Yizhou, Daotai House.

When Cao Song came back from the martial arts hall, he saw that there were two more carriages at the door, and the little servants were leading the coachman to the carriage and stable, and he couldn't help but be a little strange, could it be that Jiang Ning is here again? Thinking of the words that his mother said a few years ago, he felt that his ears were itchy, what if his mother forcibly sent two mothers-in-law to pick up the jade dragon?

When the little guys saw Cao Song, they all lowered their hands and said, "The second master is back!" ”

Cao Song nodded, looked at the two carriages, and asked, "Whose family is this?" ”

The little maid replied: "Back to the second master, it was Miss Cousin's family who sent her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to pick it up!" ”

"Miss Table!" Cao Song twisted his eyebrows, thinking that Dong E Jinghui felt very uncomfortable every time she saw her awkwardness, she snorted coldly and muttered: "Ugly girl, you really have no conscience!" ”

Cao Song's residence was the original west neighbor of Daotai Mansion, and now it has been opened up, and it is connected to the original inner house of Daotai Mansion and the east neighbor of Daotai Mansion to become the West Road. He lives in the main courtyard of West Road, and the first few small courtyards live Cao Yanxiao, Cao Yanwei, Wei Hei and others. Mr. Zhuang lives in the main courtyard of East Road, with the residences of Master Han and Master Lu in front of it, and two empty courtyards as guest rooms. The two newly hired criminals are both locals and don't live here.

Maybe it's because when dealing with Mama Zhang, Jade Cicada and Jade Firefly made a lot of efforts; Maybe I'm used to seeing these two maids, and I don't think it's as eye-catching as it was at the beginning. Therefore, Cao Song still asked Amethyst to bring them to Shandong. In addition to the jade dragonfly who made the room, the girl who was separated from the jade dragon at the beginning, the name of the jade spider, also came to wait.

Because of the identity of the jade dragon, she is the leader among the people.

Seeing Cao Song come back, Jade Cicada and Jade Firefly went to bring water, and Jade Spider and Jade Dragonfly helped him change into clean clothes. Cao Song asked Jade Dragonfly: "Are there relatives in the house?" Do you see it? ”

Jade Dragonfly shook her head: "I heard a grandmother mention it just now, saying that she went to the county lord's yard!" As he spoke, he helped Cao Song tighten his belt. The jade spider stood in front of Cao Hao, busy buttoning the buttons on his vest.

Although when they first arrived at Cao Song's side, the jade dragon and the jade spider were still two yellow-haired girls of fourteen and five, but now two and a half years later, they are already slim and well.

Although the jade dragon is dressed as a girl, after all, she has been a woman for two years, her body is round and jade, and there is a bit of affection between her eyebrows; The jade spider is half a year older than the jade dragon, and it is also seventeen, with a petite body, fair skin, and demureness.

Cao Song smelled the familiar fragrance, and couldn't help but look at the jade spider, and saw that she lowered her head slightly, revealing a white neck, which was tied wholeheartedly.

Cao Song only felt hot all over his body, and his breathing became a little heavy. The jade spider had already finished fastening the buttons, took a step back, raised her head, glanced at Cao Song, turned around and went to pass the meal with Jade Cicada and Jade Firefly.

The jade dragon didn't sound right, and asked with concern, "Master, what's wrong?" But what's not comfortable? ”

Cao Song glanced at the slightly graceful figure of the jade spider at the door, and replied casually: "Well, I have moved a lot in the morning, and I am a little tired, and I will lie down for a while!" ”

After eating indiscriminately, Cao Song said that he wanted to rest, leaving only the jade spider to wait by his side.

Although Cao Song was a little ridiculous in the first two years, it was only for a while, and since he had a jade dragon in the house, he didn't pay much attention to the affairs of men and women. Originally, the government thought that he would take the jade spider into use, but he didn't expect him to be impatient with this.

Therefore, although Cao Song left the jade spider in the room, the jade dragon didn't think much about it, and went back to the house to do needlework with an embroidered bandage.

In the upper room, Cao Song lay on his back on the bed and watched the jade spider standing in front of the table pouring tea. Different from the plump body of the jade dragonfly, the jade spider has a thin melon seed face, with a slightly petite figure, it looks like a young girl.

She poured the tea, turned around and saw Cao Hao looking at herself, tilted her head and smiled: "What do you see?" What is there to see about the slave? ”

Cao Song was teased by her, a little embarrassed, "hummed", glanced at it and said, "Look, why don't you grow meat!" ”

Seeing that the jade spider just stood with a smile and did not come forward, Cao Song felt itchy in his heart, and deliberately raised his face and said, "You girl, are you still thirsty to death?" ”

The jade spider smiled, stepped forward, stood down one step away from the bed, and brought the tea with both hands.

Cao Song closed his eyes, took a breath, opened his mouth and said, "Ye is tired, you send some, wait for Ye to drink!" ”

The jade spider took another step forward, leaned down slightly and brought the tea bowl to Cao Song. Cao Song was lying on the pillow, and if the tea bowl was tilted, maybe the tea would drip onto him.

Jade Spider was thinking about how to wait for him to drink tea, Cao Song's eyes had already opened, his left hand held Jade Spider's wrist, his right hand took the teacup, brought it to his mouth, drank it all in one gulp, and then put the empty teacup on the pillow.

During this time, his eyes never left the jade spider's face, and his breathing became heavier and heavier.

The jade spider only felt that her body was about to be soft, and her heart was about to jump out of her throat, and when she saw Cao Song looking at herself like this, she timidly said "Master".

At this moment, she had been pulled down on the bed, Cao Song turned over and leaned over her, sniffing deeply.

The jade spider twisted her body and stretched out her hand to push Cao Song's arm, but she didn't know that this twisting made Cao Song more and more emotional. Cao Song only felt that the people under him were struggling, and his chest was tightly pressed against his chest, where could he still bear it...... When the clouds and rain dissipated, the jade spider lay in Cao Song's arms, Cao Song closed his eyes and asked, "You have a strange smell on your body, why didn't I see you use it earlier?" ”

The jade spider didn't respond, Cao Song waited impatiently, frowned slightly, and opened his eyes to look at her. Although she didn't cry out loud, there were two lines of tears on the jade spider's face, which looked very cute.

Cao Song immediately hugged her into his arms: "What are you crying about?" In the future, my grandfather will love you! ”

The jade spider leaned closer to Cao Song, and said in a dumb voice: "Master bullied people, didn't say anything about hurting the spider, and made the spider have no face to see the jade dragonfly!" ”

Cao Song rubbed the jade spider's body twice, and then pushed her away: "Ye is rare for you, go and ask someone to bring a basin of water, this body is greasy and uncomfortable!" ”

Seeing that the jade spider's face seemed to be worried, Cao Song waved his hand: "Don't worry about the jade dragon, the master's business, where is her turn to speak, besides, she is not temperamental!" ”

The jade spider got up, pulled her hair, looked down at the wrinkled clothes on her body, and pulled it twice before leaving the room. It just so happened that the jade cicada came out of the chamber, and when she saw the jade spider's face full of spring love, she glanced at her with a smile, and turned around and went to the jade dragon's room.

The jade spider looked at it, a sneer appeared on the corner of her mouth, and when she turned around and went back to the room, there was only shyness on her face.

The jade dragon and the jade firefly were working together, gossiping, and when they saw the jade cicada coming in, their faces were a little strange, so they asked why.

The jade cicada sat down on the side of the kang with a fat body, and no one needed to let her, so she scooped the plate of hawthorn placed on the kang table in her hand, and said while eating: "The jade spider came out to bring water, like the master woke up!" "Because I was in a hurry, I was accidentally choked by the hawthorn boy and bit my cheeks.

When the jade dragon heard that Cao Song woke up, he put down the work in his hand and got off the kang to go to the upper room to wait, but was pulled by the jade cicada and grabbed his clothes.

The jade dragon was puzzled, and the jade cicada rubbed her cheeks and said, "Don't go yet...... I'm afraid it's an eyesore! ”

The jade dragon didn't react for a while, and the jade cicada said with a hint of mockery on her face: "That one is afraid that others won't know about his waves, so he tied his sweat towel and brought water to the yard!" ”

The jade dragon didn't move for a while, sat back on the kang for a while, picked up the embroidered bandage, and said with a smile: "This is a happy event, let's say goodbye to Sister Spider later!" That being said, his hand was already shaking, and the needle was piercing his hand all at once. Blood immediately gushed from the fingers, coagulated into droplets of blood, and slid down onto the bandage, red and bright.

Yu Ying couldn't bear to see it, glanced at Yu Chan and said: "What is this, it's worth talking about it for a while, the master's business, let's just look at it!" ”

Although the two look fat and thin, they don't look similar, but they are cousins, and Yuying is a cousin.

The jade cicada took a hawthorn and put it in her mouth, and muttered in a low voice: "Aren't you afraid that the jade dragon will suffer?" That ghost girl is not as honest as Jade Dragonfly, and she is used to pretending, in case you have a new love......"

* Daotai Yamen, study.

Looking at the silver booklet of the pot tax in each county over the years taken by the Yamen of the Zhizhou Prefecture of Yizhou, Cao Hao roughly counted, although there are a lot of pot cookers, but if you just look at the amount of tax silver, it does not look like there is any scale, but what is the truth?

For some reason, the words "micro-service private interview" appeared in his mind. This is because the pot registered in this booklet alone cannot digest the local grain.

However, after half a month, the price of grain in Yizhou has increased by fifty percent, and now, it has the meaning of continuing to rise. Cao Hao remembered the newspaper sent down by Jinan two years ago, and muttered: "This is the prosperous world, the prosperous world Tianding, never add endowment!" ”

Cao Hao thought about the consequences of the lack of grain in Yizhou, although he didn't hear about any cases in various places, but there must be many people who were kidnapped and asked for food like the Du family, otherwise the price of grain would not have risen so fast.

Just pondering, I saw Mr. Zhuang hurrying in, with excitement on his face: "Fu Ruo, find out clearly, near Yizhou, the largest pot is in Daxing Town, Tancheng County, and is guarding the official road in the north. If it is as expected, even if they have nothing to do with the Du family's affairs, they should be able to find out something from them! ”

Cao Hao nodded: "Mr. is right, since the account books on the official warehouse are full, let's see if it is because of the pot, who let us not have the right to check the official warehouse!" ”

Mr. Zhuang's expression was slightly heavy, and he asked: "In this way, Wang Lusheng is a person with a heart, Fu Ruo, can we do anything about this?" ”

Cao Hao smiled: "Sleeves? Sir, is it too early to talk about this? Daxing Town, Ming said, why don't we go over and see it in person! Otherwise, I can only ponder it here! ”

Mr. Zhuang sighed and said: "That's true, if the price of grain continues to grow like this, I'm afraid that the people will have no rice to cook!" At that time, there will be a lot of trouble, and Fu Ruo will not be given a choice! Speaking of which, I still complain about me, and I am not familiar with the details of the place, so I let you find this shortage! ”

Cao Hao looked at Mr. Zhuang and smiled dumbly: "Mr. really, isn't this official just dealing with all kinds of troubles?" If there is really nothing, then what is this place doing with this yamen? Even if I don't come to Shandong, I go to Shanxi and Zhili, there will be such and such things, will I still rely on Mr. at that time! Speaking of this, he deliberately frowned and looked at Mr. Zhuang, and said with a little sadness: "Sir, is this underestimating me?" Could it be that in Mr.'s heart, I just eat rice worms waiting for death and are useless! ”

When Mr. Zhuang heard this, he hurriedly waved his hand: "I don't mean that, I don't mean that!" After speaking, he saw Cao Hao looking at him with a smile, and couldn't help but shake his head.

For a while, the atmosphere in the study was much soothed, and it was no longer as heavy as Fang Cai.

The two discussed a few more words and set the itinerary to go to Daxing Town tomorrow. It is more than 70 miles away from Yizhou, if you want to go back and forth on the same day, you have to leave early, if you don't come back that day, you have to explain carefully in this house.

Seeing that it was getting late, Cao Hao and Mr. Zhuang went back to the courtyard separately.

In the main room of the inner courtyard, Chu Yu was sitting in a daze, and when he saw Cao Hao coming in, he got up to greet him. Cao Hao saw that her eyes were red, thinking about the news she got before, and asked, "Why did you cry?" Jing girl is leaving? ”

"Hmm!" Chu Yu responded: "It was her grandmother who sent someone to pick her up, and she didn't want to go back, but she remembered her grandmother!" ”

Cao Hao not only sent a letter to the old lady Jueluo of Dong Efu in the capital, but also sent a letter to Cao Yin in Jiangning.

Cao Yin's meaning is for Dong Ejinghui's grandmother to decide, after all, it is related to Dong Ejinghui's lifelong affairs, and the Cao family should not interfere. It's not a place to be saved, it's not a person inside and out. Even if the Li family is not, they are relatives after all, and their decency must be taken into account.

Cao Hao knew that Chu Yu and Dong Ejinghui were quite in love, and comforted: "It's just a temporary farewell, it's not that we can't see each other again, and when we return to Beijing in two years, we won't be able to see each other again!" ”

Chu Yu was a little worried: "After this retreat, I don't know what will happen to Sister Jinghui in the future?" Chu Yu looked at it, her surname is not as soft as it seems, if she is wronged in the future, it is really distressing! ”

"Isn't there still her grandmother? You've also seen that old lady, she is very sensible, and naturally she won't let her granddaughter suffer! Cao Hao said.

Chu Yu was a little curious: "Chu Yu has seen it?" ”

Cao Hao said about the encounter in "Zhenbao Zhai", Chu Yu remembered the old lady's rather dignified demeanor, and understood why Jinghui was so cringe.

(To be continued)