Rebirth of the Tang Dynasty's strongest consort

Chapter 418
After asking the subordinate staff a few more questions, seeing that his knowledge was limited, Fang Yiai waved his hand and told him to leave the office.

Sitting alone in front of the case, Fang Yiai lowered his head and pondered. The doubts about the sudden population drop in Kaocheng County lingered in his mind for a long time. The key point was that the prefect of Caozhou and Liu Yuhou went to Kaocheng County to suppress bandits.

"How can there be female relatives among the rogues?"

"Caozhou magistrate has learned the art of war? After several confrontations, it doesn't look like it."

Thinking hard to no avail, Fang Yiai simply put aside his worries, picked up the official document sent by the prefect of Caozhou, and began to review it carefully.

"Flood in Meiwu County? Locust plague in Dongtawa? Plague in Wanzi City?"

After reading several official documents one after another, Fang Yiai was so angry that he threw them on the table, and said coldly: "This official has passed the sentence, and the plague should be taken care of? Why don't you tell me to sit in the main hall of the Caozhou government office!"

Naturally, Fang Yiai didn't know that these official documents were all deliberately written by the prefect of Caozhou and Cai Shaobing. As long as he agreed to one of the matters and went down to the villages and towns to investigate and investigate, then his carp would swim into the sky and earth net woven together by the two of them. .

After some complaints, Fang Yiai put aside the papers on floods and plagues, only picked up the official documents reported by the counties under her jurisdiction, and began to give instructions with a ink pen.

At dusk, Fang Yiai, who had been busy all day, sorted out the official cases, then walked out of the study room, leaving the bearer behind, and strolled towards the residence by herself.

Back in the courtyard, Fang Yiai saw Baduan hurriedly walking towards Dongkuayuan with some luggage in her arms, she couldn't help frowning slightly, thinking, "Could it be that the three of Fan Jin have arrived? Even if they arrive, they should live in Xikuayuan, the official of Dongkuayuan originally I plan to ask Yaohuan to move there."

Fang Yiai walked into the main room with doubts, and saw that Qin Jingniang was just making the bed, and there was actually one of his quilts on it.

"Huh? Jing Niang, why did my quilt get here?" Fang Yiai asked curiously.

Qin Jingniang put down the broom and said with a smile, "Officials should live in the main room."

"What about Yaohuan?" Thinking of Baduan carrying luggage to Dongkuayuan before, Fang Yiai guessed, "Moved to Dongkuayuan?"

Pouring a cup of tea for Fang Yiai, Qin Jingniang smiled like a flower, "Yes, Sister Yaohuan offered to move into Dongkua Courtyard, saying that it is quiet there."

"Yao Huan is very understanding, I think I have to work harder." Fang Yiai smiled lightly, holding a lamp, and looked at Qin Jingniang, with a little salivation flashing in her eyes.

Seeing the splendor in Fang Yiai's eyes, Qin Jingniang spat softly, "It's always like this, if you see the sisters in Qinlou and Chuguan, don't they look like this?"

"Those girls in red and green, how can there be such a charm as a woman, I love women the most." Fang Yiai took Qin Jingniang's slender hand, and with a little force, she embraced Qin Jingniang who was about to refuse and welcome arms.

Looking at the half-closed door, Fang Yiai immediately became more courageous, and asked with a smile, "Who cooks today?"

"It was originally a slave's house, but when the officials come back, they always have to wait for the officials to rest their feet and drink tea." Qin Jingniang said softly, with an appearance of letting the king pick and choose, showing an indescribable charm.

Fang Yi's heart tightened, and he was attracted to fantasies. If so, he purposely said with a cold face: "I said earlier, don't call yourself a slave anymore. I feel annoyed when I hear this."

"If you don't call yourself a slave, what do you call yourself?" Qin Jingniang looked forward for a second, for fear of arousing Fang Yi's anger.

"Isn't Jing Niang bad? Shu'er and Lizhi all call themselves by their real names. It sounds very awkward to me if I'm a slave or not."

Before she could finish speaking, Fang Yiai stood up holding the beautiful woman and walked straight towards the couch.

Lying on the couch, Qin Jingniang blushed on her cheeks, bit her crimson lips lightly, and said shyly, "What is it like during the day?"

"I have to go to Yaohuan to discuss business matters at night. I'm afraid the lady is already asleep when I come back." Fang Yiai changed her official clothes, glanced at the door, and then jumped onto the embroidered couch with a bang, putting her hands down at the same time. bed curtain.

"Jingniang, since you and I have given the Duke of Zhou's gift, you have become a lot more shy."

"He Lang doesn't like it?"

"I like it, but I don't think it's like you anymore. It's better to show your true nature. Thinking about the girl in green who shot arrows at the Lingzhu grass in the outskirts of Chang'an, it seems like a lifetime ago."

"Is Nujia. Jingniang a little rude that day?"

"Not rude, that's fine."

"That's good, but things in the house are in the hands of the servants. Besides, I'm married to He Lang. If I'm still childish like that, I'm afraid I'll embarrass He Lang."

"It's okay, since that's the case, when it's just you and me, Jing Niang doesn't have to make a fuss."

After half an hour, Fang Yiai was lazily sitting on the tea table eating wontons, while Qin Jingniang was sitting opposite, holding her cheek, smiling at her husband, with endless warmth in her eyes.

"I encountered some strange things in the yamen today. I will go to Yaohuan to discuss it. If you come back late, the lady will go to bed earlier and don't wait for me."

"Okay, let's go slowly, Mr. Fang." After Fang Yi'ai left, Qin Jingniang got up to clean up the dishes, and whispered as she cleaned up: "He Lang is getting more and more mature, if he can give birth to a son and a half daughter, I'm afraid it will be Jingniang's. Blessings."

When they came to Dongkua courtyard, seeing that the door was ajar, Fang Yiai straightened her voice, signaled Xie Yaohuan to come, and then opened the door and walked in.

Xie Yaohuan was reading a book in front of the desk, when she saw Fang Yiai coming, she smiled, put down the book in her hand, and said, "Have you finished your meal?"

"Used it, are you reading?" Fang Yiai sat at the tea table familiarly, seeing Xie Yaohuan in white clothes, hazy and blurred under the lamp, she felt touched immediately, and blurted out: "Looking at a beauty under the lamp is even more beautiful." Three points of color."

Xie Yaohuan was very happy when she heard the praise, but her face was unreasonable at all, and she said in a coquettish tone: "You are always so frivolous, what's the matter?"

"I reviewed the official documents in the public office during the day, and found a strange thing. This matter may be related to the prefect of Caozhou and Liu Yuhou."

"Oh? What exactly?"

Under Xie Yaohuan's curious eyes, Fang Yi'ai told about the sudden population drop in Kaocheng County, and then told the strange story that the prefect of Caozhou led troops to wipe out the rogues, and that there were female relatives among the rogues.

Xie Yaohuan frowned, and after a long while, he said, "Meiwu County has a population of more than [-] people, why is there only [-] people in the huge Kaocheng County? Some of the villages have never paid taxes. Could it be that they did it on purpose?" Tax arrears?"

"Yeah, that's exactly what I was wondering about. I planned to look up the Caozhou government annals before, but when I thought that this matter involved the Caozhou prefect, I was afraid to startle the snake, so I didn't go to the study to ask the subordinates for it."

After finishing speaking, Fang Yiai scratched her head, and said a bit presumptuously: "Why don't you and I go to Kaocheng County together tomorrow morning? It's just that Kaocheng County is a bit far from Caozhou Mansion, and I'm afraid we won't be able to go back and forth within a day."

"Okay, I'll go there dressed as a man." Xie Yaohuan nodded. After learning that she would not be able to return to Caozhou within a day, this beautiful girl's beautiful eyes looked at Fang Yiai, and there was a little extra brilliance immediately. .

Received Xie Yaohuan's consent, Fang Yiai pondered for a moment, and finally said in a somewhat muffled voice: "I was promoted from Meiwu County to the general judge of Caozhou, but in just half a month, if this time I can find out what Mei Zhusheng said about the magistrate of Caozhou The handle, I think the magistrate's hat will be changed to this official's head again."

Xie Yaohuan heard the meaning behind Fang Yi's love words, her cheeks were slightly hot, and she said with joy and anger, "Let's wait until you become the magistrate."

As the words came out of his lips, Xie Yaohuan felt his tone was a little stiff, and was about to open his mouth to ease the atmosphere, but Fang Yiai grabbed his pair of jade hands.

"It's not Fang Jun's love, it's just that Wan Sui may call me back to Beijing one day. If you return to Daming Palace to work as an errand, how can I let go?"

As she said that, Fang Yi'ai used her hands unconsciously, pinching Xie Yaohuanyu's hand hurt, but she didn't notice it at all.

"Shu'er, Lizhi, Jingniang, Yu'er." After saying the names of the four beauties, Fang Yiai smiled affectionately.

Holding Xie Yaohuan's palm, he smiled bitterly and said, "It's really too much?"

"You still know!" Xie Yaohuan spat lightly, looked at Fang Yiai, and said seriously: "If you really have the heart, after you come back from Kaocheng County, you can find a day to pay homage to heaven and earth, but sister Jingniang You are not yet married, you need to give others a name."

"That's natural, that's natural, when we come back from Kaocheng County, I will definitely give you two a name, and it won't be too late to hold the banquet when we return to Chang'an."

Xie Yaohuan murmured softly, and after responding, she saw that Fang Yiai had not let go of her palm for a long time. She, who had turned into nephrite jade and fragrance last moment, instantly had a layer of autumn frost on her face.

"Go back quickly, I'm afraid something will happen later."

(End of this chapter)