The next day, Li Yuan did not linger too much in the arms of the beauty, but deliberately got up early in the morning. Li Yuan originally wanted to call his personal guards and send his handwritten note about sending troops to Jingnan to the Privy Council overnight, but after thinking about it, he finally decided to visit in person.

After all, the Privy Council is in charge of the country's military affairs, and although he, the governor of Langzhou, has the right to make arbitrary decisions, all the towns are still under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council in name, so this visit is actually a gesture for outsiders to see.

Coincidentally, there are only a few scholars in the Privy Council today, because Wei Cen is sick and retired at this time, and the deputy envoy Li Zhenggu has already left Beijing and gone south to Hongzhou to prepare for the war with the Zhou State.

Originally, Li Yuan was ready to make a false and unsuccessful relationship with Wei Cen and other Zheng Wang, so he was happy and relaxed, and then the conversation with several scholars in the Privy Council was naturally full of hypocritical politeness, simple and unnutritious.

There seems to be some disagreement between these scholars, and it can be heard from their words that they are secretly competing with each other, but Li Yuan has long seen it clearly in the officialdom, and he will not relax his vigilance because of their warm and polite to himself, he always maintains a reserved smile and talks little, after all, in this place where the waves of blood are hidden, any one person may be the eyeliner of others, the guard at the door, the little man who delivers tea, the old servant who sweeps the floor, and even the person who waters the flowers and cleans the toilet. may be the eyeliner of a certain force.

The more high-sounding the occasion, the more high-sounding the words, the real dialogue that can tell the truth is often only in the secret room or at the private banquet, not in such a place.

The visit of the Privy Council soon ended, and Li Yuan took his leave after leaving a note and went straight to the Zhou Mansion in the east of the city to meet him, which was the best place to really discuss important matters.

The noble son-in-law came to the door, and the doors of the Zhou Mansion were immediately opened, and the old steward was still smiling and leading a group of servants to greet him, and Li Yuan passed through several familiar corridors and was led to the gorgeous main hall to wait.

Before he had time to take a sip of hot tea, Li Yuan was told that his father-in-law Zhou Zong had gone out to the government office early in the morning and was estimated to be back at noon, while his mother-in-law Xu seemed to have just gotten up and was grooming. Li Yuan smiled knowingly, a noble lady like her mother-in-law really knows how to take care of herself the most, going to bed early and getting up late is a traditional way for women in this year to maintain their beauty, but the vast majority of women can't enjoy this kind of treatment.

In the backyard, Xu was facing the bronze mirror carefully pressed against Hua Tian, who was carefully pressed against the center of his eyebrows, and the moment he heard the maid report Li Yuan's visit, Xu's hand shook slightly, and he almost didn't crumple Hua Tian into a paper ball.

Outside the door of the room there were fruit snacks, and the maids who were about to serve the lady for breakfast stood under the porch in a daze, listening to the scolding of the maid who had come to pass the word from the lady in the room.

They were a little confused, and they also wanted to turn around and leave, so as not to suffer from the pond fish, but they did not dare to leave before they waited for their wife to have breakfast, after all, after all, when the lady got up, she would eat rice porridge, two spring rolls, and maybe two topaz cakes.

They knew in their hearts that if they let Madame skip breakfast and go hungry, they were afraid that their temper would get worse, so they had to insist on it until Madame summoned her for breakfast, and maybe Madame's mood would change from gloomy to sunny after eating.

But they were still too stupid, their wife didn't need to eat breakfast anymore, and when she learned that Li Yuan had come to visit, her wife was already full of anger.

"My son-in-law meets my mother-in-law!" Seeing that Xu was late, Li Yuan hurriedly put down the teacup in his hand, got up and respectfully bowed his hand.

Unexpectedly, the Xu clan replied coldly: "The Metropolitan Governor personally leads our mansion, it is really brilliant! The old man is late, and I ask the governor to forgive me."

Li Yuan frowned lightly, feeling inexplicable, how could his mother-in-law be so yin and yang today, and then smiled: "Mother-in-law has tormented her son-in-law! What is the governor, in front of his mother-in-law, the son-in-law is always just a junior, and he should be courteous, even if he waits for a long time?"

"Humph! You can talk." Xu sat down on the seat in the distance away from Li Yuan's few people with a gloomy face, and after his chest rose and fell for a moment, he finally couldn't hold back and said, "Is my daughter coaxed by your rhetoric?"

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Yuan was stunned and hurriedly said, "Why did my mother-in-law say this? Being able to marry her is a blessing from my third life, and I have always been open and bright to her, and I have never said anything about coaxing? She is now pregnant, and we just want to be like my father-in-law and mother-in-law, so that we can grow old together and live happily and healthily......

Xu Shi saw Li Yuan's smiling appearance, and there were a lot of words in his heart that he wanted to refute, but he suddenly felt that he couldn't say it, and then sighed lightly: "You also know that the eldest sister is pregnant with Liujia now...... That's it, Li Yuan, do you know that when my eldest sister was in love with you and wanted to marry you, I actually didn't agree."

Li Yuan deliberately shook his head and smiled: "I don't believe this, I am as smart and considerate as my mother-in-law, I am in love with Emperor E, how can my mother-in-law love Emperor E, she will definitely not make her sad, how can she deliberately break us apart?" Mother-in-law, did you misunderstand me, and you deliberately squeezed me today?"

Facing this cheeky guy, Xu Shi rolled his eyes helplessly, and then stretched out his finger and said angrily, "What if I want to squeeze you? Let me ask you, have you married another concubine?"

Li Yuan hurriedly bowed his head honestly and said, "Yes."

"I proposed to take a concubine when I didn't marry a wife before, which almost ruined my eldest sister's reputation." Xu began to count angrily: "I heard that you married a Dongxi barbarian girl again this time, right? Okay, less than a year after getting married, you have two concubines, and you're only twenty-one! In this way, how many more will you marry in the future? You, the Metropolitan Governor, are happy and happy, and those who come will not refuse.

The old body really can't imagine that even the blue-faced and fanged barbarian girl you want to taste the taste, do you want to get a Khitan woman to taste the taste in the future? Do you want me to give you one this time? My family is very familiar with those Khitan merchants! I really don't know what you think in your heart, that barbarian girl who is not very educated and rude, where is the eldest sister half good-looking? It's really weird......

The ears chattered like a chant, Li Yuan was helpless in his heart, but he had to admit that this was the bitter fruit that he should bear, after all, Xu was right, he had been married for less than a year and accepted two newlyweds in succession, it was really a bit too much, he thought about it, his heart moved, pretended to be melancholy, and sighed heavily: "Alas! Mother-in-law turned out to be because of this! The son-in-law is really helpless, helpless!"

Xu stopped thinking and wondered, "It's you who took a concubine, where did you come from? Could it be that someone is still forcing you to fail?"

Li Yuan shook his head and sighed, "Mother-in-law, do you know the identity of that barbarian girl? That's His Majesty's pro-Peng Guogong, the sister of the Lord of Dongxi! As the governor of Langzhou, although I have just pacified Dongxi and incorporated it into the territory of the national dynasty, how can the stubborn disease of a hundred years of barbarism be completely solved by force alone? For this reason, even if I refuse to take a concubine, I have to sacrifice myself......

Well, Your Majesty also knows about this, and Empress E also understands it in her heart. But mother-in-law, you're right, after all, I did something wrong in this matter, and I didn't take into account the feelings of Emperor E, so I will go to see Your Majesty tomorrow and let him do it for me—"

"Don't." Xu swallowed his saliva, although she married Zhou Zong and had been staying in the mansion for decades, her husband was a veteran of the country, and she had been exposed to it for a long time, and she knew the military affairs well, at this time, she inexplicably looked at Li Yuan who looked aggrieved in front of her, and the scene of Li Yuan being bullied by a brute girl with a blue face and fangs suddenly appeared in her mind, and a trace of sympathy was derived.

"That's it, the old body may really misunderstand you." Xu Shi blushed a little, and was slightly annoyed by her recklessness in her heart, after all, she had a preconceived idea without understanding the reason for the matter, but in any case, she still did not regret fighting for her beloved daughter.

"It's okay, mother-in-law, I know you feel sorry for Emperor E." Li Yuan obviously felt the air slow down from scorching, and immediately smiled bitterly: "Mother-in-law, please rest assured, I will never live up to Emperor E's affection for me in this life, she will always be the wife of my house, and no one can replace her."

Xu Shi said "um" lightly, and his face gradually became normal, which meant that the torture of Li Yuan could be regarded as over.

I saw Xu get up gently, and every gesture was full of wealth, and the maids on the side were also relieved, and hurriedly served the long-prepared breakfast, Li Yuan quietly witnessed Xu eating some rice porridge elegantly, and after eating a few pieces of cake briefly, he wiped his mouth and walked to Li Yuan and sat down, stretched out his hand to tidy up his robe

The folds of the mood, the mood seems to be much happier.