Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 146
The corner door on the west side of the Yinghai Envoy's mansion opened, and two girls who had just opened it but also looked like standard beauties walked out. Compared with the previous six days when the naval governor next door celebrated the birth of an heir, today's The streets in front of the house finally quieted down.

"Chainiang..."

"Cai Niang..."

The two women were already waiting in front of a mule cart, and when they saw the two girls coming out, they greeted them attentively, and helped them step on the footstools to get into the cart, and then followed into the carriage.

Everyone sat down in the carriage, and one of the women gave orders, and the coachman started to drive.

The two girls are two of the twelve little girls who entered Yinghaishi's mansion a few months ago. Zhu Yuan named them according to the name of the plaque. ...It was a little big, and it was changed to a hairpin head phoenix.

In private, people don't bother to call them by their full names, they are all 'Cai Sang, Cai'er, Cai Niang, Feng'er, Chai'er' and so on.Or according to different identities, or just casually.

Just like the two poor women who were arranged to accompany the two maids home to visit their relatives today, when facing the maids next to adults, they have to look up to them and add a word of "mother" to their address.

inside the carriage.

When the car started to move forward, one of the women surnamed Xia looked at the satchels that the two girls had brought out before, and now they were holding the satchels on their laps. Chic and pretty."

These are two similarly styled satchels made of coarse fabric with slanted long shoulder straps.

Compared with the bag bag that is not uncommon in this era, in addition to the blue and black color matching and the decoration of shells and crystal buttons, the most special thing is that it looks like a skeleton, supporting a square box shape, rather than the common cloth bag. That deflated shape.

Cai Sang didn't refuse Mrs. Xia to touch her satchel, and held it up instinctively, saying modestly: "Mom, this is just for our girl. The bag of Nei Zhai sister is the best. My lord personally After drawing the shape, it is also made of leather."

"Sooner or later," Mrs. Xia saw that Cai Sang said to the end, with longing in her eyes, she hurriedly said: "When the two young ladies lift Ru Furen, what can't be used."

Cai Sang was embarrassed immediately: "That can have such good luck."

"There must be. The two girls look like this. If neither of them can lift it, who can." Xia Xia added a sentence again, her hand still touching the mulberry bag: "This is... embedded with something, so it won't be deflated. ?”

Cai Sang nodded: "It's wire."

As the girl said, she thought of sister Xieyi and the others' purses. The combination of several kinds of expensive leathers could hold up the bag by itself without wearing a shelf.

Own……

Can there be that day?

Xia Pozi felt and touched the hard thing inside, and even weighed it lightly, knowing that it was a copper coin, she just smiled and turned to the hairpin on the other side.

Seeing the girl lifting the curtain and looking out of the car, looking along, it turned out that the mule cart had passed the inland river on the west side of Yinghaishi’s mansion, and came to the other side of the road heading north. On the other side of the high wall of Yinghai Shi's mansion, he found another topic, and asked with a teasing smile: "Chai Niang, are you thinking about going to Jinling?"

Chai'er looked away, then smiled and shook her head: "No."

Mrs. Xia looked outside the raised curtain again: "It's all because of the river. My lord's house can't be expanded even if I want to. Fortunately, I'm going back to Jinling. I heard that the mansion in Jinling was built under the order of the emperor, but I don't know. Madam, can I be picked to go there together, and I will also see what the capital city looks like in this life."

Yinghai Envoy's mansion is not big enough, which is well known in Dinghai.

In this regard, the servants of the mansion feel the same way. The rough servants such as Mrs. Xia can only live in another nearby courtyard on weekdays.

It stands to reason that with the power of his own sea envoy, it should have been easy to expand the house.However, at present, the west and north of this house are close to the river in the city, and the east is the residence of Lord Commander of the Navy. If it faces south, it will be too ugly, and it can only be so.

Chai'er didn't speak, and Cai Sang didn't want to speak at first, but he couldn't hold back: "It's okay, but there are some people added recently."

There was a hint of sourness in his tone.

Because of my lord's words, in recent days, not only the foreign sea merchants, but also the big households along the coast have finally found opportunities and sent people over one after another.Those from the Wa country in Goryeo are fine, they look similar to the people of the Ming Dynasty, but... those Xiyi bearded women are weird, like goblins, and Caisang even feels a little scared.

Cai Sang mentioned this, but before Mrs. Xia could speak, another Mrs. Gu who had been silent before said, "Cai Niang, you two should know why my two old ladies follow you. Some words, no matter whether you are in the mansion or not, it doesn't matter." Let's talk about it."

In response to the sentence Hou Men entered as deep as the sea.

At the very beginning, Cai Sang and the girls had just entered the mansion of the Yinghai Envoy, and saw that the Yinghai Envoy, who was a little older than them, was so kind, and he had no pretensions on weekdays.

until that time.

Sister Liu Bai lost her temper and punished the other two sisters who made a fuss because of grabbing the bath room. The adults who came back that day also lost their temper. As a result, a little sister whose name was originally Yu Meiren was changed to "Ugly Slave" Son'.

It's still good.

The other Man Tingfang was sent out that night because she talked back to Sister Liu Bai, and the name of the poem she left was replaced by another little girl the next day.

After that.

The adults are still so kind, and they don't seem to be doing anything right.However, the rules in the mansion are getting stricter and stricter.

Like this time.

The family had passed on word, and because they heard that they were leaving for Jinling today, Cai Mulberry appealed to Xieyi that he wanted to go home and have a look, and he even brought a fellow villager, Chaier, along with him.

Sister Xieyi agreed, but only for one day.

Moreover, he also ordered the two women to follow, and pointed it out to them, because they are girls around the adults, they know that there are many things, and when they leave the house, they must control their mouths. If the two women find that they are chewing their tongues, they will There is no need to go back.

At that moment, hearing what Mrs. Gu said, Cai Sang thought of Liu Bai's cold little face, immediately shrank her neck, and nodded again: "Thank you for the reminder, Cai'er remembers."

Seeing the appearance of picking mulberry, Mrs. Xia took over the words with a smile, and smoothed things over: "The old sister is also teaching me a lesson, I should take care of this mouth."

Seeing that Mrs. Xia was like this, Mrs. Gu's expression softened a little, but she still said: "Don't blame me for talking too much, we are the current people, we must be cautious in our words and deeds in order to live a stable life."

Caisang thought of Man Tingfang who had been replaced, subconsciously nodded again, and said, "If Mom follows to Jinling, it would be better to mention me and Chai'er more in the future."

As they spoke, the mule cart quickly left the west gate of Dinghai.

First of all, there is a lively street market. Several people in the carriage looked out curiously and pointed.

Then enter a wide road to the south, with high walls on the side of the road.

Inside the wall is the shipyard.

Compared with the original, one can imagine the changes in the shipyard just by looking at the ten-meter-high wall.

What's more, what attracts the people in the compartment the most is the big characters painted with whitewash on the blue brick wall: The army and the people work together to build a beautiful Ming Dynasty.

Both Cai Sang and Chai Er have only started to learn characters in the past few months, but they already know this line of characters.

find it interesting.

Both daughters were born in fishermen's families on Daishan Island. They have been to Dinghai a few times since they grew up so big. Around... Many things seem to have changed a lot.

Like this tagline.

Straightforward words sounded strange, but pleasant to the ear.

Moreover, Caisang happened to know.

Because I occasionally heard sister Liu Bai talking about the slogan with my adults, and Cai Sang remembered a word used by my adults very clearly.

Call……

imperceptibly.

After learning the characters, Cai Sang also gradually understood what it means to subtly influence, but she was still puzzled, what is the subtly influenced by the adults who want to use these slogans?

In any case, it must be something very important.

Cai Sang dared to act coquettishly to win over her adults on the bed, but when she was out of the bedroom, especially since the rules in the house became stricter, she didn't dare to ask more questions.

Unless one day, I fall to the level of being favored by adults like Sister Xieyi and Sister Liu Bai.

Ok.

Even if they are like Qingniang and Luoniang, they can probably say a few more words.

Thinking of this, in order to be able to say a few more words with adults, Cai Sang secretly made up his mind to learn more knowledge seriously, at least to be able to understand what adults occasionally say, right?
When you come to the Yongjiang River, you don't need to stop, the mule cart directly crosses the river from a wide pontoon bridge.

Arriving at the South Bank, the air is obviously a little more smokey.

Speaking of which, on a windless day, even in the mansion of the Yinghai Envoy, you could occasionally smell the smell of fireworks floating in the air.

Smoked and grilled fish, fired bricks and tiles, opened furnaces to smelt iron...

In the current surrounding area of ​​Dinghai, too many things are being burned day and night.

Especially here on the South Bank.

Fish-baking workshops and brick and tile fire kilns are all here.

Passing by the fish-baking workshop, the mulberry-pickers saw the high wall again. There was also a sentry tower and a large warehouse higher than the wall.

And... the fireworks floating out of the wall all the time.

With the smell of grilled fish.

The same flat and wide road, the mule cart drove all the way, and finally came to the gate of a community at the northern foot of Chenshan Mountain.

There is also a wall built here.

The same one foot high.

However, compared to the masonry walls of the shipyard and fish-baking workshop, the walls here are made of yellow earth rams, and there are also many slogans.

There is an archway outside the gate, with four big characters on it: Changguo Community.

All here are fishermen who migrated from the Changguo Islands.

Both Caisang and Chai'er knew about this. When they entered Yinghaishi's mansion, the family had not moved.

Until the conditions are given here.

Voluntary relocation, housing and land allocation, and family children can go to school, and even become various apprentice workers.

So, at least in Caisang's village, no one is willing to stay on Daishan Island.

When the mule cart enters the gate of the archway, there is first a straight street from north to south, which is three feet wide, and there are neat two-story brick and tile buildings on both sides of the street. What kind of "commercial street" is this, just like this "community"? From my own adults.

Some shops have opened in the street, but most are still empty.

Cai Sang carefully looked at it.

This time, it happened to be related to the shop next to the street when the word came back from the family.

Leaving the main street, along the well-planned alley, the mule cart quickly arrived at the first destination, put down Chai'er and Gu Pozi, and continued on this side, and soon came to the gate of a courtyard surrounded by a fence.

Compared with the high walls around the community, there are not many people in the community who have the ability to build courtyard walls for their own small courtyards. Most of them are fences made of wood or bamboo.

In the past, it was always parents or elder brothers who came and said a few words at the door.

At the moment, it was the first time I went home, or in other words, came to this new home outside Dinghai City. I had just been helped by Mrs. Xia to get off the mule cart. The urge to cry.

Caisang's surname is Wu, not to mention the many uncles of the same clan, but his own family, father Wu Sanliu and mother Zhao, he also has two older brothers, two older sisters and a younger brother.Moreover, the two older brothers and one older sister are already married, and they are also members of a large family.

gain some lose some.

After entering the sea envoy's mansion, Cai Sang saw many things that she never dared to think about. Apart from obeying the rules, she didn't feel that she had been wronged. However, she couldn't feel the feeling of being at home all the time.

Seeing the girl getting out of the car wearing a brand-new water green satin jacket, skirt, beaded hairpin, and carrying a chic satchel, although life has been much better this year, after all, the men and women who are generally dressed in coarse cloth are a little afraid to recognize them for a while.

This……

Is she still the fifth girl of the Wu family?

Could it be someone's young lady?
It’s no wonder that everyone dared not admit it. Cai Mulberry was originally a beauty, otherwise he wouldn’t have been personally selected by Chang Guo Zhizhou who was trying to please Mr. Ying Haishi. Daily life is not only about eating and drinking well, but also various bathing and maintenance. Therefore, in a short period of time, it has been completely reborn.

Caisang didn't care about everyone's stupefaction, she jumped into her mother's arms in a few steps, and finally couldn't bear it anymore, and cried out in a crying voice: "Mother..."

This cry finally brought everyone back to their senses.

Mrs. Zhao also hugged her daughter, and soon began to cry, just shouting: "Wuer, Wuer, mother's Wuer..."

The deep love between mother and daughter was quickly infected, and several daughters-in-law and girls next to her came over, touched the corners of their eyes, and offered comfort.

Mrs. Xia stood beside her with reddish eye circles, but she was not completely immersed. She sized her up somewhat curiously, and accidentally noticed that a girl who was older than Cai Sang, who looked a bit alike, looked up and down and was hugged by Mrs. Zhao. Picking mulberry in his arms took a few glances, then turned around suddenly, and hurried back to the room in the courtyard.

The people around either saw it or didn't see it, and they ignored it for a while.

After saying something, her husband pulled her to remind her, and then she let go of her daughter and continued to hold Caisang's little hand. Surrounded by a group of daughters-in-law and girls, she came to the clean and decent Mrs. Xia.

Cai Sang took the initiative to help and introduced: "Mother, this is Xia's mother..."

Having said that, Cai Sang stopped a bit.

Mrs. Xia took the initiative to take the conversation, and said with a smile: "I'm just a woman. I was sent to send Cai Niang back. Cai Niang is a girl. The master is not at ease."

Xia Pozi said so, but no one dared to despise her.

Moreover, these words also caused people around to speculate about Caisang's situation.

This little girl...

Is it possible that it is developed?
All kinds of thoughts were wandering, whether it was Mrs. Xia or the coachman, they were all warmly welcomed into the courtyard by the Wu family.

(End of this chapter)