Chapter 172: Whose flower will fall
"Your apprentice and your secretary got into a fight."
Qian Duoduo pretended to water the jasmine flowers in Yunzhao's study. Very casually.
"You didn't stop her?"
Yun Zhao took off his glasses and put them on the table, rubbed the bridge of his nose and looked at his wife with interest.
Qian Duoduo sneered and said, "Why should I stop you? Isn't it normal for two men to fight over a woman?"
Yun Zhao He said helplessly: "I don't understand, why are you torturing Li Guocheng?"
Qian Duoduo said: "I just want to see if this guy is still a young man, and if there are still young people. It's wrong for a young man in his early twenties to behave like an old conspirator."
"So, you arranged for Xia Wanchun to repent under the bayberry tree, so that Li Guocheng thought you had it. Is this the plan to marry Yang Mei to Xia Wanchun?"
Qian Duoduo put down the watering can and sneered: "Yang Mei is in charge of my money bank. I must test the person she wants to marry. To tell the truth. , I really want to marry Yangmei to Xia Wanchun.
I really don’t like that Li Guocheng. At such a young age, it’s not possible for people to see his thoughts. This is wrong. He doesn’t even have any thoughts. How can I rest assured that someone who cannot be guessed by me will get married to Yang Mei?"
Yun Zhao clicked his lips and smiled bitterly: "Li Guocheng will not steal money from you, nor will he scheme against you. Those few taels of silver will not give up a great future. People's ideals are in government, not money.
To be honest, as long as the Lantian Dynasty has developed to this point, as long as it is a person with a bright future. No one cares about money. This is a very low-level behavior for them. Once it is confirmed that he likes money, he will lose not only his money but also his official position."
"I have a lot of money, not just a small amount of money."
Qian Duoduo felt that her husband looked down on her.
Yun Zhao smiled and said: "As long as you run a regular business and don't evade taxes, what you earn is just scraps of money. No matter how much you earn, it's just scraps of silver. In addition, you have given Yun Xian too much support. You have to stop. If If you continue to support him like this, Yaozhou will get rickets sooner or later."
As soon as her husband talked about supporting Yun Xian too much, Qian Duoduo immediately became unhappy and forcefully changed the subject: " Your secretary was about to be beaten to death, and you didn’t say a word?”
Yun Zhao said: “If we lose, we can take the beauty back. I think Li Guocheng would rather take this beating. Speaking of Li Guocheng, He is already a rare top figure in the academy, but in terms of mind and strategy, he is still inferior to Xia Wanchun.
I will not care about this matter. There are many benefits to the two of them. "
Hearing what her husband said, Qian Duoduo, the instigator, could not sit still. She knew that both Xia Wanchun and Li Guocheng were indispensable figures in the second generation of the Lantian Dynasty. If something happened, , she can eatYou can't walk around in circles.
So, she hurried back to her harem.
Yangmei is originally a very delicious fruit, but it is a bit sour. One time when Qian Duoduo was eating bayberry, He Chang brought her a pretty girl and asked her to give it to her. Give the child a name.
Qian Duoduo just happened to eat a very sour bayberry. It was so sour that he gritted his teeth and wanted to scold Yun Chun. Yun Hua picked the delicious bayberry away and the words came to his lips. But it became the word "Yangmei".
Then, the little girl’s name was Yangmei.
As a queen, Qian Duoduo had the authority to comfort the women and children of the Yun family bandits. As long as the Yun family bandits died in battle or died of illness, they would usually entrust their children to Qian Duoduo to raise them. .
Outstanding children will either be sent to Yushan Academy or Fenghuang Mountain Military Academy to serve as soldiers. Some outstanding and special children will be sent to the old lady He Chang. Qian Duoduo raised him personally.
Yang Mei is the most outstanding child among this group of children. According to He Chang, an old godly woman, when this child is raised well, he will be able to earn at least 50,000 taels of silver.
Qian Duoduo was the leader of Yangzhou Shou Ma back then, and his net worth was only twenty thousand taels. However, Qian Duoduo lived in an era where money was precious. Unlike now, the Ming Dynasty was frantically mining Shijian from Japan. Silver Mountain, silver is no longer as valuable as it was then.
In view of this, He Chang, an old pious woman, specially sent this child to Qian Duoduo to accept Qian Duoduo's kindness.
According to her idea, when Qian Duoduo gets old and loses his luster, she can dedicate this child to the emperor and continue to favor him.
I just didn’t expect that after so many years, Qian Duoduo has indeed become older and fatter, his belly is covered with stretch marks, and his temper has become worse. Even so, He Chang has not seen Qian Duoduo in the past. There was a scene of "fading love but falling in love" on her body, but she found that the emperor seemed to dote on this lucky woman even more.
This is unbelievable to an old woman who specializes in raising "Yangzhou thin horses" to support her family. It is also very different from the man she knows.
However, she was in the palace, and she could not hide everything going on in the harem. She could not hide the fact that a woman secretly climbed into the emperor's bed, because she believed that her The value lies in this.
She really knew that the emperor's so-called harem of six thousand, there were really only two, one compared to three thousand, the real thing couldn't be more real.
The rumors about the lustful emperor spread outside are simply nonsense!
Except for the two empresses, the two women closest to the emperor are Yun Chun and Yun Hua, and these two women... He Chang has never recognized their identity as women. Two people taking care of the emperor to bathe and change clothes was more reassuring to her than a man taking care of the emperor to take a bath and change clothes.
This makes He Chang's arrangement useless.
Yangmei learnedWith her good financial management skills, Qian Duoduo also entrusted her with the important task of managing her private money bank.
Li Guocheng is the secretary with the highest official position beside the emperor, and Yang Mei is the most important female official beside the queen. They have many opportunities to meet. As time goes by, Li Guocheng, who is very discerning, develops a secret love for Yang Mei.
Li Guocheng thought that Yangmei was the emperor's forbidden love, so he buried all his thoughts in his heart, lamenting that he was destined to have no fate, and he wasted his time with the slightest bit of luck. At the age of twenty-three, he still refused to get married in every possible way.
However, after the bastard Xia Wanchun arrived in Guangzhou, Li Guocheng discovered to his horror that he seemed to have mistaken the emperor's thoughts. His Majesty the Emperor had no idea about Yang Mei, and Queen Qian was actually trying to bring Xia Wanchun and Yang Mei together intentionally or unintentionally. marriage.
Not only did Xia Wanchun repent under the bayberry tree, but he also forced Xia Wanchun to get married before the bayberry matured... What does it mean before the bayberry matures? According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, any woman can get married at the age of eighteen! ! ! !
In another half month, Yangmei will be exactly eighteen! !
Li Guocheng would not have any thoughts if Yang Mei became the emperor's woman, but Xia Wanchun, the bastard - why should he?
Li Guocheng roared angrily, wrapped his arms around Xia Wanchun's waist, and pushed him towards the wall. He no longer paid attention to the fists that rained down on his back. He just wanted to kill this guy in one go. Dog day.
"Are you fucking crazy?"
Xia Wanchun originally wanted to kill Li Guocheng with an elbow attack, but after realizing that this guy was already crazy, he did not dare to strike hard again. If you hit him, you will really beat this guy to death.
As soon as he saw the wall, Xia Wanchun stretched one leg back and pressed against the wall. He opened Li Guocheng's arms and took advantage of Li Guocheng's forward force to walk a few steps on the wall with his feet. Then he turned hard, grabbed Li Guocheng's shoulders with both hands, and threw him to the ground.
This fall was very hard.
Li Guocheng faced up to the sky, stars were flying in front of his eyes, and his whole body felt like falling apart. He tried hard to turn over, but failed. When he saw Xia Wanchun looking down at him, he spit out a mouthful of blood and said: "Marry Yangmei, you Not worthy!"
Xia Wanchun looked back at the leafy bayberry tree and said angrily: "I don't have the leisure of a plum tree!"
Li Guocheng's pupils suddenly shrunk. For a moment, his scattered eyes suddenly condensed, and he said to Xia Wanchun: "You don't know?"
Xia Wanchun said angrily: "Should I know?"
Li Guocheng stretched out a He said with his hands: "It's okay, help me up."
Xia Wanchun pulled Li Guochun up, stretched his cervical vertebrae and said, "Not convinced? Then come again!"
Li Guocheng hit him step by step. He came to the place where the documents fell, collected the documents one by one, carefully held them in his arms, put one hand on his waist, and left the atrium step by step.
"You should fucking tell me clearly, what's going on?"
Xia Wanchun's roar came from behindcame.
Li Guocheng stubbornly flicked his middle finger towards Xia Wanchun and walked out of the door.
“You bastard——”
Xia Wanchun, who had defeated Li Guochun, suddenly felt like he was the loser. He didn’t understand where this feeling came from. Yes, but at this time, he felt as if he had lost something very important.
If you don’t understand something, you have to ask, so he appeared in front of the master immediately.
Yun Zhao looked at Xia Wanchun's red and swollen cheeks, and then at his torn clothes, and sighed: "Is the beating done?"
Xia Wanchun was fuming. Said: "Li Guocheng went crazy. He scolded me and beat me when he saw me."
Yun Zhao saw blood on the corner of Xia Wanchun's mouth, so he pushed the tea bowl over and said: "Rinse your mouth, your teeth are stained red with blood." Come on, did you win?"
Xia Wanchun's eyes rolled around and he nodded again and again: "How could he be my opponent?"
Yun Zhao. He said leisurely: "There is a peerless beauty who just watched the fight between you, and then she chose the loser!"
"Peerless beauty? How come the disciple didn't see it? There are only two other people in this palace. Which of the master ladies is qualified to be called a peerless beauty?"
"I don't want you to see it because I am afraid that you will become lustful, but now you think of flattering your two master wives, how much? It's a little late."
"Hey! How big is it...Master, this disciple has suffered so much, do you think it is feasible to send troops out of the river?"