Fifteen-year-old Chang'an sat by the wooden pier by the river and read the letter, which was written by Liao Ling, since the third year when the county lord came out of the cabinet, he and Mrs. Hu went to Beijing to get married, and never returned.

The prosperity of the capital was very lively in the letter, but Chang'an saw Liao Ling's loneliness from the letter. He seems to have a lot of friends, but he doesn't have a real sense of his friends. Liao Ling said in his letter that everything in the capital is good, there are the best masters, and there are warm and hearty friends, but no one can sit down and talk.

He can't really fit into the circle of your son, he doesn't like it, it's too hypocritical. But he also saw the truth of his friends, who were also the eldest grandsons of the Guogong Mansion, and revealed their true feelings after being squeezed by his uncle.

The heir of the Hou Mansion, the eldest son of the grandson, because his father was reluctant to invite the prince, he fought with his younger brother, and he was deeply trapped in the truth that he couldn't see.

Liao Ling said that his grandmother was showing him, and he felt that the ladies in the capital were nothing to look at, as if they were all carved out of a mold, and he couldn't even see the appearance clearly.

In the end, he told Chang'an a happy thing, he found a master in the Construction Department of the Ministry of War, and was learning carpentry from the master of machine arts.

After reading the letter, Chang'an looked at the blue sky and white clouds and exhaled a breath of turbidity. Liao Ling entered the Gyeonggi Battalion at the age of thirteen to learn and train soldiers, and now he is a general of the Gyeonggi Battalion of Wupin.

You good general, what are you going to do to learn carpentry without doing your job? Alas! Liao Ling seems to have changed, and he is no longer simple and easy to deceive!

"Brother, grandma will let you come back." Fang Yue shouted on the other side of the river, whether his brother heard it or not, he took the balls and left.

Dandan is the son of Songhua, the eldest grandson of the uncle, and the grandmother's current treasure, and the milk name was taken casually by Fang Yue.

The children in the clan have a big name only when they go to the family tree, and it is generally the clan elders who discuss and take care of those who have no duplicate names in the clan.

The patriarch is lazy and trouble-free, the third uncle doesn't want to bother thinking about the name, the fourth uncle doesn't want to worry about everything, the clan elder who barely squeezed in, the clan uncle Fang Linghe can't speak, so the name of the children in the clan depends on the fortune teller blind nonsense.

Mrs. Niu was so happy when she saw her great-grandson that she didn't have the heart to think about what to call it. Fang Yue said casually, Songhua's son is Songhua Danbei!

Dong Xiaoying slapped her daughter, let you talk nonsense! Mrs. Niu protects her little granddaughter and makes a decision on the spot, she should follow the name of her mother, and her name is called Dandan.

Chang'an heard his sister say, "Why are you talking so hard, why are you still talking badly at the age of two?" ”

Fang Yue rubbed Dandan's chubby face, Dandan's was not angry, he liked his aunt to play with him the most, "People, horses, cars!" ”

Fang Yue knocked on Dandan's head, "There are still few people who come to pull goods all day?" Looking at the carriage every day, you still can't see enough? When your Uncle Chang'an comes out of the whole excavator in the future, you still have to look straight in the eye? ”

Chang'an followed behind and laughed, and the excavator was there! There are a lot of Luhua chickens running all over the ground, and they accidentally step on the.

When Mrs. Niu saw her grandson coming back, she ran out of the gate of the village, and kept waving her hand at Chang'an, "Don't come yet, my grandmother has something to tell you." ”

In the field, the green wheat seedlings swayed in the wind, and Mrs. Niu looked back and forth, well! People from afar can see it, but speak quietly so that no one can hear it.

"Chang'an! This time it's not an ordinary lady, it's a good two! I heard that my grandfather was an official in Guanglu Temple in the capital, we don't care whether he is in the temple or not, let's just say that his father is a serious six-grade official, and the girl is not bad. ”

Chang An asked with a smile: "Then why do you want to marry me?" Is it a concubine? ”

Mrs. Niu patted her grandson, "You don't care if she was born to a little wife, we are marrying a daughter-in-law, as long as she has a good character and looks good, besides, this girl is literate, how good!" ”

"Milk, what do you say about this?" Chang'an wants to say, I'm still young! But the boys in the village all started blind dates at the age of fifteen, married a daughter-in-law at the age of sixteen, and became a father at the age of seventeen.

Mrs. Niu sighed, and the fourth daughter-in-law said that Chang'an is still small, where is it small? Fifteen years old! However, Chang'an doesn't seem to have opened up, and she just started to change her voice this year, and she also muttered that her grandson hasn't grown up yet?

"Your mother is always a child. This child has grown to a white beard, and he is also a child in front of his mother, Chang'an, if you listen to the milk, you can set one, right? Mrs. Niu pleaded.

Chang'an really didn't want to talk much, he was in the voice change period, and what made him feel most uncomfortable was that Changxi was also changing his voice.

Changxi is only thirteen years old this year, why are you in a hurry to change your voice! It felt like I was stunted.

"Milk, a major event in a lifetime, is the most improvised. Besides, I want to wait for the resumption of the imperial examination, at least to come back from the examination, and I don't want to be distracted by other things. Chang'an said seriously.

"If you eat the upper, you will be hit by the bottom of your heart. Milk understands, you! Like your father, it's bud rice that doesn't grow grains, and his heart is really big! Mrs. Niu walked forward with her hands behind her back.

"There are shops in the capital, and there are brands of the imperial court as tributes, and our family is not bad now, marrying a little wife and giving birth is not a hit." Mrs. Niu muttered to herself.

The official knocked the gong into the town, and Mrs. Niu stopped, "What is Cui Bantou doing?" ”

Chang'an walked a few steps with his grandmother, and heard Cui Bantou shouting, "Put away the red cloth that hangs, and it is forbidden to wear red and green during the national funeral!" ”

"Emma! Can the old emperor be considered dead? Mrs. Niu slapped her thigh, shook off Chang'an and ran.

"Milk, wait for me!"

Cui Bantou was talking to Li Zheng in the vernacular, "We have calculated it here, within 100 days of the death of the saint, the people will follow the kneeling and crying and mourning, and eat vegetarian." I heard that in the capital, the death knell rings three times a day, and no matter what you do, you have to kneel down and kowtow and cry. ”

"What do you say...... It's been 100 days since the emperor died? "The patriarch said in his heart, the mourners are useless!

Mrs. Niu approached and stood behind to listen to the letter.

Cui Bantou said: "Isn't it written on the notice!" The twenty-third day of the first month collapsed! Passed on the throne to the eldest grandson of the emperor. Look at the notice next to it. ”

The patriarch tilted his head to look at it and called out to the people around, "Which of you is Niannian, what is written on it!" ”

Cui Bantou stopped and said, "I'll tell you!" The new emperor succeeded to the throne and resumed the imperial examination, and in the spring of February next year, we received the letter late, and the county examination will start in half a month, and the government examination will be in a month, and the hospital examination will be in another month. ”

The patriarch nodded to indicate that he understood, and waved his hand like a fly, letting the onlookers disperse, "Go back and change your clothes, the first emperor died in the first month, and it hasn't been a month yet!" If we want to do our filial piety for the emperor, we all go back to wrap a strip of white cloth around our waists, and if there is no white cloth at home, find a full daughter-in-law to ask for a cage cloth, and let her twist it into small pieces for you, and sew a slip of white on the placket. ”

Mrs. Niu patted the soil on her body, "It's really good at the whole scene." Turned around and pulled Chang'an away, "This is a hit, the old emperor is dead, he is not allowed to marry for a year, and the imperial examination has started again, this is a punch to your heart!" ”

Chang'an said in his heart, when did the milk learn to speak after a break?

"The fourth daughter-in-law! Listen, the old emperor is dead! Don't wear flowers, don't wear a hat with flowers on your head, if anyone sees it, we have to do a good job, we have a brand, we can't let people gossip! ”

Dong Xiaoying stood at the door of the baking room and answered, "Got it, old lady, if the emperor dies, it's called death!" ”

Mrs. Niu raised her eyes and saw Dandan, and left Chang'an to go to her rare great-grandson, "He also collapsed when he said something, just change his clothes!" Oops, my balls, tell my grandmother, what do you want to eat? ”

Dandan tilted his head to look at the grandmother, "Excavator!" ”

"What chicken? In the afternoon, the grandmother will let you stew chicken! Mrs. Niu took her great-grandson's hand and walked home.

The big girl hugged the child and shouted, "Milk, it's not good to stew chicken, the patriarch said, you have to be vegetarian these days!" ”

Chang'an saw that her grandmother's face had changed, and hurriedly looked around to find the eldest girl's mother-in-law.

Sister Da Niu married Cai Shusheng. My son is eight months old, and he is not honest in his arms, writhing like a big meat worm.

Mrs. Niu reprimanded: "Your mother-in-law! Why are you holding the baby again? You don't work! You can't finish a day from dark to dark, why do you still have time to hold the baby? ”

"Milk, my mother went to school, and she said that she was telling me that she was going to open the imperial examination." The eldest girl regretted that she shouldn't have squeaked just now, and she didn't know where her mother-in-law had gone.

Fang Yue ran to pull her brother, she didn't like Cai Shusheng, she was too old-fashioned, and she was six years older than Sister Da Niu, the old lady and sister-in-law in the family were not easy to get along with, and the two were happy with each other, not life.

In Fang Yue's opinion, to live a life, you have to find a family that can make you comfortable, even if you burp and fart, you don't have to hide it.

"Brother, do you want the imperial examination? You can't do it! ”

Chang'an really didn't want to speak, so he took his sister and walked home, there was a fat sea soaked at home, drink a few more pots of fat sea soaked water, and the male duck's throat could be improved quickly.

"What's not going to work? There's nothing wrong with your brother! Chang Anxin said that the ancient imperial examination was really annoying, the exams were all liberal arts, all by back, and he had to write papers, so he was annoyed by these things.

Fang Yue didn't believe it, "Brother, last time my father said that it would take five days to take the county exam, and when Fang Xiucai took the exam, he was just in time for the bad year, there was a famine, and there were few people who went to the exam, so the five-day county test shrunk by one day." However, the same is one poem a day, can you write poetry? ”

Chang'an thought about it and said, "No! I can fool the past. ”

Fang Yue muttered, "The crossword puzzle you invented, can you pass the imperial examination!" That's not called writing poetry, it's just to find the words that fit the rhyme and put them together, and read smoothly in one sentence. ”

Dong Xiaoying stood at the door of the baking room and shouted, "You two go back and boil the water, and I'll go back and cook noodles for you two in a while." ”

Fang Yue pulled his neck and responded, "Bhoo!" ”

When they entered the house, neither of them went to the stove room, but sat on the small kang in the living room, one holding a big kettle to fill water, and the other holding an embroidery shed to embroider.

"Brother, why did you say that the old emperor passed the throne to the emperor's grandson?"

Chang'an poured a mouthful of fat seawater and said, "What else can you do (because)!" I can't think about it! ”

Fang Yue lowered his head to embroider, chatted and said, "When you and Brother Ling were beaten, do you remember, I had a cold and a high fever, just at that moment, I had a dream!" Emma, let me tell you, I dreamed about the capital. ”

Chang'an put down the big teapot, "Tell me!" ”

"I didn't dream before, let's go to the capital with my mother! The old emperor died, and the whole people cried and mourned three times a day, and they had to go out when they beat the gong at the street corner, and they had to cry when they knelt on the ground, and they had to cry, and they howled loudly, and they quietly pinched the eldest aunt, for fear that the eldest aunt would not be able to cry. Fang Yue said and grinned.

Chang An cleared his throat, "Ahem, let's get to the point." ”

"Hmmm! In my dream, it's the original chick's family, and the point is that the family is noisy and noisy! Thankfully, we came, and if we hadn't come, life would have been really difficult. Fang Yue thought about the scene in his dream, compared it with the current prosperous days, and a smile appeared on his face again.

"It's not a loss for us to come here, Mom has found Dad again, how good!"

Chang'an felt that it was a bit silly to chat with his sister, so it was better to boil water.

"Brother, the new emperor has only reigned for more than four years, and he stepped down in the fourth year of Jianyuan, and next year's spring is the only imperial examination for the new emperor, and then he began to withdraw the feudal domain, and the new emperor was ousted by his imperial uncle." Fang Yue said loudly to his brother in the stove room.

Dong Xiaoying came in at this time, listened to the second half of the sentence, and then said, "This old emperor has a long enough life, but his brain is not good, why did he pass on the throne to the emperor's grandson?" It seems that there was such a thing in the Ming Dynasty, right? ”

Chang'an squatted in the stove room and sighed: "The old emperor left a mess for his grandson!" Sister, tell my mother about your dream! ”

Fang Yue pouted and said, "Last time, I saw Liao Ling dead in my dream. That is, the new emperor was about to withdraw the feudal domain, and a feudal king took the opportunity to rebel. ”

"Oops! Why didn't you tell me earlier, you kid! Which vassal king did Brother Ling let die? Dong Xiaoying thought, now that she knows, she has to think of ways to let Brother Ling avoid trouble.

Fang Yue said lazily, "Which vassal king is not, Liao Ling killed the vassal king, the emperor was saddened that Liao Ling killed the emperor's uncle, and ordered Liao Ling to be executed, the crime seems to be disrespecting the emperor's order or something." ”

Dong Xiaoying slapped on the table, "Divine horse thing, Chang'an wrote a letter to Brother Ling'er, why do you say that you play by yourself, in short, you can't give such a bullshit emperor." ”

When Fang Mingyuan came back from school, all he thought about was the county exam, to ensure that students could pass the exam, they had to go through selection, first take the test a few times in school, mock exams, and pre-exams would begin. Time is tight, and the task is heavy!

After eating and sitting on the kang in the living room, Dong Xiaoying told her daughter's prophetic dream, "You say, is the old emperor blind and confused?" How did you choose such an heir? ”

Fang Mingyuan thought for a while and said, "I don't know if the old emperor is confused, let's see what he does!" ”

As a citizen, there are not many things that can be seen. The princess chooses the horse, the princess who comes out, and the horse should first consider the nobles with the title, the family that has been inherited for hundreds of years, or the descendants of famous teachers and Confucians.

The emperor chose the son of a border general, and the Liao family at that time was nothing, and the highest official position was a partial general. Such a concubine, except for the champion Lang, the reputation of a young talent can't give the princess any support.

The princess can only help the princess govern the fief, you see the fief given to the princess by the emperor, it happens to be the ancestral home of Liao Juma.

This is intriguing, is the horse the champion in the exam with real talent? Or does the emperor need such a champion?

Seeing that the princess had no children for many years, the emperor happily changed the fief and asked the princess to bring a horse to the border to guard her parents' filial piety. From the fiefdom in the hinterland of the plain to this side, the emperor was still very embarrassed to help, and made a will to let the people move.

But the princess and the colt are far from the heart of the struggle for power and wealth. Only one trick fulfilled the filial piety of the princess and the horse, and marginalized them.

The princess brought the little prince into Beijing, and there has been no holy decree to crown the princess's young son as king. Fang Mingyuan believed that the princess would definitely ask for a seal for her son, and there was no holy decree to announce the fief, which showed that the old emperor had not agreed.

Is the new emperor's withdrawal from the feudal domain the meaning of the old emperor?

In the year of the prince's death, the two princes of Jiangnan were fighting, and the old emperor had to wait for the trouble to be disagreeable, so he sent troops to suppress it, and the high wall encircled one prince, but the other stayed in the fiefdom, why is this?

Was it the old emperor's partiality? Why were the two princes who fought when they moved here, and the two princes who fought were sent to guard the emperor's mausoleum?

Chang An smiled and said, "Dad, you forgot, the prince who stayed in the fief was disabled, and if he stayed in the fief or circled, the effect was the same." ”

Fang Mingyuan squinted his eyes and said, "So, the old emperor is ruthless enough!" You can do it to your own son, let alone your grandson? ”

"Yikes! Dad, what do you mean, the new emperor is a gun in the hands of the old emperor, just to cut the domain? Fang Yue asked.

Fang Mingyuan shook his head, "How can we know what the old emperor thinks, I just think that the old emperor is very interesting, just say that he is very shrewd in calculating the matter of exchanging the brand for the special supply of the Internal Affairs Bureau?" This matter has to go through the Ministry of Rites, and it cannot be that the Ministry of Internal Affairs is greedy for money, but only a policy formulated by the emperor. ”

Dong Xiaoying patted her thigh and said, "Sharp, really sharp!" Such an emperor with a small belly and chicken intestines, it's good to die! Is the new queen dead? ”

Chang An looked at his sister, "He has been in power for so long, when did he kill Liao Ling?" ”

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