The situation in the capital changed three times a day, and the cabinet issued several decrees in succession, and the three divisions interrogated the criminals in the Kong Lin case day and night with high intensity, and the officials of the loyal royal palace who were found out were demoted again and again.

Of course, the factions in the three divisions are complex, and in the process of adjudicating the case, party disputes are fundamentally indispensable.

Among those labelled as faithful kings are innocent officials who have been implicated.

This makes almost everyone afraid of the officials of the various temples, and the air pressure in the capital is getting lower and lower, and the guests in the Qinlou Chu Pavilion have decreased a lot in recent days.

"It's like this, and the cabinet doesn't care?"

Jia Cong invited Feng Ziying into the study, and the maid retreated after serving refreshments, and the two chatted about the recent situation in Beijing.

Hearing Jia Congzhi's question, Feng Ziying squeezed her eyes at him: "The Great Prime Minister took leave four days ago, the gate of the Wei Mansion was closed, and the elder Qi Ge went to visit in person, but he couldn't enter the door of the Great Prime Minister's house. If the prime minister doesn't speak, who dares to care? It's Elder Qi Ge who will listen to the order?"

Gee~

The old man is once powerful, and he is afraid of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs.

As for the second assistant who was rumored to take over the position of the first assistant of the cabinet, he really couldn't suppress the storm in the middle of the court now, unless the second saint personally came down to stand for him.

But the second saint will definitely not come forward, the officialdom in the capital is like a pool of stagnant water, and it is time to clean it up.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has begun to supervise the country in the past two days, but he just nodded and shook his head every day, and the affairs of the DPRK and China are still dominated by blue criticism and Jun Zhi, and the old Qi Pavilion who presides over the cabinet has gray hair. One word, chaos!"

Feng Ziying couldn't help but smile bitterly as she spoke, it was too messy!

Except for the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Households, the entire capital was in chaos.

Fortunately, the Feng family is a confidant of the imperial party, and they have little contact with Liu Chen, and the people of the third division just want to lead the disaster to the Feng family, and they have no chance.

And he himself is just a six-rank idle general, he only needs to go to the barracks every day to walk around and order a mao, and the chaos in the capital is not enough for him.

Jia Cong shook his head: "In fact, as long as the governor's mansion, household department, and official department are not chaotic, the world will be stable." Otherwise, how could the two saints and the great minister sit in peace? Brother Feng doesn't have to worry, we just need to watch the show quietly."

Feng Ziying is also a well-known shrewd person, so naturally he has long understood that this is the case, he is just complaining.

The tea in the house was fragrant with tea, Feng Ziying followed Jia Cong's appearance, spread it on the bamboo couch, stretched out comfortably, and asked casually, "I just went to ask Mrs. Tai to say goodbye, how did I hear Mrs. Tai say that Brother Bao is going to participate in next year's children's exam?"

Baoyu, Feng Ziying, and Wei Ruolan can almost be said to be friends who have played since childhood, and they are probably clearer than each other's parents.

Second Master Bao was going to the imperial examination, and when Feng Ziying was in Rongxi Hall, her jaw almost dropped.

Grandpa God, Brother Bao was dropped?

"I'm surprised, actually, I'm surprised."

Jia Cong thought of the reason for what Xiangyun said, and couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

"Second Brother Bao is worried that I will be on the list next year, if he doesn't take the test, the second uncle will beat him when he comes back......

Burst......

Hahahahaha......

Feng Ziying squirted out a sip of tea, hugged her stomach and laughed.

"This is something that Brother Bao can do, I'll just say, how could he go to the test for Narausch Boy with that temperament......

"Brother Feng said this about me, I won't be happy!"

said that Cao Cao Cao was here, and as soon as Baoyu entered the courtyard, he heard Feng Ziying laughing at him.

However, he was not angry, but after walking into the house, he proposed, "Ruolan is also going to participate in next year's children's exam, do you want Brother Feng to join us?"

"Grandpa God, you spare me, I really can't stand sitting all the time."

Feng Ziying waved her hand again and again, as if she had encountered a big enemy: "The Four Books and Five Classics have left the clan studies, I have almost forgotten it, and now I have a headache when I read the sage books."

The devils don't believe this.

Among Baoyu, Wei Ruolan, and Feng Ziying, Feng Ziying is the oldest and the most patient.

The Feng family is cautious and strict, Feng Ziying became famous as a teenager, and she is a well-known civil and military master in the circle of princes and disciples of the capital.

He is reluctant to take the path of the imperial examination, to put it bluntly, it is still difficult for the heirs of the Feng family, and he has to keep a certain distance from the Wenchen circle so that he can take over his father's class in the future.

Alas, in the final analysis, each family has its own difficulties.

can sit in the capital and talk about it, who is willing to go to the battlefield to fight hard.

Feng Ziying is a little envious of Jia Baoyu, more brothers are good, Brother Bao is not good in this life, and he can rely on his brother to be rich and prosperous for a lifetime.

"I won't get involved in this, and when you finish the exam next year, I'll wait outside to prepare a banquet for you. Let's go eat at the largest restaurants in the capital one by one."

"Now, your post......"

"What?"

Baoyu took the bronzing post handed by Feng Ziying, and opened it while asking.

April 21...... Crowning ...... Ah, Brother Feng is going to give a crown salute?"

Baoyu suddenly remembered that Feng Ziying was four years older than herself, and she was eighteen years old this year.

He patted his head and said, "Then I must go, my uncle said that he would wait for twenty to give you a crown salute, but I didn't expect it to be early." Look, I don't even have a gift ready."

Feng Ziying smiled and responded: "Whatever gift you want, it is the best gift if you can come." You also know the situation of my family, I am the only male heir in the family, and now that the East Palace has been established, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has asked for a will to let me enter the East Palace to serve, so my father plans to perform a crown ceremony for me in advance. I can't keep growing up!"

Feng Ziying has an excellent personality and is also free and easy, and he lived freely for the first eighteen years, but from the beginning of his crown ceremony, he will begin to bear the burden of the family.

Even Baoyu, who doesn't understand the world or doesn't want to understand the world, knows the helplessness of the Feng family, and can't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart, and his face is full of sympathy for his friends.

Jia Cong saw that the atmosphere in the room was a little dull, sighed secretly in his heart, and mentioned what the old lady had just said when she was in Rongxi Hall.

"Second Brother Bao, Brother Feng is married, and he will get married this autumn."

"What? Engagement? Which girl?"

Not to mention Baoyu, even when Jia Cong heard the news, his whole person was numb.

Because the girl Feng Ziying wanted to marry turned out to be the maiden niece of the Queen Mother, the niece of Cao Dudu, and the young daughter of Cao Jiunan, the eldest lord of the Chengen Mansion.

If he remembered correctly, Cao Dudu had told him before that if he wanted to marry his niece, he must be able to beat the "bad guys" in his family.

Feng Ziying was unexpectedly shy, and laughed.

"It's the six girls of the Cheng'en Mansion......

Baoyu's eyes widened and her mouth widened.

was shocked for a long time before he exclaimed, "The sixth girl of the Cao family? Oh, my God! That Cao Xiaoman!"

Burst......

Jia Cong put down the teacup, coughed again and again, held back a smile and said, "Second Brother Bao, don't talk nonsense, the sixth girl Cao is both civil and military, and Brother Feng is simply a match made in heaven."

Why does the sixth girl have a "nickname" of Cao Xiaoman, at the age of seven, she can beat a man of the same age to cry her father and call her mother, and at the age of thirteen, she beat the princess of the clan and the county lord to obey at the Shangyuan Palace banquet.

It is said that he will have a stunning and glamorous flying knife stunt, Xiao Cao's flying knife, which is not a false example. It's a pity that it's a girl, otherwise Daxia might have a "Little Cao Tanhua" mile.

"Your house was in chaos a few days ago, and I didn't want to come and disturb it. You also know the situation of the six girls, and there are very few people in Beijing who can play with her......

Feng Ziying suddenly got up and bowed down to the two: "As an elder brother, please ask the two brothers with a cheeky face, if you have the opportunity, please ask the two brothers to mention a few sisters in the house, and I will be a middleman another day, and introduce a few sisters to know the six girls."

This man is still an infatuated species......

Before Jia Cong could speak, Baoyu had already helped Feng Ziying up: "Brother Feng, what are these words, you and I are like brothers, and this matter is up to me."

It's on the body."

Feng Ziying turned her gaze to Jia Cong, who could really make up her mind, and saw her nodding with a smile, and then she talked to Baoyu about the six girls of the Cao family.

"I heard Sister Tu say that the sixth girl of the Cao family is an extremely refreshing person. It's just that the Zhen family was powerful at the beginning, and Concubine Zhen favored the six palaces, and many people saw the wind and steered the rudder, and they didn't want to get close to the Cao family, which caused the nobles in Beijing to deliberately exclude the six girls."

Daiyu lifted the curtain of the car and said to Jia Cong, who was guarding the side, "Sister Tu will come over later, but it's a pity that Brother Qiang and her uncle went to the south, otherwise you can take the opportunity to let them meet."

Jia Cong glanced at the carriage behind him, it was Baoyu's car, and he could still hear Baoyu and Xiangyun playing inside.

Alas, why can't he squeeze into Sister Lin's carriage?

"Don't worry about these things, Uncle Jing has the idea of Uncle Jing about the matter between Lord Tu and Brother Qiang, and it is estimated that Uncle Jing and Uncle Tu have already discussed it."

The carriage went north, Feng Ziying got Jia Cong's consent, and went to visit the Chengen Mansion that afternoon, and told the six girls of the Cao family about the matter.

Before the evening, the post of the Cheng'en Mansion was delivered to the Rongguo Mansion.

The Cheng'en Mansion is on the west side of the Great Light Palace, and the city is not large, and most of them are relatives of the emperor.

Ning Rong's Jia family and Cheng'en Gong Cao's family had little contact, especially after Cao Jiugong became the commander of the Metropolitan Governor's Dragon Guard in the second year of Yuan You, whether it was to avoid suspicion or that the Jia family was so rotten, the two families even stopped ceremonial exchanges.

Although it was an invitation between the younger generations, the Chengen Mansion still showed the greatest sincerity to open the middle door to welcome the Jia family.

The eldest lord of the Cao family, Cao Jiunan, father and son, are not in Beijing, and the second son Cao Dudu is still on duty in the yamen, and the person responsible for greeting Cao Dudu's son Cao Yu at the door and Cao Ying, the sixth girl of the Cao family.

That's right, the eldest master of the Cao family has six sons, plus Cao Dudu's son Cao Yu, the seven rough men of the Cao family.

How rough it is, when Jia Cong took the lead, he was pulled up by Cao Yu, this tiger's mouth is full of calluses!

If he remembers correctly, Cao Dudu's son is two years older than himself, but he is a head taller than him.

Good fellows, grow up eating giraffes!

"General Xiao Jia, I finally saw the real person! How was the First Battle of Yanzhou fought? There are so many bandits, how do you stop their siege with less than 3,000 men......

Syllable!

Cao Yu excitedly grabbed Jia Cong's hands and asked about the Yanzhou defensive battle, but was slapped on the arm by Cao Ying.

"Blocking the door of the guest and asking questions, what about the etiquette?"

Although Cao Ying is not as good as the girls of the Jia family, she is a heroic woman, and her tall figure is reflected in a red palace dress.

After reprimanding Cao Yu, who was rude, then as if his face changed, he smiled and welcomed Daiyu and the others into the door.

And he didn't forget to glare at Cao Yu, this stout rough man not only did not get angry, but grinned.

He scratched his head and said to Jia Cong and Baoyu, "Is it mine, no, I was so excited that I lost my manners, and I couldn't complain that the sixth sister was angry. We're going in, and my great-grandmother said she wanted to meet the two brothers."

Cao Ying just died a few years ago, but he was the sixth in the Cao family.

There is an eldest sister and five brothers. She was followed by two younger brothers, Cao Yu and Cao Xiang, and a younger sister who was one year younger than her.

Along the way, Cao Yu briefly talked to Jia Cong and Baoyu about the situation of the Cao family, so that the two of them had some understanding of the Cao family.

The Cheng'en Mansion is not big, and after a while, the three of them came to the door of the main hall, and they were welcomed in without waiting for the ceremony.

The wife of the Cao family, the highest-ranking and most prestigious Wei State, Yue, was sitting under the plaque of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, looking at Jia Cong and the two brothers with a smile.

Mrs. Yue of Wei is more than eighty years old, but she is gray-haired but looks extremely energetic. This old lady is the only daughter of Yue Qilu, the general of Emperor Taizong, the Marquis of Qiyang, and the Cao family can always be above the dispute over the heir, and the old lady Yue has made great contributions.

"The junior Jia Cong (Jia Baoyu) visits Mrs. Wei Guo!"

The brothers bowed down in unison, Yue

He smiled and asked the old woman next to him to help him up.

I only heard Yue Shi say: "The royal cat Jia Cong, both civil and military, is an amazing young talent!"

Then she set her eyes on Baoyu, and her exclamation was mixed with a hint of pity: "It's really like a treasure, no wonder your grandmother hid you at home for fear of being stolen." If it were me, I would hide my good grandson."

The two brothers blushed when they were praised by the old lady, and Daiyu and others on the side covered their mouths and snickered.

The old lady only had one look, and the old lady beside her brought a tray, on which was a meeting gift for several people, each different, but enough to see her thoughts.

For example, what was given to Jia Cong was a delicate short sword, which seemed simple and unpretentious but had broken hair.

What was given to Baoyu was a painting, which is said to have been painted by a famous artist of the previous dynasty.

What is given to Yingchun is a chess game left by the holy hand, which is extremely precious.

Tanchun is even more interesting, it turned out to be a Western classic about mathematics, and I don't know where the Cao family got it.

The richest of Xichun is a box of children's toys, enough for a little girl to play the same every day, and she doesn't have to repeat it for a month.

What was given to Xiangyun was a complete set of palace headdresses, and the hairpin ring was exquisite, which should be made in the palace and could never be bought on the market.

Daiyu held the poetry book in her hand and couldn't put it down, the only product, she wanted to go back home directly, copy it well and treasure it.

Gifts may have different values in the market, but they are extremely precious in everyone's hearts.

Jia Cong secretly sighed in his heart that the Cao family was attentive, and then Baoyu came forward and presented the gifts prepared earlier, mostly rare medicinal materials such as Liaodong ginseng.

When the old lady learned that she had received a post from the Cheng'en Mansion, she even took out a few centuries-old ginseng plants from her collection.

Yue's smiled and took it, and after gossiping with a few people, he asked the sixth girl, Cao Ying, to take Yingchun and a few people to the garden to play, leaving only Jia Cong alone to talk in the main hall.

Even she drove her subordinates out, leaving only an old woman to serve.

"Brother Cong is alone, and I have an important matter to tell you."

Jia Cong was a little confused, but seeing that his expression became solemn, he arched his hand and said, "Mrs. Tai, please say, if there is a place where the juniors serve, you don't have to be polite. Speaking of which, the younger generation is still a soldier under Cao Dudu's account."

Yue pursed his lips, sighed and said, "Southern Xinjiang was defeated, the battle line was crushed for thousands of miles, Shui Dissolved was captured, and Da Xia Erlang suffered heavy casualties. The news was just secretly sent to the capital last night. Nanyue asked the imperial court to grant them conditions, one of which was to ask Daxia to send the princess and relatives, otherwise they would never let the water dissolve back."

"Then let the water dissolve and die!"

Jia Cong said what he thought without hesitation, and he was murderous. This yin person is not only yin, but also has no ability, what will he do when he comes back? It is better to die at the hands of the South Vietnamese!

The Yue clan didn't want Jia Cong to be so frank, so he couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "In that case, where will the face of the imperial court go? After all, Shui Rong is the king of the dynasty with a different surname, even if it is to cure his crimes, he must be saved first."

Jia Cong was unwilling, but had to nod in agreement. The kingdom of the Celestial Empire is both glory and shackles. Alas, it's worse than swallowing a fly.

"That's not what you're talking about, right? After all, this is something that Your Majesty and the princes of the court should worry about."

Yue Shi nodded, with a sad face: "Of course not, the old man is worried that many courtiers in the court have agreed to be harmonious, and have decided to choose a noble daughter among the royal family to canonize the princess, and to be close to Nanyue, and my family Li'er is one of the candidates......

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