Rebirth of the only favorite fool

"Jing Xing, I heard that there is an intention to choose a son-in-law for Ning Xi."

Gu Huaiyu, that is, Jing Xing, who is currently working under the son Xiao Xiaoronglian, smiled slightly at the person opposite: "With the eldest princess here, you are very well informed about the news."

Gu Huaiyu turned his head slightly, his eyes looked out of the window, his back was straight and his eyes were empty.

This Yulan restaurant is located on the busiest street in the imperial capital, and the windows are facing the busy street.The restaurant is towering, rising from the ground with seven floors. Its shape is also built according to the prosperous restaurant in Yuncheng. It seems that the structure is calm and calm, and it is particularly prominent among the surrounding rows of pavilions and pavilions.

Looking down from the window, you will see countless people of all shapes and colors walking on the avenue downstairs, crowds of people, shoulder to shoulder, life is noisy and bustling.At the foot of the world, there is Haiyan and Heqing, the surroundings are peaceful, and it is quite lively and prosperous.If you just raise your eyes and look into the distance, you will see clear and shallow clouds in the distance, the sky is clear, and the wind blows into your arms and sleeves, and you will feel that your chest is clear and the air is open, and the world is vast.

This is the restaurant opened by Gu Huaiyu on Wangjing Imperial City Straight Road.

Five years ago, Gu Huaiyu returned from feigning death on the West Sea, changed his name and surname, changed his appearance, and developed his foundation in Yuncheng under the name of Jingxing.First, he used the cloud pine wood transported from the West Sea to accumulate money, and then pushed the Wanhui Bank to the major cities of Yu State step by step.After contacting Young Master Xiao for a period of time, he voted for Young Master Xiao, and then resolutely transferred part of his property to Wangjing, the imperial capital, to accept the protection of Xiao Ronglian's forces, and at the same time provide Xiao Ronglian with more sources of information.

After establishing a solid relationship with Xihai, Gu Huaiyu personally set up a line between the young master Xiao and Xihai.At that time, he had already participated in the Gaotai Song of the Three Kingdoms League of Yu State, and impressed the world with his amazing talent. Xiao Ronglian, known as "the first son of Shuanglu", went to the West Sea in person, and he didn't know that the first son and What kind of negotiations did the King of the West Sea go through? Afterwards, the West Sea side revealed that there are many valuable mine veins on the West Sea Islands, such as the Silver Tunnel Stone Mine and the Liuguang Jade Mine. Young Master Xiao, on behalf of Emperor Yu Cheng, signed a contract with the West Sea side. It confirmed the covenant relationship between the emperor of Yu State and the King of the West Sea, and stated that the State of Yu recognized the independence of the West Sea Islands and would never use weapons against the West Sea Islands during the reign of Emperor Yu Cheng, thus establishing the friendly relationship between the State of Yu and the West Sea Islands. It is known as "Xihai Diyao" in history.

This covenant greatly enriched Emperor Yu Cheng's internal treasury, and at the same time greatly enhanced the prestige of Emperor Yu Cheng.Afterwards, the high right minister in the court became an official, and Emperor Yu Cheng made every effort to promote his son Xiao to be the right minister.The son Xiao took the position of the right prime minister of the Yu State at the age of only 24, and became the youngest prime minister of the Yu State over the years.

And the wealthy Jing Xing, who has suddenly become famous in the past five years, is now Xiao Youxiang's disciple.

Xu Chengqi sitting opposite him is a friend he made in the imperial capital, he is the son of the Xu family, his mother is Princess Rongshou, the eldest daughter of the first emperor, and now the eldest sister of Emperor Yu Cheng, her status is only below that of the current empress dowager It is also the first honor among the noble ladies of the imperial capital.Xu Chengqi was obviously taught by the eldest princess who was once praised by the late emperor as "the handwriting is square and has the style of everyone". , but in private, he has a hobby that a gentleman doesn't despise - he likes to hunt for rumors and inquire about gossip and secrets.He looks serious on the surface, only those who know him well know that this person likes to gossip even more than those aunts and aunts.

After Gu Huaiyu and Xu Chengqi got acquainted, he was quite dumbfounded about this point.

However, because of his mother, Princess Rongshou, he is very familiar with the gossip and secrets of Liusi in the imperial capital.

After the spring of this year, Emperor Yu Cheng insisted on his own opinion and tried his best to reject all opinions and let his son Xiao sit on the right minister's position, and he seemed to start paying attention to his husband and son-in-law for the twenty-eight-year-old princess Ning Xi.

Princess Ningxi is the eldest daughter and first child of Emperor Yu Cheng.Emperor Yu Cheng got married when he was weak, and Ning Xi was born two years later. Two years later, Emperor Yu Cheng ascended to the throne. When Emperor Yu Cheng succeeded to the throne, Empress Fang Ruzhen reported that she was pregnant with a dragon son.Emperor Yu Cheng was very happy with his dragon heart. After succeeding to the throne, he gave the eldest daughter the title "Ningxi" and the male fetus in Empress Fang's womb with the title "Chen".

Before Yu Chengdi succeeded to the throne, except for Queen Fang, the other concubines had nothing to do.For a long time after Emperor Yu Cheng succeeded to the throne, there were only two children of Empress Fang, which shows how much Emperor Yu Cheng attached importance to descendants.Now the queen has only three children, and after Princess Ningxi and the eldest prince Zhou Chen, there is only one prince, Zhou Qian.That is to say, Princess Ningxi is the only direct princess of Emperor Yu Cheng, and also the most honorable princess among her peers.

In his previous life, Gu Huaiyu didn't know who Princess Ning Xi married, but he seemed to have heard that this noble Princess Ning Xi seemed to have become a widow shortly after her marriage.

Seeing that Qiu Wei was about to come, those candidates came to Wangjing one after another, including young talents from all over the world. If Emperor Yu Cheng chose a son-in-law for Princess Ningxi at this time, the meaning in it would be a bit subtle.

There are some things that others are just laymen watching, but because Gu Huaiyu is now working for the son Xiao, he has gradually learned more about the situation in the court.The Xiao family of the descendant family holds a high position in Wangjing, and the chief officials of the household department in the court are also the Xiao family. The rumors about being handsome and half the Xiao family" are undoubtedly a great taboo for an ambitious emperor.

If he wants to hold the power of the government with the Empress Dowager Xiao, more and more Xinke officials who stand on the side of the imperial party must stand on the court every term.

Simply speaking, the poor students supported by their Gu family in the three major colleges in Yuncheng are not small.Now a trend has gradually formed in Yuncheng, the rich families in Yuncheng are willing to support those potential poor students, and those poor students are no longer ashamed to accept the support of big families, and feel that they have lost their literati spirit. On the contrary, it is an honor to be favored by the big family in Yuncheng, especially to be favored by the Shen family.

It's not that there is no such thing as subsidizing students before, but the real popularity and scale began with the Gu family, but in the end the most respected was naturally the Shen family who established their family based on education, and the reputation of the Gu family who came from a business school was naturally not as good as Shen's in the end. Home.

But when it comes to the college in Wangjing, Gu Huaiyu sponsors those students in the name of the former prince Shaoshi and the current right minister Xiao Ronglian.Since Xiao Ronglian amazed the world with his amazing talents on the high platform in Huaicheng and won the title of the first son, the students in Wangjing felt extra special that they were selected to be funded by Jing Xing, a disciple of the son Xiao. Fortunately, even some students from good backgrounds and wealthy families concealed their family backgrounds when they entered school to compete with the students from poorer families for the special treatment of the young master Xiao.Later Wangjing formed a custom that regardless of one's background, rich or poor, if one has outstanding talent and can be favored by Prince Xiao, one can get funding from Jingxing.However, apart from the subsidy for poor students which is usually money, for those exceptionally outstanding students, Jing Xing usually presents the four treasures of the study, famous books and ancient books of rare materials as a show of preferential treatment.

Because everyone in the world knows that once Young Master Xiao treats you with lowered eyes, it is almost like reaching heaven.Three years ago, the student who was most admired by the young master Xiao in Wangjing passed through Qiuwei, and now he is a Zhongshu Sheren who walks in front of the imperial court. He writes documents for the present and is deeply trusted by the present.

In addition to things like students becoming officials, there is another thing that makes people talk about it more.Because Xiao Ronglian is now well-known all over the world, and because Xiao Ronglian, a young man with a family background and a future, went against the world and became the wife of the prince of Jingguo, even though Fang Qiyou now also has "young He is known as "handsome", and he is also a rare young talent in the court, but this really surprised the world.However, Xiao Ronglian is highly respected by the world, so the status of men's wives in Yu country has improved a lot, and many big families are now proud of being able to marry a man with status and status.

This was something Xiao Ronglian himself did not expect.

Gu Huaiyu tilted his head and thought for a while, but couldn't help but smile again.

Xu Chengqi, who was sitting opposite, flicked his wide sleeves, picked up the ivory chopsticks in his hand and knocked on the side of the bowl made of blue millstone, raised his brows, and his eyes were full of smiles: "Hey, you want to What? I escaped when I had free time, and finally got rid of my mother's discipline. As soon as I came out, I wanted to come to you, but you kept distracting me, asking, is there someone behind my back?"

Gu Huaiyu's nonsense with Xu Chengqi is also the same now. He raised his wine glass, shook it in front of Xu Chengqi, and said slowly: "Where is it, I am the most sincere to you, but you, Xu, half I don't see anyone for ten days a month, and it hurts me when you say that."

"Hmph." Xu Chengqi snorted coldly with a smile, "Your rhetoric is okay to coax the little girl, don't think I will be fooled. I have seen through you a long time ago, you clearly have someone else in your heart, you are really unlucky very."

Gu Huaiyu glanced at Xu Chengqi tenderly: "How? How could I let down your sincerity? Ah Xu just thinks too much."

Seeing this look, Xu Chengqi couldn't help trembling all over his body, but he still insisted and said: "Is what you said true? If you dare to hide my golden house behind my back, I will go back to my mother's house with the dowry. You come here with no money..."

Speaking of this, Xu Chengqi really couldn't go on talking, he leaned half on the edge of the table with his hands, slapped the table twice, trembling all over his body and couldn't help laughing: "Hahaha, I really can't go on acting, Fortunately, I can bear you! Who would come to marry you with someone and a dowry? If you don’t hug the big girl and the little wife who are full of the street, I am stupid to find you, hahahahahahahahaha... .”

"Vulgar. It's really vulgar." Gu Huaiyu shook his head and retorted, "What do you mean you can bear me? Obviously I can bear you. Who is like your big girl and little daughter-in-law who are full of thoughts all day long? A pack of embroidered pillows Grass, gold and jade on the outside, if the eldest lady of any family finds out your true face, she will be scared and run away."

Xu Chengqi ignored Gu Huaiyu's sarcasm, and smiled on the table for a while before saying: "Your mouth is so poisonous, if I would have despised you to death, it is also thanks to Zelan who cares about you. The two of you are together sweetly all day long, I haven't seen him for a while, so you can't think about it?"

When Xue Jia was mentioned, Gu Huaiyu smiled slightly, and his eyes softened: "Of course I care about him very much."

"Tsk tsk." Xu Chengqi knocked on the side of the bowl again, and looked at him with a smile, "Look at your eyes, listen to your tone, you are so affectionate, you really tortured us."

Gu Huaiyu slowly tasted the wine in his hand: "Whenever you have a woman you like, you will understand what I mean."

Xu Chengqi shook his head, curled his lips, and said what he said just now: "I heard my mother let it out, it is said that after this year's autumn, there will be a Shangqing banquet for the new officials and the young people of the aristocratic family. Talented, it seems that he intends to look after Ning Xi."

In terms of closeness, Xu Chengqi is still the cousin of Princess Ningxi.

Having said that, Gu Huaiyu couldn't help but probed: "You and Princess Ningxi have such a good relationship, if you say that Princess Ningxi sees someone today, will you take a fancy to you?"

Xu Chengqi quickly waved his hand and said: "Don't talk nonsense, Ning Xi is only a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl. I am older than Ning Xi by these years, how could I be right?"

Gu Huaiyu continued to hold his wine glass slowly: "Why not? Princess Ningxi is just the right age, how much older can you be? The empress and Princess Rongshou have always been close, and you are cousins. If you get married, you will be even closer. Darling, maybe the Empress Dowager also has this intention."

Xu Chengqi shook his head with a smile, and just said: "Don't talk nonsense, there is only a brother-sister relationship between myself and Ning Xi, and the empress will not see me right. I'm afraid I want to see this year's What about the new imperial examination candidates?"

When Gu Huaiyu heard this, he pondered for a moment.

Today's sage, does this mean to win over Shilin?