Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

The inner house of Prince Wei's Mansion is much smaller than the palace, and there are fewer people, but a peach grove not far away is in full bloom, adding a bit of beauty.

The Fu family is still a very stable place, and Jinzhan has just settled down, so there is no need for the maid who came back with her to follow her at any time. At this time Cao Tai came in to ask for an audience, he was still very respectful, serving carefully without neglect.

Cao Tai bowed and said: "When the servants left the palace, the officials summoned the servants and took something, and told the servants to give it to the lady. But the lady didn't show up on the way, it was given by the officials themselves. The servants did not dare to be too hasty, so they brought it to the lady at this time."

"Oh?" Jinzhan asked curiously, "What is it?"

Cao Tai hurriedly avoided the body, then took out a cloth bag from his arms, and opened it carefully layer by layer. As prudent as a frugal old woman about to pay.

Even Jinzhan held his breath by his appearance, staring at him intently.

Cao Tai opened it with great difficulty, picked up the contents with both hands, knelt down in front of Jinzhan, and raised his hands on top of his head to offer it.

Jinzhan stared blankly at the thing, then covered her mouth with a handkerchief and let out a "puchi" laugh, that smile was as beautiful as the flowers in a peach blossom forest, and she seemed about to cry, her eyes also turned red.

Cao Tai looked blank, he seemed to understand something, but he didn't seem to understand.

Jinzhan reached out and picked up something: a piece of embroidered red silk. It was the red satin that Jinzhan tied to Guo Shao's sword handle on the eve of his expedition to Youzhou... Legend has it that red silk can ward off evil spirits, and many soldiers hid red satin in their underwear when they set off for battle. At that time, Jinzhan wished him peace and prosperity.

Now this piece of silk was sent back to her.

That's right, it was that piece of red silk, stretched out into a rectangle, with a red bird embroidered with messy stitches in the middle, but it looked a bit like a chicken. It is embroidered with calendula, which can be confirmed at a glance.

"It's really ugly, alas." She curled her lips and sighed softly. However, his expression was obviously much lighter.

Cao Tai hurriedly said: "The officials still remember you."

From Cao Tai's tone, he didn't seem to know that Jinzhan gave Guo Shao the red satin before he left for the expedition; or he had heard it mentioned, but he didn't remember it. Even if Cao Tai still remembered this, he probably wouldn't understand it.

But Jinzhan understands and is smarter than Cao Tai, and can see the meaning at a glance.

Jinzhan thought of an interesting thing: Guo Shao proclaimed the emperor the Son of Heaven, and the imperial memorials ruled the world, but he wrote ugly handwriting; he was a woman, but he made female celebrities crooked.

Thinking of this, she thought it was funny, and laughed again. The second time I smiled, it was even better than the previous one.

At this moment, a woman in Wei Wang's mansion called "Big Lady" outside, Cao Tai went out and called her in to ask what was the matter. The woman said: "Ah Lang is going to have dinner, please ask the eldest lady to have dinner."

Jinzhan said: "I'm really tired tonight, and I don't have any appetite, so I don't want to eat. You go and report to your father and aunt, and I'll offer tea to the elders tomorrow morning to say hello."

The woman responded and went out.

Jinzhan didn't want to move, and there were a lot of people she didn't know well in this house, including Wei Wang Xuxian, Mrs. Xiang, who she didn't want to face for a while.

But after thinking about it, it was a bit impolite. In order to make it better, Jinzhan told Cao Tai: "You go over there and tell me what I mean."

Cao Tai said: "Your maidservant, let's go."

... Cao Tai hurried out, caught up with the woman, and went to the front yard with her.

The two walked into a relatively tall house one after the other, and as soon as they reached a door, they heard a woman's voice inside saying: "Our family has invited a Buddha to come back and make offerings!"

Cao Tai was used to staying in the palace, he had seen a lot, and when he heard this, his tone was wrong, he grabbed the woman next to him and whispered: "The people inside are not happy, let's go in later."

The woman nodded hurriedly, and said in a low voice: "The person speaking is Mrs. Zhang, Mrs. Da Lang (Fu Zhaoxu). She is from the deceased old lady's natal family. She is a bit powerful."

Cao Tai remained calm, and she didn't need to follow the woman's words in her heart, she couldn't help but say it... as if she knew so much, there was nothing to show off.

Fu Zhaoxu's voice immediately said: "In front of father and aunt, do you ever speak like that?"

Mrs. Zhang's voice was sour: "Of course I didn't dare to complain to my father and aunt. I told Dalang about it. What do you say, you feel sorry for her after a long journey, and you personally ordered the kitchen to prepare better meals for her. Didn't you put so much effort into making offerings to the Buddha?"

Fu Zhaoxu said: "How did I treat my sister, how did I offend you?"

Fu Yanqing's voice said: "Is there anything to say about small things?"

Another woman said: "They are all from my own family, Da Lang should be nice to his elder sister, don't take it to heart."

It sounds like Fu Yanqing is a little impatient and unwilling to pay attention to this matter. The woman who spoke just now should be Mrs. Xiang. Mrs. Xiang obviously does not have a high status and power in the house, and her tone of speech is very soft, mainly persuading.

She is far worse than Fu Yanqing's deceased first wife Zhang, even her daughter-in-law Zhang is inferior... The deceased old lady is the mother of the children present, and Zhang is the old lady's biological niece.

Mrs. Zhang's voice said: "I know they are all from my family, so there should be no difference between high and low?"

The words of the elder were weak and could not suppress Mrs. Zhang's resentment at all. Her voice continued: "There are about twenty maids around her. These people are just close servants, and the mansion has to send someone who speaks foul words. This is more pompous than your aunt. Don't these people have to be kept by the mansion? There are even eunuchs. The king's mansion has never raised eunuchs, and even A Lang has not enjoyed the style. Our family has to enshrine a woman, and we have to serve her as a woman..."

Fu Zhaoxu's voice said: "Our family does not lack this."

Mrs. Zhang's voice said: "You don't know the price of firewood if you are not in charge of the family."

Fu Zhaoxu said: "In my Fu family, my father is the king of Wei, and my uncles and brothers are all generals. No matter how expensive the firewood and rice are, I can't afford to support more than 20 people? Besides, the eldest sister is the queen... the queen's sister."

Mrs. Zhang said: "The queen still calls me sister-in-law! She used to be a queen, but she was the queen of the previous dynasty. Now she is the daughter of the Fu family, so she has some status. Otherwise, what is the difference from the common people? Why do you treat one more than the other? It seems that she is expensive, and we are cheap. From now on, all the internal affairs of the Fu family will be decided by the widowed daughter of the Fu family!"

At this moment, Fu Yanqing's voice said calmly: "Even if my eldest sister is a commoner, she has done a lot for the Fu family."

When Cao Tai heard Fu Yanqing's words, he thought in his heart that the King of Wei was old and fatuous, but his words from time to time were quite meaningful.

Mrs. Zhang's voice whispered: "Father..." The voice dragged on for a long time.

Fu Yanqing said: "Alright, let's prepare dinner."

When Cao Tai heard this, he grabbed the woman next to him and beckoned, and said quietly, "Leave first, and then go later."

Unexpectedly, just as he was about to leave, two maidservants carrying wooden trays suddenly said loudly: "Hey, Aunt Wang, why are you standing here with this father-in-law?"

Suddenly, several black lines appeared on Cao Tai's forehead!

Suddenly a voice came from inside: "Who is standing outside?"

Cao Tai had no choice but to bite the bullet and walked in, bowing down and saying: "My servant pays homage to King Wei, Mrs. Xiang, Lord Dalang, Mrs. Zhang, Sixth Lady..."

Mrs. Zhang waited for Fu Yanqing to say "forgive me" impatiently, and immediately asked, "What are you doing here?"

Cao Taidao: "The eldest lady sent her servants to apologize to the king of Wei and Mrs. Xiang. The eldest lady just went home, and her clothes were disheveled all the way. She was afraid that seeing her elders in this way would break the family rules and etiquette. In the morning, the eldest lady will go to offer tea to A Lang and his wife to say hello."

Mrs. Zhang murmured: "Hey, the one who came out of the palace, that's how pleasing to the ear."

Cao Tai held back his sulking, and said: "The servant girl just walked to the door, and saw Aunt Wang, and she didn't know how to address her just now, so she was taken aback for a while, and then a young lady in the house called Aunt Li first. The servant girl has disturbed me a lot, please don't blame Mrs. Zhang."

Mrs. Zhang said: "You want to cover up when you say this."

Fu Yanqing said again: "Didn't Dalang ask the kitchen to make another meal, he cooked everything, and sent it to the eldest sister, telling her not to come out tonight."

Cao Tai hurriedly said: "Yes, yes. The servants will leave."

When Cao Tai came out of the dining room, he couldn't be happier anymore. Walking on the road, I suddenly heard two women in the distance saying, "That man is not a man, there is no one below." "No wonder, why did I come to the inner house?"

Cao Tai was ashamed and annoyed, these people are so rare and strange! Damn it, if you want to be in the palace instead, just like their slaves who speak foul words, I cough to scare your excrement out! Damn, how unreasonable!

He held back his anger and went back to report to Jinzhan. There is no need to explain how to say it, just say "it's done".

Jinzhan glanced at her face, and said, "Is Zhao Xu's wife mad at you?"

Cao Tai was taken aback for a moment, then bent over and said, "Don't dare, a servant is just a servant who runs errands, how dare you be so angry? Mrs. Zhang is outspoken, and she is speaking to people like us. It is right to be a little rude."

Calendula nodded.

Cao Tai stood there, weighing it for a while, but in the end he still didn't want to say those words in detail, because Jinzhan didn't ask him. Perhaps, needless to say, Jinzhan could probably guess what was said, and some things seemed inevitable.

At this moment, Jinzhan said softly: "The relationship between master and servant has been more than ten years. When I was leaving Tokyo, I wanted to keep you in the palace, but you didn't want to. If you really wanted to, I was still not used to it."

Cao Tai said without hesitation: "A rootless old slave is like a dog in the eyes of the world. Once you recognize your wife as the master, you will never change again. Wherever you go, your servant will follow you on the saddle. If you dislike this old slave, the only thing left for this old slave is to die..."

"Hey, stop talking, it's really sour." Fu Jinzhan smiled. \u003c