Mrs. Wuding Hou was wearing a dark purple-bottomed autumn shirt with peony flowers and a round bun, which was very clean and neat.
Mrs. Wang asked her to go to the flower hall to speak.
"...I heard that Miss Zhang is very smart and virtuous.
I came here today to be a matchmaker for Miss Zhang.”
Mrs. Wu Dinghou took a sip of hot tea and smiled kindly: "Pan Xu, the second son of the Pan family, is very talented, has a good family background and a good temperament, and is the most compatible with our lady.
His mother and I were cousins ​​and trusted, so I asked me to go there.
If you feel satisfied, I will go back to the Pan family, and the parents of both sides will meet officially and make a marriage for the two children..."
It turned out that Mrs. Wuding came to propose marriage to the Pan family, and Wang felt very happy.
Mrs. Pan really valued Sijie. Last time the two agreed, the matchmaker came to the door just to go for a scene, but invited Mrs. Wuding Hou.
What is this person’s identity? The first-class imperial edict.
Wang smiled and said, "I have met Mr. Pan, and I am indeed a rare good child."
That's the case, I'll trouble Mrs. Hou."
When Mrs. Wu Dinghou saw that Wang agreed, he humorously said, "The first time I became a matchmaker, I encountered such reasonableness as you... I was so lucky."
"You are kind."
Wang arranged for lunch and asked the girl to invite Ning and Gu to come and accompany Mrs. Wuding Hou to wipe the domino.
Mrs. Wu Dinghou had a good relationship with the Gu family in Daxing and knew Gu Han. When she saw her, she was very kind and asked her questions.
"Looking at your sharp belly, you're probably pregnant with a boy."
Gu Han smiled and said, "Boys and girls are all good, I like them all."
Brother Chun also stretched out his little hand and touched Gu Han's belly, and asked, "Aunt San, when can my younger brother play with me?"
Gu Han thought about time and rubbed Chun Ge'er's hair: "...It's time for the Chinese New Year."
The child was born almost in the twelfth lunar month.
Brother Chun probably understood, nodded seriously, and said happily: "Aunt San, I'm waiting for my brother to set off firecrackers with me."
Ning smiled and pulled her son back: "Young brother won't set off firecrackers with you, and you are not allowed to set off, it's so dangerous.
Besides, my younger brother is still young and will cry if he is scared.”
Brother Chun tilted his head and looked at his mother, but he didn't want to give up: "...Is it OK to wait until my younger brother grows up?"
Everyone in the room was amused and laughed.
Mrs. Wu Dinghou spoke to Wang enviously: "You are a blessing. Look at the family of children and grandchildren, how great..." Her children have not yet been married.
Wang smiled and waved to his grandson, "I have any big worries, no matter how much I am, I feel excited when I see this little naughty."
Gu Han looked at Brother Chun and was envious.
Who doesn’t like smart and lively children?
After lunch, Mrs. Wuding Hou went back.
Wang found Zhang Xiu and told him that the Pan family wanted to meet them.
Of course, Zhang Xiu agreed. It was a great thing for a girl to marry into the Pan family, and he felt glorious.
"...Ange'er is getting older and older. The third brother is one year younger than him, and the child is almost born."
Zhang Xiu said to his wife: "You shouldn't go to Qian's family to break the engagement. I won't tell you that An Ge'er's reputation is bad. I can't even raise my head when I see Mr. Qian..."
Mrs. Wang felt depressed and did not dare to answer.
She also thought about her second son... Who would have expected that things would evolve to this point today.
She said, "My cousin's legitimate daughter, Xijie'er, is sixteen years old.
I met her last year, and she was falling like flowers and jade, but she had not yet gotten engaged.
Once Sister Si'er's side is finished, I will go to the trip myself.
An Ge'er is promising, and I believe they are willing to betroth the girl to our family..."
Zhang Xiu disagreed and asked his wife: "Are you talking about the Gusu Lin family?"
Wang nodded: "They sell tea now and their business is getting bigger. The local government's daily drinking is designated to be taken from my cousin's store."
“No matter what, I’m just a businessman.
A stinking smell of money."
Zhang Xiu said: "Ange'er passed the exam and had a smooth journey. When he got married, he had to choose from a Kyoto family... the girl's family must be able to help him."
Seeing that her husband suddenly became stern, Wang's attitude softened and whispered: "It's because I'm not thinking well... Don't worry, husband, I will do what you want."
On autumn afternoons, everything is lazy, with just the right amount of warmth.
In the Ganqing Palace.
Zhu Youwangzheng summoned Gu Lin alone.
The rest of the idle people retreated.
"... My dear, is the fact written in your memorial?"
Gu Lin knelt down: "Every sentence is true.
If Your Majesty doesn’t believe it, Yuan Shaohong will be in the Ministry of Justice’s Prison, and you can personally review it.”
Zhu Youwang narrowed his eyes and didn't say anything for a long time.
A palace maid came in with a golden lacquer plate, and a sandalwood burner was placed on it, which was lit by clouds.
"I have a good son."
Zhu You slammed the table in a angrily way, "I am not satisfied with the rich clothes and food, but I even ignore the lives of my people..."
Gu Lin lowered his head and said nothing.
Zhu Youwang got angry and looked at Gu Lin: "My dear, please get up."
Gu Lin thanked him and stood aside.
Zhu You called the eunuch in and gave him to Gu Lin to move the slaughter and pour tea.
"Sage, I have a saying... I don't know whether to speak or not."
"you say."
"... Now it has been found out that Yang Ge Lao has nothing to do with the Fujian private salt case. Is it okay..."
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhu Youlang: "Don't worry about Yang Siyuan's affairs.
I have other plans.”
He said again: "Yuan Shaohong's case will be settled here, so what should he do to carry out the law?
The mess of Ning King...I will clean up."
King Ning was his youngest son Zhu Gaoyi, born by Concubine Ling, and was raised by Concubine Xian.
I don’t like poetry and prose, but I only like to dance with guns and sticks.
But he is filial and polite, and he also loves him from the bottom of his heart.
It is difficult to violate the holy order, so Gu Lin had to bow down.
The emperor is the person who needs the most face. No matter how big the Prince Ning makes, he will not announce it to the world...
As soon as Gu Lin left, Zhu Youwang's face became gloomy. He waved his hand and asked someone to call Zhu Gaoyi over.
"Father."
Zhu Gaoyi knelt down and greeted Zhu Youwang, and said, "My mother stewed black chicken soup for you. Let me ask you, when will you go?"
The mother he mentioned was the biological mother of Concubine Xian and Zhu Gaozhi.
Zhu You looked at him, did not let him get up, nor did he answer his words, but asked back: "Have you gone to Concubine Xian?"
This is my old age, and I look like a child, and I am only seventeen years old.
How could he participate in the Fujian private salt case?
Or is someone instigating him secretly?
Zhu Gaoyi said "yes" and added: "The third brother is here too."
Zhu You smiled: "...You are filial."
Zhu Gaoyi laughed and stood up as he said: "Father, we are also filial to you."
Zhu Youwang drank tea with a white jade bowl: "Is that true?"
"Of course."
"Is earning people's hard-earned money is also considered filial piety?"
Zhu Gaoyi was stunned, "Father, I don't understand what you are talking about?"
"Also pretend?"
Zhu Youwang picked up the memorial and threw it at his youngest son, "Where are white and black words, how can you make a quibble?"
Zhu Gaoyi was stunned by the smashing, so he reached out to pick up the note that hit him and fell to the ground, and looked through it.
The more you look at Jun's eyebrows become tighter, and at the end, he kneeled down at Zhu Youwang with a "splash": "Father, someone is slandering Erchen, it must be slandering him... Erchen doesn't know Yuan Shaohong at all."
"...If you lie, you have to go through your mind and then speak..." Zhu You cursed: "You can read clearly what is written on it. Every time you have instructions, the connector takes your seal... How can this be adulterated?
He also framed you..."
"seal?"
Zhu Gaoyi's eyes were tightened. Didn't his seal be kept by his mother?
When Zhu Youwang saw that his youngest son didn't speak, he thought he had poked his sore spot, and he was even more angry: "Damn it, when did I have short of your food and clothing?"
Are you short of money?”
"Father, I really didn't do it... You believe in me."
"It's time, you won't admit it."
Zhu Youwang grabbed the inkstone and smashed him. Zhu Gaoyi didn't dodge. The inkstone swept over his forehead, and a sharp pain came...
Zhu Gaoyi touched the blood of a hand.
Zhu You's anger has not yet subsided: "From tomorrow, you don't have to stay in Kyoto... Go to the northwest to find your second brother."
King Wu Zhu Gaohua is Zhu Youwang's second son. After he turned 16, he followed Zhu Gaodong's uncle to fight south and north.
Zhu Gaoyi couldn't believe it: "You asked me to go to the military camp."
“What’s wrong?”
Zhu You said coldly: "Didn't you say that you have mastered a good martial arts all day long?
It wouldn’t be a pity not to go to the military camp?”
After he finished speaking, he didn't even look at his younger son, "You go back."
Zhu Gaoyi did not leave and murmured: "...Why don't you believe me?"
Zhu Youwang couldn't bear it after all, so he asked the palace maid to invite the imperial physician to show him.
Zhu Gaoyi looked at the father's departure back, wiped his face with his hands, got up and left Qianqing Palace.
The palace ladies and eunuchs looked at each other, and no one dared to stop them.
There was a lot of laughter and joy in Chonghua Palace.
Zhu Gaozhi was talking with Concubine Xian. When it was interesting, the mother and son both smiled happily.
Zhu Gaoyi stood under the corridor and listened for a while, and stopped the palace maid who was about to inform him.
It took a long time before I walked in.
"Yi'er, what's wrong with you?"
Concubine Xian was drinking tea, and when she looked up, she saw Zhu Gaoyi, so scared that she couldn't even hold the cup.
Zhu Gaozhi also noticed him, stood up and asked, "What's wrong?"
As he spoke, he asked the palace maid to bandage Zhu Gaoyi with medicine cloth.
Zhu Gaoyi didn't refuse either, but just raised his eyes to look at Concubine Xian, with black eyes not moving.
"This kid, you talk."
Concubine Xian took a brocade handkerchief to wipe the blood from Zhu Gaoyi’s face: “Don’t scare my mother…” She looked heartbroken.
Zhu Gaoyi closed his eyes: "Mother, do you really love me?
Just like you are with the third brother.”
Zhu Gaozhi's eyebrows moved and his handsome eyebrows frowned.
"Silly kid, what are you doing?
Is there someone in the palace who is gossiping again?"
Concubine Xian sighed, "The Empress is really, I don't care."
Zhu Gaoyi stubbornly: "Mother, please tell me, how are you?"
Seeing that he was stubborn, Concubine Xian tried to speak: "Although you are not my biological child, when I raised you, you were not yet full term, just like a cat... Over the years, you should have a clear idea of ​​how I treated you.
You have everything your third brother has, and you have what he doesn’t have…”
Zhu Gaoyi seemed to be moved, and his eyes flashed: "Then, where is my seal?"
Concubine Xian stiffened, "...Where do you want to save it yourself in the mother's place?"
"Need not."
Zhu Gaoyi sat on the skull and reached out to hold Concubine Xian's hand, "Mother, why did the private salt case in Fujian involve children?
I have never done anything.
The father doesn't believe what his son said at all..."
Before Concubine Xian spoke, Zhu Gaozhi asked, "What else did the father say?"
Zhu Gaoyi shook his head: "There is nothing else."
He looked at Zhu Gaozhi: "By the way, my father said they used my seal to connect the head... I just couldn't figure it out.
I have not married yet and the things are kept by my mother... How could my seal appear where they?
Could it be that my mother did it?"
The language is naive.
Zhu Gaoyi understood that he said it on purpose.
He is a child who grew up in the palace and is used to flattering me and cheating me.
In order to gain benefits, he was willing to harm each other... When he heard his father say the seal, his back was already cold.
"What are you talking nonsense?"
Zhu Gaozhi scolded him: "How could the mother do that!"
Concubine Xian also waved her hand in a hurry: "Yi'er, how could the mother mother harm you..."
Zhu Gaoyi turned his head and stared at Concubine Xian, but asked Zhu Gaozhi: "Third brother, you are a smart person. Please think about it for me, what's going on?"
Concubine Xian was stared at and her whole body was furrowed and she couldn't say a word.
Zhu Gaozhi glanced at his mother and said, "No matter what, you should trust your mother."
Zhu Gaoyi filled his cup of hot tea and drank it all in one go: "I believe?"
He was in a mess.
Concubine Xian is used to loving him... Concubine Xian is taking care of his daily food, clothing and consumption.
But what about seal matters?
"Mother, I will go to the Northwest Military Camp from tomorrow."
Zhu Gaoyi's expression on his face was very light.
"Why?"
Concubine Xian seemed to be shocked: "...Yi'er, the northwest is deserted, what are you doing there?"
"The father asked me to go."
Zhu Gaoyi said: "...Punish me."
"no."
Concubine Xian walked out as she spoke: "I'll go to the emperor and let him take back his life.
You're still so small..."
Zhu Gaoyi stretched out his arm to stop him: "Mother, I have agreed."
He looked at Concubine Xian without blinking: "This world is really unfair. It's not what I do, but I have to bear the consequences."
There was an indescribable sadness in his tone.
Concubine Xian frowned beautifully, glared at Zhu Gaozhi fiercely, and said to Zhu Gaoyi softly: "No, Mother will help you."
"Mother, I want to hear the truth...it doesn't matter what kind of truth."
Zhu Gaoyi looked at the Xian Guifei who wanted to speak but stopped and suddenly felt tired.
He bowed and left without looking back.
The room was quiet.
Concubine Xian waved and slapped Zhu Gaozhi in the face until she could no longer see Zhu Gaoyi's back: "You lied to me!"
"Mother..."
Zhu Gaozhi was stunned. His mother actually beat him for Zhu Gaoyi!
"...Didn't you say that even if the matter is revealed, you can handle it yourself and will not implicate your fourth brother?"
"Mother's wife."
Zhu Gaozhi bowed: "It's my son who was wrong."
“What’s the use of saying these words?
Yi'er is going to the northwest.
The child I raised in my hand actually went to the border to suffer... I watched him grow up day by day, so why would he bear to leave suddenly!"
Concubine Xian thought, her eyes turned red: "How old is he? He is still a child."
"Mother, don't worry."
Zhu Gaozhi felt sad when he saw his mother's sadness: "My fourth brother has been to me. In the future, when my wishes come true, I will repay him."
He will not let go of Gu Lin, Zhang Juling, and Yang Ruo!
"Mother knows that you have ambition, so she obeys your will.
We shouldn't do whatever you ask your mother to do... But we shouldn't do this for Yi'er.
It hurt his heart so much."
Concubine Xian reached out to touch her son's face: "It's not that the mother's mother insisted on blaming you. You brothers grew up together... they are all the mother's treasures.
The palms and backs of hands are all flesh.
How can there be internal strife?
We can't plot against each other, we must form a group.
My mother has no power in her family, but she has the advantage of you two brothers.
No matter what happens to Prince Yu, he is only alone.”
Zhu Gaozhi nodded: "Mother, my son knows it."
"Good boy."
Concubine Xian burst into tears: "I will beg your father again, and try not to let Yi'er go to the northwest..."
"Mother, you don't know the nature of your father. What he decided has never changed.
Why don’t you find any joy?”
"I always have to try it, otherwise I will feel uneasy."
Chapter completed!