In Yuan's mansion, Yuan Zhiheng returned home one step earlier, and was already waiting expressionlessly in the study at the moment.

Diancui and Sister Ci cautiously passed, sat down, and bowed their heads.

Exactly the same sitting posture, exactly the same expression, and the facial features are also similar, one is black and one white.

"Why do you do that?" Yuan Zhiheng said coldly.

Diancui didn't dare to speak, and looked at Sister Ci'er, who swallowed her saliva and said with a stiff neck: "King Qi, he saved me and my younger brother, and you have to be a man to repay your kindness, this ...... That's what Daddy said. ”

"I didn't say it," Yuan Zhiheng snorted coldly: "I only said that revenge will be avenged, when did I say that I will repay my kindness?" ”

Yuan Zhiheng is a very arrogant person, the great truth in the mouths of the benevolent people of the ancients, he is more familiar with it than anyone else, and he is the Tao when he talks about it. But he never told his children, because in his heart he was disdainful, and in his life he only lived according to the benchmark in his heart.

"Then, King Qi has no enmity with us...... What his mother does has nothing to do with him......" Diancui whispered:

"Besides, isn't King Qi your favorite apprentice, don't think I don't know, you like him in your heart."

Yuan Zhiheng was stunned for a moment and said, "My favorite apprentice is not him, it's you." ”

After saying that, the eyes softened a lot.

Diancui bent the corners of her lips, and Sister Ci pursed her lips.

"Do you know that the existence of King Qi is the biggest threat to our dynasty." Yuan Zhiheng did not shy away from it, sighed and said: "The emperor is weak, and the prince is young, if he is interested...... There will be an even greater bloody storm in the court, and it will be the people who will suffer. In today's world, I can no longer withstand a trace of turmoil. ”

"Then ......" Dian Cui couldn't think that far, and was a little scared at this time: "Then why don't you go and poison him again?" ”

"Mother!" Sister Ci'er is angry, her mother is so easily influenced by her father, she won't: "What Daddy said is just an assumption, this will not necessarily happen, no, it will definitely not happen, King Qi will not!" ”

In the past, when the king of Liqi came to Yuan's mansion, most of them went to the water pavilion and stayed with their children, and after staying for a long time, everyone also had feelings, and Sister Ci believed in him.

"No one can guarantee this." Yuan Zhiheng said lightly.

In early June, the Empress Dowager ordered the city to hunt down the assassins, saying that the assassins had kidnapped His Royal Highness the King of Qi, and that the government was searching for him all over the city, and that everyone should immediately report to the court as soon as they saw His Royal Highness the King of Qi.

The search lasted for a month, and nothing was found.

At the beginning of July, a business convoy set off from the outskirts of the city, led by the second homecoming Zhongqing.

"Second uncle, you guys are careful all the way, if you really find Xiyue Kingdom, take me next time, okay?" Sister Ci'er rode on her father's tall horse and said loudly.

"Okay, okay, as long as your father agrees, don't say it's Xiyue Kingdom, and when next spring, Uncle can take you to the sea to Fusang to see the cherry blossoms!" Time has passed, and Gui Zhongqing has returned to his former boldness and humor.

Sister Ci snickered, this cherry blossom was a taboo word for his father, and I heard that it was related to one of her handsome cousins...... The only one in the world who dares to mention cherry blossoms like this is her second uncle.

Yuan Zhiheng, who was in the carriage behind, had a blue face, but he had to hold back, Dian Cuiwaner pulled his sleeves, and the two slowly got out of the carriage.

Dian Cui babbled and instructed her second brother, until a young man beside Gui Zhongqing, who was thin and had a beard, a terrifying big scar on his face, and a one-eyed dragon, yawned impatiently, and she gave up.

"This is a token of homecoming, grandmother asked me to give it to you, if you really find the West Moon Country, and find our returnee in the West Moon Country, you can present this token." According to the grandmother, the Gui people had a good position in Xiyue, and they would leave the king of Qi behind.

"If you go, don't come back." Yuan Zhiheng, who had been speaking, said lightly.

The one-eyed dragon looked arrogant to everyone, but he was a little restrained, and he didn't know what to say for a long time, so he only hugged his fists and took care.

Yuan Zhiheng nodded with a smile.

The caravan set off slowly, carrying silk, tea, jewelry and other things, several people who escorted the team, strong and strong, and their kung fu was unfathomable, they were all friends of life and death who Gui Zhongqing had met in the rivers and lakes over the years.

Diancui knew that the second brother had taken a path that he loved, free.

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A year later.

The early rice in Qianjiang County, a local county near the Fucheng of Hangzhou, is about to be harvested.

This year's wind and rain in Qianjiang County can be described as smooth, not only the early rice ears are long and full of grains, but also this year's mulberry, silk, cotton, bayberry, loquat, citrus ...... All of them are growing well and harvesting.

The reason for such a good year is that the people of Qianjiang County attribute it to the blessings brought by their new county magistrates.

They are county magistrates, I heard that they are from the capital, and they used to be big officials, but now they are tired and don't want to do it, so they voluntarily came to their small county town and started to be county magistrates.

Their county order is very tight. However, in half a month, he handled the large and small affairs in the county properly, and in his free time, he also took out some messy cases that had been deposited for more than ten years and solved them......

Later, when nothing happened, he followed the rice farmers to harvest rice in the rice fields......

And in this rice field, as long as he is there, the big girls and little daughters-in-law in the county will also come to help harvest the rice. After all, they, the county magistrate, not only judge cases like gods and love the people like sons, but more importantly, they are extremely handsome and heroic!

"My lord, why did you go down to the ground again! You, you ...... Ay! ”

An old man with a white beard, wearing a green cloth robe, looked like he still had a little bit of official authority when he didn't speak, but in front of their county order, he immediately changed his appearance of sincere fear, frowned and shrunk his neck, as if he had aged ten years all of a sudden.

Naturally, the people of Pingtou had never seen this old man, because he was Lord Qin, the prefect of today's Hangzhou Prefecture.

This cutting rice in the rice field is also the grace of Lord Qin's knowledge, his old boss Yuan Zhiheng.

He resigned from his position as a taifu a few months ago, and came to Qianjiang County with his wife, daughter, and two sons to make a small county magistrate. At that time, some people were puzzled and puzzled by his rapid retreat, especially several righteous brothers tried their best to keep him, but he had already made up his mind, and told the righteous brothers who are now important ministers in the court that there would soon be another turmoil in the court, and advised them to know how to rein in their edge and know how to protect themselves.

Sure enough, in June this year, the emperor was seriously ill, the prince was in charge of the country, and the queen mother was afraid that the courtiers would bully the prince at a young age, so she personally assisted the government, and there were many suspicions and suppression of those high-ranking ministers, and for a time the entire court was once again panicked. Now everyone knows that Yuan Zhiheng's determination at that time was a good strategy to save his life, otherwise according to his use of military pay to punish the queen mother's family, he would be the first to bear the brunt this time......

Glory and wealth have been enjoyed, and high-ranking officials have been added, and now he is easily in Hangzhou as a county magistrate of idle clouds and wild cranes, which is at ease.

"Sir, hurry up, Madame will come in a while, and see the mud on your body, oops! Amazing! ”

Lord Qin used to be serious and serious, but when he was old, he learned to be a little lively, but his ideas were only revealed in front of Lord Yuan, who he respected the most in his life. Search

When the people heard it, it was the county magistrate's wife who was coming! Hurriedly reported to the county magistrate, Mrs. is here, Mrs. is here, you hurry up!

Yuan Zhiheng couldn't wear shoes, so he climbed ashore with a rolling belt, and carefully washed the mud on his legs with the water in the rice field.

The people sighed, "Oh! If you want to say that they are county magistrates, they are powerful, and they are capable, but they are married to a beautiful woman who is as domineering as a flower, who loves vanity and is greedy for pleasure...... Mrs.

To put it bluntly, they, the county magistrate, are afraid of guilt!

Sure enough, a small sedan chair appeared on the ridge, and the small sedan chair came up and down with a small face full of pearls and emeralds, a tender white face, expressionless, wearing silk and satin, and a string of gold and jade armbands on his arms, which blinded everyone's eyes, and even the embroidered shoes were nailed with a dragon's eye, a snow-white and bright pearl - such a dress, I'm afraid even the lady in the palace is nothing more than that.

"Madame is here, the old minister visits Madame, Madame is blessed." The old man in charge of the ridge actually made a big salute.

Seeing the lively people smacking their tongues, it is no wonder that their county order, although it is only a county order, but the county order lady is actually the first order of the dynasty and the title of Mrs. Cui!

How do you know about it? When the couple moved to Qianjiang County, the plaque of Mrs. Yu was carried by eight people into the county mansion......

However, this lady is indeed a capable person, the famous head shop Angelica Pavilion in Hangzhou is hers, I heard that she not only has a head shop, but also a medicine shop and a silk Zhuangzi in all parts of the south of the Yangtze River...... I heard that the income of her shops in one day can be worth a year's income from their county magistrates, cough cough......

"Lord Qin, please hurry up, don't worship me again in the future, I and Xiaolan are both sisters, according to the generation, I will also pay you back as an uncle."

Diancui's smile was very gentle and sweet, and when he turned back to Yuan Zhiheng, his face was cold, and Yuan Zhiheng hurriedly smiled.

In the county order mansion, Diancui pouted, and let Yuan Zhiheng coax and coax:

"I was just on the ridge of the field, and I clearly saw a delicate little daughter-in-law wiping your sweat! You don't know how to dodge, you ......" Diancui pointed to the beauty couch outside: "Let's sleep there tonight." ”

"Don't be angry, listen to my explanation," Yuan Zhiheng was helpless and hugged her to his lap: "I didn't see her at all, I blamed the old man Qin for yelling on the ridge, and I had a headache because of the shouting, so I was accidentally wiped on my face by the handkerchief...... I'm wronged. ”

Today's Yuan Zhiheng has faded away from his arrogance, and he has become more and more gentle and considerate of a man in the water towns of the south of the Yangtze River.

Dian Cui didn't give up: "The field is full of mud, there are very good places to go, and those big girls and little daughters-in-law are all running to you." ”

"Okay, never again." Yuan Zhiheng agreed, Diancui snorted, turned around and went back to the room.

The little maid was adjusting the temperature of the water in the wooden barrel, just right, and dropped three drops of lotus magnolia dew in it.

It's a hot day in the south, so Diancui went out for a walk, sweating, and was waiting to take a bath at this time.

Yuan Zhiheng heard Diancui singing a little song in the bucket, but it was his favorite Kunqu opera, and he didn't know when she learned it, Yuan Zhiheng couldn't help but laugh.

That night, Yuan Zhiheng, who was supposed to be driven to sleep on the beauty couch, took out a pot of peach blossom wine from his sleeve. Diancui half-pushed and half-happily ate it, changing the image of the fierce lady in the main room during the day, and once again changing into a charming "vowing to compete with the women of the world" to do her best.

Yuan Zhiheng naturally doesn't have to sleep on a cold bed anymore.

On the second day, Yuan Zhiheng got up early as usual, and took Brother Yun, who was about to walk, to make a gesture of punches and kicks. Diancui got tired, and the little maid groomed her and dressed up for two hours as usual.

After breakfast, the people at the post station came to deliver a letter saying that it was for Mrs., and Diancui opened it to see that it was her only niece Gui Miaoyun who wrote it.

Yuan Zhiheng saw that Dian Cui's face had changed, and hurriedly asked what happened at home.

Sister Yun said that her mother and grandmother had been going to Wutai Mountain to worship the Buddha for three months, and the affairs of the family were presided over by Han Lian, who preferred her two sons, but was more harsh to her. Now even the Angelica Pavilion I left to Sister Yun, she wants to get involved, Sister Yun has a temperament with my sister-in-law, and she really can't write to me for help. ”

It is said that Sister Yun is also a hard-working child, her mother is gone, her father is a monk again, and her grandfather is the third master who ignores Cebu. Now that the huge homecoming is all in the hands of the concubine of Hanlian, this sister Yun is not allowed to let her suffer!

"Xianggong, I want to go back to Beijing for a ......"

Diancui is now doing things with no two thunderous means, which is very sassy.

"Do you want to go back and administer justice to Sister Yun?" Yuan Zhiheng asked with a smile.

Diancui straightened her waist and straightened her waist, showing her demeanor as a housewife.

"Okay," Yuan Zhiheng smiled again.

"Xianggong, why do I say and do anything, you say it......" Diancui immediately softened his waist, and his eyes flashed with starlight.

Yuan Zhiheng touched her cheek and only smiled silently.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, Diancui set off from Hangzhou Mansion and quietly headed towards the capital.

Yuan Zhiheng went to see her off, and she was a little reluctant:

"Xianggong, you wait for me to come back for the New Year, let's make dumplings together."

Every year, I said that I wanted to make dumplings with him, but I often didn't fulfill people's wishes, and I couldn't do it for various reasons.

"Okay, I'll wait for you." Yuan Zhiheng said seriously.

Diancui entered the capital, and when he returned home, he found that Hanlian, who had been powerful for two lifetimes, was indeed a difficult person to deal with.

It took her three months to find something wrong with her, and someone broke her leg and threw her home. At the same time, he bothered to teach Sister Yun so that she could shoulder the heavy responsibility of taking care of the shop as a housekeeper.

In this way, in a blink of an eye, it will be the twenty-third day of the lunar month, and the Wu family and the old lady Gui have returned from Wutai Mountain, and it will be too late for Diancui to set off back to Qianjiang County.

Diancui looked at the lively lights of thousands of homes in the capital, and missed her home in Qianjiang County more and more, and missed Yuan Zhiheng even more, and couldn't help but wipe her tears again.

Yuan Zhiheng was on Chinese New Year's Eve, and the dust servants rushed to Dian Cui.

"I miss you too much, so I came, you said, let's make dumplings together this year."

Dian Cui was surprised, and didn't care about her grandmother's eyes signaling that she should be reserved as a housewife...... Bearing...... She threw herself into Yuan Zhiheng's arms, planning to bury herself in it for the rest of her life and never come out again.

That night, the house of the third master of the Zhan Mansion Zuo Si Naolang closed the door early, and there were still more than a dozen concierge servants at the door. Under the big plane tree in the west courtyard of the mansion, it is brightly lit and the figures are longing.

Looking at it closely, they are all several chiefs and assistants of the current dynasty, and they are all high-ranking and powerful people, but at this time, they have no solemnity and majesty or even calculation on their faces, only the hearty laughter that seems to be back when they were staying here when they were young.

Sitting in the middle of them is a couple with clear eyebrows and eyes, and when they talk and laugh with the righteous brothers, they occasionally look at each other, and their eyes are warm and gentle.