After the midyear festival, in the evening, Pei's house.

A carriage quietly stopped at the corner of the back door of Pei's mansion, and an old man in his sixties got out of the carriage, although the old man's beard and hair were all white, but he looked energetic, and his eyes faintly revealed a kind of essence above power, this person was the cabinet minister Long Tu.

After he got out of the carriage, the subordinates of Pei's Mansion immediately came to lead him to Pei Yi's study.

After Lord Longtu came to Pei Yi's study, although the two of them were silent, but the content was not pleasant, it can be said that Jing Lan performed well on the city tower last night, and this morning he was very happy with Long Yan, and praised Jing Lan, saying that he was holding a long sword and sticking to the city tower, which was quite the style of the Gu clan.

Pei Yi was worried that after this battle, Jinglan and the Shen family would definitely get closer, which would be a great disadvantage for him, but unlike him, Lord Longtu didn't seem to care, he could stabilize the imperial court for thirty years, relying on patience, he took a sip of tea and persuaded Pei Yi to say, "The enemy is often split from the inside. ”

It's a pity that Pei Yi, the first assistant minister of the cabinet, didn't have such patience, after Long Tu left, his hand kept knocking on the desk, and he dropped the teacup on the table to the ground, and said to the little guy next to him, "Go and call the eldest lady." ”

After Pei Jia received the news from Xiaowu, she was a little surprised, but she still followed.

"What did Daddy call his daughter for?" After Pei Jia came in, she saluted Pei Yi and said.

Pei Yi forcibly calmed the anger in his heart and asked in a dignified tone, "Why is Jingyu still reluctant to agree to the marriage with you?" Seeing that Pei Jia's face was unwavering after hearing this, he couldn't help but say, "Why don't you look like your mother at all?" I don't have any skills at all. ”

Pei Jia's mother-in-law was originally a famous maid in Pei Mansion, but she relied on her own means to get to the position of Mrs. Pei Fuzheng, which cannot be said to be a strong means.

Pei Jia suddenly felt sad in her heart after hearing Pei Yi's words, she was in this family, there was no taste of family affection for a long time, there were many wives and concubines in Pei Mansion, and each room was comparing to have children, her mother used her own wrist to walk to the position of the eldest lady of Pei Mansion, but in her opinion, she was not happy at all, even the people in her own yard were like thieves, although she was the eldest daughter of Pei Mansion, but in her heart she was extremely disgusted with the intrigue between these courtyards, she continued to say lukewarmly, "His Royal Highness King Jin has no intention of his daughter, The daughter really can't come up with any way, can she force him with a sword on his neck and let him marry his daughter? ”

After hearing this, Pei Yi was furious in his heart, he did not allow anyone to challenge his authority, he continued to say in a dignified tone, "Do you know how difficult it is for our Pei Mansion to get to this point? Daddy climbed all the way from a border official to the position of the first assistant minister of the cabinet, how many bitterness and bitterness are there, who can understand it? It's good that you have been pampered since you were a child, but you can't even take a Jin king, you have been raised for more than ten years. ”

In fact, Pei Yi still loves his daughter, but the way he sometimes speaks is too sharp.

Pei Jia was indignant after hearing this, she had been holding back in her heart for a long time, she had to stand up in front of Pei Yi, and said directly, "My daughter doesn't understand, you want to make Pei Mansion's power stronger through your daughter's marriage, you can go to the son of the prince, you can go to the son of the Duke of Ningguo, the Duke of Lu, you can go to the son of the general, so many princes, are you afraid that you can't find a high-ranking person, why is it the King of Jin?" King Jin is stubborn and never gives in to things he doesn't agree with, and you don't know it! ”

Pei Yi slapped the table and scolded loudly, "Why Jingyu, do you still use me to teach you this kind of question?" Do you think that the current emperor can still be in the seat for a few years? Originally, I wanted to use this incident to let the whole world see Jinglan's weak and incompetent nature, but I didn't expect this matter to be turned around by him, not only repairing the embankment, but also blocking the victims who entered the city, which can be said to have made a great contribution in front of the saint. If it is really Jinglan who is on the throne in the end, then there is still what good fruit for our Pei family to eat. The more Pei Yi thought about it, the more angry he became, he had suffered too much in officialdom to climb to today's position, and he would never allow anyone to disobey his ideas.

"There is one point, my daughter thinks that my father was wrong, you have a lot of chess pieces in your hands, but this does not include Jing Yu, he has too many ideas and propositions, and he is not greedy for status and power, you want to use your daughter to marry him to seize his purpose, I'm afraid it will not work." Pei Jia always has a fatal calmness towards her family.

Hearing this, Pei Yi was even more angry, he felt that his daughter did not understand his good intentions at all, and no matter how sharp a man was, he could be soft, he was convinced of this, and he still attributed all the problems to Pei Jia.

Pei Yi suppressed the sharpness in his heart, and said patiently, "I know this person Jingyu, although he looks very indifferent and impersonal on the outside, but in fact, this person is very affectionate and very responsible, don't you have a very good relationship with your aunt, find a way to get him close to you, and naturally there is a way to make him submit." ”

After hearing this, Pei Jia looked at his father with some incredulity, his face had turned his back, giving people a space for non-doubt rebuttal, it has always been like this, he always treats outsiders like a good person, but when he treats his children, he is always high and does not allow arguments.

If she could, she really wished she wasn't with this surname and didn't want the glory of the Pei family.

But it doesn't matter anymore, for more than ten years, she has been living carefully, being careful at home, going to the palace carefully, and even in the Fangcao Pavilion, she is careful to observe, carefully please, and carefully advance and retreat, just to fight for a space for herself, and she can get an honor for Pei's family.

Seeing that he couldn't convince his father, Pei Jia could only retire in a huff.

Pei Jia walked in her small courtyard, looking at the appearance of the grass in the courtyard, her mind kept drifting into the distance.

As the eldest daughter of the Pei family, she has been following the path designed by her parents since she was a child, learning the Four Books and Five Classics, poems and songs, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and then marrying the King of Jin and becoming his princess, and working together to expand the glory of their Pei family, which is her mission and her fate.

But that summer, she met such a man.

Originally, she didn't feel anything about this person, she was just a nobleman, she went to the army to train for a few years, and when she came back, she thought she had flown into the sky. I still remember that before entering the palace that day, she was still very reluctant to dress herself, the Shen family, originally their Pei family's rival, the general of the Shen family, what is there to see?

Until the man strode in from outside the hall holding his military hat in one hand and wearing a military uniform, heroic, radiant, shining like the sun, at that moment Pei Jia felt that all his eyeballs were attracted by this person.

She had never felt that any man was as heroic and imposing as he was.

He saluted the saint and returned the salute to the colleagues around him, he was extremely measured, his speech and demeanor were generous, and even the posture of drinking was so good-looking. When his father took himself and stepped forward to salute him, even if he was a political enemy in the court on weekdays, this person smiled and generously replied, "Thank you Master Pei for your love, Yun Xi has seen Miss Pei." ”

Yun Xi, it turned out that his name was Yun Xi, Pei Jia didn't show anything on his face, but he deeply engraved this person's name in his mind, and even that night, she took the initiative to invite Ying to perform "The General's Expedition Song", using Se, a full twenty-five strings.

After that night, everyone in Jingshi was enjoying her performance, praising her for "a string rhythm around Yu Liang". In terms of beauty and talent, Pei Jia has always been conceited, and he thinks that he is no one in the Beijing Division, but why, is he not in the eyes of this person?

In order to avoid himself, he even hurriedly married a woman from a four-rank official eunuch family.

Pei Jia returned to the room in a trance, and she thought to herself with some sadness, "He doesn't want to marry me, so who do I marry and who I am with, what's the difference?" ”

She ordered her maids to go to the courtyard to pick some fresh violets, and prepared to go to Jingyang Palace, since her fate was destined to be like this, she could only go on like this, and she must not have any turning back.

After Pei Jia went out, in Pei Yi's study, a man dressed in black jumped down from the beam of the room, saluted Pei Yi respectfully, "My lord." ”

"How's it going, any news on that?" The man in black nodded and said, "The eldest prince has received the edict and is on his way home." ”

Hearing that Pei Qixuan was on his way back to Beijing, Pei Yi nodded with some relief, "Okay, send more people, you must protect his safety." Pei Qixuan is Pei Yi's first wife, born to the daughter of the Lu family, but the Lu family's health is not good, and Pei Qixuan died of illness shortly after giving birth, Pei Yi later accepted Lu's dowry maid, that is, Pei Jia's mother Zhao Yuanzi as an aunt, after several fierce struggles in the backyard, Pei Jia's mother Zhao Yuanzi gave birth to a girl and three boys for Pei Yi, and sat firmly on the throne of the eldest lady of Pei Fu.

Not long ago, Pei Yi wrote to the emperor to ask the emperor to transfer Pei Qixuan back to Beijing, only saying that Pei Qixuan was old enough to solve the marriage matter, and the emperor immediately approved it after hearing about it.

Pei Yi, the object of Pei Qixuan's marriage, after making in-depth planning, chose Shen Xitong, the daughter of the Shen Mansion's long house, although he had long heard that this woman was stubborn, but the Shen Mansion had a good relationship with the crown prince Jing Lan, even if Jing Lan finally became the emperor, it would not embarrass him too much because of the face of the Shen Mansion.

Pei Yi suddenly thought of something else, and said to the man in black, "Is that ready?" ”

The man in black immediately understood what was going on, and hurriedly returned, "Everything is in order, just wait for the master's orders, and there will never be any traces." ”

Pei Yi was finally in a better mood, so that the man went out of the house in secret, leaving no trace.

Jingshi, Li Mansion

Today, Shang Shutai's right servant shot Li Min's chest was extremely irritable, and he sent someone to secretly inquire that Lord Longtu of the cabinet had gone to Pei's mansion, and he didn't know what the two of them were discussing, which made him feel faintly uneasy.

Ever since he heard that Jing Lan had led a group of people to repel the victims, he had been very apprehensive in his heart.

Some time ago, before the situation was clear, he led a group of people to ask the saint to go to the Temple of Heaven to pray for blessings, although the last blessing was done by the national teacher Lang Qingfeng, but he would inevitably become the target of the court.

In the early days of the dynasty today, the emperor's mood was obviously much better, and his attitude towards Jinglan was also very good. If he didn't expect it wrong, the next step is that the crown prince Jinglan is likely to ask Ning Wu's daughter Ning Yu for marriage, Ning Wu's attitude is vague, once he agrees to this marriage, then Jinglan ascends to the throne, it is just a matter of time.

Li Min thought to himself that he was likely to make a wrong bet this time, and it might lead to the destruction of the family. He has been familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics since he was a child, and Li Min understands in his heart that the people who hide behind him will only hurt the tentacles, and the people who often walk in front and charge into battle will die the earliest and fastest.

He couldn't sit still, and if that man reached out to him, how would he respond?

Thinking of this, he was shocked into a cold sweat, and he sent someone to call Li Zhuo, wanting to discuss countermeasures with him.

When the people of the Li Mansion heard this, they showed a faintly embarrassed expression, and Li Min said angrily, "If you have something to say, just say it." ”

The subordinate had no choice but to say, "Li Gongzi, he seems to have gone out." ”

"Where did he go?" When Master Li heard this, he was quite angry.

"He, he, he, he seems to have gone to Baihualou." The subordinate fell to his knees and said tremblingly.

A teacup in the study of the Li Mansion was thrown down hard, and Li Min scolded loudly, "It's not a thing." ”