Although they were all looking forward to Yang Jiaozhou's message and had been waiting anxiously for many days, at this moment, seeing the letter presented by Zhuang's mother's hands, Jiang and Chen Lan were all surprised. For it was not a lonely letter, but a whole pile, and there were four or five of them. After hesitating for a moment, Jiang put it on the kang table and pulled it, and even added two to five, and motioned for his daughter-in-law to look at it separately from him.

First there was Chen Yun's reminder first, and then there were eunuch Jin's words later, at this moment, if it weren't for his mother-in-law on the other side, Chen Lan couldn't wait to snatch these letters and take them apart and read them together. Therefore, she was not polite, and took out the letterhead three or two times, only to be a little hesitant and surprised when she saw the handwriting, but quickly put aside these chaotic thoughts.

The letter in her hand was only a thin piece of paper, not so much a letter as an essay, scribbled with a few words of annotation. However, in addition to the handwriting annotations, there were several vivid villains holding swords, and she recognized at a glance that this was the sword style that Yang Jinzhou taught herself in the past, but it was slightly different from the previous movements, thinking that he had inadvertently gained something, and the annotations on all sides were the best evidence.

"Lan's body is weak and weak, but his waist and legs are light, and his penetration force is light, not to seek the vital point, but to get out of trouble......"

"The arm length is two feet three inches, when the formula is changed to ......"

At this time, Zhuang's mother next to her keenly noticed that Chen Lan's face turned red, and she couldn't help but show a puzzled expression, and when she saw Jiang Shi again, her face was also strange, she thought about it and simply tiptoed back, and only smiled when she reached the door, and muttered softly in her mouth: "There is such a pair of beautiful women, and the happiest person is the old lady......"

Chen Lan finally came back to his senses, and immediately quickly stuffed the letter under the kang table, and took another one to read. But I saw that this time I didn't look up and didn't sign, I just remembered the prescriptions that were commonly used in winter, and I noted that it was obtained from the imperial pharmacy. waited for her to pick up another letter, but this time she saw the rumors that Mrs. Zheng was making a big fuss in the Ninghou Mansion in Yang" and said a few words of concern with emotion. When she stretched out her hand again, she found that the kang table was empty, and she couldn't help but raise her head, only to see Jiang Shi looking at her with blazing eyes.

"Do you see the meaning of these letters?"

"Well...... Chen Lan calmed down for a while, and then said curtly, "When something he wrote inadvertently, it was submitted by someone and sent it out without hindrance after reading it, and it was not written by him, but copied by someone else." ”

"I knew you were careful." Jiang nodded approvingly, and then his face was a little delicate, "He can have today's future" can marry you as a wife, and can get Jingyuan as his home, except for his own hard work" is the emperor's grace. The emperor can give us this thing directly and generously, which is nothing more than a show of trust in him, and we don't have to think about the rest. ”

"Mother, that's what you said."

Chen Lan nodded, the initial surprise in his heart had faded, and he was replaced by some shame. Yang Jinzhou's trick she had only used herself, that is, she sent her confidant's aunt and maidservant to walk around the mansions without asking any serious questions, in order to show that she was open-minded. However, the guy with a cold face in front of people "prefers to remember these things when he is fine, which is good, more people have seen it!" Especially the Supreme Heavenly Son, how can this make her have a face......

Just when her heart was full of cranky thoughts, the Jiang family on the side suddenly sighed lightly: ", his temperament is with his father." His father once said, "The so-called love is not insufficient to outsiders, and it cannot be viewed by outsiders." It is a good story to raise eyebrows, but it can only be said to be respectful, far inferior to those details. He dares to let everyone know that "you two are a loving and harmonious couple......

It's okay that Jiang didn't say this, but after she finished speaking, Chen Lan remembered the words like light waist and legs, and couldn't help but stretch out his slap and press the letter that he stuffed under the kang table, and made up his mind that this copy would be hidden and never shown to others. Not only that," Jiang's last sentence reminded her of some of the past, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but pick up again, and finally let out a silent snort.

This guy ...... I'll settle accounts with you when I get back...... Having said that, in the two letters that Jiang Jing read just now, he wouldn't leave any words that were too explicit, right?

At three o'clock, the crescent moon had risen outside the window of Yong'an's house, but the room was dim, and the sound of ping-pong came from the depths of the house from time to time. It's just that the two people guarding the door only glance at each other from time to time, but their feet seem to be rooted, and they ignore even the whispers of curses coming from the house. It wasn't until the lights came on in front of them, followed by the sound of low footsteps, that they immediately showed their most neat stance.

"Shuyuan Niangniang."

The two lanterns were divided to the side, and Li Shuyuan revealed her figure. Under the dim light, coupled with the plain cloak, her face looked no different from usual, but when she motioned to the two eunuchs guarding the door to unlock the lock, she took off her hood and stepped into the door, revealing that her face could not be covered by heavy makeup.

"How's it going inside?"

Hearing this, the two people guarding the door glanced at each other, and finally lowered their heads and said nothing. Seeing this scene, Li Shuyuan narrowed her eyes slightly, then didn't speak again, and pushed the door straight into the room. From the outhouse to the bright room, she walked along the narrow passage until she entered the east room, and as soon as she closed the door with her backhand, she heard an angry voice from inside: "What do you want, how long do you want to lock me up!" ”

"If I hadn't locked you up here, and you ran around outside, I would have stabbed you all this day!" Li Shuyuan stared at the figure who stood up angrily for a while, and suddenly sighed stubbornly, "I don't understand, why can't you settle down?" Since you were a child, you have not been the best in reading and practicing martial arts, but having that kind of thought, after all, is often common among royal people, so I have never stopped you, after all, your father and the emperor have not established a friend for a long time, and he may have the meaning of looking at the hearts of the sons. But what do you do? Your uncle Li Zheng committed an accident, if you just bribe and carefully fill it with the family's wealth, maybe there will be a chance to recover, but you ............ But you're ......"

"What's wrong with me!" King Huai raised his head suddenly, took two steps forward suddenly, and his eyes were full of fierceness, "If I hadn't gone out to fight, would you be able to live in the first palace safely?" If it weren't for my uncle trying to make money, "Mother, can you get the reputation of a bodhisattva in the palace?" There is nothing in this world that is free of price, except for the idiot of the eldest brother, the brothers in front of me, and the fuel-saving lamp "They ascended to the Ninth Five-Year Honor, what good life can our mother and son have?" Or do you always think that you have raised someone else's son like me for so many years, but in the end you sacrificed your uncle, and you think it is not cost-effective to spend more than ten years? ”

Slap: As soon as the words fell, I only heard a crisp sound, and King Huai slapped him heavily in the face, but he didn't seem to feel it at all, "Standing there motionless with his face covered, while Li Shuyuan on the other side was already trembling with her shoulders, and the whole person seemed to collapse at any time." I don't know how long it took" She pressed her left hand on the right arm that hung down at her side and couldn't help shaking, and said hoarsely, "Who told you, who told you this kind of bastard?" You are my own son, and the whole palace knows it! ”

"Don't try to hide it from me!" King Huai slowly took a few steps back, and it was not until he leaned on the wide bookcase that he stopped, gently wiped his swollen right cheek with his right hand, and then said with a grim look in his eyes, "...... The third brother's biological mother is Ji Zhaoyi, the head of the nine concubines, just because the four concubines were full in the past, so they failed to rise, and the fourth brother's mother died early, "But mother, you sealed Shuyuan before you gave birth to me, but you have been at the end of the nine concubines since then, how many years has it been?" Moreover, for as long as I can remember, many of the maids of the chamberlain have looked at me with strange eyes, and it was not until I was ten years old that the situation got better. Furthermore, "Although I am raised in Yong'an Palace, I am more polite than respectful to me up and down, even if you speak to me, there are ......"

"Say no more!"

Li Shuyuan suddenly drank frantically, and saw that King Huai stopped. Her face was clearly convinced, and she couldn't help but stretch out her hand and scratch it to the side, but after all, there was no life-saving straw in the empty place that she could rely on, she could only staggered back like a broken ship tossed in the wind and waves, and kept shaking her head gently, until she finally reached the door, she suddenly stabilized, and straightened her waist again.

"I don't care who said these bastard words to you, you remember to me, you are my flesh and blood relatives who worked hard to give birth to a pregnancy in October! There is only one thing I regret now, and that is that I didn't discipline you properly, which made you what you are now! If you have the time to think about the old things about the rotten sesame seeds, you might as well think about how to clean yourself up and some things! ”

With a bang, Li Shuyuan's figure disappeared into the room, and the two doors were closed tightly. King Huai stood stunned for a while, and suddenly laughed, and the gloomy voice kept echoing in the room, and it was as hoarse and ugly as a night owl. Li Shuyuan, who walked to the end of the narrow road, turned her head almost at the same time, glanced at the motionless door curtain, she couldn't help gritting her teeth, and then when she got out of the door, she glanced at the two eunuchs in front of the room who didn't even dare to raise their heads.

"Keep watched, if there is a little bit of wind today, you will want to live!"

Li Shuyuan, who has always been kind and kind-hearted, suddenly put down such a loud voice, and the two eunuchs all knelt on the ground for a while and did not dare to raise their heads. The other three or four palace maids who came with Li Shuyuan were even more trembling and didn't dare to speak, until they saw Li Shuyuan turn around and go in the direction of the main hall, they hurriedly followed, but they didn't even dare to say a word.

Those few words just now, just thinking about it are terrible, let alone spreading it!

From the cold wind howling outdoors into the warm Xinuan Pavilion bedroom, Li Shuyuan retreated and sat on the bed left and right, leaving only a middle-aged palace maid who had been waiting for her for many years, and her stiff hand unconsciously tightened the brocade quilt beside her, and the old man recounted the words of King Huai before in a hoarse voice, and said viciously at the end: "No wonder I have always felt that he has become more and more eccentric in recent years, it turns out that someone actually said that kind of nonsense to him!" If it weren't for the fact that when he was one year old and caught Zhou, it happened that the queen gave birth to Princess Qingcheng but didn't keep it, and those sluts spread rumors, and the angry emperor almost hated his son for a while, and ignored it for several years, how could I have been cautious! ”

"Yes, Niangniang, the matter has passed, those few have been beaten into the cold palace, the ghost of the death, the cast of the cast, the palace servants in the palace no longer dare to spread anything, how can anyone dare to say that kind of bastard in the ear of His Royal Highness!"

"Check, check it for me! If I can't find out again, even if I don't want to fight for his future, I don't want to fight his uncle to "fight for my own name, I have to ask for justice to come back!" ”

As soon as the words fell, a eunuch's voice came from outside the door: "Niangniang, the official communiqué of the Qianqing Palace said that on the twenty-second day of the lunar month, His Royal Highness King Jing and His Royal Highness King Huai were ordered to live in the palace...... Also, the emperor just summoned His Royal Highness King Jing. ”

In the middle of the night, the five western offices of the Qianqing Palace were also silent. During the reigns of many emperors in the past, the prince would be moved here after his birth, but in the more than 20 years of Yongxi, there was only one King Jing who lived here. This is because he lost his mother at the age of seven, and it is not appropriate to live alone in the east and west six houses. Therefore, there is only such a prince in a huge place, and it seems a little deserted beyond the silence, not to mention, even some "weird" voices disappeared this night, because "the only master here was summoned to the Qianqing Palace."

There was finally a sound of footsteps on the sandwich between the two rows of bright tile lamps, and the two dim lights in the distance gradually approached, and finally revealed the group behind them.

At the head were two small firemen with lanterns, in the middle was a young man in a fox fur, and then a middle-aged eunuch half a step behind. "There was a small commotion in this quiet place, but when the people disappeared into the doors in an orderly manner, the place soon returned to quiet.

In a bedroom that is not very spacious," King Jing took off the coat outside, and then comfortably immersed his feet in hot water, and then couldn't help yawning.

Feeling his feet rubbed and pinched, the fatigue accumulated during the day seemed to be released bit by bit, and he couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief.

"Your Highness" The emperor finally gave the letter. In a few days, it will be the twenty-second day of the lunar month, and we will finally move out of this palace to the palace. ”

King Jing lazily kicked the hard copper basin with his toes, then squinted his eyes and said, "What's there to be happy about, after all, it's something that has been decided a long time ago." ”

"That said, when the time comes, won't there be fewer eyes staring at you? You don't have to ruin your reputation...... If you hadn't been framed back then, how would you have ......?"

"The past is over, what do I do now?" King Jing interrupted the middle-aged eunuch's words suddenly, and then said casually, "Don't you need to use people to move to the palace?" There will never be less eyes, "Life may not be easier than in the palace." And "fame is such a thing, just because you stop for a while, others will stop rumors." My father himself is not a person who cares about fame, so why should I cherish that little bit of fame? My father said it brilliantly today, first do what should be done impeccably, and then make bold moves when it is time to be decisive, be conscientious when it is time to be diligent, and be heartfelt when it is time to employ people...... You remember, if you don't fight, you fight, don't think that everyone else is a fool. ”

"Yes, Your Highness, I have written it down."

Seeing that the middle-aged eunuch lowered his head, King Jing leaned back again, and his right hand unconsciously tapped lightly on the armrest. Suddenly, he heard a somewhat hesitant voice from below: "Although it was said that it was the emperor's intention that day before, His Royal Highness knew that the Huguo Temple was going to give porridge during the Laba Festival, and there were many people who went, so why drag the little marquis there, and still take a bite of Xiao Lang...... As a result, not only was he seen, but he was also the county lord of Haining, so what if he annoyed the little marquis? ”

"When people see it, others will only think that I gave birth to that kind of meaning, and they won't think that I am trying to woo him. In this way, he will be cleaned, and it is a big deal that he will stay away from me like everyone else. The Xiao family is a hero, from the time of Taizu to the town of the town slave to do the capital, and now the prince is staying in Beijing to fetter himself, he is good because I keep the other brothers away. As for Xiao Lang...... Don't you think that ancient poem is wonderful? Just as Houmen is as deep as the sea, Xiao Lang has been walking since then...... If this Hou character is changed to a palace character, it is also appropriate, hahaha! ”

Jinchengfang Runingbo Hutong.

Although the Earl of Runing has been removed, and even the iron coupons of the heroes have been taken back, the name of this alley, which has been called for hundreds of years in the capital, cannot be changed for a while. Only the door of the mansion that once had two stone lions guarding the gate inevitably fell down, and since the battle before Runingbo Yang Jia was exiled from the Ping Army, a large number of slaves were either sold, or fled by themselves, or tried to ask the master to recommend them to other families. In short, it has not been a month, and in the door of the mansion with three entrances on each of the three roads, there are more than half of the empty houses. When Chen Lan and Jiang's car drove into the West Corner Gate, they saw that there were few people along the road, the bluestone road was even more dilapidated than before, and even the Yimen was greeted by only a daughter-in-law dressed in ordinary clothes.

"Big lady, third grandmother" Everyone is in the main hall, please come with the little one. ”

The third grandmother called Chen Lan had heard it when she returned to Jingyuan to see her relatives in the past when she was newly married, but it was the first time for someone to call Jiang the eldest lady, and she frowned when she saw Jiang's "Finally, she pursed her mouth and nodded, her heart was relieved, and she easily supported her mother-in-law's right arm: "Mother, be careful under your feet." ”

"Don't worry, my legs and feet are very sharp, even if there are any hurdles, they can't trip me."

I don't know if the daughter-in-law is silent, or stupid and can't understand, and her face doesn't change at all, "I only led the way with half a bow in front of me, and only retreated when I reached the main hall of the seven rooms." As soon as Chen Lan helped Jiang Shi into the room, he saw that the two chairs in the center of the bright room were still empty, "But at this time, the people who were sitting on both sides stood up one after another.

"My sister-in-law actually came in person, it's really labor!"

"That's it, I heard that sister-in-law is not in good health, and my brother is busy with official business, it's great that you can come!"

"The eldest aunt is highly respected, with you, we will definitely be able to negotiate a result today!"

The chaotic greetings and flattery swept over, and Chen Lan saw that the Jiang family changed his usual kindness in front of him, "How cold and cold that face is, no matter who comes over, he only snorts his head, and there is no other word, she can't help but vaguely understand who Yang Jinzhou's cold face is." Therefore, when everyone got out of the way, revealing the first chair in front of her, she helped Jiang to walk over, and when she sat down, she stood next to her mother-in-law.

However, just when the others were also seated, the fifth old man Yang Jin spoke: "Come on, why don't you move a brocade pier for my brother's daughter-in-law?" Yan said that this is a clan, "not a court, but the daughter-in-law of the whole brother is the county lord of the imperial court, how can she be as lazy as ordinary juniors" spread the word that our Yang family does not know etiquette! ”

Hearing this, Chen Lan saw that the faces of the people in the hall were wonderful, "But there were almost no frowns, and the most was a pair of good words to say to others with remorse, and without waiting for a small guy who was still in the general corner to do it, a young man immediately stood up, rushed forward in three or two steps, and moved a half-old and not new brocade pier in the corner of the wall, and put it in front of Chen Lan with a smile, and even brushed it twice with his sleeve.

"Third aunt, please take a seat."

This sentence of the third aunt, Chen Lan just remembered that this person had just introduced it, as if it was another branch of Yang Jinzhou's great-ancestor. Others did this thing just now, but it was okay for him, a junior, to do it. So she bowed down and sat down, and saw the young man standing behind the third chair opposite, and a middle-aged man in front of her was still bowing slightly at her. At this time, someone spoke in the direction of the most attack.

"The ancestral hall of the Yang family has never allowed women to sacrifice, today is to elect a new patriarch, and there is also to solve the case of Shuntianfu, is this brother's daughter-in-law going to avoid it?"

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar. The eleventh old man Yang Luo was the first to stand up and shouted: "The rules of the ancestral hall are the old yellow calendar many years ago, and now even the title has been lost, can't the old rules be changed?" As for the whole brother's daughter-in-law, don't you see that the sister-in-law is not in good health, first, there is a response next to her, and secondly, you can also give everyone a reminder. Now that our family has come to this point, if it weren't for the fact that there is a second-grade military attache like Brother Quan, and a county lord like Brother Quan's daughter-in-law, can we prevent other families from falling into the well? ”

This is purely for the sake of profit, and for a while, even if there are people with different opinions, they can only swallow back the words, and those who agree with them will say good things one after another. Chen Lan didn't need to say a word to see the various forms of these beings, and the corners of his mouth appeared as if he had come here to meet him. Just as she was thinking about it, she caught a glimpse of the curtain in front of the door being raised high, and then two mothers helped in a thin old woman, who was Mrs. Runing.

Seeing Mrs. Tai enter the door, everyone got up one after another, and the two middle-aged people closest to the door were about to go up to help each other, but after glancing at the other people who were not moving, he retracted his half-step foot, only to watch Mrs. Tai staggering slowly, and finally stopped suddenly when he passed by Jiang and Chen Lan's side.

"If you two can come, the old woman will be at ease."