Chapter 26: Guests at Ganlu Palace

Chen Ying returned the favor and led the warrior toward the wooden house. At this moment, the curtain of the carriage behind was lifted up, and a servant walked out of the carriage, helped Wu Yuanqing, Wu Yuanshuang and his brothers got out of the carriage.

When Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang saw Chen Ying, they knelt down very sensible and bowed: "Yuanqing, Yuanshuang pays homage to the teacher!"

Chen Ying helped Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang up. Chen Ying looked at Wu Yuanshuang and Wu Yuanqing wearing black scarves on their left arms. The black scarves were not worn randomly, which means that someone in the family died.

Chen Ying carefully observed the warrior and found that there was no black scarf on his arm. Mourning is not a random guard, only immediate relatives can keep filial piety. Among the Three Bonds and Five Constant Residents, the husband is the wife's leader. When the husband dies, the wife needs to keep filial piety. However, when the wife dies, the husband does not have to keep filial piety. Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang keep filial piety, but Wu Yuanshuang does not keep filial piety.

This shows that the person who died in the Wu family was not the elder or peer of the Warrior, but his junior. or his wife. Chen Ying shook his head, but Xiangli was in good health, unlike being sick or ill.

Chen Congtang newspaper saw that the warrior was originally a military position and served as the Wuwei Army. However, a month ago, he was changed to the position of Minister of Works, which was the third-rank official system. Chen Ying hesitated for a moment and pointed to the black scarf on the arms of the brothers Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang and asked, "Mr. Wu, this is..."

The eyes of the Samurai Tsui turned red. It turned out that the Samurai Tsui heard that Wu Yuanqing, Wu Yuanshuang and the Ancestor were in Taiyuan and almost died in war. The Samurai Tsui also changed his original intention and sent someone to take the Samurai Tsui and Wu Yuanshuang brothers to settle in Chang'an. The Samurai Tsui did this, which was actually a helpless move.

The Wu family's house in Taiyuan City was destroyed by war and burned to white ground. If you want to clean up and live in it, it may not be possible for two years. The death toll in Taiyuan was too large, and Liu Wuzhou's soldiers beat, smashed, looted and burned the city, doing all kinds of evil. Now even if you have money to repair the house, you can't find anyone.

The warrior thought that the Hedong had been pacified, so he sent an old servant with more than 20 entourages to Taiyuan to pick up the Xiangli family to Chang'an. However, the warrior was still too careless. The Wu family was well-off, and even if the old house was destroyed, they only lost some wealth. This time, from Taiyuan City to Chang'an, the Xiangli family carried six carriages, including three of them, carrying one carriage, two carriages, two carriages, two carriages, two carriages, and two carriages full of 30,000 taels of silver.

During the Tang Dynasty, although gold and silver were not currency, it was as the saying goes, antiques in prosperous times, gold and silver, yellow and white things were reserved in all major families. Xiangli carried 30,000 taels of silver, and 30,000 cars of silver sounded a lot, but in fact it was only more than 1,800 kilograms.

Originally, like Xiangli, there were many noble families who rushed from Taiyuan to Chang'an. Just when they met Jiexiu, a carriage carrying silver was broken, and the axle of the carriage dropped the silver box on the carriage to the ground, splitting. As the saying goes, wealth was not revealed, but this scene was seen by a defeated soldier from Tianxing Army.

So, the defeated soldiers of the Tianxing Army targeted Xiangli. As a result, Xiangli and his party encountered an attack when they passed through the Lingshi Hongya Valley. Although the Wu guards resisted desperately, they were outnumbered. They were attacked by the defeated soldiers and went to the carriage where Xiangli was riding. A wolf-toothed arrow was coincidentally right at the back of Xiangli. If it weren't for the Pingyang Princess Li Xiuning who accidentally passed by this place and killed the defeated soldiers, Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang would have died in the Lingshi Hongya Valley.

Hearing the experience of the warrior, Chen Ying had to sigh that his fate was impermanent. If Xiangli had arrived in Chang'an safely, he would probably not have taken the initiative to consider the issue of renewal of his marriage for his "integrity, frugality and loyalty" meritorious friend. Li Yuan chose the daughter of Yang Da, a nobleman of the Sui Dynasty, and asked Princess Guiyang to organize the marriage. All the marriage costs were paid by the state treasury.

Mrs. Yang, the wife of the warrior, was so successful that she gave birth to a generation of queen Wu Zetian. Now Xiangli is actually dead. Wouldn't it be said that Wu Zetian is about to be born?

"Mr. Wu, please feel sorry!" Chen Ying led the samurai into the wooden house, and the brothers Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang hurried behind the samurai. At this time, Chen Ying really couldn't see the fierceness and domineeringness of Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang.

The warrior waved his hand and said, "Xiang Niang's life is hard, and she can't blame others."

Although the Warrior said something dissatisfied, Chen Ying still saw a deep sadness between his eyebrows and eyes.

Lan'er obediently brought a cup of tea to the Samurai. The Samurai reached out to take it and blew the tea leaves gently. Seeing that the tea leaves on Chen Ying's mansion were dark green, with no oil at all, I was very surprised.

Li Yuan has good tea, but the Li family likes to eat tea soup when drinking tea. They mash the tea leaves into crushed foam, then add spices such as lamb oil, green onion, ginger, salt or star anise, and cook them into a thick pot of soup.

Chen Ying naturally drank such tea soup, but Chen Ying did not have the appetite of ancient people and could not stand this tea soup. He himself thought of selling it for fried tea, but it was a pity that fried tea would not catch any cold in the eyes of others.

The warrior frowned and drank a small sip with his eyes closed.

At first, I felt bitter and astringent. The warrior thought that there was no one in Chen Ying's mansion who was proficient in tea ceremony and there was no good tea. He smiled and said, "General Chen's tea... is bitter and tasteless. There are still a few maids in my mansion who are proficient in tea ceremony..."

Chen Ying laughed and explained: "Although this tea is a little bitter at first, it is a little sweet after it is bitter."

Warrior was patient and took a second sip. He felt nothing at first, but at this moment he felt a fragrance that spread from his internal organs to his limbs and bones, and there was a feeling of indescribable comfort. Warrior praised repeatedly: "Good tea, good tea, I didn't expect that General Chen was not only a famous general in a hundred battles, but also a master of tea ceremony."

"Everyone dares to be it!" Chen Ying smiled lightly, put down the teacup in his hand and said, "This tea and wine are like both civil and military, and can coexist without conflict. We men in the Tang Dynasty hold the Tang sword in their hands, kill the enemy in drunkenness during war, and tea and talk about scriptures during peacetime. The two are not wrong."

The warrior nodded deeply in agreement.

Chen Ying felt that the warrior came a little confused, so he took advantage of this skill and tried to ask: "I wonder what happened to Mr. Wu's minister visiting the humble house this time?"

The warrior was stunned for a moment and said in a slight sting: "Before her death, Xiangniang left a will, claiming that the dog was naughty, and only General Chen's disciples could keep their composure. I also asked General Chen to give advice to the child."

Warriors, though they are born into merchants, can see from ordinary people far apart from their perspectives. Although Chen Ying was not favored by Li Yuan, he was a powerful general of Li Jiancheng after all. After Li Jiancheng ascended the throne in the future, Chen Ying will at least be one of the generals of the left and right military guards or left and right imperial guards, especially the four guards are key departments that are not allowed to be appointed by them. Once the emperor and the ministers are made, Li Jiancheng will definitely reuse Chen Ying after Li Yuan abdicates.

His two sons became Chen Ying as their teacher and would be promoted by Chen Ying in the future.

In this era, the relationship between the teacher and the apprentice will never change in life. Once the apprentice betrays the master, it is like a son disobeying his father, and it is a very evil crime.

Chen Ying nodded and said, "But, Chen Ying is busy repairing the house now, just afraid of delaying the son."

Wu Yuanqing said, "Yuanqing is not young anymore, and he can serve his teachers and serve tea and water to avoid being strong!"

When Chen Ying heard this, he looked at Wu Yuanqing in surprise.

I didn't expect Wu Yuanqing to speak so smoothly in the scene.

Before Chen Ying could agree, he heard a voice like a duck from outside the door: "General of the Cavalry, is the Duke of Pengcheng County here? Our family came to pass the oral order of Your Majesty!"

Chen Ying hurriedly got up when he heard this. When Chen Ying walked outside the house, he immediately found that the person who came was not someone else, or his old acquaintance, Chen Qi. Chen Qi suddenly saw the warrior behind Chen Ying and said with joy: "No wonder we can't find the Minister of War Wu everywhere. Your Majesty ordered General Chen to meet with Minister of War Wu!"
Chapter completed!