Wanqingsi

Chapter 114 Return to Beijing
Sea passengers take advantage of the wind and sail the ship far away.

Like a bird in the cloud, it disappears without a trace.

Looking at the scenery on both sides of the Cangjiang River, I couldn't help but think of Li Bai's "Businessman's Music" in my mind, and I felt a little uneasy.The Cangjiang River is the mother river of Tianzhao Kingdom, running from north to south, and feeding the people of this land together with the Huanghe River running from east to west.At this moment, there is a large three-deck boat going up the Cangjiang River, which is the Yun family boat that took me and Yun Zheng back to Miansheng in Beijing.Three days ago, we received an imperial decree from the emperor, in addition to giving us a wedding gift, he also conferred on me the title of Mrs. Yipin Ronghua, and finally asked us to go to Beijing to meet Sheng Xie'en.

Going to Beijing for a noodle?Even though my boss is reluctant, the emperor's order is hard to disobey.When he first received the imperial decree, the old man frowned and called Yun Zheng into the study, and the two of them muttered for a long time before coming out.When he came out, Yunzheng's face was calm and calm, so don't worry, I'm not really worried about myself, but a little worried about him. Although the emperor's decree bestows gifts on him, this move is obviously like It was at the beginning that the Qing Dynasty kept Wu Sangui's son Wu Yingxiong in Beijing as a hostage, in order to coerce Wu Sangui into acting rashly.Could it be that the Yun family, which the emperor has always been jealous of, has already started playing chess?Take Yunzheng to Beijing, and just find any reason to keep him in order to blackmail Marquis Yongle?

Although Yun Zheng was very calm, I could feel the oppressive atmosphere that was about to come.It's just that we are all mature people, and we all know how to resolve these unpleasant things as much as possible and bring a good mood to each other.Yun Zheng's health is not good. Every month, a full-time doctor will give him a routine examination. After that, he will have to recuperate for two days. During these two days, he is very weak. He usually rests in bed and needs to use a wheelchair when traveling.These were the days after I married him, so I asked my servants to ask me.

On the day of the church visit, Mrs. Yun did not show up. I asked Yun Zheng afterwards, is it really necessary to ground Mrs. Yun for the rest of her life, not even allowing her to attend her son's wedding.Yun Zheng stroked my long hair, with a helpless face on his face: "It's not that I want to lock her up, now that she is like that, I can't do without locking up." I didn't understand what it meant at first, but then I went to see Mrs. Yun once , Only then did I understand what was going on, she was crazy.Ever since she lost her appearance and went crazy in front of us that day, she didn't know anyone, she didn't know Yun Zheng, she didn't know Yun Chongshan, and she didn't know the girl who served her personally. No matter who approached her, she shrank into the corner and screamed, I kept saying "Monster! Kill you! Go to hell!" The Yun family kept secret about Madam Yun's madness, and I had no way of finding out what kind of demons she had.

Yun Zheng is very kind to me. This man who suffers from illness all day long has a flat nature and never insists on anything.Although he said that he didn't force me to take over the affairs of the Yun family, I couldn't bear to let him who was suffering from illness be so tired, and I knew that I was not a person who could sit still, so I really didn't want to do anything. Definitely can't stand it for a long time.I tried to get in touch with the Yun family's business. The old man asked me to start with the management of accounts. I started a drastic reform in the Yun family. I changed the accounting method that they have used for hundreds of years into the modern table accounting method. , After going through the account books of the Yun family, I finally understand why the Yun family is so rich.

I remember that Cao Xueqin's family used to make clothes for the palace, and the family had money to become that kind of virtue, and the "Yunshangfang" of the Yun family was similar to the Jiangning weaving of the Cao family, but this was not the mainstream business of the Yun family.The mainstream business of the Yun family is water transportation and mines. The Yun family controls the water transportation business of Cangjiang and Huanghe, the two major waters of Tianzhao Kingdom, including developing canals, manufacturing ships, collecting grain and military rations, etc.The Yun family also owns the private property of dozens of large-scale silver mines and copper mines in Tianzhao Kingdom, and also takes over the mining rights of all iron mines in the country. Silver and copper are used to make money, and iron is used to make weapons. I know that the control of swords and weapons in ancient times was very strict. It is not like in martial arts novels. Every hero can walk around the rivers and lakes with a sword. It is not allowed to take a sword on the street, so the weapons of the monks in Shaolin Temple are The stick is the main thing, because the stick is not a weapon.A family holds the lifeblood of a country's money, food, and weapons in its hands. How can he not be rich in the world?And how not to be feared by the emperor?The Yun family has three deacons who are in charge of three aspects of affairs. On the first day I started managing accounts, Mr. Yun arranged for me to meet with these three deacons. One is Yun Tianhai who is in charge of water transportation, and the other is in charge of mining. Yun Tianchang, these two are Yun Chongshan's nephew and Yun Zheng's uncle, and the other is Yong Lehou's cousin Yun Chongfeng, who is in charge of weaving and other miscellaneous businesses such as Yun's restaurants and restaurants.

The three deacons treated me politely, but they didn't take me seriously as the young mistress of the Yun family, and I didn't think it was disobedient. The performance is convincing.It wasn't until I asked to use table bookkeeping instead of their traditional journal bookkeeping that I surprised them once.Originally, I taught this bookkeeping method to Mo Xiuqi, but the day after I married into Yun's family, Mo Xiuqi left a letter and resigned as accountant of Yunshangfang, and left Cangdu with Mo Sang.I don't know if it's because he is ashamed of me, or because he is afraid that I will retaliate against him, but it seems that he has also given up on Yun Zheng's cousin.Knowing that they are gone, I don't feel much in my heart. Mo Xiuqi has no great talent. Even if he stays in Yun's house, he will just continue to work as the accountant of "Yunshangfang". I will not suppress him, but neither will he. Will reuse him, betrayed once, is enough.

My embroidery village and hot pot restaurant, as my private property, have not been integrated with the Yun family's property. The Yun family embroidery village itself and my embroidery village have different customers. Waiting by my side, Xiaohong began to disagree with life and death, and I insisted not to let her follow me. I want to plan for her future. When she gets married in the future, I will give her a shop as a dowry. I don’t want to practice now. How will you manage the store in the future?

As for An Yuanxi, when I went back to see Grandpa Fu three times after my marriage, I learned that he sold his house and left Cangdu with Mrs. An and An Sheng. No one knows where they went. It seems that He made up his mind to stay away from me completely.That's fine, if you can forget about leaving, it's a good thing for everyone.

The wind in the river is cool, I stand on the viewing platform on the third floor, looking at the river view in the distance, recalling all the things in these days, I just feel like a dream, I have been here for nearly a year, and I have become a wife , I live a life that I have never experienced in my previous life.It would be fine if I could live this day in peace, but, thinking of returning to the capital this time, aside from the Emperor's fears of the Yun family, I might get involved in the Wei family's impostor case if I was alone. The truth was exposed, and the capital would change color again.I sighed and frowned.

"Why are you sighing?" Yun Zheng's gentle voice sounded behind me, I turned my head, stared into his gentle eyes, and smiled.

"Are you up?" I held his hand and pulled him to sit on the bow.Our ship can definitely be called an ancient luxury cruise ship. On the third floor, there are Yunzheng and I’s bedroom, study, bathroom, living room, and lounge. On the second floor, there are several guest rooms, plus a large living room and lounge , as well as the entertainment room, the first floor is the servant and boatman's wing, there is a dining room, and there are stables in the second half of the boat.There are large observation decks on the second and third floors. I made a special trip to have rattan tables and chairs placed on the observation decks, and there are long benches attached to the railings on each floor.The exterior of the ship looks solemn and majestic, not very gorgeous, and the interior design is not magnificent, but elegant and exquisite, and every detail is pursued for perfection.

Yunzheng's hand was a little cold, I held his hand, and said with a smile: "My hand is so hot that I want to soak it in cold water in summer, it's just right now, use it as a stove to cool my hands."

He smiled dotingly, wrapped his arms around my shoulders, and I leaned quietly in his arms, listening to him whisper: "Ye'er, don't worry, nothing will happen."

"Well. Don't worry." I nodded in his arms, and said with a smile, "The old man is willing to let us go at ease, he must have left something behind."

He looked down at me with a smirk: "Ghost spirit!"

I looked at him with a smile: "That's why I'm not afraid. Let's just walk slowly and visit everything we need to see and play along the way." From Cangdu to the capital, the normal official road takes two months.The posthorse delivering letters to the imperial court has to travel day and night for ten days. If we arrive at the capital by boat, it may already be autumn. To wait until a few months later.The choice of taking the water route this time is not only because of Yun Zheng’s poor health, which saves him from the hardships of driving and horses, but also because the waterway is safe, and the whole process is within the sphere of influence of the Yun family. More importantly, to pass this trip, Learn about some operations of water transport and mines.The last one was requested by myself, so when choosing the route, I picked several mines along the river as inspection points.

"Sister Ahua!" Jin Sha ran up from downstairs happily, and the little maid who served her ran behind her out of breath.I hugged her with a smile, took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat on her forehead: "What's the rush." ​​After I married into the Yun family, I took Jinsha to me. I didn't plan to take her to Beijing this time. After all, we didn't go to play, but this girl wanted to follow her life and death, crying so much that she was so sad, she had no choice but to give in.

"Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai are fighting!" Jin Sha said excitedly, "Xiao Hei is not good, always bullying Xiao Bai, Xiao Bai ignores it!"

"Really?" I said in surprise, Jinsha nodded again and again, "Sister Ahua, let's go and see!"

"Yunzheng, are you going?" I turned my head to look at him. I'm not used to addressing things like "Xianggong" and "Lady". Every time I hear someone calling them like that, I find it funny, so I just call him by his first name. However, Yun Zheng had a good idea. Seeing that I called him like that, he didn't call me my wife, but Ye Er.

"I'm not going, you go." Yun Zheng smiled, "I'll go to the study for a while."

I followed Jinsha downstairs to see the two lovers' horses quarreling.Xiaohei and Xiaobai were sent back by Yudieer. When Yudieer returned to Cangdu, I had been married to Yunzheng for a few days. At the beginning, the flower butterfly had a look of astonishment, and only smiled at me after seeing Yunzheng. Said: "Huahua, I believe your vision."

I just laughed, and Yu Die'er lamented: "Even Hua Hua is married, there is no one in this world that I, Yu, can miss..."

I smiled and spat at him: "Then you go to die?"

Yu Die'er laughed and said, "I'm not going to die, this great river and mountain is still waiting for me to travel!" As she spoke, her eyes lit up, and she didn't know what she thought of.Yu Die'er left Cangdu the next day, leaving me two carrier pigeons so that I can contact him when I have something to do.I know he'll find something interesting to do again soon.I actually like the friendship with Yu Die'er very much. Although he treats me with an affectionate and warm tone, we both know that we can only be friends forever.In fact, he has always regarded me as a fun and new thing, and Laicang is not for love but for fun, because Yu Die'er knows my nature too well, and I designed Chu Shang's plan to dispel all his love for me. read.His interesting career as a flower picker was abandoned because of my interesting friend. Now that my interesting friend is married and going to live a serious life, he naturally wants to find the next interesting thing to play with. This is Yudieer.Sometimes, I really envy him, because he is a person who really only lives for himself.

——2006, September, 12
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