Misty rain and heavy flowers accompany the king's return

When Shen Luo came out of the Gong Yuan, he was told that someone was waiting.

"Master Shen, I'm from Huzhou." The visitor handed Shen Bai a letter, Shen Luo took it and saw that it was signed by Master Asong.

"Did Master Asong hand this to you in person?" The fact that the letter was sent directly to the Gongyuan meant that the other party did not know his address. In this regard, the letter from Master Asong was more likely.

"Yes, I am a boat runner, and I often walk back and forth." The visitor said.

"Wait a moment." After Shen Luo finished speaking, he opened the letter, and the content was as simple as two sentences, "Arrange an engagement banquet in Huzhou, so as not to gossip."

The meaning revealed by the simple words is very clear, Shen Luo asked for a pen and paper at the concierge, and wrote down: "According to Grandpa's wishes, hello to the Yue family!"

After finishing writing, he handed the letter to the visitor, and gave him two taels of silver.

"That's too much, Master Shen!" The visitor declined.

"Accept it, please give the letter to Master Asong!" Shen Luo confessed.

"Okay, don't worry!" The visitor thanked him for the reward and left with a letter.

Sending off the visitor, Shen Luo returns home.

Just arrived at the study, Qingchen handed him a letter, and said eagerly: "I just received a letter from my father, saying that he knew about our affairs, and they discussed to get us engaged in Huzhou first, what do you think?" What to do?"

Shen Luo looked at him and smiled: "Don't be impatient."

After speaking, he handed him the letter on his body, and Qingchen took a look at the content: "Master Asong?"

"Well, I don't even know our address here, and I didn't ask your father. I sent it directly to the Gongyuan. I'm afraid I just want to remind us." Shen Luo said.

"Then you see?" Qing Chen looked at him.

"Take root on the ground, just in case, brother Qingchen!" said Xiao Shitou, who was reading a book.

Shen Luo glanced at him and couldn't help laughing: "He's right."

Qing Chen pouted and looked at Xiao Shitou: "This kid is so smart, he reads a book of yours for a long time, I asked him, and he answered clearly, it's a pity to mess around."

Xiaoshitou looked back at Qingchen and smacked his tongue: "Brother Qingchen, senior brother said that Brother Aluo said 'the world is everywhere'!"

"That's right, the government and the public, the business field, even Qinglou are all rivers and lakes." Shen Luo answered him.

"He's a child, what nonsense are you talking about clearing the building in front of him!" Qingchen frowned and said.

Shen Luo blinked.

After dinner at night, Nie Xingfeng didn't come either.

But Prince Qi came.

"A relative came?" Ci Wenhao looked at Xiaoshi curiously and asked.

Shen Luo took out the letter from Huzhou Longtu and handed it to Ci Wenhao, who took the letter and read it again: "It seems that your Yue family is aware of current affairs."

"They are afraid that I will fail in my studies." Shen Luo laughed.

Citing Wenhao looked at him: "I heard that your ensemble lost the soul of a famous museum in the Western Regions. This is not a good thing. It is always a bad thing to hurt a beauty's heart."

"In life, there is no fear of encountering each other, love is in a hurry." Xiao Shitou said to himself.

"Hmph!" Quoting Wenhao looked at him: "This child may be more promising than you in the future, is it your relative or Qingchen?"

"It's dusty." Shen Luo introduced.

Ci Wenhao nodded: "Do you know someone? Huan Donglai."

Shen Luo shook his head.

"He is the prefect of Linhai County in the Northeast." After speaking, Wen Hao handed him a note: "You have a good look, I will go back early tonight, and we will talk about it another day."

"Okay, send off the prince!" Shen Luo got up and said.

After Ci Wenhao left, Shen Luo picked up the transcribed memorial to read.

The article was about Huan Donglai's government reforms in Linhai County, including tax reforms and food payment reforms. Many things were almost the same as Shen Luo's suggestions.

"I'm policy theory, this person is already an establishment faction, an action faction." Shen Luo put down the memorial with emotion.

Little Shitou came over: "Brother Aluo, can I watch?"

Qingchen brought tea to Shen Luo from outside: "Good boy, don't delay your business, brother A Luo."

Shen Luo smiled: "It's okay, just watch!"

Xiaoshitou took the folder and looked at it while shaking his head.

"What's the matter with you, you seem like a little adult." Qingchen looked at him and smiled lightly, with tolerance in his eyes.

"This is really not good?" Little Stone said.

"Oh? Why?" Shen Luo seemed to ask a question.

"It's too manpower-intensive, and it's difficult to supervise. In the end, people will quickly find the loopholes and break them down. My master said that martial arts are like this. The seemingly old martial arts routines are simple, but they are inclusive. The honing of time that has passed long ago has removed impurities."

"At a young age, can you understand this truth?" Shen Luo stood up and took out his answer paper for the provincial examination from the bookcase: "Look at it."

Xiao Shitou was curious about the result paper, and looked at it carefully, with a concentrated look, which made Shen Luo a little happy.

"This is so well written, the description of the way of heaven is so wonderful." Xiao Shitou said in surprise, looking at Shen Luo: "Brother Luo, did you write this?"

"En!" Shen Luo nodded.

"It's amazing, you should be my husband!" Xiao Shitou looked at him, blinking his eyes flickeringly and said.

"If you can tell the good or bad of the second article, I will consider agreeing to you." Shen Luo said.

When Nie Fengxing came, he saw Qingchen and Shen Luo guarding the little stone, and he couldn't help being a little curious: "Why, are you waiting for my supper?"

"Wait a little longer, is Abai taking the little stone test?" Qingchen said.

"Test him?" Nie Fengxing sat aside and looked at him silently.

After a while, Xiao Shitou happily said: "I know."

Shen Luo raised his head from the book and looked at him: "How to say?"

"It's not enough to get stuck on the road guide, there must be other means, and the road guide can only be aimed at the place of production, not the merchant who sells it, otherwise there will be troubles and even complicated difficulties in management." Xiao Xiao Stone said.

"Then how to change it?" Shen Luo asked.

"The road lead is the only proof of shipment from the place of origin. The number of road leads is the same as the tax collection ratio. As for the merchants, they must follow your grain payment system and have a minimum basic tax rate. If they fail to reach it, they will not be able to continue their business in the next year. , If it exceeds, all the goods in the warehouse must be handed over to the road guide, and the place of origin will finally check the place of sale. If the hatchback does not match, the tax will be doubled, and so on!"

Shen Luo sighed.

"What?" Nie Xingfeng looked at him a little nervously: "Isn't it right?"

"It's not perfect, but it's already very good." Shen Luo said, "It's too harsh to be critical of him."

"Then you accept me as a student?" Little Stone asked excitedly.

"If your senior brother agrees, I'll be fine." Shen Luo said.

"What do I have to say? You are a husband, not a master." Nie Xingfeng said with a smile: "Besides, the rivers and lakes are far away, so you can't be a river and lake person for a lifetime!"

Shen Luo looked at the little stone and smiled slightly.

The temperature in the imperial capital becomes very low in winter, and part of the coast gradually freezes.

On vacation, Shen Luo took Qing Chen and pebbles to the beach to play.

Above the sea, the rough scene was mixed with ice cubes beating the embankment, and thick dark brown dirty ice was formed on the inside of the embankment.

The lonely gull flies back and forth above the sky, it is difficult to find food, so it can only land on the ice, watching the waves look lonely and sad.

Shen Lu sat beside him, looking into the distance, not knowing what was beyond the sea, whether it was the distance, or the boundless and endless sea.

The two wore furs and bought one for Xiaoshitou.

"Is it Mr. Shen?" A voice came from behind, Shen Luo turned around and saw Na Si looking at him and smiling.

"Long time no see." Shen Luo greeted.

"Master, you have never been here again. Mr. Baili said that you are very busy." Na Si walked to the side and said, looking at Qing Chen, nodding and smiling.

"Please sit down." Shen Luo looked into the distance and said.

Nasi was sitting on the side of the embankment, looking into the distance like him.

"What is the scenery of Mr. Nasi's hometown?" Shen Luo didn't talk about romance, but suddenly asked this ordinary topic.

Nasi fell into thought: "It's beautiful, there is no sea, and there is no big lake. A big curved river, full of yellow sand, but there are very fat fish in the big river, and there are also very vicious fish, and they will attack people.

There are loess mountains on both sides, but it is true that the seasons are different. "

"What's the difference?" Little Stone asked curiously.

Nasi looked at him and said, "In spring, the wheat fields are full of life, in summer there are waves of wheat, in autumn there are golden seas of wheat, and there are rows of grape trellises. In winter, there is heavy snow everywhere, yellow, green, golden. color, and white color."

He spoke very vividly, which fascinated Shen Luo.

After sitting for a while, Xiao Shitou said, "I'm hungry."

"There is a seafood restaurant near here, it tastes good." Na Si said.

"Have you eaten?" Shen Luo asked.

Nasi shook her head.

"If there is no delay, it is better to meet by chance than to invite each other. Let's go eat together!" Shen Luo said.

Nasi looked at Qingchen, Qingchen looked at him and said: "Let's go together."

A few people sat down together in Haiwei Zhai. After all, Na Si was a foreigner, so she was very conspicuous.

Shen Luo ordered boiled prawns, spicy crabs, steamed oysters, and pancakes made of sea oysters.

Waiting in the gap, Nasi looked at Qingchen carefully: "Master is really lucky, and Mr. Shen is a match made in heaven."

Qingchen replied with a smile: "Is your son traveling thousands of miles to our country to make a living?"

Na Si shook her head: "The country is ruined and the family is destroyed. I am from Yinyue, and the country has been destroyed by the Tuna people."

"The country is broken and the people are still there, and the mountains and rivers are bright again." Shen Bai whispered, and couldn't help smiling.

Na Si looked at him, then at Long Qingchen, full of envy.

When the dishes were served, Qingchen served Shishi and Nasibu dishes, while Shen Bai enjoyed the freshness of oysters and the firmness of crab meat.

After a meal, people from Qinqiu Building have come to invite Na Si.

"Thank you for the hospitality." Na Si smiled helplessly.

Qingchen looked at him: "If you are free some other day, come to my house for dinner."

"Okay!" Nasi looked at him gratefully.

"This Mr. Nasi is really a beautiful woman!" Qingchen said with emotion.

The returning mule cart creaked.

"Brother Qingchen, you won't be jealous of Mr. Shi, right?" Shitou has been called Mr. Shen Luo since he became an apprentice.

"Oh, I'm just feeling emotional." Qingchen said.

"He has always had a melancholy aura about him. It turns out that he is the downfall of the country." Shen Luo said.

Qingchen was kind-hearted, and when he heard this, he fell silent.

There are still [-] days until the New Year's Day, and celebrating the New Year here is the New Year's Eve, also called Spring Festival.

"Go and make some new clothes for them all, as well as Nie Xingfeng, I'll measure it for him later." Shen Luo watched the little stone writing in the study.

"Stone, aren't you going to spend the Chinese New Year with your master?" Qingchen asked curiously.

Little Shitou scratched his face: "My master, what worries him the most is the Chinese New Year. Every year during the Chinese New Year, he disappears and hides alone, and he spends ten months of a year wandering outside."

"Ah? Isn't that home from all over the world?" Qingchen couldn't help but said.

"That's it." Nie Xingfeng came in from the outside: "So half of this kid was raised by me."

Qingchen curled her lips: "It's really not easy for him to recognize so many characters."

"Wow, they didn't care about me, they threw me in a college for a year." Xiao Shitou complained.

"We haven't given monthly money to the servants, it may be from the palace, how to arrange for the New Year?" Qingchen asked, the two of them are kind to people, and the four servants in the family are also very respectful to them.

"One person sends a red envelope of 30 taels, so should my servant in the Gongyuan." Shen Luo received [-] taels of monthly money from the Gongyuan for two months.

"What color clothes does Xingfeng wear?" Qingchen asked him.

"Me? Black!" Nie Xingfeng said.

"Why do you always wear black clothes? Can't you change them?" Shen Luo teased him.

Nie Xingfeng took out a black mask from his body and put it on with a shake of his hands.

Shen Luo and Qing Chen stared at him dumbfounded.

"You don't usually use it for robbing houses, do you?" Shen Luo teased him.

"Nonsense." Nie Xingfeng took out a stack of bank notes: "You are not rich, so give it to you!"

Qingchen took it: "Wow, more than 3000 taels, did you really rob?"

"What, I'm cheating, okay?" Nie Xingfeng said.

"My master stipulated that my brother should exterminate bandits three times a year, catch snitches three times, and catch grass pickers three times." Xiao Shitou explained to him.

"Oh, then why do you still have so many enemies?" Shen Luo looked at Nie Xingfeng: "You are so high and high, you won't let go of Liangzi with the three kings!"

"My master, God knows why he has so many enemies." Nie Xingfeng laughed.

Shen Luo sighed: "When the test is over, you can try how deep the water in the imperial capital is. You won't be leaving for a while, right?"

"It will take a long time. This time, the people staring at me are not small, and they seem to be aiming at my master's whereabouts." Nie Xingfeng said.

Shen Luo nodded, since there is a lot of salt here, he is not afraid of bad food, and he doesn't care about the excitement of people coming and going.

Inside the Indus Hall.

"Your Majesty, the emperor has been a bit uneasy recently, and it seems to be aimed at that aspect." Guowei said.

Emperor Qianyuan put down the pen in his hand: "Can't hold back anymore, hum, but that's fine, is it?"

Guowei came over and whispered in his ear: "This is what I want to say." After speaking, he whispered a few words in his ear.

"Is this really the case?" Emperor Qianyuan was a little happy.

"It's absolutely true," Guowei said.

"In this way, I will feel at ease. Let them make noise and divert their attention. I can also take this opportunity to blow up the wind and see who will light the fire first." Emperor Qianyuan said with a smile.