Ti went to Ping'an Prefecture to fly a homing pigeon, and the compulsory education school and university affairs were arranged. Most of the affairs in the capital were left to Jia Xu, and the affairs of Rongguo Mansion were left to Jia Lan. Jia Cong and Chen Ruijin were ready to leave. The day before leaving, Qi Guofu suddenly sent a thin letter. When he opened it, he found Chen Ruijin's birthday and horoscope inside.
Jia Cong smiled and said, "Did they get the message and know that we are leaving Beijing?"
Chen Ruijin looked at it and said, "I know the year of my birthday, but I don't know the time." He frowned slightly, "Looking at it roughly, it doesn't seem very good."
Jia Cong shrugged and said, "It's just an hour. The world is so big, and people are born every moment. You have an excellent horoscope, but I am missing in the five elements!" Old man Wang Fu couldn't help laughing as he listened, and raised his hand to pat him.
Jia Xu also reached out and took it, took a look at it, and laughed out loud: "Does your family have any grudges against you?"
Chen Ruijin said lazily: "I don't want to give them money, so this is the only complaint."
Jia Xu said: "Your horoscope was given to Liu Dengxi back then. It's in the S.H.I.E.L.D. file. I've checked it out since I found out about you two. Is this... Shi Chen has slightly adjusted the idea for you." He blinked and said, "The White Tiger is born from fate."
Jia Cong rolled his eyes: "I'm sick." He looked at Chen Ruijin again, "You can take care of it yourself?"
Chen Ruijin's face darkened, and after a long while he said: "Don't worry about it, just leave them alone."
Jia Cong clapped his hands: "That's right. The opposite of love is not hate, it is disregard."
Jia Xu knocked him: "Where did these weird words come from?"
Jia Cong blinked: "Secret!"
Chen Ruijin suddenly put down the tea cup, turned around and left. Jia Cong shouted: "Why are you going?"
She said: "Put up the dowry list!" Jia Cong laughed.
Two days later, Jia Cong and Chen Ruijin led people out of the city gate and went straight to Ping'an Prefecture. A boy took a thick letter and sent it to the eldest man of Qi Guo Mansion. The eldest man and his wife of the mansion fell ill that day.
All the way to Ping'an Prefecture, Jia Cong felt as if he had entered the film and television city of later generations. In Taiwan, especially Dajiala City, which has just been built and has not yet had time to fill in people, there are already various simple-style The architecture is somewhat similar to that of later generations. Although Ping'an Prefecture has a lot of flavors from Taiwan, the houses are still Chinese-style. But the ground has been paved with cement pavement, street trees have been planted on the roadside, and there are benches under the trees. Patrol policemen wearing uniforms similar to those of later generations can be seen everywhere, and there are large blue-painted and white-lettered signboards everywhere. There are public toilets with simple gender patterns on every street. The streets are full of merchants and vendors, and it is very lively.
The two entered the Jiedu envoy's house, and Gao Li personally led the people out to greet them. Jia Cong pointed at Chen Ruijin and said bluntly: "This is my unmarried daughter-in-law." Chen Ruijin blushed slightly and said a blessing to Gao Li. Gao Li had known for a long time that there was such a person, so he hurriedly praised him a few times, but couldn't help but take a closer look.
After everyone bowed to each other, they sat down inside. Jia Cong said: "Uncle Gao, it is difficult to start a business. Sister Lin and brother Yaoer have just conquered three large islands in Southeast Asia. Because King Yan wanted them to go to North America to fight, they had to withdraw from the country; There is a shortage of someone in charge of the Nanyang side. If my brother-in-law can go there, replace Yang Heng. He is a pirate leader, and he is better at sea robbery than anyone else. Moreover, cocoa beans are produced there, and Ping'an Prefecture is a major trading center, so it is convenient for this business It’s getting bigger.”
Gao Li smiled and said: "Okay, okay! This matter is easy to handle."
Jia Cong breathed a sigh of relief: "I feel more relieved after hearing what you said. I'm just afraid that my cousin won't be able to let his son go so far away."
Gao Li coughed and said with emotion: "I am a military general. I have been fighting in the north and south for many years. How many times have I not left immediately after giving an order from above?" His son Gao Hua snickered beside him, and Jia Cong was at a loss.
Gao Li glanced at Gao Hua. Gao Li couldn't hold it anymore and burst into laughter. He puffed up his chest and said, "To tell you the truth, your third cousin has been ready for it a long time ago!"
"ah?"
Gao Ying said with a smile: "Lao San expected five years ago that he would have to go to the Malay Islands in Nanyang to take charge of things. In the past few years, I have followed my father inside and outside to learn how to lead soldiers and govern, and I also found a few people from Nanyang.
The merchants learned some of the local dialect there and hired many senior officials to help manage the affairs."
Jia Cong was stunned for a long time with his mouth wide open: "Huh? Brother-in-law! You are such a good fortune teller! Five years ago Doudou was not born yet..." Doudou is the youngest daughter of Gao Mang and Yingchun. She is four years old this year and her nickname is still
Taken by Jia Cong.
Gao Mang smiled and said: "It's just a guess. Ping'an State has the most prosperous trade. I know better than others how important the Malacca Strait is. Taiwan is in the south and it is an island. It will be a matter of time for you to fight over it."
"How did you guess that I would ask you to come over?"
Gao Mang said: "Those people in Taiwan government naturally have to fight for one thing and another. Who else is more suitable than me? I am your brother-in-law."
Jia Cong put his hands on his hands and smiled: "Oh! This brother-in-law is indeed a relative! Please, brother-in-law!"
Gao Mang smiled and said: "Just tell me what kind of official you can give me."
Jia Cong said: "According to international practice, he should be called Governor."
Gao Li thought for a while: "There are three big islands there, so it is really suitable to be called a governor." He was secretly happy. The position of "governor" is so powerful that it is definitely not comparable to the ordinary prefecture governor.
The matter was settled easily. Gao Mang accompanied Jia Cong and Chen Ruijin to meet Yingchun. On the way, Gao Mang whispered: "I guess you are the sister of the person who is going to the Malay Islands. She doesn't want to attract anyone's attention."
, let me say that I guessed it."
Jia Cong said: "This is Ping'an Prefecture, and she is a woman. Your guess is indeed more appropriate than hers. Anyway, you are a couple, and everyone's guesses are the same." He secretly praised: Sister is worthy of being mine.
Jia Cong’s biological sister!
It turns out that Yingchun himself wrote to Jia Cong asking for this errand. When Jia Cong received the letter, he still thought that there was really no one else in Taiwan who was more suitable. Only now did I know that the co-author, Miss Jia Er, had gone to work five years ago.
Arrangements have been made. She first convinced her husband that he would go to Nanyang sooner or later, and asked him to learn some useful skills from his father-in-law. He also prepared various manpower. When Nanyang was defeated, she directly ordered her brother to hire a man of his own.
Go to the Malay Kingdom to take charge of the affairs. In this way, she, Jia Yingchun, became a divine fortune teller in front of Gao Mang, and Gao Mang became a divine fortune teller in front of Gao Li. In fact, everyone was just a bunch of chess pieces in front of her.
When we arrived at the courtyard where Gao Mang lived, Yingchun was leading people to pack things. When he saw them, he looked back and smiled: "Here you are?" His facial features were as gentle as before.
Jia Cong took Chen Ruijin's hand and walked forward and shouted: "Sister!" He then raised the hands they were holding and said, "Come to see my sister-in-law!" Chen Ruijin immediately lowered his head with a face full of shame.
Yingchun said angrily: "I'm sorry, girl."
"It's okay!" Jia Cong looked at Chen Ruijin and said, "You are not ugly, why are you afraid of meeting your sister-in-law?" Chen Ruijin secretly gave him an elbow.
But at this moment, Doudou all ran out, grabbing the collar of Yingchun's clothes and looking behind. Jia Cong squatted down: "Two little darlings! Come here, uncle, take a look."
Tuantuan was so bold that he took his sister a few steps forward, tilted his little head and asked, "Are you my uncle?"
"Yes!" Jia Cong said, "I am your uncle."
Tuantuan looked at him again and muttered: "You can't be considered fat."
Jia Cong turned around and looked at his sister and brother-in-law sadly, coughing: "Uncle was a little fat when he was as old as Tuantuan, but now he is much thinner."
Doudou said from the sidelines: "Actually, he's still fat! He's just not as fat as Maitreya Buddha." Gao Mang laughed from the sidelines.
Jia Cong looked at his nephew and daughter with a sullen face: "You two have such a big misunderstanding of my uncle's handsomeness! My uncle should consider not giving him any birthday gifts next year!"
The two children shouted in unison: "Uncle is so thin!" Everyone laughed.
Nai went back to his room and talked about serious things in Nanyang for a long time. Gao Mang knew that the two siblings must have something to say, so he took the child out; Chen Ruijin avoided the door.
Jia Cong took a sip of tea and looked at Yingchun and said, "Sister, what happened five years ago? Why didn't you tell me?"
Yingchun lowered his head and smiled: "You're a smart little kid. Nothing's wrong...it's not my business."
"Whose business is that?"
Yingchun sighed softly: "It's Shu'er."
Back then, Gao Shu, the daughter of Gao Hua, often came to play in her courtyard. At first, she was just ordered by her mother, but soon she wanted to come. The rules in this courtyard were looser and faster, and Yingchun was soft-tempered and knowledgeable, so Gao Shu was often unwilling to do so.
Go back. One day five years ago, Gao Shu suddenly ran to Yingchun Courtyard and looked for a place to hide.
Yingchun stood up and asked, "What's going on?" She also saw that her clothes were frayed in many places.
Gao Shu cried: "Please, aunt, please don't tell my mother!"
Yingchun pulled her and said, "Hiding is not a problem. You can hide for a while, but how can you hide for a lifetime?"
Gao Shu said: "Hide until my father comes back and then I'll beg him to go!"
Yingchun said: "Don't be afraid." He ordered someone to close the courtyard door, and Gao Shu felt a little more at ease. "Just tell me what it is, and I will think of something for you."
After Gao Shu finished crying, Yingchun was stunned: "There is such a thing!"
It turned out that Gao Shu's mother, Gu, had heard someone's gossip, saying that if a girl had small feet, she would be better off looking for a son-in-law, so she actually ordered someone to bind Gao Shu's feet! Gao Shu was only nine years old at that time, listen.
The nun who bound the feet was stunned after saying this! Fortunately, she was usually very obedient and lied and said she was going to urinate, and Gu believed her. The nun who bound the feet obviously didn't believe it and glanced at her.
It said on her face: I'm only letting you hide for a while, but you won't be able to escape sooner or later. She didn't know where she got the courage and strength. She had never learned to climb a tree, so she climbed over the courtyard wall from the poplar tree behind the toilet and took her sleeves and pants.
She walked down the outer wall step by step, then ran to her third aunt's yard.
After hearing this, Yingchun smashed the tea cup in her hand: "That's unreasonable!" She shouted, "Xiuju, go and ask Mistress Hua to come over."
Gao Shu immediately knelt down in fear: "Auntie! I don't bind my feet!"
Yingchun quickly stretched out her hand to pull her into his arms and hugged her: "No feet binding! Of course not! Auntie will convince your mother not to bind your feet."
After hearing this, Gao Shu's heart dropped and she was about to burst into tears. Tuantuan was watching his mother hugging her cousin. The young man was unhappy and bumped into her like a little dumpling: "Mom~~hug Tuantuan~
~”
Yingchun couldn't laugh or cry, so she quickly picked him up and said, "I'm just holding your sister for a while." Looking at Gao Shu again - how dare she be jealous of a two-year-old baby? He was so choked up that he couldn't cry anymore.
Suddenly word spread outside that Mistress Hua was here, and Yingchun asked Gao Shu to take Tuan Tuan to play. Tuan Tuan hugged her mother's neck and refused to leave. There was no other way, so Gao Shu could only hide in the side room by herself.
As soon as Gu entered the house and took a seat, Yingchun said bluntly: "Sister-in-law, you want to bind Shu'er's feet? Where did you hear the gossip? If a girl from our military general clan has her feet bound, wouldn't the old man be furious?"
Gu was stunned: "What does this have to do with the old man?"
Yingchun said: "Since ancient times, civil and military classes have been divided into different classes. We in Rongguo Mansion are also from a martial arts background. Although the girls in our family also learn music, chess, calligraphy, painting, and embroidery poems, they have never bound their feet. That is the work of some outstanding literati in the literary class.
Come out, and..." She lowered her voice and said, "The ladies in the south never bind their feet, but almost all the brothel girls have their feet bound." Gu Shi suddenly took a breath of air. Yingchun returned to her usual tone and said, "
Therefore, girls from martial arts families have always looked down upon women with bound feet. Have you ever seen a woman from a military general's family with bound feet? Even the daughter-in-law she married was not allowed to have her feet bound, because it was said that the dish was not stable, as if the position was unstable.
, the most destructive of luck."
Gu Shi stroked his chest in fright: "How did I know this! My dear brother and sister, please tell me."
Yingchun said: "A few days ago, Shu'er read a book of gossip about the Song Dynasty here at my place, and it actually included a story about a scholar-in-law playing with pink-headed and bound feet in Gusu, and she asked me casually. I told her, Man
It was said to be from the Song Dynasty, but the fans of my dynasty also had their feet bound. I scared her just now, I thought you were going to sell her."
Gu hurriedly said: "Nonsense! I am her biological mother. Even if I make a mistake, how could it not be for her own good?"
Yingchun advised: "Second sister-in-law, you should discuss such a big matter with others, and don't be fooled by outsiders who don't know how to do it. Today's world has changed, and martial arts has long overshadowed literary practice. Besides, if the old man Chao Hua Erye
angry……"
Gu Shi sighed: "If he turns around, he'll have to blame me. That goblin in the west courtyard is getting more and more rampant."
Yingchun nodded: "As long as you understand in your heart."
The matter was resolved, and Gao Shu returned home safely without being punished by her mother. On the contrary, Yingchun thought about a lot of things. She really lived a comfortable life in the Gao family; but every time she read the letters from the south, she could not help but envy Yuan Chun.
Chun and other sisters could show off their talents, but they regretted spending time by themselves. Although Ping'an Prefecture is rich, it is not as free as Taiwan Prefecture. At that time, she already had Doudou in her belly. Although she didn't know the gender, she couldn't guarantee that she was a girl?
Naturally, her daughter will not live the same life as Gao Shu, and she still cannot escape the constraints of the world.
When Da Jia Cong got his first map of the sea when he was a child, he specifically mentioned crossing the Strait of Malacca to his sisters, saying: "Sooner or later I will capture this place." Yingchun then planned to wait for his younger brother to occupy that place.
Let her husband take charge, so that she and her children can take the opportunity to leave the Gao family. Even if the child in her belly is not a daughter, it is still better to go out. When the child was born the next year, she was really a daughter. Yingchun became more and more determined to take her away from Ping'an Prefecture.
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After hearing this, Jia Cong let out a sigh of relief: "I feel sorry for the parents all over the world again." (. Just Love Network)