How is he doing?

What can he do?

Shuang'er has reconciled with him, and they have nothing to do with each other. His anger was all because of his weak heart, because of fear, and he was bluffing, trying to hide his greatest fear, because he knew that there was nothing he could do but bluff.

The little girl who once only knew that Lu Dao followed him, tugging at his sleeve and calling "Brother He", the cardamom girl who was single-minded and only had him in her eyes, the bride who was shy and timid, and the bride who endured him to do whatever he wanted on the wedding night, and the cold woman who made several moves in the court dispute, cleared the obstacles for him and sent him into the clouds, have left him forever......

She resolutely left, telling him that it didn't matter whether it was right or wrong, and that she didn't have him in her heart anymore.

Xiao Shiji closed his eyes, and a few tears seeped out of the corners of his eyes.

Maybe he never understood her. In a place where he didn't pay attention, she grew up quietly, peerless, and captivated. He was so small and humble in front of her, seeing her standing tall in the clouds, he could only look up.

He had sworn before that no matter what happened, he would always stand by her side, support her, protect her, and give her the best in the world.

But now looking back at the road they have walked, Xiao Shiji finds that it was actually Du Hengshuang who supported him by his side, protected him, and used her best efforts to let him walk smoothly and steadily.

For so many years, it turned out that he was relying on her, not her.

He squandered her affection, thinking she would never leave him. In fact, he was wrong, not that she couldn't live without him. It's that he can't do without her......

A deep sense of powerlessness and inferiority made him purse his lips, and he found that he could not say anything, so he had to tilt his neck and pour himself a glass of wine.

Anzi often looked like him, and didn't say anything about it, but just diverted the conversation and told him about the situation in Chang'an.

Xiao Shiji gradually came back to his senses and listened very attentively. For him, if he even messes up this errand, he will no longer have the face to live in this world.

Anzi is often right to say that it is not terrible to do something wrong. What is terrible is unrepentance.

The two ate in the restaurant until dusk. before leaving the restaurant drunk.

Anzi often returns to the Anguo Mansion.

Xiao Shiji thought about it, and did not go back to the place where the guards of the city lived, but went back to the Xiao family's mansion.

In the Xiao family's mansion, it is now Xiao Tai and the master. But Shaw and his own industry. Let Xiao Yi take care of it. But a larger amount of silver is to be used. Xiao Tai and Xiao Yi must be stamped at the same time, which can be regarded as a check and balance.

After Xiao Shiji returned, Xiao Taiji hurriedly came to talk to him. He said in a roundabout way: "Big brother, you are alone now, do you want to find a woman to serve you?" Otherwise, every time I come back, I will be a cold person, so why bother? ”

Xiao Shiji didn't want to think about it, so he diverted the topic and said: "My martial arts hall is almost ready, Ming'er, you and Xiao Yi will sum up and give me 50,000 taels of silver." ”

Xiao Taihe was stunned when he heard this, and he was stunned for a while, and said, "Big brother, do you want to run a school?" - But you ...... "is no longer the Marquis of Zhuguo."

Xiao Shiji glanced up at him and said lightly: "Of course you have to do it." I've already said everything, and someone will sign up soon. ”

"But...... Big brother, 50,000 taels of silver, can our family get this money? Xiao Taiji was very uneasy. He has been in charge for a while, and he also knows very well how much property Xiao Shi has. To be honest, it was a little less than he imagined, and there was some property in it, and I don't know where it went.

Xiao Shiji glanced at Xiao Taiji, stood up and walked behind the screen, "You can take it out." Even if you can't take it out, you have to take it out when you sell the house. ”

Xiao Taiji was very disappointed, he was silent for a long time, and said with a smile: "Big brother, have you forgotten?" This Xiao family's mansion is ancestral property, if you want to sell this house, you should also discuss it with my brother and me, right? ”

Xiao Shiji changed his clothes behind the screen and came out, calling people to boil water and bathe with him, ignoring Xiao Taiji.

Xiao Taiji was very dissatisfied, but he couldn't do anything. To put it bluntly, this family is all Xiao Shiji's. The two brothers have long since separated. Now that they are still living together, it is also Xiao Shiji's magnanimity to their family for the sake of Long Xiangye.

Seeing Xiao Shihe enter the bath room to bathe, Xiao Taiji gritted his teeth, turned his head and left, returned to his yard, and said to Long Shuzhi: "This family really can't stay anymore, let's move out." ”

"Okay, what's going on?" Long Shuzhi was very puzzled. Xiao Tai and the outer courtyard, she is in charge of the inner courtyard, and she is doing very well!

Xiao Taiji opened his mouth and swallowed the words again.

A few days later, Xiao Shiji traveled between the Xiao family's mansion and the city gate guard camp, doing his own errands every day while preparing his school, the Lecture Martial Arts Hall.

Xiao Taiji felt uncomfortable, often went out to drink, and also made a few friends. In addition to drinking, I also went to the casino with these drinking friends to gamble twice, and slowly accumulated some gambling debts.

Xiao Yi secretly told Xiao Shiji about Xiao Tai and his recent whereabouts, Xiao Shiji was very angry, but thinking that this younger brother was so old that he didn't know what to do, he could manage him once or twice, but he couldn't control him for the rest of his life, so he ordered Xiao Yi to investigate those who seduced Xiao Tai and gambled to see what was going on. At the same time, Xiao Shiji found people he knew on the road, and secretly taught those people with bad intentions, so that these people could stop the idea of teasing Xiao Taiji.

Xiao Taiji didn't know what was going on in Lu Dao, and only thought about why his friends didn't associate with him, until Xiao Shiji threw a pile of gambling debts in his face, Xiao Taiji woke up like a dream, and cried bitterly in front of Xiao Shihe, saying that he didn't dare anymore.

Xiao Shiji said: "Second brother, we are separated. If you live with me like this, you will never grow up. Your family should move out. You still have the house and shop that were given to you before, right? ”

Xiao Taiji was in a hurry, and hurriedly grabbed Xiao Shiji's arm and cried: "Big brother! Eldest brother! I don't dare anymore! You forgive me for ...... once" This kind of pleading made Xiao Shiji unable to harden his heart.

"Well, let's go live in the courtyard next door. That's where you used to live. We can still live together as before. Xiao Shihe was determined to let Xiao Taihe move out.

Xiao Taiji shuddered at the thought that Guan Yunlian died in that courtyard, and he didn't want to live there. Later, Xiao Shiji couldn't resist it, Xiao Taiji gritted his teeth and said, "I sold the yard next to me and went to buy a house in another place, okay?" ”

Xiao Shiji glanced at Xiao Taiji, pondered for a long time, and nodded slowly: "It's okay." The courtyard was worth a thousand taels of silver. I asked Xiao Yi to buy it. If you find a good house outside, move in. So saying, he went back to his escort camp.

……

In the Cui family's mansion, Cui Sanlang has been thinking hard about how to reward Du Hengshuang.

Cui Dalang saw his distressed look. quipped: "Anyway, everyone knows that Du Hengshuang is your enemy." What if you are in the shadow of her? ——A woman from a poor family. Just give her some silver, will she fight with you? ”

Cui Saburo smiled: "You can't say that. Just because everyone knows that she is my enemy, I can't be so small-bellied. Let people know that I am the son-in-law of the Cui family in Qinghe. is also like those who don't go to the road, and they will be retribution, wouldn't it ruin the reputation of our Cui family? ”

Cui Dalang smiled and said, "It's good if you figure it out." And he said, "That's what Your Majesty means." With her military exploits, it is enough to tear the earth and seal the king, but unfortunately she is not a man, just a woman, so it is impossible to be crowned a king. Besides, no matter how high you seal it, Your Majesty does not agree, you still work in vain. Your Majesty asked you, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to come forward, instead of the secretary of the Ministry of War, and you knew that Your Majesty didn't want to give her military merits. Since it's not a military merit, everything else is a false title, you can just do whatever you want. ”

Cui Saburo nodded and said, "I also know the Dao, so I'm thinking about what position to seal the reward, which can block other people's mouths and satisfy His Majesty." ”

Cui Dalang shook his head with a smile, "You're busy, I'm leaving." "I didn't want to help Cui Saburo come up with ideas.

Cui Sanlang didn't care, locked up in the study for three days and three nights, and finally found a title and named Du Hengshuang "Mrs. Qin". Mrs. Guo is the title of Zhengyipin, three levels higher than her previous "Lady of Zhuguo" from the second rank, and the princess and princess are the same level.

However, because Qinzhou was the territory of the Chai family, the imperial court could not reward her with the Qinzhou area, so Cui Sanlang proposed that Anxi, where the surname Zhaomu Jiu was located before, be used as a fief, and be named "Qin", and Du Hengshuang would be used as a food town.

When he went to court the next day, Cui Sanlang returned to Emperor Yongchang the reward he had drafted for Du Hengshuang in front of all the courtiers.

Emperor Yongchang listened to Cui Sanlang's proposal and was a little surprised, but the Cui family had never been able to figure it out, so Emperor Yongchang nodded and smiled: "Mrs. Qin Guo is a very good title, so it depends on Cui Shilang." As he spoke, he asked him to submit the official recital, seal it to his subordinates, and then send it to Qinzhou, where Du Hengshuang was.

This matter was so easy to pass with Emperor Yongchang, and Cui Saburo was also surprised.

However, he was not surprised for long, and was immediately relieved.

Because the crown prince came out of the ranks, he begged Emperor Yongchang for permission and rewarded the members of the Great Qi clan.

In the past, their Qi family clan only sealed one Qi Xiaogong, which had already caused other clan members to be very dissatisfied, and many people secretly went to Prince Yi's side to support him.

The crown prince couldn't see that Prince Yi used a small favor to buy people's hearts, so he simply took action himself, and asked His Majesty for the seal of these clan members, and sent this great favor.

Sure enough, Emperor Yongchang immediately agreed to the prince's request, and crowned the Qi family from top to bottom, from the eighty-year-old man to the infant baby. For a while, the land prices of several Li Fang in Chang'an City for the residence of Xunguizong immediately rose sharply, and countless princely mansions began to break ground.

Du Hengshuang, the reward of the "Lady of Qin", was like a drop of water falling into the sea, and soon disappeared without a trace.

But even that was enough to make some people angry.

When the abolished princess heard in the East Palace that Du Hengshuang had single-handedly relieved the siege of Qinzhou, and that she had to be named "Mrs. Qin", she was so angry that she lost her temper and smashed the house she lived in.

When the prince came back and heard that the waste princess was losing her temper, he rushed to see her, but saw that she had already collected her mood and sat listlessly in the house doing needlework.

The prince also hated Du Hengshuang, but he was a little afraid. He didn't know that the Ludao Turks had increased their troops later, and if he knew Ludao, he would never have stopped him from sending reinforcements to Qinzhou. Fortunately, Du Hengshuang inserted a lever horizontally, so that the Turks did not succeed. From this aspect, he would like to thank Du Hengshuang again. This made him even more annoyed.

The abolished crown princess observed her words and looks, and saw that the prince seemed to be quite angry with Du Hengshuang, her eyes rolled, and she said with a smile: "How is my father?" Aren't you glad that Mrs. Qin Guo cleverly retreated from the enemy? ”

The prince snorted and lay down without speaking.

The waste princess covered him with a quilt with a smile, and said lightly: "Is Mu Zhaoyi going to be favored again?" ”

The prince glanced at her and said with a smile: "I didn't expect you to understand quite well this time." ”

Sure enough, after Emperor Yongchang returned to the inner palace, he frequently summoned Mu Zhaoyi to sleep, but put Concubine Yin De aside.

Concubine Yin De knew that Du Hengshuang had made great contributions, and sealed the news of Mrs. Qin. Also very happy. Also mentally prepared for the possibility of falling out of favor. However, she is now in a relationship with Prince Yi and Princess Yi, and she doesn't care much about Emperor Yongchang's joy and anger.

After all, Emperor Yongchang is old, and she also has to think about her own future......

And Xiao Shiji learned the news that Du Hengshuang was named "Lady of Qin", and his heart was even more bitter. And even more fearful. He was scared. If he can give. Du Hengshuang can get it by relying on her own skills, what else can he use to win back Du Hengshuang's heart?

Xiao Shiji's panic looked in the eyes of the old protector. I wanted to wake him up, so I said to him: "Lord Xiao, women and women are different. If you want to win someone's trust, you must first know what she cares about the most. ”

Xiao Shiji's heart moved, and he asked thoughtfully: "What does she care about the most?" ”

"yes." The old protector said lightly: "For example, my wife, what she cares about most is that I am wholeheartedly devoted to her. She doesn't care about other official positions, money, status, and power. Whether I am promoted or demoted, as long as I am wholeheartedly devoted to her, she can happily live with me. ”

Xiao Shiji heard this, and couldn't sleep for a while. He gradually realized that what he thought Du Hengshuang "valued" before was actually not what Du Hengshuang really "valued", but what he valued!

Thinking of this, Xiao Shiji was very ashamed. Over the years, he has been replacing Frost's will with his own will. He forced Du Hengshuang to stuff what he thought was good, but he never thought about whether this was what she wanted!

He was wrong, so wrong!

……

The will to reward Du Hengshuang as the "Lady of Qin" spread to Qinzhou, and Du Hengshuang was surprised and happy. After all, her horse farm is in Anxi. This time, a large area of Anxi will be rewarded to her, and her horse farm will be able to cross the clear road.

Princess Pingle was still a little dissatisfied, and complained to her: "In fact, with your merits, even if you are crowned king, you can do it." It's a pity that these men have always looked down on us women. "If Du Hengshuang is a man, with her exploits of killing the Turkic Khan with one arrow, she can definitely be crowned king.

Du Hengshuang didn't have that much ambition, she said with a smile: "This time the siege of Qinzhou was lifted, it was just a coincidence. I have a few pounds and a few taels, and I still know the Tao myself. I am already very satisfied with being able to seal the lady of Qin Guo, and I dare not ask for too much. - If I were to fight the Turks with real swords and guns, I wouldn't be able to defeat a single Turk, let alone shoot their Khan? You can't be too greedy, I'm already very satisfied. ”

Princess Pingle saw that Du Hengshuang was content and happy, and she also admired her open-mindedness, and said with a smile: "What you said is true. Fortunately, they didn't really seal you for military merit. If you really seal the military merits, they can transfer you to the battlefield in the future. ”

Du Hengshuang: "......" won't you, right?

The two talked and laughed, and they were in a very good mood.

Huo Guogong Chai Sichang's injuries are getting better day by day, and now he can get up and box, which is really different from the way he was sick and dying ten days ago.

Du Hengshuang saw that everything was done here, and Chai Sichang's injuries did not need to be taken care of by Du Hengxue, and seeing that it was almost the birthday of the three children, Du Hengshuang resigned to Princess Pingle and wanted to take Du Hengxue back to Dingzhou.

Princess Pingle heard that it was Du Hengshuang's child's birthday, so she hurriedly prepared a large box of gifts for her to take back to Dingzhou.

Du Hengshuang and Du Hengxue sat in a big car, traveling day and night all the way, and finally returned to Dingzhou before the birthday of their three children.

As soon as their cart entered the city, Xiahou Yuan, the son of the king of Xiping County, received the news and immediately went to the city gate to greet her.

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Two more four thousand five. Uh, or ask for pink tickets and referral tickets.

…… (To be continued......)

PS: Let's talk about asking for the next court, the Tang Dynasty can really do this. It is recorded in the history books that when Liu Zongyuan was the governor of the state, he once dealt with a case of his wife begging to leave the court, and he directly sentenced him to divorce. In addition to the Tang Dynasty, the highest social status of ordinary women should be the Song Dynasty, if the husband and wife in the Song Dynasty were separated from each other, the woman could not only take away her dowry, but also take away half of the property of her husband's family, and also take away her own children. Antiquity is not a general concept. The status of women is different in different dynasties. And as far as the entire ancient society is concerned, women were bound to the point where they could not go out of the gate and did not step out of the second door, in fact, after the middle of the Qing Dynasty. Women in the Ming Dynasty were quite free to marry, divorce, second and third marriages, and the dynasties before the Ming Dynasty were even freer. Therefore, don't talk about ancient times, it must be feudalism that restricts women's freedom. The cage said unified. Specifically, everyone can spend their mother.