Don't go back to hometown

Jiang Baizhou didn't go to Jinling for the time being, so he handed over the preparations before leaving to Jiang Xianyu, and he was a little worried, so he taught him hand in hand.

Although Jiang Baizhou didn't go, the number of people traveling with him increased a lot this time, and another large boat was chartered.

Jiang Xianyu wanted to bring Su He, Qing Zhu, and Ming Ya and his party.Xie Cheng wanted to bring his servants to tidy up Xie's house in Jinling, while Duan Shuwen was going to take Xie Sangrou and Duan Qixuan with him.

He was a little more decisive than Xie Cheng and Jiang Xianyu imagined.

After finding out the evidence that Wang Hui, Wang's nephew, embezzled the Duan family's property, and confirmed that Wang had the intention of adopting a son, Duan Shuwen invited the elders of Duan's father's clan to testify, confronted Wang, and seized her housekeeping rights. She was given two paths.

One is to keep her in the Duan family’s old house for the sake of raising her for many years, to ensure that she has no worries about food and clothing. will take her.But when she passed away in the future, she was still buried in the name of the old lady of the Duan family.

The second is to give her a sum of money to let her go back to the Wang family. From then on, they have nothing to do with each other. If she wants to remarry or adopt a son in the future, she can do whatever she likes.But if she and the Wang family were to tell lies and affect Duan Shuwen's official career, then the Duan family would make public what she and the Wang family did and ask the government to rule.

Unexpectedly, Wang did not explain and refute at all, and did not blame Duan Shuwen for taking care of her, but very calmly admitted that he had no affection for Duan Shuwen, blackmailed a sum of money without hesitation, and packed things the next day Set off back to her mother's house.

Before leaving, he said that he had had enough of working as a cow and a horse in the Duan family and raising sons for others. Anyway, Duan Shuwen couldn't pass the exam. If he was expected to be filial, it would be better to cut it off as soon as possible.

It turned out that she still couldn't treat Duan Shuwen as her own child, let alone recognize Duan Shuwen's talent and character, and didn't believe that Duan Shuwen would take care of her until the end of her retirement, and she didn't dare to stay in Duan's house anymore, fearing Duan Shuwen's revenge and making her feel better.

The words of condemnation made Duan Shuwen's heart ache.

He had always thought that even if Mrs. Wang was strict with him, it was just that the mother was too earnest in wishing for her child to become a dragon, and it was for his own good.Therefore, I have strict requirements on myself and try my best to live up to the expectations of my "mother".

Only now did I understand that the other party never regarded him as his own child from the beginning to the end, and he didn't look down on him at all in his heart.

The blood relationship is really more important than the [-] years of mutual support between their orphans and widows!Just because he has no blood relationship with the Wang family, in her heart, he is even inferior to her nephew from her natal family who has not been in contact with him for more than [-] years!

Duan Shuwen really suffered for a few days, and finally regained his spirits under the comfort of Xie Sangrou and Xiao Qixuan, entrusted Duan's house to the care of his family members, rented out the farm and shop, and took his wife and children to Jinling.

After the Xie family's house in Jinling had finished drying, on the day they arrived in Jinling, Xie Cheng invited everyone to enjoy the housewarming together.

Duan Shuwen didn't want to wrong his wife and children, so he quit the small courtyard he rented earlier, and offered to live in Xie's house.It doesn't matter whether outsiders will laugh at him for intruding in the door and eating soft food, but he only concentrates on studying and working hard.

Xie Cheng also entered the Guozijian two days later, and went out early and returned late with Duan Shuwen, studying hard.

Jiang Xianyu formally took over the affairs of the Escort Bureau, and is now mainly in charge of coordinating the affairs of the Escort Bureau, and has not yet dispatched Escort Bureau.

After Mingya returned to Jinling, she bid farewell to Jiang Xianyu and prepared to go north to the capital—if she didn't go back, her father would personally come and arrest her.

Jiang Xianyu called Xie Cheng and Duan Shuwen's family to practice it for her in the restaurant, and urged her to protect herself and not trust others, especially people like Xie Yancheng.

At first, Mingya was bothered by him, thinking that he was more nagging than her father, but before leaving the next day, she cried into tears and pulled Jiang Xianyu and refused to let go.In the end, I insisted on making an appointment with Jiang Xianyu to meet in the capital next year, so I boarded the boat step by step.

After seeing off Li Mingya, Lidong arrived in a blink of an eye.

During the beginning of winter in previous years, both Jinling and Yangzhou are still warm, and winter has not really entered.But this year is abnormal. The weather is hot and cold. It was warm and sunny in autumn a while ago, and winter came early in the blink of an eye.

A few days ago, Jiang Xianyu heard from Martial Uncle Wei that some of the old bodyguards in the bodyguard bureau were not in good health and had already started to feel cold, so he asked the doctor for ways to make up his body.In the end, it was decided to ask the chef of the Escort to buy two sheep every now and then, to cook mutton soup and make mutton dumplings for everyone.

Lidong also sent a sheep to Xie's mansion on this day, Xie Sangrou called him and Suhe to have dinner in the evening.

It was getting darker and earlier, Jiang Xianyu took Su He out of the escort agency ahead of time, smelled the aroma of roasted chestnuts and roasted sweet potatoes on the way, and bought two catties of roasted chestnuts and three roasted sweet potatoes from the vendor - he and Su He were alone One, and bring another one to Xie Cheng.

When paying the silver, I paused and bought three more.

He handed one catty of roasted chestnuts and three roasted sweet potatoes to Su He: "These are for you, and sent to Xie Mansion to share with Sister Sang Rou and Xiao Qixuan."

Su He was taken aback: "Is the third senior brother not going?"

Jiang Xianyu took the roasted chestnuts and roasted sweet potatoes into his arms: "You go first, I will go to the Imperial College to pick up Xie Cheng and Brother Duan."

Su He: "???"

He pointed to himself: "Brother, don't you think I need to be picked up more?"

Jiang Xianyu was stunned for a moment, and looked at Su He: A young boy who is less than 11 years old is wearing a tunic jacket, no matter how tall he is, he is still just a child.

He gave a "tsk" in his heart, saying that he didn't want to bring a child!

But he still hugged Su He's shoulders, "Okay, senior brother will send you to Xie's mansion first."

Su He snorted, for the sake of the roasted chestnuts and sweet potatoes, forgive Brother Smelly for a while.

When they arrived at Xie's mansion, Su He had already finished eating the roasted sweet potatoes and began to peel the chestnuts.

"Eat less, we'll eat later." Jiang Xianyu patted his head and drove him into the door, and called the coachman of Xie's family to catch up with the carriage and go to the Imperial College with him to pick up people.

When he arrived, the Imperial College just finished school.

It's just that most of the students live in the dormitory, eat and live in the Guozijian, and don't like to go out when it's cold, so there are only a small wave of students coming out at this moment.

Xie Cheng and Duan Shuwen were particularly eye-catching.

Jiang Xianyu visited the neighborhood a few times, and there is no one more handsome than Xie Cheng in the entire Imperial College.

He waved at the two of them, Xie Cheng saw him at a glance, and walked towards him at a faster pace.

"Why did you come here?"

Jiang Xianyu pushed him into the carriage, and explained: "Today in Lidong, Sister Sang Rou asked Su He and I to go to Xie Mansion for dinner, and I will drop by to pick you up."

Xie Cheng and Duan Shuwen knew whether it would be smooth or not, not to mention that Jiang Xianyu even brought the Xie family's carriage, who had obviously been to the house and came here to pick them up.

Xie Cheng felt warm in his heart, and shook Jiang Xianyu's hand when he boarded the car.

Duan Shuwen also smiled and said, "Xiao Yu has a heart."

"It's getting cold, you should go to school in the carriage in the future to avoid the cold." Jiang Xianyu shared the roasted sweet potatoes and chestnuts covered in the blanket of the carriage with the two of them, "Eat them while they are hot, they won't taste good later."

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Xie's new house.

Xie Sangrou asked the kitchen to roast four lamb legs, another plate of lamb and stir-fried scallions, the remaining bones and radishes were stewed into a nourishing soup, and the remaining lamb lungs, tripe, and intestines were made into Maoxuewang. A table of whole sheep feasts was full of color, fragrance and taste, filling up the stomachs of all the people, but they were still unsatisfied.

Duan Shuwen is good at wine, so he took Xie Cheng and Jiang Xianyu to have a few drinks, but he had to go to school tomorrow, so he just tasted it and didn't dare to drink too much.

It was already late when the banquet was over, and the wind was blowing outside, so Xie Sangrou persuaded Jiang Xianyu to stay overnight with Su He.

"There is a guest room in Achengyuan. You and Su He can sleep separately or live in one room. I will ask the servants to make the beds for you."

Jiang Xianyu glanced at Xie Cheng and nodded in response.

A while before departure, he was afraid of being discovered by Xie's father, so he resisted the urge to climb over the wall and "put himself in his arms", and never went to Xie's mansion to look for Xie Cheng again.

After coming to Jinling, she came here once, slept in Xie Cheng's house, and left before dawn the next day, Xie Sangrou didn't know about it.

Today was the first time for him to stay in the Xie Mansion's new residence openly, so he asked his servants to tidy up a room, and he slept with Su He.

The little brat clamored to come to Jinling with him, but in fact he was in love with his family and refused to sleep. He didn't dare to sleep alone for the first two days, so he insisted on staying in Jiang Xianyu's room.I changed places today, if I don't accompany him, I'm afraid I will be awakened by nightmare again in the middle of the night.

However, when Jiang Xianyu chased the kid to wash up, he took the opportunity to go to Xie Cheng's house.

Xie Cheng had just finished washing, and Shimo was drying his hair. Seeing Jiang Xianyu coming in, he boldly stuffed a cotton handkerchief into his hand, "I'll go make tea for the young master."

As he said that, he ran out quickly and closed the door behind him.

Jiang Xianyu: "..."

Xie Cheng smiled at him, stretched out his hand and pulled him to him, "Thank you."

Jiang Xianyu followed suit with a smile, stood behind him and wiped his hair, and said, "It's better not to wash your hair when it's cold, or use a charcoal basin to dry it, and be careful not to catch the wind and cold."

Xie Cheng smiled slightly: "It's not that time yet, so it's okay." What I didn't mention was that if the mutton soup tonight wasn't too nourishing, he wouldn't be so dry and sweaty in the middle of the winter night.

Jiang Xianyu didn't think about this at all, and mentioned the charcoal fire, and said: "The escort bought a batch of charcoal from the south, sent it to Jinling in a few days, and then distributed it to Yangzhou and Huai'an and other places. Do you remember where the disaster was more serious? , do you want to get over it a bit?"

Xie Chengdao: "I just want to tell you that the teacher sent someone to send news yesterday, saying that the first snow fell in the capital a few days ago, earlier than in previous years. He took advantage of the opportunity to report the early winter in the south of the Yangtze River to His Majesty , I think it won’t be long before His Majesty will issue a decree to protect the places from cold and frost.”

Seeing that his hair was almost dry, Jiang Xianyu picked up a comb and combed it for him, "Everywhere in the north should have experience in surviving winter, and with preparation in advance, it should be able to reduce losses. I just don't know where we are, when the snow falls What will it look like?"

Xie Cheng thought about it: "Actually, in the previous life, except for the early winter, there was not much snow in the north, and the weather was not much colder than usual years. Only the south of the Yangtze River was uncharacteristically, and it suffered heavy snowstorms one after another."

He paused, turned around and took Jiang Xianyu's hand: "The world is doomed, we can't save everyone, we can only do our best and obey the destiny."

"I know……"

Jiang Xianyu felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, but he also knew that his ability was limited and he couldn't be the savior.Therefore, I also understand why Xie Cheng's previous life emphasized that those in power should be benevolent, kind and virtuous, and have the world in mind-because the life and death of the people are sometimes only in their minds.

He suddenly remembered those strange conversations, and suggested: "Do you think that Qin Tianjian can predict this disaster by observing the sky? Or, let's find a way to let them know."

Xie Cheng raised his eyebrows: "'Chen Shengwang?'"

Jiang Xianyu: "Yes!"

Xie Cheng nodded, got up and pinched his ear, "But, I will deliver the letter to the teacher tomorrow."

Two days later, Fang Zhizhou sent someone to deliver the official approval document for opening a bank account, handed over the bank account Xie Cheng had mentioned earlier, and accepted his suggestion.

At the end of October, Jiang Xianyu sent a batch of charcoal to the Huai'an branch of the Ping'an Escort, and brought back a message when he returned.

It is rumored that on the day of the Xiaoxue solar term, Chuxue in Luoyang, the fiefdom of King Zhong, actually formed four snow characters "Jiangnan heavy snow" outside the gate of King Zhong's mansion, and disappeared after a while.

This vision was seen by many people, and soon they went to heaven to hear it.

One school of courtiers believed that this was a common method of "falsely conveying God's will" in history books, and urged His Majesty to thoroughly investigate those who pretend to be gods and ghosts; Prepare.

King Zhong didn't know who was scheming against him, and he didn't dare to be sure whether there would be heavy snow in the south of the Yangtze River. He could only insist that he was innocent and ignorant in front of the emperor, and he was severely humiliated.

At the beginning of the month, Shen Zhui, the commander of the Tianxin Mansion who had quietly arrived in Jinling, received a secret decree from the emperor, asking him to pay close attention to the weather in the south of the Yangtze River.