Ouyang Rongfeng's words made Xie Lingjiang a little confused for a while.

I only feel that a fragrant heart is sweet and silky.

Xie Lingjiang actually didn't resent the people from the Su Mansion next door contacting the senior brother.

There is even some acquiescence.

Otherwise, why did she intentionally or unintentionally take Ouyang Rong to the Su Mansion?

But the moment Xie Lingjiang first heard the senior brother call out Su Bao'er's name as usual, a little emotion that seemed to be his daughter's family suddenly became a little difficult to suppress.

"It wasn't as generous as I thought."

Xie Lingjiang murmured in his heart.

People are like this sometimes, some things, when they haven't happened in front of their eyes, are one idea, and after they appear, they are another thought.

But now I find out.

"Is it just looking for the senior brother to knock on the side to discuss the government, the sister of the Su family is acting fast and has a clear purpose, and it is estimated that the senior brother is a little unclear about her purpose.

"So...... The two are really just gentlemen's friends, and they are as light as water.

"This ...... It's normal, the senior brother is like a pearl, it may not be obvious when he first came to Longcheng County, but now, the few months in office have brought such a big change to Longcheng, who else dares to despise him?

"Senior brother is obviously condescending to be a seven-grade county order, and in the eyes of some people, he is naturally radiant and talented.

"Isn't the attitude of the sister of the Su family towards him from contempt to sideways, from arrogance to respect, but I didn't expect that in the days when I went out, the sister of the Su family would take the initiative to make a senior brother.

"It seems that this sister of the Su family is not a blindly tough and arrogant person, she will also judge the situation, and she will also sleep to seek talent, so she can even let go of some of the face of her proud daughter's family, although the other party is a senior brother, but it is still surprising, this sister of the Su family ......

"It's like getting to know her again, my father is right, look at people, not only to judge their words, but also to watch their deeds."

looked at the man in front of him who was talking eloquently and was very different from his relatives.

Xie Lingjiang lowered his eyebrows and bit his lip, feeling a little embarrassed by his cranky thoughts not long ago.

Tasting the sweet afterglow of Tieguanyin in her mouth, her cheeks showed a shallow smile.

"What are you laughing at?" Ouyang Rong asked curiously.

"It's fine."

Xie Lingjiang shook his head, looked at him again, and said softly:

"I just sighed, the senior brother is inevitably too steady and calm, his tone is so strict, and the distinction between inside and outside is so clear, junior sister, I feel a little ...... when I think of the sister of the Su family every time she eats deflated and bored in front of the senior brother Some ......"

"What?"

Xie Ling Jiang couldn't help but laugh and didn't speak.

"Wait, big brother."

Xie Lingjiang got up suddenly, looked at the petite figure in the room where he was still folding the quilt and making the bed, and resumed the posture of Xie Zhilan and the female gentleman of the academy, and said politely:

"Miss Weilai, the tea is a little cold."

"Tanlang, little lady Xie, slave go make a new pot of tea, you can talk slowly."

Ye Weilai was not stupid, she immediately put down her hand, exited the door, and closed the door with a "squeak" to leave.

This pot of tea is estimated to boil for a long time.

There was only a pair of brothers and sisters left in the house.

The two looked at each other.

The atmosphere was slightly quieter.

Seeing that Ouyang Rong was about to speak, Xie Lingjiang suddenly turned around and went to the bed in the back room.

Ouyang Rong couldn't help asking:

"Senior sister, what are you doing? Sleep...... Go to bed? ”

In the inner room, Xie Lingjiang looked left and right, as if he felt quite curious about the senior brother's private residence, his face was interested, and he said casually:

"I accidentally took your intimate little maid away, delaying the cleaning of my brother's room, it's just fine, my sister will try it and help my brother tidy it up."

She learned to bend over, make up the bed, and continue what Ye Weilai had not finished, with her back to Ouyang Rong, without raising her head, and said:

"Senior brother, you said, you continue, I can hear you."

Ouyang Rong was speechless.

"Little sister has made up the bed?"

"Not yet, but if you want to have it, it depends on the maids to sort it out."

Ouyang Rong pursed his lips, stepped forward directly, and snatched the job in the hands of this contrasting cute little junior sister who wanted to try everything.

"Get out of the way, I'll come."

"Senior brother, why are you also a maid, don't look down on me......" Xie Lingjiang suddenly paused.

Ouyang Rong, who was too lazy to explain, folded the futon in three strokes and divided it by two, and the technique was ingenious.

Old tofu block, don't ask, asking is the soul of the graduate student.

Then, Ouyang Rong began to arrange the sheets, as vigorously as he did with official business.

Xie Lingjiang stood on the edge of the bed, stunned and looked at the skilled operation of the senior brother, and couldn't help but say:

"Senior brother is so powerful, why do you need a maid to tidy up? Slowly. ”

Ouyang Rong didn't stop, thought about it, and turned his head to say seriously:

"You have to find something to do for other little girls, otherwise you are idle, dry and eat, no one is embarrassed, and it is easy to gain weight."

"......" Xie Lingjiang.

What are you doing for charity?

It seemed that she had digested the routine of the senior brother in her heart for a while, she tilted her head slightly and sighed:

"So the senior brother asked the junior sister to investigate the unsolved case, and it was also for her to find something to do, in fact, the senior brother can solve it faster, but the junior sister is also idle?"

The corners of Ouyang Rong's mouth twitched.

"Business and private affairs are different, junior sister is not an idler, don't think about it."

With that, he lowered his head and took the corner of the crumpled bed.

Just when Xie Lingjiang, who was behind him, looked at it for a while and felt that he was eager to step forward if he had a hand, Ouyang Rong suddenly said:

"The current situation in Da Zhou, just like this sheet, looks messy, but as long as you hold the four corners and other clever places, pull it back hard, and it will be neat and clean in an instant."

Xie Ling Jiang was stunned for a moment, and immediately, he frowned and stared at Ouyang Rong's back as he buried his head in tidying up his private bed.

The man's cold voice came:

"You ask me, what do you think of the Wei clan and the Baoli faction who are secretly confronting each other in the court of Luoyang, the divine capital? Who has the better chance of winning?

"Actually, if the junior sister can find and easily take care of the clever place of tidying up the bed, she will not ask this question, at least not like this, because it is not a simple question of the east wind overpowering the west wind."

Xie Lingjiang couldn't help but say, "Did the senior brother find it?" So what's the problem? ”

Ouyang Rong turned a deaf ear and said calmly:

"It doesn't matter whether I find it or not, what matters is that the Holy One must, must, and eventually find it.

"It's not a question of whether Webster wins or the Bailouts win.

"This is the question of how to win today.

"A big win, a medium win, or a small win."

Xie Lingjiang had listened well, but when he heard the senior brother's words suddenly change and chuckle at her, it seemed to be a joke that she couldn't understand.

"The question of how the Empress Wei won?"

Xie Lingjiang frowned, unlike Ouyang Rong, who was an official of the Great Zhou Dynasty, she always called the Empress of the Wei family, and she didn't know if she learned from her father Xie Xun.

However, this is also the courage of the children of the five surnames such as Chen Jun Xie.

A dynasty of flowing water, a family of iron.

Anyway, if you don't choose to be an official in the court, and you don't pursue power, it is enough to be able to call the Empress Wei is enough to give face, otherwise call her by her name Wei Zhao? It's not impossible......

Ouyang Rong did not correct the title of the little junior sister, and pointed to the bed sheet under him and said:

"In the eyes of today's saints, the court situation is like this sheet, which seems to be chaotic now, and it has begun to become more and more violent, crumpled and difficult to solve.

"But she will find a clever trick like a small couch, hold the four corners and pull it gently, and it will be a clean and tidy sheet for her to continue to sleep."

Xie Lingjiang looked at the gradually neat sheets, and his eyes were thoughtful:

"What does Senior Brother mean is that in the heart of the Empress of the Wei family, whether it is to give the position of imperial heir to His Royal Highness the Prime Minister, or to the two nephews and princes of the Wei family, it must be the most beneficial to her in the end, and it will be promoted?"

She lowered her head and thought about it, and her pretty face was flat:

"Senior brother, aren't you talking nonsense? Now both factions are fighting for the trust of the Empress Wei, and they are both currying favor with the Empress Wei, just to get her favoritism in the battle for the emperor's heir.

"Even if the two sides know that the Empress Wei is using this to balance the two factions and balance the court, it is an imperial technique, a political balancer, and it is to let the government and the opposition take the lead for it, but there is no way."

It seems that Xie Lingjiang, who has been exposed to the ears and eyes since he was a child, and has not talked much about the government and politics, has quite mature views on the court situation at the moment, and even better than many middle and low-level officials in Da Zhou.

Her good-looking eyebrows gather slightly:

"The question now is, isn't this Empress Wei afraid, she is still playing imperial art at the moment, sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, and as a result, the Baoli faction and the Wei family are fighting more and more, and the grievances are accumulating, and the momentum is like fire and water, and finally after a hundred years, either side will come to power and kill the other party?

"Or is it that the Empress Wei doesn't care, it doesn't matter if he is his own flesh and blood, or his mother's family, he will be slaughtered when he is slaughtered, and he will be flooded after death."

Ouyang Rong said calmly without looking back:

"Who said it was nonsense, asking these questions is to make you think about it, if you were the Empress of the Wei family, what would you do, some things are just human nature, and you can't figure it out if you don't put yourself in your shoes."

Xie Lingjiang frowned and shook his head, "If it were me, I wouldn't be like she is doing now anyway." The intensification of party strife is by no means a good thing for the community. ”

Ouyang Rong grabbed the four corners of the sheets, tidied up the sheets, stepped back from the bed, turned around and walked to the desk, he said calmly all the way:

"That's why I said, my sister didn't find the trick of easily tidying up the sheets."

"But Senior Brother, even Di Fuzi may not have guessed the thoughts of Empress Wei, and the Sacred Heart is unpredictable." Xie Lingjiang thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't figure it out:

"Hmm, can you not use an excuse for senior brother. To put it bluntly, which side do you think is more likely to win? The junior sister also talked about her guesses and exchanged views. ”

"If it's just this question, do you need to exchange views?"

Ouyang Rong shook his head with a smile.

Xie Lingjiang half-jokingly said: "Let's exchange views, see if we want to go together, if we don't, the proposition is different, don't arrest me, senior brother." ”

Ouyang Rong nodded: "When the time comes, just don't step on my shoes." ”

"......" Xie Lingjiang.

"No kidding." She shook her head, her expression was constricted, she looked at Ouyang Rong's eyes and said seriously:

"Senior brother, the Wei clan can't win, those two princes will no longer be able to compete for the position of imperial heir!"

"Why?" Ouyang Rong answered.

"Because...... The rebellion in Yingzhou. ”

Ouyang Rong on the side of the desk raised his eyebrows, stretched out his hand and took out a copy of the imperial court newspaper that had been flipped through several times in the book, and threw it casually to the table.

"This?"

Recently, the Xie girl, who has often received letters from her father, wanted to be unfathomable, but she was stunned.

She looked down at the imperial palace newspaper on the table, which was similar to a newspaper sent by the central government of the Great Zhou Dynasty to the local area, recording some war reports and auspicious news, or the merits of the Empress Wei.

At present, this imperial court newspaper happens to record a huge rebellion that occurred in the north in the past two years, which is also called the "Yingzhou Rebellion" by the world.

This rebellion originated in the Dongyi Duhufu, which was a foreigner who had returned to the Great Zhou, because of dissatisfaction with the oppression of the local officials of the Great Zhou, and the rebellion that broke out, captured and occupied Yingzhou, ten days of soldiers to tens of thousands, swept several states, and the more troublesome it became.

The situation spread for two years, and the counterinsurgency of the Great Zhou army was also stumbling, and as a result, many problems of the border army were exposed.

It wasn't until not long ago, before the last report from Jiangzhou from Jiangzhou that the rebels were suppressed.

Xie Lingjiang's eyes flashed, "Senior brother is also concerned about the rebellion in Yingzhou?" ”

Ouyang Rong nodded, pointed at it and said:

"It's fun to flip through it." It's familiar.

He didn't say the latter sentence. didn't tell the little junior sister that he had seen a similar trajectory when he was reading history in his previous life......

Xie Lingjiang smiled and whispered:

"The rebellion in Yingzhou, at first it was not serious, the Empress Wei was supposed to give the Wei children the opportunity to gild and accumulate prestige, but it backfired, the Wei children performed extremely unbearable, it was a meritorious service, but the war dragged on again and again, and in the end, it was the civil strife and collapse of the rebels themselves, and they were suppressed by the counterinsurgency champion.

"Da Zhou, who is full of martial virtues, has lost his face, and he is still preaching a great victory in counterinsurrection here."

Xie Lingjiang sneered, his eyes were bright, and he said clearly:

"Senior brother, after this incident, the Empress of the Wei family has no way to hand over the position of imperial heir to the Wei family, otherwise the people of the world will not be convinced, but she is dying of old age, and she needs a group of ministers around her, including Di Fuzi, to deal with political affairs, and His Royal Highness the Prime Minister, who has lived in the deep palace for a long time, is also respectful and filial, and cautious Du Wei ......"

Ouyang Rong nodded and answered:

"So, junior sister thinks His Royal Highness King Xiang wins?"

Xie Lingjiang nodded:

"That's right, the Wei family has essentially lost the battle for the emperor's heir, but the fire was too strong in the past, and no one dared to water it for a while, and now the situation is surging, but His Royal Highness the Prime Minister has stabilized."

Ouyang Rong didn't answer, and suddenly said: "Didn't you say that there are two princes left, and there is one more?" ”

Xie Lingjiang looked at him sideways:

"Another prince, the Xunyang Wang's family, has been demoted out of the capital, and then demoted to the throne...... This family has been away from the capital for more than ten years, and the ministers in the court are all supporting His Royal Highness the Prime Minister in the palace, and the remaining clans scattered all over the world are also headed by His Royal Highness the Prime Minister. ”

She suddenly reacted: "Senior brother means that there will be changes?" For example, if Wei takes a risk, His Royal Highness will have an accident, and then ......"

Ouyang Rong shook his head and chuckled:

"The battle for the emperor's heir, you can't win what you say." He said leisurely: "Prince Wei can't win, and His Royal Highness King Xiang is also ......."

At this moment, a girl's panicked voice suddenly came from outside the door.

"Thank you, little lady! Where are you, my lord and wife are looking for you, saying that there is an urgent matter to discuss, and there is an urgent matter! Please go back quickly! ”

In front of the desk, Xie Lingjiang and Ouyang Rong stood and sat down, turning their heads together.

"Ouyang Gongzi...... You...... Are you awake? Caishou was surprised, but then turned her face anxiously: "Little lady Xie, go back and have a look." ”

Xie Lingjiang glanced at Ouyang Rong, who nodded, she hurriedly said goodbye and went out with a colorful ribbon.

Inside the house, Ouyang Rong lowered his eyes to read the newspaper and sat silently.

"I'm going to leave soon, do you want to tell my little sister about those similar historical tracks and help her family......"

Someone hesitated for a moment.

Happy Juneteenth! (or 4th day of abstinence)

(End of chapter)