In the cold winter, there is no shortage of greenery in Xufu, and it just so happens that there are a few peonies in full bloom in the greenhouse in the red incense garden, and Zhang Lianyi plans to set up a peony club.

Running to discuss with her aunt, Mu Ningxue said with a smile: "It's not appropriate to invite us alone, not to invite my wife." I think even the eldest wife, the third wife, and the second sister-in-law of the Qing Dynasty are invited to do a lunch, and when they disperse, your little sisters will compose poems again. ”

"Good!" The rippling and coquettish aunt ordered food for her to prepare the table, Mu Ningxue was helpless, to say that the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law has always been the most difficult to deal with, but Ripple has grown up by her side since she was a child, pampered like a daughter, and is more intimate than her son, no wonder the ancients liked her aunt and cousin.

Mu Ningxue said: "The dishes in the big kitchen are all as usual, and they are not necessarily delicious. We only taught Sister-in-law Liu to pick fresh and prepare two tables, and four plates and eight bowls per table were enough. As for the wine, prepare grape wine and rose wine, and then prepare a jar of daughter red. ”

Ripple nodded and said, "Our poetry club is different from others, so I have to think about the topic." By the way, it's good to have a drink that is interesting to you. ”

"Go, go, go." Mu Ningxue, who was entangled in everything, sent her away, and couldn't help but be envious, in the end, the young lady who was not out of the cabinet was the most carefree.

It just so happened that the ship from Fujian Shanggong arrived, and there was seafood prepared by Hongye for her mother's family, which happened to be cooked by Liu's sister-in-law.

Ripple was young, so she couldn't say that Mu Ningxue would clean up and arrange it for her in the red fragrance garden, and she was busy entertaining separately. The eldest lady Wang couldn't come because she was sick, but Mu Ningxue went to ask for it in person and agreed.

On this day, the ripples and small leaves, Xu Xiangyue, Jiaxing princess, Mulan Xiang will be together, the Taihu Lake stone outside the garden is high and low, surrounded by many peonies, the big one is more than one person high, the flowers are as big as a plate, and the rest are also all kinds of colors, especially the royal clothes yellow, lotus silk clothes, red cut velvet, and purple bead plate are the most prosperous.

Mu Ningxue accompanied Yu Juan in the warm pavilion. Xiao Yushi and Qingwen gave birth to a child and were refreshed, and everyone teased a few babies in their swaddling clothes.

Zhiqing came out and said: "Look at the flowers at this time, after noon, the flowers will wilt." ”

Xu Xiangyue asked, "Auntie, why don't you erect the shed for this year's new work?" ”

Zhiqing said: "Those old things are too lazy to become thieves, let's not speak, don't think she will do it herself." ”

So let the maid urge the mother-in-law to set up the flower shed, the young Mulan Xiang is as big as Xu Yu, and she is also a first-class guest in the Xu family. Wherever you go, you will be in the spotlight, who will let Xu Yu's little daughter-in-law who is determined. At this time, he looked up curiously, and his little hand was led by Sister Yezi, and he saw that it was a soft shed of snow silk, covered by the water of stone green oil silk, and covered the flowers, just like a beauty in the tent.

Everyone sat down casually around, Du Qianqian put her arms around her daughter and said, "There were no peonies at home before. Later, the new ones you planted grew so tall. ”

Mu Ningxue explained: "Those big ones are all old trees moved from Chang'an, and they have been brought with them for decades. It's all planted. ”

As he was talking, he saw a few warm sedan chairs coming here from a distance, followed by a large group of people, knowing that it was the wives who came.

Everyone greeted them. Aunt Xiao and Mrs. Mu came together from Qianshoutang, followed by Xu Qinglian, Xu Cuiyun and Yuan, Xu Luge and the girls. When everyone saw each other, they had their own jokes.

Wang asked, "When will the third child return to Beijing?" I won't come back for the Chinese New Year this year. Does he still want this home? ”

"It'll be there in a few days." Mu Ningxue hurriedly replied, "From Changsha to Jinling, it won't take ten days to go smoothly. ”

While everyone was looking at the flowers, they chatted about some family life, and Ripple, as the landlord, saw that the banquet was set up and invited the elders to sit down.

The three wives of the Xu family respectfully invited Mrs. Mu to sit in the chief, and then asked Aunt Xiao to sit down, and the rest of the people sat down according to their identities, and the girls of the same generation such as Ripple sat down in another seat.

Mrs. Mu came to take care of her daughter from time to time, and said, "You just have to eat you, and I'm not like an old lady, what do you want to do with those false courtesies." ”

"It's rare for my mother to come once, that's not good." Mu Ningxue said with a smile.

Xiao Shi also said to Xiao Yushi: "You feel inconvenient, go and open a single seat." ”

Mrs. Mu said with a smile: "In the end, my wife is blessed and full of children and grandchildren, but in comparison, my family is too deserted." ”

At this time, Ripple came over to toast, interrupted the conversation, and said, "There is nothing to eat, the wives have two more drinks, or make an order, everyone is lively." ”

"In the blink of an eye, the ripples have grown." Mrs. Mu took her hand and looked at it carefully for a long time, "What a beauty, Ye'er is blessed." We are old, it is better to talk about gossip, we have to order food and drink, you children go and make trouble, we are happy to watch. ”

Wuhu, Anhui Province in the Ming Dynasty directly under the jurisdiction of the capital of the Taiping Mansion, including the later Ma'anshan City to Wuhu City, Taiping Mansion under the jurisdiction of three counties, Dangtu County, Wuhu County, Fanchang County.

The prefect is to impeach Chen Ge who has no secret, because of Xu Hao, Zhou Xin, Chen Ge, and Geng Tong, the three direct ministers who are all afraid of the court, will never give away their lives in a daze.

Zhu Yuanzhang killed people for the sake of the country and the society, and for the sake of future generations, at least the purpose is very clear. And Zhu Di's murder in history is often too freewheeling, regardless of right and wrong, and indiscriminate. The lawlessness of the East Factory, the West Factory and Jinyiwei cannot but be said to be the result of the evil planted by him.

The above three people, Zhou Xin, offended the henchmen of Ji Gang, the commander of Jinyiwei, this person blatantly accepted bribes in Zhejiang and acted as a prestige, Zhou Xin wanted to arrest him twice, but he was slipped away in advance.

In order to frame Zhou Xin, Ji Gang fabricated charges, and the dignified minister said that he would be arrested.

Zhou Xin's body tortured in prison was incomplete, but he never gave in, and when he was escorted to Zhu Di, he still loudly defended: "Why do you add the crime to the crime of the minister's arrest and rape and eliminate evil?" ”

Thinking that Zhou Xin was known as the cold-faced and cold iron prince in the Hongwu Dynasty, the iron face was selfless, and the evil was like hatred, Zhu Di could not know his character, the history books said that the emperor was negligent for a while, and ordered people to be executed, and dismembered their bodies in the downtown area, until Ji Gang was killed, Zhu Di pretended to posthumously crown Zhou Xin as the god of Zhejiang City God.

Otherwise, Xu Hao always suspected that Zhu Di had become capricious because of his injury to Xiao Dingding, and he casually executed his loyal ministers, which directly caused the ministers to lose their backbone and become a group of echo insects, no wonder Wang Zhen was able to cover the sky with one hand.

Geng Tong is the same, because Zhu Gaochu said bad things about the prince in order to win the heir, Geng Tong admonished Zhu Gaochi several times. caused Zhu Di's displeasure, and in the tenth year of Yongle, someone falsely accused Geng Tong of seeking personal gain.

Zhu Di was furious, and ordered the Metropolitan Procuratorate to go to the noon gate with the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, and repeatedly threatened to kill without forgiveness, but the ministers did not dare to argue, Geng Tong was thought to be the East Palace Guan, bad ancestral law, and the crime of separating the emperor's father and son, and sentenced to death.

In addition, Xie Jin was also unjustly killed. Xu Hao is very opposed to not being able to punish doctors, but he is even more disgusted that the emperor's words are the life and death of people, which is one of the reasons why he gave up Zhu Gaoxu.

As for Chen Ge's fate, because he did not agree with Zhu Di's will, he was buried in Fengtianmen and did not die for seven days.

Of course, this kind of direct minister who dares to say anything and dare to impeach anyone will always be squeezed out by the officialdom, and they are there. Don't want to be in a good mood as an emperor, even Xu Hao stays away, but in their eyes, they only distinguish between right and wrong, not between friend and foe.

Zhu Gaochi also frightened them. Therefore, Zhou Xin served two terms as a political envoy in Jiangsu, and still did not plan to let him return to Beijing. Geng Tong was sent to Beiping, let the prince Zhu Zhanji go to distress, and Geng Tong stayed by his son's side. The emperor was very relieved.

Although Chen Ge saved his life in history, his official road was bumpy, and he was disgusted wherever he went. From Huguang to the inspection envoy did not sit for a full term, to Shanxi to the inspection envoy, and soon sat down. Until Zhu Gaochi succeeded to the throne, he should be reinstated in case of amnesty, Zhu Gaochi didn't seem to treat him very much, on the grounds of finding fault with the king of Chu, he was demoted to Haiyan Zhixian, and moved to the head of Jingwangfu on the road, and was hated by the entire palace, until Xuande was appointed as Zhenjiang Tongzhi in three years, and soon died of illness due to old age.

Anyway, since Chen Ge left Beijing, he has never returned to the imperial court, completely because of the calamity, being an official requires political wisdom, and he really can't avoid it.

said that when Xu Hao arrived in Wuhu County, he would not alarm the big-mouthed Chen Ge, even if Chen Ge was able to serve as the prefect, it was because of him. It's better not to say it, but if you say it, you will probably turn your face into an enemy.

Wuhu has a long history, located in the southeast of Anhui Province, on the south bank of the Yangtze River, at the confluence of the Qingyi River and the Yangtze River, with a written history of 2,500 years, known as "the capital of Jiangdong", "Wu Chu Famous District", "Wu Tou Chu Tail" said.

Because of the proximity to Jinling, Wuhu is very prosperous, blessed with a unique geographical location, is one of the four major rice cities in the south of the Yangtze River, the past generations of celebrities, Wuhu ten scenic spots are famous in China, there is the reputation of "Yunkai to see the color of the trees, the river quietly listens to the sound of the tide".

The famous fool melon seeds in later generations are Wuhu specialties, Yijiang Gonglan is famous all over the world, Wuhu iron painting originated in the Song Dynasty, prevailed in the Northern Song Dynasty. There are famous snacks such as hairy crab, xiaolong soup bun, Yijiang mutton, Nanling duck soup, Baishan Gong crisp, Wuwei plate duck and so on.

In recent years, after Chen Ge took office, he set up a spinning bureau, a gun factory, a shipyard, an agricultural workshop, a literary and literary school, a martial arts school, a sailor school, and an army school.

There is no other reason, no one dares to provoke him, and even the imperial history is walking around, and he does not dare to touch his moldy head, because he can't guarantee who will impeach whom.

Chen Ge is actually very open-minded, as long as it is beneficial to the country and the people, he is willing to try new things, and he likes to do things very much, which can be called solid for the country, this kind of person has to be the leader, otherwise no one will be happy.

Since he became the number one, he only knew that he had to give money to others, from the government to all the schools, all the bureaus, all the people who had a little prestige and a little degree, he had to collect them to his subordinates, and he would pay for them to support others.

This is exactly the same as Xu Hao, but Xu Hao will at least make money as a powerful person, and Chen Ge will not be able to.

It's December, and Yu Lu has already spent it, and there are many places to spend money at the end of the year, and he was born with a big hand, so he won't compete with baht. You are the head of a house, and there is nowhere to borrow, so you have been sitting in the study for many days, and you are at a loss.

It's a pity that he and Xu Hao's personal relationship is average, otherwise he would have taken this opportunity to pluck the goose, thinking that Xu Hao already has the reputation of a wealth boy, and his friends around him all rely on him to live, take the money for nothing, the guilt of half a cent is not carried, and it is called robbing the rich and helping the poor.

Chen Ge thought about it for a long time, so he hit the idea on the head of his mother's rich daughter-in-law, ran to the upper room in person, and borrowed eight suitcases with a smile and took them to the pawnshop for mortgage. (To be continued......)