This courtyard is Huang Yuan's residence in the capital.

In the house, Huang Que'er and Xiaoshun were packing up the things they brought, and Xia Sheng and the two little maids helped; In the study, Zan Xuji, Qi Xueying and other classmates sat drinking tea and chatting, while waiting for Huang Yuan.

After meeting, greet each other:

"But it's time to wait for the champion!"

"I thought the emperor wanted to keep you in the palace all night to discuss state affairs."

"If that's the case, I'll wait here all night for my brother."

In the joking, Huang Yuan asked everyone to sit down, and called Xiaoshun to serve tea.

When he sat down, he only swept his gaze, and then he met Zan Xuji.

Zan Xuji was in a good mood, and he looked a little more cordial when he saw this friend.

Because he introduced the young man next to him, "This is my third brother, Zhan Void." ”

The last time the county lord of Jing'an confronted the thirteen princes, the Hu family made public the affair of Zhan Shisha's elopement to Huang Yuan, and the Zan family was furious. A few days passed, and the situation took a turn for the worse: the prince returned, Huang Yuan was appointed to wash the horse for the prince, and Zan Shangshu couldn't help but be overjoyed-

The Hu family has solved a big problem for the Zan family!

Zan Shisha left behind his glory and wealth to follow him when Huang Yuan was not successful, which can be described as attaching great importance to love and righteousness.

Huang Yuan, as the champion of the three yuan and the first, and the new Hanmen scholar of the imperial court, everyone in the world can spurn and accuse Zhan Shisha, but he can't!

If he turns his back on the hookah, he will be reprimanded for being unkind, and he is afraid that the imperial history will impeach him.

The county lord of Jing'an can't settle old accounts with Zhan Shisha, otherwise she will have a reputation for being jealous and intolerable; There are not only Lin Chun, but also Huang Yuan, and water-based poplars.

Prince Yanwei can't stand out for a woman, because the Zan family supports him wholeheartedly this time. Huang Yuan was an upstart in the imperial court, and the old emperor appointed him to wash the horses of the crown prince. It is to ask him to assist the new king in the future, and if the prince is blind, he will repay him. Hearts and minds will be lost!

Therefore, there are a few articles, and Zan Shangshu has a big heart.

He thought that it was certain that his niece would take this opportunity to restore her reputation and turn over.

However, he is still very low-key in front of people, as if he is ashamed of his niece's elopement.

As soon as Huang Yuan entered Beijing, he ordered his son to contact his classmates to visit him.

Huang Yuan looked at his former friend and lost his mind slightly.

Zan Xuji has always been very good with him, that is, his cousin Zan Xuva was ordered to get the cuckoo, and he also secretly sent a letter to Lin Chun, so the cuckoo escaped that catastrophe.

Look at his brother Zan Void again. is also a very honest young scholar, looking at him with admiration.

If Huang Li were here, he would be surprised.

Because this is the "nerd scholar" Zhang Xiucai she recognizes!

After greetings, Zan Xuji asked, "Didn't the old uncle and aunt come?" ”

Actually, I wanted to ask my sister why she didn't come.

Huang Yuan replied: "The filial piety period has not yet expired, and it is inconvenient to travel. ”

Only then did everyone remember that his grandfather had passed away.

At that moment, everyone chatted and laughed until night.

Because Qi Xueying was a guest in Beijing, she simply stayed that night.

When he slept peacefully at night, there was no one. He smiled at Huang Yuan and said, "Brother Wei really admires Brother Xian, he has such foresight and wisdom, so that the Zan family supports the crown prince at a critical juncture and turns things around." ”

Huang Yuan was stunned when he heard this. But he didn't ask, just did nothing.

That Qi Xueying talked to herself while undressing. He continued: "You can sense something strange at the critical moment when the county lord was taken captive, so as to speculate that the prince is alive. and asked Brother Wei to carry a letter to Brother Zhan, even the ordinary ministers of the court and China can't compare. ”

Huang Yuan was stunned when he heard this.

He stood locally wearing only his middle coat. looked at Qi Xueying.

Qi Xueying got into bed, saw that he didn't move, and said with a smile: "Don't come up yet?" Want to take a leave of absence from frostbite? ”

Huang Yuan walked to the bed, lifted the quilt and sat in.

Wrapped in the quilt, leaning on the bed rail, his heart turned, and he had already come up with a trick of clichés, because he said casually: "I said that I asked the little prince to transfer it on their behalf, how did I hand it over to you?" ”

Qi Xueying explained: "On that day, the county lord was taken captive, and a few of us were about to leave the mountain immediately. Miss Fang thought that she was taking advantage of it, so she entrusted it to her brother. ”

Approaching him again, he whispered, "I didn't expect it to be the famous Miss Zhan." The strange way behaves so elegantly and outstandingly, even the jingchai cloth skirt can't hide it. To say that the peach blossom fortune of the virtuous brother is really the envy of my generation! First ......"

Huang Yuan stopped in time: "Don't talk nonsense! ”

Then he blew out the lamp and lay down.

In the darkness of the night, he asked softly, "How do you know what is written in my letter, and you just guess and talk nonsense?" Isn't it harmful to the little brother to spread it? ”

Qi Xueying apologized: "Brother Wei knows, don't mention this matter again." Originally, I heard that Zan Shangshu was in the court that day, and I was puzzled, thinking that the virtuous brother must have seen the clue, or heard the wind. After all, at that time, the county lord was taken captive, and the little prince and others were panicked, and Quanshui Village was also in chaos......"

Huang Yuan's heart was full of doubts, and he didn't answer.

Besides, after the banquet in the imperial garden was dispersed, Zhang Gui saw that Lin Jiu'er was depressed, and approached him and whispered, "I heard that Lin Li is coming." In the mountains that day, the lower officials did not bother the Lin family; Now that Ling Zun has come to the capital, it is time to do the friendship of the landlord. The lower official is not on duty at night, why don't the general wait for the lower official to finish the errand and leave the palace together? ”

Jiu'er agreed, so she went with him.

After leaving the palace and seeing that there were no idlers on the streets before and after, Zhang Guicai said to Jiu'er: "General Lin didn't know if he got cheap, so with such a straight face, it seems that he has been wronged, don't you accept it?" ”

Jiu'er said angrily: "What do I have to get cheap?" Didn't I save someone! ”

He really couldn't figure out the emperor's intentions, and he was very aggrieved.

Zhang Gui chuckled and smacked his tongue: "You are still not convinced? Is! Don't you just despise the emperor's authority! In the palace, the safety of the royal family should have been the top priority, and even death could not be retreated, let alone anything else. It's just that the internal situation is complicated, and there are eight princesses...... You can get away with punishment as a lesson from the past, but it's not you...... The best policy is really clever. ”

When it comes to the three words "best policy", I can't help but cover my mouth and laugh.

After laughing, he said with a straight face: "I really thank General Lin today." ”

Jiu'er thinks you're the one who got the cheapest.

He sighed and said: "I saved people and was dismissed, how can I obey them?" ”

Zhang Gui looked at him and shook his head and said, "It's suspension, not dismissal." ”

Jiu'er said: "That's not the same. ”

Zhang Gui said: "The difference between this word is far away, how can it be the same?" ”

Jiu'er muttered, "Anyway, I'm idle." Ming'er accompanied my mother to go shopping. ”

Zhang Gui patiently analyzed: "In the capital, it is not common for officials to go up and down, up and down? I can suspend you today. Maybe you can be promoted in a few days to find a reason, all in the first sentence! It's not like Zuo-sama. This 'dismissal investigation' is over. If you punish him, you can't justify it. ”

Jiu'er was not stupid, and immediately understood, so she laughed.

The two returned to Lin Chun's house, and when Lin Dameng and his wife saw their son, they couldn't stop laughing, and they couldn't talk about all kinds of exciting scenes.

Zhang Gui greeted Lin Dameng, said that he would invite them on a certain day, and then left. Don't disturb their family together.

As soon as Jang Gyu left, Guixiang came out.

In fact, she was hiding in the back hall just now to peek at Jiu'er.

It turned out that she had been unwilling to marry all these years, so she waited for Jiu'er to come back and give a word.

Lin Dameng and his wife saw that their niece was pitiful, so they specially brought her to Beijing to see how it was.

It would be better if Jiu'er was married; If you really don't want to, let Guixiang die as soon as possible, so that she can choose another husband to marry, and she can't delay it for a lifetime.

Jiu'er saw her slim and slim, and looked at him timidly with her hand on the door frame. There was eagerness, hesitation, and even a little panic and fear in his expression, not at all like before, when I saw him domineering and rushing up willfully, I couldn't help but smirk. "Sister Guixiang!"

Guixiang was silent, looking at him steadily, tears in her eyes.

He panicked. Thinking of the escape from marriage that day, my heart was empty.

He's a straight man. In the cuckoo cut off hope, she no longer thinks about her. Again. Among the daughters he has been in contact with since he was a child, in addition to the cuckoo, Guixiang is left, and the brother and sister are the closest, and the parents intend to marry them, so when he was in Ziyuexuan, in order to deal with King Shunjun and others, he blurted out that he had already made a marriage with his cousin.

In this case, he regarded her as a daughter-in-law, and hurriedly coaxed her.

Because he asked someone to bring her bag and put it on the table in the hall, she called her to come and see.

When he opened a small box, it was full of jewelry, and he dazzled everyone.

He said earnestly: "Sister Guixiang, look, this is all saved by my brother and left to you." ”

When Guixiang saw it, her tears flowed even more.

From childhood to adulthood, if Jiu'er didn't want to take her to play, and was afraid of being scolded by her uncle, she always tried her best to coax her first, and then dared to go away by herself, so she wouldn't go to her aunt to complain.

Now that she is older, she also knows that this is compensation for his lack of heart.

Sending such a box of jewelry to her now shows that he is very weak-hearted.

Why is the heart weak?

Except that I don't want to marry her, what else is there!

He has been made a general, and she really doesn't deserve him.

Thinking like this, I can't help but feel like a knife. I don't want to ruin everyone's happiness at such a happy time; Besides, she is also older and understandable, and she doesn't want to be as shameless as Huaihua, and she doesn't want to make her cousin sad for the rest of her life like a hookah, so she tries to control it.

Obviously his face was full of tears, but he smiled at Jiu'er with tears: "Thank you...... Elder brother...... Elder brother! ”

Jiu'er thought that she left without saying a word, she must have felt ashamed, but now she is crying like this, but she doesn't make trouble, it can be seen that she has grown up sensible, so she is very weak and coaxes her.

Brother and sister grew up together, and they don't shy away from getting used to it.

He rummaged through the box, took out a pair of light green jade bracelets, held Guixiang's small hand with his big hand, helped her put it on her wrist, and then pulled her sleeve up a little, revealing a smooth jade wrist lined with jade bracelets, and motioned to his father and Lin Chun to look, "Isn't it beautiful?" My sister has white skin, so it's best to bring this. ”

The big fierce daughter-in-law looked at her son and laughed.

Lin Chun looked at Jiu'er and laughed.

Jiu'er Wu didn't realize it, and hurriedly opened a small box, which contained all kinds of gemstone cat eyes, "This is for you to set your head." I see the glittering cuckoo on its head today, and it looks very good. Tomorrow you will follow her example and do the same. And this ......"

He opened all the boxes one by one and offered them as much as he could.

The more this is the case, the more uncomfortable Guixiang becomes, thinking that he is afraid that he will make trouble.

But how could she be as ignorant as before!

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