Chapter 278 Neighbors

The Fourth Prince also had a look of "admiration" on his face, and then said.

"So you are the brother of the Wei family. No need to be polite. You and Qilang should be cousins, right?"

The Fourth Prince knew something about the relationship between the Duke's Mansion and the Grand Marshal's Mansion, so he used this as a starting point to win over Wei Jiaheng.

Who knew that Wei Jiaheng would be the one who came to the door and spoke as soon as he opened his mouth.

"The Fourth Prince has good eyesight and a good memory. Qilang is indeed my cousin."

Shang Qillang quietly watched Wei Jiaheng trying to make friends with the Fourth Prince, feeling quite disdainful in his heart. He was still struggling over whether he should join the Fourth Prince's camp, but his cousin was integrating into the group very quickly.

So seeing this situation, Shang Qilang silently took a step back and gave his seat to Wei Jiaheng.

However, he and the Fourth Prince were rare "close friends". After just a few words, they became close brothers. It was truly lamentable and ridiculous to see how they did it.

With the joining of Wei Jiaheng, the attention of the four princes was diverted a lot. Seeing this, Shang Qillang found an excuse and left for a while.

I walked to the corridor not far away and watched the people toasting each other at the table, with many different thoughts in my mind.

Especially after walking around in a circle, he fixed his eyes on the Fourth Prince. Seeing his posture of winning over others, he sighed after a moment.

Is a son of a noble family like Wei Jiaheng really useful in the real fight for the throne? Shang Qilang had many doubts.

It can be seen from the Fourth Prince's behavior that he is not a very smart person, but his mother and elder sister have paved the way for him and insisted on letting him board the Fourth Prince's ship. At this moment, he feels an indescribable discomfort.

He sighed a few times. If given a choice, who wouldn't want to serve under a wise ruler? Obviously, the Crown Prince was much better than the Fourth Prince.

Moreover, there are many talented people around, and the situation will be much better than it is now.

He was confident that if he could join them, he would definitely be able to make a career of his own. But now, he was confused. He wanted to join the Eastern Palace but was not allowed in, and he did not want to follow the Fourth Prince but there seemed to be no way to escape.

Shang Qillang was in a dilemma.

But while he was making things difficult for him, Shang Sanlang on the other side, thanks to the opportunity to show his face in front of the prince and his "friendship" with Shang Ji, got an "excellent" rating in the performance evaluation of the Ministry of Personnel, so he was promoted to the head of the Chief Guest Department in the Ministry of Rites.

He is in charge of the audience with foreign nations and barbarians, and has a close relationship with the Honglu Temple. If he works hard, he will definitely be able to develop some career in the Honglu Temple in the future.

Therefore, after learning about their promotion, the people in the third house are now quite grateful to the General's Mansion.

Now that Erlang's wife is no longer in charge, everyone in the third house in Guihua Lane follows Shang Sanlang's lead.

Compared with his grandfather and father, he had more serious ideas, so he restrained everyone from top to bottom and prevented them from doing anything reckless. The power of the backyard was also handed over to his wife, so Guihua Lane was peaceful and stable.

However, their peaceful days will soon be over, because the fifth room of the fifth old master disappeared during the first month of the year, and the whole family will move here in the next two days.

Living together in Guihua Lane and having been a "family", they were naturally inseparable, so Sanlang's wife made a point of explaining all the interests involved to everyone.

"Sanlang is the only one in the family who still has some future. If he can become successful in the future, our family will also benefit from it. But if our grandparents, parents-in-law and second brother insist on causing trouble at this critical moment, then the good fortune of our third branch may come to an end."

"How can you say such things? Isn't Sanlang fine? He has won the favor of the noble man."

"I don't want to threaten you like this, but I think everyone has heard about Liu Lang's temper these days. Uncle didn't go when the Guo family proposed marriage, and now he can't even knock on the door of the general's mansion. We will never be closer to him than Uncle. If we make him angry, I don't need to tell you the consequences."

Hearing this, everyone stopped talking.

In the past six months since they moved out of the Duke's Mansion, they have finally learned what it means to have a cold stove in their pot, so they dare not say much. Now they are lucky to be able to spend two days of peace and tranquility.

Especially the third old master, his fifth brother is a few years younger than him and is now buried in the earth, so it is better for him to stay away from him.

Seeing that everyone was very obedient, Sanlang's wife didn't say anything more.

Instead, he was thinking of ways to find some good things and send them to his nephew in the general's mansion when his nephew turned one month old. This would also help him to show off in front of Liu Lang's wife.

Time flies, and it is May in the blink of an eye.

The weather is getting hotter day by day, especially for Du Jingyi who is still in confinement after childbirth. She has been sweating slightly in the past two days.

At this time of year in previous years, ice would be used in the house, but her body couldn't bear it now, so she could only push it back.

Fortunately, the windows can be used for convection to allow for occasional fresh air, so it’s not too stuffy.

Mrs. Du has been staying in the general's mansion for half a month, taking care of Du Jingyi and Tai Ge'er every day, and she looks much thinner.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

It can be seen that taking care of children is extremely tiring.

Shang Ji was not idle either. After she gave birth, he asked for leave and stayed at home. At first, some people outside were talking about it, but soon he was "idle" at home openly.

Because he accidentally "fell" and injured his leg while working for His Majesty, the imperial physician said after treating him that he must rest for three months, otherwise his leg injury would not heal.

Du Jingyi was shocked when he heard the news.

She was very worried at first, but then she suddenly remembered what her husband said to her that day, and realized that it was most likely that he asked for it.

It's really heartbreaking and helpless.

Now, one of the couple is in confinement after giving birth, and the other is recovering from a leg injury. They really live up to the saying: Don't leave the front door, don't go out the back door.

I devoted all my attention to raising children, and the results were very good.

When Tai Ge'er was born, he had a good physical foundation. After half a month, he opened his eyes, grinned, and even cried louder than before.

Wet nurse Fu's food intake also increased a lot, because she said that her brother had a good appetite and she had to make up for it.

At the beginning, Mrs. Du said that she would find a good wet nurse for Tai Ge'er so that they could feed him together. But Tai Ge'er only sucked the wet nurse's milk, so there was nothing they could do but to give the wet nurse nutritional supplements.

Maybe it was because the wet nurse Fu's milk was good, the baby ate more and grew faster, so Tai Ge'er gained a lot of weight and looked even stronger than Yun Ge'er who was of the same age.

"After all, he is the son of a military commander. His bloodline is here. Look how strong our Brother Tai has grown!"

(End of this chapter)