The Red Mansions

Jinling, Zhenzhai, in the backyard hall
Jia Heng lowered his eyes and looked at the several-month-old baby, feeling a little happy in his heart.

The baby has cute eyebrows, a pink face, and his eyes are like black grapes. He looks quite cute and cute. When he sees Jia Heng, he is humming, but he doesn't know what he is shouting.

Jia Heng was also a little absent-minded. If you look closely, your facial features, facial features, and facial features do look a bit like yourself.

I hope I don't look too much like him when I grow up. Otherwise, as long as King Chu is not a fool, he will find out that he has raised children for others.

However, by then, nothing will happen.

Jia Heng lowered his eyes and looked at it for a moment, then reached out and pinched the baby's pink and white face, which was smiling at him at the moment.

Secretly, this is the weakness that future generations often say.

If having children is to inherit one’s busyness, poverty and panic, then maybe not having children is also a kind thing?
Hundreds of years of life pass by in a hurry, and are like a handful of loess in the blink of an eye. The so-called never forgetting, and the reverberating incense will be passed down from generation to generation, is just a beautiful fantasy.

The life of an ox and horse cannon fodder is to exploit them in peace and use them to die in war.

Since some people insist that I will not care about the flood after I die, then not giving birth is also a silent resistance.

Thinking too far for a moment, Jia Heng returned to his thoughts and gently pinched the baby's cheek.

Born into a princely family, you are really good at reincarnation.

Jia Heng's dazed state of mind fell into Zhen Qing's eyes, and she undoubtedly felt that the young man was injecting some kind of sincere and passionate emotion towards his son.

While Jia Heng was talking, he handed the baby boy to the nanny, and then hugged another one. Compared with the boy, he was cute and well-behaved.

My daughter's skin is fair, even more rosy, and her eyebrows are delicate. The phoenix eyes inherited from her mother are crystal clear, especially her red lips.

Jia Heng smiled and said: "This child, like her mother, will definitely be a beautiful child in the future."

When Zhen Qing heard this, she felt a little ashamed and thought to herself, I guess you can speak.

She said softly: "People say beauty brings disaster, but I don't want her to be too beautiful in the future."

Of course, I will definitely imitate her in the future, and my appearance will be beautiful.

Jia Heng hugged the child for a while, looked up at Zhen Qing with a smile, and said softly: "Take good care of these children, and they will grow up happily in the future."

The subtext is to stop instilling so much scheming into your children.

In fact, no matter what, these children are destined not to be made public, and some of Zhen Qing's ideas are not easy to implement.

Under Zhen Qing's curved eyebrows, her phoenix eyes were shining brightly. She was thinking about Jia Heng's words and said softly: "These days, I have been saying that when I grow up, I want you to teach their cousins ​​the art of war, Zi Yu."

Jia Heng smiled and said, "Let's talk about it when we are older."

On one side, Jia Heng was talking to the two sisters Zhen Qing and Zhen Xue. On the other side, Zhen Lan and Zhen Xi sat quietly, watching the two talk.

Zhen Lan couldn't help but show envy in her eyes.

If she could also have Brother Heng's child, I think Brother Heng would treat him more kindly.

Under Zhen Qing's willow leaves' slender eyebrows, her eyes were full of water, and she said softly: "A while ago, my mother wrote a memorial to the palace. There is no news yet. My mother sent someone to ask me when there will be one. news?"

Jia Heng said: "Just wait."

Zhen Qing added: "Your Majesty was going back to Jinling some time ago and said he was going back to the capital. Zi Yu, I have some questions to ask you."

Jia Heng said warmly: "Let's go to the study to talk."

As they talked, they asked the nanny to hold their daughter. Jia Heng, Lan Xi, Zhen Qing, and Zhen Xue left the hall all the way to a two-story attic, which was the usual resting place for Zhen Qing and Zhen Xue.

After reaching the second floor of the attic, Zhen Qing immediately pulled the boy's body and quickly hugged him into her arms. Then she came close to the boy and started kissing him crazily.

Fragments of sunlight pour in from the carved window lattice outside the window, and the spring light in early February is beautiful and brilliant. As the years have passed, the willow trees with dark trunks are slowly sprouting new buds, and the moss on the red eaves and green roofs seems to have turned green, creating a peaceful and peaceful scene.

After a long time, Jia Heng's expression paused slightly, he looked at the fair-faced beauty, and said softly: "Qing'er."

"Stop talking and kiss me." Zhen Qing said softly.

Jia Heng: "..."

The millstone is like a ball of flame, which is really overwhelming.

At this moment, Zhen Xue's eyebrows were shy, and her face as white as snow showed a red halo like Danxia. She condensed her beautiful crystal clear eyes and looked at the young man, feeling extremely happy.

Zhen Lan and Zhen Xi stood beside the screen, looking at the wind.

Jia Heng hugged the beauty's plump and delicate body. As he spoke, he walked towards the inner room and said softly: "Actually, I just came to accompany you today."

After not seeing him for a while, Mopan's figure has gained a bit more plumpness, with the full moon in his arms, and even some people who are squeezed can't breathe.

Zhen Qing's bright eyes flickered and she said softly: "These two children are in Jiangnan. I thought it would not be too late to return to the capital with my sister in a month or two when they are older."

Jia Heng picked up the stars and the moon, with a look of surprise on his face, and said softly: "Well, he's not suspicious, is he?"

Zhen Qing's eyebrows were curved, her gorgeous face was flushed for no reason, and she whispered: "That's not true. Ever since he gave birth to a pair of twins, he seems to be as happy as anything."

Jia Heng: "..."

What she said is really charming, and she is becoming more and more like a poisonous woman who charms all living beings.

Kang Min, a certain Rong?
Jia Heng's men couldn't help but use a little force, which made the beauty look angrily and scolded: "Be gentle, you will..."

Jia Heng also noticed something strange and had a different look on his face. He secretly thought that no wonder he just smelled the sweet fragrance of the beauty besides the fragrance of orchid and musk. He said softly: "Those two children?"

"The nanny usually feeds her, otherwise it will be droopy and ugly in the future." Zhen Qing said, her cheeks slightly red, and she said in embarrassment.

The noble person not only ensures the nutrition of the fetus, but also for the beauty.

Jia Heng came closer and whispered a few words in the beauty's ear.

Hearing this, Zhen Qing pinched Jia Heng gently, with shy eyes, she gently unbuttoned her lapels and whispered, "She's really like a child."

I liked it at the beginning... I still have the same virtue now.

Although the beauty was annoyed, she let the young man do whatever he wanted. In other words, this poisonous woman originally liked the person in front of her to cling to her body. If she showed that she was bored with her body, she would become angry and act like a monster.

After a while, Jia Heng didn't make too much noise. He raised his eyes to look at the shy Zhen Xue and said softly: "Xue'er, long time no see."

Zhen Xue came over slowly, her plump face flushed with embarrassment, and whispered: "Ziyu, are you going back to Beijing now?"

"Yes." Jia Heng said softly, "It's just that after leaving, it will be difficult to see Xue'er again."

It can be said that after going to the capital, he has made a big impression and has to worry about the attention of all the informants. He can no longer be like Jiangnan, who is unscrupulously entangled with Qingxue and Qingxue.

Zhen Xue Wen Ning's eyebrows were as bright as water, and she said softly: "Zi Yu, you have a good trip. My sister and I will pass by soon. I will take good care of Ying'er over there."

Jia Heng took Zhen Xue's soft, white and tender hands, looked at the beauty with gentle facial features, nodded and said, "Xue'er, you should also take care of yourself."

Zhen Xue bit her pink lips and said softly: "Zi Yu, the prince... he seems to know."

Jia Heng: "..."

He felt that Shui Rong was a little weird at first, and he probably noticed something, but judging from the fact that Shui Rong let Zhen Xue seduce him in the first place and planned to borrow a seed, he didn't seem to mind that much.

I'm afraid of the cunning ones...

Zhen Xue's soft eyes fell on the young man's face without moving, and she whispered: "Zi Yu, what should we do now?"

Jia Heng said: "Pretend you don't know for now. If he breaks this layer of window paper, then we will think of something else. Since he knew it but didn't make it public, he clearly has other plans."

Zhen Xue said "Yeah", leaned her head against Jia Heng's arms, and whispered: "Ziyu, I will listen to you."

She was not only alone now, she also had a child. If that person really wanted to accuse him, she would just say that she was not a woman.

Zhen Qing listened on the side, her eyes flashed, and she said softly: "He was originally unable to give birth, but now that he has given King Beijing a lineage of heirs, he might even be grateful to Zi Yu."

Jia Heng and Zhen Xue: "..."

Jia Heng suppressed the sense of absurdity in his heart, gently hugged Zhen Xue, and said warmly: "Okay, Xue'er, don't worry."

As he said that, he put his arms around the plump waist of the beauty, and immediately, a pickled sweet fragrance hit his nostrils. He brought it to the moist lips, lowered his head and held the soft and greasy lips.

The beautiful face of the Hua Xin young woman also gradually became slightly flushed, her eyelashes lowered and curved, and she felt very happy.

While the two were talking, Jia Heng's face remained calm. He looked at the beauty whose eyebrows were full of sweetness and infatuation, and gently hugged her shoulders. His heart was a little fluttering.

Since that accident, he has been in love with Zhen Qing and Zhen Xue for almost two years. During this time, the two sisters also gave birth to two sons and one daughter for him.

If I had the mentality of "treating you like a plaything" at the beginning, now that I have the bond of children, I feel that there is a bit of warmth of a family, connected by blood, but that's it.

During his trip to the capital, no matter how many storms he encountered, he had to assess the situation and make no mistakes.

However, at this time, she saw that Zhen Qing was already rushing towards food like a hungry wolf, she couldn't wait and took Zhen Xue's slender hand.Jia Heng lowered his eyes and looked at the two people circling and flying like the three prehistoric Xiantian clans on their pilgrimage to Buzhou Mountain, and his mind was a little dazed.

I don’t know why, but a sentence suddenly came to my mind: Don’t talk to such evil heretics about the moral principles of the world, sisters, shoulder to shoulder...

Well, thinking about this, I feel a little weird.

Just for a moment, Jia Heng raised his eyebrows, his eyes focused and dispersed, and he couldn't help but think of what happened after returning to Beijing.

The two kings of Wei and Chu began to participate in political affairs. The king of Qi seemed to be ignored, and there would obviously be some changes. The three parties of Qi, Zhejiang, and Chu would probably also participate in the fight between the two vassals.

The current situation is somewhat similar to the situation of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty during the Zhenguan period, rather than the Nine Dragons seizing the throne.

As for whether he should be Li Ji or Hou Junji?

At this moment, Zhen Qing's beautiful face was as charming as a spring flower. She breathed out a breath of turbid air. Under her beautiful eyebrows, her beautiful eyes were obsessed with her, and she was obviously missing her dearly.

The beauty turned her bright red face to look at the girl who peeked over from time to time, and said softly: "Sister Lan'er, come here too."

Zhen Lan's cheeks were as hot as fire. She stared at Zhen Xi, whose face was red, and said in a trembling voice, "Sister Xi'er is here looking at the wind. I'll go over too."

Zhen Xi: "..."

How could the third sister do this?Leave her alone, right?

However, among the four sisters, it was because of her young age that Heng, the eldest brother, was... sympathetic to her.

Seeing Zhen Lan coming from behind the glass screen, Jia Heng's eyes moved slightly, and his face looked a little uncomfortable.

Qingxue Lanxi, now only one Zhenxi has not completely returned to its original position.

Life is like this, what else can I ask for?I really agreed with one sentence, wealth and honor are not my wish, and the imperial hometown cannot be expected.

It's hard to describe the sense of accomplishment that comes from being served by such beautiful and beautiful people.

As time passed, the sun outside the window shone brightly on the green bamboos. In the spring morning, the sky was bright and quiet.

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I don't know how long it took, but Jia Heng was sitting on an embroidered couch surrounded by curtains, hugging Zhen Xue and Zhen Qing from one side to the other. He turned to look at the beautiful woman with a sweaty and rosy face, and gently stroked her fair and round shoulders. , said softly: "Qing'er, I'm going to the capital now, and we'll be reunited again, but I don't know when."

Zhen Qing remembered the intermittent feeling that she had just experienced, and her beautiful face was covered with a layer of embarrassment. She pinched Jia Heng and said angrily: "You bastard, you will change your ways to abuse others."

In the past, she and Sister Xue'er were just allowed to control each other, but just now, Sister Lan was asked to lie down... I don't know where I learned this. It was really unseemly.

Zhen Lan's face was as pretty as jade, with a rose-red halo. The jade earrings on her earlobes were circled in place. She opened her bright eyes and said with the same annoyance: "Brother Heng was too ridiculous just now."

Thinking of the shock just now, the girl's slightly mean and cold eyebrows couldn't help but feel a trace of unspeakable shame.

Jia Heng's face paused slightly, and he said softly: "What's ridiculous? This can be regarded as sisters working together, and their power is as powerful as gold."

Zhen Qing, Zhen Lan: "..."

Zhen Xue's cheeks were flushed, and her eyebrows were almost blurred. When she heard the words, her pink lips were slightly panting, and her soft and gentle voice contained an amazing softness and charm: "Zi Yu, what are you talking about? "

It didn't sound like auspicious words to her.

He is a person who is accustomed to "taking risks". How could he say such things so carelessly?

Jia Heng gently caressed the bright white moon, feeling the rich moonlight flowing between his fingers, and said, "We haven't seen each other for a year, and Xueer has grown a year older."

Zhen Xue's pink face flushed, and she said in embarrassment, "Zi Yu."

Thinking of the young man acting like a child just now, she couldn't help but think of Xinxin who had been clamoring to eat Niuniu for the past two days.

Really, just bully her enough, right?

Beads of sweat rolled down between Zhen Qing's lush temples, flowing down her cheeks and into her collarbone, soaking her white clothes. The full moon wheel loomed, and she said softly: "There is no war now. Those civil servants in the capital must be holding back their sweat." There’s bad water.”

Jia Heng said: "Yes, but there's no need to worry."

Zhen Qing's eyebrows were soft and flowing, she nestled her scattered hair against Jia Heng's heart, held the young man's hand, and said in a charming voice: "In a short period of time, your title will no longer be promoted, and it's time to keep a low profile and bide your time." It’s time, since ancient times, it has been easy to seek wealth and honor, but difficult to maintain wealth and honor.”

Jia Heng nodded, kissed Li Ren's cheek, and whispered, "Qing'er is right."

And Zhen Lan was drawing circles from where she was, her cold and charming eyebrows that resembled Zhen Qing's stretched a bit, her pretty cheeks couldn't help but blush, and she said in a trembling voice: "Brother Heng needs to find something to do for himself. , the implementation of this New Deal is an opportunity to escape from the land of right and wrong.”

Jia Heng said: "That's what Sister Lan said."

As he spoke, he stared at the girl and raised his eyebrows in encouragement.

Zhen Lan snorted and turned her head to the side, her eyebrows filled with shame.

Brother Heng is also true.

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The Jade Rabbit sets in the west, and the Golden Crow rises in the east. Time flies, and before you know it, another two or three days have passed.

Within two days, under the control of Sister Feng, the Ning and Rong mansions in Jinling City began to pack their bags, load some local products from the southern provinces onto the ship, and return to Shenjing.

The 17th year of Chongping, the sixth day of February——

At the Jinling Ferry, grass grows and orioles fly, and willows cling to the willows. One after another, two or three-story high-rise ships hang their sails and anchor in the waves of the ferry, ready to go.

At this moment, the ferry was full of officials from Liangjiang who were seeing them off, wearing official robes of various grades. Crowds of people stood on both sides in darkness, looking at each other with complicated eyes as the great Han Wei Guoguo said goodbye to all his relatives and friends.

The fleet of Queen Song and Princess Jinyang had already set sail under the escort of Chen Xiao and Xia Houying. Along the way, they were escorted by knights from the Jiangnan and Jiangbei camps to guard against recurrence of the previous assassination.

Jia Heng looked at Lin Ruhai who came to see him off, and said warmly: "Uncle, stay."

Lin Ruhai's face looked a little more weathered than before, and there was emotion in her slender, elegant eyes. She said softly: "Zi Yu, the customs has set up more sub-cards along the southeast coast to inspect smuggling matters." , Ziyu, don’t worry."

Jia Heng nodded and said: "My uncle may not stay at the customs for long. The New Deal will be implemented next year, and we need capable ministers and officials like my uncle to preside over affairs in the court."

Since Gao Zhongping can be selected to join the cabinet because of the New Deal, Lin Ruhai can almost join the cabinet because of his merit. With the customs on the right track, Lin Ruhai has the possibility to attack cabinet ministers, but he still lacks the experience of supervising the side.

Today's Han Dynasty has Han Huang as the first assistant in the cabinet, Li Zan as the second assistant in the cabinet, and then there are Qi Kun, Gao Zhongping and several cabinet ministers.

Ordinarily, the four are pretty much the same, but depending on Emperor Chongping's intention, it seems that he wanted to expand the number of cabinet members in order to implement the New Deal.

Jia Heng looked at the Jiangnan ministers who were seeing each other off again, and couldn't help but feel a sense of emotion in his heart.

Perhaps within a year, he should not return to Jiangnan again.

At this moment, Shen Fang, the former Governor of Liangjiang and now the Minister of Household Affairs, looked at the young man in the python suit with complicated eyes.

From north to south, from south to northwest, this Duke of Wei made great contributions one after another throughout the 16 years of Chongping. It can be said that he is powerful and famous all over the world.

No matter what happens, these prime ministers and ministers are destined to leave their names in history and be famous for generations to come.

Unless, this person really has the heart of a tiger and a wolf, and has the ambition to be rebellious and self-reliant, as some elite civil servants in the southern province said!
Not only Shen Fang was thinking this, but the Liangjiang officials who were watching the farewell from the bank of the embankment also looked at the young man with various eyes and emotions.

However, the officials present were more relieved.

Such a big shot who kept stirring up troubles has finally left. If he stays in Jiangnan, he doesn't know what troubles he will cause again.

Others, such as the gentry living in Jinling, looked at the young man in the python suit with disgust.

The New Deal now being implemented throughout Jiangnan is the intensification of Jia Heng's foundation in Gao Zhongping.

Gao Zhongping only had a whip, but Jia Heng proposed to share the land with his family, which was even more "cool" than Gao Zhongping.

Jia Heng glanced at the generals, officials, and gentry who were seeing off Jiangnan, and ordered in a deep voice: "Let's set off!".

Immediately, the flags on the ships waved, the sailors untied the cables, and the warships headed for the sacred city one by one. The knights in Jinyi Ti around them pulled their reins and followed them all the way.

In the spring of the 17th year of Chongping, Duke Wei of the Han Dynasty returned to the capital with his family after pacifying the pirates and regaining Taiwan.

From the implementation of the New Deal in the south of the Yangtze River in the 16th year of Chongping, to the uprising in the northwest, the aftermath of the vigorous war in the 16th year of Chongping seemed to have come to a complete end as the ships returned north.

At this moment, on both sides of the canal beside Zhi Ting Lan, willow trees are growing, their branches and leaves are whirling, and there is a gloomy atmosphere. The ships with sails inflated are riding the wind and waves, heading north amidst the sound of "clatter", flags are flapping, and boats holding ordnances are flying. The soldiers' distinctive armor shows off their human eyes under the sunlight.

Above the sky, white clouds are floating, and a few egrets rise up like a giant, flying towards the amber-blue sky, like a scroll slowly opening again, waiting for the painter to splash ink...

Don't wait for the third update. I'll save some manuscripts for tomorrow.

There is an exam the day after tomorrow. Although there is a high probability that I will accompany you, I still have to prepare a little bit.