmetic do not seem to have much to do with their old professions, but no one dares to say half of them, because even the former water battalion guerrillas who have just been promoted to deputy general are studying here in a regular manner, and the officers below naturally do not dare to do anything.

The loud chanting grew quieter the farther away, like the other courtyards that were working overtime to train artillery and engineer officers.

By the time the sound reached the gate, several waves of sound were inaudible and melted together. His ears were full of things that he couldn't even say a word, and Ni Liangxu walked out of the door of the martial arts academy as usual.

Today was supposed to be a day of rest, but the officers of the water battalion, artillery, and engineer who came to participate in the training did not have the opportunity to rest at all. Not to mention the water battalion, they are all guys who should have come to complete the basic knowledge of being an officer a long time ago, and the latter two, in Chen Wen's words, are both technical arms, from theory to practice, the training time is long, and the pressure of expansion is high, so Xiu Mu is simply exempted.

Ni Liangxu didn't understand what a technical class was, it sounded like a craftsman's work, but he knew it wasn't. But these have nothing to do with him, and today is just Xiu Mu, so naturally he still has to go out for a walk, which is already something that he will inevitably do every time he goes to Xiu Mu.

Out of the street of Jiufang Lane, Ni Liangxu first walked to Dongshi Street, and with the gradual recovery of Jinhua City, the population naturally increased. At first, there were many military dependents of the Ming army waiting for the division of land here, after the rebellion of Cao Conglong, even if it was the period when the Ming army marched westward, although the military dependents began to move to various places after the land division order was issued, but with the issuance of a series of decrees of the government and the county government, more and more people became interested in the city and began to gather here, and the middle street and the south of the city near the Dongyang River were the first to begin to recover.

Ni Liangxu had previously been to the Zhaozhong Temple to commemorate the "Jinhua Massacre", and according to the explanation of the temple Zhu, he knew that this Dongshi Street was the last bulwark of the defenders at that time, and it was naturally the most dilapidated after the war.

During the Manchu reign in Jinhua for a few years, Dongshi Street, which had become a ghostly street, was just a few more shops to buy goods, and in fact it was far from half of the old view. It is said that the Ming army did not improve when it first arrived, but in recent months it has changed dramatically.

Walking into Dongshi Street, although it is not very early, there is not a lot of people at all. Some are farmers who come to sell agricultural products, some are ordinary people who come to buy, some shopkeepers and men who make a living in the shops on this street, and many merchants take their men to the shops.

Without taking two steps, Ni Liangxu saw the somewhat familiar disguise, and immediately walked over, found a big horse golden knife at the table that had just been cleaned up and sat down, and then asked the shopkeeper and cook for a bowl of floating yuanzi.

This small shop was found when he was resting last time, the owner of the store is a Ningbo person, the Qing army occupied Ningbo Mansion and couldn't stand the exploitation and moved to Dalanshan, and later in the encirclement and suppression with Chen Wen all the way south in the Jinhua Mansion last year. Not long ago, the government asked some green camp captives from the coolie camp to build some simple shops for the shops that were interested in making a living here, and the family set up a small food shop, which was said to be unpopular at first because it was the taste of Ningbo, but after a long time, now the house is no longer crowded, so I have to set up more tables at the door.

After a while, the shopkeeper's daughter, a little girl in her early tens, brought over the bowl of floating yuan called by Ni Liangxu, blew it slightly, and he directly picked up a spoon and scooped a floating yuan into the mouth.

The freshly cooked floating yuan seeds are still a little hot, but they are very appetizing like pearls falling in the bowl, Ni Liangxu took a bite, and a piece of the dough was still mixed with a hint of sweetness. As far as the eye can see, black sesame seeds slowly flow out of the belly of the floating yuan in the spoon, and the black and white exudes a rich aroma.

"I said shopkeeper, you are so hot here every day, and you don't shop down anymore. In the winter, you should ask everyone to eat outside, and if you catch a cold, you will have to pay for the soup and medicine. ”

As soon as I put a floating yuan in my mouth, I heard the diners at the table next to me say loudly to the shopkeeper, which even aroused the laughter of many diners.

"You don't know that the Hou Ye has just divided the land, and many people in the countryside are planting sesame seeds to drive weeds. At present, glutinous rice is more expensive, but the price of sesame is very cheap, if it is a shop again, it must also be hired, the profit is small, and if the price of sesame rises, it will lose money if it is not good. ”

The shopkeeper smiled bitterly, but the work in his hand did not stop at all, but Ni Liangxu always felt that this little shopkeeper seemed to have been struggling about this matter for several days, otherwise he would not be able to think of this before and after.

Continued to eat silently, in fact, after a few rests, Ni Liangxu had eaten a few times at the nearby restaurant, and he had more or less heard some from the mouths of the shopkeepers, guys and diners about the current situation of this East Market Street.

At present, Dongshi Street has a new nickname, called Dalan Street, because most of the shops on this street must have been opened by the people who moved into Jinhua with the Ming army. For example, the silk shop at the intersection when he turned into Dongshi Street, it is said that the background is the Shaoxing magistrate of Yongkang County, and it is even rumored that the fabric of the camp flag in Nantang Ying was originally purchased from the old shop in the town under Dalan Mountain.

In fact, for the people who moved into Jinhua with the Ming army, Chen Wen's plan was originally to divide the land and cultivate the land, but many of them were begging for a living in several towns in Siming Mountain, and they didn't know anything about farming.

After considering this, Sun Yu asked Chen Wen for some prisoners from the coolie camp to cover the shops, most of which were distributed to these people. This good governance has allowed many people to earn a living with the crafts they are more familiar with, and the shops that have opened have to hire people, and the livelihood of the people in the area has begun to revive with the resumption of commerce.

At present, the large and small shops in this neighborhood will actually be separated by a certain distance when selecting the site, because most of them have the intention of making money and then connecting the nearby shops, even if they do not have such ideas, they will be persuaded by the neighboring shops to turn to the shops at a distance.

Nowadays, most of the shops in Dongshi Street are low and shabby, but there must be many shopkeepers who have the idea of making money to expand, which is much stronger than Dongshi Street, which only had a few warehouses before, and it can even be said that it has begun to gradually regain its vitality.

After eating Fu Yuanzi, Ni Liangxu drank all the soup in the bowl, which happened to be the original soup into the original food, and then settled the bill and walked into the distance.

The people in Dongshi Street felt a little more than the last time he came over, I don't know if this is an illusion, but the recovery of the people's livelihood in Fucheng still made his heart feel a little more comfortable.

“…… If we do something wrong, we must pay the price, or we will only affect those who trust us, who are innocent. In fact, we shouldn't doubt that Sun Juren values people should not doubt that this Chen Dashuai must have done better than us, and he must have done better than Cao Conglong and other corrupt Confucians, but that selfishness has brought us to this point...... Brother Ni, live well, do it well, even if you have hatred in your heart, you can only help Sun Juren and Brother Wu, this is what we owe them. ”

Silently recalling Zhou Qingui's last words, Ni Liangxu had gone far unconsciously. They teamed up with Cao Conglong to engage in infighting behind Chen Wen's back, and Chen Wen turned around and took the lead in killing them all, which was a matter of reporting and reporting, but even if Chen Wen let go of those ordinary members of the white-headed army and gave them the land equally, but so many old brothers died, the hatred in Ni Liangxu's heart did not completely disappear, if it wasn't for Zhou Qingui's last words, he would not have taken the initiative to serve in Chen Wen's army.

"Brother Zhou is right, we are all brothers, but Sun Juren and Brother Wu are also old brothers back then, we have come down from Luochengyan and Chen Wendou are our own masters, but they have always lost their righteousness to Sun Juren."

He had already thought about these things clearly, but the righteousness in his heart still made him unable to let go.

To this day, walking in the streets and alleys of Fucheng and looking at the city that has gradually recovered its vitality, this is probably Ni Liangxu's greatest comfort. Because many of these were produced with Sun Yu's efforts, and that Marquis An Yuan was indeed more able to give full play to Sun Yu's talents than others, so serving in Chen Wen's army was the only place where he, a martial artist, could help Sun Yu, Wu Dengke and others.

Moreover, not only Sun Yu and Wu Dengke and others, but also the ordinary rebels of the Baitou Army and the vast number of people in this region were also freed from the tyranny of the Manchu Qing because of the appearance of Chen Wen.

Only by thinking in this way can his heart be saved from the bite of hatred......

Walking aimlessly, suddenly, a carriage drove past the intersection at the other end of the alley, and a familiar mark on the carriage was reflected in the corner of Ni Liangxu's eyes at the moment before it disappeared, and it immediately stirred up a memory that made his heart torture repeatedly.

"If I had recognized that word, perhaps she would not have been able to get out of the city; If I had killed that group in Qiaoxia Village, maybe Chen Wen would not have come back so quickly; If Chen Wen hadn't come back so quickly, maybe everyone would have been able to escape back to Luochengyan......"

Once he thought of this, Ni Liangxu hurriedly chased him out with the handle of the knife. As for why he chased down and what he did to catch up, he didn't know why, but even so, he still chased all the way, just as much as possible not to be noticed.

The carriage headed south and soon arrived at the Tianning Wanshou Temple in the south of the city. Ni Liangxu was far away, and watched with his own eyes the figure who only had hatred in his eyes even though he was beautiful and incomprehensible, got out of the carriage and stepped into the temple to make incense.

After a while, not much more than he had expected, the figure stepped out of the monastery, boarded the carriage again, and headed home.

Hiding the line, Ni Liangxu quickly stayed behind again, and followed the carriage all the way to the north of the city. However, this time, it didn't take long for him to spot another familiar figure that seemed to be blatantly embellished behind, as if he was going to find a secluded place to meet the woman in the carriage.

"Slaughter the dog man and woman together!"

As soon as this thought came to mind, it immediately startled Ni Liangxu.

He once promised Zhou Qingui in person, and he was determined to do his best to help Sun Yu and others, and he believed in loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, and not long ago, he swore allegiance in front of that man. At this moment, such a thought would come to him, and when his mind regained clarity, this crazy thought immediately frightened him on the spot, and soon disappeared into the streets.

The little sister of the Zhou family in the carriage did not know that she was only one step away from an unplanned assassination, but she turned the corner with the assassin's self-blame. At this moment, she has just returned from the incense of Tianning Wanshou Temple and is about to go home for dinner.

Soon, the carriage was pulling into an alley where the back door of her house was further on. When the carriage arrived at the back door, the little sister of the Zhou family had just gotten out of the car, but suddenly heard a call.

"Little sister!"

The voice was full of surprises from a long absence, naturally it would not be her brother Zhou Jingting, nor the two cousins who had always hesitated and entered the civil official training class until a few days ago. Such a affectionate title would not have been someone else's.

"He Gongzi."

The man in the distance of the alley was none other than Zhou Jingting's eldest brother. Since the last time he helped the little sister of the Zhou family escape from the city, he wanted to marry this woman home, not for anything else, but that posture was enough, and he didn't need any reason at all.

The matchmaker who asked for marriage had already gone to the Zhou family, and even his sister promised to help, but the Zhou family never had a letter, which really made him anxious, and this is why today's scene is here.

It's just that the little sister of the Zhou family doesn't have even a little bit of a good impression of this He Gongzi. It's not that she doesn't know the word gratitude, it's just that when they met, this He Gongzi's performance really disgusted her very much-she looked at her with patronage and squinting eyes along the way, and even her sister-in-law, that is, this He Gongzi's own sister, did not have the slightest worry. At that time, he didn't know that the chaos was coming, the Zhou family was Chen Wen's sworn friend, and his sister was Zhou Jingting's wife, but he was still like this, which shows that this person is cold by nature.

In fact, since the rebellion, the Zhou family's little sister in the boudoir of the gentry and wealthy families in Jinhua Mansion quickly fell to the extreme.

Dare to take the maid and the coachman to Quzhou for a few days without home for 200 miles to ask for help, the word crazy demon is beyond description. Coupled with the edict promised by Chen Wen, a girl who has not left the cabinet to obtain the edict with her own strength has really subverted the way of thinking of this era, under the envy and jealousy, the little sister of the Zhou family has naturally become a model of a crazy woman, a negative example of boudoir education.

The little sister of the Zhou family is not completely ignorant of this, but she doesn't care at all, because she just did what she should do, what she had to do in order to protect her family, and she didn't care what others said.

But even if the wind is like this, the threshold of the Zhou family is still almost flattened by the matchmaker who came to ask for marriage, for no other reason, with the rapid growth of the Ming army, Chen Wen's title continues to increase, the Zhou family is already Chen Wen's sworn friend, and Zhou Jingting's power position is naturally rapidly improved, just with such an uncle, marrying the little sister of the Zhou family home is also very beneficial to the career.

Most of the people who marry only like the position of power, and this He Gongzi likes herself, but the little sister of the Zhou family hates such forgetful and cold people very much, because she knows very well what the result of serving people in Israel is, and there are too many similar stories written in the book, which has long made her hateful.

The matchmaker's rhetoric can make them go back and forth from where, and the sister-in-law's persuasion can be ignored, but her parents' worries about her marriage still make her entangled in the choice, because she doesn't want to see her parents sad about it.

However, she didn't have the slightest idea of the He Gongzi in front of her. It's just that just as she was thinking about how to get the toad out of sight once and for all, another voice sounded behind her.

"Little lady Zhou?"

This voice is very familiar to the little sister of the Zhou family, and she once wanted to know what kind of person the owner of this voice is, why he is so maverick, and even what is related to Li Zhen, whom she has always obeyed. Although she was still a little disappointed by the scene that day, but after thinking about it carefully, she still had doubts about that scene, because Chen Wen's status was there, and any remarks could have a great impact. And Li Zhen's thoughts ......

But since Chen Wen was unwilling to discuss Li Zhen with her, she didn't intend to force this, at least she was a girl, and she couldn't take the initiative to go to Chen Wen just to ask such a question that might never have an answer.

However, as this voice sounded, the little sister of the Zhou family suddenly came up with a plan, a plan that was enough to solve many problems.

In the next moment, I saw the little sister of the Zhou family walking up to Chen Wen, and she didn't salute, she stood directly beside Chen Wen, and introduced to that He Gongzi: "This is Marquis An Yuan, my brother's Shangguan." ”

Although the two did not have physical contact, the sweet smile on the little sister of the Zhou family when she looked at Chen Wen, and the fact that she stood beside Chen Wen like a bird still startled the He Gongzi. And at this moment when he was stunned, Chen Wen seemed to understand the intention, put on a posture of looking at the world, and asked the He Gongzi very tacitly: "It turned out to be He Gongzi, dare to ask Ling Zun." ”

As soon as these words came out, He Gongzi seemed to have been pricked by a needle, and immediately replied, "Don't dare to insult the ears of the lowly name", and then disappeared at the end of the alley as if he fled.

"It seems that not only is it cold by nature, but stupidity is also to a certain extent."

Seeing this scene, the little sister of the Zhou family couldn't help but raise a smug smile, but before she could turn around and explain to Chen Wen, Chen Wen's shameless and unquestionable voice already sounded in her ears.

"It seems that Zai Xia seems to have done Zhou Xiaoniang a small favor, so as a reward, Zai Xia wants to invite Zhou Xiaoniang to lunch, I don't know if I can reward Zai Xia for this face?" (To be continued.) )