In the house, Xu Da was the same. Without outsiders, he didn't need to maintain the elegance of a counselor. He gulped and swallowed, not caring about burning it. He ate while blowing, and he just wanted to bury his head in the bowl of noodles.
After finishing the last sip of soup, he took out the handkerchief to wipe the corners of his mouth and belched with satisfaction.
"Is this your new delicacy?" Xu Da asked curiously.
Seeing his family members nodding, he thought that as soon as he left, the whole family would start to live a prosperous life, while he would still have to endure the wind and rain on the battlefield, struggling to deal with those powerful warlords, which almost made him feel sad.
However, Wang's question quickly interrupted the sadness that he had no time to brew.
"Who are those guards?" Wang glanced towards the kitchen.
Xu Da explained: "The guards sent by Gongsun Zan to escort me home will send me back again in a few years."
Seeing the curious expressions on his family members' faces, and thinking that lunch was almost done, Xu Da briefly talked about the past few months since he had been away from home.
First of all, this war has stopped now.
After Gongsun Zan captured Bohai County, he followed Xu Da's advice and did not choose to kill Zhao Yu at this time.
Instead, he adopted his suggestion and sent experts to rescue the envoy from Yuan Zhao and Zhao Yu's son.
Thinking that Cao De might have known about the fact that the young emperor had sent an envoy, which would cause complications, Xu Da suggested that Gongsun Zan suspend his attack on Hejian.
After all, they still have to keep the Yuan family to compete with the Cao family, otherwise, once the Gongsun family swallows up Jizhou, they will face pressure from the three parties of the Yuan family, the Cao family, and their own base camp in the rear.
Balance, these two words, Xu Da implemented them thoroughly.
So, he first imprisoned the rescued envoy, and then sent Zhao Yu's son to Zhao Yu in exchange for stability in the rear.
After appeasing Zhao Yu, he pretended to send troops to invade Hejian. Yuan Song, the governor of Hejian, was frightened and hurriedly sent an envoy to make peace.
With this, Xu Da asked for a large amount of compensation from the defeated party, the Yuan family, to make up for all the losses in Youzhou in this battle according to what his family members had told him before.
What's funny is that when Xu Da asked Jizhou for compensation, Gongsun Zan and his staff were shocked, as if they had never heard of such a shameless operation.
Xu Da still clearly remembers the disbelieving expressions of these staff members at that time.
In particular, Gongsun Zan's thoughtful expression when he said: "How could it be like this?" was still fresh in his memory.
That expression was mixed with regret for missing a lot of things, and was extremely complicated.
You know, in the early years, Gongsun Zan earned his reputation as White Horse General by severely attacking the Wuhuan and Huns.
Now whenever he thinks about how he defeated these foreign enemies and did nothing else, such as asking them for war compensation or something, Gongsun Zan's flesh begins to ache.
As a result, all this regret was superimposed on Yuan.
Yuan Song, who was in charge of the peace talks, went numb when he heard the compensation figure.
But this was not the end. With some thoughts of revenge, Xu Da took the initiative to ask Ying to be the envoy of the peace talks and came to Hejian in person to meet with Yuan Song.
The moment the two met face to face, the scene was truly beautiful.
Thinking of the scene where Yuan Song threw his ass away because he was so shocked, Xu Da can still laugh out loud now.
"Dad, what did you do to the governor of Hejian?" Seeing her father's happy expression that his great revenge had finally been avenged, Xu Yue couldn't help but asked curiously.
Xu Da smiled, motioned for his family members to come closer, and said in a low voice:
"Don't you want me to lower the compensation? I said, if you stay in the toilet for a quarter of an hour, I will give you a compensation of 10,000 pieces of cloth. If you can stay for half an hour, I will pay you a compensation of 20,000 pieces of cloth. So,
And so on."
Hearing what Dad said, the mother and son all hissed and raised their middle fingers at Xu Da: You are really good!
Xu Dahun didn't care about his family's teasing, he felt happy anyway.
"How long has he stayed?" Xu Erniang asked.
Xu Da shook his head regretfully: "It took only an hour before I couldn't bear it anymore and ran out."
Xu Yue calculated the result, "That would save 40,000 pieces of cloth."
"It's just 40,000 pieces of linen. I didn't say whether it was silk or silk. Hahahaha, the old boy's face turned black at the time. It was so satisfying!"
Xu Da smiled wildly and said, "If I hadn't been able to kill him, how could I have allowed him to be so happy?"
Xu Yue rubbed the goose bumps on her arms and said to herself: Don't mess with anyone, don't mess with my dad!
If you offend your mother and brother, you can die happily. If you offend your father, look at Yuan Song, he may never be able to escape the shadow left by his father.
If he had known today, I wonder if he regretted treating his father like that?
"What are those big boxes of yours?" Wang stood up and asked while walking towards the wooden box.
Xu laughed enough, restrained his wildness, coughed twice, stood up and came to the wooden box, and waved mysteriously to Xu Yue,
"Young lady, come and see what good things daddy has brought for you."
"Is it just me?" Xu Yue asked in surprise.
Xu Da nodded. Xu Erniang and Xu Dalang immediately gave him a cold look. In this family, those who are treated differently will be beaten by a group!
Wang's cold eyes also turned away, and Xu Da immediately raised his hand in a gesture of surrender, "I have them all, but the younger ones have the most, but this is also beneficial to our whole family. You will know after seeing it."
Good for the whole family?
A bold guess came to Xu Yue's mind, and her breathing became rapid.
The whole family gathered around and signaled Xu Yue to open the box quickly.
Xu Yue took a deep breath, stretched out her little hand, and opened the cover, revealing rolls of tightly wrapped bamboo slips in front of everyone.
"It's a book!" Xu Erniang exclaimed.
Xu Dalang couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, "There are so many books."
Wang helped open the remaining boxes. Except for one box of strange local specialties, the rest were all bamboo slips.
"Did you rob some great Confucian's house?" Wang shook her head, feeling unbelievable.
You should know that in this era, such ancient bamboo slips are basically handed down from an older era, and some of the contents may have been lost or become unique copies.
Most scholars would enshrine a single volume as a family heirloom, let alone so many.
Xu Da did not hide anything and admitted it generously.
"A famous scholar in Bohai County refused to obey even if he refused to die. Gongsun Zan had such a violent temper that by the time I found out, he had already beheaded people."
"Knowing that I was collecting various ancient books, calligraphy and paintings, I ordered people to send me all these bamboo slips."
Speaking of this, Xu Da felt that Gongsun Zan was quite interesting and he was indeed very kind to him.
It's not in vain that he tried so hard to wipe his butt.
You must know that such a great scholar has many old friends and disciples. If one of them is not handled well, it will trigger another riot.
In order to nip such a potential crisis in the bud, he held the great scholar's funeral in a glorious manner, and even asked Gongsun Zan to give a speech at the funeral, praising him for his integrity and "suicide" as a martyrdom.
Of course, I would like to take this opportunity to "advise" all the students to cherish their lives and not to be impulsive and follow in the footsteps of my husband.
