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Su Niang asked suspiciously: "What trouble will it cause?" She suddenly thought of something, and asked in a low voice: "Erlang, who are those two people who came back with you today? They all have knives on their bodies, they are really scary."

After all, Su Niang is the elder sister-in-law, but Chu Huan is not good at keeping everything from her, and Su Niang will know some things sooner or later, so she pondered for a while before saying: "Those two are members of the Imperial Guard...!" Worried that Su Niang would not understand what the imperial guards were, she simply said: "They are all soldiers, members of the government, and they will all be dispatched by me in the future!"

Su Niang didn't recover for a while, and asked: "Why do you have to listen to your orders?"

Chu Huan scratched his head and said with a smile: "Well... I am also a member of the government now, a general of the Imperial Guard!"

"General Wei?" Su Niang asked suspiciously, "Is this official very big?"

Chu Huan said: "It's not too big, but...just considering the official position, it doesn't seem too small, it can control some people!"

"Compared to the county magistrate, who is older and who is smaller?" Su Niang asked hurriedly. In her heart, the county magistrate is a great official, so she wanted to use the county magistrate's position to measure how powerful Chu Huan was.

Seeing the eager expression on Su Niang's pretty face, Chu Huan felt a little amused. After thinking for a while, he said, "The county magistrate is a civil official, and I am a military commander. If we really compare...it should not be smaller than the county magistrate."

Su Niang suddenly covered her mouth, her face was full of surprise, and then her face was full of suspicion, she asked in doubt: "Erlang, is what you said true? I heard people say before that to be a high official, you have to study and take a test. You...you haven't studied, let alone passed the exam, and you're not even a scholar, how could you become an official?" I just felt that Chu Huan was teasing her.

Chu Huan patiently explained: "There are two ways to become an official. One way is like what you said, relying on examinations to gain fame, literary champions and military champions. This is the way, and there is another way, which is recommendation. .”

"Recommendation?" Su Niang blinked her eyes, still a little confused.

Chu Huan said: "It's like a person who is very capable but didn't take the exam, but was promoted by a high-sighted official who saw him. This is a recommendation."

Su Niang understood now, she frowned and said: "Does it mean that you are very capable and you were favored by the high officials, so they promoted you?"

Chu Huan smiled and said, "You can also say that."

Su Niang wondered: "Erlang, are you really that capable? The Su family promoted you, and even made you an official...!" At this moment, she couldn't believe it.

Chu Huan knew that Su Niang was puzzled, so he didn't say much, just smiled, Su Niang said again: "I heard people say that if you become an official, you are the master... Are you the master now?"

"Don't listen to that." Chu Huan said with a smile: "No matter how big the official is, he is also Miss Su Niang's Erlang!" Suddenly, he felt that these words were a bit weird, but seeing Su Niang's pretty face also blushed.

Su Niang felt a little uneasy now.

In the past, she only thought of Chu Huan as her brother-in-law, so she didn't have any special feelings, but now she felt that what Chu Huan said seemed to be true, and she also saw two soldiers with swords sending Chu Huan back, and she felt more and more What Chu Huan said was true, and he felt a little nervous immediately.

She was born in a poor family, and ordinary people have a sense of fear towards officials. Now Chu Huan has become an official, and she seems to be older than the county magistrate. This makes Su Niang suddenly cautious, and her heart is both happy and uneasy. , thinking to himself: "Erlang can also become a high official? This is a matter of Guangzong Yaozu. It's just...it's just that Erlang has become a master. From now on... I must be more careful in what I say and do in the future, so as not to make him angry...!"

She was thinking about her own thoughts. Chu Huan saw that she was silent and had a strange expression on her face. She called out, but Su Niang didn't agree, so she called out again. Su Niang came back to her senses and said in a panic: "Master, What... what is it?"

In her heart, she thought that Chu Huan had become the master, but she couldn't help but call out the master in her mouth.

Chu Huan couldn't laugh or cry, he could only shake his head and said, "It's okay, what's wrong with you?"

"No...nothing." Su Niang hurriedly said: "I...I'm going to clean up the room...!" Like a kitten, she trotted away, wearing a brocade jacket, but her small steps were fast, twisting her buttocks, In a blink of an eye, there was no trace.

Chu Huan shook his head and smiled. Although Su Niang has a strong temper, she is from a small family after all, and she has seen too little in the world. When encountering real big events or big people, she is a little panicked.

When they arrived at the mother's room, they saw that Chu and Li were pulling Ru Lian to talk. Ru Lian's face was flushed with suffocation, and she lowered her head, not daring to say more.

Chu Huan knows that although life is much better now than before, for Chu Li, this prefecture is a strange place, and he is not familiar with the place of life. It is not like before in Liujia Village where he can talk to the villagers. Stuck in the room, except for Su Niang or Su Niang, there is no one to talk to. Now that there is an extra little girl living in, it is equivalent to one more speaker. Delicate and lovable, naturally made Chu Li full of joy.

"This child is afraid of life and dare not speak." Seeing Chu Huan coming in, Mrs. Chu Li smiled and said, "We will live together in the future, so don't be afraid."

Ru Lian breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Chu Huan coming in. Chu Huan had already sat down on the chair next to her, and said with a smile, "Ru Lian, Brother Chu has something to discuss with you!"

Ru Lian hurriedly said, "Brother Chu, tell me!"

"It's not a big deal." Chu Huan said: "I discussed it with your sister Su Niang just now, and when someone asks about it later, they will say that you are my mother's maid...!"

Ru Lian immediately said: "Brother Chu, I will take good care of...the old mother, I used to serve the teacher...!" She seemed to feel that this was wrong, and she blushed: "I have served people before, washing clothes and cleaning the house I know how to cook, some don’t know how, I... I can learn slowly!” She said with great sincerity, Chu Huan helped her many times, her gratitude to Chu Huan was beyond words, and she only hoped to have the opportunity to repay, Mo It is said that being a maid is the hardest and most tiring thing, and she is willing to do it.

But Chu Li scolded: "Erlang, how can you let a girl be a maid? We are not a big family, and my mother doesn't need to be served...!"

Chu Huan hurriedly waved his hands and said, "Mother, Rulian, don't get me wrong." Xiang Rulian said, "Rulian, brother Chu didn't ask you to be a real maid, but it's just that it will be troublesome to explain some things to outsiders in the future. Generally speaking, it will be much simpler. There are only four of us in the family, and Brother Chu will treat you as my own sister in the future, and my mother is also your mother, do you understand what I mean?"

Ru Lian nodded, and whispered: "Ru Lian understands, brother Chu, thank... thank you!"

Chu Lishi also laughed, and said: "That's it." Holding Rulian's hand, she said softly: "Girl, I will be your mother from now on, let's live together."

Chu Huan got up and said, "Mom, if you want to talk, why don't you keep talking, I'll have plenty of time later, I'll take Rulian to look at the room first, Sister Su Niang is helping her clean up!"

"I will clean up by myself." Rulian got up hastily.

Chu Huan smiled gently, led Chu Huan out of the room, then lowered his voice, and told Ru Lian the life experience he had just made up, Ru Lian looked embarrassed, and said timidly: "Brother Chu, this...isn't this a lie? Is it? Amitabha, disciples of Buddhism refrain from lying...!"

Chu Huan said solemnly: "Ru Lian, you have temporarily returned to vulgarity, and you are not a disciple of the Buddhist family, do you know?"

Ru Lian was startled, then nodded slightly, looking a little sad.

Chu Huan sighed, and said softly, "Brother Chu did this as a last resort, and it's all for your own good...!"

Ru Lian looked at Chu Huan with watery eyes, nodded solemnly and said: "Brother Chu, Ru Lian understands that you are doing it for Ru Lian's own good, and I will always say this when people ask me about it, so that no one will know that I am a disciple of Buddhism." .The master asked me to listen to you, and I will be obedient."

Seeing that she was so pitiful, Chu Huan felt pity for her, and said softly, "That's good. Don't worry, the Lingjia master asked me to take care of you, so I will take good care of you and won't let you be wronged." Suddenly thought of something , asked: "By the way, the ashes of Master Lingjia is on your body?"

"Here!" Rulian held her chest, "In my arms."

Chu Huan said softly: "I'll go and find out later, and find a time to put the urn into the pagoda, do you think it's okay?"

Ru Lian hesitated for a moment, then said softly: "Brother Chu, I heard them say in the nunnery that if a person dies, chanting sutras to the ashes for 81 days can help the dead soul survive 81 catastrophes...so... !” She lowered her head, not daring to continue.

Chu Huan said softly: "Do you want to chant sutras to Master Lingjia's ashes?"

Rulian raised her head, blinked her eyes, full of spirit: "Brother Chu, can I?"

"Of course." Chu Huan knew that this was her wish, and it seemed absurd to outsiders, but in Rulian's view, she was helping the Lingjia master to cross the catastrophe, and said happily: "You have your own room, but Go back and enshrine it well, and if they ask, you can say that it is your mother's ashes... Do you understand what I mean?"

Ru Lian thought that Chu Huan would not agree. After all, it is always unlucky to keep ashes at home. Seeing Chu Huan agreeing, she was both happy and grateful, and nodded repeatedly: "I know, Brother Chu, don't worry, I No nonsense."

At this time, Su Niang had already twisted Xiaoman's waist and came over, seeing Rulian, she felt sympathy spontaneously, and said with a smile: "Sister Rulian, come and take a look, I'll clean it up for you, it's a bit shabby, what's missing You tell me, and I will buy it for you later."

Rulian hurriedly said: "Thank you...thank you, Sister Su!"

Su Niang smiled and said: "We will be a family from now on, don't be so polite." She came over and held Rulian's hand, and went to see the room.

At dinner in the evening, Su Niang cooked a few good dishes to show her welcome to the new members, Ru Lian is a monk but doesn't eat meat, Su Niang was a little surprised and thought to herself: "Could it be that the dishes I cook are not delicious? "

Chu Huan could tell Su Niang's thoughts at a glance, and said with a smile, "Sister Su Niang, Ru Lian naturally doesn't eat meat, and only eats vegetarian dishes."

Su Niang said "Oh", she was very surprised, she felt that there are so many things in this world, this fish is much more delicious than green vegetables, how could anyone not like fish.

When eating, Rulian was very shy and ate small mouthfuls. Su Niang occasionally looked at her food, but found that Rulian always cooks very elegantly, and even though the girl is young, she looks very delicate and handsome. Suddenly, she thought of something, I thought to myself: "Lu Daochang said that Erlang had a peach blossom calamity, could it be that it should be on Rulian?" Then he thought: "She is so young, she is six or seven years younger than Erlang, so she shouldn't be?" Then she thought: "But I I heard people say that there are many men and women with a huge age difference who can get married?" She was thinking wildly in her mind, and others naturally didn't know what she was thinking.

Suddenly, he remembered that Chu Huan had become an official, so he couldn't help but sneak a glance at Chu Huan from time to time when he was eating, and saw that Chu Huan's face was sharp and angular, and the more he looked at it, the better he looked, and he thought to himself: "Is this the master? But it’s the same as Erlang before, no different? Well, they often say that you have to salute when you see the master, or else it’s disrespectful, so do I have to salute to Erlang in the future? But I’m Erlang’s eldest sister-in-law, the master’s Sister-in-law, then... do you still need to salute?" I was conflicted in my heart, and I made up my mind that when I went to the market to buy vegetables, I had to find someone to talk about the situation, and I had to know what to do.

She couldn't help but glanced at Chu Huan again, but seeing that Chu Huan wanted to look over by herself, she was startled, lowered her head, buried her head in eating, and felt a faint fever in her ears.

Chu Huan was full of doubts. Su Niang's reactions were always a little weird these days, making people puzzled.