Chapter 213: Li Shimin was stunned
When everyone was still feeling sorry for Miss Liu, the old gentleman continued: "Liu Shilang also took advantage of Miss Liu's sadness to set a family affair for her, and the person who made a marriage with her was the one who replaced Xu Dong to enter Beijing to take the exam, this person is named Ma Wencai!" ”
Hearing this name, the audience was stunned again, and everyone looked at each other and said their doubts in unison: "Ma Wencai? Isn't that the villain of Liang Zhuli? Why is he in this story! ”
The person next to me looked at the others and said, "Don't you know this?" It is estimated that this person is in a high position, and the old gentleman does not dare to say his name, otherwise he will really match someone's number, and the old gentleman's life will be lost! ”
Hearing this, everyone was even more excited, it turned out that what the old gentleman said was true, not made up, and now think about it, many rumors about Xu Dong seem to have really been heard.
The old gentleman glanced at the tow hidden in the crowd, and saw that he had finished saying everything he had to say, and immediately said: "Miss Liu was forcibly married by her father, and she learned that Xu Dong had become a relative at that time, so Miss Liu finally had to agree to marry into the Ma family!" ”
Speaking of this, the old gentleman smiled ghostly, "But there are unforeseen circumstances, and the young man Ma accidentally fell into the water after doing all the bad things, and died before he got married." ”
"Do you think the way Ma Gongzi died is a little familiar? That's right, the way he died was the same as the way Xu Dong's father died, do you think that Xu Dong avenged his father, so he did it? No, Xu Dong was guarding his hometown at the time, so no one would avenge him, so who killed Ma Gongzi? ”
The old gentleman threw questions one after another, which made the audience look confused, but the following dragged skillfully said: "Isn't it that Ma Gongzi provoked some big shots, so there is this disaster?" ”
The old gentleman nodded and continued: "It turns out that the person who killed Ma Gongzi was the person who helped him obtain the qualification to go to Chang'an Chunfu, that is, the person who helped him kill Xu Dong's family, those people are an undercurrent outside the court, and their purpose is to control the people in the court in their own hands, so they choose to help those scholars who are slightly lower in the ranking, and help them obtain the qualification to go to Chang'an for the scientific examination, and then if they are named on the gold list, they naturally have to listen to their words!" ”
This is said to be very irresponsible, and Xiangxin is also nonsense, after all, they don't have any evidence, and in Xiangxin's opinion, it doesn't matter if these people are not there, anyway, when the time comes, as long as they send someone to say that this is a script, at most, we won't talk about this in the future, they can really be convicted!
The old gentleman was not shocked, and he also knew that he didn't mention anyone's name at all except Xu Dong, even if someone found him and the prince to fight against thunder for himself, he continued after drinking a saliva: "This Ma Gongzi was thrown into the river and drowned because the descendants of the title of the gold list floated away and no longer listened to the words of the organization." And Miss Liu was widowed early, originally the Ma family meant to let Miss Liu marry Chong Chongxi and do a secret marriage, Liu Shilang still felt sorry for his daughter and did not agree, and finally lost a lot of silver to them, and Miss Liu also fell into the name of a dead husband, and she has not married until today! ”
Everyone was also embarrassed when they heard this solution, and they didn't skimp on their own language, and then said: "Then now that Xu Dong is back, and it is also the title of the gold list, wouldn't it be good if he went to Liu's house to marry Miss Liu back!" ”
The others also nodded and said, "Yes, Miss Liu can't get married, and Xu Dong has no other thoughts, isn't it a good thing for the two families to get married together!" ”
The old gentleman touched his beard and sighed and said: "Hey, God's will makes people, Xu Dong followed His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to Jingzhou to fight for the first time after the title of the gold list, and Liu Shilang has always been to His Royal Highness the King of Wei in the court, so when Xu Dong came back, he came to the door many times to propose marriage, but Liu Shilang refused, thinking that the two young people should be fruitless in this life, and it is not easy for Xu Dong's current identity to find a lady?" As for Miss Liu, she should probably be lonely for the rest of her life! ”
The old gentleman's story seemed to be told like this, and when everyone was lamenting what happened to the two young people, they pushed Xu Dong to the window with satisfaction, and said behind him: "You hurry up, you just finish this line and it's done!" ”
Xu Dong was nervous at this time, looked at the crowd below and thought about the girl Liu who was waiting for him, and then said: "I will go to Liu's Mansion to propose marriage in three days, if you have time, you will definitely come over to hold a personal field, this is the last time to go to Liu's Mansion to propose, I hope to marry Miss Liu home!" ”
Xu Dong's words and figure appeared in front of everyone's eyes, and the entire Yufengzhai people were boiling, originally thought that this story would end so boring, but I didn't expect the real drama to start at this moment!
The upstairs and downstairs crowds cheered, "Okay! We will definitely go! ”
In two days, the story of Xu Dong and Miss Liu spread throughout Chang'an City, although the story became more and more magical, but in the final analysis, everyone knew that Xu Dong was going to Liu's house to propose.
This matter is not only hot among the people, but the people in the palace also have a wait-and-see attitude towards this matter, and they are satisfied that they were called to the palace by Li Chengqian today to meet Li Shimin together.
On the way, Li Chengqian also asked curiously: "Is this story true?" Is Xu Dong really the reincarnation of Xu Xian? Miss Liu is a white lady? ”
Satisfaction rolled her eyes, looked at Li Chengqian and said helplessly: "Isn't the ending of the White Snake Legend finished yesterday, and now the White Lady is still pressing under the Leifeng Tower, Xu Xian, a mortal, has long been reincarnated!" ”
Li Chengqian nodded, but then asked, "Then Liu Shilang really didn't marry his daughter to Xu Dong because of me?" Why don't I come over tomorrow to help? ”
Xiangxin waved his hand and hurriedly refused: "If I need your help to do what I have to do with so much effort, I would have dragged you to Liu's house a long time ago, you don't have to worry about this, look at Xu Dong tomorrow, I have already created momentum for him to create the current situation, he can no longer control the situation, then it can't be said!" ”
Li Chengqian nodded and said no more, and came to Li Shimin with satisfaction.
Li Shimin didn't have time to play with them, and immediately asked: "Satisfaction, how much of your story is true!" ”
Cheng thought about it for a while, and finally said simply: "The names of Xu Dong and Miss Liu, and Xu Dong went to Liu's Mansion to propose marriage, it should be that!" ”
Li Chengqian's eyes on the side widened, he couldn't imagine that only the names of the two of them were true in such a long story, so how did so many other stories come out!
Li Shimin was also a little stunned, but he still asked with a gloomy face: "Then you said that someone participated in the imperial examination and wanted to control the people in the court!" ”
Satisfied looked at Li Shimin, then at Li Chengqian, and finally said honestly: "This matter was investigated by me and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince before Chunqiu, Tang Jian's son has been pulling people outside, and has been telling people that he can get the title of Chunqiu, and then they actually got the question, although the title is fake, but it is also terrifying, isn't it?" That's why I made it into the story! ”
Li Shimin looked at Li Chengqian and motioned to him: "What you said is true?" Why don't you tell me about this? ”
Li Chengqian scratched his head and asked: "Father should know about this, the conclusion we got at the beginning was that my father knew about this, so he ordered me to investigate!" ”
Li Shimin only felt that a stream of blood medicine was spurting out, and he asked Li Chengqian to be the chief examiner of Chunfu purely because he felt that something was wrong, but he didn't have any evidence, and Li Chengqian and Xiangxin actually investigated it and didn't tell themselves, Li Shimin took a deep breath before saying: "You two quickly tell me what is going on here!" Don't hide anything! ”
Chengxin and Li Chengqian looked at each other, and finally Li Chengqian spoke: "At this time, I still have to start with the one named Tang Songling, this person is arrogant and arrogant and doesn't look at anyone in his eyes, and then this person leaked his mouth with a singer in Changgefang, and the news gradually spread in the small circle of Chang'an, and then he was like crazy to win over the scholars who entered Beijing to take the exam, of course, in the end, I still stole the beams and changed the pillars with one hand, so that their plan fell through!" ”
Li Shimin nodded, but he was still a little puzzled, and after looking at the two of them, he said: "What I know may be different from the two of you, as far as I know, there are many scholars who have accepted the recruitment of this undercurrent at the beginning, this undercurrent especially likes to help those who are poor but talented, but they will not recruit people in Chang'an City, he will select talents among the scholars who participate in the township examination in various states and counties, I have been paying attention to this matter many years ago, but there has been no answer, the Tang Songling you said, It shouldn't be someone from this undercurrent! ”
Li Chengqian was a little confused, but he was satisfied and said directly: "I know, it should be the people behind Tang Songling who also found out about this matter, so he wanted to recruit people like this undercurrent, so he began to recruit candidates in Chang'an City to participate in the Spring Festival, but he didn't expect that this Tang Songling was a straw bag, and he was actually discovered by the two of us!" ”
Li Shimin sighed and nodded, he was thinking so at this moment.
Li Chengqian also showed an expression of sudden realization, looked at Li Shimin and said: "Father, you must know that the people after Tang Songling are King Wei and King Wu, so you didn't ask any questions!" ”
Li Shimin's face changed, and after looking at it, he finally nodded and said: "Yes, this little bit of careful thinking of the two of them naturally can't escape the eyes of the father, but now that this matter has passed, the point now is how Tang Songling knew about this!" ”