Kunning

What a big breath.

It's just that Shen Jie calculated his age, after staying for two months and having undergone the coronation ceremony, it is indeed time to talk about marriage.

He said with a smile: "You think so, does Hou Ye know?"

"Know."

With Yan Linjian at his waist, he turned his wrist and flicked his horsewhip casually, with a chic posture.

The Jiuzhong Palace Ban is just ahead.

He untied his saber first, and then said: "Father said that the Jiang family's poems and books are passed down to the family, and Mr. Jiang is now the servant of the household department. She can be regarded as meritorious service from the dragon, and she is also friends with Mr. Jiang. She is the daughter of the Jiang family, and I can barely be regarded as a close relative. After the crown ceremony in November, I will invite someone to come to propose marriage."

"You kid usually don't pay attention to those dandies in the capital, and you don't pay any attention to ladies and ladies who flatter you. This king still thinks that you are young and don't know about children, so you are pure-hearted and ascetic. Who would have thought that you have something behind this Can't tell!"

Shen Jie thought about it carefully, and slowly came back to it.

"Besides, after I was drunk last night, I didn't behave like Meng Lang. It was just that I accidentally put her on the shoulder when I woke up this morning. You rushed to tell me the identity of her daughter's family, and said that you would marry him in the future. Yan Lin, is this too much protection?"

As the saying goes, "A friend's wife should not be bullied", Yan Lin's previous words, besides reminding Shen Jie that Jiang Xuening is a girl's family, and that he should keep a distance from her in the future, also clearly included Jiang Xuening in his territory. Stamped his seal, so that before other people have any ideas, they will stop others from coveting.

The young man's little thoughts were exposed by humanity, his handsome face was slightly red, but his voice was louder than before, as if something could be covered up like this: "What's the matter with protecting, I am willing!"

So domineering.

Shen Jie couldn't help laughing.

The two stopped in front of the Meridian Gate.

Yan Lin handed over his saber, and together with Shen Jie, went to the right through Huiji Gate to Wenhua Hall.

The present sage, that is, Shen Jie's elder brother Shen Lang, ascended the throne four years ago.

Any dynasty, the year when the throne changes, is extremely dangerous.

The year Shen Lang ascended the throne was no exception.

The first emperor was ill and confused, so he confined Shen Lang in the palace, and somehow lost his senses and wanted to send him to the fiefdom, all the officials under his sect were in a mess. Fortunately, Xie Wei entered the capital, and he was born out of nowhere. He first stabilized Shen Lang's power in the capital, and then invited a famous doctor to cure the late emperor's illness. Lang.

Xie Wei, courtesy name Ju'an, was born in the Xie family, a prominent family in Jinling, that is, the "Xie" in the poem "Old King Xietangqianyan".

It's just that by the time of this dynasty, the Xie family was almost in decline.

He passed the Jinshi when he was twenty years old, and also entered the Hanlin Academy. But not long after, the funeral news came from Jinling, saying that Xie's mother died of illness at home. Xie Wei and Ding You went back to Jinling to be filial piety for his mother for three years.

Three years later, at the age of twenty-three, he secretly returned to Beijing, just in time for the occasion.

Once they turned the tide and helped Shen Lang ascend the throne smoothly, together with Monk Yuanji, he became the most trusted person of the new emperor.

There is no real job in the body, but he is named the prince's junior teacher.

There is no need to give lectures to the prince if there is no prince in the palace for a long time. Instead, he lectures to the emperor.

Recently, the autumn has turned cold, and Shen Lang gradually felt unwell, so he secretly called the three cabinet ministers into the palace several times.

What exactly was discussed is unknown.

But since last month, Shen Lang issued a decree to invite some of the clan's children into the palace to listen to the scriptures and lectures with him, including several of his brothers, including Shen Jie.

When Yan Lin and Shen Jie arrived in front of the Wenhua Palace, the daily lecture had already started for a while.

Huang De, the chief **** guarding the door, hurriedly leaned over and bent over when he saw the two of them coming, and said in a low voice, "Your Highness and the young master came so late today, we've been talking for two minutes, both of you When you go in, you must be seen by the young master!"

I was happy while drinking last night, how can I remember listening to the daily lecture today?

Shen Jie and Yan Lin looked at each other, feeling a headache.

This gentleman, Xie Wei, has always been lenient and strict, humane "has the legacy of the ancient saints", but he doesn't rub the sand in his eyes much.

Last time, King Yanping, who was loved by His Majesty, was only half a moment late, and he didn't dare to say anything, he just sneaked in from the door of the palace. He memorized the "Party Treatise" he talked about yesterday.

King Yanping was playful when he was young, how could he recite it?

Standing there faltering and haggling for a long time, I made a big blush.

Xie Wei wasn't angry either, instead Wen asked him to go back and sit down, saying that yesterday he might have said something too complicated and couldn't remember what was normal, so he took the blame on himself.

King Yeonpyeong was really ashamed when he sat down.

When I returned to my mansion that day, I turned on the lamp to read it at night, and arrived at the Wenhua Palace the next day without delay. Not only did I recite "Party Theory" smoothly, but I also recited "Remonstrance Taizong Shisishu", which was impressive.

Since then, I have worked hard.

No matter how embarrassing King Yanping was, he was only fourteen years old, and he could still argue that he was a child and ignorant.

But Yan Lin and Shen Jie are not too young, so they are embarrassing.

Now looking at the gate of Wenhua Palace and listening to the faint sound of lectures coming from inside, I felt my scalp numb and a little apprehensive for a moment.

It was still Huang De who was clever, pondered for a while, and gave an idea: "Master Shao always explodes on the spot when something happens. Once the time has passed, he will not pursue it, and he will never settle old scores with anyone. Shangyi Bureau sent it up today. A piece of Guqin, the Holy Majesty gave Young Master a gift. There will be two tea breaks in a while, and there is a need to try the piano. The Young Master loves the piano. Why don’t His Highness and Young Master wait for a while, and then enter after the Young Master plays the piano. Perfunctory past."

Shen Jieyan suddenly felt saved, and hurriedly bowed to him: "Thank you, father-in-law!"

After finishing speaking, I quietly went to the side hall and waited without mentioning it.

Jiang Xuening didn't know what it would be like for Yan Lin and Shen Jie to go to the palace to listen to the lecture on the feast day at this time.

After the two of them left, she also quickly embarked on the road back home.

When she was young, she walked almost all the streets and alleys in Beijing. I just came out of the inn, and I still feel a little strange, and I don't know the right direction. Fortunately, within two steps, the old memories gradually recovered, and soon found the way back to the Jiang Mansion.

People come and go on the street.

The peddlers hung up their smiling faces and shouted loudly.

There are young children holding masks and chasing and playing...

All the mortal smoke and fire rushed towards Jiang Xuening's face, staining Jiang Xuening's brows, her originally tense body slowly relaxed, and finally felt that the matter of rebirth was real, and it was no longer the same as when she faced Shen Jie and Yan Temporary before. It's like a chaotic dream.

Now she is not queen.

There is no need to always live in the Kunning Palace surrounded by high walls.

Jiang Xuening walked on this street, like a fish back into the water, even her steps became brisk.

Jiang's Mansion is located in Huaishu Alley, so you don't need to go too far, and you can see the vermilion gate in a short while.

Frankly speaking, she didn't have very deep feelings for Jiang Fu.

After all, she didn't return to the capital until she was fourteen years old. Before that, she grew up on a farm in Tongzhou and was raised by her father Jiang Boyou's concubine Wanniang.

In the words of her own mother, she was raised and disabled.

Jiang Xuening's life experience is a little bit said.

She was born of her father's first wife, Mengshi, but when Mengshi was pregnant with her, she was having an unpleasant fight with Wanniang.

Wanniang is a lean horse from Yangzhou, who was given to her father, and later raised as a concubine. She is quite favored by her father, and she is also pregnant.

According to Wanniang, it was Meng who made a mistake and wanted to drive her to Zhuangzi.

Wanniang is not a good person to be with.

Seeing that his fate of being expelled to the Tongzhou farm was determined, he simply did not stop doing two things, taking advantage of the chaos of the same night of labor with the Meng family, to replace the daughter born by her with the daughter born by the Meng family.

From then on, Wanniang's daughter transformed herself into the concubine of Jiang's family. She was well-clothed and well-fed, and learned from etiquette and righteousness. She was called Jiang Xuehui;

The Meng family's daughter went to the farm with Wanniang, and she didn't know the rules of being a lady in the wild.

This unlucky daughter of the Meng family is naturally Jiang Xuening.

Fortunately, Wanniang was very kind to her, and taught her to read and write, and taught her to play with makeup, and did not treat her harshly.

Jiang Xuening thinks about it now, Wanniang's calculations are extremely deep.

Because Wanniang was seriously ill four years ago, she wrote a letter and went to Beijing directly, revealing the truth about the replacement of the civet cat for the prince.

This time, the entire Jiang Mansion exploded.

After checking, people came from Beijing.

But Wanniang didn't bother to talk nonsense with them, she said "it's too late to regret" and passed away, leaving a mess.

The Meng family hated Wanniang very much, but Wanniang didn't treat her daughter harshly after all, and left a sentence "It's too late to regret", which proves that she has a heart of repentance.

She couldn't argue with a dead person anymore.

It was even more impossible to vent his anger on Jiang Xuehui.

Jiang's family is also a respectable family, so it is not good to make such a scandal happen; although the eldest girl is from Wanniang, she was raised under Meng's knees since she was a child. It has nothing to do with the events of the year, if she regains her status as a concubine, it may cause ridicule, and the marriage may also be difficult.

So the whole house made a total calculation and chose a compromise method.

That is to falsely claim that Jiang Xuening was ordered by the master when she was young, that before the age of fourteen, she would be in trouble, and she had to stay away from the prosperity to survive, so she was sent to the village to be raised as a child of an ordinary family.

Now that the 14th has passed, it is natural to take it back to the mansion.

In this way, the Jiang family has two concubines.

When Jiang Xuening first returned to the Jiang Mansion, she was quite reserved, and the Meng family did whatever she asked her to learn, and tried her best to be a lady of the big family. But Jiang Shilang is a loving father, and he feels pity for this miserable daughter, and he feels a little bit guilty, so he is more or less spoiled.

As time went by, Jiang Xuening's temperament became pampered.

Even Jiang Xuehui bullied her.

After getting to know Yan Lin, no one can control her.

When the matter of the woman disguised as a man was revealed for the first time, Meng was so angry that she was really raised by that little **** Wanniang.

Jiang Boyou finally felt a little out of line.

But Yan Lin couldn't help but take her out to play, the young Yan Lin paid a visit to Jiang's mansion, and after talking with Jiang Boyou, the mansion acquiesced in this behavior.

If Jiang Xuening disguised herself as a man, everyone would call her "Master Cousin" and cover up and down together, as if there was really such a number one person in Jiang's mansion.

So now that she came back, the concierge raised his eyelids in shock, quickly buried his head down, and shouted timidly, "Master Biao is back."

The land in the capital is expensive, and although Jiang Boyou occupied a real shortage like the servant of the household department, he was only a third-rank official after all, and his family was rich and he did not dare to make too much of it.

Jiang Xuening still remembered that she should be living in the west wing room at this time.

Next door is Jiang Xuehui.

When she first came back from the previous life, she saw Jiang Xuehui with low self-esteem and jealousy. After being spoiled, she always took advantage of her status as a concubine to manipulate her, and tacitly allowed the servants to treat her poorly.

She snatched Jiang Xuehui's chance to study with her in the palace.

She even stole Jiang Xuehui's marriage—

The person Shen Jie originally liked was actually Jiang Xuehui, but he only had a handkerchief as a token, and he didn't know which lady of the Jiang family it was, so Jiang Xuening found the opportunity.

Jiang Xuehui later married a Jinshi of the first department, and followed him out of Beijing.

Jiang Xuening saw her again when the married woman came to the palace to pay homage on New Year's Day, but they were all far away.

I just heard that she is doing well.

Now that she has to face this "sister" who seems to have taken away what should belong to her life, Jiang Xuening is somewhat complicated. She wants to go back to her room and think about how to treat Jiang Xuehui in the future.

But as soon as she got to the veranda, she heard a pinching voice.

Obviously a woman.

"Young lady, what you said is really ridiculous, there are many people in our room, and there are few people in your room, why should we take more of this case?

"You don't know who you are?

"Don't say it's you, even if the second girl comes, I won't be afraid! I, I went to pick up the second girl back to the house, and she obeyed me. I told her to go east and she dared not go west!"

"you!"

Standing under the verandah is a woman wearing a sky blue embroidered lotus-patterned skirt, with an oval face and willow-leaf eyebrows. Although her facial features are not as charming and amazing as Jiang Xuening's, there is a sense of dignity in her eyebrows and eyes.

At this moment, a little anger came to the surface.

This is Jiang Xuehui.

Behind her was a little girl wearing bijia, and the friend three steps away in front of her was a woman wearing gold and silver, a black mole under her lip showed a bit of meanness, the corner of her mouth curled up to one side, looking at Jiang Xuehui's face The eyes are mocking with indifference.

When Jiang Xuening came over, she happened to be standing behind her, so she didn't see him.

Hearing her words "obey what you say", she raised her brows suddenly—

How could she not know who she was listening to?

The woman belonged to Wang Xing's family who was serving in Jiang Xuening's room. She used to serve at Meng's side. She was indeed picked up from Zhuangzi back then, and she was taken care of along the way.

Later, Jiang Xuening asked the Meng family for this person.

From then on, Wang Xing's family treated her as if they were reborn parents, wishing they could kneel down and lick her.

Why is there such a virtue behind the scenes?

Wang Xing's family couldn't see Jiang Xuening, but Jiang Xuehui, who was facing her, saw it clearly.

At this moment, my heart is really cold.

The younger sister in the mansion is a well-known demon king in the world, and she is arguing about this juncture, and she is afraid that she will be indiscriminate again, causing a lot of embarrassment.

The girl standing behind her was weak in legs, trembling, and shouted to Jiang Xuening: "Second, second girl, hello..."

Wang Xingjia's body froze immediately, but when he turned around, the previous domineering and sarcastic had disappeared completely, the smile on his face was warm and flattering, and he was extremely pleasantly surprised: "Oh, my second girl, you are back The old slave stewed black chicken soup at home, and prepared your favorite pineapple cake!"

When she was talking, she extended her hand to Jiang Xuening graciously, as if she wanted to help her.

On that wrist was a sapphire bracelet.

The jade quality is clear and the color is bright and lustrous.

At first glance, it looks like a high-quality Hetian sapphire.

Jiang Xuening lowered her eyes, and her pupils suddenly shrank...

this bracelet...

In the previous life, Wanniang held her hand before she left. Although she knew that Wanniang was not her own mother, but the villain who took her away, but after all these years of getting along, she didn't know the pros and cons of it, and she didn't treat Wanniang well. Hate.

So she thought that Wanniang had something to say to her.

Who would have thought that when Wanniang stuffed the bracelet into her hand, she said to her sadly: "Ningning, I beg you to do something, if you go back home and see the eldest girl, help me give this to her ..."

At that time, Jiang Xuening only felt that a basin of cold water was being poured over her head.

Maybe her jealousy of Jiang Xuehui started at that time.

When Wanniang left, she went back to Jiang's residence, but she threw the bracelet in the box, preferring not to give it to Jiang Xuehui when she died.

Later, when she encountered many things, thought of Wanniang, and remembered all kinds of things in the past, when she wanted to look for this bracelet again, she really couldn't find it anymore.

Unexpectedly, it was here at Wang Xing's house.

Jiang Xue quietly looked at Wang Xing's family, and the expression on her face suddenly became unpredictable.

Wang Xing's family is still laughing: "Looking at your body, you must be tired from playing, the old slave will wait for you to go back to the house..."

However, when she raised her eyes and met Jiang Xuening's eyes, for some reason, a chill ran down her spine.

Jiang Xuening didn't look at Jiang Xuehui next to her, she just pulled the corner of her lips lightly, and looked at Wang Xing's family: "Why didn't you know before that you are so capable that you can even change faces?"