Even if the injuries on his body were not concealed in the end, after leaving the Qianqing Gate, Zhu Tingfang still solemnly warned Zhu Ying and Zhang Shou and told them not to tell Mrs. Tai about the matter. However, Zhu Ying snorted lightly and directly called back the eldest brother's request that she thought was very reasonable.

"My mother has already seen it, how do you want to hide it? Do you think grandmothers can fool around? ”

Zhu Ying didn't even look at her eldest brother with a gloomy face, and she also didn't look at Zhang Shou, who had just used her as a guise for her eldest brother in front of people, and muttered in a low voice, "Don't be afraid of being scolded if you dare to do it!" Besides, there is no impermeable wall in the world, you can control the mouth of everyone around you, but can you still control the mouth of those northern captives? Maybe they'll want to spread the word about your humiliation! ”

Liu Feng, the steward of the Qianqing Palace, who knew everything about the way out of the palace, personally sent it - even for a family like the Duke of Zhao Guo's Mansion that the emperor has always been close to, this kind of special encounter is not common, plus Liu Feng's face is not close, and others naturally avoid it. Therefore, he ensured that no outsider could hear what the last three said, but he also made it possible for him to hear every word.

At this moment, he only heard the eldest son of Zhao Guogong, who had so many scars on his body that even his scalp was numb, opened his mouth. Zhu Tingfang's words were very simple, but as soon as the voice entered his ears and understood the meaning, he couldn't help but shudder.

"We killed all the captives in the firearms camp, and we didn't leave any of them."

Zhu Tingfang paused as he spoke, then sighed and said, "When we were over there, we were all unkempt and beaten at every turn, who remembers who was beaten?" Later, I was selected to make firearms, and I didn't suffer like that, and as for those knife wounds, some of them were left over from the first battle, and some of them were left from the last battle to destroy the firearms battalion. ”

"Moreover, was it because I was humiliated by the whip in the hands of the Beiyu, or did I bring people into it, and then directly and completely eliminated the firearms battalion, and they were even more humiliated? Of course, they may still have drawings on how to make firearms, and maybe some craftsmen, but it will take time to start over. The most important thing is that the smuggling saltpeter route can no longer be saved! ”

After glancing at Zhang Shou, Zhu Tingfang smiled and said, "I don't want people to know that I'm injured, that's because I don't want my grandmother and mother to worry, and I don't want you to worry." I don't want some people with ulterior motives to think that I am injured, and the Zhu family can give them a chance. However, I'm definitely not taboo about my previous experience of losing the battle and being captured, Yingying, you know? ”

Zhang Shou saw Zhu Ying biting Yin Hong's lip again and was silent, he only felt that he had further touched the veins of Zhu Ying's eldest brother. There is no doubt that this is a proud and conceited person, but he is strong and tenacious, so he does not allow himself to show a little weakness in front of others, which is very tiring, but as the eldest son and eldest brother, such a responsibility is very valuable.

"Humph!" Zhu Ying finally snorted lightly, and only responded to Zhu Tingfang's teaching. When she walked out of Donghua Gate, she only saw Liu Feng waving, and then she came over slowly in a pannier chair.

"The emperor said, it's cold and windy, don't ride a horse, take a sedan chair." Liu Feng's voice was not loud or small, but it was enough for everyone else around him to hear, "Dr. Zhang, too, you are not a good person like Master Zhu, so go back in a sedan chair with the eldest lady." After all, it will take a while to go around Xicheng from Donghua Gate, and you just happen to drink tea and talk along the way. ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhu Ying immediately realized that this sedan chair was not prepared for herself and Zhang Shou, but was specially prepared by the emperor for her eldest brother. However. After seeing Zhu Tingfang frowning slightly, she was silent, she realized that people were planning to acquiesce to the emperor's high-sounding reasons, but she didn't understand the deep meaning inside, and she planned to ride a horse for a while, and she was suddenly angry.

Just when she wanted to lose her temper, she only heard Zhang Shou say: "I understand the emperor's kindness, but Yingying and her eldest brother have reunited after a long absence, and this sedan chair should let their brothers and sisters sit." After all, the eldest prince has been riding all the way back to Beijing, and it is time to rest. Although I don't have as much muscle and bones as he does, I don't have anything to climb the mountain and go down the ground, I just ride a horse and blow the cold wind, which is not in the way. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Shou smiled bitterly at Liu Feng again: "Please also ask Gonggong Liu to tell the emperor that in front of Brother Yingying, let me ride in the same sedan chair with her, so how can I sit still?" ”

His voice was not loud or small, and the guards and guards stationed at Donghua Gate heard it, and many of them snickered. The eldest brother looks at his brother-in-law, and the more he looks at it, the more critical he becomes, if Dr. Zhang really goes back in the same sedan chair with Miss Zhu according to the emperor's arrangement, even if the eldest son Zhu doesn't say it at this time, he will definitely remember this matter when he turns around!

Dr. Zhang chose to refuse, and he definitely did the right thing!

The corners of Zhu Ying's mouth suddenly rose high, she stepped forward with a smile and grabbed Zhu Tingfang, and then squeezed her eyes at Zhang Shou and said, "Ah Shou, thank you for your compassion for big brother's saddle, horse, labor, and ton!" ”

She deliberately accentuated the tone of the four words of the saddle horse, but she didn't care whether Zhu Tingfang was willing or not, she pushed the person in front of the pannier chair, and then said angrily: "What, big brother, what do you want to say that you are seven years old and refuse to go back in a sedan chair with me?" ”

What else can Zhu Tingfang say? He could only glance at Zhang Shou with complicated eyes, and then reluctantly went up the ladder first. When he sat down in the sedan chair, he saw Zhu Ying coming in, closed the sedan door again, and then ignored him, directly opened the curtains on the side, said hello to Liu Feng, and clearly glanced at Zhang Shou who was riding on the horse, and finally couldn't help but speak.

"Yingying ......"

"Don't speak, give me a good rest!" Zhu Ying dropped the curtain and glared at her eldest brother, her face was tight, "If you have something to go home and talk to your grandmother and mother, I'm very angry now!" ”

As she spoke, she tilted her head and looked to the side in a daze, but she didn't care that the curtains had not been fastened, and the cold wind was whirring into the sedan chair, until someone knocked lightly on the car window outside, she opened the curtain angrily and saw that it was Zhang Shou, and her face looked better.

"Yingying, the curtains are not fastened, the wind has just blown away such a big crack, what should you do if you are frozen?"

Zhang Shou said while glancing at Zhu Tingfang, who was still in a daze in the sedan chair. Even if you are not afraid of being cold, you have to think about this weak big brother next to you, right? Seeing that Zhu Ying was stunned for a moment, then quickly glanced sideways at Zhu Tingfang, he smiled and said: "You have always been a person who comes and goes faster when you are angry, open-minded and never angry, why are you so stingy today?" ”

"Who is stingy!" Zhu Ying's face turned red, she glared at Zhang Shou and quickly fastened all the curtains, and after she was done, as soon as she turned her head and saw Zhu Tingfang looking at herself thoughtfully, she couldn't help but say angrily, "Big brother, what are you looking at!" ”

"Of course, it's my sister who looks more and more beautiful."

If this kind of thing came out of the mouth of a person like Zhang Chen and Lu Sanlang, Zhu Ying would not feel strange at all, but when she heard her eldest brother say this, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows: "Big brother, you just go out, why are you so flamboyant!" ”

"I'm telling the truth, why am I so flamboyant?" Zhu Tingfang smiled, then looked at Zhu Ying seriously and asked, "Is he really good?" ”

Although this word didn't seem to have a clear reference, Zhu Ying still heard at once that the eldest brother was referring to Ah Shou. She immediately showed a radiant expression, and said with a smile: "Of course Ah Shou is very good!" Big brother, you don't know, after you and your father left Beijing, there were a lot of messy things! First the imperial history was impeached, and then the second brother ......"

Although he knew that if he messed up the second brother's mandarin duck score and planned to tell the truth about his promise to Lu Sanlang, Zhu Er would inevitably be reprimanded, and even beaten severely, but Zhu Ying knew that the eldest brother must have heard about it a long time ago, and let others in the family say it, it is better to take the initiative to say it yourself, so that the eldest brother may look at the situation that the second brother has changed slightly, and turn around and start lightly.

However, for her, these are the details after all, and those about Zhang Shou are the most important. She put a lot of space on her acquaintance with Zhang Shou, and rendered Zhang Shou's talent and conduct, as for her appearance...... The eldest brother has seen it himself, so there is no need for her to be verbose.

Zhu Tingfang listened quietly, from Zhu Ying's clear tendencies and countless beautiful words, he knew how much his sister liked Zhang Shou. In his eyes, marriage is just the words of the matchmaker of his parents, and the guarantee of inheritance, as long as the husband respects his wife, and the two respect each other as guests, then it will be fine, and he sees this kind of thing very lightly.

He heard that his father and mother were deeply in love with each other back then, even if they had not had children for many years, his father never empathized, and his grandmother did not urge, but after all, they were separated from each other. After the death of his mother, his father and stepmother also had a good relationship, but they have not been strangers for more than ten years?

He even felt that the more he invested in the love between the two people, the more he would be hurt if something happened in the future. What's more, Zhu Ying's temper is similar to her mother Jiuniang, don't look at the cheerful and bright now, but if she is stubborn, nine cows can't pull it back!

Zhu Tingfang thought of his sister's stubborn temper, and when her words finally came to an end, he asked in a deep voice: "Yingying, tell me the truth, you like him very much, does he like you like you like him?" Marriage is like a scale, if you invest a lot, but he only treats you as usual, then I am sorry for you. ”

Zhu Ying didn't expect that the eldest brother would think about it so long-term, and was stunned for a moment, a little weak-hearted, but then said confidently: "Of course Ah Shou likes me too!" He said that it was only when he was facing me that he couldn't help himself, and said......"

She paused, but said with a smile: "He also said to me, who else can I marry if I don't marry him?" ”

Zhu Ying's words not only failed to reassure Zhu Tingfang, but his heart hung even more, and he hurriedly asked: "I can't help but say it for the time being, how could he tell you to let you marry him?" ”

"I asked Ah Shou to marry me home quickly? Big brother, you don't know, the emperor gave the Luwang Mansion to Ah Shou! This is not a gift from the Son of Heaven, but a gift from the elderly! Zhu Ying said, and told the original story of the day.

Zhu Tingfang didn't know what to say. He was secretly angry that Zhang Shou was so brazen, but he never thought that this was not a phoenix, but ...... The phoenix begs the phoenix! What girl but his sister would say such unsubtle words to a man? It's a shame that Zhang Shou was not stunned, but made a normal response!

For the first time, he secretly favored Zhang Shou in his heart, and Zhu Tingfang suddenly felt that the young man outside was not without merit. Whether it was saving face for him in front of his grandmother and stepmother before, or helping him speak in front of the emperor later, or when he just saw the pannier, he didn't even think about letting him sit ...... Of course, the most important thing is to be able to tolerate him, a sister who is too bold!

As for the emperor giving Zhang Shou such a lavish mansion, he didn't care much. Even if Zhang Shou is poor, if Zhu Ying really likes it, and Zhang Shou's character and talent can indeed pass the two levels of him and his father, then it is enough. But when Zhu Ying smiled and boasted about the hundred-year-old peony garden, he finally suddenly remembered who the king of Lu mentioned by Zhu Ying.

Thinking of this, Brother Zhu couldn't help but be a little annoyed by his Mu Zhimu Jue. He took a deep breath and said in a gentle tone as much as possible: "Yingying, Zhang Shou doesn't know, you should always know that although King Lu is dead, he is a troublesome person. Even though the emperor has been relieved, the queen mother ......"

"He was raised by the Queen Mother, but he is not the Queen Mother's biological son."

Zhu Ying snorted with some disdain, then raised her head slightly and said, "Do you think I'm so stupid?" I told this in front of the Queen Mother. The queen mother was very happy, and said that it was a pity that such a garden was empty, so it was better for me and Ah Shou to live, and said that the emperor had finally done a great good thing this time! ”

The attitude of the Queen Mother and the Emperor ...... It's really a bit too open-minded!

Zhu Tingfang thought so in his heart, but he would not doubt the empress dowager and the emperor's preference for Zhu Ying, so he was speechless at this time. However, his sister, who has always been pampered, actually has a sweetheart, and now she is still happily waiting to be married, he is inevitably a little upset, and he can't help but divert the topic at the moment: "By the way, Zhang Shou's students, what's going on?" ”

Seeing Zhu Ying's eyebrows flutter suddenly, Zhu Tingfang hurriedly added: "I didn't ask the little fat man of the Lu family and Zhang Chen, I asked you, the one recommended by Wu Ge Lao before, the one who was a small official in the Shuntian Mansion, and I remember that the family said before that he took the seventh place in the Shuntian Mansion test, but later he didn't take the college exam, but went to the Jiuzhang Hall of the Guozijian!" It seems that one surname Deng and one surname Qi? ”

"Grandmother and mother also told the eldest brother about them?"

Zhu Ying was surprised this time. However, Deng Xiaodao and Qi Liang are indeed very good teenagers, she introduced them with a smile at the moment, and at the end, she slapped the armrest and said, "I forgot another big thing...... Hello, big brother! If you raise a child outside, you don't tell your family, you are too much! ”

Hearing the words of raising a child, Zhu Tingfang was dumbfounded. Got a baby? Who gave birth to it? How could he never have known about it himself? In an instant, he was furious, who was so despicable and shameless that he dared to mess with him? Is this looking for death?