[Plane] History of the struggle of the lords

The old concierges at the door of Wen's house recognized the honeysuckle driving the car at a glance. Before Wen Le's convoy arrived at the door, they had already notified the lords and ladies in the mansion one by one. They ran out one by one.

The first one was Wen Ruisong, the elder of the Wen family. Wen Le stayed here for a long time before leaving Dadu, but he hadn't seen him a few times.In my memory, this is a middle-aged man with a half-length beard and a plump body, but when I saw him today, he was much older, and he looked almost ten years younger than the second master Wen Ruiye who was running behind.

After Wei Shi got off the carriage, he got into the low sedan chair beside him. The Elder Master and the Second Master ignored her and ran straight to Wen Le and Wen Run, with an indescribably surprised expression on their faces. They held Wen Run's hand, He said politely: "Why are you really here? Oh, it's been a hard journey... It's been a hard journey..." After saying this, they passed Wen Run and stared at Wen Le with expressions never seen before. Politely, "Dare to ask this young master?"

Both Wen Le and Wen Run were taken aback for a moment, and then they remembered the difference between Wen Le now and the past. Today Wen Le wore a slim-fitting cyan robe with good material, a tender scarf on his head, and long hair. The belt hangs from the back of the head to the front of the body, with his snow-white skin, small nose, big eyes and small chin, it is even younger, like a young master of a rich family who is only sixteen or seventeen years old.

However, judging from Wen Le's every move, the Elder Master and the Second Master can't really see people as ignorant of worldly affairs. The majesty in the look casually swept over from the corners of their eyes is enough for the two who are used to the early court Feeling some similarities with the one on the dragon chair, if you really want to say the young master, it should be from the official family.

Wen Le met their careful temptation, and immediately smiled: "Uncle and Uncle, I'm Xian Le, don't you guys recognize me?"

how is this possible! ! !

The elder master and the second master did not hide their surprise and suspicion, their eyes gliding back and forth on Wen Le's body up and down, this is that obese Wen Xianle! ?That Wenfu's well-known idiot young master! ?

They hesitated for a moment, not knowing where to put their hands and feet, but the elder even wanted to salute Wen Le in a hurry, but Wen Le helplessly helped him up.

The second master also felt a little embarrassed because of his reaction, and Wei Shi whispered through the door curtain in the small sedan: "I have seen uncle and uncle."

"Siblings are here too. Alas, in a place like Fuchun, you have to worry about three children. It's enough for you." Shi was also there, he didn't dare to doubt Wen Le's identity anymore, it was only then that he remembered that there was still a person in his memory who hadn't arrived.

The elder frowned, and glanced at the crowd who got out of the car: "Where's Lian'er?"

With melancholy in the middle of Wen Le's brows, she sighed softly: "Lian'er has been unhappy since he arrived in Fuchun. He originally wanted to come back with us. I was afraid that he would not be able to endure the hard work on the road, so I left him behind. In Fuchun."

The second master stabbed the elder master's side indiscriminately, and the elder master secretly pursed his lower lip, his complexion turned bad for some reason.

Wen Le secretly laughed in his heart, it seems that after the concubine's third wife quits, the brothers who were born in the mother's womb may not be able to reconcile with each other.

A group of people entered the gate, and after closing the door, Wei Shi came out of the sedan chair.

The female relatives are different from the men, they are all waiting in the yard, the two elder aunts come up with smiles to chat with Wen Le and warmly, the others may not have such a thick skin as them, they all stand quietly where they are.Wen Le took a casual look, and found that the two married aunts were there, as well as the eldest daughter-in-law of the eldest master and the eldest daughter-in-law of the second master, and the first and second cousins ​​were not there.

Wen Le pulled Wen Run's sleeves, the two brothers shouted together, and found that Wen Le had changed into a completely different appearance from what they remembered. Everyone in the Wen residence was full of disbelief. They didn't dare to talk too much with Wen Le, but it was obvious that everyone was exchanging glances, and those standing in the corner had already started whispering.

Wen Le didn't care how surprised the unrelated people should be at all, Wei Shi also put away his tears and smiled faintly and nodded to them.In front of outsiders, Webster knew how to fight for his son's face.

She was wearing a gown that Wen Le released every season. The color was elegant and clean. Because most of the weather in the north was cold, she also wore a snow-white fox fur cape. This was a fake...Wen Le from Bought it for her in the mall.But the one made of it is not the slightest difference from real leather, and there is no excuse for the connection of fur and fur. It looks like it is made of a whole giant fox fur. Even Wen Run was shocked when he saw it, and he clicked his tongue. There is such a big white fox.

Wei Shi thought the cloak was very expensive at first, but after Wen Le gave it to her, she just found a furoshiki to wrap up the cloak carefully and didn't dare to wear it, but Wen Le yelled at her indifferently before she could wear it. Ken gave up, Wen Leke noticed when she got off the carriage just now, she hugged the corner of the cloak in her arms so preciously that she dared not step on the ground, even now, her hands must be shrunk in the cloak secretly Holding the corners, I'm afraid of sweeping unclean things.

Wen Le was very helpless, but this attire obviously immediately calmed down the restless Wen family members. As the wife of the third bedroom, Webster generally did not get the respect he deserved in the mansion. The eldest wife and the second wife They didn't understand how to write the word "modesty" at all. Among them, they were all fighting vigorously. As cannon fodder, Webster had no sense of existence at all.

Fortunately, when she entered the door, the two young ladies of the Wen family were about to get married, the third master and the younger sisters didn't talk often, and the aunts and sisters-in-law rarely saw each other. angry.Not being close is also good. Now after the reunion in Hexi 30 years ago, the aunts and wives who haven't spoken a few words are not as embarrassing as the juniors of the big and second bedrooms.

Webster nodded and said hello to a few people who were neither close nor distant. Her body was full of the natural majesty left behind after Fu Chun said that she was right. The corners of her eyes and brows were completely gone from the wrinkles that had been left in the Wen Mansion. Her complexion was ruddy and her eyes Being smart, the two sister-in-laws had a good impression easily. The two returned a smile and secretly exchanged a look. They both focused on the jewelry that Webster wore around his neck and earlobe.

What did Wechsler not know?After the two sisters-in-law got off the sedan chair, their eyes swept over her body. Although she knew the two people were philistines, she felt a little embarrassed and didn't want to deal with them. Webster simply He directly proposed to pay homage to the old lady's spiritual seat.

The first wife and the second wife were left behind by her without a trace, and they could only hold a breath and watch gloomyly as a group of female family members surrounded Webster and left. After a long distance, the two of them looked at each other. Qi Qi let out a sound of pooh.

"You rascally bastard!" the eldest lady scolded softly.

The second lady snorted, and echoed: "That's right, once you gain power, I'm afraid you'll forget your last name!"

After the two of them said this, they were startled to make a slip of the tongue, glared at each other angrily, and became even more sullen.

The Elder was busy tormenting Sanfang with the ostentation of seeing the spirit. He was exhausted after a day. He directed his subordinates to send Sanfang's people back to their resting place, and then returned to his courtyard with a sigh .

Facing the twilight, the eldest wife took off her make-up unhurriedly. As soon as the cloth towel was passed off, a thick layer of white powder was wiped off her face.She wiped her face and hands carefully, and then slowly applied the ointment to her skin and massaged. After the elder came in, she asked with [-]% of her attention: "Is everything going well?"

"It's good," the old man glanced at the cloth towel in the old wife's hand, frowned, lay on the bed and turned his face to the inside, trying not to look, "I forgot to ask you, Sanfang's previous yard and tidy up gone?"

The eldest lady was very angry: "You ask me what I do, that is the errand of the second son's family! You have taken over the throne in an upright manner, but you can't even find a place for me to speak alone in this mansion. When will it be my turn to do things! I'm afraid they'll make a lot of money by cleaning up the inner courtyard."

The elder was panting old-fashionedly, staring straight at the zenith, his eyes were tired and cloudy: "Forget it... don't argue about these irrelevant things, now I am dismissed from office, and the power depends on my second son in the court." What can I do if I can’t bear to talk?”

The eldest lady glanced at her husband, and gritted her silver teeth. She thought of Wei Shi's proud appearance when she saw him today, and wished her so much: "You were dismissed from office, and the third bedroom also lost his life." What! Look at the life of the third eldest family now! A cloak is worth the annual output of one of our farms! She is just a concubine... the upright and upright concubine of my Lu family, why do I always have to give in to her? under!"

The old man closed his eyes and didn't want to say any more, but he hesitated for a while, but still couldn't help being sad: "If you feel wronged by being with me, I will leave with you. You have to consider whether there is someone who is so kind to you under your knees." Promising son, you can't even throw away what is in your life."

What a fart!

The eldest wife thought of Wen Le's obese and plump figure in the past, and compared it to her agile and handsome appearance now, she directly threw the handkerchief in her hand onto the bronze mirror.Why did all the good things fall on that person's head!

The second wife, with saliva on her fingertips, slowly flipped through the account book in her palm. She welcomed the second master into the door, sat down on the bed, and complained: "I'm exhausted! I'm rushing to work in the yard of the third room. I can't even hear a thank you!"

The second master sighed: "There is no way to do this. If we don't be more active, the other side of the big room will take the lead."

"You said he was a brother, and I didn't see that what he kept saying was [-]% fulfilled, and the good things were left to myself. You don't know how my sister-in-law looked after the job of renovating the three-bedroom yard fell on me this time." Ugly!"

The second master pursed his lips: "She thought you got a kickback? What's so ugly?"

The second wife leaned on her husband's shoulders, pouted and said, "Why don't you think so? She has been reminding me to grow up and be orderly in the past few days. Who is not from the belly of the head wife, and I don't know what she has. It's awesome!"

The second master didn't care at all: "Tell her to talk, she doesn't like anything, now that my sister-in-law is back, it will make her jealous."

The second wife paused, and then said: "You didn't see the fox fur on my brother and sister... My dear, I can't find any stray hairs. The fur is snow-white, and it looks like a big handful of snow. I don't know how much it's worth. Fuchun is such a poor place, and I don't know where they got so much confidence."

"At the beginning, the third brother was in charge of the salt affairs in Lianghuai, but he was a fat man who made a fortune from the ground. Maybe his subordinates left treasures for his wife and children? Since they didn't die in Fuchun, we have to be more polite to them. , it can be used in the future if it is not in order.”

The second wife sighed desolately: "It really is 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi."

The second master rolled up the quilt uncomfortably and turned sideways. In the early years, how could he have thought that he would have a day to ask for a third bedroom!

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It was also winter, and the three-bedroom house that was desolate and desolate when I left was completely different from what it is now.The slippery bluestone roads have been replaced by delicate and fine cobblestone roads. In most places like this, cobblestones can only be bought from Jinling, but things that are much rarer than bluestone slabs are usually only found in the courtyard of the second bedroom of the big house. can only be seen here.The bare dwarf trees on both sides of the road have been uprooted at the end of autumn, and even a large open space inside has been planted with budding wintersweet flowers. The main house where the owner originally lived has been renovated long ago, and the empty bookcases in the study shared by the Wen family brothers are now full of rare books. Standing outside the door and looking around, the ink painting on the wall can be seen at a glance as a famous artist The writing brushes on the desk are arranged in descending order from large to small, and the writing brushes are also made of emerald. The paperweight is Xiangjiang wood. The inkstone is Wu Xing Duan inkstone, which is very popular nowadays. It was Bao Xixi's two pieces of ink wrapped in flannelette, one was black, and one could smell the fragrance when put it on the tip of the nose, and the other was red, when one stroked it with a finger, it was stained as bright red as blood.

Wen Le didn't understand this, and Wen Run on the side sneered, not knowing whether it was ridicule or sarcasm: "Gong Mo is not good, this is really a waste of money."

"Is this very expensive?" Hearing what he said, Wen Le rubbed the piece of cinnabar ink with his hand again, shook his head and regretted, "It would be great if this was a piece of lacquer, it can be used for my mother's nails."

Wen Run pushed open the window and told him to look at the budding wintersweet outside, and tapped on the window sill: "It's for you to draw plums, cinnabar ink is not easy to get, this is a tribute from Ruyang, and the quality is also the best among tributes, Daddy Apart from the royal family, the only ones who can afford to paint plum blossoms are those merchants who are extremely wealthy."

Wen Le immediately got excited, forcibly tore off the tightly glued silk cloth in the lacquered wooden box, wrapped two pieces of ink that was said to be so precious, and stuffed it into his bosom.There are so few scholars in the Dali Dynasty. A big reason is that the price of the Four Treasures of the Study is too high. If he can find a way to imitate this treasure in the mall, he will be able to do much more business by then.

Wen Run hurriedly stopped him, and stretched his hand to his chest to pick up the ink stick: "Put it back quickly, take someone's hand short, do you want to be eaten to death by the Wen family? If you don't want to, stop thinking about taking advantage as soon as possible!"

Wen Le doesn't have such a strong self-esteem as him. He accepts gifts as soon as he accepts them. He only wants to give them. It depends on his mood to do things. What can he do if he doesn't like it! ?

What's more, the methods used by the Wen family to obtain such things as tributes were by no means legitimate. Even if they were really greedy for ink, those uncles and uncles who were stingy to death could only knock out their teeth and swallow their blood.He refused to let go of the things he got, so he could only compete with Wen Run, and scolded him: "I thought you were a Buddha's temper, why are you angry with me? I have lived so long that I have never confiscated their New Year's Eve, now I take it What happened to the block of ink!?"

Wen Run is very helpless. As an ancient man, his thoughts are still quite follow the trend. Try not to get other people's things if he can. Strength and ambition are almost as important as fate. When a person with such a temper meets Wen Le, then It is a comet hitting the earth, the generation gap is huge, but there is nothing to do.

He could only soften his attitude to coax Wen Le: "Give it back to them, and I will definitely get you back the exact same one next time, and I will definitely get it for you."

Wen Le gave him a look: "Fool, isn't your money my money? It's free, and if you spend money to buy an identical one, I'm not as stupid as you."

Seeing that Wen Le really accepted it with peace of mind, he had no choice but to let go of a heavy thought in his heart, and was absent-minded all day long.

You can't get used to this problem, be careful and have nothing to eat if you are too noble!Wen Le couldn't bear Wen Run's appearance. Although Sanguan still quite approved of such a noble person, as a family member, a person like Wen Run who didn't know how to cheat in business and didn't bother to be greedy as an official was enough to worry the family.Now that the Wen family is so forthright and considerate to him, for example, if there is something that he is asked to do, no matter whether it can be done or not, Wen Le will definitely have to worry about it, what's wrong with him collecting some things! ?

Thinking of the two cousins ​​who hadn't shown up since he returned to Wen's mansion, Wen Le sneered in his heart. As expected, dragons beget dragons and phoenixes, and mice's sons can make holes.The young master named Wen Xianmin of the old man's family looks just like his father. He fantasizes all day long that he is compassionate and sympathetic to others. Turn your face and deny people.The Erfang man named Wen Xianli is not a good guy either, he is just like his mother, he is aggressive and competitive, and the thing he loves most in his life is stealing the limelight. He and Wen Xianmin have been at odds since they were young, but because of their blood relationship The blind date is decent on the surface, I heard that the time when they are most united is when they come to bully Wen Le and Wen Run, after the bullying is over, they each pat their butts and leave, and they still swear when they meet the next day.

Now the first master has been removed from his official title, and the second master is just a fourth-rank supervisory censor. Most of them are now almost dominated by warriors, and his presence as a censor is almost zero.Don't you see how the old man lost his official position?Lost in arguing with the defenders!That was just a defender. Although he followed the emperor all the way down from the prince, and possessed the merits of a dragon, this kind of treatment is enough to show that the civil servants are not welcome.

The second master is now tightening his tail and being a man, his life may not be more leisurely than that of the first master. As a censor, he dare not scold anyone, dare not participate in anyone, this is not offending anyone, but what kind of censor is he?

In the past few years, when Sanfang was still in a good position, and when Master Wen was still responding from all over the court, they had the foresight to arrange their son in which department to suffer a little bit of trouble. Now the other two young masters Wen can't say You can also rely on the contacts you have accumulated during the good times to do some serious business, but how can Wen Xianmin and Wen Xianli endure hardship?They dragged and dragged, and now that the sun is setting, they feel a sense of crisis, how can they have time to make preparations?Opportunities are fleeting.

They have always been this kind of virtue all their lives, taking a step-by-step perspective, when Wen Le went to Fuchun, they thought he was not far from death, why did the eldest and second-handers want to leave much affection?Now I see that Sanfang still has some hope, he is better than myself, and he doesn't think about how the emperor will send Sanfang down in the future, but just post it up with the intention of getting some benefits. The first ones to be stabbed are probably these relatives who are now smiling.

Wen Le disdains them, but he doesn't want Wei Shi to be talked about, so he can only watch it as a joke. Wen Run knows it well, but because of the old customs, he is always confined to these stereotyped rules. Fortunately, he doesn't care about things now and decides to It had to be given by a thick-skinned person like Wen Le.

The next day, because of the return of the third house, the funeral of the old lady was officially held. She had already been buried, and the funeral could be dragged on for so long. The son was subsidized with 200 taels of silver, which was probably enough for the banquet, and the rest of the funeral paper money had to be shared equally between the two houses.

Due to insufficient funds, the banquet was not held as extravagantly as the second wife thought. Originally, they wanted to take advantage of this time to show their presence to the old sects in Dadu, but now they had to do so With the scale of a medium-sized family, the funeral band can only play for four hours. The two wives feel ashamed.The people who attracted the most attention here were indeed the individuals from Sanfang.

Wen Le, who has lost weight, and the third master look quite similar. Wen Le has never met his father, but I heard that the third master was also famous for his talent and good looks when he was young, but he was limited by his status as a concubine , and did not climb up to such a high-ranking wife family.But this talent did not affect the old emperor's appreciation for him. In the palace examination, the talent and learning of the third master surpassed all others. With his appearance, the old emperor liked him, so he specially selected him from the crowd. He was appointed to manage the salt administration, and later asked the most valued prince to make friends with the third master. If it hadn't been for such a change later, the current third house would have become a powerful family.

Everyone couldn't help but sigh a little. The emperor didn't publicize the matter of Fuchun's non-payment of taxes because he was worried that other places would follow suit. Most of the people with some roots in most of the city knew about it through channels. Good officials, they are kept in the dark about their own embarrassment. They think of the people in the Wen family who relied on the third house when they were proud of the spring breeze, and now they are no different from the old three masters after leaving for a while. Safe young people, compared to the habitual arrogance of the two Wen family masters, everyone can only sigh with emotion, wondering what the future of the Wen family will be like.

With a noble title next to him, even though Wen Le's family was in decline and no one would welcome him, there were no ignorant people who came up to offend him. On the contrary, it was the two lords who seemed to have ridiculed him from the beginning.

On this side, Wen Le was being led by Wen Run to meet an official from the household department he knew before. The small official was surnamed Li, and his official position was not high, but he was engaged in lucrative business, and he was backed by a family. Quite respectful, after only a few words, he deliberately persuaded him to drink.

It was too late and then too fast to speak, only to hear the crisp sound of cups and plates shattering behind him, Wen Le subconsciously turned around, and saw Wen Xianmin standing up from the round table in the middle, pointing aggressively at the not far away A man at the office yelled: "You have the guts to say it again!"——