Chapter 320: Liang Han is furious for a beauty [Thank you all for your support]

Mama Ruan looked at the noble young man not far away,

Turned her head to look at Wei Fangzhi in the ox cart and said:

"Which family's noble young man is that?"

"How did you hook up with him?"

As she spoke,

Mama Ruan flicked her handkerchief to signal the thugs to watch the ox cart.

She walked a few steps towards Xu Zaijing habitually, wanting to strike up a conversation.

After seeing Xu Zaijing's appearance clearly, Mama Ruan didn't know what she thought of, her hand trembled, and her footsteps stopped immediately.

Then Mama Ruan turned around and walked back. After looking at Wei Fangzhi, she frowned and thought for a while before saying:

"You two, protect this ox cart and go to the building."

"Then pack up the pipa that this Fang Niang used to exchange for silver in the building, and put it in the cart for Tang Master to take back."

The thugs on the side hurriedly replied that they would.

After speaking,

Mama Ruan looked back at Xu Zaijing again.

Suddenly, she was stunned,

Because Xu Zaijing was looking straight at her, as if he had heard what she had just said.

There was no other meaning in the gaze looking at her,

Seeing her look over, Xu Zaijing even nodded.

Mama Ruan squeezed out a smile, put away her usual tricks of seducing people, turned around, bowed to Xu Zaijing, and left this place with the ox cart.

Wei Fangzhi was already sitting in the ox cart.

In the dim carriage, she felt her master holding her hand slightly hard because of happiness.

After all, that pipa had accompanied her master for more than thirty years.

The ox cart returned to the downstairs of Qiyun Tower.

Seeing the old man driving the cart back again, a young man dressed as a wealthy commoner walked over,

"Second Uncle, why are you out pulling loads again! What's going on? Who did this?"

The old man driving the ox cart waved his hand: "It's nothing, it's nothing. You go do your business."

The young man's eyes turned and he said: "Second Uncle, where did you come back from?"

The old man said a few words.

After the ox cart left Qiyun Tower again, the young man listened to the gossip about what happened and said hatefully: "Yu family... Heh."

Afterwards, the young man jumped directly onto a carriage and said: "Go, go to the Liang family."

The carriage driver said: "Yes, Xinglao."

When the ox cart left,

That young lady had already walked over angrily, widened her eyes, and said:

"You blind thing, daring to bully people of my Yu family, riding a big horse, you are rampant..."

Then she blinked, changed into a coquettish tone: "Brother Xu, Happy Lantern Festival..."

The young man following behind this girl hurriedly cupped his hands: "Fifth Brother Xu, greetings."

Xu Zaijing looked at the carriage driver with an ugly expression behind the two, and then looked at the two and said:

"Old Master Yu has been an official for decades, clean and fair, and has a virtuous reputation in the court."

"Your family's reputation still needs to be maintained by yourselves, don't be implicated by wicked servants."

After speaking, Xu Zaijing saw that Qingyun had already mounted his horse, then tapped the horse's belly lightly and left this place.

After Qingyun mounted his horse, he tilted his head to look at the carriage driver, spat on the ground, and followed Xu Zaijing.

Yu Yanran on the side wanted to speak but stopped, stamped her foot hatefully, looked at the carriage driver behind her, and said:

"What are you looking at! Why aren't you leaving!"

After getting into the carriage, Yu Yanran looked at her brother in the carriage and said:

"Brother, what should we do!"

"I heard from mother and father before that, with grandfather's face, they wanted to entrust Wu Daniangzi..."

Yu Yanran shook her second brother's arm and said:

"Brother, think of a way quickly!"

Yu Erlang pulled his sleeve out of his sister's hand and said: "How old are you, and you're already making a fuss about this? Aren't you ashamed?"

Yu Yanran: "You... I... Hmph!"

Chai family,

In front of the dressing table,

The maid Miss Yun Mu was combing Chai Zhengzheng's hair behind her. After tidying up her hair, she looked at Chai Zhengzheng, who was dazed in the bronze mirror, and said:

"Young lady?"

"Hmm? Oh!"

Chai Zhengzheng stood up and walked to the bed to sit down blankly.

After a while, she let Miss Yun Mu, who had used a sleeve band to tie her sleeves, take off her shoes and socks, and after putting her feet into the warm foot-washing basin,

Miss Yun Mu asked:

"Young lady?"

"Just right!"

Looking at Miss Yun Mu who was rubbing her feet, Chai Zhengzheng said:

"Miss Yun Mu, today in the palace I heard the Rong family young lady say that he could ride a horse and draw a bow more than ten times at the age of seven, and he never missed!"

Miss Yun Mu continued rubbing and said "Hmm".

"It's really amazing! It's a pity that I was still in Cangzhou at that time and couldn't see it."

Miss Yun Mu looked up at Chai Zhengzheng and said: "If he weren't so amazing, how could he have saved the young lady from the tiger's den!"

Chai Zhengzheng smiled, looked at the armor puppet on the side, and nodded:

"That's true."

Miss Yun Mu: "Someone!"

Soon the maid outside the door carried the foot-washing basin out.

Miss Yun Mu wrapped Chai Zhengzheng's feet with a dry towel and wiped them clean. Chai Zhengzheng sat on the bed with her legs curled up and said:

"Seeing the son of the Duke of Lian family when I came back tonight, he was quite naive."

Miss Yun Mu helped Chai Zhengzheng cover herself with the quilt and said:

"The Xu family son is the youngest in the family, and there are no younger brothers or sisters behind him. Having this sworn brother, he might be treating him like a younger brother."

Chai Zhengzheng nodded, her eyes turned, and she said: "Next time we hold the Fragrant Clothing Elegant Gathering, we must invite the young ladies of the Lu family."

"This servant has noted it down. Young lady, please lie down."

Chai Zhengzheng followed her advice and fell onto the pillow, pouted, and said: "Miss Yun Mu, go prepare..."

Miss Yun Mu: "Young lady, are you preparing these three colors of material to make new clothes?"

"Make a cloak."

"Yes."

End of the Si hour (around 9:50 PM)

Quyuanjie

Yongyi Hou Fu

Xu Zaijing bid farewell to his mother and brother and sister-in-law and returned to his courtyard.

There were still several lanterns hanging on the eaves of the courtyard,

Swaying gently with the night wind,

Those were bought by the three maids in the courtyard when they were shopping.

In the room shining with candlelight, the sound of the three maids talking came from time to time,

"Sister Qingcao, don't forget..."

"Sister, just the material size is fine, we'll make it together when we get back..."

The sound of talking gradually disappeared,

The candle was blown out,

In the courtyard, only the faint stove fire in the room where Mama Xia was and the lanterns outside were lit.

Time passed,

In Xu Zaijing's courtyard, the lanterns under the eaves went out one after another,

The daily routine returned to the way it was before the holiday at the end of the year,

Before dawn, Xu Zaijing had already finished his morning exercise.

After eating breakfast, it was still dark.

Jiying Lane,

Sheng family.

Xu Zaijing lifted the curtain and entered the academy.

In the dim academy, a candle was lit on Changbai's table.

Seeing no one behind Xu Zaijing, Changbai said:

"Jing Ge'er, where is Brother-in-law?"

"Brother wants to accompany mother to the tent newly set up outside the Xuande Gate to watch the performance outside the palace gate, and by the way, receive His Majesty's reward, so I'm the only one here today."

Changbai nodded.

During the conversation, Xu Zaijing had already given his cloak to Qingcao,

Qingcao held the cloak and came to the very back, looking at Changbai's drowsy young servant Han Niu, and called out softly.

Second quarter of the Chen hour (7:30 AM)

The sky was bright,

Master Zhuang blinked his somewhat sore eyes and came to the academy leisurely,

Sat behind the table and looked,

There were only Changbai, Changfeng, and Xu Zaijing in the academy.

The three Lans, Gu Tingye, Hearing Qi Heng, and Zaizhang didn't come.

Master Zhuang kept a straight face, shook his head helplessly, and said:

"Hand in the homework first."

Qingcao, who was sitting at the very back, also looked at the empty spaces left and right,

And touched the purse at her waist,

Inside were the "benefits" given to Xiaotao by Huaxiang and Yunxiang,

Thinking that these benefits might not be able to be sent out, Qingcao sighed softly.

Just before school was over at noon,

Xu Zaijing's speaking voice had just ended,

Master Zhuang smiled, stroked his beard, looked at Xu Zaijing and Changbai, and nodded:

"Not bad, not bad! It can be seen that you two haven't been slack in these days!"

Changfeng, who was sitting next to Xu Zaijing, wanted to stuff his head under the table.

"In that case, let's dismiss."

At this time, Mama Cui came to the academy courtyard,

Poked her head in after lifting a corner of the curtain,

Mama Cui entered the room, first bowed to Master Zhuang, and then said:

"Old Madam said, let Jing Ge'er go to Shou'an Hall to eat."

Listening to Xu Zaijing's words,

The chopsticks in the Old Madam's hand didn't move. After Xu Zaijing finished speaking,

The Old Madam put down her chopsticks, sighed deeply, and said:

"Jing'er, listening to you say this, the soldiers of the Jin Kingdom are truly not to be underestimated!"

"These things, one by one, all secretly match the strong soldiers mentioned by your father before."

"This future..."

Xu Zaijing nodded, picked up a large chopstick of chicken and put it into his mouth, nodding while eating:

"Mama Fang's craftsmanship is really great!"

Mama Fang on the side smiled.

The Old Madam picked up her chopsticks, looked at Xu Zaijing, and said:

"You little monkey, you told me so much, this old woman can't eat anymore, but you are eating happily."

Xu Zaijing picked up a piece of lotus root box again, chewed it twice, swallowed it, and said:

"Great-aunt, don't worry, His Majesty is in his prime now, and there are quite a few battle-ready soldiers under the command of several dukes and marquises."

"Among them, the weakest is our family."

The Old Madam pointed at Xu Zaijing with her chopsticks and said:

"This old woman heard that there are sons of the Zhang family of the Duke of Ying and the Cao family of the Marquis of Tuoxi under your father's command, so why is it the weakest?"

Xu Zaijing glanced at Minglan, who was poking her head at the door of the inner room, and said:

"Compared to the time of the great-grandfather, of course it's weaker."

The Old Madam shook her head with a smile.

Seeing the direction of Xu Zaijing's gaze, the Old Madam said:

"The three of them guessed lantern riddles last night, and it wasn't early when they went to sleep."

Xu Zaijing nodded.

At this time, Qingcao walked into the hall with a small bundle.

Xu Zaijing raised his head: "Did you ask clearly?"

Qingcao bowed to the Old Madam and Xu Zaijing and said: "Hmm! Little Niang and Sister Xiao Die told this servant."

Xu Zaijing nodded: "I'll change the style for you."

Qingcao smiled.

Minglan at the door heard this, looked at Xiaotao, then looked at Qingcao, and a plan came to her mind.

After eating her fill at Shou'an Hall and drinking digestive tea, Xu Zaijing bid farewell and left.

After Minglan also ate something, she followed him happily.

The maids of Shou'an Hall were tidying up the tables and chairs.

The Old Madam sat cross-legged on the Arhat bed, holding the tortoise shell and copper coins,

And Mama Cui had prepared paper and pen.

But the Old Madam didn't move.

"Old Madam?"

The Old Madam waved her hand to signal it was okay, and then said:

"Suqin?"

Mama Fang walked over, and the Old Madam said:

"The personal soldiers and generals of the Hou Fu who came with me as dowry, where are most of them?"

Mama Fang thought for a while and said:

"Jiangning Prefecture, East Road of Jinghu, and several manors in the two Zhejiang roads all have them."

The Old Madam asked: "Are they living well?"

Mama Fang said: "Listening to my husband, some are doing lacquerware business, some are doing stonemasonry business, and with the protection of our Hou Fu's old acquaintances, plus the grain output from the manors, they are living extremely well."

"The martial arts of the sons and grandsons naturally haven't been left behind either."

After listening, the Old Madam nodded,

And then wrote on the paper brought by Mama Cui, Mama Cui Ru'an.

Mama Fang and Mama Cui looked at each other.

The Old Madam looked at the words she had written, nodded with self-satisfaction, and said: "Suqin, bring my private seal."

A quarter of an hour later,

"Go, use the fastest method of the delivery shop to send it to the manor in the south."

The Old Madam glanced at Mama Fang on the side and said: "Whether to go and achieve merit, let them make the decision themselves."

Mama Cui hurriedly replied that she would.

After school,

Returning to Quyuanjie,

In Xu Zaijing's courtyard, the Huaxiang sisters hugged Qingcao and thanked her happily for a long time,

Then the three of them came to Xu Zaijing, who was preparing to go to Sun Shi's courtyard, and said:

"Young Master..."

Xu Zaijing smiled:

"Go to the warehouse and collect the material yourselves!"

The three maids were about to leave when Xu Zaijing said:

"But!"

"For each style, you'd better make a few more. After I, the young master, choose, then they are yours!"

"Also!"

"Huaxiang, go to the academy with me tomorrow, record the sizes and such, and then let Gu Er Lang take them back."

The three maids hurriedly replied that they would.

Seventeenth day of the first lunar month,

Hearing Qi Heng and Gu Tingye arrived at the academy.

When school was over at noon and they were preparing to have lunch,

Gu Tingye said to Xu Zaijing excitedly:

"Jing Ge'er, guess what interesting thing happened at the banquet yesterday?"

As he spoke, he even looked at Hearing Qi Heng.

Xu Zaijing looked at Zaizhang, and Zaizhang said: "Mother and I left early, I haven't heard of anything happening!"

Gu Tingye raised his eyebrows:

"In the afternoon banquet, Heng Ge'er and I went to change clothes, and at the place where the carriages were parked, we saw..."

"Liang Han blocked Yu Erlang with his servants and called the Yu family's carriage driver over and beat him up!"

Hearing Qi Heng on the side nodded in affirmation.

"I went to ask Liang Liu Lang why, but he wouldn't say."

Xu Zaijing said hesitantly: "Yu family, carriage driver?"

Gu Tingye nodded.

Xu Zaijing pondered for a moment, recalled Liang Han's performance before, and said hesitantly: "It might be because he offended..."

Gu Tingye and Hearing Qi Heng's eyes lit up: "When did this happen?"

Xu Zaijing: "... It was just like this, there were quite a lot of people watching at the time."

Hearing Qi Heng said hesitantly:

"Jing Ge'er, I did hear that the guild for renting carriages and ox carts has some relationship with the Liang family..."

Gu Tingye shook his head and said:

"Pfft! Heng Ge'er, you don't even think about it, would Liang Han beat up someone from the Yu family for the sake of an ox cart driver in a guild?"

"It must be for the female musicians!"

Nineteenth day of the first lunar month,

The lanterns in Bianjing began to be taken down,

And the story of Liang Liu Lang "being furious for a beauty and beating up the second son of the Yu family" had already spread among the noble youths of Bianjing.

This day,

Afternoon,

Yongchang Hou Fu,

Wu Daniangzi was sitting on a chair, talking with Marquis Liang, calculating for her nephew of the Wu family, thinking about which young ladies in Bianjing were of appropriate age.

The personal Mama walked to the door and said: "Marquis, Da Niangzi, the eldest son is here."

Wu Daniangzi sighed and said: "Please invite him in."

After a while, Liang Dalang walked over with a respectful attitude, holding several exquisite posts in his hand.

"The child greets father, mother."

Liang Dalang said.

Marquis Liang looked at his eldest illegitimate son with a smile,

Wu Daniangzi squeezed out a smile and said: "Dalang, what's the matter?"

Liang Dalang pinched the posts and cupped his hands: "Father, mother, I saw several young servants delivering posts to Liang Liu Lang at the main entrance, so I took the initiative to bring the posts in."

Wu Daniangzi waved her hand, and the maid on the side handed the posts over.

Wu Daniangzi looked at one, and her face became uglier by one point.

Marquis Liang curiously took one and looked at it.

"Slap!"

Marquis Liang slapped the table with a palm.