Xiang Siyuan followed behind the palace man who led the way and was taken out of the garden.

He walked on the palace road with red walls and golden tiles, the sky was blue, and the noon sun was sprinkled with heat and enthusiasm, as if it could sweep away the haze in people's hearts.

Princess Zhaoyang's delicate and graceful face appeared in front of him, and the momentum of the whole body and the means of coercion and temptation were ......

He sighed, the rumors were really unbelievable.

……

"Severe punishment?"

In the Qianyuan Palace, Wei Yu and Emperor Cheng sat opposite each other, and the black and white sons on the chessboard in front of them were fighting, and they looked at each other.

Wei Yu picked up a white child, landed somewhere without thinking, and said, "Yes!" Father, the lady concubine not only took outsiders into the palace to break into the palace of the sons, but also turned the Hanzhang Palace into a mess, lost a lot of things, such a vicious behavior, did not take the palace rules in his eyes, how could he not be severely punished? ”

Emperor Cheng thought that she had a new name, but he didn't expect it to be a rehash of the same old tune, it had been several days, and he thought that this foolish daughter had forgotten about it.

A few days ago, he went out to worship his ancestors, and when he heard that Wei Yu had committed the disease of leaving the soul and couldn't wake up for a long time, he was anxious, and rushed back to the palace as soon as he received the news.

But a trip to the Temple of Heaven will take three or four days, although it has been a hundred miles in a hurry, but the news has come back and forth, and when he rushed back to the palace, Wei Yu was already alive and kicking, looking more energetic than him.

"So you're talking about this," he looked at the chess game carefully, and said disapprerovingly, "Didn't you let the palace people beat her out?" How? Not out of gas? ”

Emperor Cheng is handsome, when he was young, he was a famous prince in Kyoto, and now he is over forty years old, with a little white hair on his head and a beard on his chin.

Wei Yu listened to his words, his eyes widened, and he was very angry, "She is so arrogant and domineering, how can she just fight out?!" Did her father just let her go? ”

She is wearing a green spring shirt today, with a pearl head pinned to her head, jasper earrings on her ears, and a clear water and blue hairband hanging down her ears.

She was born with a pair of clear and Lingling's apricot eyes, and at this moment, her eyes widened and became more cute, and the black and white were so clear that people couldn't help but soften their hearts.

Such a little girl looks like she is messing around and unreasonable, just like an ordinary father and daughter, and even some are neither big nor small.

She and her father are used to doing this.

Elegant enough to drink tea and play chess, not to tune to the tree cockfighting, Wei Yu's unlearned and unskilled play skills were all taught by Emperor Cheng.

Emperor Cheng worked as a gentleman for a few years when he was young, and later became a relative, but the nature of the country is easy to change, and he still treats foreign ministers at one end, and he has always been casual in front of his family.

He has a thin heir, and he only got such a daughter when he was nearly thirty years old, and he has always been able to respond to requests by holding her in the palm of his hand.

He picked up the chess pieces and landed them on the chessboard, and connived: "Then what else do you want?" ”

Wei Yu was confident, "It's so big, it's impossible to say it if you don't demote and be grounded." ”

Emperor Cheng shook his head, "It's too much, think about something else." ”

Wei Yu lowered his head and pretended to think.

She didn't really want to grounding Concubine Shu with such a small turmoil, after all, the Jiang family was not just watching.

However, in order to avoid arousing suspicion, he deliberately pulled the ready-made raft of Concubine Shu.

Who told her to bump into her?

Emperor Cheng's words hit her heart.

She said with a dagger: "My daughter heard that the third son of Jiang Mansion was suspended by his father for taking bribes, and the lady concubine came to ask her father to reinstate the third son several times, but her father didn't agree?" ”

"My daughter thinks that it would be a big mistake to be corrupt and take bribes, Concubine Shuniang is so rebellious, and her younger brother can't be this bad, it's better to abdicate and give way to others."

"Oh?" Emperor Cheng raised his eyebrows, "Then tell me, which virtuous person can take on this responsibility?"

Wei Yu seemed to really rack his brains and think for a while, and only then said in a half-loud voice: "The fourth son of the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion, Xiang Siyuan." ”

Emperor Cheng was stunned, he didn't expect her to mention such a person.

He has also heard a lot of stories about the Spring and Autumn Period of the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion, after all, it is his wife, the late Empress Gongde's mother's family, and Wei Yu's uncle.

The Marquis of Dingyuan has made meritorious contributions in Beijing for many generations, and he is a relative, when he is still there, the Marquis of Dingyuan was also Xuanhe for a while, but after the death of the first queen and the Marquis of Dingyuan, the talents in the Hou Mansion withered, and there was no successor, and in recent years it has been quite in decline.

Today's Dingyuan Marquis is straightforward and reckless, is a straight intestine, perennial war, and soft ears, after the death of his wife, he married a femme fatale Mrs. Xuxian, and made great efforts to raise several sisters-in-law born to the former lady into a drunk, prostitute and gambling child, making the whole inner house into a pot of porridge.

The four sons of the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion are the youngest sons of the Dingyuan Hou Yuan's wife, when Mrs. Xuxian entered the door, he was still young, and his luck was good, and before Mrs. Xuxian had time to attack him, he ran into the old lady of the Hou Mansion, that is, Wei Yu's grandmother returned to Beijing from her ancestral hometown.

The old lady has been up and down with the ups and downs of the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion for decades, and when she sees the situation at home, she understands everything, but at that time, the Marquis of Dingyuan has been coaxed by the young and beautiful new lady, and the eccentricity is boundless.

The old lady herself was old and frail, and she didn't have the strength to clean up the mess at home, so she simply took her little grandson, who was only four years old and had not yet been raised, back to her hometown in Yiyang, as for the rest, she could only resign herself to fate.

has been going for more than ten years, and the old lady never intersects with Beijing except for the New Year's holidays, until Xiang Si is close to the weak crown in the distant years, and the exchanges are more frequent.

Everyone in Beijing knows about these Chen sesame seeds and rotten grains, and there are often rumors in the palace.

Emperor Cheng also had some impressions of Xiang Siyuan's nephew, although he knew that he had not had a good time these years, but for various reasons, he didn't care too much.

He just felt strange, since the death of Empress Daxian, the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion has been very unfamiliar with the palace for many years, how could Wei Yu suddenly remember that this fourth cousin who has never seen him in person is here?

has been on the throne for many years, the dark tide in the court is surging, and there is no blood in the sword and sword shadows, and Emperor Cheng will inevitably be heartbroken.

He narrowed his eyes and asked, "You live in the palace and don't contact outsiders, how do you know that he can take this errand well?" ”

Wei Yu naturally knew that it was not good to prevaricate in such a rash manner, so he had prepared a set of rhetoric, and when he heard Emperor Cheng ask like this, he immediately poured out the bamboo tube like beans.

"My father didn't know, the sons and daughters followed the imperial grandmother to chat with the ladies of the court, and when they chatted, they often heard them mention this fourth cousin, and they all said that he was both civil and military, a young talent, and he was a jinshi before he was weak in the crown, and he admired his grandmother for raising such a good grandson."

"At the last Hundred Flowers Banquet, the imperial grandmother asked the children of the Xungui family in Beijing to write poems, and the daughter saw that he wrote very well, so she remembered him."

Emperor Cheng listened, noncommittal, and his slender fingers tapped the chessboard with a sunspot, as if he was carefully verifying the authenticity of these words.

Although Xiang Siyuan was low-key when he was in Yiyang, he was highly evaluated among the local literati, and later won the first place in the township examination in one fell swoop.

It's a pity that just when the spring breeze was proud, the old lady of the Hou Mansion suddenly died of a sudden illness, Xiang Siyuan was grief-stricken, and returned to Yiyang's hometown to give her three years of worry, and her career was interrupted.

It was easy to wait until he returned to Beijing, and the Marquis of Dingyuan didn't know what to smoke like crazy, so he went up to the Qianyuan Hall with a letter, saying that his son was only shallow in learning and was useless, and asked Emperor Cheng to remove him from his official position and let him stay at home and serve his parents with peace of mind.

Although it was such an absurd request, but everyone said so, Emperor Cheng had to approve it.

Now that he has been in Beijing for half a year, he has only been sent to do some trivial things to patrol the village and manage the accounts, which is really embarrassing.

Not only that, in the future that Wei Yu knows, this fourth cousin was not reappointed until Wei Yu died of illness.

After he was dismissed, he had nothing to do in Beijing for four years, and seeing that there was no hope of enlightenment, he had to accept the teacher's invitation to go to Jianzhang Academy in the south of the Yangtze River to be a teacher.

In his previous life, Wei Yu urged marriage to avoid the clan, and he once hid in Jianzhang for half a year, and he met him there.

After learning her identity, he neither took the initiative to kiss nor flatter, and Wei Yu didn't know that he had a cousin there until he left.

After Gu Jiaqing supported the young emperor to take power, he also threw an olive branch to Jianzhang Academy, but at that time, many people despised Gu Jiaqing's behavior of rebellious ministers and thieves, and Xiang Siyuan was one of them.

This is also one of the reasons why she chose Xiang Siyuan.

Wei Yu carefully observed his father's face, and felt a little nervous.

She knew that the palace had always been unfamiliar with the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion, but Xiang Siyuan's relationship with the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion was so bad, it shouldn't hurt the pond fish, right?

Seeing that Emperor Cheng was silent for a long time, she pulled Emperor Cheng's sleeve and said coquettishly: "Father...... Selecting the virtuous and appointing the talents, the courtiers must praise the emperor for being a wise man! Since this fourth cousin is rich and has five cars, it is a pity that he spends all day in Beijing. ”

Emperor Cheng was so abrasive by her that he couldn't help it, he has always connived at this daughter, and when she was young, she asked for the stars and didn't pick the moon, and he never didn't agree.

He threw away the chess pieces in his hand, and had to say helplessly: "Okay, it's up to you." ”

Wei Yu was overjoyed, got up with a smile and saluted, and said happily: "Thank you, father!" Father is wise! Erchen will go and tell the lady the good news! ”

Emperor Cheng laughed angrily, pointed at Wei Yu's triumphant appearance, and scolded with a smile: "Out of breath!" So carried away! Get out of here! Don't get in my way. ”

Wei Yu happily answered "yes" and walked away.

The Qianyuan Hall fell silent.

Li Dehai, the chief eunuch of the Qianyuan Hall and the most useful eunuch around Emperor Cheng, hesitated and said: "Your Majesty, after all, you are from the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion, Your Majesty really wants to reactivate this third prince?" ”

Emperor Cheng took a sip of tea lightly, "Why not?" I have agreed, can I still regret it? ”

Li Dehai hesitated: "The old slave is just worried that the princess is still young, if she is used by people who are hungry for profit......"

Emperor Cheng didn't speak, put down the teacup, got up and walked to the window.

The terrain of the Qianyuan Palace is the best, standing at the window and looking down, most of the palace can be included in the eyes, the red fire sunset burning above the blue sky is sprinkled on the large red wall and golden tiles in the palace, brilliant and dazzling, there is a kind of breathtaking beauty.

He ascended the throne as a young man, sat firmly in the court for more than 20 years, and played with mental tricks, he was the ancestor of his ancestors.

He is just this one daughter, and it is just a small fight in the harem, just to relieve her boredom, but if someone really dares to hit her with the idea......

Emperor Cheng's eyes were cold, "If this is the case, I will never spare it." ”