"Madam, the account books of the Red Sleeves Textiles, Farming, and Shops have been checked in the spring, and there are no major problems.

Compared with last year, the overall loss is still in the red, but the bright line can be flat, as for the dark line, Mrs. knows that this is a non-profitable investment. ”

Pengcheng, in the General's Mansion, sixteen-year-old Guo Zhao is already slim and delicate, and her emerald green dress also highlights her proud figure.

If they meet again, she is very confident that Lin Mo will no longer call her a little steamed bun.

Of course, compared to Lu Lingqi, she can only bow her head and be a man.

Sitting on the main seat and listening to Guo Zhaoyu's report on the recent situation of the red sleeves, Lu Lingqi was a little lazy with her hands on her cheeks, this posture could make her chest pilllow on the table, which was much easier.

"The dark line is naturally not profitable, but it is still very good that the bright line can be flat."

Lu Lingqi closed the ledger and looked at Guo Zhao, "How many people can use it?" ”

"There are eight of them, all of them are good-looking, excellent dancing skills, and most importantly, loyalty."

"Less."

Lu Lingqi frowned slightly, "To speed up the progress of cultivation, the husband has spent too much money on the red sleeves, and it is not okay to be unable to help all the time." ”

"Madame, rest assured, the slaves and maids will step up the selection." Guo Zhao is like an excellent worker who never complains.

"It's hard work, let's go down." Lu Lingqi owed her body, so she wanted to get up and go back to her room to rest, but Guo Zhao immediately stepped forward sensibly to help.

As Lu Lingqi's belly became bigger and bigger, the heavy responsibility of the red sleeve move fell on Guo Zhao's shoulders alone.

Moreover, the dark line of the red sleeve move is the highest level of confidentiality, and it can't be faked, so Lu Lingqi has a much better impression of this girl who hides her husband in her heart.

After returning to the room, it didn't take long for the maid in the courtyard to gently knock on the door outside the door.

"Miss, a messenger has arrived."

"Where did it come from?" Lu Lingqi, who had just been lying down, asked impatiently.

"Qingzhou."

"Bring it in."

Hearing the word Qingzhou, Lu Lingqi immediately got up.

When I opened the letter, it was written by Lin Mo.

"Ling'er saw that Xin'an was fine, she hadn't seen her for several months, she missed it very much, and she wanted to go home and go on a blind date with Ling'er, but now it seems that she still needs to delay for some time.

However, Ling'er doesn't have to worry about me and my father-in-law's affairs in the north, although we don't have many soldiers and horses in the north, it won't take long to control Jizhou and Qingzhou, Youzhou is also in my deployment, it is estimated that within half a year, I can pacify the land of Sanzhou, and lay half of the country for Ling'er.

As for when I will be able to go home, I estimate that it will be within half a year, but there are many traitors and villains here in the northern country, and they need to be suppressed in order to exchange for the long-term peace and stability of the northern country.

I miss you every day in the northern country, and I miss our children very much, I have thought about it, if you have a girl in your belly, you will be called Linzhi, I hope she will always be sought after like Linzhi; If it is a boy, his name is Lin Chuan, and I hope he has the ambition of mountains and rivers.

The book is short, and Ling'er must take care of herself and wait for her husband to return. ”

When Lin Mo wrote to others, it was very official, and it was also very in line with the terminology of this era.

But this letter to Lu Lingqi always reads with a sense of déjà vu of a love letter.

It's not very serious, but Lu Lingqi is overjoyed.

It's been almost half a year since the little couple separated, how can they not miss it.

She pursed her wet lips, her cheeks were rosy, and she glanced at the sentence 'Lay down half of the country for Ling'er' again, and her heartbeat accelerated a little.

After indulging in happiness for a while, he carefully put the letter away and put it in his arms.

This is a letter written by my husband, so of course I have to carry it with me.

Guo Zhao, who returned to the Lin Mansion, was still thinking seriously about how to cultivate enough dark lines faster.

Lin Mo's kindness to her is undoubted, and this red-sleeved trick secret line related to life and death has been handed over to her, which can be seen.

Recently, she also felt Lu Lingqi's kindness to her, although she didn't say it, she didn't treat herself coldly as before.

Probably, she is beginning to accept herself.

It was as if she could foresee her future as she expected.

But because of this, she needs to work tirelessly to take care of the red sleeves.

As a wife, Lu Lingqi gave Lin Mo a stage to show her talents, which was a life-changing opportunity.

Then, as a little maid who wants to be by Lin Mo's side for the rest of her life, she can't make people feel useless, of course, she has to share her worries for them.

Guo Zhao was lying on Lin Mo's favorite lazy chair, seriously thinking about the current situation and future of the red sleeve move, and suddenly heard someone knocking on the door.

"Girl, I have your letter." When the door was opened, a sergeant handed her a sealed silk cloth.

"Thank you."

Guo Zhao was a little puzzled, as if no one had ever written to him.

She returned to the lazy chair, opened the seal, and her delicate face froze.

"Little steamed bun photos, I haven't seen you for many days, do you miss your son-in-law, I can't hide it, my son misses you very much, I miss your red lips, I miss your warmth."

Just seeing this, Guo Zhao's cheeks were already damp, and his heart was full of deer.

On weekdays, although Lin Mo is not serious with her, he has never said these words so bluntly.

The most important thing is that you haven't tasted it, so why do you miss it.

After a long while, Guo Zhao adjusted the violent ups and downs of his chest and continued to look down.

"If nothing else, we will be able to enter the northern kingdom within half a year, but this matter cannot be done by ourselves, and we still need to fake our hands, and the situation we will face at that time will be much more complicated and dangerous than when we were in Pengcheng.

Therefore, I urgently need the dark line of the Red Sleeve Moves to provide support, and I know that the Red Sleeves are all taken care of by you now, so you have to work harder, and you must give me twenty absolutely reliable people within half a year. ”

Guo Zhao sighed lightly, there were eight that could be used on hand, and he had to recruit twelve more in half a year, which was very difficult.

The number of war widows and displaced people in the red sleeves has exceeded 10,000, but this is the bright line, and the people who meet the dark line can be said to be one in ten thousand.

According to Lin Mo's requirements, they must be outstanding, and they must also dabble in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and they must find the corresponding aristocratic status for them, and the most important thing is to be absolutely loyal, which is very difficult.

Since following Lin Mo's side, she has never had any excuses for Lin Mo's request, as long as he wants it, she will give it.

Therefore, Guo Zhaozong felt a lot of pressure, and he did not hesitate.

"Zhao'er, every time I see you after separation, you will be different, this is the eighteenth change of the female university, when I come back from the north, please be sure to put down the matter of the red sleeve trick and boil a bucket of hot water for the son first, let me feel your slender jade fingers again."

The imaginative words made Guo Zhao, who was lying on the lazy chair, breathe rapidly, and always felt that there was an ant crawling on her body, which made her itch all over.

She bit her red lip tightly and hugged the silk cloth in her arms, thinking that it was better if the technique could not be rusty.

"Miss Ying'er, the poetry will be separated for two years, Zeng Ying girl's spring blossom day, is when you and I meet, but in the torrent of troubled times, many things are not I can control, so I have repeatedly procrastinated, and I hope the girl will forgive me.

Recently, I learned with a stranger to use the bowl and chopsticks to beat the melody, compared with the girl's exquisite piano skills, it is a small way, but I hope to have the opportunity to play with the girl.

Now that I am in the north, I am fighting for the court, and when this matter is over, there is nothing to stop me from going south, and I will immediately go to the moon with the girl. ”

"Miss Wan'er, every year when the peach blossoms bloom, I think of someone, although I like her very much, but I don't want her to know, because I understand that what I can't get is always the best.

Recently, I inadvertently invented a kind of sparkling water, blowing it can be a burst of floating air bubbles, colorful in the sun, very beautiful, just like your eyebrows and eyes moving, when I calm the northern affairs, I will go to Lujiang, by the way will send this thing to the girl, not for Bo Hongyan smiled, just for the girl to forgive me for not going to the spring blossom appointment. ”

Lujiang, Anhui County, next to the water pavilion in the backyard of Qiao's house.

Two girls wearing white gauze long skirts, Zhiruo Youlan, and their skin is better than snow sit under the porch, and the two girls have a vulgar and dusty temperament, which seems to be only able to be watched from a distance and cannot be blasphemed.

They held a silk cloth with each other, looked at the lotus flowers in front of them, and were a little stunned.

"Sister, sister, let me see what is written on the letter that Marquis Lanling gave you." Qiao Wan was very happy after reading the letter, but she felt that the letter was too short, so that she was interested in her sister Qiao Ying's letter.

The bold words in the letter made Qiao Ying a little confused, and she hurriedly put away the silk cloth to protect her chest, and then asked, "Let's take a look at you first." ”

"No, it's up to yours first."

"Looking at the way your heart is rippling, it seems that you have forgiven him?"

"Forgive me, I just said he forgot about us."

When I said that the day of spring flowers would be when we met each other, two years later, I didn't see him come to the door.

At the beginning, Xiao Qiao only felt that maybe Lin Mo was busy with official business, and he couldn't pull away, but later he didn't even have a message, so he was dead, and it was just Lin Mo's perfunctory.

That's right, after all, they have a talent and a young man's ambition, and they are named the Marquis of Lanling, how can they still remember their sisters.

So the two sisters once had some grudges against Lin Mo.

Now that I have seen Lin Mo's letter, the unhappiness that has accumulated in my heart has disappeared after reading the content.

In its place, there was a glimmer of anticipation.

With this expectation, the second daughter got up and prepared to go back to the room, so as to put Lin Mo's letter away, if it was looked at, Jiangnan Xiao Qiao would be so foul-mouthed with others, then the Qiao family would be ashamed.

"Ziyang, I can't accept this matter, although the Qiao family is not a famous family, but let my second daughter be a concubine, I don't agree to this matter."

"Qiao Gong, this is not my intention, but the scholars of the three counties of Huainan are writing to me one after another, I am here with the expectation of the public, please Qiao Gong think carefully."

Let's be concubines?

Just kidding, in the past two years, how many famous sons and daughters have come to the door to propose marriage, and even the Gu family in the four major families in Jiangdong has come, and they are still unmoved, and they actually want us to be concubines?

They couldn't see who their father was arguing with, but they seemed to be an old acquaintance when they heard the voice, and Lujiang was too guarded by Liu Ye.

The second daughter, who didn't dare to go in to find out, could only stick to the bedside to see what they would say next.

"Ziyang, my second daughter is also well-known in Jiangnan, and it is difficult to obey her fate for the sake of concubines."

Qiao Gong's tone was unacceptable, as if he had made up his mind, Liu Ye could only sigh, "This matter is related to the future of all the scholars in the three counties of Huainan, Qiao Gong, as the head of the sages, does he really want to sit idly by?" ”

A hint of hesitation flashed in Qiao Gong's eyes, his tone softened slightly, and he said in a deep voice: "He is not so capable. ”

"Gong Qiao doesn't know, Zhang Wenyuan recently held a celebration banquet in Anfeng, and it has been stated that Chen Deng is the first merit to break Cao, and now only Cao's army has not retreated, and after this battle, Lu Bu will definitely reward Chen Deng."

Liu Ye spoke earnestly, but he could only explain patiently and slowly, "Gong Qiao should know that the three counties of Huainan today are all our own people, even if it is Anfeng County, Chen Deng is only a nominal Taishou, and the things that can be controlled are very limited."

But all this was Lin Mo's acquiescence behind his back to get to today's field.

Please Qiao Gong think about it, Chen Deng is such a great achievement, An Neng does not ask to hold power, he was humiliated in Huainan, and now he may not be willing to let him go back to Xuzhou, if the county and the county below Anfeng County are replaced, our Huainan clan will be completely disadvantaged in the contest between Xuzhou scholars. ”

Liu Ye's words are of course reasonable, the Qiao family's dilemma was resolved only by his action, and it is natural that he should repay the favor.

But he really can't accept letting Xiao Qiao be a concubine.

But after listening to Liu Ye's analysis, he felt the seriousness of the matter again.

Now Chen Deng is being hollowed out in Anfeng, whether he wants to admit it or not, this incident has intensified the struggle between Huainan Shizi and Xuzhou Shizi.

At present, it can still be in a relatively balanced situation, if he takes advantage of this great merit to change the officials below the county level, the Xuzhou forces will completely penetrate into Huainan, and then it will only be slow and slow.

Therefore, Huainan Shizi wanted to use Big and Small Qiao to hug Lin Mo's thigh.

"There is one more thing, I got the exact news, Yuan Shang has completely become the puppet of Wenhou, the northern kingdom is about to change hands, Qiao Gong, if we can't win the battle with the Xuzhou scholars, in the face of the suppression of the northern family in the future, I am afraid that we will not be able to raise our heads."

I understand, what they said about being a concubine is to be a concubine for Lin Mo.

Xiao Qiao, who was eavesdropping outside the window, glanced at each other, but he didn't even read the panic in the other party's eyes, but looked calm.

Like, this decision is pretty good.

Liu Ye has raised the marriage between Big and Little Qiao and Lin Mo to the height of the future and destiny of Huainan Shizi, and it is naturally impossible for Qiao Gong not to weigh one or two.

The struggle between the families is very cruel, especially if the families across the state and county show weakness, they are likely to be suppressed or even annexed.

At present, the scholars of the three counties of Huainan are very grouped, which of course has the credit of his Duke Qiao, but more often than not, it is Liu Ye's horse head, this descendant of the royal family, has really become the leader of the Huainan scholars.

Today, he took the initiative to come to the door, and it is estimated that the matter has indeed reached a more critical point.

Gong Qiao sighed, the marriage between the families has always been a victim of politics, and it can't be escaped after all, "Could it be that there is really no other way than to wronged Ying'er and Wan'er?" ”

Hearing that Qiao Gong seemed to have signs of relenting, Liu Ye solemnly said: "Qiao Gong, I have seriously thought about this matter, Yunwen will treat the daughter of the Qiao family very well at the poetry meeting, except for the two of her, I really can't think of anything else to impress Yunwen."

What's more, although Yunwen is the son-in-law of Wenhou, who is clear-eyed who doesn't know that he is already the actual ruler of the land of the two states, and even the future northern kingdom.

The daughter of the Qiao family married him as a concubine, and she would not be wronged. ”

Liu Ye said so, although there was helplessness in Qiao Gong's eyes, he also knew that there was indeed no better way to stabilize the future and destiny of the scholar than marriage.

After a long time, he said softly, "You can do it." ”

Liu Ye breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I thank Qiao Gong for Huainan Shizi, I will handle this matter myself." ”

(End of chapter)