Settled in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 285
The palace banquet finally ended before the key was released at the palace gate, the sky was already dark, Xue Lang left the palace with regrets that he hadn't enjoyed enough——

After drinking King Zhaojun and Yu Chigong, no one would drink with him anymore, and only came to drink with him once or twice, and chatted with him by the way.Although they didn't form a deep friendship, they became familiar.

Out of the Linde Palace, a servant came up to welcome him: "My servant greets Duke Xue, and this servant is ordered to wait here for Duke Xue and send Duke Xue out of the palace."

Although Xue Lang blushed from drinking, he was not drunk, and his mind was very clear. Hearing this, he looked at the person—

He is tall and strong, but he is different from the general servants who are thin and thin. Seeing that he is in his early thirties, he is at the stage of greatest strength.

Was it because he was afraid that he would get drunk, so he sent someone to wait for him?
Although Xue Lang looks thin, he is tall and not light. It is obvious that he has a heart for such a servant to send him out of the palace.So, Xue Lang asked: "Thank you, I don't know how to address it? Who ordered it? Can you tell me?"

The servant said: "The name of the maidservant is Mingcheng. As for who is ordered, the Duke of the county will know in the future. It is getting late, and the time to release the key to the palace gate is approaching. Please, Duke Xue."

Seeing that he couldn't come out with the question, Xue Lang simply said: "Thank you, but I'm not drunk, just leave the palace by myself."

Mingcheng said with a smile: "Let the slaves give it a ride!"

Mingcheng sent Xue Lang all the way to Chengtian Gate, and then turned back.There is still a distance from Chengtian Gate to Xiama Bridge, Xue Lang needs to continue walking, and when he reaches Chengtian Gate, there are soldiers leading the way with lanterns.

As soon as he left Chengtian Gate, he saw a group of people coming with lanterns. They seemed to come from Changle Gate. When they got closer, they saw that it was Princess Pingyang's guard of honor.

Princess Pingyang did not ride on a shoulder chariot, but walked like Xue Lang.Xue Lang bowed and saluted: "I have seen Your Highness."

Princess Pingyang glanced at Xue Lang, and said: "Isn't this the Duke of Changping who is boundless in the sea and never drunk in a thousand cups? Duke Xue is vast, and I can hear the prestige of Duke Xue when I sit on the top."

Cough... Are you unhappy?Why……

Xue Lang shrunk his neck, thinking of a certain possibility, he felt a little secretly happy, but it was better to appease this Highness first, otherwise, he would not be able to bear the consequences.

So, Xue Lang said honestly: "It's not that I want to drink more, but that I don't know the people sitting around me. Your Highness knows that I'm stupid and not good at communication. I don’t have the ability to take the initiative to interact with people. In my previous experience, when someone asked me to drink, maybe I didn’t have any friendship once or twice. The more I drank, the more I drank it, and I gradually became familiar with it, and the friendship gradually developed. You may be able to make friends with the same temperament. This is a stupid way, Your Highness, please don’t make fun of me.”

Princess Pingyang paused in her footsteps and did not speak, but the cold aura around her seemed to have faded a bit.Xue Lang didn't have any EQ, but he had a keen intuition, and he noticed it immediately. He couldn't help but smile, walked a few steps, and slowly followed behind Princess Pingyang.

The whole journey was silent, and when they were about to get off the Maqiao, Princess Pingyang suddenly said: "Although Zhaojun Wang has some merits in his conduct, but he does not repair private curtains, and there is no way of life. You are not married yet, so don't learn from him."

Xue Lang was taken aback for a moment, and then he showed a big smile, and simply assured: "Don't worry, Your Highness, I will never learn from him!"

Princess Pingyang turned her head quickly, stopped looking at Xue Lang, and said indifferently: "Why do I worry about it! It's just that as the top, I remind you not to forget to cultivate personal virtues."

After finishing speaking, he didn't pay any attention to Xue Lang, got into the chariot directly, and went straight out of the palace.

Xue Lang rubbed the back of his head, giggled twice, felt as if he had seen through some kind of barrier, and was so happy that he wanted to fly!

It's time to make a decision!
But Princess Pingyang, who got into the chariot, couldn't help but sighed slightly, took a deep breath, closed her eyes, crossed her legs, and assumed a meditation posture.The nanny who was sitting with her on the chariot and Chuxue looked at each other, and the nanny sighed softly, relatively speechless.

Princess Pingyang suddenly opened her eyes, her eyes fluttered, and she seemed uneasy: "Mother, I didn't control myself!"

The nanny glanced at Princess Pingyang, gritted her teeth, and couldn't help saying: "The little lady is the king, and Xue Lang is the minister. It is Xue Lang's honor if the little lady can favor him. Even if the little lady does not go well in the future, it will be him Fate should be like this! Why is the little lady so self-sufficient!"

Princess Pingyang's face was serious, and she scolded in a deep voice: "Nonsense!"

The nanny hurriedly pleaded guilty: "The old slave is overstepping, please punish the young lady!"

Princess Pingyang stared coldly at the nanny kneeling on the car, her eyes slightly closed: "Madam, get up, I am my nanny, I know her loyalty, but Xue Lang is different." of!"

"Here."

Mammy responded respectfully.

Princess Pingyang closed her eyes, meditated in silence, calmed down, and said nothing.

When Xue Lang returned home, Lamei and Dongzhi had boiled hot water for him and waited for him.After washing with hot water and scalding his feet, Xue Lang went to bed.

The winter solstice and New Year's Day were considered big festivals in ancient times, and there were seven days of holidays. Except for the young officials on duty in various ministries, all the ministers were off.

When he got up the next day, early in the morning, he had someone carry three jars of wine from the wine cellar, one jar of fruit wine, one jar of peach blossom wine, and one jar of white wine, and asked Changjian to send them to the king of Zhao Jun with his name badge. .

Then he went to the kitchen to supervise Atu and Xiuniang to cook together, because today he was going to have a big banquet to celebrate the Spring Festival with them.

Xue Lang's trilogy has a total of 1000 people, and the trilogy is temporarily led by Jiang Lin.There are only 300 people stationed in the county mansion, and the rest are stationed in his village outside the city. The 300 people rotate every ten days.

In order to entertain the trilogy, Xue Lang ordered people to buy fat pigs and fat sheep before the Spring Festival, and also bought a lot of radishes——

Sauerkraut stewed blood sausage, twice-cooked pork, stir-fried fatty sausage, stewed pig heart and lung soup, and then there is a big pot of mutton stewed radish, roasted leg of lamb and roasted lamb chops.

These days, ordinary people are short of oil and water, especially those who are soldiers.The popularity of Xue Lang ordering such a menu is indescribable, and he repeatedly praised Xue Lang as a kind and honest host.

In modern times, soldiers are called the cutest people.However, in ancient times, there was a saying that a good man should not be a soldier. In addition to the high casualty rate in the cold weapon era, another big reason was that the treatment of ordinary soldiers was not high.

It is a very common phenomenon in the army to abuse soldiers because the generals have the power of life and death of soldiers.Those far away, such as Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide, had the problem of abusing soldiers, beating and scolding soldiers frequently, hardly treating soldiers as human beings, and finally died at the hands of small soldiers.

For example, Xue Ju's son Xue Rengao, a bright and wonderful flower, not only abused the captives, but even treated his own soldiers cruelly.

Xue Lang didn't mistreat them. Although Jiang Lin trained them very hard, they were able to eat and clothe them warmly so that they wouldn't go hungry or cold. They also cared for their families wholeheartedly, which made these trilogy even more loyal to him. , Training is also willing to work hard to practice hard.

In Xue Lang's view, these things are just fulfilling the basic responsibilities, but there are unexpected gains, which can be regarded as a model of carelessness.Of course Xue Lang would not be so stupid as to object.

(End of this chapter)