Chapter 462: Encounter (1)
Although Ah Chun couldn't persuade Ah Mei, after returning to Zeng Rong's residence, she still vaguely told Zeng Rong about Ah Mei's infatuation.
It's not that he has to provoke the rights and wrongs of the two, but he wants Zeng Rong to know in his heart and make plans early.
Zeng Rong didn't pick up Ah Chun's words, he didn't want to embarrass Ah Mei by picking out this matter, nor did he want to give Ah Chun an illusion, thinking that she was the person he really trusted and could rely on, and everything still needs to be tested by time, after all, the time between the two is too short.
On this day, Zeng Rong and A Chun followed the emperor to the court, because Zeng Rong had three urgent temporary, after she packed up her things and Ah Chun came out, she did not see the figure of the emperor and his entourage, but saw Wang Bai and Weiyuan Marquis Gu Han, Zhenguo Gong Li Mao, and cabinet bachelor Wang Yong and the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Sun Shi and his party, these five people have just come out of the gate of Wuying Palace, and are about to go to Qianning Palace.
Zeng Rong and Ah Chun hurriedly stood still, saluted each other, bowed their heads and stood, and let each other go first.
Among these four people, except for Wang Bai and Gu Han, the other three are not very familiar with Zeng Rong, so they only hear his name and don't see him, and Gu Han has a relationship with Zeng Rong, or in the summer of the old year, he bumped into Zeng Rong and Zeng Taiyi in Xiyuan to ask for acupuncture and moxibustion together and was reprimanded by Wang Bai, at that time Gu Han remembered Zeng Rong.
Now that more than a year has passed, Gu Han's impression of Zeng Rong has long been shallow, a dignified master, there are so many things to be busy with every day, who has the energy to think about a little palace maid who can't beat with eight poles?
But Wang Bai is different, his hatred for Zeng Rong is definitely in his heart, not to mention his bones, so as soon as Zeng Rong's face appeared, he instantly recognized her.
Not to mention, he deliberately arranged this chance encounter today, and even these people were carefully selected by him.
First of all, Weiyuan Hou Gu Han is good friends with him, the two families are in-laws, the older generation and the next generation are good friends, and even the two are basically the same in terms of politics.
Secondly, Li Mao, the prince of Zhenguo, is the head of the four dukes, he is relatively upright, and he was quite close to the Wang family before Wang Tong entered the palace as the queen, but after Wang Tong gave birth to a child, Li Mao took the initiative to distance himself, and then made some awkward trouble because of Wang Tong and Li Man's family affairs.
Despite this, the two families did not tear their faces, and Li Mao is Wang Bai's father, so he will not be embarrassed by Wang Bai, and when there is occasional disagreement in the court, it is not right for people, which is also the reason why Wang Bai brought Li Mao here.
Third, Sun Shi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is an old scholar and an old antique, the most upright and stubborn, when encountering things that are not in line with etiquette, he has always dared to speak out, and he has questioned the emperor's treatment of the emperor's eldest son more than once on the court on Zhu Heng's lack of appearance for many years, and the emperor admired his uprightness in the face of his hateful side, and had to leave him.
Besides, the court does need such a person to take the lead in the upright atmosphere, so don't look at the emperor sometimes doesn't want to see this Sun Shi, but Sun Shi's position as a scholar has always been very stable.
The last cabinet scholar Wang Yong is a short-tempered and radical, and he has always been at odds with Xu Fushan, and the two have quarreled because of different political views, and they have no less competition in secret.
It turned out that Wang Tong also learned that Zeng Rong followed the emperor to the early dynasty every day, although she did not officially announce her new errand to the outside world, but thinking of Zeng Rong's previous identity as a female historian, it was difficult for Wang Tong not to contact Zhu Hengna.
She also suspected that the emperor was using Zeng Rong's mouth to relay the major affairs of the court to Zhu Heng, and secretly cultivated Zhu Heng's ability to handle government affairs. Otherwise, the emperor knew that Zhu Heng was so infatuated with this girl that he didn't even want to marry the granddaughter of the eldest princess, but he still took her with him again and again, first as a female historian, and then as a foreign historian, and all the contacts were about major affairs of the court and various secrets of the DPRK and China.
Also, Zhu Heng's foreign family, the Qian family, also entered Beijing, it is reported that it is to develop business in the capital, but who knows that it is not for Zhu Heng to escort?
In addition, it is rumored that Zeng Rong was secretly conditioning his body with diet for Zhu Heng, this year Zhu Heng not only rarely used medicine, but even people were stronger, and he could also draw a bow and shoot arrows.
Therefore, Wang Tong doubted whether Zhu Heng was also receiving treatment in secret, otherwise, he would not have had to leave the palace so frequently.
If this is the case, she wants to find the doctor who treated Zhu Heng, she wants to know whether Zhu Heng's inhumanity is true or false, and whether his legs can be cured.
Wang Tong thought about it, these things couldn't find out anything in the palace alone, and Zeng Rong's matter, she couldn't make much trouble in the harem, since it was a matter in the court, it was better to hand it over to the people in the court to solve.
In this way, Wang Bai arranged this chance encounter.
"It's you, aren't you the female historian next to the emperor? Why did you come to Wuying Palace? Wang Bai stopped Zeng Rong.
Zeng Rong bowed and replied: "Back to the town of Yuanhou, the lower official is now the lady's attendant beside the emperor." ”
"Lady-in-waiting? The attendant female official needs to follow the emperor to the early court? Wang Bai asked Zeng Rong when he said this, but he looked at the book of the Ministry of Rites.
Sun Shi shook his head and said, "There are no rules to define this matter, it all depends on the emperor's arrangement." ”
This answer was not in line with Wang Bai's mind at all, and Wang Bai had to ask again: "Since you are a female official, why don't you follow the emperor closely, what are you two doing sneakily behind." Again, what are you two holding in your hands? ”
"Back to the town Yuanhou, the lower official was delayed because of something, not sneaky. Also, what the lower officials are holding in their hands is the things used by the emperor. ”
Zeng Rong thought that when he said this, Wang Bai should not be so bold as to say that she wanted to check it, after all, she didn't want to cause trouble, so she could only lie.
How do you know that Wang Bai'an wants to find her stubble, how can he easily let her go?
"Isn't this obviously pen and ink? How could the emperor bring pen and ink to the court? Wang Bai took two steps forward as he spoke, and snatched the book from Ah Chun's hand while Ah Chun lowered his head.
Wang Bai quickly flipped a few pages, and then handed the book to Sun Shi, Sun Shi took the book and looked at it, he was also very shocked at the moment, more puzzled, he handed the book to Wang Yong, Wang Yong looked through it, and gave it to Li Man, Li Man gave it to Gu Han again, and finally returned to Wang Bai's hand.
However, this time the question was changed to Sun Shi, "Are you really the female official beside the emperor?" ”
"Lord Huisun, yes."
"Oh, do you know the old man?" Sun Shi looked at Zeng Rong and felt a little familiar.
"Back to my lord, I know, Xia Guan was a female historian next to the emperor before, and most of the ministers of the court and the central government have seen it." Zeng Rong replied.
"You, you, I remember, you are the female historian named Zeng Rong, right? It is rumored that you have just entered the palace for half a year and have jumped from a lowly embroidery girl in the Shanggong Bureau to a female official of the inner chamberlain, by the way, Ben Hou remembered, in the old year in Xiyuan, you and Zhenyuan Marquis had a quarrel. Gu Han pointed at Zeng Rong and said.
"Zeng Rong? You are Zeng Rong? The other three voices asked almost simultaneously.
This name is not unfamiliar to them, because this name is not only related to the second prince Zhu Heng, but also the cabinet scholar Xu Fushan.