This was an extremely brutal dimensionality reduction blow. Five thousand-stone cargo ships were blown to pieces, and all the eighty-four water thieves on board were killed. In fact, most of the water thieves were stunned and fell into the river and drowned. Even if If he hadn't drowned, he would have been killed with arrows by two hundred soldiers.
Until five full days had passed, Shen Zhenzhu and Shen Li's fear had not been completely eliminated.
At night, twenty thousand-stone ships were sailing on the water of Hangzhou Bay. In the living cabin of one of the ships, Li Ye invited two beauties to drink tea together. He apologized: "I'm sorry for letting you see the cruel scenes of war." , I should ask you to close your eyes."
Shen Pearl shook her head, "It's not a bad thing to feel the cruelty of war. Although we couldn't accept it at the time, it will at least make us understand how difficult it is to live a peaceful life."
Li Ye secretly admired Shen Zhenzhu's ability to speak. He glanced at Shen Li and said with a smile, "I thought Miss Shen would get seasick, but there seemed to be no problem at all, which surprised me."
Shen Li was a little embarrassed and said: "The women in our family don't seem to get seasick, and I don't know why!"
"Have Miss Shen been to Quanzhou?"
Shen Li shook her head, "I haven't been there, but my third uncle is there. He seems to be the captain of Jinjiang County."
Next to her, Shen Zhenzhen asked curiously: "The entire Fujian Province is under the rule of His Highness, right? Why did you go to Quanzhou?"
"Quanzhou was our territory before, and we developed it early. I went to Quanzhou this time to inspect shipbuilding and the sowing of new rice in Nanyang. This is very important. If the trial planting is successful, the poor of the Tang Dynasty will also be able to eat it. It’s time for lunch.”
Shen Zhenzhen sighed: "Your Highness cares about the people of the world, which is the blessing of the people of the Tang Dynasty!"
"It's getting late, let's rest!"
Li Ye winked at Shen Zhenzhu, stood up and left first.
Shen Zhenzhu's pretty face was slightly red, and her eyes were full of anticipation. Shen Li bit her lip gently, and she keenly captured the subtle movements of Li Ye winking at her aunt just now.
They lived with Li Ye on the third floor. The second floor was the residence of the maids and servants. The entire third floor was empty, there were only the three of them, and each had their own cabin.
The cabins of Shen Zhenzhu and Shen Li were next door, both inside and outside. There were maids to serve them during the day, but not at night. The maids had all gone to the second floor.
Shen Li leaned in front of the cabin door. At this time, she heard the sound of the door next door opening slightly, and then closing it again.
She opened it slightly and saw her aunt, wearing a middle coat and bare feet, tiptoeing towards the cabin next door. She pushed open the cabin and went in, then closed it gently.
Shen Li's nose felt sore and she felt like crying.
The night before she left, her grandfather had already told her that her family wanted her to go to Beijing to become a woman in charge of the state. Once the state was enthroned, she would be a concubine in the palace. She was the only one in the entire Jiangnan who got this marriage. Chance.
Her grandfather didn't tell her about her aunt, but Shen Li had long discovered that the relationship between her aunt and Jian Guo was unusual. Her aunt looked at Jian Guo in the wrong way, full of fascination and enthusiasm, which couldn't be hidden from her eyes. Now she finally sat down Indeed, the two of them slept together.
Could it be that the family wanted to marry both their aunt and niece to the same man?
Shen Li actually didn't have any feelings for Li Ye at first, not even as much as Gu Tong. Gu Tong wrote to her every day and fell in love with her, which really touched her heart. However, she obeyed the family's arrangement and wrote Gu Tong to her. All the letters were burned.
Until she encountered bandits in the Qiantang River, Li Ye protected her strongly, making her feel a huge sense of security. When there was a violent explosion on the river, Li Ye held her tightly under him. She felt like a bird hiding in the storm. She was extremely attached to the bird's nest that could shelter her from the wind and rain.
From that night on, the weak scholar Gu Tong completely disappeared from her heart. Li Ye broke into her heart domineeringly, protecting her and giving her an extremely comfortable sense of security. From that day on, his tall and strong figure occupied the Her heart.
But now her aunt was occupying the man who attracted her attention. She threw herself on the quilt and cried miserably.
In another cabin, a storm was going on. Shen Pearl completely let herself go in the storm, accepting the baptism and impact of the storm with her whole body and mind. She was completely conquered and completely intoxicated by the most primitive desires of human beings.
Flowers bloomed and fell, streams went and came again. The storm in the cabin lasted for more than an hour, and then it finally calmed down. There were only heavy breathing and heartbeats in the cabin.
Shen Zhenzhen hugged Li Ye's neck and said coquettishly: "It's really terrible. I find that I can't live without you. What should I do? It's all your fault!"
Li Ye hugged her and smiled: "That's why I ask you to come back to Chang'an with me and become my woman."
"She is already your woman, but I really don't understand why you like mature women? Isn't it bad for a sixteen or seventeen-year-old lady?"
"I hope you will give me a son. You have given birth before, so it is easier to have children. You know I have no brothers. I only have two sons, which are too few. I hope I have more than twenty sons, so that I I can send them to the far west and overseas to establish kingdoms. I also hope that the Tang Dynasty will have a larger population and they can go to distant places to colonize, so I specially ordered to encourage widows to remarry by reducing taxes.
It can be said that increasing the population is currently the first national policy of the Tang Dynasty. All government decrees are formulated around increasing the population. The most important thing is to keep the people fed and clothed. Only when they are full and warm will they have more interest!"
"Obviously I want a woman, but I still shamelessly construct a set of fallacious theories to excuse myself. But I like it. I really want to have another child."
Li Ye smiled and nodded, "There will definitely be. I can feel that you are in the right mature state. It is the season of harvesting after sowing seeds."
Shen Pearl stood up to get dressed, but Li Ye hugged her and said, "Sleep with me until dawn!"
"No, she will find out."
"What does it matter if she finds out?"
Shen Pearl bit her lip, "Your Highness, you really don't understand?"
Li Ye said lightly: "She was arranged for me by your Shen family!"
Shen Pearl nodded, "His Royal Highness wants to marry the Jiangnan noble family, and she is the most suitable. Her mother is the eldest daughter of the Lu family in Suzhou. Basically, the marriage of the Jiangnan family can be reflected in the relationships between her elders, but I I don’t want her to become a purely political marriage, that would be too unfortunate. I hope His Highness can also like her, so I took her along with His Highness."
Li Ye smiled slightly and said: "Her appearance really attracts me. If the princess agrees to meet her, there will be no problem."
"Your Highness can't make your own decisions?"
"I want you to be my concubine, are you willing?"
Shen Pearl shook her head, "I am willing to be your woman, but not a concubine. Your Highness, I'm sorry, I really don't want to be bound by marriage anymore, not because of my status as a princess."
Li Ye nodded, "I completely understand and I won't force you!"
Shen Zhenzhu took the initiative to kiss Li Ye, put on her clothes, got up and left.
Li Ye watched her leave, and then he realized that Shen Zhenzhu was such an independent woman.