Chapter 21: Xue Dingjie
The Xue family is very abnormal today, in the morning, as usual, the concubines of each room went to the hall to ask for peace to the Xue family, but they were left by the Xue family.
"There have been a lot of things going on in the house recently, and it is my duty as a hostess. Living in fear every day, it is the Yang Mansion that does not protect you. Now that the husband has gone, it should be time for the entire Yang Mansion to encounter this catastrophe. Xue sighed.
I had never seen the Xue family say like this, and several concubines hesitated a little and said, "Madam, this ......"
The butler walked in with someone, and several servants behind him carried a large box. Xue ordered someone to open it, only to see silver ingots neatly stacked in the box.
The concubines were stunned, not knowing what the Xue family was going to do.
Xue Shi said in a deep voice: "I know very well your little thoughts. Since you're not here, I guess you don't want to stay here. Nian Cui's departure reminded me that since I didn't want to stay here, I took the money and left. ”
Several concubines were obviously a little surprised, and they didn't expect that the Xue family would suddenly make this decision.
But this is a good thing, and many people already have a look of interest on their faces.
If it was in the past, even if the Xue clan drove them away, they would not have left. Some people have already begun to think about how to divide the property when the Xue clan roars, but the successive deaths in the mansion have already scared them out.
No matter how much money you have, if you don't have the life to spend it, it's useless at all.
"Madam, the concubine is willing to guard the spiritual position of the lord and worship in plain clothes. This house is still there, and everyone can't leave. A concubine suddenly fell to her knees and wept.
This little concubine is also very old, the same as the Xue family. She was included in the Yang Mansion not long after the Xue family married Yang Yi, and was honored as the second lady in the back house, but she had a good temper and was easy-going, but she was not as majestic as the Xue family.
"Nonsense! Even if you are all gone, as long as the old body is still there, the Yang family will not fall! ”
Xue Shi glared angrily, and suddenly saw the second lady sobbing nonstop, and said broadly: "You haven't been back to your parents' house for a few years, so go back and stay for a while this time." It's not safe in the house lately, so if you go back early, I'll be at ease. ”
The Xue family couldn't say anything, and let these concubines take the money and leave quickly, and the Yang Mansion had nothing to do with them from then on.
The silver ingots were placed there, but not many people took them. It's not that they don't want to take it, but the Xue family is sitting on the side, and they are afraid that the Xue family will regret it.
After so many years in the Yang Mansion, these women have already made a lot of money by virtue of their abilities. At this moment, I went back one by one and hurriedly cleaned up the softness, but there was a feeling that a big disaster was coming.
"Are they all gone?" Xue Shi was still sitting in the main hall, and asked with a gloomy face.
The butler bowed and said, "If Mrs. Hui speaks, they all left." ”
Xue Shi sighed when he heard this, stood up and looked back. Behind her, there is also Yang Yi's spiritual seat, the white cloth hangs down, and the coffin swings horizontally. The two couplets are blown back and forth by the wind.
Xue raised his hand, took down the white cloth he was holding on his head, and threw it aside at will. The wind blew a white cloth onto Yang Yi's spiritual seat, covering his name.
As everyone left the main hall, the sunlight shone on the luxurious furniture, reflecting a thin veil.
Even if the brilliance is still there, but when people go to the empty house, it looks a little sad.
The concubines packed their bags and prepared to leave the mansion. At this time, I didn't take care of too many possessions, and some things that were difficult to take away, so I found a place in the yard and buried them, thinking that I would have the opportunity to dig them out of the ground in the future.
When the women with their bags left the gate of the Yang family's mansion, they found that at some point, the house was already surrounded by sergeants with halberds.
These weren't the sergeants sent by the nearby Jin Wuwei to patrol the vicinity of the mansion, these were soldiers who had actually experienced battlefield battles. Some of the people's armor was still covered with large and small knife marks, their faces were gloomy, and they stood there straight, but the murderous aura on their bodies was already overwhelming.
The people living in this street are either rich or expensive, and there are several ministers' residences nearby, which are crowded on weekdays. It's just that today all the doors are closed, and the atmosphere is very strange.
Click, click.
In the distance, there was a muffled sound of horses' hooves, and a tall horse suddenly appeared at the end of the long street. The whole body is blood-red, without a trace of stray hair, and stands taller than an ordinary horse.
The sergeant seated in the saddle was dressed in bright light armor, with a cross-collar and narrow sleeves, and under the armor was a wide skirt with legs, and the whole body was jet black. The round belly is topped by a lion's head with a large open mouth.
The sergeant was flanked by ten sergeants, all dressed in armor and riding horses, and the spears in their hands were very heavy, and they came from the street with murderous vigour. These sergeants were clustered around a huge carriage, and there were four horses pulling the cart!
According to the etiquette system, only the Son of Heaven can use a horse-drawn cart.
Behind the carriage was a flag embroidered with a lion's roar. There is also a distinct Xue character in the middle. There are already many missing corners on the whole flag, which looks very vicissitudes, and even some blood stains are still attached to it.
This is a real battle flag, and under such a formation, several concubines felt that their hearts were about to jump out, so they hurriedly leaned against the wall, and they didn't even dare to move.
The carriage drove by, and the concubines dared to breathe a sigh of relief. A concubine said in a trembling voice: "That's Madame's maiden family, I've only heard of it before, but I didn't expect it to be so magnificent." ”
"No wonder they all took us away, if I had such a large army to protect me, I wouldn't be afraid."
"Talk more about what to do, it's a good thing that Madame let us leave, don't leave quickly."
After the concubines left, the sergeants standing on the entire long street quickly gathered on the edge of the Yang Mansion again. It's really five steps to one person, ten steps to one sentry.
Shangzhu Guo Xue Dingjie is already in his seventies, and his hair is completely white, hanging long on the ground. This old minister has gone through two dynasties and three emperors, and now he has faded the halo of a soldier saint, leaving only the vicissitudes of time.
Xue Dingjie was already a famous general in the court when he was Emperor Xuan of Qin, and what is more remarkable is that he has never lost a battle.
In the nineteenth year of Emperor Yang Longyao, the Northern Wilderness invaded the Central Plains in a big way. At that time, the 15th Route Army defended the capital, but all of them were defeated, only Xue Dingjie defended Huaizhou, and the lone army firmly blocked the main force of the Northern Wilderness Army in Hebei Province. This is also the reason why the Northern Wilderness has never been able to transport supplies to the iron cavalry in the end, and it is also because of this that the Central Plains was given a chance to breathe, and the empress was able to wait until the armies from all walks of life gathered together before raising troops to counterattack back to Shendu.
By the time of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Xue Dingjie could already be called a soldier saint. Many of his battle examples are still in the martial arts academy of Cangyun Academy, and they are being studied by everyone.
Xue Dingjie is now the duke of the country, the title of Shangzhu State, which is only a few people in the entire Great Zhou.
Getting off the carriage, although Xue Dingjie was old, he didn't need someone to help him. His momentum dispersed, and the subordinates of the entire Yang Mansion knelt on the ground one after another.
"Daddy." Xue gave Xue Dingjie a salute and showed his father the way.
The Xue family originally married into the Yang family, and it should be called the Yang Xue family.
It's just because her father is extremely strong, coupled with the empress's edict that it is clear that a woman will be called by her mother's surname after marriage, so she has always been Xue's.
just married Yang Yi, Xue Dingjie was always against it at that time, and he didn't even come when the two got married.
If it weren't for this catastrophe in the mansion, she wouldn't have sent a message to her father.
Xue Dingjie glanced at his daughter and said, "Since Yang Yi is dead, you can also go home and take a look." ”
Xue bowed to the ground and said, "Since my daughter is married to Yang Yi, she is ready to guard the door of the house for her husband all the time, and she does not dare to slack off in the slightest." ”
Xue Dingjie sighed, then walked to the main hall by himself, and sat on the first seat, where the big horse golden knife sits.
With Xue Dingjie in charge, the people of the entire Yang Mansion breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, and the tall courtyard wall seemed to be able to block all the ghosts and spirits outside.
The sergeant outside had already walked in, and there was even an eight-ox crossbow that could only be lifted by the combined efforts of four people. The sergeants stood in all corners of the Yang Mansion. At this moment, the Yang Mansion was like a fortress, impregnable.