All-round way to money

"Mother, mother, there are many soldiers at home, you should go home and have a look."

Five years, with a flick of a finger.The little girl Ning Xin is four and a half years old.With two small knots tied on his head, he ran into the restaurant bouncing around.A ten-year-old maid followed behind her, panting after her.

"Miss is here, your mother is in the backyard." Uncle Niu greeted Ning Xin with a wrinkled smile.

At the moment, Chu Ran and Mrs. Zhao are leading people to make sauce introductions in the backyard.Steam the soybeans, mash them into watercress, shape them into cubes, and put them in a cool place to dry naturally.The ripeness of the beans was important, and she had to watch for herself.I saw Ning Xin rushing in like a gust of wind.

"The officers and soldiers came to the house? Are they looking for grandpa?"

"It's not grandpa, it's daddy. Go back and have a look."

Chu Ran frowned.Two years ago, the crown prince finally killed the third prince, drove him to the north, and became a treasonous traitor, with no possibility of recovery.Half a year ago, the emperor died and became the new Qi emperor.With great fanfare, before the death of the first emperor, Concubine Ning was appointed as the successor, and after ascending the throne, the first queen was respected as the empress dowager.Everyone knows that Concubine Ning's successor is actually conferred by the crown prince, and all the subjects in the world will not praise the emperor for his filial piety.Now that the dust has settled, it is not impossible to find him.

Thinking of this, he immediately put down the tools in his hand, took off his apron, picked up the child and walked home.

On the way, I also met Zhang Baozhu who came to report the letter.This is the little girl who has practiced kung fu since she was a child, and her feet are fast, so she arrived first.

When I got home, there were two rows of soldiers standing on both sides of the alley at the entrance, each leading a horse.

"Idle people are not allowed to enter." A man in charge of dress stood up and stretched out his hand to pull people.

"This is my home." Chu Ran stopped.

Ning Xin was in her mother's arms, hugging Chu Ran's neck, and looked back at the man, "Commander Ning, this is my mother."

Commander Ning?

Chu Ran guessed that this must be General Ning's family general.

Then, when Commander Ning heard that Ning Xin said she was her mother, he glanced at her face, was stunned for a long while, his face was almost green, he took a step back as if he was holding back something, and stepped back. out of the way.

After entering the courtyard, I saw a dozen people kneeling in the small courtyard.

Xiao Yu is not there, so he should be in the house.

What do you say?

"Xin'er, go tell grandpa and grandma that there are guests at home, and the door will be closed for two hours this morning. Let brother Niu Song cook some more dishes to greet the guests. Go." Chu Ran put Ning Xin down and assigned her a task. Sent to the restaurant.

After entering the room, Xiao Yu was sitting behind the desk in the study, his face unchanged, he was carving stones, no difference from usual.Opposite there was a man kneeling on one knee.

"What did you say?" Chu Ran asked, and glanced at the kneeling man.

Only then did Xiao Yu put down the tools and stones in his hand, stretched out his hand to hold Chu Ran's hand, and said softly, "I'm back! It's okay, you boring person." After speaking, he turned to the kneeling person again, "Gao Jin, you go back and rely on my mother, I have a wife and a daughter here, and I am doing well, and she will be happy for me."

Gao Jin knelt still, looked up, paused when he saw Chu Ran, paused a little longer on the hands they were clasping, and then lowered his head, "My lord, the empress dowager thinks about it day and night, I look forward to your return to Beijing as soon as possible, and the reunion of mother and son. Before the minister came, the general ordered him to escort the prince back."

It's the empress dowager and the general, and they play the family card with two big men.

"My lord?" Chu Ran looked at Xiao Yu with a question mark on his face, was he crowned king?

Gao Jin was very obedient, no need for anyone to ask, he replied directly, "The emperor ascended the throne, and canonized the prince as King Ning."

King Ning?

This new emperor is quite interesting.It really blocked all the roads for him.

"My lord, did you recognize the wrong person? This is my husband. We are from Qushui Town. We have been married for six years. How could he be a prince?" Chu Ran pretended to be confused.

Gao Jin didn't raise his hand this time, "My lord is the younger brother of the current emperor, the second prince of the late emperor, his biological mother is Concubine Ning, who is also the empress dowager today, and his uncle is the general Ning Xiao. You will mistake the prince."

Followed the general since childhood? "Then may I ask, the general is you Geng this year?"

"Seven out of forty."

In this day and age, you are not too young, so you should not have a low official position if you think about it, right?

"Then do you recognize Chu Polu?"

This time Gao Jin raised his head, his face full of surprise, "Deputy General Chu?"

Hey, Dad was a lieutenant general back then?

But why is this person so surprised?It must be the emperor's permission for him to find him. Didn't he check out the situation around Xiao Yu?

"Don't you know that my father is Chu Polu? Then how did you find him?"

"I really don't know. It's the new stewed meat in Baiwei Pavilion in Beijing, which is very popular. It is said that the ingredients were bought in Caotan County. It also mentioned some rumors about the proprietress and his wife, and mentioned Mr. Ning's appearance. The emperor sent a kind Chasi's investigative envoys came to make an unannounced visit to confirm the identity of the prince, and then sent the future to welcome the prince back to Beijing. Vice General Chu was never mentioned."

"Oh, sure enough, my father used to say that he knew General Ning. He was bragging. He didn't know him at all."

He complained in a "whispered voice" to help Father Chu clear his name.

Gao Jin must have heard it and wanted to refute.

Chu Ran didn't have a chance to talk to him, and turned to talk to Xiao Yu again, "Are you really a prince? Let's not talk about it, isn't it good for people to kneel like this? There is a whole yard of kneeling in the yard. There is also a whole yard in the alley." They are all soldiers, and it is not convenient to come in and out."

Xiao Yu listened to his wife very much, "Get up."

Chu Ran asked again, "Why do I listen, the Empress Dowager misses her son?"

Gao Jin just stood up, and immediately replied, "Yes, the empress dowager misses the prince every day, and has been bedridden for several years and cannot get up."

After being bedridden for several years, can you still survive until you become the successor, the empress dowager?

What kind of chronic disease is this?

Chu Ran was curious.

"It's time to go back and have a look."

Gao Jin looked at the two eagerly.

Chu Ran laughed heartlessly, "Then go back and have a look."

Xiao Yu also made my wife's silly and sweet expression, "Okay, then go and pack your luggage, we will leave tomorrow."

"Why am I packing my luggage? The restaurant is still pointing at me. I can't leave. You can go back and have a look yourself. Why bother me? Delay me from earning money. My mother-in-law doesn't know me, and it's not me I want to see." .”

Gao Jin: ...

Xiao Yu supported his forehead, turned his head and talked to Gao Jin impatiently, "General Gao, you have seen the way you are now, it is really inconvenient to move around. I can't do without my wife's care. She can't leave now, You go back first, after a few days, the restaurant will be busy, and then we will go back to Beijing to visit my mother and uncle. I believe that my mother will get better when she knows about me, and it will not be short of three to five days. Isn't it? "

Anyway, if my wife doesn't leave, I won't leave.You deliberately omitted the existence of the Chu family one by one, what is your intention, don't pretend that I don't know.

What can Gao Jin say, he is just a man of affairs.Can't call the shots.Not to mention that the empress dowager and the emperor could not agree, even if his son were to marry such a daughter-in-law, he would not agree.Mismatch is not.When the two of them were put together, it seemed awkward no matter how you looked at it.If this was my own son, I would panic just thinking about it, let alone the Queen Mother and the Emperor.It's not bad if you can pretend you don't know and didn't kill the three members of the Chu family.

"I obey." He was also unable to speak.He just said he obeyed and withdrew.

All of a sudden, the soldiers all over the yard and alley withdrew.

He brought two hundred imperial guards out, and there was not that much room in the city for them to live.Tents pitched outside the city.Exit and go straight out of town.In the evening, Chu Ran asked Niu Song to take someone to deliver two carts of food, steamed buns, fried pork with cabbage slices, marinated pork, and two large pots of hot and sour soup.The propriety of the landlord is still fulfilled.

Of course Gao Jin couldn't really go back to Beijing, the prince didn't pick him up, he couldn't pay the job, why did he go back to Beijing.Only let Deputy Commander Ning Ke lead people back to Beijing to deliver the letter.Report the situation to the Queen Mother and the Emperor.The meaning of the prince is to go back together, or not to go back.Seeing his wife and family is very important.

Caotan County is three hundred miles away from the capital, and it takes a day's journey on a fast horse.After ten full days, Ning Ke came back with the emperor's command.It can be seen how much struggle there is in the middle.

The content of the oral order is also simple, which is to let King Ning return to Beijing with his family as soon as possible, so as to relieve the empress dowager from thinking about her son.

Did not directly issue an imperial decree, it just talked about family affection, regardless of the emperor's intentions.Set up a good brother to be stable.

Then if he is hypocritical and doesn't go back, he will be a little ignorant of flattery, and when the time comes to deal with him, it will be justified.

Therefore, Xiao Yu and Chu Ran simply packed up, almost without taking anything, they drove lightly, took their children, and the family of three set out on the road.

Chu Polu also wrote a letter to General Ning. In the letter, he recalled "affectionately" the glorious years when he served as a soldier under General Ning at the border. The wounded patient rescued by accident turned out to be the Second Prince.Let me say a few more pitiful words, begging the general to take care of his daughter for the sake of his past affection.She didn't mention Ning Xin a word, she was Xiao Yu's daughter and the queen mother's granddaughter, she didn't look at the monk's face but the Buddha's face, as an elder, she would only feel that she was unworthy, but she wouldn't dislike her granddaughter.

Oh, by the way, the family of three also brought one piece of luggage, which was the wheelchair that Xiao Yu had been sitting in.

After entering the capital, the convoy did not take people directly into the palace, but stopped at a mansion not far from the palace. The gate was majestic and tall, and the plaque was written by the imperial pen on the mansion of Prince Ning.

"This is the mansion given to the prince by the emperor. The empress dowager personally supervised the construction, and it was decorated according to the prince's preferences." Gao Jin really shouldn't be a general, he should be a eunuch in the palace.

Chu Ran got out of the car first, and then the princess raised her hand to carry Xiao Yu to the wheelchair.Xiao Yu didn't let others touch him. Before Gao Jin wanted to hug him into the car, he refused to agree with his life and death. He insisted on letting his wife hug him. With a look like my wife is really amazing, after walking for a few days along the way, the accompanying soldiers got used to the prince. It looks like being hugged by the wife.There is nothing to be ashamed of, as long as I am not embarrassed, it is someone else who is embarrassed.People get used to it after watching it.

At this moment, the gate was open, and there was a group of servants standing at the gate. The leading housekeeper looked about thirty or less than forty, with a white face and no beard, and he was wearing eunuch costumes. There were twenty or thirty men and women behind him. The inside and outside of the palace are in charge.Seeing Chu Ran getting out of the car, before he could digest that the prince married such a person, he saw the hostess put the wheelchair on the ground in one hand, and put a little girl on the side of the wheelchair in the other, and went on the bus again. After a while, the prince and princess were carried off the car and put on the wheelchair.Go back and take the thin quilt and put it on the prince's lap.A set of actions, clean and neat.Seeing them stared blankly, they all forgot how to react.

It was Xiao Yu who settled down in the wheelchair, glanced at the leading supervisor, and called out, "Chen Fu, don't you recognize me?"

Chen Fu was brought back to his senses by the sound, trotted forward two steps, knelt down in front of the wheelchair with a thud, tears streaming down his face, "My lord, what's wrong with you?"

Crying so badly, it's like a father who just died.

The stewards behind all knelt down and saluted.Said to see the prince.They deliberately ignored Chu Ran and Ning Xin.

"Get up. Don't go in. Madame, let's go into the palace."

When Xiao Yu saw the situation, he didn't even bring in the gate.How could he let Chu Ran enter this door without a name or identity.

I didn't get in the carriage any more, anyway, this mansion is really close to the palace, it's only two streets away, and it takes only a quarter of an hour to walk.He simply hugged Ning Xin and put him on his lap, letting Chu Ran push him away.

Ning Xin didn't cry or make trouble, she watched the excitement with her big eyes wide open, the little girl was president, she looked like her father, she was carved in pink and jade, and she had two small smiles when she laughed, "Daddy, where are we going?" ?”

"Xin'er's grandma is sick, let's go see grandma, and then meet uncle."

"Oh, uncle's house is so far away. Will grandma be fierce? Will she be like Xiaobao's grandma, who would not give candy and beat people?" Xiaobao is a neighbor with a lot of children at home, and the old lady is at home Looking at the children, it is difficult to eat enough, and you still want to eat sugar?Every time he came back to be a sugar figurine, the children would go to buy it, but Xiaobao was so anxious that he couldn't buy it, and Xiaobao's grandma even spanked him.In Xiao Ningxin's perception, a grandma who beats someone without buying candy is fierce and terrifying.

"No, Xiner's grandma is the kindest and most beautiful grandma, and she will give Xiner a lot of delicious food."

"Oh, then are we going to live at Uncle's house for a long time? Will grandma go home with us? I miss my grandpa and grandma."

"No, let's take a look at grandma. When grandma recovers, we will go back to find grandpa and grandma."

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Along the way, the Imperial Forest Army guarded silently on both sides, and the people watching the excitement did not dare to make a sound. They only looked at this combination in amazement. There were only the sounds of wheelchairs, childish baby voices and gentle male voices asking questions. answering voice.Obviously the woman pushing the cart and the father and daughter in the painting are not like a family at all, but the atmosphere is unexpectedly harmonious, so harmonious that no one else can get in.

It took half an hour to enter the palace gate.After walking in the palace for half an hour, he finally arrived at Fengyi Palace where the Empress Dowager was.From a distance, I saw a group of people standing on the steps in colorful colors.The leader was a middle-aged woman who was supported and looked out. Standing on the left was a bright yellow woman, she must be the emperor.On the back side is a young woman in a complicated palace dress, probably the queen.As he got closer, Chu Ran didn't move when he reached the steps. Four imperial guards came from behind, lifted their wheelchairs, and were about to go up the steps.Xiao Yu hugged Ning Xin and did not let go, but the other hand stretched out to hold Chu Ran.

When he got to the steps, Xiao Yu was handicapped, so he bowed in his wheelchair, saying that he had seen his mother, queen, brother, and sister-in-law.Afterwards, Chu Ran saluted politely, and on the way here, Xiao Yu handed her the etiquette of the Qi State, "Chu Ran, the daughter of the people, has met the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother has been around for a thousand years. I have seen the Emperor. Long live the Emperor, long live, long live, see After passing the empress, the empress is a thousand years old." It's like a play, but it's really the etiquette of Qi.

"Be flat."

The queen mother looked at her son in the wheelchair and couldn't stand crying.

"How did it become like this..."

The queen persuaded from the side, "Mother, it's windy outside, you'd better go back to the palace. The emperor's body is weak, don't blow the wind."

"Yes yes yes, quickly enter the palace, enter the palace."

After entering the main hall, they sat down according to their respective positions. Of course, Chu Ran had no seat, but stood beside Xiao Yu.Ning Xin is very courageous, she also stayed in the restaurant since she was a child, and she was not afraid of seeing many people.Xiao Yu hugged her and said to her, "This is Grandma, this is Uncle, and this is Uncle." He called her so down-to-earth.The expressions on the faces of the empress dowager, emperor and empress who were introduced were almost unbearable.

"Grandma is so young and beautiful. Ning Xin greets grandma, uncle, and uncle." The little girl climbed down from her father's lap, curtseyed decently, and then looked at several.

It's just like what Chu Polu thought, the Queen Mother looked down on Chu Ran, the daughter-in-law, and she couldn't express her temper at all to her granddaughter who looked exactly like her son. She looks good, her heart melts quickly, and she doesn't understand what the child means by looking at her, so she just looks at Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu suppressed a smile, "After greeting the elders at home, grandpa and grandma will give them delicious food."

Oh oh oh, got it.

The queen immediately ordered someone to make some snacks.The queen mother beckoned Ning Xin to go over. Ning Xin looked back at her parents and saw her parents nodding, so she went over and let the queen mother hold her in her arms. She didn't make trouble and just sat obediently. Give her a piece, and she will taste it sip by sip, and she is very obedient.Then he tasted the delicious food, his eyes curled into small crescents with a smile.

Let the child stir up like this, and the momentum that was pressing on Chu Ran before dissipated.The queen mother was so focused on feeding her granddaughter snacks that she forgot to cry and cared for her son.This is big hearted.And in this state, her complexion is not very good, but she is not at all like a patient who has been bedridden for several years. Judging from Chu Ran's medical skills, she does not know how healthy she is.That's right, if the heart is so big, it's a ghost if it's unhealthy.

"Your heart has been eaten by dogs? The injury is healed, and you don't know how to come back? It's just that you have limited mobility, can't you send me a letter? You have made the queen mother and me worry about it for so many years, where is your conscience?"

The emperor scolded as soon as he opened his mouth.He also became more and more angry.

Xiao Yu just laughed, "Brother Huang also saw it. I am already like this, so what face do I have to come back? Everything must go well with Brother Huang taking care of my mother. I am also married and have children, and I cannot leave my family. Besides , this life in the middle of the capital is really not what I want to live. I don't have the talent and boldness of the emperor, and I can't help the emperor. I will add to the chaos. If I don't come back, you can do less My heart."

With the tone of a rogue child acting like a baby to his elder brother, he is a bit arrogant.

The emperor was so angry that he sneered again and again: "Listen, listen, listen to me, my good brother is so understanding and will share my worries." Dim Sum wanted to hit someone, so she raised her hands, but when she saw Xiao Yu's legs, she couldn't do it, so she put them down again.

"The past is in the past. Now that I am the emperor, can I still not be able to protect you? You go back to the palace and wait for me, and then say these things to anger me, and see if I don't take your skin off. The age of the queen mother When I grow up, I can't live without you, you just stay in the capital obediently."

The queen spoke at the right time, "Your majesty, what are you doing? You are talking about the emperor's younger brother every day. The ears of the concubine are so cocooned that you are nagging about the interesting things about the emperor's childhood. Why is the emperor coming back? Those who used knives and guns scared people away. When you turned around, your mother blamed you, and your concubine had to bear it on your behalf. Brother, you just came back, and the mansion hasn't returned yet, right? Let's stay in the palace today? The queen mother must be I am also very concerned about how the emperor's brother has lived these years, and he has suffered a lot, right? Don't listen to your emperor's brother scaring you, he is also thinking about you. Over the years, how many people have been sent out to look for it, but there has been no news. You Don't let the emperor be angry, even my sister-in-law has to say something, you shouldn't have sent the letter back."

The queen mother seemed to be thinking of her son at this moment, and finally shifted her attention away from her granddaughter, "The emperor is right, you are a heartless and unfilial son, you live well, why can't you send a letter?" .”

Xiao Yu just listened, "My mother is in good health, so my son can rest assured. There are many things at home, and we can't do without people. We will return tomorrow. The capital is not far from Caotan County, and it is very convenient to go back and forth. I will come to see you and you again in the future." Brother Huang is."

The emperor really just put it back and nodded his head on Xiao Yu's body. "What are you arguing about?"

Xiao Yu just looked at his brother Huang and didn't speak.

The emperor didn't speak either.

After confronting each other for a long time, it was the queen who said, "Okay, your majesty, after all, the emperor is your own younger brother, so just give in and fulfill his wish." Emperor's shoulders.

The emperor coughed twice, and finally looked at the queen mother, "Queen mother, do you see...?"

The queen mother took a look at Chu Ran, then another, then another, then another, sighed, then at Ning Xin, and then sighed again, "What about Wanru?"

Ok?

Who is Wanru?