Red House Shoufu

Zeng Shixian's reputation in the capital is very good, even Gao Yongheng himself said that he admired Zeng Shixian's integrity and quarreled with him, but in fact he had no grudges to speak of.

Now seeing him leaving lonely, Gao Yongheng felt an inexplicable sadness in his heart.Sigh, the old man is a good man, why is he a bit of a dead end?

"Old man Zeng..."

Gao Yongheng shouted, sighed and did not continue, but whispered to the people next to him: "Follow him until it is safe to send him home."

"Your subordinate will go right away, my lord, don't worry!"

Whether it's Lin Feng, or other Nan Zhili's sons, this is the first time I've seen someone as complicated as Gao Yongheng, Prince Zhongshun.

Let's say he has a good temper, the name of the number one dandy in the capital these years is not for nothing.If it is said that he has a bad temper, he had such an argument with Zeng Shixian just now, but he still ordered his servants to send him home safely.

What a complicated person!
"The lord is so noble, the students admire him!"

Lin Feng and others expressed their admiration to Gao Yongheng one after another. Although they didn't say too many compliments, Gao Yongheng was also happy to be praised.

He was cheerful and praised by everyone, and waved his hand to let the troupe continue singing.By the way, he pulled Lin Feng aside and whispered to him.

The singing continued on the stage, but the debate between Daru and Juzi in Dongshi Opera Garden had gradually spread outward.

When Lin Shu came out of Rongguo Mansion, at least half of the capital was already discussing this matter.

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The most indispensable thing in the capital is gossip, and the places where it spreads fastest are firstly tea restaurants and secondly Qinlou Chuguan.

Lin Shu had lunch at Rongguo Mansion, and took Fuquan and the two for a stroll around the capital.After spinning around for half a month, it was hard to relax once, and Lin Shu was naturally happy and leisurely.

"Master, it seems to be Second Master Bao over there..."

Lin Shugang picked out a few dolls at a woodcarving stall, when suddenly he heard Fuquan tell him that he seemed to have seen Jia Baoyu.

He got up and followed Fuquan's line of sight, the person standing in front of the stall not far ahead was indeed Jia Baoyu.

Everyone in the Jia family looks good, especially Jia Baoyu who likes brightly colored clothes. Today he is wearing a red dress, wrapped like a big red envelope, which is very conspicuous.

"It seems to have a dispute with someone!"

Lin Shu took out a small piece of silver, bought the selected small wooden carving, and walked over with Fuquan.

Before he got to the front, he saw Jia Baoyu surrounded by several people of similar age, even if two servants tried to stop him, they were still grabbed by the lapel.

"Vulgar, rude... how can you do this!"

Jia Baoyu's self-cultivation is really hard to say, being surrounded and bullied, he still couldn't swear half a word, blushing and trying to break away from the opponent's hand.

But the person on the other side said: "Can you snatch Miss Wang with your sister who is a concubine in the palace? If you have the ability to let her come out of the palace to save you now! Jia's family only has a little concubine Forget it, to be so shameless..."

Lin Shu who just stepped forward was stunned, did not expect there to be melons to eat?

Fuquan stepped forward under Lin Shu's signal, pushed aside the other people surrounding Jia Baoyu, and grabbed the man's wrist.

Under the pain, he immediately let go of Jia Baoyu's lapel, screaming out the pain.

"Young master, are you planning to commit murder and hurt someone?"

Fuquan had a warm face, and the strength in his hands was merciless. With a casual flick, he threw it back into the arms of the opponent's guard.

The other party's guards immediately caught their master, and several of them had already put their hands on the handle of the knife at their waists.

Fuquan took a step forward, opened the mechanism of the scabbard with a click, and pulled out a section of the blade. The cold light frightened the people on the opposite side.

"Before Marquis Lin drives, wait for An to dare to be presumptuous!"

With a stern shout, Lin Shu walked in slowly, ignoring the people facing him, smoothed the lapel of the stunned Jia Baoyu, and asked softly, "Brother Bao, why isn't you at home today? I'm going to Rongguo Mansion Didn't see you."

"Cousin Lin..."

Jia Baoyu did not expect to meet Lin Shu here, he was surrounded by people just now, facing the other party's aggressive and verbal threats, the fear in his heart almost overflowed.

After Fuquan protected him behind him, Lin Shu who came leisurely asked in a soft voice, which made Jia Baoyu's nose sour, and the grievance instantly overwhelmed the fear, and his eyes turned red.

"Cousin Lin...I...I..."

"Brother Bao is waiting. After I finish handling the matter here, I will take you to the theater to watch a new play."

Lin Shu calmed Jia Baoyu's emotions briefly, and turned his gaze to the few people who were intimidated by Fuquan alone.

"Let me introduce myself..."

Lin Shu first set his sights on the person who was thrown out by Fuquan, pointed his finger, and said in a deep voice: "Let's start with you, which family's children?"

Marquis of Yongfeng County, Liuyuan Lang, the youngest Hanlin scholar in Dachu, the youngest assistant minister, Tianxia Wenkui, Shilin leader, any title can suppress the arrogance of these people.

"Marquis Lin..."

A person who can lead people to block Jia Baoyu in broad daylight will naturally not have a low status.

Not to mention Jia Baoyu's imperial concubine and elder sister in the palace, just the loose-ranked official body on his body, ordinary people would not dare to offend.

After seeing Lin Shu pointing at him, the man's anger towards Fuquan disappeared in a flash, he hesitated for a long time but couldn't say the rest of the sentence.

Lin Shu always had an expression of neither joy nor anger on his face, quietly waiting for the other party's response.The spectators around seemed to sense that something was wrong with the atmosphere, and they all stopped whispering. It was as if time had stood still in the bustling and noisy West Market, and the surroundings were silent.

"I……"

"Zhao Mingcheng from the Marquis of Qiyang pays a visit to Marquis Lin! My younger brother is stubborn, it's because Marquis of Qiyang's mansion is not strict, I hope Marquis Lin will forgive me!"

A man suddenly walked out of the crowd, about [-] years old, and his appearance was slightly similar to the person Lin Shu pressed for questioning.

I saw Zhao Mingcheng bowed his hands to Lin Shu with a dignified face, and then gave his younger brother a hard look.

Qiyang Marquis Mansion?Lin Shu recalled the Xungui mansion in the capital in his mind, and it took a long time before he remembered it.

The daughter of Gao Yongtai, the king of Yue, the husband's family of Princess Jiamin, who was conferred by the Supreme Emperor, and the mother's uncle's family of Emperor Taizong, lived in the Wuhou Mansion of Lanzhou Wei all the year round.

Marquis of Qiyang Zhao Benqian, after his father passed away, became the first-class uncle of Jue. After the peace of Xining riots, he went to Beijing to have an audience.

Although the emperor promoted Zhao Benqian to the title of title and built a marquis mansion for him in the capital, correspondingly, he took away his military power.It was a special kind of exchange. It is said that Zhao Benqian originally wanted to go the way of the father-in-law Yue Wang and wanted to return to Lanzhou Wei, but the Yue Wang Gao Rutai did not agree to it.

Lin Shu carefully looked at Zhao Mingcheng standing in front of him, and saw that he was tall and tall, with a sword hanging on his waist, he was obviously a practitioner.

"Zhao Mingcheng? Qi Yanghou's son?"

"I've heard about Marquis Lin for a long time. I just came to Beijing from Lanzhou. I originally wanted to visit your mansion, but was delayed by trivial matters at home. I didn't expect to meet you here."

Zhao Mingcheng smiled all over his face, as if the two sides had never had any conflicts. He pulled his younger brother by the collar and introduced him to Lin Shu: "This is Zhao Mingchuan, my younger brother. He didn't like reading since he was a child. My father was busy with military affairs, so he was a little poor in discipline, offended Linhou and Jia brothers, and I will make amends to them in the next Qiyanghou's residence."

His manners were adequate, so Lin Shu couldn't handle it. After bowing his hands in return, his eyes drifted to Zhao Mingchuan, who immediately shrank his neck after his elder brother Zhao Mingcheng came, like a good baby.

"Why don't you hurry up and accompany Lin Hou and the Jia brothers!"

"I... my... elder brother... he was the one who snatched Aunt Wang first..."

Zhao Mingchuan was obviously unwilling, even though his elder brother was mighty and majestic, he still couldn't suppress him.

"To shut up!"

"Okay, it's not suitable to talk about this here, follow me to the teahouse in front first."

After all, Jia Baoyu and Wang Ziteng's queen Xiluan were involved, so Lin Shu stopped the Zhao family brothers and signaled them to follow him to a teahouse not far away, intending to settle the matter thoroughly.

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Lin Shu completely packed up the third floor of the teahouse. Except for Fuquan guarding the door of the private room, he, the brothers from the Zhao family and Baoyu were the only ones in the private room.

With Jia Baoyu and Zhao Mingchuan's narration, Lin Shu and Zhao Mingcheng finally figured out the real reason for their conflict.

It turned out that this matter was related to the emperor's gift of marriage two days ago. To be precise, Zhao Mingchuan was used by others.

Before Wang Ziteng asked for the decree to marry, Wang Ziteng's wife had contact with Princess Jiamin, and the children of the two families also met a few times through opportunities such as flower viewing feasts and incense offerings.

Thinking about Wang Xifeng's appearance, her direct cousin Wang Xiluan is naturally a beautiful person. Zhao Mingchuan, a member of the Yan Party, was immediately attracted by her beauty. If the Wang family's situation had not suddenly taken a turn for the worse, maybe the matchmaker from the Marquis of Qiyang's mansion would have boarded the Wang family long ago The gate is open.

Zhao Benqian is an exquisite egoist. Seeing that the Wang family's situation is not good, his friendship with Wang Ziteng, who was originally called brother and brother, immediately turned cold.

The marriage between the two families has not been formally mentioned, so stop here. Even if Zhao Mingchuan quarrels at home many times, it still can't change the ending.

It wasn't until the imperial decree of the emperor's marriage came that Zhao Mingchuan realized that he had a deep-seated love for Wang Xiluan. Yesterday, he passed out drunk in a restaurant in the West Market after being devastated.

Indistinctly, Zhao Mingchuan heard someone talking about this sudden marriage decree, and learned that Jia Baoyu's success in getting this marriage was largely due to his elder sister Xianfei's deaf ears.

Infuriated, he immediately dispatched his servants to stand guard near the Rongguo Mansion. Coincidentally, Jia Baoyu also lost his mind because of the marriage gift, so he wanted to come to Xishi early this morning to relax...

"Lin Hou, it seems that someone is deliberately making trouble!"

Zhao Mingcheng was drinking with his new friends not far away, but when he learned that his younger brother blocked Jia Baoyu from Rongguo Mansion, he rushed over immediately.

His younger brother is ignorant, but he understands how powerful Ningrong and Rongfu are.Even though both of them are Marquis Wu, there is a qualitative gap between Marquis Wu and Marquis Wu.

If his younger brother really hurt Jia Baoyu, with Jia Amnesty's temperament, he would bring his own soldiers to attack his house that day, maybe his house would become the second nobleman's mother's house immediately, and become the laughing stock of the whole capital.

Lin Shu glanced at Zhao Mingchuan, who was still dejected, and did not immediately respond to Zhao Mingcheng's words, but looked at Jia Baoyu.

"Brother Bao, how do you think this matter should be resolved?"

"what……"

Jia Baoyu froze for a moment, then looked at Zhao Mingchuan who also had an aggrieved face, and suddenly felt a sense of sympathy.

He said weakly: "Forget it, cousin Lin came in time, and I didn't suffer any injuries..."

"Second Master Bao is really kind. No wonder everyone in the capital praises Second Master Bao for treating others like a spring breeze. This is my Zhao family's fault. I will personally go to Rongguo Mansion tomorrow to formally apologize."

Zhao Mingcheng's words can be said to be watertight, and this person is too good at trouble, with a sincere face, he pulled his brother up to apologize to Jia Baoyu.

Jia Baoyu got up quickly, avoided the side and waved his hands repeatedly: "No need to be like this, no need to be like this..."

Lin Shu put down the teacup in his hand, coughed lightly and said, "Sit down and talk, since Brother Bao said not to pursue it, then the matter is over."

Without waiting for the three of them to respond, Lin Shu continued: "But one thing, your brother is too ignorant, some things you can say and some things you can't. You go back and ask Qi Yanghou to write an apology and send it to the palace, and the imperial concubine is too. Can he talk about it?"

Zhao Mingcheng's complexion changed instantly, he didn't expect such an outburst in the middle.

"What's going on? What did you say?"

Zhao Mingchuan was forced to question by his elder brother, and he responded submissively: "That's...that's... I just said something angry!"

You don't need to ask too much to know that you just affirmed that your words were disrespectful to the virtuous concubine in the palace. Although Zhao Mingcheng was annoyed, he knew that this was not the time to pursue these matters.

He replied: "Marquis Lin's lesson is that when I go back, I will tell my father that I will send the pleading paper to the palace tomorrow, and let my mother come to the palace to see her, and apologize to the concubine Xian in person."

Lin Shu nodded, and the matter has been temporarily resolved, but there is still one point that he needs to treat with caution.

As soon as Qi Yanghou entered Beijing, someone took the opportunity to stir up conflicts between the Zhao family and the Jia family. Although it was just the two children who were jealous, it was too coincidental.

The Jia family has a marquis, the palace has a concubine, the Zhao family has a county marquis, and the family also has a princess. Isn’t face the most important thing for such a family?
If Zhao Mingchuan's ignorance caused big trouble today, a little jealousy might become the beginning of a feud between the two families.

The emperor had just recalled the Marquis of Qiyang's mansion back to the capital, and took advantage of the opportunity of rewards to take back the military power of the Zhao family. If the two families turned against each other, even if the emperor favored the Jia family, he had to weigh the pros and cons and find a way to appease the Zhao family.

After all, the Zhao family had just made a contribution to pacify Hexi, and the court took the opportunity to take back the military power. It couldn't really treat the Zhao family badly and chill the hearts of the soldiers on the nine frontiers.

Lin Shu pondered for a while, and asked Zhao Mingchuan about the people and things he met in the restaurant yesterday.It's a pity that Zhao Mingchuan was also in a daze at that time, drunk, and had no memory except Wang Xiluan's figure and the pillow wind words in his mind.

However, he vaguely remembered that this person seemed to have a strangely shaped jade pendant on his body, so he found a pen and paper and began to draw.