Xiao Shiji took Du Hengshuang's hand and came to the main door.

The entrance to the nave is a high threshold.

Xiao Shiji turned his head and looked at Du Hengshuang's troubled face, pursed his lips and smiled, then bent down and reached out to pick her up.

The adoptive mother who was following behind hurriedly took a step forward to take Du Hengshuang over, and said repeatedly: "Master Xiao, let the slave come."

Xiao Shiji did not try to be brave, he carefully sent Du Hengshuang to his adoptive mother's arms, and warned: "Be careful, the threshold is high enough."

Du Xiancheng smiled and waved to Xiao Shiji at the door, "Brother Ji, come and sit quickly."

Xiao Shiji smiled and crossed the threshold, came to the central hall, saluted everyone in the room, and sat down next to Xiao Xiangsheng.

The adoptive mother carried Du Hengshuang to the bed where Long Xiangye and Fang Wuniang were sitting opposite each other, bent down and saluted: "Madam, Madam Xiao."

Du Hengshuang smiled sweetly at Longxiangye, "Hello, aunt." Then she looked at Longxiangye's bulging belly and asked loudly: "Is there a little brother hidden in auntie's belly?"

Children speak freely, but they are also the most effective. Therefore, pregnant women usually like to ask children under three years old whether the child in their belly is a boy or a girl.

This was not the first time that Du Hengshuang said that there was a boy in Long Xiangye's belly. Therefore, Long Xiangye fell in love with Du Hengshuang even more. He smiled and took a gold and jade lock plate and hung it on Du Hengshuang himself. He praised: "Shuang'er is only two years old."

Years old, but this articulate person talks as if the walnut cart has been reversed, gibbering."

Fang Wu Niang regarded Du Hengshuang as a treasure, and hurriedly took Du Hengshuang from her adoptive mother's arms, hugged her to her chest, sat down, and asked her with a smile: "Have you had breakfast?"

Only then did Du Hengshuang feel a little hungry. She turned to look at the main table over there and shouted, "Dad! Shuang'er is hungry!"

Du Xiancheng felt his bones go numb when he heard that. He hurriedly came down from the mat with a small red flower bowl, put it on the small square table above the sitting bed, and said to Du Hengshuang: "This is the centenary soup specially prepared for our Shuang'er.

Let’s drink a bowl first to seek good luck.”

Long Xiangye knew that the authentic 100-year-old soup here was made with pickles, which was actually not healthy. It seemed not good for a two-year-old child to eat, so he smiled and said: "Just take a bite of this soup."

It’s more suitable for children to use fresh vegetables.”

Fang Wuniang hurriedly said: "It is made with fresh vegetables. The cook in our kitchen specially chopped the shepherd's purse grown in her own garden, and added diced spring bamboo shoots, stone fungus, stone hair, seaweed, smallpox mushroom, shark, seaweed,

Luobei, Jue Ming, shrimp Kui La, plus chicken juice, lamb juice and quail juice are mixed together and stewed for a day and night."

After listening to Fang Wu Niang's words, Long Xiangye's eyes kept twitching. - Oh my god, where is this vegetable soup? Is this like Buddha jumping over the wall?

Looking at Du Xiancheng's concentrated feeding of soup to his daughter, Long Xiangye's brows frowned slightly.

Although it is said that daughters should be raised rich and sons should be raised poor, which is the way a family like theirs should raise children, it is absolutely rare for a daughter to be as wealthy as the Du family. - I guess even the princess in the palace is no more.

She lives a similar life to Du Hengshuang, but she is just more noble than her, maybe not as free as her...

After Du Xiancheng finished feeding him a bowl of hundred-year-old soup, Xiao Shiji came over with a small plate of dumplings and said, "Shuang'er, eat two more longevity dumplings. You will be healthy and live a hundred years."

Du Hengshuang quickly opened her mouth, "Brother, please feed Shuang'er!"

Xiao Shiji picked up a small dumpling with a smile and put it gently to her lips, "Eat slowly, don't choke."

Long Xiangye's brows furrowed even deeper, but she still suppressed her thoughts and did not speak.

Du Hengshuang was so full after finishing a plate of dumplings that she broke away from Fang Wu Niang and went to play with her celadon puppy toy in the sitting bed.

Fang Wuniang and Long Xiangye were sitting on the bed, eating and chatting over several plates of exquisite side dishes.

Xiao Xiangsheng and Du Xiancheng drank a few glasses of wine and talked more.

"You go down first. We don't want anyone to wait on you here. I'll call you over when needed." Du Xiancheng waved his hand and drove out the maidservant in the room.

The two of them talked about business over wine and food.

Although Xiao Shiji was young, he listened with great interest.

After several people finished eating, it was almost evening.

Mrs. Gu, the old lady of the Xiao family, has already sent people over to urge them to go home.

Xiao Xiangsheng had no choice but to stand up and say goodbye, "Thanks to our Shuang'er, we had a good meal today. My eldest brother will be the host tomorrow, and I invite brothers Du, my younger siblings, and Shuang'er to enjoy it together."

Du Xiancheng fully agreed and sent them out of the house in person.

Long Xiangye took Xiao Shiji in a car inlaid with gold and treasures, and followed Xiao Xiangsheng's tall horse walking slowly on the street.

It was already dusk, and the streets were bustling with people, and all kinds of cars and BMWs were coming and going. The Xiao family's seemingly valuable car was like a drop of water on the streets of Chang'anfang City.

Embedded in the sea, completely invisible.

Long Xiangye held her waist and leaned on several cushions in the car. Through the gauze curtains, she looked at the prosperous scene in the market and chuckled.

After turning a corner, we came to the square where the Xiao family lived.

A group of people crowded together and gathered around the place where the government often issued notices to watch the excitement.

"What happened? - Xiao Xing, go and have a look." Xiao Xiangsheng ordered his entourage.

Xiao Xing took the order and left, came to the notice board and looked at it for a while, then came over with a smile and replied, "Sir, this is a great event!"

"Oh? What big happy event?!" Xiao Xiangsheng was a little curious, a big happy event for the government? - This is quite strange.

Xiao Xing smiled and said: "Our Emperor is going to open the palace gates to select concubines."

Xiao Xiangsheng was stunned for a moment, "Can you say it again? Did I hear you correctly?"

"That's right, that's right! It's the notice in the palace, saying that the emperor has been on the throne for one year. Now the world is at peace and the world is unified. The emperor must also bathe the four directions and spread branches and leaves for the royal family. Therefore, it is a special metaphor for the world, and the state governments are ordered to stop

The marriage took half a year to prepare for the royal family. First, she went to wealthy families and official families to 'recruit' noble people.

Girls will directly enter the palace as concubines. Then there will be a selection process to recruit girls from good families with good fortune to serve in the palace." Before Xiao Xing followed Xiao Xiangsheng, he was a poor and failed scholar. He was born in a poor family and could not advance further in the officialdom.

Only then did he follow Xiao Xiangsheng, a big salt merchant, and become a pen-wielding staff member.

Xiao Xiangsheng's brows were furrowed and his face was a little gloomy. He waved his riding crop and said, "It has nothing to do with us. Let's go back first."

The next day, Du Xiancheng, Fang Wuniang and Du Hengshuang came to Xiao Mansion as guests, but Xiao Xiangsheng specially called him to the outer study to talk.

"His Majesty wants to hire a noble lady as his concubine? Does he have to choose her? - No?" Du Xiancheng also widened his eyes, "Where did you know?"

"The notices are out. Don't you even read the notices?" Xiao Xiangsheng rolled his eyes at Du Xiancheng.

Du Xiancheng chuckled and touched the back of his head, "I'm too lazy to look at it. I'm not interested in that thing."

Xiao Xiangsheng walked around the room with his hands behind his back, "Everyone knows that our Emperor was able to surpass his biological eldest brother and sit in this supreme position because of his firm commitment to 'monogamy and monogamy' in front of the Queen Mother.

'The principle is that apart from his wife, Mr. Xie, there is no other woman, not even the couple's extramarital affairs."

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