Before the Duanyang Festival, Liang Run's wife Jiang took a son and a daughter into the palace to meet Liang Concubine Niangniang.

When Zhao Yao was nine years old, Liang Run finally got married, and he married not the daughter of a high-ranking official or a wealthy gentry in Yangzhou, but a descendant of Jiang Xiang, who was wrongfully exiled to Lingnan in the previous dynasty.

In the previous dynasty, the Jiang family was a well-known official family, and there were three prime ministers and a captain, and there were many third-grade or fourth-rank officials. It's a pity that when he met the faint monarch later, Jiang Xiang was wronged, and the family was exiled to Lingnan. Since then, the Jiang family has been in decline.

Not long after the Jiang family was exiled to Lingnan, there was a war in the previous dynasty, and although Lingnan was far from the interior, it was still affected by the war, so many people died. Originally, there were not many people who survived the exile, and then because of the war, there were few Jiang family members who survived. Fortunately, after the establishment of the Great Zhou, the war gradually calmed down, and Lingnan gradually became peaceful, and the Jiang family has since settled down in Lingnan's Lotus Mansion. Over the years, the Jiang family has gradually increased. Today, the Jiang family is a big family in Lotus Mansion, and they have an important position in the local area, and they are also very respected.

At the beginning, when the Great Zhou Dynasty was first established, the first emperor rehabilitated many wronged people in the previous dynasty, including Jiang Xiang. It's a pity that Jiang Xiang himself has already died of illness and did not wait for the day when he was cleared of his grievances. The first emperor ordered Jiang Xiang's descendants to return to Beijing, but Jiang Xiang's descendants politely refused.

The Jiang family has long been far away from the capital, and the descendants live in a good place in Lingnan. For them, Lingnan is their hometown, and they don't want to go back to the capital and get involved in the rights and wrongs of the capital. After experiencing the tragic blow of the whole clan being exiled, the Jiang family was afraid, really afraid, they did not seek high-ranking officials and wealth, but only peace and security.

When the first emperor learned that the Jiang family was unwilling to return to the capital, he was not reluctant, so he gave them a decree to let Jiang Xiang's great-grandson be the assassin of the Lotus Mansion.

The Jiang family was grateful for the kindness of the first emperor and conscientiously guarded the Lotus Mansion. Over the years, the Lotus Mansion has been managed by them in an orderly manner.

Perhaps because the good fortune of the Jiang family ran out in the previous dynasty, the descendants of the Jiang family who survived in Lingnan did not inherit the wisdom of their ancestors, they had mediocre qualifications, and they did not have the wisdom of their ancestors. Over the years, although they have guarded the Lotus Mansion, they have not made outstanding achievements. Lotus Mansion is only at a medium level among the twelve state capitals in Lingnan.

At first, the first emperor thought that Jiang Xiang's descendants could make some achievements in Lingnan, like Jiang Xiang, but he didn't expect that his descendants did not have his ability to govern the world. The first emperor also felt sorry for this, and since then, the first emperor has never paid attention to the descendants of the Jiang family in the Lotus Mansion.

After Zhao Yao decided to come to Lingnan as an adult, he sent Liang Run to the Lotus Mansion to find Jiang Xiang's descendants. After that, Jiang Xiang's descendants submitted to Zhao Yao.

Liang Run often goes to the Jiang family, and he gets acquainted with the Jiang family girl as soon as he comes and goes. However, at the beginning, the Jiang family girl had not yet reached the end of time, and Liang Run did not think about marrying her. Later, when she got married, her parents saw that she liked Liang Run, so they asked someone to ask Liang Run if he was interested in marrying their daughter.

At the beginning, Liang Run regarded the Jiang family girl as his sister. When she arrived, he still treated her as a sister. However, later, he gradually discovered that the girl of the Jiang family was no longer a little girl, she had already grown up, and she slowly developed feelings for her. Both of them had affection for each other, and then naturally became relatives.

Although Jiang did not inherit the talents of his ancestors, he had some talent in business. In addition, Liang Run deliberately cultivated her, and she has already become an excellent female boss.

In the past few years, she has been mainly responsible for women-related businesses, such as rouge gouache, jewelry, silk and satin, etc. These businesses she did not only opened branches in many places in Dazhou, but also opened stores in many places in the Western Regions.

The Jiang family entered the palace this time, firstly, because their family immediately set off for Lingnan. Second, because there was a new product in her store, she specially entered the palace to give it to Concubine Liang.

"Didn't Xiao Shi let you stay inland, why did you go to Lingnan?" Concubine Liang looked at her nephew and niece who were eating snacks, and she was very reluctant and not very relieved. "Two children are so young, can they travel a long way to Lingnan?"

"Niangniang, you forgot, they followed us back to the capital from Lingnan last year." Jiang said with a smile, "When they were two or three years old, they followed us to the Western Regions. The two of them are very honest and will not be tired because of the long journey. ”

Hearing what the Jiang family said, Concubine Liang remembered that her two nephews and nieces followed their parents to travel north and south and went to many places.

"Now that it's getting hot, you still have to pay attention."

"Don't worry, let's take a boat back to Lingnan, it's not hot at sea at this time, and the two children won't be hot." In the past, when the sea ban was not opened, the capital could only go to Lingnan by horse-drawn carriage. After the opening of the sea ban, you can take a boat to Lingnan, which is not only a lot faster, but also comfortable. "Besides, there is ice on the boat, and if it gets really hot on the way, there is ice to cool off."

Concubine Liang saw that the Jiang family had prepared ice, and she felt a lot more relieved.

"By the way, the two children haven't been sick during this time, right?"

"No, the two of them are very strong and rarely get sick."

"I've heard that many children who get cowpox will be weak for a while and get sick easily." Some time ago, two of Jiang's children also got cowpox. After they finished planting cowpox, Concubine Liang was worried that their bodies were weak, and she specially sent a lot of supplements to the two of them.

"After the two of them got the cowpox, they were as lively as before, and they didn't even sneeze." The reason why Jiang's two children's bodies are so healthy and strong is thanks to Zhao Yao. "The two of them have been drinking goat's milk or cow's milk in the morning and evening since they were children, plus the two of them can eat, and they also learn martial arts with their masters, not to mention their bodies."

"Still can't be taken lightly." Many healthy children die because of illness. Don't be sloppy at all until your child grows up.

Knowing that Concubine Liang cared about the two children, Jiang said gratefully: "Don't worry, Niangniang, we have been paying attention." ”

"Well, I can't bear to let you go." Although Concubine Liang couldn't see the Jiang family and them every day, she was also happy to know that the Jiang family was in the capital.

"Niangniang, we went back to Lingnan this time because of the trade conference. When the trade conference is over, we will still go back to the capital. The Jiang family can also understand Concubine Liang's feelings, she is alone in the palace, with no son or good sister by her side. If it were her, she would not be able to stand living alone in such a big palace. "Mother, why don't I leave the children with you?"

Concubine Liang waved her hand and said, "You still take the two children with you, if they stay in the palace and are uncomfortable, they will suffocate them." "For many people, the palace is the richest place in the world, and they want to come in, but the people in the palace feel that it is a cage, trapped in it for the rest of their lives, and they can't get out.

"When you go back to Lingnan this time, I'm afraid you won't be able to return to the capital for a while and a half, I guess you will be busy for a while." Concubine Liang said, "Yao Yao may let you go to Annam and Johor." Besides, don't you want to train female workers when you go to the swamp mansion this time? ”

She hurriedly asked, "How many young female laborers did you take to the Swamp Mansion?" ”

"I didn't bring much, two or three hundred." Thinking of the life experiences of two or three hundred female workers, Jiang's face showed pity, "They are all poor people who have been abandoned." Some of the female workers taken in by the Jiang family were abandoned by their husbands, some by their parents and families, some were orphans, and some were abducted and trafficked...... In short, the life experience is very tragic.

"It's a good thing for them that they have gone to the Swamp Mansion with you now, and they will be able to support themselves in the future, and they can also have a home in the Swamp Mansion." Concubine Liang is very much in favor of recruiting female workers to do things.

"It's all a loss to Your Highness." It was Zhao Yao who suggested that the Jiang family recruit female workers. "Now we have a lot of female workers in the store, and they are all doing well, and some of them are becoming shopkeepers." In addition to the female workers in the various branches of the Jiang family, there are also female workers in Liang Run's large and small stores. They are capable of doing things, and they are serious and careful, no worse than men, and some are even better than men.

"Women are no worse than men, they just don't give them the opportunity to use their talents."

"By the way, Niangniang, you recommended those aunts before, and finally agreed to follow us to Lingnan." The "aunt" in Jiang's mouth is the palace maids who have just been released from the palace this year, they have been in the palace for ten years, and their seniority is very long, so they are called "aunts" in the palace.

Among the palace maids released this year, several are very capable in the palace. Concubine Liang paid special attention to them, and after they left the palace, she asked the Jiang family to come to them to see if they were willing to go to Lingnan to continue to shine.

"The last time you came, didn't you say that they didn't want to go to Lingnan, why did you agree this time?" Before they left the palace, Concubine Liang wanted to have a good talk with them, but after thinking about it, she still forgot it and let the Jiang family talk instead.

"Something happened to them at home."

Concubine Liang hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Aunt Lu was forced by her family to marry an old man as a concubine, she didn't want to, but her family forced her to marry and locked her at home, she escaped from home to find me." Aunt Lu is an embroidery lady in the palace, and the female celebrity is very good. After she left the palace, she originally wanted to find an honest man to marry, and then give birth to a boy and a girl, but she didn't expect that her family not only robbed her of the money she brought out of the palace, but she forced her to marry as a concubine. "Aunt Wei wanted to go to the hospital to be a female doctor, but her family didn't agree and didn't let her show up." Aunt Wei used to be a female doctor in the Tai Hospital, and her medical skills were very good. She heard from the Jiang family that His Royal Highness the King of Han was going to open a medical school in the swamp mansion, and a female doctor was needed to teach female students. She could also continue to work as a female doctor in the swamp mansion to save people, and then she agreed.

"And Aunt Ma was also forced by her family to marry a lame man......"

These palace maids who left the palace returned home, and if they were lucky, the family would find her a good marriage. If you are unlucky, you will be forced to marry by your family. Because after they left the palace, they were older and no longer green girls, so their marriages were not easy to find.

Some of them don't want to get married, they want to open a shop to make money, but their families don't allow it. It's like they're a hot potato, and I have to marry them off.

"The worst thing is Aunt Miao, she is the upbringing aunt in the palace, it stands to reason that she will be rushed after leaving the palace, but I didn't expect her brother and sister-in-law to force her to marry the landlord to be an eighteen-room concubine." Jiang sighed, "Which adult's house she went to to continue to be a parenting aunt would not have been sold by her brother and sister-in-law." ”

"She should have seen a lot of pickled things in the palace, and she didn't want to enter a high-ranking family and get involved in trouble."

"Also, there are a lot of yin ghosts and ghosts in the big families." Jiang didn't go to Aunt Miao at first, because she felt that Aunt Miao would definitely not want to go to Lingnan, "She came to me two days ago and asked me if I would like to accept her, she said that she was willing to learn anything, and I thought that there was no aunt in the swamp mansion, so I agreed to take her in." ”

"Aunt Miao is very capable, you are right to take her to the Swamp Mansion." Concubine Liang smiled, "The aunts who went out of the palace are all very capable, you can be regarded as having picked up a treasure." ”

"This is all thanks to the blessing of the mother, I think when I get to the swamp mansion, His Royal Highness will be happy to see it." Jiang said, "Before, His Highness has always said that there is an urgent shortage of medical women in the Swamp Mansion, and now that a female doctor with excellent medical skills has been visited, His Highness will definitely be very happy." ”

"After the trade conference, the hospital and medical school he said earlier are going to be built, right?"

"To be built, there is also a school ......" Jiang told Concubine Liang a lot about the next arrangements of the Swamp Mansion.

"You go to the swamp mansion and help me keep an eye out for good girls."

"Mother, what do you want?"

"He is in the swamp mansion, and there is only Tongxi around to serve, and there is no girl to serve, and I don't worry about him in my heart." Speaking of this, Concubine Liang showed a headache on her face, "He hasn't opened up until now, he has to arrange a girl to let him open his mind, otherwise he will get married next year and won't understand anything." ”

"Are you going to arrange a room for Your Highness?"

Concubine Liang bowed slightly: "Well, he is going to get married next year, and he should understand these things." ”

"Niangniang, aren't you afraid to arrange a room for His Highness, and then get pregnant with a child in the room, will it have any impact on His Highness getting married next year?"

"He won't." Concubine Liang still believes in her son's character, "I'm afraid that he won't have sex." Before Zhao Yao went to Lingnan, Concubine Liang originally planned to arrange for the palace maids around her to be a room for Zhao Yao, and let her follow Zhao Yao to Lingnan to serve him, but he refused.

"Actually, the lord also mentioned this to His Highness, but His Highness refused." Jiang thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid that this time, His Highness won't want it." ”

"Let Brother Rundi remind him again, if he still doesn't want to, then forget it." Concubine Liang also knows her son's temperament and can't force him. "I wanted a girl to serve him, but I was worried that he would be too busy to take care of himself. When the kid got busy, he didn't care about anything. Although Tongxi has served him since he was a child, he is not as careful and caring as the girl's family. ”

"That's what the mother is worried about." Jiang didn't dare to tell Concubine Liang that Zhao Yao disappeared as soon as he was busy, and often did not eat, drink or sleep for several days.

"His letters are all good news and bad news, and I don't know what happened to him in the swamp mansion." Concubine Liang said worriedly, "What kind of trade conference is there this time, dealing with those foreigners, I don't know if there will be an accident." ”

Jiang thought to himself: Niangniang, only His Highness bullies others, and no one bullies His Highness.

"Niangniang, Your Highness is very smart, and those Gentiles are not His Highness's opponents." If those Gentiles really dare to underestimate His Highness, then they have nothing good to eat.

"The situation in the capital is tense, I'm worried about ......" Speaking of this, Concubine Liang did not say any more. Although Zhao Yao is in Lingnan and far away from the capital, the rights and wrongs of the capital will still involve him.

Jiang didn't understand the situation in the court, but she had heard Liang Run say that Zhao Yao knew the situation in the DPRK and China well.

"Niangniang, I heard from the master that His Royal Highness has been on guard against the court, and it will be okay to think about it."

"Hopefully." Concubine Liang knew that with her son's ability, nothing would happen, but as a mother, she couldn't help but worry. "When you return to Lingnan, you should also be careful, especially the people around you."

Jiang understood what Concubine Liang meant, nodded with a serious expression and said, "Yes, Niangniang." ”

Concubine Liang was afraid of scaring the Jiang family, so she didn't talk about these things anymore, and changed the topic to talk about the female workers.

Jiang had lunch in the palace before leaving. Before leaving, Concubine Liang gave her a lot of things, half of which were for Zhao Yao.

Zhao Yao, who was far away in the swamp mansion, was meeting the people sent by King Han.

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