Chapter 196 This seal doesn’t appear often
Fu Xuanheng's eyes darkened as he murmured, "Scout? Does this mean that the Nanli Kingdom has plans for our Shihan Province?"
The monkey was silent.
He is not very old, but he is quite sharp.
His intuition told him that those people were definitely not ordinary merchants or bandits.
"They were disguised as traveling merchants, but traveling merchants don't know martial arts. They're also good at tracking, but they didn't think about the goods when they were chasing me."
"Rest well. You can't catch up with Scarface Peng and the others for now." Fu Xuanheng paused and said, "You still have poison in your body. I'll detoxify you once I gather all the herbs."
"Wait until you recover before returning."
The monkey frowned, raised his weak eyelids and said:
"Master Fu, could you please write a secret letter and send it to Yunzhou City? Peng Tou and his men will definitely stop by Yunzhou City to rest."
After panting for a while, the monkey made up his mind and spoke again:
"We have people in Yunzhou City. Can you deliver the letter to them?"
Fu Xuanheng and Shen Yunyue exchanged a glance, suppressing the strangeness in their hearts. He slowly loosened his clenched fists, "You can write a letter. Yunyue and I plan to go to Yonghe Town in the next two days."
"Just the correspondence...?"
The monkey's chest heaved, his head swirling. He took a few breaths, his eyelids twitching. "Stamp this."
He reached into his arms and fumbled for a long time before he pulled out an inconspicuous seal.
He placed the seal in Fu Xuanheng's hand and said, "Here you go."
After saying that, the monkey tilted his head.
He had no strength left and passed out.
Fu Xuanheng held the seal in his hand, rubbing it delicately with his fingertips. His mind flashed back to the time when he had seen a letter with a seal like this in the Crown Prince's Mansion.
I still remember the prince sitting upright on a chair, holding the letter in his hand and saying to his confidant:
"Is this a letter intercepted from Jiangnan?"
"Yes, Your Highness, this seal doesn't appear very often. It's said that it's only used by those outside their ranks. As for what kind of seal those inside use, it's still unknown."
Fu Xuanheng will always remember the expression on his father's face when he held the letter that day.
And the last sentence, "Call Cixuan over."
He withdrew his thoughts and focused on the seal, then looked at the monkey again without a trace of expression in his eyes.
"Yunyue. Don't let the monkey die."
Fu Xuanheng's voice was cold and emotionless.
"Don't worry." Shen Yunyue gently held Fu Xuanheng's hand.
The moment their fingertips touched, Fu Xuanheng's mind reappeared with the voices and smiles of his father and mother.
"Yunyue. Let's go to Yonghe Town tomorrow."
Shen Yunyue thought he was a little strange, but didn't take it seriously.
"Yes. Mom said she wanted to set up a memorial tablet for Dad and his family. I plan to build a bamboo house here at the Shen family's house to specifically house the Shen family's memorial tablets."
Shen Yunyue let go of Fu Xuanheng's hand, sat next to the monkey and took its pulse.
"We'll also build a bamboo house there to enshrine the tablets of our father and mother. And Xuansheng's mother, as for Feng Xiao'e..."
As Shen Yunyue spoke, she quietly raised her eyelids and glanced at Fu Xuanheng.
"She? She is not worthy to be with my father and mother. I will write a letter of abandonment on behalf of my father, and then promote Xuan Sheng's mother to be his concubine." Fu Xuanheng's voice was cold without a trace of warmth.
A woman like Feng Xiao'e deserves to be whipped even after her death.
After he finished speaking, he walked out with the seal in his hand.
Shen Yunyue glanced at the door indifferently and then looked away.
I always feel that Fu Xuanheng's back, standing against the light at the door, looks as lonely and sad as a pine tree in the cold winter.
She loosened her hand and took out a golden needle from the small medical bag hanging on her waist belt.
Give the monkey acupuncture carefully.
There were herbs in the space that could detoxify the monkey, but Shen Yunyue wasn't sure who had drugged him. She also didn't want to cause unnecessary trouble by detoxifying him right away.
After acupuncture is completed.
Shen Yunyue got off the carriage and Mu Ya had already prepared breakfast.
Shen Yunyue went to brush her teeth first.
Mu Ya held a basin with a towel in it and bent over to wait.
"Put it on the stool."
Shen Yunyue said lightly.
"Yes, Miss Yue, I heard that there are girls of that age in Yonghe Town who are very cheap. How about buying two and training them?"
Mu Ya looked at the family carefully, fearing that the old man and his family also needed someone to serve them.
After all, Ah Si is a man and cannot do such delicate work.
Da Niu and Er Niu followed the Shen Yunfeng brothers, so naturally they didn't do housework.
I heard that in Yonghe Town, you can buy a little girl of six or seven years old for one or two taels of silver. Mu Ya thought that girls of this age would be easier to train.
She could see that the Shen family had no shortage of food and would not care about the little food the girl ate.
As Mu Ya spoke, she rolled up Shen Yunyue's sleeves and held up the washbasin so that Shen Yunyue didn't have to bend down too much to wash her face.
After washing her face, Shen Yunyue took the clean towel handed to her by Mu Ya and wiped her face.
After a pause, he spoke:
"Your idea is good, but the little girl can't serve grandma and the others."
"If a family like ours were to make such a big fuss about buying people right after arriving here, it would be conspicuous. As for the old lady, it's easy too. We can just find two skilled women in the village to come over.
Come to our place to work during the day and go back at night. Wait for a while and then find an opportunity to buy one or two reliable ones to keep with you."
Every word Mu Ya said was carefully considered.
Shen Yunyue thought to herself: She is indeed a girl from a poor family.
My ideas are also different from others.
"Okay. From now on, you will be my maidservant. You will decide all the affairs of the house. Leave the outside affairs to Ah Si."
Shen Yunyue handed the towel to Mu Ya.
She walked lightly under the banyan tree and found Fu Xuanheng already sitting there.
Seeing Fu Xuanheng, Shen Yunyue smiled faintly:
"You didn't have breakfast?"
Fu Xuanheng picked up a rice cake with his chopsticks and placed it on the plate in front of Shen Yunyue. "I'm the only one who hasn't eaten yet. I wanted to wait for you to eat together."
Shen Yunyue sat next to Fu Xuanheng.
He picked up the bowl and took a sip of porridge, "Don't wait for me anymore."
Shen Yunyue followed the saying that one should not talk while eating, so she told Fu Xuanheng what Mu Ya had just said.
Fu Xuanheng held the bowl and pondered for a few breaths, "Well. You go find Mrs. Chen first. I think she is suitable to be with Grandma.
My grandmother and great-grandmother also like to be lively and like to listen to the country people talk about things here."
"After traveling so far to get here, it's natural for them to feel lost and upset. It would be nice to have two people who can talk to them and help them resolve their worries."
"Okay. Then I'll look for Mrs. Chen San."
Fu Xuanheng picked up the cup beside him and took a sip of tea before whispering:
"Yunyue, I'm afraid those women on the road to exile will come looking for you. When they heard that Mrs. Chen San was working for our family, they would definitely come and ask for a job."
"they?"
Shen Yunyue had never really thought of using them.
After all, they came from the capital together. Those women came all the way to Shihanzhou without fighting or competing, relying on their own abilities.
"But it turns out they are from the same family as us." Shen Yunyue hesitated.
Fu Xuanheng disagreed, "Those people were originally marginal figures, and their lives in the mansion were not easy.
She did almost all the sewing herself. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been so skillful while in exile.
They understand the rules and know when to advance and retreat.
If you have the opportunity, you might as well use them. I'm just giving you a suggestion, the details are up to you."
Fu Xuanheng understood human nature, he just told Shen Yunyue what he saw.
It doesn't mean that he will influence Shen Yunyue's decision.
"Yeah. You're right. Then I'll let my aunt go and try it out." Since that was the case, Shen Yunyue didn't wait for them to see Chen Sanpo coming over.
"Just let my aunt tell them that we need help at home."
"Um."
The two of them had breakfast together, and Mu Ya came over to clean up.
Shen Yunyue and Fu Xuanheng came to the edge of the forest, where a large area of cut bamboo had fallen down.
Some spring bamboo shoots have also begun to emerge early.
Seeing this, Shen Yunyue's gluttony made her stomach rummage.
Shen Yunyue's rolling eyes had already caught Fu Xuanheng's attention. "What are you looking at?"
"Bamboo shoots." Shen Yunyue swallowed and said, "They're delicious stir-fried or with meat slices."
Fu Xuanheng has never eaten this thing. In his eyes, isn’t it just bamboo?
Can that thing be delicious?
It was hard, and he unconsciously licked his teeth with the tip of his tongue. Fu Xuanheng sighed in his heart, wondering whether he should tell Shen Yunyue that the property he had not yet obtained was enough for them to use for a lifetime.
This little money-grubber...
Is it really necessary to make things so difficult for their teeth?
Before Fu Xuanheng's eyes appeared the four elders of the Shen family, clutching bamboo, gnawing on it with a look of despair on their faces. One bite broke a tooth...
He quickly shook the image off his mind.
He looked at the bamboo with difficulty, "Yunyue. We don't have to chew on bamboo." He wanted to say that after all, he had collected the property of the Mu family in Yanling Prefecture, as well as the money he earned from selling paintings.
After hearing a few words, Chen Xiaogou came over and said:
"This bamboo can't be eaten. As for the bamboo shoots Miss Shen mentioned, they are only eaten during famine years when people can't survive."
"That's all because I'm so hungry that I can't help it."
Fu Xuanheng: ... He touched Shen Yunyue's head with heartache and looked at her tenderly.
The voice whispered softly in her ear:
"Yunyue. Believe me, I will give you a good life. Don't worry, I'll take care of everything."
Shen Yunyue:……
It’s just eating bamboo shoots, is it that serious?
"Xuanheng. Listen to me, it tastes as good as shepherd's purse." Shen Yunyue took away Fu Xuanheng's hand on her head, took his hand and squatted down beside the bamboo shoot nest.
"Give me your dagger."
Fu Xuanheng took out the dagger hesitantly, but ultimately was reluctant to give it to Shen Yunyue. He turned to Chen Xiaogou and said:
"Bring me your machete."
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