The night breeze is cool, and when the wind blows, the restlessness of the early summer heat spreads like water ripples in the misty air.

Zhou Pingning stood at the intersection of Shuangfu Street, surrounded by noisy crowds, the lights of the East Market at night were on, bright as day, there were women who came to catch the night market on the fifteenth day of the first month, holding together in twos and threes, laughing and walking in the warm light and night, with smiles on their faces, looking ordinary, but they were very eye-catching for no reason.

What are they happy about?

The green cloth linen clothes with pudding, the threaded embroidered shoes with white corners, the silk with no trim of any pattern, oh, the silver hairpin on the bun is probably also copper wrapped in a layer of silver, right?

What do they have to be happy about?

Spend three taels of copper plates, buy a bowl of wontons, and then share the food among three people.

It's obviously a dirty and cheap thing, why are they laughing so much that their eyes are crooked.

Chen Wan was wearing silk silk, and what was on her face was the incense powder of Yuan Fu Ji, and she was wearing a complete set of jade heads, but she was still unhappy, and she was reluctant to even smile at him.

Zhou Pingning's face was flushed, Jiangcai's Huadiao wine was rich and heavy, and when he drank it, his blood was boiling at that time, but afterwards he had stamina and was dizzy.

He and Duanwang pushed the cup and changed the lamp

There are many people in the East Market, people from three religions and nine streams gather here, there are both hermitted people, and there are cloud sleeves and jugglers, everyone has their own sad and joyful stories, and no one cares about other people's joys and sorrows.

Is it for this reason that King Duan set the wine in a small winery with a little-known name?

There were gongs and drums sounding noisily there, and Zhou Pingning seemed to be listening through the cloth cover, and he couldn't hear what he was singing and playing.

It's a mess in my head. But he knew he had been awake. Soberly repeating the long words that echoed King Duan.

"Wise people don't speak dark words. At the Chinese New Year's Eve family banquet, I was actually surprised to see you. Duan Wang said very seriously, "A princess of the palace, the biological mother is the princess of the palace, the king of Pingyang is a vassal and elegant, far away from court affairs, and naturally will not interfere too much in the miscellaneous affairs of the inner court, but Princess He of Pingyang is a shallow heart." A woman who speaks straight and has a clear distinction between love and hatred cannot take the initiative to raise you to show your face in front of the emperor. ”

Zhou Pingning knew very well that King Duan was using him as a breakthrough.

"There is only one reason, you are stained with the second grandmother who has just entered the mansion, the light of the Chen family, to put it more broadly, you are stained with the light of the Chen family who is now covering the sky with one hand, the light of Chen Xian. Is it still comfortable to get wet? Sleeping in the cradle sent by the Yue family, can Second Master Ning still sleep comfortably? ”

Duanwang Zhou Shen has always had an excellent reputation in the DPRK and abroad, and he is modest. He is not from a low background and acts orthodoxically. A school of literati - if it is blatantly sarcastic and ridiculous, it can also be regarded as a literati style.

Zhou Pingning and his people couldn't be provoked, and immediately turned around and wanted to leave.

"The son of a cheap maid" King Duan smiled very lightly, "The word maid used by this king to describe your biological mother, this king is still a concubine, and he does not have half a disrespect for Ning Erye." But if you think about it, the son of a cheap maid is announced by your main house Chen Shi to the public, in front of the ladies in Dingjing, you kneel in front of her, she stands in front of you, watching you blindfolded, kicked and bent your knees, and keeps calling you 'the son of a cheap maid'"

Zhou Pingning's blood rushed to his brain, his hands were clenched on the back of the chair, and his muscles were full of muscles, "Enough, enough!" Say no more! ”

There are often two extremes for people who are concubines, one is extremely inferior, watching the dishes and cooking, and the other is the extreme self-esteem that grows up in inferiority, saying little, and caring about the feelings of others is more about their own feelings.

It just so happens that Zhou Pingning is the second type, and fortunately, he is the second type.

If he becomes the only person who is the only one who looks forward, it is impossible for the six princes to set their eyes on him.

When people with extreme self-esteem have been humiliated enough, their self-esteem and self-confidence collapse, and no one knows what they will do.

When Chen was born, Chen Xian endured humiliation and took her to his side to teach, every stroke, hand and foot were taught by Chen Xian himself, and even Chen Fangzhi did not receive such careful attention from Chen Xian. Before marrying you, Qin Boling sent someone to Beijing to ask for his nephew to marry Chen, Chen Xian refused, and re-chose the daughter of the branch of the Chen family to marry Sichuan Gui - Qin Boling is a member of the feudal territory, holding military power, and Chen Xian is still reluctant to marry Chen. Chen Xian's personality, you are more familiar with it than me, only if there are greater interests in the Chen family, he will give up taking his daughter to set up the Sichuan noble soldiers and horses. What's further up? The princess of the county? Princess? Imperial Princess? Chaise? Or the Queen? Chen Xian's abacus is too deep, I have a short view, and I can't guess it thoroughly, but I can be sure that it will not be the second grandmother of Pingyang Palace. ”

Zhou Pingning's back was to him, his hands trembled so badly that he even trembled with the stool.

Duan Wang didn't stop talking, raised his head and drank the flower carving, and said with a smile: "The Chen family is ready to support you, join the military department, take charge of the army, you are a man close to the blood of the heavenly family, and you are the best puppet to control after Chen Xian after the emperor, not to mention that this puppet married his own daughter, and he has a deep affection for his daughter, and the rock has not turned - Chen's reputation was ruined that day, you can still rush within three days, and you can come to the door to ask me more than I asked, was the Chen family moved?" ”

Zhou Pingning didn't answer, and King Duan continued to look down on his own, "I don't think there is eighty percent." The heart is higher than the sky, the life is thinner than paper, this kind of people complain about the heavens and the earth, complain about the gods and ghosts, and the most reluctant thing is to complain about themselves. If the Chen family doesn't have that kind of business, can you marry her? If you don't marry her, will the Chen family make every effort to support you? went around and around, and went back to the origin of Second Master Ning, if you rely on the Chen family, you won't be able to raise your head in front of the Chen family for the rest of your life, even if she keeps calling you 'the son of a cheap maid'. ”

The son of a, ho, the son of a

The East Market was bustling from south to north, and Zhou Pingning seemed to be burning in front of him, he knew what the yellowed thick paper that had been folded into three or four stacks was - Duan Wang patted him on the shoulder at the end and put the thick stack of things on his hand.

"What the Chen family can give you, this king can too. Even the king can cast you up to the fore as he pleases. Others see you. It's just you, the future King of Jin, not Chen Xian's son-in-law, let alone the lackey of the Chen family. Chan looks at you like a hero, a hero she needs to look up to, not a stolen minion who looks down and complains. ”

"To be a man for a lifetime, to live is to be a backbone and dignity, and the old Dingjing men do not bend their knees. is not flattering, the man is a man who stands up to the sky, he can go out, bleed, and is willing to die. ”

"Wei Zheng met Taizu, Zhuge met Liu Bei, good ministers and masters, and the way of heaven is ordinary. The heroes of the green forest want to accept the vote, and this king did not think of asking for your vote, but prepared a vote of his own. Lao invited Second Master Ning to smile. ”

It was probably because of the wine that he had drunk, and the blush on Duanwang's face never came down. Towards his Nunu mouth, he shook his hand and turned over the paper, which was a carefully and accurately depicted Dingjing defense map!

The paper is red, red, black and black, densely circled.

"The red ones are the king's people, and the black ones are Chen Xian's people, not evenly matched, but in the end, there is still a fight, Zhou Pingning, what Chen Xian can give you, I can give you." What Chen Xian can't give you, but what you want, I can still give it to you. ”

Zhou Pingning held the map in both hands, and when he spoke, his hands and body calmed down, and he asked in a ghostly manner, "Do you know what I want?" What more can you give me? ”

The two questions, the six princes combined into one, answered concisely and concisely.

"Dignity, and the ability to completely look down on and conquer the Chen family."

This is the real danger of military action.

Peeling off the calculations, he put all the most secret and thoughtful plans in front of his eyes, without a trace of concealment, but instead used the three words "vote for fame", which easily made Zhou Pingning feel respect and expectation.

The temptation here, the two sides are compared, and he is shaking.

Zhou Pingning thought that he had been independent in this night wind for a long time, but when he was blown by the wind and woke up, he raised his head and swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, only to find that the bowl of wontons of the three women had not been eaten yet.

"Second Master Ning! Second Master Ning! ”

Not far away, a small servant trotted with a horse.

Zhou Pingning subconsciously pressed the placket containing the map, coughed twice, flirted with his robe and turned over on the horse, the horse was not allowed on the avenue, the little guy led the horse in front of him to carefully avoid the crowd, thought about it again, and looked up with a respectful smile on his head, "You haven't been back for a long time now, but the second grandmother remembers you, asked Gui Zhi many times, where did you see someone, and also ordered the kitchen to make you a bowl of sobering soup." ”

"What did Gui Zhi say," Zhou Pingning answered absentmindedly.

"What else can I say! Didn't you send someone back after you got off the court to say that you and Wan Daren had come to the East Market to drink! You are a noble person who forgets many things, and you forget to return it yourself! ”

How can the second master ask some stupid words, obviously someone sent by himself to go back and report it.

The little guy was very happy to hear back.

Zhou Pingning held the reins of the horse in his hand, but he couldn't help but be stunned, Lord Wan was right, when he received a letter secretly from King Duan, he asked people to go back to the house, saying that he went to the East Market to socialize and drink with Lord Lang Wan, the right attendant of the Ministry of War

Zhou Pingning wanted to laugh, but he did open the corners of his mouth and laughed with some bitterness.

He actually consciously concealed Chen Wan at the beginning and contacted Duanwang

He didn't hesitate or hesitate at all.

When there was a better choice than the Chen family, he immediately chose to turn his back on it very firmly.

The spring breeze willow bank, the night rain apricot blossoms.

The early summer wind, how can it be so annoying.

Before leaving, Xingzhao couldn't wait to break one person into two people, and picked up everything at the end of April, and now everything is ready, only to let it go.

Who knew that dear Chen Fangzhi released the old Liuyi pigeon from the far northwest.

"It's been non-stop, and the government affairs and finances are alternating between the old and the new, but there are many complicated things. Why don't His Royal Highness Duan Wang go to Jiangnan first, a few days after the period of Weichen Chen, and then in Jiangnan, please kowtow to His Royal Highness Duan Wang. (To be continued......)

ps: Zhou Pingning is a person who is in love with the old and long, but he is limited to the inherent impression, he insists on himself, to put it bluntly, he is stubborn and extremely self-esteem, in the previous life, Xingzhao coerced and lured him to marry him, but he still did not live well, which is also evidence of this, when Xingzhao used power and interests to suppress him, he had no way to resist, so he had to compromise, but when he compromised, he made himself very painful, so he chose to treat Xingzhao indifferently and ruthlessly - if he was smooth enough, he should have hugged the thighs of the He family at that time when he married Xingzhao, At least it would be easier to mix, wouldn't it?