ebookland Chapter 153 The Yao Family is in Trouble
Chapter 153 The Yao Family is in Trouble
Xia Yang said: "Su Mo is a rare smart man. He wrote everything truthfully."
This is exactly what they knew.
Su Mo did not acknowledge Xiao Yao as his wife, and the clan leader's wife, Lady Yao, did not acknowledge anyone other than Xiao Yao as her daughter-in-law.
"Fuzhou is about to change. The Serpent Envoy has arrived in Fuzhou with the Ninth Princess, and he has collected all the evidence of the Yao family's crimes..."
When Xia Yang said this, he looked at Su Zhen beside him meaningfully.
Last time, Lord Fox said that he would give her the credit for eliminating the banditry of the Mao family, but she suggested giving it to Princess Changle.
When Princess Changle came to Yueyang Prefecture this time, she first selected a group of talented and beautiful ladies from the Mingzhu Society to come to Beijing for the prince and the royal family. Later, she eliminated the banditry of the Mao family. She made two great achievements in succession and was praised and rewarded by the emperor.
The Ninth Princess is in Fuzhou, waiting to make a big splash.
If you want to overshadow Princess Changle, you have to make great achievements and solve a big case.
The whole capital was paying attention to Princess Changle and the Ninth Princess. The rumor of "the birth of the Phoenix Lord" spread throughout the capital. The Phoenix Lord was the reincarnation of the Phoenix Star. This Phoenix Lord was born into the royal family and had royal blood. It was an auspicious sign that the world would prosper and the people would be prosperous.
Some people say that Princess Changle is the reincarnation of Phoenix, while others believe she is the Ninth Princess. Even in the capital, there are storytellers in teahouses who tell stories every day like "Princess Changle's witty battle with bandits in Yueyang Prefecture", "Princess Changle whips bullies in Baihua County", and even "Princess Changle's talent in Yueyang Tower makes her a noble lady".
Xia Yang made Princess Changle very popular in the capital, and she became even more popular because she recruited more than a dozen noble ladies into the Mingzhu Society in Yueyang Prefecture.
The noble ladies who joined the society from Yueyang Prefecture were also known as the "Changle Faction", meaning disciples of Princess Changle, and they were sought after and competed for by them.
Xia Yang deliberately talked about things in the capital, hoping that Su Zhen would forget about Su Mo.
Su Zhen said: "The noble ladies of the Mingzhu Society who passed the assessment in Yueyang Prefecture are called the 'Changle School'?"
"That's right. I heard that after the society opens next spring, when all the noble ladies of Mingzhu Society are gathered, they will be invited to the palace to attend the Hundred Flowers Banquet. The Empress, Princess Yuan and other noble ladies in the palace will grant marriages to the noble ladies of Mingzhu Society who have reached the age of marriage."
When Su Zhen heard this, she knew that her status meant she was not among those eligible for arranged marriage.
"My princess, do you know why Lu Yan has been working so hard to suppress bandits and gain merit recently?"
Lu Yan was determined to win her over, "For me?"
"It was for you. He somehow knew that you were the emperor's hidden gem, and he has asked the Second Prince to speak for you several times. The Second Prince agreed to help a few times before, but half a month ago, when the Second Prince mentioned it again, he gave up the idea."
"Did the Emperor tell the Second Prince the truth?"
Xia Yang nodded.
The Phoenix Lady is related to the destiny of the Great Qi Dynasty, so she must not be promised to anyone lightly. Even if the Phoenix Lady decides to marry, it still needs to be determined by the Imperial Astronomical Observatory and the eminent monks. If she marries the wrong person and ruins the destiny of the country, the loss will outweigh the gain.
That's right, if the Second Prince knew this secret, he would be a fool to continue doing such taboo things.
The ancients were superstitious, and the emperor firmly believed in such statements, and the second prince also believed them without a doubt.
Lu Yan was still traveling around Hunan, Hubei, Anhui, Qin, and Shandong provinces, trying to clear out the banditry in the heartland of the Central Plains, but his whereabouts were difficult to determine. Sometimes he was in Hunan, and sometimes he suddenly appeared in a bandit's lair in Hubei, beating the bandits in the Central Plains and forcing them to flee. What was even more unimaginable was that Lu Yan could appear in several provinces at the same time, with three Lu Yans appearing on the same day.
Xia Yang had asked the Second Prince to intercede for him several times from Lu Yan, hoping that the Emperor would grant her a marriage. The Second Prince joked, "I want to marry Jia Rou and gain more military merits."
Su Zhen said: "There are three Lu Yans, two of them must be disguised."
"The bandits in the Central Plains were terrified of Lu Yan. He was the deputy general in the army, and they thought his name was useful, so they disguised themselves as him. They didn't use any disguise techniques. Most of the bandits didn't know Lu Yan, so they just used his name to scare them."
“It doesn’t matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.”
Xia Yang likes chatting with Su Zhen. From time to time he always hears some new and interesting words that can make people suddenly enlightened.
Chunyue had prepared the fragrant soup early, but seeing that they were chatting happily, she did not dare to disturb them. It was only after dinner that Su Zhen remembered to take a bath.
The fragrant autumn soup is mixed with chrysanthemum petals and goat's milk, and is refreshing and smooth to the bone.
The green gauze was as misty as fog, the curtains were solemnly hanging, white steam was rising from the chrysanthemum bathtub, and the sound of water was crisp. The water was very clear, mixed with chrysanthemum petals, and the hot water was refreshing and smooth, washing away all the dust and dirt of the world.
But I saw the blue line spread out like ink, lingering like a lifetime of entanglement, the sound of water rose, and a person broke out of the water, his lips slightly parted, and the empty light was silent. The water rolled down from the top of his hair, soaking his face. A pair of bare hands covered his face, wiping away the water drops around his eyes, and his eyes opened, as if they were as amazing as pearls.
When Su Zhen saw the phoenix ring on his wrist, he thought of the method of practice. It has been more than a month, but the success rate is still 50-50. He has been stuck here for more than 20 days and has not made any progress.
She was unwilling to give up, so she soaked in the hot water and continued to practice, taking out the gold hairpin and putting it back in, over and over again, failure, success, failure, success...
It has to be used twice for one to succeed.
She closed her eyes and repeatedly recalled the hand seals and mental formulas. There was nothing wrong with them. This time she slowed down. According to past experience, she would have failed the first time, but this time she succeeded.
She succeeded by slowing down, and she tried again and succeeded again.
Was it because the car was built too quickly that something went wrong?
She tried to find the reason for her earlier failure. The hand seals and the mental formulas needed to be performed at the same time. She had failed before because the hand seals were too fast and the mental formulas were too slow, resulting in a different order. She had to slow down the hand seals and speed up the mental formulas.
I tried it more than ten times and succeeded every time.
The problem that has troubled us for more than a month has now been solved with a 100% success rate. However, this is not the fastest. The success rate must reach 120% and no more mistakes are allowed.
"Princess, you have been bathing for half an hour. It's time to get up."
"Chun Yue, I'm fine, don't bother me."
Outside, it was getting dark.
Su Zhen discovered that the golden beads on the phoenix ring were lighting up again. If she tried harder, she might discover a new secret. But after trying again and again, it seemed like something was missing. Did she need to drip blood again to recognize the master?
Su Zhen bit her finger without using an embroidery needle, and blood dripped onto the golden bead. The three-inch wide silver bracelet on her wrist turned into a round bracelet at a speed visible to the naked eye. The golden bead was still embedded on it, and the bracelet became smaller, but the space changed from the previous one-foot-sized box to a storage cabinet that was one meter long, wide and two meters high, with a one-meter-high cabinet door, two five-inch-high drawers, and two one-foot-high small cabinets.
The one-foot square area was just the small cabinet at the bottom.
It wasn't that she couldn't get in after exploring the size, it was the image projected by the golden bead that told her that the locker had become bigger. After the phoenix ring changed, the golden bead shot out a piece of light silk, this time it was new instructions for use. No, this was not an instruction about the locker, it was more like some kind of exercise, on it was a map of human acupuncture points, and it was also connected to the operation trajectory of this exercise.