A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 360
Many concubines and maidservants were confiscated from Wang Junkuo's family, and the emperor only wanted to leave a pipa girl.

Wu Huaiyu smiled and asked Ma Zhou to pick some to take home, but Ma Zhou refused, but the eldest sister smiled and said she would pick a few.

"Don't keep refusing. If you refuse to accept a concubine, others will say that I'm jealous. I'm not Mrs. Lu."

The Mrs. Lu that Yu'e mentioned was Fang Xuanling's wife, Lu Shi, the ruthless person who refused to remarry when she was young and stabbed herself out of one eye.

Not long after she was newly married, her husband was critically ill, and he refused to agree to remarry and blinded her. So these years, she has not allowed Fang Xuanling to take concubines, and she has been extremely strict with the maids in the mansion, never letting Fang Xuanling bump.

It's a bit like Dugu Jialuo, the empress of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty.

Back then Yang Jian married the daughter of Dugu Xin, the great general of the Zhu Kingdom, and vowed to be monogamous for a lifetime, but when he became the emperor, it was impossible to keep only one woman, especially when Dugu Queen was getting older. back.

Yang Jian once favored Yuchi's family secretly because of his beauty, but when he went to court, Dugu Jialuo killed Yuchi's family with his back foot. When Yang Jian came back, he saw only a bloody corpse, and he got on his horse and ran out in one breath. For dozens of miles, Yang Su and other ministers chased him wildly.

Yang Jian was in pain, he didn't dare to find the queen after Yuchi's family was killed, so he could only run dozens of miles at a stretch and weep silently in the wilderness.

Lu Shi is no worse than Dugu Jialuo in this regard.

Dugu Jialuo is capable and comes from a high family background. Her father, Dugu Xin, is one of the Eight Pillars, and her mother is Qinghe Cui. Yang Jian was able to become emperor thanks to the support of Dugu's family, just like Yang Jian's prime minister, Gao Ying, who used to be A retainer of the Dugu family.

Lu's family background is also very famous, Fan Yang Lu's family.

Fang Xuanling was actually still young, so of course he thought about taking a concubine, but the conditions did not allow it.Emperor Li Shimin was well aware of the suffering of the old man, so he specially rewarded Fang Xuanling with a beauty.

In order to relieve his worries, he specially sent an envoy to Fang's house to tell Lu Shi that this was a reward from the emperor to Fang Xuanling, and Lu Shi must accept it. If she did not accept it, he would give him a glass of poisoned wine.

As a result, Mrs. Lu was very rigid, and drank the pot of poisoned wine without saying a word.

But not dead.

It is impossible for the emperor to give a jug of poisoned wine because of this matter. What is actually contained in the jug is a jug of vinegar.

Lu Shi drank a pot of vinegar, but refused to let her husband accept this beauty.

So Li Shimin couldn't help it, he didn't expect Lu Shi to really drink it.

Fang Xuanling couldn't help it, at first he thought that the emperor would make a move, but now he was lucky, but he didn't expect that Xiao Huomiao was pinched directly.

Lu Shi was jealous, so it became a popular meme in Chang'an. Of course, some people said that Lu Shi was powerful, while others thought Lu Shi was too powerful and said he was jealous.

Ma Zhou didn't take concubines, and some people thought it was because Ma Zhou came from a humble background and relied on the support of Xu Xian's wife, the Wu family, to get to the top position.

Wu Yu'e now has the possibility of becoming Lu's second.

Yu'e was actually aggrieved. After all, her natal brothers are now in high status and there are many rumors. She doesn't want others to talk about Ma Zhou like this, and she doesn't want to be misunderstood like this.

Seeing what his wife said, Ma Zhou couldn't refuse immediately, otherwise his wife's reputation would be damaged.

"Then I want one."

"One is not enough, just pick a few more."

Ma Zhou asked the eldest sister to choose, but he didn't care.

The eldest sister was very satisfied with this answer, and she had to choose an honest and reliable concubine for her husband, otherwise the house would be difficult.

In the end, the eldest sister chose four, all of whom were fifteen or sixteen years old. They were young and honest, and of course they were also very beautiful.

It can be seen that Ma Zhou is actually quite satisfied.

Huaiyu returned to Yongxingfang.

Lao Wu actually went to Huaiyu, chatted for a long time, and finally said that he also wanted a few.

"Aye, you are not young, you should pay attention to your body."

I think when he brought Runniang back to Longqiao, he woke up late in the morning, and Lao Wu specially reminded him to be temperate in the morning, but now Lao Wu feels that the second spring is coming, and he goes to work at Qujiang Shenjifang every day, and he still has energy when he comes back One concubine after another.

At the beginning, for a girl in Pingkangfang Building, she had to spend five hundred pennies to redeem her, but after she was redeemed, because the Wu Liu family controlled her strictly, Lao Wu had no chance to be with her. After a while, Lao Wu She actually liked the new and disliked the old, and started taking concubines again.

Wu Liushi is also used to it now. If Lao Wu wants to take a concubine, he will do so, but he has to bring him back, and she has to take care of it. At home, Wu Liushi has to arrange where Lao Wu lives at night and who is with him.

And he is absolutely not allowed to buy other housewives outside, let alone run to the brothel again.

In Wu Liu's words, now the Wu family doesn't lack that stutter, so many people just add a pair of chopsticks, give birth to a baby, and spread the branches and leaves for the Wu family, adding an extra helper to Huaiyu and his brothers.

Mrs. Wu Liu of Yi Guotai is so open-minded now.

Lao Wu laughed twice, feeling a little guilty.

His current life is quite comfortable, but also a little empty. The job of Shenjifang is actually very easy. As the chief officer, he doesn't need to worry about anything. He also has a detached position in Shenjifang.

Going to work every day is actually going through the motions. People just can’t sit still. Wu Laizi used to be in Sanyuan, and he had to farm at home when he was not on duty. There is also a ministry where people are always surrounded by compliments every day, and my mentality is also prone to change. I often go to drink some flowers and wine with my colleagues and socialize. People feel much younger and their legs don’t feel lame.

In particular, many women will take the initiative to rush forward, and many people will find ways to send women to Lao Wu.

Lao Wu was born in a humble family and had lived a hard life for most of his life. Suddenly, he really fell into it, and even enjoyed it very much.

"Okay, send two to Aye later."

Wu Huaiyu thought about it, and felt that the old man's current situation was not too outrageous. In fact, among the rich and nobles, Lao Wu was only in his early sixties, and his background as a soldier was considered strong. If you want to take a concubine, you can take it, and if you want to give birth, you can give birth.

At this age, do you still expect him to become a saint?

After a lifetime of hard work, it’s okay to indulge and enjoy when you’re old.

Li Yuan, the supreme emperor, was trapped in the harem after being seized by the palace change, and one after another, Nami gave birth to children.

More babies were born in just over a year than in his previous 60 years.

That's all that's left of the fun of having a baby, so I can't take that away too.

Contrast that with Samurai Leng, who is over 70 years old, and now he has to take several concubines and have several children a year, which is more than his dozens of sons.

Old and strong.

night.

In Wu Huai's courtyard, wives and concubines eat together.

As long as he is at home, they always eat together. Although the meal system is still divided, each person has a small table, and each person's meal is separate, but eating together has a family atmosphere and can chat.

Usually when Huaiyu was not at home, the wives and concubines of each house ate in their own courtyards, and there were even small kitchens in the courtyards of each house, so if they wanted to eat something else, they could cook it by themselves.

Seeing one wife, four wives and seven concubines gathered together, Huaiyu was quite happy. The family atmosphere was good. Anyway, when he was here, there was never any jealousy and intrigue.

But it is not bad to be able to maintain the harmony on the surface.

"Are we going to move to Xuanyangfang?"

Huaiyu thought for a while, "I plan to move there after the next year,"

"What about Aye, Auntie, brother and sister-in-law?"

"I just asked Aye and Niang and they said that they are quite used to living here, and the place is quite big, so they don't want to move."

In fact, what Lao Wu and the others considered was that the eldest son Huaiyi and his wife lived with Huaiyu, and they felt that it was inconvenient. The main reason was that Huaiyi was the eldest son, but he lived in Huaiyu's Duke Yi's mansion.

Especially the sister-in-law Cheng, who was also from a famous family after all, but this year she gave birth to a daughter again, and she was even more unhappy.

She once mentioned that she wanted to live outside.

She and her elder brother Huaiyi were not short of money to buy the house.

So Huaiyu's idea now is that he will move to Xuanyangfang, and leave this place for the eldest brother and sister-in-law to live with their parents, younger brothers and sisters. Of course, this is not a separation.

With the parents of the Tang people, there is no reason for the brothers to separate, and the law does not allow it.

Of course, not being separated doesn't mean you can't live separately.

Anyway, the Wu family didn’t have any family property before, so the family property was basically managed by each of them before. The old Wu’s salary was shared, and the Lumi of the Huaiyi brothers was shared. Give some to the family, all at will.

Now Huaiyu moved to Xuanyangfang with his wives, concubines and children, leaving it to Huaiyi and Lao Wu, it would make Dafang more comfortable.

In fact, Fan Xuanfu got along well with his sister-in-law Cheng, after all, there was no conflict of interest, they were all famous women, and their superficial skills were still good.

But she agreed to live separately.

In the future, Yongxingfang will be changed to Daling County Zifu, and Xuanyangfang will hang the plaque of Yiguo Gongfu.

Today's dinner is good, although the dishes are prepared in the public kitchen, but Huaiyu's food is at home, the food must be high-grade, hand-made mutton, steamed fish, and fresh vegetables in the greenhouse.

After the meal, refreshments were served, and the family continued to chat about homework.

In fact, having more wives and concubines is not all good, that is, there are so many women around, and you can't take care of one and lose the other, so you will be tired.

Especially when the refreshment was over, all the women looked at Huaiyu with fiery eyes, looking forward to it, which made people feel a lot of pressure.

Fan Wuniang and Gao Yanzhi were finally pregnant, and now they are beaming with joy all day long.

There are six pregnant women in the family and five children with children.

But they still want Huaiyu to go to his own room at night.

After all, even if it is divided equally, one person can be divided into two nights at most in one month. Huaiyu has been away from Beijing for almost a year, and the women in the family have not had a chance to be with Huaiyu for a long time.

"Erlang, please accompany Yuan Bao tonight."

Fan Xuanfu took the initiative to attack and invited Huaiyu to come over at night. Seeing this, the other wives and concubines had to hold back their flags and drums, not daring to compete with the eldest lady.

Fan's childbirth is also a hundred days early, and today I want to show a good performance, strengthen the relationship between husband and wife, and I want to fight for another one.

(End of this chapter)