Ding Guogong said with a smile: "Xingguo Gong is only twenty-five or sixteen, and he is also a young man in his right age!" ”

The emperor smiled: "Then why don't you go too?" ”

Shen Yao waved his hand and smiled: "If I go, how will this generation be calculated?" Do you want my niece to call them all elders, or let the King of Jin call me uncle? ”

"You're so good!" The emperor smiled, "If you have a niece, you want to rise to the next generation, and Brother A Yao, who has been with King Jin for all these years, has been screaming in vain!" ”

"Come on," Shen Yao smiled at Chen Xi, "You have the emperor's backing, and I don't want to take advantage of you!" ”

The monarch laughed for a while, and then dispersed at noon.

Out of the Qianqing Palace, Shen Yao walked two steps quickly to Xu Xing's side, and just as he was about to speak, Xu Xing smiled and said, "I will ask the little girl to pick up Miss Du tomorrow, and the two of them will go to Nanyuan together." Although Yuan'er is younger, she is familiar with the princess and can take care of Miss Du. ”

Shen Yao smiled and said, "You still think about it." ”

Xu Xing said with a smile: "My daughter is not my boast, although she is only thirteen years old, she is also steady, you can rest assured." ”

"It's nature!" Shen Yao said with a smile, "Who in Beijing doesn't know that 'the Xu family has a hundred families of women'!" ”

Hearing this, Xu Xing didn't seem to be happy, not only did he not smile at all, but he frowned slightly.

Shen Yao felt that he had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly said, "This is just idle talk on the streets, you don't have to care." ”

Xu Xing was silent for a moment before he spoke: "To tell you something sad, when your sister was in the past, how many people in the old Shaanxi family went to the Shen family to ask for marriage...... In the end, your father had to marry your sister to the Du family, the door is not right, and your uncle is not a good ...... I'm really afraid that Yuan'er has also taken this old path......"

Shen Yao lowered his eyelids and said with a wry smile: "At the beginning, my father was also coerced by the old man of the Du family, and there was nothing he could do...... With your status today, the third lady will never end up like my sister. ”

Xu Xing patted Shen Yao on the shoulder and said, "Treat your niece better, we all owe a lot to your sister and the Shen family......

Shen Yao nodded, broke up with Xu Xing at the gate of the palace, and rode home in a daze.

The Chen family had an objection as early as when Chen Yuantai's father was in power, and at that time they were just secretly selling smuggled salt and raising private soldiers, wanting to gain a foothold when Emperor Changqing of the Zhou Dynasty made a move against Shaanxi.

Because the Chen family and the Shen family are both big clans in Shaanxi and have been friends for generations, the old lady of the Shen family and Chen Yuantai's father have a very personal relationship, so the news of the Chen family's changes in the secret report from Shaanxi was suppressed by the old lady Shen in the military department.

Unexpectedly, this matter was glimpsed by Du Mingxin's grandfather, and after some coercion and coercion, Mrs. Shen had no choice but to agree to marry the Du family and accompany her with an extremely rich dowry.

It's a pity that heaven is not blessed, seven years later, Emperor Changqing found that the Shen family made weapons, raided the house and beheaded him, Chen Yuantai only had time to rescue the twelve-year-old Shen Yao, and sent a ghost similar to him to die.

The family was destroyed in order to achieve the ambition of the Chen family, and the Shen family, which had been entrenched in Hanzhong for a hundred years, was destroyed. Even now, he is occasionally confused, what is all this for?

But Emperor Changqing killed ministers indiscriminately, disregarded human life, ignored the suffering of the people, and only considered his own pleasure. He has reigned for more than 20 years, and natural and man-made disasters have continued, but he only cares about raising taxes and taxes to maintain his drunken life and death in the palace.

On the contrary, Chen Yuantai is a hero with the world in mind. In the few years that he was in charge of the northwest, the land of Qin and Jin went from starvation to stability, and the Hetao region regained its reputation as a plug in the south of the Yangtze River.

Over the years following Chen Yuantai, he carefully taught Shen Yao, and he and Xu Xing personally taught him martial arts riding and archery, and he loved Shen Yao like an elder in the family, all of which made Shen Yao feel even more confused.

In line with the will of heaven, he knew that it was right for him to follow Chen Yuantai to fight the world, but this Chen family lacked the blood of hundreds of people in the Shen family......

Resentment, gratitude and love are intertwined, maybe this is what is called human nature?

*

At this time, Du Mansion was just like Shen Yao's mood, tangled, complicated and chaotic.

Mrs. Peng arrived at the Du Mansion early in the morning, and sent the good eight characters with a smile on her face: "The great monk of Bao'en Temple said that the eight characters of the two people are a match made in heaven!" I'll draw a marriage lottery for the two of them, you see, sign it! ”

Mrs. Du was not rare at all, and instructed the eldest lady to entertain Mrs. Peng, and then went back to the inner room to smoke a hookah.

Who knew that before Mrs. Peng left, someone came to the palace, gave a lot of rewards to Du Mingxin, and passed on the words of the Queen Mother: "...... I liked it very much when I saw it, and I pitied Miss Du's biological mother for her early death, and asked your mansion to take care of it, and all the major affairs next to it were handled by the Queen Mother and Xingguo Gong, so your mansion didn't have to worry about it anymore. ”

These words made the eldest lady frightened, she politely sent the palace envoy away, and immediately called someone to go to Dali Temple to invite the eldest master home.

When Mrs. Peng heard the Du family's relay, her face was cloudy. "What's the big deal?" She glared at the eldest lady with sharp eyes, "What's the matter?" ”

The eldest lady has a headache and is about to explode, what big deal can a girl's family have? Isn't it just a family affair!

The eldest old man smacked the words of the palace envoy for a long time, and smiled stiffly: "Although the queen mother said that she didn't let my family worry about it, she didn't necessarily say who she wanted to point out to her sister?" Last time Xingguo Gong came to the house, my second brother and I mentioned Brother Kang, and he didn't say anything. It can be seen that there is nothing dissatisfied with Brother Kang! ”

Mrs. Peng held a handkerchief in her hand, and she was about to crush it. She didn't expect Du Mingxin to have the queen mother's blue eyes like this, although this is an excellent thing, but she has to be able to eat the meat in her mouth first!

Think about the jewelry, shop, and grange purchased for Du Mingxin, the marriage book has not yet been written, and the silver has already spent 20,000 or 30,000 taels! Mrs. Peng felt a twitch on her face, she pretended to wipe her sweat, reached out and stroked her cheek, calmed her emotions for a while, and then said: "The Queen Mother said that she would not ask your family to interfere in Du Mingxin's marriage, what else can you do to turn this matter around?" ”

The eldest lady snorted for a long time and turned to look at her husband. The eldest lord also felt anxious, but what else could they do now?

The eldest lord said with a smile: "No one in our family can hand it to the palace...... Madam, you have always had many acquaintances in Beijing, and they are all from the noble family, so you can have a relationship with the palace...... See if you can ......"

Mrs. Peng squeezed the teacup in her hand tightly, and endured it so that she didn't fall into the face of the eldest master. In order to marry Du Mingxin, his family contributed money, and now he has to contribute!

"Good! I'll find someone to go to the palace and say! She gritted her teeth and said hatefully, "But if the Queen Mother has already been elected, what will we say about the affairs of our two families?" ”