Chapter 287: The Family Has a Marriage Contract

Just when the four of Li Shishi left the South City Gate in an ox cart, Li Yanqing was standing next to the school yard in the palace, absentmindedly looking at Zhao Gou, the king of Guangping County, who was riding a horse and shooting arrows.

Shooting arrows with Zhao Gou, there is also Zhao Fujin, the emperor of Yanqing, Zhao Fujin also holds a bow in her hand and rides on a rouge horse, while she shoots arrows, she secretly looks at Li Yanqing from time to time. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, Li Yanqing had ignored their sister and brother for almost half an hour, at this time, Zhao Fujin couldn't hold back anymore, urged the horse to run towards Li Yanqing, she restrained the horse in front of Li Yanqing, and shouted: "How did you become the head of the sect?" ”

Li Yanqing glanced at her blankly, his thoughts came back, and he hurriedly smiled: "What's the matter with Your Highness?" ”

"You-"

Zhao Fujin was so angry that she couldn't speak, and she hated for a while: "I'm asking you, how did you become the head of the sect?" ”

"I'm not a leader, I'm just here to teach you how to shoot arrows."

"Did you give me any advice?"

"I've already told your brother the main points of archery."

Zhao Fujin laughed angrily, "What about me? Did you point me out? ”

Li Yanqing was stunned, and he said apologetically: "I'm sorry, I didn't know that Emperor Ji also came to learn archery." ”

"And what do you think I'm here for?" Zhao Fujin asked angrily.

"Don't be angry, I'll teach you now, bring a bow."

"That's pretty much it!"

Zhao Fujin smiled, turned over and dismounted, followed Li Yanqing, the two came to the archery place, Li Yanqing saw her holding a riding bow, so he smiled and said: "Since you are learning to ride a bow, then you have to get on the horse and shoot arrows." ”

"Nope! No! I learned to walk with a bow. ”

Zhao Fujin hurriedly threw down the riding bow and replaced it with a stepping bow, and Li Yanqing also picked up a stepping bow, "Has Your Highness practiced it before?" ”

"No, it's my first time learning archery, so you're going to teach me from scratch."

Zhao Gou glanced back at her, "Imperial sister, you have learned!" ”

"Shut up, you shoot your arrows!"

Zhao Fujin glared at him fiercely, and explained with an embarrassed face: "I used to call it learning archery, it was just playing blindly!" ”

"Alright! I'll teach you from the beginning, you look at me! ”

Li Yanqing put on a bow posture, "Pay attention, the upper body must be straight, the waist must be straight, and the legs are slightly lunges, like me, the tip of the arrow is slightly upward." ”

Zhao Fujin followed his example, and Li Yanqing lightly knocked on her lower back, "The back is straight!" ”

This knock made Zhao Fujin's heart pound, her cheeks were hot, and she asked in a trembling voice, "Is the posture of my hand right?" ”

"The tip of the arrow is slightly upward!"

Li Yanqing raised her wrist slightly, so that the tip of the arrow was pointing upward, "The right hand is not right!" ”

Li Yanqing saw that her posture was completely wrong, and she couldn't shoot at all, so she pointed at her twice, and seeing that she still couldn't comprehend, he directly held her hand holding the bow handle with her right hand, and held her hand pulling the string with her left hand, and slowly worked hard together, "Pull in the direction behind your ear, that's right!" ”

At this time, Zhao Fujin's body was weak and he almost fell into Li Yanqing's arms, Li Yanqing hurriedly supported her, "Your Highness, be careful!" ”

"People are sour when they pull archers!"

Next to him, Zhao Gou pouted and said, "It's sour just to pull the archer, so what bow do you still learn?" ”

"What's your business, you practice archery, you don't care about my affairs!"

Zhao Fujin crossed his waist and glared at his brother fiercely, Zhao Gou stuck out his tongue and avoided it from afar, he couldn't afford to provoke this third sister, and his temper was terrifying today.

Zhao Fujin bit his lip, glanced at Li Yanqing, immediately changed his attitude, shook his body and said coquettishly: "It's the first time for people to practice bows, Brother Li will teach me a few more times!" ”

At this time, a clear laugh came from behind him, "Sanniang, how can you learn archery like this, you have to practice by yourself." ”

As soon as Li Yanqing turned around, it turned out that Zhao Ji, the son of heaven, was here, followed by the eunuchs Liang Shicheng and Li Yan, and Zhao Kai, the king of Jia, next to him.

Li Yanqing hurriedly bowed and saluted, "Weichen see Your Majesty!" ”

Zhao Fujin didn't do it, pulled his father's arm and shook it: "Father, can't Sanniang learn archery?" ”

"Of course you can, it's just that Daddy wants to say a few words to Li Tanhua, and Daddy wants to be a matchmaker for him."

"Ahh What kind of matchmaker do you give him? Zhao Fujin asked nervously.

"What are you nervous about, it's not for you to be a matchmaker, you're still young, when you grow up, Daddy will find you a good husband."

"Don't let my father make fun of me!" Zhao Fujin's face was flushed, and he took his father's hand and stomped his feet.

Li Yanqing was also nervous in his heart, he glanced at Liang Shicheng, but Liang Shicheng was expressionless, Li Yanqing hurriedly bowed and said: "Thank you Your Majesty for your kindness, it's just that students have had a marriage contract since they were young, I'm afraid I will live up to Your Majesty's kindness." ”

"Do you have a marriage contract?"

Zhao Fujin looked at Li Yanqing in surprise, she suddenly had a feeling of being deceived, but she didn't have a seizure in front of her father, so she bit her lip and glared at Li Yanqing.

Zhao Ji didn't think so, waved his hand and said with a smile: "As long as you don't get married, everything can be reconsidered, it's the queen's brother who wants to give her little daughter to Li Tanhua, I thought that Li Tanhua was caught married last night, but I didn't expect to escape with King Jia, this is God's will, Li Tanhua doesn't need to rush to answer me, think about it first!" ”

Fortunately, it was not to force himself to agree immediately, there was room for maneuver, Li Yanqing breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and saluted again, "In any case, the student must thank His Majesty for his kindness, if there is nothing wrong, the student will retire first." ”

"Go ahead! Thank you for your hard work today. ”

Li Yanqing bowed and slowly retreated, Zhao Fujin looked at his back and walked away, so angry that he kicked the bow away, this bastard actually has a marriage contract?

Zhao Ji saw that his daughter was out of shape, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help showing a faint smile, how could he not understand his daughter's thoughts, but Li Yanqing couldn't do it, his daughter was a valuable political resource, and it was not Li Yanqing's turn.

"San Lang!" Zhao Ji turned around and shouted.

Zhao Kai hurriedly stepped forward and bowed down and said, "The child is here!"

"You chase him and ask him, see what his attitude is, and persuade him by the way, this is his chance, if he misses it, he will regret it later."

"The child obeys!"

Zhao Kai turned over and got on his horse and chased in the direction where Li Yanqing left.

........

As soon as Li Yanqing walked to Xuande Lou Wengcheng, he heard someone calling him behind, and when he turned around, he saw Zhao Kai, the king of Jia, was chasing him on horseback, although the palace was not allowed to run horses, but the king of Jiawang was in a hurry, and the guards could not stop him.

Li Yanqing stopped, and in a moment, Zhao Kai had already rushed to the front of him, he turned over and dismounted and asked with a smile: "Why are you in a hurry to leave?" ”

"If I don't leave, I'll either be your brother-in-law or your cousin-in-law."

"Huh! Don't think about your brother-in-law, it's possible for your cousin-in-law. ”

Zhao Kai patted his arm and smiled: "The third sister is a little interesting to you, in fact, the father also knows, but the third sister is going to give it to Cai Xiangguo's son, the one you have seen, this is set very early, in a few years, when the third sister is eighteen years old, she will get married." ”

"Why wait until eighteen?" Li Yanqing is really interested in this age limit.

"This is an unwritten rule of the royal family of the Great Song Dynasty, it is not recommended that women marry early, change some Xianbei customs of the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the first emperor simply used the age of eighteen when he was in power, and it has been used."

Only then did Li Yanqing understand why Zhao Ji had a soft spot for eighteen years old, and he smiled slightly: "But I haven't turned eighteen yet, why should I marry your uncle's daughter?" ”

"Don't you see that my father is not very enthusiastic? didn't force you to agree on the spot, but let you go back and think about it, he actually didn't like my uncle, but he couldn't get in the way of his mother's face, but.... Do you know what dowry the Zheng family prescribed? ”

"It's nothing more than how much money, how many houses, how much land, what official positions are promised, I have received a lot of marriage letters, and the content is similar."

"That's true, but the Zheng family gave a dowry of one million yuan, a mansion of twenty acres in the city, two hundred hectares of Shangtian, and the queen mother also promised to give you the position of magistrate, how about it, are you moved?" Zhao Kai asked with a smile.

Li Yanqing still shook his head, "I still don't want to agree." ”

"Why? Could it be that you really have a marriage contract? ”

Li Yanqing smiled bitterly, "At that time, I was in a hurry, and I just made an excuse, I just didn't want to get married so early." ”

"I said it's impossible, in fact, I don't approve of you marrying the daughter of a powerful person, when it comes to Li Yanqing, people will say, this is the son-in-law of so-and-so, it's really frustrating, a manly husband should make his own way, and besides, your family is not short of money, let's go! Go to my palace and have a chat, my father asked me to persuade you well, at least I have to pretend! ”

The two laughed together, Li Yanqing turned over and got on the horse, and went to King Jia's Mansion with Zhao Kai.

......

At night, Zhao Ji, the sleeping Son of Heaven, was woken up, "What's the matter?" Zhao Ji asked in a daze.

"Your Majesty, Mrs. Liang said that there is an urgent matter to ask for a meeting."

"What time is it now?"

"Two watches?"

"I know!"

Zhao Ji yawned, and had to get up and put on a deep coat and walk out of the dormitory, only to see Liang Shicheng standing outside the hall, his mood looking a little restless.

"What happened to me so late?"

Liang Shicheng stepped forward and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, something happened in Master Li's mansion." ”

Zhao Ji suddenly woke up from his sleepy eyes and asked urgently, "What happened to her?" ”

"There were thieves in her house, the master and two maids were taken captive, and none of the other nine survived, and all were killed."

"Ahh

Zhao Ji was stunned all of a sudden, today he was still thinking about going out of the palace in two days to find his master, but he didn't expect something to happen, a kind of hysterical anger suddenly filled his body, and he slammed the ginseng soup bowl in his hand to the ground, 'Bang! The bowl shattered.

"Who did that?" Zhao Ji lost his mind and roared.

Everyone in the hall was so frightened that they knelt down, and Liang Shicheng also knelt down and said tremblingly: "The incident should have happened at the time of the first watch, judging from the footprints, there should be four people, very ruthless, all of them were killed with a knife, and the five thousand taels of gold in the master's mansion were also missing. ”

Zhao Ji paced back and forth in the hall, everyone knelt on the ground, and they didn't dare to take a breath, after a while, Zhao Ji finally regained a little reason, and anger turned into anger, but he also knew that he must not be involved in this matter, which would damage his reputation as the son of heaven.

After a while, Zhao Ji said coldly: "First, block the news, never allow this matter to leak out, whoever dares to leak it will be killed!" ”

"The old slave obeys!"

Zhao Ji waved his hand and continued: "Second, let Kaifeng Mansion withdraw the case, but order Kaifeng Yin Lin to conduct a secret search, and the murderer must be caught. Third, all those in the know have kept their mouths shut, and I have nothing to do with Master Li. ”

After a pause, Zhao Ji asked again: "Have you asked Zhou Bangyan?" ”

"The old slave went to ask about it, he was very sad, but he really didn't know, he implored His Majesty to order the army to send troops to hunt down the bandits with the army!"

Zhao Ji snorted coldly, "Tomorrow, I will arrange for the officials to transfer him away and depose him to the local state and county, and the farther away from the capital, the better." ”

"The old slave will do it!"

Liang Shicheng has long understood Zhao Ji's personality, Zhao Ji is hot on the outside and cold on the inside, he really likes Master Li very much, and no one is allowed to touch his confinement, but once Master Li really has an accident, he will be thrown off like mud, for fear of implicating him.

For Liang Shicheng, it doesn't matter whether Master Li serves the Son of Heaven or not, the important thing is that he can use Master Li to pinch Li Yanqing's handle and let Li Yanqing use it for himself.