In the ninth year of Chengyuan, he didn’t come back during the Spring Festival. He didn’t come back when the spring warmth came back in February. He didn’t come back when the flowers bloomed in March. He didn’t come back when the light rain fell in April. Wu Ya’er still didn’t come back...and he didn’t die either.
When did Wu Yaer die?
Li Minglou couldn't remember it.
Ankangshan died in the eighth year of Chengyuan, not long after Ankangshan died, and Wu Yaer died in the early ninth year of Chengyuan.
What month is this beginning of the year?
I don’t know if time has passed and the memory of that life has become blurry.
When I think about it, it's like I'm separated by a layer of fog, looming like reality and fantasy.
Because she was anxious, she asked Jiang Liang: "Do you still remember when you said Wu Ya'er died?"
Jiang Liang was frightened and dumbfounded when he asked. After thinking for a moment, he said directly, "Whenever the madam says is appropriate."
He immediately went to inform and arrange how Wu Yaer would die...
As for the wife who suddenly wants to kill her husband, for scholars who have studied ancient and modern times, they will not be surprised, let alone lamented, after seeing many more brutal battles between husbands and wives, fathers, sons, monarchs and ministers than this one.
Wu Ya'er has the military power and refuses to yield and obey his orders. If the female marquis becomes a marquis husband, then she will become her dead husband!
Li Minglou hurriedly explained to him that he had no intention of killing Wu Yaer.
"I'm just worried about him," she said. "He's in poor health and has hidden diseases. I'm worried about him getting sick, so I always want him back."
Jiang Liang understood: "That's it." He immediately thought about the medical book and raised his fingers to calculate, "Diseases are more common in spring and autumn. Winter has passed, summer is coming, autumn at the latest, the governor may be in danger, so we should persuade him as soon as possible.
If you come back without your life, the Shi Dynasty rebels will be even less able to fight."
Although it sounded a bit nonsense, what he said made sense, and Li Minglou laughed.
"You should write him a letter." She said, sighing, "I can't persuade you anymore. Please tell him this truth."
Oh my god! I didn’t expect that I would have the opportunity to write to the governor.
Jiang Liang responded solemnly: "Madam, don't worry, I'll write it right away."
After thinking about it, I wasn't serious enough.
"Write it tomorrow for Madam to read."
Li Minglou smiled, and Amao came in and said that Prime Minister Zhu was here. Li Minglou got up, and several maids came in from outside to change Li Minglou's clothes.
Jiang Liang watched the court ladies Yingying Yanyan walking around the room, enjoying his sight, and left with satisfaction.
Several officials came joking and greeted Jiang Liang hurriedly.
"Where are Mr. Jiang going?" they asked again, pointing to the main hall over there, where the woman under the black umbrella was slowly walking in, "Madam is going to discuss something, won't you go?"
Although Jiang Liang has no official title, he has a very important position and can listen and speak in court affairs.
"I won't go this time." Jiang Liang said, handing over to several people, "I have important things."
Not even participating in the court meeting, it must be a very important matter! Several officials hurriedly said: "Sir, go quickly."
Jiang Liang walked over with a solemn expression and returned to his residence. As a guest, his residence was in the outer courtyard of the Hou Mansion.
Two children were treading water in the yard. Jiang Liang shouted and made nonsense. The two ran away, but were called back by Jiang Liang.
"There is hot tea and rice on the stove." The two children said, "What else do you want, sir?"
Child attendants are not as considerate as maids, Jiang Liang sighed, but he can't use maids. They look uncomfortable with mediocre looks, and he can't use beauties... He Jiang Liang only has one hobby now, greed for money. If he sees him using beautiful maids
, what should he do if someone gives him a beautiful girl? Should he change hands and sell the beautiful girl for money? It’s unnecessary!
"Go and boil water for me." He told the two children, "I want to take a bath."
The two children were puzzled: "What are you doing taking a bath at this time?"
"I have to write a very important letter." Jiang Liang said, rushing the child away, "Go and ask Sister Jinju for some incense!"
The two children were busy, and Jiang Liang sat at the desk, studying ink quietly.
This was the first time he wrote to Governor Wu.
This may also be the last time he writes to Governor Wu.
Governor Wu may be dying.
He understood what the madam meant. The madam was a very frank person. The madam said she didn't want the governor to die, but was worried about his old illness. That meant she was really worried.
But if the Governor continues to refuse to accept and understand his wife's kindness...
Jiang Liang reached out and calculated, so the late summer and early autumn might really be the time when Governor Wu died, or the time when the two faced each other in life and death.
Thinking of this, Jiang Liang sighed again, with some sympathy. He also understood what Governor Wu did. Knowing that his wife had committed regicide was something that no husband would be able to face calmly.
Really scary!
It's really unimaginable.
Husband, Jiang Liang sighed softly, wiping tears with one hand and holding a pen with the other...
"Sir, incense..." The child came in and was startled when he saw Jiang Liang sitting in front of the desk, "Why are you crying?"
Jiang Liang interrupted with a strong nasal voice: "Don't make any noise! The mood is coming!"
What the hell? The child was puzzled but ignored it. He put down the incense and ran out to continue playing in the water.
Jiang Liang sat in front of the desk, sometimes writing, sometimes holding his chin to watch the rain. The drizzle gradually became heavier. The pomegranate flowers blooming by the window swayed, and the rain fell from it and splashed on the window sill.
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Jiang Liang got to know the wife he was familiar with, then considered the wife in the eyes of outsiders, recalled his experiences in the past few years from Mrs. Wu to the Marquis, reviewed and added and deleted five times a day and a night, and finally completed this letter.
He didn't bother to wash himself and came to see his wife with red eyes. The curtains in her hall moved slightly, and inside there was a beauty leaning against the window drinking tea... but she wasn't her.
"Master Lian!" Jiang Liang was surprised, "When did you come back?"
Lian Xiaojun stretched out his hand out of the window and toasted to him: "Just arrived."
Jiang Liang walked in and complained: "Why didn't you write a letter in advance?"
Do you want to write a letter? Ever since I left... Lian Xiaojun sighed: "I'm too busy, and I can't get back home, so I haven't bothered to write."
After saying that, he smiled again.
"My wife hasn't written to me for a long time. I didn't even know she moved to a new home here."
Well, since the incident in Songzhou, Madam has not asked him to write... Jiang Liang nodded: "Too busy, Madam is too busy."
He looked around and changed the subject.
"Madam, you haven't come back yet?"
Lian Xiaojun said: "I said I had something to do and I didn't know when I would be back."
He gestured like a master.
"Mr. Jiang, please take a seat. Have you eaten?"
Call the maids, "Give Mr. Jiang a taste of the tea from earlier."
The palace maids responded and flew around them like butterflies.
Jiang Liang is not polite either. Although his appearance is not as good as Lian Xiaojun's, in Madam's heart he is still one of her own!
"It seems that you are really busy." Lian Xiaojun looked at Jiang Liang and said, "Mr., it's hard to stay up."
He took out a porcelain vase.
"This is a Qi-boosting pill passed down by the Zhang family in Quanzhou for thousands of years. Please try it, sir."
Jiang Liang hurriedly reached out and took it happily: "Even the young master's is a good thing. If I use it, maybe it will be as beautiful as the young master."
Lian Xiaojun smiled and said: "Sir, make good use of it and come back to me in the future."
Do you need to buy it? This guy is really a businessman. Jiang Liang laughed and stuffed the porcelain bottle into his sleeve.
"Being busy, actually being busy is nothing." He took a sip of hot tea and swallowed the steamed cake, "It's just that it's nothing good."
He lowered his voice to Lian Xiaojun.
"Even the Young Master is out and about, do you know that? Many defenders are shameless. There was a rebellion in Ankang Mountain, and everyone disrespected His Majesty."
Lian Xiaojun took a sip of tea: "It's okay if everyone doesn't look like Ankang Mountain."
"I think, sooner or later..." Jiang Liang said, but felt that there was no need to say this. He swallowed a sip of tea and asked, "What business is Mr. Lian coming back this time?"
"I'm here to see Madam." Lian Xiaojun said, reaching out to touch his heart, "I want to do business with Madam's heart."
Jiang Liang laughed, wondering if he should write this sentence into the letter?
"What business?"
Li Minglou walked in from outside and asked.
The maids immediately flew from the flowers here to Li Ming Tower.
Lian Xiaojun and Jiang Liang stood up and saluted.
"It's not business." Lian Xiaojun smiled, "There is news, but it's not good news either."
Li Minglou took off his cloak and walked over: "Let's talk and listen."
Lian Xiaojun glanced at Jiang Liang, who sat down calmly, continued eating, and nodded to him: "Listen."
Lian Xiaojun said: "Changyuan Shao, the governor of Yanhai Road, is dead."
Jiang Liang bit the pastry and asked, "Are you old? Seriously ill? You won't die in battle, right?"
It doesn't matter, he sat up straight and said to himself.
"How much does the Yanhaidao Jiedu envoy get?"
Lian Xiaojun held up the tea ceremony: "He has been dead for half a month."
Jiang Liang's voice stopped suddenly, and the crumbs of the pastry he was biting fell off.
Li Minglou looked at Lian Xiaojun.
Jiedushi had been dead for half a month, and the court didn't even know about it. It seems that Yanhaidao didn't report it and didn't plan to report it.
Li Minglou asked: "Could it be that Yanhai Road already has a new Jiedu envoy?"
Lian Xiaojun took a sip of tea and said, "I haven't decided yet when I come out."
He put down the tea.
"But I guess the winner in the end should be Mr. Chang San, Chang Ji."