King Xiang of the Red Chamber

Chapter 214

After Zhu Jinghong withdrew, Zhu Xianming let the Prince Chuan in.

"My son kowtowed to the emperor!"

On the dragon chair, Zhu Xianming had already changed into his regular clothes, and sat on the dragon chair to read the memorials.

"Prince... you have read the memorabilia recently, what kind of tricks do you see?"

With Zhu Jinghong's intercession, Zhu Xianming has no mind to pursue the armor matter.

To put it bluntly, the meaning of armor is given by people. Since the prince does not recognize those meanings, it is a cold armor.

Hearing this, Zhu Jingyuan breathed a sigh of relief. He thought he had made some mistake and was about to be scolded by the old man again.

After simply clearing his mind, Zhu Jingyuan replied: "Father... my son has seen it these days, but he also has some experience!"

Seeing the prince still kneeling on the ground, Zhu Xianming couldn't help thinking of Zhu Jinghong, if this kid was around, he would never kneel honestly.

"Get up and talk!"

"Yes!"

After getting up, Zhu Jingyuan bowed and replied: "These memorials are from the tenth year of Taiping to the present, and there are many things listed in them. After reading it, my son..."

When Zhu Jingyuan was answering, Zhu Jinghong left Qianqing Palace and went to the inner court unconsciously.

That's right, he went to Kunning Palace again with the trick of learning how to play chess.

Well, it's normal for people to have one or two more hobbies. Whoever said that Zhu Jinghong can only dance with guns and clubs.

After entering the Kunning Palace, Zhu Jinghong learned that Princess Nan'an and several other orders came to the palace to talk to the queen again.

This fulfilled Zhu Jinghong's wish, so he went to Zhu Yunsheng's bedroom, where several girls were working as maids together.

"Brother Thirteen, why are you here again?" Looking at Zhu Jinghong in armor, Zhu Yunsheng looked very surprised.

And Zhu Yunsheng's question made Zhu Jinghong very embarrassed.

He despised Jia Baoyu very much, and felt that the other party had no ambitions and only wanted to join the crowd of women, but now his behavior is no different from Jia Baoyu.

"Third sister, I'm your thirteenth brother, why don't you come and see me?"

But Zhu Yunsheng asked, "Are you here to see me?"

After saying this, her eyes flicked to Baochai, but the latter ignored her with her head down, otherwise there would be no end to it.

At this moment, a palace maid outside reported: "Princess, the empress told you to go with Miss Yang and Miss Xue!"

"Oh... Got it!"

After getting up, Zhu Yunsheng said to Baochai and the others: "Let's go!"

When passing in front of Zhu Jinghong, Zhu Yunsheng smiled and said, "Brother Thirteen, we are sorry!"

Immediately afterwards, Yang Jingting passed by, and then Baochai left in a hurry, leaving only Zhu Jinghong and Zhen Qin in the room.

Zhen Qin was very happy, and only after Baochai and the others had gone away did she greet Zhu Jinghong.

"Master Thirteen, I'll teach you how to play chess. Although I'm worse than Sister Bao, I still..."

"Oh...that...Miss Zhenqin..."

"It suddenly occurred to me that Shanglinyuan still has something urgent to do, so I'm leaving too!"

Thinking of a lame reason, Zhu Jinghong turned around and left, Zhen Qin was so angry that he wanted to jump.

"Why did I have bad luck? I finally met the opportunity today, and I ran into the Thirteenth Lord!"

Let's say that Zhu Yunsheng and his party arrived at the main hall of Kunning Palace, where there were eight wives sitting around, chatting with the queen about homework.

Seeing Zhu Yunsheng's arrival, these high-quality wives stood up and saluted one after another.

"Princess Hail!"

"Girl Sheng'er, now that she has a servant, she has benefited a lot!"

Pointing to the two Baochai who came in behind, Yang Qingyin said with a smile: "This effect can not be achieved without the supervision and restraint of these two girls, which makes me feel relieved a lot!"

"Come on, the two of you come over here to say hello!"

At the queen's suggestion, the two Baochai walked to the center and bowed to the senior wives present.

Although the selection of attendants has been completed, these high-ranking wives have not given up, and they will push their daughters from time to time.

After all, it is only a matter of the queen's words to replace the servants, or to add a few places.

These high-ranking wives are willing to make unremitting efforts as long as their daughters can enter the palace and protect the family inheritance.

The Queen called Baochai to come over, because she wanted to dispel these people's thoughts.

No matter how good your daughter is, can she still be better than these two girls?

This also explained why Zhen Qin was not summoned. Obviously, in the Queen's heart, she was worse than Baochai.

Zhu Jinghong also returned to Chengming Academy when the teaching examination in Kunning Palace began.

Jia Zhen, who was waiting outside the door, saw someone coming and greeted her immediately.

"Chen Jiazhen, kowtow to Lord Thirteen!"

Looking at the third-rank military officer kneeling in front of him, Zhu Jinghong said indifferently, "You are Jia Zhen?"

This made Jia Zhen's heart tremble very much, and she replied cautiously: "Yes!"

Taking off the iron helmet, Zhu Jinghong threw it to the accompanying eunuch and asked at the same time, "Did you find it?"

Jia Zhen replied: "Chen Wan died, but the culprit was not found. He violated the instructions of the Thirteenth Master. Today, he came here to receive the punishment!"

To receive a punishment for disobeying Zhu Jinghong's instruction is tantamount to saying that the Jia family does not recognize the Qin family's complaint, and they are justifying themselves in disguise.

And these words were thought up in advance in the mansion, so Jia Zhen blurted out.

With his hands behind his back, Zhu Jinghong walked up to Jia Zhen, who lowered her body so that only Zhu Jinghong's toes could be seen.

He took out the saber from his waist, and the sound of metal and iron clashing made Jia Zhen's heart tremble.

He wanted to run away, but he didn't even have the courage to stand up, and he wanted to beg for forgiveness, but he was so scared that he couldn't even make a sound.

Jia Zhen has lived for so many years, even during the Donghuamen Incident ten years ago, he was never as desperate as he is today.

Although reason told him that as a first-class man in the imperial court and a third-rank general, Zhu Jinghong would not kill him in public.

But who can tell about this kind of thing?

Zhu Jinghong really killed him, and when the time comes, he will be accused of assassination, and the matter will be easily exposed.

No one will complain for him, even the Jia family will remove him and cut him off to protect the safety of the clan.

Putting the knife on Jia Zhen's shoulder, Zhu Jinghong asked softly, "Did you instigate the Qin family's provocation?"

Whether it was instigated by the Jia family, in fact, Zhu Jinghong has already judged, and asking questions now is just a trick.

In fact, even if it was really done by Jia's family, Zhu Jinghong had no choice but to let them go because the emperor had issued a decree two days ago.

"Back... Back to the Thirteenth Master, I guarantee the reputation of my ancestors, this matter has absolutely nothing to do with the minister and the Jia family!"

In Jia Zhen's view, this is the last chance to survive, so he said this resolutely.

It's a pity that after he finished speaking, Zhu Jinghong's knife was still on his neck, which indicated that Jia Zhen's difficulties were not over yet.

Zhu Jinghong then asked: "Why do you make things difficult for the Qin family?"

Objectively speaking, the Jia and Qin families are engaged voluntarily, and it is not reasonable for the Qin family to unilaterally withdraw the engagement. In terms of current values, the Jia family should feel aggrieved.

Jia Zhen could only bite the bullet and explain: "The Thirteenth Master said that the daughter of the Qin family is engaged to the dog. The relatives and friends already know about this, and the Qin family suddenly wants to divorce... If the minister directly agrees, the Ningguo Mansion will definitely be disgraced!"

"It's not a minister who makes things difficult for the Qin family. It's really for the sake of the government's face. It has to be like this..."

Zhu Jinghong sneered: "It's really for the face of the government, not because you have any other ideas?"

Hearing this, Jia Zhen was shocked, but fortunately, he was lying on the ground so that no one could see his expression.

"I don't think otherwise, but look to the thirteenth master!"

The scene was silent for a few seconds, and the knife was still on Jia Zhen's neck, which made him feel that these few seconds were extremely long.

"I... believe you once!"

(End of this chapter)