The relationship between Zheng's father and Liu Chengxu has always been very good, otherwise he would not have allowed his children to have in-laws. Now that Liu Chengxu has been dismissed from office, Zheng's father intends to invite his in-laws to have a banquet and drink.
If Liu Chengxu wanted to go to another house, he would inevitably feel constrained, but if he came to the Zheng family, he would happily go, so he brought little Fu and his two sons over.
The two families are well-connected, and little Fu was also taken to see Master Zheng's garden. It is spring, and it is the time when the peach blossoms are in full bloom. Mr. Zheng is the kind who can grow flowers even if he plants them. Lishu pointed to the one with small white flowers and said, "That's the small white betau."
The ones with slightly larger flowers are the large-flowered white peach, and then there are the three-petal-shaped peach flowers with pink filaments called thousand-petal peach blossoms, and the green-flowered peach with light green petals and the purple-leaf peach with purple leaves. .
Lishu’s favorite was the weeping beta peach. She introduced it to little Fu: “This kind of weeping betau has drooping branches, double flowers, and many colors. Such as deep red, sprinkled gold, light red, etc. There are several pure white ones, and I really like the ones sprinkled with gold. Mother, it would be great if you could paint."
"Painting? Bring me the painting tools. I'll paint here. I don't have anything to do today anyway." Little Fu was also eager to give it a try.
Mrs. Zheng and Mrs. Tan were also very happy to hear this. Lishu asked someone to bring the painting tools over. Mr. Fu didn't like others to disturb him while he was painting, so Lishu and her mother-in-law, younger siblings, and others were enjoying the breeze and eating tea and snacks. They were very comfortable.
Today, two younger brothers came over. Shurui was wearing a Confucian turban and a t-shirt. He was not very old and was wearing a t-shirt to mop the floor. Mr. Fu had him change it. Liu Chengxu was quite young when they were born, and the elders in the family were also very old. However, Zheng Hao was not yet 30 years old this year, and he was the number one scholar, so his two younger brothers liked to follow Zheng Hao.
Zheng Hao's younger brother has been sick all year round, so it's good to be able to go out and walk around now.
Shu Rui, on the other hand, has a very good appearance. Although he is only twelve years old, he is smart and has extraordinary conversation. He is a very discerning young man who holds the disciple ceremony in front of him. Not to mention Shulin. Although his behavior was deviant, he was not an unruly child. On the contrary, the words he spoke were very clever. This made Zheng Hao like them very much. He treated them as his own brothers and treated them casually. After some advice, the two of them benefited greatly.
"Brother-in-law, do you and your sister usually go to the garden and recite poems and compose poems like this?" Shu Rui was very curious.
For a boy of this age, although he is mature in knowledge, he is still very curious about the adult world.
Zheng Hao smiled and said: "On weekdays, I only have time to take a bath, but I don't always recite poems and compose poems. Your sister is also very busy at home. She has to take care of the house and take care of her brother. I am also very busy now. Article I don’t have time to write anymore, but as long as I rest for a long time, I will take your sister to visit the garden and sometimes take her to play outside."
Shurui was still very satisfied with this answer. Shulin, a little boy, also listened with open ears. Although the two brothers were young, they took in what they said about making the decision for their sister.
Of course, Zheng Hao soon taught them how to throw pots and archery, and also said that he would teach Shu Rui how to ride horses in a few days, which made the two boys very happy.
On the other side, Mr. Zheng was also talking to Liu Chengxu: "The situation in the court is in chaos now, and you are in charge of Hegong's fat piece of meat. The emperor's people want a share of the pie, the nobles want a share of the pie, and the Hegong officials want a share." If you are trying to stop me, they will not like you, so you might as well step back now."
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Chengxu threw a handful of fish food to the lake, and the fish all swam over to chase the fish food: "Brother, you are so insightful. How could I not know it? But I just want to save money to build a new river and build an indestructible river." I don’t want to give them the dam. Look, the flood season is coming soon, and the people will finally not be affected by the floods. I don’t care about anything else.” ()
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How many times had he thought about leaving it like this, maybe it would be better to compromise a little, and just leave the people alone. It was not easy for him to get to this point.
But after all, I couldn't bear it.
Mr. Zheng patted him on the shoulder: "The imperial court sent Guangyang Hou Shizi and Wuyang Hou to guard the border. I heard that they are re-electing the governors of the three sides. Now someone knows that I know the military, so they put my name on the court recommendation. Go up. My situation is quite difficult, and I will ask you to help take care of me at home in the future."
"The Crown Prince of Guangyang has always supported Dong Palace. Marquis Wuyang is Dong Palace's cousin. This battle hasn't started yet, but he is still waiting to fight for power. It's no wonder that I chose you, my brother, as the governor of the three sides."
"It may not be me." Mr. Zheng waved his hand.
"Except for my brother, I can't think of anyone else. What do those idiots know? It's no longer the time for the founding of the country. The soldiers in the guard station are rotten and should not be used at all. The imperial court is recruiting soldiers from the South. I also want to hurry up. Build a new river and strengthen the old river so that the grain can arrive faster, so the court will always need money for wars." Liu Chengxu knew what Mr. Zheng was capable of.
Mr. Zheng sighed slightly: "Since the Emperor has established the East Palace, he should move the two sects away early. Otherwise, if King Cheng and King Yun think too much, the court will be in chaos."
Liu Chengxu held his forehead and said: "Dongong is in a weak body. After several years of marriage, the Crown Princess only gave birth to a daughter. The Crown Prince is full of tricks, and there are only small paths but no avenues. The two sons of Prince Yun are even less effective. First of all, we should help the emperor to rule hard and do a good job. Daqi has become what it is now."
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but punch the tree to vent his dissatisfaction.
Soon, Mr. Zheng was actually promoted as the governor of the three sides, which surprised everyone who thought that Mr. Zheng's career was over. The governors of the three sides were originally intended to consolidate the northwest border. Da Qi has always been the civil prime minister, the military ministers commanding the army, and the internal ministers supervising the army. Therefore, the governors of the three sides have great power.
After Mr. Zheng became Minister of the Ministry of War, the situation of few cars and horses in front of the house changed again. The Zheng family also prepared a banquet and invited relatives and friends to come over and practice it.
Posts were received from everywhere soon, but Lijia prepared a generous gift. Shaoyao, the maid next to her, looked at the long list and couldn't help but said: "Why do you send so many gifts? The ones usually sent to the Zheng family are bigger than this one." More than half of it is missing."
Lijia said: "I didn't expect that the Zheng family would be resurrected. Now that he is the governor of the three sides, it would be great if our father could follow him to make meritorious deeds. We are all relatives. It is better to use one of our own than others."
"That's true, but is Third Miss willing? I see that Third Miss seems to have a strong opinion of you after her last quarrel with you." Shaoyao was very worried.
Lijia smiled and said: "We don't need to tell the three girls. Mr. Zheng doesn't understand the affairs between our sisters. The Zheng family and my father have been friends for eight years. It wouldn't be a bad idea to help our master? If he goes to the northwest, he can immediately I'll be able to make a great contribution and become a general. I'm still worried about this.
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Shaoyao gave a thumbs up: "You are really clever."
Lijia said: "I never thought about how majestic my father-in-law was when he was the minister of Cangchang, but now he is no different from an ordinary person after leaving office. Later, a new sibling came in, and she had a high status. If I didn't Let me find my own way out, where will we be able to get ahead in the future?"
Her life was really sad. Her father had fallen, her maternal grandfather's family had also fallen, and the two Song brothers, Song Mingcheng, were doing better than her husband.
Being a human daughter-in-law is different from being a girl. When you are a girl, you are the most noble at home, but as a human daughter-in-law, you really have to worry about everything.
Speaking of which, her father was partial. If she had married into the Zheng family, how could such a thing have happened.
This time Mrs. Zheng asked Lishu to help organize the practice banquet. The first guest was actually not the Liu family, but Lijia. Lijia came with a generous gift.
Mrs. Zheng said angrily: "You are too polite."
Lijia smiled and said: "This is what it should be." After she finished speaking, she didn't make any other requests, she just talked about children's scriptures, she was very calm.
Lishu was surprised at first by the two faces of Lijia, but now she is used to it and is too lazy to talk to her. Anyway, there was no way she could help Lidka or anything.
The in-laws of the Zheng family, Mrs. Zheng's daughter and son-in-law, the Liu family continued to arrive, and the old lady's natal Mrs. Feng also came with her daughter. Although the Zheng family had a banquet today, it was not very grand, and there was not even a small theater troupe. please.
Fu Minglun came over at this time, and the Zheng family also invited Fu Minglun. After all, besides being of the same age, the Fu family was also Li Shu's maternal ancestor's family, but they never thought he could come.
Generally speaking, everyone sympathizes with Fu Minglun. After all, the talented Tanhuagong was cuckolded by his wife after marriage without any dignity at all. It was common for couples to quarrel, but it was unprecedented that he was punished so harshly.
Only Lijia felt extremely happy, thinking that this was Fu Minglun's retribution. She originally thought that the loss of his career was retribution, but she didn't expect that it would be retribution after they got married.
But on the surface, everyone must respect the prince-in-law and not show any abnormality, but Fu Minglun waved his hand to Zheng Hao: "Brother Zheng, there is no need to talk about this between you and me."
Zheng Hao was stunned, then smiled and said: "Okay, let's go over alone and have a few drinks."
Fu Minglun drank three glasses of wine and then said: "I am about to go to Jiaozhi as an envoy."
"Jiaozhi?" Zheng Hao knew that the prince-in-law was only an idle official, and they would do such things as granting rewards and sending envoys.
Fu Minglun nodded: "Although Jiaozhi is remote and not as good as Beijing, I can be free on my own and it will take several years to come back. Isn't it a good thing?"
In order to escape from the princess, I actually went to Cochin. You must know that there are hot flashes and malaria there, so it is not a good place.
Zheng Hao couldn't say anything, so he could only drink with him silently, but he heard Fu Minglun say: "Does the Crown Prince have a personal grudge with you? He came to me and wanted me to deal with you. But he thought I was stupid. The root of this problem is not that the royal family wanted to prevent the princess from marrying to a foreign country and could not find a good man for a while, so anyone who had a fiancée could be selected as the consort. If you don't get married, then you and I are the same. But he asked me to blame all my faults on you. To be honest, I did have some objections to you at that moment. But later, I also figured out why they are so superior. They are clearly oppressing us, but they let us do it ourselves. Killing each other, do you think it’s funny or not?”
"Brother Fu..." Zheng Hao didn't expect Xiao Yun to be so despicable.
Fu Minglun stood up, dusted off the dust on his body, cupped his hands, turned around and strode away.
Zheng Hao looked at his back and said, "Brother Fu is a true gentleman."!
