Volume 1 Xiao Yuanba Chapter 295 Concubines and Expeditions
Seeing that he was so interested, Eunuch Liu tilted his head and stared at it carefully, and said:
"Lord Li has such confidence in Liaodi? It was a cold place, and it was bitterly cold. We heard that in winter, we took it out to pee, and when we came back, we could go directly to the palace. Of course, it's all hearsay, but it doesn't make you happy like this, right?"
"Hah, so seeing is believing." Li Dan smiled and rubbed his hands:
"I have ordered the trading company to go to Shandong and Shuntianfu to find a place to open a new iron factory, and this winter to supply no less than 4,000 coal cake stoves to the soldiers and civilians of Liaodi, and then recruit 1,000 workers from Shandong to Fushun to dig coal to supply Liaodi. With this thing, what winter are you afraid of him?"
Eunuch Liu's eyes lit up. Give your thumb again and say:
"I have a nephew who passed under our name last winter, although this child is literate but does not want to participate in the imperial examination, he runs here and there all day long, and he is a fool who spares no effort. If Master Li lacks an errand runner around him, why don't you try him?"
Listening to the sound of the strings and knowing the meaning of elegance, Li Dan leaned his head over: "Father-in-law, our trading company is expected to invest a total of 6,000 taels in this transaction, can this kid really endure so much hardship?"
"I can't bear the burden too much, as long as you give him a bowl of rice to eat, how about it?"
Li Dan looked at a finger stretched out by Eunuch Liu and nodded: "Let him report to me tomorrow morning, but first tell me about the military law I practice here, if he relies on your favor to come, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
"Don't worry, Lord Li, it's a solid baby. It's because it's so solid that I never know what to ask him to do. If Master Li can lead him to the right path, then the old man owes you a great favor."
"Eh, what kind of favors. As long as my father-in-law helps me remind His Majesty of two things."
"Which two?"
Li Dan stretched out two fingers: "First, don't listen to the nonsense of those peacemakers; Second, guard against those guys in the Jinghu system."
"Huh?" Liu Kan was taken aback: "What do you say about this second thing, does Master Li mean something?"
"Hmph, it's not the ones who shout peace every day with their elbows turned out, the staff has noticed something strange and is collecting evidence, Your Majesty can let the Wing Loong Wei keep an eye on it." Li Dan lowered his voice again:
"Chen Chun and Shen Jie of the Staff Division are investigating the case, but the other party is extremely cunning, we can only wait patiently for him to show his tail."
"Serious?"
"It involves a lot of ministers, and even the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies." Li Dan felt Eunuch Liu tremble, and comforted:
"Don't worry, I've already made arrangements, once it is verified, I will hold down that guy in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies first, and I won't give him a chance to endanger the safety of the army's operations."
"That's good!" Eunuch Liu wiped his forehead: "Your Majesty's bet this time is not small, Li Sanlang, you must know. We don't want to say discouragement, but what if we ...... Neither line of defense is blocked, you should know your responsibility." After speaking, he stared at Li Dan.
"Dan knows, of course." Li Dan nodded: "If I command the second line of defense and can't stop it, I will be Khan, please Your Majesty behead me to thank the world!" The father-in-law must tell His Majesty that even so, the pace of the new policy to change to the cabinet responsibility system cannot be stopped!
Otherwise, within a hundred years, our dynasty will be divided due to the contradiction between the imperial power and the imperial power. The ruling of the cabinet of pure scribes will only exacerbate the three major contradictions rather than resolve them, and it will be difficult to return to them when the time comes, and even the gods will not be able to return to the sky!"
"We'll bring the words!" Eunuch Liu solemnly bowed: "Don't say much, don't say goodbye, I wish Shi Shuai and Master Li a victory and return to the court as soon as possible!"
As soon as I walked outside the courtyard gate, I saw Tao Niang's little face looking this way. Li Dan smiled and beckoned her to come over, and asked, "Have the two ladies settled down?" Have you served tea? Have you been scolded?"
"After serving tea, the ladies treated me politely and didn't get scolded."
Li Dan blinked when he heard this, knowing that Ah Ying and Ning Er were still a little unhappy, and entered the house nervously. Yutong had already seen him ghostly, and came over to give A-Ying a look. Ah Ying and Ning Er glanced at each other and sat down in the middle hall.
Looking at this posture, she wanted to avoid it, and then stopped, and sat down by the door on her sister's right hand to observe the situation.
"Li Tanhua meets the two sisters." Li Dan said and stepped forward to salute, and Trance smiled "fluttering", A-Ying and Ning'er couldn't sit still, so they had to get up and salute back.
"Please be seated." A-Ying gestured.
When Li Dan sat down, the two did not speak. Li Dan was embarrassed and pouted at the er, who pretended to arrange his sleeves and didn't see it. Li Dan had to laugh and speak first: "The two sisters came by coincidence, if they come a day late, they won't be able to see each other."
"So what? Anyway, there is no shortage of caring people around Xianggong, and the two of me can't come, so it doesn't matter to Xianggong anyway." Wu Ning'er sneered.
Li Dan was about to distinguish when she turned her face to Ah Yi (twin maids, sister Ah Li'er followed) and said, "Alas! Let's be honest, thinking about him cold all day long, worrying about him hot, dare to be careless!"
"It's only been a long time since I've seen her, and my sister is so aggressive." Li Dan had a bitter face: "You don't see Xianggong busy with court affairs all day long, and you don't ask me why I left this peach girl, just come up and show your face, wronged!"
"Yo, the concubine didn't know that Master Li had a story." Ning'er pouted.
"There's a story, and it's better than a storyteller! You two don't want to hear it?"
"So, it piqued my curiosity."
Ah Ying Si Saburo is not a prodigal, and he just entered the door when he encountered an angel visiting, it seems that the rumors that his father-in-law has won the emperor's trust are true, maybe there is indeed a story here, if he is jealous and wronged him, it is not good, so he decided to give him a chance.
"Then you and I will listen to it, and if it is reasonable, we will spare it, otherwise...... Hmph!"
When she snorted, Li Dan was not only afraid, but half of the crisp. But it's not a trick at this time, you have to settle inside before you can go outside, otherwise you won't be able to go out tomorrow. Li Dan hurriedly gave up:
"Sisters, why don't I tell you all the stories since I went to Beijing to your face, but let's eat first, okay? Xianggong is dying of hunger, and the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers!
Could it be that I, Li Dan, brought food for His Majesty's army of 100,000 people, but turned around and starved to death in myself, isn't it a joke?"
The children all covered their mouths and laughed. "Then let him eat first, and then see what he does." Ning'er had no choice but to say to Ah Ying: "Besides, everyone has been on the road for a day, and they are all hungry." ap.
Ah Ying got off the donkey and asked Yutong to pass the meal, and the four of them (including Trance Er) sat down to prepare the meal, and Ning'er asked in a low voice, "Then where is she going to eat?"
"Let's call along." A-Ying Dao.
"It's still my sister's kindness." After Li Dan finished speaking, he was glared at by A-Ying, shrunk his neck to give Yutong a look, the latter gritted his teeth, went out and called Tao Niang in, and let her sit opposite Li Dan.
"Although I don't have a name, I am a member of this family after all, and I will be an aunt if I have children in the future. It's still what I said to you, it's the first priority to take care of your husband in the future, and you shouldn't be too playful when you're young." A-Ying admonished.
"My sister is right. But Tao Niang is smart and learns everything very quickly, especially cooking, and even His Majesty has praised her." Li Dan said.
Ah Ying and the others were taken aback: "Your Majesty has come to our house? Have you eaten yet?"
"yes, I've been here more than once." Li Dan pointed to the front: "There is a small garden on the right hand of the door called Yangyue Xuan, and she was there last time she was the holy driver."
Everyone was impressed by Tao Niang at this time, and even she felt a little bolder.
"Tao Niang originally thought it was the prince of which family came to visit, but at first I didn't know it was the holy driver, but later I was really surprised to know. Fortunately, San Lang helped the slaves cover up, so he barely made a mistake." Everyone laughed softly.
Ah Ying was originally quite wary in her heart, but seeing that this girl was innocent, she also smiled: "It seems that you have helped the minister a lot, if you don't have you, it would be really troublesome when the holy car comes, but our sisters should thank our sisters." As she spoke, she got up and took her clothes and bowed, and Ning'er also bowed with her.
The bluff made Tao Niang hurriedly jump away and wave her hand and shouted: "Kill the slave, Tao Niang does all this for Ai Saburo, but I don't dare to take credit, and I don't dare to be a gift for the two ladies!" said and hurriedly bowed back.
The atmosphere at the table finally eased, and she began to talk about what she had seen and heard on the road
, a few people gradually talked and laughed. Trance and Tao Niang seem to be the same age, and they quickly became acquainted.
When the meal came up, everyone stopped talking, and after the meal was withdrawn, Trance pulled Tao Niang's sleeve, and the two got up and retired to find a place to chat.
Li Dan asked Yutong to bathe in water, and Ning Erqi said, "I've been waiting to hear your story, but you seem to be sleepy?"
"Xianggong went out for a day and was really unhappy, and you two thought the same. Wouldn't it be wonderful that we all washed and then sat down on the couch cleanly and bathed in the moonlight and listened to the stories?"
After that, he asked the second daughter to wash first, and then washed herself, and when she came out, the three of them sat on the couch, burned mosquito coils, and listened to Li Dan begin to tell.
When they heard about the attack on the hotel and the ambush in Lujiang, the two daughters were shocked, Li Dan reported good news but not bad news, these things were never mentioned in the letter, they knew it for the first time;
I also heard him talk about the circumstances of the examination and the palace examination, as well as the circumstances of His Majesty's conferral and reception;
Later, when Xiangyu designed the list to let Tao Niang approach him, Li Dan persuaded Xiangyu to serve the imperial court and other plots, and they suddenly realized.
"It turns out that Xianggong accepted Tao Niang not only because of her beauty, but also to lure out the Xiangyu girl behind her?" After A-Ying finished speaking, she saw Ning'er pounding heavily on the couch:
"This Kaer is an abomination, to cast innocent daughters into such a place, and to do such a thing of camping for them. Xianggong, you must teach them a good lesson when you go to Liao this time!"
"Alas, men are at war, but women are to suffer." Ah Ying sighed: "How unfair things are in the world!"
Sighing and sighing, Ning Er got up to get out of bed, but was stopped by Li Dan and asked, "Where are you going?"
"Go back to sleep."
"Where are you going?" Don't go, just sleep here!" Li Dan was full of food and drink and became domineering: "Master, I have wasted so many tongues to tell stories in vain? Now when it's time to collect the money all over the field, the listeners have to run, how can this be true?"
"So you had such a dirty idea?" The second daughter was ashamed and annoyed.
"Shhh——!h Don't make noise, look at what time of day it is outside, Yutong and Ayi should go to bed early, how many people do you wake up when you move? It's better for us to sleep together, and it's convenient for others, isn't it?"
Li Dan Zhenzhen had words, but the last sentence showed the fox's tail: "Besides, we have been separated for so long, so we have to solve the pain of lovesickness." Otherwise, tomorrow morning, the front hall will be ordered, and I will leave for Liao the day after tomorrow, how can I have so much time to accompany you?"
"You're leaving, aren't you honest? Watch out for your body!" A-Ying said.
She had just come out of the bath, and the smell of good smell on her body was intoxicating. Li Dan sniffed his face and said, "It's too torturous to let me touch it for so long! Good sister, anyway, it's just one night, you let me let me."
"Not good." Ah Ying shook her head, "I feel more and more that you are like a big-tailed wolf, so scary and scary."
"Don't be afraid, that's why I let Ning'er stay, wouldn't it be better for the two of you to share some of it?" After Li Dan finished speaking, he couldn't help but say that he picked up Wu Ning'er, who was caught off guard, and put it on A-Ying, and said with a smile:
"In this way, no one can escape, the two sisters forgive, and Saburo will come!"
In fact, Li Dan was wrong, Yutong didn't fall asleep at all. She closed her eyes and listened to the movements, ready to go in and wait.
At first, I listened to the chatter and muttering, but then suddenly there was no sound, and then there was the sound of laughing and scolding and fighting, and then ...... back. It's broken, Yutong's heartbeat suddenly jumps. No way? The three of them together?
It was useless for her to cover her head or ears with a clip. In the end, I had to tremble all over my body, and put the pillow between my legs to endure it. Alas, there is no way to be a maid, that's it!
There was also a man who tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. Trance chatted happily with Tao Niang, and was dragged by her to stay in the side room, but Trance always thought about it and couldn't sleep.
She quietly got up and looked at the peach girl sleeping next to her, and laughed secretly in her heart how this girl served Xianggong, wouldn't Xianggong be angry if she slept like this?
When I think about it, I can't sleep even more. She simply got up and crept over to the porch, paying attention
Over there in the main house. She knew that she would be Li Dan's person sooner or later, but he would set off the day after tomorrow, and she didn't know how long he would have to go?
She was a little sullen. Since learning martial arts with Wu Siniang, her figure has grown, and she has become more marked, her eyes are clear and bright, and her original yellowed hair has been pitch black and straight.
Getting older also made her more worried, and she sat silently, thinking about what to do.
Suddenly, she heard a voice from the other side of the room. After practicing martial arts, she heard very well, and she quickly recognized that it was her sister and that they were ....... I'm going to die!
Trance hurriedly fled back to the house, closed the door and went to bed, covering her head with a quilt. Suddenly, she couldn't help but laugh inside.
Okay, you make trouble first, but then he'll be mine! Almost immediately, she made up her mind that she was going to follow Li Dan north to Liao!
"What, you're going to follow him? Going to such a cold place?" The next day, when A-Ying heard her talk about it in front of her, she was so surprised that she almost dropped the quilt in her hand to the ground.
"Girl, you can think about it, it's very cold in that place!" She didn't understand what made this girl think like this, and she tried to persuade her.
"Madam, among us, I am afraid that we are the only sisters who have seen snow." As soon as this reason was said, A-Ying understood. She was silent for a moment and asked Yutong to invite Ning'er over.
Ayi staggered over with Wu Ning'er in his arms. To say that Ning'er used to learn the attitude of Han women, today she didn't pretend at all.
Yesterday, Li Dan was too tossed, and he didn't let them go until the sky was bright, so he ...... Everything has a price.
Hearing that Trance was going to follow, Ning Er wanted to stop her, but after opening her mouth, she instantly changed direction: "I think it's okay." After a little thought, she said:
"My sister knows martial arts, can Siniang teach anything wrong? She has also learned to ride a horse now, having experienced snowy winters in the mountains as a child. What's more, don't you think that Madame should have someone to follow you and keep an eye on you?
You see, in yesterday's story, it was the ...... of the girl, the princess, and the county lord. I see, there are really a lot of peach blossoms in our master's life!"
Her remarks made Ah Ying make up her mind, and she got up and said, "Okay, then I'll go talk to my mother-in-law now." If her old man agrees, you will serve tea to your mother-in-law today, have a round room at night, and go with him tomorrow!
It's just the same, what about Asa? You have martial arts and experienced snowy days, but she hasn't. Besides, she's still young, it's too dangerous! If only you were the only one to go, would you?"
Trance gritted her teeth and knelt down: "Madam, it's a big deal that I'm pretending to be a little girl. As long as you can be by your side, what is this? If I do this, I am worthy of my father (the king of Fengning County)!"
When Li Dan got home, he saw the red on the door, and he couldn't help but wonder what happy things were at home? As a result, he was pulled directly in front of Xiao Qian by the housekeeper Xiu Er (Yu Gan's house was taken care of by Lu Jiu's sworn brother A Bing), and only then did he learn that he was going to have a happy event for him and Trance Er.
"The big war is coming, and you will go on the expedition tomorrow, so everything will be done simply." Aunt Qian pointed to Yang Dayi, who was standing aside with a smile: "I specially called him here to give you a witness and preside over this ceremony."
"Why did you rush it so much? I'm afraid the battle will only be a few months, and I'll be back when it's over!"
As soon as Li Dan finished speaking, Xiao Qian shook his head: "This is not guaranteed, besides, I heard that the girl on the grassland is enthusiastic and unrestrained, in case there is a night to drill into your bed, it is very reassuring to have someone to follow me."
"Where is there anyone who gets under the covers?" Li Dan couldn't cry or laugh, and suddenly realized, "Who is following? Isn't it?"
"Yes, she's been through the winter on the snowy mountains, and now she's learned martial arts. With her by your side, we can all rest assured!"
Xiao Qian said, pulling with his hand, so that Li Dan understood that this "we" included his two daughters-in-law and a peach girl. It can't be helped, it seems that only the minority obeys the majority.
When everyone heard about Li Danna's concubine, they all came to congratulate him. Although it is limited to these people in the hall, there are dozens of people (the hall is temporarily closed to the public), and it is very lively.
But Li Danke was bitter, and when he returned to the happy room, he saw the beauty in red and jade, but he couldn't come arbitrarily, he would be tomorrow
I have to leave early, and I don't dare to let Trance be hurt too hard.
So after a little intimacy, the two hugged each other and lay down, and they stayed up until the second half of the night in a whisper. After staring at him for two hours, he was called by Ah Li.
After washing up in a hurry, the two went to Mrs. Tai's (Xiao Qian's) room to say goodbye, and Li Dan held hands with A-Ying and Ning'er and said some words, and then reluctantly parted and sent them to the door.
Iron Dao and forty guards had already finished the procession, and Li Dan originally wanted to ride a horse, but he got into the car after taking care of Trance Er.
The group started in the early light of dawn, and under the gaze of relatives and the words of farewell, they followed the road to the north. They turned into Guide North Street at the North Drum Tower, then exited Andingmen and Anhe Bridge, and rushed to the established meeting point.
Li Dan held Trance's hand and did not speak. He went from "Xiao Yuanba" to the deputy envoy of the inspection, and then to the regimental training envoy, and finally obtained the official position of the Chinese scribe Wailang by virtue of his fame in exploring flowers, and now he went out of Beijing as the chief envoy of the Liao Zhujun Army, completing the first major change in his life.
He finally went from being an idle man to the imperial court, and it is even said that some people called him a foreign assistant and a foreign minister behind his back. Although Li Dan didn't know if the Liao War could be won as he wished, he was now sure that he was no longer an ordinary person, or even an ordinary official.
He gained the trust of some of the emperor's court nobles, and he was close to many warriors, and he was infinitely closer to success.
The sun shone through the glass window into the car, and he narrowed his eyes slightly. In the eighteen years since his rebirth, he has done a lot, and it seems that he has done nothing, and then Hula Xiazi has appeared at the highest point of imperial power.
Li Dan looked at the trance beside him, this was his latest woman. Having a woman represented wealth and influence in feudal society, and it seems that he has done it all.
He felt trance-like and incredible. Looking back on myself, I am not perfect, and I even have some shortcomings. He remembered that the ship that chased Chen Meng'er and almost killed Zhao Baogen with a stick.
Now this guy should be waiting with a team of pterodactyl guards at the Xianghe ferry to meet him, Li Dan couldn't help but smile. yes, what a reckless boy that is!
I really don't know how he became cautious, is it because of the command regiment practice?
Suddenly, I remembered my uncle Li Su, and finally heard the news that he was depressed and had made up his mind to become a Taoist priest.
Li Dan thought that he should actually thank his uncle, if he hadn't colluded with his aunt to force him and his aunt to set up another door, he wouldn't have thought of going to Fan Xianzun, and maybe there would be no people's husband team and group practice.
Life is wonderful, and the choice of various opportunities will affect the choice of personal future. Li Dan now begins to feel that he doesn't need to always think back to the unfortunate things and injustices he received in his previous life, and that it is the most realistic to see the road clearly and live in the present.
In fact, what about those things that we encounter in this world? There are gains and losses in everything, and there are losses and gains, thinking about it this way, Li Dan feels that there is really no need to be angry with Li Su.
"Childe, I'm going to the Xianghe Ferry soon!" Mao Zai opened the small window in front of him and said loudly.
"Got it!" After Li Dan finished speaking, he stopped Brother Mao from closing the window: "Let's open it for a while to let in the air." The wind that brought in at the beginning of summer with a damp vapor made him feel comfortable.
Looking out the window, the banks of the river were covered with vast green fields, and the carriage began to descend, with a small group of riders standing silently and neatly in front of the wooden docks, white sails, and a noisy crowd.
The people around them all walked away, as if they had some magical power. This is the team of the Pterodactyl Guard.
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