Nantong Prefecture, North Tong Prefecture, North and South Tong Prefecture Tong North and South.

Tongzhou is the east gate of the capital, is the starting point of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal of four thousand miles, the prosperous Cao Yun industry has brought a thousand years of prosperity to Tongzhou, on the canal, the large and small ships flow endlessly, the business travel is endless, the grain transported to the capital from the south every year is as much as millions of stones, and these grains will be temporarily stored in the Tongzhou warehouse before entering Beijing.

Therefore, Tongzhou is not only the transportation throat of the capital, but also the granary of the capital's millions of people. The so-called "Jingtong Thirteen Warehouses", of which the middle warehouse and the west warehouse are located in Tongzhou, and a considerable part of the daily food supply of the Beijing army is stored in Tongzhou warehouse.

During the orthodox years, there was a "change in the civil fort", Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen was also taken captive by the tile spur Taishi, and then also held Ming Yingzong hostage to attack Beijing City, fortunately the famous minister Yu Qian turned the tide, calmly responded to and repelled the tile spur army, otherwise the Ming Dynasty's national honor may be interrupted.

At that time, the army of the Tile Spur attacked the capital, and the military grain stored in the Tongzhou granary was likely to fall into the hands of the enemy, and it was too wasteful to burn it directly, so Yu Qian regarded the millions of stone grain in the Tongzhou warehouse as the capital of the Beijing officials and nobles for the next year, and ordered them to send someone to collect it.

On the morning of the 25th of the lunar month, Xu Jin finally stepped on the dock of Tongzhou City, looking at the silver-covered town in front of him, Xu Jin's heart has flown to his home in the capital, since he left Beijing in early July, it has been half a year in a hurry, and he has to sigh that time flies, especially in this ancient time when communication is difficult, and it is so torturous to miss it.

"Ouch, our family has finally returned to Beijing!" Eunuch Huang Jin clasped his hands in his sleeves, shrunk his neck and said with emotion.

Xu Jin wanted to enter Beijing immediately, but this time he returned to Beijing not only with more than 100 prisoners, but also transported millions of taels worth of stolen silver, for safety, in addition to 500 cavalry pro-troops, there were 3,000 officers and soldiers of the German Guard. According to the regulations, foreign troops were not allowed to enter Beijing without an edict, so Xu Jin could only lead the army to stay in Tongzhou and wait for the emperor's will.

Fortunately, not long after Xu Jin entered Tongzhou City, the will arrived, and the emperor ordered Xu Jin to immediately escort the prisoner into Beijing to hand over to the Criminal Department, but 500 cavalry and 3,000 Gui Dewei must stay in Tongzhou City.

Xu Jin naturally had no opinion, and immediately under the escort of Jinyiwei, he left Tongzhou with the prisoner and millions of taels of stolen silver, and went straight to Beijing City along the gallop.

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In the hour square, at the gate of Xu's house, several family members wearing green clothes and hats were tiptoeing, stretching their necks, and looking at the long street like cockfighting.

At the entrance of the hall in the front yard of Xufu, several maidservants also held their toes, stretched their necks, and looked at the gate of the courtyard like a female fighting, including the two bright little cabbages in early spring and early summer.

In the hall, Xie Xiaowan sat on the chair next to the charcoal stove with a pregnant belly that was not exaggerated, looking happy and urgent. Mei Wan Yue'er stood aside, behaving like a few maidservants at the door.

The news has come back, the master has returned to Tongzhou and is on his way to Beijing, so the Xu Mansion is nervous, and the housekeeper Dabao has even personally gone out to inquire about the news.

At this time, the sound of carriages suddenly sounded outside the courtyard, and after a period of noisy voices, a family carried a few boxes of luggage into the courtyard, and then, I saw that Erniu's goods were surrounded by a group of family members, and stepped into the threshold with their heads held high, like a triumphant hero.

In the eyes of a group of family members, Er Niu followed the master outside for half a year, repairing river embankments, arresting corrupt officials, and suppressing anti-thieves, and he was a model hero in the Xu Mansion family Ding world, and he deserved this kind of glory, so he complimented him with a sentence of "Brother Er Niu", and some exaggerated family members even called him Niu Ye, and even more exaggerated called Niu Uncle!

"Ah, it's a big stupid cow, it must be that the master is back!" In the early summer, when I saw the two cows surrounded by all the families, I immediately screamed with excitement.

Xie Xiaowan couldn't sit still when she heard this, and hurriedly walked out of the hall with the support of Yue'er, and came to the courtyard to prepare to greet Xianggong, and a group of maidservants followed behind her happily.

When Erniu saw Xie Xiaowan with a big belly, he hurriedly ran forward and knelt down and kowtowed, and said, "Erniu kowtowed to his aunt." ”

Xie Xiaowan smiled softly and said, "Well, get up quickly, it's cold on the ground, just come back." ”

Yue'er looked left and right outside the courtyard gate, and said strangely: "Erniu, where is the master?" Why don't you see the master? ”

Erniu stood up and said with a smile: "The master went to the sixth department to hand over, and told me to bring my luggage back first...... Oh, uncle, and uncle is outside! ”

Erniu slapped his forehead and was about to run out of the courtyard, but he saw that Dabao had already led Xie Erjian in, and carried the sword for him. Xie Erjian was dressed thickly, shrunk his neck and looked cold, although he had been recuperating for nearly a month, his internal injuries had not healed, and Zhao Quandang's palm hurt him a lot.

"Second brother!" Xie Xiaowan blurted out in surprise and joy, and walked quickly to meet it, but her feet slipped, but fortunately, her kung fu foundation was still there, but she just stood firm, covering her pregnant belly and her face turned pale.

Yue'er was so frightened that her soul was almost gone, so she hurriedly ran up to pick up Xie Xiaowan, and said with palpitations: "Madam, be careful, the maid was almost scared to death by you." ”

Xie Erjian was also taken aback, and when he saw that it was okay, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and joked: "My future nephew is really skinny, and he gave my uncle a fright before we met." ”

Xie Xiaowan stuck out her tongue embarrassedly, and then her nose was sore, and her eyes were red, since she left Jiangxi with her husband in August to take the exam, she hadn't seen her relatives for more than two years.

"It's so hateful that someone can hurt the second brother like this." After everyone entered the house and sat down, Xie Xiaowan looked at Xie Erjian, who was mentally exhausted, and couldn't help but feel distressed and said that the second brother in the past was so "heroic".

Xie Erjian smiled indifferently and said: "It's okay, it is estimated that it will be good to raise it for another month or two, White Lotus teaches Zhao Quan, this account will be settled with him sooner or later, if he fights alone, I may not be afraid of him, second brother." ”

Xie Xiaowan knows her brother quite well, although she usually looks at the hanging bell, she is actually an arrogant lord, and her words are so "conservative", it can be seen that Zhao Quan of the White Lotus Sect is indeed a powerful person.

"Are they doing well with Dad and Mom?" Xie Xiaowan changed the topic.

Xie Erjian gloated and said: "Okay, the eldest brother and sister-in-law gave birth to a big fat boy, and the two elders are now left around my nephew, and the fourth kid probably can't think of it, so he went to Nanchang SF Carriage and Horse Shop as a handlebar, I went to Shandong this time, and the kid wanted to follow him to find his brother-in-law, and I gave up after beating him." ”

Xie Xiaowan glanced at Xie Erjian, the fourth brother Xie Sandao is the eldest in the family, usually the most favored at home, and he is also the most affectionate brother, and now that his mother has hugged her grandson, it is estimated that she cares less about Sandao, and said lightly: "I'll send a letter to my father when I go back, so that they can take Sandao to the capital to live for a while." ”

Xie Erjian shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "The fourth kid is probably going to be happy, and he doesn't need his father to take it, that kid will come to the capital after receiving the letter guarantee." ”

"Then what can I do, the three knives are still so small, what should I do if something happens on the road!"

Xie Sandao said disappreciably: "It's not small, it's almost fifteen years old, and I'm going to be bigger than my second brother, and I am estimated to be able to catch up with our father when I'm a few years older, this kid is from Lao Tzu, strong and like a little tiger, and he is clever and smart, he doesn't bully others and burns high incense, who dares to provoke him!" ”

"I haven't seen you for two years, and the three knives have grown so tall!" Yue'er covered her mouth and said in surprise, she had seen Xie Qing, a strong man with a tower more than two meters high, it was enough to look at it, if Xie Sandao with a tiger head and a tiger brain looked like this, it was really unimaginable.

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The Marquis of Wuding's Mansion is also in Xiaofang, and it is a neighbor opposite to Xu's Mansion, and the area of the house is about the same as Xu's Mansion.

At this time, in the warm pavilion of the east courtyard of the Marquis of Wuding, Guo Shouqian, the eldest son of Guo Xun, the Marquis of Wuding, was having a banquet with a group of lonely friends and dogs, and the people attending the banquet were all the sons and daughters of the nobles, including Zhang Rui of the Yanei of Zhang Heling's family of the Marquis of Shouning, and Yan Shifan, the son of Yan Song, the son of Yan Song, the priest of the country.

At this time, Guo Shouqian proudly showed off: "Yesterday, Ben Shao beat the subordinates of the Xu family opposite, guess what?" ”

As soon as these words came out, a group of gentlemen suddenly became interested and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"What else can I do, there's no!" Guo Shouqian slapped his thigh and said contemptuously.

The crowd burst out laughing.

Someone gloated and said: "Xu Jin's kid didn't know the height of the sky after making some military exploits in Shandong, and he actually proposed to clear the farm, so that we, the big families, would take out the farmland and send it to the mud legs for cultivation, which is simply condemnable and delusional." Haha, Brother Shou fought well, the next time Ben Shao met someone from the Xu family, he would also fight, if he didn't teach him a lesson, Xu Jun's kid didn't know how many eyes Ma Wang Ye had. ”

At this time, a gentleman raised the bar and said: "Xu Jin was not in Beijing yesterday, there are only women in the family, naturally it's fine, I heard that Xu Jin returned to Beijing today, and he also brought five hundred cavalry and three thousand to Dewei, hehe, there is a kind of you going to fight the Xu family's subordinates today." It is said that Xu Sour Zi is ruthless, and he kills people in Shandong, and if he brings someone to the door to ask for an explanation, you should not be cowardly. ”

Guo Shouqian immediately said disdainfully: "So what, as soon as Qin Chayin handed over the letter, Xu Jin didn't even count as a fart, not to mention, he dared to transfer troops into the city." Lao Tzu turned around and met the descendants of the Xu family and beat him, to see what he could do with Ben Shao. ”

"Brother Shou is mighty, he is a man!" A group of unscrupulous gentlemen immediately gave a thumbs up, looking like they were afraid that the world would not be chaotic.

Guo Shouqian's goods were suddenly complimented a little fluttering, and immediately ordered his subordinates to stare outside the door, and if there were any subordinates of the Xu family passing by, he would immediately call him, and he would beat the subordinates of the Xu family again in front of all the foxes and dogs.