Chang'an Ferry

The next day, Mu Dingyang took Mu Yuying to the nearby mountain, "This tea was bought by someone who went to sea in Tuoyangyang to do business. After buying it, the growth was a bit unsatisfactory. Later, I grafted it myself. The first batch I took to make tea was very good, so I wrote to you and asked you to come and taste it."

"I don't have much research on tea, but the second brother came to me and found the wrong person," Mu Yanying said jokingly.

Mu Dingyang shook his head, "No, my elder brother wrote to me saying that you had a disagreement with His Highness the Crown Prince, and then my mother also wrote to me saying that you and His Highness the Crown Prince have no intersection, and I am worried that you will stay in the house all day, so I It is also to let you come out to relax, but what differences do you have with His Royal Highness, how come?"

Mu Yanying hugged Mrs. Tang tightly in her hands, "There are some disagreements, and I can't agree with his thoughts, so it's better to cut off contact as soon as possible."

"That's right, it's not good to meet again if it gets too tense, okay, let's not talk about him, let's go, it's in the tea house in front, I haven't opened it yet," Mu Dingyang said.

Mu Yanying sighed in her heart, it was more than just a stiff fight!

Because it is winter, the output of tea is not high, so there are only a few people guarding the tea house, and everyone else has gone home. When they saw Mu Dingyang coming, they greeted each other, and Mu Dingyang went back next to each other and said "go." , right inside"

Then carefully opened the clay pot, "A Cai, come, prepare hot water" and took out a piece, "If it's good, I'll plant more next year"

"Second brother, your appointment will be full next year," Mu Yanying reminded in a low voice.

Mu Dingyang was taken aback for a moment, and then said embarrassedly, "It's a big deal, I'll go back and ask my uncle again"

Even his uncle came out, Mu Dingyang made up his mind to stay here for a few more years.

"I think my uncle agrees, and those ministers probably won't agree either," Mu Yingying said.

"That's right." Mu Dingyang suddenly became depressed, "Oh, it doesn't matter, we'll talk about it later, but now Shu County is developing well, and they can do it if I leave."

"My lord, it's up to me." Miao A Cai asked pitifully.

Mu Dingyang paused, "As long as your father agrees, I will take you with me when the time comes."

Miao Acai blushed slightly, "My father definitely has no objection" and then saw Mu Yanying laughing teasingly beside her, and quickly covered her face, "I'll go get some more charcoal."

"Oh, it's a pity that I didn't bring the bride price," Mu Yanying said regretfully.

Mu Dingyang laughed, "I have to do this kind of thing myself"

"Yes." Mu Yanying nodded.

Then sit down and watch Mu Dingyang make tea, "Come on, be careful it's hot"

Mu Yanying took it, "Well, it's very fragrant." Mu Yanying drank a cup and then handed it to Mu Dingyang, "Brother, have another cup."

"Good" was affirmed, Mu Dingyang was very happy, and poured another cup for Mu Yanying.

As the weather gets colder and colder, the new year is here.These days, Mu Dingyang is so busy that his feet don't touch the ground, while Mu Yanying stays at home leisurely reading a book.

"Hey, I originally asked you to come to Shu County to play, but it turned out to be a different place to read." Mu Dingyang shook his head.

Mu Yanying picked up a bookmark and put it in the book, "No, I plan to have a good time in Sichuan in the spring of next year. I'm reading these records now to prepare for it."

Mu Dingyang approached, "That's fine, do you want me to find some locals to be your guides?"

"Don't worry, I will ask my second brother for help when I need it," Mu Yanying said.

"Okay." Mu Dingyang nodded, "I still have something to do next, and we will have a New Year's Eve dinner after I finish my work."

"it is good"

Because Miao Acai still has a father at home, she went back a few days in advance. During the New Year's Eve dinner, Mu Dingyang called the servants brought from Mu's house to sit with Mu Yanying, Qing Shu, and Chu Ping eat hot pot.Then sit under the eaves and watch the fireworks outside.

"Tomorrow there will be a lot of street parades in the market until the fifteenth day, and there will be a lantern show. Let's go together then," Mu Dingyang said.

"Sister Ah Cai going?" Mu Yanying asked.

Mu Dingyang nodded, "Tomorrow our brothers will go out to play, and then we will visit their home in the third year of junior high school."

"Do I need to prepare any presents?" Mu Yanying asked.

Mu Dingyang tapped Mu Yingying on the head, "Do you still need to worry about following the second brother?"

Now that Mu Dingyang said so, Mu Yanying naturally followed him to the village where Miao Acai was located empty-handed.

Because Miao Acai told the girls who had a good time after seeing Mu Yanying came back, so that the gate of the village was full of girls early in the morning.

"Oh, my future sister-in-law is under so much pressure!" Mu Dingyang shook his head.

Mu Yanying is angry with "Second Brother"

"Okay, stop teasing you, let's go out." Mu Dingyang was about to open the door of the carriage and then turned his head, "Do you want to wear a curtain fence?"

"Put it on." Mu Yanying looked at the people outside, feeling a little overwhelmed.

Everyone knows Mu Dingyang, the other person should be the one Miao Acai mentioned!But when they saw that they were wearing curtains, the girls were a little disappointed, but soon they regained their confidence and followed them to Miao Acai's house.

Indeed, it was not good for Mu Yanying to wear the curtain all the time when she arrived at Miao Acai's house. The girl who had been waiting at Miao Acai's house in advance naturally saw it, and then ran out quickly.

"Yingying, you have to get ready." Miao Acai blinked and said.

"Ah?" Mu Yanying was puzzled, she quickly looked at Mu Dingyang and heard a folk song outside.

Mu Dingyang quickly explained, "It's popular in the village. If a girl falls in love with a guy, she will sing a folk song to show her affection. If the guy is interested, he will naturally sing a folk song. How about it? Do you like it? Take it back when you go home? "

"Brother" Mu Yanying listened to the singing outside and asked for help.

Mu Dingyang nodded, "Okay, leave it to my brother" and then walked out, explaining, the singing gradually stopped after a while, and the people dispersed.

Mu Dingyang came back after finishing the solution, "If I had the appearance of Yan Ying, it would be several times easier to come to Sichuan to do business."

"But there are a lot of troubles," Miao Acai added.

"A Cai, why are you talking to adults?" Old man Miao said.

Mu Dingyang shook his hand, "It's okay, and what A Cai said is right, I can't do things wherever I go."

"Brother" Mu Yanying was helpless.

"Okay, let's stop talking, let's go and help with the dishes." Mu Dingyang pulled Mu Yanying and walked to the kitchen.

The old man Miao hastened to use his crutches, "How can this be, A Cailai will be fine."

"Father, it's okay," Miao A Cai said.

"Yes!" Mu Dingyang took a bench and put it in front of the stove, "Yingying, you come to light the fire"

"Second son, let me come." Qing Shu wanted to help, but Mu Yanying shook her head, "No, it happens to be warm here."

"Yes! If you really want to help, go outside to chop firewood. When the food is ready, I will call you." Mu Dingyang said, and Mu Yanying also nodded. Qing Shu and Chu Ping had no choice but to find an ax and went out to chop firewood.

After Mu Dingyang taught Mu Yanying how to make a fire, he went to the table to cut vegetables. Miao Acai leaned closer and said, "Isn't it good to let Mr. Yanying go to light the fire?" He was dressed in brocade clothes and sitting in front of the dark stove. See how it violates the peace.

"Then I'll chop vegetables." Mu Dingyang shook his sleeves, "Besides, it's warm there."

Since other brothers have said that, Miao Acai couldn't say anything, so she turned her head and continued to be busy with the matter in hand.

"Oh! You've soiled the young master's clothes." The old man Miao came over with a basin and asked Mu Yanying to wash his hands.

"It's okay, take your seat quickly," Mu Yanying said.The old man Miao nodded, "My lord, you go first, I'll be right over."

The local government will only start working after the [-]th day unless there are special circumstances, so Mu Dingyang took Miao Acai and Mu Yuying to play around. Reason left.

"Young Master, will Second Young Master be angry?" Qing Shu drove the carriage along the official road.

A map was placed in front of Mu Yanying, "No, I left a letter for my second brother, and then we will travel all over the mountains and rivers of Sichuan."

"En, good." Qing Shu nodded, and swung the whip faster.

"Tsk, you have no conscience, just leave as soon as you say it." Mu Dingyang read the letter and put it away.

Miao Acai asked worriedly, "Should we send someone to follow?"

"No need." Mu Dingyang shook his head, "There is someone by my side."

Spring has passed and autumn has come, and before you know it, it has been almost a year.

Early in the morning, Mu Dingyang took a stool and sat at the gate with a very ugly expression on his face.

Hearing the sound of a carriage after a while, Mu Dingyang stood up and clapped his hands, "Yo, you still know how to come back!"

Mu Yanying got off the carriage, "Second brother, I must know to come back."

"Hmph, I thought you were captured by some mountain ghost and used as a stronghold." Mu Dingyang said angrily, "Go to my study and see that the letter is full of several boxes. If you don't go back home, you will be sent to the house." sent someone to find you"

"Hee hee, the second brother has worked hard." Mu Yanying hugged Mu Dingyang's arm and nodded in apology.

In fact, Mu Dingyang was not angry, he waved his hand, "Okay, hurry up and get ready to go back."

"Second brother despises me," Mu Yanying said dissatisfied.

"No, let's see what time it is. I have to prepare clothes for you to wear when you go back. Well, don't go into the house at all." Turning back to the mansion, he greeted "Mu Zhen, give the clothes I prepared to San Take it out, son, now turn around and go home"

Mu Yuying was pushed into the carriage by Mu Dingyang, and then Mu Dingyang stuffed the things prepared for Mu Yingying into the carriage, "I will come back to report on my work when you are weak, and I will prepare a weak crown for you at that time."

"Second brother, we were together when we came back." Mu Yanying waved his hand.

Miao A Cai asked on the side, "Master, this is not good!"

"What's not so good, the imperial city sends several letters every month, especially the letters from His Majesty and Empress Dowager, I'm also under a lot of pressure! Let him go back quickly." Mu Dingyang clapped his hands, "Okay, I We also need to start preparing materials to prepare for the handover.”

Returning to the imperial city was much easier than when I came here. When I arrived at the ferry, I took a boat down the river and arrived in Fuzhou in a few days.

"Ma'am, the son is back." Qingfeng ran in from the yard, Jiang Ning was sitting under the sun holding the soles of his shoes, when he heard Qingfeng's words, he quickly put it down, "This child is finally willing to come back."

"Mother" Mu Yuying yelled from a distance, and then ran over to kneel down to salute, Jiang Ning hurriedly pulled her back, "Let Mother see it quickly" Jiang Ning took Mu Yuying's hand, and nodded repeatedly, "Okay , grew taller, but lost a lot of weight.”

"No, it's because the baby has grown taller and not thinner." Mu Yanying and Chu Ping compared their heights and are very satisfied with their current heights, and finally they are not so short.

"Yes, I've grown taller." Jiang Ning nodded lovingly, "Don't stay home for so long, you know?"

"Yeah." Mu Yanying nodded.

"By the way, do you want to go to the palace to meet the emperor and queen, they miss you very much?" Jiang Ning asked.

Mu Yanying nodded, "Yes, I'll go after washing up"

After packing up, he took the local specialties prepared by Mu Dingyang and went to the palace.

"Master, it's His Royal Highness the Prince," Qing Shu said in a low voice, since he knew Li Shengye's thoughts for his son, Qing Shu would tell Mu Yanying early every time he saw him.

"Yeah." Li Shengye rode over, Mu Yanying didn't intend to go out immediately, Li Shengye handed the horse to the guard at the door, and seeing Qingshu from the corner of his eye, he knew who was sitting inside, and saw that the other party had no intention of coming out, so he went straight entered the palace.

When the people walked away, Mu Yuying came out and walked straight to the inner courtyard.

"Aunt and Uncle" Mu Yanying just came in

"Kneel down" The bowl in the emperor's hand fell heavily on the ground, and the big crucian carp in the pond was frightened and rushed to the bottom of the pond in an instant.

Mu Yuying knelt down obediently, the emperor took a cane from the stone table "Your Majesty" the queen hurried to pull it, the emperor avoided "now it is getting better and better"

"No." Mu Yanying shook her head.

"No." The emperor's cane yanked heavily on the nearby tree, and the leaves fell on Mu Yanying's hand. "You dare not come back during the Chinese New Year. Is it because you won't come back after I die?"

"Uncle, don't say that, Yan Ying is wrong, and she will always come back to see you wherever she goes in the future"

"Yes! Your Majesty, look at you scaring the child." The queen quickly went to get the rattan in the emperor's hand. The emperor was not willing to beat Mu Yingying, but holding it was scary. The queen reached for it and let go of it naturally.

The queen went to help Mu Yingying up again, "You child, the terrain in Shu is already complicated. When I heard that you went to the mountain, your uncle and I were worried and didn't fall asleep for several days."

"I'm sorry, aunt, I just want to go around when I have nothing to do, and there are Uncle Ping and the others," Mu Yanying said in a low voice.

"Xian, huh." Although the emperor didn't take the cane, he was still angry. "After the weak crown, he entered the court as an official, and some of them were busy."

"Uncle, didn't you say that I don't need to enter the court?" Mu Yanying said weakly.

The emperor became angry when he heard this, and squeezed Mu Yingying's ear, "Look at you lazy"

"Uncle, it hurts." Mu Yanying covered her ears, and the emperor let go of her hand, "I didn't even try hard."

Mu Yuying accepted it when she saw a good deal, and hugged the emperor, "Uncle, I don't want to enter the court. I get up early and work late every day, it's very hard."

"Lazy" the emperor tapped Mu Yanying's forehead.

"hey-hey"