Chapter 184

It's almost evening outside Xiebai.

It didn't take Wei Liang much time to go in. He was thinking about what to plant when he got back to the field. When he came out, the carriage he hired was still waiting outside.

But there was another carriage outside.

He raised his head and was slightly stunned.

It's not a very luxurious carriage. The wood used to make the carriage is excellent. The lacquer work is fine and the wood is hard. The two sides are inlaid with carved panes, but there is a curtain inside.

The handlebars are also strong.

When you look at others, there is some sharp light at the bottom of your eyes, and the muscles on your two arms are twisted. You can see that you are afraid of some martial arts people.

Wei Liang was a little curious and looked at the carriage.

It's also a coincidence that someone is coming down from the car.

She was wearing a pleated skirt of turmeric butterflies and Zoysia gold, but she was also very young. She looked pretty and calm, but she seemed to have something happened and her brows were slightly locked. Scan an eye to see, also saw Wei Liang.

Wei Liang doesn't know each other.

The other side didn't know Wei Liang.

They looked at each other, but did not say hello. They only guessed the relationship between each other and the owner of xiebaiju, nodded their heads, then one got into his own carriage, and the other went to another courtyard.

It was not until the carriage came out of Wuyi Lane again, and went out to the street, listening to the words of the market which were getting lively again around him, that Wei Liang suddenly remembered: "Ren in Shu!"

Although there is no obvious mark on the carriage of the carriage, there is one on the horse.

There is a snowflake like pattern on the top of the cage.

That's the sign of Ziliujing salt guild.

It's you Fangyin, not others.

Two months ago, emperor Shen Lang decided in the central court that he would tour the south next year and go all the way along the Grand Canal to Jiangning.

Who knows that Tianjiao has always been deeply rooted in the south?

Everyone guessed that this time we were going to take advantage of the opportunity of the southern tour to fight against Tianjiao, to show Tianwei, and to let people in Jiangnan see Tianyan. But in recent years, although the National Treasury is not empty, it is not rich. The money spent on a tour to the south is not small. If the State Treasury can't come up with the money, naturally it's up to the people to ask.

There are different ways for the government to meet Shengjia along the canal.

They either raised taxes from the common people or raised money from the squires.

Salt merchants are the richest in Jiangnan, followed by rice merchants and cloth merchants. The officials, who are too lazy to think about it, wrote a letter half a month ago asking the speakers of the major chambers of Commerce to gather in Jinling to discuss how to pay for it, which is called "the salt guide of next year".

Although Ren's salt farm was in the middle of Shu, after Jiang Xuening arrived two years ago, he began to invest his surplus money in Jiangnan, which was the easiest place to make a fortune, or to the merchant ships between the north and the south, or to annex some small and medium-sized salt merchants in Yangzhou. He also entered the trade of raw silk and cloth by virtue of his original relationship with silk merchants.

Therefore, although Ren's foundation is still in Shu, most of his territory has expanded to Jiangnan.

If you have money in your hand, it's faster to get it.

Jiang Xuening personally taught them what it means "money makes money faster, and it's easier to make money when they have money". If they lose money, they don't need money. If they succeed more than they lose, and if they earn more than they lose, their wealth will continue to grow.

It's not a good thing for the government in Jiangnan to take over, to build a palace, and to ask salt merchants to pay for it. But if it's linked to next year's salt industry, it's a business that others will do or give up if you don't do it.

So you Fangyin and Ren Weizhi are here.

However, the reason why she visited xiebaiju today is not just to discuss the matter.

After seeing Wei Liang off, Jiang Xuening turned over the account book and went to pick up his fishing rod on the railing.

The fish had eaten the bait clean.

There is only one hook on the other end of the line, shining with the light and shadow of the setting sun.

You Fangyin's steps were slightly disordered. Before he came outside the waterside pavilion, he called out: "two girls!"

Jiang Xuening looked back to see her, a Zheng: "Fang Yin how come?"

After you Fangyin married Ren Weizhi in the middle of Shu, although they were a fake couple, they claimed that they would play a real role when they played. They really dared to leave the affairs of Ren's family to her, and didn't ask others to gossip about them.

In this way, I gradually washed away my cowardice when I was in Bofu.

If you can manage the common affairs and shoulder the responsibility, you will not have the same raw feeling when you talk business with others. Although you still have few words, you are a little more proficient.

She came here for this matter. When she came to Jiang Xuening, she saw the smiling face of the second girl, but she stopped for a moment. After a moment of silence, she said, "we just talked with the people in the Hui merchants guild. We met..."Jiang Xuening heart micro jump: "meet who?"

You Fangyin fixed her eyes on her face and said slowly, "the one in youhuang hall, boss Lu."

Lu Xian!

It's really an ominous chill that stirs Lingling up her back. Jiang Xuening has not heard of this name in the past two years. After all, LV Zhaoyin has a big business and holds a large amount of silver shares in Ren's salt factory. He is indispensable for the dividend at the end of the year.

But both sides can be called well water, not river water.

She didn't know Lu Xian, and she never bothered her.

Now

For no reason, what business needs such a busy man as him to come to Jinling in person?

Other people don't know, but she knows better than anyone else -

this person is Xie Wei's confidant and right-hand man.

In the past two years, it has been said that Shen Lang relied heavily on the national master, monk Yuanji, but he was not as good as the former master Xie Wei.

But Jiang Xuening didn't think so.

Because of the dispute between monk Yuanji and Wan Xiuzi, the head of Tianjiao, the people outside think that monk Yuanji has a deep family. But Xie Wei's fame and influence are in the imperial court and the scholar's Academy. Compared with monk Yuanji, they are almost out of reach of ordinary people. How can ordinary people know how to plot secretly?

They were left out in the cold, placed far away from the center of power, and even went to Mount Wutai and Sanqing temple to practice Buddhism and seek immortality

She didn't believe all that!

Jiang Xuening held her arms and thought deeply, adding a little annoyance to her mood. She only frowned and said, "the emperor is going to visit the south next year. There must be a lot of business opportunities in the south of the Yangtze River. LV Zhaoyin has no profit and can't get up early. It's fair to come here in person. And in previous years, there was no action, but there was no need to worry too much. "

You Fangyin bit her lip.

Jiang Xuening caught a glimpse and noticed that something was wrong. She asked, "no?"

Recalling what happened on the cruise ship just now, you Fangyin said: "in the past, when we met with LV Xian, we could say hello at most. But this time when we met on the Qinhuai River, he asked me about the girl's recent situation."

Jiang Xuening's fingertips trembled gently.

If so

That's really unusual.

*

as the night gradually falls, the fishing boats on the Qinhuai River are closed, but the brightly decorated boats light up the bright lanterns with greasy fragrance, which are reflected on the water and sway gently with the waving waves.

On the ship, there are vulgar and elegant poetry chanting, and also vulgar and intolerable fighting wine.

The sound of silk and bamboo is disturbing to the ears, and the red scarf and green sleeves are confusing to the heart.

Lu Xian hasn't been back to Jinling for a long time. Once he revisited Qinhuai, he was still full of fragrant powder. Although people's faces were different from those of the old years, the look between his eyebrows and eyes and the mind hidden in his smile nest didn't change much.

The lean horses seem to be reserved, but in fact they are waiting for the price;

the rich businessmen embrace the beauty, but they are thinking about business.

The merchants in Huizhou are famous all over the world. They have their own style. When they get to the city where Jinling was built up by the king of the Six Dynasties, and when they get to the boats on the Qinhuai River, the wind is gone and the bones are soft.

The man on the other side drank to him.

Lu Xian also drank one with a smile. He was about to take advantage of the opportunity to win the cloth business this time and kill the price again. However, he saw a boat breaking through the waves and getting close to the boat. He took the clipper board to the bow of the boat.

A smart boy in coarse linen stepped on the board of the boat and said something to the waiter who was guarding outside the Pearl curtain.

The waiter nodded and came in.

Silent step to LV Xian's side, whispered: "boss LV, someone came outside, said there is your urgent letter."

Lu Xian didn't bring many people back to Jinling.

Although he can't see the man outside clearly, he can tell from his body shape. Who's that boy?

He apologized to the people next to him, got up and went out.

On the river in autumn, the cool wind came, which dispelled the dizzy fragrance of powder he brought from the boat.

Lu Xian said: "what letter?"

Xiaobao is a little taller now. A leather belt is tied around his waist. He looks very energetic. He just handed the letter to him and said, "the secret letter from the border is sealed with lacquer. No one dares to tear it down first."

From the border?

Lu Xian's eyelids jumped, but he didn't care to say anything. First he opened the seal lacquer, then he took out the letter and read it.

A thin page.

But the content written above really surprised him!

Xiaobao looked at him: "is it going to war?"

But Lu Xian did not care to answer him. Instead, he asked urgently, "can this letter be delivered to the capital?"

Xiaobao said, "the letter is divided into three parts. It's spread to Jiangnan, Huangzhou and the capital at the same time. You should have received it there, sir."

Lu Xian's eyes twinkled, but his expression was not relaxed at all. He looked at the words and sentences on the paper again, and remembered that the man's behavior in the past two years was the same as that in previous years, but his heart was covered with a layer of worry.He folded the letter and handed it back to Xiao Bao.

Xiaobao asked, "is there nothing to explain?"

Lu Xian was silent for a long time and said, "you'll know when someone comes."

Who's coming?

Xiao Bao was stunned.

*

the autumn night in the capital is much colder than that in the south of the Yangtze River and Qinhuai River.

The autumn wind is blowing in the palace.

The door leaves that are not closed are beating each other, which sometimes makes people feel ghostly.

In the side hall of FengChen hall, only the copper crane leaning against the pillar held two lamps. The light and shadow flickered and cast the shadow on the window, but it blurred the shape.

There is a piano on the east wall.

In the tea cup by the table, the tea was already cool, reflecting half a silent face.

In the distance, the sound of laughing music came from the window. It was the sound of concubines accompanying the emperor to feast in the imperial garden.

Xie Wei took his eyes.

On the book case in front of me was the "evidence of crime" brought by the imperial doctor of Taiyuan hospital to denounce the palace alchemists. There were five kinds of scattered stones in five ice cracked porcelain bowls. On the side of the bowl was a used porcelain cup, and the medicine pestle was placed in the corner of the lacquer plate. On the front of the paper was a small pile of medicine powder which had been mixed in one place.

The head of Taihu hospital turned red, and his angry words seemed to be still in his ears: "wushisan, also known as hanshisan, is originally used to treat patients, but it can be eaten without illness. It can cause dryness and heat in the body, and dream in the heart. Although it can make people go to fairyland and eliminate their worries, it can be addictive and harmful to the body! It's absolutely absurd for these people to offer this to the gods. They can be punished for it! "

Dreams come out of the heart and troubles disappear.

Xie Wei stared at them for a long time, and slowly developed a strange feeling of vertigo, as if the bowls were twisted and turned into mouths and eyes growing in the dark, conveying something to him and telling something.

He hasn't had a good sleep for a long time.

There is no desire, there is no desire.

There is no worry, no terror, far away from the reversal of the dream, what nirvana.

……

Taoist Scriptures, Buddhist scriptures and Confucian scriptures are read over and over again, but there is no way to get rid of them. Life in the world, as if it is a ordeal of suffering, but I do not know if you forget yourself, if this body is destroyed, can be solved?

No one knows that this imperial master has been wandering on the edge of the abyss for a long time, a long time

His pale fingers were stained yellow by the shaking light. Xie Wei stretched out to the paper in front of the lacquer plate. The five colored powder milled on it was hard to distinguish.

Pull close, light and weightless.

He stopped for a moment, finally dipped his ring finger in a little, and gazed for a long time.

There was a knock outside.

Report to the eunuch: "the little eunuch came to the frontier and said little."

Xie Wei shook his mind.

This just wake up in a dream general, will side a brocade PA to grasp to wipe a hand, light way: "come in."

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