Chapter 235 Ten Mile Village
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Song Nan was very idle throughout the two months, and there was no need to bother with the big and small affairs in the yamen, Hou Dabiao, Zheng Da, Wanzhi, Wang Yong and others were also becoming more and more sophisticated, and they were also used to Song Nan's way of handling things.
Because of tearing off his face with Liu Jin, Song Nan also had to be careful to beware of some potential dangers, and did not pursue Cui Xiu's death too much, firstly, there is no evidence, and secondly, it is not necessary, after all, the strength of himself and Liu Jin is too different, and when many ministers in the DPRK and China fall to Liu Jin, it is unwise to openly challenge him.
The self-correction action within the Beizhen Fusi also found some signs, and the results were surprising, one of the thirteen Taibao of the former Beizhen Fusi was named Luo Yukun, who was quite suspicious, and there were also two hundred households in the prison who also had strange whereabouts. But Song Nan chose not to move, and there was no certificate to prove that the deaths of Xu Liang and Qian Kang were directly related to them, and it was no secret that there was an eyeliner in the East Factory inside Jinyiwei, just like when Mu Bin was in office, there were also people in the East Factory, everyone knew it.
But in terms of intimacy, it is natural to take precautions, and Song Nan will never let the top-secret news be known by these people again. After several adjustments in the personnel of the Zhenfu Division, the core of power is basically concentrated on a few people trusted by Song Nan, and it is impossible for Liu Jin not to know about this, but Song Nan is not difficult, and he can't find any opportunities, but he just keeps asking Shi Wenyi to make things difficult for the North Zhenfu Division, looking for opportunities to say some words about Song Nan in front of Zhengde.
Song Nan stayed in the yamen for very little time, and spent most of his time outside of official duties doing his own private affairs, and Lu Qingli stayed up for a few nights, and finally formed the flintlock's shotgun double-shot firebolt, and used the technique of pulling the trigger twice to ignite, and successfully solved the time interval between the two shots.
However, due to the high cost, each firearm cost nearly three hundred taels of silver to build and ammunition reserves, so Song Nan secretly built twenty of them, which were distributed to several of his closest cronies and the personal guard team; It was a big crime to make a fire gun privately, but Song Nan didn't care about this, he just went to a place outside Beijing when he built it, and he didn't arouse suspicion in the eye-lined capital.
Song Nan's hard search for a way to make money has not appeared, although with the family's shop has earned a lot of income, but with the promotion of official positions, it has ushered in more frequent gifts for guests, and there are dozens of people to support at home.
After the 20 shotguns were built, the accounts were settled, and six or seven thousand taels were spent, which not only taught people to smack their tongues, but this money could provide food and clothing for hundreds of families of six or seven for a year in the people.
Song Nan also mentioned this matter in the chat, but there was no new way to make money, but Ye Fanggu reminded Song Nan that Liu Jin was ordered by the emperor to give Song Nan a thousand acres of fine land together with the mansion; Song Nan almost forgot about this matter, took out the title deed and looked at the location, which was near Shilizhuang in the south of the city.
Song Nanti yƬ went to Shilizhuang to see the land, the land given to him last winter, and he didn't go to see it for a few months, neither knew the fat and thin of the field, but also didn't know who was cultivating and managing, this thousand mu is planting crops, and there is an income of several thousand taels every year, which is not a small amount.
Song Nan decided to take advantage of the arrival of the cultivation season in April, and wanted to find a sunny and warm day, and took Ye Fanggu and Lu Qingli to take a look at the land outside the southern city, but on the day of going out, the little county lord somehow got the news and came to Song's house early, Song Nan smiled bitterly, Lu Qingli and the little county lord have the strongest relationship, so it's strange that this kind of news can hide from her. But another person took the initiative to ask to join, which really surprised Song Nan, and that was Dai Suer.
Since Song Nan found Dai Miao's cemetery and found the lost servants of the Dai family, Dai Suer's attitude towards Song Nan has obviously changed, and Song Nan occasionally hooks up with a few words in the name of listening to Xiao. During the Qingming Festival in March, Song Nan moved Dai Su'er and his mother's graves together to bury him, and since then, Dai Suer has been even more grateful to Song Nan.
The more Song Nan came into contact with Dai Suer, the more he felt that Dai Suer was perfect, both in appearance, temperament and personality, she was the ideal woman in Song Nan's mind, her appearance was beautiful, and she was almost proficient in poetry, songs, piano and painting, which shows the success of Dai Miao's tutor, which almost echoed all Song Nan's fantasies about perfect women in his later life; And after the pain of the destruction of the family gradually subsided, it showed more and more the calmness and gentleness in his character.
Song Nan can also feel Dai Suer's respect and distancing, with Song Nan's arrogance, he naturally refuses to lose his demeanor in front of such a goddess, although sometimes he sits opposite Dai Suer, looking at Dai Suer's slender demeanor, there is an urge to pounce on the birds and bite them, but as soon as he touches Dai Suer's clear eyes, Song Nan can't bear to do it.
This kind of thing is naturally good for you and me, the overlord will lose a lot of fun if he is the bow, and Song Nan is gradually fascinated by the feeling of imminent separation between the two, and wants to maintain this subtle feeling, so after all, the rationality in his heart defeated the gradually expanding selfish desire in this era, and he has never lost his temper, which also makes Dai Suer have more and more respect for Song Nan.
Dai Su'er knew in her heart that as a woman who was enslaved, her fate was beyond her control, even if Song Nan wanted to force herself to serve him, she was powerless to resist; And Song Nan has not mentioned a word against himself for several months, if he is not a humble gentleman, he is terrifying.
Dai Suer knew Song Nan's identity, and the high-ranking officials of Jinyiwei gave the impression that they were always unscrupulous and vicious, but in Song Nan, Dai Suer found a demeanor that men in this era did not have.
Song Nan's inadvertent small actions can often make Dai Suer sigh, for example, when she goes out, Song Nan stepped forward to pick up the curtain for her, when she sat down, Song Nan opened the spring stool for her, and when she went out, she would remind the maid Wan'er to put on a cloak for her, etc., bit by bit moisturizing things silently caring, which made Dai Suer feel quite flustered; This panic did not stem from Song Nan's abrupt behavior, but Dai Suer found that she had gradually adapted to Song Nan's spoiling behavior, and there seemed to be an inexplicable relationship between the two.
Dai Suer couldn't say whether she liked or didn't like this faint ambiguity, she warned herself countless times that Song Nan was related to her father's death, no matter how he defended it, it was not enough for her to be completely trusted; But another voice in his heart said to himself, how could such a personable young man be a person who was not the same as he guessed.
This kind of entanglement has been lingering in Dai Suer's heart, Song Nan doesn't go to chat with her, she feels a little empty, come to herself, and she will unconsciously give him a look, which sometimes makes Song Nan leave in embarrassment.
In this case, the women of the Song family naturally saw it in their eyes, and the beautiful Miss Ye once told herself clearly: "If you like Song Nan, don't make Song Nan unhappy, if you don't like it, please make it clear to Song Nan, Song Nan is definitely not a stalker." ā
Like it or don't like it? Dai Su'er herself couldn't answer.
Early in the morning of the third day of the first month of April, the three carriages of the Song family galloped towards Nancheng, in addition to the two sisters Ye Lu, the little county lord and Dai Su'er were also among them, and there were several maids with them, Uncle Zhong heard that he went to his own field outside Nancheng, and he also had to follow, as the chief housekeeper of the Song Mansion, Uncle Zhong naturally couldn't stand by and say that Song Nan didn't know anything about the fields, and he couldn't see the quality of the fields and the price of leasing the fields.
Song Nan hasn't gone out to hang out for a long time, the quality of the fields is secondary, the important thing is to be able to come out to breathe, being in the capital, even the air is also full of a depressing atmosphere, Song Nan needs to come out and relax.
In April, it is the cultivation season, in the paddy fields beside the road, the short-clothed and barefoot farmers are busy plowing the fields and sowing seedlings, and in the flat paddy fields, a ridge of pale yellow rice buds has just been sown, and a new green is seen from a distance, but there is nothing up close; The flying swallows pierced through the forest and dipped in water, light and swift eyes, and the air exuded the strange scent of greenery and freshly turned earth.
Song Nan had a big heart, and suddenly said in a poetic way: "The plains are green after the rain, and the cultivation is full of Donggao." Whipping yellow calves everywhere, and selling Meng Lao at every house. ā
Li Daniu, who rode away, picked his fingers and praised: "The good poems written by Brother Nan are worthy of studying hard in Ulzhou for ten years. ā
Song Nan rolled his eyes and said, "Scold me or hurt me?" Ten years of hard work and then falling off the list, this is also worth showing off? ā
There was a lot of eating and laughter in several carriages, and Lu Qingli said with a smile: "The husband is still obsessed with the matter of falling down, and now he is a member of the imperial court, even if he was on the list at the beginning, he may not be promoted so quickly." ā
Song Nan said: "I don't have to worry about it, I just occasionally scold the main exam of the year for being blind, I am such a talented person actually fell first, and there is no heavenly reason." ā
Everyone laughed, and the little county lord leaned out of the car window and said: "I can also write poems, listen well: I don't want the seal of the Six Kingdoms in my life, but I want to cultivate two hectares of land." Tanaka reads Mu Yaoshun and waits for the four seas to rise to the next level. ā
Song Nan was speechless: "What a bold mind, the little county lord is a real person who doesn't show his face." ā
The little county lord chuckled: "Grandpa wrote it, I copied it." ā
Song Nan smiled and said: "I see, I am so old-fashioned and sour." ā
The little county lord wrinkled his nose and said, "Hmph! ā
The curtain of the third car was lowered, and Dai Su'er's master and servant sat on it but did not show up, Song Nan glanced at Lu Qingli and said, "Su'er is a talented woman, we all chant poetry, how can she not be in the situation?" ā
Lu Qingli leaned over and shouted, "Sister Su'er, you can also come to a song." ā
Wan'er picked up the curtain and poked her head out, and said with a smile on her pretty face: "It's already here, my young lady just wrote a poem before Master Song." ā
Song Nan beckoned: "Read it and listen to it." ā
Wan'er turned around, as if she was pulling with Dai Su'er, and leaned out with a crumpled piece of paper for a while and read: "The green mountains are all over the white river, and the rain is like smoke in the sound of Zigui." There are few idlers in the countryside in April, so the sericulture is planted again. ā
Everyone applauded, Song Nan also applauded again and again, his eyes glanced into the car window, and he happened to see a pair of bright pretty eyes looking at him.