The most unlucky crossing in history

Lovesickness is stained, my heart is with you...

Just eight words made Zhong Qiyun, who was not drunk at all, gradually become drunk.

So drunk that I forgot my reason, so drunk that I couldn't tell where Jinxi was.

He had never heard such love words, and he never thought that Xie Wenyuan would tell him like this, how much he missed him...

With red eyes, Zhong Qiyun hugged and kissed his beloved almost as hard as if he wanted to crush his beloved in his arms.He never knew that he could be so desperate and desperate to get someone and possess this person, even Chulou's phoenix marrow fragrance never drove him crazy like tonight.

He could no longer hear the noise and laughter of the guests in the front yard, and he focused all his attention on the person in his arms. The sound of water from intertwined lips spread to Zhong Qiyun's ears in the dark night. The bottom of my heart, love, has long been irresistible. The summer clothes are already light and thin. When the person in the arms is indulging together, the kiss can logically continue to the neck, leaving one after another red traces in the lingering.

The summer night in Hangzhou City is unbearably sweltering, and for some reason today it is even more unusually hot.

Kong Kong swung his hand downwards, trying to untie the clothes of the person he was hugging tightly, but was held back by Xie Wenyuan, who was squinting and panting.

Zhong Qiyun looked at his lover who blocked his movement in confusion, and said in a hoarse voice: "Qianyuan..." He put his arms around the person he was hugging tightly, and asked meaningfully: "Can I ..."

Xie Wenyuan, who was breathing calmly, trembled slightly, avoiding Zhong Qiyun's gaze uncomfortably, and didn't say yes or no.

Although he has never been like this with a man before, it's not like he doesn't understand what's going on between men, and he also knows that there must be someone who will bear it...

For some reasons, he and Zhong Qiyun were just like that a few times ago... But even so, he also understood that there will be such a day of intimacy, but...

It's just that he has always been strong in dealing with things, if he... had never thought of such a thing before, it was also unimaginable.

But, looking at Zhong Qiyun's eyes... It's not that he doesn't know what Zhong Qiyun wants...

Xie Wenyuan didn't respond, Zhong Qiyun whispered impatiently: "I want you, Wenyuan, I can't bear to think about it. During this period of time, all I dreamed in my dreams were..." Zhong Qiyun's Adam's apple rolled, he moved to Xie Wenyuan's ear and uttered those two words.

After the words were spoken, by the faint candlelight, he saw Xie Wenyuan's earlobes slowly turning red, his eyes dimmed a bit, and he hugged him even tighter, "Wenyuan... ..."

Xie Wenyuan lowered his eyes and said slowly after a long time: "This is outside..."

As soon as the words were finished, Zhong Qiyun bent down and hugged him, with red eyes that had lost his reason, and a hoarse voice: "Let's go to the room."

When Zhong Qiyun strode around the atrium and came to the owner's house, the second housekeeper Shao Changwu who was guarding in front of his room rushed over, and before he could speak, Zhong Qiyun only hurriedly said to him: "Don't let others get close to the owner's house. House, you also stay away." He walked directly into the house.

Although he was a little surprised, after all, Shao Changwu had never seen the Patriarch bring people into the main house, but he had also experienced these things, and he knew what was going on at a glance when he saw Zhong Qiyun like that.

He didn't dare to take a closer look at who Zhong Qiyun was holding. When Zhong Qiyun carried the person into the house, he lowered his head and hurriedly helped to close the door...

In the quiet and scorching air, there was an indescribably high heat, but even in such a scorching summer, Zhong Qiyun hugged his lover tightly without hesitation, unwilling to separate at all...

……

It was late at night, and after the ambiguous sound that lasted for a long time gradually dissipated, Zhong Qiyun leaned on Xie Wenyuan's shen, and gently kissed Xie Wenyuan's temples.

Xie Wenyuan frowned slightly and closed his eyes in discomfort.

Seeing this, Zhong Qiyun turned over and got up and touched his forehead. He didn't feel hot, and then thought about what happened just now, thinking that he had accidentally hurt Xie Wenyuan, and said anxiously: "Uncomfortable?"

Xie Wenyuan opened his eyes and looked at Zhong Qiyun, then looked away and said uncomfortably, "I want...to take a bath."

Zhong Qiyun listened for a while, and immediately understood why, just now he did that, Xie Wenyuan's place must be messy...

"Oh, oh, ok, ok, I'll go right away!" He coughed quickly, picked up the clothes that were thrown on the ground, put them on casually, and then hurriedly called Shao Changwu outside the house to fetch water.

Shao Changwu had already prepared water in the water room, and now when Zhong Qiyun called him, he quickly asked someone to bring water into the room.

Four or five little servants came into the room one after another carrying hot water, each of them lowered their heads, not daring to glance at the inner bed.Zhong Qiyun wanted to help Xie Wenyuan wash, Xie Wenyuan looked at him with a smile for a long time, and then said: "It's not so weak that you can't take a bath, right?"

Zhong Qiyun touched his nose after hearing this, and said, "I don't want to be with you

How about getting closer? "

But he didn't insist after speaking, he could only follow Xie Wenyuan.

After the two of them had bathed, the bed over there had been replaced with clean and refreshing mattresses.

After the intimacy, there was some intimacy between the two that was different from the past and could not be clearly explained. Sitting on the edge of the bed, Zhong Qiyun took a cloth towel and helped Xie Wenyuan wipe his wet long hair, and slowly talked to Xie Wenyuan about this period of time. day.

"The reason why I came back so late this time is actually not only because of the business of the Sangha City." Zhong Qiyun said: "I brought a lot of people who understand foreign languages ​​to the Sangha to wait for the sea trade. Prosperous foreign towns have also built Chengfeng Pavilion."

Xie Wenyuan asked, "Are you even wanting to do business with foreigners?"

Zhong Qiyun nodded: "Although there are a lot of things sold in the middle school Chengfengyi, some profit-making items, such as silk from the Hu family, ceramics from the Zhou family, wood furniture from the Zhang family, tea from Jianzhou, etc., are all occupied by big households. I can't touch these things, but I can sell them to foreign countries. I have signed a peace agreement with the Hu family and Zhou family. After traveling to twenty cities in the Five Kingdoms for a while, it is almost settled, and it will be settled after Zhang Sheng and others deal with it, so it only took two more months."

Speaking of this, Zhong Qiyun remembered what he forgot to ask, "Oh, by the way, why did you come to Hangzhou this time? I remember that you only take ten days to rest and take a bath every year, which is not enough time to go back and forth." Zhong Qiyun knows better than anyone how busy the country's prime minister can be.Of course he knew that if it wasn't for business, Xie Wenyuan wouldn't have come to Hangzhou in so much free time.After thinking about it for a while, the court needs Xie Wenyuan, the prime minister, to come to Hangzhou in person to handle official business... Zhong Qiyun's eyes moved, "But for the maritime business?"

Xie Wenyuan looked at Zhong Qiyun after listening, and said, "You know?"

"know."

Xie Wenyuan shook his head with a smile, "It is true that I brought up the maritime tax issue, and I also brought up the issue of lowering the agricultural tax."

"When I was chatting with Governor Que during the day, I heard him talk about it."

"The agricultural tax has not changed for a hundred years, and it is higher than the commercial tax. Many large grain and rice households are afraid that the gods will not make the United States and there will be no food tax in the coming year, so they hoard the grain and rice in their hands and are unwilling to sell it. There was a disaster in a place that needed food, and even if the imperial court had money, it could not buy food supplies.

Often farmers are taxed too heavily, and having no surplus food and money in their hands will only make the poor poorer and live in uneasy lives.I have considered the tax reduction with Feng Ping and others earlier, but there are too many interests involved, and it is really difficult to move. This time, the maritime tax is raised to make it easier to reduce the agricultural tax. If the maritime tax is not raised together the first time, it will be impossible to reduce the agricultural tax after someone raises it first and asks the court to order the maritime tax. "

Zhong Qiyun nodded: "It's like giving one person an extra ten taels of silver every month, then he must readily agree, but if you want him to take out the money again to separate people, no one will be willing."

Xie Wenyuan looked at Zhong Qiyun and said, "Aren't you angry?"

"Angry? What are you angry about? Master Xie thinks I'm such a short-sighted person?"

Xie Wenyuan lowered his head and smiled, "Of course not."

"Isn't that right?" Zhong Qiyun sat next to Xie Wenyuan and hugged Xie Wenyuan into his arms, "If you don't mention it, someone else will. It’s impossible to be blank all the time. Since you have to pay sooner or later, wouldn’t it be better to take the opportunity to use it as a bargaining chip in exchange for tens of thousands of farmers’ surplus food?”

Leaning in Zhong Qiyun's arms, he didn't know whether to be happy that Zhong Qiyun believed in him so much, or to be angry that this person did whatever he wanted without complaining.Xie Wenyuan sighed after a long time: "You don't blame me for not explaining to you, nor taking good care of you?"

"I'm far away at sea, how do you tell me?" Zhong Qiyun buried his head and rubbed Xie Wenyuan's neck, and said, "Who said you didn't care about me? If you don't care about me and only care about the maritime tax, It would not be so laborious to establish a maritime law."

Xie Wenyuan paused after hearing this, but did not speak.

"Law, decree, form, style, the four ranks of government decrees in the Daqing Dynasty, and among them, the law is the highest and the most complicated. In fact, the tax rates in the country have always been issued, such as agricultural tax, commercial tax, etc. They are all implemented by the provincial order of Zhongshu Province, which is simple and clear. If you want maritime merchants to pay taxes, you only need to issue a maritime tax order that only stipulates the tax rate, time and method of payment. However, you mentioned Maritime Law."

"..."

"The system of law is more complicated. The meaning of Maritime Law is not only tax, but also the government, common people, other merchants, etc. are included in it, and it is in line with other laws. You must know that if the government only collects taxes and does not Guards and guards, then when commerce and trade flourish, bandits must be rampant on the sea, even worse than those in Shendu and other countries.

.Ninety out of the [-] ships sailing in the coastal waters of Daqing now belong to my Zhong family, and the richest ones are also the Zhong family's ships. If pirates come, I, Zhong Qiyun, will be the first to suffer. You have to include the government, that is To prepare for the government to cruise the sea, this is equivalent to giving the Zhong family a shelter.Am I right? "

Xie Wenyuan still didn't respond, but Zhong Qiyun understood everything.

When Zhong Qiyun said this, his throat suddenly choked.He took a deep breath, and his eyes were slightly red: "My lord mentioned to me this morning that he received your letter a month ago, and he said that your letter ordered him to send someone to patrol the coast... He also mentioned that maybe Maojiang and other places also received such letters... Ask Yuan, I am two months late, are you afraid that something will happen to me..."

Sometimes he always thinks about what Xie Wenyuan wants, and he will give it. He thinks that Xie Wenyuan is doing well, and he is satisfied in his heart, but he never thinks that this feeling is never his alone. Thinking that Xie Wenyuan was the same as him, he would be worried because of him.

Xie Wenyuan turned around and put his arms around Zhong Qiyun. He looked at the curtain beside the bed that moved with the wind for a long time before saying, "The sea is vast and dangerous. You said that you will return in half a year."

Zhong Qiyun's eyes turned red when he heard that, and he hugged Xie Wenyuan tightly: "My fault, I didn't think of this, and I just stayed there for so long."

Xie Wenyuan lowered his eyes: "It's fine if there's no problem."

Embracing like this, the two talked about many recent things. When Zhong Qiyun asked how Xie Wenyuan was able to come to Hangzhou, Xie Wenyuan smiled: "Although the reduction of agricultural taxes and the collection of maritime merchant taxes have been proposed in parallel. It is feasible, but there are still some people in the court who think it is not feasible, so I mentioned it to Emperor Shengning that it is necessary to go to Hangzhou and other places to see the sea merchants in person before deciding."

Zhong Qiyun blinked: "How much time did the emperor give?"

"Two months."

Zhong Qiyun was even more amused when he heard it, he pushed Xie Wenyuan down on the bed, and said with a smile: "I never imagined that the dignified Master Xie would also use public affairs for personal gain."

With a smile on the corner of Xie Wenyuan's mouth, he looked at Zhong Qiyun and said, "Oh? How do you say that?"

"Hey, if you want to know the situation along the coast, you can just ask me in a letter, and what you get is the most detailed and comprehensive, but you didn't do that, instead you came here on my birthday..." And Where did it take two months to visit those places?With him here, almost all the things on the sea belong to his Zhong family, so do you still need to check?others don't know

It is very difficult to investigate these, but Xie Wenyuan knows how easy it is. Zhong Qiyun did the calculations, and two months, it is more appropriate to say that it is a secret investigation, rather than a tour of mountains and rivers.

Blinking at Xie Wenyuan, Zhong Qiyun kissed Xie Wenyuan, and said: "Master Xie, do you think Xiaomin is right?" After speaking, he leaned over and wanted to kiss again.

Xie Wenyuan smiled and avoided it, but did not deny it.

Zhong Qiyun was even more happy, "If the Prime Minister wants to know about the status of the maritime merchants in various states, why not let me, the largest maritime merchant in the Qing Dynasty, guide you to take a look? It just so happens that the summer is bright and beautiful, so go north to Qingzhou and other places It’s beautiful to look at.”

In an exquisite house in the east of Hangzhou City.

"Is everything Xianxian said true?"

Sitting at the table, Lu Xuexian stomped her feet anxiously: "Where can it be fake? My daughter saw it with her own eyes. This Zhong Qiyun is hugging a man... Hey, my daughter can't even say it!"

Mrs. Lu frowned when she heard that, she really didn't expect that Boss Zhong would have such a hobby, but she thought about it for a while and then smiled: "Now that Zhong Qiyun has a great status, it is normal even if there are many wives and concubines. Just pretend you don't know."

"This......"

Mrs. Lu saw that her woman was still a little unclear, she smiled and patted Lu Xuexian's hand: "Tomorrow the nanny who taught the rules in the palace is coming, the most important thing for you right now is to study hard with the nanny, and then Take the initiative to win this Zhong Qiyun's heart, you must know that women chasing men's interlayer gauze, we Xianxian are so beautiful, that Zhong Qiyun's soul will definitely be haunted."

"Then that man doesn't care?"

"Good girl, don't worry, what can a man do? If you can't have children, you can't be a wife. Even being a concubine is not allowed. That man serves others with sex, and the left and right are just from the dirty place. After all, it's just that Such a lowly man, this Zhong Qiyun is greedy for novelty, and he will forget it in a short time." As she spoke, she took Lu Xuexian's hand and said earnestly: "If you want to be that mistress, you must look like a mistress .”

Mrs. Lu thought for a while, and then said: "Has Xianxian seen his appearance clearly?"

Lu Xuexian nodded. Although the lights were dim, she remembered the man's appearance with just one glance. He was really handsome. When those eyes glanced at her, she might have been frightened by the scene, and she actually felt scared. .

Seeing Lu Xuexian nodding her head, Mrs. Lu comforted in a gentle voice: "Well, you should rest well, and mother will go over and tell your father about it, and we will have a good night's sleep tomorrow."

Go to the Zhong Mansion for a 'visit' early in the morning to find out where this man is from. Afterwards, let your father beat and beat him in the dark. You can't stand in that kind of place. If you're timid, just scare him. If he ran away, even if he insisted on not leaving, at worst, send him some money to drive him away, okay? "

After hearing this, Lu Xuexian smiled, "I listen to mother."