"For a time, the court was in an uproar. Li Ge Lao struck while the iron was hot and pursued the victory. He regarded the defeat as a political achievement. In the name of collaborating with the enemy, he exterminated the Ningyuan Marquis's family. The Qiao family, who was married to Ningyuan Marquis, was naturally on the list. The few family letters that my father sent to Ningyuan Marquis a year ago became Li Ge Lao's handle. My aunt and several cousins were detained in the mansion. The former prefect of Yingtian Prefecture was originally Li Ge Lao's student. He set up a trap to lure my father to Yingtian Prefecture and detained him immediately. He tortured him to find out the content of the family letter. My father refused. The former prefect then extended his hand to Jing County and sealed off Qingcheng Mountain Courtyard. He also planned to take several of his favorite students who had a close relationship with my father to Yingtian Prefecture, attempting to impose heavy penalties on him and urge my father to sign a confession."
Xianjin pieced the general plot together and guessed it roughly.
Now it’s time to flesh out the outline with specific content.
Qiao Hui smiled, "I was supposed to be escorted along, but I escaped over the wall the day before. As for Baozhu, Lord Xiong tried his best to keep her. It is said that he went to Yingtian Prefecture overnight and pointed at the prefect's nose and cursed, 'The women and children are innocent. If you touch a hair of the Qiao family girl, I will smash my head into the lobby of your government office and kill myself! I want to see if the superior whose subordinate died tragically still has a future!'"
Wow.
Wow——
In Xianjin's memory, the bulging belly of Governor Xiong turned into eight gilded abdominal muscles and two vest lines.
"In this way, Baozhu can survive under Du Junning's protection until you can take over smoothly." Qiao Hui raised his head and took another sip of wine. "And I rode fast for more than a month and finally arrived in Fujian. I rented a small boat and went out to sea. I found my uncle, Ningyuan Hou, and successfully joined up with the 5,000 elite soldiers sent by the court to reinforce. I fought all the way to the Japanese sea border and threw their general's flag into the East China Sea to feed the hairtail fish."
If you keep talking about cutlassfish, I think you look like a cutlassfish.
Xianjin wiped his forehead.
Qiao Hui drank half a pot of wine, and his previously stern expression finally became more lively. Speaking of hairtail, his facial features wrinkled in disgust, "Hairtail is so damn fishy! We use the floating body stumps on the sea as bait, cast the fishing line a little deeper and try our luck. Hairtail is the stupidest thing. The schools of hairtail bite each other head and tail. When fishing, as long as we catch a hairtail, we can drag it onto the boat like pulling a rope, and when the fish fill the cabin, we can cut the fish with a knife..."
"So, guess what's the most abundant thing on our ship?" Qiao Hui asked with a burning gaze.
Xian Jin's face was expressionless, "Hairtail."
Qiao Hui slammed the table and said, "So fucking smart!"
Xianjin turned his head frantically: You have laid so much groundwork, isn't it a bit disrespectful for me to mention starfish again?
"Unfortunately, there was nothing on our boat. We had to grill, boil, or steam the hairtail...all in their original flavor, without any technique! The smell was awful! I thought at the time, if I could get some ginger with me when I climbed over the wall, would my life be a little easier if I could eat it every day?" Qiao Hui regretted it.
After Xianjin went crazy, he started laughing.
A stupid thing.
You say cutlassfish is stupid, but it turns out to be even stupider than cutlassfish.
The two bloody years were so blurred that only the memory of the hairtail remained - seriously out of focus.
Xianjin's tone of pity unconsciously intensified a bit, "Now? When will Master Qiao come back? When will you come back? Will you come back? From what you said, you have made great contributions? Why don't you take this opportunity to get promoted, marry a noble lady, and reach the pinnacle of your life?"
Qiao Hui's eyes moved, he raised his head and took another sip of wine, "Now? It's good now. Elder Li has been purged, the eldest princess is in power, and my father has been taken to the capital to treat his leg. I heard that he will be back next month. As for me... I still have some unfinished business, so it's not convenient for me to show up. Maybe I have to wait until next month to come back with my father openly."
I didn't accept any bullshit about getting promoted or reaching the peak of my life.
Xianjin's mind was full of the words "come back next month" turning back and forth. She looked down at the cheat sheet stiffly - just say she died early! Today is March 24th, six days away from next month! April 1st is also next month, and April 30th is also next month! If it was really April 1st, how could she write a "political" paper for her director!
Qiao Hui raised his head and drank the wine in one gulp, his eyes flickering behind the shadow of his tall nose. "How about you? It's been two years, how are you doing?"
Xianjin uttered an "ah" and came back to his senses. "Me? I moved from Jingxian to Xuancheng. I am considered the head of the Chen family. I just took over the business of the Yingtianfu Autumn Examination Paper Rolls—" Xianjin smiled, pursed his lips and smiled, "We have everything, but no hairtail."
Qiao Hui tightly grasped the wine pot with both hands, his eyes deep, "Where is Erlang? I heard that he went to Yingtian Prefecture for retreat, and will be out of mourning in August. What are his plans?"
Chen Jianfang.
Xianjin was stunned. He hadn't heard this name for a long time.
It seemed that after he left, no one talked about him in front of her anymore.
This proves that there is no need for their two worlds to intersect.
Xianjin smiled calmly, "Yes, concentrate on preparing for the next spring exam. Our old lady is looking forward to his victory."
Qiao Hui sighed, lowered his brows and fiddled with the red tassel on the wine pot, "He is two years older than us. If your old lady still insists on building a career before starting a family, I'm afraid he won't be able to settle down until he's in his early twenties."
Xianjin turned his head and said, "Do you think I know what the old lady has arranged for Erlang?"
Qiao Hui also laughed, "This year on New Year's Eve, I went to Guangdong and Guangxi and came to see Baozhu on the way. I saw you and Erlang in the inner courtyard corridor, talking one after the other. I thought you were close."
Xianjin was stunned, and suddenly recalled the sudden gust of wind in the bamboo forest on New Year's Eve, "It was you!"
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