Song Zaishui's letter had not yet arrived in Xiliangcheng, and since Shangguan Shiyi finally returned, Wei Changying returned to Xiliangcheng with her husband.

Although they have been away for a few days, because Diecuiguan is also in Xiliang, and the Huang family is in charge of internal affairs in the ancestral hall, it is no different from when they were there, and the courtyard of the house is cleaned to the dust.

Looking at the inside and outside of the window, Wei Changying nodded with satisfaction and said to the Huang family: "Auntie has worked hard. ”

"It's all a servant, what hard work can there be?" Huang smiled, and saw that Wei Changying's 'spirit' was good, so he told the matter as well, "A few days ago, over there in Ji Yuan, Mr. Ji sent Master Cao Shaobao to come again. Nominally, he sent some native products over, but the maid looked at the lord of Cao Shaobao and wanted to find the young lady for something. The maid asked so, but when the lord of Cao Shaobao heard that the young lady and the son were not there, he said that he would wait until the young lady and the son came back. The maid was going to write a letter to tell the young lady, but before the letter was written, she received the news that the young lady and the young lady were coming back, so she ......"

"The little 'girl' ran again?" Wei Changying was a little surprised, "She also sent local products again?" But I don't know what kind of native product it is? Could it be that where did their people from Caojiabao dig up the second old ginseng, or the mountain treasures such as Ganoderma lucidum and Shou Wu? ”

Huang said: "The maid also guessed like this, and at that time, he also told the person who picked up the things to be careful!" As a result, I 'got the things' out and looked at them one by one, and this time they were really all local products. It's just some ordinary vegetables, and the maid didn't feel at ease, so she took them to the small kitchen and selected some of them to cook, cut them all and broke them...... But there is no entrainment. ”

"Then she just wants to see us." Wei Changying smiled and said, "I don't know what it's for this time?" ”

Huang asked, "Does the young lady want to see her?" ”

"Ming'er will send someone to pick her up." Wei Changying thought for a moment and said.

That night, Wei Changying told Shen Zangfeng about this: "The 'Meng' Mountain Gang seems to be a little unable to sit still. ”

"It's natural." Shen Zangfeng quickly took off her dress and said, "Previously, Di was defeated and split into two departments to fight each other, so Lai Dayong had the intention of defecting. Now that Aitahu's request for peace talks has been granted, how can Lai Dayong not become more and more anxious? ”

"He's in Guanzhou, and he's not in Xiliang." Wei Changying asked her husband to pick her up, stretched out her arms around his neck and 'kissed', and asked with a smile, "What is he anxious about?" Are you afraid that you will free your hand from the Di people and not let go of Caojiabao? Is his relationship with Cao Jiabao so close? Caojiabao is not in such a hurry now! ”

Shen Zangfeng raised his head from her cheek and said with a smile: "He saw that I invited Brother Shangguan, and he temporarily freed his hand from the outside, for fear that he would be one step too late and not be able to be a confidant!" ”

"Hey, he's here for your henchman?" Wei Changying asked in surprise, but what else did she want to say, but Shen Zangfeng didn't have the patience to continue answering......

Early the next morning, the next person brought Cao Ya over.

Wei Changying saw her alone, first asked Ji Gu's body, and learned that Ji Gu was fine, and now he could walk with a cane, he was very happy, and ordered to send some nourishing things to Ji Yuan.

After such greetings, Wei Changying asked Cao Ya again what was the matter with coming to look for her before.

This is an unruly and disrespectful wild girl in Qi Shankou, the head of Ji Yuan, who has always been shy in front of Wei Changying, and when she asked, she didn't say much, so she took out a letter from her arms and 'handed it over' to Shi Yu in the hall.

Wei Changying didn't answer the letter, so she swept it up with Shi Yu, and saw that there was not a word on the envelope, so she asked Cao Ya: "This is?" ”

Cao Ya whispered: "What my grandfather gave me, let me 'hand' it over to the young lady." ”

After asking a few more words, I saw that the little 'girl' lowered her head and 'rubbed' the corners of her clothes vigorously.

What is written in this letter, Wei Changying can also guess it, Ji Gu is also in Xiliang City - Wei Changying was sued by Qi Shan several times, and his impression of Cao Ya was not very good, and he was not in the mood to tease her when he saw this, so he sent her back.

Cao Ya was taken out by Shi Yu, and Wei Changying 'handed over' the letter to Huang and opened it aside. After all, such a thin letterhead, even if it has hands and feet, is poisoned. The Huang family, who studied under Ji Quai, is not afraid of poison.

After a while, Huang finished the inspection, and returned it to Wei Changying: "There was no tampering with the letter. ”

Wei Changying nodded, in fact, she also felt that this letter was impossible to use whether it was written by Ji Gu or Lai Dayong. It's just that the son of a daughter can't sit down, and it has become a habit for this kind of sudden letterhead to be checked before it can be read in his own hands.

After taking the letter, Wei Changying hadn't seen it yet, and a figure flashed at the threshold of the 'door', but it was Shen Zangfeng who came in, his face was a little weird, with some irony.

Wei Changying put down the letter and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Shen Zangfeng smiled and said: "I remembered that Brother Shangguan followed us to Xiliang City, although he had arranged a place to live, but there was always only one servant by his side, did you add a few maids to serve him, so I came to tell you...... I didn't want to meet the young castle master of the Cao family on the road. ”

"What's wrong with Cao Ya?" Wei Changying asked curiously, "Could it be that she said something arrogant to you?" Qi Shan has always said that this Cao Ya often scolds Ji Gu, and never calls Ji Gu his grandfather in person, he is a "old immortal", and he is very unfilial...... Could it be that Cao Ya 'revealed' this original form as soon as she left her, which happened to let Shen Zangfeng bump into it?

However, Shen Zangfeng shook his head and said, "The servant led her out, and when she met her on the way, the servant reminded her to salute me." As a result, the little girl raised her head and looked at me, and immediately her face changed greatly, as if she had been frightened by me, and she gave a salute in a panic, and then she pulled the sleeve of the servant tightly, and hurried away almost as if she had taken off the servant's shield. ”

Wei Changying was confused when she heard this, and said, "Could it be that she did something wrong?" It's just that Fang is very well-behaved in front of me. ”

Shen Zangfeng said: "Yes, Shen Die said that she was afraid of life?" But I don't think she saw me once last time? Besides, when she hadn't looked up at me before, she wasn't that scared. ”

"Go back and let Qi Shan inquire." Although Wei Changying didn't have time to read the letter because her husband came in, she also swept the letter's head, which was "'Meng' Mountain Gang Lai Dayong bowed down", so she handed the letter over, "You came just in time, this letter is for you." ”

Shen Zangfeng took the letter and read it carefully, Wei Changying also came over, and the husband and wife read the letter together, and they both smiled slightly.

The letter was not only written by Lai Dayong, the leader of the 'Meng' Mountain Gang, but also Lai Dayong put forward the intention of defecting very happily in the letter.

"It seems that Lai Dayong has a deep relationship with Caojiabao, and it is not as simple as Caojiabao buying 'private' salt from him." Wei Changying held her husband's arm, tilted her head and said, "He wants to defect to you, but he hasn't forgotten to take Caojiabao with him." ”

"Otherwise, I wouldn't have forwarded this letter to Jigu." Shen Zangfeng smiled slightly and said, "But since the letter says so, why are the bandits in Guanzhou so close to my fortress of Xiliang's homeless settlement, if you want to ask, you will know...... The three thousand people of Caojiabao are well, Shen Die, you go and invite Uncle Nine to come to the ancestral hall to talk about it. ”

The ninth uncle is Shen Donglai, and now the history of the Western Liang Thorn.

Because Lai Dayong not only closed the case for the people in the 'Meng' Mountain Gang, including him, but also put forward a request for the displaced people in Caojiabao to return to their hometowns and distribute the land for their livelihood.

These two points are not difficult for Shen Zangfeng, the first one he wrote a letter to the court, and Shen Xuan and Shen Zhou discussed it with each family - the saint loves to hear good news and hates all kinds of bad news. Especially the news of bandits in the country, the Holy One doesn't like to hear it the most, and every time he reports this kind of subordinates, he will inevitably be angered by the Holy One.

Over time, no one reported the news about the bandits. Speaking of which, the 'Meng' Mountain Gang has been raging in Guanzhou for quite some years, but the Holy Lord still doesn't know about it. Therefore, if you want to cancel the case for them, you only need to discuss it with the Duanmu family in charge of the Ministry of Officials and directly destroy the case file.

The latter is even less difficult, say hello to Shen Donglai, re-register the displaced people in Caojiabao, and assign some fields to each household...... Many of the people in it actually originally had land, but they couldn't bear the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, so they abandoned the land and ran into Caojiabao. As long as these people's fields are returned to them, some tax can be reduced.

Shen Zangfeng obviously wanted to handle these two things immediately, so he sent someone to invite Shen Dong to come over on the spot.

Shen Dong, who has no ability and relies on his father's fast and accurate standing in line to get the position of the history of the Western Liang Thorn, will not go against Shen Zangfeng's intentions.

Shen Zangfeng then wrote a reply letter that he could agree to both conditions and that he had already started to work on, and sent someone to Ji Yuan.

After receiving the letter, he immediately brought only a dozen skilled helpers, disguised themselves as business travelers, and went straight to Xiliang City, asking Jigu to help as usual, and asking to see Shen Zangfeng.

"Your Uncle Lai from a neighboring county?" Wei Changying heard Cao Ya, who came to the 'door' again, said this, and sighed slightly, thinking that the relationship between Lai Dayong and Cao Jiabao is really not shallow, let Cao Ya call him uncle, isn't it a brother and sister with Mu 'Chun'? In this way, it is not true that the rumor that Limu 'Chun' Mian has a 'private' relationship with this Lai Dayong.

But these are all trivial matters - Wei Changying settled down, and according to Shen Zangfeng's previous instructions, he happily asked Cao Ya to tell her uncle and teach him to enter Mingpei Hall from the corner 'gate' in two days, and someone would guide him at that time.

Two days later, Wei Changying arranged for a tight-tongued servant to go to the corner 'door' to guide the way, and the person would be taken to a secluded courtyard in the front yard, and Shen Zangfeng would wait in it - these were all official matters, Wei Changying didn't ask much, and went to deal with the backyard chores accumulated when he left Xiliang City.

As a result, in the afternoon, Wei Changying had lunch alone and was 'wanting' to take a nap. The little envoy 'girl' selected from the Shen family's sons ran in in a hurry, and didn't even ask if the maid and Wei Changying who were standing on the cloister were already asleep at the moment, and rushed into the house, and without waiting for the ambassador's 'women' to reprimand, she angrily said: "Young lady, the group of people you asked the maid to lead to go to the northeast corner to see the prince in the courtyard across the courtyard, they want the son to take a concubine!" ”