comeback [rebirth]

There are not many merchant ships that are allowed to go to sea, and it happens that the Jiang family has one.

At that time, Daning had just started to open up sea routes. At first, there were only official ships, but the emperor gave the Jiang family a special case and rewarded a ship for merchants. From then on, the Jiang family’s merchant routes began to gradually change from land routes to waterway.

With a more convenient mode of transportation, the Jiang family's business gradually spread throughout Daning and flourished day by day.Up to now, they still use the combination of water and land, leading the industry.

Mr. Jiang had retired from the front line nearly ten years ago and started to enjoy family happiness. Jiang Yuanming is now in charge of the Jiang family, so he replied directly after hearing Cen Yuan's request: "That's not a coincidence. , the ship is just out to sea."

Hearing this, Cen Yuan also showed a regretful expression.

——If there is no boat here, it will be troublesome for them to go to sea to investigate. After all, they can't find someone to borrow a small wooden boat and just paddle to the sea.

He subconsciously looked at Yan Xuan and met his eyes, but at this moment Jiang Yuanming said again: "But count the time, and I will be back in a few days. When the time comes, I will mention it to the dock manager and let him arrange it." Arrange the route and time."

Cen Yuan's eyes lit up, but he didn't respond immediately, and asked again: "After that, when are you going to leave the ship again?"

"Clothing is no better than other commodities, and it won't rot in a short time, so we usually ship once a month." Jiang Yuanming said, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay!" Cen Yuan said hurriedly, "Then thank you uncle."

After all, after thinking about it, he added: "We'll just take a look around. We don't like too many people. We don't need to bring too many people on board."

Jiang Yuanming replied: "Okay, I will look at the arrangements then."

Cen Yuan thanked again.

A lunch lasted from noon to Shen time, and finally ended when the old man couldn't bear it anymore and had to take a nap.

Even so, he still insisted on taking Cen Yuan and Yan Xuan to the door first.

"Although the mansion does not occupy a large area, there are still vacant rooms." Old Jiang said, "Yun Sheng, why don't you stay in the inn, and come here directly."

The mansion is so clean that not even a little bustling sound can be heard, only the rustling of leaves and the gurgling of the pool water are the only companions for a while.

Cen Yuan shook his head: "It still doesn't work, my cousin and the others finally came back once. If I'm here, they will feel uncomfortable all day long."

Old Jiang replied: "But..."

——But child, wouldn’t it be even more difficult for you to come to Jiangnan once.

But the words were not spoken in the end.

A long time ago, when he went to the northern town to check the cloth market, he stopped by Chang'an and applied for admission to the palace to meet his daughter.

At that time, he met his grandson for the first time.

Before that, he always heard about this grandson from other people. For example, when the second prince was three years old, he wrote a wonderful poem at the Shangyuan Banquet. Just come out on top...

For another example, not long before he went to Chang'an, a sword was brought out in the Chang'an auction house. It is said that it was cast by an old man who is famous for casting swords in Daning.On the night of the auction, the second prince knocked out the soldiers guarding the side gate of the palace, sneaked out of the palace, and went to the auction house to bid for the sword at a high price.

As a result, on the second day, he looked like he had nothing to do with himself, and insisted that he was not the one who took the sword, but after a simple investigation, it turned out that he gave the sword directly to someone else, and although the "other" did not admit it, But the look on his face completely revealed the truth of the whole story.

So the second prince was finally locked up in the bedroom by Emperor Ning for seven days, and was punished by copying the Four Books and Five Classics twenty times.

To Jiang Lao at that time, Cen Yuan was not his grandson at all, but only the second prince of Daning.

He can hear praises about the second prince, and occasionally such trivial things that make people laugh and cry, but no matter what kind, he will never feel proud or ashamed, and treat Cen Yuan as his own child. mood.

Until he went to Chang'an, entered the palace, saw Cen Yuan with his own eyes, touched the top of the other's head with his own hands, and communicated with him personally.

That time, after Cen Yuan knew his identity, he would obediently call him "grandfather", would complain to him that talking to the Taifu in the Imperial Academy was really sleepy, and would coquettishly say to him that he had already practiced Qinggong very well, His skills became more and more superb, but he still couldn't beat Yan Xuan, and he couldn't even beat him in size—even though at that time, he didn't know who this "Yan Xuan" was.

He has been in business for many years, and what he is most proud of is his eyes that never make mistakes in seeing people. At that time, he felt that this child is not suitable to stay in the palace.

Free geese should not be tied up in a cage in Chang'an.

It was only later that everyone knew that the sword from the auction house had become the hero of Daning's youngest general in cutting off the Huns' invasion path, and it had become a sword that Yan Xuan never left, but he gradually listened to it. There were no more good words about his grandson, but what he said with a smile, "Second Prince? Alas, Jiang Lang's talents are exhausted."

……

So at this moment, Mr. Jiang still didn't say this meaningful sentence, but shook his head helplessly when Cen Yuan looked at him suspiciously.

When he arrived at the gate, he said: "Both of you, be careful on the way back. After Yuan Ming finishes handling the matter of the ship, I will notify you."

The two of them each responded, and let Mr. Jiang go to rest quickly, and there is no need to send him off.

There was a creaking door in the quiet alley, and the gate under the plaque of "Jiang's Mansion" slowly closed.

However, before it could be completely closed, Cen Yuan suddenly grabbed Yan Xuan's sleeve and asked him to wait, then turned back three steps and two steps back to the gate.

"Grandfather!"

Mr. Jiang paused for closing the door, and then pushed the door open a little.

"We..." Cen Yuan panted slightly, pursed his lower lip, and said, "Can we have dinner every day?"

The voice fell in the aftertaste of squeaks in the alley, Jiang Lao was stunned for a moment, and his lips moved: "Okay..."

He seemed to think that the sound was too soft, and repeated again: "Of course."

Cen Yuan smiled suddenly.

"Grandfather, go take a nap, we're leaving first." He said, "See you tomorrow night."

·

When he left Jiang's house that day, if it weren't for the crowds in the street, Cen Yuan would have been able to dance in the street.

Yan Xuan grabbed him with one hand: "So happy?"

"Naturally, it feels so good to be home." Cen Yuan and his fingers intertwined, and led the people to rush among various stalls on the street, buying a bunch of messy gadgets , "This time I haven't seen my grandfather and uncle for a long time, but I didn't expect to become an uncle."

As he said that, he saw a shop selling jade, so he took Yan Xuan and plunged into it.

Yan Xuan watched him pick the jade from the side, then looked at the pile of extra things in his hand, and asked, "Bought for Chi Lingchixiu?"

"En." Cen Yuan quickly picked out two pieces of jade, and was picking them up to examine them carefully, "Since you have promised to engrave them, you have to do what you say, little general, you will be nagged by Chi Xiu Yes, that kid is fine."

Yan Xuan was a little dumbfounded immediately.

He quietly looked at Cen Yuan's focused side face, and suddenly wanted to say something after a while, but Cen Yuan just happened to finish picking the jade, and when he turned around and saw that he didn't respond, he patted him on the shoulder: "Why are you so dazed?" , whoever holds the money pays."

After finishing speaking, Cen Yuan hummed a familiar tune, walked out of the jade shop first, and went back to the street to pick out small gifts.

Yan Xuan watched his back leave, but finally swallowed what he was going to say helplessly.

Left and right are not particularly important words, and according to the mood of this highness who can almost float to the sky now, no matter what he says, it will only go in the left ear and out the right ear.

He chuckled under the half-doubting and half-urging eyes of the jade shop owner, took out his money bag and paid in full, and left the jade shop after the shop owner finished packing the two pieces of jade.

Before he stepped out with both feet, Cen Yuan caught his figure not far away, and waved at him: "Yan Xuan, come and see this!"

The sun was setting far away, reflecting the rippling smile in Yan Xuan's eyes.He stepped out of the jade shop and walked towards the gaze that was looking at him without hesitation.

·

Chi Ling and Chi Xiu's family will only stay in Qingjiang for seven days, and then they will go back to the Chi family in the south.

Cen Yuan's cousin-in-law is the son of Chi's family, and his family is an ordinary scholarly family in the south. He has no interest in taking the exam for fame since he was a child, and only loves calligraphy and painting. Once upon a time, the Chi family thought that he would say that he would marry calligraphy and painting as his wife.

But fortunately God has eyes, he bought a pair of calligraphy and painting by chance in Jiangnan, and he liked it very much, so he took the initiative to ask who painted the calligraphy and painting, and found the Jiang family along the way, and met the only daughter of the Jiang family.

...and then I felt like I had met the one I was destined for.

It is said that in order to pursue Miss Jiang's family, Young Master Chi went all over Daning just to find out who owned Miss Jiang's favorite "Clouds and Mountains Picture". After finding out, he went to negotiate with the other party in person. Enter the mansion vertically and exit horizontally.

No one knows how he managed to receive "The Picture of Clouds and Mountains" in the end. After all, he and Miss Jiang kept writing letters at that time, but he never mentioned anything about himself.All I know is that in the end, he returned to Qingjiang in a mess, and with his arms hanging, he ran outside Miss Jiang's yard and shouted, saying that he fell in love with Miss Jiang at first sight, and now he was hired by "The Picture of Clouds and Mountains", and hoped that Jiang The girl can agree to marry him.

And the girl from the Jiang family came out almost immediately, dragged him into Jiang's mansion, blushed and said that she didn't know how to avoid embarrassing our family.

Back then, Mr. Chi was very reckless, but now that the matter was being discussed at the dinner table, his face was so red that he could almost get under the dinner table.

Everyone in the Jiang family knew about this, and they joked a few words as if they would pull Mr. Chi out to whip the corpse every time.Among the rest of the people, Chi Lingchixiu was focused on playing with the gadgets and jade pendants that Cen Yuan gave them, and didn't realize that what these adults were discussing was about their own parents. On the other side, Yan Xuan closed her eyes and smiled calmly After a while, only Cen Yuan reacted the most exaggeratedly. He almost spit out the wine from his mouth when he heard Mr. Chi yelling outside the yard.

He laughed wantonly, causing his cousin-in-law on the other end to feel ashamed, and turned to ask his wife to help him out, but the girl in the Jiang family in the story didn't seem to see his eyes, and only called for two small children to eat after dessert.

After laughing, Cen Yuan filled the jug with wine, picked up the jug and two wine cups and waved to his cousin-in-law. The latter didn't understand why, and followed him to the stairs outside the door and sat down on the floor.

I don't know if Cen Yuan was a little drunk or on purpose, he poured himself a glass of wine, then poured another glass for his cousin who can't drink at all.The other party probably just wanted to drink away his "shame", so he took the wine cup and drank it down.

Although I was choked up by the spicy and burst into tears.

Cen Yuan laughed again, and after a while, he drank his own wine, but said: "Brother-in-law, I really admire you."

My cousin-in-law just went to pick up a cup of tea and came back when he heard this sentence.

"When your heart is moved, your heart is moved. If you like it, you like it." Cen Yuan said while pouring wine, "It's not like me and my family, who wasted a lot of good time and took a lot of detours."

Behind him, Yan Xuan caught the conversation outside the door, turned his head slightly, held the wine cup in one hand, and remained silent.

After seven days of being together, the young couple also gradually eliminated their estrangement and estrangement in front of Cen Yuan.Mr. Chi looked at Cen Yuan, then turned his head quickly, and said softly, "I thought you were married by order."

"It used to be." Cen Yuan replied subconsciously, but he smacked his eyes in the blink of an eye, and then changed his words: "We all thought it was."

The jade pendant that had been silent for three years suddenly seemed to gain unprecedented weight. Cen Yuan put down the wine cup, picked up the jade pendant around his waist, and watched it facing the moonlight.

Under the penetration of light, the jade is almost transparent, and the contrast makes the engravings on it extraordinarily clear, as if even the name hidden in the depths can be clearly seen every stroke and every painting.

Cen Yuan suddenly thought, if Yan Xuan had been braver at that time and had given him the jade pendant directly and told him what the meaning of the jade pendant was, or if he had been smarter and understood Yan Xuan's sincerity hidden in his speechless words, and understood what he meant for him. The feelings behind the other party's special treatment will have a different process and ending.

Unfortunately, there is no such thing.

"If it wasn't for..."

If it wasn't because of his rebirth, or because Emperor Ning wanted to marry them on a whim, then he wouldn't be able to know in this life.

At that time, what should Yan Xuan do.

And now, how can he make up for it.

The cousin-in-law next to him heard only half of what he said, and asked, "If it's not because of something?"

Cen Yuan suddenly came back to his senses, thinking that he really drank too much, and he almost told about his rebirth.

He shook his head, he didn't know whether he couldn't help it or it was on purpose, he hiccupped silently, and then said: "If it weren't for the fact that God sometimes mercifully distributes some regret medicine to the world, some mistakes can't be corrected. "

The cousin-in-law looked at Cen Yuan in confusion, it seemed that the sip of wine just now surged up in his body, making him completely unable to understand what the legendary second prince was talking about.

And at this time, he heard someone calling him from behind: "Husband."

"Here we come!" He quickly replied before turning his head completely, and said "I'm sorry" to Cen Yuan, then got up and walked towards his wife.

Behind him, Cen Yuan smiled, quickly picked up the wine cup again, and had a drink with the moonlight.

Since my cousin's family was leaving the next day, the dinner lasted a little longer tonight.

After a long time, Yan Xuan walked behind Cen Yuan, covering him all over him, and put away the empty jug and cup in his hand.

"Back to the inn."

Cen Yuan's hands suddenly became empty, he was at a loss for a while, and then looked up directly: "It's over?"

"Yeah." Yan Xuan said, "It's time for Mr. Jiang to rest."

Mr. Jiang is energetic on weekdays, but at night, he is like other elderly people. He can't last too late, and it's time to rest.

The other two children were also a little sleepy. Seeing that everyone was packing their things, their mother urged them to go back to the house, so they ran to Cen Yuan's side, and obediently raised their heads and called, "Uncle."

"Huh?" Cen Yuan responded, knelt down and asked, "What's the matter?"

Chi Ling said: "When we have time, we will go to Chang'an to play with uncle."

"Okay." Cen Yuan frowned, seeing that the two of them had already hung up the jade pendants impatiently, he said, "I'll make some gadgets for you when you come to play."

The children cheered immediately: "Okay!" Then they ran to find their parents and told them, and they were taken to their rooms after a while.

After saying goodbye one by one, Cen Yuan and the others also left Jiang's house.

The streets in Qingjiang are not comparable to Guangbai Street, let alone the area full of restaurants in the center of Danlin County.It was just after Xushi, and the busiest street in the daytime was already completely silent, as if it had fallen into a deep sleep with the pier and the sea not far away.

Cen Yuan brazenly walked side by side with Yan Xuan holding hands, when he suddenly heard the other party ask: "Do you like children?"

When he first came out of Jiang's house that day, Yan Xuan wanted to say this. After all, no matter whether it was outside Chang'an before or with Chi Lingchixiu recently, he could almost be sure that Cen Yuan faced children completely differently. high emotions.

"Huh?" Cen Yuan turned his head to look at the other party subconsciously, and said with a smile: "Why, if I say I like it, will you give birth to me?"

Yan Xuan calmly said, "How can I give birth."

"Of course not now, but in the future it will be fine." Cen Yuan said, "This must be done before the emperor bestows marriage on us. It's not like everyone has never thought that men can get married."

Yan Xuan didn't reply for a while, and Cen Yuan didn't mind either—he seemed to have found some new fun, looking down at the green brick pavement under the dim light on the side of the street, specifically staring at the gap between bricks and stepping on it.

Such a diversion of sight prevented him from paying attention to the situation in front of him, and he almost stepped on a night cat that suddenly jumped out from the street.

Yan Xuan hurriedly pulled Cen Yuan back, and the night cat bared its teeth and "hissed!" at Cen Yuan, turned around and ran away to the other side.

Cen Yuan couldn't believe it: "Is he provoking me?"

"..." Yan Xuan let out a muffled laugh, pulled the man back to her side, and said, "Keep an eye on the road."

Cen Yuan murmured softly: "Anyway, you are leading me..."

Even so, he ended the mini-game unilaterally, and honestly turned his gaze back to the road ahead.

And at this moment, Yan Xuan said, "If you want it, it may not be impossible."

Cen Yuan was a little slow to react at this moment, and it took a while to realize that what the other party answered was about children.

It was hard for him to imagine Yan Xuan giving birth to a child for him.

Just thinking about it, he felt that this scene was really funny, he couldn't help laughing out loud, he patted the other party and said "forget it", but in a flash, the relationship between the two appeared in his mind, that smile It froze on the face.

After a while he asked, "Then why don't you let me have a baby?"

In case they can really have a baby in the future, according to logic... it seems that it must be him.

He didn't know if it was because Yan Xuan usually looked indifferently and didn't seem to have this kind of desire, so he didn't think of such a deep place at this time, or there were other reasons at all.

He didn't know it was the latter until he heard Yan Xuan's reply.

Because Yan Xuan said: "Mother died because of dystocia."

Cen Yuan was stunned suddenly.

Although Yan Xuan didn't continue, but somehow he seemed to be able to automatically pick up the other person's words——

"I can not let it go".

The stray cats that just ran past seemed to be looking for food in the alley, and made a slight noise not far away, disturbing the silence that was originally only accompanied by the moonlight.

Cen Yuan stopped in his tracks, tightened his hand slightly, and led Yan Xuan to turn around to look at him.

He said, "Yan Xuan, I want to kiss you."

Yan Xuan's black eyelashes trembled.

Cen Yuan asked politely: "I want to kiss you, is that okay?"