A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 349 Wives and Concubines
Yongxingfang.

The street drums thump, and the gate of the square closes a little after a while.

Fortunately, Yongxingfang is close to the East Palace, otherwise Huaiyu would not be able to go home today.

Seeing that it was getting late, Huaiyu planned to visit Qin Qiong's mansion in the same workshop tomorrow.

At the gate of Duke Yi's mansion.

There were many carriages parked, Qiu Yingqi, the founding son of Linji County who had a conflict outside the city today, was waiting at the gate, when he saw Wu Huaiyu coming back, he immediately came forward with another person.

"Qiu Yingqi pays homage to Duke Yi."

Huaiyu didn't expect them to come so quickly, "Hi, General Qiu."

"This is my uncle, Yuanling county magistrate, Wailang, a member of the Ministry of Industry."

That person looked about the same age as Qiu Yingqi, about thirty, and he bowed his hands with a smile on his face, "Wailang Qiu, a member of the Ministry of Industry, pays his respects to Duke Yi."

"Hello Qiu Yuanwailang, I'm sorry, after the interview, the crown prince summoned me, so I will return now,"

"It's okay."

"You see, it's not too late, the door of the square is about to close, why don't you two please go back first, and talk about things tomorrow?"

As a result, Qiu Xingbi was not in a hurry, "We also have a courtyard in Yongxingfang, and we will live in the workshop later."

Faced with such guests, Huaiyu had no choice but to invite them into the mansion.

As soon as he entered the door, Qiu Xingzhan first sent a gift list, although the preparation was hasty, but the gift was quite sufficient, all kinds of silk and even gold and silver decorations were common.

What is more special is that there are many ivory, sugar and spices on this list.

Inquiring carefully, it turns out that Qiu He was the prefect in Jiaozhi, and it was not for nothing that he served for so many years. Although he could not even beat Xiao Mian at the end of the Sui Dynasty, he was forced to attach himself to Xiao Mian, but he was only attached to the table, and he was still attached to him. It is the actual separatist regime in Annan.

At the beginning, Xiao Xian sent Ning Changzhen, who ruled Qinzhou Bay, to attack Qiuhe, but Qiuhe sent Gao Shilian to lead his army to defeat him.

It wasn't until the fourth year of Wude that Xiao Xian was destroyed by the Tang army, and Li Jing went to Lingnan. Qiu He then sent Gao Shilian to Beijing to invite him.Annan has been separatist for many years, and there are many good local products, such as spices and ivory.

Another thing is that Annan grows a lot of sugar cane. Although Datang has not yet mastered the method of white sugar in the hands of Tianzhu Asan brother at this time, the sucrose it produces is relatively famous.

Even if Qiu He entered the court, the Qiu family still has a strong influence in Annan. There are a large number of sugarcane plantations over there, and they control many sugar mills.

There are also spices and seafood from the South China Sea, and the Qiu family also occupies a lot of it.

The Qiu family has taken over a cash cow.

Pepper, sucrose and other valuable things, they give them directly by stone.

Very lavishly showed the upstart Wu Huaiyu what an old valve is.

There were also Kunlun slaves on the gift list, and fifty of them were also given away directly.

Qiu Yingqi sat in the Wu family hall, a little proud, but also a little embarrassed. After all, there was a conflict during the day, and she said harsh words, but this afternoon she had to take the initiative to come over to give gifts.

But this was the words sent by the old man of the Qiu family himself, even the gift was chosen by the old man, and he was asked to accompany Uncle Fifteen by name, if he didn't come, he couldn't do it.

The emperor sent a servant to visit the Chang'an Qiu Mansion. After Qiu He received the order, he immediately called his disciples in Beijing to discuss the matter, and then directly made a decision. No matter what grievances and grievances he had with Wu Huaiyu before, they would be canceled from then on.

In addition, I immediately gave Wu Huaiyu a gift and came to apologize.

Qiu Yingqi just stood up and objected, but was scolded by the old man.

The old man who has gone through the five dynasties, capable of writing and martial arts, and an important minister of the three dynasties, his vision is unmatched by a junior like him.

In the end, I could only follow my uncle.

As a result, I waited for two hours until it got dark before I saw anyone.

Fortunately, Wu Huaiyu didn't taunt him, but kept smiling, which made him feel a little better, otherwise he would have been unbearable if he was young and energetic.

Some excuses.

Wu Huaiyu accepted all the gifts.

He didn't refuse this marriage, he couldn't refuse.

In fact, after Zhang Anan enlightened him, he also understood that the Qiu family was probably even more aggrieved. They were going to sue Wu Huaiyu and wanted to throw him off the horse, but the emperor stopped them all at once and asked their family to marry someone. The prostitute is a concubine.

Qiu He is flexible, with such a big foundation in Annan, he was able to attach Xiao Mian first, and then voted for Li Tang. He was not greedy like Master Liang and Xiao Mian.

Know the times and take into account the overall situation, have a vision.

The emperor asked the Qiu family to marry Qiu Xinggong's second daughter to Wu Huaiyu as concubine, Qiu He not only immediately agreed, but also asked the eldest son Qiu Xingze to marry a daughter as a dowry.

Buy one get one free.

Qiu had a large family. Qiu and his own son had fifteen children and more than twenty daughters. These fifteen sons gave birth to dozens of grandsons and granddaughters. The population was prosperous.

The Qiu family always liked marriage.

The old man likes to take advantage of the situation.

Going with the trend, he has the courage to go to war with Wu Huaiyu, a young upstart, and he also has the courage to follow the trend and marry Wu Huaiyu.

"I will choose an auspicious day to visit Fang Tan Guogong on another day."

The matter was settled, Wu Huaiyu didn't keep two more people, in fact, there was nothing to say, especially with Qiu Yingqi, the two of them looked at each other and felt a little embarrassed.

During the day, he made people serve as slaves of the Qiu family, and Qiu Yingqi even cut off the heads of the two slaves, but now they want to become relatives, and even Qiu Yingqi's sister wants to be Huaiyu's concubine, turning her head into a brother-in-law up.

"The Qiu family will sweep the couch and come here."

Huaiyu didn't keep them here, even though the Wu family had a guest room in the guest house, they were delivered directly to the door, but the uncle and nephew of the Qiu family left many gifts and left.

Dad didn't come out until they were gone.

"What did they say to give gifts, and they also said that the two families got married. I didn't know the inside story, so I didn't see them." Samurai Ke was puzzled.

Huaiyu smiled, "This is the saint's will, and it's not their original intention, but Lao Qiu's family is really powerful, they can pick it up and put it down. Fortunately, the saint's mediation this time, or they really got into a difficult opponent."

Dad heard about the situation, the emperor asked Qiu Xinggong to marry a daughter, but Qiu He wanted the eldest son to marry a daughter, and he gave so many gifts, one stone of pepper, two stones of cane sugar, fifty Kunlun slaves, and then what ivory gold Coral and many more.

"This Qiu family is really grand."

Wu Shike thinks this is a good thing. Anyway, taking a concubine is not a loss for the Wu family.

Huaiyu didn't explain anything to her father.

After going to her own courtyard, Fan Xuanfu was waiting for him, and she explained again, but she was also enlightened, "The saint is still biased towards you, this is forcibly holding down the Qiu family, preventing them from causing trouble, and nothing can be hidden Supreme,"

"Since the Qiu family gives gifts to others, it's okay to accept them. It's just adding a concubine and a concubine. The Qiu family is still being stingy. This kind of family should come with one concubine and four concubines no matter what." She teased.

"Where's Yuanbao?"

"I fell asleep after drinking enough. This guy has been out for a hundred days, and he still ate and slept."

"It's good if you can eat and sleep, don't make noise, and grow strong."

"That's true." Fan Xuanfu had a motherly smile all over his face, "Run Niang's child has been making a fuss, and it hasn't stopped during confinement."

The two sat in front of the stove chatting and made a pot of tea, which was a rare feeling.

Now she is full of sons, and she has no such things as Jianghu. It can be seen that she has changed a lot.Holding her hand and chatting with Duo about the child, she felt very happy and content. She was pregnant in October and was a first-time mother. Fortunately, everything went well, the child was healthy, and there were many people in the family to help take care of her.

"Let's have another one, this time I want to have a daughter."

late at night.

Fan Xuanfu looked at Huaiyu's eyes, with tenderness flowing out of his eyes.

"Look at the cute daughters they gave birth to, especially Irina's. Those big eyes are as beautiful as jewels, twinkling, that hair, that little nose, so pretty, I want to have one too."

"She is of mixed Han and Hu blood, so she is naturally pretty."

"Am I not pretty?"

"It looks good, and the lady is also very good-looking, the number one beauty in the capital."

"Hmph," Fan Xuanfu pinched him, "I also have to give birth to a lovely daughter,"

"Birth, tonight."

"The concubine helped Ah Lang to take a bath."

The water in the silver pot boiled, bubbling and bubbling, but the two put down the teacups in their hands and led them to the soup room in the backyard to take a bath.

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dawn.

Wu Huaiyu opened his eyes and found that Fan Xuanfu had long since disappeared.

The outside heard the movement inside, and the maid came in to serve.

Served tea and poured water, and scalded the towels with hot water.

Wash and change clothes.

When you come to the hall, all the rooms come to say hello.

One wife, four wives and six concubines, three sons and two daughters.

Not counting the two sisters of the Qiu family.

Wu Huaiyu's family is prosperous now, with many wives and concubines, and many children.

Duan Wan, Cao Shisanniang, and Fan Wuniang and Fan Shiniang, four concubines who came back from Xiazhou, are also pregnant now, and they will add four more soon.

"Let's have breakfast together."

Huaiyu invites the wives, concubines and others to have breakfast together. When he is not at home, each room usually eats by itself.

Today is also a rare lively.

Yellow noodle buns, jujube cakes, steamed cakes, mutton soup, dumplings, breakfast is very rich.

Wu Huaiyu's appetite was particularly good today, probably because he had been on the road for many days, and he had to work overtime last night.

He ate several cakes in one go and drank two bowls of mutton soup.

After he was full, Huaiyu realized that the women in the family were all staring at him while eating breakfast, which made him feel like a sheep among wolves.

One wife, four concubines and six concubines, not counting the maidservants brought by each of them, among the eleven women, five gave birth and four conceived.
Now there are only Gao Yanzhi and Tang Liuniang who have no children, and they look at Huaiyu with a particularly 'hungry' gaze.
As for Mrs. Han and the others, they stood aside to serve, and now they don’t even have a concubine status, and they only belong to maidservants, while Jian Yi and Fan Xuanfu are close servants, and they can take over the room for themselves when it’s inconvenient. Yes, although the monthly salary is higher than that of ordinary maids, Huaiyu has no energy to take care of them.

"I'll go to Aye Niang to pay her respects." Huaiyu felt deeply in danger.

"We will also go to pay our respects." Fan Xuanfu said.

Take them to the North Courtyard to say hello, Wu Shike and Liu Shi saw that Huaiyu now has a large number of wives and concubines, and they all laughed from ear to ear. They heard that all four of them were pregnant when they came back from Xiazhou, so they asked them to fetch them immediately Jewelry to reward them.

Regarding the entry of two more generals from the Qiu family, Liu's attitude is the same as that of Samurai Ke, and it is a good thing to add a child.

Lao Wu's face was full of red. He was not idle last year. The two prostitutes sent to him by Yang Shidao before got pregnant and brought them back. Now they have both given birth to sons. Lao Wu has made contributions to the Wu family again, and Wu Huaiyu has more Four younger brothers and five younger brothers.

On the contrary, the woman he redeemed from the Pingkangfang brothel was already very simple and unpretentious by the Liu family. She gave birth to a daughter for the old Wu, and she lost her capital in the Wu family.

On the other hand, Mrs. Wang, who hadn't given birth for six or seven years, is now pregnant again.

Eldest brother Huaiyi has not yet returned to Beijing, his wife and concubine who stayed in Beijing, his sister-in-law gave birth to a daughter, Pearl, and several concubines gave birth to his second daughter.

"After returning to Beijing, I went around everywhere." Lao Wu confessed.

"Well, I will go to my adoptive father's house first, then my husband's house, and visit each house."

There are too many people to visit, Qin Qiong, Fan Xing, Li Jingcheng, and the golden warrior, the warrior, probably will have to give gifts for the next few days.

(End of this chapter)