Zhutian: I have been happy to be a father since I was a child.

In addition to greeting and caring about Chen Tao, the letter from home also specifically mentioned an interesting little thing.

Aunt Kang, Wang's sister, specially brought her concubine Kang Zhaoer to visit, and joked during the chat that she wanted to let this girl be Chen Tao's concubine.

Molan and Minglan immediately and clearly refused.

Madam Liang was not Xiao Qin, or Wang and Madam Yuan, who liked to make their daughters-in-law unhappy. Seeing this, she also said that her youngest son had many wives and concubines, and he was not blessed to enjoy them anymore.

Although Aunt Kang dared to send her daughter as long as Madam Liang dared to agree to this, after all, concubines were no different from cats and dogs to her, she was also mentally prepared to be rejected, so she did not insist, and smiled like a certain wife control in the late Han Dynasty and said: I was just joking!

In fact, this is not surprising.

Chen Tao was indeed just a deputy commander of Cricket before, but now he has hooked up with Gu Er, a big thick leg, and the relationship is still very good, and his future seems very bright.

Every time she went to see Wang, Wang would express her dissatisfaction and think that her legitimate daughter was not as good as the concubine's daughter.

She also had jealousy and could not bear to see her nieces doing well, so she wanted to let the concubine's daughter be a troublemaker to prevent the two nieces from having too easy a life!

Unfortunately, Mrs. Liang was a rare open-minded and good mother-in-law who would not deliberately embarrass her daughters-in-law.

She estimated that Chen Tao would like this beautiful Kang Zhaoer, but since the two virtuous daughters-in-law were very resistant, she would of course stand on the side of the daughters-in-law.

Who can't be a concubine?

Why find someone that the daughters-in-law don't like!

There was already enough of a noisy grandmother Liang in the family, and we couldn't find another one to make ourselves unhappy.

In this way, the relationship between the four mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law became closer and closer.

Why four people?

Because Yuanyuan was also the first wife in Mrs. Liang's eyes and could be a co-wife.

She liked this girl too much and felt that Chen Tao had changed because of Yuanyuan. If Yuanyuan was not of a low birth, she would rather have only this lovely daughter-in-law. After all, the marriage with the Sheng family is not very glorious.

Of course, she is not stupid and will not directly express that she likes Yuanyuan the most, so as not to upset Erlan and affect the atmosphere of unity and friendship among the four houses.

There is no doubt about it.

Putting aside the ambiguity between Molan, Minglan and Chun Ge, the Chen Tao family is indeed quite united and friendly.

When facing Grandma Liang, they are united.

Although Chun Ge is not good at taking the lead, he has made his attitude clear by not listening to his cousin.

It is not because she is afraid that Molan and Minglan will unite to deal with her, but she just doesn't want to be hated by her beloved.

And her perfunctory attitude made Grandma Liang very angry, thinking that her cousin is a bastard and ungrateful.

The situation is already very clear.

The second, third and fourth branches of the Liang family have formed the basic base of the Yongchang Marquis's mansion around Madam Liang. No matter how much Madam Liang struggles, she can't make any waves. She can only cry privately about being bullied by her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law, but no one believes her.

Madam Liang's character is well-known in the circle. At most, people will only use her as a negative example, saying that her high attitude led to her husband's partiality and the illegitimate son's rise to power, but they will not say that she is black-hearted.

They even think she is weak.

After reading the letter handed over by Chen Tao, Yuanyuan was overjoyed and said:

"Hahaha, this kind of marriage that comes to your door should be rejected, and it should be rejected harshly! Well done!"

Chen Tao pretended to be unhappy and said: "What's the good of losing a beauty for nothing? You just know how to gloat over others' misfortune!"

Yuanyuan smiled and argued: "Being good to your wives and concubines is good to you. Just because you have got good things, I, as a maid, feel happy for you, isn't it okay? What is gloating over others' misfortune?"

Chen Tao grabbed her hand: "Is it only good to them, but not to you? Call me husband!"

Kong Ci, call my name!

Yuanyuan shuddered when she thought of this scene, and shook her head quickly:

"I won't call, let me go, I still have to settle accounts for you, don't disturb me!"

Chen Tao let go as he said, but then picked her up and asked her to accompany him to the peach forest in the backyard to go fishing.

Water town, good resources, tonight we had a whole fish feast, and shrimps.

Yuanyuan loves to eat these, and she also goes fishing when she is bored, so she obviously has something in common with the fisherman Minglan.

October came in a blink of an eye.

In the whole month of September, Chen Tao only killed seven people, which is really incomparable to the number in the previous months.

The reason is very simple. The armed forces controlled by the salt merchants and the official gentry groups behind them have been completely eliminated. Even the sporadic resistance has basically disappeared, let alone a larger-scale rebellion.

Chen Tao is much more relaxed because of this, but of course he has also lost many good opportunities to secretly make money.

After all, Gu Er and his side are only responsible for the military affairs of Lianghuai and only responsible for getting people, not the specific salt administration.

The ones who really get the biggest share are the imperial envoys sent by the emperor and Liu Zhengjie, the emperor's confidant of the Northern Pacification Division.

Of course, Gu Er is also a confidant, and although he doesn't care about the salt administration, he can also get a lot.

Yan Maoqing in the Ming Dynasty got a total of 5.3 million taels of salt tax.

Of this, 3.3 million was handed over, and 1 million was given to the emperor to build the Wanshou Palace. The remaining 2 million was divided between him and Yan Song.

According to the setting, this world handed over more than 8 million, so how much was actually taken openly and secretly? Chen Tao didn't know, and he didn't want to know.

He was already satisfied.

Because the two small boxes he prepared were already filled with gold, more than 10,000 taels. Adding the legal hard work fee, this trip can be regarded as relieving the emperor's worries and daring to leave his prison.

Well, it's not hard.

Chen Tao just found a nostalgic and rich villager. Overnight, he killed his family and let go of the fire again.

Those bitter haha ​​can also be divided into the silver, clothes, and food and other types of property he did not want, which is a win -win situation!

On October 13th, frost descends.

Chen Tao took a round -go visitor with a menswear dress, that is, he went to Gu Er's home to enjoy the song and dance.

On the seat, looking at Gu Er's happy look, Yuanyuan didn't know how to talk about it!

She can guess with the buttocks of the scumbag beside her. Whether in the original or in the TV series, Gu Er and Ming Lan are likely to be one -to -one.

However, the reality is that Gu Er's performance is very worthy of the reputation of the Yingying Yingyan in the house; the crossing of Ming Lan does not have any psychological struggle with any psychological obstacles.

What is the age of Minglan before crossing?

Yuanyuan was curious about this and speculated that Minglan was not small. It is likely that he graduated from college and worked for several years. In this way, isn't this young cow eating tender grass?

This is not beautiful to die!

night.

Chen Tao stayed with his heart and accompanied Ge Ji Opera to exchange related academic issues, but was forcibly dragged away by Yuanyuan.

She would rather let Chen Tao go to the outside to accompany Miss Ruomei to sleep, and did not want to let the guy drift outside.

Time.

Chen Tao and other took a bath, and wiped the table with a embroidered table.

The bone card is thirty -two, the big rules are a bit like long cards, three people play, and the fourth person is waiting to play.

No Mahjong is interesting, but Sister Minglan is unwilling to "invent" modern chess and card games such as Mahjong.

She would rather be boring, and she didn't want her husband to play, so as not to kill the young husband.

Yuanyuan was worried about exposure, so he refused to invent.

What does this show?

It shows that Chen Tao is too honest, indicating that he is not eccentric enough!

As long as he will be fond of round and want to play cards at the same time, Minglan will definitely find a way to please him, not afraid that she will not be asian.

***

In late October.

Salt administration has been taken care of.

Specifically, dozens of related officials and nearly a hundred salt merchants were won by a brain, and more than 8 million silver, which should be handed over, had already loaded the boat and immediately set off to Beijing.

Chen Tao naturally also provides security services to set off with the ship. It is expected that the monthly month can arrive in Beijing.

When it comes, it is late spring and early summer, and the return journey is the early winter. The scenery is different. Naturally, it is unsatisfactory.

That night.

There is no mistake, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one 619, one book, one, one, one, one, one, one, a book!

Eating a short mouth, holding Chen Tao with care: "I want to eat fish, it's just just talking, the sky is so cold, why are you going to catch the river? How can I be able to afford such a little girl? "

Obviously, she was moved by Chen Tao.

In the winter, she dared to catch her a few fresh fish to eat in order to satisfy her appetite. What a peerless man!

When she saw Chen Tao picked up the boat, he pulled out the two tail catfish with the rope, and happily smiled at her happily. Jack suddenly overflowed with hot little beans. In the face of such a man, what are you holding? She would rather be a little concubine.

Chen Tao laughed: "How do you know that I am for you, but go down the river to catch fish? I want to eat fish myself."

"Do you laugh?"

Yuanyuan twisted his face, and a serious educational: "Even if this time, you must never have the next time. You don't want to think about yourself, you have to consider it for me! If you have any accident, who will protect me in the future?"

Chen Tao looked at her eyes and said softly: "Well, listen to you, I won't mess around in the future! You have to obedient, you must not leave me."

Yuanyuan moved: "I, I am a person of you, unless you don't like me anymore in the future, I will never take the initiative to leave you. Do you love me? Not Yuanyuan ""

Chen Tao lowered: "Yes! I swear to God, I will only love you alone from now on, I will find a way to let you be my wife and have ten children, and the family will never be separated."

Yuanyuan smiled: "I don't believe your vow! Obviously raising a bunch of jealous wife and concubine, but embarrassed to say what only loves me, false affection, I will definitely not be your fooled. I regret it. If you want to run away from home, just like the Mrs. Liuli in the former dynasty, it will only appear when you encounter danger. Save your life. From then on, we will not owe each other, leave our hands, and live each small life. Bar!"

Chen Tao also laughed: "You hug me so tightly, where is it as if you want to throw my hands with me?"

Yuanyuan was suddenly proud: "My soup is leaking, and the quilt is very cold, letting you help you warm, is it strange? If you don't want to be hugged by me, let's go! "" ""

Chen Tao hugged even tighter: "My Tang Po Zi also missed, I am also afraid of cold, so you want you as a warm pot."

Yuan Yuan stunned his face gently, and said happily: "How can it be so coincident? Then there is no way, let's hold it!"

"Don't think I am heavy?"

"Huh, think you smell! Stinky pigs!"

"I took a shower down the river, and my body was very clean. Instead, it was yourself. I didn't wash it for a few days? It's so bad!"

"I hate ~ I wash it every day."

"Spendthrift woman, don't wood and charcoal cost money? When you get married, wash with me! Save water and charcoal."

"Stingy! You've earned so much, but you're still so stingy. I don't want you anymore!"

"That's the dowry I saved for you. Of course I can't spend it carelessly!"

"Husband."

"What?"

"Husband! I can't sleep. I'll tell you a few stories. Do you want to listen?"

"I don't want to listen to stories. I just like to hear you call me husband."

"..."

The twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month.

It snowed heavily.

For the relevant escort mission, naturally someone else came to take over. Chen Tao simply went home with Yuanyuan and others.

Liang Er led everyone to welcome them out.

Women such as Molan, Minglan and Chunge were also very excited. After all, they hadn't seen their husbands for more than half a year.

As Chen Tao expected, he received a letter at the end of October saying that Chunge, Xiuzhu, Hongyu and Caijin had each given birth to a son.

In other words, although Chen Tao is only in his early twenties, he already has six sons and one daughter.

Not only the people of the Liang family, but anyone who knows about this can't hold it.

For example, after knowing about this, Wang, the mistress of the Sheng family, thought about giving her son a woman again, and she was very determined.

For example, after hearing about this, the old lady of the Wen family also secretly blamed Rulan for only giving birth to girls.

Mrs. Yuan of the Yuan family naturally took this opportunity to sneer at Hualan.

Don't look at it with a modern perspective.

These days, as long as you can afford it, the more people you have, the more it is the foundation and symbol of the prosperity of the family.

Therefore, the theory of the legitimate and legitimate is really untenable.

How can those big families give birth to children by relying on the wife alone? These days, not only is the infant mortality rate of children very high, but the mortality rate of mothers with unsmooth childbirth is also high.

Of course, there is a difference between legitimate and illegitimate children, which cannot be denied. Although the sons of concubines are also considered legitimate masters, such as Jia Huan! You can't say with a clear conscience that the reason why he is looked down upon by the servants is just because he himself performs poorly.

As for "I wish I had a concubine to help my wife bear the risk of having a child", it is also bullshit.

Anyway, Mrs. Wang of the Jia family definitely doesn't like Aunt Zhao, and she won't treat Jia Huan equally.

This is against human nature and very unrealistic.

Chen Tao would not ask Molan to like Minglan's children, as long as she can take good care of her own children.

In short, in the fourth year of Chongde, Chen Tao gained a lot. Not only did he become the father of seven children, but he also made a lot of gold and silver. He was also promoted to the commander of the West City Military Department, which was a sixth-rank official. The original boss was transferred to the Zhifang Department.

According to history, the Five City Military Department was a little stuck, but according to the setting in the book, it could mobilize troops to rebel.

Therefore, Chen Tao was unwilling to leave and would rather be a sixth-rank general. Despite this, he was on the same level as Yuan Wenshao.

I think Molan will be doubly proud when she returns to her parents' home this year.

It's a new year again.