The next day's lotus meeting in Changle Hou Mansion, Zhenbei Hou Mansion did not receive the invitation, so naturally no one went, but Shen Zhuo actually told everyone that he had been invited by Mr. Jia, and smiled under Shen Xiang's unhappy sideways glance Said he was going to the meeting. Mrs. Yang didn't know the details, and told her not to cause any trouble. The old lady only raised her eyes slightly, and after looking at Shen Zhuo, she didn't dare to look at it again: Changle Hou Mansion is the home of the elder brother of the abolished empress, the uncle of the crown prince, Shen Zhuo It's definitely not good to go.
When Shen Zhuo arrived at the gate of the Marquis Mansion of Changle, a street was crowded. After all, the prince is the prince appointed by the emperor, and the Marquis of Changle is also a way to establish a relationship with the prince. Therefore, for this lotus festival, many young masters and young ladies from other families came to the capital.
Shen Zhuo's guard handed over the post, and Mr. Jia came out immediately, and welcomed Shen Zhuo into the mansion with a smile.
After a while, it was rumored that the fourth princess had arrived. The guard of honor for the fourth princess was huge, accompanied by more than 50 court ladies and eunuchs, and it caused a commotion in the mansion. Marquis Changle and his wife went to greet her, and then placed the fourth princess in the backyard.
The Marquis Mansion of Changle sent invitations to all the wealthy families in the capital a month ago. Since the fourth princess was invited, they had to invite the fifth princess. Originally, the fifth princess didn't want to come, but Zhang Yunjin sent her a post saying that he wanted to see her in Changle Hou Mansion, so the fifth princess endured her fear and disgust towards the fourth princess and decided to come to Changle Hou Mansion.
When the fifth princess came, the third prince had to accompany him, but he really didn't want to come to the queen's natal house. After he learned the cause of his mother's death, he hated everything about the queen. But he never told the fifth princess what he knew, for fear that after the fifth princess knew about it, his usual actions would reveal flaws. So the fifth princess said that she wanted to come to Changle Hou Mansion to see Miss Zhang Liu from Pingyuan Hou Mansion, but the third prince did not refuse. He remembered that Miss Zhang Liu was the one who ran away with his younger sister in Dongshou back then, and they had an unusual relationship.
The third prince accompanied the fifth princess's car to the outside of Marquis Changle's mansion, and waited on the street until Marquis Pingyuan's convoy arrived. The third prince greeted Prince Zhang, and the two teams entered the door one after another.
As soon as they entered the mansion, someone hugged the third prince and separated him from Mr. Zhang. Then, the man and woman separated and went to different places.
The third prince suppressed the unhappiness in his heart, looked around for acquaintances, and soon saw Mr. Ye, and the two met and chatted. The eldest son Ye said that only the third son Shen came to Zhenbeihou's mansion, and the third prince was disappointed and relieved. Disappointed that he had no chance to meet Shen Xiang, but relieved that Shen Xiang did not appear in this place he hated.
Zhang Yunming immediately found himself surrounded by a group of people who were carrying him towards the lake while talking. In order to prove it, he said that he was going to clean the room, but a dozen people accompanied him to the clean room, and when he came out, they surrounded him again and went to see the lotus. Zhang Yunming walked as slowly as possible, fearing that his sister would not have enough time, but no matter how slow he was, no matter how delayed he was, he was still getting closer to the small lake.
After entering the mansion, Zhang Yunjin was with the fifth princess, leading many sisters of the Zhang family, accompanied by a few maids and grandmothers, and walked towards the lake. Slowly, the sisters of the Zhang family also separated. Zhang Yunjin chose a path with few people, and walked and chatted with the fifth princess.
Although Zhang Yunjin didn't understand why her elder brother repeatedly told her to bring the fifth princess to a secluded waterside pavilion in the small lake, and even showed her a simple picture, she was gentle by nature and naturally obeyed her elder brother's words. While walking, she found that the maids and mother-in-law beside her seemed to know the way, so she knew that her brother must have given instructions to the servants, let alone go the wrong way. She and the fifth princess hadn't seen each other for a long time, while the two were talking, the fifth princess just followed Zhang Yunjin. Soon, Zhang Yunjin easily found a water pavilion by the lake where lotus flowers were in full bloom.
This water pavilion is built near the water, and the protruding side hangs over the lake. The two of them sat on the bench facing the water, leaning on the back of the chair, they could see the lotus leaves on the water below, occasionally a fish or two swimming by.
The fifth princess sighed: "It's quiet here, you don't know, if you didn't say you want to come, I really don't want to come here."
Zhang Yunjin smiled and said: "I want to come here to meet you. To invite you to my place, I have to hold flower parties or something. My father is very unwilling to make troubles, and my mother usually doesn't let me go out casually..."
The fifth princess smiled bitterly: "You can't go out casually, so I can?"
The two of them vomited bitterness, saying that they would never be women again in their next life and so on.
Surrounded by the maids and eunuchs, the fourth princess arrived at the lake first. When she heard that the motorcade from Pingyuanhou’s mansion came together with the fifth princess’s motorcade, she was furious and said to herself, “Sure enough! Sure enough! Interested in Mr. Zhang!" Someone reported that the fifth princess went for a walk with Miss Zhang Liu, and Mr. Zhang was already surrounded by people, and he was about to arrive soon. Mr. Zhang caught it! If he is pushed over, I will hug him tightly! Let him break free! She really wanted to see the expression of the fifth princess when she heard that she was with Mr. Zhang! How disappointed she was! How jealous! I want to stand in front of her proudly, and tell her: "I think the fifth emperor sister already knows about it? Mr. Zhang is so shameless for molesting me! I'm going to see my father..."
Shen Zhuo walked around the courtyard with Mr. Jia, but was blocked by people in the palace several times, saying that there was the fourth princess ahead, so don't go inside.
Mr. Jia was a little depressed: "This is my home! Why can't I go anywhere?!"
Shen Zhuo nodded and said: "Is this the lotus festival in your mansion? I still want to see the lotus!"
Mr. Jia suddenly said: "That's right! It's the lotus festival, everyone will be by the lake! Let's go, let's go to the lake!"
It's a pity that they were blocked again soon, and the path leading to the lake was controlled by palace people, who said that they would wait for half an hour and let the fourth princess admire the lotus first.
Mr. Jia showed dissatisfaction, Shen Zhuo looked around, and said with reminiscence: "Do you still remember that year when I came to your mansion, we played chess? I went to find my sister at that time, it seems, I can get it from the side of the rockery Walk… "
Mr. Jia said, "Look, isn't someone holding that?"
Shen Zhuo frowned slightly, and pointed: "Actually, after climbing over that wall, it's the rockery by the lake, right? You can climb the rockery... Oh, but the fourth princess is there, let's not do that! Let's go and play chess , when the fourth princess leaves, let's go to see the lotus."
Mr. Jia thought about it, and said with a smile: "Sir Shen, this way please, I'll let someone take you to the study, and I'll be here in a while." He called a servant over and asked him to take Shen Zhuo to the room. Go to the study. Seeing Shen Zhuo turning the corner, Mr. Jia said to the people behind him: "One of you, go pester the person guarding the road and talk, and the others follow me!" The wall, climbed over the wall, and sure enough, there was a towering rockery over there. Because there is already a courtyard wall separating it, naturally no one in the palace guards the rockery, Mr. Jia quietly climbed up the rockery...
Just as Shen Zhuo went two steps, he turned back and said, "I have two words to say to Mr. Jia..." Seeing Mr. Jia climbing up the wall on the shoulders of two people from a distance, Shen Zhuo stopped and smiled. He apologized and said, "Well, I'd better go to the study and wait for Mr. Jia."
Surrounded by Zhang Yunming, he approached the water's edge. Not far from the shore of the lake, a group of palace people spread out, and the fourth princess stood in the middle. Behind Zhang Yunming, there were people on the left and right. On the shore of the lake, they and the fourth princess on the opposite side were the only ones.
In front is a wooden bridge, the outside of the wooden bridge is the river flowing into the small lake, and the inside is the lake. On the other side of the wooden bridge, the fourth princess was walking towards her. Although she was wearing a veil, Zhang Yunming seemed to be able to see the smile behind the veil.
Zhang Yunming also smiled, the smile was light and floating, and it flicked across his face like a fleeting image. He followed the people around him and walked onto the wooden bridge. Just when everyone felt that he was about to meet the fourth princess head-on, Zhang Yunming seemed to stumble. His body knocked away the people around him and reached the bridge railing, and then lost his focus. , Actually fell from the bridge into the water!
He flopped on the surface of the water and said vaguely: "Help! I can't swim..." Then he submerged in the water without showing his head again.
People were stunned for a moment, the wooden bridge was not wide, and when Mr. Zhang went up, there was only room for one person on the left and right, and there was no way to stop him. The bridge railings are no more than knee-high, and they can't stop anything. Under the bridge is the channel that diverts water into the lake. It should be as deep as a person. At this time, it is covered with lotus leaves. After Zhang Yunming planted it, he didn’t show his head for a long time. Someone said in a low voice, “He was drowned, right?” Get up: "Master Zhang has fallen into the water!"
The fourth princess saw that young master Zhang showed that unrestrained smile again, her heart beat wildly, and she was ecstatic for a while, but then, she watched helplessly that young master Zhang jumped into the water from the bridge ten feet away!
The fourth princess screamed in anger, and walked towards the lake by herself, and when she reached the water's edge, she wanted to jump in: Do you want to escape? ! We're all in the water, if you can tell!
She was about to jump off when someone shouted from the rockery by the lake: "Sister Four Princess! Be careful!"
The fourth princess turned her head subconsciously, and saw Mr. Jia jumping down from the rockery several times, fell to the ground, and then limped, but still rushed towards him quickly!
The fourth princess also exclaimed: "How dare you..."
Before he finished speaking, Mr. Jia had already relied on his inertia to pounce away the maids who were blocking the way, and when he arrived in front of the fourth princess, he hugged her!
When he just jumped down, he sprained his leg muscles. After hugging the fourth princess, he felt relieved and couldn't stand upright. He only heard a "plop", and he fell into the lake with the fourth princess in his arms.
The fifth princess and Zhang Yunjin were chatting in the water pavilion, someone shouted from a distance, and the two looked up for a while, Zhang Yunjin remembered that his elder brother said that no matter what happened, don't leave the water pavilion, so he said: "Don't mind their business, we are here Good."
The fifth princess smiled and said: "I don't want to bother with their affairs, the farther away from them the better." The two continued to chat, but Zhang Yunjin muttered in his heart, his eyes always looked at the water surface unconsciously, and the fifth princess followed her gaze. Go, said with a smile: "Look, how beautiful this place is, the lotus is in full bloom, and that branch is still a white lotus..." She pointed to the outside of the water pavilion, and suddenly, a head with a lotus leaf popped out from among the lotus flowers, and the five princesses were shocked. screamed, Zhang Yunjin also screamed.
Under the lotus leaf, Zhang Yunming struggled: "Save... save... life..." He was thrashing around, his arms were dancing, looking very painful. Outside the water pavilion, water splashes, and under the sun, it looks like pearls and jade.
The fifth princess lost her voice and said, "It's Mr. Zhang!" Without even thinking about it, she stretched out her hand to Zhang Yunming from the back of the chair: "Come up quickly!" She was about to cry.
The fifth princess's bright wrist was like a joint of lotus root among the lotus flowers, Zhang Yunming jumped away, and tightly grasped the fifth princess' wrist with both hands.
The first time she was grabbed by a strange man, the fifth princess screamed again and was about to throw it away, but she felt Zhang Yunming's hand was cold, she felt pain in her heart, she burst into tears immediately, and the other hand also grabbed Zhang Yunming's arm, struggling to hold him pull up.
At this time, Zhang Yunjin suspected that his brother must have premeditated, but seeing that Zhang Yunming was drenched, he hurried over to help the fifth princess and pulled Zhang Yunming's clothes. The other maids stepped forward to help.
No matter how others pulled, Zhang Yunming just held on to the fifth princess's hand. When he was dragged into the water pavilion and laid flat on the bench, Zhang Yunming coughed and said to the fifth princess: "Princess...save me! My kindness, Xiaosheng will never forget! I want to know you..." One hand quickly stuffed something into the fifth princess's hand, but the other hand was still tightly holding the fifth princess's jade wrist, and then she rolled her eyes. Turned over, "cheeky" fainted.
At this time, the yelling of the people here finally attracted other people. Many people saw that the fainted Eldest Master Zhang was still holding on to the fifth princess's wrist. When people finally pushed his hand away, there was a circle of black and blue marks on the fifth princess's wrist.
Hearing the chaos in the yard, Shen Zhuo hurriedly came out of the study, and met the Third Prince and Young Master Ye who looked nervous. All three of them went to the lake. First they heard that Mr. Zhang from Pingyuanhou's Mansion had fallen into the water. His life and death were unknown. More than a dozen people went down to fish, but they couldn't find anyone. Then they heard that Mr. Jia jumped into the lake with the fourth princess in his arms.
The three of them quickened their pace and rushed to the lake, the fourth princess and Mrs. Jia had disappeared, but they saw many people holding long poles and nets, fishing back and forth where Zhang Yunming fell into the water.
When they walked to the water's edge, Shen Zhuo frowned and said, "Is this water running water?"
Someone nearby heard it and shouted loudly: "Everyone, look downstream, maybe it was taken away by the current!"
Everyone walked to the other side, and heard someone shouting: "Here! Here! Saved by the fifth princess!"
The third prince was taken aback, and hurried over there, the people from the Pingyuanhou's mansion had already galloped past. When they got there, the people from the Pingyuan Hou Mansion carried the "comatose" Mr. Zhang away in a hurry, and a person hurriedly said loudly to the third prince: "The fifth princess saved my son. Let's go back and report to the Marquis. Thanks a lot!" I'm afraid someone doesn't know yet!
The group trotted away.
Seeing that the third prince frowned, Shen Zhuo asked the third prince in a low voice: "If the eldest son of Pingyuan Houfu wants to marry your sister, what will you do?"
The third prince smiled wryly: "Marry me, although that kid is cunning, he is not a bad person." He was the one who saved himself during the winter hunt.
Shen Zhuo was secretly relieved, nodded and said: "Indeed, that guy is okay."
Young Master Ye said in a low voice: "The Marquis of Pingyuan's mansion is as rich as a country, so the crown prince may not be happy, and the emperor may not be able to lightly allow this marriage."
The third prince twitched his lips: "Why do some people hate others?" I don't know whether he refers to the prince or the emperor, neither Shen Zhuo nor Mr. Ye dared to argue.
After the fourth princess changed clothes and came out, she was furious. She kicked and scolded Mr. Jia who came to apologize, and also scolded Chang Lehou and his wife who accompanied him. Let everyone go back to the palace.
The fifth princess left quietly. Seeing people gathered around, she clenched her fists tightly and bid farewell to Zhang Yunjin in a hurry. Surrounded by the palace people, she waited until the third prince joined her and left the Hou Mansion together.
After getting into the carriage, the fifth princess unfolded her clenched fists. In her palm was a lotus seed.
Lianzi means "pity son" at the same time, pity means pity, tender love. The ancient poem "Picking lotuses in Nantang in autumn, the lotus is over the head, bowing the head to get the lotus seeds, the lotus seeds are as clear as water." It is "Pianzi is as clear as water", and I love you as clear as water... And the last sentence of Mr. Zhang: "I want to know you well" It is taken from "I want to know each other with you, and I will live forever..." The most famous love poem in ancient times... All the way back to the palace, the face of the five princesses was flushed. She held the lotus seeds tightly again, looked at the bruises on her wrists, thought about Zhang Yunming's words, and sometimes wanted to cry and sometimes laughed.
When they arrived at the palace, the fifth princess got out of the car. The third prince saw that the fifth princess' face was red and white. Thinking of people saying that his sister had saved Mr. Zhang, he asked in a low voice, "What's going on? My sister was frightened?"
The fifth princess shook her head, lowered her eyes and explained the process in a low voice, naturally she didn't mention that Mr. Zhang gave her a lotus seed. The third prince listened, and knew that according to the general etiquette rules, the two should get married, but he remembered what Mr. Ye said, and knew that no one would talk nonsense without the emperor talking about it. If you leave me, you should give him a hand." It was a hint that he agreed.
The fifth princess blushed and bowed her head for a while. The third prince was waiting for her to say goodbye. The fifth princess asked in a low voice: "He...but will he be sick?"
The third prince recalled Zhang Yunming's astonished figure during the winter hunt, and whispered: "He is a martial artist, so he shouldn't get sick easily."
The fifth princess nodded, but still did not leave. The third prince frowned, thinking about it, he didn't know what the fifth princess wanted to hear. Finally, the fifth princess sighed slightly, and whispered, "Brother, help me find out..."
The third prince understood, nodded hurriedly and said: "It must be, I will go out of the palace tomorrow to ask."
The fifth princess then nodded and saluted and left.
Thinking of Shen Xiang, the third prince couldn't help but sigh: If I had known earlier, I should have let Shen Xiang go too, jumped into the lake by myself, and let Shen Xiang come to rescue me, so I would have had a chance to propose marriage? In the future, I have to ask Mr. Zhang whether it was intentional or a coincidence. If it was intentional, I would either beat him up to teach him how to plot against my pure sister, or let him think of a trick for me, or I would not let him marry my sister ! But thinking about it again, I can't be the master of this, and I returned to the courtyard even more depressed.
As soon as the fourth princess returned to the palace, she went to the Prince's East Palace.
After the court today, the prince went out of the palace to sit with Chu Rong. If the matter of the fourth princess is accomplished, he will be considered to have completed a matter of his heart. He was a little uneasy, but his staff members swore that there shouldn't be any problems.
After looking at Churong's embroidery in Churong's room and enjoying a cup of tea by himself, the prince returned to the East Palace in a good mood.
But as soon as he came back, he heard what happened in Changle Hou Mansion. The prince was so angry that he pointed at several staff members and yelled: "A bunch of trash! Trash! Trash!..." He didn't know what words to use to express his anger, and he couldn't stop talking about a dozen trash in a row.
The scolding made him feel monotonous, so the prince asked, "What went wrong?!"
An aide stammered and said: "The most important thing about this matter is that Mr. Zhang... himself...dived into the water..."
The prince slapped the desk hard: "Why did he?! Why did he jump?! Did someone leak the news?!"
These people looked at each other with fear in their eyes. Does this mean that there is a traitor among them? ! If this is investigated, everyone will be suspected.
One person said: "No. If the news is revealed, Mr. Zhang shouldn't be surrounded by our people and walk to the lake by himself. He should be prepared."
The prince asked: "Why was he saved by the fifth princess?!"
One person replied: "The water where he fell upstream, where the fifth princess is, is just downstream. He was probably carried by the current and rushed there."
The prince clapped the case: "A small water pond, what kind of current is there?! How could such a coincidence happen? Impossible! He did it on purpose!"
But if it is said that Mr. Zhang did it on purpose, it means that someone leaked the news. Isn't this just looking for trouble for himself? Several people murmured: "It shouldn't be..."
"If he knew in advance, he shouldn't have gone."
"As soon as he was rescued, he fell into a coma. After soaking in the water for so long, he probably got typhoid fever..."
Just as he was talking, the eunuch outside the door hurriedly said: "The fourth princess is here..."
The prince frowned and said: "Let her wait..." Before the words were finished, the fourth princess broke in crying: "Brother Prince, you have to save me!"
The prince waved his hands to the staff unhappily, "Go outside, I will talk to you later." Everyone retreated.
The fourth princess cried and said: "That bastard was born! He is also a bastard! Why did she save Mr. Zhang? They made an appointment!... He jumped into the lake on purpose, trying to avoid me! Before jumping into the lake, he laughed It is! You looked at me and smiled on purpose! You were making fun of me!... They entered the mansion together!... Brother Prince, you must not let that bitch marry Mr. Zhang! There is so much money in that mansion! Brother Sanhuang will get it all Already!"
The prince shouted: "Shut up!"
The fourth princess stopped in surprise, but then choked up and said: "You shouted at me? I was bullied just now and you told me to shut up?! They teamed up to plot against me! That bastard from Jia's family came to hug me, oh! Brother Prince ,kill him!"
The prince had a headache: "He is your cousin, how do you kill him? He fell into the lake with you in his arms. Uncle will probably enter the palace to propose marriage soon."
The fourth princess screamed: "Then I will die in front of you! Die in front of my father! That person is so disgusting! I will never marry him! You let me marry Mr. Zhang! You must not let that bitch marry me!" Go! Help me!" She burst into tears again.
The prince waved anxiously: "You go back first, let me think about it. I can't think about it if you make such a fuss." The fourth princess wept and saluted, and left.
The prince frowned, thinking that if the fifth princess really married the eldest son of Marquis Pingyuan, then as the fourth princess said, the financial resources of Marquis Pingyuan's mansion would become the third prince's help!
He desperately needs his power.
The so-called managing one's own strength is easier said than done! If you want others to support you, you have to give them power or money. He is the prince, can he appoint an official position? Can he order generals to deploy troops? cannot! He has no real power! Even the officials of the East Palace around him are all empty posts, and no one can directly intervene in the government affairs. There is only one emperor in this court! But the emperor kept suppressing him, he hesitated even to make a suggestion, for fear of saying the wrong thing! If the emperor does not allow him to participate in politics, he is not as good as a prime minister, he is not even as good as a powerful prefect. Although he is the emperor's heir in name, who would support him without any reward when the emperor was still in power? Loyalty to him risked offending the emperor. He is now speaking well of himself through the officials under Lu's family. And the fact that Lu's family can do this is not because his crown princess belongs to the Lu family? In the future, his child, born of the Lu family's flesh and blood, may become the emperor and protect the Lu family's wealth for a hundred years? But now he hates the princess so much! How much I want to kill her! …
If we say that there is still Lu Shi in the civil service, he has no one in the military. Who can fight Zhenbeihou? Why Zhenbeihou is strong is not supported by the emperor, but because Beirong is strong! The emperor was only bound by superstition and did not attack Zhenbeihou. What does the number one general in the court mean? It is that no one can compete with the Shen family army that has been run with blood for generations. What did he use to support a general? I'm afraid the emperor will find out as soon as he sends someone to communicate with the general, thinking that he wants to use force to force the palace, he will be abolished immediately! …
If he has no power, he needs money even more! At least, money can buy people, buy food to bribe Bei Rong, and get rid of Shen Jiajun... If you can get the money from the Pingyuan Hou Mansion, then you will have several times more strength out of thin air! Now is the year of calamity, such a large amount of wealth must be in his own hands, not in the hands of the third prince...
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that he was justified. At the beginning, his idea was just to get revenge on Mr. Zhang and the third prince for fleeing together. Now it has expanded into an important strategy for him to lay the foundation for himself and expand his influence.
The crown prince recruited his staff back, and said with a gloomy face: "Get someone to come up with a list of Li's business in the capital."
An aide carefully asked: "Your Highness... do you... still want to..."
The prince nodded slowly: "I will never give up until I achieve my goal!"
In the imperial study room, the emperor was worried about the unrelieved drought in various places. He heard people talk about the Changle Marquis Mansion, and said with a sneer to Eunuch Sun: "This is the crown prince who wanted to give the fourth princess to Pingyuanhou, but Pingyuanhou The eldest son was unwilling and was forced to jump into the lake, but the youngest son of Marquis Changle was willing to marry the fourth princess."
Eunuch Sun asked cautiously: "Your Majesty thinks..."
The emperor snorted: "He always thinks he is smarter than anyone else, and he always makes small calculations there! I told him not to touch Pingyuanhou, but he dared to play tricks behind my back! Just ignore him, wait for Changlehou to propose marriage , I let him make up his own mind, if he rejected this one, I want to see where he can find another one."
Eunuch Sun said again in a low voice: "Marquis Ping Yuan handed over the post and wants to enter the palace."
The emperor smiled: "He wanted to take advantage of this matter to get the fifth princess and avoid the fourth princess. It was a good idea. Even if I don't give the fourth princess to his son, I can't follow his will and take the fifth princess." Give it to him. Let the word out, the fifth princess has not reached Ji yet. See you soon!"
Marquis Pingyuan waited for a long time and got the letter from the palace, so he had no choice but to go back to the mansion and go to see Zhang Yunming immediately.
Zhang Yunming was lying on the bed, frowning and drinking a bowl of ginger soup under Li Shi's supervision. Zhang Yunzheng sat on the side impatiently, randomly flipping through the books Zhang Yunming put on the case.
Seeing Marquis Pingyuan coming in, Zhang Yunming immediately put down the bowl and was about to get up, but Li Shi held him down and said, "Don't get up, your father is not so strict, you don't need to salute all the time, quickly, drink up this bowl of ginger soup."
Zhang Yunming said with a bitter face: "Mom, this is the fifth bowl, I'm about to have a nosebleed."
Mrs. Li touched Zhang Yunming's forehead, and said to herself: "Why do I always feel that you have a little fever?"
Zhang Yunzheng who was sitting on the side said coldly: "It was burned by ginger soup!"
Marquis Pingyuan sat down and frowned at Zhang Yunzheng: "Did you see the ceremony?"
Zhang Yunzheng pursed his lips, "Father." He didn't even stand up.
Marquis Pingyuan shook his head: "Nizi!"
Zhang Yunzheng grinned, his white teeth were dazzling, and his expression was lively. Hou Pingyuan was taken aback for a moment, and smiled self-deprecatingly. He no longer pursued Zhang Yunzheng. He looked at Zhang Yunming and said, "The emperor didn't see me, and someone sent a message saying that the fifth princess is not yet ready. , do you know what that means?"
Zhang Yunming was a little frustrated: "He doesn't want me to marry the fifth princess."
Marquis Ping Yuan nodded, Zhang Yunming made up his mind, and said: "Anyway, I told her that she saved me, I..." He didn't have the nerve to finish speaking in front of his parents.
Mrs. Li sighed: "No wonder you always push back and forth, so..."
Zhang Yunzheng said indifferently: "Then just wait."
Zhang Yunming turned his head and said, "I want to sleep for a while."
Mrs. Li hurriedly said: "Sleep, sleep, have a good sleep."
Marquis Pingyuan also stood up, and said lightly to Zhang Yunming: "Your brother is right, it doesn't matter if you wait. When I married your mother, I was much older than you!"
Mrs. Li stood up and took Ping Yuanhou's arm, and said with a smile: "That's right, your father was a man at that time, it's amazing."
Zhang Yunming was so angry that he covered himself with a quilt, Ping Yuanhou and Li Shi were not affected, they looked at each other and walked together very intimately.
Hearing that they had left, Zhang Yunming took the quilt away, and said to Zhang Yunzheng who was also preparing to leave next to him: "Every time I am unlucky, the two of them just stand there admiring each other by themselves, have they ever treated you like this? ?”
Zhang Yunzheng shook his head: "If I'm unhappy, I'll make a fuss, and mother will always come to comfort me, and father will also say nice things to me."
Zhang Yunming was angry: "It's so unfair! I'm such a good person, and I've been paid for nothing!"
Zhang Yunzheng curled his lips: "What do you do for nothing? You earn enough! How about we trade?"
Zhang Yunming immediately said: "No change! How nice I am, I don't deserve you, I have no grade at all..."
Zhang Yunzheng rushed forward: "Don't think that if you pretend to be sick, I won't dare to beat you!"
The two of them ping-pong-pang fought on the bed, and then fell to the ground again. Fortunately, Zhang Yunming often fought with Zhang Yunzheng in the house before, and the two of them were familiar with the furnishings in the house, so they didn't smash a few things.
Mr. Zhang, who had an awkward fight with Zhang Yunzheng at home, was immediately declared by Marquis Ping Yuan that "he fell into the water and caught the cold, and could not afford to be seriously ill". Since then, he has been raised in the mansion for more than two months without going out.
The third prince went to Guanyi Pavilion the next day to inquire, and soon found out the news. Although he didn't believe that Zhang Yunming would be ill, he thought that it was normal for Mr. Zhang to be ill after being soaked in water for a long time.
The third prince didn't want to tell the fifth princess at first, but when he saw him, the fifth princess became suspicious. After asking a few more questions, the third prince said that it was rumored that Mr. Zhang was really ill. The fifth princess felt uncomfortable when she heard that, thinking of Zhang Yunming's cold hand she had grasped, worried that Zhang Yunming was seriously ill, and the third prince sat alone in the room frowning after he left. After thinking for a long time, she picked up a brush and drew a small picture of lotus flowers. The lotus flowers are regular and perfect, and the lotus leaves are round. At first glance, there is no artistic imagination. Not only that, but she even drew a bright moon on the corner of the paper, which was also a well-regulated circle. I didn't mention the postscript, but just wrote the word "午", and asked someone to send it to Zhang Yunjin, Miss Zhang Liu of the Pingyuan Hou Mansion.