Chapter 219: Manipulating Rumors
Early in the morning, as soon as Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang, who sold wontons, came out of the stall, two young people came over and asked for two bowls of wontons.
When Uncle Zhang was making wontons, he heard the two of them chatting about the recent champion dispute, chatting and chatting, one of the tall and thin young men lowered his voice and said: "Have you heard, this Su Shaoan and the proprietress of the Begonia clothing store are in love, and the queen is in deep love with them, so she deliberately made a decree to destroy the original marriage contract." ”
Another short and fat young man immediately said: "I'm here here, this marriage agreement is the boss's sister, but the boss's sister is unwilling, so she pushes her sister up to ......."
"But you have to be honest, since the sister of the Jiang family is engaged, the younger sister must also abide by the agreement." The tall and thin young man said with some disapproval.
"You don't know, that sister was forced into prison and almost died, just like that, that Zhu Gongzi still refused to let go, and then it didn't work, the queen mother came down with a decree, whoever can be admitted to the champion will marry Jiang Yun." The short and fat young man sighed, looking a little pity.
"Tsk, I see."
The short and fat young man continued: "And I also heard that this Zhu Gongzi was very unwilling to have this marriage contract destroyed, and said on the spot that he must be admitted to the champion, so there is this champion dispute." ”
"This boss lady is blessed, she can marry a champion no matter what."
The short and fat young man waved his hand, sighed and said: "Where is the good fortune, it will be miserable to marry that Zhu Gongzi, you don't know that the people in Shangshantang said that the proprietress rejected Zhu Gongzi for power, and what did the queen mother interfere with, deliberately embarrassing him, and the royal deliberately intervened......"
"Tut-tut, doesn't the queen know the boss lady to know him Zhu Yucheng, how many faces does he have to say such things?"
"This is not the most outrageous, the most outrageous thing is that I listened to their students chatting and said that maybe someone will be arranged to go in for Su Shao'an to be the champion, and then Zhu Gongzi will be too pitiful......" The short and fat young man sighed deeply, looking speechless.
The tall and thin young man immediately said in a rage: "Who doesn't know that our big examination in the Great Liang Dynasty is the most fair and just, and the officials who arrange the invigilation every year are carefully selected, and the name of this exam will be sealed, and the examiner can only see the article, which can also discredit and spread rumors?" ”
The short and fat young man sighed, took the wonton handed over by Uncle Zhang and said, "Who said it wasn't, I look at them, I'm afraid it's almost the same as the Youth Academy...... Eat it, you'll have to be busy after eating. ”
After a while, the two of them finished eating the wontons, and the sky was already bright, and the number of pedestrians gradually increased.
One or two regular customers came over with a smile when they saw Uncle Zhang, and after asking for two bowls of wontons, they also talked about recent events.
Uncle Zhang listened, so he also interjected a mouth or two, talking about what the two customers said in the morning.
At that moment, the old customer's eyes widened in surprise, and he said in disbelief, "Shangzendo is crazy." ”
"Questioning the fairness of the big exam, have they forgotten that every year there will be a person who is from Shangshantang?" The other said in surprise.
Uncle Zhang also said that he couldn't understand, so he continued to cook wontons and listened to the chatter of the people around him.
The morning market is always lively, especially their open-air stalls, which are all crowded together, people slowly gather, and soon, everyone is chatting enthusiastically.
Lu Chengyan leaned against the wall not far away, listened to the increasingly lively voices, and left contentedly.
Lu Fu.
Rong Qing saw that Lu Chengyan was back, so he cooked a bowl of noodles for him, went out early in the morning, and came back almost noon, and he didn't eat anything at all.
Lu Chengyan took the noodles with a smile and said, "It's almost." ”
Rong asked lightly with some concern, "Is it okay?" I don't think there are many people over there. ”
Lu Chengyan immediately said: "Don't worry." "In the past, what he did, everyone spread it in the teahouse restaurant, but the first place of origin must be the breakfast stall, where the most people gather in the morning. And this is not the end, after Shangshantang deliberately creates public opinion, this excitement will reach the peak.
Rong Qing saw that he was confident, so he relaxed a little.
"I thought that this big test was a place to compete for knowledge, but I didn't expect to have to fight for manpower." Rong said softly.
"This wasn't the case in the past, but since they discovered that public opinion could allow them to occupy the high ground, they began to spread information in their favor, consciously or unconsciously. The Qingxue Museum is not a good place, but there are also people with good backgrounds and good knowledge. Lu Chengyan said.
Rong nodded lightly, if this Qingxue Hall is really useless, it will not stand in Kyoto for so long, this Shangshantang is considered a leader in the "rising star", but since it has more and more say in the court, it feels a bit of a forced opposition to the Qingxue Hall.
"Fortunately, we reacted in time this time, otherwise I don't know how serious the consequences would be, and it might even affect Miss Song, and then the queen...... Even if it involves Miss Song, it affects the queen, it is equivalent to the prince's lineage......" After Rong said lightly, he was first startled.
No way.
Lu Chengyan's action of eating noodles also paused.
"The prime minister is also surnamed Song, but he seems to be from an average background and has nothing to do with the Song family in Kyoto." Rong said softly.
Lu Chengyan nodded and said: "Yes, Song Yunfeng comes from a civilian family, which is different from the Song family that has been glorious in Kyoto for several generations, I remember that my grandfather said that I thought it was a person with the same surname, and the relationship should be relatively relaxed, but it turned out to be a bit-for-tat." ”
"Husband, I think it is necessary for us to check the origins of the thirty-two officials who were imprisoned, and in addition, is there an unknown relationship between the prime minister and Shangshantang...... Rong said softly.
Of course, all this is just a gentle guess, but once a thing has a sign, it is difficult to control it and not continue to dig deeper.
Lu Chengyan was also shocked by Rong Qing's speculation, but the more he thought about it, he found that it seemed that there was really a connection. And this old fox is very thief, where did Zhou Xian, the housekeeper of the Cao family, go out of the city last time, they haven't found anything until now, so it can be seen that this old fox is very hidden.
After eating the noodles, Lu Chengyan was going to go to the government office to find out the origin of the thirty-two officials.
Anyway, he already knew that Governor Yin was the prince's lineage, and the thing he and General Yuan did was too helpful to the prince's lineage, so as long as he did a favor, he wouldn't disagree if he wanted to come to the Yin Governor's Mansion.