Although Shen Mi's plan was meticulous and exquisite, he may not be the only one who could think of it, as long as he spent a little more time, someone would always think of it.

There is no shortage of well-educated people in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and these old men in the cabinet are all knowledgeable, knowledgeable and experienced, but the key is that he can analyze the situation clearly in such a short period of time, and the strategic deployment proposed to go the opposite way is completely in line with the shape, but not everyone has this ability.

Xu Jingfang nodded, smiled and said, "It's the Shen family." ”

Shen Mi hurriedly bowed his head: "The adults have won the award, and the juniors have an axe, but I am afraid that they will laugh and be generous." ”

Guo Yunze laughed and patted him on the shoulder: "But I appreciate your axe!" ”

Shen Mi received a lot of praise in the past, but he didn't put this matter at ease, thinking that there were still things to do, so he said a few words of humility and left. Here Guo Yunze took a look at the territory again, took it and studied it carefully, while Xu Jingfang raised his eyebrows in front of the window and looked at the spring outside, but he got into the sedan chair and returned home with a big belly.

Mrs. Xu greeted her husband under the porch, and when she saw that his face was full of joy, she quipped: "Have you found a treasure today?" ”

Xu Jingfang shook his head, stepped into the room, and said with his hands in his hands: "You guess." ”

Mrs. Xu came in and changed his clothes for him: "What did the emperor reward you again?" ”

"I'm not unusual."

I Xu Jingfang muttered. Then he said: "I met the second son of the old Shen family in the cabinet today. As he spoke, he told his wife the ins and outs of the previous situation, and then sighed: "In the past, it was said that this Shen Ercai thought about people, but I still didn't take it to heart, thinking that even if I read some books, it was just a reputation for relying on the name of the family."

"Let's see. That astuteness is really different, what is even more rare is his calmness, the old man has seen more talents, and nine and a half of the ten are arrogant, only he is different. No wonder Shen Guanyu's old guy cultivated him alone. I think this Shen Mi will definitely be better than the blue in the future, better than his Lao Tzu. ”

Mrs. Xu smiled: "What's your business?" It's not your son. Besides, I don't hear anything important, isn't it common to be friends and foes on the battlefield? Why does Shen Mi say this, you feel strange? ”

"You women. It's just that the hair is long and the insight is short. Xu Jingfang hummed at Mrs. and said: "How can you just look at the surface, you have to analyze it in combination with the current situation of our dynasty." The king of Liao wants the country to go to the fief this year, this person is brave and unscrupulous, and he is good at fighting. But he is not good at planning, and it is actually a bit laborious to guard the northwest Liaodong.

"If the Eastern Liao Kingdom disturbs trouble at the border pass from time to time, with the impatience of the King of Liao, there will be many battles.

"And now the queen and concubine in the palace are fighting openly and secretly, and the dark tide in the palace is frequent, at this time, the prince should have been set to determine the situation, but there was a matter of abolishing the prince, and the emperor was suspicious. This time the reserve will certainly not be so hasty. During this period, if the northwest is unstable, it will inevitably affect the court situation, and the two parties of the queen and concubine will take the opportunity to urge the emperor to establish a prince.

"All in all. The war in the Eastern Liao Kingdom seems to be unrelated, but in fact it is closely related to our dynasty. ”

"Oh?" Mrs. Xu once accompanied her husband to fight in the north and south, and as soon as her husband said this, she understood, "Say so." This Shen Mi is really thoughtful. ”

"Hmm." Xu Jingfang nodded, and then said, "If the Shen family is a disciple, they will only learn to be mediocre." With a child like Shen Mi, we can't be taken lightly. Those in my family have also studied for a few years. But compared with a scholarly family like the Shen family, after all, the background is still low, if it weren't for the old man who accompanied Gao Zu to fight the world and earn this favor, how easy would it be for the Xu family to be on an equal footing with the Shen family? ”

"Then you mean, we should get closer to the Shen family in the future?" Mrs. Xu smiled.

Xu Jingfang thought for a while and said, "I remember that Mrs. Shen seems to be seriously ill in bed, and now it is the eldest daughter-in-law who is in charge, and the second daughter-in-law who goes out to socialize?" ”

"And their fourth daughter-in-law." Mrs. Xu raised her eyebrows and reminded.

"Then did they give New Year's gifts this year?" Xu Jingfang asked again.

Mrs. Xu thought for a while, "It's only the ninth day of the first month today, and in the old mansion of the Shoufu Zhuge that I should have gone to yesterday, our family hasn't come yet." ”

"Then if Shen Mi's daughter-in-law comes, you must remember to entertain you!" Xu Jingfang carefully advised.

Mrs. Xu said with a smile: "There are so many juniors in the house, but I haven't seen you care so much about anyone." ”

Xu Jingfang stroked his beard with a smile, and then sighed: "The future is terrifying, we old guys can't fight, of course, we have to take a step back and make way for them!" If the Shen family can't get up, then I also have a reputation as an open-minded corporal, and if he Shen Mi really rises in the future, the children of the Xu family can also borrow their east wind. When people get old, looking at people is a gamble, and gambling is vision! ”

Mrs. Xu thought so, looked at her husband with a smile, and didn't mention these words in her heart.

On the Shen family's side, Fahrenheit is still methodically distributing New Year's gifts according to the roster that has been written long ago.

She is best at bookkeeping, and she is used to making an outline in advance of everything she does, except for dealing with her mother-in-law, which requires constant scheming, she is still very shrewd in this regard. There are many places to go in the house, and she and the Chen family share half each, but because Shen Mi's identity is different, and the second room has some of her own relationships to go, she has many more tasks than the Chen family.

Of course, some less important officials can come back after a little sitting, but some of the more important ones have to hand over the post in advance to make a formal visit, and often such visits will not come back until lunch at the other party's home. How can a person with status be stingy with a meal? For them, the guests who visit in the New Year stay for dinner, which is also a form of respect for the host family.

After breakfast, Fahrenheit asked someone to hand over the post to Xu Jingfang's house, and got a personal reply from Mrs. Xu, welcoming Shen Er's grandmother to take the second lady over to the house to talk.

Hua Shi confirmed that it was really Mrs. Xu who replied in person, and couldn't help but be a little flattered, this Xu Jingfang was the most informal person in front of Gaozu Zhao Jie, he was able to eat Gaozu's tea and drink Gaozu's wine, Gaozu was often so angry that his nose was smoking, but he was extremely heavy on his ability to help him manage the accounts, so he was always helpless.

Because of this, Xu Jingfang's frankness often makes the current emperor cry and laugh.

But if it weren't for him being in charge of the household department in these years, how could the emperor have lived so easily in these years after the war, and how could he easily transfer out 100,000 taels of silver when Guangxi was hit by a disaster?

Even if Shen Yan was also mentioned, Hua didn't dare to slack off, so he asked people to pack up Shen Yan and bring him out.

Here the mother and daughter took the carriage out of the fang, and the people guarding the gate of the Anning Hou Mansion followed the tail of the car to the Xu Mansion, and then returned to the Hou Mansion to inform the Anning Hou wife Cai.

Cai was talking to the housekeeper's wife, and when he heard the report, he hurriedly got up and went into the house to clean up his makeup, and rushed to Xu's mansion in a sedan chair.

Shen Yan got out of the car with Hua Shi at the second gate of Xu's house, and then followed the maid's guidance to the main room to meet Mrs. Xu.

She and Hua Shi both came to the Xu family for the first time, and in the previous life, Xu Jingfang told the old man in front of the struggle between the prince and the king of Chu, and the children of the Xu family did not seem to be particularly conspicuous in the court later. Because I haven't been in contact, I don't know the details of this family, and I don't have any bad rumors about the Xu family in my impression.

Halfway through, the two young grandmothers of the Xu family greeted them, looking at them are very generous characters, the eldest grandmother's surname is Chen, and the second grandmother's surname is Yu, and they should be around forty years old, but they are elegantly dressed and speak very easy-going, and it is easy to feel good when they look at it.

In front of such a person, of course, Shen Yan would treat him with courtesy.

After a while, when I arrived at the main hall, an old lady in her sixties sat in the hall, her gray hair was pulled into a simple squirrel, and she was wearing a small Shu brocade jacket embroidered with silver chrysanthemums in lake blue, covered with a gray-blue trimmed gown, looking simple and generous, and the calm in a high position suddenly revealed her grace and nobility, which was naturally Mrs. Xu.

Shen Yan and Fahrenheit saluted, and Mrs. Xu smiled and said, "Come and sit, look at that little nose is frozen, like a carrot, come over to me to warm up." There is also full enthusiasm in the smile, which is not Mrs. Shen's style of holding the wife of a famous family all the time.

Shen Yan saw that it was not pretending, so he thanked him, really walked over, and sat down on the brocade pestle below. Hua was stunned, and hurriedly smiled: "Sister Yan'er has no rules in front of Mrs. Yan." She was afraid of the rules in front of Mrs. Shen, and when she saw a person with this status, she couldn't help but cheer up and act.

Mrs. Xu saw Shen Yan sitting upright with her hands on her lap, blinking like a kitten and looking up at Fahrenheit with big eyes, but laughed and said, "Such a lovely girl, what are you doing to detain her?" ”

Fahrenheit said embarrassedly, "That's rude." ”

Mrs. Xu smiled: "Our family doesn't have as many rules as yours, sit down and talk." ”

Because of her like this, Fahrenheit also relaxed.

For a while, Grandma Chen and Grandma Yu Er's grandmother went to melons and fruits again, and talked about the children because of Shen Yan, and then the children talked about the trivial matters in their respective houses, Xu Jingfang was in charge of the household, and he was the most good at settling accounts, and Hua was born in the imperial businessman, so there were not too many topics to talk about.

Mrs. Xu has never seen Shen Mi, but in the past few days, she has also heard about Shen Mi and his wife from her daughters-in-law, thinking that if Shen Mi is a true gentleman, the wife she marries will definitely be good, so when she sees Hua's, she can't help but secretly admire, seeing that her appearance is really a beauty, and after listening to a few rounds of things on the accounts, she confirmed that she is a frank and honest woman in addition to her appearance.

Xu Jingfang's praise for Shen Mi, she also believed a little more through Fahrenheit.

As for Shen Yan, because she was told by Fahrenheit not to make a mistake before going out, she held a cup of tea and counted the tea leaves and pretended to be a lady when the adults spoke, so she did not receive too much attention from Mrs. Xu.

Seeing that the atmosphere was warm, a maid suddenly came in from outside the door and said, "Mrs. Yu, Mrs. An Ninghou is here to visit." (To be continued)

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