my grandmother

Chapter 188 Someone Can Talk About (Owing 2)

When Li Xiaonan arrived at the pier in Bieye, Gu Yan was sitting on a corner of the platform, swinging a pole to fish.

Seeing Li Xiaonan, Gu Yan straightened up slightly, pointed to a chair next to him, and signaled Li Xiaonan to sit down.

Li Xiaonan sat down, looked down at an indigo cloth bag next to Gu Yan's chair, leaned forward, and looked at Gu Yan carefully.

"What are you looking at?" Gu Yan threw out the fishhook and asked in a flat voice.

"Are you not in a good mood?" Li Xiaonan looked at Gu Yan with a peaceful expression.

Nothing could be seen on his face, but the feeling emanating from him was wrong, very wrong!
"Hmm." Gu Yan simply hummed.

Gu Yan's straightforwardness surprised Li Xiaonan, and she paused before asking, "What happened?"

Gu Yan picked up the fishhook and threw it out again, without answering.

Li Xiaonan looked at him sideways, for a moment, leaned back on the back of the chair, and did not speak.

"Can you fish?" Gu Yan asked.

"No, I don't like fishing."

"Why?" Gu Yan pulled up the hook again and threw it out.

"You don't like fishing, do you?" Li Xiaonan watched as the hook flew out of the lake and plunged into the lake again.

Gu Yan didn't speak, he pulled up the hook and threw it out again.

Li Xiaonan frowned slightly and looked at Gu Yan.

He was in a very bad mood.

"Have you heard of Linhai He's family?" Gu Yan asked suddenly.

"Yeah." Li Xiaonan hummed affirmatively.

"Have you met the He family father and son?" Gu Yan continued to ask.

"When the third elder sister got married, the uncle of the He family went to the Li family's collection." Li Xiaonan looked at Gu Yan.

"The He family is a member of Prince Rui's residence, and the Linhai He family's warehouse property in Linhai Town is the property of Prince Rui's residence." Gu Yan set up the fishing rod and leaned back on the back of the chair.

Li Xiaonan looked at Gu Yan, waiting for him to continue.

"I once wondered why it was called the old name of the He family even though it belonged to the residence of Prince Rui." Gu Yan paused.

"The property of the palace is named after some old name with other surnames. Is there only one old name called He Ji?" Li Xiaonan asked.

"There are two more." Gu Yan turned his head to look at Li Xiaonan, a smile disappeared before it was fully revealed, and after a moment of silence, Gu Yan smiled wryly: "These three..."

Gu Yan's words stopped, and he fell into silence again.

Li Xiaonan turned her head and glanced at the Wangfu Bieye behind her.

What happened to the old He family?Or, what happened in Linhai Town?

"In the ancestral hall of Prince Rui's mansion, there are a pair of portraits of ancestors. There are only portraits of Gaozu and Gaograndmother. Only Gaozu is alone, and the portrait of Gaozu is blank."

Gu Yan paused and lowered his eyes.

The picture of Grandmother Gao was not completely blank. A flag was drawn on the portrait, with a huge Chinese character mulberry on it, waving violently against the wind.

"Great-grandmother is a strange person. Hangcheng Bieye and Pingjiang Bieye are both properties left by my great-grandmother. The old house of the He family and the other two properties are also left by my great-grandmother. Linhai Town was also built by my great-grandmother. Yes." Gu Yan's voice was low.

Li Xiaonan raised her eyebrows.

"I have always felt that the He family and the palace are very alienated." After a moment of silence, Gu Yan said slowly.

"What happened to He Ji's old account?" Li Xiaonan asked.

"There are several ledgers in the baggage, take a look." Gu Yan looked down at the indigo cloth bundle next to the chair.

Li Xiaonan bent down and picked up the cloth bundle, untied it, took the book, opened it for a while, and looked at Gu Yan in amazement.

"He Chengze gave it to me, that Uncle He's father, the head of He Ji's old house." Gu Yan's face was slightly cold.

"If the silk sea tax is collected according to the facts, I'm afraid it will be the same as when your grandfather changed the weaving workshop tax system." Li Xiaonan turned a few more pages and sighed.

According to the records in this account, at least half of the sea tax withheld by the silk industry was used in Jiangnan, although their intention was not in people's livelihood but in political achievements.

Gu Yan's expression was gloomy, and after a while, he hummed in a low voice.

"Are you in Linhai Town today?" Li Xiaonan closed the book.

"Well, the net is closed today." Gu Yan glanced at the old account books, "He Chengze said that the curtain has been lifted."

"Well, looking at this account book, the trouble is indeed just beginning." Li Xiaonan sighed.

Gu Yan raised his foot and kicked the fishing rod into the lake.

"Wan Qing said, are you good at fighting?" Li Xiaonan thought for a moment, then asked.

Gu Yan glanced at Li Xiaonan, but said nothing.

"During war, when is the scariest time?" Li Xiaonan asked.

Gu Yan ignored her.

"Let me ask you, what kind of situation are you most afraid of when you are fighting?" Li Xiaonan took the account book and patted Gu Yan on the shoulder.

"You still know about war?" Gu Yan stretched out his hand and patted the account book open.

"It's okay to talk about war on paper." Li Xiaonan said bluntly.

Gu Yan gave Li Xiaonan a sideways look, but said nothing.

"I think the most terrifying situation is that you know there must be enemies, and the enemies must be very powerful, but you don't know where the enemies are, what they look like, how many people there are, what kind of equipment they have, and you don't know how they fight. What kind of routine, you are surrounded by enemies, but you know nothing about them." Li Xiaonan had to ask and answer by herself.

Gu Yan turned his head and glanced sideways at Li Xiaonan.

"Now you know exactly where the enemy is, what it looks like, how many people there are, how many horses, swords, guns, food and grass you have. You will fight one after another. The most difficult time is over." Li Xiaonan patted With those account books.

"You are quite good at persuading people." Gu Yan snorted.

"Is Mr. Niu okay?" Li Xiaonan asked.

"Well, they should be recuperating in Bieye right now."

"Do you want to show this to the crown prince?" Li Xiaonan patted the account book.

"What do you think?" Gu Yan tilted Li Xiaonan.

"I don't know, I don't know what kind of person the prince is, and I haven't seen what he looks like." Li Xiaonan sighed, feeling a little regretful.

"Don't show it to him, just talk to him, no matter what, he is the king." Gu Yan sighed.

"I think he will really grow horns on his head in the future." Li Xiaonan raised her hand and gestured on her head.

"If your majesty is like an ordinary person, then he must be the master of stupidity." Gu Yan reached out and took the bundle from Li Xiaonan's lap, tied it up and put it on the ground.

"At first, I thought that collecting the net this time could collect a sum of military expenses." Gu Yan sighed again.

"I can collect some money, but you'd better keep it, there will definitely be a lot of trouble." Li Xiaonan sighed.

After a while, Gu Yan hummed in a low voice.

"It's so sad!" Li Xiaonan leaned back on the chair and let out a long sigh.

"Why are you sad?" Gu Yan was a little speechless.

"I'm sorry for you."

"Thank you, I'm not sad." Gu Yan kicked the cloth bag with his foot, "As you said, since you know it clearly, the rest is just to fight one by one."

He was really sad, not because of this trip to collect the net, this burden, but because he died once, and he thought everything was under control this time, but now he knew that he just knew that he was really going to face What is right, like what He Chengze said, he just opened the curtain.

(End of this chapter)