In September of the eighth year of Yuanqing, the first batch of Jinshi in Dalong was born, wearing palace robes, rewarding grace and honor, the second and third top ranked top 30 people, elected into the Shu Jishi, where more than 30 people according to the ranking or leave six departments to view the government, or awarded to the matter, the chief and other officials, or the local government officials, Tongzhi, county orders and county officials, etc.

In the eyes of the world, most of these people who have been promoted through the imperial examination have bright careers, especially the first three people.

So the three of them have not yet finished in the saddle, and their names and surnames have been widely spread in the market, and even the fact that Su Ming has not yet married has been rumored to be known in the streets - the eldest princess in order to minimize the discussion caused by Su Ming's "appearance", she did not move the public to discuss family affairs for him, and she did not make a big decision, so the world is so unaware, it is no wonder, although Su Ming is recognized by the family, most of the high-ranking families still have a wait-and-see attitude, and it is expected that the eldest princess will be very difficult to treat this concubine, and she is not in a hurry to get married. No matter how low the courtyard is, there is only a way to look up to the Weiguo Mansion, and there is no way to climb it.

It is naturally not a secret that the champion asked about being Wei Xiangjia's son-in-law, which caused the ladies watching in the private room next to the road to sigh.

As for the list, it is said that he is a person from Xi'an Mansion, and he is not confused when he is already over the years, needless to say that he has been married, and his appearance is not good, compared to the two champions of Yushu Linfeng and Tanhua, it is really not attractive enough, and most of the ladies are swaying at a glance.

When the champion Lang Yuma Jin'an Da teahouse headed by Gu Yuwen passed by, Yijing's group of "relatives and friends" spontaneously disbanded, and they returned to their homes to celebrate.

When the meritorious people of the tribute to participate in the examination, only the ranking is determined and there is no first to say, so in addition to Enron, there is a "Jinshi" in each family, of course, it is not a matter of Daqing for the family, after all, its children are not as difficult as a cold family, but they also understand that this batch of Jinshi is an emerging force that the Heavenly Family will focus on cultivating in the future, not an ordinary family, and it can be regarded as adding a political wealth to the family.

Yijing went back to the Weiguo Mansion by the way, but she didn't see the cannon in front of the door.

Tanhualang is still parading the streets, but the three Su brothers who entered the palace to participate in the ceremony have already returned home, and they are all sitting in the side hall of Yuanying Hall.

The maid and the lady stood far away on both sides of the corridor, and saw that someone went in to pass the word when she saw the beautiful scenery entering, and seeing this situation, there were some important matters to be discussed, and the idlers did not disturb the posture, and the beautiful scenery hurriedly shouted to Linglong, and asked her father and uncle to be there, so she said that she would go to see the Duchess of the country first, and come to greet her later.

That is, after a passing scene at the Huang family, Yi Jing went to see the second and third aunts, and just turned to Dong Yin's place, and saw her pinching her nose and drinking a bowl of bitter medicinal juice - Dong Yin has not been pregnant for several years after entering the door, she has long been anxious, Yi Jing heard that the Huang family has recently changed "Wu Wei", claiming that the inheritance of the heir is a prosperous plan for the family, and persuaded Dong Yin to focus on virtue and give Su Xun a concubine.

"What kind of medicine is this?" Yijing asked.

"It's a prescription from the imperial doctor that my grandmother invited." Dong Yin's smile was a little bitter.

"But Madame is persecuting you again?" Yijing asked.

Dong Yin pulled Yijing to sit on the soft couch hung with cherry red gauze tents, and shook her head gently: "Mother-in-law, she just advised, and did not interfere in the affairs of my courtyard, and even considered me everywhere, saying that she could not mention the matter of concubines for the time being, and first stopped the medicine for the two rooms, and if there is an heir, leave the son to the mother, and record the child in my name...... The son is the eldest grandson, and I have not been pregnant for a long time, and most of them are handled like this in other families, and it cannot be said that my mother-in-law persecuted. ”

Su Xun had a big maid beside him, although the Weiguo Mansion did not have the practice of preparing a room first, but Dong Yin saw that the maid's duty, so he made a face, and later raised a maid around him to the house, but she was still a maid, and she had not yet been raised to an aunt, and the child soup was never stopped.

In fact, Huang's "persuasion" Wei Guogong and the eldest princess knew early on, and the eldest princess disagreed with this "virtuous" construction: "We are a princess, compared to a family without a lord, we must avoid the concubine as the elder, and then leave the son to the mother, Dalang and Yin'er are young in the end, if Yin'er has a son-in-law in the future, how to arrange the previous one in the name?" It is the root of the chaos. The eldest princess has the heart to wait a few more years, Dong Yin is really not pregnant, and then discuss what to do, but asked Wei Guogong not to reveal her thoughts to Su Jing and his wife: "Brother Jing is a good child, and he didn't make it difficult for Yin'er, he knows it in his heart, but Yin'er will be the main mother in the future, and she will have to be assertive, and she has to bear the pressure on her shoulders. ”

"Sister-in-law, don't be too anxious, I heard that in other houses, there are also cases of getting pregnant after entering the door for several years, which is not uncommon." Yijing didn't make any random moves, Su Xun is the son of the world in the end, and his eldest son will also have to be the heir in the future, and the heir is indeed important.

Dong Yin didn't want to mention this matter more, his heart was serious, and he didn't talk much, Yijing sat for a while, and said that he was going to see a few younger sisters, but he just came out of Songtao Courtyard, and he met Linglong, saying that the fourth master had returned to the house, and the eldest princess asked her to invite Yijing to Yuanyingtang.

Yijing was slightly surprised, and gossiped with Linglong to Yuanying Hall, seeing that it was still the same situation just now, the servants in the corridor all lowered their hands and held their voices, and even Linglong didn't follow up the main room, but just opened the curtain for Yijing and pointed to the right side hall.

Under the red sandalwood screen of Songke Shoushan set up in the north of the side hall, the eldest princess sat on the Luo Han bed wearing a bright blue brocade, and Su Ming, the Tanhua Lang who had just returned from the street, had not changed out of the red palace robe, only took the crown and wore it, and sat in the official hat chair at the bottom of the right side, and his expression did not see the spirit flying on the jade horse and gold saddle earlier, and he was very solemn.

Yi Jing originally looked at the fourth uncle more like the third uncle, more amiable than his father, and slightly more calm than the second uncle's scribe demeanor, but seeing him like this today, he felt more similar to his father.

After giving a round of salutes, Yijing walked to sit on the brocade pier at her feet at the signal of the eldest princess.

"The matter of your fourth uncle's first armor was really expected by Yuanyang." The eldest princess blurted out a sentence, and there was a slight apology in her eyes when she looked at Su Ming: "I was bent on making up for Mingtang's regrets, but I didn't expect it to be thoughtful. ”

The beautiful scenery is even more surprised, it sounds like the fourth uncle doesn't want to be in this flower?

Seeing Su Ming get up and take a long look, Yijing hurriedly got up and avoided to the side, and listened to him say: "Mother's words made the son very ashamed, the son was able to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors because of his mother's tolerance, and since he is a child of the Su family, he naturally has to bear the responsibility of the son of man. ”

"Sit down and talk." The eldest princess smiled when she heard this, and then explained to Yijing: "Your fourth uncle responded to the golden mean, but he didn't want to be in the limelight, he originally wanted to avoid even this test, first, I didn't want to delay him, second, he studied under the famous Confucian, and the saint knew that he was a disciple of the Patriotic Mansion, and even named him to take the exam." ”

Su Mingde Nanru Ding Changsu personally taught, it can be said that he is the disciple of this great Confucian, if even a tribute is lost, it is too obvious, how do you know that although the palace test chose the mean, and did not show "forge ahead", it is still the first armor, undoubtedly the Son of Heaven intends to do so, to make him one of the core of the emerging forces in the future, of course, it is a further "trap" for the Weiguo Mansion.

The eldest princess said to Yijing again: "You are the daughter of the Guogong Mansion, and now you are the princess of the King of Chu, not as good as ordinary noblewomen who only work hard in the inner house, and some political affairs, you should also understand in your heart, presumably Feng'er has also informed you, and there is a chance that the storage position will change." ”

The beautiful scenery is the head.

"Ji He this time to explore the flowers, awarded the Hanlin Academy to edit, in the future will be the son of heaven and the minister, my Su family is a civil and military official, the holy family is deep and obvious to all, once the saint has the discussion of easy storage, the prince is abolished, it will become a hot multi-party competition, the current situation, it is no longer up to us to choose, it will definitely involve the battle for the storage position, the heart of heaven is unpredictable, it is a blessing and a curse." The eldest princess said in a deep voice: "In my opinion, once the Holy Lord proposes to be easy to store, the first turmoil will be the political discord between the Queen Mother and the Holy Mother and Son. ”

It's not that the queen mother is optimistic about the crown prince, but the queen mother is a descendant, and the Yan family behind the queen mother is closely related to the eldest princess, and it is the mother of the eldest princess and the foreign family of the Duke of Weiguo.

At present, the Weiguo Mansion is already extremely prosperous, and it is also Su Ming High School to explore flowers, which is really a blazing fire.

"The intention of the Holy Lord is to win the help of the Guogong Mansion, and do our best in the future in abolishing the prince and laying the new prince, so that we may have to be enemies with the Queen Mother and the Yan family first." The eldest princess became more and more silent: "Even if you can avoid this, the storage position is not a long one, and you should be virtuous, how can there be a solid argument about the word virtuous, the princes will definitely fight each other, the eldest daughter of the Su family is Princess Fu, but King Fu obviously does not have a sacred heart." ”

The eldest princess didn't explain, in fact, she also saw that the sacred heart was on the third prince, but only the sacred heart was not enough for the third prince to sit firmly in the throne, the fourth prince was powerful, and the fifth prince was not weak, and the concubine family should not be underestimated.

At that time, it was also the intention of the heavenly family to let Yichen marry King Fu, which was intended to stabilize the connection with the Weiguo Mansion, and set out to eradicate the Jin Rebellion and reform the official system.

Compared with the Weiguo Mansion, the Chu Wangfu is a clan, no matter whether it is near or far, it is more trusted by the saints, although the two families are in-laws, but once it involves the overall situation of national politics, it is difficult to achieve a true "heart-to-heart reflection", at least in the eyes of the heavenly family and the world.

Therefore, in order to stabilize the righteousness of the monarch and minister of the Su family, the Son of Heaven deliberately promoted Su Ming.

In this way, the Patriotic Mansion not only has the honor of honor, but even becomes the head of the emerging forces in the future, and the power is powerful, so it must make a choice.

"My son thinks that the Holy God has not given us a choice." Wei Guogong said: "To protect the king from being affected, and the family is honored and safe, you must act in accordance with the holy decree. ”

The third master, Su Yi, agreed: "But the fourth brother is visiting flowers in high school this time, and if he doesn't wait for the saint to propose the abolition of the prince, the help behind the princes will win over the fourth brother." ”

Obviously, whether Su Ming is a concubine or a "sudden naturalization", few people in the world will think that Su Ming and the eldest princess can really do one thing, and the three brothers of Wei Guogong will undoubtedly be classified as the party of King Fu, and Su Ming may not be able to win over.

"King Fu won't mention it for the time being, I think we should also cover the obstacles, show loyalty only to the saint, unite and don't need to show outsiders, one is also to leave a way back, and the other is to test for the saint to play chess, in case of abolition in the future." The third master said again.

Wei Guogong and Su Ke both agreed.

Although the Su family's loyalty can be learned, but self-protection is also extremely important, to leave a way back, you can't put all the eggs in one basket, this must be mastered well, first, to maintain the faith of the saint, not to really make the holy heart suspicious, and second, in the eyes of others, the attitude of the Su family must remain ambiguous, not to let a glance see through.

"Today, the fourth brother is in high school to explore the flowers, but we didn't celebrate immediately, and we have already walked out." Su Yi said again.

The eldest princess bowed her head: "Second child, this word has to be spread out through your daughter-in-law's mouth, just say that I mean that I will be afraid of the prosperity and decline, so I told Ji He to let him have a little reservation, how do I know that I am a little disliked when I hit Tanhua." ”

As for who to let Ritchie publicize, everyone here knows it.

"Of course, Ji He is both a high school and a high school to explore flowers, and of course the Weiguo Mansion has to hold a banquet to celebrate, and this superficial article must still be done." The eldest princess said again.