Chapter 178: Return to the West
Ouyang Jinhua and Ou Yangming, father and son, had prepared everything before they spoke.
According to Ouyang Jinhua's understanding of the emperor's temperament, they were able to get the holy decree that allowed them to leave Beijing and return to the west so smoothly.
But I didn't expect the emperor to be so anxious, and directly let them set off immediately, which was really unexpected.
After the two left the palace, they returned to the house, sent all the servants in the palace to a safe place according to the plan, and after a simple tidying up, they took their families out of the city gate lightly.
Since Ou Yangming returned to Beijing, King An's Mansion has been exempted from captivity and can move freely inside and outside the imperial city. Therefore, the soldiers guarding the city saw that it was the frame of King An's Mansion that went out of the city, and did not order to stop it.
Inside the carriage, Ouyang Xue opened the corner of the curtain and looked out, and asked in a low voice, "Brother, are we going back?"
Jiang Shiying pulled back the little girl who was looking out and half-hugged her in her arms, and said softly: "Yes, we are going back, is Xue'er happy?"
Ouyang Xue happily replied, "Happy, I don't like it here."
Hearing Ouyang Xue's words, Ouyang Jinhua also reached out and patted her head gently.
The journey back to Beijing of the Ouyang family can be regarded as full of twists and turns, first Ou Yangming disappeared in distress, and then suffered an unknown number of assassinations.
After returning to the capital, Ouyang Jinhua and Jiang Shiying were protected in the palace in disguise, and Ouyang Xue was brought into the palace alone as a bargaining chip to threaten them.
Ouyang Xue's memories in the palace were not good, so it was no wonder that she didn't like it here.
About ten miles outside the city, the Ouyang family had a mansion, and Ouyang Wang had already waited there with people.
Their plan this time has been planned since half a month ago, the servants in the palace should be dismissed, and those who were not dismissed have also arranged a place to go when they just left, and they will never be arrested by the four princes and others.
There was a team of 100 people parked outside the house, all of whom were soldiers who had followed the Ouyang family for many years.
In addition, there are more than a dozen horse-drawn carriages, and all the applications needed for the road have been prepared. Ouyang Wang stepped forward and saluted, "Lord Wang."
The hundred-strong team behind him also knelt and saluted.
Ou Yangming and Ouyang Jinhua lifted the curtain and jumped out of the carriage, turned over and rode on the horse that Ouyang Wang had prepared for the two of them.
"Organize the team and go now."
"Yes, Shizi!"
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After reading through the thick stack of letters carefully, Jiang Zhiyue put the letter back in the envelope. Knowing that Ou Yangming was still safe, Jiang Zhiyue put her mind at ease.
The letter also wrote about their plan to leave Beijing, but there were still some days on the day of the letter and Ouyang Ming's father and son entering the palace to face the saint, so Ou Yangming only mentioned it.
Jiang Zhiyue didn't know where their plan was now, and whether they had left Beijing safely.
But she believed in Ou Yangming's ability, as long as he was determined to do something, there should be no unsuccessful one.
Jiang Zhiyue's mind couldn't help but drift away, according to the temperament of the fourth prince and Concubine Rong, it should not be possible to let the Ouyang family leave smoothly.
How the fourth prince has nothing to do with her, she only knows that her Ah Ming is not a person who sits idly by, and will definitely find a way to take the initiative in things.
She had to think about how she could help him.
While thinking about it, the carriage slowly drove into Guhuai Village.
The person who drove the car lightly buckled the carriage and said, "Girl, we're home."
Jiang Zhiyue came back to her senses and got out of the carriage, and Tian Qiu, who was sweeping the floor in front of the door, greeted Jiang Zhiyue when she saw her back.
Tian Qiu smiled and said, "The girl is back."
The two jumped down from another carriage behind them and moved things down, while Jiang Zhiyue looked at the courtyard and asked, "What happened to me when I was away from home?"
Tian Qiu slowly told the story of what happened in Guhuai Village during this period of time.
"It's not a big deal, a few young masters and Uncle Jiang are all in the town, we leave these at home, and we are busy with things in the paper workshop every day."
"It's just that a few nights ago, when Jiang Wu got up at night, he saw a black shadow sneakily going to the workshop, he kept an eye on it, and called a few people who lived with him to follow."
"As a result, I caught a man trying to sneak into the paper workshop at night to steal something."
Jiang Zhiyue stopped and wanted to go in the direction of the paper workshop, "Can you find out who did it?"
Tian Qiu hurriedly said: "The girl is tired from running around on the road, so let's go home and rest first."
"The paper workshop is also fine, the man just climbed over the wall Jiang Si and they arrived, the man was so frightened that he fell directly from the wall, and his legs were broken."
"Later, the movement here was so loud that the people sleeping in the village also woke up, and everyone recognized that the person who wanted to steal at night was the Fang monkey of the village."
"When the man heard that the paper made in the paper workshop was better than the rest on the market, he wanted to steal it, but when he heard that his leg had been broken once, and it took a long time to get better, he came out again to do this kind of rooster and dog theft."
"At that time, half of the people in the village heard the movement and came out, and the monkey had no argument, and on the second day he was sent to the county office, and so many witnesses were convicted without allowing him to defend himself."
Fang Monkey, Jiang Zhiyue still has some impressions.
When she first came to the village, Fang Monkey's mother and aunt Fang attacked Jiang and Wang's family a lot, and later they were not very happy when they recruited workers.
What's even more odious is that that Aunt Fang is still the culprit who caused her third aunt to almost have a difficult birth.
At that time, they lost their money, and later heard that their family had suffered a disaster, each one was worse than the other, and Jiang Zhiyue didn't pay much attention to it.
I left home for a few days without thinking about it, and the monkey who was a little better started to behave again.
Jiang Zhiyue still went straight to the direction of the workshop, and asked Tian Qiu to go back and instruct those people to move the things they brought back into the house.
Jiang Zhiyue rushed to the paper workshop and saw a few fresh faces outside, and they saw Jiang Zhiyue, a 'stranger', coming over and interrogating them.
It happened that an aunt passed by and saw Jiang Zhiyue, and shouted out to the little owner in surprise.
The few people who were going to be interrogated confirmed Jiang Zhiyue's identity before letting them in.
The aunt took Jiang Zhiyue directly to the place where the Zhang family was, and went to the place where she worked.
"Mother."
Seeing Jiang Zhiyue, Zhang walked over happily and said, "Oh, Zhiyue is back."
Jiang Zhiyue asked about the people outside, and Zhang explained: "It's not that we met a chicken thief a few days ago, we thought, our workshop is getting bigger and bigger, we have to buy some people to guard against these villains, and your third uncle went to the county to buy some Chinese people to come back and guard outside this workshop."
While the two were talking, Zhang had already taken Jiang Zhiyue around the papermaking workshop.
After allowing the workers in the workshop to get off work at noon today, Jiang Zhiyue and the others turned around and went back.
(End of chapter)