Chapter 45: To each his own

The fat eunuch knew that taking over Old Man Shen's purse meant that he was a person from the same faction as the new princess, which meant that he was the person of the third prince.

How could he refuse such a good thing, which was especially frightening?

"The princess is virtuous and virtuous, and she is not the opponent of those who only know how to fight."

"The miscellaneous family is not talented, and he has lived in vain for more than 30 years, and in the palace, he has some friendship with some of the cronies of the masters."

"Old man Shen, don't worry, when I go back this time, the miscellaneous family will go and explain to those little guys, so that they must not hearsay, spread rumors, and become the spear thorn of some people with intentions."

Smiled from Old Man Shen's hand, took the purse, the fat eunuch browled his eyebrows, and promised Old Man Shen.

The three princes are "notorious", not to mention the palace, it is the entire Yanjing, and how many people dare to provoke for no reason?

Now, he has received the purse of Old Man Shen and joined the command of the third prince, and the most he can do is to help him spread the news in the palace, so that he can prevent some troubles.

As for his preference for the princess, he felt that it was better than directly swearing allegiance to the third prince.

First, in the past, he had been politely rejected by Li Guifei many times, and if he went directly to the third prince, it was difficult to guarantee that he would not be annoyed by Li Guifei.

Although, as everyone knows, the relationship between the third prince and his mother Li is unfamiliar and rarely moves, but blood, after all, is thicker than water.

That Li Guifei looks like a stable and weak woman who doesn't like to compete with others, but a woman who can survive in the harem and give birth to two sons to Emperor Longqing, how can she be a simple person?

He's not stupid.

Naturally, he didn't feel that he could have a higher status than Concubine Li in the minds of the three princes.

If one day, Li Guifei complained to Emperor Longqing, said a few bad words about him, or cried to the third prince, causing the third prince to suspect him......

In the palace, the most worthless thing is called human life.

He didn't want to die in vain.

Second, although this princess from the Shen family is lower than some famous ladies, she is the concubine who was married by Emperor Longqing after all.

Even in the future, if the third prince wants to marry his wife, he will enter the mansion and call her "sister" obediently.

As the saying goes, wealth can be channeled.

As long as there is the big tree of the Shen family, as long as the third princess wants to become the object of climbing for the ladies of all families, it is only a matter of time.

Plus, he is in the palace......

As we all know, the second prince, Zhu Lingling, is a piece of mud that can't support the wall.

The fourth prince Zhu Lingjun is still young, and he is the same brother as the third prince Zhu Lingjun.

Now, the eldest prince Zhu Lingjun has been abandoned, if there is no accident, this position of prince will definitely become the third prince Zhu Lingjun's bag.

In the future, the three princes will have to ascend to the throne, and the today of Maizi's father-in-law will be his tomorrow.

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The Shen family made a generous move, and it was easy for Liu Qingxin to win the favor of a group of people who escorted the bride price.

The fat eunuch hurriedly returned to Yanjing to recover his life, exchanged a few polite words with the old man of the Shen family, and simply had a little lunch, and then got up to say goodbye.

When he came, he needed to go with the car, which was full and couldn't go fast.

When he returned, he only needed to take a few guards from the Shenji Battalion with him, and he could quickly whip his horse.

According to the usual practice, those mothers-in-law, maids and eunuchs who came with him had to stay in the Shen family until the wedding day, during which they taught the princess-to-be many rules and taught the situation factions in Beijing, so that they could become competent princes and concubines as soon as possible after the wedding.

But at this time, Liu Qingxin was not in the Shen family at all, and these people inevitably became "idlers".

The Shen family has a big business, so I don't feel sorry for a few more idlers to eat.

After placing these subordinates properly, the old man of the Shen family took his three sisters-in-law and entered the study.

Take a seat behind the bookcase.

The old man of the Shen family looked around, and he couldn't hold it back, and the three sisters-in-law who tried to win Liu lightly "belong to his mother's family" were a little helpless and sighed.

The eldest son, Shen Wenfeng, is a good material for business, but not good at being an official, in the past, in the Wenju national examination, ranked seventeenth, was favored by the Ministry of Households, and had a bright future, but because he did not like the official road, he resigned and returned to his hometown after March.

After taking many examinations for him, the old man of the Shen family handed over the Shen family's money business to him to take care of.

Under the knees, there are two sons-in-law, three sisters-in-law, and several concubines.

The eldest son, Shen Hongxue, is now a world-famous "conspiracy" businessman, and the second son, Shen Hongbing, has just turned seven years old and is determined to become a minister of peace and stability.

Three daughters-in-law, one married Chen Maoling, the sister-in-law of the Chen family of the Yan Gang, as his wife, one married the captain of the Northwest Daying, and the grandson Jizhou of the famous Sun family of Yanjing was his wife, and the other was still to be written.

The second son, Shen Wenyan, Wuju into the office, is now an official residence in Wupin, and patrols southern Xinjiang.

Under the knee, there is a son-in-law, two daughters-in-law, and no children.

Shen Hongmo, the son-in-law, plans to enter Beijing to prepare for the martial arts examination after the year, and the two daughters-in-law are still young, and they are usually raised in the old house of the Shen family, and they are diligent in etiquette.

The youngest son, Shen Wenlei, Wenju into the office, is now the official residence of the fourth grade, and plans to be transferred back to Yanjing after the year and serve in the household department.

Under the knees, there is no son-in-law, the daughter-in-law died early, and there is a son-in-law and a daughter.

"Light-hearted girl, you grew up watching."

After a moment of silence, the old man of the Shen family took out his cigarette pouch and lit a pot for himself.

"Now, the Liu family, she definitely doesn't want to go back, and she can't go back."

After that, Old Man Shen took a puff of dry smoke, slowly raised his head, and looked at the three sisters-in-law standing in front of him.

"Yanjing, you have all been there, some of you have suffered losses somewhere."

"Our Shen family, although we have the glory of our ancestors, but our ancestors cannot shelter us to the earth."

Speaking of the ancestors, Old Man Shen sighed with some emotion.

Ancestral inheritance.

Back then, their Shen family was also the emperor's most valued courtier, a legend of one person and one horse, who could gather wealth in the world.

But now, during the "Jingkang Disaster", in order to save the two captured monarchs and the imperial court, what did they get by donating half of their family wealth?

A piece of paper for the award, that's all.

"We are a family of merchants."

"But our businessmen are official businessmen, not those fourth-class idle businessmen."

Speaking of this, Old Man Shen closed his eyes and took three puffs of dry tobacco in a row.

After a long time, he slowly exhaled the smoke again, leaned back, and leaned into the chair.

"Now, the light-hearted girl has been given a marriage, and in the near future, she will marry into the Three Princes' Mansion."

"This, of course, is an opportunity for our Shen family."

"But as an elder, I don't want this opportunity to be exchanged for the happiness of a light-hearted girl."

"Today, I brought the three of you to the study, in fact, just to ask for a promise."

"The three of you, who are willing to be her fathers, and are willing to promise me that you will do your best to protect her in your life?"

After saying this, Old Man Shen seemed to have exhausted all his strength.

Just as the man he loved many years ago told him that she already had a place in her heart and hoped that he would be fulfilled.

"Light-hearted girl, close to Hongxue since childhood."

"Hongxue's mother has always treated her as her own daughter."

Shen Wenfeng was the first to speak.

Compared with the three low-eyed and pleasing daughters in his family, he hopes to have a daughter who is a little noisy and willful like Liu Qingxin.

Before, like Old Man Shen, he hoped that one day, Liu Qingxin could be paired with Shen Hongxue, so that she would call him father like his three concubines.

Can ...... now Since Liu Qingxin can't be allowed to become his daughter-in-law, he should completely break Shen Hongxue's thoughts......

If you judge people's thoughts, in this world, I am afraid that there is no reason to let a woman become a man's "sister", which is more practical and effective!

"Looking at today's situation, the third prince and becoming the crown prince should only be a matter of time."

"The Northwest Camp is where he grew up in his childhood, and the current commander of the Northwest Battalion, Jiang Rubai, has a close relationship with him."

"Jiang Rubai's younger brother, Jiang Rusong, is currently the commander of the Shenji Battalion, and he also has a good relationship with him."

Quietly waiting for Shen Wenfeng to finish speaking, Shen Wenyan stepped forward and told Old Man Shen what he thought.

"I am stationed in southern Xinjiang, and I have some prestige in the southern Xinjiang army."

"If the light-hearted girl recognizes me as her father, and she marries the third prince, in the eyes of others, it is the marriage of the third prince and the general, which is far more appropriate than her recognizing the eldest brother and the third brother as her father."

"Moreover, many of the children of the Yanjing family, when they were gilded here in southern Xinjiang, have been taken care of here, more or less."

"With my relationship, it should be easier for a light-hearted girl to live in Yanjing."

Shen Wenyan is not a person who is greedy for power, otherwise, he would not have invited himself to patrol southern Xinjiang.

He wanted to recognize Liu Qingxin as his daughter, just to raise the value of his two concubines, and in the future, when they reached the age of leaving the cabinet, they said that if they have a sister who is a princess, they can also have more choices in choosing a son-in-law.

"Father, listen to me and make a decision."

Shen heard the thunder like a bell.

He is eight feet tall, with long sideburns and a thick beard, and no matter how anyone looks at him, he doesn't look like a gentleman from Wenju.

Seeing that Old Man Shen was already shaken, he hurriedly stepped forward and prevented him from opening his mouth to answer.

"In the past, when my wife was trapped in the bandit camp, she sacrificed her life for each other, causing her daughter to fall off a cliff, and her son died prematurely, and it was difficult for her to have children."

"At that time, I swore that in this life, she would be the only wife, and she would never be separated."

Speaking of his wife, Shen Wenlei's resolute face suddenly overflowed, and the gentleness that ran counter to his image was overwhelming.

He slowly raised his head and looked at Shen Wenfeng and Shen Wenyan who were standing next to him, Shaoqing, clasped his fists with both hands, solemnly, and bowed to them half-bowed.

"My wife has fallen in love with a light-hearted girl."

"I hope that the light-hearted girl can be counted as her daughter, so that she will not be written as a person without a person on the family tree, and hope that the eldest brother and the second brother will be fulfilled."

A wife who has no birth, even if she is not abandoned, will never be eligible to be written into the family tree.

It is true that many years ago, Shen Wenlei was pardoned by Old Man Shen and allowed him to write his wife Duan on the family tree, but no one dared to guarantee that after a hundred years of Old Man Shen, those old guys in the family would not regret this matter.

If you don't register the family tree, you can't be buried in the ancestral grave of the Shen family after death.

Shen Wenlei didn't want the Duan family, who had fallen to today's situation for his own sake, to suffer a little more grievances.

"I will take it lightly and treat it as if it were my own."

"Moreover, after the New Year, I will be transferred to Yanjing and work in the household department."

"The identity of a father is always more suitable for her than the third uncle."

Hearing that Shen Wenlei unabashedly told the reason for his appeal, Shen Wenfeng and Shen Wenyan couldn't help but look at each other and smile awkwardly.

They didn't dare to be so open-minded and tell Old Man Shen their plans.

Otherwise, according to Old Man Shen's temper, if you don't scold them for a bloody squirt, you will see the hell.

"The third family's is indeed pitiful."

"The girl who fell off the cliff, but she was the same year as the light-hearted girl?"

The old man of the Shen family pondered for a moment, raised his head, and looked at Shen Wenlei, who was still bowing and saluting.

Simply, it is impossible for the girl who fell off the cliff to be alive, so it is better to let Liu Qingxin continue to "live" as her.

If there are family members who come to entangle and question, their Shen family also has "reason" to argue, after all, the girl fell off the cliff, and no one in the whole Zhouzhuang knows about it.

If in the future, the light-hearted girl enters the Three Princes' Mansion, Yanjing Lady will inevitably make waves and squeeze out her, an outsider.

At that time, her story of "falling off a cliff and meeting an immortal, and learning a wonderful hand to return to her hometown" should be able to bluff some timid people for her, so that they dare not act arbitrarily.

"That girl, the same year and month as the light-hearted girl, is only three days longer than the light-hearted girl."

Hearing that Old Man Shen was deliberately biased towards himself, Shen Wenlei hurriedly stood up straight and answered his doubts.

Before, he didn't dare to be delusional, let Liu take it lightly, and live as his late daughter, but now, after listening to Old Man Shen's inquiry, he instinctively had hope for this matter.

If it really goes his way, those old fellows......

Even if they are given a hundred guts, they will never dare, and they will embarrass the Duan clan again!

"Only three days away?"

Shen Wenlei's words made Old Man Shen unconsciously raise his eyebrows slightly.

Because of her age, he can't even remember the name of that girl.

I only vaguely remember that she was timid and timid, walking, like to stick to the wall, and during the New Year, she would be scared to pee her pants when she received the New Year's red envelope with her elders.

He didn't like that girl, naturally, and he wouldn't bother remembering when she was born.

"Yes, father, the birthdays of the two are only three days away, that girl was born at three o'clock, and the light-hearted girl is one o'clock in the hour."

Shen Wenlei nodded solemnly, knowing everything about Old Man Shen's question.

"Go back and tell Duan that she has a daughter."

You don't need to consult anyone.

Old Man Shen made the final decision.

"This matter is very important, and the fewer people who know about it, the better."

"You are a writer and a writer, and you should be unable to stop compiling stories."

"In the next few days, you will make up a story about this matter, and in a few days, I will find a few reliable storytellers and spread it."

After that, Old Man Shen turned over the cigarette pouch and knocked the residual leaves in the cigarette pot to the ground.

solved the identity problem of Liu Qingxin and made him relax a lot.

Next, he only needs to arrange the Shen family's rooms and enter the Yanjing business community, so as to prepare in advance for Liu Qingxin's entry into Beijing.

"Smell the wind, the dowry of the light-hearted girl will be handed over to you to prepare."

"The girl and mother-in-law who accompany the marriage must be screened properly, and those who can use the family to have children must use the family to have children, and those who can't use the family to have children must have a handle or means to hold it."

"Cui'er's must not happen a second time!"