Traitor, he is bent on death

Day and night in Yangzhou are like two worlds.

When Jiang Jintang came out of Zhaoyue Pavilion, it was raining lightly, and there were few pedestrians on the street. He lowered his eyes and raised the hem of his skirt to prevent his white clothes from getting dusty. There was a somewhat chilly spring breeze.

The carriage stopped at the door. Seeing the two people coming out, the coachman hurriedly set up the harness and leaned over to help Jiang Jintang get into the carriage. In an instant, it spread like a flower blooming.

A bony hand prevented the flower from blooming in the air, and the oil-paper umbrella tilted to cover the falling drizzle, but half of his body was exposed to the rain.

Jiang Jintang turned his eyes and glanced at him quietly. Xuan Lan seemed to have just done an extremely ordinary thing, and said lightly: "Go up, don't catch a cold."

Jiang Jintang entered the carriage, Xuan Lan came up afterward, and said, "Zhou Dan is watching upstairs."

Jiang Jintang frowned, and raised the corner of the car curtain, and sure enough, he saw Zhou Dan standing on the singing stage, looking at the two of them through the continuous rain.

He put down the curtain of the car, and said, "Brother Yin and this Master Zhou, do you seem to be at odds?"

"Not really." Xuan Lan said, "It's just that he thinks too much."

Zhou Dan can be called "smart", but he is a smart person, so he is easy to get into a dead end. He was the prefect in Yangzhou and he was trembling like walking on thin ice. He was afraid that Yin Yao would get rid of him quickly, but he didn't know the interests of the family. The whole body is affected by one shot, no matter how much rift the Yin family and Lin family have, they will never turn their faces.

Once one of the four big families falls, it means that the other three are also on the way to overturn.

"I remember that Mr. Zhou came from a poor family." Jiang Jintang seemed to just mention this matter casually, and said, "It's a pity that I forgot the root cause, and became a nobleman of the common people."

Xuan Lan became a little interested: "The young master seems to have a lot of opinions on the gentry?"

"There are many powerful families, and the family monopolizes it. Even if I am just a failed scholar, I know that Daye has been ill for a long time." Jiang Jintang said: "It is not easy for a child from a poor family to be an official, but after being promoted, it seems that there are few people in the world. for the good."

Xuan Lan was silent.

When Ding Guogong Jiang Fan was still alive, he used to vigorously promote talents from poor families. Although he was a rough man, he was not like many military officials who thought that civil servants could only talk. He deeply understood that military generals can rule the world, but if you want peace Only civil servants can do it.

When Jiang's family was prosperous, Jiang Fan could even be called "the world is full of peaches and plums". Most of the officials from poor families in the court and China have received his support and support.

Jiang Jintang leaned against the window, and could hear the sound of the wheels running over the rain clearly. He slightly closed his eyes, and said softly, "When I was young, I had a heart for heaven and earth, a life for the people, and a legacy for the past. Absolute learning, the grand wish of bringing peace to all generations, but the random flowers are becoming more and more attractive to the eye, how many people can stick to their hearts in the face of the temptation of golden horses, jade halls, and beautiful women in fragrant cars."

Xuan Lan laughed: "If the son is an official, he must be clean."

Jiang Jintang found it a little funny.

Xuan Lan said such words to the most treacherous official in the dynasty, and he didn't know if he would want to strangle himself to death after knowing the truth.

The carriage stopped in front of a house, and the coachman said: "My lord, we have arrived."

This is Yincai's private residence, Yincai got out of the car, and said to Jiang Jintang, "My lord, come in for a cup of tea, please?"

Jiang Jintang shook his head: "No need, Brother Yin has something important to do, so I won't bother you, just trouble me and take me to the front inn."

Xuan Lan didn't stop her either, but just cupped her fists and said, "See you someday."

Jiang Jintang smiled slightly: "See you by fate."

The white hand was retracted, the carriage continued to move forward in the fine rain, but Xuan Lan stood at the door and did not go in.

He stood with his back under the eaves, watching the carriage slowly disappear, Nie Xia came out from the door, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Young master seems to care about this Shu Jin?"

Xuan Lan couldn't tell what he was thinking, he looked away, didn't answer the question, but asked in a rambling way: "Did the begonias in Jiangnan bloom earlier?"

Nie Xia said: "It's blooming earlier than in the capital, and some early flowers have already bloomed."

Xuan Lan said: "I seem to smell the fragrance of crabapple flowers."

Nie Xia laughed, "Master, the crabapple in the south has no fragrance."

Xuan Lan was taken aback.

Where did the fragrance of flowers he smelled before come from?

……

When Jiang Jintang returned to the inn, Shanyue almost died of anxiety, but he was not surprised when he saw his strange attire, but first checked whether he was injured.

Jiang Jintang sighed helplessly: "I'm really not hurt...can I go take a bath first?"

Only then did Shanyue notice his strange attire, she was stunned, and said, "You..."

Jiang Jintang raised his hand to interrupt him: "Don't tell Jiashi about this."

Otherwise, this will definitely become a trick for Jian Yuanjia to manipulate him.

Shanyue nodded, indicating that she knew, and hurriedly fetched hot water for Jiang Jintang to take a bath comfortably.

Jiang Jintang washed off the makeup on his face, and then tore off the mask that belonged to Shu Jin from his face, revealing his original facial features.

His complexion was astonishingly beautiful in the hot air, but unfortunately there was no one in the room to appreciate it.

... This trip to Zhaoyue Pavilion is really embarrassing.

When Jiang Jintang was leaning against the tub, thinking whether to give up Shu Jin's identity, Shanyue's voice came from the door: "...Miss Wang! You can't go in, my son is taking a bath!"

Then came Wang Yuexin's voice: "So, he really came back?"

Shanyue didn't say a word.

Wang Yuexin's voice was a bit wronged: "Don't think I don't know, you went out together yesterday to the biggest brothel in Yangzhou! You came back by yourself, but he stayed in Zhaoyue Pavilion all night. I just came back now... Didn't you say that he and his wife are very affectionate? Why do you still go to the brothel?!"

Shanyue has never dealt with such a savage lady, who can't be beaten or scolded, so she can only block the door to prevent Wang Yuexin from entering, and keep silent.

Wang Yuexin's eyes were red: "You let me in! I have to ask him myself, how can I not be worthy of him! I'm not as good as his original wife and I will admit it. Why can't I even compare to a prostitute? superior?!"

Shanyue treats herself as a dumb person and just keeps silent.

Wang Yuexin was about to cry, her maid Ginkgo said: "Our lady is the daughter of the prefect of Qingzhou City! How many brains do you have, how dare you offend her?! If you don't get out of the way, I will send the guards over!"

Shanyue still didn't move.

Just when Ginkgo was about to call for someone, Jiang Jintang's voice sounded in the room: "Let Miss Wang come in."

Shanyue glanced at Wang Yuexin, and opened the door silently.

Wang Yuexin snorted coldly, and entered the room with her skirt lifted.

She thought Shanyue was prevaricating when she said about taking a bath, but Jiang Jintang was really taking a bath, and the mist curled up behind the screen, Wang Yuexin blushed instantly, and stammered: "I...I..."

Jiang Jintang said indifferently: "Miss Wang seems to have something urgent to find me. I'm sorry I'm out of shape. If you have something to say, just stand there and say it."

Wang Yuexin felt aggrieved and sad, bit her lip and said, "Did you go to Zhaoyue Pavilion last night?"

Jiang Jintang didn't deny it: "Go."

Wang Yuexin clenched her fingers: "You... I thought you were different from other men..."

"They're both men, so what's the difference." Jiang Jintang casually washed his slender finger joints, and said in a tired voice, "Miss is wrong."

"However, it is a good thing to stop the loss in time. Yangzhou is not far from Qingzhou. The lady is starting now, and she will arrive tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

Wang Yuexin's fingernails sank deeply into the flesh of her palm, she suddenly figured out something, and said, "You did it on purpose, didn't you?! You let me see you go to the brothel on purpose, just to annoy me to go back ...I won't be fooled!"

Jiang Jintang admired the girl's imagination a little bit.

"The more you are like this, the more I want to marry you!" Wang Yuexin said, "You don't have to be so mad at me, I won't give up lightly."

After speaking, he lifted the hem of his skirt and ran away.

Ginkgo was taken aback for a moment, and quickly chased after her.

Jiang Jintang rubbed his eyebrows helplessly.

Shanyue closed the door and said softly: "Do you want to be subordinate..."

Jiang Jintang said: "Why have you acted like Jianqing recently? She likes to use knives at every turn. She is Wang Cheng's daughter. It won't end well if she dies in Yangzhou, so don't worry about her for the time being."

He got up from the somewhat cold water, wiped off the water droplets on his body, put on clean clothes, and said, "Where is Jiashi?"

Knowing that he was dressed, Shanyue walked in, poured him a cup of hot tea, and said, "Master Jian went to the county government office and said that she wanted to see Diao Sheng."

Jiang Jintang paused with his fingers, and then smiled: "Jiashi really wanted to go with me."

Shanyue didn't understand: "Didn't you say that the matter in the south of the Yangtze River should be handled by His Majesty?"

Jiang Jintang took a sip of tea and said, "Let him deal with Jiangnan's false report of the disaster, and he can't handle the rest."

He always subconsciously treats Xuan Lan as a child, after all, when they first met, Xuan Lan was really too young.

"Zhou Dan is a good breakthrough." Jiang Jintang tapped his fingers on the table, "I remember that he came to visit my father back then, but my father didn't like him as a philistine and had little friendship with him. The Jiang family was convicted. Afterwards, Zhou Dan wrote a proclamation scolding the eighteen generations of the Jiang family’s ancestors, which I always remember.”

Shanyue was taken aback for a moment, and then she remembered why the name Zhou Dan sounded familiar to her.

It turns out that Zhou Dan still has such a relationship with the Dingguo government.

Jiang Jintang looked at the rain scene outside the window, narrowed his eyes, and said softly, "Clean up, let's go to the old house."

Shanyue nodded, turned around and was about to go out when suddenly a person was hanging from the window, Shanyue was about to draw his sword almost immediately, the person said: "It's me."

The author has something to say:

Every time I write a post, I think that the dog emperor uses Yincai's face, and I instantly feel that the dog emperor is not worthy.