Han Xiang

Chapter 437

Long Xiang sent Lu Su out of the mansion, and then went straight to the back house.

Hastily made a baby kiss for her daughter, and told Qiao Wan what to say.

The new city of Hefei is five times larger than the old city, but the new prefect's mansion is not much different from the original mansion, both of which have a north-south rectangular layout, but the layout has been slightly adjusted.

The mansion in the old city was originally the Marquis’s Mansion. In order to appear solemn and domineering, the south front court occupies a large area, and many rooms are reserved for officials, while the back house looks relatively compact and crowded due to the large number of rooms. .

Long Xiang likes to delegate power to the people below. Except for the chief recorder (main recorder), the sub-supervisor (master soldier, patrol attendant), and Shaofu Shi (general private financial cashier), the rest of the subordinate officials are either not set up, or Distributing the functions to other yamen means that the houses in the office area of ​​Fushang will be idle for a long time.

Before building the Taishou Mansion, Long Xiang personally drew a picture to adjust the layout, compressed the wasteful part of the office area, and expanded the public area of ​​the back house instead, providing children with a space to play.

The layout of the back house is still a courtyard, and the main room in the north is furnished exactly the same as the old city, still with a central hall and two bedrooms, but Long Xiang divided the east and west rows of wing rooms equally to the Qiao family sisters, expressing his attitude of not marrying in the future.

Qiao Ni had the merit of presiding over the construction of the new city. After Long Xiang officially became the prefect of Lujiang, he set up a new craftsman Cao Yamen for his brother-in-law, who was at the same level as Bing Cao, Wei Cao and other military and political departments.

Carpenter Cao was in charge of the construction and planning of Hefei, and Qiao Ni succeeded Feng Zhong as the chief officer of the craftsman camp.

Feng Zhong and Tang Yu, as Long Xiang's absolute confidantes, are responsible for the city defense of the old and new cities respectively.

As a craftsman, Cao Cao, Qiaoyi has his own independent mansion. He reserved a room for Mrs. Chen, but at this time, Mrs. Chen lived in Qiaowei’s East Wing, helping her two daughters take care of the newborn. .

Babies and toddlers sleep half the time every day, and when Long Xiang returned to the back house in the afternoon, he did not hear the crying of his children.

Stepping into the hall of the east chamber, I saw the mother and daughter of the Qiao family sitting around the table chatting.

Seeing Long Xiang's return, the mother and daughter stood up at the same time, giving the sheriff enough face.

Long Xiang stretched out his hand to signal them to sit down, glanced at the bedroom where the children were sleeping, and asked in a low voice, "Are the children sleeping again?"

"Ah."

Qiao Wei nodded and replied: "Yue'er fell asleep right after eating, and Ji'er just fell asleep after arguing for a while."

"I'll take a look."

Long Xiang tiptoed to the bedroom, and saw two pink little guys sleeping soundly.

Xin said that it is really comfortable to sleep after eating, and they don't have to worry about survival and life. No wonder the children are always innocent, and their eyes are extraordinarily bright and clear.

Later, when I came to the table and sat down, I remembered that Lu Su was worrying about raising children, but he was the shopkeeper.

Long Xiang expressed his feelings and said to Chen's mother: "After Ji'er and Yue'er were born, I, as a father, basically didn't worry about it, except my aunt and two wives."

Qiao Wei replied solemnly: "What did Long Lang say? These are what a concubine should do. You are a man who takes big things, how can you get caught up in such small things?"

Long Xiang shook his head lightly: "You can't say that, Zijing is also doing great things, but his mother and wife are weak, so I have to pay more attention. I just came to ask me how to educate my son. If I hadn't been lucky enough to meet him For you, a lonely person like me whose parents are not here, maybe it will be much more difficult than Zijing."

Qiao Wei and Qiao Wan bowed their heads in embarrassment when Long Xiang praised them face to face.

Seeing this, Mrs. Chen took over the words: "I heard from Mr. Yuan Hua about the situation of Lu Zijing's family. They all suffered from childhood problems. It is difficult to make up for it now, but the Lu family is a wealthy family in Huainan. Raising children is not a problem at all, it should be that it is not easy to think of gold as having a child, so it is so cautious."

"What my aunt said is true."

Long Xiang nodded in agreement, then suddenly turned his head to look at Qiao Wan, and said softly, "Zi Jing is a well-known scholar in Jianghuai, and the conditions of the Lu family are also good. I plan to marry him as a husband, what do you think?"

"what?"

Qiao Wan was surprised at first, then nodded after a while to answer: "Husband is the head of the family, who is he going to promise Yueer to, just make up your own mind."

Long Xiang looked at Qiao Wan and said tenderly: "Yue'er is the daughter of the two of us, it's better to discuss matters of marriage."

"The concubine obeys her husband."

Although Qiao Wan and Qiao Wei are both regular wives, Long Xiang's questioning in front of Chen Shi and Qiao Wei made her feel like a mistress.

Qiao Wan's clever IQ made her sober, and she agreed with Long Xiang's decision in her heart, but this answer can take care of everyone's emotions.

Seeing this, Mrs. Chen spoke up: "Lu Zijing is Yunqi's right-hand man. Marriage to the Lu family is indeed a good idea. You have been an official at a young age, and your future is limitless. Lu Zijing is a smart man."

"Zijing is very resourceful. He mentioned this marriage because he didn't like me as the sheriff."

After Long Xiang finished speaking, he smiled bitterly, thinking that his aunt was still so 'pragmatic', and then said to Chen Shi: "The third brother will soon be eighteen this year, what do you think of his marriage? An ordinary girl of the right age in Hefei, You should be looking down on it."

"I'm worrying about it."

Mrs. Chen shook her head and sighed: "Nie'er has worked with you for a few years, and now he has become promising. Yun Qi is now the prefect of Lujiang, and he should have connections with famous people. If you bother to help find someone, I think there will always be a suitable one." "

Long Xiang said: "I really have someone to choose. Chen Yuanlong has an 11-year-old daughter. If my aunt is willing to let my third brother wait, my son-in-law will find a way to make it happen."

"Yes, of course."

After hearing this, Mrs. Chen was overjoyed, and said in her heart that it was the Mrs. Chen of Xuzhou, and it would be no problem to wait for three to five years.

Maybe the expression was too exaggerated just now, Chen calmed down and continued to add: "As the saying goes, why does a man have no wife? It's not too late to let the son train for a few more years. If you really can't wait, take him a concubine first."

"Hehe, listen to you."

"Whoah. Whoah"

Just as Long Xiang finished answering, a baby crying suddenly came from beside him.

As if the program had been activated, Qiao Wei was the first to run over quickly, because she recognized the cry of her son Long Ji.

Long Xiang and Qiao Wan followed closely and saw Qiao Wei holding Long Ji in her arms and shaking gently.

After a false alarm, the little thing stopped crying and fell asleep again.

Qiao Wei coaxed Long Ji to sleep, put him on the couch again, and gestured for the two to go out, explaining in a low voice as they walked: "Ji'er must have been frightened by a dream, he will have to sleep for two hours before he is hungry."

"Madam remembers it so clearly? It's amazing."

Long Xiang couldn't help giving Qiao Wei a thumbs up, and Qiao Wan also nodded in agreement: "My sister slapped Ji'er to sleep with a few strokes, that's what makes her so powerful."

"What's so great about this? Didn't you learn it from your mother?"

Qiao Wei shook her head modestly, then changed the topic and said: "But Yue'er doesn't cry or make trouble, and my sister doesn't need to learn this trick at all, and you, a mother, enjoy the blessing."

"With the name Guang Ji'er, you know he's restless, let alone a boy," Qiao Wan joked with a smile.

Qiao Wei glanced at Long Xiang, and then proudly said: "Long Lang asked Mr. You for advice in order to name them. It doesn't matter if Ji'er is a little noisy, as a man should be like this."

(End of this chapter)