In the sixteenth year of Liang Lianzong, Yuzhou was flooded, the nearby fields were not harvested, the houses were washed away, the victims were displaced, and natural and man-made disasters followed. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

On this day, when the crown prince Jinyan was discussing disaster relief matters with Qin Sheng, Tian Yin, an accompanying official, suddenly opened the guards, then lifted the curtain and entered, tiptoed quickly to the prince's side, and said something close to his ear. After speaking, he was still in place, and Yu Guang glanced at Qin Sheng and did not speak.

Prince Jinyan didn't look up, nor did he mean to avoid Qin Sheng's suspicion, he only said: "If you catch it, you don't need to show it to the palace, just correct the Fa." ”

"It's already Fa-rectification." Tian Yin replied.

"It's a pity that I didn't see that person's way of doing it, I'm really curious how they want to kill me? Is it poisoning in the meal or shooting darts on the beams of the house? ”

Qin Sheng was shocked and said, "This ......"

Tian Yin didn't care about his doubts, and only said: "It's a person from a good background, and before he died, he said that he would play tricks and release poisonous smoke......"

"Hmph, this soft bone really said...... Hongu was not interested at all. The prince was still staring at the ledger in his hand, flipping it, silently, but not necessarily—there was also the sound of Qin Sheng's heartbeat pounding violently.

"Your Highness, are you ......" Qin Sheng said hesitantly, and as soon as he met Tian Yin's cold gaze, he stopped his voice.

The prince took a pen and wrote on the paper the distribution of the disaster relief silver taels, and said, "Lord Qin might as well say something directly." ”

"I ......" he really couldn't speak, the scene in front of him was very confusing, although he always knew that the prince was decisive and calm like a mountain, but he didn't know that in the face of such a life-threatening thing as "assassination", it was so indifferent, and he used it to talk and laugh.

The prince glanced at Qin Sheng sideways, suddenly laughed, turned his face to Tian Yin next to him and said, "Lord Qin doesn't say it, then you can say it." ”

Tian Yin nodded, glanced at Qin Sheng who was still surprised, and said, "As His Highness expected, Min Shouqian and Fang Niannu really took advantage of His Highness's departure from the palace to rescue the disaster, and launched a palace rebellion. ”

Qin Sheng was even more surprised, he took a few steps back, his body didn't stand firm for a while, and when he was falling, fortunately he was quickly caught by the chair kicked out by the prince, Qin Sheng was still shocked, and even forgot about the gaffe, and his eyes moved to the prince little by little.

The prince said with a smile as if nothing had happened: "Hmph, these demons finally can't hold it back?" Immediately changed the conversation and asked Tian Yin: "How is the situation?" Can anyone be injured in the East Palace? ”

Tian Yin replied: "All the ladies have been transferred to other places, but the crown princess ......"

"She's still stubborn, isn't she?"

Tian Yin didn't answer, he really acquiesced, and for a while, the prince didn't have the heart to look at the account book, threw down the things in his hand, and paced in the room.

"That'...... What about Your Majesty? Qin Sheng finally spoke, and he asked tremblingly.

Tian Yin glanced up at Qin Sheng but didn't answer, he walked directly to the crown prince and asked, "Your Highness, then are we still acting according to the plan?" ”

"Of course, first go and inform the Wei family army stationed not far from Yuzhou, and we will kill back to Jingling overnight."

After the prince finished speaking, he sneered.

Qin Sheng was still at a loss for what to do, and suddenly Tian Yin looked at him again, his eyes were full of light, clearly hinting at something, he suddenly got up, immediately knelt down, and said: "Your Highness is wise, and the ministers are willing to follow Your Highness, follow the work of dogs and horses, and kill all the demons!" ”

Prince Jinyan and Tian Yin looked at each other and laughed for a while, before leaning down to help Qin Sheng up, and said, "It's not in vain that this palace directly transferred you here over the Prime Minister and Monk's book, this palace really didn't see the wrong person." ”

Hahahaha......

That night, Prince Jinyan and Qin Sheng led the army that was nominally relieving the disaster but actually protecting the country and the Wei family army that had already been stationed near Yuzhou, and joined the Da Nei secret army that had been planted in the palace as a precaution.

Prince Jinyan and Qin Sheng sat on a boat waiting for the news of victory, at this time, the riverbank sang and danced, and they couldn't feel the killing within the palace walls at all, let alone the slightest shaking of the foundation of the beam, the wind and waves were calm, and the Jingling River was so momentary.

Qin Sheng was sitting in the boat with the prince, drinking tea and playing a game, and there were two beautiful beauties dancing with him outside the curtain opposite, but he had no intention of playing or dancing, he only had thousands of doubts in his heart, but the most important and critical thought was - why him?

The crown prince fell in front of him and said, "Lord Qin is absent-minded, if your chess skills are only like this, could you have stolen the title of champion lang in the first place?" ”

Qin Sheng hurriedly left his seat, got up and knelt down, and said, "The minister doesn't dare." A scholar is the most important person and will never steal. ”

"It's a good sentence to be the most important ethics, now there are too few people like you, Lord Qin, who value ethics, but does Lord Qin know how to keep this integrity?"

"Abide by the rules of etiquette and remember the teachings of the saints." Qin Sheng bowed his hand and bowed.

"No," Prince Jinyan raised his hand casually, and a white character fell into the middle of a plate of blacks, and he said slowly: "It is to stay away from the black smoke miasma to keep the cleanliness and integrity." After speaking, he poured a plate of sunspots into the river, and was swallowed silently by the river in an instant.

"Minister...... Received, taught! Qin Sheng replied tremblingly.

Prince Jinyan stretched out his hand towards the vacant seat opposite, motioned for Qin Sheng to sit back, and said, "Don't be afraid, Lord Qin has been doing a good job, and this palace heard that Lord Qin didn't even raise a singing and dancing girl at home?" ”

As soon as the words fell, there was no singing outside the curtain, and there was no enchanting dancing, Prince Jinyan glanced sideways, and immediately patted the chessboard, and the black and white sons on it jumped up together, making a mess, the chess game was ruined, and the singing and dancing girl outside the curtain immediately knelt on the ground, not daring to make a sound.

Qin Sheng was also frightened, and he immediately lowered his head, waiting for the moody prince in front of him to speak.

I only heard the prince's cold voice sweep over his head and said, "What I want is Lord Qin's ethics that he doesn't even raise a singing and dancing girl, come on!" ”

A few guards with long swords quickly came in from outside the ship, and the whole ship shook at once, but the prince's voice was still steady: "Take away a few demons outside the curtain, and punish the corpse of the corpse and sink the river for the crime of bewitching the people, and the right to pay tribute tonight." ”

There was a babbling cry for help outside the curtain, and Prince Jinyan still didn't look back, just looked at Qin Sheng on the opposite side and said, "You only know the meaning of ethics for scholars now, right?" At a critical time, it can not only save your life, but also entrust you with a great responsibility to serve the country! ”

"His Royal Highness the Prince, I want to rectify all the ......" Qin Sheng didn't say those two words, he faintly felt that the fire of the palace civil strife this time was burned outside the palace because of these two words, bringing earth-shaking changes to Daliang.

The prince was smiling and picking up the tea in front of him, pinching the lid, blowing two breaths on the tea noodles, taking a small sip, and saying, "Youling." He said those two words like this, accompanied by a cold air, blowing the curtains fluttering, the river surface wrinkled, several nearby flower boats shook violently, and Qin Sheng unconsciously gathered the clothes on his body.

This year, as Qin Sheng originally envisioned, Daliang underwent earth-shaking changes......

A year later, that is, in the seventeenth year of Lianzong, although the internal strife in the palace was quelled, the emperor was frightened and sick.

In the palace, Min Shouqian, Fang Niannu and others who were arrested were sentenced to death in public, and closed the palace's left and right teaching workshops, Ronglin Pavilion, Royal Pear Garden and other places to support Youling, and killed or exiled or enslaved the servants in the side alleys of the palace, leaving only a part of the musicians and female singers in Taile Mansion for royal sacrifices and receiving foreign guests, and they were not allowed to step out of Taile Mansion for half a step in their spare time; For the officials of the imperial court, according to the size of the Kabuki in the house, they were punished with crimes such as killing, degrading, or punishing, and rectifying the court program.

For the outside of the palace, an edict was issued to reduce the number of folk song and dance workshops, and to list the excellent lings as untouchables below the ninth rank, and registered them one by one, and their sons were not allowed to participate in the imperial examinations, and their daughters were not allowed to marry into the upper class, and the superior people did not need to pay for the crime of beating the servants to death, and if there was a conflict, no matter who was at fault and the size of the fault, all those involved in the excellent were imputed to them and sentenced to death. This edict was carried out by Qin Sheng, who had been promoted to the rank of Six Shangshu.

The iron law of internal and external affairs caused countless song and dance workshops in Daliang to be smashed overnight, the building was burned by fire, countless excellent singers died tragically, and the singers and dancers escaped one after another, incognito, people went to the empty building, and the owners of the song and dance workshops also packed up their burdens or went elsewhere to make a living, or simply changed their careers.

For a while, the city of Jingling suddenly became a lot quieter, especially at night, when there was no longer a sheng flute, the Qinglou was shadowed, and the curfew in the city came earlier than before.

Suddenly, one night, there was a cry that resounded in the sky on the bank of the Jingling River, a song and dance workshop called Luofanxuan caught fire in the middle of the night, and the fire burned the river red, but whether it was the passing ships or the officers and soldiers patrolling the night, they all watched from afar, and no one put out the fire.

It is the largest singing and dancing workshop on the bank of the Jingling River, with hundreds of excellent people, passed to the "Feng" word generation, the workshop belongs to the first big gang of Daliang Youhuangzhuang, the owner of the village at that time Lu Bing had already died inexplicably a few months ago, leaving behind the mother and son and a large family industry, but to no avail, the fire of Luofanxuan has burned, and the next other industries will be destroyed overnight suddenly.

But after all, Luo Fanxuan is close to the river, and there are many flexible Youling who escaped from the fire and swimming, including a dancing girl named Feng Rou, who jumped into the river before the fire burned to her room, fortunately she was born in a water town, and the water was better, so she immediately swam ashore and hid in a dilapidated fishing boat, and watched countless sisters being burned and drowned, but she didn't dare to go out to save them, because this fire came really strangely, if no one planned behind it, it would not be burned so easily, let alone be burned so clearly, It is estimated that there is a powerful person behind her who can't resist, and she is afraid that once she is found alive, she estimates that her life will not be saved.

What kind of sisterhood, what is the big right and wrong, in front of her who is extremely panicked, she seems very small, she just wants to live, like her parents who promised to die of famine back then, to live well......

She kept crying, trembling until dawn, glanced at Luo Fanxuan, who had long been burned to ashes, knelt down three times with tears, turned her head and hurriedly left the river.

She has no relatives in Jingling, and even if she does, no one dares to take her in under such a situation, so she can only live on her own. But at the moment, let alone life, even how to escape smoothly without attracting people's attention, especially the officers and men, has become a problem.

She looked at the colorful neon dress on her body that had not had time to fade last night, with her sleeves brushing the clouds and water, and her long hair hanging down her waist, no matter how she looked at it, she was born as a dancing girl and had to be modified, so she risked her life and sneaked into the backyard of an ordinary family to steal a piece of clothing, and burned her dance skirt one by one with tears, which was not only to worship the sisters who died tragically, but also to bid farewell to her dancing girl career who never returned.

I found a small stream at random, and after combing my hair, I walked on foot outside the city without looking back, hungry and sleepy along the way, and soaked in water last night, caught a cold, and was very weak, and collapsed on the side of the road before I could get to the next town.

The road connected the capital with the surrounding towns, and there were many vendors who came and went, and not long after Feng Rou fell, some well-meaning merchants came to greet her, and of course there were a few ill-intentioned ruffians who coveted her beautiful face.

"Girl, girl, wake up." An old lady with a charitable face woke up Feng Rou, but when she opened her eyes, she saw several tall men smiling strangely at her, and the old lady had already been pushed aside by them.

"Ahh

"What is it called, there is a time when you call!" One of the men came up and picked up Feng Rou, but after all, she was a dancing body, and although she was weak, she was also very flexible, like a loach, and quickly slipped out of the man's hand.

She tried her best to stand up, but she was surrounded by those men, smiling at her one by one, and shouting: "Little lady, whose little lady!" ”

"I see you slipping like a fish in water, you can't be from the song and dance club, right?"

"Hey, big brother, have you ever seen a dancing girl dressed like this? She guesses which little daughter-in-law escaped, don't want your old man, come to my brother's arms! ”

"Hahaha......"

On the road, some passing businessmen came around, one of them was a handsome boy who poked his head out of the crowd, looked at the movement inside, just saw the man in front of him an arrow step to grab Feng Rou's clothes, he squatted in the crowd and threw some small stones on the ground, the man did not step on it very much, and instantly fell down, causing laughter, the man immediately turned his head and shouted: "Who did it?" ”

The little boy had already slipped away from the crowd, but he didn't take a few steps, and the woman's cry came from the crowd again, he couldn't get angry, and immediately shouted: "The master did it, and he has the ability to come to the master!" ”

As soon as these words fell, a few ruffians and hooligans immediately walked out, and people's eyes instantly shifted to the little student, and one of the big men shouted directly at him: "You threw it, right?" ”

"Yes...... Yes again...... And how! Xiao Shengqiang pretended to be mighty, but those men's fists were not vegetarian, and a few people had more than a dozen fists just imagined that when the rain was falling, a young man's voice came from behind: "Stop!" ”

Everyone's eyes looked at the man again, only to see that he was dressed in a gorgeous suit, biting a feather fan, and a few pieces of Mingjue jade pendant under his body were dazzling people's eyes, and then looking up, the man's sword eyebrows and starry eyes, straight nose and cheeks, a natural deterrent.

While the group of people were stunned, Xiao Sheng immediately pulled away and walked behind the man, and said, "Young master, they ......"

The man shook the feather fan in his hand and said angrily: "Teach you to be nosy, I will punish your sins later, you-" He immediately took the fan with a "sigh", pointed at the group of people and said: "Bullying a weak woman in broad daylight, where is the king's law?" ”

The group of people also refused to say more to this Sven man, and they moved forward step by step, but the man suddenly felt a little panicked......

Feng Rou wanted to take advantage of the chaos to escape, but after all, it was the stall she provoked, and it was somewhat ruthless and unrighteous to leave like this, although the world's best people are always ruthless, but after all, she wanted to be a new person, she didn't leave, but shouted at the group of people: "The officers and soldiers are here!" ”

The ruffians and hooligans were really distracted at that moment, and several of the young master's family members took the opportunity to go up, and together with a few vendors who were watching around, everyone went up and subdued those big men.

But where are the officers and soldiers, it is clear that Feng Rou is in a hurry to give birth to wisdom nonsense, fortunately, the bad guys have also been subdued, and Feng Rou has bowed down one by one to thank everyone.

When he walked to the young master, Feng Rou bowed down, raised her eyes slightly and knocked on it, but her beautiful eyebrows were also moving, the young master stared at it for a while, and finally came back to her senses when she was reminded by the little student next to her, and quickly helped her up, saying, "Where does the girl's family live?" ”

"I ......" she was hesitantly looking in the direction of Jingling, but immediately closed her eyes and sighed: "Yuzhou! ”

"Yuzhou? To put it this way...... Are you fleeing? ”

"Well—the flood has flooded the house, and the escape is coming." She escaped from a fire, although the water and fire are polar, but in the face of the disaster, it is indeed so good, thinking of this is sad, and she actually shed tears, but in the eyes of the young master in front of her, this undoubtedly shows that she has a poor background.

"What's the girl's name? Is there a place to stay in Jingling? ”

"My name is Feng ......" she couldn't use Luo Fanxuan's name anymore, her eyes were looking at her in a panic, and suddenly fell on a peach tree, so she said: "The surname is Feng, the name is Tao'er, there is no place to go in Jingling, so this is ......" She is going to escape from Jingling, how can there be a place to live.

"That's right...... Why don't you go with us, the house will move to Jingling after a while, and now the new mansion is lacking a girl who will help the grandmothers, do you want to ......" The boy suddenly felt unhappy again, after all, the girl in front of him was clean and beautiful, with fine skin and tender flesh, and she was not a person who did rough work.

"I ......" Feng Rou was also hesitating, after all, she was going to return to Jingling, and she had already been disheartened about that place.

"Come on, there are so many grandmothers here, in fact, life is very easy, my young master is just missing someone to chat with......" Xiao Sheng, who was standing next to him, suddenly interjected.

"Little Four!" The boy said sharply, but his face was flushed.

Xiao Si was silent immediately, but she kept winking at Feng Rou, Feng Rou looked up at the son in front of her again, she was graceful, but she would also blush and be ashamed, much more serious than the guests she saw in the song and dance workshop, and she was a little happy to see this kind of man for the first time.

"Okay......" Feng Rou agreed.

Later, Feng Rou followed the young master back to Jingling, and came to an imposing mansion, with two stone lions standing in front of the door, guarding the carved dark pattern pillars on both sides, she slowly raised her head, and then saw the ebony gilt plaque with the two big characters "Ning Mansion" written on it.

"Ning Mansion?" Feng Rou read it out.

"Are you literate?" Young Master Ning asked.

Feng Rou had no choice but to nod and say, "Skim the women's training." In fact, as a dancer who used to fall into Fan Xuan, she must not only know dance scores, understand music and rhythm, but also be able to compose poetry and sing to learn from everyone, which is the consistent style of Youhuangzhuang.

"Oh......" Young Master Ning shook his fan, put it in front of Feng Rou and said, "Do you recognize these words?" ”

"If it grows like a green bamboo, you can climb the clouds." Feng Rou read word by word, and suddenly realized: "Is this the name of the son?" ”

Young Master Ning smiled proudly, nodded, and said, "In Xia Ning Changqing, the word Qingzhu, the number Dengyun, you are really smart." ”

Feng Rou smiled, she didn't think that the word "smart" at this moment was any good for her identity as Feng Tao'er.

But Feng Rou did follow Ning Changqing to live in Ning Mansion, although she was a maid, Ning Changqing did not let her do any work.

In fact, those words that asked her to help with the work were just for others to hear, after all, he was born in a rich family, and suddenly brought a girl back to his house, if he didn't have a name, it would inevitably be tongue-in, and their Ning family was just about to gain a foothold in Jingling, and some gossip could be avoided, and he was the most famous.

Now that Feng Rou has entered the Ning Mansion, he is not afraid of anything, so let her and the personal servant Xiao Si next to him accompany him to enjoy the flowers and eat tea in the new mansion, and they are very happy.

It didn't take long for the entire Ning family to move over, and she knew that Ning Changqing already had a wife, and she knew that she was so presumptuous, for fear of being misunderstood, she took the initiative to ask for instructions to go to the kitchen to be a maid.

It's not that she doesn't like Ning Changqing, but because of her ill-fated fate, she doesn't dare to expect love at all, she just wants to live, as if she is a normal person who lives safely and soundly.

It's been a long time since she's seen what it's like for someone to grow old, whether it's her parents, her master, or her sisters.

But Ning Changqing refused to agree, and dragged her to run to the seventy-year-old mother, pounced, knelt down and said, "The child wants to take Tao'er as a concubine!" ”

For concubines?

She never thought about it, but Changqing didn't allow her to break away from her hand, begged a few times, and forced her mother to agree, but his main room was dissatisfied and muttered: "I haven't even figured out my life experience, what if I am a pariah?" ”

Tao'er's hand trembled slightly, that woman's instincts were good, she was a pariah, completely low.

"She can't be from a pariah, Youling is ruthless, but Tao'er is affectionate, she is my beloved woman." He looked at Feng Rou and said affectionately, then turned around and looked at his main room, saying, "If you don't have this generosity, how can you manage this family?"

Ning Changqing returned to his main room as soon as she said a word, so she stopped making a sound, watching her husband take this woman named Feng Tao'er into the mansion, but she was unhappy all the time.

Feng Rou and Ning Changqing gave birth to a lovely daughter named Wuling in the autumn of the second year after they got married, and then in order to reassure Mrs. Zhengmu, she had no more children, only guarded her daughter, and tried to spend the rest of her life peacefully.