This night, Xiao Shiji sat on the steps at the door all night, he thought about a lot of things, and even what Du Hengshuang said when he quarreled with him before was extremely clear in his mind.

At that time, he only felt that Du Hengshuang was always entangled in trivial things, which made him extremely tired, and he didn't even want to listen anymore, so he deliberately hid in the study in the outer courtyard to avoid conflicts and quarrels with her.

But now, he begged her to quarrel but couldn't get it......

At dawn the next day, he saw the clouds lingering in the sky, and then a red sun suddenly leaped out of the clouds, and the dazzling light reflected his eyes with a tingling pain, and he almost shed tears.

Xiao Shiji hurriedly wiped his face with the back of his hand, turned around and went into the house to wash his face in a hurry, and then changed into the clothes of the guards and went to guard the city gate.

Today's group with him is the old protector in his sixties. When he saw Xiao Shiji, he smiled at him and said hello.

Xiao Shiji also nodded, thanking him for the chicken he asked his wife to give yesterday.

The old protector smiled and said, "It's nothing. It happened that the day before yesterday, the second girl who was married in my family went back to her parents' house and sent us a chicken, which was originally intended to raise eggs, but yesterday morning I found that it was bitten to death by Huangzi, so I had to make soup. My old wife scolded Huang Zi to death. After a pause, he glanced at Xiao Shiji, and said, "Lord Xiao, my wife is a rectum, and she was offended a lot yesterday. ”

Xiao Shiji was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that it must have been his wife who told him what happened at his house yesterday, and he blushed very much, and hurriedly said: "Don't say that, Hu Po is a good intention, she speaks for my wife." I can only be grateful to her, how can I be angry? No matter how stupid I am, I won't be able to distinguish between good and bad. ”

The old protector sighed deeply, nodded, and said, "Yes, in fact, if my wife told you these words before, you would definitely not listen to them." Now that you have arrived in this field, it is possible to understand what we, the common people, are saying. It's not that I'm talkative, you think about it too. This is the home of the common people. Who has three wives and four concubines? Those women who want to follow you, why don't they go to the trouble of finding those who have eaten the last meal and have not eaten? If nothing else, let's just talk about Shen Tou'er next door to you, he is now in his sixties. It's just a protector leader. Back then, he was a five-grade official. It's a good day, but it's not enough. I had to take a concubine and leave my wife angry. Later, he hugged the wrong thigh and offended Shangfeng. The official is gone, and he is relegated here to be a janitor, and he has been doing it for thirty years, and the concubine has already run away with someone, just a daughter, and after getting married, he comes to see him every year. As he spoke, he shook his head and sighed.

Xiao Shiji was a little dazed. The Shen Touer who lives next door to him, is he thirty years later? - Xiao Shiji couldn't help but shudder......

Seeing Xiao Shiji's expression, the old protector smiled and comforted him: "Lord Xiao, of course, you are different. Shen Tou'er has no real skills except for sycophancy, so once he is demoted, no one is willing to promote him. Lord Xiao has made great achievements, everyone knows that Lord Xiao is only temporary here, and he will definitely be promoted in the future......"

Xiao Shiji was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Look at what you said, how is it possible?" If I had the ability, I wouldn't have been relegated here. In fact, I'm not much better than Shen Tou'er, maybe I'll stay here for the rest of my life. ”

The old protector laughed, shook his head and sneered, "Lord Xiao, you are too modest. My old beard said something that shouldn't be, the county lord and Miss Mu, if you weren't sure that Lord Xiao would definitely be promoted in the future, they wouldn't have come to do this kind of work at this time. - What even we can see, they can't see when they're up there? It's good to be in a hurry, they are all thinking about you when you are so down, so that Lord Xiao can remember their benefits. In fact, they treat others as fools, when people can't see their little calculations in private! ”

Xiao Shiji only felt cold sweat trickling down his forehead, and he didn't know what to say.

The old protector tied the Pu knife on his belt, and waited for the person who opened the door to come and open the city gate. Lord Xiao, a man like you, who stands up to the sky, must not be that ungrateful villain who is greedy for power. Besides, we are men, so let's give way to women. Most of our guards have become relatives, men with daughters-in-law and babies, all of them treat their daughters-in-law as treasures, and every time they go home to rest, they can't wait to clean up the house inside and out, and do everything they can, for fear that their daughter-in-law will be tired and injured. This is the person who loves his daughter-in-law, and the girl is willing to live with them for the rest of her life. All these benefits come out of the place. If you are good to me, I will be good to you. ”

After this day, Xiao Shiji was even more silent and rarely spoke. But he became familiar with his brothers who guarded the army, and often bought food and drinks from nearby restaurants, and beckoned everyone to come to his courtyard to eat and drink. He didn't drink either, just holding a glass of water, sitting on the sidelines and watching everyone happily and foolishly, only by relying on this excitement could he feel that he was still alive and had not become a walking corpse.

A few days later, when Xiao Shiji was standing guard at the gate of Nancheng, he found that the prince had actually come, and he had brought Qi Yuexian and Mu Ye with him.

"Shiji, I've really wronged you. You stay here for a few days, and when your father's anger is gone, you will plead with your father again and let you be reinstated! - You can rest assured, the beginning of the Great Qi, internal and external troubles, it is precisely when it is time to employ people, and a general like you will not be buried at the city gate in vain. The prince patted Xiao Shiji's shoulder with emotion.

Xiao Shiji stood up straight, bowed his head slightly, and said without humility or arrogance: "Thank you, His Royal Highness the Prince." However, if you can't do those troublesome things, you should find another good minister, and don't spend any more effort on the minister. ”

The prince put his hands behind his back, shook his head, and said, "It's useless to say anything now, just wait." As he spoke, he turned around and pointed to Qi Yuexian in a begonia red dress, and Mu Yelai in a pink dress, and said, "Since your wife begged to leave the court, and you have no one to serve now, they said that if you don't marry, you can accept them." They are not people who cling to the powerful, they admire you wholeheartedly, and they will never leave you when you are down. What do you dislike about such a person? "I still want to stuff Qi Yuexian and Mu Yelai to him......

Xiao Shiji took a deep breath, lowered his eyes and smiled: "His Royal Highness the Prince, this fact is not appropriate. His Majesty gave marriage and concubines, and forced Xiao's original wife away, but in fact, he was already forcing Xiao to be unfaithful. And these two girls, Qi Yuexian, the lord of Suiyuan County, have passed away less than two months after her father Xiao Miao. Mu Yelai girl, not only her father Mu Hou passed away not long ago, but even her biological mother and aunt. He has only passed away for less than a month. According to the system. Miss Qi has to keep filial piety for three years, and Miss Mu has to keep filial piety for six years. But His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince let them marry at this time, aren't they forcing them to be unfilial? - Is such an unfaithful and unfilial person the person His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince really want? ”

"Tsk. Isn't?! Obviously you should keep filial piety. but ran after the man with a roar. Look at the clothes they were wearing. Where does it look like a filial piety keeper wears? One wears begonia red, the other wears pink, tsk. It's really affectionate to Lord Xiao, and even my parents have been left behind......"

The surrounding onlookers shouted loudly.

The prince, Qi Yuexian, and Mu Yelai were stunned together.

Qi Yuexian immediately came back to her senses, and out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of the people around her pointing at her begonia red dress, and she was so ashamed that she couldn't raise her head at all. She did a lot of calculations, but she actually forgot about filial piety...... In a panic, he hurriedly turned around and left, got into the car driven by his county master, and hurriedly ordered the coachman to drive back to the Nanning Prince's Mansion, refusing to be embarrassed here.

Mu Yelai couldn't raise his head in shame. She never expected that Xiao Shiji would actually bring up the matter of keeping filial piety. Then he thought of Xiao Shihe and the person who valued filial piety the most, so that his position in his heart was more and more shaken, and he panicked in his heart, and began to regret that he should not let his aunt "die of illness" in order to force Xiao Shihe to admit her into the house. At that time, how could I not have thought that if my aunt died, she would have to keep filial piety for three years?! When her father dies and her biological mother dies, she will have to keep filial piety for six years. Six years later, she was old and no one wanted her......

Xiao Shiji's words not only occupied the righteousness, but also the common etiquette, so that the prince didn't know how to refute it for a while. If the courtiers in the court have a father and a mother's funeral, the emperor can also issue an edict to "win love", so that they do not have to resign and keep filial piety for so many years. But Qi Yuexian and Mu Yelai have nothing to do with the courtiers in the court, if Emperor Yongchang is allowed to issue an order to "win love", so that they can marry smoothly, it is really a big joke in the world, and even their royal family of Daqi will be laughed to death......

“…… Shiji, what you say does make sense. So that's why you're resisting the decree? Alas, why didn't you say it earlier? I said it earlier, my father thinks you are reasonable, and he will not take away your knighthood and belittle your officials. The prince smiled smirkedly, and then waved his hand, "Okay, in that case, you should be your gatekeeper." When did you figure it out, when did you come to find Lone. - Go! As he spoke, he got into the cart with his entourage and drove away.

Mu Yelai had no choice but to cover his head with his sleeves, rub it low next to the courtyard wall, and ran to his house in a panic. But she originally lived in Nancheng, many people knew her, and she refused to keep filial piety for her biological mother and father, and wanted to be a concubine, and the people around her became more and more unkind to her.

Mu Yelai couldn't live in Nancheng anymore, so he had to secretly sell the house in Nancheng, take the silver, and go to Lingnan to find her eldest brother and second brother with a few dead soldiers handed over to her by Mu Hou before he died.

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The western border fortress of Daqi, Qinzhou City.

On this day, Du Hengshuang and Du Hengxue sat in a big car driven by the county lord, followed by Xu Yanbang, the four brothers of the Shi family, and a hundred guards, and finally came to the east gate of Qinzhou City.

Because the Turks wanted to attack Qinzhou City from the west, some of the people in Qinzhou City were willing to stay and defend the city with the Chai family, and some dragged their families to leave Qinzhou from the east gate.

The Chai family did not close the door and let them go. However, the people who entered Qinzhou City were strictly checked.

Du Hengshuang and Du Hengxue sat in the car and waited patiently for a long time before Xu Yanbang came over and said, "Shuang'er, Xue'er, the gatekeeper of Qinzhou said that he was going to report to the Chai family and see what they said." ”

Du Hengxue was a little anxious, lifted the curtain and said, "Second Brother Xu, did you say that I came to see Huo Guogong's injury?" ”

Xu Yanbang patted his head and said with a smile: "Yo, I forgot this, you wait for me, I'll talk about it again!" So saying, he turned his horse and rushed to the gate of the city.

Du Hengxue was angry and funny, and said: "I really don't know how his head grows, and he actually forgot such an important thing!" ”

Du Hengshuang smiled: "It's not that he forgot, it's in his heart, and he still regards you as the little lady who will cry when she is not satisfied, where can you remember that you are now a person with great ability......" After saying this, Du Hengshuang was also stunned for a moment, as if he thought of something, but he shook his head in an instant, refusing to think about it further.

Over there, Xu Yanbang rode over and shouted loudly: "You go and tell Princess Pingle quickly, just say that the county lord of Roujia, the master of Chang'an's Xinglin Country, has personally come to treat Huo Guogong's injuries, if you lead us in quickly, maybe Huo Guogong can recover one day earlier and go to fight the Turks!" ”

The gatekeeper didn't want to let Xu Yanbang and them in, but when they saw the four high-nosed, deep-eyed, blue-eyed men who followed Xu Yanbang, they were not pleasing to the eye, worried that they were Turkic spies, so they were perfunctory to Xu Yanbang before.

Xu Yanbang took out the handprints of the lord of Roujia County, and they didn't recognize them.

But now I heard Xu Yanbang say that it was actually the county lord of Roujia, a high-apprentice disciple of Zhu Susu, a divine doctor in Chang'an Xinglin, and suddenly became cautious.

They knew that Huo Guogong Chai Sichang's injuries had been refusing to heal, and after holding on for so many days, they were almost running out of oil and the lamp was dry, and they were also very anxious. His Majesty said that he had sent the imperial doctor over, but he couldn't wait for the shadow of the imperial doctor, and now he heard that it was the senior disciple of the Xinglin Divine Doctor Zhu Susu, and he hurriedly said: "Didn't you say it earlier?!" I'm going to report back to Her Royal Highness the princess now, you wait, wait! As he spoke, a gatekeeper ran to report the news.

Xu Yanbang triumphantly returned to the side of the cart and said, "They were frightened by me, and when Her Royal Highness the princess comes, we can go in." ”

Before they could say a word, they heard the sound of horses' hooves coming from the other side of the gate.

The gates opened, and several tall horses leaped out and rushed towards them.

"Where's Cher? Cher, are you here? Princess Pingle's voice came in a hurry, and then a woman in a strong suit suddenly reined in her horse and came to the front of Du Hengshuang and Du Hengxue's cart.

Du Hengxue lifted the curtain of the car and said with a smile: "Du Hengxue has seen Her Royal Highness Princess Pingle. ”

Du Hengshuang also poked his head out and said with a smile: "Du Hengshuang has seen Her Royal Highness Princess Pingle. ”

"Frost, you're here too?!" Seeing these two familiar faces, Princess Pingle was overjoyed, hurriedly jumped off her horse, got into the car with them, and hurried to the city.

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One more than four thousand. In the afternoon, there will be a pink watch. It can only be said that the sisters are too powerful, and they just increased by 30 votes~~~ The plot behind it will actually surprise everyone. O(∩_∩)Ohehe~

…… (To be continued......)

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