Daguanyuan Food Research Bureau

I have dried fish that is not fragrant.

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The fourth prince also felt that he couldn't control him if he was not in the capital, besides, his nephew hadn't done anything outrageous.For a moment, I thought of those bad things in his family. He was only 12 years old. It was really pitiful. Seeing him plopping down on his knees, his attitude of admitting his mistakes was not very good. up.

Mu Shi breathed a sigh of relief. Although Jia Zhu's matter was on his mind, the situation just now was a bit complicated. Facing his uncle's summons, Mu Shi could only brace himself for a moment.This will immediately remind me of the pharmacist, now in confinement, he would not be reckless to tease the tiger's beard on the first day, so he had to send someone to push back the meeting, and then got up to find his aunt.

The sky was getting colder, and the garden was withered, only a few evergreen trees were still green. Mu Shi walked through a hand-painted veranda, and the pond beside him was filled with floating grass and dead lotus swaying with the water waves blown by the wind.Many servants stood by the shore pool, picking up the dead branches and leaves in the pool with nets.

Prince Qin's Mansion was expanded on the basis of the original Fourth Prince's Mansion, and everything was arranged in strict accordance with the Prince's system, neither overstepping the rules nor deliberately lowering it to accommodate.

Although he was more familiar with this place than his own mansion, he was still led by the person in front. When the corridor reached the end, he walked down the stone steps. When he saw him, the servants along the way stopped what they were doing, turned towards him, bowed and stood with hands down. over there.

After passing through another hanging flower gate, I entered the backyard.Aunt Mu Shi's main courtyard is directly opposite.

There are many camellias in full bloom in this yard, the fragrance is not strong, but it is much more lively than the front yard.Mu Shi saw Madam Dong waiting under the dripping eaves at a glance. The other party walked over quickly, and Mu Shi hurriedly helped her who was about to salute.

Leaving aside Dong Mama's status in front of the princess, Mu Shi would not let her bow down to how the old mama took care of him.

Mother Dong looked at him with a loving smile, and kept saying: "Just now the concubine was still reading, and she wanted to send someone to ask, but it happened that someone reported that my brother was coming. You should go in quickly."

Mu Shi also nodded with a smile, and picked up the steps. The maid at the door had already drawn up the curtain. As soon as Fang entered, before he saw the princess, he heard a female voice happily saying, "Brother Shi is here? Come here and let me see." Look."

Hearing his aunt's concern, Mu Shi had a sore nose, and bowed to the woman sitting on the chair in the middle to pay her respects.Just seeing a face somewhat similar to his mother's, he felt sour for a moment.

"Auntie." He only called out, and his voice was choked up.

The princess listened, her eyes turned red, she hurriedly picked up the handkerchief to wipe away her tears, and said with a smile: "This child is so old, why is he still acting like a child?"

Hearing this, Mu Shi smiled embarrassedly, concealed his grief, and let the princess hold his hand and look at him carefully.

The concubine Xu Xu said: "I remember that you were not so tall when you left the year before last. This is a good thing, but why are you thinner now?"

As he said that, he ordered the maid on the other side: "Quickly show the table to Mr. Biao."

After Mu Shi sat down, the concubine talked to him for a while and asked a lot of things. When Mu Shi spoke, she listened with a smile and soft eyes.

Mu Shi's mother left early, the princess had no children for many years, and was the only child left by her closest sister, so the princess treated him like her own son.

When he was young, what he looked forward to the most were festivals. At that time, the Fourth Prince had not yet allocated fiefdoms, and Mu Shi was often taken to the Fourth Prince's Mansion in the middle of Beijing.Compared with his family, where he has an aunt who loves him, although the fourth prince often scolds him, it is much better than his father who only beats him when there is a disagreement.

Mu Shi still respected this uncle very much in his heart.

"The prince told me about your matter, so you can stay in the palace with peace of mind, and don't worry about other things," the princess said to him, "I ordered someone to clean up for you in the front yard. It's in the courtyard, next to the prince's study, and the messengers are all familiar to you. If you need anything, just call someone to tell me."

The King of Qin is a man of one word. After all, Tianhuang Guizhou, except in front of the emperor and the prince, has never been the only one who gives orders. In the past experience of getting along with each other, Mu Shi deeply understands this point. Since the other party has already said it, it is tantamount to There is no need to discuss.And what he did before, his father would not care about him, and this uncle must have carried it for him.

Almost all the people in Shenjing acquiesced to this matter, and they would not care about looking for his father, so the complaints were directly filed to the Qin Palace.

Having said that, he was also grateful in his heart, but just detained him in the yard, and this time he poked him seven inches.

Mu Yi nodded sullenly.

The princess thought it was funny when she saw it, and thought that no matter how independent he is now, he is still a child after all in front of them, so she comforted her and said: "Be obedient, the prince will let you go early if he is not sure, besides, during this period of time The capital is chaotic, and there are people from all over the place, so you can study in peace in the mansion."

Said that he could study with peace of mind, King Qin actually arranged a husband for him.Mu Shi wondered, he was really not interested in these things, and he didn't plan to take the imperial examination, so why did he learn to write stereotyped essays.

Mu Shi is not too old, but the princess is not the only master in the mansion, so he doesn't dare to run around in this mansion, he just greets Qin Wang and his wife every day, and a guest surnamed Wei in the mansion cleans up the rest of the time. Mr. took it to study.

This Mr. Wei is about thirty years old, with a long face, wide-open but piercing eyes, a diorama on his snub nose, wearing a starched gown that looks gray all day, waving a broken fan, The whole person is neither fish nor fowl, and he has no impression of such a person with personal characteristics. He thinks that King Qin brought him back from the fiefdom.

Mr. Wei doesn't have any rules in teaching. Today he has learned half of this book, and tomorrow he will pick out another book.Sometimes in the middle of the talk, the topic gets more and more distant, and he asks and answers himself. If Mr. Wei occasionally asks him to ask a few questions, he almost thinks that he is not a student, but the king of Qin threw it to this man. Mr. relieved boredom as an audience.

Mu Shi is a person who can't stay still, but after two days of calm, he can't bear it anymore.

Seeing that he was getting restless, Mr. Wei didn't force him to attend the lectures. Instead, he put away the book and took out a volume from the books on the desk.

"Young master is so confident, you must have mastered everything, then Wei will test you." Mr. Wei shook his fan and said, compared with his very personal style, his voice was very ordinary.

Mu Shi slandered this big winter fan in his heart, but he was still a little dazed.

Master what, did he teach him anything.

After receiving the brochure, he heard the person on the opposite side say in a calm manner: "This is a mansion report from three years ago and a copy of the decree received by the prince. You can tell me what you see from it, my lord." .”

Unknown why, Mr. Wei stabbed indifferently: "I heard that the young master has made a lot of friends in Beijing and China in the past two years. I think it is not easy for the young master."

After Mu Shi heard this, he was not angry at all. The last thing he wanted was the aggressive method. Since his father didn't care whether he committed a crime or not, he naturally didn't care about his life. He had been beaten to death dozens of times in Beijing.

He opened the booklet and looked at it carefully.Just looking at it, a page full of obscure words made me dizzy immediately, but since I have already taken it in my hands, I can only read it patiently.

According to the thinking habit given to him by reading arithmetic books, before solving a problem, he must know the unknown and the basic idea. The first problem he faces is, what does this Mr. Wei want him to read.

The content of this mansion newspaper roughly has four contents, which are the list of the top [-] Jinshi, the appointment, removal and promotion of officials, the emperor's decree and some notes, and finally the drought situation in various places.

The list of Jinshi can be excluded, because there is only this record, and there is no possibility of reference and comparison, so he only picked up a few Jinshi from Beijing and skipped it after reading it.

He turned to the page on the appointment and dismissal of officials. The person who changed the most was Zhang Chengye.

He hurriedly turned to the edict, and as expected, he saw Zhu criticizing Zhang Chengye for trying to control the government. He was the leader, and there was a group of people behind him. He wrote down the names of these people, checked the catalog, and turned to the edict again. Behind the officials who have made great contributions to the suppression of bandits, I saw many familiar names, some who said that the governance was not good, and some were corrupt.

Mu Shi vaguely guessed something, but his heart was still unclear. Looking up, Mr. Wei was already looking at him with a book in his hand, and he didn't pay attention to him.

He cleared his throat, thought about his choice of words, and said, "Sir, is this Zhang Chengye what you want me to see?"

Mr. Wei looked away from the book, lowered his head, his glasses slid down, and looked straight at him from the top of the glasses, showing eagerness.

Mu Shi felt uncomfortable for a while, and subconsciously sat back a little.

Mr. Wei closed the book in his hand and smiled with satisfaction: "It seems that I teach well."

Mu Shi: "..." What did you teach me!

Mr. Wei put down the fan in his hand, and said: "Young Master, you can see that this place is already good, so how about jumping out of this mansion newspaper?"

Why did the person on the opposite side want to show him something from three years ago?Thinking of this, he took out the copy of the decree and looked at it again.

A big event did happen that year... But what is the relationship between the First Prince and Zhang Chengye?

Mr. Wei suddenly said: "I heard that your son has a good relationship with Mr. Jia Cunzhou of the Ministry of Industry, Mr. Jia's eldest son?"

Jia Cunzhou was talking about Jia Zheng.

Mu Shi didn't know why he suddenly mentioned Jia Zhu, but still nodded, "I knew him when I was studying in Jiangning Mansion."

Seeing that he was young and had already entered school unexpectedly, Mr. Wei had a look of astonishment on his face. Thinking of his father's style, he understood a little better, and he didn't dwell on this point, instead he said: "The Zhang family and the Rong family The Guofu is an in-law, and Zhang Chengye's daughter is the eldest wife of the eldest son of the Rongguo Mansion."

Mu Shi was taken aback, he didn't expect to have such a relationship.

Mr. Wei said again: "There is one more thing. You are young, so you may not know that Zhang Chengye has also been the teacher of the First Prince."

Mu Shi understood a little now, otherwise he would be a minister of the Ministry of Punishments, and he would have something to do with controlling the government.I think it's a matter of forming a party.

So three years ago, all the princes were allocated fiefdoms, only the eldest prince remained, and he is still unemployed in the mansion.

What does this have to do with the Zhang family and the Jia family being in-laws?

Mr. Wei stroked the spine of the book: "Earlier, because the emperor was getting old, he wanted to see his sons all the time, so even though he was entrusted, all the princes were still in Beijing. In addition, the emperor's attitude was ambiguous, and he wanted to serve a bowl of water. Ping, the crown prince was not powerful enough to cause that incident. The eldest prince fell, and the princes were driven to the fiefdom. Many marquis families took advantage of this opportunity to try their best to vote for the crown prince under the banner of supporting the holy will. Stand firm, the past few years are the time when the fire is cooking, and many people follow the trend."

"The Jia family has become more courageous in recent years." Mr. Wei said meaningfully.

There was something Mu Shi didn't understand at this moment.

He is the nephew of King Qin, this relationship is unclear, Jia's family is now on the prince's big ship.He and Jia Zhu have a good relationship, so it is inevitable that people will not guess. After all, what did he do, the first reaction of others is to sue the Qin Palace, not the Dongping County Palace.

Mu Shi threw the brochure on the desk, and said with a sneer, "Mr. Wei, why bother to beat around the bush. It's so long to lay the groundwork, so it's just to teach me this truth."

He stood up abruptly: "Mr. Wei also told my aunt... my lord, don't worry, my friend is only Jia Shanduan, he is going to die now, he is gone, what contact can I have with the Jia family? Naturally, I will not interact with them again, and others will not be able to climb any branches. I have made an appointment with the prince, and I will go ahead, sir, forgive me."

After saying that, he walked out without looking back.

There was silence in the house.

"This stinky boy."

At this time, someone in the back room cursed with a smile, and then asked with a smile: "What do you think, sir?"

Mr. Wei got up and walked in, bowed respectfully and said, "Mr. Mu is not only talented, but also has the heart of a child. It is a rare jade in the rough."

"Xuan Qiao, don't speak good words to him. What kind of childish heart, I think he is just wanton and reckless. He does everything according to his mood. How can he make things happen."

Mr. Wei secretly rolled his eyes, relying on the reflection of his glasses.

What you always say, at least restrain your smile is more convincing.

Qin Wang pondered for a moment, and said again: "During these days, you take good care of him, if he runs out of the house again, I will take you as a question."

He himself didn't believe what Mu Shi said about having an appointment with the crown prince.

He propped his head up and sighed deeply, so in the end he was motivated by success.Although what he said was true, since Jia Zhu died, he and Jia's mansion... have not much connection.It is said that the ancestors were all family friends in Jinling, and the two families had no contact since his grandfather's generation, so Jia Zhu took care of him at that time, it was because Jia Zhu was kind, and he couldn't see other people bullying him, casually talking about the family relationship.

The prince spit bubbles and stared at him, very cute and innocent.

Still a child is happy, he sighed, at least he had no choice.

Looking at the child who is still toothless, Mu Shi felt something was wrong.

Qin Wang is a very self-disciplined person.

What kind of boss is Youdao and what kind of corporate culture is it?The entire palace is as precise as a written program, when to do what.

Every time Mu Shi came, he would be affected, even when he was sleeping, he was so accurate that when the clapper was knocked at night, he would immediately feel sleepy.

In this environment, the son usually takes a nap at this time, so it is strange that he is suddenly so energetic today.

Thinking, he put his hand on his cousin's forehead.His face changed instantly.