Fengwei Building.

The breeze was gentle in the small pavilion, and Da Xi Yingying asked, "Can the slave family see Lang Jun?" ”

Du Yan's eyes lifted from the drawing, looked at her plump and white skin, and said lightly: "He's busy, what do you have to tell me the same." ”

"After this incident, the right minister is afraid that he will not believe me anymore."

"Then you can call 'Gonu' from now on."

"Erniang is saying that the slave family doesn't have to go to the Right Prime Minister's Mansion anymore?"

"Not bad." Du Yan said, "Now that you have a deed, you can do things for us with peace of mind in the future." ”

"Right...... The brother is narrow-minded, if it is revenge, how should he deal with it? ”

"Because of you?"

"The slave family is worried about Lang Jun."

"It's not your turn to worry, with our current strength, how dare the brother slave retaliate easily?"

Da Xi Yingying's eyes lit up and asked, "Our strength?" ”

"At least it's stronger than your Shouwang."

"What Erniang said is very true." Da Xi Yingying couldn't help but smile, as if she was seducing Du Yan.

Du Yan frowned slightly, and said, "I'm not here for the past two or three days, you can take care of Fengweilou...... Do you know what I'm referring to? ”

Da Xi Yingying's heart moved, and she asked softly, "But the dark pavilion?" Erniang is relieved to hand it over to the slave family. ”

"Don't use suspicious people, don't use suspicious people." Du Yan said: "This place was originally your gambling house, you know what to do." Xue Lang's current concern is the matter of Stone Castle City. ”

"Whoa."

Da Xi Yingying Wanfu retreated, walked out of the small pavilion, looked up at the blue sky, felt free, but also unaccustomed.

She has been led by others all her life, and now that she has changed her master, she is uneasy without the shackles around her neck, as if she is missing something that she can't fill completely.

But this feeling is actually not bad, she thought to herself, Xue Bai should not fully trust herself, and she is still investigating.

~~

Du Yan arranged the trivial matters, went to the account room, and pushed the door in.

"Are you leaving?"

"Hmm." Du Cheng put down the account book, got up, took Du Yan's hand, and walked to the stable.

There is a family banquet today, and Xue Bai will also go to Du's house, and they plan to go back early.

"The art of stir-frying gradually spread, and I simply spread all the branches. According to Xue Bai's intentions, all the money in his hand can be thrown out, and the money will come back when he is gone. ”

"Okay, I've sorted it out, I'll be able to support it at any time."

"Grandpa has only held a vacant position for many years, and this time he has become a practical officer, it is inevitable that there will be a mistake. You and I should pay more attention. ”

When talking about these serious things, Du Yan is more like a sister...... It should be said that she is more like a superior, and the tone is always arranged by her.

Du Cheng has a gentle temperament and doesn't care about these, she responds with kind words every time, and takes care of the things arranged by her sister.

The two got into the carriage, Du Yan was silent for a while, and asked in a low voice, "Tonight?" ”

"Don't say it." Du Cheng was slightly flustered, and said softly: "I was drunk to make such a ridiculous thing, why do you want to mention it again if you cover it up for me." ”

"Is that my fault?"

"I'm useless myself, how can I blame you."

Du Yan asked, "I can't remarry anyway, it's okay." Sister is so secretive, but she is going to remarry? ”

Du Cheng was stunned for a moment and shook her head.

"I have long decided not to marry."

The carriage slowly drove into Du's house, but saw that Du Wulang was already waiting at the side door.

Du Yan slowly got out of the car, saw her brother's stupid appearance, and randomly found a reason to teach him a lesson, pointed to the magpie under the eaves, and said, "Don't you build so many bird's nests at home, and still stand below, stay?" ”

"Second sister, can you not train me all day long? I've drunk wine with the kokuko festival sake. ”

"You are the one who bowed to the saint, and you are also my brother."

Du Wulang couldn't bear to talk to them, waved them in, and volunteered to greet them at the side door.

Today was just a family banquet, and even Du Fu was not invited, but Xue Bai's family was invited.

After a while, someone drove a horse over, it was Du Hope's two sons in Chang'an, Du Wei and Du You.

Du Wei is in his early twenties, handsome, warm temperament, and very easy to get along with; Du You is only 12 years old this year, smart and clever.

"Uncle." Du Wulang first saluted Du Wei, and then saluted the young Du You, and said, "Fifth uncle." ”

"Gorou is good."

Du You smiled, stood on tiptoe, raised his hand and touched Du Goro's head.

Du Wulang grinned, turned his head and said, "Uncle, when will you get married?" ”

"It's coming." Du Wei couldn't help but smile when he mentioned Li Shisiniang, "When you come to watch the ceremony, don't forget to bring your friend Xue Lang along." ”

"Xue Bai and you are two kinds of people." Du Wulang muttered.

Not long after, the Xue family also came, Xue Bai and several brothers rode horses in front, Du Wulang greeted them out, and did not look at them, until the carriage greeted Liu Xiangjun.

"Aunt is here, and A-Niang always talks about you. said that among the famous families in Hedong, her best friend in Chang'an is you......"

~~

Although no one introduced him, Xue Bai quickly met with Du Wei.

"But in front of Xue Lang, who has become famous recently?"

"Don't dare to be, it must be Brother Du?"

"I'm a generation older than Du Transcript." Du Wei smiled, very kind.

Xue Bai also smiled and said, "I have a relationship with Zimei's peers. ”

"Then we'll go our separate ways." Du Wei said, "I've heard that you and I may be able to be brothers-in-law." ”

Xue Bai waved his hand.

He will not go back, and now that he has reached this point, it is unlikely that he will marry Li Linfu's daughter again.

The reason why she still corresponded with Li Tengkong was only because she was Zong Xiaoxian and maintained that friendship, and if there was a big disaster for the Li family in the future, he would always have to repay her a lot of favors. Instead, he married her, but he was afraid that he would be buried with the Li family.

This idea definitely doesn't make sense with Du Wei.

They quickly changed the subject, first talking about each other's mutual friends.

After a few glasses, I talked about Du Wei's world-famous friends.

"Liu Changqing, Brother Wenfang was met when I traveled to Luoyang, when he spoke wildly at the literary meeting, boasting of the 'Great Wall of Five Words', no one obeyed him, I fought with him for fifteen poems, and I was convinced, and it was also him, saying that his house in Luoyang was empty, so I took my wife to travel;"

"Cui Hao, Brother Cui is my father's protégé, and I am also a teacher and friend. He was similar to Xue Lang when he was young, a beautiful young man, and a beautiful son. At the age of nineteen, even Li Bai said, 'There is a scene in front of him, and Cui Hao's inscription poem is above', which shows his talent;"

"Cen Shen, I have known Brother Cen for three years, when he went to Chang'an for the imperial examination, entered the scholar and ranked, and was elected for three years, and finally got the official ...... this spring."

Xue Bai couldn't help asking, "Brother Cen is still in Chang'an?" ”

"Yes." Du Wei said: "He will also come on my wedding day, Xue Lang can come?" ”

"Go to the meeting."

"I also have a friend who has recently come to Chang'an, although his poetry is not obvious, but he has a similar temperament to Xue Lang, you will definitely be able to talk. He once had a long talk with me about the salt method, and he was full of praise for it. ”

"I don't know who?"

"Yuan Zai Yuan Gongfu, he was born poor, in his early years and the daughter of the famous general Wang Zhonghei admired each other, Wang Xiaoniang ignored the opposition of the family, resolutely eloped with him, followed him to the Chang'an imperial examination, the first year of Tianbao, Gongfu brother high school jinshi, live up to the beauty. Now that his term of office has expired, he will return to Chang'an to defend the election. ”

~~

How important the door is, I don't usually think it, but I can see it by comparing Du Wei and Xue Bai at this time.

Du Wei was able to follow his father to the border at a young age and increase his experience in the Chinese army's big tent. It must be known that if 999 out of 1,000 soldiers are killed in battle, the remaining one will not get such a chance.

In terms of literature, even Cui Hao is a disciple of Du Hope, and Wang Wei also treats Du Hope with a teacher, and Du Wei has studied literature with these people since he was a child. And Du hopes that the official residence is of three grades, and his military achievements are great, and he can be the second son of the official.

Du Wei has the connections of the world's best people, and Xue Bai is far from it now.

The two exchanged another glass of wine.

Xue Bai asked, "What is the relationship between Brother Du and the Right Minister?" ”

Du Wei shook his head and said, "I married Fourteen Niang, and it has nothing to do with her grandfather." ”

Where Xue Bai fell, he saw the twelve-year-old Du You drinking osmanthus dew, shaking his head and pursing his lips, as if to say, "Brother is really ignorant."

After that, the little guy and Xue Bai glanced at each other and smiled knowingly.

……

This family banquet is to celebrate Du Youlin's reinstatement. Before the dusk drum sounded, Du Wei congratulated Du Youlin with a few words, sent a small poem, and took Du You to say goodbye and go home.

It's just a relationship between relatives to enhance their relationship.

However, relationships and positions are influencing each other. After Du Wei left, Du Youlin talked to Xue Bai about business.

"Now that the resignation has come down, Pei Gong is planning for me to be a member of the household department, and if he wants to check the accounts of the past years, he thinks that Wang Ji must have embezzled taxes."

"There must be embezzlement, but if the amount is not large, it is meaningless." Xue Bai said: "The saints should allow them to be greedy for ink within a certain range. ”

Du Youlin said: "Do you know, which of the imperial historians did Uncle Guo ask me to do this together?" ”

"Yang Zhao?"

"Not bad." Du Youlin frowned, "This spit pot sticks to Uncle Guo like a dog skin plaster." ”

"I just got real power, and there are no available people under my hands, so it's normal to appoint relatives."

Xue Bai knew that with Du Youlin's temperament and Yang Zhao's joint affairs, he was afraid that he would suffer some losses. But it's also good that it's better to learn a long lesson now than to make a big mistake in the future.

There is no need to express dissatisfaction with his cousin in front of Yang Chen.

"Yang Zhao is only of a little use, he is familiar with Ge Nu and Wang Jie." Du Youlin said: "He said that the cost of Wang Jie's new house is unimaginable, but it actually cost tens of thousands of yuan. ”

"Datang only charges more than 2 million yuan a year for rent, right?"

"Yes, don't say anything else, just say that the self-rain pavilion in the king's mansion, Yang Zhao saw it with his own eyes, and said that it was made by skilled craftsmen in the Western Regions, and others could not imitate it, and the cost was higher than that of the saint's Qingliang Palace."

Speaking of this, Du Youlin leaned over and said: "You must know that when the sage built the Qingliang Palace, Chen Shizhi still used labor and money to discourage him. You say, from this matter to find out Wang Gong? ”

Xue Bai shook his head.

Du Youlin was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why?" ”

"Uncle just got an official position, and he didn't even know all the people in the household department, Yang Zhao gave such news, when did he try so hard?"

"This ......"

"To defeat political opponents, the most important thing is timing, if the saint wants to change people and someone can replace Wang Ji and Genu, one sentence is enough. Now that Yang and Pei's foothold is still unstable, why do they represent each other? The same is true for uncles to the household department, and it is the key to stand firm. ”

Du Youlin nodded and said, "Sure enough, I almost let the idiot of the spit pot hurt me." ”

Xue Bai wrote down the matter of Ziyu Pavilion, and secretly Dao Genu and Wang Jiao have controlled the government for many years, and the skilled craftsmen of Chang'an must also be in their hands.

~~

It's the middle of April, and the moon is getting chubby.

A tanuki flower jumped out from among the trees, rolled in front of Du Wulang, and began to lick its paws, attracting several children of the Xue family to come forward to look.

Lu Fengniang and Liu Xiangjun huddled together and gossiped.

Du Yan propped her head and sat aside to listen to her grandfather and Xue Bai talking, and only she dared to listen, Du Yan was quiet all night, poured herself a few glasses of wine, and her face was slightly red.

A family banquet was coming to an end, and Qinglan was about to go to the carriage to move the futon, planning to spread it on the Tongfang next to Xue Bai's house.

She was pulled by Caiyun, and the two girls whispered a few words.

"Really? Did Xue Langjun ...... with you?"

"Not really, but we're moving very fast."

"How fast."

"I won't tell you."

Du Yan listened to the casual arrangement and said: "So as not to lay the mattress, Qinglan and Caiyun will be in the same house tonight." ”

"Okay." Caiyun was very happy, pulled Qinglan and said, "We just happened to chat." ”

"Oh."

Tomorrow they will go out of the city to go out, and after the feast, everyone will go back to their houses.

When going around from the back garden to the west verandah, while no one was paying attention, Du Yan pulled Xue Bai over, and the two shrank into the shadow around the corner and kissed deeply.

"I'll come here at night."

"Okay, I'll send Gorou to the West Chamber."

"Hmm."

Back in the house, Qinglan didn't forget to change Xue Bai's clothes first, which made him feel a little funny.

"I'll still change my clothes myself."

"Then I have to do my duty, Lang Jun will lie down and I will leave."

"By the way, I started to do things that can get rid of your nationality and become good, but your ancestral home is stable in Longyou?"

Qinglan nodded, looked at Xue Bai, and her mind was full of concubines.

"Then think about it and write to me the relatives you may still find."

"There are no relatives anymore."

"It's okay, I'll check, and you can think about it slowly."

"Lang Jun treats me so well."

"Go to sleep."

Xue Bai watched Qinglan walk away, and suddenly felt that this situation was somewhat familiar, it happened the night before moving out of the Du Mansion.

……

Sleeping late at night, Xue Bai suddenly woke up.

Du Yan hadn't come over yet, he turned over in a daze, and smelled a faint fragrance on the tip of his nose.

"Why don't you come in?"

He muttered and reached out of the tent, where a soft leaf took his hand.

Pulling gently, she came in obediently, with the scent of bathing on her body.

Xue Bai then took her into his arms, warm and fragrant nephrite, considerate and comfortable.

The weather tonight is just right, neither hot nor cold, skin is close to each other, dry and delicate.

Under her cloak was a spring dress and a long skirt......

~~

In mid-April, the peach blossoms are almost gone, like the late spring has faded its bright long dress.

It is the begonia flower that blooms.

The fullest begonia of the Du family is the Four Seasons Begonia, which is redder than apricot blossoms and peach blossom pollen, which is pleasing to the eye.

At night in late spring and early summer, the budding petals finally open, swaying from side to side with the breeze, wafting through a faint fragrance.

When the wind blows, the flower branches are high again, more and more scorching, and more and more vivid.

~~

In this season of affection, the cat barked.

The moon seemed to hear it, and buried herself shyly in the clouds.

The night was darker.

The room creaked and rattled like a window was shaking.

Someone couldn't hold back, and the silver teeth crushed and sighed from their noses.

Suddenly, Xue Bai whispered in her ear: "Niang? ”

"Whew!"

“……”

The moon came out of the clouds again, and the faint light shone on the silhouettes of the people in the room.

The beautiful shadow that had been sitting suddenly fell, trembling incessantly.

Xue Bai felt the slight difference and called out again.

"Niangniang."

“……”

The clouds rolled over the clouds, one cloud overpowering the other, enveloping the moon again.

~~

There is no one in the deep courtyard, and the spring night is long, and the wandering bees are busy with Yan Fei. Begonia is very shy, relying on the east wind to urge makeup.

~~

The next day, dawn.

Xue Bai opened his eyes, and he was the only one in the room, and there was a faint residual fragrance.

The courtyard of the Du family is busy, and everyone is still preparing to set off.

He stood under the porch and was stunned for a while, only to see the Du family sisters walking out of the backyard holding hands.

Du Yan yawned, and after that, Du Yan also yawned.

It was like a day some time ago, but now the relationship between the three seems to be even different.

……

Under the corridor of the main room, Du Youlin and Lu Fengniang walked out, saw Xue Bai, and sighed with some regret.

"Such a good man, my mother's family still doesn't look down on him?"

"It's a pity."

(End of chapter)