"Uncle and Mr. Shi are here." At this time, a nanny entered the hall with a smile on her face and said to Jia Mu and several others who were talking in the room.
With a broad smile on her face, Mother Jia greeted, "Let people come in quickly."
As he said that, he followed the sound and looked at Jia Heng and Shi Ding who were coming from outside.
"Brother Heng, Ding'er, come and sit down." Mother Jia called with a smile, her eyes were friendly, and she couldn't help but smile when she saw the closeness between Shi and Jia's family.
Jia Heng and Shi Ding greeted Jia Mu one after another.
When Jia Heng and Zhongjing Hou Shi Ding sat down, Jia's mother smiled and said: "Both of your uncle and nephew work in the Military Aircraft Department, and it's rare for Brother Heng to come back. You two should have a good chat together."
Jia Heng put down the tea cup and said softly: "I have talked a lot with Shi Shibo before."
Shi Ding also had a smile on his face and said softly: "Brother Heng is busy with court matters outside. I think he has lost a lot of weight. I just need to take a good rest at home these days."
Yuan Chun sat elegantly aside, looking at Jia Heng with soft and tender eyes, pursed her lips, and a trace of worry appeared in her charming eyes.
Hengdi looked really haggard.
Mother Jia looked at Jia Heng and said: "Brother Heng, he has lost some weight. I heard that there was a heavy rain in Henan. In order to save himself, Brother Heng ate and slept on the river embankment. He couldn't eat well and couldn't sleep."
Okay, my body and bones are probably all strained, so I’ll take good care of myself when I get home.”
Aunt Xue smiled and said: "Brother Heng is younger. Young people are strong and strong. Just take care of him."
"Auntie said that it will only take a few days to heal." Jia Heng said softly.
Jia Mu nodded and said: "These days you will be born and raised at home. I think the palace also means the same thing. It always wants to let people relax."
Jia Heng said: "The palace has given me a few days' leave, but if something happens in the Yamen, I still need to go to the Yamen to ask questions."
Mrs. Zhou smiled and said: "Old lady, Brother Heng is a very busy man, and the court cannot be without him for even a moment."
A few people talked, Shi Ding sat for a while, took his wife Zhou, and said goodbye.
When Jia Heng came back from bidding farewell to Shi Ding, Jia's mother asked curiously: "Brother Heng, I just heard from your aunt that your uncle wants to be released to Henan?"
Jia Heng was startled for a moment and said, "There is such a thing."
"Then... what do you think?" Jia Mu's old eyes showed curiosity.
Jia Heng said: "The south of Henan is experiencing chaos, and it also needs a martial artist to take charge."
After saying that, he did not continue to go further, but said softly: "Old lady, it is not easy to talk about these court affairs at home."
Mother Jia's heart moved, and she nodded quickly and said, "It's not easy to talk about matters in the court at home."
The four major families of King Jia Shi and Xue were in the same spirit, so they seemed to help each other.
Mrs. Wang frowned, and the hand holding the beads could not help but tighten a little. Sure enough, she asked the second master of the Shi family to go to Henan to become a feudal official.
It stands to reason that he cannot write two characters of "Jia" in one stroke, and it is such a good thing to open the border to the outside world. Why doesn't he think about the master?
Because no one knew Mrs. Wang's "whimsical" thoughts, no one paid attention to Mrs. Wang's face.
Jia Mu asked again: "Brother Heng, when will you worship your ancestors for your promotion?"
Jia Heng thought for a while and said: "The day after tomorrow seems to be an auspicious day. We will open an ancestral hall to worship our ancestors. By the way, we will prepare the preparations in these two days."
Jia Mu smiled and said: "Okay, don't forget to inform the people in each room later. You and Feng Yatou will have a good discussion and be well prepared."
Jia Heng glanced at Sister Feng, and saw Hua Xin, a beautiful young woman with a smile that was as bright as yesterday. He didn't want to look at her too much, and said softly: "Then there is Sister-in-law Lao Feng."
Sister Feng smiled, looked at the young man in a straight green shirt with a calm demeanor, and said: "Brother Heng, there are also Yuanzi's account books for this period. I will bring them to you later and we can reconcile them."
Jia Heng nodded, and then saw Jia Mu talking for a while in the afternoon. She was obviously tired and needed a lunch break. Everyone did not want to disturb each other and dispersed from Rongqing Hall.
Jia Heng was about to return to Ningguo Mansion and walked along the Chaoshou corridor to the flower wall of Dongshan. He paused in his steps and his face moved. He suddenly thought about it and planned to sit in Daiyu Courtyard.
Well, I haven't seen Daiyu for a while.
At this moment, in the courtyard where Daiyu lives, Daiyu left Rongqing Hall and was sitting behind a mahogany desk in front of the window. She took out a book from the bookshelf, her starry eyes were slightly lowered, and she read attentively.
Wearing a button-breasted printed jacket, a white-bottomed jacket with a pink collar, and a red pleated skirt, her posture is quite demure and dignified, perhaps because she is quiet.
Zijuan held the teapot and poured a cup of tea, and said softly: "Girl, drink some tea."
Saying that, he handed over the tea cup.
When Daiyu heard this, she turned her pretty and graceful face towards her. The warm afternoon sunlight passed through the window and fell on the girl's jade cheek. The earrings on her petite and exquisite earlobes swayed gently, reflecting on her cheeks.
A faint shadow appeared, and under the two thin eyebrows that looked like a slight frown, starry eyes shone, "Sister Zicuckoo, just leave it alone."
Zicuckoo put down the tea cup and said, "Girl, I'll take a nap later. I didn't sleep well last night."
This is just after midsummer, when the sky is long and people are sleepy.
"I'm going to read for a while and take a nap at this time. I can't sleep at night." Daiyu said softly, lowering her eyes again and looking at the pages in her hands. Under her curved eyelashes, her starry eyes were slightly narrowed, which made the girl feel so excited.
A little more focused.
At this moment, the maid Xue Yan walked around a bamboo screen with a pattern of hibiscus blooming, and the sweet voice of the oriole coming out of the valley was filled with a bit of joy: "Girl, Uncle Heng is here."
When Daiyu heard this, she was startled. The hand holding the book paused. Under her smoky eyebrows, her eyes were like dew, and she stood up to greet him.
I really didn’t expect that he would come looking for me. After he came back, shouldn’t he accompany his sister-in-law and the others?
Well, of course Daiyu would not know that the couple had already reunited.
Jia Heng then stepped into the wing room, looked at the girl with delicate and picturesque eyebrows who was sitting behind the mahogany desk, and called out: "Sister Lin."
Daiyu's starry eyes stared at the young man in green shirt opposite, and asked: "Why is Brother Heng here?"
Jia Heng didn't hide anything. He smiled and said softly: "When I walked to the flower wall, I felt something was wrong, and suddenly I remembered something important."
Daiyu: "..."
Fangxin felt happy and ashamed at the same time, and her starry eyes seemed angry or annoyed.
I vaguely feel that something is wrong, something important has been left behind, this person...
Jia Heng's words were somewhat joking, and the kindness in his tone naturally overflowed, but invisibly moved people's hearts.
At this time, Zijuan handed over a tea cup, with a slight smile on her face, and said: "Uncle, drink tea."
Jia Heng looked at the smiling girl and said, "Zicuckoo, long time no see."
With a smile on her face, Zijuan said softly: "I haven't seen you for several months. I'm back now. My girl..."
Dai Yufang's heart skipped a beat, thinking that Zicuckoo was going to say something "shocking", so she softly called out: "Zicuckoo..."
When Zicuckoo's words came to her lips, she immediately changed her words: "My girl was still thinking a few days ago, when will Uncle Heng come back."
Well, they are relatively ordinary words, much calmer than thinking about it day and night, tossing and turning.
Jia Heng picked up the tea cup, took a sip, and suppressed the saltiness from Baochai. Well, scientifically speaking, the sweetness and saltiness of honey have nothing to do with girls and young women. If they are older and have no diseases, they all contain inorganic substances.
Salt.
Taking a sip of tea, he said slowly: "If I return to Beijing after the chaos is over, I may have come back early, but there was a flood in the middle, and it rained at home, right?"
As he said that, the young man cast his warm eyes on Daiyu, asking questions.
Daiyu gently stroked a few strands of hair hanging from her ears and tied up her braids with a red headband. She met Jia Heng's gaze, her starry eyes lowered slightly, and she said softly: "It rained a few times at home, but it's okay."
Not big, I heard from Third Sister and Sister Yun that it rained heavily at Brother Heng’s place during that time?”
Tanchun and Xiangyun returned to Beijing early. When they talked with Daiyu, they told Daiyu everything they had seen and heard in Luoyang and Kaifeng.
Jia Heng nodded and said: "It has been raining for a long time. For nearly a month, the water level of the Yellow River has risen sharply. Originally, the water on the Yellow River was less than knee high, but then the floods came and the water of the Yellow River poured down.
, like a blue dragon roaring, my sister should be able to figure it out."
Daiyu listened quietly. Under her eyebrows, her bright eyes shone like stars and moon, as if Jia Heng's few words outlined a scene in front of her eyes.
"Brother Heng has lived on the river embankment for more than half a month." Daiyu said softly.
Jia Heng pondered for a moment and said: "We can't let our brothers endure hardships and hardships, while I enjoy peace and happiness at the rear, otherwise people's hearts will be scattered."
"Brother Heng looks really haggard." Daiyu suddenly pursed her pink lips as she listened to the young man opposite her. She frowned slightly and looked intently at the stern face of the young man opposite her.
Jia Heng said: "It's okay."
Daiyu nodded slightly and said, "Brother Heng, it's better to pay attention to your body and bones."
Jia Heng stared at Daiyu, lowered the cardamom girl's gaze again, and said: "Sister, too. My sister looks much better than before, with curved eyebrows and plump cheeks, and radiant eyes. Looking at my sister like this,
I feel relieved."
Daiyu listened to the gentle and soft-spoken young man, and the sincere words rang in her ears. For a moment, her mind was inexplicable, and waves of warmth surged through her mind.
Is Brother Heng really caring so much about her just because of his father?
Seeing Daiyu's eyes were lost, Zijuan smiled and answered, "Thanks to Uncle Heng, our girl's body and bones are really much better than before after being nursed back to health."
Compared with the original work, Daiyu does not have to be trapped by love and weep secretly every day. Now, except for hiding one thing on her mind, she is almost carefree. She often eats to recuperate her body. She is rosier and more energetic than before.
Jia Heng smiled and said: "Sister Lin has been frail since she was a child and has been separated from her uncle. It is inevitable that she will have more worries. However, as long as she takes good care of herself, she will be free from illness and disaster in the future."
There was a trace of joy in Daiyu's gentle and gentle eyebrows, and she said softly and softly: "Brother Heng has to worry a lot."
Jia Heng picked up the tea cup, took a sip, and said warmly: "That's how it should be."
When Daiyu heard this, her heart trembled slightly. She held a handkerchief in her jade hand on her knees and squeezed it gently. She wanted to ask, why is it the right thing to do?
But when it came to his lips, he couldn't say it, so he asked instead: "Brother Heng met his father in Yangzhou?"
Jia Heng said: "I met with my uncle. My uncle is doing well now, but he misses my sister a little. After a while, I will take my sister to Yangzhou to see my uncle."
There has been no progress in the Yangzhou salt affairs, so he will probably make a trip. However, there is still a matter of preparing prisoners in the capital, so arrangements need to be made in advance to prepare for a rainy day.
Daiyu's beautiful face changed slightly, her bright eyes fixed on the young man, and she asked in surprise: "Brother Heng is going to Yangzhou?"
Jia Heng sighed and said: "All the provinces in the north have suffered disasters this year. The imperial court has spent money on various military and political affairs and needs to allocate money. The Yangzhou Salt Affairs Department has been delaying the decision for a long time, which is not a solution."
During the fifteenth year and a half of Chen Han's reign in Chongping, there was almost no good harvest in the northern provinces.
Then came the preparations for the establishment of the Peiping Economic Strategy and Appeasement Department, Li Zan supervised the border areas, rectified military equipment, and spent huge amounts of money on military expenditures.
In addition, in order to facilitate the reorganization of the army and appease the border generals who led the troops, the prince of Nan'an County and others who went to organize military affairs in the northern border town first stopped pursuing the past shortfalls of the border army generals, and after checking the troop quotas, most of them were from
Recruit the servants of the frontier generals and the young men of the guard fields.
The Prince of Nan'an County and Marquis Baoling later proposed to "follow the example of the Jingying Camp and provide real troops with real pay", and once again asked for pay from the Ministry of Household Affairs of the imperial court to appease the border army generals. After this, the imperial treasury was filled with
Seen the bottom.
It is equivalent to the reorganization of the huge border army. The composition of the generals has not changed much, and the number of actual troops has not been reduced much. Of course, the advantage is that there are more troops on paper, and the border defense armaments have been strengthened to a certain extent.
However, it is completely different from the major blood change and major disarmament envisioned by Jia Heng.
Therefore, in the face of the border army's begging for pay again, the Ministry of Revenue could not continue to default on military expenses. Otherwise, when the Beijing camp army suppressed the rebellion in the Central Plains, if the border army was unstable, it would be a double ghost knocking on the door.
Another large expenditure was that after the collapse of the imperial mausoleum, the Ministry of Revenue allocated some money to repair the imperial mausoleum.
And during this period, the salaries of Han officials...
All in all, the national treasury has bottomed out again.
As for attacking the Ministry of Internal Affairs?
The Ministry of Internal Affairs also has no money.
The Chen and Han royal family's own expenses were supplied by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. While they did not ask for silver from the Ministry of Household Affairs, they also provided military expenses for the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp. The money for river construction in the past was also supplied by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
It can be said that if the big man continues like this, it is not a long-term solution at all.
Daiyu's eyes sparkled and she asked: "When will Brother Heng go?"
"I'm not sure about this yet. It depends on Nanbian's movements, but I think it will be during this period." Jia Heng said softly.
The main purpose of Banshi's return to Beijing this time was to bring back tens of thousands of troops who were fighting abroad.
Jia Heng said, looking at the thoughtful cardamom girl opposite, and said warmly: "I will take Sister Lin to Yangzhou and then go to her hometown in Gusu to pay homage to my aunt."
Daiyu's jade face paused slightly, and there were faint ripples in the lake in her heart. Her starry eyes flickered, as if she was yearning for something, and she said softly: "I haven't been back to Yangzhou for many years, and I still have my hometown in Gusu."
Jia Heng said: "This time I took my sister to see it. But when I arrived in Yangzhou, my sister also did her best to act as a landlord and be a guide or something, taking me around."
Daiyu looked calm and said softly: "I was still young at that time, and I had never been to other places."
Jia Heng looked at the girl with eyebrows like Xiaoxiang water, and said softly: "It's okay, let's go take a look around together then."
Daiyu said "Hmm", her eyes slightly lowered under her smoky brows, and for some reason, she suddenly felt her heart beating a little too fast.
The two were talking when suddenly bursts of laughter like silver bells came from outside the wing, and an innocent voice came through the screen and said: "Is Sister Lin in the room?"
While they were talking, Xiangyun and Tanchun were seen holding hands, walking into the side room surrounded by maids such as Shishu and Cuimo.
Daiyu stood up to greet them, looked at Xiangyun and Tanchun with a slight smile and asked: "Sister Yun, third sister, why didn't you take a nap?"
Xiangyun was about to answer when he looked at Jia Heng on the side in surprise and said in surprise: "Hey, brother Heng is here too?"
Under Tan Chun's beautiful eyebrows, a pair of bright eyes looked at the young man in green shirt.
Jia Heng came closer, stretched out his hand to rub Xiangyun's bangs, and said with a smile: "Come over from the old lady's side and have a few words with your sister Lin."
Xiangyun's red face showed a smile and said angrily: "Brother Heng just likes Sister Lin. As soon as he comes back, he talks to Sister Lin and doesn't come to me."
In the past, I loved my brother too, always surrounding Sister Lin.
As soon as these words came out, Daiyu's cheeks turned red, her hazy eyebrows furrowed, and she felt extremely embarrassed for a moment.
He secretly thought, Xiangyun is always so open-minded, why does he... like her?
Tanchun saw that Daiyu looked wrong, so he reconciled the situation, smiled and said: "Brother Heng was in Luoyang, and he stayed with us when he was in Kaifeng. This time I came back and I haven't seen Sister Lin for a long time. I will definitely have to go there again."
Come over here and talk for a while."
Jia Heng pinched Xiangyun's pink cheeks and felt that compared to Baochai's pink face, Xiangyun's apple-like skin was plumper and smoother. He chuckled and said, "Sister Yun, I'm not looking for you, Sister Lin."
Just for fun, I just told her about Uncle Lin. We went out to play a lot when we were in Luoyang. Did Sister Yun forget?"
Xiang Yun nodded, and Bai Qi pursed his lips, as if his heartbeat in his chest was beating a little faster, and said, "Brother Heng, if you are free these two days, teach me how to ride a horse."
"Can't Sister Yun already know how to ride a horse?" Tan Chun smiled and continued.
Xiang Yun spoke obviously faster and said: "I can't ride fast. I want Brother Heng to teach me. By the way, there's also horseback archery. I didn't learn it from Sister Xianning that day. Brother Heng also teaches me when he's free."
Teach me."
Daiyu listened to Xiangyun and Jia Heng talking, her starry eyes flashed, and she sighed quietly in her heart.
It's like this every time. Even if I just want to say a few words to him, I can't.
Well, in fact, in most situations, Daiyu is among everyone, and rarely has the experience of "just talking to me".
Finally, Jia Heng came over, and Xiang Yun also came over to talk by "coincidence". It was really lively, but it was an unfortunate coincidence.
Jia Heng frowned, looked at the girl with a mantis-shaped crane posture, and warned: "Sister Yun, you are still young, riding a fast horse is too dangerous after all. If you fall down, it is not a joke.
, have you noted it down?"
"Brother Heng, I've written it down." Seeing Jia Heng's serious instructions, Xiangyun responded obediently.
She usually doesn't ride fast horses, she just wants Brother Heng to ride... No, she just wants to ride with Brother Heng.
Jia Heng said, turning to look at Daiyu, whose starry eyes were filled with hope, and said warmly: "Sister Lin is weak and not suitable for learning this. I will teach my sister to do other things in my free time."
Daiyu is definitely not suitable for riding horses, but she can walk slowly, kick shuttlecocks, etc.
Daiyu nodded her head and said calmly: "Brother Heng, I know."
