Long Xiang sent Lu Su out of the house, and went straight to the back house.

In a hurry, he ordered a baby kiss for his daughter, and he had to inform Qiao Wan of anything.

The scale of Hefei New City is five times that of the old city, but the new Taishou Mansion is not much different from the original mansion, which is a north-south rectangular layout, but the pattern has been slightly adjusted.

The mansion of the old city was originally the Hou Mansion, in order to look solemn and domineering, so the south front courtyard covers a large area, many rooms are reserved for the use of subordinate officials, and the back house looks relatively compact and crowded because of the small area of many rooms.

Long Xiang likes to delegate power to the people below, except for the main record of the house, the subordinate governor (the main guard, the inspection attendant), and the Shaofu Shi (the general clerk of the private finance), the rest of the subordinate officials either do not set up, or assign the functions to other yamen, that is, the office area of the house has been idle for a long time.

Before the construction of the Taishou Mansion, Long Xiang personally drew drawings to adjust the layout, compressing the wasteful part of the office area, and instead expanding the public area of the back house to provide space for children to play.

The back house is still a courtyard layout, and the furnishings of the main house on the north side are exactly the same as those in the old city, still the middle hall and two bedrooms, but Long Xiang divided the east and west rows of wings equally to the Qiao sisters, indicating his attitude of not marrying in the future.

Qiao Ling presided over the construction of the new city, after Long Xiang officially assumed the post of Lujiang Taishou, for the brother-in-law to set up a new craftsman Cao Yamen Ren Peng, and Bing Cao, Wei Cao and other military and political departments at the same level.

The craftsman Cao was in charge of the construction and planning of Hefei, and Qiao Ling succeeded Feng Zhong as the chief officer of the craftsman battalion.

Feng Zhong and Tang Yu, as Long Xiang's absolute henchmen, were respectively responsible for the city defense of the old and new cities.

Qiao Ling, as a craftsman Cao Peng, has his own independent mansion, and he specially reserved a room for Chen, but at this time Qiao Ling was not married, and Chen lived in Qiao Wei's East Wing, helping his two daughters take care of newborns.

Babies and toddlers sleep half of the day, and when Long Xiang returned to the back house in the afternoon, he didn't hear the crying of his children.

Walking into the East Wing Hall, I saw the mother and daughter of the Qiao family, sitting around the table and chatting.

Seeing Long Xiang returning, the mother and daughter stood up at the same time, giving the county guard enough face.

Long Xiang stretched out his hand and motioned for a few people to sit down, glanced at the bedroom where the children were sleeping, and asked in a low voice, "Are the children sleeping again?" ”

"Hmm."

Qiao Wei replied: "Yue'er fell asleep after eating, and Ji'er just slept after making a fuss." ”

"I'll take a look."

Long Xiang tiptoed to the bedroom and saw the two pink little ones sleeping soundly.

The heart says that they are really comfortable sleeping after eating, they don't have to worry about survival and life, no wonder the children are always innocent, and their eyes are exceptionally bright and clear.

Later, when I sat down at the table, I remembered that Lu Su was worried about parenting, but he was the shopkeeper.

Long Xiang felt and said to Chen's mother: "After Ji'er and Yue'er were born, I, as a father, basically didn't have to worry about it, and I had Aunt Lao and two wives. ”

Qiao Wei replied seriously: "What did Long Lang say?" These are all things that a concubine should do, you are a big husband and a big thing, how can you be stumped by such a small thing? ”

Long Xiang shook his head lightly: "You can't say that, Zijing also does great things, but his mother and wife are frail, so he must be more careful, and he came to me just now to ask for the way of educating children, if I wasn't lucky enough to meet you, a lonely person like me whose parents are not there, maybe it will be much more difficult than Zijing." ”

Qiao Wei and Qiao Wan were praised by Long Xiang in person, and they were a little embarrassed to bow their heads.

Seeing this, Chen took over the conversation: "The situation of Lu Zijing's family, I heard Mr. Yuanhua say, they are all problems when they were young, and it is more difficult to find them back now, but the Lu family is a wealthy family in Huainan, and raising children is not a problem at all, so it should be that it is not easy to feel that it is expensive, so it is so cautious." ”

"What my grandmother said is very true."

Long Xiang responded with his head, suddenly turned his head to look at Qiao Wan, and said softly: "Zijing is a famous person in Jianghuai, and the conditions of the Lu family are also good, and the husband plans to marry him with a baby, what does Xiaojun think?" ”

"Huh?"

Qiao Wan looked surprised at first, and then nodded for a while before replying: "The husband is the head of the family, and whoever the husband plans to give Yue'er to, just make up your own mind." ”

Long Xiang looked at Qiao Wan and said tenderly: "Yue'er is the daughter of the two of us, and it is better to discuss the marriage matter." ”

"The concubine listens to the husband."

Although Qiao Wan and Qiao Wei are both wives, Long Xiang asked questions in front of Chen and Qiao Wei, which made her suddenly have the illusion of a hostess.

The smart IQ made Qiao Wan sober, and she originally agreed with Long Xiang's decision in her heart, but this answer can take care of everyone's emotions.

Seeing this, Chen accosted: "Lu Zijing is Yunqi's right-hand man, and marrying the Lu family is indeed a good way, you are young and have become an official to the county guard, and the future is limitless, then Lu Zijing is a smart person." ”

"Zi Jing is outstandingly resourceful, and he mentioned this marriage because he didn't fancy me as a county guard."

Long Xiang smiled bitterly, and said that his aunt was still so 'pragmatic', and then said to Chen: "The third brother will soon turn eighteen this year, what do you think of his marriage?" Hefei's ordinary school-age daughter, you should not be able to look down on it."

"I'm worried about it."

Chen shook his head and sighed: "Ling'er has been polishing with you for a few years, and now it has become promising, Yunqi is now the Taishou of Lujiang, and everyone should have contact with the famous family, you bother to help find another one, I think there will always be a suitable one."

Long Xiang said: "I really have a candidate, Chen Yuanlong has an eleven-year-old daughter, if my aunt is willing to let the third brother wait, the son-in-law will find a way to facilitate this matter." ”

"Yes, of course."

After hearing this, Chen was overjoyed, and said in his heart that it was Xuzhou Chen, and it would be no problem to wait for three or five years.

Maybe his expression was too exaggerated just now, but Chen, who had calmed down, continued to add: "What is the so-called big husband who has no wife? It's not too late to let Ling'er train for a few more years, I can't wait, so I'll take a concubine for him first."

"Hehe, listen to you."

"Wow wow. Wow wow"

Long Xiang had just finished answering, when a baby crying suddenly came from the side.

Qiao Wei was the first to run over as if she had been activated, because she heard the cry of her son Long Ji.

Long Xiang and Qiao Wan rushed over after him, and saw Qiao Wei holding Long Ji in his arms and shaking gently.

There was a false alarm, and the little thing actually stopped crying and fell asleep.

Qiao Wei lulled Long Ji to sleep, put him on the couch again, and gestured for the two to go out, explaining in a low voice as she walked: "Ji'er should be scared by dreams, he still has to sleep for two hours before he is hungry"

"Madame remembers so clearly? It's amazing. ”

Long Xiang couldn't help but give Qiao Wei a thumbs up, and Qiao Wan also nodded beside her at the same time: "Sister slapped Ji'er to sleep in a few clicks, this is where she is powerful." ”

"What's so great about this? Didn't you learn it from your mother? ”

Qiao Wei shook her head modestly, and said with a twist: "But Yue'er doesn't cry or make trouble, my sister doesn't need to learn this trick at all, your mother is happy." ”

"With the name Guang Ji'er, you know that he is restless, not to mention that he is still a boy," Qiao Wan joked with a smile.

Qiao Wei glanced at Long Xiang, and then said proudly: "In order to name them, Long Lang specially asked Mr. You for advice, it doesn't matter if Ji'er makes a fuss, a man should be like this." ”

(End of chapter)