Li Siye stroked his beard and nodded slightly, and said to Yu Chaoen with kind words: "Chaoen's words are wrong, you can be Yunlang's envoy, it is really my luck." Now that you have told me the truth of this matter, I have a way to deal with it. ”

He immediately ordered the servants outside the door: "Call Aunt Wu over." ”

Entering the door was an old woman with frosty white temples, wearing a long robe made of Shu brocade, but it was difficult to hide the atmosphere of a philistine, and she looked quite neat.

Li Siye instructed the housekeeper at home: "Aunt Wu, arrange for Father-in-law Yu to live in the courtyard of the mansion. ”

Yu Chaoen solemnly gave Li Siye a cross hand salute, turned around and walked out of the study behind the housekeeper's wife.

The study was quiet for a while, but Li Siye scratched his head melancholy, he did everything possible not to let his family go to Chang'an, but in the end, the eldest son was going to be sent over as a hostage. He was a thirteen-year-old child, who was sent to Chang'an as a hostage alone, and although he had his father's power as a backer, he still had to deal with it carefully.

What he is worried about is not how his son will be treated in Chang'an, but that in the year of changes in the world in the fourteenth year of Tianbao, the node of history will inevitably occur. As the lord of the three towns in the northwest, he will naturally be feared by the imperial court. In the future drastic situation, he himself is swaying in this stormy situation and is in danger of overturning, let alone a small child like him.

Although Li Chongyun is not his own son, the three siblings were brought back from the swaddling clothes on the grassland of the Broken Leaf River, and he has always regarded these three children as his own, and has never told them that their true identities are Turgish.

This matter needs to be discussed with Twelve Niang in the inner house, and a woman's idea of this kind of thing may be more useful.

Li Siye walked out of the study, waved away the many subordinates sitting in the hall, and walked to the inner courtyard.

Since he served as the envoy of Jiedu, he ordered people to repair and expand the inner courtyard of the Governor's Mansion and the Jiedu envoy, and merged the two inner houses into one. But he did not have many daughters in his family, and many of the redundant houses were vacant, so he simply ordered someone to tear them down and build a garden in the middle of the backyard. He also ordered people to search in many ways in Hexi, transplanted a tassel tree that could only be hugged by two people, and mobilized hundreds of people to carry it to the garden.

Under the tassel tree is the place where he and Twelve Niang fall in love? Although the two have been together for more than ten years? It's long gone that the strong feeling it had at the beginning. But this tassel tree can not only make Twelve Niang remember the beginning, but also make her miss her master, Gongsun Auntie? In those years of Taizhenguan? It is also the most innocent memory of her girlhood.

There is a small lake around the earthen platform of the tassel tree, and there is a long causeway leading to the island in the middle of the lake? There is a verandah around the shore of the lake, and the rest of the outbuildings are distributed around the lake in a semicircle.

Twelve Niang is sitting in the small corridor on the top of the mountain with heavy eaves under the tassel tree at the moment? Discuss the embroidery method of peony with several servant women who are good at female red.

Li Siye walked through the promenade to the island in the middle of the lake? He stood under the tassel tree that had not yet grown branches and leaves, and was silent for a moment before raising his feet and walking towards Xiaozhu.

The servants sitting in the corridor hurriedly stood up and bowed to him, and Li Siye just smiled and nodded. Twelve Niang sat on the railing beauty, holding the needle and thread in her hand and raised her head. As soon as she saw the sadness hidden in her husband's forehead in her husband's smile? What does it seem to have been felt? He said to the maids beside him, "Stand down, all of you." ”

"Whoa."

The servants and women retreated in line with needlework, and Li Siye stepped into the porch, sitting on the beauty opposite Twelve Niang, holding her knees with her hands and not knowing how to speak.

"Su Ri, you are so busy with government affairs that you always come back to the inner house very late? Why did you come back so early today? ”

"There was nothing to do today, so I came back a little early."

Twelve Niang asked empathetically, "But what are the headaches and difficult to decide?" Although the concubine is shallow, she also has the heart to share her husband's worries. ”

"Huh? No, this matter needs to be decided for me, lady. Now that your husband is becoming more and more powerful? was feared by the imperial court. The sage sent a eunuch to Liangzhou? Want to bring your eldest son Chongyun to Chang'an? I wanted him to marry the lord of the clan, but in fact, the court used him as a hostage to stabilize me. ”

Twelve Niang maintained a sitting posture lying on her side, still concentrating on sewing the fan in her hands, seemingly not caring about her husband's words, but listening attentively.

"My grandfather didn't play the responsibility of being a father, my mother has been taking care of the children for me in the house for a long time, and they are also closer to you, involving family and human relations, I don't know how to decide, and I can't bear to say such a cruel decision in front of Chongyun. I also asked the lady to think of a good plan for me. ”

Twelve Niang put down the needle and thread and looked up and asked him: "Li Lang, the concubine only asks you, Chongyun went to Chang'an to marry as a hostage, has the ending that cannot be changed has been finalized." ”

Li Siye hesitated for a moment, and then said with some difficulty: "This is naturally, if it weren't for the fact that there was no turnaround, I wouldn't have come to you." ”

She moved her legs off the beauty, sat upright with her hands on her knees, and said with a somewhat calm and heroic posture: "Since we got married, everything in the family is outside the male protagonist and the female protagonist is inside, and now the emperor wants to marry Yun Lang, so naturally I am in charge of internal affairs." Li Lang, you don't care, after half a month, you only need to order someone to send Yun Lang on the road. ”

Li Siye looked surprised, he originally wanted to ask the lady for advice, but he was directly deprived of the right to speak, but this is fine, women are always more delicate than men in dealing with emotional matters, he just needs to sit back and wait for the result.

He sat down beside the lady, raised his hands and kneaded her shoulders and said, "Fortunately, it's not Xiaosi, after all, they are not the meat that fell off your body, which is acceptable." ”

"Isn't it a biological child? In my eyes, Chongyun, Chongle, Chongbao and Zuoguo are all my children, and there is no difference between relatives and distances. It's just that Chongyun is the oldest, and his temperament has always been more stable than them, and he went to Chang'an to reassure me more than them. ”

"What the lady said is very true." Li Siye held the hand of Twelve Niang, feeling that his confidence was getting weaker and weaker.

……

Mr. Fuchu's private school temporarily suspended classes and let the children run out to play, and five or six children ran around the garden like birds, sometimes disappearing at the end of the vegetation, waiting for the children who caught cats to look for them.

Twelve Niang sat in the porch doing needlework, and when she looked up, she saw Li Chongyun who was tiptoeing and hiding behind the pavilion, so she beckoned to him and said, "Chongyun, come to my mother." ”

Li Chongyun was called by his mother to break the game, so he had to walk towards her sullenly.

The child stands still under the porch. Twelve Niang took out a crimson robe from her arms, lifted it and gestured on his shoulder, the size was just right.

"This is the robe that A-Niang made for you, can you wear it to see if it fits and looks good?"

When Li Chongyun heard this, he immediately ran to the house happily to change his clothes, and then swaggered out, standing in front of his mother and mother, and twisted a few times like a peacock.

Several children gathered around, watched with envy as the elder brother put on the usual clothes and robes that only adults can wear, and asked their mothers for it.

Twelve Niang scolded them harshly and drove them away, leaving the eldest son in front of her, her expression full of reluctance.

"Chongyun, put on the clothes made by his mother, he will be an adult from now on, when Grandpa and his mother are not around, you have to think more, see more, and figure it out. Learn to distinguish between those who are saying things that are good for you and those who are saying things that are hurting you. ”

"Hmm," Chongyun replied with a solemn nod.

"Go and bring your husband here, my mother has something to tell him."

Li Chongyun trotted to the private school in the courtyard next door, and after a while, the child led his mentor Mr. Lu Hong to Twelve Niang, she touched the child's head affectionately and said, "You go play." ”

Yun Lang spread his feet and ran in the direction of his partners, his voice was immature and simple, he was indeed just a child.

Twelve Niang got up from the low stool and saluted Mr., and Lu Hong hurriedly crossed his hands in return.

"Sir, please take a seat, I just want to ask, what lesson has this kid Chongyun learned?"

"Mrs. Qiyu, I just learned this paragraph of "University", so the gentleman is cautious and virtuous, Chongyun is well-read and strong, and the old man loves it very much."

Twelve Niang raised her chin and asked reservedly and politely: "I have a reluctant request, can I ask Mr. to give a different lesson tomorrow?" ”

"I wonder what Madame wants me to tell the children?"

"Let's talk about "Touching the Dragon and Talking about the Empress Dowager Zhao" in "Warring States Policy", this is also the last lesson that Yunlang learned as your student."

Lu Hong frowned slightly, he had already understood the joints, and he bowed ninety degrees to his wife: "Madam, please rest assured, I will definitely teach this last lesson to a good son." ”