Chapter 1008: Concubines
Zhou Shaoyu felt that his brain was still not big enough, and his thinking was still too normal.
That's right, as a matter of common sense, if ordinary people want to get out of the palace, the difficulty is not half a star, except for going to the palace gate, there is no way to go, but the palace gate is so easy to mix.
Even if you go out and hide directly in the vat of night incense poured out every morning, you can still find it for you, just in case, people will take a long stick and stab it indiscriminately.
Besides, even if you are lucky enough to dodge it, God knows how long people will have to stab, the time for people to hold their breath is limited, and if you turn around and accidentally suffocate to death, fog grass, suffocated in the night incense, it will be very embarrassing.
Therefore, it is indeed quite difficult to enter and exit the palace without permission, even if it is the Chang'an Palace, which is now seriously understaffed.
But in the end, there is a difference, in terms of area alone, Chang'an Palace is much larger than the imperial palace of Daliang Jingshi Jinling, after all, it was the ancient capital of several dynasties before, you expand it, I renovate it, and the area is gradually larger.
The eunuchs and palace maids put aside first, just the pro-guard army who is currently in charge of defense, and its number of nearly 10,000 people cannot be guarded at all. After all, I know that I need to rest, and it is impossible for everyone to stand guard and patrol all the time.
In other words, no matter what time it is, the entire Chang'an Palace, the guards on the city wall are quite weak.
Actually, it's easy to understand.
The pro-guard army is only in charge of Chang'an Palace, but in Chang'an City, other armies are in charge. On the whole, there is no shortage of manpower. In Xiao Jiwen's opinion, if one day, she needs to rely on the walls of Chang'an Palace to make a final resistance, then there is really nothing to do. It is the so-called defense of Chang'an Palace, as long as there are no messy people.
As for the city wall, it is so high that it is disabled if you don't die if you jump down, and it is even more impossible to climb it from the outside.
Based on this, the defense on the city wall was really empty, and it also made Zhou Shaoyu easily mixed up. Then, without the slightest hesitation, he jumped straight off the city wall in a few big strides!
For the sake of safety, Zhou Shaoyu has already done experiments, jumping down from a higher place, and then in the process of falling, crossing away and then crossing back, I really didn't expect that this approach can really reduce gravity, every time I cross back, the posture of falling will be paused, but it will start falling again.
As long as you descend to a certain height, it will be easy to fall again.
Except that it is indeed a little troublesome, a sense of time and space confusion, and a little dizzy in the head, there are no other sequelae.
After landing, there is a moat next to the city wall, and the reason why this place was chosen is that this area is even darker and not easy to find. After crossing the river, Zhou Shaoyu crossed to the Eastern Han Dynasty without hurry and changed into clean and refreshing clothes.
In the early morning of the second day, the gate of Chang'an City was opened, but this gate was much easier to mix out, and there was no inventory at all. It's probably to see who is sneaky before interrogating.
Xiao Jiwen's itinerary is set, and in two days, she will go to the Royal Villa on the outskirts of Chang'an.
If it weren't for Zhou Shaoyu, Xiao Jiaowen would have decided on a comprehensive plan to attack Huofeng a long time ago, but now it's good, I've been in a coma for several days, and I've been mentally depressed for several days, plus others, this delay is not short.
But if Zhou Shaoyu's problem is not solved, God knows what else he will do.
Let's put aside the relationship between wiping the neck, the two families are indeed an alliance at present, but if they are allies or something, they are really unreserved, then it is called death.
From Zhou Shaoyu's position, Xiao Jiao's attack on Huofeng was definitely not in his interests, even if Huofeng did not take refuge in private.
If Zhou Shaoyu wants to rebel, who is the biggest enemy? No need to ask, it must be the Great Liang Dynasty headed by Gao Yuyao. And although Huofeng is a thief, his name is indeed not good, but he is a proper sworn enemy of the Liang court. I don't dare to say how powerful it is, at least it can have a certain containment effect.
And if the fire phoenix is destroyed by Xiao Jiao, it seems that Xiao Jiaowen belongs to the ally side, but the two concepts do not agree, one wants to rebel, the other wants to revivenation, and sooner or later they will do it, but they are forced to avoid mutual consumption before they choose to form an alliance.
In other words, once the fire phoenix was destroyed by Xiao Yao, it not only made Daliang lose a restraint, but also further improved Xiao Xiao's wife, which Zhou Shaoyu's side was absolutely unhappy to see.
And Zhou Shaoyu's territory is divided into north and south, this enclave model is the most difficult to manage, if Xiao Jiao's wife blocks the road connecting in the middle, wouldn't it further increase the difficulty of management?
Of course, at this point, it is only under normal circumstances, where do other people think that two pieces of land separated by thousands of miles can communicate at any time? And the management model is also very strange.,The girls are not only talented.,And they won't betray.,It's very stable.。
However, Xiao Jiwen will not know all this, but after calming down and analyzing normally, she will roughly analyze Zhou Shaoyu's position and thoughts. If he really sent troops directly regardless of it, he really didn't know what happened to Zhou Shaoyu. It's also thanks to people who don't have murderous intentions, otherwise they can't say that they have already hung up.
Therefore, this time by taking the opportunity to move out of Chang'an Palace, it is naturally best to catch Zhou Shaoyu, but if he can't, as long as he is willing to leave, it is not a loss. Anyway, don't leave this nonsense.
However, where did Xiao Jiaoyu think that Zhou Shaoyu was on the bar, and she would never give up without charging some interest.
In the villa, the complex of buildings where Xiao Ji's wife will live is very easy to find. He said that he would leave in two days, but it was impossible to delay everything until that time. There will be a team of dozens of people who will set off in advance to tidy up and clean.
And the place they focus on cleaning can basically be determined to be Xiao Auntie's residence.
Compared with Chang'an Palace, the defense here is much looser, and Xiao Yao's wife is not here now, and she doesn't think that Zhou Shaoyu will appear here at all. Further through eavesdropping on the conversation, it was determined that Xiao Jiwen was going to live here, and after nightfall, she successfully infiltrated it, and then directly traveled back to the Eastern Han Dynasty, just waiting for the time to be about the same, and then crossing back.
Like Zhou Shaoyu, who goes out so often, Ban Zhao is more or less used to it, and now that everything is on the right track at home, Ban Gu is not only fine, but because of this, he is favored by Emperor Liu Zhuang, and Ban Chao is becoming more and more stable, and it seems that everything is developing in a good direction.
It is precisely because of this that Ban Zhao thinks more about her husband's family, the so-called husband and husband, you can't always expect others to take care of your mother's family. Besides, Zhou Shaoyu has also done a lot.
In Ban Zhao's view, Zhou Shaoyu goes out to study and travel from time to time, which is not something difficult to accept, the current mainstream atmosphere is like this, reading people, always can't control their legs, saying that the world is so big, I want to see it.
And getting along on weekdays, although sometimes it is true that the scoundrel is lazy, but it is probably still with Hemeimei, and Ban Zhao is already very satisfied, thinking that he has to meet a lover.
However, just like her brother Ban Gu secretly said to her in private not long ago, everything is good, but it is not good to have no heirs. The so-called unfilial piety has three nos, and a daughter-in-law who can't give birth to a baby is definitely not a good daughter-in-law! You must know that the childless one is the absolute first of the seven!
It is true that Ban Zhao has also proposed several times to let Zhou Shaoyu take a concubine so as to continue the bloodline of the Zhou family, but every time Zhou Shaoyu directly refused. But that's not a reason for her to be pampered to herself.
As a 'virtuous' ancient woman, it was her duty to choose a concubine for her husband. Since Zhou Shaoyu is not allowed, then it will be cut first and then played, anyway, Zhou Shaoyu will go out of the old age.
As the saying goes, marry a wife and marry a virtuous person, and take a concubine. Generally speaking, concubines are better in appearance.
Zhou Shaoyu didn't leave a lot of property here to Ban Zhao to take care of, and he was not short of money at all, so as soon as Zhou Shaoyu left, he immediately began to ask the matchmaker. In this regard, people are professional, otherwise, you let Ban Zhao find somewhere. You must know that he lives in Luoyang City now, even though Ban Zhao has been living here since he was a child, but in the end, he is also a child, and he has no acquaintances at all.
Relatively speaking, Ban Zhao's requirements are relatively high, she doesn't expect the other party to be more virtuous, the posture must be the first, but the background can't be too low, those jobs that can't be on the table are engaged, even if his daughter is beautiful, Ban Zhao will never agree, so as not to lose the face of the Zhou family.
It's no wonder that people have this idea, as a native of the Eastern Han Dynasty, her ideology is like this, not to mention that her name is Ban Zhao.
However, on the other hand, Zhou Shaoyu is a white body to put it bluntly, and the so-called loose official position is purely bluffing. Maybe the family is quite wealthy, but that's all, I haven't heard of any Zhou family in Luoyang City who is a big family.
In other words, with Zhou Shaoyu's identity, the range of choices that can be selected is really limited, and even the concubine of a small official is unlikely to be subservient to marrying a concubine. If it weren't for the willingness to spend money, other matchmakers would have been impatient with ancient books.
But Rao is so, and the candidates given are becoming more and more perfunctory, such as the one introduced recently, which came up with a burst of praise, and its verbal description is even more stunning than the world.
The matchmaker put on a look of your big money and said: "If it weren't for his lazy biological father who owed a gambling debt to repay, how could he easily marry his beautiful daughter as a concubine and tell you ......?"
The matchmaker chattered, but Ban Zhao's face was dark, although he only said a word to the woman's biological father, but Ban Zhao still heard it, it is estimated that he is not only lazy, but also a gambler, if there is such a father, even if the woman marries in the future, I am afraid that she will not be entangled. Ban Zhao pays the most attention to family and beauty, how can he accept this kind of woman with hidden dangers.
"Hey...... This doesn't work, that doesn't work, then I only have a widow Li from a suburban village left. "The matchmaker is very helpless, she also wants to make money, okay, but she can't stand the fact that no one can take a fancy to her.
Ban Zhao's face is even darker, what the hell is a widow!? But I still patiently inquired, and it was rumored that he was married twice, both of which were on the eve of the wedding, and his fiancé suddenly died unexpectedly, and finally took on a huge Kefu name. If it weren't for the fact that the conditions at home were okay and quite pampered, I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to live my life, and the so-called ritual murder would be nothing more than that.
Kefu or something, Ban Zhao naturally didn't allow it, it was for Zhou Shaoyu's good that he decided to take a concubine for him, but it turned out that the widow of Kefu was swollen. I contacted a few more matchmakers, but after a few inquiries, there was still no suitable one.
According to Ban Zhao's thoughts, in fact, the best object is the kind of small scholarly family, and the unvalued concubines in his family are the best. The status of the concubine in these years must not be high, and there are no officials in the small scholarly family, so it can be regarded as a good match, but it is a pity that it is easy to find out about a suitable woman of the right age, but I heard that the appearance is quite ugly, and it does not meet the standard of concubine Nase at all.
Just when Ban Zhao was busy choosing a concubine for Zhou Shaoyu, Zhou Shaoyu returned again.
Zhou Shaoyu is not an immortal, how can he know what Ban Zhao did behind his back. It can be said that in the circle of matchmakers, Zhou Shaoyu is so famous, who let Ban Zhao pick so many girls, but still none of them are fancied. Even everyone knows that this is a difficult lord to serve.
As a traditional girl, Ban Zhao was absolutely unable to let go at first, in fact, the love between husband and wife of the ancients was far more boring than we imagined.
In later generations, it is really normal for a bunch of couples or couples to kiss each other or something, but in ancient times, between a man and his wife, he would never do such a thing. In their concept, such a practice is basically equivalent to disrespect for the main wife, and even, some families will only kiss a small mouth when they go to the Qinglou, and they will not even have a concubine.
As an absolute indigenous, Ban Zhao naturally held such a concept at the beginning, but Zhou Shaoyu had a way to influence each other.
"The way of husband and wife, participating in yin and yang, reaching the gods, believing in the righteousness of heaven and earth, and the great festival of humanity."
Zhou Shaoyu directly took out the female commandment written by Ban Zhao in the future and began to modify it slightly to fool people, and then sneak attacked from time to time, and then strongly said that it was not disrespectful, but out of love, it was difficult to restrain it, and it was unnatural to do so.
After many times, Ban Zhao was also helpless, and after confirming that Zhou Shaoyu was indeed not disrespectful, he went with him, of course, it had to be when there was no one.
Now Ban Gu is an official in the court, and he co-compiled the deeds of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty "Shizu Benji", according to Zhou Shaoyu's meaning, it is to let them live directly in their own house, but the two brothers politely refused, rented a house alone, and brought all the daughters-in-law, mothers, and children. There is also some distance, in the end, the Ban family is not so rich, before meeting Zhou Shaoyu, the two brothers even had to earn a little extra money by copying documents to make a living.
Since I came back from a trip, I naturally had to pay a visit, but before I could make the trip, an unexpected visitor came to my house.
"Why are you here?" Looking at the enchanting Aunt Cao, Zhou Shaoyu said curiously. "Why are you alone?"
PS: It's easy to get home by bus, but I was infected with a bad cold, and now I want to die.
(End of chapter)