The last time Xu Xinyi visited, Zhu Yaoyao's happiness did not last as long, because the cousin she admired was already married, and her husband was just a "vulgar and unliterate" military attache in brocade.

"That military attache named Qin Lin must be a very vicious and vicious guy," the eldest princess thought so, she had heard many terrible legends from the mouth of the palace maid - although Dongchang and Jinyiwei were secret agencies to maintain imperial power and court rule, ordinary little palace maids and little eunuchs did not have such a lofty understanding, so the stories she heard were full of chilling horror.

Therefore, the young eldest princess even thought that Qin Lin probably used some shady means to force her cousin to marry him as an equal wife, but Xu Xinyi was blushing and vague when she asked about it, which increased the possibility of this suspicion.

While lamenting the fate of his cousin, misfortune also befell Zhu Yaoyuan herself.

In the boring deep palace, facing the monotonous red walls all day long, there are not even a few flowers and trees in the courtyard where she lives, and she can't get the care of her mother and brother, the eldest princess is like a pampered prisoner.

Fortunately, there are also qin, chess, calligraphy and painting that can relieve the lonely life, Zhu Yaoyao has placed her affection here, and has achieved quite a high degree of attainment, and is accompanied by four treasures:

A Song Dynasty guqin, called "Haiyue Qinghui", the sound quality is delicate and gentle, clear and moving, and it is a rare famous qin in the world;

Two baskets of Go carved with mutton fat white jade and black jade, and a chess scale inlaid with sandalwood and ivory, were played against Song Huizong and Master Li;

The four calligraphy posts are the peach blossom poems made by the four great talents of Jiangnan, Zhu Yunming, Tang Bohu, Wen Zhengming and Xu Zhenqing;

A painting of Huang Gongwang's "Fuchun Mountain Residence Map" depicts the early autumn scenery of the Fuchun River in the south of the Yangtze River, with undulating hills, peaks and loops, fertile rivers and flat sand towns. Clouds and smoke cover the cottages, and the water waves infests the fish boats.

Zhu Yaoyuan, who is in the palace in the north, is full of all kinds of fantasies about the dashing talent, and in her lonely heart, she dreams of the future of the concubine, just like Zhu Yunming and Tang Bohu, is a young talent with a graceful demeanor and a full of splendid articles, taking her out of this boring and cold deep palace, and playing chess and writing poems in the south of the Yangtze River full of peach blossoms......

Of course, this can only be a dream that can never be realized, because even after the princess of the Ming Dynasty gets married, she only stays in the princess's mansion in Beijing for a few days a month, and has a short reunion with the horse, and then she has to return to the palace residence.

But now, the poor eldest princess has been deprived of even the right to dream, yesterday Feng Bao sent a few eunuchs over, saying that there was a shortage of silver money in the inner and outer treasury, and the queen mother and the imperial brother ordered to search for the palace calligraphy, painting, and literature to sell, so they wanted to take away all her four treasures of qin, chess, poetry and painting!

Zhu Yaoyuan has lived a well-behaved life in the deep palace since she was a child, and the care of the queen mother and the imperial brother rarely falls on the poor princess, although she is the eldest princess of the Ming Dynasty, she does not even have the courage to plead, and she watched the four treasures that carried the girl's dream being taken away, and the tears wet the pillow towel that night......

The next day, Xu Xinyi entered the palace, and the rough Miss Xu hadn't seen her cousin's strange appearance, and Zhu Yaoyao refused to ask her cousin to worry about herself, so she couldn't bear to mention it.

talked and laughed for a long time, and when Xu Xinyi called the palace maid to take the jade Go to play against his cousin, he knew that the four beloved things that his cousin regarded as treasures had been taken away, and he blew up the eldest lady at the time.

"Look at your house, let alone a princess, even the boudoir of a rich merchant in Jiangnan is better than here! No matter how fierce Feng Bao is, he is just a subordinate, you don't even dare to say a word to the little eunuch he sent, do you want to be a wooden man for the rest of your life? Xu Xinyi crossed her waist and was angry, pointing and pointing at Zhu Yaoyuan, saying that she was too cowardly and incompetent and should not be bullied.

On the delicate and thin melon seed face, big tears rolled down silently, and Zhu Yaoyuan was so sad that her shoulders twitched, not only feeling sorry for herself and not being favored by the queen mother's royal brother, but also resentful that she didn't have the courage of her cousin.

Seeing that her cousin was told to cry, Xu Xinyi panicked, and hurriedly took a handkerchief to wipe her tears, and her heart softened again: "Okay, okay, I won't talk about you, it's really a good crying spirit...... Come on, let's go to Feng Bao, why are we bullying you? Even the last bit of stuff that pressed the bottom of the box had to be snatched away, hmph, how great is Feng Bao! ”,

The faces of the palace maids and old grandmothers who served the princess next to them were all white with fright, and they didn't even dare to interject half a sentence, and they almost fainted with fright.

Feng Baozhi served as the master of ceremonies, the governor of Dongchang, and Zhang Juzheng were both ministers of life, which can be described as power-leaning towards the government and the opposition, especially in the palace rampant and domineering, even the little emperor of Wanli was afraid of him, calling him "big companion" and not calling him by name, for these palace maids and old grandmothers, that is the heavenly lord on the top of his head, slightly offended, and he was not caught in the East Factory, and there was no bones left?

Only Miss Xu is not afraid of Feng Bao - no matter how high Feng Bao's status and power are, how is he better than Liu Jin, the "emperor" in the Zhengde period? But Liu Jin has no way to take the British Gong Zhang family and the Wei Gong Xu family! Besides, even the Empress Dowager Cisheng Li deliberately enveloped the Xu family, so why was she afraid of the house slave Feng Bao?

She grabbed her cousin's slender wrist, turned around and walked out the door, going to the celebrant to find Feng Bao for justice.

"Cousin, cousin! Don't go......" Although Zhu Yaoyuan is a princess, she is very afraid of the fierce and cunning Feng Bao, and she struggles to go, and finally blurts out: "It's like, it seems that they said that the sale of things in the palace was presided over by my brother-in-law, Chief Qin!" ”

Yes? Xu Xinyi turned his head and looked at his cousin suspiciously, the eldest princess blinked pitifully and said timidly: "You don't know? ”

Xu Xinyi really didn't know.

After she arrived in Beijing, she lived in the house of Li Wei, the uncle of Wuqing, and the Li family knew that the imperial family only took advantage of the fact that the little emperor of the Empress Dowager was rich and noble, and the martial arts nobles of the Xu family and the Mu family were in charge of the soldiers from generation to generation and retired with the country, so they treated them generously and sent servants to follow the pearl of the Duke of Wei.

Xu Xinyi either stared at the Prime Minister's Mansion and guarded Zhang Zixuan strictly, or entered the palace to meet Zhu Yaoyuan, she knew that Qin Lin had arranged for the Cao Gang and Wufeng Maritime Merchants to purchase a lot of tributes and alleviate the discount, but she didn't know that the sale of the treasures in the palace was also Qin Lin's favor.

"It turned out that guy made it weird, hum," Xu Xinyi grinned and patted his cousin on the shoulder more and more firmly: "That's easier, let's go to him directly, that kid is not good at anything else, he must be willing to help with this." ”

Zhu Yaoyuan looked at Xu Xinyi in confusion: Hey, how can you listen to what your cousin means, it seems that Chief Qin is still very generous to her, and he is very good to her? It seems that those vulgar martial artists in the legend are beaten or scolded after marrying their wives and concubines, and they have no status as ordinary wives......

However, the princess was not allowed to leave the palace as usual, she said to find Qin Lin, how could it be?

Xu Xinyi began to look around, and finally caught a figure closest to the princess among the palace maids who served Zhu Yaoyuan, the eldest lady laughed evilly, and raised her hand: "Take off your clothes quickly!" ”

Yes? The palace maids looked at each other, not understanding what she meant, and Zhu Yaoyuan also said curiously: "Cousin, what is this?" It's cold in winter. ”

Xu Xinyi looked her up and down, and said in an unquestionable tone: "You take it off too!" ”

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"I'm smiling, I'm smiling, wow......" Qin Lin hummed a song and walked out of Zhang Juzheng's prime minister's mansion, looking at his smug face, it was simply a typical villain.

No wonder our Qin chief was happy, handling the three things of river work grain, new firearms and folding money, firstly, he showed his face in front of Zhang Xueyan, Li Youzi, Zeng Shengwu and other court officials, while those poor Beijing officials with lower grades called him a timely rain of righteousness and wealth, and carried the unfortunate matter of folding money for everyone;

Second, there is a lot of profit, although this is a transaction with strong political overtones, and the profit margin is set quite low, but the total amount is huge, and the profit is a lot;

In addition to fame and fortune, Zhang Xiangye's perception of Qin Lin also bottomed out, although he gritted his teeth and did not relax, and hinted several times that it was impossible to marry his daughter to him as a wife, but it was not forbidden for Qin Lin to meet with the two Zhang Gongzi - among the ten times, Zhang Zixuan was by his side.

Every time they meet, Qin Lin and Zhang Zixuan talk about the current affairs of the world, the two sometimes have different views, sometimes they see the same, Qin Lin has more knowledge of hundreds of years of later generations, Zhang Zixuan has the true inheritance of his father, and he is well versed in the way of officialdom, these two are quite evenly matched, but they are the two brothers Zhang Jingxiu and Zhang Maoxiu, who are quite famous outside, always listen more and say less, and act as enthusiastic spectators most of the time. ,

Qin Lin also implemented the purpose of being left and right, impartial, consolidating the foundation and cultivating the yuan, and being his own faction, and went to meet Zhang Xiaoyang's old friends.

Zhang Xiaoyang is extremely enthusiastic, although there is no eunuch under him, his love and hatred are more and more intense than ordinary people, and when he saw Qin Lin, he was very good, and Qin Lin sent Zhang Cheng a generous gift through him.

Geng Dingli, the Imperial History of the Imperial Procuratorate, Qin Lin directly sent a post to invite him to the meeting, Geng Dingli and the handle of the elder brother Geng Direction were held in his hands, that was really to make him round, to be flat, to be flat, and to be a clear stream celebrity with a straight face outside, it was really humble to the extreme here in Qin Lin, and it was also said that the old men of the Metropolitan Procuratorate praised Qin Lin for his righteousness and squandering money, and his reputation among the Qingliu was also excellent.

Shopping malls, officialdom, love scenes, and smug scenes, Qin Lin only felt that the sun was so bright.

However, he was also in a bad mood, for example, when he came out of the Prime Minister's Mansion and walked to the Donghua Gate of the Imperial City, he suddenly saw the back of a man who was very familiar: the slender little waist, plump buttocks and straight and slender long legs, not Xu Xinyi or which? Especially this rough-haired lady, every time she changes into men's clothes, she pulls her hair back behind her head, which couldn't be more obvious!

But the eldest lady was accompanied by a thin man, with a hood on his head and an extremely fat cotton coat, and it seemed that the two were still very intimate.

Our Chief Qin was furious, shouted Xu Xinyi, and waited for the stupid eldest lady to look back, after Qin Lin confirmed the target, he immediately roared and pounced on the man with the hood on his head...... RO！ ~！