In September, the noble families in Yanjing City are very busy for the Double Ninth Festival.

Today, His Majesty is a person who likes to enjoy luxury, since he ascended the throne, he has to take the civil and military officials to climb the mountain and overlook it every year during the Double Ninth Festival, and in the first few years, he also said that he would build a high platform on the mountain, but it was only after the war in the northwest that he stopped. However, compared with the warlike monarch who loved to drive the royal army and chased the foreigners out for 3,000 miles, the civil and military officials remembered the playful monarch who just wanted to spend manpower and material resources to build a high platform on the mountain, as if they remembered a sincere heart that they did not cherish when they were young.

It's a pity that even if they are building countless high platforms around the huge Yanjing City now, they can no longer trap Emperor Zhaode, who tasted the blood of the enemy in the northwest wind and sand.

Things are people, and they don't have to do anything, and tears flow first.

Perhaps out of the beautiful vision that His Majesty the Emperor can change his mind, in recent years, there have been more and more tricks to celebrate the Double Ninth Festival in Yanjing City, the honorable ministers should wear python clothes with chrysanthemum scenery, and the wives should also wear all kinds of chrysanthemum hairpins on their heads, not only the palace should be placed everywhere to compete for the chrysanthemums, and put out a gorgeous "chrysanthemum mountain", the minister's mansion must always be full of chrysanthemum famous products, and the posts on the various chrysanthemum banquets can be crowded with the cracks in the door, and there are chrysanthemum wine, chrysanthemum drinks, chrysanthemum cakes, chrysanthemum porridge, yellow chrysanthemum frying, Even literati who re-exercise self-control on weekdays will go to the banquet to write a few lines of seasonal poems such as Chongyang and Qiu Ju during the Double Ninth Festival.

The bustle elsewhere accentuated the desertion of Ning'anbo's Mansion.

The little maid wore plain blue cloth shoes and walked briskly from the stone path, the stone road was repaired on the edge of the pond, the lotus flowers in the pond were gone, only half of the pond withered lotus leaves remained, and it became more and more desolate under the shroud of the faint mist in autumn.

Since the master was arrested, there have been fewer people in the mansion, and there are rumors among the subordinates, all saying that there is something evil in the mansion.

Once this kind of thing is said endlessly, the old mansion that has been passed down for decades, where has not a few people died?

The little maid remembered Sister Hongfu who drowned in this pool the year before last, and her steps were a little faster.

All the way around the pond to a secluded courtyard, the little maid breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly said to the mother-in-law guarding the door:

"The long history of Princess Yueqing's mansion is here again, asking when I can see the second young lady, the prince is greeting, let me come and ask Mrs. for an idea."

The mother-in-law who guarded the door nodded, asked her to wait outside, and went into the courtyard and passed the word to the second-class maid wearing a bronze button and blue silk cloth armor, and waited for the maid to send the message back.

The little maid waited outside for a full moment, and the courtyard door suddenly opened, and Mrs. Ning Anbo's wife Sun Shi wore a silver-brown large-sleeved shirt, wearing eight treasure pattern cloud shoulders, and wearing a two-inch high bun on her head.

Crossing the edge of the pond, Sun glanced at it and said in a slow voice:

"These days there is not much peace in the house, and even the servants are slacking off. Who is in charge of this pond, bring people to ask them clearly. ”

The servant woman who followed behind her was wearing an oily green rhombic jacket, with a golden hairpin on the top of her head, and a lantern pendant on her ear, looking richer than ordinary rich wives, and when she heard Sun's words, she smiled and said:

"Now I'll have to beg for mercy. Cai Pozi, who watched the pond, gave birth to a grandson a few days ago, so she took a leave of absence for a while, and wanted to come back in the next two days. ”

Sun nodded, but his heart moved.

Half a month ago, she sent her henchmen to Zhuangzi, which was more than 20 miles away from Yanjing City, and asked them to force the Shen family to invite themselves to the court, but there was no news for a long time.

Could it be that something went wrong?

Yesterday morning, when the chief of Princess Yueqing's family came to invite the Shen family to pass the door, the Sun family was very worried.

When she sent her henchmen over, she left a message, as long as Shen took out the documents to invite herself to the court, even if she used some means, she would not pursue it.

She tossed and turned in bed for half the night, it was rare that she was not worried about her son's title, but that she was afraid that those mothers-in-law would not take a serious step and force the Shen family to death.

Usually, I just reported to Shen that he died of a sudden illness, and then spent some money to cover it up. But now it is different from the past, the uncle is locked in prison and is not allowed to visit, and there are often some Jinyi guards and people from Dongchang in the house, according to the steward, there are also people outside the house who are staring at the door of the uncle's house. In such a situation, they are trembling when they have nothing to do, for fear of being found out, if the Shen family really dies outside the mansion...... With the autumn wind, Sun shivered, and his steps became hurried.

Regardless of the rest of the troubles, although Princess Yueqing has never only cared about playing with gold and stone and not asking about mundane things, it is also something that their Xie family can never afford to offend now.

The lady who walked in front walked hurriedly, and the maids who followed behind were almost trotting all the way, and glancing at the remnants of the lotus standing in the pool, they became more and more convinced that there was an evil in the house

In the flower hall of Ning'anbo's Mansion, Shi Wenxiao, the head of Princess Yueqing's mansion, slowly put down the teacup in his hand:

"Xie Shizi, the princess didn't think about the newly obtained Jinshi Tuoben tea and dinner, I heard that Shen Niangzi was knowledgeable in this way, so she specially sent the official to invite her again and again, you said yesterday that she had a cold, and the princess was afraid that your mansion would be troubled, so today she specially ordered the official and the Ye female official to bring the female doctor together, but you said that she didn't need to be treated, so can the lower official take Shen Niangzi back to the princess's mansion immediately?"

Ning Anbo's son Xie Lin'an has two Chinese New Year's Eve today, when he was just in his early twenties, his father Xie Wenyuan was stripped of his actual position, and when he entered the office, he only had a seven-rank false title, and it has been more than ten years, he is just the commander of Yulin Zuowei, and he looks like a four-grade official, but now Yulinwei is only responsible for assisting in the ban and guarding Yanjing.

Let's put it this way, Xie Lin'an's top boss is the queen mother's younger brother, and in the past few years, Xie Lin'an has only seen him seven times, five times in Zhaoxiang Pavilion.

The official career is so inaccessible, on the one hand, because the prestige of the holy family of Ning'an Bo Mansion is no longer declining, and on the other hand, it is ...... Xie Linan felt that it was because of his own father Xie Wenyuan.

Xie Wenyuan is forty-nine this year, and his grandchildren can't count them on two hands, but he has a big dream that he can still show his ambitions, and all the money and relationships in the family are used on himself. He Xie Lin'an has a knighthood in the future, and the second brother Xie Feng'an is already twenty-six this year, and he doesn't even have an official body, and he goes south every year to study in the academy, and when he goes, he has half a car of books, and when he comes back, he has three cars of red sleeves, and his father doesn't care.

Before his father was imprisoned, he also wanted to catch up with the Feng family and let his second brother marry the cousin of the Feng family, he couldn't help laughing when he knew about it, his father sold and sold, this is to sell his son to himself for a future, and he didn't want to think about his second brother's greedy and lustful temperament can only be endured by people like the Shen family.

After scolding his father and his brother in his heart, Xie Linan smiled very humbly:

"Wen Changshi is a little restless, I have already sent someone to the back house to ask, I don't hide it, I only learned yesterday that my brother and daughter-in-law were sick, and I sent someone to visit last night, and the next person reported that my brother and daughter-in-law were too tired to lose their physical strength. It's also my negligence, these days my father has been applied for by His Majesty, my second brother is studying abroad, there are many affairs at home, and all the affairs of the second room are on my brother and daughter-in-law, I should have let the cheap take care of her more. ”

Wen Xiaozhun only smiled lightly on his face.

Xie Lin'an was a little weak-hearted, and he only hoped that the steward could bring the Shen family back earlier.

In the small hall in the back hall, Mrs. Ning Anbo's wife Sun also saw the female officials and doctors around the princess's mansion, and it was a matter of delay.

After a few people left, Xie Linan hurriedly ordered people to ride horses to Zhuangzi outside the city to see the urging:

"The second young lady's clothes are soft and soft, and you can slowly move them back, so be sure to bring people back first. Bring more people. ”

The steward thought he understood, and hurriedly said, "Don't worry, the villain will definitely bring the second young lady back." ”

"I asked you to take someone there, not for you to bring my brother and daughter-in-law back!" Xie Lin'an smiled angrily, "I heard that my mother sent some lowly mothers-in-law to Zhuangzi before, I'm afraid that these days have given my brother and daughter-in-law a lot of grievances, and letting you bring more people is to make my brother and daughter-in-law angry!" Those mothers-in-law and housekeepers in Zhuangzi, who neglects my brother and daughter-in-law, it is up to her to be happy whether she is beaten or killed, you just let her come back to Bofu happily. Got it! ”

Sun was just about to lift the curtain and enter the warm pavilion when she heard her son's words with murderous intent, and she couldn't help but clench the green jade Buddha beads in her hand.

"Lin'er, even if the princess wants to see the Shen family, why are you here?"

After seven years of getting along, Sun thinks that he knows Shen's temperament, she is soft and gentle, almost a temperamentless clay figure, where do you want to make her happy.

With a blue face, he sent his subordinates out, and Xie Linan looked at his mother:

"Mother, this time is different from the past, those excerpts who intercede for my father have been suppressed by His Majesty, if the Shen family can please the princess, so that the princess is willing to say a word for our family, it is better than those people say 10,000 words."

Princess Yueqing is the sister of the first emperor, His Majesty's aunt, although widowed for many years do not ask about the world, but the two generations of emperors have treated her very favorably, and now His Majesty ascended the throne on the second day to crown her as the eldest princess, and in Shuntian Mansion set aside thousands of hectares of fertile land as the princess's grange, these years of various rewards are sent to the princess's mansion like flowing water, saying that Princess Yueqing is the richest woman in the world is absolutely not wrong.

Xie Lin'an looked at his mother, and then softened and said, "Mother, send someone to bring the second brother back from Jinyang, let him coax the Shen family well, as for Cousin Feng'......"

"Do you think your uncle Feng Youqi is easy to mess with?"

Twisting the Buddha beads in his hand, Sun's brows were furrowed, and his always kind face rarely looked a little annoyed.

She knew what her son was thinking, but the Shen family was now afraid that she had hated the Xie family to death...... Alas, if the Shen family had been appreciated by the princess earlier, she would not have been so ruthless.

There was a spark in the charcoal basin, and there was a picture of "Autumn Scenery of the Mountains and Rivers" hanging on the wall of the warm pavilion, the painting style was handsome and beautiful, and it was incompatible with the gorgeous warm pavilion of gold and jade.

Mother and son sat opposite each other, and they both sighed after all.

"That Shen family, when did you let the princess know?"

Suddenly, there was a slight noise outside the warm pavilion, and then a subordinate from the second door hurriedly ran in:

"Madam, prince, the second young master has a letter, sent from a merchant from the north!"

Xie Lin'an hurriedly took the letter and opened it, and after only two glances, he glanced at his mother worriedly.

"Lin'er? How is it? Feng'er has already arrived in Jinyang? Or has he persuaded your cousin to come back? ”

"Mother, Feng An was intercepted by the mountain bandits on the road, and the mountain bandits asked us to send five thousand taels of silver to redeem him."

"This is really—the Buddha is going to send me to hell!" After a long cry, Sun took a half breath, and the whole person fell backwards.

In the warm pavilion, people suddenly turned over on their backs, and some of the slaves and maids held their heads and some hugged their legs to send people to the couch, Xie Lin'an thought that they were not useful, so he picked up his mother and called people to call the doctor again and again.

Before the doctor came, someone arrived at Xie's house with a letter.

This time the man was not a businessman, but a strong man dressed as a dart master and leading a nice horse.

Looking at the second letter sent by the second brother, Xie Lin'an's hand also trembled, opened it carefully, read it again, read it again, and rushed directly to his mother's hospital bed with the letter:

"Mother! The second brother is fine! The second brother is saved! It turned out that the second brother was saved by the people of Wanquan Dusi only two days after writing that letter! He is safe and sound, and now he is a guest in the Zhangdu Division's mansion! Afraid that we would be worried, he specially asked someone to ride a fast horse to deliver the letter back! ”

Sun Shi heard the joyful shouts of his eldest son in a drowsy state, slowly woke up, and listened to Xie Lin'an read the letter to her.

The breath that was plugged in his chest finally exhaled.

"Give Feng'er, pack up some soft money, let a proper person send it quickly, and be a guest in someone else's house, how can you be, how can you have no money."

Xie Linan hurriedly responded, and hurriedly asked people to pay the money to the account.

———

"Two thousand one hundred taels, the Xie family is good to Xie Feng'an."

The Xie family's movements were fast, Tu Nan's movements were even faster, and the money that the Xie family sent before lunch arrived in front of Zhao Surui before it was dark.

Zhao Surui sat on the chair with his feet crossed and began to divide the spoils happily.

Putting the ten hundred taels of silver tickets back on the table, he raised his chin: "This money Peifeng will take it to get some swords and the like, don't leave a mark on it, my people practice with wooden sticks all day long." ”

"Yes." Pei Feng took the silver ticket with both hands.

"You keep this one hundred taels of silver, Ah Chi, it's the cost of our eating, drinking, and chewing."

Ah Chi lifted the burden of silver and opened his mouth but didn't know what to say.

Seeing her unproductive appearance, Zhao Surui shook his head: "What?" Don't believe I can get the money? ”

"No......" Ah Chi quickly shook his head.

She just thinks that her own girl seems to be more suitable for being a robber than a lady, of course, this shocking idea she hides tightly in her heart, and she never dares to confide half a word easily.

Zhao Surui "snorted" impatiently and continued to divide the spoils:

"The last thousand taels, Tu Nan, collect it for your girl, this is the money that the Xie family lost."

Tu Nan was stunned for a moment, and silently put the money away.

"This is just the beginning, there is a big vote behind, you will follow me in the future, you will have meat to eat and money to spend!" The wise and martial Emperor Zhaode showed a skillful smile that was extremely good at deception.