After Xue Hong casually told a few anecdotes, he excused himself to leave because he had something to do. Although Jinling was reluctant to part with the anecdotes, he did not pester him.
Princess Jinling: "Since Hou Wenwen has important matters, it will be inconvenient for Jinling to delay you. Please excuse me, Lord Marquis."
This kind of character made Xue Hong look at her with admiration and he had a good impression of Princess Jinling.
As the first granddaughter of Emperor Longqing, Princess Jinling is definitely extremely favored, which can be seen by looking at her title.
And it is really rare for such a favored little girl to be reasonable and reasonable without being raised to be a princess.
After Xue Hong confessed to Princess Jinling, she pulled Zhu Hui and Chen Chen out of the courtyard.
Zhu Hui turned around and said: "My eldest niece! Uncle Six has gone to work first. You can play around in Uncle Six's house by yourself! By the way, bring that calligraphy and painting back to the prince before you go home!"
After they were far away from the courtyard, Xue Hong stopped: "Your Highness, in general, you two are plotting against me, right?"
Zhu Hui looked unconvinced: "Huh? What are you talking about, Junchen? My niece needs to have good looks, a good identity, and a good personality. Why am I just trying to trick you? I'm not helping you get promoted! Royal relative Alas, relatives of the country!
By then we will be a family, you can just call me Uncle Six, but we will still be friends, I guess that’s cool!”
Xue Hong rolled his eyes: "Promotion? It's not bad if I don't ascend to heaven. It's not like you don't know the consequences of being a consort, Your Highness."
Zhu Hui: "Hey! What did I think? That rule is nothing to my father."
Chen Chen touched his nose and suddenly said: "Junchen, if you don't want Princess Shang, our Chen family still has many legitimate daughters..."
Zhu Hui pointed at Chen Chen and said: "In general, you have gone too far. I took something for nothing? Why don't you give it back to me?"
Chen Chen: "I don't. How can I recycle the things I sent out?"
Xue Hong: "No, the key point is that I already have a sweetheart, and I will have to go through the Three Letters and Six Ceremonies in a while."
Zhu Hui: "wc?"
Chen Chen: "wc!"
Two people carried Xue Hong into the pavilion, one on the left and the other on the right: "When did it happen?"
Xue Hong said sheepishly: "It didn't take long, less than a month."
Zhu Hui touched his chin: "From the capital?"
Xue Hong: "Nod."
Zhu Hui: "There is such an outstanding woman in the capital? Why didn't I know about it?"
On the other hand, it was Chen Chen who thought for a while and said surprisingly: "It can't be...is it your sister Xue Baochai?"
Xue Hong: "How did you guess d(??д????)?"
Chen Chen: “We’ve been together for so long, we’ve carried guns together, we’ve been whoring together, don’t we know each other well?
As for your sister-in-law, you two are not related by blood, and now you are no longer brothers and sisters in name, is it difficult to guess?"
Xue Hong: "Am I that obvious?"
Zhu Hui: "If you put it this way, you have been a girl lover from the time we met. If you have any good things, you will immediately want to send them back to your sister."
"I still remember the only time you got angry in Jinling was because someone said bad things about Xue Mansion and it affected your sister. You turned over the table on the spot and threw the people on the table from the second floor into the river to wake up."
Xue Hong smiled awkwardly: "Let everything take its course."
Zhu Hui sighed helplessly: "In this case, there is nothing we can do, but...don't say that my brothers are unjust. I tell you, if you don't want to cause trouble, you should quickly suppress the three books and six etiquettes, and make more noise. !”
Xue Hong: "You mean..."
Zhu Hui: "My father has been eyeing you for a long time. If we wait for him to take action, things will be much more troublesome."
Xue Hong cupped his hands and said, "Your Highness, I cannot thank you enough for your kindness."
Zhu Hui waved his hand: "It's a small matter. Oh, by the way, when my grandpa Huang's birthday party comes, you two will come directly to me. Don't sit with civil servants, let alone Wu Xun. I will arrange the rest. .”
"Chen Chen is actually better. After all, he is a direct descendant of a thousand-year-old family. Anyone who wants to make a fuss about him has to weigh it carefully.
But Junchen, you are different. You are young and have no foundation, and you are talented in helping the world. You have a clean background. Those old bastards like to plot against you."
Xue Hong: "In other words, there will be a good show at this birthday banquet."
Zhu Hui sneered: "It's not just a good show, it's a big show. In short, we can just watch the fun. It has nothing to do with us."
Now that the words have come to this point, Xue Hong and Chen Chen have roughly guessed it.
This time Emperor Longqing held a birthday banquet for the Supreme Emperor with great fanfare for two purposes.
First: I have sufficient internal funds. After all, I just received 10 million taels of cash from Peach Blossom Cake.
Moreover, Emperor Longqing had to earn millions of taels of silver from those fools by reselling building materials.
You can show the world that our old Zhu family has always been kind to father and filial to son. To be honest, the relationship between father and son in the old Zhu family is definitely rare among emperors. Compared with other royal families, the relationship is much better.
Second: and most importantly, we can use this birthday banquet to see how the ministers stand and whether anyone is willing to return from the lost path.
Emperor Xungui Longqing has suppressed almost everything. He will deal with it early or later. There is not much difference. Basically, there are only a few people with real power.
The main target is still those civil servants. Now that Emperor Longqing at the grassroots level has changed his blood, does the court also need to be cleaned up?
The same applies to you, if you want to cause trouble again and the road ends in darkness, then don't blame Emperor Longqing for taking action. As the saying goes: I will give you a golden bottle to drink from, but you will not be spared with a bare sword!
After Xue Hong returned to Xue Mansion, she went directly to find Aunt Xue and Baochai.
Several maids saluted one after another: "I have seen the Marquis before."
Xue Hong nodded in return.
Baochai: "Brother Hong, what's the matter here?"
Xue Hong took Baochai's little hand and said, "Baochai, I plan to discuss the Three Letters and Six Etiquettes with my wife."
When Baochai heard this, her pretty face instantly turned red, and she took out her hand: "Brother Hong has just gone to discuss with mom, and my sister won't accompany me anymore."
Xue Hong smiled. Indeed, the three books and six etiquettes were not discussed in front of the girl.
Xue Hong ordered people to invite Aunt Xue to the back hall.
Aunt Xue: "Hong'er, what's the matter with calling me?"
Xue Hong bowed and saluted: "Xue Hong wants to marry Baochai today! Tomorrow, the three letters and six rites will be sent to the house."
Aunt Xue: "(??????) Why is it so sudden?"
Xue Hong: "Madam, you don't have to worry about anything. We just need to settle the marriage first, and Baochai can stay by my wife's side for a few more years."
Aunt Xue: "Hong'er, I'm always at ease when you do things, but Pan'er is not at home now. Can this matter...can wait a little longer?"
Xue Hong thought for a moment, and as long as he kept a low profile these days, the problem shouldn't be big. According to the time calculation, Xue Pan would probably be back soon.
As for whether Xue Pan would agree, Xue Hong was not worried at all. He knew his brother too well.
It is more likely that this boy Xue Pan wants to take the opportunity to increase his status and become his elder brother.
If he really dares to have this idea, Xue Hong would not mind helping Xue Pan understand the truth: your eldest brother will always be your eldest brother!