Li Tian was obedient and saw that Xu Ping actually knew the woman in the store. He quickly found an excuse to change a table with Wang Ke and the others, and signaled his subordinates to pretend that they could not see Xu Ping's table. △￠

At this time, Tan Erniang took a servant from Rendian and came back with a few bottles of wine. Duan Yunjie said to Tan Erniang: "This is the official Xu who I mentioned to you before. In such a huge capital, I don't want to meet you today."

Tan Erniang looked at Xu Ping, smiled and greeted the others with a smile.

Duan Yunjie sat down opposite Xu Ping and looked at Xu Ping. She said a thousand words for a moment, but she didn't know where to start.

"Are you doing well these days?"

Xu Ping looked at Duan Yunjie and asked softly.

Duan Yunjie tilted her head, looked at the table in front of her, and was silent for a while before saying, "What is good and what is bad? I suffered this great disaster and could still have food and accommodation in the capital. I have not suffered any pain. It is so good that I can't be better. However, compared with what I thought about when I first left Yongzhou and looked north at the Central Plains, I thought..."

Xu Ping looked at Duan Yunjie and felt an indescribable smell in his heart.

However, in a year, Duan Yunjie changed a lot. In fact, her appearance has not changed much, but the feeling she gave her whole person. Although Duan Yunjie was so calm and composed in the past, she had a kind of freedom and freedom that emanated from her heart. Now that freedom and freedom have been replaced by an indescribable heaviness.

Perhaps, people are not born to grow up like this, but are slowly carved into this by life. During this year's changes, the carving knife of time has left unprecedented traces on Duan Yunjie.

Looking around, Xu Ping asked, "Why are you opening a store here?"

"My parents passed away and didn't know where they went. I met Tan Erniang by chance. Her father also went to Lingnan to work as an official and worked as a small prison in a county. After two terms, he went to the third class in Beijing to guard the situation. You also know that the third class in the third class in the past six months could not go. After wasting more than half a year, he went away. Seeing that his life could not be kept, he remarried with his family property and sold her to others. But he didn't expect it to be a fireworks family and he fell into chaos since then."

"We met and talked about our experiences, we couldn't help but sigh. At that time, the families who bought her also passed away, and she wanted to be a good person, so we opened this small shop with me to make a living."

Xu Ping said: "Thank you, it's not easy to open a shop in the capital."

Duan Yunjie smiled bitterly and said, "Of course it's not easy. Under the imperial city, high-ranking officials and minor officials may come to the door for anything. There are even more monsters and monsters, gangsters, which are hard to guard against. In order to eat on this day, I am really worried."

Xu Ping hurriedly asked, "How do you two weak women deal with these people?"

"When Erniang was in Lingnan, she was in good condition with her father, a small official from her colleague's house. It was a coincidence that the small official is now on duty in the Imperial City Department and has dozens of people under her command. After borrowing his power, our store was opened."

Xu Ping originally wanted to ask why Tan Erniang had an acquaintance and was still showing up here, but after thinking about it, he still didn't speak up. What else could be the reason? I haven't seen each other for 10 or 20 years. The young officials of that year have grown up and have more likely married and had children. How to deal with Tan Erniang when they recognize each other? The Song people did not have much taboo to use prostitutes as concubines, especially military generals in the army. However, the Imperial City Department guards the Imperial City and the Emperor's Guards, so they always have to restrain themselves to become the current situation.

The sun sets on the mountain and it gets dark. Tan Erniang and the servants from Rendian are busy lighting the lights. These big restaurants are not entirely managed by themselves. The surrounding small foot shops also help them in business. It is common for a lot of servants to come here to help.

Xu Ping looked at Duan Yunjie in the shadow, and had a lot to say in his heart, but he felt that he couldn't say it.

After a long silence, he said, "I have been back to the capital for some days. Have you heard of it?"

"Of course I heard it. You bravely defeated Jiaozhi in Yongzhou, and you are a high-ranking official in the court. You have spread all over Kaifeng City. How could I not hear about it?"

"Then why not go find me? Although my family is not very rich, there are houses and houses, and there are thousands of hectares of fertile land outside the city. And now I can speak in the court. Your father worked hard in Yongzhou for many years, and the court always has rewards."

Duan Yunjie smiled and shook her head: "Yes, you have everything in your family now, and you have a wife and daughter."

When Xu Ping mentioned his wife and daughter, he couldn't speak for a while.

Back in Yongzhou, he and Duan Yunjie always had some unexplainable feelings, but because he was far away from home and was afraid that his wife and daughter would not be able to explain it, Xu Ping never felt afraid of this window paper. Today, after spending these days with Lin Su Niang, Xu Ping felt relieved. This kind of thing was difficult to explain. At that time, he was thousands of miles apart, thinking about how happy it would be if the family reunion was. But when he really came back, he was always a little disappointed.

When Lin Su Niang sent Xiuxiu away, Xu Ping suddenly felt that it was not a big deal to marry a concubine or two. Most of the people at that time were like this, but they didn't really have concubines but were different. Sometimes the emperor couldn't stand it and would take the initiative to buy maids and concubines for ministers, and everyone was used to it. Even at that time he wanted to get Xiuxiu back, but there was always more affection with Xiuxiu than love. Xiuxiu didn't mention it, and Xu Ping wouldn't mention it either.

Now that she met Duan Yunjie and she fell into this field again, Xu Ping couldn't help but feel anxious. Lin Suniang's temperament must not want to have one more person at home, but if Xu Ping really wants to get her back, she won't do anything. She just wants to discipline her. In the wife and the wife and the wife are the requirements for the wife and the wife and the concubines are handled well. In this era, there was a real indifference in the inner house and the wife and the concubines in the family would be punished. There was a Tongzong's family who was jealous and had a disagreement, and it was a big fuss. It was nothing more than a Tongzong's demotion of the official and the wife and the wife were sentenced to divorce. Although the original concubine could not be a wife after the divorce, the official could marry another, and the court was always on the court's attitude.

Lin Su Niang is a typical good wife and mother, and she cannot do anything that outsiders can blame. She doesn't want to do so, and she will only find a way before the matter is done. When Xu Ping really gets married, she will naturally have another family law.

Sitting with Duan Yunjie in the dark shadow, Xu Ping just thought about it in his mind, but in the end he didn't say it.

Duan Yunjie is Duan Yunjie. She has been an official with her father since she was a child. She has a wide range of knowledge, has a good knowledge of writing and has outstanding abilities. She is not an ordinary woman. A stable and comfortable life may not be very attractive to her. She can take good care of herself, and regardless of her appearance or her academic demeanor, she is the best choice. Why should she be a concubine for others?

Since the Five Dynasties, the Central Plains, especially the northern society has changed drastically, and many traditional concepts have been broken. In the eyes of the Song people, the status of concubines is no longer as lowly as in the previous dynasty, and the legal status has been fundamentally improved. But concubines are concubines after all, and the order of the family is more serious than that of the Tang dynasty. On the one hand, the social restrictions of concubines are few, and on the other hand, the status of the family is more rigorous.
Chapter completed!