The old lady looked at Rong Lu's appearance and said with a smile, "Don't talk about this, Lu'er rarely comes back, and I won't accompany the Bodhisattva to eat vegetarian today, let's have lunch together." ”

Rong Lu nodded, "E-Niang is still less vegetarian, E-Niang is old, if she has been a vegetarian all the time, I am afraid that my body will not be able to bear it, if I feel greasy, drink some chicken soup and fish soup, it is also cheap." ”

"I listen to you, why do I need you to say it, my daughter-in-law takes care of me very well at home, and now I have a big brother, my old woman, I am satisfied." The old lady laughed.

"It is the duty of a daughter-in-law to serve the old lady," the young woman smiled softly, and said to Rong Lu, "This morning, the Wubo Mansion sent the best Nanjing saltwater duck, which is very fresh, and the old man used to work as an errand in the south, so I don't know if I like this taste." ”

"Saltwater ducks are hard to store, how can they have them?" Ronglu's mother said.

"It's by sea, it's very convenient, and it's not expensive on the market, but it's hard to buy, and it's sold out early."

"It's good for you to call the shots," Rong Lu hugged his son, saw his son touching his nose, and said with a smile, "It doesn't matter what you eat," Rong Lu sighed slightly, "It's good to eat with your family, what you eat, it doesn't matter in the end." ”

The young woman happily went down to the kitchen to prepare a meal, and Rong Lu handed her son into the hands of the wet nurse, and said to his mother, "These days are not empty, and I can't go home until the Chinese New Year." ”

Ronglu's mother sighed, "This errand is inevitably too busy, it's just that you are loyal to the country, this is what your Ama taught you when she was alive, my wife and son dare not disobey, but you remember the same, the daughter-in-law is the best person." Now that you have become a family and have a big man, you must not let her down. ”

Rong Lu was silent, nodded yes, "My son knows." ”

It won't be long before lunch is served. Because Ronglu's mother is often a vegetarian, so today's dishes are extremely light, but not lose nutrition, in addition to rouge salted duck, there are crucian carp tofu soup, venison breasted, shrimp skin fried Chinese cabbage, tofu skin buns, braised silver silk noodles with shredded meat and cabbage. Steamed a bowl of hibiscus eggs tenderly.

Mrs. Ronglu stood and gave food to Ronglu's mother, serving the two of them to eat, Ronglu picked up the chopsticks, "You can also sit down and eat together, they are all family, there is no need to make these false manners, you have been busy all day, and you are tired and panicked." Sit down. ”

Mrs. Rong Lu was slightly stunned, and then smiled. "Listen to the master."

Rong Lu talked about the joy of the army, and talked about a French musket instructor named Binel, who fought in Shanghai during the Xianfeng period, and then stayed in China, first teaching musket skills in the Huai army. After a long time, all Chinese words in Chinese are refined and understandable, and he even shaved his hair and dragged a big braid. And the brothers in the army are mixed with the heat, Liu Mingchuan also gave him a Chinese name, called "Bi Huaqing", when pacifying the Hongyang rebellion, he made outstanding achievements, rewarded the top wear, named the general soldier, and later entered Xinjiang with the army to quell the rebellion, he took the lead, very brave, he married a gentry's daughter Huang in the south, has become a Chinese son-in-law, gave birth to a pair of children, very happy. He had a family and a job in China, and he couldn't think about it, so he was reluctant to return to China, and asked for Chinese nationality.

The emperor was very satisfied with this matter, he knew this person, because, the first foreigner of this dynasty, that is, a foreigner took the title of Baturu, it was this person, so he summoned this person, but did not expect that this person's Chinese answer was fluent, the emperor was very satisfied, so he approved this person's naturalization, and for a time the government and the opposition were all talking, saying that the prosperity of the Celestial Dynasty was coming, and the foreigners also submitted to the king and fought for the national dynasty.

This person has an excellent personality, and his popularity is good, and his neighbors are willing to socialize regardless of their dignity and humility, and the common people don't know what to call him when they see him, so they call him "Bi Devil", and he is also full of promises, not thinking about it.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law listened with relish, "Such a good person, when should you bring it back to recognize the door, since you are a colleague and a foreigner, you shouldn't make people think that this is a foreign land." ”

Rong Lu smiled and responded, after a while, the three of them had a meal, the servant woman removed the dining table, Rong Lu got up and said, "Come back today, I have to go to see Lord Zeng, in the past, he was an official under his account in Jiangnan, and now he is promoted to the minister of military aircraft, so he must not lose his courtesy." ”

Ronglu's mother nodded, "Then you go, come back early in the evening, don't let your daughter-in-law worry about you." ”

Rong Lu nodded and told his wife, "I used to sit down for a while, so I guess I will go home for dinner." So he got up and said goodbye, went out of the house, got on his horse, and was about to set off, when a maid hurriedly ran out, holding a cloak in her hand, and said to Rong Lu, "Mrs. said that it is cold these days, and you can't catch a cold, so please put it on." ”

Rong Lu put on the cyan flannel cloak, it was really warm, nodded, and walked towards Zeng Guofan's mansion, the road in the capital was dusty, and there were noisy construction sites and workers everywhere, Rong Lu felt strange, everywhere was building a house to build roads, "What's wrong?" ”

"This year, the road surface in Sijiu City will be renovated, the stone roads will not be counted, and the dirt roads will be changed to cement roads, which is made by the Ministry of Transportation." The little guy replied quickly and clearly, "The Ministry of Communications is bleeding profusely, you must know that the road is being built in Beijing, but there is no toll to collect, just for fame." ”

"Some storefronts are also building houses with cement and iron rods, although they are ugly, they can rise several floors, they are big and sturdy, and the storefronts on the street are several more floors at once, my lord, you have not been to the overpass, and there is an industry of the Ministry of Internal Affairs there, and now it is building a six-storey building, saying that it is to sell all the goods in the world, and now it has played the third floor, and there are crowds of people watching it every day."

"It's new," Rong Lu nodded, "but I don't know what it is." ”

"It's just dusty now, there's nothing to see, and next year, you'll probably be able to see it."

"Six floors? Isn't that even higher than the Great Qing Gate? Rong Lu thought about it and said, "No one cares about the DPRK and China?" ”

"It's irrelevant, this is a trick made by Father-in-law An Dehai, the god of wealth of the Internal Affairs Bureau, and Boss Hu, the silkworm god from the south of the Yangtze River, not to mention Boss Hu, Father-in-law An is the father-in-law who is the most profitable in the Internal Affairs Bureau, and the Internal Affairs Government is counting on him to make money, so there must be nothing to say."

In a shop selling traditional Chinese medicine on the side of the street, a woman with a bib put down her bib, followed by a servant, and entered the store, Rong Lu saw the woman's appearance, and couldn't help but have a familiar feeling, he frowned slightly, who is this woman? (To be continued.) )