Chapter 727: Searching for Spring Peach
The Liang Mansion in Beifang, the house was originally exquisite and luxurious, and recently it has been painted with gold paint and lanterns, which makes it more and more joyful.
The rules of the Ming Dynasty, where the princess marries must build the princess's mansion, if the husband's family conditions are limited, the land will be allocated to build the princess's mansion, if the husband's ancestral house covers a wide area, then pick up part of the old house, build a new mansion on the original site, and like the Liang family is so rich, the house is extremely gorgeous, the presiding officer of the Ministry of Works, Pan Jitao, is happy to save money to govern the river, only half of the original Liang Mansion is divided, add gold paintings, whitewash and decorate, it becomes a new Yongning princess's mansion.
The arrogant servants and relatives and friends who came in and out of the Liang Mansion raised their chests higher, they were just rich in the past, but now they are flying on the branches and becoming phoenixes, and they have become the in-laws of the Ming Emperor in one fell swoop. Although the horse can't take the imperial examination and do the actual military power, the status is high enough, and it belongs to the super-grade master, ranking above the earl.
Some people are even thinking that the Liang family is a businessman who operates north-south commerce, and now he climbs to the imperial prince and becomes an imperial businessman, which is a sure thing, and the call for the opening of the sea ban in the south is getting louder and louder, and the Liang family has the identity of an imperial businessman, are you afraid that you will not make a lot of money?
As the saying goes, the rich have distant relatives in the mountains, and it is more convenient for the Liang family to live in the downtown area.
Who would have thought that the new concubine Liang Bangduan Liang Gongzi was infected with an incurable disease, and it was time to run out of oil and lamps, and the Liang Mansion would have to hold a funeral soon after a happy event?
Liang Bangduan, who was already terminally ill, was in a hall at the back that did not allow maids to enter casually, blushing and losing his temper with his parents: "Ahem, you, how did you do it?" Didn't Feng Dugong just ask for money, give it to him, give it to him! If I die, will you be happy? cough cough cough ......"
Liang's father is a middle-aged businessman with a smooth face, and he is embarrassed in the face of his son's questioning: "It's not that I can't give up the money, but Feng Dugong can't help it, the eldest princess is filial piety, and she will not marry until Wu Qingbo recovers from her illness, so it's not easy for us to urge!" ”
"What about Zhao Hefu, why don't you send someone to kill him and let him run away?" Liang Bangduan asked, as if in his mouth, Zhao Hefu was just a chicken that could be killed at any time, even if in the past three years, thanks to this Dr. Zhao's careful diagnosis and treatment for him, he could live until now.
Liang's father smiled bitterly: "Daddy has also thought about it, it's better to buy it, after all, Zhao Hefu is famous for treating tuberculosis, although he is secretive in and out of our house, after all, there is no impermeable wall, if he is suddenly killed at this juncture, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will think of us, it's just that, Zhao Hefu is far away, naturally he will not talk nonsense about our affairs." ”
Liang Bangduan wanted to say something, but he couldn't say anything.
"Don't worry, sit down and rest, drink some mung bean lily soup," Liang's mother is a rich woman, she looked at her son lovingly, and her mouth was chattering: "My son is blessed with a great life, and he will live a long life......
Liang Bang sat down with a sigh of relief, drank half a bowl of lung-nourishing soup, the feeling of burning in his chest faded slightly, and urged: "Mr. Hu said, I am congenitally deficient in the womb, only by marrying the princess Chongxi and getting the true dragon's qi can I get better!" Father and mother, if you want to save your son's life, you have to hurry! ”
Mr. Hu is a very broad-handed friend, and somehow Liang Bangduan is obedient to him; Liang's father was very shrewd, and he also felt that what Mr. Hu said was very reasonable, especially when he also mentioned the maritime trade that was about to be opened in the south, and intended to work closely with the Liang family after becoming an imperial merchant.
If Liang Bangduan is young and knowledgeable, Liang's father is a shrewd businessman, he doesn't quite believe in the so-called dragon spirit, but he knows how much advantage he will occupy in the sea trade business that is about to be opened up when he becomes an imperial merchant.
Therefore, the Liang family took out an astonishing amount of silver and bribed the relevant personnel from the palm seal of the celebrant supervisor, Feng Bao, the governor of Dongchang, to Mama Rong, so that Liang Bangduan passed all the way and became a new concubine.
"Okay, okay, daddy find a way as soon as possible," Liang's father comforted his son softly, no matter how shrewd he was in business, after all, the father and son's surname, at this moment he saw his son who was flushed and obviously terminally ill, and he also showed pity.
However, to love a son, does it mean to use the means of cheating marriage, even to the point of sacrificing the lifelong happiness of an innocent person?
Liang Bangduan is afraid of death, and he wants to marry a princess with royal blood to rejoice, which seems to be very pitiful, but who has asked Zhu Yaoyuan who is about to be used by him as a "medicine" and "furnace ding"?
Presumably, Zhu Yaoyuan, who was calculated by the Liang Mansion, is definitely not in a better mood, right?
Wrong, the eldest princess was like a happy little bird at this time, holding a hairpin tube in her slender hand, drawing one stroke at a time on the jade plate paper of Chengxintang, often like a frown stretched out, her watery eyes were bent into a crescent moon, and the cherry mouth was also smiling.
Even if the danger of marrying Liang Bangduan still exists, even if she is close to the end of the world, even Qin Lin himself may not know her tenderness, but thinking that Qin Lin is in the capital and is doing everything possible for a poor little girl like her, the heart of the eldest princess of Yongning is like resting in a honey pot, and it is sweet every moment.
may never have the chance to become a family in the end, but a young girl in the flower season always has the right to dream.
The little palace maid who used a paperweight to draw according to the painting was Yongning's henchman, and she was also willing to take the risk to send the letter for help, so that Qin Lin rushed back to Beijing from the south of the Yangtze River.
"Eldest princess, you are drawing more and more like you!" I cherish the painting and laugh with my mouth pursed and eaten.
"Like, like, whom?" Yongning was taken aback, returned to reality from that wonderful realm, and looked at the picture of Hanjiang fishing alone under the pen with the sight of Xihua, and suddenly blushed slightly.
On the screen, the fisherman who fishes alone in the cold river is so young that he can't speak, especially the look that should be old and steady, but he is painted extremely cunning and deceitful, and he looks like Qin Lin!
"What kind of picture did the eldest princess draw, let the old body see?" Mama Rong seemed to have a grudge against Joy, and came over with a face covered with fragrant powder.
Zhu Yaoyao hurriedly closed the painting: "It's nothing, I scribble casually, don't pay attention to it." ”
"The painting of the eldest princess must be excellent, so it doesn't hurt to look at the old body!" Rong Mama smiled, but she went to grab the painting, just now she heard two sentences intermittently outside the window, and she couldn't help but be suspicious.
Where did Yongning think that she would be so bold? After being stunned for a while, Mama Rong had already snatched the drawing paper in her hand, and her heart was so frightened that her heart hung in her throat.
She was young and weak, and she couldn't pull Mama Rong, so she was so angry that she simply reached out and tore the painting to shreds, and she couldn't see who was painting.
"Little hoof, you little hoof!" Mama Rong was so angry that she scolded, reaching out to grab, scratch, pinch, and dig, grabbing the flesh on Xihua's body and twisting it fiercely.
Cherish the painting and elf, go around Zhu Yaoyuan in a circle to dodge, Rong Mama pinched the eldest princess several times, she relied on the old and sold the old and didn't take it seriously, and shouted in her mouth: "Little hoof, see if I can cure your little hoof!" ”
Yongning was originally very timid, but he was also angry at this time: "Mama Rong, are you, are you teaching Xihua or this princess?" ”
Mama Rong's face changed, she stopped pinching, pointed to the painting, and sneered crookedly: "You dare to instigate the eldest princess, hum, the old body will go to tell Gonggong Feng, wait to enter the East Factory!" ”
"Who's afraid of you?" Xihua stubbornly went up, but as soon as Mama Rong left, she knelt at Zhu Yaoyuan's feet: "Eldest princess, help, the maid has entered the East Factory, then she won't come out......"
"I, I'll intercede with Feng Daban for you," Zhu Yaoyao was also so anxious, Feng Bao was all yang and yin to Wanli, where would he listen to her plea?
The other palace maids were all beaten and pulled by Mama Rong, but when they saw this, they secretly rejoiced that they had already turned the wind, otherwise, I am afraid that the unlucky one now is himself.
This kind of schadenfreude made Zhu Yaoyuan's heart even more sad, and she looked at the cherished painting kneeling at her feet, only to feel that life and death were just around the corner, and tears suddenly fell from her eyes: Qin Lin, Qin Lin, where are you? If you don't come back soon, they will take you away...... Qin Lin was in Xiaotangshan, he and Xu Xinyi went out of the capital from Yongding Gate, galloped all the way, and it didn't take long to arrive at the hometown of the fat girl Huanchun Tao.
Asked the old farmer in the field where Chun Tao's house was, the old farmer was stunned, and hesitated to point in the direction of the village to the west: "Chun Tao...... You mean the old Zeng family, right? The blue brick house in the west of the village is. ”
"Thank you, old man!" Xu Xinyi thanked sweetly, and two dimples appeared on his face.
When Qin Lin and Xu Xinyi hurried away, the expression on the old farmer's face became more and more weird, and he stood with his hoe for a long time.
Chuntao's house is a small courtyard of a blue brick house, which stands out in the small village, when Qin Lin and Xu Xinyi found here, a young woman in the courtyard was nursing a child, and when she saw a guest coming to the door, she blushed and carried the child into the house.
Chuntao's family name is Zeng, father Zeng Ada, mother Ma and brother Zeng Chunniu heard that a guest came to the door, so they greeted them together, the three of them had never seen the world, and looked at Qin Lin and Xu Xinyi at a loss.
Xu Xinyi showed a very friendly sunny smile: "You have a daughter named Chun Tao, who works as a maid in the Liang family, who fell ill more than a year ago and was sent home, right?" ”
The three members of the Zeng family looked at each other, nodded hesitantly, and Zeng Chunniu squeezed out a sentence: "Yes, my sister has been a maid in the Liang family, who are you?" ”
"We have something urgent, please bring her, or take us to her!" Xu Xinyi said, and threw a spindle to Zeng Chunniu.
Seeing that the three members of the Zeng family were still hesitating, Qin Lin finally spoke: "Beizhen Fusi will handle the case, and there must be no delay!" ”
Zeng Chunniu shuddered in fright, looked at his father, then at his mother, and finally made a gesture to Qin Lin to follow me.
After turning around and walking for a while, Xiao Tangshan really lived up to its reputation, and saw hot springs from time to time, but Qin Lin and Xu Xinyi didn't put their hearts on it.
"This is it, if you want to find my sister, she is buried here," Zeng Chunniu grimaced, pointing to a small grave.
(To be continued)