The eldest brother of the Lin family in the Red Chamber

I don't know how long it took, but finally Shui Fu broke the silence first: "I heard that Marquis Jing Yuan's birthday is due soon?"

It is said that?Who did you listen to?Lin Mo glanced at Shui Rong, showing a shy and gentle smile, bright eyes and white teeth, looking extremely pleasing to the eye.Shui Fu smiled again: "We are predestined, my seventh brother was also born in September. There is also a child from the same mother."

Lin Mo raised his eyebrows and didn't speak.

The seventh prince and the eighth prince who has become a taboo in the royal family are only separated by four or five days, but one has a very good fortune, and the other is not. Part of his strength is that he was born when his father was in the most danger. His luck was not very good. After he was born, he was framed by his uncles. Even if he was not killed by the emperor, he might not be alive. family.Therefore, when the literati complained for the eighth prince, Lin Mo did not go up to help.

His birthday is indeed quite close to the Seventh Prince's, but the husband said that too conspicuous a day would not be good for his future social interactions, so he moved it forward by one month.He had to admit that what Mr. said made sense.Competing with the Seventh Highness for birthday presents and guests?It's not that he thinks he's been too long.Then he chuckled and said, "Who did your Highness hear? That person must have misremembered the date. The humble minister Xu Changqi His Highness was born on the third day of September."

The smile on Shui Fu's face became lighter: "Oh?"

Lin Mo smiled lightly.

Shui Rong turned his head to look at him. There was some warning in this look. Lin Mo saw it clearly and responded provocatively. Under the intermingling of two eyes, one frowns slightly and the other looks proud.

Shui Fu coughed dryly: "If you didn't know that today is a good day for Uncle Rong, you would have thought that you and Marquis Jingyuan were doing something. At least avoid it."

Shui Rong's hands trembled, and the tea in the cup was about to spill out, Lin Mo sneered twice in his heart.The third highness seems to know quite a lot. I don't know what he thinks about the idiot behavior of Shui Rong who has dedicated himself to him and then has plotted against him?Are you happy to see the results, or are you disdainful but regretful like Lin Mo?

As early as when Shui Rong revealed the embarrassing status of the Beijing Palace in the Beijing Palace, Lin Mo had to admit that this so-called "virtuous king" actually had some brains.And his calm behavior of calculating that he had entered the lower line of the Third Highness made him even more dissatisfied and a little bit more impressed by what he couldn't say.

For Shui Fu, Shui Rong's unobtrusive and trouble-free admiration is really a worthless business. He only needs to pretend that he doesn't know, and then he can enjoy Shui Rong's love with peace of mind. He brings a fusion of old school and new school.

It has to be said that in His Majesty's mind, His Majesty the Third Highness who "never forms a party" really lives up to the title of King Qin.

It's just that Lin Mo didn't know, how could he be able to make these two lords work so hard to win him over just by winning the favor of the Holy One?What's the use of having the support of a Marquis like him who has no real power and no background?Although he didn't know if he was favored by the emperor because of the smoke from his ancestral grave, but the emperor's favor to his subjects is like a man to a woman, it is not a long-term thing.Lin Mo considered himself a cautious person, but he really didn't have the courage to intervene in the affairs of the royal family.

After all, he is not a willful person.

Lin Mo didn't like Shui Fu's demeanor when he talked about him, but he didn't have the guts to quarrel with the third prince, so he just smiled slightly: "Today is a good day for Prince Jing, Third Highness, please put aside these jokes. "

"Speaking of it this way, how many days are there between Uncle Rong's birthday and Master Lin's birthday?" He seemed to suddenly remember, "I saw cousin Kong's family at my mother's place a few days ago. That's right, although in terms of status, she doesn't compare to bowing to the empress and the imperial sister, but because the empress is the elder, that bow was a real deal, and the empress felt very sorry."

Lin Mo had also heard that the King of Jingning County entered the palace and only paid homage to the Empress Dowager, and turned a blind eye to the concubines and concubines. She was very angry with Concubine Hua, but there was nothing she could do - after all, her surname was Kong.

Princess Hehui is a very good character.She was born in Prince Duan's mansion, and was regarded as a righteous daughter by Emperor Chongyuan. She was raised by the Empress Dowager's side since she was a child, and she was extremely respected. Naturally, he would not recognize a righteous daughter by his side for no reason.However, Prince Duan was a battle-tested man after all. Before his sister went to get married, he settled the rebel army and killed the four sons of the Tibetan chieftain.Emperor Chongyuan "loved him very much, and declared the ancestral system of summoning a son-in-law for Princess Fei's independent government."Unexpectedly, the Clan Mansion, which most talked about its royal status, had no objections at all.Because it was the Kong family who married Princess Hui Dachang.

Only marrying to the Kong family is not considered a marriage.

Any dynasty hopes that the Confucian family will officially recognize itself, that the descendants of the Confucian family can enter the court to serve the king, and even when the dynasty is in turmoil, the Confucian family can stand up and call on the scholars of the world to respect the monarch and regard the rebels as aliens.Therefore, every dynasty is keen to marry the princess into the Kong family.However, the Confucian family has done better than anyone else, and their family has only King Wen of Zhou.

Therefore, Emperor Chongyuan married Princess Hehui to the Kong family.

Princess Hehui is an extremely smart woman, even if she can't change her husband, she can at least change her son.For this reason, he specially abolished the princess summoning system, in order to allow the princess to raise Wen Xuangong's son in person.

But in fact, even though he respected his mother very much, Duke Wenxuan still only enshrined King Wen of Zhou.

Afterwards, Duke Wenxuan rejected Princess Songyang and married the daughter of the eldest grandson as his wife.It must be said that it was the Kong family's challenge to the royal family to marry an overly intelligent woman like Princess Hui Dachang.

The two sons and one daughter born to the Changsun family are even more well-behaved and extremely unfamiliar with the royal family.

Kong Jingxian did admit the title of county monarch granted to her by the royal family, but after having this title, she stopped worshiping the concubine of her uncle's grandfather's family.This is not against the rules, even if you are a noble concubine or concubine, a concubine is a concubine after all, even the empress dowager and empress do not need to accept her gifts, it is really nothing if she ignores a grand concubine.

Lin Mo didn't know what Shui Fu meant when he said this to him.

"A few days ago in the palace, when I was paying my respects to my mother, I saw Concubine Jia. It happened that Cousin Kong was also there. Concubine Jia talked about her relationship with you and said that Cousin Kong would be her cousin-in-law in the future. Miss Kong told her Some unpleasant words."

Lin Mo smiled and said, "Since Miss Kong is the cousin of His Highness Third Highness, and Concubine Xiande is His Highness's concubine mother, it's really hard to look forward to relatives, let alone——saying such things, the daughters of the boudoir family can't bear it. Bar."

Only then did Shui Fu let go of his smile: "That's really the case."