"I've already lost a son, and I don't want to lose the last one, Yuanqing, this is the end of the matter."

This is Yang Guang's last sentence, Yang Yuanqing on the way back, carefully understand the meaning of this sentence, he can understand Yang Guang's feelings, the eldest son has passed away, if he continues to investigate, his second son may not be able to keep it.

Yang Yuanqing couldn't help but sigh, the plan is in the people, and the success is in the sky, who would have thought that Yang Zhao's death would become Yang's lifeline.

The prince is different from the minister, Yang Guang has the courage to punish Yu Shiji, but he does not have the courage to punish his beloved son, Yang escaped this catastrophe, which means that the struggle between him and Yang will continue Yang Yuanqing no longer thinks about it, and turns around to Pei's mansion, yesterday Pei Yun's impeachment is the last straw that overwhelmed Yu Shiji, this should be the Pei family's help to himself, and he should express his gratitude to Pei Ju in all his feelings.

Not long after, Yang Yuanqing and several subordinates came to Pei's mansion, and it was also a coincidence that they met Pei Minqiu's parents in front of the mansion, Pei Wenyi and his wife Wang, and the husband and wife were going out for a walk and were about to return to the mansion.

"Yuanqing!"

Pei Wenyi saw Yang Yuanqing and greeted him with a smile, Yang Yuanqing hurriedly stepped forward and bowed down and said with a smile: "Uncle and aunt, is this going out for a walk?" ”

"Hmmm! I'm used to it.

Pei Wenyi smiled and said: "Thank you for the prey you sent the day before yesterday, that mountain boar is good, the meat is delicious, if you have another harvest next time, don't forget to leave me a tuǐ." ”

"Sir!"

Mrs. Wang complained in a low voice on the side, "How can anyone talk like this in front of the juniors?" ”

Pei Wenyi stroked his beard and laughed, "Just kidding, Yuanqing is also a straightforward person, and he doesn't have so many thoughts." ”

Yang Yuanqing couldn't help but laugh, he found that Pei Wenyi was very honest and wooden on the surface, but when he really got in touch with it, he found that he also had a humorous side, and actually let himself leave him a wild boar tuǐ, he realized that Pei Minqiu's lively and cute side was like whom, in fact, it was like her father.

He hurriedly smiled and said, "Uncle likes boars, I'll go hunt two more tomorrow." ”

Pei Wenyi said with a smile; "I'm just talking about playing, don't take it seriously, wild boar has become a habit of eating, look at my body, do you have to hunt wild boar by yourself in the future?"

Everyone laughed, and Mrs. Wang couldn't help but laugh and slapped her husband on the shoulder, at this time, Pei Ju's eldest grandson Pei Jin walked out of the door and said to Yang Yuanqing: "General Yang, grandfather, please come in!" ”

Pei Jin gave another salute to the second uncle and aunt, and Pei Wenyi said to Yang Yuanqing: "Go!" If there is something to do, it will not delay you. ”

Yang Yuanqing bowed slightly, and followed Pei Jin into the mansion, Pei Wenyi looked at Yang Yuanqing's back, and smiled at his wife in a low voice: "Xun Niang, if he is our son-in-law, I think it's not bad." )”

Mrs. Wang was startled and hurriedly asked, "Did my father-in-law talk to you about Minqiu?" ”

Pei Wenyi nodded, "You talked to me about this two days ago and asked me if I had any opinions?" ”

Mrs. Wang asked nervously, "Then what do you say?" ”

Pei Wenyi glanced at his wife strangely, "Don't you want to?" ”

Mrs. Wang was told that she was in her heart, her face turned red, and she didn't know what to say, in fact, she didn't look down on Yang Yuanqing, but she had agreed to her brother's request three years ago.

Mrs. Wang's maiden family is a low-status house in the Taiyuan Wang family, she has only one brother, three years ago, her brother told her that the Wang family wants to marry the Pei family again, and Wang Jun, the eldest grandson of the Wang family, will marry the Pei family's daughter, and her brother's meaning is that he wants to marry Minqiu to the grandson of the Wang family, so that her mother's status in the family can be improved, and the Wang family agreed to the brother.

Because Minqiu was young at the time, he didn't mention this matter for the time being, and now Minqiu is gradually talking about marriage, but her father-in-law wants to marry Minqiu to Yang Yuanqing, which makes Mrs. Wang a little overwhelmed.

Pei Wenyi suddenly understood, it must have been the incident three years ago, he shook his head and smiled: "Wang Jun is just a small county magistrate, can he be compared with the dignified Fengzhou governor?" ”

"Master, why have you become so snobbish?" Mrs. Wang was a little unhappy, she didn't want her husband to talk about her maiden family like this.

"I'm just saying, am I that kind of person?"

Pei Wenyi also put away his jokes, and said solemnly to his wife: "I also admit that Wang Jun's child is of good character and seeks to be motivated, but letting Minqiu marry him is your eldest brother's meaning, what your eldest brother thinks, I know very well, I don't like to use my daughter as a bargain for the family power struggle, Xun Niang, I think I have to listen to her own wishes for my daughter's marriage, and I didn't explicitly agree to my father, I just said that as long as Minqiu himself is willing, I have no opinion." ”

"Oh well! I went to talk to my daughter, if she is willing to marry Yang Yuanqing, not the Wang family, I will definitely respect her wishes, and will never force her, she is also my precious daughter, of course I hope she can marry someone she likes. ”

The couple said as they walked towards the inner house.

In the guest hall, Pei Juzheng and Yang Yuanqing were talking about Yu Shiji, Yu Shiji was demoted, which means that the power and the power of the officials will be equally divided, and the Pei family is the biggest beneficiary, the cabinet is seven Cao, the Pei family accounts for two, as long as he allies the two again, then Pei Valve will account for the majority in the cabinet and will become the largest force in the Great Sui.

Speaking of which, this matter has to be thanked to Yang Yuanqing, Pei Ju did not hide Yang Yuanqing, and directly analyzed this interest relationship to Yang Yuanqing, but this result was that Yang Yuanqing did not expect that he only wanted to suppress the power of King Qi, Yu Shiji was demoted, and the power of King Qi dropped by at least forty percent, but he did not expect to increase the power of Pei Valve, which made Yang Yuanqing couldn't help laughing.

"If that's the case, it's really killing two birds with one stone."

Pei Ju also sighed: "Yes! In the past two years, we have also tried our best to bring down Yu Shiji, and there have been at least dozens of books to impeach him, but the saint just turned a deaf ear, and we were also discouraged, but we didn't expect you to find another way, starting from his wife and children, and succeeding in one fell swoop, which made us all feel a little unbelievable. ”

"Actually, there is a bit of an accident in this, I didn't expect Yu Shiji to be in the capital, if he was in the palace, he would never use the assassination plan, but should be to sue the emperor and buy murder, this stupid method is only thought of by the kind of arrogant woman who doesn't understand the rules of the court."

Pei Ju smiled slightly: "You're right, it's indeed a bit of an accident here, but if you don't kill the more than 100 Qi King dead soldiers, he won't leave the capital.

Yang Yuanqing nodded, and he asked again: "Yu Shiji is leaving, so I don't know who will replace him in the cabinet?" ”

Pei Ju thought for a while and said: "In fact, there are traces of the personnel arrangement of this cabinet, like Su Wei himself is Xiangguo, Niu Hong is the representative of the Ministry of Officials, Zhang Jin is the representative of the Guanlong nobles, Yu Wenshu is the representative of the old King of Jin, Pei Yun and I are on behalf of the Northern Shi clan, Yu Shiji is on behalf of the Southern Dynasty family, since Yu Shiji has been demoted, then his successor must also be the old minister of the Southern Dynasty, I estimate that it will be the subordinate shì Lang Xiao Cong, he is the queen's brother, the Xiao family, since Yu Shiji is the old minister of the Chen Dynasty, then he must be the old minister of the Liang Dynasty, The Holy Self will balance the southern forces, so there is a good chance that it is Xiao Cong. ”

This kind of mastery of the power of the imperial court, Yang Yuanqing has not yet started, and he cannot be compared with Pei Ju's shrewdness and spiciness, he can only humbly listen to Pei Ju's analysis.

But today, Pei Ju's mind is not on the analysis of the power of the imperial court, his mind is on Yang Yuanqing's body, originally he was going to take Minqiu with him, and talk about their marriage with the saint during his southern tour, but the saint canceled the southern tour plan because of the prince's death, seeing that Yang Yuanqing was about to return to Wuyuan County in the north, Pei Ju was a little anxious in his heart.

Pei Ju groaned for a while, and then slowly said his thoughts, "The last time Yuanqing invited you to dinner, I originally wanted to give Xi'er to you, but I found that you and Xi'er have no fate, so I won't mention this matter anymore, and now I see that you and Minqiu are quite close to each other, if you have a heart."

Pei Ju officially proposed a marriage contract to Yang Yuanqing, in fact, the Pei family allowed Pei Minqiu and Yang Yuanqing to go hunting together, which is a hint, otherwise, with the strictness of the Pei family's family rules, how could it be possible to allow the unmarried daughter of the family to follow a young man to hunt, and there is the possibility of staying overnight, the Pei family has already proposed a marriage contract to Yang Yuanqing in action, but Pei Ju made this marriage contract clear.

Yang Yuanqing pondered for a long time, and frankly said, "He needs this marriage", he needs to marry a famous family like the Pei family, and only in this way, when the world is in turmoil, "he has the capital to confront the Guanlong nobles", and only by uniting the northern scholars and Shandong Haojie, can he confront the powerful Guanlong nobles, Pei Minqiu is gentle and virtuous, and is his best wife and good match, but he can only wronged her as his second wife.

He sighed in his heart, and finally nodded, "I am willing to marry Minqiu as my wife, but my grandfather is newly buried, and it is not appropriate to talk about marriage for a year or two." ”

Pei Ju also smiled and said: "Actually, I also want to tell you that Pei Mansion has family rules, and a clan girl can only marry after she is sixteen years old, and Minqiu is only fourteen years old this year, so she can decide on this marriage now, so that you can have the best of both worlds, but I remind you, Yuanqing, engagement requires the elders to come forward." ”

He knew this rule, Yang Yuanqing thought about it, the Yang family was impossible, he didn't want his father to come forward for him, his uncle was good, but unfortunately it was too far, Yang Yuanqing thought about it, and said: "Then I will ask Princess Leping to get engaged for me, okay?" ”

"Yes!"

Pei Ju squinted his eyes and laughed, "As long as you admit that she is your elder, the Pei family has no opinion." ”

In the inner room, the Wang family is also talking to her daughter, although she hopes to be close to each other, and her daughter will marry the eldest grandson of the Wang family, but if her daughter is willing to marry Yang Yuanqing, she will not object.

"Minqiu, it is estimated that your grandfather will mention your marriage to Yuanqing today, of course, it is only an intention now, and in the end, you still have to ask your parents for their opinions before they can officially get engaged, so I ask you for my mother, now you have two choices, one is the eldest grandson of the Taiyuan Wang family, that is a young man with good conduct and self-motivation, twenty years old this year, has been appointed as the commander of Xie Liang County, and he is also promising, and the other is Yang Yuanqing, I don't know his character, but the official is quite big, and I don't know if there will be any setbacks in the future? Mother is for you to choose, which one do you think you prefer? ”

Pei Minqiu's face was flushed with shame, and her heart was pounding, did she still need to choose? When Yang Yuanqing saved her life from the fire, her heart could no longer tolerate others.

She bit her mouth lightly and whispered with a shy face: "My mother doesn't know General Yang, but my daughter understands him." ”

Wang smiled bitterly and looked at her daughter helplessly, her daughter had already made a choice, what else could she say?!。