Chapter 3

This proves that the eldest lady is not as 'virtuous and generous' as she seems on the surface.

Originally, a little third child is enough, a room full of little third children and illegitimate children, the key is that the eldest lady can't make any complaints, because that's the expression of 'good jealousy', a jealous woman is not officially recognized in this era, but the third child is full, and which lady of the main house will like it?

"The master is coming back soon, let's all sit down."

After Sun said such a sentence, he drank tea by himself, Pan Xiao sat under her, picked up a five-petal flower snack delicately, covered his face with his sleeve, bit off a mouthful the size of a fingernail, and put it in his mouth to taste, which was very elegant.

Pan Chen stood behind Liu's family, staring hungrily at a stack of fragrant honey cakes in Pan Xiao's hand, and then looked at a few pieces of colored white flour cakes placed on the coffee table shared by Liu's and Yu's, which looked good-looking, but in fact they were just some colored gnocchi, and it could be seen from the snacks on the people that they were waiting for three, six, nine, and so on, fortunately they would eat the noodles later, otherwise Pan Chen really wanted to be cheeky and have a snack.

Everyone in the house waited for about half a pillar of incense, and the people in the porter began to sing one by one, and the master returned.

Pan Tan strode into the flower hall, thirty-six or seventeen years old, with deep and handsome facial features, two beards, adding to the elegance of a middle-aged scribe, and his body was full of bookish air, but his face was not very good at the moment.

The eldest son Pan Qin and the second son Pan Qin followed, after entering, Pan Qin followed Pan Yu with Pan Zhen to the eldest lady Sun kneeling and asking for peace, Sun heard Pan Tan's singing back to the house, he had already gotten off the soft couch, personally went to the door to greet him, raised his hand to the two saluting children, glanced at Pan Tan, who silently took the warm handkerchief handed by the maid to wipe his hands, seeing that he frowned deeply, Sun whispered to Pan Yu and asked:

"What's going on?"

Pan Tan's temper is not bad, at least he won't deliberately put on his face, something must have happened today.

Pan Yu glanced at Pan Tan, and then whispered back to his mother: "The Qi family wants to rebel, and they have already set up another flag in the Northern Desert." ”

The Sun family is well-informed and knowledgeable, and he also knows a lot about current political affairs on weekdays, how could he not know who the Qi family is, and immediately said in surprise: "What? How so? Hasn't the Qi family always been loyal to the king? Isn't there some misunderstanding? ”

Over the years, everyone knows that the country is not peaceful inside and outside, the imperial court often recruits soldiers, the water robbers in the southwest, the horse thieves in the north, and the dog Rong Xixia are eyeing each other. Fortunately, Ning has the Qi clan in town, the internal suppression of the water thief, the outer royal dog Rong Xixia, invincible, invincible, so that the people of Ning can enjoy peace, Cheng Engong under the command of the fierce general like a cloud, with soldiers like a god, the water thief and the horse thief fled in the wilderness, the dog Rong Xixia did not dare to attack, so how can the loyal and patriotic Qi family rebel?

Pan Yu was young and more spirited, and immediately replied: "What kind of misunderstanding, all the flags have been burned and set up separately, can there be any misunderstanding?" The Qi clan has crossed the dangerous river, and the hundreds of thousands of troops have broken through the Shanhai Pass, and they are about to capture Baoding. ”

This...... It's really not a misunderstanding.

"I reported it three times, how did I know it at this time?" Sun asked.

Pan Yu looked embarrassed and whispered: "The emperor has newly accepted a beauty, and he hasn't been to the court for more than ten days, and the news can't be transmitted......"

"......" Sun actually had nothing to say.

Pan Tan finished wiping his hands and went directly into the inner room, Pan Yu and Pan Qin followed, Sun was a little flustered, and he didn't care about so many people in the hall, so he also followed.

The concubines looked at each other, not daring to make a noise, even if they didn't understand what it was to burn the flag and set up another one, but 'the Qi family wants to rebel' Everyone can still understand, rebellion is equivalent to war, war is equivalent to no longer having peaceful days, for a while, everyone was in danger, and quietly gathered together with frightened eye contact.

Taking advantage of the chaos, Pan Chen stood quietly behind Aunt Wang, who was sitting closest to the inner room, and Pan Chen could vaguely hear the voice of the inner room.

"The Qi family is serious this time, Qi Zhengyang has long had a heart of disobedience, the emperor has said a few times openly and secretly, but it has little effect, this time he simply sent a dead man to assassinate Qi Zhengyang, I originally wanted that after Qi Zhengyang died, the sons of the Qi family fought among themselves, taking advantage of the situation to weaken the power of the Qi family, but I didn't expect ......"

This is the voice of Pan Tan.

Sun immediately judged: "The emperor is confused, how can Qi Zhengyang be so easy to assassinate, and his sons are by no means idle, this move is too risky." ”

Pan Tan seemed to agree with Sun's words: "Yes, I also advised the emperor at the time, but the emperor insisted on going his own way, and finally annoyed the Qi family, and the assassination was not successful, but he grabbed a traitor to the Qi family, and listened to the report from the post station, saying that the Qi family had divided the troops into Wanping, and the official road escorted those assassins into Beijing to confront him. ”

After Pan Tan's words, there was a silence inside, and after a long time, Sun asked in a slightly trembling voice:

"Will you call Jiankang?"

This sentence is also what Pan Chen wants to ask.

Pan Chen was born in a peaceful era, he just wants to be safe and secure here for a lifetime, and this kind of thing is uncertain, although Pan Tan is the prime minister and has a high power, but the two armies clashed, and he killed a person who was powerful and powerful.

Pan Tan was silent.

Silence means that as long as the negotiation fails, then it will be a matter of time before the Qi family hits Jiankang.

A catastrophe is coming, everyone in the Pan family is in danger, where is there still the mind of gathering people to eat, but the dishes are ready anyway, and it is a waste not to eat, Sun simply asked people to send them to each courtyard separately, Lixiangyuan was divided into dishes of low specifications, only three small stir-fries, two stacks of dim sum were indiscriminately filled, plus a small bowl of yokan, and the big meat hooves or something must have been sent to Aunt An and Aunt Song's yard, Pan Chen felt a pity, because Aunt An and Aunt Song may not be able to eat now, and a good big meat hoof will be wasted, On the contrary, she can eat it, but she can only have these few light dishes in front of her, but fortunately, there are two stacks of dim sum hearts, there are stacks of fragrant honey cakes that she just fancied in the hall, and the yokan is also fine, unsatisfactory.

Liu and Pan Chen sat down to eat, and the mother and daughter both had good appetites.

Pan Chen looked at the Liu family and felt that if she was born in modern times, she would definitely be a workplace elite who made a lot of money, just because she was in danger, she was as stable as Mount Tai when she heard the news of the turmoil, and she had dinner with her daughter without changing her face, you can judge that the Liu family is actually still a bit of a brain.

The general environment, Pan Chen and the others can't decide, and if they are worried, they are worried in vain, so it is better to be calm, eat and sleep well.

Since Pan Tan returned that day, he has been trapped in the cabinet to discuss countermeasures.

The Qi family's high merit shocked the lord, which caused the dissatisfaction of Emperor Ningguo.

The emperors of Ningguo all boasted of being elegant, worshipping the style of Wei and Jin, emphasizing etiquette, family, and family, and for the Qi family, the overlord of the party who guarded the tranquility of Ningguo, the monarch of Ningguo was in awe, but he also had contempt, feeling that the Qi family made a fortune by force and brute force, and his character was vulgar.

The Qi family originated in the Northern Desert, and the ancestors were all heroes for generations, in the words of Cheng Engong himself, the Qi family was born without gentle and elegant blood, everyone was born with a Hulu style, heroic with a natural wildness, contrary to the basic national policy of the Ning family, the ancestors of the Qi family and the Ning family, but only because of the grace of a meal, the Qi family was loyal to the Ning family for three generations.

The current Emperor Wen Guang of the Ning State seems to be weak, but in fact he is cunning and black-bellied, even more than the ancestor of the Ning family, who has great respect for the Qi family on the surface, but secretly sent someone to assassinate Qi Zhengyang, the Duke of Cheng'en, with the intention of subverting the Qi family. Then he used this trick to explain the two sayings of 'stealing chickens does not make rice' and 'lifting a stone to shoot one's own feet'. Cheng Engong didn't succeed, but completely provoked the Qi family.

Originally, the Qi family has already dominated one side, the Qi family army has military autonomy since the ancestors, no need to be restricted by the imperial court, they expand year by year, year by year, from the original 50,000 villagers, after a hundred years, expanded to the current 800,000 iron army in the northern desert, holding 800,000 troops, dominating the north, and in comparison, Ning is only 300,000 miscellaneous troops, under the strong conquest and harsh government of Ning, can not guarantee the loyalty of all the 300,000 troops.

People are more popular than people, and goods have to be thrown away.

Although the Ning clan is in the position of overlord, his ability is limited, how can he say it? Strength is not worthy of ambition, Ning doesn't have that ability, he has to do his best, no one is a target, stand still and be beaten by you, who will you do if you don't do it?

The Qi family was originally for a little favor from the ancestors, so they surrendered to the north for nearly a hundred years, if the Ning family has always been treated as a guest, then the Qi family is still reluctant to be loyal, but what I didn't expect is that in the hands of Emperor Wen Guang, not only was it not polite, but it also started a small Jiujiu, delusional to subvert the Qi family, if the Qi family endures it again, wouldn't it be too faceless?

As a result, the Qi family, who had always surrendered, rebelled! But there must be a valid reason for rebellion.

Maybe the Qi family had the idea of rebellion in the early years, but it was only because there was no suitable reason to hibernate so far, and Emperor Wen Guang's stupid hat sent a good reason to the Qi family with extremely sincere determination, for the Qi family, it was simply an unexpected joy of pie falling from the sky.

Therefore, the Qi clan was not ambiguous, and immediately captured the assassins, forcibly occupied Shanhaiguan all the way, and sent the assassins sent by Emperor Wen Guang to Jiankang to negotiate conditions.

Emperor Wen Guang originally thought that as long as he was a little more patient and apologized to the Qi clan on the surface, it would be fine, but when the Qi clan's negotiation team arrived outside Jiankang City, Emperor Wen Guang and even the entire Jiankang people were dumbfounded.

The Qi clan was arrogant and cruel, and after approaching Jiankang, he slaughtered all the assassins who were escorted back to Jiankang at the city gate, and then launched a cart made of wooden stakes, hung the assassins' bodies on the wooden stakes, and drove all the way from Nanding Gate to Yong'an Gate, approaching the outside of the imperial city, and the blood of the twenty or so assassins flowed from outside the city to the city, and the streets were full of bloodstains, as if Qi was using this method to declare his dissatisfaction.