"Didn't I say!
Don't come here to look for me!? "
His voice was like flowing water hitting a rock, clear and melodious. It was also like a clear spring, moist and deep.
It was rare for Feng Zizhi to be flustered and exasperated.
That year, because of his relationship with the Jia Lian, he received the approval of Emperor Wen Of Zhou and was personally sent to the Inner Study Hall by the most powerful eunuch in Da Zhou, Dai Quan. In an instant, Feng Zizhi's invisible position in the inner court was established.
In addition, Feng Zizhi himself was intelligent, not arrogant, and willing to learn.
In the inner court, he was very popular and received the favor of Dai Quan, who allowed him to enter Dongchang.
At such a young age, he had to go to the Inner Study Hall every day to study, memorize books, and do homework. He also had to follow the head of the Dongchang mission, interrogating and torturing criminals. He also had to work in the Yangxin Palace Hall and listen to Dai Quan's instructions.
Even an energetic adult would find it difficult to endure such a heavy workload. However, Feng Zizhi relied on his own strength to endure it. Step by step, he went from being a small foreigner to being the head eunuch of Dongchang, second only to the emperor and above tens of thousands of people.
Sometimes, the secret affairs of the palace could not be dragged to the Dongchang alley north of the Dong 'an Gate every time. They could only be solved in the palace.
Therefore, with Emperor Wen Of Zhou's permission, Dai Quan set up Dongchang's Private Hall in a small side hall in the back of the palace. It was specifically used for torture and interrogation. It became a small imperial prison that was secretly filled with foul winds and bloody rain.
"It's just a small side hall. Why won't you let me in?
I've been to Yangxin Palace Hall, Qianqing Palace Hall, Taihe Palace Hall, Zhonghe Palace Hall, Baohe Hall, Wenhua Hall, and Wuying Hall. Why do you only let me in to this small side hall!? "
The Jia Lian frowned and asked in confusion.
He just wanted to see with his own eyes what Xiao Zhi was doing.
"Are you disobeying me?!
Feng Zizhi was so agitated that his face became paler and paler. He even started coughing. The Jia Lian was so scared that he denied it again and again. He didn't dare to argue with him about whether or not to enter the hall.
When he was young, he was cut off and sent into the palace. His body was damaged.
"Xiao Zhi, don't be angry.
The Jia Lian carefully took out something wrapped in a handkerchief from his bosom.
She opened the handkerchief, revealing a coarse agarwood hairpin.
"I carved it myself. Do you like it?"
The Jia Lian looked at Feng Zizhi expectantly.
Feng Zizhi was stunned.
"Your body is not well. I heard from the imperial physician that agarwood has the effect of nourishing the body, so I carved this hairpin for you.
Don't think it's ugly, it's good for your body.
I saw a very good mutton fat jade hairpin outside, but it's very expensive. I'll buy it for you after I save enough money … "
"There's no need.
You also gave me a piece of warm jade a while ago. The imperial physician also said that it's best not to wear too many jade ornaments. This hairpin will be enough. "
Feng Zizhi picked up the agarwood hairpin carefully, curled his lips, and smiled faintly. "You can put it in for me!"
"…"
How did they get married?
Jin Baohua scratched his head.
Feng Zizhi's pale and thin lips pursed slightly, and he shook his head with a smile.
How could this idiot have thought of this?
But there was no doubt that his cold heart was filled with warmth.
This smile stunned the Jia Lian.
He had always known that his Xiao Zhi was beautiful, but he had never thought that his beauty could not be described with words.
His appearance was picturesque, and his charm was extraordinary. He was like a banished immortal, but with a hint of seduction, beyond the beauty of men and women, beyond the beauty of the world.
The Jia Lian knew that no one in this world could be more beautiful than him.
Xixia's Feng Hua was not comparable to Jun. He curled his lips and stroked his hair.
He took the agarwood hairpin in a daze, walked behind Feng Zizhi, and replaced the old hairpin with an agarwood hairpin.
Feng Zizhi slightly closed his eyes.
Just go on like this!
All the open and aboveboard things will be yours, and all the despicable and dark things will be done by him.
Feng Zizhi's eyes were full of ruthlessness, but he hid it when he heard the Jia Lian's voice.
"It's so beautiful."
After inserting the hairpin, the Jia Lian praised.
He didn't know whether he was talking about the hairpin or the person.
A faint blush flashed across Feng Zizhi's face, so fast that even the Jia Lian thought he was seeing things.
He assumed an icy expression and changed the topic. "Did you just get into a fight again?"
Dongchang's spies were all over the capital. He had already received reports of the Jia Lian and Niu Jizong leading their children to fight.
"I didn't …" The Jia Lian weakly denied.
Eight years ago, he was held under Niu Jin's armpit and forcibly brought back to the Niu family. After meeting the little troublemaker Niu Jizong, he clearly just stood on the sidelines and watched, but the children who were beaten up by Niu Jizong insisted that he was involved.
The family members of the "victims" were generally afraid of the old hooligan Niu Jin and didn't dare to go to his house. The only ones who had the courage to go to his house and ask for a lecture were the generals who had fought alongside Niu Jin for decades.
But when they brought their children to his house, Niu Jin stripped Niu Jizong's clothes in front of them, tied their son up with a rope, and hung him on a tree. Holding a long stick in his hand, he cursed the little bastard for being so heavy-handed and injuring other people's older brothers.
Every time he cursed, he would hit Niu Jizong's buttocks, causing Niu Jizong to scream.
Hearing this, the old men's faces were full of embarrassment. First, it was because it was really just a game between children. It was really shameful for the adults to step in when the children couldn't beat them. Second, it was because Niu Jizong always beat the older children on the ground. Their own sons being beaten up by children really made these old men lose face. In their hearts, they were even more determined to train their own sons when they returned home.
Of course, this wasn't the end.
You've seen the excitement of our old Niu family, so you have to leave something behind.
Niu Jin raised his pair of Xuan Hua Bagua Broad Axes and shouted that he wanted to fight three hundred rounds. The bodyguards in the house closed the door and waited in formation.
Although the generals who had the courage to step into the Niu family's house thought that it was clearly this old man who wanted to beat his own son, they weren't to be trifled with.
The generals immediately looked up to the sky and laughed. They sternly ordered the bodyguards to bring their warhorses and spears. They wanted to fight three hundred rounds with this old man …
Niu Jin was able to become the number one hero in the army and the number one old hoodlum in Da Zhou. Naturally, his martial arts weren't for show.
After a round of dark sky and flying sand and stones, the Bull Demon was immensely proud. He held his two Xuan Hua Bagua Broad Axes and laughed to the sky. The gloominess in his chest had disappeared.
As for the unlucky generals, only a few of them were able to walk out of the Niu family's house unscathed. Although most of them didn't look bad, they relied on the bodyguards to support them. It was said that after returning home, they were sick for a whole month.
The big and burly generals who had a life and death relationship with the Bull Demon were all like this. The weak civil officials who didn't have a relationship with the Bull Demon and were even slightly weak naturally didn't dare to step into the Niu family's tiger's den.
They couldn't step into the tiger's den, but wasn't there still the Duke Mansion on Rongning Street?
Compared to the Bull Demon's house, the Rongguo Mansion looked safer and easier to bully.
Therefore, five or six civil officials who had been beaten up came hand in hand, demanding an explanation from the Jia Daishan.
Jia family, whether it was the Duke Ning Mansion or the Rongguo Mansion, was used to producing filial sons with the rod. If they didn't beat them, they wouldn't become anything.
What if the child was unruly?
Beat them!
What if the child was naughty?
Beat them!
As a typical example of unruly, the eldest son of the Rongguo Mansion, Jia Xie, had a deep understanding of the former and was also very experienced.
Seven years ago, after the eldest son of the eldest grandson, Jia Xie, Jia Hu, was born, his grandmother of the Chang Clan let go of the body that had been ill for many years and passed away with relief. She went down to find her husband, whom she hadn't seen for many years, and asked him if he had taken advantage of her absence to take in a few vixens.
Since the Chang Clan was gone, Jia Xie, who had received the benefits, was responsible for stalling for time and calling for reinforcements.
As soon as Jia Xie heard that an "enemy" had come to the door, she knew that something was wrong. She trotted all the way to the study to stall for time and sent a servant to inform her brother to go through the back door to find reinforcements.
Jia Xie was not stupid. He either rushed to find Wang Yi for help, or directly stayed in the Wang family and didn't return home.
After two or three times, all the civil and military officials in the court knew that Grand Secretary Wang had taken in a little brat who was a troublemaker and colluded with the Bull Demon's child as his disciple.
However, this didn't calm the matter down. Instead, the civil officials became more and more angry.
The reason?
There was no other reason.
Scholars despised each other.
Since ancient times, scholars were the most prone to internal strife. There were many cases of them killing people because of jealousy.
The most famous case was that Li Si was jealous of his junior fellow apprentice Han Fei's talent. He was also worried that if Han Fei was put in an important position, his position would be replaced by Han Fei. Therefore, he slandered Han Fei in front of Qin Shi Huang and sent people to arrest Han Fei. In the end, he was forced to take poison and die.
Even his fellow apprentices killed each other because of jealousy and power, not to mention the civil officials who had nothing to do with Wang Yi!
Among the civil officials, there were only five Grand Secretaries of the Palace Pavilion who had the highest status and power and who were favored by Emperor Wen Of Zhou. In order of importance, they were: Baohe Hall, Wenhua Hall, Wuying Hall, Wenyuan Pavilion, East Pavilion, and Benevolence Pavilion.
Jingtai, the Grand Secretary of Baohe Hall, was the father of Consort Hui and the grandfather of the eldest and sixth princes. He had a strong background.
Moreover, he had students all over the world. He was partial to his henchmen in the imperial court and was very cunning. There were not many people who could benefit from him.
As for the Grand Secretary of Wenhua Hall, Wang Yi was the second most powerful civil official.
Family power?
He was just an impoverished scholarly family. His parents and elders were all dead.
Background?
He used to be the teacher of the emperor. He was quite favored by the emperor.
Qualifications?
Profound. But what he could do, others could do.
Ability?
Yes. But couldn't you find a civil official who was better than him?
Because the civil officials despised each other and many people coveted the position of Grand Secretary of Wenhua Hall, they didn't mind accusing Wang Yi of not being strict enough with his disciples and his bad character. Then, they questioned his work ability, salary, and property and slowly submitted memorials to accuse him.
They were very familiar with this process.
Dreams were plentiful, but reality was harsh.
While the civil officials were full of enthusiasm, each of them had a copy of impeachment memorials that could be read for more than half a sichen (1 sichen = 1 sichen = 1 sichen = 1 sichen = 1 sichen = 2), Zhou Wendi seemed to have inadvertently said, "Mr. Wang, has Lian 'er been mischievous recently?
I miss this child very much. I'll bring him to the palace later! "
Their actions were abruptly stopped.
The civil officials' sense of touch was always sharp. They were clear about the slightest movement of the wind and grass.
After the court, each family sent people to keep an eye on the Rongguo Mansion and keep an eye on the Jia Lian's whereabouts.
According to the reports of the servants, when Jia Lian was personally led into the Imperial Palace by the head eunuch, the East Faction Works Manager Dai Quan in an amiable manner, they knew that Jia Lian, this gap, could not be touched for the time being.
They just had to wait until the Jia Lian lost the emperor's favor. Then, they could make a move.
Who would have thought that they would wait for eight years?
Since he came forward to protect the Jia Lian, Emperor Wen Of Zhou didn't hide anything. Today, he sent people to deliver iced lychees that were offered as tributes from thousands of miles away. The next day, he sent people to reward a box of marbles made of gems and gold. The day after, he sent people to bestow sets of palace refined clothes. And the day after that, he ordered Wang Yi or Dai Quan to bring the Jia Lian into the palace.
Emperor Wen Of Zhou's love for the Jia Lian simply blinded the eyes of the civil and military officials. He had never treated his own princes so well. Only the Crown Prince, who was raised by Emperor Wen Of Zhou, could firmly suppress him.
Some civil officials, who didn't give up, tentatively mentioned the Jia Lian bullying others and fighting on the street. Emperor Wen Of Zhou's face immediately changed. He either said that there was no need to mention the matter of children in the imperial court, or directly said that there was something fishy about this matter and that it needed to be investigated in detail. This made the civil officials, who had been unwilling to give up, wail again.
The one who benefited the most from this matter wasn't the Jia Lian or Wang Yi, but Niu Jizong!
Because from now on, as long as he didn't directly beat up the children and grandchildren of Emperor Wen Of Zhou, with the banner of the Jia Lian, all the noble families and officials couldn't do anything to him.
Even so, there were always people who stubbornly refused to let go of the Jia Lian …
"You should be careful these days. That person has a deep grudge against you. Today, he caused Wu Qiu's incident and almost provoked the Crown Prince and Princess Ruifang.
I don't know what he will do tomorrow. "
"Moreover, your wife is also a Ma?"
"Copy!"
"What's the use of a melon egg?"
"Rong?"
"Haha!"
"That stingy person only knows how to use these underhanded methods."
The Jia Lian didn't care much about this. However, when he saw Feng Zizhi's slight frown and disapproving expression, he could only seriously say, "In this day and age, enduring for a while won't necessarily lead to peace and tranquility. Taking a step back won't necessarily lead to peace and tranquility.
Instead of enduring and not taking action, it's better to do things your own way. "
"Haha!"
"I don't care about your fallacious reasoning. In short, you must be careful.
If you can't remember, I'll carve it on your chest. "
Feng Zizhi didn't look at him and continued to speak with a smile.
"Okay."
Hearing Feng Zizhi's words of concern, the Jia Lian's eyes were full of smiles and he readily agreed.
"Young Master Lian, you're here."
Dai Quan's spirit hadn't diminished. He was already waiting outside Yangxin Palace Hall.
"Companion, why did you come out?"
The Jia Lian wanted to support Dai Quan, but Dai Quan gently slapped his hand away. "Companion hasn't reached the age where you need to be supported. The Emperor has been waiting for you inside for a long time."
"Companion."
As Dai Quan spoke, he glanced at Feng Zizhi with a hint of warning.
When Feng Zizhi approached Yangxin Palace Hall, he had already returned to his cold expression.
When he felt Dai Quan's gaze, he lowered his head and bowed.
Seeing Feng Zizhi's elegance, Dai Quan was a bit absent-minded.
This child is good, but unfortunately …