At dusk, the usually deserted courtyard of the Zhang family suddenly became lively, not to mention the more than 20 guards, only Tang Wan, Cai Yan and other women plus a group of orchid female guards, there are nearly 30 people, and these women are all stunning, especially Tang Wan and Cai Yan, their gestures are elegant and polite, and everyone's demeanor makes Li Lan, who has always been hearty, a little cramped. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Fortunately, the courtyard is not small, but there are not many bedrooms, beds and bedding, fortunately, Tian Yi, the main bookkeeper, has already made arrangements, he led a group of guards to place the beds that he had just procured, and then a group of orchid female guards arranged the beds.

Mother Zhang was dazzled by the Yingying Yanyan in the courtyard, and took advantage of the vacancy when Li Lan took Tang Wan's daughters to decorate the bedroom, and hurriedly pulled her son aside: "Little Er, this is ...... Where did so many girls come from, I see that they are all knowledgeable, they must be from everyone, you ...... You're not going to snatch it back, are you? ”

When Zhang Liao heard this, he couldn't help but be happy: "Yes, they were all snatched back." ”

Seeing his mother's expression change greatly, he hurriedly said, "Mother, don't worry, do you see their happy appearance, as if they were snatched back?" ”

Mother Zhang thought about Tang Wan and the women before seeing her respectful and close appearance, shook her head, her expression relaxed, and said, "That's good, Xiao Er, the people of our old Zhang family can't do things that hurt heaven and reason." ”

Zhang Liao said: "Mother can rest assured about this, you don't know your son's temperament, he has been an honest and good person since he was a child." ”

Mother Zhang was amused by him, and pointed her finger on his forehead: "I was honest when I was a child, and I was honest when I went out, but this time I went out, I brought back so many daughters-in-law, is it still honest?" ”

Zhang Liao smiled: "There are so many daughters-in-law, don't you like it?" ”

"Naturally, they all know well, my mother likes it very much, and she can add more to my Zhang family, but," Zhang's mother said with some concern: "They seem to have very good backgrounds, and there are so many maidservants, my son is a county magistrate of 600 stones, I'm afraid I can't afford to raise it, and it will be even more difficult to have a dozen grandchildren in the future." ”

Zhang Liao, who was drinking water, squirted out a mouthful of water and couldn't help laughing.

At this time, Li Lan, Tang Wan, and Cai Yanna came, and seeing Zhang Liao laughing, Li Lan said curiously: "Uncle, why are you so happy?" ”

Zhang Liao coughed twice, gasped, and said with a smile: "When I returned home, I brought so many daughters-in-law, how could I not be happy?" ”

Li Lan glanced at him: "This trip away from home, and when I come back, I will become poor." ”

Zhang Liao smiled at this time: "My mother is persuading me, do things well, and earn more money and food, otherwise so many daughters-in-law, plus a dozen grandchildren, can't afford to raise them and run away, then I will cry and grab the ground." ”

Tang Wan and Cai Yan couldn't help but glance at him, and saw that Zhang's mother was a little embarrassed, stepped forward to hold her hand, Tang Wan said: "Auntie, concubines and others follow their husbands, rich and poor, life and death, and besides, if the husband is very capable, we will also take care of the family." ”

Mother Zhang looked at her serious appearance and nodded with relief.

Cai Yan smiled and said: "Auntie, not to mention the husband, Sister Su's dowry alone is enough to make the family worry for several lifetimes." ”

Li Lan was stunned and said, "Is it Su Wan's brother and sister?" So much dowry? ”

Zhang Liao said with a smile: "My daughter was born in the Western Regions, and she is good at business, when I first met her, she opened the largest restaurant in Luoyang, and the pearl she wore on her head alone was worth tens of millions of dollars." ”

Li Lan's eyes widened suddenly: "Ten million dollars? ”

Zhang's mother couldn't help but be surprised.

Zhang Liao smiled again: "So my mother can rest assured, even if the child is idle at home every day, she will not worry about eating and drinking." ”

Mother Zhang couldn't help but nod her son's forehead again, and then asked Dong Bai, she knew her son best, so she naturally didn't believe that her son had another teenage daughter, and Li Lan on the side also pricked up her ears.

Seeing his mother asking, Zhang Liao sighed and roughly said about Dong Zhuo, Zhang's mother couldn't help crying when she heard it, and sighed: "Son, you did the right thing, although Dong Zhuo is evil, but he is finally kind to you, Ah Bai has saved you several times, you have done a good job, and you have recognized Ah Bai's granddaughter, just like your own granddaughter." ”

Zhang Liao nodded, and said about Yin Yue and He Yan again, He Yan is still young, so he naturally brought it back this time, but Yin Yue was worried that Zhang's mother didn't like it, so she could only let Xiaocui take care of it temporarily.

Zhang Liao understands his mother's kind character, and sure enough, Zhang's mother listened, and said: "Very good, my son has done a good job, I haven't taught you in vain since I was a child, if you have kindness, you will repay it, the general is kind to you, you take care of his descendants, as a matter of course, you must treat it as a parent, let alone bully Yue'er, have you ever forced her?" ”

Zhang Liao couldn't help but touch his nose: "Could it be that in the eyes of my mother, the child is so tasteless?" ”

Li Lan couldn't help but giggle.

Zhang's mother said again: "Quickly ask Yue'er to bring that child over, and you want to take a good look." ”

Tang Wan immediately went to find Yin Yue, who secretly went to see her son.

Zhang Liao hesitated, and told his mother about Tang Wan, after all, Tang Wan was his wife, and sooner or later he couldn't hide it, so he simply said it first.

Mother Zhang and Li Lan couldn't help but be shocked when they heard that Tang Wan had turned out to be a nobleman and the queen of the Han Dynasty, with such a noble status, with Zhang Liao's status, it was impossible to marry a wife, and they were shocked and hurriedly asked Zhang Liao why.

Zhang Liao talked in detail about being persecuted by Dong Zhuo at the beginning, and Tang Wan had to succumb to protect her family, and later the two had a relationship, and they parted several times, and she risked going deep into the Kwantung Army for her innocence.

Mother Zhang listened and was silent for a long time before she said: "Zhenwu daughter-in-law, it's just that she has a noble status, and you are afraid that you will have to bear a lot of accusations." ”

Zhang Liao said with a smile: "She is the daughter-in-law of my old Zhang family, no one can change it, whoever dares to say more, just beat her." ”

I didn't want Zhang's mother to hear it, but she agreed: "Okay, my son dares to take responsibility, but it's a good thing, Wan'er married my son, she carries more, my son is just protecting the front, my old Zhang family doesn't make trouble, but they are not afraid of things." ”

Cai Yan looked at Zhang's mother, and her bright eyes showed praise and admiration: "In the past, concubines only respected their husbands and had a heroic spirit, but today I know that they are all taught by my aunt, and my aunt is really a woman who does not let her eyebrows go." ”

"What a woman doesn't let her eyebrows have." Li Lan couldn't help but sigh: "Sister Cai said it so well. ”

Zhang Liao laughed: "Zhao Ji is Cai Zhonglang's latest favorite daughter, a family of poems and books, and a double masterpiece of piano and books, but I finally grabbed it halfway." ”

Cai Yan couldn't help but glance at him with disgust.

Zhang's mother said solemnly: "But Mr. Cai Bojiao? ”

Zhang Liao couldn't help but wonder: "Mother has heard the name of Master Cai? ”

"Mr. Cai is famous all over the world, how can you not know," Zhang's mother said: "When he was framed by a traitor, exiled to us and Shuofang County, passing by Mayi, I and your father because you were smart since childhood, so I took you to watch, just to see if you can have the honor to worship under Mr. Cai's door, but unfortunately there are too many people, can not approach, I remember at that time, I also saw a little girl next to Mr. Cai, but four or five years old, just run thousands of miles, really pitiful......"

When Mother Zhang said this, she couldn't help but look at Cai Yan in surprise: "Isn't it ......"

Cai Yan's eyes were slightly red: "It's the concubine." ”

Mother Zhang couldn't help but pull her: "It's also a poor child, I didn't expect it to be so beautiful now, and I was wronged with my son." ”

Zhang Liao couldn't help but touch his nose, whether this was his mother or not, but he didn't refute it, what his mother said was really good, Cai Yan and his concubine were indeed a big grievance.

Cai Yan's mother died early, seeing that Zhang's mother loved her so much, and she had the same relationship in the past, she couldn't help but feel envious, and gently hugged Zhang's mother's hand, her eyes moist.

Zhang Liao saw that his mother was quite distressed and fond of Cai Yan, his heart moved, and he groaned: "Mother, tomorrow, the child wants to take Wan'er, Zhaoji, Yue'er, and Sister-in-law to the ancestral hall together." ”

Before Zhang's mother could speak, Cai Yan's delicate body trembled, looked at Zhang Liao, gritted her teeth and said, "Husband, you don't have to be like this, you don't have to violate the etiquette law for the sake of concubines." ”

In terms of etiquette, only the wife can worship the ancestral hall after entering, and the concubine cannot, although it is not as strict as after the Song and Ming dynasties, but it can be regarded as recognized by the world.

Cai Yan naturally knew Zhang Liao's intentions, but she didn't want Zhang Liao to violate the etiquette system for them and be accused by others.

I didn't want Zhang Liao to open his mouth yet, so Zhang's mother said: "Just according to what my son said, the affairs of my Zhang family are naturally in charge of us, who can take care of it?" Although the four of you have the distinction of concubines, my sons must be treated kindly, everyone is a family, and the family is prosperous. ”

They have been on the border for a long time, and they don't have as many rules and levels as those families, and they are always in difficulty, and they are always more humane.

"Hmm......" Cai Yan saw that Zhang's mother had made a decision, so she no longer refuted, but she was very grateful in her heart.

In fact, Zhang Liao did not want to completely change the distinction between wives and concubines, although this distinction between wives and concubines was inhumane, but it could maintain order in the family and not cause a big and fierce fight between the two ends.

However, Zhang Liao wanted to improve the status of concubines to the greatest extent on the basis of the wife system, and the needs of order should also be taken into account in terms of human nature and human affection.

Zhang Liao also knew that this kind of change was in conflict with etiquette and law, and even if he would take charge of the power of the world in the future, he would inevitably be resisted, but he could take some moderate measures, such as establishing the status of equal wives and small wives, which were not as good as concubines, but higher than concubines, and would not be like slaves.

At this time, Zhang's mother smiled again: "When I went to see Mr. Cai, I saw Zhao Ji, but my son also followed me that time, but I was young at the time, and I was afraid that I would forget." ”

Zhang Liao was stunned, and then remembered from his memory, it seems that there is really such a thing.

He couldn't help but glance at Cai Yan and said with emotion: "A thousand miles of marriage are tied by a thread, I didn't expect that you and I had a fate to meet more than ten years ago, and now we have become a family, it is really fate." ”

Cai Yan glanced at him, remembered that Zhang Liao had seen him when he was a child, and remembered the word fate, and his heart was infinitely happy.

That night, several girls accompanied Zhang's mother to talk, while Zhang Liao and his brother Zhang Fan, as for his younger brother Zhang Jian, he went back to his home to see his parents after worshipping Zhang's mother.

After the two brothers reminisced, Zhang Pan finally couldn't help but ask: "Wen Yuan, what kind of official position are you now?" There were so many guards, horses, and chariots, and so much cloth and money. ”

Zhang Liao smiled: "And the state pastor." ”

"And the state pastor?" Zhang Pan is a little confused, he is different from his younger brother Zhang Liao, just roughly literate and literate, and he doesn't know much about official positions, he has heard of the history of the state assassination, but he has not heard of the state pastor, after all, the state pastoral system has been interrupted for many years, until it has been used again in recent years, and they really don't know about the border people.

Zhang Pan hadn't heard of the state pastor, so he thought that the state minister was an inconspicuous petty official, so he immediately stopped asking, for fear that his younger brother would lose face, so he immediately changed the topic and said a little excitedly: "Wen Yuan, do you remember Gao Shun under Ding Yuanjun at the beginning?" ”

"Well, I'm close friends with him." Zhang Liao nodded.

Zhang Fanxi said: "That's good, Gao Shun is now a general, I heard that he has led more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and even the envoy has to be polite when he sees him, you have to walk around with him more." ”

"Well, a lot of movement." Zhang Liao didn't know what to say.