Chapter 1286
"It's really not good for someone who is celebrating the Chinese New Year to cause trouble in the family because of this little thing. Fortunately, your father listened to the advice and finally just gave him a severe scolding. No, he has been a good boy these past few days. At home, I didn’t go out to have fun with his group of friends.”
However, she felt extremely uncomfortable when she thought that the two ornaments that Xia Zijiang had pawned were her dowry.
Most of her dowry consisted of books, and there were few ornaments. There was not much left, and she planned to keep them as betrothal gifts for her son to marry him in the future. However, Xia Zijiang pawned them, and besides, thirty taels of silver He only pawned the vase for twenty taels of silver and exchanged it for a pheasant.
Thinking about it, she was extremely upset and angry.
However, she was really helpless with a playboy step-son who was ignorant and unskilled and refused to change despite repeated admonitions.
She couldn't hit, scold or complain. Even if the thing was stolen, not only could she not show anger, she also had to persuade her husband not to be angry.
Hey...
Mrs. Xia Er could only hold back the anger in her heart. She didn't even have a place to vent. If Xia Zihan hadn't taken the initiative to ask, she would have been too embarrassed to tell her about it.
Xia Zihan was not surprised. She sneered, "Xia Zijiang has half the blood of Xu's family flowing in his body. His nature is rotten from the very core. No wonder you. Just be careful about him in the future."
Mrs. Xia Er looked helpless, "Who would have known that the purpose of defrauding your father of his money was just to buy a pheasant."
Then, he quietly told Xia Zihan, "Your father was so angry that on New Year's Eve, he had the pheasant killed. The pheasant, which weighed five or six kilograms, was stomped into pieces to make soup. It was just enough to hold four large pheasants. Bowl.”
There were more than thirty people in the Xia family, including the doormen. The master had one table, and the rest occupied three tables.
Xia Zihan looked shocked, "What Xia Zijiang bought must be a fighting cock, right?" Fighting cocks are specially raised by someone. They are extremely delicate and are raised for fighting, but they were stewed by her father?
"Fighting cocks are also chickens." Mrs. Xia Er curled her lips.
"That's true."
Fighting cocks are also chickens and can also be eaten. Her father is really...
Xia Zihan was speechless for a while.
The two mentioned Xia Zijiang's marriage again.
"Your father's idea is to wait until the weather gets warmer, in June and July. But according to the Lu family, Miss Lu is too old and can't bear the delay. Your father and I will discuss and choose March as the wedding date. On the twelfth, the eldest wife of the Lu family wants to move the wedding date to the second day of February. It is still a month away, and your father and I are worried that we will not have time to prepare.”
Xia Zijiang is the eldest son of the Xia family. His marriage must not be simple. When the time comes, there will be a lot of things to prepare, and the Xia family has few hands, so it will definitely be too late.
When Xia Zihan heard this, he said, "Mom, don't worry about manpower. I have a group of people on hand. Just ask them to come and follow the arrangements of father and mother."
"That's great, then I... let's go to the sixth day of the lunar month. The sixth day of the lunar month is a good day. I'll send someone to the Lu family and fix the wedding date." Mrs. Xia Er said happily.
Xia Zijiang even dared to use her dowry as money to buy fighting cocks. She is now afraid of him. She is really afraid that one day, Xia Zijiang will pawn the entire Xia family...
Therefore, he quickly married Xia Zijiang's daughter-in-law, and then put the young couple to live aside and let Miss Lu keep an eye on him.
I heard that Miss Lu is very powerful... After having dinner at Xia's house and staying for a while, the family of four went back home.
Returning to Anjun Prince's Mansion, Xia Zihan heard the maid report that the eldest young master of the Jiang family was here to pay New Year's greetings.
Xia Zihan didn't like the eldest young master of the Jiang family, so she didn't take it seriously. However, when she went to bed at night, Chu Jingqi hugged her and told her, "Dad wants to hold the power of Xicheng in his hands and marry the Jiang family. It’s the quickest and easiest way.”
"Sooner or later, the Chu family's army will become a thorn in the emperor's heart. If Xicheng is conquered by the Chu family, wouldn't the emperor..."
"No, Brother A Yu can't." Chu Jingqi was very confident in Ao Tianyu. He believed that no matter what the circumstances, Ao Tianyu would not attack Chu Jiajun.
But...
"Now the world is at peace and there is no need to fight anymore. The country maintains hundreds of thousands of troops. It is okay now, but as time goes by, I am afraid that if the emperor does not complain, the common people will."
Although in recent years, the common people will still remember the kindness of the soldiers in repelling the Tatar Japanese pirates without any complaints, but ten, twenty, thirty, or even forty or fifty years later What next?
When a country raises troops, it is afraid of war and foreign invasion. But now that the Tatars and Japanese pirates have all surrendered to the Dasheng Kingdom, without foreign enemies, then continuing to raise hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses will be a waste of the court's money and burden the common people. burden.
No one wants to tire himself to death while supporting hundreds of thousands of idle people, right?
After a long time, the emperor has no complaints, but I am afraid that all the officials and common people will not see it.
When the time comes, how can the emperor alone be able to fight against everyone in the world?
Moreover, after ten or twenty years, there will be veterans in the Chu family army. When the time comes, the veterans will be forced to retire when they reach their age.
After batch after batch of veterans retired, since there was no war to fight, could the emperor and ministers still allow the Chu family to recruit troops?
If there is no fresh blood in the army, as time goes by, even if the emperor is not afraid of the Chu family army, the Chu family army will slowly disappear.
That's why Chu Xuanyu wanted to control Xicheng.
When the day comes when the Chu family's army really seems to have no heirs, the Chu family will have a new force in their hands to gain a foothold in the capital.
Xia Zihan frowned when he heard this, "Even if the country doesn't fight, it still has to train its troops, right? Although the Tatar Japanese pirates are currently surrendering to the Great Power, but in twenty or thirty years, who knows, this country will be like What scene? ”
"So, dad is preparing for a rainy day." Even if he wants to train troops, the emperor is afraid that he will only ask the second prince's palace to recruit troops, and the Chu family... even if they are allowed to recruit troops, I'm afraid there won't be many. And the Chu family, which has lost its troops, will What will it be like?
The emperor will not take action against the Chu family army, but he will not watch the Chu family grow up. The reason why the emperor supported the second prince in the past was to let the second prince's palace and the Chu family army work together to balance the army of Dasheng Kingdom.
Chu Jingqi's head arched into her neck and he took a deep breath of the fragrance emanating from her body.
The fragrance that makes him fall in love to the extreme and be fascinated by it.
"Ayu, don't talk about this. I got a good picture book for my husband. Let's study it together."
He picked up Xia Zihan and leaned on the Kang. He didn't know where he took out a picture book, spread it out in front of them, and opened it page by page.
As soon as Xia Zihan saw the picture above, his cheeks turned red. He reached out and pinched his waist, and glared at him angrily, "Didn't you say that after finishing the postures in that picture, you would never play tricks again?" Where did this picture come from? ”
"Mabao took it from outside." Chu Jingqi said with a smile, without even frowning, completely treating Xia Zihan's pinch as a fun thing in the couple's room.
(End of chapter)