"Oh? It turns out that what Hou Ye said about paving the road means mutilating his siblings and killing his wife. Hou Ye raised my cuckoo to such a big size, there are no more eggs in the nest, I think Hou Ye has gambled all his life, and he can no longer get tired of me! ”

This is very contrary to the ear, but Lu Qi said it with a smile on his face, extremely relaxed.

Lu Tongqi knew that he had always been like this, and said with a smile: "You are ruthless enough now, but you are not sophisticated enough. Child, you are the son of my Huaiyong Marquis, you should understand that everyone has a weakness, and no one is made of steel. If you make a small mistake in the future, I can easily settle it for you like an ant on your sleeve; If you insist on fighting against me, and the whole world rises up to punish you, even the destiny of heaven will not be able to save you. ”

The two walked to a camphor tree, and the Hou Ye squinted his eyes to look up at the sunlight shining through the sparse canopy, and continued: "This is the camphor tree that your brother planted when he was a child, and he was as tall as a sapling at that time...... Alas, things are not people! It is my old man's greatest wish that you can live a peaceful life. Don't do what you can't do, and don't compete for other people's things, that's enough. ”

"Then I should learn from Hou Ye even more, and look forward to getting the true inheritance of Hou Ye as soon as possible." Lu Qi bent down to pick up a crimson camphor leaf, put it in his hand and rubbed it.

"Stay away from that girl, you'll be tired of her." Hou Ye cleared his throat and said solemnly.

"She's alone, and she can't be a climate." A little blue-green sap burst out of the veins, as if it was making its last revolt in its short life.

Lu Tongqi laughed loudly, "You kid has a hard mouth!" I watched you grow up, how could I not understand your mind? If you have to deal with me, you can do it! It's just that if you lose in the future, don't run to your mother to cry! ”

Hou Ye still had a pleasant and pitiful smile on his face. On the battlefield, the combination of vertical and horizontal, long-distance and close attacks is far more dangerous than the tricks they play. He has been calculated so many times, and he can turn danger into danger and escape death, and it is impossible for him to be defeated in his own Hou Mansion.

"I'm not going to lose."

Lu Qi stared at Hou Ye's eyes steadily. Both father and son were smiling, but they were not as distant as a father and son.

A few days ago, Du Niangzi asked someone to buy a few big crabs and a few jars of chrysanthemum wine, and sent an invitation to Shuying, inviting her to come to Fangting for a reunion on the day of the Double Ninth Festival.

It is difficult to resist the hospitality, Shuying personally asked for rice noodles, bean paste, red dates, preserved fruits, etc. from the large kitchen, and steamed a small plate of rice cakes with the stove and small steamer in the backyard kitchen, which was used as a worship.

Still outside the courtyard gate, you can see the old lady inside put all kinds of chrysanthemums on the flower stand in the middle of the yard one by one, and Du Niangzi smelled the fragrance next to her, a pleasant scene.

Du Niangzi suddenly saw a thin and small person coming in at the door, and she was already smiling with joy. When she got closer, I saw that she was wearing a lilac-colored gown, covered with a dark gray armor, and a white pleated skirt, fluttering like a Guanghan fairy, and her heart was even more loving.

Shuying carried the food box, blessed her body lightly, and sweetly called "Lady makeup". Before she could even say a word of auspiciousness, she was eagerly pulled into the house by Du Niangzi to drink tea.

Today, there is a chessboard on the coffee table, and there is a chess book on the side. Shuying took the black and white chess pieces, set up a few chess games according to the chess game, and solved them one by one. The slender white fingers like shallots kept raising chess and dropping, and time slipped quietly from the gentle collision of the stone gravel and the pattern. She read the words in her mouth, carefully scrutinizing each move, and did not pay attention to any other movement.

For Du Ruo, in the past, her Double Ninth Festival could only be confined to this small courtyard, and she couldn't go anywhere, and climbing the attic was considered to be ascending. Now, there is a little girl who is willing to bring her a cool breeze outside, and her depressed mind can be soothed and cleared a lot. She rarely had such a happy mood, so she sat on the soft couch in front of the window, holding a copy of "Mencius" and reading it carefully.

"The lady also reads Mencius?" Shuying is curious, a woman like Du Niangzi is willing to read four books and know the classics.

"Yes, it's just that my little ancestor left a few copies here, and I just picked them up and read them at my leisure. I don't know why, Emperor Taizu hated Mencius very much, I can't figure out any righteousness, I just feel that there is compassion, shame, respect, right and wrong, etc., all of which are ignored! ”

Du Niangzi closed the book, with gentleness and tranquility between her eyebrows and eyes, smiling shallowly, and Lanfu charming. If you don't know her identity, I'm afraid you will think that she is a virtuous lady from a famous family.

"The goodness of human nature is also like water; There is nothing wrong with people, and there is nothing wrong with water. Fathers and sons have relatives, monarchs and ministers have righteousness, husbands and wives are different, young and old are orderly, and friends have letters. I think it was Emperor Taizu who misinterpreted the original intention of Meng Fuzi, and couldn't see the 'people and nobles and gentlemen' and his broadness, so he withdrew him from the Confucian Temple, and the good classics were also deleted. I can't imagine that the lady lives in the boudoir and has such an open bosom, which is really admirable! ”

In addition to admiration, Shuying also has a little doubt. For ordinary women, their parents will only teach and read the four books of women, such as "Female Commandments", "Internal Training", "Female Analects", and "Female Fan Jielu". And Du Niangzi regarded "Mencius" as an idle book, what kind of tutor should this be?

Because some people blamed Mrs. Liu's death on their mother and son, no one in the Huaiyong Mansion was willing to mention her past, as if no one knew about her past.

"Forgive me for taking the liberty of being presumptuous, where is the lady from?"

"Silly girl, I'm from Gusu! Your family is also from Jiangnan, how can you not hear such a heavy accent as me? Du Niangzi hid her face and smiled.

"Does the lady know about the Gusu Du family?"

The Du family is a Gusu Gaomen, the first old lady and the Du family have followed the emperor of the former Liang Dynasty to fight on the battlefield, and the daughter of the Du family became the princess of Minghui. At the beginning of the Great Zhou Dynasty, most of the Du family died by self-determination, and Emperor Taizu once praised them for their loyalty.

It's just that the crown princess disappeared after she was killed, and the emperors of the Great Zhou Yongchang and Renming dynasties searched for her traces in the south and the south, but in the end there was no news and returned in vain.

"You guessed that, didn't you?" Du Niangzi got off the soft couch and sat opposite Shuying, "You also think I'm Princess Minghui?" ”

Shuying pursed her lips and quickly shook her head in denial.

"I'm just a little concubine of their Du family, my life is like a flower, my aunt died unexpectedly, my mother-in-law and Diao slave dare to bully me, where is my sister so good! If my father hadn't forced me into the Qinglou, I would have died with them......"

Shuying suddenly felt that there were mistakes in this world, and it was very mysterious. She almost died in the Qinglou, but Du Niangzi escaped after entering the Qinglou.