Chapter 90 Chapter 90 The next day, Xue Fenglin went there first...
The next day, Xue Fenglin went to the Ye family first and explained the affairs in the palace in detail.
Madam Ye knew that he was determined to marry Shen Xuan, but she couldn't help but worry when she heard the news yesterday that he was going to be exiled to Sarawak.
Ye Chen had heard that Xue Fenglin was going to leave Beijing to be an official, and he said with some envy: "You went to Sarawak alone, and the emperor was far away, and you don't have to be disciplined by others in Beijing. When you leave, my father said that he has found a job for me. I will go to the Imperial City Office to start my training from scratch this autumn."
Xue Fenglin heard this and said, "It's not that easy to be sent out. You can stay in the capital and be an official. The Imperial City Department is under the Second Prince's command. Although it will be easier for you to have him take care of you, you still have to work hard for him."
After he left the Ye family, he finally returned to the Marquis' Mansion.
Unexpectedly, Lord Xue took sick leave today and did not go to court, and waited for Xue Fenglin to come back at home.
Upon hearing that he had arrived home, Lord Xue rushed out in his underwear with a furious look on his face. When he saw Xue Fenglin, he pointed at him and cursed, "You bastard! Do you care about the honor and face of my Xue family?"
"Let's not talk about the marriage with Brother Chen. His Majesty asked you to choose between the posting outside and the posting in the Imperial Academy. Why did you deliberately choose the posting outside?"
"But you are just a fifth-rank prefect. The territory is remote and I don't know when you can come back! In the future, all your classmates in the Imperial College will be promoted and their ranks will be higher than yours. Let's see if you have the face to meet them!"
Xue Fenglin knew that Lord Xue would be angry, so he was too lazy to explain to him.
His father was lucky because he followed the right person when the previous emperor was alive. As soon as Emperor Wu of Jin ascended the throne, he followed his relatives and friends to prosperity, and because he was a dull person, he was always very safe.
Emperor Wu of Jin seized power and purged wave after wave of powerful officials, but he was not among them.
Marquis Xue has always had this kind of vision. He handles his household affairs in a confused manner and his foreign affairs are also a mess. Otherwise, he would not have been so close to the eldest prince.
"You have more than one son, don't you have a second one? Madam Wen might be pregnant with a child as well. Why don't you hand over the honor and face of the Xue family to them?" Xue Fenglin said calmly, making Lord Xue so angry that he fell backwards.
"You! You! If I had known you were so unfilial, I shouldn't have passed the throne of Crown Prince to you!" Lord Xue couldn't help but say.
"The position of Crown Prince was conferred by His Majesty himself. What does it have to do with you? Do you want to disobey the order, father?" Xue Fenglin said with a sneer.
Lord Xue was speechless and felt his heart aching.
After Xue Fenglin finished speaking, he informed Lord Xue, "Your Majesty has granted marriage to Shen Xuan and me, and I will arrange the marriage before I leave for my new post. Once I have chosen a date, the wedding will be held in the mansion, so you should prepare the invitations as soon as possible."
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The marriage between Xue Fenglin and Shen Xuan was a foregone conclusion, so the brothers and sisters that Bai had specially invited from the Shen family were of no use at all.
They had been living in the Marquis' Mansion for nearly half a month, but had only met Xue Fenglin once. At this time, he suddenly learned that Xue Fenglin's marriage had been arranged by Emperor Wu of Jin, and he was naturally very dissatisfied.
"I came here for so many days in vain, and didn't even get to say a word to the prince. Now, she's married to that country boy!" Shen Congyu twisted his handkerchief angrily and said, "Why did His Majesty grant marriage to that country boy? I don't know what he was thinking!"
"Brother Yu, that's the current emperor! You are not allowed to make irresponsible remarks." Feiyan and Feiying, who were serving on the side, were so scared that they were sweating all over. They lowered their voices and whispered in Shen Congyu's ear.
"I know, we are just inside the house now. What's wrong with me saying it? Others don't know either!" Shen Congyu said unconvinced.
He was angry, and Shen Congxin was even more unhappy.
She has been living in the Marquis' Mansion these days. Although she has not met the Crown Prince, Bai and the Marquis have taken good care of her.
Shen Congxin felt that he had won the favor of the Marquis and his wife in advance, and naturally had an advantage in the matter of the prince's marriage. Originally, she thought that after the prince passed the exam and was appointed as an official, he would definitely return home and then have more contact with him.
Unexpectedly, when the prince came back again, the marriage had already been arranged, and her dream of marrying into the marquis's mansion became shattered!
Unlike Shen Congyu and Shen Congxin, Shen Congshuang was somewhat calmer after hearing about the arranged marriage between Xue Fenglin and Shen Xuan, although she was unwilling.
Now that this matter has been settled, they don't have to stay in the Marquis' Mansion any longer. I think someone from the Shen family will come to take them back in the next few days.
When he thought of the Shen family's small courtyard with four entrances in the capital, he would only have a small room in the back room after he returned, and the conditions were not as good as when he was in the Marquis' Mansion now.
Shen Congshuang gritted his teeth and made up his mind.
He asked Qingzhu, the attendant beside him, to help him spread out the paper and grind the ink. After picking up the brush, he neatly drew a picture of a carp leaping over the dragon gate on the paper.
Although Chen Congshuang was born out of wedlock, she learned calligraphy and painting from her other brothers and sisters since she was a child.
While other brothers and sisters only learned the basics, he studied it carefully and had quite a bit of skill in calligraphy and painting.
The carp he painted was so lifelike that it seemed as if it would jump out of the paper in an instant.
After finishing the painting, Chen Congshuang added another line of small characters and wrote [Once the carp jumps over the dragon gate, the golden scales will never stay in the pond. 】This poem.
After the paper was completely dry, Shen Congshuang rolled up the painting, handed it to Qingzhu and said, "I will be leaving in a few days. You should give this painting to Mr. Xue Er and ask him to keep it as a souvenir."
"Yes." Qingzhu immediately took the scroll and went towards Xue Fengli's yard.
Xue Fenglin has not been home these days, but Shen Congshuang has not been idle.
He first "coincidentally" met Xue Fengli twice in the garden, and then happened to sprain his ankle in front of him.
Afterwards, Xue Fengli secretly took him back to the courtyard, applied medicine, and started talking to the second young master of the marquis's mansion.
Chen Congshuang looked well-behaved and pitiful, but her every move was timid. Her waist was so thin that it could be held in one hand, like a small white flower swaying in the wind.
Xue Fengli had been interested in boys these days, and Shen Congshuang's pure and gentle appearance caught his eye. He couldn't help but miss the boy from the Shen family.
Later, Shen Congshuang gave Xue Fengli a painting and calligraphy as a token of gratitude, and Xue Fengli accepted it. When he met Shen Congshuang again in the mansion, they exchanged glances and were thinking about her privately.
Qingzhu arrived at the gate of Xue Fengli's yard and saw two servants standing outside the yard, guarding the gate without giving way.
"My two young men, I am the attendant of Brother Chen Congshuang, and I have some things I want to give to the second young master." Qingzhu said with a smile.
Xue Fengli had finished school today, and when she returned home, she took the servants around her to commit adultery in broad daylight.
He specially placed two servants to guard outside the yard, for fear that Bai would suddenly come and find out, so he asked them to help him inform the police.
When the servant heard that this attendant was the personal attendant of the young master of the Shen family who lived in the mansion, they looked at each other. So he said to him, "Wait here, I'll go in and inform them first."
After entering, he went straight to the study room at the deepest part. There is an ear room next to the study, which was originally the place where Xue Fengli took a rest when he was tired of reading, but now it has become a convenient place for him to have fun during the day.
As soon as the servant reached the door, he heard the servant's cries from the ear room and could not help shivering.
Although Xue Fengli had been flirting with the maid all day long before, he treated her normally. Ever since they learned these methods of teasing young men from Young Master Qian Liu, his two personal attendants were often tortured to the point of being restless, and could not stand Xue Fengli's various methods.
"Young Master, Chen'er's attendant outside said he has something to give you." The servant stood at the door, knocked on it, and said to Xue Fengli inside.
After a while, the door was opened. Xue Fengli stood at the door in disheveled clothes and asked, "But is Brother Shen Congshuang at home?"
"Yes." The servant nodded and looked inside through the crack in the door. Under the chaise longue, two attendants were standing and kneeling, and they seemed to be naked and tied up. I don’t know what kind of “torture device” was put on my body…
"Okay, bring him in." Xue Fengli thought for a moment and turned around to close the door.
After a while, when the servant brought Qingzhu in again, the door of the ear room had been opened, and Xue Fengli was sitting upright behind the desk. There stood an attendant, grinding ink for him.
"Second Young Master, this is what my young master asked me to give you. He said that he would be leaving in a few days, so I'm giving you this painting as a reminder of his memory." Qingzhu raised the scroll in his hand and said to Xue Fengli.
After hearing what Qingzhu said, Xue Fengli remembered that Emperor Wu of Jin had granted a marriage between Xue Fenglin and that country boy yesterday. I'm afraid all the brothers and sisters of the Shen family will be taken away.
He had been thinking about Chen Congshuang for a long time and felt reluctant to let her go, so he asked his attendant to bring the scroll over for him to have a look.
The attendant then staggered towards Qingzhu, took the scroll and handed it to Xue Fengli.
Qingzhu looked at the attendant strangely. He saw that his face looked a little red and there were beads of sweat on his forehead. He wondered if he was sick.
I was wondering when I suddenly heard a noise from under the desk, and it seemed that a muffled groan came from inside.
Qingzhu took a step back in fright, and listened carefully under the desk, but it seemed that he could hear nothing again.
Xue Fengli coughed at this time, opened the scroll and said loudly: "This painting is very good. I didn't expect that Brother Chen has such talent. It's really admirable."
He looked at the picture of a carp leaping over the Dragon Gate on the scroll and quite liked the meaning of the picture.
After that, he thought for a while before picking up the pen and writing a few words on the paper. He folded the paper into a ball and asked the attendant to pass it to Qingzhu, asking him to show it to Shen Congshuang.
Qingzhu always felt that the atmosphere in that ear chamber was a little weird, so he took the note and left quickly.
When he returned to Shen Congshuang, he took out the note and hesitated for a moment before saying to Shen Congshuang, "Shuang'er, I just went to the Second Young Master's place and I always felt something was strange. The people who served him closely were all attendants."
Most young masters are served by either servants or maids. Servants are there to help with their work, while maids mostly have other uses. Of course, there will be servants occasionally.
Chen Congshuang didn't take it seriously and just said, "So what? Nowadays, which young master in a wealthy family doesn't have a few maids? The second young master has a servant with him, which means he likes me. Does that mean people are only allowed to like girls, but not me?"
Qingzhu didn't say anything after hearing this. Shen Congshuang opened the note and read it, her face flushed. She bit her lip and said, "Fortunately, I have made preparations. Whether I can stay in the Marquis' Mansion depends on tonight."
"Qingzhu, come here." Shen Congshuang called Qingzhu to his side and whispered a few words in his ear.
"Ah? Shuang'er, are you really going to..." Qingzhu looked panicked and shook his head, saying, "If you fail, your future will be ruined!"
"Does it mean I will have a future if I go back?" Chen Congshuang said to Qingzhu with a cold face: "You know how my stepmother treats me, but she is also a concubine, why can't she pick a good one?"
Qingzhu hesitated after hearing this, and Shen Congshuang comforted him, saying, "If I have a good future, you will also enjoy happiness by following me. If I live a miserable life in the future, do you think you will still have a good life?"
"My uncle is just a fifth-rank official, not worth mentioning in this capital. Can I marry into a place more respectable than the Marquis' Mansion?"
"As long as this is accomplished, you will be able to rise to the top if you follow me. Our futures both depend on you!"
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