It's the New Year in the blink of an eye. The people put down a year's busyness and hard work, and began to enjoy the ease and pleasure of the New Year. Every household sticks couplets to invite the door god to be clean and welcome the stove god. The children put on bright red clothes, and the three animal sacrifices were placed on the candlestick incense case, and the ancestors thanked God for the New Year.

Zhou Xing's head has brought great changes to Luoyang, the capital of the gods. Ministers and officials can finally sleep peacefully, and occasionally people will walk back and forth to pay their respects.

Since the fall of Pei Yan in the Yangzhou Mutiny, the political situation has been turbulent and war-torn every year, and the cool officials have been rampant with white terror all the time, and the capital has not been so lively and festive for a long time.

During the Chinese New Year last year, Xue Shaoyuan was in Shuozhou, and basically slept on the sickbed. This year is different, the three brothers of the Xue family have dozens of wives and concubines, and there are hundreds of servants, slaves and maids. In order to gather the ingredients for the Chinese New Year, Chen Xian'er specially asked someone to dig three new earth kilns, first put in a large amount of ice cubes for summer use, and then filled them with all kinds of meat and vegetables.

Xue Shao went in and saw that every kiln was almost the size of half a basketball court, two or three people high. He was frightened at the time, and said in his heart that he really didn't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt were expensive, and it turned out that my family would have to eat so many things in a year!

Chen Xian'er told Xue Shao that eating was actually just a small expense. Before and after the Chinese New Year, Xue Shao and Princess Taiping, as the master and the main mother, had to distribute wine, meat, clothing, shoes and New Year's benefits to the subordinates in the house, the helpers and the subordinates. The dignified princess of the country and the princess of the dynasty must not be small, this cost is really a big deal.

Xue Shao seemed to understand why Princess Taiping and Chen Xian'er worked so hard to make money. It's a good thing that the family is gradually prospering, but the cost is also increasing exponentially. Hundreds of people have to feed them, and they can't live too poorly, and just relying on that little bit of money and rewards and food and land products, they will really live a tight life.

"I seem to miss Yu Hongye a little......" Xue Shao couldn't help but say in his heart, "This God of Wealth is always not in the capital, so that Zhao Guogong, who doesn't make much money, can't stiffen his waist at home!" ”

It just so happened that Princess Taiping also hoped that Yu Hongye could return to Luoyang and continue to help her run the one-stop business of silk and bras. Although Chen Xian'er also handled these things well, she was also a lady after all, and it was inconvenient for her to show up in person, and it was always not so reassuring to entrust others to handle them.

So the couple hit it off and began to find a way to transfer Yu Hongye back to the capital.

This matter is easy to do, at the beginning of the Battle of Helong, Yu Hongye and her Chamber of Commerce once strongly supported Xue Shao to fight against foreign enemies. If it weren't for the fact that she provided a large amount of money, food, clothing, and gunpowder raw materials as the material base, Xue Shao would not be able to defeat the Turks no matter how capable he was a hundred times. Xue Shao had already mentioned this matter in the military report, but he did not elaborate on it. Now it seems that it is time to give Yu Hongye a big credit.

But this matter, it is not convenient for Xue Shao to do it by himself. So he found the half-tone god stick Li Xianyuan.

Since Li Xianyuan returned to Beijing, he first followed Xue Yi to Sinong Temple to be a petty official, and later Xue Yi was promoted to the winter official Shangshu, and he also followed the chicken dog to ascend to heaven, and to the winter official to become a foreigner from the sixth grade, and the idle post hanging in the pastoral house was also pushed away.

Although the official quality of the six grades is not high, Li Xianyuan has a specialty, and he is proficient in feng shui. In addition, Xue Yi took good care of him, so now all the civil construction in the imperial city is under his control. Infrastructure projects have always been in short supply, not to mention palace projects in the imperial city. So his current life can be regarded as extremely nourishing.

Princess Taiping once wanted the Kudi clan to be a matchmaker for Li Xianyuan, and wanted him to marry a Pei girl. It stands to reason that this is a great thing, but Li Xianyuan just refuses to start a family, and has always been one person who feeds the whole family and is not hungry, and spends as much as he earns. As a result, he has now become a well-known high-roller in the Shendu.

Li Xianyuan heard that Xue Shao asked him to give the emperor a book and report in detail on Yu Hongye's "glorious deeds" in Helong, and he answered in one bite.

"It's easy to do! Helping others is fun, benefiting others is self-interest! ”

When you ask someone to do something during the New Year, you have to express something. So Xue Shao endured the pain and sealed a big red envelope for this magic stick, and said to him: "You are much richer than me now, and you are embarrassed to ask me for money to spend?" ”

Li Xianyuan kept laughing, "I have one mouthful, your family has a big business." How can this compare? ”

Xue Shao seems to be a little envious of this guy who eats and waits for death, he has no heart, no lungs and no worries, maybe it is another kind of beauty.

Li Xianyuan is not ambiguous in receiving money, and he is also neat in doing things. He didn't delay during the New Year, and immediately wrote a book of recitals and handed it to the palace. There were few pieces of music that came up during the Chinese New Year, and Wu Zetian quickly saw it, of course, this may also be due to Shangguan Wan'er. She is now in charge of the daily preliminary review of the chapters, and then picks and hands them to Wu Zetian.

When Wu Zetian looked at the chapter, he also remembered the old incident he had seen in the military newspaper. So she specially summoned Li Xianyuan into the palace for face-to-face questioning, wanting to know more about the details of Yu Hongye's time in Helong. After talking for more than an hour, it was just time for lunch to eat, so Wu Zetian gave him a meal of "eating under the corridor" and said that he would talk about it after the meal.

The so-called food under the corridor is a lunch that the minister is rewarded with in the palace when he goes to the court or is summoned by the king to see a meal, and he sits on the verandah of the palace to eat. There are only a handful of people like Xue Shao who can be invited by Wu Zetian to have lunch together.

Yu Hongye's affairs went relatively smoothly, Wu Zetian praised Yu Hongye after listening to the story, and presumably sooner or later there will be a heavy reward. But Li Xianyuan ate in the corridor this time, but he ate a storm.

After coming back and seeing Xue Shao, Li Xianyuan told him something that he didn't want to say but had to say.

After eating in the veranda of the palace, Li Xianyuan saw that in the imperial garden not far away, Liang Wang Wu Sansi and Song Zhiwen, a scholar of Chongwen Pavilion, were talking with Shangguan Wan'er together. A little far away, Li Xianyuan couldn't hear what they were talking about, but Shangguan Wan'er was obviously angry, and left with her sleeves brushed up. Wu Sansi gestured to Song Zhiwen, and Song Zhiwen hurriedly caught up and stopped Shangguan Wan'er.

Looking at that situation, Song Zhiwen probably drank two more glasses of wine and quarreled with Shangguan Wan'er. Shangguan Wan'er hid her face with her hands in disgust, bypassing Song Zhi's question and leaving. Song Zhiwen stretched out his hand and pulled Shangguan Wan'er hard, making her stand unsteadily and fall into her arms. Liang Wang Wu Sansi laughed in the back, Shangguan Wan'er was obviously enraged, and slapped Song Zhiwen with her backhand, so she had to escape.

Later, when Li Xianyuan went to meet Wu Zetian again, Shangguan Wan'er returned to the empress, looking like nothing unusual as usual, and did not mention anything about the imperial garden. Later, Wu Sansi also came to the audience and said that he was offering a poem to the empress to congratulate the New Year, and Li Xianyuan came back.

"Bang!"

With a loud bang, the dwarf in front of Xue Shao was smashed by him with a palm, "Chop him!" ”

Li Xianyuan was stunned on the spot, "Chop, chop, who's chop?" ”

Princess Taiping heard a loud noise and entered the room, and was also shocked to see the scene in front of her. She hurriedly walked over to Xue Shao and stroked his chest, "Rest the anger, rest the anger." How to shout and kill during the New Year? ”

"You don't care!" Xue Shao raised his eyebrows and rushed to the crown angrily, and shouted loudly, "What about Guo An?" Call him! ”

"Wait!" Princess Taiping hurriedly shouted to stop and sent Li Xianyuan out, closed the door, and came back to Xue Shao, "Xue Lang, you don't want to assassinate, do you?" ”

"Stabbing? Do I need to be sneaky? Xue Shao's anger was hard to dissipate, "I will slaughter him like a dog and a pig, divide his body and abandon the city, and hang the city gate!" ”

"Who is it?" Princess Taiping cautiously asked, "In the world, who else dares to offend you so badly?" ”

Xue Shao let out a sullen sigh, "Wu Sansi, Song Zhi asked." ”

Princess Taiping's eyes blinked, and after careful consideration in her heart, she basically guessed eight or nine. Then she patiently persuaded: "She is no longer the imperial concubine, and she has lost this layer of identity protection, so there are naturally many men who want to get involved with her." If you don't marry her in the door, she won't be your person for a day. If you go to someone to ask you about your sin, what is the name of the teacher? ”

"The truth is that you win." Xue Shao said, "But I just want to kill people!" ”

Princess Taiping suddenly felt that her brain hurt, Xue Lang was so reckless, it was something that the king of heaven couldn't resist!

How is it good?

After thinking for a moment, Princess Taiping said, "Xue Lang, leave this matter to me to deal with, okay?" ”

Xue Shao looked at her sideways, "What's the matter with you?" ”

"If you really want to say it, you can't control it." Princess Taiping said.

"I'm going to take care of it!" Xue Shao was a little angry.

"......" Princess Taiping endured it and said softly, "Since it's your business, it's also mine." Just let me, as a wife, share the burden for you, can't you? ”

Hearing her say this, Xue Shao's anger disappeared a lot, and he asked, "What are you going to do?" ”

"You can't openly go to war with Wu Sansi because of this little thing, right?" Princess Taiping said, "Wu Sansi has coveted Shangguan Wan'er for a long time, and you don't know this. Previously, my mother named Guan Wan'er as the imperial concubine, and it was precisely for the sake of thinking twice about martial arts. Now, if the two of you really fight over this, it will only be Shangguan Wan'er herself who will suffer. Didn't there be a storm back then, and Shangguan Wan'er was imprisoned in Qiuseyuan to suffer? ”

When Xue Shao heard this, he was reasonable. So he calmed down a lot and said, "I see what you mean." Do you want to deal with Song Zhi's question? ”

Princess Taiping was noncommittal, and only said: "Song Zhiwen has a despicable character, but he is talented and writes good poems, and he is quite favored by his mother. Now he is a bachelor of Chongwen Pavilion, and his mother often summons him and a group of literati to follow him when he has nothing to do, and let them drink and write poems. Shangguan Wan'er is outstanding in poetry and poetry, so it is inevitable that she often walks with her. This back and forth is familiar, and talented and beautiful women are always inevitably ......"

"Alright, you say the point!" Xue Shao was a little annoyed when he heard this.

"I'm talking about the point." Princess Taiping said patiently, "If you really want to see Shangguan Wan'er, either marry her into the door, or take her to live outside the palace." ”

Xue Shao pondered for a moment, "She doesn't need anyone to watch her, I have no right and don't want to do this." She herself said that she and her mother had become accustomed to living in the palace. Moreover, she also thinks that if she stays with the empress as an official, she can still help me somewhat. ”

"Yes." Princess Taiping nodded, "Shangguan Wan'er is not only a heart-warming talented woman, but also a confidant female official that my mother relies on deeply. Wu Sansi will definitely not lack women, and he wants to fight Guan Wan'er again, most of them because of her current special status. We must stop him while he is still in his way! ”

Xue Shao narrowed his eyes, "Could it be that Wu Sansi also loves dog meat?" ”

"Give it a try, won't you?" Princess Taiping smiled slightly, reached out and stroked Xue Shao's chest back and forth, and said softly, "Xue Lang, such a trivial matter, why did the commander of the three labor armies do it himself?" It's spread out, how unsightly? Why don't you let your wife do it for you? ”

Xue Shao looked at her sideways and blinked, "You can really do it?" ”

"Protect the country and the country, I am not as good as you." Princess Taiping smiled slightly, "Killing chickens and monkeys, this is my ancestral skill!" ”