Under the shroud of various conspiracy theories, the people of Beijing have spent this bad year with anxiety.

Many families with school-age children have accelerated the pace of marriage and marriage, even if one of the two sick and crooked ones has braided his hair, it is the rhythm of national mourning. It doesn't matter if the marriage of the children is affected, I am afraid that it will set off another bloody storm of the replacement of the throne!

Due to the closed doors of the Regent's Mansion, except for the three Lord Yang and Xie Yushi, it seems that no one can meet the legendary Lord Regent, who has "died for a short time". As a result, the threshold of the Marquis of Zhongwu's Mansion was broken, and even the threshold of the Shangshu Mansion with the Ministry of Rites was changed.

Pei Zimeng, who returned to Beijing from other places for the New Year, felt very surprised, and sneered: "Tsk, I don't know, I thought I was going to open Enke again, but I was very festive." ”

Pei Shangshu blew his beard and glared at him: "What did you say!" What is there to celebrate in this situation now! You're used to wandering out in the countryside, and you don't have anything to hide! I think, don't go back, it's the key to transfer back to the sixth department to learn something! ”

Pei Zimeng didn't even look at his father, pursed his lips and strode away directly, and beckoned the servants to pack his luggage, so angry that Pei Shangshu slapped the table and shouted rebellion, until he entered the inner courtyard, he was still angry.

Seeing this, Yang hurriedly greeted him with a smile, brought tea and water, and finally served it to a comfortable mood, so he asked cautiously: "Master, it has been rumored outside recently, saying that the palace is ......" She paused, and said with a worried face: "If it's really bad, what can I do?" ”

Pei Shangshu's old face wrinkled again, and he reprimanded: "Women's Taoist people know how to tell right and wrong!" You don't have to worry about these things! Seeing that the Yang family was obedient and didn't dare to talk back, he was a little satisfied, and said in a soothing tone: "San Lang is not a small boss, although he is not in Beijing, but you are his mother-in-law, you have to pay more attention to his marriage." Oh yes, the fourth lady is almost old, you can do it together. ”

Yang's cheeks twitched, this old guy didn't say that it was okay, but it was two big problems.

Pei Zimeng's fool is not difficult to do, it is nothing more than a higher vision, she just needs to be patient and search, whether she can find it or not, she has to let her husband see her intentions.

It's just that the fourth lady is not very easy to do.

But what does it mean to do it all together? The fourth lady is her own daughter, how can she be insignificant compared to his son?

Yang secretly held back this breath, rolled his eyes, first responded with a full mouth, and then mentioned another thing: "Master, the end of the month is the death day of the third aunt and grandmother." In previous years, the palace invited the inactionable Ziyun Dao chief to the palace to run a water and land dojo, and this year's situation is like this, I don't know what is going on over there, let's ...... here."

This is a problem, Pei Shangshu's sparse thick eyebrows tightened a little, and he said after a long time: "I know about this, I'll go and find out the prince's mouth another day." ”

The two husbands and wives fell asleep and did not speak for the night. It's just that the two of them have their own things on their minds, and they tossed and turned for a long time.

The next day, Pei Shangshu really came back with a tangible message.

"The prince has an order, and there is no need to do anything about the dojo in the future, so as not to disturb the princess's spirit in the sky."

When the servant came to report the news, the Yang family was with his daughter Pei Yan, and when they heard this, the two looked different.

What Yang thought was that this must have been said by the prince himself, and it could not be passed down by someone else. In such a short period of time, the master can see the prince, which shows that although the third aunt and grandmother have been gone for a few years, the Pei family still has weight in the heart of the prince, otherwise it would not be the case that the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty were almost all turned away, but their own master went in.

It's just that the dojo will not be held in the future, so what does this mean? Could it be that the Regent's Mansion is finally about to usher in a new hostess?

Although his lord is already the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Rites is a clear water department in the end, and it is not as important as the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Households, and the importance of the in-laws of the Regent Mansion to the Pei family is self-evident.

As soon as he thought of this, Yang's brows tightened: "If you don't have this in-law, you will ...... in the future."

Pei Yan on the side was very happy, she and Yang thought that they were completely different things.

Since the prince can personally give the order, it shows that the rumors outside that "his life is short" are all false. Moreover, the second point that Yang thought of was that she thought about it even more thoroughly, and her eyes bloomed with anticipation, mixed with a hint of shyness.

She leaned into Yang's ear and whispered, "A-Niang~ Since you are worried about this, why don't you think of a way to continue this in-law?" ”

"What nonsense—"

Yang stopped abruptly halfway through his words, as if he realized something. was first surprised, and then took a closer look at Pei Yan, and a sense of pride in her heart that "my family has a girl who has just grown up".

"You dead girl has really grown up, well, it's not like me, it's more like your father, and your third sister." Yang's eyes looking at Pei Yan were quite meaningful. "Your father also mentioned your marriage to me yesterday, what do you think?"

Pei Yan lowered her head and smiled shyly, taking advantage of the situation to hide the haze that flashed in her eyes: "Where does my daughter dare to have any ideas, it's just up to her father and mother to decide." ”

Seeing this, Yang was even more satisfied, and patted her hand gently.

Looking at his daughter Qingli with a touch of charming and moving face, Yang squinted, as if he had seen some dream scene, and the smile on his face couldn't help but become even brighter.

It's a pity that Pei Shangshu didn't buy this idea.

"Aren't you dizzy? If the princess leaves a trace of blood, it is reasonable for our Pei family to send someone over to take care of it, but this is the ...... Not to mention that the prince has no intention of remarrying now, even if there is, it is not something that my Pei family can interfere with! ”

Since the Northern Tour Rebellion, Pei's family room has no pillars, Pei Zhongming was ordered to go to Yuzhou to invite back the coffin of the first emperor, all the way to the wind, frost, rain and snow, after coming back, the whole person is ten years old. It's just that he hasn't been old and dizzy, and he hasn't been so stupid that he thinks that he can shake that decision with his identity as a former father-in-law.

Thinking of the bloody storm in the first year of Chengping, most of the ministers who disagreed with him in the court were baptized in blood, and even the eldest princess, who was the most favored and trusted by the emperor at the time, had to avoid her edge and retreat to the fiefdom, Pei Zhongming was terrified.

Seeing that Yang was still going to defend something, he glared and waved his hand.

"Well, there's no need to talk about that. Unless the prince has sent a message to marry our Pei family, otherwise, you will give me this heart as soon as possible! ”

Knowing that her father did not support her, and her mother did not dare to say much, Pei Yan was so angry that she cut several sachets embroidered with auspicious symbols in the boudoir, and said angrily: "Why? Is it just because she is the eldest sister? Did she take all the good things? Dead and still occupy this position? Hearing this, the little maid at the door trembled a little.

After Pei Yan vented, she calmed down for a while, and suddenly laughed lowly: "Everyone says that your life is good, but I don't think so." After marrying into the palace for four years, he has never even passed on a happy message, and he is simply a hen that can't lay eggs! You don't deserve the position of this princess, and the Lin family is even less worthy, only I ......"

The words in the back were lower, and I gradually couldn't hear them, but when I heard the first half of the little maid goddess, I was even more frightened.

These movements in Pei's Mansion quickly reached the ears of those who should know, just like the trivial matters in the backyards of most of the noble families and officials in Beijing.

Qi Heng leaned on the soft couch to look at the folds, and there was a bowl of brown decoction in his hand, which was filled with white light water vapor.

"Master, let's drink the medicine first and then see."

Qi Heng was noncommittal, but he didn't hear it.

Lei Ming had no choice but to show a black face, and cheekily admonished: "If the old lady knows, I am afraid that I will have to worry about the master, or ......" The old lady in his mouth was not someone else, it was Qi Heng's biological mother, Concubine Wei.

In the eyes of most people, although Qi Heng, the regent, has a cold style and is ruthless, he can indeed be called a filial son. may be related to not being favored by the first emperor, the mother and son have been dependent on each other in the palace for many years, and the deep friendship and trust they have cultivated are incomparable to others. In the past, if Qi Heng's subordinates wanted to persuade him anything, most of them could only move out of this old lady.

Although Concubine Wei was only made a concubine, it is rumored that her treatment in the inner palace is no worse than that of the Empress Dowager Qin, and even slightly better. After all, the Empress Dowager Qin's biological son, the fourth prince, lost face to the dynasty in the Northern Tour Rebellion, and a dignified prince was actually captured by those barbarians, and he didn't commit suicide for integrity, and he also wrote the letter of request sent back by the Beidi envoy, which was extremely humiliating. Although today's little emperor wants to call the Empress Dowager Qin a grandmother, he is not a pro in the end, and he is still a generation apart. In this way, it is not surprising that the palace people stepped on the low and praised the high, and turned to flatter the regent's biological mother, Concubine Wei.

But the strange thing is that the tricks that were tried and tested in the past don't work today!

When Qi Heng heard Lei Ming mention this, his expressionless face seemed to be suddenly covered with a layer of ice. He just glanced coldly in the direction of the North Courtyard, and then picked up the bowl of medicine and drank it slowly, without a trace of embarrassment, as if he was tasting some fragrant tea, but the breath around him was very depressed, and even the rough nerve Lei Ming could feel that something was wrong, and he didn't dare to say a word.

Then, after receiving the latest information from the secret guard, Qi Heng's whole person was even more cold into an ice sculpture, like the kind of thousand-year-old ice wrapped in raging fire, and his face was very terrifying.

With a snap, the small half bowl of unfinished medicinal soup in his hand was spilled directly on the ground, accompanied by a crisp sound of porcelain pieces cracking.

The dark three who came to report the news had an ordinary face that was tense, and there was no superfluous expression at all. However, this could not hide the tension and uneasiness in his heart. Because he knows that every piece of news he brings today is very unpleasant to the master!

He waited for his master to speak as if he was dead, but he didn't expect that after waiting for a while, Qi Heng restrained his expression, as well as Fang Cai's anger, and said lightly: "Beidi's people have actually left, but it is a little unexpected......" After a pause, no one dared to speak, Qi Heng said again: "You take a few people and go to the north to meet them. No matter what, always ......"

After explaining this, Qi Heng said casually with a hint of sarcasm: "The Pei family doesn't care, it's just two clowns who jump off the beam." The Qin family is the focus, as well as the Bai family, and those Yang families......"

Dark San breathed a sigh of relief, but out of the corner of his eye, he saw that one of the two secret letters that the master had opened had been clutched tightly by him, and it was almost crumpled into a paper ball. That strength, the swollen green tendons on the back of the hand, well, let's let the dark six and seven ask for more blessings.

Thinking of this stubble, Dark San looked a little hesitant before leaving.

Qi Heng sneered: "Let the two of them come over and talk about it themselves!" Even if you break your hands and feet, you have to crawl over to this king and explain it clearly! ”

"Yes."

Lei Ming's eyes widened, and he couldn't help asking, "Master, what's wrong with the two of them?" ”

Hearing this, Qi Heng snorted heavily, and without knowing how to use force, he directly turned the paper ball in his hand into a pile of shredded paper.

"Two idiots! Smart! Absent without leave! Reckless! After scolding, he gritted his teeth and came to a conclusion: "It seems that this king is too tolerant of you people on weekdays!" ”

After a while, the wounded man with a pale face and an arm hanging around his neck knelt down in front of Qi Heng.

"Master Qi, Lao Qi went to track down Pei Niangzi's whereabouts, and as soon as there was news, it was immediately transmitted back......"

Then Dark Six smashed a big bag on his forehead by the tea cup again.

Qi Heng laughed angrily, "You can all endure it!" This king asked you to look at people, you don't wait for Jinzhou, what are you going to do in Yuzhou? ”

Dark Six apprehensively glanced at the man whose face was not much more ruddy than his own, and replied cautiously: "The master should have received the tip, there was a mess in Yuzhou, and the eighth child fell into the hands of King Lao Yu, and his subordinates ......."

"Presumptuous! Is it reasonable to leave your post without permission? Qi Heng's face was gloomy, just like the lonely and cold night outside the house.

Receiving Lei Ming's eyes, Dark Six immediately confessed.

"Subordinates know their mistakes, and subordinates admit punishment."

After a long time, a sentence came out lightly: "Go find the dark one yourself and admit the punishment." Also, tell Dark Seven that he can't find it and let him come to see him. ”

Lei Ming looked at the injuries on Dark Liuyi's body, and thought of the punishment he was about to face, and couldn't help but feel a little sympathy. However, after staying by the prince's side for so many years, the most valuable lesson he learned was that pleading for mercy at this time was harmful......

Although, Lei Ming still didn't understand, how did that little lady fall into the eyes of the prince, and actually let the prince assign two secret guards to protect her?