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Chapter 669 Extra 7 - Events during Changhua's reign (Part 2) (Group portrait)

Kang Zhi hadn't thought about what to do at first, but now that she saw Gu Erlang acting like this, she seemed to have a clue. She glared at him and bit back: "I haven't asked you about the director of the joint library. It's clear that you can make the following people People come to deliver messages, but they always come to me in person... Tell me, what are your shady intentions? If you dare to lie, I will not chop you up today!"

"I..." Gu Erlang's face changed a bit: "I can't just stay bored in the library all day long...how can I make a mistake when I do my best!"

Kang Zhi didn't care whether his words were true or false.

Kang Zhi stared at the person in front of her and quickly weighed it in her mind.

First she asked herself, did she need to start a family?

There is no doubt about it.

Not everyone has to have a family. Sister Shepherd's Purse is also very chic like that, but Kang Zhi likes herself very much. She wants to have her own offspring, and it is best to have a daughter. She will compensate her children for everything she did not get when she was young. , and then teach that child to be as powerful and brave as her, to be loyal and follow Your Majesty and His Majesty’s children.

She is already over 20 years old, and the world is at peace. It is a good time to start a family.

Since the answer is yes, then, what kind of person will she find to start a family?

money? right? identity? ability? She has it all herself.

If you find someone with an ordinary appearance, what is she looking for?

As for the deeper things, this and that of a person's moral character can all be faked. She, Kang Ani, only likes real things, at least good-looking ones cannot be faked. This is true.

In fact, when she wrote that reply, what flashed through her mind was the face in front of her.

Superficial means superficial. Superficial happiness is not a necessity of life, but most of the happiness in people's lives seems to be built up by these unnecessary things.

She has passed the stage of survival, and it is time to be superficial.

Kang Zhi's heart skipped a beat, holding the unsheathed knife in one hand and suppressing Gu Erlang who was trying to escape in the chair.

Gu Erlang was about to cry: "What on earth are you going to do!"

Kang Zhi was about to speak when Mrs. Shi's loud and enthusiastic voice could be heard faintly outside the hall: "...Look at how grand this General's Mansion is!"

Kang Zhi immediately pulled Gu Erlang up from the chair and threatened in a low voice: "...Stand beside me, watch my eyes and act later! Stop talking nonsense, or I'll beat you up!"

Gu Erlang was confused and full of accusations, but he still arranged his robe and hair in his hands habitually.

The group of people was quickly invited into the hall, and Yuezhi's eyes reddened with joy when she saw her daughter.

Shi Wen's eyes immediately locked on Gu Erlang - does Kang Ani really have one?

Gu Erlang raised his hand to salute at Kang Zhi's threat, and his smile was forced to shine brightly.

"...Ani, who is this?" Yuezhi wiped her tears and asked at the right time.

Gu Erlang was about to report his official status when he heard Kang Zhi say simply and rudely: "This is my aunt, please call me aunt."

Gu Erlang: "?!"

this…

Gu Erlang's face was slightly distorted. Kang Zhi's hand behind her back was holding a knife. Covered by her wide robe, the scabbard pressed threateningly against Gu Erlang's waist.

Gu Erlang was horrified: "Ah..."

The next moment, he forced a standard smile and lowered his voice: "—Mother."

In the evening, when Gu Erlang returned home, he knelt in front of his mother's knees and cried: "...Auntie!"

"You can't care about your son's life or death. How can your son be Kang Ani's son-in-law?"

“…”

Mrs. Gu's wife gently patted her son's shoulder and back, and comforted her son softly. Seeing that her son didn't listen at all, she could only sigh helplessly: "... General Kang is a confidant of the emperor, how can his arms reach his thighs? "

"Our Gu family can be considered to have the merit of following the dragon!" Gu Erlang said: "...My son will write to the capital and file a complaint against her to the Holy Emperor!"

Before Gu Erlang finished speaking, he was suddenly slapped on the head.

Gu Erlang covered his head with one hand and looked up in disbelief at his mother, who was always known as a gentle woman.

"Why are you pretending to me again?" Madam Gu's wife changed her gentle tone and glared at her son: "You are unwilling to propose marriage at your age. Isn't it because you like General Kang but don't dare to say it? You are afraid that you will go to him again. ! This time I gave you a step, but you kept pretending!"

She had noticed it since she was a child. She had a **** temperament this time, and she liked people who could bully him. When she met that little girl named Kang, she matched his temperament!

The mother-in-law didn’t want to expose him, but he pretended again and again to get an advantage and act like a good boy, which made people upset!

Mrs. Gu's wife shook her hand that hurt from the beating, and Gu Erlang's mouth trembled, feeling that the mother in front of him was very strange... Sure enough, had Jiangdu's increasingly strong wind of a shrew finally blown into the door of their Gu family?

Gu Erlang subconsciously turned to look at his father, and saw that his father seemed to have become accustomed to it. He just said to him: "Okay, there are many people in the family, and I don't expect you to carry on the family line..."

Gu Xiu said very pragmatically: "If you enter the Junjun Mansion, our Gu family's backbone in Jiangdu will be strengthened."

Anyway, his eldest son got married early, and now he has grandchildren.

This time his son was originally not very useful, but for it to be used for such a purpose, it can be regarded as smoke coming from the ancestral grave.

So Gu Xiu waved his hand to his second son with a clear mind: "Go ahead and live a good life with others."

Gu Erlang sobbed: "But my son is a descendant of a noble family, how can he be a son-in-law? And Kang Ani is domineering and ruthless..."

Mrs. Gu's wife interrupted her son: "That's why I ask you to come over, otherwise how can our family tolerate it?"

Asking Kang Canjun to be his daughter-in-law is very bold.

Madam Gu admitted that she has become bolder now, but she is far from this bold.

When she thought about her daughter-in-law's illness, once she replaced her daughter-in-law's face with Kang Ani's, Mrs. Gu would immediately have the suffocating experience of having someone pinch her nose and pour medicine.

I'm afraid the medicine was given lightly, but I'm afraid this wife is impatient and will have to hurriedly have her troublesome old shell taken down and buried clean after only two days of service.

Don't worry, it's better to be out of sight and out of mind.

Anyway, her son is so good at this, it can be said to be the best of both worlds.

So, in the ninth month of autumn in the third year of Changhua, the groom Gu Erlang, dressed in a bright red wedding dress, was sitting on horseback and was sent to General Mingwei's Mansion by the Gu family amid a lot of playing and beating.

On the same day, a Jiangdu fleet that went to sea in the spring came back to the shore. The ship was shouting and unloading cargo, and was being inspected and counted by officials from the Municipal Shipping Department.

Yellow Fish walked down from the second floor of one of the big ships, stepped on the deck, and directed the boatmen to move it carefully.

Back then, when Jiangdu first opened its Municipal Shipping Department, Huang Yao was an inconspicuous little fisherman.

He once told his companions that he wanted to see what was outside the Yellow River, but his companions laughed at him for being whimsical and daydreaming.

When the Municipal Shipping Department first sent people out to explore the sea route, Huang Yao was the first fisherman to raise his hand to participate.

After returning from successfully exploring the route, the caravan began to go out to sea, and the yellow croaker got the first opportunity to board the ship and work.

But at this time, there were still not many people who dared to go on a long voyage. The boatmen who came aboard to work on the ship were given many preferential treatment. In addition to the agreed remuneration, each person was also allowed to carry twenty kilograms of goods on the ship. These twenty kilograms of goods can be any items that have been inspected by the Shipping Department. They can be sold or bartered after being brought to the destination.

Yellow Fish took out all his belongings, and collected enough money with relatives and friends, and used it all to buy twenty kilograms of middle- and low-grade tea. He exchanged it for many carefully selected exotic products, and made a lot of money from it. After paying off all the debts and actively paying interest, there was a balance of one thousand taels.

Yellow Fish's wife couldn't believe it. This was almost a terrifying profit. They might not have been able to save so much money after ten years of fishing.

At this time, many people finally believed that they could make a lot of money by going to sea. Countless fishermen rushed to follow the caravan to go to sea. However, the conditions for boarding the ship began to tighten, and the benefits were not as generous as when they first went to sea.

Yellow croaker, who worked hard and had accumulated experience, was still given priority to board the ship. He became the steward on the ship. His preferential treatment increased instead of decreasing. He was allowed to carry fifty kilograms of cargo out to sea at a time.

After several years of accumulation, this spring, he was able to rent a ship by himself, loaded with high-quality goods from Jiangdu's workshops, and went to sea with the Jiang family business. Now he returned with a full load, exhausted but full of energy.

Every time Yellow Croaker goes to sea again, in addition to leaving enough life support for his wife and children, the rest of his wealth will be all on the boat.

Every time, someone said that he was taking too many risks, that he was blinded, and that he should no longer act like a gambler. You must know that the risk of going to sea is very high, and a capsize will take away everything from him. It is better to take what he has earned. Keep the money, do a small business, and be safe.

But Yellow Fish is not a person who only wants stability. If he were, it would not be his first time to go to sea.

He wants to be the one who seizes the opportunity.

He is not afraid of losing everything. At worst, he will start from a small boatman again.

He was born on a fishing boat. Even if he lost his life and died on the yellow ocean where he was born and raised, it would not be a bad ending.

And as long as he survives, the experience he accumulates will always be more valuable.

Next year, he will rent a bigger boat and bring back more rare treasures!

There are two deified portraits hanging in the cabin of Huangyu, one is of the former prince Li Shang, and the other is the current emperor.

After all the goods were moved, Huang Yu took off the two portraits with his own hands, carefully rolled them up, and held them in his arms.

Officials from the Municipal Shipping Department have begun to inspect and count the yellow croaker goods. The Municipal Shipping Department collects the corresponding goods as shipping tax, which is also a form of taxation.

Huang Yu greeted the officials enthusiastically. He could talk and ask questions, and these officials were very willing to chat with him. He asked Mr. Han Zheng how he was doing, and then asked how he was doing the governor, and then He clasped his hands in the direction of the capital, and his tone became more respectful: "Your Majesty's dragon body must be in good health too!"

"That's a natural thing. Our Majesty is still young! There's no need to ask!"

"Not long ago, a new maritime policy was promulgated...I heard that Lingnan is also preparing to let people explore the shipping routes."

“…”

After hearing these words, Yellow Fish nodded repeatedly: "Okay, okay, okay..."

He was very happy, so happy, but the sea breeze still stained the corners of his eyes with a hazy dampness.

Yes, Your Majesty is still young, and all this has just begun... There is nothing better than this.

Listening to the crashing of the waves and the shouts of the boatmen, Huang Yu turned his head and looked at the high platform for worshiping the sea not far away. In a daze, the grand scene of the young female governor here worshiping the sea was still before his eyes.

That year, a woman named Chang Sui Ning once recited the words of sacrifice to the sea here:

I respect the **** who protects the sea, and I hope the sea will be calm and the wind will be calm.

Second, we respect the heaven, the earth, the sun and the moon, and pray for a good harvest and prosperity for everyone.

Three respects to the ancestors of the sea, I wish to bless my people and return to peace.

Yellow Fish has always believed that it was the new king's blessing to this sea area. He will stay here forever and protect every hard-working and brave people.

A hundred miles away, there is a sentry post three miles away, a heavily patrolled area, and a navy is practicing at sea.

Fang Chao, who directed the drill, was wearing a bunt and a red belt.

The big flag embroidered with the word "Sheng" was fluttering, making a hunting sound, and accompanied by the orderly shouts of the soldiers, it floated farther to the sea with the sea breeze.

In October, Mrs. Shi arrived in the prosperous Gyeonggi and met the emperor whom she longed for.

In November, a happy event was held at the governor's house in Hezhou, Huainan Province. The governor Yungui's brother Yungui got married.

At the same time, in Xuanzhou Mansion on Jiangnan West Road, where business is flourishing next door, the princess Li Tong selected two beautiful male attendants.

In December, year-end work reports from various places arrived in the capital one after another, showing the status of household registration for land reclamation, money and grain access, etc. during the year.

So all the ministries are very busy, and the emperor is also very busy. Fortunately, the New Year is approaching. After this busy period, the ministers and the emperor can take a rest and have a relaxing and comfortable Spring Festival.

This Spring Festival is very lively. On New Year’s Eve, the sound of firecrackers and fireworks never stops. Children carry lanterns and walk through the streets singing flourishing nursery rhymes;

Chang Kuo and Li Rong quarreled in the Zhongyong Hou Mansion in Xingningfang, and Chang Sui'an and Yao Xia tried to persuade them;

The tribesmen in Cui Mansion gathered together in a noisy atmosphere. Cui Lang was drunk and pulled Qiao Yumian and insisted on asking the tribesmen to pay homage to the "Madam of the Household" one by one. Qiao Yumian was so embarrassed and annoyed that Mrs. Lu pulled her daughter-in-law behind her and nodded her son's forehead. Gritting his teeth, he said that he would beat him when he was fifteen;

In Zheng Guogong's mansion, Wei Miaoqing ignored the rules and dragged Li Zhi back to the Wei family to celebrate New Year's Eve. As the son-in-law, Li Zhi did not dare to sit with his elders and stood there a little awkwardly. Wei Shuyi patted him on the shoulder and invited his sister-in-law to play chess in the study. Then Wei Lianlian won three games;

In the Dengtai Tower, the doors and windows were closed, and there was no light.

Meng Lie and A Che were called to the palace to celebrate the New Year.

In the Manlu Palace, A Dian was chasing the cat in the palace courtyard. Wu Jue, who was looking up at the fireworks, asked him to slow down. Meng Lie was explaining to Xi'er in the corridor about His Majesty's food and daily life. As for A Che, he insisted on going to the imperial dining room. Making dumplings is still busy at the moment.

In the hall, in front of the big window, Zhai Xi smiled and put in a pot of hot tea, added three cups, and presented them to the three people who were sitting and talking.

"Teacher, this looks good, look at it!"

Sitting cross-legged, Li Suining held a tea cup in one hand and pointed with the other to a cluster of bright fireworks that had just bloomed in the night sky outside the window.

When Jiaozi arrived, everyone ate dumplings together. Li Suining took Cui Jing to wish the teacher New Year's greetings. A Dian saw him and hurriedly followed. Meng Lie and others also joined in the fun. The old lady took out a money bag from her sleeve and threw it to Zhai. Xi: "...I would have known that bringing me to the palace would be bad, so I would have given it to them!"

"It's gold!" A Dian pinched the golden beans in surprise and looked at the old master with admiration: "Master! Remember to come back next year!"

The Taifu waved his hands repeatedly: "Go, go, never come again, whoever wants to come can come..."

Wujue laughed loudly: "I will carry you here!"

While everyone was chatting and laughing, Cui Jing smiled and handed her golden bean to Li Suining. Something as important as New Year's money should be kept by the most important person in the family.

The aroma of fireworks filled the air, and the sound of laughter filled the huge Manna Hall.

I feel like the ending is pretty good if I stop here~haha, it’s just a bit long-winded.

There are probably four or five extra chapters left, so I’ll try to finish them all by the end of the month!

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