Chapter 50: Night talk

"What are you going to do?" Seeing her come back, Zou Yiang immediately became proud, knowing that this method was effective, raised his head, and said, "Then it depends on your next..."
When the words were not finished, Xi Fuwei turned around decisively and hurriedly turned around, "Hey, hey, do you still need to talk about it? Now, if you come to my father, you can talk about it, except for the imperial court to move the capital and open the canal. Anything else?"
Xi Fuweiquan didn’t hear it, and continued walking without looking back. Zou Yiang could only catch up, chasing and saying,
What are you doing? You don’t believe I know what they talked about? You look down on me too much! Dad didn’t want me to be there when talking to them, but I still wouldn’t overhear?"
"You are good at eavesdropping!" Xi Fuwei answered the conversation, glanced at him sideways, and said, "Otherwise we are talking in women's school, how did you know?"
She sneered, "I just don't understand why you want to tell me what you overheard?"
Zou Yiang said, "Isn't it because you refuse to ask for money?"
"You are also twelve." Xi Fuwei stopped, turned her head and looked at him, calmly said, "It's not a naive kid anymore, and the two of us are not very congenial. For such an important matter, you are How did you come to tell me a female student?"
"Does this matter?" Zou Yiang said, "What does it matter? Now along the canal, especially the section of the river, who is not negotiating? Our Zou family was developed by the canal. Before the canal was congested. It is said that the ancestors of the family at that time still cried bitterly, thinking about discussing with the upstream and downstream people, whether they can raise some money for dredging, and can not destroy the roots of the family. But at that time, there was really no enough money. The manpower and money can only look at the good canal and it is so deserted. Now that the court is willing to open the river, who can't care?"
Xi Fuwei squinted her eyes, looked at him up and down, and then suddenly asked, "Is the lady who asked you to come over?"
"...What do you mean?" Zou Yiang shrank his head and drank a bit sternly, "You just ran back when you heard that I was going to tell you what my dad was doing recently? Why are you suspicious now? Don’t want to hear it? Then I don’t bother to blow it here in the middle of the night...I’m leaving!"
He walked for a while with his head held high, and seeing that Xi Fuwei didn't even mean to call him, he walked back angrily and said, "So I hate you the most among the female husbands of my sisters!"
"You really hate me the most. It's a pity. Sister Fu always thought that you hate her the most." Xi Fuwei sneered, looked down at him, and said, "So much so that I see you and the mouse now. Like a cat, lest I run into you!"
Zou Yiang became a little bit irritated and didn't speak for a while.
After the two of them were relatively silent for a while, Xi Fuwei slowed down: "You can't blame her for this. After all, who would have thought that the reason why you took the initiative to trouble her again and again was not because she was not pleasing to your eyes, but the opposite was true. Yes, do you think she is the most pleasing to the eye?"
"...You know, why doesn't she know?" Zou Yiang pursed his mouth, and after a while, he whispered, "Is this a fan of the authorities, or does she hate me at all?"
Xi Fuwei was speechless for a moment: "If Sister Fu's father was still there, she might have thought of it a long time ago. But her father is gone, and the family is in trouble. Come to your house to be a female husband. How can you be a son of the Zou family? Not too cautious? At this time, when you are making things difficult, the first thing people think about is whether the messenger can keep it? If you can't keep it, what should you do? What should you do at home? Who has that kind of love! Not to mention you should also You know, the old lady called me before, right? Such a clear example, let alone Sister Fu didn't notice it, even if she noticed it, she would definitely not go one step further!"
Then he said, "And I said something awkward, although you are the only male heir of the Zou family so far, the Zou family is still out of your turn! You are interested in Sister Fu right now, but it is not a good thing for her!"
In fact, she didn’t know that Fu Chuoxian had always kept a respectful attitude towards Zou Yiang. Did she see the mind of the Zou son, but according to Fu Chuoxian’s wisdom, even if she knew it, she would definitely pretend not to know and try to follow Zou Yiang kept his distance.
After all, although Zou Yiang was the proper golden turtle son-in-law of the Yanzhou government, before he could be the master of the house, Fu Chuoxian, a girl who was not right with him, could only be regarded as a tragedy by him.
Whether Mrs. Zhuang or Mrs. Zou Zhihan, how could he agree to marry a wife who is four years older than him and still in a poor family?
"... Actually, I didn't want to marry her." Zou Yiang scratched his head in a distraught, and said, "It was the day when she revealed the list and entered the mansion, the mother would personally test her piano skills. I I have nothing to do, watching from behind the screen, she is wearing a light green skirt in a yellow jersey, sitting in the hall and playing the piano... It is probably what the husband said, Gu Pan is brilliant, right? Then I really want to talk to her more . But she doesn't seem to care about me?"
Xi Fuwei said: "I don't even want to ask you, and I know how you talk to her, it's nothing more than all sorts of critical and degrading... so who would care about you?"
Zou Yi'ang sighed in shock: "I understand now... She is still a bit vigorous, she refuses to be like a maid, even if she is scolded, she must immediately come up!"
When this was said, Xi Fuwei frowned, and said, "Sister Fu is still a good family member no matter what she's down. She's also been a eldest lady before. Isn't it too much for you to compare your maid to her?"
"I said the wrong thing." Zou Yiang was not interested at the moment and didn't want to quarrel with her, so he admitted his mistake, pondered, and said, "Forget it, don't talk about this, I will tell you about my father's side. Well...A few days ago, several big clans from Yanzhou Prefecture came to visit my dad together. The reason was...well, I forgot what the reason was. Anyway, it’s not important. It’s just a cover. In the final analysis, it’s to discuss the court opening the river. Thing."
Xi Fuwei said with an "um": "What about then?"
"Then I overheared a few words during their conversation. It was almost that they felt that the Wen Family of Dongchang Mansion was soaring into the sky recently. Dongchang Mansion is adjacent to our Yanzhou Mansion. Who knows if Wen Family is greedy? , I’m not satisfied with being all-pervasive in my mansion, still want to stretch out my hand to Jining?" Zou Yiang said, "Otherwise, why did you come to our mansion with the palm pearls of Dingguo Gongfu and the Ministry of Industry Shangshu last time?"
It has been a while since Mrs. Zhuang’s birthday, Xi Fuwei originally thought that her entanglement with Wen Xianyun caused the old lady’s birthday to be made difficult by Xu Jingyuan on the day of her birthday. Who knows, but there has been no movement. A severe seal.
"It turns out that the Zou Mansion didn't know about Song Jianiang and Shen Pilan." At this moment, Xi Fuwei thought to herself after hearing Zou Yiang's words. "So the arrival of Xu Jingyuan, Song Jianiang and Wen Xianyun is thought to be Wen Xianyun. Dominantly, Xu Jingyuan and Song Jianiang are both helpers at his instigation?"
After all, the Zou Mansion has been in Yanzhou for these years, and there is no reliable background in Yingtian Mansion. It is naturally difficult to understand the relationship between the powerful and the nobles.
Moreover, from Xu Jingyuan's side, they were more willing to Zou Mansion, or the guests who came to the old lady of Hezhuang that day to think so, in order to preserve the reputation of the two eldest ladies.
"If it wasn't a mistake, but it did so deliberately, then Xu Jingyuan must be thinking about letting Wen Jia act as a scapegoat in case something leaks." Xi Fuwei thought, "I don't know if it can be inside. Found an opportunity to make a fuss?"
Tan Pilan is unreliable. It would be great if he could kill Wen's family with the help of Xu Jingyuan and Song Jianiang.
But these are all speculations at present, and she has no way of knowing the specific details, so she can only think about it.
"These are the thoughts of the big households in Yanzhou Prefecture, so what about your father?" She pondered and asked Zou Yiang, "Are you agreeing? Or does he have other ideas?"
Zou Yiang frowned and said, "My father has been prevarication... Finally everyone left very disappointed."
"Prevarication?" Xi Fuwei asked in surprise, "Why?"
If ordinary people along the river don't make a statement about such a major event, it's fine...because there may be no chance to make a statement.
But the deep-rooted canal family like the Zou Mansion can affect the entire Yanzhou Mansion with their words and deeds. At this time, if they don’t express their opinions, or they don’t look for backers, it’s a bit of a death: it is true that the state is not peaceful now, and Emperor Yongle himself is currently It's still on the north side!
Therefore, in the two matters of relocating the capital and opening the river, the upper echelon definitely hopes to proceed as smoothly as possible.
However, this kind of thinking is just to let the person responsible not take the initiative to cause trouble.
Instead of making them afraid of things!
Since the emergence of the imperial examination and the decline of the Nine-Rank Zhongzheng system, when has the court been afraid of the local clans?
In particular, although the Zou Mansion is wealthy, it is far from the family of the rulers who dominated the side in ancient times... At that time, the famous families who did not raise a bunch of private soldiers, and the farms with the trench and arrow towers, sometimes the royal family declined a little, the Royal Forest Army There may not necessarily be elite soldiers of the big clan.
After other big clans, especially the Dongchang Mansion Wen Jia who is not far from Jining, chose their backers, what would happen to the Zou Mansion who didn't find them?
Anyone with a little brain knows that it must be a piece of fat.
The kind of no owner.
Everyone wants to take a bite.
With the concerted efforts of several parties, is it difficult for Jining to change to a prominent family leader?
It's not difficult at all.
Therefore, neither Mrs. Shang nor Xi Fuwei can understand Zou Zhihan's vague practice so far.
"How do I know?" Zou Yiang said naturally, "I'm still young, and I eavesdropped on the conversation in their study, and they didn't let me listen! How can I know what my father thinks? If I knew, I would have followed My mother said, why did I come to tell you?"
Xi Fuwei glanced at him, and said to her heart that it really was what Mrs. Shang meant.
Otherwise, his identity has been exposed, and no matter how magnanimous Mrs. Shang is, it is impossible for the only son to come to him in the middle of the night.
"Ms. Shang did this, obviously because she felt a little intolerable for Zou Zhihan's procrastination. Are you planning to use Jin Yiwei's hand to force her husband?" Xi Fuwei thought, and said to Zou Yiang: "I know about this, not too soon. Now, go back and relax!"
Zou Yiang said, "Do you have nothing to say?"
Is this Mrs. Shang for an answer? Xi Fuwei thought so, and said, "I will wait for two days."
She has to discuss with Shen Pilan.
"...You." Zou Yiang took a note and wanted to go, but after taking two steps, he looked back at her with a look of entanglement, "Are you...really indifferent to Mr. Ouyang?"