Qing'anhou sat in the study with a calm face, holding a book in his hand, but his mind did not put it on it.

He has been guarding the border for many years, and he has never interfered in the discipline of the children in the eldest son's family. The daughter was disciplined by her mother, but he didn't have to worry about it, the second son was out of the house, and he has always kept to himself, but this third son, as a young son, grew up next to the old lady, and has been spoiled since he was a child, and when he returned to Beijing, this lazy character has been cultivated, and he can't change it. Fortunately, their family started with martial arts, and no matter how much the old lady spoiled him, he didn't let him put down his martial arts, so it wasn't useless.

This Hou Mansion will be his eldest brother's in the future, and he will be put in the big camp just to let him experience and experience so that he can have a future in the future, and he can also take care of him if he has connections in the army. A dignified man, he can't rely on his eldest brother for a lifetime. Originally, he was quite diligent, but I didn't expect that a few years had passed, and he hadn't grown at all!

Xie Jingxing entered the study, saw Qing'anhou reading, stepped forward and bowed, "I don't know what my father is looking for me?" ”

Qing'anhou didn't say much, and asked him directly, "I heard that this lychee was given by a friend of yours?" What's this friend's name? Next time, you will bring me to see you too. ”

"I have a lot of friends, and you don't know each other." Xie Jingxing muttered quietly, he coughed and cleared his throat and said: "She is a person from the rivers and lakes, she has always been high, she came to me, and I don't know when I will see her." ”

"Yes," Qing'an Hou smiled meaninglessly, "Your friend is really generous, and the things that are hard to buy will be given away, I don't know when the Jianghu people became so rich." ”

Xie Jingxing secretly said badly, he never worried about money, and when he saw two baskets of lychees, he only thought that they were rare and could show off, and he never estimated the value of them.

In fact, if it is something given by others, Xie Jingxing no longer cares about money, and he will have more eyes, after all, he is the third son of the Hou Mansion of Qing'an. Thinking that there are not a thousand but eight hundred people in their family, but unfortunately Qing'an Hou is determined to be a pure minister, and the house is managed like an iron bucket, and if he can't get through from his father's side, he will naturally work other people, Xie Jingxing has never stopped holding heavy treasures to please him since he was able to go out alone, probably because he was young, even more than his eldest brother, and he refused to come out of experience.

But Jiang Yan is different from those people, as far as his current friends are, aside from his family background and power, how many people can really get acquainted because of him? Even if you come and go, you have to take care of the twists and turns between the various mansions, but it is not as comfortable as Jiang Yan, a person who has nothing to do with it. He knew that she had never thought of taking the opportunity to climb the Hou Mansion, and with her temperament, it was likely that she was just bringing some clay instruments along the way, and she might not have counted how much gold these lychees were worth.

But this can't be said directly to his father, in the eyes of normal people, such two large baskets of fresh lychees have traveled thousands of miles from Lingnan to the north, and I don't know how much thought has to be taken during this time, saying that it is just an ordinary gift between friends, and someone must believe it.

At least Qing'anhou didn't believe it, Xie Jingxing looked at his face, it seemed that he had been sure that he had been deceived, and he couldn't help but feel a little bored, could it be that he looked stupid and stupid, and he was still a father, why didn't he have any confidence in him at all!

He said unhappily: "The friends I have made are naturally not ordinary people, and it is not strange that there is a capable person in the rivers and lakes." ”

Qing'an Hou saw that he refused to speak, and he no longer suppressed his temper, and reprimanded: "What capable person can you know!" But a bunch of fox friends! To-morrow thou shalt go to the account office and give him the money, and we will buy him. In the future, stay farther away, don't make any mess and be a friend. ”

He had a commanding tone, and Xie Jingxing's temper also came up, so he simply spread it out and said, "You just think she is uneasy and kind, and you have something to ask." Anyway, I'm a sesame petty official, and I don't have anything to look up to, she must be the idea of beating the Hou Mansion! I think you're thinking too much, and if you really want to please me, it's not much better than a lychee to send a horse and a sword, and it's not so troublesome! I won't get the silver, people treat me as a friend, I can't do such a slap in the face! ”

Qing'an Hou was even more angry when he saw that he didn't listen to persuasion, "What friend?!" But Qu Yiying will change his name and give you benefits! I've seen a lot of this kind of person, I see that you have been in vain in the camp in the past few years, you haven't learned anything and you are not growing up! ”

Xie Jingxing smiled angrily, "I can't see who she is?!" Father is too arbitrary, not everyone is as hollow as you think, people may still think that Xungui is arrogant and vulgar, and I don't want to have too much contact, just see if I will bring someone to beg you in the future! ”

The two parted unhappily.

Mrs. Lao Hou made people pay attention to this side when Xie Jingxing went to the small study in the main courtyard, the father and son had a discordant temper, one was strict and the other was willful, Jing Xing didn't cultivate any father-son relationship when she was young, and every time she had to worry about whether the two would quarrel.

Seeing that Xie Jingxing was back, Mrs. Lao Hou hurriedly called him to sit down beside him, "What did your father tell you to do?" ”

Xie Jingxing grew up beside her since she was a child, and she has the best relationship with her grandmother, so there is nothing that can't be said, "He asked me to take the silver to Jiang Yan, the friend who gave the lychee today, but I didn't agree." Old lady, you say, is it worth it? He also called me over and said, if I don't think people are deliberately currying favor with me, can't I have a forgetful friend? ”

Mrs. Lao Hou had no choice but to mediate in the middle, and persuaded at both ends, "The annual entry and exit of the house is millions of taels of silver, and your father will care about this little thing?" He is just afraid that you will be deceived by someone if you make friends, so he will give you a few words, but your father and son are both temperamental and can't talk well. He also cares about you, this friend really has a good relationship with you, you just have good words to your father, why quarrel with him. ”

Xie Jingxing said deflatedly: "I think my father has been in the court for a long time, and he won't believe it if he sees too much deceit." ”

Mrs. Lao Hou continued to persuade him to follow his father, in fact, she didn't believe it very much, even if it was a good friend of the family, there was no such gift, how can someone like you return the gift, it looks rusty if it is heavy, and it is not easy to go if it is light, all in all, it is not this gift giver.

Jiang Yan didn't know that there was such a thing in the Qing'an Hou Mansion, Jiafu was already a declining aristocrat in Jiang Yan's heart, they could eat lychees in their mansion, it can be seen that it was not too expensive, and when she bought it, she was afraid that it would be difficult to divide it if it was less, how did she know that this was also a very rare delicacy in the palace? If you want to blame Jiafu, the inner bag is empty, but she still has to support the outside shelf, and the lychees have a price and no market, so she has to buy some and come back to taste them for the sake of face, so she misestimated the price.