Changed into a new official uniform, went to the front hall with Fei Erye to meet Yang Qinghe's father and son, and went back to the inner courtyard to talk to Wang Naizeng for a while, and Enjun came back on a fast horse.

"Master Han, something happened, King Dingjun died last night! The people in the palace of Dingjun had just gone to the palace to report the funeral, and when I returned, the emperor was summoning Prince Gong, Prince Zheng and Lord Peng. ”

"The king of Dingjun is here!" Han Xiufeng was taken aback.

Enjun didn't think it was too surprised, and said with a bitter face while wiping his sweat: "The king of Dingjun has been sick for several months, otherwise the emperor would not have ordered Lianshun, who had just moved to the left capital, to help the king of Dingjun manage the defense of the nine gates." ”

"So you can't see the emperor today?"

"I almost forgot, the emperor ordered the father-in-law of the office to pass a message and ask you to hand over the sign in a few days. The emperor also said that if you encounter something when you are on an errand, and it is inconvenient to go to Lord Sushun, let the humble post change into a yellow coat and show the waist card of the guard. ”

Han Xiufeng nodded slightly, thought about it and asked, "Xincheng, the king of Dingjun, who is in charge of the yamen of the infantry army now?" ”

"Lianshun, the emperor ordered Lianshun to be the commander of the infantry army." Looking at Han Xiufeng's thoughtful appearance, Enjun added: "As far as I know, King Dingjun once served as a guard of the Qianqing Gate with Lianshun when he was young, and his relationship was not ordinary, so he recommended Lianshun to the emperor when he was sick. ”

"Got it, you can rest for a while."

"Master Xie Han."

This year, there are several old ministers, first of all, who have been officials for more than 50 years, and who have served in the Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang and Xianfeng dynasties, and the prince and prince Pan Shien. followed by Qi Shan, and now it is the king of Dingjun, who has been busy with funerals for most of the year, and Han Xiufeng can imagine that the emperor's mood will not be good.

Thinking that although the visit could not be achieved in the past two days, the errand could not be delayed, Han Xiufeng walked to the door and said, "Uncle Yu, go find your iron lock and ask who is on duty in Xuanwumen today." ”

Yu Youfu, who was about to find a place to help Enjun put the horse bolt on it, was stunned, turned around and asked, "What is this for?" ”

"I want to go to the castle tower in the afternoon to see if I can make it easier."

"Okay, I'll ask."

Yu Youfu felt that this was not a big deal, even if the pillar of the iron lock could not speak, he could still go to Yongxiang, answered, bolted the horse, and ran out.

Han Xiufeng touched the corners of his mouth, turned around and said: "Xiao Shandong, when Uncle Yu asks clearly, you will go to Mr. Wang to get my name card, and invite the shopkeepers of the 'Rishengchang' and 'Weitaihou' Beijing branches to Xuanwumen, where I plan to meet them." ”

"Okay, I'll invite Uncle Yu as soon as there is a letter over there."

"You know Rishengchang, do you know where the branch of Weitai Houjing City is?"

"Yes, even if I don't know, I can inquire."

"Okay, let's get busy first."

Eun Jun knew very well that Han Xiufeng would not invite the shopkeeper of the two ticket numbers to the city tower to talk for no reason, and then thought that the emperor was so concerned about the matter of inquiring about Yi's feelings, and even allowed him to wear a yellow coat when he was not on duty in the palace, so he took the initiative to ask for help: "Master Han, why don't you let the humble post go to invite you later." ”

"Xincheng, you've been running all morning......"

"It's okay, what's the point of running this way!"

"Okay, I'll bother you to run again later."

As soon as Han Xiufeng finished speaking, he found that his sister had run out of the inner house, and she stopped talking with a look on her face. Thinking of what Qin'er said in the morning, planning to even do something, Han Xiufeng sighed secretly and walked into the inner house quietly. Sure enough, as soon as he crossed the threshold, he was pulled by Qin'er to the left wing.

"What's wrong, is Yu'er unhappy, is she crying?"

"She didn't cry, she didn't say she wasn't happy."

"What the hell is going on?"

Qin'er really regretted it, and said with a bitter face: "She...... She said that it was okay to go home, and then she packed her bags without saying a word. ”

"This girl, she's still angry!" Han Xiufeng pondered for a moment, patted her arm lightly and smiled, "Don't worry, she'll be fine." Isn't this going out, I take her out for a walk, and enlighten her by the way. ”

"Are you alright?"

"Don't worry, it's going to be fine."

Han Xiufeng thought that now he had to do the errand assigned by the emperor, and as a "little military aircraft", he had to pay attention to the situation and the war all the time, which was annoying enough, and Ren Yu'er's affairs couldn't be delayed any longer, so he walked so quickly to Ren Yu'er's boudoir and knocked on the door twice: "Yu'er, it's me." ”

"Fourth brother, what's the matter?" Ren Yu'er was startled, and hurriedly stood up and asked in a mosquito-like voice.

"Put on the clothes that I wore when I taught the children to study in my ancestral family, and go out for a walk with my brother."

"Fourth brother, this is the capital, not the ancestral family, is it appropriate for me to wear that?"

"What's inappropriate, besides, there are many ladies who sneak out in disguise as women, you are not the first, and you will never be the last."

Ren Yu'er realized that the fourth brother had something to say to her, and hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay, but you have to wait a while." ”

"Don't worry, you prepare first, get ready to go to the front hall to find me." Han Xiufeng smiled, turned around and said, "Qin'er, you also go and change into men's clothes, and let's go out for a walk together." ”

"I ...... I'm not going, and I don't have any clothes for men. ”

"There's nothing to wear me, it's rare to have time to take you out for a walk, don't spoil the fun."

"Okay, I'...... I'll change it. ”

I don't know if the woman is slow to change her clothes, she still has to put her hair down and braid, go back to the front hall and wait for a while, until Yu Youfu comes back after inquiring about the news, and then Qin'er and Ren Yu'er change into green cloth robes and come out.

Confirming that Mr. Qian, who was on duty at the city gate today, had a good relationship with the iron lock, and the iron lock and the pillar had already gone to the city gate to wait, Han Xiufeng asked Eunjun and Xiao Shandong to invite "Rishengchang" and "Wei Taihou" together, and then took his wife and sister-in-law who were disguised as men to climb into the carriage and wander around the southern city.

First go to Fayuan Temple, then to Taoran Pavilion, then to the kiln platform and Songyun Temple.

Except for seeing a lot of merry scribes who chanted poems against each other, Qin'er didn't think that these places were as interesting as the legend, but Ren Yu'er was as excited as a pilgrimage, thinking about everything she went, and even stopped to hide behind Han Xiufeng and eavesdrop on what those literati were talking about.

After eating casually at the roadside stall, Han Xiufeng took the two of them straight to the Xuanwu Gate, said hello to the pillars and iron locks guarding the city gate, and took the second daughter to climb to the highest place of the city tower, overlooking the inside and outside of the capital.

Ascending high and looking into the distance, the whole person's mind is open-minded.

Qin'er felt guilty, took Ren Yu'er's arm and said, "Yu'er, sister-in-law doesn't mean anything else, sister-in-law is looking at your boss is not small, is it ......"

After visiting Fayuan Temple, Taoran Pavilion, Kiln Platform and Songyun Nunnery just now, and now seeing the Forbidden City again, Ren Yuer was full of emotion and said with tears in her eyes: "I know, I know that you and the fourth brother are for my good." ”

Seeing that there were three carriages coming below, two shopkeeper-like people came out of the carriage, and respectfully followed Eun Jun who came down from the third carriage, Han Xiufeng realized that the shopkeeper of the "Rishengchang" and "Weitaihou" Beijing branch had arrived, and he didn't want to go around in circles anymore, so he raised his arm and pointed in the direction of the Forbidden City and said: "Yu'er, the palace is there, and the palace lives the most noble women in the world, but as far as I know, whether it is the queen mother, the queen or the concubine, they are not happy, at least they can eat whatever they want, and they can wear whatever they want, You can go wherever you want. ”

"I also don't think it's going to be nice in the deep palace."

"The circle around the palace is the inner city, where the princes of the clan and the children of the Eight Banners live, although the women of the banner family do not have so many rules as our Han people, but they may not be very comfortable. For a woman from a powerful family, this marriage event is not her turn to make her own decisions. Even if you are lucky enough to marry a good husband, you can't leave the capital for forty miles, so you can only stay at home to play cards, listen to plays, and some even smoke a lot. ”

Han Xiufeng paused, and then said: "The woman from the poor family is even more pitiful, she can neither open a shop nor farm the land, she can only hold the baby and starve and freeze. The Han women who live in the outer city are not much better, and the major events of their lives pay attention to the words of the parents' orders, everything must be listened to by their parents before leaving the cabinet, and everything must be listened to by the husband after marriage. ”

"Fourth brother, isn't that me?" Qin'er asked faintly.

"Think about it," Han Xiufeng took Qin'er's hand, glanced at each other affectionately, and then turned around and said: "Yu'er, you only knew that I came to the capital to confess within a month of getting married to your sister-in-law, and your sister-in-law not only helped me give birth to a baby, but also waited for me in my hometown in Sichuan for several years, but I didn't know how your sister-in-law married me, and how I married your sister-in-law." ”

Thinking of the past, Qin'er couldn't help but say angrily: "Don't say it, I'm not afraid of other people's jokes." ”

"Yu'er is not an outsider, what can't be said." Han Xiufeng patted Qin'er's hand and said apologetically: "At that time, I was not only so poor that I was tinkling, but I also owed a lot of debts to others, and I didn't even have a house in the city, so I could only rely on Zhuzi's house." ”

It was the first time Ren Yu'er had heard of this, and the ghost asked in a strange way: "What happened later?" ”

"Poor like that, whether in Ba County or elsewhere, wanting to marry a daughter-in-law is tantamount to a fool's dream, but fortunately, there are a few enthusiastic elders, that is, Xiaohu's father, Guan Bantou and Wang Guisheng's father. The two elders saw that my eldest was not young, and they were going to come to the capital to confess, worried that I would not even be able to marry my daughter-in-law if I left, and that I would have no queen, so they found an opportunity to instill your sister-in-law and her father, that is, my father-in-law, and helped me say a lot of good things, and deceived my father-in-law into marrying your sister-in-law to me. ”

"Cheating marriage, fourth brother, did you trick your sister-in-law into the door?" Ren Yu'er sneered.

"Almost," Han Xiufeng smiled embarrassedly, thought about it and said, "Although your sister-in-law has never said it, I know that she must have been reluctant at first, but she had no choice but to listen to my father-in-law, so she married me." Even I didn't know that I could have today, and she didn't even know it at that time, and she didn't even dare to think about it, but after entering my Han family, she never showed even a trace of unhappiness. ”

"Sister-in-law, you're so nice." Ren Yuer said sincerely.

Qin'er hurriedly said: "Actually, it's nothing, didn't your fourth brother say it, since you are married, you have to marry a chicken and a dog and a dog." ”

"Yu'er, the reason why I am telling you this is not to say how good your sister-in-law is, but to tell you how lucky you are!"

"Fourth brother, I'...... How did I get lucky? ”

"You have seen the rivers and seas, been to the concessions of foreigners, and now you are standing on the tower of the capital, the roads you have walked, the people you have seen, and the things you have encountered are something that your sister-in-law can't even think of!" Han Xiufeng let go of Qin'er's hand, pointed in the direction of the Forbidden City, and then turned around and pointed outside the city: "It's also those women in the city and outside the city who don't dare to think about it!" ”

Ren Yu'er reacted, and she didn't know what to say for a while.

"There are no outsiders on the city tower, brother might as well open the skylight and say bright words, the reason why you follow me is to repay the favor, but in my brother's opinion, you don't know what you really want! Not only have you read the books of sages, but you have also traveled with me to see the world, are you really willing to be small, or marry a good family in the future, just like Cuihua and her sister? ”

Ren Yu'er was asked, because as Han Xiufeng said, she didn't know what she wanted.

Han Xiufeng glanced back at Qin'er, and then said: "You are actually not pitiful, not only are you not pitiful, but you are also very lucky, you can be said to be the luckiest woman in the world." Whether it's a marriage or something else, you can make your own decisions, you can dress up as a man to teach your children to read, and you can even go north and south to see the world, don't you say? ”

"Fourth brother, I ......"

"Really!" Qin'er reacted and said enviously: "Yu'er, sister-in-law won't force you anymore, you just live according to your own ideas, and live happily!" ”

Ren Yu'er finally figured it out, and said with tears in her eyes: "Fourth brother, sister-in-law, I'm sorry, I didn't want to trouble you." Just like what the fourth brother said, I don't even know what I'm thinking, I ......"

Han Xiufeng looked at her with a smile and said, "It's okay if you don't know, but you can't drill the horns, you can't act like an angry little daughter-in-law, and you can't be wronged." ”

Thinking that I have seen all the places I should see, and I really don't have any consciousness to stay in the dirty and smelly capital again, Ren Yu'er raised her arm to wipe away her tears: "Fourth brother, I miss the third aunt, I miss the younger brother that the third aunt just gave birth to me." The ancients read thousands of books than to travel thousands of miles, and I also want to go to Ningbo, Fuzhou and Guangzhou to see the world. In short, I listen to you! ”

"Again, don't be wronged. First take this opportunity to get along with Mr. Wang for a while, I think Mr. Wang is okay, and when you come back, my brother will help you propose. If you don't think this person can do it or don't like it, then it's not like that. ”

Qin'er was really frightened just now, and she also realized that the twisted melon was not sweet, so she echoed: "Yu'er, just tell your brother, you are in charge of your own affairs, don't be wronged by yourself." ”

Ren Yu'er's face turned red, and she couldn't help but hold Qin'er's arm and said, "Sister-in-law, I know." ”

Han Xiufeng thought about it and took out the internal affairs government token from his arms, which cost dozens of taels but was useless, handed it to her, and said: "Wang Naizeng, this person is good anywhere, but he likes to spend money indiscriminately." If you want, help my brother keep an eye on it, he went out of Beijing this time to run an errand, not to play in the mountains and rivers to eat, drink and have fun, if he dares not to listen to persuasion, you will show this token! ”

Ren Yu'er was not happy during this time, so she missed the days when she was in Hai'an and Shanghai, helping to send and receive official documents and draft familiar letters, seeing that the fourth brother did not forget that she was a "scholar" like her, and even entrusted with the important task of even taking out the token of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, she couldn't help asking: "Fourth brother, are you going to give me this token?" ”

"This token is for errands, and it can't be easily shown until the last resort, how can it be sent to you like this, and it has to be returned after the errand, and what has been done with this token has to be registered and archived."

"I understand, then I'll take it first."

"Take it, don't let outsiders see it, and don't lose it." Han Xiufeng looked at her excited and excited appearance, and raised his arm and gestured under his neck: "If you lose it, you will really lose your head." ”

"Understand, fourth brother, don't worry, even if I lose the token, I won't lose it!"

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