"Brother Xian, I don't know." In the inner hall of Luozhong courtyard, after a few bowls of wine, He Jin started talking nonsense. "My family is in a special situation. My biological mother died long ago..."

"Condolences."

"Hey, it was too early and I can't remember what the other person looked like. Then, my current mother brought my brother He Miao to marry him. They said it was a marriage, but in fact it was because the world was not good. It was like two families together.

Living together... When the two families got together, my father was also quite good at running the business, and for a while he had no worries about food and clothing. Then he added two younger sisters in succession, one of whom is now in the palace. But who would have thought that I

When I was still young, suddenly one day, my father also passed away..."

"Brother Suigao is also working hard."

"Who says it's not the case?" He Jin became more and more helpless, with tears actually flashing across his fair face. "Don't I know? Those people secretly said that I was from a butcher family, and that my sister was from a butcher family, but they

Which person who said these words didn’t have a big business and no worries about food and clothing? In the situation that day, if I hadn’t wrapped up my headscarf and got crowned in advance to run the butchery business, who would have supported my family of five?! If I hadn’t been extremely helpless, would I have

Do you want to be a butcher? Wouldn't it be better to keep your filial piety and make a name for yourself, and continue studying in a private school?"

Gongsun Xun became more and more awe-struck. His lover He Jin was not only a pig-killing Song Yu, but also an inspiring model of loving family! After all, this makes sense. His father died suddenly, and then he had a stepmother.

There is an unrelated brother and two half-sisters. What will a family of five eat if they don't kill pigs?

"We've had a long conversation." He Jin knew he was losing his composure, so he quickly wiped away his tears, then stood up and said goodbye. "But today I also felt like old friends with Wen Qi at first sight. In the future, you and I will be in Luozhong, so we might as well keep more contact...

"

After saying this, He Jin slightly raised his hand, and then looked at Gongsun Xun sincerely, as if he was afraid that the other party would reject him.

"Look what Brother Sui Gao said." Gongsun Xun quickly supported this person... Are you kidding? No matter what the person is like, no matter what, they are all close to each other, and there is no need to be angry with him.

Ah? "Not to mention other things, if Brother Suigao comes to drink in my small courtyard in the future, can I still expel you?"

"Then I'll be bothered a lot in the future." He Jin couldn't help but be overjoyed.

To be honest, He Jin is actually in an extremely embarrassing position today.

He is a relative, but his sister is just a nobleman, not the kind of queen who can make him rise to the top. And if he is not a queen and a relative of the Queen Mother's family, then it seems useless, right? However, it doesn't seem very good to say that he is a useless relative.

Accurate, because his sister gave birth to the only prince who has not died in infancy. It is the most common thing in the harem to treat the mother as the son, which shows that he and his family actually have a very bright future.

But at the same time, the risk to his family is also very high, because the first one, Empress Song, who stands in front of He Guiren, seems to have an excellent reputation in Luo, and basically can't find fault; the second one, who can be regarded as a post-Han Dynasty

The characteristics of the old Liu family are that the family is not in good health, and the heirs are suffering from hardships, and there are endless cases of premature death... In other words, one day the eldest son of the emperor who is only one or two years old may die in infancy, then when the time comes

What on earth is He Jin and the He family?

In addition, of course, there is also the issue of discrimination due to one's origin.

Think about it, these days, after Cao Jie was in charge of the government as a eunuch, he must tell everyone that my ancestors made two thousand stones, you are not allowed to discriminate against me! And then from the emperor to the scholars, it is really

Just admit it!

And a butcher...didn't you hear what Xu Yong, the left prisoner of Yulin, shouted at the door today?

"It doesn't matter if you are born in the market, even if you get an official status, do you really think you can be ranked with us and other Confucian scholars?"

This kind of thing is regarded as class discrimination in the words of Aunt Gongsun, but in the ears of today's people, it is taken for granted.

And not to mention others, according to Gongsun Xun's observation, it was He Jinfeng who vaguely recognized this statement in his heart... After all, he was born in Wancheng, Nanyang, the so-called Wanluo is one, there are many aristocratic families in this place, and he grew up in this place.

I feel dizzy and feel inferior!

Under such circumstances, it is understandable that he finally met a Gongsun Xun who was kind to him and was unwilling to let him go.

It was getting late, and He Jin walked away drunk. Gongsun Xun personally escorted him out, and sent two guards to follow him to take care of him. Then he turned directly to Liu Kuan's house next to him... Of course, this is now Weiwei's house.

.

But no matter what, whether it is the Guangluxun Mansion, the Taiwei Mansion, or the Weiwei Mansion, it always looks loose. When Gongsun Xun came in, the old servant who looked after the door was eating, and he was holding a baby in his arms.

I drank a pot of wine there happily, and I didn’t even know to say hello when I saw anyone coming, and I didn’t know who I learned it from!

"Why did Wen Qi come just now? Could it be that she wants to take advantage of my family?" Liu Kuan watched his son Liu Song lead Gongsun Xun into the inner hall of his house, but he smiled directly from the high-leg dining table.

He stood up on the big chair.

That's right, the furniture in Liu Kuan's home is actually all the style from the Feng family charity house! Of course, considering that Granny Liu only wants comfort and does not care about etiquette, it is not unacceptable.

"What the teacher said is true." Gongsun Xun first bowed in the hall, then bowed formally to Mrs. Liu who was sitting there, and then walked over seriously. "I just arrived in Luozhong today. My wife, attendant,

The guests and Yi Cong all went to settle down at Fengshi's place. They just had a drink with others on an empty stomach in their own courtyard, which was really tasteless. Unexpectedly, on the way back from seeing them off, they saw an old servant in front of the teacher's door drinking bean porridge.

The drink tasted so sweet that I really couldn't bear it, so I went in to find some to drink..."

Liu Kuan laughed loudly, and then hurriedly ordered the maid next to him to add more rice and bowls. Taking advantage of this moment, the guard who had just resigned from the post of Sangong went directly to meet him, and stretched out his pair of black

With a huge hand, he grabbed his student's arm.

"Teacher, what do you mean by this?" Gongsun Xun was immediately puzzled. "You added bowls and chopsticks but you didn't allow me to sit down?"

Liu Kuan shook his head slightly and sighed: "Wen Qi, of course I knew you were a capable person, but I really didn't expect you to be so capable! You were desperate to survive, not only overthrown the enemy's court, but also allowed the rear army to escape...

There is talk in the capital that in this battle, you really have the attitude of a famous ancient general!"

Gongsun Xun couldn't help but laugh: "I won't brag in front of the teacher. What happened that day was just doing my best and obeying fate... I was lucky enough to survive!"

Liu Kuan sighed more and more: "It is destiny to survive in that situation. It seems that the safety of the Han Dynasty in the future will depend on young people like you!"

Gongsun Xun didn't care at all.

Isn’t this nonsense? If we don’t rely on young people for future affairs, how can we rely on old people? As for the safety of the Han Dynasty, to be honest, it seems that it is not something that human power can prevent.

In this way, the teacher and the student just chatted for a while and then went directly to the table, and then... uh, then continued chatting. After all, the information they got from Liu Kuan was much higher-end than what they got from asking on the street, otherwise why would they come here?

Drink bean porridge.

All in all, the teacher and the student talked about various things while drinking porridge, from the solar eclipse to the personnel in the DPRK, from the situation in northern Xinjiang to the rebellion of the Southern Barbarians, and finally returned to the hot spot in the DPRK that Gongsun Xun was most concerned about.

"It has been agreed that at the court meeting the day before yesterday, all three generals will be demoted to common people." After watching his wife leave the inner hall with most of the family and maids, Liu Kuan replied unhurriedly. "In fact, it has been long ago.

What I guessed is that there was a sudden solar eclipse and I resigned as a lieutenant, so it would be hard to argue with this matter."

Gongsun Xun could not help but laugh while holding the half-empty porridge can: "I should have guessed earlier that the scholars not only wanted to save Zang Gong, but also wanted to kill the other two generals; while the eunuchs not only wanted to punish the crime severely to shirk responsibility, but also wanted to

We try our best to save the lives of the second general who is a minion, but the three of them have similar responsibilities, so they can only be given the same treatment...it goes back and forth, and this can only be the result in the end."

Liu Kuan immediately shook his head with a smile: "You young people just like to hit the nail on the head and don't save face for others."

"There is one more thing." Gongsun Xun didn't want to say anything more about this matter, so he lowered his head and took a sip of bean porridge before asking again. "Teacher, please tell me clearly, what is the current situation of the queen?"

Liu Kuan was stunned for a moment, but he eventually returned to his usual smiling posture: "Wen Qi is well-informed, and this is the first day back to Luozhong..."

"I went to the Lang's office today and happened to meet He Jin, He Guiren's brother. He is a handsome man."

"That's it." Liu Kuan looked surprised, and then he slowly gave a general explanation of Empress Song's situation to his most valued and admired student.

Sure enough, as Gongsun Xun expected, the Empress of Song Dynasty did not have a good relationship with the current emperor. When He Gui gave birth to a prince and survived until now, she naturally had the most direct and most direct one.

A powerful challenger.

"However," Gongsun Xun asked seriously. "The student vaguely remembers that the Song family has a great business and is one of the first-class famous families in Luozhong... I think Queen Song also has something to rely on, right?"

"That's true." Liu Kuan said with a smile. "The Song family has been a famous family for hundreds of years. It can be traced back to Song Chang, a famous minister of the former Han Dynasty. Moreover, there was a queen as early as a hundred years ago... At that time, this

Although Queen Jingyin was jealous of Queen Dou as a noble, she blamed witchcraft and was poisoned to death, and then her own son was deposed as the crown prince, but her grandson was the first emperor of the dynasty who had reigned for nearly twenty years.

Emperor Xiao'an."

Gongsun Xun immediately looked astonished.

In other words, Emperor Xiao'an was only fifty years away from this time, and the subsequent Emperors Shun and Huan were also direct descendants of Emperor An. In other words, the Song family had already lived in the temple as a top relative, and then enjoyed peace and prosperity in Luoyang.

The scenery of my maternal relatives in the past fifty years.

But then again, the love affair belonged to the previous three emperors, and the current emperor is not the biological son of Emperor Huan. The marriage that day was probably a transaction between the old relatives of the previous dynasty in Luozhong and the new emperor...

It seems to be a mutual guarantee.

And if you think about it this way, things seem to be complicated.

"The aunt of the current Queen of Song Dynasty married the former King of Bohai..."

Gongsun Xun really wanted to laugh when he heard this. King Liu Kui of Bohai was the late emperor, the younger brother of Emperor Huan who was buried in Xuanling, and the most direct contender for the throne in today's world... Moreover, Wu

Because he refused to pay the final bribe of 50 million yuan to Wang Fu, the eunuch in power, he was directly charged with treason and sued to the emperor.

In the end, the King of Bohai and his wife, who was Empress Song's aunt, were tortured in prison and forced to commit suicide. No one in the family of more than a hundred survived.

"And Queen Song's brother Song Qi also married the grand-niece of the former Great Changqiu Cao Teng..."

"Is she Cao Mengde's sister?" Gongsun Xun was shocked.

"Of course." Liu Kuan replied calmly. "In short, the Song family has many connections and is indeed a first-class famous family in Luoyang. Its marriages and family connections are almost all over Luoyang. In addition, although Empress Song herself is young, she acts cautiously.

He never goes out of his way, so he has always been expected by famous families in Luozhong..."

"Then what does Mr. He have to rely on?" Gongsun Xun finished drinking a can of porridge, wiped his mouth, and suddenly asked, "Do you only have one son?"

Liu Kuan stroked his beard slightly, but his expression remained unchanged: "I heard that Zhang Changshi, a very powerful member of the Beigong Imperial Guard, had asked his adopted son Zhang Feng, who had just grown up, to marry He Guiren's sister. And I also heard from people that it was...

Another capable minister, Zhao Zhong and Zhao Changshi, also got along well with He Guiren... By the way, didn't Cao Mengde, who you mentioned was related to the Song family by marriage, kill Jian Shuo's uncle that day? Now Jian Shuo

Shuo is also quite trusted by the emperor. And don’t forget that Wang Fu and Wang Changshi, who are now in charge of the government, had previously reported that the uncle of the Queen of Song Dynasty was plotting rebellion. For this reason, the Queen’s aunt died in prison."

Gongsun Xun completely understood... The dispute between Queen Song and He Guiren seems to be more than just the so-called competition for favor in the harem:
To be continued...