It is said that Shi Li and Jia Huan guessed the ambition of Li Guofu and the Empress Dowager, and after a long silence, Jia Huan praised embarrassedly: "I really dare to play!" ”

Shi Li said: "He is bright and I am secret, if we want to play, it is not impossible." ”

Jia Huan said: "Old man Gong hasn't come back since he went to Hong Kong, it's been so long; Liu Xianglian's two strokes were given in front of the master of Ouchi. Why don't you play it? ”

Shi Li looked at him for a while and smiled: "Do you think that only the fifth master and me can fight in S.H.I.E.L.D.?" Jia Huan was stunned. S.H.I.E.L.D. was incorporated from Liu Dengxi's secret department, and most of them were spies, and he had only seen Jia Yu and Shi Li if he could fight. Shi Li said lazily, "That's it, you don't have to worry about this matter." "Jia Huan is not a diligent person. He said don't care, then leave it alone.

It's just that Jia Yu's letter should be sent to Rongxi Hall, so he ordered someone to pretend to be a messenger and send it in from the main gate of Rongguo Mansion. Jia Zheng took the letter and read it from the beginning, he still couldn't believe it, and then looked at it from the beginning several times. Suddenly tears of joy rained down: "My ring is about to come out!" "Hurry up and ask someone to call Jia Huan over.

Jia Huan was waiting on the low floor of Lixiang Courtyard, eating snacks on one wall and chatting with Shi Li on the other. Hearing the footsteps of a small guy stumbling outside, he wiped his hands with a handkerchief, and jumped off the ground: "Let's go!" I'm going to discuss with my son about marrying a daughter-in-law!" ”

Shi Li waved his hand: "Go, go, go!" I'm going to go and talk to someone about business. Then he got up and went out through the gate of the courtyard facing the street.

Jumping on the horse outside, Shi Li went straight to Liu's timber shop. Seeing Liu Xianglian and Qin Keqing, they first talked about the Liu family and the Empress Dowager from the beginning.

Qin Keqing pondered for a long time and said, "It's really weird. The Empress Dowager refused to let go of Cong'er's family affairs, and Huan'er's matter had been sent to her, so she let it go in vain? ”

Shi Li smiled bitterly: "Brother Huan said that he fell in love with a princess and patted a sycophant several times, so it is not difficult to guess." In the early years, King Lu came to Beijing, wasn't he playing with him? Therefore, the Empress Dowager should have guessed that Princess Jian'an was coming. The person who gave birth to her didn't even ask in person. How can there be a request for marriage from the heavenly family without telling the sù family who the woman is. ”

Qin Keqing glanced at him: "Guess what's the reason?" ”

Shi Li said: "I guess it's to avoid suspicion." ”

Qin Keqing sighed: "I guess it's also to avoid suspicion." Liu Xianglian coughed twice. Qin Keqing said, "Master Zheng asked the Empress Dowager for grace and wanted to marry Princess Jian'an for Huan'er. The Empress Dowager agreed, and made a decree. According to the character of the political master, how can he stop if this matter is not known all over the capital? When the capital knew about it, the envoys of the princes of each family would immediately send people back to China to deliver the letter, and everyone in the world knew about it in the blink of an eye. ”

Liu Xianglian said: "What do you have to do with avoiding suspicion? ”

Qin Keqing said softly: "If Princess Jian'an suddenly disappears......

Liu Xianglian took a breath. If Princess Jian'an suddenly disappears, and Jia Zheng makes such a big scene, Jia Huan will not marry a princess, and his father will not agree. Since the previous one was given to him by the Empress Dowager, and the person who was born was not blessed, the Empress Dowager naturally had to help him ask for another good daughter-in-law. The one in front is the princess, and the one in the back is inconvenient to cross her, and eighty percent of them have to choose the county lord. As for who to choose, it depends on the happiness of the Queen Mother.

Qin Keqing asked, "Brother Huan'er didn't expect this section?" ”

"He had vague doubts in his heart, but he hadn't thought about it so clearly." Shi Li said, "Therefore, he only wrote an urgent letter and sent it to Luguo." I added another letter to ask the Zhong family's uncle and nephew to take strict precautions. I'm here today to discuss with Second Brother Liu and Second Sister-in-law Liu, and I have to hide this matter from Huan'er. ”

Liu Xianglian frowned and said, "What are you doing to hide from him?" They want to kill his daughter-in-law. ”

Shi Li said: "The Empress Dowager can't die in the past few years. I want to keep her to sell more lords and lose the prestige of the Situ family. ”

Liu Xianglian shook her head: "It's better to let Huan'er know about such a big matter." Even if you don't know about it now, what if you know about it in the future? ”

Shi Li shrugged his shoulders and said, "He's not Jia Cong, and his temperament is not so irritable." ”

Liu Xianglian snorted and said, "If you want to hide it from him, you can only consult with the people in Luzhou, wouldn't it be clean to hide it from the two of us?" ”

"If this matter doesn't surprise Princess Jian'an, it's okay; If you are shocked......" Shi Li said, "I want to bother the second sister-in-law of Lao Liu to go to Luzhou and meet the princess." He smiled bitterly, "Please, princess, she herself is hiding some of that." ”

Liu Xianglian frowned and said, "Don't pull our husband and wife into the water." ”

Shi Li was about to speak, but Qin Keqing spoke first: "It's okay, I haven't been out of Beijing for a few days." Shi Li thanked him.

Liu Xianglian's brows were twisted into ropes, and she said after a while: "Don't they sell the knight, will the Situ family still have prestige?" ”

Shi Li chuckled and said: "When the fifth master left last time, he told me that he would be about to return to Beijing in the next few years, and he could hide it from Brother Huan when he encountered something unavoidable." When Mr. Gong left, he also specially told me that if I encountered something that was difficult to do, I either made up my own mind or told Mr. Mu that there was no need to discuss with Brother Huan. In fact, there are some things that the fifth master discussed with Old Man Gong, and he never told Brother Cong. ”

Qin Keqing frowned: "It won't be Chen Yatou's business, Cong'er will tear down the sky if she knows it." ”

"No, something else." Shi Li said, "Brother Cong'er and Brother Huan'er have a very smooth life, sometimes they do things too lightly, or they are righteous and angry, and they refuse to owe favors. The fifth master and the old man Gong are both leaders of the meticulous work, and they are also older, so they understand the importance better than them. The Situ family has never experienced the defeat of the monarch, but it has been directly divided from the prosperous era, and the people's hearts are extremely stable. If you want to shake the foundation, you can't relax in any of them. The betrayal of the knight hurts the heart of the doctor the most. For example, Mr. Su Zheng. "Su Zheng's son is the prefect of Jingzhou, and he has always wanted to take his son over since the chaos in Beijing, but Old Man Su has always refused. Until the Empress Dowager began to sell her lordship, her mind was shaken. "Now those scholars and doctors who still refuse to wake up in their dreams are looking forward to the empress dowager repenting, or the ancestors of the Situ family are angry in the spirit of heaven and take her away."

Liu Xianglian said: "Even if the Empress Dowager is gone, the little saint will sell her lord." He's not a woman yet, so he can't shirk it. ”

Shi Li said: "The Empress Dowager is a woman, and she is also the queen of the first emperor himself; The little saint's surname is Situ, but he was set up by the rebel Fang Xiong. The two of them complement each other and both get the money to sell the knight, and neither of them is missing. After all, scholars are the cornerstone of the imperial court. Besides, if we don't move her, she will die sooner or later. In front of King Yan, she was just an ant. ”

Liu Xianglian was silent for a long time, and finally stood up and said, "I don't care." He threw up his sleeves and walked out.

Qin Keqing smiled apologetically: "He is such a character." ”

Shi Li smiled: "I know. Leng Erlang is a cool man and does not stick to details. Even though he has been a mountain bandit for more than ten years, his nature has not changed. ”

Qin Keqing said: "Master Shi, you won't bother me to go to Luzhou just for Princess Jian'an." You can find any idea. ”

Shi Li arched his hand and said: "I knew that I could hide it from Second Brother Liu, but I couldn't hide it from Second Sister-in-law Liu." I also want to ask Liu's second sister-in-law to act in a play. Qin Keqing raised his eyebrows. Shi Li said in a low voice, "Smart people think a lot. Liu's second sister-in-law has two natural advantages compared to others. First, outstanding bearing; Second, her husband's surname is Liu. ”

Qin Keqing frowned, and only after a while did he say, "I still don't understand what you mean." ”

Shi Li sighed: "Speaking of which, this matter is not thorough in their south. That Liu Hu said that the Liu family's Liu credible branch had already broken off contact with the Liu Keli branch of the Liguo Mansion, so they believed it. Gong Kun imitated Liu Hu's letter to the Empress Dowager, which said that he wanted to pick a son. When he arrived in the West, the sea and the sky were free, and he was no longer willing to do things for the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager may not believe it. If you do not believe, you will doubt the truth of the letter. If they believe, they will send another person to the West. It's just that things are too urgent, and she's a harem maid. The people in the palace are cautious and do not make decisions lightly. I heard Brother Huan gossip, and there were rumors many years ago that the second sister-in-law Liu was the orphan of Prince Yizhong. ”

Qin Keqing said: "I've heard it too, that's nonsense." ”

Shi Li smiled: "Although it's nonsense, why don't you talk nonsense about others?" How many years has Prince Yizhong been the crown prince, it is not surprising that he can abduct some characters from Ouchi. Didn't Liu Dengxi also kidnap many people for the emperor? At that time, the court investigated Prince Yizhong and Yu Dang very closely, and it was not an ordinary person to be able to rescue a county lord quietly. Coincidentally, the second brother Liu is also surnamed Liu. ”

Qin Keqing finally roughly guessed what he wanted to do, and said with a wry smile: "There are more people surnamed Liu." ”

Shi Li said: "That's why I say that smart people are the easiest to think more, because they never believe in coincidences. ”

"It's just that Ouchi Liuxin's branch must have others besides Liuhu."

Shi Li said: "The father of the willow bird is still there." Everything in a family like them is top secret, and Liu Hu himself doesn't know if he has a brother. And the top ones are the most suspicious. ”

Qin Keqing sat and thought about it for a long time, and suddenly felt funny, so he sat down and laughed in vain. Shi Li sat with a smile on the side.

Two days later, Qin Keqing really pretended to be a relative and led a few maids and servants to Luzhou. Liu Xianglian wanted to follow, but there was still a young girl at home who was unattended, so she had to stay honestly. Rongguo Mansion was naturally written by Jia Zheng to the Empress Dowager to ask for marriage, and Jia Huan went to Feng Ziying's house to say hello. Several joint characters know that everything is easy to do. The Empress Dowager chose a good day and an auspicious day to give a decree to marry, and sent someone to Luzhou to send a decree.

Shi Li expected things to be like a god, and something really happened in Luzhou. The uncle and nephew of the Zhong family got the flying pigeon in Beijing, so they sent people to secretly stare at Princess Jian'an day and night.

Jia Huan had written a letter to King Lu a long time ago, saying that he had to keep his grandmother's filial piety, and he was ready to come over to ask for marriage after his filial piety was fulfilled in April this year. Therefore, Luzhou has also prepared all kinds of objects early. In recent years, Luzhou has been rich, and the king of Lu has only this one sister, and the dowry is naturally not thin. It's just that his uncle Zeng Chun is reluctant, and often says "the Jia family is extremely rich" and the like, wanting to subtract a few points of the princess's makeup. The king of Bilu now has Zhong Heng's support, and Zhong Heng's soldiers beat a group of others, and Zeng Zhen has no choice.

That night, Princess Jian'an, the maid and others had already fallen asleep, and a figure quietly opened the window and went in, smeared a circle into the small teacup of Ruyao where she usually ate tea, sprinkled something into her incense burner, and quietly left. Seeing that the man was gone, the people sent by the Zhong family took the teacup away, and poured out the contents of the incense burner to wash it and put it back.

This man returned to the teahouse with the contents of the furnace and the teacup to show his colleagues, Zhong Wei didn't recognize it at all, but the doctor looked at the incense ash and sniffed the teacup, and high-fived: "Who's the trick!" It's really wonderful to look at the white rot. Nai took a pen and wrote a small sign. The man ran back and sent the skewer back to the princess's house and pressed it under the tea tray.

The next morning, when the princess got up to have tea, the maid could not find the teacup she used to drink, but looked for it and saw the stick. Princess Jian'an was shocked when she saw it. After thinking about it for a long time, he said: "That teacup seems to be where I left it yesterday, and I can't remember it for a while." Look for it, and get another cup for me to eat tea in. The maid agreed, and took another cup to pour her tea.

After looking for a long time, he picked up a small teacup from the verandah and sent it to the inside to ask whose house it was, but it happened to be the one that was missing in Princess Jian'an's house. The princess smiled: "Sure enough, Tete will not find anything when he goes to find it, and if he leaves it behind, it will come out on its own." "I ordered the teacup to be put aside, and now it has fallen out of favor, and I don't drink tea with it. All the maids laughed. But the teacup did not fall out of favor for long, and the princess drank tea with it again in the evening.

A few days later, Princess Jian'an occasionally felt cold and was bedridden. Three days later, chickenpox began! Fortunately, it was not powerful, the princess did not alarm others, and sent the maid to find the king of Lu. King Lu was so anxious that he ordered someone to invite a good doctor. Coincidentally, Zhong Heng was also on the spot, and he said: "It doesn't matter if you have chickenpox. There is a doctor near our teahouse, who no longer practices medicine, and he is the best at treating chickenpox, which is better than others. "King Lu was overjoyed, and he hurriedly ordered someone to invite this doctor over.

After a while, the doctor came and asked if it could cure chickenpox. He smiled and said, "It's okay for other diseases, only chickenpox is my family's ancestral recipe, and it is best to cure it." ”

The happy King Lu made a gesture to him: "Mr. Hard." ”

Zhong Heng said on the side: "It's just that the princess is a daughter." ”

The doctor said, "Just check the pulse with a hanging wire." ”

King Lu became more and more admired: "Mr. is still doing this!" Isn't it a miracle doctor? "This stupid boy! Zhong Heng almost laughed out loud on the side.

The doctor smiled and arched his hand: "Don't dare, don't dare." ”

When Concubine Ning and the Zeng family knew about this, the divine doctor had already finished diagnosing the pulse and left a prescription. He also said: "This recipe is a medicine primer, three bowls of water are fried into one bowl, twice a day in the morning and evening." And took six packets of medicine from his bosom, "This thing is my family heirloom chalcedony powder, specializing in the treatment of chickenpox." The princess also asked to drink the medicine and then take it into the tea. King Lu ordered the princess's nurse to take it away and personally sent the doctor out.

At this time, the grandmother of the Zeng family had already come, and she chatted for a long time before leaving. King Lu wanted to send someone to buy medicine outside, Zhong Heng said: "I was about to go back and say a few words to my uncle before returning to the palace." Why don't I go buy medicine and bring it back by the way. With a doctor by his side, the herbs can be picked better. When King Lu heard the reason, he entrusted him.

Not long after, Zhong Heng came back from helping to buy medicine, and the princess's nursing mother went to decoction the medicine. It's just that when I finally drank the end of the medicine with tea, the nursing mother muttered in her heart: The end of the medicine looks like sugar.