In the golden autumn of October, the Xu family, which had been jubilant and lively for several months, gradually returned to calm, first of all, the second master Xu Qingtang was unexpected, and it was also reasonable to be awarded the title of British duke, with 2,200 stones; Zhang Yu, the father-in-law of the family, was named the Duke of Rongguo, and Mu Hui, the son-in-law of the Xu family, was named Guangning Bo, and he was awarded 1,000 stones.

Even Mu Yi and Li Qiu and other brothers of the same generation were rewarded with hereditary official positions, but Xu Hao and Zhang Fu were brothers and sisters who did not get any titles because their father was alive, of course, they were both promoted to the left and right governors of the Chinese Military Governor's Mansion, and they were already extremely ministers.

Among them, Xu Hao was also awarded the title of Pillar State, the prince and the prince, the hussar general, and he still had to stand under his father during the court meeting.

Xu Hongye and Xu Luzhu got married in September, and when the spring flowers bloom in the coming year, Hongye will go to Fujian with Mu Yi, Mu Hui will serve as the commander of the water division, and Mu Yi will take his wife to Weihai, Shandong Province to serve as the commander of the water division, and they will start preparing for ocean exploration, just because Xu Hao attaches too much importance to the ocean.

Originally, he was going to let the fourth Xu Song go to Dalian to run the family business, but the Yuan family was reluctant to bustle the capital, so he begged bitterly, Xu Hao considered that there was always someone around him to help, so Xu Song continued to stay in the Shenji Battalion as a commander.

On this day, the old lady looked at the almanac with a pair of glasses, a small brocade box on the table, and only Yuelan stood on the ground.

Xiao Shi came in from outside, followed by Xiao Yushi, Xu Cuiliu and others, the old lady put down the calendar, and smiled at Xiao Yushi: "The ring you wear on your ear, although it looks fine and beautiful, it is inconspicuous in the end, and it does not look like something worn by a young lady." ”

After speaking, he pointed to the wooden box on the table and said, "This is a pair of bead pendants that the old man used to wear when he was a child, take them off and replace them." Something auspicious. to increase your lifespan. ”

Xiao Shi smiled and reached out to open the small box, took out a pair of turquoise-covered bead pendants, and put them on Yu Shi's ears.

Xiao Yushi didn't understand what it meant, Yingying said a thousand blessings, Yuelan, Cuiliu and other girls just covered their mouths and smiled.

At noon, Xiao came out of Qianshoutang and went to his sister Aunt Xiao's house, and the third wife Liu, who heard the news, asked, "Why did the old lady hang a pendant on the poet's head?" ”

Xiao Shi suddenly smiled bitterly, Aunt Xiao and Liu Shi saw this situation, and they had already solved the meaning of eight points, and Liu Shi sighed: "Hao'er is really." Ning Xue agreed to take a concubine. He bit it and didn't let go. ”

Aunt Xiao said: "He has an idea, let's not talk nonsense here, Hao'er has always loved her cousin, and she will never treat Yushi badly." ”

Suddenly, a maid came hurrying over. replied: "The eldest lady is here." ”

Xiao was overjoyed. couldn't help complaining: "This child is ten months pregnant." Can't you have a good baby at home? Let's hurry over, oops! finally married my aunt and grandmother, and this aunt and grandmother didn't worry about it all day. ”

Aunt Xiao and Liu smiled silently at each other. Accompanied her to Senjudo.

At this time, the days were long and warm, but seeing the light clouds and the warm breeze, Zhang Hai jumped to the small study outside Jiangxue Xuan, and the courtyard was silent.

Zhang Chai lifted the curtain with a smile, and saw the door buckled back, knowing that someone was not inside. She often came to Xu's house as if she was at home, unceremoniously pushed the door and walked in, and the house was clean and quiet, very quiet.

In fact, the Xu family refers to the Xu Mansion in Beiping, and now it is the Xu family in Jinling, that is, the mansion of Li Shanchang in the past, and now it is well deserved to give it to Xu Hao.

Zhang Chai came to the study for the first time after entering Beijing, looked at the east and west curiously, walked to the east side of the yarn cupboard, only to see the kang covered with green velvet mattress, against the east wall of the rosewood table, in the middle of the jasper blast furnace, the south of the turquoise bottle, the north is the red agate box, the wall hung a landscape map.

There is a long cabinet of rosewood with books in the west, in addition to ancient books, there are ancient tea sets and the like, Zhang Chai picked up one or two pieces casually, they are all real Ru kiln fine porcelain, and its trays are made of various colored glass of begonia and plum blossom style, which is exquisite and abnormal.

Seeing the sunny weather, some fine dust fell on the cabinet, so he took off his silk scarf and slowly dusted it, saw a large horned vase with flower arrangements on the north side of a rosewood square box, and said to himself: "It shouldn't be placed here." ”

Zhang Chai stepped forward and held it with both hands, turned around and put it on the small table in front of the window, and said with a smile: "That's good, Brother Hao saw it, but I knew that I did my best for him."

Stretching out her hand to open the window, smelling the fragrant fragrance sent by the wind in the flower garden, she was silently thinking about her heart, she was in the age of sentimentality, and she felt extremely sad for a while, from happy to sullen in an instant.

Suddenly, I heard the long skirt outside the window, and the sound of clogs, and a person quietly came in. Zhang Hai guessed that it must be Xu Hao's return, so he hurriedly got up and waited.

It turned out that Musk Yue heard that there was movement here and came to check, and said with a smile: "Who should I be, it turned out to be you!" ”

Zhang Chai clapped his hands and smiled: "What a person who looks at the house, the thief came to steal something and didn't know what to do." ”

Musk Yue smiled meaningfully: "There are no other thieves in this garden except the young master. ”

"What do you mean by that?" Zhang Chai seemed to understand and asked curiously.

"Oh, the girl hasn't come out of the cabinet yet, when I didn't say it." Musk Yue hurriedly changed her words, and said instead: "It seems that the eldest lady is also here, and the young master will definitely rush over to meet when he comes back, and he won't come back for a while." ”

Zhang Haiqi said: "Isn't Brother Hao at home? Why am I not at home all day long, and I will run for nothing. ”

Musk Yue said: "Where can you really do nothing, even if you don't participate in the big and small court meetings, and don't go to the governor's mansion, but the saint sends a lieutenant official to invite him every day, and often enters the palace for a whole day, or several aunts take turns to invite him to eat and drink, and he returns home very late, but he is more than ten times busier than when he was in the capital before." ”

Zhang Chai nodded, and pulled Musk Yue to sit on the sofa together, "When I came, I heard that Miss Qingshuang was also going to Beijing, and I didn't see her name for a long time, but now it's okay, I just don't know if the third sister-in-law wants me to come and stay for a few days." ”

As soon as I said this, I heard that someone was coming outside, so I hurriedly stopped, only to see Qingwen open the curtain and come in and smile: "Okay, you fell behind your back and counted my wife's short children, and I caught you today, what do you want to beg me?" ”

Zhang Hai said with a smile: "The third sister-in-law is pregnant, even if she comes with me." I'm afraid that the wives of the ancestors will not agree, they all think I am too noisy, I went to Jiangxue Xuan before and couldn't see it, where is my sister-in-law? ”

Qingwen sighed: "It's not like I'm going to visit the crazy third girl and send me to get the box containing medicine." After speaking, he walked straight into the west room, walked out of the room with a wooden box painted with gold and indigo, and turned back to the window and shouted: "Musk Yue, you are so looking at the house, don't just play, light a lamp and pour a cup of tea for the girl." Now these little girls don't know where to go. Not even a figure can be found. ”

Zhang Chai said: "You wait for me, and I'll leave too." ”

At that moment, the two came out together, Qingwen went to deliver medicine to Xu Cuiyun, who was brought home and was stimulated, and Zhang Chai entered Jiangxuexuan. Zhiyan watched the little girls light up the lights in the outer room.

Zhiyan greeted Zhang Chai. Zhang Hai responded with a smile. When I entered the back room, I saw the two sisters Xiangxuan and Xiangling playing chess, and Zhiyun was watching the game crookedly.

Mu Ningxue was half lying on the bed. Zhang Chai said to the energetic Zhu Qiaoqiao: "Congratulations to my sister-in-law for sealing the title of the eldest princess of the East China Sea." ”

Zhu Qiaoqiao said with a smile: "As soon as I heard the word Donghai, I knew that the saint was deliberately making fun of it, I didn't take it seriously, I was just about to say goodbye to my eldest sister, and I will leave for Liaodong in the near future, and I am afraid that I will return to Beijing every year at the end of the year." ”

I don't want this sentence, it is in the heart of Zhang Hai who misses his old mother, July is the day when Emperor Hongxi succeeded to the throne, Zhang Yuyuan died of illness in Beiping Mansion, and the first time in his life he moved from the north to the south, he felt homesick, and the tears were like pearls with broken threads, rolling down.

Zhu Qiaoqiao hurriedly got up and said, "Oh, how can you say that you cry when you cry?" ”

Mu Ningxue also said softly: "Come here and sit, are you homesick?" ”

"Hmm." Zhang Hai nodded pitifully.

Zhu Qiaoqiao put his arm around her and said, "Why don't you go to Liaodong with me?" It's just that it's a bit dangerous to go by sea, and it's too hard to go all the way to Beijing. ”

At this time, Zhiyun came over with a plate of food, asked Xiangxuan to put it on the table, and said: "The glutinous rice porridge boiled in pigeon soup is rotten and rotten, and Mrs. has to eat a bowl of it, and it is easy to restrain it." ”

Mu Ningxue smiled bitterly: "I either ate and slept all day long, or slept and ate, I really lost my appetite." ”

Zhang Hai's emotions came and went quickly, and when he saw this, he said: "My sister-in-law is pregnant, and it is not good to lie down after eating, or to walk around when she goes out, or to take a book and look at it and be sleepy." ”

Mu Ningxue smiled more and more bitterly, and said: "You still mention books, I am only more uncomfortable for books, the ancients said that 'if you are poor, you are good at poetry, and if you are bored, you are fond of books', who knows that Cuiyun repents that she should not read Tang poetry and Chinese since she was a child, and she takes poetry and books as her deep friends, and regards pen and ink as a close friend of flesh and blood, what is the benefit in the end!" Thinking that she was desolate in the palace without relatives, she could only rely on poetry to relieve her worries every day, but when she entered the poetry demon, she added to the disease, and regretted that she should not have entered the palace in the first place. ”

Zhu Qiaoqiao sneered disappreccantly: "I persuaded her not to enter the palace at the beginning, who did she complain about?" There is also Cuiliu, seeing that the red leaves and green bamboos are married, and Qianqian is also engaged, she sighs at every turn and sighs that her body and bones are getting worse, what to say about my disease, it is the article that harmed me, I hurt my youth, what girl does not need the gold horse and jade car, and there is no bosom friend of mountains and rivers, so you can't mention poetry and books to me from now on. It's just nonsense, it's not that you can't see through the red dust? Then don't take the hair to practice, look at the prince and grandson who is now full of capital, who doesn't want to climb our family? Still worried about marrying a wishful husband? ”

Mu Ningxue said fearfully: "In my early years, I had the same temperament as Cuiliu, and for a while I thought about not marrying for the rest of my life, I just wanted to accompany poetry and books to live a lifetime, but fortunately I met Hao'er." ”

Before he could speak, he heard the little girl shout: "The two eldest ladies are here." ”

I saw Xu Qinglian and Xu Miaojin coming slowly together with a big belly, Xu Qinglian looked at her younger siblings and looked good, her heart was happy, and she clapped her hands and said, "Amitabha!" I have sent the best deer antler velvet and Ganoderma lucidum at home, and I am thinking about sending them to you. ”

At the same time, Xu Hao frowned in the outer house and listened to his brother Xu Hai say something, it turned out that his sister Brother Lu had married an ordinary Xiucai family in Dezhou Mansion before the Battle of Jingjing, and that Xiucai's name was Liu Mao.

When Xu Zengfu was an official in Dezhou Mansion, Liu's mother's family had a cousin Liu Zhi who went to take refuge, often met with Brother Green, and got along very closely.

Liu Zhi held a grudge against this, and often deliberately teased Liu Mao, saying that he had been with Brother Green for a long time, and the details of the description were as if they were true. Although it was a joke and abuse during eating, it was inevitable that Liu Mao would be suspicious, and when Brother Green passed the door, the candle night in the cave room was indeed a virgin, and Liu Mao was no longer suspicious of his wife.

Now that the Xu family is a very popular minister, Brother Green naturally has to move back to the capital to rely on his mother's family.

Who knows that even though the Xu family is already full of wealth and wealth, the old lady is worried that the tree will follow in the footsteps of the heroes of the Hongwu Dynasty, and strictly orders not to take care of his relatives, in case there are unscrupulous children and grandchildren in the family and the family, plus Xu Hao has never paid attention to the sister who is in front of the person and the back of the family, and the Liu family does not want to see the daughter who is not his own, and it is because Brother Lu's wish to let her husband be an official has been disappointed.

Of course, Brother Green will not return empty-handed, just the gifts given to her by a few sisters-in-law are enough to eat and drink for a few years, but Brother Green is stingy, and at this time, he can't look down on Liu Mao, who has not been promoted in the exam, and secretly hides all the gifts.

Liu Zhi also returned to the capital, studied with Liu Mao in Dezhou, and was considered a classmate, and they both lived in the alley outside Xu's house and became neighbors, and the two families were very close to each other.

So something happened yesterday when it rained.

PS: I finally finished writing the Battle of Jingjing, I really breathed a sigh of relief, many places are written according to the historical experience, I really don't dare to joke without permission, and I haven't written about the war scenes, I'm a complete layman, please forgive me.

In the future, while the plot trend gradually returns to the daily life of the family, it will also describe the outside world from time to time. It's really hard to write the court, and Xiao Hai doesn't think that fighting for power and profit, what is the role of intrigue? What can you do if you are a prime minister of extreme people? Even if you become an emperor, what can you change?

Let's stir up the wind and rain in the outside world, and at home at the same time! By the way, ask for a monthly pass! I haven't had a single one yet! (To be continued......)