Chapter 96
The sudden sound of horse hooves came from outside, and suddenly stopped, followed by a hurried sound of footsteps. After a moment, Xu Chang's figure appeared at the moon gate of Xu Ping's courtyard.
Looking at Xu Chang who was sweating profusely, Liu Xiaoyi breathed a sigh of relief: "Brother, you are back! The people in the mansion came and went on this day, and I couldn't even remember their names, so I was so anxious!"
Xu Chang ignored Liu Xiaoyi, walked into the yard quickly, and asked anxiously in front of Xu Ping, "Marty, what's wrong with you? The people sent by Brother Xiaoyi can't explain it clearly. As soon as I arrived outside the city, I heard people all over the city!"
Everyone asked each other when they saw it, and Xu Ping felt helpless: "I didn't have an ending tooth a few days ago. I don't know what happened in my mouth. I recently became abscessful, and it would be bad if I was implicated."
"Didn't you keep saying that the tooth is not in trouble? Why is it so amazing all of a sudden! Panpan lost a tooth yesterday and swears that the county marquis must have the same disease as her. They all think that her child was talking nonsense, but who knew that he was convinced that he was right!"
After hearing this, Xu Ping and Liu Xiaoyi couldn't help laughing, and even Xiuxiu lowered her head and held back her smile.
Panpan has changed teeth recently and always compares his teeth with his father's end teeth. Unexpectedly, this time he is unintentional.
After asking about Xu Ping's condition, Xu Chang breathed out after hearing the imperial physician say that it was not serious. Now Xu Ping is the pillar of the family and cannot be at all accidents. Otherwise, how can this family continue to support it?
After taking a sip of water and breathing, Xu Chang said, "Old Chaofeng, the old lady and the wife are both sitting in ox carts. If you can't walk fast on the road, please let me ride a fast horse back to find out the news. As it's still early, find a capable servant to ride a horse to meet him and tell the wife and the others so that they won't worry about nothing."
Seeing that Xu Chang's sweat had not subsided, Liu Xiaoyi hurriedly said, "I'll go find someone, my brother will sit here with the officials. If someone comes outside, my brother will go out to greet me, so that I won't lose my courtesy."
Xu Chang has always been dealing with other officials. He is the housekeeper of the family and is familiar with everyone. It is really hard for Liu Xiaoyi to do these things. Now that Xu Chang is back, he hurriedly handed over the errand.
Xiuxiu bit her lip and saw Liu Xiaoyi walking to Yuemen, then said, "Brother Xiaoyi, you also find someone to come to my house and say, I won't go home two days later. The official is not in a good condition, so I'll watch here for a few days."
Liu Xiaoyi nodded, said to himself, and turned around and went out.
Xiuxiu entered the Xu family's door. People like Liu Xiaoyi and Xu Chang saw that they grew up, and they all regarded her as her own family, and no one met her. Now Xu Ping needs someone to take care of her, so who is suitable for Xiuxiu? On this day, Liu Xiaoyi was so busy that he was about to fly. As soon as Xiuxiu came and Xu Chang came, he suddenly felt relaxed. It seemed that there was nothing he needed to do. But she didn't expect Xiuxiu was already a big girl and refused to live back to her old master's house. In this era, if she had anything to do, she would gossip about her old master's house.
Xu Chang was in a hurry along the way, the weather was hot, and he had not sweated yet. He sat on the side and just drank water. Xu Ping's condition was not serious, so he felt at ease. It would be fine if he was sick, and he would always get better after he was well maintained.
Seeing that it was getting late, Xiuxiu asked Xu Ping: "Officialist, what do you want to eat tonight? I'll go to the kitchen to make it."
Xu Ping was stunned: "Xiuxiu, when did you learn how to cook? Didn't you cook very little before?"
Xiuxiu smiled slightly: "I was young at that time, and the officials loved me. There was no place in the girl's house that didn't go to the kitchen. I made the meals at home this year, although they were not as exquisite as before, fortunately the taste was acceptable."
"Okay, I like to eat everything you cook. But now I have bad teeth, can't eat hot, can't eat cold, can't eat sweet, can't eat sour, watch Xiuxiu, just make a little bit of it."
Xiuxiu was about to turn around and leave, but after hearing this, she was stunned. She thought for a while before whispering: "Official, you can eat something casually, but it's a bit difficult for others. Okay, I'll go to the kitchen to see."
Watching Xiuxiu walk into the kitchen, Xu Ping shook his head and said to himself: "Is it difficult? I don't pick on eating--"
Xu Chang took a break and asked the servants at home to pick up the list of people who were visiting today and spread it on the table to read it. After turning a few pages, the list seemed to be endless. He couldn't help but frown: "Dalang, when did we have so many guests in our family? It was just the same as the number of families who were traveling around in the past year. Today, it's great that half of the officials in the capital have come to their homes. Many of them even said that they will visit them when they are in good spirits."
Xu Ping only heard the noise outside and couldn't be quiet all day, and he didn't know who was coming. When he heard Xu Chang say, he casually said: "I have never offended anyone in the court. Today is so miserable, it's not normal for people to see him."
After saying that, I felt a little proud. It turned out that my popularity was not that bad!
Xu Chang frowned and said, "The Li family's Dalang has been here. Seeing that you are in bad health, he said he would come back tomorrow. There are also the Eight Kings and Li Fuma family. These are all in daily life, but like Yang Guojiu, Miao Guojiu and Liu Guojiu, there are Chai Fuma, and they don't have any contact with them at home, so they have sent people to greet them. By the way, there are also the priests in the court who sent people to greet them. Oh, Mr. Lu also sent his second son to come over. He said that he would not see guests today and would come back in a few days."
Xu Ping was stunned: "Which Mr. Lu?"
"Of course it is the current prime minister, Lu Yijian, the grandson of Lu! The few small clans in his family, except for princes and ministers, are also their own relatives. Others rarely come out to walk around. How could they come to the mansion today?"
Xu Ping could not figure it out. It was normal for Lu Yijian to send a butler or something to say hello, but sending his son to come here in person would seem a bit too grand.
The Lu family usually has the eldest son Lu Gongchuo who comes to deal with various affairs at home, but his relationship with Xu Ping is not very harmonious, so this time he sent his second son Lu Gongbi. Lu Gongbi married Wang Dan's daughter. Xu Ping had met him with his brother-in-law Wang Su before, but the two really had no friendship and didn't know how they came to the house this time.
Xu Ping didn't know that Lu Yijian made efforts in the court today, and pushed the court to send Fan Zhongyan and Sima Chi to Heyin County, to look up his old accounts and catch his braids. As a result, as soon as the imperial decree went down, he saw Xu Ping's false memorial to "seek a doctor" due to illness. "Take your life if you take advantage of your illness." This is the survival rule of street gangsters. It is a taboo to take this set to the officialdom of the literati and officialdom.
If Xu Ping is in normal health, there is no problem with Lu Yijian doing this, and he will fight back and forth. But when Xu Ping is sick, Xu Ping has no way to fight back, and he will keep this revenge in his heart. It will be hard to say when to take revenge. And when Xu Ping fights back, it may be the time. Who knows what Lu Yijian's family looks like at that time? Lu Yijian bit the bullet and had to send people with weight in the family to ease the relationship.
Chapter completed!