In the early morning, on the Zhuo Wolf Grassland, three carriages traveled in one word, and around the three carriages, there were more than 100 northern border guards with swords and swords, and the four northern border guards who opened the road also held the banner of "Governor of the Northern Frontier Guards". Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The first carriage was draped in red and hung with colors, and the curtain was embroidered with a big word "Xi", which was obviously the team of the governor of Northern Xinjiang to greet his relatives.

In the second carriage sat a thin septuagenarian man, with a few loose white hairs on his head, a few white eyebrows and beards on his wrinkled old face, triangular eyes, garlic nose, and a shriveled mouth that was about to lose all his teeth, like the decay of an old dragon clock. Don't underestimate this person's dying look, he is now a well-known figure in Northern Xinjiang, the governor of the Northern Frontier Guard Mansion who has just taken office this year, Chang Xu. Chang Xu was dressed in a bright red Tuanlong brocade suit, sitting in the carriage with his eyes closed, he was now full of what his new favorite concubine should look like, Chang Xu had never seen Liu Zitang, but he heard a lot of news about Liu Zitang from the mouths of Liu Tang and Liu Er, tall and graceful figure, snow-crystal skin, Yingying's waist, straight and slender *, all of which made Chang Xu more excited the more he thought about it, and his face couldn't help but show a touch of anticipation. It has been three years since Chang Xu last took a concubine, which is a very short time in the eyes of outsiders, but in Chang Xu's opinion, it has been lonely for a long time, and the older Chang Xu is, the more eager he is to stimulate his boring officialdom life through this kind of thing.

And the most interesting thing is the third carriage, and at this moment in the third carriage are sitting four bewitching women dressed in flowers. The four women were all concubines of Chang Xu, the eldest of whom was over fifty years old, and the youngest looked to be only in his twenties. This fifty-year-old woman is the head of Chang Xu's concubines, and everyone in Chang Xu's mansion calls her "big lady", but she is not really Chang Xu's big lady, in fact, Chang Xu's wife has died of illness many years ago, and this fifty-year-old woman is Chang Xuna's first concubine, so after the death of the original wife, she naturally sat on the throne of "big lady". The eldest lady is a woman with great means, which is why she is over fifty years old and decrepit but can still sit firmly at the head of Chang Xu's inner house, and the orderly management of Chang Xu's inner room is almost all the credit of this eldest lady, and now Chang Xu's thirty or so concubines are respectful to the eldest lady in order to enjoy the glory and wealth safely, and respect her together. Among the many rules set by the eldest lady, one is the concubine of the old man, and she must follow her to see it personally, and any woman who does not enter the eyes of the eldest lady will definitely be squeezed out by them even if she can pass the door. Taking the existing wife and concubine to marry a new concubine is probably a big wonder in the world.

Trotting all the way beside Chang Xu's car was a white-faced man dressed as a butler, who looked to be about forty years old, tall, fat, white and clean, with quite regular facial features, and a pair of eyes that always lingered with a smile always inadvertently showed a touch of shrewdness. This person's name is Chang Wei, is Chang Xu's nephew, all these years have been saddle before and after the horse to follow Chang Xu to deal with some chores, often for the shrewd and capable work solidly, Chang Xu was named the chief butler of Chang Xu, and Chang Xu is also the most trusted person on weekdays.

"Master, you can just send the little ones to do this little thing, why bother to come here in person?" Chang Wei looked at Chang Xu who closed his eyes and smiled with a sneer, and said in a low voice.

Chang Xu shook his head and said: "Chang Wei, you still don't understand women, if I can't personally welcome her back today, master, she will definitely lose her temper with me in the future." Especially for young and beautiful women, the more beautiful they are, the greater their temper. Hehe......"

"That is, the old man's eyes are like torches, and he can see through the minds of these women at a glance. Chang Wei complimented, "Master, this Liu Tang looks ugly, how can he have such a flowery daughter? Don't fool you for the sake of friendship." ”

Chang Xu smiled lightly: "You don't understand this, sometimes the uglier the father, the more you can give birth to a handsome girl." Besides, Liu Tang deceived me and didn't do him any good, if he was really an ugly woman after seeing him later, then I would dismiss Liu Tang as the flag master on the spot. ”

"The old man is wise. ”

There was a good mood of talking and laughing all the way, and the sky was gradually approaching noon, and the group finally came to the outside of Shijia Village. At this moment, the village was calm, there was neither the lanterns and the expected crowds, but there was no one else at the entrance of Shijia Village except for a local dog and two or three children playing.

"What's going on?" Chang Wei couldn't help frowning when he saw this, "Isn't Liu Tang ready?"

"Hmph, there are no rules at all. At this moment, the eldest lady in the third carriage poked her head out of the window, only glanced at the plain entrance of the village, and then immediately shrank back, leaving such a dissatisfied cold snort.

Chang Xu coughed lightly twice and said with a smile: "Maybe Liu Tang doesn't want too many people to know about this, so he acts so low-key." Chang Xu was already cowardly at the moment, thinking only about his future wife, where could he care if he came out to meet such a trivial matter. Chang Wei looked at Chang Xu embarrassedly, and asked in a low voice, "Then master, who are we...... But we don't know which courtyard the Liu family is?"

"That's not good!" the eldest lady's voice came out of the carriage behind again, "Let the people in front beat the gongs and drums for me, I don't believe that no one from the Liu family has come out to greet him." ”

"Madam, why do you ......bother if people don't want to make such a big move?"

"He doesn't want to, but we do!" The eldest lady still insisted on her own opinion and refused to compromise even in the face of Chang Xu, and said stubbornly, "This girl has been put on the score before she has passed the door, so how can I discipline it in the future?" The more he doesn't want to alarm the people in the village, the more I want everyone to know about this great event. Hurry up and bang the gong!"

Chang Wei looked at Chang Xu with embarrassment, but after seeing Chang Xu laughing dryly, he nodded lightly and said, "Then do what the eldest lady wants!"

"Okay!" Chang Wei happily agreed, and then trotted all the way to the front of the line, and ordered the musicians who had prepared in advance to make a big splash.

Soon, the people of Shijia Village were attracted by the sound of drums, and they all walked out of their homes and gathered at the entrance of the village, staring back and forth with curious eyes to look back and forth at the welcoming convoy from afar. Chang Wei saw that more and more people were gathering, so he stepped forward and shouted loudly: "Are there any people from Liu Tang's family? Lord Du Du has arrived, and he will not come out quickly to greet him!" Chang Wei shouted a few times in a row, and then Liu Er led more than 20 northern border guards to trot all the way to the entrance of the village, and bowed down to Chang Xu on the carriage from a distance.

The villain Liu Er greeted the governor. Liu Er was beaten by Liu Jitang yesterday and was covered with injuries, and at this moment, the appearance of a pig's head with a blue nose and swollen face made many villagers laugh.

"Liu Er, what about the rest of your family?" Chang Wei asked loudly.

"I ......"

"You're here to marry my sister?" Before Liu Er could reply, a cold and somewhat contemptuous voice suddenly sounded from among the villagers, and then I saw Liu Jitang, a tall horse, holding a wood-splitting axe in his hand and wiping his sweat while walking forward, Chang was so frightened that he took two steps back and asked a little nervously: "Who are you? What are you going to do with an axe?"

Liu Jitang sneered: "Who am I? You want to marry my sister and you don't know who I am? I am Liu Zitang's eldest brother, and I naturally want to chop wood with an axe, do I still cut you?"

"You ......"

"Chang Wei!" Without waiting for Chang Wei to get mad, Chang Xu was already slowly stepping forward with the support of several northern border guards, he stopped Chang Wei's words, and said to Liu Jitang with a smile, "It turns out that you are Liu Tang's son, and the old man is Chang Xu, you should know me." ”

Although Liu Jitang had been prepared in his heart, after seeing Chang Xu's old-fashioned appearance, a trace of anger flashed on his face. He forcibly endured the displeasure in his heart, and said to Chang Xu coldly: "I know, you can come in! My father and sister are waiting for you at home!" After that, Liu Jitang turned around and wanted to leave.

"Bastard!" In the carriage in the distance, the eldest lady's angry shout suddenly came, "Go and call Liu Zitang, this girl, out of me, and let her personally pick up Mrs. Ben and get off the car." ”

Liu Jitang turned a deaf ear to the eldest lady's reprimand, and after leaving a sneer, he turned around and walked back to the village, no matter how the eldest lady reprimanded him in the carriage, he never looked back.

"Old man......"

"Okay, let's go in!" Chang Xu, who didn't wait for Chang to speak, suddenly waved his hand, and then took the lead in following Liu Jitang's footsteps towards the village with the support of several people.

After a while, Liu Jitang took Chang Xu and others to the gate of Liu's courtyard, and at this moment, a large group of villagers had gathered around Liu's house, whispering and speculating about what had happened to Liu's family. Liu Jitang turned around and blocked everyone's way in front of the door, and said, "My courtyard is small, and only five people can go in, and the others are waiting outside." ”

"Okay!" Chang Xu was angry, but he couldn't bear it, he wanted to see what kind of medicine Liu Tang was selling in this gourd today, "Chang Wei brought two northern border guards to go in with me, and the others are waiting here." ”

"I'll go in too!" The eldest lady didn't know when to catch up, she was wide and fat, and after walking a few steps quickly, her breath was a little hasty, and beads of sweat the size of beans also flowed down her big face covered with fat powder, looking extremely fat, "I want to see what kind of little wave hoof lives inside, and dares to stand in front of the master and me." ”

Liu Jitang glared at the eldest lady with cold eyes, if it weren't for Liu Tang's words, I was afraid that he would have been angry a long time ago. Liu Jitang pushed open the door and let Chang Xu, Chang Weihe, and the eldest lady and the two border guards in, while the others were all blocked by him, even Liu Er, who had a bitter face. But it's also strange to say, Liu Er, who had done good things in the past, didn't have any clamor today, Liu Jitang didn't let him in, he really obediently went under the big tree on the side, and was stunned worriedly.

In the courtyard, Liu Tang and Liu Zitang were already there, and when Liu Tang saw Chang Xudang, who was late, he even dragged the stubborn Liu Zitang to kneel down together, and arched his hand: "The next person Liu Tang and the little girl visit the governor and the eldest lady." ”

Chang Xu, who was originally angry, when he saw the beautiful Liu Zitang in the courtyard, the displeasure that had been haunting his heart disappeared in an instant, and his old eyes never moved away after seeing Liu Zitang, and he was satisfied in addition to satisfaction, and the Liu Zitang in front of him was even more beautiful and lovely than Chang Xu imagined.

"Liu Tang, are you really a big score?" The eldest lady walked directly to Liu Tang and Liu Zitang and pointed at them and scolded, "Do you really regard yourself as the master's father-in-law? I knew that the master had arrived, why didn't you go out to greet him early? I even dared to stand in the courtyard and wait for the master and me to come here to find you, I think you have eaten the heart of a bear and a leopard gall!"

"Liu Tang doesn't dare!" was reprimanded by the eldest lady, Liu Tang's head suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and he was even more bitter in his heart, and said, "The villain is really unwilling, and I hope the governor and the eldest lady will forgive me." ”

"Liu Tang, you ......"

"Okay!" Chang Xu opened his mouth to interrupt the eldest lady's reprimand, only to see him break free of Chang Wei's support, walked straight to Liu Zitang, leaned over and stretched out his hand to set Liu Zitang up, but Chang Xu's hand had just touched Liu Zitang's shirt, Liu Zitang quickly got up like a frightened bird and took several steps back, and then stared at Chang Xu with an annoyed face.

"What are you doing?" the eldest lady glared at her, and scolded, "Unruly girl, I think you just owe discipline!"

"You're not in a good way. Liu Zitang was unconvinced, and naturally refused to admit defeat, "I didn't agree to marry him...... As a concubine, why did you come to my house to point fingers at me?"

"Little girl, it seems that if I don't teach you a hard lesson today, you don't know how strict my Chang family's rules are......" Saying that, the eldest lady rushed to Liu Zitang in two steps, stretched out her fat hand and hit Liu Zitang's cheek hard.

"You dare!" said that it was too late and that was fast, Liu Jitang rushed to Liu Zitang first, and his burly and powerful arms slammed into the eldest lady, and immediately knocked the eldest lady out of the air, and fell a dog gnawing mud on the wall, which was extremely embarrassing.

"You ...... What are you still looking at?" the eldest lady shouted at Chang Wei and the two northern guards, "Why don't you hurry up and take them down for me!"

"Stop it for me!" Chang Xu's cold drink under the noise suddenly calmed the scene, he stared at the eldest lady with cold eyes, and said lightly, "Today I am here to marry, not to fight, if you dare to mess around again, see if I go back and don't clean you up!" The eldest lady was full of grievances when she was scolded by Chang Xu, and her eyes were suddenly full of tears, but she didn't dare to fight back, so she could only sit in the corner and cry bitterly.

Chang Xu took a deep breath as if to calm down, so he turned his head to look at Liu Tang, who was submissive, and said, "Liu Tang, she is your daughter Zitang?"

"Yes!" Liu Tang nodded in agreement.

"That's good!" Chang Xu nodded with great satisfaction, "You really didn't lie to me, you are indeed a great beauty, and Pontus is very satisfied." Hehe......"

Liu Tang laughed awkwardly and said, "The little girl is mediocre, and she has been awarded by the governor." ”

"Huh!" Chang Xu waved his hand disappreciatively and said with a smile, "I know that you must be reluctant to marry your precious daughter to me, but you can rest assured that the Governor of Pontus will definitely love Zitang twice more in the future, and will never let her suffer the slightest grievance." Saying that, Chang Xu also glanced at Liu Zitang, who was slightly frightened, with greedy eyes, so frightened that Liu Zitang hurriedly hid behind Liu Jitang.

"That'...... Then thank you Dudu......" Liu Tang said with a dry smile.

"You are on an errand in the Border Guard Mansion, if you want to see Zitang in the future, you will go directly to the Mansion to see her, we will be a family in the future, and you can go unhindered when you enter the Border Guard Mansion. Chang Xu promised, and as he spoke, he leaned over to Liu Tang's side and whispered, "The governor of the capital of the city is too old and will not serve as the governor of the northern frontier for too long, and I have decided to promote you to His Majesty the Emperor as the next governor of the northern frontier." You have to behave well and don't let Pontus down. After that, Chang Xu pretended to reach out and pat Liu Tang's shoulder to show his weight.

"Thank you to the governor, the villain will definitely be a cow and a horse to repay the governor's kindness. Although Liu Tang kept thanking him, his expression was always absent-minded.

"Okay!" Chang Xu glanced up at the high sun, and laughed loudly, "The hour is not early, it will be half a day's journey back to Dingbei Town from here, and the governor of Pontus will no longer delay time, so as not to delay the auspicious time." Liu Tang, the governor of Bendu allows you to rest for a few more days to settle down at home, now I will take Zitang back first, and after you return home, the governor of Bendu will set up a banquet to entertain you, by the way, take Jitang to Dingbei Town together, and the governor of Bendu will arrange a good errand for him. Haha...... "After saying that, Chang Xu wanted to step forward to pull Liu Zitang's hand, but Liu Zitang was so frightened that he dragged Liu Jitang's clothes to death, and Liu Jitang also stopped in front of Chang Xu with an angry face, without any intention of avoiding it.

"That...... Du Du ......" Just as Chang Xu walked towards Liu Zitang, Liu Tang, who looked embarrassed, suddenly said, "Please wait a while." ”

"What?" Chang Xu looked at Liu Tang suspiciously, "Do you have anything else to explain?"

"No...... It's not that the villain has something, but it's ......" Liu Tang's words came to his lips, but he didn't know what to say, and he twisted and pinched for a long time before he smiled bitterly, "In short, there is still a small matter that needs to be solved by the governor, and it is not too late for the governor to take Zitang back after this matter is resolved." ”

"What is more important than marrying? Can't we wait until we return home to discuss it?" Chang Xu raised his eyebrows, and a trace of impatience flashed in his eyes.

"Or please ...... Let's solve it here!" Liu Tang smiled bitterly, although his face was extremely embarrassed, but his words were not slackened at all.

"Then let's talk about it quickly!" Chang Xu snorted lightly, flicked his sleeves back to his back, and said lightly, "Pontus will solve it for you." ”

Liu Tang nodded gratefully and said with a smile: "This can't be said, please take a step to speak." Saying that, Liu Tang stretched out his hand and pointed to the closed door not far away, and smiled awkwardly, "There is a friend of Zitang inside, who wants to say a few words to the governor in person." ”

"Friend?" Chang Xu's face showed a hint of doubt, and said, "Liu Tang, what do you want to do?" Liu Tang no longer spoke, but walked to the door and stretched out his finger to the room, the smile on his face was even uglier than crying. After thinking for a moment, Chang Xu snorted lightly: "Forgive me, I don't dare to play any tricks in front of the governor of Pontus. After saying that, he walked straight to the room, and then under the leadership of Liu Tang, the two disappeared into the room one after the other, and the door opened a gap and quickly closed from the inside.

In the room, Lu Yifan was sitting on a stool with his back to the door and drinking tea, and Chang Xu couldn't help but squint at Lu Yifan's back after entering the door, and asked suspiciously, "Is that you want to see me?"

"Exactly!"

Lu Yifan agreed, then put down the teacup in his hand, and slowly turned around, when his face completely appeared in front of Chang Xu, Chang Xu, who was originally displeased, first flashed a trace of doubt in his old eyes, and then a flash of light flashed in his mind, and two terrifying lights instantly surged out of his eyes.

"This face is...... Lu Yifan!"

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