When the rain stopped, Yu Shu sent Xue Rui out of the gate.

"Big brother, go back, be careful at night."

Xue Rui looked back at Yu Shu, who was standing on the steps, and couldn't describe what was wrong with her, but he couldn't put his mind at ease, and raised his eyes to see that there were no idlers in the porter, only a little maid waiting.

He staggered his steps, shielded by his figure, raised his hand to hold Rouyi who was hanging by her side, and his palm touched a coldness, which made him frown secretly, so he shook her hard, and said in a low voice:

"Tomorrow is fine, come to the Forgotten Machine Building."

In the end, it is inconvenient for her to talk at home, and he will have to ask him tomorrow.

Yu Shu glanced up at him, only to see that he was concerned in his eyes, pursed his lips, and chuckled: "Then in the afternoon, I will go to Qiu Shilang's mansion in the morning." ”

"Okay, I'll wait for you." Xue Rui nodded, but he didn't let go of her hand, but just stood like this, and said:

"Last time I said I was going to go out to play, you pick another day, I see that your red horse is quite energetic, but it always lets go and doesn't run"

He uttered inconsequential words, his warm, generous palm wrapped around the back of her hand, rubbing it for a while, until the warmth of her fingers regained its warmth.

"I'm leaving, you don't stay up late to read, rest early."

Yu Shu watched Xue Rui board the carriage, slowly retracted his warm hand into his sleeve, and was concerned about the warmth of his moment and a half, and followed the carriage away until she disappeared into the corner of the street, and she was still looking into the distance in a distracted manner.

"Girl, it's windy, go back to your room." Kidney Bean called from behind her.

"Hmm."

Yu Shu turned around, there was no hesitation in her eyes, and she thought in her heart: wait until she has found out this matter from beginning to end. Tell him again that it's not too late.

***

As soon as Xue Rui returned to the house, he heard a message from the little servant, saying that Xue Lingnan was looking for him.

Xue Rui thought that there was something urgent, so he didn't change his clothes, so he hurried to the small study in Beiyuan.

All the way to the door, there was no one to see, Xue Rui's pace slowed down, and when he heard a few low coughs in the half-covered door, he stood on his feet and didn't make a sound. It wasn't until the coughing sound was gone that he said out:

"Grandfather, I'm back."

"Is it Chengbi, come in and talk."

Xue Rui pushed the door in and turned around. I saw Xue Lingnan wearing a dark blue cloak, holding his back straight, sitting alone on the recliner under the bookshelf, with a thin blanket on his knees, and a few yellow folds in his hands.

"I heard that Baode said that you came back in the afternoon, where did you go?" Xue Lingnan raised his head and asked him, facing his own grandson who had been raised under his knees since he was a child, he still had three points of majesty on his face.

"I went to visit a friend and stayed at the house for supper." Xue Rui walked over, looked behind him, hesitated for a moment, and then stepped forward to close the wide open window, and then turned around and retreated to the old man.

"Grandfather. But something big? ”

Xue Lingnan saw his actions in his eyes, and the expression on his old face under the dim light was not obvious.

"This morning, someone took the lead in proposing the matter of establishing a reserve. The above is a memo. ”

Xue Rui asked in surprise, "Who is in the book?" ”

He has been busy with the revision of legal documents recently, and he has just been freed in the afternoon, so he has not heard of the early court.

"Your second uncle's father-in-law, Si Tianjian Xin Zuo Judgment."

Xue Rui's second aunt is from the Xin family, one of the twelve prefectures in the capital, and now Zuo Ju Xin Ya is Xue Laoshangshu's in-laws.

The matter of establishing a prince, not that no one mentioned it in the past few years, but now the emperor is physically strong, and every time he can't do it, there has been no movement in recent years, and now several princes have come of age one after another, and it is inevitable that some people will be active.

Among the several princes who are now adults, Liu Hao, the king of Ning, who was born to Concubine Yin Shu, and Liu Tan, the king of Jing, who was born to Xue Guifei, are the most hotly discussed.

However, Liu Tan defeated Liu Hao at the Shuangyang Conference two months ago, and was awarded the title of "King Jing" No. 1, becoming the youngest prince, with Xue Lingnan, the six chief Shangshu, as his grandfather, and the emperor gave the southern Yishou Xia Jiang family to marry, making Liu Tan's momentum day by day on par with Liu Hao.

Xue Rui's eyelids jumped, and when he looked at Xue Lingnan's cold face, he knew that the matter of the book on the road was definitely not instructed by his grandfather, and there was a lot of article here, so he asked again:

"Has Xin Zuoju ever recommended a candidate?"

Xue Lingnan just shook his head and looked at him.

Xue Rui pondered for a while, and then said loudly:

"The saint came back from the day of worshipping the ancestors in Huazhen Garden, he was sick, he was in bed for a few days, the front was good, today someone proposed to establish a prince, the saint will be displeased, although Xin Zuoju did not name to recommend the king, but he and our house are in-laws, others must guess our heads, if the saint is angry, it is impossible not to suspect his grandfather - such a big matter, Xin Zuoju did not discuss with his grandfather, I don't know if he was confused for a while, or was instigated."

He didn't say anything, he didn't point out who Xin Ya was instigating, but he was very sure in his heart that this matter was inseparable from King Ning's faction.

Xue Lingnan glanced at the child he had brought up with satisfaction, handed him the piece that he had been holding in his hand for a long time, sneered, and said:

"You don't have to excuse your second uncle's family, Xin Ya is short-sighted, his old father, Academician Xin, is a smart person, but unfortunately he is old, so he retired early, and he doesn't care about idle things. If it weren't for the holy decree back then, I wouldn't have let your second uncle marry this woman from this family. Let me ask you, a while ago, did your second aunt find you in private, intending to match you with the sixth girl of the Xin family. ”

Knowing that the things up and down in this mansion could not be hidden from the old man in front of him, Xue Rui lowered his head and said, "The second aunt did mean this, but she was rejected by her grandson." ”

Xue Ling South Road:

"That's also Xin Ya's instructions, he is testing the old man, thinking that kissing and kissing, in the future, your cousin Jing Wang can become a big thing, and his Xin family will be more stable, it can be seen that we have no such intentions, so we have a lot of thoughts, your aunt came out of the palace, Concubine Shu seems to be dissatisfied with the current Princess Ning, and wants to recruit a side concubine for King Ning, and there is a young lady of his Xin family among the few people who fancy it. The old man thought about it, King Ning promised the Xin family something, so Xin Ya dared to pretend to be stupid and stab our Xue family's knife in the court today. ”

Xue Rui's eyes flashed, and only then did he understand why Xin Zuo was guilty of "confusion." ”

He opened the few copies that Xue Lingnan handed him. Quickly flipped through a few times, but saw that the above articles were all praising Liu Tan's articles, some of which were exaggerated, and even he frowned when he saw them, but it was conceivable that when the emperor saw these folds, he was not happy that his son was better than blue, but annoyed that someone coveted the seat under him.

"Grandfather, these movements—"

"After the dispersal of the dynasty, the Holy Lord sent me to the imperial study and threw it in front of me." Xue Lingnan's face was expressionless. didn't say much about the emperor's annoyance at the time, but said a word, looked at Xue Rui again, and waited for him to answer.

Xue Rui thought for a moment and said, "There is no shortage of people staring outside right now. Grandfather is inconvenient to ask the king to come to the palace, so as not to have any bad news to reach the ears of the saint, so I will go out of the palace to the king, what do you want me to bring? ”

Xue Lingnan nodded, "King Jing is young after all, and he can't hold his breath, after this incident, the emperor will definitely find an excuse to reprimand him in a few days and suppress his limelight." You don't have to tell him in advance, it's a good thing to let him suffer, and then tell him Xinya's abacus so that he can be more careful in the future. ”

"My grandson wrote it down, so I changed my clothes and went out." Xue Rui put the books on the coffee table. I touched the teapot with my hand, and found that the water inside was cold, and I saw Xue Lingnan's gray sideburns and sunken cheeks sideways. The throat instantly seemed to be blocked by something.

"Grandfather, the tea is cold, I'll ask someone to change the pot and leave."

Hearing this, Xue Lingnan, who was secretly thinking, slowly raised his head, looked at the young man in front of him, the slightly cloudy corners of his eyes leaked a touch of complexity, swallowed his cough, and said in a low voice:

"Your mother is sick again at dinner, so don't disturb her for the next two days, lest she see you and make some trouble."

Xue Rui's arm holding the teapot stiffened, trying his best to restrain the chill running up his back, his nose shrank, half of his face was backlit, and he said in a low voice:

"I won't be going to the backyard these days."

Xue Lingnan sighed lightly, leaned back on the recliner, pulled the blanket to his waist, and waved at him.

Xue Rui silently went down with the teapot, until he retreated to the door, closed the door of the small study with his backhand, and instantly clenched his fists, and the lantern hanging high under the eaves shone on his handsome face, which was full of gloom and ridicule at the moment

Xue Rui went to the annex that night to see Liu Tan, said something, and brought Xue Laoshangshu's words to him, and after the fourth watch, he left from the side door of the annex, and did not go home, but went to the Wangji Building.

***

The next day, Yu Shu deleted and added several eight-character marriages annotated by Xia Jiangmin last night, re-copied them, and sent them to Shilang's Mansion today.

Mrs. Qiu took it in her hand and looked at it carefully, and saw that the words in her annotations were real, and some of them were auspicious and vicious, and they all matched the beat she had heard before-

For example, Li Gongzi's mother is unkind, this annotation is that the elders are restrained and not conducive to the family business, and the Zhao Gongzi has received several intercourse girls, and this annotation is peach blossom stalks, which is not conducive to the children.

Mrs. Qiu also noticed that this was all about the man's inappropriateness, rather than using the woman's eight characters to cater to her.

After the end, Yu Shu also stamped her two seals at the end, one Yi Shi seal and one operator seal.

Mrs. Qiu was secretly surprised, and on the other hand, she felt convinced, and closed the eight-character annotation with great satisfaction, gave a look to the maid on the side, saw the maid go to the back of the yarn cabinet, and then thanked Yu Shu:

"There is Mr. Laonu, I got a pair of things the day before yesterday, and I just gave them to Mr. to play with."

After a while, I saw the maid come out with a square plate, on which squatted two fist-sized gold pixiu, raising their heads and feet, the golden light was shining, and the carving was vivid.

Yu Shu saw that these two lumps of red gold, regardless of workmanship, also had a silver price of one or two hundred taels, and was very surprised that Mrs. Qiu was so "heavy" thanks, so he excused himself and said:

"It's just a gesture, how can I let Mrs. break the bank again."

Mrs. Qiu didn't care, and said with a smile: "Don't see the female gentleman, this is the right thing, you need to know that people like us, when they go to the Da Yi Pavilion to ask for a signature, they don't say anything, they can't ask once or twice, where is you so detailed and intimate, and every word is fine." ”

Yu Shu didn't look like she had other plans, and she also knew that Qiu Jiming, the fat servant of the Ministry of Works, didn't care about this star, so she didn't refuse again, accepted the two pieces of gold, and chatted with Mrs. Qiu a few digressions before getting up to leave.

Having said that, in fact, Yu Shu doesn't know the market, she didn't go to the Dayi Pavilion to find the Yi Shi who sat in the hall to tell her fortune, and she didn't know that the high fees in the place were scary, and most of them like to play tricks, there are really few people like her who hit the nail on the head. (To be continued.) )

PS: (There will be a change later.,Today's time is not arranged.,Can't put it up before 12 o'clock.,Tomorrow you have to go to work and school, you can go to bed early.,Wait when you wake up to see the change.。 ）