No, gentlemen also guard against

Chapter 270

"Whoever realizes the big dream first, I know it all my life, Meiwuxia dozes, and the sun is getting late outside the window... Interesting."

By the window sill of the study, the little girl with plum blossom makeup leaning into the room with her upper body nodded, her pretty face was thoughtful.

"Wang'er, come back quickly. Nephew Lianghan's study is not allowed to enter randomly. It will be bad if he sees it when he comes back. We are guests, so we must not break the door etiquette."

Behind Li Zou'er, Li Xian's serious voice came.

"I didn't enter the house. He opened the window by himself. It's reasonable to pass by and have a look."

Li Wrap'er's upper body was almost completely tilted and leaned into the window, looking at a handwritten calligraphy on Ouyang Rong's desk, under the veil, her pink lips parted slightly, and said so.

At this moment, feeling the sights from behind her, the little girl with plum blossom makeup turned around and jumped down lightly, lowering her black eyebrows, muttering in a low voice:

"Okay. My father and mother have been talking about Ouyang Lianghan recently. They are closer than their own sons. My daughter and brother have become outsiders."

"Sister, Lianghan has been ignoring us all the time, maybe because he was rude when we got along with each other in the past, and I also think what Father said is right, let's wait outside, don't be rude."

Li Dalang interjected sadly.

Li Baoer: "..."

Okay, okay, you too, right?

The little girl who had already experienced the feeling of being an "outsider" before she got married said unhappily:

"What if he did it on purpose? Now I don't know where to take Xie's sister to have fun outside, and hang us on purpose.

"Hmph, it's not that difficult to ask for Sangu thatched cottage. There is no shade in the yard. The sun is so hot. What should I do if I get heatstroke? Just wait."

With a straight face, Li Zou turned and left the Meilin Courtyard.

Seeing this, everyone in the courtyard hesitated to speak, showing embarrassment.

But after a while, I saw the figure of the little girl in the veil reappearing at the gate of the courtyard.

Li Bao'er returned with her maid's colorful ribbon and a parasol in each hand.

She stepped forward and angrily handed an umbrella to Li Dalang who was beside Li Xian. She silently held up a parasol and stood beside Wei Mei to shade her together.

Li Xian turned his head and smiled gratifiedly, Li Zou'er turned his face away and didn't look at them.

In the scorching midsummer, Meilin Courtyard.

Under the sun at noon, the family of four who left home stood in the courtyard, sweating from their temples, silently waiting for someone.

In front of the four of them, there is a food box each. The food box is sealed, and there is a faint ice mist coming out of it, which seems to be a delicious cool food to relieve the heat.

However, the four of them who were waiting sweaty from home did not move at all.

Instead, they carefully guarded them, sending people to the cellar to fetch new ice from time to time.

Seeing this, all the maids and servants of Meilu Garden around me wanted to come forward to serve and help, but they were all refused.

At a certain moment, Li Xian wiped the sweat from his brow with his sleeve, looked up at the venomous sun, and couldn't help sighing:

"Hey, nephew Liang Han was busy with business a few days ago, which is normal, but why is he not at home today on his holiday? Could it be that the county government has something urgent?"

This middle-aged scribe who is "well-known as a rich man" is frowning.

For ten consecutive days, Li Xian graciously invited Ouyang Rong to Li Mansion for dinner every day, and later, he and his wife Wei Mei even came over in person every day, sometimes even waiting for half a day.

It's a pity that every time a young county magistrate declined with excuses.

Obviously Meilu Garden has no servants to take care of it right now, and Ouyang Rong's daily necessities are all taken care of by himself.

But he just didn't go to Li Mansion next door, which was well-clothed, well-fed, and hospitable.

The Meilin alley that connects the Meilin Courtyard with the shortcut to the Lifu Houzhai has been trampled clean by the people from the Lifu these days, and it is no longer barren.

It's a pity that the falling flowers are intentional, but the flowing water seems to be ruthless.

Ouyang Rong is polite and polite every time, but he just refuses to leave the mansion.

Li Xian these days, the white hair on the forehead is a little more visible to the naked eye.

Today, they found out that it was the county government's holiday.

I also heard from Mrs. Xie that Ouyang Rong should rest at home, and Mrs. Xie went to look for him in the morning.

But just after early morning, in the morning of Chuyang, Lixian, Li Dalang, Li Bao'er, and Wei Mei each prepared a delicious food for relieving summer heat, and hurried over.

Ouyang Rong and Xie Lingjiang were both gone and disappeared.

In fact, what Li Baoer said is true, it is not so difficult to ask for three visits to the thatched cottage...

What's more, no matter how bad they are, they are also from the royal family of the Li clan.

Although degraded and relegated, the identity of Taizong's heir is also a golden signboard in this era when the imperial examination has just started and still pays great attention to family blood.

There is a saying that Emperor Taizong really made a long-term plan to make a hero. What Ouyang Lianghan said, he also relied on the imperial examination to become an official.

In terms of the blessings that people in the past paid attention to, the gentleman's fortune was cut off for the fifth generation, and it has not passed the fifth generation. Including Ouyang Lianghan, who was born in the Nanlong Ouyang family and other poor families in the world, they have also inherited Taizong's shade.

According to the requirements of the world, the heirs of Taizong had to be treated with some politeness and respect.

Probably this is also the reason why Li Bao'er, who has always been proud and lofty, was a little uncomfortable waiting in the yard under the poisonous sun just now.

However, Li Xian, Li Dalang, and Wei Mei who were with her were not unhappy at all.

On the contrary, I still reflect on myself, whether there is something wrong with it, wait cautiously, and wait humbly.

"Qilang, don't worry, it may be that Lianghan's nephew has something unexpected to deal with."

Wei Mei patted the back of her husband's hand with a sincere and frightened expression, and said comfortingly:

"After so many years of suffering, I have survived, and this time is not bad. I always feel that Liang Han and my nephew are people who are particular about things and have clear reasoning. There are reasons for many things."

Li Bao'er pursed her lower lip when she heard the words, lowered her eyes and quietly reflected on whether she had offended Ouyang Lianghan before.

Does it count if you often bicker with his little junior sister?But sister Xie doesn't seem like a snitch...

"Father, mother, my son is going out to look for Lianghan."

Li Dalang suddenly spoke, stood up and said:

"You rest here, sister take good care of father and mother, be careful of heatstroke."

The big man who left home handed the umbrella to the servant girl, picked up a food box, turned and left the Meilin Courtyard.

Li Wrap'er raised his heel to follow, but he politely refused.

Everyone in the courtyard couldn't help watching him go away.

Carrying the food box, Li Dalang went to the Longcheng County Government Office immediately, but when he found no one there, he looked around, turned and walked towards the outskirts of the city.

Along the way, Li Dalang found to his surprise that things in the county had become a little different.

Compared with the county town where the Liu family still exists before Zheyiqu canal, Longcheng County at this moment is full of vitality.

Many closed shops have reopened, and abandoned buildings affected by the flood are being rebuilt.

Jianpu, fertile fields, houses, and the properties of the Liu family on the West Bank were all taken over by the county government, or auctioned off, or returned to the people who were plundered by force.

The Liu family, who had always been the largest landlord in Longcheng, took back all the thousand acres of fertile land owned by the county government.

Along the way from Dalang, I saw many county government clerks registering fields from house to house at the end of the street and making new books.

Having lost the leading big landlord, the Liu family, the other gentry were well-behaved and honest, obediently cooperating with the county government's census of land equalization law.

The county government, which has regained its reserves of fertile land, seems to be adopting the law of equalizing land and allocating land to new households.

If this kind of "reform" was placed in the past, the obstacles and backlash would be enough to make a county magistrate easily step down.

But right now, in front of the young county magistrate who has the prestige of the willow willow and the hearts of the whole city, it is easy but not easy to tear down and rebuild like a chicken and a dog.

The people on the street talked about it with gusto.

All is prosperous.

Coming outside the city, Li Dalang saw that the 24 relief camps had been completely dismantled.

That's right, the people in the whole city no longer have to worry about flooding. A canal with broken wings has completely changed the internal worries of Longcheng County for a thousand years and made up for its shortcomings.

This is simply incalculable for the change in the county's status in Jiangzhou's boundary.

The change that is most visible to the naked eye is that there are many more strangers inside and outside the county.

They are all merchants and tourists from other places.

The original Butterfly Creek and a Penglang Ferry could not carry such a large passenger flow.

If Li Dalang guessed correctly, they should all have flooded into the county from the new ferry of Zheyi Canal outside the city.

Butterfly Creek was originally located between Yunmeng Daze and the Yangtze River, and it was the only passage, but it was winding and difficult to pass.

And the current Zhanyi Canal is not only a water conservancy construction to cure floods.

Still invisible, it has become a shortcut for water transportation.

Part of the passenger flow of the huge Yangtze River was intercepted.

For a small and remote county with poor mountains and bad waters, the commercial and trade dividends it brings are immeasurable.

The word prosperity is appearing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

And right now, the new canal has been completed, but the two ends of the new canal, the new ferry that contains huge business opportunities, have not yet been fully built.

More than a dozen big grain merchants, including Longcheng County Government and Wang Caozhi, are impatiently pouring a lot of money into it to start construction.

It is estimated that Wang Caozhi and other grain merchants who invested in the stock had never imagined that the broken-wing canal that Ouyang Rong urged to build would have such a good effect after it was completed and put into operation.

Not exaggerating, or even lowering it.

No, what you said is all true, isn't it drawing cakes?
The establishment of the new ferry created a large demand for workers and stone materials, which stimulated the economy of the nearest Longcheng County.

Li Dalang even saw a lot of young and strong people from the surrounding counties rushing to make a living.

Inside and outside the county seat, it was full of enthusiasm.

This is the most intuitive feeling when going out of the city all the way.

"Greatness in the present age, benefit in the future...Liang Han is also a true national scholar." Li Dalang muttered.

Looking at the canal with broken wings in the distance, he seemed to be infected, and he couldn't help but feel refreshed.

This Broken Wing Canal is like a scheming with minimal side effects, and it will definitely bring new prosperity to Longcheng County.

Li Dalang thought from the bottom of his heart that Lianghan's achievements in water control cannot be overstated.

Only by seeing it with your own eyes can you know what it means to change the world.

And these vibrant grassroots scenes can only be seen and seen when they walk out of the prosperous and quiet Luming Street.

Li Dalang, who hadn't gone out for a long time, sighed:
"It turns out that Lianghan has been going out early and returning late recently because he is busy with these important things. Perhaps, in Lianghan's eyes, these current things are more meaningful than the rise and fall of our family and the family's private plans. No wonder we postponed it. "

With the food box in his hand, he made a guess, with a happy and sad expression on his face.

But for some reason, such speculation and explanation would obviously make people feel slighted and ignored, but Li Dalang felt happy for no reason.

Li Dalang looked around, and suddenly wanted to see Lianghan more and more.

Where will he go on a holiday?
Li Dalang looked pensive, on the way, unfamiliar with him, he honestly asked pedestrians for directions, and after half an hour, he took the lead in arriving at the residence of Liu Ashan's family in the outskirts of the city.

Walking into a simple house, Li Dalang saw the slender and pitiful Ah Qing, and Liu Mu who was lying in a coma.

In addition, he also saw a strange young woman, dressed in filial piety, taking good care of the old woman at the bedside, who seemed to be the widow of Ah Shan.

Li Dalang stepped forward and greeted him with relief.

Ah Qing hurriedly entertained him, but here, Li Dalang did not see Ouyang Rong as he was guessing.

"Brother Lianghan is not here?" He asked.

"Master hasn't been here." She bowed her head and answered.

Li Dalang noticed that there was a complicated look in this young lady's delicate eyes.

Li Dalang was about to say goodbye and leave, but just as he walked to the door, his face froze for a moment, and he saw Yan Liulang and others dressed in casual clothes.

The latter was leading a group of men with their heads buried in their heads, carrying or carrying herbs, rice bags, furniture and other things into the hospital. Behind them was an elderly doctor with a serious expression, carrying a small medicine box on his back.

After Yan Liulang approached, he realized Li Dalang's figure, raised his head and asked curiously:
"Why is Da Lang here? Is he here to visit Ah Qing?"

Li Dalang nodded, and couldn't help asking: "Does Liu Lang know where Brother Lianghan is?"

Yan Liulang was silent for a while, and glanced at Aqing's house behind Li Dalang.

"Dalang wait a moment, I'll settle here and take you there."

Li Dalang nodded and waited patiently. During the period, he looked back curiously.

In the house, the blue-clothed headhunter and his party put down the various daily necessities sent by Ah Qing anxiously waving his hands and rejecting them.

They went to visit Mother Liu on the sickbed again, introduced the doctor who had brought her behind her, and immediately said a few words to Ah Qing, who bowed her head and wiped her tears, before leaving slowly, leaving two guards to take care of her before leaving.

"Let's go, no accidents, the Ming Mansion should be there."

Yan Liulang passed by Li Dalang and walked ahead to lead the way.

"Where?" Li Dalang glanced back in the direction of Xinqu, curious: "Isn't it on Zheyiqu's side, there is no him here, and I am planning to go there to find him."

Yan Liulang shook his head and led the way silently.

When Li Dalang found out that he was heading towards the county seat, his expression became more and more curious. He first asked:

"How's Ah Qing's family doing now, what's going on with Mother Liu?"

Yan Liulang sighed and said:

"On July [-]th, I was stimulated and fainted. During this period, I also woke up from time to time, but when I woke up, I was in a daze, talking nonsense, and even thought Brother Ah Shan was still there, saying that I wanted to see him...

"After the doctor's examination, he said that he was fine, but he warned us not to tell the old woman about Ah Shan. It might cause a fire in the heart and lungs, and it would be bad for the elderly...so everyone, including Miss Ah Qing, dared not say anything. , didn’t even mention the funeral.”

Li Dalang hesitated to speak: "Listen to Miss Aqing, why doesn't Lianghan come to visit?"

Yan Liulang said in a low voice: "On the fifteenth day, before Ming Fu went to rescue Brother Ah Shan, he swore in front of Mother Liu and Ah Qing that he would not bring Ah Shan back, and would have no face to see them...

"During this time, the Ming Mansion has been telling us every day to come and take care of us. He is obviously busy with official duties, but he always intervenes every day and never comes by himself.

"Other county government affairs, the Ming government is decisive, but the Ashan family's affairs, he paces and wanders in the courtroom, giving orders...

"Let's go, take a rest today and don't need to be on duty. It's hard for Ming Mansion to rest for a day, so I should have gone there again."

Li Dalang was immediately quiet.

After a while, following Yan Liulang all the way, he suddenly discovered that he had crossed the river and came to the Guyue Sword Shop on the west bank of Butterfly Creek.

Coming to a simple high platform, Li Dalang saw Miss Xie standing gracefully with her sword in the shade under the high platform.

Seeing Li Dalang and Yan Liulang coming, Xie Lingjiang didn't speak, but simply glanced at the food box in the former's hand, and she calmly turned her head to look back.

Li Dalang followed her and looked up.

Finally, on the quaint high platform above, I saw a familiar slender figure from the back.

Under the sun, Ouyang Rong sat on the ground casually, surrounded by seven or eight dark-skinned old craftsmen, sitting with him, smoking dry tobacco, and talking from time to time.

The young county magistrate tilted his head, as if he was listening to something, and the river wind blew his black temples one after another.

　I fell asleep this time, and slept on the sofa for eleven hours... By the way, there are more!But brothers sleep first, wake up and watch!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)