The return of the son-in-law

Guo Zhan'an hadn't rested in his yard for long, when Fuqing came in with a smile on his face and reported, "Madam is asking the young master to come over."

Guo Zhanan put down the cup, rubbed his fingers on the cup a few times, looked at Fuqing with a half-smile, and then said: "I just came back, it's impolite to go to see my wife covered in dust, I should go take a bath and change clothes first, you answer for me , I told my wife to wait a little longer."

Fuqing's smile froze on his face, and he stammered: "But, but, young master, the person sent by the wife said that the wife has something urgent to discuss with the young master, I think..."

Before he finished speaking, Jia Huan kicked him on the side: "Young Master told you, you just do it, why are there so many nonsense words."

Fuqing looked nervously at Guo Zhanan, who smiled slightly, but there was no warmth in his eyes: "Do you hear me clearly?"

Fuqing didn't dare to hesitate, and nodded hastily: "It's clear, it's clear! I'll answer the question right away!"

Looking at the back of Fuqing staggering out, Jia Huan was still angry: "Eat the inside out!"

"It's okay, I just want to get some benefits." Guo Zhan'an's voice was flat, without any emotion, "Bather and change clothes, I want to see what tricks that woman wants to play."

"Here?" Mrs. Guo's wife, Liu Feifei, reached out and pressed the hairpin, and said casually, "Let him wait in front, I haven't finished counting the bills from last month."

The maid standing aside responded and hurried out to answer.

After a while, she came back with an embarrassed expression, and said timidly, "Ma'am, the young master is gone."

After hearing this, Liu Feifei was furious, and slapped the table heavily with one hand, scaring the maid Qiuxiang behind her to rush forward: "Ma'am! Hands carefully!"

Liu Feifei gritted her teeth angrily: "Guo Zhan'an, this kid is against me everywhere, does he still take my mother seriously!"

Qiu Xiang wanted to persuade her, but after thinking about it, she followed Liu Feifei and blamed Guo Zhan'an: "Madam, don't be angry, the young master was raised by you since he was a child, and now he treats you like this, which is simply disrespecting his aunt!"

Liu Feifei snorted coldly: "Isn't it!"

The little maid didn't dare to speak, she shrank to one side and sobbed, afraid that Liu Feifei would punish her if she was unhappy; Qiuxiang should stop, after all, she was a servant of the Guo family, and she could accompany her wife to criticize the other masters in the family No, but it shouldn't be too much after all.

Liu Feifei was silent for a moment, then suddenly let out a long sigh, and raised her hand wearily to rest the hair on the back of her head: "I know, Zhan An still looks down on my background. After all, I'm a stepwife, not as good as his biological mother. "

Seeing this, Qiu Xiang persuaded: "Why do you say that, madam? As the saying goes, it is better to be kind than to be kind. You have worked so hard to raise the young master for so many years, why can't you say 'mother' to the young master?"

Liu Feifei smiled slightly, and poked Qiuxiang's forehead with a slender finger: "You girl, your mouth is still sweet."

While the master and servant were talking, another dowry girl, Qiu Ju, who Liu Feifei brought to Guo's house, came in, and without saying anything, she just called softly, "Ma'am."

Liu Feifei understood and waved her hand, and Qiuxiang went down first with the weeping little maid.

Then Qiu Ju took out a letter sealed with sealing wax from her sleeve, and handed it to Liu Feifei: "Ma'am, it's from the palace."

Liu Feifei took it carefully, peeled off the sealing wax, took out the letter inside, and read it carefully.

"My sister is so cunning! I think so too!" Halfway through the reading, Liu Feifei laughed. "I used to hear people say that heroes see the same thing. It seems that we women can also be this hero."

Qiu Ju didn't answer the words, she kept her head slightly lowered, her eyes were on the ground under her feet.

Liu Feifei continued to read, the letter was not long, and she finished reading it soon.

"Qiuxiang," after reading the letter, Liu Feifei tore the letter into pieces and called Qiuxiang, "Go get a brazier."

Qiuxiang responded, and quickly packed a brazier and brought it over, lit the fire, Liu Feifei threw the letter into the brazier, and let Qiuxiang cook after the letter was burned to ashes.

"Qiu Ju, go, accompany me to find the master."

Guo Xiantong lost his temper at Guo Zhanan, but he was still unhappy.Hearing that Liu Feifei was coming, he managed to suppress his anger and got up to greet his wife.

"Why is Madam here?"

Liu Feifei glanced at her husband, and said angrily: "What the master said, is there nothing wrong, so I can't come to the study to see the master?"

Guo Xiantong stroked his beard proudly, and said with a smile: "Of course not, Madam can come to see me more, I'm really flattered, flattered like gold."

Liu Feifei raised her hand to cover her mouth and chuckled, then put her hand down, and said seriously: "But this time, I really have something important to discuss with the master."

Guo Xiantong's expression turned serious: "Dare to ask Madam what is the matter?"

Liu Feifei looked at Guo Xiantong's face, and said after deliberation: "Seeing that Zhan'an is going to Tonghua County, I have never heard of it. Just now I asked Qiuxiang to help me find out about Tonghua County. It’s so far away! Zhan An used to be a county magistrate, and I’m afraid he won’t come back for three years. He was raised by me since he was a child, and he is no different from a piece of meat that fell off my body! When I think of him going so far away alone , there is no one who knows the cold and the hot to take care of him, my heart is so tight!"

Guo Xiantong said coldly: "You don't have to worry about him, he has been hardened since he was a child, a heart is no different from a stone, it is the same everywhere!"

Liu Feifei heard his dissatisfaction with Guo Zhan'an in his words, and she was overjoyed, but she still had a sad look on her face: "You can't say that, after all, he is our son, and he is going to do it in Tonghua County so far away. County magistrate, when I think of this, my heart, my heart..."

Speaking of this, Liu Feifei covered her face and let out a few sobs: "Master, you may not know that when I first married, Zhan An was still so young, and I loved him as if he were my own son. Originally, he was admitted to Tanhua. I am so happy to have entered the Hanlin Academy. Who would have thought that I would suddenly go to Tonghua County to be the county magistrate, sir, please tell me, can I feel better?"

Liu Feifei and Liu Pianpian, the Chinese concubine in the palace, are cousin sisters. Liu Pianpian is the most beautiful woman in the harem.

When she cried like this, Guo Xiantong couldn't sit still, waved Qiu Ju back down, and seeing that there was no one else in the study, he hugged Liu Feifei into his arms: "Good lady, I know how much you love Zhan An, it's just that The emperor's fate is difficult, His Majesty sent him to Tonghua County, there is nothing we can do."

If you ask him, Guo Zhan'an really shouldn't go to Tonghua County to be the county magistrate, among other things, how many people will be waiting to see him when his son Tanhua was sent from the Imperial Academy to Tonghua County to be the magistrate? joke?How could he, Guo Xiantong, gain a foothold in the imperial court?

Liu Feifei was happy in her heart, and secretly said "It's done", then raised her head with tears in her eyes, and looked at Guo Xiantong: "The emperor's kindness is so great, I naturally dare not say anything. It's just that Tonghua County is so far away, and there is no one around Zhan'an." I have always been worried about someone taking care of him. I thought about it, thinking about letting Qiu Ju go to Tonghua County with Zhan'an to take care of his daily life, so I can feel at ease."

Guo Xiantong was a little hesitant: "I remember that Qiu Ju is the girl next to you, and I gave it to Zhan An, what should you do?"

Liu Feifei burst into tears and laughed: "What did the master say? Zhan An is my son, of course we have to keep an eye on him. Just because Qiu Ju is the girl I need by my side, let her take care of Zhan An. Heart, you can put it here safely."

Guo Xiantong couldn't help holding Liu Feifei's catkins: "Thank you Madam."

Liu Feifei smiled and shook her head: "All I can do is manage the backyard and the children well, it's nothing."

Knowing that his father had agreed that Qiu Ju would go to Tonghua County with him to take office, Guo Zhanan smiled instead of anger. He took the scissors and cut off a pot of narcissus in the house: "Don't keep things that are not usable. .”

Seeing that it was going to be cold weather, the third prince Li Shaojun came back from the summer palace, and after only resting for a day, he rode on his horse and took his attendant Jiang Yannian to the northwest.

On the day of departure, Guo Zhanan was summoned by Emperor Li Chonghao to go to the palace to have one last narration with Li Shaojun and Jiang Yannian.

When Guo Zhan'an went, Li Shaojun and Jiang Yannian were chatting and laughing, and they didn't see the slightest bit of unhappiness about going to the northwest.

"Zhan'an, you came at a good time. This was given to me by the emperor's grandmother. I don't know where Tonghua County is. It may not be a convenient place. You take this old ginseng with you."

Guo Zhan'an accepted the reward unceremoniously, thanked him loudly, and glanced aside quietly with his back to the palace man.

Li Shaojun still laughed loudly on his face, but shook his fingers: "You don't have to worry, I can bear it. Going to the Northwest is my childhood wish. Thinking about my ancestors conquering thousands of miles of rivers and mountains on horseback, now I am going The place where the soldiers fought, you said, is it more manly than when you went to Tonghua County to be the county magistrate!"

Guo Zhan'an said with a smile: "Shouldn't the civil servants use paper and pen to manage the world conquered on horseback? The third prince should stop valuing martial arts and despising literature."

Jiang Yannian interjected from the side: "What's the emphasis on martial arts over culture? Why does it sound so sour to me? Could it be that you're jealous of us?"

Guo Zhan'an went on to say, "Yes, I'm envious of you all going to the northwest to have a blast."

Jiang Yannian raised his eyebrows: "What did you say?"

Guo Zhanan waved his hand: "I didn't say anything."

Jiang Yannian stood up abruptly, walked in front of Guo Zhanan, without saying a word, greeted Guo Zhanan with a fist: "I'll let you say it again!"

Guo Zhan'an was caught off guard, and was punched in the stomach by Jiang Yannian, he groaned, and then fought back mercilessly.

The two fought together, but Li Shaojun was still laughing and applauding.Some daring palace officials tried to dissuade them, but they were accidentally injured by Jiang Yannian and Guo Zhan'an.

The palace people had no choice but to kneel down and ask Li Shaojun to come forward to dissuade him, but the third prince didn't think the excitement was enough, so he rolled up his sleeves and started fighting together.

The palace people were stunned, and in the end one of them had a way, calling for people to report to the emperor and Concubine Hua, so that His Holiness could come forward.

When the palace people left, the three people who were still in a ball immediately separated. They looked left and right, saw the injuries on each other's faces, and suddenly burst into laughter.

"The nails are finally gone." Li Shaojun put on a cold face, "I'm going to the northwest today. When are you going to Tonghua County?"

"Leaving in five days, the magistrate of Tonghua County is corrupt and has already been escorted to the imperial capital."

Jiang Yannian counted his fingers and laughed twice: "Hehe, I'm afraid that all the clues would have been destroyed long ago before I let you go after delaying you for so long."

Guo Zhan'an didn't care much: "Anyway, I'm just a county magistrate. If they don't destroy the clues, it will be difficult for me to do it in the past."

Li Shaojun sighed: "It's my fault, which made you suffer."

Jiang Yannian grew up with him since he was a child, and they were cousins. He was never polite, so he immediately pushed him: "What nonsense are you talking about? You are the only legitimate son in this world. You have a noble status. How can you implicate us?"

"Oh, what kind of son-in-law, I'm afraid he's been a thorn in the side of those people for a long time." Li Shaojun's eyes became more and more serious, "We're talking today, and we still have to pretend to be crazy. One day, let's see if I don't show the anger I suffered today!"

Jiang Yannian and Guo Zhanan glanced at each other, they nodded in agreement, "Of course."

At this time, Li Shaojun's confidant reported quietly: "Your Highness, Your Majesty is coming."

When Li Chonghao learned that Li Shaojun had actually fought with two waiters before leaving, he felt a lot more relieved, but he still showed a look of anger on his face: "This kid is getting more and more outrageous, show me!"

When he saw the three figures fighting together in the hall, he was even more happy: "You bastard!"

The three knelt down together.

"How old are you, still fighting?" Li Chonghao looked coldly at the three kneeling people, "You two are also capable, and you actually fought with the current third prince!"

Jiang Yannian and Guo Zhanan shouted "forgive me".

"Jiang Yannian, you are going to the northwest with the third prince, how can I rest assured now?"

Jiang Yannian immediately howled: "Your Majesty, it is Jiang Yannian who is ignorant, please forgive me!"

"Forgive me? It depends on whether you go to the northwest to take care of the third prince. And you, Guo Zhan'an, are going to be the county magistrate in Tonghua County. You are still so ignorant. I think you should stay here Hanlin Academy, take a good look at those books about loyalty, righteousness and filial piety!"

Guo Zhan'an knew that this was just a scene, and Li Chonghao wished to send all three of them out of the imperial capital, but he could only act as if he didn't know, and kept shouting "Your Majesty, forgive me".

"Okay, you all go out. Guo Zhan'an, I will give you a chance. You go home and prepare, and you don't have to come again. The emperor's son is going out soon, and I have something to say to him."

Guo Zhanan left the palace, exchanged a tacit smile with Jiang Yannian, and Shi Shiran returned to Guo's residence.

"What?" Guo Xiantong was shocked when he learned that the emperor scolded Guo Zhan'an, "Your Majesty said you are useless?"

"Master, what should we do?" Liu Feifei felt relieved, but her hands were tightly clutching the handkerchief, "Will His Majesty take revenge on Master?"

Guo Zhan'an looked at the illusion of "strict father and loving mother" in front of him coldly, and said, "Father, don't worry. Your Majesty said, give me one more chance and ask me to go home and pack my luggage."

Liu Feifei clasped her palms together and muttered: "Amitabha, that's good. Qiu Ju, hurry up and prepare the luggage for the young master."

"No need." Guo Xiantong changed his mind, "Qiu Ju doesn't have to follow this time either."

"Master! How can that be done!" Liu Feifei squeezed the veil tightly, and said sharply, "Zhan An will go alone, I really don't feel relieved!"

"Who said he went alone? Isn't this servant a human?" Guo Xiantong was determined this time, "Your Majesty just scolded him, so we let him take his maidservant to the post. Isn't this just telling Your Majesty clearly that we This son can't do without a woman!"

Liu Feifei's face was pale, her lips trembled a few times, but she didn't continue to speak.

Guo Zhanan raised the corners of his lips, bowed his hands to Guo Xiantong and saluted: "Father is still thoughtful."