A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 246 Big Brother Su Dingfang
The second day of the new year.

When Huaiyu woke up early in the morning, Runniang had already prepared a gift for him to visit the old man's house for New Year's greetings.

"The eldest lady said no, let Alang take Wu Niang and the others."

Huaiyu is now used to Fan Xuanfu turning into a house girl, "It's snowing and cold today, she should rest at home."

"Would you like to go for a walk together?"

Run Niang blushed, and whispered, "Slave, I have one too."

"Ok?"

"I've been feeling sick for the past few days, so I went to Qianjintang to ask the doctor to take my pulse, and I got it."

This is the fourth pregnancy in Huaiyuyuan, first Fan Xuanfu, then Gao Hui'an, then Irina, and now Runniang, who was the first to conceive with her.

"Then you should take a good rest," Huaiyu stretched out his hand to feel his pulse, and sure enough, "If you just ask me to take a look for you, then you will know, and go to the Qianjin Hall."

"I'm afraid that I will disappoint Erlang if I don't get pregnant."

"Let's go, I'll prescribe some anti-fetal medicine for you. Be especially careful when you're just pregnant."

Run Niang was very happy to be cared for by Huaiyu. She followed Huaiyu at first, but she watched the big lady's belly grow day by day, but she didn't move at all. In fact, she was very panicked and even blamed herself secretly.

Now I'm finally pregnant.

"In the future, you don't have to worry about the family affairs. I will arrange two more experienced servants to take care of you with you. You will leave all the accounting affairs to the monks and maidservants. You don't have to worry about anything when you have a baby."

"Erlang, I want a daughter."

"It's good to have children,"

Wu Liushi heard that Runniang was also pregnant, and immediately took off a big gold bracelet from her hand and put it on her hand, "Okay, okay, I finally got it, take good care of it, and give Erlang a big fat boy." .”

Going out to Fan's house, the three sisters, monk Fan and his maidservants, couldn't help being a little jealous.

One after another in the backyard, the three sisters did not move.

"Is it because we practice martial arts and play ball?" the monk and maid sighed.

King Kong also thought it was possible, "I won't be able to practice martial arts anymore in the future,"

Seeing their anxious appearance, Huaiyu had no choice but to comfort them all the way, saying that they were still young and it would be better to conceive and have children later.

Yingguo government office.

Fan Xing had been waiting for his daughter and son-in-law to come to pay New Year's greetings, but he was disappointed to see that only Huaiyu came with his third niece, but his daughter still didn't come.

"Are you all right, ma'am?"

"I've gained twenty catties of weight." Huaiyu replied truthfully, in the past Fan Xianji, who used to have a vest line on her inverted triangle back, now has a double chin and her thighs are thicker.

"The adults and fetuses are fine. Now they always say that they can't sleep well at night, and they often catch up on sleep during the day. They were supposed to come today. I saw that the snow was heavy and the road was slippery today, so I asked her to rest at home."

Fan Xing nodded, "The body is important, the body is important."

It could be seen that Fan Xing felt a little disappointed, so Huaiyu accompanied Lao Fan to drink.

Originally, we wanted to drink some wine, but Lao Fan asked Huaiyu to send Wuhou to burn it.

The wine was very strong, but the old man wanted to drink it, so Huaiyu could only sacrifice his life to accompany the gentleman, drinking one cup after another.

After one pot is finished, another pot is poured.

Wu Huaiyu was barely able to drink too much, but he was also vomited up straight away. Fan Xing also vomited violently, but this Fan Manzi was also ruthless.

Drank and vomited, vomited and drank.

Wu Huaiyu sat on the ground in the end, and woke up after being drunk at Fan's house.

Fan Xing was so drunk that he vomited up and down, drank his sorrows with alcohol and fell asleep, Huaiyu greeted his brothers-in-law and went back.

Coming back from Huaiyuanfang in the west of the city, Huaiyu turned directly into Pingkangfang next to Yongxingfang.

The adoptive father Qin Qiong was still in the countryside of Bailuyuan, so he first went to his teacher Li Jing's house to pay New Year's greetings.

Fortunately, the carriage was big enough and everything was complete, so I took off the clothes that smelled of alcohol and put on new clothes that smelled of incense.

The Yongkang mansion is very lively, and all the members of the Li family in Chang'an come to the patriarch's house to pay New Year's greetings.

Say hello to Li Jing and his wife in the New Year, and send New Year red envelopes to the juniors.

"There will be a guest in a while, you see."

"it is good."

In the study, Li Jing and Huaiyu engaged in war games again, this time the game was about destroying Liang Shidu.

"Aren't you curious who the guest introduced to you by the teacher is?"

"The teacher specially introduced him, so he must be an important guest."

"The son of an old man in Hebei, my father and I were considered old friends back then."

Huaiyu didn't think much about it, for a person of Li Jing's status, he must have relatives and friends all over the court, and he is about to go to Yanzhou to take up the post of governor, so it's normal for Li Jing to recommend someone to go with him.

There is no reason to refuse this little thing.

It's just that when this guest came, I was really surprised to hear his name Wu Huaiyu, I didn't expect it to be this person at all.

"Jizhou Su Lie!"

Huaiyu was very familiar with this name, and it was like thunder.

He looked at the man from Hebei opposite him in surprise. He was about 30 years old, with a burly body, a square face and a big mouth. He looked like a typical general, and the general had a big belly.

He is tall and big, with long feet, thick hands and a big belly.

The speaking voice is also very loud.

"Su Dingfang, Wuyi? I heard the name early on, and it was like thunder. In the Sui Dynasty, at the age of 15, he led thousands of township soldiers with his father to fight in all directions, defending the border and suppressing bandits. He was brave and courageous. Behead the thieves Zhang Jincheng and Yang Gongqing, and protect the peace of the side, which will be admired for a long time!"

Su Lie just waved his hand, "Don't mention the courage of the hero, it's all gone, and now I'm no longer a boy, I'm old."

Su Lie was 15 years old when he first went to the battlefield with his father to suppress bandits, but now he is 35 years old, that is already 20 years ago.

Wu Huaiyu was surprised that Li Jing met Su Lie.

We must know that Su Lie was not only a powerful man who followed his father to lead the township soldiers to suppress the bandits and Anmin at the end of the Sui Dynasty. After his father died, he continued to lead the county soldiers, but later he voted for Dou Jiande and became the vanguard general of the Xia Kingdom.After Dou Jiande was defeated in Hulao, he also returned home to live in seclusion.

But Liu Heita raised troops twice, and Su Lie responded in armor. It was not until Liu Heita's death that Su Lie disarmed and returned home again.

It has been four years since Wude returned to his hometown and lived in seclusion for six years.

As a well-known hero under the command of Dou Jiande and Liu Heitai, Su Lie should be on the key monitoring list of the Datang local government.

Why did he come to Chang'an and Li Jing's house?
Li Jing asked them to sit down.

"Actually, it's your senior brother who decides the recipe, Erlang."

It turned out that Su Lie's family was originally from Wuyi, Jizhou, Hebei, but their family moved to Xianyang, Guanzhong in the early years.Su Dingfang's father, Su Yong, had a good relationship with Li Jing in his early years, so Su Lie grew up in Guanzhong when he was very young, and he often visited Li Jing's house with his father at that time.

Playing little Su Lie showed a lot of talent in martial arts, and even the art of war was much better than ordinary children. Although Li Jing's official career was not smooth in his early years, Li Jing was the son of a general after all, and his father and uncle were both famous generals.

When Su Lie was young, he worshiped Li Jing as his teacher and learned the art of war.

Later in the Sui Dynasty, Su Yong took his family back to his ancestral home. In the last years of the great cause, Hebei was full of thieves. Su Yong organized thousands of township soldiers to fight against thieves and bandits for the prefectures and counties. At that time, many local tyrants did this, such as Dong'e. Cheng Yaojin, Zhang Shigui from Shanzhou, etc.

The young Su Dingfang followed his father to lead thousands of soldiers in the village. He fought for many years and gained a great reputation. He was known as the enemy of ten thousand people.

Under Dou Jiande's command, Su Dingfang also made many contributions, and was favored by Dou Jiande's general Gao Yaxian as his adopted son.

"You are going to Yanzhou to attack Liang. I sent a letter to summon Dingfang. Huaiyu, you have strategy, Dingfang has courage, and is good at commanding cavalry. He can help you when he goes to Yanzhou." Li Jing said.

Su Dingfang was quite frank.

He said that he originally thought about farming in the countryside and not coming back, but he offended the Cui family of Qinghe in the local area, and now he can't stay anymore because of the Cui family and the local government, so he had to come to Beijing.

"I was really ashamed to come to see the teacher. I have not achieved anything in the past 41 years, and I can't even farm at home." Su Dingfang laughed at himself.

Huaiyu can also understand to a certain extent that the imperial court will not trust a person like Su Dingfang. Who made him have a criminal record? Black door rebellion.

If it weren't for Liu Heita's first rebellion, which almost swept across the Kanto region, the court would have been unable to tolerate these people long ago.However, Liu Heitai's rebellion was so powerful back then, in fact, it was also because Li Yuan executed Dou Jiande directly after defeating him, and then carried out a harsh liquidation of those Dou's old ministries who voluntarily surrendered.

Datang was very serious about liquidating Hebei, and the hearts of the people who did it were lost, so Hebei was lost. Liu Heita, a person who was not considered a high-ranking person in the Dou Department, insisted on making Datang so bad that even Luo Shixin fell to Hebei. .

The Xue Wanche brothers were all captured alive before they beat them, and their hair was shaved.

Later, Li Shimin personally took action and finally wiped out Liu Heikai by flooding. Li Tang also learned his lesson and changed the liquidation into appeasement. He also lenient people like Su Dingfang.

But after all, it is impossible to rest assured.

Unless you come out to accept the official position of Datang and become one of your own, you will always be considered as having a different heart when you go back to the village.

Naturally, local officials would not be polite to them, and Qinghe, Cui, Fanyanglu and other local elites would not be polite to such a powerful Su Lie, they were not the same kind of people in the first place.

No matter what the reason is, if there is a grudge, people will naturally not let it go easily.

Su Lie couldn't stay in his hometown, so he had no choice but to come to Jingtou Li Jing to seek asylum.

"Tomorrow I will recommend Brother Su to the saint," Huai Yu did not hesitate. Although Su Lie is in his 30s now, he and Li Jing belong to the same type of people, late bloomers.

Although he became famous at a young age, what is really remarkable in Su Lie's history is that after he was 60 years old,

The three kingdoms were destroyed before and after, and their masters were all captured alive.

What an awesome existence this is, not only destroying the country, but also capturing the king.

Conquering Western Turks, Barbarians, and Goguryeo,
He also became famous in the Sui Dynasty, but in the end he made great achievements in the Tang Gaozong era.

Not only is he capable, but he can also survive. All the generals who survived the founding of the country were gone, and he came out alone to show off his power.

Although the current Su Lie has been farming in the countryside for four years, this guy probably came out of the mountain at this time in history. Later, he and Li Jing raided Jieli Khan Court, and Su Lie was the pioneer.

Of course, Wu Huaiyu was willing to recommend such a fierce person to the emperor, and he was even more willing to bring him to Yanzhou as a helper.

Although Wu Huaiyu has fought several battles, he can only be regarded as a novice, while Su Dingfang is only in his thirties, but he has nearly 20 years of fighting experience.

Li Jingdao, "The imperial court has called Ding Fang several times before, but he has been unwilling to answer the call. His Majesty is also very clear about his abilities. Back then, Ding Fang had played against His Majesty several times, which left a deep impression on His Majesty. .”

The implication is that if Su Dingfang is willing to serve Tang, Li Shimin will be very happy.

With the recommendations of Li Jing and Wu Huaiyu, it wouldn't be a big problem for Su Dingfang to go to Yanzhou.

60-year-old Li Jing, 34-year-old Su Lie, and [-]-year-old Huaiyu, the three masters and apprentices picked up the map of Shuofang and began to deduce it again.

(End of this chapter)