Royal rice bug, worm worm!

Figs reminded: "Ah Lang, today is just an appointment, not a personal welcome."

Li Xi clicked his tongue: "What nonsense are you talking about?"

When looking at Wei Yu, the smile on his face was dazzling, "Brother Yu, why don't you invite your brother in!"

Wei Yu smiled slightly, stepped down the steps calmly, and came to him.Li Xi thought he was going to help him off the horse, so he stretched out his hand bluntly.

Unexpectedly, Wei Yu stretched out his long arms and hugged him directly.

The onlookers were in an uproar.

Wei Yu calmly carried him and strode towards the door.

"Hey, hey, I won't go? Can you hold me?" Li Xi struggled like a little tortoise whose shell had turned over.

"There is water in front of the door, your shoes won't work." Wei Shaoqing's reason was legitimate and caring.

Li Xi glanced at the potholes on the ground, and then at his soft-soled cloud-toed shoes sewn with silk, he was really... reluctant.

"Who is so vicious, digging a hole in front of your house and splashing water?"

Wei Yu smiled without saying a word.

Who dares?

Except for himself.

The Jinwu guards booed and whistled.

The common people were also laughing and joking, pleasing money.

The figs were already ready, and they joyfully led a group of children to spread wedding cakes and throw wedding money.

Almost half of the people in Chang'an City came, from the front of the Xiao Mansion to the cross street, just to see Xiao Fu Wang and his new concubine.

Many people asked: "Why is it morning, not dusk?"

The figs didn't put on airs at all, and they explained enthusiastically one by one: "It's not about welcoming the relatives, but just offering an appointment. My family, Alang, was very happy, and made a mistake at the moment."

Ouch!

Is it just a matter of hiring?

How lively will it be when it's time for a personal welcome?

Could it be more grand than the crown prince marrying a concubine?

The common people talked a lot, most of them were surprised and praised.

Especially Wei Shaoqing and Xiao Fu Wang, they are so sticky before they get married, if they get married...

Tsk tsk, the male princess is different!

Xiao's mother and daughter watched, their faces were blue and white, they were really pretty.

They feel ashamed.

But he was too reserved and didn't want to talk about Wei Yu in front of others.

Neither dare.

They are too clear that Wei Yu never wants to suffer.If he loses face on this occasion, he must, will definitely make them lose face even more.

At the same time, there was a hint of envy in their hearts that they didn't even want to admit.

With such a big battle and such a decent dowry, why is it just for Wei Yu?If it were them... this life would be worth it.

Especially the two sisters Wei Qingqing and Wei Baibai, their eyes were almost glued to the red silk box, yet they had to show a clean-eyed and indifferent look.

It's also hypocritical.

Their vision is only limited to these things, and they don't know that what Wei Yu is looking for is by no means superficial scenery; what's more, they can't understand that Wei Shaoqing, who has the world in mind, doesn't have to pretend to be lofty.

People with real foundation and strength don't need to put on such false airs, and no one will underestimate them.

Li Xi ran to Wei Yu's courtyard with great interest, thinking that the place where such a smart and powerful person as Wei Shaoqing lived was probably a fairy cave, but he was disappointed when he stepped in.

It was a very small yard, smaller than the one where the second sister lived in Xiao's house, and it was dusty everywhere, without beautiful cobblestone paths, colorful palace lanterns, golden dog kennels, ponds full of lotus flowers, and even There are no flowers and plants.

The room is even more monotonous, with a bed, two bookshelves, a low table, two screen couches, and then there are pens, ink and chessboards, not even a decent decoration.

Li Xi has been extremely silent since entering the yard.

It's just...it hurts.

Xiao Zirui was shocked: It wasn't like this the last time I came here, why did it become dilapidated overnight?

Xiao Zirui said angrily: "Ms. Xiao is crying for you again? Did you sell the things in the house to buy clothes and jewelry for her two daughters?"

Wei Yu smiled at him, shook his head and said, "Minzhi misunderstood, it's nothing."

"Why not! It's not just once or twice, I will press you with filial piety, what day is it today, she is so disrespectful - I'll go find her!"

"Minzhi," Wei Yu stopped him with a smile on his face, "Let's stay for dinner today and make chicken ramen."

Xiao Zirui paused.

He is very clear that the chicken sauce ramen made by his friend is a must in Chang'an, but it takes a lot of time and effort, and he only makes it when he is in a very, very happy mood.

For example, old friends reunited.

For example, the title of the gold list.

For example, bridal chamber candles - no, it hasn't arrived yet.

Why do you do it today?

Xiao Zirui subconsciously looked at Li Xi.

Li Xi was also looking at him, and asked a little angrily, "Who is Mrs. Xiao? You mean, it's her fault that Shuyun is so poor?"

Xiao Zirui coughed lightly, and looked at Wei Yu embarrassedly, only then did he realize that it was his family business, and he was too impulsive just now.

"It's my stepmother, and also Minzhi's distant aunt, it doesn't matter." Wei Yu didn't look angry at all, he was very magnanimous and tolerant.

Li Xi felt even more distressed.

There was a smile in Wei Yu's eyes, and he said warmly: "Would you like chicken ramen? I'll do it."

"Is there only chicken juice, sheep juice, deer juice, rabbit juice?"

"No, only chicken juice." Wei Yu went to the small stove next to him, and lifted the lid of the clay pot, and the fragrant smell immediately wafted out.

"That's it! Chicken juice is chicken juice, eat it!" Li Xi covered her mouth to keep her saliva from lingering.

This chicken soup is absolutely perfect, the chefs in the palace are not as good as it is, and neither is the royal chef in the palace!

"Is it fragrant? A fire started with pine wood. The pine leaves have been simmering for a whole night through the heat, and the bones are soft."

Xiao Zirui said coolly: "I said that I rejected someone in my post yesterday, and it turned out that it was to boil chicken juice. Brother Shu Yun, it turns out that our love is not as good as a cup of chicken juice."

"Are you eating?" Li Xi squinted at him.

Xiao Zirui: "...Eat."

While eating, he grumbled and grumbled at his husband.

Li Xi gave him a look, let him experience it for himself.

Xiao Zirui: "..."

Wei Yu tied up his sleeves with a tie, scooped up the noodles, added water, and kneaded them into dough, "My lord, go to the house and rest, the noodles are cooked and ready to eat."

Li Xi didn't want to go, so he just opened the kitchen door and looked at him, "Why do you know everything? You can read, solve crimes, and cook delicious meals."

Also, it will detoxify...

"I can only do this." Wei Yu's tone was calm, but he didn't know how much bitterness was contained in it.

At that time, he was kicked out of the house by his aunt, and he almost lived a life like a nomad. He was an apprentice to a barefoot doctor, worked as a small worker in a noodle shop, sold music in Pingkangfang, and carved woodblocks in a private printing bureau... …

This whole body of "skills" is accumulated in those years.

Now, having gone through those difficult years, he can smile and tell the interesting story of being beaten and punished when he was an apprentice with the people next to him, and he can calmly and skillfully cook a bowl of noodles for his beloved one.

Then watch him eat a bowl expectantly...

"one more bowl."

Li Xi doesn't know what it means to be reserved at all, "I want a bowl of noodles with soup, and I want a bowl of chicken juice alone."

For Wei Yu, it was enough.

He didn't listen to Li Xi, but picked out half a bowl of noodles without chicken sauce for him, tore the softly stewed chicken into thin strips and spread them on top, and took out the medicinal materials from the clay pot, Also cut into shreds and sprinkled, and finally poured only a spoonful of chicken juice.

Li Xi was upset, "Stingy. There are so many more, why don't you give them to me? When you go to the palace, I will stew a hundred chickens and let you eat them openly."

Wei Yu filled a bowl of hot noodle soup, put it next to the noodle bowl, and comforted him patiently: "Although the chicken juice is fragrant, it has melted too much fat. The right amount is good. Drinking too much will inevitably cause stomach discomfort and gain weight."

When Li Xi heard "gaining weight", she was immediately appeased, "Then I'd better drink the noodle soup!"

Wei Yu pushed the noodle bowl towards him, "This bowl is shredded chicken noodles, with herbs and minced meat sauce added, try it?"

"What about the minced meat sauce?" Li Xi copied it down with chopsticks, dipped the minced meat sauce into his mouth, and then his eyes lit up, "It's delicious!"

Immediately there were no comments.

"Take an altar with you when you go."

"Mmmmmmm!"

"Drink some noodle soup."

"Ok!"

Here, one eats happily, and the other feeds satisfactorily.

On the opposite side, Xiao Zirui looked at the big soup bowl in front of him, and felt bad.

No, chicken soup fat man, why do you let me eat it?

Who is the best friend you have known for more than ten years?

Li Xi smiled and made up the knife: "Second brother-in-law is so pitiful."

Wei Yu didn't speak, and turned around to fill Li Xi with minced meat sauce.

Xiao Zirui drank chicken soup in anger.

Li Xi was called out by Fig to check the gift list, Xiao Zirui crossed his arms, watched Wei Yu tidy up the table like a grandpa, and made sarcastic remarks by the way.

"Is this chicken noodle soup specially made for my brother-in-law?"

"How did you expect him to come today?"

"Did you see that Prince Lifu's mansion bought red silk yesterday?"

"It may not be today!"

"Oh, by the way, Dali Temple has a total of two days of rest and bathing, either today or tomorrow. At worst, it will be right to stay for two nights."

"Brother Shuyun, tell me, am I the roundworm in your stomach?"

After washing the dishes and chopsticks, Wei Yu said in a leisurely manner, "Brother Min has the ability to solve cases, so he must be promoted to another level in the evaluation at the end of the year."

Xiao Zirui held the handle, and sneered: "You still have to rely on Shaoqing for a lot of good words."

"Good to say."

Pooh!

Seeing the scum of friends who forget their sex.

Xiao Zirui arrogantly dragged Li Xi away, and ordered a bowl of minced meat sauce before leaving.

Wei Yu sent them out of Cross Street, and when he came back, he bumped into his half-sister, Wei Qingqing.

Wei Qingqing looks like their dead father, tall and tall, with an aloof temperament, even the selfishness and ambition hidden deep in his eyes are the same.

Wei Qingqing said proudly: "Brother, in order to gain a relationship with Prince Fu's mansion, did you not care about your face? It was fine to marry the county magistrate before, but now the magistrate is unable to marry, so he picked up that ignorant little Fu Wang... Father has a spirit in the sky, if he knows that you are so self-willed and lowly, may he feel at ease?"

If she only talked about herself, Wei Yu wouldn't bother to talk to her at all, and if it involved the little gold bug, he couldn't let it go easily.

"Someone wants to marry a seventh-rank master Bo, and they have to rack their brains. Naturally, they can't imagine the benefits of 'climbing up a relationship' with the Prince's Mansion. Guess, if there is an opportunity to 'self-willed to degrade', Xiao Shi will let it go. Or will you let the second sister go?"

Just a few words, merciless, precise attack.

Wei Qingqing was trembling with anger, "Brother, I am only speaking a few words of advice for you and the Wei family's reputation. Why do you humiliate me like this? Do you think I'm jealous of you?"

Wei Yu smiled and said, "It's pretty self-aware."

One is talkative.

The second is jealousy.

Wei Qingqing cried angrily, turned around and ran away.

Wei Yu bypassed the main courtyard and took a small path back to the side courtyard where he lived.

In the courtyard, the servant who had disappeared for most of the day had returned and was cleaning the yard and tidying the kitchen.

Wei Yu glanced at the kitchen, and glanced at the wooden door that Li Xi had pushed through, and the bamboo chair that Li Xi had sat on.

Back in the study, he took out all the betrothal gifts that Li Xi had sent, wiped them, looked at them, arranged them on the bookshelf, and put them back in the same way.

There is a big box in the corner of the study, which contains the original decorations in the house. Wei Yu didn't take it out, but carefully took out a white porcelain figurine and put it on the chessboard.

It was the one who "discussed marriage" with Li Xi's villain and was rejected by Xiao Fu Wang as "older".

Li Xi didn't ask about it when he came, and Wei Yu didn't show it either.The unexpected encounter when they were young, the empress dowager didn't tell Li Xi, and Wei Yu didn't mention it either.

Probably because of the closeness to the hometown!

And, I care too much.

Afraid that if he said it, Li Xi replied casually: "Oh, it turned out to be you."

He won't be able to bear it.

He didn't have that kind of self-confidence, thinking that King Fu must remember him.

He remembered what Li Xi said that day clearly. He broke it apart, crushed it, and analyzed it hundreds of times, but he didn't think that the "sweetheart" Li Xi said had anything to do with what happened that night.

What Li Xi said at the time was "I have known him since we were young, and he helped me"—presumably it was before I brought him into the dormitory.

He also said, "Of course I met him later, otherwise how could I fall in love with him"-this shows that Li Xi's "favorite" has nothing to do with what happened that night.

The last time he deliberately mentioned this porcelain doll, it was actually a test, but Li Xi didn't remember it, and he didn't ask a word when he came today.

After all, he is only a six-year-old child, or he has long forgotten that he has given such a gift.

But Wei Yu cared very much.

He would rather believe that Li Xi still remembered, than hear him reply with a smile: "Ah, if you don't tell me, I would have forgotten that there is such a thing."

Suffocate just thinking about it.

On the way home, Li Xi asked about the Wei family.

Xiao Zirui didn't hide it from him. After all, it wasn't a secret. He could find out after a little inquiry.

Back then, Wei Yu's biological mother, Jiang Shi, and his father, Wei Liang, met at the end of their childhood, and they were considered childhood sweethearts. Later, Wei Liang got elected, became an official, and had Wei Yu again. The family of three really lived a happy life for two years.

However, Jiang's body was injured during childbirth, and later she became pregnant with her second child. During childbirth, she lost her life and died early, so she left early.

However, Wei Liang's official fortune was smooth, and he was promoted step by step, and then he was favored by the head of the Xiao family, and married a daughter of a concubine of the master's family as his second wife.

But Mrs. Xiao is cruel and vicious.

When Wei Yu was three years old, he began to study, and the doggerel he made inadvertently made his master overwhelmed.

Feeling threatened, the Xiao family was afraid that their future son would be compared, so he united with his natal family to put pressure on Wei Liang and sent the little Wei Yu back to his grandfather's house.

Perhaps evil people have evil rewards. Xiao's first child did conceive a son, but she didn't keep it. Later, she gave birth to two daughters one after another.Later, Wei Liang also fell ill and died.

He didn't hear about it for more than ten years, but before he died, he called Wei Yu back and asked him to stand up for the Wei family.

Just listening to it, Li Xi was so angry that she wanted to rush back and pluck that vicious stepmother's hair.

"Is Wei Yu stupid? Tell him to go back and he will go back? Let him die!"

Xiao Zirui sighed.

Great cause emphasizes filial piety, and the word filial piety crushes people to death.

If Wei Yu didn't enter the officialdom, and went into business, a craftsman, or even a teacher, he could ignore it, and at most he would be poked in the back by those who didn't know the inside story.

But he is pursuing an official career, his goal is the Dragon Pavilion, and he is the prime minister, so there should be nothing to criticize about him, even a small flaw will be used by political opponents to make a big fuss.

How many living examples from the previous dynasty are before us, how many officials cannot go further, not because they are not talented enough, but because they are suppressed.

What's more, Wei Yu is fighting alone, without any cronies or clans to rely on, so he must be cautious in every step, and must not act willfully.

"I'll be his backer." Li Xi said sullenly.

It's not an understatement or a proud tone, but a little cautious and a little distressed.

Xiao Zirui smiled, "If Shuyun can hear it, he will be happy."

Li Xi clicked his tongue: "That's right, with Prince Fu's mansion as the backer, he can go for fun!"

Seeing his smug face, Xiao Zirui couldn't help but say: "Little Treasure, you don't know yet, the saint wants to reopen the school and invite the following royal relatives to study in it."

Li Xi almost fell off his horse when he heard the word "reading".

"No, no, I will never go!"

"I, I, I, I'm sick, I'm too sick to walk!"

"I'll go find Second Sister and ask him to go back to Prince Fu's Mansion to take care of me!"

Xiao Zirui: "..."

It's not a disease to be cheap, it's really terrible to be cheap.

Xiao Zirui tried his best to redeem: "Xiao Bao, don't worry, I heard that this time is not the same as before, didn't we all give lectures in one big room before, this time we divided into 'big class' and 'small class', music theory and riding and archery are in the big class. In class, the lectures on 'Books' and 'Classics' are small classes, with two or three students and one teacher."

Li Xi broke down even more: "Isn't that even worse? You can't sleep secretly in class."

"No, no, no, what I mean is, maybe your husband is a good-tempered and easy-to-discuss man. He will not be too harsh on you by sending some gifts and acting like a baby."

Li Xi wasn't sure, "Is it useful to act like a baby?"

Xiao Zirui smiled without saying a word.

Other masters may be useless, but this one is probably useful.