"Didn't I ask someone to come back to deliver the letter?" Zhang Lan disagreed, she captured Luo Qingrong today, she was in a good mood, hugged Luo Yuanpeng's arm and walked with him in the garden, "It's rare for people to go out once, Qingrong has never been out as an adult, just took the child out to breathe, speaking of which, she grew up in Beijing, and she didn't go to as many places as me." ”

"Can she compare to you?" Luo Yuanpeng glanced at Zhang Lan with disgust, pulled out his arm from her arms, and walked side by side so openly, Luo Yuanpeng was very unaccustomed to it, and when he saw it, he didn't look the same, "You have been raising you as a man since you were a child, I don't know what you are afraid of?" Qingrong is a daughter raised in the boudoir, so naturally she is not out of the door. ”

"Okay, I know," Zhang Lan pursed her lips and pretended to be angry, "Now you think I'm from a low background and an adult?" Why did you go earlier? Besides, whose girl is she? Whose girl am I? Am I comparable to her? ”

Luo Yuanpeng was amused by her, and couldn't help laughing, "You are justified left and right, I still say the same thing, now that I am different from Jinzhou, I can no longer be so arbitrary, you also have to know how to be restrained, and I will be less angry." ”

"What? She said you again? Zhang Lanxiu raised her eyebrows and sank her face, "You just want the wind to blow in your ears, you don't have to care at all, as soon as this person is old, he loves to emphasize his sense of existence, and he has to give birth to something if he has nothing to do, otherwise how can she be important~"

"It's not like that, what my mother said makes sense," Luo Yuanpeng rarely gets along with the Qi family day and night like now, and after a long time, he found that his mother-in-law is not so difficult to get along with, and usually does not interfere in his affairs, even if there is something in the inner house, he has never taught his wife a lesson in person, "It's like she doesn't like you to go to that Han Yinyun, it's also for you and our Luo family, that woman~"

"What do you call that woman?" Zhang Lan stopped, "I thought it was because you heard something that didn't let me call Yinyun, it's the old lady who has been doing it for a long time," the more she thought about it, the more angry she became, the old lady's hand was too long, and she interfered with her all day long in the name of the good of the Luo family, "I don't know, it was she who said that I stiffened the relationship between the Han and Luo families, and it was she who I was not allowed to repair the relationship, what did she want to do?" This time I said I had nothing to do to go out and hang out, right? Is she your mother! ”

"Shut up!" Luo Yuanpeng was snorted by his wife's sudden anger, "Go back, you can say this kind of unfilial words?!" ”

"Okay, now that we're back, there's no one else in this room, can we open up?" As soon as she entered Jinse Hall, Zhang Lan sat on the couch with her buttocks, Luo Yuanpeng's blatant scolding just now made her feel very unhappy, but in the end, her husband's words also made some sense, "Tell me, what are you afraid of her?" You are the Marquis of Wu'an, the master of this Hou Mansion, she is not the master of the house here, and the whole capital knows that she is not your mother, even if you have any conflict with her, it is estimated that everyone can understand, why torture me with her words all day long? I am the person you are the closest to you, the one who will accompany you for a lifetime! ”

"You think so?" Luo Yuanpeng looked at Zhang Lan in surprise, in his impression, Zhang Lan is reasonable and understands right and wrong, not to mention that she is full of poetry and books, how can she say such unreasonable words? He suddenly found that he couldn't understand Zhang Lan a little, "I have never had one mother, that is, the old lady of Qingtaiyuan, and the whole capital knows that I was not born by her, so I should be more filial to her, as long as you spread half a sentence of what you just said, I, the Marquis of Wu'an, and you, Mrs. Hou, will not do it all." ”

"So that's because of this?" Zhang Lan smiled, thinking that she understood in her heart, "Where will it be transmitted?" I'm just going to say it, and I don't recognize it? Don't worry, as long as we have a good gift, she can't help us. Hey, I'll tell you one thing, I've been thinking about it for a long time, and I discussed it with Qingrong today, and she agreed. It turned out that she was afraid that others would know about her reputation, but Zhang Lan understood that this ancient is not like modern times, and the discord between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law cannot be said in a bright place, so she generously forgave her husband's attitude and turned to talk about the things she cared about.

"In the past, I was wrong, thinking badly of my mother," Luo Yuanpeng sighed, planting melons and getting melons, planting beans and getting beans, he used to think about the Qi family in the worst, but now he has changed his position and looks at it, his mother-in-law really has no place to be sorry for him, "My mother is so old, and her health is not good, and she has to think about the Hou Mansion from time to time, and let her worry about it again, it really shouldn't be." ”

"Okay, I know, in the future, whatever she says, I will endure it," Zhang Lan didn't want to be angry with Luo Yuanpeng for this kind of thing, so she pulled him to the inner room to change clothes, "I have something to discuss with you, you listen carefully." ”

Seeing his wife's readiness, Luo Yuanpeng's heart was slightly relieved, he had a prejudice against his mother-in-law, but it was a matter between him and the Qi family, from the bottom of his heart, he still hoped that his wife could get along with his mother-in-law, and even get the recognition of his mother-in-law, the Gao family did it before, but Zhang Lan, "Okay, you say I'll listen to it." ”

"I've been thinking about it these days, I want to do some business," Zhang Lan sat down next to Luo Yuanpeng, "I wanted to do it when I was in Jinzhou before, you don't agree, now that life is stable, you can always let me start, right?" I even prepared a plan, "Thinking of her pastry house, Zhang Lan's eyes lit up, when the business of this shop is stable, she will open a chain store, and then open a beauty salon, what are the vegetables that are back in season...

"Isn't the business in the house enough for you? Or all this? Luo Yuanpeng disagreed, "If you are short of money, I will ask Xiao Shan to send you some tomorrow, and you can also make a few pieces of jewelry and add some to the women in the family." ”

"Hey, where are people doing this?" Zhang Lan was a little unhappy, she thought that when she arrived in the capital, Luo Yuanpeng would support her, "Am I not idle?" It's better to find something meaningful to do in front of a group of women at home all day, why are you afraid that I earn more than yours? ”

A few days ago, I complained to myself that there were so many things at home, why do I feel that I have nothing to do today? Luo Yuanpeng was a little helpless, he didn't think that Zhang Lan's sweet and greasy dim sum could earn silver, this is not Jinzhou, even if it is a flat-headed person in the capital, he is well-informed, "If you are really fine, I will hand over the accounts of the outer courtyard to you, anyway, I am impatient with these, you are good at this, but we are not short of this money, forget about opening a shop, there is no loss to make people laugh." ”

"What? Are you afraid that I will lose money? I didn't plan to ask you for silver, the loss is also mine, I have told you, I don't agree with me to do it, I have drawn drawings for Steward Xiao to find someone to do, "Zhang Lan is completely unhappy, when she was in Jinzhou, she said it well, when she arrived in the capital, everything was up to herself, but now how has everything changed, Zhang Lan hates others the most, and it doesn't count, especially this man is still her husband, "What's so difficult to calculate in your outer courtyard?" Isn't it just ground rent and rent? How many are there in a year? Don't you look at how many people in Beijing are like the Hou Mansion of Wu'an, the poor jingle ring? ”

"You," Luo Yuanpeng gasped, Wu'an Houfu is indeed not rich, but the poor jingle sound? In the eyes of Zhang Lan, who was born in a fisherman's family? "It turns out that you dislike the Hou Mansion and are not as rich as you think?"

"No," the last thing men like to hear is that women think they are poor, Zhang Lan secretly scolded herself for having no brains, and hurriedly explained, "I mean that only our Luo family in the wealthy family in the capital still guards what Zhuangzi collects rent, and everyone is opening shops to do business, I heard that the business of Amber Mansion is done at sea, as well as Chengenbo Mansion, by the way, there is also Dingguo Mansion, which is not secretly doing business all over Yong'an?" It's just us, you weren't in the capital before, and the old lady was there, and now that we're back, can't you plan for it? ”

"Money and wealth are all things outside the body, our Luo family is not prosperous, the boy followed his father to Liaodong when he became an adult, naturally he can't compare with those Hou men who stay in the capital all day long, but the title that is fought for with blood and sweat is solid, look at these families, which one can still speak in the court?" Luo Yuanpeng shook his head, the Luo family was not a close minister of Taizu, but it did not affect the loyalty of their Luo family, "What's more, wealth and nobility are envied by people, we are much better than many people, just look at Neiku, when is the royal reward not the first share?" ”

Doing a business by himself actually involved the foundation of the Luo family, but this Zhang Lan also wanted to talk to Luo Yuanpeng and said, there are too many things to do to destroy the family, "Then why don't you want to think about it, why did the emperor transfer you, the king of Liaodong, who was on the side of the shock, back to the capital?" Is it because your Luo family has been loyal for generations, and you are reluctant to let you suffer in that bitter cold land again? I don't think so, right? ”

"I've thought about these too, but the king let the minister die, and the minister didn't dare to disobey, not to mention that the emperor just transferred him back to the capital, and promoted him to the rank and rewarded the official position, and didn't throw me idle," Luo Yuanpeng straightened up, the Luo family has been stationed in Liaodong for generations, and he is indeed a veritable king of Liaodong, even if he leaves, most of the twenty-five generals in Liaodong are from the command of the Marquis of Wu'an in previous dynasties, "Maybe the emperor just wants to move our people to a place, after all, it is really not suitable to have a long-term position." ”

"You, I really can't say it, if I were you, after returning to Beijing, I would be a rich man who begged for land and asked for money, and let the emperor know that you have no ambitions, otherwise, it will be light to be swept off in the future!" Luo Yuanpeng and Luo Qingrong are really father and daughter, one is loyal to Emperor De, and the other is superstitious Mrs. Luo, "If I were you, I wouldn't have put my mind on court affairs as soon as I returned to Beijing, what?" Do you still want to grasp the military and politics, sit in Liaodong, and then control the government? Beware of the heads! Zhang Lan couldn't help but change color.

"The emperor is not that kind of person, but the queen mother is still there, not to mention what kind of person I am, the emperor should understand in his heart, otherwise he would not rely on me so much," Luo Yuanpeng carefully tasted Zhang Lan's words, and said after a while, "The twelve towns of Yong'an, where is a Liaodong that can make waves?" If the emperor is really suspicious of me, then he thinks too highly of the Luo family," he said with a smile, "How holy it is today, it is not for us to speculate on it." ”