Chapter 20: The Past

"If you have enough resources, it would be good to open a bank, and you can earn money while you sit."

This is Xu Changting's thought when he stepped into the house.

There are two stone lions on both sides of the gate of Xufu that are not angry and self-righteous, the vermilion gate looks very magnificent, push the door in, the first thing that catches your eye is a huge landscape shadow wall, behind the shadow wall is a pine tree like an umbrella cover, it looks quite simple and tough.

The whole house is completely in line with the identity and status of the deep house compound and the noble family, and there are almost no people in the front yard on weekdays, and occasionally you can only see the maids and servants who come out of the east and west courtyards and go to the backyard of the atrium.

Although some potted plants and mountain stone furnishings have been filled into the front yard, they are still due to the lack of money, which makes the front yard look somewhat empty and deserted, not like a prosperous family.

After Huo Nuer and the mallet came back, they went into the stable without saying a word, and then they could enter the West Cross Courtyard through another door, Xu Changting simply didn't pay attention to Huo Nuer and the mallet were messing around, after all, now he has a head-scratching thing to solve.

As soon as he sneaked out of the Moon Gate, before he could observe the situation in the middle courtyard, Xu Wenrou's figure came out shouting from the side.

"I can't imagine that our little Weiyang has an unknown side, if it weren't for the fact that the eldest sister and her mother went to Lanting Cloth Store again, I'm afraid I would have to be kept in the dark by your kid. Tell the second sister, how does your lifelong little daughter-in-law look? Isn't it pretty? Is there a second sister who looks good? Xu Wenrou was like a yellow bird landing on top of Xu Changting's head, chattering non-stop.

"Of course it's prettier than the second sister." Xu Changting, who resisted the beating, ignored Xu Wen's dissatisfied slap, and held his head high: "And it's ...... gentler and cuter than the second sister." ”

"Then you tell me, your eldest sister is beautiful, or your little daughter-in-law is beautiful?" Xu Wenrou decided to ask the question in a different way.

"This ...... As beautiful as the eldest sister, evenly divided. But it's definitely prettier than the second sister. Xu Changting didn't forget to hit Xu Wenrou.

"Little white-eyed wolf, everyone has a daughter-in-law and forgets her mother, it's good for you, not only your mother has forgotten, but even your second sister doesn't want to see you." Xu Wenrou took Xu Changting's arm and walked towards the hall in the middle courtyard.

At this time, Xu Changhong and Chu Ying were like having some great joy at home, and after seeing Xu Changting, their mouths never closed.

Although he has not yet asked Xu Changting about the specific family situation, the joy of seeing the eldest sister and her mother seems to be even happier than when their family was going back to Danfeng.

"Mother, eldest sister......." Xu Changting shouted obediently one by one.

"I'm back, where did I go today?" Chu Ying asked with a smile, but did not delay in continuing to be busy with needlework.

"I went out and had a casual walk." Xu Changting asked, "What about my father?" ”

"What, are you going to confess to your dad that you have an intention of someone, and you want your dad to stop worrying?" Xu Wenrou bullshit female celebrity can't be, and she takes pleasure in bullying Xu Changting every day.

"I haven't written the eight characters yet, don't talk nonsense, if it doesn't work out, Weiyang will be better, but how will I marry someone from a girl's family?" Xu Changhong patted Xu Wenrou, who was about to hang himself on Xu Changting, and said.

"That's not necessarily, with our little Weiyang's appearance, which girl would refuse?" Xu Wenrou seemed to have a lot of confidence in Xu Changting.

Chu Ying looked up at Xu Changting from time to time, and then at her two daughters, no matter what, after hearing the news, Chu Ying's heart was about to bloom.

Only he knows his own family affairs, although his husband is now a member of the imperial court, a waiter of the Ministry of Rites and a priest of the country, but if he wants to find a good family for Xu Changting based on his family background alone, it is not an easy thing.

The people of Danfeng City may not know about the affairs of their Xu family, but how can those who are officials of the same dynasty as Xu Zhongli, as well as those gate valve families, etc., not know about the affairs of the Xu family?

And even if people don't know, but when they ask the matchmaker to say goodbye, don't they have to know their family in other ways? When the time comes, once people learn about Xu Changting's stupidity when he was a child, I am afraid that this family affair will become more difficult if he wants to succeed. And if it is added to some people to sow discord, this makes Chu Ying feel like a stone in her chest every time she thinks about Xu Changting starting a family and starting a business in the future, which makes her a little breathless in distress.

Now that I have found the woman I like, although it is far away in the Southern Tang Dynasty, at least there is a benefit, maybe people will not know about Xu Changting's childhood stupidity, right?

Of course, if everything is settled, you still have to inform others, as long as Xu Changting will not be stupid when he was a child in the future, then no one will say anything at that time.

"Tell my mother, how are the daughter's parents? Who are the people in the family? What does the daughter's family think, will his parents agree to her marrying so far? The last question made Chu Ying's heart a little depressed, which was also the last thing she wanted to face.

"Isn't the eldest sister talking about it, but the eight characters haven't been skimmed yet." Xu Changting thought about it carefully, and found that he actually knew that her name was Li Qingyi and that her parents were complete, but he didn't seem to know anything else.

"You always know where the people are, right?" Chu Ying glanced at her son fondly and asked.

"Jian'an people's clan." Xu Changting replied.

"Then tell your mother, how did you meet people? Did you meet in Xining? Chu Ying continued to smile and asked.

Xu Changting nodded by default, took the cup of hot water that the eldest sister poured for him, and then picked up what he could say, and told him the process of getting to know Li Qingyi at the beginning.

More than two years ago, that is, more than a year after picking up Huo Nuer, when the two of them had just secretly taken nine catties and charcoal from the Xining army, they couldn't wait to gallop and wander with two horses that were heavier than their curiosity.

Of course, when they took nine catties and charcoal from the Xining army, they naturally did not rely on the strength of the two of them, but with the "traitors" in the Xining army, and they got what they wanted.

On that day, it happened that the "traitor" who was demoted to a gangster by Sima Xiaojun, the capital of the Xining Army, was also there because he was in harmony with them, so the three of them went out of the city to walk their horses, and happened to bump into Li Qingyi, Li Chengxin and others who were robbed by horse thieves.

At that time, Xu Changting trembled with excitement, as if he was convulsive, and Huo Nuer and the "traitor" of the Xining Army, or Xu Changting and Huo Nuer's accomplice: Wang Yanzhang, the general of Yingyang of Zhengwupin, under Xu Changting's constant instigation, more pleading, the two rode their horses and rushed to the gang of horse thieves who were robbing: the road was uneven, and they drew their swords to help.

"It's the two of them who have to draw their swords to help, and I can't stop it." Xu Changting tampered with the history that had only happened for a few years, and said innocently to his mother, eldest sister, and second sister.

"Didn't you see that other people's Tsing Yi were beautiful, and you had the heart of a hero to save beauty?" Xu Wenrou has begun to affectionately only call Li Qingyi's maiden name.

"Of course not, not to mention that Li Qingyi was still in a tightly guarded carriage at that time, and I didn't know there were any women." Xu Changting said innocently.

"And then?" Chu Ying asked with concern.

Xu Changting obviously didn't expect it, but a gang of men turned out to be so violent, like a god descending to earth, an ordinary spear, in his hand was actually made tiger and tiger wind, which was daunting.

And Huo Nuer is not far behind, a long-handled ring-headed knife hanging from Wang Yanzhang's waist in his hand, and he plunged into the horse thief's den as if he was in a no-man's land.

As for a certain hero, he is holding nine catties to his waist with one hand and charcoal with the other, and he looks at it with relish on the small soil slope, and from time to time he will whistle to cheer for his husband Wang Yanzhang and Huo Nuer.

So he also recruited a good man among the horse thieves, and it was at this time that he understood the art of war, "capture the thief and capture the king first", rode the horse and raised the whip, raised the long knife in his hand, and raised a puff of smoke and dust, just like Xu Changting had killed him.

But this good man only understood the truth of capturing the thief and capturing the king first, and did not understand the truth that the soldiers are not tired of deceit, just when he saw that he was about to rush to the young man who was holding a pony in one hand, he saw that the young man's face became even paler, and then he seemed to inadvertently kick a stone under his feet, and then the hero's eyebrows ached, and the whole person turned down from the horse's back on his back, and never got up again.

And the crotch horse almost brushed Xu Changting's side and swept by, but it didn't hurt Xu Changting at all.

These were naturally hidden by Xu Changting, and he didn't tell his mother, eldest sister and second sister, but just spit under the gaze of the three of them, and even talked about how powerful Huo Nuer and Wang Yanzhang were.

What Wang Yanzhang gently provoked a person with one shot, and then threw it and knocked down a large piece, what Huo Nuer held a ring-headed knife, like an angry King Kong, he could cut off the head of a horse thief with a casual knife, anyway, the whole sky that day was Huo Nuer's severed head flying.

Chu Ying, Xu Changhong, and Xu Changting naturally wouldn't listen to this, although they also knew that there were real martial arts masters, but none of them had seen them with their own eyes, but if something like Xu Changting said was so powerful, it would be strange if they would believe it.

Of course, no one deliberately debunked Xu Changting's exaggeration of Huo Nuer and Wang Yanzhang.

As the horse thief encountered two hard stubbles and suffered a big loss, he no longer robbed hard, not to mention that when Wang Yanzhang was fighting, he also shouted threateningly: "I am the Xining Army is the five-grade Eagle General Yang Yes, don't surrender quickly, otherwise I will definitely copy your lair, and I will show no mercy!" ”

Wang Yanzhang only said that he was General Yingyang of the fifth grade, but he did not say that his position had been demoted from a deputy general to a man.

And that day on, Xu Changting met Li Qingyi, and Li Qingyi fell in love with Xu Changting.

Xining, the frontier of the Northern Wei Dynasty, finally had a foothold in the Southern Tang Dynasty, which could be regarded as helping the Southern Tang Dynasty open a direct trade route to the Western Regions, and there was no need for any trade to go through the Northern Wei Dynasty to scrape a layer of oil and water.