Huang Jue, after three marriages

Chapter 457 The Old Garden
In mid-May, Hangzhou is the most beautiful season.

The willows are still green and tender, the lotus has already bloomed, and the rose dahlias in the garden are incomparably gorgeous.

Xie Jue came up from Quanzhou this time, and did not walk along the coastline, but came around from the outer line of Ryukyu.

The Ryukyu here is actually the island of Taiwan in Su Yue's previous life.

At this time, it is not as prosperous as her previous life, and it is still a huge deserted island. Only the fishermen from the mainland live on the side near the mainland.

After Xie Jue built a port in Qiongzhou, he sent people to this island. On the side of the island near the Pacific Ocean, he bought a large piece of primitive wasteland and built a port.

Today, the tax law of the Municipal Shipbuilding Department has not changed, and the increase in the purchases in Hangzhou has also been suppressed. Although this shipping is risky (so many ships did not return from Baghdad at that time), the profit is also huge, so the enthusiasm for traveling to the sea There is no decrease at all. Hangzhou, Quanzhou, Fujian, Ningbo and other ports, when the monsoon comes together, there are fleets of ships leaving almost every few days.

It is not the time for the monsoon to rise yet, so there are not many boats on the channel, even if there are fishing boats, they will not be too far away from the coastline, so as long as the grain transport fleet moves away from the coastline, no one will notice.

But when the monsoon comes, there will be more ships on the channel, so it will be difficult to run the inshore channel, and the channel that detours from outside the Ryukyu Island becomes the safest.

And with the port, the fleet can also have supplies, it just takes a few days longer to arrive in Yanzhou.

Xie Jue's boat did not dock at that port, but Xie Jue took a small boat to watch for an hour before leaving.

It took only three days longer to arrive in Hangzhou, and it happened to be after the Dragon Boat Festival when the weather was at its best.

Zheng Qi had received the letter a long time ago, and led his people to clean up the yard by the West Lake, and replaced everything with new ones.

After Su Yue left, the husband and wife did not live in this yard anymore, but bought a three-yard yard more than a mile away to live in.

The year before last, Zheng Fa also married Qiu Gui, and built a new three-entry courtyard next to it. The two brothers lived next to each other.

Xie Jue never treated his subordinates badly. Zheng Qi and Zheng Fa did a good job and gave him a lot of dividends. Over the years, the two brothers have indeed saved a family property, and bought some servants and maidservants in their mansion.

After cleaning the yard this time, Lvzhu and Qiugui thought that Su Yue would not have enough manpower, so they each kept a few capable people, and Lvzhu specially sent Niu Da back.

Niu Da's son has grown up and learned a good cooking skill. Their family was originally a living deed. When Su Yue and Xie Jue were together last year, they released Niu Da's son's deed and asked Niu Da's son to go to his restaurant Be a cook.

At the end of last year, the eldest son of Niu and Lan Chun made an appointment.

Lan Tian and Bai Yun have become Zheng Qi's effective stewards, and they usually run outside, but this time Su Yue and Xie Jue said that they will live for a while, Zheng Qi was afraid that others would not be good enough, so he transferred again The two of them came back and took care of the entire mansion.

After such a fuss, when Su Yue got off the boat and entered the yard, she felt a sudden sense of surprise.

It seems to go back to a few years ago.

At that time, with the help of Li Xiang, she and Xie Jue made their first pot of gold and bought several yards.

At that time, Li Xiang was still...

Seeing the sadness flashing in Su Yue's eyes, Xie Jue lightly embraced her waist, and said in a low voice, "Master Li's garden has already been bought, if you want to go, we can go and have a look at any time."

Li Xiang did not want to be buried back in Hangzhou in his last wish, so they took Li Xiang's cousin's remains and buried them in Qiongzhou together.

Every time he passed by, he would go to worship, but Su Yue never had the chance to do so.

"Bought it back?" Su Yue was a little surprised.

When they were there last year, Zhao Hao was ruthless against the Yao family, and the garden was also guarded by Zhao Hao's people. At that time, she asked Xie Jue if she could tell Zhao Hao to buy the garden back. At that time, Xie Jue said that the garden involved too much, so it was better not to do anything.

just now……

"I bought it in March." Zheng Qi said with a smile beside him: "In February, Jiangnan started spring plowing, but the court's seed money has not come down. Mr. Gao has no choice but to sell those confiscated properties to raise funds. The subordinate took the opportunity to buy the garden and come back."

After the flood, it was a mess. Plague was easy to occur in places with many people, but in some places, a lot of fertile soil was washed down by the water.

Last autumn, Liangzhe Road, under the leadership of Mr. Gao, some small officials who are familiar with farming began to instruct people to plant autumn and winter crops. At any rate, there were some harvests for the New Year.

It's just that there are some food for subsistence, but there are no seeds for spring plowing this year.

However, Master Gao's memorial did not come up with any reply. It was directly sent to the emperor, and finally he only got a reply with full authority.

money no...

Mr. Gao couldn't help it either, and later he got advice from an expert. Since it is full power, the corrupt officials' industries that were seized last year can naturally be dealt with.

Immediately a decision was made to put all those properties up for auction, and only then did a sum of money be raised.

Zheng Qi, who was appreciated by Mr. Gao, was naturally the first to respond and sold the largest property, the garden by the West Lake.

"Good job!" Su Yue smiled at Zheng Qi, and then said to Xie Jue: "Go and do it yourself, Lu Zhu and I will just go in."

Xie Jue glanced at Zheng Qi, then looked at the sun that had passed the mid-heaven, let go of Su Yue's waist and said, "That's fine, the sun is a little bit hot today, you should take a nap first, and wait until you have rested." Alright, I'll take you to play again."

Su Yue responded with a smile twice, and followed the green bamboo to go forward.

Hearing the women laughing all the way in, Xie Jue's lips curled up slightly, and when he turned his head to look at Zheng Qizhi, he stepped down again and snorted heavily.

You better have something urgent!
Zheng Qi smiled, and stretched out his hand to guide Xie Jue to the study.

In the past few years, although Zheng Qi has not lived here, he has been improving the courtyard. Compared with last year, the former study room has undergone some changes.

Looking at the pine and bamboo bonsai with rockery and flowing water pottery and fisherman placed at the door of the study, Xie Jue paused in his footsteps, and turned his head to glance at Zheng Qi.

He had been deliberately burying his life in the Eastern Palace back then, but now, he was singled out.

Isn't this bonsai the same as the one he had in front of his small study in the East Palace back then?
Zheng Qi just pretended not to see him, and said with a smile: "This is what the girl ordered. When she came last year, she said that the study was too serious and she should be a little angry. She also told her subordinates that she needed to find some three The decorations that I like, the ones I liked before."

Xie Jue's eye sockets felt slightly sore.

I used to like...

Before the accident in the East Palace, his life was a reckless life, and most of the things he liked were exquisite and interesting.

And in these years, although his quality of life is not bad (he is rich), he has lost the pure childish heart of the past.

Zheng Qi lowered his head, took a step forward and reached out to brush the mirror-clean chair again, and said, "Third Lord, what I want to tell you is about Champacho."

(End of this chapter)