Chapter 66: Please Rain (1st Update)
After Wang Lanxin sat down, for a while, there was only An Huajin talking to her in the long pavilion.
Everyone rumors that An Huajin is very powerful, and it is also thanks to An Huajin's beating of Chu Chen three years ago that his reputation has spread all over the world. In fact, An Huajin, as long as others don't point at her nose and scold her, such as Chu Siyan, and don't do anything with her, she will never take the initiative to do evil with others.
Therefore, even if Wang Lanxin begged Gu Molan to ask her if she shouldn't ask, she didn't really remember her in her heart. It's just that I know that Wang Lanxin likes Gu Qingyan very much.
Know, reply, forget it, just turn the page here for her.
She grew up in the military camp since she was a child, and there are no sisters at home, and the daughters of the Shijiao family are not often seen, so she really hasn't had much friendship with her daughter's family.
After entering the capital, the first person to deal with her was Chu Xiyun, she liked Gu Qingyan, and she didn't like her everywhere, and later met Chu Siyan and Jiang Yuncai, and they also liked Gu Qingyan, and ate her lesson, and later met Gu Molan, the little girl will be, a typical daughter of the Gu family, and now she meets the fifth is this fourth lady Wang Lanxin, who still likes Gu Qingyan.
Of the five daughters, four like Gu Qingyan, one of them is still his own sister, if it is not his own sister, it is estimated that he also likes it.
Is Gu Qingyan too rare, or is she too lucky? There was no one he met who didn't like him.
"Why don't you eat it?" An Huajin saw Wang Lanxin sitting still, very restrained, and said with a smile, "This is fried with salt and pepper, it is very delicious, this melon seed is not an ordinary melon seed, it is a special melon seed from Yanbei region to pay tribute to Your Majesty, Your Majesty knows that we are waiting for boredom in the morning, so he specially asked Gonggong Zhang to send it." β
Wang Lanxin nodded, peeled the melon seeds in slow motion, and continued, "The annual output of melon seeds in Yanbei is very small, and the special melon seeds for His Majesty are not enough for the ladies of the palace, it is indeed very rare to eat." β
"Nanyang also produces melon seeds, but it is not this kind of melon seeds, it is better than ordinary melon seeds, it is oil sunflower seeds, the yield is high, and the people plant oil sunflower seeds not only for peeling and eating, most of them are used to extract oil." An Huajin gossiped with her.
"I've read from books that it is said that the oil squeezed from the sunflower seeds in Nanyang is very fragrant, ten taels of silver and a pound of oil." Wang Lanxin also tries to make her voice sound natural.
An Huajin smiled, approached her, and whispered, "I'll tell you, you are not allowed to tell others, in fact, the price of sunflower seeds is not so expensive, five taels of silver is enough, but isn't the Nanyang Army short of military pay every year?" Therefore, I let the oil of sunflower seeds monopolize the price of ten taels of silver a catty, and the money I earned was used to buy food for the Nanyang Army. β
Wang Lanxin was stunned, "Is that so?" β
"Well, that's it."
Although An Huajin's voice was small, the other three people had good ears, so they could all hear it clearly.
"It's not just sunflower oil, but as long as it's unique to Nanyang and scarce in other places, I'll sell it vaguely and expensive. Two years ago, Concubine Shu wanted to eat Nanyang's cane sugar, so I asked her to sell ten boxes and ride a fast horse from Nanyang to the capital, a box of one hundred taels of gold, and ten boxes of gold is a thousand gold. β
One thousand taels of gold is equal to ten thousand taels of silver, the most expensive cane sugar.
"Hey, Concubine Shu is dead, and there will be no such generous buyer in the future." An Huajin sighed.
Chu Chen couldn't listen to it anymore, and sneered, "Xiao An'er, the Nanyang Army is so short of food?" Even if the military salary given by the imperial court every year is not too much, it will not make you calculate everywhere, right? Or is Nanyang Jun too edible? One person top two? β
"It's not that the Nanyang Army can eat it, it's that the Nanyang Army has something to use in addition to eating. His Majesty gave the food and it was over, but the clothes of the Nanyang Army all year round, the application of the four seasons of the year, don't you need money? Do you think a million soldiers and horses are so easy to feed? An Huajin raised an eyebrow.
Chu Chen choked.
It's true, millions of soldiers and horses are not easy to feed, this is a well-known thing in Dachu, and it is precisely because no one can raise it, even if it is the imperial court, so no one can say unashamedly that they can take the position of the family and replace it.
For one hundred and fifty years, the An family has been an indispensable existence for the Nanyang Army, not only because the An family uses soldiers like gods, but also because they can take on the responsibility of raising the Nanyang Army when the military salary given by the imperial court is very small.
If it had relied on the imperial court to raise millions of soldiers and horses every year, then Da Chu would have been dragged down long ago.
However, the millions of soldiers and horses of the Nanyang Army cannot be reduced, because the Southern Qi and Southern Liang have been eyeing each other for many years, and once they are reduced, perhaps the front foot has just reduced the soldiers and horses, and the combined forces of the Southern Qi and Southern Liang on the back foot will come over.
Who is called Da Chu, who is wide and broad, and people are greedy to look at!
Chu Yan didn't know when he peeled a handful of melon seeds, put them on the plate in front of An Huajin, and didn't speak.
An Huajin glanced up at Chu Yan and blinked, "Thank you, Seventh Cousin." β
Chu Chen stopped, "I've been skinning you for a long time, why don't you thank me?" β
"Thank you." An Huajin is happy to make up for it.
Chu Chen: "......"
This annoying dead girl! What does he like about her?
Gu Qingyan also peeled a handful of melon seed kernels, piled them on top of Chu Yan's handful of melon seed kernels, and asked gently, "Is that enough?" β
"Enough is enough!"
Only then did Wang Lanxin notice the plate in front of An Huajin, and also understood the current situation of the four people in the pavilion, it turned out that the three people were all doing the same thing, peeling melon seeds for An Huajin.
For a while, she didn't know how she felt, she lowered her head silently, and the melon seeds in her hand were a little heavy.
She didn't know that Cousin Gu Qi would also peel melon seeds for others! When the eyebrows smile at people, it is like the snow melting, like the jade snow lotus that blooms on the white snow in the high mountains, gorgeous and gorgeous.
Supervisor Wu of Qin Tianjian commanded the people to finish all the preparations, everything was ready, and when there was still a moment before the auspicious time, he came down to remind everyone, and when he didn't see Jiang Yuncai, he asked nervously, "Why hasn't the little county lord of the Liguo Mansion come yet?" β
"Here we are." Chu Yan saw a carriage coming from afar, which was from the Liguo Mansion.
Wu Jian Zheng breathed a sigh of relief, "It's good to come, Your Highness the Seventh, Little Prince, Gu Qigongzi, Lord An Xiaojun, Miss Wangsi, the auspicious time is coming soon, please go to the rain god platform and pray for incense." β
A few people nodded.
An Huajin finished eating the last melon seed, took another sip of tea, and stood up slowly.
Gu Qingyan took out a handkerchief, reached out and wiped the corners of her mouth, and smiled slightly, "How old are you, the corners of your mouth are stained with water when you drink tea." β
"Dislike me?"
"No, it's just for you to wipe it." Gu Qingyan finished wiping and put away the veil.
Chu Chen couldn't stand it anymore, "You're enough, what's the matter?" Are you the only one who has a fiancΓ©e? β
Gu Qingyan nodded solemnly, "Yes, I am the only one who has a fiancΓ©e." β
Anger!
That's amazing!
Chu Chen touched the sachet of Youlanxiang that his grandfather said that he didn't care about him when he was about to go out, but he still forced it into his pocket, and squeezed it fiercely, thinking that if he tried it, let Gu Qingyan indulge in two deaths, or just poison him and poison him.
lest he be angry every time he sees him as he is made in heaven and earth.
Jiang Yuncai came to the point slowly, got out of the carriage, and saw the five people who walked out of the long pavilion, the atmosphere was a little strange, she stepped forward to greet the five people, and naturally the farthest distance from Gu Qingyan and An Huajin.
"The time was punctual." An Huajin thought that he seemed to be scared enough by her, and sure enough, when he saw her, he wanted to take a detour.
"Hmm...... Wake up late in the morning. Jiang Yuncai held back and found a less-than-perfect excuse.
For everyone's ladies, snooze is not a beautiful talk, but she is good friends with Chu Siyan, who is arrogant in the Prince's Mansion, and her reputation has never taken the path of a real lady, and she doesn't care much.
An Huajin smiled.
Wang Lanxin opened her mouth and said, "Wu Jianzheng said that the auspicious time is coming, you came just in time, not early or late, let's go up." β
Jiang Yuncai nodded, seeing that An Huajin looked very good at talking today, his heart relaxed a little.
The group went up to the rain god platform.
An Huajin and Gu Qingyan naturally walked behind.
An Huajin lowered his voice and asked, "You didn't tell me the detailed arrangements yesterday, please what do we all need to do with the rain god?" β
"You only need to put on a stick of incense, and then wait for Qin Tianjian to do an opening ceremony to invite the rain god, and that's it. Don't have to do more? β
"It's that simple!" An Huajin thought that there was a lively scene today, but obviously His Majesty ordered someone to control the venue, except for the people of Qin Tianjian, just the six of them, what kind of excitement could there be?
"Maybe there's something to watch." Gu Qingyan glanced at Chu Chen, who was walking in front, pondering that Prince Shan's arrangements had been made, and he didn't know if Chu Chen would make a move.
An Huajin is sometimes very lazy, and sometimes she is noisy, so she has a little expectation when she hears it.
On the rain god platform, there is a large altar made of bronze, with a table and a very thick bamboo incense.
Wu Jian was leading the six people to burn incense and pray sincerely, and after the incense was burned, the six people retreated to the side and watched Qin Tianjian do the ritual of inviting the rain god.
An Huajin saw Qin Tianjian invite the rain god for the first time, the mage wearing a Taoist robe knelt on the ground and prayed for a while, got up and made a jumping posture for a while, lay on his back on the ground for a while, and wept bitterly for a while, she watched it with relish, thinking that she didn't believe that there was a rain god, but if she really asked for rain like this, would the rain god agree to rain?