Chapter 77: Zhu Xin

After spending half a year together, Huaiyu has seen Jiang Xuanjin of various appearances, when her eyes are full of joy, when her body is tight, and when her ears are red with shame.
I thought it was a thorough understanding, who would have thought...
He raised his eyes and looked at the person standing in front of him, and then looked at the room where only the two of them were in, Huaiyu smiled lightly: "What advice do you have?"
In the past, he could not hear his breathing. After all, this person has good manners and stable internal energy, but now, she is two steps away from him, and can clearly hear his messy breath, like a mess, sucking weakly The air that did not belong to him was almost dead.
Jiang Xuanjin raised her eyes and looked at her, her eyes couldn't see through the slightest light, and it was so dark that it looked like a storm on the sea in the middle of the night.
He walked closer to her, his white fingertips seemed to want to touch her swollen belly, but in the end he stopped an inch away. Slowly speak, and the sound is like a dry bucket falling in a dry well, and it is astringent and empty: "I thought about it for a long time..."
"After thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't figure out how is Lu Jingxing better than me?"
There are grievances in the tone, as well as the trembling and choking caused by the extreme anger. The Adam's apple rolls up and down like you have been drinking. His face didn't have much expression, as if he had been frozen by the cold wind just outside.
He looks like this, if she still can't guess what's going on, she will have a long head.
How should I put it... Ben was still worried about him coming to the kid in her stomach, but now he was a little bit dumbfounded. Huaiyu asked him: "Who told you the news?"
Jiang Xuanjin didn't answer, but instead asked her: "If others don't tell me, are you going to hide it from me forever?"
Huaiyu chuckled, "What good is there if you know it?"
With a sore heart, Jiang Xuanjin lowered her eyes and laughed in a low voice: "Can you lie to me again? Just say that this child is mine. When you were with me, you didn't take others in your heart. "
"Wow." Huaiyu clapped her hands. He laughed and said, "This kid is yours."
Holding her hand against her chest, Jiang Xuanjin's lips were white, her long eyelashes were hanging down, and she was shaking under her eyes, obviously not taking her words seriously.
Huaiyu tilted his head and stretched out his other hand to touch him.
The upright Ziyang Jun was trembling all over, his body was cold, and his clothes were cold.
Suddenly wanted to hug him, like a long time ago, with fingers interlocking. Give him all the temperature on his body to make him warmer.
But... I looked down at my stomach, and Huaiyu tugged at the corners of his mouth.
It's impossible. One step closer to her will be crushed. It's better to step back and go far, at least to save the little guy in her stomach.
"Does the eldest princess still hate me?" the person in front of him said with a voice as soft as catkins, "If you still hate, how do you plan to retaliate? Can you tell in advance so that you can be prepared next?"
Huaiyu wanted to talk to him in a relaxed and funny tone, but inexplicably, his voice tightened.
"I don't hate you anymore." She pursed her lips, "Xu Xian and others are fine, and I am fine. You protect me from the palace and return to Danyang from Kyoto. You and I have already reached each other."
Conflict, that is no longer relevant, so avoid him, not see him, never want to get involved with him again.
Missing this kind of thing belongs only to him.
Holding her hand and slowly closing it, Jiang Xuanjin said in a heavy tone: "What if. I don't want to fight back?"
"If I still want to embarrass you?"
Huaiyu was taken aback, and his body tightened: "What do you want?"
A touch of sarcasm on her lips widened, Jiang Xuanjin said in a low voice, "Isn't the princess habitually doing bad things? How can you not guess what you are thinking about right now?"
Li Huaiyu was uncomfortable when he said this. Do you want to deal with her? Because he thinks the child in her belly is not his, so angry to destroy her?
With a cool back behind, Huaiyu took a half step back subconsciously.
However, behind her was a soft couch with a two-inch-high footboard in front of her. She didn't pay attention in a panic. As soon as she went up on the bar, she lost her center of gravity and fell backward.
Ziyang Jun, who was still full of ferocious face just now, turned white immediately, grabbed her hand and pulled hard, which could stop some of her falling tendency. One side of her body rushed before her back waist hit the edge of the soft couch. Protected behind her.
There was a bang, and the person behind snorted, holding her waist in his hand and slowly putting her in his arms.
With his pupils shrinking slightly, Li Huaiyu stared blankly at the furnishings in the room in front of him, then turned his head for a while and looked behind him.
Jiang Xuanjin pursed her lips, with a mist in her eyes, as if she was still in shock, stretched her hand across in front of her and hugged her tightly. The chin rested on her shoulder and closed her eyes.
"You..." Huaiyu opened his mouth and wanted to ask him if it hurts, but he felt wrong again and stopped talking abruptly.
The room was quiet, the turquoise dresses scattered on the treads, mixed with the corners of her peony-patterned robe, stained with some gray.
There were people standing outside the house. Qing Xian and the others tried to enter the house several times, but they were all stopped by Ji Wu. Chengxu and Yufeng's faces were ugly. Although Lu Jingxing next to him still had a smile on his face, his eyes were not relaxed.
The two people said they wanted to talk about it by themselves, but Huaiyu still had a body. What if something happened?
Standing in the distance, Jiang Shen hammered the vermilion pillar beside him: "Why is he still here?"
Shuang Tian said helplessly: "The minion has already told Jun Shang the truth, but after Jun Shang listened to it, he still insisted on entering the city."
"What does this silly boy think?" Jiang Shen shook his head, "have to come and find trouble for myself?"
"The minion doesn't know, but the Lord is really angry." Shuangtian said worriedly. "The minion is afraid that he will do something in a hurry...This is still in the first-tier cities."
"Swallow your heart back into your stomach." Jiang Shen said in an annoyed manner, "I bet a hundred taels of silver. No matter how angry he will do nothing to Li Huaiyu."
It's just that this pain of punishing the heart, he will bear it abruptly.
Being hugged a little out of breath, Huaiyu moved and frowned, "I remember."
The people behind let go of her, got up on the soft couch behind her, and led her to stand up straight.
Huaiyu glanced at him and scratched his head, feeling a little embarrassed, and wanted to leave when he picked up the skirt.
"I will be harassing for a while." Jiang Xuanjin said quietly, "Please prepare a few rooms for your Royal Highness."
Take a step. Li Huaiyu frowned: "What if I don't want to prepare?"
Putting away the broken emotions a little bit, Jiang Xuanjin pursed her lips and closed her cuffs and said: "The day before yesterday, there was a letter written by the royal pen in Kyoto, which was delivered to this gentleman. The letter said that as long as Ziyang is willing to borrow it, it will There is an imperial decree to grant me the fief of the three cities of Ziyang."
Behind Ziyang is Danyang, so it is self-evident what Ziyang wants to borrow.
Huaiyu looked serious: "Your Lord, is this threatening me?"
Jiang Xuanjin nodded: "Yes."
He has a bargaining chip that can threaten her, and the weight is heavy enough, so why not threaten?
Li Huaiyu was silent. Eyeballs rolled around, as if thinking about whether his words were true or false.
Jiang Xuanjin stretched out her hand and directly handed Li Huailin's handwritten letter in front of her sleeve.
The familiar handwriting and the attack on Danyang between the lines are far more serious than Jiang Xuanjin's understatement.
"Don't you want the Lord of the three cities?" Huaiyu frowned, "What benefits will staying in the first-tier cities do for the Lord?"
Looking down indifferently, he said, "I need to explain to the eldest princess when I do something?"
Well, it is not necessary, Huaiyu shrugged: "I am not a loser in this transaction, and there is no reason not to agree. But your lord. I put it first, you may not have a comfortable life here. Be angry and break your promise again."
Reaching out and wrapping it in the fox fur cloak next to her, Jiang Xuanjin didn't look at her anymore, turned and opened the door of the room.
The wind came in from the outside, and the soft fox hair rippled. Jiang Xuanjin raised her eyes and faced Lu Jingxing who was standing outside.
After so many years, this person seems to have never changed, he has always looked like a foolish man, standing still, and the corners of his eyes and brows are filled with a scent of wind and coolness. At first glance, he is not a person who lives at ease.
But she was born with such a person, who has been by her side for many years, knows more things than him, and has her heart deeper than him. She has not deceived Lu Jingxing. She has treated him like a day for many years, but to him, she is so cruel that she feels like an unbearable love.
"It's a great honor for you to have such a good look." Lu Jingxing's brows loosened, and the closed fan turned around at his fingertips, smiling happily.
This eye full of jealousy and coldness, as well as the emotions in his heart, is very good.
A cloud suddenly appeared on the gloomy heart of the treasurer Lu. The bright sunlight is falling.
Jiang Xuanjin didn't say a word, and walked towards Jiang Shen with Chengxu Yufeng.
"Isn't looking for a friend to visit the mountains and water?" Standing in front of him, Jiang Xuanjin said coldly, "Is there a half of your friend in this mansion?"
Jiang Shen choked and stood behind the vermilion pillar: "I said... I know that you are in a bad mood, but I am innocent. What can I do?"
If it doesn't hurt him, who else can it hurt? Jiang Xuanjin said: "You set off tomorrow, go back for me to report to Lu Qing and let him take charge of the main city of Ziyang temporarily."
Holding the pillar and shaking his head repeatedly, Jiang Shen's tone was very firm: "I don't!"
"I can't help you." Jiang Xuanjin left behind him indifferently.
Jiang Shen darkened his face. Angrily retorted: "Why is he getting more and more unreasonable?"
The Shuangtian behind him whispered: "It makes sense, you should go back."
"Ok?"
"...The slave means that the Lord is indeed very unreasonable!"
With a cold snort, Jiang Shen walked to his house, saying, "I won't go, this line of cities is so good, there are dry corpses everywhere, so suitable for writing poetry and lyrics!" "
Shuangtian was silent. He felt that these two princes of the Jiang family might have been a little confused recently.
Li Huaiyu hugged the chicken soup in the quilt, Lu Jingxing leaned against the bed, playing with a fan and asked her, "What are you going to do?"
Frowned in distress. Huaiyu said, "It's not about what I want to do, it's about what he wants to do."
"He treats this kid as mine, what else can he do?" Lu Jingxing snorted, "Either take revenge on you or take revenge on me."
If that little accident hadn't happened just now, Huaiyu would agree with this sentence, but now, she shook her head: "I don't think it looks like it."
I really wanted to retaliate. I didn't pick her up just now, and let her fall like that. The child would definitely not be able to keep it. From his point of view, he would retaliate against her as well as Lu Jingxing.
But he didn't do that.
"The most important thing right now is the Kyoto side." Huaiyu said, "I told the world about my identity before, just to give Huailin an excuse to let him come to me, so that he could fight back with the handle, but it never happened. Wait till it happens. I thought it was Huailin who didn't dare to move. Who would have thought that he had been planning, if Jiang Xuanjin hadn't stopped people, it might really have caught us by surprise."
There are advantages and disadvantages to Jiang Xuanjin's blocking. The advantage is that Danyang is safe, but the disadvantage is that, no matter what, Huailin will not be able to justify the first-tier cities and can only do things secretly. Once she resisted, she actually gave Huailin a reason to call on King Junqin. Even if she stood up and said that she was wrongly killed by the emperor, no one would believe it.
What should I do?
I touched my chin, and I was embarrassed. I saw Qingsi coming in from the outside with a strange expression: "Master, Lord Ziyang has really settled here with us. Chengxu, they moved many things and put them in the guest room."
Huaiyu curled his lips: "What's the fuss about? If someone says to live, they will definitely live."
"But..." Qing Si pursed her lips. "He lives in a guest room in your yard."
Li Huaiyu: "..."
Turning her head to look at Lu Jingxing, she asked, "Does this person feel that the day is not exciting enough, that's why he came here?"
Lu Jingxing nodded his head appreciatively: "Should we give him another stimulus?"
"Okay." Huaiyu said, "Go and tell him that you are also pregnant. It must be exciting enough."
"..."
Lu Jingxing rolled his eyes, and slapped his sash on the table gently: "Seriously, he recognizes this child as mine. When are you going to marry me?"
Huaiyu laughed and drank two sips of soup and said, "I'm not ruining you, so why are you rushing to ruin me? With your skin and wealth, it's not possible to marry a serious girl, so you have to be my child's father? He thought I was pregnant with you, but I didn't say that."
Lu Jingxing's phoenix eyes sank: "You have ruined me for five or six years, so embarrassed to say this?"
"Let's make sense." Putting the soup cup, Huaiyu put a hand against the desk on the soft couch, and looked at him seriously, "The relationship of five or six years has really become a husband and wife, don't you feel awkward? "
"Do you feel awkward?"
"Nonsense!" Huaiyu pointed to Qingsi, "I have had a relationship with her for eight or nine years. It stands to reason that the relationship is deeper? But if you become a couple, don't you feel uncomfortable?"
...It seems to be awkward.
Lu Jingxing bowed his head. I thought about it for a while, and then I felt something was wrong: "Can I be the same as Qingsi?"
"Why is it different?" Huaiyu stared, "Aren't all the people closest to me?"
Lu Jingxing understood, the who killed Qiandao didn't treat him as a man!
Rubbing his forehead with anger, he whispered: "Fun."
Huaiyu smiled carelessly, and laughed for a while and said: "You have already arranged the shops in the first-tier cities, why don't you go back to the main city of Danyang first? Xu Xian and the others don't know what happened there. You used to be. Can handle one or two."
Lu Jingxing squinted, "Want to drive me away?"
"Look at what you said, where can I catch you?" Huaiyu waved his hand. "It's just that there is nothing wrong with the first-tier cities. Instead of staying here with me, you should do something else."
Dozens of Lu Jis landed in the first-tier cities and solved the dilemma of extremely high prices in the city with affordable goods. Although they offended many merchants, they also earned the unanimous support of the people. Now that the three words "Lu Jingxing" are mentioned again, few people would say that he is "Lang Yu". Most people would say that he is a very bold and conscientious businessman.
A few days ago, there was a matchmaker who came to him and told him that the girl of his family yearned for him, and she didn't want to eat and drink. It was already dead. Lu Jingxing went, and came back to tell her that the women are indeed liars, so the girl's violent attack on him, saying that the hungry tiger came down the mountain is not an exaggeration.
Huaiyu felt that there should be someone beside Lu Jingxing. Whether it's a hungry tiger or someone else, you can't call her a "female leopard" to keep him off. Marriage is impossible. Just in the name of Wu and their faces, she has to work hard to clean it up, and it is impossible to drag Lu Jingxing into the quagmire.
Perceiving her thoughts, Lu Jingxing lowered his eyes.
After a long while, he said: "I was playing with you. Getting married is serious. I didn't plan to come with you. The shop in the first-tier city just made a profit, so I can't leave for the time being."
"Huh?" Huaiyu raised his eyebrows, "I have earned more than a month of Snow Silver, and I'm just making a profit?"
"You are not a businessman, what do you know?" Lu Jingxing said with a fan to her forehead, "I have my own measures."
This person looks carefree, but he is actually careful and doesn't want to delay him. The closer he gets, the farther she will go. She was right, five or six years of friendship, it's not cost-effective to hit on this.
That being the case, he should take a step back.
Taking a deep breath, Lu Jingxing said at the beginning: "You only care about Jiang Xuanjin, but you neglect Changlin Jun. I have settled the person, and you can talk to him when you have time."
"Okay." Huaiyu nodded, looking thoughtfully at the back of him walking out.
Jiang Xuanjin went to the streets of first-tier cities. He had heard about this place countless times in the memorials, and wanted to visit it early in the morning. He was in a mess and couldn't sit still in the room, so he simply walked out.
There are few people on the streets of the main city, but they are not deserted. Many newly opened shops are filled with people in rags. Although the people passing by are sad, they are not desperate.
Li Huaiyu rescued this place, and it took just two months to bring this line of cities to life.
Passing by the tea shop, he sat down and listened to people talking. There were a few people around him. Some praised Wu, some praised Chijin, and even praised Lu Jingxing and Xu Chu brewing. But in the end, he didn't hear anyone boast. Princess Danyang.
These people didn't seem to realize who was saving this dry city.
"The son... the son?" A girl who had been wandering for a long time came forward bravely, blushing, and stuffed him with a soup woman, "Your face is cold and white, please be warm."
After the stuffing, he ran, hid in the alley, and then stretched out his head to look at him.
Jiang Xuanjin frowned, put Po Tang back on the table, took out the handkerchief, wiped her fingers clean one by one, she didn't have any intentions to appreciate it, and she continued to move forward.
Chengxu glanced at the girl sympathetically. There are many brave men in this world, but there are very few people who know that their masters are obsessed with cleanliness. The master will naturally not appreciate the stuff you have started.
What's more, the face of my master is definitely not cold.
Li Huailin's face was ugly when the papers from all localities asking for tax reduction were handed to Kyoto. Everyone else was subdued by Jun Ziyang and he didn't say anything, but what happened to Jun Pingling?
The current king of Pingling is Li Shan’s concubine, Li Fangwu. Although he has not been loved by Li Shan since he was a child, he has developed a cowardly and cowardly temper, but at any rate he is a brother to him, so just don’t help him. Going to help Jiang Xuanjin?
Li Huailin sneered, and immediately ordered Li Fangwu to report to Beijing.
Reporting in Beijing is done every year. This wasn't a big deal, but Li Fangwu was scared. Just after the memorial, the emperor didn't call others. How could he call him first? Is it because he wants to reduce too much, so the emperor intends to teach him a lesson by the way?
After holding the imperial decree for two days, Li Fangwu pretended to be sick and hid in the Pingling Monarch's mansion, not daring to move.
Zheng Liushen Wuzhu, a young man with red lips and white teeth came at the door.
"In Xiajiang Yan, I saw Lord Pingling."
Li Fangwu looked at him for a long time, and then he suddenly said, "Little young master of the Jiang family. The former Tingwei Mansion Left Supervisor, what advice?"
Jiang Yan arched his hands: "Mr Ziyang knew that Lord Pingling would have troubles, and he was here to relieve him."
Jiang Xuanjin knew it a long time ago? Li Fangwu was stunned, and immediately asked: "What did you say?"
"The Lord said that there are old cases in Pingling that have not been resolved. This is the knot of your majesty's heart. Coupled with the tax reduction, you will definitely take the knife on Pingling. Once you go to Kyoto, you may not be able to come back."
"..." Li Fangwu sighed just like what he was worried about. The father has committed too many sins. Since he took over as Lord Pingling, he has not slept well for fear of those who would be killed by the father. Came to him in a dream to settle accounts.
It is said that the father is paying the debt, but when the father was there, he did not regard him as his own son. How innocent is he, and he has to bear his sins?
"But I have received the imperial edict, how can I not go to Kyoto?" Li Fangwu said embarrassedly, "If your majesty says I resist the edict, I can't afford it."
"Your Majesty can't afford it, isn't there still Ziyang Jun behind?" Jiang Yan said, "You can get sick for a few months, and the rest will be handed over to your Majesty, and you won't be charged for it."
Li Fangwu wondered: "Why Lord Ziyang help me?"
"The truth about the death of the lips and the coldness of the teeth. The Lord should understand." Jiang Yan smiled, "Everyone is an adjacent fief, and it is right for Ziyang Jun to help you."
is it? Li Fangwu was skeptical.
In the next few days, he kept pretending to be sick and waited tremblingly for the reaction from Kyoto. As a result, for the past five consecutive days, there were no documents or memorials in Kyoto. He pretended to be sick and lived very comfortably, and slowly he believed Jiang Yan's words.
Someone reminded him: "My lord, it will be your father's death in three days. According to the rules of previous years, you have to go to Beijing and worship the ancestral temple."
"I won't go this year." Li Fangwu said. "Just say that I can't afford to be ill. I'm already on the line of life and death. I believe your Majesty will not blame it."