The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

Princess Zhongshun's words are "very" reasonable.

Prince Zhongshun murmured reminiscingly, "Qi Guan is different from Kou Guan who has no conscience after all."

"You know people, you know your face, you don't know your heart. The prince has only sent him to Qingxu Temple for a few days, and he doesn't care about what the prince is doing in the mansion. He even went to drink with King Beijing. According to me, I will arrest him and treat him. one……"

Before Princess Zhongshun finished speaking, the manager outside said again: "My lord, official Qi is here to see you urgently."

"Tell him to come in and talk." Prince Zhongshun said happily, waving his hand casually to make Wang Hao avoid it for the time being.

Concubine Zhongshun secretly thought that she was only one step away from sending that bastard away, but he came back again, I want to hear what he said when he came back.So when I went out, I hid outside the back window and listened to what was said inside.

Not long after, I saw Qi Guan striding in wearing Taoist robes and said with a smile: "My lord, happy event!" As he spoke, there was still the smell of alcohol in his breath.

"What happy event?" Prince Zhongshun asked, seeing Qiguan coming back in such a hurry, he couldn't help feeling relieved, secretly thinking that Qiguan was much more sincere than Kouguan.

Qi Guan came over and whispered: "The little one was with King Beijing yesterday..." When he mentioned King Beijing, he looked at Prince Zhongshun embarrassingly.

"But it's okay to say." Prince Zhongshun said a lot.

"There is also Liu Xianglian, Shi Guangzhu, Jia Baoyu and several others eating wine together, and they are having a lively meal. Because of Zhou and Wu's visiting relatives, Shi Guangzhu talked about how rich his father-in-law Zhen's family was. After driving four times, who knows that Liu Xianglian is now at Lin's house in Lantai Temple, and he has listened to everything the adults in Lantai Temple said. Because Shi Guangzhu talked about Zhen's family, he said that there was a decree from the palace to call Zhen's house. The wife of the family brought the third girl from the Zhen family to the capital to have an audience, and the masters in Lantai Temple said that this is to make the third girl a princess."

"Which concubine?" Prince Zhongshun asked joyfully, this is the time when he was going to use his money, and he became interested when he heard Qiguan talk about the wealthy Zhen family.

Qi Guan said: "Liu Xianglian is not very clear about this, fortunately, the King of Beijing is also there. The King of Beijing said that this happened just when Princess Bei Jing was paying her respects to the Queen Mother in the palace. After a lot of hard work, the fifth prince actually chose a girl from the Fang family to be his concubine. After hearing this, the queen mother asked why. The queen mother said that she thought that the third girl from the Zhen family in Jiangnan was good, and she planned to make the Zhen family in two years. The wife brought the third girl into the palace to pay her respects, and then make a final decision. I don't want the fifth prince to preempt himself, so he said..."

"how?"

Qiguan said: "It's not bad to ask the third girl from the Zhen family to be the eldest prince's side concubine. Who would have thought that Wu Guifei, who also came to pay her respects, would know about this. Talking in a roundabout way, the Queen Mother repeatedly said that such a girl should be reserved for the sixth prince as the concubine. So the Queen Mother issued a decree, ordering the wife of the Zhen family to bring the third girl of the Zhen family to Beijing. The emperor had no other candidates, so he chose the Zhen family for the sixth prince. At the banquet, Shi Guangzhu said that the empress is virtuous, if she didn't regard the sixth prince as her own, she would not have chosen the sixth prince. Such an in-law. I thought, the prince values ​​the Ji family very much, so he came here to announce the good news to him." After speaking, seeing that Prince Zhongshun was not happy, he looked at him in amazement.

Prince Zhongshun frowned, and asked hesitantly, "What does King Beijing say?"

Qiguan hurriedly said: "The king of Beijing Jing also said that this is a very good marriage in front of Shi Guangzhu."

"Okay? If it's really good, why didn't the Empress make plans in private, but publicized it?" Prince Zhongshun heard that it was written by the Empress, so he knew there was a fraud in it.

"The Zhen family has taken over four times. Isn't it good that they are so prominent?" Qiguan asked suspiciously.

Prince Zhongshun tested Jia Lian again and again before he regarded him as a confidant. Seeing that although Qiguan liked to play jokes with King Beijing and other young children, he hadn't forgotten him, so he made him sit opposite and cooked tea with a small teapot himself. Give him a drink, and talk to him carefully: "The Zhen family's pick-up is an old calendar. If it is said to be rich, their family really has some, but I don't know how much it is short of."

Holding the teacup, Qiguan lowered his eyebrows and said, "A skinny camel is bigger than a horse, the Zhen family should have some wealth."

Prince Zhongshun suddenly remembered that those shameless literati in Lantai Temple had jointly impeached the old Prince Yizhong before, so he said to Qiguan: "I don't believe Lin Ruhai. Integrity. Since you are on good terms with Liu Xianglian, then Liu Xianglian will stay in the Lin family like a adopted son, so you can use the excuse to talk to him and go to Lantai Temple to take a look at how the Lin family knows about this marriage. .”

Qiguan nodded hurriedly, then looked at Prince Zhongshun in embarrassment and remained silent.

"What do you have to say?"

Qiguan hurriedly said: "If you do things for the prince like this, the young one will be able to stay in the mansion for a long time just like the other gentlemen raised in the mansion?"

Lord Zhongshun unexpectedly wanted to stay in the mansion, he nodded solemnly and said: "Don't be like Kou Guan who has no conscience, so you can follow this king, marry a wife and have children in two years, and the palace will handle everything for you Down."

Qiguan hurriedly put down the teacup and kowtowed gratefully. After kowtowing, he was about to go to work for Prince Zhongshun immediately.

"Let's sing a section first before going." Prince Zhongshun said reluctantly.

Qiguan agreed, rolled up his sleeves, and began to sing softly while pinching the orchid fingers.

Princess Zhongshun watched through the back window, and couldn't help but grab her fingers into the window screen. Seeing that Prince Zhongshun was pouring tea for Qiguan and sending someone to bring ice sugar pear juice to moisten his throat, she wished to immediately nail Qiguan's slender neck Cut it off, turned back to the room bitterly, saw that his room had followed Prince Zhongshun to tidy up the appearance of a Taoist temple, but he had never let Prince Zhongshun come in, and he finally left Kouguan, that Qiguan If she stays at the house all her life, wouldn't it make her unhappy all her life?After much deliberation, he felt that the only way to drive him out of the mansion was to order Ling Qi to mess up his errands, so he called his trusted woman over and whispered to the woman: "Go to Lantai Temple and tell Mrs. Lin, Her adopted son Liu Xianglian mixed up with Qi Guan, and he also followed Qi Guan's example, doing that inhuman and ghost thing with her son-in-law King Beijing Jing."

After hearing this, the old woman went to Lantai Temple Lin's house to add embellishments to Jia Min just as Princess Zhongshun said.

Jia Min didn't like the fact that Prince Jing of Beijing was joking with actors and actresses, but the old woman added Liu Xianglian into it, so she didn't believe what the old woman said, but she felt that Zhongshun Wang's mansion would not be missed. He sent someone to say this for no reason, so Liu Xianglian came to pay his respects early the next morning, and told Lin Ruhai what Princess Zhongshun had brought.

At this moment, Lin Ruhai and Jia Min were sitting on the chair above, and because it was late autumn, Lin Ruhai was coughing non-stop, so Liu Xianglian didn't sit down, but just handed tea handkerchiefs on Lin Ruhai's seaside.

After Lin Ruhai coughed, she said: "Princess Zhongshun hates Qiguan for seducing Lord Zhongshun, and it's not unreasonable to send a message to us not to allow you to see Qiguan."

Liu Xianglian said: "I am pure and innocent with Prince Beijing, but I asked Zhongshun Prince's Mansion to say that. Qiguan has no choice. If he is a child of a good family, who is willing to serve others as a man?"

Lin Ruhai nodded, "Although it's natural for you young people to get together and mess around, but people's words are scary, you just don't meet that Qi official."

Although Liu Xianglian was reluctant, but he lost his father since he was a child and heard the word "we" in Lin Ruhai's words very kindly, so he quickly agreed.

While talking, it happened that the little girl at the door said, "A young master named Jiang Yuhan came to talk to the second master." Liu Xianglian said, "This Jiang Yuhan is Qiguan." After finishing speaking, just wait and see Lin Ruhai how to say.

Jia Min said with a smile: "Go and see him once, just say," the corner of his mouth turned down slightly, and he had another idea, "Just say, I heard someone from the mansion talking by chance, and learned that Prince Zhongshun sent someone to stop you Joking around again."

Liu Xianglian was afraid of causing trouble to the Lin couple, so she said, "Isn't this offending people?"

Lin Ruhai said with a smile: "It's good to let Prince Zhongshun know that our Lin family is not assigned by them. Although we don't want to offend others, it shouldn't appear that we are afraid of him."

Liu Xianglian secretly thought that what Lin Ruhai said was "neither humble nor overbearing", so she went out of this door and went to the front yamen, and she saw Jiang Yuhan wearing a pink and blue dress, dressed elegantly and standing outside a pavilion looking at the fallen leaves. The cherry tree, the cherry tree lost its leaves, and its branches became more and more slender and weak.

Liu Xianglian went over in shame, and told Jiang Yuhan what Jia Min said.

When Jiang Yuhan heard this, she said with shame and shame: "I have troubled you."

"It's not your fault."

Jiang Yuhan smiled lightly: "Yesterday, the prince gave me the same errand, and the princess came to obstruct it again. Just watch and see what I say when I go back."

Liu Xianglian sighed: "I thought you were at ease, eating and using Zhongshun Wangfu, and talking and laughing with King Beijing. I didn't expect you to be in such a situation."

"You don't have to worry about me. When I get away, I'm more comfortable than Kou Guan." Jiang Yuhan said softly again: "Yesterday, you reminded me to go back to the palace and tell the prince, lest the prince suspect me. Today, the prince sent me away. I'm here to tentatively ask how the Zhen family will be in the future - he is afraid that the masters of Lantai Temple will deal with the Zhen family like they did with the old Prince Yizhong."

Liu Xianglian lowered her head, pondered for a while, and then said to Jiang Yuhan: "I used to look down on opera singers very much, first I met Kou Guan, and saw that he was daring, and then I met you. Although you are in the bustling bushes, And I have longed for mountains and rivers, so I changed my previous temperament. Let me tell you the truth now, Lian Erye said that Zhou, Wu, and Zhen are all grasshoppers after autumn, and they will not be able to jump for a few days .” As he spoke, he looked around and saw that the weather was cold and no one else was around, so he was relieved.

"Second Master Lian actually said that?"

"...You can change this to what the masters in Lantai Temple are talking about behind their backs and tell Prince Zhongshun." Liu Xianglian thought about it.

Jiang Yuhan hurriedly asked: "Second Master Lian, can you pass this on to Prince Zhongshun?"

Liu Xianglian said with a smile: "Second Master Lian found out from Second Master Bao that after I had a drink with you, he quietly sent a letter."

Jiang Yuhan nodded knowingly, and said in a daze, "That's all for the Zhen family. I never expected that the Zhou and Wu families were eager to build a garden and wait for the imperial concubine to visit her relatives, but life and death have long been in the hands of others."

"The garden can't be lost, there are still a few princes waiting for the king to leave the palace."

Jiang Yuhan said with a smile: "It's none of my business, I just wait for the day when Second Lord Lian can rescue me from the Palace of Zhongshun like he saved Kou Guan." As he spoke, he kissed Liu Xianglian He clasped his hands, and went out slowly, out of Lantai Temple, then slowly returned to Zhongshun Prince's Mansion as if he was riding a horse watching flowers, rubbing his eyes with his hands from time to time on the way.

When he arrived at Prince Zhongshun's mansion, he went straight to speak to the small retreat where Prince Zhongshun lived.

Standing in this small room, Jiang Yuhan suspected that there was a secret channel mechanism in this room, otherwise he really didn't understand what the prince Zhongshun was doing in this small room.

"Come back from Lantai Temple?" Prince Zhongshun closed his eyes first, then opened them, and seeing Jiang Yuhan's eyes were red and swollen, and bloodshot, he asked again: "I just went to the Lin family, why is it like this?"

"Don't ask me, my lord." Jiang Yuhan lowered her head, and said again, "Your lord's expectation is not bad. The empress is really uneasy and kind. The gentlemen in Lantai Temple whispered behind their backs and asked Liu Xianglian to listen. Liu Xianglian said, don't ask me." Look at the Zhou and Wu families who are eagerly waiting for the noble concubine to visit her relatives, let alone the fact that the Zhen family has taken over the royal family four times, all of them are grasshoppers after autumn."

"So are Zhou and Wu?" Prince Zhongshun was taken aback.

Jiang Yuhan hurriedly said, "Isn't it?"

"What's the matter with your eyes?" Prince Zhongshun also knows how to control people. Seeing that Jiang Yuhan lived up to his mission, he asked him why he was wronged.

Jiang Yuhan was questioned again and again, and then he said aggrievedly: "In the future, I can't go to Lantai Temple to inquire about the news for the prince. Liu Xianglian said that when he came home yesterday, he heard a lot of discussions from the family, saying that our palace somehow sent someone When I came to the Lin family, I only said that I had brought Liu Xianglian to the ground, and asked Liu Xianglian to be like me, in front of the King of Beijing..." With his legs bent, he knelt down and said: "My lord Mingjian, although Qiguan..."

"That's all, I know you have been wronged." Prince Zhongshun hurriedly comforted Jiang Yuhan, and after he got up, he said, "The princess is confused for a while, so there is no need to have the same vision as her", and ordered Jiang Yuhan to rest.

After Jiang Yuhan went out, Prince Zhongshun was angry at the opinion of Princess Zhongshun and his wife, and ruined his big business, so he called the chief of the palace, Shi Lai, and told him: "Tell the princess to stay at home and worship the Buddha. If I know that she is causing trouble for nothing, don't blame me. Wang Bunian has been separated for many years." After ordering Wangfu Chief Shi to spread the word, he thought about what the emperor would do?It was also the idea of ​​asking Xu Shining to take over the House of Internal Affairs, and the idea of ​​copying the Zhou, Wu, and Zhen families.

For a moment he couldn't figure it out, so he made an excuse to go to Qingxu Temple to practice, and asked someone to prepare a sedan chair, and in the north wind howling, he sat in the sedan chair and went to Qingxu Temple.

However, after eating a vegetarian meal at Qingxu Temple, he went out of the mountain gate and went to the outskirts. He took a look at the Wu Family's Provincial Courtyard from a distance, and saw that through the courtyard wall, he could already see the ferocious roof of the pavilion inside. The animal head stroked its beard and pondered.

From a distance, a few people came out from the Wu family's yard, and then they saw Wu Tianyou, the master of the Wu family, galloping over.

"My lord, do you have the pleasure to go and give advice to our relatives? The pavilions and pavilions inside have been repaired. We just wait for the vegetation to grow more lush next year, and the next year's Lantern Festival, we can invite your mother out of the palace to visit relatives." No pride.

Prince Zhongshun fell silent.

Wu Tianyou waited tremblingly for him to speak.

"... How much did it cost to build this garden?" Prince Zhongshun asked.

Wu Tianyou said with a smile: "My lord, Long En, allowed the empress to go out of the palace to have a family reunion. It is reasonable for the Wu family to spend all they have on building a garden."

Prince Zhongshun sneered, and suddenly thought that the grasshoppers on the left and right were the grasshoppers after the autumn. If they didn't move the Wu family, the Wu family's legs would be messed up everywhere. He might as well pick up a few legs and go back, so he said: "I don't think anyone in the capital would dare to offend you. On the treasury side, it is up to you to withdraw the money.”

Although Wu Tianyou tried his best to conceal it, he couldn't hide his complacency and said: "They heard that it was to build a garden, and they dared not give money for fear of delaying the process."

"My king's money is a bit out of hand. You go and withdraw 20 yuan, and it will be delivered to my mansion tomorrow, and it will be returned in full after a year."

"My lord's words are outrageous." Wu Tianyou said with a smile, wondering why the royal family still lack money?What's more, it is taking money from the treasury as a favor, so why not do it?

Prince Zhongshun said with a smile: "I didn't mention it until I met with you. Concubine Wu Gui is so young, it would be great if she spread the good news. The Ji family... hey!"

Wu Tianyou was elated, secretly thinking that Concubine Wu Guifei has the backing of the loyal prince, that is, the support of the Supreme Emperor, so that in the harem, she is considered to be below one person and above ten thousand people, so she hurriedly whispered: "Don't dare to say that, the wind direction in the palace It's very strange, the master played four or five rounds of chess with Miss Xue's family, but he wasn't as straightforward as he was with Fu Cairen, procrastinating, so far nothing has been done."

"How can Fu Cairen talk to Miss Xue on the same day? It is said that the position of concubine is full, and the Lord does not want to let Miss Xue be inferior to others, so he treats her with courtesy and restraint." Prince Zhongshun said, seeing the red sun in the sky He rode his horse back to the city, and when he entered the city gate, he went around in circles to the outside of Zhou's house. Seeing the majesty of the Zhou family's relatives' courtyard and not allowing the Wu family to let him go, he repeated his old trick and asked Zhou's family for money. 20 taels of silver.

After returning to the mansion, Prince Zhongshun thought of the Zhen family, thinking that Jiang Yuhan had offended the princess, and was afraid that the princess would think of another way to punish him, so it is better to send him out of the capital for the time being.Thinking about it, someone called Jiang Yuhan and said to him: "This king wrote a letter to the Zhen family in Jiangnan, and you can deliver it for me."

"My lord wants to tell the Zhen family the truth?" Jiang Yuhan said in surprise.

Prince Zhongshun smiled and said: "He is not the direct descendant of this king, so why should this king be troublesome? But what about bragging about his girl, how you promise to help his girl, how to help the sixth prince, you just go to Jiangnan General Zhen's family Just bring it back."

Jiang Yuhan hastily agreed, packed up her luggage a little bit, and followed Prince Zhongshun's mansion to Jiangnan with a letter from Prince Zhongshun.

However, after Princess Zhongshun was reprimanded by Prince Zhongshun because of Jiang Yuhan, she suddenly felt ashamed, and when she heard that Jiang Yuhan was out of Beijing, she secretly made up her mind to put Jiang Yuhan to death on the way to Jiangnan.

It was only when she said this thought that the old mother who had served her all her life persuaded her, "Wangfei has been with the prince for decades, why should she get angry over a little actor? Besides, the prince didn't take that little actor seriously. If If the matter of the prince is ruined, how can I make it happen?"

Princess Zhongshun heard this, and said: "He is a little actor, how can the lord give him important matters? Without him, the lord will send other people. Besides, because of a little actor, I was punished by the lord." Rebuke, if you don’t get rid of him, how can I convince the public in the future?” So determined to put Jiang Yuhan to death, he called a godson from the Zhongshun Palace over, and quietly told the godson to set up an ambush on the road to Jiangnan and completely eradicate Jiang Yuhan. Seriously.

In order to please the godmother, the godson immediately agreed, so he got seven or eight people to drive out of the city on horseback and set up an ambush.

No, when he left the city, he was spotted by Liu Xianglian in the restaurant.

Seeing the murderer of his wife leading his servants out of the city aggressively, Liu Xianglian thought, there were so many of them that day, and he couldn't do anything to them. Now that guy only brought seven or eight people out of the city. , may not be able to eradicate that fellow.So he got out of the restaurant, rode a horse with a sword, and quietly followed behind the Gan'er.After following for three days in a row, before he found the opportunity to attack, he saw that the godson was leading someone to ambush Jiang Yuhan.

So on the fourth day, in a desolate wilderness, Liu Xianglian saw Jiang Yuhan in crisis, so she showed her figure.

He is good at kung fu, even though he doesn't have a pair of mandarin ducks and swords, he can easily deal with those seven or eight people, besides, he has old grudges, and his subordinates are merciless. and flee.

Jiang Yuhan's lips turned purple with fright, and when she saw the thief ran away, she hid behind Liu Xianglian and asked, "Who is here?"

Because Liu Xianglian was the righteous son of Prince Zhongshun who chased and killed Jiang Yuhan, she guessed that either Prince Zhongshun or Princess Zhongshun wanted to get rid of Jiang Yuhan and soon, in front of several servants of Prince Zhongshun, she gently squeezed Jiang Yuhan. Eyes, write the word "loyalty" in Liu Xianglian's palm.

Jiang Yuhan understood, and immediately thought that Prince Zhongshun wanted to deal with him, so why bother to make such detours, so that it was Princess Zhongshun's hands.Knowing that Jia Lian was going to make Prince Zhongshun mistakenly believe that the superiors were dealing with him, he immediately shouted: "No, someone is preventing our Prince Zhongshun from sending news outside." Go to the south of the Yangtze River, and immediately lead several other people to turn their horses and go back to the capital.

All the way fast, when they returned to Prince Zhongshun's mansion, Jiang Yuhan described it as being very embarrassed. After staying in Prince Zhongshun's small house, he used all the skills he had practiced in the boyhood in his early years, and said tremblingly: "My lord, it's not good, someone Stop the prince from sending letters outside the capital!"

Jiang Yuhan is gentle and docile by nature, and she is a beauty that I still feel pity for when she plays a role.Now trembling, even more cowardly.

Prince Zhongshun sat on the Kang and meditated. He saw that there were traces of knives and axes on his clothes, and there were some blood spots. He asked the other servants who followed Jiang Yuhan out of the city. Hearing that it was true, cold sweat broke out on his back.