Wuyi Lane

Dingguo Mansion

Not far from the west of the Great Qi Palace, the distance of the carriage is only half an hour, which is the Wuyi Lane where the powerful and wealthy gather, where the prosperity is prosperous, the gold powder buildings, row upon row. Most of the mansions of the most prominent family of the gate lord in the entire history of Daqi are concentrated in this area.

From the corner of the street to the alley, a kind of rich momentum comes to the face, the wide street, on both sides are towering walls enclosing the far-reaching courtyard, the black and gold gate is inlaid with bright copper rings, and the stone lion at the door is fangs and claws, and the hideous posture is rampant. Although it is not explicitly forbidden for ordinary pedestrians to enter and exit this place, the entrances of houses and the wide streets are full of arrogant and extravagant children in fancy costumes, and ordinary civilians will probably choose to be discouraged when they see this scene.

In the entire Wuyi Lane, the most luxuriously decorated and most extensive mansion is none other than the current father-in-law, the prince of Dingguo.

At this time, in the inner courtyard of the palace, in a quiet palace room, an old man of about fifty years old stood outstanding, he was heroic, his face was elegant, with a kind of luxury unique to people who have lived in the upper position for a long time, with a long beard fluttering, quite a fairy wind bones, but unfortunately a pair of brilliant triangular eyes destroyed the overall handsome and dusty image, giving people a deep feeling of scheming.

It is the high-ranking and powerful Dingguo Duke and the Wang Hao of the Great Sima.

At this time, he gently twisted the three strands of long beard under his chin, and asked a palace lady in beautiful clothes beside him, "How do you look after this labor?" ”

"Back to the master, that Su Concubine is really a fairy-like character," Mrs. Dingguo laughed, clapped her hands and said: "I took a closer look at the Queen Mother today, in my opinion, I am afraid that compared to the Yun Concubine a few days ago, it is not too much, although compared to the Yun Concubine, there is less of the freshness and elegance of the poetry and book woman, but it is more ......" Mrs. Dingguo didn't know how to describe it at this time, thought for a moment and said: "It's just a kind of ...... all over the body The aura of the empty mountain and the rain came. ”

"In this way, this kind of stunning beauty, I'm afraid that it will be difficult for me to find a few of them," Wang Hao showed a trace of worry between his eyebrows, "The old man of Concubine Yun has also seen a few times, and she is really a beautiful woman who is hard to find in the world." ”

"Not necessarily." Mrs. Dingguo smiled.

"Oh," Wang Hao's eyebrows raised, and he said with great interest: "I heard you say that there must be a comparable candidate in your heart, these days you have seen the circle of our powerful and wealthy families, tell me what you have gained?" ”

"Master, according to me, in the family of this faction of courtiers who are united with us, although there are many ladies from the noble family, there are few who can be compared in appearance, there is only one person, whether it is compared to that Yun Concubine or compared to the current Su Concubine, it is not inferior."

"Oh, there are such characters? Who? Which girl? Wang Hao was interested.

"It's the youngest daughter of Shi Qian's family, Shi Rou'er." Mrs. Dingguo smiled: "The master must also know, right?" In the past few years, who in the whole capital doesn't know the name of the Shi family's daughter, I didn't believe it originally, thinking that the rumors were always exaggerated, but yesterday I took advantage of the New Year's greetings, I specially asked Mrs. Shi to come to the house, and I took a look, oops! I really can't take my eyes off it, I can't help but feel pity when I see it, and not only the appearance, the speech and demeanor, the charm and eyebrows, are also first-class. ”

"It's really so moving," Wang Hao couldn't help but be moved: "This matter is very important, don't you exaggerate it because of friendship." Wang Hao knew that his wife and the wife of the Shi family had always been good friends, and they could be regarded as handkerchief friends.

"Alas, sir, am I such a person who does not know what is important? Where can you talk nonsense on this matter," Mrs. Dingguo defended herself: "This time, the lord asked me to see all the close nobles of our officials, and I haven't looked at it door to door, according to my eyes, among these girls who are about to be selected in the coming year, Shi Rou'er is the top one, and most of the rest of the people, most of them are either not in good shape, or have no manners, and they are in vain when they enter the palace, and they will definitely not be favored." Although there are still a few stunning, they can't compare to this Shi Rou'er in words and deeds. Compared with the Su concubine, it is far inferior, but I am afraid that even if she enters the palace, the favor is limited. ”

"Well, that's good," Wang Hao nodded, and then suddenly remembered something, and asked thoughtfully, "Hey?" No, I remember hearing that this Shi Qian's daughter seems to have a family, right? I've heard anyone talk about it, it seems that he has been a baby since he was a child. ”

"There is such a thing," Mrs. Dingguo said: "When I was a child, it was given to the son of the Mu family at that time, but now the Mu family has declined, and there are orphans and widows left to barely survive. Speaking of which, Commander Shi also felt a little remorse when he remembered the events of that year. ”

"Moreover, I tried it at the banquet the day before yesterday, and I saw that Shi Rou'er's speech and demeanor were also ambitious, and he would definitely not be willing to marry a little guard. I also want to enter the palace, otherwise I ......" Mrs. Dingguo covered her mouth and smiled: "Their mother and daughter don't have to bring it over for me to see." ”

"Hmm." Wang Hao was a little moved, but he became vigilant again, and hurriedly asked, "How do they know that I let you secretly check on the nobles of each family?" You didn't leak the news, did you? ”

"Listen to what the master said, am I such a person who doesn't know the severity?" Mrs. Dingguo said with a little complaint: "Although we didn't say it explicitly this time, but these days, I go in and out of the door, all of them go to the inner courtyard of the official mansion where I have daughters and sisters at home, and I am good friends with the master. ”

"That's right," Wang Hao nodded and said, "It's been hard for you these days, and it's not a secret." But the spread is not good after all, and we, as foreign ministers, are suspected of interfering in the inner palace, and we are also going to be taboo. Be careful these days. ”

"Oh, my lord doesn't need to worry about it, it's just the ordinary behavior of our women's families going from house to house, who can take out this kind of thing and write it into a book? Now that the master is sick at home, who else would be taboo about this. Mrs. Dingguo smiled disapprovingly.

"You have to be more careful when you are sick at home," Wang Hao glanced at her, an ignorant woman, don't spoil my big thing: "I'm just afraid that I will recover soon, of course I must be cautious at this time, don't be fooled by such a trivial matter." ”

"What? Do you mean? Mrs. Dingguo exclaimed: "Resurgence?!" Could it be that the emperor wants to use the lord again? It's the queen mother, her old man, who interceded in front of the emperor. ”

"Where is the persuasion of the queen mother, what is the emperor's temperament, you don't know, if it is really a sister, it will only have the opposite effect. So when I was sick, my sister didn't have the slightest intention of retaining, just to reassure the emperor. Wang Hao sighed, and then said with a little indignation: "The emperor's jealousy of our Wang family has long been not a matter of one or two days. ”

This time he fell out of favor because of the crime after the illness at home, half of the state of retreat, although still remote control of the government, but there has always been a kind of grievance in his heart, this great Qi world was not Lao Tzu a knife and a shot of blood and sweat, such as sitting firm today, you have to take care of their Wang family.

"Then about the news of the resurgence, the lord means ......," Mrs. Dingguo wondered.

"It's just a guess from the news I got from Nan Chen's side recently." Thinking of the news he had just heard, Wang Hao couldn't help but show joy on his face: "Nan Chen was scared by our Daqi a year ago, and Emperor Chen re-activated Chen Qian, Prince Cheng, as the guard of Jianye City, Chen Qian's thoughts, do I still not know, he has always been the core figure of Nan Chen's main battle faction, and he is bent on recovering the lost territory and recovering Da Chen, according to this, there must be a big war in Kaichun." Then it's time for me to get back up. Ni Yuan was seriously injured because of the assassin a few days ago, and I heard that he can't even get out of bed so far, so looking at the big Qi, although there are many famous generals, but which one is worthy of the important task of commanding the whole army? Wang Hao laughed, "It must be my time to show my ambitions." ”

It's just that those assassins are incompetent, and they can't even solve a single Ni Yuan. If I can go to this big trouble, I can go out with peace of mind. Wang Hao said secretly.

"That lord is going to be ashamed." Thinking that her husband was forced to retire because of the defeat on the battlefield, and now that she has such an opportunity, Mrs. Dingguo can't help but be overjoyed.

Hearing his wife's words, Wang Hao's original smug smile froze, and a trace of anger suddenly appeared on his face.

Mrs. Dingguo's words just touched his sore spot, the so-called shame refers to the fact that he led the troops to attack and defend the country, when he was under the command of the first emperor, as the uncle of the country, deep trust, followed the first emperor to fight and kill, no matter Pingliang destroyed Shu, it was repeated victories, after the death of the first emperor, he was the respect of the country, and he was the first emperor's trust and heavy minister, the power is unparalleled, and he was the marshal of the soldiers and horses of the Qi State, commanding the world's troops, but he didn't expect a small patriotic country, a Gu Qingting, actually let him return from two defeats, and his reputation was discredited.

For the first time, it can be said that he was too light on the enemy, although he knew that the defender of Anhui City would be the contemporary famous general Gu Qingting, but he only wanted to capture the city in one go, and he was killed and returned defeated.

The second time, he made a detailed plan, plotted and arranged, and finally completed the design, thinking that he would definitely be able to capture Gu Qingting who made him lose face, who knew that the guy was extremely cunning, and he actually saw through his arrangement, but he planned to destroy the Qi army, this time it was even worse than the last time, he was beaten to the ground and lost his armor, fled in embarrassment, and almost lost his life, and less than 50,000 of the 200,000 elite soldiers who went out followed him and returned to the Qi country.

Back in Qijing, although everyone was afraid that he was a high authority and did not dare to criticize him, but Qi Long, the Supreme of the Ninety-Five, did not have such a good temper, and immediately got angry with him in the main hall, so that he could not get off the stage.

In fact, according to the laws of the Qi State, like Wang Hao, he lost consecutive battles and buried nearly 200,000 elite soldiers of Daqi under the city of Wanzhou, which was enough to destroy his family.

Fortunately, he saw the opportunity early, lowered his posture, quickly retired from illness, handed over power, and the queen and the queen mother interceded so that he was not pursued.

But it is indispensable to become the laughing stock of everyone, especially after Ni Yuan's success in the first battle, the destruction of the country, and the killing of Gu Qingting, although Ni Yuan's battle, the dead soldiers of the Great Qi were not less than Wang Hao's two battles, but seeing the car driving of the surrender of the country, the forgetful people of the Qi State quickly lost all the heavy losses on the battlefield, and praised Ni Yuan's resourcefulness and good decision.

All this made Wang Hao very angry, in his opinion, Ni Yuan was just stained with his light, if it wasn't for his first two massive sieges that scared King Wei, how could he surrender so simply and quickly? This is also a fact, in fact, even Ni Yuan said this when he asked for his resignation and reward in the above table. However, the people who listened to these words only affirmed Ni Yuan's humility and courtesy, and he was not arrogant. For the credit of his Wang Hao hidden behind it, of course, it is not as eye-catching as the death of the 200,000 army and the two consecutive defeats, but it makes him even more laughing stock.

"Ah, how is it good that I have been in and out of various mansions these days, and I have fallen into the eyes of others and attracted criticism from the courtiers?!" Mrs. Dingguo said in horror.

"Hmph, ignorant woman, it doesn't hurt if the courtiers criticize it, but I'm afraid that your majesty will not be happy to hear the news. Today's emperor, although his scheming is not deep, he is already a little jealous of our Wang family, but there is a queen mother, and it is not easy to attack because of a filial piety. ”

"Now, although he is still in the way of his sister's face, he is afraid of the grace of parenting, and he does not dare to do anything to us. Alas, but my sister's body is bad for a year, who knows when it will ...... When the time comes, what will happen to our royal family? Wang Hao shook his head, and there was a haze between his eyebrows. That's why I started from these side doors, hoping to cultivate people for Ning Qiu and compete for favor in the harem. ”

"You don't have to worry about anything else now, just wrap up these promising girls and ask Ning Qiu to cultivate them well. The key is to leave a prince who belongs to our forces as soon as possible. Wang Hao said, with a trace of ruthlessness in his eyes.

"That's good," Mrs. Dingguo put her mind at ease, but there was still a trace of hesitation, "It's just ......"

"Just what?" Wang Hao glanced at her and said, "If you have something to say, you just say it, why bother to spit it out like this." ”

"That's it...... It's just that I haven't talked to Ning Qiu about this matter yet, but I tested her a little today, but I'm afraid she won't agree with this matter. Mrs. Dingguo said nervously.

"Hmph, I don't agree, if her stomach is willing to fight a little, do I need to spend such painstry?" Wang Hao snorted coldly with a bit of anger, which startled Mrs. Dingguo.

Seeing his wife's fear, he exhaled, and his expression was a little sad: "Alas, Ning Qiu has been an arrogant child since she was a child, and I also know this, if it weren't for her belly, why would I bother to choose from among the nobles and nobles like this to find help for her?" That Su Concubine, although she took refuge in her, but Concubine Yun's lessons are there, and it is still convenient for her own people to use it. You have a good talk with her, she is a smart child, and she can naturally understand our hard work. ”

"Yes," Mrs. Dingguo reluctantly agreed, in fact, she was really not sure about convincing her daughter, although Ning Qiu's child was her biological flesh and blood, but since she was a child, she had a cold temperament, entered the palace, became the queen, and became the mother of a country, she felt that she didn't know what she was thinking, and only the queen mother could say a few words, alas, it seems that it is better to enter the palace and ask the queen mother.