Chapter 377 Chen Jing’s Wife
"As the governor, of course I hope the Maritime Bureau will be prosperous and wealthy." Hu Zongxian said: "Last year, Yu Dayou's naval army formed an army, and all regions have begun to train new troops. Lu Tong, Tan Lun, Qi Jiguang and others have all become debt collectors on my pp." He sighed and said: "This year's military budget is already twice that of Jiajing's thirty-four years... Jiangsu and Zhejiang are even a mountain of gold, and they are about to be hollowed out."
"There is no way, I must not be extra this year." Hu Zongxian said with a bitter look: "It is said that I already have the nickname of 'Governor Yinshan'. The big families in Zhejiang, and the people hate me so much that they are itchy."
Silence comforted softly: "They just don't know the truth, sooner or later you will understand your painstaking efforts."
"Yes, people who are not understood are the most sad." Hu Zongxian picked up the wine glass and frowned, and then put it aside: "I took the blame for the overall situation of fighting against the Japanese, and started to do some extra sects. Besides, extra sects are only one of my ways to raise military expenses. I have also used many channels to raise military salaries," he said with a slight effort: "It may be taken from the government, or from the wealthy house, or temporarily borrowed the annual sects... from last year to the present , He ICBC was sent to Zhejiang Province for 150,000 taels of He ICBC to recharge its salary, but the Ministry of Works was reluctant to do so. He also asked the remaining 200,000 taels of salt silver in the two Huai Rivers, offending the Ministry of Revenue. He also asked the Huai and Zhejiang Transport Department to each issue 100,000 taels of silver to transport Zhejiang directly to recharge its salary, and offended a group of people. For the cost of troops transferred from other provinces, I also asked the provinces to pay and try my best to reduce the burden on Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the minimum, and as a result, my colleagues from each province were offended."
"The people who called me "Governor Yinshan" turned a blind eye to all of this," he said with a sad face, "Now I am Zhu Bajie looking in the mirror, and I am not a human inside or outside."
Silently comforted Hu Zongxian with a sympathetic face, "If you want not to be scolded, you have to do nothing. If you want to do something, you have to be scolded. The bigger the thing you do, the more people you scold, which is helpless." But he thought to himself: 'It turns out that the country is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change. You, Hu Zongxian, will never change this habit of "playing power" at any time."
He said at first, "As a governor, I want you to do it well, and as a brother, I don't want you to trek into muddy waters." But now this "governor's complaint" shows his true attitude... Help me, brother, but I must do it well and make more money. Let Chen Si, the younger brother, not even say a word of no word, be a master.
The hypocritical 'brother's worries' later naturally became unnutritious nonsense. After listening to it, he said with gratitude: "Brother cares so much about me, don't worry, I will definitely not disappoint you."
"So, are you determined to do it?" Hu Zongxian said with a look of indefense.
"No resolute," said silently: "Even if it is not for the court, I will share my worries for my brother!"
Hu Zongxian was moved, held his silent hands tightly, and choked and said, "Good brother, it's really good brother. Go and do it boldly. No matter what the matter is, let's take care of it together!" I guess if someone else is sold by him, he will have to count the money for him.
But Chen Si is not a fuel-saving lamp. He held Hu Zongxian's hand tightly and said excitedly: "Brother, please don't worry. No matter what happens, I will bear it alone. I will never be burdened by you!" Hu Zongxian was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but listened to his words and said: "As long as you do me a little favor, brother." Chen Si was very clear. If something happened, Hu Zongxian could not count on it at all. It would be better to be affordable.
Hu Zongxian was forced into the corner by his own words, and could not refuse to agree to remain silent, so he had to tremble: "Just say it."
"As for the troops stationed in Suzhou Prefecture, I want to ask Qi Jiguang to come over." Chen Mo didn't go around the corner: "Without affecting your battle, he is the most suitable candidate, and he has some friendship with me."
Hu Zongxian breathed a sigh of relief. Although he was optimistic about Qi Jiguang's future, a general under his thirty years old was not worth enough to be alone under his command. Naturally, he went with the flow and agreed to the silent request.
After finishing the business, it was already late at night. Hu Zongxian stayed overnight, but Chen Jing insisted on staying at Chen Jing's house. However, Chen Jing became a little abnormally cramped. Although he did not object in front of the governor, he obviously did not welcome Chen Jing.
This made Chen Mo very curious. On the way to leave the Governor's Mansion and Chen Jing's house, he repeatedly asked Chen Jing what shameful things he had done.
Chen Jing was stammering at first, but later he was forced to ask, then he grinned and said, "Forget it, you will see it later anyway, so let me tell you." He said, "I have it."
"You have it?" Chen Mo looked at Chen Jing's flat belly and said, "It doesn't look like it."
"It's not that I'm pregnant," Chen Jing had to argue. After saying that, he realized that Chen Si was playing tricks on himself. He couldn't help but say annoyed: "If I talk to you very seriously, can't I be serious?"
"Did you have a crush on someone?" Chen Si smiled and said, "And you already live together?"
"That's what it means." Chen Jing scratched his ears and said, "It's almost worried me to death."
"Have you made her belly bigger?" asked silently. If this is the case, the trouble will be great.
"That's not," Chen Jing shook his head.
"Then are you afraid of a ball?" Chen Shu laughed and said, "I'll write a letter to the master tomorrow and ask him to come to propose marriage... By the way, which girl is it?"
"Yes... hey, you will know when you arrive." Chen Jing pointed to the alley in front: "Here, you are here."
After silent, he stopped asking questions, and he tidied up his clothes and prepared a gouache from Eryanzizhai as a meeting gift... It was originally planned to give it to Qi Jiguang's wife, but it was obviously more important to the future younger brother and sister.
I entered his house with Chen Jing, which was a typical Jiangnan house. But when I entered the gate, walked through the corridor, passed the front hall, turned two more turns, and entered a small garden. The moon shadows spread on the ground through the rockery, making it look particularly quiet and cold.
Walking on the cobbled path, silently laughed softly, "I haven't seen you're still a elegant person in these years."
Chen Jing couldn't laugh, and he walked around the rockery with silence, and a small wooden house appeared.
Then the bright moonlight looked silently, and the wooden house was completely different from the southern house. The roof of the wooden house was extremely large, like a box with a hat on it. The short corridor in front of the door was as high as a knee, and the wooden pillars were pressed down below.
The four words "Japanese-style architecture" appeared in Shen Mo's mind, but he didn't say anything because the door of the house was opened. The exterior wall of the entire house was a sliding wooden door, which slowly opened from the inside. In the orange light, a young woman kneeling on her knees, wearing a high top bun, and wearing a kimono appeared in front of Shen Mo.
"You are back..." The woman had a gentle smile on her face at first, but when she saw an outsider, she immediately possessed herself and apologized: "You are abrupt and distinguished guest."
Chen Jing kept looking at Chen Si nervously. Seeing the surprise on his face, he could not help but feel relieved and said with a forced smile: "Come on, Nanako, let me introduce you to you. This is my cousin, Wen Kuixing, who I often talk to you."
The woman called "Nanakako" bowed to Chen Si: "I am the youngest daughter of the Matsuura family, I have met the adults."
"Don't be so disgusting." Chen Jing smiled and said, "Just call him uncle."
"Miss Matsuura." Chen Si smiled faintly: "Hello, for the first time we met, please accept the gifts with a smile."
Naoko Matsuura did not expect that there would be such a polite guest... Most people would show or look at her when she saw her as a Japanese, which made her feel very inferior. But this "most knowledgeable" adult in the Ming Dynasty made people feel like spring breeze and there was no restraint at all.
"Even if there is no gift, I'm very happy." Nanako said happily: "Welcome to you."
"Let's go in and talk." Chen Jing nodded and said, "I'm not stuck outside." As he said, he took off his boots and climbed into the steps, but was afraid that he would not get used to silence, so he said, "Forget it if you don't want to take it off, I just want to relax my feet."
Silently smiled, took off his official boots, and stepped onto the short corridor to enter.
When I entered the room, I saw more than ten rectangular straw mats laying on the ground. A large brazier was placed in the middle of the straw mat, and there was charcoal burning inside. A small red mud jar was placed on the charcoal, and something seemed to be cooking inside, and hot air came out from time to time.
There is a fine-brushed picture of West Lake hanging on the wall, and there is also a poem left in the blank space: "I saw this picture of this lake in the past, but I don't believe there is this lake in the world. Today I passed by the lake, and the painter still lacked time." The signature was the "little girl from the Matsuura family in Kyushu Island, the foreign vassal state."
Chen Si couldn't help but want to laugh secretly. It seemed that this Tokyo wife's attainments in Chinese studies were much better than that of Chen Jing.
Nanako walked to the corner of the wall, took a shorter table over, placed it on one end of the brazier, and then took two square cloth pads that were originally stacked next to the brazier, put them on the two sides, asked the two to sit down, and said, "I'll be together for a while," and went to work next door.
Sitting cross-legged on the side of the short side, his mouth slit inside, and whispered: "How did you hook up?"
"It's time to fall in love." Chen Jing shrugged and said, "Before meeting Wang Zhi again, we lived in the Matsuura family for a while. Their youngest daughter, Naoko, admires Daming very much and often asks me for poetry, songs and customs," and said, throwing a look that even a man knows, "After a while, that's all."
"Although the Tokyo men are smelly and fickle, and have a bad temper, women are really good." Chen Jing smiled and said, "Take Naoko as an example, the most beautiful woman on Kyushu Island is also the daughter of Daming. She is equivalent to a princess in our Ming Dynasty, right? But she is obedient to me and devoted herself to it, and she will not be cruel if I get involved."
"Then I took it back to my country?" asked silently. Before he finished speaking, the sliding door in the inner room rang. Matsuura Nanako changed to a Ming Dynasty paddy dress and a plain white folded long skirt. She came out with a tray, walked to the two of them, and placed the tray on a low table.
In silence, she saw two bowls, a small bowl, a bamboo brush made of bamboo sticks, and a small bamboo sliver. She picked up the small bamboo sliver, opened the lid of the small bowl, shook a few green powder from it, and placed it in the bowl. Then she put the small bowl and bamboo sliver, picked up the small pot of red mud that had already steamed, poured some water into the bowl, and then took the bamboo brush and kept brushing it in the bowl.
Until the tea powder was sticky, she took off the small pot of red mud and poured boiling water into the bowl. She presented the tea bowl and said, "Uncle, please drink tea."
He thanked her silently and asked her, "Your Chinese is very good, who did you learn it from?"
"I have been taught by teachers since I was a child," Nanako said respectfully: "The teacher was a scholar in the Ming Dynasty. Because he offended the powerful, he went to our Kyushu to take refuge. Finally, he worked as a bookkeeper at my father's mansion and taught us brothers and sisters to study." Although Chen Si just asked casually, she answered very seriously. I don't know if it was because of nature or if no one talked to her.
Chen Jing said: "You can go and rest first. My brother and I have something to say."
Nanako responded well and immediately held a painted tray, which was decorated with eight-color fine dots, pine nut candy, walnut cake, walnut slices, rose cake, etc., but they were all Su-style dim sum and had nothing to do with Tokyo.
Nanako also explained apologetically: "The snacks in Kyushu are so vulgar. I'm afraid you don't like them after eating them, so please use Su-style."
Silently asked her not to care, so she bowed and said, "If you have any questions, please call me any time." She bowed to each other and then retreated to the inner room.
After Nanako left, Chen Jing said, "I really didn't want to take her back to China. You said I am a native of the Ming Dynasty and marry a Japanese woman. How is it appropriate for the national ladies?"
"Why is that coming?" I silently looked at the green tea in the cup, took a sip, and thought to myself that even Rizhao tea was better than this.
"Hey, the day before returning to China, I explained it to her clearly, and she was not going to die," Chen Jing smiled bitterly, "Soon she ran out of the cabin shortly after the ship was driven the next day." He said a little depressedly, "The Matsuura family and Wang Zhi are Jin Buhuan's brothers. It is not difficult for their little princess to run to Wang Zhi's boat. As a result, she came back with me so much, and I couldn't get rid of it. To be honest, I didn't want to get rid of it. I just dragged it until now, and I didn't dare to go home during the Chinese New Year."
"Actually not that serious," silently said: "It's not that we're going to marry you to Japan, and we can't lose our national system, and no censor will participate in you." Great power chauvinism must be accompanied by machismoism. Only men in their own country allow their own country to possess foreign women, but they cannot tolerate foreign men possessing their own country women.
"I know that people can only laugh at me, but they won't talk about this." Chen Jing hugged his head and said, "But you don't know that my father is so old-fashioned and old-fashioned, you will kill me."
"I can't blame my uncle for this." Silently smiled, "If it were me, I would still kill you."
"I'm so worried, you're still laughing, are you brother?" Chen Jing said angrily: "Why don't you help me think of a solution?"
"I can't do anything about this," Chen Si shook his head and said, "Let's do it first and see if there is a suitable opportunity to pick it up."
"Oh..." Chen Jing said with a frown: "I thought you must have a solution."
"I really have no choice," said silently, "but I have to remind you that this time you go back in the seventh-grade official uniform, which makes the villagers mistakenly think that you are developed and that you are going to propose marriages. It is said that the uncle is looking for candidates and will get you engaged at any time, and it will be irreparable at that time."
"Ah..." Chen Jing said: "Why didn't you discuss it with me?"
"Every time you appear, you feel like you have a burned tail," said silently, "How can someone discuss with you?"
"No, I have to think of a solution." Chen Jing rubbed his hands a few times, then looked at Chen Si and said, "Oh no, you have to think of a solution for me." He kowtowed and bowed, "I know you are Zhiduoxing, so there will definitely be a solution..." Yunyun, Chen Si did not agree, so he cheated and had no choice but to take over this hot potato.
After talking about Chen Jing, Chen Mo asked, "Didn't that Mao Haifeng lives in your house like this? Where is he now?"
"In the brothel," said Chen Jing: "That boy is rich and stupid. He is his sisters' favorite. He lives there now. I will send someone to call him back tomorrow morning."
"That boy is very comfortable?" He squeezed a piece of snack and savored it in silence: "I've been to the brothel, but I've never been there yet?"
"This is not simple. I will take you there tomorrow, the best girl, the best service..." Chen Jing suddenly felt energetic and said, "Make sure you are at home."
"Stop, stop," Chen Si cursed with a smile: "I'll ask you about Mao Haifeng's situation."
"He, Governor Hu treated him very well. He treated him well with wine and meat every day, and asked me to accompany him to visit the brothel." Chen Jing laughed and scolded: "Is it awesome for public funds?"
In this era, it is indeed quite awesome, but silence is already commonplace. He smiled and said, "What's Mao Haifeng's reaction?"
"This person is quite real. Perhaps he is soft-mouthed and feels embarrassed, so he expressed his hope to help Hu Butang." Chen Jing said, "But Hu Butang doesn't let him do anything. This guy is thin-skinned and makes him very anxious. He is very angry recently and often stays in prostitution."
"Let him see me tomorrow." Chen Si stretched and said, "Go to sleep."
"Don't worry, I have a problem," Chen Jing stopped him and said, "I haven't asked you just because you asked me."
"You ask." Silent nodded and sat down again.
Chapter completed!