Chapter 43

In the evening, an imperial eunuch came to Marquis Yongyi's Prefecture and sent Consort Rong's apology.

The next day.

Many residents in Bianjing saw the Rong family's carriage come to Marquis Xiangyang's Prefecture again.

Hou Fu Chang and his wife walked off the carriage, thinking they were here to apologize to Marquis Xiangyang.

The couple stayed for less than an hour, and then went to the Qi Ling Ling Guo Gong Prefecture to apologize.

After returning from the Qi Ling Ling Guo Gong Prefecture.

After the couple returned home and had lunch, a carriage came to Hou Fu Chang's Prefecture.

At this time, this Madam knew that her maternal relative serving in the Imperial Guard was almost beheaded by the Regional Military Commissioner for roll call.

In the Imperial Guard, noble descendants are the most numerous; on weekdays, they are all "you are good, I am good," and roll call is also a muddle.

This day, the Regional Military Commissioner personally arrived to call the roll.

This Rong family relative, who was used to Consort Rong's protection, found an excuse not to go this morning.

As a result, the Commissioner's personal guards directly pressed him out of the bedroom.

When he was about to pronounce the sentence, a personal guard came to the side of the Regional Military Commissioner and whispered a few words.

After a moment,

this Rong family relative felt the killing intent like substance on his head dissipate.

Then he heard the sentence of twenty military sticks.

After the sentence was passed, this Rong family relative was already sweating profusely, and his close-fitting clothes were also wet.

Including the clothes near his crotch.

He just thought he would be directly dealt with according to military law and sentenced to be beheaded.

The relative who was beaten with military sticks and carried back cried in front of Madam Rong:

"Cousin, this job really can't be done anymore. What on earth have you done! My fellow comrades in the army who were on good terms with me on weekdays changed their appearance today and almost took my life."

Hou Fu Chang on the side heard this, and his face was also ugly.

Yesterday his son offended Marquis Xiangyang, and today there was retaliation in the morning.

If it weren't for listening to his daughter's words, the relative in the hall today would have been carried back as a corpse.

The relative was carried onto the carriage and went home, and Hou Fu Chang entrusted someone to resign from this Imperial Guard job.

Returning to the backyard, Seeing Rong Xian had already been pressed on the bench by the servants.

Seeing Rong Xian's eyes were somewhat scattered; his IQ understood what his relative had encountered today.

"If, yesterday my cuju ball had hit Princess Pingning's son..."

Madam Rong, who usually spoiled her son very much, also had a pale face.

If her maternal relative had truly been beheaded like that, she really wouldn't have anywhere to reason.

Hou Fu Chang took the bamboo board from the servant's hand.

"Take off your pants for me."

Soon, the sound of bamboo boards hitting flesh came from the courtyard.

Fortunately, Hou Fu Chang had hollowed out his body by drinking and visiting prostitutes on weekdays, otherwise Seeing Rong Xian would have been beaten into a cripple.

Hou Fu Chang, with a forehead full of cold sweat, took the handkerchief handed by a beautiful concubine and said to his Madam,

"Prepare a gift and send it to Marquis Yongyi's Prefecture.

If it weren't for people blocking your son's cuju ball, I don't know what would have happened today."

Quyuanjie,

Marquis Yongyi Prefecture,

Not far from the Marquis Prefecture is a lively and prosperous street.

A vendor selling seasonal fruits looked at the entrance of the Xu Prefecture from time to time.

Then he saw an incredible scene.

In the morning, the carriage with the Qi Ling Ling Guo Gong Prefecture's flag carried wealth into the Xu Prefecture,

and then the carriage with Marquis Xiangyang's Prefecture's flag entered again.

There were also female officials in sedan chairs carrying things that were not light into the Xu family.

In the afternoon, the Rong family of Hou Fu Chang also carried a carriage of wealth into the Xu Prefecture.

This made the eldest young master of the Xu family, Xu Zaiduan, very troubled.

Because today he was originally going to ask his mother and sister about how that Xie family girl was.

As a result, he was interrupted four times by those sending gifts.

When guests were present, the Xu family brothers and sisters were still very well-bred.

But after the guests left, Sun Shi smiled and said to her children:

"You go see for yourselves."

After speaking, the Pingmei and Anmei sisters opened the boxes placed in the courtyard.

Except for the gold and silver utensils sent by Hou Fu Chang's Prefecture,

the other boxes were filled with rare items that couldn't be bought.

Although it was Qingyun who saved people, he was a servant of the Xu family.

The credit naturally belonged to the Xu family, to Xu Zaijing.

Sun Shi did not put these wealth into the Xu Prefecture's warehouse, but let Xu Zaijing dispose of them himself.

Xu Zaijing kept one-third for himself, gave one-third to his brothers and sisters, and the rest was returned to his mother.

The wealth he kept for himself, Xu Zaijing divided into two, and gave them to his master.

The groom sought Qingyun's opinion and used these wealth to buy a house in Bianjing.

The incident in the Bianjing Imperial Guard spread quickly to the ears of every family through the noble relationship network.

This was a small display of power by Marquis Xiangyang's Prefecture and the Qi Ling Ling Guo Gong Prefecture.

In this tiger and wolf den of Bianjing, if you don't bark twice, someone will truly treat a tiger as a sick cat.

The next day, an auspicious day.

The second son of the Qi Ling Ling Guo Gong, who had not yet inherited the title, Qi Heng's father, went to the Xie family on behalf of the Xu family to carry out pre-marriage processes such as betrothal and asking for names.

For a time, the nobles in Bianjing looked at the Xu family with much different eyes.

The marriage of the eldest young master of the Xu family was settled, and the Xu family sent a post to the Sheng family in Yang Zhou.

When the jokes of the Rong family and the power of the Gu family gradually spread from the noble class to the ears of the common people,

Xu Zaijing was harvesting corn in the courtyard with Uncle Deng.

In the evening, Xu Zaijing ate steamed tender corn.

It was not as fragrant and sweet as in his previous life, but it was still okay.

The weather was getting colder, and the cotton planted in the Xu family also turned white; the servants in the prefecture were arranged to harvest the cotton, and after drying and taking the seeds, there were still a hundred catties.

Uncle Deng, this disciple of the agricultural family, signed a death contract with the Xu family.

For a long time, the most he did was take other servants who signed death contracts to catch insects in the cotton field.

The insects caught fattened the few old hens in the prefecture.

Xu Zaijing practiced his daily lessons every morning, and in the afternoon he had to study literature and practice calligraphy with his brothers in the prefecture.

Gu Tingyu and Gu Tingye came together several times.

Every time, Xu Zaiduan, Xu Zaizhang, and Gu Tingyu were writing calligraphy in the room.

Gu Tingye was competing in pitch-pot with Xu Zaijing on the side, winning and losing.

Xu Zaijing would go with his master to Uncle Deng's place at dusk to study how to fluff cotton together.

Fortunately, Xu Zaijing had the memory of his previous life and vaguely remembered that fluffing cotton was a large bow.

You know, the ancients were not stupid, they just had less knowledge.

Xu Zaijing generally said the method, and Uncle Deng and the servants figured it out.

The servants who knew carpentry also made a smooth round board to iron the fluffed cotton.

On this day, Xu Zaijing was splitting sugarcane with his front teeth.

The things were sent by the Sheng family; every sugarcane was washed clean,

chopped into half-human height, uniform in thickness, white flesh and plenty of juice.

There were also two sugarcanes chopped vertically into two halves, which were being chewed by the fine horse that had grown much larger, making a creaking sound,

and in the horse trough on the side, Xu Zaijing's former mount also got one.

With a click,

Xu Zaijing felt pain in his mouth, only to discover that his front tooth had fallen out.

Qingyun on the side was chewing the sugarcane flesh and sucking the sweet juice inside; just as he spat it out, he saw his young master's tooth fall out.

Xu Zaijing was a bit stunned; he had forgotten that he was at the age to change teeth.

"No wonder my sister Anmei has been so dignified recently, smiling without showing her teeth, and not saying much when given gifts; it turns out sister is also changing teeth."

Sun Shi naturally knew about her young son changing teeth; in this nearly a year, Sun Shi's dowry had also slowly been earned back.

Although Princess Pingning was proud, because Xu Zaijing had a good impression of the Xu family, she gradually showed a friendly attitude toward the Xu family on Marquis Xiangyang's side.

Several times at banquets or gatherings, they also knew that the Xu family and the Sheng family had already untied the knots of more than ten years ago.

The most obvious performance was that Sheng Wei's business was easier to do.

All of this, Sheng Wei would naturally write to tell his aunt, and the dividends from the Sheng family's business also began to enter the Xu family by one-tenth.

In the palace with heavy palaces, the Empress's female official held a wooden basket and walked respectfully into the Empress's bedroom.

"Reporting to the Empress, Marquis Yongyi Xu family presented a bag of white fold cotton wool to the Empress."

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