After everything in the past, Cao Xiwan just thought why is it necessary? There is an ambitious Shangguan in the yamen. As long as he can use you, it is a good thing. But in an honorable mansion like Nankang Marquis Mansion, there are also monarchs and ministers between husband and wife and brothers.
A courtesy from above and below. You may no longer be needed, and you don’t know what to do. But that’s the end of it.
Song Chengming heard her report to the spies in the two counties, and looked at her shabby coat and ugly dress with blue spots on her face. He was silent for a long time, and suddenly sighed: "Most of the good paddy fields in those two counties are from Xunfu.
I took it over in the name of the steward and clan members in the house of the country's relatives. Otherwise, it would be easy to pay the grain and burn the village now, and it would be easy to put the person in jail."
"Master Marquis, I want to ask Your Majesty?" She thought for a while, "You can buy it with money, as long as you don't stay outside the capital."
"...Your Majesty wants to negotiate a peace and recruit King Zhao to surrender. King Zhao's banner is to reproach Your Majesty for not abiding by the ancestral system established by Taizu when he was still alive."
She felt something bad when she heard it, but she was confused: "What did your Majesty do?"
"...The Nine Border Fortress Palace is a system established by Taizu to protect the border. To withdraw the feudal vassal means not abiding by the ancestral system." He glanced at her.
"Oh, right." She remembered that the system that was beneficial to the Li family may not be beneficial to the current His Majesty.
It is really not easy for Your Majesty to kill all his uncles, especially the Nine Frontier Fortress Kings, who have tens of thousands of cavalry in their palaces and a large army of guards.
"I'm going back to the palace." She saluted and turned around. She still had to find a way to go to the two counties to check again.
Song Chengming nodded and suddenly asked: "By the way, do you want to meet Lian Jue? He's back. I'm asking you."
"... He always thinks he is the most powerful. When he sees me, he will definitely laugh at me. I am too lazy to see him." She snorted, "He is better than me at water fighting. I will go see him again when I learn to row.
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Marquis Nankang laughed and waved his hand. Her figure turned into smoke and slipped away from the roof.
Cao Xiwen left the study room and went to the small room. Although she didn't see anything wrong with Song Chengming, Luo's mother certainly meant what Qin Meng meant.
Qin Meng would never make a fuss out of a molehill.
She thought for a while and then walked around the Hou Mansion.
When she entered the mansion, she went to see Yanzhi and quietly inspected the various hidden stakes in the mansion.
No one is lazy.
I think because Qin Meng and Luo's mother are already familiar with each other, the fans don't dare to be as careless as they were in the past two years. All the fans who can be selected into the house are discerning. They knew that she was sick in the past two years, and Qin Meng just took over.
There are one or two arrogant people who want to take advantage of the loopholes and be lazy.
She also quietly found Granny Ma.
"How about Nanzhi?"
"No movement. I haven't been close to Baihua Hall at all."
The drum sounds at the third watch.
She went to Fengyuan, where her father lived, to see if her father was doing well.
As soon as she landed in the yard, she was secretly surprised. There seemed to be someone?
She sneaked to the window, and through the gap in the black cloth that covered the light, she saw a scene in the house that made her dumbfounded. Her father and several stewards were hiding in the house, eating wine, gambling all night, and playing horse games.
Her father is the only one guarding the empty house in this yard. In the past, no one dared to mess with him. Now no one dares to take care of him.
"Old Cao, it's not here. There is no place to have a drink and play for a while. The government is very tight, and next year the eldest lady will be the concubine of the East Palace."
"It's only you! Lao Cao! In the future, when the eldest lady becomes the queen, your Xiaowan may become a noble concubine!"
She was outside the window, squinting at her own father who was losing money all the way and being cheated. He laughed so hard that his mouth split open. He pushed the horse crane and made a loud noise, while he was busy eating wine and meat.
——In this way, he dared to say that he was a loyal servant. When these little stewards praised him, he couldn't tell the difference between north and south.
She quietly knocked out a few pebbles, which knocked the stewards into their sleeping and fainting points. They threw themselves on the table and fell asleep without saying a word.
She didn't let her father go either.
She went in and looked at her sleeping father. After thinking about it, she changed all the cards on the table, so that when her father woke up, he would have a jackknife with a top suit, killing everyone.
She is really a filial daughter.
She touched her father's money bag again and found that there were several taels of silver. She happened to be poor and had no pocket money, so she decided to put it in her pocket.
She blew out the light in the room and turned to the second door.
She squinted her eyes and looked for her mother in the night watch room.
There was no light in the room, only the fire in the stove. She was on the main bunk, looking around, which aunt was her mother?
When she finally found her mother's sleeping face in the darkness, she was shocked again.
I haven’t seen you for a few days, so I’ll look back with admiration!
For the first time, her mother actually occupied the best bunk in the night watch room? Because her daughter entered the palace? Impossible...
"Killing people——!" Suddenly, a night watch woman screamed in her dream. She trembled with fright.
The old woman turned over and fell asleep again, snoring loudly.
She huddled under the bunk and finally understood that perhaps because of the appearance of the body, her mother was rumored to have killed someone and had a bad reputation?
she mused.
Did her own mother embark on the same path as a female devil?
That's good, I'm not afraid of being bullied.
With her mother's temper, she probably wouldn't dare to go out to her uncle's house casually. Giving money to her uncles was a big deal and she would never allow it.
Besides, it would also prevent her mother from being tricked by the uncles who had received money to inquire about what was going on in the house. It was a small matter for the uncles to collude with the rebels, but it was not tolerated in the Yamen.
She stood next to her mother's pillow and placed two packages of snacks.
These were snacks she brought from Duan Jin's house. They were delicious. The chef of the Duan family was very good at cooking and making snacks. She hid the snacks on the roof and didn't even let the Marquis eat them.
It was pitch dark in the patrol room, and no one could see him anyway.
She took out a piece from the snack bag, stuffed it into her mouth, and then touched her mother's money bag. There was only a pile of copper coins in the bag. She disliked it, so she gave her mother a piece of silver.
She walked around the house and saw outside the second porch, the wintersweet branches had thick green leaves, and in the late autumn there were blooms, and the branches reflected the moonlight.
The shadow of the jade-branched plum blossom fell on the corridor steps, and the cold air penetrated my bones in the night moon.
Stepping on the plum shadow, she slipped along the corridor to the small duty room. There was a light inside the lattice window. She hid herself in the empty room and tapped the screen. Qin Meng, who was sleeping in the inner room, suddenly woke up.
"Qing Niangzi?" He sat up and asked through the curtain.
"It's me." She was already sitting at the table, "Where are Mother Luo and the others?"
"I asked her and Mrs. Song to inspect the inner house." Qin Meng came out from behind the screen with his cloak and two swords, holding a lamp in his hand. When he saw her, he was surprised again: "Miss Qing?"
If he hadn't confirmed that the voice was correct just now, when he saw Sister Qu for the first time, a trace of trance would have flashed in his eyes.
Isn't he dreaming? The middle-aged woman with green spots on her face and a bloated body sitting at the table is the Qingluo ghost?
"It's me." She gestured with her hands, and there was a code between Jin Yiwei. "Last time we were in Chengfu Temple, I invited you to a vegetarian banquet, and you gave me two hundred taels of red envelopes. You ate two bowls of plain noodles.
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She was very proud. Look, Qin Meng would definitely not recognize her.
Qin Meng composed himself, put the two knives on the table with a smile, tied on his cloak, and remembered that she was outside the county town, so he asked: "Working outside the county town? In a farm?"
"Yes." She smiled and admired his shrewdness.
Qin Meng speculated that in this season, she could still find work like this, but it could only be to harvest the autumn harvest in the paddy fields in the suburbs.
It rained too much today, and the owner is in a hurry to hire more short-term laborers to collect grain in the fields. One day's delay will cause a big loss in rice rotting. When hiring, people are needed. Pregnant women are also welcome.
Anyway, she doesn’t have a husband, so if she has a miscarriage, it’s her own business.