Chapter 299: The Rising Couple Have Two Hearts (2)
Wan'er and the slaves all looked at Gao Cheng in surprise. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Moonlight slowly raised her head, just in time to see that Gao Cheng had walked up to her and looked down at her. In the already intense sunlight, his skin was like congealed cream, and his eyes were shining. He was nothing, and Moonlight immediately blushed. I secretly hated myself in my heart, how could I still see him blushing and heartbeating.
Forced to compose, he turned his head sideways to avoid his gaze. "The concubine is not good at this, and if she does not serve well, she will cause trouble to the general."
Few people dare to disobey Gao Cheng so much.
Wan'er and the slaves were so frightened that they were jumping around.
Gao Cheng glanced at the cages again, and said lightly, "It seems that my younger brother and sister are really estranged from me, I just remember to visit the princess, why don't you visit me in Dongbai Hall?" I don't need a gift from my siblings, as long as I see my siblings coming, I'm already enjoying it. When he said that, he unconsciously brought a joke.
Moonlight suddenly raised his head and blurted out, "There are already beauties on the side of Dongbai Hall, why should the general give up the near and seek the far?" Her eyes looked at Gao Cheng, and her eyes were crystal clear.
Suddenly, I found that Gao Cheng smiled slightly, and there was a bit of mockery in his smile.
Moonlight suddenly remembered that what she had just said was a bit excessive, that was not what she should have said, the taste of jealousy was too obvious. She's not anybody, she doesn't have that power. What's more, I heard that he left the princess Yuan Zhonghua aside for that beauty, who is she?
"It turns out that this is for this," Gao Cheng said with a smile, "If my brother and sister are willing to come, I will send her back, leaving only my brother and sister alone." Isn't that good? ”
The words of the general were more staggering than one sentence, and the slaves and maids naturally didn't dare to say anything, and when Moonlight heard Gao Cheng compare her to a dancing girl, her face immediately turned gloomy. I blamed myself deeply, knowing that he was this temper, and he joked with her wantonly when he returned. I had already thought about ignoring him again, and I was teased by him again today.
"If the general is willing to wait here, just wait, concubine...... I was sick and couldn't accompany him, so I confessed. Moonlight turned and left.
Yueguang and Yuan Zhonghua were diagnosed as pregnant by the imperial doctor almost at the same time, but she didn't save the fetus as Yuan Zhonghua, and she lost the fetus first, so she didn't leave the house for a long time, let alone visit Yuan Zhonghua, and she had just recuperated at this time.
"Brother and sister stay." Gao Cheng didn't even think about it, so he reached out and pulled the moonlight.
Moonlight turned around angrily and hurriedly and said angrily, "The general has been here for so long and jokes have been made, what else can I do?" ”
After saying this, Yueguang calmed down in his heart, and simply looked at Gao Cheng with anger on his face.
Wan'er and all the slaves and maids also set their eyes on Gao Cheng, and they were all very scared, and they didn't know if the general would be angry.
However, everyone didn't expect that Gao Cheng let go of the moonlight. Moonlight didn't expect that his eyes were full of grievances and incomprehension. It's not for her to go, it's not for her to stay. But because he was teased too many times, he didn't dare to believe it easily.
Zihui just saw that her younger siblings were red and swollen when she first came in, as if she had cried, as if she was worried, and she just wanted to make her younger siblings laugh when she joked a few words, and there was no sense of banter. If the younger siblings don't like to hear it, Zihui doesn't say it. Gao Cheng explained. He didn't know that he was the one who bothered her, and that seeing him was her trouble.
Gao Cheng's seemingly cowardly appearance scared everyone. I've seen him domineering, I've seen him uninhibited, I've seen him domineering, I've seen him gentle, but I've never seen him so compromised.
Moonlight looked at him in disbelief. She couldn't be completely unmoved. He said it was because he had seen her eyes red and swollen when he first came in. Would he have looked at her so closely?
Wan'er believed it, because just now she was the only one who saw the moonlight's eyes red.
Gao Cheng still didn't know that Moonlight's eyes were red because he saw him.
"Zihui and you met before the second brother, how can I treat you as not knowing each other because you married my second brother. Now that you are my brother and sister, I naturally hope that Hou Niyu will treat you well. If I see that you are troubled, I will not ignore it. Since my younger siblings don't like me like this, I'll treat my younger siblings as if I don't know each other in the future. Gao Cheng looked at the moonlight, full of honesty.
Wan'er's heart was cold. She was cold for the moonlight. She believed that Gao Cheng was true when he said these words. It turned out that the general really didn't think about his housewife. Thinking about it, if the general was interested in his own master, he would have succeeded in Jinyang Tenglong Mountain a long time ago, how could he throw it away again and again. Those jokes are precisely because he really didn't care about her.
This is the most sincere thing Gao Cheng has ever said to Moonlight. But this is a clear refusal, and it is better for Moonlight not to have heard it. He didn't have any scruples, he didn't have to be afraid of anyone, just because he really didn't like her.
Gao Cheng turned around as if to leave, "If you go to my mansion to visit the eldest princess, you don't have to worry about me." ”
I don't know if it was because he remembered something, he turned around again. "I know you treat her sincerely, thank you." As he spoke, he actually waved at her.
"The general doesn't have to be so ......" Moonlight was frightened and overwhelmed. He actually thanked her for Yuan Zhonghua?
Gao Cheng straightened up. "I'll go to the front hall and wait for Hou Niyu." With that, he left.
Moonlight watched his back until it disappeared completely, and his heart was empty.
Wan'er glanced at the moonlight, and didn't dare to say anything more in front of the slaves and maids in the courtyard.
It's getting higher and higher, and it's a hot day in the summer.
The general Gao Cheng patiently waited quietly in the inner hall of the Taiyuan Mansion for his younger brother Taiyuan Duke Gao Yang to return to the mansion. I don't know why, he always feels that the mansion of Taiyuan Gong is very quiet. He didn't feel bored when he sat in the hall, but had a very comfortable feeling. He had never experienced this feeling in the Great General's Mansion or Dongbai Hall, and he had never experienced it in any other place. This kind of silence can make him feel very calm, and he can think through many things.
In the corner, a simple ox cart came slowly and slowly stopped in front of the first gate of the Taiyuan Mansion. Gao Yang, the prince of Taiyuan, who was dressed in a silk robe and wore a beam crown, got off the ox cart without hurry.
At this time, a blue-headed slave hurriedly came out of the mansion gate, ran to Gao Yang, and whispered close to Lord Lang. After saying a few words, Gao Yang frowned, but he didn't look too surprised, waved his hand to let the slave retreat, and walked towards the house with his usual gait.
Gao Cheng sat in the hall, the door was open, and he could just see a white lilac in the courtyard outside. This flower and tree is not a famous product, and the clusters of small white flowers gathered together look inconspicuous and not beautiful. Lilacs smell with a slightly bitter taste and do not have a pleasant aroma. I wonder if his brother noticed this lilac?
Gao Yang walked out from behind the lilac bushes. Gao Cheng perked up, and watched with great interest as this younger brother rushed over with a flushed face. The way he looked in his official uniform was ridiculous, and it didn't match his expression at all, as if he wasn't wearing his own clothes at all.
When Gao Yang walked in, he didn't know what he tripped under his feet, and he almost fell, looking even more embarrassed.
"General." Gao Yang steadied his feet, straightened up, raised his head to look at Gao Cheng and called. As if he was a little afraid of this big brother, he rubbed over step by step.
"Hou Niyu, where have you been? Look at your sweat. Gao Cheng asked quietly staring at Gao Yang's eyes.
"If I had known that my eldest brother was coming, I would have come back a long time ago. Big brother, there are a few newly trained dancers in my house, and they all dance white silk dances......" Gao Yang walked over and said to Gao Cheng incoherently, as if he had been waiting for these words for a long time, waiting for such an opportunity to meet his brother before he could tell him in person.
After Gao Yang finished speaking, he remembered that he hadn't saluted the general yet.
"Alright, alright......" Gao Cheng stood up and walked over and helped him up. It's rare that you think of me. ”
"As long as the eldest brother likes it, I will order them to dance the white silk dance for the eldest brother. Tonight, the eldest brother will stay in my house, and let them serve the eldest brother. Gao Yang received the praise as if he was encouraged, and smiled happily at his brother Gao Cheng.
"No need, no need." Gao Cheng took Gao Yang to the big bed he was sitting on just now, and affectionately pulled him to sit down together. "It's really quiet in your house." He rarely has been so affectionate with him.
Gao Yang smiled stupidly at Gao Cheng, "If the eldest brother comes often, it will be lively." ”
"You want me to come?" Gao Cheng looked at him and asked.
"Of course, as long as the eldest brother is willing, Hou Niyu likes the eldest brother to come often." Gao Yang's eyes were very sincere.
Gao Cheng stared at him for a long time and didn't speak.
Gao Cheng glanced sideways and outside, there was no one in the courtyard. When he turned his head again, his younger brother Gao Yang, who was sitting on the big bed across the short bed from him, still maintained his movements just now, leaning over and looking at him.
"Hou Niyu, Er is also the third division of Kaifu Yitong, have you ever discussed with your people about the conquest of Xikou?" Gao Cheng asked Gao Yang.
Gao Yang froze for a moment, smiled a little puzzled, and looked at Gao Cheng in confusion, "Big brother didn't let me think about this......"
"Don't you want to if I don't say it?" Gao Cheng saw that he was pretending to be stupid again, and he was a little impatient.
"Hou Niyu only knows what the general has to say, so he will do anything." Gao Yang blurted out.
"You are also a disciple of the Gao family, you are my younger brother, you can't just wait for me to tell you something, you will do something." Gao Cheng endured and taught him.
He knew that this brother often played dumb with him. It's not that he hasn't thought about it, but he doesn't believe that Gao Yang can do anything that is very rebellious to him. Even if he is a little clever, even if he is a little ambitious, he is just not satisfied with silence. If he had been honest with his brother, he would have appreciated him more.
Gao Cheng didn't believe that this younger brother, who had no great wisdom and was always stupid, could shake his position. If he wants power, he can give it to him. But after all, he is his younger brother, and he also knows that he has some talents, even if it is limited, he hopes in his heart that he can be his arm and can assist him wholeheartedly.
He'll give him a chance, and the rest will be up to him.
"Hou Niyu, me and Yuwen Black Otter will have to fight again sooner or later, what do you think?" Gao Cheng looked at Gao Yang, and couldn't say that he had no hope for him. He had the quickness to cut through the mess, maybe he could reset his train of thought?
"What my brother said is that there is no way to avoid it. Didn't the general have a three-year contract with Yuwen Black Otter?" Gao Yang asked tentatively.
"Three years pass in a flash, do you sit back and wait to die?" Gao Cheng sneered.
"What do you mean, big brother?" Gao Yang looked at Gao Cheng and asked.
What Gao Cheng did, of course he could see it clearly. It is also the election of officials, and the opening of the way, and the increase of salt tax to supplement military funds...... Which one is not a big deal, how could Gao Yang not see it, but he will show his eyes like a torch in front of Gao Cheng.
"The most headache is people, and people are indispensable in war." Gao Cheng sighed.
"What's so hard about that? If my brother has anything to do, just leave it to Hou Niyu to do. Gao Yang took the initiative to ask for help without even thinking about it.
"Can you do it?" Gao Cheng stared at Gao Yang.
"I don't know." Gao Yang didn't dodge his gaze, "Hu Niyu only knows that what my brother asked me to do is to do it with my life." ”
Gao Cheng was speechless, he decided to believe him once, and he also wanted to give him a chance.
"Yuwen Black Otter according to Guanzhong, Guanzhong has had a poor harvest year after year. Not to mention the shortage of barangsu, even the exile of the common people cannot ensure the number of conscripts. Since Cao Cao at the end of the Han Dynasty, Hebei Prefecture has always been the world is chaotic and peaceful, the world is weak and the world is strong, and the world is barren and abundant. Because of this, my father moved the capital from Luoyang to Yuye. Gao Cheng talked eloquently to Gao Yang.
Gao Yang saw that his brother was sitting in the middle of the room, his expression was a little lazy, but he was talking to him about such an important matter, but it was not as if he was sitting in a precarious position just now. It was the first time he had heard his brother talk to him about government affairs like this, and he didn't know that there were so many things in his chest. This was the first time he was so interested in what Gao Cheng said.
"Hebei Prefecture was originally rich in households." Gao Cheng didn't care what Gao Yang was thinking, and continued to say as usual. "It's just that since the chaos, there have been many escapes. What I want you to do is go and check your account. I can tell you plainly that there are many hidden treasures, and there will be a lot of gains. This is the source of soldiers to fight again with Yuwen Black Otter three years later. I'll leave it to you, Hunnyu. ”
So that's what happened.
Gao Yang didn't say anything and looked at Gao Cheng, as if he didn't understand at all. But in fact, he not only understood, but even admired his brother a little. In order to fight again with Yuwen Black Otter, Gao Cheng really put his mind to it. Especially in Hebei Prefecture and County, this decision is really accurate and effective, but no one has ever done this before.
Gao Yang knows the importance of searching people's homes. What is lacking in fighting a war in times of chaos is people, and a large number of people may not necessarily win, but no one is certainly not good. Searching for household registration not only has a source of soldiers, but also taxes, which is too important. He not only knew the importance of this matter, but also knew that when Gao Cheng mentioned the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, which prince occupied Hebei Prefecture and County would increase his strength greatly, just because of the truth Gao Cheng said. Since the Han Dynasty, because of intentional management, Hebei prefectures and counties have sufficient households, agriculture and mulberry are prosperous, and even some prefectures and counties have fish, salt, iron, chestnuts, and jujubes.
Gao Yang's judgment is the same as Gao Cheng's, and the search of the household registration must have gained a lot, which is a great thing, whether it is for Da Wei, for the Gao family, or for Gao Yang himself.
"What my brother said about Hou Niyu didn't understand it for a while, but the general's orders Hou Niyu must do his best." Gao Yang seemed to have just reflected and gladly accepted the order.
Gao Cheng was also very happy when he heard him agree. He shifted his body, leaned on the table, and changed into a comfortable and casual position. "That's very good. You can find a trustworthy person and appoint him as an ambassador to the household, and you will be at your disposal. When this is done, I will reward you with great things. Gao Cheng unconsciously took out Lord Lang's style.
"Hou Niyu didn't dare to ask for a reward, but there was something I wanted to ask my eldest brother to answer." Gao Yang said with a smile.