Aojian Tianqiang

Xu Luo was alone in the room, thinking for a long time.

"Don't get too close to the princes..."

Xu Luo muttered softly, raised his brows, and thought to himself: Could it be that the water in the imperial capital has become muddy recently, allowing the princes to see an opportunity?Started jumping up and down in secret again?

There was a sneer at the corner of Xu Luo's mouth, and he said in his heart: I guess the sixth prince is the one who danced the most, right?

On the surface, he is diligent and gentle, but behind the scenes, he does all kinds of tricks.

In comparison, the prince is still the calmest one, but the emperor doesn't seem to like the prince very much.

Xu Luo shook his head slightly, and said to himself: The matter of the royal family has nothing to do with me. It's their business how they want to make a fuss, and it's none of my business?

Among the men in the entire royal family, Xu Luo only recognized the eldest prince, and the eldest prince was precisely the one who had the least chance of competing for the throne.

Therefore, Xu Luo didn't take Dean Zhou Liang's words to heart.

Back home, although there were lights and festoons in Xu's mansion, the joy on people's faces was not strong.

The master Xu Ji and the eldest son Xu Su are both on the front line, and the wife has returned to the division. Now there are only two masters left in the Xu family, Xu Luo and Lianyi, so the whole Xu family is a little deserted, far less lively than those other big families.

When Xu Luo saw Lianyi, she saw her worrying over a notebook.

"Sister, what are you worrying about?" Xu Luo walked over with a smile.

Lianyi raised her head, saw Xu Luo, showed a gentle smile, and shook her head slightly: "It's okay, I'm just worrying about what to give this New Year's gift... Huh? Where did you find this kitten? So beautiful!"

As Lianyi was speaking, she happened to see a kitten's head protruding from Xu Luo's pocket, and her pair of blue eyes looked extremely deep and extremely cute.

"Uh... I picked it up on the street, I really like it, so I brought it back..." Xu Luo pushed Meow Miao's head back, and laughed.

"Ahhhh! Bastard! How dare you say that to Master Miaomiao! How dare you touch Master Cat's head? Human, don't you want to live anymore?" Master Miaomiao was immediately annoyed, and in Xu Luo screamed in his mind.

"The power of the stars!" Xu Luo has now learned to use sound transmission to communicate with Miaomiao, and he doesn't talk too much. He defeated the irritable cat master with only four words.

"Hehe, the little guy is really sensible." Lianyi said with a smile when she saw that Xu Luo pushed the kitten's head back and didn't come out again. She didn't think too much about it.

"Damn it... Master Cat is Tuntianli! It's Master Tuntianli! It's a powerful ninth-order spirit beast! It's not a cat! Meow... Ahhhhh! Damn it, damn it!"

Uncle Miaomiao said angrily: "What's so good about this little girl? It's not as good-looking as a female swallowing raccoon!"

"..." Xu Luo's head was full of black lines, and he didn't bother to pay attention to this guy.

Smiling, he said to Lianyi: "You don't need to give too expensive a gift for the New Year, as long as you express your heart. By the way, what are you giving to my future sister-in-law?"

The future sister-in-law that Xu Luo was talking about was a marriage arranged by his elder brother Xu Su since he was a child. Some members of the woman's family used to be officials in the court. They were once prominent, and they could be regarded as noble families in the court.

The in-laws of the Xu family are named Xia, who have been doing business for generations, and the family is also far away in Hongcheng in the south.

Speaking of which, this marriage was arranged by Xu Luo's grandfather, the old general Xu Dingcheng!

Xu Dingcheng and Xia Dade, the old head of the Xia family, are sworn brothers and have a life-and-death friendship.

Xia Dade also served in the army when he was young. In a battle, he blocked a cold arrow for Xu Dingcheng and was almost shot to death.

It was precisely because of this arrow that Xia Dade, who also had a bright future, had to retire from the army and return to the family to take over as the head of the family and take charge of the family's business.

The old man Xu Dingcheng felt guilty for many years because of this matter. Later, when Xu Su was born and Xia Dade came to congratulate him, he expressed his intention to marry the Xu family. The old man settled the matter without saying a word.

Back then, the life and death brothers in the army, Paoze, sacrificed themselves for the sake of their comrades. This kind of affection is too great and too heavy!

Now, because there is no one in the family, and in order for the family to continue to prosper, I have to put on an old face and tell my old comrades: I want to marry your family and protect my descendants.

Let me ask, in this case, can the old man refuse?Can you refuse?Will you refuse?

Although Luo Xinlan could understand, she was still a little depressed in her heart, and often told her husband Xu Ji that the old man was too domineering.

It wasn't until later that I saw Xia's daughter that I stopped nagging.

Although the girl was not born beautiful, she was educated and reasonable, with a noble temperament and a gentle and pleasant temper.Although he came from a business family, he didn't smell like copper.

Most importantly, such a girl from a water town in the south has an extraordinary talent in business!

At the age of 16, he almost took over half of the family's business, and managed it very well, and now he has almost completely taken over the family's business.

Such a woman who can be called a strong woman has never shown up in public, so there are not many people who know that she is the head of the Xia family!

In Xu Luo's eyes, this future sister-in-law has the feeling of "planning a strategy and winning a thousand miles".

Therefore, although Xu Luo has only met this future sister-in-law once, she likes it very much. In the past, the gifts were all prepared by her mother. This year, when her mother is away, Xu Luo is also afraid that Lianyi will miss something.

"I'm also having a headache about this. You see, in comparison, the Xia family is actually much richer than ours, so it's hard to give this gift... Mother also worries about this every year. This year It's my turn."

Lianyi said with some distress: "You mean to give away those famous jewelry, rouge and gouache in the imperial capital, right? People don't lack those things, and besides, they can be bought with money. Let's give calligraphy and paintings to famous people... Recently, the imperial capital published a booklet Such a incident has affected almost all calligraphy and painting shops..."

When Xu Luo heard this, he couldn't help laughing inwardly, the calligraphy and painting incident had too much impact, and it had spread to the outside world, even the business of those calligraphy and painting shops was affected.

Some calligraphy is not even dared to write, for fear that someone will doubt it.

That's the way things are, even if the patriarchs of the rich families who received the letter knew what was going on, they couldn't directly point the finger at Wei Xiang, who was in power.

And those subordinates who speculate on Shangyi will naturally turn their attention to those famous calligraphers and painters... Those who investigate secretly also take the opportunity to suppress political opponents and dissidents, causing people to panic.

After all, these famous calligraphers and painters are also inextricably linked with the upper class, and they are also the guests of the major wealthy families on weekdays.

"Sister, why don't you do this, wait a minute, I'll fetch something, you can see if it's okay." Xu Luo said, turned and walked out.

There was a bit of doubt in Lianyi's eyes, she didn't know what good things Xu Luo could come up with.

After a while, Xu Luo came back with two wooden boxes, handed them to Lianyi, and said, "Inside the two wooden boxes, one is an old medicine. The root of the disease, this medicine should be able to completely eliminate the root of Grandpa Xia's disease; inside this other box, there are several kinds of jewelry, you open it and see, they are for sister-in-law and his mother, do you see if it is suitable?"

Xu Luo said, and added: "By the way, these things are said to be given by the eldest brother..."

Lianyi glanced at Xu Luo strangely, and said to herself: When did my young master become so enlightened, not only knowing how to give girls jewelry, but also thinking about his brother?

"Ah!" Opening the wooden box containing the jewelry, Lianyi couldn't help but let out an exclamation, her eyes were straightened, and she said in disbelief: "Where did this come from? It's so beautiful! "

A phoenix hairpin carved from top-quality red jadeite. The phoenix on it is lifelike, with bright feathers and wings ready to fly.

The red jadeite is crystal clear, and the carving is extremely fine. It can be seen that it is from everyone's hands, and it is not sold on the market at all!

Its value can be imagined!

A necklace of black pearls, each pearl is round and shiny, the same size, exuding a cold atmosphere, obviously not ordinary pearls.

A white metal necklace with a sapphire pendant hanging underneath it. After looking at the ripples for a long time, I realized that this necklace is made of expensive white rainbow fine gold, which will emit colorful and dreamlike light under the sunlight.

And the blue gemstone below is deep and transparent, shining like a star.

There is also a string of top-quality green jadeite bracelets, crystal clear, exuding natural greenness, extremely moist!

Don't say that these four pieces of jewelry are given to the Xia family, even if they are given to the royal family, they will be treated as treasures among them!

If ordinary people get one of them, they will immediately hide it as a heirloom, an absolute family heirloom!

Afterwards, Lianyi opened another wooden box, looked at the old medicine in Xu Luo's mouth, opened her cherry lips slightly, stared blankly for a long time, and then closed the wooden box with a snap.

"Xiao Luo... Not long ago, the warehouses of several families in the capital were ransacked..."

Xu Luo couldn't help showing a wry smile, he knew that as long as he took out these things, Ripple would definitely think of something.

But... this matter has nothing to do with him.

"I didn't do it." Xu Luo shook his head firmly.

"It's Mr. Cat! It's Mr. Miaomiao! It's a meow... It's all Mr. Cat's! You give away Mr. Cat's things, Mr. Cat is so distressed!" Miaomiao endured Can't stop, bombing Xu Luo's ears.

Lianyi glanced at Xu Luo with a puzzled face, but without asking any further questions, she closed the wooden box and said, "With these gifts, I believe our family will finally have the upper hand this year!"

"Uh..." Xu Luo glanced at Lianyi, and thought: Competition is really everywhere!

Even if it is a family friend, it is the same between families with good family relationships.

Every year when the new year is approaching, the Xia family will always send a large number of gifts, and they are all delivered in dozens of cars.

There are almost everything from jewelry and jade to silk and satin!

In contrast, the Xu family really didn't have that many things they could get their hands on.

So every year when it comes to presents, the Xia family will overwhelm them.

This is actually very understandable. In terms of political status, the Xu family is far higher than the Xia family. In order to prevent her daughter from being discriminated against when she marries into the Xu family, the Xia family can only spend money on it...not for knocking people out, but for getting married. Good fate.

In the final analysis, the Xia family has worked hard for this daughter's marriage.

At this moment, Lianyi came back to her senses, stared at Xu Luo without saying a word, just looked at her with resentment in her eyes.

Xu Luo was still a little confused before, but finally realized that he gave such a good jewelry to his future sister-in-law, but Lian Yi, who is closest to him... forgot!

It's dark under the lamp...Xu Luo swears that he never did it on purpose.

In the end, I had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "This...that...cough cough, sister, I still have a few pieces of jewelry, I believe you will like it..."

With that said, Xu Luo ran away in despair.

Behind him, the girl's bright eyes were full of energy, and a flower-like smile slowly bloomed on her delicate face.