"Nope. We don't have anything like that in our house. Old Lady Fang shook her head, "Wan'er, what's wrong with Mama Liu?" Why do you keep asking her? ”

Fang's heart was in a mess, the grandmother who had always trusted her was lying to her from beginning to end, and she didn't know how many years it had been in this situation.

Think about it again, it was Mama Liu who said that the old lady was not right a few years ago, and it was Mama Liu who was possessed by a ghost, and she was also the one who actively ran to find the goddess later.

It turned out that the nightmare she thought she had gotten rid of a long time ago had already haunted her.

"Mama Liu wants to harm me." Fang Shi looked at the worried mother, and said lightly, "She almost lost my child, and wanted to harm my reputation, the old lady in our house tied her up, but she committed suicide inexplicably." Now I don't know what her purpose is, so I asked you to ask. ”

"My dear, what kind of crime have you suffered!" Old Lady Fang's tears fell suddenly, touching Fang's shoulders and crying behind her back: "No wonder the thin ones are just a handful of bones...... Last time, you remembered how well you raised it when you were a child, and the Mama Liu actually wanted to harm my daughter and grandson......"

"Mama Liu is not a child, how did she come here?"

Their Fang family started late, although there were many officials in the family in the previous generation, but the middle break was very strong, and there were not many children in the family, this Mama Liu was from outside, but how she came here, she didn't know at all.

"Mother, you must help me, now I can't believe the girl I brought over!"

Old Madam Fang recalled.

"Your grandmother used to have a grandmother, who was very old and had never married, so she had the idea of finding a girl to be her goddaughter and help her sweep the grave. The children in the house are not suitable, and she can't look down on them. At that time, our family was at its best, but there were not enough people, so we bought a group of people outside, and Liu Xia cast the eyes of the grandmother and became her goddaughter. ”

"After Liu Xia entered the house, she was very filial to that grandmother, not long after your grandmother went, the grandmother who married her also went, and Liu Xia took out all her savings to send her to the end. At that time, you had just made a marriage, I saw that she had a good character, worked steadily, and didn't need to be trained slowly when she was old, so I let her be the mother in your house and take care of those little girls. ”

Old Madam Fang raised her eyebrows, "If there are people in the group of people who bought into the mansion with Mama Liu, I am afraid that there is already a sieve next to you." Don't be afraid, my mother will go home to check, see who came in with Mama Liu at that time, if there are those who have entered your house, I will send you the list and the deed of sale. Mama Liu, I'll let your father check it. ”

Fang's father is Dali Siqing, who is in charge of the review of criminal prisons, and it is very cheap for him to investigate.

"Mother, my daughter depends on you...... Fang said with red eyes, "These days, I always feel that someone wants to harm me, and the people are not ghosts, but fortunately, the old lady and the old man don't dislike me, otherwise, I wouldn't have survived a long time ago!" ”

"My good boy......" Mrs. Fang took her daughter in her arms, "Back then, I said that the Xinguo Mansion was good, and the old man and the old lady were all recognized as kind people, although you were not the eldest son, you were also a well-educated person and had never had a bad record." Your life is better than most women now, you have to think more about my grandson and the child in your womb, don't die or live for anything, you want to die, then what should you do if you call so many miserable people in the world? ”

It is said that the old lady Fang is comforting her daughter in the room, but Li Mao, who is at home, is directing the family to go into the water by the lake.

"This is in this piece, go down and have a look." Li Mao said to a few family members who were good at water, "Whatever is at the bottom of the lake, bring it to me." ”

"Yes!"

A moment later.

"Sir, there's nothing at the bottom of the lake." A family member who dived to the bottom took a few breaths on the surface of the lake, shook his head and said, "There is only silt down there, but the silt is very shallow, and it doesn't look like it can bury things." ”

If it's not in the lake, someone must have salvaged it and hid it.

According to Fang's words, although the Ding is not big, it is also two feet square, and if such a thing is to be brought out, the disciple will definitely ask, and it must still be in the mansion at this moment.

Maybe we can use this to find a spy or two.

"Invite the big housekeeper and Mama Hua here."

If you want to search the houses of all the subordinates, you can only rely on the two chief stewards inside and outside. Mama Hua is alert, and with her helping to search the maids and mothers-in-law in various courtyards, he can rest assured.

After a while, the big housekeeper and Mama Hua hurried to the East Garden.

"I lost something, it's a two-foot-square, four-legged tripod, it's an important object, it's been many years old, it's full of patina, and you can see it at a glance." Li Mao looked at the two of them. "I don't care what method you use, you will definitely help me find out this tripod, and the subordinate who stole this tripod will be tied up directly, so you must beware of him committing suicide."

The one who can go into the water to fish for the copper tripod that Fang Wan threw down must not be a person. This tripod is easy to hold on the ground, but a person who falls into the water may not be salvaged up.

"And those in the same room are also tied together."

As soon as Mama Hua and the big housekeeper saw that Li Mao said so carefully, they knew that this thing was not trivial, and hurriedly said "yes", and when they got out of the garden, they went to send people to search for them one by one.

Li Mao sat at home today, in order to thoroughly investigate the matter, he sent someone to call Wu Yuzhou, the two discussed in the study for a long time, Wu Yuzhou received the order, will be the Jiang family and the Zhang family carefully investigated, the Jin State Mansion is now closed, the news is much more difficult to find out than before.

And on weekdays, when the girls of Yunmeng Pavilion receive dignitaries, they will also pay careful attention to the news of the descendants of the surname Yin.

At noon, the Ding was found, it was in the front yard in charge of the carriage and horses in a steward's house, this person has been in the house for almost ten years, because he has to always prepare the carriage and horses, and knows the whereabouts of the masters, if this nail is not found, there may be many hidden dangers in the future.

The steward hid the ding in the hay stacked in the stables, and a servant who fed the horses had seen it, but in the spirit of the fact that more was better than less, he did not touch it, nor did he inquire about the steward. This time, the house thoroughly investigated, and found this little guy's house, he thought of that ding, so he shook the matter out to ask for credit.

This time, not only Ding was found, but the person in charge was tied, and the mother-in-law in charge was also the eldest lady's person before, and the family was all tied up, waiting for interrogation.

The Shinkoku Mansion finally got a clue and began to slowly uproot the spies in the mansion.

They didn't know what to do, in addition to these unknown spies in the mansion, there were also some spies sent by the emperor, and now they were left for Chu Rui's use, and the spies from the Xinguo Mansion sent the letter to the palace early and reported Li Mao's abnormal behavior today.

"Your Majesty, the news of 'Chaoge' has arrived." Chu Rui's henchman guard handed over the wax pill.

Chu Rui crushed the wax pill. It says that the Xinguo Mansion is making a big move today, looking for a lost bronze vessel, and finally finding Yunyun from the steward who is in charge of the carriage and horses.

In addition, the note also wrote that someone wanted to climb Li Mao's bed that day, and the news that the family of three was killed in the end.

"It seems that there is really no way to reassure people in the Xinguo Mansion, there is a witch Gu in the year, and now so many housekeepers have problems, I am afraid that when the mansion was established, there were people with bad intentions, and it was only at this time that it came out."

Chu Rui thought for a while, and said to the guard: "Spread the word to 'Chaoge', let them protect Old Taijun Qiu and the two children, there is news that Wu Yuzhou and Chen Yi have gone back, since there are people left behind by the old prince, Li Mao should have no problem." ”

"Yes!"

Inside the Qingyun Pavilion.

Li Jun took the morning glory, calm on the surface, but in fact, he was crazy in his heart and caught it to death.

His strength was not to compose poetry in the first place, and Su Rili did not show any urgency, so he held the flowers, and seemed to be confident, but in fact, his brain was tumbling.

There was already some sweat on the tip of my nose.

The nearest boy snorted coldly.

I know that this is the result.

"It's just a morning glory, and it's not a famous flower, if you want to think about it for so long, it's better to let the people behind you come to get the flowers first, and the people in the province are waiting."

The words of the Tanhua envoy made the Jinshi look at Li Junlai, and even the eldest prince sitting on the chairman's seat showed a look of concern.

The eldest prince can naturally see that it is this young man who finds fault, and there are also people in this world who are good at practice but not good at poetry, maybe Li Jun is such a person.

But the officialdom is sinister, this young man is already relatively easy to deal with when he speaks out in person, if Li Jun wants to embark on a career in the future, I don't know how many things like today will be encountered.

He can help him out of the siege once for the sake of the Xinguo Mansion, but he can't help him solve it for a lifetime. If he is looked down upon this time, he will have a shadow for the rest of his life.

Li Jun's back was hot when he was stared at by them, and he didn't know why Lu Dao suddenly opened his mouth.

"The leaves and branches are soft and difficult, who lifts the ......"

What this means is that morning glory is not a strong and ** flower, and it even depends on the trunk to grow, and it is indeed not a famous flower that is amazing and has a backbone.

Most of the Jinshi who wrote poems here are borrowing flowers to sing about themselves, or to express their ambitions, or to show their own personality, and none of them have said to Li Jun as soon as they opened their mouths, "Ah, my talent is really limited, and I do rely on a strong backing to grow".

'It's self-aware, and I know that I have no talent and no virtue'.

The boy sneered in his heart.

This poem is not only plain, but also not high-minded, and it is really not a masterpiece.

Li Jun was stared at by everyone and held back this sentence, and the next two sentences appeared in his mind as if he had been born by himself. Maybe it's really a natural article, and it's a clever hand, Li Jun took a deep breath, tried not to show other emotions, and calmly chanted the last two sentences.

"Once the eaves are brought up, no one is allowed to look at it."

"The leaves and branches are soft and difficult, who lifts the trunk.

Once led to the eaves, people are not allowed to look at it. ”

As soon as the last two sentences came out, the young man silently chanted the poem in his heart, and the disdain on his face gradually retracted.

Zhao Dan was smiling brighter than morning glory on the side, and the jinshi behind him also applauded.

Li Jun pinched the flower, said "luck" in his heart, and slowly inserted the flower on his belt.

Tell him to put hairpins on his head like everyone else often does, and put trumpet flowers on his head, no matter how thick-skinned he is, he can't do it.

If it's a beautiful man like Qi Shao and Zhao Dan, it's okay, but a black-skinned scholar like him, forget it.

The eldest prince saw that Li Jun really made a poem on his own, and he suppressed it and raised it back, using "I am not as talented as you, and I am not a person who can take charge of myself, but I am still going up, as long as I walk to the eaves, you all have to look up at me." He slapped the young man in the face completely, and felt quite happy in his heart.

He is a young man, so he naturally likes to see such an ending.

You must know that Li Jun's ranking is the first in the second class, and now he is on the Tanhua Envoy, which means almost asking people to wash and sleep, he himself is already on it, you have already looked up, don't keep thinking about letting people come down.

Since ancient times, literati have been light, and if they are talented for a while, they will inevitably be arrogant. If you are blindly humble, you will be looked down upon. If Li Jun wants to get along with these protégés of the Son of Heaven, he is not afraid of arrogance, but he is afraid of not being worthy of his name. Now that the poem has been made and the face has been slapped, this can be regarded as the real way to be.

Seeing the scene, the eldest prince froze, smiled and clapped his palms.

"I once heard Taifu say that morning glory is also known as 'Qin Niangzi', starting from the end of spring, as long as the rooster starts to crow, it will climb up, and eventually climb all over the eaves and bloom throughout the summer. Li Jun's poem is very good, people say that diligence can make up for clumsiness, where in this world are there so many people with amazing talents? Nothing but diligence. I also hope that you can also learn from the diligence of the diligent lady, and work hard all the time. ”

"Listen to His Highness's instructions, and we will definitely keep His Highness's words in mind." Qi Shao was the head of this Jinshi, and hurriedly responded.

Li Junshi was also finished, the flowers were also planted, and she naturally fell to the table. He is the second first-class passenger, the fourth place above the Golden Palace, sitting in the second place on the right of the eldest prince, and in front of him is Zhao Dan, who has not yet entered the seat.

The eldest prince looked at Li Jun carefully, and suddenly said, "You look a little similar to Li Guogong." ”

He had seen Li Mao a few times, and naturally knew that Li Mao was also a square face.

"Yes, Your Highness. Our Li family looks very similar, with a square face and a broad nose, and the skin is not white. Li Jun knew that he was much uglier than Qi Shao and others, and he didn't shy away from it, and bluntly said that his family looked like this.

The eldest prince nodded, and sketched a square-faced and round-body Li Rui in his heart.

Then he shivered solidly.

The queen mother said that Li Rui was the best candidate for Lu's companion, and his father also said that Li Rui would go to him no matter what, and he had already regarded the Li family as his own. But he naturally likes beautiful things, and even the palace maids and eunuchs in his palace are more neat than in other places.

He naturally hopes that the companion who will come is a young man with a clear face and eyes that are not tired.

But as soon as he saw the appearance of Li Mao and Li Jun, combined with the news that Li Rui was a fat man that he had heard, he immediately formed a strange person with a circle at the top and a circle at the bottom, and secretly screamed "so bitter" in his heart, mourning for a while for the days when his eyes were sinned in the future.

Thanks to Li Jun's blessing, later the flower explorer was very honest in giving all kinds of flowers, and he never made any moths. If you make it difficult for a group of people, let alone want to be an official in the future, even if you enter the Hanlin Academy, I am afraid that you will only be isolated.

But even so, the character of this teenager has been questioned by many. Many of the students in Guozijian are familiar with Li Jun, and they have preconceived notions, and most of them are Guozijian students in the same year, so they naturally formed a circle of their own.

This young man was named as a flower explorer, just because he was the youngest, but a flower explorer used this identity to make things difficult for people, and if he had to meet a high position in the future, he didn't know how many people in Lu Dao would be declared a personal vendetta.

He has been labeled as "small in energy" early, and I don't know how long he will have to work hard in the future before he can slowly tear it off. Or, he will complain and will never be able to get out of the country for the rest of his life.

The flower feast lasted for more than two hours before it ended, and the eldest prince could not leave the palace for too long, so as not to fall into the name of "befriending ministers", although these people are not yet officials, but they will definitely be officials in the future.

After the eldest prince left, these people let go, and some even drank high and pulled the waiter of the Ministry of Rites to drink together. Fortunately, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites is a cheerful and open-minded person, and he really drank a few drinks with them, and said some interesting things in the court, etc., many people think that this waiter is a good character, and after preparing to boil out of the Hanlin Academy, he asked for personal favors and found a way to go to the Ministry of Rites to serve as an official.

A few more days passed, and it was the most anticipated moment in the lives of this group of Jinshi.

The Golden Palace.

Gu Qing heard that Li Jun was going to the palace today, so he took the girls and mothers-in-law to the West Garden early in the morning. When he saw Li Jun, who was dressed in a cyan jinshi robe, wearing a jinshi scarf, and holding a wat board, surrounded by Li Rui and Li Ming, he couldn't help but light up his eyes.

Hey, hey, no matter what kind of man he is, he is stylish in uniform! Although Li Jun looks average, he has a big frame, and he can really stand up in this official uniform!

"This is the Jinshi robe? This material is also a little too coarse, and the style is so rustic. Li Ming touched Li Jun's clothes and complained that the clothes were not good, and he didn't admit that he was jealous.

"Don't talk nonsense, they won't be able to wear this jinshi robe for a long time, when the official position comes down, they will have to change into a new official uniform, this jinshi robe is destined to not last long, naturally they won't use too good clothes, do you think the money in the treasury is used casually?" Li Rui tugged at his brother's ear.

Li Zhao raised his head and looked at Li Jun, who seemed to be unfamiliar, and the sentence "I am not a slave" appeared in his heart, and he suddenly had mixed feelings.

As a younger brother, he should be happy with his brother's achievements, but the information he has always received is "because he has nothing in the future that he must study hard", "he is at most a petty official when he studies so hard", "he is so unbearable that he will not be treated well", at first glance he was proud, and he didn't know whether he was jealous or confused, and even some fear.

"When you see the emperor, will you be a big official?" Li Zhao remembered the common folk excerpts, what champion married a princess and became a big official, and the general entered the prime minister.

When you see the emperor, you must be a very big official, right?

"Generally from the seventh grade." Li Jun looked at his younger brother with a smile. "It's one level lower than our Wuyang county order."

Li Zhao nodded.

Hey, it turned out to be a sesame mung bean official! When his grandfather was still there, Wuyang County had to come to visit him during the New Year's Festival. Even if his grandfather goes, what his family wants to do, it is convenient to hand over a post to the Wuyang County Ya.

An official who is younger than the county order has to spend more than ten years studying, tsk, tsk, forget it, what does he care.

"You're up early today." Gu Qing laughed and said, "You don't go to court again, you got up so early to see your cousin wear a new dress?" ”

"Grandma!" x2

"Grandmother!" x2

Tears flowed down her face, and the army that called her grandmother was growing in number.

Can she hide and cry for a while?

Gu Qing walked to Li Jun's side and looked back and forth to make sure that there was nothing wrong, so he nodded with satisfaction.

"On the way, listen to your cousin's words more, His Majesty the Emperor is very kind, you don't have to be afraid, just be natural." She had a good impression of this emperor, and felt that although he was a little more majestic, he didn't look like that kind of terrifying tyrant, "It's best if you get an official, even if the palace doesn't have an official, it's nothing, the official department is a relative of our family, and with your brother Li Rui here, no matter what, no matter what, no official will not give it to you." ”

"Even if you don't pass the election of officials, isn't there still a Hanlin Academy? The head of the Hanlin Academy is our family's family, and if we don't look at the face of the monk and see the face of the Buddha, we will not have a bad time. ”

Gu Qing touched his chin thoughtfully.

"Hey, in this way, our family is really stained with a lot of light......

"Grandma!" Li Rui said angrily. "What are you talking about?"

Just said so arrogantly, "Oh, I know the emperor very well, it's not a big deal", "There are people in our family and relatives everywhere, you can rest assured", "Even if you don't achieve anything, you still have a child, and your in-laws will take care of you"......

Is there really no problem?

If you say so casually, "My family is a relational household", there is only their grandmother in the entire Dachu!

Li Jun was originally a little nervous, but listening to Gu Qing's tone of "There are people in my family in the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs", he was amused when he didn't know what Lu Dao was doing, and silently "um", and said with a smile: "Zhilu said to his grandmother, His Majesty the Emperor is a good person, the official department is a relative of our family, and the head of the Hanlin Academy is our family's family, so there is nothing to be afraid of." ”

He didn't say that he had already gotten the news of his cousin, and he was already seventy percent sure that he would get a seven-rank official of Honglu Temple.

Gu Qing showed an expression of "teachable".

Have the right not to use it, and it will be invalid when it expires!

Li Ming and Li Rui shrugged helplessly. Fortunately, there are no outsiders, otherwise they will definitely be ridiculed if they say it.

Only Li Zhao looked at Gu Qing with admiration, and the blind man could see it with admiration on his face.

Grandmother has seen the emperor! He really wanted to ask his grandmother, is it true that the emperor has a new set of clothes every day, and he can eat whatever he wants when he eats a table of dishes?

What kind of official is the official of the Ministry of Justice? It sounds so big, do you want to sell your grandmother's face? What is the head of the Hallym Academy? Actually and Brother Rui are in-laws?

Isn't Cousin Rui only fourteen years old? Married at such a young age?

Ahhh Married earlier than elsewhere!

He was right when he came to Beijing!

Gu Qing smiled proudly at Li Zhao's look of worship, looking at Li Jun and feeling that it was really not easy, after bringing the big ones and the small ones, he would soon have a small ......

This Li family is the green smoke on the ancestral grave, so they can invite her, a great god, to come to the town!

"Young Master Jun, the horses of the master and the young master Jun are all ready, waiting outside the corner gate. If Young Master Jun is well, the master told him to leave now and prepare to go to court. ”

Today is the first time that Li Jun has followed Li Mao to the court, Li Mao naturally wants to take him to get acquainted with it first, and on the way, he must also talk about the various preparations before the court.

This is the love of the elders, and Li Jun naturally will not shirk.

The family stood at the door and watched Li Mao lead Li Jun gradually in the direction of Fangkou.

Li Zhao looked at his brother's back and said in a cautious tone:

"I want to read. I'm going to test my fame too. I want to be an official. ”

Gu Qing smiled and applauded.

"Good ambition! That grandmother asked your cousin to hire a gentleman for you, would it be good to study at home? ”

Li Zhao nodded.

Gu Qing looked at Li Zhao's ambitious appearance, and couldn't help but think in his heart.

I heard that I only know a few words, and I haven't even read elementary school, so I'm going to find a Mr. Enlightenment who teaches children. He is 12 years old this year, and he will be able to gain fame when he learns......

Gu Qing was stunned.

The border between the capital and Tongzhou.

"Mother, why are someone chasing and killing us!" Lian Xiu looked at his father, who was desperately driving the carriage, and the tears and dust on his face melted into a piece. "Didn't the master say to let us go?"

"Ahem...... "The red lady was tortured in the Xinguo Mansion, and she had just recovered a little, but she met the person who was tracking her, and her health deteriorated again." It's not the Xinguo Mansion, it's the mother's enemy. ”

These people really refused to let her go. She knew that even if she faked her death, it was not safe, how could they keep a person as big as her outside.

As soon as Li Mao let her go like this, he confirmed that she had betrayed them.

Hates only hates her daughter and husband, and if she knew that she would fake her death alone. It's her greed who always wants the family to be together......

"You listen to my mother, wait a minute, they are about to catch up, you wait to see where it is more gentle, hold your head and jump down with your back to the post road, and then run desperately, don't look back......"

"Mother, what are you talking about! I'm not going! ”

"You want to go, if you die, there is no point in my mother's escape."

In the middle of the red lady's words, the carriage suddenly stopped.

"Dad, why don't you leave?" Lianxiu opened the curtain and looked out.

"What's wrong?"

"Mother, we can't leave."

The red lady looked forward, and a group of people and horses appeared outside the carriage, blocking their way.

"Mei Hong, kill yourself yourself, and you can leave a whole corpse. Your family, we'll give them a treat. A man looked at the red lady in the carriage with a desperate expression. The master said, if you don't die, the Li family will definitely find out the clues, we are all young lady's people, and we have worked together, I really can't bear to see you being lit as a sky lantern, so I begged for this errand to come out. If you understand my painstaking efforts, don't bother your relatives. ”

"It's a good one, don't bother your relatives...... "The red lady gritted her teeth and hated: "Do you think that killing me will be a hundred?" You can't do anything, the Li family is like an iron bucket now......"

The man saw that the red lady had no intention of committing suicide at all, and sneered: "Forget it, it's really difficult to let people die by themselves, I'll give you a good time!" ”

Sou!

Whoosh!

"Uhh

Arrows from nowhere were fired at the horses, and the horses were struck and threw the men off the horses.

After a while, two teams of men and horses came from both sides of the post road, they were neatly armoured, and they were obviously not idle families. These people were armed with light crossbows, but they surrounded the unknown killer who came to intercept the red lady.

This group of cavalry was twice as large as them, and it was clear that they had been waiting here for a long time.

"Red lady, you ......"

"Believe it or not, it has nothing to do with me." The red lady said with a wooden face.

They were all calculated by Li Mao.

No wonder Li Mao let them go to Tongzhou to settle down, and gave Tongzhou a seal. It turned out that there were already people following along the road.

"Arrest them all!" The leader of the generals smiled hideously.

"If anyone wants to run, shoot their legs! When I caught it, I took off my chin and tied it back! ”

"Yes!"