Daiyu's wife in the Red Chamber

At three o'clock the next day, Wei Ruolan returned quietly.

Daiyu was lying on the bed in the tent, silently worrying about Wei Ruolan, the lights in the bedroom were not lit, for fear of suspicion from the outside, when she suddenly saw Wei Ruolan entering with the wind, she was startled at first, and only when she felt his breath did she embrace her, Take the clothes and exchange them with him.

After changing her clothes, Wei Ruolan came out of the tent again, deliberately made a noise, held the lamp as if she was in the middle of the night, washed her hands again, and heard Zijuan outside asking if she wanted tea, Daiyu sat on the bed and rubbed her eyes, smelling He hurriedly said: "If you are not thirsty, just get up to relieve your hands. There is water available in the house. You don't need to get up to serve when you rest."

After hearing this, Zicuckoo stopped talking.

Wei Ruolan turned off the lights, and sent a voice transmission to Daiyu in the tent: "Don't worry, everything is safe, and no one has ever found out. You will hear the news of Zhang Kuang's death in a few days."

Daiyu sighed softly and leaned her head on his shoulder.She has always known Wei Ruolan's skills, and she has also studied the martial arts secret books that Wei Ruolan silently wrote for her, and memorized them all in her heart. There are quite a few tricks in them that people cannot guard against. He didn't intend to stab Zhang Kuang to death, but made him slowly weaken and die.

Wei Ruolan hugged her, and still said via voice transmission: "You haven't slept all night, rest first, we will talk about what we have to say tomorrow." What Daiyu thought in his heart, he knew in his heart, besides, he had indeed acted like this.

After Wei Ruolan came back, Daiyu felt relieved and closed her eyes peacefully and fell asleep.

Just moved her hands outside, Wei Ruolan didn't feel sleepy at all, looked sideways at Daiyu's sleeping face, a trace of tenderness flashed across her face, since she came to Ping'an Prefecture, she has experienced so much wind and rain, she is as weak as her, and she has never seen any signs of timidity meaning.

Looking back on the process of attacking today, Wei Ruolan did not regret it at all. Those who did no serious harm to the country or the people, such as Zhen Jia, could be punished step by step, but Zhang Kuang could not.When he arrived at the roof of Zhang Kuang's bedroom, it happened that Zhang Kuang had a secret conversation with a person from the capital. He had seen the person who came. He was Qi Rui, a plain-looking staff member under Prince Yizhong's command. He rarely showed up in the capital, but he did not Unbeknownst to Emperor Changtai, when Wei Ruolan was working as a bodyguard in the capital, he also visited Prince Yizhong's mansion at night under the order of Emperor Changtai.

Although Wei Ruolan only heard half of the secret conversation between the two of them, it was enough for him to understand what the two of them were planning. They intended to mobilize troops from several nearby states and cities to encircle and suppress him with hundreds of thousands of troops, lest he continue to destroy himself. their big deal.In addition, Prince Yizhong asked Zhang Kuang to prepare a lot of silver and send it to the capital for management. When the time comes, he will come to Beijing to support.

Wei Ruolan only has the [-] troops of Ping'an Prefecture in his hands, while Zhang Kuang has always held the troops of three or four nearby prefectural cities. This is why Zhang Kuang is not very worried about Wei Ruolan's conquest of the Ping'an Prefecture camp. .

At first, Wei Ruolan suspected that Zhang Kuang was in collusion with the gangsters, but he never thought that he was the head of the village, nor did he think that the magistrate was the big boss.

When he learned about it, he was amazed, and immediately understood that the so-called bandits were just those people who used the name of bandits to rob property to satisfy their selfish desires, or to recruit soldiers and buy horses, and they did not make a living by robbery.Weidao searched the area of ​​Ping'an Prefecture by himself, and only killed a few unprofessional bandits, and couldn't find their traces at all. It turns out that those heads are the heads of big families, and they should not be underestimated. Even if there are two or three bright faces They are not very decent and powerful figures, nor are they ordinary people.

The area around Ping’an Prefecture is indeed half the imperial court. Zhang Kuang’s actions came so suddenly that Zhang Kuang was caught off guard and made him succeed one after another. All the vacancies in dozens of county governments in four or five prefecture cities have been vacated six or seven times. Success, which shows how closely these people colluded.Wei Ruolan had already asked Emperor Changtai to send officials over in the notes, but she didn't know when they would arrive.

Although Wei Ruolan is well-versed in both civil and military affairs, she has mostly engaged in military affairs and has never been a civil servant. There are many things she can't handle, and now she chooses someone to temporarily take charge of the affairs of the prefectural and county yamen.

Now Zhang Kuang has realized that if Zhang Kuang survives, there will be endless troubles.In order not to arouse suspicion, after Qi Rui left, Wei Ruolan sneaked into his bedroom, first obtained the secrets he knew by hypnosis and insanity, and then tapped his acupuncture points and meridians to block his qi and blood, making him naturally He fell into a coma, and then died of weakness, without anyone noticing, even the best doctor in the world couldn't find out.

As for Mrs. Zhang and her concubine children who are also full of bad deeds, it will be easy to take care of them once Zhang Kuang dies. As Zhang Kuang's wife and children, they are doing evil in this area and doing everything.

In the blink of an eye, the cock crowed, and Wei Ruolan got up quietly.

When Daiyu woke up, it was high in the sun, and Wei Ruolan had already gone to the camp. He had to arrange people to encircle Zhang Kuang's private soldiers pretending to be long-term workers in various villages, and to find out Zhang Kuang's hidden property. Days are not free.

Zijuan brought people in to serve her, and said, "Young lady slept soundly last night, and she was also heavy in the morning. My uncle won't let me call you Miss."

After washing, Daiyu looked at herself in the mirror, saw that the fundus of her eyes was slightly blue, and some bloodshot eyes were faintly visible in her eyes, she couldn't help sighing: "I've been troubled by many things these days, and it's always hard to sleep peacefully, and the circles under my eyes are actually very dark." She said, While rubbing some powder on his face, and patted some rouge on his cheeks, his complexion improved a bit.

Zijuan took off the cloud shoulders on Daiyu's shoulders, and when combing her hair, she left a few black hairs on them, and handed them over to the little girl to take out. Fang said: "Who would have thought that those bandits who came to rob us were such people? ? I don’t know when it will be safe.”

After finishing speaking, she remembered something and said: "Ms. Zhang came to ask for something, but the girl didn't get up, so she asked her to wait outside."

When mentioning Mrs. Zhang, Daiyu frowned slightly, knowing that Zhang Kuang was the leader of the bandit, and Mrs. Zhang was very clear about this identity. Whether Mrs. Zhang knew it or not, but she came from such a family, and the robbers had brought disaster to the local people, officials and merchants, so Daiyu didn't want to see Mrs. Zhang.

Fortunately, Mrs. Zhang came back to work after the Chinese New Year. She worked peacefully, was kind to others, and did not cause trouble. The whole family did not say anything bad about her. Daiyu thought for a while, and ordered the little girl to call her in.

When Mrs. Zhang saw Daiyu, she asked her why she came here, but begged Daiyu to allow her a few days off to go home and visit her father.

Daiyu pretended not to know about Zhang Kuang's coma, and said in amazement: "I heard from the uncle that when I sorted out the confiscated things and planned to escort them to the capital, Zhang Du made everything safe. Why do you want to go home to visit?"

Zhang's eye circles turned red, and then said with tears: "My mother sent someone to tell me that my father didn't know whether he was caught in the wind or caught a cold last night, and he couldn't get up early this morning. I was staring in a daze, half asleep, half awake, kind of comatose, so I begged the county magistrate to allow me to go home and have a look."

Daiyu's face revealed a contemplative look, and seeing Zhang's eagerness, she couldn't help saying: "I was thinking about waiting for the uncle to come back and ask him to visit Jiedushi. The commander is not in good health, and you are being careful, why don't you refuse?" reason?"

Then he ordered two servants to drive to pick him up and let Zhang go home.

Mrs. Zhang and Zhang Kuang have had many quarrels in the past few months. Before Wei Ruolan sent someone to instigate her son-in-law to gossip in front of Zhang Kuang, there was already a slight discord between the two couples. Wei Ruolan It would be superfluous, but he did learn some clues from Zhang Kuang and Mrs. Zhang's non-stop quarrels, and then found other things, and he was sure that Zhang Kuang was the bandit leader.Now that Zhang Kuang is seriously ill, Mrs. Zhang doesn't care about it, but when she sees her daughter, she asks her daughter about her health and cares for her.

Three days later, Daiyu was playing the piano in the house, feeding the birds for fun, and suddenly heard that Zhang Kuang had passed away. According to the doctor, he was overworked, and his internal organs had all decayed, which was a sign of exhaustion.

Calculating with the fingers, Zhang Kuang is over half a hundred years old, so he is not considered short-lived.

When Zhang Kuang died, four or five prefectures were thrown into chaos, Wei Ruolan often did not come back for three to five days, and Zhuangzi was strictly protected by his servants and soldiers.Daiyu was worried day and night, but she knew that Wei Ruolan had a heavy responsibility, so she had to take care of various affairs at home, and found a lot of things for herself to do, so that Wei Ruolan would not worry about herself when she was busy with official duties outside.

Taking advantage of Zhang Kuang's death, Wei Ruolan led people to encircle and suppress several bandits in Zhuangzi, and found countless property, weapons, armor, etc., to show Zhang Kuang's intention of rebellion. At the same time, he ordered Liu Xianglian to lead people to surround Zhang Kuang. Home, don't miss a single one.

It may seem cumbersome, but in fact it all ends within a day.

Previously it was known that the local magistrate and many wealthy families were actually the leaders of the bandits. At this time, I heard that Zhang Kuang was actually the head of the village. To the bone, he naturally helped Wei Ruolan to do things, and did not add any trouble to Wei Ruolan.

The power of the people should not be underestimated, with their help, Wei Ruolan is like a tiger with wings added.They received Daiyu's virtue and Wei Ruolan's protection. Now that the culprit has been arrested, in the future Wei Ruolan will not be an official here, so they don't have to worry about robbery.

Daiyu sighed softly and said, "Water can carry a boat and also overturn it."

Zijuan smiled and said: "I don't understand these things, but I know that what the girl said is reasonable, I hope we are all safe and sound. Yesterday the girl ordered the kitchen to cook more meat and vegetables for the thousand soldiers who protect us , I'll go and see if it's done. After they've worked so hard, we can't make them starve."

Daiyu waved her hand and said: "This matter is very important, and then ask people outside to ask if they were full yesterday. If it is not enough, ask the kitchen to cook more food today. It is better to leave some, and don't let them have enough to eat." .”

Zicuckoo agreed and went to cook by herself.

What they did inadvertently made the soldiers outside feel very grateful, and Daiyu usually took care of the soldiers in their camp, gave countless clothes, medicine, meat and rice, and now they ate a lot. When I met the Lan couple, I praised them for their kindness.

Daiyu knew nothing about this, and after a few days, Emperor Changtai sent people to Ping'an Prefecture, and first issued a decree to promote Wei Ruolan as the Jiedu envoy of Ping'an Prefecture, replacing Zhang Kuang in the five cities.Daiyu was very happy to learn that Jiedushi is already the highest rank of military officer, Wei Ruolan only got this position thanks to Wei Ruolan's ability, if she hears that Wei Ruolan got the second-rank position because she married , I must go back ironically.When Emperor Changtai's decree arrived, dozens of other officials went with them, and they all insisted on taking up the appointment documents to stabilize the hearts of the people.

Not only that, the decree to deal with the members of the Zhang family has also come down. Although the collusion between Zhang Kuang and Prince Yizhong was not mentioned on the surface, Zhang Kuang recruited troops because he had the heart of disobedience. However, the immortal spirit of the Supreme Emperor has not yet gone away, so today the Internet is lenient, Mrs. Zhang is a slave to the tiger, and she does many illegal things, and she is escorted to Beijing together with her children.

Whether it is the daughter who has been out of the cabinet or the daughter Zhang who has been a slave, all of them, like their brothers and sisters, went to Beijing with Mrs. Zhang and some other officials who have not been executed.

The failure of Zhang's family was caused by Wei Ruolan's investigation. Emperor Changtai feared that Zhang's family would cause trouble if he stayed by Daiyu's side, so he made this purpose.

When Daiyu heard about it, she let out a long sigh, thanking Emperor Yu Changtai for his thoughtfulness, she didn't have to witness the end of the Zhang family, and Wei Ruolan didn't have to go beyond the court's regulations to personally execute these family members and so on, which earned her a bad reputation.

For these people, Emperor Changtai did not intend to let Wei Ruolan do it. He had to kill the bandits before, but he couldn't do it at this time, because Wei Ruolan's deeds in Ping'an Prefecture spread to the capital, and some old officials relied on their elders to sell their elders. , not praising his achievements in suppressing bandits, but impeaching Wei Ruolan for being cruel and unbearable to be an official, beheading his colleagues without being sentenced by the Ministry of Criminal Justice, it is too deceitful.

Emperor Changtai trusted Wei Ruolan, so he sneered and said: "Beheading the leader of the bandit has never deceived others? Wei Ruolan was ordered to suppress the bandits, and he killed the bandits, not the officials! Besides, I issued several hand orders one after another. And Wei Ruolan, giving him the right to kill first and then play, is to do it according to my order, according to Er and others, isn't I also cruel in heart, unbearable to be a king?"

Hearing these words, those old ministers knelt down one after another, shouting that they dare not dare, they were amazed at Emperor Changtai's important use of Wei Ruolan, and thought of the decree sent to Ping'an Prefecture, Wei Ruolan was less than 20 years old. Already ranked first among the military officers, it is really enviable.

The Minister of Rites who came to deliver the decree had the intention of Changtai Emperor, and after promulgating the imperial decree, he quietly told Wei Ruolan about it.

Since Wei Ruolan knew about it, Daiyu naturally knew about it, so she was very grateful to Emperor Changtai.

The officials of the Ministry of Rites waited for two days to finish their work before Fang and the officials of the Ministry of Punishment set off on the road together.Officials from the Ministry of Punishment and a group of yamen servants came to Ping'an Prefecture to escort Mrs. Zhang and the family members of the bandit leader to Beijing.

Emperor Changtai seemed to have the intention of killing the weeds and eradicating the roots, and did not leave a trace of blood in the Zhang family. After he entered Beijing, he ordered the Ministry of Punishment to punish him according to the crime.The in-laws of Zhang's family were also implicated in several families. Fortunately, he was dismissed from office and ransacked his family, and his descendants were not allowed to be officials for three generations.These are things for later, so I won't mention them at this time.

As the dust of major cases settled one by one, it was already June.

The sun is scorching, and the lotus leaves are in fields.

After Wei Ruolan took power, she was busy every day, obeying Emperor Changtai's order, waiting for the civil and military officials in the army and the city to be transferred or replaced, and all replaced by Emperor Changtai's confidantes, to appease the people together with him, Some grain was given to them according to the head of the head, and the acres of land that had entered the government were converted into Huangzhuang and hired people to cultivate.There are so many people involved in this rebellion, almost half of the officials in Ping'an Prefecture and several nearby cities are gone, and the new officials are all the people prepared by Emperor Changtai long ago, and the atmosphere inside and outside is completely new.

On this day, the tens of millions of properties obtained from the recent inspections were sent away. Unlike Zhuangtian houses, weapons and armor were reserved for the barracks, and other things were sent to the treasury. Except for gold and silver, they were sold by the imperial court at an official price. This is all the case, especially in this dynasty.After finishing these things, Wei Ruolan ordered someone to carry more than a dozen large camphorwood boxes home. When she entered the door, she saw that there were books drying inside and outside the Zhuangzi, she couldn't help smiling, and said, "Drying books? something back."

Daiyu was wearing a gauze hat on her head, and she was opening a book and putting it on the shelf to dry. When she turned to see him, she lifted the veil with her hand and asked, "Why are you free today?" He took over the dozens of large boxes that had been brought in, and hurriedly asked what was in them.

Wei Ruolan said with a smile: "This time I confiscated tens of millions of items, I have already asked His Majesty for grace, and asked for some good things."

He wiped out the banditry in Ping'an Prefecture and made great contributions. In addition to being promoted, Emperor Changtai also rewarded him. Ask for grace.

Emperor Changtai went to have a serious problem, and got tens of millions of property, so why care about these?Moreover, he knew what Wei Ruolan was like, if Wei Ruolan wanted money, those prescriptions would be enough to make him rich in the world, so when he saw Wei Ruolan's booklet asking for books, calligraphy and paintings, he smiled and asked him to send someone to escort the things into the palace. Before the capital, he chose what he liked at will, and ordered the soldiers to be rewarded with some property.

Wei Ruolan has recently been infected with a lot of aggressiveness in the army. First, she picked out the authentic calligraphy and paintings of famous masters and a few exquisite and small antiques and kept them for herself. volume books.

While telling Daiyu these reasons, Wei Ruolan opened the box with her own hands.

Daiyu really liked it, she read over a dozen boxes one by one, asked someone to carry them out to open them to dry, picked up a book, and said to Wei Ruolan: "I saw this book in the handbook of my ancestors, and I also have it at home. , but I don’t know when it was lost, and I have never seen it again.”

Wei Ruolan saw that her brows and eyes were full of joy, and she felt joy in her heart, and said with a smile: "These more than three thousand volumes of books are not available in our family. When you read them, you don't need to get excited at this time. After drying, put them away slowly." Look. Let’s take a look at these calligraphy and paintings, it’s a pity that these people robbed multiple pieces of gold, silver, pearls and jade, there are only more than 70 pieces of authentic calligraphy and paintings by famous masters, some of them were quite damaged, and I kept them all.”

Wei Ruolan took out the scrolls and unfolded them one by one. When she saw one of the damaged authentic works by famous ancient masters, Daiyu said distressedly: "A good painting, how did it rot like this? I don't know if it can be done. Fully restored."

Daiyu also learned this method in her spare time, and ordered Xueyan to prepare the things needed to restore the ancient paintings.

As the sun rose, the books were drying in the yard, and the calligraphy and paintings and a box of antiques were brought back into the house. Wei Ruolan took off her dusty general robe, and after taking a bath, she changed into a lotus-colored gauze shirt with loose trouser legs and loose clothes. With wet hair, Daiyu came out to see that she had changed into the same clothes she was wearing because she was sweating just now.

Holding a small and exquisite Chenghua Doucai chicken cup in her hand, Daiyu just took it out of the box, frowned and said: "This pair of wine glasses is good, but I don't know who used it, what do you do with it? It’s not as good as that Ru kiln vase for flower arrangement.”

Putting down the wine glass, told him to sit down on the armchair, washed his hands and wiped his hair with a large towel.

Wei Ruolan leaned back in the chair, closed her eyes and let her fingers run through her hair, and said with a smile: "If we use tea bowls and wine glasses, we will naturally use porcelain from the official kiln of the time, it is very clean, and we are not afraid of being used by others. As for these raisins, keep them for fun, so that no one will show off in front of you with a cup made of kiln and five colors, as if no one else has one."

He only came to Ping'an Prefecture last year, because at that time he planned to move to live near the camp. Many things in the house were not laid out, which was quite elegant. The tea bowls and wine glasses used were all new from the current official kiln. Seeing the order of the officials, Daiyu was invited to appreciate antiques within two days, showing off a Chenghua fighting color chicken cup in his family collection.

Thinking of this past event, Daiyu said with a smile: "When did it happen? I have forgotten it, but you remember it. I didn't have the nerve to say in front of that Gaoming that our family does not lack the wine glass that she regards as a treasure."

Wei Ruolan said: "I just remembered. There are so many things copied this time, I randomly picked the ones I liked and kept them, and nothing else was left."

After drying his hair, he accompanied Daiyu to restore the broken painting.

After working for most of the day, Daiyu said dejectedly: "It's too damaged. I can't restore it completely. It's good to be able to restore three or four achievements. Let me ruin this painting, and keep the rest. I'll catch up tomorrow to find a master." The master of this way said, I don’t know if there is any in Ping’an Prefecture, so I ask people to pay attention to it.”

Wei Ruolan nodded in agreement, and said: "It's okay to do it once in a while, if it's all repaired by you, you don't feel tired, but I feel distressed, let others repair it, they have learned the craft, at least they will be useful."

After hearing this, Daiyu felt quite reasonable.

At this time, Zijuan came in with two thick brochures, and said: "Grandma, the shop sent someone to say that everything is ready, just waiting for an auspicious day to open, and specially sent a jewelry brochure with new designs. I asked my grandma what she liked, and now I’m starting to make jewelry. There are not many goldsmiths here, and it takes a lot of work to make fine jewelry.”

Wei Ruolan asked Daiyu, "Has our family opened a shop in Ping'an Prefecture?"

Daiyu said with a smile: "Exactly, I see that Ping'an Prefecture is full of waste. The former big grain merchant Miao's family and the big jeweler's Jin family are both bandit leaders. Without them, I will order my family to open a jewelry store in Ping'an Prefecture." Shop, slowly operating."

Wei Ruolan took the brochure, nodded and said: "It's good, ask the people below to take care of it. Our shop should indeed expand. You can just check the accounts at the end of the year. Don't get tired. I will send someone to supervise the rest. I think Let's see if there are any new jewellery, this year has been busy inside and out, and the jeweler's shop is far away in the capital, so I haven't been able to add a few new pieces of jewelry for you."

Daiyu said: "I don't know how many clothes and jewelry have been made throughout the year. It's not like what you said. I asked someone to bring the booklet. I wanted to pick some beautiful designs for the fourth sister. I made them first and gave them to her tomorrow." Make a dowry."

Wei Ruolan said: "What do you do at home? What I give you is my heart."

Seeing their husband and wife looking at the picture album together, Zijuan pursed his lips and quietly retreated out, flipped through the books for a while, and suddenly saw a letter from the capital, took it in his hand, and told Wei Ruolan and Dai through the curtain. Jade.