September in the capital is the most comfortable time for the climate in the north, the wind is clear, sparse and broad. Standing outside the root of the city wall of the capital, you can see the West Mountain in the distance from afar.

It was the ninth day of September, and all the gates of the capital were extremely busy, and the ox carts, donkey carts, carts, and carts loaded with dogwoods, chrysanthemums, chongyang cakes, and other items were driven into the city by the peasants in an endless stream, and there were also chariots and horses walking side by side, and people were laughing and laughing out of the city -- this was the family who went to climb the heights.

The north gate of the capital, Chonghua Gate, is ushering in a team of cars and horses that are not very conspicuous from afar, this is a large team, there are more than ten carriages in the rough number, at first glance I only feel that it is very low-key, the carriage is painted dark brown, and the curtains and other things are also unassuming. But the horse pulling the cart knew at a glance that it was a good horse, and it stepped with its head held high without hurry, and even the footsteps were quite neat.

Closer, the people who came around secretly praised well, needless to say, the accompanying guards were all heroic, even the horsemen who drove the car were actually some men who described heroism, all of them had solemn faces and strong figures, and at first glance they were not ordinary people who could afford to invite.

In short, this is a team of ordinary chariots and horses that look ordinary from a distance, but look very imposing up close. However, these men are all dusty, and they look like they have come from a long distance.

The people who lined up at the gate of the city and waited to enter the city, regardless of whether they were rich or poor, but they all lived at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and they were accustomed to seeing high-ranking officials and nobles.

When the caravan arrived at the city gate, it did not shout and drive away the people around them, as some dignitaries did, but silently followed the procession. There are only a dozen carriages, and they are all high-headed carriages of considerable size, so they are still extremely conspicuous when they are lined up outside the city gate.

The officers and soldiers guarding the city had already seen it, and a soldier came over to inquire, not that they were afraid that if it was the dignitaries and nobles who lined up like this to offend them, they would guard the city gate for the Son of Heaven, and no one would be seen every day, but they were lined up like this, which really occupied some land and was a little hindering.

When he got closer, the soldier saw the guard on the horse at the head clearly, but he was stunned, rubbed his eyes, and then hurriedly made a standard military salute: "Captain Shaodu!" ”

The guard was also stunned, and looked at the soldier carefully, the soldier was a little excited, and his voice was raised: "The mark was originally the fifth battalion of the infantry in the Northwest Army, and later returned to the capital to guard the city gate with General Ling's change of guard." I didn't expect to be lucky enough to see Lord Lieutenant again today......"

After listening to his self-introduction, Shao Duwei's face softened, and he nodded and encouraged: "In this case, you will work hard here, and guarding this northern gate for Your Majesty is as important as resisting the barbarians in the northwest." ”

The little soldier was even more excited when he heard him talking to him with a pleasant face, and said with a red face: "Yes! Underscore ......"

Captain Shao waved his hand and said in a low voice: "I am now on the order of the general to escort my wife and my son and girl back to Beijing, and the family members of Marquis Weiyuan are sitting in the car." If you are free, you can help me send a message to General Ling after you get off duty, saying that I will ask him to drink in the old place the day after tomorrow, and you can go with you. ”

The little soldier hurriedly agreed, gave another military salute, and ran to report to the commander with an excited face.

Maybe the Marquis of Weiyuan's Mansion can be regarded as having face even in the capital, or maybe the large fleet of carriages and horses lined up there is really in the way, in short, after the little soldiers reported their identities, the city guard first let them into the city gate.

Cars and horses are busy, walking on the unfamiliar and familiar streets of the capital. In the car sat the wife of the Marquis of Weiyuan, Xie, who had been away from the capital for seven years, and her children. The Marquis of Weiyuan, the Lu family's military exploits, the grandfather of the current Marquis of Weiyuan, got this title, the first-class marquis, not demoted, and now it has been inherited for three generations.

The Lu family guarded the northwest in successive dynasties, and the marquis of Chengjue concurrently served as the general of the Lu family's army, guarding the northwest gate of the empire for the emperor, and rarely entered Beijing without a summons.

The Lu family wants to return to Beijing, but they have already caused ripples in the social circle of the capital. Especially if there is a little girl in the family, they are secretly paying attention. The sons of the grandchildren of the Lu family are in the capital, but they are ideal sons-in-law candidates for families with school-age girls.

The Lu family's boy market is so good, not because of how high his family is, although it is a super-grade first-class marquis, but in this kind of imperial capital where princes are everywhere, there are first, second and third class dukes, as well as kings, and county kings, which is really not enough to look at the land title.

The uniqueness of the Lu family lies in the fact that his family has a unique family rule: unless the children and grandchildren are over forty years old and have no heirs, they are not allowed to take concubines.

This kind of rule is not to mention a family with a title, even ordinary people rarely have it, let alone in the military general's family, the Lu family can be regarded as the only one.

You must know that the danger factor of the military generals themselves is much higher than that of civilian officials, and when the good men will fold on the battlefield, it is said that the descendants of such a family are the more the better, and the same military merits started, look at the Jing'an Hou Chen family, Wucheng Boxue family, that is not a wide range of concubines only expect more men, only the Lu family, the backyard has always been quiet.

The back house is simple, and the real power of the family is in hand, so ...... Needless to say, the sons of the Lu family must be the ideal partners for the noblewomen to marry their daughters!

But in fact, this was not the case a few years ago, and the reason is easy to understand - the danger factor of military generals is high, such as the current Marquis of Weiyuan, in fact, there are three brothers, but his eldest brother and his third brother were all martyred on the Mobei battlefield. If you marry your daughter, you won't have to worry about your aunt, but if you don't even have a husband......

But in this generation, the situation of the Lu family has changed. The eldest son of the Lu family's grandchildren has already learned martial arts, and the old lady of the Lu family has already released her words, except for the eldest to inherit his father's mantle, the rest of the grandsons are ready to take the road of literature.

As soon as these words came out, the wives of each family with girls of the same age began to pay attention secretly, the super Hou Mansion will not accept concubines, although the son of the military general family may have a more difficult future if he changes to the literary road, but he can't stand the in-laws of the Lu family.

Moreover, no one in the capital knows that the Marquis of Weiyuan has won the emperor's heart. The emperor had a good relationship with the late old Marquis Weiyuan, and the current Marquis of Weiyuan could be said to have grown up as a nephew by the emperor since he was a child.

The emperor knew that the heirs of the Lu family were thin, and he ignored the practice of the dynasty that the generals were not allowed to leave Beijing, and when the eldest girl of the Lu family, Binrou, was seven years old, he allowed Mrs. Lu Xie to take her daughter and three-year-old son Binran to the border city with her husband Lu Zhun, hoping to spread more branches and leaves for the Lu family. Only the twelve-year-old eldest son Lu Binqi was left in Beijing with his grandmother and aunt.

Three years after Mrs. Lu arrived in the border city, she finally lived up to expectations and gave birth to a pair of twins, two identical boys, named Bincheng and Binyu.

In the blink of an eye, seven years have passed.

The reason why the family returned to Beijing this time was because after the New Year, the eldest girl Binrou would be fifteen years old, and she was faced with a courtesy - as the only girl with a golden honor among the grandchildren of the first-class marquis's mansion, the old lady Wang of the Lu family, including Binrou's mother Xie Shi, did not want her to spend the most important part of a woman's life in a remote border city, marking the etiquette of adulthood.

Moreover, several small ones are also facing the problem of studying, and the matter of finding a good college and a good gentleman has been put on the agenda.

In this way, Mrs. Lu came back with the child, and she was not ready to return to the border city.