After that day, I heard that Boss Wang's carriage had been walking around the village for two more times, but in the end he didn't do anything and left.??    ≠

I didn't pay attention to it anymore, but focused on my embroidery workshop.

Facts have proved that hard work is rewarded.

My embroidery workshop was slowly started. In addition to Boss Wang, the bosses from several nearby towns came to me to order goods. Even the bosses of some garment shops and silk shops in Yangzhou City were paying attention to us. But at present, my biggest customer is Boss Wang. He has a large quantity of goods, a fixed term, and gives the most commissions. He is the number one financial backer of our embroidery workshop. Generally, if I have a tight job, I will rush to take over his business and turn off other businesses.

In a few months, the embroidery workshop has begun to take shape.

In order to facilitate the work of the embroiderers, I gritted my teeth and expanded my own courtyard, and then removed the bamboo fence and built a row of brick walls. The courtyard gate was replaced with a square gate, with iron locks inside and outside, which was also for the safety of Li'er and me. Of course, my large-scale demolition and construction also caused dissatisfaction among some other people in the village, but after all, nearly half of the big girls and wives in the village worked under my hands, and those dissatisfaction could not be spread. Two or three days later, I was suppressed by several embroiderers and there was no sound.

However, Yunxiang came to see the spacious yard, looked at the still simple cottage, and whispered in my ear: "Light, why don't you rent a larger yard near the village? The yard is big, can you move with Li'er and live more comfortably?"

I listened, just smiled, picked up the rag, and wiped off the dust on the table.

Looking at my quiet appearance, Yunxiang seemed to understand something and said softly: "Qingying, are you still thinking of Third Brother in your heart?"

My hands wiping the table froze.

Yun Xiang said, "I heard from Gou Er that there is clearly a powerful and powerful person who treats you well, but you still come back. You have been living in this house because you can't forget your third brother, right? Now that you have money, you can live in a better house, but you just spend money to repair the place and refuse to leave. Do you don't want to leave the home given to you by your third brother, right?"

I only looked at her and didn't say anything.

Yunxiang came to me and held my hand gently: "I--I don't tell me, I don't know what you gave birth to. Although at that time, everyone said you were outside--I know that you are not such a woman, otherwise you wouldn't have taken Li'er back to the village to live. But why did you separate? Why did he become a high-ranking official and you returned here?"

“…”

"Did he blame you?"

"Yu Xiang, stop talking."

“…”

I raised my head and looked at Yunxiang with concern, but there was a blank look, and a faint smile: "You are thinking too much, but there is only one thing you didn't expect."

"What?"

"The wealth is not revealed."

"ah?"

I smiled and said, "I do have some money now, but I and Li'er are the only ones in my family. I rent a large mansion, which is to tell everyone that I have money, come and grab it."

Yunxiang was stunned for a moment, and I smiled again, "I have been thieves once before, and I don't want to suffer a second time. Besides—" I raised my head, looked at this simple little house, and smiled, "I'm used to living in it, and I don't think there is anything wrong with it. If it's necessary in the future, I want to rent a big house again."

After saying that, I smiled and took the rag to wash it and hung it on the windowsill.

I didn't look back, but I could also feel that Yunxiang kept looking at me, but she didn't say anything. When the matter was finished, she had to look back and met her eyes that were reluctant to speak.

I just feel like my heart is in a vast world.

Yunxiang frowned and stepped forward: "Liangying, you-"

Before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by an embroiderer who suddenly ran in from outside: "Yu Xiang!"

We were all shocked in the room: "What's the matter?"

"Hurry, go home!"

"Hmm? What are you doing when you go home?"

The embroidered lady was already out of breath, and she couldn't even speak clearly at this time. She held the door and gasped for a long time: "Your brother is back!"

When Yunxiang heard this, she was stunned.

I was also stunned for a moment - Yunxiang's brother, I still remember that when I first arrived in Jixiang Village, the brothers of the Zhao family had already gone to the battlefield and had not come back for years. Aunt Zhao still eats vegetarian food and chants Buddha's name every day, hoping that their brothers will return safely as soon as possible. Unexpectedly, they will actually come back today.

At this time, Yunxiang didn't respond, stayed there motionless. I was so happy that I hurried forward and pushed her: "Why don't you go back!"

"ah?"

She came to her senses, looked at me, then looked at the embroiderer, unable to speak, so she turned around and ran out.

I stood at the door, watching her stumble and almost fell when she went out, and laughed with the embroiderer, and I said softly: "It's not easy. After so many years, her brother has finally come back."

Hearing this sentence, the embroidered woman hesitated for a moment and said, "What a pity..."

"What a pity? What a pity?"

"It's a pity that only one came back."

"What?"

I was shocked and looked at the embroidered lady. A trace of gloom appeared on her face: "Brother Zhao's family - it's gone. It was brought back by Brother Zhao."

.

Until the evening, Yunxiang did not come again.

Later, I faintly heard crying from Aunt Zhao’s house, and I felt very sad, but the family had just reunited and it was hard to go over and disturb me.

The next day, the talents from the village went to visit the Zhao family.

Yunxiang's elder brother is indeed dead, because the court has a convention that if someone in the family has died in the battlefield, the remaining males can be exempted from military service, so the second son of the Zhao family came back with the urn to fulfill his filial piety.

Because there are elderly people at home, the Zhao family's elder brother cannot handle the funeral. He just made a simple temple. In fact, the two brothers have been away from home for so many years, and everyone will more or less want to get a lot of things. It is already a great luck to be able to come back. The dead are gone, and the living are like this. Everyone comforts Aunt Zhao like this, and fortunately there is still a son in her knees, which makes her feel a little relieved.

I went to the door to deliver silk gold and was comforting Aunt Zhao, but I saw a strong man with dark skin and a sense of courage coming up and said to Yun Xiang: "This is from the Liu family--?"

Yunxiang nodded.

I hurriedly stood up and saw the man clasping his fists at me: "Thank you for taking care of my sister so much."

It seems that this is Yunxiang's second brother, but he is a strong young man. I used to think that Gu Ping had already experienced very masculine in the military camp, but compared with those who have actually been on the battlefield, he is really incomparable. This second brother Zhao seemed very evil and extremely eye-catching when he stood in the crowd.

I smiled and said, "I dare not take it, Brother Zhao is so serious."

He said, "I heard from my mother and sister that you are a capable person. Don't be polite tonight, stay for a simple meal."

Those who have been soldiers are so straightforward, and I can't refuse, so I nodded and agreed. Everyone sat down to eat, and the table was full of vegetarian food, but it tasted pretty good. Li Er was no longer picky about food now, and put the vegetables in her bowl, and still ate with relish.

But Aunt Zhao was still heartbroken when she was a white man who gave the black man, and she couldn't eat anything at all. Yunxiang and the others could only send her back to the inner room to have a good rest. During the meal, the second brother of the Zhao family kept thanking me for taking care of his sister. When Yunxiang came back, she said, "Second brother, Qingying had written a letter to you when she was young."

"Oh, I remembered it." Zhao Erge nodded: "Once a letter, even the documents in the camp said that the words were written very well, and the teacher might not have written so well. It was just you."

I smiled modestly: "It's too much."

"Hey, if we could come back that time..."

He said, his dark eyebrows frowned, and he raised his glass and drank it all. Yunxiang next to him red eyes again and gently climbed on his shoulder: "Brother..."

I said, "I still remember when I was writing a letter for Aunt Zhao, and I said you should be back soon. Why did it take so long for me?"

Brother Zhao picked up the wine pot and poured another glass of wine, his eyebrows were deeply locked: "Yes, I should have come back that time, but later because of war in Hehuang, the Ministry of War issued a transfer order and transferred more than 80,000 of our troops over."

"Hehuang?"

I listened and thought in a daze. I remember that at the New Year banquet before I left the palace, after Youmuya performed a dance, Pei Yuanhao once mentioned that her brother Tu Shuhan defeated the cavalry of the Dongchaga tribe in the Hehuang area and defended the stability of the border. It was also a rare good news in the smoky and chaotic situation.

It turned out that the army where the Zhao brothers were located was also transferred to participate in those battles.

Thinking of this, I casually said, "I remember it was Tu Shuhan who led his troops to fight?"

"Yes, it's him." Brother Zhao said, slamming the table: "That beard, if you want to say, he is really good at fighting. The few generals we followed before are not as cruel as him!"

"oh?"

I still remember that Luo Shi once said that there was almost no general in the Celestial Empire that could be fought, and the only general, that is, the fifth prince Pei Yuanfeng, at that time, also left. Thinking about it carefully, Pei Yuanhao was indeed very biased in the promotion of civil officials and military generals. He had almost thirsty requests for civil officials in the world and dared to boldly promote and appoint young officials, but the military generals were indeed weaker. Maybe he later realized that it was not until a year or two ago that Wen Fengxi was released, otherwise he would not have been suppressed by Luo Shi in the East Province. In recent years, there have been many wars in the border and the south.

In addition to Wen Fengxi, there is now another Hu general, which seems to be consciously cultivated by Pei Yuanhao.

I was still thinking about it, and I heard Brother Zhao say, "But, this man is unambiguous in fighting, just doing things, a little sneaky."
Chapter completed!