Return of the Swallow

Pang Xiao's expression was still a little tense, but when facing Qin Yining, his expression involuntarily slowed down, and he admitted with a sigh: "I was indeed so impulsive because I was so angry."

Qin Yining sighed in understanding, no matter who it is, they solved a problem in the field they are best at, only to find out afterwards that they have been tricked, and someone deliberately did it, this is a disaster for anyone kind of humiliation.

Qin Yining stood behind him, wrapped his arms around his neck around the back of the chair, and pressed his face against his side.

"I understand. This time it's obvious that you were calculated intentionally or unintentionally. It is very likely that they have already set up a set before they know that we are coming to the old capital. When we first arrived in the old capital, we were only busy thinking about how to stand When you get your footing firmly, you have no choice but to get into a trap."

Qin Yining's voice was as gentle as water, and Pang Xiao's body and mind relaxed because of it, and he couldn't help turning his head to gently kiss the corner of her mouth.

Qin Yining let him move with a smile, and said, "I can't tell who is behind this Sitong number. Otherwise, why would they plan to target us early? In the old capital, who is the person who hates us the most? The answer is already out of the question." And metaphor."

"Yu Chiyan doesn't have that much skill, I suspect that these are all Gu Shixiong's handwriting. He is worthy of being the old master of the three dynasties, and his methods are still the same as before."

Pang Xiao said with emotion: "If Yu Chiyan didn't have Gu Shixiong by his side, he might have given up his mind a long time ago and quietly became a rich and idle person, letting the Holy One take care of him, while he obediently stayed in the cage and studied calligraphy and painting."

"That may not be a bad thing for him." Qin Yining also felt a little emotional.

In the past, although her relationship with Yu Chiyan was not close, she even offended Yu Chiyan for refusing to marry. But Yuchiyan is a person with integrity and integrity, ten thousand times stronger than his father who is a fool. He has people in his heart, he has a family and a country, but he lacks the ability to be a king of a country, but his overall Shang isn't a bad guy either.

But now, he has embarked on the road of fighting for power and profit. As early as he was persuaded by Gu Shixiong to leave his wife and concubine to search for treasures, he is no longer the sympathetic king of subjugation who cared about the people and failed simply because he was powerless. up.

Qin Yining said: "Yu Chiyan is definitely targeting us. Since Stone can follow Yu Chiyan's orders to set up this trap, we should let them hand over to Shu Xiu."

"Jiao Shuxiu?" Pang Xiao looked back at Qin Yining.

Qin Yining leaned close to Pang Xiao's ear and whispered his solution.

A smile gradually appeared on Pang Xiao's face as he listened,

Finally, he gently scratched her upturned nose.

"You little rascal. That's why you stopped me just now?"

"yes."

"The shopkeeper Liu is still very grateful to you. If he knew that he would be tricked, he might cry again."

Qin Yining smiled a little embarrassedly.

"If I have to, I don't want to do it. This method is really a bit disgraceful. But it doesn't make sense if people harm us, we can't fight back. Is it moral for them to harm others? It's not moral at this time At that time, I was not a kind person, no one hit me on the left cheek, and I would smile and stick out the right cheek."

Seeing that she was very angry, Pang Xiao couldn't help but smiled and patted her on the shoulder comfortingly. With his long arms stretched out, he hugged her around the back of the chair and sat on his lap, wrapping her arms around her in front of him. , went to peck her forehead first.

"You don't have to feel sorry, because you did nothing wrong. If you hadn't kept calm, I might have missed the best chance to fight back just now."

Having said that, Pang Xiao felt more and more that it was his luck to have such a smart and virtuous wife.

"Sister Yi, why are you so nice?" Pang Xiao's deep voice whispered in Qin Yining's ear, "I like you, and I really like you more and more."

His voice like the sound of a zither and his warm breath are right next to his ears, Qin Yining is surrounded by him with the familiar refreshing breath all over his body, his whole heart is so soft that it is about to melt.

Leaning in Pang Xiao's arms with a red face, she simply buried her face in his quiet nest, Qin Yining's heart was at peace and calm like never before, as if no matter what happened now, as long as Pang Xiao was with her, she would not scared.

Following Qin Yining's method, Pang Xiao immediately ordered people to go to the city to publicize it. Tomorrow afternoon, in the big square outside the porridge factory, Prince Zhongshun has something important to say to everyone.

Although the people in the old capital are not all poor enough to go to the porridge shed to eat, the influence of the refugees is still very large. Qin Yining asked Lu Dehan to continue to open the porridge shed to give porridge since the beginning of the new year. Help these poor people survive the severe winter. Although these people come to receive the porridge regularly every day, they still want to go home later.

They lived in different parts of the city, and the neighbors in the neighborhood had heard a lot of good things from Prince Zhongshun from the refugees.

Even when some people chatted their teeth in the streets and alleys, they told the story of how Prince Zhongshun turned the tide, punished rape and eradicated evil, and killed the villain Gao Wenyao into a wonderful book.

So when the news that Prince Zhongshun was going to spread the word on the porridge factory square, many people were curious and decided to see what was going on.

As for Yu Chiyan and Gu Shixiong, naturally they also got the news.

"My lord, I don't know what kind of trouble the surname Pang will make this time. As usual, he should be in a state of desperation by now."

Yu Chiyan propped her hands on the painting table, looked down at a picture of a beauty on the paper that hadn't painted her facial features in detail, raised her head when she heard this, and said with a smile: "It's no wonder he is not in a hurry. A large amount of famine fell from the sky, where is he going?" Pay it back? And the consequences of not being able to pay the money this time are very serious. Those rough guys in the army are not easy to deal with. If they don’t pay when it’s time to pay, who will follow him? It's all possible."

Gu Shixiong also laughed when he heard the words, "This time we finally managed to win back a victory. Don't let that shameless surname Pang continue to be complacent."

Yu Chiyan carefully flattened the drawing paper with a mahogany paperweight, and said with a smile: "Tomorrow, I'm going to see what the hell is going on with Pang."

With such a big crisis, Yu Chiyan didn't believe that Pang Xiao had the ability to solve it. If he could get money by talking to the common people, would he still be so embarrassed back then?

At the same time, the study in the outer courtyard of the Yang Mansion.

Yang Zhifu sat sideways on the official hat chair placed by the window, with a teasing smile on his face, he said playfully, "I don't know what Pang Zhixi is going to do this time."

Qiu Feishan sat gracefully at the head seat, took the hot tea brought by the maid, warmed her hands with a blue and white tureen with a smile, and didn't say much.

Seeing this, Yang Zhifu shut his mouth, put away his disdain and contempt just now, and said seriously: "Let's go and have a look tomorrow."

Qiu Feishan nodded, and said with a light smile: "After what happened last time, I was really curious about what he would do. And I met Prince Zhongshun at the banquet last time... She is really a beautiful and intelligent woman."

Yang Zhifu thought of the princess's appearance like a delicate flower reflecting water yesterday, so he couldn't help but nodded in agreement, and then said with a smile: "Miss Qiu is also better than her. Delicate flowers are certainly eye-catching, but they are better than red plums." A little less vigor."

Qiu Feishan just laughed off such flattery.

Qiu Feishan had heard too many stories about that woman with a beautiful face and a pair of very clear eyes, and she already wanted to make friends with her. It's just... Now it seems that the position between them may not be easy to become friends.

At noon the next day, people who heard the news gathered in the square in front of the porridge factory. The magistrate Yang, Yu Chiyan, and the local gentry had already booked private rooms on the second floor of the nearby teahouse and tavern facing the street, waiting to see for themselves what Prince Zhongshun was going to do with such a big fight.

Qin Yining did not go to the private room, but was surrounded by Jinghuwei and silver-faced spies, and waited at the corner of the street in a carriage.

Wearing a python robe and a sable velvet cloak, Pang Xiao walked to the middle of the open space, and went straight to the point: "Folks, I called everyone here today, and I have something to tell you."

Such an approachable tone is very helpful to ordinary people.

And his usual words can be easily understood by those who don't know a few words.

Pang Xiao said: "Everyone knows that this king is here to take the post of Generalissimo of Pingnan, and it is also the first time he has come here, and he has just begun to understand everything here. Just yesterday, this king unexpectedly heard a shocking news. "

He intentionally paused here, arousing everyone's curiosity, even Yu Chiyan, Yang Zhifu and others who were sitting in the box held their breaths curiously.

Pang Xiao said: "I just found out yesterday that the Pingnan Army actually owed a foreign debt of three million taels of silver!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked.

Some people did not expect Pang Xiao to say such a thing, such as Yu Chiyan. There were also people who observed Pang Xiao's expression with great interest after being surprised, such as Yang Zhifu.

The people were even more blown away.

What is the concept of three million taels of silver? Ordinary people like them may never have the chance to see thirty taels of silver put together in their entire lives! Three million taels, that was beyond their imagination.

This is a surprisingly large sum of money for trees!

Everyone discussed why Pingnan Army owed so much debt!

Pang Xiao said loudly again: "Presumably, everyone wants to know what's going on, right? At the beginning, when our land of Yan was just included in the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Holy Majesty thought that the people had suffered too much, so he removed it The local ten-year taxation. Everyone knows this.

"As for the Pingnan Army, these 100,000 soldiers must be stationed here in order to defend their country. Everyone knows that the Tartars in the north are dishonest, and at the moment we are talking here, the north is at war. Well. The Holy Majesty is now focusing on not being bullied by the Tartars for the common people in the north, so he can only order the Pingnan Army to raise their own military salaries locally. But, there is no tax, so where will the salaries come from?"

Pang Xiao spread his hands, "At this time, Stone came forward on its own initiative and borrowed 300,000 taels of silver to solve the problem of military pay for the Pingnan Army!"