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Chapter 229

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After the war, Shamen Town was filled with a joyful atmosphere. The island was decorated with lights and ignited a bomb, as if it was New Year's Day. The merchants on the island witnessed Li Guan, who led the Shamen Town Army to fight the powerful Feng Zhang in panic and fled. They were extremely shocked. Many people who had some strange thoughts in their hearts couldn't help but calm down.

After a great victory, Li Guan was not stingy. Not only did all teams pay rewards according to their merits and give them heavy rewards. In addition, the soldiers' personal killing of generals, capturing flags, and the military merits of the first level were also issued according to the standards set by the army. In addition, Li Guan decided to win the battle as a winner with less attacks but more victory. All soldiers in the army received rewards, and the soldiers who died and injured in battle were doubled.

In order to celebrate the victory, Li Guan specially asked the military and civilians on the island to have a day off. The military and civilians celebrated together. All the people in the town also sent a reward of 100 coins and a bucket of rice. Even the people who came to build cities from other places received a reward of one pound of wine and two pounds of meat.

The victory of Shamen Town Army and Li Yan's generous reward made all the people immersed in this joyful atmosphere, and also forgot the rebellious nature of Li Yan's battle this time.

On this day, Li Guan temporarily put down his military affairs and returned to the mansion to quietly accompany his family to have a meal with him. Since he arrived on the island, Li Guan has been busy. He usually has less time to eat home-cooked meals at home, and even rarely goes home to sleep at night. He is mostly busy in the mansion of the town and stays there late at night. This made Han very dissatisfied and went to the mansion of the town and sent food several times.

When Wang Guiniang saw that Li Yan had only brought Zhao Jiang and a few guards back, she came forward with joy: "Husband is back." She personally helped Li Yan untied her cloak, and looked behind Li Yan.

"What are you looking at?" Li Guan asked.

"Look at me, why did my husband not bring Junior Sister Yu and the Princess and the others to come together today." Wang Guiniang chuckled. Women are always sensitive. Especially now, Li Yan's identity has gradually changed. He was originally just a peasant family, but now he has become a town general with thousands of soldiers and tens of thousands of people. Especially when he saw the noble women Yu Youniang, Princess and Xiao Yulou, who always surrounded Li Yan, it was impossible to say that it was not jealous and worried.

"Today I just want our family to have a home-cooked meal. In the future, the fourth brother-in-law and three brother-in-law will come, and the others will be gone." Li Guan knew Wang Guiniang's thoughts, but he didn't say it out loud.

With Wang Guiniang entering the mansion, this was a blue brick and green tiles house. The house was large, with more than a dozen rooms inside and outside. Li Guan had previously transferred four disabled old soldiers to get a guard for the hospital, and found four homeless young women from the refugees who were brought to the island to help with the housework. The yard was clean and extremely neat.

"Mom, Sanlang is back." Wang Guiniang shouted happily as soon as she stepped into the inner courtyard.

"Sanlang is back." Li's mother was sitting in the hall sewing a pair of cloth shoes with a thousand-layer sole. Although Li's mother did not lack these, she always had to make shoes for Li's mother herself.

Li Guan stepped forward and kowtowed to Han, which was also guilty of not being able to come home often. "Son, please pay tribute to your mother!"

Han stepped forward and helped Li Yan up and patted the dust on his shoulders. "It's good to come back. What a great gift? Wan'er, pour tea for Sanlang quickly. I'll go to the kitchen and make Sanlang his favorite cold pottery for him."

"Mom, I'll help you." Wang Guiniang said. Li's mother pulled Guiniang and whispered in her ear: "You said you should accompany Saburo more. He is busy, and it's rare to come back once. You can't stay with him well. Keep him tonight, and you have to take the initiative in some things. Look at how cute that girl Xing'er is, I'm in a hurry to hold my grandson."

Two red clouds appeared on Wang Guiniang's face. She was also anxious. She always wanted to help her husband get a child soon, so that she would be at ease. But Li Yan was always very busy, and occasionally went home and sometimes went to bed very early. It was rare to have one or two chances, but she often had to split with Wan'er, the villain. It was strange. Although the number of times was a little small, it was only half a year since the marriage, but her belly was not moving at all. Not to mention her, even Wan'er, the girl.

Xing'er is Zhang Chengzong's daughter. When Zhang Chengzong's family almost starved to death on the roadside, the girl was very brave enough to stop Li Yan's carriage and ask for food. Previously, Zhang Chengzong had always been the servant of Li Yan, and Xing'er and his mother had always come to Li Yan's house to help with some chores and talk about evil things with the old lady. Since Li Yan's second brother passed away, Li'er now likes filial piety. Xing'er is obedient and sensible, like a little adult. Li's mother loves her like a granddaughter. Xing'er invited Li Yan to An, but she left the hall without paying attention. After a while, she pulled her mother back.

Zhang Chengzong's wife was a Hebei woman. She was generous and generous. She smiled and asked Li Guan for help, so she rushed to the kitchen to help Li's mother. After a while, Liu Shouqian's wife also brought a man and a woman, two seven or eight years old children to ask Li Guan for help, and also went to the kitchen to help. These two families are not close to Li Guan's family, and they are rare to come to the Li family often. Liu Shouqian and Zhang Chengzong used to be Li Guan's servants, and Li Guan helped them to avoid starvation. Now they have to be promoted by Li Guan as the head of Li Guan, who is the head of Li Guan's family, and they are the head of Li Guan's family. Now they have to be promoted to be the head of Li Guan, and they can be said to be Li Guan's confidant. Their family often comes to their homes, and Li Guan is also more happy, which can be considered to be a more intimate person.

The three children are always very lively together. Liu Shouqian's son Shi Tou began to show off to his sisters Rouer and Xing'er the words he knew in school. The two little girls looked at him with admiration and took a tree branch and wrote a stone on the ground.

Wang Guiniang and Wan'er looked at the three children, with their eyes full of likeness.

"I think you can ask Zhang Hong to organize a girl's school in the town, and teach the girls of the officers and staff of the town, as well as other willing girls, to learn some culture." Li Guan said with a smile.

"This is a good thing," said Wang Guiniang. "Our school teaches the children of the military and civilians on the island for free, which has won many praises."

After chatting for a while, Li Guan never saw the fifth sister Wanting, and couldn't help but ask strangely: "Where is the fifth sister, why haven't you seen him when you come back?"

Wan'er chuckled and said, "I was sent by the wife of the Han family in the morning. She said she had made a few good mirror flower silks and was preparing to make wedding dresses for her little lady. She said that the fifth sister and female worker were good, and asked her to help her see."

"Which Han family?" Li Guan was stunned for a moment.

"It's the military officer who assisted Han Jinshi's family." Wang Guiniang said on the side, "I'm about to talk to you. The old lady of the Han family seems to have the intention of meeting with their family. She probably has a crush on our fifth sister. The fifth sister seems to have an interest in Jinshilang. The Han family came to pick her up every few days, and she ran over there again and again. The girl who has not yet gotten married is a bit too bold."

I heard that there was something else. Li Guan pondered for a moment and said, "Although the Han family has been a merchant for generations, Han Zhongwu is also a Jinshi, and now he is also a good person in the military. If the Han family is interested and the fifth sister is also interested, I think this is a good thing. It's not a question of whether to be able to catch up with it. The fifth sister is fifteen this year, and it's time to talk about marriage. Since she likes it, she asks her mother for her opinion on this matter. If she agrees, then she can make a decision. Don't delay it, just let the Han family follow the etiquette."

Li Guan was still very willing to do this marriage. Han Zhongwu was not a high-ranking family, but also a capable aide to his subordinates. He was also a Jinshi, and he was also a good person and had a good temper. It was good to marry such a person.

The fourth sister married Lin Wei, and if the fifth sister married Han Zhongwu, the five sisters were married, it would be considered a matter of ending their mother's worries.

After a while, the four married sisters came with their four brother-in-law and a few nephews. The family suddenly became lively. Although these brother-in-law were also Li Guan's subordinates, Li Guan did not act like a boss at home, and the whole family was very lively.

A table of dishes was placed on the table, and Li's mother sat in the chief. Looking at such a large family and a large table of dishes, she couldn't help but feel deeply moved. Last year, she experienced the pain of losing her son, her son was in prison, her family's land was sold, and her warehouse was cut off. Unexpectedly, in a blink of an eye, the Li family has lived such a life that she had never dared to think about before.

"Sanlang, I have pity on your father and two short-lived brothers. If they could live to this day, our family would be happy." As he said that, he couldn't help but shed tears, and then turned to look at the two young widows in plain clothes, "It's your two sisters-in-law who have suffered."

Li Guan also sighed. Both sisters-in-law lost their husbands shortly after marriage, and they didn't even have a son or half of their daughters. They are young and widowed, and now they eat vegetarian food and chant Buddha's name all day long. They talk about their lives in green lamps and yellow scrolls, which makes people unbearable. Li Guan also mentioned that their sisters-in-law remarried, but at that time, the situation of the Li family was not good. Even if they remarried, they would not be able to marry into a good family. Their status would always be lower. Even if the Tang Dynasty was open, it would be inevitable.

However, the Li family has different status now. If they marry their two sisters-in-laws out, they can still find a good family with them with their status as the Li family.

"My grandma, sister-in-law and sister-in-law. Today, our family gathers together, and I have a saying that I want to mention again. That is, my sister-in-law is so young that I should not continue to delay my youth. I think it is better to marry again than my sister-in-law. Our family is the second family of my two sister-in-law. I will give a generous dowry and find a suitable loyal person. I believe that life will be very happy in the future."

Both sisters-in-law were stunned for a moment, but they didn't expect that my uncle would bring up the old story again.

"Sisters-in-law, don't rush to refuse. Consider this matter more. After all, it's a lifelong matter. I have a few suitable candidates, Wang Chong, deputy general of the right wing of the military barracks in the town, Li Wei, the ten general of the reconnaissance battalion, Cui Zhiyuan, the Jinshi from Silla, and several others, all of them are good candidates. These sisters-in-law should have seen them, and they are still good people. I'll decide which one I like."

Both sister-in-laws are both middle-aged and very smart. The Tang Dynasty's atmosphere is open, so marrying a widow is not a strange thing. In addition to some women who voluntarily uphold their integrity, they are also very tolerant of those women who remarry. Therefore, marrying remarried women is also common.

Lin Wei, who hadn't spoken much, suddenly said: "I think it's not bad. Although Wang Chong is a little old, he is not bad. Li Wei and Cui Zhiyuan are both really reliable people."

Li's mother also felt that she had owed her two daughters-in-laws. At this time, she said, "I have always regarded you two as daughters. Now, I will marry my daughter again. You don't have any psychological burden. You will be a widow all your life. How can I feel sad about this old man? Listen to my mother's words, choose the one I like and marry. If you didn't like it as Sanlang introduced you, you can ask someone to find it again, and there will always be someone I like."

The whole family persuaded each other, and finally the two sisters-in-law finally figured out and agreed, and stated that the matter was all decided by Li's mother and Li Guan. They also believed that Li Guan could help them find a good entrust. Li Guan simply struck while the iron was hot and called Wang Chong, Li Wei and Cui Zhiyuan, and finally called Du Zhongwu. After the people came, he asked them one by one, and things went smoothly in the end.

Because Li Wei was a brother of his clan, he felt that it was not appropriate to marry his deceased cousin's wife, so he finally decided to remarry his eldest sister-in-law Zhang, Cui Zhiyuan married his second sister-in-law Wang, and Du Zhongwu also officially decided on the matter with his fifth sister Wanting.

It was a joy to make a marriage for three families at once. Especially for Li Guan, not only did the two sisters-in-law finally get married, but they didn’t have to watch them delay their lives anymore, which was a relaxing thing for him. What’s more, Wang Chong and Cui Zhiyuan are also important subordinates of Shamen Town. Marrying them with them undoubtedly made their relationship even more advanced.

When Li Guan was in a happy mood, he loudly announced that his two sisters-in-law and fifth sister had the same dowry standard, each with a dowry of 3,000 guan. Three thousand guan was considered a very generous dowry. Although Wang Chong's family was actually a big family in Qingzhou, the Han family was the richest businessman in Muping County, which had been doing business for generations. Although Cui Zhiyuan was in Silla, he was also considered a small local aristocrat. However, giving such a generous dowry was entirely to make them live a better life in their husband's family. According to the rules of the Tang Dynasty, women's dowry was their private property and not their public property. After their death, these dowry were passed on to their children, and those without children would even be inherited directly by their parents' family.

The night was quiet and the family banquet was over. Li's mother pulled Li Guan and said, "You two sisters-in-law finally had a home. Now Wu Niang has found a family she likes. My mother also felt relieved, but she missed three more thoughts. The only thing she cared about now is that you can give birth to a grandson for me as soon as possible. Your father and brother died early, and now you are the only male in the whole family. The Li family is waiting to grow up and add children."

"Mom, I know." Li Yan nodded in front of Li's mother.
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