Regardless of men and women, they are about to go together, half to burn incense and half to play.

The mountains are green and the clouds are up and down, and the water is rippling and the moon is blessed.

Pick up the lights in the sky and shake the blue oars, and sing all night to call your confidants.

Qixia welcomes the gathering of gods and people, and the prosperity still belongs to Jinling City.

On the calm river, candles were lit by large and small pleasure boats, and the light from strings of lanterns reflected the water, like thousands of rays of glow, shining brightly.

The bonfires on the shore were gradually extinguished, and some of the boats played flutes and lutes. In the melodious music, countless banquets were set up on the shore of the boat, and people who guessed the boxing order abounded, stringing each other around, toasting and toasting in front of the people's table.

In the villa, after the banquet was dispersed, Du Qianqian said to everyone: "Yesterday, I have invited down the seal, this is the first big joy in her life, and it must be lively." Ming'er, I will be a host, and I want my relatives to know. ”

As soon as these words came out, Xu Qinglian, Mu Ningxue and others were stunned, no one expected that Mu Ang's words that day were true, and they couldn't help but look at each other.

Generally speaking, most of this kind of thing is that the main house has no heirs, or the main house is weak and sick, or old, or the concubine has made great contributions to the family, or her mother family is strong, or her person is very virtuous, in short, it is an intriguing thing, because it means that the concubine has the identity of half of the master.

Just like Wu Zetian, Yang Guifei, and Cixi were named imperial concubines, the significance is extraordinary, if it weren't for Du Qianqian's stable status, they would all wonder if she was in danger of being snubbed by her husband like the queen.

Xu Hao never thought of relying on this to repay his women, the edict is not a big pot of rice, everyone can have one, of course, after death, they can posthumously give their lives.

The concubines in the room were very surprised at first, and then twelve points of envy, can you not be envious? Everyone's eyes were on Aunt Shen.

Seeing that Aunt Shen was wearing a five-grade life women's dress at the moment, the more calm and solemn the whole person looked, and in the face of the frequent congratulations of the big guy, she looked shy and looked very unnatural.

Mu Ningxue shook her head slightly in her heart, wondering why Qianqian wanted to do this? Fortunately, she didn't worry that her brother would dare to bully her, and after a little thought, she understood.

Du Qianqian smiled and said, "Hurry up and salute the ladies."

Aunt Shen hurriedly walked over, Xu Qinglian smiled and said congratulations, and Mu Ningxue also said, "Congratulations."

Du Qianqian said to Hongwen again: "Come and kowtow to my aunt."

"Yes."

Hongwen was reluctant in her heart, and was just about to kneel down, but Aunt Shen grabbed her and said, "Good sister, don't trouble me, we are sisters, what's the difference?"

"Cut!" The vast majority of women stretched out their middle fingers in their hearts at the same time and scolded their aunts for being hypocritical.

In this way, under the watchful eyes of the women, the two of them were in harmony and blessed each other.

Du Qianqian smiled with relief, she knew that Aunt Shen was a person with a consistent heart, so she promoted her, but there was a chance that Hongwen's girl would not be convinced.

She said slowly: "In recent years, I have been in poor health, and I have to worry about the affairs of the good hall, and I have to accompany my lord back to Yunnan, and the trivial matters here in the capital mansion are inevitably slack." From now on, the whole Mu Mansion will be renamed Grandma Shen, and those who do not obey my words will be expelled immediately. I entrusted Grandma Shen to take care of all the big and small affairs in the house. What do you have to do, just go back to grandma, and if anyone despises and disagrees, they will be dealt with immediately, do you hear clearly?"

In the echo of the Mu family's maids and sons-in-law, Aunt Shen can be regarded as the second lady of the family who has completely established her position. ,

Mu Ningxue understood more and more that her younger brother would return to Yunnan next year, Lan Xiang would also marry, and her mother was old, so Qianqian would do her best to promote Aunt Shen, otherwise Aunt She would manage the Mu Wangfu in the capital alone, and her name would not be right. And Hongwen will naturally go to Yunnan with her, first, to serve the master, and second, to help do things.

This reason can be said to be justified, Aunt Shen gave birth to a son, her temperament has always been praised, and her family background is also innocent, which is comparable to chastity. At the moment, the faces of Mu Ningxue, Xu Qinglian, Xu Bitao and others all improved. Otherwise, just as Mu Ang was worried about that day, this head would have to cause a series of troubles as soon as it opened.

Even so, Xiao Yushi Zhiqing and others who were concubines were still inevitably envious and jealous, knowing that they could not be the same as Aunt Shen, so they quickly broke up.

The tourists outside played until nearly four watches, and the cruise ship gradually drove away. Since the ladies were interested one by one, Zhang Fu also instructed the boatman to slowly release the ten boats, and then quietly disappeared into the night.

When I arrived at the small east gate, there was a military attache with soldiers to guard it, and the city gate was not closed today. I went ashore at the pier, and after a toss, it was already morning, and there was an endless stream of pedestrians coming and going on the shore.

When waiting for the female dependents to sit in the car, Xu Hao looked at the tea reed tent built outside the city, and there were four bamboo silk lanterns hanging on the pole, many people were helping the old and the young to go up the mountain to incense, some people stood in front of the tea shed to eat tea to quench their thirst, and some people who came back were tired, and the family bought a few melons on the ground, or asked for a pot of tea to eat dry food.

After watching for a while, the convoy slowly set off, and Xu Hao retracted his gaze and got into a car casually.

A corn garden.

Xu Yu and Mu Lingxia were walking in the back mountain, there was a vacant lot on the hillside, and there were two old rattan chairs under the ancient rattan shelf, where they could see the Fugui Mountain named by Emperor Taizu.

The topography of Fugui Mountain is very important to Jinling, so the city wall is built extremely thick, Mu Lingxia walked over and sat down......

Xu Yu wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "You are always like this, you have to come to this place where there is no one, it is inconvenient to ask for tea or snacks."

Mu Lingxia smiled: "Are you here for a walk?" Or are you here for tea and snacks? If you want to talk about eating snacks, I won't talk about it. ”

"I'm not a squeamish person." Xu Yu also sat down, facing the mountain wind blowing over, and said with a smile: "Good wind, so comfortable."

"In the end, it's a wealthy young master." Mu Lingxia smiled, raised his hand and pointed at the soldiers on Fugui Mountain, "Look at those soldiers, for three hundred and sixty days, they stand and sit here every day, regardless of the wind and rain." It's windy today, and I don't see them say a word of comfort, I think they won't care if the wind is good or not, whether the weather is good or not, if you can go to your kitchen and smell the meat, I'm afraid they will say comfortable, right?"

"Why don't I eat minced meat!" Xu Yu smiled, "I see that you, like those radical people, also oppose feudal society. To tell you the truth, my father once said that the general environment of this world seems to be evolving towards capitalism, but in fact, the capitalist society is not a good thing, or even more cruel, but if you don't move forward, you will fall behind and be beaten. Why don't we find a small place and live a life of poverty and happiness together? Do you think it's okay?"

"You better go with Sister Lanxiang and Sister Mingzhi."

Mu Lingxia pursed her lips and smiled, she was not interested in discussing what capitalism was, what she said just now was just a feeling.

At that moment, the little hand pinched the sweat towel, supported the left cheek, and looked at the Fugui Mountain more than 80 meters high. Because the southern foot of Fugui Mountain is the imperial mausoleum of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, where Emperor Kang, Emperor Jianwen, Emperor Xiaowu and Emperor Gong of the Eastern Jin Dynasty were buried.

Wuling song and dance for dust, underground gold out of high-tech.

The inscription has been covered with green grass and died, and the acid wind blows the stone unicorn.

This is the Song Dynasty Su Jian when he visited the cemetery when he felt and struck a poem, and now the Dongling has been renovated.

Seeing that she was no longer talking, Xu Yu also looked over, only to see that the winding city wall was magnificent, and a Ming battle flag was erected every other section, hunting and dancing in the wind. The trees that were cut down inside and outside the country have been replanted with various fruit trees over the years, and the wind blows the leaves, the rustling sounds, and the green grass is two or three feet long.

Most of the small trees in the grass have just passed the top of the grass, the birds are hovering in the sky, and the sound of insects in the depths of the grass is one after another, which is a scene full of life.

Mu Lingxia picked a wildflower, raised it to his eyes, looked at it, and said with a smile: "When autumn comes, the leaves turn yellow and fall one after another, just like this flower." At that time, the scenery was probably bleak and bleak, and people's lives, how could it not be like this?"

"That's why I often say that young people should have fun in time." Xu Yu said, "So I don't want to do things in the imperial examination, but you don't agree with my idea, and see it as a useless move." ”

Mu Lingxia couldn't help laughing: "No, no, no." We agree with the timely pleasure, such as watching the flowers and admiring the moon, visiting the mountains and rivers, sad spring and autumn, composing a collection of poems, in short, do not live up to the good years. And Xu Ergongzi's pleasure is that he can't wait for all the girls to accompany you all day long, the more lively the better, just like the emperor in the palace, regardless of the old age and death of Gong'e. Fortunately, it's not eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, but it doesn't disgust me. ”

"I always feel that you have read too many books, and there are some places where you have to restrain yourself." Xu Yu turned his head to look at her, "You really should live for a few more years, don't think about this and that, although I am childish, you are a little pedantic." ”

"Really?" Mu Lingxia's eyes were a little confused, and he was silent for a while, and said slowly: "There are some things I don't want to say, I."

"Let's go!" Xu Yu had long found that she had an incomprehensible haze, which was different from everyone else, as if there was something unspeakable.

"Let's keep walking, talk as we go, it's more fun." Xu Yu didn't ask if others agreed, picked up her flower paper umbrella and stretched it up.

Mu Lingxia had no choice but to stand up, tidy up her clothes, and said with a smile: "Actually, it's good to sit and sit, I'm a little afraid of being tired."

Xu Yu stretched out an arm, his eyes were full of pampering, "There is no one here, if you don't dislike it, just help me." As he spoke, he gave Ling Xia the flower umbrella to block the sun.

"Hmm!" The corners of Mu Lingxia's eyes suddenly turned slightly red, she grew so big, it was the first time she felt the love from her brother, this kind of feeling of being cared for was indescribable, and she also felt that the other party did not have a trace of distractions.

So she happily stretched out her hand without hesitation, boldly grabbed Xu Yu's arm, and smiled.

At that moment, the brother and sister were side by side under a flower umbrella and slowly walked down the hillside. The green trees and grass everywhere are like a picture, and wild flowers are blooming everywhere, yellow and purple, and small flowers with a ball, although they are not famous, they are just as delicate and moving.

Colorful butterflies, green grasshoppers, yellow fluffy dragonflies, flying in the wind under the sun, there is a kind of spiritual aura on the mountain.

Mu Lingxia said: "You smell, how good is the fragrance here?" No matter how well the house is built, there is no way to get the natural scene. You have everything in your house, so why don't you build a villa in the middle of the mountains?"

Xu Yu smiled and said, "Why not?" There are several in the vicinity alone, but now they are all given away. ”

"Huh?" Mu Lingxia was puzzled and said, "Why did you build a house and give it away?"

Xu Yu smiled: "I'm going to say it, and you're going to accuse my family of squandering again."

"Are you still afraid of my accusations?" Mu Lingxia sneered, "I found that no matter what I say recently, you always have to seal me first, how can this be reasonable!" Okay, why did you tell me why you gave away the house?"

Xu Yu explained with a smile: "There were many other courtyards built around here, and there were more than 100 houses alone, and one courtyard also had a garden. Later, the family found that the cost was not small, and you thought that each courtyard should have at least two cooks, two husbands, two messengers, and a gardener. ”

Mu Lingxia said regretfully: "With your family's financial resources, it's just a drop in the bucket, not to mention that maintaining expenses is also reasonable."

"I'm not done yet." Xu Yu shrugged his shoulders, "This place is not far from my house, at first, some people came to stay for a few days, and they all felt bored and panicked, not as interesting as my family's courtyard in Mochou Lake and Xiaojia Village, so I didn't come anymore." Even if you walk back to the mountain, you will go back to the hillside just now.

Leaving the empty house for several years, letting a few people enjoy it there, this is nothing, and the cost is only one hundred and eighty taels of silver per month, but it is very amazing after three or five years. What's more, they are casual all year round, what do others think? That's why my mother said call them back and lock the gates. But in this way, the house is unattended, the flowers and trees will die clean, and even the house is easy to be dilapidated, so some people say that it is better to sell them.

If you want to sell a house is a matter of decency, if you are misunderstood by others and say that the Xu family is selling the property, wouldn't it become a joke? My father then sent a message, saying that it doesn't matter if everyone in the clan has an inheritance, and these houses should be given to those who have a good income, so that the children of the family can study quietly in the mountains. ”

"I see." Mu Lingxia smiled: "It's also a beautiful talk, even your father can't help but be too generous."

"Haha!" Xu Yu suddenly laughed and said: "My father is generous, but the affairs of this family have long been decided by his old man, and the first one in this matter cannot pass the grandmother's level, in short, these houses are damaged, and they will be repaired by those people."

Mu Lingxia's eyes widened and said, "In that case, isn't it someone who lives temporarily, and the property is still your Xu family?"

Xu Yu smiled: "Of course, I'm afraid no one will dare to accept the Xu family's house for nothing."

"I don't think so." Mu Lingxia shook his head, "People have lived for so many years, how can they be willing to return to your family in the future?" I didn't charge a penny for rent, so I was afraid that I would be entangled at that time. ”

Xu Yu said: "It shouldn't be too troublesome."

"Not necessarily." Mu Lingxia shook his head again, "If I am a housekeeper, I will advocate taking it back, why should I give it to someone for nothing?" Really. ”

After speaking, he was silent again, and walked forward with his head down. Xu Yu followed behind and said speechlessly: "You were sympathetic to the poor before, why did you care about it again?"

Mu Lingxia didn't answer, the current Xu Yu won't understand, women are very clear in things, it's one thing to sympathize with the poor and do good deeds, it's another thing to be taken advantage of, even if a stitch and a thread, a piece of grass and trees are taken away, they will be very angry.

Of course, there is another reason that cannot be spoken, just now Mu Lingxia subconsciously substituted himself into the future Xu Mansion as a family member, that is, his wife, so he couldn't help it for a while, and said the decision to take it back immediately.

Now think about it, a fever on the face. (To be continued......)