[Red Mansions] The Road to Empress Dowager

Xing Xiuyan was helpless, thought suddenly, and asked him: "You are so feudal. If there is a flower picking thief with excellent lightness kung fu, one day he happens to enter the palace and meet me. Do you think I'm not chaste and you want to kill me?"

Tu Yuanyi said angrily: "There is no such situation."

"The world is so big, nothing is impossible."

"I won't allow it."

Xing Xiuyan took a deep breath and said, "Then I'd better run away with the flower picker. Anyway, the tragedy cannot be controlled, and if I stay, I will be 'died of illness'. If I follow the flower picker, I will have a chance to live. I can trick him into letting go. If you don’t pay attention, I will personally kill him to take revenge. Then, I will find another mountain village and live in seclusion.”

Tu Yuanyi said: "Are you so afraid of death?"

Xing Xiuyan said: "It's not a matter of fear of death, it's the final dignity. A woman's fate is always involuntary. When a woman meets a flower picker, she has done nothing wrong, but she has to bear the consequences. In the most miserable and helpless time, relatives and friends The lover did not redeem her, but stabbed her in the heart."

"I won't kill you, I just don't know what will happen." Tu Yuanyi paused: "So I will definitely protect you and won't let this happen."

The carriage stopped suddenly, Li Dequan walked over and said, "Master, we're here."

Xing Xiuyan came back to his senses, and wondered: "Why so fast?" This place is far from the imperial palace.

Tu Yuanyi asked, "Is the venue cleared?"

"Back to the master, there are no outsiders along the way."

Tu Yuanyi hummed lightly before getting out of the car. Xing Xiuyan came out to see the familiar scene.

This is the gate of Xing Mansion.

Xing Xiuyan couldn't help being ecstatic, jumped out of the car, hugged his arm, and said, "How decent!"

All the servants and maids of the Xing family were cleared and went to the north courtyard, only Madam Zhao and Mrs. Chen accompanied Jiao Zheng's Xing Zhong and his wife at the second gate uneasy, because someone from the palace told them not to go to the outer gate. startling.

Finally, seeing two handsome "men" approaching, one tall and one short, Xing Zhong, Xing Li, Nanny, and Master Chen all fell to their knees.

"Slave Xing Zhong, Mrs. Li, and student Chen Yan are meeting with the emperor, long live the emperor!"

Xing Xiuyan hastily moved away.

When they were flat, she rushed over to grab Mrs. Xing and Li, and said, "Mom! I'm finally back!"

"Yan'er, it's really my Yan'er!" Mrs. Xingli hugged her, with tears in her eyes again, "I also said that I will never see you again in this life."

"Mom, don't cry, I'm fine!"

As he spoke, he called Dad again, and Xing Zhong even looked at her several times.

In fact, it was the first time for Xing Zhong to face the emperor. He became a fifth-rank official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but he is usually not required to report to the emperor himself at this level.

It turned out that the daughter also said that the saint intends to accept her as a righteous daughter, but in the end she actually entered the harem.Because of the righteous daughter's oolong, the saints in the minds of Xing Zhong and his wife are all about the same age as themselves. At this time, they can't see Lang Dang in his early twenties, but the deep eyes of saints are not possessed by people of this age.

Xing Zhong bowed to welcome apprentice Yuan Yi into the hall, because he came out in men's clothes and micro clothes, and no one else knew about it, of course it was different from Jia Yuanchun's family visit.Don't be shy like that.

Tu Yuanyi sat down in the first seat, a nanny who was a female official served tea, Xing Xiuyan left the table and went to the back hall with Mrs. Xing Li to talk intimately.

After drinking tea, Tu Yuanyi said: "Xing Zhong, you have been transferred to the House of Internal Affairs for a few months, how are you doing?"

Xing Zhong came from a humble background, after all he has learned official etiquette for so long, Chen Yan reminded him everywhere.

Xing Zhong cupped his hands and said: "The slave just reorganized the accounts of weaving for the past three years. If there are some inaccuracies, I am going to ask the previous person in charge to come and explain it, so I can organize it into a book. The slave has re-tendered a few acquisitions. Selling items, low-level merchants are also actively cooperating, and the goods in Suzhou area have completed a delivery of goods."

Tu Yuanyi nodded slightly: "This way is worthy of my painstaking efforts."

Xing Zhong knelt down and said excitedly: "The sage and emperor's kindness is mighty, and the servant will die forever."

Tu Yuanyi chuckled: "Let you be an official and do your business well, who made you die? Get up."

"Thank you saint." After all, Xing Zhong is an official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs have their own set of rules and habits. The difference from foreign ministers is that they call themselves slaves in front of the saint's master.

Tu Yuanyi looked at Chen Yan again, and said, "Chen Yan, you are living a happy life in Xing's house."

Chen Yan smiled and cupped his hands and said, "It's all thanks to the grace of the saint."

Tu Yuanyi said: "It's a bad temper."

Chen Yan and Li Wei are brothers, both of Juren background, they met when Tu Yuanyi went to Jiangnan for the first time and became staff members, and Tu Yuanyi relied heavily on them.

Li Wei could see the crux of Jiangnan at a glance. Tu Yuanyi, who was only seventeen or eighteen years old, went to Jiangnan for the first time to catch corrupt officials, and two more people helped him.

However, Chen Yan and Tu Yuanyi also had disagreements. Last time, Tu Yuanyi killed Jiangnan, but most of them were dark slaves and country gentry, and he didn't kill too many big families.

What Chen Yan advocated was to produce evidence to attack the aristocratic family, while Tu Yuanyi's approach was to search the dark slaves and cut off their wings.Chen Yan felt that the entangled family was the crux of the matter. After checking several families, Jiangnan was naturally in his hands, and the murders he committed were not so serious.

Now that so many dark slaves have been killed, many of the culprits of the descendants of the noble families are fine. He feels that the emperor still favors the honorable nobles of the noble families.

Because Chen Yan was disfigured by the dandies of the rich and powerful family, he couldn't live in the spring, and he was full of ambitions and couldn't show it. He hated the rich dandies and the Xungui who did evil.

When Tu Yuanyi was executing, he expressed his opposition to him, and then he reused his senior brother Li Wei, who was promoted exceptionally, and is now the governor of Liangjiang, but he is still a commoner.

Originally, Tu Yuanyi was interested in his talent and didn't care about the scars on his face. Although the dynasty stipulated that even a damaged face could not be admitted into the imperial examination, but the emperor Tun of course he could enter the official position.However, during that period of time, he was a bit rebellious and cynical, and he needed to be polished. As a result, he was demoted to be the teacher of the Xing family.

Chen Yan's old wife, Yin Shi, was by his side. He also had a son, who had just given birth to a grandson at that time. Now his son was with Li Wei, studying and taking scientific examinations in Jiangnan, so he didn't dare to violate Tu Yuanyi's arrangement for him. .

For Xing Zhong who has no fame and reputation to be his master, Chen Yan felt ashamed because of his arrogance. When he first met Xing Zhong, he couldn't figure it out at all.Xing Zhong couldn't understand the literati's sarcastic words at all, and obeyed him as if he was the master.

It was only later that he realized that the sage had taken a fancy to their daughter, Gusu's number one embroiderer, and Chen Yan even felt that he had been blind to recognize such a lord, and belittled his subordinates for the sake of women.

So he is perfunctory in his work, but there is another kind of people who don't understand his perfunctory. He believes what Xing Zhong and his wife say, and obeys everything he says. People like Chen Yan who are known as "scholars" are embarrassed to bully such people.But they didn't know that Xing Zhong and his wife got the arrangement of grace, and they also had food and clothing in Suzhou. Knowing that Chen Yan was here to help them, and there was a letter from their daughter, how could they doubt it?It was a little unpleasant, and the first thing they thought was that their poor family didn't know how to make jokes, so they apologized to Chen Yan.So when he bumped into Chen Yan, he sincerely raised a point to Xing Zhong.

Later, seeing Xing Xiuyan was also amazed.Xing Zhong and Xing Li can only count as literacy, but Xing Xiuyan is good at both piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and his life is quite interesting, but he is not rigid and arty. It's excellent.Sure enough, both appearance and appearance are excellent, no wonder the saint is also thinking about it.

Her contact with him was not to treat him like a real person. Although she was a little bit in high spirits with her back to the saint, she always smiled when she saw him.Knowing that he loves gold and stone, and has a good skill in carving seals, he brought Daiyu, the eldest lady of Lin Ruhai's family, to ask him to carve a few chapters.

He didn't want to pay attention, she poured tea for him with a smile, and said, "Uncle Chen, it's rare to have a confidant in life. Our sisters admire your craftsmanship, don't you have the feeling that Boya met Ziqi? What's the point of admiring your craft Fun? Besides, we won’t let you do it for nothing, of course there will be a thank you gift, and if you’re idle, you’ll be idle, and earn some extra money, why not do it?”

So he offered 100 taels, and she said directly, "Uncle Chen, why don't you become a bandit and waste all your talent."

He laughed and said, "I know Miss and Miss Lin are not short of money, so I rob the rich and help the poor."

Xing Xiuyan said: "For 100 taels, I can go outside and ask Master to engrave a hundred?"

He said: "Please."

Xing Xiuyan curled her lips and sighed: "Forget it, we don't know the people outside, let's say 100 taels is 100 taels. It is agreed that there will be after-sales service. If something is not good, it needs to be reworked and re-engraved for free."

Then he asked her what words she wanted to engrave, and they each took out a piece of paper, on which were written the words "Master of Lingyan Valley", "Daughter of the Xing Family of Gusu", "Concubine of Xiaoxiang", and "Daughter of the Lin Family of Gusu" .

When he saw the second daughter's handwriting, he couldn't help sighing "Hello", and as a former resident of Prince Su's residence, he certainly knew her handwriting that looked like the old master but had its own charm.

Chen Yan has the arrogance of a literati, but he feels good when he is respected, and he is not ashamed to be an "illiterate white body" master like Xing Zhong.

In the Xing Mansion in the capital city, it was also the treatment of the second master. Xing Zhong naturally lived in the main hall, and Xing Xiuyan lived in the west courtyard, but the Xing family gave him the east courtyard, which was an independent courtyard.

Chen Yan also had to lament Xing Xiuyan's delicate thoughts. The courtesy of Xing Zhong and his wife is that they don't know how to be the master and wife to instigate him. They are very polite to him but they can't grasp the details.

Xing Xiuyan understands people, the point of moving into the new home is to treat them as masters, not ordinary masters, let alone ordinary cleanups, she feels that the Xing family cannot afford such cleanups.

Chen Yan didn't think it was a sage's advice. If the sage really cared about this so much, he wouldn't have sent him here in the first place.

As a literati with the sentiments of a "national scholar", in Chen Yan's view, Xing Xiuyan is not only outstanding in both talent and appearance, but also a corporal of courtesy and virtuousness like an ancient style, who actually looks like a "mother".

Xing Xiuyan's journey along the way, although she has a relationship with a saint, she still treats them with such courtesy, she is sincere to the daughter of the Lin family, and has the ability to make friends with the Shi family.

People in the world have different personalities and qualities, and each has their own needs. Only a big belly can accommodate people's shortcomings and needs, and people can gather around them.She can tolerate people like him who really looked down on the Xing family, including the Shi family who may not have looked at the Xing family at the same time. She will not worry about small things like an ordinary little girl with a heart. She still treats her friends with sincerity and can be objective Plainly consider other people's selfishness, this is a kind of ability that only the "owner" can make you feel refreshed.

Therefore, she really came from such a humble background, and at such a young age, she actually already has a strong foundation to rely on, which is not something ordinary daughters can do.

Mind is a quality that a person who can do great things has.

Chen Yan had such a high opinion of Xing Xiuyan, but Xing Xiuyan didn't know it.