In the twelfth year of Taiping, the fourteenth day of the first month. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It was already noon, but the sky was still gloomy, and a few drizzles fell from time to time, which made this early spring cold and cold. Despite the New Year's holiday, the price of charcoal is rising, and the practice of burning coal instead of charcoal has started to rise in Kyoto.

The Protector's Mansion thought that the coal fire was easy to produce ash smoke, and still burned the charcoal in the east of the street.

Four large charcoal basins were burned in the corners of the main hall, which made the room warm. Old Madam Zhao was standing at the desk with a frown, checking her grandson Zhou Yanzhi's homework.

She finished reading the manuscript in her hand at a glance and ten lines, and finally stretched her brows, and said: "The day before yesterday, Lord Song also said that your articles are more than practical, and your literary talent is insufficient, so let you practice ten articles at home according to the "Book of Literature" these days, and now it has been two days, you have only written these articles, you have to work hard!" ”

Zhou Yanzhi has a handsome face, he has just turned sixteen this year, but his figure is already very tall. When the charcoal was burned in the room, he wore only a royal blue homely brocade robe.

Listening to his grandmother's lecture, he did not refute, only smiled, and answered twice from time to time.

Zhou Qin, who was sitting on the couch next to him, looked at Zhou Yanzhi's smiling face, although he was carrying a warm soup woman in his arms, his heart was heavy and cold.

In the previous life, this was the last time the eldest brother saw him.

Tomorrow is the Shangyuan Festival, and she will be invited to ride in a carriage with the princess of Wei to watch the lanterns. When the carriage and horses were halfway there, the two tame mares were suddenly frightened and galloped, and the guards could not stop them.

Zhou Qin and the princess's personal maid tried to pull the reins, but they were thrown out of the carriage, leaving the princess of Wei alone in the carriage.

The maid fell to her death on the spot, but Zhou Qin miraculously only broke her arm.

The Shangyuan Festival was the time to watch the lanterns, and the crowd on the street followed one after another, and it took a quarter of an hour for the officers and soldiers to find the fallen horse corpse and the empty carriage by the sour date gate.

At that time, Empress Dowager Tian, who was listening to the government, was furious, and issued an order to summon Zhou Qin, reprimanding her for "disloyalty and unrighteousness", and imprisoning her in the palace.

It was another two hours before the princess was found in the wilderness outside the city, unclothed and unconscious. And Zhou Yanzhi was inexplicably drowned in the Jinshui River outside the city when he was privately investigating the robbery of Princess Wei in the middle of the night, hoping to clear his sister's stigma.

The final result of this incident was that the only remaining male in the Protectorate Mansion, Zhou Yan, the second son of Mrs. Zhao, was ordered by Yi to return to the only daughter of Empress Dowager Tian, Princess Wei Guo.

When the old lady Zhao learned of this letter, she didn't come up with the breath that she had held on for several days, and fainted for a while, and the house was in a mess. When I finally invited a doctor, I was diagnosed with a stroke, and the ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum were used to hang for a few months, but I still went.

Because the horse was not allowed to participate in politics and wanted to return to Beijing to serve his mother's illness, Zhou Yan had no choice but to resign from the post of general of Guide and leave the northern land that the Zhou family had run for decades. At this point, the famous Zhou Jiajun was quickly divided into pieces by the people transferred by the Empress Dowager Tian.

Until Zhou Qin was dying, the Criminal Division did not find out the villains who robbed the princess.

After the princess of Wei State got married, Tai lived in the palace for half a time, and almost never summoned the concubine, and her marriage with Zhou Yan existed in name only.

Zhou Qin exhaled slowly, loosening his sweaty hand that was tightly clinging to the soup woman.

It doesn't matter, she hasn't gotten into the carriage of the princess of Wei yet.

My brother didn't die, and neither did my grandmother!

She has not yet been married by the princess of Wei to the young son of the Tongchuan assassin who has been bedridden since childhood;

She has not yet become a widow;

She has not yet been strangled to death by her mother-in-law's henchmen.

It's still too late to get back.

She breathed a sigh of relief, straightened up, and said with a smile: "Grandmother, my brother has finally returned home, so you can let him rest for a few days." ”

Zhou Yanzhi listened to Zhou Qin's words, and hurriedly moved the chair for Mrs. Zhao, "Grandmother, don't always stand, sit for a while, the weather is so cold, be careful that your legs are sour." ”

Old Madam Zhao was taking advantage of the situation to sit down, but when she saw Mama Meng, who was waiting for her, walked in, she excused her and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Mama Meng smiled and said: "Old lady, the people from Ma Xing have come to discuss this year's rules with you, and I am afraid that it will be half an hour after waiting in the ear room, do you want to send them back first?" ”

Old Madam Zhao thought for a while and said, "I'll go now." While calling Zhou Qin's nickname, "Aunt Xian will go with me?" ”

The Gokoku Prefecture monopolized the horse shops in Kyoto Castle, and resold all kinds of horses from the northern land to enter the customs, and at the beginning of the year, the rules of the year were set at the beginning of the year. Zhou Qin will be thirteen years old this year, and Mrs. Zhao began to take her housekeeper half a year ago, and now she has slowly begun to contact foreign affairs.

In her previous life, Zhou Qin followed her to see the steward, and when she came back, Zhou Yanzhi was no longer in the mansion, and he did not return to the mansion until the night of the Shangyuan Festival.

Zhou Qin clenched his right hand, raised his head and showed an embarrassed smile, and said, "Grandmother, I want to accompany my brother today, but I haven't seen him for more than half a month." ”

In her last life, she thought about it over and over again for four years.

Is it all a coincidence or a conspiracy of traitors? If it was a coincidence, why did all the misfortunes land in the Protectorate Mansion; If it is a conspiracy, who is going to use the princess of Wei to make this design, and what role did the princess and the queen mother play in this series of events.

She didn't figure it out until she died.

After nearly 100 years of operation, the tree fell and scattered.

Three generations of heroes and martyrs in the Protectorate Mansion are one of the best families in the Great Wei Dynasty, her great-grandfather Lao Huguo Gong and Emperor Taizu raised righteousness together, and after supporting Taizu to ascend the throne, he took the initiative to hand over the military power, in exchange for the hereditary title of the family and 20,000 households to enjoy the land. Later, due to the invasion of the northern captives, the old protector of the country was temporarily reinstated in the year of the sixtieth year, and died in the north.

Her grandfather Zhou Xin inherited his father's will, spent decades on the border, finally led the army to defeat the northern captives, and was returning to Kyoto with his eldest son to restore his life, but he ran into King Su to rebel, and the father and son were hacked to death by the rebels in order to protect Emperor Taizong.

My mother was pregnant with Rokka at the time, and when she heard the news, she was born prematurely, and she died twice.

King Su attempted to rebel, but dragged Taizong to death, and almost killed the princes and grandsons in the palace. The court couldn't, so it had to support the only remaining prince, Zhao Xian, who was not yet eight years old, as the emperor.

Zhao Xian's biological mother was only the maid of Queen Tian before Chengen, and she gave birth to a dragon son, but she only got the title of a beauty. She came from a humble background and had no support, and before she knew that her son was about to ascend the throne, she died violently.

As a result, Zhao Xian succeeded to the throne, changed the year name to Taiping, and Empress Tian listened to the government.

Zhou Yan took over the title of Duke of Huguo and stayed in the north to defend the border.

Standing in the court for hundreds of years, if there are any enemies in the Protectorate Mansion, it is really impossible to count. In addition to the northern Tartars who hated them so much, there were also officials with conflicting interests in the court, and the nobles and wealthy people in Kyoto Castle who received horses, tea, and silk income from the princely mansions.

However, after all, the Protector Mansion is a prosperous family, with deep roots, Mrs. Zhao has always governed the family strictly, and the Protector Mansion is strict and meticulous.

The persimmons are picked up and pinched, and the soft persimmons at home are probably the young and ignorant themselves, and the brother Zhou Yanzhi who is not too defenseless.