Cui Lang smiled "hey": "It's the rule not to marry outside the four major clans..."
Although the five major gentry clans have all suffered heavy losses in recent years, and in severe cases, like the Zheng clan in Xingyang, their entire clans were separated or were bloodbathed by the rebel army. However, there are still too many people who insist on the principle of not marrying "common people", which is called "must be".
Preserve the noble bloodline.
For those aristocratic families who were hurt, this seemed to be the only way to resist and persevere.
Anyone in the clan who tries to disobey will be despised by them and become someone who will degenerate and tarnish the family tradition with their words and words.
With this background, Cui Lang is now the head of the family, and he is bound to have to take into account a lot of things about marriage. He is afraid that the clan will make preemptive decisions, so he will inevitably have the idea of changing the clan rules.
Seeing his mother and sister staring directly at him, Cui Lang hurriedly said: "...Didn't my mother just ask me to help my eldest brother plan? I am just thinking about my eldest brother's marriage!"
Mrs. Lu looked at him: "But your eldest brother has been exterminated long ago and is no longer under the control of the Cui family."
Cui Tang: "Even if the eldest brother has not been exterminated, the clan has never been able to control the eldest brother."
Lu Shi blinked: "Yes, then who will be controlled by the clan?"
Cui Tang raised his eyebrows: "Maybe he is the new head of the family."
"..." Cui Lang: "You two are singing the double act!"
Lu: "Tell me, which family do you want to marry?"
"It doesn't matter which family I want to marry..." Cui Lang dodged his eyes for a moment, stood there, moved his feet to the side, facing his mother and sister, put his hands behind his hands, coughed slightly, and said: "
The important thing is that our Cui family is destined to never go back to the past. Since we are going to have a new atmosphere, many of the old things from the past must be cleared away as soon as possible."
"It's true that the new official has three fires when he takes office, but what's wrong with the first fire? Why do you focus on the wedding first?" Mrs. Lu looked at her son and exposed it mercilessly: "It seems that the master of the house has selfish motives.
It’s very heavy.”
Cui Tang was still staring directly at his brother: "Brother has the woman he likes?"
Cui Lang blushed: "Don't talk nonsense!"
Cui Tang was shocked and his eyes widened slightly.
What surprised Cui Tang was not that his elder brother had someone he liked, but that he was as thick-skinned as his elder brother... and could actually blush.
Mrs. Lu had already raised her hand to signal the maid to close the door.
Cui Lang was frightened by this posture - how could he have the atmosphere of going to court to interrogate the prisoner!
"Right, wait!" Cui Lang was nervous, suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly shouted out the door: "Yi Ke, bring me what you brought in!"
Yipot responded and walked in quickly, holding two small palm-sized porcelain jars in his hands. After saluting, at Cui Lang's signal, he sent them to Mrs. Lu.
Lu couldn't help but ask: "What is this?"
Cui Lang: "It's a cream used to apply on the face. It's cold in the north. Applying it can protect the skin from getting chapped!"
Cui Tang couldn't help but ask: "Brother, where did you get it?"
"...Miss Qiao gave it to me. She asked me to give it to my mother-in-law and you!"
Cui Tang was stunned—Miss Qiao?
Mrs. Lu was also startled.
In this short gap, Cui Langchong winked at the pot, took two steps back, and ran out.
Yigu hurriedly bowed and ran to catch up with his husband.
"Hey!" Mrs. Lu stood up, but failed to stop her: "Why are you running? You're worthless!"
Mrs. Lu held a clay pot in her hand, glanced at it, and asked thoughtfully: "...Which Miss Qiao?"
Cui Tang pursed his lips and smiled: "It must be from Qiaoji Restaurant."
Mrs. Lu thought for a while and had an impression: "That girl from the Qiao family who suffers from eye disease?"
"Mother doesn't know that Madam Qiao's eye disease has been cured a long time ago." Cui Tang knows more about the world of officials and ladies in the capital than his mother: "And I heard that Madam Qiao has also become a female doctor, and now she seems to be following Chang.
Envoy around."
Lu was surprised: "The eye disease was cured and you became a female doctor?"
Cui Tang nodded.
Lu frowned slightly: "Still following Chang Jie envoy in and out of the army?"
Cui Tang nodded again, and the next moment, A Niang's eyebrows frowned deeper, and she said worriedly: "Then how can people like your brother?"
Cui Tang: "..." Suddenly I felt that my brother's running was quite wise.
"Ms. Qiao, has she come to Taiyuan with you?" Lu said, "If so, I will go and see you... It would be great if you can help me!"
If there are not enough sons, mothers must provide for them.
Marriage has always depended on the character of the family members. Ms. Lu has no other self-confidence, but she firmly believes that she will be a very capable mother-in-law - especially after her unlucky husband no longer controls her.
Mrs. Lu wanted to facilitate this marriage from the bottom of her heart - it would be a great thing if the two could be in love and form a good relationship.
What she did not have, her children will have.
Besides, the daughter of Qiao Ji Restaurant... no matter what, it was her son who got lucky. If it were the former playboy, how would he deserve it!
So, this is the right time.
Now that the opportunity is there, the rest is up to people.
Seeing his mother's expression of joy and approval, Cui Tang nodded in agreement: "Then my daughter will go and inquire about it tomorrow."
"I inquired but couldn't find him..." Cui Lang ran all the way out in one breath. He guessed that his mother-in-law definitely wanted to see someone, so he muttered to himself: "Miss Qiao is busy and has never followed her to Taiyuan."
Speaking of which, he originally wanted to take this opportunity to let Miss Qiao meet his family members...but Miss Qiao told him that she was going to Fan Yang with the army.
Cui Lang came to Taiyuan with Chang Sui Ning for important family affairs.
Chang Suining only brought 10,000 troops and horses, which were stationed outside Taiyuan City at this time. The remaining troops and horses were handed over to Bai Hong and Tang Xing to command, and they continued to the direction of Fan Yang to regain the city, and Kang Zhi also followed.
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The march was divided into two groups. Chang Suining came from the Cui clan in Taiyuan and to pacify the inner pass. Among the army heading to Fan Yang, there were many soldiers wounded in battle. There were also many soldiers who could not adapt to the cold in the north and were infected with the disease.
Wind chill——
Qiao Yumian has been busy with this, so she chose to follow Fan Yang without hesitation.
She told Cui Lang that with her as a doctor, she might be able to save a few more soldiers. As long as the army still needs her, she cannot abandon her responsibilities.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Cui Lang was stunned when he heard this, and the faint feeling of loss in his heart was completely washed away, but he was left with a sense of shame.
After that, I felt very proud.
He returned to his residence with Yourong Yan Cui Lang. After taking a bath, he sat in front of the mirror, scooped out a lump of milky white grease from the porcelain jar, put it on his cheeks and forehead with his index finger, and then carefully kneaded it evenly.
One pot makes me shiver just looking at it.
Cui Lang looked in the mirror and asked himself happily: "Why does it smell so good? How do you make it?"
After saying that, he got up and hummed a little tune, lay down on the bed, rested his arms on his head, and closed his eyes contentedly.
The next day, Cui Lang, who had gone to bed late, still got up early and ordered a pot, which was very surprising.
When he followed his husband out of the house, he looked back at the jar of ointment and realized that Doctor Qiao's product was magical and had the effect of curing laziness.
Cui Lang went to discuss matters with his tribe.
Next, these Cui clan members will go to the states recovered by Chang Sui Ning to take care of local affairs.
After occupying a city, garrisoning it with soldiers and horses is only the first step, and many heroes in troubled times often only stay at this step - if we talk about real governance, we need scribes to enter the scene, and ordinary rioters do not have the skills.
Such a huge group of scribes serves as support.
Therefore, after wars, order often breaks down and people are displaced. Although the victor wins a city, it loses the support of the people.
This is also one of the reasons why Chang Suining rushed to Taiyuan in person. She must finalize the governance of various places as soon as possible.
There are hundreds of Cui clan members here, and many of them have a huge network of scribes. With their presence, the states in Hebei Province that have been trampled by Fan Yang's army have hope of quickly rebuilding order.
The children of the major gentry clans have learned how to serve as officials and govern the world since childhood. This is their innate advantage.
Even though the order of the gentry was overthrown, in just a few years, the gap between them and most of the children from poorer families could not be quickly narrowed. Large-scale changes in civil affairs, education and politics would take time to catch up.
Chang Sui Ning had previously decided to work with Cui Jing to save the Zheng clan in Xingyang from being massacred, because he was worried that the Heluo culture would be broken or even regressed, which would be a loss for the great prosperity and the world.
The act of throwing stones into the water in the past seems to be echoing today. Some members of the Zheng family in Xingyang who were in dire straits wrote to Taiyuan a month ago, with the intention of seeking help.
Cui Lang and others quickly finalized the distribution of clan members, and letters to various places were also sent out to Taiyuan one after another.
Those letters were either invitations or lobbying, and most of them were written by Cui Lang himself. Using his name as the head of the "Taiyuan Cui family" and his sharp tongue, he praised his master Chang Jiushi in the letters and spared no effort to recruit talents.
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At this time, Chang Suining had already left Taiyuan Mansion and headed west.
Wei Shuyi and his imperial envoys escorted the coffin of Shuofang Jiedushi, and after many hardships, they finally arrived at Guannai Road.
There were thousands of imperial troops when they left the capital, but now there are only 500 left, and more than half of them have been lost.
What they saw and experienced along the way made the remaining people feel miserable, but at the same time they knew that entering the pass was where the real danger began.
What they will face directly is Shuofang's army, which is good at fighting and fierce but full of resentment towards the imperial court.
Lingzhou, where the governor of the Guan Nei Dao is based, has a city wall defense line that is much higher than elsewhere, winding for more than a hundred miles, isolating the wind and sand, and also protecting the people in the pass.
In the wind and snow, the much thinner Wei Shuyi stepped out of the carriage, looked at the endless city wall in the distance, and then looked back at the coffin of Shuofang Jiedushi, with a complicated and sad look in his eyes.
The Imperial Army escorting the coffin settled in a posthouse outside Lingzhou.
Before they could enter the city to spread the message, nearly a thousand Shuofang cavalry braved the wind and snow and came, drawing their swords and surrounding the entire post house.
The Imperial Guards, who were exhausted to the extreme, were extremely panicked.
Wei Shuyi straightened his clothes and did not allow the imperial guards to draw their swords for a confrontation. He stepped forward and under the light of the opponent's swords, he saluted the leader and showed his identity.
The leader was a military general, wearing animal skin armor, with a knife on his thick waist, a messy beard on his face, and a pair of triangular eyes with slightly drooped corners, filled with ferocious aura.
He did not look at Wei Shuyi carefully, but said clearly: "Please hand over the envoy's coffin to us."
"That's right." Wei Shuyi said, "I'm about to escort Yue Jie's coffin into the city, so I can go with you."
The general slightly raised the dry and flaky corner of his mouth and sneered.
At this time, a voice sounded from behind the general: "No need!"
It was a young man about fourteen or fifteen years old, wearing a linen coat and a white silk tie on his forehead.
He walked forward and stared at Wei Shuyi with red eyes: "My mother doesn't want to see you people! I will take my father home!"
"Master Yue Lang." Wei Shuyi knew the young man's identity, raised his hand with a look of shame, and bowed deeply.
Young Yue Chunyan looked at him, his eyes even more angry: "There is no need to be pretentious here!"
"Mr. Sir, please give me my condolences." Wei Shuyi straightened up, then raised his hand again and said, "Please also allow me to enter the city and personally apologize to my wife and all the generals."
"Apologise..." The young man clenched his fists: "What's the use of apologizing? Can it bring my father back!"
The young man raised his hand and pointed at Wei Shuyi: "It was you who killed my father! My father was wounded in battle and spent half his life stationed in the north. Can't he still be considered loyal? Why do you have to force him to go to Beijing alone?!"
No one stopped the young man's venting and questioning. Following these words, the Shuofang soldiers behind him all turned red with grief and anger. Their eyes looked at Wei Shuyi with even more hatred, and for a moment they overflowed with murderous intent.
Wei Shuyi bowed again and straightened up. His eyes, which were usually filled with laughter and chatter, were also slightly red at this moment.
At this point, he has seen that the husband of the Yue family has probably been incited by others.
But today he must enter Lingzhou City with the coffin.
Apologizing is one of them, but more importantly, he must see the wife of the Yue family and more military generals who have the right to speak, so that he can possibly calm down the anger of Shuofang's army.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Wei Shuyi knew very well that if he could not go today, he would not have a chance to speak again, and there is also the possibility that someone would use this to accuse the imperial envoy of acting arrogantly.
, in order to incite the Shuofang army to rebel.
He couldn't just stay in this inn without making any sound, otherwise his trip would be in vain.
No matter what he does, it is a huge risk, but he can risk death, but it cannot be worthless.
Facing the young man's accusations and even scoldings, Wei Shuyi never refuted even a word.
It wasn't until he saw the young man shed tears that he spoke at the right time: "That's why Yue Jiezhi cannot be allowed to die in vain, and the hero's soul cannot rest in peace under the Nine Springs——"
"The imperial court has done something about Yue Jie Envoy, so Wei came here to plead guilty to the court." Wei Shuyi looked at the young man and said, "But the person who really deserves to be killed is not the murderer of Yue Jie Envoy?"
The general said angrily: "The murderer Wan Yantai is dead, so what's the use of these empty words!"
"Although Wan Yantai, the envoy of Jiannan Jiedu, is dead, the mastermind behind it is still alive." Wei Shuyi still only looked at the young man and said: "The person who instigated Wan Yantai to commit the murder is none other than King Rong Li Yin."
Wei Shuyi's words made the Shuofang troops behind the young man change their expressions, and they exchanged uncertain looks.
Not every ordinary person has a keen sense of political conspiracy. They were stationed in the north, and the only news they received was that Yue Guang was murdered in Beijing, and the perpetrator Wan Yantai had been killed on the spot - the murderer was dead, so they naturally
All the anger was transferred to the court.
But this is just the perception of most ordinary sergeants.
When Yue Chunyan and the general named the leader heard this, they were not too surprised. Their positions and identities meant that what they heard and saw would be more comprehensive. Naturally, they also deeply thought about Wan Yantai as King Rong.
possibility of action.
"So what if it's Prince Rong who instigates it... Prince Rong deserves to die, does that mean the court is innocent!"
After the young man finished speaking, he suddenly pulled out the long sword behind him, took a big step forward, and pointed at Wei Shuyi.
The sword pointed straight at Wei Shuyi's chest. Instead of hiding, Wei Shuyi took a step forward.
