Capital.

Yan Xuehuai finally found fun in her extremely boring life waiting to marry.

Reading a book.

Among the books sent by missionaries, except for the lack of religious categories, there are still many types involved.

Yan Xuehuai even found several biographies in it.

Biography is the most smooth thing she has read at the moment. Others have difficulties, but they have to read them even if they have difficulties. And those are the key points. Yan Xuehuai can only treat biography as decompression.

Xiaoman applied to be her assistant. Yan Xuehuai did not agree. Xiaoman had to go to school and did his homework after school. Now he had to learn acquaintances. His time is too precious.

After thinking about it, Yan Xuehuai remembered the maid named Shihong in Lord Wu's mansion.

She wrote a letter, asking Dill to send it, and the letter only said that she wanted to help with Zhihong.

But Yan Xuehuai never expected that Zhihong not only came, but also came with his own contract of selling his body.

"Miss Yan, the lady said, let me follow the girl in the future."

As he said that, Shihong presented his hands with his body selling contract.

Yan Xuehuai didn't answer, and she asked, "Did you give birth to a child from the Wu family or did you buy it?"

Shihong said, "I didn't have a son from my family, I bought it."

"How long have you been to the Wu family? I have been since I was a child?" Yan Xuehuai remembered the good words "Ji Hong". Mrs. Su tried a lot to cultivate this maid, so she could not accept it even more.

Shihong shook his head: "I came to Wu's mansion three years ago. My wife is kind-hearted. When I heard that I knew a few words, I saw that I was pitiful, so I took me back to my mansion."

When Shihong said this, she paused. Miss Yan would not dislike her having only been in Wu's house for three years and was not as good as having a child. She was worried about herself, so she refused to accept the contract for selling her body.

She quickly explained: "I am from Gaoxian County. Although my family is very poor, I am also a farmer. I have two acres of land and can fill my stomach when it is good. My mother recognizes words and writes well. When I was a child, my mother taught me to recognize words, and secretly bought paper and ink for the money I saved to practice calligraphy. Later, when my father passed away, I depended on my mother for life. Later, the war broke out, and everyone in the village fled. My mother took me and my uncle's family to escape...

There was nothing to eat on the road, so the uncle exchanged my mother... for half a bag of brown rice. Later, he sold the servant to a passing man. The uncle and the man started arguing and even started to fight. The Wu family also left the capital and returned to their ancestral home. When Mrs. Su learned that they were quarreling about this, she bought the servant at a higher price than the man."

Yan Xuehuai sighed. She understood what Mrs. Su meant. Mrs. Su felt pity for Him Hong, but Him Hong was just a maid in the Wu family. The best result in the future was at most to be a servant in the mansion and a wife in charge.

But if you are an assistant to yourself, you may have a better way out in the future.

"Now that the war has subsided, all the refugees who can return home have returned. Since you are from Gaoxian, have you ever thought about going back?" Yan Xuehuai looked at Zhihong's eyes. The girl's eyes were clear, and she had a little more favor.

Shihong shook his head again: "Uncle sold my mother and I sold my wife again. From that moment on, I am no longer from his family. I never want to return to Gaoxian in this life. I just hope that God can bless me so that I can find my wife."

Yan Xuehuai nodded. This girl was a clear-cut person.

But she still didn't understand. Since she wanted to keep Shihong by her side, Shihong could not have any doubts.

"Since your mom teaches you, I think your mom is not from an ordinary country family, right?" Yan Xuehuai asked.

Shihong lowered her head and was silent for a moment. She raised her head and said, "My mother was from a wealthy family. When she was fourteen years old, she was deceived by her concubine and sister out of the mansion and went out of the city to burn incense together. On the way back, she met a thief and only snatched away my daughter and sister, but let her sister go.

Later, my grandmother was sold to our small mountain village and married my father. I heard from my uncle that when I first came, I was tied up during the day. Later, my grandmother became pregnant and the family stopped tying her. My grandmother asked the peddler to deliver a letter to my grandmother's house. My grandmother's house was actually not far from our village, but was in the neighboring Bai County, which was only a few dozen miles from Bai County to our village.

Later, someone came to my mother's family. The grandfather and grandmother of my servant, as well as a few uncles, and even the officials of the county government came.

My uncle and father were both frightened, fearing that they would be punished.

But never expected that when my grandfather and grandmother saw the big belly, they insisted that this was not their daughter.

It was obvious that my mother could call out the names of everyone they came from, but they just refused to recognize it. After they left, my mother was almost beaten to death. If my father hadn't been reluctant to leave the child in her belly, my mother might have been beaten to death.

Later, less than ten days after giving birth to a slave, my mother went to the field to work, and she fell into the root of her illness. She never felt so happy anymore. My father always beat her. My mother also lost her mind and never thought about escaping..."

After hearing this, Yan Xuehuai knew what was going on.

My parents did want to find a daughter, but they were looking for the innocent, well-educated and polite daughter, rather than the daughter who had been sold to the village man as his wife, had a big belly, lost her chastity, and would be ridiculed even if she found her.

"Okay, I'll accept your contract for sale first, you can stay."

Yan Xuehuai asked Dill to arrange a residence for Zhihong. Dill was a straight-minded girl. At this time, when she thought of her life experience, she had long cried and her eyes turned red. She remembered the nannies who said that those who were maids could not cry, so she lowered her head hard, for fear that the eldest girl would see it.

Yan Xuehuai asked Zhenzhu to find someone to go to Gaoxian to inquire. Soon after, the news came back that there was indeed a pair of brothers in Fengjia Village in Gaoxian. The younger brother's wife was bought. During the war, the eldest uncle and his family fled with their sister-in-law and niece. It is said that the mother and daughter both died on the road. However, the eldest uncle's son later told the truth, his second aunt and cousin were sold.

As for the foreign family who knew Hong, it was also found that the family was still in an official position. The old man retired as a Hanlin scholar and passed the imperial examination. The old man was the grandfather of Zhihong. He was a juren and a famous charity in the county. He built bridges and paved roads and helped raise orphans. It is said that his eldest daughter encountered a thief when she went out of the city to burn incense. Later, it was said that the body was found. The girl committed suicide in order to maintain her chastity.

The grandmother, who knew Hong, later gave birth to a bead of old clams. After her daughter "dead", she gave birth to another son. Now her descendants are surrounded by their knees and are extremely happy.

Of course, this is all a story later. Yan Xuehuai had already married at that time. After hearing the news, he sneered repeatedly and returned to his parents' home the next day, holding Li Qiniang and not letting go.

Now, Yan Xuehuai and Li Qiniang talked about the matter of knowing each other, and Li Qiniang sighed: "Or you might as well return the contract to her and let her take it by herself."

Gu Yan

Yan Xuehuai felt that her mother was just a good old man, and she became more and more worried. She was not around to watch her mother. What should she do if someone cheated her?

"I will take it first. If she does things well, I will return the contract to her as a reward."

At this moment, only Mrs. Su was grateful to Shihong. If Yan Xuehuai did not accept the contract now, Shihong would not be grateful to her. She would only think that it was Mrs. Su who gave her freedom.

But the person whom I want to follow after I know Hong is Yan Xuehuai.

So even if Yan Xuehuai doesn't want to accept the contract for sale, she still has to accept it now.

She explained to Li Qiniang carefully and continued, "It would be great if the wedding day was postponed."

Li Qiniang didn't understand her daughter, so she clearly said that she was acquainted with the passion, so why did she turn to the wedding?

The wedding date has to be postponed. Can this be postponed?

If possible, Li Qiniang hopes that her daughter will stay by her side for a few more years, but it won’t work. Even if it’s not because of the emperor’s destiny, her daughter is older and is seventeen years old. When she was as old as her daughter, she has become a mother.

"Why did you postpone your wedding date?" Li Qiniang asked in confusion.

Yan Xuehuai sighed: "I want to stay by your side for a few more days."

She was worried, worried, but she was worried for a thousand times.

Li Qiniang didn't know that her daughter was worried. She was so moved that she wanted to hug her daughter. This was her little cotton jacket.

"After you get married, if you want to eat, please tell your mother, and you will be given a gift to you after you have finished it."

It's like the prince's mansion lacks food and drink.

"I heard that the Seventh Prince has been fined several times for his salary. He has no fiefdom and does not seem to have savings. If he is short of money to ask you for it and needs you to use the dowry and money, you cannot bear it." Li Qiniang said this, paused, and then said, "Let him write an IOU."

Yan Xuehuai almost burst into laughter, her mother's mind was a little clear.

"I heard from others that King Duan had written a lot of IOUs. The people from the 24th yamen sent all his IOUs to the front of the emperor, but the emperor paid him back with his private money."

So her mother decided that the royal IOU was useful?

Well, Yan Xuehuai wanted to say that there is nothing in this world that is absolutely useful. King Duan’s IOU is twenty-four yamen, so the emperor would pay the debt for his son. If the creditor was his daughter-in-law, haha, who knows?

Chai Yan, who was muttered by the mother and daughter, sneezes several times in succession.

Liuli asked in a low voice: "Master Qi, are you cold?"

"It's okay, maybe someone misses me." Chai Yan raised the corner of his mouth. Coriander must be thinking about him. What Coriander is doing now? Trying a wedding dress? Well, it must be!

Liuli muttered in her heart that it must be that you are good at making decisions and secretly coming to Thart. His Majesty and the Crown Prince found out that they are scolding you. The whip and board are all ready. Go back and wait for the beating.

Three days ago, Amber disguised himself as King Fu's confidant, successfully joined forces with the people sent by Thart, and quietly went to Thart with King Fu's secret letter.

The true confidant of King Fu was captured alive by Wei Mingzheng before he could see the secret envoy of the Tatar.

Chai Yan and Liuli dressed as Amber's entourage and successfully crossed the border and set foot on the land of Tartar.

The original plan was that only Amber and Liuli left the country, but Chai Yan was worried. He wanted to go to Tartar to take a look. King Duan was not careful and let him and Liuli run away. I was afraid he would be crazy now.

At this moment, Amber came back from outside. He dressed as a scholar and deliberately left two beards. He is not Amber now, but Qu Jing, the confidant who has been promoted by King Fu in the past two years.

The real Qu Jing was an orphan. When he was seven years old, he was sold to the Fu Palace as a servant. The prince of Long'an wanted him to follow Chai Hui, but accidentally found that he was very smart, so he let him read and read. Qu Jing once participated in the imperial examination with a pseudonym Quwenge and was a child. He also studied at Shuren Academy. It was not until Liu Miao followed Chai Hui to the capital that King Fu asked Qu Jing to recall the Fu Palace.

Qu Jing is well versed in Tartar and Anxia, ​​and is well aware of the customs and customs of Tartar. He also learned the skill of doing things in detail. In the words of Han Feng, the commander of Feiyuwei, Qu Jing is a person specially trained by King Fu for Tartar.

There are so many people like Qu Jing, I don’t know yet. If Qu Jing hadn’t returned to the Fuwang Mansion later, even the Feiyuwei, who had great supernatural powers, wouldn’t have known that the taciturn Qu Wen Pavilion in Shuren Academy was actually the Fuwang Mansion.

Amber is four years younger than Qu Jing, but the two are about the same size, both have long faces and phoenix eyes. Coupled with Qu Jing's beard, they look like five or six points at first glance.

Amber said: "Tomorrow morning, the people of the Fifth Prince will come to see us."

The five princes are the sons of King Tartar and Princess Jinhuan, and are also the most favored princes by the King Tartar.

Since they arrived in Tartar, they were arranged to live in inns, which is more than 300 miles away from the royal city of Tartar, and is a very small town.

Although it is just a small town, it is very lively. In addition to the Tatha people, there are also the Anxia people and even the Han people in the town.

Therefore, the three of them lived in the inn and did not attract attention. The inn owner asked them if they were here to do business in a non-fluential Chinese dialect. Amber told him in fluent Tartar dialect that they wanted to buy some fur and sell it to the Great Wei.

Since Princess Jinhuan came to Tartar to marry, the Great Wei and Tartar have officially established diplomatic relations. Although the Tartar did not bow to the Great Wei like Anxia, ​​the two countries could communicate with each other, the Great Wei people could do business in Tartar, and the Tartars could also trade in the Great Wei court.

Later, the new King of Tatla violated the agreement and sent troops to invade. He was comforted and beaten by Duke Ding to pieces. Although the Great Wei did not prohibit the two countries from communicating, the tariffs were raised. After the Tatla people applied for a high price for the trade certificate, they could only trade in several deliberation sites designated by the Great Wei court. If they trade outside these deliberation sites, once they were arrested, they would be dealt with as spies.

Therefore, instead of applying for commercial certificates at high prices and paying high tariffs to the Great Wei, the Tatars would rather sell the goods directly to the Great Wei merchants who came to the Thartarius to acquire them.
Chapter completed!