Chapter 4 (Part II) (IV) (Part II)
+++++++++++++++++++ the dividing line between you and me (IV) (Middle).
In the Xiangyang Hou Mansion, the old Hou wife Liu Zhizhi felt disgusted when she looked at her husband's excited expression, but she couldn't show it at the moment, at least she still needed this old guy before Tao'er succeeded. She listened to the old man's endless chatter, and at the same time smeared the snow clam ointment on a pair of well-maintained hands, and was in a rather happy mood. In this life, she finally had the opportunity to trample Chen Bihua, the woman she hated the most, under her feet. Chen Bihua, the woman who ruined her life's happiness and stole her queen's throne, when her Tao'er ascended to that honorable position, she must let her taste all the hardships she suffered.
Seeing his old wife listening to him casually, there was a faint contempt in his expression, and the anger in the heart of the old Xiangyang Marquis was burning, and he couldn't bring it out at the moment. After all, he still has to rely on this woman to reach the pinnacle of power. When he married her and raised the child in her belly, he suffered so many years of grievances, and after experiencing a disappointment in Gao Dong, he almost killed this woman, and now Tao'er finally ignited his hope again, he didn't want to endure it for more than 30 years, and give birth to something in the end.
He humbly shook Liu Zhizhi's hand: "Madam, I have already arranged it over there in Luoyang, as long as Mr. Gao arrives, the north and west will move, and we should also leave for Luoyang." ”
Liu Zhizhi felt a little disgusting in her heart, although this man has not looked for other women all these years, he has relied on medicine to satisfy her, and he quickly escaped to the front yard after finishing the matter, don't think that she doesn't know what the handsome and strong retinue and strategists he raised in the front yard are used for. Ever since she figured it out ten years ago and raised a few delicate guards by her side, she had even saved her medicine. He and she were now just partners in conspiracy, if it weren't for the fact that he held the holy decree of the first emperor in his hand and controlled part of the forces cultivated by the Xiangyang Marquis Mansion with the assistance of the first emperor, she would have eliminated him long ago. How can this humble and nasty man be as good as the person in her heart.
Back then, Brother Qin was so radiant and extravagant. When they traveled hand in hand in Jiangnan, they aroused the envy of many people on the road. Because he was born with cold disease, he was like an ordinary person if he did not have an attack, and even braver than ordinary people, but when he attacked, he was cold, cold, sore, and weak, although his life was worry-free, but it was quite painful. And most of them are winter nights without any warning. After the attack, the palace people have to check through the layers of palace doors that have been handed down to the imperial doctor, which is also very inconvenient and delayed for a long time. Brother Qin told her that Empress Zu and he himself wanted to find a woman from a medical family to wait for him, and maybe these medical families could research a formula to cure his problems. The Liu family calls itself a family of immortal doctors, Liu Zhizhi is confident that the ancestor and the queen will definitely take a fancy to her background, and believes in the promise given to her by Brother Qin, if she enters Beijing to draft a girl, she will seek the permission of the ancestor and let her enter Brother Qin's palace. The head of the Liu family is not naïve and childish, and his daughter asks to enter the Beijing draft, and she must inquire about the matter clearly.
Although the Liu family's way of treating people and healing injuries is weird, sometimes the way of medicine introduction and medicine refining may be too unkind to outsiders, but people in the world often value their own lives, and even more so for nobles in the palace. Therefore, there are also disciples of the Liu family in the palace hospital, and there are also important ministers in the court who have received the favor of the Liu family. The head of the family issued an order, and the disciples and subordinates ran around to inquire in many ways, confirming Liu Zhizhi's statement. And there are many women who have ordered the Liu family, Liu Zhizhi and her medical intelligence and character in different ways and on different occasions, and confirmed the news that the old man is willing to choose Liu Zhizhi as his daughter-in-law if he still feels pleasing to the eye when he sees someone. The important ministers of the court are also quite optimistic about the only son-in-law of the ancestor, and can only value him. The methods of the ancestors have long made the intelligent and kind prince of the harem either terminally ill or unexpectedly gone, leaving behind all those who are unsightly or have handles and stains, or are absurd, dissolute and lustful.
Finally, after some busy planning, everything in the palace was sorted out, and enough work was done before Liu Zhizhi's name was reported to the ranks of show girls. Liu Zhizhi, who missed Brother Qin, embroidered the wedding dress at home for several months, and finally boarded the boat to go north to the capital.
She still remembers that day, the sky was a little gray, which made her feel a little depressed when she went out. But thinking that she would soon be able to see Brother Qin, and that her father had already paved the way for her and dotted all the joints, she felt at ease again. When she approached the wharf, she saw several building boats moored on the wharf, one of which was carved and painted, which was more exquisite in workmanship and materials than the surrounding building ships. She was happy in her heart, Brother Qin really valued her, she sent a letter to ask Brother Qin to send a boat to pick her up, one was to highlight her status and bright future in her hometown, and the other was to reaffirm Brother Qin's importance to her. Although she is mentally mature, she is only a sixteen-year-old girl who has not yet experienced the world, and now she has taken this step, and her heart is inevitably confused and uneasy. Now seeing that Brother Qin really lives up to expectations, she feels ecstatic in her heart. I saw that there were all the guards standing on the side of the gorgeous ship, all of them with solemn expressions, as if waiting for the master to board the ship.
She thought that her carriage would stop at the tread of the ship, but she changed direction halfway through and went to the north to a very ordinary-looking ship, although there were also figures walking around on it, and some people who looked like guards stuck their heads out, but there was neither momentum nor rules. She felt a sense of loss in her heart, and at the same time felt a little angry. In this Yangzhou city, even the family members of the prefect are not more noble than her, you must know that the Liu family has made friends in the court and the close ministers of the Son of Heaven. Regardless of officials and businessmen, the first dignitaries in Yangzhou City are all in the Liu family, I don't know that the one who doesn't open his eyes actually made such a beautiful boat and a neat guard, but he appeared at the dock where she asked several noble ladies in the city to see her off, Isn't this a slap in the face?
How could she endure this breath, and immediately sent the girl around her to inquire which family was not long-sighted, and dared to swagger at the Yangzhou dock like this. Dare to compare Miss Liu, I don't know if they still want to spend this day in peace, or if they still have the ability to leave this water in good health. At the same time that the people were sent out, she had already calculated that it was a small punishment, and she also wanted to let them know that they didn't want to be too ostentatious when they went out, and they didn't want to block the other sisters of the Liu family if they had nothing to do. Before the person who went to inquire came back, she had already come up with a few ways to make the other party look ugly, and she also took out all the medicine she was going to use, and when the girl came back, she would scatter the person. When I went out just now, the eldest brother said, He still has some things that have not been loaded, but he is afraid that he will miss the auspicious time, so he asked her to get on the boat first, and wait slowly on the boat. In that case, she just happened to have a pastime.
It's a pity that the news brought back by the person who came back made her very discouraged, because the other party was not an ordinary person, nor a native of Yangzhou, but a boat from the Chen family that came from Hangzhou and passed by. On the ship was his sister-in-law, escorted by his brother, to the capital to be married. It is said that the eldest man of the Chen family, who is the head of the household, found a good family for his daughter in Beijing. Because the old lady of the Chen family likes to be lively and doesn't like to go to Beijing, the children of the Chen family's house have grown up with their grandmothers in Jiangnan, and now they are getting married, and it is normal to enter Beijing. It is said that the other party is a disciple of a high-ranking family, but because the Chen family is unwilling to publicize it, they have not informed the prospective aunt of the news to the outside world. But everyone is speculating that it is the nephew of the ancestral queen and the eldest son of the family of General Shang Shumu of the Ministry of War. According to the news from Beijing, General Mu has been in and out of Chen's mansion frequently recently, and even Empress Zu summoned Mrs. Chen to inquire about her daughter-in-law.
In the eyes of the Liu family, the Chen family is a nasty existence, who has practiced medicine for generations, but they are not at ease in the medical hall to see patients and accept apprentices, but instead open a nondescript academy. The academy has collected many talents from the south of the Yangtze River, and these people have dabbled in all aspects of the history subset of qin, chess, calligraphy and painting. Over the years, the academy has produced a lot of talents, and there are not only a lot of people who have entered Beijing to take the examination, but also a lot of champions, tanhua and lists. After years of operation, it has woven a comfortable cloud for the Chen family in the court. In Jiangnan, people who want to enter the academy are like carp crossing the river, and everyone wants to take this big boat of the Chen family, so that they can get the protection and support of the high-ranking and powerful fellow disciples in the middle of the court. There is also a medical hall in the academy, which teaches medical skills to those who are gifted and intelligent and have energy outside of studying other studies, and those who have no intention of pursuing a career and love medicine. After these people debuted, not only did they compete with other doctors in Jiangnan, but they also took the lead in the palace and Beijing. Peers are always enemies, no matter how the Chen family views the Liu family, anyway, the Chen family is the enemy in the eyes of the Liu family. Although on the surface, everyone does not interact with each other, and they can treat each other respectfully when they meet on the scene, the Liu family has long taught their children that they will never let go of anyone who can hit the Chen Family Academy.