"What do you think about this?" I sat on the soft couch and picked up the broken bamboo purple clay pot to look at it carefully. The body of the pot cracked, revealing a small bamboo with clay, and there was nothing special about it.

"You have to figure out what the mystery of this pot is, so that you can know why Jin'er stole this pot." An Yuanxi looked at me quietly, "I will investigate this matter, don't worry." ”

I nodded, rested the broken pot on the low table beside me, and looked up at him. How long has it been since I seriously looked at him? How long has it been that he has deliberately avoided meeting his gaze? I looked at his beautiful face carefully, An Yuanxi, there are really too many differences from before. When I was in Cangdu before, I saw him for the first time, and I was also amazed by his face, but since he returned to the Hou Mansion, his handsome and beautiful face is not as good as Feng Ge's, but he has not left a deeper impression on people, as if he is deliberately hiding his demeanor and brilliance, deliberately making himself inconspicuous, even if he is exposed to the light, he hides himself very deeply. And just now, at the moment when he interrogated Jin'er, his temperament suddenly changed, like a dusty pearl, which was washed away by someone, and suddenly exuded a cool and untouchable brilliance. But how can people change so dramatically? Can just a few months of martial arts practice transform a person?

Seeing that I didn't speak, he just looked at him quietly and hesitated, "Is there anything else with my sister-in-law?" ”

"Can you tell me where you know so much?" I had a hint of anticipation in my heart. An Yuanxi, don't hide it from me, please tell me the truth, as long as you tell me, I will believe it. I stared at him fixedly, and said softly: "The allusions to the rivers and lakes, the cruel punishments, or it may seem to sound, but the identification of wounds is not something that can be accurately judged by learning overnight, where did you learn these things?" ”

"Does it matter?" An Yuanxi looked at me calmly, lowered his eyelids, and said in a low voice, "Sister-in-law...... In any case, I won't hurt you. ”

Maybe you won't hurt me, but An Yuanxi, if you hide my secrets, if you exceed the bottom line I can bear, a chasm will be dug between us. I don't want to...... I don't want to know those things in any other way, from other people's mouths, I don't want to break my trust in you.

Narrowing my eyelids in disappointment, I smiled self-deprecatingly, "I'm fine." There you go. ”

The government quickly settled the case, which diverted my attention and diluted the grief of the old man's death, and there was no such worrying thing in the palace again. After the old man held a funeral, lacquer coffin, standing inscription, Tomaji, and then waiting for the memorial, the old man mixed in the court for a lifetime, came to worship and mourn the officials in an endless stream, according to the official rank from high to low divided into multiple batches, actually lined up three seven. And the most prominent worshipper among them is the emperor who returned to the province with the newly sealed Yun Gui Concubine to mourn.

Yongle Hou Yun Chongshan, who controlled the court steadily during his lifetime, was extremely mournful behind him. posthumously awarded the title of Jin Jue, and the funeral specifications and grades are all handled according to the first-class public service; The eldest great-grandson Yunnuo, the childish son of the Marquis; The second grandson Yunqi, the official from the fifth grade; Not long, entering the palace for many days has not seen the emperor canonized, thinking that the Yun family has been forgotten by the emperor, suddenly by the emperor named Yun Gui Concubine, given to live in the Golden Autumn Palace, night and night, one of its several cousins also sealed the official position below the fifth grade, Yun Gui Concubine is deeply favored, not only to return to the province for the old man to mourn, even the emperor Yanjing to be honored, personally accompanied to go. For a while, the Yun family was in the limelight, and the nephews of the second house turned over, raising their eyebrows one by one, once they were ambitious, frivolous, and hundreds of officials in the dynasty speculated that Yun Guifei was a popular candidate for the next position. And I was terrified because of the Yun family's series of "holy dependents", when the old man was alive, he always grasped the balance between the Yun family and the imperial court, and did not allow the children of the Yun family to set foot in officialdom. The Yun family is already a giant, if he comes out in the court again, I am afraid that no matter how cowardly the first emperor is, he will desperately get rid of the Yun family. At this time, the emperor was unusual, and wantonly gave the children of the Yun family official titles and knights, pushing them to the extreme, which is more like a harbinger of the imminent decline of this century-old family.

How accurate the old man's hunch was. Everything seems to be in someone's hands, I can't control the black hand that pushed the Yun family to the cusp, and I can't control the second nephew's words and deeds when he is proud. It's like facing a stock that is going up like crazy, I can't stop the traders behind the scenes from pushing it up, and I don't know if it will suddenly crash and fall the day after tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. The only thing I can grasp is to sell that stock before it hits rock bottom in a bloody way, and get out of the stock market, and save my capital to win. Therefore, after receiving the emperor's holy decree that he wanted to accompany Yun Guifei to the Hou Mansion to mourn, I immediately summoned An Yuanxi and Yun Xiu to discuss, and unanimously decided to immediately implement the plan to break the whole into parts.

When the crying concubine Niangniang saw the coffin of the old man, she was sent to the back hall to rest because she was overly unwell due to sadness, I took advantage of the emperor's good opportunity to summon the nephews of the two houses of the Yun family, knelt on the ground, and in front of several deacons in the second room, I said: "Your Majesty, the concubine has a matter, and I want to implore the emperor to testify for the Yun family." ”

"What?" The emperor had just appeased the noble concubine Niangniang and came out, frowning slightly, and did not tell me to get up. I said, "It's about grandpa's last words." ”

"Didn't the eldest brother go in a dream? How can there be a last word? Uncle Tang Yun Chongling immediately questioned loudly, and his face sank slightly.

"It's some things that grandpa told me before, and the concubine thinks that it can be handled as a last word now." I glanced at Yun Chongling and saw that he frowned, knowing that he was worried that I would say something that would be unfavorable to the second room. If he hadn't made the old man so angry that day, Grandpa wouldn't have left so quickly, and I felt disgusted with him for a while, and turned my head to look straight at the emperor sitting on the couch.

"What did Yongle Hou explain?" The emperor said lightly, "Get up and talk, I want to hear it too." ”

With the emperor's permission, Yun Chongling can't say anything. I got up and sat down, took a breath, and said clearly: "Grandpa said that the Yun family can have today's family business, thanks to the hard work of the deacons of Zeyun Mansion for so many years, and the treasurers and stewards from all over the country have worked together, they have done so many things for the Yun family, and the reason is to get a richer return, and they should also have their own career, so grandpa decided to divide and transfer all the properties of the Yun family in the country to the heroes of the Yun family." ”

The emperor's gaze narrowed slightly, and he looked at me quietly, without showing joy or anger. The deacons in the second room were all stunned, and then their faces were different, some were surprised, some were surprised, some were excited, some were suspicious, and some were incredulous. Yun Chongling's eyes burned with fire, and there was a hint of temptation in his tone: "That...... Did the eldest brother say how to divide it? ”

This last word can be said to their hearts, he was afraid that I would say something unfavorable to the second room, but he didn't expect to divide the property to them, and his tone was so excited that he couldn't suppress a slight trembling. I looked at the excitement in Yun Chongling's eyes that couldn't be concealed, and with a hint of suspicion and vigilance, I smiled slightly: "Grandpa said that Nuo'er is young, and the concubine and uncle have been in the mansion for a short time, so they have not contributed much to the Yun family's family business, so the Hou Mansion can only occupy thirty percent of the property at most; The people of Zeyun Mansion are prosperous, and each deacon has great merit, and he can occupy fifty percent, and it is up to the uncle to decide how to distribute it to the sons and nephews in the mansion. ”

"And what about the other two?" Yun Chongling can't wait to be authentic. I smiled: "The remaining two percent, grandpa wants to distribute those properties to the treasurers and stewards who have worked for the Yun family for more than ten years, and transfer those properties to their names for private ownership." ”

"Twenty percent is so much?" Yun Chongling's brows furrowed, and he said with some disapproval, "They are not from the Yun family, why should they give them two percent of the industry?" ”

"Actually, it's not much, the Yun family has worked in various places for more than ten years, and there are 3,473 people in total, and 20% of the industry is distributed to them, which can only make them each a small rich." I said calmly, "Grandpa said that these shopkeepers and stewards have worked for the Yun family for many years, and they should get a little rich reward, which is really nothing compared to what Zeyun Mansion earns." ”

I emphasized that Zeyun Mansion accounted for fifty percent of the Yun family's industry, and even though Yun Chongling was a little reluctant to give the two percent of the property to outsiders, it was hard to say anything. The division ratio of this three-fifty-two property is something I have carefully considered. Seventy percent of the Yun family's total assets are in the New World, which is the hard work of my grandfather's secret business all his life, I will not let the people in the second room know about it, and what is currently divided is the Yun family's three-percent industry left in Tiancao Kingdom. Among these three industries, the Yongle Hou Mansion can't occupy too much, otherwise it won't achieve my purpose of scattering wealth and avoiding trouble, but it can't occupy too little, so that people will look down on the Hou Mansion; Zeyun Mansion must account for half, not to mention that there are many people in Zeyun Mansion, even if it is based on the principle of equal distribution of two rooms, it is reasonable for the second room to account for half, otherwise the people in the second room will not be convinced; Let those shopkeepers and stewards who do things for the Yun family get two percent, considering that once something happens to the Yun family, it is possible to ensure that these people will not be burdened by the Yun family. The second is to subtract the risk of the second room becoming the meat of the sword, if the second room gets seventy percent of the industry, plus the favored Yun Guifei in the palace, and the nephew of the second house of the court, then I withdraw from the center of the vortex at the same time, it is tantamount to pushing the second room to the tip of the knife. This is not the result that I am happy to see, since I am the head of the Yun family, as soon as I am in office, I should try my best to protect the Yun family, not only the Yongle Hou Mansion, but also the Zeyun Mansion. As for the fate of Zeyun Mansion after the separation, it is no longer my responsibility and obligation, whether they choose to keep their heads in the dark or advance bravely, there is no way for me to stop them.

(To be continued)