Early the next morning, two carriages stopped outside the gate of the Zhou Mansion, which were not from Yun Huamo and others, but brought by Hu Lai, who had been cleaning up all night.

Hu Lai was nearly thirty-five years old, but he did not get married, and there were no family members on these two carriages, but the gold and silver and favorite things that he had saved over the years.

After a while, Yun Huamo and the four of them walked out with their horses, followed by Zhou Shoucheng's family of three.

Hu Lai stretched out his hand to say hello to everyone, and then quickly stepped forward to take the reins from the hands of several people.

Yun waved a smile and said secretly: It will really happen. When his eyes swept to the two carriages, he looked puzzled, turned back and asked, "You have prepared this carriage." ”

Zhou Shoucheng shook his head again and again, he only added a good horse to Yun Huamo after listening to the order last night, and did not make much arrangements. His eyes swept to his wife and children, and he shook his head blankly.

"It's from the lower officials. Hu Lai replied with an embarrassed face.

Yun waved his hand and asked with a smile, "Is it a family member in the car?"

Hu Lai was even more embarrassed, "It's some gold and silver, and some beloved things." ”

Yun Huamo's face changed, and he said coldly: "You go back, you don't have to go to the imperial capital with us." ”

Hu Lai was dumbfounded, why didn't he suddenly let himself go, looked at the carriage on the side, his eyes flickered, he suddenly understood, and hurriedly said: "There is no family in Xiaguan's family, and it is a pity that these gold and silver items are left unattended, so Xiaguan packed up these things and handed them over to Xiaguan's sister for safekeeping." ”

Zhou Hu also understood, and hurriedly said: "Exactly, my brother told me last night, and I forgot about it for a while." ”

Everyone looked at the sister and brother with strange eyes, Yun Huamo naturally saw through it and said, waved his hand and said, "That's good", and reminded softly when he walked past Hu Lai: "You don't want anything else you want except what I give." ”

Hu Lai's heart trembled when he heard this, knowing that Yun Huamo didn't trust him, and then secretly said a grievance in his heart, he was not obsessed with money, he really just felt that it was a pity to lose it.

After everyone walked by, Hu Lai hurriedly walked to the carriage to untie the horse bolt and led five horses to follow.

The three people of the Zhou Mansion stood outside the gate of the mansion and watched, and Zhou Hu sighed lightly: "My brother is going, I don't know if I can live well." ”

Zhou Shoucheng shook her hand lightly and comforted: "Hu Lai is a shrewd person and has the talent to manage the army, and he is a little condescending in this Tianwu Town. ”

Zhou Yinzhen pouted on the side, and muttered in his heart: "Why didn't you appreciate me." ”

...

A month later, ten miles outside Lin'an Town, there was a tea pavilion on the side of the official road.

Yun Huamo and several people tied the horses to the wooden stakes outside the pavilion, and then slowly walked into the pavilion.

Yun Jingnian looked up at the direction of the imperial city and sighed slightly: "I didn't expect to come out to play this time, but I didn't know that it was more than April." ”

Hu Lai answered and teased: "Do you still miss home with such a beautiful woman?"

Yun Jingnian was dumbfounded, and unconsciously remembered Yunjing in Tengwang Town, the man who was also a father and a brother. Looking back at Yun Huimo, he said a little aggrieved: "Uncle Yun killed Ye Chengen's son by mistake because of drunkenness, so he was forced to go to Tengwang Town incognito for more than ten years, and now Ye Chengen has fallen, shouldn't we go and bring Uncle Yun to the imperial capital to enjoy happiness." ”

Yun Huimo's brows furrowed, and when he heard Yun Jingnian mention Yunjing, he suddenly had some bad premonitions in his heart, and he didn't know why. But he still nodded to Yun Jingnian, and then said with a smile: "Since you and I have to prepare for marriage when we arrive in the imperial capital, why don't you bring Uncle Yun first, so that we can arrange Zhang Luo's marriage for us." ”

Yun Jingnian nodded again and again, not happy.

Yun Huamo turned his head to look at Jin Ziqing and Red Candle again, raised his head, and signaled if he wanted to go together.

Jin Ziqing smiled and nodded: "Of course I want to go, after the two of us get married, Uncle Yun is also half of my father-in-law, a few years ago I just met in a hurry, this time I will definitely pick it up in person, and I will get along well in the future." ”

The red candle on the side blushed slightly and nodded in agreement.

Yun Huamo was suddenly in a happy mood, and said with a smile: "If you have a wife like this, what more can you ask for a husband", and looked back at Hu Lai with a little guilt.

Hu Lai was embarrassed to be seen, and arched his hand and said, "Your Excellency can tell you something." ”

Yun Huamo secretly sighed in his heart, this Hu Lai is really a talent, he originally thought that he would have some stinky problems as the head of a town's military attache for a long time, but along the way, he was not only careful but also willing to do it, and he also knew a lot about the habits of several people.

"But there is something", he turned his head and signaled to Yun Jingnian: "Bring my waist card", and after sinking slightly, he said: "The golden ticket collected by the Dragon and Snake Dojo that day will also be given to me." ”

Yun Jingnian did not hesitate at all, took out the golden ticket and waist card from his arms and handed them over.

And this is what he and Yun Huamo have agreed a long time ago. They were not short of money, and the 35,000 taels of golden tickets were just the first big gift for Hu Lai to settle down in the imperial capital.

Yun waved his hand and handed these to Hu Lai behind him, "You can take the waist card, you can show it when you enter the capital gate, and let the guards send you to the General's Mansion to help us report a message to Jin Bo, and say that we will go to Tengwang Town to pick up Yunjing and return to the imperial capital together, and we will return in a month at the latest." ”

Hu Lai nodded "yes".

Yun Huamo pointed to the golden tickets again and said: "I will not treat you badly with my brothers, you can take these golden tickets, and after reporting the letter, you will find a good house in the imperial capital, and wait for us to come back." After a pause, he whispered in his ear: "You don't know, do you want to bring those two carriages to the imperial capital?" ”

Hu Lai was heartbroken, and his old face suddenly turned red.

Yun Huamo didn't say much, he was a smart person, so there was no need to say it too clearly.

Then everyone chatted for a while, and Yun Huamo stretched out his hand to summon Xiao Er and asked for some pastries and air-dried beef, so that he could take them to eat on the road.

After confirming the direction, Hu Lai stood outside the tea pavilion and watched a few people turn north until they disappeared from his sight.

Hu Lai's heart is a little complicated, although Yun Huamo is not very old, but he can always make him feel deeply jealous, he himself knows that this is not from the title of Lord Yun Huamo Shangshu.

Looking at the direction in which the few people left, he sighed, thinking that it was fortunate that he was not an enemy, and that he would do his best to serve Yun and Momo in the future, so he turned over and rode in the direction of the imperial capital.

"The autumn wind is moving, and the smoke and rain are bleak. The sound is even the magpie view, and the color is dark in the countryside. ”

Ten days later, Yun Huamo and his entourage arrived at the canyon ten miles away from Tengwang Town, that is, the place where Jin Ziqing bathed, the sky was getting darker and then it began to rain lightly, and the group could only take shelter under the big trees.

Yun Jingnian looked up at Tengwang Town not far away, and a sense of unreality rose in his heart, and he hugged the red candle in his arms.

"You don't look like an ugly daughter-in-law when you see your in-laws," Yun Jingnian said.

Jin Ziqing covered her mouth and chuckled and nodded.

After a while, Jin Ziqing, who turned the corner, punched Yun Wave's chest, and shouted: "You are so bad, do you mean that I am an ugly daughter-in-law." ”

Yun Huamo looked at Jin Ziqing's slightly red face and said with a smile: "You are the most beautiful person in the world." ”

Another coquettish shout.

The ambiguity here is not enough for outsiders to say.

After a while, the rain stopped.

The group immediately turned over and got on the horse, and their hometown and relatives were not far away.

I haven't come back for nearly four years, and Tengwang Town has not changed much, it is still the same as when the teenager left, the town is sparsely populated, and they all live around Tengwang's mansion.

Tengwang Town and Tianwu Town are not comparable at all, enter the town gate and drive a horse straight, through a main street of less than 100 meters to the gate of Tengwang Mansion.

Yun waved his horse and stopped in front of the mansion, his eyes revealing a look of reminiscing about the past.

The waist card and the gold and silver soft of the line were all kept by Yun Jingnian, and he took out the princess waist card from his arms and handed it to the middle-aged man who came down the stairs to inquire.

Seeing that Yun waved ink and his entourage were all brocade and satin, and his temperament was extraordinary, he politely took it.

After careful identification, the subordinate bent down and saluted again: "Teng Haitong, the villain Teng Wangfu's housekeeper, meet your lords." "The waist card is engraved with the word 'gold', which is the royal unified system, if it is not a person who knows how to do it, you can't see who the waist card belongs to, just like this housekeeper, only as a big man from the imperial capital.

Hearing this, Yun Huamo frowned, and an ominous feeling in his heart instantly struck. He and Yun Jingnian grew up around King Teng's Mansion since childhood, and naturally they knew Uncle Li, the housekeeper in the mansion, and it stands to reason that he would not retire before he was sixty, but now he has changed to a new person, or a face he has never seen, so he hurriedly stepped forward and asked: "What about the original housekeeper Uncle Li?

"Uncle Li passed away last year", Teng Haitong thought for a while, and said: "The villain was invited by the princess of the mansion last year, and after thinking about it, I don't remember that there is a person named Crane in the Clouds in the mansion." ”

Yun Huamo felt a tremor in his heart, and asked in a deep voice, "Do you recognize all the people in the house?"

Teng Haitong didn't know what Yun Huamo meant, and said a little dazedly: "The villain has been in the house for a short time, and there are many people in the house, and the villain doesn't dare to say that he knows it." "Actually, it's a bit against his will to say this, since he is the steward of King Teng's mansion, how could he not know the people in the mansion, but he saw that Yun Huamo's face was a little bad, and he didn't dare to respond.

Yun Huamo became more and more uneasy, this Teng Haitong just came last year, and he couldn't ask why he came, so he only went in to find the old man in the house, so he said: "You go to report to Prince Teng, just say that Her Royal Highness the princess and the secretary of the military department came to visit." ”

"Ah...", Teng Haitong was stunned for a moment and then exclaimed, and immediately knelt on the ground and shouted: "I don't know that the person who came is Lord Shangshu and Her Royal Highness the Princess, the villain is rude, and the villain is forgiven." ”

Yun Huimo stretched out his hand to help him up, and said in a deep voice: "Hurry up and report to Prince Teng, we have something important." ”

Teng Haitong didn't dare to delay this time, got up and stretched out his hand to make a gesture of invitation, and then waved his hand to the people who followed him, signaling to hurry up and take over the horses of the group.

Jin Ziqing glanced at Yun Huamo, knowing that he was a little anxious at this time, so he didn't ask much, and walked towards the mansion with his hand.

Yun Jingnian also felt his uneasiness, and immediately followed with the hand that took the red candle.

The front hall and main hall of King Teng's Mansion were the places he wanted to enter the most when he was a child, not to mention that they were not as good as the General's Mansion or even the Dragon and Snake Guild Hall, but that was his childhood dream, but at this time, he didn't want to appreciate it at all, so he just followed quickly.

Teng Wangye is in his fifties, his body is a little rich, at this time he was drinking tea with the princess in the main hall, and saw a group of people rushing over in a hurry, frowning, and when he was about to get angry, he recognized Jin Ziqing who was holding Yun Mo's arm, his face changed and he smiled, greeted him, and said enthusiastically: "Xiao Ziqing, why are you here?" Finger Yun waved ink: "This is the newly sealed military department Shangshu Yun Mo." ”