Lady of Fortune, Jiao Niang

"It's really unnecessary for him to ask you this way, just send it directly." Chu Chengyun read the letter again, "And the map seeds I got this time, I will send them together."

Chu Chengyun acknowledged the letter so simply, which surprised Ye Pingrong.

Even though Ye Pingrong was a military commander and was not well versed in human relationships and sophistication, he had been with Chu Chengyun for so long, and he often heard him say "the officials do not compete with the people for profit."

Now that his master has become the emperor, Qi Yun is a flat-headed common man, isn't what Chu Chengyun is doing now is fighting for profit with the people?

But Ye Pingrong still understood what to say and what not to say. He immediately clasped his fists and said, "My brother-in-law apologizes to your majesty."

As soon as he said this, a smile appeared on Chu Chengyun's face, and his brow was a little helpless.

He likes Ye Pingrong. This man has no foundation and is not far from the officials in the DPRK. He has a straightforward temperament. This kind of courtier is the most appropriate.

Pure officials are often the favorite of every king.

But Ye Pingrong was also too straightforward, and sometimes Chu Chengyun couldn't understand Chu Chengyun's words.

But before Ye Pingrong figured out what Chu Chengyun meant, he listened to him: "Well, Pingrong, get up, I don’t mean to blame Erlang, but I want to reward him. As long as one of these grain seeds grows, then It’s a good thing for the country and the people."

Ye Pingrong just got up, and when he heard the words, he said, "Your Majesty Xie, the brother-in-law of the minister..."

"Okay, okay, you don't want to be my brother-in-law, too. After a while, after another year, you will be my brother-in-law."

Ye Pingrong blushed when he said this.

Chu Chengyun didn't tease him so much, and waved his hand to make him retreat, while Chu Chengyun himself let someone take the pile of characters and leave the hall.

When Chu Chengyun arrived in Meng's palace, Meng was playing with the vase.

Chu Chengyun couldn't help asking, "What kind of flower is this? It doesn't look like a rare variety."

"This is called auspicious flower. Although it is not as beautiful as the peony rose, it has a fragrant fragrance." Seeing him, Meng smiled and took the scissors and went to wash his hands. Then he hurried over to meet Chu Chengyun. "Your Majesty didn't let anyone pass it through?"

Chu Chengyun grabbed Meng's hand and waved back a bunch of er palace people behind him before entering the door with a smile: "Why don't you do so much between you and me. Also, as I said before, it’s just to be fair in private, don’t call it a student."

Hearing this, Meng cried softly "Miangong", which made Chu Chengyun smile.

In fact, Meng's heart didn't know that since ancient times, things of decay and love are everywhere. It is also common for a new generation in this palace to change the old. Just before getting married, Meng's mother told her that regardless of Chu Chengyun Whether the future is an emperor or a prince, it is always a descendant of the royal family, and the rules must not be forgotten.

But now Meng clan still calls her mate, because Chu Chengyun still calls himself "me" in front of her.

If there is a day when the time is shifted to the world and the root of emotion is no longer, it will not be too late to talk about rules by then.

Chu Chengyun didn't know that his queen thought so much in an instant. He took off his cloak and let it be hung up, and then happily pulled Meng to sit down at the table, put the copybook on the table and said: "Take a look, Saburo's handwriting is getting better and better."

Meng took a picture and unfolded it. After looking at it for a while, he smiled and said, "Yes, Qi Jia Saburo has a lot of diligent writing skills, and he has also practiced diligently."

Chu Chengyun nodded, quite relieved: "If you write this word well, you will benefit infinitely. I think it was also his brother Qi Erlang's supervision. When I look back, I also want to encourage Erlang to keep a good eye on Qi Saburo's studies. An insightful child who will be cultivated well in the future will surely be no weaker than his brother's national pillar."

For Qi Ming, Meng often heard Chu Chengyun mention it.

Chu Chengyun was often accompanied by Qi Jia Saburo on the imperial examination, saying he was on the same path, but in reality, Chu Chengyun watched him come through.

Qi Ming got a small three yuan, Chu Chengyun was happy in the palace for a long time, and Meng Shi could understand this mood.

It's like raising a flower carefully. When it is in full bloom, there is always a sense of relief.

It's just that Meng clan can hear that Chu Chengyun is not only optimistic about Qi Ming, but also particularly likes Qi Yun, otherwise he would not consider Qi Jiaerlang before returning to Beijing.

Pours a cup of tea for Chu Chengyun, and Meng smiles: "Since the Xiang Gong is optimistic about Qi Jia Erlang, why not recruit him as an official? Even though the imperial examination is hard and Erlang cannot survive, he can still get him through recommendation or donation. An official position can also serve the country."

Chu Chengyun held Meng's hand and shook his head: "Hui Niang doesn't know, that Qi Jia Erlang is thin. Although I have only seen him a few times, I always see him with pale face and weak body. Regardless of whether it is a scientific examination or an official donation, as long as you can't get the first grade Jinshi, you can't be retained as a Beijing official, but you must be released. Erlang is afraid that he can't bear it."

Meng looked at him with a smile: "Meng Gong is kind."

Chu Chengyun looked at Saburo's words on the table again, and whispered softly: "Business is also good, if it is done well, it is also a good thing. As for this matter of slaughtering officials, one in the family will do."

This remark involved the previous political affairs, Meng did not take it, but in his heart he knew that Chu Chengyun had his own charter.

Neither the Qi family nor the Ye family had a foundation, and they were born out of grass-roots, this kind of thing can be relied on more heavily and is worthy of trust.

Meng Shi turned to ask: "Listen to Xianggong, is this to make Qi Erlang the emperor merchant?"

“It’s not the time yet. Wait and see. This time I’m just showing off about the Lu family's affairs. He will know how to advance and retreat, know how to score, and do a good job. Whether this royal merchant can finally get the title It depends on his ability."

Meng smiled: "Qi Yun is really blessed."

When Chu Chengyun heard this, he couldn't help but say: "He is naturally not bad fortune, at least, his lady is not bad."

Meng knew in his heart that Chu Chengyun was still remembering the incident during the Chinese New Year, so he took his arm and said in a gentle voice: "Before the thousand carp pond was empty, I will ask someone to wait for the next spring to put some in to raise. At that time, Qianli Pond will be lively again."

Chu Chengyun nodded solemnly, patted Meng's hand, and saw that there were no other people besides the personal palace people around him. Then he leaned in and asked: "The Chinese New Year is the most exciting time in the capital. , Hui Niang, why don't we pretend to go out to watch the lanterns?"

This is not compliant.

The words whirled around her mouth, and Meng Shi saw the look in Chu Chengyun's expectant eyes. She immediately bent the corners of her mouth and said softly: "Okay."

When Ye Pingrong's reply was sent to the Qi family, the Qi family's family was also preparing for the New Year.

Qi Yun had a lot more shops, and the caravan also had to issue cash rewards. At the end of the year, the money was given to them as a separate account, and it took several days to clean up.

But Ye Pingrong's reply Qi Yun didn't open until the evening.

Ye Jiao sat next to Qi Yun, and when Qi Yun opened the envelope, she leaned over and asked, "Is there a letter from Big Brother?"

Qi Yun took out two copies from the envelope, and gave the thick one to Ye Jiao without seeing it.

Ye Pingrong has always said a lot about his little sister, seven or eight pages are few, and Qi Yun is mostly official, one page is too much.

However, this time Ye Pingrong mentioned that after Chu Chengyun had agreed to split the money, he also mentioned that a lot of lots in the capital city had been vacated recently.

Qi Yun stared at these words and read more, and then said softly: "This may be a good opportunity."

Ye Jiaozheng read with relish what Ye Pingrong had written about getting along with Hua Ning. He leaned forward and fell on Qi Yun's shoulder. He raised his head and asked him, "What opportunity?"

"It should be the last time the officials were purged. Even the property with these people was swept away. Many shops were free." Qi Yun's voice paused, as if sitting and calculating in his heart, then he said casually, "Maybe I You can try to do business in the capital."

Going to the capital to open a shop has always been what Qi Yun wanted to do, but he had been preparing for it, but did not start to implement it.

After all, Gyeonggi is different from ordinary cities and towns. The forces in it are intertwined. The officials of grades four and five run all over the place, and a little carelessness can easily lead to trouble.

But now that Ye Pingrong has a firm foothold, Qi Yun has also found a big backing that can't be bigger, but he can try to open a shop in the capital.

Ye Jiao didn't know much about these, but she had always trusted Qi Yun, and she felt Ye Jiao supported with both hands for anything Qi Erlang did.

Qi Yun was also a decisive person. After reading it, he burned the letter paper, and then went to play with Xu Bao without saying a word. When Xu Bao was a little tired, Qi Yun put him in a wooden small Immediately, let Xu Bao play by himself while Qi Yun walked back to the table.

There is no need to discuss with anyone, Qi Yun has his own plan, and when Ye Jiao finished reading Ye Pingrong's letter, he made up his mind: "The time is right now, I should try."

Ye Jiao blinked: "How much money is probably used?"

"About three thousand Kan."

Seeing that Qi Yun had made up his mind, Ye Jiao got up and went to the inner room, took out the box with the money from the crypt under the bed, took out a stack of silver tickets, counted them, and then handed them to him.

Qi Yun took it and said with a smile: "Jiao Niang, this is more than three thousand."

Originally, I just asked casually. Who knows that the little ginseng replied in a serious manner: "Here is the profit from the caravan, which needs to be distributed to the emperor, and some are the costs for opening a shop."

Qi Yun was taken aback, then looked down at the bank note in his hand.

Add up to eight thousand five hundred and ninety-three, which is exactly as recorded in his accounts.

This made Qi Erlang looked at Ye Jiao with some surprise: "Jiao Niang, how do you remember so clearly?"

Ye Jiao was putting the box back. Hearing the words, he closed the secret compartment and replied, "Miangong, you let me take care of the money. Then I naturally have to remember carefully to help you. The control you taught me before I remember everything about the accounts, and I also wrote down the accounts if you showed me."

These expenses were a lot, and Ye Jiao's box was half empty again because of the silver money used to buy mountains and land.

However, the little ginseng doesn't feel distressed, and he can earn it back as much as he spends.

However, because Qi Yun's business is now getting bigger and bigger and he has more and more accounts, Xiao Ginseng has to look back every day to remember it by heart.

Qi Yun stood there, looking at Ye Jiao, without speaking for a long time.

In fact, after several years of getting along, Qi Yun also knows the temper of his wife. She looks like a lively and playful, but in fact, what Jiao Niang likes most is eating and sleeping. The temper is carved out of the same model as Xu Bao. Some things, as long as It's not a matter of importance, Ye Jiao has always been too lazy to bother to learn.

She can bear her temper to learn to read, in order to see the pharmacopoeia of medical classics, and then to protect Qi Yun.

She could insist on planting those medicinal flowers for the sake of Qi Yun's good, and he knew all of this clearly.

But what Qi Yun didn't expect was that Ye Jiao could even memorize the accounts at home.

Qi Erlang is an unforgettable person. Those account books can be remembered without much effort, but his wife doesn't have this ability, I am afraid that she has worked hard.

As for the reason, Ye Jiao made it clear just now that she wanted to help Qi Yun, and that was when Qi Yun coaxed her to spend the family's money on Ye Jiao, even if Ye Jiao never managed the accounts carefully, Qi Yun can still remember clearly.

But just to help him with that sentence, my wife really bothered to these complicated and boring things...

Ye Jiao re-layed the bedding to block the bed board, only then realized that Qi Yun had not spoken.

She turned her head inexplicably, but Qi Yun hugged her from behind before she saw someone.

Ye Jiao was half kneeling on the bed. He immediately lost his balance by such a hug, and the two of them rolled into a ball on the bed.

The little ginseng exclaimed and looked down at the man's hand firmly on his lower abdomen. He couldn't help but patted the back of his hand: "Sang Gong, what are you doing?"

The man put his chin on her neck, with a smile in his voice: "I wanted to say thank you."

"Then you just say it, what if you just hurt yourself by a fall?"

"No, the last time the lady said it was hard, I asked people to add a lot of cotton wool on the mattress, so I wouldn't bump into it naturally."

Upon hearing this, Ye Jiao thought of her back being reddened when she was studying the book last time.

It was supposed to be a shy thing, but the little ginseng couldn't help but stretched out his hand and pressed the mattress, nodded: "It's a lot thicker, it's so good to be male."

Qi Yun guessed that Ye Jiao would say that, but he couldn't stop smiling when he heard it, and kissed her face again.

Xu Bao, who was riding a pony on the ground, heard the movement and turned to look. He saw his father and mother piled together, not knowing what to do.

Xu Bao immediately got down from his childhood, ran over with a smile, and bounced around the bed, yelling: "Xu Bao also wants to play, Xu Bao also wants to play!"

Ye Jiao immediately pushed Qi Yun away, leaned out and hugged Xu Bao, but his eyes were looking at Qi Yun.

Qi Yun was regretting in his heart that he should take his fat son out. When he met Ye Jiao's eyes, Qi Yun was stunned, and then nodded with conscience.

Suddenly Xu Bao clapped his hands with a smile, preparing to play games with his parents.

And Qi Yun and Ye Jiao really put him on the bed and took a cloth tiger to tease him until Xu Bao was tired from playing, and when he lay down and fell asleep, Qi Yun gave Xiao Su and came in to hold him. Xu Bao went to the next room.

Xu Bao grumbled in his mouth when he was lying in the crib and holding the cloth tiger.

Normally, he always hugged Ye Jiao to sleep, but today he changed cloth tiger, the little guy can naturally feel the difference.

Today's mother is hard, and it doesn't smell anymore.

He woke up twice in the middle, both when Qi Yun gave him urine, but Xu Bao still did not speak aggrieved.

I miss my mother, my dad doesn’t fragrant...

But when Xu Bao woke up the next day, he was in Ye Jiao's arms, except that the surroundings were no longer familiar rooms, but in the carriages of the carriage.

Xu Bao rubbed his eyes and looked left and right. First he saw Ye Jiao who was holding him. Xu Bao happily yelled "Mother", and then he saw another little girl who was staring at him. Chubby.

Xu Bao is a lively person, even when he wakes up, he can immediately raise a big smile: "Brother Huzi."

Dong's face holding Huzi smiled: "Xu Bao is so smart, I still remember Huzi."

Ye Jiao touched Xubao’s little face, fed him water, and then fed the rice paste with egg yolk and fish meat. Then he said, “Let them play together. How can you get one from here to the mountain? By the hour, these two children are also relieved of boredom in one place."

Dong Shi put Huzi on the cushion, and after Xu Bao also sat on the cushion, Huzi immediately went over and lay on Xu Bao, shouting "brother", soft and soft, it sounded extremely close.

Xu Bao was giggling, pulling Huzi, and he was familiar with taking out his favorite cloth ball from the cabinet of the carriage and playing with Huzi.

The two children are doing well, and Dong is also happy.

It was not easy for her to give birth to tigers. The tigers were born prematurely and were weak. They became the current chubby appearance only because of their uneasy body. She was introverted since she was a child and didn't like to move.

But Xu Bao is a little sun-like child, lively and very enthusiastic. The two children have gotten along since they were young.

And stepping back, Xu Bao is the young master of the club, and it is a good thing for the Dong family that Hu Zi can play with him.

It's just that Dong's heart can't help being curious.

Today, when Ye Jiao asked her early this morning, he said that he was going to see the garden on the mountain. Dong also heard that the owner had added a new garden. It was on the mountain. The place was so huge that no one else had been. This time Ye Jiao As soon as he said to invite her, Dong agreed, but didn't know what to do.

Xiaosu sat beside the soft cushion and stretched out her hands to protect her.

When Dong Clan was free, his eyes turned to Ye Jiao: "What can I do for you to go up the mountain this time?"

Ye Jiao smiled and nodded: "I think it's almost New Year. After the New Year, the weather will get warmer and some medicinal materials can be planted, so I thought Chunlan would help me find out where on the mountain is suitable for planting them."

Although Xiao Ginseng was a medicinal material in the past, she also knows many varieties that are not recorded in the common pharmacopoeia, but when it comes to planting medicinal materials, she is still happy to listen to Dong's suggestions. Two people together are better than one. People are boring.

Dong's family will naturally not refuse. Whether it is out of respect for the owner or the friendship between the two people, Dong's family is willing to follow this trip.

But at this moment, the carriage that was moving smoothly stopped suddenly.

Ye Jiao lifted the curtain and asked, "What's the matter?"

The driver who drove the car outside turned around and said, "Second young lady, the lead seems to be causing trouble. It's blocked for half of the road, do you have to wait?"

Ye Jiao didn't speak, she just lifted the curtain and looked over, but she didn't recognize the people on either side.

Dong's family also leaned over, and just glanced at it and said: "Jiao Niang, go around, there are Wu family and Qian family, things that get on them are a mess, it's better to avoid them early."

"Okay, go around." After speaking, when the carriage started to move again, Ye Jiao looked at Dong, "What happened to the Wu family?"

When Dong listened to her question, he immediately became energetic.

She has a lively and outgoing temper, and has made many back-house women, and the women get together in addition to games and tea, and they are most willing to talk about their own affairs.

Whoever has married a concubine, whose shop is down, there are new things every day, but there are real or false, big and small, just pick and listen.

And the thing that can show Dong's expression like this was when the Lin family had an accident last time.

In the mind of sharing something new with Ye Jiao, Dong clan approached Ye Jiao and whispered to her: "You have been very busy recently, so I haven't heard of it. Actually, it's spread all over the city. It is said that after Lu Qi girl was carried into Wu's house and became a concubine, Wu Dalang's lady who always cried and cried, Qian did not know what crime she had suffered. She suffered a serious illness and lost half of her life. Qian's family was having trouble with Wu's family. It's not over yet."