Chapter 10 Golden Branches and Jade Leaves
The court is treacherous, the criminal department impeached the Zaifu Ouyang Gong's excerpt has just been submitted to the official family by the imperial history platform, Ouyang Gong has been charged with corruption and bribery, abuse of power personally took care of the Gongzhou prefect, five watches kneeling outside the palace to ask the official family to punish his own ineffective governance.
He has already picked himself up, and even has a reputation for not covering up his subordinates, so the prefect of Gongzhou cannot be regarded as a scapegoat, but can only say that he deserves it. ended his life as a chess piece ahead of schedule, and this abandoned son is wearing shackles on his head at the moment, on the way back to Beijing.
When Jin Wen rode by the prisoner car on a fast horse, he also had to sigh that feng shui took turns, fortunately, he didn't enter the office at the beginning, and he still did business and ate well.
It's just a pity that the girl in the family, who has to marry an official, is still too young and thinks about the problem one-sidedly. Jin Wen sighed in his heart, clamped the horse's belly with his legs and sped up to Bianjing City, and was imprisoned for half a month, presumably his precious girl had become an ant on a hot pot.
He's completely self-inflicted.
At this moment, Jin Jiaojiao was drinking summer cool food in Laoyue Tower, teasing crickets, and listening to her rival Shen Miaoer talking about the gossip of Ouyang Qingzhi and Yan Huaizhen.
At noon yesterday, she had already received news from Gongzhou, the prefect of Gongzhou was convicted, her father was acquitted, and not a single hair fell out.
In addition, she sent someone to spend money to pay for the jailers earlier, and she never treated Jin Wen badly in terms of food.
In the end, Jin Wen not only did not suffer in prison, but also gained two or three pounds, and Jin Jiaojiao in Beijing lost a lot of weight.
"Guess what, a few days ago, Ouyang Qingzhi asked Yan Huaizhen to meet in this Laoyue Building, and after returning home, he had heart palpitations, hey, the imperial doctor Shen in the tired palace has to come to the door late at night to consult when he is old," Shen Miao'er leaned on the recliner with a seven-month-old belly, and spread gossip while knocking melon seeds and dancing eyebrows, "The two met and had a dispute, your fiancΓ© is not having a good time in the Hanlin Academy these days, and he has been repeatedly ostracized and punished to the Repair Division to compile the Five Classics, it is not easy for that place to get ahead, I heard that Ouyang Zaifu was putting pressure on him and deliberately embarrassing him. β
"Don't tell me that the place where these two men and women meet privately is this private room." Jin Jiaojiao had a bad premonition.
Shen Miao'er crushed the shell of the melon seeds in her mouth and smiled maliciously, "How is it?" Isn't there a smell of adultery? β
Seeing that Jin Jiaojiao's face turned green, Shen Miao'er nodded to the end, and quickly changed her words: "Harm, don't worry, the two of them quarreled here, they didn't kiss or hug, so Ouyang Qingzhi is also a model of a lady, don't think of others so dirty." β
Jin Jiaojiao glanced at her, and secretly attacked other people's parents, isn't it dirty?
She continued: "You better break off the marriage contract with Yan Huaizhen as soon as possible and clear up the relationship." As the saying goes, the people don't fight with the officials, you and Ouyang Qingzhi are arguing, don't look at you now, what is the backstage of others, what is your backstage? In the future, if you set yourself on fire, what do you think will be a good fruit for you to eat? β
"Yan Huaizhen is offended on both sides now, doesn't he know that the Ouyang family is wearing small shoes for him? The dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, and people have been studying hard for more than ten years, and they finally got ahead, so they can't let you two women ruin your career, and it's not time to pick up soft persimmons and pinch them. β
"......" Who is a soft persimmon?
Jin Jiaojiao's gaze stayed on her cherry mouth, wondering how she managed to be so organized and witty while not delaying the swallowing of melon seeds?
Then he shifted his gaze to her big round belly, and while she was not paying attention, he patted her head twice, and it felt stocky, and the baby should be very healthy.
"On a hot day, you eat less nuts, it's easy to get angry, and I'll hurt my little nephew and I'm not done with you."
"I said you could have a snack...... Shen Miao'er slapped away her noisy paws and said hurriedly: "Who told you that I was pregnant with a boy, obviously a beautiful girl, okay?" β
"Tut, I said, why don't you have the consciousness of being a concubine at all? If you don't give birth to a big fat boy, I'm afraid your life in the Lin family will be difficult" Jin Jiaojiao rubbed her hands, turned her head and instructed Xi'er, "Go, let the store give her a lotus seed mint sweet soup, clear her heart and reduce the fire." β
Xi'er responded and went out with a smile.
Shen Miao'er glanced at the melon seed shell like a small mountain bag in the scum bucket, then stopped, and said disdainfully: "What misunderstanding do you have about my concubine, Lin Lang spoils me very much!" Besides, the eldest lady in my family eats fasting and recites Buddha all day long, Amitabha; Last month, I simply went directly to Qingshan to meditate and worship the Buddha, and my position is very stable. β
Jin Jiaojiao was secretly surprised, no wonder she has been so leisurely recently.
"It's you, I'll tell you about business, you come to pull me." Shen Miao'er took a sip of herbal tea, gently stroked her belly and educated the fetus in her womb: "Baby, don't learn from your aunt in the future, it's too vain, why don't you seek glory and wealth, just peace and security." β
"Shen Miao'er, you're tall, right?" Jin Jiaojiao said, "You are not vain, you had to marry into the Lin family when you posted the money, even if you were a concubine, what did you want?" β
Is TΓΊrin's squire still eighteen years older than you? Or the palm-sized feng shui treasure of the Thurin family?
Who doesn't know that Lin Shilang is the poorest of the three officials, the key is that he still has a heart that wants to help every poor person, a few years ago, in order to relieve the disaster, he almost sold his ancestral home.
is a rare good official, but he is a little too much, and he doesn't consider the feelings of his family at all.
For Shen Miao's sake, Jin Jiaojiao didn't finish all the following words.
"You really talk like my mother, I'm for love."
Shen Miao'er glanced at her angrily, "I told you that you don't understand, and when you eat the ups and downs of love, you will know." β
"What can love do? Can you make me a golden leaf? Jin Jiaojiao retorted with her chin propped up.
"My eldest miss, what else do you need to do with the Golden Branch and Jade Leaf Method? It's expensive enough, it's gold and delicate; The cost of food and clothing is much higher than that of the daughter of the eunuch's family...... What's the matter, do you still want to be a lady in the palace? β
Shen Miao'er felt that her bitter preaching today was simply playing the piano to the cow, "Do you really believe in the trick of the old Taoist priest to fool the child, people say that you will be a noble person in the future, you will not be a high-ranking official and noble, right?" β
It's really a matter of admitting death.
During the Lantern Festival that year, when a few of their children were swimming in the lake, they met an old man with a bull's nose, boasting that he could touch his bones to see the destiny of heaven, saying that Shen Miaoer's future husband was a famous general, and Jin Jiaojiao was a noble life with golden branches and jade leaves, and the innocent two people were stunned, and they were willing to spend five pots of money for the old Taoist.
Jin Jiaojiao sighed, she didn't know the pros and cons analyzed by Shen Miaoer, but she just couldn't swallow the evil breath in her heart, why did she have to be inferior to others and endure their power.
She just wants to be able to run amok one day, and she doesn't have to be careful to look at the eyes of the officials.
"This matter is another matter, in short, I am not so easy to give up on the marriage with Yan Huaizhen, it is natural to withdraw from the marriage, but now is not the time, how long will they be uncomfortable, my father has been in prison for more than half a month."
Get...... Sure enough, it was a cow playing the piano, and Shen Miaoer was embarrassed.
Xi'er led the shopkeeper to serve two refreshing sweet teas, and as soon as she entered the private room, she keenly smelled the subtlety of the atmosphere.
The melodious rap of the prostitutes came from the other side, and the sound of the piano was melodious and soothing. Shen Miaoer didn't bother to argue with Jin Jiaojiao anymore, took the sweet soup and lay back in the rocking chair, immersed in the food and singing.
Jin Jiaojiao leaned against the window, looking at the Hidden Flowers and Fragrance Pavilion on the opposite bank, the garden was full of flowers, and the girls were dancing with long sleeves by the lake, rehearsing songs and rehearsals, and preparing for the evening performance; The sound of the piano came from the small attic of the Huxin Pavilion, and it should be Wangyue, the proprietress of the Tibetan Flower Tianxiang Pavilion, practicing the piano.
Diagonally opposite the Yuelou is the famous gambling house Qianjintai in Bianjing, from the third floor of the private room can even see its backyard, there are small servants in the courtyard is carrying water and chopping wood, among them especially jumping that a few are picking up the courtyard wall and setting up a ladder to peek at the girl who collects flowers and adds incense.
"Anyway, you're also a little better informed about this news, is there any way?" Jin Jiaojiao asked curiously.
Shen Miao'er squinted her eyes and smiled: "My family official is my doorway, I'm not pregnant, I am inflexible and lively, he will tell me what he sees and hears outside the palace on weekdays." β
Jin Jiaojiao: "......"
Today's cook in Laoyue Building must have been heavy, Jin Jiaojiao silently put down the sweet soup in her hand, only to feel that the sweetness was seriously over-standard, and she was tired of her.
"Lin Shilang is really happy to see it." She actually believed in her heart that Shen Miaoer was married to love.
Zhao Bingyu walked out of the back kitchen with a kitchen knife in one hand and a hen in the other.
After a while, he chanted the words of the hen in his hand, like a monk reciting a mantra to the deceased when he was reborn.
Suddenly, he swung his kitchen knife, and the blade reflected a bright silver light in the sunlight, and the hen felt the threat of death, and in an instant exerted her will to survive to the limit.
I saw it scream a few times, and the chicken paws kicked on the stone slab with the help of force, and the wings flapped violently, and it broke free from the clamps of Zhao's executioner, fluttered twice and flew to the courtyard wall, and kicked the eyes with the peeping slippery corn.
"Ah......h
With an exclamation, the people at the top were so frightened that their bodies were unstable, the ladder swayed, the rooster crowed with the ghost scream, and several people fell to the ground.
"Poof~"
Jin Jiaojiao took in the funny people and couldn't help laughing.
She doesn't know if the dog will really jump off the wall when it is in a hurry, anyway, the chicken will definitely go to the wall if it is in a hurry, after all, it has wings.
Xi'er also curiously leaned to the window to watch, the yard was full of chickens and eggs, a group of people were chasing a red-crowned hen, and on the other side stood a handsome man laughing.
It was the initiator.
Xi'er's eyebrows lit up, "Miss, isn't that the son who lost money?" β
Shen Miaoer on the recliner was also intrigued by the performance of the two, "The loser? What loses money? What are you two looking at, smiling like this. β
"Watch people kill chickens" Jin Jiaojiao replied exaggeratedly: "Alas, you still lie down, the scene is extremely bloody and terrifying"
Shen Miao'er sighed, and instantly lost interest, not understanding what to look good about killing chickens.
Killing chickens is nothing to look at, and killing chickens by beautiful men is another matter.