Chapter 277: Return to Beijing

As he was talking, the old cat ran out again, this time there was a big pheasant in his mouth, but it was already dead, Fu Qiuning shook his head and said, "It's a pity that it's dead, otherwise it would be weird and good-looking." ”

Cui Shi smiled: "Grandma has been here for so long to feel like this." Otherwise, what kind of animals didn't have them at that time in the Guogong Mansion? Needless to say, there are a few sika deer in the backyard, and there are a few big cranes in the Qingwan Pavilion of Grandma Wan and your Fengya Building, what is this pheasant? ”

Fu Qiuning smiled: "Don't say it, let you say this, it's really a little homesick." In the blink of an eye, half a year has passed, and the capital should be the late autumn season when the leaves are full of autumn rain, and I don't know how the old lady and the old lady are in health? Aunt Huo's illness should be cured, right? The fourth girl took care of her mother alone, and it was also hard. ”

Yuelan said with a smile: "Grandma is really kind-hearted, she is still thinking about them at this time, if she lets Xiangmian know, she will be grateful." Alas! Speaking of which, I'm also a little homesick, but my lord has only been the prefect here for half a year, how can I return to Beijing so quickly, I'm afraid that this year will be spent here. ”

Cui Shi hurriedly said: "There is nothing bad about living here, this is the south, there are many specialties, and our north is very different, when the time comes, give New Year's gifts, pick the delicious and unique to send some back, it is also interesting, I am afraid that the old lady and the wife will remember the master, in the capital ......" She said this, and suddenly realized that she wanted to comfort the two sisters, how to say the end, but these worries were added, so she hurriedly stopped talking.

After pinching off the mushroom stems, the sun slowly set on the side of the mountain, the old cat took five or six pheasants and hares, and at this time he was also so tired that he was lying on the ground licking his hair, Fu Qiuning looked secretly funny, thinking that maybe this guy ate at noon, and only worked so hard in the afternoon, one is to catch some prey in front of me. Second, it is also good to digest food.

Just as she was thinking about it, she saw a group of people walking towards her in the distance, and she knew that it must be hunters, sure enough. In less than half an hour, the people who had gone out to hunt came back one after another. Do the math, but Jin Fengju, the team with the smallest number of people, has gained the most and dragged a yellow sheep back.

Jin Fengju also looked very happy, and when he came back, he said to Fu Qiuning: "Don't say it, this kid Zhenyi has a bit of a thing, do you see it." He shot all these rabbits, well, I watched him shoot arrows from the side, and it was very good. "Ya-Wen * Yan + Love $ First @ Fa" thinks that even if you can't study in the future, you can go to the army to exercise and exercise, and you can also make a profit. As soon as the words fell, he suddenly saw the hares and pheasants piled up next to Fu Qiuning, and he couldn't help but be surprised: "Huh? Where did this come from? Could it be that the guards left behind beat it? This is nonsense. I have left them behind to protect you......"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Fu Qiuning. Hear her laugh and say, "What are you anxious about?" The guards were dutiful and never left a single step. As for these prey, it was brought back by the old cat, how? In the end, it's my cat, it's to give the master a long face, look at what you guys get, of course, there are yellow sheep and roe deer, etc., but this rabbit and pheasant, but not as much as the old cat, right? ”

Before Jin Fengju could speak, Jin Zhenyi pouted and said, "Auntie can't say that." This rabbit pheasant was a little fun at first, but then it was boring, so my dad and I put a lot of it. Otherwise, if they are all hunted, there will be thirty or forty of them, and my father said that I can't eat them anyway, so it is better to let them live. ”

Fu Qiuning smiled: "So to speak. This is a great charity. It's a pity that the old cat doesn't understand this, I think if it weren't for its fat now, and its physical strength is not as good as before, the pheasants and hares in the small forest at the foot of this mountain will be cleaned up by it. ”

While talking, the bonfire and grill had already been erected, Fu Qiuning asked people to build a pot stove, place a big pot, and boil a pot of mushroom and chicken soup, only to drink everyone full of praise, even the guard who was complaining in his heart with the cauldron on his back was smiling at this time, and he didn't complain about his errand at all.

In Dongfan Island for two days and one night, the next evening, Jin Fengju took Fu Qiuning and others to re-board the big ship, when leaving, the island owner came to send again, and presented many special gifts, Jin Fengju also revealed that the imperial court may include Dongfan into the jurisdiction of Daning in the future, send officials to the news. It only made the island owner excited, and he was very grateful.

It turns out that there is very little grain production here in Dongfan, and the education is backward, some of the residents on the island have seen the prosperity of Daning after going to sea, and when they come back to talk around, everyone is envious. Now, if Dongfan is really included in the jurisdiction of Daning and officials are sent over, then in the future, the food will be allocated by the imperial court, private schools will be built, and trade with the other side will be much easier, which can be said to be far more beneficial than disadvantageous, so the island owner and those people who came to see him off will be happy.

Before dark, he arrived at Quanzhou Port, Jin Fengju returned to the palace, and before he could send Fu Qiuning and others into the back hall, he saw an official running out, and when he saw him, he patted his thigh and said: "My lord, but I'm finally back, hurry up, please go to the back office with the ladies to bathe and change clothes, the holy decree will arrive this morning, hurry up and prepare to receive the decree." ”

"Huh? The Divine Decree has arrived? Do you know what's going on? Suddenly hearing such news, Jin Fengju was also very surprised, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to let the official into the door.

The official was also anxious on this day, and he didn't feel that there was anything wrong at this time, so he followed Jin Fengju into the backyard from the corner gate, and said: "I don't know what the matter is, it is Gonggong Zhou who comes to deliver the decree by the emperor's side, where does the lower official dare to inquire rashly?" Father-in-law Zhou arrived early this morning, only to make everyone in the palace busy, and the lower officials wanted to send someone to find the adult, but Father-in-law Zhou said that it was not necessary, the adult had a meritorious fight against the Japanese invaders, and it was time to have fun and relax. In this way, it should not be an urgent matter, nor a bad thing. ”

After the official finished speaking, Jin Fengju nodded lightly, couldn't help but ponder, and suddenly heard the official pat his head and said softly: "I'm really confused, this is the place where the family members of the lord are located, I ...... Why did I break in, my lord's forgiveness......"

Jin Fengju smiled and said, "It's okay, I invited you in." In this way, you go and talk to Gonggong Zhou, and say that I have rushed back, and I am bathing and changing, and ask him to stay for a while. After speaking, he saw that the official had gone, so he hurriedly lifted the sedan curtain behind him, asked Fu Qiuning to come down, and said: "Hurry up and prepare, I don't know why the emperor made a decree at this time." ”

Fu Qiuning said: "I'm also curious at this time, as the saying goes, the power of heaven is unpredictable, but fortunately, listening to Lord Han's narration doesn't seem to be a bad thing." Therefore, the husband and wife hurriedly took a few children into the courtyard, and let each take their girls to help bathe and change clothes, and the two of them also spent half an hour to clean up, and the whole family came to the courtyard in front of the incense case that had already been placed, and saw that Zhou Gonggong and several royal forest soldiers and little eunuchs were already waiting there, and they were busy kneeling.

This will was much beyond Jin Fengju's expectations, and it turned out to be the announcement that he would return to Beijing to report on his work, but it was not an official reinstatement, but the will of commanding the Gyeonggi Battalion and the Nine Cities Terracotta Division, and concurrently serving as the Admiral of the Nine Gates.

That week, the father-in-law finished reading the holy decree, and said a few words to Jin Fengju affectionately, and when he entered the house, he saw that there was no one left and right, so he quietly smiled: "The little marquis is ready to go, the emperor is reusing you as a henchman, looking at the court and the opposition, no one can be favored in front of the emperor like you. ”

Jin Fengju hurriedly smiled and said a few words modestly, while pondering the emperor's intentions in his heart, secretly saying that the Gyeonggi camp is the power of the prince, why did the emperor send him? Could it be that he has become suspicious of the crown prince? No, although the crown prince took advantage of this time to exclude dissidents and suppress the courtiers who opposed him, after all, it has not gone too far, and there is no tendency to go against the grain, so why should the emperor prevent him from reaching this point? Again...... This...... Doesn't that give me a hot potato? Can I put my hand in that part of Gyeonggi Camp?

Because they couldn't figure it out, they discussed it with Fu Qiuning, but they didn't discuss it, and the two only knew that it was right to return to Beijing as soon as possible. So I got busy. And because Jin Fengju's return to Beijing this time was too sudden, he couldn't wait for the prefect to come, and even if he wanted to wait, the prince would definitely delay the new prefect in order to hold him back. Therefore, it was specially written in the holy decree that he should select one person from the prefect's yamen to temporarily take the position of prefect.

Jin Fengju has a good understanding of the temperament of these subordinate officials, and he chose one person at the moment, which is Bai Zhang's husband, the Bai Lord. This is a pie that fell from the sky, you know, although it is the temporary prefect at this time, as long as there is no major mistake, after three or five months, the temporary hat on his head can probably be removed, that is to be promoted two levels in a row, and he has been promoted from a seventh-rank official to a fifth-grade prefect.

And it's not that the Bai family is grateful to Jin Fengju, and they can't wait to offer him an immortal tablet every day. It was only said that Fu Qiuning and Jiang Wanying had been preparing for three days before they finally cleaned up. Perhaps because she could return to Beijing, this second grandmother remembered the majesty of her own power that day, so she changed her attitude of being a cold bystander and actively helped Fu Qiuning clean up, which naturally saved Qiuning a lot of heart, so on the fourth day, the whole family embarked on the return journey.

When the carriage came to the port of Quanzhou, Fu Qiuning only felt that the surroundings seemed to be very noisy, as if there were many people, and he wondered in his heart, could it be that the dock was full of people because of something today? Who knew that when she got out of the carriage and looked through the scarf of the hat, she was startled, only to see that on the huge dock, it was already crowded with people at this time, and there were dozens of squire-like people talking beside Jin Fengju, holding a thing in their hands, and when Fu Qiuning looked over, they were handing over the thing to her husband.