Cao Guogong, Li Jinglong Mansion.
In the back garden, under the grape trellis where buds had just sprouted, Li Jinglong, dressed in suede silk clothes, sat on a rocking chair.
There was a tea table at hand, with hot tea and fresh fruits placed on it. There were also two pretty maids standing in front of her, one beating her legs and the other rubbing her shoulders. The two maids were both in their 20s and had delicate and soft hands.
This is the so-called blessing of Qi people, but Li Jinglong was a little absent-minded, staring blankly at the sky, thoughtfully.
Suddenly, there was a sound of footsteps.
Then the shrill voice of Li Jinglong's daughter-in-law, Deng Shi, rang out, "We can stay at home together and I can do the work alone? If Mr. Cao Guogong is at home, will you hug him all day long and not care about anything?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Deng's figure had already arrived.
The two maids in front of Li Jinglong immediately stood up with their hands down like frightened rabbits.
Deng was walking in a hurry, and there was some sweat on her forehead. Seeing Li Jinglong still rocking in the rocking chair, she said angrily, "I'm talking to you, do you have chicken feathers stuffed in your ears?"
Li Jinglong turned his head slightly, frowned and said displeased, "Look at you, why are you speaking so vulgarly? This is in our home, how can we make other people laugh outside?" He then looked at his wife, "You also come from a famous family.
Yeah, why can't you be gentler and know some etiquette!"
Mrs. Deng was also displeased, "Who are you looking for to be gentle? What a famous family. My father was a robber back then, and I am the daughter of a bandit leader. I didn't know what gentleness was when I was born!" As she said that, she looked up and down again.
Li Jinglong sneered, "Huh, I don't understand etiquette. But when something happened to you, who would kneel down and kowtow to beg you when something happened to you? It wasn't me! Now you dislike me, dislike me, what the fuck are you doing?
Don’t marry me in the first place! I don’t know who it is. When my father was alive, he would come to my house eight times a day.”
"Now that I'm old, I don't like you anymore. Sometimes I don't understand etiquette, sometimes I'm not gentle, and sometimes I don't have talent. But at the beginning, I didn't ask you to marry me."
Li Jinglong's scalp was immediately numb with a barrage of merciless retorts.
He quickly apologized and turned sideways on the recliner, "Okay, okay, okay, okay, I was wrong. I was wrong. Isn't that okay? Auntie, please leave me alone!"
"Who doesn't want you to be clean? You just lie here every day and don't care about anything!" Sitting opposite Li Jinglong, Deng said, "No, you have to get up and move around. In addition to going to the palace every day to order
Mao, you seem to have been sitting on this chair for a day!"
"I want to do some activities too, where the hell should I go?" Li Jinglong said aggrievedly.
After saying that, I couldn't help but feel aggrieved. Li Jinglong, Duke of Cao Kingdom, had nowhere to go now. Although he had to enter the palace every day and could see the emperor's grandson, he, Li Jinglong, had no real power now.
After he came out of the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, although the Sacred Heart was still there, His Highness still treated him as before. He loved to take him with him wherever he went, and he also liked to talk to him on weekdays. However, the chief soldier of the Beijing Camp asked Chang Sheng to change him.
The position of commander of the army in front of the palace was also given to others, leaving only a minister of the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion, but that was a sinecure with no power at all.
Is it possible that he goes to the Governor's Mansion of the Fifth Army every day to sit in the office, drink tea and chat? He, Duke Cao, Li Jinglong, cannot afford to disgrace that person!
"Why is it like this?"
Li Jinglong thought aggrievedly, he had finally risen to prominence over the years, but now he has become an idle nobleman. He has no power and a lot of money-free hats on his head. He is not willing to accept it.
Seeing her husband like this, Mrs. Deng also sighed, sat down and picked up a fruit, peeled a piece and said, "Well, there's no point in being an official. You are a hereditary duke, and your family has so much property, but you are still afraid of poverty."
In the past, when you were away from home all day long, even though you looked like a powerful person, I didn’t feel at ease at all!"
"Now that I have no official position, I am light-hearted. Isn't it nice to go to the palace every day to talk to His Majesty the Emperor? You are the Duke of the country and a relative of the Emperor. Maybe one day you will be in power again!"
With that said, he handed the peeled fruit to Li Jinglong and continued, "I know you are used to being busy and feel unhappy when you are free, but if the wind and water turn around, you won't be able to make all the good things! It just so happens that now that you are without an official, you are light, so be good
Wouldn't it be nice to play with our son, take care of his studies, and teach him to ride and shoot?"
Hearing this, Li Jinglong turned over again, turned to look at his wife, took the fruit and took a bite, and sighed, "You are just a woman, what do you know?" After saying that, he took another bite and said, "Hey, these days, a man's hands are so good.
If you have no power, who can respect you?"
Deng felt it was funny and said, "You are a fan of officials!" After saying that, he stood up and said, "You don't like being an official, you just like the feeling of being an official."
With a squeaking sound, Li Jinglong even chewed up the core of the fruit and did not say anything.
"No matter how much you want to be an official, you don't have a serious job now!" Deng said again, "You have to take care of the family affairs!"
Li Jinglong stretched out his hand and let the maid wipe her fingers, "What's going on at home?"
"Isn't it a matter of favors? From the Chinese New Year to now, New Year's gifts have been held in various places. In a few months, the Dragon Boat Festival will be held. How can we return gifts? You, the head of the family, don't give me some rules?" Deng said with a frown.
"Just see if you can do it!" Li Jinglong turned around and lay down again.
"What should I do? What should I do? People who come and go in the capital go back as usual, but what about those who don't?" Madam Deng pinched Li Jinglong's thigh, "Also, the old lady of the Marquis Cheng'en Mansion
It’s my fortieth birthday and I just posted a post, what kind of gifts should we use?”
"Be gentle and pinch my flesh!" Suddenly, Li Jinglong sat up and looked at his wife blankly, "What? Marquis Chengen? Just the Zhao family?"
Mrs. Deng smoothed down her hair and said with a smile, "Apart from the mother clan of the Empress of the East Palace, who else is the Marquis of Chengen? Your life will be confused!"
Li Jinglong sat up and said while thinking, "No way, their family is the most low-key, why do they suddenly celebrate their birthdays in such a big way?"
"Yesterday I went to visit, and Mrs. Houfu said that this was the intention of the palace. His Highness said that since it is the 40th birthday, it will be lively!" After saying this, Mrs. Deng smiled and said, "I heard that on the day of my birthday,
The Empress of the East Palace still has to carry King Wu back to sit down for a meeting!"
"God damn help me!"
Bang, Li Jinglong patted the thigh of the girl next to him and thought to himself.
The reason why he does not have a real official position now is because of what happened to Prince Ning. It was a blessing that the incident passed so lightly. God's grace did not bother him. Even if he still has the holy family, if he wants to give it to him again,
He holds an official position with real power, but has no reason.
It is not easy to fawn over the grandson of the emperor. His highness's prestige is growing day by day, and the more he looks like the old man, the more his ministers can only obey him.
The only thing left to do is to please the Empress of the East Palace and the King of Wu.
"Gifts to the Zhao family should not be too ostentatious!" Li Jinglong rolled his eyes and said, "Don't give eye-catching things like gold and jade. They are not only eye-catching but also vulgar."
Mrs. Deng looked at him and took two steps back, "Don't let me go to my parents' house to look for her again. I'm too embarrassed to go back to my parents' house now. My sister-in-law and siblings won't look down upon me when I go back!"
Li Jinglong suddenly said, "Um, how many Qi-enhancing pills Taoist Master Xi gave our mother?
Taoist Xi is Xi Yingzhen who saved the old man. This matter is now spread in the capital like crazy. People say that Taoist can live to death with human flesh and white bones. The nobles from various families are looking for him everywhere like red-eyed chickens. There are people in the small Taoist temple for twelve hours.
Staring.
Everyone is afraid of death. Who wouldn’t want to know a Taoist with such superb medical skills?
"Old lady, there are probably two boxes left!" Deng thought about it and said.
Although Li Jinglong is utilitarian, he is a filial son. He used to go to that Taoist every year to prepare some health-preserving medicine for the old lady. As people get older, there will always be something wrong. If they take other people's medicine, the old lady will not say that she is not sick or in trouble.
, Anyway, there is no loss of Qi and blood.
"Take out four of them and put them in a sandalwood box!" Li Jinglong said, "Don't show off, secretly send them to the Zhao family's back house, and say that they were prepared by Taoist Xi personally. Now there are only four of them!"
Madam Deng frowned, "Where's the old lady?"
"That pill is one pill a month. There are more than ten pills in two boxes. It doesn't matter if you take four!" Li Jinglong rolled his eyes at him, "Besides, they are just health pills, not life-saving elixirs!"
"I know!" Deng turned around suspiciously.
"Remember, don't say that there are only the last four left!" Li Jinglong warned, "otherwise, if others hear about it and come to ask for it, they won't be able to survive!"
"I know, I'm not that stupid!" Madam Deng suddenly turned around as she walked, "Hey, since you are willing to give it to others, I will also take two pills later and go back and give them to my mother." As she said that, she frowned and said, "
My mother has been very kind to you over the years!"
"You" Li Jinglong sighed and waved his hand impatiently, "Take it, take it, anyway, our old lady must keep a box. That old man Xi, the dragon has seen its head but not its tail. I'll see you next time, maybe it's the Year of the Monkey and the Horse.
!”
Hearing this, Mrs. Deng walked away with a smile.
Li Jinglong began to rock on the rocking chair again.
"Hey!" Something suddenly occurred to him.
With a snap, he patted the thigh of the maid next to him again.
"I still have one more achievement!"
This chapter has been completed!