Late at night, Bianjing City still has a scorching heat, and a shower in the evening did not suppress the temperature, but because of the warm humidity, the summer night was even more sultry.

Today it is Rulan's turn to sleep.

Rulan discussed with her sister to arrange the affairs of the family, went to take a bath again, and returned to the house after more than half an hour.

Rulan asked the two female envoys to stay in the outer room, and she walked into the dark inner room with a candlestick, and when she entered the room, she happened to see her husband Wei Chen sitting at the table.

There was no light in the room, only a surging light, through the blue screen window, the silver moonlight shone directly in, shining on Wei Chen's face. There was a deep shadow between Wei Chen's eyebrows, as if he was thinking about something.

Knowing that her husband was thinking about something, Rulan walked in lightly and covered the lit candle with a gauze cover, and the shaking candlelight suddenly became soft after passing through the white gauze cover.

After setting up the candlestick, Rulan quietly walked to Wei Chen's side, poured him a cup of warm tea, sat down and asked softly, "But what's going on in the court?" ”

"Hmm."

Wei Chen nodded.

The meteorite falling from the sky has long been known to everyone in Bianjing City, such as the book Xiangrui was cracked by Xu Mu today, and the content of it will soon spread.

Wei Chen didn't hide Rulan's meaning, so he told Rulan everything about today's Purple Light Pavilion.

"In this way, the official family already belongs to King Yong?" Rulan gently covered her small mouth with her hand and asked in surprise.

"Sort of." Wei Chen leaned on the back of the chair, stared at the beams of the room with both eyes, and said softly: "If in the past, it was just a fog to see the flowers, and it was not real, then after today, the situation will be very clear." ”

Rulan saw that her husband looked a little melancholy, so she took his hand and comforted him softly: "No matter who comes to be the official family, what does it have to do with our family, let's just close the door and live our own small life." ”

Wei Chen couldn't help but laugh dumbly when he heard this, Rulan's words sounded a little heartless at first glance, but if you think about it carefully, there is some truth.

"What Ru'er said is that when the sky falls, there will naturally be tall people on top, and it won't be my turn to worry about a little Hanlin."

Wei Chen smiled and took Rulan's soft delicate body into his arms, let her sit on his lap, face to face with him, and then pinched her upturned nose, his eyes were full of doting.

The husband and wife kept warm for a long time, and Wei Chen suddenly said: "Ru'er, I thought about it, our family's guards are still too weak, I have already agreed with Zhong Huai, ask him to help find a dozen shrewd and capable veterans, and when these veterans arrive, let's hire some people ourselves, and let them take the drill for a ...... or two."

"Reinforcement of the home guard?"

Rulan was still a little confused, but after thinking about it for a while, she suddenly reacted to the intention of Wei Chen's move, and couldn't help but lose her face: "Brother Chen, you mean ......, there may be changes in Bianjing City?" ”

Wei Chen smiled gently, patted Rulan's shoulder and comforted: "Who can say for sure this kind of thing?" I'm just planning ahead and preparing for a rainy day. Even if nothing happens, it's always okay to have more guards to prevent thieves and thieves. ”

Wei Chen took the trouble to explain patiently.

He knew that Rulan and Minglan had always trusted their decisions unconditionally, so Wei Chen didn't want them to worry about it.

According to Weichen, even if King Yan rebelled, the troops that could be mobilized would only be thousands.

With this little force, it is a bit stretched to take over the imperial city, and there is no manpower to control the huge Bianjing City again, at most it is just to send a small group of men and horses to create some disturbances in the city.

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Compared with the pitiful rebellious army, the more threatening to the people in the city are those bandits who take advantage of the chaos in the city to fish in troubled waters and loot wantonly.

It was these people that Wei Chen was guarding against.

As long as Gu Tingye's manpower is in place, and he and the Wei family's family members form a guard team of dozens of people, guarding the gate together, patrolling more, and leaning against the tall and thick outer wall, the Wei family will definitely be able to protect themselves.

Rulan snuggled in Wei Chen's arms, listening to Wei Chen's gentle words of comfort, nodding slightly, and the worry in her heart gradually dissipated.

Although she didn't expect King Yan's rebellion, she was also persuaded by Wei Chen's explanation.

It is natural for large families to raise more guards, and it is also because Wei Chen took over the house not long ago, and the security near Lao Ya Lane has always been good, so he has not considered this aspect of things, and now Wei Chen makes up for this link, which is also a proper meaning.

Speaking of which, this is still a dereliction of duty on the part of Rulan's wife, she and Minglan presided over the defense of the family, and they should have discovered the weakness of the defense force at home early and reminded her husband to recruit guards.

Thinking about it like this, Rulan couldn't help but feel a little ashamed, and said with a slight blush: "It's all my sister and I who didn't do well, and let Brother Chen worry about you again." ”

Wei Chen didn't want his wife to blame herself too much, so he put his hands into the placket of his clothes, rubbing her delicate lower abdomen to divert her attention.

"Speaking of which, this time he asked Zhong Huai to help recruit guards, and he also had conditions."

Feeling the heat coming from her body, Rulan glared at Wei Chen angrily, but couldn't help but ask curiously, "What conditions?" ”

Wei Chen laughed and said: "Zhong Huai said that the people he found for me are all veterans who have been with the old marquis of the Gu family for the rest of their lives, although they are older, they can all be ten with one." Give these people to me, he himself is in pain, unless I promise to be a son and daughter with him, he will not let them go. ”

"Huh? Isn't the second uncle of the Gu family still unmarried, where did he come from, could it be Sister Rong? ”

For example, when Langden, his willow eyebrows were upside down, and he twisted Wei Chen fiercely, his expression was very displeased.

Although she and her sister Minglan from a concubine can sleep in the same bed, this does not mean that she is willing to let Sister Rong, who is also a concubine, marry the son of the Wei family.

"Of course not." Wei Chen knew that Rulan had a misunderstanding, and hurriedly explained: "Zhong Huai has taken a fancy to the daughter of the Shen family in Yuzhou. ”

"Yuzhou, Shen family?"

Rulan couldn't help frowning slightly when she heard this.

Of course she knows Yuzhou, that is where Wei Chen has been a governor for three years.

But this Shen family seems to be a local wealthy family, compared to the Marquis of Ningyuan's mansion, but it is just a rich man in the countryside, is there something wrong with the family?

Rulan was puzzled at the moment: "Can Old Marquis Gu agree to this family business?" ”

"Zhong Huai also had a lot of trouble with his family for a while because of this matter, so that Old Marquis Gu could relax."

Wei Chen sighed and said, "Zhong Huai is very different from before, not only did he pass the Jinshi meritorious service, but he also entered the military department as an official, and the hope of revitalizing the lintel of the Gu family is on him alone."

No matter how domineering and arbitrary Old Marquis Gu is, he has to consider this son's thoughts, not to mention that Zhong Huai is still such an assertive person, and Old Marquis Gu doesn't dare to blindly resist him. ”

Rulan was also quite emotional when she heard this.

She has also heard about the Gu family, in the past, Gu Tingye was always the one who was excluded and framed in the Gu family, but now he has become the pillar of the Gu family, and even the old marquis Gu, who has always been strong, has to make concessions to him, it is really embarrassing to think about it.

Rulan was thinking about things, and suddenly felt that something was wrong with her, and when she reacted, she realized that it was Wei Chen's big hand that was doing the trick.

"Uh-huh—"

A stroke on the fingertips made Rulan careless, and the gasps that she tried to suppress gradually became heavy.

Seeing this, Wei Chen couldn't help but purse his lips and chuckle, leaned over and whispered in his wife's ear: "I have already promised others, Ru'er, you should give me a boy earlier, so as not to let people say that I am untrustworthy......"