overbearing

Zhou Jirong felt that celebrating the new year was more tiring than fighting. The only thing that pleased him was that there were many elders in the royal family banquet. Accidentally received a lot of red envelopes and meeting gifts.

In the next few days, the emperor sympathized with the loneliness of the concubines and concubines who lived in the palace for a long time, and authorized them to bring relatives and female relatives of their natal families into the palace for a few days to comfort the pain of missing their relatives and to have a reunion.

The next year will be the three-yearly show girl entering the palace, and there are not many women who plan to enter the palace among relatives and female relatives.All of them thought that they could take this opportunity to fall into the eyes of the emperor by chance.Of course, it is not common to simply have admiration for the emperor.In any case, these two make up a lot of cousins ​​and cousins.Anyone who can have this kind of thinking is very confident in their appearance and talent, and they do have the capital of self-confidence.They often walk around in the palace. They are all as delicate and gorgeous as flowers, and they have been carefully dressed. The spring peaches and autumn chrysanthemums are all beautiful.

Dabao's marriage was obviously the first important thing on the emperor's mind, so Zhou Jirong was kept in the palace since the first day of the Lunar New Year and would not let him go back to the palace. The palace had always prepared a yard for him, which was convenient .

Those women were walking around in the palace, while Dabao was commanded by his brother to do this and that, go here and there.It's all trivial and trivial matters, but on the way to and fro, it is inevitable to look down and see the girls from various families.

Zhou Jirong wasn't stupid, he figured out the truth after going back and forth.Not only can he see his brother's dark intentions, but he can also see that the girls are putting all their thoughts on him, and they are afraid of themselves. That's all for my impression in front of the emperor.

Cai Jirong suddenly felt that it was too difficult for his brother and all the girls.But asking him to choose a daughter-in-law like this is not a damn thing.

The Liuhua Palace where the emperor arranged for him to live has a rather large courtyard.He had no choice but to stay out of his courtyard and stay in the palace all day warming up, counting the red envelopes, money and things he got as comfort, and it was not easy to show weapons in this palace.Every day is like a year in prison, and he has never been so bitterly looking forward to the end of this year like this year.

Fortunately, he brought Shi Weichen, Bai Tingyu, Fang Zhen, and Zhuo Wen with him this time, otherwise there would be no one to talk to.

He could clearly see his brother's good intentions and the young ladies' superficially demure and virtuous rivalry in private. He had nothing to do after dinner that day, and he didn't hide it from others, so he chatted about it as a funny thing.

It's not easy for others to intervene in such royal secrets.Seeing that the scene was about to be cold, Shi Weichen had no choice but to come out and say, "There are so many ladies from families, it is impossible for the emperor to take all of them into the palace. The emperor has made such an arrangement, maybe he has already selected candidates for the marquis in private. If Lord Hou doesn't choose himself, in the end it will be the emperor who will marry Lord Hou. Will Lord Hou be wronged? How about choosing someone who is pleasing to the eye?"

Zhou Jirong said: "Pleasant fart! Everyone has as many minds as sliced ​​lotus roots. Who knows how many twists and turns are hidden underneath? Women can't stand wronged and suffer You are disturbed by this kind of paranoia all day long..." He babbled and recounted all his prejudices against women, and finally said to Fang Zhen in an experienced tone: "Wait until you marry in the future Once you have a daughter-in-law, you will know how troublesome women are!"

Fang Zhen was secretly unconvinced, thinking that you have never married a wife, so how do you know.But he was honest and just said in a friendly way; "Even if it's troublesome, Lord Hou, you have to get married."

Zhou Jirong was most annoyed by his inability to open the pot and lift the pot, so he hit him hard on the head, but couldn't help thinking about it.

As long as he is not married to his elder brother, he will not let it go for a day. This steely and unwavering attitude is obvious.After all these days, he finally figured this out, and reluctantly accepted this fact.Anyway, sooner or later you will get married, and if you stretch your head, you will shrink your head. It's better to just marry a daughter-in-law and come back. Anyway, don't you marry anyone.As for just now Shi Weichen said to let him pick someone who is pleasing to the eye, it reminded him that a very important matter has been ignored all the time.

Zhou Jiyao said: "Xiaobai, go and inquire and find out which family of these ladies is the richest and most willing to spend money...Xiaobai. Xiaobai?"

Bai Tingyu seemed to be a little dazed, but Zhuo Wen next to him nudged her slightly with an elbow before she came back to her senses.He has always been serious and down-to-earth in doing things, and never shirks the errands that have been assigned to him, but at this moment he seemed a little hesitant, and smiled wryly for a while and said: "Little Marquis, now he is in the palace, it is really inconvenient to go out and ask."

"I didn't let you go anywhere." Zhou Jirong said. "In the past few days, with the grace of the emperor, the guards who are not on duty are doing some innocuous fun, so he can't see it. Everyone has been rewarded these days. In the front yard, someone was rolling dice and pushing Pai Gow to gamble. Go there to inquire. Forget it, Zhuo Wen, when you are old, you two go..." He only thought that Bai Tingyu was severely taught by his elder brother a few days ago, and he still has lingering fears, so these days he has to behave extraordinarily, and refuses to provoke disputes.

Seeing that Zhuo Wen was listening so much that his eyes were about to light up, he changed the job to someone else.This matter is related to his own future income, so Zhou Jirong was not willing to let it go, he took out a hundred taels of silver notes from his sleeve and gave each of them one. After handing them both, he thought about it and said, "According to According to the old rules, if you lose, it counts as yours, and if you win, you get half points."

Zhuo Wen agreed, and walked away with a smile on his shoulders with Shi Weichen.

Although Zhuo Wen always had a smiley face, he was very measured in his heart, Shi Weichen was even more treacherous in his bones, and Zhou Jirong was not too worried that the two of them would lose money and cause trouble.

After sending the two of them away, Zhou Jirong walked around the house twice, seeing nothing to do, and said to Fang Zhen and Bai Tingyu who were left: "Go and see if there are any deer and roe deer from the past two days. Let them marinate some, let's drink and eat meat."

The two took orders to go, but when they came back, Fang Zhen had to lead some of Wu Sizhe's forbidden troops to help carry the fire and ingredients for the stove.

Zhou Jirong didn't care too much, he just thought that Bai Tingyu went to the front yard, and he and Fang Zhen couldn't finish eating those things, so he simply stayed with the few imperial soldiers who helped, and they were halfway through eating. A guard came in at the door and quietly called Fang Zhen out.

After a while Fang Zhen turned back, but his face was not very good-looking, he hurried to Zhou Jirong's side, leaned into his ear and whispered: "Master, Xiaobai has been arrested, what did he trespass on in the palace? People, to punish him court authority."

Zhou Jirong was taken aback, and then he remembered that Bai Tingyu hadn't come back since he left.He was usually irritable, but when something really happened, he was very calm. He said excuse me to the people around him, and then he got up and followed Fang Zhen out.

After walking a few steps, he asked Fang Zhen in a low voice: "He didn't go to get the meat with you just now, why did he run around in the palace?"

Fang Zhen said in a hurry: "Not long after we left the courtyard, we met a little maid who said that Master Hou had left a cloak in their yard, and wanted to ask Master Hou to fetch it back. Xiaobai went with them, and I did not expect……"

"When did I drop something in some yard! Besides, if I drop something, it won't be delivered? Why is Xiaobai running around at this late hour? It's just that he's been absent-minded these days, and you don't know how to stop him." ?" Zhou Jirong hated that iron could not be made into steel. Seeing that Fang Zhen's face was red, he didn't look like he was going to cry or not, so he had to stop the complaints in his heart: "Don't panic, Xiaobai will definitely not mess around, I will Brother is not an unreasonable person, there must be a misunderstanding. I will go and have a look, nothing will happen."

While speaking, he walked out the door.The person who came to report was a young eunuch in Tsing Yi, standing timidly on the side of the road outside the door, Zhou Jirong didn't care about being polite, so he quietly stuffed a gold leaf in his hand, let him lead the way, and hurriedly asked about things along the way Probably.

This little eunuch was originally the sweeping eunuch in Qiushui Pavilion, and Liu Guiren's younger sister is living in Qiushui Pavilion these two days.Bai Tingyu ran there for some reason, but the girl from the Liu family was taking a bath and changing clothes in the room at that time, and even the emperor was alarmed for a while.

Although Bai Tingyu is only in the courtyard, it will still damage Miss Liu's reputation.Zhou Jiyao wanted to calm things down, so he simply made a mistake and assigned the two of them a marriage, which will be a good story in the future.

Everyone like Liu Gui's surname has the most cowardly and cowardly temperament, and so does her younger sister.But Miss Liu Er refused to nod her head no matter what, even Bai Tingyu refused to comply with the order, she only said that she wanted to belong to her and she didn't want to force it.

The little eunuch had lingering fears, and said; "...Then the emperor suddenly became angry. The little one doesn't look good, thinking that the white guard is someone close to the prince's dimo, he must let the prince know."

Zhou Jirong listened all the way and wondered who was going to trick Xiaobai away.Hearing his elder brother's anger later, he felt baffled, thinking when did his elder brother like Concubine Duan like to propose marriage to others, even if he meant that the marriage was not consummated and he was humiliated by others, he wouldn't be so annoyed and angry, it was really not like his usual Be human.Besides, since when did Xiaobai have his own heart?But even he didn't know.

Thinking of this, he stuffed some more into the little eunuch's hand, and asked, "Why is my brother so angry?"

Xiao Qingyi couldn't answer, thought for a while and said in a daze: "The slave just heard something vaguely outside the hall, the emperor asked him if he didn't know what his duty was. The white guard replied that even if he couldn't get it, he would rather be short than abuse it, and then the emperor I got angry."

Zhou Jirong was also at a loss when he heard this, seeing that the little Tsing Yi couldn't ask any more questions, he didn't ask any more questions right now.

It is not easy to publicize this matter, the people around Qiushui Pavilion were all left behind, Zhou Jirong came over with a sullen face and murderous looks, and several guards did not dare to take over.

As soon as he entered the door, Bai Tingyu was kneeling in the courtyard, with an executioner standing on both sides, his back was bloodstained, and he had already received more than ten sticks.

Zhou Jirong was furious immediately, stepped forward and kicked the executioner next to him to the ground one by one: "I can only discipline my people! Anyone who dares to beat me, don't die!" He was eager to fight again Kick, someone in the hall shouted to stop him, "Rong Rong, come in."

Zhou Jirong had no choice but to give up resentfully, turned around with a sullen face, and then cleared up your expressions, then turned to look at Bai Tingyu, the emperor said that he wanted to hit, those sticks were merciless, Bai Tingyu was covered in cold sweat, and the bruises on his forehead Her hair was already soaked, she was looking up at Zhou Jirong, and smiled silently at him.

Zhou Jirong had never seen him look like this before, and there was an indescribable weirdness in his heart, thinking that he was in a hurry to ask for a board, and he laughed after being beaten like this, Xiaobai was really a little abnormal, when he looked back at the doctor Even the head is cured together.Although he was worried, he didn't dare to turn a deaf ear to his brother's words at this juncture, so he had to leave Fang Zhen outside to look after him, and he went in to see his brother himself.

Zhou Jiyao sat at the head, and before he could open his mouth, he said, "He is your man, so even I can't discipline him?"

His tone was flat, but Zhou Jirong could hear his hidden anger from it.At this time, he realized that this matter was much more troublesome than he thought, and he knew in his heart that this matter was not completely reasonable, so he softened his voice and said in a friendly voice; "No, brother. But Xiaobai followed me It's been many years, even if he made a mistake, for my sake, don't beat him like this."

He seldom bowed his head to anyone in his life to plead for mercy, but at this moment, even if he confessed his mistakes to his elder brother, the words of pleading were very awkward.

Zhou Jiyao couldn't help but slightly twitched his brows, his brows that were originally peaceful were slightly drawn together, and he pursed his lips for a while and didn't speak.

Zhou Jirong had been separated from him for many years, but now he felt almost telepathically that this was a sign of his brother's anger.

He glanced around the hall in a blink of an eye, and set his sights on the two women next to him.The two were sitting next to each other, one was sobbing softly, the other was comforting her softly, there was helplessness in his expression, presumably they were the two sisters of the Liu family.

"Miss Liu." His elder brother ignored him, so he had no choice but to focus on others.Behind his back, his brother couldn't see, and while swishing his eye knife coldly to signal Miss Liu to be more acquainted, he went straight to the tunnel: "Xiaobai just entered the yard, so it's a bit of a bully to say that he bumped into you. You You're a girl, so I don't care about these things with you, after all, Xiaobai is also at fault. But what do you want before you give up? You might as well make a condition."