Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 35 Dongfang Shuo ([-])

one year later
Hanzhong Yuan two years

February
rainwater
Luming Island

It is located in the north of Xu Township, and it is the island that must pass through the sea from Xu Township to Liaodong. Whether it is the local specialties and grains transported by the royal family of Liaodong to Xu Township, or the hooligans transported from Xu Township to Liaodong, they all need to be on this half-county-sized island. transit.

On the sea not far from the island, a merchant ship was approaching.

After a while, the merchant ship docked and moored in the harbor.

This merchant ship did not transport merchant goods. Instead, it was covered with red lanterns. There was also a layer of red cloth on the deck, and red cloth ribbons were hung around the hull.

"Shuo, are we here yet?"

In a boudoir of a merchant ship, Xu Caiwei, the granddaughter of the Xu family who has just turned 16, is putting on makeup in front of a polished bronze mirror, while a 13-year-old boy is cleaning the rusty bronze mirror on the other side. .

"Miss, it seems that I haven't arrived in Liaodong yet. I just went out to have a look. There is an island outside. I heard what the young master of the Wang family said is called Luming Island."

While cleaning the bronze mirror for Miss Xu's family, the young man answered respectfully.

His name is Dongfang Shuo, from Yanci County, Pingyuan County. He lost his father and mother since childhood, and was brought up by his brother and sister-in-law. A few months ago, by chance, he was sent to the Xu Mansion in Xuxiang County. He is quite talented, so he became a schoolboy for Xu Caiwei, Miss Xu's family.

I thought that I could rely on being a book boy in Xu's family, so that I could learn all kinds of knowledge for free, and when I learned something in the future, I would find an opportunity to serve the court, so that I would honor my ancestors.

Unexpectedly, less than a month after he became a book boy, Miss Xu's family was about to marry in Liaodong and marry the Wang family of Liaodong.

"I heard that Wang Taihao, the previous patriarch of the Wang family, was a vicious and lecherous man with average looks. Now I want to marry his younger brother Wang Tairan. I don't know what kind of person this Wang Tairan is. If he is like his brother..." The young girl Xu Caiwei is a little sad, which girl doesn't love spring, which girl doesn't like young, handsome and modest gentlemen, but if the person who wants to marry is exactly the opposite of what she imagined, it will be a lifetime of grievances.

Men like beautiful women, and women don't like handsome men.

Xu Caiwei thinks that her state of mind is not up to the standards of ancient sages. For her husband, the most important indicator is to be handsome, followed by culture and demeanor, and finally, to have a prominent family background, at least an ordinary man. A powerful and powerful noble family can be regarded as marrying into a poor family. You must not marry a white man, but that is not even considered a poor family.

Compared with those noble families who were canonized during the founding of the Central Plains, whether it is the Xu family in Xu Township or the Wang family in Liaodong, they are actually all poor families, and ordinary people, not even poor families, have no family at all.

Originally, she was going to be married to Xiao Yan, a young ruler of the Haoqiang family in Jiaodong Kingdom, but who knew that the Xiao family supported the party of the old prince Liu Rong, so after Liu Rong was deposed, the Xiao family Suppressed by the henchmen of the new prince Liu Che, he now looks like he is in decline.

Under such circumstances, her grandfather, Mr. Xu, resolutely forcibly divorced her, and soon married her to Wang Tairan, the young head of the royal family in Liaodong.

After the wedding boat replenished some supplies at Luming Island, it continued to sail towards the sea, and the whole hull wobbled again.

"It seems that we are out of the island."

After polishing the bronze mirror, Dongfang Shuo was about to use a dry cloth to remove the water, but he was afraid that the rough dry cloth would scratch the surface of the bronze mirror, so he threw away the dry cloth and replaced it with silky silk to wipe off the bronze mirror. After the water stains on the surface are removed, take out a small wooden box, put a piece of nephrite at the bottom of the small wooden box, spread a layer of plant ash on the nephrite, cover the plant ash with a piece of wadding paper, and then carefully put the copper The mirror was placed on the wadding paper, and then another piece of wadding paper was used to cover the copper mirror. This piece of wadding paper was also covered with a layer of plant ash to prevent moisture and corrosion, and finally the small wooden box was covered. Smiling: "It's another bronze mirror that has been well maintained. If you want to use it, Miss, you can take it at any time."

"I don't need so many bronze mirrors." Xu Caiwei licked the rouge paper lightly, looked at herself in the bronze mirror with satisfaction, couldn't help being intoxicated by her beauty, and started to caress her face and mutter to herself: " The peach is young, its flowers are scorching. The son of the peach is returning home, suitable for his family. The peach is young, there is a truth. The son of the peach is returning, suitable for his family. The peach is young, and his Ye Zhenzhen. The son of returning home, Yiqi family."
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six days later

Silvermoon Harbor

Noon
"The one behind is the Wang's Manor, right? Why didn't you just disembark at the manor?" Xu Caiwei stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the Wang's Manor that just passed by behind the boat, very puzzled.

"Miss Cai was in the house just now, but she didn't see it. Although the Wang Family Manor is also near the sea, and it is just closer to the sea than Yinyue Port, the area surrounded by the sea on three sides of the manor has built walls, fortresses and arrow towers. It is full of various traps, it seems to prevent ships from landing from the sea to attack the manor." Dongfang Shuo held a parasol for Xu Caiwei to prevent the girl from getting tanned by the sun.

"Welcome Miss Xu."

When the wedding boat docked, a group of servants and maids of the Wang family waited for a long time, and greeted Xu Caiwei one after another.

Xu Caiwei looked at the crowd and found that among the servants and maids, there was a charming woman in her early 30s who was smiling at her in a fancy dress.

Xu Caiwei had seen this woman before, and she knew that she was Wang Yue from the royal family of Liaodong, who was once the favorite concubine of the rebel king Liu Xiongqu.

However, I heard that after the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion was put down, the Wang family Wang Yue returned to Liaodong, and took in a dozen handsome young men as male favorites, and gave birth to seven or eight children in five years, many of them were twins.

"Didn't the King of Jiaodong back then have a problem with that? This Wang Yue of the Wang family is so fertile, why has he never given birth to a son for the King of Jiaodong?"

When hearing Wang Yue's story, although Xu Caiwei felt that the other party was a bit shameless, she was also very envious. If she could marry freely and accept as many good-looking young men as male pets as she wanted, that would be great.

"Miss Xu, the carriage is ready, please take the carriage into the villa and rest first, and we will hold the ceremony tomorrow."

"Miss Xu is indeed a famous fairy beauty in Donglai. Even I, a woman, can't help but feel moved when I look at it. In the future, I will definitely be favored by our Patriarch, and I will spread my branches and leaves for the Patriarch."

Xu Caiwei was about to get off the boat, but she was held by Wang Yue from the Wang family, and she heard the other party say some embarrassing words in her ear.

"Aunt, don't tell Caiwei jokes..." Since she is going to marry Wang Tairan, Wang Yue is also her aunt. Xu Caiwei blushed and whispered, looking up as she was about to ride in the carriage.

Whoosh!
A figure rushed over and was about to stab Xu Caiwei with a dagger in his hand.

"careful!"

With sharp eyes and quick hands, Dongfang Shuo threw the bronze mirror box in his hand at the figure.

boom!
"Uh-"

clang--

The bronze mirror wooden box thrown by Dongfang Shuo hit the head of the figure.

The figure yelled in pain, and accidentally dropped the dagger on the ground, clutching his bleeding forehead and wailing for a while, when he was about to pick up the dagger on the ground and stab again.

"what!!!"

A soldier of the royal family rushed to the assassin in time, kicked him to the ground, and sneered at him: "Say, are you a swan goose!"

"Li Xi, take him to the dungeon for interrogation, don't interrogate him here, Miss Xu is still here." Wang Yue frowned and ordered to the Wang family's personal soldier.

"Assassins can still appear in this Liaodong royal family in broad daylight. Fortunately, I happened to hold the bronze mirror box in my arms, otherwise the lady would be in trouble." Dongfang Shuo, who had just defeated the assassin, broke into a cold sweat and kept slandering in his heart.

(End of this chapter)