After making an appointment with Zhang Xiaobao, Wang Zhongxiao followed Master Yu and led his large team of people to his courtyard in Bean Sprouts Hutong.

This is a one-acre courtyard house located in the East Second Ring Road of Beijing! Although this house cannot be compared with Wang Zhongxiao's residence in the Yamen of the Qujing General Army, the latter is not only larger and more spacious, but also newly built, and the decoration and the guys inside are all new. And Wang Zhongxiao's house in Beijing's bean sprouts alley is an ordinary, dilapidated and old courtyard house, which cannot be compared with the renovated house of the dim sum Zhang family and the gunpowder Guo family on the same alley, let alone the house of the Cao family. It's almost the most dilapidated house in the entire bean sprouts alley...... This bean sprouts alley is full of people who are coated with white flags by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and they are not bad for money!

However, Wang Zhongxiao doesn't care about the dilapidated house, he is rare in this area, in fact, he still wants to move a few miles west in the future!

When Wang Zhongxiao once again rolled off the horse, he was looking at his "compound" with a smile. Master Yu had already smiled and went up to pat the gate, the gate of the courtyard suddenly opened, and a short and fat middle-aged man with a face full of spring breeze and a small hat in green clothes came out of the door. ”

"Second Master Li, it's me, Yu Deshui!" Master Yu obviously recognized the man, and with a smile on his face, he made a gesture.

The fat man was stunned for a moment, and recognized that it was Master Yu, and hurriedly returned the salute, and then said excitedly: "Master Yu, it's really you!" Second son, have they arrived? ”

"It's here, it's here, it's all here...... Second Master Li, take a look, aren't they all here? As he spoke, Master Yu pointed behind him.

The fat man took a look, and saw Wang Zhongxiao, who was tall and tall, and then rushed out of the door without saying a word, and came to the second son of Wang.

Although this fat man was dressed as a subordinate, when he saw Wang Zhongxiao, he didn't ask for a thousand greetings, but came up to hug and hug, and said in the tone of an elder: "Zhongxiao, you are finally back!" I miss my uncle, are you okay in Yunnan all these years? Suffered a lot, right? Ouch, they've grown so tall! ”

This fat man turned out to be Wang Fuchen's younger brother, named Li Fuhan...... Good name! Auxiliary Han Room. It's a pity that he only has a good name, but he doesn't have good ability, so he can't help the Han family, so he can only touch the light of his brother Wang Fuchen, and become Wang Fuchen's big butler, managing a family business in Beijing for Wang Fuchen.

Although Li Fuhan has no great skills, he is still a good person, when Wang Fuchen followed Hong Chengchou on the expedition, Wang Zhongxiao was still a little doll, and his mother died early because of postpartum wind, so Wang Zhongxiao was entrusted to Li Fuhan and his wife. Later, the two couples were worried about Wang Zhongxiao, the little devil, and finally they couldn't teach it well, so they wrote a letter to Wang Fuchen, asking Wang Fuchen to send Master Yu to Beijing and take Wang Zhongxiao to Yunnan to be taught by Wang Fuchen himself. But the two couples were still worried that Wang Zhongxiao would have no partners in Yunnan alone, so they let their son Li Jixiang, that is, Xiao Lizi, go with them.

Although Wang Zhongxiao changed his soul, he still remembered that this uncle was kind to himself, so he hugged him and replied with a smile: "Okay, I'm fine!" Uncle, look at this spear, it's all six feet long! ”

"Really? Let me see. ”

Wang Zhongxiao immediately took off the spear he was carrying and showed it to his uncle.

It's really a spear of six feet, converted into meters, that's five meters! It is difficult for such a long gun to be used by infantry, let alone on horseback? Therefore, Wang Fuchen, Wang Zhongxiao, father and son have to practice the "Yang family gun" from the second gun, add it little by little, and reach the top of the sixth gun.

And if the knight who can make the six spears practice the "Yang family gun", he must be a master!

Wang Zhongxiao was less than eighteen years old, and he was already able to use a spear of six feet, which shows how high his talent for martial arts is. However, after Wang Zhongxiao changed his soul, he was also much more sensible, and after showing his uncle the spear, he immediately called his cousin Li Jixiang over, and then praised him in front of his uncle: "Uncle, Jixiang has also improved a lot in the past two years, and you see that the spear he made has also reached one foot and four!" ”

"Really?" Li Fuhan turned his head to look at his son, his face full of joy. When he was talking to Wang Zhongxiao just now, he divided his snacks and found his own son from the few people who followed Wang Zhongxiao - although his own son was short and fat, he was tiger-headed, and he liked it when he looked at it.

"Daddy, the boy has kowtowed to you!" Li Jixiang had already pounced on him with tears in his eyes and kowtowed, "Dad, where is my mother?" Is my mother okay? ”

"Okay, okay, of course," Li Fuhan looked at his son and was a little tearful, and said while helping him up, "Your mother and your sister are fine, they are both at home...... Ouch, why are you still standing outside the door? Look at my foolishness, hurry up, hurry up, get in the house, get in the house. Kid, Chunni...... Loyalty, filial piety and auspiciousness, they have arrived! ”

After saying this, he pulled one in one hand and dragged Wang Zhongxiao and Li Jixiang into the gate. As for Wang Zhongxian, Wang Zhongyi, Wang An, and Wang Quan, who came with Wang Zhongxiao, they were all Wang Fuchen's subordinates who helped his son Zhang Luo when he was in Yunnan, and they were all the children of Wang Fuchen's personal soldiers, and Li Fuhan didn't know them, so he didn't greet them one by one.

Wang Zhongxiao followed Li Fuhan into the gate, inside the gate is the front yard of this two-way courtyard, the south side of the front yard is a row of inverted seats, that is, a wall against the south, the doors and windows are open to the north, because the lighting is not good, so it is generally for servants to live or use to entertain guests, and the toilet of the courtyard will also be placed in this row of inverted houses. But now the row of inverted seats are empty, and Li Fuhan and his wife and their daughter Chunni live in the west wing.

On the opposite side of the inverted seat is a dilapidated hanging door and a verandah that separates the front yard from the courtyard. The door of the hanging flower has been opened, and there are two women wearing flag costumes standing inside the door, one of them is a middle-aged woman, like Li Fuhan, she is chubby, but her facial features are very upright, and her skin is quite white. And the other woman is a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, white and clean, with a round face, a little baby fat, quite likable, blinking a pair of big eyes staring at Wang Zhongxiao!

Wang Zhongxiao had already recognized this middle-aged woman as his aunt Li Zhang, and the little girl was of course his cousin Li Chunni...... My cousin can't talk about it!

Thinking of this, Wang Zhongxiao strode forward, saluted his aunt again, and said, "Nephew Zhongxiao, I've seen my aunt." ”

Li Zhang's returned a "squatting An". Because Wang Fuchen recognized her stepfather, her aunt has no name and no share, and she can't be an elder in front of Wang Zhongxiao. After returning the salute, he said to his daughter: "Chunni, this is your cousin's loyalty and filial piety." ”

"Chunni has a greeting for you." The little girl also followed her mother's example and gave Wang Zhongxiao a squatting ceremony.

Wang Zhongxiao hugged his fists and said with a smile: "I really didn't expect that Chunni is a big girl...... Uncle, aunt, Chun Nicole is married? ”

"Not yet," Li Fuhan said with a smile, "There are a lot of people who come to the door to propose marriage, the weaving Cao family, the Zhang family in the imperial dining room, and the gunpowder Guo family have all asked someone to come to them, and Xiao Nizi is about to pick and choose." ”

Listening to Li Fatzi's words, Wang Zhongxiao was a little surprised, although his cousin looked okay, but that's it, much worse than Wu Xiaowu, why is she so popular? Is it because you have a Beijing hukou? But Wu Xiaosuo of Kunming's household registration, her grandfather is Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi!

But Wang Zhongxiao just thought about it and didn't ask too much...... Maybe it's not that fragrant, but people just feel very good about themselves?

But Li Jixiang, who came with him, was a man who didn't have a door, and opened his mouth to ask: "Dad, why is my sister so fragrant?" She doesn't look very beautiful, and our family isn't even a wrapper, so she shouldn't have much dowry to accompany, right? ”

When Li Zhangshi and Li Chunni heard this, they were a little unhappy, and their mouths pursed. However, Li Fuhan smiled and explained to his son: "Jixiang, it is precisely because our family is not in the flag that Chunni is popular." Our family is in the flag, and Chunni should go to the draft. Aunt Xiaoyu of the Zhang family in the imperial dining room diagonally opposite the door was drafted into the palace at the age of fifteen, and she has been eight or nine years old...... It's twenty-five when it's released! It's all old! Even if you are old, you may not be able to take the turn of the children of the clothed family, and the daughters of the clothed people can get married, and they can also be concubines for the nobles of the Eight Banners. However, the daughters of the banner family will not marry the clothed person, and the daughters of the Hanmin family in the outer city will not marry the clothed person. If the family background is not good, the appearance is not good, and the coater looks down on it. You say, can our Chunni not be fragrant? ”

Wang Zhongxiao finally understood why Li Chunni was so fragrant, and why Zhang Xiaobao, who had not seen him for many years, was so close to him. It turns out that the coaters of the Internal Affairs Office also have something unpleasant - it is too difficult to marry a daughter-in-law with a Beijing hukou!

After understanding what was going on, Wang Zhongxiao said to Li Chunni with a smile: "Chunni, Ming'er Cao Yin, Zhang Xiaobao, and Guo Jinbao will all come to our house, you have to take a good look, you have to take a closer look!" ”

Chunni's face flushed at Wang Zhongxiao's words, and she lowered her head and just said "um" softly.