The Red Mansions

Chapter 1618 Xie Zaiyi: If the prince can be crowned 95

Chapter 1618: Xie Zaiyi: If the prince can ascend to the throne...

Grand View Garden, Daoxiang Village

Jia Heng reached out and gently took Li Wan's slender hand. Under his thick eyebrows, his eyes were filled with warmth and tenderness. He looked at Li Wan with pity and said, "Wan'er, let me see if you have gained weight."

Li Wan raised her delicate eyebrows slightly, her eyes showing a dazed look, and said shyly, "Your Highness, Wen'er and Qi'er are still here."

Jia Heng chuckled and said jokingly, "Wen'er and Qi'er are not outsiders either."

Turning around, I saw Li Wen and Li Qi, with their beautiful heads lowered, and a bright red blush appeared on both sides of their faces.

To be honest, since he married the two of them, he has indeed visited the Wenqi sisters less often.

Jia Heng looked at Li Qi with burning eyes and said jokingly, "Qi'er was glaring at me just now. It seems that she is secretly criticizing me."

Li Qi's temperament is obviously more lively than Li Wen's. She can't hide anything on her mind, and it's all written on her face. Therefore, there seemed to be a layer of resentment between her brows just now.

At first glance, it is quite interesting.

Li Qi's eyebrows and eyes were shy, and her face, which was like a charming spring flower, was flushed. She whispered, "Brother Heng, how could I have it?"

Jia Heng smiled, came closer, took Li Qi's slender hand, and said softly, "Your unhappiness is written all over your face, but you haven't yet."

Li Qi lowered her beautiful head at this moment, her eyes were soft and sparkling under her emerald eyebrows, and she whispered: "The prince is busy with important matters outside, I dare not be unhappy."

Jia Heng smiled, looked at the beautiful woman whose face was as white as snow and as beautiful as clouds, and whispered, "I am really busy, but I am not so busy that I don't have time to visit you and your sister."

"Ah?" Li Qi's face was filled with surprise, her lips slightly opened. At this moment, under her slender eyebrows, her charming eyes were full of confusion.

The prince really didn't like her and her sister very much.

Yes, there was always a lot of beautiful girls around him, but it was never her and her sister's turn.

She and her sister were originally ordinary people, so it was reasonable that the prince did not come to visit them.

While Jia Heng was speaking, he gently reached out and took Li Qi's slender hand, stared at Li Qi, and said softly: "Even if you think about Sister Qi and Sister Wen, you can't find them."

As he spoke, he gently took Li Qi and Li Wen's slender hands, looked at Li Qi intently, and said, "You should come and talk to me more often."

Li Qi's face, as white as snow, was shy and timid, her eyes were soft as water, her heart was pounding, and her plump, bright face was flushed.

After all, she was young and shy, so she was naturally shy when Jia Heng singled her out and treated her intimately in broad daylight.

Li Wen also lowered her beautiful head, and her bright face, as bright as clouds, showed a hint of surprise.

Under her beautiful green eyebrows, Li Wan looked at the two charming girls with a bright smile, who were acting coquettishly and foolishly with Jia Heng.

It’s a similar state of mind.

That is, looking at the youthful version of myself, playing around with Jia Heng, I also have the illusion that I was once young.

Jia Heng's expression paused slightly, and he looked at Li Wen with warm eyes, and whispered: "Wen'er, didn't you miss me these days?"

Li Wen, who was acting taciturn at the side, raised her beautiful and bright face and said "hmm" softly.

Jia Heng smiled, joked, and said, "You've been married for so long, why are you still so shy?"

As he spoke, he gently hugged Li Wen's shoulders, kissed her delicate face, and said in a trembling voice, "Wen'er."

Li Wen hummed softly, and her jade-white face seemed to be covered with a layer of blush. Then she lowered her long black hair to her chest, and her eyes were filled with gentleness and submissiveness.

Jia Heng paused for a moment and said, "Sister Wen'er, I've neglected you during this period of time."

Li Wen responded softly, and gently raised her beautiful head, with a warm smile on her white and jade-like face.

Li Wan picked up the child in her arms and watched Jia Heng chatting with his two cousins ​​with a bright smile. Her beautiful eyes under her emerald eyebrows were filled with joy and brightness.

While Jia Heng was speaking, he gently put his arm around Li Wen's shoulders and said, "Sister Wen'er."

Li Wencui's expression paused slightly as she raised her eyebrows. She stared at the young man in the python robe and said in a quiet voice with a hint of shock, "Your Highness."

Jia Heng also held the two cute babies in his arms, his face showing a father's doting and love.

Li Wan said softly, "Your Majesty, they haven't been named yet."

Jia Heng smiled and said, "Let's name the son Jia Fan and the girl Jia Kui."

The name Jia Fan sounds like a famous official in the Han Dynasty. As for Jia Kui, he was born facing the sun.

Li Wan pondered over the two words and murmured, "Then they will be called Jia Fan and Jia Kui."

Then, he looked at his own twin boy and girl, and his heart was filled with endless love.

Jia Heng smiled and said gently, "Take good care of them in the future. I will come to see you often."

Li Wan responded softly, "Don't worry, Ziyu, I will take good care of them."

Jia Heng smiled and said, "Let Suyun and Biyue take the two children out."

Li Wan responded softly, calling Suyun and Biyue into the side room, and the beautiful women's cheeks, filled with the gentle and graceful maternal charm, were flushed with two blushes.

In broad daylight, could he be...

After Suyun and Biyue took the two children away, Jia Heng, Li Wan, Li Wen and Li Qi were the only ones left in the room.

Li Wen blushed with a face as white as snow and said, "Your Majesty, my sister and I will go back first."

Jia Heng whispered, "Why are you two leaving?"

Upon hearing this, Li Wen's body trembled violently, and her snow-white face turned red as fire. She stared at Jia Heng, then lowered her beautiful head again.

At the beginning, Li Wen and Li Qi had both seen with their own eyes how Jia Heng controlled Li Wan.

While Jia Heng was speaking, he gently embraced Li Wan's shoulders, lowered his head to her slightly pink and moist lips, and kissed them, gently taking in the clear and sweet taste.

After an unknown amount of time, Jia Heng stared at the beauty with disheveled clothes, and saw that she became more plump and charming after giving birth.

Li Wan's eyes showed shyness. She glanced at Li Wen and Li Qi who were not far away and called out, "Zi Yu."

Jia Heng smiled and said, "You two serve."

Li Wen and Li Qi responded softly, and their charming faces, like flowers, had beautiful blushes on both sides of their cheeks.

But in the end the two sisters listened to Jia Heng's words obediently, squatted down and moved closer, their two beautiful and bright faces were plump and lovely, as rosy as clouds.

At this moment, Jia Heng buried his head in Li Wan's lapel, wandering back and forth in the fragrance of milk, as if he was enjoying it and didn't want to leave.

Li Wen and Li Qi came closer, their two rosy and chubby faces sometimes sunken and sometimes hollow, and beneath their crescent-shaped eyebrows, one could see that their affection and love were overflowing.

Everyone has a bright future if they do their own thing.

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Grand View Garden, Daoxiang Village

Jia Heng had a good time with Li Wan, Li Wen and Li Qi in Daoxiang Village.

After a while, he lowered his eyes to look at Li Wan, who was as soft as a silkworm, and thought to himself that although Li Wan was a little shy just now, she was obviously too pent up to control herself and had taken the initiative towards him.

As for Wen Qi and the other girl, their skin was as white as snow with a rosy red aura, and they were undoubtedly more beautiful than flowers and as bright as the clouds.

Just stacked together and snuggled up to each other.

Li Qifang's heart was trembling, her eyebrows and eyes were dazed, the intermittent feeling, as well as the plumpness of her own sister and sister Wan, made her even more frightened.

Li Wen, on the other hand, was like a docile kitten, breathing softly and with dreamy eyes.

Jia Heng said nothing more. He tidied his clothes and walked leisurely to the study in the front yard. He looked at Chen Xiao warmly and said, "Xiaoxiao."

Chen Xiao squinted at Jia Heng and said sarcastically, "The rebellion in Bashu has been quelled, so you can have fun now, right?"

There is a scent of powder and a scent of nai, and there are only a few people raising children in the backyard, and they all come from Daoxiang Village.

Jia Heng looked strange for a moment, and retorted: "How can you say that he is having fun? Even if he stayed in the backyard and talked with his wives and concubines for a while, he can't be outside all the time without being with them."

Chen Xiao did not continue to speak based on Jia Heng's words, and said: "It is a coincidence that just now, the Mongolian king also delivered a military report that the Khoshut Khan could not gain any advantage under the city of Chamdo, and the Mongolian king led his troops to march into Tibet."

Jia Heng nodded and said, "The chaos caused by the Southwest Rebellion has been completely resolved."

Chen Xiao hummed softly and said, "What are your plans next? When are you going to confront Zhen Qing?"

Jia Heng said: "The affairs of the court have not been settled yet. Besides, we have to wait until the New Year is over."

He was also thinking about how to take over the Han Dynasty in an open and aboveboard manner, but he found that no matter how he whitewashed it, he could not escape the criticism of the people of the world.

We need to wait until the future, with great civil and military achievements, to prove his legitimacy and orthodoxy to the people of the world.

Chen Xiao thought for a moment and said, "Zhen Qing will definitely not sit idly by and watch you take away her son's throne. She will definitely take some actions to stop you when the time comes."

Jia Heng's face was solemn, and a layer of gloom covered his heart.

I'm afraid that Zhen Qing will become his enemy in the future because of Jie'er's matter.

After a woman has a child, she will definitely shift her focus to the child.

Chen Xiao's expression paused slightly, and he looked at Jia Heng with eyes like dew, and said: "Don't be too stressed. It seems that Zhen Qing has no one to rely on except you."

Jia Heng sighed and said, "Women are weak, but they are strong when they become mothers. When that day comes, you can't guarantee that they will do something irrational."

Chen Xiao nodded and said, "That's true."

Jia Heng felt that the topic was a bit heavy, so he changed the subject and said, "Okay, let's not talk about this for now."

Chen Xiao said "hmm", walked to the desk, picked up the book and began to read it.

As he was speaking, Jia Heng had already come to the side of the desk, picked up the blue-covered book, and began to read quietly.

At this moment, Gu Ruoqing came over, picked up a teapot, took a few teacups, and poured tea with a "clattering" sound. She looked at Jia Heng and whispered, "Your Highness, this is the pigeon soup I made in the back kitchen. Please have a taste."

Jia Heng nodded, took the teacup handed to him by Gu Ruoqing, and took a sip.

Ruoqing is developing into a good wife and mother who can cook soup with just her bare hands.

Gu Ruoqing suddenly went behind Jia Heng and gently massaged his shoulders.

Jia Heng raised his eyes to look at Chen Xiao and said, "How has the Jinyi Mansion been monitoring Li Zan and Xu Lu these past two days?"

Chen Xiao's voice was filled with worry as he said, "The two have been very close recently, and have even been in frequent contact with Cao Bianjiao in the Beijing camp, seemingly plotting something big."

Jia Heng's heart moved slightly, and he looked thoughtful, and said: "It seems that Li Zan wants to use Cao Bianjiao as the sword to cut through the thorns."

Since the Battle of Liaodong, Cao Bianjiao was awarded a title of nobility for his merits and now commands a battalion in the Beijing Camp. And because Li Zan was Cao Bianjiao's immediate superior when he was in charge of Peking, they can be considered to have a predestined relationship.

However, clearing out the imperial court would be a castle in the air without the support of military nobles.

But among so many soldiers and generals, only a handful of them had military merits that could be used by Li Zan.

Because most of the military honors were promoted by him, the Duke of Weiguo, and they have been deeply influenced by the Jia family.

Jia Heng thought about this, with a thoughtful look on his face, and said, "Cao Bianjiao should not be bewitched by Li Zan's words."

Chen Xiao was silent for a moment, and said: "Things are different now. Maybe Cao Bianjiao regarded you as a pillar of the country, but now he has been made a marquis. What you have done recently also seems like a minister who is a disaster to the country. It is hard to guarantee that you will not have the idea of ​​supporting the country."

Jia Heng was silent for a moment after hearing this, and said, "It's not impossible."

If this is the case, it is indeed a bit helpless.

When orchids are in the way, they have to be weeded out.

Chen Xiao nodded and said, "Then I'll have someone keep an eye on it first."

Jia Heng was silent for a moment, then said, "Well, let's have someone keep an eye on them first, and then I'll think about what to do next."

As the saying goes, it is better to loosen up than to block. If Li Zan, Xu Lu and other "the last backbone of the Han Dynasty" are not given the opportunity to rebel, it will be impossible to catch them all in one fell swoop.

The Chen Han Dynasty had been established for a hundred years, with loyal officials and righteous men throughout the court and the country. Without several purges, it would be nothing short of a pipe dream to want to usurp the throne.

Gu Ruoqing's eyebrows were curved, her eyes sparkling like water, and she asked with concern, "My Lord, if you don't drink this soup now, it will get cold, and when it gets cold, it won't be fresh anymore."

Jia Heng picked up a soup bowl and a spoon and used them slowly.

After finishing the soup, Gu Ruoqing raised her long black hair and looked at Jia Heng, asking with concern, "My Lord, have you predicted what's going on outside?"

Jia Heng said loudly: "It's almost done, Ruoqing, when I have free time in the future, I will take you to Jiangnan for a walk."

Gu Ruoqing said quietly, "By then, the prince might be even busier."

Although she did not participate just now, she was able to understand some of it. The prince wanted to ascend to the throne in the future.

Jia Heng was silent for a moment, then whispered, "Maybe."

Emperor Qianlong made six trips to the south of the Yangtze River, and perhaps he could follow suit during his lifetime.

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Time flies, and three days have passed before I knew it.

After Xie Zaiyi entered Chengdu Prefecture, the situation in Bashu became increasingly stable and smooth. Xie Zaiyi met with a number of Bashu gentry and sorted out affairs in Sichuan and other places.

We patiently comforted the Sichuan chieftains and generals who had turned against us and played a huge role in the battle of Jianmen Pass.

On this day, Xie Zaiyi was sitting behind a lacquered wooden table in the center of the general's office, looking down at the civil affairs books and information for the entire Sichuan Province.

Since the Gao family took over Sichuan, they have been working diligently and have made the entire Sichuan province prosperous. However, after so much time, there has still been some factionalism.

Xie Zaiyi stretched out his hand and flipped through the book in his hand. A thoughtful look seemed to appear on his majestic and resolute face.

At this moment, Jia Yun came in from outside, looked at Xie Zaiyi intently, and said with a cupped hand, "Duke Liao."

"Have the grain and fodder in the city been counted, and do they match the numbers in the account books?" Xie Zaiyi put down the book in his hand, looked up and asked.

Jia Yun nodded and said, "I have already counted them."

Xie Zaiyi pondered for a moment and said, "Have you ever counted and recovered the Gao family's treasury? Send someone to find out the stolen silver that Cang Bing hid and put it into the treasury."

Jia Yun looked surprised and said, "Duke Liao, I have already sent people to search for the stolen silver in Gao's mansion."

Xie Zaiyi said solemnly, "Have someone search thoroughly. The Gao family has been in charge of Sichuan for more than ten years, and the amount of embezzlement is incalculable. Some of the properties and stolen money should be unearthed as soon as possible."

Jia Yun's expression paused slightly, his eyes flickered beneath his sword-like brows, and he said in a loud voice: "Duke Liao, those foreign chieftains of Sichuan?"

Xie Zaiyi was silent for a moment, and said: "They turned against us at Jianmen Pass and just made great contributions in suppressing the rebellion in Shu. Even if the court wants to implement a policy to stabilize the border, it will take some time."

In other words, even if you want to get rid of the donkey after it has served its purpose, you can't be too hasty, at least you can't let outsiders see it.

Jia Yun nodded and said loudly, "Duke Liao is right."

Xie Zaiyi looked encouraging and said, "Okay, get busy."

Jia Yun's face turned serious and he bowed in agreement.

Xie Zaiyi raised his eyes and looked quietly at Jia Yun's back, a thoughtful look on his face.

When the imperial court commends Jia Yun for his merits later, he should be awarded the title of marquis. After all, the conquest of Shu was his greatest achievement.

Xie Zaiyi's face became serious and he shook his head slightly.

Even if he counts his military achievements in the war to pacify Shu, it will be difficult for him to be promoted to the second-class duke. There is no need to be too anxious about being promoted to the duke.

If the prince could ascend to the throne... perhaps, he could be granted the title of a prince of a county. The title of a prince of a county seems to be hereditary, which would really be a good way to earn a stable living for his descendants.

Thinking of this, Xie Zaiyi couldn't help but feel a surge of heat in his heart.

Xie Zaiyi picked up a book with a blue cover, lowered his eyes, and began to read it again.