Mr. Shan took the letter, glanced at it a few times in a hurry, and then handed it back to Chu Huajin, and said with a smile: "I have trespassed." It turned out to be a letter from Mrs. Zun. ”

Chu Huajin felt a little embarrassed, hurriedly put the letter back in his sleeve pocket, poured a dime of wine for Mr. Shan, and talked about Chu Qianyi and Chu Qianqian's two children, only regretting that they had been raised in their grandfather's house since they were young, and they were spoiled by others.

Mr. Shan listened intently for a while, and he didn't hear that the two children were at fault, except for some disagreements with their stepmother.

For two children who lost their mothers at an early age, it's really not a big mistake.

"Master Hou is too worried. It is human nature for a stepmother to not deal with her stepson, and to say that everything is bad. Master Hou doesn't have to be sad about it, come, let's have another drink! Saying that, Mr. Shan also helped Chu Hua pour a corner of wine, and the two drank it together.

Chu Huajin listened to Mr. Shan's persuasion, felt a little better, and couldn't help but drink a few more glasses, and soon got drunk.

Mr. Shan lightly helped Chu Huajin to lie down on the bed, and called Chu Huajin's maid to come over to serve him.

The next day, Chu Huajin woke up and saw Baoqin napping at the foot of the bed, and asked with some confusion: "...... You helped me to bed? "I remember that I was obviously drinking with Mr. Shan.

Baoqin woke up and hurriedly asked, "Does Master Hou feel more comfortable?" Last night, Mr. Shan said that Hou Ye was drunk, helped Hou Ye to the bed, and called a slave to come over to serve. - Do you want to drink a bowl of decanting soup? ”

Chu Hua nodded, thinking of Mr. Shan, he was a little stunned.

Baoqin came over with a sobering soup, served Chu Hua and drank it, and said: "Master Hou, our mother is happy again, but the whole world celebrates." ”

Chu Hua came back to his senses, handed the bowl back to Baoqin with a smile, and said, "Pack up your things, let's prepare to leave for Beijing." He called the little servant in again, and asked him to pass the message to the staff and sergeants, so that everyone could pack their luggage, and Ming'er would set off for Beijing.

The little guy happily went to deliver the message.

Baoqin was also happy, and was busy packing up things in the house.

The Qin sent off to Beijing, and of course the local officials also had to make a farewell and send off, so they sent a Wanmin umbrella to join in the fun.

Chu Hua didn't care, or Mr. Shan sternly refuted it, and didn't let the local officials do too much.

I was going to be able to leave the next day, but it ended up being delayed for three days.

When he actually hit the road on the fourth day, Chu Hua was so tired that he couldn't speak, lying in Qincha's car, only feeling that his bones hurt.

It will take more than a month to return to Beijing from the southwest.

There are many honor guards in the Qincha, and when they arrive in one place, sometimes they have to stop for a while, and it is even slower to deal with local officials.

Chu Huajin couldn't wait any longer. When he received the letter home, it had been a month since Pei Shufen wrote the letter. The rest of Mrs. Litai's birthday is only a little more than a month away.

Chu Hua was bent on rushing back before Mrs. Tai's birthday, and he would arrive on his birthday if he was not lucky. But calculating the time, if he followed the team, he would not be able to return to Beijing until three months. At that time, two months had passed since Mrs. Tai's birthday.

Chu Hua was in a hurry, and his staff and entourage were also watching it.

Mrs. Tai's birthday is a major event and cannot be delayed. Not to mention that the queen is full of saints and is pregnant, just talking about the three princes, I know that the Marquis of Ningyuan Mansion will be even more prosperous in the future.

The staff members discussed it together, then pushed Mr. Shan out, and told Hou Ye that they could divide two groups of people, one group of light travelers, only a few horses and a few people to serve, and go back with Hou Ye first. The rest of the group can follow the Qincha honor guard and return to Beijing slowly.

Hou Ye rushed back for Mrs. Tai's birthday, although it was a little unruly, but even if the saint knew, he would praise Hou Ye for his benevolence and filial piety, and would not blame Hou Ye.

Mr. Shan's words, Chu Huajin has always been able to listen to them, so he happily complied, took Mr. Shan, three domestic servants, and more than a dozen soldiers, drove a few horses, and set out on the road first.

This way hurried and hurried, walked for half a month, and finally came to Huicheng Mansion in the south of the Yangtze River, and had already walked half the way. If you hurry up a little more, it is completely possible to enter Beijing before your birthday.

The people who followed Chu Huajin also smiled.

This road is full of dust, every day is to get off the horse, and the food is improvised, but they are tired.

When you arrive at Huicheng Mansion, you can rest for a night, eat a good meal, and bring more dry food on the road.

Chu Huajin was even more tired than his entourage. But Ning Yuanhou was still waiting for him to go back to preside over the overall situation, thinking of that big family, Chu Hua gritted his teeth and survived.

However, when he arrived at Huicheng Mansion, the largest city in the south of the Yangtze River, Chu Huajin also felt that he could relax, let everyone rest for a day, and then go on the road tomorrow.

The largest and best inn in Huicheng Mansion is the Yuelai Inn in the west of the city.

Of course, Chu Huajin wanted to live in the most expensive inn, so he asked his subordinates to go to the Yuelai Inn to book a room.

His men rode fast horses to the inn first, and ordered three upper rooms and a few ordinary rooms. Of course, the upper room is for Hou Ye and his staff, and the ordinary room is for domestic servants and soldiers.

Chu Huajin took Mr. Shan off the horse, took a look at the door of the Yuelai Inn, and smiled at Mr. Shan: "It really deserves to be the largest mansion city in the south of the Yangtze River, and such prosperity is not far from the capital." ”

Mr. Shan was naturally very familiar with Huicheng Mansion, and he just wanted to leave here quickly, so he urged Chu Hua to be cautious: "Master Hou hurry up and rest, I will go on the road tomorrow morning." ”

Chu Huajin stretched out his arm, threw the reins of the horse to the subordinates behind, and said, "Actually, you can stay for a few more days, and it won't get in the way." ”

Mr. Shan patiently explained: "Hou Ye vinegar looks fast now, but it is rainy in the south of the Yangtze River, and the rainy season is coming, and the road will not be easy to walk at that time." Hou Ye has never been to Jiangnan, so he doesn't know these things, so he has to say more. ”

Chu Huajin felt reasonable when he heard it, nodded and said, "Just listen to Mr., tomorrow will leave early in the morning." Then he asked Mr. Shan, "Has Mr. Shan been here?" I'm very familiar with Jiangnan. ”

Mr. Shan smiled wryly and said, "I lived here for a while when I was young. So he diverted the conversation and asked Chu Huajin: "The flower girl in Jiangnan is very famous, do you want to ...... it?" ”

Chu Huajin was so tired these days that he didn't think about it at all, so he waved his hand and said, "Spare me." I've saved up my strength to ride a horse. ”

With that, he entered the inn with Mr. Shan.

At this time, from the second floor of the inn, two women dressed in green clothes and plain clothes walked down. The first one is just that, but it's just the appearance of a delicate little jasper, and it looks old. Chu Hua glanced at it, and was immediately attracted by the woman behind her.

The woman in the back, like the woman in front, wore only a smoky blue left shirt with a navy blue pleated skirt underneath. When walking, the bottom of the skirt reveals a pointed moon-white toe, and a white camellia looms on the toe. Look at the man's head, combing a bun of clouds, only an ordinary silver hairpin is inserted obliquely, very simple. But her face, like the most gorgeous peony flower, makes people look at it, and want to look at it again, but she can't take her eyes off it at all. Chu Huajin had seen so many beautiful women before, and in front of this woman, they all became foils.

Of course, Mr. Shan also saw the woman with an amazing complexion, and what was even more surprising was that this woman had no fat powder on her face, and she was completely plain.

"Master Hou, you didn't say anything wrong, right? There are many words without mistakes - the water and soil in the south of the Yangtze River are good, and the beautiful ladies raised are not comparable to the north. Mr. Shan fanned the flames with a smile.

Chu Hua came back to his senses, sneered, and said, "It's not bad to be born, but the little family is full of anger." ”

Mr. Shan smiled. Although the woman was plain and green-shirted, she couldn't see the slightest childishness......

The two women walked down the stairs and looked curiously at the downstairs lobby when they saw that there were suddenly more customers.

Chu Huajin and Mr. Shan stepped aside and let the two women out.

The shopkeeper of Yuelai Inn hurriedly came over to greet Chu Huajin and his party, and said, "Recently, there are many people who have gone to Beijing to look for relatives. Is this guest officer also going to Beijing to look for relatives? ”

Chu Hua said proudly: "Go home." Then he went upstairs to his upper room to rest.

The shopkeeper hurriedly shouted: "It turned out to be a distinguished guest in Beijing!" Disrespectful, disrespectful! Then he quickly called his fellow upstairs to wait.

Mr. Shan stayed downstairs for a while, close to the shopkeeper's set, and asked, "The two women who went out just now are doing business?" "I thought they were secret prostitutes.

The shopkeeper hurriedly said, "Don't talk nonsense about this guest officer. She is a woman from a serious family, a widowed woman, and she takes her family to Beijing to find relatives. It is said that Kyori's relatives are still high-ranking officials. The guest officer should remember that the trouble comes from the mouth, and don't offend people who don't know. ”

Mr. Shan's sun. Are there still few big officials in Beijing? Isn't there a saying that the second and third grades come out, and the fourth and fifth grades go all over the place. The officials of the sixth and seventh grades were embarrassed to say it. After a few more pleasantries, he went upstairs.

The two women in Tsing Yi who went out were Zheng Jiao and Liu Menghan.

Liu Menghan persuaded Zheng Jiao, left Shouchang Mansion in the southwest with her child, first went to the ancestral home of the Chu family to meet the patriarch, asked for the favor of the old marquis, and took the patriarch into Beijing together.

They arrived a day earlier than Chu Huajin and his party, and they had already left the room at this time, and they were going to leave overnight.

The news of the queen's happiness is known to the world, and Liu Menghan is even more convinced that she has come to the right place on this trip to Beijing.

Chu Huajin and the others set off from the Yuelai Inn early the next morning, left Huicheng Mansion, and rushed to the capital in the north.

Running in a hurry along the way, Chu Huajin and the horses they led, four out of ten were so tired that they foamed, and two simply fell to the ground. Among them was the horse that Chu Huajin was riding. He is a son-in-law, riding a horse only talks about refreshment, and he doesn't care about the life or death of the horse, so his horse was the first to be pulled to the ground by him.

Originally, they also brought a few horses to replace, but along the way, all the ones that could be replaced were replaced, and there were already two subordinates who were riding the same horse, which slowed down everyone's speed a lot.

"Master Hou, you can't settle for it. We'll have to buy some horses. "Someone under me proposed.

Chu Hua looked around in embarrassment, and said, "There is no heaven on this earth, and there is no land on the ground, where can I buy a horse?" "Besides, the horses of the Great Qi Dynasty, like salt and iron, are under special control, and ordinary people can buy cattle, but they may not be able to buy horses.

The group was worrying, and there was a sound of horses' hooves from the road behind. Everyone was in high spirits and said, "It seems that it is a passing merchant, we can buy two horses from them." ”

Chu Hua agreed, stood on the side of the road, and waited for his men to stop the car.

It was Liu Menghan and Zheng Jiao's two big cars that came from behind.

On this trip, they dressed up very plainly, a picture of a poor family, going to Beijing to play the autumn breeze.

Liu Menghan only brought a capable subordinate pretending to be a coachman. Other people took the patriarch of the Chu family and found another way into Beijing. They went to the capital first, and after settling down, they waited for Liu Menghan and his party to see the situation before meeting.

Zheng Jiao ignored everything and only listened to Liu Menghan's mercy.

Mr. Shan glanced at it and found that although the two cars were not good-looking, the horses pulling the carts and the spare horses were all miraculous horses, and he was a little suspicious.

Chu Huajin couldn't care so much. They are the first to serve microservices, so they have never had their true identities along the way.

Chu Huajin's subordinates went down to negotiate to buy horses, but of course they didn't report the name of the Marquis of Ningyuan's mansion, only saying that their lord was going to enter Beijing, and there were not enough horses, so they wanted to buy two horses from them.

Of course Liu Menghan didn't want to. Their horses will be sufficient, and if they sell two, they themselves will go even slower, and they will not allow it.

Chu Huajin listened to it for a long time with his hands behind his back, and was a little impatient, and explained a few words to the people beside him, and said, "Give the silver, lead the horse!" "I'm going to take the horse directly.

The subordinate listened, and of course did so. threw a silver ingot into Liu Menghan's car, and called two people over to grab the horse.

Liu Menghan was a little angry, but their group was all women and children. The only coachman who worked, in the face of so many men on the other side, was not an opponent, so he had to endure his anger and watched as they untied the reins of the horses and took the two horses away.

Liu Menghan stared at Chu Huajin in the car, and ordered the coachman to ask them where they were.

Chu Huajin didn't bother to say anything, turned over on the horse, raised his whip and continued on the road.

In the capital, in May, the weather is gradually getting hotter.

Jian Feiyang quietly went out of Beijing again these days and helped the saint run two errands. However, it is very tricky, and both times it is in vain.

He Ningxin saw that Jian Feiyang had been a little sullen recently, and wanted to help him, but she didn't know where to start.

In the afternoon of that day, He Ningxin ordered the small kitchen to make sour plum soup, and then ground the ice in the cellar with fine powder and sprinkled it into the sour plum soup. This sour plum soup has replaced Pu'er tea as Jian Feiyang's favorite.

Coming to the study in the outer courtyard with the sour plum soup sprinkled with ice powder, He Ningxin saw Jian Feiyang bowing his head and writing and drawing behind the desk, so he knocked on the door and said with a smile: "Can I come in?" "No mistakes, no skipping words.

Jian Feiyang looked up, his face suddenly brightened with joy, he got up from behind the desk and came over to pick He Ningxin in, and said, "Why did you come out?" At noon, the sun outside is poisonous, and if it is heatstroke, it will not be good. ”

He Ningxin handed the basket in her hand to Jian Feiyang and said, "Oh, the ice powder sour plum soup you like." ”

Jian Feiyang opened the lid of the basket, saw the wine-red sour plum soup in the white jade bowl, stretched out his hand and took it out, drank it all with a tilt of his neck, and said, "Next time I make two bowls, one bowl is not enough to drink." ”

He Ningxin reached out and took the bowl, put it back in the basket, closed the lid again, and said casually: "This thing is too cold, just drink a bowl once in a while." Drinking so much, my body can't stand it. ”

Jian Feiyang smiled and didn't speak, watching He Ningxin walk around in the study and help him clean up the house.

In this study, only Jian Feiyang could come in before. Later, after getting married, He Ningxin could also come in. Otherwise, no one else is allowed to step through this door. Jian Feiyang discussed with his staff, and he always went to a special conference hall, and never led people to the study.

He Ningxin knew that Jian Feiyang was cautious and not very comfortable with others, so she often came over to help him tidy up his study.

Jian Feiyang stared at He Ningxin for a while, and sighed: "I'm in a bad mood for a while, which makes you worried." ”

He Ningxin turned around and smiled, and sorted the books and papers on Jian Feiyang's desk and placed them neatly.

"You have something stuffy in your heart, and I feel uncomfortable looking at it. It's better to say it, even if I may not be able to help you solve problems, but one person is short, and two people are long, maybe I can throw bricks and lead you to think of a way? He Ningxin packed up her books, walked over to Jian Feiyang and sat down.

Jian Feiyang smiled and held He Ningxin's hand and said, "You are busy every day, I feel distressed when I look at it, and I don't want you to worry about my affairs anymore." ”

He Ningxin held Jian Feiyang's hand with her backhand, and said with a smile: "We are one husband and wife, your business is my business, do it like this?" ”

Jian Feiyang tilted his head, looked at He Ningxin and said, "That being the case, then you can tell me that there is an official who is in a very important position, but he has done a lot of things that people can't see." It's just that all the clues on the surface have been cut off by him, and he can't catch any mistakes. How do you say? ”

He Ningxin smiled bitterly: "You said it so briefly, and I'm not an immortal, how do I know what to do?" ”

Jian Feiyang also smiled, and then said the matter of Xie Yun, the prefect of Southeast Province.

He Ningxin knew that Jian Feiyang had already made three trips to the Southeast Road for this thankful thing, and even the saint found it tricky. Xie Yun's official reputation is good, and he still has a certain reputation among the people of Southeast Province. But in private, this person colluded with the Japanese people and harmed the interests of the Great Qi Dynasty, which has reached the point where it must be eliminated.

He Ningxin listened for a long time and asked, "It sounds like Xie Yun is the leader of the group of people in Southeast Dao?" ”

Jian Feiyang nodded, and said with some seriousness: "The only big boss." There are masters in and out, and they are very cunning. wanted to announce that he would go to Beijing, but he couldn't find a chance for a while. His term of office will expire in two years. But the Holy One couldn't wait. ”

He Ningxin pondered for a long time and said, "Why don't you come to the way of others and govern others?" ”

Jian Feiyang looked at He Ningxin, his eyes lit up: "Be specific." ”

He Ningxin smiled: "It's very simple, three words, black eats black." ”