None of the palace people who followed An Jinyan raised their heads, but only lowered their heads and followed behind An Jinyan.

An Taishi was looking at the official document in the study, and was taken aback when he heard the servant outside the door shouting the crown princess, and then he heard An Jinyan's voice and asked his father if he was in the house. Master An hurriedly got up from behind the desk and went out of the study to greet his eldest daughter.

When the father and daughter met the ceremony and sat in the study, Taishi An asked An Jinyan, "The crown princess brought the will?" ”

An Jinyan said with a smile: "Jinxiu came back today, and I accompanied her to see my father." ”

An Taishi didn't know about An Jinxiu's return to the door today, and when he heard An Jinyan say this, he lowered his voice and said, "What's the matter with Niangniang?" ”

An Jinyan opened his mouth and asked directly: "Why did my father marry Jinxiu to Shangguan Yong?" ”

An Taishi said, "Shangguan Yong has a life-saving grace to his ministers, and the splendid marriage can be regarded as a repayment." ”

"Repay the favor?" An Jinyan said, "It's that simple? The prince also told his daughter about this, father, even the prince doesn't understand why you recruited such a son-in-law as Shangguan Yong. ”

"This is what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asked you to ask?" An Taishi asked.

An Jinyan didn't say yes, nor did he say no, but said, "Father should be a daughter and ask you." ”

An Taishi pondered for a long time before he said to An Jinyan, "Shangguan Yong's martial arts are good, and he is valued by many generals in the army. ”

"Are you saying that Shangguan Yong will become the prince's help in the army in the future?" An Jinyan asked.

"It is up to man to plan things, and it is up to heaven to make things happen."

"Since my father has such a mind, then with her splendid appearance, why can't she marry the general of the court?"

"The great general of the court," An Taishi smiled bitterly and said, "Our An family is because there is no power in the army, Niangniang, you can be hand-picked as the crown princess, otherwise there were so many candidate women back then, why was it Niangniang?" ”

An Jinyan was speechless by what Master An said, she didn't know these things.

"You regard Jinxiu as a chess piece, and you feel that the minister has used this chess piece in vain," An Taishi continued, "Niangniang, Shangguan Yong is very likely to become a general in the future, you and the prince might as well be patient." ”

"Father!"

An Taishi waved his hand at An Jinyan, "The minister said something disrespectful, the saint was the throne that was fought on the horse, and the military power was greater than the sky for the saint, and now the saint is still in his prime, but the prince and the princes have grown up, and the minister hopes that the prince will abide by the duties of the courtiers and not get involved in military affairs." ”

An Jinyan said: "What if Shangguan Yong is a mud that can't support the wall? ”

An Taishi said, "As long as he treats Jinxiu well, then there is nothing wrong with this marriage." ”

"Father is really good to Jinxiu."

"They are all sons and daughters, and ministers will not favor one over the other."

An Jinyan stood up, suppressed the anger that suddenly rose in his heart, and said to An Taishi with a smile, "My daughter is going back, father should pay attention to her body and don't work too hard." ”

When An Taishi sent An Jinyan out of the study, he saw the Qin family standing at the door of the study, guarding the door for their father and daughter.

"Niangniang, are you going back?" Qin Shi saw the father and daughter come out, and asked hurriedly.

"You send the crown princess out of the house," Taishi An said to the Qin family, "It's not too early, so don't drag the mother down with trivial things." ”

The Qin family didn't know what the father and daughter were talking about, and seeing that the expressions of the two of them were normal, they couldn't see any clues, so they had to agree to send An Jinyan out of the house all the way.

"Jinqu has to be taught well," An Jinyan walked out of the gate of Anfu, and then said to the Qin family, "If the grandmother I brought wants to punish her, mother, don't stop you." I'll set a good family for her, so don't worry about her. ”

The Qin family was overjoyed, when she thought about it, if An Jinyan looked at the family affairs for An Jinqu, then this family affairs would not be bad, and she thanked An Jinyan for her kindness at the moment, not like her own mother and daughter at all, but really like a monarch and minister.

An Taishi sat back in the study, the official documents spread on the table couldn't read a word, and today I told An Jinyan about An Jinxiu's marriage, and An Taishi finally told the truth. In a big family like the An family, which marriage can be uncalculated? Shangguan Yong is not a good person, but Shangguan Yong has the conditions to succeed in the army, this is the only place where An Taishi likes Shangguan Yong, as for repaying the favor, it is completely an excuse.

Originally, he wanted to pair An Jinqu and Shangguan Yong, but An Taishi felt that he would marry his daughter, and he would be more grateful to Shangguan Yong to him, and when Shangguan Yong flew Huang Tengda in the future, he could still hold it in his hands. And Bai Chengze asked to marry An Jinxiu as a side concubine, An Taishi also wanted to fulfill, eggs can't be put in one basket, if the prince can't become the emperor in the end, then Bai Chengze is another bet placed by An Taishi. It's just that now, when An Taishi thinks about the current situation, he can only sigh that the world is unsatisfactory, and he can only take one step at a time.

"Someone," An Taishi shouted outside the study.

The personal attendant walked in and stood in front of the master and bowed to obey the order.

"Go to the account room and pick up a hundred taels of silver tickets and hand them to the second lady," Master An ordered the attendant to say, "Tell the second lady, my uncle is on the expedition, if there is something at home, come back to the house, and the family will help her." Also, in the future, the family will still send her a regular amount of money every month, so that she can use it, which is my father's intention. ”

The attendant took the order and went out.

An Taishi buried his official documents again, whether it was out of the intention of compensating for his concubine's daughter, or for the purpose of enveloping Shangguan Yong through An Jinxiu, in short, by doing so, An Taishi's heart could be more comfortable.

An Jinxiu got the one hundred taels of silver tickets given to her by Mrs. An in Aunt Xiu's room, and Aunt Xiu was very happy, but An Jinxiu felt hot with this silver ticket, and she didn't know if she could afford this father's heart.

"Take it," Aunt Xiu persuaded An Jinxiu empathetically, "You need silver taels to live, my aunt is gone, and the family will depend on you alone, this silver is a lot, but you also have to count the flowers, after all, this battle is a fight, and I don't know when my uncle will come back." ”

An Jinxiu nodded.

"Go back quickly," Aunt Xiu gave An Jinxiu a small box containing needles and threads, "You can use this thing, bring it with you." ”

"Mother."

"Mother is living in the house, you don't have to worry about it, there is still the fifth young master, you can rest assured," Aunt Xiu strongly persuaded An Jinxiu to relax.

An Jinxiu walked out of Aunt Xiu's courtyard, and looked back at her biological mother who was standing at the gate of the courtyard to see her off, but couldn't take a step out of the courtyard gate. It's good to endure it for a few more years, An Jinxiu said to herself in her heart, and also to Aunt Xiu, their stable days will come, as long as you endure it for a few more years.

An Yuanzhi practiced his gun in his courtyard, a bright silver spear danced vigorously, the tip of the spear swept over the flowers and trees in the courtyard, and the falling flowers covered the ground in the courtyard after a while. An Jinxiu waited in the ear room for three hours, and was taught by the old lady to guard the woman's way, An Yuanzhi already knew. Thinking about his biological mother who can't get out of the hospital, thinking about his sister, getting ahead has become more and more an obsession in An Yuanzhi's heart, he can't choose his background, but at least he can choose the days he wants to live in the future.

After An Jinxiu walked out of Anfu, she didn't hire a carriage, and slowly walked back from Anfu to her and Shangguan Yong's house alone, and turned into a fabric shop halfway to buy some clothes to make clothes for Shangguan's brothers and sisters. After returning home, Chenghuan's body had reached its limit overnight, but An Jinxiu still forced herself to cook summer soup for Shangguan Rui and Shangguan Ning, and after watching the two brothers and sisters drink it, they returned to the room, fell headlong on the bed and couldn't get up again.

Zi Yuan made dinner and came into the house to call An Jinxiu to get up, An Jinxiu only turned over in bed, and slept all day until the third day.

When An Jinxiu took a good bath, standing in the small courtyard of his house early in the morning of the third day, looking at the sky that had just turned white, the sound of reading was already heard in Shangguan Rui's room, and the room where Shangguan Ning and Ziyuan lived was still silent. Last night, it rained all night, knocking down a lot of the leaves of the plane tree in the courtyard, An Jinxiu walked under the tree and stood quietly for a while.

After the day dawned, An Jinxiu cooked breakfast, and after the family finished breakfast, Shangguan Rui went to study in the academy, and An Jinxiu and Ziyuan took Shangguan Ning to do needlework at home.

For the time being, Shangguan Yong's home seemed a little quiet, but the days passed quietly in the company of the four people.

Two months later, An Jinxiu noticed that her menstrual period had stopped, and invited a doctor to take a look, only to know that she was pregnant. Dongfang conceived a child overnight, which was a surprise for An Jinxiu. Thinking that the son he owed in his previous life came so soon, and on the night when he was diagnosed with pregnancy, An Jinxiu lay on the bed alone and cried all night.

After the news of An Jinxiu's pregnancy reached Anfu, An Yuanzhi came with a doctor the next day, and took a pulse for An Jinxiu.

A few days later, An Yuanzhi came to see An Jinxiu again, but he brought An Jinxiu a land deed. It turned out that An Jinxiu put An Yuanzhi with 800 taels of silver tickets before marriage, An Jinxiu made up his mind to leave it to An Yuanzhi, and An Yuanzhi gave An Jinxiu a few times after this sister didn't want it, and took it upon himself to buy more than a dozen acres of good land for An Jinxiu in the western suburbs outside the city.

"I want to build a village there for your sister," An Yuanzhi said when he handed over the deed to An Jinxiu, "So I didn't use up all the money, with that farm, my sister's life will be better." ”

An Yuanzhi made his own opinions, but An Jinxiu couldn't get angry, she had a younger brother who was bent on planning for her, what else was she angry about? "Don't you think about yourself?" An Jinxiu asked An Yuanzhi.

"No matter what I do, I can't use your money," An Yuanzhi looked at the kitchen of Shangguan's house as he spoke, and even said that he was hungry, urging An Jinxiu to hurry up and start eating.

An Jinxiu knew where An Yuanzhi was really hungry, but she didn't want to dare to say this topic anymore, so she had to poke An Yuanzhi's head with her finger and take Ziyuan to the kitchen to get busy.

An Yuanzhi followed the kitchen door and said to An Jinxiu, "Sister, don't worry, I've been to that place several times, and I won't buy it if it's not a good field." ”

The fertile fields in the western suburbs of Kyoto, An Jinxiu went through the fertile fields in the western suburbs in his heart, and asked An Yuanzhi, "Did you buy the land in the palace of Lord Wangyuan of the Ministry of War?" ”

An Yuanzhi nodded and said, "How could you guess?" ”

"Just guess," An Jinxiu smiled, the daughter of the Wang family was accepted by the prince into the East Palace as a side concubine, and she knew about this even if she didn't go out of the door. Sejong hates the prince the most for making friends with people in the army, Wang Yuan was originally the general who led the troops, this person became one of the prince's fathers-in-law, will Sejong still let Wang Yuan stay in the military department anymore? It is a matter of time before Wang Yuan leaves Beijing and returns to his hometown, and An Yuanzhi can only buy land from the Wang family.

An Yuanzhi didn't think deeply about whether An Jinxiu guessed casually, and said to An Jinxiu, "The crown princess went back to the house again, sister, my father said that he wanted to arrange for me to enter the guard camp." ”

An Jinxiu put down the spatula in her hand, walked to the courtyard with An Yuanzhi, and asked in a low voice, "Do you want to enter the guard camp?" ”

The guard battalion is the guard battalion next to Sejong, and it is basically the sons of the major clans who practice martial arts, or the orphans of soldiers who died fighting for the country. Entering the guard camp means that you can get close to Sejong, the so-called near the sky, near the water and the tower to get the moon first, if you get Sejong's blue eyes, the future career will be much smoother than ordinary people.

An Yuanzhi shook his head, "I didn't agree, and I won't rely on them if I want to make a profit." ”

An Jinxiu lowered her head and thought about it, and after her brain turned quickly, she said to An Yuanzhi, "I heard that Wang Yuan's daughter is average-looking, and the prince chose this woman to take a fancy to Wang Yuan's connections in the army, and at the same time to test whether the saint can tolerate him this time." ”

An Yuanzhi said, "So the saint can't tolerate the prince recruiting forces in the army, and several sons of our family are all Xi Wen, so they hit me with their ideas, thinking that after I get in the army, I can be used by them?" ”

"Maybe."

An Yuanzhi sneered, "I'll just say that there is no such good heart at home." ”

"And what are your plans?" An Jinxiu asked.

"Sister," An Yuanzhi helped An Jinxiu sit on the stone bench in the courtyard, "No matter how rich the An family is, it has nothing to do with us, I just ask this family not to commit the crime of being beheaded all over the house." I want to join the army, relying on my own ability, even if I don't have the life of wealth and nobility, I will admit it if I die on the battlefield, one day, I will break with Xunyang An's family. ”

An Jinxiu looked at An Yuanzhi's resolute face when he said this, and sighed, didn't An Yuanzhi in the previous life take out their biological mother and break off with Xunyang An after becoming famous? "Did you not agree to enter the guard camp, and the family gave you a look again?"

It's not just to show his face, An Yuanzhi was punished to kneel in the ancestral hall for three days, and now those masters in the mansion are all scolding him for not knowing what to do. An Jinxiu is now pregnant, An Yuanzhi will not tell An Jinxiu this, as for the old lady who specially called the doctor who diagnosed An Jinxiu's pulse to ask An Jinxiu the month of pregnancy, for fear that the month of this child is not right, and suspects that An Jinxiu took advantage of Shangguan Yong's expedition to go out and Hongxing went out of the wall, An Yuanzhi will not say anything. "No," An Yuanzhi coaxed An Jinxiu and said, "Sister, I'll take you to see the land you bought tomorrow?" ”

An Jinxiu knew who the masters of An Mansion were, and she knew An Yuanzhi's situation, so she didn't ask anymore when she saw that An Yuanzhi didn't say anything. With a smile on his face, he said to An Yuanzhi, "When his uncle is on vacation, let's go and have a look together, and by the way, see if there are any honest farmers there, and ask them if they are willing to rent our land to plant." ”

An Yuanzhi smiled: "Our land? “

"Do you still share the property with me?" An Jinxiu glared at An Yuanzhi, "It seems that if I am poor in the future, I won't be able to borrow silver from you?" ”

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