Jiang Qing

A few days later, the envoys of Jiang Guo and Liang Guo who discussed the details of the mutual market stayed at the Yanzhou post.

These days, Bai Bingchen and Mei Shao have re-drawn the quantity of commodities imported and exported by the two parties, designated banks, and mutual trade taxes based on the commodities traded in previous years.

These specific rules are cumbersome and complicated. Bai Bingchen didn't want Mei Shao to intervene, but after Mei Shao intervened forcefully, he accompanied him to prepare everything he needed.

They spend so much time together that they rarely see each other during the day.

After getting up early every day, after they had breakfast, Mei Shao and Bai Bingchen would soak in the study together. He sorted out the materials from previous years, and Bai Bingchen screened and annotated them.If Mei Shao didn't understand anything, she would ask Bai Bingchen about it.

It's just that he was not honest when he asked things. He was always used to wrapping people around from behind, putting his head on Bai Bingchen's shoulder, listening to him explaining to himself word by word, and humming a few words from time to time.

After they exchanged their hearts, Mei Shao had no intention of restraining himself. He began to intervene in Bai Bingchen's diet openly, accompanied him to eat regularly, and urged him to take medicine.

At the beginning, Bai Bingchen was not used to having such a person clinging to him all the time. Whenever he wanted to read the volume of documents in his hand before going to dinner, Mei Shao would not say anything, just kept silent. Hugging him, rubbing against his neck for a while, disturbing his mind, letting go of the document, Mei Shao will take advantage of the situation, press down on the bed and kiss closely, let him No matter how much he begged for mercy, he would not let go, and he would not let go until his lips became red and swollen, and his eyes rolled.

Bai Bingchen ate a few times with a red face, caught sight of the ambiguous gazes of the people looking at him, couldn't go on struggling any longer, and changed his messy eating schedule in compromise.

When it was almost time to eat, Bai Bingchen would put away the things in his hands ahead of time, and just sit there dazed for a while, waiting for Mei Shao to come and take his hand to eat.

In the afternoon, Bai Bingchen would read a book in the corridor. He didn't have the habit of taking a nap, and he was afraid that if he slept during the day, he would not be sleepy at night.Mei Shao did, but he didn't go back to his room, he just lay on Bai Bingchen's lap, hugging his waist, and buried his head in to avoid the glare of the sky.

Bai Bingchen waited for the head around his waist to settle down, and covered him with the thin blanket he had prepared earlier. Hearing his regular breathing, he slowly flipped through an idle book in his hand, sometimes it was about strange stories, sometimes It's a travelogue.

The autumn afternoon sun gently covered them, warming the aroma of sweet-scented osmanthus in the courtyard, lingering in their noses.

At this time, everything is quiet, the warm sun is silent, only the two of them are in this world.

After Bai Bingchen had turned half of a book, and the sun was gradually setting, he gently woke him up from his arms, and Mei Shao woke up vaguely for a while, and after waking up, he rubbed his numb legs flatteringly , the two went out of the house to learn about the situation in the selected merchant's store, and did not return until evening.

In the evening, after Bai Bingchen had taken his medicine, washed up, lit some soothing incense, and was lying on the bed in a daze, a person who took his steps lightly lifted half of the quilt carefully, put Bai Bingchen into his arms, and patiently put the His body was warm, and the two fell asleep together.

Such a day, repeating itself, half a month passed without knowing it, and they got used to each other's intervention in half a month, as if they had lived together for a long time, and the six years of separation were not worth mentioning at all.

This kind of time passed too slowly, so naturally and gently, so good that Bai Bingchen let go of all his thoughts and guards, and fully accepted Mei Shao's traces in his life bit by bit.

And for the past half month, Meng Ye also deliberately avoided them, especially Mei Shao.

Even if there was something that needed to be explained, Meng Ye would talk to Bai Bingchen. He kept the distance between himself and Mei Shao without a trace, and spent more time and energy on Helian Gouyue.

Until today, it was time to formally discuss the terms of the mutual market, and the people who lived under the same roof had a rare meeting in the past half a month.

When Meng Ye came over with a stack of thick paper, Bai Bingchen was peeling pomegranates.

With his slender fingers, he carefully removed the blue film, revealing the red bead-like fruits, and slowly pushed them into the glass bowl in front of him.

There was already more than half of it in the bowl, the red juice splashed on his fingertips, and the rolling pomegranate seeds easily fell to the side, but he didn't look impatient at all, even though there were two or three pomegranates empty at hand.

Meng Ye glanced at Bai Bingchen, who was peeling pomegranates intently, and then at Mei Shao, who was watching others peel the pomegranates with his chin resting on his back. He coughed lightly to show his presence.

Bai Bingchen looked up at him, and while continuing to do what he was doing, he asked, "Are the 23 merchants selected today sure to come? Have the envoys from Liang and Jiang sent invitations?"

Meng Ye hesitated when asked by Bai Bingchen about the things that had already been confirmed, and then carefully checked the paper in his hand before replying, "Two of them said they would arrive later, and the others can come on time. , The envoys of the two countries have also notified that the invitation was delivered to them in person."

Meng Ye used to always run behind Mei Shao, ignoring this gentle and not very talkative Right Prime Minister, but after the last few encounters, he slowly sensed a little bit from his words. The old hot in life.

Although Meng Ye has two years of experience in mutual trading in Yanzhou, and is familiar with most of the merchants who sell goods on both sides, he also follows the treaty made by Cao Bai, Minister of the Ministry of Officials when Zhao Zhen ascended the throne. As for why he signed it like this, In the past three years, the same business has changed several sellers and buyers. He is not very clear about what to avoid and what to highlight in the revised mutual market agreement.

Even when screening the merchants with mutual market qualifications, some of them used some means to hide some traces and pretended to meet the requirements to report, but Meng Ye didn't notice it. It was Bai Bingchen who saw it and reminded him from which aspects to obtain evidence and refuse them.

Therefore, every time Bai Bingchen's routine inquiries fell on Meng Ye's ears, it was like being raided by his husband to check his homework. Even though he had memorized everything by heart beforehand, he still couldn't help being nervous when facing him.

Hearing this, Bai Bingchen didn't continue to ask questions. He concentrated on looking at the almost peeled pomegranate in his hand, and squeezed the last pomegranate seed into the glass bowl.

The fine sunlight sprinkles gold powder on the transparent glass bowl, making the pomegranate seeds in the bowl full of fresh juice and ruddy.

Bai Bingchen stopped his hands, picked up a half-wet handkerchief, wiped his fingers slowly, then raised his chin towards Mei Shao, "stretch your hand."

Mei Shao's eyes moved from the bowl of pomegranate seeds to Bai Bingchen's face, and he reached out to grab the bowl, but Bai Bingchen stopped him halfway.

Bai Bingchen didn't have any expression on his face, and carefully wiped the pomegranate film and red juice between Mei Shao's fingers with the handkerchief, and then slowly said: "I have to eat such a troublesome thing, and I don't know how to peel it off myself."

He said something that seemed to be reproachful, but there was no half-blame emotion in his words.

After wiping his ten fingers clean, Bai Bingchen pushed the bowl full of pomegranate seeds in front of Mei Shao, and said, "Just one bowl, don't eat any more today."

Mei Shao smiled and pinched a few to bring to Bai Bingchen's mouth, but he avoided it.

He doesn't like to eat sweets, and he doesn't like to touch those foods that take longer to process than to eat. Only Mei Shao has such a spoiled temper since he was a child, and he only picks troublesome things to eat.

Seeing him avoiding it, Mei Shao directly threw the two pomegranate seeds into her mouth, revealing a bright red tip of her tongue, and rolled the two pomegranate seeds into it.

Looking at the red juice bursting from the tip of his tongue, Bai Bingchen's eyes dimmed for a moment, and for a moment he couldn't tell whether he was looking at the red juice in his mouth or the soft tongue.

Meng Ye saw that there was something wrong with the limelight, and coughed twice again in embarrassment.

Bai Bingchen restrained the expression in his eyes, turned his head and asked, "I remember that the envoy from Liang State this time is the long history of the Prince of Liang State?"

Meng Ye nodded, and replied, "The one from Jiang Guo is the second prince of Jiang Guo."

"Huh?" Bai Bingchen remembered that no one from Jiang's royal family was coming on the list of appointed envoys. Why did a prince suddenly appear?

Although the border trade is important, it is not necessary to take the risk of sending a prince to another country, let alone the second prince who is competing for the heir of the Jiang Kingdom.

"He is not on the list, and he will not dominate the market. When the invitation was sent over today, Jiang Guo's envoy told me that the second prince, Li Xunshu, would come to listen."

"Why, it's time for Liang Guo and Jiang Guo to change their monarchs, and even a mutual market has been handed over to their two princes?" Bai Bingchen's expression froze, and his eyes became more and more thoughtful.

Prince Qin Chengtao of the Liang Kingdom is the darling of the Emperor of the Liang Kingdom. The crown prince has belonged to him since he was born. He has not gone through any struggles and was born as the future monarch. , killing a few servants is commonplace.

Born to a high position, Qin Chengtao has no shortage of people to curry favor with. When he was still young, he was coaxed by the eagles and dogs around him to taste all the romances of Jindu. No matter what his status is, men and women, as long as he likes them, his subordinates will dare to marry him. Sending him to his bed caused a lot of troubles, the Emperor of Liang Kingdom just laughed it off, and he became more and more used to his arrogance.

This kind of favor is only because of one thing, the emperor of Liang country has only one son.

But Li Xunshu, the second prince of the Jiang Kingdom, was different. He had three brothers, all of whom were about the same age as him, and powerful, and Jiang Guoguo's king, Li Chengji, had no intention of favoring any of them.

Li Xunshu needs to fight for the position of supremacy, and his every move represents the struggle for the crown prince within the Jiang Kingdom. Bai Bingchen has to pay attention to it, but now that he has come to Yanzhou in private, he has not received any news.

Could it be that he wants to use the mutual market to do something?

Seeing Bai Bingchen frowning and thinking, Meng Ye hesitated for a moment, and said, "Maybe Li Xunshu really just stopped by to take a look."

Bai Bingchen raised his eyebrows lightly, motioning for him to continue talking.

"After receiving the news that Li Xunshu had arrived in Yanzhou today, I sent people to check his whereabouts, and found that he did not come straight to Yanzhou. He stayed in Han Jueguan for three days before changing his way to Yanzhou. .”

Han Jueguan?Isn't that where Yu Liang is now?

Mei Shao also squinted his eyes when he heard the words, he didn't speak, the pomegranate seed he was holding on his fingertips didn't go into his mouth, but crushed on his fingertips, allowing the red juice to flow down from his fingertips.

No wonder there was news of riots in Jueguan, Japan and South Korea some time ago. After Zhenbeihou went, there was no other sound.

According to Mei Shao and Yu Liang's plan, Han Jueguan would not be so quiet at this time, it turned out that it was Li Xunshu who met Yu Liang.

Mei Shao lowered his head and picked the pomegranate in the bowl, but his mind turned.

Li An's idea of ​​returning to the Jiang country was provoked by Yu Liang. He wanted to find a prince who was helpless and completely in charge of himself. However, the current princes of the Jiang country have their own plans, so he set his sights on On Li An's body.

But if Li Xunshu came to him because he found out that Yu Liang was going to guard the Han Jue Pass, and he took the initiative to find Yu Liang, even at the expense of his own interests, and re-established trust with Yu Liang, then Yu Liang would still choose Li An ?

Should he choose Li An, who has been a hostage for many years in another country, and has no roots in Jiang Guo, or choose Li Xunshu, who can ascend to the throne with a little help from himself, and promises that his high position will not change?

Yu Liang was hesitating, that's why Han Jueguan stood still for so long.

But now that Li Xunshu left Han Jueguan, did he already have Yuliang's definite answer, or is he still waiting?

"Let's listen to the Li family if you want to attend. He is not on the list, and he can't interfere with the signing of the mutual market." Mei Shao said suddenly. He wanted to meet the second prince of Jiang Guo in person and see how he would go. to which step.

A trace of surprise flashed in Bai Bingchen's eyes. He pondered for a moment, and said to Meng Ye: "No matter what, Li Xunshu's coming here is definitely not a whim. During this period of time, how long he has stayed in Yanzhou and whoever he meets, he must Check it out."

The author says:

Bai Bai: Good boy, open your mouth to eat pomegranate

Meimei: Ah——

Today's Meng Ye: Cough cough cough cough cough cough! (Can you see there is another me here!