Ma Lianshan shook his head. Apart from smiling bitterly, he could do nothing at this moment.
What else do you expect from the pampered daughter of the magistrate's family? Expect her to be considerate of the people and considerate of others?
But if she really thought about others, how could this stone get into her hands?
"Madam, how many people know the origin of this stone?" Malianshan asked.
This is a treasure. If everyone in Magou Town gathered in the river behind Shuilu Temple to look for stones, all the jadeite would be picked up.
"The outsiders in the river at that time were the Zhang family and his son. However, after the fight happened, I don't know how much they knew about it." Yang Yuhuan said thoughtfully.
Shuilu nunnery is an ancient temple from the Six Dynasties, located at the end of a small island shaped like a lying fish. The name is nunnery, and there are no nuns in it anymore. Instead, there are three or five monks living there, guarding the only Buddhist holy place within dozens of miles.
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Two streams flowing out of the Qinling Valley merge into one at the wall of Shuilu Temple, and then slowly flow to the Bahe River not far away.
Flash floods broke out, and rocks washed out from the Qinling Mountains made the river behind Shuilu Temple full of strange rocks, making it difficult to walk.
If the Zhang family hadn't built a house, no one would have thought that there would be jadeite lying at the bottom of the river bed in this place.
"No, we have to find a way to occupy this river channel." Malianshan thought to himself.
"Madam, do you like fish very much?" Ma Lianshan thought about it and looked at Yang Yuhuan with a smile.
"Yeah, I really like fish."
"Then I will encircle the river behind Shuilu Temple, repair it, and use it specifically for you to raise fish. How about that?" Malianshan asked with a smile.
"Okay, okay, the master is really kind to the slave family." Yang Yuhuan slapped her huge palm, and almost jumped up with joy if it weren't for her body being too heavy.
"But this river is not our family's territory. If it is enclosed, the people in the town will be dissatisfied. But if it is not enclosed, what will you do if someone else catches the fish secretly?" Malianshan said with a grimace on his face.
road.
"If I ask my father to send people to circle him, no one will dare to be dissatisfied?" Yang Yuhuan chuckled.
With the support of her father, who is the county magistrate, who is she afraid of in Lantian County?
"No, no, no." Malianshan shook his head, "The magistrate will not agree to your request."
"What should I do? I just want to raise fish."
"In this case, you go to your father and pester him that you want to raise fish. I will do the other things."
"Is this okay?"
"Well, believe me. As long as you entice your father, I will have a way to convince him to circle this river."
"Okay, I'll go to the county government office to find my father." Yang Yuhuan said and rushed towards the gate.
"Carriage, let the servant drive the carriage." Ma Lianshan shouted from a distance behind.
In the Zhang family, Zhang Xi put his old father into the shack, scooped out a ladle of cold water from the water tank next to him, and drank a few gulps of it.
"Xi'er, you shouldn't have accepted the money from that magistrate Yang and just withdrew the complaint. Do you know that the stone that Yang Yuhuan robbed is more than enough to buy our entire Magou Town." Father Zhang lay on the straw mat.
He said sadly with his eyes closed.
"It's just a piece of broken stone. If I were to build a house, I would have to put it at the base of the wall to make a foundation. This time, Yang Zhixian gave us ten taels of silver and asked me to come back and buy you some good things to replenish your health. All county magistrates are like this.
It's over for us, why should we bother with it?" Zhang Xi muttered, picked up the shovel at the door of the shack, and prepared to dig some stones back into the river.
"Xi'er, my ribs hurt so much. I'm afraid they were really broken by Yang Yuhuan. How about you go to the town and find a doctor to show me to dad." Father Zhang groaned and whispered.
Putting down the shovel in his hand, Zhang Xi walked up to his father and touched his ribs with his hand: "It doesn't seem to be broken. Dad, you are an old man now. Even if the doctor comes, there is nothing he can do.
Why don't I go buy you some delicious food and replenish it, maybe the bones will grow back on their own."
"Dad, I feel a severe pain in my waist right now. You'd better find a doctor."
"I'm not looking for the doctor anymore. I'm going to buy you some delicious food." As he said that, Zhang Xi took out the twelve-weight large ingot from his arms, smiled, and walked towards the street.
It wasn't until the sun turned west that Malianshan panted up from the river beach below Shuilu Temple.
After turning over countless rocks and never finding a piece of jade, Ma Lianshan couldn't help but feel a little discouraged. But looking back, if the river was full of jade, what else would be valuable about jade?
Yang Yuhuan should have already entangled her father. The matter of enclosing the river is just around the corner. All we need to do is encircle this place and slowly search for it later.
Thinking of this, Malianshan patted the sand on his body and walked towards his old house.
In Xi'an Prefecture, in a tavern next to the Luoma Market, three people were sitting at a table against the wall.
The man in the middle looks to be less than thirty years old. Perhaps because he has been on the road continuously, he has a stubble on his face that does not match the bright red gown he is wearing.
It was none other than Duan Tianming, the commander of the Thirteenth Army of Dongchang. Next to him were two elite captains of the Thirteenth Army.
On the table in front of the three of them, there were three large bowls with one-inch wide noodles in them.
The three of them looked at me and I looked at you, and for a moment they didn't know what to say.
"Shopkeeper, what we want is noodles, what are you serving?" A captain finally couldn't help it and complained to the shopkeeper who was greeting the guests.
Hearing the dissatisfied voices of the customers, the shopkeeper hurriedly walked over with a smile: "Looking at the accent, you guys are not from Shaanxi, right?"
"No, we are Beijing..." A captain was about to answer.
"We are from Langfang, Hebei Province." Duan Tianming hurriedly interrupted.
The shopkeeper smiled and said: "No wonder. Your guest doesn't know. In Shaanxi, this is the kind of noodles. It's called biangbiang noodles, and we all in Shaanxi like it. When you eat a mouthful of noodles, you only get a mouthful of garlic, and that's satisfying."
Duan Tianming frowned: "Shopkeeper, your noodles are wider than your mouth, how can you eat them?"
"How can it be that exaggerated? If you look at it objectively, it is still slightly narrower than your mouth. Put this noodle into your mouth and chew it vigorously." The shopkeeper explained with a smile on his face.
"Okay, it's okay, let's go down." Duan Tianming shook his head helplessly and waved his hand.
"Your Majesty, please use it at your leisure." The shopkeeper bowed and left with a smile.
"Captain Duan, this place is still far away from Namagou Town, right?" A captain picked up his chopsticks and began to try to eat the noodles, which were wider than his mouth.
"There should still be a hundred miles. After dinner, we will find an inn to stay overnight. Tomorrow morning we will buy three horses at the horse and mule market nearby. We will rush to Magou Town." Duan Tianming said, and also took the
Picked up chopsticks.
"Actually, I don't feel the need to leave the generals and horses in Xi'an Mansion. Magou Town is just a town. Who can know the soldiers and horses of Dongchang?" said a school captain.
"Then why don't you take off your casual clothes and let's put on Dongchang's clothes?" Duan Tian understood the other party.
Knowing that he was wrong, the captain lowered his head and only focused on eating noodles.
Another captain picked up the topic: "Don't mention it, Commander Duan is really looking very energetic in this bright red gown."
"I don't know what Xiao Chen was thinking, but he got me such a bright red dress and insisted that I wear it."
"What Brother Xiao means is that we are far away from the capital this time and we are traveling in casual clothes. Red is more auspicious." The captain said with a smile.
"Geely? It's like getting married, and the clothes are awkward." Duan Tianming said.
"Brother Xiao is a purple-robed captain, Commander Duan, you are a red-robed captain." The captain burst out laughing.
"Eat noodles. Such wide noodles can't stop your mouth." Duan Tianming made a serious face.
In Magou Town, Zhang Xi staggered out of the tavern and walked back towards his shack.
It was pitch dark in the shack.
"That's not right. Normally, if Dad knows I haven't come back, he will light the lamp and wait for me. Are you asleep so early today?" With a mutter in his mouth, Zhang Xi pushed open the fence door of the shack, "Dad,
Dad, I'm back."
There was no echo, not even a breath.
"Dad went out for a walk while I was away?" Zhang Xi stretched out his hand and touched his father's straw mat.
At the tentacles were my father's rough trousers.
"Dad, you are at home. Why didn't you agree when I called you?" Fumbling around, Zhang Xi turned on the fire holder at his waist and lit the oil lamp hanging on the pillar of the shack.
Under the oil lamp, Father Zhang's eyes were closed, his face was sallow, he was lying straight on the straw mat, and he had already stopped breathing.
"Dad, Dad, why did you just drink and leave without saying a word..."
Zhang Xi's wailing was floating in the dark night sky of Magou Town.
