Chapter 197: The Infinite City
Jin'an, no longer in a gloomy mood as he had just mentioned his father's case, happily took Jinsui's hand and introduced that those flowers and plants were specially cultivated by him in the greenhouse.
It is normal for flowers like wintersweets and daffodils to bloom in winter, but I didn’t expect that there were several pots of camellia, orchids and roses that were also in full bloom.
This is very rare. Jin Sui praised with great emotion: "If these flowers were in Chang'an, each pot could be sold for more than ten taels of silver! Jin An is so amazing. Sister doesn't have the patience to fiddle with flowers and plants like this."
Jin An said arrogantly: "It's nothing. I just asked about the habits of flowers and plants, and then tried to grow them in the greenhouse."
Of course he didn't say that he planted nearly a hundred seedlings, but only a dozen survived.
"I know my sister likes flowers. You told Li Zhoumu before that if he wanted to invite you to Yanzhou City, he would have to pave the way with flowers.
This is your first time home, and Grandpa and I have paved the way for you with flowers."
Jin Sui was somewhat touched. She didn't expect the little brat cared about her so much. It was really good to feel valued by family.
Seeing the purification room, Jin An did not go in but smiled and said, "Sister, go in and take a look. I asked the craftsmen of the Yan family to build this!"
Jinsui was very surprised that the bathroom actually had a bathroom and a toilet. The toilet was modeled after the public toilets outside. Although it was still a squat toilet, it was connected to a large vat outside and buried underground. It only needed to be cleaned every few days.
Compared to many people's chamber pots, this toilet is much more convenient and cleaner. The bathroom is a marble bathtub. Although it is not luxurious, it is perfect for her.
Grandpa and Jinan really designed this courtyard for her seriously, and even gave her the main courtyard to live in.
Grandpa Ling asked her to go into the bedroom and said, "I thought you left in a hurry and must not have brought many clothes. When I saw good fabrics in Yanzhou City, I bought some and asked Madam Chen to make them. She said they were fashionable styles.
Change into new clothes tonight and watch my granddaughter attend the party beautifully!"
We need to get rid of the stereotypes of Sui Sui in the Black Feather Camp. My granddaughter is a beautiful girl. Every day, Boss Ji yells that Sui Sui changes into women's clothes and acts like a man. We need to correct this quickly! Grandpa Ling pulled Jin An away: "Let's change clothes quickly, so as not to keep Captain Black Tiger waiting anxiously."
Jin Sui was so engrossed in the bedroom that she was reluctant to leave. The embroidered stool was covered with cotton pads, the armrests of the chaise longue were covered with animal skins, and there was a large carpet on the floor beside the bed.
Well, this is certain, I learned it from Yan Jiu.
Grandpa was really considerate. He was afraid that she would be cold and wanted her to live more comfortably at home.
She found it strange that her grandfather didn't first accept two female disciples to help her clean the yard, comb her hair, etc.
She didn't need a maid to serve her, and she was not used to having someone so close to her, but she needed help.
Since she hasn't found him, forget it, to avoid her secret being discovered accidentally. In the future, once the door to the yard is closed, she can do experiments and she really doesn't feel at ease when there are outsiders around.
Little did she know that Grandpa Ling also thought so. His granddaughter had a big secret, so how could he dare to arrange for anyone to enter her yard casually.
Jinsui opened the closet and found it was full of new clothes. I’ve only been gone for a few months, and grandpa has made so many new clothes for me?
I originally wanted to wear something in bright red, as it’s the first month of the year so it should be festive. Suddenly I thought of Twelve Niang, who looks best in bright red.
She instead picked out a snow-blue long skirt, a purple violet jacket, and a red cape with a white fox collar.
It is not convenient to wear jewelry when attending a military banquet, so it is better to simply put your hair into a bun, secure it with a jade hairpin, and tie it with a ribbon.
These jewels were all in jewelry boxes, but she found that they were quite different. There were simple peach wood hairpins, copper hairpins, and silver hairpins, as well as obvious sets of gold headpieces inlaid with gemstones or jade.
There are also a complete range of toiletries, including perfumes and rouge that are the latest styles of this month.
Her heart moved, and she thought about the clothes in her closet. Some of the fabrics and styles were very common, while some were very expensive.
Sure enough, after she was dressed, when she asked her grandfather, the answer was the same as she guessed: "It was the Eleventh Young Master. He said that the mansion would make new clothes and jewelry for the Twelfth Lady every season, and he would also prepare some for you."
Unexpectedly, Master Turtle was a man of great talent but actually very considerate. He knew that the Ji family had no other mistress and was afraid that she would come back in a hurry and not have everything complete, so he gave her a share of everything he prepared for Twelve Niang.
But she didn't know that this was something that Yan Shiyi, who was so rough, could think of! This was something Yan Jiu had specifically instructed before he left.
What's even more obvious is that Yan Shiyi didn't think it necessary to tell Jin Sui about this matter, so Jin Sui never knew that the person she should really thank was Yan Jiu.
She had originally wanted to take a look at the study room separated by a screen. After all, she was also the daughter of the county magistrate, but since she traveled through time, she had never even entered the boudoir of a young lady.
The first boudoir I looked at carefully turned out to be my own. I have finally made it. I have been an adult for more than a year and can even earn myself a boudoir with a yard.
But she was afraid that Hei Hu would have to wait too long, so she quickly moved a box of distilled liquor from the space. This was the liquor she had distilled in the space using grain liquor when she was doing perfume experiments before.
One glass of wine would make a big man drunk, so she planned to mix it with fruit wine. The soldiers who followed Gu Changxiao to the northern border went with the mentality that they would not come back alive.
Now that they are back alive, they have the right to have a drink.
Jin'an hurried over to take the box. Jinsui saw that he was wearing a dark blue and gold long coat embroidered with auspicious cloud patterns, paired with deerskin boots, looking like a handsome little boy.
He praised: "As expected of my brother, once he changes his clothes, who wouldn't praise him as a handsome boy?"
Jin'an's ears turned red: "How can you praise others like this? Are you praising me or yourself?"
Jin Sui twirled her cape and posed: "How do you think I look like this? If you don't praise me, I have to praise myself!"
Jinan lowered his head: "Sister is very beautiful."
Jin Sui put his arm around his shoulders and said, "We are definitely the most beautiful siblings in Border Town! Even better than the Yan family siblings."
Grandpa Ling stamped his feet at the door and said, "Don't say this in the army. If others hear it, they will laugh at you."
My grandfather was actually wearing a green Taoist robe, a Taoist hat and a whisk. If he went to the northern border, he would definitely be worshipped as a god by the herdsmen.
"Grandpa, is this appropriate for you to wear when you go drinking? By the way, I've always wanted to ask you, if you meet a real Taoist priest, will they expose you?"
Grandpa didn't like what he heard: "What do you mean by a real Taoist priest exposing me? I am a Taoist priest!"
Jinan testified: "Sister, you may not know this, but Grandpa has found a Taoist temple and re-ordained himself. Grandpa is now a blue-robed mage."
Jin Sui was stunned: "Why? Grandpa, why do you want to go back to your old job? I thought you were going to start the Central Plains stew business!"
Grandpa Ling stroked his beard and smiled, "Grandpa found that it is easier to gain people's trust when wearing this Taoist robe. Besides, the prince is going to build a Taoist temple for me in the border town, so how can I not be a real Taoist?"
Jin Sui then told her story of pretending to be a Taoist nun in the northern border. Grandpa and Jin An were horrified and full of admiration.
I admire Jinsui's quick thinking, courage and eloquence. She can barely speak a few words of Northern Xinjiang dialect, but she dares to pretend to be a fairy in Northern Xinjiang!
"They called me 'Fairy', but I didn't say it myself."
"What a pity! King Bater had promised to build a Taoist temple for me, but those dignitaries opposed it. Otherwise, Grandpa could have become the founder of the Northern Frontier Three Pure Ones Taoism!"
Jinan was curious: "Sister, why do you want to open a Taoist temple in Northern Xinjiang? You are not a real Taoist nun?"
Jinsui was silent, trying to organize her words. It was not until Heihu happily took a box of wine and the three of them got on the carriage that she started talking about the situation of the Han slaves she saw in the northern border.
"If refugees are just people who are forced to hide in the mountains, then Han slaves are no longer human beings. Their status in the northern border is not as valuable as sheep and cattle.
Of course, the slaves of the nobles are not as valuable as cattle and sheep, but at least the nobles will not kill slaves casually, while the people of the northern border will. "
Jinsui didn't go into detail, but Grandpa Ling and Jin'an had both experienced life and death, especially the living city plague, when people were no longer people, but the difference between living corpses and dead corpses.
They could imagine the torture that the Han people were going through when they were forced into slavery in a foreign country.
“People in northern Xinjiang believe in God very much. I think it is too difficult to improve the status of Han people by other means, so it is better to use the method of doctrine.
If the Taoist temple can really be built, I will use the name of the Three Pure Ones to ask the people of Northern Frontier to treat the Han slaves well, and at the same time I hope to redeem the Han slaves back to Daxia."
Grandpa Ling's eyes were full of admiration and pride. No matter what secrets his granddaughter had or what changes she had undergone, she was still that kind girl.
In the past, her kindness was limited and could only be shared with those around her. But now, she has the ability to share her kindness with more people and a wider world.
Jin An sighed: "It would be great if all Han people in the world could live in the border town!"
The border town today is completely different from what it used to be. The living atmosphere here is different from that in other state capitals. It is a new kind of freedom, vitality and a new look.
It not only attracts the common people at the bottom of society, but also attracts young children from the gentry. They all love to come to the border town. They can’t explain why it is so attractive, but once they come, they don’t want to leave.
"The border town is too small. Of course, it is impossible for all Han people to live in it..."
Facing Jin An's innocent eyes, Jin Sui smiled and said, "But we can work hard to turn the whole world into a border town!"
"Look, even Grandpa is working so hard."
Grandpa Ling pretended to be angry and pulled his beard: "Grandpa is not too old to work! For you two, for those children who believe in me, I can work for another 20 years!"
Hei Hu's voice rang out from the front of the car: "But Boss Ji, from now on we won't call this Border Town anymore."
Jin Sui hurriedly lifted the car door curtain: "It's a new name, what's it called?" It was called Bianying before, which was not a serious name at all.
Just like when there are many children in a farm family, they can name them Zhang Xiaosan, Li Xiaosi, and just call them whatever they want.
Until Jinsui came and built the city, people were still accustomed to calling it a border town, but on the court's map, this was a camp in Yanjiao.
Now that the new city has been completed, it is natural to give it a new name.
"I don't know yet. When I left, the prince and the others were discussing it!"
Jin Sui was very excited, as if he was naming his own child, and hurriedly urged Grandpa Ling: "Please come up with a good name and ask about the fortune."
"Your Majesty, please think twice!"
As soon as the carriage stopped, Jin Sui heard Cheng Yu's rare anxious voice coming from the barracks.
There aren't many situations that can force our Master Cheng to this point! What happened?
What’s funny is that when they parted, the soldiers of the Black Feather Camp called Master Ji very affectionately, but when Jin Sui got off the carriage, they were too embarrassed to step forward and say hello.
Jin Sui was even surprised: "What's going on? Why are you so scared of me all of a sudden?"
Hei Hu laughed and said, "They are not afraid of Boss Ji, it's just that Boss Ji is too beautiful and they are afraid of bumping into you."
Jin Sui laughed: "Then I'll wear regular clothes next time."
Cheng Yu in the barracks was still persuading: "Your Majesty, please think about it again!"
Jin Sui hurriedly lifted the curtain and went in, wanting to see what had made Cheng Yu so anxious.
As soon as she entered, more than a dozen people in the room were stunned. They blinked their eyes before they recognized her. This was Boss Ji! His face was still the same, but he had changed his clothes, put on makeup, and combed his hair. He looked like a completely different person!
It is hard to believe that such a beautiful girl had traveled thousands of miles through the ice and snow to the northern border.
Of course, it is even harder to believe when you think about what she did when she played the King of Evil.
The one I couldn't believe the most was Xie Maolin. You told me that this delicate beauty had besieged the city to demand money, chopped off Zheng Yun's head with a knife, burned the city to the Tartars, and rebuked the imperial envoy...
This is crazy! Even operas don’t dare to sing like this!
"What happened? Why does Lord Cheng look so anxious?" Jin Sui chuckled and walked through the crowd and went straight to Gu Changxiao.
Her voice also returned to its original tone, as clear and crisp as a silver bell, and her laughter was like a gust of spring that blew away the coldness in the room.
It is said that women are fickle, is this how they are fickle? Could it be that Boss Ji has a twin sister, and the beauty in front of him is actually Boss Ji's sister? Only Gu Changxiao's surprise flashed across his eyes, and then he immediately returned to normal, smiling and showing the paper to Jin Sui: "This king has obtained the name of the new city, but Lord Cheng is not satisfied."
If Cheng Yu had a sword at his waist, he would have used it to cut the paper. Am I not satisfied? Is anyone here satisfied with such a name? Jin Sui looked down and smiled softly. "Li Da Wuxian City" is indeed hard to accept.
Gu Changxiao carefully observed Jin Sui's reaction, and when he saw that she just chuckled, he hurriedly asked:
"Sui Sui doesn't think it's good either? I remember you once said that a name with four characters is more domineering, and you also like the name Li Da Wuxian."
Jin Sui did say this, but she was joking! When she made a private seal with infinite power, Wei Qingquan was pissed off.
That was just a private seal. Now that the new city is named like this, it will be laughed at by everyone in the world if it spreads around the world.
Jin Sui leaned sideways to pick up the pen. The faint aroma of the jasmine essential oil on her head went straight into Gu Changxiao's nose. The fragrance seemed to go up his nose to his heart. He felt that his heart was fragrant, sweet, and throbbing wildly.
A strand of hair fell and landed on his arm. He moved his arm slightly and the hair fell into his palm.
He stood stiffly in place without moving, afraid of being seen by others and also afraid that Jinsui would get up. He gently felt the softness of the hair.
Jin Sui wrote on the paper, and the word "li" became "li". He unfolded it and asked Cheng Yu, "How about this name? Is it good?"
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