After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 827 Nasty
Haitang didn't believe that Concubine Xu would really give up on Jin Jiashu's marriage and let him do whatever he wanted.

Even though Concubine Xu now has a grudge against Concubine Zhang Gong and the Zhang family, and no longer insists that Jin Jiashu marry the girl named Zhang Yingfeng, it does not mean that she will allow Jin Jiashu to have freedom in marriage.

Without the Zhang family, there are still many noble families in the capital; without Zhang Yingfeng, there are still many daughters of high families in the capital. No matter which daughter Jin Jiashu marries, he will get benefits immediately. Concubine Xu was already distressed about this "nephew". Now that she has met him, she sees that he has grown up to be handsome, smart and capable. He not only saved her from poisoning, but also helped her solve the problem of Jin Wu and the father and son of the Sun family. She can only hope that he will be better.

What would be beneficial to Jin Jiashu? Of course, it would be to find him a good marriage with all the advantages! Since he himself has no intention of pursuing high positions and fame, only a good marriage with wealth and honor can ensure that he can still enjoy wealth and honor even if his official position is not high. In this way, even if he is indifferent to fame and fortune, he can still borrow the help of his wife's family when he needs a high position in the future.

As for Jin Jiashu's own thoughts, Concubine Xu might think that Jin Jiashu is young and doesn't know what is the best choice, so he is attracted to a girl from a small family. She doesn't think Jin Jiashu is stupid, but she definitely won't have much affection for the girl who attracted Jin Jiashu. She only thinks that it is because Jin Jiashu has seen too few good girls and has been in contact with the Hai family for a long time, so he has a deeper affection for the Hai family. She didn't want Jin Jiashu to blame her, so she deliberately asked her confidants to make a promise to him. But when she and Jin Jiashu have been together for a long time and their feelings are deeper, the latter has become dependent on her and will not turn against her easily. However, the girl from the Hai family has been separated from Jin Jiashu for a long time, and their feelings have turned, which is a good opportunity for her to separate the two.

By then, even if Jin Jiashu had complaints about this, she would have something to say - she had never promised anything, and everything was just the decisions of the people around her.

Haitang quickly thought of various possibilities. In her previous life in the palace, she had seen the Queen Mother, Empress, or Imperial Concubine manipulate the marriages of their children or the younger generations of their natal families. This routine was not uncommon at all, and Ma Shangyi should be very familiar with it. It was just that Jin Jiashu had little experience and might not be able to detect the trick.

Concubine Xu has been in the palace for more than ten years, and it is not just her temperament and appearance that have changed.

Haitang sneered. She was not so easily fooled, but she did not intend to go to great lengths to impress Concubine Xu. She and Jin Jiashu only had a private agreement, not even a public engagement, so why bother? If Jin Jiashu was really sincere and insisted on marrying her, he should have dealt with his "aunt" himself instead of letting her worry about it.

Of course, she could also give Jin Jiashu a few hints in the letter, so that the child would not be too naive and fooled by Concubine Xu.

In the letter, Jin Jiashu focused on describing how he had obtained the "promise" from his "aunt" that he could freely marry his sweetheart, so he wrote to Haitang as soon as possible to inform her of the good news.

In addition, he also mentioned that he had been in danger three times before and after arriving in Beijing.

The first time happened before he entered Beijing. He didn't even see the person who came, and the other party was chased away by Guard Lin and Zhou's personal guards.

The second time was when he just entered the palace. The person who brought him food that night had a strange expression. He suspected that there was something wrong with the food, so he didn't touch it. He was hungry for half the night. It was not until the Queen Mother found that someone was tampering with the imperial kitchen and hurriedly sent someone to check on him that he had a midnight snack. As for the third time, after the confrontation, the father and son of the Sun family both lost their jobs. He went to find the eighth prince the next morning, intending to go with him to pay respects to Concubine Xu and ask when he could leave the palace. However, he met a eunuch on the way. He suddenly covered his mouth with his hand and tried to drag him into an empty house on the side of the road. He fought back with self-defense and fell to the ground. He immediately shouted for help, called the guards, and took the man down. Unfortunately, the man soon committed suicide by taking poison, and failed to find out the mastermind. The emperor seemed to have some guesses about this matter, and Concubine Xu also asked him not to ask further, saying that the emperor would not protect the bad guys.

Jin Jiashu was safe and sound in all three times of danger. People around him thought he was lucky, but he repeatedly thanked Haitang in his letters, saying that if Haitang had not insisted on teaching him self-defense, taught him how to identify poisons, and urged him to ask Ma Shangyi for knowledge about poisons, so that he knew clearly how to deal with the attacks of criminals, he might have died in the hands of those people. It was also the knowledge taught by Haitang that enabled him to discover the truth about Concubine Xu's poisoning in time and save his "aunt". He could feel that now not only his "aunt" and "cousin", but even the emperor and the empress dowager had a good impression of him, a country bumpkin who had just entered Beijing. He saved his life, avenged the enemy who killed his relatives, and his future was bright. This was all thanks to the help of "Sister Hai".

Jin Jiashu believes that without Haitang, he would never have the good life he has today, let alone a bright future. He missed Sister Hai so much in the capital, hoping that she could come to the capital as soon as possible so that he could formally propose to the two elders of the Hai family and live with Sister Hai from then on. With Sister Hai by his side, he could truly feel at ease and no longer have to worry about being in danger again.

Seeing Jin Jiashu's corny words, Haitang couldn't help but shiver. She felt a little embarrassed, and buried her head under the table with a red face, laughing secretly.

After laughing, she burned the translated letter and kept the original letter from Jin Jiashu and put it away.

Such cheesy words should not be seen by others. She should just keep the original copy and not let others know.

Jin Jiashu mentioned his next arrangements at the end of the letter. Concubine Xu had been asking the empress dowager for mercy, and the emperor finally agreed to let him stay in the capital to study and no longer need to return to Chang'an.

Originally, Concubine Xu Xianfei planned to let him study with the two princes. The princes' teachers were all famous Confucian scholars of the dynasty. If he could study with them, it would be better than finding a teacher outside. But the seventh prince was weak, and the emperor did not pay much attention to his studies. He just arranged two famous teachers to teach him poetry, songs, chess, calligraphy and painting. The empress dowager also hoped that he would take care of his health and not spend too much effort on his studies. If Jin Jiashu studied with him, he would naturally not learn much useful knowledge. As for the eighth prince, although he was smart and had always been excellent in his studies, he was much younger than Jin Jiashu. The two were not of the same age. Jin Jiashu was also smart and his academic progress was faster. If the two went to school together, it would be more disadvantageous than beneficial for the latter, who already had the title of a scholar and needed to study hard.

As a result, Jin Jiashu's study as a companion in the palace was not beneficial at all, but was actually detrimental to his progress in studying for the imperial examination. Concubine Xu Xianfei was still somewhat knowledgeable, and soon changed her mind. She rented a house for her "nephew" in the capital, arranged servants, and still asked Ma Shangyi to take care of the child, and let Jin Jiashu live outside the palace and study in the attached hall of Tao Ge Lao's home. In this way, he became a classmate of the Tao family's children, and was also considered a disciple of Tao Ge Lao, so he naturally didn't have to worry about his future.

When Jin Jiashu wrote the letter, he had been studying in the Tao family's private school for a few days. He felt that he could still keep up with the schoolwork, and Tao Ge Lao was very concerned about the family's studies. He was also close to Xie Wenzai, and they had a lot of consensus on academic matters, so he was very caring towards Jin Jiashu, the student of his good friend. Jin Jiashu did not feel that there was anything wrong with his stay in the Tao family's attached hall. His new home was quite close to the imperial palace and not far from the Hai family's house, so it was very convenient for him to go to Hai Jiao to talk and play in his spare time.

Jin Jiashu is now happy with everything and is looking forward to his sweetheart coming to Beijing as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)