The night is shrouded in silence. In the study room, the lights are bright. Jia Heng is sitting behind the desk, flipping through a book in his hand.
At this moment, a girl with a slim figure and a duck-oval face came in from outside. She was Yuanyang.
Jia Heng turned to look at Yuanyang and said with a smile: "Yuanyang, why are you here?"
I've been sailing south these past few days, and I'm not that tired of spending time with Yuanyang.
Yuanyang said softly: "Come here and see the uncle. Are you disturbing the uncle?"
"How could it be?" Jia Heng put down the things in his hands, raised his eyes to look at Yuanyang, and asked in a low voice: "Qingwen, go and have a cup of tea with your sister Yuanyang."
Qingwen glanced at Yuanyang, pouted her little mouth, then twisted the water snake's waist, which was less than a hand full, and then picked up the teapot and poured tea for Yuanyang and carried it over.
Yuanyang thanked him and sat down on the embroidered pier in front of the writing desk.
Jia Heng turned to Qingwen and said softly: "Qingwen, go see if the bed is ready."
When Qingwen heard this, she frowned aggrievedly, snorted softly, and then left the room, her steps obviously a little angry.
How is Yuanyang better than her? She is the same maid, but she is taller than her. The young master has chosen to let her go now, just because he is afraid of spoiling their good deeds. Why not let Yuanyang serve her these days?
For a moment, only Jia Heng and Yuanyang were left in the study. The candlelight swayed, reflecting their figures on the bookshelf.
Jia Heng stood up, took Yuanyang's bare hand, looked at the girl with her head slightly lowered and her cheeks as fair as jade and blushing, and asked: "Why do you want to come here to look for me now?"
"Miss Lin is resting there, so come and see the uncle." Yuanyang said in a low voice with a cheek that was as white as snow and as red as blood.
"Miss me?" Jia Heng looked at Yuanyang and whispered.
He always gets what he asks for.
mandarin duck:"……"
After a moment of daze, he suddenly saw a dark shadow coming closer to his face, and immediately a familiar tenderness came over him.
After a while, under the light of the lamp, Yuanyang almost collapsed in Jia Heng's arms, letting the young man's snowy plum blossoms bloom, his delicate body trembling slightly, and whispered: "Uncle Heng."
"Yuanyang, don't leave tonight." Jia Heng said vaguely and started to catch the mandarin duck with one hand.
When he returned to Beijing, he was surrounded by wolves, and since the mandarin duck had to wait for Jia Mu, it was not easy for him to catch the mandarin duck hastily. During this journey, he decided to spend his life with the mandarin duck, which was also a reassurance for the mandarin duck.
Yuanyang didn't respond at all, but occasionally he let out a grunt from his nose and gently supported the shoulders of the young man who was picking plums in the snow and eating them step by step.
At this moment, I heard a soft and delicate voice coming from outside, with a clear hint of anger in her tone. It was Qingwen, "Outside, the people from Jinyi Mansion came here to see what happened to the uncle."
Jia Heng's face paused for a moment, and he had no choice but to put away his Buddhist magical power of tongue-splitting lotus, and whispered: "Yuanyang, wait for me, I'll go take a look."
Yuanyang's face was rosy, and even the few freckles showed embarrassment and shyness. He snorted and said softly: "Uncle Heng, you... you go and do your work. I'll go back first."
Jia Heng whispered: "Then I can find you later."
While talking, he ignored the mandarin ducks who were either leaving or staying, and went straight out of the study, heading to the front hall, and raised their eyes to look at Liu Jixian, who was striding in from the outside.
"Captain, a secret report from Yangzhou." Liu Jixian looked solemn, took the letter with both hands, and handed it over.
Jia Heng took the letter, opened it and looked at it. He lowered his eyes and flipped through the paper. He frowned slightly and said with a cold look in his eyes: "Yangzhou authorities got the news that I went south to Yangzhou on business a few days ago. This news is quite good."
The eight major salt merchants in Yangzhou were able to spy on the political situation in Beijing through their guild hall in Shenjing, and the Jinyi Mansion also sent undercover agents to spy on the salt merchants.
Liu Jixian whispered: "Captain, my brothers from Yangzhou said that Yangzhou salt merchants have been meeting frequently in Slender West Lake recently, and I don't know what they are plotting."
Because Yangzhou salt merchants lived a luxurious life and spent lavishly, they often gathered on boats, went boating on the Qinhuai River, drank and had fun, which was not surprising in the Jiangnan area where people and people gathered together.
Jia Heng's face was lost in thought. After a while, he said in a clear voice: "Let people pay close attention to find out who they have contact with. Whether they are local officials or anyone else, they must pay attention and cannot ignore it."
When he stayed in Kaifeng, he planned to mobilize the guards of Kaifeng Dusi to deal with unexpected events. He also used all his strength to fight the lion against the rabbit. He never underestimated the Yangzhou salt merchants.
After Liu Jixian finished speaking, he took out another letter from his sleeve, handed it over, and said loudly: "Captain, there is another message from Beijing. Some are from Beijing, and some are from the north. Please give me a message."
The governor took a look."
Jia Heng didn't say much, stretched out his hand to take the note, and began to read through the contents of the note, which mainly focused on Li Zan's observation of Beilu in Beiping Mansion.
After Li Zan arrived in Peiping, he reorganized the military and eliminated the old and weak. At the same time, he sent officials to the border towns of Xuanhua and Datong to investigate smuggling, implemented a strict ban on the Donglu, and ordered Lu Qi, the governor of Shandong, to dispatch the Denglai Guards.
As well as the navy, patrolling the coast to inspect smuggling merchant ships.
Although the Donglu invaded successively and plundered many Han people and craftsmen, throughout Liaodong, everything from tea, silk and other items needed for food, clothing, housing and transportation, to iron stone, coal for ordnance manufacturing, and glue paint for bows and arrows
, all require a steady stream of material transportation from the Han border in the south. Of course, Chinese medicinal materials such as wild ginseng and deer antlers will also be smuggled into the Han border.
All this has always been prohibited by the imperial court.
"In the investigation cases, is there a lot of smuggling by sea?" Jia Heng closed his clothes and asked thoughtfully.
Liu Jixian said in a deep voice: "Shandong Admiral Lu Qi has arrested several cases, but smuggling is extremely profitable and rampant and difficult to control. In order to seek huge profits, they took desperate risks and continued one after another."
Jia Heng was silent for a while, with a cold light in his eyes, and asked: "Did Yangzhou salt merchants smuggle to the north? For example, by sea or something? Tea, porcelain, silk, spices from the south of the Yangtze River...these are all good things in the north."
Because the Hu people in the grassland eat a lot of meat, they cannot do without tea bricks, and a large amount of tea is transported to Chahar Mongolia through Shanxi merchants, and then to Liaodong.
But if it comes to Jiangnan’s high-end tea, silk, spices and other materials for the nobles, it must be Jiangnan.
Liu Jixian thought for a while and said: "This... Yangzhou hasn't reported it yet."
Jia Heng pondered for a moment and said: "Let us check carefully. Are there any Yangzhou salt merchants who are smuggling northward by sea? If so, this may be a breakthrough."
Because the Chen and Han Dynasties established their capital in Shenjing and had river transportation as a food channel, the original sea transportation in the Yuan Dynasty gradually fell into disuse because of its high risks. Of course, it was also the Chen and Han Dynasties that did not establish their capital in Peiping. Inland waterway shipping became more and more popular, and sea transportation almost disappeared. But not
This means that smuggling has disappeared. Instead, with the confrontation between Jin and Han, smuggling chaos that is strictly prohibited by the government has emerged one after another.
After he became a military commander, his "Pinging the Imprisoners Policy" has become Chen Han's national defense policy. Since strict embargo measures have been implemented against the enemy invaders, it is necessary to organize the navy and at the same time command the army to move north.
This trip to Jiangzuo cannot be limited to salt affairs.
Jia Heng thought about it, and the plan in his mind became clearer.
Liu Jixian cupped his fists and took the order to leave.
After Liu Jixian left, Jia Heng looked at the beating candlelight, turned back to the study, and continued his unfinished business.
Entering the study, he saw Yuanyang talking to Qingwen. The two were in the same room where Jia's mother was, but Qingwen was led to the house by the Lai family, unlike Yuanyang, who later served Jia Heng.
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Jia Heng smiled and said, "What are you two talking about? It's so lively."
Under Qingwen's fine eyebrows, her crystal clear eyes flashed, and she smiled and said, "Talking about what happened when I was in the old lady's house, Sister Yuanyang took care of me a lot at that time."
Yuanyang smiled and said, "I was just reminiscing about old times. Uncle Heng must have finished his work."
"I'm done." Jia Heng looked at the mandarin duck with delicate and picturesque eyebrows, and said with a chuckle: "Then you two are old friends reunited."
With that said, he came to the Taishi chair behind the desk and sat down, staring at Qingwen. Before he could speak, he heard the girl suddenly say: "Master, the bed has been made. It's getting late, it's time to go and rest."
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Jia Heng looked at Qingwen, nodded, and said softly: "Well, you go to bed early first, and I will read more in the study later."
When adults sleep, they should never take children with them.
When Qingwen heard this, her beautiful face changed slightly, and a sense of grievance surged in her heart. She pursed her lips slightly, glanced at Yuanyang, who had her head hanging down and her cheeks turned red with shame. She twisted her waist as soft as a willow and left.
study.
Yuanyang lowered his head and said with almost shame, "Uncle, it's getting late, I have to go."
As he said that, he started to leave, but saw that the young man in green shirt had already blocked the way. With a warm smile on his face, he said, "It's so late, where are you planning to go?"
"Uncle." Yuanyangyu said in a trembling voice with a shy and angry face, today we are going to...
"Good Yuanyang." Jia Heng gently took Yuanyang's hand and took the shy and angry girl into his arms. Immediately, he put his arms around Yuanyang's waist. The girl was a bit tall, with a slim figure and a long green dress.
Xia Tian was also relatively frivolous, and whispered: "Yuanyang, I didn't stay with you for too long during this journey."
"The uncle tells stories every day, and I listen to them. Besides, the uncle still has to accompany Miss Lin." Yuanyang said in a low voice with a red face, "Miss Lin has traveled far away for the first time since arriving in Shenjing. She
She is a thoughtful person, so I can't ignore her."
"Yes." Jia Heng hugged the mandarin ducks and came to the bed in the study. The two sat down and said softly: "We are a family. There will be many times when we get bored together in the future."
Yuanyang said "Hmm" shyly, her delicate body was already trembling a bit, she was obviously sitting on Jia Heng's lap, with the young man tightly hugging her waist.
Jia Heng holds a mandarin duck and gently builds a snowman. People who are tall and bright often stand erect. This is actually a redundant nonsense sentence.
The young man leaned close to Yuanyang's ear, his emerald earrings glittering and translucent, shining on his clear-cut face, while gentle words vaguely sounded in his ears, and asked: "Yuanyang, do you still remember to change my clothes?"
At the beginning, when he was given the rank of commander in third-grade brocade clothes and went out to the capital to suppress the bandits, it was Yuanyang who changed his clothes and tied them with a belt.
"Why don't you remember?" Hearing Jia Heng mention the old things, under the slender eyebrows of the mandarin duck and willow leaf, his eyes as full as water seemed a bit dazed. It should have been a rare experience for her. Maybe at that time, fate
It's already concluded.
Jia Heng said softly: "At that time, I thought, Yuanyang is really a good person, and he must stay by my side to serve me in the future."
In fact, he didn't think about the second half of the sentence that way at the time, but it didn't matter.
When Yuanyang heard this, her snowy jade face turned into a beautiful glow, and she was filled with embarrassment and joy. She pretended to be angry and said: "It turns out that the uncle had been planning on me at that time."
Later, they also said that she had a beautiful heart, and even said that she would ask the old lady for her, and then she was like a normal person, and she was never heard from again, and then something happened to the big boss.
"Aunt Jin, why have you been wronged? Do you want to twist your hair and become a girl?" Jia Heng chuckled and joked.
Yuanyang gently hit Jia Heng's arm with his pink fist, and said shyly: "You, you are making fun of others."
How did he know what she was thinking when she faced the persecution of the big boss? She never told anyone else, and he didn't know how he knew?
"Yuanyang, when are you?" Jia Heng asked.
"What?" Under the girl's beautiful eyebrows, a flash of doubt flashed in her bright eyes.
Jia Heng said softly: "When did you covet me?"
mandarin duck:"……"
Coveted? Do you think she hasn’t read the book?
"I don't know when, but suddenly I had such a person in my heart." Yuanyang's face was beautiful, her eyes were blank for a moment, and she said softly.
Maybe it was just at first, when I saw the young man speaking sternly in Rongqing Hall, maybe at that time, I had a shadow in my heart, well, would he be very proud if I told him like this?
As she had more contact with Jia Heng, a lot of snowmen were built on her. As a girl with a shrewd mind, her understanding of Jia Heng had already deepened from the outside to the inside.
Jia Heng said softly: "There must be a end."
The mandarin duck's jade face was lost in thought, and she pursed her glossy pink lips. After all, she was generous and dared to confront Sister Feng and other masters' temperament. She said softly: "This is the first time that Uncle Heng went to Rongqing Hall. At that time, the uncle was facing
The threat of Uncle Xiaozhen of Dongfu, speaking with swords, I felt at that time as if there were some shadows at that time."
"This..." The smile on Jia Heng's face faded a bit, and his eyes became darker.
This is the temperament of a mandarin duck.
"Uncle Heng, what's wrong?" Seeing that the people behind him were silent, especially the hands holding the snowman, Yuanyang's heart trembled slightly and he said softly.
"We're not a family, we don't belong to the same family." Jia Heng sighed.
mandarin duck:"……"
Fangxin is filled with shame and joy. This person understands her. They are a family. They are really a family.
Just a moment later, a young man's voice came to my ears, with a hint of smile, saying: "Yuanyang, can you undress me again?"
Yuanyang was also being teased at this moment, her delicate body was hot, and her heart was pounding. Although she didn't say anything in response, after the young man loosened his waist, he turned around, lowered his head tightly, and helped Jia Heng with trembling hands.
Wear clothes.
But before he could wait for the next step, he saw that the young man was approaching in the shadow.
Suddenly, Yuanyang's trembling voice came from the curtains, "Uncle, lamp..."
"Yes, I will take pity on you."
mandarin duck:"……"
She didn't mean this, she wanted to say, the lights haven't been blown out yet, no, why did she use such a skillful tone?
Then, without having time to think about this, the girl frowned and snorted softly.
For a long time...
Jia Heng hugged the mandarin duck with a slight breath. There was a fine drop of sweat on the girl's bright and jade-like forehead and temples. Her mouth was slightly open, and the duck-oval face in the past was densely covered with rose-red aura, making it a bit more gorgeous.
Jia Heng leaned close to the girl's bushy-haired ear and whispered: "We will be husband and wife from now on. When we return to the capital, I will bow to the old lady and settle our affairs first."
The girl had an oval face with a few small freckles, her skin was white and rosy, and the light was bright. Under her beautiful eyebrows, she slightly squinted her bright eyes, and said in a trembling voice: "Uncle, I still want to
I have been serving the old lady for several years."
As he spoke, his tone was a little weak. Even though he was a mandarin duck, he was also a little worried in his heart.
Jia Heng gently stroked the girl's slender shoulders and said with a chuckle: "Okay, you can just serve the old lady first. That's what you should do."
As long as the mandarin duck is not in a hurry, it doesn't really matter to him.
Yuanyang was so happy that she nestled her little head in Jia Heng's arms and said softly: "Master, don't talk about this, otherwise those in the house who rely on the girl as their aunt will be domineering outside."
He is now so powerful that if his sister-in-law and brother think that she is his aunt, he will cause many troubles in the house.
Jia Heng chuckled and said, "Which one are you talking about? I haven't seen it very often."
But in my heart, I somewhat understood that Yuanyang did say this in the original work, "It's strange that the Japanese family envies their daughter for becoming their little wife, and the whole family relies on her to act tyrannically..."
In fact, half of it is an allusion to Yuanchun who was a concubine in the palace.
Also, "My wife is dead now, and he has three matchmakers and six beauties to marry me to be his eldest wife, and I can't go either."
With such a temperament, it doesn’t matter who you are or who you love!
There is also "a pavilion built thousands of miles away, and there is no banquet that lasts forever", and things in the world are not so satisfying.
The golden mandarin duck with a Jinxiu Xiu mouth has a distinctive personality, but that's why he is a little concerned about catching the mandarin duck earlier.
Yuanyang's temperament is stubborn, even a bit vehement. As time goes by, more and more people surround him, so the time spent on Yuanyang will inevitably be less. Will Yuanyang be disappointed with him? Spread his wings and fly away?
Life is not a script, and there is no lock in favorability. Times change, and people's hearts change. Let alone power and status, not everyone will care about these things.
In terms of appearance, how is Jia Lian? In terms of power, Jia She is a powerful general, but in the original work, he is scorned by mandarin ducks.
Besides, Yuanyang is indeed not too young. Qingwen is just too young and her character is undecided. Unlike Yuanyang, she has already formed a complete three views.
Otherwise, he would not have taken the mandarin ducks south, and now he is still like this...
Except when he was poisoned by Zhen Qing, he usually would not let his instincts drive him, and would even be calm and restrained. How many people are actually married now? Jinyang, Yuanchun, and Keqing are the only three. Even if
Zhen Qing and Zhen Xue are just a handful.
Now that we are married to Yuanyang, it is different from before. Even if the girl has minor grievances or awkwardnesses in the future, she can still be coaxed over.
But before something happens, you can't be sure.
Yuanyang gently caressed the young man's chest and listened to the solid and powerful heartbeat. Although he still felt the discomfort of being a first-time wife, his heart was still filled with uncontrollable shyness and joy. He whispered: "They are all some good things."
Don't insult the uncle's ears if you don't do things on the table."
Jia Heng stroked Yuanyang's slender erect hair and said with a chuckle: "That's fine, it's up to you. Then when you get to Jinling and meet our father and mother, you can talk about it."
Hearing this, Yuanyang narrowed her bright and charming eyes under her beautiful eyebrows, her heart filled with sweetness, and she said angrily: "Why are you calling me father and mother?"
Jia Heng said: "We are both husband and wife. Isn't it right to call us parents?"
"It's not good to shout." Yuanyang Yurong paused slightly and said softly: "I'm afraid people will say that I don't know the depth of things."
Jia Heng whispered: "No matter what others say... I just know it."
Yuanyang frowned, and her fair and snow-like cheeks turned red with blush, as bright as fire. Although she didn't react for a moment, she was a very thoughtful person who could pronounce the teeth order in front of all the golden hairpins.
, when she understood, Fangxin felt ashamed and annoyed mixed with a strange feeling, and said angrily: "Master, what, hey, how come..."
Jia Heng came close to Yuanyang and said softly: "I just hugged and talked, and didn't do anything else."
Yuanyang felt the boy's favor or cherishment, her beautiful face turned red with shame, and her heart was filled with joy. However, after all, she was not used to talking so intimately, so she said in a trembling voice: "Master, don't rush to say it, otherwise my father
My mother knows about it, and my brother and sister-in-law also know about it."
Jia Heng said in a low voice: "How wronged you are, as if you have no name or status."
Under Yuanyang's beautiful eyebrows, her clear eyes moved slightly, and she said softly: "Uncle Heng, I will not be wronged."
Just be his little wife in this life. He is the only one in this world who is worthy of her being his little wife.
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At this moment, in the courtyard room, Qingwen was sitting on the bed covered with quilts, pouting, her face as frosty as if she could hang a vinegar bottle, and she was sulking alone.
When I got up, I looked in the direction of the study room. I saw that the figure reading on the bookshelf had long disappeared. How could I not have known that the two of them were in love with each other? This is an idiom I learned recently.
Qingwen was as pretty as snow. Under her beautiful eyebrows, her eyes were reddish and her eyes were filled with tears. She murmured: "Liar, big liar."
Last year, we talked about the New Year, and then we talked about the New Year, and now it's better, and even the mandarin ducks are running ahead of her.
Because it was summer, Qingwen was holding a folding fan in her hand, and when she heard a "stab" sound, the fan was torn open suddenly, which seemed to arouse the grievance and irritability in the girl's heart, and she started tearing it apart again.
Not long after, a fan was torn into pieces.
After tearing off the fan, Qingwen returned to the beautiful couch and hid her hair like a waterfall of green silk under the quilt. She couldn't help it anymore and began to cry "woo woo". After a while, her beautiful face was filled with charm.
His face was stained with tears.
Aren't they just two or three years older than her? Why... why would they come to bully her?
The second chapter is only a little over 2,000 words long, so I can’t finish it.
