Self-cultivation of male support

It is true that there are people in the court who are easy to be officials. On the premise that outsiders do not know that Du Shiyou had such an acquaintance with today's today, they think that he has obtained a job in a wealthy county in the south of the Yangtze River by virtue of his nepotism. Opportunity to be a magistrate.

Others thought that he was going to be gilded. After a few years of experience in the local area, he was slowly transferred back to the capital, and then he took root in the court.

In fact, he secretly took the secret decree given by the emperor and went to the local area to investigate a major case of deception, corruption and perverting the law.

After a year of experience, there was a huge commotion in the local area and even in the court, involving hundreds of local and court officials. The emperor had to send people to protect his safety, lest he offend too many people and accidentally Get killed.

Du Shiyou was promoted from the county magistrate to the magistrate, and he passed the sixth level. It took only one year. No one in the court could comment on this matter. his political career.

In the backyard of the magistrate's yamen, Shi Yan, who was dressed in men's attire, sat opposite Du Shiyou. Du Shiyou grinned and said, "Auntie, you look more manly than me. If you don't know, you might think that our old Du family has one more." Where is the son!"

Shi Yan didn't bother to respond, and only knew: "Your business is over here, I'm going to visit other places, and I'll be leaving tomorrow."

Du Shiyou's eyes flashed with reluctance: "No, sister, do you really want to leave? If I encounter any danger again, without you to advise, protect me, comfort me, and whip me, I won't feel at ease."

Since Du Shiyou took office, Shiyan left the capital and traveled around, of course, on the surface, she came out to inspect the small embroidery villages that she had opened all over the world a long time ago.

Let's see if anyone is corrupt and breaks the law, fills their own pockets, uses public wealth for personal gain, and moves her small coffers to their own homes.Not to mention that sometimes I come up to check the accounts when I am interested, and I can really find out a lot of problems.

Others thought that Princess Zhiyan had almost emptied the empress dowager's private treasury, so she was not short of money at all, and didn't care about the small money, so she was confident and bold to fill her pockets. Who knew she was so stingy, and she belonged to you. It's not less, it's not yours, don't even try to take a dime.

Therefore, if someone is unlucky and meets the Eldest Princess in a good mood and wants to check the accounts, even the slightest problem in the accounts can be seen clearly. If the Eldest Princess is sent to the prison, he can only regret it.

While checking accounts and traveling, one day Shiyan was wandering around the county where Du Shiyou worked, pinching her fingers, yo, his brother Du Shi is in trouble!

Still a bloodbath.

This is the only solitary seedling in the old Du's family. If Du Shi is gone, Du's father may follow him even if he can't get up in one breath, so Shi Yan turned on his toes and went to serve as Du Shiyou's guard for a few days. and Master.

At that time, when Du Shiyou found the evidence with great difficulty and passed the news to the imperial court, an insider appeared in the yamen, and the news leaked. The relevant people not only intercepted the news to the imperial court, but also killed Du Shiyou to silence it. It can be said that it is not critical.

But Du Shiyou didn't blindly think about relying on Shiyan, but figured out a way to deal with it by himself. Shiyan was just protecting one or two in secret. Du Shiyou did a good job. He grew up in a rough year. Grow fast.

So Zhi Yan said: "You have the personal guard specially given to you by His Majesty, which is much more useful than me. Besides, you are already a mature magistrate, you must learn to handle things by yourself, don't think about acting like a baby anytime and anywhere, it is not dignified. "

Du Shi answered with dissatisfaction, and looked at Shi Yan with distressed eyes: "Brother, I have heard people say, don't listen to those rumors in the capital, they just can't eat grapes, say grapes are sour, and gossip behind their backs.

If you really have the ability to say something face to face, I still admire it.

A-mei, don't believe what outsiders say, you will always be a child of our Du family, and my younger sister, Du Shiyou. One day, my brother will also support you and let you live a good life. "

When it comes to this matter, it starts with Shi Yan's appearance in the Jinshi parade that day. After everyone was surprised and confused at the beginning, they finally gradually noticed Shi Yan's appearance.

So the more you look at Shiyan's eyes, the more familiar they become. Where is the familiarity?

Oh, isn't this the same as His Majesty today?

To be more precise, isn't it the same as the empress dowager?

The standard neat family looks!

So these people have the same truth as Du's father. They think that Princess Shiyan is the child born by the empress dowager and the man next to her. If they say this, all the previous doubts will be solved. There is a source of love.

But there are also a small number of people with more shrewd minds, who use their age to push forward and reveal the truth of the year.

But no matter what kind of person they are, they keep this matter secret.

Who told the empress dowager and the emperor to control the court so tightly?The position under the buttocks of the family is very stable, unless the old birthday star hangs himself and doesn't want to live, he will use the lives of the whole family to make himself uncomfortable and have fun!

But after all, some rumors spread out. Although Shiyan wouldn't take those rumors to heart at all, but Du Shi couldn't see his sister being wronged by this, so he became ruthless in his heart and worked hard in his job. To earn a future for my sister, I expected to investigate the case for two years or more, but I asked him to handle it in one year.Among them, the hardships and risks are really only understood by the parties themselves.

Regarding this matter, Shi Yan and Du Shiyou talked twice, but each time Du Shiyou used a kind of "Sister, don't comfort me, I know you are very sad, but don't worry, you still have me." "Looking at her with eyes, she didn't know where to start.

So he simply gave up, and it was a good thing for Du Shi to have this salty fish to make progress.

So Shiyan turned to talk about another matter: "Father and mother wrote a letter the day before yesterday, asking me to ask you before leaving, brother, you are [-] years old this year, when will you consider starting a family? Isn't it a shame to always procrastinate like this?" Thing, there is no other way to say, they plan to kill you directly from the capital, and watch you get married."

Du Shi choked for a moment, looked at the elegant gentleman in front of him, and his younger sister who was more handsome and attractive than himself when he walked out, and covered his forehead with his hand very weakly: "Stop talking, stop talking, I get a terrible headache every time I talk about it , I'm all on my job now, how can I care about getting married?"

Shi Yan tapped the fan on the table, not really wanting to remind Du Shiyou, she was wandering outside in recent days, and heard many people talking about the magistrate's marriage in private, saying that the magistrate is more important than marriageable Age, and there is not even a bed warming maid around, either he is manly or not.

And what outsiders say is decent, why is the prefect's guards all full of handsome boys, and those with slight blemishes on their faces will be kicked out by the guards, and more handsome ones will be chosen to make up, this is not the prefect Who would believe the adult's little hobby?

Especially recently, a teacher came to the yamen. He looks so indistinguishable between male and female. If you look at him twice, you can be hooked away. He walked very close to the prefect. The two behaved intimately. The master twisted the prefect's ear, but the prefect didn't say a single harsh word, he just kept making amends and trying to make him happy.

If you say that there is nothing tricky in it, ghosts will not believe it.

Just like this, some people flattered Du Shiyou and sent their daughter to Du Shiyou's side, begging Du Shiyou, an important minister of the emperor, to accept her.

There is also a reason why Shi Yan wants to leave, because the new master who is indistinguishable from male and female in the mouth of the people is Shi Yan herself.Du Shiyou's marriage should not be destroyed because of her existence.

But Du Shiyou obviously resisted.Frowning, hesitant to speak.

Shiyan glanced at Du Shiyou with half-closed eyes, and suddenly asked him a question: "Brother, you said someone told you about the capital, who is that person?"

Du Shi opened his mouth, a name was on his lips, but he still didn't say it.

He could make up nonsense to fool Shiyan, but he didn't want to.Of course, whether his lies can withstand the test of his sister's sharp eyes is also a matter of careful consideration.

The fan in Shiyan's hand tapped lightly on the table and made a clicking sound. She looked at Du Shiyou with sharp eyes, and the sound seemed to hit Du Shiyou's heart, which made him tremble uncontrollably.

This feeling is too familiar. Before the Enke exam, he was forced to improve his exam skills under the death gaze of his own sister. Those skills are really impressive. blurted out without thinking.

Shi Yan didn't care about Du Shi's cowardly appearance, she understood many things with just one look, for example, the other party was a woman who was inconvenient to talk about, and saying it would ruin her reputation.

Besides, she knew this person and had a special status, otherwise Du Shi would not have seemed so embarrassed.I screened all the eligible ones in my heart, and I had a rough idea in my heart.

Continued: "I suddenly remembered something. The year you were selected by Chuanlu, he said that he would surround you with the brightest red peonies, so that you could stand out and become the most eye-catching cub in the crowd." Son.

To be honest, among the people I know, the one who likes peonies the most is probably the fifth princess. "

Shi Yan suddenly approached Du Shiyou: "Brother, to be honest, my parents and I were tool people at that time, but you actually want others in the crowd to notice you, such as the fifth princess.

In order to achieve this purpose, you also apply cooling medicated oil to prevent hay fever in advance. "

Du Shiyou's face instantly turned red like a monkey's butt, his fists clenched and then loosened, and finally he leaned back on the chair back discouraged, covered his eyes with his hands, and told Shiyan weakly: "Our family's identity is not suitable. .”

Du Shiyou said that he believed that Shi Yan was a child of their Du family, but he slowly realized in his heart that there is no love and hate for no reason in this world. Back then, his sister said that she had saved the eldest princess because of her meritorious service.

But there was no injury at all, it was such a coincidence that she rescued him, everything was just like a tailor-made assassination for her princess Feng.

Therefore, regarding Shiyan's identity, Du Shiyou is more inclined to be the child of the queen mother and others.

Under this premise, it is inappropriate for him, as a close minister of the emperor, to marry another royal princess.

Seeing the decadence in Du Shiyou's body, Shiyan got up and patted his shoulder, and walked out of the room silently.

To be honest, if it hadn't been brought up suddenly today, no one in the entire capital would have thought that the fifth princess who had been dragging her back to others, and Mrs. Du, who was far away in the sky and only had errands in his heart, would have a secret love affair.

Speaking of princesses, the princesses of the royal family, under the leadership of the eldest sister Shiyan, almost no one can worry. Compared with those princes who were behaved like quails by the late emperor, the princesses The behavior really makes people wonder if there is something wrong with the way the royal family raised the princess.

The 20-year-old Princess Zhiyan disguised herself as a man all day long, roaming all over the world. From time to time, there were rumors that she appeared in a certain place and attracted the enthusiastic pursuit of a group of local women. After hurting the hearts of the locals, she left in a hurry. Several times He was hunted down by local ladies and ladies.

The 15-year-old fifth princess urged her two older married sisters to do business with her. With the financial support of the eldest princess, she opened a sales home in the capital alone, which adopted hundreds of girls and gained a big The title of a good man.

She stays away from home all day because of the affairs of the nursery school, and she doesn't have the elegance and quietness that a woman should have at all.

Driven by the few princesses, the atmosphere of women in the capital has become more relaxed. The ladies no longer regard it as a virtue to stay at the backyard gate all day long, and have a wide range of interests and hobbies. They play polo and go out together. For outings, participating in the construction of a sales home at the invitation of the fifth princess, and so on, I can finally see those women who used to be covered tightly when going out on the street, for fear of being caught by outsiders. Adds a pop of pop of color.

The men were very upset, but they had no choice but to be out of sight and out of mind. Who made the leader of these women be the eldest princess? No one could touch the woman who grew up on the heart of the queen mother and the emperor. It can't be said, those two don't want anyone to say something bad about that person.

For example, at the winter banquet last year, a noble lady who held her own identity complained to others in private: "The ethos brought about by the eldest princess is too vain, asking women to take the initiative to collect money and touch yellow and white things. A long-term solution is not advisable, and sooner or later everyone will suffer backlash!"

It was passed on to the Queen Mother by someone with a heart, and the Queen Mother asked the noble girl's family to take it back on the spot: "Since you think yellow and white things are vulgar, then live a poor life all your life. It must be very noble."

The queen mother said that she would be poor for the rest of her life, who would dare to confront the queen mother and make her have money?

That family found a marriage for the noble girl overnight, which was originally prepared for the concubine daughter of the side branch. It rains day and night, and the family makes a living by selling calligraphy and paintings.

Marrying in the past must have a bad life.

The noble daughter's mother didn't even dare to feel sorry for her daughter, she still had a big family behind her, if she obstructed the Queen Mother's eyes in order to help her daughter in private, would her son's future be ruined?Do you still want to continue your husband's official career?Can the marriage of the other daughters be settled?

The queen mother may not care about it on the surface, but as long as people reveal that meaning a little, some people will wear small shoes for their family.Their family couldn't stand that scene.

As a result, the noble girl who used to be high in the circle of little sisters disappeared before she could face the eldest princess Shiyan face to face, allowing everyone to experience the influence unique to the eldest princess once again.

Of course, she didn't know about these things, she was still wandering around in different places.

But now it's the queen mother's birthday, Shi Yan still has to go back to Beijing to celebrate her old man's birthday. Knowing that there is a marriage with the fifth princess.

My family knew about my own family affairs, if Du Shi had his own incompetence, the emperor would not look at him high because he married a princess and was his elder sister's brother, at most he would be regarded as a wealthy idler to raise for the rest of his life.

But the emperor believed that he would not be mistaken.

So Shiyan left the palace on the front foot, and a decree came out from the palace on the back foot, giving Du Shiyou a marriage with Lord Du and the fifth princess.

Everyone knew that this matter had something to do with the eldest princess, and my heart was going to die of sourness.

But sour and sour, I got used to it.

Shiyan now has her own princess mansion. Here, she is taken care of very well. As soon as she steps into the house, there will be a soft sedan chair to carry her all the way back to the yard where she lives. Clothes, even shoes, are all taken care of by a dedicated person.

It was all the wishes of the Queen Mother and the Emperor, but she still felt it was unnecessary.

After soaking comfortably in the bath, she lay on the couch and asked Manniang to read the latest words in the capital this year. Manniang sat on the side of the couch with her mouth pouted and whispered: "Miss, next time you leave the capital, take your Manniang with you." Madam, how is it? Manniang really doesn't like the men Madam asked Manniang to find, so Manniang just wants to serve by Miss's side."

For the sake of convenience, Shiyan travels alone when she goes out of Beijing. The person the queen mother sent to follow was thrown off by her as soon as she left the capital. It is really inconvenient to take a little girl with her.

Besides, Manniang has reached the marriageable age, and some men with good conditions propose to marry, Shi Yan must give her a chance, right?

It's the same reason as the queen mother who holds a lot of power and some of the female officials in front of her are officials who are willing to ask for marriage. The first maid next to the eldest princess who is in the sky is more than enough to match a son of a fifth-rank official family in the capital.

Manniang tugged on Shiyan's sleeve and said coquettishly: "Miss, those people just want to marry me and get benefits from you, but they are smart! Manniang won't let them take advantage of us!"

Shiyan patted Manniang's head: "Stupid, then look at so many people in the world, they all take the initiative to join His Majesty and Empress to please them, isn't it just to get a share of the benefits from them? Your Majesty said no ?

Besides, you have to think about your parents, Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang are just your two children.

Your elder brother is by your elder brother's side, without any mistakes, you will walk on that road in this life. If you have a good home, your next generation will be able to go to a higher place in the future, and the elderly in the family can also enjoy the peace of mind. old age. "

Manniang was very depressed, so Shiyan sent her to play with the maid in the yard outside for a while, seeing Manniang who played with others before a cup of tea, Shiyan couldn't help shaking her head, this is a long time, She has a very pure heart, she is still a child.

I was planning to take advantage of the sunshine, the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers, to take a nap, and report to the outside world, the eighth princess asked to see me.

Not to mention Shiyan, I almost forgot that there is such a No. [-] character. I mentioned that the royal princess is not easy to take care of, and the heroine, the eighth princess, is also a credit.

The eighth princess suffered a lot because of her involvement in the matter of the sixth prince two years ago. After dealing with the matter of the sixth prince, the eighth princess was finally released.

The main reason for being released was that the existing evidence showed that she was not deeply involved, and she knew nothing about the conspiracy between the sixth prince and the late emperor. He recruits talent.

The Empress Dowager and the Emperor believed in this reason. After all, according to the urine nature of the late Emperor and the Sixth Prince, even Liu Guiren didn't know anything until the end.

Another reason is that the eighth princess's mother's family, the Cheng family, had low official positions, but the whole family served in the army. At that time, they had already taken refuge in the crown prince, so they were regarded as their own people. When dealing with the eighth princess, they mainly considered the Cheng family's face.

Although the eighth princess was released, except for the title of a princess, there was no substantive treatment.Even so, this one can continue to make trouble, insisting on marrying Chen Shimei, and announcing that the two of them have had a relationship.All of a sudden, the Royal Princess lost all face, and the reputation of the clan daughter was implicated.

How can people say this? Outsiders think that if the relationship between the two of them is not true love, then the eighth princess has a brain hole.

At that time, Chen Shimei was a firm member of the Sixth Prince's party, and everyone knew about the people who jumped up and down outside to win connections for the Sixth Prince. The sixth prince's murder of his father, Chen Shimei's involvement in it must have no good fruit, and the preliminary judgment would also kill him.

At this time, even if she really had a relationship with Chen Shimei, she would like to smother her to death so that no one would know about it. If everyone who wants to spread it knows it, what are you trying to do?

Outsiders can't figure it out. In fact, the plot of the eighth princess is very simple. She wants to use this method to save Chen Shimei. An ordinary civilian who participates in the rebellion and regicide will definitely lose his life. There is no chance to tell the truth. The evidence may not need too much evidence , everything that is seen on the surface is enough.

But if a son-in-law is involved, the weight is different, at least the Tingwei Mansion will listen to Chen Shimei's distinction, and let people carefully verify the authenticity.

Although the eighth princess's idea is very naive, it turns out that she was lucky, because her coquettish manipulation offended countless clan girls, and many people in the clan gave Ting Wei a hint to ask them to check all the eight generations of Chen Shi's ancestors. I don't believe that there is nothing wrong with Chen Shimei. It is best to find out something, implicate the eighth princess, and solve the two together.

However, due to too many hints, too much pressure from Ting Wei, the investigation was too in-depth, and Chen Shimei was thoroughly investigated, which proved that Chen Shimei had a lot of minor problems, and she really did not participate in the rebellion and regicide. It shows that the sixth prince didn't tell Chen Shimei anything. Chen Shimei only thought that the sixth prince wanted to fight for the position of the crown prince before the late emperor died.

And for this aspect, Chen Shimei didn't come up with any substantive tricks, but the thunder and rain were a little bit small. To put it bluntly, he just ate and drank with the public funds of the sixth prince's activities, pretending to be a tiger, and enjoying the feeling of being sought after.

This result was so disappointing that I didn't know what to say for a while.

In short, the story of the eighth princess and Chen Shimei was widely rumored. In the end, the eighth princess married Chen Shimei for no apparent reason. When the princess's mansion is done, it can be regarded as sending this younger sister out of the house, and the perfunctory attitude is very obvious.

From then on, Chen Shimei lived in the capital with the eighth princess and lived a quiet life.

Shi Yan was really curious about the purpose of the other party's visit today.