Chapter 3146 Speculation
Before he became the county magistrate, he rented a house. After he became the county magistrate, according to convention, he either moved into the side yard behind the county government office or continued to rent a house outside, but the county government had to pay for this.
In fact, it is just a disguised form of Lu County Magistrate coming out.
However, County Magistrate Lu was also poor at the time, and in order to show his closeness to County Magistrate Fang, he separated a part of the backyard of the county government office and gave it to the Fang family.
The place was not small, and there was a wall in the middle, but the county magistrate and his wife lived next door, so the people in the Fang family didn't dare to make too much noise. They had been very careful over the years and didn't dare to speak loudly.
Besides, the house in the backyard of the county government office did not belong to them after all. If he did not become the county magistrate in the future, or if a new county magistrate did not like him living next door, it would only take a word for him to rent a house outside.
How can you be more comfortable than owning your own house?
So Bai Shan's reward really touched the heart of County Magistrate Fang. He didn't even go back home. He wrote directly to his wife and children, asking them to take care of their new home themselves and choose a good day to move there. He wanted to stay at Longchi Wharf and continue to work hard.
County Magistrate Fang felt that he could still work overtime tonight.
Bai Shan enthusiastically helped them move. Seeing that they were missing a lot of things, he let them choose and move from their current backyard. He also paid for a customized display cabinet, screen, and other furniture for them.
The Fang family was very grateful and happily moved there after choosing a good day.
After they moved out, Bai Shan had the two courtyards on the left and right connected and tidied up. He asked Bai Erlang and the others to bring their usual things from home, and they could move in.
Yin Huo lived in the guest room in the courtyard where he had lived when he first came to Beihai County. Early every morning, he would see Bai Ruoyu coming from the west, moaning, and Bai Jingxing coming from the east, chattering. The two of them would successfully meet not far from the courtyard where he lived.
Then he turned around and walked in the garden behind his room. Suddenly, his ears were filled with their chattering sounds. The maids and servants holding them occasionally echoed them, and he didn't know whether they could really understand or were pretending.
Yin Huo, who had developed the habit of getting up early every day to read, had to change. After getting up every day, he would wait for the two children to come and meet him, and then he would stroll around the garden with them.
Zhou Man, who had just returned from five days of retreat, saw his complexion, felt his pulse, and said affirmatively, "Not bad, not bad, the pulse is better than before."
She looked at Yin Huo carefully, then turned to look at the two children held in the maid's arms, nodded affirmatively and said, "You really made the right decision to move here."
Yin Huo couldn't help but say, "It's just too noisy."
It wasn't known whether the two children understood or not, but they chattered non-stop to Yin Huo in the maid's arms.
Zhou Man pretended not to hear and reminded him, "The weather is getting hotter. From now on, we should change the time for visiting the garden. In the morning, we should go a quarter of an hour earlier, and in the evening, we should go two quarters of an hour later."
Yin Huo pointed at the two children in the maid's arms and said, "You talk to them."
Zhou Man turned around to look at them, tapped their noses and said with a grin, "Did you hear that?"
Bai Jingxing grabbed his mother's finger, squeezed it tightly, and pulled it to his mouth, intending to bite it.
Zhou Man held her hand and tilted his head to look at her gums. "Why do you always want to bite things? Do you want to grow teeth?"
Zhou Man was also a first-time mother and had never imagined that raising a child required so much attention. She studied the two children and found that they just wanted to bite things, so she breathed a sigh of relief before they even started to grow teeth.
When Yin Huo saw that she had finished her research, he asked, "Did you get your cowpox vaccine?"
Zhou Man said "hmm" and then said: "The pimples have appeared, and now we just need to wait for them to scab over. Zheng Gu is watching over it now, so I'll come back and rest for two days."
Zhou Man let the two children hold her hands, and she shook their hands for fun. "How about you? Have you encountered any danger recently?"
"No," Yin Huo said a little depressed, "It's calm, nothing."
This is considered a good thing, but they made so many preparations, but the other party did not respond at all. Even though it is a good thing, it makes them a little depressed.
Zhou Man tilted his head. "Jiangnan is far away, they wouldn't know about it, right?"
Yin Huo hesitated, "Not really, it's been so long."
Jiangnan did receive the news. Of course, there was an uproar in the capital, how could they not know?
They just didn't know how to react for a moment, because they thought those people had various ways to deal with it, and accordingly, they also had corresponding counterattacks, but...
Qingzhou suddenly emerged and directly replaced the salt administration in Jiangnan...
In a dark room, Lu Binghua saw that everyone was silent, so he lowered his eyes and sneered, "What? No one has anything to say? Didn't you all swear before that this was fake news? Didn't Dajin not survive without the salt from Jiangnan?"
"Shut up, you were also responsible for saying this."
"Alright, stop arguing," a middle-aged man stopped the two people who were about to quarrel, looked at Gu Huai and Zhu Hongru who had been silent, and asked, "Brother Gu and Brother Zhu, do you have any good ideas?"
Zhu Hongru said, "If you all can't think of a solution, what can I do?"
Everyone was silent for a moment, and someone said, "Cut off their salt route..."
Gu Huai's face twitched as he said, "Yang Heshu is still in Yangzhou. Not to mention that we might not be able to hide everything, even if we could, anyone with a brain would be able to guess that it was us."
He said meaningfully, "Some things require evidence, but some don't. As long as someone confirms that we did it, then we did it."
For example, fighting.
If they really cut off the newly opened salt road and angered the emperor and the court, the other party would probably not even need any evidence and would directly send troops to the south of the Yangtze River.
Last year, the prince brought the imperial guards to Jiangnan and took over a lot of military power. Even if they wanted to rebel, their chances of winning would be much lower, not to mention that everyone's morale had been worn down time and time again.
"So what do you say we should do?" the other party asked rudely, "This doesn't work, that doesn't work either. Are we just going to sit there and wait for death?"
Now even Lu Binghua, who had been mocking him, became serious. After a while, he turned to look at the silent Gu Huai and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
"I was wondering, how can Qingzhou alone produce so much salt?"
"Didn't they say they found a new way to make salt, using the sun instead of firewood?" Lu Binghua said, "There are only a limited number of trees on earth, but the sun is infinite. I don't know how they did it, though."
"But Qingzhou isn't very big. There are only two counties along the coast. Can these two counties replace the entire Jiangnan salt fields?"
The others were moved by what they heard and became excited again. "So they are lying? They deliberately spread the rumor that Qingzhou replaced Jiangnan."
Good night, see you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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