Chapter 408: Fainting
These people are often not too unlucky, although they have crossed into the old age of the original owner, the living conditions are relatively good, some are middle-level officials who have returned to their hometowns, some are squires, and no matter how poor they are, they are rich peasants who have no worries about food and clothing.
The only fly in the ointment is that the descendants under their names basically have no interest, they are content to sit back and enjoy their success, and there is nothing worth supporting.
Of course, this is also the reason why they are happy to associate with Xu Zhenlong.
They are willing to provide a certain amount of money and connections to help Xu Zhenlong, so that when Xu Zhenlong has a bright future, they can let their descendants have the opportunity to become a leader and be promoted to make a fortune.
Although Xu Zhenlong is the county lord, her fiancé Xiao Peng is the favorite grandson of Xiao Xian, the king of Dingwei.
In his letters to all the traversers, Xu Zhenlong once analyzed in detail the possibility of Xiao Xian and Xiao Peng, who are expected to take over the Great Xiao Jiangshan.
The first is the reputation of Xiao Zhen's family, which has not been very good in Daxiao.
The second is that although Xiao Zhen's family has three sons, the eldest son is a concubine, who is dead, and the grandson left behind is a concubine, who is not valued much by Xiao Zhen's family, and the mother family has no background, and although the second son Xiao Zhengzhen and the third son Xiao Zhengguang are sisters-in-law, they have only one daughter under their names, and there is no successor.
In this case, even if Xiao Zhen's family is now the crown prince, the throne of Da Xiao has a tradition of passing on sons and younger brothers, and Xiao Xian, who has always performed better than Xiao Zhen's family, and has many sons and grandchildren, is obviously more qualified to inherit Xiao Xuanliang's throne than Xiao Zhen's family.
In addition, Xiao Xian also has a trick, which is to consider passing Xiao Peng to Xiao Zhengzhen as his son.
Xiao Peng is not Xiao Xian's eldest grandson, but he is the grandson, his mother is the second daughter of Cui Shicheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and the Cui family has always been in the Great Xiao family, which belongs to the upper class gatekeeper and is not inferior to Xiao Qiongzhi's maternal family, the Chen family, so if Xiao Zhengzhen is willing to accept Xiao Peng's succession, it will not be humiliated.
It is no wonder that when Xu Linglong asked Xiao Qiongzhi for Xianlu at that time, she would specifically mention that her fiancé Xiao Peng was the grandson of Xiao Xian, the king of Dingwei.
It turns out that there is such a reliance in it.
It's a pity that Xiao Qiongzhi has never been interested in paying attention to these intricate interpersonal relationships, and in the six years before entering Zhilan Academy, his daily entertainment was mainly as an envoy, visiting overseas countries, or as a national teacher wearing a mask, going to vassal states to investigate.
Even if the movement between relatives, Xiao Qiongzhi is mainly confined to her grandmother's house, the third uncle Xiao Zhengguang's house, and Xiao Han and Xiao Xuanliang in the palace.
And every year, at the invitation of Prince Chu Guozhao, I went to his side to pick dates to eat, and by the way, I went to see Chu Yunniang, Zhou Dazhi, and Liu Wuxiu.
Because Chu Yunniang, Zhou Dazhi, and Liu Wuxiu have all moved their families to Chujing now, it is very convenient to meet.
The rest, even if it was her aunt Xiao Mingzhu's house, Huaiyang Palace, she only went to celebrate once when Zheng Linglong was ten years old, and she never went there.
When Shi Qian finished reading the letters in the dressing box in Xiao Qiongzhi, he immediately opened the sandalwood box again.
The sandalwood box is mainly the manuscripts left by Xu Zhenlong in the past five years.
Inside, what interests Xiao Qiongzhi the most is Xu Zhenlong's silk thread binding, a manuscript for future planning, and a list of Xu Zhenlong's traversers found in the past five years.
Judging from the manuscript left by Xu Zhenlong for the future planning, Xu Zhenlong has been spending money to entrust Da Xiao to sell the news of the Secret Pavilion in the past five years, and according to some of the characteristics she provided of the traverser, such as someone suddenly becoming particularly smart, particularly capable, and particularly talented, she is helping her find information about the traverser.
Then, according to the information found in the Secret Pavilion, she took the time to meet those suspected traversers, and if she could, she would win them over, and if she couldn't win them, she would secretly buy the assassins to assassinate them, so as not to leave future troubles.
Judging from the list of traversers left by Xu Zhenlong, Xu Zhenlong has found a total of 1,456 traversers who have value in her mind.
Xu Zhenlong also deliberately classified these time-travelers according to their identity and background in another world, the type of work, and their personal expertise, and classified watchmaking, which seems to be clear at a glance.
That's a good thing.
It gave Xiao Qiongzhi a great inspiration.
Xiao Qiongzhi pondered for a moment, and took the list of traversers into his arms, as for everything left in the sandalwood box, as well as the dressing box, Xiao Qiongzhi let Shi Qian still pack the baggage.
At this time, Xu Zhenlong suddenly raised his head and said to Xiao Qiongzhi with a serious face: "Xiao Qiongzhi, tell the truth, now, what are you going to do with me?" ”
"I don't plan to give you anything, your culpability will be judged by the Criminal Department according to the specific circumstances and consequences of your crime." Xiao Qiongzhi said lightly.
After speaking, Xiao Qiongzhi asked the red apricot to jump onto the plane tree, untied Xu Zhenlong from the tree, escorted her, and rushed to the criminal department with Shi Qian.
In the Criminal Department, in the lobby, Wang Zhengrong and Xiao Xuanliang are trying Liu Chunhua's case.
Xiao Qiongzhi walked to the door, and when she saw it, she was very surprised.
She left the Criminal Department at the beginning of the morning, and now it is the end of the afternoon, a full three hours, such a simple case, Wang Zhengrong has not finished the trial, and called Xiao Xuanliang over for a jury, which is too abnormal.
Curiously, she stretched out her hand to beckon a catcher waiting at the door, brought it aside, and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter?" Why did His Majesty the Emperor come over? ”
Arrest quickly told Xiao Qiongzhi everything that happened after he left the criminal department before.
It turned out that not long after Xiao Qiongzhi left, the people sent by Wang Zhengrong brought Zheng Dan, the king of Huaiyang, Xiao Mingzhu, the princess of Huaiyang, and their daughter Linglong to the lobby.
It's just that Xiao Mingzhu, the princess of Huaiyang, was too domineering, and after listening to Wang Zhengrong's explanation of the purpose of calling them over, she didn't cooperate with Wang Zhengrong's work at all, and blindly splashed in the court, not only trying to beat Liu Chunhua again, but also beating Wang Zhengrong for a while.
Wang Zhengrong was helpless, so he had to let people control her, and then entered the palace and begged Xiao Xuanliang to come to the Criminal Department to preside over the interrogation.
Xiao Xuanliang learned about the whole thing, but agreed to Wang Zhengrong's request and came over.
But when Xiao Xuanliang came over, he asked Xiao Mingzhu a few words, and Xiao Mingzhu suddenly fainted as if he had been greatly stimulated.
Xiao Qiongzhi understands Xiao Mingzhu's fainting problem.
According to her mother, Chen Lingfeng, Xiao Mingzhu has grown up, as long as she makes a serious mistake and wants to be punished by Xiao Xuanliang or Xiao Zhen's family, she will definitely pretend to faint.
Xiao Qiongzhi had seen Xiao Mingzhu at least and fainted several times in the Prince's Mansion.
The reason for fainting was either to use the excuse of visiting Chen Lingfeng to take away the important things in Chen Lingfeng's room, which was discovered by Xiao Zhengzhen and sent to Ruan Yulan, and he couldn't get off the stage; Either in front of Xiao Qiongzhi's third aunt Zheng Xiangyan, she played with Chen Lingfeng's rights and wrongs, but was broken by Xiao Zhengguang and twisted in front of Ruan Yulan, and couldn't get off the stage.
It is estimated that Xiao Xuanliang is also very aware of Xiao Mingzhu's "fainting" problem, but considering that Xiao Mingzhu is his granddaughter after all, it is not good to expose Mingzhu's tricks in public.
After Xiao Xuanliang "fainted", he immediately asked people to go to the palace to ask the imperial doctor to "diagnose and treat" her, and after "saving" Xiao Mingzhu to wake up, he still kept the imperial doctor by his side, ready to "rescue" her when she "fainted" again.
In this way, Xiao Mingzhu is completely out of choice and can only accept Xiao Xuanliang's trial.