The side steps were retracted, the ship was fully loaded, the anchor was raised, the sails were set, and the ship set off out of Nanhu and down the river.
After a while, the white sail disappeared on the Grand Canal.
Prince Yu looked for a long time and saw that there was really no shadow, so he returned to the carriage and sighed: "The imperial court is about to send troops to the Northern Wei Dynasty. Yingzhou is the first priority on the eastern front. I just rushed back at this time. I always feel that I will not be here."
It stirs up trouble in the state and county..."
Jiang Nan did not dare to say much at this time, but only commented cautiously: "Young heroes always have the desire to serve the country. This is normal. If you really want to make a difference, how can you compare to serving as a prefecture and county to being a prefecture and county?
A county's civil service merits are assessed once every three years, how can it compare with military merit?"
"Many Jinshi have ambitions for immortality. They can keep the officialdom as simple as possible and speed up as fast as they can, but they are afraid that they will not have the patience to immerse themselves in the officialdom. It is human nature to use military merits to ennoble the Yin clan."
"That's a good thing to say, but I still underestimated this person. He is unfathomable." Prince Yu smiled faintly, his eyes a little gloomy. Although he didn't fully understand what he just said, his own dragon energy was boiling, but he responded to the omen.
Of course, this cannot be said. After a long silence, he said: "Let's go to Yunlou to have a banquet with the Jinshi. Now that this month has passed, I must concentrate on making friends.
Jiang Nan responded and was about to pass down the order when Prince Yu raised his hand: "Wait a minute, let me think about it..."
Jiang Nan was startled for a moment, and then he understood: "This is just a normal social interaction. Which prince in the past didn't do this?"
"But what Ye Qing said makes sense. It's different in the past few years. I stood between the water banks and thought that I could see more clearly, but I still felt that the fog was deep." Prince Yu muttered to himself, frowned and pondered for a moment, and asked casually.
He said: "Now there is news. Who are at the banquet?"
"With Yu Fan at the top of the Jinshi list, Luo Hanchen at the 17th place, and Sun Zhi at the 22nd place..."
"Will the top one like me? How popular is my unpopular prince?" Prince Yujun sneered.
In fact, there were more than a dozen. When Jiang Nan saw it, he stopped reporting and thought for a while: "This Yu Fan and the second-ranked Duke are from the same county. They seem to have a bad relationship. I heard that they are on the same page."
The true information was suppressed by the governor's iron fist, but it was still leaked to Xingdian.
Prince Yu was already suspicious, so he thought about it carefully: "Well, it's okay if I don't get in touch with this kind of person... Is this the time for me to be in the limelight? My friendship with Ye Qing has already attracted attention, and now I'm friends with the same Jinshi Ranking, this
What's going on? Are you going to fight in the ring with eldest brother and sixth brother?"
Jiang Nan sighed secretly, knowing that His Highness wanted to retreat. His original intention was to go one step further to restore his family's reputation, but he did not dare to say anything more at this time.
Prince Yu waved his hand and lay down on the soft couch: "Go home, they have to wait in a hurry. Besides, if you have such energy, you might as well go to the Ministry of Industry to do my errands."
After the order was given, the convoy turned back to the palace.
The spring is bright and the mountains and rivers are beautiful.
The building boat went down the crowded canal channel, passed through the busy Dajin mouth in two days, and entered the long river waterway. The water surface suddenly opened up.
Ye Qing walked around the cabins on the lower floors and offered condolences for two days. At this time, he found that he had nothing to do, so Yu Jian moved a deck chair and placed it on the vegetable ground on the roof.
This is the spring flood. The water level has risen up and down the river. Boats are all over the river, making it look like a prosperous time. Facing the rising sun, hiding in the vegetable field, smelling the fragrance of the earth, watching the surging water and white sails going back and forth, it is a unique kind of enjoyment.
expensive.
This kind of large-scale ship with a roof for growing vegetables is very comfortable for long-distance transportation on inland rivers, but it is expensive to build. Ye Qing had to do this because of special needs.
Jiang Zinan was the girl who was in charge of the travel finance. She gritted her teeth and paid a thousand taels of silver, unable to sleep for several nights.
She came up quietly at this time, moved a small brocade stool, sat beside Ye Qing's reclining chair, and held a booklet to make a daily report: "Twenty palace weaver girls, most of them are under twenty years old. Considering that
Young Master said that the nature of the boatmen's water transport gang at this time was that there was some harassment in the past two days. To prevent accidents, he was specially assigned to the upper cabin..."
Ye Qing was lying lazily, looking at a corner of the vegetable field. Facing the cool morning breeze, Zhou Ling was practicing swordplay. The cold light combined softness and murderous intent, which was very pleasing to the eye.
"Sir, are you listening?" Jiang Zinan couldn't help complaining.
"Well, I heard that a little money lover turned into a jealous person again just after taking a nap. It seems that he will have insomnia at night."
Jiang Zinan closed the album angrily: "Young master, you are at ease. You brought so many women back, but I don't have the shame to see Sister Qianqian..."
"Oh, you're using the name Qianqian again, cunning." Ye Qing was not henpecked, so he laughed again: "I've always been surprised, you are nine months older than Qianqian, how come you can call me sister so smoothly?"
Jiang Zinan took a deep breath: "Is it fun to entertain my little maid?"
"I'm very happy." Ye Qing smiled. Seeing that she was about to explode, he stepped forward and kissed her: "Actually, your jealous expression is quite cute.
Jiang Zinan was stunned, his face turned red and white, and he spat out in embarrassment: "Sir, in broad daylight... you can see it on the boat."
After saying that it was no longer audible, Ye Qing looked to the starboard side and saw that there were ships passing by. Some travelers were pointing at this side. Facing the river wind, there were still some "people's hearts are not old", "the world is declining" and "outbreaks".
The voice came over.
Ye Qing shook his head and laughed: "They are just passers-by in life. Time flies by and hundreds of years are fleeting. We just need to take care of ourselves."
"We...we?" Jiang Zinan touched his cheek, his voice was very soft and low.
"Well, we." Ye Qing said affirmatively, covering her little hand and touching her smooth face: "This is my promise to you... Are you still afraid of returning home?"
Jiang Zinan came to his senses and was speechless for a long time. Finally, he sighed inaudibly: "No wonder Qianqian is so stubborn at heart. When it comes to the young master, he becomes like a fool..."
Jiang Zinan collected his feelings after a while, and then opened the record book again: "Thirty craftsmen and their families all live in the middle cabin. Together with the sailors, there are a total of three hundred people. If it weren't for renting a large ship, they would really live there.
It’s not going down yet”
Ye Qing listened quietly for a while and acknowledged it from time to time. He glanced at Zhou Ling who was wiping his sweat and said: "Ling Ling is doing well. Keep up the good work - are you still seasick?"
"Much better." Zhou Ling responded, with a smile on her face, and knelt down behind Ye Qing, rubbing her neck and shoulders.
Ye Qing closed his eyes: "Then let's just stop. After half a month, I guess there will be a place where I want to stop..."
Jiang Zinan immediately made a quick note of such an itinerary in a book.
After talking for a while, the smell of styrax became clearer. Ye Qing opened his eyes and saw sweat on Zhou Ling's forehead. He smiled and ordered: "Get some hot water and take a bath."
"Warm water can be used." Zhou Ling said.
"If the medicinal bath is not hot, what effect will it have?"
"Medicated bath?"
"I have a body-refining formula. I extract the essence from several medicines and use styrax as the base. I specially asked Zinan to prepare the medicine. You can take a bath these days as a guinea pig."
Zhou Ling blinked, puzzled: "White mouse?"
"It means a dedicated test subject." Ye Qing explained casually and smiled silently: "If you think any one is useful, just tell me and I will adjust the dosage and make it popular among the soldiers... When Guanwen Pavilion comes back, I will always
There is an inexplicable sense of urgency, and it seems that we need to speed up preparations."
"Exclusively..." Zhou Ling only understood this sentence, blushed and lowered her head: "Okay."
Ye Qing smiled faintly, stood up and walked a few steps, pointing to the distance and saying: "As for the matter of Prince Yu, you don't have to think too much about it. As soon as I leave the capital, the dispute over the dragon energy in the imperial capital has nothing to do with me.
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"There are some things that even the emperor cannot do as he pleases. The ministers may use them as they wish but cannot use them. They may wish to advance but cannot advance. They wish to end well but have to kill them. This is the number of days."
"I have reached Great Consummation this time, and the only thing left is me."
After waving the two women down, Ye Qing pondered, as if he had some realization: "Although he has obtained thousands of Taoist scriptures, they are only the six basic skills of growth, knowing, killing, protection, escape, and array."
"I take the Five Virtues as the foundation. This has been established, let's not talk about it for now."
"Knowing clearly means having insight into all things and understanding the mysteries. The most ideal thing is that I know everything."
"What I mean by knowing it all is that when someone talks about me or something related, I will immediately feel it. I have this kind of Taoism, which is called Lingxi Reflection Dayan Divine Technique."
In a flash of thought, I sank into the depths of my consciousness, and I saw a page in Chuan Lin's notes. A scroll of Taoist scriptures was rising and falling, emitting green light. This was the Dayan Divine Technique of Lingxi Reflection.
In reality, reading all the scriptures is not necessary in this world. Each one can reach the Tao realm, so using more than one path is actually a wrong approach.
If there are five ways to go to Beijing, and you can go to any one of them, is it possible to travel on several of them at the same time?
But the foundation of the Dao is different. Only by belonging to oneself can one truly achieve the Dao.
With the Spiritual Reflection Dayan Divine Technique, there is no need to choose a spell. At most, it is just about understanding it. After reading it, Ye Qing couldn't help but frown slightly and secretly sighed: "This Spiritual Rhythm Reflection Dayan Divine Technique, there is only the next one."
"Part 2"
"That's all, there's nothing we can do about it. We'll talk about it later. Just choose it."
"The Way of Killing, I have practiced the Way of Five Virtues, and the most suitable ones are Five Virtues Dragon Fist and Thunder Method."
In the blink of an eye, five more pages were opened, and there was also a volume of thunder magic.
"For this protection, the Great Chaos Method of Reversing the Five Elements is the best. I have cultivated the Five Virtues, and maybe I can transform it into the Great Chaos Method of Reversing the Five Virtues, which can relieve all forces."
"There are many escape methods, including sword escape, thunder escape, ghost escape, and shadow escape, but the simple five-element escape method that suits me is the most suitable."
"This array refers to the creation of an array according to local conditions. The original intention is to borrow all things. Each place has its own mysteries, but the most suitable way for me is the Five Elements Chaos Yuan Fei Formation."
"When this formation is displayed, the sun, moon, stars, wind, clouds, thunder and lightning will appear on the top, and the shapes of mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, all animals and plants will appear on the bottom. If you stand each one upside down, it will turn into chaos.
Ye Qing had made up his mind, and his aura suddenly changed. A mysterious and indescribable charm appeared, but disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Ye Qing shook his head slightly and frowned a little. He knew that this was a sign of the path he had chosen, but he didn't care. He thought: "In addition to the core foundation of the Five Virtues, the second and middle chapters are enough. If there is a first chapter, I will also
I don’t dare to practice it.”
"Others like the Lingxihui Dayan Divine Technique, the Five Virtues Dragon Fist, the Thunder Technique, the Reversal of the Five Elements Great Chaos Technique, the Great Five Elements Escape Technique, or the Five Elements Chaos Yuan Fei Formation, all must be found in the previous chapter to be considered complete."
"That's all, now is not the time to think about this. There will always be opportunities in the future." After Ye Qing said this, he no longer hesitated. He took out the "Lingxi Reflection Dayan Divine Technique", read it carefully, and started practicing.