[Red Mansions] The Road to Empress Dowager

After the guests and hosts were seated, the girl consciously cleaned up the mess on the table. Since she woke up, she was afraid that her body might be damaged, and her appetite gradually increased.She can eat as much food as they send, and because of her good appetite, she recovers quickly, just like Xiaoqiang.

Chen Yi said: "I don't know where the girl is from?"

The girl couldn't help being taken aback, Chen Yi smiled slightly, and said: "I don't have any other intentions, I just rescued the girl from the Han River, and now I'm going to Wuchang, and I have to go to Sichuan. I can send someone to take the girl back."

She really didn't know who this person was originally from, and she had an intuition that nothing good would happen.She has a lot of overt and hidden injuries, I am afraid that Yuanshen's family either encountered a catastrophe, or Yuanshen was abused.Besides, if some human tragedy happened, how could he almost be buried in the belly of a fish?

She hurriedly said with a smile: "Forgive me, my lord. I must have been in a coma for too long. I can't remember clearly. I'm probably from Jiangnan, but I can't remember clearly."

This is ancient times, and it is impossible for Suzhou to find her family in modern times. If she insists that she is from there, it is not good to make a fool out of her.Vaguely say that he is from Jiangnan.

Chen Yi said: "Then girl, do you still remember what your name is?"

In her dream, someone called her "ayan" and someone called her "xiuxiu", which should be her name.

She thought for a while and said, "I should...probably be called Yanxiu."

Chen Yi asked some more questions, but Yan Xiu didn't know what to ask.Chen Yi thought to himself, even though she was wearing coarse linen at that time, she had an extremely expensive jade pendant on her body, and she had such a vulgar appearance, maybe something happened to Miss Da.But which aristocratic family with the surname Yan lived in the south of the Yangtze River?

In the area of ​​Zhejiang, he had never heard of any family whose surname was so prominent.

Chen Yi said again: "Since I can't remember it for the time being, let's feel sorry for the girl and stay with me first. After I return to Jiangnan, I will ask for the girl."

Yan Xiu breathed a sigh of relief. She knew that she was time-traveling, but she couldn't remember the identity of the past life or the original owner clearly. It's really bad.This handsome guy can take her in, it's better than living in the rivers and lakes by himself.She is not so naive, how can a single woman survive in ancient times?

Yanxiu stood up and saluted: "Thank you, Mr. Chen, for saving your life. Yanxiu has nothing to repay you. I am willing to work for you and repay your great kindness."

……

Tu Yuanyi had already found the border between Huguang and Gansu-Shaanxi, but after Jia Yuanchun left the border of Kyoto, it was already difficult to find any traces.It's just that he couldn't be reconciled, he hadn't closed his eyes for three days and his beard was unshaven.

At this time, the ministers who accompanied him repeatedly advised him not to listen, but seeing that the soldiers of the Imperial Army who accompanied him were also exhausted, they had no choice but to withdraw their troops first.Then he ordered Jinyiwei and the East and West factories to make unannounced visits.

When they returned to the palace, people in the palace were panic-stricken. There were no parents by their side for several days, and the three children were crying endlessly as if they were competing with each other. Yoshiya finally slumped down on the couch, covered in sweat, and fell asleep.

Early the next morning, the emperor, who had not been to court for a few days, finally appeared, full of murderous aura.For the past few days, Wang Ziteng has been trembling, fearing that someday a catastrophe will strike.

As soon as he went to the court, he made the first memorial, which was an apology. He knew that both Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang had been imprisoned.

Tu Yuanyi faced Wang Ziteng with complicated emotions. It would be a lie to say that he has no murderous intentions, after all, he was able to get rid of him in his previous life.

However, most of the ministers in the court still don't know whether the strange power is true or not, and Wang Ziteng is really a smart person. He only said that his sister and son-in-law were at fault. thing.

At this time, if there are rumors that "monsters are born in Dazhou", the people in the court and the middle are afraid that people will panic, and Tu Yuanyi is very clear about this.

Under the balance of Tu Yuanyi, he punished the prince with one year's salary and thought about his mistakes behind closed doors.

At the court meeting, Tu Yuanyi only mentioned that the queen was taken captive by hostile forces who sent female masters of the rivers and lakes in retaliation.

The Queen's arrest caused the biggest turmoil in Kyoto since the Three Kings' Rebellion. Everyone in Kyoto knew about it, and Tu Yuanyi couldn't hide it even if he wanted to.

Tu Yuanyi solemnly ordered in the court: All officials' families, regardless of gender, must not criticize the queen, and if they disobey the emperor's order, they will be beheaded according to the law.

Many courtiers also have their own understanding of this point: if a wife is taken captive, even an ordinary man would be ashamed and humiliated, let alone the emperor?It is a national humiliation for the mother of a country to be taken captive.It is no wonder that the emperor is so strong that he can endure it. Therefore, this order is still relatively well implemented. All the families of officials and officials, even female relatives, dare not talk to people with foreign surnames about the queen being captured by two "female masters of the rivers and lakes" Things.

On the contrary, some women in the backyard talked about the matter with obscenity and gloating. Dongchang collected information and took a wife of a third-rate Xungui family into prison. Police monkey, no one dares to be unscrupulous anymore.

……

Xin Xiuyan suffered a severe head injury and fell into a coma for several days, and spent about a day floating in the Han River. Although Xiaoqiang's vitality survived, her memory and logic were confused, and she couldn't even figure out her own name.

But after two days, she was gradually able to logically combine her fragmented memories. She remembered who she was before time travel, but she had already told her savior that her name was Yanxiu, and it was hard to change her words at this time.

I should be the soul of ancient times, and changing my name and surname is not an insult to my ancestors, and I also accept the fact that I was a showman in ancient times.

Xin Xiuyan remembered that she should have been raped by her boyfriend and friends, and was crushed to death by his ashtray, feeling 1 depressed in her heart.It's just that she can't remember what the pair looked like, probably because time and space are too far away.

She died like that, what should her parents do!

……

On this day, when the boat arrived in Wuchang, it was at the first moment of Shenshi, but seeing the vastness of Chutian and the misty mist, the homesickness and melancholy in her heart were slightly relieved.

Xin Xiuyan has never been used to relying on others for food, and she already owes Mr. Chen the grace of saving her life and taking her in, but she has no intention of agreeing with her body, and she has no intention of being a personal maid like Rue Xiang.After a few days of getting along, Rue Xiang mentioned that she was a wife to the son, and she also understood what she meant.

So when the ship docked, she went to the warehouse to help count and unload the goods, leaving the accountant and the boys stunned.

She and a young boy carried a box of valuable goods off the ship. These fragile things were not at ease to be carried by the porters.

She heard from Mr. Accountant that this is a mirror produced by a factory in Neifu, Kyoto.But girls from families with better family backgrounds like to have a kind of mirror used by royal empresses and princesses as dowry when they get married.

Xin Xiuyan also knew that making mirrors to make money in ancient times might not be the turn of the traversers, the ancients were smart.

This girl's strength is really not small, and Li San'er, who cooperated with her to carry the goods, was secretly startled. Such a fairy sister is a girl with strange strength.

When loading cars at the dock, listening to the dock workers yelling the wharf chant without mantras to work, Xin Xiuyan couldn't help shouting after seeing such an ancient and original side.

When the porters heard a female voice howling, they couldn't help but looked at her one after another. Seeing that it was a "girl" who had never seen a peerless beauty before, they couldn't help but stare wide-eyed.

A man who had the courage to change his name and shouted that he was very energetic in his work. If the men of the lower class and simple working people want to attract the opposite sex, they must show hard work and ability.This is the same as adding a beautiful woman in a modern company, men will compete to perform well at work, and it is the same reason.

Mo Yu came over and asked her to see Chen Yi, but she had no choice but to put down her work first.

Chen Yi had already boarded the carriage, seeing that she wasn't following Rue Xiang, he couldn't help asking about it, but he heard that she had gone to help carry the goods.

Chen Yi invited her to ride into the city together, but she was no longer pretentious, she was not considered a widow with Rue Xiang around, after all, her thought of male and female conflicts was not as serious as that of the ancients.

Chen Yi's face was gentle, and he said: "Miss Yan doesn't need to do those rough jobs, your body is just right, you should do more rest."

Xin Xiuyan smiled slightly and said, "Actually, I can do other things besides rough work, and I can also be an accountant."

The two communicated for a while, and Chen Yi said that he could help her find relatives in Jiangnan and treat her like an honored guest, but Xin Xiuyan declined, and still wanted to find a job to support herself.Xin Xiuyan knows that she has met a good person, but she can't be so ignorant. The world does not help the poor, and she eats and drinks for nothing for a long time. It cannot be justified.

Seeing that she was stubborn, Chen Yi still kindly reminded her that it would be bad for her boudoir to show her face in public.

Xin Xiuyan thought to herself how could she care about these things now, it would be nice to be alive and have something to eat.

The Chen family also has a few shops in Wuchang. Chen Yi went around this big circle not only to purchase and replenish goods, but also because he, as a young owner, was going to take over the properties in various places, so he came to inspect and get familiar with them.

They lived in a courtyard with three entrances in Wuchang, and they were received by the big shopkeeper in Wuchang for daily life.

Xin Xiuyan said that she wanted to be an accountant, so Chen Yi asked her and an old accountant who came from Hangzhou to check the accounts with him.

As the daughter of an old bookkeeper, Xin Xiuyan is still more interested in this ancient "four-pillar accounting method". This Chinese-style bookkeeping method has actually been developed to a fairly scientific level, but it is not clear at a glance that it is all written in words.

After spending nearly an hour looking through the ledger, she recalled the data in the ledger, and picked up the brush to convert it into a table.

Although I don't know if this method can be liked by people of this era, Xin Xiuyan still wants to try it. If it is useful to Mr. Chen, it should be repaying his life-saving grace.

As soon as Chen Yi heard her explaining the principles and symbols, he was already very smart, and he got the gist right away.

Chen Yi was very happy, but he said: "It's just that no one in my Chen family knows this way of keeping accounts. It's not easy to change the habits of the old accountants."

Xin Xiuyan smiled and said: "I can train people for you, I think as long as it is something of practical significance, people will never be stingy about learning it."

Xin Xiuyan thought to herself, if Chen Yi hired her as an accountant or a trainer, it would be considered a good job in ancient times.

Although the house of Chen Yi's father is a merchant, the Chen family is a big family in Zhejiang, and many of them are officials, as Rue Xiang's words revealed.

And Chen Yi has a good character, it would be better if she performed well at work in the future, and he could help her get a household registration.Although female households in this era are exempt from corvee, but those who have a husband and son are not allowed to be female households, Xin Xiuyan still thinks that female households are her best choice.

Marrying in ancient times was the most unreliable thing. She would not be the wife of a sour scholar, burn her life for him, send him to Qingyun, climb up the high branches, hug him left and right, and she will retire after being successful. Into the underworld.She will not be a farmer's wife, she will go to the fields like a man during the day, and serve her in-laws, husband and children at night. A three obedience and four virtues can kill a woman.Women should cherish their own lives.

In short, those who have no ability or economic autonomy and expect others to give them alms usually do not end well.

Chen Yi saw that her eyebrows had a kind of majesty, elegance and self-confidence that ordinary women did not have, and then looked at her conversation and calligraphy, and felt that her background was definitely not simple.

Therefore, to be a person, you must have a skill to make a living. Xin Xiuyan can read and write, and in the ancient "Chen's Enterprise", she can at least be a part of it.

……

One month later, Shangyang Palace.

The old sage looked at his thin-faced son. He had spent most of his energy in finding the queen and taking care of several children in the past month.

The old sage sighed: "Emperor, the country is the most important thing. It has been more than a month, and you should understand what this means. I am also quite satisfied with the queen, but this blessing is a little thin."

Tu Yuanyi's phoenix eyes turned cold, and said: "Xiuxiu must still be alive! If she dies, she will definitely come to find me, so she must not be dead, and I must find her."

The old sage sighed secretly when he heard the emperor's "nonsense".

The old sage narrowed his eyes slightly, and said: "Do you know what the consequences will be if you live in the rivers and lakes after a country? At this time, you found her, do you think it can still be the same as before?"

Tu Yuanyi's handsome face frowned, and said: "It's good that she comes back safely... The one who took her was a banshee. Xiuxiu is very smart, so she may not have a chance to escape from that witch."

The old sage said: "Do you want to live in such a deceitful way, disregarding the country and society? For more than a month, the Imperial Army, Nine City Bingmasi, Gongsheng Army, Jinyiwei...Which party has not been tossing back and forth? Such a mobilization Finding the queen by hand is something that has never happened since ancient times. As an emperor, don't you know what you should do and what you should not do? I have stopped asking about political affairs in recent years, but this matter should also come to an end gone."

Tu Yuanyi said: "I will not mobilize the forbidden army anymore."

The old sage stood up and said, "Not only that, you should understand what I mean."

Tu Yuanyi curled his lips coldly, and said, "I don't understand! What's wrong with Xiuxiu? It's also my fault. Whether it's the Yang family or Jia Yuanchun, what does it have to do with Xiuxiu? This is the catastrophe because of my troubles. She doesn't know what torment she is suffering. She is waiting for me. Is your father going to stab her in the heart when she suffers from the enemy? "

The old sage said: "Then how do you block the mouth of the world?"

Tu Yuanyi said: "The queen is not wrong, anyone who dares to insult the queen, I will never tolerate it!"

"Does it include me!" The old sage's chest heaved. Xing Xiuyan was a daughter-in-law he was quite satisfied with. He also loved her very much. The emperor only favored the queen. It is to stand on the position of the royal family.

Tu Yuanyi looked sad and said: "Father, I have grown up. I will survive. I have two sons, and the great Zhou's country and society will be fine. If the world does not allow her to be a queen, I will not let her be a queen." If I want to bring her back, after a few years, I can say that she is located in Tiezhu, but it’s just a false name. What kind of rules? If these things can’t do anything to the wicked, but kill the victims, this kind of thing that confuses black and white and doesn’t distinguish between right and wrong There's nothing to rave about."

The old sage had nothing to say, and let Tu Yuanyi leave with a dejected look.

Tu Yuanyi returned to Taiji Palace, Mrs. Cheng Engong came into the palace today.No matter how skilled his nanny is, he is not a woman, but he doesn't trust the nanny of the prince and princess. He will never allow a nanny like Mrs. Fengsheng to exist.

Mrs. Xing Li and several nuns have already packed up the children's things and are going to live in Cheng'en Gongfu. He is going to let Mrs. Xing and his aunts and sisters-in-law look after the children.The children are still very close to Mrs. Xing Li, Su Fu'er, and Lin Daiyu, and their character is always more reliable than the nurses.

Tu Yuanyi sat on the couch, hugged the three dolls, and couldn't help crying.

The three children were about to turn one year old, and they were already very smart. When they saw Tu Yuanyi crying, they couldn't help crying.Standing outside the hall, Mrs. Xing and Li heard the cry of the child, and she couldn't stop crying when thinking of her own daughter.

Until Tu Yuanyi's cold voice told her to go in, carefully instructing her to pay attention to the details of taking care of the children.

Tu Yuanyi said again: "Madam Cheng Engong, don't be too sad, the queen must still be alive, and I will find her back."

Mrs. Xing Li couldn't help crying anymore, and after pleading guilty, she said: "Your Majesty, please take care of your health, whether it is for the people of Dazhou or for the children."

Tu Yuanyi nodded and said, "I will take care of myself. If I don't take care of myself, the queen will have no home when she comes back."

The convoy led by Mrs. Xing and Li went out of the palace in a mighty way. Besides the prince and princess, there were also nine nurses, dozens of court ladies and eunuchs, and fifty royal guards were stationed to protect the prince and princess.

Today, several sworn sisters of Xing Xiuyan came to Cheng'en Gong's mansion, seeing three children who lost their mothers could not help feeling sad.Xing Lishi and the others hugged each other and cried for a long time.

From then on, the princes and princesses spent more than half of the year living in Duke Cheng'en's mansion, and only returned to the palace to reunite with father and son when the emperor was not busy with government affairs.

……

At the end of May, news came from Shiyan guards that they had seen the queen and Jia Yuanchun.Tu Yuanyi knew that if the news was not very reliable, Jin Yiwei would not have dared to send it.

So, the next morning, he rushed to Huguang in a light car. When he arrived in Shiyan, the magistrate and other local officials couldn't help being startled, and respectfully welcomed the saint to live in the Yamen. The focus is not on these.

Tu Yuanyi met the boatman who used to ferry Jia Yuanchun back then, he made a living on the ferry, and the Jinyiwei team went south to search, so they would naturally ask about this kind of people who often travel from south to north.Because the boatman was so impressed with the two girls, his complexion changed when he saw their portraits. How could Jin Yiwei not see it?

The boatman's surname was Wang, and he didn't even know that the person opposite him was the emperor, but he was also captured by the majesty of the emperor, knelt down on the ground, and walked past him one after another.

When Tu Yuanyi heard him say that he saw the water bandits, he abandoned the boat and ran away. He couldn't help being furious, and asked, "So, he was taken away by the water bandits of the Black Dragon Gang?"

Wang Chuanfu said: "At that time I was only concerned about running for my life, so I didn't see clearly, but those water bandits had no reason to let them go."

Tu Yuanyi couldn't help becoming more anxious. After waving Wang Chuanfu away, Zhou Qing saw the emperor's face was black and thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty was seriously injured and unconscious at that time, and it was the water bandits who took her away. I have to cure her first. If the empress is healthy, then...the empress can fight even demon girls, and she is not bad in both resourcefulness and martial arts. I think she will be lucky."

As soon as Tu Yuanyi heard these words, his heart felt better, and he recalled Lin Daiyu's report to him about Xing Xiuyan deceiving the police and deceiving them.She is a little fox, she may be able to escape from water bandits, as long as her health improves, ordinary water bandits are no match for her.

Tu Yuanyi couldn't wait to call in other soldiers and rushed to Danjiangkou to find out the approximate location of the water bandit's lair.

The local government ordered several cargo ships and small boats for him, and he took a hundred Jinyiwei and five hundred guards from Danjiangkou to attack Heilong Island in the middle of the lake to save his wife, without waiting for support from behind. Banned.

In a patch of reeds not far from the island, members of the Black Dragon Gang were patrolling in small boats. When they found so many people coming, they quickly sent out signals to gather the gang and fought a bloody battle with the temporary army led by Tu Yuanyi.

The water bandits' water warfare skills are of course more proficient than Tu Yuanyi's official army, but Tu Yuanyi's hundred brocade guards carried flint/fire guns, which are sharp weapons for long-distance attack, and their martial arts are not weak.

Moreover, the emperor's "personal conquest by the imperial driver" greatly encouraged the officers and soldiers. Even the soldiers of the guards had great morale, hoping to have a bright future.When the two sides fought, the water bandits suffered more from the loss of weapons.The frogmen of the water bandits also scuttled two official ships, and many officers and soldiers fell into the water and were plotted by the frogmen.

However, frogmen cannot stay underwater for a long time after all, and Tu Yuanyi asked people to shoot arrows at suspicious reed poles on the water surface, which effectively deterred underwater frogmen.

One boat was left to catch people, and Tu Yuanyi ordered the other boats to rush to the enemy's position, taking advantage of the situation to grab the enemy's boat. He first performed lightness kung fu, boarded the opponent's flagship, and killed anyone he saw without saying a word.The water bandits couldn't help but feel timid when they saw how brave the visitor was, and many of them knelt down and surrendered.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the battle on the water was over, and the surrendered water bandits led the way to attack the island. The traps in the village on the island were still very difficult.But Tu Yuanyi was stationed on the river first, because the waterway had been opened up, and the officers and soldiers who came later came to the island safely even though they were in small boats and the water was not good, and surrounded the water bandits tightly.

In less than two days, the water bandits couldn't bear the lethality of the firecrackers and raised their flags to surrender.

Only then did the leader of the water bandits know that it was the emperor who led the army to attack them.

He murmured endlessly in his heart: Do you want to lower yourself like this?We are just a group of water bandits in the Danjiangkou area, do you think we are Houjin cavalry?

Tu Yuanyi was anxious to find his wife, so he asked them personally about the whereabouts of the two women they caught in the waters around Yangjiapu in mid-April.

The water bandits said, how can there be two women, who monopolizes the benefits?

The leader of the robbery that day pointed to Jia Yuanchun's portrait and said that they only caught this one, and pointed to Xing Xiuyan's portrait and said that this was thrown into the Han River without being brought back by the dead.

Tu Yuanyi felt his world spinning for a while, his throat felt hot, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.