Three days later, just before Chinese New Year's Eve, the cold air came again, this time without snow, but the north wind was blowing, and the temperature was very low on a cloudy day.

However, Chang'an City is still very lively, and it will be Chinese New Year's Eve in two days, and Zhang Luo is preparing for the New Year everywhere in the city.

Zhang Yang bought some vegetables and walked on Suzaku Street, when he heard the bell on the bell tower ringing, and looked up to see a eunuch standing in the bell tower, and he shouted to the street about the will of the Khan today.

Hearing that Chang'an City had lifted its curfew for three days, the streets were cheering again.

Vendors can set up their stalls at night, and liquor shops can stay open until dawn.

There were also more people from outside the customs in Chang'an City, some of them were envoys from other countries, and some were people from the Western Regions who came to do business.

As soon as I walked out of the East Market, I saw Cheng sitting silently on the corner of the street.

Zhang Yang asked curiously: "Brother Chu Mo, what happened to me so sad?" ”

Cheng Chumo sighed: "It's not a big family yet, have you heard about the Cui family's daughter?" ”

"I heard about it, but I don't know what happened?"

"I asked my subordinates to inquire, and it was said that the Cui family girl was arrested, and the eloped subordinate was beaten to death."

Zhang Yang was also distracted for a while.

Cheng Chumo frowned and said: "They said that it was just a subordinate who died, and this kind of subordinate died when he died, and he was originally a bought servant, and his life was not valuable, but why ......?"

First took a deep breath, Cheng Chu silently covered his chest, "In order to hear this news, hearing them say this, XX's heart is still so uncomfortable, what's wrong with a subordinate?" Is his life so casual? ”

Zhang Yang patted him on the shoulder and said with emotion, "Chu Mo, in fact, you are not the only one who feels this way, and I am also quite uncomfortable." ”

"Really? Why do so many people think it's nothing? ”

I always thought that Cheng Chumo was very arrogant, but I didn't expect him to have so much sentimentality, Zhang Yang said helplessly: "Because some powerful people have broken away from the masses." ”

Cheng Chumo said in a low voice: "Zhang Yang, you said that we want to punish the traitor and eliminate the evil, the Cui family killed a subordinate, but there was nothing, and they were willing to publicize it with great fanfare. ”

Zhang Yang put down the vegetable basket, "I didn't think it before, it's because you haven't been exposed to such ugly things before, but now you have been in contact with it, and the more you do to punish and eliminate evil, the more you know that some things that are intolerable are in the eyes of some people." ”

"Can you teach the Cui family a lesson?"

"In the law, the Cui family killed a subordinate, at most it was the government to investigate, or to pay some money, it's nothing, if Brother Chu Mo rushes in and beats someone, it is very likely to be taken away by the government, and the family is all landlords and old wealth."

"If you will grasp the proportions, you won't go in person, and you will let your subordinates do it, so you have to make them restless."

Cheng Chumo stood up and left with anger.

Zhang Yang sighed and got up to leave.

It's Chinese New Year's Eve soon, the palace is going to hold a big banquet, this year's tax is very good, Li Shimin's banquet should not be so instigating.

Zhang Yang returned home to cook.

Li Yue is also preparing for this time to go to the court, she didn't go before because this princess didn't have any sense of existence, but now that she has such a big family business in Lishan, Princess Runan's status in the clan is naturally higher, and there are more people who pay attention.

It was also a very decent thing to appear in front of so many people this time.

Xiao Wu was helping to sort out the cloth, and Li Yue was cutting clothes.

After dinner, Li Yue took the little martial master and apprentice to cover the lit fairy stick in the yard and was also very happy.

I don't know how Xiao Wu was doing before, if there were times when he was so happy.

In history, Wu Zetian's power has reached its peak, and she is also a very ruthless woman, what kind of things have a person experienced to become like that.

Listening to Li Yue and Xiao Wu's laughter, I always felt that everything was fine.

Zhang Yang kicked away the bear that wanted to climb onto the workbench, and it rolled on the ground, and its fat body made its movement very inconvenient.

Next time I continue to let it grind, it's time to lose weight, the more I eat, the fatter I get, is it that my daughter-in-law usually feeds it a lot of snacks.

Then he wrote down a note, Zhang Yang handed it to Aunt Wang, and there was a large box of things, "Please Aunt Wang hand over this note and this box of things to Niu Chuang." ”

Aunt Wang nodded and went to do it.

The next morning, Zhang Yang wore the new clothes made by Li Yue, today is Chinese New Year's Eve, and it is also the time for the banquet in the palace, when the powerful clan and the imperial family, Li Shimin's brothers and sisters, and ministers of the central government, including the envoys of various countries will be present.

Turning around in front of Li Yue, Zhang Yang smiled: "How is it?" ”

Li Yue's expression was very satisfied, "My husband is the same as me, but he still dresses plainly and looks good." ”

Xiao Wu's clothes are much more luxurious, she is wearing beautiful new cloth shoes, her dress is decorated with a lot of flowers, and the colors are very diverse.

The daughter-in-law is a rich woman, and the disciples brought out by the rich woman are naturally well-dressed.

Aunt Wang hurriedly came to report, "Your Royal Highness the Princess, Princess Luling and Princess Anping have asked people to send good congratulatory gifts." ”

Li Yue frowned and said: "Tell the person who came, just say that the two aunts have received their wishes, but the gift will be taken back." ”

Aunt Wang went out again to relay, and then came back and said: "If someone comes to say the gift, they won't take it away, they put the congratulatory gift at the door." ”

"Just leave it there, don't come into our house."

"Whoa."

After another half an hour, Aunt Yang hurriedly came over and reported to Li Yueyu, who was trying on new clothes, "Your Royal Highness the Princess, Princess Changguang's people sent congratulatory gifts, and said that the princess's child Zhao Jie asked Young Master Zhang to take care of her in the East Palace. ”

There are a lot of aunts and aunts of daughters-in-law, and the reason for this is ...... This had to serve Li Yuan.

Zhang Yang thought that Zhao Jie was Li Chengqian's guard in the East Palace, in charge of more than a dozen guards led by the crown prince.

Noticing Li Yue's puzzled expression, Zhang Yang coughed his throat, "This gift is specifically looking for relationships, these people will also take advantage of loopholes, Zhao Jie is indeed a guard of the East Palace, but I am not familiar with him, and this gift can not be accepted." ”

Li Yue said curiously: "Isn't Princess Changguang married to Yang Shidao?" What's going on with Zhao Jie. ”

Aunt Yang explained: "This matter has to start from the beginning of Jinyang's army, at that time, the Emperor Taishang had a capable minister named Zhao Cijing in his hands, so he was married to him, and then he had a son Zhao Jie, but later because of the untimely death of this person, the Emperor Taishang changed his title and married the youngest son of Yang Xiong of the former Sui clan, Yang Shidao. ”

"Zhao Jie is the princess Her Royal Highness has been raising her, and then she entered the East Palace as a guard."

It sounds dizzy, but it is basically Princess Changguang and her ex-husband who have Zhao Jie, and who remarried Yang Shidao with her son Zhao Jie.

This family relationship is really complicated.

Li Yue nodded and said, "So that's the case, since you and your husband are serving in the East Palace, why don't we accept it?" ”

"Don't!" Zhang Yang hurriedly interrupted: "Since one family's gifts are not accepted, and the people of other families are not accepted, it is better to let the faces of the other families not be able to hang up, we must be firm, if we don't accept gifts for the New Year this year, then no one's gifts will be accepted." ”

Li Yue smiled and nodded, "It's all up to the husband's arrangement." ”

Aunt Yang nodded and said, "Then I will order." ”

Even if they do, there are still a lot of people who come to give gifts, from Li Shimin's brothers and uncles, to the royal cousins, uncles, and uncles.

It is a headache to clear the relatives of the royal family, and the daughter-in-law has a lot of uncles and aunts.

Aunt Yang came in a hurry, "Don't you accept the emperor's gift?" ”

"No." Zhang Yang replied without thinking, and when he thought that it was Li Yuan's gift, he spoke again: "Take it, the emperor has a big face." ”

Aunt Yang came in with a small box, and Li Yue opened the box and looked at the pile of gold utensils in it, from golden spoons to golden bowls, as well as gold bracelets and golden hairpins.

Just after a glance, Li Yue hurriedly covered the box, and then carried it back to his room.

I usually don't see how rich Li Yuan is, but I didn't expect that this royal bottom is still very rich, this old guy is not revealed, maybe he has a small treasury of his own.

Zhang Yang sighed: "The Emperor still loves his granddaughter. ”

Li Yue walked out again, "Grandpa Huang is very good to us in the palace. ”

In the past, the people of the clan loved to ignore this poor relative of our family, as if the clan had almost forgotten that there was such a princess.

Now that her identity has changed, Li Yue is also a princess who owns more than 600 acres of land in the entire Lishan Village, which is all a reward from Li Shimin.

There are not many people in the clan who have a fief of more than 600 acres.

Only those founding heroes in the DPRK have more fiefs.

Li Shimin treats heroes well, but he is stingy with his relatives.

The entire fief is Li Yue's property, it used to be a broken village, and now this broken village has an output value of nearly 100 yuan a month, not counting the income from Li Tai and Cheng Chumo's distribution.

In this way, Li Yue, if not the richest one in the clan, is one of the best.

It's one thing to be a princess with status, you have identity and power, and others naturally don't dare to underestimate you in the clan.

But now that you have status and money, and you can help the community, the people in the clan will look at you differently.

In the evening, the couple took Xiao Wu out of the house, but in the afternoon, the door of the house was full of small mountains of gifts.

"It seems that after this snowstorm, many people are worried about us."

"I don't like that."

Li Yue's expression was filled with some disgust.

Aunt Yang and Aunt Wang discussed, leaving Aunt Yang to stay and watch the house, and Aunt Wang came to escort her into the palace.

The seclusion of the alley and the bustling Suzaku Street are in stark contrast.

Walking out of the alley, he saw the lively crowd and shouting and shouting on Suzaku Street, seeing this scene, Xiao Wu was not as excited as ordinary children, but a little timid.

The couple led Xiao Wu all the way to the Vermilion Bird Gate.

At this moment, there are already many people walking in front of the Suzaku Gate, and the people who can enter the Suzaku Gate at this time are not rich but are all emperors.

As soon as I walked to the Suzaku Gate, I saw Li Tai and Li Xiaogong standing in front of the door.

Li Xiaogong stepped forward first and said, "The first time you husband and wife have come to such a grand event, I am afraid that you will not be suitable for waiting for you here." ”

Li Tai said unhappily: "Uncle Wang, this kind of thing can be done by our juniors, and you don't have to be like this as an elder." ”

Li Yue saluted slightly, "There is Uncle Lao." ”

Li Xiaogong waved his hand and said: "Don't bother, who else can take care of you except the old man, and they are all ready to go first." ”

Follow Li Xiaogong into the Vermilion Bird Gate, and then go all the way to the Chengtian Gate, and when you enter the Chengtian Gate, you can see the Taiji Palace.

It was originally the center of power in the Tang Dynasty, a place that should be serious, and the crowd was moving around at the moment.

All the way to the Tai Chi Palace, Li Yue was also looking at the people around him.

Zhang Yang whispered: "Do you feel that these people are different from ordinary people outside?" ”

Li Yue was puzzled: "What's the difference?" ”

"Outside there is a lot of peace and tranquility, but the atmosphere in this palace is a bit dull, do we often feel this way when we observe people, you find that there is a kind of vitality in ordinary people."

Li Yue nodded in agreement, "That's true." ”

"Look at these people in front of you again, they don't have so much vitality on their bodies, they don't have so much vitality, they are not as beautiful as the beings outside, on the contrary, ordinary people have all kinds of strange personalities, and they are full of foul words and laughs, these things can't be seen in the palace."

Li Yue said in a low voice: "Yes, how monotonous and boring the lives of the powerful are. ”

Li Xiaogong, who led the couple, listened to these words in his ears, and his heart was also mixed, waking up the people in his dreams, and the magnates here revealed a kind of boredom and hypocrisy everywhere.

These people couldn't see the vitality, and Li Xiaogong asked in a deep voice, "How did you see it?" ”

Looking at Li Xiaogong's back, the footsteps of several people did not stop, Zhang Yang explained: "King Hejian County, I am a country boy, I have seen a lot of ordinary people's scenery, and the vitality and vitality shown by ordinary people outside for life and future struggle are very beautiful, but in these people, what I see the most is drunk and dreaming of death." ”

"Hahaha!" Li Xiaogong smiled heartily, "What a drunken dream." ”

Just as she was about to walk to the front of the Taiji Palace, a woman walked quickly, followed by Zhao Jie, the guard of the East Palace, but as soon as she thought about it, Zhang Yang knew who the woman in front of her was.

"Yue'er, have you grown so big?"

Hearing a greeting, Li Yue looked at the person in front of him.

Zhang Yang saluted and said, "Presumably this is Princess Changguang." ”

Zhao Jie stood up straight and looked serious, "I've seen Young Master Zhang." ”

"No need to be polite." Zhang Yang kept giving up.

Li Yue saluted slightly.

"Just call your aunt, let's get in touch with each other." Princess Changguang's face melted, "The husband at home is temporarily acting as the secretary of the ministry, and he often talks about Zhang Yang as a very talented child, and Zhao Jie is in the East Palace, so our two families will have to move around more in the future." ”

Li Yue saluted and said, "What my aunt said is true." ”

Zhang Yang also arched his hand and said: "Our house is used to being quiet, and we don't usually move around......"

Just as she was about to say something more, Princess Changguang looked at Xiao Wu with a look of surprise, "What a handsome little girl, are your children so old?" ”

Xiao Wu took Li Yue's hand and hid behind, looking at the woman vigilantly.