Huang Jue, after three marriages

Chapter 328
In early October, the impact of floods in the south gradually appeared in the capital.

With a population of one million in the capital, an army of hundreds of thousands, and the extravagant consumption of the big households, the amount of food needed is extremely large.

In the past, most of the supply was grain grain from the south, but now there is no grain grain. Even if Cai Pang and others squeezed the frontier army and urgently mobilized grain from the north to the capital, there were still some gaps.

Just after the autumn harvest, when grain prices used to be the cheapest, the grain prices in the capital began to rise instead.

Especially those high-quality fine grains, whose prices are more than twice as expensive as in previous years.

And it's hard to come by.

(Because most of them were taken away by Zhao Hao)
However, these refined grains are only affordable by wealthy families, and for a while, they have not affected ordinary people.

However, there is not enough grain in the granary, and if the spring grain cannot be harvested in the south, then there will inevitably be a shortage of grain in the capital.

Food prices are bound to rise.

Some big households who saw the situation quietly began to store grain, and all the grain collected in the village this year will not be sold.

The Zhuangzi in the north under the names of Xie Jue and Su Yue had a good harvest this year. After the autumn harvest, Xie Jue ordered to send all the grain received and bought on Jingdong Road to the north.

(It was originally prepared for Zhao Hao)
Three days after Zhao Hao snatched the grain and crossed the river, Xie Jue's men found Zhao Hao and asked Zhao Hao to exchange 70 dan of refined grain at the ratio of one load of refined grain for two loads of coarse grain.

This fine grain is liked by rich and noble families. It is about the taste, but it is actually not as full as coarse grain. For border soldiers, coarse grain is naturally better.

And it can be doubled!
Zhao Hao immediately agreed.

Moreover, he was awakened. On the way, he replaced the remaining fine grains and the big households along the way with coarse grains.

(It was also because of this that Zhao Hao couldn't leave and couldn't return to the capital)
And the fine grains that have been exchanged are now secretly hoarded and transported to the capital bit by bit, and then the grain stores here in the capital will drive up the price.

If it is twice as high now, it is equivalent to earning twice. If it comes to the end of the year, I am afraid that the price will more than quadruple.

But these are not what Su Yue considers.

On the fourth day of October, Su Yue went to the palace, talked to the empress dowager, drank tea, and then told them that she was going out of Beijing.

Xie Jue's award was sent directly to Fujian, where he also received his official rank.

Now that the marriage is given, it is understandable that Su Yue wants to go south to make tea earlier.

Besides, now that some people in the court are asking the emperor to accept new people, some people in the harem are also blocking it, and all kinds of troubles continue.

And the queen's reaction when she heard the emperor said that she had given Su Yue a marriage also displeased the emperor.

Thinking about it carefully, if Su Yue stays in the capital, she will definitely be watched by others. It is better to go out of the capital and come back when she can get married seriously.

The emperor nodded in agreement, just asking her to promise not to get married too early, if he wants to get married, he must come back to the capital, and he will prepare a dowry for her to make a big face.

Su Yue agreed one by one, and went to the palace to accompany the two of them for two days, causing more people from the harem to come to the Queen Mother to pay her respects.

The Empress Dowager also spoke out, telling Su Yue not to enter the palace again.

The next day, when Rong Rong started, a group of friends gathered in Changningbo Mansion to play, the snow had not yet fallen, and the sky was already cold, but the maple forest in Changningbo Mansion was extremely beautiful.

An's family prepared a table in the pavilion in Fenglin for the girls to play.

The girls of the An family were very happy to receive the gift of the waist knife and the beef tendon wooden gun shaft. Anyway, there were no outsiders, so they played in Fenglin directly.

The fallen leaves are colorful, and the shadows of guns are like rainbows, which is extremely beautiful.

Everyone had a great time, and in the afternoon, the girl from the Niu family looked at the space and asked Su Yue if she knew the wife of the servant of the Ministry of Rites, He's family?

Su Yue was very surprised.

Of course she knew about the He family of the Ministry of Rites, it was Yun Qinghong's sister-in-law's natal family, but she had nothing to do with that family in this life, so where could she know it?

Miss Niu said, the old lady of the He family will have her [-]th birthday at the end of the month, which is a very long life, and the He family is making a special effort, and everyone in the capital has sent posts.

Naturally, their family also gave it away.

But two days ago, the He family sent another post to Mrs. Niu, saying that they were inviting Su Jinrong and Su Yue.

Su Jinrong and Niu Fang are engaged, and by the way, the invitation makes sense, but Su Yue is a little far away, what does this invitation mean?
Mrs. Niu wanted to decline at the time, but when she learned that Miss Niu and the others were going to have a party together, she held back and asked Miss Niu to come and check on Su Yue first.

If Su Yue really has something to do with the other party here, and the other party is not easy to invite directly due to Su Yue's status, then she is also willing to help.

Su Yue was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and really couldn't figure out what the reason was.

The three generations of the He family have all been officials in the Ministry of Rites. They are most particular about etiquette and status. They think highly of themselves, and they have to give advice to others from time to time.

She was married to Yun Qinghong in her previous life, so she was supposed to be related to this He family, but the members of the He family, no matter what the occasion, looked like they would disdain to be with her.

The great aunt who was married to the Minister of Honglu Temple was even more so. When she met at a party, she bluntly said that she could not sit with someone whose identity was unknown.

In this life, he came to invite her around the corner? !

However, she didn't want to guess what the He family was thinking, so she just smiled and said that she was about to leave Beijing and go south, and she had to wait until next year to finish making tea before returning to the capital, so no matter what the He family meant, she couldn't go.

After saying this, the girl in Pang De was startled, she kept saying that she couldn't bear it, and invited Su Yue to drink twice in turn, and played lively and lively for three days.

On the tenth day, before dawn, four carriages stopped in the front yard.

Standing by the carriage, Xie Jue looked at the walls of the carriage which were paved with fur (learned from Zhao Hao), and then touched the mattress on the soft couch.

To Che Ling next to him, he said, "Did you find out?"

"Yes, the daughter of the eldest son of the He family married Yun Shenshui, the eldest son of the Yun family. Now that the Yun family is in good shape, they originally wanted to marry the daughter of the great aunt*, the daughter of the Xu family of Honglu Temple, to Yun Qinghong. , thinking of getting closer, but Yun Chenshui replied, saying that Yun Qinghong had someone he wanted to marry, but he refused the marriage and asked the He family to invite a girl."

Che Ling stood on the side with his hands down, and said softly: "The He family didn't dare to offend Yunfu, but they didn't want to lower their face to post a message to the girl, so they thought of a way to use Mrs. Niu's hand, so that Yunfu could be satisfied again." The request also demoted the girl to the embarrassing situation of eating and drinking with others, Mrs. Xu, who came up with this idea, also wanted to take the opportunity to save face for the girl and make the girl look good."

Xie Jue sneered coldly, and said, "It's wishful thinking, I remember that Xu has a special hobby, so I found a chance and stabbed him out."

Che Ling responded, bowed and stepped back, a trace of sarcasm flitted across the corner of his lips.

What the aunt said was so ugly that even an ordinary servant in the He Mansion could hear it. He really wanted to see what kind of face the aunt had when Mr. Xu's dirty things broke out.

After staring at the arrangement of the carriage, hot water and hot snacks, and luggage, Xie Jue turned back to the main courtyard.

Su Yue played with the girls yesterday, drank some wine, and was still asleep.

Xie Jue didn't call her, but directly wrapped her in a cloak and bedding, carefully carried her out of the house, and sent her into the carriage.

Let her continue to sleep on the soft couch, Xie Jue closed the car door and let the convoy set off.

When the convoy left the North City Gate, snowflakes fell.

The first snow in the capital has fallen.

(End of this chapter)