Ma'am, I'm afraid when you come [AA]

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Chapter 51: I thought you weren't in a hurry.

Aunt Wei went out of the house today to put on incense, and before leaving, she asked her henchman to send His Royal Highness King Ning a box of hand-made dim sum. As a result, when I came back, I heard that the maid was pulled into the garden by Xia Feng and killed in front of everyone.

She has been in the Guogong Mansion for more than ten years, and although she does not have the status of a lady, she has the dignity of a lady. The trivial matters in the inner house, feeding in and out, all have to pass the eyes of Aunt Wei.

Although Xia Feng and her are not close, they can be regarded as getting along harmoniously. The old man didn't like her, but the Yingying Yanyan recruited outside were all submissive to her. There has never been such a thing today, Xia Feng did not say a word, and sent someone to kill the big maid in her house.

Aunt Wei panicked, lost the kindness and dignification of the past, stood under the corridor crying with a dry yellow face, and her hair was scattered, like a dry bone.

She came alone, and the grandmother in Xia Feng's courtyard happened to be absent, and she didn't even hand her a cloth and pour a cup of tea.

"Auntie. As soon as Xia Feng entered the door, he saw Aunt Wei standing alone, and he couldn't bear it, and stepped forward to help her into the house: "It's so late today, why did you come to me?" "

Miss," Aunt Wei saw her, her expressionless eyes finally had spirit, and she covered her face and cried, "Cai Wei was bought from outside three years ago, she sold her body alone to bury her mother, I couldn't bear it, so I bought her back with a hanging, but I didn't expect..."

"I know, she must have been instructed by someone, and she didn't mean to blame you." Xia Feng looked her up and down, the corners of the brocade clothes were stained with dust, the loose sideburns were mixed with white hair, and if she smelled carefully, she could smell the incense in the temple, everything was normal and reasonable.

"I have been in Xia Mansion for more than ten years, I don't have a son and a half daughter, and my mother's family is not close. The master in the temple said that I was mean by nature and was an outsider wherever I went.
Aunt
Wei took the cloth handed over by Qian Shan, and sobbed to herself: "Blame me, blame me, all these years of coldness and coldness have come over." Seeing that Caiwei's child is pitiful, I thought of letting her accompany me for two years, but I didn't expect..." Qian

Shan comforted carefully: "Madam, this matter has not yet been clarified, our Guogong Mansion has made a big move, and it is not strange that people with intentions have exploited the loophole, don't cry soon." Xia

Feng used to be the most uncrying, but today he somehow watched it for a long time and was indifferent. She looked at Aunt Wei's thin and godless face, and her mind didn't know where her mind had wandered.

"Madam, crying hurts my body too much. If you really want to do this, there will always be a day when the water will come out. It's nightfall, so it's better to go back early to rest. Xiao Mingchen stood beside Xia Feng, and his voice was gentle and soft: "Qianshan, you send Madame back."
As if she had just seen him, Aunt
Wei's eyes were stunned for a moment, she stood up and saluted, turned around and staggered away.

Xia Feng stared at her and walked away, and suddenly said, "Do you think there is something wrong with her?"

She looked at me strangely. I still don't know what happened today, how does that feel? Xiao Mingchen thought for a moment, "Cai Wei is a maid, I have seen her. The person you killed was her, why kill her, because she is bad for me?

"Well, almost. Xia Feng stood up, pulled him into the inner room, and said as he walked: "After you left today, Cai Wei sent a box of dim sum, there was a problem with that box of dim sum, but it was not poisoned, and I couldn't figure out what it was." In short, the taste is not right.

"It's not the first time she's brought me something to eat, and I haven't taken it in. Xiao Mingchen frowned, "But Guan Er said that there is no problem, he has eaten it all, and it is indeed no problem."

"No, I'm sure there's something wrong with that snack. But it is impossible to judge specifically. The methods of the Qiang people are strange and unpredictable, and many things that have been passed down from generation to generation in the steppe are also very different from those in the Central Plains. Xia Feng sighed, "You must be careful. Guan Er is okay if he eats, but it doesn't mean that you will be fine if you eat it.

"Don't worry, I'm measured. Xiao Mingchen responded, turning his head and starting to look at Xia Feng's boudoir.

It is said that the daughter's boudoir is gentle and ambiguous, but Xia Feng is obviously not like that here. Her dilapidated house did not live in people for eleven and a half months a year, and she did not have the slightest popularity.

Xiao Mingchen said strangely: "Didn't you live here when you were a child, why didn't you leave a trace at all?"

"It's all put away, and I rarely come back to live." Grandma came in to clean once in ten days and a half a month, she was old, she thought it was difficult to scrub too many things, so she made it like this.

Xia Feng yawned and removed his hair crown: "I'm trapped, and I have to get up early tomorrow to return to the camp." Are you going to stay and sleep? Otherwise, don't get in the way here. "

I..." Xiao Mingchen saw that her coat had been taken off, and she was washing her face with a cloth, and water droplets were staining her white and tender neck. I don't know if I wiped the water too hard, and the side of the neck was crimson.

His Royal Highness King Ning swallowed his spit very unexpectedly, turned around and was about to go out: "No, you sleep." "

Xia Feng is really tired, there is no need to tease people, see him go, turn his head and sleep.

For many years, the affairs of the northwest have been unclear, and the salt and iron are even more chaotic. If you want to investigate the main reason, part of it is historical legacy, and part of Xiao Mingchen is right, because she, the person in power, has not made up her mind.

But this matter is not that Xia Feng is incompetent, nor is she deliberately inactive, but she really has a weak heart. There is so much energy for a person, twelve hours a day, and more cannot be squeezed out.

Xia Feng's heart was filled with military affairs, and the only little that was left was given to His Royal Highness King Ning.

Van Pu served as the secretary of the Northwest Army, most of the time in the large camp, and rarely returned to Huaiyuan. Thoroughly checking the family's money kiln is a big project, and no one keeps an eye on it. Xiao Mingchen had to stay in Huaiyuan, busy day and night every day.

Fortunately, Wei Yu was frightened by Xia Feng's threatening belt, clamped his tail, and honestly cooperated with King Ning's investigation, and did not dare to raise the slightest objection.

Xiao Mingchen's mouth was perfunctory, but he remembered the words that Xia Feng had told over and over again in his heart. Very cautious and careful, every time he goes out, the number of secret guards around him doubles, and his words and actions do not show the slightest flaw.

In the library of the Yantie Division, Wei Yu respectfully followed behind Xiao Mingchen, without squinting: "I haven't seen His Highness for a long time, but you have been living in the Xia Guo Mansion recently?"

"Well, otherwise King Ben wouldn't have had anywhere else to stay." Xiao Mingchen replied lightly, raised his hand to take a roll of broken bamboo from the shelf, opened it and looked at it twice: "This is, Yuankang's three-year salt and iron division goods in and out." Huaiyuan has never lacked paper, why is these important materials recorded in bamboo?

"This... There is still a shortage during the Yuankang period, that is, in recent years, the northwest has gradually stabilized, and all aspects have improved. Wei Yu said.

Xiao Mingchen stuffed the bamboo Jian back, and seemed to say casually: "There should be no shortage of families, right?"

"The paper at that time was not as good as it is now, it was not easy to preserve, and it was easy to yellow old moths, so no matter where it was, it was more used with bamboo and simple brocade." Wei Yu was stunned for a moment, his eyes darkened, and his expression became more and more respectful.

He was full of curiosity about this His Royal Highness King Ning, who came from Shengjing and was looked up to by Xia Feng, but he was suffering from the fact that there were secret guards around him, and he did not dare to have the slightest disrespect.

Xiao Mingchen slowly shuttled through the middle of the row of bookshelves, and when he was interested, he took it out to take a look, and if he didn't understand, he casually asked Wei Yu a few words. It seems that a trip today is for a walk.

"I see that Huaiyuan has a school hall, and among the people in the northwest, how many percent can literate people account for?

"One out of ten, there are more in the city, three or four percent, and very few in the countryside." Wei Yu knew that he was coming today, and he had been working all night to prepare a solution all night, but he didn't expect that this His Royal Highness King Ning was different, and he didn't want to do anything, and the homework he had done in advance was useless.

"The folk academy is government-run? Xiao Mingchen was very interested in a newspaper and read it over and over for a long time.

"Yes, during the reign of the ancestor Yuan Kang, he ordered all localities to preach and lecture in order to educate the people. There are township halls in all counties of the private sector for children from wealthy families to read and write. Wei Yu saw the newspaper in his hand, and his pale eyebrows trembled slightly,"In the past few years of war in the four directions, the township hall has long disappeared. But the northwest is barely peaceful, and the husband and marshal also attach importance to it, so it has been retained until now.

Xiao Mingchen nodded expressionlessly, and suddenly reported the mansion in his hand to him with a pestle: "Wei Gonglin, this is your parent's generation?"

"Yes, it was my grandfather. Wei Yu's forehead was cold sweat, and he didn't know what he meant.

Xiao Mingchen casually threw the newspaper aside and said to himself: "I saw this old man in the palace when I was young, and he is a good man.
After he
said this, he stopped looking at Wei Yu, put one hand behind him, turned his head and left.

Before his death, Emperor Xiandi was obsessed with cultivation and alchemy, and he was groggy all day. Xiao Mingchen was too young at the time to vaguely know that this was not a good thing, but he couldn't say why.

One day, he once secretly ran into the Taoist temple built in the palace and hid under the statue to watch his father's alchemy practice.

That day happened to be Wei Lin entering the palace and talking with Emperor Xiandi in front of the Dan furnace. The old man who had been in the wind and candle trembled and advised the emperor not to continue to consume pills for the long term, and also said many big truths that the young Xiao Mingchen could not understand.

He had long forgotten what Wei Lin had said, and only remembered the sentence, 'Your Majesty take care, Your Highness is still young.'

That day, after Wei left, Emperor Xiandi pulled him out from under the statue, and he asked Emperor Xiandi who his grandfather was, and Emperor Xiandi only said that he was a good man.

The young Xiao Mingchen heard the words 'good man' for the first time, and did not know the meaning, so he only nodded and agreed.

He has seen too many people since he was a child, or in high positions, or their lives are like grass. The criterion for evaluating everyone is the size of power, the level of position, and there is never a concept of good people and bad people.

Xiao Mingchen came out of the salt iron division, standing on the street and could see the Wei family's tall lintel from afar, thinking of the old man who walked shakily. When he died in Shengjing, did he think that the Wei family behind him would one day become a test stone for the society.

Guan Er inexplicably followed his master around: "Your Highness, I've been very busy recently, why did you come specifically to chat with that old Wei fox?"

"He's going to do it, and all of you have to be on guard." Xiao Mingchen's thin jaw tightened, "The wedding date is approaching, hasn't Xiao Jing's holy will arrived yet?"

"Not yet, the marshal said that if he didn't come, he would do it as scheduled." Guan Er narrowed his ill-intentioned fox eyes, "Everyone has been busy with this recently, I thought you were not in a hurry."

Xiao Mingchen glanced at him coldly, and Guan Er shrunk his neck in fright.