Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 567
Satisfied, Luo Daqing rode his horse away from Duke Wei's mansion, asked people all the way, searched for a long time, and finally found Lu Xiaobei's mansion.

"The Duke's Mansion of the State of Wei?" Du Jinning frowned when he heard Luo Daqing's reply.

"Why, is there something wrong?" Yao Shuqi asked.

What happened to Du Jinning, she told Chen Shi, Yao Shuqi and others as soon as she came back. This was also to avoid encountering Wang Wei and his master in the future. Chen Shi and Yao Shuqi could at least know the cause and effect and deal with it carefully.That's why Yao Shuqi asked this question.

In his opinion, if that girl was a lady from Duke Wei's family, it would be normal for her to be a little arrogant.The Duke of the State is the most honorable among the nobles.

Du Jinning looked at him with a serious face: "That girl, if I guessed correctly, should be Princess Lu."

"What?" Yao Shuqi was taken aback, "No, no way?"

Du Jinning glanced at him, but didn't speak.

Yao Shuqi also knew that her young master had always spoken rigorously, if she hadn't been 100% sure, she wouldn't have said it with such certainty.He just couldn't believe it.

"But, isn't that the Duke of Wei's mansion? Since the guard is the princess's guard, why doesn't he go back to the palace or the princess mansion, but to the Duke of Wei's mansion?" Yao Shuqi said.

Du Jinning reached for the teapot and poured himself a cup of tea. He didn't look at Yao Shuqi, but asked lightly, "What do you think?"

Yao Shuqi's expression froze.

He remembered.Knowing that Enke was going to be opened and that he was planning to go to Beijing ahead of schedule, Du Jinning specially asked Qi Muyuan and Guan Jiaze to write a list of the relations between the major forces in the capital.

Mrs. Chen is the wife of the Du family, Xu Chengyuan is the head of the Xu family, Lu Xiaobei's business is getting bigger and bigger, Du Fanghui is married to Fang Shaohua, and he, Zhuang Yue, and Qin Laoliu are Du Jinning's right-hand men. Du Jinning asked them to memorize the densely packed relationship form for those who had some contact with court affairs.

And on that relationship table, 60.00% of the contents belonged to Xungui.

It has been a long time since the founding of the Song Dynasty, and the nobles have grown and grown in this stable environment, and their roots are intertwined. They are a very powerful force, and the emperors of all dynasties have feared them.Many poor students like Du Jinning were admitted to Jinshi, and the honorable family absorbed these people through marriage, teacher-student relationship, or favor, and became their outermost vines.

The struggle between several powerful families in Lishui County is a microcosm of the insignificance in the court.

Except for the prince, among the various ranks of nobles in the "Gonghou Bozinan", the highest status is naturally the Duke's Mansion.

The Duke's Mansion of the State of Wei ranks first among the seven Duke's mansions.

There is no other reason, the mother of the original eldest prince, that is, the former imperial concubine and current empress dowager, came from the Duke of Wei's mansion.In other words, Duke Wei's mansion is the new emperor's natal family.

This generation of Wei Guogong, surnamed Zheng, is in his 60s and is the biological father of the Queen Mother.In addition to the newly enthroned emperor Zhao He, the queen mother also gave birth to a daughter Zhao Mingyue.Zhao Mingyue is 14 years old and was originally Princess Anning.After the new emperor ascended the throne, he bestowed Shandong as the food city of Princess Anning, and changed her title to Princess Lu Guochang.

The Duke of Wei's Mansion is the ancestral home of the eldest princess of Lu. As the guard of the eldest princess, Wang Wei went to the Duke of Wei's mansion to rest his feet to avoid revealing the identity of the eldest princess, and ended Luo Daqing's stalking of him by the way. up.

Yao Shuqi wanted to understand this, so he quickly expressed his conjecture, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Du Jinning's expression turned pale.

Du Jinning is young, and usually speaks in a low volume, which seems to have no deterrent effect, and he has always been kind to people like Yao Shuqi.But Yao Shuqi, who is well aware of Du Jinning's methods, has always respected and feared Du Jinning, and dare not ignore him in the slightest.

Seeing that Yao Shuqi could explain these relationships clearly, Du Jinning ignored him, looked at Luo Daqing and said, "You just came back straight away? Didn't you look back to see if anyone is following you?"

Luo Daqing lowered his head and was thinking about how much money the young master would give as a "big reward". Hearing this, he was stunned for a moment, raised his head, and said in a daze, "No, no way?"

"Why not? Think about it, since the man is the princess's guard, the princess must know my identity after ordering. How dare he go back to meet the princess even if he can't do such a trivial thing? Seeing that he can't follow me anymore, After getting my information, I went to the Duke of Wei's mansion, and asked a guard from the Duke of Wei's mansion to follow you after entering the door. But since you thought you knew his identity, you rushed back full of joy, without the slightest precaution. The guard of the Duke of Wei's mansion has no impression, so he followed other people's way? Thinking about it now, the man thought he had to know my identity, but I thought the girl belonged to the Zheng family Where is the thousand gold?"

Luo Daqing stood in a daze, his lips pursed, but he was speechless for a while.

Du Jinning knew that people like Luo Daqing had only been in the nursing home for a short time, their consciousness was not strong, and they lacked experience, so what they said just now was more of a point of reference.

"I said before that I asked you to stop him and find a way to find out where the other party lives. You also stopped him and let me know the identity of the girl. I still want to give you this reward. Ten Two. But because of the last negligence, I made a big mistake, I punish you for copying the relationship table twice, are you convinced?"

When Luo Daqing heard that he was going to copy the relationship form, he immediately burst into tears.

He hummed and said: "Young master, can you not write? I would rather you beat me twenty sticks."

"Why should I hit you with twenty sticks? You have rough skin and thick flesh, and I'm afraid I'll break my brother-in-law's stick." Du Jinning rejected his proposal unceremoniously.

Yao Shuqi sat aside and suppressed a smile.

Du Jinning asked the servants in the family, as well as the nurses, to be literate. She selected literate people from all groups, and gave them a monthly fee to teach them to read.Luo Daqing and other nursing homes are taught by Zhang Songtao.

Luo Daqing was originally a farmer, but because his appetite was too large and his family had no land, the grain grown from the farm was not enough for chewing except for paying rent.Because Luo Daqing was not only tall and strong, but also learned some kung fu from the monks in the temple. Zhuang Yue knew about it and hired him to be the guardian of the Du family.

Such an illiterate man, you can ask him to work without any problem, even if he is beaten with a stick a few times, he can bear it. Even if he can learn to read and copy books, it will kill him.

The young master never punished his servants corporal punishment, but punished them whatever they were afraid of.For example, Luo Daqing, who is unwilling to write, will be fined for writing; some who value money very much, will be fined a monthly fee.This kind of punishment only hits the most painful place, and the effect is beyond words.

Luo Daqing was honest and obedient, and he always did what Du Jinning asked him to do.But now, in order not to write, he became more courageous, and dared to argue with Du Jinning: "The trailing is just your guess, young master? If he didn't follow me here, wouldn't my relationship form be copied in vain? ?”

"If you don't believe me, ask Zhang Songtao."

(End of this chapter)