Let’s say that Shang Duo went to the palace to meet the emperor, but when he saw the emperor, he was worried about the matter of the emperor.

“Father said that he wanted to increase the spring festival rewards of the various prefectures, and asked me how much I should add.” The emperor was impatient: “Father wants to give all of my inner treasury to them. Isn’t it good?”

Of course, Shang Duo knew about this spring festival: it was a tribute to all the families who had made great contributions to the founding of the country. Although the ranks of titles were reduced hereditary until there were no titles, this spring festival would not change.Distributed from the Ministry of Rites or Guanglu Temple every year, it is used for ceremonies under the annual festivals of each prefecture.

For example, Jia Yan, Duke of Ningguo, and Jia Yuan, Duke of Rongguo, the two Dukes of the country have long passed away, and the Jia family has already been demoted to the rank of nobility, but they are only first-class generals.

However, this kind of gift spring sacrifice will never change. It is distributed once a year, and the net discount is about 400 taels of silver.

Of course, for wealthy families like the Ningrong Second Mansion, the 400 taels are not enough to reward their servants, but they are decent, but there are still some declining families that are relying on these several hundred taels of silver for the New Year.

Now that the Taishanghuang himself is happy to celebrate the New Year, he thinks about adding a Spring Festival.

That’s all, whoever dares not listen to what the old man says, just give orders directly.However, the old sage didn’t say it directly, he only came to ask the emperor how much he should increase, which made the emperor very embarrassed.

It would be too embarrassing for the emperor to increase it. There are so many people in every household, it is really not a small number.

Shang Duo said with a smile: “Your Majesty should have called Master Lin, the accountant of the Ministry of Accounts is naturally not as clear as he is.”

The emperor’s face paled: “After all, he is the confidant of the emperor in the past, the son-in-law of the Rongguo Mansion. Although he looks unfamiliar now, he is always an in-law. Let him discuss this matter, I am afraid it will be biased.”

After thinking for a while, he said, “Call Chi’er here, I’m more at ease from what he said.”

After hearing this, Shang Duo understood in his heart: the emperor is really separated from the Supreme Emperor.

Originally, the emperor had quite a lot of trust in Lin Ruhai some time ago, but now that the old matter is brought up again, it’s not that he doesn’t trust Lin Ruhai enough, but that his dissatisfaction with the Supreme Emperor has deepened, and it has affected Lin Ruhai.

This is not a good sign for the Lin family.

So Shang Duo didn’t wait for another day – anyway, the curfew couldn’t control him as a prime minister, so he went to visit Lin’s mansion in the evening.

Advise Lin Ruhai bluntly: “Just look at the current situation. In front of you, I am not afraid to say something outrageous – once the old sage dominates the sky, many families are just waiting to be liquidated today. Naturally, your Yue family is also here flow.”

“You go back to Beijing and work conscientiously for the emperor. If it still affects your father and daughter in the end, wouldn’t it be wronged?”

“However, if Ling Qianjin marries into our family, she will be safe.”

“As for you worrying about wronging the daughter, there is no need. Apart from other things, our family has a rule of not taking concubines. Just look at me and you will know. And what is the relationship between my daughter and your daughter? There is no need to worry about the sister-in-law.”

Although Lin Ruhai was shaken, he loved his daughter very much and refused to answer directly.

Recalling that Daiyu also met Shang Chi during the Lantern Festival, she was going to ask her daughter what she thought of Shang Chi.

So he only mumbled a few words in front of Shang Duo.

Shang Duo thought that he was stubborn and wanted to choose his own son-in-law as his son-in-law, so he simply said directly: “I advise you not to choose by yourself, your vision of people is really close to nothing. So you have to be a householder Minister of the Ministry, I can’t take care of the work of other people’s officials.”

Lin Ruhai frowned: “How do you say that?”

Shang Duo sneered and said, “Do you still remember Jia Yucun you recommended? You also praised him for his talents, great ambitions and backbone,”

“Actually, that’s just a greedy, cunning person who can’t be scolded too much.”

“Because he was rehabilitated by your second brother-in-law, the Cheng’en government and our family have been watching him all the time, and they know some of his secrets. Don’t say anything else, just say that he is trying to flatter the four major families. If the case of Xue Pan’s beating to death is sentenced indiscriminately, then you will know who you are.”

Jia Yucun relied on Jia Zheng and the prince to rise and recover, wearing a scarlet robe and black gauze, and triumphantly became the magistrate of Yingtian.The Xie family naturally regarded him as a breakthrough.Shang Duo was also very clear about what he was doing.

At this time, Lin Ruhai was informed one by one.

“There is one more thing. I used to be afraid that you would be annoyed when you heard it, so I never said it. I will tell you today. Do you know who the unjust, false and wrongly judged by him? The girl who was bought by Xue Jiaqiang is The daughter of his former benefactor Zhen Shiyin.”

“It’s just because the Zhen family’s father and daughter are useless to him, so they turned the other side ruthlessly, and simply used the jewel in their palm as a stepping stone to curry favor with the four major families!”

Because Jia Yucun was her daughter’s teacher, Lin Ruhai wrote a letter to Jia Zheng to recommend her, but she didn’t know that he was such an inappropriate person behind his back.

Now when Shang Duo said it one by one, his expression changed on the spot, deeply regretting that he had misidentified the person.

Shang Duo finally said: “He has never entered the capital, so he can’t curry favor with you, the old master. It is estimated that when he enters the capital, he will always speak with the affection he had with you.”

“If I don’t tell you, I’m afraid you will still regard him as a good person.”

“So in terms of talent and learning, Chi’er may not be as good as you, but in terms of understanding people’s hearts and making calculations in the world. Although Chi’er is young, he is several times better than you.”

“Chi’er’s ability is placed here. If you agree to this marriage, you will have no worries in the future.”

Shang Duo is here for his son’s marriage, and the Empress Dowager is also discussing with her emperor’s son about the second prince’s marriage.

“My old man has a poor memory. If the imperial concubine hadn’t mentioned it, I would have almost missed Cheng’er’s marriage.”

The emperor’s affection for Concubine Liu Gui’s mother and child has long since faded away. Hearing this, he only said: “The queen mother should take care of her for the rest of her life, and the son should be raised by the world! Why bother to worry about these trivial matters of children and grandchildren.”

“The noble concubine is ignorant, and instead of quarreling with the queen, she actually comes to disturb her mother’s cleanliness. It’s really abominable! And Cheng’er is not a decent person himself, what kind of good girl do you want? If she is neither good nor bad, she will delay other girls. “

The Empress Dowager said: “Forget it, they are all children of our own family, why do you say such innocuous words.”

Then she personally spread a chopsticks of crystal meat for the emperor, and said with a smile: “And the imperial concubine also said that she has taken a fancy to the daughter of the Xue family from the four major families.”

The emperor can’t listen to these old ministers’ families at all now, and his eyebrows will stand up on the spot.

Back then he insisted on promoting the Liu family, apart from liking her, he might not have taken a liking to her mother’s humbleness and the reason why she could not speak in the government, but now Liu Guifei’s actions only annoyed him.

So he just said: “Liu is ignorant and superficial, what he said is nonsense, let’s ask the queen mother to judge this matter.”

The Empress Dowager Shang said: “The noble concubine said that she likes Xue’s daughter’s dignified and plump appearance, and her face is like a silver basin. She is quite blessed, and she will naturally be a suitable man in the future.”

Concubine Liu Gui would not be so stupid as to tell the Queen Mother that just because Xue’s family is rich and the four big families are in harmony, naturally she has to find other benefits to say.

The Empress Dowager Shang said indifferently: “Since that’s the case, then I will reward her with such a girl.”

Three days later, in Hexi Palace.

All the accompanying maids were kneeling in the courtyard, waiting for the imperial decree to be announced, everyone’s faces were sullen, their hearts beating like drums: they were here to serve as imperial concubines.

No one is a fool in the current battle set up by the Xuanzhi eunuch, it must be that a nobleman is about to be born in Hexi Palace!

Many eyes focused on Xue Baochai.

The palace is a place where even the walls can talk.

The concubine’s favor, her behavior of often calling Baochai to talk, and the occasional gossip from the imperial concubine’s side, all kinds of signs were mixed. Many people believed that Xue Baochai was going to be the second prince’s concubine.

Envy and jealousy are mixed in the eyes, and there is some yearning and longing: several princes are old enough to have concubines by their side, who said that Xue Baochai is the only one who has this blessing, maybe there will be several nobles among them.

Ji Wanwan shared the room with Xue Baochai, so she naturally knew more about it.

But she is a cheerful person, and she gets along quite harmoniously with Xue Baochai.

Contrary to the envy of others, Ji Wanwan is only envious. When the eunuchs were busy arranging the imperial case, she quietly tugged on Xue Baochai’s clothes.

He just said: “My sister will be prosperous in the future, don’t forget my sister. I don’t dare to ask for anything else, but I miss my family a little. Wait for my sister to say something nice to me in the future and tell me to leave the palace a few years earlier.”

Said eye circles are a little red.

Xue Baochai nodded and said: “Sister, don’t worry, you will have a long time in the palace, if you have any difficulties in the future, just come and find me.”

I thought in my heart: It’s just that the master and servant will be different at that time, it will not be a favor, but a grace.

The imperial edicts in the palace are full of gorgeous rhetoric, and some words are piled up in an eloquent manner. They are nothing more than clichés such as praising women for being respectful and gentle, bowing carefully, and restraining courtesy.

Xue Baochai felt that she had never heard such a lengthy sentence in her life, and felt that the seconds seemed like years.

Finally, the eunuch announced the decree: “I hereby accept the order of the Holy Mother, the Empress Dowager, and the daughter of Ce Ji’s family as the second prince’s side concubine. Thank you.”

Then I saw the Xuanzhi eunuch in the scarlet robe bent down and handed the imperial decree to Ji Wanwan, congratulating: “Miss Ji is very happy, our family has congratulated here.”

Ji Wanwan was dumbfounded: …

After a long while, he murmured: “Isn’t it the sister of the Xue family…”

The aunt in charge of Hexi Palace hurriedly stopped her words: “The imperial decree is clear, the side concubine must not talk nonsense, otherwise she will suffer a crime!”

Although it was dissuading, his tone was extremely gentle, and then he said with a smile on his face: “Now that everyone is here, I can just give my concubine a present!”

I bowed down like putting a candle in first.

Although the rest of the female servants were surprised, seeing Xue Baochai’s complexion as snowy, they only covered their lips and smiled: Anyway, they were not in their turn at first, and seeing this excitement now makes them happier than going to a Chinese New Year theater.

Someone even stepped forward and pulled Xue Baochai’s sleeve: “Why doesn’t Envoy Xue Liang kneel down, we have to pay homage to the second prince’s side concubine!”

Seeing that Xue Baochai was in a daze and remained silent, several people hurriedly pulled her to kneel together, congratulating Ji Wanwan together.

At this time, Shang Chanchan was reading a book in Daiyu’s room.

What I read was Zhang Yanghao’s words: “People envy Qilin paintings, but who knows who is who? It is useless to think about this false reputation. It has used infinite strength, infinite knowledge, and infinite scheming. A few of them are all over the body. , it’s better to be drunk and still drunk.”

She counted the time, it should be Baochai now, no, it’s time for Ji Wanwan to receive the order.

This sentence is exactly what it is.

Putting this matter aside, Shang Chanchan only smiled at Daiyu: “If it wasn’t for Sister Lin’s teaching, I only knew Zhang Yanghao’s phrase “Xing, the people are suffering, death, the people are suffering, but now I read this sentence, but it is also very interesting. “

Leaning against Daiyu again, he said with a smile, “Oh, now I can call you Sister Lin a few more times, but in the future I will have to call you Sister-in-law!”

A blush suddenly appeared on Daiyu’s face, as delicate as pear blossoms and hibiscus.

“If you talk nonsense again, I will be annoyed.”

“Sister, why are you upset? Now both of us have changed Geng Tie. It’s just because my brother’s fate in the past few years is not easy to make public.”

After speaking, he pulled Daiyu and said: “From now on, I will not be afraid of my brother’s exam, but only rely on my sister-in-law to protect me.”