Idle courtiers

Chapter 188 Concubine Li
Li Wei couldn't understand the meaning of Feng Bao's words, and said: "Of course it's best for my companion to testify for the old man."

Feng Bao: "It's useless, if Zhou Xingren died in your mansion just now, you and I can't get rid of it."

Li Wei: "How do you say it? Could it be that the San Judiciary really arrested the old man and put him in prison?"

Feng Bao: "I can't say for certain, after all, human life is at stake."

Li Wei snorted, not believing it.The last time Zhao in Shuntian Mansion died suddenly and unexpectedly, after hearing the news, he was also uneasy for a while.For this reason, he also ran to find his daughter for advice.

Concubine Li naturally reprimanded him for a while, and then asked someone to drive his father out.

Li Wei got frustrated with his daughter, feeling annoyed.On the other end, Zhou Nan sent one after another fiercely worded official letters, and the words were very ugly.

He got annoyed, you surnamed Zhou, don't you want to clear my family's Zhuangtian, okay, come on, Master Li, I will wait at home.How high you place, how high I eat.If you can take my land away, I will take your last name.

If the dignified future head of state is scolded by an eighth-rank official pointing his nose at the sky, what face will he have?

Today, Feng Bao suddenly came to Li's residence and brought a letter from Concubine Li.It is said that what Zhao experienced has already been discussed, and it was an accidental injury. Moreover, there is no evidence to prove that his death has a causal relationship with Li Wei.Therefore, this can only be regarded as an accident, and the imperial court will naturally provide compensation.

However, if Zhao Li's family is to stop making trouble, the Li family has to show something.

Ask Li Wei to send 200 taels of silver in accordance with humanitarian principles, so that the people in the Zhao family can be emotionally stable.

When Li Wei heard this, he quit.It's not like I killed people, so why should I pay?
He quarreled with Feng Bao.

Feng Bao also had no choice but to comfort him a few words, but seeing that nothing worked, he was about to go back to report to Concubine Li when Zhou Nan arrived.

Li Wei was on fire, so he decided to show Zhou Xingren a little bit, so that this annoying fly would not keep buzzing in his ears.

Hearing what Feng Bao said, Li Wei said, "Hmph."

Feng Bao sighed slightly: "Mr. Li, Zhao Jing died as well. He is a miscellaneous person, so it doesn't matter. As long as his family members are appeased, the people will not be prosecuted, and the officials will not be prosecuted. This matter will be over. But have you thought about it?" No, Zhou Nan is a pedestrian. What is a pedestrian? A future rumor official, if he dies in the mansion. Sir, you are the imperial envoy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and you will fight against the six departments."

"Yes, Zhou Nan was born as a scholar, and he joined the Department of Pedestrians only after receiving the special decree from the Holy Majesty. The scholar-bureaucrats don't like him. But after all, he is a speech officer. Today Zhou Nan died here and no one in the court cares about it. Then tomorrow, one of the six ministers will die, and the court will not care about it? The most important thing is that you are a foreign relative, and I am a middle official. If Zhou Nan died under your noses, the imperial envoys will inevitably die. .At that time, I'm afraid the palace won't be able to keep you."

Li Wei still didn't take it seriously, and said angrily: "Big companion, you are a real person, you don't even know that this kind of bastard who came from a low-level person has a lot of money in his stomach. Zhou is pretending to fight to the death, but in fact he is just pretending. Believe it or not, if you don't ask someone to stop him, Zhou will immediately stop and admit defeat."

Seeing Dajue's headache, Feng Bao thought to himself: This Li Guozhang is really unreasonable, it's my fault for saving Zhou Nan, how does he know the character of a scholar.Well, I won't talk to him anymore, it doesn't make sense anyway.

"Mr. Li, what your mother ordered, you see..."

Li Wei was angry: "I don't have any money, so go and tell your mother that I won't even be able to eat, and I will pay another 200 taels of silver. I, a poor old man, can only go to the palace to beg for food with her brother-in-law and a few nephews. She can't hold back her face."

Feng Bao: "Mr. Li, are you really going to ask me to go back to my mother like this?"

Li Wei glared: "Feng Bao, you can answer whatever you ask someone to do. Don't miss a single word."

"Okay, I'm going back to my mother right now."

After Feng Bao returned to Prince Yu's mansion, he had just changed into the palace clothes and went to the courtyard where Concubine Li lived, when he heard an angry cry from inside: "Zeng Zi said: Ten days rule, ten fingers point, its strict Huh? When people are alone, don’t think that they don’t know what you’re doing? In fact, you don’t know how many pairs of eyes are watching you, how many hands are pointing at you, isn’t that serious?”

In the courtyard, two accompanying eunuchs knelt on the ground, trembling and sweating profusely.

It was Zhang Juzheng, the teacher of Shizi, who spoke. The assertion just now came from "Great Learning", and it was about the principle of a gentleman who is cautious and independent.Feng Baonai was born in Da Nei Nei Shu Tang, how could he not know.

He whispered to the eunuchs next to him: "What mistake did the prince make again?"

The old eunuch: "Yesterday, Mr. Zhang left homework. After all, the son is a child. He loves to play. He secretly asked the people below to help him, but the master found out and is punishing him!"

Feng Bao was surprised when he heard that Zhang Juzheng was about to hit the prince's palm with a ruler.

At this time, Zhang Juzheng yelled again: "Children can't be taught, and rotten wood can't be carved. It's my fault for lax teaching and laziness of teachers. I'm going to plead guilty to King Yu and ask him to find another good teacher. "

After saying that, he came out angrily and walked away.

"Hey, Mr. Zhang, Mr. Zhang, please stop." A woman in palace costume chased out with a child.However, Zhang Juzheng has gone too far.

Of these two people, the female one is in her early twenties, with dignified features, graceful and luxurious, and she is Princess Yu, Princess Li.Another child, about four or five years old, has a tiger head and a tiger brain.

It was Concubine Li and his eldest son Zhu Yijun.

Feng Bao hurriedly stepped forward to salute: "I have seen the empress, and I have seen the son."

Zhu Yijun opened his arms, and said in a childlike voice, "Brother, you are back, take me to play."

Seeing his innocent smile, Feng Bao's heart seemed to melt, and he said, "My lord, this servant has some errands to explain to your empress. You go back to the yard first, and I'll come over later."

He watched Zhu Yijun be born, go from being a baby to talking, and then learn to walk.

His eyes were also sharp, and he noticed that Shizi's right palm was a little red and swollen.Can't help screaming: "Mr. Zhang, Mr. Zhang..."

Concubine Li said indifferently: "Don't make a fuss, I was the one who hit you."

Tears rolled in Feng Bao's eyes: "Your Majesty is only four years old, how can he fight. Ordinary people..."

"Your Majesty is not an ordinary person." Concubine Li interrupted Feng Bao, got the two eunuchs kneeling on the ground to get up, and led Zhu Yijun back to the room.Cai said: "Children from ordinary families do not enter school until they are five years old. Although people in our Tian family don't need to study for imperial examinations, they pay more attention than ordinary people. Mr. Zhang is right. I don't know how many people with the status of the son of the world in private." Look at it with both eyes. A loving mother has many losers, so naturally she can't relax. Feng Bao, you're back."

Feng Bao responded, and hurriedly explained in detail what he had seen in Li Wei earlier.

In the end, he said: "This servant and maid let Zhou Xingren go on their own initiative, and ask your empress to forgive me."

Concubine Li: "Feng Bao, you are right. Just imagine what kind of disturbance it would be if a pedestrian had an accident at my mother's house. Hey, Daddy is really Jiang Gui's nature, and I can't help it. Daddy hasn't read any books, so naturally I don't know what to do. Understand that scholars value integrity more than life."

She sighed, remained silent for a moment, and suddenly asked: "Is Zhou Xingren the Zhou Zimu who has been ordered by His Majesty to fill up the executive director?"

Feng Bao: "It's Zhou Zimu who said 'for whom will the wind and dew stand in the middle of the night'. Don't you like his poems the most? Today's slaves are seeing people."

Concubine Li read softly: "Several times I sit under the flowers and play the flute, and the red wall of the silver man looks into the distance. It seems that the stars are not last night, for whom the wind and dew are standing at midnight. The lingering thoughts pull out the cocoon, and the heart hurts to peel off the banana. In three to five years, in March and May, the poor glass of wine never disappeared."

Then he looked up at the sky, and there seemed to be waves of light flowing in his eyes.

Feng Bao didn't dare to speak, and just stood there bowing his head.

After a long time, Concubine Li said: "Father really... cares too much about money, it's really a helpless thing. Feng Bao, wait a moment and send someone with 200 taels of silver to Zhao Jingli's house in my father's name. So comforting."

Feng Bao: "Yes."

Concubine Li said again: "In addition, send someone to send 50 taels to Zhou Xingren as an apology."

Feng Bao: "Yes."

Concubine Li: "This time in the name of the palace."

"Yes."

"You know how to do this, don't let others know." Concubine Li was a little sad, she was only 15 years old at the time.At the beginning, she was just an ordinary court lady, serving Hou Yuwang's stepmother.Princess Chen.The first concubine, Concubine Li, and her son and daughter all died young. The second wife, Concubine Chen, gave birth to a daughter for King Yu, who died soon after, and has never had another child since then.

Concubine Li gave birth to Zhu Yijun for King Yu in the third year after she entered Prince Yu's mansion, and then she was promoted from a humble maid to princess.

To be able to get to this point, apart from her natural beauty, what is more important is that she knows how to be educated and how to be a human being.

She also knew that the reason why she became a princess was actually due to a certain amount of luck, and she was extremely cautious in doing things.

But my father relied on her power to act recklessly outside. He didn't listen to what he said, didn't do what he heard, and couldn't do it well.

What else can you do when you meet such a father?
Concubine Li recited Zhou Nan's poems in her heart, and she couldn't help but praise in her heart: "The writing is brilliant, and it should be the number one poem in the country. But I don't think that this person has such a character, it is rare, rare."

Feng Bao also praised: "Your Majesty is right, Zhou Zimu is very talented. If he hadn't been wronged that year, he should have a place in the Imperial Academy. I thought he was just a gentleman, but I didn't expect him to be so majestic. gentleman."

"This person's life experience is also pitiful. If ordinary people are like him, they would have already lost their will. Zhou Zimu is really a person with strong steel and invincible will." Concubine Li finally praised: "Su Su is as strong as the wind."

This sentence means that Zhou Nan is as strong and severe as the cold wind among the strong pines in winter, upright and awe-inspiring.

Feng Bao was taken aback, thinking that Concubine Li had such a high opinion of Zhou Zimu.Recalling Zhou Nan's awe-inspiring righteousness before, I also feel deeply in my heart.

(End of this chapter)