[Red House] A beautiful girl welcomes the spring

Needless to say, Mrs. Xing was terrified, and immediately went to see Jia Yan after agreeing to Aunt Xue and Xue Baochai's request.After Jia Yan asked about the cause of the incident, it took a lot of effort to calm Mrs. Xing, and at the end, she added a sentence, in view of the narrow and inconvenient small courtyard of the Xue family, Zhen Yinglian was asked to live with Xue Baochai in the garden. .

On the other side, Xue Pan's words were quickly spread to the Zhao family. The old man of the Zhao family passed out on the spot when he heard it. His son, Zhao Dejiang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry and Repairs, is the father of Concubine Zhao Jing, and hurriedly asked for leave from the ministry. go home.

You know, if something happens to the old man of the Zhao family, Mr. Zhao will have to worry about Ding for three years.At this moment, Zhao Dejiang decided not to Ding You.

When Zhao Dejiang came home, his father had already woken up, but his face was ashen, and he was lying on the bed with no energy left. The whole family, young and old, women and children surrounded the old man.

Of course, no one dares to cry at this time - if you cry, isn't it cursing the old man to die?

Hearing the girl's pass, the old man tremblingly stretched out his hand to his son who was striding forward, and said weakly: "My son! I missed you! If, if we didn't build some family-friendly villas at the beginning Alright. It's all me. I want to see the girl, so, so..."

The girl Mrs. Zhao mentioned naturally refers to Concubine Zhao Jing. Concubine Zhao Jing didn't have a big name when she was at home, and her family members have always been called directly by the girl.Before visiting relatives this time, the old man had not seen his granddaughter for 15 years.

Zhao Dejiang quickly grabbed his father's hand, knelt down on the side of the bed, and said, "Father, what are you talking about? You just haven't seen your mother for many years. Besides, this family-saving villa is decided by the son. Whether it's the size or the furnishings, it's all the son's check. Even if there is a mistake, it's also the son's fault..."

The old man Zhao hurriedly covered his son's mouth: "What are you talking about? It's not your fault! It's me! It's all me! I have been able to do it all my life, and I have been strong all my life. Why am I getting old and old, right here Are you confused? If it’s not ours, it’s not ours. How can someone else’s things be messed around? It’s all my fault—”

Mrs. Zhao has been a tenant for the rest of his life, and his family grew up gradually because he raised a son who could study.Although it is said that Zhao Dejiang became an official by virtue of his own ability.However, his real promotion from the local county magistrate to the Ministry of Industry and Construction has something to do with the fact that the current emperor ascended the throne but his children are weak, and Zhao Jing's mother became a second-rank concubine because of her son.In other words, although the Zhao family was born as a tenant household, it was also a family of upstarts who rose up with the current emperor's ascension to the throne.

The Zhao family has always been very low-key, just like Concubine Zhao Jing has no sense of presence in the palace, the Zhao family has no sense of presence compared to Concubine Wu Xian's family and Concubine Zhou De's family.When the Wu family of the second prince's mother family and the Zhou family of the fourth prince's mother family were fighting openly and secretly in the court hall, the impression of the Zhao family was very weak, so the Wu family and the Zhou family never felt that the Zhao family would hinder them. .

This is also the shrewdness of the old man of the Zhao family.Although he has been an old farmer all his life, the old man's mind is not confused. Not only did the old man beat his son when Concubine Zhao Jingfei's father, Zhao Dejiang, was a local official, but also when the current emperor ascended the throne, Concubine Zhao Jing gave birth to a son, and the old man also Hit the children and grandchildren.Also because of the existence of this old man, the Zhao family was not exposed at all, and even the second and fourth princes never paid attention to it.It can be said that if it wasn't for the visitation villa this time, the Zhao family would not have been exposed.

Yes, this is also the only weakness of the old man of the Zhao family.Having been a tenant and an old farmer all his life, the old man cares most about the house and land in his life.Now their Zhao family is the prince's natal family, and their son has also become a high-ranking official. They have a big house and a field. The old man wanted to be a landlord. Now their old Zhao family has a big field in their original place, in Beijing. There is also a large house, and it can be said that the old man's lifelong dream has come true.

Because the dream has come true, the old man decided to build a family-saving villa for his granddaughter after the edict of family-visiting was issued, and at the instigation of his wife and family members.The reason still lies in the old man's obsession with the houses and fields that can be passed down to the family.

Leave some fields as heirlooms to make it easier for children and grandchildren in the future.

Houses and fields are the real guarantee for the children and grandchildren to live comfortably.

In the simple concept of the old people, only leaving real estate and land is the real love for their children and grandchildren.Coupled with vanity, so he collected the money that he could use, as well as the money in the hands of the merchants and rich landowners who took refuge in it, and asked his son to borrow some money from a certain project in the Ministry of Industry. Made it up.

Because the method was clever, and part of it was paid back last year, it is estimated that when the autumn grain is harvested this year and next, the filial piety from all over the place will be delivered, and the account can be evened out.

It turned out that Concubine Zhao Jingfei's father, Zhao Dejiang, had already done it in the local area.Moreover, generally speaking, as long as there is no one to report, there should be no one to notice them if there is a family-saving villa built by the Wu family and the Zhou family with 300 million yuan in front of it.But who would have thought that someone attacked Jia's family and Jia Yan, and then the situation suddenly changed, and they even pulled their Zhao family into it.

Of course, Mrs. Zhao knew how big a crime this was.Misappropriation of public funds, even if Zhao Dejiang is the grandfather of the prince, if he is accused, it will not be a good thing.

Thinking of his son's ten years of hardship, ten years of ups and downs in the officialdom, and the possibility of being ruined because of his own vanity in the end, the old man felt like a knife was piercing his heart. Since he woke up until now, the old man's mouth has only one sentence:

"It's all my fault~!"

Zhao Dejiang hurriedly said: "Father, father, it's not my father's fault. It's just that some people don't like Wansui's trust in Concubine Jia Shu, so they found an excuse to ruin Concubine Jia Shu's reputation, but they didn't want to be seen through by Concubine Jia Shu."

"What? What?"

Mrs. Zhao still didn't respond.

Zhao Dejiang waved his hand, making those girls and women push them down, and even the daughters-in-law retreated outside the door, and then replied: "Father, according to my son, during this period of time, concubine Jia Shu has been being criticized everywhere in Beijing. It is just groundless to say that Concubine Jia Shu wants to emulate Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty. And the person who did this is without a doubt the nobleman Zhu and the Zhu family."

Although some people have said that the current emperor is a true character, those civil and military officials in the court don't think so.At least, in the heart of Zhao Dejiang, who has experienced more than ten years of ups and downs in the officialdom, the current emperor can win over a thousand brothers and finally ascend the throne. This result in itself is the highest evaluation of the emperor's level of thick and dark.Therefore, the concubines in the harem believed that the emperor had true love for Noble Zhu, but for courtiers like Zhao Dejiang, no matter how lovely Mr. Zhu was, he was not as good as him to the emperor.Zhao Dejiang firmly believed that the reason why the emperor favored Mr. Zhu was that Mr. Zhu had an elder brother who was good at fighting.

In Zhao Dejiang's view, since the emperor was able to praise noble Zhu so highly for the sake of the country, he would naturally be able to praise the second woman for the sake of the country.Among other things, if the emperor wanted to take the credit for this sweet potato, so what?Can concubine Jia Shu still compete with the emperor?The emperor did not suppress Concubine Jia Shu in the first place, and it was doomed that Concubine Jia Shu is aloof today.

Zhu Guiren obviously also saw this, so he took advantage of the time when the emperor was not in Beijing to find a way to destroy Concubine Jia Shu's greatest reliance, that is, to destroy Concubine Jia Shu's reputation and popular support, so as to maintain her position.And Concubine Jia Shu also saw through Zhu Guiren's panic, but she was too lazy to fight directly with Zhu Guiren, so she used this idiot of the Xue family to expose the matter.

That is to say, Concubine Jia Shu didn't do anything, and dragged their Zhao family, Wu family, Zhou family, and their three families into trouble.

This turmoil is no longer a battle between Noble Zhu and Concubine Jia Shu, this time the turmoil has become a battle between the noble lady who is the head of the three nobles and the fourth of the six concubines.If you win, noble Zhu is no longer the emperor's heart, and you will not continue to be aloof in the palace. If you lose, the law does not blame the public. Could the emperor still let his three sons lose their mother clan? ?

Therefore, from Zhao Dejiang's point of view, what happened this time was that Concubine Jia Shu had no children and therefore did not want to confront noble Zhu directly, so she brought them along to Zhao's family, Wu's family and Zhou's family.And this time is also the opportunity that the three of them have been waiting for for a long time.

When Mrs. Zhao heard this, he immediately regained his energy: "Son! You mean, are you okay?"

Zhao Dejiang lowered his voice, and replied: "Naturally nothing happened. Even if there is a censor who hears about the incident, there are also Wu family and Zhou family who are standing in front of it. However, father and son will need two years before they can get the borrowed money back. The matter of the project payment has been smoothed out. So, you must be good."

Hearing what his son said, Mrs. Zhao felt relieved.

The roots of the Wu family and the Zhou family are not much deeper than their Zhao family, and they spent more than 300 million yuan on the family-saving villa!

Mrs. Zhu attacked Concubine Jia Shu who spent a total of 80 taels of silver in the palace with the word extravagant, so why not accuse the three of them?Well, he would like to see that when the matter came up in front of the emperor, three of the mother clans of the four remaining sons of the current emperor made mistakes. Her natal family was still a general with heavy troops in hand.

Mrs. Zhao just wanted to see how the emperor would react.