When you become your own person, it's much easier to talk.

I was not in a hurry to sleep, and after eating peacefully, I took the twelve eunuchs back to the Rong Mansion, arranged errands for the little eunuchs, and then led Cao Xian to see my father and grandmother, and asked them if they had anything to say directly.

Mrs. Rong didn't want to know Cai Xin's news at all, but her son's matter had been hanging in her heart, so she could only endure her disgust and ask: "That Prime Minister Cai Cheng in Kyoto, when did you have a son in the family?" Have you seen his son? ”

Cao Xian is just a eunuch who serves tea, and he is still not qualified to enter the imperial study, and he can only say some rumors without evidence.

"To be exact, the slave doesn't know, when the rumors of Cai Chengxiang's only son began to appear in the palace, it was April last year, and it came out of the harem, when the saint went to the super mountain to hunt, many princes and ministers' sons also went, and also carried out hunting competitions, the fifth princess and the third princess fell in love with the only son of Cai Chengxiang's family at first sight, and the mother of the third princess, Concubine Jing, wanted to let the saint give marriage, and finally was cut off by the imperial concubine, and gave the only son of Cai Chengxiang's family to the fifth princess as a concubine.

"Because Cai Xiang's only son is a concubine, but it caused an uproar in the harem, so this matter has been passed on in the harem for a long time, for the sake of royal decency, Cai Cheng recorded the concubine in the name of his mother, and then the marriage given by the saint, the slave only saw it from a distance when the princess and the concubine entered the palace to thank him, but the rules in the palace were strict, and the slave did not dare to offend the princess and the concubine, so he didn't see what the concubine looked like."

Mrs. Rong and Mrs. Rong were stunned.

But the identity of the concubine who slept was very strange, and pulled her mother to say a few words in her ear.

Qin Yunzhi thought for a while and asked, "The concubine of Prime Minister Cai's family, have you heard any other rumors about him?" Like his origins or something. ”

Cao Xian finally understood what they wanted to know, and cautiously glanced outside the door before lowering his voice and saying, "The concubine of Prime Minister Cai's family...... In fact, it also came out of nowhere, which also implicated the privacy of the Prime Minister's wife and Cai Chengxiang's family, after the Holy Lord's marriage, no one dared to pass on these words, for fear of losing the face of the fifth princess and the royal family, that is, the identity of his concubine, and no one dared to mention it again. ”

As soon as Mrs. Rong and Mrs. Rong heard that the concubine came out "suddenly", they immediately rekindled their hope!

"Tell me about it! No matter how carefully you say it, you can rest assured that these words will not reach the ears of others! ”

Cao mentioned it first, but he was not ready to cover it up, the more useful he was to the Rong family, the greater the way to live in the future, and said: "This matter is actually a long story, and it has to start with Prime Minister Cai's background." ”

Mrs. Rong's heart was strained, even if she didn't want to hear how Cai Xin made his fortune, she could only endure the disgust.

"When Prime Minister Cai Cheng was in Zhongzong's reign, he was just a talent who came to Beijing from a remote countryside to take the exam, and he was not young, but because he was quite handsome, after he won the second class, he was arrested by a five-grade official list in Beijing."

Rong Laosi still had some impressions of Cai Xin's father, and he did recognize his skin, and asked with a calm face: "He married the daughter of the official master's family like this?" ”

Cao Xian shook his head and said meaningfully: "With Prime Minister Cai Cheng's means, of course, he will not be satisfied with being the son-in-law of a five-grade petty official family, but as a second-class jinshi, Cai Cheng is not a hot talent in Beijing at the time, so he can only use the young lady of the five-grade petty official family to contact the eunuchs next to him, and finally, he caught up with the Cui family at that time and became the son-in-law of the Cui family. ”

Qin Yunzhi knew something about the recent emperors of Yu State because of Gu Xing's relationship, and said: "Although Emperor Zhongzong has not reigned for a long time, he is a good emperor who is upright and talented and loves the people like a son. Didn't he cut himself off? ”

Cao Xian still shook his head, and said very embarrassedly: "Cai Cheng correspondingly knows that he is only a shallow learner, and the identity of the second class is not reused by the saint at all, and according to the ancestral system, the second class is to be released after the selection of officials, and he will not be able to return to Beijing for ten or twenty years, so at that time, Cai Cheng Prime Minister did this partial door, and he took refuge in the Cui family, which was declining at that time, although the Cui family has no real power in Beijing, but in Qinghe County, it is still a big family. ”

After listening to this, Qin Yunzhi understood a little.

Sleep seems to understand, this is a whole body of honor and disgrace, all tied to a big family.

"And what about later? How did he return to Kyoto and become a high-ranking official? Sleepy asked.

Cao Xian couldn't explain in detail, only said: "Prime Minister Cai's official road is inseparable from Cui's honor and disgrace, Cui's as one of the family gate valves, and Wei's, Wang's and other gate valves have been fighting for decades, and later encountered the first emperor to support the Qingliu faction, which is complicated and internal, the old slave doesn't know and can't understand, in short, about fifteen years ago, the family gate valve was completely disintegrated by the Qingliu faction, and Cai Chengxiang didn't know what path he took, and the Qingliu faction became increasingly close, and even helped the Qingliu faction establish a new gate valve, Prime Minister Cai Cheng was also at that time, increasingly emerging in Kyoto, until now the saint ascended the throne, Prime Minister Cai Cheng was finally reused and promoted all the way to the right minister. ”

Qin Yunzhi heard it very clearly, and the Cui family also became Cai Xin's stepping stone.

"So, Prime Minister Cai's original wife Cui Shi ......"

"Dead."

Cao Xian's three words are simple but shocking.

Mrs. Rong gritted her teeth and couldn't say a word.

Or Rong Laosi then asked: "Mrs. Cui never left a son and a half daughter?" ”

Cao Xian heard a few rumors, said: "I heard that Mrs. Cui originally gave birth to two daughters for Prime Minister Cai Cheng, but when the Cui family was destroyed, the two daughters went with the Cui family, and later Cai Cheng continued the widowed sister of the Qingliu Han family as his wife, after the two got married, they never gave birth to a boy and half a girl. ”

After sleeping and listening, I felt more and more that the "concubine" who suddenly appeared might be my fifth or sixth uncle, but the strange thing is that the fifth uncle and the sixth uncle would recognize Cai Xin's bad father?

"Uncle Cao, Prime Minister Cai's son, is there anything strange?"

Cao Xian shook his head helplessly and said: "The slave has never even seen anyone, how can he know if there is anything strange, and even if there is a strange place, the people in the palace will not dare to spread it." ”

Sleep also sighed, knowing that Cao Xian had finished everything he could say, and finally made a request: "Uncle Cao, can you draw a map of the palace for me?" ”

Cao Xian was surprised: "This-"

Qin Yunzhi said: "If you don't paint, we will also find someone else to paint, we don't want to do anything, we just want to be prepared." ”

Cao Xian had already taken refuge in the Rong family, and after hesitating for a while, he still drew a brief map of the palace.

At night, he ran to Qin Yunzhi's room and pulled her to ask for something: "Mother, do you still have a mask?" ”

Qin Yunzhi looked at her amusefully and asked, "What do you want a mask for?" I'm so young and young that I don't need this thing yet. ”

Sleep seemed to be ruthless, and said, "I don't need it!" I'm going to give it to my grandmother! Make grandma pretty! When I got to Kyoto and saw that big bad guy, I was shocked! Brother Gu said, you can't lose people and you can't lose the battle! ”

After Qin Yunzhi heard this, he burst out laughing!