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It turns out that the Lan family is not united, and each branch has its own ulterior motives.

Li Yi's biological parents and brother didn't say anything, but Yang kept complaining to her husband.

It is said that Lan's father and mother helped Li Yi spend a lot of money to have this grandson of the Duke.

"That money was originally Ali's dowry. What are you talking about?" Lan Ruoxing was dissatisfied with his wife's nagging all the time. He turned his back and lay down impatiently.

Ever since Ali was born, her mother began to help prepare her dowry. After more than ten years, she had saved up at least something worth 10,000 or 20,000 silver coins.

Besides, even if his parents really took out their own money, what can a son do? He can't just beat his parents up!

Now Ali is a county lady, and her marriage is to a noble duke, so shouldn't the money be doubled? Some people want to spend money but don't have the means to do so.

"Which girl's dowry is tens of thousands of taels!" Don't think she doesn't know that the betrothal gift sent to the Duke's Mansion alone is 5 taels.

And with today's ceremony, it must have cost several thousand taels again.

Although my sister-in-law, as a county lady, received an annual salary and opened a shop in Chang'an to sell toys for children, how much money could she save? My parents-in-law still had to help with the supplement out of their private savings.

"Well, don't you see what Ahri is like now? We still have to rely on her to develop in Chang'an in the future."

Lan Ruoxing thought about this and patiently advised her a few more times before Yang shut up and rested.

Speaking of the second branch, although it was also the legitimate daughter of the Lan family, it was separated from the third branch early after it reached adulthood.

Now, several grandchildren of the second house have taken the imperial examinations, and two have become successful candidates, one of whom is Lan Ruoye mentioned earlier.

At this time, Lan Ruoye and his wife Lan were sitting together and talking with Lan Ruowu and his wife. The four of them were talking about what happened in the bridal chamber today and discussing how to get along with Li Yi and his wife in the future.

"I heard that you followed the eldest sister-in-law to make trouble in the bridal chamber today, and even had a quarrel with Ali's sworn brother Su Langjiang?" Lan Ruoye glanced at his wife beside him, his tone was indifferent and it was impossible to tell whether he was happy or angry.

"No, no, didn't you tell me? We didn't say anything. It was all the eldest sister-in-law and the fifth sister-in-law." Lan waved her hands quickly after hearing this.

They were both daughters of educated families, so how could they possibly quarrel with someone, especially a man?

"By the way, brother, isn't General Su Lang from the same class as you?" Lan Ruowu, who had been silent all this time, suddenly remembered.

His elder brother had told him about this General Su before, saying that his academic performance was okay but his poetry and prose were mediocre. Now he is a general of the fourth rank, while his brother is still just a juren.

He is not saying that there is anything wrong with being a Juren. Some people have been taking exams all their lives and still cannot become a Juren. Even compared with Su Langjiang, the difference is not even a little bit.

"Yes, Su Qinchao and I were brothers from the same school. After we both passed the examination for the scholar degree, he felt that he had no hope in the provincial examination, so he turned to the military examination."

Unexpectedly, in just a few years he was promoted all the way to his current position as the fourth-rank General of the Imperial Guards.

It would be a lie to say that I am not envious. Although the civil service exam is higher than the military exam, the civil service exam is difficult. I have taken the exam twice, but still no one is on the list.

They don’t know how many times they will have to take the exam in the future, but Su Qinchao is already far better than them even if they try their best.

"Now that Su Qinchao is Ali's sworn brother, we must win him over and never offend him like we did to our eldest and fifth sisters-in-law!"

"Yes, especially you two, don't make Ahri angry."

He had already seen that although Ahri was timid, he was also a rebellious person. If he confronted him head-on, it would definitely have the opposite effect. Only by stroking him in the right direction would it be effective.

The four of them chatted more and more excitedly, and Su Qinchao kept shaking his head. This second branch didn't have any bad intentions, at most they just wanted to take advantage of it.

He originally wanted to go and listen to what was happening in the third room, but there were too many people in the third room and the constant noise gave him a headache, so he didn't listen any more and fell asleep while hugging Yunniang who was already asleep beside him.

Early the next morning, when the sky was just getting light, Su Qinchao left a letter for Li Yi, who was still in the land of gentleness, and left with Yunniang and the others.

He had to send them back to the Su residence as soon as possible, as he had to report to the office later.

Su Qinchao did not specifically inquire about what happened to the two of them afterwards.

Later, I heard that Princess Rongfu had a big quarrel with the third branch of the Lan family because of her husband, and she sent someone to send the third branch back to her hometown in Yueyang that day.

For this gossip, he even wrote a letter to the county lady's mansion, but Li Yi just rolled his eyes twice on the reply letter and sent the letter back.

...

By winter, there was finally a response to the things that had been sent to the princess's mansion.

It was a rainy day and the whole street was gray.

At that time, Su Qinchao was boredly reading the court bulletin in his office, studying the cases decided by the Dali Temple, when he saw Lu Yong hurried in and said that Princess Yucheng summoned him.

This time they met in the study of the princess's mansion. When Su Qinchao came in, Princess Yucheng was still looking through the feng shui maps he had sent her last time.

"I have thought about it for a few days and decided to use your previous method, called cultural invasion."

Although Japan has not taken any action yet, she would rather believe what Su Qinchao said and avoid even a one in ten thousand chance of tragedy for future generations.

"What does the princess plan to do?" When Li Yi was delivering things to the princess's mansion before, he was there too, and they discussed many ways.

"Last time you said that many people from Dawu were doing business in Japan. I have asked people to find out and found that merchant ships leave from the coast every two months. If so, we can place our people there." Princess Yucheng thought for a moment and continued:

"Also, we can even send some talented people to find those isolated villages, disguise themselves, and integrate into Japan, and then slowly make plans."

"Yes!" In fact, Su Qinchao was a little shocked when he heard this. Although it was a bit cruel, it was indeed a good way to achieve the goal quickly.

Moreover, the Japanese had done the same thing in their previous lives, replacing entire villages without anyone noticing, and swallowing up Japan step by step.

"In fact, Li Yi's method is not bad, but we can't tell the emperor about this. Without a pretext and enough soldiers, it will be futile."

What Li Yi meant was to find an excuse to attack directly and solve the problem once and for all.