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Chapter 574 Back to the Door

Chen Xi and Lin Dai have lived together since childhood. It is normal to share a bed with a bed and it is not unusual. Even after getting on the bed, Lin Dai instinctively occupied the bed, but soon she realized that this was not the time to compete with Chen Xi for a long time, and today is their happy day.

Lin Dai is no longer an ignorant girl. With Xie Yuner's guidance, even if she is confused, she knows the mystery.

In addition to explaining the general matter clearly, Xie Yuner is the most important thing to tell Lin Dai what she should do as a newlywed wife when she is married:

Leave all the initiative to my husband, and don’t have to think about anything else. If you feel shy, you can just close your eyes.

After all, Chen Xi is already a "experienced person".

Lin Dai was very alert to Xie Yuner, but she had to listen to Xie Yuner's words, and she had no experience.

She had to follow Xie Yuner's instructions and hand over everything to Chen Xi. She just hid in the quilt and looked at Chen Xi with shame, because the two had been together for too long, and even knew the temperament of each other. It lacked the mystery between the newlyweds and the response was much more round, but less passion.

Just after the wedding night, I looked like an old couple who had been married for more than ten years.

Chen Xi was also thinking about this question. He has known Lin Dai for almost eight years. Does that mean that the "seven-year itch" between them has become a thing of the past?

But soon Chen Xi discovered that he did not know Lin Dai well enough. As the night came, Lin Dai's enthusiasm was completely opened, Chen Xi realized this more deeply.

After nightfall, Chen Xi specially lit the big red flower candle, and he soon became hungry, but Lin Dai didn't give him a chance to eat, and the little girl was so obsessed with her.

"Can we have some food?" Chen Xi asked in a negotiated tone.

"Hmph!" Lin Dai's answer was very direct.

This is a grievance that only the resentful woman would make. As a great husband, Chen Xi had to continue his unfinished career.

In the end, Zhou thought that his son and daughter-in-law had not had dinner, so she might be hungry. After nightfall, she asked Zhu Shan and Xiu'er to send food. Lin Dai had no appetite, but Chen Xi ate very delicious, which made Lin Dai very dissatisfied when she looked around.

"I just know how to eat!"

Lin Dai held the bedding and scratched her back, but found that it was a big deal to see others eat, so she put her wedding clothes on her body and came down to eat with Chen Xi.

There was another deep love at night.

Xie Yuner is completely cooked, while Lin Dai can only be half cooked at most. Eating raw rice made Chen Xi feel a little awkward, but soon he became happy.

The next day, the rooster crowed the five drums, and Lin Dai slept very peacefully, but Chen Xi woke up long ago.

Originally, the wedding night should have started at midnight, which is in line with the artistic conception, but he is a "second marriage" person and can be calm about many things.

Lin Dai, the fatigue of last night made her extremely distressed. The little girl caught a cold last night. She got up in a daze and looked at Chen Xi, lay down and then fell asleep. Chen Xi touched her head, which was a little hot.

"It's all your fault, huh, I said it's okay to wear a few clothes for that matter." Lin Dai got up and put on clothes with a little resentment.

Chen Xi smiled. In fact, he felt that the biggest problem was that the young couple could not be harmonious. The weather was warm and cold in early March, and if you were not careful, you would easily get infected with wind and cold.

When you wake up, you can’t have breakfast first, you have to go to the tea first, which is for "daughter-in-law tea", and then you have to "return to the door" and go to the Lu family next door.

Zhou had tested the white-chested chess, with a little joy on his face, but his stomach was muttering: "What a fool, I have to wait for marriage... Could it be that he cut his hand to fool me again?"

In the past, Zhou did not believe that Chen Xi knew those ghosts, but after she saw them with her own eyes, she really had to believe some things.

"Come here for breakfast quickly. I guess your grandmother is coming soon. I will take Dai'er to kowtow to your Aunt Sun after dinner!"

Zhou always cared about Hui Niang. In the past two days, she also noticed that Hui Niang was a little abnormal, but she just thought that perhaps Chen Xi’s marriage had evoked Hui Niang’s sad memories... The most shameful thing for a widow is this kind of happy event.

Shen Mingjun, Zhou Shi, Chen Xi, Xie Yuner, Lin Dai, Chen Yun, Chen Yier, the family of seven sat down to have a meal as a family for the first time.

At the dinner table, Shen Mingjun didn't say a word, just plucking the rice grains in his bowl, but Zhou was very happy and picked up the food for this and that, constantly asking everyone to eat more.

Xie Yun'er's face was natural, and she was holding her sister-in-law Chen Yi'er in her arms.

Chen Yi'er was very "satisfied" with her sister-in-law, but she was very picky about food, not as easy to serve as Chen Yun in Zhou's arms... Chen Yun basically feeds him whatever he eats. When he touches his stomach and looks up at Zhou, Zhou knows that his son is full, so he puts the person down and lets him go out to play with his sister.

"I originally planned to let Hanwaer enlighten Yuner, but I don't have any time now. Let him study with Mr. Feng in the future..."

Chen Yun was only four years old and Zhou, who wanted his son to become successful, was already thinking about enlightenment for his son.

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On that day, the Shen family was about to set off for Ninghua to worship their ancestors. Chen Xi accompanied Lin Dai to "return to the door" and everything was simple.

There will be no return banquets, they are all their own family. Zhou was still there to accompany her personally. When he arrived at the main house of the inner courtyard of Lu's house, Hui Niang dressed up a little. After all, she saw her goddaughter and son-in-law, so she prepared the red seal in advance. After the newlyweds saluted her, she handed the red seal on it.

Chen Xi touched it and knew that it was very valuable inside, not copper coins or broken silver, but silver notes. How shabby could Hui Niang go to the point of taking action?

According to Zhou's instructions, Chen Xi wanted to kowtow to Hui Niang.

But Hui Niang didn't accept it because Chen Xi is an official and a civilian. She is not a direct relative of Chen Xi. In her words, ignoring the state of affairs will reduce blessings and longevity.

Seeing Huiniang insisting, Zhou did not force her, but the basic etiquette was still needed. Finally, Huiniang simply held a banquet to entertain her "in-laws", and even the maid could have a good meal.

"... I'm going to set off for Ninghua before noon. My father and I will definitely come back. Hanwaer, Yun'er, Dai'er, may go north directly, and it will be difficult to come back in the future."

Zhou said this to Hui Niang, but his eyes looked at Chen Xi.

This time, my son returned home to visit his relatives, which was a gift from the court. It took four months to go back and forth, and the officials did not spend so much time on the road. Perhaps only after Chen Xi became more official and brought them to the side to respect him can he often see his son.

Hui Niang looked at Chen Xi, and seemed to have the intention of asking for it.

Chenxidao: "If nothing unexpected happens, I will return to Tingzhou Fucheng. It is more convenient to go to Ganjiang from Tingzhou Fucheng west.

When Hui Niang heard this, she knew that Chen Xi would go back to Changting County again. A hint of joy arose in her heart, but she was in a very complicated mood and had no way to speak what she wanted to say.

Before the banquet ended, Li had already taken the Shen family to set off, and the maid kept coming in to urge him.

Zhou said angrily: "I'm not rushing to reincarnate. My son won the top scholar. It's understandable that the ancestors know the situation. Why do you have to be so anxious?"

When she took her son and daughter-in-law out of the door, Li was already standing in front of the Shen family with great dignity. Zhou could only go forward and salute.

"Sister takes care of yourself all the way."

When seeing off, Hui Niang gave many instructions to Zhou.

Zhou comforted her and said that she would reopen the pharmacy after she came back. In fact, she wanted to tell her good sister that she would not go to the capital with Chen Xi for the time being, so she didn't have to worry that the Shen family would never go back from now on.

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The huge convoy arrived at the north gate of the city, but when leaving the city gate, he still had to wait a moment, because Chen Xi had to go to the inn to see it first and then explain it clearly before he could get on the road.

Chen Xi repeatedly told Zhang Laowu and others that this time he returned to Ninghua to visit his relatives and wanted to pay homage to the ancestral tomb. It would take ten days to travel from Tingzhou Prefecture City to Ninghua Countryside. After returning for a little preparation, he would escort Almeida and others back to Beijing. Xie Qian gave him the deadline for the end of May, and he tried to rush back to Beijing before late May.

When you are a royal master, you can’t just work by placing time. You should try to get started as soon as possible so that you won’t make mistakes.

When Chen Xi went to the inn, he got a letter written by Yu Niang from Quanzhou Prefecture City.

The content of the letter is quite obscure and seems to be some daily situations, but it contains profound meanings. When it comes to "the family is in trouble" and "the elder brother, parents, wife and children have been lying in bed for a long time", Chen Xi could understand at a glance that Yu Niang told him that the lives of the local people in Quanzhou were very difficult, and when he mentioned "there was another time when his brother had a bad relationship with others, he accidentally injured people and was imprisoned by the yamen", it was equivalent to telling Chen Xi that the common people had bad relationships with the government may cause greater civil unrest.

Time was running out, and Chen Xi could not return to discuss matters with Hui Niang, so he wrote a letter asking the yamen runners to help deliver them to the chamber of commerce, asking Hui Niang to help transport a batch of affordable grain to Quanzhou Prefecture, and then through the people from the chamber of commerce branch, they would deliver the grain to the victims as much as possible.

This is the only thing Chen Xi can do now, and he also knows that this is just a drop in the bucket. The biggest fuse of Quanzhou's local grain resistance incident is that the government will not report any disaster. The tax is collected according to the original tax ratio. No matter how rich the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce is, it is not able to pay taxes for the people of the government.

Chen Xi thought to himself: "Yu Niang got Liu Daxia instructed her to come to investigate the grain resistance case, but she never had the power to take action. If Zhang Lian is not defeated, there will be no progress. But if Zhang Lian is to fall, it will take at least four or five months. Quanzhou may cause a big civil unrest."

In fact, Fujian is not peaceful. As a border coastal area, in addition to the Japanese pirates invading the border, ethnic minorities also rebelled frequently. Even civil rebellion is far more common than other areas. This is also the reason why Fujian Association has both Dusi and Xingdusi.

If the grain resistance case really triggers a major rebellion, it is expected that it will only be suppressed in Fujian Province. However, western Fujian is not far from Quanzhou. Tingzhou, which has been relatively prosperous in recent years, may become a victim of civil unrest and be affected.

"Yanwa, I've been waiting for you for a long time. Get on the bus and I'll go back to Ninghua now!" Zhou waited for a while before seeing Chen Xi come back, and urged Chen Xi from afar.

The old lady said to Li with a stern face, probably just like Wang's name is not allowed to call Chen Xi "Little Young Master", Zhou's name is not allowed to call Chen Xi's nickname.

"knew."

Chen Xi was a little confused. After he knew about such a big thing, he reported it to the court without hesitation, but he also knew that he came to Fujian to visit relatives and welcome the envoys of Folangji. He was not an inspector and was not qualified to make any arguments about the local government.

Yu Niang will naturally notify Liu Daxia in the capital of the news.

But Liu Daxia is a cautious person and will not disturb the stability of the local area casually. Perhaps he will suppress the chaos in Quanzhou without reporting it.

Chen Xi thought of another person, which was Xie Qian. Chen Xi felt it was necessary to report the disaster in Quanzhou Xie Qian to know.

There were droughts in the Central Plains, winds and locust plagues in Fujian, and disasters were everywhere in the Ming Dynasty. As a senior minister of the cabinet, you must naturally be aware of them.

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