Fujian suffered from floods, and the emperor sent 500 students from the Imperial College to the local area, with the intention of training talents. Unexpectedly, according to the secret investigation of the Jinyiwei, most of the 500 people actually accepted banquets and received gifts from local officials.

Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and issued an order to kill him in the street without leaving any one. In addition, it was found that a large number of officials from the Ministry of Works were tampering with the construction of the imperial tombs and embezzled the project funds. Then, the heads of a large number of officials fell to the ground.

In recent years, the resentment in the capital has made many wealthy families unbearable and moved to manors in the suburbs to temporarily live. Among them, the Duke of Qian was a family. All officials lived tremblingly, and some ministers even left a will to their families when they went to court. The family was guarding the door. When they saw their master return safely, they immediately set off firecrackers to celebrate.

The ups and downs of the capital have basically no impact on ordinary people, and most people even applaud. Everyone hopes that the more corrupt officials will die, the better.

When the Xu family learned that Xu Hao was about to return, Qiuxiang and three other girls were busy tidying up the bedding early in the morning and drying the leather clothes they needed to use in winter.

Xu Hao went to Fushouju to pay tribute to the old lady. After a few months of separation, the old lady asked a few questions lightly and asked him to go back and rest. The people still had the lukewarm attitude as before. Who told the eldest brother to marry Princess Pucheng and the third uncle to be an official in the north? Anyone knows who should curry favor with him? In contrast, the second wife seemed to be more secretly talking.

The private contact between Xu Hao and the Prince of Yan’s Mansion is a secret, and the princess who likes the Duke of Qian is just wishful thinking in the eyes of his family and is regarded as a joke.

As for the elder sister Xu Qinglian's special status in the family, no one dares to offend or please him. She belongs to the Bodhisattva in the temple and is for viewing from afar.

According to the rules, I had to go to pay my respects to my uncle. It happened that Lai Bao said that the master and Xu Wen had returned from fighting the capital and were about to get home. The master and servant rushed to the gate. Compared with the lonely quietness when Xu Hao returned home, they saw many servants outside the gate standing facing the car, greeting each other from a distance.

Xu Wen rode proudly on the horse and took the lead. Seeing Xu Hao's eyes no longer had the same intimacy as before, he smiled reservedly, and turned over and dismounted.

"When will I come back?"

"Just come back."

"Yes." Xu Wen shook his luxurious mink cloak and said, "It's windy outside, so go in and talk about anything."

Xu Hao nodded, and then saluted respectfully to the uncle in the car with a few of his own nephews. After entering the door, Xu Yaozu got out of the car with a calm face and walked inside first.

This became the father-in-law of the future prince, the princess and the uncle, and the eldest brother changed his whole body. Xu Hao shook his head and smiled, and walked straight to the end.

After entering the drooping flower gate in the inner house, the female family was greeting in the yard of the upper room. In fact, even if Xu Yaozu had not been upgraded, he was also the master of the Xu family. Today, the whole family mobilized all the troops to welcome each other, because in the past two months, Xu Yaozu has returned from home like Xu Hao. Of course, the treatment here is naturally different.

After meeting, they said a few words to each other. Xu Hao looked at Zhucui's body, a graceful and luxurious third wife, Liu, who had learned what it means to be noble by her son.

Later, the second wife, Xiao and the third wife, Wang, said goodbye together. Xu Hao followed him out. Then Liu asked with a smile: "I have been wild outside for several months, but I still know how to go home?"

Xu Hao said respectfully: "I just came back and I haven't had time to go over and pay my respects to Aunt Third."

"Yo! Brother Hao'er is getting more and more adult-like." Liu was a little surprised and smiled, "I still remember that you and Song'er were the most naughty in the past. When I saw me, I didn't know how many things I stole out and made fun of. I was so angry that I was helpless. Now that I'm polite, I feel disastrous. Forget it, I'll go first, my second sister-in-law."

After saying that, Liu took a large group of maids and women away and waited for the others to leave. Xu Hao immediately returned to normal and said with a smile: "Mom must have been having a very uncomfortable life in the near future, right?"

"It's good to know." Xiao glared at his son angrily, but his hands tightly held his son's warm and thick hand and raised his foot toward his own yard.

Back in the yard and entered the flower hall, Xu Hao said to Qiuxiang and the others: "I haven't seen each other for a few months, and they all changed their appearance. It turns out that women are changing their lives in age."

"What about me?" Qiuye smiled sweetly at him.

Xu Hao touched his chin and shook his head and said, "It's still the yellow-haired girl."

"Hmph!" Hongye turned his head angrily.

A little girl came over with a silver tea tray with a small porcelain lid in it. "Mrs.'s medicine is steamed, so eat it." Xiao waved his hand and said, "Take the inner room and I'll take it tonight."

Xu Hao became nervous and asked hurriedly, "What medicine should I take?" Xu Qinglian explained, "It is Ning Kundan, who calms his mind. My mother has not been asleep recently."

It must be because of the eldest sister's incident. Xu Hao knew that as long as he spoke to send his eldest sister to the Yan Prince's Mansion, everything in front of him would immediately become different, and his mother didn't have to take medicine, but he just couldn't open this.

The eldest sister did not love Zhu Gaochi, and Xu Hao could not impose his wealth on his relatives. Although this was not taken seriously in ancient times, most couples got married first and then fell in love. If they didn’t make it through love, they would just live to the death if they couldn’t stand it!

Xu Hao was interested in coaxing Xiao and said with a smile: "I found an errand. Although I couldn't make much money, I had the opportunity to make a name for myself in the future."

"No." Xiao refused without thinking, "You are at the age of studying. Why are you not working hard? Do we still expect you to go out to work and make money?"

Xu Hao secretly called out, and seemed to be anxious and forgot that there was nothing to show off in this job. How can we justify ourselves?

With a tough needle, Xu Hao said: "The Duke of Qian is short of a companion to study. I think that after all, he is also a royal relative. I want to try it out."

Xiao smiled, and his smile was so bright: "Oh! It turns out that our family is not a royal relative? It's really hard for me to work hard. You can be a companion. You can go to your third uncle's house and the Prince of Yan's house. It's not difficult to study for the crown prince. Why bother to go to the Mu family? What do you think?"

"Ha, haha." Xu Hao felt his mouth dry.

Xiao's face smiled and snorted coldly: "Get out quickly. I warn you that if you don't be a good companion, don't come back for me."

OK! It seems that the whole family knows what they are doing. Xu Hao ran away in shame amid the laughter of the women.

When I ran to the garden, I saw that the two lofts had been repaired and renovated. One was hidden among the red walls and green tiles, and the other was backed by a hill. Fences were erected around them, which were all integrated with the surrounding scenery.

His own courtyard is lonely in the bamboo forest, with a quiet and secluded environment. Xu Hao checked the uniquely shaped public toilet, which was decorated with freshness and elegance by the girls' skillful hands. According to the standards of later generations, at least a four-star evaluation was given. Moreover, it was well ventilated, and the faint fragrance emitted from the incense burner did not have any other odor.

As for how to get the sewer pipes, Xu Hao was too lazy to study them. What satisfied him the most was the outdoor hot spring in his yard, with fog mixed with the green bamboo forest. The background was an exquisite bamboo house, which looked quite poetic and picturesque.

The hot springs are surrounded by various rocks and a pool of warm water. A quaint water wheel is set up nearby, and the bamboo can inject cool stream water.

That night, Xu Hao took a hot spring beautifully. The next morning, Xu Yaozu and Xu Qingtang went to the ancestral hall to pay tribute.
Chapter completed!