Chapter 12: Meeting My Uncle
The body was found, and a group of criminals bit each other, and Zengshou pressed his handprint on his testimony, looking a little trance, and said goodbye to Lord Fan.
Master Fan looked at him fixedly, and said in a low voice: "I still had some misunderstandings about you before, but now I see, it makes sense for the imperial court to send you to Jiangnan." ”
Zengshou was stunned: "What do you mean, my lord?" ”
"How do you know so much?"
Lord Fan's eyes were firm, and he didn't know how to talk about longevity, so he paused: "This ...... With all due respect, I can't say. ”
"Everyone has secrets, as long as your secrets don't hurt others or commit adultery." Master Fan nodded and patted Zengshou on the shoulder: "It's time to go back and prepare for the departure." It's a tough trip, so take care. ”
This seems to be something in the words, and Zengshou was suspicious of what he knew, so he showed a look of sincere fear, and hurriedly nodded: "You must remember the teachings of adults." ”
Master Fan watched him walk out of the Moon Gate, and sighed in his heart that this person was very deep in the city, and if he could make friends, it would be a good fate.
Zeng Shou walked to the front yard, Luo Fan just transported the body away, walked over with a knife, Zeng Shou deliberately sniffed, turned around with a smile and left.
Luo Fan shouted: "Envoy, there are still three days to go, please prepare for the envoy." ”
"Is this concerned about me?"
"This trip is a difficult task, and I don't want to lose my life because of a rice bucket,"
The latter walked away with his hands behind his back after speaking.
"Hey...... Stink, stench, stink! ”
Zengshou flicked his sleeves, and swaggered out of the Admiral's Mansion with his hands behind his back.
As soon as he went out, a person ran from the side: "Sixth master, sixth master." ”
It was the little eunuch Junzi.
"What are you doing here?"
"The princess doesn't worry about you."
"Hmph, what's not to worry about, Master Fan is very good to me." Zengshou pouted triumphantly.
"Our lord is full of heaven and earth, everyone loves him, and he is ...... flowers."
"Stop, don't be verbose, let's go."
"That master, the princess said to let you go to the fourth master of Erfu Street."
The Guogong Mansion on Erfu Street is his mother's maiden home, and the fourth master is her mother's younger brother. ”
"Oh, my lord, I don't dare to borrow my ten guts, it's really the princess's order, saying that the fourth master just has an excellent gentleman, and he can go to Jiangnan with him."
Zengshou thought about it, his uncle was in the Hanlin Academy, a high-ranking and poor official who could not die of hunger, but there were a few capable people he knew, nodded and turned over on the horse. Junzi also got on the horse, and the master and servant went straight to Erfu Street.
Erfu Street is named because of the Qin Guogong Mansion on the street, the Guogong Mansion is divided into two rooms, and occupies a street side by side, and Uncle Zengshou is the second room here, called Xifu, and the title of the grandfather of the country is the long house of the East Mansion.
The master and servant dismounted at the gate of Xifu, and a small servant had already come over to take the reins of the horse.
Zengshou glanced at the carriage at the door and asked, "Why are there guests today?" ”
"It's the carriage of the princess's mansion." The little guy replied.
Zengshou sighed and nodded to indicate that he understood.
The second cousin over there in the long room, married the sister of the first emperor, called Princess Changping, this princess is the cousin of Zengshou, it is said that she is the most high-flying, and the current Queen Mother of the West Palace, when she was a concubine, she was still very angry with her. Princess Changping is the daughter-in-law of Dongfu, but has always lived with the horse in her own princess's mansion.
Zengshou entered the door, and a small servant came to kowtow, shouting that the sixth master could be seen, and the fourth master was chattering, and at the same time, someone came over and pulled Shunzi to call his brother: "I will take Brother Shunzi to eat tea and fruit." ”
Zengshou was led by the little maid, turned left and right to the door of the study, and the fourth master's scholar greeted him: "Please be safe from the sixth master." ”
Entering the study, his uncle sat down and drank tea, a man in his thirties with a mustache stood up, increased his longevity very modestly hugged his fists at the man, and then walked up to the fourth master and said, "Nephew to meet uncle." ”
"Qingping, look, I always said that my nephew is not like the rumors outside, when I see it today, do you believe it?"
The fourth master put down the tea bowl and pointed to the chair and asked Zengshou to sit down.
Zengshou looked at the man's sharp-beaked monkey cheeks, and listened to his uncle call him Qingping, didn't he sneer in his heart? This name really fits the scene.
"When I saw it today, it was true."
The man twisted his beard and looked at Zengshou.
Zengshou was inexplicably irritable, and he saw the look of waiting for a price on the faces of his uncle and this person.
Behind the man, a blank piece of paper suddenly appeared, on which it was written that Bai Qingping, a native of Shaoxing, was born in Jinshi, let go of two magistrates, and was dismissed for corruption.
Zengshou rubbed his eyes, and the white paper suddenly disappeared.
Corruption dismissal? That's not a good thing, is it?
"Longevity ......"
"Uncle, yesterday the Queen Mother gave her nephew a word, calling him to be cautious."
"Caution? Well, the Queen Mother has high hopes for you. Uncle nodded and smiled a little, "This Mr. Bai was once under your father's curtain, and later served as a two-term magistrate. Over the years, he has been idle at home, he is a native of Shaoxing, out of the master's place, you have a long way to go to Jiangnan, Mr. Bai has a meritorious reputation, but he can be willing to be your master at my request, accompany you to go, this is a half-teacher and half-friend friendship, meet Mr. Bai. ”
The master who was dismissed for corruption? Zeng Shou had doubts in his heart, but looking at his uncle's attentive eyes, it was difficult to refuse, so he had to stand up and bow to Bai Qingping again: "I've seen Mr. Bai." ”
Bai Qingping said that he didn't dare to say that he didn't dare to do it, and he also made a gesture at him.
"Hey, what are you...... I have never been out of the house, and I have never received an errand, it is very dangerous to go to Jiangnan, Mr. Bai is a southerner, and he has been an official over there for many years, so you have to discuss with Mr. Bai more about anything. ”
No matter what he thinks in his heart, he always has to give face to his uncle, nodding his head again and again.
After sitting for a while, Qin Hanlin asked about how to prepare, and seeing that Zengshou was a little absent-minded, he said, "Princess Changping is at your aunt's place and wants to see you." ”
"She sees me?"
Zengshou and this cousin have not spoken, this princess is from the favorite concubine, and the first emperor was also extremely domineering when he was alive, Zengshou is such a young idle clan, she has never been looked at by her, how can she see herself at her uncle's house today.
He knew how the princess who was above the top would come to Hanlin's house, although the two families did not have two rooms with five suits, but the princess had no contact with this side.
"But the princess wants to bring some Jiangnan rouge gouache?"
Longevity asked tentatively.
"With the dignity of a princess, how can I let you bring these things, it's a little thing in Dongfu, you will know when you go to see your aunt."
Zengshou got up and made a gesture to his uncle and Mr. Bai, Mr. Bai hurriedly returned the salute, Qin Hanlin said: "You are hired by me, you don't need to be polite, Zengshou wants to be a disciple of you." ”
The little thing took the longevity through the garden and came to the door of the back house.
A mother-in-law greeted her: "The sixth master, please." ”
The little girl stood in front of the moon gate with his hands down, and increased his longevity and walked in with his mother-in-law. There was a big girl with a duck egg face standing in the corridor, and when she saw Zengshou coming, she hurriedly stepped forward to bless herself: "I've seen the sixth master." ”
"Sister Ziyan doesn't have to be polite. Can you tell me about the longevity and visit your aunt? ”
Ziyan is the most powerful big girl by Aunt Shi's side, and whispered in Zengshou's ear: "The princess has been here for a while, and it seems that she is looking for the sixth master." ”
Zengshou nodded and said with a smile: "My sister still loves me." As he spoke, he loosened his hand and stuffed something into the purple cigarette sleeve.
The little girl opened the curtain and listened to someone inside: "The sixth master is here." ”
"I've seen my aunt and uncle, I've seen a princess."
Zeng Shou entered the door, and Mrs. Qin Si got up and took his hand: "My son, I heard that an errand was sent to you, but how are you prepared?" Princess Changping looked like she was in her thirties, with willow eyebrows and apricot eyes, not angry and arrogant, and smiled heartily, "Fourth aunt, I see that Brother Zengshou has an errand here, and the whole person looks much more stable than in the past." "Longevity said, how have you ever seen me, how do you know if I am stable?
After greeting for a while, it was nothing more than asking how the princess was doing recently, how she was preparing to go to Jiangnan to increase her longevity, and what was missing.
"Actually, I invited the sixth brother here today because I wanted to ask the sixth brother for one thing."
Princess Changping is directly ranked according to the clan and calls Zengshou the sixth brother.
She is a princess with grades, and longevity is an idle clan without grades, so she doesn't dare to dare to say that she doesn't dare.
"My own brother, the sixth brother doesn't have to be polite to me. This is a private matter of the horse, it just so happens that the sixth brother went to Jiangnan, and I can't believe others, the horse and the sixth brother are cousins again, so I can only ask the sixth brother. ”
The princess glanced at the fourth lady and wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief: "Hey, that poor girl in our family, it's really hard. ”
As he spoke, he pressed it, as if he had really shed a few tears.