Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Unlucky Cow
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"Master Hou rest assured, his subordinates know what to do, and after a while, his subordinates will ask people to go to Chang'an City to ask for the craftsman who carved the monument." Feng Hao responded.
"Deal with it as soon as possible, tomorrow afternoon, Ben Hou will see off these soldiers, and the craftsmen who carved the monument will be found and brought to the Dongshan Hou Mansion, I will explain some things first, by the way, together with the mason." Xuan Shijing said.
"Yes." Feng Hao responded.
Then, Xuan Shijing turned around and shouted loudly: "Tomorrow afternoon, right here, although the next three days will be rest, but Ben Hou still hopes that you can come, to see off those comrades who died in the war, this afternoon, Feng Hao will take someone to officially inform the families of the war dead, the deceased is gone, and the living should be like this." ”
His eyes swept over the sad and desperate faces of the crowd, buried his sigh in his heart, and waved his hand, signaling that the soldiers could disperse.
Fleeing like a horse and leaving Dongshan County, Xuan Shijing had to rush back to Chang'an before lunch.
Chang'an City, Dongshan Hou Mansion.
"Be diligent with your hands and feet, and the Hou Ye will go home in a while." The gate of the Dongshan Marquis Mansion was open, and from the outside, you could see the housekeeper Zhong Zishuo standing in front of the court and directing the servants to clean up the front yard of the mansion.
This situation is not only the Hou Mansion, but also the Lu Guogong Mansion, where all those who returned from Chang'an victorious homes are sharpening their knives and slaughtering livestock.
"Steward Zhong." The side door of the Hou Mansion walked into a small house, and arched his hand to Zhong Zishuo: "Steward Zhong, a cow on Lu Guogong's Zhuangzi accidentally fell to his death, and it has been reported to the government, and Lu Guogong instructed the small one to send some beef to your mansion." ”
When Zhong Zishuo heard that it was beef, he was overjoyed, and smiled at the little guy in front of him: "My lord hasn't come back yet, I have thanked your mansion for your kindness in advance, by the way, the little brother will wait for a while, and let the people below pack up some fried lo-mei, and the little brother will take it back." ”
"So, thank you Steward Zhong for your kindness." The little guy returned the salute.
Zhong Zishuo beckoned the people in the house and asked him to go to the kitchen to pack some fried goods and lo-mei for the little guy who came from Lu Guogong's mansion to bring.
I heard that Xuan Shijing was coming back two days ago, and these things had already been packed up in the kitchen, and when Xuan Shijing came back, there was going to be a family banquet in the house, and these things were also rare when he interacted with several of Xuan Shijing's predecessors.
The things made by other people's cooks don't taste as good as Hou Fuzheng, otherwise Xuanwu Mansion would have been closed long ago.
The little servant in Lu Guogong's Mansion returned with a smile on his face, while Zhong Zishuo looked at a large piece of beef placed in front of the court, thinking about how to make it for his own Hou Ye in order to satisfy Hou Ye's appetite.
"Someone, bring this beef to the kitchen." Zhong Zishuo thought for a while and didn't come up with one, two, three, this kind of problem should be left to the people in the kitchen.
Hou Mansion three meals a day, not like other families, two meals a day, big families are better, hungry have a small kitchen, there are pastries and preserved fruits and small snacks, the Zhuang family goes out to work in the field is a day, there is no such treatment.
When it was almost noon, Xuan Shijing appeared at the gate of the Hou Mansion on horseback, with two guards behind him, Chang Le and Shi Hu.
"Chang Le, you should go back first, Long'er is afraid that she is in a hurry at home." Xuan Shijing signaled that Chang Le could leave first.
This person who has a family is different from a single person like Shi Hu, some people in the family are thinking about it, and Shi Hu is still heartless, and the food and accommodation are all covered by the Hou Mansion.
As soon as he entered the gate of the Hou Mansion, he stepped over the brazier, met with the Wang family, reported his experience in Liaodong, and then unloaded his armor under the support of a large group of people at home, and when Xuan Shijing returned to the hall again, a sumptuous banquet had been set up in the hall.
The maid stood aside with a copper basin, and the Wang family had already sat down.
"Jing'er, quickly clean your hands and sit down to eat, for my mother to see that you have lost a lot of weight when you come back this time, and you have suffered a lot in Liaodong, sit down and eat more meat, and make up for it." Wang beckoned Xuan Shijing to sit down.
Xuan Shijing washed his hands under the service of the maid on the side and sat on the side of the table.
The food on the table is very rich, and it is all what Xuan Shijing likes to eat on weekdays.
"Oh, and beef, where did you get it?" Xuan Shijing asked.
"Back to Hou Ye, it was sent by Lu Guogong's Mansion, the cow on Grandpa Guo's Zhuangzi accidentally fell to death, so he loosened some meat and came over, Hou Ye rest assured, the government has already reported it."
"Hey, this cow is really unlucky." Xuan Shijing laughed and said: "It's usually good, Uncle Cheng was scared to death as soon as he came back, stained, pitiful." ”
When Wang heard this, he stretched out his finger and poked it on Xuan Shijing's head: "You kid talk a lot, if you have something to eat, you can still nag like this, today a piece of meat has just been delivered, fresh, fried for you, taste how it tastes, the rest of the kitchen said that it has been served, and it will be eaten after a few days." ”
"That's a good feeling." Xuan Shijing smiled and cut off his rice bowl, first sandwiched a chopstick beef for Wang, and then tasted it himself.
Beef is a good thing, it is not easy for the high-ranking families in Chang'an City to eat some often, so there must be a cow "accidentally" falling, and the fall can not be too frequent, how many cows die in a month? How many high-ranking households are there in Chang'an City?
Compared with the liveliness of the Dongshan Marquis Mansion, the eldest grandson's family can be said to be bleak, after entering Chang'an, the eldest grandson Wuji still has not received the will of His Majesty Li Er to lift the grounding, and the eldest grandson Chong is already lying on the couch unconscious.
The fever in the body is gone, but I can't wake up all the time.
After Princess Changle heard her father-in-law say something about her husband, she changed her clothes and immediately took someone into the palace.
His Majesty Li Er is now having a banquet with many courtiers in Taiji Palace, and Princess Changle is inconvenient to disturb, so she can only come to Empress Changsun's side instead.
Eldest Sun Chong is the nephew of Empress Eldest Sun, and when he becomes what he is now, Empress Eldest Sun is also worried when she hears it.
"You mean, Chong'er's illness has something to do with Jing'er?" Empress Eldest Sun grabbed the joint very smoothly.
"That's what my father-in-law meant." Changle said softly: "When I was in Liaodong, my husband's body had a problem, and I went to Chang'an, and I was feverish and afraid of cold on the way, and when I arrived at home, I simply fell unconscious. ”