Yang Mo pointed out the shortcomings, and soon a picture was completed. The blacksmith also felt that he understood it very well.
Zhou Chengling raised his head and looked at Yang Mo, "It looks like he learned pen and ink when he was a child."
Wearing a sapphire blue robe, he lowered his head slightly and lost some of the intimidating aura he used to have. Although he was not exactly approachable, he was still somewhat gentle.
Yang Mo nodded, "Learned it."
"It's a bit similar." Zhou Chengling looked at it carefully for a while and said.
She painted for a long time last night, so she didn't look like someone without any skills.
Zhou Chengling pondered, "It's a bit like Zhang Gong's skills." He pointed with his slender fingers.
Yang Mo nodded and looked.
Zhou Chengling said: "Zhang Gong likes to leave ink at the end of his strokes."
It sounds like leaving ink sounds so good, but it is actually just a pool of ink. It turns out that when he said "like", he was referring to this pool of ink. This man is really good at talking.
Yang Mo reached out to take back her painting from the table to avoid being ridiculed again. When she raised her head again and looked into Zhou Chengling's clear eyes, Yang Mo suddenly thought of what Zhou Chengling asked her that night.
If she was not ready to answer his inquiry at that time, this time she seemed to have carefully thought about it and prepared to make it clear. He had been very determined in doing things since he was a child, but this time he suddenly had a bad feeling.
"What Prince Xuan asked last time..." Yang Mo took a step back and shook her head as a rejection. What he said that night was unclear. Should we marry her or be a concubine or an outlaw? In ancient times, marriage was
Her parents ordered the matchmaker to be a good match. She knew that she was the daughter of a guilty minister and could not marry King Xuan. As for Zhou Chengling, she admittedly liked him in her heart, but she did not care about anything. What if he
If things in the future deviate from what she expected, and there are more spoiled wives and concubines around her, she won't be able to take it calmly.
She shook her head slightly to make her position clear, and took a step back to distance herself. No matter who she was, she would understand what she meant at this moment.
She doesn't want to, she doesn't want to be with him.
He didn't attach much importance to matters between men and women. From elementary school onwards, there should be no mistakes in strategy, etiquette, and policy. When the late emperor was alive, he used their family to govern. After the late emperor died, the emperor was even more wary of him. Before the landslide and the earth collapsed,
To be calm and composed, in addition to being the best in the fight, he also has to convince those who follow him. If he is used to living like this, he will not think about anything else at all, let alone racking his brains for a woman. When he meets Miss Yang
...From the initial curiosity to being attracted by her special temperament, her boldness and stubbornness are contrary to the world, but she still pretends to believe in ethics, and even boasts about it in the Yangxin Palace. She obviously acts cautiously, and sometimes
Yet fearless, such a woman gradually became different from others in his heart.
That's why he asked if he wanted to be together.
If you like her, keep her by your side and give her everything she deserves in the future.
But she didn't want to.
Yang Mo raised her head to look at Zhou Chengling, her expression neither angry nor happy. It was hard to imagine that under the moonlight that night when she was drunk, there was some emotion on his face. After all, he was still his King Xuan, so high and elusive.
Yang Mo turned around and walked out.
After getting on the carriage, Yang Mo closed her eyes and took a deep breath, and told Mei Xiang, "Let's go to Prince Chunjun's mansion."
As the carriage moved forward, Yang Mo always felt that it was much slower than when it came. She did not speak, and Mei Xiang beside her was cautious. Yang Mo breathed a sigh of relief and raised her head with a smile, and Mei Xiang felt relieved.
It took a long time for the carriage to arrive at Chunjun Prince's Mansion, and Yang Mo went straight to see the young master.
"How's it going?" Seeing Miss Yang checking, Princess Chunjun felt a little anxious.
The incision area on her leg was slightly red and swollen. Yang Mo opened the medicine box and took out the powder. "I need to put some medicine on it."
The powder was sprinkled on the wound, and soon the young master opened his mouth and burst into tears.
** hurriedly came over, hugged and coaxed softly.
Yang Mo looked at Princess Chunjun and said, "You are more energetic than yesterday."
Concubine Chunjun's princess was all smiles, "No, it was all cured by Miss Yang."
Let the lady carry the young master down, and Princess Chunjun and Yang Mo go to the inner room to talk.
The servants brought the tea and then left one after another. Only Princess Chunjun and Yang Mo were left in the room. Princess Chunjun sat on the big kang near the window, holding the Pisces ink jade handle in her hand and slowly rubbing it.
, "Does the eldest lady know about the corruption case your father committed in Anqing?"
Yang Mo had already vaguely guessed something in her mind, "I don't know much about it. When my grandmother was still alive, I only heard that she had embezzled the rice grains provided by the imperial court for disaster relief."
Princess Chunjun sighed and said, "This case was handled by our prince. As soon as he arrived at Anqing Mansion, he heard that your father had escaped from the government and was surrounded by government officers and soldiers. He went up the mountain and jumped off a cliff to his death."
Yang Mo had never heard of these things. She only said that her father committed suicide out of fear of crime. How could he know such an inside story?
"The government searched for several days at the foot of the mountain before finding the body. He was dressed like your father, but his appearance was unrecognizable. It was your mother who went to identify the body. Later, your mother also died when she returned home."
Yang Mo suppressed the sadness in her heart and thought carefully about Princess Chunjun's words. On ordinary days, this was something she would never have been able to find out. She had to seize this opportunity to find out the main question and follow Princess Chunjun's words.
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"The concubine is saying that Prince Chunjun did not see my father jump off the cliff." This means that it cannot be said with certainty whether his father is alive or dead.
Miss Yang was so smart and she got to the point right away. Only such a person could learn such medical skills. Princess Chunjun did not deny it, "I heard that the aunt who gave birth to you also moved with you?"
Princess Chunjun reminded her that she should ask her aunt more. Although she and her aunt talked about the case together, they never discussed her father's life or death. If the body was not his father's but arranged by the government, then where is his father? Is it right?
Was he lynched? Or was he not brought to justice after escaping? Or were these all her expectations? Her father had been killed by the government, and saying he jumped off a cliff was just a cover-up.
"Princess Chunjun," Yang Mo stood up and saluted, "My father's case is a mess from top to bottom. They say that my father embezzled money for disaster relief rice. If he embezzled money, why didn't he sell it to merchants and transport it out of Anqing Mansion immediately?
There is no chance to transport it away. The court's disaster relief is only a matter of a few months. What if all the rice grains will be ruined? If there is corruption, how can my father continue to impeach others with memorials? This is clearly someone framed my father, the daughter of the people.
I don’t understand the disputes in official circles, so I would like to ask the concubine to give me some advice, so that if there is a chance, I can give my father justice."
"Get up quickly," Princess Chunjun stood up and went to pull Yang Mo, "The eldest lady is the benefactor of our family. In order to save my grandson, the eldest lady risked her life to diagnose the disease. Our family is just telling the truth and getting along with the eldest lady.
"It's not trivial, so I will tell the lady everything I know." After a slight pause, he said, "It's just that it may not be easy to overturn the case, and the lady has to be careful."
Yang Mo responded and sat down again to listen to Princess Chunjun's explanation in detail.
"The Yang family is the number one medicine merchant in Beijing. When it was prosperous, there were Yang family medicine shops all over the capital. Why has it been difficult to support them in recent years? The Taoist priests of the Shangqing Academy built the alchemy furnace. Countless herbs were burned into it, and the supply in the capital was insufficient.
, they went to the merchants in advance to persuade them to borrow money, but many merchants soon closed their doors and left. The elders in your family probably wanted to keep the family business and had been struggling to maintain it, but in the past few years they had been weak and weak. Your grandmother presided over the request to the court to get back some debts.
The amount of money is so huge that it doesn’t even match the internal accounts.”
In other words, someone here used the reputation of the court to ask for money from merchants, which was the same as what happened to Liu Chengling this time. Yang Mo gradually understood.
Princess Chunjun said: "I guess your father wants to use this to join the officials who preside over the loan."
The official Princess Chunjun mentioned was an old member of Feng Ge's party.
"Your father has evidence in his hands. Some outsiders know about the Yang Family Pharmacy. After the actual impeachment, even people trusted by the emperor cannot cover it up so easily. So some people thought of taking advantage of it and get rid of your father. Our county
The prince also had such worries, so he rushed to Anqing Mansion overnight, but failed to catch up..."
Yang Mo said: "So, the county prince also expected that my father was wrongly accused?"
The situation in Anqing Mansion and Yang Bingzheng's character really do not seem like someone who could do something like embezzling money to provide food for disaster relief. Just like what Miss Yang said, what is Yang Bingzheng trying to do if he is greedy for food and waits for it to become moldy?
Princess Chunjun couldn't say more deeply, "Did Miss Yang get to know King Xuan this time when she went to Pingwen?"
Yang Mo was startled when Zhou Chengling was mentioned suddenly, but she immediately came back to her senses and nodded.
There was no special look on Princess Chunjun's face, she just gave her advice gently, "That's it. King Xuan intends to expose the court's debt. Why don't Miss Yang ask King Xuan for help and file your father's case as well?"
Asking her to ask Zhou Chengling for help, Yang Mo couldn't help but feel that there were so many coincidences in this world. She had just made it clear to Zhou Chengling, but now she had to go to him again for her father's case.
Yang Mo stood up and thanked Princess Chunjun. In any case, Prince Chunjun’s Palace had been a great help.
After leaving Prince Chunjun's Mansion, Yang Mo went straight back home.
Aunt Lu and Yang Mingshi were learning how to pickle pickles. When they saw Yang Mo, they both had a meaningful smile on their faces.
Yang Mo changed her clothes before coming out to talk to Aunt Lu, "What's wrong with the lady who came today?"
Speaking of this, Aunt Lu showed a somewhat proud expression, but was a little embarrassed to speak. Seeing Yang Mo put the tea cup in her hand on the low table, she said, "I came to marry you."
Talking about kissing? Yang Mo was surprised, how could she say kissing?
"A person from Xinghua Prefecture is a descendant of a famous family. He has some knowledge. He came to the capital to wait for the autumn. He has just reached the imperial crown at a young age..."
Yang Mo listened carefully. This was the first person to come to the house to propose marriage. Although he was a collateral descendant, he was already a member of the family. If Qiu Wei could pass the exam, he would have a bright future. His family background was not bad.
No wonder Aunt Lu is happy.
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More updates tonight. Thanks to starmyj for the peace charm, to machan for the peach blossom fan, to okeeffe for the peace charm, to Tang Doudou for the spirit bird, and to Renjianrenai008 for the peace gift.
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