female concubine

Chapter 54 Keding Jue Family

He got up and walked to his mother with his hands behind his back, "If mother is trustworthy, I will take the money away and deliver it tomorrow!"

Those who haven't seen the silver feel uneasy, but they are afraid that the nobleman will be angry, so they tactfully said: "Okay, man, just take the two officials away, as soon as the silver arrives, I will definitely offer the girl's body certificate with both hands." .”

He threw out an ingot of gold, turned his head and said coldly, "Get lost!"

Mom was not angry either, she picked up the gold and left with a smile.

"I don't even know that there is such a villain in Song Dynasty who regards money as life!"

"Your Highness is the crown prince. He has been in the most affluent place in Tokyo. Naturally, he can't see the means by which these lowly people make a living."

The crown prince looked carefully at the Liu family, she was graceful and graceful, and in this kind of place, there was a sense of indifference to the world, which was different from that of the crown princess, "This girl is what the gentleman said, Liu girl?"

Liang Wenfu nodded, and immediately knelt down towards him, "I thank you, Your Highness the Crown Prince, for your kindness."

"His Royal Highness?" Liu looked up at the prince in horror, then looked down at Liang Wenfu beside him, raised his eyebrows and said, "You?"

Seeing Liu's surprised expression, the crown prince turned his body and turned his back to him, "Miss Liu's identity will be kept by the Palace, but Mr. is a student of the emperor and a Hanlin handpicked by His Majesty, how can it be possible with Miss Liu's current background?" Entering the main gate of the scholar-bureaucrat, but the gentleman likes it, so I have to feel a little bit wronged."

"What does this mean, Your Highness?"

"Mr. is the number one scholar of the new department, and now he has entered the Imperial Academy. In the future, he must be Zaifu. The wife of Zaifu is a woman who came out of a brothel!"

"Since that's the case, why do those two nobles still come here? They're not afraid of getting their feet dirty!"

Liu's boldness made Liang Wenfu panic, "Si Niang, don't be so...disrespectful to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"Your Highness, she..."

The prince turned around, "I am so polite to you for the sake of my husband, otherwise, how could I come to such a place!"

Seeing the dispute, Liang Wenfu got up and pulled Liu Shi over, "Si Niang, follow me!"

"Your Highness, I will return as soon as I go."

"You let me go!"

Liang Wenfu dragged it to another room, "Don't be so stubborn!"

"Why, just because he is the prince, can he humiliate others in every possible way?"

"Si Niang, you also saw it today. That mother opened her mouth to ask for 2000 taels of gold. Don't say that I just won the first prize. Even if I become a prime minister, I can't afford so much silver!"

"so what?"

"So I have to ask His Highness."

"Then what did he mean by that?"

Liang Wenfu gradually lowered his head, "I...I know I will wrong you, but I have no choice."

When Liu heard this, her heart was filled with bitterness, and she trembled, "So Liang Lang, did you just come to Nanu's house as a concubine?"

"I promise you, as long as you go back with me, I will not marry a wife, I swear!" Liang Wenfu raised his hand.

Women in brothels who are concubines can only be inferior people and cannot be righted.

Seeing that Mrs. Liu was silent, he said again: "Si Niang, in order to redeem you, I put myself on the side of the fight. Now that the situation in the court is so tense, if I make a wrong step, I will be doomed. I hope you can understand."

"He respected me as Mr. because I still have value. He took your identity to blackmail me, so that I would wholeheartedly work for him."

Facing Liang Wenfu's pleading with red eyes, Liu closed her eyes and nodded slightly.

"Then I'll go thank Your Highness. You can clean up later and come with me to stay in the store temporarily. I have already taken a look at the house in Xincheng, and I will be able to live in it in a few days." After finishing speaking, Liang Wenfu's tearful eyes turned into a smiling face, and he turned around. To find the prince.

"The slaves are willing to believe what Liang Lang said, even... even if they know that Liang Lang is lying to the slaves, the slaves still believe it."

Liang Wenfu stood still with his back to her, suddenly froze in place and stopped moving forward, tremblingly said: "What?"

"Because without Liang Lang's help in the Chen family, my mother and I would have died in the Chen residence, let alone our fate."

"Brother Hongwen now is no longer the elder brother Hongwen who was in Chen Zhai back then, but Si Niang will always be Si Niang!"

Liang Wenfu turned his head, his eyes were rosy, and he said coldly: "Why, why do you just refuse to believe me, just because, just because of a word from the king of Chu, you have recognized me, and will you bear you in this life?"

"It has nothing to do with the King of Chu, but since brother Hongwen decided to become an official five years ago, I have already guessed the result."

Liang Wenfu approached and said bitterly: "I became an official because of you. It's been five years. I would rather go hungry and exchange the only food left in my family for books. What am I doing? Isn't it because I can be named on the gold list one day and enlist you Get it out of here!"

He was extremely unwilling, "If you are dissatisfied...the King of Chu has taken you sincerely, why didn't you go with him!"

Liu's heart was full of anger, and she stared at him, "Because no matter how good the king of Chu is, it's not you!"

"Everyone in my family knows that my mother was bought home by an adult. The adult's family is just an ordinary merchant, and even scoffed at my mother's background. What's more...Liang Lang is already the number one scholar who everyone admires, even if Liang Lang If you are willing to marry a slave family to be a child, the slave family will not be willing. I have stayed in this building for so many years. The literati... only come here when they are frustrated. What else is there to be dissatisfied with?"

In the middle of the night, a carriage drove out from the backyard of Lanyue Building, and the lights in the room where the oiran lady lived were also turned off.

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"This is 1000 taels of gold that the old minister collected overnight. Why does His Highness want so much gold all of a sudden?"

After the crown prince counted, he called his confidants, "Send these together with the ones prepared by the East Palace. Remember, you must first obtain the body deed for confirmation, and don't reveal the identity of the palace."

"Yes."

Then the crown prince entered the study room of the mansion with Tongping Zhangshi, and personally made a bowl of tea and served it, "Weng Weng doesn't know that this money, my grandson, is used to buy people's hearts."

Tong Pingzhang was shocked, "What kind of heart is worth 1000 taels of gold?"

The crown prince then shook his head, "It's 2000 taels of gold. I didn't want to ask her, so I gathered together all night. Even Liang Di's jewelry was moved to get enough 1000 taels. When I go back tonight, I don't know if Liang Di will pay for it." You are angry with me." After finishing speaking, the prince pressed his forehead and sighed.

"Your Highness used 2000 taels to bribe courtiers? Your Majesty hates corrupt officials the most. If His Majesty finds out, Your Highness..."

"Don't worry, Weng Weng, it's not a bribe, but Bengong used the 2000 taels of gold to buy an oiran in Lanyue Building."

"Your Highness exchanged 2000 taels of gold for a prostitute in a brothel. Your Highness is the prince, and that kind of place is..."

"Don't worry, Weng, I didn't want to have fun, and I didn't go there to spend money to enjoy it. This gold is for the champion."

"The number one scholar has something in the hands of His Highness. Would His Highness's 2000 taels be too unfair? After all, it is not a small amount!"

The crown prince sighed, "Your Majesty's annual reward does not exceed 100 taels of gold, of course I know, but the number one scholar has a handle in my hands, but in the same way, I also have a handle in his hands, just to be on the safe side, It’s the only way to do it.”

As soon as the voice fell to the door, there was a knock on the door——Dong Dong!Boom! ———

"His Royal Highness, Ah Si is back."

"Let him in."

Lanyue Tower is only one street away from here, and the people who went out with gold before came back within a quarter of an hour.

"Your Highness, the deed is back."

"bring here!"

The confidant presented a small wooden box, and opened it immediately. Inside lay a stack of crumpled paper, which was still a little damaged, as if it had been robbed before, with the seal and fingerprints of the government on it.

Tong Pingzhang glanced at him, "This is?"

"This is the deed of that oiran."

"Your Highness, the mother of Lanyue Building not only gave her the deed, but also returned 2000 taels of gold in full. She said that Lanyue Building would not dare to take the money from the East Palace even if it was closed. Mom also asked the villain to tell His Highness that It was she who offended His Highness because of her ignorance before, and I hope His Highness will not remember the faults of villains, and don't care about low people like them."

The prince turned his head in surprise, "Didn't you tell them not to tell them the identity of Ben Gong?"

"Your Highness has an order, even if you borrow ten cowards from a villain, you dare not reveal it."

The prince lowered his head, "Go down."

"Yes."

"Wait, send the gold back and tell Lanyuelou's mother that I am not the kind of bullying person. Since I have spoken first, I will not break the contract. Let her keep the money and don't gossip. "

"Yes."

"His Royal Highness took the identity of this city prostitute, she and Zhuangyuan Lang?"

"As I mentioned to Weng Weng before, Zhuangyuanlang has a childhood sweetheart who grew up with him since childhood. Because of his family's decline, he entered a brothel in Goulan. At first, the palace wanted Zhuangyuanlang to marry Yuanling so that he could marry Yuanling. I asked Uncle Wang to board my king's boat, thinking that Uncle Wang is her real uncle, but I never thought that His Majesty would actually issue an order... Anyway, I complied with Mr.'s request and left."

"Since he is the number one scholar, the future must be limitless. Although Yuanling county master is impossible, but with his current fame, he doesn't want any kind of woman from aristocratic family, so why cling to a Goulan woman and destroy his future!"

"I was also puzzled, until Zhuangyuan Lang told me that this woman has something to do with the King of Chu!"

"King Chu?"

"Weng Wengke still remembers that five years ago, there was a performance by the secretary of the imperial city. The king of Chengdu County showed his true nature as soon as he left Da Nei. After the palace was built, he still did not change his bad habits. It was rumored that the county palace wanted to register a lady in a brothel as the princess of the county, so the courtiers impeached him, and rumors spread in Tokyo. , let His Majesty lose face, and His Majesty was almost deposed in anger, but Chen Yu was the one who saved him because he was demoted from office, and then he was thrown to Sichuan by His Majesty's imperial edict."

"The imperial edict came from the hands of the old man. How could the old man not remember that when Hanhan founded the country, he set a rule that the clan, relatives, women, and eunuchs were not allowed to interfere in politics. There was no such thing as a vassal king in my dynasty. Throwing it to Sichuan is actually Exile, the old minister thought he would never come back, who knows that now...not only let him come back, but also encourage him to become a hindrance to His Highness!"

"Liang Zhuangyuan said that this Hua Kui lady, Liu Shi, may be the weakness of the King of Chu. She knows a lot about the King of Chu, and the King of Chu also... cares about her very much, because this woman is what attracted the King of Chu to go out of prostitutes five years ago. People in the museum!"

Tong Pingzhang immediately smiled, "As the past few years have passed, His Highness has become more and more concerned. The old minister is really relieved for His Highness the Queen."

"This palace is the head of the country, the vice-president, and their monarch. All those who hinder this palace are rebellious officials and thieves, plotting against the king, the first of the ten crimes, and they should be punished!"

"The No. [-] scholar entered the Imperial Academy, while the No. [-] entered the Zhongshu of the veteran minister. How to do it, please show me, Your Majesty!"

"The second place in the ranking is now valued by His Majesty. Weng Weng should not touch him for the time being."

"I have been observing this No. [-] in Zhongshu for many days. I am methodical and patient. I will definitely be a public assistant in the future."

"It's a pity that he chose King Zhao instead of this gentleman!"

"It's a pity that the talent at the second place cannot be used by His Highness, otherwise, I really want to train him in Zhongshu to succeed the old minister."

"Without the second place, we still have a champion."

Another lower-level official walked in at the door and said respectfully, "Your Highness!"

"Coming back so soon?"

"Your Highness, someone from Da Nei has come. Your Majesty has an edict, and Zhou Shinan came in person."

"Knowing the imperial edict..." The crown prince got up and asked Tong Pingzhang again, "Does Weng know about your majesty's imperial edict?"

Tong Pingzhang shook his head, "The old minister has just come out of Zhongshu, and he has never heard of His Majesty's edict. This should be ordered by His Majesty temporarily!"

The prince turned around and left the room.

"His Majesty the Crown Prince, I am here to inform His Highness that the military examination will be held at the Ministry of War. Your Highness and the Privy Envoy will be in charge of the provincial examination."

The prince was shocked, as if he couldn't believe it, "I didn't hear wrong, did you, Your Majesty let me preside over the martial arts?"

Zhou Shinan nodded, "The generals who can fight in our court are all old, and the number of resignations submitted every day is only increasing. Therefore, His Majesty attaches great importance to this martial arts. The appointment of His Highness is to trust His Highness's ability to handle affairs."

The prince said happily: "Your kindness is great, please trouble Zhou Neihan to report back to His Majesty on behalf of the Palace, minister Wei Shu will definitely live up to His Majesty's high expectations!"