Lou's family members in Beijing included nine-year-old Lou Shiji, Lou Shiming's widow Wu Shi and her two-year-old son, as well as Lou Zi'an's brother Lou Zi'an and his son Lou Shiying.

Let's go to the back and meet the children first. Lou Shiji is a little weak, but his eyebrows and eyes have Lou Shiming's bearing, and he speaks without hurry, Li Dan likes it very much.

Ask him if he can read and write, what kind of books can he learn? replied that he had learned the "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names", "Thousand Character Text" and "Ancient and Modern Sage Text", and now he began to read "Spring and Autumn".

Li Dankao asked a few words, felt quite satisfied, and took off the palace silk hairpin flower from his head to give him a reward, and the little guy was so happy that he jumped out to find Du Jing to show off.

Li Dan was very surprised when she entered the door, and peeked at Wu Shi a few times, she just turned twenty-one years old this year, she doesn't talk much, and her low eyebrows are very supple.

Her family is specialized in the seafood business in Ningde, white and clean, and she is very round, but she didn't expect to be a widow at this age, which made Li Dan sigh secretly and feel pity.

His son was only two years old, his bright eyes, hands and feet were so active that he didn't recognize life at all, and when he saw Li Dan, he stuck to him and called him daddy, so ashamed that Wu's face was flushed.

Li Dan saw it and said, "Sister-in-law, don't be shy, just let me recognize this righteous son, and I can be regarded as worthy of Brother Shiming's spirit in the sky!"

After speaking, he asked the child what his name was, and Wu replied that he only had a nickname called Guo'er, and he had not yet given a big name. Li Dan thought about it, his father's name was Shiming, so he named the child Cunshi.

"Let him follow my surname first, so that no one dares to suspect him, and when he grows up, he will be willing to return to his surname or continue to have the surname Li Du with him!"

After speaking, he felt that the people coming and going in this place was not a long-term solution after all, so he decided to find a long-term place to live and settle them.

Then go to the front to meet everyone, and everyone comes up to greet Master Li. Li Dan saw that Lou Shiying, a young man, was very sturdy, and he liked it very much.

I also heard that he was good at walking mountain roads, and had the nickname of "Flying Foot Luo", this Luo Luo was called a wild boar by the natives, which shows that this boy is not only fast-footed, but also brave.

Unlike Lou Zisheng (Lou Zishi's brother), who was detained in the Nanchang temple after the surrender, their father and son never attached themselves to Lou Zishi to make trouble, but they were excluded and harassed by the local government because of their identity, so this time Li Dan also took his father and son out.

"Uncle, if you have the craft, stay in the trading house and become a craftsman. Brother Shiying looks like a person who can earn military merits, how about I go to Liaodong to fight the Egu people this time, and let him be a guard for me?" Li Dan put his arm around Lou Shiying's shoulders intimately and asked his father's opinion.

"Childe is going to Liaodong?" Lu Jiu next to him was taken aback.

"Otherwise, why do you think the emperor is in such a hurry to find your son-in-law?" Li Dan stretched out his hand and patted him on the forehead, Lu Jiu immediately grinned happily, he knew that this slap meant that Li Dan would take him.

"Since I am also in charge of the military department and have participated in the discussion of the situation in Liaodong, it is almost certain that the emperor will send me to join the army." After Li Dan finished speaking, he looked at Lou Zi'an and his son: "Of course, I am not reluctant, I can stay and do things if I want."

"I'm happy to go!" Lou Shiying looked at her father: "I can only chop bamboo and hunt, what can I do in this city? It's better to follow Gongzi to the front line to fight, maybe earn a hundred households and come back, and see which of those birdmen in the township dares to talk nonsense?"

"Okay, if you want to go, you can go." Lou Zi'an is actually a simple man, and after saying this, he looked at Li Dan.

Li Dan naturally understood: "Uncle, don't worry, Shiying is Shiming's brother, that is, my brother. I'm going to take care of him!" Then he turned his head and asked Wang Xu and Du Jing, who came with them: "On the occasion of employing people today, are you two willing to help me?"

Both of them arched their hands and said, "Gongzi Gaoyi, now that they have all settled down, we don't have anything to worry about, so we will go with Gongzi to do big things!"

Li Dan was overjoyed, so he let Du Jing enter the shogunate as a strategist and be a helper for Wu Mao.

After arranging, Li Dan discussed with Du Jing and asked him to agree with Wu, Shiying and Shiji to recognize him as a stepfather, so Shiying and Shiji changed their surnames to Du, and even Du Jing himself changed his name to the word "Jing" to avoid unnecessary trouble caused by other people's ears and eyes.

Li Dan took Shiying and Shiji back to the house together

, entrusted Shiying to Li Tiedao as an apprentice, invited Jiao Tong, explained Shiji's identity to him, and asked Shiji to worship him as a tutor.

"This place is so small, and it's inconvenient for nobles to come and go." Li Dan stopped Jiao Tong and instructed, "Jun and find a more suitable house for me, it should be spacious enough, and it is better to be closer to the palace city."

Because of the affairs of the department, the hall where people come and go is no longer suitable as a residence, so Li Dan wants to move. More and more cadres have been transferred, and the houses have been vacated to accommodate more people from Raozhou.

"Brother, what is the origin of this Li Dan? Tanhualang should have entered the Hanlin Academy as an editor, why did he enter the Chinese book and also serve as the head of the Ministry of War?"

Xie Minzhong came to his brother to ask what was going on, and after his political observation period ended, this time it was said that he would be assigned to the General Administration Department to do all the work.

was secretly proud, and suddenly someone said to him You don't think it's great to be a Beijing official, look at Li Tanhua, the starting point is a Chinese scrivener wailang, although he is a six-grade official, but that is one of the closest officials to His Majesty.

Thinking about this, he immediately became deflated with himself, so he ran to ask what was going on.

Several officials who were gathering in the signing room to discuss the matter laughed, and Gao Moling asked him to sit down first, and then gave him a rough overview of Li Dan's resume.

"How? If you are not convinced, go and bring a few thousand soldiers to me for two battles, or shut up." Xie Minhong shook his head at this younger brother in his heart, this kid can't do anything except empty talk.

"Hey, it's a martial artist!" Xie Minzhong pursed his lips.

"Ichikatsu Takeo?" Xie Minhong's face darkened: "That's called civil and military shuangquan!" Why don't you take the test for a tanhualang to come to me? With such ability, he shouldn't let a martial artist get Tanhualang, but how can he get it?"

"Then who knows, maybe he cheated?"

"You're talking nonsense!" Xie Minhong split his head and covered his face and threw down the pen and ink on the case: "You dare to say such boundless words? If it spreads, how will Mr. Su deal with himself? Shut up!"

"Well, Brother Minzhong, go back and rest first." Gao Moling hurriedly came out to play a round, he didn't want the news of the brothers fighting in the Xie Xianggong Mansion tomorrow.

"How much worse can I be than him?" Xie Minzhong said indignantly: "If you don't believe me, I'll go to the military department tomorrow, don't make it look like I'm so happy to stay in the capital as if I'm so touched by your light!" Without waiting for another book to be dropped, he turned around and went out.

Looking at the back of him leaving, he said with great difficulty: "Tongli (Xie Min's Chinese character) is very bloody! Brother Cong'an (Xie Minhong), why didn't he fulfill his wish?"

"Huh?" Xie Minhong was surprised, thought about it and suddenly became enlightened, nodded slowly and said, "It's okay, I'll give this fool a chance to try!"

Gao Moling was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "Your Excellency doesn't really want to send your brother to Liaoxi, right?"

"So what?" Xie Minhong stomped his feet with hatred: "Since he was a child, he has been pampered and indulged, so it's good to let him suffer some hardships!" You go to Yang Shi'an tomorrow and ask him to arrange it."

Yang Shi'an was a little frightened since he lost his brother's protection, so he got closer to Xie Minhong.

Gao Moling wanted to say something, but waved his hand to stop him: "The emperor has decided to send this new science and technology detective to Liaoxi to join the army, and if you go to Tongli, you just want to observe him more from the side, and we also have an extra eyeliner in Liaoxi, what's wrong?"

Take your brother as eyeliner? Gao Moling opened his mouth, but the next words didn't come out in the end.

Xiangyu appeared at the door of this restaurant wrapped in a black velvet cloak, and immediately a one-wheeled carriage of the latest style appeared.

A softly curvaceous arm stretched out from the carriage for her to lean on and enter the car through the side door, then closed the door, and the carriage turned around and headed towards the inner road of the silver gate.

Two horsemen on mules came out of the alley beside them, and after nodding to each other, one of them followed the carriage and kept a distance of thirty paces from it.

The other came to the door of the restaurant, came down and entered the lobby, sat down near the door and window, asked for a pot of wine and two side dishes, and observed the guests coming in and out. After a while, a rather dignified middle-aged man walked down from upstairs.

See you in the shopkeeper

hurriedly stepped forward and humbly bowed his hand: "Lord Shangshu, you are good to go!"

"Hmm." The middle-aged man didn't move his eyelids, and went straight down the steps with the help of the little guy. A carriage immediately stopped at the door, and the attendants came up and helped him into the car.

The little servant sat next to the coachman, with two guards in front and four attendants behind, and the group swaggered out of the restaurant.

Thirty paces away from them, the knight led the mule and hung casually behind them. Not long after he arrived in Shangjing, he didn't recognize that this "Lord Shangshu" was actually Zheng Shou, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites.

Zheng Shougang met Xiangyu, and she still has her body fragrance on her hands. Gently raising his hand to smell the smell, Zheng Shou smiled slightly, and frowned again.

I didn't expect the emperor to be so decisive this time, and even entrusted the Qionglin banquet to the given king, and he threw himself into the upcoming conflict with the Kel tribes.

This Li Tanhua has only appeared for two days, but her influence on His Majesty is already so obvious, Zheng Shou is very vigilant about this. Not because of anything else, he was suddenly punished for King Teng (King Xiang), and he was inextricably linked with this young man.

There was news from King Teng's side that Chitose demanded that no matter what method was used, this thief who was in the way must be driven out of Jingshi as soon as possible. However...... is easier said than done!

If this guy is just a jinshi, send him to be a state official from afar, or arrange him to the position of a certain political secretary with a smile, Zheng Shou has even been prepared for this, but he has become a first-class tanhua!

This is beyond the scope of the ministry's grasp. Now it's even worse, the emperor said a word, he didn't enter the noble place of the Hanlin Academy at all, and directly entered the Zhongshu part-time Fang Division.

Weird, so weird! How can Your Majesty play like this?

The series of situations that have happened these days have confused Zheng Shou, and Shoufu Han Wei was also caught off guard, and everyone just watched the emperor not say a word but was actually already preparing for war.

It was customary to organize a meeting of the Imperial Council at this time, and then the emperor announced that he was going to fight, and reached out to the household to ask for money, and the household began to cry and seesaw, and the cabinet discussed the necessity of waging war.

But this time there was none of it, and the emperor did not mention the question of money at all. I only called Jeon Jae in and talked for half an hour, and Jeon Jae left the palace relaxed and happy, as if nothing had happened.

It's so weird! Could it be that the emperor can fight without spending money, or is he sure that all the cabinet members will be unanimously supportive this time? The more Zheng Shou thought about it, the more he wondered.

He asked Xiangyu to meet tonight, thinking that on the one hand, he wanted to tell her about the war, and on the other hand, he asked her how much information the channels over there had.

But it seems that Xiangyu doesn't know more than him, and only says that he knows that Qi'er Khan is going back to the grassland. Zheng Shou said no, he has to rush back to organize the army to fight you.

Xiangyu was strange, because as far as she knew, although the Kercoa sent a detachment of about 3,000 people to contain it, but in fact he had no intention of fighting with the Ula tribe, what did he do so actively?

Zheng Shou laughed and said that you girl has long hair, and people take advantage of this opportunity to take advantage of it!

No, the canonized edicts have already been issued, and the beggar Khan can use this to call on Huifa, Seyan and Luyan, and it is His Majesty's big chess to unite the various tribes of Monan to fight against the Kerge.

Then Zheng Shou told her that the emperor would also send an envoy to Seyan to ask for a side concubine for King Ding. It was this sentence that frightened the girl, and she hurriedly jumped off her lap and fled.

Hmph, no matter how fierce the Kerco is, he is also afraid of the union of Monan!

The car suddenly stopped. Zheng Shou frowned but didn't move: "What's wrong?" He asked in the car.

"Master, there is a car and we are in the wrong car, and the driver on the other side said that his son-in-law wants to say hello to you, please appreciate your face." The scholar replied in a low voice outside.

"Who?"

"Edited by the Hanlin Academy, the new science list is Zhou Gongzi."

Zheng Shou was stunned, and after a while, he pedaled the car with his feet, and then slowly lifted the curtains.

The mule cart came over and stopped, Zhou Junlan greeted him with a junior salute, his white skin was illuminated a little miserably by the moonlight, Zheng Shou was stunned for a moment before he remembered that this guy must have pounced on the incense powder.

"Congratulations to Yisheng (Zhou Junlan)

Edited by the Hanlin Academy, I will be able to show what I have learned from now on." Zheng Shou replied politely.

"The student and the heavenly official (the ancient name of the official department, because the official department has never had a scholar, the court and the central government are accustomed to think that Zheng Shou will take over sooner or later, so many people use this title for him behind his back) Lord happened to meet, what a blessing!"

Zhou Junlan said with a dry smile: "In fact, although the students were born in Shandong and settled in the hometown of the sage, the students' ancestors and parents are all from Dangyang, and the students also think that they are Jinghu blood."

"Oh, really?"

"Uh, hehe, I heard that the old man is the leader of Jinghu Lake, and the scholars are looking forward to it, and the students hope to receive more teachings and corrections from the adults sooner or later, so I would be very grateful!"

Looking at Zhou Junlan, who was saluting with his hands in the car, Zheng Shou smiled secretly in his heart, it turned out that this guy was here to pull fellow villagers with him. "Good, good, good," he smiled and nodded.

"I didn't expect this year's No. 1 to be so interesting. After the champion praised the official, he plunged into the Tongwen Pavilion and never showed up, Tanhualang was instructed by the emperor to make his feet not touch the ground, it is said that he didn't even have the time to go home and take a nap, and he went to the military department to report with black circles.

You're the only one who is sitting in a car all over the street, busy paying homage to people, that's good!"

"The students didn't know whether to visit or not, and they were afraid that the official position would be humble and inconvenient, and there was no one to guide them in Beijing, so they ...... I had to make my own decisions." Zhou Junlan didn't seem to know whether he was praising himself or being sarcastic, so she searched for words.

Zheng Shou smiled when he saw him looking like a hillbilly: "It seems that Yishengguo is a sincere gentleman."

This sentence was obviously praised, Zhou Junlan was overjoyed, and hurriedly bowed down and said:

"The little nephew is like this, he is at ease in his small books, but he doesn't know how to flatter Shangguan, he has neither the appearance of a champion nor the cleverness of Li Dan. If so, if he can get the guidance of the elder, the little nephew will definitely ......."

"Hey, that's it!" Zheng Shousheng was afraid that he would say something inappropriate on the street, so he hurriedly stopped: "Since I am a descendant of Jinghu, the old man should take care of it." After a pause, he suddenly asked, "Yisheng also thinks Li Tanhua is very smart?"

Zhou Junlan pursed her lips slightly: "Not only smart, but also clever."

"Oh?" Zheng Shou laughed: "Using these two words to describe a man, the old man is unheard of."

"Hmph, boss, look, my generation, along with the two second-class and third-class (the first place in the second class and the first place in the third class) are all Hanlin Chengzhi, and he went to the middle school.

Of course, everyone is at the same level, but why can he win the emperor's favor?" He looked left and right, and said in a low voice:

"The little nephew heard all kinds of rumors before he came to Beijing, and they were all unbelievable. Now there are rumors in the same list, saying that he actually won the emperor's heart early, and the examination is just a passing scene."

He paid attention to Zheng Shou's face as he spoke, and sure enough, seeing the light in his eyes, he hurriedly arched his hand and said, "It doesn't matter if my nephew is a newcomer, it's a big deal to stay away from him.

What is afraid is that the old man will go in and out of the same hall with him, and it will inevitably cause some friction due to differences in political affairs, and the time will ...... Does Your Majesty take into account the opinions of the old ministers, or does he favor a fortunate person like him? The old man will know it at a glance!"

"Yisheng, you've said a lot!" After Zheng Shou finished speaking with a dark face, he lowered the curtain and kicked the car, and the carriage started. He was in an irritable mood, and was jolted a few more times, and couldn't help shouting angrily:

"Look at the road, are you pulling goods?" After saying that, he regretted that he shouldn't have lost his temper, and gritted his teeth hatefully and said, "This broken car is really uncomfortable! Scholar, go tell the butler that tomorrow you will go to the East Risheng Carriage and Horse Shop to order a new car with a side door!"

Zhou Junlan's car was also starting slowly, he vaguely heard the roar coming from behind him, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Childe, someone is such a big official, why do you want to make him angry? You see he doesn't like to listen to it, if he doesn't say the last few words, maybe he can stay for a while and come to the door to see you later. That's good, it's good that he doesn't hate you."

The coachman complained in front that he would not flatter people: "Say more good things and do more things, didn't the old man say that before he came out?"

"You know what?" Zhou Junlan pursed her lips sarcastically. That Li Dan, he felt that there was something wrong when he looked at it.

If

He has military merits, how can he be admitted to Tanhua? Even if there is really someone in the world who has both civil and military skills, there must be a person with merit and fame to command the army, so it is right to be praised, where will it be reversed?

In his opinion, the abnormality of the world is a demon, this Li Dan is either a demon or a big female thief! People dare not say anything if they are afraid of the imperial power, and I want to expose him.

Don't look at Lord Zheng's dark face, but it also shows that this is said to his heart. "Take your time, it's just a needle in his heart now, and the best is yet to come!" Zhou Junlan said to herself.