Two months ago, Lan Feng received news from Beijing that he was going to hold a "Jing Xuan Tea Party" in his mansion and invited them to attend.

When talking about the origin of this tea party, they were even more dumbfounded.

During the Lantern Festival, some officials from the court and the central government impeached Lan Feng, saying that he was a promiscuous man in the capital, and that in the past two years he had been flirting with the girls of various families who were about to be married. Although the women themselves did not dislike this popular new marquis.

, but after a period of time passed and Lan Feng did not come to any house to propose marriage, their parents would inevitably become resentful.

Lan Feng has Chu Xingyu as his concubine, but the position of the main wife has always been vacant. Many powerful people originally intended to make friends with her, but seeing that he was hesitant, they all thought that he was treating her as a "wonder" and deliberately attracting everyone.

compete.

Zhu Di didn't pay much attention to Lan Feng's romantic affairs. He only gave a slight verbal reprimand and left it alone. Someone went to Queen Xu Miaoyun again and asked her to take care of Lan Feng's bad habits that "brought harm" to the daughters of good families.

So Xu Miaoyun asked Lan Feng in a subtle way, asking him whose daughter he really liked. As a queen, she could act as a matchmaker to help him get married.

Lan Feng's answers were always noncommittal, and he hesitated several times without giving a definite answer. Xu Miaoyun was anxious and came up with the idea of ​​holding a tea party at Jingxuan Villa.

In the name of enjoying tea, she invited thirteen ladies from the capital who had had scandals with Lan Feng to attend the meeting. At the same time, she herself would also come as a queen to "glorify" her. When the time comes, all the girls will be present together,

It is equivalent to a large-scale "blind date". In the end, as long as she directly asks Lan Feng in front of everyone, forces him to answer, and then confirms the marriage with the woman he chooses on the spot, she can end these rumors related to him.

Lan Feng was still waiting to refuse at first, but Xu Miaoyun mentioned it many times and insisted on doing it. He had no choice but to set the date of the tea party on May 15th of this year and send the invitation to Yueyang.

Lan Qiao has not seen Lan Feng for three years since he came to Yueyang from the capital, so he decided to take this opportunity to take his family to the capital for a visit. At the same time, as his elder brother, he helped Lan Feng check and see what he was doing.

What kind of woman is the new sister-in-law?

Li Jingshu enjoyed being a matchmaker and was very excited when she heard about it. She and Feng Yeling had been staying in Yueyang for a long time, and they were looking forward to going out to have fun and change their mood.

They rented a gorgeous painting boat and planned to leave today to take the waterway to the capital. It would be very interesting to take a leisurely boat ride to enjoy the scenery and experience the local customs and customs along the way.

After everyone had breakfast, Shi Miaoer called the maids and servants to carry the last batch of items needed for the trip onto the boat.

The group was about to board the ship for a final inspection when Zhong Yan came over and said, "I received a letter this morning. It was sent from Hezhou."

Before Lan Qiao could speak, Li Jingshu's expression changed and she rushed to say, "Show it to me quickly."

Zhong Yan took out a letter from his sleeve, glanced at Lan Qiao hesitantly, saw Lan Qiao nodded slightly, and then handed it to Li Jingshu.

Li Jingshu opened the envelope, took out the letter, shook it in the air, smiled after reading it, then handed the letter to Lan Qiao and said, "It's the second uncle. They are well settled in Hezhou. Look."

When Chushui City was relocated, more than half of the residents were broken into pieces and moved to various prefectures and counties like nothing. They were converted into normal identities such as farmers and fishermen. There were also some residents who originally belonged to the Chushui Army because they wanted to continue

I want to stay in the army and serve in the army, so I hope to be transferred to a military household and be transferred to a place where war may occur.

The establishment of the Chushui Army has been disbanded. Thanks to Xie Jin's connections in the court, Lan Qiao was able to place a group of military households headed by Lan Daoxing into the border army in Hezhou to guard the important areas in Hexi for the Ming Dynasty.

This time Lan Daoxing received a letter, saying that the soldiers who followed him westward have now been settled in the Hezhou area. They are guarding the border and reclaiming wasteland. Many soldiers also used the remaining resettlement money to marry wives, and everyone is living a prosperous life.

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"This puts me at ease." Li Jingshu breathed a long sigh of relief, "Now the main war is still concentrated in the Tatar area. Guilichi was elected as the Great Khan by Arutai three years ago, and Arutai was appointed as the Taibao Privy Council

Zhiyuan, the two of them are at odds with each other, and there will be trouble sooner or later. In contrast, the northwest is relatively quiet, and the second uncle and the others should be able to live in peace for a few years."

She paused and then said: "Thanks to Mr. Jie's mediation in this matter, we were able to get so many quotas for the Hezhou border army."

Lan Qiao smiled and said: "After all, he has stayed in Hezhou, and now he is the chief minister of the cabinet. He is also responsible for compiling the "Yongle Dadian". He can be regarded as the most important minister in the world. He has only a few border army quotas. For him

It’s no big deal.”

Li Jingshu also smiled when she thought of her plan to assassinate Jie Jin, sighing that "the past cannot be pursued".

She looked at Zhong Yan, who was still standing aside, and then ordered: "You can deliver the things you plan to send to Sister Xiao this time after we set off."

"Yes." Zhong Yan stepped back.

After the incident in the capital was over three years ago, Li Jingshu personally apologized to Xiao Wuhen for failing to save Liu Yueyao's life.

After hearing the cause and effect of this incident, Xiao Wuhen sighed: "It's all fate. She has done many unjust things. I can't blame the eldest lady."

Then Li Jingshu invited Xiao Wuhen to go to Yueyang with her, but Xiao Wuhen declined her politely, saying that she wanted to find a place to raise Xu Qiuyu's surviving son alone and did not want to get too close to them.

Li Jingshu thought about it and finally got a property for Xiao Wuhen in Pingjiang County under the jurisdiction of Yuezhou Prefecture for her to live in peace. In this way, they were not in the same city, but not too far away, and there would be someone to take care of her if anything happened.

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Xiao Wuhen hesitated at first, but when Li Jingshu told her that Xu Qiuyu had been conferred the title of Pingjiang Bo by Zhu Yuanzhang for his previous achievements in the Northern Expedition, he readily accepted the arrangement.

A few months later, Xiao Wuhen gave birth to a son. Li Jingshu ordered the Zhong brothers to send Xiao Wuhen some rice, flour, cloth, and some candies and toys that children like every three months to ensure that their mother and son lived a worry-free life.

After everything was arranged, Lan Qiao and the others followed Shi Miaoer to the pier. Looking at the beautiful boat docked beside the trestle, they all felt extremely excited about this trip.

Except for the Zhong brothers, the Lu sisters and a few maidservants who stayed behind to look after the house, the rest of the servants would travel with the ship, along with Lanqiao, Feng Yeling, Li Jingshu, Zhu Qingxiao, Xia Shuang and Shi Miaoer.

He and his three children headed to the capital together.

Bai Xueyin was not in Yueyang at the moment, and they also sent a message asking her to go directly to the capital to meet everyone, and then return to Yueyang together.

After boarding the boat, Shi Miaoer hurriedly checked various items to see if there was anything she had forgotten. Feng Yeling smiled and advised her: "Don't be anxious, we are not in a hurry. Anyway, this Huafang can provide food and accommodation."

, it doesn’t matter if we weigh anchor in the afternoon.”

As they were talking, they saw a small fishing boat approaching from a distance. A bright girl was sitting on the bow of the boat, smiling and saying hello to the people on the boat. A young man dressed as a fisherman was standing on the stern of the boat, using his strength.

Riding the oar.

"Bring this with you." When the fishing boat approached, the young man lifted up the fishing net tied to the side of the boat, and the water poured down, revealing a large net of lively fresh fish.
Chapter completed!