Chapter 155 Gossip in Beijing
"Let's go down the mountain."
After Feng Shenyu finished speaking, he threw a stone on the ground. The stone rolled and everyone followed the stone all the way back to the foot of the mountain.
After coming out of the dense forest, everyone looked back at the hill and smiled faintly when they thought of their previous experience.
The Ministry of War learned the method to break the fog and the ghost wall in Crouching Tiger Forest, so they hurried back to share their experience and continue tracking.
The next day, a new storybook came out on the market, and all the major teahouses adapted it into short plays.
The name is "The handsome man is charming, and the beautiful ladies are attracted to him one after another."
The story is about a young lady from a wealthy family who falls in love with a handsome man, but they cannot get married because of the huge difference in social status between their two families.
After the young lady got married, she still missed her husband and kept paying attention to him.
The young man was extremely talented and won the top spot in the imperial examination. He later became an official in the court and rose to the position of prime minister, but he never got married.
Then one day, the man suddenly became worldly-minded and wanted to marry and have children.
When the young lady found out about this, she went crazy and believed that no one else could get what she couldn't get.
So she came up with a vicious plan. First, she bribed the monks in the temple, and then she asked someone to instigate her husband's mother.
In the end, Langjun's mother was frightened to death because of the monk's divination and instructions.
After returning, he obstructed the marriage and sent his niece to Beijing to disrupt his son's marriage.
All this seemed perfect, but the prime minister was the prime minister because he was smart enough to find out the truth quickly.
When the young lady saw that the matter was exposed, she wanted to assassinate the prime minister, hoping that they would die together.
I only hope that we can die on the same day of the same month of the same year.
When everyone heard this, they sighed.
"This young lady is too cruel. She got married herself, but she doesn't allow others to get married..."
"It's like eating from the bowl and looking at the pot."
"This woman doesn't sound like a good person. How can she be like this?"
When the people below heard the key points, they were all filled with indignation and asked:
"What happened next? Did the young master die?"
The storyteller banged the gavel and continued telling the story.
Later, the young man was rescued by the guards around him. Seeing that the situation was hopeless, the young lady committed suicide on the spot in order not to implicate her family.
When everyone heard this, there was a burst of applause.
"It's your own fault."
“Serves you right.”
"She is so vicious, it would be a relief if she died."
It is said that this young man is very handsome, unique in appearance, with beautiful manners and good manners.
Miss Guan is not the only one who is thinking about him. His cousin is also very fond of him.
When my cousin came to Beijing, she first took advantage of her status to live in the main courtyard of her husband's house.
Then she went to the home of her husband's sweetheart and cried out her love and affection for her husband, hoping that her husband's sweetheart would fulfill her wish.
Let the man's sweetheart step aside and give her the position.
When the story got to this point, there was another round of shouting and cursing from the audience.
"Wow, this young man is really recruiting people, one after another..."
"A young lady just died, and now here comes a cousin. They're all the same kind of people..."
"This cousin is even more shameless than that young lady?"
"This man's sweetheart is so unlucky. She didn't do anything wrong, but she was bullied and slapped in the face..."
"That's right, if I just beat him out with a big stick."
The people below asked, "What happened next? Who did this godlike man marry?"
The storyteller suddenly slammed the gavel and said, "To know what happened next, please listen to the next chapter."
Everyone was left in suspense and began to scold the storyteller for being unfair.
Suddenly, someone in the audience said, "The following plot sounds so familiar?"
"Exactly, ah...wasn't there a scene like this at the doorstep of Her Royal Highness Princess Jinyang a few days ago?"
"Yes, the Right Prime Minister is handsome and elegant, and he is also the Prime Minister. Isn't this a perfect match?"
"Is it possible that there are so many people and things between the Right Prime Minister and the Grand Princess of Jinyang?"
"Your Highness is really pitiful. He didn't do anything, but now he is being criticized like this..."
Overnight, all the major teahouses and restaurants in Beijing were talking about this play.
The reputations of Li Yueyao and Feng Shenyu have been reversed.
Two days ago, people were saying on the streets that the right-hand prime minister was a scumbag who had clung to the powerful and killed his fiancée.
In the past two days, people have been saying that the Right Prime Minister is the most pitiful person in the world, who has been plotted against by women again and again.
By the time Feng Shenyu heard this story, it was already two days later.
And this time it was heard in the court again.
There was no other reason, the censor impeached him again.
They said that his personal affair caused a big uproar in the city and that he had poor personal morals.
The emperor listened with great interest, and after the court was dismissed, he immediately sent someone to buy the book.
Li Yueyao smiled when she saw that her notebook had worked.
Cuiwei asked from the side, "Your Highness, everyone on the street is urging us to read the sequel to the storybook."
Li Yueyao waved her hand: "I don't know what's next..."
Just as he finished speaking, he heard Qian Lou come to report: "Your Highness, the Right Prime Minister has sent a visiting card."
Li Yueyao waved her hand and said, "No."
Qian Lou immediately turned around to pass on the message.
Feng Shenyu received the reply and sighed, "When can Your Highness see me?"
Qian Lou replied, "When the time comes, we will meet. Right Prime Minister, please go back first."
Feng Shenyu came out of the door again with his head down.
As I reached the street corner, someone on the side of the road saw me and said:
"Alas, it seems that the Right Prime Minister still couldn't get through the door."
"That's right. It's been so many days, and I've been turned away every day."
"That damned cousin of his, how could she have the heart to separate such a pair of lovers..."
"The Right Prime Minister's cousin is already dead..."
"That's what she deserves. Breaking up a marriage will send you to hell."
Gossip in the capital has always spread quickly, and most of it is gone in three to five days.
But this time, because the storybook had no ending, it piqued people's interest.
Many curious people like to take a look inside when passing by this street.
Occasionally, when I see the Right Prime Minister being turned away, I can't help but sigh.
After Li Yueyao became pregnant, she stayed at home to take care of the baby because of the unstable fetus. She rarely left the house and did not attend the morning court.
In the eyes of the court officials, it seemed that Princess Jinyang had broken with the Right Prime Minister and was unwilling to see him again.
But only the emperor knew that his aunt was pregnant and sleepy, so she really couldn't get up in the morning...
One day, Li Yueyao received the news that Gao Tonghuan had died.
After listening to Chen Yue's report, Li Yueyao sighed and said, "Alas... the eldest prince is doomed."
Sure enough, the emperor had a gloomy face at the next morning court, and the court officials thought that he was having another quarrel with the right prime minister.
But when the court was about to be dismissed, the emperor suddenly issued an order:
"The eldest daughter of Liu Xueshi, a scholar from the Hanlin Academy, is granted to the eldest prince as his principal wife."
After hearing the emperor's order, the court officials looked at each other in bewilderment.
Isn’t Mr. Liu’s family the Defei’s family home?
Her father, Liu Heming, was originally a fifth-rank university scholar and had no foundation in the court.
Over the years, thanks to the fact that Concubine De gave birth to two princes in the palace, he was promoted to the fourth rank, barely enough to attend court.
At this moment, Liu Heming stepped out and was kneeling on the ground shouting "Long live the country".
From the looks of it, the eldest prince and the second prince both married into their own in-laws' families.
However, the second prince's maternal family is a first-rank duke's mansion, while the eldest prince's maternal family is a fourth-rank scholar's mansion.
Moreover, the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion has been a family of great merit for generations and is a long-established family of wealth and power, with complex connections in the court.
Three generations ago, the Liu family was still farming in the countryside.
Comparing the two, the difference is immediately apparent.
The court officials were worried that the eldest prince had lost the emperor's favor.
When everyone returned and received the news of Gao Tonghuan's death, they understood why the emperor did so.
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