The next day, after Jiayu had lunch, she told Mrs. Shen that she wanted to go to the study to buy picture books in the afternoon, and usually Mrs. Shen would agree immediately.She has never let her daughter go out, and Jiayu has always been sensible, so she doesn't go out many times, but this day she said: "Don't go out for a few days, I haven't finished the portrait yet."

The portrait refers to the portrait of a married man in Kyoto.

As she said that, Mrs. Shen remembered something and said: "At the birthday banquet yesterday, Mrs. Cheng Duanbo clearly and secretly meant that she fell in love with you. Her family's son married a wife two years ago.Well, Chengduanbo Shizi has a good relationship with your eldest brother, he is a good man, what do you think, Jiayu?"

In fact, since Jiayu returned to Beijing, there have been quite a few marriage proposals in the Shanghou Mansion.She is a second wife, but she is only nineteen years old, young and has no children, and is the eldest lady of the Hou family, but there are too many crooked things, but not many satisfied ones. Mrs. Shen wants to marry Jiayu,But you have to choose someone who can live happily with your daughter.

Now this son of Chengduanbo is really good. Although he doesn't have much real power like the Hou's mansion, his family is rich and rich, and he can't live without fine clothes and fine food.The son of Uncle Chengduan himself was also handsome and handsome. His deceased wife had left a child, but it was a daughter. Naturally, the future earl would be inherited by Jia Yusheng's eldest son.Not only that, Mrs. Cheng Duanbo is well-known in the capital for her good temper, so she doesn't have to worry about Jiayu being tortured by her mother-in-law when she gets married.

Mrs. Shen told Jiayu carefully about the benefits of Chengduanbo's son.

Jiayu pondered for a moment, then said: "Then let mother see him."

Madam Shen immediately said joyfully, "Okay."

"Mother, since there is Cheng Duanbo's son, I don't need to look at today's portrait, I'm going out." After speaking, without waiting for Mrs. Shen's answer, she ran out with her skirt in her hands.

Seeing this, Mrs. Shen shook her head helplessly.

*****

Still, when Jiayu arrived, the crown prince had already arrived.

The crown prince had nothing serious about Jiayu this time, but when he was inspecting the river embankment in Henan, he accidentally got a good thing and wanted to give it to Jiayu.

It was a small piece of emerald green jade with Guanyin engraved on it, and the top was tied with a red string, and it was just the right size to hang on the chest.

The texture of the jade is extremely good, the color is as clear and emerald as a pool of green, transparent without any impurities, but what is even more rare is that the tentacles are slightly cool.

The prince said: "This is cold jade, wearing it in summer can cool down the temperature and relieve dryness."

There are too many precious jades, but few have such effects.

After Jiayu heard this, she wanted to accept it. The crown prince gave her too many gifts. From childhood to adulthood, as long as he felt novel and liked something that was useful to her, he would hand it to her with all his might.

After a long time, Jiayu got used to it, and she almost refused.

The same is true for this piece of cold jade today, although it is rare, she has received a hundred thousand taels of silver, not to mention this piece of jade, but thinking of what Qingzhu said to her yesterday, she quickly hesitated.

"His Highness is about to get married now, this Lengyu is precious, it should be given to the Crown Princess, Jiayu is not there anymore." Jiayu laughed.

When the prince heard this, his brows furrowed indiscernibly, and his eyes were deeply focused on Jiayu: "No matter how precious it is, it's nothing more than a piece of jade, why should my cousin refuse."

Jiayu said: "I have ice and cold drinks in summer, but I don't really feel bad about it. This piece of jade is just icing on the cake for my courtiers. Your Highness should take it back."

The prince said indifferently: "But I just want to give it to my cousin. If my cousin doesn't accept it now, I will send someone to Weiyuanhou's residence later."

Jiayu looked at him, not doubting the truth of what the prince said, he would definitely be able to do this.Sometimes the prince is stubborn and stubborn, and he can't be persuaded no matter what.

Since I have to accept it sooner or later, Jiayu hurriedly said: "No need to send it to the Marquis of Weiyuan, my servant will accept it."

The prince listened and showed a happy smile.

Jiayu put Leng Yu away and asked: "Actually, there is something I want to ask His Highness today. The candidate for the Crown Princess has been decided, but she is the youngest daughter of Duke Dingguo."

When she asked about his marriage, if she could show a slightly sad and sad expression, the prince would be ecstatic.But like this, asking in a caring tone of relatives, the prince lowered his eyelashes slightly to cover the evil in his eyes.

He just casually said: "Not yet, why did you mention Yuan Si Poetry?"

Jiayu briefly told the prince about what happened yesterday, Yuan Sishi is so good-natured, her prince is handsome and noble, but Yuan Sishi is not worthy of him.

"Your Highness, Miss Yuan's temperament is not suitable for a Crown Princess." Jiayu said finally.

"How dare she let you be wronged." Hearing this, the prince said abruptly, "Of course it is impossible for Gu to marry her."

Jiayu was stunned for a moment, the prince's words were not to consider whether Yuan Sishi was suitable to be a princess, but because she had been wronged, so Yuan Sishi could not be a princess.

She rubbed her forehead, the prince has always been very kind to her, but this kindness is nothing if one does not think about it carefully, but now thinking about it, the prince's kindness to her is too unbearable.

Her elder brother is already an excellent elder brother, but he is far inferior to the crown prince when it comes to caring about her feelings.

"Cousin, why are you in a daze?" the prince asked.

Jiayu quickly regained her senses, she smiled and said: "Although Miss Yuan is not suitable, there are many good girls in the capital, and His Highness will definitely be able to pick out a satisfactory princess."

She also said before that the prince is very kind to her and should be restrained, but he should not do anything.It may be useless to talk about it today, it is better to persuade the prince to marry a satisfied girl early, and when he has his own wife and children, then she will naturally not be the most important person in his heart, and there is no need to mention it repeatedly now.

The prince picked up the teacup, sipped lightly and said, "I have my own plans in my heart."

Even though he said so, Jiayu was still worried, the prince was ruthless when it came to female sex, at his age, no man at his age would have a housemaid around him, but the prince was clean around him.

And every time the matter of marrying a wife was mentioned, the prince was calm and rational, and he never had a half-hearted young Mu Ai.She wasn't worried that the prince would not marry a wife, but she always felt that the prince's selection of the princess was completely treated as a government affairs, and he was not emotional.

Therefore, even when the news that Liu Pingli, the daughter of Prime Minister Liu, became the crown princess was rumored, Jiayu was happy that the crown prince's life was settled on the one hand, but felt uneasy on the other hand.

Does the crown prince like Miss Liu? Is it the crown prince's intention or your majesty's intention to make her the crown princess?Wait a lot.

But these apprehensions disappeared at the Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern Festival.

For the first time in Jiayu's many years, she saw the prince watching flowers with a girl. Of course, this was the premise that she was not counted.And the girl who was with the prince was beautiful, she happened to be Liu Ping.

Seeing that Jiayu's gaze fell in front of him, Cheng Duanbo's son followed suit. He also held an official position in the court, so he naturally knew His Highness the Crown Prince, but he didn't know about the beautiful girl next to the Crown Prince.

He only thought that Liu Ping was the candidate for the concubine under the imperial decree, and Cheng Duanbo's son would soon match her.

"Miss Shen, shall we go to say hello?" Cheng Duanbo's son was undecided.

It stands to reason that the prince is a king and they are ministers, so they should go up to greet him and say hello, but this is not a formal occasion, not to mention that the prince is accompanied by a beautiful family, so if you think about it, he doesn't want anyone to disturb the relationship between him and Miss Shen..

Jiayu shook her head and said, "You don't have to bother the crown prince and Miss Liu." Although the titles of Miss Liu and the crown prince have been decided, there are not many opportunities for married couples to meet each other.Plan to develop feelings.That being the case, it's better for them not to disturb the two of them.

The two agreed and immediately decided to avoid it.

But it never occurred to him that the crown prince called Jiayu first, Jiayu stopped and turned around, under the golden glow of the jade tree, the man was standing in front of the glazed lamp with a smile on his face.

The crown prince called for someone himself, Jiayu and Cheng Duanbo couldn't pretend they didn't see it and left on their own, they walked over with a smile.

The son of Uncle Chengduan was about to salute, but the crown prince stopped him and said, "Nowadays, among the people, there is no need to perform such an empty ceremony." Then he said to Jiayu, "Cousin, since we have met, why not go for a walk together."

When Liu Ping heard this, she suddenly felt that something was wrong, not to blame anyone, but that her luck was not very good today.A few days ago, His Majesty ordered her to be crowned princess. She was both happy and uneasy. She was naturally happy because of her status as a princess, but she was also worried that the prince didn't like her.

Unexpectedly, today's lantern festival was held, but the prince specially sent someone to invite her to watch the lantern together.This was an opportunity for her to get along with the prince with great difficulty, but unexpectedly, she met Shen Jiayu.

She knew that the prince and this Shen girl had always been close, so she didn't have any feelings of jealousy, she just felt that she was unlucky to meet her, if it was the other girl, the prince would definitely not invite her to watch the lantern together.

Jiayu glanced at Liu Ping and said with a smile: "Second cousin is accompanied by a beautiful woman now, so I won't bother you, besides, I plan to go back."

The prince chuckled lightly, and glanced at Kang Duanbo's son: "Then I'll see off my cousin."

Jiayu shook her head again and again: "No need, second cousin can accompany Miss Liu."

The prince looked straight at her and said: "Since my cousin said so, I won't keep my cousin."

Hearing this, Jiayu glanced at Chengduanbo Shizi, Chengduanbo Shizi gave the prince a salute, and left with Jiayu.

And the backs of the two disappeared into the crowd, Liu Ping looked at the prince who was still smiling and said, "My lord, let's go for a walk."

"Come here, take Miss Liu home." The prince suddenly said coldly.

The smile on Liu Ping's face froze slightly: "My lord, it's still early..."

"Since Miss Liu thinks it's still early, it's okay to stay." The prince said, and ordered a few guards to protect her, and said, "I still have something to do, let's go first."

After finishing speaking, before Liu Ping could speak again, she turned around and strode away.

Liu Ping wanted to call the prince to stop, but when she thought of the indifferent and cold eyes of the prince's last words, her heart trembled immediately, she couldn't say anything, she could only stare blankly at the prince's back.

Guard Lin knew that the prince was in a bad mood, so he didn't dare to ride in the carriage with the prince on the way back to the East Palace, so he acted as the driver and hid outside the carriage.

The wheels of the carriage turned slowly, and the voices of the hustle and bustle became smaller and smaller, and a deep and depressing voice suddenly came from inside the carriage: "Find someone to reveal Zhou Min's private salt."

Guard Lin was startled: "Yes."

Then there was no sound from inside the car, Guard Lin let out a sigh of relief, suppressing the fear in his heart.

Jiayu came back from the Lantern Festival during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Mrs. Shen hurriedly asked Kang Duanbo how the son was doing.

Jiayu thought about it seriously, this is the second time the two met, the last time they met each other at incense, "Kang Duan Bo's personality is a bit indecisive, but he is considerate."

Mrs. Shen held Jiayu's hand tightly after hearing this, "It's not a big problem to be indecisive, on the contrary, when you enter the back house, you can be the master of the house."

"Both your mother and your elder brother think Kang Duanbo's eldest son is good, and they value you a lot. What do you think, Jiayu?"

"I..." Jiayu thought for a moment and said, "He should be a good husband, but mother, I don't like him." So she didn't know what she thought about whether to marry him or not.

Mrs. Shen persuaded: "When I married your father back then, I never liked him. It's not because I had children with him. Today's life is quite good."

"Then what if Kang Duanbo's son also meets Xue Xiuxiu?" Jiayu asked again.

Mrs. Shen let go of the hand she was holding upon hearing this, glared at her and said, "Are you unwilling to marry him?"

Jiayu moistened her dry lips with the tip of her tongue: "Mother, can I think about it?"

Seeing her troubled face, Mrs. Shen sighed and said, "Jiayu, mother will not force you, this is a major event in your life, mother naturally hopes that you can think clearly, but there are not many couples in the capital who rely on likingThose who are married, when you have your own children in the future, they will be your most important people."

Jiayu understood all these reasons, but she had married once, and she didn't want the second time to be the same as the last time. She felt that Kang Duanbo's son was a suitable person to marry, so she married.

But she also knew that it was too difficult to choose a husband whom they both liked, so Jiayu hesitated.

She thought, she had to think hard.

But before Jiayu could figure out how to deal with the marriage with Kang Duanbo's son, a major event happened.

Jianghuai salt transportation envoy Zhou Min was directly sued by the imperial censor to the Jinluan Palace for taking advantage of his position to secretly sell and sell smuggled salt, and the evidence is conclusive and cannot be discussed.

The endowment of the world is mostly salt and iron.Moreover, the method of sun-drying salt is easy to operate and has huge benefits. The imperial court has repeatedly banned it, so it has set up strict laws, and anyone who privately sun-dried salt with more than ten buckets will be killed.Anyone who privately sells more than ten buckets of salt will be killed.

But now that Zhou Min has several private houses, and the amount of private use of public officials is huge, not to mention beheading, it is also possible to kill three clans.

It's just that Zhou's family is a married woman, even the Yi clan has nothing to do with the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion, and Shen Qi'an was not involved in the sale of private salt. Although the family was worried, there was not much panic.

Until this day, the censor continued to play, saying that Shen Qi'an, Marquis of Weiyuan, knew about it and did not report it. He was covering up the culprit and disrespecting the monarch.

Hearing this, Shen Qi'an's knees softened, and he knelt down on the Golden Luan Hall.

But if he refuted it, he could not quibble. He knew very well about his father-in-law Zhou Min's sale of private salt.He knew that his father-in-law was wrong to do this, but how many salt officials in the past generations could clean up in front of huge profits, and the incident happened to a very small number of people. Unexpectedly, Zhou Min's private salt amount was so huge, and some officials were alarmed by his insatiable greed.

Now that the censor is participating in the performance, the accusation is not a word that he wants to add, so he can only say: "I know the crime."

His Majesty's expression was hidden behind the crown, Shen Qi'an couldn't see clearly and didn't dare to look at it, but his heart couldn't stop sinking. His Majesty has decided to severely punish this matter. During this time, several ministers related to the private salt case have rushed toHis Majesty is determined to purge the officials after being sacked, and he may be doomed this time.

And it is very likely to endanger the family.