"Shuo'er, don't cry." Zita walked over and reached out to wipe Lei Shuo's tears, "I can tell you, but you have to promise me, you can't-"
Wen Qingzhu, who was hiding behind the bushes, frowned, how could he tell Sister Shuo!
Just when he was about to stop him, a person suddenly turned over on the wall outside the pavilion.
Zita turned around and protected Lei Shuo behind him. When the person under the wall came out of the shadow, he said displeasedly: "What are you doing here in the middle of the night?"
The visitor was none other than Lu Chuan. He walked to the pavilion and looked at Zhita mockingly: "You will only be getting married in a few days, and I haven't told you to come to see her in the middle of the night!"
Seeing that the atmosphere was about to reach a stalemate, Lei Shuo immediately stood up and explained: "Lu Chuan, I asked him to come, not him. Don't blame him."
Lu Chuan looked at Lei Shuo with a complicated expression, his expression softened slightly and said, "Shuo'er."
"Please call her Miss Lei!" Zita really disliked Lu Chuan now.
He had already calmed down his anger, but when he heard these words, Lu Chuan's voice became dissatisfied again: "This is still the State of Qi, and your Majesty's control is too lenient!"
After hearing this, Wen Qingzhu couldn't hide anymore and walked out directly.
He came to them with a smile and said: "Why are you so angry at this late night? From now on we are all family members."
Compared to Lu Chuan, Zhi Ta was obviously more guilty.
First of all, he shouldn't have come to see Lei Shuo at this time. Secondly, everyone had agreed not to tell Lei Shuo, which turned out to be a good thing for him. Lei Shuo became soft-hearted when he cried.
Seeing Wen Qingzhu here, Lei Shuo immediately lowered his head in panic. During the day, he had promised Qingzhu not to ask further questions.
"Why doesn't your Majesty say anything?" Lu Chuan interjected coldly.
Wen Qingzhu was furious when he heard this. He turned around and scolded: "You still said it was just a pagoda. Didn't you come yourself?"
For so long, everyone had not seen Wen Qingzhu reprimanding anyone, and they were all shocked.
Seeing the guilty looks of the three of them, Wen Qingzhu raised his forehead and said, "Lutong, take sister Shuo back and keep her under good supervision."
Lu Tao took the order and asked Lei Shuo to leave.
This made Lei Shuo even more worried: "Qingzhu, this happened all because of me. Don't blame them."
"Sister Shuo, you go first, I will handle the matters here." Wen Qingzhu softened his tone and winked at Lu Tao, asking her to take Lei Shuo away quickly.
"Miss Lei, leave this matter to the princess." Lu Tao asked her to leave again and again.
Lei Shuo shook his head: "No, I have to talk to Qingzhu."
Just as Wen Qingzhu was about to speak, he didn't want to see Lei Xiao walking out from behind the tree behind Lei Shuo.
"I've seen Mr. Lei." Zita reacted very quickly and immediately raised his hands in salute.
Lu Chuan and Wen Qingzhu quickly followed.
"No need to worry, this is not a serious occasion." Lei Xiao walked over slowly, and now Lei Shuo didn't dare to speak at all.
Lei Xiao came over and thanked Wen Qingzhu directly: "Thank you for your hard work on Shuo'er. This should be something our Lei family should worry about."
"Master Lei, don't be so polite. Sister Shuo is my elder sister. This is what I should worry about. What's more, this time is..." Since Jieta was present, she swallowed the idea of sacrifice.
Lei Xiao sighed deeply and looked sideways at him: "Shuo'er, come with me. If you have anything to do, just ask me."
"Yes." Lei Shuo didn't dare to look at the others again, and followed Lei Xiao away from here.
As soon as they left, Lu Chuan made a move to leave.
Wen Qingzhu didn't stop him and let him go first.
Now that there was no one else on the pavilion's facade, Wen Qingzhu turned his head and looked at the tower.
"Did the princess think that Shuo'er and I had finally separated, so she hid it from her?" In his heart, Zita actually didn't want to hide it from Lei Shuo.
Wen Qingzhu saw that he was always thinking about Lei Shuo, and she was very pleased: "It's rare for you to have such a heart, but there is one thing you may not know."
"Which point?"
"Sister Shuo likes you, but she grew up in the military camp with Lord Pingshu. She can quickly detect some things even if we don't tell them."
Jita frowned: "Are you saying that there is no point in hiding her now?"
Turning to look at the full moon in the sky, Wen Qingzhu shook his head: "It's not meaningless, but we feel that the purpose of hiding it from her is not to hide it from her, but to let her discover it by herself. There are some things that she will only know if we tell her I feel like we paid a lot for her.
But if she goes to find out for herself, then she will see not only the compromises we make for her, but also the compromises you make for her. "
After a long silence, Jieta said softly: "So you still want to be with me so that Shuo'er can be free from the burden."
"No!" Wen Qingzhu turned around, looked into Zhita's eyes and said, "We are doing this just to let her understand that we can sacrifice part of our interests for her, and we can also go to war with you Huns again for her."
When these words came out, Zhi Ta was shocked.
Back at the door of Lei Shuo's room, Lu Tao was coming out. When he saw Wen Qingzhu, he hurriedly hissed: "She's asleep."
Wen Qingzhu nodded and took Lu Tao back to his room.
After closing the door, Lu Tao came over and sat down and said, "Master Lei and Miss Lei talked. We don't know what they talked about, but after Master Lei left, Miss Lei washed up and went to bed calmly. I think she He must have figured it out, Mr. Lei is worthy of being a royal censor, and he is still very powerful."
"Just figure it out." Wen Qingzhu yawned, turned around and went to sleep in the inner room.
It was another night. Wen Qingzhu was very tired when he woke up. Lu Tao had become accustomed to it and prepared a sumptuous breakfast.
After Wen Qingzhu finished eating, he got up and walked around the house. After he was almost digested, he lay down to sleep and didn't wake up until noon.
After getting up, he saw Lei Shuo sitting outside, calculating something in his hands.
After walking over, Wen Qingzhu noticed that she was looking at the account book again. He was slightly surprised, but after thinking about it carefully, it was reasonable.
"Qingzhu, you're awake. Please help me look at this account. It says that it is the Zhuangzi of Dingyuan and Yunzhou. I have carefully investigated and found that more than half of these Zhuangzi belong to the Lu family. I don't want these. I need experienced farmers who know how to farm, as well as a variety of seeds and farm tools.”
Wen Qingzhu took her account book and looked through it. Basically, he could tell that it was from the Lu family.
Putting down the ledger, she actually felt that Lei Shuo had a lot of ideas, but she still wanted to hear why Lei Shuo did what he did.
"Is this what you thought, or was it told to you?"
After thinking for a while, Lei Shuo replied sincerely: "I think that Qi is Qi. After all, it is not the Huns. Although I am a Qi citizen now, I will also be the queen of the Huns in the future."
As if he was remembering his previous days in the Xiongnu, Lei Shuo said seriously: "The Xiongnu nobles are not much different from our Qi nobles, but the people at the bottom are completely different.
As long as the people at the bottom of Qi State are willing to work, no one will starve to death, but the Huns are different. They are not good at farming and all kinds of production are very backward. Many herdsmen are actually very hardworking, but they just have no work to do. "
"So you want to change their production methods?" Wen Qingzhu suddenly felt as if Lei Shuo had grown up overnight.
Lei Shuo took out another book. When Wen Qingzhu saw it, it turned out to be the book "Heaven's Creation".
"This is?"
"My grandfather gave it to me. He said that the most fundamental problem of the Xiongnu now is that they don't have enough to eat. If they could have enough to eat, they would not want to attack Qi. As long as the Xiongnu didn't have such thoughts, then I would not be in the Xiongnu. It will be a dilemma." Lei Shuo finally understood his grandfather's good intentions.
Looking at the books on the table, Wen Qingzhu thought that there was a deeper problem.
Once Lei Shuo is married, Qi and the Xiongnu will inevitably trade. When the two countries have frequent exchanges, the gap will become more obvious.
Even if everyone can hold it back for a while, as time goes by, other thoughts will inevitably arise.
After all, there is no faster way to grab it directly.
Qi's economy was strong and it was truly open to trade, but it was actually not good for the Xiongnu.
If the Xiongnu had sufficient production of their own, this economic suppression would be less obvious.
As cooperation deepened, for the people of Qi, land was wealth, and the Xiongnu never wanted to make good use of this wealth.
Now that Lei Shuo is aware of this, he can start making preparations. There may be resistance, but knowledgeable people will definitely understand that this is a good thing that benefits the country and the people.
"No problem, Shen Yu will be here tomorrow. Ask him directly about this matter. You are right." Wen Qingzhu naturally agreed with Lei Shuo's idea.
The next day, when Shen Yu arrived, Wen Qingzhu explained the situation.
He quickly mobilized the resources in his hands and began to prepare what Lei Shuo wanted.
In the afternoon, the imperial edict from the capital finally arrived.
Led by Lei Xiao, everyone received the order at the Yamen. Lei Shuo took the princess's golden seal and ribbon, and the canonization was completed.
Then came the imperial edict of marriage, and the dowry kept flowing like water into the Yamen.
The gift list was read for half an hour, but Lei Shuo was not happy.
She glanced around, but neither her brother nor her mother came over.
By the time I finished receiving the imperial edict, it was already dark.
On the way back to the other courtyard, Wen Qingzhu noticed that she was unhappy, so he asked, "Are you thinking about your aunt and Brother Yan?"
"Well, my grandfather said that they would come when I get married, but I will get married the day after tomorrow, and the emperor's decree has come, but there is still no news from them." Lei Shuo's expression was very gloomy.
Unlike the last time she got married, this time she truly became someone else's family.
Lei Shuo clutched his sleeves and whispered: "This time I am not taking the blame, but getting married on behalf of Qi State. I really want to see my mother and brother."
"It's okay, I'll send someone to ask." Wen Qingzhu lifted the curtain and gave instructions to Lu Tao.
Early on the first morning, Lu Tao sent a message.
"Princess, Mrs. Lei San and Mr. Lei are already on the way, but because of Mrs. Lei San's poor health, they cannot walk fast, and they are still on the way."
"What's wrong with aunt's health?" Wen Qingzhu stood up immediately.
Lu Tao was a little embarrassed: "The people we sent there didn't really see the Third Madam Lei. They were all contacted by Lord Lei Yan. He said that the Third Madam was unwell and couldn't go quickly, but they would do it as soon as possible."
Not allowed to see anyone? Wen Qingzhu's heart sank.
If you say this, Mrs. Lei San may not have the strength to speak, otherwise, she will definitely say something.
At noon, gifts from all over the place were delivered one after another, and the streets of Dingyuan were already a bright red with red silk ribbons all over the streets.
I don't know if Lei Shuo is worried about her mother and brother, or if she is too nervous to eat.
Wen Qingzhu saw that she couldn't continue like this. The Huns would come to welcome her tomorrow, and it would definitely not be over in a short time.
After leaving Yonghe Pass, there are still three days to go from the Tianying City Palace.
After thinking about it, Wen Qingzhu took Lei Shuo to the Border Inn.
Different from the celebrations elsewhere, the Border Inn is still half-closed due to the deserted atmosphere for days.
Mrs. Su Lu received the news early in the morning and opened the door early to greet her.
After hearing about Lei Shuo's situation, he even removed all the red silk and red paper-cuts from the door.
The carriage stopped and Wen Qingzhu came down with Lei Shuo.
Seeing that the inn in front of him was finally not all red, Lei Shuo immediately relaxed.