?In the northern suburbs of Xiyang City, a lakeside manor is very lively. This is the property of Yuwen Wen, the governor of Bazhou and the governor of Xiyang County. In the past few days, his family visited the newly built villa in the manor.

On the edge of the lakeside, a two-story building stands above the dirt mound. The building is made of bricks without flying eaves and walls, beige walls, red eaves, and arched column walls. The shape is very different from that of ordinary towers.

There is a large terrace on the roof with fences around it. There are two strangely shaped large umbrellas on it. There is a couch under the umbrella. Two beautiful women each sat on the couch with pink and purple gauze, watching the two young children playing in front of them.

"Amn, over there, over there..." Brother Que shouted in a slight voice, and danced with his younger brother Jilang. The two little guys are now holding the roof of the building and are excited to see the wooden boats by the lake not far away.

"That's a boat, you can float on the water and sit on people. Do you want to go?" Yuwen Eying said from the side. The two younger brothers were even happier when they heard this and said in unison "I want to".

"Eying, the wooden boat is not ready yet, it will take tomorrow." Yang Lihua said from the side. She was sitting on the umbrella with Yuchi Chifan, with many pastries, fruits and iced sour plum soup on the table.

Yuchi Chifan invited the little guys to come and eat. The three of them surrounded him and took their favorite food from the table, and each of them was happily tasting it.

"My grandma, you want to go to Portugal... Portugal..." asked Brother Que. He is now two years old and is the age to learn to speak. He just can't tell you. My correct usage is, so he always uses the "you" who others call him as "me".

Yuchi Chifan pinched Brother Que's little face and corrected with a smile: "Brother Que, say he wants to say 'me'..."

"Yeah." Brother Que nodded, and when he saw Ah Niang nodding in agreement, he looked at Yang Lihua and said, "Auntie, you...I'll go to Portugal..."

"Go, follow my sister, take my younger brother with me, and take good care of me, do you know?" Yang Lihua said. Seeing her son nodding, she instructed her daughter: "Eying, do you know if you have to take good care of me, do you know?"

"Yeah." Yuwen Eying nodded vigorously, after a while, he had enough food and drink, and led his two younger brothers to the stairs on the side with a huh-tip. Liu Ye led a maid and two wet nurses to follow closely behind.

Seeing her son so happy, Yang Lihua was also very happy. The helplessness in her heart left with the wind. According to the rules, the son she gave birth to could only call her biological mother "Auntie" and call her legitimate mother Yuchi Chifan "Auntie".

My son, who was pregnant for ten months and had a childbirth pain, could not be called "My grandmother". Anyone who was a mother felt uncomfortable, but this was the rules, and it was not something that Yang Lihua could change.

Not to mention a powerful family, a high-ranking family, even ordinary people, the same is true for the family, so the status of the main wife is so important, and the side wife is just better than the treatment of ordinary maids.

Even if the concubine has children, she is in danger of being driven out of the house. If the husband is "generous", he has to accompany the distinguished guest to bed. After spending a few nights, if the distinguished guest can't let go, he may be given as a gift to the other party.

"What are you thinking?" Yuchi Chifan asked. Yang Lihua, who was slightly lost, smiled when she heard this, saying that she was thinking about her husband, and she didn't know how she was doing in Yecheng now.

"He... the man said nothing wrong, and it was true that something happened in the hall again." Yuchi Chifan smiled bitterly.

Yang Lihua was also helpless. Yuwen Wen went to Chang'an and was on the main hall. As a result, her father was so angry that he almost broke the scene on the spot. As a result, this person made the scene come back. She kept thinking about what Yuwen Wen was thinking about at that time.

‘A ordinary ministers went to the hall and were always following the rules and not daring to show up, but he was fine, so he didn’t take it seriously at all!’ Yang Lihua thought so, and like Yuchi Chifan, he had no choice but to drink the iced sour plum soup.

It is late June, and Yuwen Wen arrived in Yecheng in late May. Yuchi Chifan wrote a letter in advance to ask the messenger to deliver it to Yecheng, which happened to be delivered at the end of May.

Unexpectedly, the messenger brought news in early June that the Duke of Xiyang County kowtowed and fainted on the ground during the court meeting. However, the imperial doctor's examination was not serious. This news made Yuchi Chifan restless, and Yang Lihua and Xiao Jiuniang were also quite worried.

A few days later, the messenger sent Yuwen Wen's letter to his home, which repeatedly emphasized that "it is not a big deal for his husband." Although there are some twists and turns, after the Double Ninth Festival, you can return to Bazhou. According to the days, you can get home in about mid-to-early October.

The breeze blows again, not only bringing a hint of coolness, but also wrinkles the lake water. The lake surface is sparkling under the sunset, and a group of water birds fly up from the reed marsh in the distance.

Yuchi Chifan came to the fence and looked out from the railing. He could see the large lake view. The rippling lake surface, with a few small boats falling in it, and birds hovering in the sky. Such a scenery makes people feel refreshed.

"The scenery is so beautiful..." she murmured to herself, finally understanding why her husband wanted to build a villa by the lake. After only two days of living there, she was reluctant to leave.

"Sister, what style does this building come from?" Yang Lihua asked, walking to Yuchi Chifan and looking into the distance with his railing. It was the first time she saw a building of this shape, with no flying eaves and walls, and there was a large terrace on the roof. Yuwen Wen once told her what style it was, but she really couldn't remember it.

"It seems to be called Caribbean style?" Yuchi Chifan frowned and thought for a long time before he remembered it, but he was not sure.

"I remember where this sea is east of the East China Sea, that is, where the extreme east is. The shape of this building is indeed rare, and it does not look like the Western Regions style." Yang Lihua said with some uncertainty.

"Yes, I don't know if this building is solid or not. It's all made of bricks and stone..."

While the two were talking, there was a movement from the stairs. When they turned around, Xiao Jiuniang, wearing a light blue gauze, walked over. When they approached, Yuchi Chifan asked Huannu if she was asleep.

"Sister, Huannu is already asleep." Xiao Jiuniang replied, then came to the fence and looked into the distance. She was quite refreshed and happy when she looked at the lake view in front of her.

"Are you used to sleeping? If you are afraid that the dog will be frightened by the barking, I will let them lead the dog away."

"Huannu is sleeping well, it's okay to bark a little bit of dogs. If it's too quiet, it's not too accustomed to returning to the mansion." Xiao Jiuniang smiled. The wife cared about her mother very much, which made her feel much more at ease. Her husband went out far away, and now the wife is the wife in the mansion.

The three of them stood together and looked into the distance, talking to each other, and laughed like silver bells from time to time. The breeze passed by, blowing the veil thin as cicadas' wings, and like green leaves, reflecting the face of the moon and flowers. From a distance, the three of them came to the mortal world like fairies in the sky, enjoying the lake view here.

Suddenly, a flapping sound came from the sky. When I looked up, I saw a group of gray and white pigeons flying past the building and flying towards the pigeon loft in the distance.

"It's so beautiful to fly in flocks of pigeons." Xiao Jiuniang sighed, and Yang Lihua, who was beside him, shook her head: "It's that...that thing falls down and is ill-watching."

"So the pigeon loft is far away from here. Anyway, Brother Que and Jilang also like to feed pigeons, so let them..." Yuchi Chifan said. In addition to being beautiful and fun, my husband raised pigeons here, there is another secret, but it cannot be revealed easily.

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In a corner of the manor, several men in the pigeon loft were busy. They carefully cleaned the layers of pigeon cages, pulled out the drawers under the pigeon cages, poured out the pigeon dung, and opened the window to introduce a breeze, taking away the slightly turbid breath in the pigeon loft.

Pigeons should be carefully raised, while hundreds of pigeons should be more careful. The first thing to bear is to ensure that the pigeon loft is clean. The pigeon loft must be cleaned every day, and after six or seven days, it will be cleaned to remove dust from the floor.

Every two or three months, water is used to wash the floor, doors, windows, and pigeon cages, in order to avoid the breeding of epidemics and make all hundreds of pigeons in a pigeon loft "dead".

"How much temperature and humidity are there?" One person asked, and the other person looked at the thermometer hanging in the room. The hygrometer was then said that it did not exceed the standard, which was just right.

"Move faster, pack up all the pigeon manure and take it to dry and fertilize the floor."

"Start change the water. The old rules are that each person is responsible for one row. Don't spill the water."

"Okay!"

A few people got busy again, poured out the water from the drinking water utensil in each pigeon cage, replaced it with freshly made water, and then checked the door and window screens to confirm that there were no holes or holes.

They were veterans who were disabled due to injuries. They were left in the mansion by Xiyang County Gong Yuwen Wen, and lived in this manor with their family as tenants. They themselves were responsible for raising pigeons and training pigeons that could return to their nests.

Over the past two years, they have gone from a pigeon novice to a veteran. They have summarized their experience in how to keep pigeons well, and combined with the novel "thermometer" and "hygrometer" to keep the pigeon loft in an orderly manner.

Pigeons are afraid of heat or cold, so it is important to cool down the pigeon loft in summer. It also has ventilation and proper lighting must be taken into account. The weather is too hot and the pigeons have to bathe.

It is also a means of cooling down.

You have to be careful in winter. If the temperature difference is too large, the pigeons will easily get sick. The pigeons will install door curtains and curtains to prevent the cold wind from blowing. On weekdays, mice and other people have to prevent them from getting into the pigeon loft and become a disaster.

When raising pigeons and raising pigeons, they are already familiar with them. There are more and more pigeons that are thriving. Through daily flight training, pigeons that are strong and can accurately return to the nest will continue to reproduce. The distance between pigeons and pigeons is getting farther and farther away.

Finally, it was time for the pigeons to return to their nests. Watching a large group of pigeons falling down, they returned to their respective pigeon cages in a familiar way. The pigeon breeders walked up, counted the pigeon cages one by one and closed them.

"Old Li, Lao Li! I'm back, I'm back!"

One person suddenly shouted excitedly, and several people next to him came up and shouted excitedly: "He's back! He's really back, hurry up, go find the manager!"

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"The pigeon is back?"

Yuchi Chifan asked in surprise, and Yuwen Shiwu nodded vigorously and said happily: "I'm back, it's considered back."

Yuchi Chifan is now in the second floor study of the "Caribbean-style" building, taking a reed tube handed over by Yuwen Shiwu and pulling out a note of paper. He saw the words "Peace every year" written on it. Yuchi Chifan took out a wooden box from a corner of the study, opened the lock with the key and took out a piece of paper.

"Today is June 30th, so it should be... peace every year..." Yuchi Chifan said softly, looking at the note again, excited.

"Wow, from Yecheng to Xiyang, there are more than a thousand miles. According to the agreement, the dove of the Lord should have been released from the morning of this morning and returned to Xiyang in the afternoon. This flying pigeon is so wonderful to pass on the letter!" Yuwen Shiwu sighed.

"My husband said that the straight line from Yecheng to Xiyang is not that far... Feige delivers a letter, and can really deliver it. He lets it fly in the morning and arrives in the afternoon of that day..." Yuchi Chifan held the note and kept putting it down, just like Yuwen Wen was in front of her.

Yuwen Shiwu touched his head and said with regret that it was a pity that the pigeons did not fly back a few times. It seemed that they were still too anxious. The pigeons they selected had never flew such a long distance.

This time, Yuwen Wen went to Yecheng and chose some of the pigeons that had just been trained to produce some results. According to his agreement with Yuchi Chifan, pigeons would be released on June 1st, June 10th, June 20th, and June 30th.

According to the prediction, if the pigeon flew from Yecheng to Xiyang, if it successfully flew back, it would arrive on the same day at the speed of the pigeon. Therefore, on June 1st, 10th, 20th, and today, Yuchi Chifan was waiting for the pigeon to fly back.

Every time the pigeon released brings a note of different contents, and the note of the pigeon released today is the four words "Peace every year". However, although I successfully received the "Flying Pigeon Passing" thousands of miles away, the success rate is still very low.

This month, four batches of pigeons will be released, each batch will be released for three, totaling twelve. As a result, only one pigeon has returned now, and the others are either lost or killed by some bird of prey or hunter.

"One of the twelve people is back, but it is rare to be so far away in Yecheng. It is said that it will take several months to train and carefully screen to select good carrier pigeons, and they can fly back even if they are thousands of miles away." Yuwen Shiwu said with a smile.

"I flew back from thousands of miles away that day, and my husband was indeed not wrong..." Yuchi Chifan locked the wooden box and put it back.

Seeing that his mistress was quite happy, Yuwen Shiwu asked when the mission returned from Yecheng would pass by Bazhou. After all, the Langzhu had already planned to buy a lot of things before leaving, and it didn't matter what else, but the war horse was really envious.

"It will take ten days to go, and a messenger has sent me a few days ago."

"That's good, that's good. I don't know if I can arrive before the major adjustment."

"What's going on with the Hulin Army now?" asked Yuchi Chifan. The Hulin Army was an army recruited by Yuwen Wen. Strictly speaking, it was a private soldier. So as the mistress who stayed at home, she also had to 'perform her duties'.

"As the way, it has been raining since the beginning of summer, and it is impossible to fight a big battle. It has made the fish belly of Chen State cheap. From the time the boss went out to the present, it has destroyed the seedlings in the Wuchang territory. This year they have lost no grains."

"You can discuss the matter with Chen Tongjun and the others."

"Yes, when the discussion is completed, Chen Tongjun will come to the mansion to ask for a letter."

Yuwen Wen is not there, and the military affairs of the Hulin Army are managed by Chen Wudi, and the military leaders are in charge of the orderly manner. Yuwen Shiwu, as the representative of Yuwen Wen, is responsible for supervising the military. If the Hulin Army is to be mobilized or there are major changes in military affairs, Yuwen Wen's seal must be held by Yuchen Chifan.

"I am a woman and I don't know anything about fighting and training. I follow the prescribed rules. No mistakes are allowed. You and Chen Tongjun must watch."
Chapter completed!