As the backyard of Ye's mansion began to become harmonious, at least on the surface, the wife and concubines were no longer as tense as they were at the beginning, so the doorman Tao Qian also took back his resignation and continued to serve as the doorman of Ye's mansion.

The two factions are still clearly distinguished. Liu Qingyan and Zhong Qing are one faction, Bai Chun and Yan Qingcheng are another faction, but the Ye Daguan no longer has to be angry with the splint.

The New Year's Day in Lin'an City is naturally very lively. Streets mainly on Yu Street, Dawazi and other places, including West Lake, Wulinmen and other market places, are still like every New Year's Day in the past, with a festive and peaceful atmosphere everywhere.

The literati, the beautiful ladies, the merchants and pawns, and the officials and nobles, seemed to be looking forward to the New Year. Each of them had joy and excitement on their faces, wearing new clothes that had been prepared for a long time, or putting friends and relatives, or playing in groups of three or five.

Even at the foot of Phoenix Mountain, the palace, which seemed a little dull before the New Year because of the old age of the Supreme Emperor, was as if it had received auspicious auspiciousness from the sky. While the lights were decorated, it also revealed a festive festive atmosphere everywhere.

Lin'an is as lively as in previous years, and Yangzhou has undergone great changes this year. The dull and boring New Year's Day, which was like a warm water in previous years, has been greatly improved this year.

Especially the tall and thick city walls that stood up gave Yangzhou a confidence all at once, making the city of Yangzhou also full of lights and colorful decorations, laughter and joyful words everywhere.

Whether it is the trellis or the taverns and inns, it has become much more lively than in previous years. As the leader of Yangzhou, the slanting wind and drizzle building has moved the trellis to the place near the 24th Bridge between the New Year. With the addition of some vendors and artists from the martial arts industry, a lively place like a market was formed.

Legend has it that there were twenty-four singers in the Tang Dynasty, each with charming and light body. They came here to play the flute and flute on a moonlit night and met Du Mu by chance. One of the singers specially ate Suhua to offer them and asked Du Mu to write a poem.

So the poem "Where can the jade man teach the flute to play the flute on the bright moonlit night of the Twenty-Four Bridges?" This also made the Wu family brick bridge synonymous with the Twenty-Four Bridges.

Liu Qingyan was particularly happy today. She didn't expect that Ye Qing would come here to see her specifically.

So in the teahouse in the corridor, Ye Qing found a table facing the river and sat down, and told Ye Qing about the origin of the Twenty-Four Bridges and the current grand scenery.

The crowds were surging and the noise was endless. The colorful red men and green women were either watching the bridge and river, or bargaining with vendors like markets, or looking at the story of a talented man and a beautiful woman who was performing in the tiles and tiles from afar.

Just like the scene on the Qingming River Map, even if it is moved to Yangzhou at this time, it is also suitable. It is crowded with people, or there are carriages, carriages at the entrance of the upper bridge, and the entrance of the lower bridge, and each other will not give in.

Liu Qingyan had a rare good mood, and her eyes were always looking at Ye Qing who was looking at the lively scenes, and occasionally she would reveal a hint of her little daughter's shyness and gentle posture.

"How great it would be if it could be like this all the time." Ye Qing looked at the tasteless tea. This open-air teahouse that occupied the Langting Pavilion was too stingy. Those who were in the festival did not prepare some good tea to sell.

"Compared with the past few years, this year's New Year's Day is enough to make the people happy and live a hard-won New Year's Day with peace of mind. If you want to keep doing this, it depends on your Lord Ye?" Liu Qingyan joked at Magistrate Ye mischievously and said, "By the way, why didn't you bring anyone with you when you came out today?"

"Tao Qian, Song Qian accompanied them to the temple outside the city to burn incense..." Ye Qing looked at Liu Qingyan, and Liu Qingyan would have a hint of shyness flashed across her face, lowering her head slightly without any trace, and did not dare to look at Ye Qing's gaze.

"I originally wanted to go with me, but because of the slanting wind and drizzle building, I will be here today..." Liu Qingyan's eyes flashed with a hint of sadness.

Ye Qing was conditioned and stretched out his hand to grab Liu Qingyan's hand in public. However, his hand just touched the back of Liu Qingyan's hand on the table. Liu Qingyan seemed to be bitten by a snake. He shrank his hand under the table with a whoosh. A blush suddenly rose on his snow-white cheeks, and he said angrily: "You are crazy, there are so many people here, what do you want to do?"

Ye Qing was stunned, looking at Liu Qingyan's rare little daughter's posture, calmly withdrew her hand, and then said, "Don't you want to comfort you? It's the New Year's Day now, you are the only one in the family, and we..."

"Who is with your family? I'm so ashamed." Liu Qingyan's cheeks seemed even more shy and embarrassed at this time.

Rather than saying that Ye Qing was doing nothing today, she ran to the Twenty-four Bridge to see Liu Qingyan, it would be better to say that Bai Chun and the three women were creating for Ye Qing, so that Ye Qing could really invite Liu Qingyan to pass the door.

Although Liu Qingyan will occasionally live in the mansion, she only stayed with her sisterly relationship with Zhong Qing. As for her relationship with Ye Qing, when she was about to make some progress, Bai Chun and Yan Qingcheng suddenly fought to Yangzhou, so they won another great cause before they even started and died.

Now, after the efforts of Ye Qing, the head of the family, has been through several sleepless nights, and every day, he has to sleep until midnight before getting up. Every day, he has to work hard to walk on the wall. Whether it is Bai Chun or Yan Qingcheng, the happiest person is naturally the happiest person, who has begun to create conditions for Ye Qing and Liu Qingyan intentionally or unintentionally.

Even the gatekeeper Tao Qian, looking at Lord Ye's efforts day and night, couldn't help but sigh and persuade, "Boy, your body is important. Although the saint also said: Food, sex, nature, you still have to be restrained. How can you be like you, like a hungry ghost in your sex, and you have never seen a woman in your eight lives? Even when I was in the palace, I had never seen that... what a motivated person like you, let alone your Ye family now has a descendant, and you work so hard... Could it be that all three ladies..."

Before the concierge could finish his words, his left eye turned into a panda eye. Ye Qing angrily scolded the villain for his behavior, and he actually peeped at the sex of this adult...

The gatekeeper was punched and could not fight back. Because he couldn't beat him, he had to angrily say, "I still need to peep? As the gatekeeper, I must do my best to protect your house, Ye Qing, naturally, I must do my best to protect you. What's more, you kid are wearing pajamas every night and swaying one by one, then staggering and returning to one of the wives' room to sleep. Can you peep with me?"

"…..." Lord Ye was speechless in an instant, jumped up and broke off a small piece of snow-melted Bingling from the eaves and handed it to Tao Qian. He looked at the panda in the doorman and said, "The ice application is better, and the bruises will continue quickly."

“…I want to resign.”

"Will go as far as you want." Lord Ye turned his head impatiently and said proudly.

So now, after Ye Qing's unremitting efforts, Liu Qingyan finally got the acquiesce of the three real hostesses in the mansion.

Liu Qingyan was naturally extremely happy, but she was a little nervous and nervous. Just like Ye Qing who was looking at her at this moment, her mind couldn't help but emerge. The situation when she first met Ye Qing was actually because of murder!

After throwing a few copper coins to pay for the tea, Ye Qing and Liu Qingyan were like young scholars and beautiful ladies in Yangzhou City, and began to wander around the market at the Twenty-Four Bridges as dates.

The Twenty-Four Bridges are in the west of the city, and the hungry people placed by Ye Qing were also in Taiping and Xima Fangs in the west of the city, so the two of them unconsciously walked here. The pedestrians on the road were also because of the poor place here. The pedestrians were much deserted compared to the Twenty-Four Bridges and other places just now.

"I've seen an adult." The figure suddenly jumped out of the alley, which scared Liu Qingyan, who was defenseless, and hurriedly grabbed Ye Qing's sleeve and hid behind Ye Qing.

Although she was wearing a brand new dress, it was covered with dust and so on. Even the new boots under her feet were covered with mud, and her hair was also a little messy, and a few dead grass was still living on it.

Seeing Ye Qing looking up and down at him, Liu Keshi smiled awkwardly, quickly patted the dust on his body, and then sorted out his hair and said, "I'm sorry, Lord Ye, I just wanted to see if these huts were solid or not, so I climbed up, so... I'd like to forgive me."

"Is this kind of fighting on the New Year?" Ye Qing reached out to help Master Liu Ke pick a dead grass above his head, and then signaled Master Liu Ke to turn around and help Master Liu Ke dust off the dust on his back. He continued: "In a few days, two people will come to Yangzhou. After the Lantern Festival, you will go to Guangling. If there is anything, you might as well discuss it with them. Maybe you can give you some suggestions."

"Thank you, sir." Liu Keshi hurriedly saluted gratefully, and then said: "The little man has found out in the past few days that the terrain here is not suitable for building brick and tile houses. And more importantly, now in Yangzhou City, especially in the few days before the New Year, many people have flocked in. Xiaomin also asked the deputy envoy Chen Cishan, Lord Chen, and Lord Chen also arranged for officials to investigate the identities of those people. Most of them were the people who left Yangzhou to avoid the war. Most of them returned to Yangzhou from Chu, Zhen, Tai, Tong, Andong and other states..."

"Why did they return to Yangzhou at this time?" Ye Qing continued to walk forward, looking at the surrounding houses from time to time, or children on the New Year's Day, who looked festive but still had clothes torn.

Liu Keshi smiled, and he seemed much more confident than before, saying: "Since the Yangzhou city wall was built, this news has spread like wildfire, so these people have run back to Yangzhou. But what is now in a dilemma is... some of their houses that they had avoided disaster have been taken back by the government, so the pressure on Taiping and other fangs has been even greater."

"Can't you go back to your own courtyard if you have a house deed? Or do you have any other intentions?" Ye Qing turned his head and asked.

"The villain visited Duke Chongguo yesterday. Duke Chongguo allowed him to enter the mansion for your sake. So what the villain learned from Duke Chongguo was that now, when Yang Jian was in office, had already been re-replaced by the government and sold all the land deeds. Therefore, it is impossible to return to his house with the deeds. The villain has been wandering around Xima, Taiping and other fangs these days, and of course, even the entire Yangzhou, etc.."

Now when it comes to serious matters, Master Liu seems much more calm and confident than before. The impetuousness and arrogance of being a literati have long disappeared.

Master Liu Ke took out a map of Huainan East Road that Ye Qing had drawn casually outside Yangzhou City, and spread it carefully, saying, "Sir, please see, this is the map you drew. At that time, the villain didn't believe that Yangzhou City was like this, wide in the east and narrow in the west, but after a rough measure and judgment of these days, I realized that the map you drew was still quite accurate."

"Don't praise me. Before you take office, just learn to flatter me first. This is not good." Ye Qing jokingly laughed and joked. Looking at the excellent map kept by Master Liu Ke, I was still somewhat relieved.

The edge of the map has been worn out to some extent, so it can be seen that Master Liu Ke obviously took it out and read it a lot.

Mr. Liu Ke smiled embarrassedly, and then got to the point seriously: "So, sir, sir, sir, have a bold idea after comparing the map."

Mr. Liu Ke's voice became much more serious and more serious, and even the expression on his face seemed a little nervous because of his seriousness.

"You said." Ye Qing took a deep breath. The map of Yangzhou had already been in his mind, so even if he didn't look at it, he knew how the terrain of Yangzhou City was moving.

"The villain thought that if it was in the long run, it would be imperative to build an outer city of Yangzhou." Liu Ke's voice was a little trembling. After all, Ye Qing's first meeting not only made him feel happy, but even deeply hurt his self-esteem.

But it was also because of Ye Qing's experience of giving him despair that he had to lock himself in the room to reflect on himself. Is it really as bad as Ye Qing said?

So at this time, even though Ye Qing had already appointed him, the shadow that Ye Qing left on his heart still existed for a long time.

"How big is it?" Ye Qing asked afterwards.

Master Liu Ke's eyes lit up, he shook the map in his hand. His tone turned into an excited trembling, "East to the canal, the two temples in the west, the imperial tomb in the north, and the Guazhou in the south!"

"Although Guazhou is a small place, it looks at Jingkou, connects Jiankang, connects the sea, and is surrounded by a large river, which is actually the key to the throat of the north!" Ye Qing nodded with satisfaction. At this time, he had to admire Master Liu Ke. At least this person dared to think and dared to turn Yangzhou into a huge city. At the same time, he could also see that Guazhou, a small place, had a strategic role in Yangzhou.

"Similarly, it is also across the river from Zhenjiang. If the Jin people attacked the south, whether it was Guazhou or Zhenjiang, it would be an excellent offensive and defensive place for our Song army to fight against the enemy. Therefore, the villain thought that although Guazhou was far away, it must not be placed outside Yangzhou." Liu Keshi said excitedly.

Of course, Ye Qing also understood that what he said was not to completely build this place into the Yangzhou city wall. In that case, even if Ye Qing lost all his money, the entire Yangzhou people would be exhausted and would not be able to complete the outer city that Liu Keshi said.

But no matter what, whether it is a road or a person, what Mr. Liu Ke’s implication is: it must be a trusted and reliable person.

"Who knows about this?" Ye Qing asked inadvertently.

"Sir, I have only mentioned it to you." Liu Keshi said firmly.

Ye Qing sighed a long time and glanced at Liu Qingyan who had been silent beside her. The sweet date between the two was completely disturbed by Liu Keshi who suddenly appeared. Although the beauty had regrets in her heart, she was not dissatisfied.

"Where is Lord Bai and Lord Ye?" Ye Qing continued to ask.

Master Liu Ke pondered for a moment, and finally decided to respond calmly and said, "Since the adults in the suburbs of Yangzhou, the villain has never revealed a word."

"You will take care of Guazhou for the time being. You will take the post immediately. As for the relevant documents, you don't have to pay attention. I will help you go to the Ministry of Personnel to handle it myself." Ye Qing took a deep breath and said, thinking in his heart that after he began to reuse Liu Ke, would Xin Qiji, the guy, want to tease him again?

"Thank you, sir. I will definitely live up to my cultivation and high expectations!" Liu Ke said in surprise. When it comes to the gifts between adults on the New Year, children's New Year's money and other surprises, I am afraid that no one in the entire Yangzhou city will be as great as Liu Ke Shi's surprise at the moment.

The three of them continued to wash their horses. After wandering around the Taiping Liangfang for a while, they began to walk back along the river. There were endless ships on the river surface, and from time to time, there would be gentle and sad voices of singers coming ashore.

Of course, there are also the generous voices of scribes and merchants who recite poems and essays.

After signaling that Master Liu Ke no longer had to follow him and could go back to accompany his wife, Ye Qing and Liu Qingyan finally lived a rare so-called two-person world again.

"It's not a small amount to consume financial resources. Do you really want to mobilize others like this?" Liu Qingyan frowned, and her thoughts were still at the conversation between Ye Qing and Liu Keshi just now.

"It's not about starting a tall building overnight. Whether you can do it is one thing, and whether you dare to think about it is another thing. If you don't even dare to think about it, then how can you talk about prosperity and stability? Liu Keshi has the ambition of a literati's career, but he has the ambition that other literati who only focus on the career does not have. That is a place where you can show your ideals and ambitions!" Ye Qing looked at the slowly flowing ships on the river and said to Liu Qingyan with a smile.

"Then how many years will it take to achieve this? It's very tiring to think about it." Liu Qingyan said a little depressedly. After all, she was extremely excited when she listened just now, but when she returned to reality, she thought that it took time to spend every day and money to pile up, and suddenly became frustrated.

"So this is the most lacking of scholars and literati, and it is also the most worrying reason for me: lack of perseverance. I have studied hard for more than ten years, just to embark on the career of officialdom, and after they truly embark on the career of officialdom..." Ye Qing pointed to his chest and continued: "The breath he had held back in his heart has become lazy because of the career of officialdom. The original passion for serving the country will also be exhausted again and again due to the intrigue in the court and other darkness in the officialdom that they can't stand, and will be exhausted in the end, so they only think about living a life of mediocrity and peaceful life in the career of officialdom. They will throw their ideals and ambitions behind them."

Liu Qingyan nodded thoughtfully and then said, "Is Xiaofu safe?"
Chapter completed!