Chapter 40: Unfathomable

The female dependents of Wuwei Houfu, except for Pei Yan, a girl in the serious Hou Mansion, there is only Wuwei Hou's wife Yang. The day after tomorrow, the daughter of Pei Mansion passed the Qin Mansion, and Nian Fan thought to herself, it was about Mrs. Yang to come with Wu Wei to pick up Pei Gu back to the house.

It's a pity that they will be picked up in a few days.

Sui Fan and Hui Zhi took their homework, and said goodbye to Jiang Caiqiong and went to Jiamutang. Jiang Caiqiong asked people to make a cup of hot tea, sat in the Jingxian Hall and quietly took out a book to read.

Time seems to pass quickly - the last time the two senior brothers, she and her junior sister sat together and were still warm in the valley. At that time, she and Nuan Nuan were still talking about the topic: "The fragrance of the master's new tune is really sweet" or "There is a flower growing in the bamboo forest, which looks good." ”

And the two senior brothers will probably only talk about how to refine one move and one style at most, where will it be like today, one of the six departments is in the right to give things, and the other is seeking a position.

Even Nuan Nuan can fluently recite the "value of things and images, and let the ground be shaped." Because of the encounter, the pollution is dyed. Indulge in Haoran, why worry about what camp? Such a sentence. It was as if all of a sudden, there was an indelible chasm between them and her.

Or, in the beginning, this chasm was there, but she didn't care, right?

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After sending Pei Gu back to the front yard, Qin Yuan paced to the door of his father's study. Qin Weien saw him and asked him to invite him into the house.

After Qin Yuan sat down, he got straight to the point: "Wu Weihou wants to plan for Pei Gu to be a lack of Yulin guards with swords. ”

Qin Weien's eyes flickered silently: "In your opinion, the misinformation about Pei Gu in the capital over the years is true or false?" ”

"I think it's mostly fake. However," Qin Yuan muttered slightly, "Even if it's fake, I'm afraid it's useful." Three points true and seven points false, such rumors can be believed. ”

Qin Weien nodded.

The Empress Dowager's reward is true, and Pei Gu only needs a treasure knife, so everyone in the capital says that Pei Gu is a fool and doesn't know elegance. But the truth of the matter should be -- that treasure knife has another hidden secret.

The fact that Pei Gu spent a lot of money to buy a sword is probably very similar to this matter.

Qin Weien didn't think much about it, but he heard Qin Yuan continue: "When General Xiao was young, he entered Mobei, captured the younger brother of the Mongolian Khan, and came back with a lot of treasures. ”

Twenty years ago, the First Battle of Mobei not only made the Great Zhou and Mongolia draw a clear line in the north with the weak water river north of the Loess City, but also ensured the stability of the Great Periphery for 20 years. In the First World War of that year, General Xiao lost his young son, and after returning to Beijing, he resigned and returned to the clan dozens of miles away from the capital to live his life.

At that time, the emperor also personally gave the plaque of "loyal ministers and good generals". Today's Xiao family, except for the crown princess's biological father who is still stationed on the frontier and holds a little military power in his hands, the entire huge Xiao family is like a tiger with its teeth pulled out, and it will no longer be majestic that day.

"The captured Mongolian scimitar may have something to do with the death of General Xiao Xiao back then."

Qin Weien was noncommittal, he had also heard about it back then. When General Xiao took his youngest son to the battlefield together, the girl of the Xiao family, Pei Gu's biological mother, Xiao Shi, was not yet married. The young people in the capital have heard that Xiao Qi, the general of Xiao Xiao, promised his sister to be married: "When I win this battle, I will definitely use the Tartar in my hand, take the treasure knife that they will not leave in my hand, and press the box for my sister!" ”

Xiao Qi went to the battlefield, fought bravely, and several times the lone army went deep into the Mongolian royal court to burn grain and grass, and attacked and annihilated countless Mongolian relatives and nobles, but he did not expect to be counterattacked by the little Mongolian prince at the final victory juncture and lost his life.

The treasure knife was brought back by General Xiao, but he failed to give it to his daughter for his youngest son, but directly confiscated it with the captured property and entered the imperial treasury.

When he became famous, Xiao was already Pei's wife, and after hearing the news that his brother died on the battlefield, he fainted from crying, and he had not eaten for many days, and he almost lost his fragrance.

Sister and brother love is deep, and everyone in the capital knows it.

It's just that twenty years have passed, and a rumor that is true or false seems to be like a joke about the deep love between the Xiao sisters and brothers back then.

Pei Gu was filial piety, and asked the Empress Dowager for the treasure knife in the hands of the Mongolian prince who Xiao Qi beheaded that year, and gave it to his mother. It's like fulfilling the unfulfilled promise he had in mind for his little uncle he had never met, but he didn't want to be used by others, and was rumored by the families in the capital.

It's ridiculous, it's sad.

Fortunately, Wu Weihou still loves Pei Gu very much - the position of the guard with a sword in the Royal Forest Army is not high, and it is not low. The disadvantage is that it is hard, but it is good to enter and leave the court, and there are many opportunities to get acquainted with important ministers in the court, and it is also a great blessing to be able to see Tianwei one day.

But most of the sons of the family, on the contrary, like to go to the military camp in the suburbs of Beijing to mix idle jobs, go over every once in a while, look for flowers and willows, and spend all day and wine.

Qin Weien asked again, do you know which palace Wu Weihou wants to go to for Pei Gu?

Qin Yuan replied to his senses: "It's probably Wenyuan Pavilion, or Wuying Palace." ”

Qin Weien understood. Wu Weihou really attached great importance to cultivation to Pei Gu. Then the people who spread rumors behind the scenes may not achieve their goals.

Wu Weihou only has one son under his knees, and he invited the prince as soon as possible, if because of the rumors in Beijing, plus some seemingly nonexistent "crimes", if Wu Weihou does not understand his son clearly, I am afraid that Pei Gu will lose the name of the son sooner or later.

At that time, the only one who will benefit the most will be the Yang family behind the Yang family.

It can be seen that since Shen Guifei arranged for the Yang family to marry into Wuwei Houfu, she planned these things - erasing the identity of Pei Gu's son, supporting the son born to the Yang family, and coming and going, Wuwei Hou's power will also be attached to Shen Guifei; The Wuwei Hou Pei family was born in the military, and still has its own majesty and followers in the army in the south, and the Yang family holds most of the military power in the northeast. After such a game of chess, the military power that governs half of the country will be linked to the Shen family.

Not to mention Shen Guifei's eldest brother Shen Jinrong, he is about to order Langzhong. The power of the Shen family is about to reach the point where it is difficult for the royal family to control.

Qin Weien's brows furrowed together. The Shen family played such a big game of chess, and the girls of the Qin Mansion entered the palace, and even with the Qin family, they would become unpredictable.