The husband's son-in-law

In November, the cargo of the third season departed from Jiting Wharf to Liangzhe.This time, Su Shiyi and Meng Jianyun went with his men, but Wang Jian didn't go, Li Zhouzhou stayed behind and said, "I'm going to move, and you're not here, Brother Lin and Xiao Liu are hopeless."

Even though Xiao Liu is older than Wang Jian, but these days, the general direction advocates that Xiao Liu and brother Lin both listen to Wang Jian.

Wang Jian thinks there is something wrong, so he can't ship the goods?He couldn't see clearly, but he knew that the boss was sincerely looking out for his own good, and it made sense not to let him go, so he stayed.

Moving is indeed a hassle.

The Zhaozhou Yamen is in the middle, the Chen Mansion is to the east of the yamen, and the Li Mansion is to the west. In addition to the big house of Li Mansion in the west, there is another house in the back - the big one that was chosen when buying the house at the beginning.

I thought it was too big at the time, but I still bought it now, not to mention, I bought all the small and old houses next to the mansion, which means that the area west of the yamen is completely occupied by Li Mansion.

The house is still divided into two, the front yard and the back yard. There are six side corner doors alone. Some are convenient for people to enter and exit, and some are for the servants, carriages, sedan chairs, and Yexiang garbage to enter and exit. Naturally, the servants in the mansion His residence has also been repaired in a circle, all of which are built against the periphery.

Now that they are moving to the back, the front yard has to be refurbished, because the yard where Wang Jianlin lived was too small and the small garden next to it was simply expanded to form a big yard, where the bodyguard lived and the guests lived. These are all planned.

"It's a bit crowded for you to live together. Brother Lin still lives in the same yard as Wang Jian, and Xiao Liu lives next door. I have a cousin who works in a braised meat shop and doesn't come back to live on weekdays, but now the place is open. Save a room." Li Zhouzhou arranged for Brother Yu to come in as well.

There is also Li Xia Li Chun's residence.

The two of them are Li family slaves, so it is impossible for them to live in a decent courtyard like Wang Jian and other petites. Although the planned residence is a servant's room around the periphery, the servant's room is also divided, and there are some with a yard, like a yard. The ones are housekeeper Zhou's and Li Chunli Xia's.

Arrange later.

The other servants sleep two or three in one room.

Moving from the front to the back also wastes a lot of energy, and moving is a hassle.Li Zhouzhou asked Zhongsan and Si, as well as Housekeeper Zhou to tidy up the warehouse together—in the three years in Zhaozhou, the annual gifts given by the merchants every year were not very expensive, but this time, once they moved, let alone Li Zhouzhou and Gu Zhao were a little dumbfounded.

"Why so many?"

"It looks quite expensive."

Gu Zhaoer asked repeatedly.

Li Zhouzhou flipped through the booklet, and it seemed that the ones collected last year were placed in front of the booklet, and they can still match up with the booklet, which is indeed true, "These need to be sorted out, pens, inks, papers and inkstones can be used, I picked them up and tidied them up." One box will be sent to you in front, and there are still some that are not easy to put, so they should be kept properly."

The Wang family also sent a lot of silk and tea from the Liu family, which tastes good after being kept for a long time.

It just so happened that it was almost Chinese New Year, and they were all used for making clothes for clothes, and for entertaining guests.

Fortunately, I moved and packed them up, otherwise these things would be easy to forget if they were piled up in the warehouse.Gu Zhao turned around and said, "Take out some ornaments that you like, and send some to father and Fu Bao's house, it's better than leaving them in the warehouse to eat ashes."

At least put it in the outside room, and the servants will scrub and plaster it every day to keep it clean.

"to make."

There are two warehouses, one in the front yard and one in the back yard.Now the place is wide open, and the warehouse also occupies a small courtyard, just behind the left side of the main courtyard, while Li Da and Fubao have their own courtyards. They don't live together anymore, they live separately, but they are all close to each other. Together.

For example, Li Da's yard is a vegetable field when you open the door, while Fubao's yard is close to the grove and grass, so it is convenient for Wang Wang to go out to play.

In fact, Li Zhouzhou was a bit reluctant at first, but Gu Zhao said: "Fubao is almost eight years old, and he seems to be blown by the wind. In two or three years, he will be thirteen or fourteen, and he will not be able to open up when he lives together. It's not as good as him." I have been exercising since childhood."

Li Zhouzhou was still worried, and asked Fubao what he meant. Who knew that Fubao knew that he had a small yard, and he was very happy. Arrange and fiddle, arrange and fiddle.

Seeing Fubao's eager anticipation, Li Zhouzhou was a little bit disappointed. He felt that the child had grown up and was no longer attached to his parents. He was really a little adult.Naturally, Gu Zhao comforted his wife well, saying that all children are like this, and when they grow up, they will become independent individuals, and they will form a small family in the future. If you are bored, I will accompany you, and we will go for a long time.

At the end, Gu Zhao also said, Li Zhaoxi is so old, what if he sticks to him and grows up to be a father boy?

Li Zhouzhou didn't understand "Ma Baonan" before, but after Xiaoliu's divorce, Gu Zhao talked about it carefully, and he understood. Hearing this now, he felt that what Xianggong said was right. When making decisions, don't be too clingy to him, let him make up his mind about everything.

Exercise Fubao himself.

It took me a whole month to move, the weather was cold, and it rained a few times, the road in Lifu was scrubbed clean and looked brand new.The family changed into thin quilted winter clothes.

Li Zhaoxi also moved into his own yard as he wished, with two maids and two servants, two mothers-in-law and mothers who do rough work, and six people in one yard to take care of Li Zhaoxi alone.

Not to mention the manpower, Li Zhaoxi is very happy. The first thing he does when he enters the yard is: "Move Wang Wang's nest to my house, and I will sleep with it at night."

The servants didn't dare to do this, some of them pleaded with Fu Bao, some of them didn't move, and some of them ran to Li Zhouzhou's place to finish their speech, and Li Zhouzhou went to Fu Bao's courtyard.

Fu Bao was a little unhappy, "Dad, didn't you say that I'm the one who makes the decisions, and they won't move or listen to me." Some even went to complain to Dad!

"Then what do you say?" Li Zhouzhou asked.

Fu Bao looked at the complaining girl and said, "I don't want her to serve you anymore, she won't listen to me."

"Then replace it." Li Zhouzhou also nodded.

The girl plopped and knelt on the ground crying, saying don't drive her away, she came to Master Fubao's place as a big girl, a first-class maid, she managed to arrange this good job, if she drove her away, the other yards would be full of people, she I can only do some rough cleaning, waiting to be arranged.

Li Zhouzhou looked at Fu Bao's expression, Fu Bao cried and begged to the girl, there was a little soft heart and sympathy on his fleshy face, but his eyebrows were furrowed, until the girl started to kowtow, Fu Bao seemed not happy but Poor girl again, just about to open her mouth to say 'forget it'.

"Take her down first, the mansion has done something wrong, and we will talk about it after being punished and trained, don't kowtow and beg for mercy, it's outrageous." Li Zhouzhou spoke first, and asked Steward Zhou to take people down to have a look , don't hurt your head.

The person was taken down, and Fu Bao's small face quietly let out a sigh of relief.

"Father."

"Tell Dad, do you want her to stay?"

Fu Bao shook his head, "I don't want to, but she kowtowed and cried and begged me so pitifully, I just thought it was just a trivial matter, if she stays, I will stay, and I will be fine without her in the future."

"It's a trivial matter." Li Zhouzhou walked into the room. The toys in the main hall were piled up and arranged in a mess, but he didn't say anything about it. He asked Fu Bao to sit down and the father and son talked.

"Dad, did I do something wrong? I shouldn't have such a mess in the room, and I still have to sleep with Wang Wang."

Li Zhouzhou didn't say this, but continued with what he had just said, "She begged for mercy in front of you because she knew you were young and weak, so she knelt down. She seemed weak and helpless. You made the decision. In fact, the two of you fell apart. After all, she set you up, and it was done, she stayed, and you didn't send her to work, and she still got the monthly money, and she was the big girl in Master Li Zhaoxi's yard to the outside world."

"What about you, you don't love him in your heart, and you still have to force yourself to use this person."

"Father knows that you are kind-hearted and won't do things to abuse servants, but Li Zhaoxi grew up and lived in a yard alone. You are the little master of this small yard. How to arrange toys, when to play, and sleep with Wang Wangye Office, these are trivial things, Dad also believes in you, if you don't know how to play, you will forget about serious things."

Li Zhaoxi nodded when he heard what his father said, and wrote it down. At the same time, he told himself firmly that his father trusted him so much. He couldn't be too happy and frizzy. My dad trusted me.

"I know Dad."

"Go and make arrangements, Dad is back in his yard."

After this incident, Li Zhaoxi has the right to speak first in his own yard, so naturally he also knows how to measure, he didn't play like crazy, but made more arrangements, made a schedule for himself, and went to daddy after dinner in the morning Say hello to Dad's yard, and then go to school, and go to grandpa's yard when I come back in the afternoon, then do my homework, have dinner after finishing, and then play with Wang Wang.

Xiu Mu was on vacation, so he got up early to write big characters warmly, and he could only play after finishing his serious business.

Li Da used to think that it was unreasonable for Fu Bao to sleep alone in the courtyard, and the child was only a little old, but now seeing what Fu Bao arranged, he was indeed inferior, and he really grew up a lot.

Li Zhouzhou is more than relieved, but he still feels somewhat lost. When he was busy before, he felt guilty and felt that he could not accompany Fu Bao properly. Now that Fu Bao is older and he is free, Fu Bao does not need him to accompany him for too long. .

Before the Chinese New Year, it was natural to receive and send posts.

Li Zhaoxi was about to celebrate his eighth birthday, and asked Dad if he could invite his classmates to play at home. He wanted to celebrate his birthday with a few good friends and classmates this year.Li Zhouzhou agreed, and let Fubao take care of how to write posts, how to arrange the reception process, what to eat and drink, what to play, what to return gifts and what.

In the past, Li’s family didn’t do much for their birthdays. They used to be poor, so they didn’t have that much sense of ritual. They cooked a poached egg noodle and ate it that day, and they didn’t think it was a big deal.To celebrate one's birthday in a serious way is to wait for one's age to get older.

Children are even more reluctant to do it, for fear of being too ostentatious and attracting ideas from all kinds of little ghosts.

Especially the name Fubao is not a cheap name.Li Dayuan's words.Of course, we should secretly and quietly, hide from dirty things, and raise the child to be strong first.

Now that Li Zhaoxi is eight years old, it's not the Li Manor's birthday party - too much noise.It's Li Zhaoxi's own small yard, invite a few classmates and friends, hold a banquet, the children play around for a while, and that's it.

The name of writing the post was not to celebrate Fu Bao's birthday, but to have fun together, and Fu Bao's birthday was going to school, so it happened to be a holiday two days earlier.

Not many people came, just seven or eight people, they first met Li Zhouzhou when they entered the Li Mansion, and after meeting, Fu Bao led the big guys to his territory, and now they started having fun, no one cares about them.

Li Zhouzhou was scrolling through the list posts in the living room, and from time to time he heard the laughter and noise coming from the yard next door, and thought it was quite good.

"I also said that I will go boating for a while, will it work?" Li Da was worried.

Li Zhouzhou put down the pen in his hand and said: "Then let those who can swim read these, there must be two on each boat." Make up your mind, but don't ignore anything, let Butler Zhou go and have a look quietly.

But after a while, housekeeper Zhou came and said that young master Fubao stringed up empty coconut shells and tied them together to make a disc, which was found on every boat, and said that it could float if it fell into the water.

This method was learned by Li Zhaoxi when he went to Jiting beach to learn swimming.

"It's cold and the lake is cold, so watch carefully and don't fight around on the boat," Li Zhouzhou said.

Butler Zhou has to be busy.Li Da said beside him: "It's not safe to just stop playing."

"..." Li Zhouzhou was too busy and worried, so he just put down his pen and stopped writing, but he didn't say that he couldn't do it. He told his father: "Take care, Fubao knows the seriousness."

There was a boating competition in the lake over there, and Li Zhouzhou was worried for a long time. When someone came to report that Young Master Fubao felt that it was not fun and dangerous to play for two minutes, he suggested that he go to the forest to catch rabbits. Got ashore safely.

Li Zhouzhou finally felt relieved and started to do his own work.

It's fine.

On the day of Fubao's birthday, Li Zhouzhou personally made a bowl of poached egg noodles for Fubao. After Fubao finished eating, when he came back from school in the afternoon, he first saw a pony in his yard with a tie tied around its neck. Big red bow.

"Why is there a pony?" Fu Bao glanced at his "serious adult" appearance, and ran briskly into the yard, and Wang Wang ran beside him, "Wang Wang, you said this is for me? Is it really for me? "

Wang Wang barked twice.

Fu Bao: "Of course this pony is for me, it's about the same height as me!" If Dad or Grandpa rode it, it would be too small and the pony would be crushed.

This is definitely for him!

Fu Bao stretched out his hand to touch the horse's neck. He had seen his grandfather touch the mule old man, and he did the same thing.The pony snorted, gently turned his head and rubbed against the little master.

"Wow! It rubbed against me, it's so cute." Fu Bao was overjoyed, and asked who sent it.

"Back to the young master, it was sent by the adults."

"It's dad!"

Gu Zhao shouted outside: "Li Zhaoxi, have you seen my horse? Your grandpa's mule is old and can't be used anymore. I just got one and wanted to give it to your grandpa—has it run away from you?"

Happy Li Zhaoxi: ...the smile disappeared briefly.

But he soon became happy again. Dad was definitely bluffing him. Little Ma just arrived in a new place. With so many people in the family, how could he not look down on Xiao Ma? Why didn't he run away from other places, just run to him?

Besides, the horse is so small and grandpa is so tall, it will crush the horse.

"Fu Fu Qi is just right." Li Zhaoxi said happily.

Gu Zhao came in, "Are you not deceived?"

"I'm not stupid."

Li Zhouzhou came in after him and said, "I just said that I can't be fooled."

"That's right, Li Zhaoxi is smarter now, and he's not as easy to coax as one or two years old, but now he's eight-year-old Li Zhaoxi." Gu Zhao was also a little disappointed, and then pinched the child's cheek, "It's not as easy as before. "

The child is still small, cute, playful and chubby.

Li Zhaoxi covered his cheeks and looked at his father, but when he thought that the pony was given by his father, he was happy again, "Father, please pinch it." As if I don't care about you as an adult, let's coax you.

Gu Zhao: ...he is not so childish.

"This horse is a filly with a docile temperament. If you want to ride it, there must be a master who will accompany you and teach you. You are not allowed to go up by yourself, or I will confiscate it and never give it to you again."

Li Zhaoxi nodded in agreement.

Just in case, Gu Zhao told Fu Bao the stories of a few children riding a horse, the horse suddenly went berserk and out of control, and the child fell off the horse and broke his arms and legs.In the end, Li Zhaoxi didn't scare him, and made Li Da tremble with fear, and said: "Otherwise, Grandpa Ma will be raised by you again, and it's just right for you to be in your teens."

"Grandpa, Fufu can't ride alone." Li Zhaoxi acted like a baby.

Li Shi felt soft-hearted.

"If I want to ride, grandpa will teach Fufu."

"That's right, Grandpa has to watch you, but he doesn't dare to mount the horse alone."

In the end it stayed.Li Zhaoxi now has a dog, a horse, and a sheep brother, but the sheep brothers are getting older, and they can't play together for a long time. It's just that they love each other, and they have been taking good care of them, and they have nothing to do.

Children are full of energy, and running around with Wang Wang is the best fit.

Now that there is an extra pony, Li Zhaoxi takes care of it himself, just like taking care of Wang Wang back then. He is very patient, can sit still, and has no problem with his hands-on ability—in the past, he and his grandfather built a shed and made a boat.

Li Zhaoxi also had some difficulties in choosing a name, he insisted on thinking about it for a few days, and finally said it was Xiaobaihua.

Gu Zhao: ...

"This horse is bay red." He wondered if his child was color blind.

Li Zhaoxi nodded, "That's right, but it has small white patterns on its brows, and it's still a pretty girl, so of course it needs to be named nicely."

Gu Zhao really wanted to ask Xiaobaihua how it sounded good, but he still didn't ask, the horse was a gift from Fubao, and the naming rights belonged to Fubao, so he just let it go.It's just that Mr. Gu turned his head and caught Zhou Zhou, wondering, "Wife, listen, does the name Xiao Baihua sound nice?"

"..." Li Zhouzhou looked at the old man, and recited a few names that the old man had given to Fu Bao before. Gu Zhao was silent for a moment, and finally made trouble for no reason. In terms of naming, Li Zhaoxi's name was the pinnacle of his life.

"Let's just spend the little white flowers."

But after a few days, Fu Bao loves horses and calls Xiao Bai Hua Hua affectionately.

Gu Zhao: ...Flowers can do it, and flowers can do it too.

Compared with the light-hearted and trivial affairs of Li's family in Zhaozhou, far away in Beijing, the grass and trees are full of turmoil. There was a funeral in the palace two months ago, and Emperor Kang Jing, who is now 72 years old, is also dying of old age. .

There will be a strike in January.

All the ministers of the cabinet knelt outside the dragon's bedroom in the Zichen Palace, and the empress and four concubines were waiting on the inside.Since the eighth prince was abolished, the sage ordered the empress to rest behind closed doors. In disguise, the position of the empress was emptied, and the Phoenix seal was also put on the shelf. After the accident of the eighth prince, all matters in the harem were managed by the fourth concubine.

Among them, Duanfei is the head.

This situation lasted until the invasion of Huiguo, the fight in Fengzhou, and the Tiande Army's Zhao family went out several times, the empress reappeared, and the phoenix seal was able to move. Queen's power.

How can the concubines who have been with me for so many years fail to understand the hand of the Holy Majesty?Concubine Duan didn't care much about who was in power in the harem, she didn't care at all, and she even wanted to laugh at Sheng Shang's trick.

It hasn't changed after all these years.

But now the sage is old, not to mention her, even the queen who has been in confinement to recuperate, has been making little noises in private.The empress still doesn't give up, that's right, the eighth prince also used the excuse of 'recuperating' back then, how could he give up?

She won't give up either.

Her son is brave and good at fighting, and her Zhao family has guarded the frontier for Dali all her life, why should she not fight?Make the little ones in the back want to climb up, and make her son kneel down and surrender willingly?

is it possible.

The Rong family is also worthy.

Concubine Duan collected her expression, her eyes were still full of concern and worry, she surrounded the dragon bed, the queen asked the imperial physician first: "What's the matter?"

"Reporting to Empress Empress, Your Majesty has been in a coma for two days. If this continues, I'm afraid—"

"What's the use of asking you to come up with a solution?" the queen scolded.

The imperial doctor knelt down and said tremblingly, "It is necessary to use needles, which may hurt the dragon's body."

The empress sank for a moment, then turned her head and asked Concubine Duan, "How does my sister look?"

"My sister is the head of the middle palace, and the concubine listens to the empress, please show me." Concubine Duan said calmly.

Under this stalemate, unable to make up his mind, Emperor Kang Jing, who had been in a coma for two days on the bed, finally woke up. Everyone was relieved, and some were anxious. Regardless of what they thought, they first huffed and surrounded him With a gentle and small mind, he asked the holy dragon how he was, and asked the imperial doctor to take a pulse.

Emperor Kang Jing couldn't even raise his hands, and he was so angry: "Wang, Wang—"

"Your Majesty, the servant is here." Wang Zetian seemed to be more than ten years old, he respectfully put his ear on the lips of the Holy Majesty, listened for a few breaths, and said: "The Majesty, please go back first."

After that, it was passed on to the old man.

The rigorous letter was one of them, and he even took a few steps forward, laid out a pen and paper after a while, and began to write the imperial decree.

The mansions of the high gates in the capital closed their doors to thank guests for several months, or banned all entertainment, and even the common people living below became well behaved, and went home early to close the doors before it was dark in the evening.

The Jinwu Guards moved out with swords in their arms, and the people nearby hurriedly dodged into the alley, which mansion was raided again.This is the third one this month.

Yan Jinxin also lived in the palace for a month, and seeing the end of the new year is approaching, I am afraid that this year will be difficult.

In Giting in the distance, the ship slowly docked at the pier.The Zhaozhou merchants who shipped in the third season came back. When they went there, they had four ships. When they came back, they were empty, with boxes of silver and many new faces.

Meng Jianyun Su Shiyi bought 36 people this time.

"I'll go back to Zhaozhou first, and you can handle other things." Meng Jianyun carried a box of letters on his back, without stopping, got off the boat, got on a horse, and headed straight for Zhaozhou.

Su Shiyi was dealing with business matters. He looked into the distance, and his eyes were somewhat envious of Meng Jianyun. Although this man was a slave of the Li family, in Master Gu's heart, he and Meng Jianyun were doing business. Believe in Meng Jianyun, this kid is better than him.

He can only do odd jobs in business.

Xiao Meng is amazing.Unfortunately, he is a slave.

Thinking of this, Su Shiyi felt sorry for Xiaomeng, but he was also a little relieved. He found an excuse, Mr. Gu believed in Xiaomeng, maybe it was because Xiaomeng was a slave, maybe it was not because of his inability.

Meng Jianyun didn't know what Su Shiyi was thinking. He felt that something was wrong and there was something strange, so he decided to send the letter back to Zhaozhou City first, and it took some time to buy someone.

After driving all night, he finally arrived at Zhaozhou City before the city gate was closed. It was late, Meng Jianyun went straight to Li Mansion, and dismounted in front of the mansion gate. It is said that the next person has to go through the corner gate, how can he enter through the gate.

Meng Jianyun got on his horse and turned around again, and went to the corner gate. When he entered the mansion, Steward Zhou also heard the movement, and first scolded the young man. Can the door really be opened to let him in?"

"..." This actually stopped Steward Zhou from asking, but he quickly said: "Meng Zhang is following the adults. If you have official business, you can open the side door next to the main gate and let him in and out. Don't delay." It's an adult's business."

The boy bowed his head and nodded to express that he remembered.

But there was no chance after that, Meng Jianyun never walked through the gate again, every time he entered through the corner gate, until his identity was changed. His temperament is to hold grudges, and he must have carried grudges on purpose, but after a long time, everyone found that Meng Jianyun really didn't hold grudges because of this.

"I was originally a Li family slave, so I should be."

On the other hand, the others were so frightened that they didn't know how to answer the conversation.

Just now, Meng Jianyun walked into the study all the way, and handed the letter box on his back to the adults. Seeing Meng Jianyun like this, Gu Zhao must be in a hurry, so he asked: "But what happened? You Make it like this."

"My lord, when I was buying someone, I heard from the local people that there was a prince who led people past and went to Rongzhou. I don't know anything else."

Gu Zhao frowned suddenly. If he went to Rongzhou, he didn't know whether it was the Fan Kingdom who took the opportunity to fight, or the Nanyi. He was most afraid that the two small countries would come to attack, because the Hui Kingdom had made a start, and Dali had been defeated many times. All of a sudden, how can the two small countries next to it not be ready to move, wanting to take advantage of the tiger's disease and bite off a piece of meat.

He opened the senior brother's letter first, and when he saw the first sentence, he immediately felt bad.

The Twelve Princes are dead.

In August, the letter from Fengzhou said that the twelfth prince was originally injured. As for the severity, Gu Zhao didn’t know, and the senior brother didn’t write it, but the news of the injury happened in April and May. It’s only been a few months. Gone.

In September, Rongzhou reported that the Fan Kingdom Nanyi had invaded.

The Holy Majesty experienced the pain of bereavement, defeat in the war, two small countries invaded, and several things accumulated together...

Dangerous.