For the people of the Zhao Mansion and the emperor, Zhu Tingfang's return represents the end of the previous northern expedition.

And for a large number of officials in the capital who once shouted that Zhao Guogong's father and son were defeated and humiliated the country, and the crime was unforgivable, the heir of the Zhao Guogong Mansion who had disappeared for a while came back with all his tails, and it seemed that he had lost a little weight and had nothing else to do, which was enough to make them impetuous. Even when it was the time of the Chinese New Year Yamen seal, they had to connect in tandem.

So on the day of the 30th Chinese New Year's Eve of the lunar month, a piece of news came out, saying that when the Shuntian Mansion had not released the notice board and put away the drumstick that sounded the complaint drum, an old woman hit the drum with her white-haired head, suing a person in the Imperial Court who had been the head of the Imperial History of the Imperial Palace, for weaving the crime of forcing the Fang family of the local wang clan who was kind and charitable to ruin the family.

After the incident, Yin Wangjie of Shuntian Mansion personally took people into the Shuntian Mansion for placement.

And that's just the beginning. Until the evening, in front of the Daxing County Ya, Wanping County Ya, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Criminal Department, even the Dengwen drum was knocked once, and a total of four imperial historians were arrested. And these four people are all the most ferocious people who jumped up and down at the beginning, attacking the Zhu family's father and son.

Endless news came one after another, and Zhang Shou failed to eat a good mid-year meal in Zhao Guogong's mansion. And after he took the Wu family back, after the next ancestor worship, three more complaints came, and the Zhu family's Chinese New Year's Eve meal was not eaten well. Zhu Ying even smashed her chopsticks in anger and said menacingly: "What do these messy things have to do with my family?" ”

As she spoke, she took the case: "If our Zhu family instructed someone to do it, where would we mobilize the bitter master to sue everywhere like this, and let a large number of gray-haired old people in the family go to sue for their lives?" This is simply a matter of careless human life! I think someone is just trying to muddy the water, this is to open up the eyes of those unparalleled Yushi! It's too despicable to use such means! ”

Zhu Er hadn't figured it out yet, but as soon as Zhu Ying said it, he suddenly realized, and he also slapped the table and said: "As long as it is proved that these charges are false, then these indiscriminate imperial histories will be washed away!" ”

But as soon as he stood up, he was glared at by the six eyes of Mrs. Tai, Jiuniang and Zhu Tingfang, and he was so frightened that he sat back in place. Just when he thought he would be reprimanded, he didn't want Jiu Niang to suddenly look at Zhu Ying, and asked directly: "Yingying, why are you so smart today?" Are you trying to figure out these mysteries yourself? ”

"Of course not!" Zhu Ying confidently took back the chopsticks, and then said calmly, "It was Ah Shou who said it." Ah Shou said to me before going back at noon, if there are two and there must be three, if there are more after three or four, then there is no doubt that people just want to completely disturb this troubled water and make our Zhu family the target of everyone! ”

Zhu Tingfang was choked and sighed by Zhu Ying's mindless tone of only listening to people and taking it for granted, but what Zhang Shou told Zhu Ying was his judgment after discussing with his grandmother in the afternoon, so he couldn't help but provoke: "Did you say that Ah Shou said that the Zhu family should do?" ”

"Big brother, Ah Shou hasn't married me yet, he's not mine yet!" Zhu Ying glared at Zhu Tingfang, then shrugged her shoulders and said, "Ah Shou said, nine times out of ten, it is the enemy of our Zhu family, or it is those imperial history troublemakers. Moreover, my father went out this time and won the battle, which hindered the way of many people, and he was afraid that we would retaliate against them for complaining, so of course he would strike first and muddy the waters. ”

She paused for a moment, and then continued unhurriedly: "But Ah Shou said that people who don't do anything will not leave flaws, but people who do a lot of things up and down will leave a lot of clues. Some people think they are smart, but they are smart. So, what if you want to say? Hey, that's to do nothing first, and see the path of others clearly. ”

Zhu Er was immediately unconvinced: "Don't do anything, just watch first?" Doesn't this seem that our Zhao Guogong Mansion is too easy to bully? ”

"Responding to changes with the same, this is not wrong most of the time, especially when the emperor is staring. The emperor is not very old, but he has been on the throne for 27 years this year, and the routines of those ministers do not understand after watching for a day or two, and they do not understand for ten or eight years, but after nearly thirty years, will he still not understand? ”

Mrs. Tai smiled and signaled Mother Li to give Zhu Ying a chopstick pickled egg, seeing that Zhu Ying hesitated, in the end she still ate with a sad face, she smiled and said, "Just like I love to eat these two bites, and I don't care about this Chinese New Year's Eve, whether you like to eat it or not, let people make it and bring it to Yingying, and Yingying still has to eat." Getting along with kings and ministers is similar to this, but more complicated. ”

"If there is anything to be carried out in the imperial court, it is bound to rely on the ministers below to carry it out, so different kings have different practices. If it is strong, if you don't do it, you will get out, or even kill if you don't do it, just like Qin Shi Huang, whipping the world, don't dare to disobey. If it is weak, it means that the minister is whatever he says, like a clay sculpture or even a puppet. ”

"Even Mingjun has to be divided into two kinds. One is like Tang Taizong, who tacitly cooperated with Wei Zheng on the one hand, and showed people with an open mind, but in fact, most of Wei Zheng's advice was what he actually planned to do, and the two just got each other's reputation as a wise and virtuous minister. As for the other one, he was passively coerced by the virtuous ministers, and had to do what the minister hoped for the Ming Jun, and was sprayed in the face by someone spitting on the stars, and he could only be at ease. ”

Mrs. Tai said this in one breath, paused, and then laughed again.

"The emperor is different, he doesn't insist on anything most of the time, and for the things agreed by the cabinet, it will be over if they are implemented according to this, but once anyone thinks that he can be suppressed by public opinion and public opinion, it is wishful thinking. If you think about the emperor's actions in the first year or two of his pro-government, you can know that he is a person who eats soft rather than hard. If it weren't for the Queen Mother, he would really be able to fight with people to the death. ”

Jiu Niang thought about the emperor's character she knew, and couldn't help laughing at this time, and nodded at the moment: "Mother is right, if you think that it is better to strike first, and mixing the water can defile the military exploits of our Zhao State Mansion, then it is too underestimate the emperor!" ”

While everyone was talking, the door curtain was lifted, but it was Jiang's mother who entered the house. Zhao Guogong Zhu Jing did not come back today, so the New Year at home is not particularly lively, after worshipping the ancestors, the masters opened a banquet at the back, and the servants opened a banquet in front, and set off some fireworks and firecrackers to celebrate a happy time, but did not invite any troupe to have fun.

At this time, Jiang's mother still had a bit of fireworks on her body, and after curtsimming, she smiled and said: "Mrs., Mrs., Mrs., the New Year's reward has been distributed, and everyone said that they want to come and kowtow to thank you." ”

"It's been a hard year, but you deserve it, so I won't stay until after the overnight stay. This year's reward is for their diligence this year, but for their inaction next year. So there is no need to kowtow, they themselves remember that the Zhao Guogong Mansion has always had clear rewards and punishments, and does not raise waste, but it will never treat people harshly. Zhu Yu and Zhu Gongquan's affairs, I don't want to have them anymore. ”

Seeing that Mother Jiang hurriedly responded solemnly, and was about to go out immediately, she called people and said: "Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, this kind of big New Year's Day, our Zhu family does not care about those people with ulterior motives. When the time comes, that is, tomorrow and New Year's Day, you and Ah Li will make arrangements as I told you before. Want to defile yourself and get away with it? Hehe! ”

Seeing that Jiang's mother said yes and walked out quickly, she swept away her daughter-in-law and three grandchildren, and then said with a smile: "After the New Year, our Zhao Guogong Mansion should also do a few big things to marry!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhu Ying was certainly smiling, but Zhu Tingfang couldn't help but chuckle in her heart. He has already seen the marriage between his sister and Zhang Shou, not only the grandmother and stepmother in the family agree, but even the emperor is clearly contributing to the trouble. However, even so, there is only one marriage, where are the several?

And even if Zhu Er is included, there are only two cases...... Could it be that the elders even counted him in?

Zhu Tingfang thought that he had met a Xiangshi on the road when he went on this expedition, people said that his life was too hard, and he didn't believe it at first, but he thought about the death of his biological mother not long after he was born, and then his stepmother ran away, and then his fiancée died early soon after he got married...... Since he is such a fate, why bother others?

Just when Zhu Tingfang's eyes flickered, Mrs. Tai suddenly sighed: "Having said that, there are indeed many marriages to be done in the capital next year, a princess and two county lords, if it weren't for Princess Yongping who didn't want to get married, I'm afraid there would be one more." ”

"Princess Yongping doesn't want to marry?" Zhu Tingfang was slightly stunned for a moment, he was very impressed by this golden branch and jade leaf who was born on the same day, the same month, and the same day as his sister, because the other party was diametrically opposed to Zhu Ying. Zhu Ying is flamboyant, Princess Yongping is introverted; Zhu Ying likes gorgeous clothes and decorations, and Princess Yongping prefers elegance and simplicity; Zhu Ying likes to ride a horse and shoot hunting, but Princess Yongping likes piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.

Of course, Princess Yongping actually liked Baguwen, and he always felt incredible......

got Zhu Ying's reply with oil and vinegar, and heard that Zhang Shou was actually called by the emperor to accompany the selection of horses and honor guests, and finally the three people who stood out were all from Zhang Shou's Banshan Hall, Zhu Tingfang felt more and more that Zhang Shou's future brother-in-law was a little unspeakably magical, and he couldn't help but make fun of Zhu Ying unintentionally.

"Yingying, Princess Yongping is slightly inferior to you in terms of appearance, you are better than her countless in terms of riding and archery, but in terms of talent and scheming, she is better than you innumerable. Since you were a child, you have to compare everything, you have to compete for everything, knowing that you like Zhang Shou so much, she didn't even think of robbing your husband with you? ”

"Big brother, you're really bad at learning!" Zhu Ying was so angry that she kicked someone with her foot, but she kicked it on her toes, but the leg she touched was like an iron plate, and she didn't move at all, and she was afraid of hurting her eldest brother, so she immediately retracted her foot. Facing Zhu Tingfang's nonchalant smile, she said stupidly, "Who made Yongping have no vision, not only did he not look down on Ah Shou at the beginning, but also connived at others to embarrass him......"

Zhu Ying told Zhu Tingfang about the incident in Yuehualou in a few words, and emphasized that Zhang Shou and Princess Yongping had not seen each other much later, and she had not even said a few words, so she was full of confidence. At the end, she came to two more domineering declarations: "She is an arrogant person, and she will not be shameless enough to rob me of her husband!" Of course, even if she robs me, she will never be able to rob me! ”

"Sneeze, sneeze!"

Standing in the courtyard of the Ge family, watching himself and the Wu family bring a group of little guys to celebrate the New Year with Ge Yong to set off firecrackers, Zhang Shou was excited by the cold wind, but he couldn't help but suddenly let out a series of sneezes, and beside him, Ah Liu was still there to report the situation by himself.

"The old woman who went to the Shuntian Mansion to slam the drum to complain, Deng Xiaodao said, Wang Dayin has been recognized. It is a beggar woman who has been begging for many years next to a land temple in the outer city, and has nothing to do with any local family. ”

Zhang Shou didn't care about answering, and went back to the room to take a pile of paper to solve the image problem, and then his nose came out again with a slight redness. He said with a smile: "Anyway, the people who go to buy them can't catch it, in the eyes of others, this dirty water is not splashed by Zhao Guogong's mansion, it is also splashed by Zhao Guogong's mansion...... It's okay, the eldest prince of Zhu is back, and there are capable people in the Zhao Guogong Mansion. ”

Ah Liu looked at Zhang Shou sideways, and made sure that his tone of picking and ignoring was not a joke, but serious, and he suddenly said a little sullenly: "But I asked people to track it down." ”

Because Ah Liu had just said a lot of words, but at this time he suddenly resumed the language habit of a few numbers again, Zhang Shou didn't react at first, and when he suddenly realized that Ah Liu was talking about letting people track down, not personally, he suddenly turned around and looked at this kid who didn't play cards according to common sense.

"You're having people track it down? Where did you come from? Is it the seventh master of flowers? The celebrant and the foreign office? "It's no wonder that Zhang Shou thought of these guys who have the function of a spy...... It was because he had personally learned how to send people!

Ah Liu looked at Zhang Shou with some puzzlement, and emphasized in an accentuated tone: "They are not from the Zhang family!" ”

In view of the fact that Ah Liu also emphasized the ownership of Hua Qi and his own ownership last time, Zhang Shou suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. But then his heart tightened again, and he hurriedly asked, "Then who did you let track down?" These boys can't do this kind of thing. ”

"Of course they can't." Ah Liu showed a mocking smile that they were all stupid, and then said indifferently, "I found a few suitable people, who can track down the results, who will be from the Zhang family in the future." The Zhang family does not raise waste. ”

Although Ah Liu's mouth is a Zhang family, Zhang Shou is very satisfied with such a title, but the message conveyed by Ah Liu's words made him cry and laugh, and he said with a straight face at the moment: "Who made you so bold to collect people indiscriminately?" ”

When he found that Ah Liu didn't answer and just stared at him, Zhang Shou couldn't help but be even more angry: "What, you still want to say that I ordered you?" When did I say this? ”

"When you came out of the courtyard of Luwangfu that day, you told the eldest lady that the garden was too big, and I don't know how many people would have to sprinkle it."

Zhang Shou almost felt that one head and two were big, and unconsciously raised his voice a little: "But I'm talking about sprinkling and sweeping!" ”

"I'm recruiting people who are cleaning now!" Ah Liu seemed to be a little confused, "I haven't started to see the people who take care of the home, and they don't have the ability to do it!" ”

Zhang Shou simply felt like a show talent meeting a soldier, and he couldn't explain it clearly. Whose sprinkler should have the ability to track down the conspiracy? Is that a servant, or a detective?