While Chang'an was in full swing to prepare for Zen Concession, the Guo Song Mansion in Zhangye City was packing up his things and preparing to move.

A few months ago, when Guo Song led his army to the southeast of the river, he instructed his wife to start packing her belongings.

It is not easy for Guo Song to move once, there are too many things in his house, including Zhang Lei's large amount of money, at least thousands of camels are needed to carry it.

But fortunately, a large number of items are placed in the box themselves, and there is no need to clean them up, mainly to pack up some soft things, even so, it has kept Xue Tao and the maids busy for almost two months.

This morning, Minqiu was helping Dugu Youlan clean up the items in the room, Minqiu didn't have many things, and she had already packed them, so she helped Mrs. and Dugu Youlan pack their belongings.

Although Minqiu is Xue Tao's dowry maid, she has a close relationship with Dugu Youlan, Dugu Youlan has a cheerful personality, basically has no scheming, and is easy to get along with, Minqiu has a soft personality, and the personalities of the two complement each other and get along very well.

There is another very important reason, Minqiu is a little afraid of Xue Tao, after all, she has been her housewife for many years, in front of Xue Tao, Minqiu has always been well-behaved, and she does not dare to take a step beyond Lei Chi, but Dugu Youlan is together, she does not have so much mental pressure, and she is very relaxed.

"Sister Youlan, do you think we will move over temporarily, or will we not come back in the future?" Minqiu asked with some concern.

Dugu Youlan pursed her lips and smiled, "Look at what you said, how can you move temporarily, you must be gone forever, otherwise what will you do for a few months?"

Min Qiu sighed softly, "I've lived in Zhangye for so many years, and I'm really a little reluctant. ”

"What's so good about Zhangye, you can only nest in your room in winter, at least you can go out for a walk in the winter in Taiyuan."

"But I don't understand, why did you move to Taiyuan?"

Dugu Youlan thought for a while and said: "It should be that Fujun's goal has moved eastward, and we will have to deal with Hebei and the Central Plains in the future, we are too remote in Zhangye, which is very inconvenient, especially in winter, it is simply isolated from the world, and it is very unfavorable to take care of Hedong, so we have to move to Taiyuan before the winter of this year." ”

"I finally get it."

The two were chatting, but Xue Tao walked in with Guo Weiwei, "You two have a good chat, why don't you help me, I'm going to be busy over there." ”

Guo Weiwei pursed her lips and said dissatisfiedly: "Mother, even I am going to catch a strong man." ”

Everyone was stunned, Xue Tao knocked lightly on her head, and scolded with a smile: "I'm asking you to clean up your own things, you have a lot of beads and beads, you don't want to give it to me." ”

"No, that's mine."

Dugu Youlan hurriedly said: "I'm almost all right here, let Minqiu help you clean up first, and I'll come over to help soon." ”

"Oh well! Minqiu will come with me first, Weiwei, you follow Xiaoniang, don't keep pestering me. ”

Min Qiu smiled: "Weiwei, I'll hold your hand." ”

Guo Weiwei took Xiao Niang's hand and began to complain, why did her mother force her to paint all day long, didn't give her a rest, and was scolded if she didn't paint well.

Xue Tao didn't bother to pay attention to her, and walked quickly to his study.

The study was also in a mess, the table and the floor were full of beautiful jade, at least one or two thousand yuan, Min Qiu was stunned, and asked for a while: "Madam, how can you have so much beautiful jade?" ”

"I don't know, I guess it's all my husband's, I moved them all over, help me clean them up."

Guo Weiwei couldn't help but say: "It's all white stones, why don't you just throw them all into the box?" ”

"Nonsense!"

Xue Tao glared at his daughter, "These are all mutton fat and jade, they are all very valuable, where can you waste things casually." ”

She dragged out a large box, which was full of small cloth bags, and Xue Tao said to Min Qiu: "Put a pocket for each piece of jade, tie it tightly with a rope on the outside, and then carefully put it in a wooden box." ”

Min Qiu stuck out his tongue, no wonder Madam wants to help herself, thousands of pieces of jade, when will this be cleaned up.

Just do it, Minqiu squatted down and began to collect jade, Guo Weiwei also squatted aside to help, she looked at the jade while cleaning up, and kept exclaiming: "What a beautiful jade!" It's just a piece of grease, mother, give me two! ”

"Then I'll give you two pieces, you can pick them yourself, Minqiu, you can pick a few too, and you can play with them yourself."

"Mother, I want these two pieces!" Guo Weiwei was very discerning, and picked up two top-notch mutton fat jade at once.

Xue Tao sighed in his heart, he really has a father and a daughter, and he really has the talent to appreciate jade, so he took the best away.

"Weiwei, how do you know those two pieces are good?" Xue Tao asked curiously.

Guo Weiwei smiled slyly, "Because my mother specially put them aside, I knew that it must be good jade." ”

Xue Tao rolled his eyes, what a little cunning, who did you learn this from?

"Those two pieces of jade are not good, they are your father's treasure, you exchange two pieces for something else."

"I'm Daddy's baby, too!"

Xue Tao picked two smaller ones for her, "These two pieces are red-skinned, your little hand can just hold them, those two pieces are too big for you, return them to your mother quickly." ”

Guo Weiwei had to return the jade to her mother, holding two egg-sized red-skinned mutton fat jade in her hands, she also liked these two jades, and the red skin and white flesh looked extremely gorgeous under the sun.

"The two jades are very valuable, you have to put them away, put them away without playing, and put them together with your beads and beads."

Speaking of her daughter's beads, Xue Tao's tone was a little ruthless, the jewels in her daughter's box are precious, few women in Datang can compare, even the precious emerald that her husband has collected for a long time, I don't know when it ran into her daughter's jewelry box, and her husband is really eccentric.

"I know, I know, I promise to put it away and I won't lose it."

Min Qiu was very aware of the preciousness of these mutton fat jades, and she also picked up two smaller pieces of jade and prepared to give them to her nephews as heirlooms of the Zhang family.

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Ten days later, Guo Song's family was finally about to set off, in order not to alarm the people and cause unnecessary discussions, they chose to set off at night, accompanied by many officials and family members, including Pan Liao, Cao Wannian, Zhang Qiu'an, Liu Zi and other more than 30 middle and high-level family members, nearly 500 people.

At the second watch, when the people in the city were asleep, they went out of the city in horse-drawn carriages to the barracks.

After the family and family members of the military camp converged, at the fifth watch, the team finally set off, escorted by 10,000 cavalry, first to the Yellow River wharf in Huizhou, the family members changed to take a boat, 10,000 cavalry and 5,000 camels full of luggage walked along the bank of the Yellow River.

Five days later, the team arrived in Huizhou, on the wharf of Huizhou, everyone got on the boat, it will be more comfortable to take the boat, there are more than 100 boats, all of them are Qianshi passenger boats, collected from all over Hedong, basically can accommodate more than 500 people.

In addition, there are some valuable personal belongings, which are also loaded on more than 300 cargo ships behind, and the entire fleet of passenger ships plus cargo ships amounts to more than 500 ships.

Xue Tao took Dugu Youlan, Zhang Minqiu and two children on a large passenger boat, which was the largest passenger ship, about 1,500 stones, and several personal female guards and seven or eight maids and nurses also followed them.

The cabin is spacious, divided into living and sleeping compartments, and the wooden planks on the floor are clean, so you can walk barefoot in the cabin.

At dawn, the fleet set sail, the fleet sailed along the water, no slender man, only the boatman to grasp the direction, at this time the morning light was hazy, the sky was gray and blue, and in the distance was the half-bright and half-shore city wall.

At this time, it is the time of the great heat, but the summer in Longyou and Hexi is not hot in the morning and evening, and there is even a hint of coolness.

Xue Tao couldn't sleep, so she simply got up and came to the living cabin, she sat down at the small table by the window, poured herself a cup of herbal tea, she heard footsteps, and when she turned around, she saw Dugu Youlan also come out.

"You can't sleep either?" Xue Tao asked with a smile.

"Hmmm! I prefer to sleep in bed, not on my own bed, I can't sleep. Dugu Youlan sat opposite Xue Tao and said.

Xue Tao also poured her a cup of herbal tea, and said with a smile: "This is interesting, you used to be a person who ran around, and you still recognized the bed?" ”

"I didn't recognize it before, but after coming to Zhangye, it began to get worse, and I was so sleepy that I just couldn't sleep." Dugu Youlan yawned sleepily.

"Then take a nap! It's hot at noon, just to make up for sleepiness, and I'm also planning to take a nap at noon. ”

"Eldest sister, where are we going to live in Taiyuan?" Dugu Youlan took a sip of tea and asked curiously.

Xue Tao thought for a while and said, "My husband seems to have told me that I live in Jinyang Palace. ”

Dugu Youlan was taken aback, "Jinyang Palace is the Palace of the Son of Heaven, isn't it arrogant to live inside?" ”

"Not now! The world is so chaotic, the arrogance in the feudal towns around the country has become commonplace, and even Zhu Zhu lives in Xingqing Palace, who cares about such a trivial matter. ”

Speaking of this, Xue Tao pursed his lips and smiled: "This is the husband's original words, I just repeat it." ”