Mrs. Gao suddenly had the feeling that her daughter-in-law had become a mother-in-law for many years, and she was so happy that she cried silently with tears in her eyes.

"Nephew, hurry up, if you kneel again, I'm afraid that Ming'er's capital will spread all over the city, how can my aunt afford your general to bow down like this."

Mrs. Gao pinched the handkerchief and wiped her eyes.

"My nephew has returned the general's order to the emperor, and my aunt doesn't need to worry about other people's gossip."

Mu Han slowly stood up, helped Mrs. Gao into the mansion together, and went to Youyuan to see his father Mu Tingchen.

"Brother can rest assured now! The emperor finally thanked you for your merits and let Hanchi return to you. ”

Mrs. Gao was still a little excited when she spoke, her voice was choked, and she couldn't speak.

Mu Tingchen half-leaned on the rattan couch and looked at his son and smiled, his eyes were also misty.

He didn't answer Mrs. Gao's words, there were some things that women didn't understand, and he couldn't tell Mrs. Gao.

People say that he is sick at home because he can't fight Pingjin and wait for Qin An, but they don't know that he has his own plans in his heart, and he just recuperates for a while.

The changes of the country require wisdom to see through them.

"Then you father and son talk, I'll go prepare lunch."

Looking at Mrs. Gao's happy back and turning the porch, Mu Tingchen's expression became serious.

"How's the war going at the border?"

"The child has wiped out several small tribal nations that have burned and plundered the border people."

Mu Hanchi still looked calm.

Mu Tingchen nodded, then sighed again.

If you go outside, you must first settle inside, but this inside is not safe. He has the loyalty of the people of the country, but he is always suppressed and plotted by the ministers, and now that his son is back, it is time to save the people......

"I heard Murray say that you have seen Shen Zhao?"

Mu Tingchen raised his left hand and stroked his chin.

Murray was an orphan adopted by Mu Tingchen since childhood, and he was also his lieutenant general when he led troops in the north.

Three years ago, Mu Tingchen was injured by a knife and injured his right arm, and Murray escorted him back to the capital to recuperate from his injuries, and he has been serving Mu Tingchen's right hand and right hand and eyes in the capital.

"Yes, Shen Zhao seems to have a lot to say to the child."

Mu Hanchi looked at his father's right hand on the rattan couch, and his eyes flashed with a trace of guilt. My father was seriously injured, but he could not take care of him by his side......

Mu Tingchen nodded to indicate that he knew what Shen Zhao would probably say.

"He's tried his best to be a gentleman in the past ten years, and it's really hard for him. You will be closer to him in the future, but you still have to pay attention to keep your distance.

After all, you are a military general with a position, and you have a close relationship with Shen Zhao, which will make people doubt your character. The manor in the suburbs is always empty, and if you have any secret to discuss, you can go there with him. ”

"The child understood. Father, is your arm better? ”

Although his father had confessed it in letters, and now that he had seen it with his own eyes, Mu Hanchi was still not at ease.

"If it's not good after three years, then it's not old and crippled!"

Mu Tingchen raised his right arm and laughed, and looked at Mu Hanchi with a sigh.

"Han Chi, Zhen Guogong insists on fulfilling the doll kiss I made with him as a joke, how do you think this is good?"

"If the child doesn't want to get married, ask the father to refuse on behalf of the child."

Sure enough, when he came back, he couldn't escape the marriage, and Mu Hanchi could only smile bitterly in his heart.

finally looked forward to the return of the prince, and the Huaiwang Mansion became lively.

Mrs. Gao shuttled through various halls and courtyards to assign the servants and women to work, smiling like a flower like a spring breeze, as if she was ten years younger.

Mrs. Gao's hearty laughter made the servants and women all happy, and they worked more neatly and energetically.

The kitchen steward Xie took out the eight-treasure steamed rice from the steaming big iron pot, and scooped up the secret pig's trotters from the hanging jar next to her.

If Miss Zhao is still in the house, she will definitely have to reward silver again after eating her marinated pig's trotters. She thought so in her heart, and she said it.

It just so happened that Mrs. Gao walked into the kitchen and heard her words, and the foot that stepped into the threshold retracted. Only then did I remember that I went to the Zhenguo Mansion in the morning and left Zhao Youling behind.

How good is that?

Mrs. Gao turned her head back to the main hall, but she didn't sit or stand, and she always felt that Zhao Youling's little face was shaking in front of her eyes.

Miss Zhao obviously didn't do anything wrong or lie, and it was Miss Zhenguo Gong who didn't take advantage of it. Several hours have passed, and I don't know what happened to Miss Zhao by the Wang family.

Wang is a smart person, even in order to save her daughter's face, she shouldn't be too embarrassed by Zhao Youling.

Mrs. Gao immediately ordered someone to call Murray over, and she asked Murray to go to the Zhenguo Mansion to inquire about Zhao Youling's situation.

Everything is clear before planning. If you can bring Zhao Youling back in the evening, you can give it to your nephew as a concubine after grooming and dressing up.

As for whether she herself was willing or not, Mrs. Gao didn't think about it. In her eyes, it is a great honor for a helpless and good-looking orphan girl to be a concubine for the prince of Huai.

And...... Mrs. Gao secretly thought that this orphan girl had no other relatives, and she would not rely on her protection to earn a living under the mother of the housekeeper in the future.

Although Mrs. Gao also intends to promote her own girls, but one by one they either have their own little abacus, or they are dragged down by their families, Mrs. Gao wants to be a concubine for her nephew, and a lot of branches and leaves, but it does not mean that she wants to have more "relatives" who will carry the banner of Huaiwangfu in the future.

What happened to her when she was young, the relatives of her husband's uncles and concubines made Gao Mansion choke enough, but she didn't want her nephew to experience it.

Mrs. Gao and King Huai had a reunion lunch, and they didn't even take a nap, so they asked Xiangxiu and Xiangqiao to go to the treasury and take out some of the festive supplies such as dragon and phoenix red candles, red Luo tents, Baizi brocade quilts, gilded red lacquer boxes, painted mandarin duck boxes, etc., which she had prepared long ago, and arrange Lingyun Pavilion before sunset.

Xiangxiu and Xiangqiao were ordered to go to the warehouse, and the two of them didn't dare to talk about it at first, and when no one walked on the road, they whispered what they were thinking.

Mrs. Gao did not explicitly say that the arrangement of Lingyun Pavilion was to hold a happy event for the prince and invite anyone to come in, except for a Zhao Youling girl who was taken by Mrs. Gao in the past two days, I didn't hear that Mrs. Gao still had a favorite person.

Xiangqiao felt that Mrs. Gao asked her and Xiangxiu to go to the treasury to choose the objects to marry, and she should have intended for them to serve the prince tonight......

Xiangqiao didn't finish speaking, Xiangxiu immediately interrupted her, Mrs. Gao would never arrange for the two of them to serve the prince at the same time, even if they were willing, presumably the prince would not be able to accept it.

Twelve years ago, when the prince returned to the palace, he went to the inner house every day to fulfill his filial piety in front of his mother's bed, never looked at a few of their little maids, lived alone in Lingyun Pavilion, and did not want maids to wait, as if he was very shy about contact with maidservants.

"So...... Will Mrs. Gao let the two of us live in the west wing and the east wing? ”

Xiangqiao suddenly realized, and her expression was immediately full of anticipation.

"What do you think of foolish minds, you! You don't want to think about it, who are our sons? Our son is the general of Zhenbei! The prince has just returned home, and Mrs. Gao must choose the best concubine for him.

Which princess to marry, Mrs. Gao can't be the master, and if she chooses a concubine for the prince, Mrs. Gao will definitely not be sloppy. With such an identity as you and me, we can only have the opportunity to serve the prince when the princess and other concubines in the future are not happy. ”

Xiangxiu sighed clearly, and saw a corner of the treasury in front of her.

After Xiangxiu and Xiangqiao finished selecting all the items, the warehouse manager had already called the two mothers to wait outside to carry them.

The two big girls thought that they could see the prince in Lingyun Pavilion, but they didn't see the son of the world after the Lingyun Pavilion was arranged.

After asking the little maid, I found out that the prince went out of the city to Zhuangzi in the Huai Wangfu.

Mu Han entered the city late without an entourage, so he would arrange thirty retinues waiting outside the city gate in Zhuangzi, give enough money to the housekeeper mother in Zhuangzi, and ask her to take care of his lieutenants.

Mu Hanchi's thirty retinues were all brothers who were born and died with him. Mu Hanchi was ordered to return to Beijing and could bring thirty entourage to escort him.

The quota of thirty people is too small, and considering the safety of the north that cannot bring all the generals back, Mu Hanchi chose left and right, and only then did he select thirty young lieutenant generals who had old people at home to do their filial piety.

Three years ago, the Huai King gave some fertile land to the farmers to take care of, leaving only a large area of grassland enclosed and barren, just when the weeds were growing wildly, and the evening breeze blew like waves.

"Are you sure you can tame a good horse?"

Mu Hanchi stood on the edge of the paddock, looked at the green grassland and asked the lieutenant behind him.

The lieutenant immediately replied: "Good horses must be tamed." ”

In successive years, there was a shortage of good horses, and the official horse farms were controlled by Pingjin, and when the war was tight, they wanted to send war horses to the central government, and they often asked again and again, and in the end they were all gone.

If it weren't for the soldiers' desperate capture of the enemy's war horses and the timely domestication and replenishment of the iron cavalry, it is difficult to say whether there is still a peaceful situation in the north today.

At the time of the lantern, Mu Hanchi and the lieutenants rode back to the palace alone after dinner.

The little guy came over to lead the horse to tie it, and suddenly there was the sound of a sedan car on the road outside the gate.

Outside the Huaiwang Mansion is a boulevard, and at the end of the road is the inner city moat. The person who comes can only be a guest to the Huai Palace. Mu Hanchi stopped and looked at the gate.

"King Huai's son Mu Han is late to receive the order!"

The long voice of the eunuch was extremely penetrating, and Mrs. Gao, who was sitting in the inner hall, heard the holy decree coming from the palace, and hurriedly ran to the front hall.

The eunuch had already returned to the palace after announcing the holy decree, and Mrs. Gao only saw the back of the eunuch at the Hanging Flower Gate.

"Han Chi, the emperor is going to give you an official?"

Mu Hanchi handed over the military talisman of the general in the north, which means that he is now on standby, if the emperor takes a fancy to him, he will definitely not let him be idle, and it is not impossible to proclaim a military attache in Beijing who is a fourth-rank or a third-rank.

"Auntie."

Mu Hanchi, who had always been calm, was not calm at this time, and there was a bit of pain in his eyes.

Mrs. Gao couldn't help but be shocked when she saw this, she had heard that the emperor was moody, could it be that she had listened to the courtier's false words and charged her nephew with something?

"What the hell is going on? Are you going to kill me? ”

Mrs. Gao wanted to take the holy decree from Mu Hanchi's hand, and then Mu Hanchi said:

"The Holy God bestows marriage on Pingjin Houfu."

"Ahh

Mrs. Gao felt that her eyes were dark, and she almost fell to the ground.

Mrs. Gao was happily arranging a cave room for her nephew tonight, but she didn't expect the emperor to suddenly give her nephew a marriage to the lord of Pingjin.

The eldest princess's daughter is not a good lord, and if she wants to give her nephew a concubine in the future, it is estimated that the eldest princess will be able to come to the door immediately to make trouble, and she will definitely not let the county lord serve with others.

Mrs. Gao couldn't help but secretly complain when she came to her senses, and now she can only do nothing, and take Zhao Youling back with her nephew as soon as possible. Before the emperor gave Mu Han Chi a concubine before marriage, the eldest princess couldn't find fault with it.

Mrs. Gao hurriedly asked people to prepare the car, and she didn't care about dinner, and went straight to the Zhenguo Mansion to pick up Zhao Youling.