As soon as the car crossed the Baqiao and left the willow trees on both sides of the embankment, Cui Qiniang's coughing in the carriage behind him gradually stopped.

However, the family who set off this morning to deliver a letter to the Wang family in Chang'an has not yet returned, and the person sent by the Wang family to pick up the Cui sisters has not appeared. Du Shiyi originally planned to entrust it to someone. went back to Fanchuan Duqu's old house first, and didn't enter Chang'an City first, but now that no one came, he could only be a good person to the end and send people to the west. As Chang'an City got closer and closer, he who had been living in Luoyang for several months was naturally not as amazed and emotional, however, when he came to the downstairs of the Mingde Gate City, the first gate of Chang'an immediately came with a terrifying momentum.

The five doorways of the Mingde Gate, nearly 20 zhang from east to west, each doorway is extremely deep, at a glance, only the inside is extremely dark, and in this daylight there is a blazing torch in the most zhōngyāng place to illuminate the way in and out. In the five doorways, the main gate in the middle is closed, and in the four doorways in the east and west, the two doorways on the most edge of one east and one west have four ruts, which can be used for two cars in parallel, west in and east out, in an orderly manner. However, when Du Shiyi and his party were about to go to the westernmost doorway, they suddenly saw a group of people riding out at the east gate, and the person in front of them saw that they were ox carts and carriages, and they were accompanied by Ding Hao's mighty line, and immediately shouted.

"Shiro-kun, Twenty-five Lang and Seventeen Ladies have arrived!"

With that voice, the people in the other side immediately followed the prestige, and then a group of riders came out in line, and when they came to the front, they smiled and arched their hands and said, "But Du Langjun and the two Wang Langjun? Thank you for your hard work all the way and sending me a pair of cousins to Chang'an, Wang Rongting is grateful. ”

Wang Wei had heard that Cui Twenty-five Lang and Cui Seventeen Niang's mother were from the Taiyuan Wang family, although they did not have the main lineage of the branch, but they were always stronger than their own family, which was already a distant branch. Therefore, if the other party claims to be the fourth king of Taiyuan, he will inevitably be embarrassed. At this moment, the young man in his early twenties saluted with a smile, and claimed his name, and hid the county wang, he immediately had a good impression of him, and said a few more words of greeting because of the same surname. And Du Shiyi listened to this Wang Rongting explained apologetically, saying that there was a delay in the family when he received the news, and he was sincere, where would he pursue anything, zuihou or Cui Xiaofat in the carriage impatiently pushed the car door and jumped down.

"Fourth cousin, how long do you have to drag it out, it's almost dark to close the city gate curfew!"

I haven't seen him for many years, and this little fat man is still so unlikable!

Wang Rongting glanced at people helplessly, and then warmly invited everyone to go to the royal mansion in Guangdefang tonight. This journey took too much time, Wang Wei had stayed too long after meeting his younger brother Wang Jin in the Eastern Capital, and the house he rented in Chang'an earlier had already been temporarily withdrawn, so Wang Rongting invited him with the same surname, and he immediately agreed. And Du Shiyi originally planned to take Du Shisanniang back to Fanchuan Duqu first, but it was really not early to see that it was not too early at the moment, if there was no one living in the old mansion, he would have to find another way before dark, and he would not be polite.

However, Wang Rongting watched the little fat man's cousin climb into the carriage without saying a word, and raised his eyebrows in some confusion. This little guy used to be bored with horse-drawn carriages, and he loved to ride a high-headed horse to swagger through the city, and he also made a pair of stirrups.

Guangdefang is located in the west of Anhuamen Street, from the north of the sixth square. At this moment, it is late, the pedestrians on the road are about to be banned at night, all of them are in a hurry, fortunately there is Wang Rongting to guide the way, everyone enters the city from Mingde Gate and goes all the way north through Zhuque Street, turns west on Yanxingmen Street, and then goes north to Anhuamen Street, and enters the square from the east side of Guangdefang. When I went to the palace in the northwest corner from the cross street, I passed by the Jingzhao Mansion in the southeast corner, which occupies a quarter of the square. At this time, the Jingzhao Mansion was obviously past the time to run errands, and there were only flags rustling in the wind at the door, as well as a neat row of dismounting stones and horse-tethering posts, and the two soap-shirted men in front of the door stood straight. After passing this cross main street, turning north into a cross street, Du Shiyi saw the gatehouse of the royal mansion in a short time.

The owner of the Wang family, that is, Wang Rongting's father, Wang Qinglan, is now a member of the official household department, from the sixth grade. In the Tang Dynasty, where the central officials have always been jīng Jane, they can reach this rank, even if they are from a family, they may not be able to get it, but compared with Cui Tai's brother Cui Ge, the title and official position are naturally inferior, and the family house seems to be much simpler from the outside. However, entering through the simple gate, bypassing the lonely and solemn main hall in the middle, which is not extremely tall, entering the second gate from the back, and following Wang Rongting through several courtyards for a while, Du Shiyi couldn't help but sigh secretly.

The style of the Northland is mainly open and square, and the owner of the Wang family has also done the same in the layout of other courtyards just now, but the courtyard facing him is very different. In the middle of the courtyard is a pond with a winding wooden bridge erected over it, and there is a mountain in zhōngyāng, and after walking across the wooden bridge, there is a chic small building at the end, and there are corridors on the east and west sides. When she got closer, Du Shiyi found that the first floor of the small building was full of columns without shelter, and it was completely open, but in the middle, I saw a small number of couch screens, etc., and the polished and smooth varnished wooden floor seemed to have been carefully wiped by someone, and it seemed to be able to shine a human figure. In winter, there is still a need for enclosure, but now chūnrì is the brightest.

Wang Rongting meets Cui

The little fat man's eyes lit up immediately when he saw this, and he immediately smiled: "Knowing that Twenty-five Lang and Seventeen Niang are coming to live here, Grandpa has instructed to vacate your favorite Ran Lou." ”

"It's better to be uncle!"

Cui Xiaochubby, who had been holding a strained face, cheered, and finally lost the sequelae of almost dying during the journey, and rushed towards the north stairs quickly. However, he had barely stepped up the stairs with one foot when he heard a cough from behind him. Along the way, he was used to hearing this voice, and instinctively turned his head, but when he saw Du Shiyi talking and laughing with Wang Rongting as if he had nothing to do, he suddenly hated itchy, but after all, he reluctantly returned to Cui Qiniang's side. Faced with this change, Wang Rongting's heart suddenly became even more curious.

The five rooms on the second floor are partitioned, the east side is the study, the west side is the bedroom, and the middle room is used for living and meeting guests. However, when Cui Qiniang and Cui Xiaochuan came to live here, it was five years ago, the sisters were still young, and living together naturally made it, and now that the old land is revisited, Cui Qiniang almost didn't want to think about it and said: "Brother, now that you are older, I will give you a place to live alone." ”

Cui Xiaofat liked it the most, and was about to say yes, but he couldn't help but glance at Du Shiyi. Although the person didn't glance at him at all, he still changed his words and said: "Today, Brother Du Nineteen and Brother Wang Thirteen and Brother Wang Fifteen are guests, this main building should naturally invite them to live, I live in the east corridor room, and my sister and the thirteen ladies of the Du family can live in the west corridor room." rì after this main building for my sister to live in. ”

If he was just wondering before, then at this moment, Wang Rongting is truly surprised. This little fat man is still polite? Du Shiyi secretly stopped the Wang brothers who wanted to resign humbly, and glanced at them with a smile.

Cui Qiniang looked at her younger brother in disbelief, and her face was full of astonishment for a while before she hurriedly said, "How can this be done......"

"What's not good, what's mine is yours, what's yours is mine, you're my sister, I'll have the final say on this matter!" After making the decision arbitrarily, he heard a faint drum sound outside, and Cui Xiaofat stretched his waist and said, "Fourth cousin, it's late, but do you have something to eat?" I'm starving! ”

"Naturally, you can't starve to death!" Wang Rongting really couldn't show his brother's serious attitude towards Cui Xiaofat, and after scolding with a smile, he explained to Du Shiyi and the Wang brothers, "For now, I just brought you here to settle down first, and then went to the dormitory to see A-Niang, and the kitchen was ready." ”

The Tang Dynasty is open, and the noblewomen of the ministers' homes are often not taboo to see male guests, not to mention that Du Shiyi is a young junior, and has a lot of roots with the Cui family, Wang Wei and Wang Jin's brothers have the same surname, Wang Qinglan's wife Zheng After seeing everyone in the dormitory, she smiled and pulled Du Shisanniang and Cui Shiqiniang to sit down beside her, and then ordered someone to serve wine and food. As several food tables were placed in front of everyone one by one, she motioned for Wang Rongting to personally step forward to pour wine for Du Shiyi and Wang Wei, and then said with a smile: "Luoyang to Chang'an Fan is more than 800 miles, you have come all the way, I heard that there have been some delays, it is really hard." If you don't mind, stay at home a little longer. ”

Staying overnight tonight is because each has its own inconveniences, but staying in the Wang family for a long time, whether it is Du Shiyi or Wang Wei and Wang Jin, it is naturally impossible to accept this politeness as a blessing calmly. For a while, Du Shiyi explained that he wanted to take Du Shisanniang back to Fanchuan's old house, but Wang Wei humbly said that he already had a house to rent, and the Zheng family no longer insisted on it. After a meal, she knew that everyone was struggling all the way, so she ordered Liu Yuan, the most trustworthy person around her, to send them back, but left Wang Rongting behind.

"I see that this Du Jiulang and Wang Shisanlang and Wang Shishilang are all Fengyi's outstanding and dignified people. Wang Shisanlang used to enter and exit the princess in the capital, everyone said that he was a handsome man, and I still had some doubts, but now I know that the rumors are true. However, this Du Jiulang was famous in the past, and then he suddenly said that Jiang Lang was exhausted, but he became famous in a few years, which is really unpredictable. ”

"It's hard to say how the two Wang Langjun are, but Du Jiulang is the person that the late Mrs. Qi Guotai fancies, otherwise, Zhao Guogong would not have specially written a letter to ask Grandpa to take care of it in the coming year's Shangshu Provincial Dutang Provincial Examination. You need to know that the test has not been passed, so how can you save the test? However, I really didn't expect Twenty-Five to have someone who was afraid. Wang Rongting explained Cui Xiaofat's strange appearance to his mother, and said with a smile, "I looked at Twenty-five Lang in front of him, and he was a lot more honest than before." ”

"He's almost thirteen, so he should know something." The Zheng family also remembered the bad temper of Cui Twenty-five Lang's nephew, and after hearing this, he thought about it, and suddenly remembered something more important, "It's already a curfew, your grandfather went to visit Kaifu Yi and the third secretary Qi Guogong today, why haven't you come back?" It's just that because of the friendship of the same surname, he was dragged and had to respond to the story, and Qi Guogong is not the main branch of the Taiyuan Wang family, isn't it too conspicuous to stay for so long? ”

"Grandpa shouldn't know this truth." Wang Rongting frowned and pondered for a moment, then suddenly muttered to himself, "Unless ......"

"Unless what?"

"Unless Qi Guogong is not a minor illness, but a serious illness!"

Note: King Renjiao of the Kingdom of Qi, the father of King Xuanzong and the queen.