This mountain is mine

Chapter 213 The Collaborator Arrives

When the three of them saw the gourd holding tea, they were so pleasantly surprised and couldn't put it down.

But it was said that Yu Miaomiao, Zhao Man, Bi Kuo and his party swaggered past the court spies at the head of the village and went to Weishui River.

Bi Kuo had taken a good look at a few places earlier, and pointed them out to Zhao Man one by one. The water flow was large and stable, and the location was fairly open, but they were all deserted and surrounded by mountains, so there was no good way to get in. .

This is because the mountain forest had miasma before, and it was impossible to enter, so there is such a vacant wasteland, otherwise it would have been occupied long ago.

Of course, the mountain now belongs to Yu Miaomiao, and the land doesn't need to be spent anymore.

In the end, Yu Miaomiao reluctantly chose a location at the foot of the mountain.

Yu Miaomiao thought that this place was the closest to the road leading to Fangling City that was repaired by someone, and it would be most convenient to build a side road.

If we want to install a hydraulic yarn wheel here, we have to build a workshop nearby, and the thread spun and the clothes woven in the future have to be transported from here, and the road problem must be considered.

As for barrenness?When woolen textiles become popular, the workshop will become lively, which will naturally lead to the reconstruction of the surrounding areas, and Yu Miaomiao is not worried.

But in this way, repairing this piece of wasteland is not a small expense, even if all the two hundred guan she got not long ago is taken out, it is far from enough, let alone wool, transportation, sales, manpower and wages Fortunately, the bricks for the repair workshop don't need to spend extra money, they can be dragged directly from Zhao Man's kiln.

There are enough roads and manpower. When the beans start to be harvested on the mountain in the past few days, there will be no need for so many people to carry water and take care of them. Some can be moved over.

Yu Miaomiao also wanted to hire some people directly and aboveboard, so as not to arouse the suspicion of Liu Tingzhou and Wang Lang. After all, these two people are keeping a close eye on Zhao Man now.

Since the two of them started to stare at Liushutun closely, because of the refugees, and the war in the northwest, they didn't have much doubts about the incomplete "refugees". Moreover, these people who came out in a fair manner also had household registrations. Stands up to investigation.

On the way back, Yu Miaomiao went through many problems in his mind again, and finally concluded that he had to find a capable and trustworthy partner.

Yu Miaomiao, the person Zhao Man was looking for, naturally believed it, and just patiently waited for the partner to come to his door.

That night, in the dead of night, Yu Miaomiao asked Zhao Man why Bi Kuo came today.

Zhao Man didn't intend to let Yu Miaomiao worry about these things, but thinking that Yu Miaomiao was different from ordinary women in a boudoir, he still told Bi Kuo's intention of coming and waited to see Yu Miaomiao's reaction.

When Yu Miaomiao heard about "Blood Moon", she was really curious, but the point was completely different from Zhao Man's, "Blood Moon? Can Bi Kuo predict it? He's too powerful!"

As he said, he poked Zhao Man with his finger, "If you don't tell me earlier, I can ask how he calculated it. There is still half a month left between August [-]th and August [-]th. Ask him if he can calculate it." Can't be a telescope, shall we go to the mountains to watch the moonlight?"

Although Yu Miaomiao is not an astronomy enthusiast, she knows about blood moons. She has seen red moons several times in modern society. Especially in the past two years, blood moons have appeared more frequently, and there are many media reports.

Occasionally glancing at the news can be regarded as literacy.

But when it comes to calculations, she is blind.

She only knows that during a total lunar eclipse, unlike the total solar eclipse when the sky is completely dark, the entire moon will turn a bronzed reddish color, commonly known as a red moon, also known as a blood moon.

A total lunar eclipse, this is still the Song Dynasty, and it is unbelievable that it can be predicted.

However, considering that Zhang Heng was able to correctly explain the cause of the lunar eclipse in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and now nearly a thousand years have passed since the Eastern Han Dynasty, it is not surprising that there are such strange people.

Zhao Man was a little stunned by Yu Miaomiao's reaction. Although he himself scoffed at the theory that the blood moon affected the fate of the country, like Yu Miaomiao, it seemed like he didn't hear it, but he couldn't do it.

Staring at Yu Miaomiao for a while, but now Yu Miaomiao is ignoring even his own woolen plans, just thinking about asking Bi Kuo, "Can Fangling see the blood moon? The total lunar eclipse is not visible in every place." .Have you never seen it? I've seen it before..."

Before she could finish speaking, she was shocked and stopped in time.

But facing Zhao Man's dark eyes, she felt a little guilty again, she pursed her lips, not daring to look directly at him, just buried her head in the thin quilt, and stopped talking.

Zhao Man said "Huh?", looked at the top of her head, reached out to fish her out of the quilt, and touched Yu Miaomiao's face with calloused hands. She closed her eyes, not daring to look at him at all, and just pretended: "Sleepy and tired, shall we sleep well?"

Suddenly the back of his head was heavy, but it was Zhao Man who held her in his arms, stroked her loose hair with his hands, and said in a low and hoarse voice, "Then sleep."

Zhao Man actually didn't want to know, and it wasn't the first time she revealed her secrets. He had countless opportunities to ask, but he didn't want to ask, not at all.

Seeing that Yu Miaomiao's body moved, but it was clinging even tighter to his embrace, his heart relaxed, his bright eyes looked at the window illuminated by the moonlight, and he called out in a low voice: "Miaomiao... "

The voice was hoarse and cautious, like the attraction of gravity, and Yu Miaomiao pressed against his chest, feeling a slight ups and downs and vibrations, her heart trembled, and she couldn't help but respond to him: "Qilang... "

Zhao Man responded, lowered his head, moved his hand from her hair to her neck, squeezed it twice, and said casually: "You can say whatever you want in front of me, and you don't have to worry about it in the future." cautious."

Yu Miaomiao gave a vague "uh", she didn't know how he did it, only pinched a few places, she couldn't help raising her head to look at him, she couldn't dodge.

Under the moonlight, Zhao Man's cold facial features seemed to soften, and she only felt her ears go soft, and she heard him say, "Do you remember?"

The indescribable bewitchment in the voice.

Seeing Yu Miaomiao's answer, Zhao Man patted her on the head: "Then sleep."

Yu Miaomiao couldn't sleep, she thought about it messily, and finally thought of the topic of tonight's conversation - "The blood moon appears, the country will decline, and evildoers will surely cause disaster"

He was actually led by her into the ditch.

She did not intend to reverse the superstitious thinking of people at this time, nor did she have the ability to do so.

But if the monstrous name was really assigned to Zhao Man, it would be a coquettish outfit.

The first thing Yu Miaomiao thought of was that the evildoer can be anyone, if they say Zhao Man, they can also find someone to divert their attention, don't blame her for being cruel, she can't live anymore, and she doesn't care about anything.

But when I asked Zhao Man, I found that there was no substitute, especially those opponents of Zhao Man, all of whom had a good reputation. It can be regarded as a little witch sees a big witch, there are many people in the old Zhao family, but none of them are as famous as Zhao Man.

Coupled with Zhao Man's previous rumors of fate... Yu Miaomiao stared at Zhao Man, Zhao Man also stared at her, raised his eyebrows, although he didn't speak, but the meaning was obvious: I am such a person, you think you are unlucky!
Yu Miaomiao comforted herself silently, forget it, it's very rare to be like this.

It's already like this, and it's too difficult to clean him up, and those victims have suffered for so long, as long as someone encourages them and has an outlet to vent, it will be really bad.

After thinking about it, she asked, "Why do they keep staring at you? Their princes who are famous in the court should be their opponents, right? Even if there are tens of thousands of soldiers, what can they do?"

Only then did Zhao Man tell about King Cheng's involvement of the prince with him.

King Cheng must have a backhand in Fangling.

"Isn't there still a prince? If the prince is capable, he will definitely use this to drive King Cheng into the dust. If he only puts aside his relationship with you and stays out of it, he is incompetent."

Only then did Zhao Man hook the corners of his lips, Miaomiao thought of something with him.

Whether it's him, the crown prince or King Cheng, they all want to kill two birds with one stone.

Yu Miaomiao said again: "The famine is God's will. It cannot be solved, and there is only so much we can do. Besides, this is not the first time that there is a disaster in Song Dynasty. Didn't there be a disaster before without a blood moon?"

Yu Miaomiao remembered that in a paper she had read before, it was mentioned that during the Song Dynasty, the climate became drier and colder, which caused droughts to increase significantly.Starting in the tenth century, it rose to a level of 21 per century by the eleventh century.

Think about the slightly distorted history of Song Dynasty now, which happens to be in this time period, which means that basically every five years there will be a drought.

Suddenly remembering this incident, she searched her memory again, and remembered that the last drought was three years ago.

I heard that it was the southwest, Bozhou and Dali were involved, and many people died.Fangling also had less rainfall that year, but it was slightly better than this year.

She had an idea in her mind. In ancient China, there was no special statistical research on natural disasters. They were all mentioned in the annals or the biographies of the emperors. They mainly talked about the merits of the emperors. Statistics come out.

She can pay attention to this matter, and can also take some precautions in advance. The Song Dynasty was in an abnormal climate period...

However, it is extremely difficult to do this, and it does not mean that it can be done. After the immediate crisis is resolved, Bi Kuo can be encouraged to lead his students to do these researches, and guide them to compare the disaster of the Song Dynasty with the past. Compared with the times, I am not afraid that they will not pay attention.

"Let's not talk about the drought, but the military disaster is man-made. The blood moon said it was fighting for soldiers. Didn't it say that Tubo's combat power is not strong last time? It's all for the benefit of timber in Qinzhou area. It's the Xixia people who make things difficult... "

Yu Miaomiao expressed a lot of opinions, but all of them were rejected.

Before she knew it, it was already late at night, and she couldn't think of it in the end, so she had to say: "Then don't solve it, and find a bigger matter to divert attention. Song doesn't have one, and it's okay to find it from other countries."

The method is very simple and rude, but this is the most commonly used and most effective move in modern society.

Yu Miaomiao couldn't tell what the bigger thing was and how to divert her attention, but this was enough.

Zhao Man's eyes lit up immediately, because of her reminder, he had already thought of a way to make up for the shortcomings of the original method, a ruthless look flashed in his eyes, and he patted Yu Miaomiao's back: "Go to bed first, I will Come and go."

Yu Miaomiao blinked and looked at him, "An idea?"

Zhao Man added: "I don't go out, I just arrange something with them."

This "they" refers to the hidden guards.

Yu Miaomiao said "Yes", Zhao Man got up, took the clothes from the chair beside him, put on casually, and strode out.

After Zhao Man finished explaining the matter, some hidden guards left at night.

There is not much time left, he has to hurry up.

When Zhao Man came back, Yu Miaomiao had already fallen asleep, and he crawled onto the bed silently, with a soft look in his eyes, he was more and more sure that Yu Miaomiao was his lucky star.

Another three days later, Li Miaomiao arranged things one after another, and all the money in her hands was lost in an instant, but she didn't need to make the arrangements, but she also felt that she was too busy to touch the ground.

In her free time, she still has to learn Gu skills from Mr. Lan. She has watched those snow velvets for a long time now, and she doesn't feel disgusting at all, and even finds them a little cute.

At dusk that day, a luxurious carriage slowly drove into Liushutun, attracting a lot of attention. The people in the carriage lifted the curtains of the carriage and greeted the county government spies watching over the village without thinking they were too ostentatious.

"I've already reported to the magistrate Mr. Liu and the magistrate Wang. It's not about discussing any secret matters. If you are curious about who is the leader, come and listen together. It's not shameful."

This blatant remark made the spy who consciously hid for a long time almost unable to hold back.

It's not right to admit it for a while, and it seems bad not to admit it.

They are spies, what are spies?It just cannot be made public!They are here looking at the vegetable fields and smashing the leaves of the trees, easy!Can't you tell people to be quiet spies?
Now it was skinned by this person at a glance.

Seeing that this person was still staring at him with burning eyes, these spies only felt that they were the ones being followed.They left in a panic, having said that, how dare they really listen.

This time, what if this guy is defrauding them?
"Who is this? So arrogant." A spy whispered to his colleague, an old man who had been a spy for a long time.

"Fang Ke, the eldest son of the Fang family."

"Didn't the Fang family all move away from Fangling? I heard that in Yizhou and Xingyuan Mansion, only Fang Aonan was left in Fangling. Why are you back now?"

The old spy taught the young spy: "Who knows, I heard that Mr. Fang Dalang has a weird personality, don't mess with him, and stay away from him in the future, it's definitely true."

As he spoke, he looked at Mr. Fang Dalang and saw that he was smiling and waving to this side, so he quickly looked away and continued to water the vegetables.

"Oh!"

The conversation between the two spies was extremely quiet, so Fang Ke, who was far away in the carriage, couldn't hear it.

But seeing these two people with their backs to him, he smiled even more happily, and leaned over to look out the window, while ordering the driver to start the car.

In the car, sitting diagonally across from him, a handsome young man rolled his eyes at Fang Ke's back unbearably.

Immediately, he turned his eyes away and only stared at the ledger in his hand.

There is a piece of paper sandwiched in this account book, and symbols that he can't understand are drawn on the paper in a mess.

He has been staring at this piece of paper for two months and still has no clue, but his patience is very good and he is not impatient, thinking that Li Miaomiao must tell him the answer later.

What kind of ghost symbols are drawn on this frankly, why did Yu Miaomiao draw these things, and quickly checked an account book.

This person is none other than Fang Aonan who left Fangling for a while.

(End of this chapter)