Tao Qian and Wang Yun are currently recuperating in a new Taoist temple next to Pengcheng. The two old men are following Yu Ji to maintain health and practice Qi, and their daily lives are very nourishing.
However, if the pottery merchant shows up, it means that the two old men's prosperous days are over.
As the saying goes, don't go to the Three Treasures Hall if you have nothing to do. Tao Xiaozi belongs to the Sangmen Star level. If he shows up, there must be something wrong.
After listening to the potter's description of the purpose of his visit, Tao Qian felt a little like he was dreaming.
"Get married to the emperor? Who do you think you are? Even if the emperor is in trouble and lives in Fan County, he is still the emperor! You want him to be our Tao family's son-in-law? You want to have sex with Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, but you won't let him!
"
Upon hearing this, the Tao merchant said helplessly: "This matter must be done. Only by allowing the emperor to marry our Tao family, and our Tao family becoming relatives of the royal family, can we be qualified to compete with Yuan Shao... As for the specific operation method, then
Don't worry about it, I'll take care of it all."
Tao Qian snorted when he heard this: "You are capable! You are the most capable! You can do anything! If you have the ability, why don't you come to me?"
The potter smiled bitterly and said: "Don't I have to ask you to give me a child? Our family is very thin, just my second brother and I. We don't even have a girl. I don't know what your body is at that time."
If it's not good or something, we can give birth to two..."
Tao Qian thought about it for a long time before he came to his senses, picked up his crutch and gave the pottery a good beating.
After the fight, the two men continued talking about business.
"Actually, I have been thinking about our Tao family's problem recently. For our Tao family, most of your current subordinates have foreign surnames and are not members of our clan. If you want to achieve big things in the future, you will have to use some people from the clan.
Even if they have no talent, they must still be the pillars of support...after all, they are a family."
Tao Shang understood what Tao Qian meant.
"The problem is, the child doesn't have much contact with people from our Tao clan."
Tao Qian snorted and said, "You used to know how to get around day by day for more than ten years. What useful people could you come into contact with?"
After saying that, Tao Qian stood up, returned to his room, and brought out a roll of lists.
The potter took a closer look and saw that the names written on them were all talented young and handsome people from the Tao clan in Danyang in recent years, and they were more or less related to him.
The potter understood what Tao Qian meant.
Tao Qian wanted him to select some outstanding people from these Tao clan members as his arms, arrange positions, and use the clan to balance the power of the nobles or generals with foreign surnames.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, Tao also has some capable people, and Tao Ji is the best example.
The pottery merchant closed the slip and said: "My father, I understand. I will carefully select these people later. But for this girl who is married to the emperor, you have to help me choose one from the clan..."
Tao Qian was also in trouble, stroking his white beard and thinking about it carefully for a long time.
"Most of the girls in the clan are vulgar and unattractive, with no good looks and no figure. They are not worthy of the emperor..."
The potter's eyelids twitched when he heard this.
I was given birth to a family with some kind of genes!
"Only the girl from your second uncle's family is gentle and generous, sensible and ethical, has outstanding appearance, is dignified and generous, and has good appearance. She is a good choice."
The potter looked at the potter seriously and said: "All the other girls in our Tao family are so inferior, but the daughter of the second uncle's family is good-looking? Are you sure that she is really the second uncle's own son and you didn't find anyone to do it for you?"
Tao Qian was stunned for a while, then he realized what he was doing and picked up his cane to beat the pottery merchant again.
"I said yes, it's yes, believe it or not!"
Upon hearing that Tao Qian praised the girl from his second uncle's family, the pottery merchant became a little curious.
"What's the name of the sister from the second uncle's family?"
"My name is Tao Hua."
Tao Qian: "..."
Well, it is really a flower.
I don’t know what level my second uncle’s education is... You are a member of a noble family after all, so why did you give your child such an easy-to-support name?
Although in this era, the ancients did often give their children nicknames in order to support them, but there was nothing like this!
If the little girl from this clan really enters Liu Xie's palace and becomes a concubine in the future, what will she be called?
Hua Fei?
After some more inquiries and finding that he had no choice, the potter had no choice but to do this.
Tao Qian personally wrote a letter to discuss the matter with the potter's second uncle, and adopted Tao Hua into his lap as the potter's sister.
The pottery merchant began to write a list and asked the emperor to confer his sister into the palace...as a concubine.
But how should I mention this matter to the emperor?
The emperor now has a daughter-in-law and a family, and suddenly gives one to someone else. What does this mean?
The potter was somewhat in trouble.
That night, the pottery merchant did not go back to his residence, but was thinking about how to write this memorial in the inner courtyard of his residence.
It feels a bit like writing a plan in a previous life?
Just as the pottery merchant was scratching his head, Pei Qian suddenly walked in quickly and said to the pottery merchant: "Master, Mrs. Feng wants to see you."
The pottery merchant was stunned when he heard this: "He seduced me again?"
Pei Qian nodded, with an excited expression as if Mrs. Feng had come to seduce him: "She brought a food box and a bottle of Huainan secret dew that she brewed, saying that she wanted to give it to the Taifu to express her life-saving feelings.
"
The potter held his chin with his hand and said, "This is a beauty trap... Pei Qian, do you think I should fall into her trap?"
Pei Qian chuckled and said: "The Tutor is a gentleman of the world. Even if he falls into her scheme, he will find out sooner or later. If we avoid it, it will appear that we are cowardly and dishonest! It is better to expose her scheme face to face!"
The pottery merchant gave Pei Qian a thumbs up: "That's so right! I am a gentleman, what should I be afraid of? Just let her come here..."
When I was young, I saw Mrs. Feng, who was specially dressed in flowers and gorgeous clothes. She walked into the pavilion carrying a food box and a pot of slightly fragrant water and wine.
Mrs. Feng is indeed the most beautiful woman in Huainan... a mature woman, after being groomed, has a plump and unparalleled figure. Such a beauty is enough to attract everyone's attention when walking on the street.
The pottery merchant nodded with emotion and said, "Madam, are you having sex again?"
"Huh?" Mrs. Feng was stunned when she heard this.
The pottery merchant waved his hand and said, "What I mean is... Madam, you are here late at night. Do you have any advice? Is it because you think Tao is in Pengcheng and the residence arranged for you is not comfortable?"
Mrs. Feng smiled brightly and said politely: "The master is very kind to my mother and daughter. They have all the food and clothing they need for the past few days, and they have not stopped those old Huainan generals from visiting our mother and daughter. My mother and daughter are very grateful. Concubine
I heard that General Pei said that Taifu has been working hard in dealing with government affairs for the past few days, so he specially cooked and prepared some Huainan side dishes to visit you. I also asked Taifu not to retreat."
"Ma'am, I'm really sorry for this."
Mrs. Feng opened the food box, took out various side dishes and placed them on the stone table, and poured a glass of wine for the pottery merchant.
"Master, please try my handicrafts?"
The pottery merchant picked up his chopsticks and tasted a few bites. The dishes were very light, but had a unique flavor. The sake was also sweet, not too strong but quite refreshing.
The potter nodded with satisfaction and said, "Madam, your craftsmanship is very good... How about you sit down and eat together?"
Mrs. Feng shook her head gently and said: "How can I be so lucky? I just serve the master at the table."
After that, she stopped talking and stood beside the pottery man holding a wine cup, serving him food and pouring wine, which made the pottery man a little embarrassed.
Moreover, the pottery merchant could clearly feel that Mrs. Feng was using a routine when pouring wine and serving food for him.
Her delicate hands would touch the pottery's hand from time to time. When picking up food, she would deliberately put her body close to the pottery's body so that she could smell her own body fragrance. Sometimes, the pottery's shoulder would even brush against hers.
It’s full of tricks.
It turns out that the ancients 1,800 years ago had already mastered these abilities.
"Hey~!"
Suddenly, he saw that Feng's hand did not hold the wine bottle for some reason, but spilled the wine on his clothes.
The potter raised his eyebrows.
Keep up the routine!
Feng Shi shyly cast a flirtatious look at Tao Shang, pointed to her wet clothes, and whispered: "I've really lost my temper. Master, I wonder if there is a place for me to change out of my clothes."
The pottery merchant followed her words and said: "There is a room inside where you can change clothes, but there are no women's clothes. I asked Pei Qian to get one."
Mrs. Feng stood up and said to Tao Shang in a meaningful way: "Then I'll trouble you to bring you a change of clothes for me later."
After saying that, he winked at the pottery merchant without leaving a trace, turned around and left.
"This is really a conspiracy... a naked conspiracy! Should I fall into this plan?"
Tao Shang rubbed his chin and said to himself: "After all, I am the overlord of a party that is inferior to one person and superior to tens of thousands of people. Is it not too much to fall into such a conspiracy when I have nothing to do on weekdays?... Hmm
, just think of it as cultivating one’s sentiments.”
After saying that, Tao Shang stood up and was about to go to the room where Feng changed clothes. Suddenly, a timid voice behind him said: "What conspiracy?"
Tao Shang was stunned when he heard this, and turned around to see Pei Qian leading Mi Zhen in.
The pottery merchant was stunned.
He looked at Mi Zhen in surprise, then at Pei Qian, and said, "What's going on?"
Pei Qian smiled awkwardly and said, "Miss Mi came to deliver soup and fruit to the Grand Tutor at the request of Madam."
Mi Zhen's face turned red when she heard this. She shyly put a food box on the stone table and said, "After I learned cooking from you last time, I have been practicing it. Sister Diao Chan tasted the cooking made by my younger sister.
The stuff was said to be good, so I was specifically asked to send it to Taifu for review..."
When she finished speaking, Mi Zhen suddenly stopped and looked at the food box left by Feng on the stone table with confusion.
The pottery merchant rolled his eyes at Pei Qian in anger, pulled him outside the stone pavilion, and said: "I just wanted to fall into Feng's plan, and now you bring me another one. What do you mean? How can I fall into Feng's trap now?"
His plan?"
Pei Qian wiped the sweat from his head and said: "Miss Mi came here with Madam's order. Madam is pregnant now, how can I stop it? If I make Madam angry later, the general will not be able to bear it... Moreover
The general feels that this Mi Zhen has some intention of using a beauty trick on the Taifu... Otherwise, the Taifu will make a double ring tonight and fall into their trap? How about it? "