In the early morning of the second day, seeing that the sky was covered with thick clouds and the wind and rain were coming, the official ship got off the sail and hid in the ferry of Tianjin Wei, but received a 300-mile urgent official letter from Yangzhou.

Chen Yan hurriedly read the official document, and was calling for someone to start the boat, but the wind was strong on the Cao River, and the heavy rain was pouring down, so he couldn't sail.

The strong wind blew the boats on the docks of the Tianjin Weiguan Boat to sway. The boat had already been lit up, Qi Su Niang stood by the cabin window, looked at the wind and rain on the Zhili Cao River through the glass pane, and said: "Such a strong wind and rain, fortunately, we are not in a hurry to start the boat......

Chen Yan sat at the table, frowned and looked at the letter in his hand, did not respond, only looked up at Qi Su Niang and smiled slightly, then lowered his head again.

Qi Su Niang looked at the letter in his hand, quietly walked to the head of the bed, took out the painted bamboo pattern from the pillow box, sat down under the lampstand next to the table, and embroidered it stitch by stitch by the flickering candlelight.

The rain kept falling, and when it was time for dinner, it still didn't stop. Qi Su Niang saw Bi'er standing at the door, groaned slightly, shook her head, and signaled her not to set the meal for the time being. She glanced at Chen Yan at the table, lowered her head and did her own embroidery.

When she finished drawing the first bamboo of the word "female", it had been more than half an hour, she put away the needle and bamboo, walked to Chen Yan's side, and said softly: "The matter of Yangzhou Mansion, I can only think about it on the road, can I think about it while eating?" ”

Chen Yan opened his frowns, stood up from the table, stretched out his hand to hug Qi Su Niang, and said with a smile: "Okay." Listen to the lady. ”

Bi'er put the meal on the table, Chen Yan smiled and sandwiched a chopstick of red pepper pork head, "I have been in the capital for two or three months, and I can't serve such dishes in order to be decent." It's no wonder that Li didn't treat me as Zhang Boxing and Master Zhang, handing over excerpts of ginseng every day, just looking for a way to envelop me.

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"Master Zhang is a well-known Qing official. I heard that there is one porridge and three dishes every day. Rice is aged rice. The dish is green vegetable tofu. There is only a personal maid by Mrs. Zhang's side. And in the Kali house, it is a heaven and earth. On one side is to protect the loyal ministers. On the one hand, there are good officials who govern the people. It's not easy for the emperor either. "Qi Su Niang is holding the new white rice." Our family still has some foundation. On the one hand, you will not be ashamed to be an official. One side is also dotted. Don't offend the Kali like that. ”

Chen Yan looked at Qi Su Niang. Softly said, "Don't think too much about it. Carefully tired. I heard that the Ninth Master praised you very much. Say you've taken care of the business in the south. I didn't tell the greedy people below. Although Brother Qi Qiang is capable. but these delicate things are not as good as you. You're doing this for me......"

Qi Su Niang smiled: "Don't worry. I'm not a slave in Nafu. It doesn't offend people too much. It's okay to get by on the big picture. Although it is for the silver of the river. Also for my brother. The more I do here, the more I get the center of the earth. The more he values him in the house. If something happens. Always pull him along. Don't call him and Liu San...... Pushed out of the top tank like other minions......"

Chen Yan nodded. "You've got a lot of planning. Brother Qi Qiang is now on a poor job. I'm afraid it's not a good road......"

Qi Su Niang was taken aback. looked at Chen Yan. Chen Yan sighed. Put down the dishes and chopsticks. He pinched his eyebrows. Qi Su Niang asked carefully, "Just now...... Is it Mr. Zhou's letter? ”

Chen Yan closed his eyes and shook his head. "It's Governor Zhang Boxing, Lord Zhang's letter."

Qi Su Niang was shocked again, and didn't dare to ask again, but she reluctantly used lacquered chopsticks to pick up the rice in the bowl, and after a while, she was shocked again, and put a chopstick vinegar and shredded potatoes in Chen Yan's bowl, and persuaded softly: "It's inevitable that it's all about those masters, and we haven't gone through it?" Eat first, and then think later. ”

Chen Yan opened his eyes and nodded. Both of them thought slowly, each ate half a bowl of rice, moved a few chopsticks of cold dishes, and asked Bi'er to accept it, and it was already the second watch.

The sound of wind and rain beating on the glass lattice windows was densely weaved, and the corner lamps hanging on the roadway flickered, casting a blur of light and shadow in front of the table.

Qi Su Niang lay on the bed and couldn't sleep, but she didn't dare to turn over and move, so as not to wake up Chen Yan. Hearing the wind blowing louder and louder outside, Qi Su Niang seemed to have returned to the room in the Nine Emperors' Mansion that year, saw the face of the Nine Elder Brothers under the shadow of the lamp, heard the sound of wind and rain changing the sky, and Liu San'er's restless soul.

Qi Su Niang called softly, "Brother Chen." "I didn't hear Chen Yan's movement.

Qi Su Niang lay quietly for a long time, secretly removed Chen Yan's hand on her waist, climbed down from the foot of the three-column large shelf bed, and touched the table by the faint yellow candlelight shining from the corner lamp of the ship.

She reached for the letter under the paperweight, but hesitated again, looked back at Chen Yan on the bed, and slowly retracted her hand.

Qi Su Niang turned around hesitantly and walked back to the bed.

The stronger the wind, the more thunder could be seen, and suddenly three bolts of lightning flashed on the ground, casting a sword-like light and shadow in the room. She paused abruptly, gritted her teeth, and hurried back. She removed the paperweight and grabbed the letter, but saw the bright red seal on the envelope with "Yangzhou Mansion Taichen" and the Suzhou Governor's Yamen, and her hand immediately paused.

Qi Su Niang slowly put the letter back on the table, and slowly sat down in the circle chair in front of the table, the night wind blew in through the gap in the lattice window and door railing, bringing a damp chill, she shivered, curled up in the circle chair, staring at the letter on the table.

I don't know how long she sat like this, she was dizzy and seemed to be asleep, and heard a sigh in her ear, "Su Niang...... Brother Qi Qiang and I ...... Also a piece

...... Land"

The official ship traveled back to Yangzhou day and night, and after Huai'an, Baoxing, Gaoyou, and the dissatisfaction and anger of the Jiangnan scholars on the township test list passed through Zhou Xiangtian's letter, as well as the Qixi Festival that sent the letter, it reached Qi Su Niang's ears.

When she arrived at Yangzhou Qianguan Wharf, Qi Suniang followed Chen Yan off the boat, watched Zhou Xiangtian say a few words in Chen Yan's low voice, Chen Yan hurriedly got on the horse, and led the subordinate officials and officials to gallop towards the city.

Qi Su Niang was full of surprise. got on the sedan chair with four people carrying the blue nickname, and was surrounded by ten sedan chair officials and entered the city. She sat in the rickety official sedan chair, and vaguely felt that Yangzhou City was very different.

She opened the curtains slightly, and saw that the street was full of scholars in Confucian shirts, walking in groups of three and two on the Xincheng Ridge Street, with a look of indignation on their faces.

The head of the sedan chair guard walked to the sedan curtain and whispered: "Madam, Yangzhou City has been in chaos for a while. But the adults are back, and it should be fine. ”

Qi Su Niang was puzzled: "What's wrong?" ”

"Jiangnan Township has tried the list, and these scholars have said two sentences to the head of the Ya Gong team, and then they heard a shout on the street: "Let's go, Lord Futai won't let us enter the Yamen, so we will go to demolish the ancestral hall of Zuo Bifan, a corrupt official."

As soon as this voice started, hundreds of Yangzhou scholars on the sub-street responded one after another, "The Jiangning Mansion School has made trouble for the Suzhou scholars, and they can't let them specialize in beauty, but let those corrupt officials know the character of our Yangzhou scholars."

"Demolished the ancestral hall of Zuo Bifan's family"

"Look at how dare he take money from salt merchants"

There was chaos in the street, and the scoundrels and gangsters on the street took advantage of the chaos to smash shops and loot goods, kick the stalls and bully the vendors, pull and tease the women, and the chickens and dogs jumped on the street, and the cries shook the sky.

The head of the official team didn't expect such a situation, and hurriedly said: "Madam, Lord Chen took away forty sedan chair officials, in order to avoid being frightened, Xiaodi thought it would be better to roll around from the north and south willows." Seeing the chaotic crowd surging over, the head of the official squad exclaimed: "Quick, turn into Nanliu Lane"

Qi Su Niang opened the curtain and saw ten servants guarding two sedan chairs, one large and one small, and hurriedly turned into Nanliu Lane on the bank of the Qinhuai River, which was able to avoid the chaotic crowd on the ridge street. She was about to call the team leader to ask carefully, but she heard the team leader cry out bitterly, "Madam, it's not good, Nanliu Lane is also blocked." ”

Qi Su Niang stretched out her head from the sedan chair, looked forward, and sure enough, she saw hundreds of scholars gushing out of the Qinhuai River. They seemed to have received the notice from the scholars of Zijie, and they rushed from Nanliu Lane to Zijie, "The ancestral hall of Zuo Bifan's family is on Gongzi Street, let's go and demolish it."

Seeing the chaos in Nanliu Lane, the prodigal children in the private courtyard of the river house clapped their hands and laughed and poured out, the Laipi gangsters who jumped ashore in the caravan smashed and looted all the way, and the shops and houses by the Qinhuai River rushed to close. The head of the squad turned pale, "Madam, there are too many chaotic people, and the small lands are afraid that they won't be able to stop it."

Although Qi Suniang didn't believe that Yangzhou Shizi even dared to stop the official sedan chair of the government, but seeing the behavior of those gangsters, she also knew that she couldn't take this risk, so she hurriedly shouted: "Stop the sedan car"

Qi Su Niang hurriedly walked out of the official sedan chair and grabbed Bi'er who came out of the small sedan chair, "Don't worry about the sedan chair if it is left on the side of the road, let's run quickly"

Bi'er looked at the more and more crowds on the street, and said hurriedly: "Grandma, there are too many people, I'm afraid I can't run, let's quickly find a shop to hide." ”

The sedan guard was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, pointing to the gangsters who had closed the doors and rushed in to smash them, "It's too late, madam, this is close to Caolian Mansion, and there are many people, let's run to that mansion quickly."

Lian Dahe stood in front of the gate of Caolian Mansion, looking at the chaos in the distance, the voices of crying babies and calling mothers came and went, and he frowned and said: "Call the shop to rest, close the door of the mansion."

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Qi Su Niang held Bi'er in one hand and ran with her skirt in the other, seeing that the black paint Sanshan Gate of Caolian Mansion was slowly closing, and the crowd behind her was getting closer and closer, so she hurriedly said: "Everyone call the door together"

"Don't close the door, don't close the door"

Lian Dahefang walked to the screen, vaguely heard the shouts outside, and turned around and said, "Go and see, what's going on?" ”

The head of the door stuck out of the crack in the door and looked at it, and immediately shouted: "The chief steward is a person from the palace, and Xiaodi recognizes that the official who guards the sedan chair is the lady in charge, and it is the lady of the mansion who has escaped."

Qi Su Niang watched more than a dozen strong men with red scarves on their waists pouring out of Lian Cao's mansion, and hurriedly greeted them behind Lian Dahe, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and clenched Bi'er's hand tightly, "Quick, let's run"

Qi Su Niang stumbled and ran into the gate of Caolian Mansion, and before she could catch her breath, she heard the door head shouting behind her, "Close the door, close the door quickly"

The gate of Caolian Mansion closed suddenly, blocking the chaotic crowd from the door, and the shout of smashing the door sounded immediately, and the government officials and family members of the Lian Mansion inside the door sighed at the same time, "It's dangerous......

Qi Su Niang raised her sleeves to wipe the sweat on her head, and Bi'er also ran with a red face, unable to speak for a while, just panting.

Lian Dahe stepped aside and whispered to his subordinates, "The big boss is not here, let Banye and Ziding come out and wait for Mrs. to sit in the main room." It is said that Mrs. Lian and Aunt Rui went to Tianning Temple outside the city to make incense. After a pause, "Please ask Aunt Gui and Grandma to come out and accompany you." Other daughters-in-law and sons-in-law are not allowed to enter the main house. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next,, more chapters, support the author, support)