A respected uncle of the Duanmu family held a birthday banquet in Duanmu's ancestral home.

Duanmu Fengyang, the patriarch of the Duanmu family, sent someone to send a letter to inform Duanmu Molan (Ye Molan) to return to the old house to congratulate his uncle on his birthday.

Ye Molan agreed, and prepared to leave the next day, originally wanted to go to Longxi County, the ancestral home of the Duanmu family, to have a look, and even if he didn't want to have too much intersection with Duanmu Mansion, Ye Molan liked to get close to the Duanmu family, and Duanmu Fengyang, the head of the Songshan faction of the Duanmu family, was secretly placed in the rivers and lakes by the emperor of the southern country.

Duanmu Qiming has to go to Guozijian on time every day to teach, so naturally he can't go back to his ancestral home.

Duanmu Yunyuan is far away in King Ning's fiefdom, so naturally he can't go back to his ancestral home.

Duanmujie is married to the crown prince, so she naturally has her husband as the king, and she cannot leave the imperial city without the holy decree, and she cannot leave the prince's palace without the approval of the prince, but this princess is not at ease, and it seems that she often leaves quietly, maybe she has a stand-in?...... It's just that the crown princess won't go to celebrate an uncle's birthday.

When he went out this time, 250 strongly asked to follow, so Ye Molan left Yin Xianxuan in the imperial city, and 250 and Master Leng accompanied Ye Molan to the ancestral house of the Duanmu family.

Yin Xian was depressed, and he didn't like to go to Yuelan Commercial Bank every day to sort out the accounts instead of 250...... It's a pity that Ye Molan has always been a slacker, but in addition to 250, he can only take over this matter by himself, after all, now the investment of Yuelan Commercial Bank is huge, and the daily flow of water is sloppy, Molan is mixed in this world, and Yuelan Commercial Bank is Molan's biggest reliance.

Murong Che is still continuing to regulate Lin Xiao's ('Ye Moze') meridians, and for the time being, he has to recuperate at home with peace of mind.

Ouyang Fengzhi seemed to be reluctant to move since he stayed in the Chu Mansion?

Qin Jiang'an, Pei Jiao, Duan Fengke, and a group of gentlemen secretly stared at the Guxiang Pavilion and watched the excitement between the prince and the great-marquis......

Ye Molan had just left the imperial city with her front foot, and the third prince came to the door with her back foot, because Ye Molan still didn't go to see the third prince to release Ji Tingnan......

Longxi County is 3 days away from the Imperial City, passing through Luogou Town, Songlin, Hanlu Town, Hongye Mountain, and Baishui Town along the way.

I was in a hurry along the way, and I couldn't travel the mountains and rivers, and I spent the whole time in the carriage and the inn.

When I arrived at the gate of Longxi County, I was greeted by someone sent by the Duanmu family.

The fourth daughter of the patriarch Duanmu Fengyang, Duanmu Furong, followed the coachman and the little maid, and came together, because Duanmu Furong already knew Ye Molan during the New Year.

Duanmu Furong lived with her grandmother in the ancestral house until she was 10 years old when she was a child, and was only taken to Songshan by her father to practice martial arts, and only arrived in the imperial city at the age of 16.

The construction style and building materials of the houses in the county seat of Longxi County are somewhat different from those of the Imperial City, most of the building materials in the Imperial City are wood and glass, while the building materials here in Longxi County are mainly stone, and the houses of ordinary people are mainly made of yellow clay and pebbles and straw mixed with cow dung.

The city tower and city wall of Longxi County are made of pebbles mixed with glutinous rice pulp, and the city wall built is very high and thick.

Ye Molan looked at this kind of city wall and city tower with curiosity.

Duanmu Furong explained: "The geographical location of our Longxi County is close to the west extension of the territory, and the ancestors of our Duanmu family were sent by the imperial court to Longxi County to garrison the generals. ”

Ye Molan asked curiously: "I saw that this city wall is obviously an old city wall with a history of several hundred years, but I found many places with traces of recent repairs?"

Duanmu Furong said: "In fact, even if many Tujiang people surrender to our southern country on the surface, there are still some disputes caused by ethnic * contradictions every few years, resulting in armed conflicts from time to time. ”

Ye Molan raised her eyebrows: "It can only show that the imperial court's incorporation of Tujiang was not thorough enough." ”

Duanmu Hibiscus said: " The imperial court can't help it, even if our army fights again, it won't help, no one in our southern country wants to move to the poor resources, poor conditions to settle in Tujiang, our army fights over, they can't fight and surrender, after surrendering, our southern court will send some officials to supervise for a while, see that they are honest, pay tribute to the court on time, and the officials sent either wait until the mission is completed and return to their hometowns, or gradually become the sons-in-law of those chiefs, the result is repeated, armed conflicts between ethnic groups still continue to occur, Longxi County is still from time to time every few years by the private army cultivated by those chiefs in Tujiang to change the clothes of ordinary people, pretending to be bandits and bandits to attack and rob the county seat, except for our Longxi County, the surrounding cities are almost the same......"

Ye Molan sighed: "I heard that the territory of Tujiang is vast, accounting for almost one-third of the land area of the southern country?"

Duanmu Furong nodded: "Well! That's it!"

chatting all the way, we arrived at Duanmu Fort.

Ye Molan looked at the ring-shaped stone castle built by the Duanmu family's ancestral house with some surprise......

Duanmu Furong pointed to the other two ancient castles looming in the nearby mountains and forests, and said to Ye Molan: "There are only two neighbors in our vicinity, the one on the left is the property of the Gongsun family, Shengzhuang, and the one on the right is the property of the Mao family, Nanmao Villa. ”

Ye Molan: "Oh!" thought to herself, I didn't expect the Duanmu family's ancestral house to be so magnificent! It was actually a stone castle.

Duanmu Furong continued to explain: "We, Duanmu Fort, He, Shengzhuang, and Nanmao Villa, have always established a joint defense alliance with each other, no matter which one is attacked by the bandits posed as the Tujiang people, they will release beacon smoke in Fengyan, and the other two will come to assist in the defense. ”

Ye Molan pondered in her heart, it turned out that the world here was not peaceful at all.