In the early morning of Ling Ri, Xue Shao and Yue Nu stood together in a conspicuous place next to the official road and waited patiently. Xue Yi came from the east and passed through Luoyang, where the post letter was sent. There is only one big official road from Luoyang to Chang'an, and with Xue Yi's identity and character, there must be no possibility of detouring the path.

Ten miles outside Chang'an City, the Pavilion is a place where he must pass.

Near lunchtime, there was a horse galloping in front of him, a black and shiny horse, a knight in a black robe wearing a tung oil hat, the people and horses were integrated, and it was as fast as a whirlwind.

"Father-in-law!" The moon slave shouted in surprise, took three steps forward and knelt down on both knees, "Unfilial daughter greets your father-in-law!" ”

The knight in one leg flew off the horse and landed steadily, revealing a bright bald head with thick eyebrows and big eyes. On the saddle was a large black gourd, which was dangling from side to side.

Xue Shao couldn't help but be a little surprised in his heart, it stands to reason that Wu Ming should also be a middle-aged uncle who is over forty years old, he actually looks like a young man in his twenties, this inner family's health preservation kung fu must be extremely cultivated!

Wu Ming strode forward and didn't take care of the moon slave, but stopped in front of Xue Shao, smiled and folded his hands, "Wu Ming greets the second son!" ”

"The master is exempt. With Master Lao escorting him all the way, where is my brother? Xue Shao returned the salute.

Wu Ming has been serving in the Xue family for eleven years, known as a retainer, but in fact he was a close friend of Xue's father before his death, and he was a "minister who entrusted orphans" who was ordered by danger. No one in the Xue family treats him as a person and respects him very much.

"The prince and his wife will be here soon." Wu Ming replied, blinked his eyes twice, and said with some curiosity, "I haven't seen you for two years, the second son is like being reborn, so radiant and extraordinary, the poor monk is almost unrecognizable!" ”

"The master praises." Xue Shao smiled and looked at the moon slave who was kneeling beside him.

Wu Ming turned around at this time, "You get up." ”

"Thank you, Father-in-law!" The moon slave stood up, tears pouring down.

"It's not promising!" Wu Ming scolded, "Such a big person, still crying nose!" ”

"Forgiveness of sins by the Father...... The moon slave really misses his father-in-law so much! The moon slave's tears flowed even more fiercely.

Wu Ming smiled, stretched out a hand and wiped it under her eyelid, "Have you had a good life to serve the second son in the past two years?" Have you ever caused trouble? ”

"Master, the moon slave is very good." Xue Shao smiled.

Wu Ming nodded with a satisfied smile, and bowed to Xue Shao with his hands folded, "Thank you Second Son for taking care of me, a stubborn righteous daughter who is not a weapon, Wu Ming is grateful!" ”

"The master is serious." Xue Shao smiled and said, "Yuenu is now my right-hand man, and my daily life and the big and small things in the mansion are no longer inseparable from her. ”

"Oh?" Wu Ming was shocked and immediately laughed, "When did these stupid girls with five big and three thick become so capable?" ”

"Father-in-law, I ...... I! The moon slave was a little anxious, wiping tears while trying to argue, but he didn't know what to say.

Wu Mingha laughed.

Xue Shao felt that this Wu Ming was rough and unrestrained, and the atmosphere was easy-going. But his two eyes are very poisonous, like two dagger blades, which can directly pierce people's hearts, and they don't look like the kind of monks at all.

Yuenu said that he "killed countless people", so the description of "reading countless people" may be a little insulting to him.

A moment later, two carriages and a few horsemen came in turn, and Xue Shao stood on the side of the road and bowed. The carriage stopped, and a man in his thirties stepped down from the carriage and shouted, "Erlang! ”

The joy is beyond words!

When can we be brothers?

"Little brother greets brother!"

The eldest brother is like a father, Xue Shao was about to bend his knees and bow down, but Xue Yi strode forward and held him with both hands.

"Erlang doesn't have to be so gifted, let my brother take a look! I haven't seen you for two years, and I want to be a brother! ”

"Brother, don't come all right?" Xue Shao looked up at him and saw that his eyes were red and moist, and his enthusiasm was beyond words.

The two brothers look so similar, and Xue Yi is fifteen years older than Xue Shao. Maybe it's because of hard work, Xue Yi, who is also a beautiful man, looks older than his actual age. The two brothers are standing together, and they really look like a father and son.

"I haven't seen you for two years, Erlang has changed a lot!" Xue Yi looked at Xue Shao carefully from head to toe, and couldn't help but be a little surprised, "The body is sturdy, and it is much calmer than before!" Erlang has really grown into a man who stands up to the sky! ”

Xue Shao smiled: "Big brother, I have already done the crown ceremony. ”

"Come!" Xue Yi pulled Xue Shao to the second carriage, "Meet your sister-in-law, she is talking about you every day!" ”

Xue Yi's wife, Xiao, was born in the top nobles of the Xiao family in Lanling. The most important family in the Tang Dynasty, the son of the Xue family married the daughter of the Lanling Xiao family, which can be regarded as a good match. When Xue Shao was only three years old, Xiao married into the Xue family, and experienced eighteen years of ups and downs with the Xue family.

Just like Xue Yi who "eldest brother is like father", Xiao has truly achieved "eldest sister-in-law like mother".

Xiao Shi is a famous lady who really reads poetry and books and grows up under the education of etiquette and music, and attaches great importance to etiquette. In a crowded place like the official road in the suburbs, she didn't show her head and got out of the car.

Xue Shao walked to the side of the car and bowed: "Xue Shao greets my brother and sister-in-law!" ”

"Erlang, hurry up and be exempt." Xiao Shi lifted the curtain and glanced at Xue Shao, so he also wore a palace hat when he showed up slightly, and his words were full of kindness and love, and he really said as earnestly as a mother, "I haven't seen you for two years, Erlang has grown into a rich and magnificent husband, and the slave family is very pleased!" ”

After a salute, Xue Yi asked Xue Shao to walk side by side with him, saying that he wanted to walk a few steps after riding in the car for too long, and he also took a good look at the magnificent scenery of Jingshi after two years of absence. The two brothers chatted about some parents, and Xue Shao also asked about the situation of the third brother Xue Xu, who was in Jeju with the eldest brother. Xue Yi said that Xue Xu's wife, Cheng, was pregnant and it was inconvenient to travel far away, so she didn't come with her this time.

"Erlang, you see that San Lang is about to become a father at the age of twenty, but you are still romantic and attached to flowers, and you refuse to start a family." After a few words of gossip, Xue Yi really cut to the chase, "In the past, my brother never talked about you about these things. But how dare you even provoke Princess Taiping? ”

Xue Shao smiled helplessly and said, "Big brother, no matter how bold the little brother is, he won't provoke Princess Taiping!" ”

"So, someone with good deeds recommended you?" Xue Yi frowned, obviously quite dissatisfied with the "recommended person".

Xue Shao nodded, "Originally, the younger brother was just forced to have a reluctance to socialize, and he made up his mind to find a bad luck in Princess Taiping and be disgusted by her, so I thought that this matter should be over." Who would have thought that by mistake, I would be entangled with her! ”

"What's going on?"

Xue Shao briefly told him about the heroes of Longshouchi who saved the beauty and beat the beauty, as well as some things later. Of course, Zhang Miao's matter was definitely not mentioned.

"Could it be providence?" Xue Yi stood still, cutting his back with one hand and stroking his hair with the other, and made a solemn expression of "speechless looking at the sky".

There is no doubt that Xue Yi is not optimistic about this marriage at all, which is not unexpected by Xue Shao. In Xue Kegou's words, marrying a wife has to buy an official mansion on the princess's land, and the nobles of the scholarly family are not interested in marrying a princess at all. In addition, after Father Xue married Princess Chengyang, because Princess Chengyang was involved in the witch case and was exiled for so many years, how much did the family suffer? It wasn't until the two parents were lying in the coffin that they returned to Chang'an, which was a lesson from the past.

"What worries my brother?" Xue Shao asked tentatively.

Xue Yi's eyebrows furrowed, and he asked rhetorically: "As a brother, can you not be worried?" ”

Xue Shao smiled confidently, "Big brother, you should have confidence in me." Princess Taiping will be a satisfactory daughter-in-law of the Xue family. ”

"It doesn't matter how Princess Taiping is." Xue Yi said, "The key is that she has a high-flying and powerful mother. ”

Xue Shao listened patiently.

Xue Yi frowned deeply and said, "This woman is by no means an ordinary good person. She is resourceful and extremely good at power, capable of what others can't dare to do, and treats the common etiquette as nothing, unscrupulous means to achieve the goal, and the six relatives don't recognize their hearts and are ruthless......"

Xue Shao didn't say a word, and patiently listened to Xue Yi count Wu Zetian for no less than fifteen minutes. One thing is now that Xue Shao is sure that Xue Yi has not studied much is really good, he has said for so long basically there is not a single repeated adjective, and of course there are not a few good words. If his words were recorded, it would have been a brilliant battle essay.

"Hey......" Xue Yi ended his essay with a long sigh, and then said: "The imperial court decree summoned me to Beijing to discuss marriage, and when I saw that the handwriting on the decree was beautiful and clear, it must have come from a woman's hand, and my heart was already half cold. If it is His Majesty's Majesty, the Queen of Heaven may come forward to stop it; But if it is a queen of heaven, it must be unavoidable. ”

Xue Shao couldn't help but smile, "Big brother, you're right. At this point, it is useless to complain. ”

"You're saying it easy." Xue Yi smiled bitterly, "Our Xue family has always had a grudge against her, in case she wants to turn her face one day...... You think to yourself, she can't even accommodate her own son, how can she put a foreign surname in her eyes? ”

"Big brother, what kind of grudge?" Xue Shao asked.

Xue Yi turned around and walked to the side of the official road and stopped on the bank of a canal, avoiding idle eyes and ears, before he said: "Sixteen years ago, in the first year of Qide, our family was exiled, and you were only four or five years old at that time, and you didn't know a lot of things. ”

"Then why don't you tell me, brother?" Xue Shaodao.

Xue Yi looked into the distance with a solemn expression, as if he had fallen into boundless painful memories, and said leisurely: "That year, a lot really happened. Shangguan Yi's plot to depose the queen failed, the family was wiped out, and the abolished prince Li Zhong was implicated and given to death, and there were not a few ministers who fell with it. Then Empress Wu began to listen to the government and was called the queen of heaven, and the two saints began to come. It was at that time that my mother was involved in the witch Gu case and was stripped of the title of princess, my father was removed from the post of general Zuo Fengchenwei, and our family was demoted from the Jingshi - you, understand? ”.

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