Jiangcheng, Nangong family.

"Hurry up, hang this up......"

Two housekeepers holding red ribbons hurriedly ran over.

"The lantern is moved a little to the left, it's a little crooked......"

Stepping on the bamboo ladder, the family hurriedly leaned over to move the big red lantern that had just been hung.

"Put the flowers on these sides, you must look good......"

One by one, the young maids held the delicate flowers that had been taken out of the flower room in the back house, and they followed the command of their voices to place the flower pots.

"Well, it's almost ...... Take back those two pots of powder, go to my east courtyard and bring the two pots of red peonies raised by my wife, and put them here......"

The maids agreed, looked at each other helplessly and with a smile, and could only obey the instructions.

"The red silk on the plaque was moved to the right, and the ribbons hanging down on both sides were not aligned......"

A red silk had been hanging for almost an hour, and the servant could only smile bitterly and readjust the length of the red silk as instructed.

The man who was commanding everyone to work was a handsome boy with a body as long as jade.

He was about the age of his early twenties, wearing a new scarlet robe with dark patterns and a long sword with a green sheath at his waist.

He is the eldest son of the Nangong family, with the compound surname Nangong, and the first double character.

Nangong No. 1, what a domineering name, there are a few people in the rivers and lakes who dare to call themselves No. 1.

can be extremely incommensurate with this name, the eldest son of the Nangong family is a gentle and elegant person, usually even if he is kind to his subordinates, and he has never beaten or scolded his subordinates for anything.

But today, our eldest son seems a little cramped and uneasy.

"The ...... of the Eldest Prince"

The old butler, who was hunched on his back, came over, and he called out to Nangong No. 1, who was standing in the courtyard commanding everyone, and the latter immediately turned his head.

"Uncle Qian, after a while, when everyone is done cleaning up, give each of them some rewards, today is a big day for our Nangong family to celebrate after all......"

Nangong No. 1 was the old housekeeper who looked at him and respected the old housekeeper as an elder in his heart, so he hurriedly bowed down to show respect.

"Haha, okay, I remember ......"

Nangong Qian smiled and nodded, but he quickly lowered his voice and said:

"The head of the house asked you to go, and it was in the study of the back house."

Nangong Yi was a meticulous person, he probably guessed something from the old butler's face and words, but he didn't say anything, just nodded and said that he knew.

After he handed over the affairs in the courtyard to the old housekeeper to take over, he came to the study of the head of the Nangong family in the back house alone, and after knocking on the door, he went in and saw his father's gloomy face.

It's over, and it's ten out of ten that the second brother is in trouble.

Although Nangong No. 1 thought so in his heart, he still smiled with a spring breeze on the surface:

"Daddy, why did you call me here?"

"Son, this marriage between my Nangong family and the Chu family is really extraordinary......

The head of the Nangong family sighed, in the eyes of others, he has always been a cold-faced and majestic existence, but in front of his own son, he still has to take off his disguise:

"Although our family's status in the rivers and lakes is not low, because the ancestors of the Nangong family are afraid that future generations will go deep into the rivers and lakes, they have left an iron training ...... that they are not allowed to practice martial arts."

"But if you are in the rivers and lakes and you don't know martial arts, our Nangong family will inevitably be bullied by others...... That's why Daddy plans to marry the most powerful Chu family in Jiangzhou, right? ”

Nangong No. 1 naturally understood what his father was thinking, so he said the plan of the head of the Nangong family along the way.

"yes...... Alas, it's a pity that you are already married, otherwise how could such a big thing as marrying the Chu family fall on your second brother, if he has half of your transparency and intelligence, I won't have to worry about my father......"

The head of the Nangong family rubbed his sideburns with a headache, and his two sons seemed to grow upside down.

The eldest son, Nangong No. 1, is smart and transparent, and he has reproduced the almost lost skills of forging back-grain knives in the Nangong family, and he even used the method of forging knives to deduce the method of forging swords.

Nangong No. 1, the green sheath long sword he wore around his waist was called "Qingxiao", which was a sword with sword patterns forged by himself using the deduced sword-casting method.

As for the second son......

That's really not doing anything serious.,I don't learn the method of forging a knife.,I don't love reading.,What I'm best at is sneaking out to play.,What goes up the tree to pick up the bird's nest and goes down to the river to fish.,That's really proficient in everything.。

In order to educate his second son, the head of the Nangong family broke several rattans, but it had no effect at all, and he intensified it.

Today is the day when the second son of the Nangong family and the eldest lady of the Chu family are married.

It's a real headache that his bastard son doesn't know where to sneak away.

"Dad, the second brother is still young, it would be good if he grew up a little more......"

"He's still young? You've been helping my father and me with the family when he's his age, look at him again......"

The head of the Nangong family slapped the table, blowing his beard and glaring, which was a little funny.

"On such an important day today, I dared to sneak out, I sent more than a dozen people out to look for him, but I didn't find ......"

"Good good ......"

Nangong No. 1 could only shake his head helplessly, and before he finished speaking, he saw his father glaring at him:

"What a good! When that little bunny comes back, you see that I don't break his dog's leg......"

Nangong first thought that this is a little rabbit cub and a dog's leg, so what have you become? But naturally he didn't dare to say it, so he could only say comfortingly:

"I mean...... Daddy, you dissipate your anger first, I'll go find it myself immediately, today is a good day to celebrate, and when Uncle Chu comes, if you see your displeasure, it will be even more troublesome if you misunderstand......"

"Well, you're right...... Don't be angry, don't be angry, when you get the second child back, you give me a beating of the board first, and then put him in the attic, and starve him for a few days......"

The head of the Nangong family pinched his forehead and said.

"Daddy, today is a good day, it's not suitable for beating people, besides, if Uncle Chu wants to meet his son-in-law and beat his second son to the point of blooming, how can he meet people......"

Nangong No. 1 doesn't dare to be called the first in other aspects, but it is definitely the first in terms of Shunmao.

He can make his father's anger go away, and he won't let his brother's ass bloom.

"Then tomorrow, after today's wedding banquet, you give me a hard beating of the board......"

"Tomorrow is the river god sacrifice, do you want the river god and his old man to see that our family is not harmonious, it is better to wait for the river god sacrifice for three days......"

Nangong No. 1 can always find a reason to persuade his father.

The latter could only nod in agreement, sighed and said:

"Then write down this board for him first, and then hit it after the river god sacrifice......"

Write it down, it's wiped here in Nangong No. 1. When the head of the Nangong family turned around and asked, he said that he had already beaten him. Alas, you must also remember to confess to your brother, so as not to leak out.

"Okay, okay, make a note first, and I'll beat him hard when it's done...... If Daddy doesn't have anything else to do, I'll go find my second brother first. ”

Nangong bowed for the first time, and after getting his father's consent, he withdrew from the study.

He didn't go out at all, but turned a corner and walked directly into the back house, until he came to the door of a quiet courtyard.

This place is rarely visited, not because it is remote, but because people are not allowed to enter this small courtyard.

This is the former residence of Mrs. Nangong, that is, the wife of the head of the Nangong family, and the place where the first mother of Nangong lived before her death.

Mrs. Nangong died in childbirth when she gave birth to her second son, and since then, the head of the Nangong family has sealed this place and does not allow people to enter, but she sometimes comes here to sit for a while, and the cleaning is also done by the head of the Nangong family himself.

Nangong pushed the door in first, and then crept to an old pomegranate tree as big as an umbrella in the middle of the courtyard.

As soon as I looked up, I saw a pair of rickety feet.

He struck the feet with his scabbard, and the other man immediately retracted his feet back into the branches in fright, and the leaves of the pomegranate tree shook for a while.

"Second brother, you're hiding here again."

Nangong stood under the tree for the first time, carefully caressing the rough bark of the pomegranate tree, his eyes full of reminiscence.

This pomegranate tree was planted by Mrs. Nangong herself, which means that "the people of the Nangong family can have more children and more blessings", and it has been more than 20 years.

This second brother of his own, since he was a child, secretly ran here to hide when he encountered something unpleasant, maybe for him, this is the closest place to his mother who has never met.

"Scared me to death, it turned out to be a big brother."

The little boy on the branch pouted, plucked a leaf and put it under his nose.

"Who else knows you're here but me."

Nangong Yi sighed, he raised his head and looked at his younger brother:

"What's the matter, who upset you......"

"Big brother...... I don't want to get married......"

The boy pouted and shook his head like a rattle.

"Why? You must know that you always want to get married, and besides, this time it's just a marriage, who made you get married now......"

Nangong Yi couldn't help but laugh when he looked at his younger brother's wrinkled little face, he could only say patiently.

"Then why do you want me to marry the eldest lady of the Chu family...... Big brother, can you help me get married, you go and marry that eldest lady of the Chu family......"

The boy jumped off the branch and landed right in his brother's arms.

"The second brother has grown up, and the elder brother can't hold you anymore."

Nangong Yi put his younger brother on the ground and tapped lightly on the top of his head with his fingers, which made the latter hurriedly hug his head:

"Besides, my brother is already married, how can I marry that eldest lady of the Chu family again."

"Oops, big brother. People say in books that the big heroes are all three wives and four concubines, and they are bohemian, why can't you marry another one......"

The boy grabbed the corner of his brother's coat and shook it vigorously.

That's true...... Then go tell your sister-in-law. ”

Nangong No. 1 didn't refute it, and smiled and fooled his younger brother to find trouble with his daughter-in-law, in addition to Nangong No. 1 in this family, his younger brother was afraid that Nangong Young Lady would be alone.

Mainly, no one in the Nangong family knows martial arts, but the young lady of Nangong is the first chivalrous girl in Nangong to meet on the rivers and lakes, not to mention anything else, with her martial arts, she single-handedly beat the entire Nangong family.

Once the second son of Nangong made a mistake, the head of the Nangong family and the first Nangong happened to be not at home, and the affairs of the family were decided by the young lady of Nangong. The young lady didn't beat him or scold him, so she hung him on the eaves of the highest attic of the Nangong family with a rope.

Let the second son shout and shout for a whole day, no one paid attention.

Since that beating, the second son has seen his sister-in-law's legs trembling, he respects his brother, and he is afraid of his sister-in-law from the bottom of his bones.

"Uh, sister-in-law...... Sister-in-law is the best, brother, you can't have two hearts. ”

The boy shuddered, and his little face, which had just stretched, wrinkled again.

"Didn't you persuade me to marry another one just now, I think it's good, I'll go tell your sister-in-law in a while, and tell her that it's your idea......"

"Woo, don't, big brother, spare me, sister-in-law will hang me up again......"

The boy's face turned white with fright.

Nangong first patted his brother's little head, pulled him out of the courtyard, and then instructed in his mouth:

"Okay, be obedient, go change into new clothes, and wait for your father-in-law and daughter-in-law to come to the door...... If you don't obey, I'll go find your sister-in-law. ”

"Okay."

The boy nodded with a pout.

Nangong first grabbed his younger brother's shoulders and took him back to the east courtyard where he lived, and then asked the maid to quickly bring the clothes that had been prepared a long time ago and put them on for his younger brother himself.

"Yo, I found it, where did this little ghost go?"

A woman in a red dress walked in.

She didn't apply powder, and her hair was just tied up with a hairpin.

But her skin is like jade, and there is a heroic spirit in her willow eyebrows and starry eyes, if she is a woman dressed as a man, she must be a heroic young general.

A long knife with a red sheath hung from his waist.

The name of the knife "Hongxia" is also from the first hand of Nangong, and it is the second best long knife in the two hundred years of the Nangong family by the head of the Nangong family.

The best is the back-grain knife handed down from the ancestors of the Nangong family.

This Hongxia was forged by Nangong No. 1, and it already has a reverse pattern that has spread half from the head of the knife, so it can be said that it is half a reverse pattern knife.

The woman walked over, she pinched the young man's pink cheek, and said with a smile:

"The little ghost is going to get married......"

"Woo, sister-in-law is so ......"

The boy was pinched on the cheek, revealing a smile that was about to cry.

"Why are you here? Didn't you get a good rest in your room......"

Nangong stretched out his hand for the first time to support his wife's arm, and the latter waved his hand down, and then straightened her waist, her lower abdomen was slightly raised, and it seemed that she was already three months pregnant.

"I'm not at the point where I can't walk and I want you to help me......"

"Be careful, it's not good if you get the tire gas......"

Nangong looked at his wife with a soft gaze, although even if she was pregnant, she could beat herself with one hand.

"Okay, it's time for our little groom to go to the front hall, the people of the Chu family have already come......"

Mrs. Nangong asked the maid to lead the young man to the front hall, the latter reluctantly glanced at her brother, and Nangong No. 1 could only shrug his shoulders and make a helpless expression.

The boy came to the door, and suddenly turned his head and said:

"Sister-in-law, the eldest brother just said that he wanted to marry another ......"

After speaking, he didn't need a maid to guide the way, he carried the hem of his clothes and ran out.

"Okay......"

The woman put her hand on the scabbard and said with a smile:

"South! Palace! Clause! One!!! ”

"Linglong, listen to me tell you, it's not—ah!!!"