Chapter 318 Farewell
Baiyu Tower still hasn’t been completed.
After receiving a secret letter on the way, Gongzi Yan gave Xie Fengyue many instructions with a very serious expression, and then left on horseback.
Before leaving, he also handed Songshan's record book to Xie Fengyue. The book recorded the temperament and abilities of the people he left behind.
Only then did Xie Fengyue know how many people he had arranged around him.
For example, the inn where I live now is all his, from the shopkeeper to the little boy who cooks the fire in the kitchen.
Xie Fengyue stood leaning against the window, flipping through the pages of the booklet in her hand, and her heart gradually warmed with Songshan's scrawled handwriting.
This book records all the actions of Gongzi Yan's men. Xie Fengyue saw at a glance that the most detailed records recorded by Songshan were the actions in June and July of last year. Although he did not describe this part in detail, his actions were still revealed between the lines. Doubt and helplessness.
There was no other reason than that Gongzi Yan dispatched a group of Langya masters to build roads, sprinkle medicine, and drive away wild animals. The location was Ailao Mountain.
Xie Fengyue's eyes looked a little sour.
Continue reading, and bits and pieces of the past emerge one by one.
She escaped from marriage for the first time, went to Qishan, and went south to Lingnan. Gongzi Yan silently guarded her every time. This kind of constant companionship made Xie Fengyue's sadness even worse.
Her young master Yan is a fool.
At some point, the corners of her eyes were wet, and Xie Fengyue gently closed her eyes to let the thousands of thoughts settle.
Xie Fengyue picked up the jade fan he left behind with both hands. The warm touch of the fan almost made her cry. This fan had once been in her hands, but at that time she was in a dilemma. She finally returned the fan to its original owner.
Xie Fengyue's eyes drifted far away, and she seemed to see Gongzi Yan galloping through thousands of obstacles.
Her red lips parted slightly, and her tone of voice was pious: "May you be safe."
The second day.
Xie Fengyue went to Lin'an Baozhuang Pavilion.
As soon as she walked in, the shopkeeper who was doing the accounting behind the counter recognized her, put down what he was doing and immediately closed the door to see the customers away.
Before Xie Fengyue expressed her intention to come, the shopkeeper respectfully took out two boxes: "Master has already prepared them for Madam."
As soon as Xie Fengyue opened the box, the sour feeling came back.
There were stacks of silver notes neatly placed in the box.
It turned out that he had already guessed why she was looking for Lin Qingping.
Xie Fengyue lowered her eyes to hide her red eyes, and said in a solemn voice: "Thank you very much, shopkeeper. Can your master leave a message?"
The man who packed the cabinet thought for a while and said: "No, the master came in a hurry at night and just asked the slave to prepare some silver."
Xie Fengyue hummed, and then asked a lot: "Why do you know me?"
The shopkeeper cheerfully replied: "We all know Madam."
Xie Fengyue didn't dare to speak anymore and left Baozhuang Pavilion in a hurry.
As soon as I got on the carriage, I burst into tears.
Her young master Yan is really a fool.
When she arrived at the inn, Xie Fengyue had already sorted out her mood. As soon as she returned, she gathered everyone and rushed back to Yongning overnight.
Whether it was the Emperor Zhou moving the capital, Wei Ning proclaiming himself king, or Prince Yan rushing back to Langya to see it.
They all mean that places with many people nowadays are places of right and wrong.
Emperor Zhou is stupid, but the ministers in the court are not stupid. If there is no other way, it is absolutely impossible to move the capital, especially for a family like Lin whose ancestral home is in Shengjing. Even they have no objection and obey this move. Moving the capital means that the world may be more chaotic than Xie Fengyue imagined.
Outside there is Beiyuan, and inside there is Weining who rebels and becomes king.
Especially for people like Weining, if there is the first one, there will be a second one and a third one. In this way, any place where Emperor Zhou is present will become a target of public criticism.
Not to mention the sudden departure of Gongzi Yan, everything means that Xie Fengyue must leave. Xie Fengyue's guess was right, on the tenth day after she left Lin'an.
Yeluya used her birthday party to hold a group of nobles hostage, and forced the families to recognize the monarch of Qi who had cooperated with her internally and externally as the new emperor.
The family had no choice but to hold their noses and admit it.
Queen Qi is the biological sister of Emperor Zhou. The former eldest princess Zhaohua has now become Queen Qi.
As soon as the king of Qi came to power, he issued a letter of credence asking for peace with Beiyuan.
The big one is the compensation of five million taels of silver, plus cutting off the north of Shengjing for peace, and the small ones are countless.
More than a month had passed when Xie Fengyue heard Lu Mei talk about these things.
She hurriedly listened to a few sentences and rushed to the island.
Nowadays, the more chaotic it is outside, the more people there are in Yongning and other places of refuge. Even Lu Mei becomes busy when there are more people.
The things that the idle yamen dealt with in the past are no longer just a matter of losing the chickens of this family and the ducks of that family.
But the husband of a certain family seized the girl of a certain family, and the master of a certain family beat some people to death.
Xie Fengyue once thought that after seeing the people suffering from drought, it was not surprising that she saw others.
But what she saw along the way was enough for her to understand the difference between man-made disasters and natural disasters.
The evil nature of human nature made Xie Fengyue increasingly silent.
In the past few months, she could occasionally receive letters from Gongzi Yan in the first month or two. Three months later, there was no reply to the letters sent by Xie Fengyue.
While Xie Fengyue forced herself to calm down, she began to form her own private army. They were all young men of seventeen or eighteen years old, all of whom were slaves. Some were selected from existing slaves, and some were new slaves purchased.
As soon as the people were bought, they were thrown on various small islands. Those people who had been trained by Li Xiaobao for a few months were considered to be apprentices. Now these young men put training on the agenda as soon as they arrived the next day.
During this period, Xie Fengyue's second mine was already in the mining stage.
It’s not that the copper mines have been mined, it’s just that there’s too much chaos outside and the profits from continuing to mine the copper mines are too small. Xie Fengyue directly ordered to stop the mining of copper ore and go directly to mine iron ore.
Nowadays, productivity is low and many private soldiers of wealthy families do not actually have many iron weapons in their hands. Wooden sticks and bamboo sticks are the mainstream.
Once Xie Fengyue's iron ore is mined, she can not only sell it but also arm all her private soldiers.
She would never leave the island easily to find Young Master Yan in Langya if she was not completely sure.
Whenever she encounters danger, at least it will distract Young Master Yan from saving her, and at worst, it may even involve him.
Xie Fengyue can't do this.
More than half a year has passed in a blink of an eye, and it’s the end of the year in a blink of an eye.
Xie Fengyue still hasn't received a reply from Gongzi Yan. Her first batch of iron ore was produced. She immediately ordered people to start smelting iron. At the same time, the white glue researched by Adjutant Wu in Yongning also had initial results. The defensive power of the armor made of white glue is comparable to the iron armor weighing fifty or sixty kilograms worn by ordinary generals.
Everything is developing steadily, and Xie Fengyue misses Gongzi Yan more and more.
During the past six months, she had kept a full schedule. She went to the mining island to accompany Xiao Xuan for mine exploration, and to the small island to train with Li Xiaobao.
Her once fair and somewhat sickly skin also showed a healthy color, and her black hair, which was long enough to be used in any bun, was cut shorter and longer.
Xie Fengyue sat at the window, looking at the empty stone table in the courtyard.
When Gongzi Yan was still there, he would often sit there.
Sometimes he was flipping the abacus with his fingers, calculating embarrassing accounts for her, and sometimes he was sitting there reading a book.
He could always feel her eyes looking at him, and then he would turn his head to look at her with curved eyebrows.
Xie Fengyue took a deep breath and comforted herself: "Wait, wait."
Thank you book friend Huan o for your monthly ticket~