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Chapter VII The Fish That Will Be Hooked

If the memory of the integration is good, Yuan Qingqi's father Yuan Jie, now he was appointed as the prefect of Jinling and was awarded the title of General of the Left Army, and was already a fourth-rank official. The Chu State inherited the Wei system, but the official rank was chaotic and the boundaries of civil and military were not strict. In order to increase qualifications and reputation, or to show the honor of Tsinghua University, he often gave "civil and military" double-rank official. For example, Yuan Jie, the prefect of Jinling was a fifth-rank civil servant, but with the title of General of the Left Army, he had the title of fourth-rank official. However, the general of the Left Army was only a false title and did not have real power in the army.

The visitor left all the carriages outside the yard, stepped into the gate alone, saw Xu You from afar, smiled and bowed, and said, "I have seen Mr. Lang!"

Xu You recognized this person as Feng Tong, the manager of the Yuan family, sold himself as a slave to the Yuan family since childhood, and then followed Yuan Jie to become a scholar. Later, Yuan Jie became an official and had his own mansion, so he became a big manager.

However, in the past, the manager of the Yuan family was very respectful when he met Xu You, and he was not as casual and rude as he is today. As the saying goes, in times of adversity, there was Chen Mu first and Feng Tong later. All of them were so snobbish, and it was known that people had no power, so how could they have dignity!

After returning the gift, Xu You asked intentionally: "Manager Feng is in a hurry, but is he here to visit him?"

Feng Tong coughed dryly and said, "The wind is strong outside, and the husband is just recovering from illness. Let's talk about it later when he goes into the room."

Xu You shook his sleeves, turned around and went first, and said, "Follow me!"

Feng Tong stared at Xu You's back, his face looked very bad. Your Xu family is now so devastated that he has lost his scholarship. He has become a poor family and offended the prince and Shen family. He doesn't know whether he can live tomorrow or not. What kind of airs are there for the aristocratic family? However, when he remembered the orders of his husband's husband, he forced himself to endure this tone, snorted, and followed Xu You into the house.

Xu You lifted up his robe, knelt on the futon, pointed to the futon opposite him, and said, "Sit!"

Feng Tong looked at the obviously worn futon on the ground, frowned slightly, and smiled and said, "Where is the old slave sitting in front of you? It's better to stand and reply!"

Xu You didn't force yourself, and was even more lazy to greet him. He asked himself: "Duke Yuan sent Manager Feng here. I guess he had something to ask about, but please tell me bluntly!"

He and Yuan Qingqi have already performed Na’s collection, asking for names, Najib, and waiting for five rituals to wait for the five rituals. They only wait for the marriage to marry on March 7 next year. It is basically considered a marriage ceremony, and it is natural to call Yuan Jie a father-in-law. But now is not the same as before. If you really want to call him a father-in-law, I am afraid that Feng Tong’s face will turn green and red. Although Xu You is mentally prepared, it is better to have some faces you should have, so the title of “Yuan Gong” is not close or far away, and it is just right!

Feng Tong thought about it and said, "The Lord did not make any clear details about the specific matters, but just ordered the old slave to invite the Lord to Jinling to discuss it in person."

Since Wei, the title of the Lord's family is generally called the Langzhu. Yuan left Chen County and crossed the river to take refuge. He lived in Jinling County with his family. Within ten years, he has become the only big surname in Jinling. Now he is ranked alongside the Xiao family of Lanling, Liu family of Hedong, and Yu family of Yingchuan, and has become the top four major clans among the overseas families of the Overjiang River. The foundation of this kind of aristocratic family is so fierce and profound. As long as the basic family education is still there, even if he is displaced in the war, he can always be reborn and stand again at the forefront of the world.

Xu You apologized: "Mr. Yuan was summoned and he should have gone there immediately, but I was seriously injured and recovered. I am afraid I can't travel far for a while..." In fact, no one wants to see Yuan Jie immediately than him. It is just that the first element of doing business is to keep calm. The more stable the other party is, the more anxious the other party is, and the initiative in negotiations can be grasped.

Sure enough, Feng Tong hurriedly advised: "My husband has important things to discuss with him. He will move to Qiantang in a few days. The journey will be even further away, and it is really not easy to meet him. Jinling is only more than seventy miles away from Yixing. The old slave prepared the car and chose the best driver. When he left the city and arrived at the pier, he took a boat along the Xijiang River and then went to Jinling. But please lie down and rest, and there will never be any bumps along the way."

Xu You showed a hint of embarrassment and said, "Mr. Li ordered me to go to Qiantang within three days. There are only two days left. If you go to Jinling to pay homage to Mr. Yuan, I'm afraid there will be no time..."

"This..." Feng Tong didn't expect this level and said: "At most one day, I believe Li Fujun won't blame him..."

Xu You shook his head and said, "It was not Li Fujun who forced me to leave, but someone else. If I really delayed the time, what consequences would be? It's really unpredictable."

Feng Tong's disappointment was beyond words. He actually had no quick-witness to adapt to the situation. He just followed Yuan Jie for many years, and was loyal, so he was valued as a great manager. He also left the major matters involving Yuan's reputation like today. But when he came, Yuan Jie only told him to invite Xu You to Jinling, but did not explain what if he refused, what should he do?

Xu You waited for a while, but he didn't see Feng Tong talking, and he was a little anxious about his IQ. The problem he raised was just a little reserved. Anyone with a high intelligence or above could think of a solution in a flash, but he didn't expect to meet such a fool.

Seeing that it was getting late, I could not look at each other in silence. Xu You said intentionally or unintentionally: "Is the Yongping River channel going east from Jinling unobstructed? I remember the last time I went to Wujun with my friend through Jinling, the riverbed seemed to be severely silted, and hundreds of ships were blocked for five days before they were released..."

"It's very smooth. The Yongping River is leaked every three months. My husband also specially assigned a visitor from Yongping and led thousands of river workers to inspect the river section on time, build embankments, prepare canals, cut off water, and set up doors. All of them are not careless. If the husband walks through the Yongping River again, he will never be blocked again."

The State of Chu had a Dushuitai, and the chief official was the Dushui envoy, who was responsible for river affairs. His subordinate officials were called the river embankment, and they were called the messenger in a certain section of the river. The so-called Yongping envoy means that this person was the top leader in charge of the Yongping River section. Xu You knew a little about these rare official positions, but they all benefited from the love of reading history in his previous life, otherwise he would not understand what Feng Tong said. As for the memories of the former owner of the body he merged, there was no storage space for these irrelevant trivial matters.

It was also the same trip to Jinling. Xu You met Yuan Qingqi on the street. She was captured by her appearance and could not control herself all day long. She even missed her while having fun in Wujun. When she returned to Yixing, she immediately told her father that she would not marry a girl from Yuan in this life. Next, the elders came forward and did not know what kind of deal they had reached. The Yuan family, who had always refused to marry the local tribe in Jiangdong, relaxed and agreed to the marriage.

After the news came out, the court was surprised that Yuan Qingqi was very talented, good at literature, mysterious, elegant and beautiful. Tan Qian, a famous monk who always liked to evaluate characters, once said that she was "bright and beautiful, and had a long-lasting talent" and was praised for a while. Although Xu You was tall and handsome, he was a martial artist after all, and was not a good match. However, the current trend is to determine marriage by family background. Putting aside personal factors, "the hero of Jiangdong is nothing more than Shen and Xu". The Xu family's family background is not inferior to Yuan, and even the deep foundation in Jiangdong is even better. Therefore, many idle people talked about it for a few days and gradually agreed with this marriage.

A figure of a woman in red appeared in Xu You's mind again, but for some reason, since she first thought of Yuan Qingqi last night, although the graceful figure appeared from time to time, it was always blurry, as if it was far and near, as if in the fog, she couldn't see her face clearly, but she just vaguely remembered that her voice was very clear and pleasant, as if the spring water flowed through the bluestone without any contamination of the world.

"That's great, it's all up to Gong Yuan's virtue and politics to benefit the people..." Xu You responded, but his eyes looked at Feng Tong inadvertently, thinking to himself: I'm so clear that I'm reminding you. If you don't react anymore, Yuan Jie is really blind and has chosen such a guy with IQ problem as a confidant manager.

Feng Tong shook violently, his eyes seemed to be about to emit light. Xu You finally let go of his breath. He heard him say proudly: "Mr. Lang, I thought of a plan that can not only not violate the orders of Li Fujun, but also allow you to go to Jinling!"

"Oh? Manager Feng said that if there is such a good plan, I should be respectful rather than obey my order!"

Feng Tong thought about it for a while before he understood the meaning of "being respect is worse than being obedient". He looked at Xu You in surprise and said, "I didn't expect that the husband's words were so vivid. Being respect is worse than being obedient, ha, interesting." He secretly wrote it in his heart and was about to tell Sanniang that he would be happy after going back. Yuan Qingqi ranked third, and whether relatives and friends or slaves in the family were called Sanniang. As the old servant who had been following Yuan's longest, Feng Tong can be said to have watched Yuan Qingqi grow up, and had the deepest feelings, so he didn't even think of her marrying Xu You the most.

It is true that the Xu family is a prominent family, but firstly, it is a Chu manzi, and secondly, it is not very educated. In Feng Tong's eyes, only aristocratic families like the Liu family in Hedong, Xiao family in Lanling, and Yu family in Yingchuan, who are both northern gentry and are all culturally powerful clans are worthy of Yuan Qingqi.

Speaking of this, it involves the issue of regional discrimination between the northern and southerners. In the late Cao Wei Dynasty, after crossing the south, the northern aristocratic tribes across the river were called "Qiao'an surname", with the Liu clan in Hedong, Yuan clan in Chenjun, Yu clan in Yingchuan, and Xiao clan in Lanling. However, these overseas clans were disliked by the local clans in Jiangdong, such as Zhu, Zhang, Kong, He and others from Wu County, who called them "Northern". They meant that they were vulgar and vulgar, which means that you were all rough people from the north. And the northern aristocratic tribes were also

They couldn't stand the powerful people in the south and said that they were Chu Man, Man and Savage! What was even more funny is that the northerners who crossed the river early looked down on the northerners who crossed the river late and called them "desolate". From "desolate" to "desolate", it was considered a secondary literary creation. The two sides attacked each other and were both tired of each other. If they had not been under the huge threat of the Wei Kingdom going south at all times in the north, the south would have to have a stable regime, and they were afraid that civil war would have long since happened before the Wei people came.

Xu You didn't expect that in this moment, he had been attacked by a psychological regional level. He trance remembered that the first time in historical materials, the saying "It's better to obey orders than respect" appeared was in the "Bamboo Book" by the eminent monk Shi Zanning of the Northern Song Dynasty. He secretly said ashamed and smiled: "It's just Yixing slang... Manager Feng hadn't said that he had thought of any good strategies?"

"Oh, that's it... You guy might as well report to Li Fujun, first follow me to Jinling, then no longer turn back, and walk directly from Jinling to Tanghe to Wuxian, then pass from Wuxian through Jiaxing, and follow the Changhe River to Qiantang. Although this road is a little farther, the water along the way is shimmering, the mountains are dim and the scenery is very elegant..."
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