Qingliangshan Palace, early this morning, walked out of a young woman and walked into an old man, both of whom have a deep relationship with the Xu family.

The old man's name is Wang Linquan, a veritable pawn beside Lao Liang Wang in his early years, and he is even familiar with Lin Doufang, so this time his daughter failed to sit on the Beiliang concubine, and the old man who also refused the position of deputy supervisor of Beicheng was sick at home.

At this time, Wang Linquan was walking with the only queen in the early winter by Tingchao Lake, looking at the daughter who was still carefree, the old man was both relieved and worried, relieved that his daughter should not be angry here, worried that his identity would change after all, no matter how good the in-laws in the world were, after a long time, it was inevitable that there would be no unexpected bumps and bumps, his daughter was so simple, how could she intrigue with others, how to do that thing to compete for favor? What's more, Wang Linquan has always disliked the woman surnamed Lu who came out of Qingzhou together, and he has long sneered at the likes of Lu Dongjiang, a famous scholar in Qingtan, to be honest, Wang Linquan has indeed never had a little bit of a fall for the Lu family who complained in Beiliang, but Wang Linquan also knew that in fact, that son-in-law hoped that he could get along with the Lu family, and even helped the Lu family in some things, but Wang Linquan He thought that he had never been a sage and a perfect person, not a bad person, and he couldn't help his opponent It was tantamount to pit his own good deeds, fortunately, the young vassal king wanted to think about it, and never opened his mouth to force him Wang Linquan to do anything, so Wang Linquan was happy to pretend to be stupid, coldly watching the Lu family's embarrassing blind jumping.

Wang Linquan stopped, quickly looked around from the corner of his eye, and then said softly: "Girl, you will get married soon, your father and mother don't want you to be wronged and run back to your parents' house, no matter how close you are to your mother's house, it's just ...... But if you really suffer a lot of grievances, you still have to tell your father and mother, the water spilled by the married girl is a bastard, don't take it seriously. ”

Listening to his father's contradictory words, Wang Chudong grinned.

Wang Linquan hurriedly reminded: "My daughter, how many times has your mother told me, you have to smile without showing your teeth." ”

Wang Chudong made a lively and playful grimace.

Wang Linquan said helplessly: "I always don't grow up, how can my father and mother rest assured that you are married." ”

Wang Chudong smiled and said, "Dad is reluctant, then I won't marry." ”

Wang Linquan raised his hand and made a gesture to fight, but he, a father who was famous for spoiling his daughter in Qingzhou back then, was really willing to do it, let alone fighting, and he was reluctant to say a heavy word.

Wang Chudong twisted his hands behind his back, raised his head and said softly: "Dad, in fact, I know that even if Sister Lu doesn't become a concubine, it won't be my turn, it should be the woman surnamed Jiang in Xichu, and the woman who the prince really can't let go of is her, but she is not suitable to be the princess of Beiliang." So it's not easy for Sister Lu. Dad, I know you're afraid that I'm angry, in fact, I'm not angry, and I'm not unhappy, every time the prince returns to Qingliang Mountain, he will take the time to ask his daughter about the various volts in the book "The First Snow", and said that in the future, when he is really free, he must personally stare at me to write a romance novel about his three trips to the rivers and lakes, saying how to write a hero, I told the prince that it is no problem to write him chivalrous and heartfelt, but the heroine he likes must be surnamed Wang, and it must be beautiful and fragrant, and the prince also agreed. ”

Wang Linquan was speechless.

Young people nowadays, I really don't understand.

Wang Chudong squinted his eyes and smiled into a crescent moon, "Dad, drink more wine and tea with that Mr. Lu when you have time, Dad, didn't you love vassal elegance the most, sitting at the same table with Lu Boyi, who is famous in Wenlin, and spreading it out has a lot of face, right?"

Wang Linquan said with a straight face: "How high is the threshold of other people, your father is old and can't cross it." ”

Wang Chudong shook Wang Linquan's arm.

Wang Linquan's face was a little heavy, "Did the prince instruct you?"

Wang Chudong shook his head and said seriously: "Dad, no. ”

Wang Linquan looked at his daughter's eyes, stared for a moment, and finally nodded: "I believe in my daughter, and I also believe in the general's son." ”

Wang Chudong wrinkled his nose and said: "Wrong, wrong, I believe in our prince of Beiliang, and of course I also believe in your son-in-law!"

Wang Linquan couldn't cry or laugh, and said helplessly: "Dad listens to you." ”

Wang Chudong suddenly said cautiously: "Dad, can you really get along with the Lu family as relatives in the future? The kind that is not far away, the kind that is a little icing on the cake?"

Wang Linquan sighed and rubbed his daughter's head, "I know, my father will take care of it, hey, my father is afraid that he will be kind, that Lu Boyi doesn't appreciate it, and he mistakenly thinks that his father has bad intentions." That's it, in fact, my father also knows that he is good friends with the Lu family, and in the final analysis, he still lets his daughter be here

It's better to be a person here, but I always felt that my heart was blocked in the past, and my father was careful. ”

Wang Chudong lowered his head, "Dad, it's my daughter who made you feel wronged." ”

Wang Linquan smiled happily: "Silly girl, unless it is one of those women who are really ignorant, there is no daughter in the world who makes my father angry." Who said that girls grow up with their elbows turned out? Isn't our family? Dad is very happy, really!"

Wang Chudong smiled brightly.

Wang Linquan said in a low voice: "Girl, your mother is right, between women, if you don't fight, it's a big fight." ”

Wang Chudong smiled, like a little fox who had just cultivated in the deep mountains and forests, "Dad, what did you say, my daughter didn't hear it." ”

Wang Linquan laughed and didn't say anything more.

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The colorful Lu Mansion ushered in a reasonable but absolutely unexpected rare guest.

Lu Chengyan, who is light and simple, is the future concubine of Beiliang.

The people with foreign surnames in the house are secretive about the indifferent relationship between this woman and the Lu family, which is almost known to passers-by in the Beiliang officialdom, that is, those children surnamed Lu who are above the top, and now they don't regard this ruthless woman as their own family, and they are afraid and resentful, and their feelings are complicated.

In the first year of Xiangfu, the Lu family was still beautiful in Beiliang, and the second year of Xiangfu was more difficult, but there was a turnaround after the autumn, and it was only spring this year, and there was a great happy event coming.

For Rainie Lu's provincial relatives returning home, the Lu family, whose waist is much stiffer than last year, actually has some yin and yang weird words, yo, didn't you threaten to ignore the life and death of our Lu family, why, I just heard that your father is about to become the assassin of Liangzhou, and I remember that there is such a mother's family? I don't know how to be ashamed, I rushed to give your father a New Year's greeting at the beginning of the first month? Could it be that you are in Qingliang Mountain, in fact, you are far from being as comfortable as the outside world says? Lu Chengyan went straight to the small courtyard of Lu Dongjiang under the leadership of the groveling old steward of the Lu family.

At this time, Lu Dongjiang was really writing big characters in the courtyard with a broom dipped in water.

The contemporary head of the Lu family, who was proud of the spring breeze, saw his daughter appear at the gate of the courtyard, and did not immediately put down the special broom, and waited until the remaining small bucket was completely bottomed out, and then handed the broom to a graceful young maid, and then took the handkerchief and wiped his hands, turned around leisurely, and said with a smile: "E. Yan, here." ”

Lu Dongjiang's thoughts about this daughter who was enshrined by the old Lu family were actually more complicated than ordinary Lu children.

This daughter, who has not been close to his father since she was a child, has too many imprints of the old family owner Lu Feiqi.

Even before, many people believed that if Lu Chengyan was not her daughter, the seat of the head of the Lu family would not be Lu Dongjiang's turn to sit at all.

Lu Dongjiang knew that this was by no means absurd words, that night at the door of Qingzhou, if Lu Chengyan was not his daughter, but his son, then he would definitely not be able to receive the inconspicuous bamboo lantern in the hands of the ancestor.

Lu Dongjiang hopes that the Lu family can soar in Beiliang more than anyone else, and he hopes that if the ancestor knows under the spring, he will be glad that he handed over the lantern to his own hands at the beginning!

Lu Chengyan said expressionlessly: "Do you know why the Lu family can produce a thorn master?"

Lu Dongjiang was stunned for a moment, and sneered: "Even if there are all kinds of reasons, at least it will definitely not be because of Cheng Yan blowing the pillow wind." ”

Lu Chengyan tugged at the corners of her mouth, "Look at the current Beiliang Dao Thorn History, Liuzhou Yang Guangdou, Chen Xiliang." Lingzhou Changsui, Song Yan. As for Youzhou, the post of Don't Drive has been vacant for two years, and there is only Hu Kui. ”

Lu Dongjiang confidently answered the conversation and said with a smile: "Now compared to Liangzhou, which is one order higher than the other three states, don't drive the same empty for a long time, and Liangzhou Thorn Shi Tian Peifang, or Song Dongming, the deputy economic envoy, have a good relationship with your father, although there is no staggering, but the friendship between gentlemen is as light as water......

Lu Chengyan stared at this man who hadn't shouted his father for a long time, his eyes were dark, and he asked with deep sadness, "Does the Lu family know that after having an official from the second grade of the Liangzhou Assassin History, the Xu family, who has retreated again and again, is going to start reasoning with the Lu family, instead of thinking about favors everywhere? So do you know that your move is equivalent to monopolizing the Qi of the Lu family for two entire generations?"

Lu Dongjiang said angrily: "Lu Chengyan, don't forget that I am your father!"

Lu Chengyan smiled sadly and bitterly: "Lu Dongjiang, if I really forget, what am I doing here? Can't you think at all, the reason why I did not hesitate to break off my friendship with the Lu family and put on a posture of never getting along with each other is just to make him feel more guilty about the Lu family in his heart? Do you think he doesn't know this selfishness of my Lu Chengyan? It's not that he doesn't know, but he pretends not to know!" Do you really think that Tian Peifang, the old fox and Song Dongming, who is a pillar of the government and a great talent who is enough to support the government of a country, will regard you as a person who has helped the people in the world because you Lu Dongjiang can write with one hand? Are you stupid or are they stupid? With a huge Lu family, there is no character who is not blind?"

I don't know whether it's anger, fear, or remorse.

Lu Dongjiang trembled and stretched out a finger to point at the increasingly strange woman, "Lu Chengyan, you bastard! Get out of the Lu family for me!"

Lu Chengyan actually smiled, "Don't worry, I will get out, but before this, I want to take away the hanging statue of my ancestor from the ancestral hall, I am afraid that his old man will die when he looks at such a family every day." ”

Lu Dongjiang glared angrily, "You dare?!"

Lu Chengyan narrowed her eyes and said coldly: "Lu Dongjiang, since I, Lu Chengyan, decided to come here today, I no longer regard myself as the Lu family, I am just the daughter-in-law of the Xu family, so if you still want to be the assassin of Liangzhou, shut up for me!"

Lu Chengyan repeated: "Shut up for me, do you hear me?"

Lu Dongjiang's face was pale, but for some reason, he couldn't say a word of cruelty.

In the small courtyard, the father and daughter, not far from the pretty maid Lu Dongjiang who got from Rouge County, was already half scared to death, and she couldn't wait to close her eyes and cover her ears and squat on the ground.

On this day, when Lu Chengyan, who had a calm face, left the Lu family with a scroll of paintings, there was no one to send him off.

When Lu Chengyan sat in the carriage, she hugged the portrait of her ancestor, lowered her head, bit her arm with her mouth, and didn't want to let herself cry, unwilling to let the groom whose real identity was Song Yu, the chief steward of the palace, hear it.

Suddenly, instead of immediately driving towards Qingliang Mountain, the carriage seemed to meet by chance before Lu Chengyan went out, and as if he had temporarily intended to act as the groom's chief steward for the future princess, he gently knocked on the curtain of the carriage.

Lu Chengyan suppressed her sobs and asked softly, "Steward Song, what's wrong?"

Song Yu said through the curtain of the car: "Before the prince left home, he told the villain that when the princess returned to her parents' house and returned to Qingliang Mountain, he would give the princess a small tip. ”

The curtain of the car gently lifted a corner, and Song Yu handed over a delicate bag that he carefully treasured.

Lu Chengyan opened the bag in confusion, and there was only one page in it, and there was a sentence written on it.

Lu Chengyan howled and cried.

This lucky woman who is said to be a "match made in heaven" with the young feudal king, this stupid woman who once quietly lit the life-changing lamp to exchange her life for his life, this strong woman who single-handedly supported the fate of the family after the death of her ancestor, and this crazy woman who was able to shut up her father in person, cried so carelessly for the first time in her life.

On that piece of paper, the handwriting was familiar and meticulous, and it was written "Don't cry, this life is a family." ”

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On this day, the civil and military officials of Tai'an City, who had just finished the New Year, were on the way to participate in the first early dynasty of the New Year, and everyone was worried.

Even Yan Guogong Gao Shizhi and Huaiyang Hou Song Daoning looked dignified after getting out of the car.

In fact, yesterday, the two of them had already entered the palace overnight to meet His Majesty the Emperor, not only them, but also the prominent ministers of the three provinces and six departments had already gathered to meet, although the young son of heaven seemed to look calm, only said that there were 10,000 iron horsemen in Beiliang under the banner of Jingnan Guangling, and broke into Hezhou without authorization, the tone of the cloud was light and breezy, but the emperor's suppressed anger was clear to everyone here. In the end, there was not much substantive response. Among them, Jin Lanting, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, suggested that Xu Gong, the head of the Ministry of War, withdraw from the Liangliao border pass and lead the elite of Gyeonggi to Guangling Road to reinforce Lu Shengxiang, the commander of the Southern Expedition, His Majesty the Emperor did not agree or refuse, and Tang Tieshuang, the head of the Ministry of War, then suggested that the imperial court order Yuan Tingshan, the general of Jizhou, to go south to Guangling, and the two lines of the Shilang Xu Gong's department went hand in hand. There is an elderly old squire of the household department, I don't know which tendon is wrong, or I am afraid that the 10,000 Beiliang iron cavalry will not go to Guangling Road to quell the chaos, but turn the spearhead and go straight to Tai'an City, so I suggested to His Majesty the Emperor that the King of Shu may as well transfer 10,000 more soldiers and horses from the jurisdiction, at that time the young son of heaven changed his face slightly, fortunately, Tan Tan Weng made up for it, and quickly added a sentence, saying that the 10,000 soldiers and horses could be temporarily "lent" to Xu Shilang of the military department.

Gao Shizhi looked at the little hair next to him who was pale because of the cold, and asked softly, "Why don't you change to a thicker fur?"

Song Daoning said bitterly: "I didn't sleep at all last night, and it was warm in the study, so I took such a piece casually at that time." It's not that you don't know my temper, I guess my face is not very good-looking when I go out, how dare the people in the house come to the side to ask for hardship. ”

Gao Shizhi didn't say a word and took off the fur on his body, and changed the fur with Song Daoning, like a subordinate of the Huaiyang Hou Mansion, he personally helped the Hou Ye in front of him to change.

Song Daoning said softly: "Lao Gao, you said that if there is a day when Tai'an City can see the smoke of gunpowder, we will also go to the city to shoot the enemy with a bow, will you die first or I will die first?"

Gao Shizhi snorted a few times and said angrily: "New Year's Day, can you not say bad things?!"

Song Daoning snorted and said: "Just be a child's words, children's words, haha." ”

Gao Shizhi lowered his voice and said: "Don't dare to guarantee anything else, take 10,000 steps back and say, even if Gu Jiantang rebels in Liangliao, Beiliang Xu Fengnian will not hit Tai'an City." ”

Song Daoning said curiously: "Is it really like talking on the street, then Xu Fengnian really just went to save a woman from Western Chu? I originally didn't believe it, just a joke." ”

Gao Shizhi bared his teeth and said: "That guy, what can't you do? Ordinary people, can you single out Deng Tai'a and Cao Changqing? Ordinary people, dare to go to Qintian Prison to kill in and out?"

Song Daoning stopped and asked in a deep voice: "The identity of the woman, is it also as absurd as the rumors, it is the Empress of Western Chu?"

Gao Shizhi shook his head and said: "It's hard to say, whether it's true or not, God knows." ”

Song Daoning asked the bottom and said: "Gao Shizhi, do you know when the Beiliang Xu family secretly hid the princess of the Great Chu Dynasty in Tai'an City?"

Gao Shizhi had a headache and said: "Actually, this kind of rumor has been around for a long time, and the sesame seeds have been rotten for many years, but they were not widely spread at that time, and they never made big waves, but in the winter of last year, they suddenly began to boil in the city, and they were out of control." Your Hou Ye's Mansion has strict rules, so you,

I can't hear this kind of gossip that is difficult to get into the hall of elegance. ”

Song Daoning fell into deep thought.

Gao Shizhi said with a smile: "What is there to think about, if you want me to see it, it must be the Jin Lanting who no longer grows a beard who is making waves, and Gao Tingshu Wu Congxian's gang can't escape." I wondered, why does this Beiliang person hate Beiliang more than us authentic Beijing people?"

Song Daoning sighed softly: "The people in the countryside want to compete for water in the same village, and the officialdom colleagues fight for chairs in the same house, it is the same reason, anyway, some scholars are unreasonable, and you can't say anything." ”

Gao Shizhi wondered, "Aren't you just a reader?"

Song Daoning glared and said, "What are you doing scolding for the New Year?"

Gao Shizhi was speechless for a moment.

Your mother, the two of us are the most top-notch scholars in Liyang, let you be the Marquis of Huaiyang, if this word spreads, see if you don't drown people alive with spit.

Gao Shizhi and Song Daoning walked side by side, "Daoning, you said that the kid of the Xu family wouldn't really be the opposite, right?"

Song Daoning smiled and asked, "Scared?"

Gao Shizhi muttered: "The Northern Liang Cavalry on the Western Front, the Northern Reckless Barbarians in the North, and the Western Chu Cao Changqing in the South, if this is really the case, are you not afraid?"

Song Daoning played with taste: "Who just said that Bei Liang would definitely not come to Tai'an City to fight the autumn breeze?"

Gao Shizhi said with a bitter face: "The world is unpredictable, if the young man surnamed Xu is really the kind of infatuation who doesn't want to be beautiful, then it will be suspended." ”

Song Daoning's face was no longer good, and he couldn't see where to go, "To be honest, what are you afraid of?"

Gao Shizhi blushed and said in a low voice: "Bei Mang Xichu is afraid of a bird, and Lao Tzu is afraid that Bei Liang will pick a son and not guard the country." ”

Gao Shizhi thought that after saying this, he would be laughed at by his good brothers, but he never thought that Huaiyang Hou said softly: "I'm also afraid of Beiliang Iron Ride." Do you think there is anyone in the temple today who is really not afraid?"