Return to Capital (VIII) (Part I)

Besides, the second son of the Hou of Huaiyang can be regarded as a character in Beijing, and he is also one of Tang Xinjie's close friends, so many people began to suspect that the queen mother's purpose of marriage was like this.

Zhou Dingbang, the Marquis of Huaiyang, is not an idle marquis, he is a capable minister who walks on the Ministry of Industry and has meritorious service in controlling water. Zhou Yunhai, the eldest son of the Marquis of Huaiyang, followed his father to control the water all the year round, and now serves as the director of the Ministry of Industry, marrying the eldest daughter of the emperor's eldest sister Xiangping, the county lord of Yifang. Although the second son Yunsong did not go with his father and brother to the Ministry of Works, he was also the leader of three years ago, a famous talent in the capital, and is now the main book of Hongwen Pavilion. And the person looks like a jade tree, and he is a man who is easy to make a woman tempted. Zhou Yunsong is also regarded as the son of the family, even if he is a flat wife, it is not an insult to the princess of Nanyue, not to mention the concubine of the county lord, as a princess of a small vassal country, it can be regarded as an equal to the county lord of the Great Zhou.

It's just that the people of the capital rumored that he has a habit of cleanliness, and in addition to the wife of the family, he has no other wives and concubines, and he never sets foot in the land of fireworks. Someone once gave him a woman, and some women were rejected for self-recommended pillows, and his wife in the family has no children so far, so some people suspect that he is not close to women. Even because he was close to Xinjie, the third son of the Tang family, some people suspected that he had a habit of breaking his sleeves. In fact, only people who are familiar with the second son Yun Song know that he has had a childhood sweetheart since he was a child, and his feelings are deep, but when the woman was eleven years old, his father was burdened by the Zhou family's unjust case, and went to Gannan with his family, and the other family members were attacked by bandits in Gannan and were killed. Through the help of the Tang family, the Marquis of Huaiyang took the woman back to the capital to raise her, and later the Zhou family secretly arranged a marriage for the two. Although the queen mother later rehabilitated the Zhou family's unjust case, when she was brought back, she was still guilty and involved the Tang family, so the Huaiyang Hou family unanimously declared that she was an orphan girl fostered by a distant relative, without a father or mother, and rarely showed up even after becoming a second young grandmother, so as not to provoke right and wrong.

Everyone knows that Ruan Qianhua likes the third son of the Tang family, but the queen mother pointed her to the third son's friend, and all kinds of speculations emerge one after another. There is a version that this Ruan Qianhua misses Tang San Gongzi in her heart, and Tang San Gongzi is a close confidant of the prince, and the queen mother gives the prince face, and disgusts Ruan Qianhua with this method; One version says that Zhou Gongzi's wife was infertile because she had a strange disease and needed the blood of a woman growing in hot flashes in the south as medicine, and it happened that Ruan Qianhua grew up in the hot and humid country of Nanyue, and the queen gave this woman to the Zhou family as medicine in order to reward Zhou Gongzi for assisting the prince; There is also a version that Zhou Yunsong is also one of the copywriters and strategists that the prince relies on, but the wife has not come out for many years, and the queen mother cares about the subordinates of the East Palace, and specially gives her a noble wife, who can only gain a foothold if she has children in the future. Everyone knows that the back house is dark, and if the flat wife does not have enough weight, it will be difficult to protect the child. The former theory comes from the common people, and the latter two originate from the palace. Some people even swore that it was passed on by the female official on duty in the queen's palace.

The real reason for the Lan family is very clear to herself, it is out of her own momentary anger. Recently, the Lan family has been like a fish in water in officialdom, and its popularity has been rising. This is naturally inseparable from the emperor's lack of health and the prince's imprisonment, and these people are all here to stand in line. As a result, the value of the daughters to be married in the Lan clan has also risen, and many people have sharpened their heads and want to ask for a Lan daughter, the emperor's future cousins, and even those who go home to be widowed.

The women of the Lan family were originally more picky about men, but after the tide rose, they were even more arrogant, and several outstanding girls in the clan were even more eye-catching, and those who were not talented and good-looking did not marry. The parents of the Lan family also feel that their family is a descendant, and the future queen mother family naturally has the conditions and capital to let the girls pick and choose, and these girls are becoming more and more arrogant. Even the Empress Lan also supported their dominance, her perception was that the better the girls married, the stronger the Lan family's power would be in the future, and what alliance would be more stable than in-laws? With the approval and support of the queen's mother, these girls are even more domineering in the circle of the capital, and they fall in love with men, even if the other party has a marriage contract or a wife's room, they will first be tempted, and if they don't succeed, they will try their best to win the marriage.

After one or two of them succeeded, they imitated each other. Many people in Beijing, even from other places, families who want to take a shortcut to promotion are suddenly flocking to it. However, there are really a few talented and good-looking children in Beijing who have hard necks, and this Zhou Yunsong is one. The daughter of Queen Lan's brother fell in love with him and asked him to marry her as a concubine, but he not only refused to her face, but was also taught a lesson by him. The girl cried and went into the palace to cry to her aunt, and lit a nameless fire of the queen's mother. Tang Xinjie rejected the queen's niece in Kansai this year ago, and it didn't take long for Zhou Yunsong, who was good friends with Tang Xinjie, to make her extremely angry, thinking that this must be Tang Xinjie's troublemaker. He rejected her niece first, surely fearing that she would hold a grudge, so he pulled another one in to cushion her back. In fact, Lan really thought too much, Xinjie never cared if she would hold a grudge against herself.

Just when she was listening to the palace people around her comforting her niece and scolding Zhou Yunsong for not knowing what to do, the words of another palace maid touched her, and the female official said that Zhou Gongzi, a good person like Miss Lan, didn't want it, she really didn't know what to do, and she should let him meet a shameless and obscene woman like Ruan Qianhua to torture her.

Originally, the Lan family really wanted to be a good person, sympathize with Ruan Qianhua, marry her to Tang Xinjie, and completely disgust this arrogant man, but she has been hesitant because Tang Xinjie has the backer of the old queen mother, and she is afraid that if she gets angry, it will affect the prince. But Zhou Yunsong didn't have the queen mother's special favor, so it was just right to use Ruan Qianhua to block him. It is best for Zhou Yunsong to complain to his friends again, so that Tang Xinjie will be blocked by the way.

So Lan quickly made up her mind, she felt that she would really want to thank Nguyen Qianye in the future for allowing him to sit on the throne of South Vietnam. A few days ago, Yiyi happened to come to tell her, and asked her to make a decree to marry Jing Chen and Ruan Qianye. In this way, Jing Chen, who is an eyesore in the palace, is about to marry far away, and if she cleans up the Zhou family, it can really be said that Ruan Qianye has done a good thing for her this time. As soon as she was in a good mood, she immediately made a will. I was happy, and I appreciated Ruan Qianhua's one more farm, and Ruan Qianye's two dancing girls from the palace music workshop went to bed. Look how kind she is.

Outside the palace, Tang Xinjie and Zhou Yunsong waited for the effect they wanted. They need Ruan Qianhua to marry into the Zhou family, of course, not to use her as a medicine, but to put her within the scope of their supervision, and in the near future, the Jiangnan Zhou and Yan blood cases will need her as a witness. At the same time, Zhou Yunsong also wanted to do something for his wife, his childhood sweetheart's wife was the daughter of Jin Jiu's mother's own sister, and she was safe and sound because she couldn't marry her daughter because of her sin. Zhou's wife is heartbroken by what happened to her cousin, and she wants to avenge her by detaining Ruan Qianhua in their sphere of influence in a reasonable way so that she can be punished.

Yi Zhi had a fast horse to send to South Vietnam, Jin Guifei was very happy, one had a princess and daughter-in-law, and the other she didn't want Ruan Qianhua to marry Tang Xinjie. She hated Tang Xiaoxiao and Xinjie for supporting Jin Jiu's mother and daughter. It's good that it has nothing to do with the Tang family. It wasn't until three years later, before she died, that someone told her that Ruan Qianhua had lived for three years that life was worse than death, and this was not a later story.

In the night, Xinjie rode towards his small courtyard. As we approached, there were no pedestrians on the road, and the sound of horses' hooves echoed through the quiet cobblestone alleys. Riding on a high horse, he could faintly see the light coming out of the gap in the trees behind the wall of his yard, which should be his study. In the past, when he lived alone, as long as he was away, he would not light the lamp. At this moment, Lian'er must still be waiting for him, and a warm feeling wrapped his whole body, and he couldn't help but smile. Just as he was about to turn a corner and walk to the main entrance to go home, he was keenly aware of the anomaly. Pat the horse on the neck and whisper to the horse, you continue to walk home. Then he jumped silently from his horse, landed in a suitable place on the back wall, and then landed gently in the backyard, hiding behind a wooden tree.

Through the gaps in the leaves, two gray figures could be seen slowly approaching the study window. One of these two people holds a steel thorn in his hand, and the other holds a white chain in his hand. He squinted his eyes, if these two were cold thorns on the rivers and lakes, the people who invited them were really not ordinary, not only to have money, but also to have status and means to agree to one of their requests. These two men are said to have never been defeated since they joined the killer business.

It's just that he doesn't see the methods of these two people, usually because the two have never provoked him, and he doesn't care about their idle affairs. But at this moment, when people came to the door, he naturally would not be polite, although they were more than a foot away from him, but he was confident that they were still within his control, so he simply observed what they wanted to do. I saw that the guy with the white chain in his hand took out something like a smoking gun from his arms, and he knew at a glance that it was a smoke or something like that. These two people are also a bit famous, I didn't expect this no-miss defeat to be won by this kind of indiscriminate means, and the woman who actually wanted to harm him at this time didn't want to be a killer, but I didn't want to indulge them now.

I saw the two of them slowly moving towards the window, he could have turned off the mechanism from the small pavilion next to the wooden tree, but at this time he stood still, let them go to their own death, and they didn't spend their efforts for such a despicable villain. As long as his lotus is okay. The clouds outside were mysterious, and the person in his heart in the study seemed to be unaware, sitting upright on the window, holding a pen in his hand and writing something. Well, the man does it for you and lets you keep going about your business.