Zuo Wenxiang had no choice but to take Zuo Dongge out to meet the visitor, and took the post and looked at it, it turned out that Xiang Wenhui was going to set up a family banquet in the evening to invite Zuo's father and son, as well as Zuo Ling, Xiao Nier and others, in the name of washing the dust and suppressing Zuo Wenxiang's shock.

Zuo Wenxiang took the money and sent away the official who delivered the letter, promising to be there in the evening.

Now the fate of the Zuo family is in the hands of Xiang Wenhui, although because of Zuo Ling, he has a helping hand, and he has Lian Daning and Zhongshan Wangfu as backers, and the big fork can't come out. But Zuo Wenxiang still had to deliberately befriend Xiang Wenhui, and he didn't dare to offend at all, after all, he lived here, and he always had to leave.

Thinking of Zuo Ling and what happened, he also had the same headache, both of them are like this, they are still mixed together without a name and no points, if it goes on like this, how should it end, I'm sorry for the ancestors.

He couldn't control Zuo Ling's affairs, Zuo Ling's affairs didn't let him take care of it, and he couldn't control the affairs of the matter, so he had to let it go, but his heart was panicked and uncomfortable.

Besides, he naturally received an invitation, and he also gave the official who delivered the letter a reward, promising to visit him in the evening.

"Did you invite me back? Zuo Ling was a little surprised.

"You are my wife, this is a family banquet, you have to take your wife. "Besides, it's very embarrassing.

"Stinky beauty, what about Nier, who are you?" Zuo Ling said half-happily and half-annoyedly.

"Of course it's my wife, you are both, am I wrong?" said with a smile.

"Then do you want to accept all the beauties you see as your wife in the future?" Zuo Ling quipped.

"No, the staffing is limited, and it's full now. ”

In ancient times, the concubine room was called Mrs. Ru, just like the second class of Jinshi, called Tongjinshi, and the status was slightly lower. For example, there is no limit to the number of wives, not to mention those who don't even have the status of concubines, but are just accepted by the master. In a patriarchal world, women are destined to be vassals.

As for the Tongjinshi in the Jinshi, it is the so-called Tongjinshi origin. The meaning of the same word here is the same treatment as the official one, and there are only three people who have really been given the Jinshi background: Zhuangyuan, Bangyan, and Tanhualang. It's a real Koko Jinshi. This is also the same concept as today's cadre positions, which do not have a real job and enjoy a certain level of treatment.

Tong Jinshi is actually really different from Mrs. Ru, and the gold content of Tong Jinshi is very high. However, since this name, I don't know how many people are ashamed of their "Tongjinshi", and the biggest regret of Zeng Guofan's life in the Qing Dynasty is this Tongjinshi identity.

Xiao Nier slept until the evening and woke up, then jumped out of bed and took another shower, changed the clothes she brought, and then looked as good as ever.

"I've slept until now, no wonder I feel like I've never slept so well in my life. Xiao Nier was startled when she knew how long she had been asleep.

"You are too tired, and the ride is very hard, but I know it very well, especially since you are still marching in a hurry, and you have not had a moment of rest. Zuo Ling put his arm around her shoulders and smiled.

"Yes, I'm tired, I slept this night, and I almost fell asleep for the rest of my life. Xiao Nier laughed.

"You, if you follow him for a long time, you will exaggerate, no matter how you sleep, you won't be able to sleep for a lifetime. Zuo Ling glanced at him and said.

"Who knows if all the beings in this world are really living in dreams. Zhuang Zhou Mengdie. Besides, he sighed.

Moreover, whether in the past life or in this life, there is a strange feeling that all people may just live in the dream of a giant, of course, this giant is extremely huge, unimaginable, and his mind is the whole universe.

This idea is not without a little scientific basis, but it can't help but make people sad and embarrassed to say it, life is helpless, life is impermanent.

When he was a student at the Academy of Painting in his previous life, he was forced to have a nervous breakdown by inspiration for a period of time, and as long as he fell asleep at night, he would dream again and again, and the strangest thing was that he would still dream in his dreams, and he could continue to dream in the dreams he had in his dreams, and from this down, he could sometimes fall into more than ten layers of dreams, and even after waking up, he was really not sure whether he was really awake or in a deeper dream.

Zhuang Zhou's dream of butterflies has always been regarded as a fable, but he doesn't think so, he thinks that Zhuangzi may really have a dream that is too real to wake up, whether he is real when he wakes up, or is he more real in his dream, whether he is Zhuangzi or a butterfly?

In the evening, the three of them went to the Yamen of the Fengyang Prefect under the protection of more than a dozen fierce soldiers, and the officials were trembling when they saw these soldiers, not only the common people were afraid of the soldiers, these officials, tolerances, and fast arrests, they were also frightened when they saw the regular army, especially the officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who were famous for disturbing the people and killing the good and risking the merits.

Only the military strength of the Ming Dynasty when it was founded can be called the peak, and then there are the elite soldiers under Yongle, the Yongle Emperor once Liuping Mobei, so that the foreign army did not dare to look at the face, only to flee in fear.

Moreover, the three of them were welcomed into the inner house by the servants, and Zuo Wenxiang and Zuo Dongge were already sitting inside.

"Haha, Brother Zuo, Brother Kuo, it's a long way off. Xiang Wenhui walked out of it, dressed in civilian clothes, and said with a smile on his face.

"How dare you. Zuo Wenxiang smiled politely.

"Since the last time I said goodbye to Brother Guo, I thought it would be difficult to see each other in a few years, but we really have a fate. Needless to say, Brother Zuo, we often meet and drink, this time my wine is to wash the dust for Brother Guo and Miss Xiao, and also to shock Brother Zuo's family. ”

"Thank you, sir. Xiao Nier heard that she was mentioned to the prefect, so she had to step forward and thank her.

"You're welcome, we used to meet a lot, and everything was like yesterday. Xiang Wenhui couldn't help but recall the past.

"If I could go back to that time, I would be willing to become a poor bastard. Zuo Wenxiang said very sadly.

"Brother Zuo doesn't have to be too depressed, it's just a small setback, although some losses in your mansion are just scratching the surface, it hasn't hurt your muscles and bones, why care, you can revive your family business soon." "Persuade the prefect.

"It's not a loss of property, it's a loss of people's hearts, it's immeasurable. Zuo Wenxiang sighed.

"People's hearts are scattered and impermanent, it depends on how you, the patriarch, gather. I believe in Brother Wen Xiang's ability, and there are a pair of beautiful sons and daughters behind you to help, what is there to worry about, besides, Brother Wen is not an outsider. Ha ha. Xiang Wenhui smiled meaningfully.

As he was talking, a bunch of people came out of the warbler and swallow in it, but it was a group of girls who surrounded Xiang Wenhui's wife and three concubines who came out, and when they saw each other, they couldn't wait to hide in the cracks of the ground, he was most afraid of seeing these four women, but he molested him very badly at the beginning, and almost made him suffer from women's phobia.

The four women also flushed when they saw it, both surprised and shy, and there were many imperceptible expressions, wanting to reveal and hide.

Zuo Ling and Xiao Nier are very sensitive to this aspect of things, and they both feel something, but they don't know the inside story, so they have to be suspicious and entangled in their hearts.

Zuo Wenxiang and Zuo Dongge often come here to eat and drink, and they are no strangers to Xiang Wenhui's wives and concubines.

"I've seen Mr. Kuang. ”

"Good boy. ”

Xiang Wenhui's four wives and concubines all stepped forward to follow them, and they were all a little embarrassed, and their posture was very inconsistent with their age.

"Don't dare to be, I've seen the ladies. "Besides, at this time, I had to hold on to the salute.

"Gongzi is really a man of God, thanks to you, we have all given birth to children. Xiang Xiang's wife smiled, her eyes involuntarily glanced at a certain place on her body, and said in her heart: That thing is really a god, otherwise, with old Xiang, don't want to have children in this life.

"That is, if it weren't for the magic medicine given to the master, we wouldn't have succeeded in getting pregnant. Xiang smiled at the first concubine of the prefect's mansion, and her eyes were the same as that lady, so that she wanted to cover them with her hands.

What kind of miracle medicine, it's still that thing, that thing is the miracle medicine. This lady Ru thought in her heart and recalled the scene at that time.

Zuo Ling and Xiao Nier glanced at each other suspiciously, both feeling that these four ladies were a little strange, and their eyes were even more strange, but they didn't know why.

Xiang Wenhui felt a little unbearable on his face, and said with a smile: "Everyone, don't talk about it, let's sit down, today's dishes and wine are personally selected by me one by one, although there is no food and wine in our place, it should be my heart." ”

Everyone listened to him, and then they sat down.

Xiang Wenhui is surrounded by four wives and concubines, but the opposite is sitting, and then Xiao Nier on the left, Zuo Ling, Zuo Ling, and then Zuo Wenxiang on the left, and Zuo Wenxiang on the right, of course, this kind of sitting method does not conform to the etiquette law, but because of Xiao Nier and Zuo Ling, it can't be arranged better, fortunately, Zuo Wenxiang's father and son can be regarded as a family, and they don't pay attention to seating arrangements.

Xiang Governor deliberately wanted to treat him as the guest of honor, and the main object of this banquet was also him, and Zuo Wenxiang's father and son were just accompanying guests.

Xiang put the wine in his hand and said with a smile: "We are all old friends, and I will be exempt from clichés." But this time Brother Zuo's family, I am guilty, it is really dereliction of duty, as a local parent official, such a big thing happened in Brother Zuo's family, I was ignorant, guilty, guilty. My glass of wine is to shock Brother Zuo, and the second is to make amends. ”

Zuo Wenxiang hurriedly stood up and said: "Don't dare to be, you can't do it, how can outsiders know about the family behind closed doors, even if adults have insight, it is impossible to see what happened in my house over the wall." ”

Besides, he also smiled: "That is, I have used a lot of power in Xia, and even the people of Zhongshan Wangfu are here every day, but they haven't heard any rumors, and this matter has absolutely nothing to do with adults." ”

What he asked the prefect for this sentence was this, he always felt that Lian Daning had finally given him an errand, but he had done it badly, and he was uneasy, and since he said so, he would definitely speak for him in front of Lian Daning when he went back, and he would not be responsible. This is also the main purpose of his reception today.