Chapter Ninety-Four: Retreat

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The lady of the Dingguo Mansion and Zhu Jingyi, the cousin of Emperor Longqing, is a well-known shrew.

Born in southern Xinjiang.

Grew up in southern Xinjiang.

It is said that before getting married, she had no other preferences except whipping people.

Although, after marrying Xu Wenbi, the Duke of Dingguo, as a continuation, it has been somewhat restrained compared with before, but it is only "some" convergence.

It is rumored that in order to earn a high fortune with the wife of Dingguo Gong Xu Wenbi, Li, she forced her two daughters to practice the piano with a whip, and threatened to make her two daughters become piano masters, so that Li's daughters would be ashamed of themselves and never touch the strings again.

It's just that Mrs. Zhu's two daughters are really not the material for piano practice.

All of them are like their mothers, and the whip can play with a hundred and eighty kinds of flowers, and the art of the piano is ......

cough, it is said that the two ladies have been practicing the piano for three years, and still no one can play a complete song, but the strings are just like when they first started practicing, no more than three days, they have to be sent to the instrument shop for replacement!

This matter has long become a joke among Yanjing's famous families, and Emperor Longqing has long heard of it.

"Yuan'er likes the qin, and my father also knows it."

"At that time, I just thought that I had already arrived at the door, I might as well go in and see if there was a satisfactory piano, and I was waiting to find the master, so I followed Miss Xu Wanyu of the Dingguo Mansion and entered the musical instrument shop."

Zhu Yaoyuan said as she carefully placed the plate with pear blossom crisp in front of Emperor Longqing.

"In that shop, there is a piano of some years, the style is simple, but the sound is clear."

"As soon as Yuan'er saw it, she liked it."

"I just never thought that the shopkeeper was a stupid person who didn't know how to be interesting, and the person who Ren Yuan'er sent to negotiate said that he would not sell the qin."

Speaking of this, Zhu Yaoyuan pursed her lower lip childishly, as if she was a little resentful of the shopkeeper who rejected her.

"Yuan'er thought, maybe people think that I am too young to afford a high price, so I have such a bad attitude, so I thought about asking Brother Lingjun for advice, so that he could negotiate with others."

"It just so happened that at that time, the piano of Xu Wanyu, the lady of the Dingguo Mansion, had also been taken out by the servants in the shop, and there was no need to wait, the two of us left hand in hand."

In winter, it is dry.

At this moment, Zhu Yaoyuan said a lot of things in one go, and she was very thirsty.

She was a little embarrassed, looked at Father-in-law Maizi who was standing behind Emperor Longqing, blushed her cheeks, made her index finger, and tapped her lips.

"Look at the old slave's memory!"

"I forgot to add tea to the princess!"

Father-in-law Mai, an old eunuch who has lived to become a fine man, how could he make such a low-level mistake?

Before him, he pretended to take a nap, naturally in order to "avoid suspicion" and not let himself "know" too much about Royal Mixin.

The inner courtyard of the palace, since ancient times, has been a dangerous place to eat people without spitting out bones.

Living in such a place, except for the emperor, which is not, the more you know, the faster you die?

Maizi's father-in-law said goodbye to the little eunuch who was standing outside the pavilion and waiting for orders, and then, from his sleeve, took out a small box, took out a silver needle, and pricked the pear blossom cake on the plate a few times.

This is a common practice in the palace, and there are no exceptions for anyone.

"This pear blossom cake was bought by me and Brother Ling in Fang Market."

"I was going to bring it to my father last night to taste it."

"It was the concubine's refusal that dragged it on until now."

Zhu Yaoyuan smiled and leaned in front of Emperor Longqing, picked up a small piece with chopsticks, and put it into his mouth, showing grievances.

"No matter how busy my father is, he won't have to eat two pieces of dim sum?"

"The mother concubine is always so rigid and conservative, no wonder my father is happy!"

"Hugh is going to talk nonsense!"

"Your mother is virtuous and sensible, and she is very good, who did you listen to make up rumors that I don't like her?"

The Li family, who was born in Duren, has always been the concubine who made Emperor Longqing feel at ease the most.

She is humble and sensible, obedient and peaceful, and remembers his habits clearly.

Although she is not good at competing for favor, but with her, Emperor Longqing can always feel inexplicably relaxed and relaxed.

Even if he encounters enemy coercion or natural disasters, he can always listen to her play a few songs, and he is as safe as a dream.

"The second son of the Mu family said."

"Yesterday, Yuan'er almost got into a fight with him, at the door of the musical instrument shop that my father said."

"Tsk, if it hadn't been for him, today, Yuan'er would have been able to get her wish, and use the piano that Yuan'er had been thinking about for a long time to play music for her father!"

mentioned "that qin", Zhu Yaoyuan's eyes immediately turned red, "This is good!" Even the shop has been burned, and the piano is gone! ”

"I knew earlier, I knew that there would be such a thing, Yuan'er didn't have to leave the piano yesterday and let the owner of the shop tune the strings!"

"If Brother Lingjun asks Yuan'er, where did the 10,000 taels of silver borrowed from him go, how can Yuan'er be, and how to explain to him!"

After that, Zhu Yaoyuan's tears flowed down her cheeks.

She could finally cry.

Finally, there can be a reasonable reason, openly, to express her sadness.

She would never see the man again.

Jaya, Jaya......

"Princess's Day condolences."

"It was Rusong's dereliction of duty that failed to stop the kid surnamed Mu from doing evil and ruining the princess's beloved."

Jiang Rusong is a straight person.

In ordinary times, the most unseen thing is that a woman wipes her tears.

Four lives.

A good piano.

Although he doesn't understand the rhythm, judging from the fact that Zhu Yaoyuan did not hesitate to borrow money from Ling Jun to buy this piano......

Zhu Yaoyuan is not yet an adult.

The silver income in January is not more than 100 taels.

10,000 taels of silver.

I'm afraid that she is frugal, and she may not be able to repay the debt until she gets married!

He can still take care of the relatives of the four who died in vain.

However, 10,000 taels of silver is not what he can repay by relying only on his money!

Besides, looking at Zhu Yaoyuan's crying and losing her face, I'm afraid that in her heart, that piano is far from 10,000 taels of silver, but comparable to the value!

"Also, I can't blame you entirely."

"This thing, still, still has to be blamed, blamed on that bad thing surnamed Mu! He clearly is, clearly because he sees that I am a bully, so he did it on purpose, on purpose! ”

Zhu Yaoyuan's crying has no beauty at all.

Because, she is really crying, not like those, in order to compete for favor, the pear blossoms pretending to bring rain.

Listening to Zhu Yaoyuan's tone, it should not be as he guessed, there is an unclear relationship with the owner of the musical instrument shop, and Emperor Longqing is a little relieved.

He said, how can such a young child understand the relationship between men and women.

Hmph, sure enough, it's the old man of Qianguo Gong, who is ruining his daughter's reputation!

"It's just 10,000 taels of silver, what are you crying about!"

"You are the princess of my Ming Dynasty, crying for such a little silver, what kind of system!"

confirmed that Zhu Yaoyuan did not receive it privately, and Emperor Longqing's mood was also cheerful.

"Spread my word, Mu Defeng, the son of the Duke of Qianguo, brutalized innocent civilians, committed a heinous crime, was demoted to a commoner, and was assigned to the Northwest Battalion, and served as a soldier for ten years."

"Mu Changzuo, the prince of Qianguo, has no way to teach his son, he will be fined for one year, and he will think about it behind closed doors for three months, and compensate for the malicious damage of a guqin by his son Mu Defeng, which is converted into 30,000 taels of silver, and Princess Yu Ruian."

"Settle within three days."

"If the deadline is overdue, the daily interest will be recorded in three points, and the penalty for his son Mu Defeng will be increased, and he will not be allowed to enter Beijing before the expiration of the period."

Emperor Longqing said casually, but the content of the punishment was enough to make everyone present have cold backs.

As everyone knows, the Northwest Battalion is the place where Ling Jun lived in his childhood, and the current commander of the Northwest Battalion, Jiang Rubai, has a close relationship with him.

Everyone in the world knows that Ling Jun has always been very protective of Zhu Yaoyuan's sister.

Emperor Longqing sent an oracle to send Mu Defeng to the northwest battalion to guard, which was tantamount to handing over Mu Defeng's life and death to Ling Jun for "ruling".

After all, in the bitter cold of the Northwest, a child of a family like Mu Defeng, who has been pampered since childhood and has never suffered hardship, can't survive the sentence, it's simply normal and can't be normal.

Of course, what made Mu Changzuo more uncomfortable than the distribution of Mu Defeng should be that Emperor Longqing also punished him for his money, banned his feet, and threatened him to compensate Zhu Yaoyuan for his "losses".

Although, the Qianguo Mansion does not rely on Mu Changzuo's money to maintain, when it is not a war, Mu Changzuo rarely goes out when he is ordinary.

However, this oracle shows the attitude of Emperor Longqing.

Because of his brother Mu Changshi's covetousness, Mu Changzuo, the position of the prince of the country, has always been scared.

His mother's family has completely declined, and his wife's maiden family has not been reused by Emperor Longqing for many years because of the wrong person who was loyal many years ago, and only his flat wife Wang, that is, Mu Defeng's biological mother, still has a brother in power in the court.

This is also the fundamental reason why he dislikes his eldest son Mu Rui and wants to support his second son Mu Defeng Chengjue.

And now, Mu Defeng has been demoted to a commoner, and it is impossible to inherit the title, and he and his wife Wang have never raised other men except for Mu Defeng, a lone seedling.

In other words, after this incident, if he can't let his wife Wang give birth to another son as soon as possible, he will lose the help of Wang's mother, and thus the situation will be even more embarrassing.

Think about the worst again.

If Mu Changshi takes this opportunity to fall into the trap for him, then ......

"Yuan'er is young, and if she wants so much silver, she is afraid of disturbing her heart."

"Therefore, I implore my father and the emperor, in addition to returning the 10,000 taels of silver borrowed by Yuan'er and Brother Lingjun, all other compensation will be used to help the students in the bitter cold, so that they can study the way of being a minister with peace of mind, and in the future, they will succeed in their studies and relieve their father's worries."

As the saying goes, wealth can lead to God.

However, few people know that behind this "wealth can be through God", there was originally a sentence.

It can also invite disasters.

Zhu Yaoyuan knew that she, a princess with a weak maternal family, would suddenly buy such a large sum of silver, which would inevitably arouse jealousy and resentment, and thus fall into embarrassment.

Although, with Lingjun protecting her, those "cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods" may not dare to embarrass her on the bright side, but there is a way that open guns are easy to dodge, and hidden arrows are difficult to prevent, after all, it is impossible for her to stay in the Three Princes' Mansion and not leave, let alone marry from the Three Princes' Mansion.

Therefore, she made a smart choice to break the fortune and eliminate the disaster.

used this "ill-gotten gain" to gain a good reputation for herself, and at the same time, let Emperor Longqing favor her more.

One day, she will avenge Wan Jingchu.

The man who is as warm as jade, like the fall of the nine heavens, how can he be Mu Defeng's cheap life, which can be repaid!

Qianguo Mansion.

No, along with Mu Defeng's mother's family, they should pay for his life.

For that day, she must accumulate enough strength to fight against it, or, let her own worth be higher than the sum of the two.

Sponsoring students from the bitter cold is a good way.

A few taels of silver can be used to fund one person.

Twenty thousand taels of silver, how terrible will the amount be?

No matter how unlucky she is, it is impossible that there will be dozens of people who can become famous among thousands of students!

Although, the world is impermanent, there is no shortage of people who abandon their conscience for the future.

But for her, it was fine.

She is a princess, and one day, she will be regarded by her father and brother as a pawn to marry important ministers, however, it is precisely because of this that those who are favored by her dare not "ungrateful" to her, in case in the future, she has become a strong wall that they have devoted their lives to in their careers.

"Accurate!"

Zhu Yaoyuan's "sensibility" greatly pleased Emperor Longqing.

With a wave of his hand, he responded to her request, and "by the way" rewarded her for her "sensibility", "Spread my message, send the silver to the Three Princes' Mansion, and instruct the Three Princes to arrange food and lodging for the poor students who go to the examination, and those who receive the benefactor need to praise the virtue of Princess Ruian." ”

As we all know, Ling Jun has an inn industry in Yanjing.

Emperor Longqing passed a rumor and ordered him to arrange food and lodging for poor students, and he would naturally take advantage of it.

In this way, on the one hand, it can make his industry profitable, and on the other hand, it is also conducive to him making friends with these students.

Emperor Longqing has always been cautious and rarely delegated power to his sons.

And today, he is so obviously supportive of Ling Jun...... In the eyes of others, it is serious enough to cause misunderstanding and make people think that he is ready to establish Lingjun as the prince!

"This must not be done, Father."

In this world, there is no benefit that can be obtained without paying a price.

Zhu Yaoyuan shook her head gently, stepped forward, grabbed Emperor Longqing's sleeve, and seriously rejected what Emperor Longqing said.

"They are the ministers of the society, the arms of the father, and the daughters and women, how can they be worthy of their praise?"

"Yuan'er begs her father to take back her fate."

Zhu Yaoyuan said while kneeling down in front of Emperor Longqing respectfully, "I think that in that shop, the few people who were killed should be burdened by the dispute between Yuan'er and the second son of the Mu family, so I implore my father and the emperor to order them to be buried, so that they will not be brutally slaughtered in the wilderness, eaten by dogs, wolves, birds and insects, and it will be difficult to enter reincarnation." ”

"I'll leave this matter to you to supervise, Rusong."

The corners of Emperor Longqing's lips rose slightly, obviously, he was very satisfied with Zhu Yaoyuan's "sensibility".

got up, stepped forward slowly, helped Zhu Yaoyuan up from the ground with his own hands, and then smiled at her.

"You kid, you really look like your mother!"

"If you don't fight for everything like this, in the future, if you marry your husband's family, wouldn't you want the flat wives and concubines in the backyard to bully and squeeze them, and you won't even be able to see your husband's face!"

"People who are happy with Yuan'er are reluctant to let Yuan'er be wronged."

"On the contrary, why should Yuan'er depreciate herself and insult my royal prestige?"

The corners of Zhu Yaoyuan's lips raised slightly, as if she didn't care at all, what Emperor Longqing said was possible.

And in fact, she really didn't care.

Her mother said.

In this life, there should be only one woman, and it is worth you to play "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix".

And now, the man who is worthy of her to play "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" is dead and will never be seen again, so what does it matter who she marries, and whether she will be snubbed after marrying?

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