The old lady didn't say much, so she only smiled: "The British Duke is a messenger, and he receives the emperor's favor and receives the emperor's order, he can't help himself, and Mrs. Gu doesn't blame him." "Explain the Zhang family again," Yang Zhifu is in charge of a government decree, and is also in charge of part of the salt affairs of Yangzhou Mansion, has always had an excellent reputation, and he is also open-minded, and he doesn't care if he wants to check it a day earlier or a few days later, and his wife is relaxed. ”

The old lady was smiling, but she couldn't help but secretly rejoice in her heart, fortunately, she didn't ask for a transfer back to Yangzhou three years ago, otherwise she would be on the cusp of the storm now.

Yangzhou is the center of salt affairs in Yangzhou, and now, the big and small officials in Yangzhou officialdom are in the center of the whirlpool, and even the fourth child, who is the last general judge, has been called for questioning.

Hearing this, Jin Nian raised her head and looked at the two silently, if she remembered correctly, in the salt tax case in her previous life, Yang Zhifu was sentenced to gamble an amount of two million taels of silver, and was sentenced to be executed.

Liang Zhi, who was beside him, stood up and reported this in advance.

Now that Li Lie has only been in Yangzhou for a long time, he has found out about Yang Zhifu, which is much earlier than she expected. I don't know when he will be able to find out about the governor surnamed Liang.

Yangzhou officialdom is involved in salt affairs, and its relationship is also intertwined, and there are more than 100 large and small officials in the two Huai Salt Transportation Department alone, not to mention the three major branches under its jurisdiction - Taizhou, Huai'an, Tongzhou, and large and small salt merchants.

According to Li Lie's current progress, I am afraid that he will have to spend it in Yangzhou until the end of summer or even mid-autumn.

After Yuhuchun fell out with Gu Yanyi, Jin Nian was worried that Gu Yanyi would no longer care about his father's transfer, and he was also thinking about finding an opportunity to find out Li Lie's mouth, but now that he is so busy, he is afraid that it will not be good to disturb him!

Jin Nian thought about waiting for the news from Gu Yanyi's side, even if the two of them fell out, he didn't want to help her anymore, according to him, he had a beginning and an end to do things, how could he tell her.

Over there, the Zhang family no longer mentioned the matter of Li Lie and Mrs. Yang, and the housekeeper mother beside the Liu family came in to pay tribute to the matter about going to Qilin Temple tomorrow to repay her wishes.

"The second master has also moved the golden Buddha donated by the house to the treasure hall. Ten slaves and maidservants have all been placed on the car, ten handfuls of red sandalwood incense, twenty clusters of lotus flowers replaced by white peonies, fifty pairs of Suzhou cotton-wicked incense candles, twenty bottles of Jingshan fragrant tea, ten boxes of ten kinds of brocade snacks, ten agarwood Buddha beads, three robes and eighteen eye cloths, fifty Yan Leng Sutras, and two thousand taels ......of sesame oil money."

She reported the same number, and finally asked Liu Shi what she needed to fill in?

Liu Shi nodded when she heard this, she felt that this kind of pomp was enough, but she didn't know if the old lady had other plans?

Then he set his eyes on the old lady.

The Zhang family on the side exclaimed: "It is said that the century-old family of Yangzhou Su has a profound heritage, and it is really better to be famous than to see it in person...... I think these offerings are full of sincerity. "These offerings alone can compare with many public mansions in the capital.

The old lady originally planned to add another 1,000 taels of sesame oil, but after listening to Zhang's words, she motioned to the housekeeper to go down, and waved her hand at Zhang's with a smile...... Let Mrs. Gu smile. ”

As he was talking, someone from the back office came to report that someone from Baolin Nunnery had sent something, and he wanted to give it to the fifth lady and the third young master.

Jin Nian glanced out the window, and the person who came was wearing a Taoist robe and a gray hat, and it was the maid named Qingxing who was following Aunt Rong. After the news of her palace cold was leaked, Aunt Rong also sent someone to send things to Su Jintong and Su Zifeng twice.

Seeing the people around Aunt Rong again today, Jin Nian added resentment, and secretly thought that when Mama Gong came back, the grudge between her and Aunt Rong would be over!

Here, the old lady had already ordered to bring people to the east wing, and asked Guizhi to go over to deal with Qingxing first. At the end, I made an appointment with everyone about the time of tomorrow's trip, clothes and other locks, and it was not until the evening that Jin Nian returned to Jinghua Xiaozhu. Single

The next day, when the rooster crowed, the lights were lit up everywhere in the Su Mansion, and the backyard was noisy.

Jin Nian cleaned her face, the cuckoo changed her into a goose yellow cloisonné * pattern gown that had been prepared, Mama Lin brought her millet porridge, Jin Nian swallowed a few mouthfuls and stopped, and hurried to Yimen with Yingge and Mama Lin to meet.

Travel around the whole house, and every car is full of people. Jinnian originally wanted to be with her mother, but in the end, she was in the same car as Su Jinxiu, Su Zifeng, and Su Jintong.

When a group of more than a dozen carriages drove out of the gate, the sky was just showing the white of the fish's belly. Jin Nian lifted the curtain and looked out, there were only a few pedestrians on the street, the small noodle stalls and steamed bun shops had just started the fire, and even the car pouring night incense was still swaying and pushing it out of the city.

Seeing this, Su Jintong frowned and said, "The stinky filth is not smoking, and people are fainted." "Tell Jinnian to lower the curtain.

Jin Nian didn't bother to answer, she hugged the pillow in her arms and leaned on the wall of the car to recuperate, she got up too early today, and her mind was still muddy at this time.

Su Jintong glanced at her, turned his head to Su Zifeng and said, "Yesterday, my aunt sent someone to send some fan covers, and I will bring them to you when I go back." ”

Su Zifeng said "um", and after a while, he asked again, "How is she?" ”

refers to Aunt Rong.

Jin Nian raised his eyes and glanced at Su Zifeng, his face expressionless. Su Zifeng heard about the quarrel between Su Zifeng and Aunt Rong when she was in Huai'an, and after Aunt Rong was sent to Baoxiang Nunnery, Su Zifeng never visited.

Jin Nian retracted her gaze, and said in her heart that she, the third brother, was still concerned about Aunt Rong in her heart after all, after all, she was a person who had grown up since childhood, not to mention that person was his biological mother.

Su Jintong said very casually: "It should be okay, what else can she do?" She took the fan cover brought by Aunt Rong to Qingxing yesterday, took two ingots and ten taels of silver and sent Qingxing back. The old lady's offerings to the nunnery every month are quantitative, and Qingxing came to see her, isn't it just to get more silver money.

So after asking Guizhi to give money to Qingxing, Su Jintong didn't remember to ask her aunt if she was doing well. She has not been close to Aunt Rong since she was a child, and last time Aunt Rong said that she would help match her and Gu Yanyi, in the end, it just made Su Jinnian lose face in the city, but Gu Yanyi and her affairs were not touched at all.

In the end, her business has to rely on herself and the old lady.

When Su Zifeng heard this, he glanced at his compatriot sister very coldly, and neither of them spoke again.

Seeing this, Su Jinxiu stabbed Jinnian several times with her left elbow, with a good look of watching a show.

Jin Nian raised her eyebrows and smiled back, Su Jintong's sister and brother were dissatisfied, and she was also happy to see it.

The carriage went out of the city, bumpy all the way up, Su Yousong sent someone to ride a fast horse up the mountain to report the news, and when Jin Nian and his party arrived at the mountain gate of Qiling Temple, it was still a quarter of an hour away from the hour.

Jin Nian felt that they had come early enough, but after getting off the car, he found that more than a dozen carriages had been parked in front of the mountain gate, and several groups of pilgrims were carrying Lanzi into the temple.

The abbot had already brought the monk and a few big monks and small novices to wait at the mountain gate. Su Yousong ordered his subordinates to unload the offerings, and the six carriages were all stuffed, causing a few small novices to look at them from time to time.