Liu Mingzhi had just escaped from Qi Yun Qiya's wolf's mouth and avoided entering the tiger's den of the three princesses Qinglian and the other girls. It was rare that he did not go out on horseback!
After wandering out of the palace gate, Liu Mingzhi for the first time no longer had the thought of going home to accompany his wife and entertain the children as soon as he went to court!
Liu Mingzhi wandered around the street in a daze, looking at the familiar scenes and shops on the street, Liu Mingzhi felt sad about leaving for the first time!
This kind of sadness is much stronger than when I came to the capital from Jiangnan!
Thinking back many years ago, Future Capital only lived in Jinling for about a year after its rebirth!
As for Beijing, I roughly estimate that I have lived in Beijing for six or seven years!
When he first entered Beijing, he was only nineteen years old, a young man in his prime!
He is already twenty-seven now, and will be twenty-eight in two months, with several children running around!
Nine years passed so quickly, so fast that I was caught off guard!
"Penglai Restaurant! How did you end up here!"
Liu Mingzhi looked up at the plaque of the restaurant. He was about to turn around and leave but then stopped. Maybe it was time to drink some wine. As the saying goes, a drink can solve a thousand worries!
Four months passed after a few drunken episodes!
Liu Mingzhi lowered his head and glanced at the official robes on his body, turned around and walked towards the ready-made clothing store not far away, wearing a high-quality official robe to go to a restaurant for a drink!
I feel happy, but other guests will feel uncomfortable!
"This guest woman is here to meet you, sir!"
Liu Mingzhi did not expect that the owner of the ready-made clothing store was actually a woman in her thirties who still had charm and a graceful figure. Although she was not a queen, she was better than Xiaojiabiyu, with a gentle temperament, which gave people a very warm feeling.
Feel!
Such a woman is not at home caring for her husband and raising children, but for some reason she wants to come out and run a business!
When the woman saw a guest coming to the door, she greeted him from the counter. Later, she discovered that the guest was a court official, and she hurriedly gave him a blessing!
"Sister-in-law, no gifts are required. Once you leave the palace, you will be your guest. Sister-in-law, you don't have to be formal!"
"Thank you, sir. I wonder why you came to the women's shop?"
Liu Mingzhi raised his eyebrows slightly and glanced at the layout of the clothing store: "Eat!"
"Ah? Eating? Sir, you are kidding me. This is a clothing store. You should go to a restaurant to eat!"
"Sister-in-law also knows that she owns a ready-made clothing store. Why do you think you came here?"
The female shopkeeper was also a thoughtful woman, and she immediately understood what Liu Mingzhi was teasing her about!
You can't come to a clothing store just to buy clothes for the sake of eating!
The female shopkeeper chuckled twice with a blushing face: "What you are saying is that the women are confused and don't know what kind of clothes you want to buy, dark clothes, Confucian clothes, straight skirts, or round-neck robes?"
"I didn't expect my sister-in-law's shop to be so small, but so complete! Come and wear a scholar's Confucian robe!"
"Yes, sir, please stand over here and let me measure your size. Only if you know the size can you choose clothes!"
Liu Mingzhi stood next to the counter and stretched out his palm. The female shopkeeper politely picked up a string from the counter and measured Liu's body size!
Then he raised his hand with the needle scar and measured it on Young Master Liu's arm!
Liu Mingzhi inadvertently caught a glimpse of the exquisite beauty that was accidentally leaked when the female shopkeeper bent down, and quickly turned his eyes away and looked away!
Men are lustful by nature, but they cannot have no bottom line!
"Sir, what do you think of this piece of clothing? According to the measurements of a civilian woman, it fits your body perfectly!"
Liu Mingzhi frowned slightly and looked at the coarse cloth shirt in the female shopkeeper's hand: "Sister-in-law, do you have any Sujin cloth?"
The female shopkeeper shook her head in embarrassment!
"Sichuan brocade is also fine!"
The female shopkeeper shook her head again!
"Yunjin is fine too!"
"Sir, a common woman can't afford a piece of silk and satin to make ready-made clothes even if she sells clothes for a month!"
"Sorry, sister-in-law, let's get dressed like this! Is there any place to change clothes? I buy clothes just to make it easier to go out!"
The female shopkeeper hesitated for a moment: "Sir, the shop is too small, why don't you go to the housewife's room to change!"
“Is this appropriate for ◇Linglingkanshu.com◆?”
"As an official of the imperial court, your Excellency will not think too much of the humble appearance of a common woman. If your Excellency does not buy clothes because there is no place to change, the common woman will not be able to do any business today. Your Excellency and the common people will not be able to do any business."
Come, wife!"
"Sorry, sister-in-law!"
Liu Mingzhi stopped being polite and followed the female shopkeeper who opened the curtain to the backyard!
"Sir, please go in and change. The housewife is waiting for you outside!"
"Thank you!"
Liu Mingzhi entered the room. There was a simple table with four chairs. On the table was a memorial tablet for his deceased husband, Lu Dawei. A dressing table, a bed, and a table for the female shopkeeper to make clothes were placed by the window!
A seven or eight-year-old child is lying in front of the dressing table holding a book and reading hard!
All the arrangements can be seen clearly at a glance!
"Who are you!"
Perhaps it was the sound of footsteps that caused his son to wake up from the book and look at Liu Mingzhi in surprise and worry!
"Child, don't be afraid. The clothes your uncle bought from your mother can be changed and left!"
The child stopped talking, but still stared at Liu Mingzhi closely, for fear that he would do something wrong!
Because he was a boy, Liu Mingzhi didn't shy away from it. He changed out of his official robe and put on a rough Confucian shirt. He waved to the child and turned around and walked out the door!
"Um?"
Liu Mingzhi stopped and stared at the corner behind the door, a pair of tattered and shapeless armor on a wooden shelf!
Hanging next to the armor was a simple but spotless Huanshou sword. Liu Mingzhi recognized it at a glance as the armor of Long Wuwei before he changed his uniform!
Looking back at the memorial tablet on the table and the armor in the corner, Liu Mingzhi had a complicated expression!
Unexpectedly, this ready-made clothing store was opened by the widow of a martyr!
"grown ups!"
Liu Mingzhi came back to his senses and looked at the female shopkeeper who had opened the door and walked in with a worried look on her face.
The female shopkeeper glanced at the child at the window from time to time. Apparently Mr. Liu had not gone out for so long. The female shopkeeper thought Liu Mingzhi had done something to the child!
"Sister-in-law, I'm sorry, I'm rude, but I would like to ask, was the late eldest brother a soldier of the Longwu Guard?"
The female shopkeeper was startled for a moment, and then she woke up when she saw Liu Mingzhi’s eyes resting on the armor behind the door. Fang Rong nodded sadly!
"My late husband served as a captain in the Longwu Guard during his lifetime. He died in battle when the Dulu tribe invaded the border and attacked the city a few years ago. Yingzhou City in northern Xinjiang and the imperial military department only sent back a jar of ashes and dozens of taels of ashes.
Pension, we orphans and widowed mothers have nothing to do, so a commoner woman can only use the pension from her late husband to open a clothing store like this to make ends meet!"
Liu Mingzhi nodded silently when he heard this: "My condolences to my sister-in-law. My eldest brother died for the country, which is the right thing to do!"
The female shopkeeper sighed silently: "I've been gone for a few years, so what can I do if I don't look away? I still have to live the life I deserve!"
"Can I see my eldest brother's armor when he was alive?"
"Easy, my lord!"
After receiving permission, Liu Mingzhi slowly walked to the armor and raised his hand to caress the tattered armor!
The armor was washed clean, and there were seven holes for arrows in it. All the holes were from the chest!
Seven feather arrows pierced through the chest, what kind of hero must he be!
Liu Mingzhi let go of his armor, raised his sword and pulled it out of its scabbard. There were no less than ten large and small gaps on the blade!
Liu Mingzhi closed his eyes, and the corpses of the 70,000 soldiers on the battlefield in the Western Regions came to mind. He advised you not to talk about the matter of making a marquis, as one general can accomplish the task of killing thousands of bones!
One general's success will lead to ten thousand bones drying up!
My position as Duke was built on the bones of 70,000 Han family members!
Liu Mingzhi suddenly opened his eyes, inserted the sword into the sheath and hung it back up!
"My lord, your official robe!"
I don’t know when the female shopkeeper had packed Liu Mingzhi’s official robe in a bag!
"Thank you, sister-in-law! This is the money for clothes. I'll take my leave first!"
The female shopkeeper looked at the ten taels of silver in her hand in astonishment and hurriedly chased after her!
"Sir, there are too many. The clothes are only one penny. Ten taels is too much!"
"Sister-in-law, just be my little brother and do your best to help the soldier's widow."
"Poor bones by the Wuding River, you are like a person in a boudoir's dream! The imperial court is ashamed of the families of you soldiers who died in the war. I, Liu Mingzhi, the Duke of Dingguo, and my sister-in-law, I will do my best to let the imperial court provide you with subsidies.
, to comfort the heroic spirits of Han’er who sacrificed their lives for the country!”
When the female shopkeeper heard the two poems Liu Mingzhi left before going out, her pretty eyes slowly became misty!
Liu Mingzhi walked towards Penglai Restaurant with his baggage on his back, looking at everything around him with bright eyes!
After four months, I can still serve as the left minister of the household department for four months. It is time to do something in these four months, do something for the orphans of the soldiers!
How are the families of the 70,000 sons under his command doing now?