Chapter 14                                                                                                                             �

"Kill one hundred times, and make the Buddha's wind! The idiom source: "Book of Zhou? Biography of Su Chuo". Execute one person to warn many people." When my father came to Yongcheng to pick up goods today, his mother told Sun Ruowei to go home from the East Palace. The family of four gathered together and sat around a round table in the restaurant for dinner. Sun Ruowei and Ji Yuanyuan sat opposite each other, and his father sat opposite each other. Before his father had a meal, he always drank a pot of wine. Five-year-old Ji Yuanyuan had a clever face and cleverly held the pot to pour wine for his father. When his mother was in Yongcheng, she heard Ji Yun's neighbors say that Ji Yuanyuan learned to pour wine for Ji Yun when she was three years old. After his father drank wine and praised the embroidery goods at home, he said with a confused look on his face and thought about what Yongcheng saw.

"What's going on?" Sun Ruowei asked

"Yes! A street notice in Yongcheng: A portrait of a crazy woman who was killed by a gang bandit and was executed!" said the mother.

"Secretizens the gang?" Sun Ruowei asked.

"The crazy woman is in Yongcheng for many years and announced that she is a bandit, and Zhu Di killed innocent people indiscriminately!" said the mother angrily.

"There is also a notice in Yongcheng? The man who intercepted the beautiful girl to rob the court of justice to save the concubine, saying that the madman was a beautiful girl and was regarded as a 'scapegoat'?" Sun Ruowei asked sadly.

"Yes! Ning Xiaoying makes a big fuss in the capital, there will be no danger, right?" said his father.

"Xiao Ying stayed with me for a night. I heard that Xiao Ying was firm in her tone and could avoid risks!" said Sun Ruowei.

"Where has Xiaoying been?" asked the mother.

"I gave some silver, Xiaoying went to check the identity of a woman in the secret letter!" said Sun Ruowei.

"Xiaoying is not worry-free!" said my mother worriedly.

"Xiaoying is smart, nothing will happen!" said the father.

"The fate of a person is sometimes difficult to guess. The crazy girl is a handsome and beautiful girl who is very good at speaking and has ambitions. Before she was crazy, she said that she would get married when she got older. After marriage, she gave birth to a top scorer and wanted to honor her ancestors. When the crazy girl's father died of illness, she had the same mother among the concubines, leaving her with the orphan. However, the man thought she was alone and ruined the engagement of the child, so she was mad. The man was so angry that the man was so tragic that he was really harmful to others. The crazy girl was a pity and pitiful!" said the mother helplessly.

"I was also present when she chatted with you. The fate of a crazy girl and my fool is similar. Your aunt draws lots innately and says that your fool is a lucky person and is killed by a robber at night. Is this a lucky person?" My father said sadly after drinking.

The aunt likes to go to the temple to burn incense and pray, bless her stupid son’s blessings and well-being, but she has not saved her. The mother never believes in superstitiously. Apart from playing cards at home, she helps her husband manage the shops and read books for the rest of her time. The mother’s belief is book knowledge, mainly Confucian culture. Only when people learn knowledge can they increase their ability to survive, do not violate the law, and do more good deeds. The mother’s thoughts and views are in line with the father’s philosophy of inheriting the Sun family tutoring. The aunt burns incense, worships Buddha, and donates silver. The father is the head of the family, and does not object and gives the aunt money. When Wang Yu was a teacher in Yongcheng, he taught and educated people according to the wishes of the saint. The emperor encouraged the common people to eliminate the tendency of Buddha-loving, and promoted Confucianism. The father was not influenced by his wife (aunt) but was influenced by his concubine (mother).

My father continued to talk about the fact that the Buddha Feng in Yongcheng was rising again.

"Mr. Wang Yu is teaching in Yongcheng. I heard from my daughter Ruowei that he gave an example: In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao's third son, Cao Zhi's poem "Give to the White Horse Wang Biao" said, "I want to be immortals, and I will deceive the pine nuts for a long time." The intention is... Seeking immortals and worshiping Buddha is a technique of deceiving others, and it cannot be done. This year, the Buddhist style in Yongcheng is flooded, which is a mud against the present!" My father said while eating.

"Yes!" said the mother.

"The dynasty kills innocent people indiscriminately, and it will not shock them. It will also make people hate the dynasty, and it will set off the Buddhist storm!" said his father angrily.

"Sister, I've finished eating!" Ji Yuanyuan said with a smile.

"You go and play," said Sun Ruowei.

"Yeah!" Ji Yuanyuan responded and went out.

"The two letters I asked you to send are, one is from the timber boss Wan Junsheng to the imperial concubine Wang, and the other is from Li Xiaoye's distant relative to Li Xiaoye." After the meal, his father said to Sun Ruowei.

"Wan Juansheng is doing well?" Sun Ruowei asked.

"Wan Junsheng is very prosperous in business," said his father.

"Is that right?" Sun Ruowei was deeply impressed by the two people selling rags in the capital. When his father talked about wood, Wan Junsheng also managed wood, so Sun Ruowei asked.

"Wan Junsheng thanks you for sending you a letter to the Imperial Concubine Wang. The emperor collected wood, and the Imperial Concubine Wang sent a secret letter to Wan Junsheng. The imperial edict arrived in Yongcheng, and Wan Junsheng had sold the wood. The business deliberately kept some and was confiscated. There were several businesses in Yongcheng, and the business was expropriated and had been bankrupt! One day when you go home, she will invite you to visit." Sun Ruowei and her father walked out of the restaurant, entered the bedroom of the main house, and said with a satisfied smile. After the meal, the mother went to the store.

"Is that so?!" Sun Ruowei did something good for Wan Junsheng and said with a hint of relief.

"Yes," said the father.

"Li Xiaoye followed the emperor to Mobei." Sun Ruowei said.

"Mobei?" asked my father.

"Li Xiaoye is the imperial concubine, and she is extremely popular. Her family moved to the capital. There is no one in Yongcheng family, so who gave me a letter?" Sun Ruowei asked with a smile.

"County magistrate." The father said with a smile.

"County Magistrate?" Sun Ruowei thought to herself what the relationship between Li Xiaoye's family and the county magistrate? I have never heard anyone say that the county magistrate saw that Li was the imperial concubine, so maybe it was for progress. Sun Ruowei asked with a jealous smile.

"Sister! Zhou Xiaoniu is waiting for three people, staying in the store." Ji Yuanyuan came in and said to Sun Ruowei.

"I understand, you go." Ji Yuanyuan's small bun was the pepper combed by her mother. Sun Ruowei rubbed her hands and said with a smile.

"Ah!" Ji Yuanyuan responded and jumped away.

"Yes! I can't ask the letter in detail. Who did you give it to you last time?" said my father.

"Zhou Xiaoniu gave the letter to her family. No one knows why Li Xiaoye returned from Mobei." Sun Ruowei said without any need to think about it.

"Is that true!" said the father with a smile.

"Yes! Dad saw that our store had been in the same way and wrote "Xiangxiang Xiangxiang Nuan Shop". It was opened by Li Xiaoye's house. How grand is the store?" Sun Ruowei heard what her mother said. His father stood at the entrance of Sun's store before dinner. Looking at the incense burner shop opposite, he inexplicably asked his mother. Sun Ruowei changed the topic and said with a smile.

"Is it so? My family is very poor in Yongcheng. Li Xiaoye became the imperial concubine and made a fortune. Her brother studied in a private school and was a playboy. Her father could gamble money, and his ancestors lost all the industries left by his ancestors, and he could do business?" The father said with a smile on his back at the room.

"Her family hires people to run a shop." The Sun family is not a big family in Yongcheng, but can be considered a small rich family on that street. Li Xiaoye's family is better than Zhou Xiaoniu's family and is also a poor family with simple food and simple food. However, the family is so different from Li Xiaoye's glory when they come to the capital. The palace people know about Li Xiaoye's family, so they always discuss it. Sun Ruowei said with a smile.

"Her mother is a cultural person, marry a gambler!" said his father.

"Yes!" Sun Ruowei said with a smile.

"Your mother is right, people rely on their abilities to make a living." The father glanced at Sun Ruowei and said solemnly.

"Yes!" Sun Ruowei said with a smile.

"I didn't say it before the meal, because I'm afraid you won't have a good meal." My father said hesitantly and waited and watched.

"Dad, my daughter is fine!" Sun Ruowei said with a smile on purpose because her father was in a bad mood.

"Kuafu chases the sun, start early!" said my father leaning against the bed.

"What do you mean?" Sun Ruowei asked.

"The girl in the secret letter is from Shandong. Ning Xiaoying understands that Chen Xuan's wife is what Xiaoying's godmother now said," said his father.

"Ning Xiaoying is looking for Chen Xuan?" Sun Ruowei asked.

"Yes! Ning Xiaoying's father called Dai Gan and was a subordinate of Chen Xuan. The two had a good relationship. Chen Xuan knew Xiaoying. Xiaoying always called Chen Xuan the uncle. Chen Xuan liked Xiaoying very much. When Dai Gan died, Chen Xuan went to pay his condolences. Chen Xuan asked Xiaoying to be his adopted daughter, but Xiaoying refused to do anything. In front of Chen, he changed his father's surname to his mother's surname Ning. Three years after Xiaoying became a monk, he went to Chen Xuan's house and recognized Chen Xuan's wife as his godmother. He often went to see his godmother. Xiaoying heard from his godmother that Hu Rong's daughter was Kuafu Zhuri, and he was delusional." The father said.

"Xiaoying godmother knows this allusion? She is a cultural person, it's not simple!" Sun Ruowei asked with a smile.

"Yes! Kuafu chased the sun and died of thirst (from "Shan Hai Jing? Overseas North Classic". The meaning is impossible, but we should not underestimate it!" said the father.

"Yes!" Sun Ruowei said in recognition of her father's opinion.

"Chen Xuan's situation, have you asked Zhu Zhanji?" his father asked.

"I asked..." The father said last time that Ning Xiaoying accepted his godmother's affairs, he asked Sun Ruowei to inquire about the brief description of Chen Xuan. Sun Ruowei said: "Chen Xuan (1365-1433), whose courtesy name is Yanchun, is from Hefei, Anhui. Chen Xuan followed Xu Da to fight in his early years. After that, he organized construction and managed the Grand Canal for more than 30 years, which made the grain transportation in the early Ming Dynasty complete and affected the grain transportation system of the Ming Dynasty. Chen Xuan was brave, familiar with military tactics, and was good at cavalry and shooting. During the Hongwu period, he repeatedly fought in the southwest and moved to the commander-in-chief of the Xingdusi in Sichuan. Emperor Hui (Zhu Yunwen) at the end of Jianwen, Chen Xuan was promoted to the Assistant General of the Right Army and ordered the Chief Zhou Shi to strictly guard the river defense. When the army of King Zhu Di of Yan arrived, Chen Xuan welcomed the boat army with the boat army. After surrendering, Zhu Di ascended the throne and appointed him as Pingjiangbo. In the first year of Yongle (1403), Chen Xuan served as the general officer and the governor transported more than 490,000 stones of grain in the sea. He built a million warehouses in Zhigu and became the Tianjin Weihou. In the ninth year of Yongle (1411), he and Fengcheng Hou Li Bin ruled Zhejiang and the Fujian soldiers captured pirates. Although Chen Xuan was a martial artist, he was a military official, but he was a good official and paid attention to people's livelihood, improved river channels, opened Qingjiangpu to guide the water of Guanjia Lake in the west of Huai'an City into the Huaihe River, and dredged the deep river channel of Xuzhou to Jining. He built the long dike of Pei County to Jining Nanwang Lake, opened Taizhou, and built the Gaoyou Lake dike. From Huaihe River to Linqing, forty-seven gates were set up according to the water level, so that the transportation of the canal was smooth. He managed the river and canal for many years and made many achievements."

"You are roughly in line with what Xiaoying said. The sister of Hu An, a female official from a hundred households, knew that the position of the crown prince's wife would become the crown prince's concubine and the queen. Hu An was engaged in activities for her sister and visited the cabinet members, except for Yang Rong. Hu An was a government army and the commander of the vanguard. He would not be treated too slowly in any mansion. The Hu family said early that Chen Xuan lived in Hu Rong's family when he was in Shandong. He knew Hu Rong and his son Hu An. Yang Shiqi was sent by the emperor to inspect the river. Chen Xuan was at Hu Rong's house. Hu Rong's housekeeper Hu was vacant, and Hu Rong asked the two to help urge Hu Shanxiang to be Zhu Zhanji's wife. After Yang Shiqi came back, he told Zhu Di that Zhu Di did not respond, so his wife came to you. Hu An had found Chen Xuan, but Chen didn't say it." The father said.

"Do you know Xiaoying?" Sun Ruowei asked.

"Chen Xuan told his wife that Chen Xuan's wife told Xiaoying." said the father.

"My letter, who talks with Yang Shiqi?" Sun Ruowei asked.

"Sister Hu An, instructed the housekeeper Hu Nao to give you the position of legitimate wife. Sister Hu An's daughter wants to marry Yang Shiqier and urge Hu Shanxiang to be the legitimate wife of the crown prince!" said the father.

"Where is Xiaoying?" Sun Ruowei asked anxiously.

"Are you looking for her?" the father asked without answering.

"I'm afraid she's doing it blindly. When she saw the secret letter, she found out who the girl was, and wanted to kill her. Xiaoying has always supported her daughter and I'm fighting for the position of legitimate wife." Ning Xiaoying stayed with Sun Ruowei for a night. Sun Ruowei and Zhou Xiaoniu told Xiaoying a lot of things together, fearing that Xiaoying would not listen. Sun Ruowei said thinking.

"Your aunt and I have said Xiaoying, don't cause trouble for you! Xiaoning is so angry that she is like your aunt. She only listens to her master's words and does not listen to others. People's destiny is natural. People should be kind as good as water, and don't harm their lives." said the father.

"I'm afraid that Xiaoying will do stupid things. She will live to the death in love fights! Xiaoying said so!" Sun Ruowei said with a smile.
Chapter completed!