Xie Wan looked out through the translucent window, the crowd was surging, but it was still orderly, and there were many people in the carriage, and it seemed that they didn't want to miss the opportunity to cheer up the soldiers of the Eastern Expedition.

After waiting for a while, I heard the faint sound of horses' hooves, and then Qian Zhuang knocked on the door of the car at the front of the car: "The army is coming." ”

Xing Zhu rolled up the curtain and looked at it, and heard the sound of horses' hooves getting closer and closer, like a rainstorm hitting the roof tiles, Xie Wan moved to the car window and looked out, only to see a large group of people and horses slowly driving in the city, embroidered with the flag of the Great Yin Country flying high, and walking in the front of a group of soldiers, led by a tiger general wearing sterling silver armor, a copper heart guard on his chest, should be the marshal Fu Ke this time.

As the army marched all the way, the people gave their wishes one after another, and officials from all over the country also stepped forward to pay their respects.

For an ordinary expedition, it will not be used to send important members of the imperial court, so what came today was just a few Langzhong of the military department, read out the expedition speech, and then toast a few glasses of wine.

Fu Ke said goodbye to the officials and got back on his horse, and then continued to drive forward.

Everything looks normal. Xie Wan's brows furrowed more and more, could it be that her intuition was wrong, and sending her off on the expedition actually didn't provide her with any answers?

She stared at the team, and there was still a distance of twenty or thirty feet, and the team was about to leave the city gate. Out of the city gates, the army will speed up and march southeast. It's unlikely that she'll find anything again.

She was suddenly a little deflated, as if she had burrowed into a black hole, and the key point was that she couldn't even see what the hole looked like.

"Girl, someone has stepped forward to toast again." Xing Zhu suddenly reminded her.

She looked up. Sure enough, a scribe in the crowd stepped forward with a wine glass, and he didn't know what to say to Fu Ke, but Fu Ke actually got off the horse again and drank the wine. It is said that the expedition is an extremely serious matter, and no one in the people should dare to come forward to obstruct the trip, why did this scribe even take the trouble to bring wine forward? And what is even more puzzling is why Fu Ke specially got off the horse to receive wine?

Could it be his own father?

Xie Wan didn't want to let go of all the abnormalities, she said to Xing Zhu: "You continue to stare here, Qian Zhuang drove over, and we went to stare at the scribe." ”

Xing Zhu opened the door and got out of the car when he heard this. Here Qian Zhuang stared at the scribe. I saw that after he finished toasting, he also got into a carriage behind him. When the soldiers went out, the crowd gradually dispersed, and Qian Zhuang quietly drove the car over to a place more than ten feet away from the carriage. The carriage in front also began to move.

All the way to the city.

I don't know how many alleys have been bypassed. The carriage slowed down. Xie Wan sat up straight and looked out the window, only to see that the street was open, and the fence along the street was so long that it could not be seen. Gu Xing looked at it. said: "It seems to be at Zhongmingfang." Gu Xing often helps Xie Wan find out the news in Beijing on weekdays, so she is already quite familiar with the terrain.

Xie Wan was about to speak, when Qian Zhuang said: "Girl, there is Ji Mansion in front, and the scribe went into Ji Mansion with the carriage." ”

Ji Fu? Xie Wan was shocked, opened the car door and went to the ground, and on the lintel diagonally opposite the front, sure enough, the word Ji Fu was written!

Ji Zhenyuan's subordinates specially went to toast Fu Ke, and the people who were relatives of the Protector Mansion would actually disembark for one of Ji Mansion's subordinates!

Suddenly there was the sound of a car behind him, and when he got behind him, he suddenly stopped, and a voice sounded lazily in the car window: "I'm surprised, isn't it?" Fu Ke, who is obviously in-law with the Huo family, actually respects a staff member of the Ji Mansion so much. ”

Xie Wan turned around, and Xie Rong was sitting in the car, raising his lips and looking at her condescendingly.

He chuckled, and continued: "You would never have thought that because the family of the Protector Mansion is big, and he is worried that he will be too close to the nobles and cause the court to be vigilant, so he has always been alienated from these nobles, and Lanling Hou has no hope of clinging to the Huo family, so he has to find another way out for his family." Fu Ke has been in contact with Ji Ge since he married Lan Linghou's granddaughter. ”

Xie Wan pursed his lips and glared at him fiercely.

It's a plan of calculations! It was from the moment she went to Siye Hutong to have a showdown with Xie Rong, Xie Rong began to officially respond to her attack, he deliberately used the family tree as bait to lure her to promote the smooth stay of the Protector in Beijing, and Ji Zhenyuan They could "helplessly" give this opportunity to Fu Ke! Yin Yao's side has been assisted by military power since then, and the key is that no one knows that Fu Ke is their person!

She gritted her teeth, "Why are you telling me?" ”

The smile on his lips turned cold, and suddenly he got up and stepped out of the carriage, got off the ground, and paced in front of her.

"Telling you is to let you know that you want to defeat me, and it's too tender."

He turned sideways and squinted around, "Even if I tell you, you are helpless, Fu Ke has been ordered to go out on the expedition, and the 30,000 soldiers in the East China Sea will be in his hands from now on." If you go and tell Huoda and Yin Yu at this moment, they can only stare dryly. The emperor doesn't care how we fight, maybe the more he fights, the happier he is, the more equal the forces on both sides, the more assured he is, all he wants is the stability of the country, the dynasty fights, since ancient times, which dynasty has not? ”

Xie Wan stood in the cold wind, and his heart, which had just been hot because of anger, gradually grew cold.

If it weren't for her behind her, Fu Ke would not have been so inconspicuous, compared to letting the Duke of Huguo leave Beijing and then go to the book to establish the grandson, it turns out that they are still ready to fight hard.

She embarrassed Xie Rong ten times before, but she was not as badly defeated as she was this time.

Xie Rong, sure enough, she couldn't break it down in three or two.

She took a deep breath and looked at him calmly: "Taught, third uncle." ”

Xie Rong raised his lips again and said kindly: "I will go back to Qinghe for the New Year and bring you the meat muffins made by the house we eat." ”

Treat her as a childish child.

Xie Wan pinched his palms and raised his lips and said, "Okay." ”

On the way back to the house, Xie Wanchang let out a long breath, the matter has come to this, she can only admit it, but this war is not over, even if in his heart she is just a young girl who does not know the height of the sky, she will not admit defeat, and she cannot admit defeat. Although they used her to push Fu Ke to the East China Sea, it didn't mean that they would be able to achieve the final victory, did it?

As long as Yin Yu is still there, as long as she is still there, even if she fights until the last moment, she can't let Ji Zhenyuan and them succeed. The throne does not have to be Yin Yu to sit, but Yin Yao must fall. Yin Yao will not fall, and Yin Yu will always face the situation of being attacked on his back. Today's Yin Yu is too passive, how difficult it is for him to break out of the encirclement, Ji Zhenyuan and his party are the first and biggest hurdles he wants to conquer.

Only after overturning them will Yin Yu change from passive to active, as long as he has the initiative, then even if there will be resistance and obstacles afterwards, it is not comparable to the current situation.

If she chooses him, she must choose the path he will take.

Only this time, she really felt a little guilty.

When she got out of the car when she returned to the house, she said to Qian Zhuang: "You go to Yin's mansion and tell Gongzi Yin about today." If he is not there, tell Pang Bai. ”

Nothing has changed, but it is necessary to inform you.

Qian Zhuang arrived at Yin's mansion, but Yin Yu had not returned. After entering the door at night, Pang Bai told him about it.

He already knew. When the Eastern Expeditionary Army set off, he also sent someone to follow him, and the person who came also followed Ji Zhenyuan's staff all the way to Ji's mansion. Since Fu Ke and the people of Ji Mansion were so enthusiastic, then he could also guess that Xie Wan was being used by Xie Rong in the middle of this time.

How could she be blamed for this? Not only her, but also Protector and Wei Bin didn't expect that Fu Ke had already had a private relationship with Ji Zhenyuan, and everyone was also trying to dissuade the emperor at that time.

She must have felt bad in her heart.

He pondered for a while, went to the street to buy a pack of warm sugar-fried chestnuts, and came back to give it to Pang Bai: "Let someone send it to Maple Hutong for Miss Wan to eat." ”

Pang Bai paused and said, "It's so late, it's easy to accumulate food when you eat chestnuts." ”

Yin Yu said: "She is happy." The heart is not happy, and it hurts the liver and spleen even more. ”

When Pang Bai arrived at Xie Mansion, Xie Wan was already ready to rest, and when he saw the chestnuts that were still hot brought by Mother Wu, he suddenly had a sour nose.

Originally, he said that eating chestnuts at night was easy to accumulate, but now he specially asked someone to send such a big bag, is it to make her happy?

Yin Yu got the news here, and Huguo Gong and Wei Bin naturally quickly knew that they had been tricked by Ji Zhenyuan this time, but they were really helpless while being angry. And then Ji Zhenyuan and his party were also very proud in the court and the cabinet, but the people who mixed into this realm were not people who couldn't hold their breath, Wei Bin and Duan Shen turned their attention to the matter of foreign officials going to Beijing to report on their work at the end of the year.

Recently, the investigation of illegal prostitution has caused a lot of trouble in the major yamen, and those who have committed crimes below the fourth rank have been directly punished, while those who have committed crimes above the fourth rank and below the second rank have been demoted or fined according to the severity of the circumstances. There are only three real second-grade or above, but now they have all made up for it. And the following can be selected from some of the people who came to Beijing to report on their work.

Xu is these people all know that this year is a fat year, so before the new year arrives, many people are ready to let people enter Beijing to fight in front of the station, and the Beijing division is more lively than in previous years.

On the day of Laba, Luo Ju and Shen Tian have returned, thirty rice shops along the canal have been successfully opened, and the rice warehouse of the Xie family in the south and the two lakes has also been built, Shen Tian has brought out several capable subordinates, and Luo Ju will sit in the Qianmen Hutong rice shop head office in the future, and Shen Tian is in charge of the rice shop outside Beijing.

At the same time, Old Man Ning also went to Beijing, it turned out that he opened the Lanting Pavilion to two pavilions, and always remembered that Xie Wan was good at the beginning, so he specially came to invite Xie Wan to join the shares. Mr. Ning's business strategy Xie Wan is not unconvinced, Lanting's branch in Nanzhili is in full swing, and he can only make money and lose money if he invests in the shares. Xie Wanyuan didn't want to take advantage of the old man, but people came to the door twice or three times, and she had to agree to think about it.

And Hong Lianzhu was thinking about what kind of shops to buy for her as a dowry, and when she heard that there was such a good opportunity to make money, she took out 8,000 taels of silver and bought two shares for her. The old man smiled, flattering Hong Lianzhu with a lot of good words, as if he had benefited. (To be continued.) )