The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

The cars in front of Xue's house were like running water and the horses were like dragons, and the street was full of people.

Sitting in the sedan chair, Jia Lian saw many famous people whom he had seen in the Zhou and Wu families, with their hands resting on the window, when he saw a sedan chair in front of him stop, so he followed the sedan chair and went to that walk over.

"Shilang Yang." Jia Lian cupped his hands.

Yang Shilang looked back and saw that it was Jia Lian, he was taken aback for a moment, and then said with a smile: "You are not in good health, so you won't come."

"Why don't you come? That's the relationship between the two families." Jia Lian took Yang Shilang's hand inward and said softly: "Now that I have entered the household department, I hope Master Yang will support you a lot. You and I are of the same mind. Let's work together and serve the prince."

Hearing the word wangye, Yang Shilang's eyelids twitched again and again, and he nodded with a smirk, wondering where did the news of zhongshun wangye come from, and he actually threatened him with the matter of the former king of Dong'an.

The two were walking in harmony, when suddenly they saw Xing Dequan come over and grab Jia Lian's sleeve with a look of regret on his face, "Brother Lian, you are really deceiving me too much!"

Jia Lian asked in surprise, "What's the matter?"

Xing Dequan sneered and said: "Their mother is overjoyed. Because we are in-laws, we rushed to express our congratulations. Who would have thought that their family would be negligent. They even took 2 taels of silver, saying that they were going to marry Xue Erye with us. The marriage is retired. Isn't it unreasonable for this matter?"

Yang Shilang coughed, bowed his hands to Jia Lian, and followed the servants of the Xue family to go inward.

"What did Xue Tada say?" Jia Lian asked.

Xing Dequan sneered and said: "Uncle Pan has a home and won't return, what can Second Master Tiao do? Second Mrs. Xue is not in good health, and all matters are decided by Grandma Xue. Grandma Xue is now beautiful, and she said that she will celebrate The daughter of the Duke’s family is married back, and she still let go, telling me to sue the officials if I have the courage. Isn’t this bullying?”

Seeing that there are many people here, Jia Lian gave Xing Dequan a hand and said, "Don't hit the stone with an egg. You follow me to find Xue Biao."

Seeing that Jia Lian was willing to make the decision, Xing Dequan held back his breath, and immediately followed Jia Lian through the side door of Xue's house, walked along the path, and when he saw Caiming, he asked Caiming to lead the way to find Xue Biao.

Xue Biao was talking to Mei Hanlin at the moment, when he saw Jia Lian leading an angry Xing Dequan, he hurried over to say hello.

"Is your family going to retire?" Jia Lian asked Xue Biao, leading him to a remote place.

Xue Biao was taken aback for a moment, and hurriedly said, "How could such a thing happen?"

"Why not? Your family was not very good before, and your good sister-in-law didn't value your marriage very much. Now that your family is prosperous, we can't afford it, so we are going to retire." Xing Dequan sneered.

Xue Biao didn't understand and asked inwardly: "Is the sister-in-law the master?"

"Not her, who else?" Xing Dequan sneered again.

Xue Biao blushed and said, "Uncle, wait for me to ask you clearly." As he spoke, he saw that the remote place was too humid and unfavorable to Jia Lian's body, so he asked someone to lead Jia Lian to sit in a bright place, and immediately Go up to the back hall of the house, and see that only Ping'er is entertaining the female relatives in the back hall, so I look for it in the garden at the back, and I look all the way there, and I see Wang Xifeng talking to the king of Nan'an County, so I hide to the side, After Nan'an County King left, he immediately showed his figure, blocked Wang Xifeng on the road, and asked her: "Sister-in-law has no reason, why do you want me to divorce Miss Xing again?"

Wang Xifeng was startled at first, then smiled lightly and said, "I don't know what's the matter. You said that it's Qi Dafei. Miss Xing also nodded her head when it came to retiring."

"She is a girl, why is she willing to nod and withdraw? It must be the sister-in-law who forced her with words."

Wang Xifeng spat: "What kind of nonsense are you talking about! I saw that Yanyan liked it very much, but someone said that it is difficult to make a good couple if the family is not right. I promised her a dowry of [-] yuan, and she thanked her happily."

Xue Biao blushed and said, "Sister-in-law must be teasing me."

"What are you trying to coax you for? If you want to marry Miss Xing, you can bring the noble concubine back from the palace if you have the ability. Now that Xing De is making a fuss, he just wants to extort a few more taels of money." Wang Xifeng sneered, and heard Qian Xiangguo's envoys who stayed in the capital also came to congratulate him, and they hurried forward to deal with it, ignoring Xue Biao.

Xue Biao was not angry with Wang Xifeng's actions, so he went to Aunt Xue and Mrs. Xue to make decisions. Who knew that when he walked outside Aunt Xue's yard, he saw many women in gold and silver to greet Aunt Xue. Go to Xue Baoqin's room again.

Xue Baoqin saw her brother come in with her head down, and said with a smile, "What's the matter with you?" Then she asked Xue Biao to sit down by the chessboard.

Xue Biao said with a sad face: "Sister-in-law actually divorced me for me."

Xue Baoqin was taken aback, bowed her head and said: "I heard before that my sister-in-law's people disliked the Mei family, because the Mei family still has some reputation in the capital, so that's the only way. The Xing family doesn't even have a serious master, so it's no wonder that my sister-in-law has the courage .”

"Could it be left to her?" Xue Biao said with a sneer.

Xue Baoqin lowered her head and said: "Otherwise, you can invite Brother Pan to come home to be the master. When you marry Sister Xing, you can lead her back to Jinling. The concubine was conferred the year before, and the concubine is conferred this year. With this momentum, It’s frightening to look at.”

Xue Biao nodded, and asked again: "Are you going back to Jinling with us?"

Xue Baoqin shook her head, "I can't go back."

Xue Biao knew that Xue Baoqin was in trouble, so he didn't force her, and went out from this side again. Seeing that there were people coming and going in the front yard, he went out through the back door, and rode a horse to look for Xue Pan in the Jingying school grounds.

Seeing Xue Pan who was waving a big knife and was sunburned black, Xue Biao immediately burst into tears, knelt down and hugged Xue Pan's leg, and cried: "Big brother, please go home and rectify the family style, otherwise this family will be really serious." I don't know what's going to happen."

"Why are you crying?" Xue Pan frowned and pulled Xue Biao up.

Xue Biao wiped away his tears, and told him about Wang Xifeng's plan to withdraw his marriage. Xue Pan immediately said angrily: "Let her go? Tell me what I said, and immediately hired a matchmaker. Three matchmakers and six hired generals Xing Marry the girl back."

"Brother is willing to call the shots? I beg you to go home, otherwise my sister-in-law is like a tiger, who dares to say no to her?" Xue Biao begged again.

Xue Pan couldn't help him begging again and again, then took off his coat, wiped the sweat off his face, and followed Xue Biao to go home.

Seeing that Xue Pan returned home, he was blocked by a group of people, his ears were filled with compliments from everyone, and he finally squeezed out, so he followed Xue Bian to the hall to meet Jia Lian and Xing Dequan.

Xue Pan first apologized to Xing Dequan, then asked Caiming to invite Wang Xifeng to come, and when Wang Xifeng got the money, he asked her with a stern face, "Why do you want to withdraw?"

Wang Xifeng glanced at Xue Biao, thinking about this worthless thing, and said with a smile: "The twisted melon is not sweet, Miss Xing is not happy, and I can't help it?"

"Would she be happy if you didn't bully others with the prestige of Uncle Guo's family?" Xing Dequan said with a sneer.

"One price, 5 taels." Wang Xifeng sat down on the chair carelessly, and stretched out five fingers to Xing Dequan.

Xing Dequan choked.

Xue Pan said impatiently: "Why not fifty thousand? Tomorrow I will ask a matchmaker to go to Xing's house and marry him back early."

"We're married, we'll go back to Jinling right away, and don't bother our elder brother and sister-in-law." Xue Biao said hurriedly.

Wang Xifeng stared at Xue Pan, his eyes turned red, and said, "What did Duke Qing say?"

"... Whatever you say." Xue Pan said angrily.

Wang Xifeng couldn't help gnashing her teeth, and said with a sneer: "You are called an uncle for nothing, and you don't even want to give a little effort? Thanks to my busy work for your Xue family."

"Who told you to be busy?" Xue Pan said tit for tat.

Wang Xifeng took a deep breath, and said with a smile: "Okay, you can marry if you like, my lady, I won't cover it for you." She stood up leisurely, glanced at Xue Biao again, and went straight out.

"Hey!" Xue Pan couldn't help but slapped his head, and when he saw the second brother coming outside the door, he called him, but the second brother didn't know who Xue Pan was, so he chased Wang Xifeng and went.

"Okay, marry whoever you should, and I'll go to the Feng family." Xue Pan said dejectedly.

Xing Dequan said with a smile: "It's still the uncle's words that carry weight."

Xue Pan smiled impatiently.

Jia Lian narrowed his eyes slightly, patted Xing Dequan on the shoulder and went out, while walking, remembering the people he met, went out and got into the sedan chair, sent Xing Dequan to go first, and then went to Zhongshun Palace.

When they arrived at Prince Zhongshun's mansion, it was already dark.I saw pitch-black everywhere, only a few sparks at the important door.

This time, Prince Zhongshun did not shrink back in the small room, but stood in the yard with his hands behind his back, looking at the moon on August [-]th.

"My lord?" Jia Lian called out.

Prince Zhongshun nodded, "Is Yang Shilang helping you in the household department?"

"Thanks to the prince, Yang Shilang took good care of his subjects."

"That's good." Prince Zhongshun sighed, and asked again, "When you came in, did you notice someone staring at Prince Zhongshun's mansion in the dark?"

Jia Lian asked blankly, "What does the prince mean by this?"

Prince Zhongshun put his hands behind his back and said with a sigh: "You were sick a few days ago, and there are some things you don't understand." After a short pause, he said again: "You have entered the Shanxi Qingli Department, what do you think of Shanxi's customs and customs?"

Jia Lian said with a smile: "I have never been to Shanxi, I just look at a few pieces of paper, and I really can't see any customs."

"Go back, take good care of yourself. If you hadn't been sick a few days ago, maybe there would be nothing like that." Seeing that Jia Lian didn't understand, Lord Zhongshun waved his hand and urged him to leave.When Jia Lian left, he raised his head and looked at the moon again.

"What is the prince going to do now?" the chief historian of Prince Zhongshun asked.

Prince Zhongshun closed his eyes, thinking that if the Supreme Emperor and the emperor and his son are of one mind, wouldn't it be the time of his death? "Did you find out clearly? In the Palace of the Sun, nothing happened, so the emperor let the Supreme Emperor go to Mount Wutai?"

"Yes, it's true that nothing happened. It is said that Concubine Xiande brought the girl in first."

"Could it be that the Supreme Emperor really led the snake out of the hole?" Prince Zhongshun had a gloomy face, remembering that day that the Supreme Emperor had sent Chang Sheng to force the palace, urging him to send people out of the palace. Don't dare to make big moves.

"I'm afraid it is. After that day, there will be more people staring at our house." The chief historian said.

When Prince Zhongshun thought of Duke Shan and Duke Xiu, he couldn't help but feel a little cold, and thought to himself that he was in the hands of the Supreme Emperor, and that old thing must not let go of the grind and kill the donkey. Thinking about it, he beckoned the Chief Historian to come forward. He softly ordered: "Ask someone to send the Supreme Emperor to Mount Wutai."

"This..." The Chief Historian couldn't help hesitating.

Prince Zhongshun sneered and said: "Are you going to sit and wait for death, waiting for the emperor to collude with the emperor to destroy our family? After the matter of Wutai Mountain is over, we will send a letter to the south immediately, and we must ask the emperor to send troops to the south again—— Xue's family returned Want to hit the ground running? Dream!"

Hearing the words, the Chief Historian quickly agreed, knowing that the Zhongshun Prince's Mansion at this time was like being baked on charcoal fire, so he didn't dare to delay. He sent people to send letters to Shanxi, and sent people to Guangdong at the same time.

However, after Jia Lian left the Zhongshun Palace, he immediately returned to the Rongguo Mansion, and when he got home, he told Xu Qingheng that Xing Yanyan and Xue Biao might marry in a hurry.

Knowing what he meant, Xu Qingheng hurriedly took Yingchun and Jincai's family and sent someone to the Xing family to discuss the marriage between Xing and Xue. To perfunctory wedding.

At this time, Xue's family was cooking oil like fire, Xu Qingheng was not willing to argue with Wang Xifeng, so after persuading Xing Dequan a few words, he helped Xing's family to arrange their marriage.

In October, seeing that Xue Biao was going to take Xing Yanyan back to Jinling, Xu Qingheng asked Jia Yun and Jia Qiang to give him a gift.

In the twelfth lunar month, when Jia Lian personally led Zhao Tianliang and Zhao Tiandong to send gifts to Prince Zhongshun's mansion, he was invited by Prince Zhongshun to speak in the study.

Jia Lian hadn't seen Prince Zhongshun appear in such a spacious room for a long time, thinking that Prince Zhongshun probably knew something, so he respectfully paid his respects.

"Do you understand the officials in Shanxi?" Prince Zhongshun was sitting on a chair, although he was wearing Taoist robes, he still showed his arrogance.

Jia Lian stood in front of his desk and said with a smile, "It's a little clearer."

"Try to dispatch these people secretly." Prince Zhongshun pushed a decree towards Jia Lian with a light push of his big thumb.

Jia Lian took the announcement and glanced at it, frowned and said, "My lord, I'm afraid this move is a bit too ostentatious, in case someone sees it..."

Prince Zhongshun Langsheng said with a smile: "Don't worry, no one may take care of us."

Hearing his words, Jia Lian still had overtones, so he agreed, put the paper in his arms, and led Zhao Tianliang and Zhao Tiandong home, stayed in Xu Qingheng's room, laid her on the bed and gently Patting Brother Yuan, he said with a smile: "If you dominate the child all day long, I'm not afraid that Yingchun will scold you."

Xu Qingheng said with a smile: "She can't wait, her husband stays at home when he has nothing to do, unlike ours."

Jia Lian snorted and saw a pile of silks and satins from Qianxiang Kingdom piled up in the room, so she knew that Wang Xifeng had sent them, and said with a smile: "For the first time, a virtuous and noble concubine will be the acting queen, and the Xue family will make great efforts. .”

"That's not true." Xu Qingheng sat up holding Brother Yuan and asked, "Do you think Brother Yuan looks like me?"

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"Why is it like that?"

"My nephew looks like an uncle, and we have husband and wife looks, why don't we look like you?" Jia Lian said perfunctorily, seeing Brother Yuan humming like a kitten, he said, "Clap it, don't tell him to scream again." gone."

"He's pulling it." Xu Qingheng said, and went to untie the quilt, Jia Lian hurriedly turned and went out, and when he reached the door, he wondered why Xu Qingheng was so fond of looking for trouble when nothing happened.Then he thought that Brother Yuan was a boy, and he looked like Yingchun, and he was afraid that he would not be as good as his father in appearance in the future.

Just as I was thinking about it, a mourner suddenly came to say: "Master Jia, the Supreme Emperor was assassinated and died in Wutai Mountain, Shanxi. The emperor ordered King Jianjun, King Baojun, and King Beijing to go to meet him, and Liu Admiral to guard him; Master Jia and Master Xu are going to Shanxi to thoroughly investigate this matter."

Jia Lian suddenly remembered the words of Prince Zhongshun, saw that Liu Xianglian had also come out neatly dressed, hurriedly went to the palace with Liu Xianglian, saw Xu Yuheng in the cabinet, and exchanged whispers with Xu Yuheng.

In a moment, King Beijing, King Baojun, and King Jianjun walked out quickly.

The few people didn't talk much, and they were about to set off for Mount Wutai when it snowed again, and Jia Lian covered his mouth and coughed violently.

"If you're like this, you can't go." Xu Yuheng frowned.

King Beijing thought for a while, and immediately went to Daming Palace again. When he came back, he said to Jia Lian, "The Lord ordered you to stay and ask Yang Shilang to accompany you."

Jia Lian said ashamedly: "I'm not strong enough to go with you, please don't blame me." So he watched them go out, and saw the snow falling harder and harder, wondering when the snow would stop. So go out.

As he was walking out, he saw Xu Shining wrapped in a bell and leading Yuan Jingfeng and others hurried over.

"Where is father-in-law going?"

Xu Shining frowned and said, "I'm going to investigate the mausoleum of the Supreme Emperor. Although the mausoleum of the Supreme Emperor has long been closed, I can feel at ease if I take a closer look." So he didn't care about Jia Lian, so he led Yuan Jingfeng outside in a hurry.

Jia Lian stopped to take a look, covered his mouth with a handkerchief, and walked out of the palace again.

Unexpectedly, after walking a few steps, the road was blocked by someone, and when he looked up, he saw the sixth prince.

The sixth prince said with a smile but not a smile: "The Supreme Emperor is gone, and I can't marry again."

Jia Lian smiled and said, "I've seen the sixth prince." He bowed, seeing that the sixth prince didn't want him to flatten, so he stood up by himself.

The sixth prince took a breath, put his hands on Jia Lian's shoulders, and said, "I'll take you out."

"Don't dare." Jia Lian declined with a smile.

The sixth prince whispered: "Why not dare? Just now I saw Xiao Lizi coming this way, I am afraid he is looking for you, father must have something to tell you."

Jia Lian was startled for a moment, then said with a smile, "I don't know what the sixth prince means?"

"What do you mean?" The sixth prince smiled secretly, and pushed Jia Lian out again, "It's just a little show of intimacy." So he half-supported and half-pushed, and "escorted" Jia Lian to the outside. Squeeze into a sedan chair with Jia Lian.

Wrapped in a silver fox cloak, Jia Lian leaned on one corner, quietly looking at the sixth prince.

The sixth prince squinted his eyes, and when the sedan chair walked out of the way, he said: "I have seen it all, although the loyal and obedient prince did not suspect you, but I saw all the expressions on the father's face that day."

"What do you want, Your Excellency?" Jia Lian smiled.

The sixth prince said with a smile: "It's not like that. It's just that since I know you are a close friend of the father, how can there be no reason not to get close to you? I can't compare with the ninth prince. Every day, someone wins a battle to meet the occasion. All kinds of things have to be done." Plan it yourself."

Jia Lian smiled.

Suddenly Zhao Tianliang said outside the sedan chair: "The master is making trouble in the Lixiangyuan. Do you want the second master to go and have a look?"

"Go and see." Jia Lian said.

Zhao Tianliang agreed, and asked someone to carry the sedan chair into Rongguo Mansion from the back street.

When Jia Lian entered the Pear Fragrance Court, he heard the voice of Bilianhu pretending to be a tiger. Listen carefully, only to hear Jia Amnesty say, "Our young master of Rongguo Mansion can ask you to discipline him so severely?" Outside the room, Ge Kui came out and said, "Second Master Lian, I'm going to resign. Although I can't be counted among the best in the world, I have never seen such a naughty student in my life."

Jia Lian turned his head and saw that Jia Cong was hiding behind Jia She with blank eyes, repeatedly apologizing to Ge Kui. Seeing that Ge Kui insisted on resigning, he said, "So, I don't dare to ask Mr. Ge to teach anymore. I just ask Mr. Ge to leave. Rongguo Mansion, give advice to Jia Lian on business matters every day."

Ge Kui cupped his hands, went into the room, took the book, and walked straight to the front yard.

"Second brother, he's the one who made trouble out of no reason. He still asks people to hang their wrists and write words in the cold weather." Jia Cong mumbled while hiding behind Jia She.

Jia Amnesty also said with a cold face: "When you look at that surnamed Ge, you have bad intentions."

"If you don't write, don't write. Let's have fun." Jia Lian was lazy and entangled with Jia Amnesty.

Unexpectedly, when Bi Lian heard Jia Lian's words, she appeared immediately, grabbed Jia Cong's arm, pinched him fiercely, and cursed: "Spineless thing, you will drive me away. Come back and write!" "

"Didn't you just say not to write?" Jia Cong was confused by Bilian's repeated attitude.

Jia Amnesty just defended his shortcomings, but at this time he was afraid that Jia Lian would teach Jia Cong badly, so he said angrily, "Go and write, and the foot stove is not allowed to burn! The children of poor families are still reading by the light of the snow." As he spoke, he went again. Push Jia Cong.

Jia Lian glanced at the poor Jia Cong, and suddenly saw that the sixth prince was gone, so he went to look for it in the garden, walked a few steps, was dizzy by the wind, and laughed in his heart: now he is more important than Lin Daiyu. Delicate two points.So he first asked someone to hold an umbrella to cover the wind and snow, and took shelter in a pavilion.

After waiting for a cup of tea, seeing that the snow was much lighter, Jia Lian wrapped her cloak again and went out to look for the sixth prince. Seeing that the woman in the garden had never seen where the sixth prince was going to hide from the snow, she followed the path Going to the gate of the main garden, I suddenly saw the sixth prince standing under two withered crabapple trees, and walked towards him slowly, seeing that he was looking at one place, so I took my hand and patted him on the shoulder lightly .

As if awakened from a dream, the sixth prince stretched out his hand and pointed forward, "Who is that?" As he asked, his eyes turned to the red plum forest in front of him again.

Jia Lian raised his head and looked into the red plum tree, and saw Miaoyu wearing a Miaochang bun, wearing a moon-white dress and jacket with a long vest trimmed with paddy field green satin, standing under the red plum tree holding a white porcelain urn, the sky was covered with snow. She became more and more muscular.

Seeing this scene, Jia Lian thought to herself that Miao Yuruo, wearing a red dress and leading a few ferocious dogs, would be suitable for the occasion.

"Is she your sister who is said to be the most beautiful woman?" The sixth prince said regretfully, his eyes still reluctant to leave.

Jia Lian thought she was your aunt, and said with a smile: "No, she is a monk who borrowed from my house to lead her cultivation."

"A monk?" The sixth prince glanced at the maid who was serving by the plum blossom tree, but he didn't believe Jia Lian's words. Seeing that it wasn't Yingchun, he walked quickly into the red plum forest and saw the woman Xian Xianyu holding a jade handle to hold the plum blossoms. The white snow on the ground swept towards the urn, so he walked over and lowered the branches, and said, "I will help you."

Miaoyu suddenly saw a stranger coming, swept her brows away, and led the maidservant away without saying a word.

"Why doesn't she want this snowflake?" the sixth prince asked Jia Lian anxiously.

Jia Lian said with a smile: "A person who is too tall will be more jealous, and a clean world will be the same."

"It's the same as living in a clean world?" The sixth prince only repeated this sentence once, and sighed that such a peerless beauty, growing old under the Qingdeng Ancient Palace, would be too disappointing to the heaven's gift.

"That's right, she just disliked the sixth prince for dirtying Baixue. She was going to the Panxiang Temple in the Xuan Tomb to collect plum blossom water. We told her that it would not be cheap for her to go as a woman in the cold, so she gave up. The sixth prince doesn't have to talk to her." According to general knowledge, the Supreme Emperor has passed away, so it is not good to invite the sixth prince to stay and have a drink, the sixth prince should return to the palace quickly and comfort the emperor."

The sixth prince nodded absent-mindedly, then muttered, "People who are too tall are more jealous, and living in a clean world is the same", and followed Jia Lian to go out.

Jia Lian sent the sixth prince to the sedan chair all the time, and then he wanted to go back to the back upstairs a little weakly, but standing outside the gate, he saw Hu Jingzhi walking anxiously.

"Second brother Lian promised to call me the title of the gold list, but now the Supreme Emperor is gone..."

"Don't worry, the lord is in the midst of employing people. The palace examination in spring next year will be postponed until autumn at most." Jia Lian said, seeing Hu Jingzhi let out a soft breath, he turned and went back to Da Kua Yuan, entered the Kua Yuan, and saw Xu Qingheng general Yuan Yuan. After my brother returned home, he was bored sitting in the room doing needlework, so he sat down beside her and said, "I'm afraid the sixth prince has taken a fancy to Miaoyu."

Xu Qingheng was stunned, and hurriedly said: "What's the matter? How about sending Miaoyu away?"

"Where to send it? If she is sent out, she has no one to rely on, and the sixth prince succeeds, what should I do?" Jia Lian said.

Xu Qingheng sighed: "The Supreme Emperor is gone, and a mess will be left behind." After muttering a few words, seeing Jia Lian's complexion, he said: "Eat some porridge to warm your stomach, the Supreme Emperor has an accident in Shanxi, after a while Nian, I have you busy." As he spoke, he asked someone to cook soft and glutinous porridge.

Jia Lian felt a little dizzy after eating porridge, so he went back upstairs early and fell asleep.On the second day, I really had a fever, and I was ill for eleven or twelve days, and I barely cheered up on the New Year's Eve, because the Taishang Emperor was gone, and I couldn't have a lively New Year, so I had to be frugal.On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, it was said early in the morning that King Jing, King Jianjun, and King Baojun escorted the Supreme Emperor to Beijing, so he put on official robes and went to the palace. According to the grade, follow the emperor to greet the Supreme Emperor outside the city.

Jia Lian stood in the queue, looking out from a distance, and suddenly saw a mountain of silver rushing towards the imperial city, and knelt down with the people around him, seeing the emperor walk up to the coffin of the Supreme Emperor, caressing the coffin and weeping bitterly, and wept with him. The other ministers and workers said together, "May the Lord mourn", and respectfully invited the Queen Mother and the Emperor to return to the palace.

Turning back to the palace again from outside the city, seeing the Supreme Emperor stopped in the main palace, he knelt and guarded the spirit in front of the mourning hall along with the ministers.

Seeing someone mourning, Jia Lian wiped away tears with a handkerchief from time to time, and suddenly heard Chang Sheng, who was kneeling in front of him, say, "Where is the sixth prince?"

This sound stirred up waves, and everyone hurriedly looked forward, only to see that apart from the eldest prince who committed suicide, the other princes and even the young grandsons were all there, except that the sixth prince was not there.

"Where's the sixth child?" Shui Mu, who was kneeling in front of the coffin and dressed in sackcloth, finally asked, and then looked at King Qianjun: "Where is the sixth child?"

King Qianjun hurriedly said: "I'm afraid the sixth brother doesn't know that the Supreme Emperor is coming back today... It was originally scheduled to come back in two days."

Shui Mu sneered and said: "Could it be that the Supreme Emperor died, and he still has the heart to travel?" So he ordered Qianjun Wang to look for it immediately.

Before King Qian could go out, the sixth prince came in and knelt down inexplicably in grief. He saw that his clothes were soaked in snow and his feet were covered with yellow mud, as if he had come back from outside.

"Where did you go just now?" Shui Mu asked with a sneer.

"Go back to the emperor, the son just went to the Panxiang Temple in the Xuantomb."

"What are you doing there?"

The sixth prince said sadly: "The imperial grandfather is gone, and the imperial grandmother is still here. The son doesn't know how to comfort the imperial grandmother. He only thinks that the imperial grandfather loves tea ceremony very much. Why don't he collect good water and cook tea to comfort the imperial grandmother. So he went to Panxiang Temple in the Xuan Tomb go."

Shui Mu saw that the sixth prince was also in a state of embarrassment, so he sighed and said, "You have put your heart into it."

Jia Lian's eyelids twitched, and he thought that the sixth prince had borrowed flowers to present Buddha, and after the emperor ordered the officials to disperse, he entered the household department.Just after entering, Yang Shilang said, "The officials in Shanxi should be damned! They know that the Supreme Emperor is there, but they don't know how to strengthen the guards." As he spoke, he handed Jia Lian a list, "This is the list of dereliction of duty officials, you Take it to the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Punishment to investigate and deal with it.”

"Yes." Jia Lian took the roster and glanced at it. After raising his eyebrows slightly, he went to the official department, entered the official department, talked with the officials of the official department for a while, and suddenly saw a young eunuch coming over.

"Lord Jia, please take this jar back to Miss Miaoyu." said the little eunuch.

Jia Lian laughed and said, "It seems a bit inappropriate to pass things on to a monk."

"It's not something shameful. It's the snowflakes that fell from the sky. It's the cleanest. If Mr. Jia is so tired, our sixth prince will definitely thank you in the future." The little eunuch said, put down the jar and left.

Jia Lian let out a laugh, told Zhao Tianliang to take away the jar, and went back to the Ministry of Households as before, had dinner with Li Bizhou and Xu Yujue, and was about to go to the night watch in the Taishang Emperor's mourning hall, when suddenly a group of people came chattering.

Fang Zaisi was also in the crowd, when he saw Li Bizhou, he came over and grabbed his brother-in-law's sleeve and winked at him.

Li Bizhou understood, took Fang Zaisi by his side for an excuse, walked away, entered the side hall, and asked Jia Lian and Xu Yujue in front of him, "What were you talking about just now?"

Fang Zaisi muttered and said: "It has been said for years that the virtuous and noble concubine will take care of the Empress Dowager's affairs on behalf of the empress, and no one in the family has any objection, but just now word came out in the palace that the empress dowager insisted on going her own way and ordered my mother."

Li Bizhou was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "Has the lord agreed?"

"...The Empress Dowager is already very sad when the Empress Dowager is gone. The Lord will not go against her wishes for those whom she chooses." Fang Zaisi said in a very embarrassed way, as if he didn't believe that Fang's family would be able to leave in their lifetime. to that point.

"...Let's go, don't miss the hour." Xu Yuyu muttered, leaning on Zaisi's shoulders and pointedly said, "The left and right people originally became talented people because they didn't have a concubine, but now because of the empress dowager's insistence on going her own way." 'It's not unreasonable to be subservient to others."

Li Bizhou smiled and said, "Exactly, where did the word 'willing to go my own way' come from?"

Fang Zaisi was taken aback for a moment, and said: "Everyone in the palace says that."

"Let's go, let's go." Jia Lian put Xu Yujun and Fang Zaisi on their shoulders and pushed them outside. When they got outside, the others rode horses, and he entered the palace alone in a sedan chair, still guarding in front of the mourning hall.

Suddenly someone said that the virtuous concubine and concubine Fang came to worship with the support of the queen dowager, and the expressions of the crowd became more and more sad. They saw Xue Baochai following, and the queen mother leaned to support her Fang Wenhui. The three of them arrived before the coffin. After burning the paper, she leaned on Fang Wenhui with tears in her eyes.

"Take the grandson of the emperor back to the palace to rest. Don't tire him out." The queen mother said to Fang Wenhui as she looked at the grandson of the emperor who was leaning against the arms of King Jianjun with her head drooping softly.

Fang Wenhui agreed, and Huang Changsun stood up in a daze, walked to Fang Wenhui's side, held her hand, and called grandma.

Fang Zaisi couldn't help trembling a dozen steps away, seeing someone looking at him, he hurriedly buried his head.

After the queen mother and the second concubine left, all the remaining guards became thoughtful.

When the time came, everyone went out, and when they reached the palace gate, Fang Zaisi jumped into Li Bizhou's sedan chair.Jia Lian blinked his eyes, and when he saw a few elders walking towards him, he deliberately avoided them, got into the sedan chair, and followed Xu Shining and Xu Yuju to Xu's house.

In the Xu family, as expected, grandma gathered because of the emperor's eldest grandson calling in front of everyone.

Just looking at the entire hall, the five masters of Xu, Li, Yuan, Ning, and Fang are all sitting on chairs and drinking tea thoughtfully.

"...You can't ask her to show off so much. Tomorrow, the Fang family will go to apologize first." Fang Wenhui's father said.

Xu Zhian clicked his tongue ambiguously.

Yuan Jingfeng said: "It's really not worth going against the Xue family at this moment—it's just that the concubine Fang entered the palace with cold air, and she won't be able to have children in the future. If... that's okay."

Xu Shining took a deep breath, nodded, shook his head again, and said, "If you're afraid, you're afraid. Your Majesty wants to fight." He looked at Jia Lian again, "What do you say?"

Jia Lian said with a smile: "There are people on the left and right who want to go their own way, and there is nothing the masters can do if they object."

Xu Shining said with a smile: "You want us to refuse or welcome? To be honest, our family is really going to refuse this matter."

"...Then implore the lord to make the Xue family's empress queen?" Fang Zaisi interjected.

Xu Shining pondered for a while, then went to see Xu Zhian again.

Xu Zhi'an thought about it, and said: "Let's see, since she can't bear children, it's okay to be a queen. There's no need to make a fuss about it." Seeing that Jia Lian's face was not good, he urged him to go home and rest.

Jia Lian agreed, and came out of Xu's house, sat in the sedan chair, and listened to someone talking outside. He opened the curtain and saw Wang Xifeng's little servant Wang'er.

Wang'er glanced at the Xu family's plaque, laughed and said, "Second Master Lian, our grandma invites Second Master Lian to come and talk."

"It's too late. To avoid suspicion, we can't go." Jia Lian said stiffly.

Wang'er hurriedly smiled and said, "Where did Second Master Lian go? The two masters of the Wang family, Shilang Yang and Duke Qing are also here."

Jia Lian pondered for a while, and said to Wang'er: "The Xu family and the Fang family have stated that they want to plead guilty for the concubine Fang. What does the Xue family want? Just let go."

Hearing this, Wang'er was overjoyed, and hurriedly stood aside and called Jia Lian's sedan chair to leave, then hurriedly rode back to Xue's house, entered the front hall, and glanced at Wang Xifeng, Qing Guogong, and Wang Ziteng who were present. , Yang Shilang, hurriedly said: "Second Master Lian refused to come. He said that the Xu family and the Fang family were terribly frightened by today's incident, and they are waiting to apologize tomorrow. He said that what will happen to our family, just let go." do it."

After Wang Ziteng heard this, he said to Wang Xifeng: "According to the national laws and family rules, the noble concubine should send the Empress Dowager the last time with the gift of a daughter-in-law. How can the queen mother be confused by traitors for a while, and then mess up the national laws and family rules?"

Wang Xifeng pursed her lips, and asked Wang'er: "Aside from this, did Second Master Lian say anything else?"

Wang Er hurriedly said: "I only heard Second Master Lian coughing continuously. It seems that the injury from last year has not healed yet, and he is in a hurry to go home to rest."

Wang Xifeng heard the words, so he cupped his hands to Wang Ziteng, Qing Guogong, and Yang Shilang and said: "Tomorrow, I ask you to work hard, and you must persuade the Lord to act in accordance with the laws of the country and the family."

"Why do you say that?" Everyone responded again and again.

Suddenly he heard the sound of clappers on the third watch outside, Wang Ziteng said: "We have to enter the palace tomorrow, we will go back first."

"Please." There was no man in the family, so Wang Xifeng hurriedly sent everyone out.

Then Yang Shilang went out with Wang Ziteng and Qing Guogong. On the way, the three of them compared Fang Wenhui and Xue Baochai, and then got into the sedan chair.

Yang Shilang was sitting in the sedan chair, weighing which of Xue and Fang was better, when suddenly he heard someone talking outside.

The man said to the sedan chair almost inaudibly: "My lord said, the Xue family likes to show off, so let him show off."

Yang Shilang agreed, and after returning home, he sent his family to contact some colleagues. Early the next morning, he entered the palace wearing a filial piety, and guarded in front of the spirit according to his rank. Seeing that all his colleagues had come, they exchanged glances contact, see you