Chapter 235: Can and Can't

This thought only briefly turned around in his mind and disappeared. Tan Xiaopei naturally would not be afraid of him, even though he had never shown any ambitions, he was still Tan Weixin's husband; even if he explained the series of strategies implemented in Yunzhou and the reasons for this implementation, and conducted extensive and in-depth discussions with Tan Xiaopei in the correspondence; even if Danyang's movements would be made, there would be documents from the Intelligence Bureau or the Imperial Study Room to tell Ye Tao... But if Tan Xiaopei was fully trusting

Yu, without any surveillance or restraint of a ban official who holds extremely huge power, Tan Xiaopei is not a qualified monarch. Many of the officials sent to Yunzhou in Dongping were from the Intelligence Bureau, and Ye Tao had many people from the palace or the inner palace around him, from Liu Yong and Bi Xiaoqing to ordinary guards and servants. Ye Tao naturally understood these things. He had no idea of ​​rebelling and rebelling, nor did he have the idea of ​​assisting anyone to rebel and rebelling, and he was calm about these things.

Knowing that Tan Xiaopei was hiding something from him, and this time he came to Danyang, he might cause something to happen, Ye Tao only felt that it should be so. Whether as a super craftsman or as a Yunzhou Strategic Initiative, his actions were too unusual, and it would be strange if he had no handle. Zou Shuangwen's seemingly no warning reminder, which naturally also showed that it was definitely a harmless little thing. Thinking of this, he talked and laughed with Zou Shuangwen along the way, and Ye Tao's mood was not damaged at all.

The soldiers of the Blood Qi army accompanied Ye Tao and his party to Danyang and disbanded on the spot, which was equivalent to giving the soldiers who came to welcome them a half-day vacation. Chang Huaiyin and his party took over the protection work by the Chunnan Imperial Army, welcomed them into Jingu Garden, and mixed in with the last busy preparation work before Lian Fei visited her. Zou Shuangwen enthusiastically sent Ye Tao back to Zhengyuan, and even had the accent of staying in Zhengyuan for dinner. Ye Tao felt that he always kept a considerable distance from others and rarely participated in activities such as dinners. He didn't care much about it. After all, all the things he settled in were all handled by servants and guards, so he could sit and chat with Zou Shuangwen.

There is only one thing that Ye Tao can't understand, that is, why there is such a mysterious smile on Zou Shuangwen's face?

"Sir, Princess Xiu has arrived." A servant suddenly walked into the living room and bowed to report.

Ye Tao frowned. Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly saw Zou Shuangwen's eyebrows twitching very slightly. And his movement of using the lid of the cup to remove the tea leaves seemed to be so concealed. He immediately understood that Zou Shuangwen had known that this would happen.

"Your Highness the Princess is also an old acquaintance, let's welcome you here." Ye Tao waved his hand and said. After the servant walked out of the living room, Ye Tao rushed to Zou Shuangwen and said seriously: "Brother Zou, do you know Your Highness the Princess will come. Have you not said it earlier?"

Zou Shuangwen seemed extremely surprised and said in an exaggerated tone: "No way? Didn't you expect Your Highness to come?" That expression and tone... made Ye Tao even more itchy.

Zou Shuangwen patted Ye Tao on the shoulder and said, "Canghuai, you are not very interested. You won the hearts of the two princesses. You didn't even say a word. You said it long ago, even if the matter is difficult, our friends would have to make this impossible thing happen to you. But what about you? Alas... he actually drove Your Highness back to Danyang. Alas, how can you bear it?"

Ye Tao was speechless. After he was stunned for a moment, he asked with amusement and tears: "Who said this?"

"Of course it's Your Highness the Princess herself!" Zou Shuangwen laughed and said the answer that surprised Ye Tao.

Why did this time and space suddenly become so unrestrained?

"Brother-in-law..." Ye Tao didn't know how long he had been stunned, and a light voice called him back to reality.

Tan Weishi stood in front of him again, still so beautiful and charming, shining with the brilliance of youth. However, Tan Weishi now seems to have added a little calmness and persistence than before, but it is also slightly thinner than when I saw it in Yunzhou.

After answering Zou Shuangwen's courtesy, Tan Weishi glanced at him meaningfully, as if saying: I don't care if you want to laugh, but there are opportunities to make you sad when you look back. Zou Shuangwen secretly called it, he had no interaction with Tan Weishi, but he didn't expect that after a while, Tan Weishi had such a look and dignity, which made him dare not bite the bullet and look at the jokes. Tan Weishi was indeed not responsible for any specific matters, but as the young woman with the highest status in Danyang, she had a very close relationship with the vast number of female children from aristocratic families, including Zou Shuangwen's wife. As long as she thought, she could make many people's backyard uneasy.

Zou Shuangwen hurriedly surrendered. He didn't want his wife who was too simple, cute and easy to cheat and was encouraged by Tan Weishi. Once he was motivated for the first time, there would inevitably be subsequent tricks in the future. He has seen many examples, but Zou Shuangwen didn't want to have any personal experience in this regard.

"Sister wrote to me and asked my brother-in-law to bring me something, right?" Tan Weishi asked very naturally.

"Well," compared to Tan Weishi, who seemed very calm, Ye Tao was a little embarrassed. He replied: "Do you want it now?"

Tan Weishi laughed and said, "I will prepare one more day earlier. Brother-in-law, I will go with you now."

The conversation between the others was completely confused seemed normal to these two people. Ye Tao and Tan Weixin respectively instructed their subordinates to be at will in the living room or other courtyards in Zhengyuan. They walked shoulder to shoulder to shoulder to the back of Zhengyuan, in the confidential information room next to Ye Tao’s workshop.

In fact, this confidential information room was originally just an ordinary independent bookstore, mainly used to store various technical materials in this era that Ye Tao could collect, different from another one in Zhengyuan for storing literary and humanities books. Therefore, in Zhengyuan, an environment mainly composed of Ye's workshop members, retired members and their families, few people were interested in that study room. However, this technical information room may be a little close to Ye Tao's work room, and it was soon used to store various confidential drawings and technical materials. So now, this bookstore has been repeatedly stormed by several imperial guards and kings throughout the year.

The palace guards were born and actually still guarded by the "housekeepers" who received salary from there. After the precision machinery workshop of Ye's workshop developed a safe and precise lock, the bookstore gradually became one of the safest rooms in this time and space. The two-story bookstore has a huge underground vault. Behind the heavy copper-cast door, a very small box is now quietly placed, with several volumes of booklets in it. This box was actually just put into the vault. Ye Tao was not a god. He didn't know that Tan Weishi came so quickly, so fast that the box had not completely emitted the faint heat that was stained on the road.

"Brother-in-law, I'll read it here first, okay?" He took the book back to the bookstore from the vault. Tan Weishi picked up the most comfortable chair in the room and sat down, and asked calmly. "Brother-in-law, you can't be so leisurely. You already know that Father summoned you tonight."

Ye Tao nodded helplessly and said, "Yes. It seems that the situation is not simple when returning to Danyang this time."

With a little bit of joking, Tan Weishi showed a prank smile, but generally he still maintained a very peaceful expression during the whole process of her visit to Ye Tao. "Brother-in-law, don't worry. You are the General Staff Initiative in Yunzhou. No one can do anything to you."

This sentence did not make Ye Tao feel much at ease. He asked Tan Weishi to stay in the bookstore to read the books. Ye Tao and Tan Weixin spent a lot of effort to make them specially prepared for Tan Weishi, and he himself walked out with suspicion, returned to the living room, and said hello to the princess's entourage. After knowing Tan Weishi's feelings for him, it was a bit strange to face Tan Weishi. If Tan Weishi had firmly expressed his feelings in front of others, then her unrestrainedness would be

There is only one explanation: not only did her feelings not change as she was sent back to Yunzhou, but she became more persistent, tenacious, and more calm. She was able to stand in front of him so calmly and call his brother-in-law in a soft tone as always, and to implement the things she had agreed in the communication in a gentle tone as if nothing had happened, without any rushing at all. This was a great progress. It was just that she came to Zhengyuan in Ye’s mansion too early, and quietly revealed her thoughts.

Among the people waiting in the living room, many Ye Tao knew, including the manager of the Empression Garden, the head of the guard of Tan Weishi, the female attendant of Tan Weishi, and two accountants who helped Tan Weishi manage the cultural funding affairs, while some were very unfamiliar. Especially when a young scholar sitting on one side and next to the two accountants staring at Ye Tao, his eyes were very hostile. He could sit in this position and seemed to be talking and laughing with the two accountants. I think this young scholar should be at least a person who is more familiar with Tan Weishi. While Ye Tao glanced at Ye Tao, the young scholar stood up and bowed deeply to Ye Tao. He bowed: "I'm not a talented person, I've seen Ye Jingluo."

Ye Tao bowed politely and asked, "Don't you...?"

A clerk from the Jingliu Office next to him immediately reminded: "Mr. Shen Dan is the editor-in-chief of the "Historical Research" series of Baowentang Bookstore, the Imperial College Priest, and one of the main initiators of several poetry and literary clubs here in Danyang. He is a famous poet and historical scholar in Dongping."

Shen Dan quickly said modestly: "I dare not. Poetry and prose may be acceptable, but history is just a pick-up of wisdom. Not talented is just a visitor to the embroidery garden."

When Shen Dan said this, the two accountants and Tan Weishi's guard chief Jin Ze felt a little sad and secretly shouted that it was not good. Just now, Shen Dan claimed that he was "not talented". Although his position as a priest in the Imperial College was not a formal official position, he was in the official list of officials. When he saw Ye Tao not coming to see him, there were usually only two situations: one was to be proud of his talent, and the other was to be prepared to make trouble with his abilities. Judging from Shen Dan's appearance, it seemed that he had both. Although Tan Weishi sponsored quite a few talented poor students, he was always very low-key in this regard. The help she gave was always through the friends of those students who needed help.

Friends came quietly and did not expect any reward. But the young students didn't know at the beginning, but they all felt grateful after they knew it. Most of the students who received the funding were not ashamed of their poor family background and had to accept the funding. They worked harder and vowed to reward the Dongping family. Tan Weishi, who helped them most directly, admired and loved them. Later, these students who received the funding spontaneously formed associations and conducted academic exchanges. All members of the society claimed to be "Guan Guests of Xiuyuan". Shen Dan... was the initiator of this society, and is still one of the three major directors. The name "Guan Guests of Xiuyuan" began with him.

This spontaneous loose society does not allow members, especially those who have already served in institutions at all levels of the court, that is, those who have already escaped from the status of rice insects to provide any substantial assistance to those members who are still receiving funding. At most, they will provide some information on the examination officers, and unnamed recommendations are the highest assistance to the society to tolerate. In addition to the strong and pure academic atmosphere and positive and inspiring mutual encouragement, the society pursues strict self-discipline. Want to make a name for themselves, and want to make a name for themselves.

, they can only rely on their own efforts. Since most of the poor students in the school are poor students, they have a better understanding of the life and study of people who are poor students and are much more sensitive to the response. Now the school has actually become the party that Tan Weishi provides important references when funding poor students. Is it necessary to fund? How to fund? Should those students who do not work hard after receiving the funding and are obsessed with the mission to persuade or simply interrupt the funding... This group of "Xuyuan Guests" are very influential in this regard.

Such a school society will naturally not arouse too much vigilance from the officials in the court. They are loyal and gentle, and their upbeat enthusiasm for studying and learning has always been recognized by many officials in the court. Compared with those groups such as the Feng and Yuedi Poetry Society, this kind of mental outlook is more in line with the needs of Dongping.

Today, Shen Dan did not come with the people from the Princess' Mansion. It was Tan Weishi who had just entered Zhengyuan. After "accidentally passing by" Shen Dan at the gate of the Ye Mansion saw an acquaintance of the Princess' Mansion who was still packing his car in front of the door, and then "passionately" joined the ranks of visiting Ye Tao. He was an acquaintance of the Empression Garden. Without thinking too much, Shen Dan came in and waited for Ye Tao. Shen Dan's claim to be a "guest of the Empression Garden" immediately reminded everyone that this school society seemed to be a gentle and upbeat group. The only time they had almost succeeded in causing trouble was against Ye Tao.

Two days before that, Tan Weishi was specially rushed to Danyang's close friend at a banquet. Now the wife of Lu Dandi, the governor of Yicheng, asked whether the "love" between her and Ye Tao was true. He admitted his feelings frankly and admitted the "agreed" between himself and his sister that people didn't know how to comment. He told what he had done all the time, and finally explained why he did not create a fait accompli in the almost perfect situation in the situation that had been set, which forced the father to agree with the whole story.

Whether it is Tan Weishi's friend or the person who disagrees with her, the overly lively princess, he has to admire Tan Weishi's courage to confess these things in such an occasion, facing many children of the top Dongping families including Huang Wan. Dongping is not as pedantic as Chunnan, nor does he completely regard marriage as a tool for alliances and alliances like Xiling's family, but it does not have the open-minded folk customs in the territory of Beiliao, Yunzhou, and northern tribes. In Tan Weishi's calm narrative, there may be hope. But more of it is the endurance of the status quo, which is a struggle in the quagmire of despair. I don't know when I will wait for the assistance from whom I know.

From a woman's perspective - and this is also the beautiful wish of many daughters from aristocratic families, including Huang Wan - such assistance is best from Ye Tao. If Ye Tao can take the initiative and find ways to respond to Tan Weishi's feelings, it would naturally be ideal. But everyone knows that even with Ye Tao's statement, the one who can finally decide this matter is Tan Xiaopei, the king of Dongping. It is already the highest level that Tan Weishi's many friends can do.

But those students who were funded by Tan Weishi and who could survive, continue to study, and obtain jobs or official positions as their careers and careers, were not so calm and rational. When the news came to these guys who called themselves "Guests of Xiuyuan", they organized a gloomy cocktail party for the first time.

The admiration of the princess of the Xiuyuan disciples made them a type of person who could be called "fans" if placed in the standards of Ye Tao and Tan Weixin. Their logic became extremely simple and direct, and there was no such complex and rationality as when studying and studying. They did not respond to Ye Tao's feelings when he was not broken. They pretended to be deaf and dumb when the matter was revealed. After the matter was revealed, they did not even have any retention except for ordinary etiquette when the king recalled Tan Weishi. In their opinion, whether Tan Weishi liked Ye Tao, or whether it was possible between them... these were not a problem. Tan Weishi could do such irrational things, but Ye Tao always kept calm and rational, which greatly hurt the feelings of a naive, noble, and kind girl like Tan Weishi, which was absolutely unforgivable!

After getting drunk, a group of Xiuyuan guests smashed two Tissot clocks produced by Ye’s workshop in the restaurant, and then they held a torch and headed towards Zhengyuan…
Chapter completed!