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Chapter 41 Three Years

Yangzhou Qingju

This restaurant is different from the general restaurant, I don't know which very powerful garden everyone is invited to design, the pavilions and pavilions inside, rockery and flowing water, should be arranged, all of them are not exquisite and wonderful, coupled with the chef's good skills, the dishes of Tiannan and Haibei are all-encompassing, just three years, this Qingju has opened all over the country.

Ouyang and Zhiyun chose a pavilion near the lake to sit down, it was drizzling outside, a little cold, but the pavilion was very warm, the two of them all went to the big dike, leaning on the bench with a blanket, Tong Hui and He Qing personally held a bottle of blue and white porcelain porcelain bottle, and poured the mellow wine into a pair of luminous glasses, the wine was warm, a little hot, but it was most comfortable to drink in winter.

Zhiyun is okay, but Ouyang is shallow, even if this wine is mellow, he doesn't dare to drink more, but it is also pleasant to raise a glass to learn from the ancients and taste it carefully.

At this time, it is the middle of winter, which is not a good time to eat crabs, but in Jiangnan, Zhiyun and Ouyang want to eat at this time, and it is not rare to get fat crabs.

After a while, a few guys conveniently and neatly placed a table full of crab-based dishes, Zhiyun ate a crab roe soup bun, and then asked Tong Hui: "I heard that you know Yuan in Gusu, you should go to the capital to participate in the trial next year, right?" By the way, how many of our people are going to take next year's exam? ”

Tong Hui's face was bitter, his head drooped, and he scolded a few words, but he didn't dare to complain in front of his teacher and Prince Yong, so he could only reply in a low voice: "Teacher, next year, in addition to the twelve people in our floating city, Long Live Lord also chose a teenager to come over, and everyone passed the township test, just waiting for next year's big competition......"

Zhiyun looked at the bitter color on Tong Hui's doll face, and couldn't help but smile and shake his head, this child has never liked to read, and he is even more reluctant to be an official, otherwise, with his family background, even if he is just a concubine, it is not difficult to enter the court as an official at all, but before he went to the floating city, he has been putting on a squishful appearance, and secretly instructed a few loyal subordinates to do business and make money everywhere, I am afraid that it is just to live a comfortable little landlord's day in the future, and he is not willing to work hard in the court.

Later, he was selected to enter the Floating City, which can be regarded as having some motivation and starting to show his cleverness. This small knowledge is now first-class in the entire Floating City, and even He Qing can't afford to compete with him.

Now Long Live Lord and Ouyang want people to break into the upper echelons of this world as soon as possible, the imperial examination is the best means, in the past three years, there have been one hundred and ten people or relying on money offensive, or creating opportunities to get acquainted with the powerful of the dynasty, or buy a prison qualification, with the ability to enter the court, into the court as an official, although most of them are still relatively low-level officials, the highest is only five grades, but it can be regarded as some results.

In addition, there are many people who do business, and there are people who do all kinds of business transactions, some specialize in running restaurants and wine shops, some have opened up the door and obtained the qualifications to start the business of firewood, rice, oil and salt, and even He Qing, who started from a small boiler workshop, has now started to buy and sell ordnance, and the army is hot.

Zhiyun didn't know why his own people wanted to meddle in the armaments of the Jing Dynasty, you know, the smelting technology in this world is much worse than the original Qing Dynasty, not to mention the Qing Dynasty with the support of the Floating City, and now doing arms trading with them is not to increase the strength of the other party's army out of thin air, it's just that Kangxi and Ouyang only said that a lot of old ordnance is useless, and they just came here to exchange some money, and by the way, they brought the relationship into the army.

Zhiyun didn't know if it was true or not, but she didn't ask much, anyway, she couldn't figure it out if she asked, besides, Kangxi was not stupid, those ordnance was only a little better than the original Jing Dynasty at most, and compared with the standard equipment of the Qing Dynasty, it was still far behind, so why bother.

However, although there are many industries here, the most profitable is the Treasure Pavilion led by Ouyang himself, which deals in all kinds of rare ornaments, precious jewelry, and exquisite clothing.

Today, the people of the Qing Dynasty have invaded all industries of this world, and sure enough, with a rich and powerful country as the backing, it is much easier to do anything.

Three years ago, Ouyang took control of the space-time gate, connecting the two planes, and the time was in tune, so that entering this world of red mansions was as simple as taking a plane to the other side of the earth in the twenty-first century, except for the possibility of jet lag, there was no difficulty.

Kangxi Ye is really an ambitious emperor, although he was suspicious at the beginning, but when he witnessed the other world behind the gate of time and space, he immediately took Yinzhen and several important ministers to Changchun Garden, and retreated in it for half a month.

Of course, if you want to conquer a country, it is still a country with the same land area as the Qing Dynasty, even if you cheat in time and space, it is not an easy task, it requires careful planning, and it also takes a long time to prepare, so the Qing Dynasty began to sneak into the night with the wind at this time, presided over by Emperor Kangxi himself, assisted by Yinzhen and several ministers trusted by Kangxi, and supported by the Floating City.

As for the other emperors, although they also noticed that a large number of Manchu and Han youths were transferred in Kangxi, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners were transferred, they knew that there must be something greasy in this, but even if they found out the sporadic inside story, at most, they would put some people in the people transferred by Kangxi, which would not affect the overall situation, even if Ouyang and Zhiyun knew their small actions, they had no intention of stopping them.

The two of them ate some crabs and drank a small half bottle of wine, and then came to the hospital in October and said, "Blessing...... Madam, the head manager of the Lin Mansion sent someone to pass the word, saying that Master Lin asked you to take the time to come over today. ”

Zhiyun was stunned and nodded, but sighed, Lin Ruhai still did not avoid the fate of early death, it was not that Zhiyun didn't want to give him a long life, but he himself was one of the old emperor's most trusted ministers, so naturally he was not tolerated by the new emperor, it was okay if he died, if he didn't die, the Lin family didn't know what the fate would be.

Since there is a will to die, it is not something that can be stopped by external objects.

"Yesterday, my sister wrote a letter, saying that the young lady of the Lin family is going to enter Yangzhou today, and it is estimated that Lord Lin is looking for me, and it has something to do with Daiyu." Zhiyun touched her eyebrows, thinking about helping Xiao Daiyu and saving her from a miserable fate in the future, and it has nothing to do with the big plan of the long-lived lord, and it won't affect anything, as long as she doesn't make a fuss and wants to support the Rongning Erfu that is empty, she probably won't attract the attention of the young emperor in this world.

"Okay, you go and write back and say I'll be there soon."

October answered, went out, Tong Hui and He Qing accompanied the lord to eat, and left, the two of them are now busy people, much busier than Zhiyun and Ouyang, the two hands-off shopkeepers.

Imperial Historian's House

Even if it is a cold winter, Jiangnan is not too cold, Daiyu is holding the stove in her arms, looking at her father with a disgraced face on the bed in a daze.

It's only been a few years, my father has become like this, his temples are white, his complexion is dark, the high-spirited Tanhualang is already drooping and old, Daiyu's nose is sore, and tears are swirling in his eyes, just because his father said just now, she doesn't want to see herself crying, even if she feels very uncomfortable in her heart, she doesn't dare to disobey her father's will, and suppresses the grief in her heart.

"Good Yu'er, don't cry, you, you just love to cry too much, your body is not good, don't always make yourself uncomfortable." Lin Ruhai sighed, feeling that his body and bones were sore, and he couldn't even get up, knowing that his childhood days were numbered. Looking at her daughter, who was still in her teenage, there was a lot of reluctance in her heart, "Yu'er, is your grandmother kind to you?" ”

Daiyu was stunned for a moment, and nodded again and again, "Daddy, don't worry, grandmother has always loved Yu'er......"

Speaking, Daiyu choked up, but she didn't dare to say anything more to her seriously ill father, although her day in Jiafu is far from a good word, her grandmother loves her again, but when she is old, there is always a time when she can't take care of her, and her aunt is very cold to her, and there is some gossip among the people, not to mention, living in someone else's house, where can you be as comfortable as in your own home, these three years, although Baoyu and several sisters are accompanied, the day is not much sad, but it is also depressed.

Lin Ruhai smiled and didn't say much, just looked at Daiyu's expression, but sighed in his heart, was he wrong?

At the beginning, I thought that I was gone, Daiyu could only rely on her grandmother, if she could marry Baoyu, and with the love of Mrs. Shi, her daughter would have a good life.

But in the past few years, he has seen what the Jia family has done, and his heart is inevitably chilling, he has a large shipload of silver shipped over every year, but Mrs. Wang still treats her Yu'er so coldly, this is still there, she dares to do this, if she goes by herself, can the Jia family really treat her daughter well? After all, Mrs. Wang is Baoyu's biological mother, after Daiyu marries Baoyu, she must not be loved by her mother-in-law, will it be better after marriage?

Lin Ruhai couldn't figure it out for a while, and thought of his younger brother and sister, he has treated his younger siblings and nieces well in recent years, in addition to being really for his cousin who died early, he also wanted to leave a way back for his daughter, in case something went wrong, there was someone who could support his daughter.

Lin Ruhai has been patrolling the history of salt for so many years, and he can become the favorite of the emperor, a pair of eyes are still very vicious, he has watched it for a few years, and knows in his heart that Mrs. Lin is a person who values love and righteousness, and her sex is a little soft, but she is very kind, and the couple she met who don't know their origin are not simple characters......

After thinking about it for a long time, Lin Ruhai finally made up his mind, reached out to take his daughter's hand, and said in a low voice: "Yu'er, you will be close to your second aunt and your sister Zhaoyu in the future." ”。