I heard my brother is a tyrant

After entering the twelfth lunar month, braziers were set up at the four corners of the side halls of Zichen Hall.Chen Lianjiang opened the heavy curtain and came in, bowed and said: "Your Majesty, the third young lady of the Xuanping Hou Mansion has come to Beijing, and she arrived yesterday afternoon."

Xie Dan hummed lightly: "Tell me."

Although Chen Lianjiang didn't know why the emperor paid so much attention to the Han family, he was absolutely reliable in his work. He covered his mouth and smiled, "I'm afraid the third young lady also wants to go to Beijing for a reunion earlier, so hurry up, how much earlier than the original slave girl estimated. Day. The third son Han went out of the city to meet him personally, and even played around with a pair of children in his arms. It seems that the husband and wife have a very strong relationship."

Seeing that the emperor's hand holding the pen stopped and his eyes were lowered to listen, Chen Lianjiang went on to say: "I heard that Prince Zhong's Mansion sent a gift early in the morning, and it was sent in the name of County Lord Jiayi. I also handed over a post, presumably because I will visit my aunt some other day."

"Well, you pay attention."

After Xie Dan ordered, he picked up his pen and continued to critique the papers. Seeing that Chen Lianjiang was still smiling, he stopped and asked, "What else is there?"

"Hey, Your Majesty Shengming, I really have something to do." Chen Lianjiang grinned and said, "This year's year-old tribute has arrived, and it has arrived at the posthouse. It is waiting for the imperial court to send someone to deliver it. There are two pieces in it. Jianghuo is the head fish of this year. I haven't seen it yet. I heard that it weighs two to three hundred catties. The servant thought, the girl must have never seen such a big fish in the extreme north... ..."

Xie Dan understood, two river beluga fish, he wanted to keep a whole one for his girl.

In other words, other people, the Empress Dowager and the Sixth Palace, including the clan prince's mansion in Beijing, can only share one partnership.

Xie Dan secretly laughed in his heart, this Eunuch Chen has not seen Ye Chu's face yet, but he is very loyal.

"Keep both, let's say that the officials and the Sixth Palace will be rewarded with the New Year's Palace Banquet, and then one will be given to the girl." Xie Dan said.

The sum of all kinds of frozen fresh tributes must weigh more than [-] catties. The emperor must not be able to eat them himself. The custom is to reward his courtiers years ago.Xie Dan thought for a while and then ordered: "You and several Shang Palaces will make a calculation together, and just share the reward on my behalf."

"Hey, the servant girl knows."

That afternoon, the river sturgeon was sent to Ye Zhai.Fortunately, the convoy of tribute chilled fresh food has not yet entered the palace, otherwise such a large fish would have to be transported from the palace all the way to Ye Zhai, and the body of the river beluga is very long, so it would have to be ostentatiously passed through the market in a specially-made extended ox cart , I'm afraid I don't know how eye-catching it is.

The maids told Ye Chu, when Ye Chu heard that there was a big fish weighing two to three hundred catties, he was really curious and wanted to go and have a look, Ye Hui and Sichun were also curious and wanted to follow.So Ye Chu put on thick woolen clothes, hugged a stove, and a group of maids surrounded her and walked out of the courtyard.

Chang Shun stood at the gate of the courtyard with his head bowed. He could not enter the girl's courtyard without permission. When he saw her coming out, he bowed and asked, "Girl, there is still a long way to go, and it's cold, do you want to prepare something warm for you?" Sedan?"

"No, let's take a walk." Ye Chu said.

The big fish had already been unloaded, and it was very cold. The fish looked strange, and there was a layer of shiny ice on its body, which was somewhat thick, as if it was covered with an ice shell.It is said that it was specially watered layer by layer to seal the ice, and it was transported all the way from the north to freeze.

A group of girls surrounded the fish in shock -----------/ Yiyiy? That said, it sure looks like a ferocious fish.

"It's bigger than my pony." Ye Chu walked around the big fish, amazed, and asked the maid beside him, "Will it become a spirit?"

The maids laughed together, Ye Hui hurriedly said: "Girl, stop talking, how dare you eat it when you become a sperm."

Chang Shun stood aside, and quickly smiled and said, "Young lady, I don't know. This fish grows in the cold river in the north. It can't become fine, but can grow bigger. Don't think it's big, because it grows in cold water. The meat is very fresh and tender, and it is suitable for frying and frying, and I will ask the kitchen to make a few more tricks for you to try."

"You really know a lot." Ye Chu looked surprised, and asked, "I don't know how much effort my brother spent to get such a big fish back."

"Hey, this is a tribute from Mohe. The locals pay tribute to chilled food every year, and the imperial court will also reward them with gold, silver, and food for the winter. We actually ate it in our house last year, but you didn't see such a big whole."

"Oh, it turned out that the emperor gave it to my brother." Ye Chu found a reasonable explanation spontaneously, pointing to the fish and said, "It's so big, so I asked the kitchen to make more for dinner, and let everyone in the house taste it." taste."

Chang Shun was praised, and heard that they could also eat river beluga fish, which only emperors and concubines could eat. He was so happy that he immediately asked someone to carry it down for cooking.The fish was frozen hard, so I cut off part of it with a saw and sent it to the kitchen, and sent the rest to the ice cellar in the house for storage.

On this day's dinner table, there were indeed several dishes made by river beluga, such as braised river beluga, stewed river beluga, fish bone soup and small wontons wrapped in fish meat. fish.

"Chang Shun said there are bigger ones, and the biggest one is that it can grow to a thousand catties." The little girl exclaimed with sparkling eyes, "Oh, if I fall into the water, it can really eat me in one bite."

Xie Dan couldn't help laughing, he picked up a piece of meat for her and said with a smile: "Then you eat it quickly, you can't let it eat you."

***

In Xuanping Hou Mansion, Han Ziyun took Ye Yu's mother and son to Beijing. After returning to the mansion, he was busy all afternoon to clean up and settle down. In the evening, the husband and wife had to talk in detail about what happened after entering Beijing.

Han Ziyun said that when he went to Beijing for half a month, His Majesty ordered him to be transferred to Daying in the suburbs of Beijing, and gave him an errand as a sixth-rank school lieutenant.

As the third son of the Xuanping Hou Mansion who has no reputation and no military achievements, this is simply a blatant promotion of him.At this moment, Han Ziyun remembered what his father Xuan Pinghou had said in his last meeting. The emperor seemed to intend to support him.

Han Ziyun couldn't understand it.He thought that there was nothing that could make the emperor take a high look.

But since His Majesty gave him this grace, as a seven-foot man who grew up in the frontier, Han Ziyun couldn't help but rekindled his life ambition of making great achievements and keeping his wife and son.

After the husband and wife finished talking about it, Ye Yu picked up the gift list and greeting card from Prince Zhong's Mansion, and mentioned that Guo Zijin would come to see him tomorrow.As soon as Ye Yu arrived at the Hou's Mansion, he heard about Jiayi's "born phoenix fate", and asked Han Ziyun with a frown, "You have been in the capital for a while, do you know about this?"

Han Ziyun said he had heard about it, so he mentioned the "dispute for successor position" during the period between the DPRK and China.

Ye Yu asked: "She really won the Phoenix lottery?"

"Not only the phoenix lottery, but also the horoscope approved by Master Puxuan." Han Ziyun said in a deep voice, "I don't talk about strange power and confusion. Back then, the Tai | It’s what the royal family is used to. Whether you believe it or not depends on what the emperor thinks about who you are today.”

Upon hearing this, Ye Yu's face changed slightly, and he asked in surprise, "You mean..."

Han Ziyun said: "I know that you are very concerned about the daughter left by the late sister, and you want to get close to her, but she is now the head of the county, and she may be the queen in the future, and there is the Zhongwang Palace behind her, don't you You can't just treat her as a junior."

"I know." Ye Yu said angrily, "How could she be so scheming and capable as a teenage daughter? It must be the trick of a shameless villain like Guo Yu. If the elder sister was alive, she would definitely not Yes."

On the second day of Ye Yu's arrival in Beijing, Guo Zijin came to visit his aunt in a four-horse carriage with a blue satin vermilion roof and the emblem of the Prince Zhong's Mansion.She is the magistrate of the county, and she is higher than Mrs. Xuanpinghou in terms of rank. Mrs. Xuanpinghou has to salute when she sees her, but she is a junior when she comes to visit Ye Yu. County Lord Yi was a little uncertain about the specifications.

Ye Yu didn't think at first that after talking with Han Ziyun, he couldn't be too casual.After Guo Zijin arrived, Mrs. Xuan Ping Hou took Ye Yu to greet him in person, and went to the main hall of the front yard to have tea.

Guo Zijin was quite sensible, and was surrounded by a few personal maids and mothers. After entering, he first blessed Madam Xuan Pinghou and Ye Yu, and greeted his aunt about the hard work on the road.After sitting for a while, Ye Yu took Guo Zijin to his courtyard to talk.

After entering the room, Guo Zijin waited for Ye Yu to sit down, and then respectfully saluted her as a junior.Ye Yu pulled him up, and the two sat down to talk.

Ye Yu said: "I just arrived yesterday afternoon, and I wanted to see you along the way, but I didn't expect you to come today."

Guo Zijin said: "It's the father who has been calling people's attention. He heard that my aunt is here, and ordered me to visit my aunt, and told me to get closer to my aunt."

Then there was a little stiff silence.Although they are biological aunts, this is the first time they have met, and they are very close to each other.Ye Yu felt sorry for the dead sister who left behind only this bit of flesh and blood, and pulled Guo Zijin to say some words of concern, and then called a couple of sons and daughters to greet her cousin.

Mrs. Ye Zhen was inevitably mentioned during the conversation. Ye Yu asked about Guo Zijin's childhood experience, and he was so distressed that he sighed: "I really shouldn't have gone to Suizhou with my husband and son-in-law at that time. I didn't know that my elder sister was pregnant. If I knew, I should have stayed in the capital to take care of my elder sister, so that she wouldn’t hurt her body during childbirth and eventually die in another country, causing you to suffer so much when you were young.”

Guo Zijin said: "My mother made her own decision back then, how can I blame my aunt for this?"

Ye Yu frowned and asked her: "Do you know what happened to your parents back then?"

Guo Zijin nodded and said she knew. She had heard from her grandmother and father that Mrs. Ye Zhen and Guo Yu had nothing to do after seven years of marriage. Guo Yu was under pressure and wanted to take a concubine. Mrs. Ye Zhen disagreed. The husband and wife were at odds, and Mrs. Ye Zhen left the capital in a fit of anger, but unfortunately she died in a foreign country.

"That's what they told you?" Ye Yu asked angrily, "Then have you asked your good father, who is he going to take in a concubine, and what he has done to call the eldest sister?" What a shame and humiliation?"

"Zijin, you are a teenage girl, I don't want to say those dirty things in front of you, when your mother married Guo Yu, he was just a poor family, he liked your mother , Proposed several times, made a promise in front of your mother, you can only take a concubine if you have no children at forty, but you have betrayed your trust and done shameless things, how can you still teach you like this?"

Ye Yu got angry for a moment, and the volume inevitably rose. Guo Zijin sat there with an embarrassed expression on his face, and said with difficulty for a while: "Auntie, calm down. Zijin is a child, and I don't know what happened to my parents back then. After learning about my mother's death, , the father was so sad that he didn't want to live, and vowed not to continue, he has regretted it all his life."

"Yeah, he regretted that he had a good reputation for being affectionate and righteous all his life. It's a pity that my elder sister died and couldn't live anymore. The suffering my elder sister suffered is not suffering. He is so affectionate and righteous." He's in so much pain, why doesn't he confess to Eldest Sister face to face!"

Guo Zijin bowed his head and couldn't answer the words, so he sat for a while and got up to leave.The two had a quarrel and broke up.

After Han Ziyun heard about it, he rushed over to ask what was going on, and he had no choice but to persuade him: "You said you have such a temper, why can't you be impatient. She is your niece, so get close if you get along well, and be polite if you don't get along. If you have to meet, you will be really annoyed. If you want to say it, she is a teenage daughter, and you are an adult and elder, and you are as knowledgeable as her."

Ye Yu waved his hands and said angrily: "You can do it, I will never learn the temperament of being both right and left, false and submissive."

She was protected by her elder sister when she was young, and she stayed at the Suizhou border for a long time after she got married. The population of Xuanpinghou's mansion is simpler, and Han Ziyun treated her very well, and she has developed such a temperament long ago.

Ye Yu said: "Didn't you see how a good girl was taught by his Prince Zhong's Mansion? She was holding her hand and holding her head at a young age. She didn't have any vigor, and she didn't look like a teenager. What is especially annoying is that she still speaks for Guo Yu everywhere, and she will believe whatever Guo Yu says?"

"Hey, my lady, it's not like you haven't stayed in the capital city before. The noble daughters raised by high-ranking families are not all like this. What can she understand at such a young age? You should be our daughter. It's so wild, how can there be a lady from the noble family."

Han Ziyun sneered, "After all, she is a child raised by Prince Zhong's mansion. How could Guo Yu tell his daughter what happened back then, and besides, there was an old lady in their house, and the old lady would definitely not let her know about it. "

Ye Yu said: "The old lady in Zhongwang's mansion is nothing more than a mother-in-law. What makes people sad is my natal father and brother. When Guo Yu and his elder sister got married, Guo Yu was just a poor family. I even looked down on him a bit, who would have thought that he was lucky enough to be made a Marquis by relying on his military exploits in just a few years, and my natal family began to curry favor with him again..."

Ye Yu was always ashamed to speak of this past incident.Because Mrs. Ye Zhen and Guo Yu got together less and separated more after they got married, and they had nothing to do for seven years. Father Ye was worried that Ye Zhen would be abandoned by Guo Yu and lose the son-in-law of the Marquis. The relative relationship of the concubine actually moved the idea of ​​​​giving the concubine daughter to Guo Yu as a concubine.

Without even thinking about it, Mrs. Ye refused of course. When Guo Yu proposed marriage, Mrs. Ye and Guo Yu had already had an agreement.

Mrs. Ye's father and brother reprimanded Mrs. Ye in various ways, calling her jealous and unvirtuous.At that time, Guo Yu had just defeated the captives in the north and had just returned to Beijing as a marquis, and his husband and wife had just been reunited.

As a result, Guo met his father-in-law's house for a banquet. It is said that he was drunk and stayed in Yefu, and when he woke up, he fell asleep with his concubine's sister-in-law.

The concubine was led by Mother Ye, and brought her to Mrs. Ye weeping.Guo Yu only reasoned that he was drunk because the man made a small mistake for a while, but felt that Mrs. Ye was aggressive and couldn't understand him.

The husband and wife had a big quarrel, Mrs. Ye moved to Ruyi Xiaozhuang in a fit of anger, and Guo Yu went back to the border in a fit of anger.The old lady of the Guo family decided to take the concubine into the mansion. After that, Mrs. Ye lived in Zhuangzi and never went back to the Hou's mansion.

Mrs. Ye should have been pregnant at that time, and she didn't know until she moved to Zhuangzi.Chuang Tzu uploaded the news that she was pregnant, and Hou Mansion and Ye Mansion also sent people to pick her up and deliver things several times, Madam Ye confiscated them all.Guo Yu couldn't come back at the border for a while, and then the palace change happened. Emperor Yanshi usurped the throne, and the border was turbulent. When Guo Yu came back from the border four years later, what he faced was the ending of his wife and daughter disappearing out of thin air. , He vomited blood.

After Guo Yu returned to the mansion, he sent the concubine's concubine to the nunnery, and vowed not to remarry.

"It's ridiculous that people in the world actually sympathize with him, Guo Yu, and he has become a good man with deep affection and righteousness." Ye Yu shook his head and lamented, cursing, "It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous. Eldest sister is right, this world , has always belonged to you men!"

"Don't be angry, don't be angry, I'm angry." Han Ziyun patted her comfortingly, and smiled helplessly, "Don't be angry, lady, I didn't do anything to offend you."

The author says:

Eunuch Chen: I gave the fish to the girl, but the girl praised Chang Shun!