In the following days, Qi Jingtong did his filial piety in front of Mrs. Qi, and saw that Lu Bing had many heirs, and while he was happy for his brother Lu Bing, he didn't feel a little sad in his heart. It is said that Qi Jingtong's age is not young, although his body is still as strong as ever, but he has passed the age of fifty knowing the destiny of heaven, but he has no heirs for some reason.

I also looked at Lang Zhong, and I dare not say whether the situation is accurate or not, but according to Lang Zhong, it is not that Qi Jingtong is not good, but that his wife Zhang cannot have children. Qi Jingtong is an official of the imperial court, it is said that it is not difficult to accept a concubine, and the rules of this concubine are mostly humanistic and reasonable, and they are in charge of the rural clansmen and the elders of the clan. The customary rules of concubines are passed down from generation to generation, whether it is the widow or the owner of the village, or the armor, or even the lord of the government to judge the case in accordance with a certain folk custom.

Unfilial piety is great, so if the wife can't have children, she can take a concubine, and Qi Jingtong is an official, and his official position is not low, so there is no need to care about such rules. There is a vulgar covenant: the most common person must be more than forty years old and have no children, and he is allowed to choose a concubine. Qi Jingtong has already told the age of forty, which is very much in line with this rule, even if he is an ordinary person and a concubine with no merit and fame, he can also take a concubine, and it has nothing to do with his identity.

Of course, there are still many people who don't follow the rules, such as Lu Bing, who took a concubine very early, which is not reasonable at all. And the concubine ceremony is not so formal, when Xiaorui entered, she did not follow the rules and wore pink clothes. Xiaorui is still a big red dress and walks through the main gate, and she is about to carry a big sedan chair and marry Ming Media, otherwise she will be the same as the eldest lady of the main house. No one cares, after all, it was in the palace at that time. What country man would have the courage to go into the palace?

Zhang's was so sad that he couldn't have children, hoping that Qi Jingtong could take a break from him, and Qi Jingtong told Zhang at a glance. Seven out of seven did not go to the divorce, and the Zhang family did not meet the conditions for divorce, and the family had no one to rely on, so he could not go. What's more, Zhang's family has served his mother for many years, and he can't go for many years to do his filial piety. The most important thing is that Zhang and Qi Jing are in love with each other, and the relationship between husband and wife is very deep, so even if they have no children in this life, they will not divorce their wives. But the more so. The Zhang family became more and more guilty, and even urged Qi Jingtong to take a concubine.

Now, Qi Jingtong still has no idea of divorcing his wife. It's just that the problem of concubines is imminent, the Qi family is a big family, but the people have not been prosperous in recent years, so he passed him on to his uncle.

If Qi Jingtong can't give birth to an heir. The hereditary official position of the Qi family will be in vain. After the Qi family was broken, Qi Jingtong attached great importance to this, and didn't want the ancestor's bloodline to be broken here. Qi Jingtong is so old, if he doesn't marry a concubine and have children, I'm afraid he won't be able to give birth. So, that night, Qi Jingtong proposed to marry a concubine, and Zhang was very happy, feeling that Qi Jingtong had finally figured it out, and Zhang's own inner burden and guilt had dissipated a lot.

Qi Jingtong's heart was very uncomfortable. On the night of the tie-off, Qi Jingtong and Zhang's swore an alliance. I only love you for a lifetime Qi Jingtong said these words, to this day, Qi Jingtong has broken his oath, although the passion has dissipated for many years, and most of the husband and wife are left with family affection, but Qi Jingtong still remembers his oath. That night, Qi Jingtong was drunk.

Lu Yi has grown very fast during this time, and while his height is increasing day by day, his body is a lot thicker, compared to Lu Xun, who is weak and weak, the older Lu Yi is more like a man, and more like Lu Bing's son. As the saying goes, a tiger father has no dog son, when Lu Bing and Lu Yi, father and son, rode a horse and galloped together, everyone would not think that Lu Yi was not Lu Bing's biological flesh and blood, but would give a thumbs up and praise: "What a pair of dragon and tiger father and son." ”

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The Lu Mansion is huge, and there are many subordinates needed, and the retinue brought from the capital back then was simply not enough, and now those old people with a little ability have also become foremen in all aspects. It was true that Lu Bing dismissed the hundred refining elite soldiers he hired on the spot, but this group of people had not left the capital not far before they were stopped by the secret agents arranged by Lu Bing and ordered to live in seclusion in Jinan Mansion, Shandong, which was also the reason why Lu Bing wanted to come to Shandong this time.

Now this group of people has also come to Dengzhou Mansion from Jinan Mansion, hiding in the deep house in the backyard, practicing every day. The deep house is extremely deep, and people outside the house can't hear the situation inside, but it's much safer.

It's okay for this group of military masters to fight, and it's not a problem for the army to cook and eat and stay in a hurry, but this is all in the journey, not in peacetime. Lu Bing has always advocated that soldiers do what soldiers should do, that is, to fight, obey orders and listen to commands, rather than burying pots and cooking, and the abundance of food is also a major feature of Lu Bing's mercenaries, so there are many people who need to serve them. Lu Bing recruited people all over Shandong Mansion, and the generous treatment was unheard of, and everyone knew that Master Lu was a good person, so they all came here.

However, Lu Mansion is not a shelter, charity is charity on weekdays, and Lu Bing never pities people at work, and also claims that when a monk hits the clock for a day, he must love a line of work, and he must strictly control and be conscientious, and one yard is one yard. Therefore, all the family members are carefully selected, and this job is handed over to Xia Dade, who looks very arrogant on weekdays. Lu Bing can be regarded as having understood, the second brother Xia Dade is thick on the outside and fine on the inside, wise and foolish, and he is also very loyal in his heart, and he doesn't say to himself that this is a smart person who must be entrusted with a heavy responsibility.

It's a pity that Xia Dade is naturally unwilling to take care of such idle things, it's okay to help on weekdays, Lu Bing wants to give him a business and a market for him to manage, so he won't do it, sharpening his knife Huo Huo smirked and said: "I'm just a pig killer." ”

This time, Xia Dade reluctantly took the matter of selecting his subordinates, but he did it very seriously. Sure enough, Xia Dade is extremely accurate in seeing people and things, and the carefully selected subordinates are extremely easy to use after some training, and their mouths are also very tight, everything that happened in Lu Mansion was not told to outsiders, of course, this is also related to the stricter rules of Lu Mansion, and the big mouth is likely to lose his life in addition to being beaten in Lu Mansion.

Among the people who came to Lu Mansion to recruit people, there were sneaky people who were indispensable, and those people were different from lazy people who wanted to mix money and live a leper life, they seemed to be full of spirit and smart, but what they couldn't hide was the dodgy look in their eyes and a look of weakness.

For this kind of person, Xia Dade did not torture them strictly, and asked who sent them as spies, sometimes it is a good thing to be confused. Therefore, Xia Dade just asked them to go back, and ordered someone to secretly stuff ten taels of silver into these people to make a tea money. Some of these people never came again, and some of them came every month, received the money and left without saying a word.

Many people were a little puzzled, even Xu Yang was a little surprised when he knew the way, I don't know what the origin of these people is, the ins and outs of which Lu Bing is naturally clear, and he can't help but clap his hands and praise: "The second brother is really talented." "Needless to say, these people are either sent by their opponents to investigate themselves, or the secret agents and fans sent by the emperor, they give this high amount of money every month, but they don't let them be in danger, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, no one knows the way, the current Jinyi Wei internal system is not perfect, and the essence has been taken away by Jiang Bin and Lu Bing, so the two sentences of nonsense are also safe, and they are happy. For the Lu government, spending a small amount of money can shield the ears and eyes, which is a win-win result.

In the side courtyard of the Lu Mansion, there is a chic elegant residence, which is different from the place where Mrs. Qi lives, there is no fairy spirit here, and there is no illusion of a fantasy, it is more like a place where people live, but the green bamboo and green water are more Jiangnan style, quite the feeling of the place where the master of the world lives, standing in the courtyard, I can't imagine that this courtyard is in the rough Shandong.

There is no person here, every time someone comes to the meal, if the person inside should not eat, the next person will put the meal at the door of the yard, in order to prevent the meal from being cold, a hut is specially built at the door, there is a stove all the year round, and the food is put on the stove to warm, it is really intimate.

Legend has it that this person came and went without a trace, and no one approached this courtyard every night, because as long as the moon rose, this courtyard was extremely cold, and you could feel a gust of cold wind coming near this courtyard. As a result, the legend of the haunting of the side courtyard spread in the Lu Mansion. The three ladies just smiled and didn't answer, they didn't say anything, and everyone understood who lived there.

The person living in this courtyard is not someone else, it is Lu Bing's life and death friend, the senior disciple of Wudang Danyangzi, Duan Qingfeng. Needless to say, the cold air was caused by him practicing his sword all night and exhaling into the moonlight.

Since the last time Duan Qingfeng saw Lu Bing fall into the demon, he fell into a crazy martial arts practice. He was thinking that Lu Bing still had a trace of sanity that day, if one day Lu Bing lost his sanity after falling into the demon and the six relatives didn't recognize it, not to mention the side, according to the moves of that day, if he was not under the aftermath, he could avoid it far away, but bear the brunt of Lu Bing's knife moves, would he have the ability to take Lu Bing's moves?

Duan Qingfeng deserves to be called a master of martial arts, all martial arts masters have self-knowledge, and they also have the ability to judge the situation, in all fairness, Duan Qingfeng is no match for Lu Bing at that time. Lu Bing practiced pure yang, and killed thirteen swords to hurt others and abuse himself, the lord was tyrannical, so Lu Bing's pure yang qi was not that bright and grand, but bursts of murderous and murderous machines, like the hot and clumsy evil karmic fire in hell.

Once Lu Bing falls into the demon, his blood is boiling, and he will definitely burn himself to death after the high temperature, and the way to save Lu Bing is to defeat him when the time comes. For such a goal, for Lu Bing, and for the commanding heights of martial arts, Duan Qingfeng practiced swordsmanship hard and used his qi to the maximum. It's just that all this is not humane, such a brother is a friendship, and it is the pursuit of a warrior's life.

Generally speaking, if the subtlety of the two people's tricks is about the same, and the depth of the qi is far apart, the qi that has been practiced for a long time wins. However, there are exceptions, that is, the use of qi, such as one point of qi to send out half a point of work, and under hard practice, it may be possible to achieve the perfect state of one point of qi and one point of work. Lu Bing's qi was like a released flame, rushing out chaotically all at once, even though it was pouring out in large quantities like a moth to a fire recklessly, the effect was a waste of qi. And what Duan Qingfeng wants to practice is to refine and purify, gather his qi in one place, and let himself and the sword merge into an indestructible blade! (To be continued......)