Picturesque Rivers and Mountains in the Red Chamber

Chapter 75 2.52 I have always been clean
Volume Two

2.52 I am always clean
"Thanks to Brother Zhou for taking care of today's affairs, Aunt Yongchang has already said that I would like to offer you a drink!" At the last "BBQ Party", the eldest prince Guo Kai held the wine glass with a smile on his face and passed over a group of people who were toasting and flattering him. The disciples from all walks of life strode to Zhou Yang, and they came first as a sign of respect, which immediately shocked the whole audience!
It sounds very critical and complicated, but in fact, the scale of this ambush was not large. The total number of dead soldiers who infiltrated was less than one general flag. Most of them were running towards Princess Yongchang, and the other half attracted attention and did not even affect the hunting. The activity was going on, but lunch was delayed until half past midnight (around [-] p.m.).

"Your Majesty, your words are serious, but this is my duty!" Zhou Yang quickly picked up the wine bowl and drank it all in one gulp. Even if the eldest prince's wine glass was only half a liang, and his wine bowl was only three liangs, he couldn't say much. , "Her Royal Highness the Princess has taken care of me several times, and this time it is natural for me to take care of you."

"Haha, that's a good one!" The eldest prince smiled and nodded, personally picked up the wine flask and filled up Zhou Yang's wine bowl, and then added, "My aunt specifically told me that Brother Zhou and Dongfang Guards have done a great job this time. There is a huge reward, but it will take some time before it is appropriate, Brother Zhou, don’t be anxious.”

"I don't dare!" Zhou Yang quickly bowed and picked up the wine bowl.

"Brother Zhou, do as you please." The eldest prince gave him a full hand again, and then turned and left with a smile, leaving behind broken glasses all around.

"What a 'Brother Zhou'!" The eldest prince here had just left to "talk and laugh" elsewhere. Jia Lian immediately came over with a smile, hugged Zhou Yang's shoulders and said with a smile, "But I don't know what Brother Ziyang did. , can you be so appreciated by His Highness?"

"Second Brother Lian, don't you know?" Zhou Yang was stunned for a moment, but saw that Jia Lian was also stunned. Then he turned around and looked around, and found that the other seven heirs of the Eighth Prince and other powerful martial arts disciples had gathered around. All the people in the "area" stepped back to make room, and then sighed helplessly and said, "Since I don't know, Second Brother Lian probably doesn't need to know."

Jia Lian's face suddenly changed, but he found that except for Jia Zhen who looked away in embarrassment, the others just looked at him indifferently, and no one opened his mouth to explain. The originally smiling expression slowly sank. After a while, Then he smiled bitterly, cupped his fists and saluted, then turned and left the scene.

The entire assassination incident did not last long, and the eldest prince and Princess Yongchang dealt with it throughout the whole process, so that when the incident was over, most people had no idea what had happened. However, after the incident, the eldest prince would definitely convene the core personnel to discuss it. After all, it had never happened. It took more than half an hour from the end of the matter to the start of the barbecue lunch - it was obvious that Jia Lian, or Rongguo Mansion, was kicked out of this discussion.

"Brother Ziyang, I've heard about your skills a long time ago, but I didn't expect that I still underestimated you." But in the blink of an eye, the awkward atmosphere dissipated, and Jia Zhen was the first to come up to her with a smile, "No one expected that either. , Her Highness the Princess would trust you so much."

"It's just His Highness's love." Zhou Yang smiled, picked up the wine bowl and took a sip, thanking everyone around him, "I'm just curious about why the brothers behaved when Her Royal Highness the Princess summoned me this morning."

"Junior brother Zhou came back from overseas, and he may not know many things." Chen Yejun took over the conversation with a smile, and waved his hand to invite everyone to leave the core area of ​​the banquet, thinking about a large tent in the direction of the entrance of Tiewang Mountain. Go, "Whether it is Her Royal Highness the Princess or the Eastern guards who came to greet me at that time, the situation is somewhat special."

"Princess Yongchang and the consort are not getting along," Liu Dong said lightly.

"Wait, Prince Consort?" Zhou Yang immediately realized something was wrong, "Princess Yongchang is already married? But I have seen beauty several times, and her bun is obviously..."

"In short, the princess's husband is Huang Sheng, the son of Huang Xu, a great scholar in the country. When Mr. Huang was alive, Your Majesty was still the Yongwang. Mr. Huang was the old man who lived in His Majesty's residence. His Majesty has always regarded him as a teacher. His Royal Highness Princess Yongchang and Your Majesty have been together since childhood. The love between brothers and sisters is well known to the world." Liu Dong directly bypassed the princess's family issues and only introduced the family background of the consort.

"That's it!" Zhou Yang frowned and understood what Liu Dong meant. Huang Xu was the military advisor of Emperor Yonghe at the time, and the two had a good relationship. After Huang Xu's death, he married his closest sister to deepen the relationship. Love, but also to win over Huang Xu's family, marriage is a very common and effective method of cooperation in ancient and modern times.

But he didn't want to know what went wrong in the middle, which caused the princess and the son-in-law to turn against each other. His initial guess was wrong, because the princess and the son-in-law didn't have problems because of today's events, but they never got better. In other words, the son-in-law of Yongchang never They are all opposed to Wu Xun.

However, in the original book, the only time he appeared was together with King Beijing and King Nan'an, as a representative of the "imperial relatives and relatives", but at the banquet in Rongguo Mansion, he was not able to receive a princess or other royal family members. The only explanation for the female family members is that the eldest prince at that time had lost power, and Princess Yongchang had no value, including the value of going out!
Therefore, the result of this assassination was probably that the princess was severely injured and she no longer had the face to care about the consort; because it was an internal struggle within the royal family, the matter was still covered up in the end, but Dongfang Bing, Zhou Yang could not guess the outcome. , but one thing is that the original book never mentions the Weiyuan Houfu - the mastermind behind the scenes is not easy to move, and it is easy to understand that he will kill someone to vent his anger. "As for Dongfang Qianhu, let me tell you." It was Ma Xin who spoke this time, "I would also like to call her cousin. There is an aunt in the family who married into the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion. It was Dongfang. Chihu's grandmother.

In the early days of the founding of the Zhou Dynasty, Taizu greatly rewarded the meritorious officials and conferred the earliest batch of military honors, which are known to the world as the "Four Kings, Eight Dukes and Twelve Marquises". After the death of the previous generation Weiyuan Marquis Chengjue, thousands of households in the East wanted to recruit The matter of marrying into the family was spread in the backyards of various houses. Unfortunately, this kind of thing was difficult to handle. Unexpectedly, Brother Zhou actually took over the matter. "

"No, you have misunderstood. I have not married into the Marquis Weiyuan's Mansion." Zhou Yang smiled and cupped his hands, explaining to the others, "It's just that the situation here is a bit complicated. I hope you won't laugh and wait until the right time. , I will explain it myself."

"Oh?" Not only Ma Xin, but also everyone else looked interested. But after confirming that Zhou Yang didn't want to explain, no one asked any more questions. After all, there was Princess Yongchang behind Dongfang Bing. There are also the First Prince and the Empress, they are not just random existences.

The drinking session lasted until almost midnight (five o'clock in the afternoon). Fortunately, the days in August were long, so the team returned to the capital in a mighty manner. News soon spread that each family performed well in this hunt. This year's Zhou Yang's performance in the martial arts examination was particularly outstanding, so he was ceremoniously praised by the eldest prince at the banquet afterwards, and even poured the wine himself twice.

But these are all things that happened in the next half month and have not happened yet. What's more, Zhou Yang also got an "errand" to escort Princess Yongchang back to her home. Naturally, there was no words all the way until "Guo In front of the princess's mansion with the plaque "Mansion", neither he nor Dongfang Bing clearly knew how to speak.

"Dongfang, you don't have to worry about the next thing. You will be safe when you go home." Before the two of them could speak, Princess Yongchang issued an eviction order. There is no street name for the location of the Princess's Mansion, but because Most of them are relatives of the emperor, and the capital is often called "Purple Gold Street", which is homophonic to the meaning of "Forbidden City". "If you have anything to do, you can discuss it yourself. You can come back anytime. Okay, let's go!"

Seeing the Princess Mansion personnel entering, Zhou Yang and Dongfang Bing still looked at each other in silence. Neither of them knew what to say. It wasn't until the door closed with a "bang" that they woke up.

"Let me tell you first!" Finally, after experiencing extreme embarrassment, Zhou Yang interrupted Dongfang Bing forcefully, grabbed her and got on the horse, and then got on the horse himself, "Let's go, let's find someone to talk to. Place, don’t know you”

"Go outside the city!" Although Dongfang Bing said it implicitly, Zhou Yang still understood what she meant, "I will arrange for someone to come to your house and notify sister Qingwen."

"That's fine!" He frowned and looked at the already darkened sky. Zhou Yang knew he wouldn't be able to go back if he went out, but he still agreed.

The two of them didn't bring any entourage, and hurried out of the city until they arrived at Wuying Tavern. After sending away Yang Xin, the shopkeeper who greeted him blankly, and asking him to arrange some food and drinks, they went directly to the back room of the store.

"You must have heard about the situation of the princess and me from them, right?" Dongfang Bing picked up the wine glass and took a sip, then frowned and put it down before speaking. Seeing Zhou Yang nodding, he continued, "The matter of the princess , they must have said everything they could, and I wouldn’t dare to say more, unless it was the princess who spoke.

I am six years younger than the princess, but I have already passed my twenties this year. It has been so long since the news broke out when I was 14 years old, but I have long been in despair. As you said, who is willing to be a real talent? Carrying the reputation of being a "brother-in-law"?I was even prepared to find someone to carry on the family line, so when they contacted me secretly, I was really moved. "

"So, it doesn't really matter to you this time?" Zhou Yang frowned. Even if the other person is a beautiful woman, he still resents being used as a "tool". "You just need a tool to give birth to a child. As for... Who, actually.”

"Zhou Ziyang! Why do you think I didn't accept their conditions in the end?" Dongfang Bing glared at him angrily, his beautiful eyes gleaming with fluorescence, "Or in your eyes, I'm just so shameless? Well, I Just let you see, I—I’m always clean!”

(End of this chapter)