Tang Zihe's entry into the mansion has become Qin Kan's biggest headache in the past two years.
The capital is so big, there are so many mean-mouthed people, and her husband-in-law controls the Jin Yiwei who have the most rumors and gossip in the Ming Dynasty. As long as Mrs. Yipin Gaoming is in the mood, she can summon Ding Shun or Li Erchangfeng to find her close confidants. , there were several snorts in the nostrils, and a sneer on the face. These tough guys couldn't resist the power of Mrs. Gaoming, and they sold Mr. Qin completely without any hesitation
So Du Yan knew a lot. She knew about the existence of Tang Zihe, and knew that she was the sister of Tang Bohu, a talented man from Jiangnan. She even vaguely understood Tang Zihe's extraordinary identity from the evasive words of her close confidants
The royal wife, who knew herself and her enemy well, satisfied her curiosity, but never embarrassed Qin Kan. There was a hidden meaning in her words, and she brought Tang Zihe into the house, and the majestic prince hid in a foreign house. Of course, the only condition is that when Tang Zihe enters the house, he pours a cup of tea for the wife of the wife and calls her sister.
To be honest, Du Yan's condition is not excessive. There are many powerful people in the capital. No matter how the powerful people pamper their concubines, they still need to understand the basic rules. The concubine only pours a cup of tea for the doctor and calls her "sister". It's simply It's like being treated like home.
However, Tang Zihe did not agree to such a small condition. She still lives in a house on the inner street of the east city of the capital, turning a blind eye to Du Yan's offer of an olive branch.
Qin Kan could only helplessly understand and accept this fact.
As a man who once stirred up the world, he has hundreds of thousands of good generals and soldiers under his command. The female marshal who held the power of life and death in the three provinces in her heyday, Tang Zihe had her arrogance. This arrogance was not about pointing her nostrils to the sky or looking down at Yunyun. She was just far away, standing quietly in the distance, like a flower blooming in the sky. The orchids in the valley bloom and wither alone, and the prosperity of the world will never have anything to do with her.
Of course, the orchid in the valley cannot do something as low-grade as pouring tea to the lady.
So Du Yan and Tang Zihe were at a stalemate, with neither one willing to give in or compromise. certainly. They will not break up with each other. The self-esteem of Yipin Gaoming and the rebel female marshal do not allow them to behave like crazy shrews.
The women were not in a hurry, and Mr. Qin had no choice but to let it go. Family affairs were the same as state affairs. What matters is the temperature. The heat has arrived. All problems will be solved easily. If you push yourself hard before the heat is enough, it will make you more likely to cause trouble. As the husband-in-law of two women, he has been through many storms, so naturally he will not do stupid things that undermine others.
Think about it, if one day the conflict between the two women breaks out and becomes irreconcilable, the eldest wife is a master of martial arts, the mistress is poisoned without a trace, the two women compete in the same field and the sky is dark, and a pair of children block the door of the outer house and scream at the sky. "Open the door, open the door. If you have the ability to rob a man, you have the ability to open the door"
Thinking of this scene, Mr. Qin felt bad
"Do you have any plans to travel recently?" Qin Kan decisively changed the topic and stopped asking about whether Tang Zihe could enter the house or not.
Tang Zihe lay lazily in his arms, like a lazy and elegant cat.
"Summer is here, and it is the season when epidemics are common in the refugee camps in the capital. I am not going anywhere recently. I plan to cooperate with the regiment camp to stay in the refugee camp for a few days, to prevent and treat the refugees, and to check their injuries"
Qin Kan smiled and said, "Did you know that you have become very famous in the capital recently? People say that there is a female Bodhisattva in the city who has given birth to Buddhas in thousands of families. She treats the poor for free and is very skilled in medicine. Her medicine can cure diseases." , is simply much more famous than the fierce god like me. The subordinates of Jinyiwei below said that Long Erzhi, a famous master in the capital, is very dissatisfied with you. He said that you stole his patients and his limelight, and you deliberately came to our door to curse. He acted like a spoiler, but he didn¡¯t have the guts to get into trouble with Jin Yiwei. Mr. Long was holding back his anger and couldn¡¯t vent it. It was said that he was sick from anger"
Tang Zihe said with a smile: "Doctors are also craftsmen. Whether they are capable or not, and how popular they are, it all depends on their craftsmanship. If you are not as skilled as others and still want to be popular, how can such a good thing happen in the world?"
Qin Kan looked at her lazily nestled in his arms and sighed: "I still like you the way you are now. You are peaceful and peaceful, saving all sentient beings. You are not a general who waves a flag to kill generals, nor a woman who kills people invisibly while talking and laughing. The devil, as it is now, neither increasing nor decreasing, neither dirty nor pure, is quite good."
Tang Zihe's face was buried in his arms and he couldn't see the expression on her face clearly: "Do you really think I'm good the way I am now? Have you ever thought that the look you like to see may not be the look I want? ?¡±
Qin Kan was startled: "What do you want?"
Tang Zihe was silent, and after a long time he smiled. The smile was full of teasing and cunning, making it difficult to distinguish between true and false.
"Iit doesn't matter what I look like, but I want your official rank to be higher"
? ?Kan smiled and said: "Now that I have reached the rank of Duke, no matter how high I am, I can only be crowned king. It is not easy for kings with different surnames in our Ming Dynasty to be crowned. You'd better give up as soon as possible."
Tang Zihe smiled brightly, moved his lips to Qin Kan's ear, and whispered quietly at a volume that only he could hear: "No, a little taller than the prince"
Qin Kan was shocked and jumped up from the recliner as if he was electrocuted. He stared at Tang Zihe with his eyes.
¡°Obviously, this female Bodhisattva who gave birth to Buddhas in thousands of families had an occupational disease due to her rebellion. No matter how many years she had been dormant, her thoughts of rebellion were never extinguished.
"Xiang Zhi, please step back first." Qin Kan ordered solemnly.
Xiang Zhi sensitively sensed that something was wrong with the atmosphere in the pavilion, and hurriedly bowed to the two of them and hurriedly exited the pavilion.
"I pretend I didn't hear this sentence today, and I don't want to hear it again in the future." Qin Kan stared at Tang Zihe's pretty face that showed no trace of time but was still gorgeous and dazzling, and said every word seriously.
Tang Zihe looked at him without fear: "Even though you are a highly respected minister, the emperor still controls your life and death. Even if the emperor favors you for life, do you dare to pat your chest and say that the descendants of the Qin family will benefit from the emperor's favor and will never fall out of favor? ?The current emperor has no heirs, and the hearts of his subjects and the people are in turmoil. If you want to test the importance of the throne, this is the time"
Qin Kan said angrily: "In the past few years, I have asked you to enter the Leopard Room many times to show His Majesty why the heirs are not prosperous, but you have repeatedly refused. It turns out that you did it deliberately"
Tang Zihe lowered his head and said nothing, obviously acquiescing.
Qin Kan showed a rare stern expression: "Tang Zihe, put away your disobedient thoughts and don't say such things in front of me in the future! I don't want to hear a word of it!"
Tang Zihe's red lips moved and he hesitated to speak. However, Qin Kan's eyes were too serious and intimidating. Tang Zihe hesitated for a moment, finally nodded, lowered his eyebrows and said, "Okay, I won't say anything if you don't want to hear it."
Try to forget Tang Zihe¡¯s rebellious words. Qin Kan walked out of the house. The two rows of school captains in brocade uniforms at the door pressed their sabers to him as a salute, and Qin Kan got into the official sedan without squinting.
The sedan was swaying forward. Qin Kan was sitting in the sedan, and his mood was ups and downs. Once you close your eyes. Tang Zihe's bewildered face kept flashing through his mind. The undisguised resentment in his eyes lingered like a nightmare.
"What a witch" Qin Kan murmured with a bitter smile.
After the defeat of Bazhou, Tang Zihe escaped from the hands of the officers and soldiers with clever tricks. He came and went like duckweed over the years. She never mentioned the rebellion again. Qin Kan thought she had really given up. It was not until today that he discovered a trace of unwillingness and ambition in her eyes that had been dormant for more than ten years.
She was born a rebel. She was adopted by the White Lotus Sect since she was a child and lived with the elders of the White Lotus Sect in Tianjin. She was instilled with the idea of ??rebellion for nearly twenty years. This idea can be said to be deeply rooted in her mind. Even if she was defeated once or twice by the imperial court, it could only temporarily make her dormant and forbearing, but she never gave up the idea of ??changing dynasties.
"According to Qin Kan's vicious temperament, if such a dangerous person appears around him, he will definitely order his death without mercy to nip the disaster in the bud.
However, Tang Zihe is not someone else. She is the person he has been with day and night and has been a couple for more than ten years. How could Qin Kan do this?
He scratched his hair with great irritation. How to transform this female rebel who has made rebellion her lifelong mission into a good citizen who is loyal to the emperor, patriotic, and willing to surrender to her children and cows is really an urgent and thorny problem that is not much less difficult than ascending from the feathers.
When my mind was tangled up with random thoughts, the respectful voice of my subordinates came from outside the sedan.
"My lord, we have arrived at the Leopard Room."
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Being the deputy envoy of selecting concubines cannot be in vain. Since fifty potential concubines have been selected for Zhu Houzhao, even if Zhu Houzhao doesn't like any of them, he must choose tall ones among the short ones to fill up the concubines in the harem.
To be honest, Qin Kan was very reluctant to do this kind of pimping. Even if it was to pimp the emperor, he didn't feel it was very honorable. But since Zhu Houzhao sent him this job, he had to do it even if he didn't.
Qin Kan was an old acquaintance of the Leopard Room. The sergeants on duty at the door only glanced at him. Without even checking their badges, they stepped back and pressed their swords as a courtesy, respectfully inviting Qin Kan in.
The layout of the Leopard Room is very different from that of the palace. When you enter the door, you are greeted by a lake as vast as the sea. When it was first built, the living water from the Xihua Pool outside the Leopard Room was introduced into the lake. A water pavilion, cloister, pavilion, and a huge boat were built on the lake. It was for Zhu Houzhao to swim around the lake and enjoy the scenery in his free time. Originally, Zhu Houzhao was very interested in installing more than a dozen artillery pieces on the boat. So he opened a room with Liu Liangnv on the boat and aimed it at the Golden Palace to enhance the strength.The ministers were born from worry and died from the sense of crisis, and were threatened by the frightened Qin Kan to kill them in front of him, so they had no choice but to give up.
The worried Qin Kan entered the leopard room and walked forward without squinting, still thinking over and over in his mind the plan to reform the female rebel.
I glanced up inadvertently and saw two rows of eunuchs and maids standing near the shore of the lake. A woman with fluttering clothes was sitting in a pavilion on the shore. The woman's pretty face had a hint of sadness, and she held her chin in her bare hands. I was fascinated by the sparkling waves on the lake, but I didn¡¯t know where my mind was going.
Qin Kan paused, sighing secretly in his heart, and finally stepped forward to the pavilion, bowed and saluted her.
"My lord, Qin Kan, please see the noble concubine."
The woman was Liu Liangnu. She was married into the palace by Zhu Houzhao ten years ago and was officially canonized as a noble concubine the next year.
Liu Liangnv's thoughts were interrupted. She raised her pretty eyes and saw Qin Kan standing in front of her. She quickly stood up and nodded: "Master Qin, no courtesy."
Qin Kan straightened up and said with a smile: "It is really a sin for me to disturb your Majesty's pleasure. I want to see your Majesty and have something to report, so I am leaving"
Qin Kan turned around and was about to leave. Liu Liangnu suddenly said behind him: "Master Qin, stay here"
"What orders do you have, Madam?"
Liu Liangnv looked at him and said quietly: "I heard that Mr. Qin was recently designated as the deputy envoy for selecting concubines by His Majesty. I wonder who among the concubines to be selected, Mr. Qin would like to be the one who will add fragrance to His Majesty's pillow?"
Qin Kan smiled bitterly and sighed to himself, he couldn't escape the questions he should ask. He really should have read the almanac before going out today.
"The matter of choosing a concubine was done only in accordance with the decree, and the people who contributed the most to this matter were Mao Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites and Jiang Bin, the guerrilla general of the Xuanfu" Qin Kan sold Mao Cheng and Jiang Bin without any guilt.
Liu Liangnv smiled bitterly, but her eyes were still clear, as if she could penetrate the fog.
"I haven't visited Sister Du at home for many days. How is she doing recently?" Liu Liangnv changed the subject.
"Thanks to your Majesty, my wife is in peace."
Liu Liangnv sighed and returned her gaze to the sparkling lake. The sadness and resentment on her pretty face became more and more obvious.
"He once said that like his father, he would only fall in love with one woman in his life, and he would drink only one gourd of water. In the past ten years, he has indeed done it He is the emperor, and he was born with three palaces and six palaces. Yuan, it¡¯s very rare that he has only favored me for the past ten years, isn¡¯t it?¡±
Qin Kan half-closed his eyes, but did not dare to speak.
"A woman who has been favored by her husband for ten years is actually a blessing gained from her previous life" Liu Liangnu murmured, not knowing whether she was talking to Qin Kan or comforting herself.
Qin Kan sighed deeply: "Empress, Your Majesty is the emperor after all."
"Yes, he is the emperor after all. He still has many big things to do in this life and many responsibilities to bear. But I only have him in this life. He is everything to me and occupies every corner of my heart. " Liu Liangnv's eyes turned red as she spoke, and two sad tears fell down her cheeks.
"Sometimes I really hate him, why he is the emperor, and why he is not the carefree and unconstrained bartender. He laughs and chats with the customers in the store every day, while I scoop out wine and vegetables. , return home after closing time, close the door and count the copper coins earned today together, then carefully put away the money and belongings, giving each other a hopeful smile"
Liu Liangnv gradually burst into tears: "'There are swings in the wall, and there are passages outside the wall. People walking outside the wall, and beautiful women inside the wall smile.' Mr. Qin, tell me, year by year, is it really true that the new person replaces the old person?" (To be continued.) )