"I said sister, don't think too much, listen to my sister-in-law, the shop on Dexing Street will never be wrong."
"However, the money at home is running out. If you want to take out the five hundred taels again, you will really lose all your money." Li Xiaocui said weakly.
"What are you afraid of? Doesn't your Master Mu still have military pay? Besides, as soon as there is a war, won't his rewards come? Besides, this shop returns money very quickly, and you can get it back in three months. Li Xiaocui's sister-in-law laughed, then turned her head to the woman on the right and said, "Madam Liu, isn't it?"
Madam Liu covered the corners of her mouth and smiled lightly: "That's right, I've been jealous of that shop for a long time, but it's a pity that I don't have so much money."
"Mrs. Mu is so lucky to have married such a good husband. Master Mu loves you so much. There is not a single concubine in the family of a sixth-rank official." Another lady smiled coquettishly. It's like the one in her family, the owner of the ninth rank, Bo's family has two concubines.
"That's right, my brother-in-law hurts my sister like an eyeball." Li Xiaocui's sister-in-law covered her mouth and laughed.
"Today we are here to visit the lake, what are we doing talking about those mundane things?" Mrs. County Wei said, shaking the fan in her hand.
"Yes, yes, the weather is good today, and the sun is not too strong, why don't we go to the Yanqing Pavilion?" Madam Liu laughed.
"That's good." The others agreed, they turned the corner, and took the girl and woman to the pavilion by the lake.
"I heard that there is going to be a wedding in General Yang's mansion? Does Mrs. Mu know?" The matriarch of the county magistrate approached Li Xiaocui and asked.
"Really? I haven't heard my husband mention it." Li Xiaocui said in surprise. Yang Zhao is the biggest official here, but he has always been single, not to mention that his wife doesn't even have a concubine, his marriage has always been the most concerned by Dai County people.
"I heard that the general's mansion is buying servants recently, and they need some maids. I heard that they are preparing for the general's marriage." The wife of the county magistrate gave Li Xiaocui a slight sideways look, and said.
Li Xiaocui's face flushed slightly, and she subconsciously said, "That's definitely not about marrying a wife. If it's such a big deal for a general to marry a wife, my husband will definitely tell me about it."
"Really? It must have been misrepresented." Mrs. Xiancheng smiled slightly and walked away.
"Of course it was rumored outside. The relationship between General Yang and my brother-in-law is not so good. If General Yang gets married, my brother-in-law will definitely be the first to know. I have to tell my sister quickly. I'm afraid Mrs. Yang will be the first to see her." It has to be my sister." Li Xiaocui's sister-in-law said loudly beside her.
"Of course it is." Mrs. Liu and the other ladies smiled at each other and said in unison.
Li Xiaocui was originally a peasant girl. When delivering meals to her brother, she met Mu Guiyun several times in the wasteland of the Ling family. Unexpectedly, Mu Guiyun came to her house to propose marriage, and even gave her a very generous gift. After marriage, Mu Guiyun gave her his military salary and 20,000 taels of silver bills, and gave her all the care of the family. At the beginning, Li Xiaocui was very careful not to leave the gate. There is no one I know, just a person and a few maids guarding the small courtyard to live, but when her elder brother and sister-in-law also moved to live in the county, life is different, and the sister-in-law took her to know these county officials Ladies, at first, these officials and wives looked down on them, but later seeing that Mu Guiyun was really kind to this lady, and Li Xiaocui was willing to spend money, so she gradually accepted them.
However, even if Li Xiaocui is willing to spend money, she is a peasant girl after all, and she doesn't show it on the surface, so she doesn't like her more or less in her heart.
Li Xiaocui knew it well, seeing the mocking smiles on the faces of the wives, she became anxious, and said: "Perhaps General Yang wants to have a concubine first, for an official like General Yang, the emperor will decide on all marriages. It’s just a concubine’s room, so it’s possible that my husband doesn’t care about it.”
"It's a great blessing to be General Yang's concubine," Mrs. Bo said with a smile, "For someone like General Yang, I don't know how many people want to be his maid."
"Speaking of this, I wonder if Mrs. Mu can deliver a letter for me? My niece from my mother's family is also sixteen this year. She is both talented and beautiful. She is the most virtuous and virtuous. I wonder if you can ask, then, is General He interested in getting married? "Madam County Lieutenant smiled at Li Xiaocui.
Mrs. Liu suddenly laughed, and said: "Madam's good idea, then General He has been promoted to a higher rank after the battle last autumn, and now he is General Mingwei."
"This," Li Xiaocui said with a smile, "I'm afraid it's not easy. I heard from my husband that General He has a hidden disease, so I'm afraid he won't marry a wife."
Not only the county lieutenant's wife, but the others also sighed regretfully.
"Huh, there are already people in the pavilion?" Mrs. Liu pointed to the octagonal pavilion, and quickly changed the subject. She despised Li Xiaocui even more in her heart. The husband and wife said privately that it was because the husband trusted you, so he actually said that to you. To outsiders, if this rumor spreads, will General He still be a man
"Since there are already people, why don't we change the place." Mrs. Xian Cheng said, not far from the pavilion at this time, you can see the faint soldiers around.
Li Xiaocui's sister-in-law also saw those sergeants in light armor, and she saw the red totem on the stomach of the armor with sharp eyes. She remembered that Mu Guiyun's armor also had this totem. Turning his eyes, he smiled and said, "No need to change, I'm afraid those people are my brother-in-law's subordinates, my sister went over and told them to let them out." After speaking, she tugged Li Xiaocui's sleeve.
Li Xiaocui knew what her sister-in-law meant. Although she had been with these wives for some time and often played cards together at gatherings, she also knew that these people looked down on her from the bottom of their hearts. If it is closed, it will not fail to show Mu Guiyun's face, and she also took a closer look, there is no senior general she knows there, and the people in the pavilion are not that high, which is quite a problem. Good opportunity, let these ladies take a good look, I, Mrs. Mu, also have an identity!
Li Xiaocui puffed up her chest and said, "I'm afraid it's the family members of the small school below, it doesn't matter, I'll ask her to come out."
Li Xiaocui straightened her waist with a sweet smile, and took the lead towards the pavilion with a graceful figure. There were more than ten meters away from the octagonal pavilion. The chill was at the front.
"Brother, this is Captain Mu's wife, can you give us the pavilion?" Li Xiaocui's sister-in-law stepped forward and asked.
"Lieutenant Mu?" The personal guard glanced at Li Xiaocui, and said, "Mrs., leave quickly, don't make things difficult for us."
Li Xiaocui's face froze, and out of the corner of his eyes, he saw the faces of the wives who were several steps away, and then lowered his face and said, "Where are you a soldier? My husband is Mu Guiyun, Lieutenant of Zhaowu School. Be so rude to me, be careful with military law."
The other guard smiled and said, "Mrs. Mu, let's go."
"You're cheating again! Ling Qingyu, let me tell you, if you do this again, I will lose my face!"
"Yeah, who is to blame for the smelly hands?"
Hearty laughter came from the octagonal pavilion, Li Xiaocui unconsciously stretched her neck to look, and saw four people sitting around the stone table in the pavilion, two of them were women playing, and one, she had a vague impression, seemed to be I went to her bridal chamber during the wedding, that's right, it was the head Ling who gave the huge gold bracelet.
"Isn't that from Master Ling?" Li Xiaocui muttered.
"What is Master Ling?" Li Xiaocui's sister-in-law approached her and asked.
"It's the house where my brother and the others first went to help, the head of the Ling family." Li Xiaocui said in a low voice. Those five pairs of gold bracelets made her face a lot at the time, although they were taken away by her mother and sister-in-law for various reasons not long after.
"So it's her, who am I supposed to be!" Li Xiaocui's sister-in-law said in a low voice with a trace of contempt on her face, "Could she be the general's concubine?" A few acres of land, I went to work for the Ling family during the slack season. At that time, the Ling family was the uncle, but now, my sister married a sixth-rank official, so their family is the in-laws of the official family, and Li Xiaocui took Mu Guiyun's money. They were brought back to the family intermittently, and the Li family was considered rich, so the Ling family was naturally not as good as their official in-laws.
"Maybe." Li Xiaocui said hesitantly.
"What are you afraid of? It's just an aunt. You can still compare with you. The one you date in the future must be General Yang's wife. An aunt, she won't be able to stand on stage." Sister-in-law Li Xiaocui snorted.
Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Xiancheng glanced at each other when they heard their words, then stepped back a few steps, far away from the two people in front, and made it clear to the two guards whose faces were darkened that we and those two The goods are not together, definitely not together!
Just kidding, who is the Ling family? How many fields and how many shops are there in Dai County? Others don't know, but Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Xiancheng know that Mrs. Liu's family is the richest family in Dai County, but according to her husband, compared to Ling's family, their family is like an ant and an elephant. Mrs. Cheng once heard her husband lament that the spirit of the Ling family in opening up wasteland in Dai County was something he had never seen before.
The personal guard took a step forward and said, "Madam Mu, please leave quickly, otherwise don't blame us for offending."
"Brother, what are you doing?" Li Xiaocui's sister-in-law was flashed by the knife, and shouted: "Even if she is General Yang's aunt, is she older than my sister? My sister has been awarded the title of sixth-rank Anren by the imperial court! "
She yelled loudly, and everyone in the octagonal pavilion heard it. Ling Qingyu turned her head to look over there unconsciously, and saw two beautifully dressed women, and two women behind them watched the fun with smiles on their faces. Going past, ah oh, it was the backs of two women who barely ran.
"Who is it? What's the matter?" Ling Qingyu raised his voice and asked.
Before the guard could speak, Li Xiaocui's sister-in-law had already said loudly: "This is Captain Mu's wife, she wants to rest in this pavilion, why don't you hurry up and see her?"
"Mu Guiyun's wife? Li Xiaocui?" Ling Qingyu thought for a while, dug out the name from his head, and asked.
"You are so rude. Even if you are General Yang's aunt, you are nothing more than a concubine! How can you talk to my sister like that? My sister is Mrs. Mu, a sixth-rank security person with a rank, why don't you hurry up Come out and kowtow to salute!" Li Xiaocui's sister-in-law blurted out as she saw the mockery on Madam Bo's face became more and more obvious.
"Shut up!" The guard yelled and was about to step forward, when a figure flew in front of her, the long sword was unsheathed, and the cold tip of the sword touched Li Xiaocui's sister-in-law's throat.
"What are you doing!" Li Xiaocui was startled, and shouted to the guard next to her, "Are you still standing? Why don't you kill this man quickly!"
Ling Qingyu's face darkened, and he called: "Jiu, come here."
The tip of Ying Jiu's sword had already drawn a bloodstain on Li Xiaocui's sister-in-law's neck. Hearing Ling Qingyu's voice, she was extremely angry, but she honestly withdrew the sword and returned to Ling Qingyu's side.
"You are so brave!" As soon as the sword left, Li Xiaocui's sister-in-law's pale face recovered some blood, and she jumped on her feet and said, "How dare you treat me like this! When I tell my brother-in-law, and you, you actually watched him commit murder , wait until I tell my brother-in-law to cut off your heads!"
"Nine, carry me over there," Ling Qingyu said with a faint smile, "I'll kowtow to Liupinan."