Twin Brocade

Chapter 24 Destiny
Aunt Quan saw that his progress was not going well, she held down Quan Lu who was about to speak, and said, "Hei Lang is not in a hurry, it is so easy to enter the Hou's mansion."

For Aunt Quan, the general and minister of the king is a character in the drama.If the late husband hadn't taken out this piece of jade, she wouldn't have known that the late husband had actually saved a Marquis!
Quan Moxian nodded with a sullen face, and drove to the back corner gate of Chengenhou Mansion.

The King of Hades is so hard to deal with little ghosts, so since he couldn't get in through the side door, he had no choice but to find another way.

It's lunch break time now, and there are a lot fewer servants coming in and out of the back corner door.After waiting for a while, Quan Moxian saw a well-dressed young daughter-in-law hurried out of the back corner door.

"The elder sister invited you." Quan Moxian stepped forward with a long leg, blocking her way, and bowed.

The young daughter-in-law was about to scold someone, but when she took a closer look, she was a very handsome young man, so she softened her face and asked, "What do you want from me?"

"Xiaosheng's father had an old relationship with Lord Hou. Before he passed away, he asked me to bring this jade pendant to look for Lord Hou."

As he said that, Quan Moxian handed over the jade pendant, and said: "Xiaosheng absolutely dare not lie in the Hou's mansion. This jade pendant is a token left by the Hou Ye back then, so you can tell when you see it."

The young daughter-in-law picked up the jade pendant and looked left and right, but no matter how she looked at it, she didn't think it belonged to Lord Hou.But looking at the earnest expression on the young man's face, which doesn't seem to be fake, he couldn't make up his mind for a while.

She is a respectable daughter-in-law in charge of the back house, and the man works in the front yard, and he is the long-term entourage who follows Master Hou.It is not difficult for Master Hou to see this jade pendant.

Quan Moxian looked at his words, and said again: "Tell Hou Ye that he is an old friend of Luqiu in Tangzhou, he must know. If eldest sister is willing to help Xiaosheng with this favor, she will definitely report it later."

As he spoke, he put a few golden beads into her palm and said, "This is the deposit."

Only then did the young daughter-in-law accept the jade pendant, and said: "At this hour, the masters are all taking a lunch break. Just wait here for me, and I will notify you when I have any news."

Quan Moxian cupped his hands with a smile, and said, "Trouble elder sister."

After telling his mother and eldest sister about the situation, Quan Moxian took a book from the carriage, leaned against the outer wall not far from the rear corner gate of the Hou Mansion, and began to study it intently.

His family is not well-off, orphans and widows are bullied by his clansmen, and he often goes to the fields to do farm work.If he didn't have the ability to read books anytime, anywhere, how could he sing all the way and pass the exam?

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In the gorgeous and elegant Yanqing Palace, all the maids and servants were dismissed, and on the bright bricks, the most noble mother and child figures of the Gaomang Dynasty were reflected.

Empress Dowager Cao looked at her son raised by herself in disbelief, the current Emperor Yanping, and asked tremblingly: "Sheng'er, Fang's family is full of hundreds of people, did you give the order yourself?"

"Mother, you are an empress dowager, so you should enjoy this honor. Let your son do this kind of dirty work."

Emperor Yanping has been on the throne for six years, and his throne is stable and majestic.He said so lightly, exuding the coercion of an emperor in a casual way.

If the courtiers hadn't been on secret papers, he wouldn't have known that Fang Shuyu, whom he had always relied on, and the candidate for the next prime minister whom he had high hopes for, turned out to be the queen mother's old friend!
Fang Shuyu came here at his most difficult time, which made him ecstatic.He always thought that Fang Shuyu took refuge in Fang Shuyu because he was a virtuous corporal and had the appearance of a real dragon.

Unexpectedly, the truth of the matter is so unsightly.

The moment he knew it, he wished he could chop Fang Shuyu into pieces.Still worried about his mother's reputation, he signaled his courtiers to report his crimes. In the early court, Fang Shuyu broke out on the spot and sentenced his whole family to exile.

Then, on the way to distribution, he ordered the shadow guards to slaughter Fang's family overnight, and the local government reported that Fang's family had suffered from bandits and closed the case.

For the sake of his mother's reputation, he has already restrained himself.In the end, in the end, he was blamed by his mother?
Empress Dowager Cao was trembling with anger, and the hairpins all over her head clattered, "You evil son! In your heart, is your mother such an unbearable person?"

She and Fang Shuyu are people from two worlds.

One is the eldest daughter of the Duke's Mansion, the noble daughter of the Wu Xun family; the other is the Weizhou family, a side branch of the Fang family.If it weren't for a chance meeting, the two would never have met.

But the encounter in life is so wonderful. The two met miraculously in that spring, on the hillside full of wild flowers blooming all over the mountains.

Perhaps, because she was surrounded by the disciples of Wu Xun, this young man with elegant temperament and handsome appearance brought her a completely different and fresh feeling and opened a window to a new world.She thought it was love at first sight.

Before parting, she cut off a strand of hair for him, and after many twists and turns, he brought her a silver hairpin with plum blossoms as a token of love.

That period of time was the most beautiful girlhood time of Empress Dowager Cao.I was concerned about him, waiting for him to propose marriage.As for Fang Shuyu, after returning home, she studied hard every night, just to pass the first-class exam and be eligible to marry her.

Although the family backgrounds of the two are very different, if Fang Shuyu wins the first prize, it is not impossible.

But how could the young men and women at that time have expected the tricks of fate in the future?

Fang Shuyu studied hard and finally won the first prize.After drinking a Qionglin banquet, I feel dizzy and dark, and I don't know how many years have passed.

When he struggled to go out the next day to tell her the good news, he looked at the red makeup in front of him with a blank face, and heard the people around him discussing that the eldest daughter of Duke Ding's family had become Noble princess!

These red makeups are her dowry!
At that moment, Fang Shuyu's heart was ashamed, and she just felt that all these struggles were meaningless.

Then he fell seriously ill, and he didn't attend the various banquets held by Nian Tongke.Such great political resources, the best opportunity to build official connections, were wasted by him in vain.

Coupled with the suppression of the Fang family's direct branch, so that he was only a sixth-rank governor in the Imperial Academy with his talent as the number one scholar, and he couldn't even take the job of compiling a book.

These were all learned by the Empress Dowager Cao after she became a queen, and sent her confidants to the palace to find out.

For affecting Fang Shuyu's official career, she felt very guilty in her heart.

Originally, it was thought that the two would forget each other in the rivers and lakes from then on.

But later, when it came to the critical moment of fighting for the crown, Emperor Yanping, who was still King Qi, was not favored by the emperor.There are very few courtiers who are willing to show their attitude and stand on the side of King Qi.

As a last resort, she asked her confidant maid to hold a plum blossom and silver hairpin, found Fang Shuyu, and asked him to take refuge under King Qi's command, and became a confidant of King Qi's staff as Zhan Shi in his Zhan Shifu.

Later, Fang Shuyu was worthy of being the person she had her eyes on, and she really had the talents of the world, and she finally lived up to her request.With one hand, he helped King Qi to the position of prince, and finally succeeded in ascending to the throne.

(End of this chapter)