Chapter 386 Moving with Affection? Know the reason!

The Caoyun Governor's Mansion in Huai'an has long been the private property of Pingjiang Bofu in the eyes of others, and in contrast, the Pingjiang Bofu Annex, located in Xinjiekou, Nanjing, is much more low-key. It's just that within the simple lintel wall, there are pavilions and pavilions in the middle of the stacked mountains and rocks, small bridges, and flowing water, which is actually a unique and graceful garden flavor. Only this living water leads to the underground spring, and there is no sluice gate leading to the outside, so you are outside the wall, and you can't imagine what the scenery is like inside.

The garden is a good garden, but the owner in it does not have a good mood to enjoy the flowers and the moon. At this moment, at the top of a delicate stone arch bridge across the stream, Pingjiang Bo Fanghan stood against the railing, holding a letter in his hand. He couldn't be more familiar with the handwriting tone, and he used to write a reply as soon as he received it, but now that it's been three days, he is always a little undecided. When he went to see Chen Lan yesterday, he even had the impulse to put out the letter almost on the spot.

"Twenty years in Hedong and twenty years in Hexi, at this time, it is really impossible to say who has the upper hand...... Brother Chen, Brother Chen, when you returned to Beijing in high spirits, you definitely didn't expect to be squeezed out of the capital by your niece, right? It's just that at the moment, she herself is in trouble, and Jinling Academy is not easy to mess with. After listening to what I said yesterday, if she was smart, she should remember that there is still a relative of the Fang family in Jiangnan......"

"Sir, sir"

Fang Hanzheng muttered softly, a little guy suddenly ran out from the corner, walked forward quickly, and knelt down on his knees when he reached the bottom of the stone bridge: "Back to the master, the villain has just been to the Jiang family, and there is still a lot of trouble over there, and the master Jiang can't hold it anymore." However, the little one didn't see Jiang Sigongzi, I heard that people were beaten before, and then they didn't appear in the old mansion, so I think I also know the truth that it is difficult to support alone. The third old lady never came forward, saying that he was an old mistake. ”

"What's the old problem, Master Jiang can't stand it, so I can make the third old lady come." Fang Han said lightly, and then quietly put the letter back into his sleeve, and then turned around to look at the little guy, "Continue to go to the Jiang family to keep an eye on it, and report any movement at any time." In addition, when news came out to the outside world, it was said that I would return to Huai'an within three or two days. ”

"Yes"

Seeing that the little guy kowtowed, he turned around and ran away, and Fang Han walked slowly down the stairs. When he passed through a moon door and went to the study, he saw that the scholar had already arranged a stack of letters and prayer notes and placed them on the desk, and he unhurriedly opened them one by one, and when he saw one of them, he was suddenly shocked and angry, and slammed the table.

"Someone Coming"

The scholar who was originally waiting outside the door hurriedly walked into the room, and when he saw Fang Han's face full of anger, he hurriedly fell to his knees. Fang Han, who was behind the desk, put down the worship note on the table, and immediately shouted angrily: "You dog, why don't you reply to such an important post immediately?"

The scholar was trained with a face full of inexplicability, and it took a long time for Ai Ai to say, "Master, the little one is guilty." But the little ones all looked at the payment carefully, and none of them had official titles written on them, and there were no names and surnames of those people who often came and went on weekdays, let alone any court bigwigs, and the small ones thought they were ......"

"Do you think" Fang Han was angry, pointed at the person and shouted angrily, "Go out and kneel in the courtyard and follow me for so many years, and you can't even remember the name that should be remembered until now, and you will faint your head."

It was only when the boy walked out of the door in embarrassment that he glanced down at the note again. It is neither a famous thorn of bamboo and wood, nor a print sprinkled with gold, but an ordinary post, and there are only two words Qu Yong in the payment, and it is no wonder that the scholar who takes people by things will miss it. However, I don't know if Qu Yong sent the post, meaning that he wanted to see him recently, or if he personally took this thing but was blocked from the door. If it's the latter, then he's in big trouble

Thinking of this, he felt even more angry in his chest, and suddenly shouted that someone came in, and then said angrily: "Pull that dog out to beat twenty boards, and I don't need such people who don't have long eyes and no hearts here."

Just as Fang Han was pacing back and forth in the room in annoyance, another message suddenly came from outside, saying that Mrs. Yang was here. Surprised to hear this information, he suddenly stopped, stood there with his hands behind his back for a long time, and then asked thoughtfully, "Is it here to see Madame, or is there something else?" ”

"Back to my lord, Mrs. Yang is here to visit Mrs., and Mrs. Yang is taking the second lady to meet the guests together."

This unexpected answer suddenly made Fang Han's brows twist into a big pimple. Although he sat down and barely read, he didn't read a word when he turned it upside down. After a long time, he finally felt that his wife had not been prepared for the news in advance, and he felt very uneasy, so he put down the book, called the scholar to give two instructions, and then immediately went out of the study and rushed to the backyard. He walked along the corridor to the door of the five main rooms, and he heard his daughter's cheerful laughter coming from inside.

"Third sister, is the Yanjiu Festival in Baiyun Temple in the capital really so fun? When I go to the capital, will you take me to see it too? ”

"Okay, it's not easy?"

"That's decided, let's pull the hook"

Hearing this, Fang Han suddenly felt a headache, and without waiting for the girl at the door to open the curtain, he pulled up the curtain and walked into the door. went straight through the bead curtain to the back of the next battle, and he found that his wife didn't know where to go, only the second wife Fang Jing and a few girls were there. Fang Jing, who was only eleven years old, didn't notice that he had entered the house at this moment, but just blinked and looked at Chen Lan beside him, the little finger of his right hand was cocked high, and his face was full of expectation.

When Fang Han saw that Chen Lan didn't have the slightest cold defense in front of him, he actually really smiled and stretched out his hand, he finally couldn't help coughing. Seeing Fang Jing glance back, he immediately jumped up, and stood up with his hands down in a proper manner and called Dad, he glared at her unhappily, and then stepped forward with a spring breeze on his face.

"My wife is really negligent, and she only keeps this ignorant girl to accompany the guest, please don't be surprised by the county lord of Haining." Catching a glimpse of his daughter pouting aggrievedly, he immediately shouted unhappily, "What are you still standing here for, have you forgotten your lesson?" ”

Glimpsing Fang Jing playing with the corners of his clothes, but his eyes were still sneaking over, Chen Lan didn't pay attention to Fang Han's cold face towards his daughter, smiled and bent down to mumble a few words in his ear. Seeing that his eyes were bright, he nodded vigorously, then took two steps back to give a salute, and then followed his mother and the girl in a proper manner, and she looked up at Fang Han at the most.

"It is said that the style of Pingjiang Bofu is strict, I still don't believe it, but now that your goddaughter is so strict, I know that the rumors are true. It's just that Sister Jing'er is not as ignorant as you said, Mrs. Pingjiang just walked away for this small meeting, she is very attentive to her hospitality, and I was not so orderly when I was as old as her. ”

If others praise their daughter, Fang Han would have to smile and be humble, but the second daughter Fang Jing has always been innocent, and she was so clingy just now, where did he dare to take this stubble, and after a haha, he changed the topic and said: "The county lord came by chance today, and in a few days, my wife and Jing will return to Huai'an." ”

"You're going back so soon?" Chen Lan raised his eyebrows, and then smiled, "It seems that it is better to be in time than to be in time." If it's really your family that goes back, and there are some things that can't be consulted by the owner, then it's really unclear. ”

The words "some things" made Fang Han's heart move. Thinking that he had mentioned his mother Fang to Chen Lan yesterday, he naturally thought that Chen Lan came today for the old things, so he smiled and said: "So, if it is a coincidence, it is naturally fate." If the county lord asks something, you might as well say it directly, but what I know must know everything and say everything. ”

"Then I'll thank Uncle Ping Jiang in advance."

Chen Lan smiled, and when Fang Han was seated, she sat down with her, and then said unhurriedly: "Yesterday, Steward Zheng of the Yangning Marquis Mansion came to visit me in the other courtyard and told me a strange thing. It is said that it is the two granges of the Yangning Marquis Mansion on the ground of Jinling Mansion, and they have somehow been moved across the boundary monument. I didn't believe it at first, so I asked people to go to the government office to check the fish scale book, and then asked Steward Zheng to check it, and then I found out that it was really wrong. If it is another grange, it will naturally have to be re-established by the government, but this grange is a manor given by the emperor in the early years, and the boundary monument is also given by the emperor when he ascended the throne of each dynasty, which is not trivial. ”

Fang Han was still smiling just now, but at this time, the smile suddenly froze on his face. He was already prepared, if Chen Lan asked about the Fang family, he would first say that the Fang family was rejected by the Zhu family, the wife of the Marquis of Yangning, when they went to Beijing to visit, and then mentioned the current days of Chen Lan's two in-laws and uncles, and then said something else, in short, they were moved by emotion and reason. However, Chen Lan didn't say a word as if he didn't remember this incident at all, and he suddenly had a sense of powerlessness that had been accumulating a punch on the cotton for a long time.

However, when he looked back and pondered Chen Lan's words carefully, he was even more frightened for a while. Most of the industries in the Yangning Marquis Mansion are in the north, and Jiangnan is out of reach, and when he and Chen Ying were friendly earlier, he had quietly moved a lot. For example, the land near the two estates was in the name of one of his stewards. Originally, in order to prevent the Zhu family from doing anything in these industries before the fall, Chen Ying could always get back the properties of these rich lands in the south of the Yangtze River, but now that the times have changed, this is the biggest trick

Thinking of this, he barely managed to squeeze out a smile: "What does the county lord mean?" ”

"I'm young, where do I know this." Although Chen Lan smiled on his face and his tone was soft, his words were as sharp as a knife, "Only although I am now the wife of the Yang family, the Hou Mansion is my maiden family after all, and I can't ignore this matter." Uncle Ping Jiang and my third uncle are officials in the same dynasty, and the Chen Fang family is married again, so you can't stand by and watch such a big thing, right? ”

"Madam, is it too abrupt for you to leave the second lady alone to accompany the county lord of Haining?"

"In the future, when Jing'er marries, she has to call someone her aunt and grandmother, and now there is a good opportunity, isn't it best for people to get along? Chen Ying is really indisputable, and has offended all the old ladies in the family in the long room and the second room, and now Mrs. Yangning Hou is still there, when Jing'er marries over, in case she is harassed by someone in three days, how can she afford it? But as long as she pleases the aunt and grandmother now, and after entering her in-law's house, people say two good words, it will definitely be more effective than anything else. ”

The more Mrs. Pingjiang spoke, the more proud she became, and she sat there and laughed again: "Jing'er is my daughter, I don't know her temperament yet?" As long as the county lord of Haining is the kind of person who is rumored, he will definitely like Jing'er's innocent temperament. This is also thanks to the fact that she is favored by me at the top and protected by her brothers and sisters below, and she has not learned so many tricks, otherwise she may not be able to fool the past. As long as you have a firm foothold, it is difficult to say what the future will be like the inheritance of the title, and maybe you can still have the blessing of being Mrs. Hou for a while. ”

"Madame is really a last resort."

The mother on the side was just as she greeted her, and saw a figure slam into the door curtain and rush into the house. Startled, she was about to scold, but she recognized that it was the second young lady Fang Jing, and quickly closed her mouth, but her expression was suspicious. Fang Jing didn't care about this, she plunged into her mother's arms and became coquettish: "Mother, my third sister and I were talking and laughing, but my father suddenly entered the house, and couldn't help but reprimand me, and kicked me out, and the third sister promised me that she would take me to Baiyun to watch the Yan Jiu Festival in the capital in the future."

Mrs. Pingjiang hugged her daughter, and was about to ask something when she heard such words, and was immediately stunned. After a while, she pressed Fang Jing's shoulder to move people away, and asked again, "Jing'er, you said that your father suddenly came in and sent you away?" Then your father is talking to your third sister in the main room? ”

"Yes" Fang Jing rubbed her eyes vigorously, and then pouted and said, "As soon as my father came in, he said that I was ignorant, and asked me not to delay the afternoon class, but this time I came out, and the female celebrity in the piano class every day has never left behind ......"

"Okay, okay, don't make trouble, don't make trouble"

Mrs. Pingjiang comforted her, and then called Fang Jing's nurse in, and asked her to take the little girl in to wash her face, and then serve and read the book later, and then hurriedly went out with her mother. Walking outside, she started quickly and quickly, but as she walked, she remembered that she had a gray nose when she went back to the doll garden last time, and when she came back, she provoked Fang Han to complain, and her feet gradually slowed down, and finally stopped there. At this time, the mother in the back was not paying attention and almost hit her back.

"Ma'am?" The mother staggered and leaned away, and it was easy to stand firm, and after a while, she smiled and said, "Madam, the county lord of Haining is a female guest after all, and it is not appropriate to let the master accompany him after all, you are the head of the house, you should always go over to accompany you." ”

Mrs. Pingjiangbo was told that she was thinking through, and she couldn't help but glance back at her, and then said with a reserved face: "That's it, there is no reason for the old man to see other people's daughters." The old man is too anxious, I don't know what to say, send someone to say to me first, is it that at my age, I can't deal with a little girl who is less than twenty-eight? There is no reason to spread it out and make people look down on our Pingjiang Bofu, it is the county lord of Haining, and it doesn't sound good to say. ”

As she said this, she walked slowly with a shelf. When she arrived at the door of the main room, she deliberately coughed lightly, and then let the mother open the door curtain, and she gently and skillfully lifted the golden lotus skirt in front of her and stepped over the threshold. But as soon as she stood still, she saw that her husband was sitting on the main seat with his forehead up, and he couldn't see his expression clearly for a while, while Chen Lan in the guest seat was sitting indifferently and tasting tea, and only when he heard the movement did he look up at her. When they looked at each other, she actually shuddered.

The look in his eyes was completely different from what she had seen before, with a chilling coldness hidden in his gentleness.

"Old ...... Master. Mrs. Pingjiang suddenly couldn't even speak smoothly, and when she saw Fang Han raise her head when she heard the voice, she said a little unnaturally, "I heard what Jing'er said, so come and take a look." ”

"Get Out"

The two words that Fang Han suddenly burst out made Mrs. Pingjiang stunned for a moment. She wanted to defend a few words, but as soon as she came into contact with her husband's eyes, she unconsciously took a step back as if she had just avoided Chen Lan's gaze. However, the mother and the girl behind her had already followed, she didn't want to quit so disgracefully to make people laugh, so she smiled and said: "Master, the county lord of Haining is a female dependant after all, and someone must accompany ......her."

"Get out, don't make me say it a third time"

Eating this roar, Mrs. Pingjiangbo's face suddenly changed. And at this moment, Chen Lan put down the teacup in his hand and stood up, because he said with a smile: "The stakes are very high, and Ping Jiangbo should not be angry, just think about it." I came here today in a bit of a hurry, I just met Sister Jing'er, I even forgot the meeting gift, and asked Mrs. Pingjiang to wait for me to hand it over to her. ”

As he spoke, Chen Lan plucked a red gold hairpin from his head and handed it to Mrs. Pingjiangbo, who was stiff-faced, with a smile. Seeing that she was stunned for a moment before reaching out to take it, she squirmed her mouth but didn't seem to know what to say, so she nodded slightly: "Sister Jing'er has a lively and cheerful temperament, and she is very spleen and stomach to me. I've been here for so long, and it's time to say goodbye. ”

was relieved by Chen Lan like this, and the dull and stiff atmosphere in the room just now finally eased a lot. Mrs. Pingjiang reluctantly smiled, and said a few more polite words, and Pingjiang Uncle Fang Han also got up, his face did not have the coldness and impatience before, but decently kept it, and then gave it away in person. He behaved like this, Mrs. Pingjiang naturally didn't want to send it, so the couple sent people all the way to Ermen, until they saw people boarding the carriage, and with the sound of the carriage quickly disappeared from sight, Fang Han suddenly snorted coldly, and turned around and left without saying a word.

It was too late for Mrs. Pingjiang to open her mouth to call someone. But after all, she was still full of fire in her belly, so she simply chased after her, and she followed straight to the study. As soon as she stepped inside, she violently kicked out all the scholars, and let her mother watch outside, and then she broke into the back room in a rage.

"Master, I've been married to you for decades. Today in front of outsiders, you just give me no face"

Fang Han was bored in his heart at this time. Chen Lan's first words were just an introduction, and what mattered was the later words.

He had always felt that he had looked up to the county lord of Haining enough, but it turned out that he still underestimated her. She even knew very well about the smuggling of a sea between him and Nanjing garrison Xu Yang, and then put out the matter of the conflict between the second son of the Xu family and her in Jinling Academy, and finally pointed out that the Grand Canal has gradually shown a silting trend over the years, if those officials under the command of Jinling Academy work together, shipping really completely replaces Caoyun, and he, the governor of Caoyun, will no longer have the need to exist, and he has to carefully consider her proposal.

This little girl who is not yet fifteen, even if she is well-informed, and there are other capable people under her command, but after all, she suddenly saw and exposed his biggest shortcoming, no wonder a shrewd and mean person like Chen Ying would lose so quickly and so badly

Therefore, after listening to Mrs. Pingjiangbo's words at this time, he immediately became impatient, and roared in a low voice: "What has a face and no face, since they have been husband and wife for many years, you should know, if there is something important, I have nothing to do with other women's relatives, you dare to break in without a head and no brain, and forget it, and don't care about those mothers and girls who follow you, if they hear something that they shouldn't hear, even if someone has raised you since childhood, they can't stay."

Mrs. Pingjiangbo, who was originally upright, ate this drink, and immediately put away her angry appearance, and her face was a little more cautious: "Master, what is so important?" Could it be ...... Could it be that she dares to threaten you with something? If that's the case, you can't be fooled and easily agree to something, why don't we discuss it......"

"Okay, have you said enough" As soon as his wife opened her mouth, she guessed that she would not leave ten, Fang Han was suddenly even more annoyed, and stood up as soon as he pressed the desk, "You don't understand these things, it's good if you don't help me, it's enough for you to take care of your children, you don't have to pay attention to anything else, remember to take Jing'er to Xinjiekou to worship in two days." ”

"Huh? Didn't the first say, let's go back to Huai'an in a few days? ”

"Who said that?" Fang Han was even more annoyed when he heard this, and couldn't help but slam the table hard, "These bastards, let them spread the news outside, not let them chew their tongues in their own homes, you pass on the word to me, if anyone talks about anything that can't go, the family law will wait for you to mention it to a few children, and we have to stay in Nanjing for a while." ”

At the same time, Chen Lan, who was returning by car, couldn't help but let out a long breath. She had already turned over most of Fang Han's cards, and he didn't know how many cards he had, so this could have the upper hand. It's just that that Ping Jiangbo still used that trick after all, repeatedly hinting to her about her mother's maiden family, but she used Tai Chi to prevaricate.

Relatives are not simply related by family name, but because they maintain these feelings. They didn't even show up when she got married, but now they came out of thin air, and what kind of feelings did they talk to her, isn't it ridiculous?

As the car shook, she gradually closed her eyes. I don't know how long later, she suddenly noticed a violent shaking of the car, and she instinctively grabbed the special copper handle on the side, and was suspicious to think that the old thing was repeating, but the car was quickly stable, and the voice of the coachman came from the outside.

"Madam, someone stopped the car outside to complain"