MTL - Feng Xing-Chapter 39

Today is the filing day, Fan Jinchuan had just finished handling a civil lawsuit, someone from King Wei invited him to come over.

He saw that there was nothing else waiting to be dealt with, so he followed the visitor. When he arrived at the place, Dewang came out to welcome him in, and Wei Wang Zongyue was sitting in the hall waiting for him.

Thinking of bumping into King Wei last night, Fan Jinchuan was inexplicably uncomfortable, but he bowed his hands and sat down next to him.

"I don't know what your Highness wants to do with the next official?"

"My king intends to leave Taizhou tomorrow."

Fan Jinchuan didn't think too much about it, he only thought that King Wei had informed his host.

"Your Majesty, I wish your Highness a smooth journey."

Zong Yue hummed, and said with an unclear attitude: "I have one more thing to do."

He looks over.

"You should know the so-called origin of this king's trip."

"This-"

Fan Jinchuan had thought about this in private. Although it appeared that King Wei was acting on behalf of Emperor Jianping to see how other officials were doing, in fact, even he could tell the truth in what he said. After contacting King Wei, his attitude was different. It was not false to think that Fang Fengsheng would go with King Wei.

But Fang Fengsheng said that day that he would not leave, and he also listened to this sentence.

"Your Highness is talking about Mr. Fang? I have asked him privately before. After all, a good boat is equipped with a good sail. Mr. Fang is a talented and extraordinary person. I also feel that he is a bit condescending to stay in a small county government. But when the officials asked, Master Fang said that he had no intention of leaving here."

"No intention?"

Fan Jinchuan nodded, and said again: "I have something to say, I don't know if I should say it or not."

"Say."

He cupped his hands and saluted: "Your Highness is an extraordinary person after all. His words and deeds attract the attention of all. Some things are better avoided."

"Who is Master Fan referring to?" Zong Yue shook the Buddhist beads in his hand, asking in an unclear manner.

"Your Highness should understand the meaning of the officer."

Zong Yue looked at him. Although Fan Jinchuan lowered his head, his attitude was neither humble nor overbearing.

A sneer appeared on his face until it spread to his eyes.

"I didn't expect you, Fan Zijin, to learn to speak an official accent."

"Your Highness..."

"Back off."

Fan Jinchuan hesitated for a while, then backed out.

After he left, Zong Yue unhappily swept the teacup on the table to the ground.

Feng Sheng didn't know all this, she only knew that King Wei took his people away the next day.

Zong Yue's departure made her heave a sigh of relief, this man gave her a strong sense of oppression, and his temper was too volatile.

In the blink of an eye, the new year is approaching, and the first snow in Taizhou has finally come down.

This season is the time when everything is off, and there seems to be nothing else except preparing for the year and waiting for the arrival of the new year.

On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, the government can seal the holiday, and the seal will be opened on the fifth day of the first month of the next year. The first month is also the time when officials rest the most. After the opening of the seal on the fifth day of the lunar new year, there will be a holiday for the Lantern Festival on the tenth day.

The county government didn't have anything to prepare, but Feng Sheng was in high spirits, and asked Zhichun Zhiqiu to cut a lot of window grilles and post them around, and pulled Fan Jinchuan to write couplets and blessings.

The two became interested in a moment, and not only wrote to various places in the back office, but also wrote many auspicious couplets and blessings, so that the county government officials could take them home, and it was considered a joy.

On New Year's Eve, we had a New Year's Eve dinner in the evening, because there were only a few people, so we gathered at the same table regardless of master and servant.

In addition to Fan Jinchuan and Fang Fengsheng, there are Xiaoqi Zhichun Zhiqiu Uncle Yu and the others, as well as several gatekeepers and servants in the front and back yamen, and the yamen servants on duty, but they have their own errands and cannot come.

"Brother Fang Xian, I respect you." Fan Jinchuan's eyes were bright, and he could see that he was in a happy mood.

Feng Sheng picked up the wine glass, made a respectful respect to him, and drank it down in one gulp.

"Usually in Beijing, during the New Year's Eve, I'm always alone. This year is much more lively than usual."

Feng Sheng smiled and sighed in his heart.

In the past, before she got married, there were only her and her father in the family. Although there were few people, they were comfortable. Later, I went to the Sun's family, a big family, but she had filial piety in her body, so she deliberately avoided it, but she could hide cleanly, but she was too quiet.

At that time, it seemed that the Chinese New Year was not even happy, and there was a knot in my heart that could not be untied. Now that they hide their names and come here, there are still a few people, but there are a lot of emotions.

The mood also seems to be different from before, and I feel much happier.

Hearing Zhi Qiu chattering with Xiao Qi, Feng Sheng raised his glass with a smile: "Brother Fan is not too young, it's time to marry a wife and have children, and it will definitely be more lively every year in the future."

Fan Jinchuan paused: "What about my brother?"

"Me? I'm a man. If you don't have ambitions, why talk about family affairs? I'm different from Brother Zijin. Brother Zijin has already established a career, but I haven't."

"I'm not in a hurry, I'm not in a hurry."

Feng Sheng didn't seem to listen to these words, and looked at Zhiqiu and the others with a glass of wine in his hand, and added a sentence from time to time with a smile, acting as the county magistrate in charge, to show justice.

Fan Jinchuan's eyes were on him.

In the Forbidden City, the family banquet of the Qianqing Palace is very lively.

Usually Zong Yue always kept a low profile in front of people, but this year Emperor Jianping praised him several times at the banquet, but he didn't specify that matter. Anyway, if Zong Yue is pleasing to the eye, everything is pleasing to the eye. In the past, this kind of limelight has always belonged to the prince. Even in recent years, as the prince got older, the number of Jianping Emperor boasting has decreased, and he has never left others.

All of a sudden, Zong Yue was in the limelight, which aroused the jealousy of many brothers.

But even if it is jealousy, it is private, and on the surface, it can only be toasted repeatedly to declare that it does not want to be seen. As a result, Zong Yue became even more popular, and the clans saw that the princes seemed to look at King Wei differently, but the prince was much more deserted.

Empress Chen sat on the phoenix seat, looked at Zong Duo, who was sitting on the lower seat holding the wine glass, with a gloomy face and silent, and sighed helplessly in her heart.

She smiled and said to Emperor Jianping: "Your Majesty, my concubine has a happy event and wants to tell you."

As soon as the queen spoke, the place fell silent, and even the singing and dancing sound seemed much quieter.

"What is it?"

The queen smiled, and glanced down: "There is joy in the East Palace, the Crown Princess is pregnant."

In today's family banquet, in addition to the royal family members, the female family members of each family also accompanied their husbands. Naturally, the female family members of the princes' families were also indispensable.

Among the princes, the prince is the oldest, and it is the year of his birth. Now there are two grandsons and three granddaughters in the East Palace. Unfortunately, none of them are born of the Song family. The Song family had two children before, but they were all young. No one would have thought that she would be pregnant again despite having a difficult heir, which was not a happy event.

In particular, Emperor Jianping had always paid attention to his descendants.

Emperor Jianping pinched his beard, showing surprise on his face: "Really?"

"Of course it's true. It's been more than three months. I was afraid that the fetal gas would not be stable, so I didn't dare to publicize it. This will not be reported to Your Majesty until the crown princess's fetus is stable."

The empress spoke from above, while the eyes of all the people below were focused on Mrs. Song.

Especially Tao Liangdi and Ma Liangdi sitting behind Mrs. Song, who are also the mothers of the two little emperor's grandchildren, have complex eyes that are indescribable.

"Okay, if the Song family can safely give birth to the emperor's grandson this time, I will definitely reward you a lot!"

Emperor Jianping was happy, and everyone was naturally happy, so that the singing, dancing and music that followed were much more cheerful.

This time, the showman changed his partner and returned to the prince. Therefore, the reason why the prince is a prince is not unrelated to Empress Chen's wrist. She occupies the position of the original wife, and her scheming and wrist do not fall behind. It did not affect Empress Chen's status at all.

These princes, who are younger brothers, all went to toast the eldest brother, the prince, and even the youngest fifteen princes were not left behind.

The second prince, King Wu, was born of a noble concubine, apart from the prince, he was the most valued by Emperor Jianping. Concubine Hu Guifei and Empress Chen have been fighting for decades, and they have been at loggerheads. The crown prince is expected to be born, so it is not very good news for him.

You must know that King Wu can overwhelm the prince, that is, Princess Wu can give birth to two sons for King Wu. Therefore, it was just a toast, and it also made the two of them drink with a taste of sharpness.

In this case, King Wei is the easiest to be taken out. The relationship between Empress Chen and Concubine Li is unknown in the entire harem. King Wei was raised under Empress Chen's knees when he was young, and he was regarded as a prince from the beginning to the end.

However, Zong Yue's personality has always been low-key. Which prince didn't build a mansion when he became an adult and entrust the king to work in the court, but he was the only one who didn't want to do errands after the mansion was built. Make a monk.

Emperor Jianping was annoyed at him. When he was Wanshou the year before last, even the ten-year-old thirteenth prince was crowned king, but he was left out, saying that he would be appointed as the emperor when he entered the court. Now that the king of Wei has finally entered the court, the first errand is still so sensitive, and the king of Wu who always likes to provoke will naturally not let it go.

"It's also the fate of the two married by the third brother. They didn't even leave any children to the third child, so they disappeared. It's not that the elder brother said, the third child is not young, and the father likes to be born, so you should hurry up and let the third child marry you." Royal Father will give you a marriage, and having a legitimate son early will make Royal Father happy."

"I can't force this matter, so I won't bother my second brother."

Zong Yue said lightly, and returned to his seat. The king of Wu was making a fuss, and those who were younger than them couldn't intervene. They all toasted the prince and returned to their seats.

The seat of King Wu is next to the crown prince. Seeing the singing and dancing started again, Emperor Jianping turned to talk to the clan members. Holding the wine cup, he smiled and said to the prince: "Brother, does the emperor know what the youngest is doing? It's so mysterious, my brother asked him Not to mention, it is said that he went to Yangzhou, and I don't know what kind of errand the father gave him, it seems that after the Shangyuan in Beijing, he still has to go to Yangzhou."

The crown prince smiled but didn't smile: "The second imperial brother doesn't even know, so how would you know if you are a brother?"

"The third brother and the emperor's brother have always been close, how could they not know?"

"Second brother, you want to know, you don't know how to ask yourself, what are you doing with lonely questions!" After that, he ignored King Wu, but what King Wu said made him feel uncomfortable to some extent.

After the banquet, the prince accompanied Empress Chen back to Kunning Palace.

After entering the Kunning Palace, he said to the Queen: "Queen, the third child is indeed not young, and it is not unreasonable to always be so empty around him. Look at the family banquet just now, there are a group of people behind every house, but he is the only one who is empty. Would you like to give him a marriage, Tao has a cousin who is beautiful, elegant and dignified, or give it to the third child?"

Empress Chen glanced at him angrily: "Did the Tao family say something in your ear again? Her Tao family has already given birth to a prince, Liangdi, and she is still thinking about the position of the princess. She married a Tao family before, and ordered the wife to marry her." Bo is dead, and let his mother give him another one? It’s fine for him to die hard, and he will implicate me and be blamed by your father. , this palace will absolutely not intervene in it, this matter is up to your father to see for himself."

The prince's expression was a little embarrassed: "Dao didn't say anything to the son, but the son thinks that the mother is the mother of a country, and the third child is empty, which is not good for your face. But the mother doesn't want to care, then Just leave it alone."

It is not suitable for the prince to stay for a long time. Afterwards, the mother and son wentssip a few more words and then leave.

Afterwards, the queen took a break and thought about the matter of Wei Wang's wife's family. As the prince said, as a prince, there is no one in the backyard, which is indeed a bit unattractive.

However, how to manage this matter has to be considered, it really affects the whole body.