Chapter 8: Zhou's Voice

"Sister, I'm back, I brought you a lot of gifts, you and your brother-in-law come out to receive gifts!" Before entering the square gate of Lu Yu's courtyard, Zhou Fang's heroic, laughing roar poured into the west wing where Lu Yu was.

The roar was so loud that Lu Yu's eardrums hurt, and after being hit by Zhou Fang's "lion roar", a trace of displeasure appeared on Wang Xu's face again, and he raised his hand to rub his ears.

"Xianggong, you also know that the eldest brother didn't mean to speak so loudly, he is a heroic person......" After noticing the unhappy expression on Lu Yu's face, Mu Hanxiang, who "turned his elbow out", said a good word for Zhou Fang.

Mu Hanxiang, who is kind and simple-minded, knows that the more she helps Zhou Fang speak, the more unhappy Lu Yu becomes, just ask, which man in the world can stand his daughter-in-law's arm turning out, and moreover, he also turned to her crush.

Although she is even more unhappy, Lu Yu, who has lived for two lifetimes, also knows that her daughter-in-law is from the Mu family in Lizhou, and the Mu family is a Confucian family with a strict family education, so she will never do anything sorry for herself.

"Let's go, let's go see Zhou Fang's house, how to say, we haven't seen him for a year and a half......" After taking a deep breath, Wang Xu put away the unhappy expression on his face, smiled slightly at Mu Hanxiang beside him, and then led her out of the door of the west wing and into the square.

As soon as he entered the square gate, Lu Yu helplessly saw that Zhou Fang was standing at the door of the square, teasing his eldest girl Yaqin with a lewd smile, and the two little maids Xia Zhu and Qiu Yue who were standing next to Yaqin were also laughing there.

For this, Lu Yu has long been accustomed to it, his second brother Lu Wu is also this virtue, and he is also flirting with girls everywhere, Lu Yu knows very well that today's era is the real golden age of talents - the Song Dynasty, this era, just ask, which genius is not romantic, not to mention the one in front of him, or the best among the talents, the god-level genius Zhou Fangzhou's loud voice.

The three smiling maids who were teased by Zhou Fang were not empty-handed, they were full of the so-called gifts brought by Zhou Fang.

The eldest girl Yaqin carried two pieces of cloth in her hands, one looked like pink satin, the other looked like pale cyan Shu brocade, the pink satin worth hundreds of guan was used to make clothes for Mu Hanxiang at first glance, and the cyan Shu brocade that was only worth a few yuan was left for Lu Yu.

From the value of those two pieces of cloth, you can see who Zhou Fang values more, Lu Yu in his eyes, that is, the value of a horse of Shu brocade, and Mu Hanxiang is different, she is worth the value of a horse of Shu brocade, it must be satin, and it must be the best satin to match her.

In addition to the eldest maid Yaqin carrying two pieces of cloth, the hands of the little maid Xia Zhu and Qiu Yue were also occupied.

Xia Zhu was holding six or seven cloth packages of all sizes in his arms, looking at them, those packages seemed to be wrapped in food.

And what Qiu Yue is holding in her hand is also eating, but it is different: she carries a bamboo basket in her left hand, and there are a few big carps lying in it; She held a hemp rope in her right hand, and at the end of the hemp rope was a big pheasant tied with five flowers and covered with colorful feathers, and it looked like it was still a hen.

Maybe he thought the pheasant was crowing too annoying, so when he tied it, Zhou Fang even tied its mouth, only revealing a pair of small eyes full of unwillingness, blinking there.

"I haven't seen you for a year, Brother Zhou, don't come unharmed......" After trotting to the front door, Lu Yu raised his hand and pointed to the lobby in the room, and asked Zhou to take a seat.

"Hey, I haven't seen you for a year, Shuwen, you have grown taller again, much taller than me......" Looking up at Lu Yu, who was half a head taller than himself, Zhou Fang replied to Lu Yu with a smile, his eyes were the standard eyes of the elders when they saw their little brother.

Although Lu Yu doesn't like others to call him by his uncle's name, he prefers others to call him by his own name, but in the Song Dynasty, except for the elders calling the juniors, in other cases, directly calling people's names and scolding people has the same meaning, so Lu Yu has to accept the weird feeling of being called by his name.

"If you eat well, you will grow taller......" Lu Yu didn't show the feeling in his heart, he continued to respond to Zhou Fang's words with a smile.

"Little sister, ...... you" wanted to ask Mu Hanxiang what kind of Zhou Fang was doing, but suddenly realized that it seemed a bit rude to ask people how they were doing in front of their husbands, so he started his words and didn't continue.

"I'm doing well, what about you, big brother, ......" Mu Hanxiang, whose eyes were slightly red when she was moved by her crush's greeting, replied to Zhou Fang softly.

"That's good, I'm doing well, you know, I've spent the whole year in our capital, it's hard to think about it!" After listening to his sister's greetings, Zhou Fang replied to Mu Hanxiang with something in his words.

A year ago, after Zhou Fang received the news that his old father-in-law, Huang Xinghuang, the secretary and supervisor of Zhengsipin, was seriously ill, he immediately took his family north to return to Tokyo Kaifeng.

You must know that Guozhou is located in the north of Shudi, while Tokyo is in Kaifeng, Central Plains, and the two places are separated by thousands of miles, which is terrifying.

Moreover, in ancient times, transportation was very inconvenient, there was neither a good means of transportation, nor a decent road, so the distance of thousands of miles was almost the distance between life and death.

In addition, as the saying goes: Shu Road is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the sky. If you want to travel back to the Central Plains from Shu for a long time, it is almost impossible to take the land route, because Shu is surrounded by mountains, high and short, long and short, in this era, if you want to go north to the Central Plains through the mountains, it will not take half a year, it is impossible to do it at all.

Even if you take the waterway, from Kuizhou along the Yangtze River to Yangzhou, and then along the canal north to the Central Plains, it is also very tiring, at least it will take twenty or thirty days to get to Kaifeng, these twenty or thirty days on the road energy consumption, think about it is quite terrible.

After Zhou Fang was put in Kaifeng, Tokyo, Huang Xing, who was already seriously ill and was about to kick his legs, actually carried it over and recovered from his illness, so Zhou Fang, who was unwilling to stay in Kaifeng, Tokyo, couldn't bear it after being retained by his father-in-law for seven or eight months, so he came back first, and his daughter-in-law stayed at his father-in-law's house and didn't come back.

The daughter-in-law is not there, and Zhou Fang, who is not bound by the "tight hoop spell", is full of joy, he has been playing all night in the Qinglou last night, and today, he has gone to Lu's house to visit regardless of his physical fatigue.

Nominally, he came to the Lu family to see his Shibo Lulong and his sister Mu Hanxiang, but in fact, it was his blooming heart that couldn't be idle, and he ran to the Lu family to chat, vent, and tease the maid with acquaintances.

"Big brother, please take a seat, you will have afternoon dinner at my place at noon?" After leading Zhou Fang to the main seat in the middle of the lobby, Lu Yu asked him politely.

"Lu Shibo invited me to have ......dinner with the four of you brothers at noon," Zhou Fang, who was not polite at all, picked up the celadon tea bowl on the table, took a sip of herbal tea, and then continued to say to Lu Yu: "This time, I brought a lot of good things to the two of you from the Central Plains, no, they are all in the hands of those maids......

"Then Brother Xie, hmm......" After glancing back at the maid at the door, who was almost crushed by the gifts brought by Zhou Fang, Lu Yu whispered to Zhou Fang: "Big brother, you sit with Han Xiang for a while, and I'll go and ask the maids to put your gifts away......"

"Well, you go," because Zhou Fang's voice was too loud, even if it was a casual sentence, the volume of it shook Lu Yu's eardrums: "Go and come back quickly, I have something to tell you......"

"Understand ......" After noticing that the expression on Zhou Fang's face didn't seem to be joking, as if he was really talking about business, Lu Yu frowned slightly and replied to him, but he guessed in his heart: What can this guy say about business......