"Ah!" Yan Gui opened his mouth slightly, a little stunned.
Wei Yang couldn't stop laughing, and continued as she laughed: "We say that the peach blossoms are in bloom now, and the trees can't be dug up, and they won't survive if they are dug up."
"What happened next?" Yan Gui became even more curious.
"Later, the old woman said that if we couldn't dig it up, we could buy it. We gave her money and the tree would grow in her yard. We could go see it whenever we wanted to, and pick the peaches when they were ripe."
Yan Gui was both amused and confused: "Isn't that the same as giving her money for nothing, and not getting the tree?"
It was hard to see in the dark, but Wei Yang nodded subconsciously. "Xiao Ling and I said we had no money, but the old lady didn't get angry. She asked us to go to her house for tea and picked some peach blossoms for us to plug in. She said if there were too many flowers, there would be too many fruits that wouldn't grow big. When we left, the old lady also gave each of us a bag of melon seeds. She told us that it's okay to go eat peaches next time if we don't have money."
Yan Gui asked doubtfully, "So is she selling the tree or not?"
Wei Yang shook her head: "I don't know, but even though she said she would sell the peach tree for ten taels of silver, we didn't think she was mean at all, but rather very kind."
"The people of Yanzhou are very friendly. They mean what they say and won't play those empty tricks. When you get married, you can go to the countryside and see that the people there, even if they don't have enough to eat, will treat guests with the best things in their homes."
Wei Yang looked at Yan Gui, at his silhouette in the dim light. She really liked Yanzhou, the people there were cheerful and simple. She went shopping with several girls from the Yan family, and they all walked on the street and ate openly.
No one will laugh at you for being unfaithful to your husband, no one will say you have no rules, and no one will point fingers at you. Everyone will smile at you kindly, as if they are looking at a little girl at home.
This was the merit of the Yan family stationed in Yanzhou. They and the people of Yanzhou paid countless generations of lives and blood to protect that land.
Wei Yang leaned close to Yan Gui and whispered, "I like Yanzhou very much. I am proud to be a Yanzhou citizen in the future."
His silly girl, Yan Gui held Wei Yang in his arms, he felt very safe and did not feel the heat of summer at all. This little girl, like Yanzhou, was the one he wanted to protect for the rest of his life.
After a long while, just when Wei Yang was wondering if he was asleep, Yan Gui said softly, "But we may not be able to return to Yanzhou after autumn."
"Hmm?" Wei Yang raised her head slightly and looked at Yan Gui's face in the dark: "Where else can I go if not to Yanzhou?"
The alcohol was rising in his body, and Yan Gui yawned sleepily, but he held Wei Yang tightly and did not let go: "You forgot that His Majesty also gave me Liuzhou to manage."
Wei Yang turned over in his arms, pressed her back against his chest, and asked softly, "Are we going to Liuzhou then?"
Yan Gui was probably really sleepy and hummed softly.
Soon, Wei Yang's breathing became even and she gradually fell asleep. Yan Gui opened his eyes and looked into the dark room. The little girl had finally fallen asleep, so it was time for him to get up and go back home.
He originally wanted to tell her about the situation in Liuzhou. Liuzhou was better than Yanzhou in that there was no war, but it was worse than Yanzhou in that there were many mountains and many bandits, as well as the conflicts among local aristocratic families, and the government could do nothing about it.
Why did the new emperor Zhao Xu give Yanzhou to him? It was not because of his merits, but because he had troops!
Yan Gui stood up and covered Wei Yang with a thin blanket, then pushed open the back window, turned over and walked out, and soon his figure disappeared outside the wall of the Su Mansion.
The Su Mansion's villa was still quiet.