Better to live forever [Rebirth]

[Volume Two: The Beginning of Rivers and Mountains in the Picture of Wanli River]

The red sun rises from the distant mountains, and its brilliance falls on the water, revealing the whole landscape.

On the magnificent river surface, the phosphorescence is shining, reflecting the mountains, and the mist is mighty. Anyone who sees it will praise: what a beautiful river and mountains!

The building boat broke down and galloped on the river, the black flag flying grinningly on the mast did not bear a word, only a majestic pixiu pattern.But in Yang Guang's area, anyone with a certain status will recognize that this is the clan emblem of Guangzhou Ningfu.A businessman may not know the Changxinhou Mansion, but he must not know the Ning family.Sixty percent of the world's industry is in the hands of the Ning family, even the emperor's hand-picked imperial merchants will avoid it when they meet.

At this time, the head of the Ning family was preparing the last pastry for breakfast on the boat. Not long after, Uncle Ning reminded him: "Master Zhu, it's time for Young Master Zhu to get up."

Ning Heng paused, put the last piece of pastry on the table, glanced at Uncle Ning, turned and walked out of the kitchen.

Before Zhu Dingbei woke up, his nose started to move, half asleep and half awake, he vaguely said: "Uncle Ning's craftsmanship is getting better and better." Lured by the sweet scent, he pulled out of his dream, opened his eyes, and saw Ning Heng, before he woke up, showed a smiling face, "Aheng, what delicious food did you take?"

Ning Heng pulled him up and asked him to wash up. He arranged the bowls and chopsticks by himself, and said, "Here's some refreshing porridge. You drank a lot yesterday and your appetite will be weak. This is just right for you."

"Then thank Uncle Ning for me."

After Zhu Dingbei cleaned his hands and feet quickly, he sat down at the table and said, "As long as it's Uncle Ning's craftsmanship, I won't have a bad appetite. Besides, there are mountains and waters here. With the beautiful mountains and clear waters, it must be delicious."

Ning Heng laughed, "You miss Ankang, don't you, why did you learn how to speak from him?"

Zhu Dingbei paused while eating, and then said: "We have been out for three months, and I really miss them."

Ning Heng's eyes flickered, and he said, "It's hard for you to remember their last and last names."

Zhu Dingbei rolled his eyes and said, "Can that little wine make me drunk? You underestimate my master."

Over the years, he has intentionally exercised his drinking capacity, although he has not practiced back to the previous high level, the little wine last night was not taken seriously by Zhu Xiaohou at all.

In the 26th year of Zhenyuan, after the beginning of the first month of spring, the emperor granted the request of Lord Changxin Hou to return to the ancestral land to take over the family business. The 17-year-old Changxin Hou Ye took the idle Zhenbei Hou Shisun eastward along the Han River, sailed into the sea and sailed all the way south to the main residence of the Ning family in Guangzhou.

At this time, Changxin Houye was critical of Zhu Xiaohou with a dissatisfied face, but it was because the boat was moored in Linhai County, Yangzhou Prefecture yesterday, and Zhu Xiaohou went crazy on the shore, wandered around in the most lively neighborhood for half a day, and was still there at night. Enjoying the scenery on the upper reaches of the Huaihe River and a few wandering warriors drank two catties of baijiu, if Ning Heng didn't stop him, he could have poured it into the river.

That's not to mention, the red lady on the Huaihe River would never refuse anyone who came, if Ning Heng hadn't dragged him away with a dark face, the brothel and Chu Pavilion would have spent all their homes as night money.

Zhu Dingbei didn't care about his temper. After eating, he dragged him on the boat to watch the scenery. When he was asking about the next stop, Uncle Ning came out with some tea and answered: "There are some people at the master's house." There is an urgent matter to be dealt with, and there is a slight discrepancy in time, so we will hurry along the road afterwards, and we can only stop for a while at the places we pass by, and we cannot go ashore to play."

He intentionally asked Master Zhu to be patient for a while, but he didn't expect the latter to be ungrateful at all, and directly pointed out: "Ah Heng, you are really big-tempered, what's the point of staying on this boat all day, you can bear it, but I won't accept it." guilt."

He hadn't seen that Master Changxin was such an upright person, and it was clear that they went to Flower Street and Willow Lane a lot when they were in Luojing.At that time, I also saw that he was not happy.

Ning Heng said sullenly, "I'm not lying."

Zhu Dingbei thought for a while. During the past three months, they stopped and went on the river and the sea. They had seen the sights and things to do, and they really had nothing else to look at, so they asked, "How much more?" schedule?"

Uncle Ning poured him a cup of stomach-warming tea, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, my lord. The sea is a thousand miles away. You can expect us to arrive at Nanhai Port in three days. From Nanhai, we can change boats and travel along the river for two hours to reach the main port." home."

Zhu Dingbei was happy to hear that, and thanked him for the carefully prepared morning meal. Uncle Ning glanced at the calm Patriarch, and a flowery smile appeared on his face.

Sure enough, as Uncle Ning said, three days later, the group arrived at Ning's old house.Zhu Dingbei had already heard about the prestige of the Ning family in Guangzhou from Lou Anning, and he never wanted to be there. The grandeur of the mansion alone surprised him.

He leaned close to Ning Heng's ear and asked in a low voice: "How much land has this house bought? Why is it bigger than the palace?"

After stepping on the shore, the land already belonged to the Ning family's house, and the carriage had not reached the inner gate after driving for three quarters of an hour. One can imagine how big this place is.

Ning Heng explained: "This is also the former residence of the great grandfather. The wall built by the great grandfather is not dared to be demolished by later generations, so we keep the original appearance."

Zhu Dingbei clicked tut twice, no wonder he had heard the rule of not carrying weapons and not riding horses when entering Ning's house a few years ago, so there was a reason for this.

After traveling for another quarter of an hour, the carriage barely stopped.

Ning Heng liked to be quiet and did not let his clansmen greet him, so Zhu Dingbei didn't feel uncomfortable when he moved in.In fact, it doesn’t make any difference to Ning Heng whether he returns to the head of the Ning family or not. He has been in charge of the Ning family’s accounts since he was five years old, and he has taken over all the Ning family’s property a few years ago. Worship the ancestors to pass a clear road.

Zhu Dingbei stayed on the boat for a long time, and felt comfortable after landing on the ground. He was about to play a set of Zhujiaquan to relax his muscles and bones, but when he saw that Ning Heng had something to do, he let him go without paying attention.Ning Heng was still worried, so he left Uncle Ning to look after him.

Ning Heng came and went quickly, and he came back just after the dinner was served.

Zhu Dingbei raised his eyebrows, "Could it be that You Yin has a clue?"

That's right, the main purpose of Ning Heng's trip to the south this time is not to take over the family business, but to investigate the matter of bad money for Emperor Zhenyuan.Just three months ago, bad silver appeared again in Guangzhou Fuyinzhuang!

In the 23rd year of Zhenyuan, the treasury's disaster relief silver was stolen and replaced with inferior silver. This is a serious matter. Emperor Zhenyuan kept the news, but three years of hard investigation still failed.This time he finally touched the fox's tail again, so he entrusted the matter to Ning Heng when the Empress Dowager asked Ning Heng to return to Guangzhou again.

Ning Heng shook his head, "There is a sea caravan missing, and the search team at home has never returned, so we have to send someone to look for it."

Zhu Dingbei paused while he was eating. He knew that the capability of the Ning family's sea caravan might not be as powerful as that of the Eastern Navy, but his understanding of the sea was not inferior at all, and he would definitely not disappear on the sea for no reason.Unless... there was an accident.

Ning Heng put a chopstick of braised pork into his bowl, and comforted him: "It's nothing, they have their own way to save their lives."

Zhu Dingbei didn't ask any more questions when he heard the words.

Before dawn the next day, Ning Heng got up early to bathe and burn incense, worshiped the ancestors with his clansmen, listened to the ancestors' precepts, and officially took over the seal of the Ning family's head.

Zhu Dingbei couldn't help being speechless when he saw the dense crowd of heads in front of the hall.I am used to the desertedness of Changxinhou's Mansion, but I didn't expect the Ning family to have such a large population.After asking Ning Heng, I found out that only a few of these people were collateral blood of the Ning family, and most of them were the retainers and shopkeepers of the Ning family.These people have served the Ning family for generations and lived in the Ning Mansion, so they are naturally members of the same clan.

Zhu Dingbei sighed and said, "The old emperor is more tolerant than I imagined."

In the past, he could only tolerate the Zhu family when he was a narrow-minded emperor, but now after seeing the Ning family, he realized how big-hearted the emperor must be to allow the Ning family to exist.

Ning Heng looked at him with a smile: "It's just mutual benefit."

There is another sentence that Ning Heng did not say.The emperor couldn't touch the Ning family because the Ning family had too deep roots in Dajing. If it really reached that point, the Patriarch would order the entire Ning family to abandon their properties and evacuate or the Patriarch would automatically shut down if the Patriarch lost all the properties of the Ning family. People's livelihood and economy will be paralyzed.The royal family knew well that the Ning family could do such a thing, so they never dared to take risks.

After three days like this, there is still no clue about the inferior bank.

Zhu Dingbei knocked on the table, narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Before, I felt that someone deliberately lured you here, but now it seems that it is probably true."

A person who can steal and exchange the national treasury silver, no one in this world has this ability except the emperor.However, it just happened, which shows that this person's scheming methods and status are extraordinary.And he was able to hide the inferior silver in a leak-proof manner afterwards, and his whereabouts were also safe. It must not be a coincidence that the inferior silver was rediscovered in Guangzhou Mansion.

It's just that I don't know whether the person who set up the trick was the culprit behind the theft and exchange of deposits, or someone who used this incident to try to disadvantage the Ning family or achieve a certain purpose.

Ning Heng said: "The whereabouts of that batch of silver deposits have not been found, and His Majesty is already impatient. This trap is something we can't jump into even if we don't want to."

Even if there is only one ten-thousandth possibility of finding out the person behind the scenes, both Emperor Zhenyuan and Ning Heng himself are willing to take this risk.

Zhu Dingbei curled his lips: "Those people stole the money and didn't spend it. Could it be that they just want to embarrass the emperor?"

Silver is different from iron ore. If the latter is stolen, it can be used to refine weapons and pose a direct threat. However, if the former is not spent and exchanged for something, it is actually not very useful.Now that three years have passed, Ning Heng's nets all over the territory of Dajing Kingdom have failed to capture the slightest trace of the opponent, which can only show that the opponent is not short of money.

If you just want to provoke the royal family, then the other party must have an equal status, but the Xiongnu and Qiang people or other nationalities have not changed in the past two years.

This is exactly what makes Zhu Dingbei puzzled.

However, now that someone has set up a trick to lure Ning Heng over, there must be a countermeasure. They just wait to see how the situation develops, so there is no need to be impatient.

But right now, Ning Heng has another headache.

——Another group of people who went to search and rescue at sea disappeared.

The author has something to say: The time has come for Chang Sheng and Ah Heng to do it themselves!Looking forward not~~~(*^__^*)

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