The Qinghe County Lord of the Red Chamber

No matter how conscientiously Shang Chanchan wanted to praise Shang Chi, she really couldn't tell the nonsense that her elder brother was very kind.

Naturally, Shang Chi has always been a gentleman in front of outsiders, especially gentle. Everyone thinks he has a good temper.

However, he is notorious for being difficult to serve in Baoninghou Mansion.

All the servants and maids in the family were looking forward to serving in the third master's house, because Shang Ji was really lenient, and he just passed by talking and laughing about anything.

Everyone is most afraid of being an errand in the uncle's house.

The rules in Shang Chi's house are very strict, when to have meals, when to have refreshments, who does what work, and where to put what things, everything must be fine.

The boys are all well-behaved, not to mention, the maids are even more observant.

Not to mention appearing like the second daughters of the deputy masters next to Jia Baoyu, the maids next to Shang Chi all have low eyebrows and are pleasing to the eye, and their sternness is upright, as if they were stuck out of a mold.

Shang Chi, as the future heir of the Marquis Mansion, was born with a handsome and handsome face.

Over the years, it is natural that the desire to be an aunt has been swayed by profit, or the maid who really admires him has made a wrong idea and wants to come to add fragrance to his red sleeves and make a bed for him in the middle of the night.

However, Shang Chi always followed the same method: he was tied up on the spot and sent to the Jiang family without waiting for dawn.

And the treatment is very strict, not to mention that no one is allowed to serve in the mansion, if the family has a child, even the old lady will have to sit, and can no longer be a decent job.

After two times, no servant girl dared to make plans on him anymore.

And because he didn't like strong fragrance, the maids in the room had to be careful, they didn't even dare to carry a sachet, for fear of offending the uncle.

Dressing is also very simple, so as not to catch the eyes of the uncle with red flowers and willow green.

So walking into Shang Chi's room, the row of maids stopped, as if they followed a Taoist temple.

As a result, the sons of the Baoning Hou Mansion, regardless of gender, almost burst into tears when they heard that they were assigned to work in the uncle's house.

Daiyu was also very surprised when she heard Shang Chanchan's words: "Is brother Zicheng such a temperament? I used to see him very easy-going."

Shang Chanchan spread her hands: "Sister Lin, that's easy-going towards you. You see, when my brother was teaching me in the exam, didn't he have a temper that was unambiguous?"

"After all, our wife's strict discipline is inherited from our ancestors."

"For example, my father, he hates the taste of medicinal materials so much that he never even wants to drink ginseng soup. However, whenever my mother feels that he is tired recently, she will order someone to cook medicinal food. I dare not stop drinking when I look at my father."

"So, Sister Lin, I said that brother has a bad temper. You don't have to worry about it at all. He only treats you very well."

"I just wanted to tell you first that the dowry maids you bring along should be honest and responsible, like puppets, otherwise they might be out of place in brother's house."

Daiyu smiled: "In the past few years, I have been in the palace, and besides Xueyan, I have no other people who are easy to use. But the empress said that when the time came, she would pick four maids for me to take out."

Shang Chanchan nodded again and again: "That's right, after my sister's position as the county head came down, there should have been an example of a court lady. The empress can't go wrong with the person she chooses."

Together in the imperial palace, Shang Chanchan and Daiyu were happily discussing household affairs.

But Baoning Hou was very unfortunate, and was reprimanded by the Supreme Emperor again.

The reason is that the King of Nan'an issued another memorial to impeach Zhen Yingjia.

Zhou Heng, king of Nan'an County, and Zhou Qiong, governor of Zhenhai, were cousins ​​of the same grandfather.However, Zhou Qiong's father was a third-bedroom, who had been separated 20 years earlier.

But since they can't write two Zhou characters in one stroke, the two who are responsible for this matter naturally have to memorize them together.

Speaking of which, the matter in southern Fujian has nothing to do with the Zhou family.

After all, the ancestors of the Nan'an Palace were crowned kings by following the Tai/Zu Emperor to destroy the previous dynasty. Now they want to rebel with the previous dynasty, and they will not be accepted.

Not only did they not accept it, the rebels entrenched in Fengshan City even played the banner of killing the Zhou family.

He kept saying that he wanted to avenge the subversion of the society back then.

But the king of Nan'an County was furious: Since you want to take revenge, you have the ability to go to the capital to raise a flag and say that you want to attack the royal Xiao family, what is going on in southern Fujian to declare that you want to destroy our Zhou family!

The throne is not on the head of our surname Zhou. Didn’t you see that our two cousins ​​are still eating sand at the border?

Because his two daughters-in-law are also in southern Fujian, the king of Nan'an County is even more worried.

Because of this, the two cousins ​​Zhou Heng and Zhou Qiong really hated Zhen Yingjia and the second prince to death.

Two years ago when the second prince was assigned to Fujian, the Zhou family was dumbfounded, especially Zhou Wenran, who almost didn't faint: she and her younger sister came here to endure hardships in order to avoid this uncle, but it took less than a year. His Highness actually followed.

Fortunately, he had already married the princess and lost power so badly that the Zhou family was relieved for the time being.

Besides, the second prince was Zhen Yingjia's subordinate in name, so it was Zhen Yingjia's responsibility.

Therefore, apart from giving some gifts on New Year's Day, the king of Nan'an County didn't ask about the second prince's related matters at all, calling it respect for the prince.

However, his respect made a big mess.

He also didn't want the two of them to collude, be so bold as to embezzle the military pay to this point.

After losing three cities in five days, the king of Nan'an County couldn't help but cry: the two brothers stayed in Fujian for eight years, and they exhausted their efforts, and now they are all destroyed.

They definitely want to strangle Zhen Yingjia more than the emperor.

Before the emperor's order was issued, the two of them stared at Zhen Yingjia and immediately emptied him.

Sure enough, the angel came with a holy order to escort Zhen Yingjia to Beijing.Of course, the angel also represented the emperor and scolded the Zhou brothers.

In particular, Zhou Qiong was named and criticized as "trash", and threatened that if he lost the city again, he would be dismissed from all positions immediately, and he would be the most ordinary soldier and directly assigned to the forward team to lead the battle.

As for Nan'an County King, after all, he still has the title of County King, and the emperor gave him a little bit of face.

He didn't ask the angel to scold him, but just "reminded" him that the title of Nan'an Palace is not hereditary, if he doesn't want his son to become white and unable to claim the title, he should take the blame and make meritorious service.

The two of them were disgraced by the training, so naturally they held grudges in their hearts.

So these days, he has been collecting Zhen Yingjia's crimes to prove his innocence.

Of course, a crime of dereliction of duty without strict supervision can no longer be escaped, but the emperor must not feel that they are also accomplices.

Even when they heard that Xie Yuchu, as the governor, was going to come to southern Fujian in person, the two of them ignored the sadness of having their military power taken away, but felt the joy of being able to wash away their stigma for a while.

After all, if someone else changed, even if His Majesty reported that the Zhou family was innocent, the emperor would not believe it.

Only Xie Yuce, the emperor's confidant, can clear their innocence after finding out that the two of them have nothing to do with it.

So General Xie traveled thousands of miles, and when he arrived in southern Fujian, he was greeted by the grateful faces of the two brothers of the Zhou family.

The three briefly described the situation in southern Fujian, and Zhou Heng took out a very thick memorial, which stated Zhen Yingjia's various faults, and said sincerely: "If Governor Xie can't trust our two brothers, you can also send someone out to investigate."

Xie Yucee only said: "My lord, please hand over this booklet, and the sage will judge it. Our top priority now is to exterminate the traitors."

The reason why Xie YuCe didn't check it was because the military situation was on fire and there was no room for delay.

The second is to know that the emperor of Beijing must need this memorial, so that he can justifiably convict Zhen Yingjia.

So he didn't care about it, whether the king of Nan'an brought private goods, exaggerated Zhen Yingjia's crimes or whitewashed himself.

The most important thing is the notebook written by Nan'an County King himself - he is the descendant of the veteran ministers of the four kings and eight princes, and was once the confidant of the Supreme Emperor.

Even if he stood up and felt sorry for his minister Zhen Yingjia's crimes, then the Supreme Emperor should have nothing to say.

After all, although Feng Dianyi died tragically, it was the official who spoke lightly.

The Taishang Huang even said that this is Feng Dianyi's one-sided statement that he lost his mind after losing his family, and it should not be taken seriously.

Such unreasonable words made the emperor so angry that he didn't eat for two days, and complained to Bao Ninghou behind his back: Someone has lost his mind, and when I look at the father, he himself is losing his mind!Is Zhen Yingjia his illegitimate son? Protect him so much!

Shang Duo said: What's the use of an illegitimate child, you are still the old sage's own son, and he doesn't protect you very much.

In the final analysis, the Supreme Emperor is only protecting his own authority.

Even after his death, the flood would be overwhelming.What the Supreme Emperor defended was the absolute power that as long as he was still breathing, he would have the absolute power to keep his word!

So as long as the Supreme Emperor does not drive west of Hexi for a day, Zhen Yingjia cannot be executed for a day.

As an outsider, Shang Duo understood clearly.

However, although the emperor could understand it, he was unwilling after all.

So after receiving Zhou Heng's memorial, he took it to the Supreme Emperor: Since you said that Feng Dianyi is a soft-spoken person, you can't take it seriously.

But the words of the King of Nan'an can always count!Zhen Yingjia made these mistakes, beheading himself and exiling his family is all for him!

What's more, it's just copying the house.

Holding Zhou Heng's memorial, the emperor once again proposed to copy the Zhen family.

The Taishanghuang was very angry, and only reprimanded the emperor for not prioritizing, not to say that he would try his best to quell the matter in southern Fujian, but he was always thinking about ransacking the house.

Then he kicked the emperor out, and even called Shang Duo to scold him again.

The wording was very serious, and he only reprimanded Shang Duo for dominating the imperial court, fighting dissidents, inverting black and white, and slandering dictatorship, so that the imperial court was full of smoke and demons.

Bao Ninghou knelt down, stared at the gold bricks on the ground boredly, and began to count, not taking it to heart.

After all, being scolded is already his daily job.

It wasn't until the Supreme Emperor was tired of cursing and it was time to drink the medicine that he asked him to get up, and Shang Duo backed away with an extremely regretful and painful expression on his face.

Before leaving the palace, he bumped into Lin Ruhai.

Shang Duo asked suspiciously, "Where are you going?"

Lin Ruhai smiled wryly: "The Supreme Emperor summoned me."

The two exchanged a look of sympathy for what happened to the other.

Shang Duo comforted in a low voice: "Don't take it to heart. Anyway, the old sage can't speak very clearly, so you can just pretend that he is chanting scriptures."

Lin Ruhai saw the little eunuch standing beside him leading the way, and hurriedly signaled Shang Duo to keep silent.

Shang Duo said: "Anyway, I'm still working overtime in the imperial city tonight, so prepare a pot of good tea and wait for me. I'll go to the household department to look for you. If there is something urgent, I need to discuss it."

In the evening, Lin Ruhai prepared refreshments at the household department and waited for Shang Duo.

When Shang Duo arrived at the household department, it was already the hour of Hai, but the lights were still brightly lit.

Because the six departments are crowded in the Xihua Gate of the imperial city, there is not much space.

Only the six ministers can have a separate room, and the rest are two servants, who have to work together at the same table.

Shang Duo first took a look at his son, and saw that among the haggard and tired officials in the room, Shang Chi was still as graceful and elegant as a solitary pine.

He couldn't help but nodded and said: "After all, the young man is in good spirits and looks as if nothing happened. Then you go home and report to your mother that you are safe."

It's true that Shang Duo has suffered a lot lately, not to mention the snow on his temples has become more serious, even his brows are full of wind and frost.

He knew that returning to the mansion like this would inevitably cause his wife to worry, so he simply asked his son to report that he was safe when he went back.

Shang Chi had greeted his father, and said, "Then the second younger brother should be with the son?"

Shang Duo felt a little guilty: recently, his second son was taken as a coolie by him, and he was tired and haggard and emaciated.

It's better to go back after raising it, lest Madam be angry.

So he sent Shang Chi to go by himself.

And here he entered Lin Ruhai's room, and because he was a little thirsty, he directly took a sip of tea.

After drinking this, he almost lost his demeanor and spit it out directly.

"What kind of tea are you preparing?"

"Kuding lotus seed tea." Lin Ruhai smiled slightly: "This is the most heart-warming, and it is just right for Lord Hou's current situation."

Shang Duo: ...