Lord, don't be afraid, the princess is not angry

Chapter 119

Now the north-south canal has officially started trial use. Yang Chengjian named this river Jishui Canal, and personally inscribed a monument on the pier at the northern end of Jishui Canal.Because of this incident, the haze brought about by the war in the north finally dissipated in people's hearts. Everyone started to get busy with the New Year's affairs, and various government houses began to hold banquets, and so did Cheng's house.Because of the successful completion of the Jishui Canal project, Cheng Dashan and his lieutenants were promoted to a higher rank. To celebrate his promotion, the Cheng Mansion held a grand banquet after a long absence, and invited many people. King Ping was also invited.

For this banquet, Cheng Mansion became busy again.

Mrs. Sun doesn't like holding big banquets at home, usually it's fine for Cheng Dashan to entertain acquaintances home for drinks, but if there are big banquet guests, the family's staff will be too busy.It would be better if Jin Hua brought the servants of the Qin family over to help. Qin San was also promoted, and would serve wine at home every other day.The people he invited were naturally not as high as Cheng Dashan's.

On the day of the banquet, Cheng Dashan and Qin San entertained the male guests in the hall, Sun and Jinhua Yinhua were in charge of entertaining the female guests, and Zhuhua was in charge of handling various affairs.Where things are short, what accidents happen, all these are taken care of by her, Dabao and Erbao are by her side to help her.With the experience of the last Jinhua wedding banquet, although Zhuhua was busy, she was determined, and when the hot dishes were just served, she and Dabao Erbao ate a little to fill their stomachs first.

"The cook of this restaurant is better. Last time, some dishes of that restaurant were too oily." Zhuhua commented.

Dabao and Erbao nodded in agreement.

For this kind of banquet, most mansions will invite outside cooks to help, and the same is true for Cheng's mansion.Last time at the banquet, the mansion invited a chef from a century-old restaurant in the city. Not to mention the high price, we had to rely on connections to invite someone.After that, Zhuhua began to pay attention to other restaurants in the city, and secretly inquired about them when she went out for banquets, and finally settled on another one that was more cost-effective.Seeing that the weather was cold, Zhuhua asked the chef to cook a dish of boiled fish, which was also very happy.

The chef of the restaurant hadn't heard of this dish before. After Zhuhua explained it, he made it right away, and the taste was not much different from what Zhuhua had eaten before.Zhuhua said a few more points for improvement, and even gave the prescription directly to the hesitant chef.The chef and the shopkeeper of the restaurant were brothers, and when they were happy, they waived half of the money for her. They also agreed that she would have a discount for hosting banquets in their restaurant in the future.Zhuhua naturally agreed happily, there will be a lot of banquets in this mansion in the future, and a few discounts will be a big sum.

After the banquet started, Zhuhua finally had some free time, changed her clothes and went to the front to have the banquet, so she didn't need to be busy with the rest.The wives of the families in front had already taken their seats, Mrs. Sun and the others sat at three tables to greet the guests, and the place where Zhuhua was going to sit was Mrs. Si and her daughter, Mrs. Fang San and Fang Qiniang. She and the other two Zhuhua had previously met the wife and her daughter who had a good relationship on the surface.

After Zhuhua took her seat and greeted her a few times, Fang Qiniang held her hand and said, "Why are you here so soon?"

"I'm watching my monkey-like little brother from behind." Naturally, Zhuhua couldn't say that she was busy in the kitchen, so she found an excuse.

In fact, there was indeed a mess in the intestines just now. He insisted on catching crabs waiting to be cooked in the kitchen, and even wet his clothes.Zhuhua asked Ruyan to change him into clean clothes, and also asked Erbao to play with him for a while, until the banquet was about to start and brought him to the front hall to meet the guests.Changzi is shy of strangers, and he is very obedient in the front hall, relying on his chubby face to win the favor of several ladies.

"You didn't come when I invited you to my house earlier?" Fang Qiniang continued to complain.

"I've always been in poor health, and I have to be sick from time to time. I was sick the few times you invited me." Fang Qiniang invited Zhuhua again later, but Zhuhua still couldn't go because she was ill again.

"I don't care. Tomorrow we have barbecue at home. You must come. Sister Chen will come too."

"I'm free tomorrow, but my head seems to be hurting a bit..." Zhuhua pretended to be weak and said while pressing her head.

Fang Qiniang thumped her angrily, pouted and said with a smile: "Even if I'm sick, I still have to come, I will invite a good doctor to stay in the house."

The two chatted and laughed, and when the dishes came out, seeing that she was still awkward, Zhuhua specially picked up some fish fillets for her, so that she would be fine.Seeing the third lady above, she looked at Zhuhua a few times.Zhuhua didn't notice it, and the two Si family ladies sitting on the other side gave Zhuhua a sideways glance at the same time, so that Qiuchu who was following Zhuhua could see clearly.

When the banquet was over, Fang Qiniang repeatedly confirmed with Zhuhua that she would come tomorrow, and only after getting her reassurance did she follow Mrs. Fang back home.When the guests were gone, Zhuhua left Mrs. Sun and Yinhua who were still seeing off the guests and went to the kitchen. Knowing that everything was as usual with the male guests and there were enough drinks, she went to change clothes for convenience.

After all, she was at her own home, she wanted to go back to her yard for convenience instead of using the guest toilet, and she didn't let the girl behind her follow her. She met the little girl who was guarding the second gate on the way and said hello.When leaving the yard, the little girl guarding the garden outside disappeared. A young servant ran over in a panic. Seeing Zhuhua, he said, "Sister, my master is too drunk, can you please trouble me?" The older sister is going to help look after it, and the younger one is going to report and call for someone."

"Why don't you ask someone else to report the letter?" Zhuhua couldn't help asking, in order to prevent someone from entering by mistake, this area should be guarded by someone.

"I can't find anyone." The boy said and left in a hurry.

"Come back, I can call someone for you."

Zhuhua wanted to call him to stop, but he ran away quickly as if he didn't hear him.Zhuhua was suspicious, she glanced in the direction the boy had just pointed, and saw someone leaning on the rockery, as if trying to dispel her doubts, that person even bent over and vomited.

"Young master, are you alright?" Zhuhua asked from afar, only seeing his tall and thin back, but couldn't recognize who it was.

Seeing that he vomited for a while, and then fell to the ground with a crooked body, Zhuhua hurried over to help him, but after walking two steps, she heard someone else's voice.She panicked and hurried back to the yard on the other side.That's the East Wing, and now Dabao and Erbao live there, and after the new year, the intestines will move to the East Wing.In the east chamber, Erbao is coaxing his intestines to play.

Hearing the voices of the two talking, Zhuhua called Erbao out and said: "I'll stay and look at the intestines for a while, you go to the rockery over there to see, there is a man who fell to the ground drunk, you help take care of it." Wait a minute, someone will come to take care of him soon."

"Yes." Erbao likes to help Zhuhua with things the most, seeing Zhuhua's serious orders to him, he immediately complied, dropped his intestines and left quickly.

"I'm going too." Changzi wanted to chase him out, but Zhuhua grabbed him.

"Changzi, you still owe a beating today." Zhuhua said coldly, Sun and Zhuhua hadn't settled the score with him yet for his quarrel in the kitchen. "The guests are leaving soon, and the mother is coming back."

"Sister, I was wrong." Changzi immediately hugged Zhuhua's thigh and said pitifully.

"It's not too late to know what's wrong now, but if you know what's wrong with your mouth, but you can't always correct it, then it's wrong. Intestines, be good, go take a nap."

"I'll go if you don't punish me." The witty Changzi has long learned to bargain with Zhuhua.

Zhuhua agreed straight away: "Okay, I won't punish you." Anyway, Mother will punish you, she added in her heart.

After hearing this, Changzi happily went back to the house, lay down on the bed quietly and fell asleep under Zhuhua's gaze.

Ruyi, who was in charge of watching him from the side, breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile to Zhuhua, "Miss, there is a way. The young master usually doesn't like to take a nap, and he has to be coaxed for a long time before he is willing to lie on the bed."

"It also happened today, otherwise I wouldn't be able to scare him."

After Zhuhua said that, she left the house. At this time, Erbao also came back.

"Sister, don't worry, the man is fine. When I arrived, he had already got up from the ground and was not injured. Just now his followers also came and helped him away."

"Do you know who it is?"

"I know, it's King Ping."

"Ping Wang?" It turned out that it wasn't Deng Douzi from which family, Zhuhua flattened her mouth embarrassingly, blaming herself for watching too many Gongdou dramas and thinking too much, she thought someone was plotting against her.

In fact, she didn't think too much, King Ping waited for her there deliberately, who would have thought that she would run away without going there.When he went back, he was a little frustrated. He didn't have a good meeting last time, and he didn't expect to see him this time.

Xiao Lin next to him saw it and wanted to persuade him, but he didn't know what to say.He didn't know why his master suddenly thought of talking to the third miss of the Cheng family, as if he had given something away a few days ago.The two of them had never formally met before, but they had seen it from a distance, but the third lady of Cheng's mansion was not beautiful, so couldn't her master fall in love at first sight?Xiao Lin has never been able to understand what King Ping was thinking, but he just kept it in his heart.

Zhuhua didn't know that she missed the meeting with King Ping because of her high vigilance. After the banquet, the front hall became drunk, and the house was busy again. How could Zhuhua remember how drunk each drunk was?
A few days later, when she heard King Ping's name again, it was the news that the emperor had bestowed marriage on King Ping and Geng Lanqing, the daughter of the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment. She remembered that King Ping got drunk and strayed into the garden that day, but she didn't think too much about it.

"Ping Wang is finally engaged again, and Ji Wang is married, and I heard that Ji Wangfei is pregnant." Zhuhua and Yinhua said with emotion.

"I don't know if Miss Geng is lucky or unlucky?" Yinhua teased.

"You can believe the nonsense of people outside. If King Ping really has the ability to invite disasters like this, the first one to be unlucky should be King Ji. Don't you see that King Ji is living well?"

"King Ji is a member of the royal family, so naturally he won't be affected by bad luck."

"The little eunuch next to him is not from the royal family, is he?"

"The little eunuchs around him are all newcomers, it seems that one of them has been gone not long ago." Yinhua said.

Gossip about King Ping has always been one of the topics that Chang'an people love to talk about. They seem to be trying to find evidence of King Ping's fate. In their discussions, King Ping has really become a man of fate.Yinhua and Zhuhua have also been concerned about the news of Prince Ping, mainly wanting to hear whether there are any new haunted rumors about Prince Ping's mansion.

With the story of the monk in white, Zhuhua is also superstitious. It is true that she does not get sick very much after her 13th birthday, but she always holds a skeptical attitude towards some rumors.After all, there are too many gossips in modern times. Who knows if there are people hyping behind these hot spots.She even conspiratorially wondered if some people deliberately spread such rumors to frame him because they didn't want King Ping to inherit the throne.However, King Ping's successor to the throne was originally ranked low, not to mention that the prince was still there, even if the prince was gone, the other princes were more qualified than him.

In the future there will be a struggle for succession to the throne, and Zhuhua doesn't want to get involved in it.

The marriage of King Ping aroused a new wave of heated discussions among the people in Chang'an. They secretly wondered whether Miss Geng's family would be restrained.Some people think yes, after all, there is the case of Miss Shen's family first; some people think no, because the Geng family is not an ordinary family.

The Secretary of the Ministry of Punishments is in charge of the world's prisons, so he has to deal with some murderers and villains.The two cases that happened in the previous dynasty are the best evidence that the people of Chang'an can prove that the minister of the Ministry of punishment is not good enough.

One case was that the Ministry of Criminal Justice beat a filial daughter who went to Beijing to sue for her father's grievances. The woman was upset and committed suicide in a temple in Chengshan. Evidence of corruption and family exile.

In another case, the Ministry of Criminal Justice beheaded a female criminal who murdered her husband. Although the Ministry of Criminal Justice did not have any evidence, there were several witnesses to testify.On the day of the execution, the executioner fainted on the stage for some reason, and it was the same with several people in a row. The minister of the Ministry of punishment invited eminent monks to sit in the formation and chant scriptures before beheading the female prisoner.Afterwards, the female prisoner showed her original shape, which was a piece of ebony.However, although the female prisoner died, the family members of the Minister of Criminal Affairs still had accidents one by one, and finally even he died on the street.

When Zhuhua first heard about these two intentions, she secretly thought, could this be a different version of the story of the same Xingbu Shangshu?Why didn't the female ghost go to find the original culprit but the sentenced one?Why didn't the banshee run away at first, and waited for the eminent monk to kill her?No matter what, many people said that the Ministry of Criminal Justice was evil. Some people passed by outside the Ministry of Criminal Justice in the middle of the night and heard stern laughter from inside.And Mr. Geng's predecessor also died in the Ministry of Punishment. The official statement was that he died of overwork, and the common people all said that it was the work of evil spirits.

After Mr. Geng Geng Yishui became Minister of the Ministry of Punishments, every year on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, he would invite the Taoist Priest of Perak to do it, just to reassure everyone in the ministry, but he himself didn't believe it.The Geng family is an aristocratic family of Xinglin, and they had served as imperial physicians in the previous dynasty, but they left the capital to practice medicine in King Kang's fiefdom after they offended the powerful.When Geng Yishui was a child, he went to the doctor with his father and met Yang Chengjian.It's just that he has no talent in medical skills, and later he learned literature and became a retainer of King Kang's mansion.When the Kang Dynasty was established, he took over as Minister of the Ministry of Punishment with his own ability, and he was considered a rare high-ranking official of the Geng family.

For this reason, Geng Yishui is always complacent and wants his son to inherit his mantle and go into politics, but his son Geng Jieqing wants to study medicine.He couldn't hold him back, and his father, who was studying medicine, pressured him, so he could only let him learn. Anyway, he was not the only son.Geng Yishui had a wife and a concubine, two sons and one daughter from his concubine, and one son and two daughters from his concubine.The eldest son, Geng Renqing, is now studying in the Imperial College. The second son, Geng Jieqing, said he wanted to study medicine, but after a few years he refused to do so.

However, the place he visited the most was not the file room, but the morgue in Jingzhao Yamen.

Geng Yishui didn't know how his son learned to study medicine, he learned not to treat the living, but cared about the dead instead.Even though he kept the news to the outside world and refused to allow the people in Jingzhao Yamen to let him see the corpse, the people in Chang'an still knew about it.So, Geng Yishui simply turned a blind eye to him.Geng Jieqing is now quite well-known in Chang'an. He has even solved several strange cases for the Jingzhao Yamen through looking at the corpses.

People in Chang'an also said that Geng Jieqing solved these cases by talking to the ghosts at night.Because of this, his marriage has not been smooth, and even his generous sister has been delayed.By the way, when Yinhua made the list of future husbands and sons-in-law, someone mentioned Geng Jieqing's name, and Yinhua shook her head immediately. She would not dare to marry such a person. I heard that he had put dead bones on his bed.

This is of course just a rumor, no matter what, Geng Jieqing is still married now, the object of the marriage is a military officer's lady whom Yinhua knew, and this is the marriage bestowed by the emperor after the flower viewing banquet where the prince chose his concubine.Geng Jieqing was determined to marry, and the family began to arrange marriages for Geng Lanqing, but after a few years of selection, Geng Lanqing did not choose a good one.It wasn't until King Ji went to the Ministry of Punishment to practice and met the brothers and sisters of the Geng family that he felt that Geng Lanqing was a good girl, so he asked Concubine Shu to be a matchmaker for King Ping.

"Well, I'm a good matchmaker, right? Miss Geng's family is better than Miss Shen's in terms of looks and temperament." Wang Ji said to King Ping proudly.

"Brother Lao is bothering you." Prince Ping said with a light smile.

"Don't be shy, you can get married next year." Ji Wang bumped his chest and said with a smirk.

King Ping smiled shyly, didn't answer, and didn't want to answer.Xiao Lin behind him could tell that King Ping didn't like this marriage, just like he didn't like Miss Shen's marriage.Will this marriage be the same as the previous one, and it will all end up in the end?
"Tomorrow I will invite the Geng family brothers and sisters to your house to play. You remember to come and accompany them. Anyway, you have nothing to do in the Ministry of War."

It was very embarrassing for Ping Wang to work with Master Shen in the Ministry of War, after all, the two almost became relatives.Mr. Shen has nothing on his face, but King Ping avoids him. Originally, he didn't want to get too close to the members of the Shen family, but now he has a good excuse.Although the Ministry of War has been busy recently, he, a prince who is not valued by the emperor, has nothing to be busy with.After all, King Ji had spoken, and King Ping had no choice but to agree, so as to see if Geng Lanqing was really as he had heard.

　Geng Renqing, Geng Jieqing - you know

　　I feel like I spent too much time on the name of the supporting role
　　
　
(End of this chapter)