Chapter 497: Upstart

"That's it, what do you do. Aunt www.biquge.info Pen Fun Pavilion, tidy up my makeup for me, so as not to make other ladies wait in a hurry, but say that it is not from the main palace. The eldest princess forced her spirits and pressed her fingers around the corners of her eyes a few times, trying to hide her tiredness.

"Yes, Princess." The aunt had the heart to persuade again, but she was afraid of touching the princess's sadness, which made the princess even more anxious, so she had to stop her mouth, and began to arrange the princess's hair in a bun, and put a layer of rouge on the princess's face to cover up the paleness.

After a short time, the makeup has been taken care of, and if you don't look closely, you can't see that the eldest princess is not in good spirits. In addition, the eldest princess herself has a graceful and luxurious temperament, even if she does not have rich clothes, she still has a powerful aura that is difficult to shake.

Carefully tightening the hairpin on her head in the mirror, the eldest princess got up, let out a long sigh, and put on a smile that made people unable to distinguish between real and fake.

"Auntie, is the carriage ready?" The eldest princess spoke, and for a while she couldn't see the decadence of Fang Cai.

"If you go back to the princess, you have already prepared." The princess was behind the princess and brushed the wrinkles on her dress.

"Then let's go." The eldest princess was expressionless, went out of the house all the way, got into the carriage, sat in the carriage with her eyes closed, and recuperated her spirits.

"Princess, can you ask Miss Muyi to accompany the princess?" My aunt asked.

"No need, Mu Yi is still young, and this kind of social occasion should not be contaminated. Let's talk about it when I'm older. The eldest princess shook her head.

Although those banquets were not long, they were not easier than the concubines in the harem competing for favor. The ladies and ladies of various provinces are gathered in one place, and it is inevitable that there will be comparisons, and several people are in a bunch, and there are not a few people who are squeezed by yin and yang, she really doesn't want Mu Yi to come into contact with such a boring thing.

What's more, she is already very tired, and it is difficult for her to take care of the young Mu Yi anymore, if anything goes wrong, how will she explain to the general?

"Hey, it would be nice if the eldest lady was here. If the eldest lady accompanies the princess, see which one who doesn't have long eyes and dares to chew his tongue! The aunt also got into the car and stayed with the eldest princess.

In my aunt's heart, Fang Xiaoyu, the eldest lady, can be regarded as a powerful woman, not only invited the princess back from the nunnery, which contributed to the marriage between the princess and the general, but also the legendary strange woman.

She doesn't know if she can communicate with the gods and Buddhas, but just because she can make His Majesty trust her so much, many people can only look up.

In her heart, if Fang Xiaoyu could accompany the eldest princess, not to mention whether the gossip full of malice outside could be calmed down, at least the mouths of those yin and yang weird people at the banquet could be solidly blocked for them.

This eldest lady has never been a loser.

Hearing her aunt mention Fang Xiao, the eldest princess was stunned for a moment. Then I thought of Fang Xiaoyu's tough character, I am afraid that I can show her those women who make a face in front of her, as well as those women who chew their tongues indiscriminately.

Fang Xiaoyu is such a person. Even if she is the eldest princess, she has never had the slightest cowardice in the face of her. The conversation is like an equal person, but he has a good grasp of proportion, so that people will not dislike her, which has caused the opposite effect.

She really likes this child very much, and she also feels that although she is different from the ladies of other families in the capital, it is also very reassuring to have such a different eldest lady in the general's mansion.

Yes, this child is no longer in the capital now. What she was going to do, she didn't hide it from her, so she knew that she must still be in Da Zhou at the moment, planning to help the imperial brother deal with those people from the Xiao family's royal family.

These are big things, and she can't help it, so she won't go to this kid to recall for her own little thing.

She is not only the eldest princess of great honor, but also the mother of the child Xiaoyu. As a mother, you can't just shelter your child from the wind and rain, how can you delay your child's business?

The eldest princess shook her head with a smile and said with a wry smile: "Xiaoyu, this kid is the busiest in our general's mansion." She is a woman, but she does something that a man may not do. After all, it's not for the general to be less worried. It is also bitter that these children have no mother since they were young, and the general was not in tune in the past, so he went to Beiyan and ignored the affairs of the house, so that these children were wronged by the prime minister's mansion. Now I am helping the general to take care of this house, and I am tired of it, but compared with the hopeless days in the nunnery, I should be content. ”

"Let's go, go to the Lu State Mansion." The eldest princess gave orders to the coachman outside, and the carriage staggered along.

The distance from the Zhenyuan General's Mansion to the Lu Guogong Mansion is not far, and the eldest princess squinted, wanting to use any time to cultivate her spirits, otherwise, I am afraid that it will be another tough battle.

Lu Guogong is a hereditary position of the Duke of the State, which has been inherited since the founding of the country. The Lu Guogong of the past dynasties were either good at writing or martial arts, and most of them were top geniuses.

Today's Lu Guogong and Fang Jianzhang are about the same age, the old Guogong above has just given up his seat and gone out to travel around the world with three or two restless friends, and the new Lu Guogong is the concubine of the old Guogong. It's not that he has any means to win over his son-in-law, but the old prince's son-in-law died of illness two years ago, and the second son is out of tune, going out to spend time drinking every day, and the prostitutes in the Qinglou are seen in the courtyard outside. The wife at the head of the family became ill and is still bedridden.

Lu Guogong has been the pillar of the country since the founding of the country, and he has been able to inherit the title until now, in addition to the emperor's grace, it is also the descendants of their country's mansion. In this generation, the eldest son has been suffering from illness since he was a child, although he is a good person and talented, but in the end he is no match for the destiny of heaven, and it dragged on for decades, and finally left. This is still the old man looking for famous doctors, and the precious medicinal materials are like not being supplied with silver, so that he can drag on to such an age. Because of this, the Luguo Mansion was about to be dragged into an empty shelf, if it weren't for the emperor's pity for the old Guogong's love for his son, and rewarded a lot of gold, silver and medicinal materials, I am afraid that the Guogong Mansion would be poor at this moment.

The second son is not careful, and he doesn't know how much money he makes just by visiting the Qinglou to play with the Oiran. The more incapable you are, the more you spend money. If there are some people in the capital who have some pursuits and talents, who wants to be friends with him? Most of the people who mingle with him are drunkards, fox friends and dog friends.

failed to dissuade him many times, and the old country's public anger almost held his breath. In addition, the eldest son finally couldn't resist the will of heaven and let go, and the old prince was angry, and he was disheartened, and passed the position of Lu Guogong to the talented concubine, which is now Lu Guogong.

The old prince is also unable to do it, seeing that the mud of the second son can't support the wall, is it possible that a loyal and martyr's Guogong Mansion will be defeated in his hands?

The death of the eldest son also made him disheartened, so he broke the jar and fell, but he didn't expect this concubine to take care of the house in good order, so he comforted him a lot.

It's a pity that the second son of the grandson was not convinced and made trouble a few times, and was chased by the angry old man with an ancestral golden stick for two streets, and almost broke his leg, which made him settle down for some time.

Now this Duke of Lu is also a capable person, Wen can govern the country, Wu can Anbang, the eastern suburbs are close to the alliance of seven small countries, and he sent people to guard the eastern suburbs, which is considered to be another big force in addition to General Shi and Fang Jianzhang.

And the smartest thing about Lu Guogong is that he does not personally control the military power. Just as Fang Xiaoyu once asked Fang Jianzhang to do, he handed over all the military power back to the emperor, and only when there was a war, the emperor personally gave him the temporary right to use the military power. In this way, the emperor was relieved, but in fact, the generals in their hearts remained unchanged for those soldiers who had been following them. It's a very clever approach.

Although the Lu State Mansion does not have military power now, the generals in the eastern suburbs are all people they promoted.

This time, there was a war maniac in the Seven Nations Alliance, who not only set off a war within the alliance, but also tried to invade the eastern suburbs, so that the generals in the eastern suburbs were toughly beaten back, and also took advantage of the situation to support others to be emperors, and included the territory under Dacheng and became a vassal state of Dacheng.

Although the emperor is a person who has no ambition to expand his territory, it is also a happy thing that his country's territory has expanded, so what this general in the eastern suburbs did this time is really a great achievement.

In addition, the emperor had the intention of using troops against the Great Zhou, so this kind of powerful general had to be wooed a lot.

This young man was the person recommended by Lu Guogong, so the task of transferring him back to Beijing to receive the reward was handed over to the Lu Guogong Mansion by the emperor.

However, although the people in the eastern suburbs are not as strong as those in Beiyan and the northwest, because the eastern suburbs are quite poor and bad, there are many people in Diao.

The young man was born and raised in the eastern suburbs, did not work in the military, and married a daughter-in-law at the age of thirteen, and the daughter-in-law was a year older than him, and was a slightly wealthy family in the poor place in the eastern suburbs.

In fact, he was a nouveau riche, and the woman's father businessman got up, ran out for a few years, saved some money, and went back to the eastern suburbs to buy real estate.

And the baby kiss that the young general and the merchant have ordered since childhood, can not just shirk it, so when the young general wanted to join the army at the age of thirteen, he became close to the daughter of the nouveau riche. That year, the woman was fourteen years old, and she was already showing her mean nature.

Now, this young general has become a young man, making meritorious achievements, and shining on the lintel, but he has not abandoned his wife who has been waiting for him for many years. It's a pity that this woman is not too capable of handling it, and this time she entered Beijing, the true state of this nouveau riche was exposed.

In order to win over the young general, the emperor wanted to reward three or two beauties with him as a concubine, but the young general did not refuse, so he smiled and received the will.

However, the nouveau riche wife can be regarded as breaking the vinegar jar.

She was not born beautiful, coupled with the poor mountains and bad waters in the eastern suburbs, how can the woman's maintenance skills be compared to the beauties in the capital?

The emperor rewarded the young general with three beautiful concubines, all of whom were signs of life. Although the woman is a wife, she also knows her own catties, and when it comes to beauty, she can't compare to these three little vixens in any way.

However, this is a reward from the emperor, she has no courage to refuse, and her father-in-law has already accepted the concubine, and she has been closing the door with these three people for the past two days, what can she say?

It's just that she can't refuse, but it doesn't mean that she has no resentment in her heart, she didn't dare to be angry at the emperor, so she poured her anger on the eldest princess's head.

Of course, he won't do too much, after all, the other party is the emperor's eldest sister and the eldest princess of Dacheng. However, her father-in-law is now being reused by the emperor, that is, the queen mother has personally received her, and there is no lack of solicitation in her words, so she thinks that as long as she does not go too far, with the emperor's heart for his father-in-law, she will not be easily punished. So these days, she went around to attend banquets and befriended the ladies of various provinces, but she was angry with the eldest princess from time to time.

Whether the young general knows these things or not, but the eldest princess is annoyed by this uneducated nouveau riche woman. If it weren't for the fact that she took into account the overall situation and didn't want to cause unnecessary trouble to her imperial brother, she really wanted to suck this bastard to death with that big mouth.

But because she was already inferior to her own incompleteness. After the incident of the horse came out, it also brought an indelible stain to the royal reputation. So now she can keep a low profile, and she doesn't want to affect the emperor's brother because of her own problems, which will bring difficulties to him in governing the country, so she can't hold back her anger and refuse to attack.

Today's banquet was personally organized by the people of the Lu State Mansion, and it was naturally impossible for the nouveau riche not to go. That's why the eldest princess has a headache.

In fact, Duchess Lu Guo was more or less aware of this problem, so she held this banquet, wanting the two to abandon their previous suspicions and not make too much trouble. Because this lady of Lu Guogong has heard of the eldest lady of the Zhenyuan General's Mansion, she is a person who is not easy to mess with. She is a real celebrity in front of the emperor, and she is said to be a god, some say that she is a god who came down to save the common people, and some say that she is the spokesperson of the Buddha, bless the peace of the great inheritance. Let's not talk about the truth or falsehood, but the emperor believes this, so she can't pretend that she didn't see anything.

What's more, the eldest princess was brought out of the house before, and after so many years in the nunnery, the emperor already felt guilty about this eldest sister, and now he is doubly good to her. If you can't get along with the eldest princess, what good end can you have?

It's a pity that this nouveau riche can't see the situation clearly, and he has always been in the eastern suburbs before, and he doesn't understand the pattern of the capital at all. If she continues like this, she will definitely cause boundless trouble for her father-in-law.

And her husband is a talent, and he is supported by the Lu State Mansion, so he naturally beats the label of the Lu State Mansion. If the eldest princess and the emperor misunderstood that these things were done by the nouveau riche at the behest of the Duke of Lu, it would really be a strange injustice through the ages.

It is better to say that they actually want to get close to Fang Jianzhang, the general of Zhenyuan, because Fang Jianzhang is in the emperor's heart, and that is the real god of war.

With the eldest princess and Fang Xiaoyu, General Zhenyuan's Mansion is equivalent to standing tall in the capital.

She would be stupid to offend such a person. (To be continued.) )