The eldest son of the concubine who crossed the red mansion

The visitor was in his early 30s, wearing a crow-blue hang silk jacket with dark purple patterns and moiré pattern, with a four-clawed dragon white jade pendant on his waist, with a half-contemptuous half-sarcasm smile on his face, and moccasin boots stepped on a solid wooden plank. Make a rhythmic sound.He sat down and said, "It's really rare to see Brother Thirteen."

Tu Qingchen raised his eyebrows and looked at the person who came, and poured himself a drink: "I am not as busy as my fourteenth brother, so naturally I rarely have time to meet with my fourteenth brother, but I didn't expect my fourteenth brother to come here to drink so leisurely today."

Lin Yuxuan finally understood that the person who came was the son of Concubine Zhen, Prince Zhongshun Tu Qingxi.He lowered his eyes and played with the white jade cup in his hand, not letting the hatred in his eyes burst out.It was this person who instructed the Zhen family to buy a murderer and seriously injured his father, but evil comes with evil, even the nobles of Tianhuang cannot escape this principle.You see, from a strong contender for the throne to this idle prince who has no real power at all.

A few traces of anger flashed in Tu Qingxi's eyes, seeing Lin Yuxuan sitting on the side, he said: "Brother Thirteen, don't you want to introduce who this is? You actually dare to sit at the same table with the Prince. Brother Thirteen is too casual, He casually sits with some little people, and is not afraid of lowering his status. But speaking of Brother Thirteen's mother and concubine, she is also from an ordinary family, so she is probably used to it."

Tu Qingchen's biological mother was the daughter of Qipin county magistrate, if she hadn't entered the palace due to her beautiful appearance during the draft, she would have been destined to marry an ordinary family.It's a pity that even if the Supreme Emperor loves her very much, she is still just a concubine in the end.Tu Qingxi is different, he is the only son of Concubine Zhen, he grew up arrogant and indulgent, except for the queen's son Qingze, he looks down on other princes.

"My minister, Lin Xiuhe, attendant of the Imperial Academy, pays respects to Prince Zhongshun." Lin Yuxuan smiled lightly and got up to give Tu Qingxi a big salute.

"A servant? It's just a petty official, and it's worthy of Brother Thirteen's friendship."

Even if Lin Yuxuan didn't see it with his own eyes, he could still imagine the expression on Tu Qingsi's face.Perhaps in the eyes of Tu Qingxi, a seventh-rank official can't do much, but Lin Yuxuan feels that the people at the bottom, although inconspicuous, will always give you a fatal blow inadvertently.

"Xiuhe is the No. [-] in Qiuwei's new department. It's normal for him to be younger and not have a high official position." Tu Qingchen called Lin Yuxuan up, "Xiuhe is the former doctor of Lantai Temple and Mr. Lin Ruhailin, the inspector of salt in Hangzhou. Education and talent are naturally good. As long as you practice more, you will definitely be in a high position in the future."

"Lin Ruhai?!" Tu Qingxi seemed to have thought of something, and smiled stiffly before saying, "So it's Mr. Lin's son..."

Lin Yuxuan smiled lightly, but did not speak.

Tu Qingqian poured a glass of wine and put it in front of Tu Qingqian, said: "This wine is delicious, fourteenth brother, do you want to try it?"

"Brother still has things to do, so I won't be with Thirteenth Brother." After that, Tu Qingxi didn't even look at the glass of wine in front of him, and even ignored Lin Yuxuan who was still standing aside, "Thirteenth Brother still wants to be with you." Your majesty, please speak more clearly, if you do nothing all day long, you will make others think that the royal family is a poor man."

"Thank you fourteenth brother for reminding me." Tu Qingchen waved his hand casually and said.

"My humble minister respectfully sends off Prince Zhongshun." Lin Yuxuan was full of etiquette, and handed Tu Qingxi away.

Lin Yuxuan turned around when Tu Qingqian's figure came down the stairs, exchanged a glance with Tu Qingqian, raised his glass and drank without saying anything.

Lin Yuxuan always felt that he seemed to have forgotten something, but he couldn't remember what it was.Before he could think about it carefully, Lin Daiyu's general election was about to begin.Lin Yuxuan took a break on purpose, watching Lin Daiyu, who was dressed in a blue plain hang silk dress, get into the carriage before getting on the horse, and riding with Lin Ruhai to the palace gate.

This was only the primary election, so it was also the same day when they entered the palace and left the palace on the same day to go home. Lin Ruhai and Lin Yuxuan each held tea cups and waited for news from Lin Hui who was waiting at the palace gate.When it was almost time for dinner, Lin Hui ran back excitedly and said with a smile, "Master, the girl's carriage is coming back soon. I heard from Xueyan that the girl has passed the primary election!"

The two of them breathed a sigh of relief, and after ordering the food to be served, Lin Daiyu came back with Xueyan and Xuejuan.Lin Ruhai asked a few words, and seeing that she was a bit listless, he asked her to take a bath and change clothes before coming over for dinner.

Xueyan went to serve, but Xuejuan stayed behind to report to Lin Ruhai and Lin Yuxuan: "At four o'clock, the girl was already preparing to enter the palace under the arrangement of the aunt in charge of the palace. Because of the rules in the palace, slaves He and Xueyan couldn't follow, but the servant obeyed the master's order and handed over the purse containing the golden scorpions that had been prepared earlier to the girl. The girl came out of the palace at seven o'clock."

Lin Ruhai nodded and asked, "Did you meet anyone?"

"I just met the person who sent the second girl from the Jia family from the Rongguo Mansion outside the palace gate, and he didn't say a few words." Xue Juan replied truthfully, "It was the girl from the Xue family who came to chat with our girl, but later because of The draft time of each other is different, so I left first."

"Why, the girl from the Xue family is running for the election today?" Lin Yuxuan originally thought that the general election and the minor election were not on the same day, but now it seems that it is not, "My younger sister has never met her before, so why come here to make friends with my younger sister? "

"I heard from the little eunuch at the palace gate that although the emperor intends to re-select the draft, he doesn't want to waste it, so the primary election is held on the same day as the general election and the minor election. It's just that there has never been a re-election in the minor election, so once the minor election is over She will enter the palace." Xuejuan is smart because she is good at inquiring about things, "It is said that Miss Xue is very popular with the aunt in charge, and she has been selected."

Lin Yuxuan nodded.

After Lin Ruhai sent Xue Juan away, he said, "This Xue family is probably going to be the target of public criticism."

Lin Yuxuan admired his father's vicious eyes, took a sip of the cold tea, but smiled without saying a word.

Lin Daiyu passed the primary election, and the next step is the re-election.Since Lin Yuxuan was going to live in the palace for a month, Lin Yuxuan had already ordered everything to be prepared, and told the two nuns to guide Lin Daiyu on the rules in the palace, and he was relieved only after getting a guarantee from Tu Qingchen.

In fact, the results of all the primary elections came out on the second day after the election. Jia Yingchun, the second daughter of the Jia family, also entered the re-election, but Lin Yuxuan felt that he might lose the re-election; Ye Tingfang learned the rules and will be assigned to other palaces in three months.

What Lin Yuxuan didn't know was that Aunt Xue begged Mrs. Wang to let her call Jia Yuanchun from the palace to do something to get Xue Baochai out of the election.It's just that Jia Yuanchun's status is low and he can't speak in front of the queen, so this matter can't be done. Because Mrs. Wang also gave up the idea of ​​hiring Xue Baochai to Jia Baoyu-the female officials in the palace can only leave the palace when they are 25 years old. How can a son wait for more than ten years for a girl?Mrs. Wang never expected that she would cause her daughter a big trouble because of this, let alone see Aunt Xue's complaints towards her right now.

Lin Yuxuan knew from the letter sent to him by Tu Qingze before that in mid-July, that is, when the palace servants who were selected to enter the palace were assigned to each palace, he would take that old servant of Feng Yuan to Dali Temple and ruthlessly Give the Xue family a hard blow.Counting the days, Lin Yuxuan asked someone to pass the news to the old servant and waited in peace.

He is still working as an inconspicuous attendant in the Imperial Academy, but the fact that he is occasionally summoned by the emperor has made many people in the Imperial Academy understand that he must have great fortune in the future. Bachelor, now treats him a little more kindly.Firstly, he is the No. [-] in the second class hand-picked by the emperor, and he is highly valued by the emperor, and he should get along well; secondly, the old scholar can understand that the emperor and the emperor have different temperaments, and he is decisive and merciless, offending the emperor It is tantamount to ruining one's official career, who wants to do this?

Just when Xue Baochai was accused of being a female official next to Jia Yuanchun, and Lin Yuxuan brought Lin Daiyu back from the palace gate, the old servant brought the pleadings and sued Xue's family.The people from Dali Temple quickly notified the Jiumen yamen servants, and in the middle of the night Xue Pan was arrested from the brothel and sent to prison, and they also asked someone to come directly to the door to take Xiangling away.

The matter was aroused in the capital, and Aunt Xue cried and yelled and spent countless money on the people below, and finally got through the people in the yamen and told them to pack up a proper single room for Xue Pan.It's just that Aunt Xue didn't know that those single rooms were lived by prisoners on death row, it was very gloomy.Xue Pan was spoiled and spoiled since he was a child, and he was not used to living in such a place, so he developed a high fever within a few days.The people in the yamen just asked the doctor to go through the motions and prescribe the medicine, so they didn't care about it. If the prisoner couldn't die suddenly before the trial, no one would care about his illness.

Lin Yuxuan also specially asked someone to entertain Xue Pan, not to beat him up, but to go outside his private room and utter ghostly babbles in the middle of the night, scaring Xue Pan so much that he dared not close his eyes. In the morning, my spirit was getting worse and worse, and I lost a lot in a few days.

Only then did Lin Yuxuan tell people to stop with satisfaction.Lin Yuxuan held a grudge against anyone who let this mindless thing dare to tease him.

At this time, Lin Daiyu had already been given a badge, but because she was still young, Tu Qingze was unwilling to let her into the palace, so he chose Li Shen from among many talents and gave him a marriage.The Li family was also grateful for the divine grace, and wrote a letter directly after the marriage was granted, stating that the Li family had been loyal and good for generations, and had been stationed in Hangzhou for the emperor for a long time, but now that they were old, Qing Ze, who was praying to disarm and return to the land, readily agreed.Li Fei, the Patriarch of the Li family, was nearly fifty years old, and it was time to retire.

Before Lin Yuxuan could digest the news that his best friend was going to become his brother-in-law, another imperial decree came from the palace to marry Princess Shuyi of the palace to him.

For a moment, the Lin family became the most popular topic in the capital.Lin Yuxuan looked at Tu Qingchen who came to announce the decree in astonishment, and instantly felt a headache.