Chapter 837: The Fallen Phoenix Is Not as Good as a Chicken

Wudinghou Hutong is located in the south Jinchengfang of Fuchengmen Street, which is only more than 100 steps away from the west city wall of Jingshi. Because the title of Marquis of Wuding was vacant for 20 years before it was inherited by Guo Xuan, the land and house of the Marquis of Wuding were given by Zhu Gaochi during the Hongxi period. At that time, Guo Guifei was the first concubine, and later posthumously crowned the third generation of Empress Zhang, and made Empress Zhang's brother hereditary Marquis of Pengcheng, and Guo Xuan also inherited Marquis Wuding because he was Guo Guifei's brother. There was a time when the Marquis of Wuding Mansion was one of the most powerful nobles in Beijing, and it was in no way inferior to the princes who were in charge of the Five Mansions.

Guo Xuan also thought that he could revitalize the family business and reproduce the prestige of the Hongwu period - at that time, his grandfather Guo Ying's sister-in-law Guo Ningfei gave birth to King Lu, and the two daughters married the King of Liao and Princess Ying respectively, and the eldest son, Princess Guo Zhen and Princess Yongjia, is especially favored above the Duke of the Kingdom - if Emperor Renzong Zhu Gaochi lives for two more years, with the favored Guo Guifei, this is not impossible. However, the emperor who made him attack the marquis died after a few months on the throne, and he was buried with Guo Guifei. For a while, there was no Austrian aid in the palace, and he had a shallow foundation, so the Marquis of Wuding's mansion was naturally cold in front of the door.

However, if it is really a door, it is not necessarily. At the beginning of Shen, when Guo Xuan, Marquis of Wuding, crossed the bridge with a group of entourages through Fengcheng Hutong, he saw a carriage and horses parked at the base of the wall in front of his door. He rode his horse into the West Corner Gate, and immediately a porter greeted him, and said cautiously, "The eldest princess Yongjia and the second old lady are here." ”

As soon as he heard this, Guo Xuan, who was already in a bad mood, suddenly felt that one head was two big, and even had the urge to turn around and leave immediately. If the rest of the Guo family came, he would not be afraid of anything, and he would pass with a cold face, but the eldest aunt Yongjia eldest princess was different after all, it was the golden branches and jade leaves of the heavenly family, and she was still the grandmother of today's son in terms of seniority. He even knew in his heart that if it weren't for the martyrdom of his sister Guo Guifei, and the heavenly family wanted to be faced, his title would have been unable to be kept!

"Lord Hou......"

Although he had the intention to avoid it, Guo Xuan knew that he had already seen it outside when he came in just now, so he couldn't go back as soon as he heard that the two elders were here, so he had to go straight forward with a calm face. When he got off the horse at Ermen, he saw that Mrs. Li personally sent the two out of the house, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

"The eldest aunt, the second aunt."

The eldest princess of Yongjia is now over sixty years old, but her hair is almost all white. Because Zhu Di was angry that Guo Ying had led the southern army, so not long after he ascended the throne, Guo Ying died violently overnight. Although she is a princess, she is not the same mother as Zhu Di, so she naturally migrated with her, and the title of Marquis of Wuding became vacant. It wasn't until the fifth year of Yongle that the two granddaughters of the Guo family married the crown prince and the king of Han as concubines respectively, and the brothers of the two daughters, Guo Cong and Guo Xuan, entered the command office, and she was still struggling outside at that time.

At this moment, her sharp gaze swept over Guo Xuan's body, and then she slammed her rosewood cane to the ground, and then sneered: "Get up, I can't stand your courtesy!" There is a difference between the eldest and the youngest, and now the Guo family is very good, and even the eldest and youngest of this concubine have crossed over! I don't have anything else to say about my wife, I just sigh that my life is miserable. Second brother and sister, what are you doing here, let's go! ”

The second old lady is the mother of the Han princess Guo and the second daughter-in-law of Guo Ying. Guo died early, so the king of Han rebelled, and the family did not suffer much, but seeing Guo Xuan once attacked the lord, and then thinking about his son who was only responsible for commanding affairs, he hated it very much. Resisting the urge to speak ill of her mouth at this time, she stepped forward and helped the eldest princess of Yongjia, and said: "What the princess said is that in the twenty years of Hedong and twenty years of Hexi, now that he is in the hairpin, it may not be known who will be his turn in the future." ”

Seeing that the people had already sent someone to call the car over, the two old ladies stood there, looking at him with knife-like eyes, Guo Xuan just wanted to leave them and leave immediately. It was easy to wait for the two of them to get into the carriage, and as soon as the curtain was lowered, he pulled his legs and walked in, but before he took two steps, a cold voice floated behind him.

"There is always justice in the world, and the heavenly principles of the elders and children will never be overcome!"

There was such a sentence that was tightly blocked in his heart all of a sudden, and Guo Xuan's face was still cloudy until he entered the main room. The girl handed over the tea, he held it in his hand and was about to drink it, when he suddenly asked Mrs. Li next to him: "I asked you to go to the English Park, have you been there, what do you say over there?" ”

"Master Hou's orders, how dare I slack off. Today is a coincidence, I met the Duchess of Chengguo and Mrs. Wu'anhou outside, and when I arrived at the garden together, the ladies of Zhang Shilang's family happened to be there. Mrs. Li saw that her husband was in a bad mood, so she deliberately said softly, "It's just that I probed his wife's tone, and it seemed that her sister-in-law's temper was very bad, and she couldn't control it. But the first is on the road, and the Duchess of Chengguo said that she has a younger sister......"

Wuding Marquis Guo Xuan was originally holding back the fire in his stomach, but when he heard this, he finally couldn't help it, and smashed the teacup on the ground all at once. For a while, the still delicate Ruyao tea cup was smashed all at once, and the fragments splashed out in all directions, and the hot tea was spilled everywhere, and some of it was splashed on the hem of Guo Xuan's clothes and Mrs. Li's clothes.

The girls in the house knew that this was the scene when the owner was furious, and hurriedly lowered their heads one by one to hold their breath, and no one even dared to step forward to clean up the debris all over the ground. Mrs. Li was even more frightened and hurriedly stood up.

"How can I entrust this matter to you, a short-eyed woman! What are you...... You're going to kill me! ”

Thinking of the rampant rides out of Dongchang in the past few days, Guo Xuan couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, and pointed at Mrs. Li's nose and scolded: "I asked you to say more good things, set your intentions first, and send someone to propose marriage when you turn around, but what did you do?" The younger sister of the Duchess of Chengguo...... Don't you look at who Qianguo Gong is and who I am! The first princess Zhao is the daughter of the Duke of Qianguo, and the Duchess of Chengguo is also the daughter of the Duke of Qianguo, and his daughter rarely marries your son? ”

Mrs. Li is the mother of the house, although she is afraid of her husband on weekdays, but when she is reprimanded like this now, her face is a little unbearable: "My family Cong'er is the eldest son of you, the Marquis of Wuding, which family's daughter is not worthy of him?" ”

"Phew! Look at the posture of the second room of the long house, I can't wait to eat us alive! If the eldest son is destined to be able to attack the lord, why can't this Marquis of Wuding take the turn of the long house, but me! The phoenix in distress is not as good as a chicken, do you understand! ”

Guo Xuan was so angry that he even poured out the words that he shouldn't have said, and his face immediately became extremely gloomy. Glancing coldly at the girls in this room, he made up his mind to deal with them as one after this incident, and then said with a calm face: "Tomorrow, I will find a noble lady you are familiar with, and immediately send someone to Zhang Shilang's mansion to propose marriage!" ”

"Tomorrow?"

Even though Mrs. Li had already understood some kind of deep crisis from Guo Xuan's words, she was stunned on the spot when she heard this. didn't wait for her to ask anything, but Guo Xuan snorted lightly, and went straight away. Looking at the pine-colored cotton curtain that was raised high and hung down heavily, she couldn't help but shudder again, and then took a deep breath.

"Don't let out a word of what you just heard! If I hear a gossip outside, don't talk about you, even your old sons and daughters don't want to live! ”

However, the next day, Mrs. Li prepared a generous gift to beg Mrs. Guangningbo, and Yang Qi went to Zhang's house to say goodbye, but the left and right waited for the people to come back, but the Mrs. Guangningbo sighed and told him that the girl had already been allowed to go out, and it was the big matchmaker made by the British Duchess yesterday, and she was married to the son of a distant relative. As soon as she heard this, Mrs. Li was relieved, but as soon as Guo Xuan came back, the bottles and bowls at home were damaged, and Mrs. Li ate them together, and the exquisite dresses and heads made as guests could no longer be worn.

Only this kind of Hou Mansion housework is naturally not humane.

Although today's Jinyiwei is far inferior to the scenery of the Hu Weiyong case and the Lanyu case in the last years of Hongwu, nor is it as swaggering as Ji Gang when he took care of Jinyiwei, this does not mean that Jinyiwei has lost that thunderous power. Zhang Bu sent a person to the Jinyi Guard Yamen, and on the morning of the next day, the other two soldiers who escaped from the capital to hide in the suburbs were taken, one of them was killed, and the other was lucky to escape because of his cleverness, and he was recruited without waiting for the execution. However, he also knew very little about it, and only said that it was an errand introduced to him by a soap subordinate in the Left Army Governor's Mansion.

A little bit on the ground, a lot of underground, just five days of effort, the whole of the capital seems to have experienced a sweep - the officials of the Shuntian Mansion, the messengers of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the officers of the Jingwei, and the officers of the Governor's Mansion...... All in all, a radish is always pulled up with a pile of mud, but the military department that was the first to poke out the big mess is eerily quiet. The Metropolitan Procuratorate wanted to impeach, but Gu Zuo warned again and again, so these most active people could only quietly take a look at the wind first.

After a glance at the style, the shrewd people found that the biggest topic of heated discussion in the DPRK and China at this time was not the military election fraud case of the military department, but the military situation in the north - although it was only a dog-eat-dog battle, both sides of the war had already brought the lawsuit to the Ming Dynasty. On the pretext of recovering the lost land, Warathu asked to send envoys to the tribute market, while the Tatar Arutai cried and shouted that Warat was encroaching on his land and begged to move south for grazing. In addition, the Uliangha people also seem to have the suspicion of beating the water dogs to their former ally Arutai, the emperor's northern tour can be said to be completely dangerous, only a small tribe without eyes because of the lack of eyes to rob the son of tomorrow and suddenly fell into bad luck, so the Duoyan Department picked up a ready-made bargain, and there was an extra batch of slaves under its banner.

Under such circumstances, although the chai chariot had not yet left his post, the new military department of the military department had already gone to the yamen to do his work. Shi An's appointment was unusually low-key and unremarkable. Few narrow-minded people will put a Zhang family brand on Shi An, after all, it was the person who was promoted by Li Qing, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, and he had only worked with Zhang Yue for a few months, and he had just been transferred from the Nanjing Military Department to the Ministry of Rites of the Beijing Division, and he was also recommended by Li Qing. However, Shi An knew that Zhang Yue made a big effort when he became the most important military selection department of the military department this time.

At this time, he and Chen Yong, who was now seconded from the post of director of the department, sorted out the accumulated case files together, and while there was no one in the room, he whispered: "Your secondment, will you be here in the future?" ”

"How is it possible, the staff department is short of people, why won't Master Zhang let me go." Chen Yong slapped the floating ash on the case files as he spoke, and then said, "You have to move faster, Chai Shucao has always been the most serious, I am afraid that I will leave when the delivery is clear, and I will never fall in love with the stack seat...... He was really unlucky, and this thing would never have been his turn to top the cylinder. Do you know that the adults wanted to save him, but it didn't work out. ”

"Did Master Zhang really protect him?"

After Shi An asked, he couldn't help but smile bitterly when he saw Chen Yong nodding. The two packed up their things and came out, Shi An went to the firewood cart to hand it over, while Chen Yong went straight to Zhang Yue's house within the three gates, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw that Zhang Yue was instructing one of the directors of the Arsenal Division, so he quietly lowered the curtain and sat outside to wait.

After a while, the people inside came out, and Shi An entered the room, first said that Shi An Guan took office, and then asked: "Look at the Zhuang Zhengzheng holding that box, but there is a new firearm coming out from the Ministry of Industry?" ”

Remembering that he was busy all day long in the so-called idle and rich Arsenal Division, Zhang Yue had long felt that the officials of the Arsenal Division were too idle now, after all, since his time, firearms had never been reloaded in large quantities. casually flipped through the few documents that Shi An had brought, and he casually put them on the table.

"That's right, when the time comes, the Ministry of Industry will send someone over, and the Arsenal Division will have to be busy for a while, and they will be idle for too long. By the way, do you remember the Nguyen brothers and sisters when they were in Jiaolu? The Marquis of An Yuan sent someone to escort them and some craftsmen who were skilled in firearms first, and it seemed that it would be some time later. This time, the person in charge of the new firearms in the Ministry of Industry is Li Cheng, he has just lost his wife, and he is still in mourning, only this time a new person is coming, I am afraid he will not dare to leave his business. ”

"Everyone knows the seriousness of adults, and Li Cheng will naturally respond with 100,000 spirits. Besides, since the two sides are related to each other, it may not be possible to be close to each other when the time comes. Speaking of which, I heard that the adult's family had just decided on a family affair, and I don't know how many people in Kyori sighed. I went to the Governor's Mansion of the Left Army on business before, and it is said that the Marquis of Wuding was annoyed for a while, and even in the military department, there were two young talents muttering behind their backs. ”

Let you think about my precious sister! Zhang Yue snorted lightly in his heart, and then suddenly thought of the fact that the Hou family of Wuding even hurriedly asked people to come to the door to propose marriage. There are not many nobles in Jingli who want to marry their own family, and most of them are interested in the British prince as a backup, and he himself is a holy family. However, the only one who came to the door rashly and directly mentioned it was Wu Dinghou's family.

It seems that he should pay more attention to the situation of the Guo family.