This Zhuangyuan Alley, where they live in a big family, look up at each other and don't look down, and they are familiar with each other for generations.

Cui's has always thought that the lintel is high, and there is always a high-minded attitude, Cui Yunzhao's father was fine when he was here, but when he arrived at Cui Xu, the relationship with the neighbors in the alley became worse and worse.

Now seeing this low-married Cui girl go home and smash the field, everyone in the vicinity of the left is excited and listens more and more carefully.

Cui Xu's face sank suddenly.

He was born like Cui Yunzhao's father, both of whom are clear and elegant characters, but his eyes are a little slender, less elegant, and more shrewd and calculating.

At this moment, he squinted his eyes, lightly swept the Helan clan who couldn't hang his face, and then also took half a step forward, standing on the steps and looking at Cui Yunzhao condescendingly.

In his opinion, a military household like Huo Tan is not worth his trouble at all.

"Second niece, don't mess around." Cui Xu's voice was rarely a little harsh.

If it was in the past, Cui Yunzhao would definitely retreat, but today she was not afraid and stood in the alley with her head held high.

Those watery eyes were calm and waveless, and they were not timid by the reprimands of their elders.

"Second uncle, where is my niece messing around?"

Cui Yunzhao's voice is obviously not very loud, but she speaks clearly, word by word, so that the people in the entire alley can hear clearly.

"Second uncle, Boling has been peaceful for many years, thanks to the bloody battles of the soldiers, we have protected Boling to this day, and we are grateful."

"Now that such a good opportunity has fallen on the Cui family, why is the second uncle unhappy? Didn't the second uncle want to entertain these soldiers who defended the country? ”

Cui Yunzhao said word by word, and Cui Xu almost had to be retired.

At this time, Huo Tan stood beside Cui Yunzhao, quietly accompanying her, and didn't say a word.

But he is like a mountain, standing firmly beside her, so that Cui Xu has to be afraid, and many words cannot be believed.

Cui Xu thought for a long time, took a breath, and then said with a sad face: "It's not that I don't want to entertain the soldiers, but you didn't tell me earlier, the family should prepare in advance, otherwise it's not negligent?" Why don't you wait for the house to do everything at home and then invite the soldiers to come to the door? ”

"You kid, how do you think that one is one out?"

This is to blame Cui Yunzhao for not saying hello in advance.

But when his words fell, Cui Yunzhao's eyes widened: "Second uncle, can't you entertain the soldiers at home?" I remember that the kitchen at home can cook meals for dozens of people at a time, and the soldiers are very easy-going, as long as there is wine and food, they will not dislike the family and slack, but only think that Cui's hospitality is good. Today, I went back with my husband, my relatives and friends were all there, it was the most lively, and today's banquet was the most suitable. ”

"Besides, we can't entertain a banquet?"

Huo Tan lowered his eyes, almost holding back his laughter.

He saw Cui Xu on the other side clenching his hands tightly, and his thin white hands were about to pinch blue.

Cui Yunzhao is right.

The Cui family has a large population, and the slaves are counted, adding up to more than 100 inside and out.

Coupled with the family's reserves, as long as part of the food is given up, the brothers in the army will naturally be enough.

Cui Yunzhao stood slim in the alley, surrounded by a young and heroic military envoy, and the two of them looked at Cui Xu so brightly, so that he couldn't get off the stage all of a sudden.

Suddenly, a cold wind blew, and Cui Yunzhao couldn't help but shrink back.

Huo Tan's eyes darkened, he slowly raised his head and looked at Cui Xu fixedly.

"Second uncle, aren't we welcome to come back?"

The husband and wife sang and harmonized, which made Cui Xu's face even more ugly.

But Huo Tan's words were not wrong at all.

The husband and wife returned to the door early in the morning, but when they arrived at the door of the house, they talked in the cold wind for a long time, Cui Xu didn't say that he welcomed his niece and niece and son-in-law into the door, and he didn't even say that he would send a stove.

It does look very unwelcome.

If you think about it deeply, does Cui Xu look down on Huo Tan's military background, and does he look down on military generals?

When you think about it, it's amazing.

Cui Xu suddenly heard Huo Tan speak, and couldn't help but glance at him, and the military envoy married by the second girl in his heart was not a simple character.

No wonder he was able to exchange the Lu family's marriage contract for himself.

Now that things have come to this point, Zuo Jin is also watching the excitement, Cui Xu gritted his teeth and said directly: "How can it not be welcome!" ”

"Alright, ma'am, why don't you hurry up and prepare the banquet?

"Second niece, niece and son-in-law, the banquet at home has long been prepared, please inside."

At this time, Cui Xu put a gentle and kind smile on his face again.

Huo Tan glanced at him, and his heart was really as the lady said, her second uncle was indeed thick-skinned enough.

Cui Yunzhao couldn't help but smile when he heard that he had changed his name so quickly.

She stepped forward in two steps and said to Helan Shi, who was about to organize the banquet: "Second aunt, the soldiers all love to drink Din Tai Fung's sorghum wine, if you have time, please ask the second aunt to buy more." ”

Helan Shi: "......"

Helan took a deep breath, was looked at by her husband gloomily, and immediately pinched her throat and said, "Okay, don't worry, you will not treat the soldiers badly." ”

The family was happy in an instant.

Huo Tan walked at the end and said to Cui Xu: "Second uncle, the family has a thin foundation, and I can't prepare a good return gift, so please don't be surprised by the second uncle." ”

With that, he waved his hand and asked Uncle Ping to lead the two soldiers to lift those return salutes.

He said that the return gift is thin, but the signboard of the same time-honored brand is bright, as long as you have seen it, you know that this door gift is not thin at all.

A military household, the preparation of the return ceremony is no different from the sons-in-law of the high gate in this alley.

Cui Xu saw such a grand return ceremony, but there was not much joy in his heart, he glanced at Huo Tan deeply, did not listen to the discussion of the neighbors, and only said with a smile: "Let my niece and son-in-law break the bank." ”

Huo Tan grinned: "It's my luck to be able to marry a lady, so naturally I have to treat my lady well." ”

As the family spoke, they entered the gate.

But in the blink of an eye, Cui's porter couldn't wait to close the door and shut all the stories inside the vermilion gate.

So, the doorman of the door, who was probing his head at the door of the alley, scattered in a hurry, and they all went back to tell jokes with the heads of the house.

At this time, in the Cui family, Cui Xu was still holding the shelf of the second uncle of kindness, and introduced the ancestral house of the Cui family to Huo Tan.

"Niece and son-in-law, I'm afraid you haven't seen such an old mansion, Cui's ancestral house is larger than other mansions, especially the verandah that shuttles between them, which is convenient for the family to walk back and forth, especially in the hot summer, rain and snow, so as not to stain the clothes."

"But if you don't know the way, don't walk around, so as not to get lost."

Cui Xu's sentence is very yin and yang.

Huo Tan smiled heartily: "Thank you second uncle for mentioning it, the younger son-in-law has seen such a mansion, and now the mansion where Lord Lu lives is the ancestor of the Wang family of the previous dynasty." ”

Huo Tan's face was full of sincerity: "I remember, it's just Tanhua Lane on the side, right?" ”

Cui Xu: "......"

The Wang clan followed the deposed emperor of the previous dynasty to resist the current saint, and the gate fell, and later the people of the side branch could no longer support the ancestral house, so they sold it to the Lü defense envoy.

It is also inappropriate to say that it is sold, because the defender did not give the money.

Instead, he bought a house for the descendants of the Wang family in Tongcheng and let them move over.

Everyone in Boling City knows about this, and Cui Xu naturally knows better.

It was because he was clear that Cui Xu felt uncomfortable.

This niece-in-law is a difficult lord to deal with.