Man Tang Huacai

Chapter 82 Independent Portal
In the evening, Pei Mian was also tasting tea with others, and sprinkled fine salt into the tea soup.

"I took the initiative to ask Brother Nu to investigate Xue Bai. This is the second of the two things Xue Bai asked me to do."

"Why didn't Ge Nu just kill him?"

"It's a long story." Pei Mian said: "The sage has long intended to take the benefits of salt and iron, but because of his face, the brother slave dare not touch the profit of the salt merchant. Xue Bai encouraged Yang Chen to stand out, and gave such mature and feasible methods as 'public mining, official collection, and business fortune', which attacked the foundation of brother slaves in one fell swoop. With such a sophisticated method, there must be a pusher behind the scenes. This matter is also related to Xue Bai's life experience. We didn't know before that he turned out to be Xue Ruo's wife..."

Gradually, the tea soup boiled.

Pei Mian spoke to the end.

"Daxi Yingying's conjecture makes sense. To be able to cultivate such a Xue Bai, save himself from danger time and time again, and get connected with the Yang family, there must be a lot of power behind it. King Qing is old and has adopted Li Ying's son. He is the only person other than His Royal Highness who can gain the affection of General Gao. It also makes sense for General Gao to help him."

"Prince Qing also wants to compete for the heir?" Li Jingzhong, who was seated opposite him, dressed up as a businessman, murmured, "It's crazy, except for His Royal Highness, the house of the Ten Kings is full of trash."

"Having said that, it is inevitable that some people will fall in love with him."

Having said that, Pei Mian shared tea with Li Jingzhong and gave advice.

"They said they can cooperate. I think it is possible. Your Highness is the most sage among the princes, and his name is justified. We can take this opportunity to subdue those who support King Qing."

"Yes." Li Jingzhong nodded and said, "But remember, the East Palace doesn't make trouble easily."

Donggong doesn't cause trouble easily, but once it gets involved, it will deal with it decisively and harshly.

"Don't cause trouble." Pei Mian said: "I gave Xue Bai some irrelevant news, just sit back and watch the tigers fight."

~~
Daxi Yingying shared tea with Xue Bai and Du Wulang.

The tea soup spilled on her skirt and burned her thighs, she pulled her skirt to cover up the panic in her heart.

Opening casinos and making friends with powerful people these years gave her the illusion that she was as powerful as Yang Yuyao. At this moment, she suddenly realized that even King Qing's power had reached this level, and King Shou had really been reduced to the most useless of all kings.

It was all Yang Yuhuan's fault!
It was because of her that King Shou's face was thrown to the ground so hard that thousands of people stepped on it and tens of thousands stepped on it, making him unable to stand up as if his spine had been torn apart.

At this time, facing Xue Bai, what she experienced was the powerlessness, inferiority, panic, and bewilderment that King Shou felt when he was ridiculed.

"Mr. Xue Lang has an affair with the envoy of the right minister...?"

"I'm asking you, not you asking me."

Daxi Yingying wanted to try out unwillingly at first, but was pushed back by such a strong sentence, and finally accepted her cleverness and spoke honestly.

"Ji Wen was the first person to discover Xue Langjun's life experience, and he had a grudge against Xue Langjun, so the right minister used him. Pei Mian, as soon as he heard about the salt law, suggested to the right minister that there was a person behind the matter, and it should be investigated. As for me, I have been clearly investigating Xue Langjun..."

Xue Bai didn't hide from Du Wulang anymore.

He already trusted him, but he was just worried about his ability, but it can be seen from the Kangjia restaurant that Du Wulang was a little stunned, but he would finish the things entrusted to him honestly, without self-righteous thoughts or bad habits.

When Du Wulang came into contact with the secret of Xue Bai's life experience for the first time, he was surprised but not too surprised.

Looking up, there was a nest of magpies on a tree branch not far away, and he couldn't help thinking that Xue Bai was not Xue Sanniang's real brother.

"I told them all my conjectures." Daxi Yingying said, "I speculate that you are from Prince Qing..."

She took a peek at Du Wulang's face this time, hoping to see something from this easy-to-handle face, but unfortunately, Du Wulang had that surprised but familiar expression from the beginning.

She couldn't help but regret what she said to Li Linfu. She thought it was impossible for Xue Bai to know.

Xue Bai didn't get angry, but asked, "Hasn't Prime Minister Right ever thought of turning to support King Qing?"

"what?"

Daxi Yingying couldn't help being surprised, then lowered her head.

As a member of King Shou, she felt humiliated when she heard such words in person.

Xue Bai said: "Go on, who do you suspect?"

"Zhang Jiuling, although he is dead, his disciples and former officials are all over the world." Daxi Yingying said: "The right minister speculates that some of you must be Zhang Jiuling's disciples. In addition, Zhang Jiuling's wife's surname is Tan, which is the same as the buyer's surname in your deed of contempt. The right minister has already sent someone to investigate..."

Xue Bai's face was calm and breezy, but in fact, his right hand was unconsciously tapping on his leg.Without a pen and paper, he was trying to write down these important information.

The list of Li Linfu's suspicions is still very long, and Daxi Yingying has actually forgotten some of them.

Some of them are already dead, some are still alive. As important ministers who once supported the deposed prince Li Ying, they are all suspects, and they may have even taken actions to protect Xue Pingzhao in the past ten years.

Therefore, Xue Bai also had a list in his mind of who might be able to get close.

Zhang Jiuling, He Zhizhang, Zhang Jiugao, Li Shizhi, Pei Yaoqing, Wei Jiansu, Cui Huan...

In Datang, family status is very important.

It is favor, relationship, reputation, and even the imperial examinations are discussed in advance by the nobles and ministers.

The identity of Xue Ling's son is not enough to support Xue Bai's ambitions, while Xue Pingzhao's identity is a crime of rebellion and a low status.

Therefore, Xue Bai can barely be regarded as a son of a high school only if he first obtains the name of Xue Ling's son, and then wins Xue Pingzhao's secret favor.

……

"Xue Langjun, what do you want my servant to do?"

"No rush. From now on, you can send the information about the Right Prime Minister's Mansion to Fengwei Building at any time."

Xue Bai clearly asked her to send the information, but he spoke as if he didn't need her to do anything.

Daxi Yingying got up quickly, and sent off with all blessings.

"From now on, don't kidnap beautiful young people again, it will ruin Yuyao's reputation." Xue Bai got up and walked out.

"I dare not. Mr. Xue Lang, go slowly."

At the same time, she didn't forget Du Wulang, and bowed again, with a friendly smile, and said: "Du Langjun, it seems that there will be more exchanges between neighbors in the future."

"what."

Seeing such a beautiful woman leaning in front of him and leaning down to Wanfu, Du Wulang hurriedly took two steps back, waved his hands and said, "There is no need to communicate, that... from now on, the food for Qingliangzhai will be handed over to Fengweilou, and the food will be delivered every day."

Although the beauty is present, he has not forgotten what he should do.

Daxi Yingying's eyes lit up, thinking that in this way, he could also explain the past to the right minister, and couldn't help but softly laughed: "It's a good idea, can Du Lang-jun take the time to discuss it with the slave family?"

"No, no, you just ask Steward Shi to come to me."

After Du Wulang finished speaking, he ran to chase Xue Bai in a hurry.

Daxi Yingying sat down slowly while supporting the tea table, still feeling that the fright she received was still there.

She felt a little regretful that she hadn't been bold enough to seduce Xue Bai just now. On second thought, she knew that the other party had a blood feud and a strong heart, so she must have looked down on her.As for Du Chuan, I don't know whether he is not enlightened or a hypocrite, but it is hard to say for the time being...

~~
"Xue Bai, I think this is very inappropriate."

"What's wrong?"

"This lady seems to have taken a fancy to me. Seriously, she just looked at me like that... She saved me once, it's so embarrassing."

As Du Wulang said, he sniffed, feeling that the fragrance of Daxi Yingying's body still remained.

He could tell it was musk, paired with some ambergris, it was easy to make people emotional, and he couldn't help but sighed again.

Xue Bai glanced back at him, and said, "Men should also respect themselves, and they can't just be overwhelmed by a woman's attention. Only those who respect themselves can be invincible."

He spoke very sincerely, and indeed he chose self-respect under most of the temptations.

Du Wulang felt this righteousness, and nodded in agreement.

"You're right, a man should be more self-respecting."

The two walked out of Qingliangzhai and turned into Fengwei Building. Du Wulang went to arrange the relationship with his neighbor's food box, while Xue Bai went to discuss with Du Jin alone.

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into the night.

In the main room of Du's house, Lu Fengniang could be heard muttering again.

"Auntie said that she found a good marriage for Wulang. She was born in the Wenxi Pei family, the granddaughter of Pei Kuan, the imperial historian. Pei Gong was once Fan Yang Jiedu Envoy and Hebei Interview Envoy, so she is very close to my Lu family."

"I can't climb high." Du Youlin responded casually and turned over.

Lu Fengniang didn't agree, she took his shoulders and said: "How did you get promoted? Wulang will be ranked next year."

"Then let's talk about it later."

Lu Fengniang has been worrying about these things recently, hoping that next year Xue Bai will marry her natal niece, and Wu Lang will marry Pei's daughter again, double happiness.

Thinking about the marriage, she thought of something.

"Lang Jun, how old do you think the third lady of the Xue family is? She looks thin and small, but she is actually only one year younger than Wu Lang. Originally, her relatives found a good marriage for her, but Xue Ling took the dowry gift and gambled it away. He couldn't get the dowry. The other party went back on his word and asked the Xue family to pay back the dowry, so it has been delayed until now... A few days ago, I was talking about this with the Liu family.

Du Youlin's arrangements for children's marriages have always been based on family status, and he didn't even know who Xue Sanniang was, so he shook his head and said, "The family background of Xue's family is relatively low, let alone such a father-in-law, it's not a good marriage."

The couple reached a consensus.

Lu Fengniang sighed and said, "Tomorrow they will move out..."

~~
It was still dark, but Qing Lan had already got up.

She didn't sleep well all night, and her mind was full of thoughts about moving, so she just got up early and started packing.

After collecting the clothes to dry, she carried a small lantern and walked from the back courtyard to the main courtyard. When passing by the back garden, she saw someone walking through the window on the courtyard wall.

"Huh? Ma'am?"

Qinglan ran to the window, glanced at the veranda, and saw Du Yan's door was gently closed, presumably she couldn't sleep and came out to look at the stars.

She walked to the main courtyard, blew off the lantern, gently pushed open the door of Xue Bai's room and entered, and smelled a faint fragrance, and the curtain was drawn, presumably he was still asleep.

Putting the clean spring shirt on the bedside, picked up the old clothes, and was about to leave, Qing Lan turned around again, secretly lifted the curtain to look in, and when she got closer, she could see some sweat on Xue Bai's forehead under the faint moonlight.

Sure enough, the quilt was still too thick.

Not daring to wake him up, she quickly went back to the back yard with her clothes in her arms, and washed them together with her mattress. When the sky was bright, seeing that Xue Bai hadn't woken up yet, she first arranged breakfast for Liu Xiangjun and the Xue family's children.

After packing up things, Xue Bai didn't get up until the afternoon, and they set off to move.

After all the luggage was loaded into the car, Qinglan went out, and couldn't help but glance back at the Du house, where she had lived for almost ten years, when she saw Caiyun crying and running over.

The anticipation and excitement in her mind were immediately thrown away, and she ran back and hugged Caiyun and cried loudly.

"Woooo... Caiyun Qinglan, we are going to separate..."

Caiyun wiped away tears, pinched Qinglan's face, reluctant to use force, so she cursed: "You little heartless..."

"Okay." Lu Fengniang said: "They are all in Chang'an City, and they will come back from time to time."

Everyone in the Du family will also go over to help clean up, and Du Wulang will go back to Fengweilou to arrange some food and wine, and bring them over in the evening.

A group of carriages headed west from Shengpingfang, Wannian County, crossed Zhuque Street, and entered Changshoufang.

Yang Yuyao sent many slaves to Xue Bai, who have already cleaned the house and are waiting outside the door.

"Congratulations Mr. Xue Lang is back home."

"Thank you, Deng Erbo, for a trip."

Deng Tong greeted him with a smile and said: "It's not convenient for Mrs. Guo to come here. Mr. Xue still needs something, just tell the villain. Xue's house has been divided and sold over the years, and it can only be restored to this for the time being. Mr. Xue is satisfied with it?"

Xue Ling lost money in a bet and sold his ancestral property, leaving only the two courtyards in the southeast corner of the original six courtyards.

At this time, Liu Xiangjun walked into the gate with his children and was immediately stunned.

"Aniang, why was the courtyard wall broken?" Xue Xin looked over, "Is Xu Douji next door gone?"

Immediately, a maid came forward to greet her, and said, "Congratulations to welcome the eldest lady back to the house. Not only the west front yard, but also the east and west back yards have been bought back. It's Mrs. Guo Guo's repayment for Mr. Xue Langjun's life-saving grace..."

Liu Xiangjun was taken aback, and almost wanted to back away. After all, he recalled his past upbringing, forced himself to be calm, pulled Xue Bai over, and whispered: "Liu Lang, your grandfather still owes a lot of gambling debts. If the creditors find out, I'm afraid it will be bad."

Xue Bai frightened the creditor badly just yesterday, and replied: "It's okay, the creditor won't pursue it."

Before he finished speaking, the person sent by Yang Zhao to give gifts arrived, and turned around to deal with it.

Although Liu Xiangjun was troubled by his son's indifference, he was happy after all, and took out copper coins to distribute to the slaves, and at the end of the distribution, he finally couldn't help but shed tears.

Seeing Xue Xin, she thought that A Niang was reluctant to part with the money.

……

It was Qing Lan's first visit to Xue's house, and she looked around curiously.

This house is slightly smaller than Du's house, and it was once divided into four yards. After buying it and renovating it, the layout is still a bit strange, but at least it doesn't have a separate house like Xue Bai said.

She wanted to choose a residence for Xue Bai, and after looking around, she felt that the east wing of the backyard was a bit crowded, so she turned to the west backyard.

After passing through the small door, her eyes lit up immediately.

Back then, the courtyard was probably sold to some tasteful Beijing official. The small courtyard was filled with flowers and trees, and rockeries and small pavilions were arranged.

A main room is hidden behind the bamboo garden, secluded and elegant, but the orientation is not very good, the doors and windows open to the west.

The courtyard wall was covered, and after the redemption, it was not completely demolished, but a small door was opened.It is convenient to come and go, and it can be a detached courtyard with the door closed.

All in all, she looked very satisfied, and wanted Xue Bai to choose this small courtyard to live in, but felt that he was the son of the Xue family after all, so he should take care of his parents first, and besides, it was really hard for her as a maid to intervene.

After standing there hesitating for a while, Xue Bai happened to walk over.

"Which house do you like?"

"Your Majesty, everything is fine."

"You have to choose one."

Qing Lan couldn't help pointing to the main room in the west backyard, and said in a low voice: "It's very nice there, it's just..."

"Then live there."

Xue Bai didn't show any humility to others, he nodded casually, and settled the matter.

Qinglan saw that the house had been tidied up and the bed was still new, so she took the quilt and spread it out, and went to the side room to have a look, although it was a small room, it had a window facing south, and the garden was outside the window, she was more and more satisfied.

So she spread her quilt in the ear room.

……

After the luggage was arranged, Du Wulang arrived with food and wine.

After a small family feast, everyone in the Du family left before the evening drum, leaving only the Xue family talking in the lobby.

The younger children remembered that the house had been sold off before the incident, and they hadn't recovered from the shock yet.

"Aniang, our family used to be this big."

"Yes."

"But I dare not sleep in the same room by myself, can I still sleep with my mother?"

After Xue Jiuniang said something timidly, everyone laughed.

"In the future, there will be no bunks to sleep in, such a big room." Xue Xin finally showed a childish smile.

Only Xue Gengbo didn't wink, and he sighed politely: "Oh, Alang was taken away by some friend to avoid debts. It would be great if he could see this situation."

Xue Xin's smile froze immediately, and he glanced outside the hall, worried that the courtyard door was not closed properly.

And when he turned around to look at Xue Bai again, his uneasiness dissipated, and he felt that it would be better for that grandpa not to come back, because Sixth Brother is the real head of the family.

~~
Under the night, everyone who moved to a new home went back to their rooms.

There are only Xue Bai and Qing Lan in the main house in the west backyard.

Qing Lan put down the candlestick, turned her head to look, and saw that Xue Bai had already lay down.

"Lang Jun got up so late, did he go to bed so early?"

"Well, it's not easy to read and write policy papers when it's dark, and it's the same when you get up early tomorrow."

"Really? It seems that Lang Jun never gets up early."

"It will be later."

"Is the tiger bucket used at home? Are the husband and the second wife looking for the latrine in the evening?"

"Yeah, I didn't find it."

"Then I'll sleep in the side room, and it will be convenient for you to call me if you have something to do in the future."

Hearing that her voice was getting lower and lower, Xue Bai turned his head to look, and saw her wearing a spring shirt under the candlelight, showing a kind of natural and lovely at home.

Qing Lan originally wanted to chat, but when he saw her, she became shy and ran back to the ear room.

Lying on the bed, covered with the quilt, feeling that Xue Bai was only separated by a wall, he felt a little flustered besides joy.

The relationship between each other is one step closer, and she still needs to adapt.

Xue Bai closed his eyes, feeling the responsibility of the head of the family.

He came from the snow all alone, and now he has to carry a door.

It has nothing to do with blood, he needs a portal, and this portal also needs him...

　The floor plan of Xue's house was posted as a paintball stamp. In the front, the thicker black line in the middle is the courtyard wall that is divided and sold.There are 5000 words in this chapter, please read it first, I haven't finished the next chapter, I will post it later, don't wait, you can read it tomorrow morning.I forgot to ask for a monthly pass yesterday, and I dropped a lot of names, ask for a monthly pass, ask for a subscription~~
　　
　
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