How fragile a person is, how strong he is.

In the face of the terrible forces of nature, man is the most vulnerable, yet stronger.

In the second year of Shaosheng, when the last group of geese flying south swept over Kaifeng, the capital they overlooked had completely recovered from the flood half a month ago.

Even in the Dongshuimun area, which was the hardest hit by the disaster, businesses are booming again.

When the countryside was hit by a disaster, the imperial court would delay the collection of grain, and when the city was hit by a disaster, the imperial court adopted the practice of reducing or reducing commercial taxes.

There are two types of commercial tax: residential tax and over-tax. After the tax reduction, more private goods will be transported to Kaifeng in Gyeonggi, and the reduction and exemption of residential tax will encourage businesses with fixed business premises in the city to quickly repair their shops and mansions and reopen as soon as possible.

It is the agricultural slack season, a large number of strong laborers from various counties in Gyeonggi pour into Kaifeng City to repair houses, repair restaurants and shops, and naturally can be hired to repair private houses.

Relying on this powerful infrastructure force, the Shen family returned to Qingjiangfang, and Shao Qing returned to Fushunfang.

Shao Qing found that his subordinate Ye Rou was not quite right.

Ye Rou accompanied Yang Yu to Lijing Gate to find the body of his wife and came back.

She was no longer as anxious to report her progress to Shao Qing as before, or to intervene in Shao Qing's private space in the mansion with self-righteousness and enthusiasm.

She seemed to be deliberately avoiding Shao Qing.

Shao Qing doesn't need a subordinate who sleepwalks and is generally unable to actively receive instructions.

He observed for a day or two, and finally avoided Lu Gang and asked Ye Rou the reason alone and directly.

Ye Rou was silent for a moment, and said slowly: "Sir, that day in the Bow and Crossbow Courtyard, I told you, leave him alone." ”

"Yes, you said that, but we saved him anyway."

When Shao Qing said this, he also showed a depressed expression: "It's just that if we don't count him, he won't be on duty in the bow and crossbow courtyard that night, and his woman may be able to live." You've been a little stunned these days, but because of this? ”

Ye Rou said: "Not only that. Sir, they all say that mercy is not in charge of the army, and when you tried your best to save him that night, I still felt that you were too kind to a woman. But a few days ago, when I saw his woman's blistered white face, I couldn't help but think that if it wasn't for Mr. insistence that night, Yang Yu would have died in the water like this, and his family's children would be like the fawn we saw after hunting the doe outside Yanjing City. That pair of dolls, even if he teaches his relatives of the Yue family to raise them, and take care of his own grandmother, how can they be the same? I had been fighting with this man before, and I knew that he loved the two babies to the bone...... Brother Xiao, before I came to the Southern Dynasty, my grandfather also cried......"

Ye Rou said, sometimes smooth, sometimes intermittent.

For the first time, Shao Qing was at a loss when facing this woman.

What is she trying to say?

Shao Qing's face was solemn, and he said: "I am your superior, and I should bear a lot more burden than you." When I was in the Hu people's mansion in the north, Lu Gang told me that something had happened to the Yang family, and he was a woman, and he was afraid that he would be more than lucky. I've been thinking about this matter for the past few days, how to turn around and give him some money, so that I can ask a mother-in-law to take care of his doll first. ”

Ye Rou nodded, closed her eyes, frowned for a long time, and then opened her eyes again, and continued: "Sir, Brother Xiao, I have been devoted to you for a long time. But I have my pride, and when I found out that in the midst of an emergency, you were still in good spirits, and I, in order to make you happy, could ignore the lives of others, in hindsight, it was indeed shocking. ”

Shao Qing stared at her, as if he understood some crux of the matter.

It seems that his previous judgment of her was unfair.

This woman's style is just not his way to Shao Qing, but she is not a dirty person.

He was so protective of her, and he didn't even let her grab the medicine prescribed for Yao Huan, for fear that she would change the medicine.

In fact, what's wrong with a happy heart for a person, isn't he Shao Qing also persistently drilling around in the emotional barrier, can't get famous, and is still reluctant to come out?

Alas.

asked what the world was, but you and I couldn't tell the difference, whether it was sweet or bitter.

Ye Rou, a female baby, can realize that an emotional barrier should not be a magic barrier at such an age, which is already very rare.

Shao Qing pondered for a moment and said: "People are not sages, and it is inevitable that one thought will fall into the devil occasionally. If you speak today, I'm relieved. I'll make another plan for the crossbow of God's arm. We are looking for this weapon to deal with the Jurchens, and we have a clear conscience about the Song people. It's not snowing yet, or I'll ask them to send you back to the north first? ”

Ye Rou raised her eyes and looked at Shao Qing and said, "The prince will let me stay for a while." He wept in front of his woman's corpse and scolded himself for being unkind, and I thought that he would always hate me, and he didn't want to, but he only asked me to come back, and not to look for him again. When I was about to leave, he asked me again if the bastard boy had come back from his hometown, and if he had beaten me again......

Shao Qing heard her mood swings again, got up and said, "You can be quiet for a while, and then sit in my room for a while." ”

He came out of the study, and came in with a tray in the back of more than half an hour.

"You taste it. Nanren love to drink fragrant drinks, this is Yao Niangzi's new recipe. The bitter beans of Fanshang are boiled with ginger juice, brown sugar, and Western spices. ”

Ye Rou took a sip, the gloomy color on her face disappeared a little, and she turned a little curious: "Why is it so similar to ......?"

Shao Qingdao: "Like the bitter ginger water sold by merchants in Yanjing when we were children? ”

"Well, but bitter ginger water is only used by them to ward off the cold and refresh the mind, this one is much more delicious, it adds sweet and sour taste, and it is willing to use spices, not as difficult to eat as decoction."

"You remember, too? I think that the bitter beans of Yanjing, and the bitter beans that appeared in the Bosi of Guangzhou City of the Song Dynasty, should be a kind of this, if the merchants continue to take the sea route to the north, transported to my Daliao, and then take 6 roads from Yanjing City to the south, and then to Kaifeng Mansion, isn't it much closer than the 6 roads from Guangzhou to Kaifeng? ”

Ye Rou thought for a while and said: "But this is the case, after the alliance between the Liao and Song dynasties, the border trade has been smooth, but my grandfather complained that the Liao people love to buy the goods of the Song people, far more than the Song people buy the goods of the Liao people, so the New Year's coins that the Southern Dynasty sent to us every year in the Great Liao Dynasty have returned to the Southern Dynasty." ”

Shao Qingdao: "The two countries are neighbors, so they can't settle accounts like this. The silver of the Song people was really sent to our Daliao, if there is no silver, how can the goods be bought seriously? Da Liao, how can he make plans to rob money and goods, what is the difference between it and the Jurchen barbarians in the deep mountains and old forests? ”

Ye Rou was convinced, hesitated for a moment, because she thought that she had revealed her heart, and it was not so awkward to face the matter of Shao Qing and Yao's family, so she said: "There are many ships transported by sea, and it is more innocent than taking Xia Ren 6 Road in the west." Before I came to Kaifeng, my sister also told me some information about the merchants in Kaifeng City who walked to the Song-Liao border, and I could help the prince run errands and ask. ”

Shao Qing nodded. He realized more and more that Ye Rou's gaze at him was indeed not what it used to be.

But she didn't seem to want to return to Yanjing immediately.

She won't be ......

Shao Qing couldn't help but be shocked, and said in her heart, she didn't want to repeat my mother's past.

Shao Qing calmed down and said, "You go to sleep, I will rest earlier, while the private school is still open, tomorrow I will visit a southerner, perhaps, he can let us untie the mechanism of the divine arm crossbow." ”