The Opening of the Red Chamber

Such a non-painful answer obviously displeased the elder brother on the throne for a moment.But he couldn't find anything wrong with Shui Junhui's attitude, so he was naturally upset at the moment. "Get up, my brother, as my elder brother, I also sneaked here to have a home-cooked meal with you, seventh brother." This is what he said verbally, but it was only after Shui Junhui knelt down for a while before he cried out. of.

Shui Junhui naturally understood these small thoughts, and he didn't even frown.

He summoned someone to put a new pot on, and then led his royal brother to sit around the table in the flower hall.As soon as they were seated, the awkward atmosphere that had been lingering between the two did not ease at all. Instead, it became more intense with the aroma and heat in the pot.This is simply torture. If Lin Fan was here, he would throw his chopsticks and yell unceremoniously.

Shui Junhui stared at the pot in front of him inexplicably, and without even realizing it, a comfortable smile appeared on the corner of his lips.

Unfortunately, this smile fell into the eyes of the opposite saint again, which made the saint even more thoughtful and uncomfortable, "Seventh brother thought of something just now, and all of them secretly laughed."

This question interrupted the picture recalled in Shui Junhui's mind.He was slightly taken aback, and then replied with a normal expression: "Your Majesty, there was a friend in the past who liked to talk loudly at the wine table. Every time he drank a little wine, he would always talk about the topic. My brother Every time I can’t keep up with this friend’s topic jumping speed, I will be disgusted and say that I didn’t listen to her seriously, and I went to eat in the shabu-shabu.’”

When the sage heard this, he smiled even more, and asked, "Where is this friend? I heard you said it was in the past, but...?"

Shui Junhui shook his head: "I'm a businessman, so naturally I want to travel all over the world to make a living. I haven't seen you for a long time."

With such an answer, the sage did not continue to ask further questions.The two brothers continued to slowly simmer the pot and drink in this awkward and weird atmosphere, and they seemed to be brewing the next topic.

After a while, the sage seemed a little terrified by his younger brother's calm attitude.Instead of beating around the bush, he said directly: "Seventh brother, I've been very busy recently, I've been busy looking for something, but I can't find it."

"Oh, there are so many capable people under His Majesty, why can't you find anything, this joke is not funny at all." Shui Junhui smiled faintly, deliberately pretending not to understand. The skill of 'pretending' is a compulsory course for members of the royal family.He already knew the purpose of his elder brother's visit today, he didn't take the initiative to ask, but waited for the other party to mention it.

"What I want to say is also related to some things in the past." The saint didn't bother to pay attention to the irony in his seventh brother's words at this time, "When the emperor's father came to the throne in the past, the late emperor's aunt, that is, Her Royal Highness, the eldest princess, once prepared an army for the emperor's father. There is no news about the soldier talisman that can command after the emperor's death." Speaking of this, the saint stared at Shui Junhui fiercely, as if he wanted to get rid of him. Find some clues on his face.

But to his disappointment, Shui Junhui didn't have any emotional fluctuations on his face. What made him even more depressed was that he heard his seventh brother say: "Your Majesty, I know a little bit about this. When I was alive, I once got drunk in the garden. I mentioned it to the third brother and me. The emperor said that raising this group of soldiers was a waste of food and grass, and complained about the expense of this sum of money." Speaking of this, it was broken here, and Shui Junhui didn't mention the military talisman at all.

This obviously made the saint's appetite feel very uncomfortable!But he had no other way to continue asking, and thinking about the news from the hidden guards who chased Lin Fan this morning, it made him inexplicably irritable.

Naturally, the saint's anxious mood couldn't be hidden from Shui Junhui's eyes.He watched calmly, still holding the dishes in the pot in his hands, tasting them calmly, not talking to his elder brother at all.

The atmosphere between the two became stagnant after the embarrassment.

Based on the fact that today is the saint who came to inquire about the news, how could he just give up like this.After not hearing the news, he naturally wanted to find something to disgust his seventh brother.So, after the atmosphere froze for a while, he spoke again.

"Seventh brother, you are not young anymore. You must be twenty-four this year. I still remember that when my father asked you to go to Jiangnan alone at the age of 14, it seemed like yesterday. Time passed It was too fast, when the emperor was around, you would always reject the candidate for the princess when the emperor was around. Now that you are at this age, no matter how procrastinated, you can't do it anymore." He didn't give Lao Qi Given the opportunity to retort, he said bluntly, "Although you said you want to be filial piety to the emperor's father, you can settle this matter first. After the filial piety period is over, it's not too late to talk about getting married."

"I don't know which girl Your Majesty has chosen for your younger brother?" Shui Junhui has no other thoughts about getting married now. Brother get rid of people.I just wanted not to implicate the girl's family.What's not clear is, which unlucky girl wants to marry him like this? !

Seeing that his seventh brother didn't show any resistance, the sage was somewhat unexpected.But Shui Junhui's calm posture of allowing him to manipulate him made the saint feel an indescribable joy in his heart.In the end, he still won by himself. Standing in the highest position, holding the book of life and death in hand, and controlling other people's lives is just a matter of one sentence.The feeling that power brings to him is really joyful and comfortable without words.

"The daughter of Mrs. Lin's family, she is of the right age, and she is also a good person." The saint spoke lightly.

In the eyes of the sage, his seventh younger brother is protecting Lin Ruhai's family both openly and secretly.When the eldest princess was there, the girl from the Lin family got close to the eldest princess, not to mention that Lin Ruhai, known as the Qingliu in the court, finally took the team silently.This made him very upset, didn't you guys want to keep one and count, then don't blame him for weaving a net step by step now, and catch them all in one go.

Of course, when he said this, the saint clearly saw the surprise and worry flashing across his seventh brother's face, as well as his deliberately calm breathing.

"How is it, the seventh brother is not satisfied?" After observing for a while, the saint asked, with a hint of threat in his tone.

Shui Junhui took a long breath, and it seemed that he was trying to calm the strong dissatisfaction in his heart by taking advantage of this time. He said: "No, my brother is satisfied." He didn't refuse, and didn't say anything more. ask.

At this moment, seeing Shui Junhui's words, the sage seemed to be unwilling, but he had to hold back, which immediately made him feel better.Therefore, he pursued the victory even more: "Then it is settled like this. I will draw up the decree after I return to the palace." Speaking of this matter, there is naturally no possibility of changing it.The current King Shui Junhui of Shunyi County can only get up and kneel to thank him.

After the saint found a good mood with Shui Junhui, he returned to the palace comfortably.

Waiting for the sage to leave, Shui Junhui locked himself in the study, making a sullen look to outsiders.

In fact, he was dying of joy from the bottom of his heart.When he heard Lin Fan referring to his marriage partner, he was more pleasantly surprised than surprised.No matter what, I never thought that there would be such a day in the end with that girl.As for his imperial brother, he really miscalculated.Presumably, he who knows the inside story must be so angry that he can't eat.As for that girl, I thought that the appearance of the saint today would bring bad news, but I didn't expect such good news.

The good news is for a single person. As for Lin Fan, she has arrived in Liangzhou smoothly at this moment.

She rushed all the way non-stop, originally planning to change the carriage after arriving in Liangzhou, and ride alone to the border of Ganzhou.Thinking that after two or three days, she could throw away the hot potato she was carrying, she felt extremely excited.After solving this matter, she can go back to Beijing, and then live a good life with her uncle Mei behind closed doors.

The days to come, in her imagination, should be like this: listen to father's lectures and brag when you have nothing to do, go to uncle Jia She to listen to gossip, chat with handkerchiefs, live a leisurely life and stretch out your hands The leisurely days when the meal comes and the mouth is open.

It is beautiful to imagine, but there is a price to pay for dreams to become reality.

Lin Fan, who was still immersed in her beautiful imagination, didn't know that there was a super bomb waiting for her in Beijing.Moreover, after the bomb exploded, the ground was full of pits.

The sage did things quickly. After returning to the palace, he handed over the imperial decree to both parties in the evening of that day.

When Lin Fan's Uncle Mei received this decree, he felt as if a basin of cold water was being poured from head to toe, and he was stunned.Such a marriage decree at this time is simply a blatant slap and insult.Not to mention anything else, the old sage just passed away, no matter who agreed to this matter, or who made the decision.This is all a slap in the face, and he did such a blatant thing during the old saint's filial piety.This matter, even if it is to be done, should be settled quietly, and it will be discussed after the filial piety period.But now, the sage's intentions are like stabbing him with a knife, and he doesn't give him any time to breathe.I really don't know what the courtiers in the court will think of it in the future, but those gossips in the future.This soft knife is really ruthless.

In this way, this made Lin Ruhai see the current situation clearly, and it was time to put into practice the thoughts that had been brewing in his heart a long time ago.

Yes, Father Lin wants to resign.

I have been sitting in the position of Yanzheng for six years, and I am very tired.It was this position at the beginning, and I don't know whether to say good or bad.Because of this position, he became the old sage's confidant, and because of this position, his wife died of illness, and his daughter is still running around.All of this should be the end.In the days to come, I don't know what my daughter will think after seeing this imperial decree.

Now that his daughter has been pushed into this big pit by the sage, isn't he just forcing him to leave this position voluntarily?Now that the overall situation has been decided, the Seventh Prince has no chance of making a comeback on the surface.But isn't the saint's layout just to involve those forces that prevent him from sitting firmly on the golden throne?Now that he resigned in a sensible way, he hoped that because of this, he would not make things difficult for his daughter.