Lin Mansion, Arrow Road.
Daiyu was wearing a rare dress with narrow sleeves, and the cuffs were tied. She was holding a small bow, pulling the string tremblingly, and aiming at the archery target twenty steps away.
The maids and ladies standing around did not dare to breathe, for fear of affecting the eldest girl's accuracy.
Daiyu opened her left eye for a while, then opened her right eye for a while. She stared at it for a long time, but she still couldn't make up her mind to play the string.
It wasn't until her arms were almost sore that Daiyu made up her mind. She closed her eyes and loosened the bow string.
Boo!
"It's hit, it's hit! The big girl is hit!"
The maids and women began to cheer, and Daiyu, who had her eyes closed, carefully opened her eyes and looked at the archery target twenty steps away. A small arrow was inserted into the target.
"I got it, Brother Hui, look!"
Even the usually quiet Daiyu couldn't help but jump for joy, looking at her eldest cousin Jia Hui who was standing behind her with a look of "please praise me".
"Well, it's pretty good. One link, not bad. At least I hit the target, right!" Jia Hui looked at Daiyu with a perfunctory look and said.
"It's just one ring, it seems like it belongs to my sister..." Daiyu started to get angry when she heard Jia Hui being so perfunctory.
Strange to say, among the five brothers and one cousin in the Lin family, Daiyu chose not to look for the gentle Jia Zhu, Jia Lian, Jia Rong and Shi Jia brothers who always followed her in everything, but instead looked for her brothers who always made her angry. Jia Hui played together.
This is probably how close the niece is to her uncle!
"Come on, sister, look! Archery, don't hesitate. The more you hesitate, the more inaccurate your shot will be. You don't need to be a vulture or vocal archer. You don't need to be so precise. It's just for fun. If you can hit the target, As for the target, the closer it is to the bullseye, the better. Generally speaking, you have a good aim, trust yourself, and just shoot."
Jia Hui raised his one-stone bow and spear thrower and leaned forward. Daiyu quickly ran to Jia Hui's right side and watched Jia Hui's movements carefully.
I saw Jia Hui hooking the bow string with his thumb and clasping it in the string groove of the finger. Then use your index finger to press the nail of your thumb, and apply force with both fingers. In an instant, the bow will look like a full moon.
I just glanced at the position of the archery target, raised it slightly, and my bow was shocked like a thunderbolt. A carved feather arrow that could be called a short spear was thrown hard by the powerful bow, and it hit the target a hundred steps away. , the entire target cracked instantly and fell to the ground.
Daiyu opened her small mouth and looked at her elder cousin who still kept loosening the bow string like a god, her eyes slowly turned into admiration.
"How about it, it's awesome!"
"In my opinion, it's not that bad!" Daiyu blinked and looked at Jia Hui with her head tilted.
"Ah? No matter what you call it, it doesn't matter? If you don't say Ziwu Maoyou today..." Jia Hui raised his eyebrows and looked at Daiyu.
"Oh, so what if I can't tell you?" Daiyu still looked at the person in front of her with a provocative face.
"It's okay. I can't do anything to you anyway. But, I think I can still do it by hanging you at the entrance of the front yard to show the public."
As soon as Jia Hui finished speaking, Daiyu looked at her cousin in front of her with a horrified expression, and the admiration that once again arose in her heart dissipated without a trace.
"Big brother knows how to tease me! You also said that the art of archery is judged by the number of arrows on the target! You have broken the target, and the arrows on it can't fly to where. If you go, it's just not that good!" Daiyu replied angrily.
"Hahaha, you are so weird. You can tell at a glance that it crawled out of the belly of our fourth aunt Min Min in Rongguo Mansion. Her thinking is different from ordinary people. Come on, let my cousin open your skull, but be careful Empty the water inside!”
After saying that, Jia Hui tried to grab Daiyu's little head with buns. Daiyu quickly dodged and started chasing me around the maid and several archery targets. The entire arrow path was filled with arrows. The little lady's cheerful laughter made Jia Min, who was hiding in the corner and peeking at the playfulness of his nephew and brother and sister, also laugh happily.
It's great. Since the nephews from her mother's family came, my daughter has also gotten rid of the inexplicable sadness and autumn cold in the past and has become lively and cheerful.
In Jia Min's eyes, those so-called rich ladies who never make a living are very boring. However, her mother wants to educate her into this kind of thing, and she suffers a lot in her resistance.
When I gave birth to my daughter, I didn't want to kill her nature, but my daughter was born with a delicate mind and a cold, so I had to try my best to make my daughter become more cheerful, even just a little bit.
I am very sad about my body, but being depressed like my own daughter is even more harmful to my body!
However, this kid actually said that he was weird?
Tsk...
. . . . . .
The next day, the old site of Jiangbei Daying.
Naturally, he couldn't dress so casually in the military camp. He only wore a gauze outer robe without a middle coat underneath, then a pair of thin cotton and linen bloomers, and a pair of mesh boots.
Four basins of ice cubes were placed around Jia Hui's table. These were brought by carts by carts by the dignitaries who attended the banquet two days ago after learning that the governor was afraid of the heat.
For reasons such as not using it in vain, and to appease the civil and military officials, Jia Hui accepted it.
However, I didn't take everything as ordered. I only took the ice cubes and returned everything else.
This family is not here to deal with you, so there is no need to send me anything, I won’t do anything wrong.
But to put your mind at ease, just collect some ice cubes.
In this way, there are ice cubes in the military camp that can be used for a long time.
The coolness brought by the ice cubes helped Jia Hui recover from the irritable and irritable state caused by the heat. He had been sitting at the table for more than an hour.
News came from Jinling that the Zijin Guards' barracks were almost repaired, and in three or four days, the large troops would be able to move there.
There are often reports from Xiuyiwei Tan Ji that he has a handle on someone. The investigation of matters related to Shopkeeper Shi and Shopkeeper Bai was very slow. It seemed that there was a force that was handling the matter for them, and they rarely showed up. Xiu Yi's investigation of them was very slow.
But in general, most things develop in a direction that is beneficial to you.
"Is there some force helping them deal with the beginning and the end?" Jia Hui frowned and looked at the information given by Tan Ji in his hand.
"Back to the Governor, it's strange to say that these two people are so elusive that it's hard for the brothers to find their whereabouts. It wasn't until a few days ago that our people caught a trace of them." Tan Ji stood in the hall, respectfully Respectful answer.
"Tell me something." Jia Hui looked up at the beam, as if thinking about something.
"A general flag officer reported that when they were following the shopkeeper Bai, they happened to encounter a group of people who ran over and said something to the shopkeeper Bai, and then left. He took some of the people to follow them.
When we followed them to a place about seventy miles away from Jinling, we came out of the woods. There was an open space in front of us with no cover. The chief flag officer did not dare to alert the snake, so he did not continue the pursuit..."
"It doesn't matter. After all, our priority is to rectify the Jiangnan camp, and the rest is secondary. Therefore, for the two shopkeepers, we should focus on surveillance and investigation."
"Yes!" Tan Ji saluted and was about to leave.
"Wait, there's one more thing! Remember to send someone to write down the salt merchants' daily conversations for me. I have to keep an eye on their movements at all times."
"Yes, I understand!"
After saying that, Tan Ji stood there and waited for a while. It wasn't until Jia Hui clapped his hands to leave that Tan Ji felt relieved and walked out of the barracks.
After hearing that Tan Ji had gone away, Jia Hui stood up and stretched his tired waist.
Paperwork is so physically and mentally exhausting...
After processing the remaining paperwork, Jia Hui also finished today's work. It was still early, so he moved several basins of half-melted ice cubes to the side of the bed. Jia Hui lay on the bed, his eyes Looking at the rafters in an open space.
The morning before yesterday, his aunt Jia Min brought him an unexpected surprise.
I will have another concubine!
Originally, I wanted to guide Xue Pan to develop in the military. It is naturally a good thing to become a talented person. As his backer, I will try my best to help him pave the way. If he is a mediocre person, he will not give up on him, just treat him as an idler in the army.
It is only right to have the Xue family in your hands.
But who would have thought that the Xue family had his own ideas.
marriage.
Although she was a concubine, no one, including Jia Hui himself, would really treat Xue Baochai as a concubine. At least she was a noble concubine listed in the genealogy.
After all, they have been relatives for more than a hundred years. Behind Xue Baochai are the Xue family and her maternal family, the Wang family, plus the care of her aunt Jia Wang who married into the Jia family, she will definitely not be wronged. , Jia Hui himself didn’t have to look down on her.
Forget it, let's do it this way. Xue Baochai is still too young, so he will have to be raised in the Xue family for a few years before being sent home.
. . . . . .
Some are happy and some are sad.
Jia Hui lived a very happy life, but the salt merchants lived a very uncomfortable life.
I originally thought that as the Grand Governor, Jia Hui would be able to tell some rules and fight them according to the agreed-upon rules, at least maintaining a semblance of harmony.
But who would have thought that the scene that happened at his birthday party a few days ago completely shattered their illusions.
Jia Hui didn't want to talk to them about the rules anymore.
The almost face-breaking question really frightened them. If they played by the rules of the court, they could still deal with Jia Hui through the Loyalty Party. Although they would still lose, they would still retain more or less. part of the benefit.
There is no way, Jia Hui's level is too high. No matter what, they can't defeat him. Even their party leader, Prince Zhongxin, may not be able to stab Jia Hui in front of him.
But things tend to develop for the worst. By now, they had vaguely guessed that the emperor had noticed that the prince was colluding with military merchants and was ready to punish him.
Jiangnan Camp was an important force for Da Qi to suppress the Southern Kingdom. Even if it was reorganized, Jia Hui was only left to handle the middle and high levels. In this case, then these Yangzhou salt merchants, who were dispensable and could be replaced at any time, became the victims of this beating.
The imperial court wants to crush their Yangzhou salt merchants to death with great momentum!
However, it is not without a glimmer of hope. A few days ago, Jia Hui has almost made it clear that he will not kill them all, but will instead support a group of "dogs" who listen to the court.
At this time, many salt merchants seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and began to frantically separate from their previous ones. Even the Bai family's spies at the gate of the Salt Censor's Yamen also saw many familiar salt merchant owners sneaking around. in and out.
The Yangzhou salt merchants were completely divided because of Jia Hui's words.
"Sir, the head of the Xie family is also sick and can't come back..."
In the elegant room full of flowers, a servant of the Bai family said in front of President Bai.
"Haha, I was so positive when I took refuge with the prince, but when things went wrong, they all went over to lick Jia Hui's smelly feet, you villain!" the head of the Gao family yelled angrily.
The salt merchants present also stood up and shouted curses in the direction of the Xie family.
President Bai looked at less than half of the remaining salt merchants with an indifferent expression, feeling a little funny in his heart.
If you and Jiangnan Camp were not too involved with the prince, I would have probably jumped back faster than them!
Only now can President Bai see that these idiots are the smart ones.
Did you make money? made money.
Did you hook up with an official from the imperial court? Got it.
Have you sent dead soldiers to intercept and kill Lin Ruhai? That's for sure, this is the certificate of nomination.
The money you can earn is just a mouthful of soup compared to everyone here. The officials I hooked up with were all low-level officials with potential, and they were still married to each other instead of offering bribes.
Even when people were sent to intercept and kill them, they just stood on the edge like passers-by, and many even returned unscathed.
At that time, I still laughed at people for being timid and unable to keep up with the heat when eating shit, but now I see that I am the clown!
And the group of cowards that he looked down upon suddenly turned into victims who could only be coerced by the group and forced to join in.
"Stop arguing!" President Bai slapped the table, and the salt merchants present immediately became quiet and sat back down in a dignified manner.
Now they are much more obedient and obedient than before. They have no choice but to fight against the wind. Now that they are facing a headwind, when they need a backbone, President Bai has become their last hope.
Seeing the salt merchants being so obedient, President Bai could no longer laugh.
He believed that everything they did after that would be executed seriously and without compromise. But in this way, once the dust settles, this group of people will definitely push themselves out, saying that they coerced them into doing it, and in order to reduce their punishment in a trivial way, they will be their scapegoat.
"I have already talked with Shopkeeper Shi. Shopkeeper Shi said that he has sent someone to contact the prince. There will be news in a few days. I will wait for a while longer!"
"Are you still waiting? President, the knife is on your neck!"
"Then we have to wait! If Jia Hui doesn't want to tell us the rules, then we are nothing in front of him!
Only the prince is qualified to have a chance with Jia Hui. If he doesn't wait for the prince's instructions and acts without authorization, he will die quickly! "
After President Bai finished cursing, he angrily picked up the tea cup and took a sip.
"Will Jia Hui give us time?" the head of the Gao family asked worriedly.
"There must be some. Don't forget, Jia Hui's target is not us, but the prince! Besides, if the prince doesn't protect us, who will become his disciple in the future?"
"That is to say, it will be a battle between two big shots. Maybe there won't be so much time to care about us?" A salt merchant said excitedly, as if he had grasped something.
But there was no salt merchant around who agreed with him.
"Stupid! Do you think Lin Ruhai is dead?" President Bai shouted loudly. This idea of luck is the most undesirable.
"Then, are you inciting the salt households below to cause trouble?" Another family head poked his head out.
"Do you think that the more than 3,000 cavalrymen brought by Jia Hui are here to waste food? Isn't he pushing us so hard just to make us overwhelmed and finally choose to trick Yanhu into causing trouble? If this is the case, he will definitely put it Let's become rebels who gather together to rebel!
If you just collude with the officers and soldiers, then you will only lose your family property, and we will kill it alone.
But if he is beaten as a rebel, it will cost the Yi tribe! "
After President Bai finished speaking, he collapsed on the chair and slapped his forehead with regret on his face.
Why did I want to hang out with King Zhongxin so actively?
(End of chapter)
