Sometimes the palace is sunny

The morning mist shrouded the lotus pond. Xie Lin'an, the eldest son of Ning'anbo's mansion, touched the thin frost on the bridge railing, and clapped his hands in dissatisfaction:
"There are fewer people in the family now, and everyone is too slack. Why is this pool so bare?"

"Returning to the eldest son, it was inconvenient to buy in the mansion a few days ago, so the two stewards took people to dig up the lotus root in the pond, and the small boats withdrew first...there were also a lot of fish in the pond. , it looks cleaner than in previous years."

Thinking about the current embarrassment in the mansion, Xie Lin'an no longer has the temperament to point out the pond:

"I thought it was a savior, but I didn't expect it to be a closed door star. Before the prince of Yingjun came, he could go out of the house anyway. He came, heh!"

Thinking of the Xichang Fanzi who surrounded his family, Xie Lin'an lost even the energy to get angry.

Almost two months!Almost two months!Ever since Zhao Qin, the eldest son of the Prince of England, came in, his father was not rescued, his younger brother was not heard from, and the entire Ning'an Mansion was surrounded like an iron barrel, but the whole family was imprisoned together!
Xie Lin'an is no longer thinking about how to rescue his father, he is now thinking about how he can get out of this cell!

Just thinking about something, a servant hurried over from a distance:
"My son, the prince of the county is awake, and I am calling you over."

"Crack!" Xie Lin'an patted the bridge railing, causing the shattered frost to fall down, "Bringing more than a hundred people to eat and live in Xie's house, he, Zhao Qinyang, has really become the head of our Xie's house , I have to wait for him to call me over!"

Several servants held their breath and dared not speak.

Xie Lin'an had a fit, and finally hurried across the bridge to the east with his hands behind his back.

The Kuayuan to the east of Uncle Ning’an’s Mansion was the old man’s retirement home in his old age, and it was also a three-entry courtyard. As soon as Xie Lin’an reached the second gate, he was stopped by someone, and several people dressed as guards saluted him:
"Xie Shiziqing wait a moment, let me go in and report."

In front of these people, Xie Lin'an lost the young master's temper just now, straightened his sleeves, and said with a smile: "I'm sorry to bother you."

After waiting for about half a quarter, the eunuch beside Zhao Qinyang came out to call him.

"Thank you cousin, I have been in Yanjing for so long, and I should treat everyone to a banquet. I am not familiar with the place here, so you have to figure it out."

Zhao Qinyang was afraid of the cold, so he burned the ground dragon to extremely hot, and he also disliked Yanjing for being too dry, so he leaned on the couch with his arms open, and asked the serving maid to put a damp and hot veil on his body.

Xie Lin'an was wearing a homely cotton robe, and he was sweating after standing in the room for a while. Hearing what Zhao Qinyang said, his expression was very embarrassed:
"Cousin, it's not that I'm stingy, it's not that we didn't send generous gifts to various houses before, but everywhere..."

But nothing was confiscated, and the Yingjun Palace was just a vassal in Jiangxi. How many dignitaries in Yanjing City took it seriously?Even if Zhao Qinyang had sent invitations when he first came, and when he was refuted by His Majesty in Chongyang, those people all shrank their necks.

Who doesn't know that His Majesty the emperor sitting on the dragon chair is the most moody and easy to vent his anger?In addition, Zhao Qinyang was directly imprisoned for a month later, well, in the eyes of Yanjing's high school, I am afraid that the prince of Yingjun is already a dead man.

Dead man's treat?Who dares to come?

Zhao Qinyang picked up the handkerchief on his belly and told the servant girl next to him:
"Go and show him the letter from last night."

Then he said to Xie Lin'an:

"What you said was before, they thought that we offended His Majesty and couldn't turn over again. In fact, they are the ones who are really stupid."

A few light and thin sheets of paper were presented to Xie Lin'an's hands, and he glanced at them twice:

"What does His Majesty's activation of Chu Jiyuan have to do with us?"

"What does it matter?" Zhao Qinyang snorted and laughed, "What kind of person is the emperor? He is a master who would rather kill by mistake than let him go. Otherwise, how could he treat the courtiers like quails all these years? Shi Wence and Back then, Shen Shao had taught the former prince as well, and His Majesty was willing to give him a little favor. Lu Chongxin attached himself to Zhang Wan, Shi Wence pleaded, and His Majesty was willing to spare Lu Chongxin. So what happened? When it was time to deal with Chu Jiyuan, Shi Asking the policy officer to intercede did not stop him! Isn’t it because Chu Jiyuan didn’t want His Majesty to beat Durbon? As a result, His Majesty is still willing to personally order Chu Jiyuan to return to the court and ask him to preside over the investigation of Taipu Temple’s accounts. Guess what? Why?"

Xie Lin'an thought for a moment, then tentatively said: "Could it be because...the court has no money?"

"That's right. The imperial court is out of money. Not only is it out of money, the old account of the Taipu Temple has been overturned. Rats are bigger than him." Zhao Qinyang patted his belly with a smile on his face.

He said it easily, Xie Lin'an felt a chill in the hot room:

"Cousin, do you think this matter can help us out of trouble?"

"More than relief?" Zhao Qinyang laughed, turned over and covered half of the window light, "The emperor has trapped me these days, what do you think he is for? I am a mere son of a county prince, and he deserves to use the West Factory to rectify it." Staring at the sun? What else is there to eat chaff and wear hemp without forgetting the ancestors? Why did my father only let him dig out such a book from so many years ago? He is winking at the princes all over the world! He clearly If Emperor De wants to imitate Taizu's martial arts and martial arts, the vassal princes from all over the country will have to give him money!"

Thinking of all the hardships he has suffered since he came to Yanjing City, Zhao Qinyang's eyes showed a bit of hostility, his expression was covered, he shook his body with a smile:
"As long as my father takes the lead in bringing in some money, we will be fine."

Xie Lin'an pondered for a moment, then smiled wryly: "Cousin, even if King Yingjun takes the lead to make an offering to His Majesty, it has nothing to do with our Xie family..."

"It's okay? You said that wrong." Zhao Qinyang got up from the couch, and several maidservants immediately took a satin long-sleeved Taoist robe from the warm cage and put it on him, and he waved it away. "My cousin has been imprisoned in Beizhen Fusi for so long. What do you think is the reason? Is it because the emperor wanted to punish the Xie family but couldn't find your Xie family? Look at my father's actions. After all, what do you have in the Xie family? A title the size of a sesame seed, an empty frame that can hardly fill your stomach, the only ones who can be seen by others are only your aunt and Ying It’s nothing more than the relationship with the county prince’s mansion. This little emperor is also interesting, since he is asking for money, it’s fine to ask for money directly, but he has to make such a big detour.”

"That's right. At that time, he was still thinking about the Western Expedition. Naturally, he had to cover up several layers of things. It's a pity that the warehouse of the Taipu Temple, which he thought he could cover for him, had been cleaned up long ago. He wanted to save face. , I realized that the lining is gone... Hahahaha, if you want me to say, the idea of ​​please go back to Chu Jiyuan is definitely not his own idea. He doesn't have enough people, of course he wants to use people from the same party as him, Chu Jiyuan is one, Shi Wence is also one, if Shen Shao is still alive..."

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that he had guessed what those people were thinking, and Zhao Qinyang stroked his exposed belly proudly.

"Cousin, this is also an opportunity for you to thank your family. A Taipusi, a Shagong, and the son of a British prince were accused. The nobles in Yanjing City shrank their necks and did not dare to speak. Great opportunity for you to make a difference."

Turning his head and glanced at Xie Lin'an who didn't know why, Zhao Qinyang laughed:
"As the eldest son of Uncle Ning'an, and you also serve in the Jinyiwei, if you volunteer to drive for His Majesty, copy those houses that others dare not to copy, and cut off the heads of those that others dare not, you will be a high-ranking official and rich salary, just around the corner."

High-ranking officials and generous salaries?

"I can't do it!" Xie Lin'an quickly waved his hands, "I can't do what you said, cousin."

"If you don't want to do it, you have to do it!" Zhao Qinyang stretched out his big hand and grabbed Xie Lin'an's skirt, "If you want to keep your family's title and want your Xie family to raise their heads in Beijing, you have to do this! You not only want to Do it, you have to do it well! Do it so that the emperor can feel at ease, understand?"

Seeing that Xie Lin'an was still submissive, Zhao Qinyang pushed him aside impatiently: "Cousin, you are so weak, if it wasn't for my aunt's sake, I wouldn't bother to give you advice. Anyway, I will write a note to the emperor immediately , you go to make preparations for the banquet, and it must be done properly."

Staggering and walking out tremblingly, Xie Lin'an was stopped by Zhao Qinyang again.

"I'm going to buy 5 taels of silver in the name of the King's House of England first, and the money will come out of your house first."

Xie Lin'an turned pale with shock: "Biao... the prince of the county! My family can't afford 5 taels of silver now!"

"Don't cry poor in front of me, you don't have to lose your ambition, if you don't have money, think of a way, your Xie family has so many relatives in Yanjing City, if you can't even come up with this little money, you don't need to say that we are heroes The in-laws of the county prince's mansion are gone, and the money will be collected within three days! Come here, invite the son of Xie out!"

After being kicked out of his own courtyard, Xie Lin'an still looked reluctant and cowardly, and went all the way back to the main courtyard, where he slammed on the table with a "bang".

"It's clear that he is the prince of the British county who has dragged my Xie family down, and he has the nerve to use my family's money to make him face? A poor family in the countryside of Jiangxi! Do you really think you are a noble person? Really expensive in the imperial city live there!"

After scolding, Xie Lin'an paced back and forth in the room, trying to find someone to discuss with, but after thinking about it, he didn't even have anyone who could discuss it.

Ever since she was frightened by the second brother, his mother's health has not been very good, and telling her about 5 taels of silver would kill her!

As for his own wife, these days the whole family's expenses are almost all supported by his wife's dowry. When Zhao Qinyang came to Xie's family, it seemed that he came to be the ancestor. The Xie family's storeroom has been emptied, and the calligraphy and painting hanging in Zhao Qin's room now belong to Shen's family, and the vase on display is also his wife's dowry.

Let his wife pay another 5 taels of silver... Xie Lin'an was afraid that his wife would hang herself with a piece of white silk.

Zhang Yong of the Wanquandu Division was taken down, and the whereabouts of his second brother were unknown, making Xie Lin'an suspect that he had cheated the family's money to go out to hide from the disaster, seeing that there was no hope.

As for the concubine brothers born to the following aunts, they are just a bunch of people who are out of breath.

After thinking about it, Xie Lin'an took a deep breath, first called someone to come in and changed him into plain clothes, only then did he realize that his inner garment was already soaked with sweat, and it was impossible to say that the sweat was covered. Still scared.

After leaving the main courtyard, he passed the lotus pond, and then passed the courtyard where his second brother lived diagonally to the west... Finally, Xie Lin'an stopped outside a bamboo forest.

"Mommy, I'm here to see grandma, is she okay recently?"

The old woman in taupe embroidered long bikini bowed to him, then shook her head slightly with a troubled expression, and finally pointed to her own head.

"Grandmother's headache recently happened again?"

Xie Lin'an seems to be the good grandson who is most worried about his grandmother's health in the world, with an indelible worry on his face: "During the Mid-Autumn Festival, I said I would go to the Northwest to find a famous doctor to see my grandmother. I didn't expect the situation in the mansion to be like this. Please trouble Mammy to take care of Grandma."

The two talked for a while, and another old nun lifted the door curtain and gestured to Xie Lin'an. Xie Lin'an lifted the corner of his robe and hurried in.

As soon as he entered, his eyes were dark at first, and he could only see green smoke billowing endlessly in the depths of the deep Buddhist hall, and he could vaguely see someone knocking on the wooden fish.

The thick sandalwood aroma almost clung to one's mouth and nose, and the faint sound of wooden fish really made one feel relieved.

Everywhere in the Buddhist hall was fumigated with sandalwood so that the original color could hardly be seen, as if even the people had become much deeper.

Like every time he came to this Buddhist hall before, Xie Linan held his breath and stepped in carefully. Before he could stand still, he heard a soft call:

"Is Lin'er here? But what did that child Yang'er do that made you unable to decide, and made you come to find my old bone?"

Xie Lin'an squinted his eyes to look for the source of the voice, and finally found the old woman sitting on one side in front of the altar.

"Grandmother, Lin'er is useless and has come to bother you again."

"Hey, we old bones are still holding our breath just because we want to solve the problems for the children and grandchildren at home. I'm glad you came to me."

That old woman is naturally the old lady of Uncle Ning'an's mansion and the current aunt Zhao, the current King of England. Xie Lin'an stepped forward and sat on the futon at her feet:
"Grandma, cousin, he..."

After Xie Lin'an repeated what Zhao Qinyang said, Mrs. Zhao sighed slowly with a Buddhist bead in her hand, but said another thing:

"Then Mrs. Shen is still in the village outside? The person sent to look for her still hasn't come back?"

Xie Lin'an said: "Sun'er suspects that the servants saw that Xie's family was in trouble, so they took the opportunity to go to the Zhuangzi and refused to come back. Mrs. Shen has always been gentle and kind, and I'm afraid they have taken advantage of them."

"Is that so... Well, in the final analysis, it is Feng'er and your mother who are sorry for her. Since Mrs. Feng has left our house, everything in the past was just a dream. Yang'er has the soldiers of the palace in his hand. You and him Borrow someone, go and bring Mrs. Shen back."

Xie Lin'an was in a bit of trouble.

"Auntie, I thought about it before, but my cousin said that now our house is under the watchful eye of Xichang fan, and the soldiers in his hands should not move rashly."

"Just ask them to change the clothes of the servants, and find out the things about the Zhuangzi together. If Mrs. Chen is wronged, they can just deal with it together."

The prayer beads in his hand kept spinning, and Zhao Shi said kindly.

Xie Lin'an didn't come here because of Shen's affairs, he couldn't help feeling a little impatient in his heart, but he still wanted to agree on his face.

The most valuable things in Shen’s dowry are just some calligraphy and paintings, and they have collected all the fine works. Before, Princess Yueqing came to ask for someone every day. At that time, she didn’t bring Shen back. People are useless except to make the mansion have more mouths to eat.

Zhao's tone was soft:

"When Mrs. Shen got married, Chu Jiyuan, the servant of the household department, and Shi Wence, the right deputy, who added the most makeup to her when she married, both of them sent their wives to personally send makeup gifts. Your Majesty contributes, is there anything faster than taking the Shen family route?"

Xie Lin'an suddenly realized, it's not his fault, what kind of person can clearly remember the people who gave gifts to his younger siblings at their weddings in seven years?

"But, grandma, Mrs. Shen has been at our house all these years..."

"As long as the person takes it back, are you afraid that you won't be able to hold your heart?" Mrs. Zhao squeezed his shoulder, "As for the 5 taels of silver...sell that Biezhuang and the servants in it, just sell Shen Shi brought it back, and I will fill in the remaining gaps for you."

"Yes." Xie Lin'an stood up, bowed to his grandmother, but paused again, "Grandmother, I remember that my second brother sent all his concubines to the Zhuangzi, and there is also the An family you rewarded."

Mrs. Zhao raised her head, glanced at him, and said slowly:

"She is also useless, so let's sell it together."

"……Yes."

Exiting from the Buddhist hall, Xie Lin'an shook his drowsy head, raised his feet and walked back.

"Borrow someone, pick up Shen's, sell Zhuangzi, sell this person, and give the money to my cousin, and I will work for His Majesty."

Walking to the edge of the lotus pond again, when the cold wind blew, Xie Linan regained his senses as if awakened from a start.

"Why do I think grandma's idea is to use Xie's family as a backstop for the Yingjun Palace? Then Zhao Qinyang's tone of speaking about His Majesty has become more and more impolite recently."

He originally wanted to go straight to Dongkua Courtyard and ask for a loan, but he hesitated again.

"Also, why does grandma always mention Shen's?"

After thinking about it, he had an idea in his mind.

"Come here, prepare the horse, no matter who comes to ask, just say that I am going to raise money."

"Yes!"

Siri Zhao: Do ​​I have to set up new wooden stakes again?Is it right? ? ?