Jiang Qing

It has been brewing since years ago, and the match between Jing and Princess Chang to recruit relatives is finally about to begin.

As early as the new year, children from various families, generals in the army, and even some reputable quacks came to Pingdu to join in the excitement of the royal contest to recruit relatives.

Jing and the eldest princess are already 23, which is already the age for a woman in an ordinary family.But she is the younger sister of King Jing who rebelled against King Jing. When King Jing rebelled and caused a sensation in the government and the public, she put her marriage aside.After the new emperor ascended the throne, even though he made her the eldest princess regardless of previous suspicions, but with such a background, the children of the aristocratic family only dared to watch from afar.

Until this year's New Year's Eve banquet, His Majesty got drunk and said that he would give Princess Jing and the eldest princess a martial arts competition to recruit relatives and choose a good son-in-law.Zhou Mao, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, speculated again and again whether the drunken words were true or not, but it was really difficult to tell, so he had no choice but to enter the palace with a black gauze hat to ask the holy meaning.Unexpectedly, before I had time to prepare the horse, news came from the palace that because of the matter of the eldest princess, the right minister and His Majesty had a big quarrel in the imperial study. Marriage matters.

When the current sage was not on the throne, Bai Bingchen was his companion.The two people walking along the way can be regarded as a good story of a monarch and his ministers.Bai Bingchen has a gentle temperament, even when he disagreed with other ministers in the government, he never spoke harshly, but this time he actually got into an argument with His Majesty, which makes people feel that he has a deep affection for the Eldest Princess.

Bai Bingchen's elder sister, Bai Zijin, is the current empress. If His Majesty betroths Jing and the eldest princess to him, it can be regarded as a close relationship. Watching the bustling officials are just appreciating this talent and beauty, which cannot be suppressed by the emperor's authority. A complete story, but those who pretended to have something in their hearts found something else.

There was a sound from the main building directly opposite the ring. Surrounded by a group of maids, Jing and Princess Chang sat on the main seats.Everyone in the attic got up and bowed there one after another. Following the presiding of the ceremony officer, the martial arts competition officially began.

Sitting next to the main building, the young ladies of several aristocratic families secretly looked at the eldest princess, holding the veil and covering their mouths and whispering.

"I heard that Bai Xiang dared to quarrel with His Majesty because of the one above, but poor Bai Xiang is a frail scholar who can't compete on stage, so he can embrace the beauty."

"What is he pitiful for? I think the poor one is the daughter of the Cao family's concubine. She is married to Prime Minister Bai, but she has not married yet, but her husband has his own heart. What a pity."

"However, Bai Xiang is young and gentle. Even if he has his own heart, he won't be sad when he gets married."

Listening to the gusts of wind blowing from the building next door, Jing and Princess Chang looked hesitant.

The girl sitting next to her looked around, as if she was looking for someone, she looked around, a little lost interest: "Sister Huang, is the national teacher not here?"

Jing and Princess Chang glanced at her: "What do you want him for? I remember you almost burned his Taoist temple last time."

Zhao Jingning was a little embarrassed: "The incident last time was purely accidental. I was just curious about how the vegetarian dishes in the Taoist temple are so delicious, so I sneaked into the Taoist kitchen and took a look, and it turned out..."

"You!" Zhao Jinghe felt helpless, and nodded his younger sister's nose: "Jingning, sister Huang knows what you are thinking. Even though His Majesty and you are born of compatriots, he treats you very kindly. I will not agree with you to be with that person."

"Sister Huang! I didn't think about it that way. I just heard that the national teacher was once a well-known hero in the Jianghu. I just wanted to pester him to teach me a little swordsmanship. You must not tell the emperor." Zhao Jingning shook her imperial sister's sleeves coquettishly.

Zhao Jingning is the younger sister of the current Holy Majesty, and Zhao Zhen was just an unfavored prince before entering the East Palace, and his temper was a bit timid.Life in the palace was not easy. The birth mother of the siblings, Concubine Ling, was not favored and her status was not high.When Jing Ning was five years old, she was playing by the lake with several other princesses. Somehow, she fell into the lake and developed a high fever. She was almost unable to be rescued.

At that time, Zhao Zhen was already 19 years old, and he was still unable to achieve military success. Only at the sacrificial ceremony, the courtiers could think that there was such a prince. He was also cowardly and uncontested. The first emperor was even more displeased with Young Master's appearance.

Until Princess Jingning fell into the water, the person who always swallowed his anger had a rare tantrum, and all the maids and nurses who followed the princess that day were all killed by him.Although his behavior was uncharacteristic, the palace only thought that he was killing a few servants in order to vent his anger on his younger sister.

But when Concubine Ling died of illness, on the way Zhao Zhen regained his wings and fought for power, the princesses who played by the lake with Jing Ning that day in the palace unexpectedly died one after another. A jackal who must be punished.

Zhao Zhen won the crown prince, put down King Jing's rebellion, and after ascending to the throne, he doted on his younger sister so much that Zhao Jingning was already dead, and he still looked ignorant of worldly affairs and had no manners on weekdays. Restrained, Zhao Zhen seems to have poured all the love he didn't get back then on his younger sister, and everything depends on her.

Under the care of her elder brother, Zhao Jingning became a real princess.Even though she has always disregarded etiquette in recent years and pestered Daoist Qingxuan of Luofengzhai, Zhao Zhen just turned a blind eye.

"Being in the royal family, many things are out of your control. But you are not bad, His Majesty loves you so much, and he will be cautious and prudent about your marriage in the future."

Zhao Jinghe's temperament was already a bit colder. After experiencing the accident, he treated people and things even more indifferently, but she really doted on this little girl who loves to laugh and play. In her eyes, Jing Ning was like a Holding the white snow that has not been stained with any filth, the heart of a child is so clean and pure.

Zhao Jingning rested his chin, looked at the competition in the arena below, and muttered, as if he was talking to himself: "Is the imperial sister's son-in-law selected from among the people below? If the one chosen in the end is a quack, Does Huang Jie want to go back to the rivers and lakes with him? What is the rivers and lakes like? Does everyone carry a sword and ride a horse, from the desert to the south of the Yangtze River, and go wherever they want. I’ve never been out of Pingdu! I really want to go out and have a look.”

Turning his head, Zhao Jinghe looked at his younger sister with tenderness. This child looked at the world from those scriptures, and the words he said were funny and cute.

She restrained her expression, looked at the contestants in the audience, and knew in her heart that she was just a pawn in the hands of His Majesty, a pawn to win over generals.His Majesty was just using her marriage to secretly tell those civil servants who had been in charge of the government for a long time that after several generations of the Li Kingdom who emphasized civility over military affairs, he would start to take back military power and use military generals more.

The Li State seemed to be powerful, but in fact, with the support of several generations of military defense, it finally collapsed and disintegrated after the first emperor executed several generals.Today's Holy Majesty can be regarded as a great talent. At least, he used this method to make up for the country's military shortage, instead of allowing himself to marry and marry far away to maintain a fragile peace for a few years.

There has always been civil and military competition, and above this court, Bai Bingchen is the head of civil officials.Zhao Jinghe thought about it, and showed a clear smile. It's no wonder that hypocrite of the Bai family wanted to quarrel with His Majesty about whether he should stay or not.

"Sister Huang, Miss Huang, look at that young man in blue with a veiled cap, is he the young man of the Bai family that those young ladies mentioned just now?"

Zhao Jinghe looked over where she pointed, and there was a young man wearing a hood sitting in a small pavilion on the side building. He was slightly sideways, as if he was talking to the boy next to him.His figure was covered by the curtain, making it difficult to identify him. It was the young man who was leaning on him and talking. She recognized him as Zhou Yue, the junior brother who Bai Bingchen had always brought with him, and then confirmed his identity.

"It's really rare." Zhao Jinghe sneered, and ordered the maid beside him: "Go and deliver a cup of 'Chunxi Splash' to that young master. He is sitting in the wrong place. I'm afraid there is no such good tea. I've wronged him."

The maid went as she said.

Zhao Jinghe didn't like Bai Bingchen.

She and King Jing once raised under Mei Guifei's knees for a period of time, and in recognition of her affection, after the Mei family was convicted, she dealt with secretly, but only kept Mei Shao.The Bai family took advantage of the Mei family to climb to this position, which really made her feel sick.At that time, she knew that a person with such scheming methods was definitely not a thing in the pool.

When King Jing rebelled, she told her elder brother that if she met Bai Bingchen, there was no need to recruit him, but to kill him first to avoid future troubles.

After that, in order to buy time for Zhao Zhen, Bai Bingchen entered King Jing's camp alone to lobby. King Jing gave him a glass of poisoned wine on the spot. , and also brought Ji Pu, who is the current holy hand and sad valley, Bai Bingchen came back with a life, but the toxin invaded, and his legs were also useless because of it.

Recently, the right chancellor has been very restless, from arguing with His Majesty in the Imperial Study Room to now running out privately in spite of the restraints, a person who has never violated the rules of etiquette, does such abnormal behavior again and again, it is really because he is afraid of His Majesty Reusing military generals will have an impact on one's status, or do you want to do other things with this excuse?

Zhao Jinghe's thoughts turned slightly, she stayed out of it, and saw some things in the court much more clearly than those who were in it, but she was not prepared to meddle in these trivial matters.After her brother was convicted, her life was decided. As long as she could let herself run the women's school, she didn't care about being a pawn of the superior.

"Master Bai, the eldest princess gave tea 'Chunxi Splash'." The servant girl respectfully stepped forward.

Surprised, Bai Bingchen took off his veil and hat, motioned Ning Kuan to help him up, and after bowing far away to the main building, he took the tea, savored it carefully, and replied, "Thank you, Eldest Princess, for the tea."

After the maid saluted and stepped back, Ning Kuan helped him to sit down again.

"Su Wenjing and the eldest princess are cold in nature, they don't look down very much, they are so different to senior brother today..." "Zhou Yue" who was sitting next to him said faintly: "Senior brother is really lucky, I don't know how many people in the spring girl's dream are in this city."

Bai Bingchen coughed twice as a cover-up: "If I hadn't accompanied you to watch the fun, I probably wouldn't have encountered such an encounter with your senior brother."

Listening to the conversation between the two of them, Ning Kuan silently rolled his eyes in his heart.

He didn't know why this fake Zhou Yue would pester his master with an affectionate look every day, but Bai Bingchen even acquiesced, acquiesced in his going in and out of his study, acquiesced in his messing around in the mansion, and even violated his usual principles, He sneaked out to accompany him to watch martial arts competitions and recruit relatives while he was still in the ground.

Bai Bingchen tolerated and doted on him to such an unbelievable degree that even the eyes that looked at him could pinch water with tenderness.If he hadn't reported "Zhou Yue"'s whereabouts to his master every night, he would have thought that Bai Bingchen really had a deep affection for this person.

Except that he and Jiang Yan knew a little bit of inside information, gossip had been spread throughout the house, and even the housekeeper, Uncle Ji, was holding him accountable.

Rumors were spreading in the mansion that Bai Bingchen's father had always lived in the bamboo forest in the back hall, and had no intention of interfering with the family's incense inheritance incident. This made Ning Kuan a little curious about the old Patriarch who had never met before. Heart.

In fact, the servants of the White Mansion just saw from a distance that the two of them had an ambiguous posture.It was also difficult because Bai Bingchen, who seldom went out of his yard, had to run all over the entire White Mansion in the past two days, and all the servants in the entire mansion had bumped into them.

Ning Kuan watched from the side, and it seemed that the scene was real and fake, and it seemed that he could no longer tell the difference. Maybe if Bai Bingchen really liked someone, he would get along with him so tenderly and caringly.