Lord, don't be afraid, the princess is not angry

Chapter 281 Sending off the old and welcoming the new
Duke Qing couldn't get sick because of this case, and he died of a serious illness before he survived the winter.After Duke Qing's death, His Majesty confiscated the property of Zhang's family, demoted them to common people, and never hired them.

The Holy Majesty looked at the list of Duke Qing's property, and handed it to King Ping beside him for him to have a look.The two of them stayed alone in the imperial study, quietly looking at the thin piece of paper and the stack of checklists beside it.Duke Qing's personal property is not much, he has never paid much attention to food and clothing, and his family's expenses are frugal, especially after the first emperor established the dynasty, people's livelihood was difficult for a few years, Duke Qing took the lead in donating his few family properties, forcing As a result, other officials also had to pay the treasury.After that, Duke Qing has always maintained the habit of frugality.

But he is the only one in the Zhang family who is frugal. His wives, concubines, descendants, clan members and even servants live more luxuriously than his master.Mrs. Qing Guogong obeyed her husband's orders in the early years and restrained her clansmen to be diligent and thrifty in managing the house. But later on, she didn't know when she couldn't control her greed, and she also started to turn a blind eye to the clansman's deceitful actions. , and even flirted with Qing Guogong because of a little personal grievance.Now that Duke Qing passed away, the Zhang family fell apart, and the Lu family, which was prosperous because of her, also quickly declined.

After Qing Guogong's family was kicked out of Qing Guogong's mansion, because all their family property was confiscated and they had nowhere to stay, they could only temporarily live in the house privately owned by the old servant for a few days.During this period, several of her concubine sons were clamoring to separate the family. Without Duke Qing, Lu could not suppress them. Anyway, she didn't have any property in her hands, so she let them go wherever they liked.There was a courageous concubine who abducted and sold the daughter of his concubine when he saw that he could not get any money.

When Mrs. Lu found out, she asked her son to find out the whereabouts of her granddaughter, and she was found, but the brothel held her back and insisted on making them hand over the money they had already given.Mrs. Lu asked for help, but no one was willing to help, and even those people who fell into trouble stared at the Zhang family's direct line, even if they borrowed some money, they immediately went to snatch the money away.

Zhuhua went to the street that day and saw some people beating around a young man dressed as a scholar, so she sent someone over to check.When these people saw the guards coming, they didn't dare to ask who it belonged to, so they fled in a hurry.After the servants inquired, they replied in Zhuhua dialect, saying that the scholar was the grandson of Lord Qing, and he was seventeen at home, but now he is fourteen.Zhang Silang heard that it was Princess Ping who had rescued her, so he came forward to thank her, and carefully glanced at her face, hesitating to speak.

Zhuhua thought about these days, everyone was afraid of Tianyan and dared not get too close to the Zhang family, and no one would dare to help the Zhang family if they had any difficulties.Zhang Silang didn't dare to go forward because he was afraid that Princess Ping would be dissatisfied if she found out that it was the Zhang family who saved her.However, Prince Ping's Mansion and the Holy Majesty are still in the stage of falling out, Zhuhua is not afraid.

"What's the problem with Master Zhang?" Zhuhua asked in a good voice.

After Zhang Silang heard this, he faltered and said that he wanted to borrow money, and he also told about his sister's being trapped in prostitution. After hearing this, Zhuhua asked people to follow him to redeem her first.Prince Ping's mansion came forward, and several brothels also collected money to release people in order to save face. Zhuhua was relieved when the servants sent to follow Zhang Silang to redeem people said that the girls had not lost their innocence.

At night, she told Queen Ping about it, and asked, "Will I cause you any trouble by doing this?"

"We won't be in any trouble. Once Qing Guogong is gone, we don't need to do anything later, and those families who hate the Zhang family will not let his descendants go. But you helped me in this way, I'm afraid You've got yourself in trouble."

"I'm not the kind of soft-hearted person. I've done my kinship if I helped once. Even if they come to beg, I won't do anything again."

Having said that, the next day Zhuhua heard that Zhang Silang was asking to see him outside because of his sister who was still trapped in the brothel, so she had no choice but to invite him into the mansion.Zhuhua also murmured in her heart, didn't it mean that they were all redeemed yesterday, why did they go in again overnight, could his sisters be too easy to abduct?This wouldn't be extorting her money in a disguised form, would it?
Zhang Silang was a bit embarrassed to open his mouth, but after Zhuhua asked, he realized that he didn't come for his direct sisters, his uncle abducted not only his direct sisters, but also abducted some girls from the clan.Some people even have some money in their hands, but at the moment when their property has been confiscated, they can’t spend it. They want to borrow money as a cover, but they can’t borrow much. It’s embarrassing to hear that Princess Ping If they were willing to help each other, they asked Zhang Silang to talk about it.

Zhuhua couldn't help frowning when she heard this. To be honest, she still had a little respect for Duke Qing himself, but what the hell were the Zhang clan, why did she have to stand up for them because she was not related to them.Just when she was complaining, Qiuchu whispered something in her ear, Zhuhua glanced at Qiuchu in a daze, and then looked at Zhang Silang.

"Fourth son, I'm afraid it's not easy to help this busy princess. There is something related to a girl from Rongqing. You go tell your clan uncle, and he will know."

Zhang Silang nodded when he heard the words, but he didn't dare to force it.

Zhuhua was afraid that they would come to her again later, so she added: "My concubine wanted to help Nanyang County King because he married a daughter of the Lu family. No amount of help would be enough."

Zhang Silang knew what she meant, and the relationship between the two parties was not that close. She had done her best to help once, so it was not good to ask for too much.It's a pity that Mrs. Zhang, who lives in the small old house, heard this, but thought that their Lu family still had a married daughter who was a princess of the county to rely on, so she came to Prince Ping's mansion, hoping to ask Zhuhua to borrow some money to go to the Lu family .

Zhuhua saw that Mrs. Zhang came to Pingwang's mansion wearing a probably new brocade dress, and she looked as if she hadn't lost her original prestige, but in just a few months, Mrs. Zhang turned pale a lot, and even hunched a little.Zhuhua didn't want to see her at first, but she also thought that the matter of Mrs. Lu should be settled, so she invited Mrs. Zhang in.

After the conversation between the two sides was over, Mrs. Zhang explained her intentions bluntly. She felt that there was nothing embarrassing about being shy, and she spoke with the air that if you don't lend me money, you are not a human being. Dazzling eyes sank.Hearing that she wanted to take people to the border to join the Lu family, she was slightly relieved.

"Mrs. Zhang probably didn't know because she was busy last year?" Zhuhua glanced at Mrs. Zhang and said calmly, "Mr. Lu died of illness last autumn."

Last autumn was when Duke Qing was sick in bed, Mrs. Zhang really couldn't take care of much, and Yuan Tai deliberately let the mourners come to Beijing later.After Qing Guogong passed away, the Zhang family and the Lu family were all under house arrest. Some offenders were sent to prison. Even Qing Guogong's funeral was rudimentary, and she had no way of knowing the news of Lu's death.

Lu's health hasn't recovered since she took the strong medicine to conceive, but how could she bear to stay in bed all day to recuperate, at such a time, she still wants to meet her lover.Later, when she saw that she was getting haggard and couldn't give money, and her lover gradually stopped coming, she took her anger out on the little girl beside her, and beat the one who was waiting next to her so that she didn't have a piece of good meat on her body. He was willing to serve her with all his heart, and even added something to her medicine, so that she could only lie on the bed in a daze every day, and had no energy to beat her servants.After dragging on for a long time, Lu's body became weaker and weaker, and finally he couldn't survive the autumn.

Zhuhua had already known the news, so she didn't want to go to the messy Lu Mansion to ask if they already knew about it. Yuan Tai also said that he would send someone to inform Lu Mansion, and Zhuhua didn't want to do so.Just judging from Madam Zhang's expression at this moment, the people in Lu's residence probably didn't tell her.

Mrs. Zhang has always loved her grand-niece very much. No matter how bad people say about her, this girl is sweet in her heart.She is only so old, and she actually said that if it is gone, it will be gone, and there is nothing tricky in it, so she doesn't believe it.

"You guys, you are so cruel." She pointed at Zhuhua and cursed, Zhang Silang who came with her was startled, and hurried forward to persuade her.

Zhuhua was taken aback for a moment at first, but later she realized that she was saying that they got rid of Mrs. Lu after seeing Duke Qing's defeat, she felt a little annoyed in her heart, and said coldly, "Old Madam Zhang, what are you talking about? I won't talk about what happened to this marriage, but now that she herself has died of illness, she has nothing to do with us, and we are the ones to blame."

"Princess, don't get angry with a commoner woman. If you have anything to say, let the servants speak up." Qiu Chu quickly persuaded.

As soon as Zhuhua heard it was right, she glanced at Mrs. Zhang, saw that she was getting old and sad, and didn't want to argue with her, so she told Qiuchu: "See off the guests, everyone will go Wangfu belt."

"Yes, Concubine." Qiu Chu responded by winking at a few servants nearby, telling them to drive them out. Even she wouldn't be able to drive out such ordinary people herself.

After Mrs. Zhang came out of Prince Ping's Mansion, she suddenly aged a lot. Zhang Silang helped her helplessly, but made the gatekeepers of several mansions on both sides to look at her a few more times.Next to Prince Ping's Mansion is Nanyang County Prince's Mansion, Mrs. Zhang stared at the plaque for a long time, and suddenly rushed towards the County Prince's Mansion.The guard at the gate came back to his senses, hurriedly stopped her, and pushed her into the street.

"You crazy woman, is this a place you can break into casually?"

"I'm Mrs. Qing, and your princess is my grandniece."

"What kind of official is there! There is no Mrs. Qing Guogong in this world. No matter how noisy you are, be careful that I will have you arrested in prison. I believe there are many old acquaintances there who should really want to see you."

Now there are still many officials and family members who are waiting to be dealt with in the prison of the Ministry of Justice. Some of them are members of the Zhang clan, and some are subordinates of Duke Qing. Their officials and family members, Mrs. Zhang, naturally recognize them. They used to flatter her, but now they are only good at it. Talked badly to her.Mrs. Zhang calmed down when she heard the words, and was helped back to their temporary house by Zhang Silang who was behind him with a helpless face.After returning home, Mrs. Zhang fell ill and died on the night when the members of the Zhang family decided to move back to their hometown.

Zhuhua heard that she borrowed the name of the Nanyang County Prince's Mansion to send some money to her direct descendants, as if she was doing her last bit of care.

Last year was a mess, even though the earth is now bright again in spring, Zhuhua is a little bit unmotivated.Seeing that she was disturbed by outside events, King Ping told her something that distracted her, Zhuhua really regained her spirits.

"Tuantuan is pregnant?" Zhuhua looked at King Ping in disbelief.

King Ping nodded with a smile, "I just met the girl next to Tuantuan at the door to report the news. I thought I'd better come and tell you in person, so I let her go back."

Zhuhua smiled gratifiedly at first, then pulled her face down again, "Why did you let her go, I have a lot to say, no, I think I'd better go."

"It's getting late today, let's go tomorrow." King Ping hurriedly pulled her up, and shook her hand again.

Zhuhua glanced at him reproachfully, "I'm going to be a grandfather, why are you still like Jiajia? By the way, I have to send a letter to Jiajia, and I have to tell Yuanyuan to let her Accompany me to An Guohou's Mansion tomorrow."

"I've already asked someone to do it." King Ping said, pulling her to sit on the couch, "I never saw you in such a hurry when you were pregnant."

Zhuhua was slightly embarrassed, and immediately chuckled again, "When my mother found out that she was pregnant, I was not in such a hurry. At that time, I was at home with my mother to have a baby because my mother was pregnant. When I was young, I loved to eat the intestines I made, so I got such a nickname."

After hearing this, King Ping asked her something about her childhood, and seeing that she spoke with gusto, he also smiled.

Tuantuan got pregnant smoothly, and the whole family was very happy. She had been married for more than two years, and half a year after getting married, she began to worry about why she hadn't conceived for so long.Yu Boyan was already old when he married her, she still thought that she would be able to conceive a child within half a year after entering the house, and after another three years and two years, but in the third year she hadn't conceived yet.Xie Zhenyan saw the anxiety in her heart, and often comforted her, which made her even more anxious.

After getting married, everyone in the Marquis of Anguo's mansion treated her very well, so she wanted to spread out the branches and leaves for Yu Boyan earlier. Yu Boyan once joked to her that as long as she gave birth to two boys, there was no need to arrange for him to have a roommate. .After hearing this, she secretly kept it in her heart, seeing that her father-in-law had one concubine besides the two legitimate sons, she wanted to give birth to three sons for Yu Boyan, and secretly asked Yuanyuan if she had heard of any folk remedies.

Yuanyuan persuaded her to look away, and told Zhuhua when she saw that she couldn't listen.Zhuhua looked at Tuantuan, and suddenly felt that she had known each other before, so she invited her to go out of the city to offer incense one day, and asked her a word when no one else was around.

"Do you still remember your Sixth Aunt?" She looked at Tuantuan, and was puzzled when she saw her nodding, so she patted her hand and said, "There is nothing more important than two people growing old forever."

Tuantuan understood what Zhuhua meant, and felt sorry for making her mother so worried, and then finally relaxed slowly.

This happened last spring, and Zhuhua felt relieved when she saw that her daughter was no longer worried about her pregnancy. She was afraid that Tuantuan would worry about it again, so she didn't dare to ask her if she was pregnant.After a year, she suddenly heard the news that her daughter was pregnant, and she was very pleasantly surprised.

Compared to her, the people in An Guohou's mansion were happier, Yu Boyan didn't even let Tuantuan stand up and walk around for fear that she would be tired.Seeing him like this, Tuantuan felt a little helpless, and persuaded him for a long time before letting him relax.

Now that she is finally pregnant with a child, she is not as anxious as before.Anguo Hou's Mansion is different from Ping Wang's Mansion. Yu Boyan also has a younger brother who is one year younger than Jia's family. For the future stability of the Hou Mansion, she must give birth to a son before her future sister-in-law gives birth to a son-in-law. Be steady, besides, she really didn't want Yu Boyan to use this as an excuse to take a concubine, even if Yu Boyan didn't look like such a ruthless person.

With such a happy event, Zhuhua finally stopped thinking about the ups and downs of the world that had nothing to do with her.The people in Chang'an City also quickly forgot about the illustrious Duke Qing. This year was the year of the exam, and the examiner was Beichuan Wang Yuanheng.The common people discussed in private that if the King of Beichuan really succeeded in the future, this class of students would be the first class of disciples of the future emperor, what an honor it would be.

Over the years, even if the examiners were not responsible for the examination questions, the examiners would pick out a few good ones, and the students began to discuss which questions the King of Beichuan would test. Clan.

The Holy Majesty asked Beichuan Wang to be the chief examiner because he valued him. If he turned cold towards Yuan Heng as soon as Qing Guogong fell, it would appear that his previous goodwill was just a cover.But King Beichuan is younger after all, the Holy One originally planned to grind him for a few more years, in his opinion, the somewhat restless King Beichuan is not suitable for the throne than him, but fortunately his intelligence is enough, the Holy One is willing Spend some more time waiting for him to change his temperament, otherwise, he would have recalled Nanyang Junwang back to the capital.After all, taking advantage of the downfall of the Zhang family is a good time to cultivate new forces. If Yuan Tai made his appearance in Chang'an at this moment, he might be able to win over some people.

By the end of the Spring Festival, almost all the examinees of this year had found vacancies. When the situation in the court became more stable, many ministers found that the court was firmly in the hands of the Holy One, and the faction of Beichuan King had grown a lot. Only the officials of Chen Wang's faction have not changed much.

Even so, no matter what is going on in the court, Chen Wang's faction will always fight with Beichuan Wang's faction, and the Holy One will sometimes support Chen Wang to prevent Beichuan King's power from expanding.

At the end of the year in such a noisy way, Prince Ping's mansion, which was not affected by the government, married a second daughter.

Yuanyuan got married in the last month of her 20th year. She married Mu Lin who persuaded her to get married early so that she spent all her private house.The two were married in the capital, and they will continue to stay in Chang'an after they get married. This time, the king of Xihai County will not go to Beijing to watch the ceremony, but let his son Haoming come instead of his father.

Although Mu Lin felt a little regretful that his parents couldn't come in person, he was always a person who cared about the overall situation and didn't complain.In order to make the two feel comfortable after marriage, Hao Ming bought a big house for them in the capital according to his father's order.It just so happened that a large number of officials were sacked last year, and many houses were vacated in the capital, so he bought them early with attention. At the beginning of spring, he asked craftsmen to slightly modify the house. After all, it is a new house, so it has to be changed. The things inside are replaced with new ones.

(End of this chapter)