Mu Wan frowned first, and snorted softly: "The imperial court is really, it has given such a large mansion to the metropolitan governor to you, but even a maid is reluctant to reward you, if we move over, wouldn't we still have to hire people?" ”

Lotus Ye was also at a loss and said: "Yes, how many people do you need for such a big mansion?" ”

"Do the math," Mu Wan snapped her fingers and said, "There are two stewards in the inner and outer mansions, about thirty of the family members, and about this number of maids, in addition to three or five cooks, ten servants who do rough work, and horsemen who feed horses, drivers who drive, and guards who take care of the house. ”

Cui Wenqing thought for a while and said, "Lady, anyway, we are only staying in Luoyang for a while, and we are going to return to Fuzhou after all, why do we need to hire so many servants to come back?" In my opinion, we might as well be in the Yang Mansion and leave this mansion vacant. ”

"No!" Zhi Zhao shook his head without thinking about it, and sighed lightly, "The reward of the Son of Heaven is a great favor, if we don't live in it, we are afraid that we will be talked about, and I have led the army all the year round, and the Zhenwu Army is almost equivalent to the private soldiers of the Zhe family, and it must also be suspicious of the imperial court. ”

Cui Wenqing understood, and said with a wry smile: "Speaking of which, this mansion has become a hot potato, forcing us to live in it?" ”

Zhi Zhao smiled bitterly, pondered for a while, and said with a smile: "But it's not bad to be able to have a mansion in Luoyang City, so let's go back and discuss with Zhi Xiu later, and temporarily transfer some servants from the Yang Mansion to come over, without the number of people Xiao Wan calculated just now, at most twenty or thirty people." ”

Cui Wenqing smiled and said: "Sister Xiu is your own sister, why didn't you discuss it yourself, but relied on me?" ”

Zhi Zhaomei glared at Cui Wenqing, as if she was very dissatisfied with his knowingly questioning, and said: "Husband, you know that I and Zhi Xiu are not compatible, how can you discuss with him?" You can do these things. ”

Cui Wenqing still has a deep knot in Zhixiu until Zhizhao, and at this moment, in front of Mu Wan and Lotus Ye, he can't persuade anything, so he can only smile and nod bitterly.

Two days later, the imperial court held a celebratory feast outside the Xuanwu Gate.

The banquet was of a very high standard, not only all the officials above the seventh rank in Beijing came to attend, but the imperial court also invited envoys from various countries, which can be described as a huge momentum.

As the protagonist, Zhi Zhao naturally had to attend, as for Cui Wenqing, although there was a lord who rode the captain, but because he was not an official, he could not go to participate.

Today, Zhezhao did not wear armor, but changed into the official uniform of Daqi.

She wears a hanging horn head, a purple robe embroidered with large flower patterns, and black gauze soap shoes.

Seeing this, Cui Wenqing was dumbfounded, and couldn't help laughing: "If the lady wears this clothes and walks around the street, you will definitely become the dream lover of the ladies and ladies of Luoyang." ”

"You're not skinny." Zhi Zhao glanced at him angrily and funny, and then admonished, "Husband, it's not early, you still have to go to the Guozijian as soon as possible." ”

With Zhezhao supervising Luoyang City, Cui Wenqing naturally didn't dare to skip class like before, so he had to go to Guozijian to report honestly.

After Cui Wenqing left, Zhi Zhao got into the carriage specially prepared for her by the Yang Mansion, and drove towards the Xuanwu Gate.

The celebration feast was huge, and the people who came to participate were full of people inside and outside the Xuanwu Gate.

Looking down from the tower of Xuanwu Gate, it is really like a cloud, and all of them are dignitaries.

At the beginning of the banquet, Zi Zhizhao led the meritorious soldiers to the city gate, met Chen Hong, the son of heaven, and listened to the court's commendation of the meritorious soldiers.

After that, Prime Minister Sima Guang read the eulogy, then read the congratulatory recitals presented by the states and counties, and then sang the praises of the small surrounding countries, which lasted for a whole morning.

At noon, lunch officially began, and wonderful singing and dancing were also staged, bringing the atmosphere to a climax.

At the end of the banquet, many ministers returned drunk.

Zhezhao drank an astonishing amount of alcohol, and kept awake, and when he just walked into the carriage and was about to board the carriage, he suddenly saw an old man with a smile standing in front of the carriage, and he couldn't help but be very strange.

"Fold the Metropolitan Governor, the old man is the steward of the Qi Palace, this is polite." As soon as the old man saw the purple official uniform on Zhi Zhao's body, he easily determined Zhi Zhao's identity, and hurriedly bowed.

As soon as he heard that it was a person from the Qi Palace, his heart sank slightly, and he asked with a false hand: "Your Excellency doesn't need to be polite, I don't know what the King of Qi ordered you to wait for the commander here, what's the matter?" ”

"That's right," the old man still had a smile on his face, "The King of Qi remembers that the Governor of Zhe Dadu has worked the battlefield, so I would like to invite the Governor of Zhe Dadu and his husband Cui Wenqing to come to the Qi Palace's Mansion for a banquet tomorrow, and please don't shirk it." With that, he reached into his arms, took out an invitation, and handed it to Zhi Zhao respectfully.

Suddenly, Zhe Zhao's brows furrowed slightly, and he took the invitation and said with a smile: "Please tell His Royal Highness King Qi on my behalf that the Japanese officials will definitely go to the banquet tomorrow." ”

The old man nodded happily, and bowed to Zhezhao again, and then said goodbye and left.

After getting into the carriage and returning to the Yang Mansion, Zhi Zhao repeatedly looked at the red invitation card in his hand, and his eyebrows became deeper and deeper.

It was only in the middle of the ring that she opened her lips and muttered, "What a trouble!" Then a deep sorrow emerged from Jiaojing.

Back in the mansion, Cui Wenqing had already returned, and when Zhezhao said that King Qi had invited him to the banquet, Cui Wenqing also frowned, and said in a deep voice: "Lady, this King of Qi is only afraid that the person who came is not good!" ”

Zhi Zhao said: "Yes, just a few days after I returned to Luoyang, he sent an invitation, and his intention was only to test my weight in my heart, and I originally wanted to refuse, but this was not appropriate in the end, so I could only accept it." ”

Cui Wenqing also knows the difficulties of Zhezhao.

To put it nicely, Zhe Zhao is the governor of the Zhenwu Army of the imperial court, but to put it mildly, the Zhe family is the emperor of Linzhou, Fuzhou, and Zhe Zhao is an out-and-out warlord of the feudal town.

She had hesitated for a while before entering Beijing, and in order to alleviate the court's suspicion of the Zhenwu Army, she came decisively.

And when he came to the turbulent environment of Luoyang, he had to be careful, and no one could be easily offended, so as not to attract people and end up in the name of a domineering warlord.

(End of chapter)