[Red Chamber] I am Lin Daiyu and her uncle

In the 42nd year of Tiansheng, on the night of March [-]th.

Empress Duanjing passed away in Kunning Palace at the age of fifty.

Duan Jing, keeping the etiquette and self-respecting is called Duan, and Qi Zhuang is self-respecting, which is a good posthumous title, at least it is in line with the impression of outsiders on Empress Xie.

Empress Duanjing passed away, Tiansheng Emperor couldn't restrain his grief, so he stopped court for seven days.On the eighth day, outside the Fengtian Hall, all the ministers cried and begged the emperor to mourn and go to court.

In addition, in order to show her kindness to the queen, Xia Xu specially named Princess Jincheng's daughter as Princess Renhe, which is considered to have fulfilled a wish of Queen Xie during her lifetime.

After the death of Empress Duan Jing, Concubine Xian and Concubine Kang had the highest status in the palace.Concubine Kang has always lived a quiet life and doesn't like to solicit those mundane affairs, so the power to take care of the affairs of the six palaces naturally falls into the hands of Concubine Xian.

Concubine Xian didn't refuse this time, because she knew that taking photos of the Six Palaces at this time basically meant that she was the queen's candidate.

In other words, who is not a layman?

She has been in the palace for so many years, not only has Xia Xu's favor, but also has a talented son, all these things, it is really hard for her not to go further.

Even if not for herself, but also for her Zhen'er.

Besides, after all these years in the harem, she didn't say that she knew Xia Xu's thoughts like the back of her hand, but she could still guess some of them.

Since he asked her to wait, she could wait with peace of mind.She believed that based on Xia Xu's feelings for her, one day she would overcome all difficulties and make her a queen and his justifiable wife.

Look, isn't this the end of the day?

Except for the queen, the so-called concubine, noble concubine, and imperial concubine sound nice, and the latter is always more noble than the former, but in the final analysis, aren't they still concubines?

During his lifetime, Duan Jing always emphasized in front of her the humbleness of concubines and the dignity of the main wife.

She remembered it all, in her heart.

This time, she was finally going to change from a concubine to a wife, and a concubine to empress. The decades of her career were finally worthwhile.

Xia Xu... really didn't lie to her.

The courtiers outside were very winking, knowing that unless Xia Xu remarries a noble girl from a noble family to be the queen, the queen must be a virtuous concubine.So everyone followed suit, and less than a month after Empress Duan Jing died, they began to ask Concubine Xian to be the empress one after another.

Xia Xu is a decent person, even if he wants to be a concubine Xian in his heart, he can't be so fast, at least he has to wait until the end of this year, otherwise the outside world will say that he will continue to establish a new queen before his wife's body is cold, which will damage the reputation of Xia Xu himself and the concubine Xian lossy.

What he wanted was for Concubine Xian to become a queen with everyone's congratulations, and he didn't want her to be slandered in the slightest.

Therefore, Xia Xu only discounted all the memorials for inviting the establishment of a virtuous concubine as the queen, and waited until August to make a decree to make the virtuous concubine personally, and then performed the canonization ceremony at the end of the year.

Of course, during this period, the preliminary preparations for the queen's canonization ceremony were in full swing, and they were waiting for the canonization ceremony to be held as soon as the end of the year came.

Concubine Kang, who was used to a quiet life, had been hearing noises of one kind or another in the past few nights, which made her unable to sleep well at night, so she asked what was going on, why the palace was suddenly so noisy.

Nanny Li replied: "Returning to your mother, the palace is preparing for the canonization ceremony at the end of the year. The time is a bit tight, and everything will inevitably go day and night. If you disturb your mother's rest, I will inform the steward and teach them how to get around Zhongcui Palace." When doing business, try to choose during the day, not at night."

Concubine Kang frowned, "Isn't the queen's decree yet to be made? Why is the candidate determined?"

Nanny Li smiled and said, "Your Majesty is confused, right? Now the imperial concubine is tacitly pronouncing that the one from Xianfu Palace will be the next empress. This is a certainty and cannot be faked."

Concubine Kang listened to Nanny Li's words, but she was deep in thought, and after a long time, she asked in a low voice: "Mommy, tell me, will the Queen's death..."

Mother Li was frightened by these words and lost her seven souls. She yelled "Bah" on the ground several times, and then said with a look of horror: "Your Majesty, if you can eat things, you must not talk nonsense! Who in this palace will not You know, the former queen died of illness."

Concubine Kang sneered a few times, "Death is indeed a death, it just depends on whether the patient was coerced by others. If she wants to die, no doctor with superb medical skills will be able to save her. This is a death of heart."

Seeing that Concubine Kang didn't seem to be talking casually, Li Momo became serious, "Your Majesty means..."

Concubine Kang nodded and sighed, "She's not a god, so she can be so powerful, predicting her own death in advance, and sending her granddaughter out in advance, this is obviously intentional."

Li Nanny thought about it carefully, and found that it was true, but she also felt that a kind and kind person like Xia Xu had always been gentle with servants like them, and he rarely lost his temper. Ruthless people.

So he shook his head and retorted: "The old slave saw that His Majesty is really a benevolent monarch. He treated the former empress, especially the mother's family of the former empress with first-class kindness. He is valued by His Majesty. This old slave... this old slave really does not believe that he would do such a thing."

Concubine Kang looked at another person who was blinded by Xia Xu's appearance, and really wanted to laugh out loud.

In other words, it is really tormenting to be a person who is drunk when everyone is drunk.Why on earth should I live so soberly?Wouldn't it be safe and smooth to be deceived like Nanny Li?

Concubine Kang looked at the deep scenery of the courtyard, and said meaningfully: "If he was really gentle and docile on the outside, my aunt would not have chosen him alone among the candidates for the throne. Look at his success after he ascended the throne. I knew that my aunt had a good vision, and he deceived almost everyone with his disguised benevolence. He... is the real emperor with a heart, and his methods are really superb, and he should do dirty things that he should not do. I have done everything, and the goals have been achieved one by one, but the hands are clean, and the performance of 'benevolence' is still maintained."

The more Concubine Kang thought about it, the more she felt it was funny, and at the same time, she couldn't help feeling that Concubine Xian was truly lucky, to be able to get the love and promise of such a person, so that she wouldn't waste her whole life, and finally taught her to get what she wanted.

Lin Qing has been a little absent-minded since he took the job. After thinking about it, he decided to visit his father-in-law.

As a civil servant, I have been lured to work in the Ministry of War intentionally or unintentionally from the very beginning. Although I don't know what kind of medicine is sold in the holy gourd, isn't there a ready-made general's father-in-law?Just in time to ask him!

This thought came to Lin Qing's mind, and he suddenly realized that this was the first time he bothered his father-in-law on business.Usually, no matter in life or in the officialdom, whenever he encounters a problem, he would first go to Gongsun Liang for a solution. It has never happened that his father-in-law is also a character, and he and his resources have never been touched.

Thinking of this, Lin Qing couldn't help being a little embarrassed.

After all, he didn't have much contact with Shen Fang, and suddenly he went to ask for a solution due to business, which seemed awkward. After thinking about it, Lin Qing decided to bring Brother Yuan and Shen Jiao to visit.

Anyway, it has been more than three months since Shenjiao returned to her mother's house for the last Chinese New Year, just in time for the whole family to visit the General's Mansion neatly this time.

When Shen Fang saw his relative's grandson coming, he was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear, his eyes were all smiling, and he didn't even care about his daughter, he just hugged Brother Yuan and teased him.

Shen Gui felt a little helpless, so he had to ask his sister and son-in-law to sit down and drink tea.

Although Lin Qing and Shen Gui have developed in different fields now, and because they have been busy for a long time and haven't been together for a long time, their relationship is a little bit cold.But after all, they were very good friends when they were young, and they chatted slowly, and gradually picked up the previous tacit understanding.

Uncle Lang was chatting with each other, but Shen Jiao, who was drinking tea quietly, interrupted suddenly, "Brother, will Miss Wanjia marry at the end of next year?"

Shen Gui nodded, "That's right. Ms. Wanjia is not yet old enough, and she will only turn fifteen by the end of this year. She is too young, and she will get married at the end of next year at the earliest."

Lin Qing did some calculations and found that the Miss Wanjia that the brothers and sisters talked about was only about one year older than Daiyu, while Shen Gui was two or three years older than him.

Tsk tsk... A proper old cow eats tender grass.

"Miss Wanjia is too young, let me figure it out, Changrong, you are more than nine years older than Miss Wanjia, don't you think you are a beast if you attack such a young child?"

Shen Gui spread his hands helplessly, and said innocently: "You can't blame me, this is my father, your Lord Taishan, who personally arranged the marriage for me. He is so fierce, how dare I disobey him!"

Shen Jiao didn't bother with this, but said: "Since the wedding date has been set, it's time to get ready. Don't panic when the time comes. There is one in the east and the other in the west. Do you want me to come and help, even though you are married? It's not proper for my younger sister to go home to prepare for her elder brother's wedding, but isn't it a special situation in our family? My mother died long ago, and I grew up in the palace when I was young. My father cared about us not marrying again, and there was no seriousness in the house. Mistress, if I don't come back to help, who can help?"

Shen Gui comforted her, "Little sister, don't worry. Dad has already discussed with my aunt. When I get married, it will be the same as yours. I invite the people in the palace who specialize in wedding affairs to come to the house to make arrangements. It will definitely be done in style. "

Shen Jiao let go of the big stone that was weighing on her heart when she heard that there was a solution to the matter.

Originally, she was influenced by Lin Qing and felt that she shouldn't bother public servants who eat the imperial food to do her own private affairs, so she ruled out this practice from the beginning.Now hearing that Shen Gui said that his father agreed with this approach, it must not be out of line, so he was relieved.

Lin Qing and Shen Jiao came in the morning and had to rush back after dinner. After all, Daiyu was still in the mansion, so she couldn't be left there alone.

After dinner, Shen Fang called Lin Qing to his study.

Lin Qing was a little puzzled, and always felt that Shen Fang knew his purpose from the very beginning.

Lin Qing opened the study door with trepidation.

"Father, you are looking for me."

Lin Qing respectfully stood a few steps in front of the desk. Shen Fang was dealing with official business. Hearing the sound, he raised his head and saw that Lin Qing was there. He greeted him casually: "Sit down. Don't always stand."

Lin Qing let out a "warm" sound, found a suitable place to sit down, Shen Fang also left from the desk, came to sit next to Lin Qing, looked at him, and said: "You are not here just to accompany Yinger Let's go to my mother's house."

Seeing that she was exposed, Lin Qing was not surprised at all.

That's right, how can it be possible to not even have this bit of vision after spending half of your life on the battlefield.

Simply frankly: "I came to bother you today because I encountered difficulties in my work, so I came here specially to ask you for advice."

"Oh?" Shen Fang laughed and said, "Then what is it?"

Lin Qing gritted her teeth and explained the ins and outs of the matter to Shen Fang in detail.

At the end, he said: "Father, I really don't understand. I am clearly a civil servant, why does the Holy One always push me to become a general? If it's just that, I don't think so much. After all, I like military affairs quite a lot. I also enjoy being in contact with these affairs every day. But the Holy Majesty let me join the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which is a real civil service department. The two official positions I have now can be said to be both civil and military. This made me wonder what the Holy Majesty's intention is."

Shen Fang quietly listened to Lin Qing's complaints, "Have you finished?"

Lin Qing nodded, "It's over."

Shen Fang smiled and said: "First of all, I want to correct one point. That is, since the founding of our Nanke Kingdom, we have always had the momentum of valuing literature over military affairs. '. Look at Wu Min, Minister of the Ministry of War. He is a good example. He was also a Jinshi in his early years, and then he was sent to the Ministry of War by the Holy Emperor as soon as he left the Imperial Academy. After that, he was promoted step by step, and then entered the Metropolitan Procuratorate Re-entering the cabinet. Although he is a civil servant, he is actually in charge of the military."

Lin Qing quickly realized, and then looked in disbelief at the kind Shen Fang who was smiling at him.

Isn't that right...how can he be so virtuous, to be cultivated by His Majesty, Wu Min's status, he can't even think about it.

It is said that he was not afraid of tigers when he was a newborn calf, but after two years in the imperial court, he really understood what it means to be "there is a sky beyond the sky, and there are people beyond people" and "a mountain is taller than a mountain".

One around is counted as one, which one is not the best of the best?

What if there is a system?The system is dead, just a tool. To really deal with these people, you have to rely on your long-term accumulated experience, experience, and honed emotional intelligence.

Lin Qing looked at Shen Fang hesitantly, and asked incredulously, "Can I do it?"

There are so many capable people in the court, why is he promoted and cultivated alone?

Lin Qing had various speculations in his mind, but he still didn't think that it was because he married the niece of the Concubine Xian and the only daughter of General Shen that he got such an honor, because this really insulted Xia Xu's political qualities as an emperor.

There may be reasons for this, but it is by no means the main reason, and it can only occupy a small position in it.

Shen Fang looked at Lin Qing, who had his head down and was not confident, and patted him on the shoulder, "Son, you have to believe that the Holy Majesty has his own intentions for doing this. Besides, I think your aptitude is no worse than that of Wu Daorian. How much, you don’t have to underestimate yourself. Just because you can’t do it now doesn’t mean you won’t do it in the future. People always need to grow, and real growth often requires a suitable opportunity.”

Lin Qing secretly remembered Shen Fang's words in his heart, and at the same time, his nose was even more sour.

Ever since he came here, he has been constantly reminded by Lin Ruhai, Gongsun Liang, and now Shen Fang. It is considered lucky for ordinary people to meet such a noble guide. How can he have three?

Seeing that Lin Qing had listened to his words, Shen Fang comforted him, and then ordered: "Evergreen will be training recruits in the army during this time. If you have free time, you can practice riding and shooting. Not only can you cultivate your sentiments, And exercise."

At first glance, Lin Qing thought this proposal was quite good.It is said that he has been interested in horseback shooting since modern times. Since Shen Fang has already proposed it on his own initiative, he is naturally more respectful than obedient.