Canton, Longque Garden,

Xin Jiaxuan sat in a particularly lush flowery bush, blowing the cool breeze from the nearby rockery waterfall, and slowly tasted the new tea harvested after the rain.

Because it is approaching the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the house began to get busy early to prepare for the festival.

From bundles of calamus wormwood to large barrels and boxes of realgar and cinnabar, they have all been piled up in the side courtyard where the miscellaneous servants are located, and in the kitchens of dozens of people, eel, pork, shiitake mushrooms, dried shrimps, peanuts, salted egg yolks, shallots, chestnuts, dried oysters, and even honey beans, jujube paste, peach kernels, walnuts and other vegetarian zongzi fillings have been prepared.

During this period, there was even a domestic dragon boat team, which had already started training on Xiaojiang's private dock.

Just to participate in the Dragon Boat Festival held a few days later, in the coastal sea outside the Polo Temple. In addition, there are traditional festival sports such as horse racing, polo, fighting ball, and running races left over from the previous dynasty.

At that time, the slightly well-off folk houses in the four miles and eight towns will make human shapes called Ai people with calamus, mugwort leaves, pomegranate flowers, garlic, dragon boat flowers, and banyan branches, and then parade through the streets to drive away plague ghosts and plague demons and so on.

It's really lively,

The life of the newlywed Yan'er is undoubtedly sweet and comfortable. It's just that he still feels that something is missing.

Is it the sound of military trumpets and passwords in the barracks in the roar of guns and fireworks, or the simple smiling faces that are cruising between the fields, facing the land with their backs to the sky, and constantly sweating; Or in the construction site and the port area, those who are sweating together and shouting the trumpet......

Accustomed to going out early and returning late in Huaidong, busy and chaotic daily life; After returning to Guangfu, it took him almost a long time to adjust to the slow and upper-class rhythm of high society.

He is like falling into a complex web of interpersonal relationships woven by power and fame and fortune, in which he can only involuntarily do some things against his will, say some insincere nonsense, and get some superficial recognition and praise.

During that time, even if there was a newlywed wife who was familiar with the upper class of communication for him, and the Yue family was doing most of the unnecessary rituals and mattresses for him, it still made him feel a little physically and mentally exhausted and overwhelmed.

It was as if most of the people he had seen were just another group of creatures who existed for the purpose of extravagant social life day and night.

In the midst of them, they must try their best to hide their true intentions and character, and cannot easily reveal and express their true thoughts, or ideals and beliefs, which are regarded as naïve and ridiculous;

The goodwill and friendliness in name should even be understood in negative terms according to the positions of the factions and factions; Otherwise, if you are not careful, you will fall into an invisible whirlpool called party strife, or personal grievances and contradictions, and it will be difficult to extricate yourself.

Hidden under the extravagance and richness of the lights, it was his insomnia again and again that tossed and turned, and even questioned and reflected on the essence of his pursuit and struggle to this point.

Only a few times when I went out to sea with Lu Wuguan to go fishing, docked a boat to drink and reminisced about the past and watched the sea and chanted, or accompanied Lu Ni to the mountain temple in the suburbs to watch incense and ask for blessings, I could get some peace of mind and peace.

Some time ago, there was even news that Sun Jingbang, the general of the New North People's Party in North Korea, seemed to take a fancy to him and intended to transfer him to the General Outline Counselor's Office as a four-rank Beirong counselor.

And his position in Huaizhen was succeeded by Liu Yanqing, the son of Liu Shaoneng, the old commander of the deputy envoy of the privy council, and the rear general of the model new army and the envoy of Fancheng.

The reason put forward by those people is also very simple, the brother-in-law needs to avoid suspicion in the same town.

However, with the announcement of the imperial court that Liu Shaoneng was the head of the Huainan camp, the matter seemed to be diluted again.

Then, some of Lu's inbred elders threw out, hinting at how much strength he had in it, hoping that he would be able to respond or repay him when he was in Huaidong in the future......

This is really unreasonable, or a clever word.

Then, there were some people who came to him with true and false news, good and bad news about Huaidong, hoping to get something from him, after all, he is now a vassal.

Then, there was also clear news that the imperial court intended to raise the specifications of the outer towns, and sent a new military appearance observation envoy to Huaidong from the palace studies of the Great Interior, as well as a military pre-commissioner who was filled by an internal official.

Therefore, some people who are interested in this also began to move to him through various channels, just to mix friendships and face familiarity, or to inquire about the specific situation of Huaidong; Some of them are still unavoidable and refusal, which is undoubtedly annoying and troublesome.

Fortunately, there is also his newlywed wife Lu Ni, who can tolerate him empathetically, and his eldest brother Lu Wuguan is guiding and helping him in his daily life, so that his days in Guangfu are not so sad.

It's just that no matter how troubled and impatient he is, he has to pinch his nose and endure it for a while. Because after the Dragon Boat Festival, another big event of the Dragon Bird Garden Luo will follow.

His eldest brother Lu Wuguan will marry his fingertip according to the wishes of his elders, and his cousin of childhood sweetheart, a very influential wealthy family in Luzon Sanzhou, known as Tang Wan, the daughter of the Tang family of the "Half Ten Thousand Family".

And he has to act as the main male guest, with the wedding procession to the Tang Clan Pavilion in Zuocheng to greet his relatives, and sing and hypnotic poems in front of the door.

It is said that Lu's offer was a blank letter of the lord, and the other party was a local plantation of 5,000 yuan, a small fleet between Canton and Luzon, and more than 100 slaves and craftsmen of all kinds.

In addition, some of the Tang firms enjoy dividends, although the market is a little bad today, but they can still provide three or four thousand yuan of input.

In contrast, although his marriage to Lu Ni is also called luxurious and lively, it is somewhat dwarfed; As Lu Ni's dowry, there is an 80-acre farm on the outskirts of the city, which can provide more than 800 yuan of income every year.

Even the Sanjin Mansion on Guangyuan Street, Wupingli, Guangdifang, Xiacheng, which was used to house the man's new home, was resold to him cheaply by the Luo Mansion in the name of the Borneo Association;

Of course, in this land where every inch of land is expensive, these two cases alone are quite rare industries, and without enough identity and means, even if you use more money, you can't buy them.

However, neither he nor Lu Ni are people who care about these people very much, they will only keep this kindness and intentions in their hearts.

But even if it is such a big event, there are still annoying places, such as those relatives and friends of the Lu family in the suburbs, so there are a lot of noises.

Some people even hinted at him vaguely and optimistically, although the influence of Lugong is gradually fading, but after a hundred years, there are still Lu Shilang and Lu Wuguan father and son, one inside and one outside, each echoing, and the Lu family has a pattern and atmosphere of rising and rejuvenating;

If you add the financial resources of the wealthy lord Tang Clan, it is already enough to compete with the town marshal who was born in the Yaye Luo Domain and accepted the daughter of the Yuwen Domain, and the tendency to fight and compete with each other in the court.

Once the Lu family and the Luo family compete, whether he is on which side, the love of Weng and the son-in-law or the grace of the encounter, or the center and the left and right, and his own benefit.

When he thought of this, he just couldn't tell the greasy and disgusting.

Why can't everyone work together to create more careers and new situations, instead of competing for their own strengths and weaknesses in the face of these ambitions and interests......

At the former site of Hangu Pass, in the deep gorge, the military flag is unfurled and the people are boiling.

"It's back after all......"

Wang Duanchen, the commander of the frontier capital and the deputy envoy of Shannan Dongdao to pacify, looked at the majestic Guancheng between the two mountains at the far end, and sighed.

Because, as long as you take here, you can completely cut off the most direct transportation links and backup channels between those half-hearted Western military feudal towns and Luodu in the Northern Dynasty.

If they wanted to support Luodu any longer, they had to go north from Shuofang Road to Yunzhong Road, and then south to Hedong Road, and then cross a large circle of the Yellow River, and if they wanted to march and transport large troops, they would have to pass through part of the territory of the princes of the Saiwai steppe.

"The reward on the back road hasn't been delivered yet......

He suddenly turned around.

"I'm already on the road, hurrying and hurrying ......"

Xuanfu, who accompanied the army, buried Liang Yi and hurriedly said

"A certain family will send someone to urge ...... again"

"This is also urgent......

Wang Duanchen continued at him

"After breaking a few levels in a row, the sons are already physically and mentally exhausted......"

"Even if you drive desperately, you can't move forward anymore......"

"I need more soldiers and armor ......"

Then he had a dry hand behind him.

"And where has the follow-up artillery team gone......"

After winning several levels in one go, the number of soldiers killed in battle reached more than 10,000, and the camp was full of light and serious injuries, so he had to stop again.

In fact, the closer he got to the original end, the more cautious he became, judging his words and deeds for fear of making mistakes and causing some accidents.

He even heard that there was such a rumor in the rear, saying that he was the general of the defeated army to be retained by the crime, and how could He De continue to be the first contributor to the second Northern Expedition.

If it weren't for the fact that changing generals for no reason is a taboo in the army, and no one is willing to bear the responsibility of changing the war, someone would have come to pick peaches a long time ago. Therefore, he preferred to use the safest and least likely way to be truthful or attacked, to ensure the outcome of the war.

Despite this, all kinds of people and others were successively stuffed under his command through various reasons and channels that he could not refuse. Just to get a little bit of luster on the fame and achievements of the Northern Expedition in the end.

For example, this one is obviously from a close branch of the country, and Liang Yiburi, the Xuanfu envoy who squeezed out his predecessor, is the most typical representative.

As the sky gradually darkened, another style in the old road of Hangu Pass appeared in front of their eyes.

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