"What are you looking at? Reluctant to have three siblings? ”

Yuan Rongye saw his wife looking at the city gate and was reluctant to withdraw his gaze.

When the second young lady heard this, she glanced at him and leaned back, "I'm just pitying her!" ”

When Yuan Rongye heard this, he sneered: "I heard it right, right? Do you pity her? What's so pitiful about the three siblings? He is a small county lord of the royal family, and he has to be favored by the queen, so he can use you to be pitiful? ”

If you want him to say that the third brother has cultivated the blessing of eight lifetimes to let him marry the daughter of the royal family, and the backer is hard, no, let him be promoted to the chief soldier who manages the guard, unlike him who has no backer, and he has no ability, so he can only eat and wait for death for the rest of his life.

"I said pity her, it's ridiculous?" The second young lady looked at him coldly, and wanted to beat him when she saw his virtue.

Yuan Rongye came into contact with her emotionless eyes, his face turned scornful, and he raised his hand to surrender: "No, what you say is what it is." ”

The second young lady snorted coldly: "I pity her for the sweet period of her newlywed, your days are coming to an end, presumably in the near future, the third brother's backyard will be like you, a hundred flowers are blooming, competing for beauty, so lively." ”

Yuan Rongye touched his nose uncomfortably, "What you said, the resentment is just about to soar, it is not normal for a man to have three wives and four concubines, do you still want our men to guard you alone until you are old?" ”

When a woman is young, she can still endure it, and when she is a little older, her skin is loose and she is covered in fat, so that they can endure it like this?

"Humph!" The second young lady didn't want to pay attention to him.

Yuan Rongye changed the topic and said seriously: "However, the third brother and sister are the royal county lord after all, and the third brother is so impatient. Hey, no, how do you know what is going on around the third brother? It was the third brother and sister who said it, whose girl did the third brother fancie? ”

The second young lady sneered, not wanting to pay attention to this retarded person. What to do, what to do, eat, drink and have fun first.

was despised by his wife, Yuan Rongye was furious in his heart, and he really wanted to shoot the case, but it's just that the Yue family is not small, and he is afraid of being beaten by his brother-in-law and brother-in-law.

The Yuan family's convoy was not fast because they pulled the goods, and when they arrived in Yuzhou slowly, it was already ten days later.

At this time, the train to the capital has left the railway station, and the train to Yuzhou has not yet arrived.

"What about the train at the train station?"

Sitting on the platform to rest, Yuan Rongye looked at the empty railroad tracks and asked the staff.

The staff at the train station estimated the time and told them: "The next train will arrive in an hour, you can rest here for a while, but you can't walk around the tracks." ”

The Yuan family didn't want to go back to the waiting room at this time, so they sat by the platform and waited for the train to enter the station, while the servants of the Yuan family were busy carrying their luggage.

"Second brother and sister, what do you say this train looks like?" The eldest young lady asked curiously.

The second young lady had never seen a train, how could she know what the train looked like, thought about it and said uncertainly: "I heard that you can run by yourself without a cow horse, you said that there will be an iron ox in front of you?" Like a carriage with a horse in front of it? ”

The young lady didn't want others to know that she was ignorant, so she whispered the news she inquired about, "I heard that the train has to pull many carriages in one train, and listening to you say this, it is possible that it is really pulled by iron oxen, and horses can't pull so many carriages." ”

The two sat on the platform and looked around, but when they found that there were more and more people on the platform, the eldest young lady was a little worried, "Second brother and sister, did you say that these people are here to take the train?" If so, there are so many people, can the train sit down? ”

Moreover, their Yuan family moved with their family this time, and there were a lot of materials with them.

Will the train car be stuffed up?

In the various speculations of the Yuan family, time passed unconsciously, and a whistle made them stand up in shock.

This sound they have never heard before, is this the sound of a train?

Looking at the reactions of other people at the train station, it must be the train coming.

Even Yuan Rujiang, a feudal official of the imperial court, squeezed through the crowd standing around and stood at the front of the platform in order to see the demeanor of the train.

He didn't have to wait long, and a train in the distance was slowly moving towards the train station with thick smoke.

"This is the train!"

Yuan Rongye's eyes widened in shock, and after listening to Yuan Rujiang's words, he said, "I think it's it!" But why is it smoking, is it on fire? ”

"How can you run without smoking?" Yuan Rujiang glared at his son with disgust, he had already inquired clearly, and the train would emit smoke when it started.

Yuan Rongye was not convinced, "Why is the train smoking?" Where did this smoke come from? ”

“.” Yuan Rujiang didn't want to lose face in front of his son, watched the train slowly enter the station, racked his brains and thought for a while, and said: "Because you have to boil water, how can the train run if you don't boil water." ”

"Just a kettle boiling water, and the train can run?" Yuan Rongye's face was obviously unconvinced.

"Poof!"

The steam train that came into the station seemed to let out an extra-long fart.

This super long 'fart' caused Yuan Rujiang, who was not very good to have a good stomach, and almost released one with the flow, but fortunately he clamped it tightly.

In the smoke, the doors of the carriages opened, and the passengers came down one after another.

The railway station had already received a notice that Yuan Rujiang's family was going to take the train, so they had already vacated the first few luxury carriages.

At this moment, there are naturally staff members to guide them to get on the bus from the front.

When the train started, the Yuan family, like everyone who reacted to the train for the first time, sighed at the train that could move on its own without a horse.

"With this steady speed, it's no wonder that my father-in-law wants to turn around and come to Yuzhou to take the train, which is much more comfortable than taking a carriage."

"What my sister-in-law said is that not only is this train not bumpy, but also very fast, which greatly shortens the time on the road from here to the capital."

The Yuan family officially moved into the capital, and as the train entered the station, Yuan Rujiang couldn't believe what he saw.

"This is still outside the city, why is it so prosperous?"

Looking at the endless stream of small vendors outside the fire station and the shops on both sides of the highway, Yuan Rongye smacked his mouth: "Tsk, I remember coming to the capital before, and it was a large barren wasteland!" It's only been a long time since the railway station was built, and so many shops have been built. ”

The popularity of the train station is really strong!

Passengers arriving and exiting the station on trains, vendors coming and going, and porters helping to load and unload goods

It's really a station to feed the people.

In fact, as the imperial court moved back to the capital, the population also poured into the capital.

At the very least, the Beijing officials and family servants of the imperial court have poured into the capital, followed by the caravan, the population of the capital is growing, and the material demand is also large, and the caravan will definitely not miss this business opportunity.

The opening of the train has greatly facilitated the passengers to and from Yuzhou Jiankang and other directions, and some of the people who go to relatives are so convenient in the case that they can walk around or not, they also choose to move more between relatives.

Yuan Rujiang didn't leave immediately after leaving the station, looked at the building in the distance, stopped a mobile vendor, and asked, "What is that place?" ”

The vendor casually glanced in the direction he was pointing, and said enthusiastically: "Oh, the guest officer is coming to the capital for the first time or hasn't been to the capital for a long time, right?" ”

Yuan Rujiang smiled and nodded: "Yes, I haven't been to the capital for many years." ”

"That's right, it makes sense if you don't know about the building. That building is a newly divided university town in the capital, Guozijian and the College of Engineering are all in that area, and I heard that many colleges will be built in that area in the future, like a medical school and an agricultural college, they will be built in that area. ”

As he spoke, the vendor pointed to the road that stretched into the distance, "See, this road is specially built to the university town, and you can go directly to the university town by following the road." ”

Yuan Rujiang listened to what the vendors said, and felt as if he was listening to the book of heaven, and the once prosperous capital seemed to have returned overnight.

No, it can be said that the capital is more prosperous today than it used to be.

Yuan Rujiang was stunned, and successfully pleased the vendors, he was not afraid of Yuan Rujiang's clothes, but immediately showed off in front of Yuan Rujiang again.

The vendor turned and pointed in the other direction and said, "Do you know where that building is?" ”

"Where is it?" Yuan Rujiang followed his guidance and found that in the other direction of the railway station, there was also a building in the distance.

With so many houses built in the capital, don't you need to spend money?

It's amazing, as soon as I entered the capital, I found that the imperial court was building a lot of buildings, and this household book was really a big pit. It's hard to say who can step into it and turn over.

The vendor pointed to the various candies in his basket and said with a smile: "That piece is the factory area, and the candy in my basket is produced from that sugar factory, in addition to the sugar factory, there are also textile factories, glass factories, wood factories and so on. That piece of factory has fed a lot of people! ”

When Yuan Rujiang heard this, the worry just now faded a little, and he asked the little guy to reward the merchant with a silver bean, and then got into the carriage.

On the carriage, the master and servant sighed at the prosperity of the capital, and when it came to this, the little servant remembered another thing, "I heard the housekeeper say that when he returned to the capital this time, he bought a house in the capital in advance, and he knew that the house in the capital was really a price a day, and it was rising too fast." ”

Yuan Rujiang heard the housekeeper mention it, and bowed his head: "It's because I didn't think it through, I should have responded to the call of the queen mother to buy some properties in the capital for the first time a few years ago, what a good opportunity I missed in vain." ”

Back then, if they sent a steward to the capital to pick up a leak, I believe that their Yuan family's family business would have more than doubled.

With the growth of the population of the capital and the rise of the railway station, the number of brokers in the capital has increased countless times for a while, and the business has never been better.

It didn't take long for the carriage to enter the city.

The carriage drove on the wide streets, and although there was a lot of traffic, it was not crowded because the north and south were divided.

Soon the convoy stopped in front of a newly built house.

This residential area is not far from Yongtong, that is, the former slum, once stinky water, dirty shantytown, has now been renovated, the ditch has been set up into a culvert, the street has been replanned, and now this piece is the slightest shadow of the shantytown can not be found.

The Yuan family got down from the carriage and was down-to-earth, and everyone sighed.

The house is carved beams and painted columns, finely crafted, except that the area of the Yuan Mansion in Jingzhou is smaller, and the design of the other buildings and gardens is very good.

"I can understand that there is a stone paved road in the garden, and even the street outside is paved with stone slabs, which is a luxury. The treasury continues to be consumed like this, Dad, you go to the household department to take office, don't be removed from office for a day because you can't get money and food! ”

What Yuan Rongye is worried about is the crux of his worries, the household department was in deficit all year round in the early years, and as soon as it was settled down today, it was built on a large scale, and the treasury did not know how long it could last.

The housekeeper went back to the house first, and at this time he greeted him, listened to Yuan Rongye's words, and corrected with a smile: "Second young master, the pavement of the street outside is not paved with bluestone slabs, but a cement road paved with cement. ”

"Cement road? But why am I on the bluestone pavement? ”

"Second young master, that's because after the cement is paved, it follows the pattern printed on the stone road."

"Oh." Yuan Rongye replied lightly, and did not blush because of the lack of knowledge.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of firecrackers outside, coming and going from far and near, as if comparing with each other to see whose firecrackers rang for a long time.

"Housekeeper, send someone outside to inquire about the situation, why are all firecrackers set off?" Yuan Rujiang commanded.

If he hadn't returned to Beijing in a low-key manner, he might have thought that these people who set off firecrackers were setting off firecrackers to welcome their Yuan family to Beijing.

The butler sent a clever runner to inquire about the news.

It didn't take long for the little guy to run back panting, "Master, the little one inquired clearly, the outside is because of the celebration of the victory of the Eastern Army!" ”

"A great victory for the Eastern Army?" Yuan Rujiang stared at the little guy with two blazing eyes, "The news of the victory of the Eastern Army came back today?" ”

"Yes, my lord, they entered the city with us on the front and back feet, but they entered the city through the Anxi Gate in the north, and we entered the city through the Dingding Gate in the south. The messengers shouted all the way to the palace, and it was difficult for the people along the way to think about it. ”

"Master, aren't you about to enter the palace to meet the emperor, just in time to find out the news."

There is no one in the country who does not want the Dayu army to win the battle, and Mrs. Yuan is no exception, she wants to know the specific situation, so she instigates Yuan Rujiang to enter the palace quickly.

Yuan Rujiang sat in the lobby, from the initial shock to now drinking tea unhurriedly, listening to his wife's words, he shook his head indifferently: "I am in a hurry to enter the palace, I am tired all the way, how can I go to see the emperor in such a tired situation, or wait until tomorrow to enter the palace." ”

Mrs. Yuan looked at him in surprise: "What, are you still taking Qiao up now?" Don't be self-defeating, and leave a bad impression on the emperor as soon as you return to Beijing. ”

Yuan Rujiang waved his hand and asked his son and daughter-in-law to go back to their own yards to settle down, and only when only the husband and wife were left, he said: "The great victory of the Eastern Army is a great event, but the next thing is to reward the whole army, and then I, the newly appointed head of the household department, will be bald." ”

Mrs. Yuan glanced at him, frowned slightly, and said, "You can't avoid it tomorrow, what's the difference between entering the palace today and tomorrow?" ”

"The difference is big, when I enter the palace today, it is very likely that I will not want to sleep well tonight, but I will enter the palace tomorrow, at least I can sleep well tonight!" Yuan Rujiang snorted. (End of chapter)