"Sister Siqi, why did you leave the palace without telling me?" Min'er hugged her happily at first, and then said with a hint of complaint.
"Why didn't I tell you?" Lan Siqi smiled and said, "I told you before I left the palace the day before yesterday. You were playing with Wen Lin at that time. Have you forgotten?"
"That's what happened." Min'er remembered what Lan Siqi said, stuck out her tongue and said, "Wen Lin was so funny. At that time, I only focused on teasing her and forgot that you told me."
"But then, I was so worried when I didn't see you during dinner in the evening. It would be nice to hear my mother explain." She said loudly as if she felt guilty.
"I know," Lan Siqi said with the same smile: "Min'er and I are the best, so why don't you care about me."
"Sister is also the best to me." Min'er also responded.
"Siqi, Min'er, you two have been standing at the door talking for a while. Although it is April now, the weather is also hot and cold, and it is already dark now. It is easy to catch a cold standing at the door, so why don't you go in?
Talk." Yunxi said after seeing the sisters standing at the gate of Kunning Palace talking for a while.
"Yes, dad/uncle." Min'er and Lan Siqi agreed, turned around and walked into the hall.
"The relationship between their sisters is so good, it would be even better if they could truly become relatives." Xiyao said with a smile.
Yunxi understood what she meant, but still said: "This matter is not urgent. And as my husband said, if Wenyuan and Siqi don't like each other, my husband will never force it."
"I know." Yunxi even let her sisters choose their own husbands, how could they be too authoritarian towards their children. But she was confident that Wen Yuan would like Lan Siqi, at least not dislike him. Wen Yuan had been in contact with Lan Siqi since he was a child.
Among the long-time women, Lan Siqi is the only one who is not from the clan, and they are raised together in her Kunning Palace. They are no different from childhood sweethearts in the folk. How many childhood sweethearts in the folk don't like each other?
As they talked, they also walked into the palace. As soon as Yunxi returned to the palace and didn't want to eat, he called Wenyuan, Wenqi, Wenyin and others, and the family sat together, talking and laughing.
As soon as Wen Qi and Wen Yin sat down, Lan Siqi seemed to have remembered something and hurried out again. After a while, he walked in again, carrying a bag in his hand and said to them: "Aunt, Min'er, Wen Yuan
, Wen Qi, Wen Yin, Siqi brought you some good things when he returned to the palace this time." After saying that, she took out a few pieces of jewelry from the bag in her hand, first walked to Xiyao and said: "Aunt, this is
A gift from Siqi."
"This is it," Xiyao took it in her hand and looked at it. She glanced sideways at Yunxi, but didn't say anything. She just smiled and said, "Siqi is interested."
But Min'er's reaction was completely different from hers. "Hey, isn't this what the second aunt brought into the palace this afternoon?"
"Ah?" Lan Siqi didn't know what happened in the afternoon. Hearing this, he turned around and looked at Yunxi in surprise. "I left the palace this afternoon. It happened that Lan Siqi had already finished what he had to do when he was about to return to the palace.
So I picked up Siqi and went back to the palace with me. I happened to pass by the store Yunlan mentioned, so I went in and took a look. Lan Siqi saw that the jewelry was really novel in style, so he bought some; and he remembered you, so he took it with him.
Take these back to the palace."
"Huh? This style seems a bit familiar." Min'er carefully looked through the jewelry in her hand and suddenly said.
"Didn't you see the jewelry that second aunt brought this morning? It belongs to the same family." Xiyao said.
"No, I saw it a long time ago." Min'er said. Although she also looked at the jewelry in the morning, she still wanted to play with it in her heart. Moreover, a girl of this age does not pay as much attention to jewelry as an adult woman.
She didn't take a closer look. This time, since it was a gift from Lan Siqi, she took a closer look, but she felt it was very familiar.
"Familiar?" Hearing Min'er's words, Yunxi suddenly remembered something and said, "But I saw it when I went to Suzhou five years ago?"
"Yes, I saw it when I went to Suzhou five years ago." Min'er shouted.
"That's right. This store was opened by a local family in Suzhou. This family ran many businesses in Suzhou, and now they have brought their business to the capital," Yunxi said.
"What's this family's last name?" Min'er suddenly asked again.
"My surname is Li. But why do you ask this?" Yunxi asked a little strangely.
"I just remembered that I went out with my fourth aunt in Suzhou and went to the local jewelry store. I remember that most of them were from the Li family." Min'er replied. But she suddenly reached out and grasped the jade pendant she was carrying, and remembered that
The items were sent out.
Yunxi didn't pay attention to her little move. After hearing her answer, he added: "Speaking of which, Siqi also brought gifts to Yunyun and Yunzhi and asked the palace maid to deliver them to them."
"I understand, husband." Xiyao agreed.
Just as Yunxi was about to give a few more instructions, Lu Yi suddenly walked in, walked up to him and said softly: "Guan family, the matter of bumping into people has been dealt with."
"How much did you lose?"
"There is no compensation. The scholar named Yu did not ask for money."
"No money?" Yunxi was a little surprised. Of course he noticed that the family was scholars, but scholars didn't want money, especially because many scholars had limited incomes and lived in the capital. Their lives were not very good, so how could they not want money?
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"Officials, this matter was settled by people from Duke Zheng's palace." Lu Yi then said exactly what the guard told him.
"Chang Jifeng, the fifth son of the Chang family? Is he the only son that Chang Mao left behind for many years and only found him again?"
"Yes, official."
"Chang Jifeng is not bad." Yunxi said: "The teacher hired by their family is not bad either." Compared with corrupt officials who only love money, of course he prefers such upright people. Of course, if they don't have much ability,
, and cannot be appointed as an administrative official. It would be more appropriate to be a censor or a minister.
"Zi Jian. That's all. After I see Chang Sheng, I will ask more about the teacher's character before making any plans."
"You just said that the surname of the teacher hired by the Chang family is Yu? What is his name?" He asked again. Since this man is so upright, he could consider arranging to study in the Imperial College and become an official.
"In the official family, this man is called Yu Xu, and the man who was hit is his son, named Yu Qian." Lu Yi replied.
"You sent someone back to tell Chang Sheng to let their scholar enter the country. What did you just say?" Yunxi suddenly asked excitedly.
"The official, my servant just said, this man is called Yu Xu, and the man who was hit is his son, named Yu Qian." Lu Yi said a little strangely.
"Where is he from? What's his name?"
"Official, Guard Zhao didn't tell the servant." Lu Yi asked.
"Call Xiao Zhao in!" Yun He ordered.
"Husband, it's getting late now, and this is the inner palace. Isn't it appropriate to ask the guards to come in? Besides, I also understand what this matter is. I shouldn't mention the middle-aged scholar's place of origin or trade name."
"Besides, no matter what your husband has in mind, there is no need to be in such a hurry. It will not be too late to give you instructions tomorrow morning." Things that are not related to the imperial government will be delayed.'
"You are right, you are married to your husband Meng Lang." Hearing Xiyao's words, Yunxi also came to his senses: "Even if this Yu Qian is really the Yu Qian he guessed, there is no need to be so anxious. It's not like an accident on the road." If you miss Luo Guanzhong, you may not be able to find him. Since you already know that he is teaching children to read in Changfu, there is no need to worry.'
"Lu Yi, tell Guard Zhao that I will go down to court and wait at Qianqing Palace tomorrow morning. I have something to ask him."
"Yes, official." Lu Yi agreed, turned around and left.
"Husband, this person named Yu Xu, has your Majesty heard of his name before? Is he a well-known person?" Xiyao couldn't help but ask as everyone was on their way to the dining hall.
"It's not him, it's his son."
"His son is called Yu Qian? I just heard from Lu Yi that he is just a child, only seven or eight years old this year. How can he have such a reputation that his husband can know about him?" Xiyao was surprised. Yu Xu is famous. The character was enough to surprise her, but Yunxi told her that he was not Yu Xu, but his son who was only seven or eight years old.
"You don't know this even if I tell you. But this kid named Yu Qian is a well-known local prodigy." Yunxi said.
"Even if he is a child prodigy, he is not worthy of being cared about by his husband, right? I remember Kong Beihai (Kong Rong) once said, 'It is not necessarily better when he is young,' so it is better to wait until he grows up and if he is still very outstanding."
"He is not an ordinary child prodigy. He wrote a poem in his hometown: Thousands of hammers carved out the deep mountains, and the fire burned them as if it were easy. Don't be afraid of being broken into pieces. You want to leave innocence in the world. People who can write such poems, even if they are just Children also deserve attention."
"Can you write such a poem at this age?" Xiyao was also surprised. "Such a child prodigy is really amazing. But," she was a little skeptical. "Isn't this faked by his family to make him famous?"
"This is what Jin Yiwei reported to my husband," Yunxi said without blinking: "How could Jin Yiwei deceive my husband over such a trivial matter?"
"Then this child is indeed worthy of your husband's memory. How does your husband plan to treat him?"
"I haven't thought about it yet. But if it is really that person, my husband will definitely not let him escape his grasp."
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"Brother Tang, why are you talking so much to that teacher from Changfu?" Xiang Jingyu asked Tang Jingyu after swallowing the food in his mouth.
"Of course it is useful." Tang Jingyu also ate the food in his mouth, wiped his mouth and said: "The Chang family is one of the most powerful nobles in the Ming Dynasty. Although the Chang family brothers don't seem to be good at fighting, but Since their family is the emperor's uncle's family, they must be the most important nobles of the Ming Dynasty."
"Such a family must know a lot of information. Those particularly confidential matters will certainly not be told to the teacher at home, but some gossip that has been circulated may be treated as a joke and told to the teacher."
"But these gossips are not necessarily useless. When I was in private school, the teacher seemed to have said something. Anyway, it was just a very small thing. A wealthy family member guessed that his tenants were paying too much rent.
They really couldn't afford to pay, and they wanted to take over the land, so they decided to take advantage of the big tenants and rob the family. The family immediately changed their mind and waived half of the rent, so the tenants would not take advantage of the big tenants."
"Of course this rich family has no morals, but that's what it says."
"I also think Brother Tang is right." Xiang Yuanhong said: "When I was in my hometown, a man who sold cooking cakes guessed from what he saw that his mother-in-law was unruly, and he caught her in adultery."
"The cook cake seller extorted a sum of money later?" Mo Li asked.
"What kind of money are you extorting? The person who committed adultery with his wife was the local yamen leader. He was a famous yamen official registered in some book by the government. The pancake seller was also powerless, so he kicked him and ran away.
Fortunately, he had a brother who was strong and had some martial arts training. He went to that house to seek justice for him, and finally got some money back, and then he beat his own mother-in-law for a few days and let it go."
Far away from the red road.
"His wife is very pretty, right?" Li Moli was about to continue asking, but Tang Jingyu interrupted: "We're talking about business, so shut up!"
Neither of them dared to speak. Tang Jingyu glanced at them again and continued: "And I think this family is quite stupid. They can't stand anything and they always want to get justice. It's best to cheat for such people.
Once you get to know her better and tell him about the bad things about the country, you might be able to convince him to believe in Our Lady of the White Lotus."
"Isn't this impossible?" Xiang Jingyu said doubtfully, "How can anyone be fooled so easily?"
"Of course it won't be as easy as I said, but it is easier than ordinary people. If you can really make a teacher in Zheng Guogong's palace believe in Our Lady of the White Lotus, it will be a great achievement and worth doing." Tang Jingyu said.
"Since you said so, brother, then we will listen to him. But brother, you have to remember that we are still the guards of Prince Zhou's Mansion, and our priority is to retain the errand of Prince Zhou's Mansion." Xiang Jingyu said.
"It's natural."
After saying this, everyone started chatting and stopped talking about business. After talking for a while, the meal was finished. Since Tang Jingyu and Xiang Jingyu had to go on duty tomorrow, Xiang Jingyu, Mo Li and Xiang Yuanhong left without waiting much.
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After they all left, He Miao came over and cleared the dining table. But Tang Jingyu grabbed her hand and said, "Miao'er, our family has another way out." (To be continued)
