Do you know: I am Xu Jiazi

Chapter 505: This is a big deal! [Thank you! Thank you again! I owe you 45K more]

morning,

In the bright study,

Xu Zaijing was sitting at the table doing his homework.

Under the eaves, the sound of melting snow dripping like rain,

"Wow~"

In the fish tank in the middle of the study, the goldfish swung its tail, making a slight noise.

"Squeak~"

The door to the outer room was opened.

Qingcao walked in from outside carrying a tray.

After replacing the tea that had cooled down on the table in front of Xu Zaijing, Qingcao whispered, "Sir, I have thought of a solution."

"tell me the story."

Xu Zaijing put down his brush and looked at the green grass.

"I said I saw it when I was out shopping today, and I thought the wood carving was nice, so I bought it for Xiaotao."

Picking up the teacup, Xu Zaijing smiled and nodded: "That's a good reason, what about the scarf?"

Qingcao pursed her lips and said, "I'll go to the store and buy some similar scarves. I'll say that we have too many furs in our warehouse and the weather is cold, so Hua and I want to make them specially for them."

"The one you gave me, sir, I'll give it to Xiao Tao separately."

Xu Zaijing shook his head: "I won't buy the scarf."

Qingcao was stunned.

"Go buy some furs outside, and Huaxiang and the others can just make a few."

Qingcao thought about it, nodded and smiled, "Yes, sir."

"Go."

After saying that, Xu Zaijing took a sip of warm tea.

Qingcao went out and closed the door.

Xu Zaijing calmed down and did some homework.
"Xiaowu! What are you doing?"

"Xiaowu?!"

A girl's voice was heard outside the house.

"I've met the eldest lady."

Yun Xiang's voice came to greet him.

"What a pretty girl! Has your master ever bullied you?"

"Ah? Madam?"

"Hahaha, I won't tease you anymore. Xiaowu!? Come out quickly."

Xu Zaijing had already recognized who it was. With a smile on his face, he put down his brush helplessly, stood up and walked quickly towards the door.

As soon as I walked out of the study, I saw An Mei, wearing a cloak, lifting the curtain and walking into the room with a smile on her face.

"Sister, why did you come back? You didn't even tell me in advance."

An Mei smiled at her brother and said, "Why, you don't welcome me back? There's nothing to do when it snows, so of course I have to go back to my mother's house!"

Ye'er, the maid following behind An Mei, bowed hastily: "Greetings, sir."

Xu Zaijing smiled.

As she spoke, An Mei took off her cloak and handed it to Xu Zaijing who was holding out his hand, saying, "Did you bully our raccoon again during the days I was away?"

Xu Zaijing: "Huh?"

"What? I just came here with my raccoon in my arms. As soon as I got close to your yard, he jumped down and ran away."

Ye'er, who was behind An Mei, also laughed when she heard this.

"Sister, I go to school every day, how can I have time to bully the cat? You should ask it if it has done anything wrong."

An Mei rolled her eyes, curled her lips, and walked towards Xu Zaijing's study.

Xu Zaijing followed, and the maids Ye'er and Yun Xiang stood inside the door.

Walking into the study, An Mei said, "Xiao Wu, how do you keep the fish in this tank? They look full of life."

As she spoke, An Mei picked up a handful of fish food from the porcelain plate beside her and sprinkled it in.

“They’re all grass-fed.”

After listening to Xu Zaijing's words, An Mei nodded and patted the fish food crumbs on her hands. She walked to the desk again, took Xu Zaijing's homework, looked at it, and nodded:

"Well, you really work hard! Very good!"

Xu Zaijing smiled and said, "Sister, now I am a juren! How can I become a juren without working hard?"

An Mei sat down on Xu Zaijing's chair, patted the chair handle, and nodded with a smile: "That's right."

He looked around the room at the bookshelves filled with books and the piles of used papers, and said, "I never thought that our Xu family could produce two juren and one jieyuan."

While An Mei was talking, Hua Xiang came over with a teacup in her hand: "Girl, have some tea."

"Well, you're sensible!" An Mei said with a smile.

After taking a sip of tea and looking at her handsome younger brother standing beside her, An Mei said with some emotion: "Hey, Xiaowu, you have passed the imperial examination in the blink of an eye. When I touched your little face in winter when I was a child, it seems like it happened just yesterday."

Looking at Xu Zaijing, An Mei said, "People say that people don't remember anything before the age of three. I guess you have forgotten everything."

Xu Zaijing thought to himself, 'That's not necessarily true! ' Thinking of this, he touched his face and smiled, "Sister, why are you so sentimental?"

"Now that I think about it, you were much more adorable and obedient than my kid when you were little! Alas."

Well, Xu Zaijing understood why his sister was like this: she was tortured by the child.

An Mei waved her hand and stood up. She walked out of the desk with her hands behind her back in a serious manner. After looking around, her eyes lit up. She walked to the window and asked in confusion:

"Xiao Wu, why do you have chain armor in your study? It looks really exquisite."

Xu Zaijing walked over and looked at An Mei who was touching the chain armor and said, "I received it when I was in the northwest. I still don't know who sent it. In winter, when the clothes are thick, I will wear this chain armor under my clothes when I have nothing to do."

An Mei looked at the things in front of her thoughtfully, then smiled and nodded:

"Well, you have learned a lesson. Your courtyard is only lacking a mistress, and I don't know which girl you will marry."

Before Xu Zaijing, who was in a dilemma, could reply, An Mei asked, "By the way, why didn't I see Qingcao?"

Hearing Xu Zaijing's answer of "she went out to buy something", An Mei nodded.

The brother and sister talked for a while.

"Okay, it's about time, let's go to mother's house for dinner."

An Mei said as she walked out of the study.

On the way,

An Mei looked at the younger brother beside her who was more than a head taller than her and said, "I wonder what my boy will look like in the future."

Xu Zaijing smiled slightly: "As the saying goes, nephews resemble their uncles, so naturally I am similar."

Hearing this, An Mei laughed and said, "I hope so! By the way, when I came here, I also brought a cart of hairtail fish, which my mother-in-law's family sent to Beijing! From now on, Xiaowu, you can eat it however you want."

Xu Zaijing smiled and nodded repeatedly: "Fourth sister still loves me!"

Looking at her younger brother who looked even more handsome when he smiled, and thinking about what her mother had said to her, An Mei felt a little happy and proud, yet also a little worried, and sighed.

With the heating on, Sun's house was very warm.

An Mei's son Hu Yanbi sat on the bed, looking around at his two cousins ​​who were teasing him, smiling from time to time.

Seeing Xu Zaijing enter the room,
Xu Xingdai rushed forward with a smile.

After hugging his two nephews, Xu Zaijing hugged his nephew again. After Hu Yanbi was kissed on the cheek in Xu Zaijing's arms, he smiled cutely.

"Okay, come and eat."

After dinner,

While Xu Zaijing was drinking a drink to help digestion and talking to his family, Hua Xiang walked into the room and whispered something to Xu Zaijing. After hearing this, Xu Zaijing looked puzzled and asked, "The old marquis invited me to the Xiangyang Marquis' Mansion?"

"Yes, sir."

Xu Zaijing nodded: "Tell the messenger that I will be there this afternoon."

The Imperial Palace of the Great Zhou Dynasty,

Most of the snow has been cleared, and the snow has wet many places.
There is still unmelted snow in the corners of the roofs of the halls where the sun cannot reach.

Yesterday, taking advantage of the heavy snow, the palace's skilled craftsmen carved snow lanterns out of compacted snow at night. Now, their appearances have changed.

In the palace of Concubine Rong,

White smoke slowly drifted from the incense burner on the thick carpet.

Rong Feiyan sat on an embroidered cushion nearby, listening to the conversation between her mother and sister.

"The imperial physician has also checked her pulse, and it is indeed a pregnancy pulse!"

The wife of Marquis Fuchang said with a smile on her face.

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Rong Feifei smiled and looked at Rong Feiyan, saying, "Good, that's great! When Erlang has a child and becomes a father, he will control his temper a little."

The wife of the Marquis of Fuchang smiled and said, "Yes, in two days, I will go to the temple and Taoist temple to add some incense oil and pray to the gods to bless me with a boy."

Rong Fei nodded, looked at the wife of Marquis Fuchang, and said, "Mother, our family is not of high status, and we didn't have any rules of visiting relatives every morning and evening. I heard that you told Erlang that his wife was pretending to be sick and lazy?"

"If Feiyan hadn't noticed something was wrong and asked the imperial physician to come in, would you really have punished her?"

Hearing this, the wife of Marquis Fuchang said with an unnatural expression: "I am... an elder of the Rong family said that if we don't set this rule, the Erlang family might look down on our Rong family and think that our family is a family without rules! Who knew that she would have it so soon..."

Rong Fei shook her head and said, "Erlang's wife is the legitimate daughter of the Duke's family after all. Now that she is pregnant, you should restrain yourself a little and forget about the morning and evening visits."

The wife of Marquis Fuchang looked up at Concubine Rong and said, "But I have also asked around. How can you not follow the rules when you are someone else's daughter-in-law in Bianjing?"

Rong Fei shook her head and said, "If Feiyan got married, would she still be bound by the same rules as her mother-in-law?"

"My Yan'er is such a good girl, who dares to make her stand in line? I..."

Rong Fei looked at her mother calmly: "What's wrong with you?"

"I will definitely go to your father's house and ask for justice for Feiyan."

The wife of Marquis Fuchang said with a glare.

"Mother, according to your logic, Erlang's wife is already pregnant, and you are still making her stand in the way. Are they going to come knocking on our Rong family's door as well?"

"I don't know."

No longer paying attention to her mother, Rong Fei looked at Rong Feiyan, a smile appeared on her face and she asked, "How do you think your sister-in-law is these days?"

Rong Feiyan smiled and said, "Sister, although my sister-in-law is not good-looking, she is a sensible person who knows when to advance and when to retreat, and she also acts in an orderly manner."

"Especially she loves her brother very much." Rong Feiyan smiled and said nothing more.

The girl from the Dou family likes Rong Xian very much.

Rong Fei smiled. She was the one who made the final decision on this marriage. She was very happy and continued to ask, "Your sister-in-law said that she wanted to give you the power of housekeeper again. Feiyan, what do you think?"

Rong Feiyan shook her head: "Without my sister-in-law's family, I, the sister-in-law, am still the housekeeper. Since my sister-in-law is pregnant, I will just help from the side."

Rong Fei nodded approvingly: "That's a good idea."

At this time, Rong Fei's personal maid came in.

Whispered softly in Rong Fei's ear: "Your Majesty, Princess Pingning has entered the palace."

Rong Fei looked at her personal maid in confusion, with a look in her eyes that said, "Queen Ping Ningxue is entering the palace, do I need to report this to me?"

The female official hurriedly whispered, "The eunuch who saw it said that Princess Pingning looked unhappy in the Queen's Palace."

Rong Fei nodded and asked: "How did this little eunuch see it?"

"Your Majesty, they said that the eunuchs beside the Queen had summoned him to clean up the ashes, and that's when they saw it."

After the female official finished speaking, Rong Fei looked at Rong Feiyan thoughtfully and said, "When Erlang gets off duty, ask him to find out what happened in the capital recently."

"Yes, sister."

In the palace,
Princess Pingning looked at the Queen and said, "Mother, the eunuch who was summoned in just now looks unfamiliar. Which palace is he from?"

The queen, who was walking slowly in the hall, said, "As for Rong Fei, over the years, the Rong family has had some connections in the east and west of Hebei!"

Princess Pingning nodded in understanding.

The Queen continued, "Pingning, are you saying that something happened to the Beizhou Tongpan? What's the matter?"

"Mother, this Lord Dong is an old friend of the Duke's Mansion. He just moved to Beizhou two years ago."

"I visited the Duke's Mansion before, and heard from the Duke that he was a cautious and motivated person. He drank too much and fell into the river, but the Duke didn't believe it."

"Especially since Lord Dong was entrusted by the Duke to help his father, Marquis Xiangyang, to explore Beizhou."

The queen took a deep breath, sat back on the Luohan bed and said, "Before, Xiao Zhao, the head of the Imperial City Department, sent people to Beizhou to investigate, and they said there was nothing unusual."

Princess Pingning said, "Mother, the Zhang family has also worked in the Imperial City Department. Is it possible that Xiaozhao's people have been deceived?"

"Would you like to talk to the Emperor and ask him to send another group of people?"

The queen shook her head and said, "You know, after Queen Guo passed away, the Zhang family was able to recover and then operated in Hebei West Road for many years. If we send someone there again, what can we find out?"

Princess Pingning: "Then mother, you must be on guard against others."

"Well, Pingning, you are thoughtful! Leave the rest to me."

"Yes, mother! Then, I will take my leave."

Sitting on the Arhat chair, the Queen slowly tightened her grip on the handle of the chair as she watched Princess Pingning walk out of the palace.

The personal maid beside him said worriedly, "Madam."

The queen took a deep breath, released her hand and waved, "It's okay."

15:00 (after 3:00 p.m.)
Xiangyang Houfu,

In the study,
Xu Zaijing looked at Xiangyang Hou in surprise: "Old Marquis, are you saying that someone is plotting to murder an official of the imperial court? Is there any evidence?"

The old Marquis of Xiangyang also looked unhappy: "It's just a guess, but it's not going to happen sooner or later. It happened after my son-in-law entrusted me with the task."

"Wulang, you are still young and haven't encountered any conspiracy or tricks! But this time, the old friend of the Qi family died, and this old man is here."

Marquis Xiangyang pointed to his nose and said, "I smell a conspiracy."

Xu Zaijing nodded: "So you asked me to come here just to remind me?"

Xiangyang Hou shook his head slightly and said, "Hebei West Road is behind the northern front. I am not just reminding you."

Xu Zaijing narrowed his eyes slightly, realizing the seriousness of the situation, and said anxiously: "Old Marquis, this is a serious matter! Why don't you talk to His Majesty about it?"

"Wu Lang, you are too young. You have never seen how Concubine Zhang was favored in the past! And how can I say this without any evidence?"

"But Wulang, you have been chased and killed by that man, so it is normal for you to have doubts."

Xu Zaijing nodded.

evening,

The emperor returned to the queen's chamber.

Looking at the stern-faced queen, the emperor smiled and asked, "What's wrong?"

The queen stood up, bowed solemnly and said, "Your Majesty, I beg you to ask Zhang to withdraw from the palace guards."

As soon as these words came out, the emperor's smile disappeared instantly, and he threw his sleeves and said, "You are making trouble without reason."

The queen closed her eyes, calmed down and said, "Your Majesty, something has happened to the Beizhou Tongpan."

"What can you say about a judge who drowned from drinking? Is the queen angry with someone who has been gone for so long?"

The Queen's chest rose and fell violently a few times and she said, "I dare not, but Fang'er has grown up with great difficulty, and I will not allow Fang'er to be in any danger."

"How can I allow Fang'er to be in danger?!" the emperor asked with a stern face.

"Your Majesty!" The Queen knelt on the ground and said, "In that case, I beg Your Majesty not to let Zhang's son enter the inner court! If you do not agree, I will resign from the position of Queen."

"You!" The emperor looked at the kneeling queen in confusion. He walked back and forth impatiently, took a few deep breaths, and said, "Okay! Okay! Then I won't let him enter the inner court."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" the Queen kowtowed.

(End of this chapter)