This is not the Datang I am familiar with

"Oh, no one noticed?"

"I was caught by the emperor's brother, but I said that the emperor's brother would rather keep these few notebooks to ashes in Black Swan Castle. I didn't let the emperor's sister take them back to read, so the emperor asked me to bring them back."

"You two have such a good relationship!"

"Well, there are a total of eight of us, brothers and sisters, and we all have a very good relationship. When we were young, our father taught us to love each other. But when we grow up, the eight of us can no longer be together, especially my elder sister, who has run away from the big man. , disappeared for many years, when she left, I was just ten years old, and I haven't seen Elder Sister until now."

"Oh, why did the eldest princess run away from the royal family?"

"I don't know about this. Anyway, every time the elder sister is mentioned, the emperor and the emperor are unwilling to say more. But this time when I went to Black Swan Castle, the emperor told me that the elder sister finally has news. It's in Nantang."

"Ah! I went to Nantang, it's so far away!"

"No, Eldest Sister Huang doesn't know if she would like to come back. If she comes back, I will bring you to meet the Emperor Brother and Sister Huang."

"Okay, Xiao Mo will listen to His Highness."

"Xiao Mo, I miss you so much these days! I miss you so much that I don't think about food and drink."

Chen Fang didn't say anything, but put his arms around Liu Yi, and gently kissed her cheeks, the corners of her lips, her forehead, her pink ears, the tip of her nose, and her eyebrows.

Liu Yi didn't know how frantic Chen Fang's heart was at this moment. His temperament really didn't allow others to treat him well, especially women. When women treated him well, Chen Fang really couldn't bear to hurt her.

But after all, it was not too late to meet Liu Yi, and the key to knowing her true identity was too late.

At this time, Chen Fang has actually reached the point where he is looking forward and backward, and is in a dilemma.

On the one hand is Datang, Wu Meiniang, his two wives, and his child who has never met.

On the one hand is the big man, Princess Jingnan who treats him sincerely and is willing to do anything for him.

It is rare in the world to have the law of both, and it is worthy of Tathagata and worthy of Qing.

At this time, Chen Fang understood the deep meaning contained in these two lines of poems.

Dilemma, sometimes really hard.

Chen Fang has been staying in this hall for the past few days, and he does not know how many times he has carefully read this world map.He ate, slept and slept here, during which time a white maid tempted him and was driven away by him.

His mind is in a mess, the better Liu Yi treats him, the more confused he is.

He didn't even know that he lied to Liu Yi like this, right?Before he knew it, Chen Fang didn't even know it, he had a woman in his heart, a woman that shouldn't have been in his heart.

Chapter 698

At this time, kissing her deeply, Chen Fang's heart calmed down a little.

For a few days, Liu Yi was thinking and caring, but he was struggling.

He hugged Liu Yi tightly, and he didn't even care about those few pinyin notes at this moment, he just wanted to hug her, feel the temperature of her body, and her familiar body fragrance.

In the end, in fact, feelings are the most difficult thing to let go of, I really like her, every frown, smile, and every move makes people care.

Feeling his daughter's tenderness and tenderness, Chen Fangcai calmed down a little, picked up Liu Yi, and carried her all the way to the dormitory. Chen Fang didn't even look at the notes Liu Yi brought back.

In the dormitory, looking at Liu Yi's tender eyes, Chen Fang gently put his hand on her cheek, kissed those eyes, Liu Yi slightly opened the corners of her lips, and her lips touched like snow falling on red plums.

Chen Fang pushed Liu Yi to a corner of the bed. Today, he will completely fall into Liu Yi's tenderness.

The twilight is getting deeper and deeper, and the street lights in Beigang are past midnight, and there are special personnel to extinguish them. Whale blubber is a valuable item, and whaling is not something ordinary people can do, so it is natural to cherish it.

On the street, several soldiers embraced prostitutes who made a living in Beigang. Most of these prostitutes were white women with burgundy curly hair and fair skin. Their figures fascinated the soldiers of the Northern Han Dynasty. squandering of subsidies.

At a corner of the street, a prostitute was drunk, holding a cigarette butt between her fingers, the bottle fell to the ground, and the cigarette butt burned her hand.

She was lying on her back in the street, two soldiers passed by, one pulled her leg and dragged her away.

Chen Fang was lying on the window, intense warm-up exercise, so he needed cold air to blow his already sweating body.

Liu Yi hugged him from behind, clinging to his body tightly.

"Xiao Mo, I'm so happy tonight."

"Me too!"

Chen Fang grabbed her hand and interlocked her fingers together.With the cold wind blowing across his cheeks, Chen Fang saw that the lights in the Stone Fort Garden had gone out, so he turned around and hugged Liu Yi.

Drunk and dreaming, let myself indulge in this daughter's tenderness once more.

Sunlight shines through the large windows of the stone hall, and the windows made of luxurious glass bought from Xiqin have reached the point where they are equivalent to silver.

Sitting in front of the fireplace, Chen Fang turned around to see the hand-painted world map.

Lying on the rocking chair, coffee imported from West Qin was placed on the cedar wood table in front of him. I heard that even in West Qin, this thing is a luxury that only the upper classes can enjoy.

At this time, this thing has not yet been introduced into Datang.

After taking a sip of hot coffee, Chen Fang gently turned over a page of pinyin notes.

The second page is an illustration, with that senior who can hand-paint a world map, this illustration is naturally extremely fine and perfect.

"I really admire this Senior Liu. His knowledge of steam engines is simply better than Watt's."

Chen Fang looked at the pinyin notes. In fact, this kind of pinyin notes is a bit difficult to read, but after reading for a long time, it will be fine.

Liu Yi brought a cup of coffee, the cup was made of the best porcelain in Tang Dynasty, and the coffee came from the distant West Qin Dynasty.

This is this era, the three Han countries are hostile to each other, but quietly merged with each other.

The trade of goods has never stopped, and the openness of the border area may be even more open than many border towns in later generations.

Liu Yi drank coffee with milk and honey.Seeing Chen Fang staring at a notebook in his hand, he was fascinated.

She stared at Chen Fang with unresolved tenderness in her eyes.

Time flies, especially when a person is immersed in something.

In May and June, the mountains around Beigang finally lose their snow-white color, and only the highest mountains leave their white snow caps.

The city is becoming more and more lively. Due to the closure of Beigang, outsiders are not allowed to enter here. Only goods can enter Beigang through land roads and sea traffic.

The temperature has risen, and the day and night in Beigang look much more exciting.

The taverns along the street are open until late at night, drunks, prostitutes, cigarettes, spirits, having fun and having fun.

Chen Fang raised his head from his notes, and Liu Yi who was next to him stood behind him, gently rubbing his shoulders, and Chen Fang put his hand on Liu Yiyu's, stroking her jade fingers gently.

"Xiao Mo, you've been in the castle for two months, and you've been looking at these notebooks all day. You should relax."

"By the way, there is a troop carrier coming into the harbor today. I will take you to see the soldiers we are training in America."

"Oh, are you going south to attack Nantang?"

"It's coming soon. The ironclad ship has been training at sea for more than a month, and the heavy oil reserves are sufficient. The flintlocks and artillery from America have also arrived, and the ammunition depot is now full of gunpowder and shells."

"Now we are transporting troops. Most of our soldiers are training in America. These soldiers must be transferred back before we can go to war."

Chen Fang caressed the corner of the notebook, letting the pages soaked in time pass by his fingertips.

When Chen Fang got up, Liu Yi let go of the hand on Chen Fang's shoulder. At this moment, she felt a little dizzy, but it was all over in a blink of an eye.

There was a carriage outside, and Chen Fang didn't leave the stone fort for a long time. At this time, the carriage drove through the port street, and Chen Fang realized that there were many more people in Beigang. The originally desolate street can now see pedestrians, soldiers, and busy craftsmen everywhere.

Of course, the busiest ones are the prostitutes. Chen Fang found that the white prostitutes here are particularly unrestrained after the hot weather. Through the car window, Chen Fang even saw several fierce battles in broad daylight.

If you find a street corner, you can become a battlefield without caring about others, and then an imperial silver coin is the harvest of this transaction, stuffed into the prostitute's plump...

Sometimes even without currency, a bottle of wine, a cigarette is the proceeds of a transaction.Flesh, tobacco, spirits, in Beigang, these silver coins are hard currency.

"Xiao Mo, most of the people here are soldiers. Maybe it will be difficult for them to marry in their lifetime. The royal family has always maintained a tacit attitude towards the profession of prostitutes."

"It's just a profession and there should be no prejudice."

Chen Fang said something lightly, and saw Liu Yi leaning on him lightly, and then pointed to a direction where a man in a sailor suit was performing a skill he learned from America, which was a kind of harvest dance.

Generally speaking, for agricultural civilizations engaged in farming, a good harvest is the biggest event of the year. Even in later generations, many ethnic groups still maintain their traditions, and there will be grand celebrations during the harvest season.

The carriage drove to the port, where an ironclad ship had just returned to the port. The sharp hull broke through the calm waters of the port.

For them, boring training, the arms of a prostitute, a bottle of liquor, and a cigarette may be all they have.

Chapter 699 Wedding and Choice

The drudgery of life at sea foreshadowed that seamen and sailors had to spend most of their entertainment ashore.

Seeing these sailors rushing ashore, Chen Fang smiled slightly at Liu Yi.

"Yi'er, why do you think they are in such a hurry?"

"Drink, smoke, find whores."

"They're headed home."

Liu Yi couldn't understand, and they rushed home, which was obviously a tavern or a hotel.

Chen Fang didn't say anything more, put down the curtain of the carriage window, and leaned slightly against the wall of the carriage.

Old Scar said that the home of sea people is the embrace of whores. Perhaps this sentence is too true for sea people who have been traveling at sea for many years and sailors who have been training at sea for a long time.

Seeing that Chen Fang closed his eyes and rested against the wall of the car, Liu Yi gently snuggled into his arms, as docile as a cat.

Chen Fang caressed Liu Yi's back, and the carriage drove along the coastal road, passing increasingly dense and huge warehouses.

At this time, these warehouses are no longer enough. Beigang has requisitioned many slaves and is stepping up the arrangement of warehouses, but there are still many goods exposed to the open air at this time.

A pile of cargo in front collapsed, and the carriage had to stop.

The overseer had already used the whip to drive the slaves to carry the goods, cursing and swearing, and the whip in his hand was mercilessly beating the slave who moved slower.

Chen Fang took Liu Yi's hand and got off the carriage blocked by the goods. Chen Fang quietly watched the whip in the supervisor's hand draw shocking bloodstains on the slave's body.

Perhaps seeing Princess Jingnan's car driving and seeing the princess looking at them, the supervisor whipped the whip harder and cursed more intensely.

Chen Fang sighed, this is this era, the noble life in the castle must be forged with the blood and sweat of commoners and slaves.

It's great to be a master. You can hold the princess's hand, see the bloodstains of the slaves being whipped, and listen to their painful groans and wailing, instead of being the one who was whipped.

The struggle against fate, for them, may be this moaning and howling.

The goods were quickly cleared, the road was cleared, and the carriage resumed its normal course.

There are more and more warehouses, and many of the rush warehouses are actually just thin wooden boards.

In these warehouses, there are various local products, guns, gunpowder, grain and others shipped from South America.

People in this era may not have experienced the big explosion in the warehouse area. Things like gunpowder were piled up in tons at the harbor.

Thinking about the strict regulations of port management in later generations, the big explosion in the port did not occur once or twice.

If a spark ignites the gunpowder here in Beigang Port, the consequences...

Chen Fang is waiting for an opportunity, the opportunity for all the ironclad ships to return to Hong Kong.

At this time, looking at the continuous warehouses, thinking that he would personally bury these family properties that had been in the Northern Han Dynasty for who knows how many years, Chen Fang looked at Liu Yi beside him, and said sorry in his heart.

It is rare in the world to have the law of both, and it is worthy of Tathagata and worthy of Qing.After all, when it comes time to choose, he must choose one of his left and right hands.

If he could travel through time again, Chen Fang would like to travel back to the Northern Han Dynasty by himself, to the side of this Princess Jingnan, to take care of her, compensate her, and accompany her for the rest of her life.

But there are no ifs in the world, there are many crossroads in life, choices exist everywhere, sometimes difficult, sometimes in a dilemma, sometimes, some choices are heart-wrenching no matter how they are chosen.

But the road is always going forward, Chen Fang looked at Liu Yi, and gently squeezed her jade hand.

"Yi'er, I want to go back."

"Didn't you agree to come and see the soldiers we trained in America?"

"I'm a little tired!"

"Oh, well, let's go back."

The carriage entered the stone castle, and it happened that two carriages arrived outside the stone castle together. The carriage had the logo of sword, shield and rose, and it was the carriage of the royal family.

The attendants on the carriage got off the carriage and bowed slightly to Princess Jingnan who also got off the carriage.

"Is it the emperor's will to grant the marriage?"

"Your Highness, if you ask me this way, how can my subordinates announce the decree?"

"Give me the emperor's imperial edict, otherwise my skirt will be dirty after receiving the edict."

The attendant had no choice but to hand over the imperial decree, and Chen Fang was also helpless. Why did the emperor's decree of marriage just arrive at Beigang at this time.

Liu Yi had already opened the imperial decree by herself, looked at it, and hugged Chen Fang.