[Red Mansion] Queen's Road

Jia Yuanchun will not doubt Baoqin's loyalty.

After watching Baoqin leave, I thought in my heart which clothes I should wear to look extravagant when I come to pass the decree later.

By the way, the clothes haven't been delivered yet.

"Hold the piano..."

No one agreed, and another maid came, "Your Majesty, what are your orders?"

"What's your name? Go and ask me when the House of Internal Affairs will deliver my clothes."

"When the servant girl was at home, the family name was Osmanthus fragrans. The servant girl should go to the House of Internal Affairs to ask."

The name Osmanthus fragrans is a bit vulgar.

"Call Gui Zhi, go ask them, when will the other expenses be delivered?" At this time, I feel that Baoqin is not here, it is really inconvenient, if I used to worry about these small things, I would have to take care of Baoqin.

No, we need to send another competent person in the family.

After a while, the imperial dining room came to deliver the food, and the table was full. Jia Yuanchun frowned after reading it.Let Guizhi take a silver ticket and reward them.

"I don't like to eat these, so I'll bring another table."

She has just risen to a high position, and this is the time to stand up, even if a table of good dishes has to find out a little fault, and then reward them for a while, and let these people know that they are not easy to bully.

It would be fine if she herself was brought in from outside the palace, after so many years in the palace, the people in the palace knew her a little bit, and the imperial dining room used to bully her a lot.

The people who delivered the food looked at each other and took the food away. After a while, they sent a new batch over.

Jia Yuanchun looked at it and was still dissatisfied, so he flipped through it several times with chopsticks, picked out the edible ones and ate them.A eunuch next to him reminded him, "Your Majesty doesn't eat much today, but you don't feel comfortable anywhere. If there is something uncomfortable, please tell me so that I can call the imperial physician for you at this time."

This time happened to be the critical time for her to become a concubine, so of course she couldn't let herself get sick.

Jia Yuanchun shook her head, she knew that there was a rule in the harem, if she hired an imperial physician, she could not send her nameplate to the respect room.

The eunuch next to him asked again, "You haven't eaten a few bites of these things, are you a little angry?"

Jia Yuanchun was a little angry, "I can eat as many bites as I want, can you control it?"

The eunuch kowtowed and asked people to pack up their things, and a group of people withdrew.

At noon, two dishes of side dishes and a bowl of porridge were delivered.

"This is for your fire."

It's been like this for two days in a row, if it's not obvious that the imperial dining room has been messing with Jia Yuanchun for so many years.

But the eunuch who came to deliver the food had a good reason, "This is the rule set by the empress. If you don't believe it, you can ask yourself to see how other empresses usually eat."

Jia Yuanchun felt that he could hold back his breath at this critical moment and find someone to settle the score later.But after waiting and waiting, I didn't get the so-called reward until the Chinese New Year.

Even on the first day of the Lunar New Year's Eve, I couldn't go out to stand in the inner house to celebrate.

And the first day of the new year is my birthday, so it makes no sense for my wife and the old lady not to come to me.

The more Jia Yuanchun thought about it, the more something went wrong, and when he reached the door, the eunuch blocked him back.

"Your Majesty, it is inconvenient for you to move around at this time. You have no title and no position. It is not right to go out at this time. Besides, the wives of the ministers of the Zhu Kingdom are here today. It's the princess and the princess, if you go out like this, you will have a bad reputation, please be patient for a little longer, your empress."

Jia Yuanchun angrily returned to the dormitory, made a calculation, and left with the piano for more than half a month.

"Guizhi, go and ask when Baoqin will come back?"

"Your Majesty, Sister Baoqin can't come back. I told you a few days ago... Her wound was bleeding with pus, and then she had a fever. Within two days, she was gone."

"Baby maid, did you say that?"

Gui Zhi was so frightened that she quickly knelt down, "Mother, I told you three days ago, and you agreed."

Jia Yuanchun had an impression that she seemed to have drank some wine and listened in a daze, thinking she was going home with the piano in her arms.

"Drag her down, drag her down to beat the board." Jia Yuanchun walked up and down anxiously in the bedroom, "What should I do? If the qin is gone, how can I send a message outside? Who will pick up my wife then? The bank note?"

This time, although Linlin failed to preside over the pilgrimage of the wives, the wives who came to the palace must kowtow outside the Ganlu Hall to say hello.

Those who are well-informed know that the empress had a fight with the emperor a few days ago and became pregnant, and she is taking good care of her these two days.What I don't know is that I heard that the empress is pregnant again, but the pregnancy is not very good, and now the imperial doctor has asked her to rest.

The female family members of Rongguo Mansion also paid their respects outside the main hall, and the eunuchs in the palace hurried up to help the female family members of Rongguo Mansion and Ningguo Mansion up.

"Our empress gave orders, saying that it is cold weather, let the female family members of your mansion go back early, the empress is a little uncomfortable this year, so I will not see you. Here are some things that the empress rewarded for the children in the family to play Bar."

The old lady and Mrs. Wang looked at each other, and had no choice but to accept the things, and walked away step by step.

Those married princesses and princesses couldn't stop them, they all sat in the bedroom and talked for a while, seeing that there was Jia Min, Mrs. Cheng'en, waiting outside, they all left early.

Jia Min came and quickly sat down on the bedside and touched Linlin's hand, "Aren't your hands cold, are your feet cold? You don't know the last time I went back, my master and I didn't fall asleep for several nights, so we I'm afraid that you have something wrong with you..."

"Don't worry, I haven't dared to move in the past few days. I haven't touched the account book, and I haven't done the abacus. I don't listen to the outside world. I just want to raise this child."

Jia Min nodded, "I'll go back and tell the master exactly what you said, and let him stop worrying so much."

He opened his mouth and hesitated to speak, as if he was thinking of something, but he couldn't say it.

Seeing her appearance, Linlin was a little anxious, "Say what you want to say, there is no outsider in this room."

"The bad things outside have nothing to do with our family, nor with you, nor with the court, so let's not talk about these gossips. Our family has an important matter to announce to the empress."

Linlin thought for a while, and most likely it was Lin Hao's marriage.

"My younger brother has already started seeing others?"

"It's the master's brother from the same family, who lives in the family of Mr. Xin in Shuchuan. Before the New Year, the master went out to drink and compose poems with those senior brothers. At the wine table, he heard that the girl from Mr. Xin's family was not married yet, so he proposed for your younger brother. .”

"Master Xin...what is your official position? Why hasn't my daughter heard of it?"

Jia Min sighed, "I'm not in the capital at all, and I'm a small official. Of course you haven't heard of it. He is a seventh-rank official. He is a county magistrate and has been released outside for years. He has been an old county magistrate for decades. , also has political achievements, but has a bad temper. Listening to the master's opinion, she has a good reputation among scholars... and said that a girl from such a family is married to our family. I can only cheer up and deal with your brother. marriage."

She has an ugly face and feels that her daughter-in-law's status is low.

In Linlin's impression, father Lin Ruhai has never done anything unreliable.So I am satisfied with this marriage.

"Mother is going to be a mother-in-law in a blink of an eye, and she will have grandchildren in the next two or three years. She should be happy."

Speaking of this, Jia Min smiled again when he thought of his future grandchildren.

After the previous pilgrimage was over, the prince was sent back, and he brought his younger brother Bai Ze to greet his grandmother.

Jia Min quickly took out two big red envelopes from his sleeve and stuffed them into the hands of the two brothers.After saying a few more auspicious words, he went out with a flushed face.

When Jia Min left the palace gate, the maids around her said to her, "Madam, it looks like the sedan chair of the old lady of Rongguo Mansion."

Jia Min thought to herself that she was probably waiting here for Jia Yuanchun's affairs, so she led the people to the sedan chair, and the old lady raised the curtain to let her daughter sit up.

"Did you ask Yuan Chun how he is doing recently?"

Jia Min's face was distorted when he heard that, the quarrel between his daughter and son-in-law a few days ago was because of Yuan Chun.After returning home, the old man's face was ashen and defeated for two or three days, and he continued to say, "... Your Majesty, this is a dangerous game. If it is not done well, the three of them, the mother and the child, will not end well."

After another two or three days, the master didn't hear any troubles in the court, and he didn't hear people talking about the main palace behind his back, so he finally let go of his heart, because worrying about this matter, the little meat that was hard-fought in winter went down again. The whole person is skinny and skinny, as if he could be blown down by a gust of wind.

"What's the matter? Did your mother tell you?" Seeing that she didn't speak, the old lady hurriedly asked.

Looking at the anxious face of the old lady, Jia Min readjusted her expression. "Your Majesty didn't say this. My Majesty was recently pregnant with the little prince, and the imperial doctor told her to stay in bed to recuperate. She put all those things aside and didn't care about her brother's marriage when I told her just now.

I didn't mention Yuan Chun's in advance, the old lady just heard someone say..."

Some unspeakable appearance.

"say what?"

Jia Min hesitated again, "People say that Jia's house is not clean, what raises a younger brother-in-law, raises a younger brother-in-law, picks up ashes..."

"Where did you hear about it? This is nonsense. When you heard about it, you should have greeted it with a big mouth..."

"It doesn't necessarily mean that there is nothing to do. I can greet one person... Can I greet ten or hundreds of people? I also don't believe it. It's just that there are noses and eyes in the outside world, although it has nothing to do with our family... After all, it is an ancestor. You let My two older brothers take care of it."

The old lady was very angry, and Jia Min was afraid of angering her, so let's not talk about it, the old lady will chase after herself to ask about Yuanchun.

"This may be nonsense... Go back and ask my brother and sister-in-law. It's getting late. I saw that the brazier in the sedan chair has also gone out. You should go back early. It's cold outside."

"We haven't spoken for a long time, you just sit here and say a few more words with me..."

A maid shouted outside, "Madam, it's getting late, we should go."

Jia Min quickly explained, "Our master said this morning that his brother-in-law hasn't left yet, so let our family make a decision earlier and let Hao'er marry a wife earlier, and the daughter will go back first to arrange Hao'er's marriage. , I’m going to meet my in-laws this year, and I won’t go home during the Chinese New Year, and I’ll greet the old lady when I’m free.”

The old lady had no reason to stop her now, "Go, go, this is a big deal."

Jia Min agreed, got off the sedan chair and sat in her own carriage.Feeling uncomfortable, Lin Ruhai was already sitting in the main hall when the carriage returned home.

"I saw the empress, how do you look?"

"Looking at the complexion, you are not unaware of your mother's body, she has always been strong. She took good care of herself when she gave birth to the crown prince and the second prince. I'm afraid she will be a little impatient to lie down for the past three months."

Lin Ruhai stroked his beard, "That's fine, I saw the prince in the hall today, and many people called him Prince Lin behind his back. Although his mother's surname is Lin, it makes me a little uneasy to bring our family's surname... ...Recently, you mother and son have been keeping a low profile and keeping a low profile, and nothing will come out."

"Understood, our family will close the door to live, and let our two brothers close the door to study."

Lin Ruhai acquiesced to this, "You can take Daiyu to dinner, I'll go to the back to watch the two brothers."

Jia Min stood up, "If you celebrate Chinese New Year, don't eat at a separate table. The whole family should have a reunion meal together. The master and his two sons can come directly to the backyard."

Lin Ruhai nodded in agreement.

The new year is over, and the weather is starting to get warmer.

Linlin was finally able to get out of bed and walk around.

Turning around in front of the overcoat mirror, Linlin felt that she had stretched her waist after lying down for two months.

"From tomorrow on, give me brown rice porridge and brown rice. By the way, do you still have the vegetables in the shed? Fry those vegetables for me. What will the rabbits eat?"

The maids looked at each other, not daring to hide it, and quickly sent someone to tell Qian Sheng, and when Qian Sheng knew about it, the emperor would know about it.

"Tell the queen not to worry about it. She is already the mother of two children, so why bother? If you get fatter, just get fatter. She is not the only one in the palace who is fat."

After finishing speaking, General Xiao Guo, the commander of the inner guard battalion, came in and handed over a small piece of paper. The emperor snorted after reading it.

"Tell the queen, I will go out to see our family's business. When I come back to eat at the Ganlu Hall in the evening, I want to see what she eats at night."

Then he quickly changed his clothes and went out with Qian Sheng and General Xiao Guo.

Jia Lian was waiting for him at the shop on North Third Street.

"Oh, brother Cui, you are here, you said this...I don't even have the face to meet you."

"Our friendship is ours. I have no friendship with the second master of your mansion." The emperor sneered and invited Jia Lian in.

"The wife of our family...has been short of money recently, and I just got the news from my daughter-in-law, so I'll send you a letter quickly, either this month or next month, the post will be delivered to your home, You go back and discuss it with your family to see how it is appropriate to decline."

"To put it bluntly, it's buying shares, but to put it bluntly, it's to steal my property. Could it be that your wife doesn't know how big our business is?

Last year, when the wheat was about to be harvested, our family invested a lot of money. We signed a contract with those farmers near Gyeonggi. As long as they grow cotton, we will pay 4% of the silver as a deposit. After the cotton is harvested, we will give it to us. , we will pay the rest of the balance. If the harvest is good and exceeds the amount we set, if they are willing to sell more, we will accept it.More than 800 million taels of silver were scattered out.

Cotton will be planted again this year, and county magistrates from all over the country have contacted our shopkeepers, and want to plant some cotton for us to harvest.The second wife of your family doesn't want to think that our stall is so big, could it be that there is no one behind it? "

Jia Lian patted the table, "It's not that I didn't tell my wife, I said that your family has something to do with the clan, but our second wife also said that our family is a second-class family here anyway, and those princes The relationship between the princess and princess is good, and they just invested some money in it, and then earned some dividends.

By the way, my wife's aunt's family is also in business, that is Xue's family.I bought a batch of cotton from the south at this moment, and I want to sell it to your family, and I want to talk about it tomorrow. "

"In order to avoid embarrassment for our two families, please stop Brother Jia, our family is not thinking of letting others buy shares.

Brother Jia, please go back and tell her that our family will not collect cotton this year. The cotton harvested last year is enough for this year. The caravan went to the grassland and brought back a lot of wool. We plan to spin wool and cotton together. Cloth, these fabrics are sold on the grasslands in the north, and the weaving is thick and warm, and there is not enough manpower to dry them. We have to collect cotton and sell cotton cloth in the coming year. "

"So you really don't do cotton business this year? Brother, I'm a dude, but I also know that the North has always been a serious problem for us. If someone accuses you of collaborating with the enemy... what will you do?"

"You don't have to worry about that." The emperor just waved his hand, so he wouldn't tell Jia Lian that there is a mountain on the commercial road in the north, which is full of iron ore. Every time the caravan passes by here, it can't help but go smoothly. Bring some back.

The most coincidental thing is that there is coal in the open air next to it. These people in the caravan were all frontier soldiers who went out in the past. They were so bold that they actually stationed in the mine and brought back iron ingots.

After the emperor heard about it, he immediately dispatched his confidantes to take over the big and small things near the mine. Using the caravan as a cover, he planned to run a few more times to bring the iron ingots back as soon as possible.

The emperor didn't care how much money he made, but he had to ask how many iron ingots were shipped back several times a day.

Most people wear sheepskin on the grasslands, and few people wear the soft and thick fabrics that people in the Central Plains have. As long as they exchange wool for fabrics, the nomads on the grasslands are very generous.

If the wool is not enough, you can bring back some cows and horses. Although the number of cows and horses is small, it can't stop the number of times.

The business line running north now is the emperor's most important thing.

Secondly, the emperor had to set his eyes on the Nanyang commercial line. When this commercial line returned to the city, it was the most grain. The rice poured down from the boat like flowing water, and it was continuously transported into the country. , alleviating disasters everywhere.

Although some places have been flooded and some places have been drought in recent years, the emperor does not need to worry about getting angry. If there is a disaster in some place, he can just transfer the grain from the Taiping warehouse.

Sure enough, it is the best thing to be generous to others to solve your own troubles.It’s just that the queen has quarreled a few times, the couple, the meat rotted in the pot, just put your son in front of the queen, and tell her that if you don’t bleed, your son will take over from now on. I endured it.

Jia Lian just nodded after hearing what the emperor said, "Although our wife intends to buy shares in your family, we have to wait until the funeral of our nephew and daughter-in-law is over."

"Nephew and daughter-in-law?"

"Speaking of which, she is still the wife of our old Jia's family. She is gone at a young age. Why does our old lady feel so uncomfortable? It is said that the funeral will take more than half of it."

The emperor's eyes moved, he looked at General Xiao Guo, General Xiao Guo nodded and went out.

"Why is the person gone? Could it be that he died during childbirth?"

"It's fine if it's really because of giving birth to a child... Let's not talk about it, let's not talk about it, it's because of a woman's disease and passed away."

After finishing speaking, he looked like he would not talk about it in detail.

I stopped talking, and then quickly explained, "I have a woman's disease and I'm gone."

The emperor didn't ask any further questions, and after Jia Lian left, General Xiao Guo reported, "After strangling him to death, he hung him on a beam, making it look like he committed suicide."

"I don't ask you why she died, I just ask you if you found out? Is that my niece or not?"

"I haven't found out yet. The time in between is too long. The person who handled it is either dead or missing. It seems vaguely to be the blood of the Tian family, but there is no evidence. If there is no evidence, I dare not put it in front of you... ..."

Seeing the emperor's expression, General Xiao Guo quickly explained again in order to avoid giving the emperor the impression that he was a fool who couldn't do anything. "Among the female relatives of the abolished prince, no one was pregnant when the Qin family was born. We I also wanted to check outside to see if the deposed prince had bought the outer room, but we couldn't find any clues. We turned to check Qin's biological parents. I have no impression. However, the vessels used by the Qin family contained old objects from the Eastern Palace at that time. The minister thought that a few items could not be regarded as evidence. Maybe someone stole them out of the palace and moved them to Jia's house and placed them in Qin's room. possible."

The emperor waved his hand, "If you have time, check out these items from the East Palace. If you don't have time, forget it, everyone is already dead."

When the couple sat together to eat at night, the emperor took the green vegetables on the plate held by the chopsticks, "I don't think the daughter-in-law of Jia's family is my eldest brother's child."

"why?"

"My elder brother is a gentleman. He would never do such a thing. Just because he is too upright, he would not use those low methods or do such low things. If you really have a child , I will definitely hug her back generously, why bother to keep her in someone else's house."

"If it's not, then it's not, so what? It's a girl and everyone is gone."

After the two of them had dinner, the emperor took the eldest son to read an article, while Bai Ze played with the cloth tiger. Finally, watching the two little guys yawn, he was carried to sleep.

"It's said that loving mothers often lose children. I didn't believe this before, but now I believe it. Have you asked people to repair the East Palace for so long and haven't repaired it yet?"

After hearing this, Linlin rolled her eyes, "I haven't repaired it for a while, isn't it necessary to repair the garden for the emperor? All the craftsmen have gone to repair the garden. When the garden is repaired, let them come back to repair the East Palace.

Our Qilin is still young now, so we are not in a hurry to move to the East Palace, but the Supreme Emperor feels that there are too many people in the palace, and it feels uncomfortable to take a breath. I went to pay my respects a few days ago, and the old man left me to talk , Asked two or three times whether the garden has been repaired?I thought in my heart to let the old man move out sooner. After moving out, we can be more comfortable with each other. "

The emperor understood Linlin's thoughts, and he didn't want to put such a young son outside. He always felt that it would be more reassuring to watch her under his nose, so he didn't intend to expose her.

He just gave him a deadline, "He must move out after the age of 7. A man can't grow in the hands of a woman. I have already selected a teacher for him. I will start learning when he is five or six years old." Wen Xiwu, this is a serious matter, don't stand aside."

"Am I that kind of confused mother? Don't worry, as long as he passes his seventh birthday, I will definitely move him out. If he doesn't study hard, I will definitely teach him a lesson."

The husband and wife talked for a while, and the emperor watched the maid serve Linlin and then went out of the Ganlu Palace. After walking a few steps with the people, he saw several maids holding lanterns in front of her to greet her.

"Your Majesty, we belong to Empress Jia of Fengzao Palace, and our empress has something to report."

The emperor didn't listen at all, "The queen is in charge of the affairs in the palace. If there is anything, let him talk to the queen tomorrow."

The maids had no choice but to retreat, and Jia Yuanchun came out from behind the tree, "This concubine really has something important to do here, I just ask the emperor to give this concubine a cup of tea to listen to."

The emperor thought that the Qin family was dead, and wondered what earth-shattering secret Jia Yuanchun could reveal, so he waved away the others, "What do you have to say?"

What I want to say has been typed out several times. From how to start, how to quote, and how to end, Jia Yuanchun deliberated and deliberated, so when this passage was spoken, it was very proficient.

Although the emperor didn't get cold hands and feet after hearing it, he did know how vicious a woman can be.

"You said that the Qin family strangled him to death?"

"As a clan wife, she had an affair with others... ruined the reputation of the royal family... death is not enough to atone for her sins. She is also the daughter of the deposed prince, and the Supreme Emperor ordered the inner court to slaughter the heirs of the deposed prince... "

"Enough, let's go."

"The status of the concubine... The empress has always held a grudge against the concubine. The concubine did not frame her, but she is detaining the golden book of the concubine's concubine..."

"You are a noble concubine, and you are the first noble concubine since I ascended the throne, so when the imperial decree is issued, people have to check the date again, you should step down."

Jia Yuanchun was overjoyed, "The concubine thanks the emperor, but I don't know if I can call the concubine's mother into the palace once..."

"Mr. Jia, don't push your nose on your face. How can the concubine's mother enter the palace at will."

After saying this, the emperor directly bypassed her and took the people away.A few young eunuchs were left to watch Jia Yuanchun go back to Fengzao Palace.

In the early morning of the second day, all the inner palace eunuchs who guarded the palace gates yesterday were all taken to the Punishment Department, and each of them hit the board for 2 minutes.

While beating, the eunuch in charge of the Punishment Department lectured, "The beating is to make you remember better. The empress is kind, and what happened yesterday can be ignored. If cats and dogs come out of any palace next time, they should go back." You are still wandering outside, you have to think about what your crime is next time."

Those who were beaten did not dare to complain.It was just beating and beating, and some of them were beaten out of breath. The eunuch in charge of the Punishment Department waved his hand, and those who were out of breath were dragged out.

"Have you seen that, those who neglect their duties next time will be your role models. You risked your life for those taels of money, do you think it's worth it?"

Jia Zhen's daughter-in-law Qin Keqing died, and funerals were reported everywhere.

After reporting to the Lin family, although Jia Min felt that it was a pity to pass away at a young age, this nephew and grand-nephew's wife belonged to Dongfu.When Jia Min got married, she hadn't married yet. Jia Min went to Jiangnan for several years and had no contact with her.

So he said to Mrs. Liu, "Tell the people in their family that our master's health is not good. At that time, the two of us will not go, let our uncle go, and persuade their family not to grieve too much. .”

Both Lin Ruhai and his wife didn't take this matter to heart, thinking it was just a funeral for ordinary juniors, but they felt something was wrong in the afternoon of the second day.

First, the juniors or subordinate officials sent by various palaces came to express their condolences.Then, the princess mansions and princess mansions sent people over.

With these people leading the way, these spirits in the capital quickly sent people to Jia's house to mourn.

Jia Min quickly sent someone to inquire. The butler went out for a while, and when he came back, he brought big news.

"It is rumored that this person is... the daughter of the deposed prince. She hid in Jia's house and escaped the catastrophe, but she didn't expect that she was a beautiful woman. Although she escaped the knife in the neck, she still went underground to follow her. His parents, brothers and sisters were reunited."

Lin Hao felt that this was nonsense, "Some people believe this."

"My lord, otherwise everyone wouldn't believe it. It's just that the princes of all the mansions have sent people out... If you don't believe it, you have to believe it. The whole capital believed it, and almost the whole capital city sent people to mourn the funeral."

Lin Hao was confused when he heard this, and turned to look at Lin Ruhai, "I heard that everyone in the capital goes to their house to mourn, what should we do?"

"Our family has some kinship with their family, so it's just like a junior is gone. Your mother and I don't need to go, it's fine if you go around for a while."

"Okay, that son won't go to the Imperial College today, please take a day off to go around, come back and continue studying, and go to the Imperial College tomorrow."

Lin Ruhai nodded, it was very appropriate for his son to do so.

Lin Hao went to Ningguo Mansion, and as soon as he entered, he was surrounded by the children of Jia's family and went to eat and drink in the yard.

Jia Rong, whose wife just died, ate and drank among these people like a normal person.

The more Lin Hao looked at it, the more he felt that something was wrong, and quietly asked a few people around him, "Why am I looking at him... am I so sad and stupid?"

The few Jia family children who were questioned winked, "Cousin, don't ask, brother Rong must be happy at this time."

Lin Hao thought to himself, what is there to be happy about the death of his wife?

Just as he was about to ask, Lin Liang approached him, "Master, my servant saw your classmate coming over, why don't you go over and have a few words with him?"

All Lin Hao knew were scholars, but the children of Jia's family didn't like to read. When they heard that the person they were going to meet was also a scholar, they didn't want Lin Hao to introduce them, but urged them to go quickly.

After Lin Hao bid them farewell, he asked Lin Liang, "Which classmate is it? I didn't hear yesterday that someone asked for leave today to mourn the funeral."

"It's not your classmate, it's the servant who saw the gift list just now, saying that Cui Qiye is a follower, thinking that he might be nearby, you might as well come out and meet him."

Lin Hao lowered his voice and asked him in a low voice, "Why does my brother-in-law follow others? Could it be that the rumors outside are true?"

"I don't know about such small things, or you can ask later?"

The two masters and servants left Ningguo Mansion and Ningrong Street, leading people along the road, when someone threw a walnut from an upstairs window, and it hit Lin Hao on the head.Looking up, it turned out that the emperor was standing at the window.

Lin Hao hurried upstairs, it was very quiet upstairs.

"Just now, the slave at home said that he saw you as a gift, and wanted to come out to try his luck. Why did brother-in-law come here? Are all the rumors outside true?"

The emperor asked him back, "What are the rumors outside?"

"It is said that this is the daughter of the deposed prince... I don't believe it, but I met my brother-in-law here today..."

"No shadow, I'm here just to show Jia Lian."

"Then what's going on with the rumors outside? It's even said that the palace has sent people to sacrifice."

Jia Yuanchun's denunciation was to use the Eastern Empress Dowager to stand out for him, but he told the secret to the Grand Concubine, and the Grand Concubine's mouth was blowing at the Supreme Emperor for a while.The old man exterminated the eldest son's family back then, but now that he is old, it's better to think of the eldest son, because the temptress just opened her mouth and identified Qin as her granddaughter.I also heard that she was sick and passed away, and she felt distressed like something.

"When people get old, it is easy to be confused, especially when there is an old witch by his side who believes everything he says.

The Supreme Emperor called our brothers over yesterday and asked if the dead Qin family was my eldest brother's child. I argued with him a few words, but he was arrogant and unreasonable, and asked my brothers to come out to mourn. I can't afford to lose this person, so I let the people in the family come out to fool me. "

After finishing speaking, he threw the few walnuts in his hand on the table, "I didn't enter their house, how did you go in and see? Is this funeral grand enough?"

"Style is decent, but I think the people in their family are a little weird. Speaking of which, it was Jia Rong who died of his wife, but it was Jia Zhen who was sad. I heard that Jia Zhen was sad on crutches. Rong was drinking at home, and everyone in the Jia family seemed to be beaming, not as if they were here to mourn, this..."

"It's just a family scandal, and it's just disrespectful to the deceased. In addition, the palace and princess mansion have come, such a funeral has never happened in the capital for many years, and people are proud of it. There is nothing clean in this family's house. , don’t stay here for too long, go back soon.”

"Will brother-in-law still wait here for cousin Lian?"

"Yes, I will go back after meeting him."

Lin Hao didn't want to leave, and wanted to talk squeakingly, but finally couldn't help it, "What happened in the past few months...my sister's temper is a bit grumpy, she didn't mean to quarrel with her brother-in-law, in fact, she is Very good, with a sharp mouth and a tofu heart, I respect my brother-in-law in my heart, and live with my brother-in-law wholeheartedly..."

The emperor smiled, "Don't I know who your sister is? Don't worry about it. This matter is over long ago. We have reconciled. You don't need to worry about it here. Go back. Go back. "

Lin Hao agreed, and when he went downstairs, he met Jia Lian. Jia Lian was dressed in white and patted Lin Hao's shoulder, "Why is my cousin here? Although it's spring, it's still a little cold. Go home soon. There is hot tea inside, let someone serve you a few cups."

"No, no, no, I just want to go to my cousin to say goodbye. I haven't finished reading today. If I don't study hard today, I won't be able to tell my master tomorrow, but I will have to slap my hand. My brother will leave now, and I won't come to the house." Li said goodbye, and you also advised the whole family not to be too sad."

After the two cousins ​​said a few words downstairs and said goodbye to each other, Jia Lian went upstairs with the hem of the mourning dress.

"Brother Cui, you are here. I just read the gift list and it cost you money."

The two of them sat down upstairs as guests and hosts, and Jia Lian took a sip of hot tea.

"I can finally find a place to rest for a while. It's not that I'm showing off in front of Brother Cui. There are a lot of people here now, but there is no one next door to us who can support things. Only the two of us go there to support on."

After speaking, he took out a stack of bank notes from the inner pocket of his clothes, "Here are 5000 taels of silver, 3000 taels are for repaying the money I borrowed from my brother last time, and I entrusted my brother to keep the remaining 2000 taels for me. Our family That tigress has taken me too seriously recently, and dare not hide some private money at home."

"You said last time that Jinwu Zangjiao said it was for an heir, but now you are pregnant