"The general is back." Aunt Wu happily bowed to Li Siye, who had stepped into the threshold.

"Well, is Madame at home?" Li Siye strode towards the backyard, and Mrs. Wu said unhurriedly: "Here, I was still pumping hemp silk and spinning cloth in the wing room just now." ”

"Spun?" Li Siye smiled, too, when he was not at home, she always had to have a livelihood to pass the time, so naturally she couldn't dance and play with swords like before.

Wu Niangzi raised her eyes and looked at Li Siye's back suspiciously. When he turned around, he realized that the maid Daorou was still following him, and as a maid, there was no need to be so close, she couldn't leave an inch.

He turned around and raised his hand to stop her: "Stop, you just stand here, and don't come in the inner house without my orders in the future." ”

"Wow," Dao Rou bowed and crossed her hands, consciously folded her hands at her waist, withdrew to the outside of the inner courtyard, and then stood in the doorway with her hands down, her body straight and still.

The women in the house ran over in twos and threes, pointing at the maid brought back by Li Siye with gossip and rejection, laughing at her like a beautiful puppet, standing guard like a sculpture, and so obedient.

It's not that she's maverick, it's that the rules of the town envoy's mansion are lax. Whether it is General Li or Twelve Niang, they have not set too strict rules for their subordinates, let alone have no training in standing and lying down. They are relatively free, as long as they complete the work assigned by their masters, they can sit if they want, and they can lie down if they want, so relaxed that there are no fetters.

They are both slaves and maids, and they and Daorou used to stay in two different worlds, and of course there are fundamentally different differences in behavior.

Li Siye took his wife's hand and stood in front of the window, stretched out his hand to hold her in his arms, and Twelve Niang turned around and asked him with a smile: "Tell me about your Chang'an." ”

Is this to report his whereabouts? Li Siye was just about to raise his words to speak, when Twelve Niang's eyes suddenly looked towards the door of the inner courtyard outside the window. There was a woman in a bearded dress standing with her hands folded against the doorpost, and because of the obstruction of the view, Twelve Niang could only see her sideways. The hair on her forehead was slightly disheveled, but her face was beautiful and full, without the characteristics of hunger, poverty and delicateness.

She pursed her lips vigorously, looking unhappy and with a sour taste in her words: "This woman, all the way to follow you from Chang'an to Shule, you don't invite people to sit at home, but let her stand outside the door, this is not hospitality." ”

"Oh," Li Siye tried his best to make his tone lighter: "This time I visited His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in Chang'an, he has to give me a handmaid, whether it is thunder or rain and dew, I have to bear it, and I can't refuse." ”

Twelve Niang poked her head out again to take a look at it, and said, "It looks like coming out of the palace, and it is much more disciplined than these maids in our family." However, you're just a general, not a talented literati, so it's inconvenient to take a maid all day long, or let her stay in the inner house, serve me and Mei'er, or clean up the room and do chores or something? ”

Li Siye was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "Yes, it can be done." ”

Li Twelve Niang snorted and laughed: "I'm just joking with you, people are slaves sent to you by the prince, how can I take it away from you." No matter what she says, she is also the prince's person, of course, she can't be treated badly, and she can't be perfunctory, otherwise she will make His Royal Highness the prince unhappy. I'm right. ”

Li Siye took a step back, crossed his hands and praised: "The lady is worthy of being a lady, that is, she understands the righteousness, and the heir has a virtuous help like you, what am I not satisfied with?" ”

Twelve Niang looked at him with a smile: "Really? ”

"Naturally, it's true."

She stood with her hands down and shook her head and said: "It's a pity that my mother died early, and I don't have the power of my mother's family to support you. ”

Li Siye stared at the Twelve Niangs, his heart was like a river surging, and like a tide slapping on the embankment. Did she mean what she meant by this, or did the news of Chang'an reach her ears, no matter what she knew, he didn't want to make her worry and torment.

He put his arms around the lady's shoulders and whispered in her ear: "People live in this world, no matter what they do, they will encounter obstacles, but no matter who stands in the way, I will not be afraid." Because there are you and Mei'er in the house. None of the other powers, wealth, or rise or fall of the world are anything compared to you. None of them matter, really. ”

The corners of Twelve Niang's mouth were filled with a smile, he didn't know if other men would say this to their lady, maybe they wouldn't. Twelve Niang believes that his man is the most maverick Langjun in the world, from the first time she saw him, she really felt his difference, and he was a man who was different from others from the inside out and even his soul.

"I believe in you, even though you can't compose poetry."

"That's right," Li Siye smiled firmly: "The biggest regret in my life is that I can't write poetry, but it doesn't matter, there are enough poets in this world, and it doesn't matter if there is one more or less." ”

He let go of Twelve Niang's hand, and the lady walked two steps quickly to the door, and said loudly to Chen Niangzi, who was sitting under the porch sewing boots: "Call the maid standing outside the courtyard gate in, don't always stand at the door, tell her that there are not so many rules in our house, sit if you want, stand if you want." ”

Mrs. Chen threw down the soles of her shoes and walked outside, walked outside the door to disperse the maids who were watching and teasing, and called Dao Rou, who was standing with her hands in her hands, in.

Li Siye and Twelve Niang stood side by side under the porch, and the left turn in front of the porch was a long corridor made of plaster masonry, with grapevines winding and climbing all over the top. Dao Rou walked from under the shelf to the front of the porch with her head down, without looking up at the bunches of green grapes, and did not even reach out to remove the dead leaves that fell on her shoulders.

She stood in front of Twelve Niang and bowed and saluted: "Slave and maid see Madame." ”

Twelve Niang glanced at her up and down, and asked in a friendly whisper, "What's your name?" ”

"Mrs. Qiyu, slave and maid."

The smile on Madame's face remained unchanged, and the towering cloud bun was like a phoenix with folded wings, swaying Zhucui with a sense of oppression, as if her voice had also risen a little: "You should be a person from the palace, and the rules of training are far more than ordinary slaves and maids, and I can't teach you anything." Calling you here is just to tell you that the rules are just appearances, and no one knows what is going on in your heart. If you think it's duty, it's duty. ”

"You are the slave sent by the prince to Ah Lang, then do your duty as a slave and maid, you have to take care of Ah Lang at all times when you go outside, and you can rest when you return home, you don't need to take care of the superfluous things, and you don't need to do it, understand?"

Dao Rou changed her bow, bowed her head and crossed her hands timidly: "The slave understands." ”

Li Siye looked at the lady beside him in surprise, he didn't expect that she, who was as gentle as jade in Su Ri, could also show a majestic scene like the sun and the moon in the sky, which was really unimaginable, so he had to look at her again.

"Alright, let's go sit down the porch."

Dao Rou honestly retreated and sat side by side with Chen Niangzi under the porch, but her sitting posture was also like a bell, almost a straight line from head to waist. It makes the with their backs around them feel uncomfortable.

Li Siye helped the lady's shoulders back to the room, and he praised him sincerely: "The two words of the lady just now are really powerful, and they impress the heirs. ”

Twelve Niang covered her mouth and laughed shyly: "Really? Am I putting it a little hard? ”

"I don't think it's heavy at all, just right."

She lowered her head and smiled again: "Where would I say that, it's just that I used to follow the master into the palace to celebrate the birthday of the princesses and princesses, and I have seen a lot of these things. ”

"Then you have imitated the essence of them, and even I think it is very vivid when I hear it."

Twelve Niang raised her head proudly: "Of course, since you are your wife Li Siye, you naturally have to have the wife of Shule Town." ”

He feels that the lady has such life experience and such acting skills, and she can completely explode a bunch of palace fighting heroines when she travels to modern times.

After having lunch at home, Li Siye decided to go to Dai Wang's paper mill, and he wanted to ask this think tank for advice on some problems encountered in Chang'an this time. After all, he has been at the bottom of the officialdom, and his three views are also the same as these people, and the strategies given are more in line with the psychology of these people.