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

On November 6, 150,000 troops set out in three groups. This time, in addition to dealing with the barbarians who invaded the border, they also had to wipe out the local tyrants in the northwest.

Why do we need to suppress it?
Because Northwest has always been following Empress Dowager Shengde's family, let's not talk about it or not. Anyway, it is set up like this. There is no way to call it true, and there is no need to take it seriously.

The focus of Chen Tao's work now is every armed force remaining in the capital, as well as major interest groups. If necessary, he must make some preparations in advance, such as secretly killing those tough guys and allowing possible opposition to collapse in advance.

Therefore, he was not idle during the period of mourning. He went out for many social events, but of course he did not drink any wine.

No one was surprised. After all, he was just observing mourning and being in mourning, and was not asked by his superiors to reflect on his mistakes at home.

In fact, the emperor had considered whether to let him seize the love, but when he thought that the soldiers in the military department were all his people and there was no need to worry too much, he decided to wait and let someone fulfill his filial piety.

It was still early, at least before the Empress Dowager Shengde and her family were attacked, the Emperor was not worried that she and Prince Rui would dare to attack first. In fact, he had set up this trap, and he had his sister-in-law's husband's brother, Zheng Jun, the commander of the Imperial Guards, pretend to defect. To be honest, he was really stupid.

After making such an arrangement, he actually felt that he could rest easy. However, he was then drugged and knocked down by his favorite Concubine Rong, and was stabbed in the back by his trusted deputy commander of the Military Division.

He got away with it by luck, and finally learned his lesson. He did not dare to start a big prison again and take action against the local "rebel party" in the capital.

Of course it was the rebel king. He couldn't tell others that Queen Mother Shengde was also rebelling, even if she was not his biological mother. The royal family still had to maintain the minimum dignity.

Therefore, if one's virtue does not match his position, he will surely suffer disaster.

But if you do not accept what heaven gives you, you will suffer the consequences.

Brother Tao is a man of great talent and ambition, and he should be responsible for the two capitals and thirteen provinces. How could he bear to watch the lives of the people in dire straits and the common people suffer just because of the small favors given by the foolish emperor?

God has given me a great mission... No, it should be that it snowed heavily and we cooked milk tea around the fire.

It was already the middle of the twelfth lunar month, and the weather was becoming increasingly cold.

The round house.

Chen Tao was lying on one side of the bed, with Yuanyuan leaning in his arms, leisurely flipping through the vernacular novels sold outside. If she felt thirsty, she would give the scumbag a elbow and let him feed her.

Ruomei sat on the other side, cracking melon seeds gracefully and taking a sip of the fragrant simple milk tea from time to time.

Although it is quite simple, it is a combination of real milk and high-grade tea, without any technological innovation, so drinking more will not affect your health, but...

Chen Tao praised: "Ruomei, you should eat more often, so that you can grow up to be as tall and strong as Yuanyuan, and feed three or five children at the same time."

You are a pervert!
Yuanyuan couldn't hold it in any longer and hit Chen Tao hard with her elbow. After all, this bad guy was not an ordinary human being, so nothing would happen if she hit him with a little more force!

Get angry when you think about it.

She was touched at first because Chen Tao went fishing in the river in the middle of winter just to satisfy her appetite, but it turned out that this guy treated winter swimming as a bath!
Ruo Mei blushed and said, "Fourth Master, I'm already so old, how can I still grow? I'm not a sow, I can't give birth to three or five babies at a time. I'm sure I'll be fine if I only give birth to one or two."

What the hell are you talking about!

It's snowing and the sky is bright and clear. Can you be serious and not talk about these topics?
Yuanyuan, who had been lying in her husband's arms in broad daylight, secretly complained and said some swear words:

"How is it okay? What if triplets come? What will you do? I won't help you then."

Chen Tao burst out laughing and said, "When you become the legal wife, Ruomei and her children will have to call you mother. As the legal mother, how can you not raise the children? You need to drink more."

As he said that, he picked up the milk tea.

'I haven't given birth yet, I haven't even gotten married yet, but I already have nine children. Mom, Dad, please come and save me! I don't want to be the mother of so many children!'

Yuanyuan wailed in her heart as Chen Tao fed her two sips of milk tea. She then suggested, "Just let me become a monk! Please!"

Chen Tao and Ruomei burst into laughter.

After chatting for a while, Xiaoman, who had been visiting friends, came back. He squeezed next to Ruomei and drank tea while telling her the news he had heard.

Of course, it was nothing serious, just some trivial conflicts over family matters that were not worth taking seriously.

This is normal.

Unlike what many followers of the "First Wife Cult" believe, matters in the inner house are not decided solely by the woman, let alone the so-called joint management of the household.

Someone said that in ancient times, many families were managed by the husband and wife, but at the same time, he said that the husband should be treated as the boss. Which employee can be managed by the boss? Isn't this contradictory?
Don't say that you also have shares. For example, if you brought a dowry, would there be any obstacles when Madam Yuan and Old Lady Wen were plotting Hualan and Rulan's dowries?

Chen Tao wants to take Molan and Minglan's dowries for himself, can they still object?
Normally they can be allowed to take care of the matter, but once the gunshots are heard, the whole family has to listen to the male owner Chen Tao.

With his intervention, which maid or old woman would dare to act recklessly? You have to know that this world is not the ancient times: it is not the world where Ximen Daguanren plotted to frame the slave Lai Wang in order to seize someone else's wife; nor is it the world where Wang Xifeng also plotted against You Erjie in order to deal with her; it is a world where the master can use private punishment at will and is not subject to the law!

Therefore, Chen Tao's yard was like a kingdom without stories, without any strange things or rumors. Even if there were any, no one dared to spread them.

The men who were bribed by Aunt Lin and inquired for information had already gone to the country farm to farm and burn charcoal, contributing to the good days of the Yongchang Marquis' Mansion.

However, although Chen Tao's family lived a peaceful life, leading a simple life in mourning for their old man, his father-in-law's house was very lively.

Not yet one o'clock.

Chen Tao was still resting in Yuanyuan's arms after his nap, and seemed likely to sleep until the evening. Suddenly, Molan's maid Bitao came over.

Ruomei did not take advantage of the current situation to delay and show displeasure to the other party, but went in directly to report.

A quarter of an hour later.

Chen Tao left the warm quilt and went to talk to Erlan to find out about the situation of the Sheng family.

Since the family's property was not confiscated, the Sheng family's assets have not dropped sharply for the time being, but they still have to pay a lot of money, so their current situation is naturally far worse than before the incident.

Once the situation gets bad, family conflicts are bound to break out.

The Sheng family has a characteristic, which can even be said to be a tradition, that is, sons must marry high-ranking men and daughters must marry high-ranking men.

Then comes the problem.

Sheng Changbai's wife, Hai, and Sheng Changfeng's wife, Liu, were both from famous families, so what did they think of the Sheng family's misfortune? Naturally, they were furious!
Who was he venting his anger on? The two sisters Hualan and Rulan who were driven back! The word "chicken flying and dog jumping" was not enough to describe the current situation of the Sheng family.

Who is Hai? She is a ruthless person who wants to watch the maid drink the contraceptive soup with her own eyes after her husband has sex with her.

Who is Liu? She directly mocks her husband's biological mother.

Now that the Sheng family has been defeated, it would be strange if they could have a good face! They formed an offensive and defensive alliance at the first moment to deal with the two daughters of their mother-in-law Wang!

Even though Mrs. Sheng has recovered from the poisoning, her sisters-in-law, Hai and Liu, still ignore her!
Her illegitimate son Sheng Hong was respectful in public, but secretly he hated her deeply. Yes, she was a victim, but it was because of her that Wang Shi and Aunt Kang murdered her, causing the Sheng family's decades of hard work to disappear in one day!

The pain that Wang suffered when she was sentenced to death by hanging was probably not as great as the pain that Sheng Hong and Changbai, father and son, suffered when they were dismissed from office. The gap was too big!

Sheng Hong hasn't had a good night's sleep during this period of time. Although his hair didn't turn white overnight, it is now all gray and white. He looks as if he has aged fifteen years, as if all his energy has been drained away and he has become an old man.

Sheng Changbai also fell into a devastating slump.

Although he used to be arrogant, he also liked to play with the maid Yang Hao occasionally. But now he has no time for that and just keeps drinking.

His future should have been bright, and he might even have been appointed as a minister. But now he has become a commoner, despised by others. Under such mental pressure, he can't even stand up, let alone play with a maid. If he continues like this, he will inevitably become decadent.

Sheng Changfeng wasn't having an easy time either.

But after all, I am not that ambitious, so the gap is not too big, which is relatively good. I am also quite happy to play with my little daughter every day.

And his sister Molan can also give him comfort.

At the same time, he was very grateful to Chen Tao.

Compared to Chen Tao, what kind of bastards are Yuan Wenshao and Wen Yanjing?
But then again, although Molan and Minglan, the two concubines, are both daughters of the Sheng family, they were not raised by Wang. They are indeed very different from Hualan and Rulan, and cannot be generalized.

Hualan and Rulan now really envy Mo Ming and his wife for marrying a loving and loyal husband.

When they first learned about Chun Ge's situation, they laughed at Mrs. Liang for not being able to control the other party and her son. But now it seems that they are the clowns!

Their so-called wishful thinking is nothing. When the critical moment comes, nothing can be relied on.

They didn't want to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate children, and the elder and younger. They just knew that the brother-in-law withstood the pressure, did not divorce Molan, did not drive Minglan away, and still loved her as before! What is a good man? What does it mean to be responsible? A man like the brother-in-law, let alone playing with maids, even if he has many wives and concubines, he is still a good man!
how to say!

In fact, Chen Tao still likes Molan very much, but he is not that interested in Minglan anymore.

Eating too much pork elbow is really greasy.

Minglan herself is boring, nothing more than those ten Gs, and she has a low profile. She knows how to actively please Chen Tao, but her tricks can also be used by others, such as Caihuan, which is even lower than her bottom line!

Minglan could also feel that Chen Tao's love for her seemed to be slowly fading, but she couldn't say that he had put all his attention on the vixen-like Yuanyuan, because Molan was still very much in his favor, and was still his legal wife, and her status was still as stable as a rock.

What does this mean? It means that Chen Tao is partial to her and treats her badly, and doesn't like her fat paws.

In fact, based on the way Minglan in the book would grab a pork elbow and chew it, and she probably thought it was so cute, Chen Tao couldn't even imagine what she looked like and what her living habits were like before she traveled through time. He was very resistant to it, so how could he really love her? At most, he was just curious about her.

Chen Tao is very fond of Yuanyuan, a good school girl who is both good in character and academic performance.

He is also an experienced person. He also had a white moonlight when he was a student, so he really can't resist this kind of person.

Yuanyuan's attribute can be said to be a special attack for him. If he is willing to act cute, his lethality will be doubled.

Of course, it would be naive to rely on this attribute to make Brother Tao turn over a new leaf.

Winter goes and spring comes, everything comes back to life, it's that season.

Since Chen Tao has to observe mourning for his father, he can only do that and cannot have children, otherwise it would be a violation of filial piety.

Yuanyuan didn't mind. In fact, she was different from Molan and others. She was not ready to be a mother at all. After all, according to her mental age, she was still in school and would rather be in love with Chen Tao.

Even if they confessed their feelings to each other, Yuanyuan and Minglan, who was also a time traveler, would basically have no common topics.

Minglan was born in the 1980s and her thinking is still in the 1910s, or even the feudal era; while Yuanyuan is a cute girl born in 2005, so it is almost appropriate for her mother and Minglan to be best friends.

In short, Yuanyuan was fine. She was not pregnant and had not yet been officially promoted. She followed Chen Tao every day, dressing as a man while everyone knew she was a woman, and helped him deal with official receptions and farewells.

That's right, wives usually don't meet men from outside the family, and therefore don't participate in the core business of the family. Selling official positions, matchmaking, and handing over the harvest from the farm are all managed by men.

Gu Er handed over his property because he fell into Minglan's charm. It was unrealistic and purely wishful thinking.

According to Gu Er's level, there would be a lot of people looking for him every day. Does Minglan also have to show up in public to meet outsiders?

Is this still ancient times?

Yes, there is also Mr. Gongsun who can be in charge of the outer house. But the problem is that the property is in Minglan's hands. Do we have to ask her for permission for every business? She knows nothing! We still have to ask Gu Er. So her being the housekeeper is a pure false proposition, a pure cheat, and a pure presupposition: that the housekeeper's talent is more important than talent and appearance, and it is in opposition, treating talented women as idiots and infertile, and only she is smart and can give birth.

Yuanyuan was involved in the reception and seeing off of guests, not to let her play the role of a housekeeper, but just to make herself familiar so that the people below would support her to become the queen.

If she can manage the harem well in the future, it will be great. People have limited energy, so they have to divide the work and cooperate with each other, instead of cheating and doing everything at once.

March.

News came from the front that the emperor's uncle Shen Congxing and his troops had defeated the main force of the so-called Jie Nu King Zuo Guli and captured the bandit leader.

General Bo did not gain anything along the way because he failed to capture the enemy.

What was strange was that Duke Ying and Gu Tingye were ambushed and defeated by the enemy because they were alone and deep in the enemy's territory, and they had to retreat to a place to rest and recuperate.

April.

Another news came that Shen Congxing and others were defeated by the good son of King Zuo Guli because they opened champagne in the first half, and his father was rescued.

General Bo fell unconscious after falling off his horse. The central army was jointly commanded by General Fu and General Gan. General Gan loved to give beautiful concubines to others. Xiao Fengxian to Gu Er was given by him.

There was still no news from Gu Er along the way.

This was the emperor's deliberate instruction. There must be turmoil, to make people uneasy, so that conspirators will have the courage to jump out.

The next half month.

The situation is becoming increasingly bizarre.

With the cooperation of those who were interested, many thieves entered the capital.

Finally, the emperor remembered Chen Tao and ordered him to regain his position.

The next day, he suddenly fainted again. (End of this chapter)