At night, the night sky finally cleared up completely.
The night sky is as blue as velvet, deep and blue. A bright moon hangs high in the sky, casting thousands of silver rays. Jiangning City, thousands of lights, the laughter and the sound of firecrackers in the city merge together, it is another sleepless night.
After worshiping the moon and eating moon cakes, the uncle and sister-in-law walked towards the street under the bright moonlight.
The streets are full of tourists, shoulder to shoulder. Everyone has a smile on their face, either in small groups or in pairs, admiring the beautiful scenery of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the streets of fireworks.
Every Mid-Autumn Festival, the government would set up a stage near Wuyi Lane to have fun with the people.
When the opera reaches climax, officials from one party will come on stage and say words of loyalty to the emperor, patriotism, and happy holidays to the people below.
Lu Heng and Liu Qingqing stood outside the crowd, watching the performers doing somersaults on the high platform and performing hard. Like everyone else around them, they applauded and praised.
"It's very beautiful!" Liu Qingqing turned around and said to Lu Heng with a smile.
Under the clear moonlight, the woman smiled sweetly, and her charming face immediately eclipsed the bright moon in the night sky.
When the opera was about to end, it was the local officials' turn to take the stage to speak.
The first person to speak was naturally the governor of Jiangning.
This was the first time Lu Heng saw this parent official. He was about fifty years old, with a kind face and a kind face. He had a chubby body and walked up and down the stage with a swaying step.
I heard from Wu Ningyuan and Zhang Wenshan that this chubby old man was named Hong Quan, also known as Jiantao. He was a Jinshi. He had extraordinary abilities. During the more than ten years he had been in charge of Jiangning, Jiangning's situation had never been better.
Things like mob riots occurred. However, this person knew the way of being an official. With his ability, he could make a difference in the court. However, this person did not want to participate in the clique war, so he kept pretending to be confused and ignored
The emperor pretended to be deaf to the repeated hints and stayed here in Jiangning.
The emperor was a little angry at first, but after thinking about it finally, he let him go. After all, if such a good official was put into intrigues in the court, he would obviously be overqualified and underused.
As the king of a country, of course he knows this.
Although it was the first time for Lu Heng to meet Jiang Ning's parent officer, he still had a good impression of him.
The idea I gave Prince Ning to borrow the Jiangning garrison to build defenses. In fact, the final execution relied on this chubby Jiangning border official. After all, although Prince Ning has the title of King of Huainan, in fact, speaking of it,
, on the surface he has no real power. In this three-acre land of Jiangning, this fat man is truly the number one boss.
Moreover, Lu Heng heard from Guard Zhan that the fat man who had attacked the Lu family was the one who really sent people to suppress the incident that happened a few days ago.
Although it was sold to Prince Ning to save his face, no matter what, the final beneficiary was still Lu Heng. Although he didn't know the other party's original intention, Lu Heng still remembered the favor.
After the chubby Fuyin Lord Hong Jiantao walked onto the stage, he took a breath for a while and then cleared his throat. The people below obviously also loved this parent official very much.
Seeing Hong Jiantao come on stage, the people fell silent. They just looked at this good official who had guarded Jiangning for more than ten years with smiles in their eyes.
After Hong Jiantao had been brewing his emotions for a long time, he smiled kindly, coughed, and said loudly to the people in the darkness below: "Hey, thanks to the grace of God, Jiangning has such a stable and prosperous situation. Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival.
.Everyone, eat well, drink well, and be in good condition, haha!"
Then, after saying these words, the chubby Hong Jiantao happily hugged his fists at the people below who looked up at him, and then he went on like this.
The people below looked at each other in shock. They really didn't expect Lord Fu Yin's speech to be so short. They were already mentally prepared to listen to the speech for an hour.
However, after a short period of calm, the people below suddenly burst into laughter, and the laughter contained more love and support for Lord Fu Yin. The people imitated Lord Fu Yin, and they all clasped their fists and said: "
Lord Fu Yin is well!"
Then, officials of all sizes in Jiangning City came on stage. Because Hong Jiantao had set an example in front of him, other officials were naturally too embarrassed to speak at length.
After these officials went up, they all imitated Mr. Fu Yin's tone. They first thanked the emperor for his grace. Then they turned around, clasped their fists at Mr. Fu Yin who was sitting in the seat, and said a word or two to thank Mr. Fu Yin.
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Among this group of officials, Lu Heng met Su Guangyi, an official of Zhizao Mansion.
After not seeing each other for many days, Su Guangyi seems to have lost a lot of weight. His expression is also obviously haggard. It seems that he has worked hard during this period.
Compared with before, there was such a big contrast between Su Guangyi and Lu Heng was not surprised at all.
I heard that a few days ago, Miss Su's family got married. A long line of people lined up to see off her bride. Along the way, there were loud gongs and drums and great joy.
However, the bride-to-be team was robbed by a group of bandits just after they left Jiangsu.
Not only were the property robbed, but even the whereabouts of the bride, Su Qianqian, were unknown.
She must have been captured by the mountain king and made her the wife of Yazhai.
After hearing this, Su Guangyi passed out on the spot.
This wedding is not simply about sending off a daughter to get married. It is related to the development of his career. After all, the in-laws are the most powerful Zuo Pushe Anpeng in the dynasty.
However, after these damn bandits started making such a fuss, nothing was left.
Even if his daughter is rescued, it will be of no use. Mr. Anpeng will never accept a daughter-in-law who has been insulted by bandits.
Although this daughter-in-law is still an insignificant concubine.
However, as an official of one party, face must be regained.
Su Guangyi then mobilized all his connections and tried to get through to the governor of Hubei. He asked the other party to send people to exterminate the bandits. As for whether his daughter was safe, Su Guangyi actually didn't care in his heart.
What's abominable is that after Hubei Governor Qian Feng received his letter asking for help, he accepted the property he sent without changing his expression, and then threw his letter asking for help aside without changing his expression.
He sent the housekeeper back with just one sentence: "These three thieves come and go like the wind, and I am very helpless!"
Damn Wu Ningyuan, he must have done it.
Of course, Su Guangyi knew Qian Feng's background. He was an aide in Prince Ning's palace earlier. He followed Prince Ning throughout his life and made great contributions.
Later, before he retired to the south of the Yangtze River, Prince Ning promoted Qian Feng to the post of governor of Hubei. Over the years, the two often exchanged letters, which was not clean and tidy.
As the prince's faction and Jiang Ning's spy, Su Guangyi certainly knew this. But he didn't expect that these two people would dare to collude in such a blatant way. It's really abominable.
Su Guangyi, who had lost both his future and his money, felt heartbroken after hearing the perfunctory treatment of Qian Feng, a bastard, and once again vomited blood and passed out.
After vomiting blood twice in a row, the damage to the body can be imagined. However, Su Guangyi was still able to appear in front of the people at this time, pretending to be very good. His determination is really impressive.
What a surprise.
Lu Heng didn't quite believe that Su Qianqian was kidnapped by bandits.
Because in the past, I often heard Wu Ningyuan talk about Qian Feng, his capable subordinate back then, saying how capable he was and how powerful he was.
How could such a person tolerate such a thing as bandits under his rule? Wouldn't this just give the Holy Spirit an excuse to depose him?
However, although he did not believe that it was bandits who caused the rebellion, even though Lu Heng was a master of planning in the past, it was difficult for him to figure out what was strange about this.
Thinking of that day, Su Qianqian mustered up the courage, looked at herself, and asked, "Do you really mean what Mr. Lu said?"
Lu Heng felt a little guilty.
For a weak woman to be able to say those words, I don't know how much determination she had to have such courage. Maybe I should have helped her in the first place.
Lu Heng sighed softly, looking at the expressionless Su Guangyi on the stage, thinking this in his heart.
"What are you thinking about, uncle?" Liu Qingqing beside her was watching a show, but her attention remained on Lu Heng next to her for a long time.
At this time, he saw Lu Heng sighing slightly, with a trace of helplessness on his brows. Confused, he grabbed Lu Heng's sleeve and asked softly.
He looked away from Su Guangyi on the stage, turned his head, and happened to meet Liu Qingqing's beautiful eyes with a touch of worry. At this time, he saw the deep concern in Liu Qingqing's bright eyes. Lu Heng
He felt warm in his heart and said with a smile: "Haha, I just thought of some people and some things! I feel, why is the gap between people so big?"
Seeing Liu Qingqing looking at him seriously, Lu Heng suddenly felt suspicious. In the last sentence, he inadvertently used the accent from a sketch that he had seen later.
The melodious voice and weird accent immediately made the woman in front of her look stunned. However, after she came to her senses, she smiled, rolled her eyes at Lu Heng, and said angrily: "You're making trouble!"
The soft sound is like a sweet mooncake. It makes people feel sweet from the heart.
Following the woman's fresh smile, the faint melancholy in her heart was blown away by the night wind blowing past her face.
After listening to the opera, the people gathered did not go home, but headed towards the bank of the Qinhuai River.
In this era, admiring the moon is not only something that literati must do, but also a custom. Although there is no strong sour smell like when literati gather, people still like to watch the moon reflected on the river.
Round Moon. It has nothing to do with literature or sentiment, I just simply like it.
On the way, Lu Heng spent money to buy two lanterns. I don't know whether it was intentional or a coincidence. One of the lanterns had Hou Yi painted on it, and the other one painted Chang'e.
So, along the way, I saw Liu Qingqing's pretty face blushing slightly, her head lowered, holding a lantern, walking forward shyly.
Lu Heng, who was walking behind, raised his head and looked at the bright moon in the sky. He looked calm and noble. However, when he occasionally lowered his head, he saw a faint smile on his face.