When the outline of the city wall of the Daimyo's Mansion appeared in front of Xiao Tang and the others, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The Daimyo's Mansion, we are finally back!" ”

After entering the city of the Daimyo's Mansion, Hua Rong and Hua Xiaomei looked at the thousands of dancing pavilions and song platforms around, and the scene of tens of thousands of Lin Palace Fanyu couldn't help but sigh again and again, one of the four capitals of the Great Song Dynasty, second only to Tokyo Bianliang, the prosperous place is indeed far better than the various Dazhou mansions, just looking at the endless stream of pedestrians and merchants, it is almost dazzling. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

When Xue Yong and Zheng Tianshouwu were talking together, Xiao Tang had already returned to his heart like an arrow. Nearly a month and a half has passed since the escort went to Mizhou and Banqiao Town, and Xiao Tang will not go far again in the following time, because the day of his wedding to Su Jinniang is getting closer and closer.

Su Jinniang's whole family died, and the only uncle in Qingzhou was a cold and unrighteous person, so Su Jinniang had already been accepted as a righteous daughter by Pan Taigong of Kong Songzhuang, although she still lived in Xiao Tang Mansion on weekdays, and waited for Xiao Tang to come to Na Cai Ji and welcome relatives in Kong Song Zhuang Pan Mansion on the day of the wedding.

Not only Xiao Tang and others, but also sent a fast horse to report before everyone rushed back to the Daimyo's Mansion, saying that they would return to the Mansion today. At this time, the courtyard doors of the Xiao Mansion had already been opened, and there were servants sprinkling water and sweeping ashes, just waiting for Xiao Tang and others to return.

Su Jinniang wore Biluo Huangshan and walked to the door of Xiao Mansion. She looked at it from a distance, but she didn't see Xiao Tang's carriage and horses.

"Hehe, what's the hurry? Since it is reported that it will arrive around noon, it is not bad for this moment. Sun Erniang suddenly walked over, grabbed Su Jinniang's arm and said with a smile: "Look, Ruyi Langjun has finally returned, my poor sister doesn't have to look at it anymore, just be the Wangfu Stone in this famous mansion." ”

Su Jinniang's face flushed, and she spat, "Sister Sun is playing tricks on me again." Although Su Jinniang has a harmonious relationship with all the brothers under Xiao Tang, after all, she and Sun Erniang are both women and get along easily, and they have become a lot closer over time.

At this moment, Su Jinniang inadvertently turned her head, and suddenly saw Xiao Tang and his entourage driving along the avenue. She was overjoyed and said, "Look! He's back!! ”

Sun Erniang couldn't help but shake her head when she saw it, and secretly thought: This Nizi is really unbearable, if you want to capture the man's heart, you have to satisfy his appetite. This is good, for fear that others will not know that their full thoughts are placed on that Xiao Tang, if they pass the door, they will not be eaten to death by that stinky man?

And when Sun Erniang saw Xiao Tang and his party get off the van, her face froze, and a pair of charming eyes looked at Hua Xiaomei. The heart said: This girl is really pretty, but she is a beautiful embryo. However, Xiao Tang is a good name, and he can't do the thing of the old cow eating tender grass. It's just that I don't know where this girl came from, and she will be raised and waited for her to be a concubine when she grows up? It doesn't seem like it.

Su Jinniang didn't have as much thought as Sun Erniang, she finally saw Xiao Tang was about to step over, but she suddenly felt that it was not dignified and stable enough. After all, he is about to marry into the Xiao family, and he must have a little bit of the appearance of a housewife.

Xiao Tang cares so much? As soon as he saw Su Jinniang, he rushed over and took Su Jinniang into his arms, and picked him up and turned around twice. Su Jinniang flew her cheeks and kept saying, "Put me down... So many people are watching..."

Seeing Xiao Tang's strong affection for Su Jinniang, Sun Erniang sighed secretly, and she didn't have the heart to guess and calculate anymore. Is his grandfather a bird? People's lives should be compared to wings and branches, and partial-born aunts and grandmothers are obedient at such times, and they are worried about others, isn't this the emperor not in a hurry, what is the eunuch in a hurry?

Although Sun Erniang thought so in her heart, she still made a mocking look on her face, and said jokingly: "Oh, the monkey in charge is in a hurry, I don't have time to avoid it." Who is that little sister? It's so pretty. ”

Xiao Tang let go of Su Jinniang, and he saw that the relationship between Sun Erniang and Su Jinniang seemed to be getting closer and closer. Only then did I realize that I had overlooked one thing:

Sun Erniang, a person who is accustomed to seeing ghosts in the rivers and lakes and begging for a living on the knife, knows best how to protect himself. Although Xiao Tang agreed to accept her into the mansion and shelter her, this Sun Erniang could obviously feel the estrangement between her and Xiao Tang. What will she do? Of course, I have to spend all my effort to have a good relationship with Su Jinniang, so that I can have a foothold here.

"These days, Lao Erniang has also taken care of Jinniang." Xiao Tang said calmly, although he didn't want Su Jinniang and Sun Erniang to get too close, but now that Sun Erniang is living in Xiao Mansion, she can't afford to make much trouble.

Xiao Tang introduced Hua Rong, Zheng Tianshou and Hua Xiaomei to Su Jinniang again, Su Jinniang saw Hua Xiaomei's delicate and beautiful appearance, and I saw the pitiful temperament in my heart. She put her hand and talked to Hua Xiaomei in a warm voice, and after a while, the shy and restrained Hua Xiaomei showed a smile and chatted with Su Jinniang.

"The young master has worked hard this time, but it has made me rest for a long time." At this moment, Yang Lin, Shi Yong and the others also walked out of the courtyard and smiled at Xiao Tang.

Xiao Tang saw that Yang Lin's injuries were about to be healed, so he said: "Brother Yang Lin is no longer in serious trouble, but the matter of this dart shop has to be handed over to you to take care of." ”

Yang Lin smiled bitterly: "But it seems that the young master's bodyguard is also a little more lively, this way down, before he came out of the north boundary of the river 1, he listened to the young master's vicious fight against the god Bao Xu, and when he passed through Qingfeng Town, in addition to the thieves of Baihu Mountain, he went to Mizhou City and the Goryeo businessmen to gamble and win a big game, and killed the pig iron Buddha Cui Daocheng and the flying Yaksha Qiu Xiaoyi in the Clay Pot Temple......

When Xiao Tang heard Yang Lin say this, he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. It is said that the dart walking dart should have been safe and sound, just to be sent safely, but this time the matter was rushed to one place..... The back and forth of the trip to Mizhou was indeed bigger.

I heard Yang Lin say to Xue Yong again: "That's right, Brother Xue Yong." While you and the young master were dart, someone threw himself into the house and said that he was your apprentice. ”

Xue Yong was stunned for a moment, and then said happily: "My apprentice is also here?" ”

Xiao Tang asked Su Jinniang to settle Hua Rong, Hua Xiaomei and others first, and then came to the hall with Yang Lin and Xue Yong, and saw a black and thin person waiting here. He looked at Xiao Tang and Xue Yong and immediately stood up, and said happily: "The master has a good life in the Daimyo's Mansion, and the apprentices are here to get along!" ”

Xue Yong introduced to Xiao Tang: "My apprentice once learned the skill of guns and sticks from me, and he was originally from Hongdu, and he did a good job as a tailor, flying needles and threads, and his skills were superb. He also likes to use guns and sticks, so he is called 'gibbon' Hou Jian. ”

Gibbon Hou Jian, also one of the heroes of Liangshan, was originally destined to be in the rivers and lakes, and then begged for a living in the home of Huang Wenbing, the cool official of Wuwei Military City, and was also recruited by his gun master Xue Yong to defect to Song Jiang.

And now Xue Yong is one of the six stewards of Xiao Tang's "one tiger, one leopard and one falcon, one lang, one general and one son", and this Hou Jian is also because of Xue Yong's relationship, he did not go to the Jiangzhou boundary to beg for a living, but went all the way north to join Xiao Mansion.

Xiao Tang said to Hou Jian: "I have heard the name of Hou Jian of the gibbon for a long time, and I finally see it today!" Since you have come to my Xiao Mansion, we will all be brothers in the future! ”

Hou Jian not only knows some guns and sticks, but also has learned the skills of tailoring and needlework perfectly, but he has not been useful for a long time. When he learned that this Xiao Tang of his gun master Xue Yongtou was running all kinds of businesses in the Daimyo Mansion, he thought that he would use his master's face to vote, and the skills he had learned so hard would finally be able to show off.

Thinking of this, Hou Jian sang respectfully to Xiao Tang and said: "Xiao Renxia is like thunder, and the villain has been admired for a long time!" When I came to the same place, I prepared a small gift, and I hope to smile! ”

After saying that, Hou Jian took out a pair of scrolls and unfolded them, and Xiao Tang, Xue Yong, and Yang Lin suddenly felt their eyes light up.

Because the picture scroll unfolded by Hou Jian is the famous work "Traveling in the Mountains" by the great painter Fan Kuan in the early Northern Song Dynasty, but this painting is not a genuine painting painted with an ink pen and silk book, but seems to be embroidered by this skilled gibbon!

But I saw that the embroidery painting was full of clusters and Hengdai, and it was powerful. The streams and mountains are deep and empty, and the water is like a sound. Hou Jian used colored lines instead of ink to paint, and used needles like thin hair, adding to the lush and brilliant eyesight. The mountains and rivers are divided into far and near, and the world is brilliant and beautiful, and all kinds of scenes are also in the embroidery painting. Xiao Tang fixed his eyes and stared, and he couldn't help but look stupid.

Hou Jian saw the expressions of Xiao Tang and the others, and his proud expression was beyond words. Originally, he was wandering on the rivers and lakes, and he was never ridiculed for a man who wandered the rivers and lakes, and he would be so concerned about the needlework played by women.

But everyone's strengths and talents are different, and Hou Jian is one who is determined to practice this craft perfectly. Over the years, Hou Jian will use the flat rust techniques of needle, needle wrapping, needle sleeve, and needle connector; Flat gold method, circle gold, circle silver, gold lock, pile velvet, pile silk, paste silk and other nail line rust techniques; It will also set needles, cut needles, roller needles and other crafts, where the skills of needle embroidery eighteen needles are perfect.

Xiao Tang looked at Hou Jian, who had a proud face, and thought to himself that he was ranked 71st when Liangshan was seated, while his master Xue Yong was only ranked 84th. This Hou Jian is also outstanding in martial arts, connections, and resourcefulness among the heroes of Liangshan, and it seems that the ranking can surpass many Liangshan Disha who have far more military exploits than him, and it is all due to his professional skills.

But in Liangshan, Hou Jian was only the leader who was responsible for making a cheongsam jacket, and in the recklessness of the rivers and lakes with little leisure and elegant embroidery and painting, his ability to fly needles and threads was not brought into full play. This person's ability should be able to play a greater role in the future...... Xiao Tang thought secretly in his heart.

"Congratulations to the young master, this time I can receive a brother with such skills!" Yang Lin congratulated Xiao Tang and said: "I heard that the young master has recruited four people on this trip: Xiao Li Guanghuarong, white-faced Langjun Zheng Tianshou, Shaking Mountain Lux Wen Zhongrong, and Yishan Lux Cui Yu. Counting this Hou Jian brother, there are seven more heroes in my house! ”

"Seven heroes?" Xiao Tang frowned and looked at Yang Lin.

Yang Lin smiled slightly, and said: "Didn't the young master Mizhou know San Lang before he went north to buy horses, and asked him to pay more attention to the capable people who are good at horses and raise horses when they go north?" A few days ago, San Lang had come back, and the two heroes he had raised were in Xiaojiaji in Zongcheng County at this time, and he heard that the young master had arrived today, and he was probably coming back soon. ”