Perhaps Chen Xi and Lin Dai have different understandings of marriage and responsibility!

Chen Xi's idea was to formally marry Lin Dai, give her a family and take responsibility for her husband. But in Lin Dai's heart, love is just about two people being together, and nothing else matters. This is why Lin Dai proposed to elope with him at the beginning.

But Chen Xi is destined to bear a lot of responsibilities when he is reborn and cannot be done by nature.

Chen Xi did not chase after him, although he knew that Lin Dai's ears were soft and he was the only one in his heart. As long as he spoke softly and tenderly, the little girl would soon untie her heart.

But what about the next step?

Maybe the two really want to be a dewy couple!

"Master, the lady is angry and goes back to the room. Don't you go over and take a look?" Ning'er asked when she came into the room.

It's both a master and a lady, and it sounds like a daughter and a father are angry and returning to the room. In fact, with the psychological age of Chen Xi and Lin Dai, in Shen Xi's eyes, isn't Lin Dai just a girl who has not grown up?

After the two got along for a long time, Lin Dai never treated Chen Xi as her younger brother, but regarded him as a man who had his own opinions and could give him happiness!

Chen Xi said: "Let her be angry for a while. Look at her, don't let her be confused. Go back and clean up, we are ready to go back to Tingzhou."

When Ning'er heard this, her face froze immediately.

Whether Lin Dai returns to Tingzhou or not does not matter much, but for Ning'er, returning to Tingzhou will mean that her plan to fish for Kaizi in the capital will be completely ruined. The young master of the Wang family and the young master Xie have become the past.

Ning'er quickly said, "Master, can you keep... me?"

Chen Xi knew Ning'er's thoughts. She said that among the maids at home, she was the most unstable. She was a restless woman!

However, since he is selling himself as a slave, he should consider his own happiness. Even if Hui Niang promises to support them for the rest of her life, there is no man who cares about her and takes care of her for the rest of her life.

Chen Xi said: "Don't worry, after I got back, I told Aunt Sun that it would be too difficult to find a good family to marry you out of this capital city."

Ning'er immediately knelt on the ground and almost cried: "Young master, I will serve you and never marry you for the rest of my life."

Chen Xi was very whispering... He was really pretending to be hypocritical. He clearly wanted to get married, but he showed a loyal look at the master. This was probably the helplessness of being a maid from a wealthy family. He was afraid that his master would not marry her out and live alone in his old age, and he was also afraid that his master would know that she had a second heart and blame her.

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Chen Xi cleaned up his things a little.

Although I don’t know when to leave, but what Xie Qian meant was, it should be before the end of the year. It was estimated that around the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month, Chenxi asked Song Xiaocheng to prepare carriages and ships, and also paid attention to the changes in the canal section at any time. If the North Canal freezes in winter, then you can only take the land.

In theory, land will be faster than water, but because the canal is almost straight, and there is no need to cross mountains and ridges and detours in the middle, and there is no need to find a boat to ferry when you meet a river. In fact, taking a boat will be more convenient and quicker.

In the past, all year round, all rivers in the north would freeze during the end of the year, and water transportation would have to stop until the beginning of spring.

When Song Xiaocheng went to Tongzhou to check the situation on site, and asked the experienced boatman... It was not beyond Chen Xi's expectations. Now that he wanted to take a boat, he had to at least reach the bank of the Yellow River by land first.

But he did not receive a formal transfer order for a day, and Chen Xi's responsibility was still to be a lecturer in the East Palace and to teach the Prince Zhu Houzhao. He needed to continue to organize his own lectures.

On the 16th day of the twelfth lunar month, Xie Qian asked someone to inform Chen Xi to ask him to go to the Zhan Shi Mansion to wait for the news. As a result, Chen Xi waited from morning to afternoon, and at the same time brought Chen Xi the imperial envoy's edicts and seal letters, but there was no cheap king's flag.

"...You are going this time, you are asking for tribute with the Buddha Jiji. You should try to get as little as possible for other things. Your Majesty said that you will be assigned a deputy envoy to take care of you on the way."

Xie Qian said something obscurely, saying that he had a deputy envoy, but he didn't say who he was. Judging from Xie Qian's expression, this person should not be a good person.

Knowing the exact departure time, Chen Xi needs to communicate with Yu Niang. Yu Niang is not very clear about Chen Xi’s deputy envoy, but this deputy envoy is definitely not Yu Niang, because since he wants to serve as the deputy envoy of the imperial envoy, he must have official ranks. Yu Niang is just a detailed work of the factory guards.

Yu Niang reminded: "Mr. Shen will take good care of me, but Mr. Shen will still think about how to deal with local officials in Quanzhou... I have heard that there are many corrupt and perverted officials in Quanzhou prefectures and counties. They accepted the benefits of the Buddha's Chef people, so they told the court about the Buddha's Chef people."

If Chen Xi did not know the history of the great voyage, Yu Niang's reminder was very necessary. However, Chen Xi had long understood what the Portuguese were in this period. He would not really regard himself as an envoy of the country. With his sixth rank, he did not have a king's order, and only a person who was ordered by the emperor to do the job. It would be another matter whether the local official would buy it.

Moreover, Xie Qian also specifically explained that he was not allowed to interfere in other matters except asking for tributes. The meaning was that even if the Buddha Ji was cheating and wanted to use force, it was the business of the local government, and it was not his turn as a Hanlin official to take charge.

In theory, the decision of the emperor and Xie Qian was correct. If Chen Xi really gave too much power, if there was a war, the local officials would definitely push the responsibility to Chen Xi and let Chen Xi come out to the tank. What can Chen Xi do when he was thirteen years old?

At that time, the tribute will not be received, which will lead to the defeat of the Ming Dynasty army, the prestige of the court will be damaged, and Chen Xi's heads will not be enough to cut off.

In this way, Xie Qian was actually helping him.

Chen Xidao: "Yu Niang reminds me that I heard that the Buddha Ji people conquered many small countries by force in the Western generation. This time, they came to China not to sincerely pay tribute to seek trade, but to take the opportunity to spy on the national conditions of our Ming Dynasty in order to use troops against our Ming Dynasty."

Yu Niang asked in surprise: "Where did Lord Shen know?"

Just let you hear from others and not let me guess the current situation? I am not a speculation out of thin air, I just tell a fact. If the Portuguese had not tried many times in history and found that the Ming Dynasty was far beyond their imagination, it would not be impossible to directly use force!

But if the war between the two countries occurred, Chen Xi was not particularly scared, because he knew that with the current Portuguese sailboats, it would take at least one or two years to travel across the ocean to the Ming Dynasty. This kind of long-distance war was simply impossible to consume.

At most, you can treat the Portuguese navigator as a group of pirates or Japanese pirates. Anyway, there is no shortage of such people on the southeast coast.

"I heard it occasionally." Chen Xi replied.

Yu Niang looked at Chen Xi with a smile, as if she was saying, "Even we can't find out these things. You are only thirteen-year-old boy and don't have many places to go, how could you know so thoroughly?"

Chen Xi originally wanted to ask Yu Niang about Liu Daxia's instructions, but he knew that Yu Niang would keep silent, so he simply didn't force it. Anyway, it would be right to know that Yu Niang would accompany him with her.

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He was about to leave Beijing in two days, and Chen Xi needed to prepare a lot, mainly to bring his own belongings.

Due to the inconvenience of carrying, most of the money on hand was put in the silver cellar next to the warehouse in the backyard. Only Xie Yuner knew the specific location of the silver cellar, which was protected by the organs, and also had various disguises, so she was not afraid of attracting people to worry about it.

This time, Chen Xi only brought more than 300 taels of silver to the road, and then there were books.

After a trip to the capital, Chen Xi wrote "Notes on Yuewei Caotang" and obtained several samples after printing it. In addition, Chen Xi bought some books by himself, Su Tong and some friends gave some, Xie Qian, Zhang Heling and the queen gave some rewards respectively. They originally thought that there were not many, but they all were placed, and they even packed them with large wooden boxes.

"Zhuangzong, you have read so many books, so you might as well stay in the capital. Anyway, you are not coming back." Song Xiaocheng smiled and suggested to Chen Xi.

Chen Xi shook his head and said, "I must bring the books because he wants to give these books to Xie Duo."

At the beginning of the year, the court summoned Xie Duo to serve as the Imperial College North Supervisor. As a result, Xie Duo refused to give up the appointment of the court many times, and is still stranded in Jiangnan and refuses to perform his duties.

Why did Chen Xi go to Beijing for the exam? Xie Duo personally met him and gave him some sincere instructions. Now that he has passed the top scorer in the exam, he must of course repay his kindness.

Although the books in Chen Xi’s hand are not precious, there are also several books that he thinks are extremely rare, especially the few books given by Queen Zhang. Chen Xi has visited so many bookstores and has never seen them before. Looking at the paper and style, it is probably printed by the Han Jing Factory in the Palace. Isn’t it a good thing to give them to a book collector like Xie Duo for collection?

To take a step back, even if Xie Duo looked down on other books, Chen Xi believed that the "Yuwei Caotang Notes" he wrote was quite unique. Thinking about the famous scholars of Ji Yun, who wrote stories and literary things, he believed that Xie Duo would definitely accept his kindness.

Chen Xidao: "As a scholar, books are the lifeblood of life. What do you mean is to let me keep my lifeblood in the capital?"

Song Xiaocheng smiled embarrassedly: "This metaphor for the top scholar is not very appropriate. Your lifeline...yes, it is your lifeline. Even if the younger one is recited, you will carry it back to Tingzhou."

"I don't need to go to Tingzhou. I don't plan to bring these books home, just send them to Yingtian Mansion... But what you said makes sense. I'd rather not bring those big street goods on the market..."

Then Chen Xi sorted out the book box and removed some collections of essays and the Four Books and Five Classics for the imperial examinations, which really reduced the burden a lot.

When the preparation is done, the most urgent task is to solve the problem of Lin Dai's emotional trouble.

The little girl likes to lose her temper when she is fine, which is a headache for Chen Xi... Now Lin Dai is the same as before, she doesn't eat or drink. Chen Xi knows that the little girl wants to use this mean way to exchange for his pity. However, other tricks don't work for Chen Xi, and he has to admit this trick himself, and he really can't bear to let go!

When Chen Xi felt guilty when he saw Lin Dai getting thinner because of food and food, he felt so guilty that he went into the room to apologize. It seemed that Lin Dai had corrected his pulse.

Ning'er's cooking skills were well trained under the guidance of Shen Xi. Chen Xi brought the food into the room. Lin Dai sat on the bed facing the wall. When he heard footsteps, his shoulders didn't move.

"I really don't look virtuous or virtuous." Chen Xi shook his head and sighed in dismay.

Lin Dai was embarrassed and angry, turned around and cried, "Why am I...I am not virtuous and kind? You...You like Sister Xie like...You...you go find her!"

Chen Xi curled his lips: "I not only want to find her, but also want to live with her and let her give birth to a baby for me."

Lin Dai couldn't help it anymore, so she jumped out of the bed, waved her pink fist and greeted Chen Xi's chest, but this happened to fall into Chen Xi's trap. The next moment, her hand was caught by Chen Xi, and then she fell into Chen Xi's arms.

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ps: First update!

The emperor is confused now, and only updated three chapters yesterday. Why did he make it to the ninth place in the sales list on the homepage? I looked at it and there was no reward from the new leader!

I admire you!

I didn't say it, today's explosion! (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!