Qin Ke glanced at Sun Daochang and rubbed his temples helplessly: "Xuzhi, you call your people in and invite Sun Daochang to go to the courtyard for a cup of tea." 『』”

Pei Xi has no shortage of guards, but in order to show respect for the acting king, without the permission of the acting king, he will definitely not let these guards enter the gate of the gate of the acting king's house. Now it was easy to wait for Qin Ke to say this, and Cheng Fang, who had been guarding the door, immediately trotted through the courtyard, called the eight guards brought by Pei Xi in, and respectfully "invited" Daochang Sun to the courtyard, and by the way, he also carried the sturdy young man and took him out together.

Seeing this, Qin Ke motioned for Cheng Fang to close the door, and subconsciously looked at his daughter, wanting her to leave together. Seeing that Qin Wan's eyes were shining and he didn't want to leave at all, Qin Ke had no choice but to smile helplessly and said dotingly: "Bao'er, don't stand still, go and move your little stool over." ”

Qin Wan nodded vigorously, quickly ran to the foot of the wall, moved a small stool over, put it beside Qin Ke familiarly, and sat down with a smile.

She was already young, and although she was taller than a girl of similar age, she didn't go too far. Now sitting like this, the whole person is a little smaller, and it looks extremely cute.

At this moment, Pei Xi suddenly understood why the acting king was willing to follow this daughter like a little tail - if he had such a smart and playful girl, he would also be willing to spoil him!

When you think of your daughter, you must think of Roche; Thinking of Luo, Pei Xi was tired for a while. Therefore, he went straight to the point and said: "The matter involves King Zhao, and this group of people is too coincidental to be trusted." ”

Looking at Pei Xi's radiant appearance, Qin Ke sighed and said gently: "Xuzhi, you are proud, confident, and intelligent, I shouldn't have said those vulgar words that are easy to blind your brilliance." But people live in the world, no matter how they are a person or do things, they have to keep a few points, and they would rather be kind than do too much. "If you speak and act too harshly, not only will you lose your bearing, but you will also easily offend people!

Pei Xi was very unimpressed with this kind of cliché, Aren't you kind enough to behave in the world, Your Royal Highness the Acting King? King Liang Wu Gu conspired against you, the East Window incident happened, it has nothing to do with you, but Queen Mu wants to kill three birds with one stone, because you have a good relationship with King Liang's brother King Wei, so she deliberately far-fetched and climbed on you. In your most difficult time, who helped you say a word to those whom you have given kindness and saved a little face?

For Qin Ke's sake of being good to himself, Pei Xi didn't stab the elder explicitly, but just shook his head, his attitude was extremely resolute: "A truly upright person will never abolish the public for personal gain, and if I don't cultivate my morality, he will fix me to death, not to mention ......" His gaze fell on the door, and the corners of his lips raised a sarcastic arc, "Da Langjun should also know that this kid surnamed Chen claims to be from a family of cultivation and study, and his family is quite wealthy, so there must be someone in the clan who is a county official or even a government official, maybe it is still a master book, Gong Cao and the like. Such a family is not a famous family in the local area, but it can be regarded as a head and face. The Shen family in Jiangnan relied on the prestige of King Zhao to force the two families into such a situation, and no one dared to say a word of justice. If there is one who is good to others, I am afraid that no one does it better than the local officials. ”

He secretly changed the concept like this, but it made Qin Ke stammer, and he didn't know what to say. His Royal Highness the Acting King patted his daughter's shoulder, and when he saw Pei Xi's confident appearance, he had to say gloomily: "You're right, fourth brother...... Indeed, it has passed. ”

"Fourth uncle?" Qin Wan held his head in his hands and looked at his father with some doubts, "Is this Shen family a mother's family?" What does it have to do with the fourth uncle? ”

When Qin Ke heard this, he was just about to put on a straight face, but when he saw his daughter's innocent face, he was deflated again. I saw him leaning down and said softly: "Bao'er, don't say such things in front of your aunt, how can the Qianxian Mansion and the Shen family in Jiangnan be the same?" Although your mother's family has only been inherited for five generations, there are six people who have gone to the Zhongliang Temple, and the Duke of Qian is even more worthy of the Taimiao. Such a family is worthy of the sky and the ground, and the Shen family in Jiangnan ......" Qin Ke's eyes showed a trace of contempt and disdain, "It's just a salt merchant." ”

Qin Wan's eyes widened and he looked at his father in disbelief: "Salt merchant? However, Aya said that the fourth uncle's mother is Shen Zhaorong, and Zhaorong is the second of the nine concubines, and her status is extraordinary, how can she ...... "How can a woman from a merchant be a woman?" Even if she gave birth to a son, it would be impossible!

"That's not how genealogy is written." Qin Ke has never liked King Zhao very much, Shen Zhaorong's eyelids are relatively shallow, King Liang and King Qi are both elder brothers, and they are favored by saints, and their biological mothers are still high, these two mothers and sons can't afford to provoke them, so it is common to bully Qin Ke, the eldest son of the emperor. Qin Ke knew that his biological mother had fallen into Queen Mu's face, and it was just enough to endure Queen Mu, not to mention that Queen Mu also snubbed him, and rarely suppressed him openly, but Shen Zhaorong ...... Qin Ke naturally won't give any good evaluation to this mother and son, and he won't save face for the other party in front of his daughter, "In the last years of the previous dynasty, the officials ruled **, and the inner servants were able to be crowned marquis, and the emperor actually marked the price clearly and sold the official beard in order to eat, drink and have fun, and naturally he was fished out by the people of the Shen family in Jiangnan. Later, the Jiangnan was in turmoil, and in the past thirty or forty years, the dynasty was changed twice. "Raise soldiers, build armor, and establish a court...... Everything is a money-burning thing.

The new emperor needs money, and the Shen family in Jiangnan needs to climb up, and the two hit it off, mutually beneficial, and both put a fig leaf on themselves.

Such a family is accustomed to falling with the wind, and whoever is strong will support whomever is strong. When the sage was still the king of Qin, he served as the commander of the southern expedition, and led the Xia army to conquer the south and dominate the world. The Shen family in Jiangnan saw that the Song Court was destroyed, and Daxia became the master of Jiankang, so they hurriedly sent the beauties that they had carefully cultivated and were intended to be prepared for the queen of Song. As for the saints, in order to appease people's hearts and show the attitude that the north and the south are one family, they laughed at these beauties. Who would have thought that Shen Zhaorong's luck would be so good, obviously she was a concubine who couldn't even get the title of a concubine, she became pregnant after only a few servants, gave birth to King Zhao, and later relied on her qualifications and son, as well as her special identity from Jiangnan, to get a Zhaorong position?

Thinking of the past, Qin Ke couldn't help but sigh.

Thirty years ago in Jiangnan, there were two well-known beautiful women, known as "Jiangnan Shuangshu", that is, Princess Guangning, the daughter of the Queen of the Song Dynasty, and the cousin of Princess Guangning, who was born in the first family of Jiangnan, her maternal grandmother was Princess Nanliang, and her mother was Princess Bai of the Southern Song Dynasty. The two cousins were famous, and the prince almost broke his head in order to ask them to be his wife.

After the sage destroyed the Song court and captured the queen of the Song Dynasty, he directly sent an army to send these two beauties to Chang'an and handed them over to Taizong for disposal. It stands to reason that these two people are estimated to be included in the palace by Taizong and become a member of the concubine. But somehow, the sage's brother-in-law, the prince at that time, saw Princess Guangning, who had not yet entered the harem, and fell in love with her at first sight, so he begged Taizong to give Princess Guangning to him, so as to calm the situation in the south of the Yangtze River.

Taizong has always not taken women to heart, heard his son ask, without saying a word, directly gave Princess Guangning to the prince to be a good di, and on the grounds that the Qin king's widow Guo Shi was not out, he demoted her to a concubine, and gave the Bai family to the sage who was still the king of Qin at that time as a widow, and smiled at the ministers, the two sisters served the two brothers, which is a good story.

The Jiangnan family has high hopes for Princess Guangning and the Bai family, hoping that they will be favored by the crown prince and the king of Qin, and it is best to give birth to children with the royal blood of the north and south, and carve up the world of the Qin family in another way. Princess Quang Ninh lived up to expectations, fascinated the prince, and ignored the princess and her three sisters-in-law, and only Princess Quang Ninh was the only one who died.

Princess Quang Ninh relied on her beauty and was invincible, and the biggest humiliation in her life was that after the country was ruined and her family was destroyed, the saint never took her in his eyes and was not fascinated by her stunning appearance. She saw that the prince was obedient to her words, and in order to take revenge on the saint, she deliberately provoked the prince's dissatisfaction and suspicion of his younger brother. As for the crown prince, he was already narrow-minded, and he couldn't see that his younger brother was more liked by Taizong and Empress Mingde than himself, because of the saint's repeated concessions, he had gradually let go of his jealousy, but he was provoked by Princess Guangning and did many crazy things. So much so that Emperor Taizong couldn't bear it anymore, abolished the crown prince, and demoted him to King Jing. As for Princess Quang Ninh...... Although the royal family announced that she "had an illness", her face was completely disfigured, and she unfortunately died, so she was properly buried. But Qin Ke and Pei Xi both knew that the one who was buried in the royal mausoleum and enjoyed the incense sacrifice was not the real princess of Guangning.

Emperor Taizong hated Princess Guangning and thought that she had ruined her eldest son, how could he let her sleep underground? The real princess of Quang Ninh has long been crushed and scattered, and her soul is forever calm, and she cannot be liberated until she dies.

The Jiangnan family gave up this hope, and turned the target to the Bai family, but unfortunately, the Bai family's fortune was just the opposite of Princess Guangning - the saint didn't like her at all, but he respected her enough, all the way to the Qin Wang's widow, the prince Liangdi, and the saint Concubine De sat over, and the status was stable, but there was no favor and no children, and finally had to raise a daughter and live a lonely life.

It's not that these big families in Jiangnan haven't thought of sending beauties to the saints, but the Bai clan is so stunning, and the saints can be indifferent, for the stability of the rule of Great Xia and the interests of the northern scholars, they will respect her and stay away, not to mention these women from the Jiangnan Gaomen? Later, the Jiangnan family fixed its eyes and saw that among the princes of the sage, only King Zhao carried the blood of the southerners, and had a natural affinity and connection with them.

Things have come to this point, no matter how much they look down on the salt merchant background of the Shen family in Jiangnan, the scholars in Jiangnan have to have a relationship with the Shen family, and they can also have a relationship with King Zhao. As for the Shen family, they originally started in business, and they took the lead in terms of profit, but their background was insufficient, and this came and went...... Doesn't it make the Shen family so arrogant, to the point where they are careless about people's lives in the Jiangnan area, and others dare to be angry and dare not speak?