[Red Mansion+Qing Chuan] The heroine comes from the last days

Kangxi smiled slightly.

"What Wang Qing means is that this matter has nothing to do with Jinling City, but should be attributed to the rich merchants in Yangzhou City?" He stood up and took a step towards Wang Ziteng, who trembled and was about to step back Two steps, but Kangxi did not move. He still looked at Wang Ziteng with that half-smile expression, but the smile did not penetrate his eyes. , so the omission of officials should fall on those wealthy businessmen, is that what Wang Qing means?"

Wang Ziteng trembled again: "The emperor..."

Kangxi slightly raised his hand and said, "You just need to tell me 'yes' or 'no'."

"Yes!" Wang Ziteng gritted his teeth.It is about my own wealth and life, as well as the official career of the whole family, Rongda, I can't take care of it at this time, so I just don't do anything, and push all the things to those rich businessmen, "The Holy Majesty doesn't know, those rich businessmen are huge Most of the Jiamen have committed many crimes, buying low and selling high. They once raised the price of salt in Yangzhou from one cent to eight cents and four cents, and then hoarded it for profiteering. Most of the salt fields along the coast were forcibly occupied by them. The peasants have long been miserable. But because among those people there are squires and some are governors in the Yangzhou mansion, so even if they reported it layer by layer, they were all suppressed, and so far there are still many cases in Yangzhou city."

Kangxi smiled again, but said: "Go ahead."

Wang Ziteng's expression relaxed a little, but then he changed into an expression filled with righteous indignation, and said: "Although Jinling City has always been a place where luxury and gold are obsessed, Yangzhou's land is even worse than Jinling. The room contains gold. , the money is like snow, and there are salt merchants with good hands and eyes, and they have collected half of the salt fields in the south of the Yangtze River, and they are entrenched in the land of the south of the Yangtze River. Yangzhou and Suzhou, not Jinling City on the banks of the Qinhuai River."

The words are convincing, and the credibility is quite high.

Kangxi's smile deepened again, and his eyes once again fell on the official amulet in Wang Ziteng's hand.

Wang Ziteng held the official talisman like a piece of hot potato, neither torn nor thrown away. Although Kangxi's gaze was flat, it made him feel like a thorn in his back. Disgrace.

After a long time, Kangxi said: "I know. Go down."

Wang Ziteng was uneasy, not knowing whether his rhetoric just now had an effect, or just the other way around, allowing him to take the title of official guardian talisman.Just after hesitating for a moment, Manager Liang had already stepped forward, smiled and said to Wang Ziteng, "Please, Mr. Wang." Then he winked at the two guards dressed as boatmen.The two guards understood and forcibly "invited" Wang Ziteng out.

Before leaving, Wang Ziteng was still holding the official amulet in his hand, with a surprised expression on his face.

After everyone left, Kangxi changed his cold and stern expression, and slammed four words: "Deceive the superior!"

There was a moment of silence.

Jiang Ling was startled, glanced at Kangxi, but remained silent.

After a long time, Kangxi walked back to the case, spread out a piece of letter paper with a strange format, and said slowly: "Study ink for me."

Jiang Ling let out a soft oh, rolled up her sleeves halfway, fetched clear water and ink sticks, and slowly grinded the ink in the inkstone.The rich ink color slowly faded in the clear water, just like Kangxi's current mood, which was extraordinarily dull and depressing.

Jiang Ling didn't say much, just lowered his head and continued with his work.

After a while, the ink gradually became thicker, Jiang Ling stepped aside, Kangxi dipped the pen into the ink, and wrote each word on the letter paper, the handwriting was so strong that it penetrated the back of the paper, as if it was very angry.His eyes are also much stricter than before.Obviously, Wang Ziteng's words and deeds just now have completely angered him.

Jiang Ling thought about it, walked to the side of the boat, looked at the night view of the Qinhuai River outside, and pretended not to know anything.

Now is the time when the lanterns come on, there are one painting boat after another on the Qinhuai River, and there are many people walking on the bank. Sellers of flowers, rouge and gouache, calligraphy and painting, porcelain, firewood, rice, oil and salt abound. Vendors who make paper lanterns even occupy half of the alley, and a row of lanterns are neatly hung up, which is also a very spectacular sight.

The front, rear, left, and right sides of this painting boat are guarded by a painting boat respectively, in case of possible emergencies.

The boat floated slowly to the east, and after a while, it floated to the outskirts of the city.Skilled boatmen jumped onto the deck, blocked the speed of the boat, and made the boat stop slowly, just staying quietly on the Qinhuai River, even the shaking on the water surface was almost negligible.

Jiang Ling stood on the side of the boat, looking at the night scene outside, and did not move for a long time.

After Kangxi finished writing the letter, he folded the letter paper and put it in a special yellow silk. He called Liang Jiugong from outside and asked him to hand it over to the servant of the official department who lived in the garden.Liang Jiugong took the order and left.Jiang Ling still stood motionless, without turning around.

At this time, what she should do most is to avoid suspicion.

Subtle footsteps came from behind, Kangxi embraced her from behind, and asked in a low voice: "What did you see?"

His movements were still as natural as usual, with little strength, Jiang Ling only needed to struggle lightly to break free from his embrace.

But she didn't move.

Looking at the night view of Qinhuai outside, Jiang Ling didn't move or turn around, and asked in a low voice, "Isn't the emperor handling government affairs?"

Kangxi's laughter came from behind him, it was an extremely pleasant smile, and the gloom just now seemed to be swept away: "Little heartless, take a rest today." He pinched the tip of her nose and smiled again , "Let Wang Ziteng come here, but because there are some things that are not easy to say in the mansion during the day, and I heard that Wang Ziteng likes to swim in the Qinhuai River, so I simply let him go here for a while. You see."

She looked in the direction of Kangxi's finger. Prince Teng Wang, who was still on the boat just now, had arrived at the bank of the Qinhuai River at some point, talking in a low voice with a middle-aged man of the same age. open.Jiang Ling has good eyesight, and can clearly see the appearance of the middle-aged man, who is seven or eight points similar to Wang Ziteng, presumably it is the man's younger brother, Wang Zisheng.

The two stood on the bank and talked for a while, then Wang Zisheng left in a hurry, leaving a young boy to watch on the bank.

After a while, another boy emerged from the alley, walked up to Wang Ziteng, and said something unknown, Wang Ziteng's face was pale just now, but he gradually became calm again, and waved the boy to retreat, He also took the servant just now, and got into another painting boat.

Kangxi folded his arms slightly, and asked with a smile, "Can you see anything?"

Jiang Ling shook her head and said softly: "No, no." She didn't dare to talk nonsense at this moment.

Kangxi groaned softly, and sighed: "Your knowledge is still limited..." It seemed a bit regretful.Jiang Ling was confused for a moment. Wasn't it a rule set by this ancestor that the harem should not interfere in politics, or was it Yongzheng?Qianlong?Why did she feel that Kangxi seemed to be guiding her in a certain direction intentionally or unintentionally?

—It's so strange.

Jiang Ling was thinking wildly there, suddenly someone knocked lightly on the side of the boat and said, "Long Live Lord."

It was another young eunuch brought over by Kangxi, who worked under Chief Liang.

Kangxi didn't move, but said in a slightly lower voice: "Come in."

The little eunuch went inside, gave Kangxi a thousand sons, and then said: "Long live Lord Shengming, Mr. Wang just talked to the people of Xue's family on the shore, and told them to restrain themselves these days, and don't bump into Long live!" He also said that the uncle of the Xue family is now in the capital, and the eldest girl is living in the Rongguo Mansion, and he also said that "a good relationship with gold and jade should be another good relationship", so he let the boy go back."

Kangxi waved his hand slightly and said, "You go."

The little eunuch responded, bowed and left.Kangxi pondered for a while, then lowered his head and asked Jiang Ling, "You were in the Rongguo Mansion before, did you ever hear about the so-called 'golden and jade marriage' between the Jia family and the Xue family? What kind of thing is that?"

Jiang Ling then talked about Xue Baochai and Jia Baoyu.

Originally, according to the plot in Dream of the Red Chamber, a former alliance between wood and stone, and a golden and jade marriage should have collided abruptly.But because Jiang Ling inadvertently adjusted Miss Lin's body three or four years ago, and inadvertently made Miss Lin lose her mind for Master Bao. It was already half-destroyed, so another golden marriage was quickly put on the agenda.

Xue Baochai was originally favored by Mrs. Wang, and she had a very ineffective elder brother, who fell out of the draft four years ago. Whether it was for herself or for the declining Xue Mansion, she desperately wanted to climb the big tree of Rongguo Mansion .Although this big tree has rotted from the root, but the big tree is still a big tree after all, how many times stronger than their Xue family.

Coupled with the fact that her brother committed crimes one after another, she wanted to hold on to the only life-saving straw even more.

Therefore, before Jiang Ling left the capital, Jia's mother had already let go, and just waited for Jia Baoyu to nod, and then they took care of their affairs together.After all, Xue Baochai is older, and now he is about 17 years old, so I really can't afford to wait.

These matters, Jiang Ling picked some important ones and some irrelevant ones to Lin Daiyu, and informed Kangxi.

After Kangxi heard about the golden and jade marriage, he smiled and said, "Sure enough, they are in-laws."

But Jiang Ling still couldn't figure out whether it was praise or caution, or a simple evaluation.

The two stood on the side of the boat for a while. The painted boats on the Qinhuai River went away one after another, and there was another extremely huge one that looked like a special-made painted boat that was launched into the water. What a grand event.Kangxi frowned, covered Jiang Ling's eyes, and said in a low voice, "Don't look, don't dirty your eyes." Then he hugged Jiang Ling back.

From the beginning to the end, Jiang Ling didn't figure out what the painting boat was for.

Kangxi carried her to the table just now, and ordered people to take down the pens, ink, paper and inkstone, put tea and snacks, and chatted slowly with Jiang Ling.The dullness and depression in the cabin just now seemed to have been swept away, replaced by a rare tranquility and tranquility.Jiang Ling looked up at Kangxi by chance, and saw that he was still smiling, but it was not the stern sneer just now, but as usual, very faint, even the bottom of his eyes was filled with a smile, in the candlelight It seemed very safe.

For some reason, Jiang Ling suddenly had a thought of "this seems to be good".

She talked with Kangxi for a while, and suddenly there was another sound of knocking on the ship's side outside. It was Chief Liang, who said that the things had been delivered and everything was fine.Kangxi nodded when he heard the words, tied Jiang Ling's cloak carefully, and said with a smile: "Go back, it's windy at night, don't catch a cold."

Jiang Ling gave a soft oh, stood up a little at a loss, followed Kangxi, and walked out of the cabin.

It was still dark outside, and there was a bustling scene on the Qinhuai River.

Tonight's nightlife seems to have just begun.