At that time, Liu Jiayi chose the forty-year-old King without hesitation, Wei Zhixing rushed forward and roared why? Miss Liu just looked at him in a daze, her eyes were like rain, fog and wind, Wei Zhixing's heart sank again and again, and finally it was as cold as ice.

Her arrival, like spring breeze and rain, slowly formed the habit of snuggling; Her departure is like a storm sweeping leaves, as fast as a knife cutting through love.

Wei Zhixing's love has been broken, but his heart has been painful for many years.

The new emperor already valued Wei Zhixing, and he felt guilty about this matter, so he wanted to appoint Wei Zhixing as the big Si Nong, Wei Zhixing resigned because his limbs were not diligent and the grains were not divided, and he was helpless, and the new emperor reappointed him as the salt and iron Cheng under the jurisdiction of Dasi Nong, responsible for the national iron smelting and salt production.

This Wei Zhixing has been ordered by the emperor to inspect 23 counties and counties across the country since he took office, ostensibly traveling in the mountains and rivers, but in fact, he was ordered by the Holy Lord to find new salt mines.

At present, there are two sources of salt in the Qi Kingdom, one is the purchase of sea salt from the Zhou State and the mineral salt from the Song State; One is the salt of Taihu Lake in Leyang County, the country of Qi.

Three years ago, the salt boiled out of the Taihu Lake began to appear red, and the people who had eaten it sometimes convulsed, convulsed, and sometimes talked nonsense, and the Taiyi studied that the lake grew a red fish species, called the blood fish, this fish is ferocious by nature, cruel and murderous, and where it passes, none of the other fish still exists.

When encountering small fish, they directly kill each other with steel teeth, and they can almost break bones; When encountering a large fish, white mucus shoots out of its body, and the big fish faints suddenly, and the bloody fish rise up and eat it, leaving only its bones.

The white slime is mixed in the lake water, and the salt stone after boiling and evaporating is pale red and cannot be separated. When a person eats this salt stone, he has the same symptoms as the poisoned fish. The imperial court sent people to kill the blood fish, but this kind of fish is fierce and abnormal, and it reproduces rapidly, killing it is not an overnight thing at all, and the isolation of toxins from the red poison salt stone is also not an overnight thing.

At this time, the salt of Qi was secretly bought back by Wei Zhixing in batches from Zhou and Song through black market channels, and he did not dare to go through official channels, for fear that someone with bad intentions would take the opportunity to stir up turmoil, but in the long run, it was inevitable that Zhou and Song would find clues and be handled, so finding a new salt lake or salt mine became a top priority.

Cheng Hongluo looked at Wei Zhixing worriedly, Yan Tiecheng's face was really gloomy, he didn't know what he was calculating in his heart, Cheng Hongluo's heart was sudden, for fear that this uncertain Lord Wei would be angry and kill people.

A fast horse arrived, stopped beside the three of them, jumped a seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man, walked in front of Wei Zhixing, hugged his fists and gave a salute, and handed five small burdens to Lord Wei: "Lord Wei, this is a small sample of soil in the five directions of the east, west, south, north and middle, you can see if it is enough." ”

Seeing that Wei Zhixing's face was still blue, his eyes looked through him at the street in the distance, and when he looked back, three or four little beggars were lying on the bluestone ground, sucking something to eat.

The young man didn't know why, so he secretly scolded Li Chengyue and said, "Li Zhutou, what's wrong with my family?" ”

Li Chengyue smiled awkwardly, not knowing how to answer.

Lord Wei had already snatched the soil sample, and said angrily: "Wei Lai, ask others what to do, and this official will tell you that this Chaoyang County is outstanding and extraordinary, and a righteous girl can jump out of it while walking on the street." ”

Ignoring the embarrassed Cheng adult, he jumped on the horse, looked at Sun Er condescendingly, and said, "In which direction did my 'righteous daughter' run?" ”

Sun Er pointed to the direction of the western city wall in a daze, only to feel that the fast horse galloped away, and the other three dared to slack off, stopped the carriage of unknown people on the corner of the street, and rushed to chase after it.

These people only thought that Mingyue had escaped from the city, but Mingyue didn't have the consciousness of a "liar" at all, Shi Shiran turned into the grain shop not far away, and bought a big bag of bad rice and more than a dozen catties of white rice.

Mingyue looked at Yin Cai's surprised appearance, her face became purple from the fight just now, and she said worriedly: "Uncle, let's go see Lang Zhong, you have to be more attentive in the future, to guard against servants, ruffians, nieces, especially me, with me, you always seem to be beaten." ”

Yin Cai thought about it, the last time he was wronged Yuan Siniang, he was arrested and beaten; This time, he was unjustly evaded taxes and beaten by the ruffians who collected taxes, but fortunately, there was no major incident. In order to reassure Mingyue, Yin Cai stretched out his arms, stretched his legs, and carried the rice bag on his back with a short body, and said with a sincere smile: "The countryman is hard and strong, why do you say so much." ”

Mingyue checked the wound, Seeing that it was really just a skin injury, snatched Yin Cai and took a small bag of rice, learned from Yin Cai's appearance, and threw the white rice bag on his back, Mingyue just stood firm, only to feel a person on his side roaring by, scared Mingyue threw his hand and dropped the rice bag on the ground, fortunately, the egg basket was placed on the ground just now, and the white rice bag was also tied strong enough, otherwise it would be difficult to escape the doom of a basket of broken eggs and a pile of broken rice.

Mingyue jumped up angrily, pointed to the back of the horse riding and scolded: "You are in a hurry to reincarnate!" ”

Wei Zhixing ran outside the city gate in one breath, the four fields were gloomy, where was the shadow of the bright moon, and walked along the bluestone road to the city, but there was still no shadow of the sloppy girl, and the man who had always pampered and insulted the invisible jumped to his feet angrily, and scolded in his mouth: "You female liar!" If I see you again, I will definitely arrest you and put you in prison, no, throw you in a salt pot and boil for three days and three nights!! ”

Mingyue got on the ox cart, took off the blue jacket that was draped over her head to keep warm, and said suspiciously: "Uncle, why did I hear someone scolding me?" ”

Yin Cai listened, only the autumn wind remained, and the city gate rode away on a tall horse, and couldn't help shaking his head, the ox cart got it, and left the city gate and drove towards Xiangyang Village.

Walked to the village under the big tree, under the tree a few mothers-in-law were chatting, seeing Yin Cai and Mingyue coming back in an ox cart, Mingyue covered something with a jacket, Aunt Ma smiled proudly at Yin Cai: "Four brothers, my niece Xiaotao hasn't found her in-laws yet?" Shall I tell you and make peace? ”

Yin Caideng blushed when he came, and then said indifferently: "Aunt Ma, Xiao Tao is bent on finding a solid family, I can't talk to her wrong." ”

Aunt Ma pursed her lips, watched the ox cart gradually move forward, and said, "Phew, shameless, didn't you just climb your brother-in-law's bed in the middle of the night, what is there to be proud of, and dragged it on!" ”

A woman couldn't get used to Ma's inability to eat grapes and said that grapes were sour, and said, "Tut-tut, are you jealous?" The aunt and nephew of the old Yin family serve a man, although the words are good and not good, but they are benefited, didn't they listen to the old Zhai mother-in-law, Mingyun is wearing bright gold jewelry on his hands? I'm afraid that one gold bracelet will be worth twenty taels of silver, right? Your niece's little peach hasn't been sold for twenty taels! Back then, I thought the old Yin family was poor, and now I regret it? ”

Aunt Ma was so angry that she sneered: "What do you regret, he is not happy, my little peach is not willing to marry!" Lao Yin's family is not a golden nest and a silver nest, when they were hungry, didn't the Zhou family only take half a bag of bran rice, and it didn't have much help from my mother's family! forced his daughter-in-law to take the dowry, not to mention, obviously gave birth to two children, leaving only one; If it weren't for Leng's hanging, Mingxia wouldn't have been able to stay! My little peach is my niece, and I can't bear to let this crime worse. ”

The voice gradually became smaller, Yin Cai's face turned blue, Mingyue's face turned pale, and he asked in a deep voice: "Uncle, what happened six years ago?" Did my mother give birth to twins or dragon and phoenix twins? What about children? ”

Yin Cai lowered his head so low that he couldn't lower it any longer, and only said after a while: "Mingyue, you should be a village woman talking nonsense about your wife's tongue, don't tell your mother, I'm afraid your mother won't be able to stand it." Your mother fainted when she gave birth to Mingyang, and she didn't know that there was another one under her, it was a panic year, it was difficult to live, and there were many deaths of soldiers in the village, your grandmother was ruthless, and the boy under Mingyang was given away, I was afraid that I wouldn't know each other in the future, so I secretly followed, and sent it to a family that sold tofu, the woman only had one daughter, no son, and was very good to the baby, and the family was also good, so I was relieved to go. ”

Mingyue's tears fell, although she didn't say it, Mingyue knew that Liu had an inferiority complex in her heart, because she gave birth to three daughters and did not give birth to a son to Yin You, especially when Yin You sent back the news of her death, she didn't have a son to fill the grave every year, she felt like a sinner.

It turned out that under this appearance, she had already given birth to a son, and sold the silver without her knowledge, Mingyue really didn't understand, how did a Zhai family, who had obviously done such a bad conscience, cheekily scolded Liu for being a hen that "doesn't lay eggs"?

Mingyue felt that her throat was blocked, and her heart ached, for her mother-in-law Liu, and for her younger brother who gave away without a mask.

Mingyue secretly made up her mind to visit her own brother, even if he had recognized other parents and lived a very rich life, even if he didn't recognize each other, he would at least meet him, and know that he was doing well.

When she got home, Liu was chopping wild vegetables in the yard to feed the chickens, and the autumn wind blew her face red.

Mingyue put down the egg basket, ran two steps, threw herself into Liu's arms, and kissed Liu's cheek, and Yin Cai, who helped carry the grain, turned red.

Liu's hand-held minced wild vegetables, afraid of rubbing against Mingyue, stretched his two hands, and said suspiciously: "What's wrong with you baby?" ”

Mingyue hugged Liu tighter, sniffed and said, "It's okay, mother, I just miss you." ”

Liu couldn't cry or laugh, but he hadn't seen him all night, why was he still a little choked? Mingyue's body was suspiciously corrected and asked, "Mingyue, didn't your aunt and cousin give you a good face again?" Every time you see them come back for the New Year, you get angry, let's not see them next time, okay? ”

Mingyue shook her head and said, "No, mother, okay, see if my uncle moved those two bags of things?" The big bag is bad rice, the small bag is white rice, you don't have to eat pasta in the future, and, mother, please have something, our days will get better and better in the future, when our wheat goes to grind the noodles, don't hit the skin, don't mix black noodles or anything, just like the pure white noodles given to the Zhou family, the food is not enough, I'll find a way. ”

Liu Shi looked at the bag full of bad rice, which was enough for a large family to eat for a while, and couldn't help but feel some confidence in his heart, and muttered: "Mingyue, let's grind it separately, don't throw away the skin or anything, in case there is no food in the future, we will help ......."

This is Liu's lack of confidence in himself, after all, this grain is related to the lives of a few mouthfuls, and he must eat it until the grain comes down next year.

Mingyue nodded, it was up to the Liu family to deal with it, anyway, she decided to do everything she could to make money without eating.

At noon, Mingyue cooked by herself, boiled a bowl of big white rice porridge, and brought it to the table, Mingyang pointed to the white rice porridge and was startled, pointed to the bowl and said, "Sister, why do you make so many white fat insects?" Is it a can or a stick bug? ”