The Possession of My Beloved

    Mr. Li was not in the front hall, but stood outside the gate of Lu Mansion to count the goods. A thin, small middle-aged man, dressed in a loose official uniform, was counting the gift list sent by the Sui Wangfu with his fingers, seeing if it was missing.

    Lu Wu has welcomed too many noble people today, and he is a little tired. Now talking to this newly appointed parent official, he also feels that he can't keep up.

    Li Guangcai saw Lu Wu come out, he quickly lifted the hem of his official robe, and walked up to him in small steps: "Master Lu, I am Li Guangnian, the new county magistrate."

    Lu Wu cupped his hands and said, "I don't know what the county chief is here for?"

    Li Guangcai carried a copy of Dayan's law of marriage with him, took it out of his waist sleeve and turned the pages, then pointed to one of the passages: "The law of Dayan is written in Understood. To pass the dowry, both parties must sign the marriage certificate. The so-called book first and then the ceremony. But I just asked the second master of your family. King Sui did not sign the marriage certificate with your family, but gave the dowry early. The law is not in conformity with the law! As a local governor, it is my duty to correct the law and discipline. Therefore, your family must first return the five carts of dowry. You can only accept it after you sign the marriage certificate."

    Lu Mu has been with the county magistrate. Originally, when he saw Lord Li with the servants, riding a small donkey and parked in front of the mansion, he thought that the adults were here to watch the fun.

    So Lu Mu couldn't control the excitement of climbing the dragon and the phoenix, and told Mr. Li about the Suiwang Nali truthfully.

    And Lu Wu felt that the new county magistrate was... meticulous enough! Xu Shi heard about the big battle in front of the Lu family's door, so he also came to join in the fun. As expected of his parents, he practiced Dayan's law profoundly, but he discovered such a flaw!

    Lu Wu felt relieved when he heard this, and said with joy: "Your Excellency is very right, it is indeed unethical... It's just that where the king of Sui lives, the old man still doesn't know..."

    Li Guangcai waved his hand, indicating that this is not important: "Since you have agreed to retire the dowry, then the next thing will be left to this official. Sir, go back and rest first."

    After saying this, Li Guangnian instructed his officers to set up horses to drive the carriage, and pulled the five carriages of dowry out of the alley.

    "Master Li, please stay!" Just as Li Guangcai was about to leave, someone shouted behind him.

    He looked back and saw a beautiful and bright girl standing in front of the house. Li Guangcai had never seen such a good-looking girl in his life, so he intuitively guessed that this should be Liu Miantang, who King Sui wanted to accept.

    Sure enough, the beautiful and bright-eyed girl came to salute and gave her name. Li Guangcai hurriedly lowered his head and said solemnly, "I don't know why Miss Liu called this official?"

    Miantang greeted Mr. Li deeply and said: "Miantang is here, thank Mr. Li for your trouble!"

    Li Guangcai waved his hand and said: "Miss, don't be too polite, I and... Cui Jiu took the exam together in the past, but unfortunately he was drawn for the exam by the sage, and he missed the palace exam. After all, it was barely the same year as the Entry Exam. So I naturally have to do the things he entrusted."

    Miantang knew from the mouth of Li's mother that Li Guang was the one who was inserted by Huaiyang King An, but she never thought that this little county magistrate turned out to be the origin of the temple tempting flower. Moreover, it seems that this Lord Li has a good relationship with King Huaiyang.

    Cui Xingzhou... Sending such talents here, is it not a big talent?

    Miantang didn't have time to think about it, she just bowed again: "My lord is willing to come forward, I'm relieved, but King Sui, as a royal surname, has a high position and authority, if he is not willing to give up..."

    Li Guangcai waved his hand again and said: "I always follow the laws of the country in my work. If I break the law, even the prince will be guilty of the same crime as the common people. King Sui kept filial piety for the former emperor and led the practice of cultivation. He is such a virtuous person. How can you knowingly commit a crime and become a refugee villager?"

    This Li Guangcai has an upright and upright face. At first glance, he is an old-fashioned person.

    But when Miantang saw him put a towering iron hat on King Sui, it can be seen that Mr. Li's talent is absolutely outstanding.

    Li Guangcai also seemed to understand Miantang's worries, so he clasped his fists again and said, "Miss Liu, don't worry, even if the innocence collapses and there is a big man on it, it won't hit the Lu family's head."

    After saying this, he turned around and called the coachman who was instructed by the officer to drive the dowry away.

    Fang Cai Miantang was talking with Master Li, Lu Mu hurriedly went to find his father, trying to convince his father to stop Master Li from withdrawing the dowry gift, but Lu Wu was merciless and scolded him. Blood sprinkler.

    When he came back, Mr. Li had already left with the bride price convoy, so anxious that he slapped his thigh.

    Seeing Miantang, she said in a displeased voice, "You didn't tell Master Li just now that this dowry can't be returned? Otherwise, wouldn't we have offended King Sui?"

    Miantang stopped, looked at the second uncle and asked slowly, "What does the second uncle mean, should I promise to be a concubine to King Sui?"

    Lu Mu was stunned by the question, and hurriedly turned around: "No...Uncle also knows that you don't want to be a concubine, but you must know that this is the noble concubine of the palace! It's not the land rich man of the village. The concubine of the family. That is something that no one else can ask for. Besides, if King Sui is to blame, will the whole family endure hardship with you?"

    Mian Tang said lightly: "I thought about it early in the morning, and tomorrow I will go to the yamen to apply for a female household, and I will choose to buy a house and move out. My surname is Liu, not Lu. The uncles are in charge of affairs, no matter it is their duty, and I will take care of them by myself."

    After finishing speaking, she stopped looking at Lu Mu and returned to her house with only two maids.

    Actually, she had already planned the matter of moving out of the Lu family, and even bought a small house in Linzhou, just waiting for the opportunity to talk to her grandfather.

    Of course, her original intention of doing this was not to avoid King Sui, but to fear that Cui Xingzhou would be unrelenting and affect the Lu family.

    But now, Sui Wang Qiang Na gave her a justifiable excuse to leave the Lu family.

    Her elder brother was in exile, and her father died again. She originally met the requirements of a female household. The Master Li heard that she wanted to start a female household, and without hesitation, asked the household registration officer to open a list.

    Lu Wu has been tempered by a series of accidents in the past few days, so he is unexpectedly calm, and only asks Miantang, is he afraid that his grandfather can't protect him?

    Miantang kneaded her grandfather's back and said: "If my grandfather was alone, I would not go anywhere, and my grandfather would definitely protect me well. But there are so many children in the Lu family. , my grandfather can't just take care of me and ignore them. King Sui is domineering and not a reasonable person. If I go out alone, even if I kill him, I don't like him. He can't do anything about me. Why bother to let the Lu family follow him up and down A woman with a foreign surname goes into the water together?"

    As a parent, Lu Wu knew that Miantang's consideration was right. But she is an orphaned daughter without a parent and a mother, who has set up a door by herself, and there will be many hardships in the future.

    In addition, I don't know if King Sui can stop, this is really not safe enough.

    But Miantang didn't let her grandfather think too much, and only said that the household registration can't be changed overnight, even if the grandfather didn't agree, it wouldn't work.

    And she bought the house and yard early in the morning. She is looking for someone to do the grout these two days. After the walls are dry, you can move the furniture.

    Lu Wu thought about it all night, and the next day he led Lu Xian to Linzhou to see the house. The house looks small, but it is well-maintained.

    Lu Wu saw that he had nothing to add, so he gave Miantang the dowry box he had prepared for Miantang early in the morning, and also dispatched a few good martial artists to look after her. hospital.

    When Mian Tang took the makeup box, she was surprised to find that there were more silver notes in it than when her grandfather showed her last time.

    She looked at her grandfather in amazement.

    Lu Wu said indifferently: "The girl in the second room has a father who can make money, and I don't need my grandfather to worry about it, so I merged the two copies and gave it to you."

    But Lu Wu said: "The second child's pocket is enough for him to marry a few more daughters. Since I am partial in the morning, I will be partial to the end. You don't need me to decide on your own female household, then You don't care how much dowry I love to give you! Just keep it!"

    Miantang had no choice but to accept it first. Because my grandfather was still angry with her, he didn't even look at her very much.

    Although Lu Wu checked back and forth a few times. However, when Miantang was moving, Mr. Li personally went to the neighbors of her house and knocked on the door to check the number of people to see if there were any criminals, or unknown people who suddenly came to rent a house from a foreign land. .

    Mama Li was very satisfied with Li Guangcai's care. During the interval between Mr. Li's household registration check, Fang Xie asked Mr. Li to send Mr. Li a food box with side dishes and delicious wine, so that Mr. Li was busy with the government and caring for the people and did not care about lunch.

    After Miantang put everything in place, she really breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at the small yard she had built with great satisfaction, and asked Bicao to move in the newly bought rattan chairs to prepare Sit under the grape trellis with green leaves and feed the fish.

    But Bicao's heartless words greatly reduced Miantang's good mood - "Miss, I see how this yard looks so similar to Lingquan Town North Street!"

    It's not... There used to be grape trellis in the courtyard of the North Street courtyard. In summer, Miantang likes to eat at the table under the grape trellis, and once told Cui Xingzhou that it would be nice if there was a small fish pond here.

    Mian Tang looked at the yard, got up and entered the house.

    Miantang is rarely depressed, but at this moment I really feel like I want to hit the wall. If the maid didn't mention it, she didn't even realize that the inertia of people is so terrible.

    Now that she is a female householder, she lives alone, but she is still influenced by her past memories and has made her yard into the style of North Street.

    On that day, Liu Miantang didn't sleep well.

    The next day, I asked Bi Cao and the others to help and rearrange the bed and cabinets in the room.

    Poor Bi Cao was so tired that she moved for a long time because of her lack of words yesterday, and she couldn't stand up.

    Miantang originally wanted to tear down the grape shelf, but she likes eating and watching fish under the grape shelf so much, so this is similar, so I will bear with it for the time being.

    Seeing Miantang being so tossed, Mama Li shook her head and sighed again. She turned around and went into the kitchen to stew the ribs, out of sight and out of mind!

    But it's more annoying than the furnishings.

    Let's talk about King Sui, originally he thought it was a very simple matter to accept Miantang. After all, she no longer has the status of Yangshan's head, and she has no power to help her. But she is the granddaughter of an old man in the **** bureau.

    The Lu family should be grateful for his proposal. After receiving the gift, Liu Miantang was brought over in a sedan chair.

    I didn't expect to send it back, but it was the five-car dowry he sent. It was also the talent he wanted to recruit during his stay in Xizhou this time—Li Guangcai who came with him.

    Liu Pei feels that his vision is actually good, seeing that Li Guangcai is indeed a talent. He was arrogant and plausible in front of himself. On the grounds that Jonah was not in compliance with Dayan's law, he forcefully returned the dowry and rode away on a donkey.

    For a while, King Sui pondered the reason why Li Guangcai jumped so high. Could it be that... Li Xiancheng also took a fancy to Liu Miantang, so he rushed to protect the reputation of the beauty?

    But Li Guangcai is wrong. That's why Liu Pei didn't care too much about his reputation. Back then, the practice of leading hair was nothing but obscurity. And even if he had an orphaned girl, what could he do? Which counselor would be fed up and take care of such trivial matters as a prince who is not in the wild?

    Between Li Guangcai and Liu Miantang, King Sui weighed it and still felt that he wanted Liu Miantang more.

    So when I heard that Miantang set up a female household, King Sui smiled. It seemed that this Liu Miantang also knew that he had offended him and did not want to implicate his family, so he hurriedly opened a female account and passed the bill by himself.

    However, it is really difficult for a woman to support the portal alone. In this case, it is really unreasonable for him not to help.

    Thinking of this, King Sui decided to send someone to come to the door again to "persuade" Liu Miantang, so that she understood that she rejected his powerful relationship.

    Tell Miantang quickly. As a result, Miantang continued to practice calligraphy without changing his face, and then said, "Don't pay attention to them, just tell those people that our family is a woman, and it's not easy to receive male customers, please let them come back."

    Bicao honestly learned the girl's words and listened to King Sui's subordinates.

    But these people expected that Miantang would not open the door.

    Thinking about how domineering King Sui was in the capital? But later went to Huizhou, and acted a lot more low-key according to the instructions of the mother. But the domineering in his bones has never changed.

    Seeing that Miantang didn't open the door, several tyrants exchanged glances, so they rushed up and kicked the door open immediately.

    When King Sui explained the errand to them today, it meant one thing—Miantang must be brought back!

    At that time, when Mr. Li came to ask for someone again, Liu Pei just thought it was his subordinate's own opinion, "please" Liu Miantang to his hotel.

    But a girl entered his other courtyard, her reputation has been tarnished, if he put it back, wouldn't he force the girl to commit suicide? He just held on to the person with peace of mind, to see what a small county magistrate could do to him?

    Since she doesn't like to talk to him, he will let her know how unreasonable men behave.

    This Sui King had a different plan early in the morning, and the martial arts of the dead servants he raised were very strong. For a while, Fan Hu and the others blocked it very hard.

    Miantang bit her lip in the room, and she understood the reason why King Sui was so arrogant.

    This is not a wilderness, even if King Sui's subordinates break in on purpose, they will be killed and injured in her yard, and the white can be turned into black by the King of Sui.

    In this case, Sui Wang is naturally confident and intends to make things bigger. Maybe he was eager to kill one or two of his subordinates, and then corrupted himself.

    And that King Huaiyang... He is far away now, and even if he is there at this time, whether he is willing to tear his face with King Sui for her is another matter.

    Thinking of this, the small bow that Miantang raised, slowly lowered.

    Although she has set up her own female household, but if things get bigger, she will definitely involve her grandfather's family. She can't act as recklessly as in the wilderness, feeding all the men of King Sui to evil Wolf.

    Being so constrained, Miantang didn't know why, but suddenly felt that as a good citizen, she was not as comfortable as a thief on the mountain. …

    The two sides who were fighting for a while also stopped, only to hear the footsteps of "Boom Rumble" getting closer and closer...

    Seeing that the situation was not right, those tyrants exchanged glances and were about to go out of the yard to take a look, but as soon as they stepped out, they were surrounded by a group of armored warriors.

    Those soldiers didn't speak, they slashed towards these people with knives.

    Dozens of dazzling long knives slashed, making it impossible to hide.

    After killing a few people, the armored soldiers rushed in and continued to cut the remaining few.

    But one of the soldiers said: "The Grand Marshal ordered, chop up the people outside the door, don't dirty the yard." After saying this, the remaining few have been pushed to the ground, He dragged his arms and legs out of the yard, and then a few shrill shouts came to an abrupt end.

    Bicao used her courage to follow behind Fan Hu to look out, and saw that the various households in the alley were also poking their heads from the courtyard wall, all of them looked undecided.

    But in this alley, except for the water stains and the strong smell of blood in the air, it seems to be clean and nothing happened.

    Miantang was stunned for a moment, and suddenly thought that he had said that if she found another man, don't blame him for bringing thousands of troops to settle accounts, this crazy talk... He took it seriously...

    The more than 20 people sent by King Sui were all dead. This can not help but make Liu Pei shocked and angry!

    What's more terrible is that Xizhou and the surrounding townships and counties are now surrounded by thousands of troops, and even outside his annex, a group of soldiers wearing iron armor are also guarding .

     King Sui can't leave now if he wants to.

    In desperation, Young Master Sui had no choice but to go to the temporary handsome tent set up on the outskirts of the Western Zhou Dynasty and personally meet Cui Xingzhou, who was unable to walk because of a lame leg.

     "King Huaiyang, you didn't go to the capital to report your work, but you came to a small town like Xizhou to show your prestige...Is it a bit too much?"

    The King of Huaiyang was sitting on a lacquered wood wheelchair with a calm demeanor, and said lightly: "I passed by this place on a march, and I asked for something in the same year. The land is not very peaceful, there are people who bully men and bully women, and do the activities of entering the house and robbing women in the daytime. Since he has asked this king, he will send some people to help him maintain the cleanliness of the street, and it is not troublesome. It's just a matter of a few knives. My sons are used to fighting on the battlefield, and their subordinates are not serious..."

    This is a perfect statement. King Sui was so angry that his teeth were itching, but he couldn't refute King Huaiyang. But in his opinion, it turned out that Li Guangcai and Cui Xingzhou were still connected, not a real break.

    If Li Guangcai took a fancy to Liu Miantang, he would be forgiven for asking the old master Cui Xingzhou who passed by here for help...

    At the moment, King Sui was so angry that he laughed: "A woman who has lost her life is so valued by Mr. Li... He is a high-ranking official, and a person who is an official does not want his own reputation? Is such a woman a wife or a concubine!"

    Cui Xingzhou listened to this, his face sank and said: "King Sui can't eat grapes like this, saying that the grapes are sour, and I'm so angry! I listen to you, and I feel ashamed for you. You If you can't take a concubine, why don't this king buy some from Renya and give it to King Sui to vent your anger!"

    In fact, after Liu Pei said this, he also consciously lost his temper. He really didn't expect that Cui Xingzhou would make such a big deal in such a trivial matter.

    Now that the Northwest Army has surrounded Xizhou, he will let the madman Cui Xingzhou let go of his mouth earlier, so that he can break through the encirclement!

    You have to keep your mouth shut, temporarily being ridiculed by this fellow.

    Cui Xingzhou did not spend too much time with King Sui. After all, what the two sides are doing is a mess that can't be on the table! If it is known by the censor, it will inevitably be called to infamy.

    Since they are pulling each other's little tails, they are also hypocritical at the moment, just pretending that nothing happened.

    In the end, Cui Xingzhou gave Sui Wang a waist card, so that he could barely maintain his dignity and left Xizhou.

    Besides, after the chaos, Miantang ordered the servants to clean up the yard.

    As soon as she turned her head, she found a tall man in a long gown, leaning on crutches, along the broken gate, and entered her yard naturally.