Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 549
The women in the Yang family mansion waited until Yang Yuan came back before they started eating.

Although Yang Yuan was chatting and laughing with his family, Luxi Danniang, Yuchan Bingxin and other girls soon discovered that he had something heavy on his mind.

Strange! My second brother was supposed to meet the emperor today. Could it be that something unpleasant happened during the meeting?
However, they were tactful enough not to ask further questions, because men's desire to talk is not as strong as women's.

There are very few men who would talk endlessly to others simply to vent or seek comfort without seeking a solution.

They could only use their tenderness and quietly do things to make Yang Yuan happy.

Lu Xi cooked the best dishes for Yang Yuan, and Dan Niang heated up a pot of rice wine for him, finely chopped the ginger, and added plums.

While having dinner, Leng Yuchan and Xue Bingxin deliberately told him many interesting stories about when they were working with Fei Yuye to transport military supplies for the Northern Kingdom, just to make him laugh.

They also showed great friendliness and welcome to Yingge and others who had just arrived in Lin'an today.

It is obviously inappropriate to be jealous at this time.

They are all trying hard to do what they can and trying their best to make Yang Yuan happy.

Yang Yuan quickly noticed their "actions" and felt warm in his heart.

Yang Yuan suddenly raised the cup and drank it all in one gulp. He immediately felt a warm feeling in his stomach.

Yang Yuan smiled and said, "Don't worry, I do have something on my mind, but it's a matter of official business, and I'm trying to find a solution.

As for today’s meeting with you, nothing happened! "

When the little girl Qingtang saw that he had finished his wine, she immediately filled his glass again.

Yang Yuan rubbed Qingtang's head and said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for a while, little Qingtang has started to become sensible."

Qingtang smiled sweetly at him, sat back down, and immediately glanced at Ah Man defiantly, with a hint of provocation in her eyes.

Ah Man just slightly pressed the corner of his lips with disdain.

So what if you are attentive? She has been through many ups and downs with the master.

The master has fallen into my, A'man's trap. No matter how capable you, Xiao Qingtang, are, you are still my "junior".

Yang Yuan continued, "During my trip to the north, I have made great contributions to the court. Wait, the court will reward me soon.

As for me, I will be promoted again this time."

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the hall suddenly became relaxed.

Yang Yuan said to Lu Xi, "Lu Xi, the Mid-Autumn Festival in August was supposed to be our wedding day, but I missed the auspicious time."

Lu Xi scolded him, "Second brother, why do you always say such hypocritical words like others? You were on a diplomatic mission to the North Country and were trapped by wolves. You had no choice. Do you think I would blame you for delaying the wedding?"

Yang Yuan smiled and said, “You don’t blame me, but the emperor feels sorry for you and me.

So, the emperor told me today that he wants to grant us a marriage, and that we can get married before the New Year.

"Ah, so fast!"

Luxi exclaimed, but his face instantly lit up with a bright look.

It is such an honor to have the emperor grant you a marriage.

Which woman doesn't want to be the most glorious woman in the world when she gets married?

Dan Niang and the other girls all looked at Lu Xi with envy.

Yang Yuan said, "Are you relieved now? I'm full, I'll go see my brother first."

Yang Yuan picked up the wine jug and stood up to leave.

Whenever he was away from home for a long time, he would visit the ancestral hall when he came back.

As soon as Yang Yuan left, Dan Niang and several other girls surrounded her and congratulated her.

Dan Niang said, "Congratulations, Sister Luxi, you will soon become Madam Yang."

Luxi was overjoyed, but she did not ignore the disappointment and envy in the eyes of Danniang, Yuchan and other girls.

Lu Xi said softly: "Without the help of my sisters, I can't survive in this family.

Dan Niang, Yu Chan, Bing Xin, Ying Ge, four sisters, there are some things that Lu Xi cannot give you, but there are some things that Lu Xi can decide.

If you sisters don't mind the rush, let's go to the Yang family together during the Lantern Festival and stay together from now on, okay?"

Dan Niang and the other girls didn't expect that Lu Xi would arrange for their marriage so quickly.

Although they had been married to Yang Yuan for a long time, if they did not go out for a day, it would be considered as adultery and they would have no status at all.

After hearing what Lu Xi said, the four girls' sense of loss was alleviated a lot.

……

In the ancestral hall, Yang Yuan sat cross-legged on a cushion.

Luxi has always arranged people to be responsible for the daily cleaning of the ancestral hall, so the hall is very clean.

The fruits and vegetables on the altar are also fresh.

In the incense burner, there are three incense sticks that Yang Yuan had just lit.

There were three glasses of wine in front of the curling cigarette.

Yang Yuan took a sip of wine from the spout of the pot and said a few words.

"Brother, I have another good news for you. I will be married before the end of the year.

I promised you that I would make our family flourish and prosper. That day will not be too far away."

"Hehe, actually, I have already brought honor to our Yang family, right?"

"Oh, there's one more thing I want to tell you, brother."

Yang Yuan drank up the wine in the pot, slowly stood up, looked at Yang Che's spirit tablet, and said softly: "You said that Kou Heiyi is your best friend, right?
This person may have some problems. I will check him out, and when I find out the truth, I will tell you whether this Kou Heiyi... is a human or a ghost!"

……

"Why did you arrest Yang Yuan? Are you bored?"

In Datong Lane, on the top floor of Cuiyu Tower, Kou Heiyi frowned and looked at Shui Fu.

Shui Fu sat lazily on the rosewood armchair, crossing her legs.

She was only wearing underpants and underwear, with her legs crossed, and her slender but slightly fleshy snow-white feet were trembling slightly.

Shui Fu shook the crystal glass, causing the blood-colored wine to swirl rapidly, and said, "This is the order of the Prime Minister. Who knows what his plan is."

"Prime Minister? Humph, I think he is a traitor to the country."

Miss Shui Fu smiled faintly and said, "No matter what, your majesty ascended the throne at the age of sixteen, when the ruler was young and the country was in doubt. If he hadn't been there to keep the country in check, our Great Xia would probably be in even more chaos than the Jin Kingdom now."

Kou Heiyi snorted coldly and said nothing more. Although he disliked Ren Dejing, he would not refute the facts just because of his personal likes and dislikes.

However, what’s the point of arresting Yang Yuan?

Could it be that Yang Yuan has the ability to influence the affairs of the Three Kingdoms?

Ren Dejing has become a little crazy since he became interested in metaphysics.

Yang Yuan is Yang Che's younger brother. If I catch him, even in his grave, Yang Che would come to me with a knife to settle the score.

No, I have to think of a way to remind that kid to be careful..."

Shui Fu saw that Kou Heiyi was silent and thought that he was racking his brains for a solution.

Shui Fu said, "The Prime Minister has sent someone else to do this. You just need to provide them with some help when the time is right. Don't take it too seriously. Have you figured out what 'Xue Fu Tu' is going to do to the Song Dynasty?"

Kou Heiyi shook his head and said, "This time, the plan is personally in charge of Tang Daosheng.

The news I've received now is that Xue Futu is planning a big event in the State of Song. When necessary, he asked me to cooperate fully at all costs, even if it means exposing my identity.

But I don’t know what the specific plan is yet.”

"Ah……"

Shui Fu's eyes slightly raised with a hint of charm: "This is very interesting. It seems that Wan Yanliang has big plans this time..."

Kou Heiyi said: "There is no need to rush. No matter what they want to do, when they need me to take action, they will no longer be able to hide it from me."

Shui Fu nodded: "That's right, no matter what conspiracy it is, we just stick to one rule:
When Song was too powerful, they helped Jin. When Jin was too powerful, they helped Song.

Wanyan Liang is in a very bad state now. Our Great Xia is once again bordering the Song State, so let the Song State have a good time."

Outside the window, there are sounds of stringed instruments, and the hustle and bustle of the streets are reflected into the room along with the colorful lights.

Shui Fu raised her fair neck and drank the blood-red wine in the crystal cup in one gulp. She exhaled the wine and said quietly, "Why should Lin'an Prefecture be more prosperous than our Xingqing Prefecture?"

……

Today, Leng Yuchan, Xue Bingxin and Emmanuelle Belle all went to the Yang mansion early, so Fei Yuye had to do all the matters concerning receiving and processing the goods personally.

Therefore, she was busy until the lights came on, and then she returned to the home of "Moshanghua".

She has now handed over the affairs of the embroidery workshop to the deputy manager Liu Ti.

Liu Ti became the manager of "Moshang Hua Embroidery Workshop" as he wished, but he became more cautious than before.

In fact, until now, he still doesn't know why the Fat Shopkeeper suddenly disappeared, nor does he know the Fat Shopkeeper's true identity.

The reason why he no longer had any ambitions was because he discovered that the girl from the Fei family was doing a big business that could not be matched by a hundred "Moshanghua" embroidery workshops.

How could he have the courage to try to challenge the Fei family's supreme control over the "Moshanghua" embroidery workshop.

When Fei Yuye returned home, she did not rush to take a bath or change clothes. Instead, she rushed to the study and took out her secret tool, which was a large box.

Fei Yuye took out a few small gourds, took out some medicine powder from each of them, mixed them with water in a certain proportion, and then dipped a small brush in the medicine and brushed it carefully on the "white paper".

After she had applied it evenly, she carefully picked up the paper and shook it gently.

As the liquid medicine on the paper gradually dried up, light blue words appeared one by one.

Fei Yuye quickly moved the light closer and began to read her father's letter under the light.

……

Song Laoshi stayed alone in his bedroom in Songjia Fengwei Building, sighing.

This was the time when the restaurant was welcoming customers, and the restaurant was very lively.

The voice of the waiter serving dishes and calling out the names, with a unique singing rhythm, could be heard from a distance from time to time.

Song Laoshi paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back and a frown on his face.

Suddenly, he walked back to the table and picked up a rectangular wooden stick more than a foot long.

He had carved this wooden stick with a hatchet after returning to Fengwei Building in the afternoon.

Song Laoshi already knew its length, width and height by heart.

He didn't even need a ruler to measure it; he could use an ordinary hatchet to quickly make a rectangle that exactly met the size requirements.

Then, he took the two pages of paper filled with words and wrapped them around the wooden stick at an angle that only he knew.

At this time, after the tilted paper is wrapped around a rectangular wooden stick of the right size, the vertical lines of text formed are no longer disorganized, but can be connected into coherent sentences.

These words are presented on all four sides of the stick, and how to organize these sentences in sequence is also marked among the disorganized text on the letter paper.

In this way, Song Laoshi got a correct secret letter.

This secret letter was a "farewell letter" written by Fei Tianlu to Song Laoshi.

Fei Tianlu's "farewell letter" was written in simple language and full of emotion. Song Laoshi couldn't help but burst into tears after deciphering only a few lines.

In the letter, Fei Tianlu told Song Laoshi that for the sake of the Song Dynasty, he decided to stay in the north as a rebel general.

He said that Wanyan Liang was caught off guard and that was why he was unable to cope with the situation.

After Wanyan Liang finished his reorganization, what awaited the Northeastern rebels would surely be a series of tough battles, which meant that he could die at any time.

Then, Fei Tianlu began to entrust his care for his son to his most trusted old subordinate.

He said that it didn't matter if he was buried in the north, the only thing he was worried about was his daughter Yuye.

He said that he regretted agreeing to let Yuye's godmother, Madam Zhe, serve as a female official for a few years.

As a result, the child saw the world and became wild in nature. There were few men in the world who could catch her eye.

He said that he knew his daughter admired Yang Yuan very much, and only with Yang Yuan could Yuye have a home, and he could die in peace.

In the letter, Fei Tianlu begged Song Laoshi to adopt Yuye as his adopted daughter and let her marry into the Yang family as Luxi's "concubine".

A concubine is usually the sister of the wife or other women from the same clan, who are married to her husband as part of the wife's dowry.

A girl who was married as a concubine was nominally a concubine, but her actual status was very high, only slightly lower than that of the wife.

Concubines are qualified to accompany their husbands to various grand and formal banquets as wives.

When the wife is not at home, the concubine can take over the wife's role and exercise household management rights.

The most important point is that children born to concubines are also legitimate sons.

At the end of the letter, Fei Tianlu deeply recalled the past when he and Song Laoshi fought together on the battlefield. He mentioned how he had a keen eye for talent and discovered Song Laoshi's strengths, making him the first scout of the Tabai Army.

Finally, he told Song Laoshi sadly that he was old and no longer as brave as he used to be.

He climbed on ice and slept in the snow in the north, and the freezing wind made the gaps between his bones feel like they were being scraped by a knife.

Therefore, even if he was lucky enough not to die in the battlefield, his body would probably not be able to survive three or two winters.

The text, in a nonchalant tone, told Song Laoshi about the old soldier's determination to die and his miserable end.

Song Laoshi couldn't bear this. When he saw the sentence "can't survive three or two winters", he burst into tears and sobbed.

He was a little conflicted. His daughter was supposed to be the only mistress of the Yang family. Did he really have to find someone who could compete with her?

However, when he thought that this was Fei Tianlu's farewell letter entrusting his son to his care, he felt as if his heart was being cut by a knife.

"The Commander-in-Chief has been a tough guy all his life, and this is the only time he asks me for help..."

Song Laoshi sighed and decided to convince his daughter.

No matter what, we can't let them all rest in peace in the afterlife, don't you think?
……

In the study room at the back house of Moshang Hua Embroidery Workshop, Fei Yuye crumpled up her father's secret letter and threw it out angrily.

No one knows a father better than his daughter. Fei Tianlu’s emotional card is useless in front of his beloved daughter.

Fei Yuye saw through his "evil intentions" at a glance!

I really don’t know what kind of love potion Yang Yuan gave him, to make him actually... want his daughter to be someone else’s concubine.

Are you sick, you old man?

(End of this chapter)