251. I am a good emperor (11) (1/2)
The daughter of the direct daughter of the Fan family was unexpectedly given as a concubine to the son of an ordinary businessman.
When the news came out, many ladies and young ladies opened their eyes in shock.
They also socialize frequently, and few people are not impressed by the mother and daughter of the Fan family. After all, the young lady of the Fan family is indeed good-looking.
Although the divorce between the Fan family and the Zhao family caused uproar in the city, it was Fan Yuancai, the eldest son of Fan, who was the eldest son of Fan and the Zhao family. He was beaten so severely that he couldn't get out of bed for half a month.
He behaves like this, and Fan Yuancai has always had a reputation as a playboy. Even if people want to laugh, they should laugh at Mr. Fan for not being strict with his children. Fan Yuancai is useless. Miss Fan, who has been quiet and has not shown any gestures, is that Innocent victim.
Because of this, and the fact that Miss Fan is very good at pretending to be virtuous and dignified, as she gets older, many people come to propose marriage. However, the Fan family has declined all attempts since they broke off the engagement. , judging from her intention, she clearly wanted to choose a good husband for her only daughter.
Why is it so good that news suddenly spread that she was promised to a businessman's son as a concubine?
The children of businessmen cannot take the imperial examination or become officials. No matter how big the business is, if there is no backer, even a county magistrate can make them unable to seek help.
Ordinary official families can marry merchants without marrying them.
Marrying a businessman or being a concubine, how can it be said that there is nothing fishy about it.
And just when the noble lady in Kyoto was at a loss, Lord Fan, as if he couldn't wait any longer, directly carried a small sedan out of the back door and handed it over to the businessman's son.
No matter how much Mrs. Fan cried and wanted to refuse such a marriage, Mr. Fan, who had always been gentle to her, did not care about his wife's tears at this moment, and did not even prepare the original dowry.
He couldn't help but not be anxious.
After Miss Fan learned the identity of the merchant's son, she cried hard and refused to marry him. Master Fan also thought about his desire to send a daughter to the palace and planned to give some benefits to the merchant's son and sealed his mouth. , just pretend it never happened.
But he never expected that his daughter would be so stupid. The two had only known each other for a month before they gave up their innocent bodies.
She knew clearly that she had lost her virginity, but she still tried to trick her into letting him, the father, send her to the palace. However, she never thought that if His Majesty found out, the whole family would not be able to save their heads.
Mr. Fan hated his daughter for letting herself fall, and he also hated her for almost causing his own death. He simply ignored the last bit of affection between father and daughter, tied someone up, put her in a sedan and carried her out.
When Mrs. Fan knew about this and tried to stop her, she had already been locked in the room. No matter how much she cried, Mr. Fan did not relent.
"Master, how can you be so cruel? Ru'er is still so young and has been pampered all her life. How can she endure being a concubine in a place as far away as Aurous Hill..."
Mrs. Fan cried sadly, her beautiful face full of pleading, "Please let me let Ru'er come back, even if she marries in the capital, we will choose a lower-ranking family, nothing will happen..."
"Marry to Beijing?"
Master Fan's face was as dark as water, and his voice was extremely cold, "Since she has lost her virginity, she should marry that merchant. If she marries to Beijing, how can our Fan family survive if the news spreads that she is not innocent?" Established in Kyoto.”
Even though she knew that what her husband said was right, Mrs. Fan couldn't help but the tears on her face kept falling down. She cried and begged, "Then let's not marry Ru'er to the capital. Let's marry outside, sir." If Ru'er becomes a concubine, she will never be able to stand up again!"
Her motherly kindness did not make Master Fan feel any softer. He lowered his eyes indifferently and said coldly, "Even if she is not married in Kyoto, it is an indisputable fact that she lost her virginity. As long as it is true, someone will expose it. day.”
"No, no," Mrs. Fan almost fainted from crying, and said with a pale face, "I will find out how to hide it for Ru'er."
"What if I didn't hide it?"
Perhaps because he didn’t want to argue with Mrs. Fan anymore, Mr. Fan sounded impatient and said, “Don’t just think about Ru’er. Yuanjie is still so young. If the outside world knows that he has a child, he will lose his virginity before he gets married. My sister, if you marry me in the future, your official career will be affected."
When she heard that it would affect her youngest son, Mrs. Fan stopped crying and looked at her husband with a pale face.
"If you don't trust her, then send a few people there. Now that the news of her marriage has spread, it would not be good for Yuanjie to bring her back at this time."
Seeing that Mrs. Fan really stopped making trouble when talking about her son, Mr. Fan's tone became a little more serious, "You were the one who encouraged your daughter to make mischief in the first place, so don't cry in front of me anymore. Yuanjie was brought to our hospital first to deal with family matters. Let Taoer take care of it.”
Tao'er is one of Master Fan's concubines. Although her appearance is good, she has never been as favored as Mrs. Fan because she is not as good-looking.
At this moment, looking at the woman in front of him who was teasing his daughter and trying to hide the matter, and thinking about Tao'er, who is gentle and considerate, never troublesome, and gentle, Master Fan naturally feels more at ease with Tao'er.
After he finished speaking, he saw Mrs. Fan suddenly raised her head and looked at him with disbelief. Because the face that had been crying seemed to be a bit older, he immediately looked away with disgust, walked away, and was left alone. Mrs. Fan's face was full of tears, and she knelt on the ground numbly, crying sadly.
Why is this happening? She clearly inquired about everything clearly, including the carriage His Majesty left the palace, the clothes His Majesty wore, and the attendants who followed him.
What went wrong.
***
"General."
Lang Su looked at the lost chess game in front of him, raised his head with some curiosity and looked at his friend sitting opposite, "Yuancai, you seem to be very happy today?"
Fan Yuancai smiled. Despite the hard work of practicing martial arts and marching, his face was still a little rounded, "Yes, I am very happy."
"It's just that we won a few games in a row." After the two of them played chess for a day, Lang Su naturally felt that it was because Fan Yuan had been winning chess games that he was so happy. He curled his lips at his friend and took the pieces back slowly. Start playing chess.
"Speaking of which, during this time, I always feel that something is different about you."
"Is it different?"
With a smile on his lips, Fan Yuancai picked up the chess pieces and chuckled, "Lang Su, do you have any enemies?"
"There was one before." Lang Su rolled his eyes, "Isn't he playing chess with me?"
"I'm talking about life and death enemies."
Fan Yuan just put down the chess piece in his hand, his eyes darkened slightly, and his voice seemed to be getting softer and softer, "What would you do if there was such an enemy?"
"Enemies of life and death?"
Lang Su frowned slightly in confusion, "Where did our life-and-death enemies come from? Even if we were always fighting before, we didn't reach the point of death."
"I said, did you make some enemies somewhere?"
Seeing that Lang Su was anxious, Fan Yuancai smiled more sincerely than before and said, "It's just a casual question. Why take it seriously? Come on, continue."
After looking at him suspiciously for several times, and after confirming that his friend's expression really seemed to have nothing to hide, Lang Su continued to take the chess pieces with some hesitation, and complained casually, "Before, when you and I played chess, we always won about half, why do I feel like this time? It’s like I haven’t defeated you.”
"It's not like you've beaten me." Fan Yuancai calmly put down the chess piece in his hand after the opponent placed his chess piece. "You always like to go straight when playing chess, and you won't notice any traps. Naturally, he will always lose to me.”
"You haven't always let me lose before."
Fan Yuan just went to take the chess piece and paused, his smile unchanged, "That's what I let you do."
"You deserve a beating! Don't think that Jiuniang won't beat you since she's protecting me!"
"The elders and younger ones are in order. You should call me aunt."
Lang Su's face suddenly turned red, and he covered it up awkwardly, "I don't want to call a lady younger than me aunt!"
If it were in the past, Fan Yuancai might have really believed his words, but now when he looked at Lang Su, he could easily see clearly the affection and shyness hidden in his heart.
He was not happy, but looked a little gloomy.
Only someone like Lang Su who was pampered and protected like this could be qualified to be so easy to deceive.
And he, who had lost his protective family, wanted to take revenge, so he had no choice but to stand up for himself.
After the chess game was over, Lang Su couldn't wait to go to the martial arts training ground and start playing.
What he was most impatient about was playing chess. He didn't understand the meaning of two people sitting opposite each other and trying to get up and down on a chessboard. But when he was following Liu, the general in the army asked them to come back and practice playing chess. He said It can hone your character.
After taking it for a month, I don’t feel like my character has been tempered, and my butt | buttocks feel like it hurts to sit down.
Lang Su couldn't wait to practice martial arts and exercise, but Fan Yuancai changed his clothes and left the house.
He had begged His Majesty before and refused to return to the mansion. Perhaps because of Lang Su's relationship, Your Majesty was a little more lenient towards him, so he really agreed to let Fan Yuancai continue to live in Lang's mansion.
Master Fan didn't have a good impression of his son who went to the battlefield without telling him, so he just let him stay in Lang's house. He never thought about whether his son, whose two families were enemies, would be wronged.
He didn't care anymore, and all the ministers in the dynasty were panicked by the thunderous anger of His Majesty on the dragon throne. How could they care about such a thing.
The difference from last time is that this time Fan Yuan can enter and leave Lang's house at will. After he went out, the servants he bought after returning to Kyoto had already prepared the carriage. When he saw his master coming out, he hurriedly greeted him and helped him. Got on the carriage.
"How did things go?"
"When I get back to Langjun, everything has been bought and arranged properly."
Fan Yuancai nodded and asked, "Is anyone suspicious?"
The servant replied respectfully, "No, their family is still very happy."
The carriage drove all the way out of the city and arrived at a street intersection outside. This was a city relatively close to Kyoto, and it was bustling with people coming and going.
Fan Yuan just got off the carriage and went to a shop. The clerk in the shop immediately saluted when he saw him. He waved his hand, and the clerk quickly retreated obediently and looked at the owner who bought him a month ago. At the door of the store, he looked straight across.
Opposite is a tailor shop. Spring has arrived in the past two days, but the cold wind refuses to go away, so more people come to buy cotton clothes.
The lady in charge of the shop was very busy, and a solid-looking man was being bossed around by her. The couple worked together to prepare the clothes requested by several customers, and watched them leave with satisfaction.
There was an old woman with her eyes closed sitting at the door of the store. She was wearing a thick cotton coat and leaning on a cane with her head slightly raised to bask in the sun. The couple had finished their work, and the woman among them poked her head to look and saw her mother-in-law sitting peacefully and relaxed. After taking a breath, he quickly took the water out and handed it to her hand firmly, "Mom, drink some water, the weather is very dry."
The old woman closed her eyes, raised the water tremblingly, and took a few sips of it obediently. After all, she was old and her hands started to tremble and she couldn't control it. Some of the water inevitably spilled outside. Fortunately, there was a lady holding a handkerchief carefully. It went on underneath and didn't get on top of my clothes.
When she finished drinking, her old voice trembled and said, "Okay, okay..."
"Hey, mother, come on, wipe your mouth."
The lady carefully wiped the water stains on the old lady's mouth with a handkerchief, and asked softly, "Are you hungry? Do you want me to get something to eat?"
"Not hungry, not hungry..."
The old lady still had her eyes closed, and she spoke unclearly, "I want to bask in the sun."
The wife straightened up and gathered her clothes for her mother-in-law to avoid freezing, and then went inside the house to continue working.
Fan Yuancai stared blankly, hearing the envious voices of the two women in the shop nearby.
"Grandma Miao is lucky. Look at how filial her son and daughter-in-law are. Even though she is blind, she is still taken care of so well."
"Wasn't there a family on East Street where the mother-in-law was mentally ill? The family didn't care about her. In the end, she ran out and couldn't be found."
"I heard that their family met a noble man some time ago. He said he was related to their family and introduced this man to work. He earned a lot of money and could always bring something back. Grandma Miao will be blessed in the future. ”
There was an unfilial girl who felt uncomfortable after listening to it, and said bitterly, "What's the use of having filial children and grandchildren at home? I don't have a clear mind. I heard that she always ran to the water's edge before, saying that she wanted to What kind of lady do you want to save? The whole family is crying and carrying her back."
"Didn't the Miao family say that? Granny Miao used to serve the noble family, but then she was sent out because she lost her mind. She must have been called the noble family's wife."
"Hey, have you heard about that thing on West Street..."
It was just a group of women gossiping. Fan Yuancai stared blankly at the old woman opposite who was squinting and looking up to bask in the sun, but his eyes were already red.
He couldn't remember clearly what happened when he was a child. He only vaguely remembered that when he was a child, he asked Mrs. Fan why the nanny was missing. He wanted the nanny, and a strange face was pushed in front of him. Everyone said: Isn't this the case? Nanny?
Later, he really only remembered this nanny.
If his aunt hadn't been found, if she hadn't told him those clues, Fan Yuancai wouldn't have known about those old things that had been buried for many years.
His mother didn't want to die at all.
At that time, the family treated her, the daughter of a guilty minister, very poorly. Even Fan Yuancai was not liked by her own father. Her mother knew that if she left, her only son would have no support.
So, how could she commit suicide?
His Majesty gave him the manpower, and Fan Yuan started investigating from the beginning bit by bit.
He found the maids and servants who were sold by the Fan family more than ten years ago, and finally pieced together the truth about that year.
When her mother returned to her family, she wanted to ask her husband, who was in good terms with her, to help defend her family, but she received suspicious looks from the family.
They suspected that she had lost her virginity. After all, everyone in the capital knew what the Huns were like.
Even if only an old servant died of illness next to her, even if there is no trace on her body.
My mother's situation gradually deteriorated.
But even so, she is still working hard to live.
Until that day, somehow, she fell into the water.
She was still struggling at the time, caught some driftwood that came from nowhere in the water, and asked for help from people on the shore.
The loyal wet nurse didn't know how to drink water, so she went to find someone to save her in desperation. On the way, she met his father.
Lord Fan sealed the garden and no one was allowed in or out.
The wet nurse was gagged and locked up in the woodshed.
That night, no one was left in the garden except Fan Yuancai's biological mother.
She could only hold the driftwood in the cold water, waiting helplessly for death.
The next day, the news spread that Qiu committed suicide in grief because her mother-in-law's crimes were too heavy.
Everyone who came to express condolences would comfort the red-eyed Master Fan by saying, "Don't be too sad."
But how could anyone know that it was him who blocked his wife's last chance of survival?
The wet nurse had long been released from the bond of prostitution and was not considered a servant of the Fan family. Lord Fan was not able to make a move and was worried that the clues would be discovered. At this moment, she developed a high fever.
No one gave her any medicine, so she was locked in the firewood shed and burned to the point of unconsciousness.
When she woke up again, she was already in a daze.
Master Fan, who had originally made up his mind to just do nothing, hesitated. The stupid nanny was released from the house without notifying her family to pick her up. She just ran away without a trace and wandered outside for ten years before she was found who never gave up. The family was found.
When she first followed Qiu, she was only in her early thirties, but after all these years, she looked like an old woman in her sixties.
Her family didn't know what happened to her. They only knew that she always rushed in desperately when she saw the water's edge, and finally murmured that she wanted to save her mother.
If His Majesty had not sent him to the Lang Mansion, perhaps he would have been a mediocre playboy in this life, and until his death, he would not have known how much injustice his biological mother had suffered.
The man finished helping his wife finish her work and was about to go back to work. He straightened his hair and walked out the door, "Mom, I'm going to work. When the sun goes down, you can go inside and rest. It’s very cold today.”
The old lady closed her eyes and smiled with wrinkles on her face. She didn't know whether she understood or not. She stretched out her hand tremblingly. The man cooperatively put his hand into his mother's hand. She patted her with a smile and said, "Don't be afraid." Ah, just pat it."
"Hey, mother, I'm leaving."
Fan Yuan just looked at this scene. At that time, he was still young, but after trying hard to recall, he seemed to remember that he had been held in a warm embrace. When he woke up at night, the woman whose face could not be seen clearly would Hold him and walk back and forth, coaxing softly:
"Young man, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, the wet nurse is here, don't be afraid..."
When he is coaxed and placed gently on the bed, he will pat his hand and say, "Just pat it and it will be fine..."
The man was just finishing up his things, but in the blink of an eye he saw tears falling on his master's face, and his eyes widened in surprise, "Mr. Lang?"
Fan Yuan closed his eyes and stretched out his hand to wipe away the tears on his face. His voice was still calm, "It's okay, take good care of me."
He stood up, and the servants on the side quickly followed him.
Shi Ji looked at his master in wonder as he got on the carriage and left. He scratched his head and wondered why it was like this every time. He would sit in front and leave again without doing anything.
On the carriage, Fan Yuancai looked at the sky and said loudly, "Go to the Prime Minister's Mansion."
He will seek justice for his mother.
Let the person who killed her get the retribution he deserves.
****
"Why don't you leave yet?"
After Zhao Shuqing watered his precious flowers, he turned around and saw the luxuriously dressed emperor sitting on the swing, swinging leisurely.
"I'm waiting for guests."
Wei Mingyan held the book, raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "After joining the household department, it's time to think of a way for me to make money?"
Zhao Shuqing put down the homemade sprinkler in his hand speechlessly, "Then the income from cotton and potatoes is not enough?"
"These are all to be given to the people. I will not take for myself something that could have saved thousands of people just for a few coins."
The emperor retracted his legs on the ground and said, "Zhang Yuan, come here and give me a push."
Zhang Yuan on the side immediately ran over and pushed the emperor who was sitting on the swing. While pushing, he whispered flatteringly, "Your Majesty, is this strength okay?"
"Well, comfortable."
Wei Mingyan threw the book on the stone table, leaned back slightly, and said, "If this is not the case, Shuqing, if you come up with something that can make a lot of money, I will seal you, um, seal you." What's good about you..."
Zhao Shuqing's originally indifferent expression paused, and he turned his head indifferently. His eyes were full of calm, but there was a small wave of excitement in his heart.
Your Majesty! !
Prince Feng! !
Is the right path to becoming a king and prime minister finally coming?
Wei Mingyan didn't say anything. He looked at Zhao Shuqing's gaze and nodded, "Yes, it's what you think."
Get on the road!
Zhao Shuqing watered the flowers a little faster.
It's rare that ancient emperors could be considerate.
Let him think carefully about what modern things can make money by moving here.
He was thinking with a calm expression on his face, and the emperor who was sitting on the swing and enjoying himself was already thinking about it, "In the future, there will be Fan Yuancai and Lang Su guarding the country outside, and there will be trees inside to settle the treasury. I, just care Just take Jiu'er around to play."
Zhao Shuqing, who was immersed in the joy of being crowned king, silently laughed at this whimsical ancient emperor in his heart.
Let him settle the treasury, and he won't care about it once he gets the throne.
There are also Nalang Su and Fan Yuancai. Each one is more unreliable than the other, and each one is more unintelligent than the other. Shouguo? It's better to protect yourself first.
Thinking about it, his watering movements became more brisk.
Yes, he is a modern person after all. Wouldn't it be easy for his IQ to overwhelm ancient people?
Well, it has been decided. When he becomes the prince, he will not do anything, just wait to instruct others to work.
Yes, this is the correct route.
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