Chapter 10 There are successors to the Lan family

Compared with the monstrous waves set off in the capital, the waves of the Yangtze River at this time seem to be small, but a lonely boat thrown on this river is inevitably a little ups and downs.

Cao Zaidong looked at Xu Liangsheng, who was pale, and asked, "Childe is seasick?" Bear with it a little longer, there will be about half an hour before he enters the territory of Luzhou. Xu Liangsheng waved his hand, signaling that it was okay, and said in a slightly weak tone: "It's not seasick, my family is doing fishing for a living, and I often go into the water, but I can still stand it." After a slight pause, Xu Liangsheng pulled his collar and said, "It's autumn now, and the river is a little cold." ”

"Bear with me, it's ...... in half an hour" Cao Zaidong laughed and changed his words: "Nowadays, the world is really poor and poor people can produce champions? I thought that the son was born and was a rich and noble family, but Cao Mou was the most unfortunate scholar from a rich family. He pursed his lips, and then said: "What is for the livelihood of the world and the benefit of the people, I don't know how many copper plates are steamed buns, how many copper plates are minced meat, and I don't know if it's for my official hat in the final analysis." ”

Xu Liangsheng squeezed out a smile on his face and said in a low voice, "Although Xiaosheng has the spirit of some scholars, and he is quite conceited about his own talents, he has never felt worthy of the name of the champion. ”

As he was talking, a small breeze blew into the canopy, and Xu Liangsheng suddenly shrank back.

Cao Zaidong nodded, and asked again: "Does the prince want to go out of Xiliang, or do you want to be a staff member of the palace or a staff member of the prince?" Xu Liangsheng asked back: "What's the difference?"

Rubbing his sleeves, Cao Zaidong said slowly: "Out of the West Liang is the court for you, the palace staff Liang Wang is for you, and the prince of staff is of course the prince for you." Xu Liangsheng sneered and said with a smile: "I look at the temperament of His Royal Highness the Prince of the World, and he should be able to get two taels of silver more." ”

Cao Zaidong also laughed a few times, and then asked: "Where should the prince start first? money, food, livelihood, and internal affairs of the palace...... Or is it an armament of soldiers and horses?" Cao Zaidong narrowed his eyes, obviously looking forward to Xu Liangsheng's answer, but in the blink of an eye, Xu Liangsheng's answer made him a little confused.

Xu Liangsheng shook his head and replied, "Neither." Cao Zaidong looked at Xu Liangsheng in a daze, as if he had thought of something, and laughed: "The son will not marry a daughter-in-law first, will he?" Hahaha...... Ignoring Cao Zaidong's ridicule, Xu Liangsheng said in a low voice: "Let's go to the army to polish for a while." ”

Cao Zaidong smiled and said, "Just the figure of the son, I will be miserable within two days of being in the army!"

Xu Liangsheng sneered and said leisurely, "I heard that Xiliang is a bitter cold place, and it is already autumn at this time, and it is already the Mid-Autumn Festival when I enter the country, even if I don't join the army, I will also complain about it......"

The smile on Cao Zaidong's face gradually faded, and he said with a straight face: "Which general does the son want to go to, Cao can plan for the son." ”

"His Royal Highness said that I was asked to go to General Sima. After listening, Cao Zaidong was stunned for a long time, and finally came back to his senses, and said in a low voice: "His Royal Highness the Prince is too ruthless, so I'm not afraid of breaking you, the champion who came back thousands of miles away?"

Xu Liangsheng took the opportunity to ask: "Oh? General Sima can still eat people?" Cao Zaidong replied: "It's not, Sima Yibing is a person who loves soldiers, and he is one of the few generals in my Xiliang who can be called a Confucian general, but Sima Yibing belongs to the only light cavalry army in my Northern Liang except for the prince's personal guard, unlike other heavy cavalry and infantry troops, even if there is no war on the border, there are many tasks, in addition to small things such as suppressing bandits, there are also murderous tasks such as espionage raids." Then Cao Zaidong said meaningfully: "Many people die every year......

Xu Liangsheng laughed and said, "It's with Xiaosheng's heart." ”

Cao Zaidong clasped his hands into fists and said in a condensed voice: "Mr. is so good!"

The difference between the words "son" and "husband" is like heaven and earth.

Lan Mansion, the whole house is white-clothed.

There are only five people in the whole house, Lan Tingxi married a wife and had two sons in his life, his wife He died in childbirth when he gave birth to the second son, the eldest son Lan Xu is four products on the Ministry of Rites Langzhong, the second son Lanhai Yangzhou Sima has not yet been trusted to return to Beijing, a cook, two maids, and a housekeeper, a total of five people.

The eldest son, Lan Xu, knelt in front of the hall and returned the salute to the guests one by one.

Zhang Rang came to the front of the hall dressed in white, Lan Xu got up and knelt in front of the coffin of Lanting Creek with Zhang Rang, Lan Xu retired the two maids who were waiting, and everyone bowed to see Lord Shoufu here.

Zhang Rang asked: "I have been an official in the same dynasty as Brother Lan for 40 years, Brother Lan is a person who values affection, righteousness and courtesy, if you see that the virtuous nephew has not left a single tear so far, he may not be able to live in peace." The tone was very calm, without any malice, Lan Xu listened to it, and returned indifferently: "My father dares to exchange his death for peace in the world, if my unfilial son cries out, my father will really not be able to live in peace." ”

Zhang Rang didn't seem to hear Lan Xu's reply, and said to himself: "Brother Lan is a good person, and he went well, but you found out this matter too early, you embarrassed me, embarrassed the officials, and embarrassed Your Majesty." ”

With a wry smile, Zhang Rang continued: "You have a good reputation, you don't dare to say the words 'Wenzhen' and 'Wencheng', at least one 'Wenzhong' can't run, but this mess, if I don't clean it up well, I can't run away with a bad name." ”

Zhang Rang shook his head, only to hear Lan Xu say: "My father talked to me last night, and the official deliberately did not intercept the dragon when he was an official, and he broke it with skill, and it sounded good to me to slay the dragon on the Go, but sometimes it was a big risky move, especially my father was good at starting, not good at officials, it was better to slowly figure it out, stabilize the advantage of half a eye, and the final outcome was also a half of the winner." Saying that, he paused deliberately, glanced at the contemplative Zhang Rang, and said: "It's just that most of such scoundrels won't be able to get on the chess game, let alone enter the hall and let the world's national players serve one or two." ”

Zhang Rang smiled bitterly again: "Virtuous nephew, you are scolding me for being too heavy in the mouth of Brother Lan." Lan Xu shook his head and said: "My father once said that in the year of the crown, a scholar must have a gentleman's spirit; ”

Zhang Rang said: "The virtuous nephew is too angry, Brother Lan once said that the way of a gentleman is the first to revisit the word good, and the virtuous nephew is a little aggressive." ”

Lan Xu sneered, "My lord said that I didn't want to be a gentleman since I started studying, I just wanted to be an honest scholar, and now I want to follow my father and be a useful person." ”

Zhang Rang slowly closed his eyes and said in a low voice: "Who said that there is no successor to your Lan family, I think it is better to be blue than blue." ”

Lan Xu shook his head and replied, "My lord praised it falsely. ”

At this moment, Zhang Rang just wanted to open his mouth to say something more, but after this old man, Zhang Rang sincerely loved it, but an untimely sharp voice came: "The queen has arrived." ”

The two glanced at each other, and Lan Xu said coldly: "My lord said that I was too angry, and I am afraid that I will have to say that I am bloody in a while." ”

A figure came into the eyes of the two, and the two or three maids behind Su Yi Xuanpei were none other than Li Ruxin, the queen of the dynasty.

"Good night to the Queen. Zhang Rang just arched his hand, as the first assistant, especially the henchman of the queen's mother, Zhang Rang was too lazy to do those false courtesies, and dared to impeach himself without opening his eyes?

Li Ruxin bowed slightly towards Lan Tingxi's coffin, but Lan Xu sat upright and did not return the salute.

Li Ruxin looked at Lan Xu, and said coldly: "Lan Da was a scholar of the Ministry of Rites before his death, but he gave birth to a son who didn't know the number of etiquette!" Lan Xu pinched his nose, snorted heavily, and returned: "Since the year before the fight, the queen sent someone to kill Yu Zhengming, the young secretary of Dali Temple, and my father said: Etiquette collapsed, and I have never talked to me, a son, about etiquette, righteousness and shame. These words are clear, that is, they are scolding Li Ruxin for not knowing etiquette, righteousness and shame!

Li Ruxin's face suddenly turned blue, and the maid behind him shouted: "You are so daring, you dare to insult the queen mother!" Lan Xu's face was even colder, and he said leisurely, "I didn't say that half of the queen's mother is not, but you are a minion, dare to talk to me like this?"

The maid behind her was frightened by Lan Xu's words and took two steps back, and looked at the queen mother headed by her with a look of fear.

Li Ruxin said angrily: "Don't you think this palace doesn't exist?" Lan Xu stood up, faced the coffin of Lanting Creek, bowed, and said in a cold tone: " Although I don't know who the queen is going to show today, but it must be to win over a group of people, I Lan Xu is taught by my father, and I am willing to die in exchange for peace in the world, but I am stupid, I can't learn my father's big hand, and I will peel off the cocoon of a generation of vassal kings in a blink of an eye, and when I return to Ding Wei, I will give a copy to the queen of the Holy Ginseng, and talk about the lady's graceful and graceful queen demeanor!"

Li Ruxin was so angry that he smoked, and shouted: "I want to see if you Lan Xu can come back from Xiangzhou alive!" As soon as these words came out, the entire lobby suddenly became a little cold, and at this time, Zhang Rang interjected and said: "Does the queen mother not exist below?"

Zhang Rang grinned and sneered: "Queen Mother, don't hide it, the three or five tricks you usually play are really narrower in my eyes, so you don't have to care about it in the past, a woman who doesn't go out of the door of a scholarly family is really ashamed of what she knows, sees and does!"

Li Ruxin exhaled a long breath, took a deep look at Zhang Rang, flicked his sleeves and turned to leave, but was almost vomited blood by Zhang Rang's words: "Won't the queen mother leave the next cruel word and leave?

After Li Ruxin left, Zhang Rang said: "Virtuous nephew, don't worry about carrying the coffin back, the old man will keep you from dying." Zhang Rang's eyes were faintly cold, the arrival of this queen mother today completely touched his bottom line.

Lan Xu nodded, frowned slightly, and said to Zhang Rang: "My lord, I still don't understand why Niangniang came today?" Zhang Rang replied: "I came to win people's hearts." ”

"Whose hearts are you winning?" Lan Xu still couldn't think of.

"Envelop Your Majesty's Sacred Heart!" After listening, Lan Xu thought for a while, and Zhang Rang then whispered: "It's just that the sacred heart is unpredictable, but the queen's move is really off, at this moment, Brother Lan's funeral can come to anyone, only two cannot, one is the majesty who forced Brother Lan to death in front of the palace, and the other is the queen who has been in politics for a long time, heh, some small things in the court Your Majesty can be regarded as not seeing, I obeyed Your Majesty's will and regarded as not seeing, all should give this queen who likes to scheming a little sweetness, but ......"

Zhang Rang's tone turned cold:

"The affairs of King Liang are also something that she can meddle in as a little woman?"

As soon as Xu Liangsheng and the others got off the boat, a group of fierce-looking strong men stood on the dock.

The leader shouted viciously: "Five taels of silver for one life!"

Xu Liangsheng said in a low voice: "It's like a water bandit." ”

Cao Zaidong muttered: "I also made such a lack of virtue business back then, like a big flood washing the Dragon King Temple. ”

"It's a big thing. ”