minister on skirt

Chapter 63
Talking about partnering is a joke.

At this moment, Changying had no place in her heart, Mao Jin would only arouse her resentment, the gain outweighed the loss, he would not do this kind of thing to make others gloat.

Changying sent Mama Wu down to serve the dishes, and smiled to refill Tan Shao's tea: "It's a table of Sichuan dishes specially made, and the general will eat them slowly."

"Changying, pass me the teapot."

Xu Lan waved to her.

She walked over with the jug and helped him fill it up.

Huo Rong put one hand on the back of the chair, glanced at the two of them who had a tacit understanding, and found that not only was the drama boring, but the duck meat in their mouths also tasted weird.

"Brother Zichan, why doesn't he eat fish?" Xu Lan said, "Try it, this spicy pepper is quite exciting."

He smiled: "I don't like it very much. There are many thorns."

"I think it's okay." Xu Lan smiled slightly, "Maybe it's because I'm not very picky."

"If you don't pick a thorn, won't your throat get stuck?"

"What are you afraid of getting stuck in your throat?" Tan Shao, who was not talking much, looked at the two of them at this moment, "Can't we just drink two more pots of vinegar?"

……

Huo Rong didn't feel much about the taste of a meal, and in short, he didn't feel full in the end.

When Tong Qi came in with mutton noodles for him, she secretly looked at him: "Last night, my master lied to General Xu and said that he went swimming on purpose, right?"

Huo Rong raised a big face and looked at him coldly: "Go out."

Tong Qi followed the good advice and came out.

For such a big matter, Shen Changying will definitely report it to Xu Lan.

Xu Lan knew that he went into the water to help Shen Changying in private, so how could he not feel bad?
So last night, he was clearly hiding his intentions to stir up others' jealousy, and wanted to see Xu Lan's intentions to be jealous and make a fool of himself.

But now at this moment, he didn't lose his identity or show his cowardice. Instead, he turned around and stared at him calmly, and he was targeted everywhere. Who is to blame for this?
He said he was not full?
Tong Qi felt that he was simply full.

After lunch, Xu Lan returned to the guard with Changying.

He ate very happily and was very full.

So when it comes to business, it also appears to be full of energy.

"In the morning, I asked someone to check the warehouse. The shortage of materials for our four ships is not too much, but as the materials arrive later, I guess that group of people will make some moves."

Changying nodded, looked outside, and said, "Su Xinrong hasn't come back yet, why don't I go to the pier to have a look."

Xu Lan thought for a while, then picked up the hairpin and said, "Wait for me for a while, I will go with you."

Su Xinrong might not listen to her orders, and he had to go and see such a big matter.

When Chang Ying and the others went out, Huo Rong had already received news from Tong Qi in his mansion after eating the noodles.

"There is no news from the dock yet.

"The chief of the Judicial Judiciary in Huzhou is surnamed Lin, but the local Judicial Judiciary doesn't have any real power. After some research, the matter of the wharf should not be handled by a small Judicial Judiciary.

"The guard posts along the river are all sailors sent by the Governor's Mansion, and Nankangwei was actually only responsible for shore defense.

"Even if the emperor took advantage of Cheng Xiao's embezzlement case to force Nan Kangwei to step in and take charge of the expansion of the dock and shipbuilding, the rest of the ships would actually be out of reach."

Huo Rong approached the back of the chair, frowned and said: "That is to say, if Nankangwei can't take advantage of the shipbuilding and expansion of the wharf this time to take over the management of the entire Huzhou Wharf, it is basically impossible to take over the entirety of the Water Transport Governor's Mansion." .”

Tong Qi nodded in agreement.

Huo Rong took a long breath and leaned on the handrail: "But the wharf is originally managed by the Water Transportation Department, and Nankangwei can't get it back even if he robs it, so what should we do?"

How can Tong Qi understand what he doesn't understand.

Huo Rong got up and took a few steps, stretched out his slender index finger to hook open the bead curtain made of amber under the door: "It seems that we can only find a way to force Fan Xin to give up power."

"Where can I find a way?" Tong Qi asked.

Huo Rong held his hands behind his back: "Prepare the horse, go to the pier first."

……

When Chang Ying and Xu Lan arrived at the warehouse, they first asked Su Xinrong where she was going, and just as they were about to find it, Huang Ji and Su Xinrong came down to the pier door sullenly.

"How are things going?"

She went up first.

Su Xinrong was on her way, but suddenly stopped, seeing Xu Lan with her again, she subconsciously showed a look of displeasure.

But thinking of the purpose of coming this time, he unconsciously restrained his expression, met with Xu Lan first, then dragged a soldier behind him and said to Changying: "This guy is cunning, there are many people here, first find a place to talk."

Chang Ying looked up and walked towards an unmanned warehouse in front.

Standing still, he looked at the soldier twice, only to see that this man had double eyes and splayed eyebrows, and he really didn't look like a kind person.

"That's him?" Xu Lan handed over the whip to his entourage, and looked at it with frowned.

Su Xinrong said: "When I came to the pier, I found this guy, without making a show, just asked him to go back to the guard with me to pick up some things, he promised well, saying that he was going to bring a horse, but he ran away.

"Huang Ji and I chased him for more than ten miles before we caught up with him, and when we asked him where the craftsmen were going, he pretended that he didn't know.

"I don't know why are you running for me?!"

As she said that, she kicked him on the waist angrily, kicking him to the ground abruptly.

Changying looked at Huang Ji, Huang Ji nodded, proving that what he said was true.

"Then drag him back and torture him. First, cut him in various places and fill the skin with gas. If you don't say anything, put a branding iron into the leather."

Changying stared downcastly, looking lightly at the people on the ground.

The soldier shuddered and looked up.

Xu Lan and Su Xinrong also took turns looking at Changying's face.

As if she didn't see it, she added slowly: "Remember to make the incision in the thin-skinned places like the waist, neck and thighs. Thick-skinned places won't achieve the effect."

The soldier turned pale, leaving only a pair of red eyes.

Huang Ji stretched out his hand to drag him, and he suddenly softened into a lump of mud: "General, spare your life! General, spare your life! I really don't know, wow!"

"What do not you know?"

"Little ones, little ones don't know what they did!"

Changying gritted her teeth: "Then think slowly when you are being punished. Anyway, you won't die so quickly."

Huang Ji dragged him onto the horse.

He was so frightened that his pants were wet a lot, he struggled and howled ghostly: "The little one really doesn't know them!

"I only received a few filial piety from them, and asked the younger one to help introduce the work. Secondly, I only know that they often walk around the Heji granary, and I don't know anything else!"

A man in his twenties hugged his horse's neck and cried loudly, with water dripping from his crotch.

Xu Lan frowned and asked the people around her to take her down.Then he said: "Can Changying recognize those people? If we recognize them, let's go to the granary to have a look."

"No problem," she replied.

(End of this chapter)