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

Chapter 92
Cheng Dashan left within half a month after coming back to live this time, and returned to Chang'an again in October.

"Why did you come back so late, didn't you leave before the Chinese New Year?" Cheng Dashan arrived home in the middle of the night, and Mrs. Sun cooked a bowl of noodles for him with her clothes on, and asked him a few words after he finished eating.

"I have to leave tomorrow, I have an errand to talk back."

"So urgent?" Mrs. Sun frowned slightly, and pulled him to the side of the bed, "I see that you are dirty, and you haven't washed it for a month. I won't rush you today, just lie down for a while. , look at my son, I'll get you some hot ones, and you can take them with you on the road tomorrow to eat."

"Don't tell me, let the servants do the work, and I'm not picky." Cheng Dashan took her hand and asked with a smile, "You really don't think I'm dirty."

Mrs. Sun gave him a blank look. It's been a long time since the old couple saw him, how could they hate him so much.

The three sisters didn't know that Cheng Dashan had come back until the next day when they came to the main courtyard to pay their respects, but they left before dawn.Zhuhua was thinking that Cheng Dashan came back in a hurry, maybe something happened to the project, when she looked up, she saw Mrs. Sun rubbing her waist.

"Mom, what's wrong with your waist, and your intestines are rumbling again in the middle of the night?" Zhuhua asked, thinking of something immediately, the smile on her face froze.

Mrs. Sun nodded in embarrassment, but Jin Hua and Yin Hua really didn't think much of it, they even moved to Chang Zi to tease him, saying why he was so fussy at night.

"When will Dad come back next time?" Zhuhua immediately found a topic, and everyone talked for a while before they broke up. Zhuhua didn't even have time to ask Cheng Dashan what he was up to this time.

After a few days, Zhuhua heard that a new port had been built in a section of the dug river, and the court sent soldiers to test the ship.She couldn't figure out why she didn't find some local gentry and wealthy merchants to test the ship, but went to find soldiers. Maybe it was because she was afraid of causing trouble. It wasn't until the next year when the court opened that Zhuhua spelled out an incident from the emperor's imperial decree.

The imperial decree said that the soldiers who went to test the ship encountered the remnants of the previous dynasty, and the general in charge followed the vines to get rid of the rebels and found a silver mine that was occupied by the rebels.Zhuhua doesn't think there is such a coincidence in this world. It is estimated that the emperor sent troops to test the ship after knowing the news beforehand. As for how he knew... Zhuhua couldn't help thinking of Cheng Dashan who hurried into Chang'an. With her father?What kind of shit luck did he have?

Zhuhua's guess is not wrong, this matter is really related to Cheng Dashan, and it is also related to Uncle Li and Aunt Li.

After the excavation of the river channel, there are still many people who want to come to the river channel to find work.The people who suffered from the disaster last year managed to survive the cold winter in their hometown, and the court sympathized with them and distributed grain seeds to them, but they still had to eat and drink before the grain was harvested. Even if there were wild vegetables on the mountain, they could not withstand so many people mining.In order to save one person's rations and earn a little money, many people went to the place where the river was dug to find work.

Cheng Dashan didn't think there were too many people, and there were regulations on how to manage how many people came.It's just that among the people who came here, apart from farmers, there were also beggars in shabby clothes. Many of them wanted to stutter but didn't want to work.Old Hei couldn't get used to these people, and didn't like to take them in, because he was vicious and held a whip, and the beggars ran away immediately after being chased away by him. Of course, some refused to run and begged Old Hei to take them in, swear I will work hard.Old Hei didn't believe it, he was pushing and shoving with these people, when Cheng Dashan passed by.

Ordinary old black scolds people, Cheng Dashan never speaks of him in front of outsiders in order to save face for him, but privately advises him to stay aloof in everything.Old Hei responded on the face, but he didn't listen in his heart. He felt that Cheng Dashan was soft-hearted, and because of his soft-heartedness, some villains had to be taken care of by himself.This time Lao Hei taught the beggar a lesson, Cheng Dashan didn't bother, but when Lao Hei pushed the beggar away, Cheng Dashan saw the beggar's face.Despite his very ordinary appearance, Cheng Dashan still felt a little familiar. He had seen many people over the years, and he didn't think about it for a while, but the beggar recognized him and called him.

"Little uncle? Little uncle of the Cheng family?"

There was only one person in this world who called him little uncle, and he immediately recognized that it was Sun's cousin, Aunt Li's son Li Liangzi.

Li Liangzi is the only son of Uncle Li and Aunt Li. Among the young people of the same age in the village, he has a lot of ideas, loyalty and popularity since he was a child.When taxes increased and natural disasters happened, he was the first to think of starting some small businesses.Because his family is not rich, he can't do much business, but in order to get money quickly, he chose to go business.It happened that Cheng Dashan knew some caravans when he was walking the darts, so he introduced Li Liangzi to them.

At that time, Li Liangzi was only 15 years old, with a round face and a double chin. Although his clothes were pale from washing, he was always clean. His skin was dark but much fairer than many men in the village.This kind of Li Liangzi was still the object of many girls' hearts at that time, and they would never have imagined that he would become as unkempt and thin as he is now.

After Cheng Dashan brought Li Liangzi back, he asked about the past few years, and planned to take him with him when he returned to Chang'an, and brought him to Daqing to Uncle Li and Aunt Li.But Li Liangzi disagreed, and kept saying that going back would embarrass them, and he would rather work in the river than go back.After a few days of procrastination, Li Liangzi found out that Cheng Dashan's official position was not small, so he told Cheng Dashan something he had concealed before.

If you say that he was really unlucky back then, he followed the caravan to transport goods, and it was fine when he met bandits, and was tied up by bandits and sold to others as a coolie to dig mines.He has always been clever, looking for opportunities to escape while mining, but the mines are strictly guarded, and he has never found a chance until an accident happened in the mine a few days ago.Although he escaped, he dared not go home for fear of causing trouble to his family.When he was looking for an opportunity to escape these years, he found out that the mine was opened by the uncle without telling the emperor. He didn't want to get involved in the royal affairs, he just wanted to save his life.

After digging the river channel for a while, he finally knew that the current emperor was no longer the original emperor, and even changed his surname, so he dared to tell Cheng Dashan about it. After Cheng Dashan knew about it, he went to explore the place with Qin San When he found out that the mine was still being guarded, he sent people to watch it, and at the same time secretly reported the matter to the emperor, who specially sent a team of people to take over the mine, and found out the remnants of the previous dynasty.

Even if the rebels who occupy this silver mine really want to rebel, it may not be true. The leader claims to be the uncle of the previous dynasty, but in fact he is just the cousin of a favorite concubine of the last emperor of the previous dynasty.Before the former dynasty was destroyed, the beloved concubine had long since fallen out of favor. Later, when the city of Chang'an was destroyed and King Kang entered the palace, many women in the palace escaped, including this beloved concubine.After she fled to her cousin, she became pregnant not long after, and later gave birth to a son.The two said to the outside world that the child was the orphan of the former emperor, and they also thought that one day they would raise troops to send the child to the throne.However, the two can only play some small plots, neither of them are talented people. Although they have assembled some people underneath, they have never taken any real action.

It's funny to say, for future troubles, and of course to avoid people's eyes and ears, the two of them only spent a very small part of the silver mines mined in these years, and they hid most of the silver in their own cellar.Now that the officers and soldiers came, the money would naturally go to the treasury, and the two dug for so many years with fear and painstaking effort, not to mention the end of their homes being ransacked, and they didn't know what to do.

These things are naturally unknown to others.During the Chinese New Year, Cheng Dashan didn't go home, and the Cheng family didn't hear anything, but the palace rewarded a box of silver, which made Zhuhua feel suspicious.At that time, she was still wondering if it was Cheng Dashan who dug the river and dug up some treasures, otherwise how could the good emperor reward real money?As soon as the matter was announced after the opening of the dynasty, Zhuhua wondered if they were guarding the silver mine?No matter which one it is, it's a good thing. She has seen Cheng Dashan's promotion again in the near future.

But she waited and waited, looking forward from spring to summer, and from summer to autumn, Cheng Dashan still didn't get promoted, and he came back once in the middle, bringing back news of Uncle and Aunt Li's son.Zhuhua originally wanted to find an opportunity to gossip about the Rebellious Party's silver mine, but everyone was asking about Li Liangzi, and she listened to it, so she didn't want to inquire, anyway, it didn't have much to do with her.

When it was October, something related to her was revealed. To be precise, it had something to do with the three sisters of their family. There will be a flower viewing banquet in the palace, and the fourteenth-rank official in the court has not been engaged All the daughters of the prostitutes can enter the palace with their mothers to participate, and those who are interested will know that this is for the unengaged prince to choose a concubine.

The empress dowager's national funeral is only for one year, but the emperor and all the princes have to observe the filial piety for three years, and even the prince of Shen Guifei went to guard the imperial mausoleum for three years.Once the three-year filial piety period expires, the fourth and fifth princes in the palace are already 16 years old, and the sixth and seventh princes are also 15 years old, and they have reached the age to discuss marriage.The fourth prince, Yang Fangbo, was born of Concubine Chen Xian; the fifth prince, Yang Fangzhao, was born of Concubine Xu De; the sixth prince, Yang Fangxun, was born of Concubine Li Shu; the mother concubine of these three princes and Concubine Shen Gui were all one of the four concubines in the palace, with noble status, only the seventh prince, Yang Fangan It was born by Zhang Shi, the maid of Concubine Li Shu.

Mrs. Zhang died of a blood collapse during childbirth. After ascending the throne, the emperor thanked her for giving birth to the prince and granted her the title of beauty. This status is not high in the palace. It can be seen that the emperor has nothing to do with the late beauty Zhang. affection.Yang Fang'an and Yang Fangxun were born half a month apart, and they have been raising Concubine Li Shu's knees. They call Concubine Li Shu the concubine mother, and Concubine Li Shu takes good care of him, and the cost of food and clothing is not short of him.

People outside the palace have heard about these things to some extent, Zhuhua only listened to it as gossip, and never took it to heart, because it has nothing to do with her.But things that obviously had nothing to do with her now have something to do with her. It seems that after Mrs. Sun reported Yinhua's name, the concubine Xian who was in charge of the palace banquet heard that the Cheng family had a daughter and asked her name Add her to it.Zhuhua was really speechless when she heard this, she wondered if the emperor didn't plan to be promoted to an official in Dashan, so he wanted to choose a daughter from the Cheng family to be the concubine, as a gift from the heavenly family?
There is no reason for Zhuhua to guess like this. Over the years, this kind of banquet for princes to choose concubines usually chooses from officials of the third rank and above. Cheng Dashan only has the fourth rank, so he was not able to participate, but this year the prince and concubine were selected from the fourth rank. Officials' families began to be selected, and the Cheng family was among them.Furthermore, Zhuhua is only 11 years old, no matter how you think about it, an 11-year-old girl should not be on the list of concubines. Someone chooses her, and she has to wonder if that person is a pedophile.

Of course, she also felt that she might be thinking too much. The relaxation of the first-level officials this year might be because of the Seventh Prince.He was born in a bad family, not destined for the throne, and could not be worthy of a high-status concubine; or he wanted to add a few side concubines to the prince, but some princes wanted side concubines to be born in the homes of fourth-rank officials.As for her being specially added to the list, it was either because she had done something too far to make the people above curious, or because the emperor really wanted to show favor to the Cheng family, but the age-appropriate Yinhua had a unique aesthetic and was too trendy. , the royal family couldn't bear it, so they focused on the pearl flower with relatively popular aesthetics.

Yinhua is now quite well-known in the circle of noble ladies in Chang'an. Before she attended the banquet, the ladies of each family generally divided into two groups of dresses, one was gorgeous and noble, and the other was aloof and aloof.But after Yinhua made her debut and started attending banquets, she gradually became the focus of everyone with her different visual impact each time.The flamboyant school likes to learn from her, because the colors she uses are extremely magnificent every time; the aloof school also secretly pays attention to her, because her maverick style is more proud of the world than them.

Yinhua didn't notice their small thoughts, but she knew that more and more people noticed her at the banquet, she was secretly happy, and often thought "Why am I so good-looking".She has also reached the age of marriage, and she took the initiative to tell Mrs. Sun that she was going to marry into a civil official's family, and Mrs. Sun also took care of her, but unfortunately there were not many families willing to marry her.Mrs. Sun didn't know what went wrong, so she secretly worried for her.This time, they suddenly heard that they were going to attend a palace banquet, and the two of them were a little excited and a little apprehensive.

Regarding whether they want to marry the royal family, both of them think about it. The royal family has a noble status, and if they marry, they will walk with wind.As for whether the royal family can fall in love with Yinhua, she is full of confidence. She is so good-looking, as long as the world is not blind, they will pick her, but Sun doesn't think so. When the civil servants sent a message, the other party politely refused.Even ordinary people look down on Yinhua, so why would the royal family look down on her?And if she really married into the royal family, three wives and four concubines cannot be controlled by fists. Yinhua also thought of this, so she couldn't help but feel uneasy after the excitement at the beginning.

During these years in Chang'an, she obediently learned the rules from Nanny Wang, and under the guidance of Qinglan and the maids around her, she knew the secrets of many rich families. Concubine she still resisted.Cheng Dashan didn't take concubines, and Qin San didn't dare to take concubines. She even asked Zhuhua, and Zhuhua said harshly that if a man took a concubine, he would be eunuched. She also believed that Zhuhua, who had many ideas, could control own man.Since they can keep their men from taking concubines, why does she have to learn to arrange concubines and concubines?

In Chang'an City, there are still some civil servants with good family traditions who only allow concubines when a man is [-] and childless. Yinhua wants to marry such a family, but these families are very sought-after, and Sun can't even find someone to pass her on. Let it go.She also intentionally walked around in front of the wives and daughters of these civil servants to attract their attention when attending a banquet, but unfortunately they only seemed to care about whether the flowers were blooming well, and they didn't notice her, the prettier lady-to-be who was prettier than flowers at all. .

Since they have blind eyes, she will marry into the royal family to let them know how to open their eyes, but there is no one in the royal family who does not take concubines.And if she was bullied in the royal family, no one would support her.Her father was only a fourth-rank official, not even a high-ranking official in Chang'an City.Once she was worried about these things, she didn't think about the possibility that the royal family might look down on her, but Zhuhua thought of it for her.

Zhuhua also said that a side concubine would probably be chosen at this banquet, and Sun and Yinhua thought about the side concubine.To put it bluntly, a side concubine is a concubine, Yinhua is not willing to be suppressed for her concubine, and Sun is even more unwilling to have her own daughter as a concubine, even if she is married to the royal family.

The two were worried about each other, but they didn't worry about the Zhuhua that was added later, because she looked a bit small, even though she was taking care of the housework and helping to take care of the first and second treasures, she was still a little girl in the eyes of others.

The little girl Zhuhua reluctantly went to sit on the porch, and when someone approached, she let out a long sigh, attracting the attention of the senior executives who came.

"Miss San, why are you sighing?" the executive asked in a good voice.

"It's not a big deal, but I'm just thinking that if I marry into the royal family, won't I be able to teach men arbitrarily?"

Even marrying an ordinary family is not enough, the executive said in his heart, thinking that the hostess of Chengfu is still in charge, he can only swallow his words, and then divert the conversation with a smile, "Miss San, you must not be in the future in the future." Talk about your own marriage in front of people."

"It's not mine, I'm still young." Zhuhua asked innocently, and then said firmly: "People in our family, no matter which family they marry, their fists should shine brightly."

The senior executive was stunned, and was about to persuade him again when Zhuhua waved his hand.

"It's okay, Grandpa Gao, go ahead, Second Sister and I will figure out if there is a way to hit someone without hurting."

The senior executive wanted to say a few more words, but Zhuhua waved him goodbye, which made him feel embarrassed to stay longer.After thinking about it carefully after leaving, he understood the meaning of Zhuhua's words, and he wanted him to deliver the words.It is probably not easy to persuade the emperor to let the second lady be the concubine, but it is very simple if he wants to fail. disaster.

Zhuhua doesn't care if the executives have a way to deliver the message, there are so many beauties in Beijing, it's easy for Yinhua to lose the election; as for her, in fact, on the day of the flower banquet, she doesn't worry anymore, because she is sick again.According to what the white-clothed monk said, before she was 12 years old, she was prone to get sick in a place with a lot of royal aura. If you want to say that a place with a lot of imperial aura, the most important place in Chang'an City is the imperial palace. It is estimated that this body will not let her go.Sure enough, she was sick.

For her illness, Mrs. Sun had no choice but to ask for leave for her. Fortunately, the concubine Xian in the palace was generous and did not blame her, and even sent the imperial physician to visit.

(End of this chapter)