Pingcheng Zheng family

Zheng Yi used scissors to cut the candle flame, and after the candle flame was stable, he took the lamp to his father Zheng Xi's side and placed it. Zheng Xi lit the candle flame and opened the letter in his hand to read it. This letter was one of the three he received after his duty today, and it was written by Zheng Daozhao, the second son of Zheng Xi.

Zheng Xi was already old, his eyes were not as good as before, and he was very slow to read the letters, and Zheng Yi saw this and asked the servant to fetch two lamps.

"My lord, what did the second brother say in his letter?"

Zheng Xi didn't reply, shook his head, handed the letter in his hand to Zheng Yi, and then opened the second letter, which belonged to Li Anshi.

Seeing that his father didn't speak, Zheng Yi took the letter and read it himself.

After a while, father and son put down the letter. Zheng Yi didn't wait for his father to speak first, and said with a worried look on his face: "My lord, this time, His Royal Highness overstepped his authority to interfere in the political affairs of Zhao County, and arrested the monks with Yulin's army, and Feng Shang used this to impeach, how is it good?" Ay! His Royal Highness has always been calm in the face of things, why is he so negligent this time? The second brother is also derelict in his duties, before the trip, the adults told him not to leave His Highness, if he can follow His Highness's side, how can there be such a loss? ”

"What's the use of talking about that now? Feng Shang's negligence has arrived in the palace at this moment, and tomorrow His Majesty will definitely consult the courtiers on this matter, and the top priority is to get rid of this overstepping authority for His Royal Highness. ”

"Feng Shang has always promised himself that His Royal Highness has been missing this time, how can he not make a fuss? My lord, the king of Nanping is also a servant, and he is a servant every day, if he slanders His Highness in front of His Majesty, how can it be good? ”

Zheng Xi put down Li Anshi's letter and said: "This matter is big or big, and small is small, it still depends on Your Majesty's intentions." His Royal Highness was ordered to send an envoy, and His Majesty will not delve into these small sections at this time, and he is still trying his best to make up for His Highness's omissions in the most important places, and his Majesty must not be alienated from His Highness because of this matter. ”

Zheng Yi was about to speak, when he heard a sound of footsteps from the verandah, got up and walked to the door, and saw the fourth daughter and several maids walking to the door.

"Daughter meets Father!" When Mrs. Zheng saw her father, she bowed down and saluted

Zheng Yi nodded and said, "Si Niang'er come in!" The letter from His Highness to you received today was told by your grandfather to pick it up. ”

Zheng Niangzi bowed slightly and entered the room, the maid Ah Ling and the others were not instructed to go in, so they could only stand far away under the corridor, looking at this side, waiting for the little lady to come out.

Mrs. Zheng looked at her grandfather sitting by the desk, looking very decrepit under the bright light, as if she was older than in the daytime.

"Granddaughter meets grandfather!"

"Si Niang'er is here!" Zheng Xi sideways picked up the only unopened letter from the case: "This is a letter from His Royal Highness to you, you can open it here from your grandfather!" ”

Zheng Niangzi bent forward, took the letter with both hands, her face was blushing, and her heart was a little strange. In the past, she received letters from His Royal Highness, and she would only open them after she returned to bed, and sent Ah Ling and the others to see them, why did her grandfather ask her to read them here today? The letters His Highness gave her were all about what he had seen and heard along the way, and there were some words of concern that he really could not tell the elders.

Zheng Niangzi moved to the candle and looked at the front of the letter with the words "Respect Zheng Gongyi and Enlightenment".

Mrs. Zheng opened the letter and read it by candlelight. It's just that in front of my grandfather and father, I read the private messages of my fiancé, and it feels too weird, and I don't have that warm feeling at all, so I can only read it roughly.

"What did Your Highness say?" After Zheng Xi and his granddaughter finished reading it, he asked

Mrs. Zheng folded the letter and put it in the letter. I don't know what Grandfather wants to know. His Royal Highness's letter is still the same as in the past, and what he wrote was still his thoughts along the way, talking about what he saw during the trip, and what he didn't say was some words of love. But there's nothing worth talking about!

"I just talked about some of the trips, and nothing else."

Zheng Xi originally thought that Tuoba Shen might say something about Zhao Jun in his letter to his granddaughter, but he didn't expect Tuoba Shen to mention it.

"Hmm!" Zheng Xi nodded and said, "Si Niang'er go back first!" ”

"Yes!" After Mrs. Zheng saluted, she turned around and walked to the door, and suddenly felt that her grandfather had something to say, so she turned around and asked, "Grandfather, but what is the matter with Your Highness?" ”

"Nothing! You go first! "Since His Royal Highness didn't say it himself, Zheng Xi didn't bother to say it, this matter is a matter of the outer house, and the granddaughter knows that there is nothing to do except worry.

Seeing that her grandfather didn't want to speak, Zheng Niangzi looked at her father Zheng Yi, Zheng Yi said gently: "Si Niang'er will go to your mother first!" When it is told to you, the Father will inform you. It's time for dinner, and your aunt is preparing dinner with your uncle in the side hall, so you should go there to help first. ”

When Mrs. Zheng saw that her father didn't say anything, she was worried. Walking with the maid on the way to the side hall, I wondered if there was something wrong with His Highness. But thinking about herself now, she is deep in the boudoir, and His Royal Highness is far away in Dingzhou, and her grandfather and father don't tell her something, and she can't do anything.

Tomorrow, I will go to the eldest grandsister's house and ask her to inquire on my behalf! Although her father lives at home, he is also a prince of the imperial court, and he should be able to know some things that others don't know.

Zheng Yi watched her daughter's figure disappear into the corridor, returned to the room, sat beside her father, and asked, "My lord, what did Li Tingshi say in the letter?" ”

"Humph!" Zheng Xi sneered. Although Li Anshi is the nephew of his father-in-law Li Xiaobo, he has no good impression of Li Anshi.

Zheng Yi knew that his father still held a grudge against Li Anshi's imperial court to implement the Juntian affair. In terms of power in the imperial court, their Zheng family is far inferior to the Li family. The Li family has been an official in the court since they first entered the Central Plains. When his maternal ancestor Li Xiaobo's brother Li Shun was in the ancestor, his status in the Hanchen was second only to Cui Hao, and after Li Shun was killed, the Li family was still active in the court, and he was an important minister in the court for decades, and only because of Li Yi's incident was hit. After the queen mother seized power, she had a good mind, and she also married her favorite minister Wang Rong and the Li family.

Compared to the Li family, their Zheng family is too silent. When the Li family was an official in the imperial court for decades, his Xingyang Zheng family could only be active in the county and wrote local surnames for the local people, and it was not until his father began to become an official, and it has only been about 30 years.

The Li family has been in the court for a long time, and they are far more profitable than the Zheng family. When Juntian was implemented, my father opposed it many times, because Juntian and the previous abolition of the suzerain's supervision had dealt too much damage to their local surnames. Those of them who have been running their family businesses in the local area for a long time are mainly to unite and rely on the people who are attached to their own families, and the Juntian Order assigned these people who are dependent on the local surnames from the hands of the surnames to the household of the imperial court, which greatly reduces the strength of the local surnames of the Zheng family. Although the Li family also runs a family business in the local area, they can eat well in the court and have many roads, and the Zheng family can't compare to them. So over the years, his father has been resentful and dissatisfied with Juntian's superior Li Anshi.

"Li Anshi, this cunning fox, he smelled the smell of meat, and he came up and wanted to share a piece!" Zheng Xi patted the table and said angrily

"What do you mean by that, my lord?"

"See for yourself." Zheng Xi handed Li Anshi's letter to Zheng Yi, Zheng Yi got up and took it, and looked at it.

"This ......" Zheng Yi was very surprised: "What does Li Tingshi mean by this?" Li Yue's granddaughter is more than a year older than Si Niang'er, how can she be Si Niang'er's concubine? ”

"This person is as cunning as a fox rabbit, this time for His Royal Highness Pingzhao County affairs are indispensable for his help, he gave Feng Shang's incriminating evidence to Li Chong, even if he wants to hide it, he can't do it. That's it, go to Li Chong's house for my father first, and see what Li Anshi's plan is! ”