In July of the thirteenth year of Qing'an, there was a change in the Xiongnu peace talks. Gu Juefei took charge of the errands in the Fantang, and married Lu Jinxi, and the official was only five rank;

In September of the same year, the autumn flood in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River was violent, and the people in the south of the Yangtze River won the hearts and minds of the people who led the disaster relief after the flood and raised grain funds.

At the beginning of the fourteenth year of Qing’an, when the Beijing officials were evaluated for their performance, Gu Jue had to be a top-ranking officer, and he also served as a bachelor’s student in the Hanlin Academy.

In July of the same year, envoys from Uyghur, Tubo and other countries entered the summer, and they managed the reception of the Fantang, negotiated a peace treaty, and opened a border trade exchange, which was always considered good; Gu Juefei was promoted to the left servant of the Ministry of Rites.

In December of the same year, Gao Qian, the former minister of the Ministry of Personnel, took bribes, and Yao Feng, the former minister of the Ministry of Personnel, was promoted to the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and Gu Juefei was changed to be the minister of the Ministry of Personnel;

In March of the fifteenth year of Qing’an, Kang Xinyuan, a former scholar of the University of Dongge, begged for a break, and he was granted permission to replace Gu Juefei as a scholar of the University of Dongge;

In August of the same year, because of his outstanding talent and learning, he was the chief examiner of the Jiangnan Township Examination, in charge of autumn affairs, and investigated the case of fraud in the imperial examination;

In February of the 16th year of Qing'an, he was appointed as the president of the conference, in charge of spring affairs;

In October of the same year, the Xianbei and Dayue tribes resigned, and the Lifan Hall was officially renamed the Lifan Academy. It was responsible for the taxation, households, post stations, border trade and other matters of Fanbang, and Gu Juefei was appointed as the minister of the Lifan Academy.

In December of the same year, Gu Chengqian, the Grand Master of the Palace of Preservation, begged for leave due to old age and illness, and the Grand Master of the Palace of Peace was vacant.

When the edict was issued, Lu Jinxi was sitting under the window playing chess with Gu Chengqian, who had just retired.

She is average at chess.

However, Gu Chengqian's chess skills were superb, and she patiently landed one piece at a time, trapping the black piece she was holding to death in a short while.

Gu Chengqian, who is in his sixtieth year, has already shown a bit of old age.

The gray-white face was crowded with wrinkles one by one, and the neatly combed hair was already white like snow, and even the palm of the chess piece was trembling.

He had a thick fleece blanket on his knees, and he was already terrified of the cold.

Although it has only been three and a half years, the old lady who was all-powerful at the time seems to no longer exist.

In the past few years when Gu Juefei's career was flat, he grew old at a visible speed.

People said that he was making way for his son, gradually fading out of the power center of the court, and gradually refraining from participating in court meetings on the grounds of illness, and then he went to work a few days ago.

From the surface alone, it seems that it is indeed a round of power change between the old and the new, and the Gu family needs a new and powerful family in charge.

But in Lu Jinxi's eyes, that's not the case.

As Gu Juefei's bedside person, she couldn't have seen the struggle between father and son for more than three years -

The old lady never made way for Gu Juefei.

He was forced by Gu Juefei, step by step, little by little, faded out of the power center that he didn't want to leave, and then was finally sparred by reality and realized the cruel truth that he had been replaced by his son...

The so-called "begging for rest" is nothing but the last respect for both sides.

Gu Juefei is a ruthless character.

In the past few years, Lu Jinxi has also really experienced it, and sometimes even half-jokingly thinks about it: what did he think in the first place to provoke him?

It's just that the boat is done, she is on the Gu Juefei pirate ship.

The boat was getting farther and farther, and there was water all around, and I couldn't jump off, so I had to follow the boat and go all the way.

"Clap."

After thinking for a long time, the sunspot between her fingers turned several times before finally landing on the corner of the chessboard.

Gu Chengqian shook his head when he saw it, and the old voice was like the wind wrapped in sand in Saibei: "Your chess skills have not improved at all in the past few years."

understood.

It's just that she has lost.

Lu Jinxi reluctantly voted, shook his head, but laughed: "How can Jinxi compare with you? I didn't learn much when I was young, and I didn't have enough brains, so I wasn't born to play chess. To be able to beat you to the middle game is already considered. A huge improvement."

Spring and autumn come, and three years have passed in a flash.

The scenery outside the carved window changed three times, and in the blink of an eye, it was the middle of winter covered with snow again.

Gu Chengqian listened to her words, although he knew that she was a compliment, but he rarely smiled lightly and wanted to get up.

Lu Jinxi hurriedly came over to help.

Gu Chengqian trembled, knocked on his knee, and sighed: "Thanks to you for sending medicines and prescriptions back then, otherwise, how could this leg disease survive? Much better."

Back then, Lu Jinxi was congratulating the old lady's teacher, and specially invited Huishengtang's ghost hand to open the prescription. But in fact, Lu Jinxi knew that Gu Juefei also had this recipe.

only……

When she thought about the matter between the father and son, she also had an inexplicable complexity in her heart.

In the past three and a half years, Gu Juefei has flourished in the court, and it can be said that he is the most popular figure in the Daxia Dynasty.

He abandoned his usual style of being kind to others.

Since taking care of the affairs of the Fanyuan, he has been quite unselfish, and has the trust of the emperor. He has made friends with like-minded people, and has become a new generation of giants.

Lu Jinxi is not doing nothing in the back house.

The business of Shenglongchang in Shaanxi is getting bigger and bigger, and because Lu Jinxi married Gu Juefei, who happened to be in charge of Lifantang, Sheng Xuan cleverly continued to cooperate with Lu Jinxi.

The share capital she originally cooperated with for the first time was discounted to continue the subsequent cooperation.

The form of the border has been good in recent years. The capital of Daxia has a magnificent atmosphere of coming from all directions, and trade on the border has naturally become more frequent. As the Uighurs, Tubos, Xianbei, etc. successively negotiated and traded with Daxia, the scope of trade was also rapidly expanded.

As a pioneer in this line, Sheng Longchang naturally comes out on top.

Even now that more and more people are crowding in and drinking soup, Sheng Longchang's advantage has been established, and it is difficult to think about it.

So Lu Jinxi not only quickly recovered the dowry money originally borrowed from the Lu family, but also doubled the money in his hand dozens of times in the past three years.

You should not worry about food and clothing.

No one in this house cares about her. When she is happy, she goes out when she wants to go out, and she swims in the lake when she wants to. She even went to Jiangnan with Gu Juefei last year.

It can be said that the days are not pleasant.

The general's mansion is not looking for trouble. Sister Li, Sister Lang, and Brother Chi are getting older, but they come to visit her from time to time, and they are sensible and obedient.

Everyone in the Grand Master's Mansion knew that she was the one on the top of Gu Juefei's heart, and they dared not provoke her.

When she first got married, it wasn't that no one wanted to see her laughing; but after all these years, those high-ranking, powerful and famous ladies only had to laugh when they saw her.

In addition, she is tactful and seldom offends people.

In this way, they echoed Gu Juefei one after the other, and they were the most proud couple in the capital today.

Saying that "brain" is not enough, I know that this is just a joke and a joke.

She doesn't like chess.

But she could see clearly the relationship between the father and son.

Right now, she helped Gu Chengqian to stand up, she just smiled and said: "You don't even remember this stubble, Jinxi. A few days ago, there was a caravan of Huns in Beijing, and they brought good ginseng. I ordered someone to buy a few boxes, and Doctor Zhang said that there is a recipe to use this to recuperate, so that you can live more comfortably this winter."

Gu Chengqian's heart was really complicated.

He knew early on that the daughter that Lu Jiuling raised was very good, but when she married Xue Kuang, he didn't know it was so good. Later, because of the secret grievances between Gu Juefei and Xue Kuang, he felt a little guilty towards Lu Jinxi.

Unexpectedly, she turned into her own daughter-in-law.

Gu Juefei's cunning and ruthless, as his father, and even a colleague in the officialdom, he has already experienced it.

With this son, he has nothing to say.

But it's hard to ignore Lu Jinxi's thoughtful daughter-in-law.

After all, she is gentle, virtuous and filial, and she really treats him as an elder, and her words, deeds, and actions are fully reflected.

Who doesn't like her?

It can even be said that he and Gu Juefei fought like that in the court, and this huge Taishi mansion hasn't fallen apart because of the fact that there is still Lu Jinxi in this mansion.

Gu Chengqian sighed again, took the crutches aside, supported himself, and said with a wry smile: "It's hard for you to have a heart. This game of chess is over today, so you can go back and do your work. Now I beg Xiu has resigned, and Ji Zhiyin has already made an appointment to go to the East Lake to enjoy the snow and drink tea, it's time to go."

As he said that, he walked out.

Wan Baochang, the chief general of the Grand Master's Mansion, who was standing beside him, hurriedly followed, and opened the warm sedan chair in front of him.

It's just that before the person left the house, there was a high-pitched singing in the front yard—

"The decree has arrived!"

"Fengtian transported the emperor, and the edict said: The Minister of Lifan Academy, the wife of the scholar of the Palace of Preserving Harmony, Mrs. Lu, is knowledgeable and knowledgeable, virtuous and gentle, restrains the ceremonial ceremonies, and is dutiful to Jiaren. Then she was named a first-class lady, and bestowed on the New Year's Eve Palace. Attend the night banquet, please!"