Fang Yuniang put the sleeping Du Hengshuang on the bed and urged Du Xiancheng to take a bath.

"The smell of wine in my body can't be suppressed even when I change my clothes. I think Frost is stunned by your wine. Fang Yuniang covered her sleeves and smiled lightly, and pushed Du Xiancheng to take a bath in the compartment.

"What's the smell of alcohol? I don't believe you've heard it...... Du Xiancheng lowered his head and kissed Fang Yanniang on the cheek with a snap, "...... Wait until I get back......"

"Well, I'll wait for you." Fang Yuniang blushed and pushed Du Xiancheng out.

A large pine-scented bathtub, half a man high, was placed in the center of the room.

The tub was filled with steaming hot soup.

Du Xiancheng took off his robe, picked up the bath towel on the edge of the bathtub, and sat down with his legs raised.

The hot soup in the bathtub shook for a while, wrapping Du Xiancheng's body inside.

Du Xiancheng let out a long breath, closed his eyes and lay on the edge of the bathtub, rolled the bath towel into a ball, put it on his forehead, and relaxed his whole body.

Although he has been away from the battlefield for five years, that imprint has remained in the depths of his memory, and has even been seared into his bones.

……

The rugged mountain road, the wind and snow in the sky, the soldiers in front were so tired that they couldn't stand it, so they sat down on the side of the road to rest, but as soon as they sat down, they couldn't get up again......

They had to keep moving forward, crossing mountains and mountains, but they were ambushed by the other party.

The boundless arrows are like locusts in the sky, whizzing and falling, and everyone only needs to hold their heads and flee in all directions.

Xiao Xiangsheng pulled him behind the rocks to avoid the first round of arrow rain.

The Goguryeo people suddenly rushed out from all directions and surrounded them.

Broadswords, spears, chain locks, even kitchen knives with missing mouths, scissors with broken handles flew over.

100,000 vanguard troops were buried alive in the poor mountains and bad waters of Goguryeo.

……

A pagoda made of the heads of 100,000 Great Zhou soldiers.

On the pagoda, his two eldest brothers looked at Du Xiancheng with their eyes unblinded.

……

Du Xiancheng woke up in shock, stretched out his hand to wipe the sweat, but forgot that he was in the bathtub, his hands were full of water, and he wiped it on his face, and he couldn't tell where the sweat was, or the hot soup used for bathing in the bathtub.

I hope that those days of war will never come back.

Du Xiancheng got up from the bathtub, wiped his body casually, changed into a round-necked soft-patterned shirt, and came to the bedroom.

Fang Yuniang was half-lying on the bed, looking at him affectionately.

Du Xiancheng suddenly lost interest, smiled wryly and blew out the lights, and pulled Fang Yuniang into his arms, "Sleep." I'm going to go to the store tomorrow to take inventory. ”

"Do you have something on your mind?" Fang Yuniang stroked Du Xiancheng's chest and asked softly.

Du Xiancheng closed his eyes and pushed her hand away, "It's okay, I'm just tired." ”

Du Xiancheng has just returned from Jiangnan. In order to catch up with Du Hengshuang's Zhou ceremony, he worked hard and stayed awake for almost several days.

Fang Yuniang understood, did not get angry, and kissed him on the cheek.

A family of three fell asleep together.

……

In the Xiao family's mansion, not far from the Du family's mansion, Xiao Xiangsheng had just finished bathing and sat on the bed.

Long Xiangye unfolded the quilt for him, then blew out the light himself, came up and lay down beside him, and leaned sideways.

"Master, the daughter of the Du family is still young, has the master really thought it through?" Long Xiangye asked cautiously.

Xiao Xiangsheng said "um", "Xiancheng and I are friends of life and death, and I can trust his character and tutor." ”

Since Xiao Xiangsheng said yes, Long Xiangye closed his mouth and echoed with a smile: "The master's vision will not be wrong, I believe the master." ”

After a long time, Long Xiangye turned over, and saw Xiao Xiangsheng open his eyes, looking at the top of the tent, and said with a smile: "Hasn't the master slept yet?" ”

Xiao Xiangsheng said "um" again, simply sat up from the bed, put on a round-necked robe at the end of the bed, and asked Long Xiangye: "I'm going out to do the goods tomorrow, don't let your mother's family come to the door for the time being." ”

Long Xiangye's face turned red, one hand tightly grasped the silk shirt on his chest, and muttered, "Master, do you know everything?" ”

Xiao Xiangsheng saw Long Xiangye's embarrassed appearance, and he couldn't bear it again. But thinking about it again, she is a concubine, and she has been used to seeing her mother's face at home since she was a child, and later she was mastered by her grandmother for this good family business, and she has to obey her mother's words. Not to mention taking a few thousand taels of silver back to her parents' house, even if she was asked to share half of the Xiao family's net worth back, she was probably willing. - At this time, she definitely can't think of those three obedience and four virtues. Because her two half-siblings are still in the Long family.

In fact, it is also my own fault. At the beginning, he and Xiancheng settled down and wanted to start a family. Du Xiancheng just wanted to find a stunning woman with a spicy and generous personality, as long as she could manage a family. At that time, they were just ordinary salt merchants, although they were very large-scale, but they had no official status, and they would be destroyed by the official family at any time. Unlike now, with the status of a "foreigner" given by the emperor, no official dares to secretly do something to them.

In the Great Zhou, Shinong, businessmen, and merchants have always been at the bottom of the list. They had no rights, they paid the most taxes, and according to the law, merchants were not allowed to wear silk and satin. Of course, no one obeys it in private.

is such an identity, I still want to marry a woman from a scholarly family as a wife.

Later, the trustee said that there were many families, and only Long Xiucai was willing to marry his concubine Long Xiangye to him. Fortunately, Long Xiangye's mother-in-law is a means-savvy, and she did not blindly suppress the concubines, but taught them carefully. Now that he has the identity of a foreigner, Long Xiangye goes out to socialize, which is obviously much better than Fang Yuniang.

But Fang Yuniang's strength of ignoring it is not a loss, but she will not lose the battle. The daughter raised by such a woman will definitely not be bad, and she is also the main mother needed by a family of his status.

However, his eldest son, Xiao Shiji, must be taught well, so as not to be raised in the inner house and be raised by Long Xiangye to be pedantic. Most of his family business will be inherited by Xiao Shihe in the future. He needs an heir with means, not a courteous old master.

Tomorrow, I will ask someone to go out to Xiao Shi and find a school master to enroll, as well as a fist and foot master and a horse riding master, and they will start looking for talents.

Thinking of Xiao Shiji's appearance, Xiao Xiangsheng smiled slightly. - This son, he is very satisfied. In the future, I have to make it clear to the porter, and if the people of the Long family come to the door again, we have to tell him. Don't report to the inner house casually, let the housewife know the way.

Long Xiangye's sister-in-law should also find her mother-in-law's house, otherwise after a while, she may have to push it on herself.

I have no intention of taking a concubine, and it is not good to delay others.

Long Xiangye couldn't sleep. She never expected that her proud mother's family was ordered by the master not to come to the door again!