On the day he returned to Yugan, Li Dan first went to visit the Yugan Chamber of Commerce, gave a general report on the seizures of the Battle of Fuzhou, and then told the Chamber of Commerce about the urgent need for fuel in Jingshi and the plan to establish a coal company.

Then he went to the county government non-stop to meet with the outgoing Fan Jinhu and congratulated him on his promotion to the prefect (in the end, Fan Xianzun got the position of the prefect of Huaiqing Mansion in Henan).

When Fan Xianzun learned that this godson-in-law was about to go to Shangjing to open a new business, he did not hesitate to take out 1,000 taels and expressed his willingness to buy shares, which was probably the largest investment he had made in his life, but he firmly believed that it was worth it!

Li Dan's wedding was held grandly, and the bride was waiting anxiously at home, but the groom was blocked at the door and was not allowed to come in. Xu Hu (Xu Tong's son) begged for poetry like a little adult in his father's arms.

"I'm coming!" Zhao Jingzi moved forward smartly, he acted as the best man today, and the other best man was Li Fushiro Li Qin. Listening to Zhao Jingzi shaking his head and saying loudly:

Zhu Men is the first to open, and Lang Guan's sideburns are like a cut. I don't see the new makeup, and the eyebrows are painted.

Xu Tong looked at his son: "Huzi, what do you think?"

"I don't understand!" The little one blinked, replied in a milky voice, and everyone burst into laughter.

"Someone else's doesn't count, let the groom do it himself!" Ah Lian's voice hid behind the door and said loudly.

"Okay, I'll do it myself, and I'll go through the door if I make it!" Li Dan smiled and said:

Gold Medal Ten Ways Jun Mo Chi,

"Which one is urging you?"

Xiao makeup, cloud sideburns, sweat and wet.

"The bride is in a hurry, but I'm not in a hurry!"

I don't see the new figure when I hear the voice,

"Huh......?"

The little sister is still urging into the door poem.

"Haha, my brother-in-law is talking about my sister!" Huzi clapped his hands and laughed.

"Oh, what are you talking about?" Ah Lian's figure flashed behind the door, and it turned out that she was embarrassed by Xu Hu's "brother-in-law" and "sister", and she turned her head and ran away. Seeing that the guards had no fighting spirit, everyone rushed in.

Xu Tong smiled and stepped aside, and was busy asking the housekeeper to entertain everyone who came to greet him with a glass of daughter wine, including musicians and sedan chair drivers, all of whom had to do a bowl before leaving!

After a while, "Farewell to the Bride" sounded in the house, Li Dan held a red yarn in his hand, led the bride downstairs, and said goodbye to her mother at the staircase, and then walked along the red carpet to the door, and then said goodbye to her father.

Xu Bu's eyes were red, and he couldn't tell whether he was crying or laughing on his face, and he watched his daughter enter the red and gold painted car. The red-clad Mao boy here took the jujube to him, and the groom got on the horse on tiptoe in Lu Jiu's hand, who was grinning.

Lu Jiu shouted, "Get up!"

Before the words fell, the sound of horses' hooves was heard from far and near. Zhao Jingzi made a gesture to make the musicians stop, only to see a black flag herald in front of the team, turn over and run to the crowd.

Lu Jiu greeted him, quickly took a letter and walked back to Li Dan, and said in a low voice, "Yingtan Urgent Report."

Li Dan nodded at Zhao Jingzi, who took it and opened it, read it at a glance, walked up to Li Dan and told him in a low voice:

"The Military Intelligence Department reported urgently that Lou Shiming successfully smuggled across the Xinjiang River early the morning before yesterday and defeated the defenders of Goose Lake. The remnants of the silver tuo at the mouth of the river are retreating towards Geyang. In addition, Xing'an has been occupied by Lou Shifan, and this kid is taking our way!"

"Pretty fast learner!" Li Dan sneered. "But it's all in our expectation, but today is still tomorrow." He sighed softly, "It seems that this wedding wine can't be eaten after all, you should go first after leaving the city."

"Go back and make up for it, you remember, even the principal will be interested!" Zhao Jingzi said jokingly.

"Okay, let's go. Contact the Duanjia brothers right away and see how they are." After Duanyan went back, he discussed with his brother, and finally the brothers agreed to continue to stay in Geyang.

Li Dan estimated that there would be a fierce battle in Geyang, and if they didn't withdraw in time, I was afraid that the two brothers of the Lou family would be pressed in Geyang City and couldn't get out.

"The news from three days ago, now I'm afraid that the Lou family's team has gathered under Geyang City!" He said to himself.

Seeing that the team stopped and did not leave, the Xu family and the bride were a little uneasy. Xu Tong came forward and asked

What's the matter, Yutong (A-Ying's wedding girl) also came over and was ordered to ask.

"It's okay, it's just a little delay after receiving an emergency military situation, it's okay, let's continue on the road!" Li Dan comforted. Soon, the procession of sending off relatives began to blow again. They passed through the city, causing a sensation for most of the rest of the city.

Then go out of the south gate to change into a four-wheeled carriage, cross from Mianshan Port to Baima Port to the south, wait and reorganize the team here, and then go all the way to Phoenix Mountain.

And Zhao Jingzi had already ridden all the way with the guards at this time, and he saw that he was already about to pass the yellow walls and blue tiles of the White Horse Temple in front of him.

Phoenix Mountain is also lively here, because Wu Ning'er is also going to get married today. Su Siniang got up early to help the little sister.

The two of them now live in the small courtyard assigned to Han An and his wife, and after her sister gets married, she will also stay in Han's house, she has worshipped the couple as teachers, followed Han An to learn painting, and followed Siniang to learn account management.

Gu Da sent someone to send a pair of twin sisters, which were the pair of Dongxiang sisters who almost fell into the clutches of Fu Fifteen. Su Siniang asked her sister Ayi to follow Ning'er, and her sister Ajia stayed with Jing'er, so that the two pairs of sisters had a home.

Ayi has never experienced this situation, and he is a little busy, but Siniang has always been in order.

Li Dan sent Xu Ying home first, and then turned over and went to pick up Ning'er's sedan chair, so busy that he sweated on his back in the winter. It stands to reason that the concubine doesn't have to be picked up when she enters the door, and she shouldn't enter the house at the same time as the eldest woman.

However, firstly, Ning'er's identity is the righteous daughter of the king of the county, and secondly, Xu Ying also insisted that she should not feel neglected as soon as she entered the door, so she had to work hard to rush back and forth. But after working harder, my heart is happy.

When they arrived at the worship hall, the three of them bowed to each other, Wu Ning'er stood behind Xu Ying and let her take half a step, looking at the beautifully embroidered shoes from under the hijab, envious of the handiwork, thinking that she didn't know what she was like.

Xu Ying glanced at the corner of the skirt behind her and was secretly pondering, but the sentence "send into the cave room" made her panic, but she didn't know which way to go, at this moment, a hand behind her gently held her forearm, and said in a low voice:

"Sister, don't panic, let's see where Xianggong goes, let's follow."

"Hmm." Xu Ying responded inaudibly, watching Li Dan's auspicious clothes walk in front of her, the yarn in her hand moved, and she breathed a sigh of relief and followed the steps, and suddenly had a good impression of the girl behind her.

When the bride enters the cave room, the groom has to be busy taking care of the guests attending the wedding banquet, which is a lot of trouble.

Although there is no such thing as a haunting house in later generations (in this era, haunting a haunted house is regarded as rude and offensive behavior), and there is no need to worry about being drunk (offensive and disrespectful to the groom's family), such as poetry, antithesis, and lyrics, are still indispensable in the family of scribes.

The people who came ranged from the parents of both sides and the prefectural lords to the officers and guards who were stationed around the white horse. The abbot of the White Horse Temple also arrived, and he was accompanied by two scribes and a scholar.

The most special thing is that King Fu actually sent a guest surnamed Lu to send a congratulatory ceremony, saying that it was a gift from Chitose to thank the people of Fuzhou for saving and congratulating the newlyweds, Li Dan invited him to the table and stayed at the Renli Inn Phoenix Ridge Store (Su Siniang's property) for one night.

The main hall was full of female dependents, and Song Jiuyi came up with the idea of setting up a huge tent with six large military tents on the ground that had been leveled next to him.

There were four iron stoves boiling water, everyone drank rice wine, and blankets were spread on the floor, so I didn't feel cold but a little warm.

Today's presiding over the table is the master of Sihaiju, he has learned no less than 40 dishes with Li Dan for a few months, and he has discussed today's recipe with Li Dan, with a total of 16 dishes, which is enough to make the guests dizzy.

The wine used at the banquet was Jia Mingjiu's special "Yuliuchun". This is slightly lighter than "Jade Clear Stream", and it is suitable for both warm and cold.

The wine is pale green, crystal clear, with cereal aromas and bamboo-like elegance, and it is filled with amazement when poured out of the carved mud-sealed bamboo tube.

Today, from the four-wheeled soft sedan carriage to the coal stove, wine and food, tableware, glass fruit plates, etc., all of them are the goods that are being sold by the business group, and it can be regarded as a very special display and product experience.

Evening send-offs, guests who don't have time to rush back to Yugan are arranged

Staying at Renli Inn, sent by Mao Zai and Xiao Wan'er.

Ah Bing was busy directing four or five family members to clean up the table, and he later stayed in Li Dan's house, and now he is almost half a housekeeper. Seeing Lu Jiu looking around, Ah Bing asked, "Brother Jiu, are you looking for the groom?"

"Yes, isn't he in a hurry, has he already gone in to find the bride?" Lu Jiu asked.

"Look at what you said," Ah Bing laughed and pointed, "The adults sent the three masters of the Xu family out, they should be talking outside the door, right?"

Lu Jiu hurriedly ran outside the door of the mansion to take a look, but it wasn't. It turned out that Li Dan sent them out on the way to inform himself and Zhao Chongbi that he reiterated the matter of resigning and returning to prepare for the exam after the pacification of Guangxin Mansion, and the three brothers unanimously agreed.

"Brother Dan, if you can afford to take it and put it down, you will be a big husband! You just do it, don't worry, all three of us have your back!" Xu Tong said.

"Ying'er, you'll have to talk to her there, but I think she'll understand." Xu Bu is very confident in his daughter's judgment.

"That being said, after all, it's not a good thing that someone comes out for impeachment." The third master, Xu Xian, was careful, stroked the beard on the side of his cheek and frowned:

"You are a sixth-rank official, and your Majesty personally selected it, and someone would come to pull the dragon scales? This is a bit strange, and I think we should be more careful.

Taking a step back and opening up the sky, we can comfort ourselves like this. But the thing itself is so strange that it's really hard to understand!"

Li Dan also couldn't say to them, "Someone is challenging the emperor's prestige", so he replied with a fist: "Yes, the son-in-law must be careful not to let the person who picks up the root of his tongue succeed."

After sending the three brothers away, he turned around and beckoned Lu Jiu to come over and ask, "Is there anything else?"

Lu Jiu pursed his lips and smiled, and said, "My lord, it's best if it's okay. It's just that the monk doesn't know anything, but at this time he attracted two donors, saying that they wanted to introduce them to you."

"Oh?" Li Dan wondered: "Isn't this kind of thing possible tomorrow? Why does it have to be tonight?" As he spoke, he glanced at Lu Jiu.

Lu Jiu immediately understood, "How many brothers do I arrange for the hall?"

"Let Ah Bing bring people at the door, and you bring two or three people to come in quietly from the back and prepare."

"Yes!"

Yi Shan, the abbot of the White Horse Temple, took the two scribes and scholars to the front yard living room, and Ah Bing, who was already waiting here, greeted him with a smile: "The great monk is here, please come in!" Your Excellency is inside, please make a long story short, after all, today is an auspicious time."

"The old man understands, excuse me." The monk chanted the Buddha's name, nodded to the back, and the scholar waited at the bottom of the stairs, and he led the two Confucian students into the door. Seeing Li Dan get up and greet him with a smile, he hurriedly folded his hands: "It's really a sin for a poor monk to disturb the good days of adults!"

"The abbot doesn't have to be like this, you and I are destined, if it wasn't for you selling land, how would I think of moving to this Phoenix Ridge? You may be seated!" As he spoke, he looked at the two people behind him, "Who are these two?"

"Oh, these two benefactors are friends of the old man. The younger ones are Gu Lian, the word Nancheng, Tongcheng people, who like miscellaneous books and are good at making waterwheel equipment.

This steady son's name is Wei Shaolong, the word Mucheng, and the Lujiang family, and he is a disciple of Mr. Wan Lao, a famous doctor in Nanchang.

The two of them are collectively known as Huainan Twin Cities, and they are famous but do not like to be officials, and prefer to travel to help others. The old man sees that adults need to help him, so he recommends him to get to know him."

Li Dan was overjoyed when he heard this, and talked with the two of them, and felt that the most valuable points of elegance were all practical learning, so he was interested in accepting them, and immediately asked, "Where do the two brothers live now?"

"I'm staying at our temple." The monk replied.

"Who's out there?"

Hearing Li Dan's question, Mao Zai walked in: "Is there something wrong with the adults?"

"You're back? Quickly send a carriage to the temple to pick up the luggage of the two gentlemen and send them to the Renli Inn for settlement." Li Dan commanded, and then said to them, "The two gentlemen have the right to rest, and I will come to visit tomorrow."

"Don't dare to work, sir. It's just ......."

"What?"

"We're not two people, we're a companion."

"The scholar? It's okay, let's settle it together!"

"My lord," Gu Nancheng took a step forward and crossed his hands.

"There are inconveniences in it, so it's better for us to stay in the temple temporarily."

"Huh?"

The abbot recited the Buddha and said, "Please call the scholar in, and you will know at a glance."

Li Dan nodded, and Brother Mao beckoned the scholar into the house, and quietly gave Ah Bing a look behind his back.

The scholar came in without speaking, made a gesture, and took off the hat on his head at the signal of Wei and Gu, and Li Dan was stunned. Half of his face was as sharp as a rock, and the other half was covered with black and red scars, but it was like a yin and yang face.

The good side is a handsome young man, but the terrible side is a wounded man who has suffered a lot.

"He's Yang Xing, the person you're looking for." Gu Nancheng said softly.

His voice was not loud, but he heard a clanging sound behind him, and five or six heavily armed guards rushed out of the back hall in the sound of nail leaves. Ah Bing and Mao Zai outside heard the big movement inside, and they also rushed in with people outside the door with weapons!

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became tense to the extreme. "Don't move!" Lu Jiu roared, shaking the house a little.

"Ah Jiu, there is no need for this, you all go down." After a while, Li Dan spoke. He has been looking at Yang Xing.

What he saw from Yang Xing's eyes at first was unyielding and resolute, but then the flame slowly dimmed, becoming indifferent and lost. Li Dan waved his hand to let everyone out, and only Lu Jiu was still standing behind the chair.

"You are not afraid to bring him into my house. The master should know that, right?" Li Dan looked at Yi Shan with a smile and asked, "You agreed to bring them here, there must be some reason?"

"Neither speculation nor risk-taking. It's just that if you want a person to turn back, how much courage should you have, shouldn't you support and encourage it?" Yi Seon replied.

"That's a good point, but how can the great monk tell the difference?" Li Dan sat back in his chair after speaking: "Don't stand, let's sit down and talk." Brother Yang, sit down too!" Seeing that everyone was seated, he said:

"But there are those in my ranks who are obedient and who are right. But Brother Yang, you are different from them, do you understand what we mean? So, let's talk about how you wanted to go back, and what suddenly made you change your mind?"

Yang Xing lowered his head and didn't speak, Wei Mucheng arched his hand and said, "My lord, Brother Yang, he rarely speaks since he recovered from his injuries. He talked to me a lot during the time he was treated, so why don't you tell me how he met us and how he got here?"

"Okay, Brother Wei, please speak!"

So Wei Mucheng told him how Yang Xing was hunted down, escaped, injured, martyred, and finally sheltered by himself and Gu Nancheng, and went to Baima with the assistance of Zhu Qizhen, and hid in the temple to recuperate.

"I've been waiting for many days to disturb the host, and I'm seeing that the entanglement is coming to an end. Nancheng went out to sell some calligraphy and paintings, and wanted to save some money before stopping.

Later, I heard on the street that you were going to get married, and Nancheng admired him, so he hoped to preside over the introduction, and he was afraid of implicating Brother Yang, so he hesitated for many days."

"Later, it was the host who said that the adults should not kill Brother Yang, and he personally talked with Brother Yang at night, and saw that he was truly repentant, so he persuaded us to simply take him to turn himself in, and listen to the fate of the adults."

After Gu Nancheng finished speaking, he looked at Yang Xing's side: "My lord, Brother Yang is truly repentant, he even proposed to the abbot to shave his degree, but the abbot said that he was not finished. Can you talk to Shangguan? If we can save him from death, we are willing to stay under the tent and listen to it!"

"How can such a thing be traded?" Li Dan waved his hand. He already had a rough idea of what the mentality of these three people was.

But the impeachment matter has just been suppressed by the emperor, if he takes in such a "giant", it is not a trick, I am afraid that even Zhao Chongbi will not be able to cover it up.

"Dare to ask Brother Yang, your father is now leading the remnants of the army in the mountains, and the winter is difficult, do you really not want to save it, or don't you want to fulfill your filial obligations?" He asked deliberately.

"Under Yang Wu. Yang Xing is dead, I hope you don't remember it wrong." Yang Xing replied in a hoarse voice:

"The so-called loyalty and filial piety, only those who are virtuous are worthy of the loyalty and filial piety of others, and those who are not virtuous cannot even be counted as people, how can they be worthy of these, the blood and sweat of these people?

I am encouraging this kind of person to be loyal and filial

What, in favor of what? How can I be with the beasts?" His voice grew louder, but the abbot immediately recited the Buddha and brought him back to his composure.

Listening to his words, Li Dan gradually had an idea in his heart. "You have not come at the right time," he whispered.

"Now I can't take him in, I can't let him out and do things, I can't even help him do anything." He looked at everyone's disappointed looks, Yang Xing himself was still calm and light, and there was nothing unusual on his face.

"I think it's better to leave it like this." Li Dan said, "Brother Yang can live in the temple first, or be a head who practices on behalf of the Buddha.

Wait until I find an opportunity to speak for him, and it would be best if I could get a pardon from the court. I add 20% of the grains, rice, melons and fruits I send to the temple every month, and Brother Yang will take care of the vegetable garden behind the temple, how about it?"

"Yang Wu will follow your lordship's instructions."

"Amitabha, good!" Yi Shan's big face finally showed a smile again, he secretly let out a long breath, and then when he heard Li Dan's next sentence, he recited the Buddha again.

"Just build him a house on the edge of the vegetable garden, Ah Jiu, you can bring a few brothers to help with this. By the way, I will bring the six gold coins given to me by Lord Fu to the master, and the Buddha statue in the temple should be reinstalled, even if it is the first good deed I have done since I got married!"