Wearing a county magistrate to build infrastructure

The real origin of the matter began more than 20 years ago. Xu Yingle was the son of the Shen family, and his mother was the nanny of the Shen family's legitimate son. When he was young, he was raised in his mother's house. Serve by Mr. Shen's side.

At that time, Mr. Shen was two years older than him, and because he was also a brother, the two quickly became friends, and they stayed together for ten years. It seemed that master and servant were more like brothers in terms of affection .

When Xu Yingle was 13 years old, the Shen family held a marriage banquet for the young master, and invited many unmarried young men of the right age in the imperial city at that time to choose a good son-in-law.

And Xu Yingle met the 15-year-old Yan Or at this banquet. At that time, he met Yan Or on the road in the mansion because his clothes were wet with tea. At that time, Xu Yingle had never heard of Yan Or's reputation in the imperial city. .

That's why he was very courageous and took Yan You as a brother who secretly pretended to be a boy, and finally brought someone to change his brother's clothes, making a joke.

Fortunately, Yan Ru didn't care about his mistakes, and he didn't know the stupid things he did until the next time he met Xu Yingle.

The young master in the front yard also got acquainted with Jing Huan, the Jing family was a veteran of several dynasties.But the number of descendants has always been thin, and now there are only two grandparents of the Jing family left. Seeing that the son-in-law treats Jing Huan differently, the Shen family acquiesced in Jing Huan's frequent visits, intending to make friends with Qin and Jin.

During this period of time, the four of them often had fun in the imperial city.If there were no subsequent battles, Jing Huan would probably have married the young master.

As for him, he didn't understand love at the time, but he had to be protected by Yan or, and in two years, Yan or would definitely come to propose marriage.

In terms of status, Xu Yingle is absolutely not worthy of the Yan family.But Yan Yan likes it, because the son of the Shen family also protects him. If Yan is really willing to withstand the pressure of Yan Guogong and his wife, the Shen family is also willing to adopt him as an adopted son, marry him as the son of the Shen family, and climb up with Yan Guogong again. A marriage.

Unfortunately, when he was 14 years old, the Northwest War broke out, and the generals sent by the court to quell the chaos were beaten helplessly. Dayu lost three frontier cities in a row, and the atmosphere in the court gradually turned cold.

At that time, Yan He and Jing Huan, who were still young, were famous in the imperial city, and the ancestors of the Jing family also earned their achievements on horseback. After careful consideration, the emperor sent Jing Huan to the northwest to quell the chaos.

Yan or stayed in the imperial city because of the begging of Yan Guogong and his wife. When Jing Huan left the imperial city, he made a promise to the young master to marry him when he returned from the great victory.

Jing Huan did not return to Beijing for the next three years until the Northwest War was won, and the reputation of the young general Jing Huan spread from the Northwest to the imperial city, just when they thought the matter was over.

When the army was about to return to the capital, the emperor issued an imperial decree, granting a marriage to the young master of Yan Guogong and the son-in-law of the Shen family. This marriage came unexpectedly.

But it is not difficult to guess that this is because the emperor was afraid of Jing Huan's return. After marrying the Shen family, he not only held the military power in the northwest, but also controlled the household department in the central court.

If this is the case, once the Shen family and the Jing family rebel, the royal family will not be able to stop it at all, and Yan Guogong is related to the royal family. Marrying the Shen family's first son to the Yan Guogong's eldest son can not only remind the Shen family, but also make the Yan family more stable in the imperial city. Let the Yan family stand firmly in the imperial party.

This is a dangerous move, but the emperor issued an order, and the courtiers would lose their heads if they resisted the order. The Yan family and the Shen family weighed it over and over again, and accepted the emperor's arrangement, but Yan or He Gongzi did not want it.

"So in the end the resistance was not successful?" Xu Qingcheng bit her lip, a little sad.

"There is a difference between monarchs and ministers. In order to make Ah or agree to this matter, Duke Yan and Mrs. Yan Guogong went to the door of Shen's residence and begged me to persuade him. Otherwise, the entire Yan family will be buried for this matter. At the same time, he also promised me that as long as I agree to this matter , after the Young Master and Ah Or get married, let me enter the Yan Mansion as a side husband."

Xu Yingle casually talked about the thrilling scene when he met Yan Guogong and his wife that day. At that time, he was only 17 years old, and his life in the Shen family was too naive, so naturally he couldn't stand it.

"Daddy didn't agree." Xu Qingcheng affirmed.

Xu Yingle nodded with a smile, "Well, at that time, Ahe and Young Master were delaying the marriage in their own ways, and when Jing Huan came back, how could I betray their promise."

Jing Huan was a meritorious official, as long as he came back before the wedding, and exchanged his meritorious service for the son, the royal family would have to agree if he didn't agree. Unfortunately, if he really did this, the Shen family would definitely be dragged down and step down from the position of Minister of the Household Department.

The old man of the Shen family has been an official for dozens of years in order to gain a firm foothold in the court. It is impossible for him to lose his official position in the household department because of his brother's marriage. The choice is obvious.

"Then?"

Afterwards, Xu Yingle closed his eyes and recalled that Yan's family did everything in order to make Yan or compromise, even doing such a sad and insane act as drugging his own son, hoping that Yan or would break the law and not marry him. It just so happened that at that time he sneaked out of Shen's mansion and rescued Yan He by mistake.

But when he woke up the next day, he was already imprisoned. He thought it was the Yan family who did it.

But he didn't expect that it was the Shen family who imprisoned him, and he didn't know what happened outside in the next three months, but later his wife found out that he was pregnant and saved his life.

Mr. Shen kept him for so long just to keep a hole card that could threaten the young master.After it's useless, there's no need to stay longer, after all Lord Shen knows that Yan or likes him, if he shows up alive after the wedding, Yan or will definitely marry him desperately.

Mr. Shen would not be happy to see his son-in-law marrying into his husband's family and being robbed of favor by his servants, making the Shen family lose face.

So he had to die after the event was completed, Madam took pity on him and his unborn child, and stopped Mr. Shen when he was about to end his future troubles forever.

Madam said that instead of killing him and hating them when the son knows the truth, it is better to send him far away. He will never be able to return to the imperial city in this life. For this reason, he made a heavy oath that he will never set foot in the imperial city again in this life. Otherwise his children will never have peace.

After the oath was promised, Madam arranged for someone to send him out of the imperial city and leave the Shen Mansion where he had been imprisoned for three months. Only then did he learn that Ah Or and the son were married, and Jing Huan, who had promised to come back before the wedding date, did not return to Beijing.

The wrong situation is doomed, and he has no way to recover, so he can only obey orders and have someone send him out of the imperial city, passing through Cang'er County, and finally staying here.

"Qingcheng, I'm sorry." Xu Yingle patted his brother's head. If it wasn't for him, perhaps Xu Yingle would have "died" in the imperial city.

"Father, don't say sorry to me." Xu Qingcheng hugged his father, "It's obvious that my father has had a hard life. He has dragged me up from childhood to adulthood, and he has suffered from ailments."

"Stupid words." Xu Yingle breathed a sigh of relief.

"Dad didn't go to Kaiyun Mansion with me last time, is it because there are people watching around Cang'er County?"

After Xu Qingcheng heard the past, he immediately thought of why his father so firmly refused to go to Kaiyun Mansion.

Mrs. Shen is willing to let her father live, but it doesn't mean she will do nothing. If father had returned to the imperial city privately in spite of his oath, then Shen's plan would have come to naught.

Xu Yingle nodded, "Madam indeed sent people to watch me in Cang'er County, but I don't know if they have been slacking off in recent years or Madam is relieved after all. I haven't seen anyone following me for a long time."

But everything is in case, if these people are still there, because he left Cang'er County and the wife of the imperial city knew that he was sending someone over, wouldn't it disturb Tang Xiaozi.

"Then, Dad, actually, Dad didn't know what happened that night, right?"

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"I came back three days late. Yan or and Ditang were tied up and married during their wedding. Even if I had the courage to take back Ditang after we got married, he would suffer a lot of criticism for this, and the emperor would also punish me. At that time, my grandfather was still alive, and the Jing family would not be able to leave a bad name for thousands of years, so I listened to my grandfather's words, restrained my anger, and waited until one day to find someone to settle the score."

Jing Huan talked about the events of that year, but it was still like yesterday, and his heart was filled with anger for a while, and he also hated himself for being three days late.

"Why is the general late?" Now that he has received the news that his beloved is about to get married, it is impossible to be delayed by trivial matters. Something must have happened on the general's way back to the imperial city. It is possible that the emperor sent someone to stop him.

"Seriously injured." Jing Huan spat out two words heavily. In the final battle between the Northwest and Gentiles, although he won a complete victory, he himself was a narrow victory. At that time, Hu Gong, the leader of Gentiles, shot through him with an arrow. chest.If he hadn't dodged an inch and let the arrow miss, he might not have survived.

His injury was not reported to the imperial court, and he kept it a secret, because he was afraid that the emperor would make a fuss about it, and when the northwestern army returned to Beijing, he could not leave the bed when he received news from the imperial city on the way.

But for the sake of Ditang, he still held his breath and rode back to the imperial city in private.Otherwise, it would be more than three days late. Grandfather knew his personality well, and had already sent someone to wait at the gate of the city. When he saw him, he took him back to the mansion directly.

He couldn't leave the gate of Jingfu for a day without the army from the Northwest returning to the capital. For this reason, he didn't even see Ditang and Yanhe's faces after returning for more than ten days.

There was a little pity in Tang Zisheng's eyes. The general who fought to the death for the people was plotted by the emperor who was loyal to him. With such an emperor, Dayu couldn't go to perish.

"When I was recuperating in the mansion, my grandfather told me everything that happened in the imperial city. At that time, my grandfather warned me that these hatreds can be avenged. But you can't blindly take revenge when you are fledgling. For this reason I've waited nearly 18 years for this opportunity for revenge."

When Tang Zisheng heard the words, he remembered that he guessed that the general would be nothing more than the oppression of the emperor's princes and grandchildren these years, and that the general would have no place to stay when the new emperor took over, but he didn't want such an old thing to be hidden behind his back.

"What did the general say that Uncle Xu was 'dead' that day?"

"It's the news from Shen's residence. On the second day of Ditang and Yan's marriage, the news of Yingyue's sudden death came from Shen's residence. Yingyue disappeared for three months, and Shen's residence has been looking for someone."

It didn't seem like a coincidence that she disappeared for three months, but she was found on the second day of her wedding, and she was still dead.

"When Yan or learned that Yingyue's body was found, he went to the door of Shen's residence. But Mrs. Shen said that Yingyue's body could no longer be seen, and was buried overnight yesterday.

Yan still didn't believe it, and Mrs. Shen took out a hairpin that Yan or gave Yingyue as a proof. "

"So you believed it?" Tang Zisheng's face was weird, he didn't see the corpse, so he believed it?The hairpin is a dead object, so it is not difficult to get it.

"Master Shen and Mrs. Shen treated Yingyue very well. Yingyue disappeared when he left the mansion. Mr. Shen and Mrs. Shen kept searching for him in the imperial city. The marriage has been fixed, and they have no reason to lie to us, but now look at it. , It’s really unpredictable.”

There was a bitter smile on Jing Huan's face, they were still not strong enough at that time, they didn't even have the ability to protect the people they liked, Yan or even worse, after learning of Yingyue's death, it seemed like a different person.

"It's really great, so there won't be no news for three months before the wedding." Tang Zisheng thought that apart from the four parties involved, there was no innocent person in this matter.