Chapter 221: The Second Prince
Let's go out and have a look. Hearing Zhang Jihan's voice, Liu Meiniang naturally couldn't sit still, such a loud noise, something must have happened.
Sure enough, a few people went out of the door and saw Xiao Yuyan and Zhang Jihan standing face to face, as if they were confronting.
There is also a richly dressed man beside Xiao Yuyan, his appearance is superior, and he is somewhat similar to Emperor Changping, but between his eyebrows and eyes, he doesn't look very similar to the man in Daqi, but he looks like a person from southern Xinjiang, and the man's brows are slightly furrowed.
"The minister has seen the second prince and the third princess." Nie Changfeng took the lead in hugging his fists, and Liu Meiniang knew that the man next to Xiao Yuyan was the second prince today, and she knew it in her heart.
"I've seen the three princesses." Liu Meiniang stepped forward and bowed to the third princess slightly.
"You guys, don't you apologize to the princess quickly." Nie Changfeng saw that there were still broken dishes on the ground, and estimated that Nie Changyun and Nie Changan had collided with Xiao Yuyan.
"Brother Changfeng, it's not our fault, it's this woman who deliberately tripped Xiao Er and almost spilled the vegetables on Changyun." Zhang Tongtong has always had a spicy personality, not a vegetarian, even if he comes to the capital, although he will not take the initiative to cause trouble, he will not be afraid. Even if he heard Nie Changfeng shouting out the identities of the two people in front of him just now, Zhang Tongtong was still fearless.
"Tongtong...... The third princess, just now Changyun's fault The third princess has a lot, don't be familiar with us, Tongtong just came to the capital not long ago, and collided with the princess, don't blame the princess. Nie Changyun is very grateful to Zhang Tongtong for speaking for her, but after all, they are princesses, relatives of the emperor and the country, even if they do wrong, they who are courtiers can't say that they are wrong.
"Hmph." Zhang Tongtong looked at Xiao Yuyan and snorted, her tone quite contemptuous.
"What's your attitude?" Zhang Tongtong's appearance made Xiao Yuyan's anger rise again.
"What kind of attitude do I have, you tripped Xiao Er first, and almost burned Changyun, if you don't apologize, forget it, Changyun doesn't care about you, you still have to stop the two of us here, you are still reasonable."
Zhang Tongtong clasped her hands in front of her chest and said clearly, she is almost fourteen years old, and the third princess is just sixteen years old, so there is not much age difference, and Zhang Tongtong has nothing to fear.
As for the identity of the third princess, Zhang Tongtong just heard that although she was a little weak-hearted, she didn't lose the battle, and if Zhang Tongtong coaxed it, it would be really embarrassing.
"Where did you come from, shrew, dare to talk back to our princess like this!" Lixia, who was following Xiao Yuyan, stopped doing it, stepped forward and pointed at Zhang Tongtong's nose and began to scold.
"Where did you come from, don't you know the rules, did you talk to you?" Zhang Jihan's eyes were quick, and he slapped Lixia's hand off and stood in front of Zhang Tongtong with a protective posture.
"You stinky girl from the mountains, uneducated!" Lixia pointed at Zhang Tongtong and scolded loudly.
"Who do you think you are, are you so cultured?" Zhang Tongtong rolled up his sleeves and stood forward.
When they heard Nie Changyun calling the girl next to her, Xiao Yuyan and Lixia knew that this Tongtong must be Zhang Jilin's sister Zhang Tongtong, but they didn't expect the two sides to quarrel.
Lixia scolded people, and naturally he didn't choose his words.
Liu Meiniang's face was already cold when she heard this, not only Liu Meiniang, but also Zhang Jihan and Zhang Jirin's brothers.
In Liu Meiniang's concept, she has never looked down on the countrymen, and they all say that the quality of the countrymen is poor, there is a certain truth, the countrymen have not received much education, and naturally some concepts are not as good as the well-educated city people, but if someone looks down on the countrymen, Liu Meiniang is very angry, after all, these food and clothing in the city, which one can be separated from the countrymen.
Liu Meiniang still remembers that when she was in college, there was a country girl in the dormitory, simple and simple, very nice person, and she worked hard and was polite.
The whole dormitory loves this little girl, but there is always one in the dormitory who is always out of place with everyone.
When the little girl brought the special fruits of her hometown to share with everyone at school, the girl would always say with disgust that it was not clean and unhygienic, and she would not eat it.
On weekdays, she always likes to ask the country girl to run errands for her, and the other girls in the dormitory can't stand it later, so they help the country girl, but this girl doesn't know where she is wrong.
Over time, the whole dormitory didn't pay much attention to her. She eventually went to the counselor and complained that everyone had isolated her. The counselor approached Liu Meiniang, and they only understood after understanding the situation.
In the end, the girl moved out of the dormitory on her own. So any strange things in the university can be met by strange people, Liu Meiniang suddenly remembered this matter, but she felt that the two things were somewhat similar.
"Second brother, look at them, woo woo, they bullied me." Xiao Yuyan is still young, and when she saw this posture, she directly grabbed the arm of the man next to her and began to complain.
"Don't blame the third princess, my younger brothers and sisters just came to the capital, and they really don't understand the rules, Mei Niang will apologize to you on their behalf." Liu Meiniang shook her head and took a step forward, at this time, Zhang Jilin must not be allowed to stand up and make amends.
In fact, Zhang Jilin is the general secretary of soldiers and horses, and his official position is second only to the prime minister in the court, and at some times he can be much more powerful than the prime minister, so his status and status, Zhang Jilin is not much worse than standing in front of this prince and princess.
Moreover, in the vein of Emperor Changping, the princes have gradually grown up, and now there are four princes who have become adults, and the battle for the heir must not be far away, and Zhang Jirin, the rising star of the capital, has become the object of many people.
One of his Ji Rin has just arrived in the capital, and he is not as profound as those century-old families, so compared to those big families, the price of wooing Zhang Jirin is much smaller, and even in their eyes, Zhang Jirin is a very good target.
Second, Zhang Jilin has military power in his hands, not to mention that he manages the Imperial Forest Army in the capital, Zhang Jilin still has 50,000 soldiers and horses in the military camp.
This kind of treatment is not often seen.
Those generals with heavy troops, basically all the year round, rarely return to the capital, except for those who are old, after the rebellion of King Chun was pacified, Emperor Changping recalled the old general Long Aotian to the capital. Therefore, the side also avoids the possibility of these princes in the capital to win over the military generals.
And the generals who stayed in the capital did not have much military power in their hands, Zhang Jilin was just a special existence, among all the princes who intended to seize the heir, Zhang Jilin seemed to have become a fragrant bait.
As for these princes, Liu Meiniang has heard of it a little, the eldest prince Xiao Jingxuan is from the queen, and he is the most orthodox in terms of identity and status, and of course he is not allowed to be the crown prince.
The identity of the second prince Xiao Jingyi is somewhat special, and Xiao Jingyi's mother is also from southern Xinjiang.
Here I have to pull out another old story, after the death of the concubine, Emperor Changping had a particularly crazy time, during that time, Emperor Changping searched everywhere for women who looked similar to the concubine, as long as there was a little similarity, whether it was the nose, eyes or mouth, all of them were included in the harem, and the concubine entered the palace at that time.
At that time, it coincided with the Dragon King Banquet once every four years, and a messenger from southern Xinjiang came, and he also brought a woman who was similar to the concubine and had a blood relationship, that is, the cousin of the concubine, Yu Linlang.
After Yu Linlang entered the palace, she was also favored by Emperor Changping for a period of time, but in the end she was not a real concubine, so Emperor Changping lost interest after being favored for a while.
In fact, the woman I miss the most is the woman I fell in love with at a glance.
However, Yu Linlang became pregnant during the time she was pampered and gave birth to the second prince Xiao Jingyi.
Yu Linlang died of illness in the palace last year, although he was no longer favored by Emperor Changping, but after his death, Emperor Changping still crowned Yu Linlang as a concubine and buried him next to the imperial mausoleum.
Liu Meiniang doesn't know what kind of feelings Yu Linlang has for Emperor Changping, it is very strange that the Dragon King Banquet in Southern Xinjiang brought the sister of the concubine Rong, Liu Meiniang didn't believe that Emperor Changping couldn't see it, could it be that she was really carried away by love at that time, as long as it had something to do with the concubine?
But this Yu Linlang has not been a demon in the palace for so many years, but gave birth to a son for Emperor Changping, could it be that Southern Xinjiang is really using Yu Linlang to meet the wishes of Emperor Changping in order to obtain peace in Southern Xinjiang?
Liu Meiniang couldn't figure out the truth of one of them.
Before the death of the concubine, it can be said that she was the only favorite of the harem, so there were almost few pregnant concubines in the harem during that time, only under the pressure of the queen mother, Emperor Changping had to have a round room with the queen, and the queen just became pregnant with the eldest prince Xiao Jingxuan, and Yu Linglong had an accident.
Therefore, the royal family of Daqi's generation, the princes are generally of the same age, the thirteen princes, the first seven or eight are not three or four years old, and the youngest thirteen princes are just eight years old this year.
There are quite a few princesses, but they are also about the same age.
Liu Meiniang has always maintained a saluting posture and stood in front of Xiao Yuyan, but Xiao Yuyan never opened her mouth to let Liu Meiniang get up.
"Get up, the royal sister is young and ignorant, and I'm causing you trouble." But Xiao Jingyi, who had been by Xiao Yuyan's side as if watching a play, helped Liu Meiniang to get up.
"Second brother." Xiao Yuyan stomped her foot dissatisfied.
She was shopping casually today, but when she walked to Tianxiang Building and looked on the second floor, she saw Liu Meiniang sitting by the window, if Liu Meiniang was there, Zhang Jilin must be here, Xiao Yuyan entered Tianxiang Building with such a mentality.
I didn't expect to ask, Zhang Jilin was really here, Xiao Yuyan went up to the second floor to find Zhang Jirin, and happened to meet Nie Changyun and said that she wanted to go to the toilet, Zhang Tongtong accompanied Nie Changyun outside, just walked to the staircase on the second floor, Xiao Er came to serve a plate of dishes, and Xiao Yuyan was also standing at the staircase on the second floor.
Speaking of Xiao Yuyan, she was also unintentional, Xiao Er was holding a plate of dishes, and someone below shouted that Xiao Er was wrong with the dish, Xiao Er didn't hear clearly and turned his head to ask.