Tianbao six years, January 14th.

Chang'an City, Wannian County, Shengpingfang.

The morning light at dawn gently shone on the bricks and whitewashed walls of the Du Mansion, which seemed quiet and serene.

Du Wulang stretched his waist and walked through the corridor, hoping that this long day would pass sooner and sooner into the night.

Because as soon as the time passes, it is the Shangyuan Festival, and Chang'an City has no curfew for three consecutive days, and the city is full of lanterns......

In the main room, Lu Fengniang got up and couldn't wait to prop up the window and look out.

The snow has stopped since the third day of the new year, and the sky is cloudless and the sun is mild today.

"Cold."

Du Youlin was changing clothes, but he was old but not very good, and his movements were clumsy.

Lu Fengniang had no choice but to lower the window and step forward to put on clothes for him, babbling in her mouth.

"Lang Jun, there is a strange thing, last night the concubine listened to the discussion of the servants, there are rumors in Chang'an City that Yang Laogou lost a son in the early years, and now he is looking for it."

Hugh and the old man mentioned him...... Slow, what son are you looking for? ”

"Just before Yuan Zhengri, an old man went to Wannian County to report the case, saying that Dongyue was robbed on the official road and was detained for more than a month before escaping. claimed to be an old servant of the Yang family of Gongyang in Hongnong County, and kept crying that his family's Erlang had been sold. Lang Jun guessed how? The Erlang he said was no different from Xue Bai in our family. ”

Du Youlin frowned and asked, "What else?" ”

"That's all the servants hear."

"You woman, you used to be gossipy and noisy, but that's all you hear when you make serious inquiries."

As long as she doesn't beat her son, Lu Fengniang never gets angry with Du Youlin, and asks softly: "Then the concubine will inquire again?" ”

"Don't talk nonsense at home, let the slaves and maids take care of their mouths."

"Could it be that Xue Bai is really ......"

Du Youlin waved his hand and interrupted her, as if he was about to open his mouth to analyze two sentences, but at the end, he only put on a deep face.

Lu Fengniang asked again: "Xue Bai lives in the back house, Lang Jun has a way to use it earlier, and this will be on the Yuan Festival." ”

"There's no hurry." Du Youlin said, "The timing has not been coincidental, wait a minute." ”

"Why not coincidence?"

"We'll talk about it when the maid is gone. Since she is here, her daughters will not pass, so what's the hurry? ”

Lu Fengniang listened to it, and felt that it really made sense.

Du Youlin was going to the study, so he pushed the door open, and just happened to see Xue Bai pushing the door out of the house on the east side.

He suddenly thought of something, turned around, stopped talking to Lu Fengniang, and finally coughed twice, and said: "You go and talk to Erniang, the old man wants to entertain guests in Fengwei Building in the morning, a private room is enough, and it doesn't hurt if it's not a meal." ”

"Lang Jun? Now this Fengwei Lou private room, the royal relatives are all ......"

"Don't I have this face?"

Du Youlin snorted lightly and walked out with his hands in his hands.

He knows that things may not be done, and many things are not said too early before they are done, so as not to make people laugh.

But that Yang Laogou couldn't take a concubine and came to recognize his son, which is definitely not a good thing. This time, I still asked the Tuo Du clan to give a voice and protect a few children in case of trouble.

~~

When Xue Bai got up, the Kyauknu was still sleeping soundly in the ear room.

I could still hear her snoring.

This maid looked fierce and vicious at first, but she broke away from the control of the right minister's mansion, and gradually revealed her true nature, delicious and sleepy.

In the past ten days before and after the New Year's Festival, he has been doing the same boring morning exercises day after day, and the Du family sisters have gone to Fengwei Building early, so she has relaxed her vigilance a little.

Leaving the house lightly, Xue Bai stayed under the porch for a while, and saw Du Youlin walking away proudly.

Afterwards, Du Yan came from the verandah.

She always went out early, and Xue Bai couldn't help asking, "Today hasn't passed yet?" ”

"On the Shangyuan Festival, I wait to see the lights at night, sleep more in the morning, and stay up at night."

Du Yan said, seeing that the slave was not there, she had the intention of promoting narrowness, and laughed quietly: "Hey, there is a son-in-law of Xiangfu who has been lost here, unattended, and he is not afraid of being stolen by thieves?" ”

She had been depressed for many days in her heart, and finally found an opportunity to vent.

But when Xue Bai turned around and met her eyes, Du Yan realized from his deep eyes that this was a man with strong blood, and this joke seemed to be teasing.

On second thought, what about flirting?

What if you steal it?

The two got closer, and Du Yan hooked her fingers, hooked Xue Bai's fingers, and stuffed a paper roll over.

"Erniang!"

Lu Fengniang just walked out of the main room and waved on the steps.

"Come, I have something to tell you."

Du Yan smiled slightly and walked away.

The door of the wing room opened, and Kyauknu came out rubbing his eyes, standing behind Xue Bai and sniffing, like a watchdog.

If there is nothing, you can smell the faint Suhe fragrance on his body.

"Huh."

She was very unhappy and said: "You are a man, you don't even have a place to stand, how can you be worthy of the prime minister's mansion in this dilapidated mansion." ”

"There's no hurry." Xue Baiyun lightly swayed a Baduanjin movement, "Maybe soon I will have my own mansion." ”

"That's right, otherwise would Seventeen Niang still be able to live in this place?"

"Oh? Seventeen mothers? ”

Kyauknu woke up, realizing that he was too relaxed.

……

In the morning, Xue Bai was sweating, preparing to bathe and change clothes, fetching hot water, standing in front of the wooden barrel and unbuckling his belt, he turned his head to look at Kyauknu.

"Want to see it?"

"Huh."

Kyauknu sneered and went out.

Xue Bai naturally took out the note given by Du Yan from his sleeve and looked at it.

Recently, Fengwei Lou has a powerful banquet every day, in fact, many chores are Deng Tong and Du Wulang are working on it, and the Du family sisters do not have too many henchmen to use, so they often inquire about some secrets in Chang'an City in the dark.

For example, a few years ago, they learned that Zhang Quyi of Shangzhu State planned to marry his daughter as the crown prince Liangdi.

At present, the East Palace is in danger, there must be a secret behind this move, and I think there is a powerful person who will pull Li Heng along.

The note was spread out, the words were written very small, and the strokes were very graceful, which was Du Cheng's handwriting.

As you can imagine, last night, the two sisters sifted through hundreds of pieces of information, sorted out the information they thought was very important, and copied it down.

"Yang Shenjin took a break for seven days, and went to Shaolingyuan every day, or it was rumored that because of the blood of the grass man in the ancestral tomb, he and Shi Jingzhong practiced to exorcise evil spirits."

Xue Bai frowned, a little unintelligible.

But even his white body could recognize the obvious wrongness.

Why was the saint angry because of Mingzhu's words? It should not be Yang Shenjin who gave a concubine, but Yang Shenjin who interacted with a demon monk, who had the ability to fight cocks in front of the god chicken boy and won seven games in a row.

After this incident, he rushed to Yuan Zhengri to rest, giving Yang Shenjin a chance to relieve the anger of the Son of Heaven.

Dare to associate with demon monks?

Throwing the note in his hand into the water and crushing it casually, Xue Bai closed his eyes and thought about it in his mind.

According to his original plan, the matter would have been simply over if the Right Prime Minister's Mansion found a good door, but he encountered such a stinky and hard one.

It didn't go well every time.

~~

Lu Fengniang talked to Du Yan, and finally chose a fan in front of the bronze mirror, ready for a night trip.

saw Qinglan walk in.

Lu Fengniang knew Qinglan's intentions early, considering that Xue Bai had added twenty slaves to the Du family and given Fengwei Lou three percent of the profits, she had already taken out her body deed and prepared to make arrangements after the Shangyuan Festival.

At this time, seeing that this little maid was sullen, she couldn't help but ridicule.

"Let you help Xue Bai comb his hair, how did you come back?"

"Back to his mother's words, Xue Langjun has his own slaves and maids to comb his hair and change his clothes."

"This evil woman."

Lu Fengniang waved her fan, Zhizhu was in her hand, and said with a smile: "Let's go and bring the plum cake sent by my mother's family." ”

This has already been busy with many things, and the mother of the head of the house entered the East Chamber with pastries in her hand, and her eyes lit up when she saw Xue Bai, who was wearing a brand-new robe.

She couldn't help but think that it would be nice if she could have another daughter with Lang Jun twelve or thirteen years ago.

"Feel free to deal with breakfast and lunch, right?" Put the plum cake on the table and invite the slaves to eat together, Lu Fengniang and Xue Bai chatted casually, "How do you arrange it today?" ”

"I'm going to go to the Right Prime Minister's Mansion in a while, and I should be serving the banquet until the ugly is lit."

"So late? Fortunately, there will be a lantern all night, tonight we will take a family night tour, you are busy, you will go to Xingqing Palace to find us outside, Jingzhao Du's lantern, a question will know. ”

"Okay."

Lu Fengniang was about to leave after speaking, and Xue Bai hurriedly sent him off.

Out of the house, Lu Fengniang lowered her voice slightly.

"By the way, Yuan Zhengri, you have also seen my cousin, he will also take his daughter on a trip tonight, and then he will also take a look at Fan Yang Lu's lanterns, which are like flowers and jade, dignified and decent, and will be much better than those rich families who have made a windfall, those lanterns are big and bright, but they have no background."

Xue Bai understood, and responded with a polite smile.

After breakfast, he took Kyauknu to the Right Prime Minister's Mansion.

~~

Xue Bai's gift has already been prepared, and it is an abacus.

The abacus is something that existed in ancient times, but today's system is still slightly different from the beaded abacus, and Xue Bai has improved it slightly.

He has been rich lately, and he uses the finest small leaf red sandalwood, and the abacus is separated by a beam, with two beads at the upper end and five at the lower end, and a line of small characters engraved on the frame—

"The clouds are in the blue sky, and the water is in the bottle."

used this poem, because Xue Bai thought of it when he was looking for a craftsman to make it, and he had a hunch that Li Linfu and the emperor would definitely like it very much.

Monarchs and ministers, the Son of Heaven and the Right Prime Minister should be high, and the water should be in the bottle, not swaying at will.

When Li Linfu presented this calculation, the sage could think of his great contribution to the Tang Dynasty's finances, which had the same effect as Yang Zhao's words of ten thousand gold, and they were all happy.

Really.

When Xue Bai arrived at the Right Prime Minister's Mansion, Li Linfu saw his gift in his busy schedule, and his eyes lit up.

He raised his hand, silenced many red-robed high-ranking officials, and intently stroked the well-carved small characters, and read them twice in a row.

"Good artistic conception, just this sentence, far-reaching artistic conception."

Looking away from the abacus and then looking at Xue Bai, Li Linfu had a rare sense of approval in his eyes, and smiled at everyone.

"This son has put his heart into it."

"Congratulations to the right minister, Shangyuan got a good gift."

After all, it is the Shangyuan Festival, and even the Right Prime Minister's Mansion has a few more festive atmospheres.

Li Linfu waved his sleeves and instructed Xue Bai: "The children and grandchildren are all in the west courtyard, you go over to accompany each other, and then go to the banquet with the prime minister in the evening......

In fact, when Li Linfu reached this age, he stayed up late with the saint every year on the Shangyuan Festival, and he couldn't bear it anymore.

But this is a habit that the saints have cultivated since they were young and frivolous.

Soon after he reigned in the world, hundreds of officials participated in the "Watching the day to be entertaining, the twilight to rest, and the night to do it, I am afraid that it will not be beneficial to the holy pilgrimage", hoping that the saint would play in the day if he wanted to play, and everyone would not be able to accompany him at night.

It didn't change back then, and it's even more impossible to change now.

Even if they are over sixty years old, they have to come to Xingqing Palace at midnight to have a banquet, and when they are ugly, they burn the night in the Calyx Xianghui Building, feast and drink, and stay awake all night......

"Ah Lang, the tea has arrived."

A bowl of tonic was served, with a bitter taste.

Li Linfu raised his eyelids and watched the maid test the poison first, thinking that it would be good to survive the night.

In the hall, an official reported softly: "Right Minister, Banzhou news, the emperor has been removed." ”

"Hmm."

Li Linfu drank the medicine and responded lightly.

Last year's Shangyuan Festival Wei Jian and Huangfu Weiming cases were reported, and they were not derogatory enough to let them survive this year's Shangyuan Festival.

~~

Kyaunu led Xue Bai out of the lobby and went to the west courtyard, where she heard the noise inside, so she stopped.

"Xue Langjun, please, it's inconvenient for the slave to go in."

It was a rare blessing, she watched Xue Bai enter the west courtyard, and hurriedly went to the backyard.

Passed through the gate of the courtyard, bypassed the flower and tree path, rushed to an elegant courtyard, entered the boudoir, and saw Li Qiniang sitting in front of the bronze mirror and dressing up by Mian'er.

Mian'er said with some regret: "Hey, I have to go to Xingqing Palace for a banquet when I am young, and I can only go shopping for three hours after nightfall." ”

"There is no curfew for three days on the Shangyuan Festival."

"That's too, and Xue Langjun will also go to Xingqing Palace......"

Li Tengkong's makeup has not changed much today, but he has spent some careful thought that is not easy to see.

For example, she put a flower on her forehead, and for example, her blouse was deliberately worn thicker, so that her somewhat thin figure was a little fuller.

"Seventeen Niang Shangyuan Ankang."

"You're here, there's a gift box for you over there, ask for a lottery." Li Tengkong sat in front of the bronze mirror, endured it, and then asked, "What interesting things have happened since January?" You sit and say. ”

Kyauknu usually has a very bad attitude towards Xue Bai, but for the sake of his future, he has long been ready to say good things, such as he has worked hard recently, and he is a man who is both civil and military.

Of course, these have to be said one by one.

"When Fengwei House opened, the slave maid also went and tasted a few stir-fried dishes, the same ingredients, the taste of steamed and fried is really different......"

"Really? Everyone in Chang'an City is talking about it, but I haven't eaten it. ”

"What's the matter?" Mian'er had a sweet mouth, and immediately said: "No matter how much limelight you have, it's also an industry that was opened for the prime minister's appointment." ”

Li Tengkong was thin-skinned and hurriedly stopped her.

"No nonsense."

~~

Xue Bai originally had something to say to Li Linfu in private, but it was inconvenient in the lobby.

With a little concern, his face did not show any light, and he calmly walked into the courtyard on the west side, and looked at it, the gathering of hundreds of noble children made people's scalp tingle.

Most of the children and grandchildren, sons-in-law, and nephews of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion were present at the scene, and their families were prosperous.

"Xue Bai."

Li Xiu was holding a wine glass and laughing with a young man with extraordinary demeanor, and when he saw Xue Bai, he immediately beckoned.

"Come, I'll introduce you, this is the son-in-law of my eleventh mother."

There was a slight pause at this point, and let the person being introduced decide whether to report to his home, which was Li Xiu's etiquette.

"Yang Qixuan." The young man saluted with his hands crossed, smiled reservedly, and refused to say more.

"My sister-in-law is extraordinary, the grandson of Hongnong Yang, and a close relative of Hongnong County." Li Xiu smiled, "You can get closer to each other in the future." ”

Xue Bai dealt with it properly, and found an opportunity to whisper to Li Xiu: "I have something important to discuss with Shilang. ”

Li Xiu nodded and went to a secluded place with Xue Bai.

He smiled and said, "After tonight, Yang Qixuan will support you among the people of Yang Shenjin's clan. ”

"Juro is too bothered. It's just that I heard that Yang Shenjin has been going to the Changyuan Mausoleum on the outskirts of the city recently, do you know why? ”

"His person is filial, and there is something wrong with his deceased father's tomb, so it is inevitable to worry about it." Li Xiu said, "He told me about this matter, and he will not mistake the matter of recognizing relatives." ”

"Do you know about this?"

"Father knows." Li Xiu patted Xue Bai on the back, "Don't worry, it's common sense to have a happy funeral, and the Right Prime Minister's Mansion won't even be able to settle this little thing...... I'm still busy, go with me to socialize. ”

Xue Bai narrowed his eyes and understood Li Linfu's thoughts.

Turning back to the west courtyard, I don't know which of the descendants of the Li family is shouting.

"Listen to me, gentlemen, for a family feast was held earlier today. As soon as it gets dark, I still have to go to the lantern party to find a beautiful little lady! ”

~~

Evening.

Looking out of the window of the small building, many lanterns of different shapes have been erected on the long street in the distance. There are already many young ladies wearing beautiful corset dresses and can't wait to go out to play.

"Tonight is the Shangyuan Festival."

"Nonsense."

"Mr. Pei didn't arrange it early or late, what's the matter with tonight?"

The man who spoke had a strong Liangzhou accent, it was Lao Liang, a veteran of Longyou, who was wearing armor, wearing Jin Wuwei's armor, and there was a token on the table next to him.

"Stupid." Tuoba Mao scolded: "There is no curfew tonight, it is dark at night, and it is easiest to escape after killing someone." ”

"I don't understand, the people on the side have all withdrawn, so just leave a few of us?"

Jiang Hai said, looked at Jiang Mao, and asked, "Brother, what do you say?" ”

Jiang Mao had recovered from his injuries, but there were many more scars on his face.

He thought about it for a long time, and finally said: "Think about it a lot, Mr. Pei can do whatever he says, just take care of our mother-in-law and cubs." ”

The crowd then stopped talking, and in silence their armor was fastened and clanged.

Lao Liang walked to the window again and stared at the street scene in the distance.

"Look?! Let's take a look at the picture. ”

"I heard that Xu Hezi is going to sing a big song in front of Xingqing Palace tonight?"

"Mr. Jiang gave you less orchids and Silla maids, right?"

"I'm not talking about women, Daqu understands?" Lao Liang cleared his phlegm and sang: "Falling flowers, falling flowers are deserted......"

"Don't bother! It's hard to hear, you understand Li Taibai? ”

Jiang Mao said: "Which is Li Taibai?" This is King Luo Bing. He used to sing it all the time, but General Huangfu loved to listen to it. ”

The crowd stopped gossiping and looked at the drawings spread out by Tuoba Mao.

"This house is in Chongyi Fang, one hundred and fifty steps square, accounting for one-eighth of the square land. When the time comes, a lady surnamed Han will come and take us in, and our own armor, long-handled Mo knives, and crossbow arrows have been sent in......"

After speaking, Tuoba Mao looked out the window and whispered two more words.

"Be careful, I planted Wu San last time, and no one will die this time."

"Whoa."

"Find an appropriate time, commit a few murders first, and let the waste of the Sixteen Guards run."

"Whoa."

"Wait until it's dark before leaving."

Six people dressed as Jin Wuwei came out of the Ten Kings' Mansion in Anxingfang in the northeast of the city and went south along the street. After passing through Pingkang Fang and Xuanyang Fang, you can go west to Chongyi Fang.

~~

Night falls.

This night, there was no twilight drum sound in Chang'an City.

Only one lantern lit up......

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