There is a house in the south of Danyang City, three in and three out, small and exquisite, with a ingenious garden.

There is a small pond in the garden, the ditch head is drained of living water, through the bamboo forest, rockery, plum forest and several scattered courtyards in the garden into a pool of clear water, at this time it is the season when the hibiscus blooms in the wind, there is a pavilion on the high and low of the adjacent water, and the word "Dripcui" is written on it. The pavilion was windy on all sides, and in the middle was a large case of rosewood marble, on which were placed the scrolls of the history of the princes, and a celadon pen holder, in which were placed a few brushes.

There is a low bed on the side near the water, the purple gold incense burner on the table is burning with Hesu incense, and the whites and blacks are strangled together on the rosewood inlaid silver wire Go board, and the situation is stalemate.

The two people sitting opposite each other, one wearing a robe embroidered with grass and insect patterns in snow blue, and the other wearing a white-bottomed coat with ink calligraphy and painting.

"Dalang. A servant dressed in a brown short beat came in from outside and beckoned to the two of them, "Xiao Langjun ordered someone to prepare a car and went straight to Shuangqiao Village early this morning, and the housekeeper who accompanied him was Ah Yuan, and he prepared a gift and twenty taels of silver as a gift. ”

"Ah Xun needs a mentor. "The guest sitting opposite is holding a black spot, the chess road is decisive and very neat, and the means are upright, knowing that it is the yang plot that forces the opponent to have to enter the set," he has a temperament that jumps out, and has the support of the Chen family, and the journey has been smooth sailing, you must know that there are villains in this world, and in recent years, Chang'an has been in turmoil, and Jun is the elder brother will not be reluctant to let the younger brother suffer from this. ”

"I look at the Lang Jun I met that day, his eyebrows and eyes are upright, elegant and dignified, and he is not a villain. Chen Xu supported his chin with one hand, and his white jade-like fingers grasped the snow-colored chess pieces, and the two were bright, but he lived up to his name of "jade man", "I remember when Yen Zhao also applauded this plan, but now he evaluates it like this, crossing the river and demolishing the bridge." ”

"His plan is far-reaching, worthy of the name of a ghost, but with a weak woman as a sacrifice, even if the royal family has no virtue in recent years, it will eventually lose its success. The color of the man he called Yuan Zhao remained unchanged, and he smiled on the ground, "My cousin's mind is not in the chess game, and the younger brother is slightly better." ”

"Since Yuan Zhao thinks that this son is cunning and not a gentleman's weapon, why does he think that he is enough to be the commander of Ah Xun?" Chen Xu threw away the chess pieces, leaned against the window, and chose a comfortable position.

"Because he has good thoughts, Ah Xun is straightforward, and the Chen family is not an ordinary family, if it is such an evil person, I will definitely persuade you to separate from it, but he can have mercy on the servants in a city and save him, even if he follows the Chen family's momentum, he will definitely not act arbitrarily. The young man who was called Yuan Zhao looked indifferent, even if he was kneeling and sitting, his shoulders were straight, and his demeanor was extraordinary.

"It's just that since then, if he talks about the past of his mother's family, it seems that I have hurt my clan for the sake of outsiders. Chen Xu smiled and carved lacquer from the side.

"Jun's means, long sleeves and good dancing, why do you cry to me?" Yuan Zhao got up, stepped on the clogs, raised his hand violently, and his long sleeves were staggering, and the little Langjun who were now greased and powdered had a heroic appearance.

"Okay, you Ji Yuanzhao, you and my cousin, bone tenderness, now my cousin is in trouble, open your mouth to ask, but you ignore it, it's really annoying to me!" Chen Xu saw that he said that he would go and leave without being chic, and immediately covered his face with his sleeves and made a little lady, mourning and crying, but he was born like a white jade person, and this behavior at this time not only did not damage his appearance, but made the maids waiting around him feel worried, and rushed over to explain it.

"If you dare to do this in front of your aunt, I am naturally willing to share my cousin's worries. Ji Yuanzhao looked at him slowly and smiled slightly.

"You!" Chen Xu feigned anger and looked abrupt.

"My cousin was worried about being a little daughter, but the poor aunt had children in her life but no daughters, and now she can be regarded as getting what she wants, and it is also excellent to choose a good son-in-law to marry. Ji Yuanzhao opened his mouth calmly, but he was originally from the founding queen of the Eastern Qin Dynasty and was also a man, since then a hundred years, people at the time are also accustomed to male wives, although most of them are the children of poor families because of the difficulty of making a living, but in the end they are regarded as a flood beast by the children of the Han family who rose later, and because the royal family is worried that both parties will marry into the court, the power in their hands is too great, so it is set that as a male wife, the official cannot exceed the rule of six grades, but Rao is like this, there are also many noble families who play the role of marrying the concubine's family, and there are also those who are tired of the prodigal children of the wife to marry a male wife, and so on to ascend the throne to the world, the world is no different from a son-in-law。

"It's a trivial matter, why do you have to make trouble in front of A-Niang?" Chen Xu knew that this was a joke, but in recent years, the situation has been turbulent, the children of each family in Kyushu have their own ideas, and their own family affairs are known, the Chen family is said to be a first-class family, but for many years, although the father is a thorn in the history, holding a heavy power, but there is no one in the center, but the in-law Ji family, Ji Yuanzhao's father has a total of three people, his father is the eldest son of the current Jinzhou Prefecture Mushi is actually around Qingzhou, And the state of the state is from the Ji family army, and the second uncle is the Ministry of Works, married the eldest daughter of the Xue family in Youzhou as his wife, the third uncle is a celebrity, although he did not come out, but the world-famous Huaishan Academy mountain palm is his fellow brother, he has no sister, if it is for the marriage of the two families to marry Ji Yuanzhao, I am afraid that the father who is full of eyes and only the family is also willing, and the innocent mother of his own white rabbit, as long as he hears that he is a cousin who is happy, he will definitely prepare the dowry with great interest.

"Brother!" the two were talking, when they heard the voice of the young man Qingyue coming through the forest from a distance.

"But who wronged you?" Because of his father's eccentricity of the clan, although the mother is the daughter of the Ji family, but the first three brothers are pampered, but the temperament is a little naïve and ignorant of the world, after marrying, because of the power of the Chen family for many years to follow the Ji family, there is no concubine in the father's backyard, so even if the Ji family is over forty years old, he still wants to be a little girl like a mother, his father and mother are unreliable, Chen Xu is naturally precocious, and he is not close to the clan because of his father, but the most intimate with him is his younger brother who is □□ years younger, so when he sees that the other party has been wronged, where to take into account what causes and consequences he gets, first think about how to appease him。

"Brother!" Chen Xun was thinking of complaining before he came, but when he really came to his brother, he suppressed the words that had been brewing for a long time and the anger accumulated in his chest, and the fifteen or sixteen-year-old Xiaolang had an arrogance of not admitting defeat, and he had already made up his mind to go to the trouble of the shabby scholar tomorrow, not to mention that he couldn't do it, couldn't he still take advantage of the power of the two elder brothers, and immediately said to Ji Yuanzhao, "Cousin is from Jinzhou?" Although Danyang City is not as prosperous as Jinguan City, it also has a bit of rural interest, for example, the people I went to visit today are also quite knowledgeable among the children of the poor family, not to mention that the village is full of hibiscus, this solar term is the season when the lotus seed water chestnut is abundant, and the lotus leaves are not withered. ”

He didn't know that although he was annoyed that he had called Pingling Yu to say a word tightly, he saw in his heart that the other party was wanton and beautiful, and his words were simple and elegant, so he couldn't help but learn the words of the other party when he entertained him, and said a paragraph to Ji Yuanzhao to draw a gourd.

"My cousin is polite. "Ji Yuanzhao still knows the temperament of the two Langjun of his aunt's family, although he is more familiar with Chen Xu, but he has not seen a family like Chen Xun who has been protected by the family, after all, most of the Eastern Qin families have been inherited since the end of the Western Qin Dynasty, and after a long time, naturally all kinds of strange things have come out, not to mention that he has been trained in the army as early as twelve or thirteen years old, and when he is a little older and enters Chang'an, because of the identity of the young master of the Ji family, he has not seen many cows, ghosts, snakes and gods in the capital, and he really doesn't look too much at it like Chen Xun。

"It's been hot these days, why don't you set off early tomorrow morning?" Chen Xun saw that the other party agreed, his heart was happy, and he had already sharpened his knife Huo Huo thought that tomorrow, with the momentum of the two brothers, he would fight with Pingling Yu for another three hundred rounds, so as to teach the other party what it means to be eloquent, and it would be a shame to snow today.

"I just don't know which family my cousin is talking about?What is the origin?And who did he learn from?" Ji Yuanzhao saw that he was triumphant like a little rooster and couldn't help but mention something, seeing that the other party was like this, he didn't understand that he must have suffered a big loss before he was ready to find the field, but everything is foreseen, and if he doesn't prepare, he will be wasted, and he won't even know what the other party is and hit the door, that's not brave, it's stupid.

“…… Brother. Chen Xun opened his mouth but found that he couldn't respond to any of his cousin's questions, and immediately looked at his brother with blank eyes.

"He's a little bit of a kinship with us. Chen Xu saw his brother's pitiful appearance, and couldn't help laughing, "Our grandfather's younger brother has no children and only one daughter, let's call him the sixteenth aunt, do you remember?"

"I remember that she is the same age as our mother, and she always has to meet when she worships her ancestors during the New Year. Chen Xun nodded, frowned again, and said, "It's just that every time she comes, she always provokes A-Niang to lose her temper, she is seven or eight years older than A-Niang." ”

"It was more than 20 years ago, she originally got married when she was young, she was the little lang of the county guard of Danyang City at that time, but the little lang was frail and had a chronic illness, she was not married to the widow, a guard is three years, and so on to filial piety is already an eighteen-year-old lady, at that time, there were also people who admired my Chen family to keep the ceremony and come to the door to propose, either it was a poor family who wanted the help of his wife, or the stepfamily of the Gaomen family, although it was not very satisfactory in the end, it was also good. Chen Xu saw his younger brother's round cat eyes looking at him without blinking, and couldn't help but reach out and touch Xiao Langjun's hair tied with messy tassels, "No one thought that she finally fell in love with a squire, and she didn't marry." ”

"What does this have to do with that Pingling Emperor?" Chen Xun listened for a long time and saw that his brother was not on the topic, so he hurriedly asked.

At that time, the grandfather was deceased, the grandfather was in charge of the family, and he couldn't bear the elders to cry and complain, and some squires were willing to degrade their wives to concubines, so the marriage between the two parties was successful. Unexpectedly, the squire gave birth to a daughter, twelve years old, fierce as fire, relying on loyal servants all the way to Jinguancheng, the road met the supervisor Liang Hao, Liang Hao is the most pity for the weak, and said that the time can not be according to the ancient rites of the son does not say that the father is wrong, and the parents are too big to hide and add over, so the parents are sentenced to be separated. Chen Xu said with admiration on his face, "Hou Hao helped this woman to set up a female household, reverted to the surname Pingling, and at the age of fifteen, she gave birth to a son-in-law and gave birth to a son. ”

"It's a strange woman, too. Chen Xun's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he hurriedly asked what happened.

"The little lady recruited a son-in-law but is also an extraordinary person, because of the case of the year, the father and daughter have a discord, this son-in-law is a foreigner, and then the little lady is seriously ill, only worried that her dowry shop was occupied by her biological father, but did not expect that this Lang Jun has a lot of means, although it is a white body but take care of the family property, but the little lady was not in good health in the early years, and then worked hard to live more than 20 years before the fragrance disappeared, since ancient times the mandarin duck lost his wife, the pain is unbearable, he cherishes the young son alone is difficult to support after the death of his wife will dispose of the shop, leaving only the field to rest, not a few years also died。 ”