Chapter 14: All knowledge in the world is knowledge (2)
The housekeeper was stunned for a moment, and then the smile on his face looked like he had eaten two kilograms of honey.
"Young one is here, ready to listen to the master's instructions!"
"No orders, go down!" Li Jinglong said impatiently and walked towards the backyard, "By the way, prepare a table of Hai Bazhen noodles for me. I was not full just now!"
The housekeeper nodded quickly and suddenly said, "Sir, Hai Bazhen needs to be soaked in hair now! There is no stock in the kitchen now. If you want to eat it, you have to wait until tomorrow morning!"
"Buy it outside!" Li Jinglong turned around and said angrily, "Let the restaurant deliver it to your home, you idiot!"
"yes!"
"How could I use such a stupid butler!" Li Jinglong muttered in his heart. After taking two steps, he suddenly remembered something, stopped and said, "By the way, prepare some clothes for me!"
"What clothes do you want?"
"Just...the coarse cloth coats that our servants wear for working!"
"You wear that thing..."
"Are you deaf? You were waiting outside when the emperor came. The emperor asked me to sweep the streets. You didn't hear. Your ears are stuffed with chicken feathers?" Li Jinglong cursed.
The housekeeper was in a daze, "Master, are you really going? You are the Duke of the country..."
"What's wrong with the Duke? The Duke can't sweep the streets? Liu Bei even sold straw sandals! Han Xin even got into his crotch!" Li Jinglong stopped and scolded, "Sir, I am ordered to sweep the streets, do you understand? It was the Emperor who ordered it.
I’m going!”
"Oh... Your Majesty!" The butler thought about it, but still didn't understand.
Seeing his confused look, Li Jinglong became even more angry and said, "The emperor asked me to sweep the streets. This is an honor. Do you understand? Why didn't he let others do it? Why did he choose me?"
"Besides, let alone sweeping the streets, even if it means eating shit..."
"The little man will eat for the master!" the butler said quickly.
"Go away! I mean what if!" Li Jinglong snorted, "If the emperor lets people eat shit, countless people in the world will break their heads and try to eat it. Not only will they eat it, but they will also smack their mouths, and they will drink it as if they are sweet treats.
, and I have to say that I have never eaten such good food in my life!”
"No matter how good it is, it's still shit!" The butler scratched his head, "At most, it can only eat without clogging your teeth!"
"You can't carve rotten wood!" Li Jinglong said angrily, "You are as stupid as a rock! You will also be a housekeeper in your next life!"
"Yes, yes, the master said it is true!" the butler said with a smile, "In my next life, I will be your butler for the master. It is my honor to be the butler of the Duke's Mansion!"
"Ah ha!" Li Jinglong laughed, "You're not that stupid yet!"
The housekeeper had a seizure. To be precise, he actually comforted himself and felt much better. He walked towards the backyard with his hands behind his back, but as soon as he stepped in, he felt something was wrong.
Fucking murderous!
Looking up, his wife Deng held a feather duster in her hand and looked at him coldly, "Li, you are touching my mother's dowry again!"
"What is mine, even you are mine... Madam... Madam... Chuntao, you have something to say! Oh!"
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The flowers bloom at two ends, one on each side.
Hu Guanman carried Jade Guanyin back home with great anxiety. To be precise, the place where he lived was not considered his home, but the princess's mansion.
This is a house built by the old emperor for his daughter. The servants in the princess's house are all her subjects.
The house is also very large, with rockeries, ponds, gardens and theaters. In the past, Hu Guan thought the house was nice, but as soon as he came out of Cao Guogong's house, he didn't like it.
Walking all the way to the main room in the backyard, he opened the door curtain and saw his wife. Princess Nankang was sitting on a chair, staring at her eldest son reading.
"The prince-in-law is back..." Princess Nankang looked at Hu Guan with something wrong, "How can you bring back a child?"
"What kid..." Hu Kan looked at the Jade Guanyin wrapped in his arms like a swaddling clothes, raised his leg and gave his son a kick, "Go out to play, your mother and I have something to do!"
The eldest son is already twelve years old, at the age when people find dogs unwelcome, and after hearing this, he rushes out to have fun.
"This is not a child!" Hu Guan said, untying the blouse wrapped around Jade Guanyin.
"Hiss!" Princess Nankang took a breath of air, "Your Dongchuan Marquis Mansion is divided?"
Hu Guan sat down on the chair in a daze, "Even if our family is separated, we still don't have such a good thing! My father didn't rob the palace back then!"
"Where did that come from?" Princess Nankang looked at Jade Guanyin with curiosity. Although she was a princess, she was not a direct descendant, and she was not ranked high or low. In fact, there was nothing good in the palace back then.
"This is a gift from Cao Guogong Li Jinglong!" Hu Guan said.
"Huh?" Princess Nankang immediately withdrew her gaze and asked doubtfully, "If you can't hit me with eight poles, why would he give you such an expensive gift?"
As he said that, seeing that his husband was silent, he came closer and said, "Consort, I can tell you that if you show your courtesy for nothing, there will be a plan, and there will be no pie in the sky..."
"It's such a thing!" Hu Guan explained in detail the story of going to Cao Guogong's mansion with the emperor.
Princess Nankang lowered her head and thought while listening.
"Li Jinglong's kid is not a man!" Hu Guan cursed, "He talked to the emperor, and always aimed at me with his eyes, just like this ...
It seems like a delay!"
"Ha!" Princess Nankang laughed out loud, "You are too worried!" She said with a teasing smile, "Why did I marry such a stupid man like you!"
"What's wrong with me? I'm so clever!" Hu Guan retorted.
"Your dexterity is not limited to the fact that you can bend your tongue and touch the upper teeth!" Princess Nankang scolded with a smile, "He didn't think he was in your way, he just asked you to help him when he was talking!"
Hu Guan thought, "What are you talking about?"
"Put him in your arms and say nice things to the emperor! You, you don't know how to behave at all. He is asking you to help, and he is also asking you to show your face in front of the emperor!" Princess Nankang pointed out, "Let you say in front of the emperor that you are not
Outsiders, let me show your loyalty!"
Hu Guanyin was stunned for a moment, then slapped his thigh, "How can I have such a colorful intestine?" Then he asked, "Then what does he mean by giving this Jade Guanyin?"
"Stop it!" Princess Nankang ordered sternly, "I'm telling you, you heartless person, don't go around telling people that Duke Cao Guo's family is taking advantage of the money, and..."
Hu Guan's little eyes blinked and he listened carefully.
After a while, he sighed, "My dear, you have more eyes than my hair. No wonder..."
"What's the wonder?" Princess Nankang asked with a smile.
"No wonder they have such big officials and so much money!" Hu Guan sighed.
Princess Nankang smiled and said, "You are wrong, I have a good father!" She said, sighing, "Li Jinglong has been greedy for money for a long time. The old man is so disrespectful that he will not tolerate anyone. If you change it to someone else,
If you try it, you will die eight hundred times!"
"Back in the palace, my mother-in-law said privately that the old man raised Li Jinglong as his own son. When he was drunk, he said that his sister was the only one with blood, and he was just a nephew. As long as it was not a serious crime of rebellion,
, as many years as the Zhu family has good luck, so many years will the Li family be rich!"
"Hiss!" It was Hu Guan's turn to take a breath of air.
"When my eldest brother was a child, Li Wenzhong was by his side. When the emperor was a child, he was Li Jinglong. Now that he has a prince, he is Li Jinglong's son." Princess Nankang continued, "It was all arranged by the old man. This is more affordable than giving a gold mountain!
"
"Hey!" Hu Guan sighed, "My father died early!"
"Ha!" Princess Nankang laughed out loud, "It's useless for him to be alive now. What can he do with such a stupid son like you?"
Hu Guan scratched his head and smiled. When his old man was found guilty, he almost had his wife skinned. Fortunately, his marriage to Nankang was decided early. Even though he had committed a crime, his salary would still be quite large, but his title would not be much.
The year has also recovered.
"Then keep it?" he asked.
"The Emperor has already given in, and you still won't accept it!" Nan Kang said with a smile, "The Emperor is also very kind to you!"
Hu Guan was not stupid. After his wife analyzed it, she also understood what Zhu Yunxi meant, "It's all for your sake, I will marry a good wife!" He said with a smile, "Then accept it!"
"Well, keep it. Let's go back to our family's 300-day banquet and send a message to Duke Cao Guo!" Nankang said with a smile.
"I...I don't want to fawn over him!" Hu Guan said coyly, "It seems that we are rushing..."
"Who is chasing whom?" Princess Nankang frowned, "Look at how petty you are! I am also a princess after all, and our son is the grandson of the old emperor and the nephew of the emperor. With many friends and many paths, things will change in turn.
He, Li Jinglong, will definitely come happily!"
Just as he was talking, the steward from outside came in and said, "Princess, someone from the palace has come to deliver the order!"
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After waiting for a while, Pu Wuyong, the deputy general manager of Qianqing Palace, came in with several eunuchs.
As soon as he came in, he saluted and said, "My slave, congratulations to Princess Nankang and the Prince Consort!"
"My father-in-law, please wake me up. Where does the joy come from..."
Before Hu Guan finished speaking, he asked his wife to pinch him.
Pu Wuyong stood in the room and cleared his throat, "The emperor has decreed that Hu Guan, the Prince Consort of Nankang, is a meritorious man. He is diligent, cautious, dignified and sincere. Specially, he is promoted to the deputy commander of the Governor's Guard..."
"Hiss!" Hu Guan almost bit his tongue.
There are three types of guards in the Forbidden City, one is the Jinwu Guard, the other is the Imperial Guard, and the other is the Dufu Guard, which is commonly known as the Yulin Army.
As a member of the Jinwu Guards, he was directly promoted to the second-in-command of the Royal Forest Army. Although most of these official positions do not have much real power, they cannot hold up against Jin Gui!
The surprise is yet to come, and the edict is not over yet.
"He is the Prince Consort of Nankang, Hu Guan, and is the Minister of Guanglu Temple..."
Confused, Hu Guan was immediately confused.
Guanglu Temple is the chief steward of the entire royal family. Although there is no such fat income as palace procurement now, it still manages the logistics of the entire royal family!
He never dared to think about this mission before! He never dared to dream about it!
"Prince-in-law, the oral edict has been brought!" Pu Wuyong said with a smile, "Long live my Lord, please go to the Ministry of Personnel tomorrow morning, and then enter the palace to face the Holy Guard!"
"I thank you Lord for your kindness!" Hu Guan reacted and said quickly.
"That slave has resigned!" Pu Wuyong laughed again.
"Father-in-law, walk slowly..."
"Wait a minute!" Princess Nankang smiled, turned around and went into the back hall. When she came out, she had a handful of golden melon seeds in her hand, "It's a cold day, I want you to go and have some wine with me!"
"This..." Pu Bucheng didn't dare.
"What? I don't accept the reward, so how can I let people run errands in vain! If anyone talks too much in the future, I will tell the emperor!" Princess Nankang said with a smile, "It's not valuable, just some odds and ends, how about you?
Take your head back and I'll talk to Mr. Park!"
"Then this slave has thanked the princess!" Pu Wuyong had no choice but to accept it, kowtow in thanks and leave.
Princess Nankang saw the man walking away, and when she turned around, she saw her husband sitting blankly on a chair, looking at the sky.
She smiled. Although this husband was dull and stupid, he was honest and a good companion. Over the years, he had never given her a concubine to live outside. He was a man worth entrusting to her.
"Nanny Zhang!"
"The slave is here!"
Princess Nankang said, "Pack it up. Tomorrow I will carry the third son into the palace to meet the old man! Let the kitchen chop the stuffing. Tomorrow I will get up early to make dumplings, millet cakes and bean paste stuffed buns. Dress the third young master in something festive.
, just use a big red package!"
"What are you doing in the palace?" Hu Guan wondered.
"What do you think?" Nan Kang nodded the other person's forehead, "Thank you, idiot!"
"Thank you for what?" Hu Guan didn't understand.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for the hush money you received!"
Hu Guan thought about it, "Didn't I give it to Jade Guanyin? Besides, how can I go to see the old man if I want to thank you? If I want to thank you, I am also thanking the emperor?"
"You are so confused! I'm telling you, if you go to Guanglu Temple from now on, you will just act like a silent gourd, you know? Don't interfere in anything!" Princess Nankang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "You agree to whatever they buy.
Don’t oppose or support, don’t make your own opinions on everything, just keep it in mind!”
"Why remember that?" Hu Guan was even more puzzled.
The princess of Nankang wanted to take action, as the daughters of Lao Zhu's family were all fierce-tempered.
"Keep it in your mind so that you can answer the emperor's questions in the future! Otherwise, what do you think you're doing, asking you to pay for the building? Have you developed that kind of brain?"