The general kneels on the washboard again

Chapter 136 Yun Shuyi

After returning from the banquet at the second house, Yue Niang began to plan to bring down the second house.

Li An also gave Yue Niang the poem that Jiang Yunsheng wrote at the banquet.

"Yue Niang, I once saw Jiang Yunsheng's exam paper when I was in the Hanlin Academy. I always felt that his poem was far inferior to that paper."

Yue Niang held the paper and said, "I have the same suspicion. He doesn't behave like a scholar in his daily speech and actions. I would like to ask for your help again."

"Just tell me." Li An was as happy as ever.

"I'd like you to help me find students from Jiang Yunsheng's years who have handwriting that looks like Jiang Yunsheng."

"Do you suspect Jiang Yunsheng's reputation is fake?"

Yue Niang looked cunning: "Could it be true?"

"How is Sister Erya these days?"

When Li An mentioned Erya, his face was filled with pride: "She is doing very well. Her clothing store is doing very well. She said she feels like she has finally found her own value."

Yue Niang was also very happy: "That's good, but don't let her work too hard."

"I know. I'll go back now."

"it is good."

After a brief greeting with Li An, Yue Niang stared at the paper again.

Before I knew it, I had been watching for the whole morning, and Dongzhu brought in lunch.

"Girl, it's time to eat."

Yue Niang put down the paper in her hand and asked: "Did the young master send any letter?"

Dong Zhu shook her head: "No, young lady, the young master hasn't written to me for several months. Could something have happened?"

"Pooh, pooh, pooh—" Yue Niang quickly spat, "The situation on the battlefield is extremely dangerous. No news is also the best news. I believe my husband can return safely."

Dong Zhu was serving the dishes while seeming to want to say something but stopped himself.

Yue Niang was with her day and night, so how could she not know her micro-expressions? She felt a vague sense of unease in her heart.

He asked, "Dongzhu? Is there any news about the young master? Tell me quickly."

Dong Zhu stopped arranging the dishes and said, "Really not, young lady."

Yue Niang was already very impatient at this time: "Your expression clearly shows that you have something to say. Hurry up and say it, don't hesitate."

Dong Zhu then said, "I'm not sure either, young lady. I just heard from the doorman today that people in Lingzhou are saying that the Yun family wants to cut off our weapons."

"The concierge? Have him come see me."

Dong Zhu retreated and soon brought the doorman up.

The doorman knelt there and said, "I greet the young lady."

Yue Niang didn't have time to beat around the bush. "You mean the Yun family wants to cut off our weapons? Where did you hear that?"

The doorman said, "Replying to the young lady, this is the rumor in Lingzhou now."

"You can't just talk nonsense, right? I have to go to the Yun Mansion, you go down first."

After the doorman left, Yue Niang said to Dong Zhu, "Dong Zhu, help me dress up. Let's go to the Yun family."

Dong Zhu stepped forward and said, "Miss, do you want to call Yu Jian?"

Yue Niang nodded: "Of course I will call him."

After Yue Niang finished dressing up, she went straight to the Yun Mansion.

The current person in charge of the Yun family is Yun Shuyi, who is over fifty years old, but has a good daughter, who married the Prime Minister as his second wife. Now the Yun family is also the most powerful in Kyoto.

The Yun family and the Jiang family have been dealing with each other for decades. Since the Yun family was unknown, the Jiang family has been making weapons for them.

But now he suddenly is unwilling to provide it. There must be something wrong when things are abnormal.

When Yue Niang arrived at the Yun Mansion, Yun Shuyi did not come out to see Yue Niang in person.

After a cup of tea, Yun Shuyi's wife, Mrs. Du, arrived late.

"I didn't know Madam Fu was coming. I'm sorry for not coming to greet her." Mrs. Du had a hypocritical smile on her face.

"No, no, I came here without sending the invitation in advance." Yue Niang also smiled.

Mrs. Du deliberately avoided the topic of weapons. "Madam Fu's tea-drinking life is well-known in Kyoto. I wonder if Madam Fu is used to the tea at the Yun Mansion?"

"I'll get used to it. This is much better than the one at Pinmingju." Yue Niang took another sip, still unsatisfied. "I wonder if Master Yun is at home?"

Mrs. Du shook her head. "The master is not at home. He went to the Chamber of Commerce. Madam Fu's family is also in the Chamber of Commerce. You should know that the Chamber of Commerce has a lot of things to do."

Yue Niang stood up and said, "Then I'll go to the Chamber of Commerce to find Master Yun. I really have something important to discuss with him today."

Du received a mission from Yun Shuyi and was determined to stop Yue Niang. How could she let Yue Niang go to the Chamber of Commerce? Besides, Yun Shuyi was not in the Chamber of Commerce at all.

"Madam Fu, wait a minute. Maybe I didn't explain clearly. My master went to the Chamber of Commerce in Ningzhou. As you know, things are not going well in Dongqi right now. If Ningzhou doesn't handle it well, there will be great losses."

Yue Niang understood from Mrs. Du's excuse that she would not be able to see Yun Shuyi today no matter what, and it also confirmed that the Yun family would not provide weapons to the Jiang family.

He could only return empty-handed with Dongzhu.

On the carriage back home, Yue Niang was thinking of a countermeasure, and suddenly she remembered her iron shop. Now she could only try her best and help as much as she could.

"Yujian, go recruit some workers for me. Dongzhu, let's go back to the mansion first."

Yu Jian left first.

After returning to the mansion, Yue Niang came to the storehouse and said, "This matter is quite urgent. Dong Zhu, come with me and we will find all the males in the mansion with indentures."

Dong Zhu asked Yue Niang worriedly, "Miss, are you planning to make your own weapons?"

"Is there any better way now?" Yue Niang was naturally very embarrassed, but now the Yun family was unwilling to provide it, and she couldn't trust the other ironware shops.

The purpose of opening this ironware shop before was to make some weapons for Jiang Yunxiao, but now I just want to make more.

"Also, I remember there was an unowned piece of land in the West Mountain. Inside that land was a mountain with a large cave."

"But girl, if you make iron tools privately, you will be beheaded."

Yue Niang rummaged through the warehouse and finally found an official document.

"Who said we were privately manufacturing? The Jiang family can manufacture their own weapons. They just need to report the quantity and time to the court. It's just that we reached a cooperation with the Yun family before, so this document has been useless. Now is the perfect time, isn't it? Does the Yun family think that without them, the Jiang family army will be useless? I wonder how much less profit the Yun family will make in the future without the Jiang family as a big customer?"

Yue Niang held the document with confidence.

"Miss, why do you think the Yun family is suddenly unwilling to provide weapons to the Jiang family?"

Yue Niang thought for a moment and said, "The Yun family and the Jiang family have been dealing with each other for many years. Although the head of the Yun family is greedy for wealth, he is also a man who values loyalty. I'm afraid there is a misunderstanding. But we won't be able to see the head of the Yun family for a while, so we must first deal with the matter at hand."

So, I won’t think about it for now.

As for the Yun family, they were also in a very uneasy situation.

When Madam Du returned, Yun Shuyi was sitting in the inner room. "How's it going? Madam Jiang left?"

Mrs. Du nodded and said, "Let's go. Master, isn't it a bad idea for us to do this?"

Yun Shuyi snorted coldly: "Then why don't the Jiang family come to our house and say those things?"

"But that's the second branch after all. The relationship between the Jiang family's first and second branches isn't as good as the rumors say."

Yun Shuyi sighed, "How could I not know? But our Yun family and his Jiang family have been together for so many years. As long as the Jiang family comes to visit us one more time, the matter will be written off."

But Yun Shuyi did not wait for Yue Niang to come again, but instead waited for the news that the Jiang family army had won a great victory.

Yue Niang led the craftsmen to work day and night, sending batches of weapons to the Dongqi battlefield.

The Dacheng soldiers, who had been retreating step by step, were assisted by God after changing to new weapons. They defeated Dongqi and forced the small country of Dongqi to three thousand miles outside Ningzhou.

After signing the ten-year non-war agreement, Jiang Yunxiao looked at the paper and felt infinite confidence. He said to Jiang Hu and Yan Qi beside him, "We will definitely be able to take back Huanzhou and Xiezhou, right?"

The two also expressed their affirmation: "Of course we can, General."

Yan Qi reminded him, "General, do you want to write a letter to the master to announce the good news?"

Jiang Yunxiao finally reacted: "Write, go get me a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone."

This time, the letter Yue Niang received was finally no longer cloth and blood.

The battle lasted for a year. Jiang Yunxiao set out on the first day of the first lunar month and returned to the capital on New Year's Eve.

This year has been really long.

Yue Niang only felt that the tears on her pillow were the best proof of her longing for him.

After Jiang Yunxiao came back, he first went to see the emperor and the aforementioned position, and then returned to the Jiang Mansion.

Yue Niang originally thought that Jiang Yunxiao would definitely have a scruffy beard, but Jiang Yunxiao's face was as fresh as ever.

Yue Niang pulled Jiang Yunxiao around and looked him over several times: "Husband, are you injured anywhere?"

Jiang Hu said beside him: "Except for his face, the young master's whole body is covered with wounds."

Yue Niang's eyes were red: "It's great that you can come back."

Jiang Yunxiao also asked the same question: "Why didn't you send me off?"

Yue Niang looked at him lovingly: "So that you can come back and ask me in person."