Fortunate Young Gentleman

Butcher Zheng took the whetstone from under her feet, stood up, turned around and left without looking at her again.

The middle-aged woman looked pale and trembled: "Who are you? Why do you know about the Wan Gu Sect? You are from Daliang..."

Butcher Zheng waved his hand and said: "It's all in the past..."

He walked out, closed the door of the woodshed, and when he came to the yard, he could no longer hear the sound inside.

Tang Ning looked at him and asked, "What is that woman yelling about?"

Butcher Zheng said, "Maybe the rope is tied too tight. Let someone loosen it for her, so that she can retain some dignity as a master."

Old Zheng's plea was like a rare flower blooming on an iron tree. Tang Ning stretched out his hand to call Chen Zhou and said, "Go and help her loosen it and change the way she is tied."

When he walked to the yard where Zhao Man was, she and Tang Shui were standing in the yard. They ran over and said, "My cousin just taught me a trick. Do you want to see it..."

Since Wanyan Yan gave her whip to Zhao Man, she has completely embarked on a wrong path. Tang Ning does not want her to return to the right path. He only hopes that she can be down-to-earth and practice whipping well, and never take a more wrong path again.

In Kyoto, it is already October.

People are forgetful. There are new things happening in Kyoto every day. As the year draws to a close, few people remember what happened at the beginning of the year.

When Princess Pingyang got married, it was a sensation in the capital. However, more than half a year has passed. If no one had mentioned it deliberately, the people would have long forgotten the grand event when the princess left the capital in early March.

The officials of the Ministry of Rites would naturally not forget it, because today is the day when the princess returns to the capital.

The previous King of Chu died suddenly, and he abolished the crown prince before his death. The marriage between the two countries was annulled. The delegation set out from the capital of Chu more than two months ago and arrived today.

The doctors of the three departments, the Ministry of Shrines, the Ministry of Food, and the Ministry of Hosts and Guests, went out of the city to greet them personally. Standing at the city gate, the faces of the three people were equally gloomy.

The doctor of the Ministry of Shrines sighed and said, "He is back after all."

The doctor of the Ministry of Food looked worried and sighed, "What should I do..."

"How about..." The doctor of the host thought for a while and said, "Let's take a month off first?"

The doctor of the Ministry of Food hesitated and said, "If the three of us take leave at the same time, I am afraid it will cause criticism. Isn't that bad?"

"Is it more important to avoid criticism or to have a future and a life?" The doctor of the Ministry of Shrines shook his head and said, "Half a year ago, how did he become a wedding envoy? Have you forgotten the fate of the previous doctor of the Ministry of Rites?"

A temporary head of the Ministry of Rites naturally cannot be a wedding envoy, but he stepped on the bodies of several of them and sat in that position. Before leaving, he had been appointed as a doctor of the Ministry of Rites by His Majesty. This time when they come back, won't the three of them repeat the same mistakes?

The doctor of the Ministry of Rites waved his hand and said, "I don't care about criticism or not. I will take leave when I go back. When he leaves the Ministry of Rites, I will come back!"

The doctor of the Ministry of Food thought about it and gritted his teeth and said, "Me too!"

The doctor of the Ministry of Hosts hesitated for a moment and also said, "I will find Minister Liu when I go back."

The three of them talked in a low voice again, and suddenly there was a noisy sound from the crowd behind them.

They looked up and saw a black line appear at the end of their sight.

Someone in the crowd at the city gate shouted loudly, "The princess is back in Beijing!"

...

Tang Ning stood at the city gate and calculated in his mind that more than half a year ago, the delegation set out from the capital and went to the capital of Chu State. It took more than three months, and it only took two and a half months to come back.

This is because on the way back, they did not stop when they met a city, and they traveled almost for days. If they had not been delayed in Chu State because of the rebellion, it would have been faster.

In fact, most of their time on this mission was delayed on the road.

After returning to the capital, officials from the Ministry of Rites had already greeted them at the city gate, and they would go directly to the palace to report to the emperor.

When they arrived in Beijing, it was already past noon, and the morning court had already ended. The place where Emperor Chen met them was the Imperial Study.

Tang Ning, Lu Teng and He Rui walked in and bowed at the same time, saying, "Your Majesty, I am here to see you!"

Emperor Chen looked at them and nodded, saying, "No need to be polite."

Tang Ning did not stand up, but clasped his fists and said, "I have failed your Majesty's trust and the trust of the court. Please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

Lu Teng and He Rui also bowed at the same time and said, "Please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

Emperor Chen waved his hand and said, "Even I did not expect that such a big change would happen in the State of Chu in the past six months. It is not your fault. Please don't be polite."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Tang Ning bowed his hands, stood up, took something out of his sleeve, handed it over, and said, "Your Majesty, this is the letter from the current King of Chu, please take a look."

Immediately, an eunuch stepped forward, took the letter from him, and presented it.

Although the letter was a very serious thing and needed to be presented in person after returning to Beijing, the content of the letter had actually been sent back before they arrived in Beijing.

Emperor Chen glanced at it, put it down, and said with a complicated expression: "The Chu State today is no longer the vassal of my Chen State..."

The atmosphere in the hall was a little dull until a figure ran in from outside the hall.

"Father, father..." Zhao Man ran to Emperor Chen and said aggrievedly: "I thought I would never see you again!"

The moment he saw her, the expression on Emperor Chen's face was a moment of regret, and then a trace of relief and relief, and finally turned into a smile, saying: "Man'er has worked hard along the way..."

Zhao Man grabbed his sleeve and said, "Man'er doesn't want to go so far. Man'er wants to stay in Kyoto to accompany father for the rest of her life..."

"Okay." Emperor Chen smiled and nodded, saying, "I'll have someone clean up your Changning Palace..."

Zhao Man shook her head and said, "Father, Man'er has grown up. It's not in accordance with etiquette for her to live in the palace. I'd better live in the princess's mansion outside the palace. I will still come to the palace to accompany father often..."

"That's fine." Emperor Chen looked down and said, "I'll talk to Man'er. You can leave first."

Tang Ning's heart had already flown back home. He was just waiting for him to say this. Hearing this, he immediately bowed and said, "I'll take my leave."

When he was about to leave, he saw Zhao Man with her back to Emperor Chen, blinking at him, and mouthing, "Wait for me..."

The carriage had been waiting at the gate of the palace for a long time. When it arrived at the gate of Tang Mansion, Tang Ning got off the carriage and saw a group of people waiting at the gate.

He walked forward, looked at the two girls standing in the front, opened his arms, and whispered, "I'm back."

Xiaoxiao and Fang Xinyue stood behind them, their faces full of smiles. Butcher Zheng held his daughter and stood aside, covering her eyes with his hands, saying, "Don't look, girl."

...

Lying on the bed in the morning, with his arms around Xiaoyi and Xiaoru, Tang Ning once again deeply realized that no matter how high an official he was or what great things he did, he would not be as happy as hugging two ladies like this.

Zhongyi struggled to get up from the bed, blushing and saying, "Husband, it's almost noon, we have to get up quickly, otherwise people will laugh at us."

Su Ru also wanted to get up, Tang Ning's arms tightened around them again, saying, "This is the Tang Mansion, who dares to laugh at us?"

Zhongyi lowered his head and whispered, "My parents said last night that they would come over in the morning..."

Judging from the light coming through the window, it was already noon, which meant that his father-in-law and mother-in-law had been waiting for a whole morning, and even Tang Ning felt embarrassed no matter how thick-skinned he was.

It was already past noon, and the two of them were too embarrassed to ask the maid to come in after getting dressed. After washing up, they sat in front of the dressing table to dress themselves.

"Let me do it." Tang Ning walked over, took the eyebrow pencil from Zhong Yi's hand, and gently helped her draw her eyebrows.

More than half a year ago, when he first helped her draw eyebrows, she was still shy, but later she became more generous, which was also a kind of boudoir fun for them.

After helping her draw, he started to draw for Xiao Ru.

Zhong Yi sat in front of the bronze mirror, looked in the mirror carefully, looked at Tang Ning, and said puzzledly: "My husband has been away for a few months, and his eyebrow drawing skills seem to have improved a lot..."