Chapter 45
45 [Royal Poor Relatives] Uncle Wang + the concubine possessed by the mother
Uncle Wang?
Zhao Yanrong blinked her eyes and looked at the man who was waving her hand from afar.
The purple royal robe with the dragon pattern of the river pan is shining silver in the sun, with a jade leaf double dragon crown on his head, his face is like a crown of jade, his eyebrows are clear and handsome, and he has a short hair under his chin, which is trimmed neatly and cleanly.
Even Zhao Yanrong, who doesn't like men to grow beards, has to admit at this time that some men are quite good-looking even if they have beards.
For example, this one.
Seeing that he is about thirty years old and has a gentle appearance, he will become a beautiful uncle when he keeps his beard.
Seeing Zhao Yanrong's little heartbeat, her heart was pounding.
"Why did Uncle Wang have time to enter the palace today?" Li Rui was obviously very familiar with him, and he held the man's hand affectionately before he even let him see the courtesy.
Zhao Yanrong thought for a while, and then remembered that there was indeed a young prince in the capital, or Li Rui's elder.
Rongwang Li Ke.
To say that this King Rong can be regarded as a wonderful flower in the Great Qi royal family.
His father was the younger brother of Emperor Wude, who overthrew the Zhou Dynasty and established the Great Qi Dynasty, and the brothers of Dafen became kings. The youngest brother was a fellow of his mother, and he was only ten years old at the time. is a prince at a young age, and Prince Xiaorong has become a standard gentleman.
Growing up with birds and dogs, King Xiaorong became a tyrant in the capital at a young age.
At the age of seventeen or eighteen, it's time to start a family, and he's still fooling around outside.
At that time, Daqi was newly built, and there were many brothers of Emperor Wude, and there were many people who were a little ambitious or unconvinced.
Until one day, King Xiaorong took a harrier and a group of dogs to hunt in the suburbs of Beijing, and accidentally saw a beautiful woman, this kid stepped forward to tease with his hand, was kicked off the horse by the beauty, and was beaten violently on his body, so that he didn't even recognize his grandmother before he reluctantly let him go.
This cheap skin was beaten by a beautiful woman and rested on the bed for more than half a month before he could recover his strength, but he was obsessed with this fierce woman.
After inquiring in many ways, I learned that this was the county lord of Xiliang Kingdom, who followed her father to Daqi as an envoy. Both men and women in Xiliang are proficient in horse kung fu, and this county lord is even more of a leader, fighting all over Xiliang invincible.
King Xiaorong was subdued by the beauty's high-end domineering background, and ran to pester his brother, insisting on being a county horse for Xiliang.
To say that although this Xiao Rong Wang is a loser who does not learn and has no skills, he is also a prince with good roots, and he looks like a dog and is particularly likable.
Xiliang was about to form an alliance with Daqi, and when he saw this good thing, he naturally agreed to it in a hurry.
The county lord wanted to sacrifice for the country, and when he saw that this King Rong was really good-looking, he touched his nose and recognized it. admit it, but three beatings a day are still indispensable.
King Xiaorong was beaten by his wife every day, and he actually beat up that ruffian, and he also knew that he was motivated to study and practice martial arts. was cleaned up and became the most famous wife and slave in Daqi, not ashamed but proud.
Even if Emperor Wude wanted to send him a side concubine and a beauty, he could cry and kneel in the palace to beg the emperor to take back his fate.
Emperor Wu De had just cleaned up several brothers in those years, and seeing that there were fewer and fewer brothers, his hands were a little soft. King Rong grew up watching him grow up when he was a child, and his feelings are closer than others. Although his unpromising younger brother married the lord of a powerful country and became more motivated, he was still the king of Rong.
Later, King Rong simply dragged the emperor to the ancestral hall to make a blood oath, as long as the emperor does not care about the affairs of his palace in the future, King Rong will always be a direct minister, and his descendants will never commit treason.
Oaths or something have always been only to bind the gentleman, not the villain.
However, King Rong did what he said, no longer participated in court affairs, disbanded the soldiers of the prince's mansion, and aspired to become a first-class idle clan in Daqi.
Li Ke is the only son of King Rong and the lord of Xiliang who begged for the gods and Buddhas of the heavens.
When Li Ke was ten years old, there was an epidemic in Beijing, and the nobles who were originally living in the palace would not be in a big problem, who knew that King Rong, a wife and slave, had to accompany his wife to hunt, so unlucky to be infected with the epidemic outside, and the husband and wife both died, leaving only their son alone to guard the palace.
Without the discipline of his parents, the ten-year-old King Rong ran all the way to the road in the footsteps of his ancestors. It's just that I don't know if it's because of the influence of his domineering mother, he is playing, but he never prostitutes, let alone molesting good women, which can be regarded as a great luck in misfortune.
When he was eighteen years old, Emperor Xian helped this unreliable cousin to point out the family affairs, hoping that King Rong could be like his father, and he would be able to learn well after becoming a parent. It's a pity that Princess Rong doesn't have the ability to drive the county lord, and King Rong is not at home for three days, and he travels with friends all day long, and often runs away from home for most of the year.
If lazy oxen don't plow the land, where will there be a harvest?
Until Princess Rong was angry with her husband, King Rong did not give birth to a son and a half daughter to inherit cigarettes.
Such an unobtrusive prince, even if he has no wife, no one dares to let his daughter marry again.
And King Rong didn't plan to continue the string at all.
He was obsessed with gold and stone, and collected the gold and stone wine lords of the ancient dynasties everywhere, and ruined King Rong's little rice money and grain, and he was almost unable to open the pot.
When Zhao Yanrong married in the palace, King Rong happened to go to Cangzhou, because he heard that a group of tomb robbers were arrested there and a few bronzes were confiscated.
After four or five months, King Rong finally returned.
But it's not good to come back.
Uncle Wen Yamei didn't even look at the queen, and when she saw Li Rui, she began to rub her hands, revealing a strong sense of obscenity.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you don't know, the prefect of Cangzhou is a piece of wood, and if you have to receive those few bronzes into the treasury, this king will not buy him even if he wants to buy it with silver. It's hateful. ”
Li Rui said "hehe" a few times, and continued to walk forward with the queen.
King Rong rubbed his hands and followed him: "You see, just those two broken bronze vessels, after they are recovered from the treasury, they cannot be exchanged for silver, nor can they be exchanged for rice and grain, what use can they be?" It's better to exchange it for cash at a discount, which is beneficial to the country and can fulfill my thoughts. As he spoke, he looked at the emperor with a look of longing.
The corners of Li Rui's mouth twitched: "Uncle Wang, you entered the palace for this?" ”
"Isn't that a big deal?" King Rong said, "That's the bronze lord of a thousand years ago, a thousand years ago!" King Rong trembled with excitement, "Emperor's nephew, you can do it, let them give me this bronze artifact, this is what I want in this life!" ”
What you ask for in this life sounds so familiar!
Zhao Yanrong laughed out loud.
"As Uncle Rong said, the bronze ware can't be exchanged for money and grain in the warehouse, and it has to be guarded and maintained by a special person, so the emperor might as well fulfill his wish."
Uncle Mei was shocked when he heard this, and gratefully turned his gaze to this palace woman who had been ignoring it before, only to find that she was actually wearing a nine-tailed phoenix hairpin on her head.
Hey?!
"Uncle Wang, this is my queen Pei, you haven't seen her before. Yanrong, give Uncle Wang a gift, they are all a family that doesn't need to see each other too much. ”
can call his girlfriend by name in front of this person, it can be seen that Li Rui really did not treat this King Rong as an outsider.
It's quite intimate.
Zhao Yanrong felt that she was quite wise to plead, so she smiled and said to Rong Wang Yifu: "My nephew and daughter-in-law have seen Uncle Wang. ”
King Rong looked at her, and didn't know what he thought, his face turned red, and he shook his hand again and again and said: "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, it should be the king who gives the queen a gift." ”
"Uncle Wang has a good relationship with his cousin." Li Rui smiled and said to Zhao Yanrong, "In the past, Uncle Wang always loved to lead Pei Hou into trouble, and once he secretly ran out of the capital with him to go to Nanzhao to play. The palace became a pot of porridge, and the champion Hou came to the palace with his whole body draped to ask for someone, I was ten years old at that time, and I remember it clearly. ”
King Rong laughed dryly and lowered his head: "Young and frivolous, young and frivolous." ”
"Uncle Wang is so powerful!" The queen shouted, clasped her hands in front of her neck, and looked adoring, "How old you can be at that time, you can actually abduct the prince of Hou Ye, it's really breathtaking." ”
"Huh." King Rong pinched, as if the past made him very embarrassed.
"That is, they got rid of countless pursuers, bypassed countless checkpoints, and reached Nanzhao."
"Didn't you get caught later?" King Rong scratched his hair and said helplessly, "Later, Marquis Pei didn't allow this king to come to the door again...... It's a pity. ”
King Rong looked at Zhao Yanrong, and after saying that it was a pity, his expression suddenly became wilted, and he didn't know what he remembered, and he was very depressed.
Li Rui pulled Zhao Yanrong and nodded to King Rong and said, "Okay, since the queen intercedes for Uncle Wang, I will look at the queen's face and ask Uncle Wang to fold the silver for those few pieces of bronze ware, but I have to remind you, Uncle Wang, I heard that King Rong's mansion is about to be opened, how can you have so much silver to exchange?" ”
King Rong's eyes lit up, and he said in a loud voice: "It's okay, as long as the emperor nods, I will think about the silver by myself." ”
After finishing speaking, he was like burning his buttocks, carrying the hem of the king's robe, smiling like a spring flower in March, and his body flashed as fast as lightning.
Zhao Yanrong glanced at Li Rui and said, "What look at the face of the concubine, even if I don't speak, can you really refute Uncle Wang's request?" ”
Li Rui smiled, hugged the person tightly and said, "If it weren't for the queen to speak, I would have been embarrassed for him." Thou shalt not ask King Rong where he got his money when he is so poor? ”
"yes, where did he get the money?" Zhao Yanrong was as kind as a stream, snuggled in his arms, and winked at the emperor.
"Wait, he must have gone to your uncle's house, don't care if your uncle asks for money!"
"What?" Zhao Yanrong was dumbfounded.
Wait, what's the relationship? King Rong is surnamed Li, right, why does the surname Li have no money to take care of the surname Pei?
The female paper showed a very discordant picture in her mind, and then shook her head decisively to throw the blood-spurting camera away.
If King Rong wants to pit money from his uncle, he will definitely go home crying.
Because Uncle Pei is such a cruel, ruthless, and ruthless existence.
But if Uncle really wants to treat King Rong as a brother, maybe he can really lend him money...... The queen frowned.
"If Uncle Wang doesn't have any money in his hand, you can let people collect less." also asked my uncle to bleed less, Zhao Yanrong said, "Anyway, it's just bronze, and it can't be eaten or drunk, so it's better to give it to a true love who can appreciate them and reflect the value of their existence." In this way, we can even save the cost of inventory. ”
The emperor's hand wrapped around the queen's small waist and still sighed about why the queen's waist was so thin and how it felt so good, and he didn't pay attention to the queen's suggestion to save money for her mother's family. Just thinking that he wanted to find a place to "reward" well, his mouth was vague, and he took the queen there when he looked at the nearest palace.
King Rong Li Ke happily left the palace, and he didn't even return to the palace, so he quickly went to the palace of the champion.
Pei Yi was very surprised when he heard that his old friend, who had not seen him for most of the year, suddenly appeared, so he changed his clothes and came to meet people.
When Li Ke saw Pei Yi come out, he stepped forward to be a bear hug, Pei Hou was almost out of breath by him, and when he let go, he flew over without hesitation. King Rong smiled and dodged away, as if he had entered his own house, he reached out and took the teapot on the table and poured it to his mouth.
"I hurriedly entered the palace, and I didn't even drink hot water, I was really thirsty to death this king."
"What kind of tea do you have in your house, and you still have to come to me to drink tea?" Pei Yi glanced at him disdainfully, sat down on the chair, stilted his legs, shook his feet and said, "Okay, why did you come back this time?" How long do you plan to stay? And how much money do you want to get from me? ”
King Rong smiled and leaned over with a shy face.
"The rivers and lakes are in emergency, the rivers and lakes are in emergency. I really found the baby this time, you can lend me some temporarily, and I promise to pay you back. ”
"Pull it down, do your own math how much money you've taken from me all these years? Have you ever had it again? Pei Yi squinted his eyes and sneered, "Even with interest, you pay me back 100,000 taels first!" ”
"We are such good brothers, and we still need to borrow money to calculate profits?" King Rong wailed, and crawled in front of Pei Yi, "It's really just once, for the last time." Pei Yi, you can borrow me, I promise you, I will never play again, as long as you let me get my hands on it, I will retract in the future and never run out again. In the future, all the proceeds of the Rongwang Mansion will be used to repay the famine owed to you. ”
Pei Yi snorted coldly and tilted his head to ignore him.
"I, Li Ke, swear to the sky, if I commit it again in the future, I will be hit by five thunderbolts in the sky, and I will not die well in the future!" King Rong Chitose simply knelt down on one knee, raised his hand and swore an oath, "Good brother, we are also friends who live and die together, can you bear to see me tossing and turning all day long, and I can't think about it?" Please, if my brother can't fulfill his wish and relieve the pain of lovesickness, there will be no point in living......"
"Do you really want this once?" Pei Yi was finally willing to face King Rong with a straight face.
King Rong nodded as crisply as pounding garlic: "Just this time, there will be no next time." ”
Pei Yi sighed and said helplessly: "Okay, look at you so pitiful, this time it's from you......"
"Smack!" There was a crisp sound, and the two people who sat and knelt followed the sound, and saw a beautiful woman standing outside the door, her face was like gold paper, her breath was like a gossamer, holding a tray in her hand, and the porcelain pieces on the ground were broken and the soup was sprinkled.
The three of them looked at each other for a long time, until the beautiful woman cried, and King Rong jumped up from the ground after realizing it.
"This, this, this...... It's not what you think......" King Rong couldn't say anything.
"I said, why are you so old and still dragging on and refusing to get married." Pei Jin hid his face and cried, "Pei Yi, you don't want to think about your parents if the spirit of the sky knows you, you, you...... The Pei family is the only seedling of you, but you are ...... What are you going to do when you let me go underground in the future! ”
Pei burst into tears.
"It's really not what you think!" King Rong saw Pei's tears and almost scratched his head into a chicken nest, "Xiaojin, don't get me wrong!" ”
"Li Ke!" Pei Yi, who was still extremely calm on his face, kicked King Rong aside, "My sister's maiden name is also your name?" ”
"What's that, our friendship like that......" King Rong rubbed the shoe prints on his belly, and looked at Pei Jin tremblingly like a little daughter-in-law, "What, do you remember me?" ”
"Get out of here, what friendship can we have!" Pei Yi honestly kicked again, "Where to go, remember what you said." Send someone to get as much silver as you want, even if Lao Tzu is afraid of you. That's it, I, Pei Yi, do what I say, this is the last time! ”
"Yes, yes, yes." King Rong nodded again and again, slipped out of the door against the wall, and when he left, he reluctantly turned back to talk to Pei Shi: "We haven't seen each other for many years, Xiaojin, are you doing well?" ”
"Get out of here!" Pei Yi smashed a teacup over, and King Rong hugged his head and ran away.
Pei Yi looked at her sister who was crying breathlessly, sighed helplessly, and ordered her subordinates to come in and clean the ground, and then pulled Pei Shi to sit down.
"What are you thinking, that's His Royal Highness King Rong, it's not like you haven't seen it before."
Pei Shi sobbed gloomily: "Who remembers what kind of king it is, you tell the truth to your sister, you have refused to marry for so many years, is it for this person?" ”
Pei Yi was angry: "Sister, you are thinking nonsense, I am not good at manhood, what does it have to do with him?" It's just friends who have been friends for many years. He played with gold and stone antiques, and when his family was ruined, he came to me to fight famine. I just got some money and sent him away. ”
Pei Shi was suspicious, wiped his tears and confirmed again: "Is it true?" Isn't it really something to do with him? ”
Pei Yi said: "Do you want me to swear by our father?" ”
When Pei Shi heard him say this, his heart was at ease, but he still persuaded him bitterly: "You are already twenty-four, which of the children of a family who was as big as you back then didn't start a family early?" Now that their children are only afraid that they are all enlightened and enrolled in school, you are so stubborn and still hanging on each other, which makes people feel sad when they look at it. How can a man's family always live alone? I still have to find a woman who knows pain and heat to live. ”
Pei Yi only felt that her head was as big as a bucket when she heard her chatter, and after listening to her nagging patiently, she finally sent her out of the door.
was breathing a sigh of relief, when suddenly my sister turned her head and said with a hint of hesitation on her face: "You just said, that is King Rong?" Is it the same King Rong who abducted you out of Beijing twelve years ago and brought you all the way to Nanzhao? ”
Pei Yi stroked his forehead and sighed.
Pei gritted his teeth and said to him, "That guy is not a good thing." When your father was alive, you were not allowed to mess with him, so why did you associate with him? Pei Yi, don't walk around with him anymore, otherwise my sister won't spare you! ”
Pei Yi immediately said to the people around him: "You have all listened to the words of the second aunt and grandmother, and next time someone who claims to be His Royal Highness King Rong comes, he will immediately beat him away with this marquis, and he is not allowed to touch the door of our inner house, listen?" ”
After a few days, the Queen Mother was finally safe, but because of her old man's emotional instability, the Imperial Doctor suggested that she should recuperate. The emperor immediately issued an encyclical to the whole palace, temporarily closed the Changle Palace, stopped all the internal and external women's invitations, and all the matters in the palace that needed to be decided by the Queen Mother were temporarily handed over to the Queen Mother until the day when the Queen Mother's spirit improved.
I don't have to go to the Queen Mother's palace to say goodbye, Zhao Yanrong feels very happy.
Although she is not afraid of Empress Dowager Zhang, no one wants to look at people's faces and fight with others when they have nothing to do.
Concubine Wei didn't have a fixed number of people to say goodbye, so when she thought about it, she went over to say hello and chatted.
Concubine Wei is a kind person, and her life is much more mellow than that of Empress Dowager Zhang, although she doesn't like the queen very much, but the rules and etiquette are followed, and her face is always affectionate and affectionate, so that people can't find fault with it.
She was bent on promoting Wei Anlan from her niece to one of her daughters-in-law, but after several attempts, she found that the emperor was really not tempted at all.
To say that Concubine Wei is really interested in this niece, after the emperor ran into a wall, she decisively set the target on the former dynasty, and asked Li Rui to help her find a niece and son-in-law. There were many rich and powerful people in the court, but few young and handsome people. If you want to choose, you can only choose from the clan nobles.
However, Li Rui recommended several people who were rejected by her, either because of their low official position, or because they were old and ugly, or because their parents had big rules at home.
Every time Zhao Yanrong sat on the side and shook her fan and listened, she felt that Concubine Wei was really a mother.
Even if Wei Anlan has the appearance of captivating the country and the city, he has to look at his family background, right? In the end, this is still an era of paying attention to the right door. Take her Zhao Yanrong as an example, if it weren't for the fact that there was a princess and grandmother, the county lord's mother, she would want her daughter to be the queen with Zhao Fengchun's foundation? There were no doors and no windows.
The Wei family's family is not obvious, and the most promising is Wei Anlan's biological father, or Li Rui looked at the concubine's affection and forcibly promoted him from the fifth-rank official to the fourth-rank.
Wei Anlan's family has no money and no power, how can the family ask her to be the eldest daughter-in-law and the head of the family?
And the nobles of the family are intertwined, but all outstanding talents have been engaged in family affairs early, when will it be Miss Anlan's turn?
The emperor couldn't give her a satisfactory candidate, and Concubine Wei felt that the emperor didn't do his best, and she became depressed. Concubine Wei was unhappy, and the emperor felt depressed. But the concubine's requirements are really high, and it doesn't mean that there is really no one in the Manchu Dynasty who can satisfy her, but what can satisfy her is either that she has a marriage contract, or that the family is too high and will not be happy.
According to Concubine Wei's meaning, she naturally hoped that the emperor would say that she would agree, but it was obvious that the door was not right, if he went to say it, it would not be a kiss, but a marriage.
Concubine Wei has taken care of Li Rui since she was a child, he is close to her, and he should be filial to her. But Wei Anlan has nothing to do with him, the daughter of a small fourth-grade foreign official, asking the emperor to marry, is really too unsophisticated.
After the concubine Niangniang eliminated the school-age children of the big names in the court one by one, there was a person who suddenly jumped into the list of candidates for the concubine.
The author has something to say: Although he is still a poor man, Uncle Wang is cute, don't you think?