Song Gexing

Chapter 284 Is Zheng Meiren plotting?

"The benevolent officials regard beauty as grass and let the maids get married..."

Zhao Fang became impatient after singing his praises, and Zheng Suyuan said: "Sister Ruixi has been crying all night when she was told that she was going to get married. I don't know what to do, so I can only come and ask the official to keep someone..."

As he spoke, he looked at Zhao Fang with tears in his peach blossom eyes, and asked him strangely puzzled: "You want to keep her to serve me, are you not afraid that she will compete with you for favor?"

"I don't think I have any desire to compete for favor."

Zheng Suyuan hurriedly argued, and then said aggrievedly: "There is no need to compete for favors in the official harem. Even the Queen doesn't care about the concubines deliberately inviting favors. Who dares to compete for favors!"

Zhao Fang smiled and nodded when he heard her first sentence, but the next words made him frown and his eyes narrowed: "You said someone invited me to pamper me, who was it?"

Zheng Suyuan was startled, her pretty face turned pale, and she quickly explained: "No, I said the wrong thing. All the sisters in the palace keep to themselves and do not invite favors."

Zhao Fang looked at her deeply and warned: "My harem hates palace fighting the most. Someone should have told you when you entered the palace. Remember, I dote on women, but if you dare to play tricks, don't blame me for being ruthless."

Zheng Suyuan quickly said she didn't dare, but her timid appearance seemed a bit fake in Zhao Fang's eyes, but that was not important. What was important was whether she could do it.

As for whether to pretend to be innocent or pitiful in front of yourself, that is a different temperament for every woman, so there is no need to care about it.

Besides, competition for favor is inevitable, and he is not arrogant enough to think that his harem can prevent such things, it just needs to be within limits.

"Tell me, why are you speaking for Chen Ruixi? As far as I know, she is the wife of Li Xuan, the former Goryeo admonishment doctor. She has nothing to do with your Zheng family, right?"

Of course, Zhao Fang knew the origins of these women. Except for those who were originally sent out of the palace to reward the ministers, the rest were all left in the palace. If not for this accident, these women would have ended up serving him.

Chen Ruixi was the eldest among them. Li Xuan resisted the Song army and was killed. She was arrested and convicted. Originally, according to the rules before the Song Dynasty, she was going to be sent to the Jiaofang Division.

Since Zhao Fang changed this broken rule when he was young, the Song Dynasty has no such thing as involving female family members, but Goryeo has it. Her being sent to Bianjing was a complete accident.

Originally, she was not suitable to enter the palace due to her status and age. Because she spoke fluent Song Dynasty Mandarin and was born in a family of civil servants, she had been familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics since she was a child.

After examination, Zhang Dun believed that although this woman was not young, she was beautiful and familiar with Mandarin. Many of these people still needed to learn Mandarin, so he sent her to Beijing to serve as their teacher and learn Mandarin.

Normally, noble women in Goryeo must learn the Mandarin of the Central Plains. This is a tradition that started in the Tang Dynasty, but there are differences in the Mandarin of the Tang and Song Dynasties.

The Mandarin of the Tang Dynasty was dominated by the Guanzhong accent, while the Song Dynasty had a Henan accent. The Goryeo aristocrats still learn the Mandarin of the Tang Dynasty. That is because Goryeo officially severed ties with the Song Dynasty very early and surrendered to the Liao Kingdom.

Wang's founding of Korea was earlier than the Song Dynasty. During the Five Dynasties period, Song Taizu sent people once to express his surrender after the founding of the country.

But the Liao State immediately sent troops to attack after knowing it. Goryeo could not defeat the Liao State. The Song Dynasty was isolated by the Liao State and could not send troops to help it. Therefore, Goryeo could only surrender to the Liao State and cut off official ties with the Song Dynasty.

Throughout the Northern Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty's contact with Goryeo was only among the people and took the sea route. It was not until the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty that there was an official exchange.

Goryeo sent scholars to participate in the imperial examinations of the Song Dynasty. Song Huizong specifically set up imperial examination quotas for Goryeo scholars. This was the second official exchange since the founding of the Song Dynasty.

At that time, the Liao State was unable to stop it, because the Jurchens had blocked the Liao State's path to conquer Goryeo. It can also be seen from this that Goryeo was unwilling to surrender to the Liao State from the beginning to the end.In other words, among the Goryeo nobles, pro-Song Dynasty was the mainstream, so it was not that difficult for Zhang Dun to destroy Goryeo. This battle was completely initiated by the King of Goryeo, and there were many people who opposed it.

Once these opponents were defeated, the voice of surrender became the mainstream, but they did not expect Zhang Dun to be so ruthless and dare to destroy Goryeo.

Back to the topic, the Mandarin of Goryeo at this time was dominated by the Mandarin of the Tang Dynasty. There were very few people who could speak the Mandarin of the Song Dynasty, especially the aristocratic women.

Chen Ruixi's skills naturally became a plug-in, and he was directly exempted from being a pariah by Zhang Dun and sent to Bianjing.

Zhao Fang also had this consideration when he left her in the palace. After all, those little girls left behind had to be educated, and language was a top priority.

So she became the language teacher of those little girls and stayed in the palace. However, because she was not favored, a group of people were released to get married this time, and she was included on the list.

Zheng Suyuan heard the question and quickly explained the reason: "It is true that my mother's family does not have much friendship with the Chen and Li family, but Sister Ruixi once rescued me, so I promised her daughter..."

Only then did Zhao Fang understand that Chen Ruixi had a daughter who had been betrothed to the second son of the King of Goryeo. No wonder Li Xuan wanted to fight to the death. It was for his son-in-law.

"So you are speaking for her out of repayment?"

A smile appeared on Zhao Fang's face. A person who knows how to repay kindness shows that he is not bad-hearted. After all, Zheng Suyuan herself is not of high status now, and this is not the Goryeo Palace.

Seeing that he had softened, Zheng Suyuan was overjoyed, and immediately nodded coquettishly and said, "Not only is this the reason, there is another reason..."

As he spoke, he looked at the people around Zhao Fang but hesitated to speak. Zhao Fang frowned, motioned to the person close to him to move away, and waved her to come to him.

He wrapped his arms around her waist and whispered in his ear: "Now we can talk."

Zheng Suyuan then leaned on his shoulder and whispered a few words into his ear.

Zhao Fang turned to look at her in surprise: "Are you telling the truth?"

"It's absolutely true! I don't dare to lie to the officials."

Zhao Fang's face moved slightly, he pondered for a moment and then asked: "How do you know this? This is a private matter."

Zheng Suyuan's face turned red and she whispered: "On the way to Beijing, the future was uncertain. We often whispered together to relieve our worries. We started talking inadvertently."

After hearing this, Zhao Fang nodded, pondered for a while, raised his head and said, "Gao Jujian, let Chen Ruixi sleep with you tonight and tell the concubine to remove her name from the roster."

Gao Jujian responded and immediately went to handle the matter in person. She was just a woman. In his opinion, it was nothing for an official to keep a woman.

Xiao Guanyin is not a jealous person, and she doesn't care about this matter at all. She doesn't even need to meet Xiao Guanyin, she can just say something to the female officer next to her.

Sure enough, Chen Ruixi was sent to her that night. Xiao Guanyin had no idea that Zhao Fang was very satisfied after the one-night affair. Zheng Suyuan had indeed not lied to herself. This woman had a rare and charming body.

(End of this chapter)