The horse that Nanyang wanted Shang Cheng to look at for her was said to be an abnormal miracle horse, and it was in the Zhuangzi at the bottom of the slope.

Zhuangzi is very large, a large gray and fluffy blue brick and green tile house in the north is the mansion of Princess Nanyang, seventy or eighty families are concentrated in the south of Zhuangzi on the west bank of Xiaohegou, and there are also several people's courtyards scattered on the east bank of the river. Shang Cheng noticed that among these people's homes, only a very small number of five or seven families had fully tiled houses, most of the others were half-tiled and half-thatched, and a few families had all thatched mud houses. Whether it is a tiled house or a thatched hut, it leaves a dirty and messy impression: the roof of the tiles lies listlessly in the cracks of the tiles, and large swaths of black grass ash condense on the thatched roof; The plums, apricots, peaches, and pears planted in front of the house and behind the house are almost all low and low because of the lack of human care; The black pigs, thin enough to see their ribs, were snorting everywhere, and the courtyard walls of many farmers were arched to the ground, and the chickens fed at home raised dust in the dirt pits, and pulled feces and urine everywhere; The milk doll dragging snot, hanging a black red belly pocket with bare feet and bare buttocks, holding a few broken stones, crawling around among the pig manure and chicken shit, and having fun......

Shang Cheng frowned slightly, and asked in a low voice, "Is this ,...... Is it your sister's Zhuangzi? ”

Chen Pu nodded: "It was given by her father when she was twelve years old." She turned her head and tiptoed down to the south. Thirty miles from there, she also had a village and an orchard, which she received that year. After a pause, she added, "In the east of the city she also has two Zhuangzi, which were her dowries when she got married." However, the latter Zhuangzi are much smaller than this......"

Shang Cheng heard that her words obviously showed a tone of envy, and couldn't help but ask her: "When you were sealed, you ...... Your father didn't give you Zhuangzi? ”

Chen Pu glanced around, buried his head in the road under his feet, and said faintly, "There is also one." But it's not as big, the place isn't as good, and there aren't as many people. …… When I got married, I also gave a Zhuangzi to dowry, and there was an oil mill on the Zhuangzi. She stopped talking and stopped, and after a while, she sighed, but said nothing.

Shang Cheng didn't ask again. Do you need to ask again? It has been several years since her man died, and she didn't leave a son and a half daughter, even if her in-laws thought that she was a princess and didn't know how to rob her, after a few years, she could move the Zhuangzi and the workshop she married. She herself is a tepid and slow temper, and she has to keep the noble status of a princess from a heavenly family, and she can't start a dispute with someone to start housework with someone to get some money, so she can only endure this breath quietly. Of course, it's useless for her to make trouble, and it's impossible for her father to clean up others for a married daughter. The daughter who got married spilled the water, this is a custom for thousands of years, if her father stands out for her, it is difficult to say whether the imperial historians will knock on the book, and the historians must make a heavy note in the history books: on a certain year, month and day, because of the daughter's housework, the emperor splashed spit ten steps......

However, he also felt that neither Chen Pu nor her sister Nanyang was a housekeeper who knew how to make a living. Look at what Nanyang has made of this Zhuangzi with mountains, rivers and trees? is such a tattered Zhuangzi, Chen Pu actually said it with envy, I really don't know how her father and mother educated her when she was at home. Look at this place, Zhuangzi and the official road are separated by a water, and a little vision can also make this place dance prosperous. Don't talk about it, let's just say that the stone bridge I just crossed, make a grass pavilion near the official road at the head of the bridge, can you empty the cabinet where the money is hidden at home? With the pavilion, naturally some people will rest their feet and find an aunt who does not do farm work to set up a food stall here, sell herbal tea in summer and hot food in winter, and save money to repair the stone bridge in half a year; widen the stone bridge to be able to cross horses and cars, and then move a few families out of Zhuangkou to build a big inn, and supply food, lodging and forage, so that no one will come to stay; If you want to become bigger, you can simply buy all the land by the river and build a larger warehouse, and you can completely change this place in three years and five years. Moreover, you don't need to play the princess's golden sign to do these things......

He smacked his mouth and swallowed the words back into his stomach. If this Zhuangzi is Chen Pu's, needless to say, he will definitely advise her; But this Zhuangzi is the food town of Nanyang. Nanyang provoked him again and again, and if he didn't say anything, he would soon use some bullshit to make him embarrassed, just because of this, it was impossible for him to teach this princess.

He looked up at the road on the village, which was quite smooth but by no means tidy, and the broken courtyard that fell on the side of the road, and sighed silently: It's a pity that this is a good place......

Nanyang walked beside them.

This woman hadn't said anything since Shang Cheng promised to help her Soma, and now when she heard Shang Cheng sigh, she hurriedly asked him: "Sir, do you also think this Zhuangzi is good?" ”

Shang Cheng glanced at her coldly, swallowed his mouth and said against his will: "This Zhuangzi ...... It's really good. ”

Nanyang was silent for a moment, and suddenly said, "Sir, I will give you this Zhuangzi!" ”

Shang Cheng was taken aback by her words. It's not that Nanyang's appearance doesn't seem to have any problems, he almost wonders if she is crazy! It is true that this Zhuangzi is not doing well; But no matter how bad it is, it is also a Zhuangzi, even if it does not include the land, it is sold for 20,000 or 30,000 yuan. Tens of thousands of things, that is, she dares to send them, and she dares to do it?

Nanyang suddenly threw such a big stroke, he couldn't help but wonder in his heart, what did this crazy princess want to do.

Chen Pu was also anxious. Nanyang will invite businessmen to become Soma, and then say that he will give away this great Zhuangzi, and all kinds of actions will make her, who is a sister, both flustered and helpless. She couldn't help but blame Nanyang and said, "Sister, you, you...... What are you doing?! ”

Nanyang didn't realize that he was doing something bad, and explained to Chen Pu: "I see that my husband loves this place very much, so I will give him this Zhuangzi." In this way, when he is promoted and returns to Beijing in the future, won't he be able to have a ready-made mansion to settle in? ”

This reason is really sufficient, and Chen Pu has no way to refute it at all. She thought for a moment before stammering, "But, but this is, this is ...... The royal Zhuangzi. ”

"This was given to me by my father in his early years. Since that day, this is no longer an imperial village. "The crazy Nanyang thinks better than her sister. She said: "According to the law, I am now the master of this Zhuangzi and have the right to dispose of it as he pleases. I decided to give it to my husband. Isn't there anything wrong with that? ”

Chen Pu was so anxious that he stomped his feet and said, "This is given to you by your father, blame it......"

"I'll go and talk to my father."

Seeing that the two sisters were about to quarrel, Shang Cheng hurriedly said, "I can't want this Zhuangzi." He thought clearly, even if it was an eventful time for the prince to be seriously ill and go to Beijing, there must be many people secretly planning "big things", but unless these "caring people" were blinded by lard, it would be impossible to find the two princesses in front of them to be lobbyists. These two princesses, one sluggish and the other crazy, if anyone dares to ask them as lobbyists, it is tantamount to digging their own graves! It's just that there is something he can't think about well, for no reason, why did Nanyang give him a Zhuangzi?

Hearing his words, Chen Pu breathed a sigh of relief, but Nanyang raised his head and asked Shang Cheng puzzledly: "Mr. still thinks this Zhuangzi is not good?" ”

"If anyone dares to say that this Zhuangzi is not good, I will not agree to the first one!" Shang Cheng said categorically. But if anyone dares to say that this Zhuangzi is good, then he has to come to the door and ask clearly, what is good about this Zhuangzi? Is it a messy rotten shack, or is it all over the street?

"Since you think this place is ......"

"I can't ask for this place!" Shang Cheng interrupted Nanyang's words. He also found a grandiose reason not to want this Zhuangzi, "A gentleman does not plunder the beauty of others!" "I am a gentleman, so I can't ask for this Zhuangzi; Unless you don't think I'm a gentleman, or don't want me to be a gentleman. If Nanyang really thinks he is a villain or has to force him to be a villain, it will just let him take the opportunity to flick his sleeves away, so as not to wait for Soma to come to the stage......

Nanyang was stunned for a moment, lowered his head and muttered: "Mr. is right, I was reckless." Mr. precipice is high, not tempted by reputation, not confused by things, not trapped in the body, emphasizing morality and light material benefits, following the integrity and ......"

Shang Cheng hurriedly interrupted her and asked, "Where is the stable?" ”

“…… It's not far ahead, around that section of the wall. I built a new stable for it......"

Shang Cheng nodded vigorously with a tense face, his feet sped up a lot, and he didn't even enter the instrument door, but went directly to the back door in the direction pointed out by Nanyang. Nanyang beckoned him to enter the house through the main gate from behind, and he pretended not to hear.

Chen Pu only now realized that something was wrong. From the moment they met, her sister called Shang Cheng "sir" one by one, and her attitude was no worse than when she met her father and mother. If Shang Cheng was a great Confucian or a poet and writer, there would be nothing wrong with such a title, but Shang Zida was obviously a lay monk and a general on the edge of the town, a person who couldn't even make a small order for the occasion, and had no article morality at all, how could he be called "Mr."? Moreover, Nanyang's words of praising Shang Cheng in person twice in a row are not like ridicule and sarcasm, but seem to be sincere, can Shang Zida still have any hidden skills that can teach her sister to admire?

Shang Zida's ability, the first is of course his military talent. Although she has a false position in the army, she also knows by hearsay that Xiao Jian and Yang Du are below, and it seems that Shang Cheng should be counted. She even knew that in the eyes of a few people, Shang Cheng was even more powerful than Xiao Yang back then: Xiao Jian was cautious and steady in his use of troops but lacked the ruthlessness of a fatal blow, and Yang Du was clever and vicious in his use of troops but often neglected the general trend, but Shang Yanshan could focus on the general trend of the local area, and he could use his troops to Xu Lift as lightly as possible, and the situation when Mo Gan retreated in April was even more capable: under the siege of the 30,000 Turquoise army on three sides, the 8,000 Great Zhao Erlang slowly retreated 300 miles without disorder, and the empty village left behind also taught the Turquoise people not to dare to act rashly within a day and night. Such a result, even if Xiao Yang is in person, he may not be able to have it! In addition, Shang Zida is also very good at civil affairs. Wang Yi, who returned to Beijing last month, told her that although the prosperity and wealth of Yanzhou City today are far less than those in Beijing, and not as good as the big cities in the south of the Yangtze River in the Central Plains, if you talk about the cleanliness of the city, Shangjing is far inferior to Yanzhou, not to mention the two capitals in the east and west and Quanzhou in Yangzhou; They may not even be able to compare with a county seat in Yanshan......

She knows that these are good skills. But they shouldn't mean much to her sister Nanyang, right? In addition to embarrassing the heavenly family with her father, the only thing she can teach her sister is calligraphy, right?

She couldn't help but imagine that it was precisely because Shang Zida's attainments in calligraphy were much higher than Nanyang's that her sister condescended to be noble and called Shang "Mr." This is the only way to make everything seem reasonable.

But this idea is so ridiculous, so absurd that she can't help but laugh when she thinks that Shang Zida may be a hidden great scholar......

She's laughing right now.

Especially when she saw Shang Cheng's back in a hurry with long legs, and remembered the embarrassing expression on his face when he heard Nanyang's praise just now, she couldn't help laughing.

Ha, General Huaiyuan in the army, the governor of Yanshan in the imperial court, the great calligrapher Shang Cheng Shang Zida, nicknamed "Yixian Shang Monk"......

She followed Shang Cheng and Nanyang all the way with a smile and walked to the stable that Nanyang had specially repaired.