Chapter 268: The father-in-law meets his son-in-law
Cut the Gordian knot......
Until he was helplessly dragged into the palace by Zhu Ying, Zhang Shou was still thinking about these five words that were very inappropriate. Is the relationship between him and Zhu Ying a mess?
Well, in the case that there are still rumors and swears that Zhao Guogong's mansion cheated on marriage, even if it is a mess, but Zhu Ying forced him into the palace on the day his father came back to explain the law, is this an alternative forced palace?
Compared with Zhu Ying, who has been in the palace since she was a child, Zhang Shou originally did not have this treatment. However, before he was in the Shangyuan Festival after the court, he intimidated and comforted the four princes who wanted to go out of the palace to Xingtai to join in the fun, and afterwards, the four princes bravely confessed to the emperor what they had been taught a lesson, so Zhang Shou, the prince's teacher, was considered to be solid, and the emperor generously granted him a naturalized ban.
When he just entered the Donghua Gate, the envious and jealous eyes of those officials waiting to be seen, Zhang Shou habitually ignored the past, but when he arrived at the Qianqing Gate, he saw Chu Kuan hurriedly come out, his gaze crossed Zhu Ying and fell directly on him, and when his eyes were quite subtle, he couldn't help but move in his heart, secretly thinking that what did the emperor and Zhu Jing, the cousins, say just now?
Sure enough, there was no need for him to open his mouth to test it, after Chu Kuan led them in, he said in a low voice: "Dr. Zhang, after Zhao Guogong and the emperor talked about some things like the use of soldiers in the front, they mentioned your marriage with the eldest lady, and then ......."
Chu Kuan hesitated slightly, as if he was thinking about whether to say it, but finally sighed: "Zhao Guogong said that it was just a verbal agreement back then, and there was indeed no marriage certificate, and he didn't expect that so many things would happen after this expedition, so that this marriage was in an uproar, he said, if this is too powerful, otherwise it will ......."
Before Chu Kuan could finish speaking, Zhu Ying's color suddenly changed, and she said angrily, "What does Dad want?" Even my grandmother and mother knew about this marriage contract, Grandpa Ge was invited to Ah Shou Na village by him, and now the whole city knows about me and Ah Shou, is it possible that he still wants to regret it? Mother and Ah Shou's mother are friends of life and death, and our family must be worthy of others! ”
Seeing that Zhu Ying rushed straight to the Qianqing Palace regardless of it, Zhang Shou was caught off guard and failed to stop her, and when he wanted to chase her, he took two steps out, suddenly stopped, and then looked at Chu Kuan thoughtfully: "Father-in-law Chu, did you just say half of what you said just now?" If I'm not mistaken, Zhao Guogong's meaning should definitely not be that he disagrees with this marriage, right? ”
Under Zhang Shou's gaze, Chu Kuan smiled casually: "Oh, isn't it?" I haven't had time to finish my sentence, the eldest lady is so anxious! ”
After the Chinese New Year, he officially replaced Xu Liu, who had retired as the master of ceremonies, and became the palm seal of the master of ceremonies. Although there are not many chamberlains in these years, and his grade is quite limited, and he is not as eunuch as the Ming in Zhang Shou's memory, he is still the number one person. Therefore, although Zhang Shou understands that people are deliberately selling Guan Zi to provoke Zhu Ying, he will not change color like Zhu Ying.
He joked with a smile: "Father-in-law Chu is not afraid that Yingying will make a lot of noise after she goes in, and when she turns around and finds that it is not the case, she will come back to you to settle accounts?" Yingying is a charcoal character, and she starts a fire to deny people. ”
Chu Kuan smiled: "Even if I turn around and be scolded by the eldest lady to the blood, it is better than when I watched the emperor and Zhao Guogong talk more and more in the Qianqing Palace, and the officials scolded me one by one, and in the end, the emperor was eager to kill a person's head." ”
Although Zhang Shou had vaguely guessed that Chu Kuan wanted Zhu Ying to be a spoiler, he was still a little surprised when he really admitted it calmly. Especially when he heard the saying that people were rolling, he couldn't help but ask with some surprise: "Didn't you say that Wang Zongxian has arrived in Datong?" With his resolute personality, he should have already started to clean up people, how could he still ......"
Without waiting for Zhang Shou to finish speaking, Chu Kuan smiled and said: "Wang Datou is not omnipotent, the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, if Zhao Guogong didn't kill a group of people first, no matter how powerful he is, he will have all kinds of headaches when he gets over there." Moreover, Datong's soldiers and horses were cleaned by Zhao Guogong, but Wang Datou still had to take time to sort out the clues, and he had to rely on the soldiers and horses allocated to him by Chu Guogong. ”
Only then did Zhang Shou know that after Wang Jie went to Xuanfu first, the Duke of Chu Guogong, who was said to be quite incompatible with Zhu Jing, the Duke of Zhao, actually gave Wang Jie such support. He pondered slightly for a moment, and simply didn't ask what was going on here, Yun Qingfeng smiled lightly: "I see." ”
Chu Kuan just deliberately sold Guanzi and said that half of it would be left and half left, just to let Zhang Shou ask, in this way, he who knows more about the dynamics of the palace and the court, can logically hook up with Zhang Shou.
In his opinion, Zhang Shou is now popular, but he has also offended the queen and the eldest prince and the second prince to death, whether it is from the future or the future, he will have the ambition to climb up.
What's more, if such a young man from a poor family wants to marry Zhu Ying, who is a lady of the sky, even if it is to be worthy of Zhu Ying, then he should do his best to improve his status.
But Zhang Shou actually used a sentence like this, and completely blocked his little abacus!
And Zhang Shou walked forward by himself, until there was a relatively rapid footstep behind him, knowing that it was Chu Kuan who was chasing him, he secretly hehe. You didn't say it when I wanted to ask, and now I don't want to ask, but you're ready to say it again?
Sure enough, he didn't say anything at all, Chu Kuan smiled dryly: "Zhao Guogong deliberately let out the wind on his return trip this time, and he wanted to return to Beijing with a light car, but as a result, he hasn't entered Juyong Pass yet, and he met three groups of assassins in one go." Zhao Guogong was also angry, killed a hundred people, arrested and questioned, killed without saying anything, directly cut off people's heads, and hung them on the heads of several passing cities to show the public. ”
Zhang Shou had already vaguely glimpsed the temperament of his future father-in-law from Zhu Jing's ruthlessness towards Zhu Tingfang, but now that he heard the execution of the assassin on the way back to Beijing, he couldn't help but further outline the image of a tough boss in his heart.
However, when he quietly talked to Chu Kuan, and finally arrived at the gate of the main hall of the Qianqing Palace, he was taken aback by what he heard.
"Yingying, okay, I promised you, isn't it a marriage letter? Write, I'll write as soon as I get back! Your grandmother and your mother both have a crush on him, and you like him, how can I disagree? You said it, I found your grandfather Ge in the first place, how could I not recognize this son-in-law? If I don't admit it, I'm not afraid that I won't even be able to enter the door of my house when I get home? ”
"Okay, then you don't have to go home! The emperor is here, and you will write it down immediately after my marriage letter with Ah Shou! ”
"Ahem, you're a girl, can't you be more reserved? Zhang Shou is so good, you forced me so much for him, a father who just returned to Beijing after traveling thousands of miles, and didn't even have time to breathe? cough cough cough ...... I'm so pathetic! ”
Hearing the painful cough inside, Zhang Shou couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth slightly, and looked at Chu Kuan sideways, only to see him smile slightly and make a gesture of invitation to himself, he was not polite, he opened the light curtain that had just been changed in the spring, and lowered his head to enter. As for the briefing...... He didn't think that Chu Kuan would deliberately let him enter without reporting.
Sure enough, as soon as he crossed the threshold with his front foot, Chu Kuan's clear voice came from behind him: "Your Majesty, Dr. Zhang is here." ”
And just in such a little time, Zhang Shou was enough to see the scene in the main hall clearly. Zhu Ying was desperately tugging on the sleeve of a tall middle-aged man - although the middle-aged man had a lot of gray hair mixed with his hair and looked quite old, but this person was smiling all over his face at the moment, and his facial features looked quite similar to Zhu Ying, obviously it was Zhu Ying's father, Zhu Jing of Zhao Guogong.
Compared with his imaginary image of an old man who is not angry and arrogant, has deep horizontal lines on his forehead, is not easy to speak, and is stubborn and cold, Zhu Jing at this time is like a kind father who is coaxing his child, and he is dealing with his little daughter hard, and even when he is distracted to look at him, it is all after Chu Kuan's voice has passed for a while.
And when people looked over, Zhang Shou met the initial slit, and then slowly opened his eyes, and simply stepped forward calmly, first to the emperor who was on the throne with one hand and his head was bowed with great interest to see the lively emperor, and then turned to Zhu Jing and said: "Zhang Shou has seen Zhao Guogong." Thank you for taking care of my mother and son for so many years, and thank you for inviting Mr. Ge to teach me. ”
"At that time, I was too weak to go out, and I missed a good opportunity, which was really in vain for your hard work."
Zhu Jing, who was silent, noticed that his sleeve was pulled by Zhu Ying a few times again, and he could only helplessly turn his head to Zhu Ying and say: "Yingying, I have been a dusty servant all the way, this dress is not far from decay, if you pull it again, maybe my sleeve will be pulled off by you!" ”
Seeing that Zhu Ying finally let go with a black face, he shook his head and smiled: "The girl's appearance is really not fake at all. ”
He took two steps forward, stretched out his hand to help Zhang Shou up, and by the way, he squeezed Zhang Shou's seemingly thin arm with both hands, and heard the young man in front of him hiss as if he was caught off guard, but then he stood up straight, looked at himself calmly, did not forcibly break free from his grip, and did not question why he suddenly tried it in this way.
Although Zhu Jing had heard of Zhang Shou's various deeds, hearsay was not as good as seeing was believing, so he quietly let go of his hand, and then nodded with a smile: "After so many years, I didn't expect you to grow so big." I heard that you were frail and sickly, and I was still a little worried, so I couldn't help but give it a try just now, but I couldn't see that you looked thin, but you were quite strong. ”
What kind of strength he has, with such a sudden force, if it is an ordinary pampered noble disciple, it is possible to scream on the spot, and if he is weak, he can easily try it. But just now, when he pressed it so hard, he suddenly found that Zhang Shou's arm muscles were indeed quite strong, even if he couldn't say that he had practiced, but at least he was not weak.
And Zhang Shou was suddenly attacked like this just now, it was really painful, and it was naturally impossible not to be annoyed. But Zhu Jing is calm and clear, and he naturally doesn't hold a grudge against such a small thing.
Therefore, he smiled and rubbed his sore upper arm alternately with his left and right hands, and then said lightly: "It's not fruitful, but after my health got a little better, I occasionally did some farm work in the field." Later, when I came to the capital, Aunt Jiu was afraid that I would not be able to protect myself without the strength of the chicken, so she specially taught Ah Liu's swordsmanship and asked him to transfer it to me. ”
"It's just that I don't have any talent for sword practice, Aunt Jiu taught Ah Liu, and I have been practicing with Ah Liu for so long, which is just a trick trick to strengthen my body."
Hearing the words Aunt Jiu, Zhu Jing changed slightly.
His wife was angry and lived in Zhaoming Temple for 16 years, but returned home after his expedition, and his mother wrote to him before saying that his wife was quite fond of Zhang Shou, and she was also happy to see Zhang Shou and Zhu Ying's marriage.
Although he knew that his wife was deeply attached to Widow Zhang, and he had expected such a situation, he had never heard of such a thing as teaching swordsmanship. After all, the space in the letter is limited, and the old mother cannot say everything in detail.
Just when he was in a complicated mood, Zhu Ying hurriedly rushed to Zhang Shou's side in three or two steps, and said with an anxious face: "What to try?" Ah Shou, what's wrong with you? ”
The emperor laughed and said, "Yingying, your father used his method of weighing the generals under his command to weigh his son-in-law." It's a shame that Zhang Qing looks weak, but he is a strong person, otherwise if he is replaced by the little fat man of the Lu family, I am afraid that he will already howl miserably. ”
Seeing that Zhu Ying suddenly turned his head and glared at him angrily, Zhu Jing suddenly felt a little weak, and hurriedly said: "The emperor is serious, and the minister is just to see if this child is weak." ”
As he spoke, he glanced at the emperor with some resentment. What nonsense are you telling the truth, isn't this intentional to let my daughter mess with me? Zhu Ying's temper, you still don't know?
The emperor didn't see his cousin's resentful eyes, coughed and said seriously: "The male should get married, the female should marry, Yingying, you and Zhang Shou fell in love at first sight, and it happened that the parents of both sides had made a marriage contract orally early, which can be described as a match made in heaven." Since your father is back, don't say that he is willing, even if he refuses, I will also pressure him to write a marriage letter. ”
"I feel very lucky to be favored by Yingying."
Zhang Shou saw that Zhao Guogong Zhu Jing's face was as black as a pot helmet, even if he knew that the emperor's words were just a kind ridicule, he had to come out urgently to interrupt. Otherwise, he was worried that his father-in-law would pour all his anger on him in the future.
Sure enough, after he said this, not only did the emperor laugh, but Zhu Jing's face was also a little pale, and as for Zhu Ying, that face was even brighter to the extreme. So, he changed his words and said: "But Zhao Guogong has been on the expedition for less than a year, and things are constantly going on in the DPRK and Beijing, and he has just come back, so he has to sort it out first." The marriage is a family affair of the Zhu family, and if the emperor wants to take care of it, it is terrible but not good to spread it. ”
Zhu Jing was dumbfounded when he saw the emperor, and Zhu Ying was full of sorrow, he glanced at Zhang Shou deeply, and finally smiled: "Your Majesty, the minister just said that since Yingying likes it, her grandmother and mother also like it, of course this marriage minister recognizes." When he went back and waited for the minister to go home, he invited Mrs. Wu to come over, and the two families exchanged marriage letters first. ”
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