I'm a bully in troubled times

After getting rid of Su Xi, Jiang Yu almost forgot that this group of idlers lived in his house.

Jiang Yu didn't see them, would not summon attendants, and would not take the initiative to stay overnight in someone's yard.These few women are fine with food and clothing in the Suiyang Lord's Mansion, but they can't see the face of the master, but they can also hear some things from the chatter of the people below.

For example, Miss Su came out of Jiang Yu's room with red eyes two days ago, as if she had been wronged.These women usually have nothing to do, so they suddenly moved when they heard the news, and came to inquire about this strange aura, but Jiang Yu had already made everyone agree that he had a small conflict with Su Xi, and Su Xi would cry, it was not a big deal.

For another example, a commoner lived in Suiyang Lord's mansion recently, and he ate and lived with Suiyang Lord. They stayed together every day, read books together, and played the piano together.Because of this person, the carbon consumption in the Suiyang Mansion has doubled several times this year, and braziers are filled from the study to the bedroom.

The woman in the yard was standing under the plum blossom tree, wearing a ponytail, a pink jacket and a butterfly skirt, chatting and laughing with Qi Ranming.Qi Ranming held on to the fox fur, occasionally answering a word.As soon as the wind blew, the snow on the trees fell down, even onto Qi Ranming's hair.

"Ranming." Jiang Yu stepped forward and helped him brush the snow off his head, "Isn't it cold in the yard?"

The woman's eyes brightened when she saw Jiang Yu, and just as she was about to speak, Jiang Yu waved to him: "Go back to your courtyard and stay."

"Yes." The woman bowed her knees and bowed, then backed away.

After watching the woman leave, Qi Ranming smiled, but didn't answer, and asked him instead: "You came back later today than in the past."

"There are some things in the court." Jiang Yu didn't elaborate, and walked into the room with his arms around Qi Ranming's shoulders, "Are you feeling better?"

Qi Ranming has only been here for a few days, how could it be okay?

Qi Ranming smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm wearing thick clothes."

Jiang Yu had made a special trip to ask someone to measure Qi Ranming's body, re-customized clothes, and did not wear Jiang Yu's anymore.

"Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, so don't fall ill again when you celebrate Chinese New Year," Jiang Yu said, "Doctor Wei will also celebrate Chinese New Year. If you fall ill again, no one will see you."

"New Year's Eve?" Qi Ranming was slightly taken aback.

"It's New Year's Eve, why?" Jiang Yu said, "I don't even remember the date?"

"It's not that I don't remember," Qi Ranming smiled with downcast eyes, "It's just that it's been a long time."

"After my mother passed away, there is no need for me to live alone."

Jiang Yu said with a smile: "We are both fallen in the end of the world, you are alone, and I am also one, just to be a companion."

Qi Ranming smiled without answering, entered the room in front, Jiang Yu was behind, and vaguely heard a low "hmm".There were two braziers in the room, which were very warm. As soon as Jiang Yu walked in, he even felt a little hot, so he took off his cloak and put it aside.

"But in previous years, I would spend New Year's Eve with my uncle and aunt."

"Then you go." Qi Ranming said, "I'll wait for you at home."

Not to mention that Qi Ranming is a man, even if he is a woman, even if it is Su Xi, Jiang Yu can't bring him directly to Xun Shu's house to spend New Year's Eve together.This is also impossible.

Hearing the words "family" made Jiang Yu's heart itch, bent over and hugged Qi Ranming from behind, lowered his head and whispered in his ear: "If you don't like those people living at home, I will find a way to get them away."

Those people, of course, refer to the people sent by the queen.

"No need." When Jiang Yu spoke, the hot breath hit Qi Ranming's ears, and it was a little itchy. He tilted his head and said in a low voice, "Since the person sent by the queen, you send him away at will. It will cause the queen's dissatisfaction."

In this time and space, the Spring Festival is still the most important annual festival for the people of the entire Great Zhou Dynasty. It was only after the twelfth lunar month that every household began to prepare things for the New Year.In previous years, the Suiyang Monarch's Mansion was deserted and deserted, and they didn't have much to do. They just hung some lanterns and bought some new clothes for the whole mansion, and it was considered as New Year's Eve.

But two days before the New Year's Eve this year, Jiang Yu suddenly ordered that this year should be a good one, and the servants in the mansion were rushed to buy new year's goods.There were not many servants in the mansion, and it suddenly became a mess. Gongsun Ke presided over the overall situation, and his voice was hoarse.

"Lower! Lower! You're blind, look where the lantern on the left hangs, wait! It's too low! Go higher, stupid!"

"Here, here, come and help me!"

"Who bought this red silk, it will break if you pull it! Hurry up and change it for me!"

"Mr. Gongsun, come here and have a look!"

There was a noise like this in the yard, and it hadn't stopped in the past two days. Jiang Yu heard it funny, and he and Qi Ranming stood in the corridor to watch.The two idlers just didn't help, and they looked at Gongsun Ke and laughed.

Gongsun Ke suddenly felt that the future was gloomy - if it was Su Xi who entered the door, then these things would be presided over by Su Xi.As a result, Su Xi can't get in now, and Qi Ran is obviously not the person who will handle these things, so he has to keep doing it.

The next day, New Year's Eve.

On this day, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty had their annual leave, so of course they did not have to go to court again.Jiang Yu rarely slept for a while, and when he woke up, he saw Qi Ranming plucked a plum blossom, put it in a long-necked vase with a thin mouth, and sat in front of the door, staring at the plum blossom in a daze.

"What are you thinking?" Jiang Yu saw him as soon as he opened the door.

Qi Ranming raised the vase in his hand to him, and said with a smile: "Don't you think this branch of plum blossoms is particularly beautiful?"

Burning red plum blossoms bloomed on the crooked branches one by one, the stars are like blood, and Qi Ranming's knuckles holding the vase are like jade.

"Well, it's very good." Jiang Yu said, stepped forward to take the vase, and put his palm on Qi Ranming's fingers. Qi Ranming let go of his hand, and Jiang Yu hurried to take it with his left hand.When he caught the vase and looked up again, he saw Qi Ranming looking at him with a half-smile.

Jiang Yu was upright and confident, without any guilt or shyness, and entered the room with the vase: "It blooms so well, it should be put in my room."

Qi Ranming said at the door: "Today is New Year's Eve, why don't you go see Miss Su who is ill?"

Jiang Yu almost forgot about this.

Su Xike is still his "sweetheart" now, so he can't leave it alone.

"Are you going with me?" Jiang Yu asked.

"It's not my fiancee, what am I going to do?" Qi Ranming said, "It's such a cold day, you go by yourself."

"That's right," Jiang Yu said, "It's too cold, you'd better stay at home."

A play had to be done in full, Jiang Yudang even brought some supplements, medicinal materials, etc., and went to Su's house in the south of the city, and it was already afternoon when he came back.Jiang Yu didn't stay at home for long, and went to Xun Mansion.

There is no elderly person in Xun Shu's family anymore, and every New Year's Eve is spent at his own home.Xun Shu, Xun Rong's family, and his son Xun Bowen are just a family of three, happy and harmonious, and Jiang Yu always feels redundant when he is in it.But he couldn't say it, and Xun Shu and Xun Rong insisted that he come, so Jiang Yu had no choice but to bite the bullet every year.

Eating New Year's Eve dinner, worshiping ancestors, and watching the new year, the whole process has been done well.

Jiang Yu's maternal grandfather and grandmother's spiritual tablets were all set up in Xunshu's home. In addition, his parents also had spiritual tablets in Xunshu's home.But what is different this year from previous years is that after the worship, Xun Shu did not bring Jiang Yu out directly, but asked Jiang Yu in front of Jiang Yu's parents' coffin, "Yu'er, do you know why your parents are here?" And died?"

This matter was kept secret in the entire Yan Kingdom. Jiang Yu's father, Jiang Xuanzi, was once a first-class virtuous official in the Yan Kingdom, and his reputation in the entire Great Zhou Dynasty was even higher than that of Jiang Yu.Mother Xun Yao is also a well-known beauty and talented woman.How many people were envied by this pair of gods and couples back then.

Jiang Yu remembered a general idea of ​​the original owner's childhood and teenage life before he crossed over, so he knew very well that this couple was definitely not someone who could die in obscurity.However, regarding the situation of the couple's death in the year, the original owner didn't know much about it because he was at his grandmother's house at the beginning, and later because of excessive grief and serious illness, his memory was blurred, so Jiang Yu always had a question, who were they? How did you die?

Inheriting the original owner's body, Jiang Yu tried to find the cause of his parents' death for him, avenging his grievances and revenge.But the process of investigation was not smooth, and there were obstacles all the time, and Xun Shu did not support him to investigate these things.

"Please ask uncle to clarify." Jiang Yu said.

Xun Shu hid it for so long, finally willing to tell him?

"Since you came back from the border this year, I took advantage of the situation to propose reforms." Xun Shu said, "But you may not know that your father was the first to propose reforms in Yan."

Jiang Yu raised his eyebrows slightly, and pulled out some information related to Jiang Xuanzi from his memory, but he didn't mention the reform.

"Your father knows that this matter is very difficult, so naturally he doesn't want you to participate at a young age, so he never told you. It's normal that you don't know."

"My brother-in-law is the person I admire the most in my life." Xun Shudao, "If he is not related to me by marriage, but just a colleague, I will definitely support him. But he is my brother-in-law, and he will definitely hurt me if he does these things. elder sister."

"So I persuaded him."

Jiang Yu didn't know that there was such a relationship. Since he didn't want Jiang Xuanzi to reform back then, why did he want to reform so radically now?

"In the end, I was the one who was persuaded." Xun Shu was not young anymore, in his forties. In this era, people's life expectancy is not long, and sixty is considered a long life.However, Xun Shu may have too many backlogs in his heart, and he has devoted himself to the country of Yan these years. Under the lights of thousands of families on New Year's Eve, in the cold and lonely ancestral hall, Xun Shu looks older than his actual age.

It was also at this moment that Jiang Yu suddenly realized that Xun Shu had aged a lot in just a few months.

Qing Qu's thin cheeks, sunken cheeks, dark complexion, tight muscles, but a pair of eyes staring at Jiang Xuanzi's tablet.

"My sister and brother-in-law came together to persuade me, saying that these things must be done by someone. If it can make the country of Yan even a little bit better than before, they will die for it, and they are willing."

Jiang Yu asked in a low voice: "So they died for this?"

Xun Shu pursed his lips: "Yes, and no."

"Your father's reforms are very strong, which quickly aroused the reaction of Dong's faction. They mobilized all officials to impeach him. The monarch actually supports your father."

"It's just that there are too many vested interests touched by the reform. Your father alone cannot resist their attacks."

"I remember it was also a winter." Xun Shu narrowed his eyes slightly. It was more than ten years ago, and even Jiang Yu was 26 years old. Your father rebelled."

"If you talk about evidence, there is no conclusive evidence." Xun Shu didn't know whether he was laughing at himself or others, and slightly curved his lips, "But it can't stop people's words from being scary."

"The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty tried their best to execute your father as a warning to others."