177 Post-mortem Letters from Jiangnan
Lin Qixu stepped back from Yanzhu and asked quietly. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"So, Yang Ying was asked by the emperor to beat you?" There shouldn't be a second answer. His younger brother understands that no matter how infatuated Lin Qichen is with Xie Yi and resentful of Yang Ying, he will not do such a brainless thing in front of others.
Lin Qichen put down his grinding hand and said lightly towards the window: "The emperor only asked me to find a way to vacate the command and envoy position of the Xiao Cavalry Guard for a while, and did not say the specific implementation method, so I can only play it myself." ”
For the sake of a kiln sister, he sacrificed enough to reduce the price in order to complete the mission.
"You are doing it with such fanfare, the Yang family will not suspect it?" Lin Qixu sighed.
"After realizing it, when I sit in the position of the commander, what do they not understand." Lin Qichen spread his hands, a sneer naturally floated on his lips, and he said indifferently, "If you offend, you will be offended, I will follow the emperor who is not in my hands to do things, and I am destined to offend many people, otherwise what will I use to show my loyalty to the emperor." ”
What's more, Yang Ying also married his beloved woman, Lin Qichen sometimes hated him, and he almost wanted to kill him in minutes.
"Still confused?" Lin Qixu asked.
Lin Qichen said with a smile: "Naturally, I am fighting for a drama and Yang Ying's hand, I have a lot of criminal records before, and I am messing with the scumbags in our capital all day long, and they all believe it." ”
Lin Qixu is a sister, but she feels very sorry for her younger brother: "You have destroyed your reputation and ended up with a fame, sometimes it is indeed a lot more convenient, but you can pay just as much." Those imperial histories can't be heard ugly, right? ”
"It's fine." Lin Qichen said sullenly, but his mind turned.
Because the Imperial History Observatory is basically dominated by Lin Yanxuan and another highly qualified old Imperial Historian, Lin Yanxuan still has the idea of promotion, and he is more active than the right capital envoy who does not move the eight winds.
Who knew that today, except for a few folds, the Yushitai is surprisingly quiet.
Lin Qixu immediately figured out the cause and effect, his expression was unclear, and he only said: "You remember, no matter what time it is, my sister respects your choice." ”
Lin Yanxuan, who is over forty years old, is a rare son after all, how can he be willing to push his son to death with his own hands when the heir is becoming more and more hopeless.
Besides, Lin Qichen is so good.
So proud.
The most important thing is that Qi Chen is not so ruthless to this father.
The light golden sunlight pours down from the long window of the 'Six Contract Spring', through the gaps in the branches of the flowers and trees outside, shining into the inner room, and a pot of magnolia separated by a few shelves, the flower branches are slender like eyebrows, and the petals are as white as snow, reflecting the afterglow of indifferent like water, which is really thrillingly beautiful.
The siblings were talking when there was a soft knock at the door.
"Master, the porter has handed over a letter." Yan Zhu said respectfully.
Lin Qixu raised his voice and said, "Take it in." Grab some pastries. ”
"Yes."
"What letters?" Lin Qichen asked casually.
Yan Zhu stepped into the inner room, frowned when he heard the words, and said uncertainly: "The concierge said that the people from the Wuxiang Hou Mansion were left here to be handed over. ”
Wuxiang Hou Mansion?
Lin Qichen almost splashed the hot tea, hurriedly put the teacup down, and said cautiously: "Last time, it was good that the Wuxiang Hou Mansion didn't cut me with a thousand knives." What kind of letter is this? There must be ulterior motives. He read the letter back and forth several times with a suspicious gaze, and in order to prevent the letter from being poisonous, he specially ordered someone to get gloves.
This letter, which Lin Gongzi identified as having ulterior motives, happened to be brought to Beijing by Lin Shu's Hu family.
Hu Zhifu is the grandson of the Hou sister of Wuxiang Township, and he is usually polite and has a good relationship. However, the grudge between Lin Qichen and the Hou Mansion is definitely not very clear to ordinary people, and it is normal for the Hu Governor and the Hou of Wuxiang to be separated from each other after all, and it is normal not to know. Seeing that Lin Qixu, who was notorious in Jianghuai, had become a concubine of the palace, Lin Qichen had a meritorious service in saving the driver, and his future was limitless, so he immediately passed the letter over.
When Yan Zhu hurriedly handed over the gloves, Lin Qixu, who was quiet, took the letter from his younger brother's hand.
"Look at you're nervous." Lin Qixu casually glanced at the beautiful font on the envelope, and found traces of the old man with sharp eyes.
In the moment of the flow of thoughts, an extremely elegant fragrance on the letterhead rushed into the nose.
The scenes of the past jumped into my eyes, and even the memories seemed to be fragrant and fluttering......
Shu Yao...... It's you.
"You're wrong this time."
Lin Qixu slowly opened the envelope, gently and emotionally stroked the brown paper that was slightly wrinkled due to the long-distance travel, and his tone was slightly choked: "It was written by Shu Yao, and I probably asked a distant relative of the Marquis of Wuxiang to bring the capital to me." ”
This time, even Lin Qichen was moved.
Imagine that the two sisters and brothers who have lived in Jianghuai for more than ten years, after entering Beijing, they have no relatives and no support, and they are forced to cut off all memories from the past.
"Count, Shu Yao is going to get married." Lin Qichen never forgot this cousin who couldn't do it beautifully, and he twisted his fingers to calculate Shu Yao's age, and couldn't help but regret it.
Lin Qixu unfolded the letter paper and said with a light smile: "Yes, she can't follow the old path of me and Qinling." However, with her mother-in-law Lu's heart, it is difficult to pick a sincere marriage for Shu Yao, and it is fortunate not to sell her with her belt bones.
"What does the letter say?" Lin Qichen's smile did not decrease, and his mood suddenly brightened.
Lin Qixu hurriedly read through the ten lines at a glance, his face was quite unfathomable, and he lowered his head and looked at a few lines of words emphatically, before handing the paper to his younger brother who was about to fall off his eyes with a complicated expression.
"What happened?" My sister's expression really didn't look like a good thing, Lin Qichen took the letter nervously, and also grabbed the key point quickly, but his reaction was not as low-key and gentle as Lin Qixu, he almost screamed, "Actually, there is!" ”
Lin Qixu turned sideways, almost not covering his ears.
It turns out that men make a fuss and are much more powerful than women.
Oh my God, Lin Shuyao is already sixteen, and her mother-in-law, who is nearly forty, is pregnant with a child! At this time, he stuffed three eggs into Lin Qichen's mouth, and it was estimated that he couldn't fill his face with consternation.
"What a fuss." Lin Qixu took the letter paper that was about to be torn by his younger brother and began to read it for the third time.
Lin Qichen still didn't wake up from this bad news, he almost stroked his chest and gasped, drank a cup of tea to suppress the shock, and exclaimed again and again: "It seems that even if Zhao is pregnant one day, with this previous experience, I can improve my acceptance." ”
Lin Qixu glanced at his younger brother with a smile, and his eyes were in the "My brother wants to go to Beijing to prepare for the exam, and he originally intended to let the two of them go to Beijing together, but the younger brother is difficult to rest assured and insists on staying." Now that this matter is sudden, my mind is in chaos, and it is difficult to make a choice. After a long stay, he groaned for a while.
She knows the situation at Lin Shuyao's home well, and it is inevitable that she will not be at ease. Originally, I was discussing with him whether to write to ask, but I didn't expect the letter to come by himself.
Shu Yao's two younger brothers have a gap in qualifications, and the eldest brother is now a person, acting calmly and speaking cautiously. The younger brother reluctantly won the show, and his words and deeds have always jumped out.
If the two younger brothers go to Beijing together, not to mention what the grandmother will do to Shu Yao, once Shu Yao and his father have been separated for a long time, the situation will become very ugly if the grandmother has another little brother. Shu Yao's father has soft ears and a softer heart, he thinks that he can't stand his mother-in-law, and he is ashamed of their biological mother, and he always hesitates to act again and again, without half a decision, if his mother takes advantage of the situation to expel his younger brothers from the house, or persuade his father to do something, the consequences will be irreparable.
Even if Shu Jiao did not mention all kinds of concerns in the letter, everything was silent.
Lin Qixu has also been begging for life under his mother-in-law for several years, and he is experienced and old.
"The Lu family is smarter than the Zhao family, and Uncle Lin is also more affectionate and righteous than his father. The Lu family had no children because of the suppression of her mother-in-law and her husband's appointment, but the Zhao family had many opportunities to conceive children later, but she used it to practice a few of us, and slowly dragged it next to each other, how could she still get pregnant. But the Lu family is different, when her mother-in-law who made things difficult for her went, she first released her suspicions with her soft-hearted husband, followed her husband to take office, and left three children, just to strive to have a biological flesh and blood for herself. You see, it is right to put your strength on the right path. The Zhao family struggled for several years, but they didn't find the right direction, so they naturally lost a lot. ”
Lin Qixu's smile was as cold as fresh snow in winter, and even her breathing was a little cold, and she slowly folded the letter.
"It's good to be pregnant and pregnant."
"What's so good about them?" Lin Qichen didn't care.
It means that the Lu family will see them more as a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh. But Lu is nearly forty years old, and her energy in the future is not as good as day by day, and she is not enough to take care of her own flesh and blood, I really don't believe that she is willing to spend extra energy on giving birth to children. And Uncle Lin is soft, and he has a love for the Lu family, and when his sister-in-law is born, and he has the support of a foreign family, who of our two cousins can surpass him. Lin Qixu simply said neatly, "It's better to cut through the mess quickly, divide the property without separating the family, and settle the hearts of the Lu family, and by the way, the hearts of the three of their sisters and brothers." ”
"Dividing the production?" Lin Qichen's eyes were as round as copper bells.
Lin Qixu said ruthlessly: "Isn't it a dispute between the concubine and the concubine?" The age gap is so big that there is nothing else to care about. That's just the most realistic thing. ”
Lin Qichen nodded approvingly: "Indeed, according to age, this child was born, and Ming Zhiyuan and Zhiyuan can also marry a wife and have children." ”
Lin Qixu said slowly: "The two cousins have read books for all these years, and they have traveled with people outside, so they should understand the Tao and ideals clearly, and they should not compete with their younger brothers for property." ”
The difference between the descendants is like the gap between heaven and earth.
She couldn't get over it for half her life.
Who can step over it?
"It's okay, just let them be willing. In other words, when will Ming Zhiyuan go to Beijing? Lin Qichen is a well-behaved and obedient younger brother in front of his sister, and he is a big brother who speaks the same thing in front of them.
Lin Qixu sighed lightly: "They don't worry that Shu Yao is far away in Jianghuai alone, so they will put it aside for the time being." ”
"And speaking of which, Shu Yao's marriage is not very easy. If you marry in Jianghuai, your younger brothers will go to Beijing to test their fame and future, and they can't take care of their sister thousands of miles away. If you want to pick someone in Beijing, I'm afraid it will be more difficult. "Shu Yao's background is basically a small jasper, and his father is just a county man with poor qualifications, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to be promoted in this life. In Jianghuai, there may be people who are well-connected or slightly lower, but in Kyoto, Lin Qixu's mansion that walks around every day really has no candidate who matches Lin Shuyao.
It's hard to drag it out any longer, Shu Yao is seventeen.
Lin Qichen asked rhetorically: "Sister doesn't have a suitable candidate?" "In his opinion, his sister's vision is first-class, and it is best to choose a wishful husband for Shu Yao.
Lin Qixu smiled bitterly, and was about to knock on his younger brother's head, and said, "I'm not a matchmaker, and I don't know which family's young master has reached marriageable age, but he hasn't gotten engaged yet." Shu Yao is seventeen this year, and he is eighteen when he enters Beijing, although it is not big in Beijing, he is not as good as the young ladies who are engaged early. "Not only is the family low, but Shu Yao is still a concubine. It is really hard to find the big Kyoto where you came from when you walk.
Lin Qichen actually came up with a peculiar idea at this time, it would be good if Shu Jiao was his cousin, just don't do it, how good and beautiful is his daughter-in-law to marry home......
And when I think of marrying a daughter-in-law, I can't help but think of Xie Yi.
His mood suddenly dropped.
"In any case, if you solve Lu's stomach problem first, I will suggest that Shu Yao divide the family business first, so as to save yourself from arguing over some money in the future. The two cousins have reached the age of leaving the relationship, and they will marry in the future, how can they afford to be a good family without some wealth in their hands. Even if they are manufacturable, the woman doesn't value the family's wealth, can she still be empty-handed if she comes to the door to propose marriage? Lin Qixu did not hesitate to suggest that Shu Jiao divide the production first, there is nothing more confident than money.
Shu Yao marries a person, and he also needs a dowry.
Lin Qichen asked: "Then does Shu Yao want to go to Beijing?" ”
Lin Qixu thought about it repeatedly, and finally said helplessly: "Let's find it in Jianghuai first, Kyoto is not easy to mix." Don't forget, she also has my infamous cousin, and you, your lawless cousin. It's even more difficult for girls. "As a concubine, she can still live without face and skin, in short, she will not lose the face of the palace. But Shu Miao can't go down the old road of being a concubine, it's better to marry in a dignified manner.
Lin Qichen, who was still looking forward to seeing Shu Yao, became more and more silent, he thought of Xie Yi who was smiling like a flower, and thought of the bright and moving Shu Yao, only to feel that the world is extremely difficult for women.
"Actually, the Lu family doesn't necessarily give birth to a son, right?"
Lin Qixu said: "But you must take your son as the premise, and prepare for the worst in advance in order to deal with all the problems that will occur in the future." Looking at one step at a time, I am even afraid to sleep. ”
Looking at three steps is her style.
To live, people must be down-to-earth, so that they can be open-minded and not sneaky.
This is the foundation of life.
When Lin Qixu spread out the paper and was about to write a letter, Lin Qichen asked about Concubine Han Shu. The younger brother peeled the lychee and ate it heartlessly, and entertained himself very cutely, chatting: "When I passed by the garden, I heard a few maids gathering under the porch to say that... What is the Han family, a bunch of some and no, and occasionally talked about you in the middle. ”
Han's blame was taken upon herself and framed Yan Xiao for fornicating with a foreign man, causing the palace to be humiliated. also intended to drag me and the princess into the water, but I instructed the hidden guard to take her upside down, and she was deprived of her position and grounded. Lin Qixu explained it clearly in a few words.
Lin Qichen was taken aback, and then said softly: "But that Yan Xiao is indeed ......."
Didn't he hear it with his own ears?
Lin Qixu glanced at his younger brother and said carefully: "Beware that the wall has ears." You can't let it sit on the ground. It's not that he is pitiful to Yan Xiao, but he must not let the Han family take the opportunity to take the position. ”
Lin Qichen looked at his sister's indifferent and breezy expression without the slightest sense of guilt, and deeply prayed for the regent who was discussing in the study, and put a green hat on his head, but his sister could not move.
However, it's okay to have no true feelings for the regent.
It's good.
"Who will take the trust?" Lin Qixu's words were concise, he wrote the content in three or two clicks, and dipped in ink to write the envelope seriously, looking quite hesitant.
Lin Qichen also has no acquaintances who are going to Jianghuai in the near future, and said: "Don't talk about walking slowly at the post station, the key is easy to lose." ”
"Forget it for now. In a few days, I will have time to go into the palace to accompany Qinling and talk to her about it. See if she has anything to write, Qin Ling can mention her in the letter. Lin Qixu let go after a little entanglement, maybe there will be a way in a while.
Lin Qichen looked a little solemn, and said to his sister: "Recently, the Jing'an Hou Mansion has made up its mind to get me, you must avoid this family when you go out, and don't quarrel." And Concubine Xian's persistent handle, in my opinion, the Jing'an Hou Mansion will take over nine times out of ten. Concubine Xian was reprimanded by the emperor several times for this matter, but when she saw that it was really fruitless, she had to interrupt it and did not carry out the frame to the end.
But if the Marquis of Jing'an Mansion also made a mistake with this, would the emperor have more doubts?
Three people become tigers, that's the truth.
Lin Qichen had to be cautious, and it seemed that the original plan had to be moved forward.
"You have to be the most careful to take precautions, I will shrink in the regent's palace and not go out, who can help me. It's good to have this vigilance, count the days, Qinling is about to give birth, I don't want to bother her, I can only be more careful. ”
"When?" Lin Qichen asked.
This is the firstborn of the royal family, and how many eyes are staring at whether it is a man or a woman.
"Around the end of March. Child, this thing is going to come out, I can't say. ”
"Has my sister seen it? Is it male or female? Lin Qichen was quite confident in his sister's medical skills, squinting his eyes and smiling.
She shook off the restrained gauze and was served by Yan Zhu and changed into a homely moonlight smock, adding a bit of dusty and ethereal beauty. Facing his younger brother's curiosity, Lin Qixu replied with a faint smile: "The secret of heaven must not be revealed." ”
"Hmph. If you don't want to say it, forget it. Lin Qichen turned his head angrily.
Lin Qixu smiled silently, moved to the side of the bookcase and opened the screen window, wantonly rendering her simple inner room from the bright spring color, looking at the bright scenery outside, her heart was a little empty, and how long had she not played in the sun, laughing loudly. (To be continued.) )