(Cat flutter Chinese ) The fourth prince came out of the hall, standing side by side with the eldest prince, looking at the fifth prince who was walking back and forth by the small chamberlain with an expressionless face, the fifth prince was cold on the back of his look, subconsciously turned his head to look back, the fourth prince met the eyes of the fifth prince, expressionless, expressionless, the five princes who looked directly avoided his gaze, before he carried his hands behind his back, walked down the steps steadily, and went straight away. Please use this site to access.

The fifth prince returned to his residence, sat for a long time with a heavy heart, stood up and walked out.

The candlelight swayed in the small courtyard behind the lake behind Qingfeng Building, Huang Jingjie greeted the five princes, looked at him with a solemn expression, and the five princes shook their cloaks with a cold face and said: "Make a bowl of tea, let someone send something to eat, and then take a bottle of wine, kneeling for an afternoon, covered in cold." Huang Jingjie saw that he ordered tea to eat, secretly relieved, and hurriedly went out of the warm pavilion to order.

"Do you have any clue?" Seeing that the five princes drank a few bowls of tea in a row, their expressions eased slightly, Huang Jingjie asked in a low voice, and the five princes shook their heads: "Daddy said that he meant it." ”

"What do you mean?" Huang Jingjie was very surprised: "The official family knows the five ladies of the Li family? The fourth master congratulated her and gave her a ceremony? The official family heard about this because of this? But! "Huang Jingjie can't go on, the fourth master congratulates the five ladies of the Li family and the ceremony, the reason for this is clear to those who have eyes, and if you want to point to marriage, you shouldn't point it to the fifth master!

"So that's ridiculous!" The fifth prince said very politely: "Since the decree has been made, it is naturally the meaning of Daddy, but how did Daddy give birth to this meaning?" Huang Jingjie's face became more and more heavy: "The fifth master marries the five ladies of the Li family, who benefits the most?" ”

"The five ladies of the Li family have benefited the most." The fifth prince said politely: "Who else is next to you?" The fourth brother has already turned his face with me, is this marriage just to make the fourth brother and me turn their faces? The fourth brother and I turned their faces, who benefited the most? ”

"Is it uncle?" Huang Jingjie said in horror, and the fifth prince waved his hand: "I don't think it's like, first, the eldest brother and Daddy have always been estranged, and he can only rely on others to interfere in my marriage, and the palace affairs have always been presided over by Ye Niangniang, and there is no possibility of borrowing in this place." ”

"Jiang Niangniang?" Huang Jingjie reacted very quickly, and the fifth prince said with a calm face: "The Jiang family has always been ambiguous, the fourth brother and I turned their faces, and there is no harm in her, but she can't join forces with the eldest brother now, firstly, let the fourth brother perceive it, she will lose more than she gains, and secondly, it is best for her to ride the wall now to be neutral, if it has something to do with her, it is also her own idea." The fifth prince stopped talking and fell into contemplation, and then continued for a while: "Let me marry the lady of the Li family, in addition to the benefits of the lady of the Li family, that is, to force me and the fourth brother to turn their faces, the Li family lady does not mention it, if she has the ability to let Daddy make this decree, the fourth brother will not decide to wish the family, then there is only one thing that makes the fourth brother and me turn their faces, if the fourth brother and I turn their faces, there are many people who benefit, this has to be reasoned from other directions, who can persuade Daddy to agree to this family business?" Daddy must have heard about the fourth brother's family and the ceremony, so who can persuade Daddy? ”

Huang Jingjie looked at the five princes nervously, and the eyes of the five princes gradually narrowed: "Zheng Daguan!" ”

"Zheng Daguan? What's in it for him? Huang Jingjie shouted in a low voice, and the fifth prince shook his head: "I don't know, besides him, who else can persuade Daddy in this matter?" I am the prince, not the prince, my marriage is an internal affair, and those big men in the court can't take care of it, and there are few people who can speak in this matter! Unless it's really his own idea, as Daddy said, then I'd rather believe that Zheng Daguan did something out of it! ”

"Is it difficult?" Huang Jingjie's voice trembled slightly, and the fifth prince's face was gloomy: "Maybe, there are always people who try their best to push me to the stage to fight for their lives." ”

"So what do we do?" Huang Jingjie's nervous voice was hoarse, but there was excitement in the nervousness, and the fifth prince glanced at him: "That's a road of no return." Huang Jingjie was faintly disappointed, the fifth prince hung his head, and sighed for a long time: "Let's take a look first, if you really can't make a statement, fortunately, being a courtier for the eldest brother is better than being a courtier for the fourth brother." ”

"Li family lady, really don't know anything?" Huang Jingjie's attitude eased again, and he made a bowl of tea again, and there was something in his words, the fifth prince took the tea, looked up at the blurry and dim roof, and pondered for a long time: "She benefits the most, but I can't think of any way for her to get to the palace, that Sun Liu is just a lower ninth rate, that is, looking for a few scoundrels, spreading some rumors in the market, if you want to reach out into the palace, she doesn't have the ability." ”

"Well, I have also asked people to pay attention to the shopkeeper surnamed Cheng, and the friends are all officials of the government and the six departments, which are of little use."

"Whose capital is the surname Cheng receiving? Did you find out? ”

"It is said that it is the capital of a maritime merchant in Quanzhou, there are too many maritime merchants in Quanzhou who can come up with such a capital, and large businessmen from other places do have the tradition of opening shops in the capital to make good friends with officials, and I didn't find out whose capital he received, but he is very familiar with the Quanzhou Chamber of Commerce, and he also received a small messenger in the Chamber of Commerce." Huang Jingjie explained in detail, and the fifth prince sipped his tea absentmindedly: "I always feel that this surname Cheng is her person, I heard that she has a sister-in-law aunt who is going to enter the capital?" ”

"Yes, married to the third son of Jiang Tao, a bachelor of Hanlin, Jiang Tao came from the Jiang family in Luzhou, and served as the deputy envoy of the salt and iron of the three divisions of the power for two terms, Jiang Tao is known for his profound knowledge and condensation, and is known for his honesty and integrity, and won the praise of the first emperor, Chengping died of illness in five years, and his name is Wenzheng, Jiang Tao has three sons and two daughters, and the three sons are all from Jinshi, the eldest son Jiang Qingning, fifty years old this year, Shaoxing nineteen years Dengjinshi Jiake, the current Fujian Road transfer envoy, the second son Jiang Qingping, forty-five years old, the first year of Chengping, the current Yizhou prefect, the third son Jiang Qingyuan is the old son of Wenzheng Gong, This year is only thirty-five years old, Jiang Qingyuan has been smart since he was a child, and he is also a jinshi in the first year of Chengping, he has been a Jishi, and he has been a foreign minister since he married his wife, and the next one is the head of the Privy Council, and he should be able to go to the capital in a few days. Huang Jingjie briefly introduced the Jiang family.

The fifth prince listened attentively, tasted it carefully, and said: "The Privy Council knows the head of the horse house, what a messenger, it seems that no one in the Jiang family is in the capital, right?" ”

"Yes, the next year after the death of Wen Zhenggong, the old lady also passed away, and the three brothers split up and brought their families to office, Jiang Qingyuan sent the steward to fight the front station to the capital a year ago, and cleaned up a five-entry mansion where Jiang Li was married, although the Jiang family was poor, Jiang Qingyuan's family was very rich because he married the Li family." Huang Jingjie's words were very tactful, when such a tragic thing happened in the Yongguo Mansion, Mrs. Ning wantonly married her daughter Li Jinghao, which is one of the allusions in the capital.

"Well, the Jiang Li clan entered Beijing for this niece?" The fifth prince muttered to himself, and without waiting for Huang Jingjie to answer, he said: "Originally, I could wait for the Jiang Li clan to enter the capital and take a cold look, but now I ......" The fifth prince laughed: "I can't see it." Huang Jingjie didn't know what he thought, he looked at him in a daze, and a strange feeling suddenly rose in his heart, this family matter, the fifth master may not agree with it.

The marriage of the five princes made many people in the capital fall their jaws, and before all kinds of speculations and rumors came out, this matter was replaced by another more important and interesting matter, and the imperial examination was released once every three years.

Before dawn, Xuande was crowded with people outside the door, there were people who were ready to grab the first prize to report the good news, there were three or five people in a group, one person in the middle held a simple pen inkstone, and waited to copy the list, so as to sell it to those who were anxious to see the list and couldn't squeeze in the money, this job is to grab a quick word, and it can be sold for the first half an hour, of course, the students' family servants are indispensable, and many are family servants to be married, thinking about catching a wishful son-in-law under the list, these servants are all strong and bright, After all, robbing a son-in-law is about strength, and it also has to talk about image.

Most of the students also came, but they relied on their identities and refused to crowd together with the group of people who only wanted to see the list first, and the rest of the meat and vegetarian people were not taboo, and most of them were scattered in groups of three or five a little farther away.

Jiang Hong and Xu Sihai were unable to get out of the house, and were locked up at home waiting for Xin'er by their respective mothers on the grounds of extremely strict concern, Leng Mingsong went back yesterday and got Li Tian's letter to marry the fifth prince, and he was stunned for a long time, thinking that Jiang Hong and Xu Sihai's news in the house must be much better than his own, but he didn't expect that these two people didn't know about it, and they just blindly felt sorry for the two of them and couldn't sleep at night. Early the next morning, I inquired that the two of them didn't go out to look at the list, thinking about what the two had said to themselves, sighing for a long time, and then I didn't feel in the mood to go out to see the list, anyway, he didn't ask for much, yesterday's articles and poems were written very easily, and a Jinshi can always get it.

Bachelor Xu got up before dawn, he rarely accepted students, but last year he accepted three students at once, this year he spent countless efforts on the three of them, the results of the provincial examination made him extremely satisfied, and he couldn't help but give birth to countless expectations, the ranking of the provincial examination to the palace examination is not too big, the three jinshi want to be stable, if you can enter a first-class, it would be better.

As soon as the sky released the white belly of the silk fish, Mr. Xu sent out several groups of people to look at the list outside the Xuande Gate, and spread the word to the three mansions. After getting a letter from the three mansions, he immediately went to the bachelor's mansion to report the good news, and Bachelor Xu slowly ate breakfast patiently, changed his clothes, took a book, and posed in front of him with Mount Tai collapsing in front of him and his color remained unchanged, and sat in the hall looking at it.

The hourglass in the corner of the house seemed to be frozen, and Master Xu held the book, staring at the hourglass, and listening to the movement outside with his ears propped up, only feeling that time was like a year.

There was a rapid sound of firecrackers in the distance, and the book in Mr. Xu's hand was covered with a 'snap', and he looked at the door of the main hall. Cat flutter Chinese