In the middle of August in the summer, Beiping Mansion is even hotter and hotter than in the south, the trees are lush and lush, the whole city is distributed in a checkerboard shape, the center of the city is an endless inland sea, the brick houses in each square are very solid and scattered, and the teahouses and taverns facing the street are thriving.

To the east of the city is the most prosperous commercial market, where rows of three-storey shops are bustling with traffic in front of them. Everywhere you can see people in leather coats with pigtails and bald heads, groups of Korean merchants who look no less than Han Chinese, all speaking fluent Chinese, and from time to time one or two blonde and blue-eyed merchants lead camels laden with goods, and here even the most barbaric Jurchens have to put on the most kind smiling faces, and no one dares to behave lawlessly under the rule of King Yan.

Beiping is the largest and most important gateway town in the north, and after 20 years of painstaking management by Zhu Di, the population of the city has reached 400,000.

Xu Mansion is located in the west side of the Yanwang Mansion in the northeast, covering an area no less than the county palace next door, with red walls and blue tiles, and there are sixteen palace guards standing in front of the gate.

"The young master is back, the young master is back."

The maids in the inner house excitedly ran around to tell each other, and in the Qianshou Hall, which was named by Zhu Di himself, the old lady and the Xiao family were all overjoyed.

The old lady who learned the news of the death of her eldest son quickly walked out of the pain of losing her son, and like the open-minded second brother Xu Da, as an old man who had completely experienced the Hongwu Dynasty, he had seen too much life and death, and all he could do was to hide his grief in his heart.

Thirteen-year-old Zhang Hai stood quietly beside her sister-in-law Xu Qinglian, looking curiously at her sister-in-law's eyes flashing with excitement, she had heard a lot of rumors about the third young master of the Xu family on weekdays, and she was full of expectations.

After a long time, I saw a slender and handsome boy striding towards him surrounded by a large group of maids and daughters-in-law, Zhang Hai suddenly blushed, and hurriedly lowered his head shyly.

I could feel the son beating by, and Zhang Hai blinked and raised his head. I saw Xu Hao walking over and kneeling in front of the old lady in a few steps, looking guilty.

Seeing this, the old lady sighed faintly, and said with a forced smile: "Get up, your uncle and second brother are blessed, and you can't complain about anyone." ”

Seeing that his son was speechless with a wry smile, Xiao quickly helped his son up with his own hands and said in a low voice: "The family has sent someone to pick up your eldest mother and second sister-in-law to come to Beiping, alas! It's all fate. ”

Some things will be a secret forever, Xu Hao stood up calmly, opened his arms and hugged his sister with tears flowing.

"I miss my sister." Xu Qinglian cried and said. Zhen raised his hand to hold his brother's face, and carefully studied it for a long time, "It's a little dark, but it's more energetic." ”

Xu Hao said proudly: "I have been exposed to the wind and sun on the boat for several days, and I am naturally beautiful!" ”

Zhang Chai looked at this scene dumbfounded, and secretly said God, the third young master of the Xu family is really as maverick as rumored, and he doesn't take etiquette in his eyes at all, and everyone is in full view. I hugged my sister intimately.

Zhang Hai closed his eyes in shame and kept muttering: "Don't look at incivility, don't look at incivility." ”

Xu Hao kissed the eldest sister's face hard, and Xu Qinglian burst into tears and said with a smile: "Mother, look at him." are all married, and they are still the same as when they were children. ”

Xiao Shi scolded with a smile: "In the future, this is not allowed, even my own brothers and sisters have to abide by the rules." ”

Xu Hao nodded with a smile and looked at Zhang Hai curiously. asked, "Whose girl?" Hey, what are you talking about? ”

Zhang Chai suddenly blushed, and said in the future: "It's nothing." Yes! Hai'er gave the third brother a salute. ”

Xu Hao looked at this gentle and delicate girl, and praised: "It is worthy of being a northern girl, it should be generous, how can it be like our girls, when they see a man from outside, it is like seeing a ghost." ”

This sentence immediately hurt the women in the room, and they all snorted coldly, Xu Hao smiled.

Xu Qinglian reluctantly introduced: "This is your brother-in-law's own sister, the only eldest lady of the Zhang family, who is deeply favored by the whole family, but she is not allowed to be rude to others." ”

Xu Hao made a grimace at Zhang Chai, turned around and said hello to Aunt Xiao, second aunt and sister-in-law, Red Leaf and Green Bamboo, zuihou faced Cuiliu with filial piety, and held his sister in his arms, Cuiliu choked and said, "Is Cuiyun okay now?" ”

The whole family sighed, and Xu Hao frowned and said, "There are Princess Lin'an and the second sister, don't worry." ”

Next, due to the death of Xu Yao's grandfather and son and the first emperor, the Xu family did not hold a banquet for Xu Hao, and said homely words for a long time.

Zhang Fu has been training outside the city recently, and he hasn't been home for a while. After Xu Hao returned after sending his sister back, he stretched his waist and said lazily: "Zhang Lantern is colorful!" I'm going to marry a daughter-in-law. ”

Everyone has come to Beiping, and sooner or later the imperial court will receive the news, so there is no need to be taboo.

Starting the next day, the Xu family was going to hold a grand wedding, and Princess Yan happily gave Mu Ningxue her mother.

In the pavilion of the palace at night, Mu Ningxue and the five county lords sat together to accompany the Yan Wang couple to enjoy the cool and enjoy the moon.

Princess Yan was more or less guilty about her cousin's death, so she took the initiative to recognize Mu Ningxue as her goddaughter, so as to make the old lady happier.

Zhu Di, who has always had a gloomy face because of his father's death, rarely smiled and said: "Ning Xue, come and offer tea to your godfather." ”

Mu Ningxue knew that the other party might be the future true dragon emperor, but she still looked unfazed, walked over and knelt down generously, and said softly: "I've seen Daddy." ”

Zhu Di said with emotion: "Your father is my most respected brother, at the age of twelve, he followed the first emperor to fight on the battlefield, and at the age of eighteen he was awarded the title of lieutenant in front of the tent, and he was experienced in a hundred battles, and at that time I was still wearing open crotch pants." ”

Mu Ningxue smiled, and Zhu Di said again: "It was your father who taught our five brothers martial arts, and then we all went to Fengyang's hometown to live in Fengyang for three years, and taught your eldest brother martial arts hand-in-hand when I had nothing to do, I remember that you were just born at that time, and you are so old in a blink of an eye, we are a family, you are both surnamed Mu and Zhu, if Xu Hao dares to bully you in the future, this king will not spare him." ”

Mu Ningxue chuckled and said: "Hao'er loves me the most, I am reluctant to say a heavy word, and with my aunt's support, who dares to provoke him in this Beiping Mansion?" ”

Zhu Di's depressed mood was blown away a lot by the marriage of his children, and two months have passed since the death of the first emperor, and he smiled: "This is true, Gao Xitian is not afraid of the ground, and sometimes even I dare to contradict him, but he obeys Xu Hao alone, and obeys his words, it seems that no one in my Beiping Mansion can help him." By the way, I was hesitant to arrange his errands, whether to let the brothers take charge of the army, or to assist Gao Chi in handling government affairs, or even to stay by my side and be a strategist? ”

Mu Ningxue said unhurriedly: "Hao'er is lazy and doesn't like to be restrained, and her thoughts are unruly and unconventional, so it's better to let him come according to his own heart, maybe it will bring some surprises to his father, but I can't say." ”

Zhu Di said in surprise: "Ning Xue is really insightful, some people have also said so, I still remember that the first emperor personally praised Xu Hao as the second Liu Ji in my dynasty." All right! He came according to his own heart, and did whatever he wanted. ”

Mu Ningxue smiled mischievously, got up and sat next to Princess Yan, and said with a smile: "Then you just wait, he would rather stay at home than go out to do things." ”

Zhu Di couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Why isn't this king the same as him?" Now Mount Tai is at the top and has been ill for many days. ”

With the dispatch of troops by the imperial court, Zhu Di is currently on the defensive, his father died and his two sons disappeared, and he claimed to be sick in bed due to excessive grief and worry.

In the blink of an eye, on the third day, on an auspicious day, the Xu family sent a set of neat and tidy appointments that had already been prepared in a low-key manner, and Princess Yan returned with ten pairs of gold-inlaid bowls, ten pairs of gold-inlaid bowls, and a gold-inlaid jade Gengpai and other gold and silver utensils.

In order to show her sincerity, the princess personally took the concubines to sew eight pairs of embroidered pillows, four sets of brocade quilts of birds and phoenixes, four pairs of men's shoes and four pairs of women's shoes; He sewed a set of groom's official red auspicious clothes, two sets of light inky white scribe robes, and carefully prepared a Longquan sword used by Zhu Di, a set of lake pen emblem ink dragon tail inkstone, and a Dawan pure white horse.

According to the northern customs of the early Ming Dynasty, after a few days, Xiao Shi came to the door with fresh food such as live chickens, live ducks, live fish, etc., Princess Yan personally set up a banquet to entertain her, and after eating tea, she arrived at the auspicious time, and asked Mu Ningxue to come out to meet, and saw Ning Xue wearing a red gold butterfly dress, a gold silk embroidered skirt of the same color, and a fairy was suddenly in the world.

Mu Ningxue was embarrassed to greet her mother-in-law, facing the southeast, Zhiqing helped her to sit on a bucket in the direction of the happy god.

Xiao smiled and repaired his daughter-in-law's face a few times, because his son didn't like women to wear wigs, so he used gold paint to point his sideburns and wear phoenix crown jewelry.

Xu Hao knew that getting married was a very troublesome and hard work, but he didn't expect that the elders would be so solemn and meticulous in accordance with the rules. I couldn't help but secretly complain, I knew that I would have a room with Ningxue Cave three or five times, and then let her go to Yanwang's Mansion when she was exhausted, which was good, and she had to guard her wife like jade for nearly a month.

There is a way from thrift to luxury, it is difficult to have a woman to be a monk, the sister-in-law has a lot of family affairs, even if she wants to come over to harass her, she is not available, and it is inconvenient to come secretly at night, either to accompany the old lady or to accompany other elders, and there are several ladies in the house.

Now that Musk Yue and Qingwen have returned to Xu Hao's side, Mu Ningxue nodded herself, because she put the two girls next to her sister-in-law for a long time, it is too unpleasant.

In this regard, Xu Hao found that he had taken it for granted at the beginning, could he still hide his wife and family from him if he was kept outside? The two ends did not please, so they simply agreed.

Qingwen was naturally ecstatic, what she wanted was a name, even if it was just a concubine, and she was satisfied with laughing and chanting every day.

Xu Hao is not worried about the so-called house staged in the house, of course, sometimes quarrels and fighting will not be exempt, but no one will want to replace Mu Ningxue, it will never be, the gap in identity is too great.

Qingwen turned into a traitor and became Madame's most loyal confidant, supervising the prevention of Musk Yue from getting close to Xu Hao.

Xu Hao thought about it, out of sight and out of mind, so he simply moved to live in the study, away from the girls in the house. (To be continued......)