In Wu Huaiyi's house, the warrior Ke was sitting in the hall, proudly talking about today's actions. Wu Liu complained that he still took risks despite his age.
Lao Wu opened his robe, revealing the iron chain mail underneath.
"It's a good deal to earn a piece of soft armor."
This iron chain armor was prepared for Lao Wu from above, and was directly rewarded to him afterwards. Lao Wu was very good at it, and such an iron chain armor was more expensive than an ordinary two-crotch Mingguang.
Huaiyu took over the house in Yongxingfang, said hello to Wei Zheng, then went to the Duke Yiguo's Mansion in the samefang to say hello to Qin Qiong's wife, County Master Li, and then hurried to Huaiyi.
"Aye, are you okay?"
"The Turkic wolf cub didn't even touch me. He was captured as soon as he showed his head." Lao Wu pulled Huaiyu to look left and right. "Are you okay? I heard that you were the one who discovered the Turkic wolf cub's actions."
of?"
"It was Er Pangzi who realized something was wrong first." He briefly explained what happened.
"What? Tell me what? Your Majesty has given you a large house with 18 acres of land in Yongxingfang?" Lao Wu's excited voice rose several times.
"Well, it used to be the villa of King Li Yuan of Lujiang. It was well built, with a courtyard, a pond, a rockery, and a bamboo forest..."
Lao Wu was very excited, "It's such a good thing, when will we move here?"
Lao Wu was not polite at all, "Da Lang's house is too small and not spacious at all." Lao Wu forgot about the Sanyuan Longqiao Fort. In fact, the small courtyard of Wu's five-hole cave dwelling was even less spacious.
"We can move there after we clean it up. It will be close to my sister's house by then, just across Chongren and Pingkang Erfang in the south."
After coming over to see that Lao Wu was okay, Huaiyu breathed a sigh of relief and hurried back to Huaiyuanfang to deliver the moon cake to Fan Xuanfu.
It's just that the Rongguo Duke's mansion, which usually had no defense against Wu Huaiyu, actually let Huaiyu get a shut-in today, and the gatekeepers refused to let him in.
"I brought a moon cake to Lady Fan. Eunuch Zhang from the palace asked me to bring it."
"Leave the things for Erlang and hand them over to your wife. Erlang, please take them back." The slave in Qingyi blocked the door and refused to let him in.
"What?"
"Auntie is angry." Qingyi's servant couldn't offend Wu Huaiyu. The two of them are so close. If they are angry today, what if they get along again tomorrow?
"Is she at home?"
The servant advised him to go back first and come back tomorrow.
"It's convenient." Huaiyu touched his body, took out two silver coins from his purse, and gave one to each of the two servants in Tsing Yi.
The servants were a little embarrassed, but this one piece of silver could be converted into one hundred and sixty Kaiyuan Tongbao, which was quite tempting to them. Moreover, Wu Erlang's relationship with his wife was also obvious, so no one dared to really offend him.
Although they were the sons-in-law of Duke Rongguo, they were still slaves of the Fan family.
"Shall we go and inform Erlang again?"
"I'll go with you."
The servant had no choice but to take him into the mansion, but at the entrance to the backyard, Lady Fan's sword maid stopped him.
Four sword maids, each holding a sword and leaning on a horse, guarded the gate of the courtyard.
"Where is the eldest lady?" Huaiyu raised the moon dumpling box in his hand, "Prince Supervisor Zhang asked me to bring the moon dumplings to the aunt."
A swordswoman named Wushuang who was also familiar with Huaiyu said to him helplessly: "Don't you know what Erlang did? The eldest lady is angry. She ordered no one to come in and disturb her, otherwise we will chop her with our swords and feed them to the dogs."
go."
Seeing this, Huaiyu had no choice but to hand the moon group to Wushuang, "Please help me pass the things to the eldest lady and let her calm down. I will come back to apologize to her tomorrow."
backyard.
Wushuang came in carrying the moon group box.
Fan Xuanfu was practicing swordplay. She took out the seven-foot-long horse-killing giant sword that she rarely used, and swung it fiercely. The super-long sword whirred, and the blade was as bright as snow.
With a final scream, he jumped up high and slashed with his sword, splitting a dummy in half.
"Madam, please take a rest."
"he's gone?"
"Well, I left a box of moon cakes."
"If anyone cares about it, just feed it to the dogs."
"Madam, this was brought by the palace. Supervisor Zhang gave it to you for the holidays."
"Oh, then stay."
Wushuang took the scabbard and helped Fan Xuanfu put away the giant horse-slaying sword.
Panxuanfu glanced at the Yuetuan box, got up and walked out.
"Where are you going, Madam? She has already gone back!"
"I'm going for a walk."
Fan Xuanfu quickly walked out of Rongguo Duke's Mansion. He didn't see a good figure at the door. He gritted his teeth and looked angry on his jade face.
He glanced at Wu Zhai opposite him, unable to move his legs.
During this time, I ran to the opposite side every day, and it felt like my own yard.
"Are you looking for me?"
Suddenly that familiar voice sounded, and Wu Huaiyu actually jumped down from the wall of Fan's courtyard.
"Why are you climbing on my courtyard wall?"
"I wanted to sneak over the wall to the backyard to find you, but when I saw you coming out in a hurry, I hurried out again." Huaiyu smiled playfully.
"Humph." Fan Xuanfu turned around and walked back. Huaiyu stepped forward to stop him and reached out to hold her hand. She shook it off, and Huaiyu took it again.
"Are you angry with me? It's my fault, I'm wrong."
"Are you wrong? Where are you wrong?" Fan Xuanfu put his hands on his hips. He looked like he was angry with Huaiyu's ex-girlfriends. It was surprising to imagine that this woman, whether she is from the south or the north, is...
Whether you are in your teens or seventeen or eighteen, whether you are studying or working, the way you look when you are angry is the same.
Huaiyu is quite experienced and knows that he needs to be coaxed at this time, so he just needs to be coaxed.
"It's all my fault that An Yuanshou made a surprise attack on me. He asked me to do something. They were all colleagues. I thought it was hard to refuse, so I did it. Later, he asked me to take him to visit my fourth uncle. You
I also know that the Anyuanshou family is a powerful force in Liangzhou, and my fourth uncle has just been sent out to be the governor of Liangzhou..."
At this time, Huaiyu had no choice but to sacrifice An Yuanshou and put all the blame on him. It's better to die as a fellow Taoist than to die as a poor Taoist.
"That Hu Ji was really given to me suddenly, including the small courtyard in Yankangfang, which was also arranged by him. I was just concerned about the relationship between the Anwu and Wu families, and couldn't refuse at the moment, for fear of embarrassing my fourth uncle.
The state has an influence...”
Fan Xuanfu listened to his explanation, and his expression looked better, but he was still a little reluctant, "You're going to give it to him if he gives it to you?"
"That's nice to say. Someone forced it on you, so why don't you stay there for two days in a row?"
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"I was wrong, I should have firmly refused."
"I didn't let you refuse, you men all do this, but why did you hide it from me? Had this not happened today, you would have still planned to hide it from me?
If you really like that Orchid, if you like something new and novel, I won’t object. I, Aye, have also adopted four Orchids, one from Persia, one from Fulin, one from Kang, and one from Shi. You shouldn’t hide it from me.
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Fan Xuanfu, who was overturned by jealousy, was very frightened. Fortunately, Huaiyu's posture was good and he quickly coaxed her to calm down a lot.
Huaiyu gave her enough face, but it made it difficult for her to make trouble again.
"I will ask An Yuanshou to take him away tomorrow and return the house to him."
"Don't."
Fan Xuanfu snorted coldly, "You have accepted the people and the house, and now you have to give them back two days later. How can you still do things like this? Are you not doing this to insult Liangzhou An's face? From now on you will
How to get along with An Yuanshou, your fourth uncle will still have to get along with An when he goes to Liangzhou."
"Then I will listen to you how to deal with it."
Fan Xuanfu sighed, "What else can I do? Bringing the person back is just a concubine."
She could tolerate concubines and maidservants, but she could not allow it to be kept outside the house. Even the ladies of the Tang Dynasty would not allow their husbands to keep housewives outside the house.
It is absolutely not allowed for housewives to not be under the control of their wives and even give birth to illegitimate children.
If he encounters a jealous and tough lady, he will even directly knock on the door, beat the other housewife first, even cut her hair, and then ask someone to drag her away and sell her far away.
They coaxed Fan Xuanfu into Wu's house again.
"Today, His Majesty rewarded me with a large house and eighteen acres of land in Yongxingfang, which was originally Li Yuan's villa..."
"I know that house. I heard that it is quite well built, with the elegance of the south of the Yangtze River." Fan Xuanfu didn't pay much attention to it. It was just a separate courtyard, which was not unusual at all.
"We will live in Yongxingfang from now on. Today I have gone with Xiao Huangmen to pick up the room. How about we go there together tomorrow to clean up and see if there is anything that is not to your liking. You can change it as you say."
These words made Fan Xuanfu very happy and made her feel like a mistress.
"The house has several courtyards. You pick one tomorrow. We will live in the one we like. Then I, Aye, my mother-in-law, will have a courtyard, and my brother will have a courtyard..."
Fan Xuanfu did not object to a large family living together. In the Tang Dynasty, parents did not separate their families among brothers. If they separated, they would still be punished. The Tang Dynasty emphasized "filial piety" to govern the world.
Unlike the Sui Dynasty, which advocated small households and even forbade relatives above the level of great merit to live in the same household, people with the same ancestor had great merit, that is, when they were cousins, they had to separate households and set up households, thereby strengthening control over the household registration population.
"Shall we go to my parents' place in Guangdefang later to worship the moon and eat moon cakes together?"
There was no one else in the study, so Huaiyu directly took her hand and hugged her over. She pushed a few times, and finally let him hug her. She leaned against his broad chest and felt the heartbeat. She was originally very angry.
She was left with a red face and red ears, like a deer stumbling around.
Yongxingfang.
Next door to Huaiyu's new residence, the Wei Zheng family's house is only slightly smaller than Wu Huaiyu's house by three acres, and it just lacks the three-acre pond. Wei Zheng's house was a gift when it was originally built, and it basically remains the same as when he took it over a few years ago.
It doesn't add anything to the appearance.
The house was very dilapidated when we took it over and lacked repairs. Now it is even more dilapidated.
The back garden was originally abandoned, but Wei Zheng was asked to grow vegetables and even a piece of grain for wine making.
In Yongxingfang, which is close to the imperial city, Wei Zheng was responsible for growing grain and vegetables.
Normally, Wei Zheng likes to drink a pot of wine in the evening, and then read and write remonstrances in the study, but today Wei Zheng sat there absent-mindedly, looking up to look next door from time to time.
Wei Zheng's wife Pei was weaving in the room on the other side. In the past, the chirping of his wife's weaving could calm his mind and even calm his mind.
But today, he was even more distracted.
He simply put down the book, walked out of the study with his hands behind his back, walked around and walked to the courtyard wall adjacent to the house next door, and stood there looking at it.
"What have you been doing here for a long time, staring at the adjacent wall?" Mrs. Pei saw her husband acting abnormally in the weaving room, so she stopped the loom and came over to ask.
"His Majesty rewarded that house to Wu Erlang."
"But Takejiro, the military inspector you impeached before?"
"Now Zuo Qianniu is ready to escort Qianqi Envoy," Wei Zheng said.
"Wu Qianniu got a reward, why are you so excited?"
"I impeached him again today. As soon as the bullets were delivered, Wu Huaiyu had to reward him with a big house, and he gave me the one next door..." Wei Zheng looked resentful.
"Did the saint deliberately reward our neighbor?"
"What do you think?"
"What's the purpose of this?"
"Isn't this obvious?" Wei Zheng sighed.
"Perhaps it's just a coincidence. The moon is so beautiful during the Mid-Autumn Festival tonight. You ask Dalang Erlang and others to carry the altar table to the courtyard and set it up. I will go get the altar to worship the moon and eat moon dumplings later." Pei said.
At this moment, a dark cloud came from the sky and covered the bright moon. Wei Zheng looked up at the sky in confusion!
