Chapter 270 Donating Silver
After the conversation was over, night had fallen.
Food was prepared in the Chu family's village. The head of the farm, two stewards, and a dozen farmers were eating in the outer hall. Chu Xuanyu's family of three and Xia Zihan were eating on the Kang table in the study.
After eating, the head of the farm and several farmers took the two stewards of the Chu family and went to Tuanghuaicheng overnight to pick up food.
Of course, going with them were the five thousand Chu family troops secretly hiding on Xiangshan Mountain.
After Chu Jingqi finished eating, she was going to take two farmers to Qing'an Town to pick up cotton.
The cotton purchased by Tianzhuangtou is stored in a small village in Qing'an Town.
When the head of the small farm went there to collect cotton, he learned that it was going to be sold, so he thought of buying it to stack the cotton.
It happened that although the village was small, it had newly built several large tile-roofed houses, and the head of the village and the head of the farm were familiar to each other. They were relatives of one of the farmers in the farm, and their character was trustworthy.
After asking Xia Zihan for his opinion, Tianzhuangtou bought it for 1,200 taels of silver.
Before Chu Jingqi left, she wanted to go to the room to pack her luggage, but when Xia Zihan wasn't paying attention, she dragged her into his room. As soon as the door closed, he stretched out his arms and hugged her tightly.
"Don't move, I'll just hold you for a while. I'm going to leave Qing'an Town directly tomorrow and won't come back."
So, this separation lasted for several years.
Therefore, he couldn't help but act rogue and dragged her to his room and asked him to give her a good hug.
Her soft and fragrant body, after he held her for the first time, he tasted it and thought about it day and night.
If she hadn't been determined to distance herself from him, he would probably have been unable to resist coming to hug her every night.
Chu Jingqi buried his head in her neck and took a few deep breaths of her body fragrance, almost intoxicated with her brows and eyes.
"Ayu, you have to wait for me." He held Xia Zihan's hand tightly and reluctantly.
Xia Zihan's heart was already panicked, chaotic, and beating wildly.
She opened her mouth, she should have refused him, but when she thought about not being able to see him for several years, and that his departure would be extremely dangerous, she couldn't make a sound.
He was only ten years old and about to go to war.
In his previous life, he went to the battlefield at the age of ten, fought hard again and again, and narrowly escaped death before he was promoted to the rank of a minor general.
In this life, his fate had been changed by her long ago. Now his parents are still alive and he can have a little brother or sister, but his fate of going to the battlefield at the age of ten follows the trajectory of his previous life.
She had been with him for so long, even if she regarded him as a younger brother, she would still be worried.
In the end, all the thousands of words turned into a few words of advice, "You must protect yourself carefully. On the battlefield, when two armies are facing each other, you must not be conceited and underestimate the enemy. Remember one sentence, if your life is gone, you will lose everything. Keep your life." , everything is possible.”
Chu Jingqi's eyes lit up.
Everything is possible. Is this Ayu's promise to him?
It wasn't until Chu Xuanyu knocked on the door that Chu Jingqi had to let go of her.
"Let's go out." Xia Zihan whispered.
As soon as she turned around, a strong force behind her pulled her into his arms. The next second, her chin was lifted and her red lips were blocked.
Xia Zihan panicked and struggled desperately, but his body was tightly restrained by him, and his lips were sore from his fierce sucking.
After a long time, he breathed slightly, his handsome face flushed, and he let go of her quite contentedly, and said matter-of-factly, "I don't want to let you go, so you have to comfort me for the pain of missing you after not being able to see you for several years."
Xia Zihan's face turned dark in anger, and she reached out and pinched his waist hard.
Chu Jingqi only frowned and pecked her on the lips with a hearty laugh, and then let her out of the room with satisfaction.
As soon as Xia Zihan went out, she saw Mrs. Zhuo winking at her. She was so embarrassed that her cheeks turned red and she covered her mouth with a handkerchief and ran away.
After looking in the mirror and seeing his red and swollen mouth, Xia Zihan was so angry that he gritted his teeth.
But when she thought of Chu Jingqi going to war at such a young age, she felt distressed and felt a tightness in her chest.
A sense of reluctance comes from the heart.
After hesitating for half a cup of tea, Xia Zihan applied swelling-reducing ointment on her lips and went out to see Chu Jingqi off.
Chu Jingqi's eyebrows curved when he saw her.
Reluctantly saying goodbye to Mr. Zhuo and Xia Zihan, he turned around and rode away with several farmers.
Mrs. Zhuo cried and fell into Chu Xuanyu's arms and hit him with her fists, "You heartless person, you are so cruel. Aqi is only ten years old. You are going to die."
"Don't cry, don't cry. What if you break your health from crying? There's still another child in your belly. You have to take care of our second child." Chu Xuanyu did not shy away from others and hurriedly hugged her to comfort her.
After coaxing her for a long time, Mrs. Zhuo returned to the house.
But Chu Xuanyu stayed in Zhuangzi, and he and a group of soldiers smeared the grains packed and transported in Zhuangzi overnight, and transported them out of Zhuangzi by carriage in the middle of the night.
Everything was done quietly, without disturbing the people on the left and right sides of the village.
After Chu Xuanyu and his son left, Xia Zihan stayed with Zhuo in Zhuangzi. After a few days, Zhuo started to suffer from morning sickness.
Zhuo suffered from severe morning sickness, and her face would change drastically whenever she smelled something fishy. Xia Zihan prescribed a pill for Zhuo to reduce vomiting, "Take two pills and the vomiting will be relieved."
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He also wrote a list of medicinal materials, which were all for nourishing the fetus and repairing the body. He gave the two lists to Chu Cang and ordered her to go back to Chu's house to get the medicinal materials from Old Man Bai. "If Old Man Bai doesn't have it, go to the pharmacy to buy it. Buy more and keep them for later use."
"Yes, Master, I know this."
Chu Cong took the list and was blessed.
Within half a day, Chu Cang came back and brought back a large bag of medicinal materials.
"Master, the capital has been very lively these days while you are away." Chu Cong put the baggage on the table, "The day after the second uncle left, many ministers impeached the second uncle, and also impeached the second prince."
"Impeach the second prince?" Who is so bold that he even dares to impeach the second prince? "What about impeaching the second prince? Have you ever asked about it?"
"It was the second housekeeper Cui who told the slave. He said that the imperial censor impeached the second prince for causing floods in the south of the Yangtze River. When the people were displaced and had no food to eat, he still held a grand banquet. As a prince, he did not show love and compassion for the people. Heart.”
"I heard that the Second Prince became angry immediately and threw out 50,000 taels of silver notes in front of all the officials to donate to the disaster area."
Now, he has a heart to love and care for the people.
"Then, the second prince questioned the officials in public. Whoever loves the people or not should look at actual actions, not just talk. He is a careless soldier and cannot compete with the censors and civil servants who play with their pens."
Then he told the officials that he had planned to secretly donate tens of thousands of taels of silver to disaster relief after going to court that day. Since the censor impeached him, he would donate money in public to relieve the disaster.
Moreover, he hinted to all officials in and out of words that anyone who did not donate money for disaster relief was not a good official who loved the people like his own son.
At this time, all officials in the capital were alarmed.
Who dares not to donate?
Whoever does not donate has no people and no king in his heart. This is a serious crime.
"The master also donated one hundred taels of silver." Chu Cong said, "The old lady asked the master to donate two hundred taels of silver."
“I heard that in just one day, officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs received a donation of more than 200,000 taels of silver.”
Xia Zihan opened his eyes wide.
She was not dumb because of the two hundred thousand taels of silver, but because of the current emperor's wisdom.
As the saying goes, bystanders are wise, but those in authority are confused.
What she saw was not the gift of more than 200,000 taels of silver, but a huge conspiracy.
This matter is obviously a big trap, and the prey is the money in the pockets of civil and military officials.
As for those who dare to openly dig a trap and defraud hundreds of officials of their money, except for the emperor, who is more powerful than tens of thousands of people, and the second prince, who is less than ten thousand people, probably no one has the courage.
And the emperor's plan was also used extremely well.
The emperor secretly gave Chu Xuanyu 800,000 taels of silver to buy food. The floods in the south of the Yangtze River must have also used a lot of money. No matter how full the treasury was, the emperor could not afford to use it like this.
It was better now. This move by the officials in the capital was equivalent to reducing the pressure on the court and the emperor.
And the most important thing is that the emperor's move easily diverted the attention of the officials from the Chu family.
This point is the most important.
Chu Cang told Xia Zihan two more things.
"It seems that the third girl of the Dou family made some mistake and was sent to a nunnery. The slave didn't inquire about the specific reason. She only knew that the third girl of the Dou family had her hair cut off and became a nun."
A person who was fine a while ago turned into a nun in the blink of an eye?
Xia Zihan's eyes were filled with astonishment.
But soon, her heart calmed down again.
In fact, after hearing about the history of the Dou family and knowing Dou San's thoughts, she guessed that Dou San's affection would not end well.
Decades ago, the Dou family was almost wiped out because of their marriage to the royal family. That blow left the Dou family still terrified and walking on thin ice.
Nowadays, let alone Dou San, even if all the girls in the Dou family are moved, the Dou family elders can be ruthless and send them to the nunnery.
Therefore, after Dou San became interested in Ao Tianchen, her ending was doomed.
"Master, there is one more thing..."
Chu Cong pursed his lips and looked a little unhappy, "I don't know how the last time the master went to visit Min Juren, the family of Min Juren knew about it. Min Juren's aunt asked a matchmaker to come to the house to propose marriage, but the old lady refused. ”
She heard Qingya say that the matchmaker's face was very ugly at that time, and her words alluded to the fact that the Chu family had no heirs. Even if the old lady wanted to recruit Min Juren to the Chu family, Min Juren's aunt was also willing.
The old lady was so angry that she immediately kicked the matchmaker out.
Due to the convenience of her job, the matchmaker often visited the houses of some wealthy families. Mother Su was worried that the matchmaker would talk nonsense after going out and ruin the reputation of the master and the old lady, so she told the story with snot and tears that the master could not get engaged before he was nineteen years old. Told the matchmaker.
The matchmaker's face looked better now.
Then, Su's mother told the matchmaker that the master did not go to see Min Juren, but a nun beside the master went to see him, but that was not to see the master, but to see the master's sister.
This led the matter to Xia Ziqing.
(End of chapter)