Chapter 31: The Shrewd Guo Xiang
The seven great families of Dayan today are the Liu family of Ningzhou, the Wei family of Shangzhou, the Cui family of Qingzhou, the Pei family of Jingzhou, the Bai family of Beidu, and the Wang family and the Li family of King's Landing, but originally there was no Wang family and Li family in the seven families of Dayan, but the Murong family and the Sima family. It was only that the princes of the Yan Emperor made the Qiang people go south, and the two great families were devastated by the Qiang people, and then the Great Yan Ping Emperor moved the capital south to King's Landing, located in the Wang family and the Li family, and devoted all their financial and material resources to support the Ping Emperor to stabilize the national government, and was deeply relied on by the Ping Emperor, and the two families gradually replaced the Murong family and the Sima family to become one of the seven great Yan families.
However, even though the surnames Bai, Liu, Cui, Pei, Wei, Wang and Li Qi are all big families, there are still high and low among them. Like the Bai family and the Liu family, they followed the Great Yan Taizu to establish the Great Yan Dynasty, and the status of the two families in the Great Yan was second only to the Ji royal family, only because the Liu family was hit by the Northern Capital Bai when the Emperor died, and the Liu family in Ningzhou is now a little inferior to the Northern Capital Bai Family. The second is the Pei, Cui, and Wei families, and the Wang family and the Li family are at the bottom of the seven families.
However, the Wang family and the Li family helped Emperor Ping to create the foundation of Dayan for hundreds of years after going south, and the capital city of King's Landing was their foundation, although their two major families were not enough to compare with the other five great families in terms of heritage, but their strength in King's Landing was still enough to compete with any of the seven great families.
Now that Guo Xiang suddenly said this sentence that was almost like sentencing Li Changzheng and Wang Yin to death, Guo Xiang was stunned, Li You and Wang Wenhe were stunned, and Li Changzheng and Wang Yin were stunned.
Guo Quan didn't expect his sister to be so naΓ―ve and willful, how could she not know the current affairs and argue with the Wang family and the Li family of the Seven Great Families? His two brothers and sisters are just ordinary people, how can they be compared with the Wang family and the Li family? And Li You and Wang Wenhe had already learned the whole story from Li Changzheng and Wang Yin's mouths before coming to Ji Qingchen's mansion, and the two didn't put Guo Quan and Guo Xiang brothers and sisters in their eyes at all, until Ji Qingchen said that the two brothers and sisters were his life-saving benefactors, and the two began to face Guo Quan and Guo Xiang, but the superiority of the children of the family in their bones made the two feel that as long as they could lower their profile, with the status of their two families in Dayan, Guo Quan and the two brothers and sisters would definitely give them enough face. But what he didn't expect was that Guo Xiang was so ignorant of current affairs, and he didn't buy the face of the two of them at all, and suddenly the faces of the two became a little embarrassed, and they moved their eyes to Guo Quan.
As for Li Changzheng and Wang Yin, they were already scared silly by Guo Xiang's words!
Because the place where Dayan distributed and exiled prisoners was Yizhou, Yizhou was about thousands of miles away from King's Landing, and the south of Yizhou was southern Xinjiang, and the eight Yi tribes in southern Xinjiang were fierce and cruel. The place where Dayan filled the prisoners with the army was Yanmen Pass, which was the gateway to the north of Dayan and an important pass to defend Beirong. Beirong was ruthless and brave, and even the prince of Dayan died in Yanmen Pass ten years ago, and the end of Yanmen's army was also miserable.
"Brother Guo, what do you see here?"
Li You was embarrassed and said to Guo Quan, but it was Li Changzheng and Wang Yin's fault, and now Guo Xiang wants to punish Li Changzheng and Wang Yin, and he doesn't know what to say. Wang Wenhe served in Dali Temple, and his cultivation was higher than Li You's, unlike Li You, who showed his joy and anger on his face, but he was also silent, and he didn't know what to say when he was angry, and he didn't know what to say.
Facing Li You's somewhat anxious and Wang Wenhe's cold gaze, Guo Quan was also a little nervous, and he yelled at Guo Xiang, "Guo Xiang, how do you speak, why are you so ignorant!" He immediately apologized to Li You and Wang Wenhe, "My sister is still young and very ignorant, please don't take her words to heart, Guo Quan's one can call the shots in this matter, please rest assured, Guo Quan's forgiveness of Ling Lang and Ling's nephew will not be held accountable for their mistakes." β
Hearing Guo Quan's answer, Li You and Wang Wenhe's faces looked much better.
But Guo Xiang glanced at Ji Qingchen, who was silent on the side, and found that Ji Qingchen didn't seem to be disgusted by her vexatiousness, so he ignored his brother's reprimand, and still said loudly, "Brother, the person they bullied today is me instead of you, how can you call the shots instead of me?" I don't! I will confiscate them into the army, send them out, and exile them to Yizhou or Liaozhou. β
"You-" Guo Quan didn't expect his sister to dare to contradict him in front of so many people, he was angry for a while, and he didn't know what to say, he suddenly raised his hand and was about to hit Guo Xiang. When Guo Xiang saw Guo Quan's actions, she raised her face without dodging or dodging, and just waited for Guo Quan's slap.
"Heyββ!" Guo Quan's heavy sigh, the hand raised in the air still didn't fall on Guo Xiang's face after all, because now that his brother and sister depend on each other, he can't bear to be ruthless to his sister.
"Your Highness, this-" Li You saw that Guo persuaded him to take his sister and couldn't do anything to ask Ji Qingchen, but when he saw Ji Qingchen's posture that you discussed with me, he could only change his face a few times, and made up his mind to Guo Xiang with a pleasant face, "Miss Guo, today is indeed the wrong dog, which frightened the girl, and asked the girl to see that Li You's face can be more forgiving." Although Li You didn't dare to guarantee that he would be able to meet all the girl's conditions, as long as Miss Guo could let go of the dog this time, the girl could speak with any conditions, and Li You would definitely find a way to satisfy the girl. β
As a descendant of the Li family in King's Landing, it is already rare for Li You to be able to plead in a low voice to a little girl like Guo Xiang.
Li Changzheng had never seen his father talk to someone in such a low voice, and it was with a little girl, he was already furious, and his eyes were full of anger. But suddenly seeing his father's cold eyes and thinking that he might be sent to Yizhou or Liaozhong to fill the army, it was a life of nine deaths, so he suppressed the anger in his heart and said to Guo Xiang, "Miss Guo, today is my fault, I shouldn't be disrespectful to you, and please Miss Guo have a lot, don't worry about me, as long as Miss Guo can let me go this time, if Miss Guo encounters any difficulties in the future, Li Changzheng will be sent by Miss Guo." β
Guo Xiang is not a little girl who doesn't know anything, she just saw Li Changzheng and Wang Yin want to take a bad breath, and now seeing that Li You can put down her identity and ask for intercession for Li Chang, and seeing that Li Changzheng's attitude is very sincere, she thought about it and said, "Well, this can be considered!" β
"Thank you, Miss Guo!" Li You saw that Guo Xiang was relieved and immediately thanked him. Li Changzheng was stunned for a moment, and immediately thanked him.
Seeing this, Wang Yin, who was kneeling beside Li Changzheng, immediately begged Guo Xiang for mercy, but Guo Xiang didn't look at it, he could only move his pleading gaze to his uncle Wang Wenhe.
Wang Wenhe, who was on the side, was so angry when he saw that Li You had put down his identity and pleaded with a little girl that he was angry, but when he saw that Guo Xiang agreed and was silent to investigate Li Changzheng's fault, he glanced at Wang Yin, who was kneeling on the ground like dead ashes and was looking at him with pleading eyes, so he could only suppress the anger in his heart and plead with Guo Xiang like Li You. Guo Xiang ignored Wang Wenhe, and walked up to Wang Yin and asked, "Are you serious?" As long as this girl encounters any difficulties in the future, you will listen to me. β
"Seriously! Seriously! If Miss Guo doesn't believe it, she can let His Royal Highness Nine testify. Wang Yin grabbed the life-saving straw at once, and immediately nodded and replied.
"Yes! That's it! Then I won't hold you accountable for your fault! Guo Xiang got a satisfactory answer and said with a smile, and then said to Ji Qingchen, "Brother Qingchen, have you heard what they said, if they regret it in the future, or want to repay the debt, you must be the master for me!" β
Ji Qingchen was stunned, there is only one person in this world who calls him Brother Qingchen, and this person is Shu'er. Now that Guo Xiang called him so, it made him think of Princess Anle who was far away from the capital country.
"Brother Qingchen, you, what's wrong?" Guo Xiang saw that Ji Qingchen didn't answer her, so she continued to ask.
Being shouted by Guo Xiang, Ji Qingchen immediately came back to his senses and hurriedly replied, "Don't worry, as long as I am here, they won't be repaid." β
"Yes! Then I'm relieved. Then I'm going to play, you guys go on! Guo Xiang got Ji Qingchen's assurance, threw down such a sentence, and left the living room.
When Guo Xiang left the living room, Guo Quan, Li You, Wang Wenhe, Li Changzheng and Wang Yin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Since Guo Quan, Guo Xiang and Guo Xiang, brothers and sisters, were no longer ready to investigate Li Changzheng and Wang Yin's mistakes, Ji Qingchen didn't want to punish the two anymore, but simply reprimanded the two and let the two get up. Li Changzheng and Wang Yin hurriedly thanked Ji Qingchen.
Li You and Wang Wenhe saw that their purpose of going to Ji Qingchen's house this time had been achieved, and after a few words of greeting, they said goodbye to Ji Qingchen.
After Li You and Li Changzheng, Wang Wenhe and Wang Yin's frames disappeared at the mouth of the alley, Guo Quancai asked Ji Qingchen, "Brother Jiu, you won't be angry with Xiang'er, right?" β
"Why should I be mad at her?" Ji Qingchen asked puzzled, and then thought of the meaning of Guo Quan's words, so he glanced at Guo Quan's meaningfully and said, "Brother Guo, in fact, Xiang'er is much more shrewd than you, your sister is not simple!" β
Guo Quan, who was puzzled for a while, asked puzzledly, "What does Your Highness mean?" β
"Do you think that the Wang family and the Li family made a special trip to ask for guilt this time, and they are looking at my face? No, with my current strength, a prince who has no king and no foundation doesn't have such a big face, all because of his father. Therefore, there will be no opportunity to make the Wang family and the Li family bow their heads like today, and I am afraid that there will be no more in the future. You said that such a rare opportunity was met by your brothers and sisters, how could Xiang'er waste it in vain? Ji Qingchen smiled faintly.
Then he found that Guo Quan was still stunned, so he stopped talking, turned around and walked into the house.