He Ningxin, who was originally reclining on the warm pavilion kang, immediately sat up straight, and asked Fuliu happily, "Where is Mama Xu?" When will you come here? ”

Fuliu also misses Mama Xu. Since she was in the He family, Mama Xu was the housekeeper of these little maids, she was fair, even if she was strict, but as long as you didn't commit a crime, Mama Xu was still very kind to people.

"Don't worry, ma'am. The slave maid was in the outer courtyard when he explained the instructions of his wife to the chief steward of Dongxing, and listened to the boy who replied outside. said that Mama Xu brought two distinguished guests back, and was in the car outside the gate, so that the chief steward of Dongxing went out to greet him personally. Fuliu said with a smile, and said: "I also asked the chief steward of Dongxing to send a message to Mrs., so that Mrs. can clean up and go to Pingzhang Courtyard to meet guests." ”

He Ningxin hurriedly got up and walked to the house, looked in the mirror, and said, "This dress can still be used as a guest, right?" ”

Fuliu and Fufeng looked at each other and smiled, and said, "Don't talk about seeing these people from their hometowns, even if they go to the palace to meet Niangniang, it's enough." ”

He Ningxin's face immediately sank, and she turned around and scolded: "Who taught you to talk about the lady in the palace?!" His eyes looked sharply at Fufeng and Fuliu.

The two maids had never seen He Ningxin look so threatening, their legs bent down involuntarily, knelt in front of He Ningxin, and kowtowed busily: "Madame, stop being angry!" The slave doesn't dare anymore! ”

He Ningxin stared at the two maids for a while, and saw that they were trembling all over, not like they were pretending, so she nodded, softened her voice, and said to them, "Get up." - Forget it this time, if there is a next time, I will not spare it......" Although his voice was soft, his words were even more harsh.

The two maids did not dare not get up, and got up from the ground tremblingly, not understanding why the lady suddenly became angry.

He Ningxin glanced at them, saw that Fu Liu had a somewhat unconvinced look on his face, muttered for a while, and said in a low voice: "You don't know, the dignity of the royal family is something that cannot be insulted and degraded at any time...... Ordinary flat-headed people may still be able to speak freely. But these rulers, they must not indulge their quarrels.

Fuliu bit his lower lip and replied in a low voice, "Mrs. Xie's teachings." However, the slave and maid just talk about it in private, and they won't let others know......"

Although Fufeng didn't speak, his expression was deeply approving.

Listening to Fu Liu's unwilling words, He Ningxin lowered her eyes and looked at the half-human blue jade set bottle at the foot of the wall, and the delicate huáng'sè spring flowers inserted inside, and slowly spit out a sentence: "Don't take evil as small, don't take good as small." - Do you understand? ”

The two maids looked at each other and shook their heads together.

He Ningxin sighed and said, "This is the words of a saint, which means that you can't do bad things because they are small things, and it doesn't matter if you do them." Nor can it be because good things are small things, and it doesn't matter if you don't do them. The character of a saint is to persevere in the same way as others before and after others. You can't feel that others can't see or hear, and you can gossip behind people's backs. - And the lady in the palace is already a noble person, and she should not be taken lightly. You are the subordinates of our Zhenguo Mansion, and you are the personal maid of my Yipin Zhenguo Duchess, and your words and deeds will be seen by others. When you think no one is seeing, maybe someone is watching you, trying to find out what is wrong with you......"

Fufeng and Fuliu turned pale with fright, and hurriedly asked, "Madam, won't you?" Who would be so boring? ”

He Ningxin smiled bitterly. Boring, how is this boring? Don't they know that when the court dispute is deadlocked, it is often the women of the inner court who find another way? How many court officials who are invincible in the court, a "loss of private morality" is taken down by the opponent.

When he was still Pei Shufan, he also helped Lao Ning Yuanhou find the fault of one of his mortal enemies, and pulled the mortal enemy off the horse without blood. In order to show that she was more favored than his wife, she always put the Empress Dowager Pang on her lips, implying that the Empress Dowager Pang could ascend to the throne of the Empress Dowager as a concubine, and the wife was nothing remarkable, and sooner or later it would be the fate of the next court.

The wife was not angry, although she didn't complain everywhere, but she deliberately indulged the maids around her to say that the favored concubine was not, and finally reached Pei Shufan's ears, and she immediately seized the opportunity to let Lao Ning Yuanhou participate in a book, accusing the sworn enemy of conniving at the cheap concubine "Climbing the Queen Mother", which is contemptuous and ill-intentioned, and has the meaning of not hugging the pipa.

At that time, it was still the reign of Emperor Jiaxiang and the time when Empress Dowager Pang was in turmoil. As we all know, before the Empress Dowager Pang ascended the throne of the Queen Mother, she did not be a queen, she herself deeply regretted this, and was very taboo about this matter, and did not allow the palace people to mention her past, and also changed herself to "Queen Yuan" on the clan family, in an attempt to write off the previous queen.

This book of the old Ning Yuanhou really made the Empress Dowager Pang furious, regardless of the fact that the person was the right-hand minister of her own faction, she blatantly put him in prison, confiscated his family property, exiled his female dependents, and confiscated his concubine into the sect as an official.

Pei Shufan's plan back then not only eliminated his biggest opponent in the court for the old Marquis Ningyuan, but also completely chilled the hearts of the ministers who were originally on the side of Emperor Jiaxiang and Empress Dowager Pang, and let the Pei family and the Marquis of Ningyuan join forces to lay the initial foundation for the layout of the abolished prince who was far away in the southwest to return to the throne.

The wind rises at the end of Qingping. If you have a heart, you can pick out the bones in the egg, not to mention these family mansions with many people and poor control?!

He Ningxin thought of this, and thought that although their Zhenguo Mansion was not the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion, there were signboards as big as the queen mother and the three princes, but now that a cousin girl had entered the palace, she couldn't stay out of it.

"Anyway, you remember, even if you gossip in private, you can talk about anyone, but you can't talk about people in the palace. Whether it is the saint, the mother, or the palace attendants, aunts and palace maids. - Remember? He Ningxin didn't explain much to them, but just ordered them strongly.

The two maids also knew that the people in the palace were nobles, and it was not them who could talk about them. It's just that now he can't even joke in private, so he hurriedly looked straight and said, "Madam, don't worry, the slave doesn't dare anymore." ”

He Ningxin nodded, her expression relaxed a lot, and her voice softened completely, and said, "Well, I naturally believe in you." These things, not only do you have to remember not to talk nonsense, but even if you hear other people in the house talking nonsense in the future, you must also stop them quickly, you know? ”

Fufeng and Fuliu were busy, and they no longer dared to speak lightly, and became more and more cautious.

He Ningxin smiled with satisfaction and said, "It's not too early, let's go to Pingzhang Courtyard first." As he spoke, he asked Fufeng to put on a big coat for her, put on a Guanyin pocket, helped the little girl's shoulder, and went out.

Pingzhangyuan used to be the main courtyard of the Zhenguo Mansion, and it was originally the place where the grandfather and the duchess of the country lived. Later, because Mrs. Jian refused to take the initiative to move out, He Ningxin changed this courtyard into a ceremonial hall for distinguished guests, and the ancestor worship during the New Year was also carried out here.

He Ningxin walked in the veranda of the Pingzhang Courtyard, thinking about Mama Xu's errand, which should have been better than she expected.

Mama Xu was assigned by He Ningxin to go to Wanzhou, the ancestral hometown of the Jian family. In addition to the Jian family's reputation in Southeast Province, the Lu family and the Pei family are also well-known sons of Southeast Province.

Wanzhou Jian, Yuezhou Pei, and Fan Yanglu are the three most famous families in the Longqing Dynasty in Southeast Province. However, in today's Hongxuan Dynasty, there are only Wanzhou Jian and Yuezhou Pei, and Fan Yanglu has been completely erased......

Mama Xu went here, first, to find out what Mrs. Jian had done in the years when the Jian family was relegated back to her ancestral hometown, who she had helped, and who she had grudges with; The second is to invite a few older generations of virtuous people from the ancestral home of the Jian family to come and meet. Although these people are only a side branch of the Jian family, they are of high seniority, old, and have seen the world back then, so they may not know anything. These three are to go to Fan Yanglu's realm and take a walk to see if you can find the surviving Lu family members.

The descendants of the Lu family were suppressed by the Empress Dowager Pang by various means, the family property was confiscated, and those who were officials in the court were cut to the people and rushed back to Fanyang. And Mrs. Lu was the head of the Lu family at that time, and she was the father of Mrs. Jian, who was sentenced to exile in the wild land of the southwest border by the decree of the Empress Dowager Pang. Mrs. Lu and Mrs. Lu were also almost fifty people back then, and the old couple dismissed the family business, carried a small burden on their backs, and followed the escort on the road, and they have not been heard from since.

The Lu family, who was removed from their fame, had no support, so they had to guard Fan Yang to cultivate the last few acres of sacrificial fields. Later, the last remaining group of Lu family members did not get a good deal. At that time, the Jian family was also relegated back to Wanzhou in the southeast, and the people in Lujiazhuang had no hope and dependence. One night, Zhuangzi got into the horse thief and kidnapped and killed all the people of Zhuangzi, only Lu Zhenxian and her father and mother escaped because they were guests at Lu Zhenxian's grandfather's house at that time.

Lujiazhuang was then burned to the ground by horse thieves.

Lu Zhenxian's father is the younger brother of the old lady of the Lu family. After the news spread, the people in Fan Yang said that the Empress Dowager Pang had made it bad and wanted to destroy Lujiazhuang, and the horse thieves must have been pretended to be officers and soldiers, so that Lu Zhenxian's grandfather's family refused to take them in anymore, gave them a few taels of silver, and asked them to go elsewhere to join their relatives.

Lu Zhenxian's father and mother couldn't and didn't dare to go back to the burned Lujiazhuang, worried that someone would be there to "wait for the rabbit", so they set off incognito and went to Wanzhou Mansion overnight to join the Jian family, who had been relegated back to their ancestral hometown.

Old Madam Jane was of course very happy to see her uncle and aunt, and enthusiastically kept them to stay. It's a pity that these two people didn't have great fortune, although they escaped the robbery and killing of Lujiazhuang, they soon contracted a vicious disease in Jianjiazhuang in Wanzhou, southeast of China, and within a few days, they also passed away.

The Lu family, which has been inherited for hundreds of years, now only has two women, Lu Zhenxian and Mrs. Jian.

Some of these things He Ningxin heard from Jian Feiyang, and some from Lu Zhenxian. And all the news was only three or four years ago, when the Jian family returned to Beijing. At that time, Jian Feiyang had already left Wanzhou for many years. He is afraid that he is more familiar with Shouchang Mansion in the southwest than in Wanzhou in the southeast. And Lu Zhenxian is just an orphan girl living in the Jian family, and of course she doesn't have the manpower and material resources to continue to pay attention to the situation in Wanzhou in the southeast.

After He Ningxin married into the Zhenguo Mansion, she soon discovered the strangeness of Mrs. Jian, but there was no evidence to really expose her. ——He Ningxin knows that such as these spleens, craftsmanship, as well as external temperament, cultivation, and manners, are all things that can only be understood and cannot be spoken. Trying to rely on these to expose the true face of Old Madam Jian is tantamount to a fool's dream. If you don't do it, you will be bitten back by Mrs. Jane. This kind of backbite is not an ordinary battle of tongues, but can let Mrs. Jian use the word "filial piety" as a banner and let her go directly to the court.

With He Ningxin's spleen, which has always planned and then moved, of course, the first thing he thought of was to go to his ancestral home to find tangible human and physical evidence. - If Old Madam Jian really has a problem, judging from the current situation, people from all sides are dying and scattered, and the difficulty is really not as difficult as overthrowing Empress Dowager Pang.

He Ningxin was originally prepared that Mama Xu would return in vain, so when she heard that Mama Xu actually brought a "distinguished guest" back, He Ningxin felt that a big stone in her heart had fallen to the ground, and her walking steps were much easier.

When she came to the main house of Pingzhangyuan, He Ningxin stood at the door of the main house and had no intention of entering.

Fu Feng and Fu Liu had just seen He Ningxin's power, and they were still a little uncomfortable for a while, and some stood behind her silently, not persuading her to go in as before, or looking for someone to go to the outer courtyard to take a look.

He Ningxin stood on the steps and waited for a while, seeing that no one had come from the second gate to pass the message, she was slightly strange, and said "Huh" softly.

Fufeng and Fuliu glanced at each other, and then they dared to speak.

Fufeng took a step forward and asked He Ningxin softly, "Madam, do you want the slave to go out and take a look, what's going on outside?" ”

He Ningxin was just about to nod, when a figure rushed in at the gate of Pingzhang Courtyard.

Everyone looked at it, it was Dongxing, the chief steward of the outer courtyard, who seemed to be trotting all the way over, looking very anxious.

"So Madame is here! ——The little one just asked people to go to Zhiyuan Pavilion to spread the word, and the person who came back said that Mrs. was not in Zhiyuan Pavilion, and went directly to Pingzhang Courtyard. So the little one came over in person. Dongxing wiped the sweat from his forehead and said a little out of breath.

He Ningxin was displeased, but her face did not show anything, and she asked slowly, "Why haven't people come in yet?" "In the clan of the Jian family, Jian Feiyang is the patriarch, and the descendants are all in this town. Those people from their ancestral home are just a distant clan, even if they are older and have a higher rank, they won't let themselves, the Duchess of the First Rank of the Decree Country, go out of the door to greet them, right?!

From Fuliu reporting the news just now, to now He Ningxin came to Pingzhang Courtyard, it has been half an hour in total. Although the Zhenguo Mansion is large, it is only the time for a cup of tea to sit in a sedan chair from the outer door to the second door. - Is this to know that she has something to ask of them? So deliberately put on a show?

Dongxing heard that Mrs. was angry, and hurriedly replied: "Mama Xu brought two distinguished guests over. One is the second uncle of our family who has five suits, and the other is the other," he said, glancing up at He Ningxin.

He Ningxin looked at him calmly.

Dongxing gritted his teeth and said, "There is another one, it is the old lady's mother-in-law, Mrs. Lu." ”

Thank you all for your pink tickets in advance, and thank you one by one when you go back.

In addition, how can people who are big officials in the capital dare not criticize the Empress Dowager Pang, but the ordinary people who are far away dare to do so? - This is not a bug, it is a normal phenomenon in the history of our country. Think about Yuan Chonghuan, when he was executed, the people in the Ming Dynasty, that is, in the capital, hated him to the bone, and people from other places shouted for him and scolded Chongzhen for being mediocre...... There are many other examples, so I won't list them all here. I don't mean anything else, I just don't want anyone to say I'm contradicting myself...... ro

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