old lady in red

The big moon is rising all over the world, and although the gates of the city are not closed all night, they will wait until Xu time has passed before they start to make arrangements, so that people who are on the road can enter the city to stay as much as possible.

However, there are exceptions.

For example, during the rebellion in August four years ago, Marquis Yan closed the city gates ahead of time for a curfew.

Shi Mei and Jin Da went straight to the city gate.

A total of 24 people, all riding tall horses, galloped out of the city.

The officials at the city gate recognized Jin Da, so they couldn't help exchanging pleasantries: "Master Jin, is there something important to do?"

Jin Da casually said: "The Jinling old house has a batch of supplies going to Beijing, and now they are at Tongzhou Wharf, let's go over and hand them over."

Jinling, the hometown of Rongning Second Mansion.

Now that it is autumn again, it is common sense that Jinling has supplies to go to Beijing.

Shi Mei and her party went out of the city smoothly and went straight to Iron Net Mountain.

Iron Web Mountain is a steep mountain next to the royal hunting grounds.

Towering ancient trees and lush vegetation on the mountain, it is a paradise for wild animals.

Many hunters in the suburbs of Beijing rely on Iron Net Mountain for food.

These hunters generally only dare to stay on the periphery and dare not go deep.

In recent years, it has been particularly evil, and prey often commit suicide by jumping off cliffs at night.

At first everyone just said it was haunted.

Later, it became more and more serious, and it attracted the attention of the court.

That time, Jia Lian punished a few naughty brothers to investigate Iron Net Mountain, but they returned without success.

Bai Jintang never gave up.

According to Bai Jintang, this iron net mountain is like a maze, and you will return to the original point as you walk.

Many hunters have legends that there are ghosts in the mountains, and these ghosts do not want people to disturb them, so they make ghosts to hit the wall.

Emperor Jiahe naturally didn't believe it, and asked the master of Huangjue Temple to calculate, but said that the imperial court had a catastrophe, which came from Iron Net Mountain.

For this reason, Emperor Jiahe ordered the Marquis of Yan, Jia Lian Weng-in-law, to investigate the matter.

This time, Bai Jintang had an idea.

Yan Hou deliberately chose his grandson to send troops to Xisan, so that no one would notice.

Just keep it from Shi Mei.

What's more, Shi Mei, under the leadership of Jin Da, chased after Jia Lian and others opened up the trail behind the mountain.

Yan Hou and Jia Lian and Jia Cong were not at the foot of the mountain, only Jia She and Jia Zhu Shuiche stayed behind with more than a thousand people.

Seeing Shi Mei, Jia She was shocked: "Mother? Why are you here?"

Shi Mei said: "You have caught all the men in my Jia's mansion, how dare you ask me?"

Jia Amnesty cupped his hands and bowed his head: "My son is ashamed."

Shi Mei said, "Where are Lian'er, Cong'er, and Qiong'er?"

Jia She said: "They went up."

When Shimei looked at it, a cowhide rope was hanging down from the cliff.

Obviously, someone was the first to explore the way, and the rope was for the soldiers.

This pathfinder must be Bai Jintang.

Shi Mei said: "What did you hear?"

Jia She said: "There are more than 1000 people living above, and it is said that they are all dead soldiers. Someone is training them cruelly, preparing..."

Assassin King Kill!

Iron Net Mountain is next to the royal paddock, although Emperor Jiahe has not been to the paddock for many years.

But, one day will come.

If Emperor Jiahe doesn't come, the fourth prince and grandson will always come.

This scheme is very good.

There are only a handful of private soldiers in this imperial court.

I just don't know if it's the remnants of King Zhongshun or the former prince who was abolished.

As long as the four princes who were barely whole were eradicated, Emperor Jiahe would have to submit as long as he was alive.

Even if it is not done well, the court will fall apart.

No matter who it is, it can be regarded as revenge.

These people, no matter whose servants they are, are not worthy of sympathy. They kill innocent lives for personal ambition.

Once the emperor's prince is hurt, all the guards in the paddock and even their family members will be implicated.

Especially women, the end is all bleak.

Shi Mei said: "You stay here and watch. I'll go up to find Lian'er, Cong'er, and some children from the back street. If I don't take them back, I will lose face."

Jia Amnesty knew that he was not as good as his mother, but he cupped his hands and said, "My son will accompany my mother."

Shi Mei said: "You are a general in the army, you must obey the orders of your superiors and let you respond, so you should stick to your post. Zhu'er will come with me."

Jia Amnesty knew that mother was promoting the second wife.

Furthermore, Jia Zhu is not a member of the army, and he is indeed exempt from military orders.

Shi Mei led Jia Zhu, using only the rope as a handrail, and went up after a few jumps.

Shi Mei went up the mountain, and Jin Dacai came up with scouts.

They climbed to the top of the mountain by rope.

Jia Zhu pressed her ear to the ground to listen.

Shi Mei was meditating, while waiting for Jin Da, she released her consciousness to look for Jia Lian and the others.

But they hid at the foot of the mountain the evening before yesterday. While exploring the road, they set up passages and sent a thousand soldiers up the mountain. The thieves stopped practicing.

They also lurk down and dare not move.

They didn't dare to move during the day, and when the thieves began to practice again in the middle of the night, they took this opportunity to start climbing.

1000 people have come up, but the other party is a dead man.

They were going to wait for the thieves to fall asleep before starting to clear them up.

Shi Mei stared at Jin Da, stretched out her hand and said, "Bring it."

Jin Da was taken aback: "What?"

Shi Mei said: "Isn't Mongolian sweat medicine a must-have item for scouts?"

Jin Da obediently took out a pack of medicine powder and handed it to Shi Mei: "There are too many people here, I'm afraid this pack is not worth the trouble."

Shi Mei said: "It's enough to weaken their combat power. When the time comes, they will surrender and we will reduce casualties."

Shi Mei said: "You go to contact the second master, and I will prescribe the medicine with the uncle."

Jin Dawai wanted to object, but Shimei had already jumped and jumped, and disappeared like a civet cat.

At such a time, the beasts in the forest ran wild, and the movement of the grandparents did not alarm anyone at all.

Shi Mei and Jia Zhu quickly found the thief's kitchen.

These thieves don't eat during the day and count on two meals at night.

Shi Mei just poured the Mongolian sweat medicine into the water tank.

People came outside again, and poured a lot of sweat medicine into the water tank again.

When Shi Mei saw it, she was overjoyed immediately. If it wasn't Jia Lian and Jia Cong, who was it?

Then, Shi Mei actually saw Jia Rong Yezheng flashing out from behind Jia Cong.

These little brats don't have to stop.

However, seeing Jia Lian, Jia Cong, Jia Rong and Ye Zheng hugging each other and working together, Shi Mei was still very happy.

This is the so-called fighting brothers, fighting father and son soldiers.

Shi Mei said something into Jia Lian's ear.

Jia Lian looked towards Shimei's hiding place.

Shi Mei said quickly: "Don't tell Marquis Yan that I'm here, just say that you met Jia Zhu during the mission and he was in a hurry and came up to meet you."

Jia Lian agreed.

Shi Mei said again: "When the time comes, don't you brothers get separated, so that I can take care of you in secret."

Shi Mei mainly takes care of Jia Cong and Jia Zhu Yezheng, and there are eight young people in the clan.

They are here to make a fortune, not to die, and several daughters-in-law are not pregnant.

At such times, Jia Zhu followed Jia Lian and Jia Cong.

Shi Mei was lurking on the big tree outside the kitchen.

It is said that these people generally start training at the first moment of Xu time, and will not end their training until the right time of Yin time.

Shi Mei can still meditate for a while.

There happened to be an abandoned magpie nest on this tree, which was requisitioned by Shimei.

Shi Mei cycled for a week, opened her eyes, and resumed her practice just now.

Shi Mei was woken up by screams and killing.

Yan Hou started.

Shi Mei released her spiritual sense, and soon found Jia Lian's brothers.

Jia Zhu and Jia Cong were fine, but Ye Zheng, Jia Qiong and Jia Chen were the ones who struggled.

Shi Mei flew over quickly, crouched in the dark, and took care of anyone who was in danger.

Jia Lian and Jia Lian brothers soon noticed that grandma was coming.

They often shot out, and a large piece fell in front of them.

Or the enemy is approaching aggressively, and the enemy has fallen to the ground before they swing their swords.

Jia Lian saw his grandmother covering several brothers, so he slowly left the brother's camp.

Just at this time, the thieves discovered the existence of Yan Hou, and four people surrounded Yan Hou.

Jia Lian came running and beheaded four people.

Then, he didn't participate in the trembling again, but stood beside Yan Hou to guard.

Jia Lian is already a marquis, and if he wants to be promoted, all these thieves will be given to him, and he will not be able to pile up a duke.

Seeing Jia Lian like this, Hou Yan knew what he meant. This is to give credit to Jia Zhu, Jia Cong and Jia Rong.

At that time, rewards for meritorious deeds will be calculated on the basis of head count.

This time, the eight companions of Rongguo Mansion, Captain Yunqi, couldn't escape.

Jia Zhu can probably be a captain of a light car.

This killing only lasted until dawn, and the suppression was just over.

Then, Hou Yan seized the gangster's signing room and counted the heads according to the roster.

Because of the blessing of Mongolian sweat medicine, our casualties were very few.

There were less than a hundred dead soldiers.

They meet each other's titans.

More than 1000 bandits killed more than [-] people, captured more than [-] people alive, and less than [-] people slipped through the net.

These 100 people were all picked up by scouts from Rongfu and handed over to Jia Amnesty.

This night, they cleared the base camp of the bandits and won a complete victory.

The next day.

Shi Mei and her party escorted a team of horses and chariots to Beijing.

I met yesterday's city gate official again, and everyone said hello.

Jin Da also gave someone a fat roe deer.

Of course, the cart pulls wild game from the mountains.

The cured meat accumulated by the gangsters alone pulled four full carts.

At midnight on this day and night, Emperor Jiahe came to the clan mansion.

The deposed prince and his son were brought up in front of Emperor Jiahe.

Emperor Jiahe smashed the map of the imperial palace, the map of the hunting ground, the roster of bandits, and the confessions of the bandits, which were seized on the mountain, on the face of the deposed prince.

"Back then you cried out for injustice, saying that you had no intention of treason, what is this?"

The deposed prince looked at it and said: "Did they not explain clearly enough? They are my old department, this is the government forcing the people to rebel..."

Emperor Jiahe sneered: "The government forced the people to rebel?

If you are not allowed to ascend the throne, is it forcing you?

Did I not die sooner to force you?

What a benevolent beast. "

Emperor Jiahe got up and left: "I will do my best to your father and son!"

The next day.

Suddenly, the closed door of the Prince's Mansion of Yizhong County opened wide, and the lintel was hung white.

The prince was abolished, and the father and son of Yizhong County Prince died.

Emperor Jiahe issued a decree to posthumously designate the abolished prince as Prince Yizhong, and the abolished prince will attend the funeral according to the prince's specifications.

However, civil and military officials did not have the will, and no one dared to come to condolences.

Only the House of Internal Affairs and the Clan House came forward to take care of the funeral, and the surviving princes came to express their condolences.

Many families involved in the case of abolishing the prince were so frightened that they closed their doors and did not dare to go out.

I'm afraid of offending the old emperor and being pulled out again.

The coffins of the deposed prince and his son were left in the palace for seven days before the funeral.

Only the relevant officials of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Clan's Mansion attended the funeral.

The next day.

Emperor Jiahe once again decreed that the ten-year-old Shuiceng, the son of Yizhong County King, would be the general of the town, and he gave the mansion to Zhoujiazhuang and moved it immediately.

From then on, the lineage of the deposed prince truly withdrew from the historical stage of the Great Moon Dynasty.

Afterwards, Emperor Jiahe decreed to reward the heroes who suppressed the bandits.

There is no such thing as Marquis of Yan and Jia Amnesty.

The meritorious service this time is all a group of young men.

Shui Che, Bai Jintang, Jia Zhu, Jia Cong, Ye Zheng, Jia Rong, Jia Qiong and other eight people.

There is also Feng Ziying, more than 100 sons of nobles in Kyoto, all of whom have been promoted to the first rank, and given the title of Yunqiwei.

The sky-shattering firecrackers came to mind again on Rongning Street.

In Rongfu, only Jia Zhang has no title.

Jia Zhang didn't like to practice martial arts, so he wanted to take the imperial examination to become an official.

The happiest one is Jia Jingyang.

Yang's mouth was full of laughter: "Auntie, oh my god, it's so scary.

You said this bastard, I thought he went hunting with his uncles, but how could he have gone to suppress bandits..."

Then, he made such a great contribution.

Mrs. Yang blamed her, but she was actually very proud in her heart, and couldn't hold back the smile on her face.

Shi Mei poured cold water on her: "This is a meritorious service in exchange for life.

After entering this door, what they will do in the future is to make a living by licking blood with swords, and they must be urged to practice hard, swords have no eyes. "

What Shi Mei knew was the Battle of Ping'an Prefecture and the Battle of Haijiang.

I don't know what there are.

In short, there will be wars in Mobei, Northwest, Northern and Haijiang.

After receiving military merits, he will bear the brunt of the battle when the time comes.

If you dare to resist the decree and refuse to go, then your official position will come to an end.

This time, it was like a child's play. After three years of preparation, Shi Mei and Jia Lian made another raid.

In the next expedition, there will be thousands of mountains and rivers, so we won't have such good luck.

Then, the Xu family was very happy when they learned that their son-in-law was quickly ennobled after the engagement, and felt that Mrs. Chen had a real eye for seeing things, so she introduced them to a good son-in-law.

Before, I was a little disgusted that my son-in-law had no title.

This time, Jia Rong's mother-in-law went to Chen's house with a gift to thank Mrs. Chen.

Mrs. Chen is also very proud: "Their ancestors were the masters of the country on horseback. Even if the younger generations degenerate, they are still iron-blooded men."

Jia Rong's mother-in-law was [-]% satisfied before, but now she is very satisfied.

The key is that girls don't have to be angry with their in-laws.

Grandmother is very partial to it, no matter how you look at it.

Mrs. Xu went home and added a dowry of five thousand silver to the girl.

Ye Yun was also very happy. Not only was he happy that Jia Cong made contributions before he became an official, but he was also very grateful to Jia Cong.

This will be very beneficial for Ye Zheng and Jia Cong to become officials in the future.

In fact, Ye Zheng has long wanted to participate in the recruitment of guards.

However, Ye Yun always felt that Ye Zheng was still young and kept stopping him.

Now he can finally let Ye Zheng go out and make a living with peace of mind.

Because Jia Cong Yezheng did not become an official, he had no chance to be promoted, Yanhou decided to reward Jia Cong Yezheng with a cart of spoils for each of them.

Most of them are fur curios, and it is estimated that bandits traded them for nothing in the canal.

Ye Yun counted it, and estimated that it was worth five thousand silver.

In this way, Ziyezheng will have another dowry gift in the future when he marry a wife, at least there is no need to buy furs

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Therefore, Ye Yun added another worship to Jia Cong.

This husband who is a few months younger than him can be regarded as a real man.

The key is that Jia Cong not only paid her back, but also promoted her brother.

If Ye Zheng fought alone without the help of those in Jia's mansion, he would never dare to participate in the suppression of bandits.

Ye Yun also held Jia Cong to check his whole body, and there was no scar at all.

Ye Zheng was also alive and kicking, so she felt relieved.

Rong Ning two prefectures joined forces to put on a three-day wine show.

Ye Zheng also held a wine show at home for a day, Rongning and Ningfu, as well as colleagues who participated in the bandit suppression this time, all went to the banquet.

Although they are all fifth-rank and sixth-rank junior officers.

However, Ye Zheng was also extremely heroic in suppressing the bandits this time.In the future, when he becomes an official, he will never be squeezed out like his father.

Then, Bai Jintang also put on a wine show for a day, and Rong Ning's second residence went to the banquet again.

Yuxiu hugged her one-year-old grandson, smiling like a Maitreya Buddha.

She pulled Shi Mei, Zhang Shi, and Yang Shi to wipe away tears: "I never imagined that there will be today."

Shi Mei accepted Yuxiu's thanks calmly, and said with a smile: "Don't just talk about it, hurry up and take out all the delicious, delicious, and fun things, let us enjoy them."

Yuxiu became more and more happy, and directed his daughter-in-law Jia Ke: "Hurry up and serve up the good things you prepared."

Jia Xie's daughter-in-law was also full of smiles. The old ancestor was so invisible, which is why he treated the Bai son-in-law's family as outsiders.

The eighth day of the winter month this year.

Emperor Jiahe suddenly resumed the winter hunting feast.

Civil and military officials are a little confused, the abolished prince died less than a month ago, and Emperor Jiahe is in such a good mood?

Then, everyone discovered that it was not the same thing.

Emperor Jiahe had no future, but let the eldest prince and four princes and his sons preside over it.

Shuiyang python robe jade belt, sable cloak, following the fourth prince, heroic.

The eldest prince, the thirteenth prince, and the fourteenth prince can only take the car.

This time the royal family hunt will be carried out among the younger generation.

In the royal family, Shuiyang is the only remaining existence.

If it weren't for the fact that the clan's children were still in order, Shuiyang would have an exhibition match.

Shui Che followed behind his father, Yan Hou, and met Shui Yang just like that.

Shui Che looked at the emperor's grandson Shuiyang, and was stunned.

He looked at his father, his father's eyes were like a cold pool, bottomless.

Shui Che trembled a little, and he pressed his lips to stabilize his mind.

After waiting for the royal family's children to pass by, Shui Che looked at the opportunity and asked, "Father, what's going on?"

Yan Hou's eyes were piercing: "There are similarities between people, what's so strange? Keep up."

Along the way, Shui Che only felt that the fire was burning in his heart:

The mother was so ill, but the younger brother was safe and sound.

Shui Che looked at his father's figure with all kinds of emotions in his heart.

He suddenly felt that there was no normal person in the house except his mother.

This time, Shi Mei did not participate in the winter hunting feast.

She is a 60-year-old old lady, so she doesn't want to join in the fun.

Yang also asked for leave due to illness.

Rongfu Shuiling reported the childbirth, and Mrs. Zhang took Ye Yun to the event.

Then, Jia Rong's mother-in-law suddenly came to visit Ning Mansion in this spare time.

But he entrusted Yang Shi to be a matchmaker for his niece and daughter.

Speaking of which, this niece is a bit unlucky, and she was also a victim of the batch of show girls released last August.

Her niece is Qu Feng, 15 years old, and her father is a co-prefect in Henan.

When he was 13 years old, he said to the 15-year-old second son of Shangguan Zhang Zhifu's family.

This was originally a good relationship between the strong and the strong.

Unexpectedly, last year's batch of show girls returned and got married on their own.

The daughter of Zhang Gongzi's uncle's family is also listed here.

When she went to her aunt's house to relax, she actually wanted to rely on her aunt to talk about a marriage.

As a result, the aunt hadn't been a matchmaker yet, and the girl found a husband herself.

She met her cousin.

This cousin is Qu Feng's fiancé, Second Young Master Zhang.

Mr. Zhang and his cousin saw each other right, and they rubbed each other's ears.

That Wu Xiunv probably also wanted to take her husband away, but she actually got married in secret.

It was originally scheduled for the twelfth lunar month of this year, when the girl reaches her fifteenth birthday, and then the engagement letter will be read to see the wedding date.

As a result, just in October of this year, the Second Young Master Zhang went to Qu's house to withdraw the engagement by relying on his father's senior official position.

Zhang Zhifu and his wife were naturally not allowed.

Cousins ​​and brothers have skin-to-skin relations, and they are fighting to die or live.

The woman's father was just a county magistrate in Luotian, so he was naturally willing to marry the magistrate and indulge his wife and daughter.

In the end, the pair of wild mandarin ducks even threatened to elope if they were not allowed to get married.

Zhang Zhifu and his wife are also helpless, there are other children in the family.

Father and brother's official position face, also can't do without.

The parents couldn't strangle the child to death, so they had to agree to withdraw.

Qu Feng, who has no fault of wrongdoing.

Qu Tongzhi couldn't swallow this breath, and in a fit of anger, he resigned early and came to Beijing.

He found his sister's house, one is to seek another job, and the other is to say a good relationship to his daughter.

Although it was the man's fault.

However, for the girl who divorced, the other party is still the magistrate, and the girl stays in Henan Mansion, so it is difficult to talk about a good marriage.

Mrs. Xu has taken a fancy to Ye Zheng.

She repeatedly assured that her niece, Qu Feng, was definitely a pure and good-looking woman no matter how capable, skilled and gentle she was.

Yang went to Rongfu to chat with Shimei.

After all, Ye Zheng is Shi Mei's grandson.

This granddaughter-in-law, Shi Mei also has the right to refer.

When Shi Mei heard the story about getting on the boat first and then going up the slope, and then heard that Qu Tongzhi was a two-ranked Jinshi, a scholar from generation to generation, she probably had a good idea of ​​Qu Feng's temperament in her heart.

Probably Miss Qu Feng is too upright to please her fiancé.

Ye Zheng's family has no elders, and they just need a stable daughter-in-law.

This Ye Zheng is not good at reading, and the daughter-in-law comes from a scholarly background.

This girl was let down by others, Ye Zheng didn't dislike her, and was willing to accept, the girl would be more grateful, and the father-in-law would take special care of her.

This is a rare good relationship for the helpless family of the Ye family.

Shi Mei already liked three points in her heart, and said: "It's best to arrange a meeting, and finally listen to Cong's daughter-in-law's opinion."

Mrs. Yang went back to answer Mrs. Xu: "Our old lady thinks it is feasible, but Ye Zheng's sister needs to nod for this matter.

Ye Zheng only has two siblings, and she has to listen to her sister's opinion on marriage. "

Mrs. Xu said: "It's natural, it's better to have two surnames in marriage."

Yang said: "It's already the twelfth lunar month, our aunt agreed, and will naturally pass the message to my nephew and daughter-in-law.

My mother-in-law went back to celebrate the New Year with peace of mind, and waited for our family to treat us in the first month. At that time, my mother-in-law took two girls to the house as guests.

At that time, I will meet you by the way, it will be good if it is, but if it is not, the girl is just visiting relatives, and there is no hindrance, do you think it is okay? "

Mrs. Xu was very grateful: "My mother-in-law's arrangements are really comprehensive."

After returning home, Mrs. Xu was so happy that she added a [-]-acre orchard to the girl's dowry list.

It was agreed at the beginning that Jia Rong would hire [-] silver, and the girl's dowry would also be [-].

This is already very rich in ordinary people.

Now that they are added one after another, Miss Xu's dowry is no more than [-] yuan.