In the southwest direction of the Imperial City of Bianjing, there is a house that covers an area of about 4,000 square meters, the courtyard wall of this house is blue-gray, the top of the gatehouse is covered with blue glazed bright tiles, the dark vermilion gate, there is a stone sculpture in front of the door that looks up to the sky, the hands are open, it seems to embrace the sky, and it seems to be praying for the world, this stone sculpture has no specific appearance, the appearance can not even distinguish between men and women, the front is facing outward, quietly standing on the right hand side of the gate, and the house behind it forms a very unique scenery from a perspective. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The structure and colors of this mansion are extremely low-key and simple, and the style is completely different from many of the palatial mansions in the imperial city, except for the navy blue door on which the three large characters written in cursive are particularly eye-catching, and the inscription "Ge Lao Fu" is written on it.

Pavilion elder is usually a general name for officials who enter the cabinet, but in the current dynasty, known as the pavilion elder, and the house where he lives at the same time can be named after the pavilion old mansion, there is only one person, this person is Jiang Ge Lao, in Bianjing, the mansion buildings covering an area of more than 10,000 square meters are no less than ten, and in addition to the Son of Heaven, the undisputed first person Jiang Ge Lao's house is so ordinary, it has to be surprising.

Jiang Ge this person in the hearts of the people of the Great Song Dynasty, is the most legendary figure since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, he was born in the Jiang family of the Wang clan in the south of the Yangtze River, at the age of 20 admitted to the Jinshi, at the age of 23 came to Taizong's side, Taizong built a great cause, more than half of it came from his planning, led by him, the land, agriculture, river shipping, manufacturing and other industries of the vigorous reform, so that the overall national strength of the Great Song Dynasty increased several times in just a few decades.

The imperial examination of the court, the law, under his vigorous advocacy and promotion, continued to reform and improve, in addition to the beginning because of the interests of the nobles of the family, caused some chaos, the benefits of the later began to appear, the reform of the imperial examination let the court continue to have excellent new blood to make up, the perfection of the law, can restrain human nature, so that the crime rate continues to decrease, so that the people feel at ease.

This person has been in and out of the court for forty years, up to the king, down to the dawn of the people, have made countless feats, whether it is the people or the court, speaking of this person, even if he is an enemy who wants him to die, he has to praise in his heart, this person is really a rare person in a hundred years!

His house, was 30 years ago when he was promoted to the Ministry of Shangshu, Taizong gave him, at that time the door on the house was written "Shangshu Mansion", fifteen years ago, after Zhenzong ascended the throne, his house was changed from "Shangshu Mansion" to "Ge Lao Mansion", "Shang Shu Mansion" was changed to "Ge Lao Mansion", Emperor Zhenzong originally intended to give him a larger house.

But Jiang Ge Lao said that he was used to living here, and at the same time, the population of his family was not large, and the practical mansion was not too big, Zhenzong had just ascended the throne, although he was the emperor, but it was not good to casually brush Jiang Ge Lao's mind, and finally only gave a flat, and replaced the words of "Shangshu Mansion" with "Ge Lao Mansion".

Jiang Ge Lao said that his family is not large, and he doesn't need such a big house, but it is not humble, but the population of his family is really small, he has been illustrious all his life, he is a very popular minister, and few people can match his appearance and temperament, but he has only one wife in his life, without any concubines, and the husband and wife have two sons and a daughter, one son is a businessman in Jiangnan, one son is an official in other places, and a young daughter, a few years ago, married Pan Weixi, the most popular general of today's young generation.

Not only did he not have a concubine, but his two sons were not allowed to take concubines, for this reason, the population of the family was very simple, there were not many masters in the family, and the number of servants was naturally far less than that of the ordinary noble family.

There is such an exemplary great man as Jiang Ge Lao here, and the nobles and bigwigs in Beijing have not had a good time for a long time, without it, the tigress in the family roars at them from time to time: You see, Jiang Ge Lao, in terms of talent and appearance, which one is not better than you? In terms of power, they are also bigger than you, but they only have one wife, but you bastards who are not as good as others, but you always want to enjoy the blessings of the Qi people......

Because of such a thing, Jiang Ge Lao Zeng was secretly ridiculed and cursed as a hypocrite by the old and young masters in Beijing! People say that eating color is sex, you are such a powerful person, but you are not lustful, you, you are still a man?

Of course, Jiang Ge Lao doesn't care about this, in his words, what doesn't attract envy is mediocrity, he doesn't have many friends, and Kou Zhun is closer to him in the court, Kou Zhun's style is quite different from Jiang Ge Lao, this person has the ability and ability, is a capable minister, and likes to enjoy, and there are many concubines in the family, however, this does not prevent Jiang Ge Lao from appreciating him.

The lack of concubines in Jiang Ge's hometown is not that he is pretending to be a saint, but he feels that it is very troublesome to have too many women, and a bunch of concubines in the family will inevitably cause internal commotion.

He himself doesn't like a whole lot of women at home, but he never asks others to learn from him, it is a man's nature to be lustful, he is a man himself, he naturally understands, for this reason, he makes friends, only to see if others are to his liking, as for the rest, he naturally will not interfere.

He doesn't have many friends, and there are not many visitors who usually come to the house, and people who have an average relationship with him, if you have something to say clearly in the court, if you want to go through the back door to climb friendship, come to engage in private visits and gifts, sorry, you usually can't even enter the door, if you come to harass him again and again, I'm sorry, your official hat will probably be worn for a short time, under this premise, the dignified old mansion is not only simple in appearance, but also far more sparse than the general official mansion.

On the sixth day of the ninth month of the eighth year of Dazhong Xiangfu, an inconspicuous carriage stopped in front of this house, and the people sitting in the car were Xiao Nan's sisters and brothers, Xiao Zhen looked up at the inconspicuous mansion in front of him through the car window, and said in a low voice: "Is this the famous old mansion?" ”

"In addition to this old mansion in the capital, there doesn't seem to be a second building, let's go down." Xiao Nan's eyes fell on the words on the house, answered, finished speaking, lifted the curtain, stepped down from the car, and the passers-by saw a strange carriage suddenly parked in front of the old mansion, many people involuntarily stopped and looked over, and when the people in the carriage came down, everyone found that they were two strangers who had never seen each other at all, and their eyes became more and more surprised.

After getting off the carriage, Xiao Zhen noticed the surprised eyes of the pedestrians around him, and then looked at the quiet house in front of him, a trace of nervousness passed through his heart inexplicably, he subconsciously reached out and held his sister's hand, Xiao Nan turned his head to look at him, and asked softly: "Are you afraid?" ”

"Don't be afraid!" Xiao Zhen met Xiao Nan's calm and soft gaze, his nervous mood unconsciously calmed down, he took a slight breath, raised his head and said. (To be continued.) )