Xie Fengyue slept deeply. When she woke up, Lin Qishu was gone.
The cicadas outside kept shouting, which made Xie Fengyue feel irritated.
Although she is ill, things cannot stop. There are still several major issues that need to be handled by her personally, the most important of which is the placement of the soldiers.
The craftsmen sent by the Xie Mansion are already in place, and the next step is to arrange them.
The princesses and princesses of the Zhou royal family all have personal guards. The northwest corner of the princess's mansion was originally the residence of those guards. However, no one lived in this mansion in the past few years. They didn't even bother to repair the main courtyard, let alone the next one. The place where people live.
However, although Xie Fengyue is not one of those mean masters, she is definitely not willing to spend a lot of money on repairing the servants' houses.
Her current plan is to repair those houses so that they will not drip when it rains, and then expand the original school grounds for daily training by the soldiers.
Xie Fengyue didn't want her soldiers to be like those guards who only knew how to kill people with swords and had no brains at all.
Now that she has the power of the army, it is logical to train some more in the future.
Mentioning this, she suddenly remembered something. She rummaged around in the study for a long time before she found a copy of Qian'an County Chronicle among a pile of books. After flipping through to the end, she saw an introduction to Yongning County in an inconspicuous corner.
This place is separated from the mountains by the sea, has limited supplies, and is adjacent to Fuso Island. There are frequent riots.
She now understood why Concubine Yu gave this place to her.
The small seaside town is separated by a large mountain. The fresh water resources are so scarce that normal farming is impossible. The summer is hot and the winter is cold. In the eyes of the aristocratic family, it is simply a barren land. In fact, if there is any benefit, then it can only be done reluctantly. Being able to eat a lot of fresh things is included in this.
Xie Fengyue played with the princess seal and laughed softly: "Although the position of princess is picked up, it is too embarrassing."
Zhe Zhi on the side listened half-heartedly and asked in confusion: "What did you pick up?"
Xie Fengyue didn't answer her question, but asked Manager Bai about it: "Did he send the banknote?"
Zhezhi nodded and then shook his head.
Xie Fengyue raised her eyebrows.
"He sent five thousand taels of silver notes and said that the rest would have to wait until the day after tomorrow to collect the rest."
Xie Fengyue also thought that he could spit it out at once, but if he did give some out, it meant that his attitude was correct. As long as he could hand it over within the specified time limit, she would not be unable to wait for this moment. Half a meeting.
The days passed so leisurely.
The prescription Ye Wan prescribed has actually made Xie Fengyue's rubella go away in these four or five days, but Shi Zian has no intention of leaving Shengjing. She doesn't dare to let the disease heal so quickly, so she treats it every day With only one decoction, the disease was controlled to the point where the red pimples remained.
She originally thought she could stay quietly in the mansion until Shi Zian left Shengjing.
A carriage suddenly arrived in front of the princess's palace, and two ladies from aristocratic families in luxurious clothes got out of the carriage. After they mentioned their backgrounds to the concierge, they were directly invited in without even a greeting card.
Xie Fengyue's face was only covered with white gauze. She leaned lazily on the bamboo chair in the compartment, holding a roll of bamboo slips in her hand, looking at it with gusto.
Nowadays, most of the books used by aristocratic families are paper books, but the real orphan copies are still hidden in the form of bamboo slips in various aristocratic families. The one she is holding is called "Qi Min Yao Shu", with a total of twelve volumes. This book contains Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, sideline production, and fishery are all discussed in detail. The volume in her hand is about agriculture.
She had no objection to Bai Rongan taking these things to pay off the debt. If he really couldn't take them out, Xie Fengyue wouldn't be able to really return him to the clan's mansion. She might as well just turn a blind eye and accept these things. , mainly because a cart of bamboo slips is worth five hundred taels, no matter how you calculate it, she earns it. After all, knowledge is priceless.
Just as she was getting excited, the door was pushed open unexpectedly.
Like a small firecracker, Zhezhi spread his arms and immediately protected Xie Fengyue behind him, watching the incoming person warily.
Xie Fengyue tilted her head and looked outside, and saw Xie Fengyu and Xie Rui walking in one after the other.
Xie Rui was still worried about saving face, so she knelt down and saluted, but Xie Fengyu was already sitting next to Xie Fengyue.
There was unreasonable anger in her words: "You know how to take some time off."
"Oh? Where did my sister come from?"
Xie Fengyu snorted and did not answer, but said coldly: "I heard that you are sick, but there are distinguished guests in the house, and my father and mother asked me to take you back in person."
Hearing this, Xie Fengyue's eyebrows twitched twice, and she asked warily: "Who is this distinguished guest?"
"Shi Zian"
Before Xie Fengyue could continue to ask, Xie Rui on the side had already spoken: "Congratulations to Sister Yue. My mother is going to propose marriage to you, so she asked you to go back and see each other."
Xie Fengyue glanced at Xie Rui's expression when she spoke, and it seemed that she had no idea that she and Shi Zian had known each other for a long time, so she followed the words and asked: "How come even Sister Rui knows about this? ”
Xie Rui lowered her eyes to cover up her jealousy and replied: "This is a huge happy event. My mother publicized it this morning, saying that she wanted to oust all those people in Shengjing who had such thoughts. It seems that Soon, our sister Yue will become Empress Wu Guoxin~"
Xie Fengyu, who knew the inside story, echoed with sarcasm in his eyes: "Yes, Sister Yue is going to become the new queen of Wu State again."
Xie Fengyue's expression became calm. She pulled Xie Fengyu into the back room without saying a word. When Xie Rui wanted to follow, she refused.
The two of them walked so fast that no one noticed the irrepressible look of resentment in Xie Rui's eyes behind them.
Xie Fengyu threw away Xie Fengyue's hand and said displeasedly: "If you have anything to say, do you need to avoid Xie Rui? Didn't she say that she has a good relationship with you?"
Xie Fengyue was too lazy to reply to her incomprehensible words, so she picked up the key and asked: "Why do you want to marry to Wu Gong again?"
Xie Fengyu raised his head and crossed his chest with his hands: "I don't know."
"Sister Yu, you are the only girl in the Xie family's direct branch. How can the affairs of the house escape your eyes, let alone such a trivial matter."
After a thousand times of flattery, Xie Fengyu looked obviously better. She finally looked at the person with a straight face.
Look at the pimples on his forehead that vary in size and depth.
What she started to say turned into a question: "Why is your face still so serious?" After that, she pulled off the gauze.
She suddenly became angry: "You are the only one who can do anything with your face. How did this happen? It's not easy for you to marry into a good family. What if you messed up the matter because of these red bumps?" What to do?”
Xie Fengyue failed to understand where her anger came from, and still patiently coaxed her.