The Royal Merchant of the Red Chamber

At the beginning of March, Xihai Yanzi, who had been winning all the time and was preparing to win the battle, suddenly heard the news that the navy was defeated, and even the king of Nan'an County was captured by the enemy.Within a few days, rumors of Dayong's defeat spread all over the world, and the other side of the war, Qianxiang Kingdom, even sent envoys to Dayong to ask for peace, and bluntly said that they wanted the sister of the king of Nan'an to make peace.He clearly stated that as long as Dayong and his relative princess got on the sedan chair, they could release people from their side.Of course, during this period, the envoy of Qianxiang Kingdom was warned by the emperor of his country, and put forward many requirements for the dowry of the princess.His greedy and ugly face made people look sideways. Hearing this, Tu Zhen was furious and yelled and cursed for an entire hour at the court meeting.If it weren't for the fact that the life of the king of Nan'an County was in danger and the two countries would not kill the envoy, Tu Zhen would have dragged the envoy of the Qianxiang Kingdom out of the Meridian Gate and beheaded him.

When the king was angry, he laid down millions of corpses.Completely stunned by Tu Zhen's anger, Qian Xiangguo immediately lowered her head that was still high just now, and stood respectfully in the center of the hall, never daring to provoke the king's anger anymore.

"I, Yangyang Dayong, ascended to the kingdom of the heavens. I am famous all over the world. How can I put the important affairs of the court on a mere woman." Tu Zhen waved his hand indifferently, and refuted the envoy of Qianxiang Kingdom neatly. Require.He said brazenly: "Either, return my soldiers from the Great Yong Dynasty as soon as possible, or don't blame me for sending troops across the country to directly attack the capital of your Qianxiang Kingdom."

As he spoke, he did not allow the envoy of Qianxiang Kingdom to answer, so he stood up and said, "Retire!"

Tuzhen Dayi, the court official, sternly rejected Qianxiangguo's request for the Princess Hefan's petition, but outside the court, the Concubine Nan'an, who was worried about her son, could not wait calmly.In desperation, she had no choice but to kiss the post and pay a visit to Rongguo Mansion in a few days.And under the witness of Jia's mother, Mrs. Wang and others, Tanchun, the third girl from the Rongguo Mansion, was recognized as a righteous daughter.

When the news reached Zhongxinhou's mansion, Xue Pan, who was busy preparing for his younger sister's marriage and also had to prepare for his own, raised his eyebrows and asked casually, "Didn't the Holy Majesty say that we don't plan to use women to reconcile? Who are you going to show it to?"

Lian Ying, who was on the sidelines, chuckled lightly, and said, "The Holy Majesty is wise and powerful, so naturally he disdains to put the country's safety on a woman's body. It's just that Princess Nan'an doesn't seem to think so. After the three girls of the state government became adopted daughters, they went into the harem to see the Holy Majesty, and said that they agreed to reconcile, and only hope that Qianxiang Kingdom can release Nan'an County King back as soon as possible."

Xue Pan sneered disdainfully, and said, "That's a good idea. You can settle everything by just identifying an irrelevant girl. She thinks that the important thing about the court is that these women are playing house in the back house?"

Not to mention that Tu Zhen had planned for a long time just to find an excuse to attack Qianxiang Kingdom, even if he didn't have this idea, it was only because of Tu Zhen's dislike for Nan'an County King Yifu, and the unknown situation of Nan'an County King following Prince Zhongshun to stir up trouble With this in mind, Tu Zhen couldn't let her get what she wanted.

Sure enough, Lian Ying smiled calmly and said: "My lord is wise. The Holy Majesty reprimanded Concubine Nan'an on the grounds that women and children are not allowed to participate in politics. Naturally, he also refuted Princess Nan'an's request for a reconciliation. By the way, he also ridiculed Concubine Nan'an The concubine has no good intentions, and just wants to take other people's girls as the top of the vat. She also bluntly said that the princess of Nan'an is a daughter and a sister, and she doesn't want to be filial and loyal, so she allows her mother to do such absurd things. Her temperament is cold, Harsh treatment by nature, no femininity or merit."

As Lianying spoke, he looked at Xue Pan quietly, and said, "This word has spread all over the capital. I am afraid that from now on, the princess of Nan'an will not be able to find a good marriage again."

Xue Pan was taken aback for a moment, and couldn't help asking: "I remember she will be turning 24 this year, why isn't she married yet?"

A flash of contempt flashed in Lian Ying's eyes, and he replied casually: "I'm just waiting for Prince Beijing with all my heart, how can I catch her eyes when I'm waiting around."

Xue Pan sighed softly, unable to explain what it meant: "So, she is also a long-term lover. It's a pity."

Lianying didn't answer the call.Isn't it a pity, this is all done by her own stature, no one else.Furthermore, there are some women who are so obsessed with waiting, that people feel admiration, pity and love after seeing them.But there are some women who are messing around and making people feel bored when they see them, and they want to stay away.

Princess Nan'an has no intention of belonging to the latter.

Otherwise, the king of Beijing County would not keep taking concubines in the mansion and refused to marry the princess of Nan'an, let alone dismiss all the concubines in the mansion after the order of the emperor, and only treat Miss Lin alone.

From beginning to end, Prince Beijing's refusal was very clear. Princess Nan'an himself couldn't understand it, and he was no different from others.

After all, Xue Pan was not familiar with Nan'an County Master, and he didn't want to chat about her family's affairs and drink and eat, but he sighed with some worry: "Tanchun girl's life in Rongguo Mansion was not so happy, and now she is out again. After this incident, I am afraid that the future marriage will be even more twists and turns."

Lian Ying carefully observed Xue Pan's expression, and flattered in a low voice: "It's not difficult at all. As long as the uncle is willing to help, even a huge difficulty is nothing?"

Xue Pan glanced at Lian Ying, shook his head and remained silent.

Any place in this company is good, except for one thing, it may be that he is used to messing around in the officialdom, and he is very slippery.He was willing to put down his posture to flatter horses, but after one or two years of hard work, he had already become acquainted with Xue Pan's young men.He has a flexible mind and works diligently and properly.It's just that there is too much respect in the heart, so it is inevitable to be a little rusty and deliberate when getting along.

Sure enough, there are very few people who are as loyal as Zhaocai and Jinbao, get along casually and have both ability and political integrity!

Xue Pan thought about it, sighed lightly, packed up the things in his hands, turned around and left the study.Walking meandering to the Wutong Garden, and entering the main room, I saw Xue Baochai writing a greeting card at the head of the desk!

Xue Pan stepped forward and raised his eyebrows and asked, "What are you writing?"

"The third day of junior high school is girl Tanchun's birthday, and I can't go out of the mansion at will under the current situation. I thought to wait until the fourth day of junior high school to invite all the girls from Rongguo Mansion, and then invite younger sisters Lin and Shi Jia Please come here, let's get together and have a good time together, which can be considered as a shock to Tanchun girl."

Xue Pan said casually: "Since that's the case, don't forget to send an invitation to Sun Yingchun's younger sister, and keep in touch with her frequently so that that bastard Sun Shaozu doesn't look down on her."

Xue Baochai nodded and said with a smile: "Thanks to my brother's blessing, otherwise I would have forgotten."

As he spoke, he put the small Langhao pen on the inkstone at random, and asked, "Why is brother here all of a sudden?"

"I also just heard about Tanchun, and I just wanted to come and have a chat with you!"

Xue Baochai looked at Xue Pan in surprise, "Didn't my brother always look down on Sister Tanchun's behavior? Why now..."

Xue Pan shook his head, went to sit down opposite Xue Baochai, and explained: "I despise her behavior because she doesn't even care about her own old lady and serious brothers in order to please Mrs. Wang. In my eyes, I am not the only one who is so cold and petty. Many people may not be able to look up to her. But then again, if she is not like this, with Mrs. Wang's behavior, I am afraid she may not be tolerated. It is said that every family has scriptures that are hard to recite, and I am not her, so I can't find fault with her behavior. But anyway, we have grown up together since we were young, so she can be regarded as my sister, right? "

Xue Baochai nodded repeatedly, and said with a smile: "I knew that my brother was the softest. I'm afraid I don't know why I feel uncomfortable after hearing about her!"

Xue Pan waved his hand, shook his head and said with a smile: "If you say it's uncomfortable, it's nothing more than a false alarm, and there is no real damage. You take her over and celebrate her birthday, which is also ours. mind."

Xue Baochai nodded, and asked, "Will Big Brother come that day?"

Xue Pan couldn't help chuckling, shook his head and said with a smile: "You girls are playing and composing poems, and I don't know what to do?"

As he spoke, he stood up and said, "This time Xihai Yanzi was defeated. Not only was Nan'an County King defeated and captured, but even the old general Wei was seriously injured. He finally returned to the capital with a sigh of relief. I have to go and see Look, lest people say that our family is cool."

Xue Baochai got up immediately, sent Xue Pan to the door, and stood there to see that Xue Pan was gone, then turned back and continued to write invitations.

Let's say that Xue Pan rode his horse out of Zhongxinhou's mansion and went all the way to General Wei's mansion.When they arrived at the Wei Mansion, there was a lot of weeping and mourning. Wei Ruolan, the son of General Wei, came to the gate to greet Xue Pan in person, and led Xue Pan into the mansion.While walking, he took Xue Pan's hand and thanked him again and again: "It's thanks to the little duke's help this time, otherwise my father would have died on the battlefield."

Xue Pan chuckled and said, "It's just a casual order. The ones who really want to thank are the soldiers of Xihai Yanzi. I don't dare to accept the credit."

I only heard Wei Ruolan continue to say gratefully: "That is also the love of the young master. If not, Qin Pian will always pay attention to my father's whereabouts on the battlefield, and he will be seriously injured at the critical moment. I fished my father out of the water. I also used the caravan under the Xue family to send my father to Beijing as quickly as possible. Only then did the imperial physician sent by the Holy One treat him in time without any delay."

As she spoke, she squeezed Xue Pan's hand slightly, and said with red eyes: "Young Master's great kindness, Wei Ruolan will never forget it."

Xue Pan chuckled, patted Wei Ruolan's hand, and said with a smile: "We are all brothers, why are you being so polite. What's more, you are now engaged with a girl from the Shi family, and we have become relatives after going around , we are more like a family. Stop talking like this heresy."

Wei Ruolan nodded fiercely, and led Xue Pan into the inner courtyard where Old General Wei was training.

As soon as he entered the room, he was greeted with a bitter smell of traditional Chinese medicine. Old General Wei's wife and Erxi were waiting on the bedside. When they saw Xue Pan, they immediately got up to greet him.And let out the bed, ordered the little girl to pull over the chair and tea, and retreated to the inner room to wait.

Old General Wei's face was pale, his eyes were a little green, and his usually energetic face looked unusually old and haggard at this moment. He half-closed his eyes and looked at Xue Pan in front of him, and said out of breath, "Thank you...Young Lord... Grace for saving lives."

Xue Pan sat sideways on the edge of the bed, and said with a smile, "Old General, you don't need to be courteous to me. Wei Ruolan and I are brothers, and you are my elder."

As he spoke, he looked at the frail and aging General Wei with his eyes, and couldn't stop sighing in his heart.

On that day, Tu Zhen ordered the King of Nan'an County to send troops to Xihai Yanzi, followed by General Wei, who was the deputy general.Xue Pan vaguely remembered that in the original book, this old General Wei died in battle. Thinking of his relationship with Wei Ruolan, and also thinking that General Wei was originally a loyal, honest, and straightforward person, Xue Pan quietly gave it to Qin Qin from Xihai Yanzi. Yue (formerly a member of the Artillery Battalion, do you remember) sent a letter.At this time, Qin Yue was already a partial general, and he was grateful for Xue Pan's kindness back then, so he naturally agreed with him.

Later, he paid attention everywhere and secretly, and he saved the person at a critical moment.

Now this old general Wei is seriously injured and lost too much blood, and his vitality has been severely damaged, which has damaged his fundamentals, but in the end his life is safe.In the moment of life and death, it is no wonder that General Wei is so moved and grateful.

Xue Pan chatted with Old General Wei for a while, and the imperial physician that Tu Zhen specially assigned to Old General Wei came to the door with a medicine box.After the routine daily pulse check, the old doctor stroked his beard and shook his head with a basket of schoolbags, and then, under the urging of Xue Pan, said simply: "The old general has gone to the root this time, and needs supplements. If It would be great to have aged ginseng as medicine to make a tonic. As long as you drink it for three months, I can guarantee that General Wei will not suffer from the root cause of his illness."

Everyone in the Wei Mansion heard the words, and immediately asked: "Since that's the case, please ask the imperial physician to prescribe a prescription."

The old doctor nodded slowly, opened the medicine box he was carrying, wrote a prescription and handed it to everyone in the Weifu.

Everyone in the Wei Mansion took Fang Zi for a look, and immediately looked at each other in embarrassment.

Seeing this, Xue Pan asked, "What's wrong?"

Wei Ruolan gave a wry smile, shook her head and said, "Young Master also knows what's going on in our house. If it's an ordinary medicinal material, we can buy it with money. But in the prescription of the old doctor, there are two sticks of ginseng that are centuries old, not to mention The next rare medicine."

Old General Wei's wife sighed softly, and said with a wry smile: "These things are priceless treasures, which pharmacy can sell these treasures..."

Xue Pan looked back at the old doctor, who turned his face away innocently.He is only responsible for prescribing prescriptions, and it has nothing to do with him whether the patient has the ability to take the medicine.

Xue Pan sighed softly, turned around and comforted him: "Old lady, don't worry. Although these things are expensive, they are still in small quantities, and they are not worth anything. How about this, I will give you the things listed on the prescription later." I will send you [-] payments, and let the old general Wei eat first. I will look at the rest."

When everyone heard the words, they were overjoyed.If these things can embarrass their declining family of officials, it is really nothing to the Xue family who started as an imperial merchant.only……

Old Madam Wei blushed with embarrassment, and said, "What should I do, it's too troublesome."

"Human life is the biggest." Xue Pan waved his hand indifferently, and said with a smile: "As I said before, these things may be troublesome for others, but to me, it's really nothing. If the old lady still Be polite, just treat me as an outsider. This makes me sad, we are relatives!"

Mrs. Wei was taken aback for a moment, unable to understand what Xue Pan meant.

Wei Ruolan at the side immediately told Mrs. Wei what Xue Pan said earlier about Shi Xiangyun and other relatives who were beating around the bush.After hearing this, Mrs. Wei felt even more grateful for Xue Pan.

"People in the world say that it is easy to add flowers to the cake, but it is difficult to send charcoal in the snow. The sincerity of the young master, I will always remember it."

Xue Pan chuckled, and ordered the imperial physician to copy another copy of the prescription and put it in his bosom.Then he dragged the old doctor out of the Wei mansion together on the pretext that old general Wei had just woken up and that he should not be disturbed.

Wei Ruolan sent him a thousand paces away from the gate, but was driven back by Xue Pan impatiently.

"It's not that I won't come, what are you still planning to see off?"

After Wei Ruolan turned back to the Hou's mansion helplessly, Xue Pan pulled the old doctor's lapel, squinted his eyes and asked sinisterly, "I ask you, who asked you to prescribe that prescription?"