"Since that incident, the Pingguo Mansion has indeed settled down." Qin Zhuen continued, "Fang Yuting was brought into the palace by the Queen Mother and raised for nearly a year, until he was three years old. Not only did his body recover, but he also spoke a lot smarter, at least he could tell the grandmother around him who had treated him badly. The Queen Mother let him go home. And when he returned home, in addition to arranging a group of nursing mothers, he was also specially assigned a person named Raising Mama who was really a master of the interior. ”

"Ouchi master?" Yan Tian exclaimed, only to feel that the situation at that time should be extremely serious for the three-year-old Fang Yuting.

"Yes. Ouchi master! Thinking about it, the kid from the Fang family has followed this person since he was a child and learned some fists and feet to defend himself. Later, he abandoned literature and martial arts, and he should have worshipped her as a teacher.

"However, over the years, the Fang family has indeed not produced any more moths. And it is said that the family rules are extremely strict, and the inside is not spoken, and the outside is not entered. The backyard is also notoriously peaceful, and Pingguo Gong Fang Yong has never even made a concubine or anything. This Fang family seems to be harmonious and happy, and it is a first-class example among the families in the capital. Can...... But I always feel that Fang Yuting doesn't seem to be doing well......" Qin Zhuen couldn't help frowning when he recalled the little boy who had been tense and guarded all the time.

"Oh? Are there any concrete examples? ”

"I can't say anything specific for a while, but it seems to be everywhere...... For example, I have seen the two brothers follow the Duchess of Pingguo into the palace to greet the Queen Mother, and the atmosphere between the three of them is ...... It's weird. Duchess Pingguo seems to be more like mother and son with the eldest prince, as for the relationship with Fang Yuting...... In front of everyone, she was smiling and caring, but she always felt that something was missing.

"So much so that for a while I wondered if Fang Yuting was the romantic debt caused by Fang Yong, the Duke of Pingguo, outside, and then quietly took him back to the mansion and raised him as a concubine. Therefore, the Duchess of Pingguo, Lu, couldn't swallow this bad breath, Fang Yuting was not a nurse when she was two years old, but she planned the story herself......"

"This kind of thing shouldn't be possible." Before Lord Qin finished speaking, Yan Tian retorted, "I attach great importance to etiquette and law. I remember reading a document. During the reign of Taizong, there was a family of the family to send the concubine to the palace to be elected as the princess and concubine, I don't want to happen later, Emperor Taizong personally approved the imperial pen at that time, 'The bloodline of this clan has been chaotic, and the women of the clan will not be allowed to enter the palace for election in the future'.

"The respect and humility of the concubine involves the ritual law of the temple, the inheritance of bloodline, and the major affairs of the country, which are by no means ordinary. Therefore, this dynasty has always strictly obeyed the concubine, if there is a violation of the system, the light will be stripped of the title, the fame will be removed, and the heavy will be imprisoned, affecting the whole family.

"So that there has been no such thing under the rule of recent generations of kings in our dynasty, even the abolished emperor Shunping Dynasty of the great chaos, and there has never been a matter of rebellion.

"The Pingguo Mansion is the first-class duke of my dynasty, and the whole country is staring at how many pairs of eyes. If you really dare to risk the world's disapproval to make trouble, let's not talk about the Queen Mother, whether her old man will let go of this matter without his eyes. It is only said that Ping Guogong himself dares to take the foundation of the Fang family and the net worth of the entire clan to risk this! ”

"I don't think that's a good idea. If the Fang family is chaotic, they will definitely not be able to hide it from the Queen Mother. The queen mother's eyes can't tolerate sand, and it is impossible to allow this kind of thing to happen, let alone save and protect a concubine when she leaves the palace.

"Then there is a person who is a prince of Pingguo...... Ahem, it's not like your old man...... Aggressive. Qin Zhuen secretly glanced at Yan Tian, "Your grandfather and his old man, for the sake of your own grandmother and your father, he made a fuss with the family like that, and he didn't say that he used his concubine as a concubine, and recorded your father in the name of the county lord of Kanghe and pretended to be a concubine to raise him." After all, the difference between the concubines and the concubines will have some impact in the future, whether it is in the career or in the marriage and family business. ”

Yan Tian turned his head and glared at him.

Qin Zhuen touched his nose and continued: "Pingguo Gong is easy-going, to put it bluntly, he is a soft and gentle person who has no ideas, and he doesn't even dare to do one-tenth of what your old man does. Not to mention something that even your old man would not dare to do. So what I just said is just speculation. As for now, apart from my natural partiality, I really can't think of a reason. ”

"According to what you said, I have some doubts in my mind."

"Oh? What are the doubts? ”

"I just went through the file at my father's place, and I saw the life of Ping Guogong, and I found a very interesting thing. Ping Guogong was born in the eleventh year of the first emperor Chaoleqing, only two years younger than the queen mother, but why is his eldest son about the same age as you and my second cousin, and the youngest son is one year younger than you? According to the seniority, you should have called that Fang Yuting a cousin. ”

Yan Tian counted his seniority like this, and Lord Qin was immediately embarrassed. When I was a child, I was called for this title, and I don't know how many lawsuits I fought, and now it has been brought up again.

"Well, you don't have to be too stubborn...... Lord Qin said, holding up the chopsticks to pick up the vegetables in a covert manner, but he didn't want to put the chopsticks into the dried fruit bowl next to him. He coughed dryly and put his chopsticks down in a curt.

Yan Tian felt quite interesting when he saw him like this, and he knew what story had been set up about this matter before. But he didn't hold on to it, but forced a smile and continued: "This is one of them. Because of this, I was puzzled at the time, so I took a closer look at the lives of Pingguo Gong and his wife, and found another more interesting thing. ”

"What's the matter?"

"Duchess Lu of Pingguo is actually the daughter of the Lu family of Dongjing Bo! The Duke of Daqi, the head of a noble family, married a concubine as the wife of the Duke of the Kingdom......"

"It is said that marrying a wife and marrying a virtuous person, if the two of them are happy, and the prince of Pingguo Fang Yong himself is willing, it is not impossible to marry a famous concubine as a wife." Qin Zhuen himself is not a person who values the family, so he doesn't think there is anything wrong with this.

"It makes sense. But there's something even stranger. The Lu family actually married into the Guogong Mansion in the tenth year of Yunhe, and five years later, that is, the three years of Yongzhi of the current dynasty, was awarded the title of the Duchess of Yipinguo.

"In the tenth year of Yunhe, the current Empress Dowager was still the queen of the first emperor, and His Majesty was nine years old at the time, and Pingguo Gong was already nearly thirty years old! Married at the age of 30?

"And the noble family with the title in this dynasty is in a hurry. Married people inherit the title, and most of them go to the court on the same day to ask for the title of their wife. The wedding of those who have already inherited the title is basically the day after the wedding, and the new wife is asked for the title the next day.

"I remember that I was right about the time when the Duke of Pingguo inherited the duke, it was the seventh year of Yunhe. That is to say, when the Lu family married into the Pingguo Mansion in the tenth year of Yunhe, Fang Yong had already inherited the title. But why didn't you ask Lu for the first time after marriage? But after five years of marriage, he asked the Lu family for the first order of the Duchess of that country?

"Marry a concubine of a third-class uncle's family. I didn't get married until I was thirty years old. After five years of marriage, he asked his wife to be ordained...... This pile seems to be trivial and insignificant, but if you connect them, you will find that the Duchess of Pingguo, Lu, is by no means so simple! ”

"It's strange what you say." Lord Qin's Enqu fingers knocked on the table, "I heard the old man say that the two generations of Pingguo Gong have not had many heirs. And their family is not that Qingliu civil official, and they don't pay attention to what they do before they get fame and then start a family. Therefore, these generations of Pingguo Gong married early, but they were already married at the age of sixteen or seventeen. But it's weird to hear you say that. ”

"Brother Qin was born in the capital since he was a child, so he doesn't know the story of this generation of Pingguo Gong when he was young?"

"You're on the point. There are few anecdotes of the large and small princely families in the capital that I don't know. But I didn't hear anything about what you just said, and I never even noticed. It stands to reason that if there are so many unreasonable things, there should always be one or two rumors coming out. But apart from the story I just said, there are no rumors in the Pingguo Mansion, just like ......"

"Like someone deliberately erased it?" Yan Tian frowned.

"That's right! You're right. Qin Zhuen nodded, and then frowned, "But, who has such a great ability to erase all rumors?" And what is the need to suppress these rumors of the Pingguo Mansion......".

"I don't know why I was suppressed. But who suppresses it, you can guess a thing or two. Come to think of it, he must be a person with a higher position and more power than the Pingguo Mansion, otherwise it will not work...... Could that be, Queen Mother? Yan Tian looked at Qin Zhuen.

"Quite possibly." Qin Zhuen nodded, "I heard my mother say that my grandmother's father and the previous generation of Pingguo Gong are brothers. When my grandmother was more than a year old, her family was in a big disaster and both parents died, so she was adopted by the old Pingguo couple who had no heirs at that time.

Coincidentally, when my grandmother was adopted, the old Duchess of Pingguo became pregnant. The family was immediately overjoyed, and they all regarded their grandmother as a lucky star. Therefore, she grew up in the Pingguo Mansion since she was a child and was extremely favored, and was regarded as her own by the old Pingguo Gong and his wife.

"A ready-made example is that when my grandmother got married, the dowry that Lao Pingguo and his wife bought for her was the most generous in the whole capital except for the princess of the clan. At that time, it far surpassed the other princesses, and no one has been able to match it to this day.

"It's not a big deal to use some power to suppress a past with some means of power to keep my mother's family peaceful."

"But what kind of past is this?" Yan Tian's eyebrows wrinkled even deeper.

Qin Zhuen really couldn't see her like this, and subconsciously wanted to stretch out the dog's paws to soothe the eyebrows of the beautiful woman, but in the end, he still remembered that his surname and name hurt whoever was beaten, so he forced down the paws that were about to move.

"Don't try to guess too much. Otherwise...... I'll go back and ask my mother? ”

As soon as the words fell, Yan Tian gave a huge white eye. Hehe, go ask Her Royal Highness the eldest princess? Isn't that equivalent to asking the Queen Mother directly?! Do you think the Queen Mother will reward you with a big nose pocket?

However, Qin Zhuen's words gave Yan Tian a wake-up call, she immediately picked up the chopsticks, and while frantically picking up vegetables for herself, she said to Qin Zhuen eagerly: "Quick! Hurry up and eat! We're going back to my father after eating?! ”

"Go to Uncle Yan?" Qin Zhuen was very puzzled, "Third Uncle Yan has been studying abroad since he was a child, and he has been working outside Beijing, can he know about the Pingguo Mansion?" Besides, you just made such a scene under his nose in the morning, and you dare to go back? ”

Lord Qin asked as he looked at Yan Tian, who was suffering from the wind and clouds, and felt more and more confused: "Also, what are you...... Afraid that Uncle Yan will be angry and won't give you food at night? ”

"No." Yan Tian ate without raising his head or opening his eyes, and worked hard, "I think this dish is too expensive to waste, I want seven books." ”

Qin Zhuen: ......