Xiaoqing was stunned for a moment, she didn't expect Xiao Shiji to react at all, and she was even more aggrieved for a while. - Today, it is obvious that Mrs. Nadu deliberately found fault and gave the two of them a dismount, how did it become her own fault?

"Don't think that I don't know the way, you must have done something wrong to the Du family today, and Aunt Du punished you. Otherwise, Uncle Du and Aunt Du are such good people, how can they punish you to go out to blow the cold wind? - You still want to pretend to be pitiful in front of me, when I'm a fool, right? Xiao Shiji sneered, ruthlessly exposing Xiaoqing's careful thoughts.

Although the eldest young master didn't say anything, he saw it in his eyes, but he didn't think about them at all.

Xiaoqing's tears immediately welled up, but she choked up, lowered her head and said: "No, young master, Xiaoqing is not complaining about the Du family, it is all Xiaoqing's fault, Xiaoqing has already kowtowed to Mrs. Du, and Mrs. Du has punished ...... right."

Xiao Miao raised her head from the edge of the brazier, her flickering eyes shook like the flames in the brazier, and after thinking about it, Xiao Miao sat up straight, "Young Master, today's matter, you have indeed wronged Xiao Qing's girl." Don't hide it from the young master, Xiaoqing is a little low in the Du family today, and even her head is kowtowed, Mrs. Du doesn't let her go, and she also lets her blow the cold wind outside the door, and even the slave and maid are punished. After speaking, he chuckled, "Our family and the Du family are the same family, and Master Du still calls our master brother, Xiaoqing kowtows there, which really damages the face of our family." ”

"Shut up!" Xiao Shiji was furious, pointed at Xiao Miao and said, "Rapping slave, I can see it today!" No wonder Aunt Du punished you to blow the cold wind, it turns out that the root is here! After speaking, he sneered and glanced at Xiaoqing, who was sobbing in a low voice, "What kind of thing are you, and you have the courage to give the Du family eye medicine in front of me." Do you think I believe Uncle Du, Aunt Du, or do you two maids who bought it with money?! When I go back, I will make it clear to my mother that I can't let you make trouble in the Xiao family anymore. Good relatives, let you subordinates instigate it! ”

Xiao Miao turned white with fright. She really didn't expect that Xiao Shiji, who was only six and a half years old, would be able to see through the selfishness of her teenage adult, and in a hurry, she put the blame on Xiaoqing, "Young Master, you have wronged the slave!" It's all her, it was Xiao Qinglao who wanted to be closer to the eldest young master, so she did Zhang Zuozhi in the Du family, which annoyed Mrs. Du! ”

Xiaoqing's sobbing stopped abruptly, looked at Xiao Miao in disbelief, and said in a trembling voice: "Sister Xiao Miao, I asked myself that I have never had a grudge against you, why do you want to frame me like this?" ”

Xiao Miao didn't look at her, and said with a cold face: "I never speak in the vernacular, which one framed you?" ”

The more Xiao Shiji listened, the more he didn't taste it, and said in a deep voice: "Shut up for me!" After speaking, he leaned his back against the wall of the car and closed his eyes.

Back at Xiao's house, Xiao Shiji immediately came to Long Xiangye's house and said unhappily: "Mother, I don't want these two maids, let my mother send them elsewhere." ”

Long Xiangye let out a "oh", pulled Xiao Shiji to sit in his arms with a smile, kept rubbing his head, and asked with a smile: "Why?" Have they offended you? ”

Xiao Shiji turned his head a little uncomfortably, dodged Long Xiangye's hand, and said in a low voice: "If they offend the Du family, they will offend me." I don't want these two maids to take eye medicine in front of me, when I am a three-year-old child, is it good to bully? ”

Long Xiangye felt Xiao Shiji's evasion and alienation, and his heart was sad. This is his own son! How can you not be the most intimate with yourself? ——Now he keeps defending his Yue family, the Du family, and ...... in the future

Long Xiangye couldn't think about it, forced himself to suppress the unhappiness in his heart, and said lightly: "I can't just listen to your side of the story. You wait for me to call Xiao Miao and Xiao Qing in, ask carefully and understand, and then make a decision. ”

Xiao Shiji said "um", stood up from Long Xiangye's arms, and stood aside.

Xiao Miao and Xiao Qing were called in by Long Xiangye's big maid Herui.

The two of them kowtowed to Long Xiangye anxiously, and explained to Long Xiangye what happened in Du Mansion today.

Long Xiangye heard Xiao Miao say that Xiao Qing was from a "scholarly family", and couldn't help but glance at her.

Xiao Miao was so frightened that he quickly knelt down and kowtowed like pounding garlic, and he didn't dare to talk too much.

Long Xiangye looked at Xiaoqing with a deep groan, and saw that although her eyes were swollen from crying, her beauty did not decrease at all, but she was even more pear blossoms with rain, I saw pity, and immediately understood what Fang Yuniang meant, and couldn't help but raise the corners of her lips slightly, and said to Xiao Shiji: "Brother and brother, although they are at fault, they are not a big mistake." You will be the head of this family in the future, and you should know that the mistake is equivalent to the punishment, and it is not good to be too late. In this way, if they annoy Mrs. Du, they will be fined for half a year. ”

Saying that, Long Xiangye straightened his face and said to Xiao Miao and Xiao Qing: "In the future, be careful in the eldest young master's room, if you let me know such a thing as Lu Dao again, the two crimes will be punished together, and it will be sold directly to the opera garden, do you hear?" ”

Xiao Miao and Xiao Qing kowtowed again and again, thanked their wife for their great kindness, and kowtowed to Xiao Shihe.

"Let's go down. Don't be lazy and slippery. Long Xiangye waved his hand with a smile and looked at Xiao Shiji, "Brother Ji'er, do you think it is more appropriate to deal with it like this?" ”

Although Xiao Shiji didn't agree with it, Long Xiangye was a mother, and he didn't disobey his mother for the sake of the two maids, so he had to turn around and say: "My mother is a philanthropist, I hope they can remember her mother's goodness and don't let down her mother's kindness." ”

Long Xiangye was even more happy when he heard this, took Xiao Shiji's hand and sat beside him, and told him in detail how to control the technique of both grace and power.

Xiao Shiji kept them in his heart one by one, and planned to ask his father and Uncle Du for verification when he had time. He remembered very well that his father and Uncle Du had told him that a woman's housekeeping technique in the backyard was different from his method of governing the family as a big man and becoming the head of the family in the future.

After listening to Long Xiangye's words, Xiao Shiji mentioned the two little servants that Du Xiancheng gave him, and asked, "They live in my yard, and my mother will prepare luggage and clothes for the four seasons for them." ”

Long Xiangye's face darkened, and he said lightly: "I will discuss this matter with your father, you let them live in the guest house first." ”

Xiao Shihe said "ah", and was a little surprised that his mother arranged it like this, "Mother, isn't this good?" It's too out-of-the-box. Xiao Shiji muttered.

Long Xiangye took the tea, "I have my own ideas, you go down first." ”

Xiao Shiji left the main house dejectedly and went back to his courtyard.

When Xiao Xiangsheng came back in the evening, Long Xiangye first mentioned the matter of the two maids being punished in the Du family.

Xiao Xiangsheng went to change his clothes behind the screen, and said casually: "They made a mistake in the Du family, right?" Otherwise, how would the younger siblings punish them? "Actually with Xiao Shihe in the same tone.

Long Xiangye only felt that his chest was tight, and he rubbed his chest with his hand and said, "How can the master say that?" It's not an elbow ......."

Before he finished speaking, Xiao Xiangsheng came out from behind the screen and interrupted Long Xiangye's words with a tiger face, "How can this call the elbow turning out?" I think you have to introspect and introspect, who is inside and who is outside! - The maid who bought it for two silver money, actually said that the younger brother and sister are outsiders, I think you have been blinded by lard recently! ”

One sentence poked Long Xiangye's heart, she stood up with her neck stalked, and said in a low voice: "Brother and sister, call so affectionate!" - Sir, your brother and sister haven't entered the door yet? Where did the younger siblings of the outer four roads come from?! Don't be afraid of jokes when you say it! ”

"You're unreasonable!" Xiao Xiangsheng was furious, he didn't care that he had already changed the clothes he was wearing in the house, he brushed his sleeves away with a single coat, and spent the night alone in the outer study.

When Long Xiangye saw Xiao Xiangsheng like this, he understood that he had said the wrong thing, but he was embarrassed to pull down his face and beg for mercy, so he had to ask the big girl Herui to send the east and west three times a day.

Xiao Xiang was angry for two nights, and he was fine, and he came back to apologize to Long Xiangye.

Long Xiangye hurriedly persuaded softly: "It's the concubine who said the wrong thing, and the master should be angry." Whispering, Xiao Xiangsheng was finally coaxed back.

Because of this incident, Long Xiangye didn't dare to mention the matter of sending the little girl sent by the Du family back, so he only sent someone to the Du family to get their deed of sale.

Du Xiancheng was busy with the steward to find out and send it over.

The end of the second year of the Great Zhou Changye has passed like this.

Throughout the winter, it snowed heavily in the south and north of the Yangtze River.

As the saying goes, the snow is a good year. Such a good climate indicates another bumper harvest in the coming year.

In a blink of an eye, it was May of the third year of Changye in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and it was Du Hengshuang's birthday, and good news came from the palace, His Majesty the Emperor was happy to have a noble son, and the middle palace Niangniang and the noble concubine Niangniang gave birth to the prince at the same time.

All over the country celebrated all over the country for a while, countless auspicious reports to the palace of Chang'an City, and the whole week was full of flowers, and the fire was cooking oil.

In the golden autumn of October, the south of the Great Zhou River and the north of the Yangtze River are both a bumper harvest. The granaries in various parts of the Great Zhou were overflowing for a while.

Countless wastelands have been reclaimed, and countless good families have been re-derived.

Looking at the full granary, a large amount of tax silver, and the ever-increasing population, Emperor Dezhen was complacent, and knew that he had been subdued for so long and waited for so long The opportunity has finally arrived!

On October 15, the third year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Dezhen, despite the dissuasion of the courtiers, insisted on going his own way, issued a conscription order, and conscripted the whole country, to re-use troops against Goguryeo and wash away the shame suffered by the first emperor in Goguryeo.

This time the conscription still only requisitioned the sons of good families, and at the same time requisitioned five times as many people to prepare for the logistics of the army. The men were responsible for transporting grain, grass and baggage, as well as carrying wounded soldiers off the battlefield. When necessary, the people also have to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, but the people do not have any qualifications for the Great Zhou sergeants, and they can't enjoy the benefits that the Great Zhou sergeants can enjoy.

At this time, it was exactly eight years before the day when the Great Zhou army withdrew from Goguryeo.

When Xiao Xiangsheng saw the conscription order, he was anxious, and took the seven-and-a-half-year-old Xiao Shiji to Du Xiancheng's house to discuss the matter with him.

Du Xiancheng ordered someone to take Xiao Shiji to the inner courtyard, and said with a smile: "Shuang'er has been learning to ride a horse recently, you can go and have a look." ”