Chapter 118 Chance Encounter(1st update)

Hua Niang has a quick mind and is well-versed in all aspects, and she specializes in picking out some secrets that ordinary people don't know.

Nalanjing listened for more than an hour. Hua Niang's words made her mouth dry and her food dry. Nalanjing gave her fifty taels of silver. She pursed her dry lips, poured a glass of wine, and started talking again.

What Hua Niang knows are rumors, and the specific facts need to be investigated, but she can let Nalanjing know the general situation in Shangjing.

The current emperor of Southern Chu is Emperor Tianshun. He and the eldest princess Nanwu have the same mother. The eldest princess is slightly older than Emperor Tianshun. When the late emperor died, Emperor Tianshun was still young. He granted the title of regent to the eldest princess Nanwu.

Princess, and gave most of her power to the eldest princess, for no other reason than that the direct empress of Emperor Tianshun was from the Liu family. The Liu family had exclusive power in the court for many years and was always feared by the late emperor.

Emperor Tianshun came to the throne when he was young, but his health has never been good. The eldest princess did not dare to delegate power. The empress dowager and empress in the harem were both from the Liu family, and the Liu family was the leader in the court.

In the entire Shangjing, it is no exaggeration to say that the Liu family is the most powerful family besides the Nanchu royal family.

Under Nalanjing's special guidance, Hua Niang also told an interesting story about the Duke Protector's Mansion.

The protector of the country was originally a military general. After the old man retired, his eldest son died young, and the position of the protector fell to his second son. Unfortunately, this second son was a loser and had never been on the battlefield. He had no experience whatsoever.

Military achievements and the remaining military power of the Duke's government were completely divided.

Life in the Duke Protector's Mansion was not easy, but it was because the Duke was not clear-headed and wanted to please a branch of the Liu family.

This branch of the Liu family drank several glasses of wine and couldn't even see the road clearly. After opening the window, he climbed out and fell to his death.

Mr. Li Guogong was at the scene at the time. He always thought he was joking and didn't let anyone stop him. He didn't react until he jumped.

Although they are a side branch of the Liu family, they are also the Liu family. How can the Duke Protector's Palace withstand the crisis? This matter has been in a stalemate for nearly half a year. No matter how much compensation the Duke's Protector's Palace tries to compensate, the Liu family is almost kneeling down.

Even if he didn't nod his head, the government wouldn't close the case. The soldiers of Jiucheng would invite Mr. Li Guo over for tea every two days.

The Duke Protector's Mansion is miserable, and the Liu family branch is miserable all day long. This matter has always been a topic of discussion among everyone in Beijing after dinner.

Nalanjing didn't know which one of the two was more unlucky.

However, this can also reveal the Liu family's status in Shangjing.

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Li Jiaheng repeatedly told them to return to the capital and deliver news to the Protectorate as soon as possible, and they would come to the city gate to respond.

In fact, even without the house arranged by Lin Xi, Nalanjing and the others had no plans to live in the Duke Protector's Mansion.

By the time the Protectorate knew that they had entered the city, it was already three days later.

As for how they knew it, it was because the third lady and the fourth lady accidentally met Nalanjing.

After Nalanjing returned to Shangjing, he thought of the Su Shiqin brothers, so he asked people in the mansion to deliver a letter to the Su mansion, asking the Su Shiqin brothers to get together at the famous Xianyi Jing Teahouse in Shangjing.

After Su Shiqin got the letter, he didn't even wait for his eldest brother who was out of town, changed his clothes, took a carriage and went out.

As soon as Nalanjing and Rong Yu arrived at the door of the teahouse, they saw Su Shiqin getting off the carriage.

Su Shiqin has grown a lot. He is no longer the young man with red lips and white teeth. He has a more heroic look, his eyes are sharp and compelling, and even his voice has changed a bit.

"Sister!" When Su Shiqin saw Nalanjing, he jumped down from the carriage and walked a few steps in front of Nalanjing. He could hardly restrain himself from grabbing her cuffs and shaking her slowly.

He looked at Rong Yu on the side and said naturally: "Second uncle."

Rong Yu: "..." Can he refuse?

The three people entered the teahouse and happened to meet the third lady and the fourth lady who had just entered the teahouse.

They went out on an errand and bought a few baskets of snacks on the way back. When they saw Nalanjing, they thought they had seen it wrong. After confirming that it was her, they couldn't help but frown.

They were waiting for Nalanjing to take the initiative to greet them. After all, she was a junior.

Unexpectedly, Nalanjing just nodded to them and went up to the second floor. Rong Yu and Su Shiqin followed her, and the three of them were talking and laughing.

The third lady's face suddenly darkened: "What does she mean?"

The fourth lady opened her eyes wide and pointed at their backs. She was so shocked that she couldn't hold back a word.

Seeing that she was silent, the third lady couldn't help but stretched out her hand and pulled her: "She is talking to you. She doesn't take our Protector's Palace seriously at all. Does she really think that Rong Xuan will still be the same Rong Xuan when he wakes up?

?It is impossible for a mute to be reinstated. He has offended so many people, and they don’t know how much revenge is waiting for them. How can he be self-righteous? "

The Fourth Madam looked at the person who entered the box on the second floor and finally held back a sentence: "That is the second son of the Su family!"

"What did you say?" The third lady frowned and said angrily: "That Su family?"

"That's the Su family, the only Su family in Beijing that can compete with the Liu family." The fourth lady finished speaking in one breath, with shock on her face.

"What did you say?" The third lady grabbed her arm and looked around: "You said that is the second son of the Su family?"

The fourth lady pointed to Nalanjing's wing: "The young man behind the eldest lady just now, I have seen him before the old lady of the Su family, I will definitely not admit his mistake."

The third lady's face was stunned, and the fourth lady also looked at her silently. No one expected that Nalanjing would have such a relationship with the Su family.

The fourth lady took out her arm: "Third sister-in-law, shall we go up?"

The third lady looked a little ugly. She walked out the door and said: "Go back first and tell the old man."

Nalanjing didn't know they would meet them when she arrived in Beijing, which made the Li family a little unhappy. However, after hearing that she had a close relationship with the second son-in-law of the Su family, they became more active again.

The old man sent someone to find out where Nalanjing lived and asked her and Rong Xuan to go back to her parents' home.

Of course Nalanjing didn't know this.

She and Rong Yu met Su Shiqin and learned about some things that happened after they returned to Beijing.

Su Zhi was executed by Su Zhi personally, and this matter naturally needed to be explained to Mr. Su and his wife. Although they regretted the departure of their beloved son, they were not without a sense of the overall situation, and they immediately asked the Su Shirong brothers to return to Beijing.

Su Shiqin was still young and was assigned to study in the Imperial College.

Su Shirong's situation was relatively difficult. After he came back, he took the imperial examination and entered the top three. Then he entered the Ministry of War and worked as a seventh-grade official.

This idle position is worse than Wang Zhaoyi's seventh-grade county magistrate, and has no real power. However, such a position can only be obtained by his imperial examination achievements and the reputation of a powerful military officer.

After all, Rong Xuan was a third-grade official at the beginning, and he was appointed as a seventh-grade official in the Ministry of Punishment when he first entered the court and became an official under the eyes of Emperor Tianshun.
Chapter completed!