Zhou E didn't come back until near the end of Shen, went directly into the upper room of the main courtyard from the backyard, arched her hand with Li Ran, and poured herself a cup of tea first.

"I'm thirsty."

Zhou E confessed, drank two or three cups of tea in a row, exhaled happily, and then sat down on the armchair in front of the couch, and sighed before speaking.

"It's really an eye-opener, Momono's sentence is right, a litter of beasts."

"Huh?"

Li Ran sat up straight, didn't Sister-in-law Wu get out?

"Sister-in-law Wu is fine. Alas, it can't be said that it's okay, that thing should be fine, but then ...... Alas, what a brute! ”

Zhou E patted her thigh one after another.

"I'll start from the beginning, I watched it all day today."

Zhou E got up, stretched out her head in front of Li Ran, and said in a low voice: "I haven't seen that old man for a day, and those two men, cough, let's get down to business." ”

Zhou E sat back.

"It's the official of Li Zhengbao, didn't I come back for a trip, and then went to the government office, saying that it had been investigated.

That's what I said: The old man Bai drank too much wine, fell down the stairs, and by chance, he hit his head on the big hardwood cutting board next to him, and how hard the cutting board was, and this head collapsed.

Sister-in-law Wu was timid, so she fainted in fright, saying that she was splashed with a bowl of cold water to wake her up, and after waking up, she would only cry when she was scared.

The two little beasts of the Bai family, when they heard that their father was dead, the first thing they did was to rush into their father's house to find the silver, saying that his father had hidden several large boxes of silver, and there were really a lot of them.

Say yes, the foot shop and the small courtyard at the back, each door is locked, there are two locks, one for the white boss, one for the white second, tsk! Bah! ”

Zhou E sighed again, and continued:

"Old man Bai died, he threw himself to death, the case was decided at that time, and he bought a thin-skinned coffin, the brothers said, people die like lights out, their father is open-minded, he has long said that when he dies by kicking his legs in the future, it is best to burn a fire, that is, to use a coffin, and he must use the cheapest.

The death of Old Man Bai was just a few words, and the cooking was over, very quickly, and there was a lot of noise later, all because of the foot shop and Sister-in-law Wu.

Boss Bai and Elder Bai said in unison, saying that Sister-in-law Wu was a slave of their Bai family, and she bought it to be a cook in the foot shop, and waited for their father by the way.

Such a shameless one, even in this capital, is rare.

Li Zheng said that Sister-in-law Wu was not a slave, but the stepwife of Old Man Bai, and found the matchmaker of the year.

The two brothers changed their words, saying that their father's death was because of Wu's sister-in-law's poor waiting, and they howled to ask the government to treat Wu's sister-in-law for the crime of not waiting for her to death, and it was best to sell it.

Alas, what a couple of brutes. ”

"And then?"

Li Ran asked with a frown.

"Later, when it was time to eat, I dispersed first."

Zhou E looked at Li Ran, and after a moment, her head leaned forward again, "That, Tao Nong said that she would invite you to dinner in the evening, and she pushed the night one." ”

"Something, right?" Li Ran looked at Zhou E.

"What Momonon means, it's better to discuss this matter with you, and I think it's also, one more person, you can always think more thoughtfully." Zhou E smiled.

"Well, let's go." Li Ran stood up.

Zhou E also stood up, and the two of them walked out of Cuiweiju together and went straight to Qingfeng Building.

Tao Nong was going around in the private room of Qingfeng Building, and when he saw Zhou E coming in first, he lifted the curtain to let Li Ran in, and let out a long breath.

"Sit down, let's eat first." Momono smiled with a smile on his face, very polite.

Li Ran sat down, looked at Tao Nong and said hello, a few stews quickly put the dishes on the table, saw Zhou E from Tao Nong, didn't speak, served himself half a bowl of soup, and took a sip.

"I don't have the rule of not being able to eat and speak, look, this is coming for me, say it." Li Ran said a word, and then sipped the soup.

"I'll just say she's smart, you name it." Zhou E motioned to Tao Nong.

"How dare you rush the girl, there is really no way, alas."

Momono sighed a few times, she was really sad.

"Isn't it a day of trouble today, and then Huang Tuiguan said, it's late, and the trial will be held tomorrow, and the bookstore next to it said that let Wu's sister-in-law stay for a while, and he wants to draw a charge or something.

When the two beasts of the Bai family went out, the bookstore asked Sister-in-law Wu what her plans were, saying that she was a woman and a little girl, it was not easy, they pushed the official to be kind-hearted, and said that they would let Sister-in-law Wu go back and think about it, think about it, hurry over early tomorrow, and give him a reply.

Sister-in-law Wu came to me and asked me what to do, I discussed with General Zhou for a long time, and after thinking about it, I still had to ask the girl to make an idea. ”

Li Ran listened intently and snorted.

Calling her out at this time can only discuss the matter of Sister-in-law Wu, which she thought of.

"Let me start with the difficulty of this. Just one, she can't stand up alone.

The Bai family is a tiger and wolf den, and they definitely can't stay any longer. She had to get out of the Bai family.

Old man Bai is dead, she wants to get out, so that the two brutes of the Bai family will not be able to trouble her in the future, either remarry, or, I think the two brutes of the Bai family are not bad, just let them sell Sister-in-law Wu, I said let General Zhou buy ......"

"I can't buy it, there's nowhere to put it." Zhou E immediately answered.

"You buy it, let General Zhou pay for it." Li Ran looked at Tao Nong and said.

"I want to, but I'm a ninth-rate, lowly person, I bought their mothers, Sister-in-law Wu doesn't care, what about her little girl?

If the good and the poor don't intermarry, her little girl doesn't want to get married, and it is a great blessing to be able to find a good family as a concubine, how can this work. ”

Li Ran blinked again and again when she heard this, she really didn't expect this, she really didn't know!

"I can't buy it, and I don't have a place to put it." Li Ran met Taonong's eager gaze and hurriedly waved his hand, "Or, remarry?" ”

"Where can I find the right person? How old is she? I can't have any more children, and I have two husbands in a row, and I still have a drag oil bottle, and then I look for it, at most, it is like the old man Bai, who has a son and a daughter, and she married to be a cow and a horse, alas, it is better to die. ”

Zhou E shook her head as she spoke.

"She doesn't want to marry again." Momino took over,

"She was a slave before she fled to the capital. Since she was a child, she was raised to be a slave, she is a good slave, good! If you look at her like this, she has to have a master. ”

Momonong looked at Li Ran, as if she was selling something.

"Can't you set up a female household? You and General Zhou, as well as me, usually take care of them more, if you really want to be reduced to slavery, isn't her little girl even worse? ”

Li Ran couldn't quite understand Taonong's line of thought.

"What a girl, that's ......," Momonon said with a dry smile. In your house, not to mention like the little guy next to your third brother, he is a rough slave, walking on the street, he is struggling, and ordinary people dare not provoke him.

There are one or two, who begged the master to release them and marry them on their own, but generally the two people dare not come to the door to ask for it, and they can't ask for it.

Girl, really. ”

"She's right, she doesn't understand anything." Zhou E nodded while listening, first nodded to Tao Nong and Li Ran, and then nodded to Li Ran and Tao Nong.

"It's better for you to buy it, and then give some money to let her open a small restaurant, all in your name. Can you do business, right? ”

Li Ran looked at Zhou E and said.

"That's a good idea!"

Momino clapped her hands in approval.

"I'll just say, the girl is not suitable, the girl's identity is too big, besides, Sister-in-law Wu is ...... can't be regarded as an auspicious person, the girl bought her, and it doesn't sound good to say.

Besides, the girl is a girl from the Marquis Mansion of Chang'an, no matter what, she can be regarded as having a bunch of elders.

We can't mess with the girl.

Also, you are angry, full of capital, who is not afraid of you? She threw herself under your door, and the two brutes of the Bai family did not dare to harass her again.

That's the best! ”

Zhou E grinned like a toothache, and after a while, she nodded reluctantly, "I ...... myself Okay, alas. ”

"Sister-in-law Wu can make a lot of money, you have picked up a big bargain."

Momonong's eyebrows are flying, and his tone is also rising happily.

"Then let them sell Sister-in-law Wu, we have to find someone to do this business, and besides, this price can't be asked by that pair of beasts, I'll just go for this matter, go now, you have to hurry."

Momino spoke, already standing up.

"You sit down, can I use you?" Zhou E pulled back Taonong.

"Yo, look at me, confused, this matter, our General Zhou has arranged everything properly, and when this matter is arranged, I will invite you to drink, and I have to respect you well!"

Momonong sighed, sat down again, looked at Zhou E, and looked flattering.

Zhou E raised her head with a tense face and hummed paradoxically.

The three of them discussed it and finished eating.

Tao Nong hurriedly went back to talk back to Sister-in-law Wu, Zhou E looked at Li Ran and pouted, "Go back from Wanshouguan?" ”

"No, let's go back. I'll wait for something first. Li Ran shook his head and motioned to go straight back to the Marquis Mansion of Chang'an.

Before Sister-in-law Wu's case is settled, it is best for everyone to avoid it.

The next day, more than half an hour before noon, Zhou E probed into the house and smiled with Li Ran: "It's all right, Sister-in-law Wu and her daughter spent a total of two taels of silver, and I asked her to find a place to open a restaurant." ”

"Where do they live now?" Li Ran said with concern.

"Squeeze it with Momonon first, I told her, find a front store and backyard, it's best to find one that can be bought, it's fine, don't worry." Just now, Hou Ye sent a message, asking me to go to the military department quickly, and I'll go over and take a look now. ”

Zhou E came back quickly.

Go away happily and go back with your head down.

Zhou E leaned against the door frame, her head sticking in through the curtain, and explained to Li Ran a little weakly: "I have to go far away, half a month." You go to Qingfeng Tower, that, Wanshouguan over there. ”

Wanshouguan didn't finish three words, Zhou E had already lowered the curtain, and Li Ran hurriedly chased out and asked, "When?" ”

"Right now." Zhou E waved her hand without looking back, hung her head and shoulders and went to the backyard.

Li Ran watched Zhou E go into the backyard, looked down at her clothes, raised her feet and took two steps out, then stopped again, raised her voice and called Xiaoyun.

Xiaoyun answered and came out of the pantry.

"General Zhou is going to go far away, I'm going to go out now, the car is ......"

Li Ran looked at Xiao Yun, Xiao Yun hurriedly bent his knees and smiled: "The girl wants people to prepare the car, right?" I'll send someone to say it. ”

"Hmm." Li Ran smiled in response, slowed down, and walked towards the second gate.

Outside the second gate, the coachman was already waiting, Li Ran got into the car and ordered to go to Qingfeng Tower.

The Chang'an Hou Mansion is very close to Qingfeng Tower, Li Ran got out of the car in front of Qingfeng Tower, and the little guy in Shi Nan stood at the door of Qingfeng Building, and when he saw Li Ran, he didn't go up, he owed a debt, and turned back.

Li Ran followed the little maid into a private room by the lake behind.

Xie Ze stood at the door of the main house, let Li Ran in, and motioned for her to sit.

"Zhou E is gone?" Xie Ze poured a cup of tea and pushed it to Li Ran.

"You're packing up your things, saying you're going out for half a month?" Li Ran picked up the tea and took a sip.

"A month." Xie Ze poured himself another cup of tea, "Go to the military horse farm to feed the horses for a month." ”

Li Ran almost laughed, "It's you?" Because...... That foot shop? ”

"Because she doesn't know the severity, she dares to take you out." Xie Ze's tone was visibly annoyed.

Li Ran didn't dare to answer.

Zhou E brought her out, she was willingly taken out by Zhou E, and in terms of it, her fault was no less than Zhou E.

"Haven't eaten yet?" Xie Ze looked at Li Ran, who was obviously weak-hearted, and when he saw her, he nodded, frowned, and said, "Eat first." ”

"Hmm." Li Ran lowered his head and agreed, picked up the bowl, first filled half a bowl of soup and drank it, ate half a bowl of rice, and put down the bowl.

Xiqing and Huaizhi stepped forward to collect the food and re-brewed the tea and served it.

"Zhou E joined the army at the age of fifteen, and now, for more than 30 years, she is an old **.

has been a general for more than ten years, and until now, the criminal system is incomplete, and the military law is incomplete. ”

Xie Ze watched Li Ran drink half a cup of tea, snorted, and then followed the words just now, his voice was cold.

Li Ran's back was leaning on the back of the chair, and she didn't dare to come out.

He was angry.

"You don't blame you for that."

Xie Ze looked at Li Ran, who was sitting straight, looking frightened and trained, and his tone softened.

"Chang'an Hou must not have told you this, I should have told you a long time ago, it was my negligence."

Li Ran secretly breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed a little.

"Zhou E is a person who is very righteous, but he is too righteous, regardless of the importance and never weighs the gains and losses.

You say that she has outstanding military achievements, but she failed to open a government like others, it is because she exchanged her military exploits for the word happy. ”

"Huh?" Li Ran's eyebrows raised.

"When Zhou E was seven or eight years old, she was sold into Sweet Water Lane, and when she was fifteen years old, she escaped from the capital and joined the army.

When the first emperor was called the emperor, she only needed to take revenge, and the emperor allowed her, and the head was converted according to the merit, and the merit she made was not enough, and she owed more than a dozen heads.

She also picked the place to cut off the head, and on the Longjin Bridge, she cut off twenty-nine heads in one go. ”

Li Ran straightened her back again when she heard this, and sighed lightly, no wonder those people in Sweet Water Lane and various tiles were so afraid of her.

"She is a natural warrior, if you talk about offensive and defensive battles, leading troops to rush and kill, and responding to emergencies, there are few people in the army who can compare to her, and she has great prestige in the army.

But from beginning to end, she has been a deputy, and she has never led an army to block one side alone, not because she is a woman, but because she has never known what it means to plan and then act, and what it means to think about Zhou Xiang. ”

Li Ran snorted this time.

Zhou E seems to have always been confident, as stable as Mount Tai, and has the demeanor of a general.

Xie Ze looked at Li Ran's face and snorted.

When she first led the team of 1,000 people, she couldn't even calm down and be silent, and when she was training, the emperor stared at her, thought of countless methods, and later, finally taught her to use Zama to stabilize her mind.

You have to pay more attention in the future, if you see her legs spread, as if she is squatting, it is not as steady as Mount Tai, it is panicked, she can't hold it anymore. ”

Li Ran suddenly remembered that in the foot shop yesterday morning, Zhou E's legs were as stable as Mount Tai. sighed, I didn't know what to say, and what kind of expression to have.

"Zamabu yesterday?" Xie Ze asked clearly.

Li Ran nodded repeatedly.

Xie Ze sighed.

"The emperor didn't let her open the mansion alone, but she didn't feel at ease. She was also reluctant to open a house alone.

After the year, the Marquis of Chang'an wanted to lead the troops south, the emperor's meaning, Zhou E had too many old injuries, and she was a little older, and she was a general, unlike the Marquis of Chang'an, it was not appropriate to go to war with the Marquis of Chang'an. ”

Xie Ze's words paused, for a moment, sighed, and continued: "She has to have someone watching, it should have ...... Alas, I have transferred her to me, and when she comes back from the racecourse, she will stay with you, and you will have to watch her. ”

“……”

Li Ran was stunned for a moment, a good word stuck in her throat, but she couldn't spit it out.

She has always regarded General Zhou as a safe and reliable general......

"For a while, Zhou E is not here, in the area of Daqing Palace, don't go over at night."

Xie Ze looked at Li Ran, who was staring at her eyes and stammering, wanting to laugh and sigh.

"That ......"

After Li Ran said that word, he didn't know what to say.

So what if she wants to see him? It would take a month for General Zhou to return.

Xie Ze looked at Li Ran, waiting for her to say something.

"If something happens to me, how can I find you?"

Li Ran looked up at Xie Ze and asked.

"What can you do?" Xie Ze asked rhetorically, without waiting for Li Ran to answer, he sighed, "What really has to happen." Xie Ze's words paused, frowned slightly, and after a moment, he continued: "I will know." ”

Li Ran was stunned for a moment, tears almost fell, "If I am, I just want to see you......"

"I've been busy lately...... I'm not in the capital tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, I'll have someone deliver it to you. ”

Xie Ze was halfway through his words, and when he saw Li Ran's tears falling, he immediately changed his words.

"Alas, go back, I have something to do at night, and I can't delay it longer."

Xie Ze said, took out the handkerchief and handed it to Li Ran, watched Li Ran wipe her tears, stood up, sent Li Ran out of the private room, watched her walk away, and sighed again.

Yesterday Monday, I forgot about ......

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