In the sixth year of Jingrui, spring, Xinchou in the first month.
After the Shangyuan Festival, it became warmer day by day, bathed in the bright spring, and the southern tour team set off from the capital. In order to avoid labor and money, they traveled lightly all the way, and arrived in Yuzhou half a month later.
The emperor ordered to stay here for three days to inspect the river works.
The original patrol route did not pass through Yuzhou. Zhu Yunxuan came here specially to see it with his own eyes. The river channel reconstruction project has been carried out for more than three years.
Governor Zhou Jian, who had been busy on the river, hurried over to pick him up. There were even some mud stains on the official robe. Interrupted: "It's okay, it's rare that Zhou Qing is so hardworking, and goes to the river embankment to supervise the work every day. I should praise him."
Zhou Jian said with a thick-skinned smile: "Your Majesty's false praise, I am ashamed and dare not take responsibility, it is what I should do."
"Let's go, take me over there to have a look."
The section they came to see was the newly built embankment for the diverted river, and there were young and strong men busy working everywhere on the embankment. Although it was only the beginning of February, it was warm and cold, but the scene here was full of enthusiasm. Zhu Yunxuan glanced over, although these people were busy, they were not tired or sick. Most of them were tall, strong, full of energy, and very energetic.
Zhou Jian took the initiative to explain to him: "The money allocated by the imperial court is sufficient, and the officials dare not deduct the wages of these laborers. According to the regulations, they can get fifteen cash for working here for a day, and they can eat two meals a day. Occasionally there is something dirty, so you have to fight for the places to work, so naturally you have to work hard."
Zhu Yunxuan nodded: "How is the relocation going?"
"Returning to Your Majesty, the migration of the people in the Qinzhou section was completed last year, and here in Yuzhou, it will be completed by the last batch of people moving out before this summer."
Zhu Yunxuan has already known about these things from the reports submitted by the river in the past three years. Last year Zeng Huai was pardoned, and after returning to his hometown in Qinzhou with his whole family from exile, he would often write private letters to see them outside. The situation told him that Zhu Yunxuan probably knew it well.
Now Zeng Huai can be said to have come to the end of all hardships. In the past, he was dismissed from office and stayed in Beijing. It was nothing more than for the helpless descendants of the family. It can be seen that he is now calm and at ease, and even changed his view on the proposal of river channel relocation that he strongly resisted and opposed.
Seeing that Zhu Yunxuan was quite concerned about this matter, Zhou Jian said again: "The controversial ministers in the court know that those worries are not unreasonable. The relocation of people does affect the whole body. Many people would rather risk their lives to stay in their original place I also don’t want to be relocated, because Zhao…”
Realizing that he had said something wrong and mentioned someone who shouldn't be mentioned, Zhou Jian coughed awkwardly and covered it up, Zhu Yunxuan's eyes moved, and he continued to speak calmly: "The previous minister also I have thought of a lot of countermeasures, luring them with benefits, threatening them with threats, helping them relocate the whole village, rebuilding the ancestral hall, and giving them enough money to settle down. When encountering assassins who are really unwilling or even take the lead in making troubles, they will not politely kill them. In the past few years, although there have been some disturbances, fortunately, no major incidents have occurred after all."
Zhu Yunxuan's eyes fell in the distance, and after a long silence, he praised lightly: "You did a good job."
Zhou Jian smiled innocently: "It is His Majesty who loves and trusts me and gives me a chance so that I can show my ambition."
Zhu Yunxuan's eyes became darker, some emotions surged through his eyes, and they returned to calm in an instant.
That day in Dali Temple Prison, Liang Zhen specifically mentioned this Zhou Jian to him, saying that this man is a rare talent with upright character, please don't treat him as his own accomplice. Zhu Yunxuan listened to it, not only did not attack Zhou Jian, but also promoted him to the governor of the river, giving him the greatest convenience. Zhou Jian did not let him down. The river relocation project has progressed so much in recent years Everything went smoothly, thanks to Zhou Jian's hard work.
Without further words, Zhu Yunxuan stepped forward and continued to move forward.
Minzhou.
Zhu Yunjing and He Huailing were not at home, Yuan Bao slipped out of the school, directed his servants to take his two younger brothers to Zhuangzi outside the city.
Yuan Bao was playful, and his two younger brothers were just a cover for him to avoid punishment later. When he arrived at Zhuangzi, he threw them off and ran for a walk. The two younger ones were surrounded by a group of nuns, maids and servants, flying kites outside.
Xiao'er got a new kite in the shape of a rabbit and liked it very much. She raised her head and watched the kite fly higher and higher, her eyes wide open, and she exclaimed from time to time, and then... she watched the kite string suddenly break , his rabbit kite floated into the distance, flew over the hill ahead, and disappeared without a trace.
The little baby blinked, and it took a long time to understand what happened, and immediately her eyes were red and teary.
When Yuan Bao came back, Min'er was still sitting on the ground and weeping, Ming'er squatted aside and looked at him in bewilderment, a lot of nuns and maids were at a loss what to do, no matter how much they tried to persuade him, they couldn't persuade him.
Yuan Bao went up to Min'er and stretched out his hand to flick his forehead: "Why are you so stupid, you know how to cry, it's just a kite, I'll ask someone to make a few more for you later."
Chu'er suppressed her tears, raised her head and looked at him eagerly: "Really?"
"Of course it's true, why lie to you?"
The little baby immediately smiled through tears: "Thank you brother."
In the afternoon, Min'er and Ming'er lay on the bed and took a nap, and Min'er muttered, "I still want my rabbit kite, which I drew myself, the best one..."
Ming'er was already yawning from sleepiness, patted his stomach, closed his eyes to comfort him: "Ask brother to draw another one for you."
"I just want that one..."
Ming'er next to him has fallen asleep, and Min'er is thinking about his kite, tossing and turning without feeling sleepy, there is the sound of rustling wind blowing leaves from time to time outside the window, he looks over curiously, his eyes suddenly blur, and he blinks vigorously Twice, huh? He seems to have seen his own rabbit kite...
Ming'er rubbed her eyes and sat up, and carefully climbed down from the bed. The nurses guarding the room were all dozing off, and no one noticed that the barefooted doll had already walked to the window.
The window was a bit high. He looked around, moved a low stool over, stepped on it, and climbed up to the window sill. The next moment, someone stretched out his hand outside the window and hugged him out.
The little guy suddenly opened his eyes wide, and the man who was holding him raised his finger to his mouth and made a gesture of silence. Min'er stared at him blankly, maybe this person was good-looking and had a bright smile, so the little guy just Being so bluffed, he obediently raised his hands to cover his mouth, and suppressed the shout that he almost blurted out.
"Good boy." Liang Zhen took off his coat and wrapped him up, and carried him outside.
Min'er kept looking at him timidly, Liang Zhen found an empty booth and sat down, hugged him and sat on his lap, lowered his head and carefully looked at the child's appearance.
The three-year-old child has delicate features, small and soft, very much like Zhu Yunxuan, almost a miniature version of Zhu Yunxuan, with a faint shadow of himself between his eyebrows and eyes. With just one look, Liang Zhen was sure that this was his child, the child born to him by Zhu Yunxuan.
As if sensing the complicated emotions in Liang Zhen's eyes, Min'er became more and more uneasy, and asked, "Uncle, who are you?"
Liang Zhen suddenly came back to his senses, laughed out loud, covered his soft hair with a big hand and gently rubbed: "Good boy, what's your name?"
"Yu'er, my name is Yu'er."
"Yu'er..." Liang Zhen chewed the name carefully, and the smile on his lips deepened, "It's a good name."
"Who are you, Uncle?" the child asked him persistently.
Liang Zhen smiled and blinked with him: "Guess."
Min'er's voice was soft and childlike, and she jumped out a few words: "I can't guess, Daddy said, you can't go with someone you don't know, I don't know you."
Liang Zhen was stunned for a moment, and then realized that the father he was talking about did not refer to Zhu Yunxuan. He sighed in his heart, still smiling, and teased him: "Then I told you to keep quiet, and you didn't shout Come out and follow me."
The child pouted, probably realizing that he had done something wrong, and he felt a little guilty: "Uncle, can you send me back?"
"Everyone else was sleeping just now, why didn't you sleep?"
"I can't sleep, I want my rabbit kite, it's gone."
"What kind of rabbit kite?"
Mu'er stretched out her hand and gestured: "It looks like a bunny. I drew it myself. I like bunnies the most."
"Is it this one?"
Like a magic trick, Liang Zhen transformed the kite that was blown away by the wind in the morning from behind, and Min'er's eyes suddenly lit up: "This is it! The rabbit kite!"
Liang Zhen handed it to him with a smile, Min'er hugged it back lovingly, and smiled at Liang Zhen, bending his eyes: "Thank you, Uncle."
Liang Zhen continued to tease him: "Then I found the kite for you, how will you repay me?"
Mu'er tilted his head and thought about it seriously, and told him: "Uncle will send me back, and my candy will be for Uncle to eat."
Liang Zhen laughed and said: "I didn't expect you to be such a clever little ghost, so you just wanted to trick me into sending you back."
"I don't have any, I really have candy, it's delicious, and Min'er never lies."
One big and one small were talking, when suddenly there was a rush of footsteps and shouts from behind the bushes beside the gazebo: "Young Master! Where are you, Young Master?"
Chu'er said "Yeah", "Mammy is here."
Liang Zhen glanced back, the footsteps were getting closer and closer, people were coming, he put the child down, let him sit by himself, raised his hand and scratched his nose: "Uncle is gone, come back in a few days My son is playing."
In an instant, the people disappeared at the corner at the end of the corridor. The sweaty nuns and maids turned around from behind the bushes, and immediately came over to pick him up when they saw Jun'er. The little baby stared blankly at the direction where Liang Zhen disappeared, Blinked blankly.