Xu Siyu, who was usually calm, almost jumped up and down after hearing this.

"This is something you can't control. It's too ridiculous!" His face turned pale. "What did you say to the eldest princess? Who else was there? Did you pass any notes or something? There are so many candidates. If your story is spread by someone with ulterior motives, the candidates may not take it to heart. Those who were not selected may be angry and blame you. If the eldest princess and her husband live well, it is what they deserve. If not, maybe even the princess will blame you. You are a typical thankless person!"

"Second brother, you think too much." Jin Ge'er sat down on the armchair beside him with disapproval, "Everything has its good and bad sides, it all depends on how you deal with it. Second brother's words certainly make sense, but maybe someone is still thinking about the relationship between me and the eldest princess?" At this point, he suddenly asked Xu Siyu with great interest, "Second brother, you said, the eldest princess dares to think about choosing her own prince consort. If the prince consort marries the eldest princess in the future, won't he have to act according to her wishes?"

Seeing that he had no sense of crisis at all, Xu Siyu couldn't help but laugh and cry.

"You have met a few people, and you are helping the princess to choose a prince consort? What if you make a mistake? What will happen to the princess? Listen to my second brother's advice. For the princess, you have been beaten and injured. I think you should take this opportunity to return the princess's job. In this way, you can be regarded as doing your best for the princess..."

Before he could finish his words, Jin Ge'er shouted, "What do you mean by being beaten and injured? It was Chen Ji who was beaten, okay?" Then he said, "Second brother, I know you are doing this for my own good. But since I promised the eldest princess, what kind of person would I be if I quit halfway? You don't even know what kind of people are waiting for the selection?" As he spoke, his face showed a bit of anger, "There is one who looks decent, but he studied with a teacher for ten years, but he can't even recognize a few big characters. You say, if such a person is allowed to marry the eldest princess, then it would be better for her to remain a widow."

Xu Siyu was shocked: "That's impossible! The selection of a royal consort has to go through the Ministry of Rites..."

"Don't mention the Ministry of Rites!" Jin Ge'er interrupted Xu Siyu angrily, "That guy is the nephew of a doctor in the Ministry of Rites. I don't know what he did to pass his name to the Empress. The eldest princess is our cousin after all, how can we let her suffer such an injustice! I was thinking of finding an opportunity to find trouble with this doctor, he is just like a toad wanting to eat swan meat!"

A doctor from the Ministry of Rites could pass his nephew's name to the Empress. It was not easy to imagine what was going on. Xu Siyu was even more reluctant to let Jing'er intervene in this matter.

"In this case, why don't we go find Prince Yong? He is the eldest princess's brother and is in a high position. It will definitely be a hundred times or a thousand times better if he intervenes than if you guys are messing around like this." He considered, "If you do this, it's fine if the candidate is in Yanjing, but if he is in Shandong or Shaanxi, how will you handle him? It will be bad if you delay the eldest princess's business!"

Jing'er listened with a thoughtful expression.

Xu Sijie is here.

"Ying Niang, why did you come so early!" When he saw his wife, he hurriedly helped her to sit on the armchair beside him and whispered, "Didn't I tell you to send someone to tell you as soon as there was any news? If you run around like this, it will be troublesome if you get a miscarriage." Then he greeted Xu Siyu, "Second brother is here too?" He said to Jin Ge'er, "I thought about it all night yesterday. This matter has made such a big fuss - you fought in a busy city, there is no guarantee that no one would recognize you. And it alarmed the people from Shuntian Prefecture and Wucheng Bingmasi, so it can't be concealed. You might as well go and pay your respects to mother and grandmother later. I will go to find my third brother and think of a way to go through Shuntian Prefecture and Wucheng Bingmasi and ask them to help testify and say that those people came with a fierce momentum, which led to the conflict..."

This is also a solution!

Xu Siyu listened and nodded slightly, and the way he looked at Xu Sijie was also a little different from before: "I came back in a hurry, and I haven't had time to go to Shuntian Prefecture and Wucheng Bingmasi. If I ask my third brother to come forward, I wonder if he can get it? Otherwise, talk to my fifth uncle? My fifth uncle is a veteran in the Imperial Guard. Most of the people in Wucheng Bingmasi are my fifth uncle's former colleagues. My fifth uncle should be very familiar with them. People from Shuntian Prefecture and Wucheng Bingmasi often deal with each other. There must be someone in Wucheng Bingmasi who is familiar with people from Shuntian Prefecture."

When Xu Sijie heard this, he was stunned at first, then he showed an obscure expression.

Xu Siyu and Yingniang didn't know the story. When they met, one thought Xu Sijie was uncomfortable because his ideas were not fully adopted, and the other thought Xu Sijie was uncomfortable because he was afraid that he would not be able to communicate with his fifth uncle and was uncomfortable saying it out loud... Just as he was about to persuade him, Xu Sijie's eyes flashed with determination, and he quickly made a decision: "Okay, I'll go find my fifth uncle now!"

"I'd better go!" Jing'er said, "I can talk to Uncle Wu. When father finds out, he will have someone to help speak for him."

This matter is not something that can be resolved by winning the fight. Since Chen Ji is the son of the governor of the grain transport, his family also has their own people in the court. After being beaten like that, he will definitely not be able to swallow this breath. Even if his identity cannot be found, if he makes a fuss, his father will definitely find out with his shrewdness. Rather than facing his father's anger at that time, it is better to prepare for the rainy day. Besides, the fifth brother and the fifth uncle have never been in harmony. Instead of letting the fifth brother be embarrassed for his own affairs, it is better for him to go there in person, which not only expresses his sincerity but also helps the fifth brother out of the siege.

"That's a good idea!" Yingniang was afraid that Xu Sijie would continue to insist, so she told him that Xu Siyu had found a father and daughter who were singing for money, "Let's put our grandmother and mother at ease first."

Xu Sijie was a little surprised by his wife's irrelevant answer. Jing'er had already stood up decisively: "I think we should just settle this matter like this?" As he spoke, his eyes fell on Xu Siyu, as if asking him if this was okay?

Time waits for no one.

We must first pass this hurdle in front of us.

Xu Siyu nodded immediately: "Then I will go back to my room and change clothes. You should also wash up and go to greet mother and grandmother first, and it won't be too late to go find fifth uncle later."

Jing'er nodded, and everyone went back to their rooms.

Although Xu Siyu had come up with a pretty good plan for him, Jing'er still kept his eyes peeled. He waited until three quarters past midnight, when Eleventh Lady was greeting the Madam, and hurried over to the Madam.

"I slept late yesterday, so I woke up late today." He looked sleepy. "Please forgive me, Grandma and Mother."

Xu Lingyi and Xu Sizhun had already gone to the outer courtyard. The Dowager, Eleventh Lady, Fifth Lady and others were all shocked by the wound on the corner of his mouth and didn't bother to investigate anything else.

"Who did this?" The lady immediately took Jing'er's hand, "Where are those guards? Are they just there to do nothing?" Her face was tense, without a trace of smile in her eyes. Although her voice was not loud, it was very serious. She was no longer the usual kind-hearted old lady, but exuded the majesty of someone who had been in a high position for a long time. Not only did Jing'er not expect this, but even Shiyi Niang, Xu Siyu and others were also very surprised.

"It's okay, it's okay!" Jing'er hurriedly comforted the lady, "I was careless and got hit. Those guards didn't expect it."

"What exactly is going on?" The lady asked in a deep voice, "Where is the person who beat him? Has he been tied up?"

The first sentence asked what happened, and the second sentence asked whether the person who beat people had been tied up. Even before hearing what happened, he clearly had a scale in his mind.

Xu Siyu breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as the Madam believed that what they said was true, she would automatically think that Chen Ji was the offender. Even if my father knew about it, he would have to think twice before dealing with Jing'er because of the Madam.

"Sixth brother did a good thing yesterday!" Xu Siyu suddenly spoke, and everyone in the room looked at him.

"Yesterday I was going to Chunxi Tower to entertain my classmates. Halfway there, I saw people fighting..." He told everyone a story. No one doubted it.

Firstly, it was because the storyteller was the usually calm Xu Siyu. Secondly, there were many strange things in the world, and even in Yanjing, there were people who didn't know their place and were causing trouble.

Before Xu Siyu finished his story, the lady had already hugged Jin Ge'er, feeling extremely distressed: "My dear, you have been wronged. There is such an unreasonable person. You tried to make peace with him, but you were beaten." Then she ordered Madam Du, "Spread my words, anyone who helps the Sixth Young Master beat people will be rewarded with five taels of silver. Tell them that when they follow the master's family, they should share the master's worries. This is how it will be in the future." She also said, "Go and ask where the singing father and daughter are from? If they are willing, we will give them some money as travel expenses so that they can return home and it will be worthwhile for them to meet our Jin Ge'er." Finally, she said, "Go and tell Chief Steward Bai to ask him to invite an imperial physician to see Jin Ge'er."

Mother Du smiled and replied.

Eleventh Lady looked at her son with warm eyes: "Are you hurt anywhere else?"

"No, no!" Jing'er's heart was relieved. The second brother was really good. He never lied, but when he lied, it was really deadly. "With me, if I hadn't been careless, who could have hit me!" As he said this, he puffed out his chest as before.

Everyone laughed.

The lady kept Jin Ge'er by her side: "Wait for the imperial physician to come and write a prescription, and I'll ask Zhihong to make medicine for you." Then she said to Shiyi Niang and others, "The New Year is coming soon, you all go and do your own things! We will make up for Yu Ge'er's dust-washing banquet in the evening."

Xu Siyu still had a lot of things to do today, so he immediately said "yes" with a smile, and excused himself on the pretext that his classmates were leaving. Then the others also left, leaving only Chen Ge'er and Cheng Ge'er, staring at Jin Ge'er with wide eyes, as if he had suddenly grown a horn on his head.

"Sixth brother, let's have a fight!" Chen Ge'er pulled Jin Ge'er aside, "Let's see how many people I can beat!"

Jing'er was worried that he couldn't find an excuse to look for Xu Lingkuan, so he immediately pulled Chen'er out the door.

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