At sunset, six fast horses galloped in the southeast of Chi County.

The leader was a young man in his twenties in his green dress, with a handsome face, and a middle-aged man and a girl in a light blue dress, followed by three cloth armored soldiers with a tiger back and bear waist.

The six people rushed over for a long distance, and Gudu was exhausted. When he saw the city walls of the county town from afar, he breathed a sigh of relief and slowed down his horse into the city. After seeing this, the soldiers guarding the gate shouted loudly to drive all the villagers blocking the road away and let the six people pass quickly.

Six people went straight to the county government office. After dismounting, three soldiers packed their horses' luggage. The middle-aged man took the young man and the girl straight into the county government office.

After a day of work, Jiangbeiting was about to pack up his documents and go to the courtyard to rest.

"Master! We're back!" The middle-aged man walked into the lobby and quickly saluted.

"Greetings to my father!" The young man in high spirits was also excited and quickly knelt down and bowed.

"I've seen Dad!" The girl pouted and was very unhappy.

"Hey, Xing'er Yue'er, why are you here together?" Jiang Beiting was surprised and left the bamboo slips in his hand and stood up.

"Dad, it was my mother who asked me to send me to my younger sister. Here is a letter written by my uncle. You may know at a glance!" After the young man stood up, he opened a package on his back, took out a roll of bamboo slips and handed it to Jiangbeiting.

Jiangbeiting untied the hemp rope that tied the bamboo slips, pulled it open and looked at a few words, and then changed his face. After closing, he said, "Qingshan, take Yue'er to wash and rest, Xing'er will follow me to the study!"

"Hmph, what's so mysterious and secret that I'll hide from me." The girl's face became even more unhappy. She rolled her eyes hard at the young man's back, and followed the middle-aged man to the backyard to wash and rest in a depressed mood.

"Sit!" In the study, Jiang Beiting gave his son a cup of tea, then sat on the cold couch and slowly unfolded the bamboo slips to look in detail. His face turned extremely gloomy. After reading it, his beard and eyebrows were trembling.

"Dad, what did the uncle say in the letter?" the young man couldn't help asking.

"Oh!" After a while, Jiang Beiting sighed and read the letter quickly again, "Your uncle said that it might be Prime Minister Li Si's interference, which made Zhao's Mansion reject Yue'er's marriage!"

"How is that possible?" The young man's hands shivered, and the teacup fell to the ground with a clang.

He has never opened this letter from Xianyang. After all, it was a special reminder from my uncle and mother, so even the girl and middle-aged man did not know it.

"I also feel that this matter is strange. Li Sigui is the left prime minister of the Qin Dynasty. How could he be so bored that he actually interfered with Yue'er's marriage? Moreover, my Jiang clan is also a prominent clan of the Qin Dynasty. He has no grudges with him. It's strange... It's so strange..." Jiang Beiting seemed to murmured to himself.

"Then... what did the uncle say?" the young man picked up the teacup and asked stammeringly.

"Your uncle said that Li Si went to the palace to meet the emperor in the afternoon. After the court meeting in the afternoon, the emperor called Zhao Gao. Soon Zhao Gao caught up with him on the way home and refused Yue'er's marriage. Zhao Gao was originally a royal family member, and the Zongzheng Mansion also filed the marriage with him. Even if the emperor did not know about this, Zhao Gao would report it. How could he suddenly turn against him? If Li Si hadn't interfered, he would definitely not change his mind. You must know that this would make Jiang and his Zhao family become in a state of water and fire, and they would not interact with each other until they die!"

"You...you said it was...Prince Li asked the emperor's order to disrupt my sister's marriage?" The young man was even more surprised.

"Yes, your uncle also guessed this way in the letter, otherwise Zhao Gao would not do this, and it would not do any good for him. What should I do?" Jiang Beiting was also confused and was silent for a while before asking, "Are your mother and brothers all right?"

"Sir, my mother is safe, my brother and fourth brother are also very good!" Hearing the inquiry about the situation at home, the young man quickly stood up and said.

"That's good, what did your mother say about Yue'er?"

"My mother said that my younger sister couldn't stay in Xianyang anymore, so she asked me to send her to Zhixian County and asked you to help him find a marriage here. In the future... I won't go back to Xianyang in the future!" The young man answered uneasyly.

Jiang Beiting was stunned for a long time when he heard this, then stroked his beard vigorously, his face turned blue and white.

It can be said that because of this change, his only daughter's reputation was completely destroyed. Although this era was not particularly important to the mountain village man, as an official and a prominent family, he still valued it very much. Marriage was the primary consideration. Moreover, once the daughter married in Chi County and was transferred to another place to work, the father and daughter might never have a chance to meet again in their lifetime. What's more, according to the daughter's nature, the whole family would be in chaos after getting married.

It's a tangle! Jiang Beiting is angry, angry and helpless.

Suddenly, a young man's figure appeared in his mind, and there was also the jade pendant.

Jiang Beiting quickly recalled the situation he met just now. It seemed that he really didn't see the jade pendant that he gave to his daughter on his tenth birthday and had never left his body on weekdays. A strange thought suddenly emerged again.

Could it be that my daughter and Chen Xu have...

If so, the daughter's marriage may be settled.

He repeatedly recalled his daughter's behavior after seeing Chen Xu last time, and then thought about some details of her daughter's behavior. After repeatedly weighing it, he shook his head and waved his hand weakly and said, "Xing'er, you have worked hard all the way, so I'll go wash and rest first. I'll think about this matter carefully."

"Yes, Xing'er left!" The young man bowed and left the study room, leaving Jiang Beiting alone sitting in front of the window in a daze.

A long time later, a grinding hum sounded in the dark room: "Lispuff, I secretly interfered with my daughter's marriage. I, the Jiang clan, will never give up with you!"

Some people are depressed and angry, but Qinghe Town, dozens of miles away, has been very lively and happy in recent days.

Every day, there are endless cattle and horse teams constantly collect bags of grain from surrounding villages and into warehouses. As the summer grain harvest comes to an end, the autumn grain tax has been basically collected. After all, it is ready, it will be sent to the county town for delivery. Even if the summer grain tax collection work is successfully completed, the summer grain tax collection this year is also extremely smooth, with no mistakes.

The newly appointed master Xiao Lidian has been doing things recently. He summoned the wooden and stone maids in the town to build a house with a yard and a large pergola on a wasteland in the west end of the town. At the same time, he asked You Jiao. The doctor and the pavilion chief informed the villagers to go out to collect various medicinal materials in their spare time. Samples of medicinal materials have been placed on a wooden board in the center of the town, and the purchase price was also indicated.

Isatis roots are one qian and three kilograms, yellow ginger is one qian and two kilograms, scutellaria baicalensis is two kilograms, licorice is two kilograms, pony yellow powder is one kilograms, honey is twenty kilograms, dry bamboo tubes of various diameters range from ten to twenty...

Medical divination also repeatedly guided the rules of harvesting to villagers, and all medicinal materials should be sliced ​​and dried, and there should be no soil, etc.

So recently, many people have begun to search for medicinal materials in the fields and nearby mountains and fields, and almost every household has a variety of medicinal materials being dried.

In the newly built awning, a row of earth stoves were built, with large and small pottery basins placed on them, specially used for frying medicinal materials, and three new composite stone mills were also placed, and a huge stone mill was being processed and produced under the leadership of two stonemasons and several apprentices.
Chapter completed!