Old things in the Red Chamber

The Ninth Prince felt that the key to the matter was the sweet smell.Since he took this errand, he is not fighting alone.The emperor also allocated an official who was good at solving cases to him, plus a few hidden guards who could use it, and things still made some progress.

Although this matter was done in secret, there is no airtight wall in the world, and any hands-on action will definitely leave traces.Not long after the Ninth Prince accepted this matter, the fairy on the screen never came down again.

But many people knew that there was something wrong with the screen, and everyone was eagerly waiting for the performance of the Ninth Prince. Only one person felt very angry, and that was the Seventh Prince.

The Seventh Prince thought to himself, I am a brother and he is a brother, if there is an errand, it should be entrusted to me.This is clearly the father's eccentricity, what can Lao Jiu do?Judging by his performance, he is nothing more than a dude.Why is the father so interested in him?

Thinking of this trip to the south of the Yangtze River, Lao Jiu has no respect for the adults in the court, he doesn't care about state affairs, and the most important thing is that he has no sense of right and wrong.

"It's all thanks to the concubine's kindness that he can have today." The eunuch next to the Seventh Prince said to him.

The Seventh Prince also felt that this was right, he grew up in the palace.He has great trust in the eunuchs and maids around him, and his own vision is not long-term, so what his masters taught him is the behavior of a gentleman.He himself couldn't figure out, apart from the fact that his father was partial to his younger brother because of the noble concubine, what else could he surpass himself.

At this time, the emperor was not only staring at the Ninth Prince but also at the Seventh Prince.It is said that Guo Lai Changjun, in the future, the country must choose someone from these big hands to take over.Now the eldest son, the Seventh Prince, still doesn't know where he is inferior to the other party.

The emperor sighed, looked at the backs of his two sons riding horses, and once again felt that his premonition a few years ago was correct, that the seventh prince could not become a monarch.He didn't understand until now that the strength his mother gave him and the power his grandfather gave him are completely different from the power he built with his own hands.

"After reading so many history books, I never realized this point. Even if I didn't realize this point from the history books, a man should know that it is better to ask for others than to ask for oneself."

The emperor sighed again. At this time, as an emperor, he should not care about the turmoil between his two sons.But as a father, if he doesn't find a way out for the Seventh Prince at this time, after a few years, he will not be his younger brother's opponent.It must be very difficult to get out at that time.

The emperor is at war with heaven and man in his heart at this moment, but no one outside can understand his mood at this moment.

The frame quickly entered Miyagi, and it was also the twelfth lunar month at this time, the matter of worshiping ancestors was mentioned on the agenda, and the emperor just sat down in the palace.Someone proposed to ask the Seventh Prince to pay homage to the imperial mausoleum on his behalf.

"It's so urgent, is it because I'm worried that my sons are fighting too slowly?" the emperor murmured to himself in the empty hall.

When the emperor returned to the capital, all the people felt their skin was tensed for a moment.

The reason was that the emperor issued eighteen imperial decrees in a row on the second day after returning to the capital, and sent a group of Jiangnan officials to jail, followed by ransacking their families and exterminating their families.

Mrs. Tong hasn't been able to sleep well for the past few days, and her son is also an official in the south of the Yangtze River, so she is afraid that the fire in the capital will burn him.

"You should also inquire in the past few days to see what the officials have committed, and whether they have anything to do with Jinling?"

Jia Gu put on the official uniform by himself, "Don't ask about such things. The taboo in the officialdom is that you should not ask about things you should know. If you hear too much, you don't even know how you finished it in the end. "

"Don't I feel sorry for my son? Let's just think of him as an only seedling. If you don't think about him, who can you think about? I'll let you ask. It's fine if you don't ask. There are so many words. Since Mr. Jia is not willing Go ask, when I gossip with someone myself, see if I can hear something."

My own child is an official in the south of the Yangtze River, so I must not wade into this muddy water at this time.Jia Gu stopped Mrs. Tong, "It's fine if you go out and gossip with others, but if someone mentions this matter, you have to immediately turn the matter away. This time it's not a trivial matter. Let me tell you, the emperor's anger After holding back for so many years, this is just the beginning. As long as our family is honest, don’t get burned in the end. Your son just went to Jiangnan for less than half a year. The anger at this moment is accumulated from more than ten years ago Yes, it still can't burn your son."

Mrs. Tong was relieved.

When Jia Gu went out, he said to him, "Don't wait for me to have dinner together tonight. I'm going to see my old brother today. I heard he was lying down again last night."

Mrs. Tong can always show her virtuousness at critical moments, "What's wrong this time? Is the root cause of the disease last time not healed? Last month, my natal brother brought a good ginseng, and I will send someone to deliver it to them later. Go to the house. When you go, don’t drink all the time. He is sick and can’t drink. If you drink in front of him, he won’t be interested in recuperating.”

So when Jia Gu came to Jia She in the evening, the two brothers Jia Lian came to him specially and thanked him solemnly. At this time, Jia Gu knew that the ginseng sent by Mrs. Tong was the legendary Purple Jade Dragon King. Shen, don't say that it's hard to find money, even a glance depends on fate.

"If you give it to me, it will be ruined." The old dandy lay on the bed, "If there was such a good ginseng half a year ago, the empress would not have had a dystocia."

Talking too much will cause tears, and the people in the room changed the subject at the same time.

Jia Gu asked the two brothers standing over there, "Isn't the medicine prescribed by the Taoist priest last time very good? After taking it, your father can get out of bed and walk around. Seeing that it is getting better every day, why did you lie down again?" gone?"

"Uncle doesn't know, this time is different from the last time. Last time, he was really sick, and the illness was dangerous. This time, he was sick with anger. It's completely because of depression in his heart."

Jia Gu turned his head and looked at the old dandy lying on the bed, "Okay, why are you mad at me? Who is mad at you? It can't be Jia's second son, right?"

Jia Amnesty waved his hand and let the two sons go down, "Jia's second son is a fool, but he has some grounds for being a man. There is too much filth between me and him, so it won't make me angry. It's the South People from my hometown almost pissed me off."

Jia Gu has already received a letter from his family, and he knows that those people in the south are trying to please the emperor.I got a woman who looked almost the same as the imperial concubine, and prepared to present it to the emperor. Although it was not presented later, this matter was disgusting enough for people in the north.

"Let me tell you, can you bear this tone? It would be fine if that woman was a girl from my family, but she is not even from our family. Child, bah, she is not a child of our family. The most annoying thing is that they even sent people to inquire about the affairs of the imperial concubine before she was alive, and came to ask for the slave who served the imperial concubine back then. I was so angry that I scolded them for a while The more I think about it, the more angry I become, and it became like this."

"Then you can rest assured that that woman cannot enter the palace."

The old dandy is not well-informed about the outside news, and he was completely relieved after hearing it, "This time I only heard that a beauty entered the palace, and I don't know if it is that bitch. Originally, I didn't want to ask you. It was because the more I thought about it, the worse I got, and I got mad at myself."

Jia Gu complained to him, "It can be seen that you have a relationship with me. In the past, you would come to my place every three days to have a few sips of wine with me. Now you don't come once every ten days and a half a month. Send someone to invite me." You, you also said that you are teasing your grandson at home."

"You just sent people to invite me two or three times. Didn't I run to you the same way as before a month or two ago? It's different now. I heard that there are always some idlers squatting near our house. I Ask the housekeeper to follow them, guess what? The people who are staring at me are all from the Seventh Prince’s grandfather’s family. It can be seen that I am also a character now, do you think I can still come to your place every day at this time?”

"When things are abnormal, people will stare at you. You said that you stayed at our house for half a year, and suddenly you and I stopped seeing each other. What would people think? Don't worry, we feel that we are a dish, but People in the royal family may not see it in their eyes, just do things with a clear heart. You stay at home every day, and you don’t know if it’s something outside? Not only did the emperor not bring back a woman like a noble concubine from Jiangnan this time, but also You didn’t even bring the screen that was passed on so miraculously and the beauty you received in Jinling to the palace. How did you get there and how did you come back, do you think you don’t know?”

Jia Amnesty lifted the quilt and sat up, "Really? If this is the case, it will save the noble concubine a little face. I only heard that the beauty who came to Jinling will dominate our noble concubine in everything."

"Hey, let me tell you something, you may not like to hear it, old brother. The imperial concubine is no longer here, and it is useless to say too much. The empress has already left, and no one else can live in the palace because she lived. Said If you say something disrespectful, even if the empress is gone one day, can't the new empress live in her bedroom? And you should look forward, the empress is no longer there, and you still have two sons in front of you. They think about it, don't they?"

"The few words you persuaded me, someone has often said to me these two days, guess who it is?"

"Jia Zhen?"

"It's him. He came to be a lobbyist for others. He wanted me to write a handwritten letter and introduce a few people for him to the Ninth Prince. After this is done, do you know how many benefits I will have?"

"Gold or silver? The left and right will give you some benefits. I guess that's what you need the most right now."

"I guessed wrong. After the matter is completed, both of their brothers will be able to become officials, but what they get is still lacking."

"This is really a big deal. I wanted to get Cong'er into the imperial court, but I was worried that he hadn't taken the big exam. I was afraid that it would spoil his future, so I didn't do it. According to you, the other party is big. I have a background."

"It's just a trivial matter. They even promised me that as long as the Ninth Prince can make them his confidantes, I will be able to regain the title immediately."

Jia Gu had already guessed who it was, "The conditions are too good, isn't my brother not tempted?"