Chapter 309 I just felt a chill
The days that followed were ordinary but fulfilling.
In addition to her daily social engagements with the ladies, Chen Heng would also get together with Mrs. Peng and Mrs. Min to play with the children.
Liu Xinyue would often come to tell her about Ouyang En's battle in Changzhou.
"Ouyang actually started learning to read in order to write a letter to you? It seems that he really likes you." Shen Heng said with a smile.
Liu Xinyue blushed: "Although the handwriting is ugly, it is indeed sincere and heartfelt."
"If he writes you three letters a month, you have to reply. Don't leave him waiting in vain." Chen Heng joked.
"Of course I did."
Looking at the tenderness in Liu Xinyue's eyes, Shen Heng found it a bit interesting. When Ouyang En left the imperial capital to fight, Miss Liu was still carefree and didn't look sentimental at all. Now that the two of them have become pen pals, could they have developed feelings for each other through writing?
"By the way, Ah Heng, has Yun Zhao ever mentioned me?" Liu Xinyue asked.
"No."
Liu Xinyue sighed: "I wanted to invite her to play with me, but she refused."
Chen Heng smiled: "Isn't it good like this now?" If you are unhappy as friends, you don't necessarily have to be friends.
"There are always some regrets. Now that her sister has become Si Qi's concubine, I'm afraid she will not want to see me even more in the future." Liu Xinyue smiled bitterly. Originally, the two had a good relationship. She just accidentally defended Zhiyue in front of Yun Zhao, and their friendship was gone just like that.
On this point, Chen Heng didn't know what to say. When people get along with each other, as long as there are no conflicts and contradictions, they can get to know each other in a second. Once there is a conflict of interests, or even a small conflict, decades of relationship will collapse.
Yun Zhao and Xin Yue both protect their sisters, and there is nothing wrong with that.
After the summer came, little Xie Yun turned one year old.
On the day of the first birthday banquet, good news came that Changzhou was recovered, and the people took to the streets to cheer despite the heat.
Ouyang En has made many remarkable achievements and is now a small deputy general.
Huimin Village has reaped a lot of rewards in just one year. The policy of returning farmland to the people has been implemented in practice. With God's blessing, the grain output is much better than in previous years. This year's autumn harvest can be said to be a bumper harvest.
Everything is getting better and better.
That night, when Shen Heng entered the room, she saw Xie Jian looking at a memorial in deep thought.
Shen Heng saw that his brows were slightly furrowed, and stepped forward to smooth them down for him: "Don't frown all the time."
"These aristocratic families willingly handed over their land last year. They were waiting here for a good harvest because the emperor wanted more power. Both the salt and grain transport industries want a piece of the pie." Xie Jian sneered.
Although Chen Heng didn't understand state affairs, she knew that grain transport was a major national undertaking, and salt transport was under the sole control of the imperial court, with no private interference allowed. "These aristocratic families have truly voracious appetites."
"It is not good for the court if the aristocratic families have too much power." Xie Jian closed the memorial. The court had to find a way to take away the power of the clans to avoid being controlled by them.
Upon hearing this, Chen Heng knew what Xie Jian was thinking. It was another road full of thorns.
Looking at him quietly, Xie Jian's eyes always gave people a sense of indifference, which has never disappeared over the years. This is formed by the experience that has penetrated into his heart. What a person has experienced can be seen from the sedimentation of his eyes.
His aura became more and more calm and steady, with an occasional glance that revealed a fierceness, making him look more and more like a superior.
"Aren't you sleeping yet?" Xie Jian was flipping through the memorials approved by the emperor and letting Aheng look at him. It would be nice if she could look at him like this for the rest of her life.
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