Embroidered color and fragrance

Chapter 76
"Girl, are you asleep?" Qingliu knocked on the door, Su Wanru put the bottle away and opened the door, asking, "What's wrong?"

Qingliu's eyes moved, and she said with a smile: "The servant just seemed to see someone going out, so I came to ask the girl."

"You read it wrong." Su Wanru said perfunctorily, "I'm going to sleep, you should go to bed early too."

Qingliu smiled and said yes.

Su Wanru closed the door, leaned against the door and took a deep breath. After a while, she took off her clothes and went to bed, but she tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep. The pictures in her mind were tossing and turning. She simply sat up and began to write. write.

Pages of discarded paper were thrown into the copper basin, and the east had already turned white before she knew it. She rubbed her forehead and spat: "The boat will naturally go straight when it reaches the bridge. Why do you think so much!"

Thinking about it, she stretched her waist and opened the door to go out. Standing at the door, a chill hit her, and she hurried back to wrap it in a big cloak. The snow began to melt slowly, and she felt cold when she stretched out her hands. She breathed Running to the front yard, the young man just opened the door of the inn. He was taken aback when he saw her, and said with a smile, "Ma'am, what are your orders?"

"Is there a fire in the kitchen?" Su Wanru stomped her feet, and the servant nodded with a smile, "The fire in the kitchen is not extinguished. Madam, do you want to make something to eat? Why don't you tell me to have them prepare it for you?"

She entered the kitchen and saw a lot of ingredients inside. She and them didn't know each other, so after thinking about it, she said, "Cook a vegetable porridge, then steam ten steamed buns and ten steamed buns."

The boy nodded and said, "That's great."

Su Wanru glanced into the kitchen again, and was about to turn around to leave, when she bumped into someone, she was stunned when she saw Lin smiling at her, "I'm sorry Ma'am, this servant was reckless, so I didn't hurt you. "

Su Wanru waved her hand.

The servant said to Mrs. Lin: "Madam wants vegetable porridge and ten steamed buns and ten steamed buns. Go and cook quickly."

Lin nodded with a smile.

"How?" Su Wanru looked curious, "I'll follow you to learn."

Mrs. Lin laughed and said: "It's very simple, Madam stands aside and watches, this servant will teach you once, and you will be fine next time."

Su Wanru nodded and followed Lin to the kitchen.

The young man stood at the door and took a few glances before he went to work. Lin lowered his voice and said, "Master Zheng said that he knows that there is a small but quite famous Xiufang in the capital. Princess, if you want to go , he will make arrangements, and then you will go directly after you enter Beijing."

"Okay!" Su Wanru heaved a sigh of relief after arranging the place, otherwise she would have to spend a lot of time looking for it by herself.

Mrs. Lin took out the flour and poured it into a large basin. "Master Zheng also said that the princess is considerate, and we are here to wait for your dispatch at any time. As for the meeting to avoid exposure, we can discuss it later. Wait for you After entering Beijing, the three generals will find an opportunity to come to see you."

"I don't know what other orders you have, princess." Lin's work is very quick, and she kneads a bowl of noodles effortlessly.

Su Wanru glanced at the door and saw that there was no one, so she whispered: "Little Eunuch Du is a servant in my palace, and he is also in Jining now, I will let him look for you later. After entering Beijing, I will find a way to let you He followed me into the Xiufang. It will be more convenient for him to pass on messages and other matters later on, so you can contact him."

He added: "There is also Dr. Mei, a good friend of my second brother's. His real name is Mei Ziqing. Please keep an eye on him. If he is reliable, he is willing to help us."

"Mr. Mei knows it. He is quite famous in Jining Mansion. I didn't expect you to know him and the princess. He is a doctor, and it will be easier for us to do things in the future." Lin nodded and said: "Princess, don't worry, We will arrange this."

Su Wanru breathed a sigh of relief.

"When will the princess prescribe the medicine, so we can arrange for you to leave Jining." Lin said, "Will the princess know how to ride a horse? Horseback riding is the fastest. We will escort you to take a shortcut. But if you take a carriage or boat, we will make another arrangement." .No trouble, just tell me."

"I haven't thought about the medicine yet." Su Wanru paused, and said, "Tell me about your current situation, and then tell me about the situation in Jining Mansion."

Lin didn't know Su Wanru's intentions, so she nodded her head and replied, "Okay." Then she explained in detail the specific business conditions of Ruyue Escort Bureau and Rice Bank, "It's an old business for more than ten years, and the source of goods and customers are all different. It's old, and as long as there are no accidents, it will only get better and better."

"By the way, look at the brains of this servant. Master Zheng even asked the servant to tell the princess that we have this amount of wealth in Tongtian." She stretched out two fingers as she spoke, and Su Wanru's eyes lit up, "200 million taels?"

"It's just dead money, and it's stored in Tongtian Ticket Number, in case the master finds it for urgent money." Lin said, "The money circulating everywhere, as well as the uncollected payment for goods, and the interest money lent out in private Together, our property is estimated to be more than 400 million taels."

So much... Enough for them to recruit troops and take down several mansions.

She was very excited. The current situation of Longwei surprised her. She originally thought that what she saw might be old, weak, sick and disabled, or even a mess of sand, but she didn't expect that they were not only actively hoarding capital, but also very united and firm. Waiting for the master to arrive.

She had to admire the ability of her father and mother to plan for a rainy day!I can also understand why Long Wei is so united.

Because of this status, they can live a stable and prosperous enough life... There is food, clothing and clothing, and the family can eat a meal of meat for a day or two. Such a life is not easy to come by anywhere.

If you want to stabilize people's hearts, you only rely on words to win people's hearts, and those who rely on means and words to win people's hearts are only superficial, only interests, and everyone's interests are bound together to become people on the same boat. Even if you want to go ashore or change boats to try If you try it, you have to hesitate again and again, and think about whether that boat has such good conditions.

"Princess." Seeing Su Wanru's voice, Mrs. Lin couldn't help but said: "Master Zheng also said, please don't worry about us having two hearts. We have 3000 people with one life. We are born as members of the Lin family and die as ghosts of the Lin family!"

"The Lin family." Su Wanru murmured, Long Wei actually belonged to the queen mother, not arranged by the emperor father, "Your surname is Lin, so you are from the Lin family in Xuzhou?"

Mrs. Lin nodded, and said: "The ancestors of the servants and servants were all slaves of the Lin family. Later, the empress wanted to build a dragon guard, and my family leader and I were secretly sent to Shandong. My family leader is now in charge of Mihang in Qingzhou, and my son is We are looking for a salt well, but salt is not a trivial matter, we dare not touch it easily."

"These things were arranged by the Empress secretly. At the beginning, even the Holy Majesty didn't know about it." Lin was very proud, "Princess, you are very similar to the Empress Empress. You are resourceful, smart and calm. With you, we will be able to rescue the Second Highness smoothly. After recovery Song Dynasty."

Su Wanru smiled awkwardly, she was really incomparable with the queen mother, in terms of vision and means, they were also far apart.

"It's better not to move the salt well for the time being. When the Great Zhou was just established, both the state treasury and the masters of the various governments are short of money. If you don't find a backer, you can't do it easily." She thought for a while, and said: "First go to Beijing to manage, while The person who pulls the back is opening the salt well at the same time, so that there is nothing wrong with it.”

It's all private salt, and all the profits that are not taxed are imported into their own pockets, and the profits are unimaginable.

"You and the three generals said the same thing." Lin said with a smile: "However, it is difficult to find a backer in Beijing for a while. The three generals said that this matter should be discussed in a long-term way, and there is no rush."

Su Wanru nodded, "After I go to the capital, I'll chat with the three generals, look at the current account books and operations of several industries, and discuss them in detail."

Lin's should be, and he talked about the situation in Jining Mansion.

Su Wanru listened carefully, and was about to speak, when she suddenly heard the young servant telling the truth from a distance, "Miss is here, do you have any orders?"

"Can you see our wife?" Qingliu asked, and handed over the empty water jug, the servant took it and said with a smile: "Madam is learning how to make steamed buns in the kitchen."

Qingliu walked over in a daze, and sure enough, she saw Su Wanru standing by the stove, watching the mother-in-law knead the dough.

Her eyes lit up, she didn't go in, but turned to the backyard.

Su Wanru breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Lin, "I see that you put warm water in it. When I made steamed buns before, I seemed to put cold water in it."

"It's almost the same." Lin said with a smile, "Do you know how to make steamed buns?"

Su Wanru was ashamed, she only knew how to steam steamed buns, and only one kind.

"Why don't you do it, and the servants will help you?" Lin also wanted to spend more time with Su Wanru. They all knew about this master, but they had never met him before. Getting to know her would be beneficial for future work.

Su Wanru thought of Shen Zhan's favorite steamed buns. She smiled and said, "Okay! Go and make meat stuffing. It should be half thin and half fat."

"Yes!" Lin replied with a smile, took out the meat, and chopped it aside, Su Wanru washed her hands and took off her coat, kneaded the dough, rolled the stuffing into the steamer, kept her busy feet on the floor, and waited for the kitchen to smell it. When the steamed buns were fragrant, she realized that she was also hungry.

"Are you eating here, or is this servant taking you back to your room?" Lin smiled and brought out the steamed buns and porridge, Su Wanru said: "Take it to the main hall in the backyard."

She has done a lot, how can one person eat it all, please ask the three masters and servants to help them eat.

Su Wanru muttered, and took Mrs. Lin to the backyard, after breakfast was set, she went back to her room to wash up.

When he came back again, he saw Shen Zhan sitting at the table boldly, with a porridge bowl in one hand and steamed buns in the other. He looked sideways at her and smiled, "Come and eat, today's steamed buns are very good."

He knew that Su Wanru made it, and after one bite, the taste overlapped with what he remembered.

"Is it delicious?" Su Wanru smiled and sat opposite him, "Is it the same as what you usually eat?"

Shen Zhan ate two, and grabbed another one in his hand, "This one is better." He looked at Su Wanru, and said in a low voice, "It tastes the same as the one I ate many years ago."

Su Wanru was taken aback for a moment, and then burst out laughing, "Thanks to the fact that I only made lotus paste stuffing before, otherwise I wonder if you have eaten my steamed buns."

Shen Zhan raised his eyebrows and smiled without saying a word.

"Master!" Min Wang strode in and saw Su Wanru stop at the door again, Su Wanru smiled and pointed to the steamed buns on the table, "Call Qingliu over to eat together while it's hot."

Min Wang smacked his mouth and said, "This subordinate is not hungry!"

"He's not hungry." Shen Zhan counted, and there were twelve more, leaving two for Su Wanru, and he was going to keep the rest, "You and Qingliu go to the front yard to eat."

Min Wang let out an oh and backed out.

Isn't it the girl who made it with her own hands? As for the master, it's like this... But he is very curious, what is the taste of the steamed buns that the master has been talking about for many years.

He was excited just now and said he wanted to try it.

I didn't expect Grandpa to be so stingy.

"Drinking porridge after drinking is very comfortable. There are a lot of vegetables in it. Don't just eat steamed buns!" Su Wanru pointed to the porridge in the pot, "If you don't let them eat it, you should eat more."

Shen Zhan didn't take it seriously, "Master's stomach has three layers inside and out!"

This morning, Su Wanru really learned what a belly with three layers of inside and outside is, she said in astonishment: "Aren't you strong?"

"I'm used to it." He wiped his mouth and said, "When I'm hungry, I'll be hungry for several days. If I have something to eat, of course I should eat more."

Su Wanru was speechless, and asked cautiously, "Don't you have any brothers or sisters?" She actually knew about his background, but she wanted to say something at this time, but she couldn't say anything, so she casually brought up such a topic. .

"Yes!" Shen Zhan nodded and said, "There are many more!"

Su Wanru was speechless. She just asked, but she didn't expect to get such an answer, "Didn't the rumors say that you have no brothers and sisters? Your mother took you, and the mother and son lived everywhere."

"The rumors are unbelievable." Shen Zhan leaned on the chair, crossed his legs and smiled indifferently: "Not only do I have brothers and sisters, but there are many more!"

This... She really didn't think of it.

Su Wanru was thinking of something she couldn't hide from him, he smiled and patted her head, and said, "It doesn't matter if you have it or not!"

She seemed to spy on the drama of the rich family's struggle, feud between wives and concubines, doting on concubines and destroying wives, concubines being excluded, concubines robbing family property... Her eyes sparkled, Shen Zhan laughed, and said: "Yes! It's just like what you think!"

This appearance is exactly the same as that of an outsider like her gloating and watching the excitement.

It's hard for her to imagine how he spent his time when he was young, and now he can be indifferent, so is it the same when he was young.

"Master Hou is open-minded." Su Wanru followed his example and cupped her hands, "Admiration!"

Shen Zhan laughed loudly, hugged her and kissed her, and said, "It's fine for you to be open-minded, you don't need to. If you are unhappy, just go about it, and I will take care of it for you."

She froze for a moment, rubbed her forehead, and said, "What are you going to do later?"

"I'm going to visit Yanjing." Shen Zhan was in good spirits, "Do you want to visit?"

She paused, nodded and said, "Okay, I haven't seen what a salt well looks like before."

"Go back and change clothes." Shen Zhan led her up, Su Wanru thought for a while and said, "Why don't I change into a servant's clothes, isn't it inappropriate to go out with you like this?"

Shen Zhan understood what she was thinking, "Unless you are wearing a veiled hat, otherwise, wearing a servant's clothes will make people fantasize even more."

Having a handsome young man by Nanhou's side in a dignified town is more exciting than bringing a beautiful girl with him.

"Then I'll wear a veiled hat." Su Wanru went back and changed into clothes and came out with a veiled hat. Shen Zhan looked extremely satisfied, "That's how it should be!"

The four of them went out one after another. Mrs. Lin met at the door, and greeted them courteously, without hiding her head and tail, "Madam is going out, you can come back at night, and this servant has left some food for you."

Shen Zhan looked back at Su Wanru.

"Don't come back to eat, remember to help me send the cage to the pier." Su Wanru returned with a smile, Lin nodded and said: "Madam, don't worry, the servant will definitely deliver it."

Su Wanru nodded, and whispered to Shen Zhan: "I gave her a set of calligraphy yesterday, and she taught me how to make breakfast this morning, and she also said that she would send her little girl to learn to write with me!"

Shen Zhan didn't ask any further questions, and took her into the carriage, which was covered with thick cushions and a hand stove was burned, she was wrapped in a fluffy felt blanket and leaned against the cushions, feeling sleepy, "How long are we going to go? "

"This road condition will take about an hour." She held her in her arms and whispered, "Didn't you sleep last night?"

His tone was ambiguous, Su Wanru suddenly thought wrong, blushed and said: "It's not like some people who know how to be a rascal." Saying this, she gave him the hand stove, "Try it, it's very warm."

Shen Zhan's hands were warm, as soon as she touched them, she knew he didn't need them.

How can there be someone who wears so little, but is not afraid of the cold, and his whole body is like a moving furnace!

"Master is better than a hand stove." He said with a chuckle, covered her hand in his palm, and asked, "Where else is it cold?"

Su Wanru gave him a blank look, and said, "My heart is chilling!"

He smiled sullenly, and leaned in the carriage with her, listening to the creaking sound of the wheels on the snow, Su Wanru fell asleep in a short while, her cheeks were flushed, and his eyes were full of smiles, He pinched her face, and pinched it again.

It's like being beaten to death for a mouthful of steamed buns when you were a teenager, and the feeling of chewing the steamed buns in your mouth after winning is sweet and satisfying.

I feel that there is no delicacy in this world better than that steamed bun.

When Su Wanru woke up, the car had stopped, Shen Zhan was not there, only Qingliu was sitting cross-legged at the door of the car, "The girl is awake, drink some water first."

"Thank you!" Su Wanru drank the water and asked, "What time is it, where is your Marquis?"

Qingliu covered her face with a smile, and replied: "I've already arrived at the salt well, my master and Min Wang went to the well. I also told you that if the girl wakes up, I will let the slaves lead you to have a look."

"Okay." Su Wanru tidied up, and swayed down to the ground wearing a cloak and a veiled hat. The surrounding area was relatively open, and the ground was frozen after snowing, so every step she took was slippery.

"Over there." Qingliu pointed to a place a few feet away, "The servant has seen the master."

Su Wanru looked up, and saw dozens of people gathered in the distance, yelling, working, as well as cattle, mules, and carts. A nearly ten-foot-high shelf stood on both sides. The shaft of the horse is on it, and the ox is pulling the cart and walking.

"Mr. Lu just pointed out a place. There are only a few places in the whole Shandong area. Our master found two of them at once." Qingliu said proudly: "It is said that this well can produce a lot of salt."

Su Wanru had heard about it all along, but had never seen it before. She supported Qingliu and walked quickly. When the people opposite saw the two women coming, they all looked at them curiously.

"Come here." Shen Zhan waved to her with great interest, Su Wanru walked over, Mr. Lu looked at her with searching eyes, Shen Zhan introduced to him: "This is my wife."

Mr. Lu was taken aback for a moment, and then his eyes lit up. The wrinkles on his dark face were like unfolding flowers, "Old man, when did you get married and where did you get such a handsome girl? You are not very old, you can't?" Give birth to a baby early, don't hurt her bones, it will be difficult to have more babies in the future."

Su Wanru was stunned, she didn't expect that the old man would directly raise the issue of having a child as soon as he opened his mouth.

"It doesn't matter whether you are born or not." Shen Zhan laughed, and said, "The body is important. We will talk about the child later."

Mr. Lu waved his hands, "I feel sorry for my daughter-in-law, but the baby still has to be born, otherwise, who will inherit your big family business?"

"That's out of the question. I can't lose my daughter-in-law for the sake of the family business." Shen Zhan held Su Wanru's hand, turned to her and said, "This is Lu Cheng's grandfather, an expert in salt wells. He dares to say that he is the number one in Dazhou. People dare to talk about the second."

Su Wanru immediately admired it very much. It's like betting on jade with stones. A layman relies on luck, and an expert relies on experience. She was blessed, and said: "Hello, old man."

"Okay, okay!" Mr. Lu cupped his hands, touched and pulled out a stone from his arms, "This is a piece of jade that I just got last month, before you have time to find someone to open it, you put it away first, and wait until you get back to Yan." Jing asked Lao Ba to find an expert to open it, and it must be the first-class product! Make it a jade card to wear."

Su Wanru didn't have the nerve to take it, she looked up at Shen Zhan, he nodded, and said: "The old man has a lot of good things, just keep them."

"Thank you!" Su Wanru took away the stone, which was about the size of a fist. She couldn't tell it was good from the dusty outside, but experts said it was high-quality goods, so it must be a good thing.

Mr. Lu was very happy, and turned his head to direct the turntable cart. Su Wanru probed to look at the salt well, and saw a well mouth the size of a sea bowl. A thick rope wrapped with bamboo strips was hung inside the turntable and bumped up and down. The sound came up from the deep mouth of the well, bang bang.

"In another half a month, I guess the salt will be produced." Mr. Lu said, "Would you like to go to the east to see the well again, there is no stone circle, you can go down and have a look."

"It's been a long time since I went down." Shen Zhan rubbed his fists, then turned to Su Wanru and asked, "Do you want to go and have a look?"

Su Wanru was puzzled, how did such a small well go down, Shen Zhan took her hand and walked eastward, when the wind blew, he wrapped a dragon cloak around him, and explained: "Before the stone circle was built, people chiseled it at the bottom. , Waiting for a certain depth to avoid landslides, stone circles are drilled around, and drilled with a turning bolt knife."

Isn't this like a mine, she looked at Shen Zhan curiously, "Have you been down there too?"

"When I had nothing to eat, I did everything." Shen Zhan looked indifferent, "On the way to join the army, I had no money and no food to eat, so I found a salt well team to dig a well for ten days. A drop of money. But it almost killed me, the well was full of loose soil, and I was buried alive."

Su Wanru's heart skipped a beat, and she asked, "How did you come up later?"

"When those people saw the dead, they immediately ran away. I fell asleep in there for a day, and remembered that I hadn't married a wife yet, so I dug out the dirt by myself. They grabbed those people and beat them up, and they left with a penny."

She couldn't imagine what it would be like to be buried in a well, so she couldn't help but fell silent, looking down at the road under her feet.

"What's the matter." Shen Zhan looked at her, smiled lightly, and said, "As the saying goes, if you survive a catastrophe, you will have future blessings, and you will be a master!"

Su Wanru suddenly envied Shen Zhan. He has always had a clear goal, and he has been running wildly all the way towards this goal. No matter what monsters and ghosts he encounters on the road, it is an experience along the way for him, which is not worth mentioning.

All he could see was the goal in front of him, which kept getting closer and finally arrived.

Perhaps, this is also one of the reasons why he can have today's achievements.

The two of them arrived at another well, and Mr. Lu introduced with some pride, "I really didn't expect these two wells to be so close. But this one is slightly inferior to the one just now."

Looking back at Shen Zhan again, "Old Ba, Jining Mansion is a good place. Jining Prefect, you should work hard. His subordinates came and walked around when you were away. Although I didn't directly reach out, but the old man gave me this number." out."

He stretched out five fingers, meaning 500 taels of silver.

"The bottomless pit can't be filled, so you have to dig it out. He knows this is your territory, and he dares to come to ask for money. Either there are people above him, or he wants to blackmail others and become a local snake."

Shen Zhan nodded slightly, and said: "The wine I just had with him yesterday, I can't believe that I still have this hand behind my back." He nodded and said: "I know about this, and he will spit it out if he eats it. "

Mr. Lu nodded with a smile, stopped talking about it, and yelled into the well, "Take it easy, lunch is coming, let's do it after dinner."

Someone below replied, and said with an echo: "Success, is there any meat to eat today, old man?"

"I know how to eat meat, but one day you won't have any meat to eat." Mr. Lu spat, but there was a smile on his face.

Shen Zhan was also watching, and Mr. Lu looked at him, and shouted inside again, "Our master is here, do your best, you will stay here for another day, if you can produce salt water, it is your ability. "

The people below were very excited, "Master is here. Please stay here for a few more days, my brothers haven't seen you for more than half a year."

"No hurry, let's have dinner together tonight. I want you to see Madam." Shen Zhan also yelled, stepping on the mouth of the well and shouting into it, "You are not allowed to speak dirty words to me, do you hear me?"

The people below cheered and shouted upwards, "Madam, we have a wife now. Madam, our grandfather has suffered a lot, please treat him better."

"Our father is easy to feed. He has enough meat and steamed buns. Don't worry about anything else."

Su Wanru looked at Shen Zhan's back, paused, and after a while, said: "Successful! Make sure there will be meat for every meal, and I will give him ten steamed buns for every meal."

Everyone laughed, although Su Wan could not see what kind of people they were, but if Su Wan could imagine their expressions at the moment, they must be the same as Mr. Lu, with smiles overflowing from their eyes.

Shen Zhan paused for a moment, then turned around and stared at her with bright eyes.

Su Wanru was embarrassed by his look, she blushed and turned her head away, the sand was brushed on her face with her veiled hat, like a feather gently scratching...

slightly itchy.

"You said it." Shen Zhan stepped forward with two strides, lifted her up high, and his laughter echoed in the open field, "Whoever denies it is a bastard!"

The laughter from all around was even louder, coaxing, thinking that Shen Zhan was really afraid that there would be no meat to eat.

But only the two of them knew that what he was afraid of denying was that Su Wanru would not admit that she was his wife after leaving here.

Su Wanru grabbed his shoulder, and the veiled hat fell to the ground, covered with mud and snow. She hit him and said, "Why are you crazy, my hat is dirty."

"It's all my own." He put her down carefully, "It's okay!"

Mr. Lu praised her for being handsome just now because he felt that Shen Zhan looked down on ordinary girls, but now that Su Wanru's face was revealed, he suddenly lost his eyes from smiling, patted Shen Zhan on the shoulder, gave a thumbs up, and said : "This daughter-in-law is good, you have a good eye!"

Shen Zhan laughed triumphantly.

Su Wanru blushed and hid behind Shen Zhan feeling ashamed.

"It's very windy here, Madam doesn't have a hat anymore, she turned around and got sick." Mr. Lu saw her delicate appearance, her fingers were long and slender like scallions, her skin was white and tender, she definitely couldn't be a girl from an ordinary family, What's more, with Shen Zhan's current status, it is impossible to casually marry a woman and go home to warm the kang.

"Go and sit in the shed for a while." Shen Zhan pointed to the shed not far away, "Here's a stove for you. There's a dog inside, you can play with it."

Su Wanru nodded with a smile, let him hold hands, and slowly stepped on the snow. He didn't like to walk in messy places where everyone stepped on it, so he looked for fresh snow to settle down. There were only footprints of the two of them along the way. It's like a beautiful painting.

There was indeed a khaki dog in the shed, probably not too young, lying on the ground, looking slumped, but when he saw Shen Zhan going in, he jumped up and threw himself on Shen Zhan's body , barking.

"Er Gouzi!" Shen Zhan hugged the dog, "I miss you!"

The dog rubbed against him barking and acting like a spoiled child.

Su Wanru was watching, then suddenly let out a gasp, and said, "This dog..." She stepped forward and patted the dog's head, staring at the circle of white hair under her neck, "It looks familiar."

There are four dogs in her palace, except for one poodle that Su Ji brought back for her, the others are all such native dogs. They are not very good-looking, but they are very sensible and lovable.

However, there were originally five of them, and a khaki puppy sneaked out of the palace early in the morning following the water delivery truck within a few days after being brought back, and was never found again.

The dog was also khaki all over, but there was a circle of white hair around its neck, which was extremely regular, like a collar.

"Does it look familiar?" Shen Zhan said with a smile, "I guess they look alike!"

Su Wanru also felt that her dog was lost in Pingjiang Mansion, even if it was picked up by someone, it should still be in Pingjiang Mansion, it is impossible for her to come to Shandong.

Er Gouzi kept sticking to Shen Zhan, lying at his feet when he was sitting, hugging his legs when he was standing, barking at her when he was talking to her.

"Did you raise it?" Su Wanru held the hand stove and looked at Er Gouzi. Shen Zhan hummed and replied, "I used to take him with me when I went out. I almost stewed him when I was most hungry. Fortunately, he died." big."

It was almost not stewed, or it would not be seen now.

Su Wanru looked at the one person and one dog with a smile, seeming very harmonious, "Then are you going to take him with you when you return to Yanjing this time?"

"Do you want to take it?" He turned his head and looked at her, as if listening to her, Su Wanru raised her eyebrows and said, "This is your business, I have nothing to do with it."

Shen Zhan chuckled lightly, patted Er Gouzi's head, and said, "Let him stay here. The land here is so big that he can run wild. Follow me to the capital and be bored in the one-acre three-point land, which is boring!"

He himself is like this too. Compared with Yanjing's one-acre three-point land, he is more willing to play wild in the sea and sky.

In the evening, they stayed here for dinner. They didn't have any delicacies, so they cooked two large pots of vegetables and put a lot of peppers. Su Wanru sat around the hot pot with her eyebrows twitching.

"She can't eat spicy food. Cook her a bowl of noodles." Shen Zhan ordered the little boy who was cooking, and the boy glanced at Su Wanru, and blushed.

After a while, a large bowl of noodles was served, with not only vegetables on it, but also a few pieces of fat dangling with oil.

"Thank you!" Su Wanru got a headache when she saw the noodles, and sat on the side eating slowly, while Shen Zhan and the others gathered around the pot, each with a bowl of strong wine, scooping up the messy vegetables in the pot, talking about world affairs, The matter of the salt well and the matter of getting married and marrying a daughter-in-law.

Er Gouzi came up in front of her, staring at the big meat she had pushed aside, drooling.

She smiled, and fed it all the meat. Er Gouzi barked at her, held her hand, and eagerly lowered his head to eat.

The young man who was cooking squatted aside holding the bowl and looked at her, staring at her smacking Er Gouzi's pieces of meat, then ran out in a hurry, and after a while, he handed over the plate silently, which contained essence Lean meat with a few boiled vegetables.

"Thank you!" Su Wanru thought that he was displeased with his waste, but she didn't want him to redo it for him.

The young man waved his hands and said shyly: "Madam, eat slowly, if... If you can't finish eating, give it to Er Gouzi, it's okay."

He is explaining.

Su Wanru smiled and nodded.

When Shen Zhan turned around, he saw a fair and delicate little girl sitting at a black low-legged table and eating noodles in a gentle manner. Her shoes and brand-new skirt were covered with mud, and her face was flushed by the wind. , fiddled with the noodles in the bowl.

Obviously no appetite.

He was a little annoyed immediately, threw away the wine bowl, and said to Mr. Lu, "I'll drink with you next time. We'll go back first if we have something to do."

"How did you go?" Old Master Lu didn't know, so Shen Zhan pointed at Su Wanru, "My daughter-in-law is weak, and it will get colder when it gets dark, and she will freeze."

Mr. Lu was taken aback for a moment, and nodded hurriedly, "Then hurry up, don't be too cold to give birth to a baby."

"Yes." Shen Zhan took Su Wanru's hand and said softly, "Let's go back."

Su Wanru heard what he said, followed him up silently, and said apologetically to everyone: "I'm sorry... I'll come to visit you with Master Hou some other day, please be safe."

"It's okay. It's desolate here and there's no wind on all sides, so don't come here. We'll visit Madam after we go to the capital." Mr. Lu sent the two of them out.

Su Wanru walked cautiously, Shen Zhan glanced at her, bent her waist and picked her up, and said to those behind her, "Let's go. Eat more meat, don't save money!"

The people behind should agree.

"I can walk by myself." She leaned against his chest, not daring to raise her head, "You put me down."

Shen Zhan didn't listen at all, striding to the side of the carriage, Qingliu hurriedly passed the hand stove in, Shen Zhan took off her shoes and stuffed them in the carriage, wrapped them in a blanket, and came up by himself, "Is it still cold?"

It was a bit cold, and there was a lot of wind over there, so it was useless to burn a stove, her hands were numb from the cold.

Min Wang drove away from Yanjing slowly.

"Grandpa, look." He rubbed her hands, warmed her with the stove, and wrapped the blanket tighter, then remembered something, touched her feet, the socks were wet, he frowned Said: "When did you get wet, why don't you say anything."

With so many men around, how could she have the nerve to say that her shoes and socks were wet, so she smiled and said, "It was wet when I went, it's okay!"

Shen Zhan took off her socks and rubbed her feet together. After a long time without getting warmer, he suddenly pulled his skirt and pressed her feet against his chest.

He just wore a quilted Taoist robe, which turned into meat when he tore it apart, it was warm, but it made her heart tremble, and said: "I'm fine, I'll be fine in a while, really."

"Stop talking nonsense." He was very annoyed, he shouldn't have let her follow him on such a long snowy road, "I won't bring you here next time, suffer!"

Her hands gradually warmed up, and she also felt the frozen wood's fallen feet. She lowered her eyes and said no more, "I'm tired, I want to sleep for a while."

"En." He nodded, hugged her feet and touched the top of her head, "Sleep, I will call you when we arrive, and I won't sell you."

Su Wanru didn't smile, she closed her eyes.

All the way without talking, Su Wanru took a hot bath and lay in a daze on the bed. As soon as she touched it, she came across the bottle of medicine under the pillow. She took it out and played with it in her hand.

The next day she got up early and went to the kitchen to make steamed buns with Mrs. Lin, when Mrs. Lin saw her, he brought her a chair and asked her to sit down.

"Madam's technique is mastered by this servant. This servant will do it for you. You can rest for a while." Lin rubbed her face, "It's very cold today, my hands are freezing!"

Su Wanru sat on a chair holding a steaming teacup, and asked Lin Shi: "I want to meet Master Zheng today, please make arrangements."

"Okay!" Lin said: "Come to the kitchen at noon, and the slave will teach you how to make Laba porridge."

Su Wanru smiled lightly, nodded, and said, "Okay!"

In the morning, she brought steamed buns back to Shen Zhan. After Shen Zhan ate one, he stuffed it all for Min Wang. Su Wanru smiled and said, "I'm going to learn how to make Laba porridge with Mama Lin at noon... When are we leaving?"

"If you're not in a hurry, just stay for a few more days." Shen Zhan said, "I'll meet Master Lu again."

If he dared to stab him in the back, he had to clean up.

Su Wanru nodded, and said: "I heard that Master Lu has passed through three dynasties, and he still stays here as an official. I'm afraid it's not easy. Be careful."

"I'm afraid he won't stay here." Shen Zhan hugged her and kissed her again and again, "Left and right are just money and power, I have a way!"

Su Wanru stopped talking and sent him out.

At noon, she avoided Qingliu and met Mr. Zheng in the kitchen. His real name is Zheng Su, a native of Xuzhou. He is 62 years old this year. When he saw her, he bowed to the ground and said, "Last time, my subordinates were rude. The mouth is mixed, and there is the Marquis of Zhennan, the subordinates really dare not show the slightest strange color."

Su Wanru personally helped him up, and said: "Master Zheng doesn't have to be like this, you should see me when you are old."

"You are the master and we are the servants. This subordinate can't afford it." He asked Su Wanru to sit down, and said, "The princess called the subordinate for the affairs of the Marquis of Zhennan? If it is not convenient for you to do it, the princess, the subordinate can do it for you. Or if we capture Marquis Zhennan, maybe we can use him to fight for Zhao Zhiang to replace the Second Highness."

He thought of this method yesterday, but it was too bold and risky, he had to discuss it with Su Wanru.

Shen Zhan is not an ordinary person, and it is not an easy task to capture him, one needs to think long-term and plan carefully.

"Now we ask for stability. We can't do things that gamble on luck." Su Wanru shook her head, and said, "Besides, we can't hold him as the Marquis of Zhennan. Maybe he will notice it and get burned instead."

Zheng Su also had the same concerns, so she nodded and said, "When will the princess set off, Mrs. Lin replied that you can ride a horse, so my subordinates will prepare two fast horses for you, and ten people will secretly escort you. You don't have to worry about anything."

"It's precisely for this matter that I came to you." After she finished speaking, she whispered a few words to Zheng Su. Zheng Su was taken aback, and said, "Princess, can you... help him?"

Su Wanru waved her hand and said: "Do as I want, remember, don't hurt anyone's life!" Then said: "After this matter is settled, you send someone to pick me up, and we will leave tonight."

Zheng Su clasped his fists and replied, "Princess, don't worry, this matter will be done without any trace."

Su Wanru nodded, but did not speak.

(End of this chapter)