Chapter 45: Aftermath (Part 2)

In Shangshu's Right Servant Mansion located on Shifu Street, Shen Zejing respectfully bowed down and saluted Ye Zhengchun, and said, "The student has seen the teacher. He didn't sit down, but stood and waited for Ye Zhengchun to speak.

"Hurry up and sit on one side, standing is an eyesore. After returning to Jingzhao for a year, what kind of ball etiquette do you learn? Ye Zhengchun waved his hand at Shen Zejing, as if he was a little disgusted with him being so serious, and his tone was extremely cheerful.

Not again...... This mantra...... Shen Zejing sat down on the side, thinking a little helplessly, before looking at this teacher. As his name suggests, these four words are not suitable for Ye Zhengchun, and anyone who sees him at first sight will have two words in his heart: profiteer! Yes, unlike Shen Huashan's cordiality and kindness, and also different from Shen Zejing's elegance and gentleness, Ye Zhengchun looks like a profit-heavy and treacherous businessman, and his face full of folds is also showing such a treacherous smile at the moment, his eyes are shining with an inexplicable light, and he is staring at Shen Zejing.

Outsiders only know that Ye Zhengchun is Shen Zejing's teacher, but they don't know that Shen Zejing is Ye Zhengchun's most proud student. It's also strange to say, Ye Zhengchun has a lot of students, but he only looks at Shen Zejing, and tries his best to teach what he knows to him, but this student is the least like him, I really haven't even learned my one-star and half-star demeanor, Ye Zhengchun thought a little.

"What's wrong with Jingzhao?" Ye Zhengchun didn't care about teasing Shen Zejing, and began to ask about serious things, although he also looked like a fox when he asked about serious things. He was a little surprised by the shooting of the right servant of the previous Shangshu. He is sixty years old, and he originally planned to stay in Jiangnan to Zhishi, but he didn't expect to be transferred to Jingzhao. Surprised, I was puzzled at the same time: What does the emperor mean by this? Theoretically, this position can't be talked about about him, and there are many of the emperor's henchmen and close ministers in front of him.

"It's still calm, everyone is waiting and watching." Shen Zejing briefly talked about the performance of the second prince and the fifth prince, and told him about the third prince's residence in Anbei. These three princes are cultivating their own forces openly and secretly, and the momentum of seizing the heir is actually very clear, which is basically the matter of these three people. In fact, he and his father have the same meaning, once the crown prince dies, the situation of the three princes will immediately surface, and now all kinds of changes in the Jingzhao official bureau are just a precursor.

"Don't get into the game yet, I always feel that this matter is still a bit hanging. That's what your grandfather meant. Ye Zhengchun frowned, expressed his meaning, and by the way, also said the opinion of the Xishan Yu family. Before he left Hangzhou, he also made a special trip to Xishan to visit, and also learned from the experience.

The Shen family has been extremely empty and quiet recently, Shen Yuhong and others went to Hangzhou, Shen Zeyuan went to Yunnan Gui, Shen Huashan and Shen Zejing are busy with their own affairs, and there are not many times when they are at home, sometimes Shen Zejing will also send someone to tell Shen Ning that he has something important, and there is no need for Shen Ning to go to the study to serve, such as tonight, he sent the little girl Qiuwu to Qingzhuju to tell Shen Ning.

"Someone in the mansion has been watching closely recently, it should be the second young master's person, if this continues, they will find out sooner or later, shouldn't he let him know?" Qiu Wu obviously felt that someone stared at him a few times intentionally or unintentionally when he entered and exited the mansion, thinking of Jing Zhaoyin's matter, thinking that it was all a family, should Shen Yuhong and the others know about the grasshopper?

Unexpectedly, Shen Ning shook her head and said that it was not the best thing yet, but in fact, she didn't know what to do to Shen Yuhong and them. , It seems that there is no reason to say, coupled with Ye Zhengchun's Jingzhao matter, Shen Huashan and Shen Zejing have a lot of thoughts, and she doesn't want to make trouble for them at this time.

The impact that Ye Zhengchun's entry into Jingzhao would have on the Shen family, Shen Ning already knew it the moment he learned of Shang Shu's appointment as the right servant. Grandfather and father may not have reacted yet, but she knows that Shangguan Changzhi will make certain moves against the Shen family, and with the relationship between Ye Zhengchun and Shen Zejing, Shangguan Changzhi will want to draw the Shen family over even more. What was not completed at the Shen family's family banquet last year is estimated to be picked up, the second brother is not in Jingzhao, where will he start this time? Shen Ning tried hard to recall Shangguan Changzhi's method of layout and calculation, and carefully recalled the style of his staff, Li Ke'an and Xu Sansi, trying to deduce his next move.

But the more I thought about it, the more lawless I became, and my mind gradually became anxious.

"Still there's no way to get people in?" She asked Qiu Wu again, and she still felt a little disappointed when she saw him shake his head. Inserting the mayfly into the Five Princes' Mansion was what she wanted to do the most, but the Five Princes' Mansion's defense of her subordinates was even stricter than that of the palace, and she was very careful in her investigation, with the current ability of the mayfly, it was impossible to arrange a spy from the three generations of ancestors to the neighbors within a radius of fifty miles, so naturally this matter was put on hold.

Concubine Zhou Xian is meeting her mother-in-law, the wife of Zhou Yangxi, the servant of the Criminal Department, Lin Shi, Concubine Zhou Xian and Lin's sister-in-law have a good relationship, and they are also harmonious. After seeing the Lin family's expression, Concubine Zhou Xian instructed the eunuchs and palace maids to guard outside the gate of Yikun Palace, leaving only the henchmen and female officials serving tea to the Lin family, so she asked directly: "Sister-in-law, do you have something to say?" She also knew that the Lin clan would not ask to see her for no reason, especially when Shangshu's right servant had already fallen into the master's possession.

Lin hurriedly said what he meant, and said that he was waiting for Niangniang's mind and reply.

"Brother wants Ping'er to marry the Shen family? Why? Wouldn't it be better to marry Ye Zhengchun's family directly? I remember that he also has a suitable granddaughter, right? Concubine Zhou Xian was a little puzzled, although she was not young, there was also a hint of innocence and straightforwardness in her tone - this was also the reason why she was favored by Emperor Changtai.

In fact, after living in ** for nearly 20 years, she can still survive unharmed, and she raised her son safely out of the palace, and she can still be favored by Emperor Changtai, how can Concubine Zhou Xian be a pure and innocent person? The Lin family also thought of this, and did not dare to treat it lightly, and did not dare to treat the sister-in-law in front of him who asked directly, and conveyed Zhou Yangxi's words: "Xianggong means that he is afraid that the emperor will think that His Royal Highness will be a city minister, and there is a suspicion of forming a party......"

In fact, Zhou Yangxi is worried about more than this, he vaguely knows a little about what the three princes are doing in northern Xinjiang, it seems that there is nothing to gain from the trip to the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, the three princes are not young, and they must seek a competent wife, he thinks about it, and feels that the Shen family is prosperous, and then look at the Shen Yu family, presumably the Shen family girl is also easy to raise, and there are Xishan Yu and Ye Zhengchun behind the Shen family, no matter how you think about this marriage, it is cost-effective.

"That's ......" Concubine Zhou Xian thought for a moment, remembering that Shen Zejing's only concubine hadn't been in time yet, would she be in a hurry?

"Xianggong said, there may be such a plan over there." Lin stretched out his palm and shook it, the fifth prince.

"I know, please go back and tell my brother, I will find a way to deal with this matter." Concubine Zhou Xian quickly made up her mind, it doesn't matter if she is younger, you can accept the side concubine first, this is easy to do.

Zhou Yangxi was not wrong, the fifth prince Shangguan Changzhi also had such a plan, at this moment he was discussing this matter with Li Ke'an and others, Ye Zhengchun's net worth and qualifications had already been sorted out and sent up by the staff, and he had also heard about the things in the past few days when he came to Jingzhao.

"After Ye Zhengchun returned to Jingzhao, Shen Zejing was the first to visit, it seems that the relationship between the Shen family and the Ye family is indeed good." Last year, when the design of Shen Yuhong failed, Li Ke'an was thinking about approaching the Shen family through other ways.

"It's to find a way to get in touch with the Shen family......" Xu Sansi also echoed this, now that the Shen family has Ye Zhengchun, the right servant of Shangshu, naturally it can't be compared with last year, and he also thinks that the girl of the Shen family is more suitable for the five princes.

"Shen Yuhong is still in Hangzhou, and Shen Zejing's other sons and nephews are all studying in Guozijian and Guanxue, and it is not easy to find opportunities." Li Ke'an was a little distressed, he couldn't think of any good way to win over the Shen family, the only effective thing now is marriage, but the prince's marriage is all directed by the emperor, how can this matter be approved by the emperor?

"Send people to pay more attention to the actions of the Shen family, if you go out and report quickly, the opportunity must be created, you can't wait, and you can't think about it." Shangguan Changzhi said meaningfully, he already had a good attention, so he was just waiting for the opportunity in the future, since he couldn't contact the Shen family through Shen Yuhong and others, then he would start directly from Shen Zejing's daughter.

"Taking advantage of the fact that Mrs. Shen Zejing has just given birth to a child now, I will send some gifts to the Shen Mansion in this name." Shangguan Changzhi instructed again that the foundation must be laid in advance.

Just like agreed, the Shen family has received condolence gifts from Concubine Zhou Xian and Concubine Li, these two ** nobles use the same excuses, both of which are Shen Yu's production and Shen Zejing's youngest son full moon, and specially sent a little heart to Yikun Palace and Chunxi Palace, and the female official who gave the gift also conveyed the meaning of the two mothers: let Shen Yu's family have a good life and recuperate, and after her body recovers, they will edict her to enter the palace to talk.

Shen Yu's family was a little confused, and he didn't understand how there was suddenly a message of care from the palace, and the two mothers also sent their henchmen to the Shen family to give gifts, which was also too strange, not to mention that Shen Yu Yuchen's full moon had passed for a long time. When she saw the gift list sent by Yu's mother, she immediately understood what was going on. Those gifts, except for a few women and children who can use them, such as the longevity golden lock, the rest are obviously the girl's household jewelry and rouge gouache, and even the golden ball silk rope that Jingzhao girl's family likes to play with nowadays, which shows that these gifts are not for Shen Yu's family, but specially for the young girl of the Shen family. She hurriedly told Shen Zejing about this.

"It seems that the Shen family has become a mouthful of fat." Shen Zejing told Shen Huashan about this, and said this sentence at the end, with the teacher taking office as the right servant of Shangshu, the Shen family has become more and more concerned by officials, and now even the third prince and the fifth prince have sent gifts, which is not a good thing.

Shen Huashan also thinks so, the second and third are not qualified, the eldest only has a concubine from Shen Ning, it seems that the third prince and the fifth prince have taken a fancy to Shen Ning, although it is an honor to have a female hundred families to rob a family, but when it comes to the struggle between the princes, and it is in the sensitive period of the prince's weakness, maybe the Shen family will be dragged into the battle for succession, the Shen family is currently very dangerous, this is really not a good thing.

"Tell me to go down, everyone in the backyard should not go out if they have nothing to do in the near future, and stay at home with peace of mind." I don't know what to do, anyway, these two palace mothers didn't say anything, just because the master Niangniang cared for his subordinate wives.