Heir of the Red Chamber

Li Hu was illiterate, he couldn't even hold a pen, and his words were already very vulgar. Now he was able to understand what he said when he was emotional.

It's just that the amount of information in his few short sentences is really too much, and everyone was stunned before they could open their mouths under the surprise of being safe and sound.

New saint?Do saints still talk about old and new?Where did the saint get the queen from?How many years have passed since the Yuan Dynasty, and I have never heard of a concubine named Xu in the harem, Zhen Guifei is the most shameful concubine named Xu.

Everyone looked at each other for a while, before finally realizing: Li Hu, this boy wanted to say that the saint had changed, and the new king sent someone to pick them up, and the new queen's surname was Xu.

They have been away for more than a year, not ten years, so how come there is a new person on the dragon chair?

Zhao Langguan almost thought Li Hu was hysterical, but who has a long neck, who dares to talk nonsense?

Li Hu wouldn't talk about such a big event, it's true.After thinking about it again, isn't the third highness's concubine Xu's daughter?Although the third highness has not been favored by saints for so many years in the past, the crown prince and Xinger are gone, and the third highness is the eldest son.The eldest son's succession to the throne seems to be the same.

There are many people who are still confused, some like Zhao Langguan who can't believe it, and some like Lin Ya who are expressionless but feel relieved.

Lin Ya really did not expect that Chu Ronghua's throne would come so early.

Surviving in this different world, Lin Ya's greatest reliance is his understanding of the Dream of the Red Chamber in his previous life.However, apart from Ning Rong and the Second House, this book only wrote about some actors and actresses, and never mentioned the political situation at all, so that Lin Ya could only infer from the clues in the book.

When Lin Ya left the capital, although the old emperor's illness was getting worse, he still held the power, turning his hands into clouds and turning his hands into rain, while Chu Ronghua could only operate in the dark, cautious to the extreme, lest he would be careless , was feared by his biological father just like the other brothers, and was completely knocked out of the dust.

It can be said that Lin Ya could not see any sign that Chu Ronghua was about to succeed to the throne.At that time, he even thought that as long as he could come back alive from this trip to northern Xinjiang, he would use it as a springboard and officially become Chu Ronghua's pawn and bargaining chip for winning the throne.

As a result, everything was settled before he returned.After years of waiting and repeated planning, he finally bet on the right person and did not harm his family in this life.

Clearing his throat, Lin Ya was about to say something, but Zhao Langguan, who had come to his senses, took the lead and surrounded Mr. Xu and his son, congratulating him repeatedly, pushing Lin Ya, the immediate boss, aside, really impatient , Lively is the commentary of the word "be arrogant before being respectful".

But it can't be blamed on Zhao Langguan's ugly appearance.In the past, Mr. Xu and his son were members of the clan of the prince and concubine, and they were the kind of people who were rejected by the saints. Their household registration status was also humble, so it was not worth paying too much attention to.

It is different now, His Highness the Third Highness has been honored as the Great Treasure, the Xu family is a genuine descendant, and Mr. Xu is the uncle of the country. If you don’t take advantage of the time when everyone is outside the Great Wall, you will be able to curry favor with the Xu family when you return to the capital. Stepping through the threshold, how many princes and marquises are crowded in the head, how can I get a small Langguan?

If you don't post it, Zhao Langguan will be a fool.

Lin Ya couldn't help shaking his head and laughing, nodded slightly to Xu Nan who was looking over, and then took the initiative to meet the general of the Northwest garrison brought by Li Hu, and asked about the situation in Beijing.

The general who came was surnamed Sun. He used to be a young general under General Xu's command, and he was an old acquaintance with Li Hu. Now he is the confidant of the new king. He and Lin Ya are "one of our own", so it is very convenient to talk.After Zhao Lang finished flattering Mr. Xu and his son, Lin Ya also had a general understanding of the situation.

He had always wondered before that the old emperor's character was selfish and indifferent, vicious and unkind, and he didn't look like the person in the book who would give the throne to his son, especially this son he never liked very much—until the end, Chu Ronghua was more like a slave testing poison to the old emperor than an heir.

Chu Ronghua's ability to allow the sixth prince to die in the name of poisoning the emperor's father, and to obtain the imperial edict from the vicious old emperor, should not be underestimated.

It's a pity that Lin Ya heard more than good news from General Sun Shen's words.Even though the other party didn't realize anything, Lin Ya still figured out something was wrong: I'm afraid that although he himself is far outside the Great Wall, the Lin family is still involved in the secrets of the change of the throne.

According to General Sun Shen, his father, Lin Ruhai, was the first-class confidant and loyal minister when the old emperor was seriously ill. Later, he even had to accompany him for at least five of the twelve hours a day. With Lin Ruhai's agility, it was impossible. He didn't notice some unspeakable things happening around the old emperor.

It would be fine if the old emperor simply closed his eyes, he didn't die after all.As the Supreme Emperor, if he can use the knife of filial piety well, it is not impossible to suppress the new emperor, let alone punishing the ministers who have two hearts?After all, the majesty of the old tiger is still there, and many red scholars in previous lives have also said that the power struggle between the new emperor and the Supreme Emperor has lasted for many years.

Even though Lin Ruhai has more experience than him, and his skills are better than him, Lin Ya still can't help but worry about him. Presumably, it is a common emotion among family members, just like Lin Ruhai and others have always been concerned about Lin Ya when he was alone. .

While congratulating the new king with a joyful face, while secretly speculating about the possible actions of the old father and younger brother at home, Lin Ya's heart was almost split in two, so that Sun Shenjiang and Li Hu congratulated him on being promoted to the position of servant I couldn't react immediately.

Seeing that Lin Ya seemed to be in a daze, General Sun Shen, who had always been very majestic and solemn before, smiled a little irritably: "Lin Shilang is so happy that he is stupid. When he enters the customs, he will make every step of the way and return to the capital." , the sage will personally lead hundreds of officials out of the city to meet him, what will Lin Shilang do then?"

Behind a little ridicule is unmistakable admiration.

Even if you can't be appointed as a marquis or a prime minister, being welcomed by the emperor is the elusive pursuit of many officials, especially the military officers who are fighting life and death at the border.

Lin Ya couldn't help being startled when he heard the words, he couldn't help feeling a kind of passionate heroism from the bottom of his heart, he was at a loss for words for a while, he could only imitate the warriors in the army, and fisted heavily at General Sun Can and Li Hu , received a solemn return gift from the two of them.

Since they were safe, everyone unanimously ignored several bloodstains not far from their camp, and the soldiers also offered to help Sun Shen put away the cloth strips wrapped around the horseshoes so that the barbarians would not see them.Then everyone put on the horse brought by Sun Shen and galloped through the pass.

Afterwards, as General Sun Shen said, it seemed that wherever Lin Ya and others went, they were greeted by their parents and officials leading local gentry and dignitaries. Everyone in the group is radiant.

As soon as they reached the territory of Shanxi, the angel sent by Chu Ronghua rushed up to welcome them, proclaiming a decree to praise Lin Ya and give him some rewards. Chu Ronghua himself even brought two princes and officials above the third rank in Beijing. Fifty miles out of the city, Lin Ya and his party met.

Flags fluttering, the supreme honor and favor, outside the city is the monarch and his subjects who haven't seen each other for many years, but inside the palace gate, the Fushou Palace where the Supreme Emperor lives alone is eerie.

It's not that Chu Ronghua treated his father harshly and deliberately moved him to a dark corner, but that the Supreme Emperor has become more and more gloomy these days, and even the entire hall makes people feel chills down their spines.

"Is the Lin family boy coming back today?" Just now he ordered the death of a winking little servant, and the Supreme Emperor leaned on the pillow with a sullen face: "Let them be quick. If Dai Quan asks anything, no matter when, immediately return."

Chapter 70

Dai Quan was indeed ordered by the Supreme Emperor to secretly investigate the fact that the six princes intended to poison the emperor's father that day - the fear of dying and the ensuing rage made the old emperor kill his parents and sons on the spot and slaughtered his daughter-in-law in the chaos. But after waking up and thinking about it day after day, he suddenly felt a little regret.

The Supreme Emperor asked himself that in his life, he might have misjudged his courtiers, but he still weighed the weight of the few evils under his knees very clearly.Except for the prince whom he had hugged on his knees and taught carefully, the rest of them were all unworthy, especially the fourth and sixth sons.

In the early years, it was just a little bit of flattery for the good service of their mother and concubine, and they were self-righteous one by one. They really regarded themselves as princes, so frivolous and restless, how could it be possible for him to look up to them?It's just because the remaining sons are mediocre, and it's not worth saving which one they let go, and they can also try the loyalty of the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty, why not do it?

It was because she knew how mediocre these sons were, and the Empress Dowager came to think about it, and she felt that even if her sixth son had the courage to usurp the throne, she didn't have the ability to set up this situation, so she felt more and more something was wrong.

Thinking that he might become the knife in someone else's hand and be played with in the palm of his hand, the Supreme Emperor only felt that a kind of humiliation that he had never experienced before was almost going to carry him in anger, and he really couldn't wait for a moment Yes, I just want to find out the people behind the scenes.

The first thing the Supreme Emperor suspected was Chu Ronghua who had just ascended the throne. After all, it was this submissive and unmanly son who took a huge advantage when he was groggy and life and death were unpredictable.If he didn't think that his life was not long, and there was really no other candidate, how could he hand over the position to a son who had never looked at him directly?

But the Taishanghuang really couldn't believe that the whole plan came from such a useless and cowardly person.Even if the lamb drinks wolf blood, it will not become wolfish overnight.The only answer is that someone secretly supported the third child and put him on the throne.

The rebellious sons and traitors who dare to plot against his life must not be let go. If he can pass the throne to the third child, he can be abolished. Only by peeling the skin and cramping can you sit back and relax and never suffer from future troubles.

Originally, such an errand should be handed over to Xia Bingzhong. For decades, Xia Bingzhong has been loyal and can learn from the sun and the moon.But because of Xia Bingzhong's impeccable devotion to his duties, the Supreme Emperor became suspicious and refused to use him anymore, so he only sent Dai Quan to investigate secretly.

This is not because the Supreme Emperor thinks that Dai Quan's loyalty is commendable, but because he thinks that everyone in the world has desires, and Dai Quan is greedy for money and power, and he can afford them all. If you want something bigger, you have to guard against it.

Dai Quan was indeed very diligent after receiving the secret decree, but unfortunately what he single-mindedly investigated was not what the Supreme Emperor wanted him to investigate.

In the side hall of Yi'an Hall, the "cold palace" where several out-of-favored concubines were imprisoned in the Forbidden Palace, Dai Quangao sat on the head, watching his apprentices dragging the dead dogs just out of the well with cold eyes. The person who came dragged him in front of him.

Since the Xinjun ascended the throne, he began to investigate, and he did not know that he secretly trampled and killed several handymen and maids, so Dai Quan followed the clues to find this thing that was originally sweeping the courtyard in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

I didn't expect to be able to survive at a young age.It's just that he can't pry this mouth open, and he really feels uneasy.What this person is afraid of is not being calculated, but being calculated, and he can't find out who is standing behind him.

Dai Quan squinted his eyes, and his thoughts drifted a little far away for a while. It was his disciples who winked and rolled their eyes, pushing out one and boldly approaching him.

"Master, in three o'clock, the saint should return to the palace."

Seeing master Dai Quan touching the ring and gesticulating, the little apprentice almost collapsed in fright, and didn't dare to stand still with a flattering face, and quickly hid behind the other senior brothers.

Dai Quan was debating which rumor was spreading in his heart, saying that His Highness the Sixth Highness was planning to make him look good because he was plotting against the two beauties of the Zhen family.

Just because he was worried that His Highness the Sixth Highness would turn back to deal with him after he gained power, he turned a blind eye to the matter of someone framing His Highness the Sixth Highness. Who knew that the old sage would be poisoned in a blink of an eye?

After making a fuss for a long time, Grandpa Dai himself became an accomplice in the murder of the old saint. If there was a fuss, he would not be able to speak clearly even if his mouth was all over his body, so naturally he could only pinch his nose to cover it up for others.

For a few days, Dai Quan wondered if it was the saint who should strike, and also figured out how to get rid of the old saint smoothly so that he could catch up with the saint.

In the end, after probing for a long time, it wasn't the saint who did it on his side. The old saint's funeral was prepared, but he didn't die. Dai Quan was so happy that he had seven or eight mouth sores in a row, and he spoke as if he was being tortured. , I can hardly swallow the food.

Sighing, Dai Quan knew that he was being tortured today. He took out his pocket watch and looked at Shi Shi, before pointing to the shapeless man soaked in blood on the ground and begging for mercy.

"Give him a good time, be quick with your hands, and Zajia will take you to visit old friends."

Speaking of old friends, Dai Quan made no secret of his gloating: "We will not be able to catch up with Mr. Lin's hot stove, and the affairs of the Ning Mansion will be settled soon. Anyway, it is a windfall, don't say it Master, I will not support you."

The old saints of the Lin family and the Jia family are not of the same heart with the saints, and those who serve in front of the two saints are well aware of this.Dai Quan didn't think that the old sage could really gain the upper hand, so of course the affairs of the Jia family had to be handled according to the sage's mind.

Anyway, when the old sage asked, he also had something to say, who made the Jia family's two residences add up to mud that couldn't be pasted on the wall?I can fall down while walking.

When Dai Quan mentioned Jia's house, he was full of perseverance. In Lin's house, Lin Ya, who he wanted to curry favor with but couldn't for the time being, also talked about Jia's house with his wife Zeng Hui.

In fact, Lin Ya galloped all the way back, and knelt outside the city to listen to the decree of kindness and praise for a long time. He was exhausted both physically and mentally. Even Chu Ronghua, who was enthroned as emperor, thoughtfully let Lin Ya go back to the mansion first, and then entered the palace tomorrow During the banquet, Lin Ruhai also sent a message to let him rest well.

Lin Ya was just worried about Zeng Hui.

They had just got married, and before they really got to know each other, he left Zeng Hui and went outside the Great Wall. He didn't know if he was alive or dead for more than a year. Zeng Hui must have had a hard time as a newlywed.

So even though Lin Ya was extremely sleepy, he didn't fall asleep after taking a bath. Instead, with his hair and shoes on, he led Zeng Hui, who was blushing, to lean on the couch together, chatting about their parting. Afterwards, their respective life chores.

This was the first time they stayed together so leisurely, without busy preparing luggage for Lin Ya, and without comforting each other over and over again.

Lin Ya held Zeng Hui's hand and placed it on his heart. She felt that the pillows she was leaning on were so hot that she couldn't bear it, so she took the tweezers left by the maids and put Lin Ya's head through it. Suppress the shame in my heart.

She knew the joy in Lin Ya's heart, and she was even more happy than him. She didn't want to trouble him by talking about the hard work of the past, so she talked about her relatives in Beijing.

When it came to relatives, one had to talk about the Jia family. After all, it was the grandfather's family, and the family always paid attention to the news of the Jia family, so Zeng Hui explained it in detail.

"I don't know what the masters and wives of the Jia family think. People like the Sun family, even if they have some military achievements now, it is said that Mr. Sun is very vulgar, and there are no rules in the family. Originally, the second girl in their house It's a little wronged to be worthy of such a person, but she is a concubine, so she deserves it, but I didn't know that my son was betrothed before, but it was the eldest daughter of Rongfu."

They are all women, even though they are very contemptuous of the Ningrong Second House, Zeng Hui still has some sympathy for Yuan Chun and other girls from Jia's family.

Now there are different opinions about the reason why Jia Yuanchun was sent back to Jia's mansion. There are also completely different opinions about whether the saint has taken her in. Jia Yuanchun's situation can be said to be very bad.If her parents took pity on her and sent her to an honest and wealthy family far away to marry her, she might still be able to live comfortably.

Who would have thought that her parents would promise her to someone like Sun Shaozu?

Now it is spread all over the capital privately. Sun Shaozu has no foundation in Beijing, so he hurriedly tried to follow Wang Ziteng's way but failed, so he filled the Jia family's bottomless hole with money for some reason.

If the Jia family didn't pay back the money they owed, they would use their daughter to pay for it, and wanted to marry the second daughter of the concubine to the Sun family.Sun Shaozu is also a fool, he didn't understand what was going on in Beijing at all. He heard that there was a daughter in the Rongguo Mansion who was a daughter of the Queen's Empress and a female official, so she disliked Miss Jia Er. It is not allowed to marry a big girl.

When the news first came out, Zeng Hui also said that this marriage would not work out. With the character of the man, Mrs. Wang, the second wife of the Rongguo Mansion, would never let her own daughter fill such a pit of fire. Then she heard that the eldest daughter of the Jia family promised to marry In the Sun family, Zeng Hui was confused.

The strength of Zeng Hui's hand was just right, and Lin Ya couldn't help feeling a little drowsy. He woke up suddenly when he heard that Yuan Chun promised to Sun Shaozu. It took him a long time to recover, and he patted Zeng Hui's hand gently.

"Then the Jia family is busy preparing their eldest daughter to marry these days?" If so, the furs of the North Land can be sold at a high price.

Zeng Hui waved her hand with a smile, and blocked Lin Ya's mischievous hand with a grate: "Let's not care about it. Grandma Xiaorong, the wife of Sun Zhong in Ningguo Mansion, just disappeared, which almost alarmed most of the capital. They are all busy with Grandma Xiaorong's affairs, so why do you care about the big girl? If you hadn't come back, Grandma Xiaorong's funeral affairs would still be lively for half a month."

Qin Keqing is gone...

Lin Ya was startled, and then he understood: Chu Ronghua was going to start with Jia's family, to loosen the muscles and bones of several princely families in the line of Concubine Zhen.

Although Zeng Hui was a little unfamiliar with Lin Ya, the foreign affairs that he had been obsessed with since he was a child were still clear, and he continued talking before Lin Ya asked.

"As soon as Grandma Xiao Rong left, the empresses and empresses in the palace sent people to pay homage to her. That kind of mourning and decency is the first in Beijing, but those who go can't protect the living after all. The two days of impeachment of the Jia family are just like snowflakes. It seems that at the beginning, the censors just participated in the Ningguo Mansion's violation of the system, and later the Rongguo Mansion was found out about giving away money, and took a few family-born slaves, and I don't know how it will end."