With the 300,000 taels of silver sent by the court, Bai Jinyuan from Shuokang's side also asked someone to send a lot of food and people's livelihood things, plus the silver that he got from Yuan's family during the previous war and the family money that Xue Nuo had saved in the past few years, the pressure on Shuozhou's side was instantly much less.

Xue Nuo and Shen did not directly use silver and grain to help the people in the city after the war, but instead used work for relief to encourage the people to participate in reconstruction.

Young and strong men and women carried stone objects and built walls and houses.

Elderly people and young children were responsible for washing clothes, cooking, or caring for the sick and wounded from previous wars.

As long as you are willing to work, everyone can get money, and you can also exchange it for the corresponding food, and the whole Shuozhou has been driven, and the city is not miserable after the war, but is in full swing.

Little by little, the ruined city walls were built, and the interior of the city gradually returned to its original appearance.

Before the winter, the whole Shuozhou can no longer see the slightest wartime appearance, and the original post-war desolation, sad and different, now Shuozhou is prosperous again, the streets are very lively, the streets and alleys are also full of smiles, even with the surrounding towns of Shuozhou are also a little bit back to the original.

When the weather cooled down in October, Xue Nuo wore a red fox cloak and walked around the city with Shen Qi.

When he returned to the Eldest Princess's Mansion, thinking of the endless stream of merchants in Fangcaifang City, as well as the children who were running and laughing in round cotton jackets, Xue Nuo couldn't help but say: "That guy Xiaobai still has a good brain, and he really asked him to do the things in this city." ”

Shen reached out and took the cloak she had taken off and put it aside, and he was also emotional when he heard it.

"When he said that he wanted to trade with South Vietnam and bring in some of the surrounding tribes, I thought it was whimsical."

At that time, not long after the war in Shuozhou, South Vietnam took advantage of the transfer of troops from Shuo Yong Pass to invade the territory of the great cause of nuisance, and they wasted a lot of strength to hurt South Vietnam and drove people back.

At that time, not to mention that the generals on the Shuozhou side did not agree, even Xue Nuo and Shen felt that this matter was unreliable, they had a grudge against South Vietnam, and I am afraid that there would be a big war sooner or later, but what did Bai Jinyuan say at that time?

The boy said locally:

"What's wrong with a war, you can't do business if you fight?"

"Shuozhou wants to recuperate and recuperate, and it wants to be self-sufficient as soon as possible, so it has to find a way to make money for this side, is it really possible to rely on the little money squeezed out of the court, or wait for the warm spring planting next year?"

Bai Jinyuan scoffed at the so-called cultivation and raising of the people given by those strategists, he didn't look down on farming, but at that time, Shuozhou was in ruins, and he had a better way to make money than to open up wasteland and farm.

Shen still remembers Bai Jinyuan's appearance of pointing out the country in front of everyone.

He said that Shuozhou is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there are many things in the mountains that can make money.

He said that whether it is South Vietnam, the great cause, or the entry and exit of those tribes in the west, they all have to go through the official road of Shuoyongguan, and the border city of Shuozhou is the most natural large-scale market, and it is a good place that cannot be sought by other places.

Bai Jinyuan didn't know what method to use, so he was stunned to get the passage documents of the South Vietnamese border pass, and even the documents that the South Vietnamese royal family allowed the two countries to trade back and forth, and then slapped it on the table with a smile, and said to the generals in Shuozhou City who originally had a feud with South Vietnam:

"We have an enmity with South Vietnam, but we don't have an enmity with silver, instead of starving and knocking on other people's soldiers to strengthen our horses, why do we take the money of the South Vietnamese to recruit troops and buy horses for us?"

After that, the city was built.

Xue Nuo couldn't help but smile when he thought of Bai Jinyuan: "All the wits in his mind are focused on doing business, and some time ago he said that he went to Beidi, waiting for the opening of the sea ban next year, he estimated that he could really go to the edge of the sky......"

Shen was about to speak when he heard this, and a voice came from outside the door,

"I said if you don't want me to hear you speak ill of me every time I come!"

Xue Nuo and Shen turned around at the same time, and saw Bai Jinyuan, who was dressed like a peacock,

He has grown a lot taller, his silhouette has also grown a little, and his golden hairpin hair shows a particularly swaggering face, compared to when he was in the capital, his face has faded a lot, and his body is thin but not weak, and his eyes are as black as a fox.

Xue Norton said, "Didn't you go to Beidi?" ”

Bai Jinyuan snorted and said, "How long has it been, I wrote to you three months ago, do you still have me in your mind?" ”

After he complained, he went straight to the front and poured a cup of tea on the table, "Then Beidi is not fun, it's almost winter, it's so barren that I'm dying, I went on a trip and got some good horses back, isn't this a non-stop delivery to you?" ”

Xue Nuo suddenly laughed: "Count your filial piety." ”

Bai Jinyuan rolled his eyes directly.

She is his sister, not his mother, who is filial piety.

Shen has long been accustomed to the posture that the two sisters and brothers will fight when they meet, and they don't intervene when they look at it with a smile, but who wants to say "big brother" outside, but it makes him stunned.

Bai Jinyuan said: "Oh, I forgot to say, on the way, I met the third master of the Shen family and Mrs. Shen, as well as Zhao Su, so I brought them along the way." ”

"Why don't you forget about yourself!"

Xue Nuo reached out and slapped him on the head.

Bai Jinyuan hurriedly dodged away.

Xue Nuo glared at him, then got up and followed Shen Qi, and saw a few people standing outside the door.

Mrs. Shen's Zou was wearing a skirt and a white scarf, her eyes were red and she looked at Shen Ke, and there were smiling Shen Zhengyong and Zhao standing beside her.

Zhao Suan, Shen Changlin, and Shen Changrui surrounded them in a swarm, and Shen Yuechan, who was a step slower, was not to be outdone, and followed the trotting over to surround Shen Qi and Xue Nuo.

"Big brother, I miss you so much!"

Shen Changrui pounced on him, hugging Shen like a half-grown child, and his eyes were red.

Shen Yuechan was not happy to be preempted by him, so she tugged on Shen Qi's sleeve and said, "Big brother, I miss you too!" ”

Zhao snorted and secretly said "naïve" in his heart, turned his head and pulled Xue Nuo, but he didn't let go: "Sister, you don't talk much, you said okay to let me come to Shuozhou, I haven't heard from you for so long, and you haven't even written a letter to me!" ”

She muttered discontentedly, her eyes round and accusatory.

Xue Nuo perfunctory: "Didn't you follow your grandfather to govern the army in Ganping?" ”

"That was more than half a year ago!!"

Zhao Suan became more and more dissatisfied, she did follow her grandfather to Ganping for a long time, at that time, in the daily mixed army, she competed with others to practice the army, and even led a team to fight a few small battles, which was simply the happiest day in her life.

But later, Gu Hongqing took over the military power of Ganping, and her grandfather returned to Beijing, but she couldn't stay in the north with a dead face, and was carried back to the capital by her grandfather.

Zhao was stunned for half a year, how could she still go back to the original lady, after returning to Beijing, she was tied up by the eldest princess and felt uncomfortable everywhere, she wrote a letter to Xue Nuo to ask her cousin to take her out of Beijing, but Xue Nuo was good, and she didn't reply to her at all!!

"Do you know how miserable I am, my grandmother has to lock me up in the house and I read and embroider, look at me, my fingers are full of holes!"

Isn't she a little darker and a little rougher?

Xue Nuo looked at Zhao Su's complexion that had not been fully cultivated for more than half a year, which showed what it had become when he had just returned from the Northland.

The eldest princess already likes beautiful things, whether it is An Guogong who got married at the beginning, or the people who served her around her, there is no one ugly, her granddaughter was originally carved with pink and jade, and a little girl was stunned to become charred black charcoal, no wonder she bit to death and refused to let Zhao Su come to Shuozhou.

Xue Nuo rubbed Zhao Xuan's head and said without sympathy: "It's really pitiful." ”

Zhao was stunned when he saw her teasing and suddenly glared: "You are still not my sister?!" ”

She complained dissatisfied, only to realize that something was wrong, and retreated half a step, "Sister, why are you taller than me?!" ”

Originally, Xue Nuo was obviously worse than her when he hadn't detoxified, but why hadn't he seen her for more than two years, and he was taller than her?!

Xue Nuo couldn't help laughing: "I was taller than you when I was a child, and besides, my mother was also taller." ”

Princess Yongzhao is tall, not as petite and delicate as ordinary women in Daye, although she has damaged her body somewhat because of poisoning for many years, but after the poison was resolved, Ning Jingshui tried her best to make up for her, although she did not grow to the height of her mother, but it was a little higher than Zhao Su's.

Zhao was stunned and pouted suddenly.

Xue Nuo patted her on the head, and then followed the Shen who had comforted several small ones to the Zou family and them.

"Mother."

"Auntie."

Zou's eyes became more and more red, and he looked at the two of them up and down with tears for a long time before he took Xue Nuo's hand and said, "Why did you lose so much weight, didn't you eat well?" Did Nagaki not take care of you? ”

Shen was helpless: "Mother, Arnold is not thin." ”

"Why aren't you thin, this little face ......"

Zou just wanted to say that this little face had lost a lot of weight, but he found that Xue Nuo, who had returned to his original appearance, had more milk fat on his face.

Although it is still a small face the size of a palm, his lips are red and his teeth are white, his skin is white and smooth, and his beautiful eyes are dark and bright.

The most important thing is that the little girl's chest has actually become bulging, and her waist is tightened in a red dress, which is a little more convex and backward.

Zou's sentence of losing weight against his heart is really indescribable.

Xue Nuo glanced at Shen Ke and said, "What do you know, my aunt only thinks I'm thin because I hurt me." ”

Seeing that the little girl was considerate, Zou suddenly felt intimate, took her hand and said to the eldest son: "Yes, yes, who is like you like a wooden stake." ”

Shen Ke: "......"

Well, it's all his fault anyway.

Shen Zhengyong, the third master of the Shen family, waited for the three of them to laugh a few words, and then stepped forward to salute: "I've seen the eldest princess." ”

Xue Nuo hurriedly stretched out his hand: "Third Uncle doesn't have to be polite. ”

Shen said on the side: "It's cold outside, let's talk about it inside." ”

……

A group of people entered the room in a big way.

Jin Feng led his subordinates to bring tea over, and with a few small chatters, the house was very lively.

Xue Nuo and Shen had not seen Zou and the others for several years, and while replying to their questions, they asked about the current situation of Old Man Shen and Old Madam.

Zou took Xue Nuo's hand and said: "Old man, their bodies are very healthy, but they can't stand the fatigue of traveling and traveling when they are old, and you also know that your uncle and his man have not finished their errands, and they are not willing to fake their hands for fear of making mistakes, so this time only me and your third uncle led Changlin to Shuozhou." ”

Xue Nuo's expression paused slightly when she heard this, even if she knew that the Zou family had concealed this, and Old Man Shen and their refusal to leave Beijing was due to scruples in the palace, she didn't expose it, she only asked: "What about the third aunt and Xiangyi, why didn't the third uncle bring them to play together?" ”

Shen Zhengyong raised his lips: "Xiangyi and Xiangru have decided to have a family affair, and the wedding date is in the new year, and your third aunt is busy taking care of the two of them, so she didn't come." ”

"Betrothed?" Shen was surprised, "Whose family did you order?" ”

Shen Zhengyong said with a smile: "Xiangyi is Jin Hong, the eldest son of Cheng Jin Haifeng of Dali Temple, and Xiangru is Teng Qingxin, who is taking the exam this year, and your grandfather personally took charge of the two marriages." ”

Although Shen has been in Nandi for a few years, he is not completely ignorant of the affairs in Beijing.

That Jin Haifeng is the protégé of the old man Shen, and there will naturally be no mistake in his family style and character, as for that Teng Qingxin, although he is not the champion Tanhua, he is also extremely famous in this session, and the Teng family's family background is a little worse, but Teng Qingxin is a pragmatic and capable person, and he has been appreciated by the new emperor as soon as he entered the Hanlin Academy, and his future will definitely be good.

"It's two good marriages." Shen said.

Shen Zhengyong also nodded, extremely satisfied with these two family affairs.

The current situation of the Shen family is indeed a hundred schools of thought, and even those royal relatives and family magnates have many people who want to marry the daughter of the Shen family, but Shen Zhengyong knows his own situation.

His own official position is not high, and the prominence of the Shen family depends on the old man Shen.

Although Shen also has to pay attention, but the situation of her and the eldest princess Zhaochen is special, and no one knows what will happen in the future.

Shen Zhengyong has never looked forward to relying on the marriage of his two daughters to climb any high branches, he and the Zhao family only hope that the two daughters can marry a simple and kind family, and live happily in the future.

Those big families are certainly noble, but the relationship in the back house is complicated, and there are a lot of calculations between the concubines, but the two families chosen by Old Man Shen are different.

That Jin Haifeng is the protégé of the old man, the family style is upright, and they have to help the Shen family to get to where they are today, they dare not treat the Shen family girl badly.

Although the Teng family is poorer, Teng Qingxin is honest and motivated and the only son in the family, his father died early and only one mother is alive, and Teng's mother is even more soft and easy to get along with, Shen Xiangru can be in charge of the family when she marries, and she doesn't have to worry about the relationship between her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Although it may be hard at first, with the help of the Shen family and Teng Qingxin's own progress, the future will not be bad.

Zou also felt that Shen Xiangyi's marriage was good, but she had a headache when she thought of Shen Yuechan.

She took Shen Zhengyong's words and said,

"Xiangyi and they are busy with the marriage in the coming year, and your fifth brother and they were originally clamoring to come, but they are too young, and your fourth aunt is pregnant again, so they all stayed in the capital."

Two months ago, An found out that he was pregnant, although he was a little shy and had children when he got older, but the entire Shen family was happy, and the fourth room naturally couldn't come to Shuozhou.

A few people chatted about their own things, and after talking for a while, they talked about the old again.

After letting the subordinates prepare the meal and eat together, seeing that Zou and Shen Zhengyong were tired, Xue Nuo and Shen arranged for them to stay in the eldest princess's mansion.

After everyone woke up, the Zou family asked about the marriage of Shen and the two.

At the beginning of Shuozhou's victory, Shen and Xue Nuo said that they wanted to get married, but then they were busy with the reconstruction of Shuozhou, and the wedding originally scheduled for the Mid-Autumn Festival was postponed again and again, until more than a month ago, the Zou family received a letter from Shen that they were ready to get married, and the Zou family hurriedly came to Shuozhou.

Zou said, "When is your wedding date? ”

Shen said, "Seventeen next month." ”

Zou frowned when he heard this: "Why are you in such a hurry?" ”

It's already the end of October now, and there will only be half a month to the seventeenth of next month, the marriage of the eldest princess is a big event, and Shuozhou is now her fiefdom, whether it is for the prestige of the eldest princess or the Shen family's attention to her, the wedding etiquette should not be neglected.

Before the Zou family left Beijing, Mrs. Shen specially told her that she must handle Shen Qi's marriage well, and prepared a lot of things to send to Shuozhou with it. Those who don't know think they don't like Xue Nuo.

Xue Nuo couldn't help but smile when he heard Zou's words: "If you don't pay attention to it, you don't care about it, I know that Changyuan and you care about it." ”

"That's not going to work!" Zou directly vetoed, "A woman only gets married once in her life, how can such a big thing be casual." ”

She counted the time,

"Half a month, just half a month, it's too late to hurry up, and later you can find someone to lead me and your third uncle out to buy, and in this house, you have to quickly let people clean up and dress up...... Yes, and the list of banquet guests, have you all prepared it, remember to give me a ......"

Seeing that the Zou family had already begun to plan to get up, Shen and Xue Nuo glanced at each other, and could only follow her.

There were still some wrap-ups on the affairs in the city, but Xue Nuo and Shen accompanied Zou and Zhao for a few days, and they were busy doing their own things.

And the Zou family is busy leading people to prepare for the wedding of the two, and as time passes, the originally bare eldest princess's mansion is also lively day by day.

Red silk hung all over the house, and the big red lantern hung in front of the house.

After the courtyard of the house was cleaned, even the doors of the houses were pasted with the word "happy".

Approaching the day before the wedding, Xue Nuo, who had just climbed up from the canal, was forcibly escorted back by Zou and Xue Wei, took off her light armor, washed the dust and changed into a wedding dress, and Xue Wei tried on makeup for her.

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