During the Spring Festival, the congratulatory gifts sent by Guangtai to the Li Mansion and the Xue Mansion were naturally the profits of the salt and iron business. The golden gold was put into the secret room, and Xue Shang was happy and wanted to leave Guangtai for a banquet.

Guangtai: "Brother, why don't you go to me, we can mess around freely there." You're too close to the Lee Mansion here. ”

Xue Shang said to the maid: "Madame come back and tell Madame that I am traveling with Brother Guangtai." Xue Shang had a thought in his heart and happily followed Guangtai.

Guangtai led Xue Shang to his own courtyard, and Xue Shang had seen the luxury of the courtyard once, and more importantly, there were beautiful women in it.

Guangtai instructed the servants, "Prepare wine and singing, and a distinguished guest will come to the door." ”

The servants took action one after another, and Xue Shang and Guangtai came to the study, "Brother Xian, there are other guests?" ”

Guangtai wrote, "Whoever my brother wants to see, I will send a message to invite him." ”

Xue Shang sat on the chair and said with some loss: "Brother Xian, my brother just wants to talk to Brother Xian, you don't know what is on my brother's heart, but there is no one to talk to." ”

When Guangtai heard this, he put down his pen and ink, "Brother, the younger brother is afraid of snubbing the elder brother, and the elder brother will lead the younger brother to be a person who can pour out his heart. ”

Guangtai also instructed the servants that only a few exquisite delicacies were sufficient, and singing and dancing were not needed for the time being. Xue Shang's words were just a symptom, and Guangtai already understood it.

Yizhou Laojiao picked up a bunch of them, and the two drank and chatted in the inner room of the study. Guangtai: "Brother, now in the Southwest Domain, it's not the younger brother who compliments the elder brother, the elder brother is now above 10,000 people under one person." The knots make the adults have a brother to be their right-hand man, and the knots make the burden much lighter. ”

Li Guyan suffered a stroke a few years ago, but fortunately he was treated in time, during which he has been recuperating at home, occasionally going to the government to sit in the town, and listening to Xue Shang's report on big and small affairs.

Xue Shang doesn't know how to be tired when dealing with official business, and oral documents can be written by several subordinates at the same time, and every official business is handled in place.

The festival envoy sat in the town several times, Xue Shang shook his spirits, showing his supernatural powers, and the people under him did not dare to deceive the lazy people. Jiedu was very pleased, feeling that he was observing the time and could recommend Xue Shang to the imperial court.

However, he was afraid that the imperial court would think that he was suspected of being a hereditary feudal town, so he waited and waited. He waited and waited here, giving Xue Shang a chance to temper.

Xue Shang meddled in the administrative affairs of Jiedu Mansion, and he felt more and more that power was really a good thing, and it was unstoppable.

"One person is below ten thousand people, indeed, in the southwest, the foolish brother can be regarded as famous. It's just that the foolish brother has a heart, but he can't be an outsider. Xue Shang picked up the wine glass, clinked glasses with Guangtai, and toasted the wine in the glass.

Guangtai vaguely guessed what Xue Shang was thinking. A man is famous, plus a wife and a son. Heirs...

Guangtai: "Brother, you and your younger brother are confidants and brothers." The elder brother's heart is the younger brother's heart. The younger brother has been operating in the southwest for many years, and now he relies on his brother to call for wind and rain in the southwest. This is not the little brother's boasting, but the younger brother relying on the power of the elder brother to get it. ”

Xue Shang said with a smile; "Calling for wind and rain, Guangtai, are you the dragon king?"

Guangtai: "Guangtai doesn't dare to say anything else, for the sake of confidants and friends, Guangtai recognizes itself to do it." So he got the reputation of the Dragon King of Timely Rain, but not the overlord. The younger brother will never rely on his brother's authority to do evil deeds of bullying and dominating the market. ”

Xue Shang sighed softly; "Guangtai, my brother is willing to talk to you because he understands your personality."

Guangtai; "Brother, the younger brother is willing to do anything for the elder brother, as long as the elder brother can trust the younger brother. The younger brother respects the elder brother for a cup, thank the elder brother for valuing the younger brother. ”

Xue Shang raised his glass and dried, "My brother is almost old, although he has a son under his knees. Guangtai, you also know how much idle my brother has suffered because of this child. Whenever in the dead of night, when my brother can't sleep, I feel ashamed of my ancestors. Unable to account to the ancestors. ”

Xue Shang drank a few glasses of wine, and these words were said from other people's mouths on weekdays, as conversation materials after tea and dinner, and were said as jokes from other people's mouths.

At this moment, Xue Shang himself mentioned this matter, his sword eyebrows were tightly locked, and there was a hidden pain in his eyes, which was hidden deep in it.

Guangtai stood up and bowed; "With all due respect, why don't my brother marry a concubine and continue the Xue family's incense. Mrs. Sister-in-law will still be a sister-in-law in the future. ”

Xue Shang raised his head to drink, put down the cup and said with a wry smile: "Guangtai, you have also seen it, this is the situation above 10,000 people under me alone, and I don't even have the right to marry a concubine." ”

Guangtai punched the ground, "Why do you want to be so unsympathetic. My sister-in-law is virtuous, doesn't she agree? Men have three wives and four concubines since ancient times, and this can't be allowed when they come to their Li Mansion? If the sister-in-law has her own, the brother can not take a concubine. The sister-in-law has nothing to do, and the brother has a concubine. Why look at their faces? ”

Guangtai himself has not yet married and has concubines. His family, the family is very cautious, and wants to marry a famous family, but the famous family despises the Shangjia family from the bottom of their hearts. So it has been delayed until now.

He couldn't understand Xue Shang's situation, he fell on the golden mountain as soon as he was born, and he couldn't understand Xue Shang's feelings and difficulties when he got up from the bottom.

Therefore, he was very unaccustomed to the practice of the festival envoy, and he was upset for Xue Shang. The financial resources and power of the Xue Mansion to support not to mention one room of concubines, but a few rooms are just a piece of cake.

Guangtai sneered: "Lord Li is really, he can light the lamp, why can't my uncle set it on fire." Isn't he himself a few concubines? As a man, he can understand himself and why he can't be considerate of others. ”

XUE Shang; "I have come to this day, and my father-in-law thinks that everything he has given me is what he has given me. I have to do everything according to his requirements, and once I have a little personal space of my own, he will think that I am ungrateful, a villain, a villain who does not know gratitude. I'd rather have to raise children for someone else than allow me to have my own children. It's just because if I want to give birth to a child, it's not from Feng Jiao. They won't allow it. ”

Xue Shang drank a glass of wine again. Guangtai accompanied him and sympathized with Xue Shang. "Brother, the younger brother thinks that his brother is a person who can take care of things, you don't have to look at their faces, if you want to marry a concubine, then marry home. Don't worry about them. ”

Xue Shang raised his head and drank again. "Guangtai, my brother is bitter. I think that when my mother went out to beg and froze to death in the snow, I was young and frivolous, and I was traveling and studying, wanting to get ahead and go out to study. This is the pain of my life. ”

So he wants to be famous, he wants to have a successor, and there is nothing wrong with this, but men will think like this, just because of different abilities, some can be achieved, and some cannot be achieved in their lifetime.