"Xiulang, is this hill really artificially built?" Yang Yuhuan asked curiously at a mottled stone.

"It shouldn't be. I've seen the drawings of the mansion. Before building the mansion, there was a mound here. I can only say that the soil was added to the original hill and it was raised."

"I just said it doesn't look like it! There is no artificial pile of rockery such as big, and the roots of the big trees have been drilled into stones. It will take at least several hundred years."

Since the Leyouyuan incident, Yang Yuhuan has been a little depressed. She hopes to live quietly, not to be the target of public criticism, and not to cause trouble for her lover.

It was not until today that Yang Yuhuan finally smiled and could see that she loved this new house very much.

When the two walked up to the top of the mountain, they were Wanghu Pavilion in front of them. In fact, it was a small two-story red building with a circle of walls around them, and there were two small houses beside the walls. An old palace maid in her fifties lived here.

Walking more than thirty steps eastward from the small building, another mountain is built there, where an exquisite autumn viewing pavilion is built.

Yang Yuhuan held Li Xiu's hand and went to the second floor of Guanhu Pavilion. Several female guards were waiting on the first floor.

From the outside, the attic is not big, but it is not small inside. There are three rooms inside and outside, one bedroom, one study, and there is a living room outside and a terrace.

There are newly arranged furniture inside and out, and all kinds of decorations are new and quite luxurious.

Yang Yuhuan snuggled in her lover's arms, her beautiful eyes staring at the lake at the foot of the mountain. She was happy, "This is a good place to play the piano."

"If you like it, just use it as your piano platform."

"Xiurang, I want to live here tonight!"

"What about me?"

"You can do it, but you are not allowed to bully me."

Li Xiu knew that Yang Yuhuan paid great attention to fame and would not take the last step until the wedding night.

He smiled and said, "I'll listen to you playing the piano and burn incense for you. I'll just sleep in the study at night."

"This is my good husband!"

Yang Yuhuan took the initiative to hug Ai Lang's neck and presented his fragrant lips to him.

...........

At this time, a noise came from the foot of the mountain. Li Xiu listened intently and said to Yang Yuhuan: "You wait for me here for a while, I'll go down and take a look!"

Li Xiu quickly walked downstairs and said to several female guards: "You go up and look at Miss Yang, I'll go down and see what's going on!"

A female guard followed Li Xiu down the mountain. At the door of the back house, Zi Linfeng knocked a eunuch to the ground and stepped on his back. Perhaps because he beat him too hard, the eunuch lay on the ground and cried in pain.

"What's going on?" Li Xiu walked up to him and asked.

"My subordinates found that this bastard had secretly contacted Li Cui's subordinates, and collected twenty taels of silver from the other party, and then secretly came to Houzhai, and I stopped him."

Zi Linfeng said, throwing a ingot of twenty taels of silver on the ground.

Li Xiu stepped forward and asked coldly, "What do you want you to do?"

The eunuch was so scared that his face looked like a mortal, kowtowed and begged: "They asked me to draw a map of the back house and mark the place where Miss Yang lives. I was confused for a moment, Your Highness spared my life!"

Li Xiu told the manager next to him: "Send him back to the palace and say that this person is wronged."

"Your Highness, please spare me! Let me go!"

The following is a serious crime in the palace. With this crime, you will never be able to turn over in your life. The eunuch kowtows like a crush. He would rather be beaten to 80 sticks than be sent back to the palace.

But he could no longer let him go, so the supervisor led a few subordinates to drag the eunuch down.

Li Xiu said to Zi Lin Fengling again: "You lead your men to break all the warriors who are monitoring us nearby. I want to see what Li Cui wants?"

...........

"Bang!"

A teacup hit the ground hard and was smashed to pieces. Li Cui was so angry that his forehead was bulging with blue veins, and he cursed like thunder: "Damn bastard, I didn't touch him, he started to take action first. I have to cut him into pieces!"

Li Cui yelled in the room, but several subordinates in the yard curled their lips secretly. This man had no other ability except for jumping fiercely and yelling fiercely. His fifteen subordinates were broken by Thirty-Balang, so he only dared to yell here. If you have the ability, you can come to the door!

At this time, the housekeeper hurried into the backyard, held his fists and said, "Your Highness, the Prince of Hanzhong sent someone to send a letter."

Li Cui was stunned, "Who is the Prince of Hanzhong?"

"It's the Eighteen-Law Li Mao!"

Li Cui thought for a while and said, "Let the sender come in!"

After a moment, the housekeeper brought a samurai in. The samurai knelt down on one knee and bowed, "See Your Highness Brill!"

He immediately submitted a letter.

Li Cui took the letter and read it. It turned out that Li Mao asked him to go to Tianranju to drink tonight, and he also wanted to tell him some of Li Xiu's secrets.

Li Cui nodded, "Go and tell Shibalang that I will go to the banquet on time tonight!"

It is a taboo for Niu Xianke and Li Mao to have secret contact, but there is no big problem with the son of the Regent and Li Longji's son. After all, they are cousins ​​and are relatively normal exchanges. In the early years, they were all classmates in Hongwenguan.

.........

Li Xiu was looking at his new study. The study was too big, with a size of 200 square meters. He was not used to it, so he needed to make several partition screens.

Li Xiu turned around and asked with a smile: "Is his name Liu Quan?"

"That's right! He is from Guzang County, Liangzhou. He was disheartened when he failed five consecutive imperial examinations fifteen years ago. Later, he worked as an accountant in Yuanqi's mansion. Half a year ago, Yuanqi recommended him to Li Mao and gradually became Li Mao's aide."

"Does Li Mao trust him?"

Pei Min nodded, "I feel that Li Mao still trusts him quite a bit, but Li Mao is a man who is a cold-hearted person and is mean to his subordinates. He asks his subordinates to be loyal, but he refuses to treat his subordinates well and would rather give a lot of money to a woman."

Li Xiu recognized Pei Min's evaluation of Li Mao. Li Mao was indeed a cold-hearted person. In Luoyang, he turned all the blame on Yang Yuhuan's grandfather's death to his subordinates, and finally let several subordinates take the blame, but he did not hear that he was penalizing his subordinates' family.

Of course, this is related to Li Mao's education since childhood. He is a prince and everyone revolves around him. Others deserve to pay for him. He doesn't have to consider the feelings of his servants. This kind of personality is reflected in many powerful and noble children.

"Are mean to Liu Quan?"

"It should be that Liu Quan always hoped that his son would go to the Imperial Academy to study. He begged Li Mao several times. Although Li Mao agreed, Bei Zhi could see that he did not take this matter to heart."

"Where is this Liu Quan himself?"

Li Xiu asked again: "What is his weakness?"

"I think this person has a strong desire for officialdom."

Pei Min explained: "He has participated in the imperial examinations five times in a row and has been dependent on the powerful and powerful for a long time. Such people must hope to take advantage of the powerful and powerful, otherwise he would not be an aide to Li Mao."

Li Xiu walked a few steps behind his hands, and he thought he could give it a try, and his intuition told him that Liu Quan was the person he was looking for.

.........

Liu Quan was 38 years old this year. Ten years ago, he failed to participate in the imperial examination for five consecutive years, which really made him disheartened and did not want to go home. A friend introduced him to the mansion of Yuan Xi, the guard guard of the left supervisor, to serve as an accounting room. He worked for ten years.

Shortly after Li Mao returned from Luoyang, Liu Quan realized that something was going to happen to the Yuan family, so he used the connections he had accumulated over ten years to reach Li Mao and became Li Mao's aide.

He originally thought he had finally reached a high point, but now he found that Li Mao was not even as good as Yuan Xi. At least Yuan Xi knew how to seek profit and avoid harm, and promptly blocked his relationship with Yuan Biao and escaped.

Li Mao has no connections in the officialdom, so he only relies on his mother's power and does not do his job properly. He knows how to play with women all day long.

Otherwise, he would think about how to take revenge on Li Xiu, but he still wanted to steal Li Xiu's woman.

Liu Quan wanted to ask Li Mao to help bring his fifteen-year-old son to the Imperial Academy. Although Li Mao agreed immediately, a month has passed and there is no news yet, which really disappointed Liu Quan.

Liu Quan understood that Li Mao had no connections to help his son get into the Imperial College, and the officials of the Imperial College ignored him at all.

Li Mao still had to ask Concubine Wu Hui, but he didn't want to go to the palace to see his mother. Even if he saw him, he might not make such a small request. It is very likely that his son's entry into the Imperial Academy will be ruined.

Liu Quan sighed deeply, and he found that the ox cart had entered Datongfang.

Liu Quan's home is in Datongfang. It is a small rented yard covering an area of ​​about one acre. He lives with his wife, son, daughter and old mother.

The ox cart stopped at the door of the house. Liu Quan paid the cart and stepped forward to slap the door knocker.

After a moment, the yard door creaked open, and his wife looked a little nervous, "Husband, you are back!"
Chapter completed!