Chapter 1468 Origin
In troubled times, things are naturally very chaotic.
Even though the royal Li family came from a wealthy and aristocratic family, when they came to Beijing, there was chaos and various cases were constantly involved.
There are too many people who want to steal merits, gold, silver, treasures, land, women, and houses.
There were all kinds of struggles between military generals, aristocratic families, and powerful clans, and even the royal family got involved.
The late emperor was generous and simply took back most of the houses and gave them away as rewards.
With every change of dynasty, the owners of the houses in the inner city at the foot of the imperial city would change. Few of them were bought with money, most of them were robbed or received as rewards.
Duke Zhao robbed several houses in the past. Some of them were given to his subordinates, some were donated to the national treasury, and the late emperor gave them back to various meritorious officials. However, one house was left out.
Then the late emperor gave him another house, and after the current emperor ascended the throne, he replaced it with a bigger one. The house that had been hidden all this time was thus forgotten.
Until the seventh year of Dazhen, the Duke of Zhao's harem was unstable. After drinking, the Duke of Zhao said that he wanted to give the house to his third son, but his third son was a bastard.
Aunt Zhao was unhappy. After a fight with Duke Zhao, she went to the palace to cry to the Queen.
It happened that the queen had a temper tantrum at that time. The prince was young and energetic and could not bear to see this. He did not want these things to disturb his mother. In addition, he was even better friends with his aunt Zhao's son Zhao Silang, so he simply took Zhao Silang to find his uncle and wanted to snatch the house from him. In this way, his aunt would not have to come to the palace to find his mother.
As a result, he pulled Zhao Silang into the garden and started by praising the plum blossoms in the garden. When he was about to continue with the sentence "It matches my cousin's temperament", Zhao Guojiu, who was having a headache at that time, seemed to have found a solution immediately and gave the house to the prince immediately.
This is the only house in Chongyuanfang, and he has six sons, five of whom are the eldest son. It would be inappropriate to give it to anyone else, so he might as well give it to the prince.
Because of this farce, Duke Zhao was impeached by the censor at that time.
The two charges were: one was causing domestic unrest;
The second is to seduce the prince.
Duke Zhao also came from a military background. Originally, when he gave the prince the house, it was to get rid of the farce at home, and the prince was not very willing to accept it.
As a result of being impeached, both of them became very angry.
Duke Zhao thought, what's wrong with me giving my nephew a house? If I am willing, I can give him ten.
The prince thought, what's wrong with me taking over my uncle's house? How can it be considered seduction?
So one of them insisted on giving it away, and the other insisted on accepting it. The uncle and nephew were willing to do so, but they still ran to the court and mocked the censor. In the end, they made the censor sick with anger, and the emperor found a reason to send him out of the capital.
So this incident became famous.
Lord Tang smiled and said, "Duke Zhao has many sons, including illegitimate sons. Not all of them are loyal to the Crown Prince. This house on Daze Road is a good one. If Duke Zhao divides his family in the future, except for the eldest son, everyone else will definitely be separated. This place to live is very particular."
Because of this house, several young masters in Duke Zhao's mansion have opinions about the prince. If they knew that Manbao accepted the reward and turned around to sell it away, they would definitely be angry.
The powerful, aristocratic families, nobles and commoners and officials in the capital all have their own places to live. Where you live represents your area. Sometimes people's psychology is so subtle.
For example, the nobles headed by Duke Su lived in Yongchongfang, next to Chongyuanfang, not too far away.
In order to disgust Wei Zhi, His Majesty specially gave him a house next to the Suguo Mansion. A man with a loud voice and a censor happened to live in the same place, which made Wei Zhi so angry that he ran away to Anlefang and rented a house to live in.
Officials from humble backgrounds in the imperial court loved to gather and live in Anlefang.
Later, Wei Zhi had more children and grandchildren, and the family could no longer accommodate too many people. In addition, he had swallowed his anger, so he returned to live in the house given by His Majesty. But that was only in the past two years, and the house had been empty for seven or eight years.
The palaces of the powerful and wealthy, such as princesses and princes, are scattered in Changlefang and Xingningfang.
Chongyuanfang is mostly inhabited by aristocratic families, and there is also the Guangdefang area. Anyway, birds of a feather flock together. The prince awarded this house to Manbao, and it is not known whether it was to promote her or to disgust the people he wanted to disgust.
Lord Tang had been to their home in Changqing Lane many times as a guest and knew that their family was free and easy-going and didn't care about many things. So he smiled and said, "When you move in, you don't need to invite many people to warm up the house. Just invite some people you know and have a meal together."
Yang Heshu also nodded, "Please leave us a message when the time comes."
He also felt that Manbao and the others should not get too close to the people in the neighborhood at this time, as it would have a bad impact on their future.
Aristocratic families all value rules, but rules are sometimes not so easy to follow.
Bai Shan knew this very well. Although he didn't have many memories of Longzhou, he vaguely remembered some of the things he did when he was a child.
After entering the capital, Madam Liu did not let him live with her, in fact, she did not want to restrict him. But in fact, Madam Liu has become much more tolerant now. If the family lived together in Longzhou, Bai Shan would not be able to go in and out with only Daji.
Manbao knew that the house could not be sold, so he began to actively plan to move.
Of course, she was busy and no one else had time, so they could only go to Daze Street to sort things out in the afternoon after Bai Shan and the others got out of school.
Manbao was the host, so after some arguing, she decided to live in the main courtyard. Of course, she didn't live alone, and she invited Zhou Lijun and Zhou Liru to live with her.
The two sisters happily agreed and chose a room they liked.
Mr. Zhuang looked around and felt that it would be best for him to live in the study in the front yard. The main yard of the whole yard was the study, and the two rooms on the left and right were very spacious. He could choose one to be a bedroom, and the other could be made into a tea room and a place for classes. This way, it would be spacious, comfortable, and more convenient for life.
So, when Daji had free time, he started moving beds and some shelves and other things there, all of which they had bought before.
Manbao also invited Mrs. Liu and the Bai brothers to live with him.
Manbao said: "There are too few people. The house is so big, it will be more lively if more people live here."
She said, "Fortunately, each courtyard has a small kitchen. Once the door is locked, it becomes a separate house. Everyone can live on their own."
Zhou Wulang and the others had no objections, because even if they moved in, they would still eat in the restaurant and didn't have to worry about anything.
Zhou Lixue and his family can also cook simple meals themselves. As long as there is rice and vegetables, the children of the Zhou family will never go hungry.
Bai Erlang was dumbfounded and asked, "What should my brother and I do then? We don't know how to cook."
When Old Lady Liu heard that they had already started assigning who would cook and who would wash the dishes, she couldn't help but say, "You guys are so busy. Besides studying, you also have to learn medicine and copy books every day. Where do you find so much time for all this?"
She smiled and said, "Leave the kitchen chores to me. We'll still eat together in the future."
See you at 4 p.m.
(End of this chapter)
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