Chapter 149: Together
"Oh? What else? Wang Jibao raised her eyebrows slightly and asked with interest.
The number of concubines in the palace of her third uncle Prince Lian is the largest in the whole Hou Mansion. Therefore, a woman from outside with a child came to recognize her ancestors and return to her ancestors, which did not make people feel strange at all. There must be something else that would make her third aunt so fierce.
Liangchen hurriedly said: "The slave maid heard that the woman seems to be the cousin of the third lady who has been widowed for many years. Once the third lady also asked the third master to come forward to help this cousin deal with the funeral of her deceased husband. β
There is no need to ask for specific details, Wang Jibao also knows a rough idea, even more clearly than others know. Today, this woman was able to find the door, and there is no small credit to her.
The corners of Wang Jibao's mouth turned up slightly, and she said lightly: "Got it." You told all the people in our courtyard to stay where they should be, and not to run around. After all, it's a matter of their three rooms, and it's not easy for us to get involved. β
"Yes."
Wang Jibao entered the house, took off her coat under the service of Meijing and others, and after a simple wash in the bathroom, she took off her shoes and went to bed.
After a short rest, he got up and took out the unfinished clothes from the bamboo basket next to the pillow and continued sewing.
These clothes were prepared by her for Zhu Linxi.
It won't be long before she can see her Lin Xi, so she is sewing with joy.
This work was done in the evening.
Before going to bed, Qingtian entered Wang Jibao's room.
"County Lord."
"Any news?" Wang Jibao sat up straight and asked.
"Hmm. Aunt Danger asked Tricy to place a note in a moving brick in the backyard. The slave and maid looked at it and wrote down its contents. "Sunny day report.
Cui Xi is Dange's personal big girl.
"You imitate Dange's pen style and write another copy, and then find a way to hand it over to my third aunt." Wang Jibao didn't need to ask about the specific content on the note at all, and guessed a rough idea.
Imitating other people's fonts is another of Sunny Day's specialties.
"Yes, slave and maid will do it."
"By the way, is it the second half of the night today or tomorrow?" Wang Jibao asked about the specific time, and she had a number in her heart.
Qingtian replied, "It's the second half of the night." β
Wang Jibao nodded, and commanded again: "Then you keep an eye on it, don't really let them hurt Dange." When the time comes, find someone to call my second sister-in-law to deal with it. After all, now the middle feed of the Hou Mansion is under her control. I'm not going to get involved. β
"Yes, slave and maid will do it. County Lord, go to bed early, don't stay up late. After saying that, Qingtian flashed away.
Do you still remember when Wang Jibao's third aunt Liu wanted to calculate Wang Yuxun and Wang Yuze? Wang Jibao felt that if this matter was to be avenged on the two cousins in the third room, it would be a bit inauthentic to make a mess of women for them.
As the saying goes, if there is a wrongdoer, there is a debtor, and it is fair to let her third aunt suffer a little.
In the early years, when the whole family got together for dinner, Wang Jibao smelled the moon flower on Wang Zilian. At the time, she thought it was strange. Later, the secret guards were sent to keep an eye on Dange's residence in the backyard a few times, and sure enough, they found clues.
What no one expected was that in the small courtyard of Wang Zilian's concubine room, who also lived in the backyard, there was a secret door that could lead to the small courtyard where Dange lived.
You can imagine what happened after that.
It is estimated that Wang Zilian also calculated that it is impossible for Dange to get pregnant, and Wang Ziyi no longer goes to the backyard since he had Wang Jibao, so he dares to act like this.
A few years ago, Wang Jibao was still young, and she always had sympathy for Dange, so she didn't know what to do.
When her third aunt fainted that time and actually wanted to calculate their big house, Wang Jibao thought about poking this matter out so as to add to her third aunt's blockage.
But Wang Ziyi was still in the house at that time, and if this matter was revealed, it would still damage his father's face. And the relationship between her father and her third uncle is not good. So Wang Jibao kept holding back and didn't make a move.
Now that Wang Ziyi and his wife have left, and the old marquis and his wife are not in the house, if this matter is exposed, they will not be angry. So Wang Jibao decided that now is the best time to make a move.
But to expose this matter, it is better for her third aunt Liu to go in person.
Wang Jibao did not ask anyone to deliberately spy on Wang Zilian at first. It's because once in the West End Food Street, I accidentally bumped into Wang Zilian to the West District.
It stands to reason that the prince is in charge of the affairs of the Hou Mansion, and it is nothing to come here. But it is strange that he was overly cautious in his actions, and told his servant and a few men to stand guard at the entrance of an alley, and he went alone.
Wang Jibao was standing on the second floor of the food street at that time, and saw the whole process clearly. Later, when I asked Qingtian to investigate, I found that there was a widow with a child living alone in the alley in a two-entry courtyard.
After that, I found out that Wang Zilian always went there secretly for a day or two a month.
After someone investigated on a sunny day, they knew the true origin of this woman.
During the day, Liu and her cousin had a lot of trouble, and at night, they caught Wang Zilian and the fourth aunt of the big house, Dange, who were dying and lingering.
Thanks to Liu's heart being strong enough, otherwise he would not have been able to withstand such a difficult double test.
After the Liu family succeeded in catching the traitor, the first thing he did was to sink Dange into the pond, but fortunately, Zhang Junyan arrived in time and saved Dange.
In any case, Dange is the concubine of Prince Yi of Dafang, and the Liu family can only wait to see how Dafang will give her an explanation.
The next morning, news came out of Dange's violent death. Regardless of whether the news is true or not, it can be regarded as an answer to Liu's.
But if you want to talk about the wrong place, it is still that their three-room prince Lian is not authentic. So this loss can only be eaten.
Although Wang Yuxun, the older young man, has no wife and children, he has brought a lot of people with him this time.
In the distance, I saw a long procession of carriages along a mountain road, accompanied by hundreds of royal guards.
Wang Yuxun wanted to tell everyone very much that he was a very simple Qing official, and those people were not sent to him.
But will anyone believe it?
Of course, those people were not sent to Wang Yuxun a four-rank prefect. Instead, Emperor Yongsheng and Empress Dowager Jiang were worried about Wang Jibao's safety along the way, so they each sent a team of men to protect her.
In this way, Wang Jibao's current travel battle is higher than the treatment of a princess.
Wang Yuxun could only helplessly watch the team drag forward, and he turned one day's journey into two days. At this rate, it would be nice to be able to reach Bongbuk County before the snow fell.
In addition to feeling tired from the journey, everyone really didn't suffer too much.
The usual arrangements are how comfortable and how to come. Occasionally, I missed the nightstay, because Wang Jibao prepared a lot of sleeping bags, but they set up a tent and lay down in the sleeping bags to sleep, which was warm and reassuring.
During the march, if it was too tiring to ride in the carriage, Wang Xibao would go outside with Wang Xu and a few people to ride a horse for a while.
Also on the road with them this time was a subordinate of Wang Yuxun who took office with him, the county magistrate of Ping County.
Of course, this person is not an outsider, it is Lu Yuan's second son Lu Hongwei.
After trying in this science hall, Lu Hongwei and Lu Hongbo have achieved quite good results.
Although he did not enter the top three of the first class, one of them ranked first in the second class, also known as Chuanyu, which is the fourth in the country. One ranked twenty-eighth.
Both of them became new science and technology scholars.
To say that these two brothers are also strong. These two did not take advantage of their relationship with the Shunhou Mansion to study in Guozijian at the beginning, but like the Hanmen concubines, they went from Xiucai to the top of the exam.
In addition to Lu Yuan and Wang Ziyi teaching their studies, they also worshipped a famous teacher under the recommendation of Wang Ziyi.
LΓΌ Hongbobai's master was Bai Hongxin, a friend of Wang Ziyi, the vice president of the Royal Academy, and LΓΌ Hongwei's mentor was Zhou Pei, the eldest son of Zhou Suping, a scholar of the university, and the father of Zhou Yaxue, Wang Xibao's classmate in the Royal Academy.
This time, Lu Hongwei was able to rank fourth in high school, of course, it is not unrelated to his mentor Zhou Pei and his ancestor Zhou Suping.
It is precisely because Lu Hongwei worshipped Zhou Pei as his teacher that he had a love affair with his little sister Zhou Yaxue after coming and going. In the end, Wang Ziyi came forward again to protect Lu Hongwei and set up a family affair for the two of them.
In Wang Jibao's memory, her classmate is a fairly quiet girl. Unexpectedly, in order to take office with Lu Hongwei, he actually held a big wedding with Lu Hongwei in advance last month, and he also came with him this time.
Seeing his classmates again, Wang Jibao was also quite emotional, and his classmates had become wives.
To say that Zhou Yaxue's age of marriage is not too early in ancient times, she is four years older than Wang Jibao, and she is sixteen years old this year. But in Dayong, generally the girls of the noble family get married at night. It was originally scheduled that Zhou Yaxue would not get married until next year.
Seeing each other again this time, Zhou Yaxue has obviously become much more cheerful than before. Because her husband and Wang Jibao are also brothers and sisters, she treats Wang Jibao a lot closer. During the interval of the journey, he would come over to chat with Wang Xibao for a while.
Wang Jibao sighed again: This fate is really wonderful. In the past, she never thought that she would one day become best friends with a woman like Zhou Yaxue, who was completely different from her personality.
Lu Hongbo's results after this palace examination were also good, and he was named the editor of the Hanlin Academy. Like Li Hongwei, they are all positive seven products, and they are mainly responsible for sorting out the questions of the imperial examinations over the years and compiling them into a book.
Of course, the edited manuscript was to be kept in the Hanlin Academy, and the rubbed version was used by Emperor Yongsheng to earn dividends.
Wang Jibao found that his cousin, the emperor, was a little condescending when he became the emperor. This is a big profiteer.
Even if this person is an official, he is certainly not a qualified minister. A corrupt official who knows how to use his power to seek personal gain for himself.
Of course, these Wang Jibao can only secretly slander a few words in their hearts.