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    ☆、Moshanghua 34

    The golden crow sinks in the west.When Wei Yunsheng arrived home, the house was already lit with dim candlelight.

    The bright and dim light shone on the girl’s face, making her look a little complicated and confused.Hearing the creak of the door, she came back to reality as if she had woken up: “You’re back?”

    Wei Yunsheng nodded and looked around, but he didn’t see the little guy who always glared at him.

    “I went for a walk with Dahuang,” Yao Ji explained. She didn’t know why, but when she mentioned the little pharmacist, her eyes became a little more complicated. However, she quickly suppressed the complexity and ignored what the little guy told her for the time being. “That person…lost him?”

    She already knew the whole story from the little pharmacist, and she couldn’t help but complain about this man.

    Wei Yunsheng’s mysterious master is definitely not an ordinary person. Yao Ji has become more and more sure of this when teaching him calligraphy.

    Sharp thinking and outstanding skills, the former may be a natural talent, but the latter must be learned through hard work and guidance from experts.Wei Yunsheng told her that he used to follow his master to learn martial arts and read military books.The book he used for enlightenment was “Sun Tzu’s Art of War”. If Wei Yunsheng’s master was just an ordinary literate person, how could he teach him these things?

    Even so, this is not a reason for him to take risks.Outsiders who don’t know the details are likely to be related to the Shenwei Hou Mansion. If Wei Yunsheng’s tracking is discovered, the consequences will be disastrous.

    Fortunately, judging from Wei Yunsheng’s expression, this trip should go smoothly.Yao Ji sighed: “Have you eaten? I’ll bring you food.”

    She always felt uneasy, not only about that person, but also…the things the pharmacist told her.

    Facts also proved that her uneasiness was not unfounded. The man stuffed the steamed cake into his mouth and said vaguely: “The man stayed in an inn in the county town. There were several people who came with him. I quietly inquired and found that he came from Beijing and stayed for three days. Some of them went to Lijia Village and a few to Dongtou Village.”

    These two villages are both on the edge of the Huaijiang River. If you think of them asking about the little lady who fell into the water, I am afraid they are here for Yao Ji.

    “Don’t worry,” he put down his chopsticks, probably seeing Yao Ji’s hesitant expression, “I was careful not to let them notice.”

    But Yao Ji couldn’t tell him that this was not the only thing she was worried about. Just as she was about to say something to lighten the atmosphere, she heard even more shocking news.

    “When I entered the city, I heard people say that Huainan was rebelling.”

    “What?!”

    The man’s face was still expressionless, as if he was not talking about a major event that shocked the world: “Huainan has rebelled. It has been raining since the beginning of spring. The year is not good, but the court still wants to increase taxes.”

    Huainan Prefecture, which is not far from Ning’an Prefecture, is an important tax-paying place and is known as the world’s granary.Although it was a land of plenty, it made the imperial court more exploitative.The common people were burdened with heavy taxes. If it was a good year, they would not be hungry. But in a famine year, it would be difficult to make ends meet. How could there be any extra grain and rice to pay to the court?

    As soon as the decree to increase the levy came, the entire Huainan Mansion was boiling.

    Although it’s not the autumn harvest yet.Now it was obvious that this year would be difficult, but the imperial court requested additional levies on the grounds of old practice. The crowd was excited for a while, and the supervisors of Huainan Fucheng gathered together and rushed to the gate of the government office to plead for the people.

    As for the scholarly rebellion, it would take three years, and this group of scholars would not be able to cause any big trouble.Unexpectedly, the governor of Huainan Prefecture was used to being domineering and had no words of comfort, so he ordered all the prison guards who dared to “offend” to be arrested.

    This stirred up a hornet’s nest. It turned out that the prefect was Xing Jin. Before he was sent to Huainan, he was just a layman in the Ministry of Works. His son became a godfather to the eunuch of the Supervisor of Ceremonies, and he rose through the ranks.

    At this moment, what do people hate most?He is the eunuch who controls the government and stirs up chaos in the world.

    Huainan Prefecture rebelled from then on, and the situation quickly spread from the prefectural city to several lower counties. When Wei Yunsheng learned about this, he heard that the imperial court was already sending troops to encircle and suppress them.

    “The world is not peaceful, Yaoyao, it’s better to go to Beijing.”

    Huainan Mansion is not far from Ning’an Mansion, who knows whether the chaos will spread here.Besides, there was one thing Wei Yunsheng didn’t say. Once the beginning was established, breaking the ban again would not be so intimidating.

    Ning’an Mansion has also always been an important tax-paying place. The imperial court wants to recruit soldiers, and the soldiers need food. If Ning’an cannot escape that day, won’t it… this place will also become a place of war and chaos.

    “Those people have unknown intentions, so don’t pay attention to them. I’ll take you and the pharmacist back to Beijing.”

    “If the pharmacist hears this, I’m afraid he will be extremely happy.”

    Perhaps he also remembered how little Baozi always asked Yao Ji to return to Beijing with him, and Wei Yunsheng smiled in his eyes.

    “Okay, let’s go back,” the girl said softly, “You’re not sending me off, we’re together.”

    She won’t insist on staying in Guojiacun just because she’s not ready yet. Since the world is already in chaos, maybe it’s time.

    “There is also the last batch of herbs. Once they are dried and sold to Master Zhao, we will go to Beijing.”

    That night, Little Baozi slept particularly uneasily. He clutched his sister’s skirt tightly, just like when he first came here, as if he was afraid that the people around him would disappear.

    In the past, Yao Ji didn’t quite understand. According to Xiao Baozi, Marquis Shenwei loved him very much. Although Mrs. Liu regarded him and Yao Ji as a thorn in her side, he had never suffered any hardship in the Hou Mansion, so how could he seem so insecure.

    Now that I think about it, everything is a clue.

    Her memory has not yet been restored, but she has to shoulder that responsibility.Yao Ji couldn’t help but think of Wei Yunsheng’s words that he always said, “You can only live by your heart.”

    Her true nature dictates that she will not escape.

    Early the next morning, Yao Ji asked Aunt Luo, who went to the city to see her son, to send a message to Mr. Zhao, saying that the next batch of herbs would be ready soon, but this was the last batch, and she also asked him to contact the place where he could provide the medicinal materials in advance.

    Aunt Luo delivered the message as promised and came back with a sentence: “Master Zhao said that he will take time to come to the village and tell the lady then.”

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