Yu Tang Golden Boudoir

Chapter 122

The fourth prince came out of the hall and stood side by side with the first prince, looking expressionlessly at the fifth prince who was being carried back and forth by the waiter. Looking at the fifth prince's gaze, with a blank face and eyes, the fifth prince who was looking straight away avoided his gaze, and then walked down the steps steadily with his hands behind his back, and walked straight away.

The fifth prince returned to his residence, sat there for a while with a lot of thoughts, then stood up and walked out.

Candlelight flickered in the small courtyard behind Qingfenglou Lake. Huang Jingjie welcomed the Fifth Prince and looked at him solemnly. The Fifth Prince shook his cloak with a cold face and said, "Make a bowl of tea and ask someone to bring in some food. Bottle of wine, kneeling all afternoon, feeling cold all over." Seeing that he had ordered tea and food, Huang Jingjie secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and hurried out of the Nuan Pavilion to order.

"Do you have any clues?" Seeing that the fifth prince drank several bowls of tea, his expression softened a little, Huang Jingjie asked in a low voice, and the fifth prince shook his head: "Father said it was his intention."

"What does the official mean?" Huang Jingjie was very surprised: "The official knows the fifth wife of the Li family? The former fourth master congratulated her on Ji Li? The official heard about it because of this? But!" Huang Jingjie couldn't go on talking, four The master congratulated the fifth lady of the Li family on her Jiji ceremony, the reason for which anyone with eyes can understand, if you want to refer to the marriage, you shouldn't point it to the fifth master!
"So this is absurd!" The fifth prince said very bluntly: "Since the decree has been issued, it is naturally father's idea, but how did father come up with this meaning?" Huang Jingjie's face became more and more serious: "The fifth master married Among the five ladies of the Li family, who has benefited the most?"

"The fifth lady of the Li family has benefited the most." The fifth prince said bluntly: "Who else is there? The fourth brother has already turned against me. Is this marriage meant to make the fourth brother turn against me? The fourth brother turned against me face, who benefits the most?"

"It's the uncle?" Huang Jingjie said in horror, and the fifth prince waved his hand: "I don't think so. Eldest brother and father have always been estranged. If he wants to intervene in my marriage, he can only rely on others. The palace affairs have always been presided over by Ye Niangniang. There is absolutely no chance of borrowing this place.”

"Ms. Jiang?" Huang Jingjie reacted very quickly, and the fifth prince said with a sullen face: "The Jiang family has always been ambiguous, and the fourth brother has turned against me. There is no harm to her, but she can't join hands with the eldest brother now. Let the fourth brother be aware of it." Second, it’s best for her to sit on the fence and be neutral now, and if it has something to do with her, it’s her own idea.” The fifth prince stopped talking and fell into deep thought, and then continued after a while: “Let me marry the Li family Wife, besides the benefit of the Li family's wife, it is conceivable to force me and the fourth brother to turn against each other. The Li family's wife does not mention it. If she has the ability to make my father make such a decree, the fourth brother will not be engaged to wish the family , the only thing is to make the fourth brother fall out with me. If the fourth brother turns against me, many people will benefit, so we have to deal with it from another direction. Who can persuade father to agree to this marriage? Daddy must have heard about Fourth Brother's congratulations to his family and Ji Li, so who can persuade Father?"

Huang Jingjie looked nervously at the fifth prince, who gradually narrowed his eyes: "Mr. Zheng!"

"Officer Zheng? What good does this do him?" Huang Jingjie cried out in a low voice, and the fifth prince shook his head: "I don't know, except him, who can persuade daddy on this matter? I am the prince, no Prince, my marriage is an internal matter, and those elders in the court can't control it. There are not many people who can speak on this matter! Unless it is really his own idea, as Father said, then I would rather It is believed that Zheng Daguan did something wrong!"

"Could it be possible?" Huang Jingjie's voice trembled slightly, and the fifth prince's expression was gloomy: "Maybe, someone will always try their best to push me onto the stage to fight for their lives."

"Then what shall we do?" Huang Jingjie's nervous voice was hoarse, but there was a vague excitement in the nervousness. The fifth prince glanced at him: "That is a road of no return." Huang Jingjie was faintly disappointed, and the fifth prince hung his eyes After a while, he sighed and said, "Let's have a look first, and if it doesn't work, just express your opinion. Fortunately, it is better to be a courtier to the eldest brother than to be a courtier to the fourth brother."

"Miss Li, do you really know nothing?" Huang Jingjie calmed down again, and made another bowl of tea. The fifth prince took the tea, looked up at the dim roof, thought for a long time and said: "She has benefited At most, but I can't think of any way for her to get into the palace. That Sun Liu is just a low-level person, that is, to find a few scoundrels and spread some rumors in the market. If she wants to reach into the palace, she doesn't have that ability .”

"Well, the shopkeeper surnamed Cheng has also been paid close attention to. I have made good friends with the government officials and the Sixth Department. It is not very useful."

"Whose capital did the surname Cheng receive? Have you found out?"

"It is said that it is the capital of a maritime merchant in Quanzhou. There are too many maritime merchants in Quanzhou who can afford such capital. It is true that big merchants from other places have a tradition of opening shops in the capital and befriending officials. It is not found out whose capital he received. However, he is very familiar with the Quanzhou Chamber of Commerce, and he also received a small errand in the Chamber of Commerce." Huang Jingjie explained in detail, and the fifth prince absently sipped his tea and said: "I always think that this person surnamed Cheng belongs to her. I heard that she has a direct relative. Aunt, are you going to the capital?"

"Yes, I married the third son of Jiang Tao, a Hanlin scholar. Jiang Tao came from the Jiang family in Luzhou. He served as the Deputy Envoy of Yantie for two terms. Taiping passed away due to illness in the fifth year of Taiping. His posthumous title was Wenzheng. Jiang Tao had three sons and two daughters. All three sons were born as Jinshi. The eldest son Jiang Qingning is 50 years old this year. Aged, a Jinshi in the first year of Taiping, the current prefect of Yizhou, the third son Jiang Qingyuan is the old son of Wen Zhenggong, only 19 years old this year, Jiang Qingyuan was smart since childhood, and he was also a Jinshi in the first year of Taiping. He was a good scholar and married a wife Since then, she has been working as a foreigner, and the next one will be the owner of the Privy Council Zhima, and she should be able to arrive in the capital in a few days. I heard that the aunt of the Li family broke up with the Duke of Yongguo after the death of Mrs. Ning. contacts." Huang Jingjie briefly introduced the Jiang family.

The fifth prince listened intently, savored it carefully and said: "The Privy Council knows about the landlord's affairs. It's a good job. It seems that no one in the Jiang family is in the capital, right?"

"Yes, the year after Wen Zhenggong's death, the old lady also passed away. The three brothers separated and took their family members to the office. The officer Jiang Qingyuan sent to the front station came to the capital a few years ago. Jiang Qingyuan took care of it. Li's dowry is a five-entry house, although Jiang's family is poor, Jiang Qingyuan's family is extremely rich because of marrying Li." Huang Jingjie's words are very euphemistic. This is one of the allusions in Beijing that people wantonly marry their daughter Li Jinghao.

"Well, is Jiang Li's coming to Beijing for this niece?" The fifth prince said to himself, and before Huang Jingjie could answer, he said, "Originally, we could have waited for Jiang and Li to enter the capital to take a cold look, but now" the fifth prince With a smirk: "I can't see it." Huang Jingjie didn't know what to think of, looked at him in a daze, and suddenly felt a strange feeling in his heart, the fifth master might not agree with this marriage.

The marriage of the fifth prince made many people in the capital drop their jaws. Before all kinds of speculations and rumors came out, this matter was replaced by another more important and more attention-grabbing matter. The imperial examination held every three years Released.

Before dawn, the Xuande Gate was crowded with people. There were announcers who were posing to claim the big rewards, and there were three or five people in a group. One of them was holding a simple pen and inkstone, eagerly waiting to copy. Good list, easy to sell money to those who are anxious to read the list but can't squeeze in. This job is to grab a quick word, and the price can be sold in the first half an hour. Of course, the family servants of the students are also indispensable. At least it is a family that has a daughter to marry, thinking about the families who have caught a wishful son-in-law under the list. The servants from these families are all strong and bright. After all, grabbing a son-in-law is not only about strength, but also about image.

Most of the students also came, but they relied on their status and refused to squeeze together with the group of lower Liba people who only wanted to see the list first, and the rest were not taboo about meat and vegetables. After the list is announced, someone shouted and shouted, and you can hear it.

Both Jiang Hong and Xu Sihai failed to leave the house, and were kept at home by their respective mothers on the grounds of extremely strict concern, waiting for the letter. Leng Mingsong got the letter from Li Tian referring to marriage to the fifth prince when he went back yesterday, and he was very dazed. For a long time, he thought that Jiang Hong and Xu Sihai's family must be much more informed than himself, but he didn't expect that these two people didn't know about it, and they just couldn't sleep at night because of their sorrow.Early the next morning, he found out that the two of them hadn't gone out to read the rankings. Thinking about what the two of them had said to him, he sighed for a long time, and finally lost the mood to go out to read the rankings. Anyway, he didn't ask much. Yesterday's article Both poems and fu are written very smoothly, and a Jinshi background can always be obtained.

Xueshi Xu wakes up before dawn. He rarely accepts students, but last year he accepted three students at once. Over the past year, he has spent countless efforts on the three of them. He is extremely satisfied with the results of the provincial examination. Can't help but give birth to countless expectations. The rankings in the provincial examination have not changed too much from the palace examination. The three Jinshi think it is stable.

As soon as the sky released the fish belly white, Xu Xueshi sent several groups of people to read the list outside the Xuande Gate, and to send a message to the Sanjia Mansion. If you get a good news, please send someone to tell him.After getting a reply from the three families who had a letter to announce the good news to the scholar's mansion, Xu Xueshi patiently ate his breakfast slowly, changed his clothes, took a book and put on a look like a mountain collapsed in front of him without changing his face. Sitting in the hall, looking forward to seeing through.

The hourglass in the corner of the room seemed to be frozen. Xu Xueshi held up the book, stared at the hourglass, and listened to the movement outside with his ears open, feeling like years passed by.

There was a rush of firecrackers in the distance, and the book in Xueshi Xu's hand slammed onto the table, and he looked eagerly at the entrance of the main hall.

(End of this chapter)