The Red Mansions

Chapter 701

The night was shrouded in darkness, and everything was silent. In the study room, the lights were brilliant. Jia Heng was sitting behind the desk, flipping through a book in his hand.

At this moment, a slim and bright girl with a duck egg face came in from the outside. It was a mandarin duck.

Jia Heng turned to look at Yuanyang, and said with a smile, "Yuanyang, why are you here?"

In the past few days, I have been traveling south by boat, and I am not very tired of being with the mandarin ducks.

Yuanyang said softly: "Come and see the uncle, did you disturb the uncle?"

"Why?" Jia Heng put down the things in his hand, looked up at Yuanyang, and asked in a low voice: "Qingwen, go pour a cup of tea with your sister Yuanyang."

Qingwen glanced at the mandarin duck, pouted her small mouth, then twisted the water snake's waist, which was barely enough to hold, and then lifted the teapot to pour tea for the mandarin duck, and brought it over.

Yuanyang thanked her and sat on the embroidered pier near the desk.

Jia Heng turned to look at Qingwen, and said softly, "Qingwen, go and see if the bed is ready."

When Qingwen heard this, she frowned aggrievedly, snorted softly, and then walked out of the wing, her steps visibly annoyed.

How is Yuanyang better than her, the same maid is also taller than her, the young master is still shying away from her now, just for fear of spoiling their good deed, why not let Yuanyang serve her these few days?
For a moment, Jia Heng and Yuanyang were the only two left in the study, and the candlelight flickered, reflecting their figures on the cabinet on the bookshelf.

Jia Heng got up, took Yuanyang's plain hand, looked at the girl with a slightly drooping head, a white as jade duck egg cheeks, and blushed, and asked: "Why do you want to come and look for me at this time?"

"Miss Lin is resting there, come over to see the uncle." Yuanyang whispered with a cheek that was as white as snow and rosy as blood.

"Miss me?" Jia Heng looked at Yuanyang and whispered.

He has always answered whatever he asks for.

mandarin duck:"……"

Dazed for a moment, suddenly I saw the shadow approaching, approaching the cheek, and then the familiar tenderness came over me.

After a while, under the lights, the mandarin ducks almost limp in Jia Heng's arms, letting the young Xue Ling hold the plums, his delicate body trembling slightly, and said in a low voice: "Master Heng."

"Yuanyang, don't leave tonight." Jia Heng said vaguely, and started to catch Yuanyang with one hand.

Back in Beijing, there are wolves around, and the mandarin ducks are going to be served by Jiamu, so he can't catch mandarin ducks rashly. After this journey, he will be with the mandarin ducks for a lifetime, which is also a reassurance for the mandarin ducks.

The mandarin duck didn't respond either, but occasionally let out a grunt from its nostrils, and gently supported the shoulders of the young man who was stepping on the snow and picking plums, nibbling away step by step.

At this moment, I heard a delicate and soft voice from outside, with a bit of annoyance in her tone, it was Qingwen, "Outside, people from Jinyi Mansion came to find the uncle for business."

Jia Heng's face paused, and he could only accept the Buddhist supernatural powers with a lotus in his tongue, and said in a low voice: "Yuanyang, wait for me, I'll go and have a look."

The mandarin duck's face was ruddy, and even a few freckles showed embarrassment and shyness, she snorted and said softly: "Master Heng, you...you go and get busy, I'll go back first."

Jia Heng whispered: "Then I can find you later."

While talking, Yuanyang, who didn't care whether to leave or stay, went straight out of the study, went to the front hall, and looked up 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, unpacked it, looked at it, flipped through the paper with downcast eyes, frowned slightly, with a cold look in his eyes, and said: "Yangzhou has got the news that I went south to Yangzhou for business a few days ago, and the news is very well-informed."

The eight major salt merchants in Yangzhou can spy on the political situation in Beijing and China through their guild halls in Shenjing, and the Jinyi Mansion also sent undercover agents to spy on the salt merchants.

Liu Jixian said in a low voice: "Commander, the brothers in Yangzhou said that the salt merchants in Yangzhou have been meeting frequently at Slender West Lake recently, and they are plotting something."

Because Yangzhou salt merchants lived extravagantly and spent a lot of money, they often gathered on boats, boated on the Qinhuai River, drinking and having fun.

Jia Heng's face was deep in thought, and after a while, he said in a clear voice: "Let people pay close attention to find out who they are in contact with. Whether it is a local official or someone else, they must pay attention and cannot be negligent."

When he stayed in Kaifeng, he planned to mobilize the guards of the capital of Kaifeng to deal with unexpected events. The lion fought the rabbit with all his strength. He never underestimated the salt merchants in Yangzhou.

After Liu Jixian finished speaking, he took out another letter from the sleeve and handed it over, saying loudly: "Captain, there is another letter from Beijing, some are from Beijing, some are from the north, please The governor has taken a look."

Jia Heng didn't say much, reached out to take the letter, and began to read the contents of the letter, mainly Li Zan's observations in Beiping Mansion.

After Li Zan arrived in Peiping, he reorganized his military equipment and weeded out the old and the weak. At the same time, he sent officials to border towns such as Xuanhua and Datong to investigate smuggling. As well as the navy, patrolling the coast for smuggling merchant ships.

Although the Eastern Captives have successively invaded and robbed many Han people and craftsmen, in the entire territory of Liaodong, from tea, silk and other necessities for food, clothing, housing and transportation, to iron, stone and charcoal required for ordnance manufacturing, and glue paint required for bows and arrows , all need a steady stream of material transportation from the southern Han territory. Of course, Chinese medicinal materials such as wild ginseng and deer antler will also be smuggled into the Han territory.

And all this has always been prohibited by the court.

"Is there a lot of smuggling by sea in the investigation cases?" Jia Heng closed his papers and asked thoughtfully.

Liu Jixian said in a deep voice: "Shandong Admiral Lu Qi has arrested several cases, but smuggling for huge profits is rampant and difficult to control. They are desperate to make huge profits and take risks."

Jia Heng was silent for a while, with cold eyes flickering, and asked: "Did Yangzhou salt merchants smuggle to the north? For example, by sea or something? Jiangnan tea, porcelain, silk, spices...these are all good things in the north."

Because the barbarians in the grassland eat a lot of meat, they can't do without tea bricks, and a large amount of tea is transferred to Chahar Mongolia through Shanxi merchants, and then transferred to Liaodong.

But if it is Jiangnan's high-end tea and materials such as silk and spices for nobles, it must be Jiangnan.

Liu Jixian thought for a while and said, "This... Yangzhou has not reported yet."

Jia Heng pondered for a moment, then said: "Let someone check carefully, are there any merchants in Yangzhou who are smuggling salt to the north through the sea? If so, it may be a breakthrough from now on."

Because Chen Han established Shenjing as his capital, and the river transport was used as a channel for grain and water. Originally, the sea transport in the Yuan Dynasty was gradually abandoned because of the high risk. It means that the smuggling disappeared, but with the confrontation between Jin and Han, the chaos of smuggling strictly prohibited by the government emerged endlessly.

After he became a military aircraft, his "Strategy for Pacifying the Captives" has become Chen Han's national defense strategy. Since strict embargo measures have been implemented against the enemy captives, the navy must be rectified and at the same time it can be sent northward.

This trip to Jiangzuo should not be limited to the matter of salt affairs.

Jia Heng thought about it, and the plan in his heart became clearer.

Liu Jixian clasped 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, I saw Yuanyang was talking to Qingwen. The two were in the same room as Jia's mother, but Qingwen was led by Lai's family to the house, not like Yuanyang, and later served Jia Heng. .

Jia Heng laughed and said, "What are you two talking about? It's so lively."

Under Qingwen's slender eyebrows, her crystal clear eyes flashed, she smiled and said: "Talking about the time when I was in the old lady's room, Sister Yuanyang took care of me a lot at that time."

Yuanyang smiled and said: "I was talking about the old days just now, Mr. Heng is done with his work."

"I'm done." Jia Heng looked at the delicate and picturesque mandarin duck, and said with a light smile, "Then you two are old friends reunited."

Saying that, she came to the desk and sat down on the teacher's chair, staring at Qingwen, before she could speak, she heard the girl suddenly say: "My lord, the bed has been made, it's getting late, it's time to go and rest .”

Jia Heng looked at Qingwen, nodded, and said softly: "Well, then you go to sleep earlier, I will read more in the study later."

Adults can't take children with them when they sleep.

When Qingwen heard the words, Yurong changed slightly, and a sense of grievance surged in her heart. She pouted her lips lightly, glanced at the mandarin duck with its head drooping, its cheeks blushing like a rosy glow, twisting its waist as soft as a willow, and left. study.

The mandarin duck lowered its head, almost unable to hold back its shame, and said, "Master, it's getting late, I have to go too."

As he spoke, he was about to leave, but he saw that young man in green clothes blocked his way, with a warm smile on his face, reaching his eyes, and said: "It's so late, where are you going?"

"Master." Yuanyang Yurong said shyly, tremblingly, this grandpa is going to...

"What a mandarin duck." Jia Heng gently took the mandarin duck's hand, and brought the shy girl into his arms. Immediately, the girl was a bit tall, with a slim figure and a long onion and lotus dress, wrapped around the mandarin duck's waist. Xia Ri was also relatively frivolous, and said in a low voice, "Yuanyang, I haven't stayed with you for too long on this journey."

"Uncle tells stories every day, and I also listen to them. Besides, Uncle still wants to accompany Miss Lin." Yuanyang blushed with a duck face, and said in a low voice: "Miss Lin has traveled far for the first time since she arrived in Shenjing. She is a delicate thoughtful person, so she should not be left out in the cold."

"Yes." Jia Heng embraced the mandarin duck and came to the bed in the study. The two sat down and said softly: "We are a family, and we will spend more time together in the future."

The mandarin duck shyly "hmm", her delicate body trembled a little, she was obviously sitting on Jia Heng's lap, with the young man tightly around her waist.

The young man leaned close to Yuanyang's ear, the jade earrings shone brightly on his clean and handsome face, and his soft words faintly sounded in his ears, and he asked, "Yuanyang, do you remember changing my clothes back then?"

At the beginning, when he was given the rank of Commander of the Third Grade Brocade Clothes, he went out to Beijing to suppress the bandits, and the clothes were changed by Yuanyang, and he wore a belt.

"Why don't you remember?" Listening to Jia Heng mentioning the old things, under the slender eyebrows of mandarin ducks and willow leaves, the eyes that were full of water were a little dazed. It should be a rare experience for her at that time. It's over.

Jia Heng said softly: "At that time, I thought, Yuanyang is really good, and she 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.

Yuanyang heard the words, that snowy and jade face was as beautiful as a glow, and she was almost ashamed and happy, and pretended to be angry and said: "It turns out that the uncle... had my idea at that time."

Later, she also said that she had a beautiful heart, and said that she would ask the old lady for her, and then she was like a normal person, and there was no news from then on, and then something happened to the old man.

"Aunt Jin, why did you feel wronged? Twist your hair and become a sister-in-law?" Jia Heng laughed lightly and joked.

Yuanyang beat Jia Heng's arm lightly with her pink fist, and said shyly, "You, you are making fun of people."

How did he know what she thought when she was being persecuted by the elder? She hadn't told anyone about it at all, and he didn't know how he knew?
"Yuanyang, what time are you?" Jia Heng asked.

"What?" Under the girl's eyebrows, a hint of doubt flashed in her bright eyes.

Jia Heng said softly: "When did you covet me?"

mandarin duck:"……"

covet?Does this mean she hasn't read the book?
"I don't know when, but suddenly there is such a person in my heart." Yuanyang said softly, her eyes absent-minded for a moment, with a beautiful face.

Xu Shi was just at the beginning, when he saw the young man in Rongqing Hall and said frankly, Xu Shi already had a shadow in his heart at that time, um, would he be very proud of telling him like this?
With more contact with Jia Heng, many snowmen have been built. For the clever girl, the understanding of Jia Heng has long been from the outside to the inside.

Jia Heng said softly: "Then there must be a head."

Yuanyang Yurong lost his mind, pursed her shiny pink lips, after all, she was generous, dared to confront the temperament of Sister Feng and other masters, and said softly: "It may be the first time for Uncle Heng to go to Rongqing Hall. Master Xiaozhen's threat from the Dongfu, speaking with a sword, at that time, I felt that there seemed to be some shadows at that time."

"This..." The smile on Jia Heng's face faded a bit, and his eyes darkened a bit.

This is the temperament of mandarin ducks.

"Master Heng, what's the matter?" Yuanyang Fang's heart trembled slightly when she saw that the people behind her were not moving, especially the hands that were piled up with snowmen, and said softly.

"It's not a family, don't enter a family." Jia Heng sighed.

mandarin duck:"……"

Fang's heart was overwhelmed with shame and joy, this person understood her, is it a family, is it really a family?

Just a moment later, a young man's voice came from his ears, with a slight smile, he said: "Yuanyang, can you undress me again?"

Yuanyang was also being teased at this moment, her heart was pounding, although she didn't respond with a word, she still turned around after the young man loosened his waist, and lowered his head tightly.

But before he waited for the next sentence, he saw that the young man was approaching with a shadow.

Suddenly, a trembling voice came from a mandarin duck in the curtain, "Master, the lamp..."

"Well, 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 is she speaking so skillfully?

Then, before she had time to think about it, the girl frowned and snorted softly.

for a long time...

Jia Heng hugged the delicate mandarin duck, the girl's bright and jade-like forehead and temples were covered with fine sweat, her sandalwood mouth was slightly opened, and the duck egg face in the past was densely covered with rosy charm, making it a little more gorgeous.

Jia Heng leaned close to the girl's tangled hair and said in a low voice: "We will be husband and wife from now on. When I return to the capital, I will bow to the old lady. Let's settle things first."

The girl had a duck-egg face with a few small freckles, her skin was white and rosy, and her bright light was shining brightly. Under her beautiful eyebrows, she squinted her bright eyes slightly, and said in a trembling voice: "Master, I still want to Serving the old lady for several years."

As she spoke, her tone was a little weak, even if she was a mandarin duck, she was also a little worried in her heart.

Jia Heng gently stroked the girl's shaved shoulders, and said with a light smile, "Okay, you can serve the old lady first, as you should."

As long as Yuanyang is not in a hurry, he doesn't really care.

Yuanyang was overjoyed, she nestled her head into Jia Heng's arms, and said softly: "Don't talk about it, sir, otherwise those in the mansion who rely on girls as aunts are mostly domineering outside."

Now that he is very powerful, if his sister-in-law and elder brother think that he is his aunt, how many disasters will he do in the mansion.

Jia Heng smiled lightly and said, "Which one is this talking about? I haven't seen much of it."

But in my heart, I realized that Yuanyang did say this in the original book, "It's strange that Chengri's family envies his daughter for being a concubine, and the whole family relies on her to be domineering..."

In fact, half of it alludes to Yuan Chun, who is a noble concubine in the palace.

Also, "My wife is dead now, and he married me to be his first wife with three matchmakers and six hires, and I can't go either."

This kind of temperament, it doesn't matter who you are, whoever you love!
There is also "a pergola is built for thousands of miles, and there is no permanent banquet", and things in the world are not so satisfactory.

Jinxiu embroidered golden mandarin ducks have distinct personalities, but this is why he cares about catching mandarin ducks earlier.

Yuanyang's temperament is stubborn, even a bit stubborn. As time goes by, and there are more and more people around him, the time spent on Yuanyang is bound to be less. Will Yuanyang be disappointed in him?Spread your wings and fly away?

Life is not a storybook, there is no favorability to lock this item, time changes, people's hearts change, let alone power and status, not everyone will care about these things.

In terms of looks, how about Jia Lian?As far as power is concerned, Jia She is the first-class supernatural general, but in the original work, Yuanyang scoffed at him.

Besides, Yuanyang is indeed not young anymore, but Qingwen is too young and her temperament is uncertain, but Yuanyang is different, she has formed a complete three views.

Otherwise, he wouldn't bring the mandarin ducks south, and it's still like this...

Except when he was poisoned by Zhen Qing, he usually would not let his instincts drive him, and he would even calmly restrain himself. Count how many people are really married now?Jin Yang, Yuan Chun, and Ke Qing are few, even Zhen Qing and Zhen Xue are just a handful.

Now that we are husband and wife with Yuanyang, it is different from before. Even if the girl has a small grievance or awkwardness in the future, she can be coaxed over in the future.

But before some things happen, you can't be sure.

At this moment, Yuanyang gently caressed the young man's chest, listening to the firm and powerful heartbeat, although he still felt uncomfortable as a new wife, but his heart was still uncontrollably shy and happy, and whispered: "It's all from the upper class." Don't insult the uncle's ears for things that are not on the table."

Jia Heng caressed the slenderness of the mandarin ducks, and said with a light smile, "That's fine, that's up to you, then when we get to Jinling and meet our parents, we have to talk about it."

Yuanyang heard this, and under her fine eyebrows, her beautiful eyes narrowed, her heart was filled with sweetness, and she said angrily, "Why are you still calling your parents?"

Jia Heng said: "We're both husband and wife, shouldn't we be calling our parents?"

"That's not good to shout." Yuanyang Yurong paused slightly, and said softly: "I'm afraid people should say that I don't know my level."

Jia Heng whispered: "No matter what others say... I just know."

The mandarin duck frowned, and its clear and snowy cheeks were blushing and glowing like fire. Although they didn't react for a while, they were the golden mandarin ducks who had a clear mind and were able to announce the dental order in front of a group of golden hairpins. After realizing it, Fang felt a strange feeling mixed with embarrassment, and said angrily: "Master, why, hey, why..."

Jia Heng leaned close to Yuanyang and said softly, "Just hug and talk, and don't do anything else."

The mandarin duck felt the young man's love or cherishment, her jade face turned red with embarrassment, and her heart was overjoyed, but after all, she was a little uncomfortable talking so intimately, and said in a trembling voice: "Master, don't rush to talk, otherwise my father My mother and I know, and so do my brother and sister-in-law."

Jia Heng said in a low voice: "How wronged you, it seems like you have no name or distinction."

Under Yuanyang's beautiful eyebrows, her clear eyes moved slightly, and she said softly: "Master Heng, I will not be wronged."

If you want to be his concubine in this life, just be his concubine. In this world, only he... is worthy of her being a concubine.

……

……

At this moment, in the courtyard wing room, Qingwen was sitting on the bed covered with quilts, her mouth was pouted, her small face was as frosty, and her small mouth was so pouted that it seemed that she could hang a bottle of vinegar, and she was sulking alone.

Get up, look towards the direction of the study, and see that the figure reading on the bookshelf has long disappeared, how can you not know that the two of them are tossing each other, this is an idiom I learned recently.

Qingwen is as pretty as snow, under her beautiful eyebrows, her eye circles are slightly red, her tears are hazy, she murmured: "Liar, big liar."

Last year, it was called the year, and later it was said that it was three or two years, but now it is better, and even the mandarin ducks are ahead of her.

Because it was summer, Qingwen was holding a folding fan in her hand, when she heard a "stab", the fan was torn open suddenly, as if arousing the grievance and irritability in the girl's heart, she tore it again continuously.

Not long after, a fan was torn into pieces.

After Qingwen tore off the fan, she returned to the couch, hid her hair like a waterfall of blue silk in the quilt, and couldn't bear it any longer, "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo". His face was stained with tears.

Aren't they just two or three years older than her? Why... Why do they bully her.

　Chapter 2 is only over 2000 words long, and I can't finish it.

　
(End of this chapter)