Chapter Eighty-Six: Going to the Feast
"So, you have one more teacher?" Jia Min listened to her husband's apprenticeship with tears and laughter, and suddenly became curious about the pair of masters and apprentices, "According to what you said, the sage should like Mr. Yuan very much." "Otherwise, how could he joke with him, and he had to stuff his son as a student.
Lin Ruhai also nodded, "I have a feeling that the saint is a good father and friend to Mr. Yuan." "I don't know why, every time I see a saint fighting with his teacher, he has a kind of arrogant son's honest father's rush.
"The heart of a saint must not be the first emperor?" Jia Min has always had a high degree of curiosity about this kind of royal gossip. It's just that she has been in the back house all the year round, and she listens more to the gossip of house fights. The concubine is favored, the wife is ruthless, the stepmother is vicious, etc., basically the love and hate that has to be said between women and women. The gossip of the ministers of the previous dynasty cannot be said to be no, in the end, it is less, not to mention that the gossip of today's son, in the end, Lin Ruhai and they have more gossip in private.
This is really someone who has popularized science for Lin Ruhai, and the current saint is the third son of the first emperor, the sister of the queen of the middle palace. Because there is no child in the middle palace, he raises the baby born by his sister as his own son. However, this sister is not as favored as another woman, Concubine De, and no one can give birth, Concubine De gave birth to four sons and two daughters for the first emperor, except for one son and one daughter, the rest survived. The most infuriating thing is that there is a son who is only three days older than the saint.
In the palace, the mother is not favored, which is directly related to the relationship between the emperor's father and the princes and princesses. In the eyes of the first emperor, the child of the favorite concubine is a treasure, and the saint is a grass. Young children are born with a thirst for father's love and mother's love, and some people can't ask for it, so they will form obsessions, and then become jealous of the children who have taken away their father's love. Jealousy breeds more hatred, and then hatred breeds murderous intent. Not to mention the temptation of the world's top in the world, the throne, beckons ahead.
As a result, the other one in the palace is also favored, and the concubine with relatively large family power can't sit still. Sister, she also has a son, in the harem, in addition to the palace, she has the most respectable status, and her son is also the largest, why does that little goblin rely on the emperor to spoil her. To confuse the emperor and pass the throne to her son! It's not fair.
Concubine De is favored, the concubine is powerful, Concubine De has many sons, and the son of the concubine is the elder, and the two are balanced, no one is stronger than anyone, and then they fight in the dark. In the end, the red eyes are red, and the consequence of losing the moral bottom line is. The sons of the concubine and the concubine were either dead or crippled or notorious, and no one fell into the favor, and finally cheapened the current saints.
Lin Ruhai muttered to Jia Min for two quarters of an hour before he finished the gossip he had heard everywhere. Pick up the cold tea and drink it all. Jia Min laughed in a low voice: "It's really lively, look at this is the trouble of having more wives and more sons." ”
Speaking of which. Today's Yuan Pei has been gone for three years, don't you plan to set up a queen? Jia Min thinks the current emperor is quite interesting. I changed to a favorite concubine in two or three years, and I have never heard of a concubine in the palace who has been favored for more than three years, not that I know if I was stimulated by his father's sting.
Lin Ruhai shook his head, "Listening to Yang Ze, in the past two years, some people have been on the book, and after asking the saint to stand up, they have all been suppressed. ”
"He is choosing a successor, and after choosing a son, he will naturally make his mother." Jia Min smiled slightly. The saint is also sixty years old, and it is time to consider the question of heirs.
Speaking of the prince, Jia Min was a little worried, "Now that you have become the same door as the Seventh Prince, is it not very easy to do?" "The teacher is out of the same family, and the teacher who worships on the same day, in the eyes of most people, it is basically a group. Even if the seventh prince doesn't have the slightest intention of seizing the heir, he rushes to him and worships under Yuan Xu's door, which is a thorn in the side of the other princes, and he must be eliminated first. And Lin Ruhai, who is regarded as the Seven Princes, can he be okay? What, you said it would be nice to draw a line with the Seventh Prince. Dear, that's the prince, do you want to ignore it? Studying at the same time, you have a cold face to the prince every day, and the seventh prince will clean you up first.
Lin Ruhai said: "Looking at the attitude of the saint towards the Seven Princes today, he may not be without the possibility of a fight. ”
Jia Min's eyes widened: "Are you standing in line?" ”
"What kind of team, I'm still a student, okay?" Compared with Jia Min's worries, Lin Ruhai didn't have so many thoughts. He is a showman, if he wants to be promoted, admitted to the Jinshi, and finally become an official, it will take at least ten years of hard work, and it is still unknown what the situation will be in the DPRK and China at that time. Judging from the performance of several princes he heard about, there is a sense of chaos among the princes of the previous dynasty and the victory of passers-by in the end. Anyway, he felt that none of the second and third princes who were dancing the happiest now could succeed. As long as it wasn't for these two, even if the Seventh Prince was not the emperor, he would be able to mix well.
Well, well, she forgot about it. Jia Min didn't say anything more, and Yuan Zhen came to the abacus. This old man, who is idle and has nothing to do to accept apprentices, has brought hidden danger to her husband, so she has to pay a price. Hmm, but this matter has to be put aside for a while, and we will talk about it after the temple sees.
"Here, let me see." Jia Min pulled Lin Yun and praised him: "This dress is really beautiful." ”
Lin Yun's dress today is indeed very outstanding, silver-red dark flower jacket, jade color armor, emerald and yellow two-color skirts, black hair combed into a hanging bun, not much jewelry, only a hairpin with a little green gorse, and a few flowers. The more beautiful the eyebrows are, and the skin is like jade.
Lin Yun smiled lightly, "Sister-in-law praised it." ”
Mrs. Lin looked at her daughter appreciatively, listened to Jia Min's words, and said with a smile: "Don't praise her, people like ours have children who are not neat." ”
Also, if you have money and leisure, you can dress well, use it well, eat well, and most of the women you marry are dignified and beautiful, and no matter how ugly the baby is, it won't go anywhere.
As he was talking, a girl came to report, saying that the sedan car was ready.
"Let's go." Mrs. Lin helped the girl to get up and greeted her daughter and daughter-in-law. Today, I am going to the Mu Xiang Mansion, and Mrs. Mu's flower viewing banquet will definitely be attended by many wives and young ladies from official eunuchs, which is a good opportunity to expand your contacts.
The Mu family held a banquet in the garden, and in addition to the future of Princess Xining, Dongping, Nan'an, and Beijing all brought their concubines and daughters to the banquet. Several palaces have always been close to the Jia family, and Jia Min is also familiar with the daughters of several palaces, that is, the princess of Dongping County and the princess of Beijing County are also her best friends when she was not married.
As her mother-in-law met Mrs. Mu Xiang and met Mrs. Mu Da, Princess Dongping smiled at her: "You are too shy to go out, and you don't want to go around our house, Wan'er and Jingyuan have been talking about you for a few days." ”
Jia Min blessed his body and said with a smile: "I also remember them." I said that I would post them to play in a few days. ”
Princess Beijing said: "Your mother is good, she had a birthday a few days ago, but I didn't feel good, and I didn't pass." ”
Jia Min said: "Princess Xie is worried, everything is fine with my mother." ”
Princess Dongping beckoned at Lin Yun and smiled: "This is Lin Hou's daughter, so Peugeot." Come on and let me see. ”
Lin Yun bowed shallowly, slowly walked to Princess Dongping, let her hold her hand and look at it, and replied obediently. Princess Dongping smiled at Mrs. Lin: "Your daughter is excellent." Peugeot and well-behaved, much better than the two in our family. ”
Mrs. Lin hurriedly said: "It's too much of a boast, but it's a little neater, where can it compare to the county king." ”
Princess Nan'an smiled at Princess Dongping and said, "Quickly let go of other people's daughters, let them young people play by themselves, and always accompany us old people." ”
Princess Dongping deliberately annoyed: "I'm still very young, I want you to grow old yourself." ”
"In front of so many people, you are not ashamed." Princess Nan'an took a sip of her, got up and pulled Lin Yun. looked up and down, and said with a smile: "I can't complain that she won't let go, it's really loved." ”
As he was talking, another guest arrived. Mrs. Lin was asked to sit down by Mrs. Mu, and Jia Min and Lin Yun were invited to the flower hall by Mu Lin's wife Yan, and there were already several young women and daughters sitting inside, each sitting with acquaintances and chatting.
Yan smiled at Jia Min and said, "My grandson and Uncle Lin are very good. often come back to tell me that among these friends, only Uncle Lin is the most intimate with him. ”
Jia Min saw that Yan's attitude towards her was particularly gentle. Knowing that this was because Lin Ruhai had straightened Mu Lin, he smiled and said, "My grandson often says, how fortunate it is to be friends with Uncle Mu." ”
The husbands should be good, and the wives are basically familiar with each other, Yan said: "I'm a few years older, so let's call you sister." ”
"Sister." Jia Min screamed from Shanruliu, the two looked at each other and smiled, and Yan said: "The wife of the third master of the Yang family is also here, and I will introduce you to you." While speaking, when he arrived at the flower hall, Yan took a look, then took Jia Min and Lin Yun to a table, and smiled at a twenty-seven or eight-year-old woman: "Sister." ”
There were three women sitting at the table, one was twenty-seven or eighteen years old, looking a little serious, and the other two were young, no more than twenty years old, all gentle and beautiful women.
The one who was called her sister by Mrs. Mu was Mu Lin's own sister, Mrs. Mu only gave birth to a son and a daughter, and the daughter was the eldest, and she had already been married, and she returned to Shendu with her husband the year before last, and she also came today.
The other two, one wearing blue and the other wearing yellow, listened to Yan's introduction, the one in the yellow shirt was Qi Jiajue's wife Chu, and Yang Ze's wife Liu, who wore blue. After introducing the two parties, Yan smiled and said: "This time, we all know each other, so we should move around often in the future." ”
Jia Min and the others all nodded yes, and Yan said, "You sit down first, and I'll go ahead and take a look." "She is the master, so naturally she can't sit in the hall, and only contact Jia Min and a few people. smiled at Mu Shi again: "Trouble my sister to take care of it more." ”
Mu Shi replied lightly, "I can save it, you can go." ”
After Yan left, Jia Min sat down and chatted with a few people. The Liu family is more gentle than the Chu family, and because her husband is the best with Lin Ruhai, she took the lead in speaking: "I heard that Uncle Lin has already entered the door of Mr. Yuan?" ”
Jia Min nodded: "Yes, the teacher who worshipped yesterday." ”
"Congratulations." Chu said, "The one in my family, when he heard the news yesterday, he was happy to drink three pots of wine at night. ”
Jia Min smiled and didn't answer, if she wanted to say that Qi Jiajue was happy for Lin Ruhai, she believed it, but she couldn't believe that she could be so happy that she could drink and celebrate at home.
The Liu family also said that he was happy, and directly led the topic to Lin Yun, "This is Miss Lin, she looks so good." ”
Miss Lin! Jia Min was embarrassed, this title is so disobedient. But fortunately, I didn't call Sister Lin directly, so she was even more awkward.
Lin Yun felt about the same as her, anyway, how awkward it sounded.
Everyone is meeting for the first time, and the topics they can talk about are limited, but some clothes, jewelry, etc., but the atmosphere is still very harmonious. Lin Yun was an unmarried girl, and after sitting down for a while, she was invited aside by the girl of the Mu family.
Jia Min also took her to meet the county lords and county monarchs of the county king's family, and their first impression of each other was not bad. When the feast was served, they sat together. The princess Li of the palace of Beijing County. It's best to be with Jia Min before you get married. She was originally out admiring the flowers with the princesses in the palaces of Nan'an and Dongping, and when she heard that Jia Min was coming, she came in to look for her.
"They knew I was coming, but they didn't say they were going to see me, but hid here." She patted Jia Min on the shoulder and said deliberately annoyed.
Jia Min turned around when she heard the voice, and was stunned when she saw Li, and then a particularly cordial feeling rose from her heart, making her unconsciously show a gentle smile: "Isn't this waiting for you to come to find me." ”
Li slapped her, and said to the Mu family and Chu family at the same table: "I'll borrow someone." There are a lot of accounts to settle with her. ”
The Mu family smiled and nodded, seeing that Jia Min was pulled away by the princess with a bitter face. Chu said with a smile: "Sister Jia is close to the princess. ”
This scene was naturally also seen by Lin Yun, she saw Jia Min being pulled by the princess of Beijing, and several people passing by laughed and teased them, obviously the relationship was very close. I was a little envious in my heart, and said secretly: This Jia Min's popularity is good, and she has a lot of girlfriends, no wonder she can't give birth to a son, and Lin Ruhai has to provide for her.
"I heard that your husband is a disciple of Mr. Yuan?" The first thing Lee asked was this. After Jia Min's response, he clasped his palms together and smiled: "Great, the future is limitless." Originally, I was good at learning, and I had a good teacher. How much will I save in the future? "There are still several disciples of Mr. Yuan in the court, and after Lin Ruhai becomes an official, he will definitely take more care of the junior brother.
Originally, the Li family felt that Jia Min was a bit of a loss when she married Lin Ruhai, but now she feels good.
Concubine Nan'an smiled and pushed Jia Min. "In the future, my son will worship your husband as a teacher."
Jia Min was stunned for a moment, and his eyes fell on the stomach of the princess of Nan'an. "Ah Wen, you ......"
Concubine Nan'an's face turned red and slapped her, "Where are you looking?" ”
Jia Min asked, "But there is?" The surprise was hard to hide in the words. Nan'an Shifei Guo has been married for three years, and has not given birth to a son and a half daughter, so she has to give her husband a concubine and a maid, and now she has two concubines, a concubine, and now there are two girls in the house who are pregnant. If she had, it would be a great blessing.
Concubine Nan'an whispered: "I'm not quite sure, the doctor said that it will take two months to see it accurately." However, it has been seven or eight days since the arrival of the monthly letter. She also looks forward to getting pregnant as soon as possible, her mother-in-law is not as good as her day by day, and the good concubine gives birth to a child, and she is still the eldest son, which makes her very uneasy and feels that her status is very unstable.
"That's pretty much it." Jia Min said with a smile, and then frowned, "Since you may be pregnant, why did you come out today?" "The first trimester is the most dangerous, and it is easy to miscarry. Especially these noble ladies who were raised in the boudoir in ancient times, most of them are not strong, and they must pay great attention to it.
The princess of Nan'an showed a wry smile, "I haven't told our princess yet." "There was already one time before, and after a few days of the monthly letter, Baba told the princess and invited the imperial doctor, but the result was not, and let those little see the jokes in vain, which made the princess very disappointed, and she didn't give her a good face for several days. This time, she didn't dare to reveal the wind at all, so she could only take advantage of her discomfort to invite a doctor to come and ask quietly. It is necessary to wait for the news to be confirmed before it can be told.
Jia Min knew as soon as he heard the voice, after all, they all knew about the princess of Nan'an, so they could only sigh secretly. When it came to the princess of Dongping, she already had a son and was more experienced, so she quietly asked her if she could react.
"Lately, I often like to sleep, and there is nothing else around." Guo Shi didn't react to himself, and he didn't like sour or spicy, and felt that he might not be this time.
"Hey, come and sit down." The princess of Dongping pulled Guo Shi to sit down on the stone bench on the side, with a happy face, "I tell you, you have to be careful from now on, there is a possibility of six points." The one in your family, push him a little bit these days, don't let him touch you. ”
Guo's face became redder and redder, but he nodded shyly.
Jia Min said: "Don't eat wine today, bet a little more." ”
"Uh-huh." Guo nodded.
The princess of Beijing smiled in a low voice and congratulated, "When you are sure, we will go to see you again." ”
Speaking of this, Guo Shi said to the princess of Beijing: "Be careful, the fourth young lady in our house is not dead yet." ”
Li snorted coldly, his face was not very good, but he didn't speak. The fourth lady Guo said was the daughter of the favorite concubine of the prince of Nan'an, and somehow, she fell in love with the prince of Beijing and cried and wanted to marry him. She is a concubine, even if she is the concubine of the county king, she is also a concubine. King Beijing and Princess Beijing would not let their son marry her even if they had a brain pump. But people said that they were willing to be a concubine, and they almost didn't make the prince of Nan'an angry, and directly confined his daughter, and didn't even give up the house for more than half a year.
Jia Min thought for a while before digging this gossip out of her memory, and she said curiously: "Didn't you say that you have confessed your mistake?" "I think at the beginning, because the Jia family had a good relationship with the four royal families, and the relationship with the Beijing royal family was especially good. This fourth girl hated her for a long time, and it wasn't until the prince married that this first hatred value was snatched away by the Li family.
Guo Shi sneered: "It's just our family's foolish guild letter." "The mother of the four girls is quite favored, and even with her daughter, she is also the one who has the most heart of the king of Nan'an.
Jia Min quietly pulled her, frowned and shook her head, signaling her not to speak ill of her father-in-law. After all, this is someone else's house, in case it is not good to be heard.
Guo was also angry, and the fourth girl said that she was a hen that couldn't lay eggs. also wants to give her little concubine's niece to the prince as a concubine, if it weren't for the princess to stop her, I'm afraid the prince would have agreed.
"That's right." Li Shi took Jia Min's hand, "Who has your family offended?" Several imperial histories want to be the Marquis of Lin. "This is what the prince of Beijing heard from others, he is a good friend with one of the sons of the imperial history, and he listened to him when he was drinking, and knew that his wife had a good relationship with Jia Min. So he went home and spoke.
Jia Min said: "What do you want to participate in?" "There has to be a guilty plea in the complaint.
"I didn't say it, I just mentioned it."
Jia Min thought about it carefully, it was definitely not because of her husband's apprenticeship yesterday. So for what? I can't think of it. It has only been three days since they came through, and Marquis Lin is out of tolerance, and Lin Ruhai only cares about studying and catching up with the schedule, plus he is an official, so he is not clear about the situation in the court.
"Don't think about it, go back and tell your husband and let them men make up their minds." Lee's Road.
Jia Min nodded, "Hmm." "That's all there is to it.
At the banquet afterward, she was a little absent-minded, and as soon as she returned home, she told Mrs. Lin about it. Mrs. Lin also frowned and thought carefully, in recent months, Lin Hou has not been at home, and his son has been studying in the house most of the time, even if he goes out, he is with Yang Ze and a few people, but he is just talking about poetry and painting, and there is no excessive behavior.
Lin Ruhai thought about it very much and persuaded his wife: "As long as it is not forced to rebel in the palace, for the sake of the teacher, the saint will be merciful." Besides, the old man is cowardly, and it is quite difficult to commit the crime of killing his head. ”
Yes, Lin Hou Ye is timid, but there are bold people in the Lin family, and this courage was raised by Lin Hou himself.
Two days later, there was a royal history of the Marquis of Lin who committed murder and killed people and seized the land!
What the hell is this, our family hasn't bought land in the past three years, okay! Lin Hou was so angry that you didn't look for a good crime if you planted it.
That Cui Yushi sneered: "Zhang Zhongwen is not from your family." "Damn, you're angry, I'm still angry. That kid beat my nurse brother, robbed my nurse's land, and the most hateful thing is that I bought that land for my nurse!
Marquis Lin was stunned, Zhang Zhongwen is Zhang Cheng's eldest son, and now he is in charge of three shops.
"Why can't you say it?" Cui Yushi turned around and said to Emperor Qixiang: "Please ask the saint to investigate strictly." "Occupy the people's land, this is quite common at that time, but it is generally bought by the direct owner and become a tenant farmer. Forcibly robbing people's land, this kind of thing is not uncommon, and it basically belongs to no one to check if no one asks. But if it was really exposed in the court, Emperor Qixiang couldn't ignore it. These people who forcibly occupy the people's land are the kind of people who do not need to pay taxes, and if they grab more land, the state will collect a lot less agricultural taxes.
The second prince jumped out directly, "Father, son also thinks that this matter should be strictly investigated." Even if Marquis Lin did not instruct the servants to kill people and seize the land, he could not escape the crime of failing to investigate. ”
It is rare for the three princes to have an opinion with him, and they also follow suit.
The second prince and the third prince are currently relatively powerful contenders for the throne, and as soon as they came out, their party members immediately echoed them. (To be continued......)
PS: I'm sorry, I didn't sleep all night the night before yesterday, and I was so sleepy yesterday that I didn't update it, and I made it up today.