When Anqingzong heard that Dugu Lie came to ask for an explanation, he was really shocked. How could he offend the Dugu family? You must know that the Dugu family is the leader of the Guanlong aristocracy. Offending the Dugu family is equivalent to offending the entire Guanlong aristocracy.
As soon as he thought about it, An Qingzong guessed that the trouble was most likely caused by his brother An Qingxu, who had just arrived in Chang'an a few days ago.
An Qingzong didn't bother to confront his brother for the time being and hurriedly came out to greet him.
An Qingzong said with a smile on his face: "Dugu Shangshu, which fragrant wind brought you here?"
Dugu Lie snorted, "I can't afford it, I'm here to ask for an explanation!"
An Qingzong was shocked, "What's going on?"
"I want to know why your An family warriors are following my daughter and what are your intentions?"
An Qingzong waved his hand quickly, "Dugu Shangshu, I have a wife at home, and I will never do such frivolous things. I won't even harass ordinary women, so why would I send someone to follow Dugu Shangshu's daughter?"
"It sounds like I'm deliberately trying to frame you."
Dugulie pointed to the horse behind him, "Isn't this Fan Yangjun's war horse?"
An Qingzong saw the corpse of the war horse behind him, and quickly went up to check it. After a moment, he said to Dugu Lie: "This is indeed Fan Yangjun's war horse, but I really don't know what happened. Can Dugu Shangshu let me check first?"
Check?"
Dugu Lie said coldly: "What's going on, I know very well, you should take care of your brother! This time I am just warning, if there is another time, I will definitely use the Guanlong Order to collectively impeach your father An Lushan
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After saying that, he waved his hand and said, "Let's go!"
Dugu Lie abandoned the horse corpse and left with his men.
An Qingzong's face turned red and white, and he apologized again and again, watching Dugu Lie walking away.
He turned back to the house and angrily found his brother An Qingxu who was drinking tea and listening to music in the side yard. He suddenly became furious, stepped forward, lifted the table, and punched An Qingxu. An Qingxu reacted quickly and turned over to hide.
Passed this punch.
"Brother, you are crazy!"
"am I crazy?"
An Qingzong shouted angrily: "You did a good thing, and Dugu Lie came to ask for punishment. Why didn't you respond? Did you send someone to threaten her daughter? What did you want to do?"
An Qingxu was stunned for a long time, and suddenly cursed: "These useless bastards exposed themselves, I'm going to kill them!"
An Qingzong gritted his teeth and said: "That's because you are stupid. You think others are stupid too. You want to do something, why don't you change horses? Don't you know that there is Fan Yangjun's mark on the horseshoe?"
An Qingxu became angry and said: "Who asked you to admit it? You can't help but admit it? Fan Yangjun's horses are not the only ones out there like us, why do you have to admit it?"
"Only you can treat others as fools!"
An Qingzong gritted his teeth and said: "Dugu Lie knows it's you. He has already issued a threat. If there is a next time, he will use the Guanlong Order to impeach my father collectively. You should take good care of your lower body and don't ruin my father's important affairs!"
"The same goes for you. Who did the assassination of Yang Guozhong's son? It was me who wiped the butt in the end. How much money did I give to that bitch of the Yang family!"
An Qingzong grabbed An Qingxu's neck, narrowed his eyes and said, "Is that what I want to do? I'm executing my father's order, what are you doing? The daughter of the Dugu family is about to get married, but you refuse to let it go.
She, do you think the Dugu family is so easy to mess with? Do you know the consequences of using the Guanlong Order?"
How could An Qingxu not know what the Guanlong Order was? It was a way for the Guanlong nobles to fight together. The Guanlong nobles controlled all levels of the Tang Dynasty. Once they collectively impeached their father, the emperor would never offend him and would definitely remove him.
Father, and father is not ready yet. If there is a hasty rebellion, I am afraid that more than half of the generals will not obey the order.
An Qingxu also realized that he had gotten into trouble, and he immediately stopped, "What do you think we should do now?"
When An Qingzong saw that his brother had given up, he also softened his tone and said: "Fortunately, nothing happened to the daughter of the Dugu family. You leave Chang'an and return to Luoyang tonight. Give those four people to me and let them admit that they drank without permission."
What you did.”
An Qingxu nodded, "I just don't like that Li Xiu'er. He's so thin that he's just a handful of bones. He's not a good husband. My eldest brother also returned Guo Guo's wife for me!"
"I will make arrangements. You can leave now. In short, you are not allowed to have any ideas about the Dugu family's daughter. Li Ye is too cruel. If he touches his woman, we won't be able to survive if he takes revenge!"
An Qingxu packed up his things and left Chang'an City. An Qingzong ordered four warriors to be kidnapped and brought to Dugu's house to apologize.
Dugulie got the news, walked out of the door, and asked coldly: "Consort An, have you investigated clearly?"
An Qingzong cupped his fists and said: "It is indeed related to my brother An Qingxu. He came to Chang'an a few days ago and learned that the Dugu family's daughter was getting married. He felt depressed and drank in the mansion. Four of his men were bold enough to kidnap Dugu's daughter in private.
, to relieve the Lord's worries, but An Qingxu doesn't know about this. He rushed back to Luoyang yesterday afternoon so that Dugu Shangshu could interrogate these four evil slaves."
An Qingzong pointed at the four warriors tied up behind him. Of course Dugulie knew that the other party was passing the responsibility to his subordinates. Why did An Qingxu return to Luoyang yesterday, and someone saw him this morning.
Dugu Lie didn't want to expose it, but just said calmly: "The road is facing the sky, everyone goes to one side. They followed my daughter's carriage and they did not break the law. I will not punish them, but I will say something ugly in front of me, just like what I said this afternoon,
If there is a next time, I will definitely launch the Guanlong Order to impeach An Lushan collectively."
An Qingzong was sweating profusely and said repeatedly: "I promise with the head on my neck that there will never be a next time!"
An Qingzong knew that some things had to be done. Since he passed the responsibility to his warriors, the four of them had to bear the consequences. After Anqingzong returned to the palace, he immediately ordered the four warriors' hands and feet to be broken, and ordered them to be carried to Dugu Mansion for examination of their injuries.
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This matter has just come to an end. It is now June 16, and the wedding is still two full months away. The Dugu family has also begun to actively prepare.
Of course, Pei Sanniang was also very active in planning her son's wedding.
Pei Sanniang found the sixth wedding store. Unlike the Song Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty had a developed commodity economy and there were many such wedding stores. In the Tang Dynasty, there were only a dozen or so in Chang'an, ranging from high, high and low-end.
Wedding shops like this in the Tang Dynasty also had real needs. For example, betrothal gifts must be made with wild geese. In winter, the wild geese fly to the south. Where can you find it when you want it?
At this time, wood-carved wild geese are usually used instead, but you can't spend several bucks to carve one and only use it once, so ordinary people will spend dozens of bucks to rent a wild goose from a wedding shop and return it to the shop after use.
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Another example is the sedan used to welcome the bride, the drummer, the bride who is responsible for makeup to welcome the bride, the master of ceremonies who is responsible for presiding over the wedding, as well as the carpet for the entrance, the special green house, etc. If you prepare it by yourself, not only will you spend a lot of money and energy,
And the etiquette may not be in place. If you hire a wedding shop, they will prepare all these things, which will save you a lot of money.
The person who received Pei Sanniang was the shopkeeper of the wedding shop, named Gong, a middle-aged fat man with a smile on his face.
"Madam, here are two lists, one is the items we need to prepare, and the other is the items Madam needs to prepare."
Pei Sanniang glanced at the list that she needed to prepare. The densely packed items on the list made her frown, and she said with some dissatisfaction: "I went to the Hundred Years Marriage Store a few days ago, and they didn't ask me to prepare so many things. It was all them.
Prepare yourself, I'll see if you forgot to light up the lights in your store, it will be dark when you enter!"
Aunt Mu, who accompanied her here, pulled her and said, "Don't worry, listen to the shopkeeper's explanation!"
Shopkeeper Gong couldn't laugh or cry, and quickly explained: "Logically speaking, you shouldn't comment on your colleagues casually, but I have to tell the truth. The Hundred Years Marriage Store that Madam just mentioned is for weddings of small families, so it won't be so particular, like
For entry-level felt blankets, they only prepare two, which are also linen blankets, and they are used in tandem. We here prepare 72 high-quality wool felt blankets, which are laid all the way from the gate. This is
A wedding request from a wealthy family."
Pei Sanniang was a little angry. When she was having wedding banquets in Yonghefang, she always used two felt rugs alternately to hold the bride's feet. She thought it was a rule, but it turned out that these people were just trying to save money.