The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 357 Arrogant Cub Protection (Part 1)

Xuan Pinghou was above everyone regardless of his official rank or status. After he was recognized, no one dared to hide in the shed to hide from the rain, and rushed out with umbrellas.

Everyone scrambled to open umbrellas for Xuan Ping Hou, Xuan Ping Hou looked at everyone impatiently, originally it was raining heavily and he couldn't see the road clearly, and this group of people even blocked the road.

"Step aside!"

Marquis Xuan Ping yelled sharply, everyone was startled by his inadvertent murderous aura, and all retreated to the sides!

There are one shed after another here, and Marquis Xuan Ping doesn't know which one is Xiao Liulang's residence.

But after all, it wasn't the room that this group of people rushed out of.

He walks aside.

"It's the other way around." Xiao Liulang, who was lying on his back, said weakly.

Xuan Ping Hou paused, and ran towards the other side. When he reached the third shed, Xiao Liulang said, "Here we are."

The shed is simple, without even a decent table, and the bed is made of benches and wooden boards. If Mr. Zhuang was here, he would feel sorry for how bad his grandson's living environment was.

Xuan Pinghou spent ten days and a half months lying in the trenches during the war, gnawed bark and ate grass roots, slept in cowsheds and squatted in stables, his son should not be pampered, he should be thrown into the mud pit for him to touch Climbing and rolling.

At the beginning, he couldn't see that Princess Xinyang raised Xiao Heng so delicately, like a porcelain doll.

She was beautiful, but she couldn't stand up to one of his fingers, and he was afraid that the little guy would be crushed to death even if he touched it.

There were two beds in the hut, one with a mosquito net and one without.

"Where's your bed?" Xuan Pinghou asked.

Xiao Liulang pointed to the one without the mosquito net outside.

Xuan Ping Hou carried the man to the bed, thought for a while, and then called an official outside: "Bring a chair here!"

"Yes Yes!"

A servant official from the household department responded, and personally moved a bamboo chair to the shed used as the office in the lobby.

When Xuan Ping Hou carried the man into this room, everyone already had a vague guess about the identity of the person on the back, and when Xuan Ping Hou put him on the chair, the guess was confirmed.

Xiao Liulang.

It was really Xiao Liulang!

On a rainy night, it was already very strange for Xuan Pinghou to appear here, and what was even more strange was that he actually carried Xiao Liulang back.

And looking at Xiao Liulang's appearance, he seemed to be injured.

In the end what happened?

Everyone was confused,

Except for the official who moved the chair into the room, no one dared to come in rashly.

Hubu Shangshu and An Junwang came over.

"Xiaohou..."

Hubu Shangshu didn't finish greeting, Xuanping Hou interrupted coldly: "Wooden bucket! Hot water!"

Hubu Shangshu opened his mouth in astonishment: "...Yes, the next official will do it now."

Strictly speaking, Hubu Shangshu is not considered Xuanpinghou's subordinate, but Xuanpinghou is a first-rank Marquis personally conferred by His Majesty.

Hubu Shangshu asked someone to bring a new, unused large wooden barrel, and ordered the inspector to boil water.

They came here for disaster relief and farming, not for holiday enjoyment, so they did not bring servants to serve them, and they paid for the meals on weekdays, and the villagers made them and sent them over.

The rest of the locks were contracted by officials with lower ranks.

While waiting for the hot water, Xuan Pinghou began to take off Xiao Liulang's wet clothes.

With Xiao Liulang's expression of resistance, Xuan Pinghou turned his head to King An and the officials who were standing at the door and said: "He is thin-skinned, you all go out!"

Everyone dared not disobey, and walked away wisely.

King An Jun asked, "Do you need help?"

"No need." Xuan Pinghou refused without thinking.

Maybe everyone here will show face to King An, but Marquis Xuan Ping will not. It's not that he has a problem with King An. It's true that he and Zhuang Taifu are parting ways, but he hasn't been careful enough to argue with a junior. .

He just treats King Na'an the same as everyone else.

However, this kind of equal treatment in the eyes of everyone is itself a kind of contempt for King An.

Everyone who hadn't gone far pricked up their ears, wanting to hear what was going on inside, but King An didn't say anything, he just went out silently, and he didn't forget to close the door for them.

"Young King An, what is the relationship between Master Xiao and Marquis Xuanping? Why does Marquis Xuanping seem to be very familiar with him?"

On the way back, an official from the household department asked King An.

"I don't know either." Prince An was not familiar with the official of the household department, so he didn't discuss the relationship between Xiao Liulang and Xuan Pinghou with him.

It was the Hubu servant who moved the chair for Xuan Pinghou just now who said: "A few months ago, there was a rumor in the capital that the current champion of the new department was very similar in appearance to the deceased Lord Zhaodu. Pinghou is still going for this..."

Halfway through the speech, the Minister of the Household Department realized that he almost made a slip of the tongue. After all, he was an official and should not criticize His Majesty in front of his colleagues and officials of the Imperial Academy.

He coughed lightly, and changed his Majesty to: "Go and see him."

It was about the day of Xiao Liulang's palace examination, Xuan Pinghou got up early in the morning to support Xiao Liulang.

This incident caused a lot of uproar for a time, causing many people to think that Xiao Liulang's title of No. 1 Scholar came from a wrong path, and that he was able to reach the top of the list because of his relationship with Xuan Pinghou.

"So it's because Mr. Xiao looks like his dead son..." the household official murmured.

Everyone ate a melon inexplicably, and roughly understood that Xuan Pinghou came to visit Xiao Liulang.

"How could it be such a coincidence that he wasn't injured sooner or later, and he was injured like this when Marquis Xuan Ping came? He still has to carry it all the way back..." Another person muttered.

What he said was just short of saying that Xiao Liulang was playing tricks to win Xuan Pinghou's sympathy.

"I really didn't see that he was this kind of person."

"Why didn't you see it? Have you all forgotten how he won over the villagers these days? His scheming, I can't catch up with him even if I flatter him!"

"Shh, keep your voice down, don't let Marquis Xuan Ping hear you, you and I can't eat for a while and walk around!"

"It's gone!"

King An Jun didn't participate in the discussion of several people. He knew that Xiao Liulang had gone to the mountains to collect medicine. As for why he was injured and why he met Xuan Pinghou, he didn't know.

He went to Wu Yang's side, probably he will have a squeeze with Wu Yang tonight.

In the shed, Hou Xuanping took off Xiao Liulang's shirt three times, five times and two times. When he went to take off Xiao Liulang's pants, Xiao Liulang tightened his belt tightly to prevent him from doing it.

Xuan Pinghou frowned and clicked his tongue: "What's the matter?"

"You go out too, I'll do it myself," Xiao Liulang said.

Xuan Pinghou looked him up and down, hehe said: "You fell like this, do you still have the strength?"

Even if he has the strength, he won't be able to take off his shirt. He is holding on to the waistband of his trousers tightly, but he is actually refusing more with his eyes.

Xuan Pinghou said: "You are my son. I have never seen you before. When you were young, you ran around the courtyard with bare buttocks..." He looked at his trousers, "I tell you, not only have I seen it, I have seen it. Still played!"

Xiao Liulang, who wished Dao Lei could knock him out: "...!!"

The wooden bucket and hot water were all ready, Xuan Ping Hou didn't ask anyone to enter the house, he got the big wooden bucket and hot water in by himself.

Xiao Liulang untied his trousers and waistband, which made him very upset, and he had no strength to untie it for a long time, so he simply threw him into the hot water.

This rain seemed to have extinguished all the heat in recent days, bringing with it a hint of the coolness of early autumn. Xiao Liulang's body was icy cold until he soaked in hot water and gradually warmed up.

Xiao Liulang took a bath in the shed, while Xuan Pinghou went to fetch water, intending to take a cold bath and then return to the carriage to change clothes.

He was not familiar with this place, and he only vaguely remembered that a large group of people came out of the largest shed just now, and maybe the fetching water was also there.

He went to the shed that served as the hall and office.

Everyone was there, Gu Hou Ye was also there, and a lot of food brought by Gu Hou Ye was also there, and the room exuded a tempting smell of meat and crisp.

Everyone looked at Xuan Pinghou in astonishment, with a look of bewilderment.

Xuan Pinghou would feel overwhelmed just by glancing at him, just now a bunch of people gathered here, they thought they were discussing some important business, but they were eating and drinking.

Hubu Shangshu asked: "Master Xiao, do you want something to eat? These are all bought from the capital by Gu Houye."

Xuan Pinghou looked at Gu Hou Ye in the house, and narrowed his eyes slightly.

Everyone else was there, but my son-in-law Xiao Liulang was not.

OK, that's great.

Lord Gu Hou didn't know the relationship between Xuan Ping Hou and Xiao Liulang. He was wondering how Xuan Ping Hou got involved with that poor boy, when he met Xuan Ping Hou's frightening gaze.

There was an inexplicable chug in his heart.

The rain stopped in the middle of the night, and the next day was a sunny day. The morning light was twilight, the sky was blue, and the air was filled with the smell of soil moistened by rain and the aroma of flowers and plants.

The tasks of disaster relief and farming have been successfully completed, and everyone packed their bags, planning to eat something casually before heading back to Beijing.

It's just that no one expected that when they opened the wooden door of the shed, a mouth-watering aroma of meat buns came to their faces, and everyone's saliva flowed down.

"Did you make steamed buns today? The folks knew we were leaving, so they specially made steamed stuffed buns with big meat?"

“Very fragrant meat buns!”

They are all officials in the capital, not to mention all of them have prominent family backgrounds, at least they are not greedy for meat buns, but I don’t know if they have been vegetarian here for too many days, they just smell the smell of meat, and they feel that they are about to lose control Living!

"No, this doesn't seem to be the smell of ordinary meat buns, it's Zhou Ji's! His meat buns have a smell of butter and sesame seeds!"

"That's right! It's Zhou Ji's big meat bun!"

Zhou Ji's big meat buns are very famous in the capital, but they only make 100 baskets a day, and they are gone when they are sold out, so it is difficult to buy them in line.

The fragrance came from the hut of King An.

"Could it be that Gu Houye sent someone to buy it again? Gu Houye is too considerate! I bought so many roast ducks and crispy chicken last night."

"I bought it for King An! We are honored by King An!"

"It seems that today he is in the honor of Prince An again."

Everyone said something to each other, and they couldn't wait to walk towards King An's shed.

But when they came to the door, they were dumbfounded. There was no King An in the room, only Xuan Pinghou and Xiao Liulang...and a boy in black clothes.

The table in front of the two of them was filled with several large steamed buns. In addition to the steamed buns, there were wine rice balls sprinkled with eggs, scallion pancakes with donkey meat, and braised lamb scorpions that could make the dog next door cry. .

All are Zhou Ji's most distinctive food.

Everyone gulped and swallowed, it's really good to eat so richly early in the morning...

However, the three of them couldn't finish eating, so buying so much should be given to them, right?

Sure enough, Xiao Liulang said calmly: "Did you beat the bun seller to death?"

Who can eat so many buns!

Xuan Pinghou raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Then we will share, Chang Jing."

Chang Jing came over and picked up the buns on the table, leaving only one cage for Xuan Pinghou and Xiao Liulang.

Everyone watched Chang Jing walking towards them with buns, and they were so excited beyond words.

Then, they saw Chang Jing walking past them expressionlessly.

Everyone: "..."

Chang Jing distributed the buns to the folks in the village.

There was the last one left, and Chang Jing gave it to the big black dog in the village.

So everyone who ate pickles and steamed buns realized what it meant to say that people are not as good as dogs.

After breakfast, Xuan Ping Hou packed Xiao Liulang and stuffed it into his carriage. Although Xiao Liulang himself strongly protested, the protest was ineffective.

Everyone also got into the carriages of various government offices, Gu Houye unexpectedly found that his wheels had been unloaded.

Gu Houye exploded on the spot: "Where is the wheel of Ben Hou? Who did it!"

Everyone sat in the carriage, looking at each other.

Isn't it obvious who did it?

Just ask who here has a higher official title than you?

Everyone didn't dare to say anything, but it was King An who said, "If Gu Houye doesn't dislike it, take my carriage back to Beijing."

"That's the only way to go." Master Gu Hou sighed, and got into King An's carriage. It's better to be this son-in-law, who knows how to help at critical moments——

Before he could finish the words in his heart, there was a bang, and the wheels of King An's wheels were also unloaded.

No one saw anyone make a move, and the two wheels rolled out of the carriage as if they had betrayed themselves.

The carriage was hit hard on the ground, Master Gu's head hit the roof of the car, and a big bag came out in an instant.

The Hubu Shangshu didn't want to go into the muddy water, but he was entrusted by others to take good care of King An, but after taking care of King An, he couldn't leave his future father-in-law behind, so he had to invite the two of them to his own In the carriage.

Xuan Pinghou took Chang Jing out of Xiao Liulang's shed, and Chang Jing held Xiao Liulang's luggage and the medicinal materials picked these days.

Hubu Shangshu thought for a while, then cupped his hands to Xuanpinghou and said, "Please Xuanpinghou, for the sake of Mrs. Xiao... be merciful."

Xuanping Hou's mother, Mrs. Xiao, and Hubu Shangshu's mother are cousin sisters. Strictly speaking, they are cousins.

"Okay." Xuan Ping Hou agreed.

The Minister of the Household Department breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that Mrs. Xiao's face is still useful.

In the next second, Xuan Pinghou kicked off the wheel of Hubu Shangshu!

He only said to be merciful with his hands, but he didn't say that he was merciful with his feet.

When it comes to bullying, Xuan Pinghou is a professional.

After these few trips, no one dared to ask Master Gu to get into the carriage, and they all left in a desperate manner with their tails between their legs.

King An Jun was also helpless, he bowed his hands to Master Gu, asked Wu Yang to find the wheel and put it on, and returned to Beijing alone.

Master Gu stayed alone on the ridge of the field, behind him was a carriage without wheels, and even the horses ran away...

He seemed abandoned by the whole world.

Master Gu Hou was miserable and distressed: Woo~