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Chapter 1242 Spring is actually a mood

"You have to come back early, you have to come back beautifully, you have to come back with generous gifts, otherwise, my mother will marry me to another woman. These days, many old women come to visit me at home... You have to know yourself... The only way you can marry me is if you are good enough... Good enough to make my mother forget your miserable life experience and the terrible things you are doing now...

Now I follow the old immortal all day long to treat all kinds of women and babies... Babies are okay, but they are a bit noisy... Women are disgusting, I can't understand how a person can be so smelly...

Many women would die if they couldn't give birth, so I invented a clamp that can clamp the baby's head and pull it out of the mother's body... The old immortal said I was very smart, but in fact, I didn't want to use my hands like the old immortal did...

I have grown half a foot taller and look a little thinner. It would be better if you could grow taller. Mother doesn’t like short women... Don’t worry, I wear Taoist robes all day... Although I still can’t hide my graceful demeanor... However, I will ignore those young ladies who come around me..."

Yun Luan wrote a letter to Yun Guanguan in the dim candlelight.

He missed the days when Yun Guanguan was around. With Yun Guanguan around, he could tell Yun Guanguan many things that he could not tell his parents, brothers and sisters, and Yun Guanguan had never told these rebellious words to anyone else.

Thinking of Yun Guanguan's kindness, Yun Luan rubbed her eyes, folded the letter and stuffed it into the envelope, burned a little sealing wax and poured it on the envelope, and without waiting for the sealing wax to solidify, she pressed her Yunqiwei seal on the sealing wax.

After carefully blowing the sealing wax to cool it down with her mouth, Yun Luan reluctantly handed the letter to her sister's maid Ping Guo.

"Remember to keep it well. Don't fold it, and don't let it get wet. Also remember to wrap the gift I gave to the waiter with oil paper. I heard there are a lot of monkeys in the southwest, so don't let them snatch it away..."

Pingguo didn't understand why the Second Young Master, who always ignored her, would be so clingy at this time, so she quickly said, "The young lady has already asked the shopkeeper to take good care of the young master's things and hand them over to the young lady in good condition."

Yun Luan felt relieved after hearing that. She thought about it and took out a gold coin from the drawer and handed it to Ping Guo, asking her to pass it on to the shopkeeper who delivered the letter and the things.

Yun Jin picked up the letter from her brother to Yun Guanguan and looked at it under the candlelight, but could not see anything. She carefully rubbed it and found that the letter paper inside was very thick. Finally, she looked at the sealing wax on the seal and hesitated.

She really wanted to know what her brother had said to Yun Guanguan, and she couldn't understand why they had so much to say, so much so that whenever the manager of the Yun family went to the southwest, a letter would be sent to him.

Finally, she collected her brother's letters into a cowhide tube used for important letters and documents, sealed it with wax, and gave it to Ping Guo, asking her to take it to Shopkeeper Guo.

Guo Feng, the second-level shopkeeper of the Yun family, went to the southwest this time to develop batik, tie-dye, and indigo colorant collection in the southwest. This kind of business is not a big business for the Yun family. The reason for sending a second-level shopkeeper is mainly because Li Chengxiu was finally driven out of the Duke of Yingzhou's Mansion by the Li family's relatives.

It's funny that Li Chengxiu, as the legitimate heir to the Duke's Mansion, has no place to stand in the Duke's Mansion. Now, even the title of Duke of England has nothing to do with him.

A three-acre courtyard, a light cavalry commander, a fifth-rank official of the Crown Prince's Office, and a five-hundred-acre farm outside the city were all the inheritance Li Chengxiu got from Duke Ying's Mansion.

It can be said that in the family struggle, Li Chengxiu not only lost miserably, but he also had a very bad relationship with the rest of the Li family because of the family business. Not only was he expelled from the family, but even his name on the family tree was wiped out.

Because the house was abandoned and not suitable for living, Li Chengxiu stayed at the Yun family during this period. Since he had no family property, Yun Jin used Li Chengxiu's salary to help him start a small business so that he could support his family in the future.

When Pingguo came back, Yunjin asked, "Did Junior Brother Chengxiu sleep well?"

Apple shook her head and said, "No, I just saw him drinking in the pavilion with the eldest son and the young master Huan."

Yun Jin put on his cloak and said, "Let's go take a look."

Li Chengxiu, Yun Jin and Wen Huan were drinking in front of a hot pot when they saw Yun Jin coming in a white fox fur coat.

Wen Huan immediately said to Yun Jin: "Let's go."

Yun Jin looked at his sister and said, "Don't go too far."

Yun Jin said coldly: "The reason why Junior Brother Cheng Xiu has fallen into such a state has a lot to do with you two bad friends."

Wen Huan laughed and said, "Junior Brother Cheng Xiu is now free to come and go without any worries, this is the good situation I have been looking forward to, and you actually said that Junior Brother Cheng Xiu is pitiful.

Poor him, you took all his money and used it to do some bullshit business, so that he can't even pay for his drinks."

Yun Jin said to Wen Huan coldly: "I hope this is the last time you say you want to go to the brothel to drink. If it happens again, don't blame me for being cruel."

Yun Jin quickly said, "We go to the brothel to watch singing and dancing, listen to music and drink, nothing else."

Yun Jin also said coldly to her brother: "I heard that you guys boasted of being famous and romantic in the brothel, and Wen Huan even imitated Aye to sing while drinking. Do you have Aye's talent? How dare you scream and howl there... Even if you spend all your money, you can still get it back.

Are you worthy?

Junior Brother Cheng Xiu has spent all his money, but where is the return money? Show it to me!"

Yun Jin was very embarrassed by what the girl said, so he smacked his lips and said, "Let's go. I need to go and have a rest. I have to go to Xingqing Palace early tomorrow morning to continue to serve as the secretary for His Majesty."

After saying that, he left in a hurry. When Wen Huan saw Yun Jin leaving, he poured the unfinished wine on the table into his mouth, bowed to Li Chengxiu, and ran away.

Yun Jin sat opposite Li Chengxiu who was drinking silently and said softly: "This is how I am. You have to think clearly."

Li Chengxiu smiled and said, "I am like this now, you should think it through."

Yun Jin frowned and said, "You won't be able to make a name for yourself until all those rubbish in the Yinggong Mansion are dead."

Li Chengxiu said: "It doesn't matter whether you can stand out or not. I only ask whether you are willing to live with me without much wealth and splendor."

Yun Jin said: "I am enjoying wealth and glory now, and I don't feel how important this thing is."

Li Chengxiu reached out and held Yun Jin's small hand on the table and said, "You are the one who lost after all."

Yun Jin shook her head and said, "Don't ever say that you have wronged me in front of me, and don't ever think that you have wronged me and give in to me in everything. Yun Chu's daughter is more powerful than you can imagine. Any grievance and tolerance is a humiliation to me, Yun Jin."

Li Chengxiu smiled and said, "Looking at the whole world, I am probably the only one who is barely worthy of you. The rest are not worth mentioning."

Yun Jin smiled and said to Li Chengxiu, "When Father is done with his busy schedule, you can go and ask for marriage."

Li Chengxiu sighed and said, "This beating is unavoidable no matter what."

Yun Jin hugged Li Chengxiu's big hand and said, "Father is very reasonable and will not embarrass you."

Li Chengxiu said, "Master thinks any man who wants to marry his daughter is a wolf cub and will probably get a beating."

Yun Jin said: "I have a cold personality, and I don't know what you like about me."

Li Chengxiu tried to change his seat but didn't get to sit down because Yun Luan had already sat down next to Yun Jin without him noticing, and she looked at Li Chengxiu viciously like a wolf cub...

Yun Chu sat in the study, plucking the guzheng, ding-dong, ding-dong. Before long, the originally chaotic ding-dong sounds gradually became a melody.

Yu Xiurong, who was removing her makeup, listened for a while and said to her husband, "What tune is it? I can't tell. Did you create it?

Many scales break the five-tone category, and are not included in the category of variable palace and variable zhi, so they are not serious. Such composition is too frivolous and does not suit the status of a husband."

Yun Chu sneered and said, "Gong represents stability and solemnity, Shang represents fairness and justice, Jiao represents bravery and determination, Zhi symbolizes brightness and warmth, Yu represents softness and beauty, the changed Gong has the characteristics of mystery and sorrow, and the changed Zhi has the characteristics of passion and generosity.

But time and emotion are the most changeable, and the sound should also be ever-changing. Not to mention other things, even when you and I were in love, your screams surpassed these seven tones!"

After hearing her husband's nonsense, Yu Xiurong no longer cared about these nonsense in the boudoir and said, "Etiquette, music, etiquette comes before music."

Yun Chu played the zither and said, "Giving birth is also after crying out for love."

Yu Xiurong walked over, hugged Yun Chu's shoulders with her warm and fragrant body, and said: "Good things, my husband always compares them to be so mean. I have discovered that my husband doesn't seem to like anything with rules.

So, does my husband hate rules, or does he hate…"

Yun Chu, who had always liked old women, could not withstand such teasing. He held the old woman under his ribs and went to the inner house.

In February, snow basically could no longer be retained in Chang'an. The snow that fell in the previous two days was basically gone after daybreak. Only some traces of snow could be seen in dark places.

The snow could not be retained, but the plum blossoms bloomed luxuriantly. While enjoying his relationship with his wife, Yun Chu also wrote a song to flatter the emperor. He believed that the emperor would love it because this song was much more sentimental than Li Bai's poem "The water of Peach Blossom Pool is a thousand feet deep, yet cannot compare to the love that Wang Lun gave me."

After listening to it several times, Yu Xiurong always felt a little nauseous, and Yun Chu almost mistakenly believed that she was pregnant.

To be honest, flattering the superiors is a skill that every local official must master. If you flatter the superiors well, life will be easier for the officials in the area under your jurisdiction. Similarly, life will be much better for the people as well.

Otherwise, if you make your superiors unhappy, you will be assigned tasks and forced to perform labor service, which will interrupt your original plans and force you to give up your important tasks and focus on sanitation or clearing the countryside.

If I do not have the ability to change this bad atmosphere, it is better to follow the crowd. As a local official, your duty is to benefit the people under your rule and reduce their burden, rather than fighting for your own dignity at the expense of the people's well-being.

Li Zhi can bring great benefits to Chang'an. As long as he stays in Chang'an for one more day, Yun Chu will be able to use his power to the maximum. During this time, he can accomplish all the things that could not be done, were difficult to do, or could not be done before.

The major events that can be accomplished during this period of time will surpass the total of those accomplished in previous years.

This is the famous official tactic of using the power of others to bully others!
For an official who is in charge of a region, being intolerant of any injustice and having a bad character are the most undesirable things. Such a person can be a law enforcement officer or an inspector, but he cannot be a government official.

A good official in charge only needs to be worthy of the country and the people. Whether he is worthy of himself is not part of the assessment.

The emperor's banquet was scheduled for two days later at the Hua'e Tower. The performance area on the first floor was very spacious, enough for the emperor to entertain many guests.

The most important thing is that there is a huge wine pool in the building, where guests attending the banquet can drink.

Of course, the wine in the wine pool is either grape wine or various rice wines. To be honest, strong liquor like the antiseptic produced by the Yun family is basically not considered decent in the Tang Dynasty, except for some warriors.

The famous scholars of the Tang Dynasty drank for the intoxicating feeling that alcohol brought them. They liked to let themselves go in this slight intoxication, drink and sing, and complete the feeling of unity between man and nature that they achieved in an instant.

Antivirus medicine is not something you can drink in a bucket. After drinking a bucket of wine, you will either get drunk like a dead pig and not even know you've been killed, or you will vomit like a human shower head, which has no aesthetic appeal at all.

Yun Chu naturally had to discuss with the emperor how to use wine at the banquet. If the emperor was willing to feast all night long, then he would use grape wine or rice wine. If the emperor only planned to go through a process, Yun Chu would use his own disinfectant.

Li Zhi was probably used to moderation, so he decided to use a large amount of sweet grape wine in the wine pool and mix it with some strong disinfectant.

Looking at Li Zhi's mischievous face, Yun Chu knew that in the first half of tomorrow's banquet, the emperor wanted a moderate and peaceful, glorious and grand scene, while in the second half, the emperor wanted a scene of chaos and disorder.

In view of this, Yun Chu decided to add some sugar to the grape wine to cover up the overly strong smell of alcohol in the disinfectant.

Yun Chu had a deep understanding of the sweet-tasting liquor, which could make people forget everything else as they drank it.

Yun Chu once again rejected Li Si's suggestion to dance for her father, and also forbade her to participate in the Gongsun sword dance. Anyway, no matter what, Yun Chu did not agree with Li Si to meet Li Zhi now.

The next day was a sunny day. The weather in Chang'an was slightly cold. The plum blossoms were in full bloom in Xingqing Palace, apricot blossoms were beginning to show buds, and light green buds began to appear on the jasmine branches. Everything seemed just right.

It was a good day for a feast.

(End of this chapter)