Luo Daqing was satisfied and rode his horse away from the Weiguo Mansion, asked people all the way, searched for a long time, and finally found Lu Xiaobei's mansion.

"The Patriotic Mansion?" When Du Jinning heard Luo Daqing's reply, his brows suddenly furrowed.

"What, what's wrong?" Yao Shuqi asked.

What happened to Du Jinning, as soon as she came back, she told Chen, Yao Shuqi and others, this is also to avoid encountering Wang Wei and his master in the future, Chen and Yao Shuqi can at least know the cause and effect and deal with it carefully. That's why Yao Shuqi asked this question.

In his opinion, if that girl is a young lady from the Weiguo Mansion, it is normal to be arrogant. Guogong is the most noble in the honor.

Du Jinning looked at him with a serious expression: "That girl, if I guessed correctly, it should be the eldest princess of the Lu Kingdom." ”

"What?" Yao Shuqi was taken aback, "No, won't it?" ”

Du Jinning glanced at him and did not speak.

Yao Shuqi also knew that her young master had always been rigorous in his speech, and if she wasn't 100% sure, she wouldn't have said it so sure. He just couldn't believe it.

"But, isn't that the Patriotic Mansion? That guard is the princess's guard, why don't you go back to the palace or the princess's mansion, but go to the palace of the princess? Yao Shuqi said.

Du Jinning reached out and took the teapot, poured himself a cup of tea, didn't look at Yao Shuqi, just asked lightly, "What do you say?" ”

Yao Shuqi's expression froze.

He remembered. After knowing that he was going to open Enke and planned to go to Beijing in advance, Du Jinning specially asked Qi Muyuan and Guan Jiaze to write a table of the relationship between the major forces in the capital.

Chen is the wife of the Du family, Xu Chengyuan is the head of the Xu family, Lu Xiaobei's business is getting bigger and bigger, Du Fanghui is married to Fang Shaohua, plus he, Zhuang Yue, and Qin Laoliu are Du Jinning's right-hand men, these can have a certain intersection with the political affairs of the court, Du Jinning asked them to memorize the dense relationship table.

And 60 percent of the content on that relationship sheet belongs to the noble.

The Great Song Dynasty was founded for too long, and the nobles developed and grew in this stable environment, and they were a very powerful force, and the emperors of previous dynasties were afraid of them. Many poor students like Du Jinning were admitted to the Jinshi, and the noble family absorbed these people through marriage, or through the relationship between teachers and students, or through favors, and became their outermost branches.

The dispute between several powerful families in Lishui County is a microcosm of the insignificance in the court.

In addition to the prince, among the nobles of the "Gonghou Bozinan", the highest status naturally belongs to the national government.

The Patriotic Mansion is the first among the seven Patriotic Mansions.

There is no other reason, the mother of the former prince, that is, the concubine of the former dynasty and the queen mother of the current dynasty, is from the Weiguo Mansion. In other words, the Weiguo Mansion is the new emperor's foreign home.

The surname of this generation of Wei Guogong is Zheng, who is now in his sixties and is the biological father of the Queen Mother. In addition to the emperor Zhao Yu, who had just ascended the throne, the queen mother also had a daughter, Zhao Mingyue. Zhao Mingyue is now 14 years old and was formerly Princess An Ning. After the new emperor ascended the throne, he gave Shandong as the food of Princess Anning, and changed her title to the eldest princess of Lu.

The Weiguo Mansion is the ancestral home of the eldest princess of Lu, Wang Wei, as the eldest princess's guard, in order to avoid exposing the identity of the eldest princess, he deliberately went to the Weiguo Mansion to rest, and by the way, it was too normal to end Luo Daqing's tracking of him.

Yao Shuqi wanted to understand this, and hurriedly said his speculation, and when he saw Du Jinning's expression a little dark, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Du Jinning is not very old, and he usually speaks in a low voice, so he doesn't seem to have much deterrent power, and he has always been kind to Yao Shuqi and others. Yao Shuqi, who knows Du Jinning's methods well, has always been in awe and fear of Du Jinning, and he dare not ignore it in the slightest.

Seeing that Yao Shuqi could explain these relationships clearly, Du Jinning ignored him, looked at Luo Daqing and said, "You came back so straightforwardly?" Didn't you look behind you to see if anyone was following you? ”

Luo Daqing lowered his head and was thinking about how much silver the young master would give, when he heard this, he was stunned for a moment, raised his head, and said in a daze: "No, no, won't, right?" ”

"How not? Think about it, since that man is the princess's guard, and the princess has ordered that he must know my identity, how dare he not go back to meet the princess without doing this little thing? Seeing that he could no longer follow me, he obtained my information, so he went to the Weiguo Mansion, and after entering the door, he called a guard from the Weiguo Mansion to follow you. And since you think you know his identity, you hurried back with joy, without the slightest defense, and you have no impression of the guard of the Patriotic Mansion, don't you fall into the way of others? Thinking about it now, the man thinks he has to know my identity, but I think that girl is the daughter of the Zheng family. ”

Luo Daqing stood stunned, his lips twitched, but he couldn't speak for a while.

Du Jinning knew that Luo Daqing and these people had been working in nursing homes for a short time, their consciousness was not strong, and their experience was insufficient.

"I told you to stop him and find out where he lives. You also stopped him, and let me know the identity of the girl, I still want to give you this reward, ten taels. But because of the last negligence, I made a big mistake, and I punished you for reading the relationship sheet twice, are you convinced? ”

When Luo Daqing heard that he was going to read the relationship table, he immediately cried and lost his face.

He hummed and said, "Young Master, can you not write?" I'd rather you beat me with twenty sticks. ”

"Why am I beating you with twenty sticks? You're rough-skinned, and I'm afraid of breaking my brother-in-law's stick. Du Jinning unceremoniously rejected his proposal.

Yao Shuqi sat aside and laughed.

Du Jinning demanded that the servants in the house, as well as the nurses, should be literate, and she selected the literate ones from the various groups and gave them a monthly payment to teach them to read. Luo Daqing and other nursing homes are taught by Zhang Songtao.

Luo Daqing was originally a farmer, but because the amount of food was too large and his family had no land, the grain grown in the tenant land was not enough to chew except for paying rent. Because Luo Daqing was not only tall and strong, but also learned a few kung fu from the monks in the temple, Zhuang Yue knew about it, so he hired him to protect the Du family.

Such an illiterate man, it's no problem for you to ask him to work, even if he beats a few sticks, he can stand it, even if he reads and reads and copies books, it will simply kill him.

The young master punishes his subordinates, and he has never punished him, but he will punish what the other party is afraid of. For example, Luo Daqing, who is unwilling to write, will be punished for writing; Some of those who value money very seriously will be fined a monthly amount of silver. Such a punishment is focused on the most painful place, and the effect is not to be said.

Luo Daqing is honest and obedient, and he has always done whatever Du Jinning called him. But this time, in order not to write, his courage became fat, and he dared to argue with Du Jinning: "That tailgating, it's just your guess, young master, right?" If he hadn't followed me here, wouldn't I have copied this form in vain? ”

"If you don't believe it, ask Zhang Songtao."