The Submissive Emperor

Before An Guogong was ready, the carriage from Pingjiang Houfu arrived.A maid helped Mrs. Pingjiang Marquis get off the carriage. Mrs. Wei rushed forward to greet her, greeted Mrs. Pingjiang Marquis, and welcomed her to the inner courtyard.

Xu Che jumped off the horse, pulled out the silver gun on the horse and held a flower in his hand, obviously not intending to put down the weapon.

Lou Jianyu hurriedly greeted him with a smile.Seeing Nan in the third uncle building, looking at the shiny silver gun, he couldn't help shrinking his neck, and hid behind his second brother.

Seeing Zhang Zhang in the second uncle building, seeing this battle, my heart was a little bit drummed.Those members of Pingjiang Hou's family are all strong in martial arts and have bad tempers. If they disagree with each other, they will fight. It seems that the visitors today are not friendly. Do you want your own son to accompany you?

Xu Che ignored everyone and walked in with a dark face.In his opinion, he wanted to give Lou Jianyu some reason and beat him up to vent his anger, but he was scolded by his sister-in-law and asked him to talk less today and wait for Lou Jing to make up his mind.

The eldest aunt entered the inner courtyard, and the second and third aunts greeted them with their daughter-in-law and unmarried daughter.

The second aunt smiled and said: "My in-laws and sister-in-law haven't come for a long time." She showed her new daughter-in-law to Mrs. Pingjianghou.

The eldest aunt smiled reservedly, and rewarded the second aunt's daughter-in-law with a pair of red gold bracelets.The third aunt hurriedly took her daughter to present to Pingjiang Hou's wife, and got a South Sea pearl hairpin.

Seeing the people surrounding Mrs. Pingjiang Marquis showing courtesy, Wei secretly squeezed the handkerchief in her hand. When her sister-in-law Mrs. Yongningbo came, she had never seen these sisters-in-law so courteous. In the end, she still looked down on her weak family.

Mrs. Pingjiang Hou was also polite, and directly sat on the main seat, "My sister-in-law left early, Zhuoyu got married, our Xu family should send someone here, but the mountains are high and the roads are far away, so I hope Madam will not be surprised. "

If Lou Jing's other aunts come over, the Wei family will not be suppressed, but this eldest aunt is a super-first-rank Marquis of Pingjiang, and her Wei family is just a sequel, even if it is a lady of the state, it is only a first-rank.

"Sister-in-law is really polite. Lingnan is three thousand miles away from Beijing. It's not easy to come here so quickly." Wei said with a smile, suppressing the displeasure in his heart.

"My sister-in-law has passed away, and Zhuoyu is married again. I can't take care of other things," Mrs. Pingjianghou said with deep eyes. After being a mistress for many years, she has a kind of evil spirit that is not angry but powerful. I heard that someone in this mansion swallowed my sister-in-law's dowry."

"Hiss—" Second Aunt and Third Aunt gasped and looked at each other.Regardless of whether the family is divided or not, if the aunt passes away, all the dowry must go to the aunt's son. Who would dare to take the dowry from Mrs. Yuan?He couldn't help but look at the gloomy Wei family. Now that the Duke's wife is presiding over the family affairs of the whole family, who else could there be besides her?

The smile on Wei's face could no longer be maintained, and he said coldly: "Sister-in-law's words are really strange. Sister Xu's dowry is in the hands of the eldest son, and no one can covet anything."

Before they could say anything, the mother-in-law's report came from outside the door, "The crown princess has returned to the mansion, and she brought a reward from the empress."

Everyone stood up immediately, the empress's reward had to be received in the front hall.The unmarried girl and the young daughter-in-law stayed in the inner courtyard, while the rest tidied up their clothes and went to the front hall.

"The empress has said that Mrs. Pingjiang Marquis rarely comes to the capital, but the empress summoned him because of the inconvenience of the man. She rewards a pair of ruby ​​bracelets, two pairs of emerald bracelets, a plate of pearls, and ten pieces of brocade..." Lou Jing followed Fengyi Palace The chief eunuch read aloud the list of rewards.

Everyone knelt down to thank the aunt, Wei was so angry that his ribs ached, Lou Jing specially asked the Queen's Empress for a reward, wasn't it just to promote his aunt's status?

In fact, when foreign wives of the first rank go to Beijing, they will all go to the palace to meet the queen.It's just that after Sejong married a man, married women can't easily see the queen.It's fine if the queen doesn't know, if she hears about it, she just needs to give a reward to show that she knows.The proportion of rewards given to the aunt is relatively generous, and it is only because the Xu family is also regarded as the royal in-laws.

"Aunt, Queen Father asked me to say hello." After rewarding the eunuch, Lou Jing smiled and helped Mrs. Pingjianghou.

"After you return to the palace, you must kowtow to the empress for me." The eldest aunt was also very happy, patted Lou Jing's hand and smiled.

"What are you doing back?" Lou Jianyu said unhappily, without the crown prince's company, the crown princess would not be able to leave the palace easily, and Lou Jing must have no good intentions in inviting his third uncle here today.

Lou Jing raised her head, the smile on her face was still as warm as the breeze and the moon, and she said softly, "I'm here to ask for my mother's dowry."

Xiao Chengjun looked at the Taoist priest standing in the center of the hall, and suddenly felt it was ridiculous. It was really a ridiculous thing for a country to be decided by a Taoist priest with unknown background.

The name of this Taoist priest is Tao Miao, and his Taoist name is Piaomiao Zhenzheng. He is the one who can deduce the world's major events without watching the stars at night, as Qin Tianjian Jianzheng said just now.

Tao Miao was wearing a gray Taoist robe, with a sparse and gray beard, holding a long dust whisk, his chin was slightly raised, his eyes were blurred, and he looked compassionate, "Mount Tai is the place where the heaven and the emperor meet. The mountains are moving and the court is unstable, as for what it refers to, it needs to be calculated by an old man."

"Then let's count it quickly." An official said, but he didn't dare to stand up.

Xiao Chengjun slowly looked around at the crowd present, some showed disdain, some lowered their eyes and said nothing, and some booed... The faces of the scholars suddenly twisted into ghostly postures, as if the hall of red pillars and dragons On the top, it was not the high-ranking officials above the third rank of the imperial court, but a group of ghosts and snakes, listening to the copper bell of the magic stick, jumping stiffly.

"Father, my son has a book to play." Xiao Chengjun came out and interrupted the so-called "Piao Miao Daoist" with a loud voice.

"When your mother passed away, all the dowries were given to you. What do you want now?" Anguo Gonglou saw Yu walking up quickly, and stared at Lou Jing.

"I don't know about this either. Father should ask Madam." Lou Jing still smiled gently, but Wei Shi was trembling with anger. Coveting Madam Yuan as a dowry is a serious crime.

"Princess concubine, don't be bloody, I've never seen any dowry!" Wei thought about the family's accounts carefully, and made sure there was no problem. A few days ago, she asked Cheng Xiuru for the accounts of Zhuquetang, and the eldest son married Oh, those should have been taken over by the public... Wait, she asked for Zhuquetang's accounts many times but didn't ask for them. Why did Cheng Xiuru give them so quickly this time?

Wei Shi couldn't help but looked up at Lou Jing, and was looking at those beautiful eyes, with a smile at the end of the eyes, without the slightest warmth in them, which made her shiver intermittently.

"Since that's the case, why not explain the matter clearly today, if there is any misunderstanding, wouldn't it hurt the harmony of the whole family?" Mrs. Pingjiang Hou said to everyone with a smile.

"Yes, yes, it's better to find out about this matter. It would be bad if Madam is accused of coveting Madam Yuan's dowry." Also nodded.

Lou Jianyu glared fiercely at Lou Jing, this rebellious son obviously came to find fault today, "Everyone go to the front hall." He wants to see what tricks this little bastard is up to.

Everyone went to the main hall of Duke Anguo's mansion, and a silk screen with four fans was erected in the middle, and men and women sat separately.

"Tell me, who is greedy for your mother's dowry?" Lou Jianyu took a sip of tea, suppressed his anger, and said coldly, "If you can't produce evidence, even if you are the princess, I will I will sue you for disrespecting my aunt in front of the emperor!"

There was a complete silence in the court hall, not even the ethereal real person, and everyone's eyes were on the crown prince who was kneeling at the steps of his majesty.

Xiao Chengjun, who was dressed in the apricot-yellow prince's court uniform, knelt upright under the red-carpeted majesty's steps.

He is the crown prince, he is qualified to stand on the rank of the majesty when he goes to court, and after accepting the congratulations from all the officials, he will kneel down to the emperor.But he has never stood in that position. At first, the emperor praised him for his modesty, then he felt that he was cowardly, and now he thinks that he intentionally framed his father for injustice.

It's ridiculous to say it, but it's all written in the memorials of the imperial study. The so-called three people become a tiger. If there are too many people talking about it, Emperor Chunde can't help but not believe it, not to mention that Emperor Chunde has always been soft-hearted.

"What did you say just now?" Emperor Chunde paused word by word while holding the memorial presented by the crown prince.

"My son is ashamed of my father, but I ask my father to abolish my son's position as the crown prince and choose a worthy one." Xiao Chengjun replied calmly and clearly. He said it in the imperial study yesterday, and Emperor Chunde might think him In a fit of anger, if I say it in front of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty today, I will never take it back.

The entire court was in an uproar, and even Chen Shichang, the right minister, was very surprised. Then Tao Miao didn't say anything, why did the prince accept his fate?

"My son has studied the way of the emperor since he was a child, but his aptitude is dull, and he will never be able to match the emperor's in case." Xiao Chengjun's voice was calm and powerful, like the sound of gold and stone colliding, and every word struck people's hearts. I don't know why I came to such a field. As the prince of a country, I can't understand what my ministers do, I can't understand the direction of the court, I can't understand the burden of my father, I am not the talent of the prince, my son is ashamed of the ancestors of the Xiao family , but please, father, abolish the position of the crown prince!"

After the prince finished speaking, he leaned over to face the emperor on the dragon chair, and kowtowed three times slowly and firmly.

At this time, in Anguo Gongfu, Lou Jianyu looked at the account book in his hand, just like all civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty, he felt that the thunder was on the top.

The shop in Fuguilou in the capital city, 580 mu of fertile land in Fanxian County, glazed emerald horses, unicorn and jade necklaces... one piece after another, it is the dowry of his original wife Xu, and this account book is what the stepmother called "Suzaku" Church's public accounts"!