When Feng Ziying returned to Jingshi City, it was already the eighteenth day of the first month.

This trip has been going on for more than half a month, and he is tired enough.

He originally thought that he would not be able to catch up, so he specially asked Huang Ruliang for leave in advance, but fortunately, he came back in time.

I haven't ridden a horse often for a long time, and this time I ran down, and there was some hot pain in my crotch on both sides, but fortunately, I quickly got used to it.

"I'm afraid I'm tired this time, right?" Yu Chu'er sent the boiled Jianlian red date soup and handed it to Feng Ziying, if it weren't for Feng Ziying's lack of adaptation to such extravagance, then Yu Chu'er would have to feed herself by hand.

"Well, I haven't suffered like this for a long time, half a month, I'm afraid there are no two thousand miles back and forth, right? It takes two or three hundred miles to travel every day, and even riding a horse is a little unbearable. ”

Feng Ziying leaned on the stone blue python forging pillow in the hall, tasting the red date soup, and knew that it was Jin Chu'er's craftsmanship when she tasted it, although Yunshang and Xiangling were both learning with Jin Chu'er, but this heat was obviously the best for Jin Chu'er.

Xiangling was powerfully massaging Feng Ziying's feet soaked in hot water in a wooden basin, from the calf to the heel to the center of the foot, a trace of sweat seeped out of her forehead.

"That Ruixiang and Baoxiang are so tired that they can't get out of bed now, and they say that their whole bodies hurt." Yu Chu'er sneered, "Compared with Ye, the two of them are really more squeamish than Ye." ”

"They haven't been out there much, and I've been out there anyway." Feng Ziying was quite proud, "At least every time I came back when I was studying, I walked, and it was twenty or thirty miles away, when did the two of them suffer like this?" ”

"So my sister is saying that the two of them are more like Ye than Ye, and they don't dare to say anything." Yu Chu'er pursed her lips and smiled beautifully, she was not as fair and plump as her sister, but the pair of dimples on her cheeks were more pleasing to smile.

The body is slightly thinner, probably because of age, after all, he is only thirteen years old, and if he waits for another two years, he may not be inferior to Jin Chu'er.

Xiangling also picked up, "During this time, my wife was also a little worried, saying that the last time you went to Shandong, something happened to the family, which made the family worried, and this time it was ......."

"My mother was also bitten by a snake, and she was afraid of the well rope for ten years, and every time she went, she could encounter civil unrest. Feng Ziying smiled, "But it's really uncomfortable to go out in this winter, this horse riding is frozen every day, and the hands and feet are also stiff, and the hands and feet are stiff when you get off the horse, and if you don't get it right, it's a big horse, and your nose and face are swollen." ”

Feng Ziying still suffered a lot this trip.

The time is too tight, almost the whole horseback ride, and it is all non-stop, from Jingshi City to Jinan Mansion, and then to Dongchang Mansion, and then to Linqing City.

Except for a few days of delay in Jinan, Dongchang Mansion and Linqing City only stayed for a day or two, and then hurried back to Beijing.

"There's nothing going on at home, is there?" Seeing that Jin Chu'er and Yunshang also came in, Feng Ziying sat down, listened to Xiangling wipe her feet for herself, handed the finished Jianlian red date soup bowl to Yu Chu'er, took the hot towel handed over by Yunshang, wiped her face, and asked.

"The family is fine, my aunt was a little unwell a few days ago, but she is much better after drinking the dew." Jin Chu'er now has the posture of the chief maid, and Yunshang and Xiangling are willing to give up this "throne".

"Hmm, it's a pity that I didn't have any time to spare this spring break, and I have to go to study history in two days." Feng Ziying has no regrets.

Originally, I thought that this year could be the most comfortable year, no more pressure to study and exam, enjoy leisure, and there are a few pretty and charming people around me, it is simply a fairy life, but I didn't expect such a thing to happen.

"Master, have you dealt with things over there? The second master of the Xue family has passed, so what should they do as a family? "Xiangling still cherishes the Xue family very much, and seeing that the men in the two rooms of the Xue family have passed away, it will definitely have a great impact on the Xue family.

"They helped the spirit back to Jinling, kept filial piety for three years, and then reasoned." Feng Ziying also sighed, "That taddy brother is a sensible person, if he can come to Beijing in three years, I want to find a good career for him." ”

"What about Second Miss Xue?" Xiangling said with a smile: "I heard Miss Bao say that Second Miss Xue is also a shrewd and clear person, and she has followed Second Master Xue to the north and south since she was a child, and has seen a lot of the world." ”

"Well, I'm a leader among my peers, and I'm born with pink makeup." Feng Ziying recalled that when she saw Xue Baoqin, her inquiring and suspicious eyes were really worried that she was going to annex their Xue family's property.

"More handsome than Miss Bao?" Xiangling didn't seem to believe it, she was very confident in the appearance of her own girl, and the most beautiful second girl in the entire Jia Mansion was also inferior.

"Silly girl, that little girl who is only twelve years old, where can you talk about what is handsome or not? What do you think about all day, little brain? ”

Feng Ziying couldn't help but reach out and nod Xiangling's forehead, the crimson beauty mole matched with her pretty face and delicate demeanor, there was really a strange charm.

is also in front of a few other girls, otherwise Feng Ziying would really pinch the other party's round and crimson cheeks, this girl has been in her house for a few months, and she seems to have gained some weight.

Several girls laughed, but Xiangling laughed a little embarrassed, "Master, the slave didn't say anything, but the master has other thoughts in his heart, so he thinks so, right?" ”

"Don't talk nonsense, Miss Xue Er is engaged, and her future father-in-law can be regarded as being in the Hanlin Academy with me." Feng Ziying shook her head.

"Ah, do you know?" Several girls were a little curious, the uncle was actually in the same Hanlin Academy with the future father-in-law of Miss Xue?

"It's kind of a nod of the head." Feng Ziying didn't have much impression of Mei Zhiye, and she couldn't say whether it was good or bad.

However, he knew that this guy was a side branch of the Mei family in Huguang Huangzhou, and he was a little arrogant, and he didn't have a good relationship with his colleagues in the Hanlin Academy, even his other brother Mei Zhihuan of the same clan also had a flat relationship with him, and Mei Zhihuan was also a Jinshi of the current branch.

Mei Zhiye was admitted to the Jinshi in his thirties, but he did well in the exam, he was in the top two grades, and he chose Shu Jishi, and Shu Jishi came out in his forties, and now his concubine is probably about the same age as Xue Baoqin, and it is almost time to talk about marriage after three or four years.

"By the way, a few days ago, there was a Zheng Ye who came, and when he knew that he was going out, he left a message, saying that he would let him come back, and then contact him, I'm afraid there is something wrong." Jin Chu'er remembered something, and hurriedly went to the study to get a post.

It's Zheng Chongjian, everyone is in a hurry to come over for the New Year, and Feng Ziying has some bad premonitions in her heart.

"Then let Ruixiang hurry up to Pine Hutong and ask Zheng Sanye to come over." Feng Ziying waved her hand and got up.

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Snow the size of a goose feather fell silently, and the town that should have been a lively and joyful atmosphere was restless with an indescribable smell of gunpowder.

"Whoa", the big wine bowl was smashed on the threshold, the spilled wine splashed a puff of smoke and dust on the mud floor, and an armor had been untied, revealing a strong man with a red ** chamber and said angrily: "This dog official, he only cares about making money for himself, but he doesn't pull out a dime, big brother, how do we spend this year?" ”

On the other side of the kang kang, a man with blood-red eyes rubbed his chin, and the stubble of Aomori Mori's beard with a wide jaw was intimidating.

"Why don't you go to the Bi family brothers to borrow some?" Another thin man who had been leaning on the kang tilted his head and spit out the grass roots in his mouth, and his palm subconsciously pressed the narrow blade knife that was pillow on the back of his head, but his tone was indescribably ruthless.

"Borrow, why do people lend it to us? Do you think that these Tatars are really willing to give their money to our brothers after they have sworn to us? They still have thousands of people to raise, but they hate Shi Guangjue, a fool, who only knows how to please these Tatars, but guards us Han people like thieves! ”

The armor was removed, a handful of chest hair was exposed under the placket, the corners of the man's mouth twitched, and a large hole was revealed in the heel of a pair of stenching leather boots, and a snowy dagger could be seen pressed into the black crust.

"Big brother, you have an idea, I can't hold back the bunch of rabbits under my hands, and I have been coaxing and dragging since the beginning of the year, only saying that the money will be paid on the first day of the new year, and the first day of the first year will be pushed to the ninth day of the first year, and the ninth day of the first year will be pushed to the fifteenth, when is this? Could it be that you can fool around for a year?

"Yes, big brother, this chief soldier doesn't know where he got the news, he always feels that something is wrong with these Mongols, and if something is wrong, you will destroy them, now it's good, blindly please them, give whatever you want, we are good, I think we won't make trouble, and if we make trouble, we don't care, so there is no reason for this." The thin man viciously slammed the sheathed long knife to the ground, "It's really urgent, don't blame us for being rude." ”

"Hmph, to put it simply, there are thousands of Tatars inside and outside the town, do you think Bi Chengen is a fool? His father has been operating in Ningxia Town for decades, and he has played a lot of money, and no one of the general soldiers can help their family, do you think he has no ability? The man with the big chin finally put down the hand rubbing his jaw and shook his head coldly: "Even the chief soldier does not dare to touch them easily, these Tatars are raping, and they are related to Bu Shitu and Su Nang, if you really dare to touch them, they will dare to run into the hetao, and then this Shi general soldier may not be a problem of losing the black yarn hat, but will lose his head." ”

"Big brother, I see that Biyun led people to the east the day before yesterday, what are these Tatars going to do?" The open-minded man said with some doubts: "I didn't accept my brother at night and came back and said, there is also some movement in Yulin Town, what are you going to do for the New Year's holiday?" ”