Longyou Tianshui, Hebei County Luomengather.

In the right wing of the Lu Family Courtyard, several braziers were filled with black and red charcoal fire, making the room warm.

On the couches in the back, a fine white fox fur was spread out, which was suitable for lying a baby who was only more than two months old. Her face was wrinkled, and the black and blue had not completely dissipated.

The small hand is very white; at the moment, it is grasping the fingers of Zhang Yan who is sitting sideways, grinning her mouth, which has not yet grown her baby teeth, and uttering a single note from time to time.

"oh"

"Woo"

The sound was very simple and I didn't understand what it meant.

But it made Zhang Yan frown.

While continuing to shake his fingers slightly, he turned to Du with a smile on his face and said, "Du Ji, look, little Jing Ji is smiling at me~~~"

Du Shi is Zheng Pu's concubine.

And little Jingji is her daughter who was just born this year, and she is also Zheng Pu’s only descendant.

"Although Jingji is young, she also knows that the queen loves her, so she also likes to smile with her."

Du Shi, who was helping her daughter to wrap herself up with a loving look on her face, answered respectfully with a smile on her face, and her voice was slightly flattering, "Unlike the male gentleman who is rarely at home, Jing Ji always teases Jing Ji.

Harmful to life."

"Oh, why are you mentioning him?"

After hearing this, Zhang Yan didn't even raise her head, and sneered lightly, with a somewhat dissatisfied tone, "How much does he care about his family in his heart? It's just that he usually leads the army away from home and is not allowed to go home; but now that he has led the army and is stationed in Hebei County, he still has to do it all day long.

In the military camp, when he rarely comes back for a few days, he either uses family money and food to supplement the tribe's difficulties, or holds a banquet and invites friends to eat and drink. How often have you seen him ask about the expenses at home? Hum!"

Well.

After hearing such words, Mrs. Du quickly lowered her head.

He didn't dare to answer, didn't dare to let his expression show on his face, and pretended not to hear.

She is just a concubine bought with money.

According to the etiquette of the world, the children born to her must also respect their wives as their mothers.

Her status in the family is only a little higher than that of a maid. Whether it is Zheng Pu or Zhang Yan, if they offend her, punish her or sell her to others, no one can blame her.

Although what Zhang Yan said is true.

But Zhang Yan can and dares to speak out such complaints, but she dare not let herself "hear" them.

Lest one day these words reach Zheng Pu's ears and she will be accused of "talking".

However, Zhang Yan is a very good person and has never treated her harshly.

Now she didn't reply, and Zhang Yan didn't take offense either. She just went about teasing little Jingji.

Little babies never get enough sleep.

Not long after, little Jingji became sleepy and kept opening her mouth and yawning.

When everyone saw it, they quickly got up and left.

After giving some instructions to the maid who pointed out to Mrs. Du, Zhang Yan walked slowly towards the largest house in the Lu family's courtyard.

That was the main house, the house where she lived.

Although the manor here is called the Lu Family Villa, it is not an exaggeration to call it the Zheng Family Villa.

The only difference is that this place is much more deserted than the Zheng Family Mulberry Garden in Shifang.

On the sky covered with thick clouds, the fine snow that keeps falling down also exaggerates the feeling of loneliness.

Zhang Yan, who has been living in Longyou since July after finishing Zheng Yan's wedding, has a lot of free time every day.

The property here is managed by her cousin Lu Huang. There are not many children in the family and there are very few maidservants. There is almost nothing for her to do.

The only fun was to dance swordsmanship with Lu'er, the maid who came as a dowry, and occasionally play the piano to entertain myself.

But no matter what kind of fun it is, if it becomes the same thing day after day, it will inevitably become far-fetched.

"Girl, if you count the time, your husband has almost returned from Hanzhong, right?"

The little maid Lu'er, who was following closely behind, asked softly after entering the main room.

She still calls Zhang Yan “girl.”

Because she has not yet followed the dowry rules and become Zheng Pu's pillow.

It's not that Zhang Yanshan was jealous and didn't allow it. It was just that Zheng Pu had a lot of things to do and almost never came home; and he never mentioned it.

It seems that there is no such meaning?

"Well, it's almost done. The Prime Minister has summoned you, so he won't be too slow when he goes."

After a slight pause in his footsteps, Zhang Yan responded casually, "However, if he comes back, he should go to the military camp first. He is the commander-in-chief of the army and cannot stay out for a long time."

"oh"

The little maid Lu'er responded.

Seeing that Zhang Yan did not go into the house, but went to the terrace to sit on her knees and watch the snowflakes in the garden, she asked for a topic, "Do you want to play the piano, girl? I have almost mastered the flute music that the husband asked Lu to write.

What if you don’t want to play with a girl?”

"No, I want to be quiet."

Hearing this, Zhang Yan smiled and stretched out her hand to rub the other person's arm, "I play the piano every day, and I'm not that interested in it. Well, go ahead and get busy. I'll see you if I have anything to do."

"okay."

Although she didn't understand why the girl always sat quietly and admired the snowflakes that came every two days in these three days, the little maid Lu'er still nodded quickly, bowed and turned around to leave.

And Zhang Yan's eyes followed her back as she disappeared around the corner and came back.

Immediately, he raised his head and stared blankly at the snowflakes flying in the sky like catkins.

Her elder sister, Queen Zhang, had been married for more than ten years but had never had any children; but today Liu Chan has many children.

She has been a wife for nearly three years, and she also has no children, but her concubine Du Shi also has children.

Such a result made her afraid to go deeper.

But just as I raised my eyebrows, my heart was worried.

Perhaps, one day, like my elder sister, I will treat the child who marries my maid as my own child?

But a few days ago, my husband seemed to have asked me in a vague way, if my little maid Lu'er gets her hair next year, can I be promised to Zhang Zichan~~~

Zhang Zichan is Zhang Te.

A scholar who spent a year and traveled thousands of miles from Zhuo County, Youzhou County to Shu.

It is also the hometown of Emperor Liu Chan and the Zhang family.

According to his own words, because he heard that Ni Wei led the Xianbei barbarians into Guanzhong, he felt that Ni Wei was not worth serving. Therefore, with the permission of his family, he came to join the Han Dynasty.

This reason seems to be reasonable.

After all, when the late Emperor Liu Bei and her late father Zhang Fei were still alive, they both told their descendants that their villages were repeatedly burned, killed, and plundered by Xianbei. Even Zhao Yun, the general of Wei who had just died of illness, led his villagers to defect to Gongsun Zan when he was young, because Gongsun Zan attacked

Hu.

But this reason is also somewhat bizarre.

The Han Dynasty had been engaged in the Northern Expedition for several years, and had just begun to gain some momentum, when the late Emperor's native villagers came to join him.

The timing is so lucky.

It makes people have other thoughts: Isn't he a craftsman sent from Wei Wei?

Zhang Yan, who returned to Chengdu last year, remembered clearly that when Chen, the governor of Yong'an, sent people to lure Zhang Te to Shu, the whole court was in a sensation.

This is not surprising.

The Han Dynasty was originally a small country with few people, and its national power had been declining for a long time. Who would have thought that talented people would come to join him?

For example, the last talented person who volunteered was Yang Yi.

At that time, the Han Dynasty had just experienced the Battle of Hanzhong, and it was a time when the country was strong.

From then on, the Han Dynasty, which had experienced the Battle of Xiangfan and the Battle of Yiling, no longer had any talented people to join them.

On the contrary, there were many troops and rebellions.

However, Zhang Te seemed to come here sincerely.

Zhang Yan heard from Empress Zhang that after the Emperor Liu Chan wrote a letter to Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, he allowed Zhang Te to temporarily serve as a palace guard and return to the center to lead the army under Xiang Chong.

The external reason was that there were few people from his hometown in Shu, so the emperor wanted to keep Zhang Te by his side and always asked about the customs of his hometown. But in fact, he wanted to keep Zhang Te, the loyal palace guard,

, secretly observe Zhang Te's behavior to see if he has any evil intentions.

But one year has passed, but Zhang Te, who is still young, has not done anything unusual.

On the contrary, the temperament and talents he displayed were highly praised by others.
To be continued...