Chapter 23: Compassion and Sulking are a Pair of Children
Fan Xian ate the pain, bitter face, stretched out the tip of his tongue and licked his broken lips, and suddenly realized that there was more than a hint of sweetness, and only then did he realize that the fire Wan’er had been holding back all these days had all erupted in this one bite. He weighed the words and carefully said, “It is not that I want to say something else, it is that I think …… these days you are a little hard.”
Lin Wan Er rolled over in his arms and said vaguely, “How is it bitter?”
“I don’t have time to accompany you.” Fan Xian thought for a moment and said, “Now that my younger sister and brother have all arrived in Northern Qi, Ye Ling’er has married someone else, and Zojia can’t possibly accompany you to play …… out of Kyoto, down to Jiangnan, and here in Suzhou, I’m sure that there isn’t even anyone around you to say something sympathetic to you, and then again, it’s all unfamiliar places. ”
The words have not finished, Lin Wan’er’s big eyes have been foggy gradually, sighed softly: “You this person ya …… have to say no heart, but also know these, to say have a heart, but how can bear to be so to me.”
Fan Xian listened to some chills in his heart, coughed twice, asked, “And how do I treat you?”
“Is that all you want to say?” Lin Wan’er looked seriously into his eyes.
Fan Xian nodded after thinking for a while.
Lin Wan Er laughed coldly: “Starting to be shameless again, in the past in Kyoto, I said to you, what you want to do, I won’t stop you …… anyway, this woman’s words, originally there is not much force, just hope you can be more honest, before things happen to say with me, even if I am now no longer useless, but how is it also your Fan family? In any case, I am also the eldest daughter-in-law of your Fan family, there are some things that must not be hidden from me in the end.”
“Where is this going?” Fan Xian was vaguely angry, “How can you not be so self-pitying and self-absorbed, the Wan’er I like is a gentle and mischievous girl ……”
He said halfway but stopped talking, instead, Wan’er smiled sweetly and said gently, “Why don’t you continue to teach me a lesson?”
Fan Xian coughed and said, “Whether you believe it or not, originally I wasn’t prepared to say anything else today.”
“Oh, really?” Lin Wan’er sighed and said, “Then when are you going to tell me about Miss Haitang?”
Fan Xian was silent for half a moment before saying, “It’s different.” After saying this, he tightly hugged Wan’er, who had rolled over to gamble, and gently tickled her soft waist and abdomen with one hand, while blowing in her ear and saying, “We’ve been separated for more than ten days, what’s the point of talking about that?”
If it were Haitang, or Ruoruo, a girl who had undergone Fan Xian’s modern feminist training, she would have kicked Fan Xian under the bed at this time.
But although Wan Er grew up in the palace since childhood, her brain was full of delicate and profound, but in the matter of men and women, she was subjected to the most traditional education, she said in a muffled voice, “That girl’s status is different, it’s already troublesome, but you are still doing it on your own, I don’t know what things will be tossed out in the future.”
Fan Xian listened to this seeming acknowledgement, his heart did not relax, but instead, a faint apology welled up. People, especially men, to say that he doesn’t fall in love with so-and-so seems to be false, but to say that he will fall in love with so-and-so for the rest of his life and never look askance is even more of a lie.
Enjoying jade on the eastern mountain, watching the sunset on the western mountain, practicing different things in different places, no one would be able to deceive himself and brainwash the world.
“But it’s true that it’s quite boring for you to stay at home every day and have no one to play mahjong with.” Fan Xian didn’t want to continue on that issue, because he suddenly realized that the positioning on Haitang’s side ultimately fell on friends, and that woman didn’t see to be willing to marry into the Fan family, so why should he worry about that in advance, and why should he make his wife follow suit with her worries and slight sourness.
“The ladies …… in the palace are not the same as this mixed up.” Fan Xian’s words touched Lin Wan Er’s true weak spot deep within her heart, causing her to sigh.
Since she was young, she grew up in the palace, her mother was the dynasty’s illustrious eldest princess, her father was the hallowed Lin prime minister, but unfortunately, she was long locked in the palace, her parents had not seen a few faces, and so on, if it was the palace’s ladies who raised her en masse. She is smart by nature, and is growing up in such an environment, not to say smart, at least it is also on the power field of the hooks and trips to understand clearly, she believes that her ability should have played a greater role.
But on the one hand, because of the relationship of the eldest princess, Lin Wan Er is somewhat averse to maneuvering intrigue, willing to be calm; secondly, because of the hostile relationship between her own husband and mother, Wan Er is also impossible to find a suitable territory to shine.
This was something that Fan Xian had discussed with her long ago.
A person who could not find a niche within the environment around her would ultimately feel a sense of loss. If she was just an ordinary woman, then it would be fine to take care of the household, honor her in-laws, serve her husband, and raise her children, but Lin Wan’er’s origin dictated that she would always have some regrets if she were to remain ordinary, especially since there were already many people who had begun to radiate by Fan Xian’s side.
Lin Wan’er was ready to resign herself to her fate at a certain point, ready to hold on to the fond memories of having a son over the wall, trying to have a child for Fan Xian, and keeping her husband’s heart by her side, which is why she took the strange risk of stopping the medicine Fei Jie had prescribed.
Fan Xian is a slender and sensitive person, of course he knows what the deeper meaning of his wife s move is, of course he is clear about what the faint sorrow between his wife s eyebrows in these months is, but …… he has not been able to find a good solution.
Fan Si Zhe’s ideal of life is in the business, so Fan Xian can kick him to the north to smuggle; Ruo Ruo’s ideal of life is inculcated by Fan Xian, so Fan Xian can use all means to send her under the door of the Bitter Lotus to travel thousands of miles to see different people; however, the status of Wan Er …… is not the same, she is her own wife, her ideal of life …… or more vulgarly, the realization of her value should seek a way of what?
Chunwu case, as well as before and after some of the affairs, let Fan Xian clear, Wan Er’s strengths in fact in the palace, in the planning, really can help themselves a lot of busy, but the problem is, right now they and Xinyang aspects of the situation as if the water is on fire, how can let Wan Er sandwiched in the middle of the difficult situation?
Fan Xian sighed and said, “If there really is a day in the future when the blades meet, I really don’t know how to handle myself.”
Such a naked conversation was actually seldom involved between them as a couple, and they had always somewhat avoided this matter. After Lin Wan Er was silent for a long time, she said, “You know, I don’t have much affection for my mother …… but she is my mother after all.”
“I understand.” Fan Xian pressed his muzzle against her hair and sniffed deeply, “Trust me, at least I will definitely not make you sad.”
Would anyone believe this sentence?
Fan Xian suddenly opened his mouth and smiled, “Wan Er, staying at home all the time is really boring …… I have some things I want you to help with, but it might be a bit more hard and laborious.”
Lin Wan’er curiously opened her big eyes, turned around and stuck face to face with him, saying, “What is it?”
Soft fragrance in his arms, Fan Xian wrapped his arms around his wife and couldn’t help but rub that plumpness twice and said with a smile, “You also know that I’m rich.”
“That’s right.” Lin Wan’er couldn’t help but smile, and snapped her hand back to knock down that thieving hand again.
Fan Xian said with a straight face, “When I went down to Jiangnan for the first time in years, I found that although Jiangnan is rich, there are actually still many people who are not clothed and do not have enough to eat. You see, even Jiangnan is like this, not to mention the north of the river, as well as the people in that area of the middle reaches of the Great River that were flooded, and even more so, they don’t know how to live.”
Lin Wan’er curiously said, “Didn’t you say that the silver searched in the inner treasury has already been transferred to the River Transportation Governor’s office by some means?”
“That was only part of it.” Fan Xian thought for a moment and then said, “You know more about the court than I do, there are not many of those officials who can be trusted, and if I enter the silver into the court, even if there is the Supervisory Yuan and Yang Wanli keeping an eye on it, what should flow away will still flow …… not to mention the other side of the story, at least my Fan family, the Liu family, and even the palace will be on top of this silver Eat something, so I think …… there are some things we do ourselves more convenient.”
“What things?”
“Jiangnan really has money, those rich merchants ten million taels of silver is something they can take out.” Fan Xian sneered, “But there are still that many poor people …… This is a problem of unevenness.”
He continued to sigh, “I don’t have any skills to change this phenomenon, I have to find some middle-of-the-road methods to improve it.”
“What do you mean ……,” Lin Wan’er said hesitantly as she guessed what was on her husband’s mind, “You’re going to rob the rich to help the poor?”
Fan Xian laughed out loud, not realizing that his wife of noble birth would use the common bandit language of the talking books, and couldn’t help but scratch her pretty nose.
Wan Er spat out her little tongue and laughed cheekily.
“But …… really is also considered robbing the rich to help the poor, right?” Fan Xian thought about it and then said seriously, “My thoughts are like this, anyway, from the inner treasury and the hands of the officials scraped so much silver, always have to find a way to use it out, how can we not use it all in this family. As I said earlier, I don’t want to go through this path of the imperial court, so how can I use this silver on the people?”
Lin Wan’er hmmm, said: “In previous years, the common is to open porridge store, repair the good school, I remember when I was a child in the north was hit by a disaster, the people who fled the famine have flocked to Kyoto, there are a few ministers in the court asked his majesty to send troops to suppress, will be driven to the side of the state of the people in the counties, but the emperor uncle did not agree to the proposal, but instead of those ministers withdrew, and at the same time also opened the imperial warehouse! …… That year when the congee was given, the Empress Dowager’s old man even took these few of us inside the palace to hold the spoons.”
Fan Xian nodded, he had heard of this story, the emperor was not a fool and naturally knew how it should be handled, saying, “Simply putting out congee on a temporary basis is not enough, and it’s difficult to promote the study of cultivating goodness, so I’ve decided to remit the silver I’ve earned into a specialized institution, and then to do good deeds for years.”
He lay down in the middle of the thin quilt, and said with a wave of his hand, “Poor students have no money, go to the school we run to study; no rice to eat, we buy rice to send; in the spring there are no seedlings, we give …… In short, the things that the court did not think to do, we go to do to go. ”
Lin Wan Er looked at his confident look, heart also excited, but immediately said with a bitter smile, “Fool, do you know do not know how much silver this will cost?”
“Doesn’t earning silver mean spending it?” Fan Xian said with a smile, “Anyway, what I earn is also the silver of the court and merchants, and the court and merchants scrape the silver from the hands of the people, so-called take from the people, use in the people, that’s the truth.”
Lin Wan’er listened to the words “taken from the people, used by the people”, her eyes lit up and said, “This is fresh, but …… it makes sense.”
Fan Xian looked down at his wife worship look, somehow but thought of last year in the Beijing Palace in Northern Qi, Northern Qi small emperor and Begonia DuoDuo listening to their own shouting “the world’s worries first, after the world’s joy and happiness” when the scene, not some sweating.
Unexpectedly Lin Wan Er followed by shaking her head seriously: “still not work. Not to say that this is a bottomless pit, you throw more also do not see to be able to fill, alone the influence of this matter, but also to think twice, the court to do the affairs, but you snatched over to do, this is very taboo.”
Fan Xian thought about it and then came up with the idea, “Not naming it won’t work?”
Lin Wan’er gouged him out and said like a fool, “If you don’t name it, how can you spread such a big scene? You do not just want to save the people of a county and a state …… If you do not know that you preside over the good deeds, those local officials see this piece of fat meat shall not hurry to gnaw on the mouth? That’s why the name must be given.”
Fan Xian thought about it is indeed this reasoning, just to be named again, and can not let the court anger, really some difficult to do.
Lin Wan’er suddenly opened her mouth and said, “You say …… how about doing this thing in the name of the palace? With the Empress Dowager’s name, there’s no need for the nobles in the palace to pay for it anyway, so let’s pay for it and let them take on the name, so that the court will be honored, they will have face, and His Majesty will be happy.”
Fan Xian was stunned, looking at Wan’er half a day without saying anything, thinking that indeed this is the reasoning, with the nobles in the palace stepping forward, it will certainly be better to implement a lot, then is this …… not the so-called charity general meeting that he often saw in his previous life? Just Qing Guo initial, I think it will be much rougher, but since there is a beginning, for the people’s days will always be some improvement.
Lin Wan’er came to interest, continue to come up with ideas: “But you can’t afford to ban this kind of toss, I think it’s still necessary to save the emergency not to save the poor …… real focus still have to be placed on reading and disaster relief, the daily to do things …… ”
Said halfway, she stopped her mouth, Fan Xian also stopped his mouth, the two people face to face, then laughed in unison, the smile with a hint of embarrassment and self-deprecation.
What exactly should be done, how to make the people of Qing Guo or even the world live better, this couple are biting the golden spoon from the characters, where the details of the clear, but it is just a generalized discussion, really to say to the specific, the two couples will only be in the reading and put porridge on the circle.
Laughed for a while, Fan Xian seriously said: “still have to do, understand these people always have, Yang Wanli born poor, such as the embankment of the matter to slow down, called to the capital to say.”
His mind flashed through the previous generation of those changes to, what green seedling and so on, although it looks glorious, but Fan Xian knows that he does not have the ability to change the situation, thinking that he had to go to the sewing, although trivial, although it can not change too much ……, but can make the people’s days a little better.
Even a little, this thing can still do.
Anyway, and do not need Fan Xian bother, only need to spend some money.
“I’ll leave this to you.” Fan Xian looked at Wan Er with a smile.
Wan Er was taken aback and said, “How can you leave such a big thing to me?”
“I’m relieved that you’re doing it.” Fan Xian smiled and said, “Besides, if I want to pull the noble ladies in the palace into the business, how can I organize it without you. Women do things, than I step forward to bear the risk is also smaller …… you can not say you refuse to do.”
“Ken!” Lin Wan Er listened to the heart excited, it is not easy to do some things, where willing to miss this opportunity.
Husband and wife and said a few words, they are ready to some time, will do this thing up, during which Fan Xian can not help but say a few words similar to the granting of fish to others as well as the granting of fish to others and other beautiful words, the Wan Er shocked and shocked. The two of them couldn’t stop talking, and instead, they lost their sleep.
“How long have you been preparing for this?” Lin Wan’er buried her head in his arms and asked in a jar.
Fan Xian let his mouth slip for a moment, “Half a year.”
Lin Wan’er looked at Fan Xian’s good-looking face and felt a hint of warmth deep in her heart, she knew that most of the reason why Fan Xian did this was for himself.
In fact, in Fan Xian’s view …… he did do this thing entirely for Wan Er.
Only at this time the husband and wife on the bed, but did not think that such a bright idea and appeared in the world of the organization, and later because Fan Xian hand manipulation of too many resources, and relying on Wan Er’s ability, but gradually out of their initial idea, gradually evolved into an organization that no one could predict, for this world, for Fan Xian himself, brought many benefits.
“You don’t want to put all of this silver in one place.” Lin Wan’er batted her long eyelashes and said seriously, “Although I don’t know anything about economic current affairs, I can understand from what you and Si Zhe have done that money can make money.”
Fan Xian nodded, he naturally wouldn’t suffer himself by doing these things, Lao Er was earning in the north, Shi Hanyan Li and Sang Wen were doing the skin and flesh business in the south, and when that large amount of the money bank’s industry came into the account later, it would naturally become a source of living water. See Wan Er back to the bright heart, know that this niece has something to do after the beginning of excitement, Fan Xian’s heart is also extremely happy, he thought for so long things, finally played a due effect, the most let him be happy is, so an interruption, those short things of the parents may be light.
Unexpectedly, the world is not as good as it should be always nine times out of ten.
Lin Wan’er bit her lip and said, “But you haven’t answered me about what I said most earlier.”
Fan Xian was stunned, and with a hefty smile, he wrapped her in his arms and kissed her, saying vaguely, “Don’t worry, there will be no more of this.”
It was the same old saying, who could believe a man’s words? Sure enough, Lin Wan’er didn’t really believe it, glancing outside with her eyes, she said softly, “Although Si Si has entered the door, but there is no ceremony, it will always be aggravating for her, I’ve already talked to grandma, and it’s better to organize it in a few days.”
Fan Xian laughed and said, “Let you guys do whatever you want, anyway, she grew up with me since she was a child, so she probably doesn’t care about that.”
The husband and wife spoke in a very soft voice, but at this time, the small bed in the outer compartment was filled with Si Si’s coughing, which was full of shyness and annoyance.
Lin Wan Er looked at Fan Xian and laughed, “Did you hear that? Who says they don’t care?”
Fan Xian awkwardly slapped her butt and said, “Usually this big girl sleeps like a pig, why are you so awake today?”
Speaking of sleeping like a pig, Lin Wan’er immediately thought of Siqi, who had joined the Fan residence with her, and who was also her personal maid, and who had been charmed by Fan Xian every day in the other courtyard, and who had done a lot of hard work without any credit, and frowned and said, “What about Siqi?”
Looking at Wan Er’s expression, Fan Xian understood that the lady of the house desperately wanted her eldest maid to join her, but Fan Xian was really a bit afraid of these things, and begged for forgiveness, “Let’s not do that, I’m not a one-night groom.”
Wan’er gave him an angry look.
After a lot of fussing, the husband and wife were finally tired, and Fan Xian hugged his wife contentedly and whispered in her ear, “Tomorrow you will be taken to a place.”
Lin Wan’er said in a daze, “This Tanyu city isn’t big, I’ve already strolled all over …… where else to go?”
First of all, not to mention the Fan Xian couple’s Tanyu State day trip, after all, after returning to Tanyu State, there is a good while of busy, Fan Xian just to receive the acquaintances of previous years have a suffer, where can find the time to go to play to go. On a certain day, the old grandmother finally presided over, and the Si Si big girl who had an accident with Fan Xian on the big river boat was finally taken into the room without any surprise, but Si Si, who was used to serving Fan Xian, could not accept this change of roles for a while, and appeared to be a bit confused and at a loss for words.
For this point, everyone had been prepared, Si Si and Fan Xian grew up together since childhood, the relationship is very good, many of the subordinates still remember that year, twelve-year-old Fan Xian in order to stand up for Si Si, the steward from Kyoto beat a full face of peach blossom bloom.
That housekeeper left after he was insulted, but then he never heard the news and didn’t know where he went.
Moreover, after Fan Xian went to Kyoto, when Tanyuzhu got the news of his marriage, the old ancestor sent Si Si to Kyoto, and who doesn’t know the hidden meaning here? Everyone in the two houses in Kyoto and Tanyuzhou knew that one day Si Si was going to enter the house, but when it finally happened, the maids in the Earl’s Mansion, while congratulating Si Si, couldn’t help but feel a little envious and jealous.
The old lady gave Si Si a big red envelope, and gently said a long time, Si Si girl crying, eyes red, even Wan Er in a side are wiping tears.
The next morning, the back door of Fan Mansion was opened with a creak, and Fan Xian pulled Si Si’s hand furtively out of the door. He glanced back at the girl whose eyes were as red and swollen as peaches and said in amusement, “Did I bully you or what?”
Si Si choked and glared at him, anyway, she was the one in this mansion who dared to be the most rude to Fan Xian. She looked at the rising mist and quiet roads of Tanyu, and couldn’t help but ask curiously, “Young master, where are we going?”
See, the name calling still couldn’t be changed.
Fan Xian grasped her hand, then felt that it was indeed a bit exciting, like cheating, but it was clear that only yesterday he had entered the room …… openly and honestly From this, it can be seen that men are indeed a very cheap animal.
His face flashed a gentle smile, “Let’s go buy tofu to eat.”