When a passerby becomes a princess

The custom in Daliang State is to marry before the age of 20. If you are serving in the military, you can stay a few years later. Although there is no express regulation, it is the same whether it is the royal family or the common people.

Chen Fan is already 21 this year. When he returned to Beijing last year, it was for a blind date and marriage. Who knew that he accompanied the prince to Beimo County to become a master. Originally he didn't want to go back, but now there is a reason why he has to go back.

The next day, Chen Fan asked Lin Qiu for leave, spent another day making some handovers, and then hurried back to Beijing.

Ten days later, he finally arrived in the capital.

It was already dinner time when we returned to the Chen family, and the family usually does not separate families, but because of the large population, if you want to find a compound that can accommodate thousands of people in the capital, you can only live in the palace, so For example, Chen Fan and his family lived in another mansion bestowed by the emperor.

As soon as they arrived at the door, they happened to see Chen Jian coming out of the sedan chair.

"Brother." Chen Fan immediately stepped forward to salute.

"You're back." Seeing the dust and sweat all over his body, Chen Jian knew that he had just come back, so she said, "Go and say hello to your mother first, and then look for me in the study. I have something to tell you."

"Yes." Chen Fan agreed and entered the mansion with him.

Chen Fan first went back to his room to freshen up, changed his clothes, and went to greet his mother.His father has passed away, leaving only his mother, eldest brother Chen Jian, and his elder brother's five wives and concubines in the family.After laughing and listening to the nagging of his mother and sisters-in-law, Chen Fan excused that his elder brother had something to discuss, and then escaped from the siege of the group of women, and hurried to the study.

"Sit down." Chen Jian was writing something at the desk, when she saw Chen Fan coming in, she put down the pen in her hand, let him sit down, and covered what she was writing with the paper next to her.

Chen Fan knew that this was just his habit. Did he deliberately hide something from himself? He lifted his clothes and sat down on the chair, and said straight to the point: "Brother asked me to come back this time, but what happened?"

This branch of the Chen family knew that they had only two brothers. They were the so-called brothers fighting tigers. Apart from taking care of this younger brother, Chen Jian never hid anything from him.He nodded and said, "I already know about Huzi's surprise attack on Beimo County this time. It wasn't done by Liao Hai, but it has something to do with him, and it has something to do with our Chen family."

Chen Fan's eyes flickered, but he didn't interrupt him.

Chen Jian continued: "I sent someone to investigate your aunt. Her origin is unknown. I suspect that she is a spy sent by Huzi, and she is also related to the family."

"What?!" Chen Fan's eyes widened immediately, he stood up and said anxiously, "Are you sure?"

Chen Jian shook her head wearily, and said, "I can't be sure. The village where she was born was killed by the plague 20 years ago, and the people who live now all moved there later. However, I sent spies to investigate in the neighboring villages, and there is indeed a family named Chen there, but the daughter of the Chen family is said to have died of illness a long time ago."

Part of the reason why Chen Fan's grandmother adopted Liao Hai's wife as her adopted daughter was because her surname was also Chen. , It's just a play.

Chen Fan frowned and said, "Liao Hai was transferred to Pingcheng Pass, did you intervene?"

"Yes." Chen Jian sighed, and said, "Not only has he been leveled, but I have even had a little hand in his promotion in the past few years."

Chen Fan thought to himself, no wonder Liao Hai has been promoted so quickly in recent years.

This is not to say that Liao Hai is not brave in battle, but that Lin Lian has too many brave generals.

Su Hongyi is known as the No. [-] heroine in Jianghu, not only because of her high martial arts skills, but more because, when she was pregnant, she actually killed five bearded generals and helped her husband keep the border , who has truly become a great hero, serving the country and the people!This was honored by the Jianghu people as the number one heroine.

It is also because of Su Hongyi that many people in Jianghu regard it as their duty to protect their families and the country. The first stop when they go out of the mountain is in northern Xinjiang. Some sects even choose the training place for their disciples to go down the mountain in the northern border.When it comes to brave generals and fierce generals under Lin Lian's tent, he can grab a lot of them casually.

And Liao Hai was just an ordinary peasant boy. Although he was brave in battle, his ability to become a thousand households has already been capped. In addition to bravery, he also needs the ability of a general and a backer.Chen Fan had seen Liao Hai's soldiers, and they were not the best. He had also seen him lead soldiers, and his abilities could only be said to be average.It is absolutely impossible to become the general guarding the eighteen gates of northern Xinjiang if he did not follow his own path, but it would not work if only Chen Jian took the initiative, after all, there is no one in the Chen family of the Ministry of War.

"The Feng family." Chen Fan said suddenly.It was a group of children from the Feng family who molested Liao Hai's wife at the beginning. Because they were children from the aristocratic family, no one else dared to take care of them. Only the old lady of the Chen family who "just happened" to pass by dared to do so, so they were simply waiting for the Chen family. of.Moreover, although Minister of the Ministry of War is not from the Feng family, he is related to the Feng family.

"Yes, I doubt them too." Chen Jian nodded, and took out a stack of materials from the desk and placed them in front of Chen Fan.

Before Liang Honglie's uprising, the Feng family was the head of the four major families of the Liang Kingdom, controlling more than half of the officials in the court, and even the concubines in the harem were mostly from the Feng family or the subordinate families of the Feng family. There were even rumors that at that time The eldest son of the head of the Feng family, he was also the lover of the last emperor Liang Zhe.

Therefore, at the beginning of Liang Honglie's uprising, the Feng family fully supported Liang Zhe. Unfortunately, the court at that time was too corrupt. The Ministry of Households could not pay the food, the Ministry of War could not produce weapons, and even the army below could not send soldiers. They were all eaten up. It's empty.So from the very beginning, the court was defeated like a mountain, and it was completely powerless to fight back against the rebel army.

The Feng family saw that there was no hope for the imperial court, so they sent people to hook up with the rebel army and send money and food. It was just that the uprising was in the late stage at that time, and what they did was just icing on the cake, so after Liang Honglie ascended the throne, they reluctantly The status of the four major families was maintained, but they fell from the first place to the third place, while the Qin family and the Chen family, who had been helping each other in the beginning, rose all the way to the first and second.

If it was said that Feng's family was not angry, Chen Fan would not believe it anyway, but when he read the information, he was still in a cold sweat from fright.

"Brother, is this true?" When Chen Fan put down the materials, his hands, which were stable even among thousands of troops, trembled slightly.

The case of Concubine Chen, the case of counterfeit currency, and the case of the burning of the coffin of the third prince are all related to the Feng family. Although each doubtful point is just a doubtful point and cannot be used as complete evidence, so many doubtful points are connected together. I want to say that the Feng family is as clean as a mountain Jian Qingquan, that is definitely telling lies with eyes closed.

"Do you still remember the court lady who threw herself into the well?" Chen Jian's fingers almost sank into the wooden armrest.

Concubine Chen is Chen Fan's cousin. Not only is she born beautiful, but her personality is different from the unruly and capricious women of ordinary aristocratic families. Later, Chen Fan also tried to find evidence to avenge her.

For a long time, it was said in the court that Concubine Song sent people to kill Concubine Chen, and there was a diary proof from the court lady, so Chen Fan always thought that this matter had something to do with Concubine Song.The court lady later committed suicide by throwing herself into a well, and wrote a suicide note before she died, saying that she was persecuted by the Song family and had to commit suicide.Chen Fan naturally knew about this.

However, according to the data, the maid's family had escaped from the capital before the death of Concubine Chen, and more data showed that before they left, a nobleman gave a sum of money.This is a big problem. Could it be that the maid's family knew beforehand that Concubine Chen was going to be killed?

Moreover, it was later found out that the so-called nobleman who gave the money was just the son of the steward of a small family, and that small family was attached to the Feng family.

"Have you found the housekeeper's son?" Chen Fan asked.

Chen Jian frowned, and said, "He's already dead. Not long after my cousin died, the housekeeper's son was killed when he was invited to fight for a prostitute."

"It's really cruel." Chen Fan said.

Chen Jian said disapprovingly, "It's just a bastard, so of course he should be clean."

Here I want to explain that among the illegitimate sons, concubine sons, and adopted sons of Daliang Kingdom, the legitimate sons are born in the main wife.Generally, aristocratic families seldom have adopted sons, unless the number of heirs is really thin, they will adopt sons, usually by the side of the main wife, so the status is not low, and there are even cases where adopted sons are promoted to legitimate sons.The concubine is born to a concubine, because most concubines are promoted by maidservants, or prostitutes bought from outside, so the status of a concubine is very low, even worse than that of an adopted son.

In fact, to put it bluntly, no matter whether he is a legitimate son, a concubine or an adopted son, what he looks at is nothing more than the status of the mother, or the mother's origin.

Just like Chen Fan’s mother, the He family, is the daughter of the He family of the four major families. The He family was the only family that did not have any help during the Liang Honglie uprising, but it still stands. The big reason is that the He family is a real family. A scholarly family, a farming and studying family.The He family randomly pulled anyone out, all of them were university students with peaches and plums all over the world, and even the seven or eight-year-old children could speak well. Unless Liang Honglie wanted to offend all the students in the world, he had to protect the He family.

Because Chen Jian and Chen Fan's mother is the daughter of the He family, they have always had a high status in the Chen family. Liang Honglie also chose Chen Jian as the prince's attendant because of this.

The topic is far away, and now I am back in Chen Jian's study.

"Can you find the family of the court lady?" Chen Fan asked.

Chen Jian shook her head and said, "They are all dead too. Not long after leaving the capital, they were killed by bandits on the way."

"Bandits." Chen Fan snorted coldly. This kind of method is too simple. There are no bandits near the capital.He thought for a while and said, "Have you reported these things to the emperor?"

Chen Jian looked at her younger brother with some disdain. This kind of so-called evidence that cannot be proved can only cause trouble for herself.He didn't bother to answer, and said, "There is another thing, Concubine Feng is pregnant."

"Concubine Feng?" Chen Fan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly exclaimed, "But that crazy woman Feng Ruhua?"

As the name suggests, Feng Ruhua is truly beautiful and beautiful, and she is also famous among the four major families.However, she is also famous for her character, irritable, jealous, and extremely cruel. When she was seven years old, she personally killed one of her father's concubines, and several younger brothers and younger sisters in the family were even bullied by her. They were extremely miserable, and some of them were even disabled for life because of her beatings.

These are the secrets of the aristocratic family, so when she was sent to the palace ten years ago, many members of the aristocratic family breathed a sigh of relief, fearing that their parents would be overwhelmed and marry that crazy woman into their family.

After Feng Ruhua entered the palace, she was directly named a concubine. She was also pregnant a few years ago, but in order to compete with a concubine for jealousy, she had a big fight in the imperial garden, and she accidentally lost her child.

Afterwards, she cried in every possible way, and finally sent the concubine to the cold palace, where she died within a few days.Afterwards, Liang Honglie also saw her character clearly, and rarely went to her place again. It was not until after the death of the fourth prince that he came to her again in order to broadcast the seed, and was pregnant by her.

"It's her, she's been pregnant for three months, and, according to the imperial physician's experience, this baby is likely to be a prince as well." Chen Jian said expressionlessly.

"The queen is in danger." After Chen Fan finished speaking, he sneered after thinking for a while, and said, "It's no wonder that Huzi was able to steal the pass this time, and knowing that the prince is in Beimo County, it turned out that he did it for the unborn prince. Paving the way."

Chen Jian didn't speak. Although Empress Chu is a queen, her natal family is just a county magistrate. Any concubine's natal family in the harem is more powerful than her. In addition to making a wife, it is more about her ability, otherwise she would have been killed by those tough concubines in the background.

In fact, if Concubine Chen hadn't been killed, the Chen family would have made some plans for Concubine Chen's son, but now that Yi Ren has gone, all the calculations that hadn't started have disappeared.

"Brother asked me to come back this time, what did you want me to do?" Chen Fan could basically guess.

Sure enough, Chen Jian said without hesitation: "I want you to contact the Lin family, tell Mrs. Lin these things, and protect the prince to the greatest extent. It's best to get the Yingfenglou into your hands."

"Shadow Wind Tower?" Chen Fan was taken aback. Although he had also studied martial arts with a teacher, he had only heard the name of this mysterious organization and didn't know the details at all.

However, Chen Jian knew the details from the Patriarch of the Chen family, so he introduced Chen Jian and said, "I know that Lei Meng, the leader of the martial arts alliance, is Mrs. Lin's brother-in-law, and now Yingling from Yingfeng Tower is also in Lin's house." Madam Lin's hand, but Feng Ling is in Madam Lin's younger sister's hand."

Chen Fan nodded. Su Hongyi's younger sister is Mrs. Jingyun. He also met him when he was in Beimo County. Now he is still refining medicine for the princess Lin Qiu outside the city, but he didn't expect that there was a shadow tower behind them. .

Coming out of Chen Jian's study, Chen Fan saw that it was still early, so he ate something casually and walked towards General Lin's mansion.