An Rengui's home is not in Zhangye, but in Liangzhou, where his wife, children and parents live, but in Zhangye, An Rengui also has a small family, where he married a concubine, an orchid from Anguo.

For orchids, they don't really understand the difference between wives and concubines, for them, their husbands are their everything, and they give their whole hearts and minds, hoping only to stay in this distant and prosperous Eastern Empire.

An Rengui returned home with a heavy heart, sitting at the table in a daze, her concubine squatted down in front of him and put a glass of blood-red wine in front of him, this is An Rengui's habit, he has to drink a glass of wine every day when he comes back.

An Rengui picked up the wine and asked, "Angel, why did you choose to stay in Datang instead of returning to your hometown?" ”

Hu Ji replied tactfully: "I heard a saying from the Han people in Chang'an, called birds choose good trees to perch, I remember this sentence, for me, the Tang Dynasty is a good wood, and marrying a husband is my best destination." ”

An Rengui has asked this question many times, and his concubine has also answered it many times, but it has never touched An Rengui like today, and it is time for the bird to choose a good tree to perch on, and it is time to make a decision by himself.

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When Guo Song returned to the house, it was almost dark, but the house was brightly lit, and everyone was still busy packing up their things, they had to pack up tonight and start their normal life tomorrow.

The inner house was also being cleaned up, but when Xue Tao saw her husband coming back, she hurriedly greeted her and asked, "Did your husband have dinner?" ”

Guo Song shook his head and said with a wry smile: "I haven't even eaten lunch, I've been busy all day today, and I'm a little tired." ”

Xue Tao was startled, and hurriedly said, "Husband, go to the study to rest first, and I'll bring the food over immediately." ”

"Where's my study?" Guo Song asked with a smile.

"Ah Qiu, take Childe to the inner study."

"Hey!"

Ah Qiu agreed, stood up from a pile of clothes, and said with a smile: "Childe, please come with me!" ”

Guo Song's inner house is divided into three courtyards and a garden covering an area of five acres, the so-called courtyard is not the kind of courtyard of the inn, a vacant land plus a few rooms, the courtyard here is actually an independent small mansion, like the main courtyard covers an area of five acres, and is divided into several small courtyards, there are pavilions and pavilions, there are corridors, there are bedrooms, there are living courtyards, there are study rooms, etc., in fact, it is an independent world.

The other two large courtyards each occupy an area of three acres, and each is a separate small world, but they are both locked, and the woman who is qualified to live in these two courtyards has not yet appeared.

Ah Qiu took Guo Song through a short corridor and came to a quiet room in the corner, Ah Qiu pursed his lips and smiled: "This is the child's study." ”

"Not bad!" Guo Song saw an old plum tree in the corner of the house, and he immediately liked it.

"Madame also likes here, but unfortunately this is the former owner's inner study, Madame said that she doesn't like the feeling of other men staying, in fact, I don't like it either!"

Ah Qiu shook her head like a little bell, since she was seriously ill, she had become lively in front of Guo Song, and she was not as timid as before.

Guo Song smiled slightly: "Where is the lady's study?" ”

"There it is!"

Ah Qiu pointed to a small two-story attic on the other side of the corridor and said with a smile: "Madame said that you can peep on the second floor, what is the son doing?" ”

What a little girl! Exposed the master's secrets.

Guo Song smiled dumbly, "It seems that your illness is really cured." ”

"It's okay, but I still have to take half a year's medicine, Childe, the medicine is very bitter." Ah Qiu pursed his lips and said.

Guo Song tugged at her pigtails and suddenly asked, "What about Mengzi, have you seen it?" ”

"Yes! In the afternoon, it was still hovering over our house, and then I didn't know where it flew, and Madame said that she would make a nest for it tomorrow. ”

Guo Song took a look, there were several tall trees in the garden, and it was estimated that Mengzi was squatting on a certain big tree at this time.

"Why haven't you entered the house yet?"

Xue Tao walked over with a cup of tea, and a maid behind him carried a food plate.

Guo Song smiled: "I'm thinking about where Mengzi lives?" ”

"Just now Steward Yang said that Mengzi is squatting on a big pine tree, and tomorrow I will ask the housekeeper to find a carpenter to build a small house for it and place it on the pine tree."

Guo Song took the hot teacup and walked into the study, the study has been arranged, divided into two rooms, inside and outside, there is a library, but there is also a small bed, where you can rest and rest.

Outside, by the window, there was a large, soft and comfortable couch with a large table on it, and the best thing was that the former owner didn't seem to like kneeling either, so he dug out a piece under the table and just put his leg down, which was the same as Guo Song's habit.

There is a circle of bookshelves around, and there is a framed calligraphy hanging on the north wall, which is the four big characters of Yan Zhenqing's handwritten "compassion for the world".

Guo Song put the hot tea cup on the table, walked up to the couch and sat down, Xue Tao put the food plate on the table, Guo Song was really hungry, picked up the chopsticks and ate according to the case.

Soon finished dinner, Guo Song took a sip of hot tea and asked, "How is this mansion, is there anything that needs to be repaired?" ”

Xue Tao sat down in front of her husband and smiled: "The mansion is not bad, although it is not as elegant as the garden house, but it is very strong and square, except for the lack of a nest in the fierce son, there is nothing else that needs to be repaired." ”

"What about the next person?"

Guo Song asked again: "Have they been properly settled?" ”

"Steward Wang has already arranged it, and I was worried that the house was not enough to live in, but there were many more empty rooms, and there were stables, and I wanted to replace the cart with a horse when I turned around, and the ox-drawn cart was too slow."

"No problem, change to double horses, this is not Chang'an, let's be a little more luxurious."

"Will he be impeached?" Xue Tao said with some concern.

Guo Song smiled, "This is the Hexi Corridor, the place where horses are raised in the Tang Dynasty, and the Son of Heaven will never trouble the governor of Ganzhou for two horses!" ”

At this time, the housekeeper Po Yang said at the door: "Envoy, there is a general outside the door who asks to see him, his name is An Rengui!" ”

Guo Song was slightly stunned, and the image of a taciturn Zhonglang general appeared in his mind, just like Yu Hu, who was full of flattery, this taciturn An Rengui also left a deep impression on him.

"Take him to the guest hall for a while, I'll be right there!"

The housekeeper's wife went, and Xue Tao also got up and said with a smile: "Then I'll go back and continue to clean up, there are still a lot of clothes to fold!" ”

Guo Song drank a few sips of tea, and was still thinking about An Rengui's intentions in his heart, this is his habit, everything is planned and then acted, but he can adapt to the situation while adhering to principles.

After a while, Guo Song came to the reception hall in the atrium, and saw a man in regular clothes sitting in the lobby, with his head down, looking preoccupied, it was Zhonglang General An Rengui.

Guo Song coughed lightly, walked into the lobby and asked with a smile, "General An's home is also in the city?" ”

This is the rule of the Ganzhou army, if the family is in the city, as long as it is not on duty, you can go back to the city at night, but the generals whose home is not in Zhangye City must live in the barracks at night, this rule has been decades and has not changed.

Of course, this rule is only limited to non-wartime conditions, once wartime, then all generals must stay in the barracks, and Guo Song is no exception.

An Rengui hurriedly got up and saluted, "See the governor, I bought a house in the city and has a concubine. ”

"I see, General An, please take a seat!"

Guo Song asked An Rengui to sit down, although Guo Song's demeanor was very calm and his tone was very gentle, An Rengui still felt an invisible pressure from his superiors.

He suddenly understood one thing, Li Hui, Yu Hu and others looked down on him a little because Guo Song was young, so they all called him by his name and did not respect him, I am afraid that this is a big mistake they have made.

The Son of Heaven is also young, will they also look down on it? Obviously not, and Guo Song once served as the envoy of the three towns of Mobei, and served as the governor of Ganzhou as a civil official of Yinqing Guanglu, such qualifications are more than enough to serve as the governor of Ganzhou, even if he is the envoy of Hexi Jiedu, he is completely qualified, and despising his youth will inevitably make a big mistake.

An Rengui was secretly glad of his choice, he got up and knelt down on one knee and said: "The lowly An Rengui is willing to serve the work of dogs and horses for the governor, and I hope the governor will be included!" ”

This is not the loyalty of the subordinates to the superiors, but the willingness to become the same party, of course, Yu Hu and Zhang Liang cannot express their allegiance like An Rengui, because they are Wang Lianen's people, and loyalty to Guo Song means betrayal.

And Li Hui did not choose to be loyal, the first two governors did not have allegiance, and wanted to continue to rely on his old qualifications to remain neutral, An Rengui is the head of the snake, his allegiance is extraordinary, to a large extent, it means that the local wealthy families in Hexi recognize Guo Song.

Of course, An Rengui made this decision after consulting the head of the family in advance.

Guo Song naturally understood the weight of An Rengui's worship, and he hurriedly helped An Rengui up, "I accept General An's wishes, but I don't have to make this big gift!" ”