My Wayward Ex-Wife

Chapter 23

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When Mu Huanqing was arranging these living matters, Fu Yanlin had already learned from his subordinates. He had no objection or objection, and his subordinates understood that the adults really planned to stay with the madam.

Mu Huanqing continued to work on her own. She lives in two yards with him, and doesn't bother him on weekdays, but she will let Doudou accompany her father, besides because he loves her daughter, she actually has another selfishness.

After all, this Zhuangzi belongs to the Hou Mansion. She has worked here for four years. If Fu Yanlin suddenly wants Zhuangzi back, she will feel distressed. Although she can buy another Zhuangzi of her own, the environment of this Zhuangzi is very good, with beautiful mountains and rivers, water sources and pastures, the vegetables grown are large and crisp, and the cattle and sheep raised are strong and beautiful, and can be grazing horses at any time. , it only takes an hour and a half to reach her Mazhuang, and it takes less than a day to go back and forth, which is really perfect.

For this bit of selfishness, she took care of Fu Yanlin's food and lodging. Not only did she eat a lot of food, but she also took out her treasured wine and asked the steward to send a pot to his house, and even his soldiers all had a share.

The attitude of the hostess affects the attitude of all the servants in the whole village. Everyone sees that their master is so polite to the commander-in-chief.

Fu Yanlin inspected all the huge manor, from the stables, vegetable gardens, livestock pens, to workshops, textile workshops and breweries, these places have special servants who work on time and are responsible for the division of labor. Servants are very different.

The servants of the Hou Mansion all have body deeds, whether they are living deeds or dead deeds, they are all slaves. In front of their masters, they unconsciously show their humble servility, and they only have a deep reverence for their masters, but the servants of this manor have I can't feel the humility of slaves.

They may respect you, obey you, and be loyal to you, but at the same time they maintain their self-respect, and do not bow down to you just because you are a prince or a general soldier.

Fu Yanlin saw everything in his eyes. She is still wearing a convenient Hu clothes. Occasionally, he will see her chatting and laughing with the servants, and he will also work by himself or play chess with the servants. Keep an appropriate distance, and do not overstep your duty because of the master's kindness.

The woman here is different from the one in the Hou Mansion. Her gentleness and restraint in the Hou Mansion turned out to be just a layer of protection, and she was the true temperament in this village.

Fu Yanlin looked at her, remembering that the two were too close that day, her breath blew on his face, and her facial features were clearly presented in front of him. She is not the most beautiful, but she is very delicate. From a close look, she does not have a charm, and there is no rouge or incense on her body, and the breath of the whole person is elegant and refreshing.

Fu Yanlin stayed in Zhuangzi for five days and then led the soldiers away. When he was leaving, he turned his head to look at her and saw that she led the people to respect him respectfully, but it was only respectful, in her eyes, He couldn't see any remorse.

He couldn't help frowning. In her heart, I'm afraid that she can't wait for him to leave soon, right

He just glanced at it, didn't say a word, touched Doudou's face before leaving, and rode away without looking back.

As soon as he left, Mu Huanqing breathed a sigh of relief. She can't stand this man if he doesn't leave. In order to serve him, she did not dare to leave the manor for five days, delaying a lot of things, but he enjoyed it, and directly regarded her study as an office. Those soldiers who came in and out these five days, even trampled by horses She destroyed her vegetable garden and damaged several vegetables.

Although he punished the erring soldier for repairing the fence for her afterwards, it was the vegetables that she felt bad for! The vegetables that took months to grow are about to be harvested, but they are trampled to pieces. Can she not be angry

When he left, she finally didn't have to serve this god. Besides, he didn't talk to her about the horse anymore, and she was happy to pretend to forget it, because she thought that if he wanted to take Zhuangzi back someday, she would ask him for compensation. horse thing.

Mu Huanqing dressed up happily and went to the stable to appease Lanlan. She has been wronged for the past five days, because the horses of those soldiers are all stallions. She was afraid that Lan Lan would be disturbed by the stallion in estrus, so she did not dare to let it out of the stable, and now she can finally sit back and relax.

Lan Lan was also infected with the master's good mood, gasping from her nostrils, stepping on her front hooves, and looking excited. Mu Huanqing turned on his horse with a smile, took Xinyu and Li Yuan out of the village, ran to the prairie, and headed towards Mazhuang.

Fu Yanlin returned to the capital, and immediately went to the palace the next day to revoke his life. He re-booked the horses recovered by the bandits, registered the number, and re-branded the official horses whose tail marks had been erased, as identification, and reported them. to the emperor.

The Marquis of Zhenyuan made a great contribution in suppressing the bandits and retrieving the officials and horses this time. War horses represent the military strength of a country and are also the guarantee of the stability of the throne. Therefore, after emperors of all dynasties ascended the throne, they paid great attention to horse politics, spared no effort to cultivate war horses and set up horse workshops.

The young Emperor Ruiwu was no exception. In the past five years since the emperor took the throne, he has always been subject to the prime minister's faction headed by the old ministers. Many new policies have been hindered because the prime minister's faction has been obstructed, and even used the old emperor's bequest. To suppress the new emperor, Emperor Ruiwu had to swallow his anger and try to speed up the cultivation of his own power.

He promoted rookies and adopted civilians, but every time he made the appointment of the official system, whether it was the appointment of civilians or the adoption of military officers, he was always obstructed by many ministers from the prime minister's faction, which inevitably set off a war in the court. Accusation, today you knock on my pile, tomorrow I will dig your wall.

Since the Marquis of Zhenyuan belonged to the prime minister's faction, the commander-in-chief's success in suppressing the bandits this time was a victory for the prime minister's faction.

Emperor Ruiwu intends to rectify the ills since the establishment of the official horse. In view of the shrinking horse market, the implementation of the new horse policy can expand the market. For example, this time the official horse was stolen because there were too many restrictions on the private horse, resulting in no increase in the number of horses. The counter-reduction caused Xiao Xiao bandit to take the idea of Guanma and take the risk.

At the same time, Emperor Ruiwu wanted to implement the new horse policy because the herdsmen who kept official horses were officials with a lot of oil and water. Whether it was raising horses, buying horses or training horses, the group herdsmen could get a lot of oil and water. And it is the people of the prime minister's faction who control the group of pastors.

The emperor wants to change the oil and water that they have monopolized for many years, of course they will be against it.

Over the matter of horse administration, the court was arguing again today, and the prime minister even knelt down in court, crying to the old emperor that he was useless and could not continue the old emperor's virtuous government.

This time, the prime minister's faction won a temporary victory.

Fu Yanlin exited the hall, and was suddenly stopped on the way out of the palace. He turned around, frowned, and the person who called him was Mu Cangying, also his father-in-law.

Even if the Fu family and the Mu family became in-laws, they seldom communicated with each other because of different parties, and Mu Cangying seldom talked to Fu Yanlin in the courtroom.

Calling him this time surprised Fu Yanlin.

"Lord Mu." Fu Yanlin cupped his hands as a greeting, but his cold attitude showed that he didn't like seeing people from the Mu family.

Mu Cangying understood this very well, but he still kept smiling, even if the Marquis of Zhenyuan never called him father-in-law, he didn't take it seriously, and the smile on his face was never shaken by the other party's malicious words.

For some reason, looking at Mu Liaoying, Fu Yanlin thought of Mu Huanqing. When she was dealing with him, just like her father, she always smiled.

"My son-in-law has done a great job this time. Father-in-law, I'm here to congratulate you."

"No, it's just the responsibility."

"My son-in-law, Mo is modest, and being able to recover those lost warhorses is comparable to our ten years' military strength."

Fu Yanlin knew what Mu Cangying said was true. Good horses are hard to find. Those war horses are all precious stallions, and more war horses can be cultivated, not to mention that some breeds cannot be bought with money.

Fu Yanlin didn't say a word. He walked on the palace road, and Mu Cangying walked with him. He didn't speak, and Mu Cangying didn't care, and continued to chat with him.

"What do you think about the horse politics that the emperor wants to implement?"

Fu Yanlin paused, tickled the corner of his mouth, and continued to move forward.

"If Master Mu wants to persuade me to join your faction, it will be in vain."

Mu Zhiying was not annoyed when she heard it, she smiled and said, "My son-in-law is still the same, with the same temper as the old marquis. I was just curious to ask, the son-in-law is not interested in talking about it, so let's change the subject, my eldest daughter. How have you been?"

Fu Yanlin was alert in his heart, but his face was still indifferent and alienated, and he spoke without changing his face. "same as usual."

"My eldest daughter is like a horse of a thousand miles. She's used to galloping on the grasslands, and doesn't like the constraints of the capital. Please be considerate of my son-in-law."

Fu Yanlin just hummed. Hearing this, Mu Cangying seemed to still not know that his daughter lived in Zhuangzi, so he put down his guard.

"A horse that is good for thousands of miles also needs Bole, understand its needs, and know what environment is best for it, otherwise even if it travels thousands of miles a day, encounters bad weather, let it rain and thunder, and don't know how to take care of it. It will get sick. But to take care of this thousand-mile horse, it cannot be locked up and pampered. It has to be kept half-wild, half-wild and half-raised, not only taking into account the needs of the horse, but also maintaining the characteristics of its ability to travel thousands of miles a day. You have to rely on Bole to think about it, do you think so?"

Fu Yanlin looked at Mu Cangying's smiling face, and smiled. "Master Mu seems to be very knowledgeable about raising horses."