When Zhao Kuangyin returned to his house, he saw that the door was full of cars and horses. The yard where horses were raised and carriages were placed was already full. The visitor could only lean on the carriages and horses on the street and asked the slaves to watch.

There was a very tall wooden pillar in front of the gate, which was tied with white paper, and the paper was "cracked" in the air by the wind. Under the eaves of the mansion, white cloth for funerals was hung at the door. In this situation, even if you were passers-by, you could tell that someone had died in the Zhao Mansion at a glance.

"Zhao Du Envoy." "General Zhao..." Many people in the yard greeted him, and everyone was waiting to enter the mourning hall to pay tribute to the deceased. Zhao Kuangyin, surrounded by slaves, held his face, but he also bowed his fists and returned the greeting, without saying much.

In the mourning hall, an old man named a few people, and a few people walked in and paid homage to the spirit seat and coffin above. Next to the tablet, the children of the Zhao family and close relatives led the servants in the mansion to kneel in two rows, kowtowing to the guests who came to mourn.

Zhao Kuangyin asked a slave: "My mother is in the mourning hall?"

The slave replied, "The old lady is too sad and goes to the backyard."

Zhao Kuangyin then stopped entering the mourning hall and walked straight into the side of the house. Sure enough, seeing Zhao's mother, Du, sitting on the chair, sighing with pain, she was already crying without tears. The servants around her kept rubbing her back and were persuading: "My mourning on the old lady, your health is important."

"My son is back." Zhao Kuangyin walked into the house and knelt down and bowed.

Du sat upright, reached out to look for the crutches next to him, and asked, "What should the official do with it?"

Zhao Kuangyin looked at the servants next to him and waved his hand: "Everything goes down first." Several servants hurriedly said, "Here." At this time, Zhao Kuangyin said, "The government does not deal with it much. I have received some money, which is the funeral cost given by the government."

After hearing this, Du Shi was furious and said, "How much can you buy the lives of your father and Saburo!"

Zhao Kuangyin hurriedly said, "Please calm down my anger." Du said coldly, "The two people in the hall are not cold yet! You said lightly, so who would bully us Zhao family? Whose origin is Guo Shao?"

Zhao Kuangyin lowered his hands and thought for a while, and whispered: "He saved the Queen's life last year."

Du said: "Empress, Fu family? The world of the Great Zhou Dynasty is not the final decision of the Fu family! Sanlang... Old white-haired people give birth to black-haired people, Sanlang is usually the most filial..."

"It's the child who is unfilial." Zhao Kuangyin hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed again, "I would like to ask my mother to mourn me. I will bury my father and third brother first, so that they can be buried in peace. Let's give up other things for the time being. The official family does not want to see the child fighting with Guo Shao, and the child dare not ignore the official family's general strategy for personal grudges."

After hearing this, Du cried for a while, but no longer had to say too much, and said, "Erlang must hold the funeral well."

When Zhao Kuangyin thought of the two coffins placed in the mourning hall in the outer courtyard, he felt angry and sad, and his eyes were so aching.

But he still did not intend to continue to entangle in this matter because it was of no benefit. On the road to lofty ambitions, there will always be many thorns that bind people to move forward, not only temptation, but also anger and hatred... But those enemies who make people go in a different direction may be just enemies of one stage in the long run and are not worth calculating about everything they have.

In contrast, Zhao Kuangyin cares more about realizing his ambitions... The reason in between is very simple: now he ignores the overall situation and fights with his opponent to the death. Not to mention the victory or defeat for the time being, both sides will definitely suffer losses. Guo Shao has to pay the price, and Zhao Kuangyin himself cannot fall well. But if he keeps his eyes on the long term and waits for a certain day, the opponent can be destroyed with confidence without paying the price of revenge. Which option is wiser?

Only those who can tolerate things or not can laugh to the end!

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When Guo Shao returned to the mansion, he saw Li Chuyun and other cadres at the entrance of the yard opposite. He went to meet his brothers first.

He was carrying a bag, which may weigh about ten pounds, and there were some gold and silver utensils in it. I don’t know why he rewarded him, but it might be to encourage them to understand the overall situation... Anyway, it is not to reward him for suspected killing Zhao San.

...The former owner of this yard was a civil servant in Kaifeng Prefecture, and he prefers quietness. Guo Shao sent Zuo You to discuss with the owner of the house, but the other party was honest and sold at a fair price. Now it has become the place where the personal soldiers of the Guo Mansion live, with more than fifty people on duty day and night; other servants also live here, and there are about a hundred people living in the entire yard. This place is like a military room for garrisons, but it seems understandable that Guo Shao does this; most of the personal soldiers do not bring armor on duty, so they take weapons.

When Yang Biao saw Guo Shao coming in, he took the lead and asked, "Brother, what's going on?"

All the generals came over and waited for the result. Everyone was very concerned... The main reason was that a group of generals who were promoted from the bottom of Guo Shao could not let Guo Shao fall down. If they fell down, they would have to disband and fight back to their original form.

Guo Shao said kindly: "You don't have to worry for the time being. The official asked Zhao Duzhi to swear with me, no longer care about the previous grievances, and put the national affairs first. Zhao Kuangyin swears first. I think he should be someone who is willing to listen to the advice of the official."

After hearing this, Li Chuyun nodded and said, "What the lord saw is so much. Zhao Kuangyin should not be a person who cares about consequences in such matters. If he did this, he would probably not be able to make any contribution from the official family. After all, the emperor is a wise ruler who can suppress others."

Guo Shao said: "That's true. The government is now determined to fight the Northern Expedition and recover Hebei. If someone from Zhao Kuangyin and I were in a different position, and said one thing and did another, it would affect the national strategy, it would probably make the government very angry and disappointed." Guo Shao said this and stopped gently. He thought that Zhao Kuangyin wanted to be the emperor, so how could he give up that road when he encountered something? Zhao Kuangyin finally gained the trust and reliance of the emperor. There was no need to rush to do it and waste his previous efforts.

Luo Yanhuan said: "However, the lord and the Zhao family have become more irresistible, and it is even more difficult to redeem than Li Chongjin's place."

"That's true." Guo Shao was not afraid of it and nodded in agreement.

Li Chongjin's side was just a battle of will. Later, Guo Shao cleaned up his people in the Guards' Office, which was normal. The rest of the Guards' Office also took advantage of the situation and followed the accomplices; everyone was just fighting for power and profit. But Zhao Kuangyin now has two corpses in his family, and this grudge may not be resolved at all... If Guo and Zhao cannot solve it in this life, their descendants might have to distinguish their heights. Just like Zhu Wen and Li Keyong used to fight for the rest of their lives. After their deaths, their sons finally distinguished their victory or loss. Li Keyong's son destroyed Zhu Wen's family and his dynasty.

To this point, there is no way to go, and there is another powerful enemy.

Guo Shao said: "It's no big deal now. Everyone has dispersed. It's not good to gather in my house."

Everyone then said goodbye.

When Guo Shao returned home, Yulian saw him and said, "This morning, Mrs. Gao sent someone to come and said that it would be easier to propose marriage to the Prince Wei Mansion. Next, we asked our family to prepare a betrothal gift and send it to Daming Mansion, Hebei, and then we discussed the wedding day. Mrs. Gao left a message and asked the husband to find time to go to the Gao family to discuss the matter."

Zhao Kuangyin's family was holding a funeral, and Guo Shao talked about the betrothal gift here. But that doesn't matter. Zhao Kuangyin is not a relative of Guo Shao, and his funeral has nothing to do with Guo Shao, and it cannot stop others from planning a wedding.

The betrothal gift costs a lot of money. Guo Shao’s family has not accumulated a lot of money and is currently short of money. He handed over the ten kilograms of heavy metal bags in his hand to Yulian, and the emperor’s rewards happened to gather together to handle the betrothal gift.

After he finished talking to Yulian, he saw Jing Niang again in front of the flying bridge gatehouse in the back garden. Jing Niang followed him into the back garden, and then whispered: "I went to Dongcheng in the morning, but unexpectedly I met the eunuch Cao Tai, so I brought that to him."

"I understand..." Guo Shao said again, "There is no news about the queen recently. Didn't you say that you would help you rebuild Yuzhenguan last time?"

Jingniang said: "No, except for the time I took the initiative to look for Cao Tai this morning, no one in the palace has any contact with me."

After hearing this, Guo Shao stopped talking.

...

He now needs the support of Fu Hou, not only realistic help, but also psychological support. Perhaps because Guo Shao has come to this day, Fu has played a crucial role, so that he gradually developed a sense of psychological dependence on Fu Hou.

In the past, Guo Shao relied on Fu's family to be promoted to a higher level, but he also needed her in the future and was even more dependent on her.

For a moment, Guo Shao had the illusion that he had done a lot of things since he came here a thousand years later. In fact, everything was summed up: it was just a process of constantly approaching that woman.

From the beginning to the impossible distance, the distance of a thousand years suddenly narrowed to an era; then there was a world of difference in status, and the distance was constantly narrowing... Until now, Guo Shao felt that he was getting closer and closer. After marrying Fu Ermei, he had already gotten closer to his relatives.

"You have to prepare a betrothal gift recently, so you can't delay it." Guo Shao immediately put the matter on the agenda and turned around and said to Jingniang, "You send someone to Dongshi and inform the owner of a shop called 'Shen Lichen Weaving' and ask them to send someone who can decide the matter to the Guo Mansion and have a large business to take care of them."

Jingniang said, "I'll call Bai Xian Gu to go later."

Guo Shao nodded and said, "Bai Xian Gu went over to discuss matters. Maybe the other party would send someone to ask about the situation first; if it was a woman, let Yu Lian receive it first. When they send the person in charge to do this, they would ask me to see him, so that they would save some trouble."

He thought: You should buy some silk and other things, and you should not just take money. Fabric and satin look like it takes up space. If you make some other gifts, you can make the betrothal gifts into many boxes to pack, which is very charming and decent; otherwise, if you give gold, silver and money, it will be very unsightly to put them in a little... As for the betrothal gifts that marry wealthy families, Guo Shao has to discuss with someone.

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Chapter completed!