"Your skin is so thick that I was really beyond my expectations." Chen Danxia bent down and reached out to raise her chin. A despicable prostitute dared to run to her and say something. Chen Danxia didn't have such good patience to socialize and spoke without hesitation, "Do you know what the outcome of the person who covet my man?"

Xiu Xiu looked at her, looked at the coldness in her eyes, blinked in fear, and said timidly: "Ms. Xu, I just want to live in a place. I don't mean to covet Lord Xu, I will not compete with you for favor."

"I am very stingy and domineering. Don't say that you have bad intentions, even if you are really as you said, I won't let you in. My man can only be mine. Even if it's nominal, I don't want anyone to share it with me." Chen Danxia let go of her hand that pinched her chin, "Come on, throw her out and let someone fetch water to wash the floor."

Xiu Xiu was driven out of the Xu Mansion like this. In the evening, Xu Lang came back, and Chen Danxia did not tell him about this. After going to bed, when the two of them fell in love, Chen Danxia bit his neck hard, almost bit Xu Lang softly, "Wife, when did you get the habit of biting people?"

Chen Danxia opened his mouth, revealing a row of small white teeth, and said, "I just had one."

Xu Lang kissed her lips, "Why?"

"Because your face is so attractive, I'm almost exhausted when I pinch my bad peach blossoms." Chen Danxia complained in a sweet voice. He didn't take it seriously.

"Sorry, I will compensate you well if you have been burdened." Xu Lang moved and said with a wicked smile.

Chen Danxia spat lightly and said, "Go to you, are you going to compensate me, or will I compensate you?"

"We compensate each other." Xu Lang rested for a while, regained his momentum and began a new round of conquests, with the bed curtain shaking and panting.

In Shen Danxia's opinion, Xiuxiu is a woman with a higher heart and a thinner life than paper. It is normal for her to cling to Xu Lang. She humiliated her and sent her away. Even if this matter was over, she did not intend to continue to deal with her. A small prostitute is not worthy of Chen Danxia's efforts. But Xiuxiu, who is ulterior motives, dared not stay in Yucheng anymore. Five days later, she took two maids and an old woman to leave Changlefang and headed to Jindu.

People outside always thought that Xiuxiu was trained by Changlefang, but in fact she followed after Xu Lang came to Yucheng. She entered Changlefang to attend the flower review meeting and took the opportunity to get close to Xu Lang, but now the plan has failed, so she can only go to Jindu to find someone who can deal with Xu Lang. She believes that there will be people there like her who want Xu Lang to die.

A month later, the Xu Mansion welcomed an unexpected guest. Chen Danxia looked at the dusty Shen Baiyu and asked in surprise: "Brother, why did you come to Yucheng?"

"I went out of Beijing to do business, passed by Yucheng, and came here to see you." Shen Baiyu said with a smile.

"How is Mom? Are you good brother and sister-in-law and the others? Are the children obedient?" Chen Danxia asked.

"Okay, all are good. Brother Cheng second took Pangpang and Zhuangzhuang as his students." Shen Baiyu smiled.

"That gentleman has resigned again." Chen Danxia looked bitter. Those two problem boys are really a headache.

"The reason why he resigned has nothing to do with Pangpang Zhuangzhuang. It is because his grandfather is seriously ill and he wants to go back to fulfill his filial piety." Shen Baiyu hurried to help his two nephews explain.

"Brother Cheng is busy with official business, so he has free time to teach those two brats. Let me work harder and find another gentleman for them." Chen Danxia frowned.

"No need, Brother Cheng said, one sheep is also driven by, and three sheep are also driven by. Now there is endless quarrel in the court, so there is no need for the censor to add more trouble. He is very leisurely and just has time to teach the children." Shen Baiyu smiled.

"Is there anything big happening in Beijing?" Chen Danxia asked.

Shen Baiyu said disgustedly: "Isn't it just those things that fight for power and profit, there is nothing to say." In order to find treasure, King Yan left Beijing for a few months. Because Zhao Hou could not find the fourth prince, he was afraid of making big noises, but he kept making small moves. Several people asked Empress Zhao to catch the handle and turned to Empress Zhao.

Chen Danxia saw that he didn't want to say it, and did not ask too much questions.

Shen Baiyu lived in Xu's mansion. Every afternoon, she hid in the study with Xu Lang in her study, not knowing what to talk about; Chen Danxia did not ask, if they could tell her what they were talking about, Xu Lang would definitely not hide it from her; if she couldn't tell her, she couldn't ask.

Five days later, Shen Baiyu and the six people who left the capital together and left Yucheng. They wanted to secretly recruit 10,000 new troops for the King of Yan and take them to the place where Gao Yuan hid their troops in the original Gao Yuan training. The new troops will be the greatest help for the King of Yan in the battle to seize the throne. Shen Baiyu has not believed until now that the King of Yan would let him be responsible for recruiting the new troops. How could he make the King of Yan so trustworthy?

The several staff members around King Yan were also puzzled. Although there were not many generals around King Yan, there were still people who were more suitable than Shen Baiyu. King Yan did not answer their questions, and sat alone in the study room, looked out through the open window, and whispered to himself: "If it were the eldest brother, the second brother did not follow the dragon's merit, how could I enthrone my mother?"

The wind and clouds in Jindu are surging, and Yucheng thousands of miles away is not affected. Chen Danxia's life is extremely comfortable. Time is like flowing water, autumn goes to winter solstice, and it is the end of the year in a blink of an eye. In mid-November, Chen Danxia received some New Year gifts and ordered people to send them to Jindu. Yucheng is too far away from Jindu. The annual leave of the Dafeng Dynasty was from the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month to the fifth day of the first lunar month. In such a short time, Xu Lang and Shen Danxia could not rush back to Jindu for the New Year.

The atmosphere of the New Year in Yucheng is stronger than that of the Jindu New Year. Every household is decorated with lights and red Spring Festival couplets, bright red characters of blessing, and colorful New Year pictures. Yucheng is in the south, and there is no colder Jindu in winter, just wear a slightly thicker jacket.

Early in the morning of New Year's Eve, Chen Danxia distributed the year-end rewards in advance and arranged the people on duty during the New Year. In addition to those who came from Jindu, they stayed in the mansion to celebrate the New Year, and the others, Chen Danxia let them go home to reunite their families and celebrate the New Year together. Chen Danxia was a generous master and distributed New Year gifts to the villagers, including five kilograms of white rice, three kilograms of meat, one chicken and duck, one live fish, ten eggs, and the best fabric.

The master was generous and the servant was happy and thanked him happily. He happily took these gifts of the years and went home happily.

After having the New Year's Eve dinner, the couple stayed on the bed to celebrate the New Year. At midnight, the bell of the city tower rang, and they received the gods, went to bed hand in hand, and hugged each other. After sleeping until noon on the first day of the lunar month, Chen Danxia had no need to go back to his parents' home, so he took Xu Lang to the City God Temple. In the morning of the third day of the lunar month, he went to the Lu family to pay New Year's greetings, and went to the three assistant officials in the afternoon. In the fourth day of the lunar month, he went to the prefect's office to pay New Year's greetings to Cheng Yu and Tao Jie, and stayed at home on the fifth day of the lunar month to receive subordinates and their wives who came to pay New Year's greetings.

On the sixth day of the lunar month, Xu Lang could go to the yamen to work, and Chen Danxia had to go out for social activities. She once asked Xu Lang if he wanted to treat him, but Xu Lang shook his head and said, "No need."

If this is the New Year wine, it will not be served. Yucheng brings together chefs from all over the world. New Year wine is a good time to show off. Every family will invite chefs who are good at cooking to the mansion to show off their skills. The dishes at the banquet are very delicious. There are more than a dozen opera troupes in Yucheng, and the competition is fierce, and the operas they sing are innovative.

After the night, the year is over, and the New Year's wine event is over. Chen Danxia pinched the meat on his waist and screamed, "I'm getting fat. I want to lose weight. I want to lose weight. I won't have supper today."

"No, how can I bear it if I don't eat supper?" Xu Lang disagreed.

"I have become a big fat woman, don't you dislike me?" Chen Danxia asked pouted.

"Don't dislike it." Xu Lang leaned into her ear, "It's fat, it's comfortable to touch."

"What do you mean? Do you think I was too thin before and hurt your hands? Or have you touched a fat woman?" Chen Danxia asked with wide eyes.

Xu Lang stretched out his long arms and hugged her in his arms, "I misunderstood my words again, are you trying to be taught a lesson again?"

Chen Danxia covered his butt, "There is no misunderstanding, I am joking, joking."

Xu Lang lowered his head and bit her lips as a punishment.

On the sixth day of the second month, the Lu family sent a post to Xu Lang. On February 20th, Lu Yuan's 60th birthday party will be held at Lu Mansion at that time, and Xu and Mrs. Xu are invited to come. Lu Yuan is Xu Lang's immediate boss. If you want to give him face, this birthday party must be attended.

"What birthday gift do you think is more appropriate?" Chen Danxia asked with his chin on his back.

"What's in the warehouse? Just pick one and send it over." Xu Lang replied casually without raising his head.

"Please, this is Yucheng, not Jindu. What good things are there in the warehouse?" Chen Danxia pouted.

"Then you go shopping on the street, buy it and send it to me if you see what's right." Xu Lang flipped through a page of the book and said.

"It's useless to ask you. I'll do it tomorrow." Chen Danxia rolled his eyes. Men just couldn't rely on themselves, and they had to rely on themselves at critical moments.

The next day, Chen Danxia took Simo out to the street. The most advanced one was a jade shop, but Chen Danxia didn't like the poor materials and was not suitable for birthday gifts. Better materials were expensive. Not long after Xu Lang came to Yucheng, if he gave expensive jades, it would definitely make people feel that he was greedy for ink.

Chen Danxia decisively gave up buying jade and went to the calligraphy and painting shop. He was lucky and picked up a picture of a pine and crane painted by a not-so-famous bachelor in the previous dynasty. The pine and crane prolonged life, and the meaning is good, so it would be perfect to use it as a birthday gift.

"How much does this painting cost?" Chen Danxia asked.

"Madam, this painting costs three hundred taels of silver." The shopkeeper smiled.

"Less." Chen Danxia bargained.

"Miss really wants to buy it, then it will cost 250 taels of silver." The shopkeeper smiled.

Chen Danxia frowned, "Two hundred and five don't sound nice, two hundred and three."

The shopkeeper's mouth twitched, 25 was not nice, 26 was pretty good.

After some bargaining, Chen Danxia bought the painting for 236 taels of silver. He could not give a single piece of gift, but he also had to buy a gift for Mrs. Lu Shi. Chen Danxia didn't know what was appropriate to give Shi, so he asked, "What are the good ideas for you four?"

Si Mo lowered his head and thought for a while. Mo Wang, Mo Qi and the other two shook their heads. Mo laughed and said, "Madam, let's go to the embroidery store to take a look and buy a hundred sons and thousand grandchildren's scarf for her. What do you think?"

"Good idea, let's go to the embroidery store." Chen Danxia led four maids to the embroidery store accompanied by the guards.

It is difficult to embroider a hundred sons and grandsons. After walking in six embroidery shops, I bought a big red base and a hundred sons and grandson scarf embroidered with good silk thread.

The birthday gift was ready. On February 20, Xu Lang went to the yamen to make a move. When he got home, Chen Danxia took out the prepared new clothes and asked him to change them.

The couple took a carriage to the Lu family. At the door, Mo Shu handed over the birthday gift to the housekeeper of the Lu family. After entering the door, the two separated. Xu Lang was in the lobby of the outer courtyard, while Chen Danxia was taken to the inner hall of the backyard by Grandma Lu.

When Tao Jie saw Chen Danxia, ​​she reached out to greet her. When Chen Danxia greeted Shi and others, she pulled her to sit down and talked about some new things that happened in the city recently. After a while, the other wives also came over to chat. After a while, the table started and the wives moved into the table.

The female family used fruit wine, which was sweet, just like sugar water, with a little smell of wine, which was not intoxicating, but Chen Danxia was not very useful. After the birthday party, she went to the show. The female family was in the west and the man sat in the east. Chen Danxia saw Xu Lang sitting not far away beside Lu Yuan at a glance.

Xu Lang was also looking here, and the two of them met and smiled. Tao Jie saw it and joked: "Yoyo, I miss you so much now when I didn't see you. It's really enviable."

"Don't be envious, my brother-in-law also looked here. Look over quickly, and your eyes will convey your feelings." Chen Danxia smiled and pushed her.

"He and I are old husband and wife, and I am about to be my grandfather and grandmother. I won't do such a shameful thing." Tao Jie said shyly.

"What's so shameful about this? You are a couple, and it's better to be as loving as a newlywed." Chen Danxia smiled.

"This is reasonable." Tao Jie was a cheerful person, so Rushi looked up and showed feelings.

The sisters were talking, and the operas finished singing the play on the stage. The actors left the stage and should sing the next play, but the headmaster came up and said, "Today is Lord Lu's 60th birthday. Aunt Li in the mansion will specially dance for Lord Lu."

The music started, and Li Bai wore a dance dress and went on stage, dancing to the music.

"Mrs. Lu has changed? This kind of scene makes a concubine dance to the limelight." Tao Jie said in surprise.

"This matter should be instructed by Mrs. Lu." Chen Danxia looked at Shi, who had always been cold, but now the corners of his lips were raised and he showed a little smile, "It is to make Lord Lu hate Li Bai."

"Mr. Lu's face looked very ugly." Tao Jie covered her mouth and smiled.

"There will be such a thing when there are too many women in the backyard." Chen Danxia said lightly. Chen Danxia expressed his understanding of Shi's use of this method to deal with Li Bai. In this era, women cannot make things difficult for men, and can only make things difficult for women.

After the dance, Li Bai retreated and the actor came on stage again. In addition to this small episode, the birthday party in Lu Mansion was held relatively successfully. At the end of the Shen period, the host and guests and host parted happily.

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I came back late and borrowed another thousand manuscripts to save. My manuscripts task is about to be finished.
Chapter completed!