I was Idle and Cool Chapter 160: Another product

In July of the thirteenth year of Qing'an, there was a change in the Xiongnu peace talks. Gu Juefei took charge of the errands in the Fantang, and married Lu Jinxi, and the official was only five grades;

In September of the same year, the autumn flood in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River was violent, and the disaster relief work after the flood, raising grain funds, won countless people in the south of the Yangtze River;

At the beginning of the 14th year of Qing'an, Gu Jue had to be a top-ranking officer in the Beijing official's performance appraisal.

In July of the same year, envoys from Uyghur, Tubo and other countries entered the summer, and they were in charge of the reception of the Fantang, negotiated a peace treaty, and opened a border trade market. ;

In December of the same year, Gao Qian, the former minister of the Ministry of Personnel, took bribes. Yao Feng, the former minister of the Ministry of Personnel, was promoted to the minister of the Ministry of Personnel.

In March of the fifteenth year of Qing'an, Kang Xinyuan, a former scholar of Dongge University, begged for a break, and was granted permission to replace Gu Juefei as a scholar of Dongge University;

In August of the same year, because of his outstanding talent and learning, he was the chief examiner of the Jiangnan Township Examination, in charge of autumn affairs, and investigated the case of fraud in the imperial examination;

In February of the 16th year of Qing'an, he was appointed as the president of the conference, in charge of spring affairs;

In October of the same year, the Xianbei and Dayue tribes resigned, and the Lifan Hall officially changed its name to the Lifan Academy. It was responsible for the taxation, households, post stations, and border trade. Gu Juefei was appointed as the minister of the Lifan Academy, from the first grade;

In December of the same year, Gu Chengqian, the Grand Master of the Palace of Preservation, begged for leave due to old age and illness, and the Grand Master of the Palace of Peace was vacant.

When the imperial edict was issued, Lu Jinxi was sitting under the window playing chess with Gu Chengqian, who had just retired.

She is average at chess.

However, Gu Chengqian's chess skills were superb, and she landed patiently one piece at a time, trapping the black piece she was holding to death in a short while.

Gu Chengqian, who is in his sixtieth year, has already shown a few minutes of old age.

Wrinkles on the gray-white face were crowded together, and the neatly combed hair was already white like snow, and even the palm of the chess piece was trembling.

He had a thick fleece blanket over his lap, and he was terrified of the cold.

Although it's only been three and a half years, the old lady who was all-powerful at the time seems to no longer exist.

In the past few years when Gu Juefei has been in his official career, he has aged at a visible speed.

People say that he is making way for his son, gradually fading out of the power center of the court, and gradually citing illness as an excuse to not participate in court meetings, and then he was begging for rest a few days ago.

On the surface, it is indeed a round of power change between the old and the new, and the Gu family needs a new and powerful family in charge.

But it fell into Lu Jinxi's eyes, but that wasn't the case.

As Gu Juefei's bedside person, she can't see the struggle between father and son more than three years more clearly——

The old lady never made way for Gu Juefei.

He was forced by Gu Juefei. Step by step, little by little, he faded out of the power center he didn't want to leave, and then he was finally challenged by reality and realized the cruel truth that he had been replaced by his son...

The so-called "begging for rest" is just the last respect for both parties.

Gu Juefei is a ruthless character after all.

In the past few years, Lu Jinxi has also really experienced it, and sometimes even half-jokingly thinks about it: what did he think in the first place to provoke him?

It's just that the boat is done, she is on the Gu Juefei pirate ship.

The boat is getting farther and farther, surrounded by water, and I can't jump down, so I have to follow the boat and move forward hard.

"Clap."

After thinking for a long time, the sunspot between her fingers turned several times before finally landing on the corner of the chessboard.

Gu Chengqian shook his head as soon as he saw it. His old voice was like the wind wrapped in sand in Saibei: "Your chess skills have not improved at all in the past few years."

Got it.

It's just that she has lost.

Lu Jinxi reluctantly voted, shook his head, but laughed: "How can Jinxi compare with you? I didn't learn much at a young age, and my brain is not enough, so I'm not born to play chess. I can beat you to the middle game. , it is a great improvement.”

Spring comes and autumn comes, and three years have passed in a flash.

The scenery outside the carved window has changed three times.

Gu Chengqian listened to her words, although he knew she was a compliment, but he smiled lightly, and wanted to get up.

Lu Jinxi hurriedly came to help.

Gu Chengqian trembled, knocked on his knees, and sighed: "It's a good thing that you sent medicines and prescriptions back then, otherwise, how could I survive this leg disease? The problem has gradually improved a lot."

At that time, Lu Jinxi was celebrating the birthday of the old lady, and specially asked Huishengtang to open the prescription. But in fact, Lu Jinxi knew that Gu Juefei also had this recipe.

Just...

When she thinks of the matter between the father and son, she also has an inexplicable complexity in her heart.

In the past three and a half years, Gu Juefei has flourished in the court and can be said to be the hottest figure in the Xia Dynasty.

He renounced his usual way of being nice to people.

Since taking care of the affairs of the Fanyuan, he has been quite unselfish, and has the trust of the emperor. He has made friends with like-minded people, and has become a new generation of giants.

Lu Jinxi is not doing nothing in the back house.

The business in Shenglongchang, Shaanxi is getting bigger and bigger, and because Lu Jinxi is married to Gu Juefei, who happens to be in charge of Lifantang, Sheng Xuan cleverly continues to cooperate with Lu Jinxi.

The share capital she originally cooperated with for the first time was converted into shares at a discount to continue the subsequent cooperation.

In recent years, the form of the border has been very good. The capital of Daxia has a magnificent atmosphere of coming from all directions, and the trade on the border has naturally become more frequent. As the Uighurs, Tubos, Xianbei, etc. successively negotiated and traded with Daxia, the scope of trade was also rapidly expanded.

As a pioneer in this line, Sheng Longchang naturally comes out on top.

Even now that more and more people are crowding in and drinking soup, Sheng Longchang's advantage has been established, and it is difficult to think about it.

So Lu Jinxi not only quickly recovered the dowry money originally borrowed from the Lu family, but also doubled the money in his hand dozens of times in the past three years.

You should not worry about the cost of food and clothing.

There is no one in this house to care about her. When she is happy, she goes out when she wants to go out, and she swims in the lake when she wants to. She even went to Jiangnan with Gu Juefei last year.

It can be said that the days are very pleasant.

There is no trouble at the General's Mansion. Sister Li, Sister Lang, and Brother Chi are getting older, but they come to visit her from time to time. They are sensible and obedient.

Everyone in the Grand Master's Mansion knew that she was the one on the top of Gu Juefei's heart, and they didn't dare to provoke her.

When she first got married, it wasn't that no one wanted to see her laugh; but after all these years, those high-ranking, powerful, and famous ladies only had to laugh when they saw her.

In addition, she is tactful and rarely offends people.

So echoing with Gu Juefei one after the other, they are actually the most proud couple in the capital today.

It's not enough to say that "brain" is not enough, I think I know that this is just a joke and a joke.

She doesn't like chess.

But she can see clearly the relationship between the father and son.

Now she helped Gu Chengqian to stand up, she just smiled and said: "You don't even remember this stubble, Jinxi, a caravan from the Huns arrived in Beijing a few days ago, and brought a good mountain with them. Ginseng. I ordered someone to buy a few boxes, and Dr. Zhang said that there is a recipe to use it to recuperate, so that you can live more comfortably this winter.”

Gu Chengqian's heart is really complicated.

He knew early on that the daughter that Lu Jiuling raised was very good, but when she married Xue Kuang, he didn't know it was so good. Later, because of the secret grievances between Gu Juefei and Xue Kuang, he felt a little guilty towards Lu Jinxi.

Unexpectedly, she turned into her own daughter-in-law.

Gu Juefei's cunning and cruelty, as his father, and even a colleague in the officialdom, he has already experienced it.

With this son, he has nothing to say.

But it's hard to ignore Lu Jinxi's thoughtful daughter-in-law.

After all, she is gentle, virtuous, and filial. She really treats him as an elder. Her words, deeds, and actions are all vividly reflected.

Who doesn't like her?

It can even be said that he and Gu Juefei fought like that in the court, and this huge Taishi mansion hasn't fallen apart because of the fact that there is still Lu Jinxi in this mansion.

Gu Chengqian sighed again, took the crutches aside, supported himself, and said with a wry smile: "It's hard for you to have a heart. This game of chess is over today, so you can go back and do your own thing. Now that I am begging to resign, I have made an appointment with Ji Zhiyin to watch the snow and drink tea by the East Lake, it is time to go."

As he spoke, he had already walked out.

Wan Baochang, the chief general of the Taishifu, who was standing beside him, hurriedly followed, and opened the warm sedan chair in front of him.

It's just that before people leave the house, there is a high-pitched singing in the front yard——

"The decree is here!"

"Fengtian transported the emperor, and the edict said: The Minister of the Lifan Academy, the wife of the scholar of the Palace of Preserving Harmony, Lu Shi Jinxi, is knowledgeable, virtuous, gentle, tolerant of ceremonies, and dutiful. I wish to attend the New Year's Eve Royal Palace banquet, please accept this!"