Chapter 718 Rong Mama's ambition

"You don't know yet, do you?" The Duchess of Wei, Wu, took out a letter and handed it to everyone (). 《》.

This is a letter written by Wu Qingbo Li Wei to Xu Bangrui, the Duke of Wei, as Zhu Yao's grandfather, saying that the eldest princess Zhu Yaoyao is twenty-eight years old, and she should choose a good son-in-law to marry.

Counting the days, Qin Lin was busy punishing the traitors and eliminating evil in Yanzhou at that time, and the messenger from Wuqing Bofu took the Grand Canal all the way to Nanjing, just passing by.

Seeing this letter, Qin Lin was a little embarrassed in a trance, thinking that when she first saw Zhu Yaoyuan, she was still a girl who had not grown, soft and weak, extremely pitiful, and two years had passed in a blink of an eye, and she had reached the age of twenty-eight that she should marry.

"Hey, hey, what's wrong with you?" Xu Xinyi stretched out his hand and shook it twice in front of Qin Lin's eyes, and muttered: "What's the wait, if there is no suitable candidate, forget it, put on this bitter face, as for it?" ”

Qin Lin came back to his senses and stammered: "Ah, no, I'm thinking, I'm thinking about ......"

Is it because there is no suitable candidate? Zhang Zixuan raised her eyebrows slightly, and sighed: "The eldest princess is gentle and lovely, her talent and appearance are first-class, she wants to find a horse that can be worthy of her, and she has to be literary and graceful, and she has good character, but I am afraid that it will not be easy!" ”

Hey? Qing Dai's charming face was full of puzzlement: "I often hear that the emperor's daughter is not worried about getting married, and Yao Yuan's sister is the eldest princess of the Ming Dynasty, why is it difficult to find a concubine?" ”

Xu Bangrui, Wu and Xu Xinyi all laughed, Qingdai is really innocent and cute, if everyone in the world is like her, how good it would be.

Zhang Zixuan shook her head slightly, hugging Qing Dai's waist: "Good sister, don't you think so, for example, today we see that Wang Shiqi Wang Gongzi, can be called talented and elegant, right?" ”

Among the four sons of Jinling that year, Wang Shiqi had the best family background, the highest talent, and the most iconic appearance, unlike Liu Jizhi, who was more feminine, but he was indeed a beautiful man, so Zhang Zixuan took him as an example ().

Ahem, Qin Lin coughed dryly twice, straightened his chest, and said that you can't ignore my existence.

Qing Dai's clear eyes flickered: "Wang Gongzi, it is indeed talented and beautiful, but Qing Dai thinks that even ten Wang Gongzi is not as good as Brother Qin." ”

Ouch mom, Qin Lin's heart is so beautiful that it's bubbling up!

"Okay, good, of course it's not as good as our family's troublemaker," Zhang Zixuan chuckled, and said, "But tell me, if Wang Gongzi is not married, is he willing to marry the eldest princess Yaoyuan?" ”

Qing Dai said without thinking: "Then I must not ask for it, Cousin Yao is so gentle, so beautiful, and proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, whoever marries her will wake up laughing when she sleeps!" ”

When Wei Guogong heard this, he looked at each other, and at the same time sighed and shook his head, Xu Xinyi also had a stinky face and couldn't be happy.

"Alas, it's a pity that Wang Gongzi will never think the same as Sister Qingdai," Zhang Zixuan smiled bitterly, and then said sullenly: "Even if the gold and silver mountains are given to Wang Gongzi, and even Wu Qingbo personally comes to the door to plead, he will definitely not marry the eldest princess Yaoyuan!" ”

Ah, how so? Qing Dai covered her mouth in surprise, she couldn't believe it, until Qin Lin also nodded, and the romantic stories of the princess and the concubine in the little girl's mind collapsed instantly. Templar.

The ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, the princess who has been nominally married, in fact, only spent the night of the wedding in the princess's mansion, and then moved back to the palace specially set up by the harem to live, and the empty princess's mansion only lived in the horse, if the princess and the horse want to meet and talk about love, the horse must rush into the palace to meet her.

The princess's concubine's Queqiao will not be easier than the cowherd and weaver girl in the sky, and the old eunuchs and old female officials in the palace who are responsible for serving and raising the princess are of course the most envious and jealous of the scene between the princess and the concubine. Therefore, if the horse wants to enter the palace to meet the princess and enjoy the love of husband and wife, he must come out with a lot of real money and pay bribes.

Seeing that his wife still needs to pay bribes, this husband is sad enough, and he can't take a concubine, he can only "start from the beginning", if the princess's steward, eunuch and old grandmother make a hindrance, he can only be empty and lonely in the empty horse mansion ().

If it's just these, it seems to be bearable, but an even more powerful one is coming, once the children of a certain family are selected as concubines, close relatives can no longer be officials, even if they are already officials, they have to retire and go home, the reason is said to be to prevent princes and nobles and ministers, big and small, to do evil as royal in-laws, and to appear like a princess in the Tang Dynasty to interfere in politics and endanger the court system.

An official eunuch like Wang Shiqi, if he is a so-called horse guest of honor, he will just get a fictitious position as a leader, and the glorious future of being admitted to the Jinshi, being a member of the ministry and a feudal official, and then entering the cabinet to worship the prime minister will be blocked.

What's more, Wang Shizhen is a leader in the literary world, and he has achieved the three grades of Tianfu Yin, and he is a member of the ministry when he enters Beijing, and he is a feudal official when he is released.

This doesn't count, the Wang family has to be affected, Wang Shiqi's poems and books are heirlooms, uncles and elders, cousins and cousins have many people who have been admitted to the show, he is a colt alone, everyone don't play in the officialdom!

Therefore, if anyone told Wang Shiqi and asked him to be a colt, he would definitely faint on the spot with fright!

In the same way, the folk families and scholars all regard marrying the royal family as a daunting way, even the scholars of the poor family also want to "learn to become a literary and martial arts, goods and the emperor's family", and learn to be an official with real power with real talents, and show their lifelong ambitions, rather than being a captive horse.

The emperor's daughter is the most worried about marrying, and it is more difficult to find a horse with both good looks than to ascend to the sky.

"In this way, I'm afraid it's not easy for Cousin Yao's marriage," Xu Xinyi scratched his head and shook his mother's shoulder with a smile: "Mother, how did you discuss it with your father, do you want to find a Jiangnan genius for Cousin Yao?" ”

Wu Shi said angrily: "No matter how fanciful Wu Qingbo says, even if he writes another hundred letters, we will not accept this hot potato ()!" ”

"Mother!" Xu Xinyi is coquettish in his mother's arms, the Wei Mansion has been in Nanjing for two hundred years, and there are always many relatives and friends who are old and old, and they have to bother to find Zhu Yaoyuan, maybe they can really find someone who stands out. The latest chapter of the Templar.

"Sister Xu, don't pester Ling Zun Lingtang," Zhang Zixuan gently pulled her arm, and looked at Wei Guogong and his wife with a smile: "The two old men must still be worried about Feng Sili!" ”

That's not it, Wei Guogong Xu Bangrui secretly said or you Miss Zhang is smart, and she knows the reason at once, my rough daughter, my heart is far behind you.

"Feng Sili is waiting to make a lot of money, I'm afraid it's been a few years, why should we bother to cut off people's money?" Xu Bangrui stroked his black beard under his chin, and said with a tiger face: "Xin Yi, don't worry about this matter, so as not to cause trouble." Your cousin Yao is the eldest princess, with her mother Empress Dowager Li, her brother the current emperor, and her grandfather Wu Qingbo as her master, are you afraid that you won't find a satisfactory Langjun? ”

Xu Bangrui rarely talked to his daughter so seriously, Xu Xinyi pursed his lips and was about to fight, but Qin Lin made a look, so he had to suffocate his words in his stomach.

The next banquet was extremely sumptuous, but Xu Xinyi didn't eat well, and wanted to ask Qin Lin with suspicion, and her parents and brother asked, but she also answered without a word.

Xu Weizhi toasted Qin Lin very enthusiastically, while Zhang Zixuan and Qingdai were accompanied by Xu Weizhi's wife Wang, and the banquet did not end until it was dark.

As soon as he walked out of the Guogong Mansion, Xu Xinyi grabbed Qin Lin: "Hmph, what dumb riddle did you play just now?" Hurry up and recruit from the truth. ”

Zhang Zixuan smiled beside her: "Lingzun Wei Guogong is a dumb riddle, you ponder, the princess is married, who wants to take the opportunity to make a sum?" ”

"Feng Bao?" Xu Xinyi blinked his apricot eyes.

Qin Lin nodded heavily, and said helplessly: "What Feng Bao is thinking about now is how to sell the eldest princess for a good price." ”

It is unbelievable that the princesses of the Ming Dynasty are often the tools of the eunuchs in power to make a windfall, because the big families, scholarly families and ambitious scholars are unwilling to marry princesses, and those rich businessmen and tycoons who have made a fortune cannot count on being officials in the imperial examination, so they started the idea of climbing the dragon and attaching the phoenix, and are willing to spend their blood to marry back a princess.

Once the princess came of age, the eunuch in power was waiting for the price to be sold, and the wealthy families with unmarried young children in the capital also began to go to the door, and after the two sides were contacted, often whoever paid the most money could marry the princess.

"Then what should I do, what if it's a pockmark?" Xu Xinyi was in a hurry.

Qin Lin couldn't help but laugh and patted her head: "Stupid, who would do such a stupid thing?" Paying money is paying money, these rich families will still pick the best children to match the princess, otherwise the queen mother will not be able to pass the pass. ”

"Oh," Xu Xinyi nodded, finally relieved.

Zhang Zixuan also persuaded: "Sister Xinyi doesn't have to worry, she is still choosing a concubine, and when she is selected, she will have to hire three media and six times, and there will be more red tape for the princess to marry, and there will be results at least three months later, so let's go back to Beijing as soon as possible!" ”

Xu Xinyi thought about it, as a cousin, she had no position to interfere with Zhu Yaoyuan's marriage at all, even if she was in a hurry now, it was useless, so she would wait for the horse to be chosen, and then go and help take a look.

"I don't care about anything else, my father and mother don't want to offend Feng Bao, just forget it," Xu Xinyi thought of the soft and weak little cousin, and his heart was full of protectiveness, and he patted Qin Lin on the shoulder: "In short, you, who are brothers-in-law, must pay more attention in Jiangnan and find a satisfactory Langjun for Cousin Yao!" ”

Qin Lin nodded heavily and agreed to Xu Xinyi's request.

"Okay, I also like Cousin Yao, Brother Qin wants to help her with this!" Qing Dai clapped her hands happily.

Zhang Zixuan rubbed her temples, the daughter of the smart prime minister, somehow suddenly had some kind of ominous premonition......

Jingshi, the Forbidden City, the palace where the eldest princess lives, looks so lonely and lonely between the red walls and yellow tiles, compared to the cold palace where the concubines who make mistakes are imprisoned, it is not far from ().

In front of the window, looking at the few small grasses sprouting in the stone cracks in the courtyard, Zhu Yaoyuan was in a daze.

The eighteenth change of the female college, the little girl who had not grown back then, is now very moving, the thin melon seed face is so white that you can see the looming blood vessels, a pair of wonderful eyes that seem to be cheeky and not cheeky, and the long eyelashes are flickering, like a frightened deer.

Poor eldest princess Zhu Yaoyuan, the real grandmother doesn't love her uncle and uncle, in addition to caring for her two precious sons, her mother Empress Dowager Li now has one more person who needs her attention, that is, the child in the belly of the palace queen, the dragon species that Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun has not yet born, so the love given to her daughter has been further reduced to an extremely pitiful level.

I can only imagine the spring light of the warbler flying grass in the south of the Yangtze River from the grass in the courtyard stone, the person she didn't dare to mention in her heart has gone to Jiangnan, and it seems that she has brought her soul to the Purple Mountain, the Qinhuai River, the West Lake and the moonlit night of the Twenty-four Bridge......

A pair of thick-soled shoes suddenly appeared in the field of vision, trampling on the few stems of grass fiercely, crushing them mercilessly, and the green juice flowed out and stuck to the stone slab, which was particularly eye-catching.

"The weeds are growing again, and it's not annoying...... My eldest princess, uh, don't think nonsense, Feng Dugong and his old man said, I want to find a satisfactory husband for you, let's all follow it, hahahaha! ”

The piercing laughter came from the mouth of Mama Rong, this old educated mama was originally a person next to Queen Wang, and she lost her position and was assigned to Zhu Yaoyuan, and recently somehow caught up with Feng Bao and Feng Dugong, so she trembled again, interfering with Zhu Yaoyuan everywhere.

Mama Rong was born white and fat, and when she didn't smile, she still had a bit of a kind taste, but when she laughed, the corners of her mouth twisted and her eyes were slightly erect, and her unruly and distorted appearance was really flattering.

Zhu Yaoyuan has always been timid and afraid, but when she followed Xu Xinyi and Qin Lin to see the world, she was a little bolder, and when she saw Mama Rong stepping on the grass, she became anxious: "Mama Rong, I let you everywhere, what do you want?" My monthly money, but all of it was given to you, and I never asked how much......"

Monthly money? Who scarces your little money? The corners of Mama Rong's mouth twitched, and she sneered: "When the eldest princess says this, it will make the old body ashamed ()." The old body served the eldest princess conscientiously, thinking that the eldest princess was extremely weak, and if she could marry a good husband in the future, she would not live up to the hard work of the old body, so she taught and maintained the eldest princess everywhere, but she didn't expect the eldest princess to mention any monthly money, could it be that the old body would still be greedy? How unreasonable is that! ”

Several palace maids also came over with a smile and helped Mama Rong to talk, and the meaning in and out of her words was that Mama Rong served the eldest princess diligently, and Zhu Yaoyuan should not be accused for no reason.

Hmph, it's turned upside down? Mama Rong's smile became more and more proud, she didn't take advantage of the marriage to hold the eldest princess well, how could she get stuck in the neck of her little couple after marriage? Compared with that little monthly money, the red envelope that the horse and the princess meet every time they meet is the big one!

Zhu Yaoyuan trembled with anger, turned around and closed the door, tears rolled down, and she kept complaining to herself in her heart: Obviously, that person told you to be brave and strong, but why is it still so cowardly every time something happens......

"Eldest princess, don't be angry, the sin of the old body is even greater," Mama Rong knocked on the door, and heard no movement inside, so she left proudly like a victorious general.

The palace maids are all like stars holding the moon, everything in this palace is like this, with red top white, although Zhu Yaoyuan is the eldest princess, she will be held hostage by Rong Mama for the rest of her life, so who should please her, isn't it clear at a glance?

"Leave the two to watch the eldest princess, don't make any trouble," Mama Rong held the shelf and instructed the group of palace maids: "If anyone dares to do any small tricks, the old body will go and tell Feng Dugong, be careful of your skin!" ”

The palace maids trembled, they couldn't see the queen mother and emperor who were high above, in the palace maids' minds, Feng Bao was the sky in the palace and the earth in the palace, Mama Rong had Feng Dugong's support, and she was afraid that she couldn't deal with the cowardly eldest princess?

Rong Mama was so proud, and went all the way north to the Yamen of the Master of Ceremonies ().

Here, her attitude was very different from the previous one, and she bowed down and begged to see Feng Dugong.

Seeing Feng Bao, Mama Rong smiled so much that the puff fell down, and said flatteringly: "Duke Feng, according to your meaning, the old slave has beaten the eldest princess a few times, and now that she has been properly handled, there will definitely be no problem." ”

"Well, that's good!" Feng Bao nodded, his eyebrows were still drooping, and there was no expression on his face at all.

After drinking two sips of gaiwan tea, and slowly reminiscing, Feng Bao slowly put down the teacup: "Miss Rong, our family let you go to the eldest princess this time, just to let you watch her, the eldest princess was originally honest, but she became more and more bold and reckless by Qin Lin and Xu Xinyi, or you should take care of it, I am afraid that she will make trouble in the future and ruin our family's affairs, do you understand?" ”

"Understood, understood," Mama Rong smiled all over her face, and kept nodding her head.

Feng Bao raised the corners of his eyes again, and said unhurriedly: "I heard that you took all the eldest princess's monthly money into your arms?" Alas, I also miscalculated, you have been poor in the past few years, a little oil and water, and your appearance is too ugly. ”

Rong Mama suddenly sweated, and immediately took out a few silver tickets from her sleeve and handed them to Feng Bao: "The old slave should be damned, he has lost his mind and forgotten the rules, please old Haihan, Haihan!" ”

Feng Bao laughed and put the silver ticket into his sleeve.

It's pitiful, the eldest princess of the Ming Dynasty actually has very little money per month, and for Feng Bao, it is even more of a drop in the bucket, but our Feng Dugong is not too much for 100,000 taels, and 35 is not too little, and he can also look at this bit of silver.

Finally, Mama Rong walked out of the celebrant supervisor, and her walking steps were a little vain, thinking about Feng Dugong was really terrifying!

But soon she will be high-spirited, in the future, the princess will marry, some of them are in control, and they are not afraid that the horses will not be able to send a large handful of silver, and even if they have to pay tribute to Feng Dugong at that time, they will fall ten times more than they are now......