Fourth Master Jiang: "..."
He coughed lightly, frowned and looked at the little girl in front of him.
It was a coincidence that she rushed here.
A few days ago, when he was determined to rectify Ning'an Bo's mansion, he discovered that his eldest brother seemed innocent, but actually had close contacts with some corrupt officials and courtiers.
He was a little aware of these things before, but he never thought about it carefully, and he didn't want to question it, which broke the brother's friendship.
Now uprooting and seeing clearly the scandal hidden under the ground, all that was left was shock and headache. He drastically severed relations with officials who shouldn't be with him, but he also encountered some resistance. Those who had been friends with his elder brother and benefited from his elder brother's favor were naturally unwilling to see him in office.
I have encountered some troubles recently, and Pei Songyu, who works in Dali Temple, can help out, so I just invited him to sit at the house today.
Originally, I only planned to talk about some business affairs, and chatted casually, but the words were very speculative, and I didn't know it at night.
Pei Songyu was in his early twenties, and his eldest daughter was seven years old. Apart from a bad family background, he had no character or knowledge to be criticized. Jiang Siye admitted that he was indeed thinking about recruiting him as his son-in-law.
His short silence made Jiang Rao see some clues, her expression turned down, and she begged, "Father, don't splash me."
"I don't want to marry yet." Jiang Rao was a little sullen, and repeated, "I don't want to marry."
Fourth Master Jiang looked at her and smiled softly. Look, with such a disobedient appearance, if you let him go to someone else's house, you will definitely be punished and scolded. But what can he do? It wasn't raised by him.
With infinite connivance and helplessness, he said slowly: "I didn't say that I would throw you out, but did you listen to other people's nonsense?"
His gaze vaguely swept over the maid behind Jiang Rao, his sharpness could not be concealed, Ming Shao was so guilty that he broke into a cold sweat.
Jiang Rao protected her maid, and said: "I was dreaming. I dreamed that I was married, and I wanted to leave my parents and younger brother. I felt uncomfortable."
Fourth Master Jiang said in a deep voice: "All I want is your peace and happiness. If you don't want to, I won't force you. Just be at ease."
Fourth Master Jiang seemed to be thinking of something, with a particularly deep smile on his face, and he said in the tone of someone who has been there, "You don't want to think about it now. If you meet someone you really like in the future, maybe you will come to me again."
That's how he came here back then.
But when Jiang Rao left, seeing the dazed back of his daughter drifting away, he immediately became a little worried.
If at that time she brings back someone who he thinks is inappropriate, should he agree or object
I really feel uncomfortable no matter how I think about it.
Fourth Master Jiang called the servant, "Where does Pei Shaoqing often go, find out and tell me."
The boy asked: "What is the master's plan?"
Fourth Master Jiang wanted to know what kind of person Pei Songyu was. After Jiang Xingchuan's incident, he saw that people dare not make judgments and were as cautious as walking on thin ice, "I just want to see if he is as noble and moral as the outside said, and whether he is a trustworthy person. "
…
The ninth day of July is an auspicious day. A plaque was placed in Rong Ting's courtyard, and the word "Bi Shen" was engraved on the peach wood plaque.
Aniseed glazed lanterns were hung on the eaves of the porch, camellias and cypresses were newly added in the yard, and the lush and emerald potted plants are pleasing to the eye at a glance. Ordinary people will feel relaxed and comfortable when they see it. Huaiqing looked at her face Taking a quick look, he saw that the bottom of his eyes were as dark as ink, and he didn't feel the slightest joy at the completely new scene in the courtyard.
Huai Qing said to Rong Ting: "Miss Si said that she had asked someone to figure it out. The Feng Shui of this house is not good, but it's not impossible to break it. There are three fires in the character '民', which can just drive away the yin energy in this courtyard. "
His words just got a head start, after he only said four young girls, Rong Ting's eyes lightly moved. Waiting until Huaiqing finished speaking, he asked in a deep voice, "Why didn't you come today?"
Huaiqing said: "I heard that there are some matters in the family, which have been delayed."
Seeing that Rong Ting's eyes dimmed, Huai Qing sighed, "The Fourth Miss treats His Highness the Ninth Prince differently from others."
Huai Qing thought for a long time, and gave an example: "When she was in Bailu Academy, she could only write in the palm of His Highness's hand. When she met other people, she always used a small wooden stick to make gestures on the ground."
On the wheelchair, the gloomy young master with a thin quilt covering his legs didn't care at all, and hummed softly.
Huai Qing only saw her writing into his palm, but never saw his deliberate efforts.
Before she wanted to write something, he was often the first to grab her wrist.
…
There is something going on in Jiang Rao's residence, and he is here to see Concubine Yun Gui.
Concubine Yun felt that the days in summer were long and boring, so she asked Jiang Rao to accompany her in the palace for half a month.
Concubine Yun Gui held the pomegranate and sat on the swing set up under the flower shed in Shuxiang Palace, but she was lazy and didn't swing high, and she spun around slowly, telling Jiang Rao which concubine was in the palace recently Crying, which family's concubine laughed, and chatting, the conversation gradually turned back to Jiang Rao.
Concubine Yun looked at the excitement, "I heard that your father is seeing your husband and son-in-law for you, what's the matter, did you see the result?"
Jiang Rao didn't know where her aunt knew about it, as if the whole world knew that her father was worrying about her marriage. While shaking his head, he remembered the dream he had in the carriage that day, and poured out some bitterness to Concubine Yun, "I don't want to get married so early."
"I don't want to either, I just want to be an old girl, now..."
Still want to leave the palace, want to be an old lady.
It's just that if someone listens to these words, it is easy to sow discord in front of Emperor Zhaowu. Concubine Yun Gui knew what to say and what not to say, she shook her head with a faint smile, and stopped talking, looking at the sky outside the palace, her eyes revealed A touch of loneliness and sadness.
She was not interested, but her tone was solemn, "If you marry someone, marry someone you like. If not, then be an old girl for the rest of your life. Anyway, you have a lot of money, and you won't be able to spend it all in a few lifetimes."
Jiang Rao said, "But what counts as liking?"
Concubine Yun Gui thought for a long time, she seemed a little bit embarrassed about how to answer, and finally said slowly: "At least when you do intimate things with him, you have to not feel disgusted."
These words were so straightforward that a little girl as old as Jiang Rao blush.
Concubine Yun loves to tease her when she blushes, "When I entered the palace, the nanny in charge gave me a lot of pamphlets, and they were all kept in the small study in the west wing. Since I was curious every year, I asked someone to fetch them. show you… "
"No." Jiang Rao interrupted sharply.
She covered her red ear tips.
What a shame, look at this.
Concubine Yun looked at her with a lazy smile, and nodded her forehead, "Little wooden lump."
…
Splendid Palace.
For several years, Xu Guozhang had a rare opportunity to enter the palace to visit Empress Jiahe.
He talked with Empress Jiahe for a long time, in order to ensure that the throne of the seventeenth prince is safe, all the princes except the seventeenth prince are thorns in their eyes, even if Xu Guozhang cannot enter the palace to visit, there are constant secret letters between each other, After entering the palace, they screened off all the maids and eunuchs and talked privately. When talking about Rong Ting...
Empress Jiahe frowned, "He went out of the palace, I have found the eyeliner, so I know what he is doing, but the eyeliner is still missing."
Xu Guozhang also frowned slightly, his face was gloomy and unhappy. If Rong Ting wants to die, dragging his crippled legs to live, even if he knows that he can't achieve any great things, it really makes people feel unhappy.
"Blame you for being soft-hearted in the past and not killing him when he was young."
Empress Jiahe gritted her teeth and said bitterly, "I have never been merciful."
"The emperor has asked him more and more in recent days, and he has even cared more about my little Seventeen."
"He relieved the emperor's worries, and the emperor will naturally value him more and more."
A few days ago, he was invited to a meeting of courtiers, and he saw that the courtiers were discussing the disaster in Nanzhang. Si Tianjian said that there will still be floods in Nanzhang next year, and I am afraid there will be no harvest. He was about to pretend to say a few words about worrying about the country and the people, but he heard that there is already a solution.
Build canals to divert water to the west, build plank roads to open commercial roads, reclaim land on high slopes, and plant different crops at high and low places.
When he saw the blueprint at first, he thought it was the idea of the resourceful Chen Bing in the Ministry of Industry. Unexpectedly, Chen Bing was standing beside him, looking at the blueprint with a look of surprise on his face. After a while, he patted his thigh, I yelled "Why didn't I think of that" a few times.
Only then did he realize that the person who made the blueprint was not Chen Bing, but Rong Ting.
Because of this matter, Emperor Zhaowu already intends to put Rong Ting in the Ministry of Industry. Next year, if Nanzhang is really brought back to life because of the measures Rong Ting advocated, Emperor Zhaowu will probably pay more attention to him.
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Xu Guozhang felt a little remorseful, "I shouldn't have asked you to treat him harshly."
If this kind of talent can be used for oneself, it will be a rare help.
"Do you think he is really kind?" Empress Jiahe seemed to have heard a joke, "He began to suspect that his biological mother's death had something to do with me when he was four or five years old, maybe even earlier, I didn't treat him too harshly then Ever had him? I have been sullen and suspicious since I was a child, and I can't hide it sooner or later. I only hate him for his fate. He was born to die, but he still dragged his breath to live."
At that time, Emperor Zhaowu was heartbroken because of the death of his favorite concubine, and he was extremely concerned about the newborn nine sons. Among all the princes, only Rong Ting had received the personal care of Emperor Zhaowu.
If she didn't take the initiative to adopt Rong Ting to her, and let Emperor Zhaowu get along with him day by day, Emperor Zhaowu would also unconsciously favor this poor ninth son in the future.
Fortunately, after adopting Rong Ting, for the first two years, Emperor Zhaowu would still ask a few questions, but gradually he was relieved of her care, so he stopped asking.
When there was a new favorite concubine in the palace, and Emperor Zhaowu had a new heir, Rong Ting became even more insignificant in his heart.
"But he's really too smart." It's like he didn't drink that bowl of soup when he was in the underworld in his previous life. He was so wise and close to a monster at a young age. He could think of ideas that Chen Bing couldn't think of at the age of thirty-two. Xu Guozhang said fearfully, "Be careful now, don't let other princes draw him over; in the future, we must find a way to kill the grass."
Jia and Empress were a little anxious.
Xu Guozhang glanced at her, "You don't have to panic, he is just a cripple, there is always a way to deal with him."
He suddenly thought of something, "Shen Que has been looking for a chance to meet me these days. I heard that his second daughter also wants to see you. Do you know what they are doing?"