Chapter Twenty-Six: The Audience at the Temple of Manna

Chen Ying returned the salute and led the warrior Tong towards the wooden house. At this moment, the curtain of the carriage behind was lifted, and a servant woman stepped out of the carriage and helped Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang brothers to get out of the carriage.

As soon as Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang saw Chen Ying, they knelt down very sensibly and bowed: "Yuanqing, Yuanshuang meet the teacher!" ”

Chen Ying helped Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang up, Chen Ying looked at Wu Yuanshuang and Wu Yuanqing wearing black scarves on their left arms, black scarves were not worn indiscriminately, which meant that someone in the family had died.

Chen Ying looked closely at the samurai tong and found that there was no black scarf on his arm. Filial piety is not disorderly, only immediate family members will keep filial piety. In the Three Principles and Five Constants, the husband is the wife, and when the husband dies, the wife needs to keep filial piety, but when the wife dies, the husband does not need to keep filial piety. From Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang two people to keep filial piety, but Wu Shi Tong did not guard.

This shows that the person who died in the samurai family was not the elder or equal of the samurai, but his junior. Or his wife, Chen Ying shook his head, but Xiang Li was obviously in good health, not like he was sick or sick.

Chen saw from the Tang newspaper that the original warrior Tong was a military officer and served in the military guard. But as early as a month ago, he was reappointed as a waiter in the Ministry of Works, which is from the official system of Sanpin. Chen Ying hesitated for a moment, pointed to the black scarves on the arms of Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang and asked, "Wu Shilang, is this ......?"

Wu Shi Tong's eyes were red, it turned out that Wu Shi Tong heard that Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang and Xiangli were in Taiyuan, and they almost died in a military accident. Wu Shi Tong also changed his original intention and sent people to pick up the brothers Li Shi, Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang to settle in Chang'an. Samurai Tong did this, in fact, it was also a helpless move.

The house of the Wu clan in Taiyuan City was destroyed in the war and burned to the ground. If you want to pack up and live in, I'm afraid you won't be able to do it for two years. There were too many deaths in Taiyuan, and Liu Wuzhou's soldiers were smashing, looting, and burning in the city, doing all kinds of evil, and now even if they have the money to repair the house, they can't find anyone.

Wu Shi Tong thought that Hedong had been pacified, so he sent an old servant Bian and more than 20 servants to Taiyuan to pick up Prime Minister Li Shi to come to Chang'an. However, the samurai was still too careless. The Wu family is well-off, even if the old mansion is destroyed, the loss is only some floating wealth. This time from Taiyuan City to Chang'an, Xiang Li carried six carriages, of which the mother and son rode one, two loaded cloth and clothes, two valuables, and two loaded with 30,000 taels of silver.

In the Tang Dynasty, although gold and silver were not currency, the so-called prosperous antiques, troubled gold, gold, silver, yellow and white things were stored in a lot of major families. Xiang Li carried 30,000 taels of silver, 30,000 taels of silver sounds like a lot, but in fact it is only more than 1,800 catties.

Originally, like the Xiangli clan, there were not a few noble families who rushed to Chang'an from Taiyuan. Just when he met Jiexiu, it happened that a carriage loaded with silver broke its axle, and the silver box on the carriage fell to the ground and fell apart. As the so-called wealth is not revealed, this scene was seen in the eyes of a person who came to inquire about the rout of the Tianxing army.

As a result, the rout of this Tianxing army set their sights on the Xiangli clan. As a result, Xiang Li and his entourage were attacked in the valley of Lingshi Red Cliff on the way. Although the Wu Clan's guards resisted desperately, they were outnumbered. was attacked by the routs in front of the carriage that the Xiangli clan was riding, and a wolf's tooth arrow was coincidental and hit the back of the Xiangli clan. If it weren't for the Pingyang princess Li Xiuning who accidentally passed by here and retreated the rout, I am afraid that Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang would also die in the Lingshi Red Cliff Valley.

Hearing what happened to Wu Shi Tong, Chen Ying had to sigh at the impermanence of fate. If Xiang Li arrives in Chang'an safely, I am afraid he will not take the initiative to consider the issue of remarrying for his "honest, thrifty" and "loyal and diligent" old friend. Li Yuan chose the daughter of Yang Da, a nobleman of the Sui Dynasty, and asked Princess Guiyang to preside over the marriage, and all the marriage expenses were paid by the state treasury.

Wu Shi Tong's wife Yang was too angry, and gave birth to a generation of empress Wu Zetian. Now that the Xiangli clan is actually dead, doesn't it mean that Wu Zetian is about to be born?

"Wu Shilang, please mourn!" Chen Ying led Wu Shi Tong into the wooden house, and Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang shrank behind Wu Shi Tong, at this time Chen Ying really couldn't see the fierceness and domineering of Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang.

Wu Shi Tong waved his hand and said: "Xiang Niang's life is bitter, and she can't complain about others." ”

Although Wu Shi Tong said it disapprerovingly, Chen Ying could still see a deep sadness between his eyebrows.

Lan'er obediently served a cup of tea to Wu Shi Tong, Wu Shi Tong reached out to take it, gently blew the tea leaves, and looked at Chen Ying's mansion The tea leaves were actually dark green, and there was no oil splash at all, and he felt very surprised.

Li Yuan is good at tea, but the Li family likes to eat tea soup when drinking tea, that is, mashing the tea leaves into crushed foam, and then adding mutton fat, green onions, ginger, salt or star anise and other spices to cook into a thick pot of soup.

Chen Ying naturally drank this kind of tea soup, but Chen Ying didn't have the appetite of the ancients, so he really couldn't stand this kind of tea soup. He himself once thought about selling roasted tea for money, but it was a pity that roasted tea was not cold at all in the eyes of others.

Samurai Tong frowned and took a small sip with his eyes closed.

At first, he felt bitter and astringent, and Wu Shi Tong thought that there were no people in Chen Ying's mansion who were proficient in the tea ceremony, and there were no good teas, so he smiled slightly and said, "General Chen's tea...... It's bitter, it's not very tasteful, and there are a few maids in my house who are proficient in the tea ceremony on another day......"

Chen Ying laughed when he heard this, and explained: "This tea, although it was a little bitter at the beginning, was a little sweet after the bitterness. ”

The samurai Tong was patient, and drank the second sip, originally feeling nothing, but at this time, he felt a fresh fragrance, from the five internal organs to the limbs, and there was an indescribable comfort. Wu Shi Tong praised again and again: "Good tea, good tea, I didn't expect that General Chen is not only a famous general in a hundred battles, but also a master of the tea ceremony." ”

"Don't you dare!" Chen Ying smiled lightly, put down the teacup in his hand and said, "This tea and wine are like civil and military, they can coexist." Our Tang boys, holding Tang knives in their hands, kill the enemy while drunk during wartime, and talk about tea and scriptures in peacetime, and the two are not wrong. ”

The samurai nodded approvingly.

Chen Ying felt that the warrior Tong was a little inexplicable, so he took advantage of this kung fu and tried to ask, "I don't know why Wu Shilang came to the cold house this time?" ”

The warrior was stunned for a moment, and said awkwardly: "Xiang Niang left a will before she died, claiming that the dog is stubborn, and only General Chen's disciples can keep it in peace, and ask General Chen to teach the child." ”

Samurai Tong should not look at the background of a businessman, but in terms of vision, from the average person can see far. Although Chen Ying is disliked by Li Yuan, he is Li Jiancheng's fierce general after all, after Li Jiancheng ascends the throne in the future, Chen Ying will at least be one of the generals of the left and right military guards or the left and right imperial guards, especially the four guards belong to the key departments that are not confidants and cannot be appointed, once the son of heaven and a courtier, after Li Yuan abdicates, Li Jiancheng will definitely reuse Chen Ying.

His two sons worship Chen Ying as a teacher, and they will not be supported by Chen Ying in the future.

In this era, the teacher is like the father. The relationship between the teacher and the apprentice will not change in his life, and once the apprentice betrays the master, it is like disobeying the father with a son, which is a great crime.

Chen Ying nodded and said, "It's just that Chen Ying is busy repairing the house now, and he is only afraid of delaying Ling Lang." ”

Wu Yuanqing said loudly: "Yuanqing is no longer small, you can also serve the teacher, and you can serve tea and water to avoid being strong!" ”

Hearing this, Chen Ying looked at Wu Yuanqing in surprise.

I didn't expect Wu Yuanqing to speak so smoothly.

Before Chen Ying could agree, he heard a voice like an old duck coming from outside the door: "Hussar General, is Pengcheng County Duke here?" Our family came to pass on His Majesty's message! ”

Chen Ying hurriedly got up when he heard this, and when Chen Ying walked outside the house, he suddenly found that the person who came was none other than his old acquaintance, Chen Qi, who was a regular attendant of the Ganlu Palace. Chen Qi suddenly saw the warrior Tong behind Chen Ying, and said with a happy face: "No wonder our family can't find Wu Shilang everywhere, Your Majesty has issued an edict to announce that General Chen and Wu Shilang will meet in the Ganlu Palace!" ”

PS: Wait a minute.