Unparalleled Concubine

   Chapter 640 Teach you to make skewers

   Old man Ye had been dealing with the Yuwen clan of the Northern Zhou Dynasty for the first half of his life, and he had a good understanding of how the cavalry of the Northern Zhou Dynasty responded and the situation of Yuwen's divisions.

Of course, what he knows may have been outdated for 30 years, but Li Xin can know a little bit about Beizhou's situation through Ye Sheng, and then get some latest information on Yuwen's ministries from Dajin's intelligence department, and they can help each other. For reference, there is a three-dimensional cognition of Yuwen who was defeated and escaped from the customs.

You must know that this Xianbei Yuwen clan once occupied most of Kyushu and almost ruled the world like the Great Jin Dynasty. Even if they were defeated and escaped, their remnants would drive away the other tribes in the north without any suspense, occupying a large area in the north. grassland.

   This is a very fierce race.

  Li Xin stayed in Chen Guogong's mansion for a long time, and he also had lunch at Ye's house. At night, he took the car home.

The next day, he officially presented a letter to the imperial court, saying that he had suffered a dark wound during the Western Expedition, and that he would need to recuperate at home for a period of time. Paid recuperation, and the affairs of the Ministry of War are handed over to the two servants temporarily.

At the same time, the amnesty of several of Li Ye's grandchildren was also sent to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, and several children up to the age of eight or nine were released from the prison. Although these children were originally exempted from the death penalty, they were supposed to act as criminals. Under Li Xin's mediation, the hard laborers or those who served as teachers were sent out of the capital to support Li Xin's farm.

Li Xin's Jing'an Marquis mansion now has more than 20 hectares of land under his name. At this time, one hectare of land is 50 acres, which means that Li Xin's current name has a full one thousand acres of land, which can be said to be worthy of the name. The big landlord, his Jinganhou mansion has a special farm in the suburbs of Beijing.

  There is also a manager of the Jingan Houfu in the farm, who is responsible for leasing the land to the tenants, collecting rent, storing grain, or turning the grain into cash and handing it over to the Houfu on a regular basis.

These things are usually handled by the eldest princess, or by the steward at the level of Chen Shiliu in the family. Li Xin does not ask about it, but it is easy to raise a few people in the farm. For Li Xin, it is just a matter of words. .

   What is more difficult to deal with is whether these little dolls of the Li family will have trouble again in the future.

   Of course, they are unlikely to be like in later TV dramas, because their family members were killed by the imperial court, and when they grew up, they became rebels, assassins, and single-mindedly wanted to assassinate the emperor. This kind of behavior is not very logical.

   There are not many people who will resist or even fight back in front of the huge state apparatus.

   This is actually very easy to understand. People in later generations can imagine if anyone would think of rebelling when facing a huge state machine, and where to rebel.

   They managed to get out of the calamity. For them, it was a rare thing to be able to save their lives and survive.

  The difficulty is, will anyone come to trouble Li Xin in the future because of these little dolls.

But in the past two years, Li Xin is going to get a house in his hometown of Yongzhou. Then he can send these children to Yongzhou, where the sky is high and the emperor is far away. After a long time, no one should pay attention to them. .

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   It took Li Xin a day to arrange the orphans of Li Ye's family properly, and then from the next day, he ordered his servants to close the door to thank guests and prepare to start his low-key career.

   But soon, his peaceful life for half a day was interrupted mercilessly.

   After lunch, when Li Xin was with the Ninth Princess in the backyard, Chen Shiliu rushed over and bowed his head to him: "Master Hou, someone wants to see you."

At this time, the Marquis of Jing'an was sitting under a wooden pavilion in the backyard with the nine princesses. There was a red charcoal fire in the wooden pavilion. The husband and wife, one of them took three skewers of meat, and they were roasting them. Happy.

  Zhong Xiaoxiao and Zhao Fang are two little dolls, one adds charcoal to the stove, and the other brushes Li Xin's own secret sauce on the meat skewers.

  The little girl Zhong Xiaoxiao took a small fan and fanned the fire a few times from time to time, and the family was happy.

   After hearing Chen Shiliu's words, Li Xin frowned slightly: "Didn't you say that you should close the door to thank you, just tell the people that Ben Hou is injured and needs to rest, so he will not see guests."

  Chen Shiliu lowered his head and smiled bitterly: "Master Hou, Xiao Xiao told that person, that person said he came from the palace..."

   "From the palace?"

   Li Xin frowned slightly, put down the meat skewers in his hand, and smiled at the Ninth Princess: "Your Highness, take them here to play first, I'll go and see who is coming."

  The nine princesses wiped their hands with a handkerchief, glanced reluctantly at the meat skewers that she had just baked and had no time to eat, and said, "Do you want me to accompany you?"

   Li Xin shook his head and said, "No need, you are here."

  Li Xin got up, followed Chen Shiliu and walked towards the front yard of Jing'an Hou's Mansion, and walked to the main hall where the guests were greeted. Li Xin saw an old man with gray hair and big clothes.

   He hurried up to meet him, and said to the old man, "Why did the Grand Duke come here?"

The person who came was Chen Ju, the first **** of the Chengde Dynasty, who is now the guardian of the Zhaoling Mausoleum.

  Chen Ju bowed his head and saluted: "Li Houye is polite, now our family can't afford this title."

   Li Xin said with a smile: "The Grand Duke will always be the Grand Duke, regardless of whether it is the Chengde Dynasty or the Taikang Dynasty."

  Chen Ju shook his head and said, "Our family resigned from the position of the **** as the inner **** yesterday with Your Majesty. From today onwards, we will no longer serve in the palace, and we will leave the capital later and go to Zhaoling."

   Li Xinxin was slightly surprised, and asked with a smile, "The Grand Duke resigned from the position of the inner servant, who will take over this position..."

   "Our family doesn't know either."

  Chen Ju smiled slightly at Li Xin: "When our family said goodbye to His Majesty at noon, His Majesty entrusted our family to bring someone to the Marquis of Jing'an Mansion, so I came here to disturb you."

   Li Xin said in surprise: "The Grand Duke also brought someone?"

   Chen Ju turned his body slightly, and Li Xin saw a seven- or eight-year-old boy standing behind his large clothes. After the boy stood up, he bowed and saluted Li Xin with a smile.

   "I have seen Master."

   After seeing the little doll, Li Xin was stunned for a moment, then immediately bent over to return the salute.

   "His Royal Highness...how did you come to the mansion?"

   "My minister has made a mistake, please forgive me, Your Highness."

Chen Ju hurriedly stepped forward and helped Li Xin up. The old **** gave Li Xin a deep look and said with a smile, "The majesty ordered before coming down that His Highness the Crown Prince should stay in the Marquis of Jing'an mansion for a few days. Learn something from Lord Li, and after a few days when the Ministry of Rites is ready, I will officially apprentice to Lord Hou."

   "His Majesty specifically instructed, saying that His Royal Highness is no longer a prince when he is in Jing'an Hou's mansion, but only a student and nephew of Li Houye. There are no monarchs and ministers here, only masters and disciples, aunts and nephews."

   Li Xin's daughter-in-law, Princess Jiu, is the younger sister of Emperor Taikang, and the little boy in front of him is indeed Li Xin's nephew.

   The Crown Prince walked up to Li Xin with a smile and said, "Uncle, where is my aunt, I miss her."

  When the Emperor Taikang was in the Wei Wangfu, the ninth princess was in the Wei Wangfu all the year round, and had long been acquainted with the former prince.

  Chen Ju glanced at Li Xin with a smile, then bent over to say goodbye, Li Xin took a few steps and let Chen Shiliu take Chen Ju's place out of the front door.

   When Chen Ju was far away, Li Xin looked at the little brat beside him, feeling a little speechless.

   That emperor, how big of a heart he had to leave a country like this to himself.

  If any **** in the palace sent the prince over, Li Xin could ask him to take the prince back, but Chen Ju sent it back, Li Xin had no choice, after all, Chen Ju didn't have to go back to the palace.

  Thinking of this, Li Xin glanced at the little prince helplessly.

   "His Royal Highness, let's talk about it first, I'll send you back after staying for two days."

   "That won't work."

   His Royal Highness rolled his eyes and said, "Auntie is much more at ease here than in the palace. It's so easy to leave the palace, so I live here!"

   As he said that, he happily ran towards the backyard of the Jing'an Marquis Mansion, still shouting "Auntie".

   Li Xin sighed helplessly.

   "Forget it, I'll teach you how to bake skewers for a few days, and then I'll send you back..."

   (end of this chapter)