Brother Donggong

"Hey, what do you want?"

I felt Xiaolian pressing on my back, but I couldn't move!

Damn, where did this little guy get so much strength.

"It's time for medicine here."

Xiao Lian actually spoke calmly, and as I spoke, I felt a chill down my spine, as if his fingers were sliding.

This... This situation is a bit weird.

How should I put it, it's as if I bought a tender and delicious little fat duck. I wanted to put it on the edge of my mouth to eat a big piece, but instead I was pulled out by the little fat duck and brushed with sauce. Then put it on the fire rack and roll it back and forth for grilling. This is simply putting the cart before the horse!

"Hey! Hey! Don't do this."

I struggled with my hands and feet, but Xiao Lian suddenly stopped.

"My lord despises me."

After Xiao Lian finished speaking, he let go of his hand, and I turned over and got under the quilt.

With a quilt, it's like a tortoise with a shell, and I feel more at ease.

"Little Lian, you are overthinking again, how can you!"

In fact, I can't really say that it's awkward. In the situation before me, I looked at him with a smile on my face, and I felt awkward.There is a common saying in the market, wishful thinking is willing to sue, but both sides are willing to take off their pants.Regardless of whether Xiao Lian followed me for food and drink, or for some other purpose, the two of us fooling around were consensual.It stands to reason that the two of us have done more egregious things. It is nothing if he gave me medicine, but I just can't stand it. It seems that the last layer of paper in my heart has been completely torn off. There is no shelter in front of things.

Xiao Lian was so generous, he put the ointment aside with a smile, and stood up, "If the prince hates me, I'll go out and ask Mr. Huang to come over. He is the prince's confidant after all. I am at ease."

I said, "Hey, Xiaolian! Don't be like this. There are some things you know and some things you don't. I don't want to involve you in the matter between me and the prince."

Xiaolian walked to the door but stopped, didn't turn her head back, as if she didn't want to look at me, "My lord has never been interested in me, I knew that a long time ago. It's just that now that the novelty has passed, I'm naturally tired of seeing me. If I don't even care about this If I don’t have eyesight, then I’m blind.”

"Hey, Xiaolian, you..."

I yelled again, and Xiaolian pushed the door open and left.

I waved my hand wrapped by him like a swollen melon, got under the quilt, and lay down. After a while, I saw Cucumber approaching. He was very flustered and shouted as soon as he jumped in, "My lord, Lian!" The young master said that you have hemorrhoids, and you are bleeding a lot, which is scary, let's quickly ask Imperial Physician Lin to come over and have a look!"

"To shut up!"

I hit the top of the cucumber's head with a fistful of melons, making him shut his stinky mouth!

I know, I completely offended Xiaolian.

I asked Cucumber to apply ointment on me, and asked him to boil some antipyretic concoction. After drinking it, I fell asleep. I casually drank from the teapot that was usually placed in front of the bed, and then remembered that I was still wearing melon palms and couldn’t hold anything, so I lay down and wanted to call cucumbers in, someone brought the water to my mouth, and after I finished drinking, My throat felt much better, and when I opened my eyes, it was Xiaolian.

"Little Lian, why are you having trouble with me?"

"My lord, I changed the medicine for you."

He said, let me lie down, lifted my wrist, removed the layer of melon, the bruises disappeared, not as scary as last night, only a faint blue circle remained, I clenched my fist again, Even the soreness has subsided.

I originally wanted to stop using the medicine, but Xiaolian caught it again, applied the ointment, and wrapped it with ribbons. This time, it looked like two watermelons with arabesques.

Well, who told me to offend him yesterday, let him go.

Fortunately, Xiao Lian is much more well-behaved today, serving tea and water, and feeding vegetables and meals, so I have nothing to complain about.

Cui Bicheng came over at noon, and he was hungry as soon as he came in.

He said that he drank hat circle tea in Shuntian Mansion for two days (he said in a daze that Yu Zheng, the main hall of Shuntian Mansion, gave him not Longjing, but the scraps from the straw hats in the backyard), and after drinking it all night, his eye sockets became dark, and his hair also became dark. Messed up, miserable to the extreme.

I asked Cucumber to ask Feng Xiaosheng to cook for him quickly.

When the food is ready, bring it to me.

On the round wooden table in front of me was a barrel of fragrant rice, four large bowls, which contained fried pork with dried bamboo shoots, capers with minced meat, stewed chicken with ginseng and eggplant in sauce.

Old Cui poured all the vegetables into the wooden barrel in one go, and then, like a pig, buried his face in the wooden barrel and began to shake off his cheeks, stand on tiptoe with his big molars, and gobble it up like a raging cloud.

I can't bear to look at it. "

While he was eating, I said, "Brother, just give in, why don't you suffer all this?"

"Snoring...snoring..."

Lao Cui's mouth was full of things, and he chewed while talking, speaking in a muddleheaded manner.

"If you want to say, it's not impossible to talk about that matter, nor is it impossible to accommodate, and it's not impossible to give him what he wants, but...that's what I want!"

After finishing speaking, he stopped talking and buried himself in hard work.When he finally stuffed the bucket of rice into his stomach, his whole body seemed to have been cramped, and he fell on the back of the wooden chair and gasped.

Xiao Lian went over to pour him a cup of tea, Cui Bicheng gulped it up, and Xiao Lian poured him another cup.

He said to Xiaolian, "I heard that the kitchen is stewing an elbow, please go over and have a look to see if it's done, and don't let those bastards like Xie Meng steal the cucumber for me again."

Xiao Lian looked back at me, I nodded to him, he put the cup by Cui Bicheng's hand, and left.

Cui Bicheng dismissed Xiaolian, as if he had something to tell me.

Sure enough, Cui Bicheng didn't drink any water, and asked me directly, "I heard that you went to Shuntian Mansion yesterday, why didn't I see you coming?"

Me, "I think those who ran Shuntian Mansion that day were almost speechless, so I won't make trouble for you. What happened in the end?"

Cui Bicheng, "Hmph, planting a stolen bag can be full of loopholes. That Yu Zheng also claimed that he had been sentenced for more than ten years. A case in Jiangsu was revealed, and the case was solved by the yamen the next day. On the same day, far away The Yongjing Shuntian Mansion, thousands of miles away, got a letter to arrest me, and they treated the court as a soy sauce shop run by their family, and let them do whatever they want!?

Originally, Yu Zheng had me intimidated, and he didn't want to get too involved, so he wanted to let me go. Later, people from the Ministry of Criminal Justice came and said that I couldn't be tolerated because of my special status, and they also said that this big case The decree has been clearly issued, and everyone in the government and the public knows that if it is because of disrupting the rules and regulations of the court, then Yu Zheng will not be able to pass the test just by dismissing him from office.Yu Zheng's ignorance can neither offend Du Yuanze's people nor the prince's people. Fortunately, he didn't care about it and threw me to the gang of grandsons in the Ministry of Punishment. "

As he spoke, he took a sip of water.

"The people from the Ministry of Punishment threw me into the prison. I said to myself, okay, I will stay here, and whoever is afraid of that. But I stayed here for one night, and today I was released out of nowhere."

Me, "It seems that they have no real evidence, as long as you didn't do it, others can't wrong you."

"Bah!" Cui Bicheng's eyes sharpened, "Don't think I don't know who did it! It must be the prince, that wolf cub. He's trying to show me off, and he wants me to understand that he can get me in, and he can Let me out. I just don't buy him! Chengzi, you have suffered a lot from him these years, I know all about it. Originally, we had no choice but to take him. Who told us not to have him? The handle, it's different now, not only do I have the Du family's black accounts, I also have his!"

"Don't think that no one knows about the bad things he did in Jiangnan. I know it all now. I said, what's wrong with you, you look so ugly?"

I curled my lips, "Can't you be less hostile? Why are you biting the prince so hard?"

Cui Bicheng was unhappy when he heard this, "I didn't bite him, but he bit me!

Last year he took a few boxes of bad debts from nowhere and tried to destroy me. I bribed the chief envoy of Zhejiang who was beheaded. You let him take advantage of it, and that happened.I thought he would be able to calm down for at least a year or two, but this is great. Within a few months, he forced me to give him the Du family's black account!Good guy, he wants to be an empty-handed white wolf!I paid my life for the black account of the Du family, even if I burn it, I won't give it to him!

I said Chengzi, don’t dislike what I say, that’s how it is now.

If people do not offend me, I will not offend others, but if others offend me, I will offend others!

This is unbearable, and there is no need to bear it any longer. "

I was too lazy to listen to his plain words, so I asked the most important point, "What happened to the prince in the south this time."

Cui Bicheng pointed his fingers on the wooden tabletop, duk duk duk, if he really said this, he would hesitate a bit. "

"Actually..." he said, "I'm also a little surprised why the prince would do this...

Speaking of this, it is really a child without a mother, and it is a long story.

The provinces in the south of the Yangtze River have always been the most important areas of taxation for the imperial court, and [-]% of the tax revenue comes from these provinces.

This is because there are not only paddy fields to produce rice, farmers also raise silkworms to grow mulberry, and use raw silk to weave silk. Songjiang produces cotton cloth, and the income of these is much higher than that of grain.

There are also porcelain from Jiangxi, wine from Yongjia, purple sand, tea, copperware, and silk. These goods to be sold overseas are shipped from there, and the customs tax and silver are also a large amount of income.

In order to increase these incomes, the emperor wanted to let farmers in those provinces stop growing rice and instead plant mulberry hemp, or simply sell their fields, stop farming, and become craftsmen, to those who weave silk, porcelain kilns, brew wine, etc. Tea garden to go to work.And the Dazheng Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau selected a few powerful businessmen to buy those small workshops scattered among the people, weaving silk, burning porcelain, brewing wine, and baking tea, and turned them into large workshops.

These large workshops are backed by the government, they can purchase raw materials at low prices, they can also network with various talents, and the government can negotiate prices with overseas businessmen. up.

For example, it turns out that a piece of silk can be sold for seven taels of silver at most. That is because the best silk produced by small workshops is medium-grade silk, and generally low-grade silk. It is a good year to sell at this price.As for the high-quality silk woven by the large workshop of the Manufacturing Bureau, a piece costs 20 taels of silver, which is double or even triple the profit. Only this item, the income of at least 1000 million taels of silver a year is more than before. "

"The emperor believed in the prince, and originally asked his people to do this. As a result, Wen Zhan didn't know what was wrong, so he just suppressed it. The emperor was naturally unhappy, so the few Jiangnan selected this year The chief envoy of a province has started to use people from the old Sanjiawang."

"Originally, the emperor thought that the prince was just an omission in governing, which was an unintentional mistake, but I have a letter written by the prince to the former governor of Zhejiang Province..."

Cui Bicheng raised his eyebrows, raised the corners of his mouth slightly, with a trace of pride, "It is clearly written in black and white, the prince said, let them report natural disasters, and report minor disasters as major ones, or say that the land in Zhejiang is too chaotic. Need to re-measure, and other reasons to delay the purchase of land, the purpose of changing rice fields into mulberry fields."

"If this letter is handed over to the palace, the emperor will see that when he was the crown prince, he was obedient and vicious, secretly formed a clique, and openly resisted the edict. He will have to leave the East Palace immediately!"

"In the past few days, Wen Zhan forced me to surrender to him, expressly saying that he wanted the Du family's black account, but in fact, he also wanted to get back the secret letter."

I shook my head, "Just one letter, you can't overthrow the prince. Even if you overthrow him and the youngest gets the crown prince, how can the Du family tear you apart?"

Cui Bicheng sneered, "Yu Lan? Just him? He can't be the crown prince with his poor appearance. Chengzi, why haven't you thought that one day you will be the crown prince?"

I frowned, "I'm the prince? Even the stupid queen knows that even if the sun comes out from the west, turns around three times, circles the sky three times, and then falls into the sea with a bang, I can't do it." Prince!"

Cui Bicheng, "Don't underestimate yourself, they are both the sons of your father, who is worse than whom?"

Lao Cui didn't understand, and he missed a little bit, but he was a thousand miles away.

I am different from them, I am not as ruthless as they are, nor do I have their rock-like determination, unscrupulous determination, and ability to control other people's minds.

Me, "Don't even think about me. The only thing left is the seventh younger brother Yuezi."

Cui Bicheng gritted his teeth, "Just right, he's young and easy to control."

Me, "Haha, what joke are you talking about. How could we control Yuezheng? After all, he is also a member of the prince. Cui Bicheng, stop fighting with Wen Zhan. If he is not the prince, you will definitely offend the queen's family." People, and you have already offended the Du family, so when the time comes, neither the Du family nor the queen will let you go. You really have to pray to God and Buddha every day, and ask my father to find a sea remedy, so that you can Live forever."

Cui Bicheng grinned happily, "Chengzi, then my life is in your hands, you can't just leave me alone."

Old Cui spoke softly, with a vibrato, I was so excited that goose bumps came out all over my body.