In the spring of Qingyuan 27, Rumei returned from the capital.

Rumei, who came back from the capital, felt that she was already a character who had seen a big scene, and felt that Rushan and Ruqing, who had not come out of the door, were rural buns, and the soil had to be scum. From time to time, in front of Ruqing, she displayed the toys she brought back from Beijing, the clothes her aunt gave her, and the bracelets and bracelets that her aunt's mother-in-law gave her. And Rumei proudly mentioned to Ruqing that after Mrs. Yongningbo, that is, the cousin, learned that she had gone to the capital, she specially came to invite her to be a guest, and also gave her some precious gifts. And her cousin Jiang Yunran was very polite and friendly to her--- Yunyun rolled her eyes when she heard this, and Rushan pursed her lips disdainfully.

And because of her hard work during the lockdown, Fang Jinglan was moved and lifted her grounding order in advance. After Rumei learned about it, her face darkened for several days. From time to time, I talked about the news of the prince of Yongning Bo and the prince of King Jing in front of her.

"My cousin is really handsome, although he hasn't reached the crown yet, there are already many celebrities in Beijing who quietly like him. King Jing's son is also very beautiful, I heard that he is highly valued by the emperor, and he is often summoned to the palace to accompany the emperor and the queen mother. Also, Princess Jing is looking for a partner for King Jing's son, and has initially locked down the second granddaughter of Ling Guogong and the granddaughter of Cheng Guogong. ”

Finally, Rushan's expression became tight, and Rumei was proud, and continued to expose the news, "It is reported that although Li Xiao has not yet married a wife, the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother have each rewarded him with a few beauties, although I have never seen those beauties, I have also heard that they are one in a hundred beauties." Also, the second granddaughter of the Duke of Lingguo, I heard that she is also a talented woman with a reputation, and the granddaughter of the Duke of Cheng is also a rare beauty. Rumei stole her aunt's words as they were. found that Rumei's white hand was twisted, and she became more and more proud.

Ruqing did not speak out when she was a competent audience. Li Xiaozhi is a figure that can be expected to be unsatisfactory to her, and it is not bad to use it as a pastime before and after tea and dinner, but she is afraid that someone will take it seriously.

Sure enough, Rushan got up leisurely and almost lifted the tea cup on the square stone table, Rumei had already waited for her to get angry, and immediately prepared to fight, but Rushan smiled and said slowly, "Third sister, from time to time I put strange men on my lips, this is not the work of the boudoir woman." ”

Rumei blushed and said loudly: "Cousin Yunran is a relative of our family, not a strange man. ”

"Really? Then, King Jing's son and the third sister are not relatives after all. ”

Rumei blushed, "King Jing's son and second brother are brothers in the same family, and they are not outsiders. ”

Rushan smiled softly, "The so-called men and women are not at the same table at the age of seven, even if they are brothers and sisters, they have to avoid suspicion, let alone others?" Sister Deng listened to her sister's advice, and she should not talk about King Jing in the future. If you let your father know, you will be punished again. ”

Rumei looked at her with disgust, Rushan smiled softly, very sweet, "My sister is the concubine of Fangfu, didn't the third sister also say, this concubine, you can get **, steady, reserved, but if it is the daughter born by Aunt Xue, what is the difference between it and that of a little woman?" ”

Ruqing held the teacup and was silent, Rushan returned the words that Rumei often refuted her a while ago, I don't know how Rumei will be angry.

Sure enough, Rumei was so angry that her eyes erupted, and she poked her fingers and shouted angrily, "You, being a thief and shouting to catch a thief, who doesn't know your pickled thoughts?" It's really shameless to hit a rake. ”

Rushan's face was cold, "Who do you say is shameless?" ”

"So you, how?"

"You are really shameless, when you came back from Beijing, I heard that the eldest uncle and eldest sister gave Ruqing so many gifts, so my eyes were red and green, and I wanted to let Ruqing give you some of it."

"---- Ruqing and I have a deep sisterhood, what's wrong with sharing some gold and broken silver? I'm not like some people who only pretend to be clever and weak, pretend to be pitiful and win sympathy. ”

"That's a skill, isn't it?" Rushan said with a smile in a tone of anger, "At least I didn't rob like a robber like some people." Rushan glanced at Rushan, who was a turtle with a shrunken head, with sympathy and pity on his face, "I also heard that the gift that my father gave to Aunt Zhu a few years ago was also forcibly divided in half by my wife, but is there such a thing?" ”

"You, --- you dare to say that I am a robber, you and your aunt are shameless and shameless people who rob men---" With lip service, such as beauty, which opponent is the opponent, it will fall behind in a few strokes, and finally become angry and staged into a complete martial arts.

Rushan would have expected this to happen, and hurriedly fled the battlefield with his teacup, and Linglong Agarwood hurriedly followed. It wasn't until there was no more noise that he stopped, comforting himself, although he often couldn't get quiet, but he could also quickly improve his ability to fight in the house.

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In the 27th year of Qingyuan, this year, the government in Beijing began to be turbulent, because the Qingyuan Emperor in a hunting process, contracted the cold, and then he couldn't afford to be ill, he was fortunate to attach importance to Zhu Guifei, the Qing concubine waited day and night, Zhu Guifei was particularly powerful, once fell ill in front of the dragon couch, and the Qing concubine had to wait for the emperor, and to raise the four princes and the five princes, but also left and right. The queen mother, who presided over the feed, showed her demeanor as a ** at this time, and the harem government grasped it. She handed over the internal affairs to Hao Dacheng, the chief of internal affairs, and Liu Quan, the chief eunuch of the ceremonial eunuchs, and externally, the major affairs of the court and politics were assisted by the university scholar Zuo Yingzheng, while the other two university scholars Liao Chengqian and Yang Mingfang, one was sent to Datong, Shanxi Province to take charge of the general affairs of the three armies, and the other was sent to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions to take charge of supervising the salt transportation. The queen's series of hard-core style, most of the wait-and-see neutrals in the DPRK and the central government almost all sided on the side of the second prince from the queen, but under her background, the crown prince also won weakly.

Fang Jinglan, who has been up and down in Guanhai for more than ten years, immediately sniffed out the atmosphere of inadequacy, and estimated that there would be a new weather vane in the government and government, strictly restricting and prohibiting his subordinates from talking about state affairs.

In the autumn of Qingyuan 26, as Fang Jinglan expected, it was an eventful autumn, the emperor's old man finally got better, but the prince had an accident again, and during a private visit to Weifu, he was injured by a group of homeless people who didn't know where to beat, and the emperor was furious and ordered a strict investigation of the matter. Can be checked and checked, but the main messenger behind the scenes pointed directly at the queen, under the iron evidence of Zhu Guifei and the criminal department and Jinyiwei, the queen was speechless, and finally at the critical juncture after the emperor wanted to summon the book to be abolished, suddenly a large number of people and horses led by the Marquis of Jingyang and King Jing outside the palace rushed straight to the palace, and a fierce battle was overturned, seeing that the situation in the palace was about to be lost, fortunately, King Jing and the prince of King Jing arrived in time, led the soldiers and horses of the five cities, the forbidden army and other people and horses to fight hard, and rescued the trapped queen mother and the concubines of the harem.

After the failure of the mutiny, the empress committed suicide. The second prince lost power and was also given a glass of poisoned wine, ending his noble but not brilliant and short life.

Although the emperor won the victory, he also fell into suspicion, and the Marquis of Jingyang, who was directly involved in the rebellion, and the queen's family were all punished by the nine clans, and his cousin King Jing was also wiped out by the three clans. The rest of the queen's faction were degraded, exiled, and all the royalist officials were promoted to three ranks, while a few neutral officials, although they were not promoted, were also praised.

King Jing's father and son, Liang Huan, the governor of the soldiers and horses of the five cities, and Jiang Zi, the commander of the Imperial City Forbidden Army, were the largest, and they were also rewarded countless times. I heard that Uncle Yongning, who has always been in power, has also maintained a neutral faction this time with his younger brother and natural keen political sense, and is regarded by the old emperor as a trustworthy meritorious minister.

Yongning's uncle Jiang Ziwang and his younger brother Jiang Ziwang became the emperor's upstart for a while. And King Yu, the king of Yujun, but because he was close to King Jing, although he was not implicated, he was also reprimanded, but fortunately, King Jing said a favor, so he was safe and sound.

The situation in Beijing has affected the peace of Fang's mansion, and the old lady's eyebrows have always been lightly sorrowful, because Fang Jingxuan's father-in-law Zhao Wenwen was the first to stand in the queen's faction, this time he has been degraded, has been dismissed, and is still idle at home, and Zhao's eldest son Yue Zixuan, this time maintained a rare neutrality, but was not affected, but because of his father's relationship, he has not been promoted, and he is extremely depressed.

The only thing that can be regarded as gratifying is that after Fang Jingxuan returned to Beijing, he took money with Yongningbo's wife Yun's family, and his husband Zhao Ziangguan was in a low position and was not noticed.

After this catastrophe, the old emperor's suspicion became heavier, and now he was promoted, and tomorrow's dismissal often happened, and all the officials in the court and China collapsed to live a tight life, and even the prince Jing who made great contributions this time also returned the military talisman early and was sick at home, while the prince Li Xiao took the initiative to enter the palace to accompany him, and successfully removed most of the emperor's suspicions.

Although the situation between the DPRK and China is turbulent and quite disturbing, the Fang family is full of happy events.

First of all, in the spring of Qingyuan 26, March 3, the Shangsi Festival, in the bright days of spring, under the personal auspices of the old lady, the ceremony was solemnly carried out, and the people who came to watch the ceremony were all wealthy families and official ladies and ladies in Qizhou City. Replacing Allah was the old lady's sister-in-law, Hu Shi, who was known for her virtuous name and blessed face, wearing a dark blue embroidered golden branch and a floral partial skirt, personally put on the pure white middle coat, the plain Luo skirt, and the grand colorful clouds that were all over the embroidered folded flower placket for Ruzhen, and finally carefully inserted a delicately and elegantly made emerald white jade hairpin into the beautiful peach heart bun of Ruzhen, and said auspicious words that Ruqing could not understand.

After the ceremony, the Zhong family sent a bride price like flowing water, which is a big decision.

Li Shi watched these boxes of bride prices pouring into Songhe Hall, his eyes were red, and he thought that if his Rumei also got married, maybe it would be more pompous than this. However, Rumei's uncompetitive girl was never used to staying in the capital, and she barely stayed for more than three months, and then she was clamoring to come back, so Fang Jingxuan had to send her family to send Rumei back in February of the lunar calendar. The girl who is as beautiful as she has not been successful, except for the gossip that inquired about her body and came back, and what she was looking forward to, there was no progress.

However, Li's depression did not affect Fang Jinglan's good mood, and in the spring of the same year, Zhili went to Beijing to participate in the Spring Festival, and within a few days, a convenient newspaper came. After more than ten years of hellish hard study, he finally lived up to expectations at this moment, and one foot has stepped into the shining future of officialdom.

In order to show his virtuous and friendly stepson, the Li family suggested to Jinglan whether to hold a celebration banquet at home, but Fang Jinglan stopped him.

Li was not convinced, and was about to persuade her husband to agree, but the old lady spoke, "It's just that I won the lift, and there will be a palace test in the future, whether I can win it in one fell swoop, or I don't know, what do you have to do now?" If you really want to celebrate, it's not too late to celebrate when Brother Li'er has taken the fame and awarded an official and a half-job. ”

Li stopped talking, and stood there for a long time unable to organize his response. is also a stepmother, the old lady is too popular, Fang Jinglan's brother treats her like a mother, but she works hard but does not get a good job.

Or if you really live a little more, for the Li family to relieve the siege, "Zhili fifteen will be lifted, and our family can be described as great news, first, the younger brother has worked hard, and secondly, thanks to Daddy and Hu Fuzi to teach the party, grandmother, aunt, we should first thank Hu Fuzi." This intimacy is different, your own people, when you celebrate, it's the same, but this Hu Fuzi can be rewarded heavily. Grandmother thought why? ”

Li came back to his senses and hurriedly said, "If what I really said is right, I forgot about the business." She suddenly remembered something again, "My nephew Yunran is in the top few of the second class this time, even higher than Zhili, and my cousin must have done it in a big way." ”

The old lady remained silent at the same time, pretending not to hear.

Only Ruqing felt that this housewife was indeed not a human worker, and the Li family was also a bit talented, knowledgeable and knowledgeable housewives before, but now, after being a housewife for a long time, the news has been blocked, and it has become tacky and uncommunicative.

In fact, before the exam started, Jiang Yunran was bound to be promoted by Fang Fuyi. Because Uncle Yongning is in charge of the imperial examination, coupled with the recent kindness of the old emperor, he has the right to speak in political affairs, his baby son is admitted to the imperial examination, which guy eats the bear's heart jackal gall, and his brain is squeezed by the door before he dares to brush his ranking?

The Li family also took it out and proudly showed off, but they didn't know that although the Yun family was thorough this time, after learning that Zhili had won the move, he also ordered someone to send a heavy gift to thank the Fang family for taking care of his son, and Hu Fuzi also got a generous gift, however, he attached a letter to tell Fang Jinglan, which means that we did take care of Zhili, and Zhili can be moved, and Yongning Bofu is indispensable. Zhili read the letter for a long time and said: He took the test very easily, except for one or two questions that were a little difficult, the rest of the questions were like flying with a pen. But I still have to thank Yongningbo.

Fang Jinglan tore the letter to shreds, patted his son on the shoulder, and after telling Haosheng to rest, he went straight to the old lady's house----