The two of them drove out of the royal city and into the inner city.

There were a lot of people on the streets of the inner city, and the market was full of people, and the child felt that it was not inferior to the commercial streets of later generations, but the goods were different. After passing through the market, turn left to the east side of the inner city, and two large courtyards come into view. The white walls and black roofs reflect the weeping willows that have turned yellow outside the courtyard, which looks quiet and quiet.

The two got out of the car, and Zishou pointed to the courtyard on the right and said, "This is my Shouwang Mansion, and on the left is your Haocheng (Taiyuan, Shanxi) Houfu." Let's go, I'll take you to see it first. ”

The child fell in love with this new home all of a sudden. Zishou had just entered the courtyard gate with Zi Qi, and he heard the sound of carriages and horses in the door, and he greeted him early.

In front of him was a manservant in his sixties, hunched over.

Zishou said to Zi Qi: "This is my old servant named Wudu, who is old and loyal. Then he pointed to a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl behind him and said, "That's his little grandson named Yishu, these two servants will give it to you!" ”

Yi Shu was very timid, and she didn't dare to look up, and Ziqi didn't fail to see her face clearly. Behind them stood Xian Nong and Xia Nong, both of whom were surprised when they saw Zi Qi.

Ziqi was about to speak, when a little girl of twelve or thirteen years of age ran from behind them, richly dressed, with big eyes and small lips. was looking at him curiously, followed by Fei Xian and Nu Jiang.

Zishou immediately smiled when he saw the little girl, and asked lovingly, "Ziying, why did you come here?" ”

The little girl looked innocent, and she was not timid at all, she tilted her head and looked at Ziqi and said, "I'm here to see Brother Siwang, I haven't seen what he looks like?" "It turned out to be for the little princess.

Ziqi bent down, "Are you coming to see me?" ”

Ziying nodded, looking at Zi Qi with big eyes, "You are my fourth royal brother?" Why wasn't he in the palace before? Do you live far away? ”

Ziqi liked her very much, hugged her and said, "Yes, I live in a far, far away place. ”

Xiao Ziying stretched out her little hand, touched Ziqi's face and said, "You don't look like your father!" "A sentence didn't scare the sub-period to death.

She looked at Zishou again and said, "You are not as tall as the three kings!" ”

Zishou hugged her from Ziqi's arms and said, "Your fourth brother has just returned to Chaoge, and he hasn't rested yet, so I'll come to see him tomorrow." I'll send you back to the palace, isn't it a hurry if your father can't see you? ”

After speaking, she picked her up and walked towards the chariot, Ziying looked unhappy, "I'm not going back, I want to see Zi Qi!" I'm going to see the sub-period! She was so angry that she didn't even call Brother Wang. Zishou turned around and said, "Zi Period, you go back to the house to rest, and I will send Ziying back to the palace." ”

Zi Qi answered, walked up to Fei Xian and Nu Jiang and asked, "Why are you two here?" ”

Fei Xian said with a smile: "His Royal Highness the Third Prince said that there are few people in your mansion, so let me come." When Ziqi saw the flush on her face, he knew he was lying.

He turned to Wu Du and said, "Let's go and prepare wine and food first, I'm hungry!" ”

Wu Du bowed his waist in response, and led Yishu to the west chamber, and Fei Xian took Nu Jiang to go with him.

Ziqi looked around with his hands behind his back, and walked to the back, he wanted to get acquainted with his new home. Xian Nong and Xia Nong glanced at each other and quietly followed behind Zi Qi. Ziqi looked back at them and asked, "Are you still used to living?" The sisters nodded slightly.

This Haocheng Houfu is very large, and the pattern is similar to that of the courtyard houses of later generations. There are nine main rooms, thirteen rooms on each side, and six gatehouses in front. The patio is spacious and surrounded by a few peach and plum trees.

Turning the moon gate on the side of the main house, the backyard is a garden, which is also very spacious, with pavilions and grass houses, trees and plum bamboos. There are nine main rooms at the back, firewood rooms on both sides, and three warehouses each. Ziqi liked the seclusion here very much, and turned around and instructed Xian Nong to say: "You go and tell Wudu, just say that I live here, and let him go to Shouwang's Mansion to pick up the people from Chifeng Village." ”

Xian Nong agreed, and the sub-period turned around again, feeling that there was too much bamboo on the east side. Affecting the lighting of the main house, it looks gloomy, and I already have a proposition in my heart.

Ziqi sat down on the stone bench and looked at this piece of bamboo in a daze. I was worried about He Bu and them, and I didn't know if he had found Dan'er's grandchildren these days. Xia Nong quietly approached him and asked cautiously, "Why are you unhappy, do you want to be the princess again?" ”

Ziqi smiled hard, "What about you?" Have you ever wondered? ”

Shanon nodded, "I've always thought that Princess Yu has always been good to both of us sisters. If it weren't for Princess You's protection of us, Liefu would have married us to the ghost Fang people as concubines. She was bitter and we never saw her smile. ”

Ziqi listened to it and felt even more depressed, he was a person who never liked to be depressed. He stood up all of a sudden and said, "Don't talk about this, are you happy to be here?" Xia Nong nodded, and Ziqi teased her and said, "Then I don't want to laugh at one, or I'll give you one?" ”

Shanon really smiled happily, and he was very cute.

Ziqi pinched her round pretty face lovingly, and he didn't notice Xiannon coming over in the slightest. Xiannon shouted in the distance: "Your Highness, they are here!" ”

Ziqi hurriedly put down his hand and shouted to Xiannong, "Let them all come over!" Let Wudu come over too! ”

In a moment, Wu Du brought Li Hong and a group of clansmen from Li Jiao, as well as some of the Flying Tiger team members, forty or fifty people from Hulala. One of the team members handed the two burdens to Ziqi and said, "Your Highness, the things brought back by the Black Wind Village are here!" ”

Ziqi took out two pieces of jade from the baggage at random, handed them to Wu Du and said, "Uncle Wu, you go to the bazaar, exchange these two pieces of jade for money, and leave them in the mansion to spend." Is that enough? Not enough for me to get it for you. ”

Wu Du saw that Ziqi called him Uncle Wu, and he was so frightened that his waist bent even more. took the jade in his hand and looked at it, and said with sincere fear: "Your Highness, you can just call the old slave witch, these two pieces of jade have been exchanged for Qianbei, which is enough for these people in the house to eat and wear for a year, enough!" ”

Ziqi doesn't understand these anyway, "It's enough, then you can go quickly, buy more firewood, rice, oil and salt, our house has a large population." Then he sent two men with him.

Li Jiao walked over this time and asked, "Second brother, what are you looking for us to do here?" ”

Ziqi pointed to the piece of bamboo in front of him and said, "Cut down these bamboos, just leave a dozen young ones!" With that, he took his two burdens and went to the main house at the back of the garden, and he chose the largest room. Push the door in, and see that the tables and furniture inside are ready-made. He put the burden on the table, and when he opened it, there were more than a dozen wolf tails inside.

This is, Xiannon followed, Ziqi took out a wolf tail from it, and let her put the rest in a dry and ventilated place. He handed her the bag of jade and said, "This is worth a lot of money." ”

Seeing that he trusted him so much, Xiannon's face flushed with excitement.

When the child period walked out of the house, most of the bamboo was cut down, and the child period was secretly happy, "There are still many people who are good at work!" Li Jiao asked: "Second brother, what to do with these bamboos, should they be used as firewood?" ”

Ziqi hurriedly stopped, "Brother, this is a good thing, how can it be burned?" Some of them are used in the front yard to make weapon racks, and some of them are used to hang sandbags. "After saying that, I went over and commanded everyone. It didn't take an hour to make an armory rack in the front yard, and two sandbag racks stood on both sides of the gate.

Li Jiao looked at the two bags dangling in confusion and asked, "I still don't understand, what are you doing hanging these two things?" Ziqi smiled, walked over to open the stance, and punched the sandbag more than a dozen times in a row. Li Jiao laughed, "I understand, I like this!" ”

In the sub-period, everyone was asked to cut the bamboo into sections, split them into narrow slices, eliminate the bamboo thorns with between, and scrape them smooth and straight with a knife. The child chose some thin bamboo branches suitable for making pen tubes, and one received his own room, and a bamboo forest was wiped out in this way, and before eating, these soldiers had already dug out the bamboo roots, and the ground was leveled.

Ziqi looked at these energetic soldiers and thought to himself: "These wolf-like guys really have to find something for them to do, and they can't do it if they stay, and it's easy to get into trouble." ”

After thinking about it, Ziqi called Li Jiao and said, "Brother, you and the third brother will take them to live in the front yard in the future, and take care of them." Don't go to the backyard if you have nothing to do, there are women living in it. If you have nothing to do, find a way to find something for them to do, and if you really have nothing to do, take them to practice. ”

Li Jiao nodded, "Second brother, don't worry!" ”