Zhutian: Since I was a child, I have been happy to be a father

Shou'an Hall.

Sheng Hong was quite dissatisfied with Wang's weird attitude, and Old Lady Sheng also showed disgust in her heart and on her face.

But the two parties involved, Molan and Minglan, were very calm, as if their stepmother Wang was praising them.

It’s not that Wang is incapable, her combat power is at least six thousand, but Erlan’s combat power has improved together during their bickering and reached at least ten thousand.

The sisters quarreled within the walls, but defended against external insults.

They had already reached a consensus and formed a battle plan against Wang and Aunt Kang.

When Aunt Kang dared to cause trouble, they fought back mercilessly, using reason and sarcasm.

As for the stepmother Wang, the reaction should not be so intense, so as not to be labeled as unfilial.

So, they decided to fight back indirectly.

First of all, you must show full or even nine points of filial piety.

Secondly, show how happy and happy your life is, praise your husband for his abilities, and be more polite.

Finally, when Wang was being sarcastic, he showed an expression of being aggrieved and about to cry.

Wang said condescendingly, "Don't take advantage of Madam Liang's kindness to you two and lose your manners and break the rules. Otherwise, even if others don't say anything, I will scold you!"

Old Mrs. Sheng chanted the Buddha's name and put the Buddhist beads on the table.

Wang ignored her and continued to speak as she pleased:

"You two have never gotten along since childhood, and now you both share a husband and have children. You can't continue like that. If you start a fight, I won't be able to face anyone."

What are you talking about on New Year's Day?

Sheng Hong's expression was uncertain, and he finally couldn't help but said, "What nonsense are you talking about! How come Mo'er and Ming'er have been at odds since they were young? They are both fine!"

Then he smiled at Chen Tao and said, "Your mother-in-law is a worrier. She actually took the children's pranks seriously."

Everyone was speechless.

When Madam Liang first fell in love with Minglan, Molan got the upper hand first. Is this what you call a good relationship? You're treating people like fools!

Chen Shazi laughed and said, "The two orchids are gentle in temperament, beautiful in appearance, and each has their own talents and elegance. They are so virtuous and beautiful. In addition to the teachings of the old lady and the mistress, I think it is also due to the sincere teachings of your father-in-law. I am lucky to be able to spend my life with them!"

He then bowed to Wang and said, "Please rest assured, mother-in-law. Mo'er and Minglan usually just play around a little and never quarrel. Instead, they encourage me to make progress and be lenient to my concubines. Our family is harmonious and happy!"

Look, what a good son-in-law!
Listen, how good at talking!
Lord Sheng stroked his beard and laughed, as if he had taken in a few more concubines, and was extremely happy:
"Good! What a good son-in-law! No wonder His Majesty has entrusted you with important tasks and promoted you so much. You are indeed very talented and good at managing the family. Changfeng, you must ask your brother-in-law for advice!"

Chai Rong also valued Zhao Da.

Sheng Changfeng smiled and said yes.

Rulan didn't like Molan, but she liked Chen Tao more. After all, she had played cards with him a few times before she got married, and they had a good relationship. So she smiled and joked:

"Brother-in-law, what you said is not right. Are your two orchids the only beautiful ones in my house? Are the other orchids not beautiful?"

Chen Tao laughed and said, "Sister, why do you have to ask when you already know the answer? If I praise you, wouldn't Brother Yan Jing be jealous? If I praise my elder sister, Brother Yuan will definitely be jealous, so I can't praise you."

When Wen Yanjing and Yuan Wenshao heard this, they both laughed uncontrollably.

Hua Lan encouraged him, "Your brother-in-law is not jealous. Instead, he likes to hear others praise his wife. Why should you worry? Just praise me!"

As he said this, he couldn't help but cover his mouth and laugh.

Molan emphasized again: "Rulan, you should call me brother-in-law!"

Rulan suppressed her laughter: "My younger sister already has a brother-in-law. If I call him brother-in-law, then I won't have a brother-in-law anymore? Just call him brother-in-law!"

Minglan agreed: "Yes, that's exactly the truth!"

Amid the waves of laughter, Wang felt like a ridiculous clown.

She hated Aunt Lin deeply, and of course she also hated Aunt Wei.

But her daughters were chatting and laughing with the two aunts' daughters, looking like sisters with deep affection! How hateful! This made her hate the old lady even more.

In Minglan's eyes, Mrs. Sheng is a good person who protects her.

But Wang never thought so.

Wang missed the days when she and Hong Lang were inseparable, and thought that Aunt Lin's interference was instigated by the old lady and was intended to control her.

He also thought that the old lady said she didn't care about household affairs, but she always came out to interfere at every critical juncture. Now she is supporting Hai and Liu, her two granddaughters-in-law, behind the scenes. This is simply outrageous!
You can give Aunt Lin to Honglang, but I can't give my pretty maid to Changbai and Changfeng? Damn old beast, God should send down thunder and strike you ten thousand times!
After the New Year.

At the request of Minglan and Molan, Chen Tao did not refuse and prepared for pregnancy with them. At the same time, he worked loyally and established his own group.

He has five confidants in total.

One of them was called Ma Guodong, a descendant of the former Jinxiang Hou Ma family, but he was not a member of the family who went to serve the Qin family, but a distant relative.

The Ma family was stripped of their titles during the reign of Emperor Taizong, and there had been no hope of restoration, but they still had to make a living and had family connections, so they were able to make some advances. After being valued by Chen Tao, he gave him a hand, and now his status has risen to the level of managing the patrol battalion under the jurisdiction of the West City Bingmasi, which has nearly 2,000 people.

There were 3,000 people in the Gaopingling Incident, and they were the so-called death squad. They were obviously much stronger than the 2,000 patrol battalion that had the problem of eating empty salaries.

But it doesn’t matter, Chen Tao himself can open the Wushuang mode.

After killing the rebellious deputy commander-in-chief of the Bingmasi, Teng Anguo, and the fake rebellious commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guards, Zheng Jun, and taking over the tens of thousands of troops under their command, Chen Tao will be able to become a truly loyal minister.

The second one is called Ma Guoliang, who is obviously Ma Guodong's younger brother. He may become one of the two lords of the Jia family in the future.

This person is upright and brave.

He is also extremely loyal, a bit like the Black Whirlwind Li Kui, and completely obeys Chen Tao and his brother.

The third one is Tian Wenqing, a sixth-rank editor in the Hanlin Academy. Logically speaking, such a person would not associate with Chen Tao.

But we need to analyze it in detail.

Tian Wenqing's family background was not low. Although he was only a bastard's son, his family was loyal followers of the emperor. He had a bright future and did not need to engage in a life-threatening business.

But he harbored a great hatred.

Because his biological mother was set up by his stepmother and was humiliated and killed on the charge of having an affair with a servant.

This hatred is irreconcilable.

Unfortunately, he was unable to take revenge, so he developed a tendency to self-destruct.

Chen Tao sincerely comforted him and took care of his mother's younger brother, which naturally made him feel warm in his heart.

If Chen Tao wanted to cause trouble, he would probably be the first to support him.

The fourth one was named Chen Wensheng, who came from the Haining Chen family, a family with seven Jinshi graduates, but he himself was only a Juren.

Moreover, as a bastard's son, he suffered a lot of bullying.

Of course, he did not have the deep hatred and vengeance as Tian Wenqing, but he had lofty ambitions, but he failed to pass the imperial examination. As a result, he became a little extreme and felt that all the dignitaries were stupid and did not appreciate him and were not a contented person.

But Chen Tao admired him very much and treated him as a teacher, which made him very satisfied. The fifth one was Wei Dongting, the second son of the fourth branch of Yongping Marquis's mansion. Like Liang Da, he was more capable than his brothers and was trusted by the emperor. He was the guard of Xuanwu Gate.

The two families had a good relationship and had been criticized by the emperor together.

He is older than Chen Tao, but he admires Chen Tao's bravery.

He might not dare to rebel, but there would be no problem in opening the door for Chen Tao to quell the rebellion.

Chen Tao is a loyal minister! He has never shown any rebellious intentions and often said that he wants to join the army to kill the invaders in the northern border!

He wanted to be the General Who Conquers the North, but if the situation required it, he could barely become the Grand Commander of the Governor's Office, the Minister of War, and command all the troops in the world to suppress the rebellion.

There is no need to join the cabinet.

The emperor, Empress Shen, the eldest prince and the second prince will all die in the rebellion. Only the emperor's favorite concubine Rong and the third prince will be lucky enough to be rescued by loyal ministers such as Chen Tao and supported as the next emperor.

But Concubine Rong was quite stupid. She actually believed that after Empress Dowager Shengde and Prince Rui succeeded, they would let her son become emperor. So the third prince she gave birth to was probably very stupid and still young, so naturally he could not rule the country for the time being.

For the sake of the people of the world, it is better to restore the prime minister system first, entrust all military and political affairs to Chen Tao, and then return power to him after the rebels are eliminated and the world is in peace. He can decide whether to restore the cabinet system.

By then, Chen Tao, this loyal minister, will never linger and will definitely hand over the military and political power honestly!
Concubine Rong will definitely believe him.

But there will definitely be villains.

Therefore, one night in the future, it is inevitable that someone will pretend to be her imperial decree to summon Chen Tao into the palace, but in fact arrange for executioners to kill the loyal minister.

Chen Tao's followers, no, other loyal ministers and generals, would certainly accidentally notice this coup, and then force themselves to go to the palace with him to meet the emperor and explain the pros and cons.

The result was naturally unpleasant, with Chen Tao being forced to take the throne and become emperor.

After all, since Taizu, the royal family has often slaughtered nobles and implicated others at will, even sparing civil officials.

It was clearly the royal family themselves who failed to make proper succession arrangements, and yet it happens again just a few years later. Every time they get implicated. Who the hell can stand this?
Chen Tao turned the tide and helped the new emperor ascend the throne. What a great contribution! If even he could not be tolerated, wouldn't the loyal officials below be in danger and the people suffer?
In this case, everyone had no choice but to give Chen Tao another piece of clothing, forcing this loyal minister to take over the country and make him suffer!
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When Gu Er had some free time in the first month of the lunar year, he started to attack Xiao Qin and the others.

After reading the whole book, I find that the heroine Minglan herself is really nothing special. She is just borrowing Gu Er's power.

In this way, even if Li couldn't deal with Xiao Qin, Gu Er would take care of everything for her.

Don't get caught up in mechanical thinking.

Gu Er is a living person and a smart one.

He would behave differently depending on his wife. Mrs. Li has a weak personality, so he would be more tolerant.

Well, last year they were raising money and also letting him train his troops and prepare for war, which means there will be big moves this year or next year.

In this case, he naturally had to deal with Xiao Qinshi and the opera singer Man Niang who still hadn't given up on him as soon as possible, otherwise he wouldn't be able to lead the troops in battle outside with peace of mind.

As an outsider, Chen Tao will not take care of Gu Er's family affairs for the time being.

For example, on the second day of the Chinese New Year, Gu Tingyang, the eldest son of the fifth branch of the Gu family, actually wanted to take back his father's concubine just like a certain Emperor Yang.

This concubine was also very brave. She made a big fuss about the incident immediately but then committed suicide.

Fortunately, the other concubine had always been as close to her as a sister, and thinking that she would have no good life in the future, she simply risked her life and testified on behalf of the concubine.

The Fifth Old Master was immediately furious and tied up his rebellious son Gu Tingyang and his long-time attendant, preparing to stage a scene where Master Zheng angrily beat Master Bao.

Unexpectedly, there was a new situation.

The chief attendant felt that he was about to be beaten to death, and when he heard the fifth old lady scolding him for leading Gu Tingyang astray, he roared for his life and revealed a secret scandal from the past.

The late Marquis Gu Yankai, who was Gu Er's biological father, had a concubine named Youlian who jumped into the lake. Everyone thought it was Gu Er's doing, but it turned out to be Gu Tingyang's doing!
The long-servant's shout was heard by everyone inside and outside.

The fifth old master couldn't hold it anymore and started beating him with a stick himself.

This beating caused Gu Tingyang to die, a death that he should have died long ago.

Although several lives were lost, Chen Tao didn't intend to care.

Don't worry about it now.

When the coup takes place next year, Xiao Qin's son Gu Tingwei will also participate. His house will be raided at that time, as well as Xiao Qin's mother's home, the Dongchang Marquis Mansion.

Having too many nobles is not a good thing.

It would be a good opportunity to kill all those people from the old dynasty who were only worth stabbing or beheading, and then divide the food among the gangs loyal to him.

After all, although Chen Tao has money, he doesn't have that much, so he can only borrow the heads of these kind people.

Of course, just because Chen Tao doesn't take care of things doesn't mean he won't come to play.

And brought Minglan with him!
But Minglan was obviously not willing to reminisce about the old times with Gu Er, because she felt that he would lead her husband astray by running a song and dance troupe and a drama troupe.

At the same time, Minglan didn't dare to show any good face to Qi Heng.

In the twelfth month of last year, Qi Heng’s wife, Shen, gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, and named them Hanming and Yuming.

Those who don’t know would probably think that he is still secretly in love with Minglan, and that Minglan is still having an affair with him!

In the book, when Gu Er found out about this, he was extremely jealous, but in fact, this generation of the Qi family is the Ming generation.

In fact, eating vinegar is good for your health.

If he were to switch places with Qi Heng and Minglan were to be unable to obtain him, then his wife and children would suffer.

Not only was Qi Heng's first wife gang-raped to death, but his current wife, Shen, and his twin boy and girl also contracted the disease when they accompanied him to southern Fujian to take up his post, and all three of them died.

It is said that handsome men are unlucky in marriage, which leads to these tragedies. But what is the truth? It is obviously someone's resentment.

Chen Tao is not afraid of this.

His "anti-magic halo" can prevent Minglan's resentment from taking effect, otherwise Molan, Chunge, Xiuzhu and others might all be killed by this time-traveling girl.

Yuanyuan is also a time-traveling girl, and probably has some kind of halo, so she can also withstand Minglan's magic attacks, and there is no need for Chen Tao to personally increase her magic resistance.

However, Yuanyuan could not withstand the physical attack and could only rely on Chen Tao's favor to resist it.

The twenty-fifth day of the first lunar month, night.

After Chen Tao finished his task, Minglan did not allow him to go to bed first, but had something important to discuss with him: "Good brother, what do you think of Danju?"

Well, this elderly time-traveling woman calling him that actually makes him sound younger.

Chen Tao said honestly: "I think Caihuan is better than Danju."

Minglan was speechless.

Danju is old enough and has a cousin waiting for her.

Therefore, Minglan wanted to help Danju get together because she was honest. She had no intention of making her a concubine. It was just a test.

It turned out that Chen Tao was too honest. He didn't want girls who were average looking. He only wanted Caihuan, a junior high school girl who was second only to Ruomei.

A pure scumbag who only cares about appearance! (End of this chapter)