The Red Mansions

Chapter 685 Chen Xiao: You can be

Chapter 685 Chen Xiao: You can be...

Jinyang Princess Palace

After some lingering affection, Jia Heng turned to ask about King Zhou's seizure of his heir.

Princess Jinyang frowned, and said softly: "This matter is very complicated. Brother Zhou Wang has been weak since he was a child. It is hard for me to say whether someone has plotted against him, but King Zhongshun is indeed very suspicious. I don't know whether brother is watching this matter coldly or not."

In fact, there are many doubts. She even doubted whether Brother Huang used tricks against Brother Zhou.

Jia Heng raised his eyes to look at the gloomy beauty, and asked, "By the way, why are you so sure that I am not?"

Princess Jinyang's phoenix eyes turned sharply, she fixed her gaze on Jia Heng, reached out to gently caress the young man's cheek, and said softly: "Because of this palace... well, let's stop asking, okay? They're all old sesame seeds About the rotten beans, you have to get to the bottom of it."

My man's mind is extraordinary, so he can't tell the truth without asking questions. It's not that he can't tell him, but if he has resentment towards Brother Huang in his heart, he will definitely be alienated from Brother Huang. I have always been sensitive and suspicious, once there is a gap, I will definitely be vigilant in the long run.

From the current point of view, someone should have performed a trick, but what is the purpose of this trick?

But after all, it was a royal family scandal. The father who was furious didn't ask about men and women at all, and ordered to be drowned, and the woman who was born in succession was also executed. I didn't want to wait for a while, but she appeared again?

"Okay." Jia Heng felt the beauty's tone coaxing the child, and felt a strange feeling in his heart, and buried his head in the snowdrift of the beauty.

In fact, after asking, even if there is no answer, I have guessed some details in my heart, and I can basically rule out the option of the prince's heir, otherwise with Xianning... Jinyang would not be so calm.

And Jinyang is so secretive, since it is not the blood of the abolished prince, maybe it is inseparable from the abolished prince, and it may be the blood of an important figure in the prince group.

But even so, if it reached the ears of Emperor Chongping, then because his current position itself is very sensitive, the thriving trend may be interrupted from then on.

Sometimes, not touching it for a while may not be a good thing, which is why some files will be decrypted after a while.

Yuan Chun breathed lightly, Yuyan became dizzy, and said: "Brother Heng, don't ask, don't embarrass Your Highness."

Jia Heng got up, pulled Yuan Chun over, looked at the jade man, and said, "Then don't ask."

Princess Jinyang's phoenix eyes were as bright as water, and she said in a low voice: "Stop asking the bottom line, do what you should do, and bring that Chen Xiao here quickly. If she is not a good princess, she must go crazy."

Afterwards, after Jia Heng took a bath, he changed his clothes, went to the flower hall to have lunch, looked up at the girl, and asked in surprise, "Chanyue, when did you come here?"

"I've been here for a while." Li Chanyue combed her flying fairy bun, looked at Jia Heng with a pretty face, and asked, "Mr. Jia, where's your mother?"

Jia Heng said softly: "Well, she is still taking a bath."

Saying that, she leaned closer, sat on the side, took Li Chanyue's hand, and asked, "Chanyue, what have you been up to lately?"

Li Chanyue's face was flustered, her staring eyes were fixed, a little shy between her brows and eyes, she hid aside, her cheeks flushed, she glanced around, and said in a trembling voice: "Mr. Jia, I'm not hot, and my head is not sweaty either."

Jia Heng: "..."

Seeing that the child was frightened, they all had a stress response. It seems that they need to restrain themselves.

However, at the beginning, it was just to break the barrier between him and Chanyue, which was considered an ice-breaking action.

Jia Heng said: "I have nothing else to do, I just want to talk to my family, Chanyue, and Chanyue is sitting next to me... next to me."

When he said that, he felt something was wrong, so he quickly changed his words. Jin Yang had just sat down before.

Li Chanyue's heart trembled when she heard the words, she pursed her cherry lips, stared at the young man opposite, and said shyly, "Who belongs to your family?"

Jia Heng took the girl's slender hand, brought it to his side, and said in a low voice, "Chanyue."

Li Chanyue struggled lightly and let Jia Heng hold her, her cheeks flushed slightly, her heart filled with sweetness.

"Mr. Jia, the sweet potato you selected last time, I saw that Uncle Huang has already planted it in the back garden of the palace. Is it really so productive?" Li Chanyue blinked her starry eyes, turned her pretty face, and asked suddenly road.

Jia Heng said: "Compared to the current Migu, it must be much stronger."

"Can it be promoted in the Northland?" Li Chanyue said softly.

Jia Heng said: "There should be no serious problems."

In the botanical history of sweet potatoes, Xu Guangqi introduced sweet potatoes from Fujian to Shanghai, and then to Jiangsu. Chen Chuangui, the fifth grandson of Chen Zhenlong, introduced sweet potatoes to Zhejiang. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the government vigorously promoted sweet potatoes. In Zhili (Hebei) It is said that it is widely encouraged to plant in other places, which is said to be recorded in historical materials: "Imperially direct provinces to encourage planting." After that, sweet potatoes were gradually spread to the southwest "Yunguichuan" and other places.

Therefore, the so-called habit is limited to a certain region and cannot be widely planted. It is purely nonsense. Even Baidu is unwilling to Baidu, imagine it out of thin air, let alone search HowNet journals?

He was from the Central Plains in his previous life, and his parents grew up eating sweet potato soup, sweet potato noodles, and steamed sweet potatoes in the era of three mentions and five traditions. In the face of hunger, no one cares whether you will feel sick after eating for a long time. The hunger is strong.

Li Chanyue asked curiously: "When will I be able to harvest?"

Jia Heng didn't answer, but asked: "Chanyue is very concerned about this matter."

"Mr. Jia once said that food is the most important thing for the people, and I also deeply agree. Recently, I read some books on agriculture." Li Chanyue said softly.

Jia Heng said softly: "Chanyue likes to read very much, she has poetry and books in her belly."

As he spoke, he pulled Li Chanyue's hand, and sometimes he didn't need to pile up snow or dig wells every time. Compared with the age of wolves and tigers, which was determined by physical needs, girls of this age paid more attention to emotional value.

The so-called, you can say whatever she likes to hear, and then...she took off her pants.

Li Chanyue felt a little ashamed, lowered her head slightly, pursed her lips and asked, "Mr. Jia, when will you write a new chapter?"

Jia Heng smiled and said: "I don't have much time recently, either Chanyue or tell you a story."

In fact, I also really like to read the storybook to Li Chanyue, looking at Li Chanyue's innocence, sometimes joyful, sometimes curious, sometimes thinking, with her eyes curved.

He can probably understand why Jinyang raised Chanyue to grow up.

Li Chanyue lowered her eyebrows, her eyes sparkled, and she said softly: "Mr. Jia, tell me, and talk about the myth of the Great Desolation last time, and the last time I talked about the distribution of holy places in Zixiao Palace."

On a whim, Jia Heng told Li Chanyue about the prehistoric life, which aroused the girl's concern.

Because the little princess has read a lot of books, read many kinds of scripts, and listened to bizarre fairy tales, she didn't accept the difficulty.

Jia Heng said softly: "Then let's continue, the story of Nuwa making people holy."

As he spoke, he narrated that Nvwa, the great sage of the monster clan, made people holy in order to comprehend the profound meaning of the primordial purple energy.

After a while, the little princess frowned delicately and asked, "Mr. Jia, is this man thrown out of the mud with a whip?"

Jia Heng said softly: "That's what the myth says."

Could it be that the man-made whips and mud were thrown out.

Li Chanyue said thoughtfully: "The things that Mr. Jia said can actually be compiled into a storybook, and passed on to the world to read and enjoy."

"Zibuyu is strange, it's okay to talk about it in private, but if I write it out, I'm afraid it will cause an uproar, but if you come to write, you can sign your name, or a pen name." Jia Heng said softly.

Li Chanyue was slightly startled, and said in surprise, "Me?"

"You don't really like listening to storybooks. Just follow what I told you, and it's okay to write a story. When it's finished, it will be published as a book. It can't be said that the name of Princess Qinghe will be discussed all over the city." Jia Heng said encouragingly.

Under Li Chanyue's black eyebrows, Zang Xing Yunyue's eyes saw Qi Ji, who seemed to be attracted by the scene Jia Heng painted, and said softly, "Then I'll go back and write?"

Not long after, Princess Jinyang and Yuan Chun came out of the inner room. The two of them had just come out of the bath. They were as bright as the sun and the moon, and as bright as the morning glow. Looking at Jia Heng who was telling a story with Li Chanyue, he couldn't help but chuckled lightly, and jokingly said : "What did you two say, talking and laughing."

Maybe this is a family. In the future, he, Chanyue, and she can get along well.

Jia Heng looked at the two beautiful women, and said softly, "I told Chanyue a story."

Yuan Chun approached, the jade man who had just bathed, his cheeks were rosy, and the charm in his eyes overflowed silently like water, and he said, "Brother Heng, what story did you tell Chanyue?"

"Big Sister Yuanchun, this is a new story. Mr. Jia told me the Romance of the Wilderness last time. It's a long story and it hasn't been finished yet." Li Chanyue said softly.

She suspected that Mr. Jia had specially given a long lecture so that he could wipe off his sweat easily.

Princess Jinyang glanced at Jia Heng, knowing that the two of them were alone, Jia Heng opened another hole, and said with a light smile: "You have loved reading stories since you were a child, and Mr. Jia knows a lot of stories. , so that you will never get tired of listening to it for a lifetime."

Li Chanyue got up and came over, softly said: "When I write Mr. Jia's story, you can read it too."

Princess Jinyang rubbed Li Chanyue's bangs, and said with a smile, "Good boy, you can still think of me while listening to Mr. Jia telling stories."

Jia Heng: "..."

I always feel that there is something in this Jinyang dialect.

Several people were chatting and laughing, Lianxue said: "Princess, lunch is ready."

After lunch, Jia Heng left the Jinyang Princess' Mansion, and under the protection of his retinue, went to the Wucheng Bingma Division, and was welcomed by Fan Yi and other subordinates to the Si Ya to listen to the affairs.

In the office, Jia Heng had just sat down, picked up the recent Shenjing case and looked through the file, at this moment, he heard a commotion outside the door, it was clearly the king of Wei.

"Ziyu, when did you come here?" Wei Wang asked pleasantly.

Jia Heng put down the file in his hand, and asked: "I just arrived, what's the matter with His Royal Highness King Wei?"

Wei Wang pondered for a moment, then said softly: "Zi Yu, there is still a private matter. The day after tomorrow is the princess's birthday. You can bring your wife to the house to have a meal together. I will call Xianning again."

Jia Heng was silent for a while, then declined and said: "His Royal Highness, you have more affairs on your body in the past few days after returning to Beijing. By the way, isn't the Empress Dowager's birth in the palace tomorrow?"

King Wei explained: "It's a coincidence that the concubine gave birth to the queen mother just one day apart."

In fact, he wanted to be a middleman, inviting Jia Ziyu and the guests of the Wang family in Nan'an County to resolve the previous grievances.

"So that's how it is." Jia Heng's expression suddenly changed, and he pondered: "Your Highness, I've been busy with an errand assigned by the Holy Majesty these few days. The matter is very important, and I'm afraid I won't be able to go."

Now when he hears about the concubine, he feels a little dizzy, and he dare not go to the banquet again. If he is drugged again, well, this is unlikely, and Wei Wang has no special hobbies.

Hearing this, the King of Wei felt a lot of disappointment, but he didn't show any signs of disappointment on his face. He smiled and said, "Since that's the case, let's make another appointment."

According to what my uncle said earlier, Jia Ziyu should relinquish his errands after returning to Beijing, but after so long, there was no movement, and for some reason.

Jia Heng pondered for a moment, and said: "His Royal Highness, it has been almost a year since the reorganization of the Wucheng Bingma Division. Previously, the Ministry of Officials, Jingcha, delayed the implementation of the new system because of me. To make adjustments, His Royal Highness the King of Wei is a meritorious service officer, remembering the achievements of the relevant civil servants and generals, and making a detailed list."

This is to give King Wei some sweetness in the Wucheng Bingma Division. He had a riddle with Jinyang before, and he felt more and more that he could not lose his control over the Wucheng Bingma Division, at least for now.

King Wei was overjoyed when he heard this, and said, "Ziyu, I'll get this list later."

Jia Heng said: "Your Highness, the law and order in Beijing must also be taken seriously. Your Highness, I will prepare captives for one or two years. If Your Highness has actual achievements, I can also tell the Holy One that His Highness can be in charge of the five cities. I think that the Holy One will share his worries."

Hearing this, the King of Wei felt his heart settled, his eyes brightened, and he said, "Zi Yu, don't worry."

Jia Heng nodded, didn't say anything more, and sat in the yamen for a while, until the evening, followed the yamen officials out of the official hall.

Ningguo Mansion, in the back kitchen——

Chen Xiao stood in front of the window, holding a kitchen knife and stacking vegetables on the willow chopping board, his face frosty, as the light of the knife fell, the vegetables turned into leaves.

"Master Heng, what's the matter?" Chen Xiao washed her hands and looked up at the boy opposite.

Jia Heng looked at Chen Xiao who still hadn't escaped, frowned, and said, "Come here, I have something to tell you."

Chen Xiao's eyes moved, and she quietly followed Jia Heng to the Xuan room on the side of the back kitchen.

This scene immediately aroused a lot of discussion among the surrounding nuns, some of them thought that Jia Heng had taken a fancy to this beautiful cook with good cooking skills.

Jia Heng looked at the girl on the opposite side, with an indifferent expression, and said straightforwardly: "I have been checked by someone, I am not."

Chen Xiao twitched her eyebrows, and with suspicion in Qingying's eyes, she said, "Where did you check?"

"I have my own way. As for the so-called female officer of the Shangyao Bureau, I also checked. It is true that my mother is a medical officer of the Shangyao Bureau. But after she left the palace, she concealed her name and married my father." Heng said in a deep voice.

Chen Xiaoxiu frowned, although Yurong's expression remained unchanged, she was already suspicious.

Seeing the silent Chen Xiao, Jia Heng thought, sure enough, this Chen Xiao is not sure what he is the heir of the deposed prince, but he is just threatening.

Jia Heng looked at the girl with cold eyebrows and said: "Let's talk about you. As a daughter of the clan, it is not a long-term solution to hang out with Bailian against the party. You and I will meet someone at night."

"Who?" Chen Xiao suddenly felt a bad premonition, and the clear eyes under the willow eyebrows saw a dark meaning.

Jia Heng said: "Princess Jinyang."

"I won't go, I won't go!" Chen Xiao's face changed suddenly, a trace of vigilance appeared in the depths of his eyes, and he said in a cold voice, as if he felt a little guilty, and said coldly: "See what the eldest princess is doing?"

She was a little apprehensive when she saw that elegant, beautiful, and wise aunt.

Chen Xiao thought about it, and then she understood, fixed her eyes on the young man's face, and asked, "The one you asked earlier was the eldest princess?"

Jia Heng nodded and said: "She knew some secrets about that year, so I went to ask her."

Chen Xiao stared deeply, and said quietly: "The eldest princess may not know the whole picture of what happened back then, anyway, you are the heir of the prince."

Jia Heng was speechless for a while, and whispered: "But I am not."

Chen Xiaoqing's eyes flickered, and she said coldly, "You can be."

Jia Heng: "???"

Chen Xiao raised her eyebrows and said in a cold voice, "Either you help me find out who the real person behind the scenes is, or you are."

"Miss Xiao seems to have decided on me?" Jia Heng smiled lightly, and as he spoke, he suddenly reached out and grabbed Chen Xiao's hand like lightning. Wrist, gently brought Chen Xiao in front of him, his gaze began to become dangerous.

Chen Xiao snorted coldly, clenched her five fingers into a fist, and punched Jia Heng head-on, but was gently blocked by Jia Heng's raised hand.

The other slender hand was locked towards Jia Heng's neck, trying to strangle Jia Heng's neck, Jia Heng handed over the other hand and grabbed it again.

Chen Xiao's complexion was frosty, he snorted coldly, and suddenly became violent.

"call……"

He bent his knee and lifted it up violently, another knee bump.

Jia Heng frowned, and hurriedly dodged behind him, let go of the girl's hand, and punched like lightning, "Bang!" The sound of the elbow hitting the face of the fist sounded, and immediately, when the girl was hit by the fist force, When he retreated suddenly, Jia Heng stepped forward and had already grabbed Chen Ling's throat.

"Miss Xiao, don't push yourself too hard. You don't know what's good." Jia Heng's eyes were cold, but his voice was surprisingly calm.

If it happened just now, Jin Yang would definitely have nothing to do with her niece.

With someone strangling her neck, Chen Xiao was short of breath, and said with a trembling voice, "You can either kill me, or help find out the real candidate."

"Do you think I dare not kill you?" Jia Heng pulled the girl who looked like Xianning again, and brought her closer.

Seeing the young man with a dark look in his eyes, Chen Ling felt a strange feeling in his heart, well, it seemed that he shouldn't have greeted there just now, this man really wanted to kill him.

Jia Heng was quiet for a moment, and said: "I can help you check, but you have to do me one thing, tell me all the eyeliner of the Bailian Sect in Shenjing City, by the way, there is also the one called Li Yanqing, who was in Kaifeng at the time. After recovering, his whereabouts are unknown, was he rescued by the White Lotus Sect?"

When the city of Kaifeng was destroyed, all the bandit leaders were arrested, but Li Yanqing was missing, and according to Qu Lang's report, he was rescued by the White Lotus Sect.

Chen Xiao frowned, and said, "I don't know where the White Lotus Sect's eyeliner is in Beijing, let alone Li Yanqing's whereabouts. I'm just a lowly member of the White Lotus Sect."

"A lowly member of the White Lotus Sect? That day when you went to assassinate King Zhongshun, you were surrounded by dead men and escorts." Jia Heng said coldly, "And also a lowly White Lotus Sect member?"

"That's because I have good martial arts skills and know some details about Zhongshun, so they will cooperate with me." Chen Xiaoqing said in a clear voice.

Jia Heng looked at Chen Xiao, who was lying with her eyes open, and approached her, and whispered in her daughter's ear, "Has anyone ever told you that you can't lie?"

Chen Xiao: "..."

Her heart skipped a beat, and there were bursts of warmth in her ears, which made people upset, no, why does this person like to talk in her ears?Isn't he hot?

Jia Heng turned to look at the girl, and said in a low voice: "Then let me change the conditions, you stay by my side first, and cut off contact with the people of the White Lotus Sect, no matter how suspicious you are about King Zhou's death, you shouldn't be fooling around like this That's right, besides, there were many doubts about that incident back then."

There is no rush to take Chen Xiao to see Jinyang, you can call Xianning over first.

Chen Xiaoqing's beautiful face was a bit gloomy, and she whispered: "The eldest princess told you all this?"

"It's not big or small, you don't even call auntie?" Jia Heng frowned, and gave Chen Ling a cold look.

Chen Xiao was speechless for a moment, always feeling that the person in front of her clearly had a tone and demeanor of her aunt's. In fact, the two of them had been together for a long time, and their tone of speech would gradually converge.

Jia Heng pondered for a moment, and said in a low voice: "I know something about King Zhou's deeds. He values ​​love and righteousness, and is proud. If he is still alive, he doesn't want to see his only daughter living in the rivers and lakes. The Great Han Society caused chaos in the world, even if it was to avenge him."

Chen Xiao heard Jia Heng's words, her delicate body trembled slightly, her thoughts were complicated, she raised her eyes to look at the young man opposite, without saying a word.

Jia Heng pondered for a moment, then said: "I don't think it's the one in the palace. Even if your father is for the sake of the great Han society, he won't bother you anymore. The one in the palace knows this, and he won't kill them all, will he?" Could someone do things on their own, such as King Zhongshun?"

In the previous contact with Princess Jinyang, it can also be seen that she seems to appreciate this niece very much, and even faintly gives him a feeling that she is closer than Xianning.

While Jia Heng was talking with Chen Xiao, a nanny's voice suddenly came from outside, saying: "Master, there are people from Jinyi Mansion outside asking to see you."

Jia Heng said in a low voice: "You wait here first, and I will talk to you later."

Chen Ling pursed her cherry lips, seeming to be recalling the previous words in her ears, raised her clear eyes, looked at the back of the leaving boy, raised her fist, and smashed it in the direction of Jia Heng, obviously because of the fight just now. Fortunately, the girl who prided herself on her exquisite martial arts still had a fire in her heart.

"That's right." Jia Heng turned her head suddenly, looked at the girl who was acting strangely, and fell silent.

Chen Xiao hurriedly put down her fist, her face pretending to be calm, but a slight blush appeared on her cheeks as clear as snow, and she said from embarrassment, "What else do you need?"

Jia Heng said: "Who did you learn your cooking skills from?"

Some wanted to ask about the origin of this mother, but finally suppressed their curiosity.

Chen Xiao was silent for a moment, and said: "I was bored in the palace, I learned from the imperial chef, Huaiyang, Luyu cuisine, I can cook."

"Then you are really ingenious." Jia Heng nodded, leaving the back kitchen.

Chen Xiao watched the boy's back go away, and took a deep breath. This Jia Heng is really famous when he meets him, and he is very difficult to deal with.

Jia Heng came to the study, looked at the tall Liu Jixian in a flying fish suit, and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Captain, Yangzhou urgent report." At this time, Liu Jixian looked dignified and handed over the report with both hands.

Jia Heng took the paper from Liu Jixian's hand, and after reading it, his face was gloomy, and he said: "These people took such a risk and burned the account book?"

Just recently, when Qi Kun went to Jinling to interrogate Pan Ruxi, Shangshu of the Nanjing Household Department, who was involved in Yinsun's reselling of money and food, at the same time, as an imperial envoy, he read the salt quotations issued to salt merchants by the Household Department over the years. The opportunity created by Jia Heng.

However, perhaps because of this, the treasury of the Department of Salt Transport caught fire in the middle of the summer night. Despite continuous fighting, the documents and account books in the treasury were still reduced to ashes.

After this incident, it is equivalent to the income and expenditure records of the storage warehouse and the income and expenditure details of the salt production audit for more than ten years. Now the clues are cut off abruptly, and Qi Kun can't follow the clues any more.

Looking at the young man with a changing expression, Liu Jixian lowered his voice and asked, "My lord, what should we do now?"

"You go outside to prepare the horses, and I will immediately enter the palace to face the saint." Jia Heng said in a low voice, with a gloomy complexion, suppressing the seriousness in his heart.

Now that the trip to Yangzhou is imminent, Qi Kun can no longer control the cunning people involved.

In the Daming Palace, the inner study——

On a kang leaning against the window, Emperor Chongping raised his eyes from the paper, and said solemnly: "It is really courageous to burn the files and destroy the criminal evidence!"

Jia Heng said softly: "Your Majesty, according to what Liu Shengzao, the transfer envoy of the capital, said, the yamen has failed, and the relevant clerks' master books and Lingshi have been dismissed for the crime of negligence. At the same time, the Yangzhou Salt Institute has sent a special envoy to The Salt Transportation Division is investigating the cause of the fire."

Emperor Chongping sneered, and said: "Qi Kun surprised them. You pack up in the past two or three days and go south as soon as possible. I'm going to investigate this time!"

Now that the capital camp is in his hands, since the emperor's mausoleum collapsed, his body has been getting worse and worse. Now the time to rectify the salt affairs has come.

Jia Heng's face turned solemn, he cupped his hands and said, "I obey the order."

Without account books, it will be more difficult to check the account books of the Salt Transportation Company, but it does not mean that it cannot be checked through other channels. Everything in the world is universally connected. The number of newborns can be inferred by issuing BCG. Without BCG, there are still infants and young children. Products, as well as the number of civil marriage registrations, and the number of local kindergartens...

The breakthrough of the Yangzhou nest case was the absence of the account books of the Salt Transport Division, the previous case of poisoning Lin Ruhai in Yangzhou and the fire incident of the Salt Transport Division.

(End of this chapter)